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YOL. XXXV.
LAGRANGE, GEORGIA, Til lJRSI)A Y EVENING, AUGUST 21,1879.
NO. 94.
- ..urlodlcalH -
iifiliii■, nr h iiiovIiik uii'l leaving them unoalleil
for In prlinu facie evidence of Intentional fraud.
(From tho Ht. Nicholas.)
There were three of them—Kitty, j
ary anti little Tommy—tho ehihlren j
tho station master at Black lliver
notion, on t he great South-westorn I
11 road. The station stood alone on
open prairie, miles and miles j
oni anywhere in particular. Black j
yer Mowed through tho mountains, a, i
[indred miles away to the North, and |
tr days the snow mountains \
bo seen glimmering on the
assy horizon. Tho lino leading to
3 Black river met the Southwestern j
re, and thus it was the place was .
lied Black River Junction.
The station master and his wife and
irec children lived in the little depot j
alto happily, but there was not an-
hcr family within ton miles in any
i rectum.
At times the children thought it
ithor lonely. There was nothing
articular to be done, except to watch
in trains that stopped at the Junction
veral times a day. Once in awhile
freight car would bo left on tho
ide track, and the children soon
Mind that an empty freight car
[lakes a capital play-house. They
uld keep house in the corners and
uike visits, or sit by the open door
nd make believe they were taking a
clo.
Ono morning they were awakened
y a curious humming sound out of
oors, and they scrambled up and
Dokodoutof tho window. How tho
ind did blow! It whistled and
oared round the houses, and played
pon the telegraph wires upon tho
oof and on a huge barn. As tho wires
ere fastened to the roof, tho house
)ecame a great music box and the
hildren inside. After breakfast the
norning trains arrived, but the wind
ms so high that the passengers were !
dad to hurry from one train to another
quickly as possible. Then the j
rains wont away and the great wind
mrp on the roof sang louder than j
if oro.
The station master said it blew a
ale, and that the children must stay !
n the house lest they blow away, into
.heprairioand bo lost. The station mas- |
er’s wife said it was a pity the cldl-
Iren must stay in the house all day; i
here was empty freight car on the j
ide track; perhaps they might play in
hat. The station-master thought this
good idea, and took Kitty by the
land Tommy in his arms, while Mary
)ok hold of his coat, and t hey went j
nit to the empty car. Whew! How i
he wind did blow! They certainly
bought they would be lifted up by
the wind and blown quite into the sky.
Die empty car was snug and, once
inside, they quite out of the way of
the wind.
Mary thought tho rear end would
be a good place to keep house, but
Tommy preferred the other end, so
I hey agreed to keep liouso, at both
nds of the empty car. This was a
dee plan, for it gave them a chance
to visit each other; and the open place
by the door made a promenade to
walk on.
Louder and louder roared the gale.
Safe and snug in the ear, they wont
on with tlioir play and thought noth
ing of the weathor.oiitside.
Suddenly tho car seemed to shake,
uid they stopped in their housekeep
ing and run to the door to sec what
lmd happened.
“Why, it’s moving! Somebody’s
pushing it,” said Mary.
“They are taking us away on the
freight train. Come, we must get
out.”
“I didn’t hear the whistle,” said
Tommy. “I guess something is push
ing tho car.”
The girls leaned out of the door to
see what had happened. Why, where
was the platform? What was tho
matter with the station! It was mov
ing away. No, it was the car. It had
! loft the siding and had rolled out upon
the main line and was moving faster
and faster along the road,
j “Oh, we must got out! They arc
[taking us away.”
“No, no,” said Kitty; “we must stay
here till the brakoman comes round.
I didn’t hear them when they
^ [took us on the train.”
“There isn’t any train,” said Tom
my looking up and down the track.
“Oil, it’s tho wind. It’s blowing the
car away. We must put on the brakes
and stop it.”
This was a good plan, but now
where they to carry it out? The brake
wheel was on top of the car and they
inside. Faster and faster rolled the
car. It began to rattle and roar
as if dragged along by a swift engine.
In a moment Tommy began to cry.
Mary tried to look bravo, and Kitty
stared fast at the level prairie flying
past. It was of no use. They all
broke down together and had a hearty
cry alone in the empty car as it rolled
on and on before tho gale.
The station-master’s wife rolled up
her sleeves to put the house in order
while the children were safely out of
the way. Tho statipn-master, feeling
sure the children were safe out hi tho
freight ear, sat in tho offleo nearly
all the morning. At lust the beds were
made, dinner put on the lire, and
the mother was wondering how
the girls were getting on in their
play-house on tho track. She throw a
shawl over her head and went out on
the platform. At once tho wind itfew
the shawl over her face, and she could
not see where she stood. Turning
her back to the wind she began to call
g, the children. How loudly tho wind
3 roared through tho telegraph wires!
Porhaps they could not hear in all
this din. Maybe they were inside
the car, out of hearing. She walked
on toward tho siding. Not a thin
bo seen ! She wondered if there lmd
not been a mistake. Perhaps the car
was on the other side of the track?
No, tho rails were unoccupied as far
as she could see in every direction.
What did it mean? What had liaj
pened? She staggered back into the
station and startled her husband with
a cry of despair.
“The car! Tho children !’
The station-master ran out upon the
platform and looked up and down the
track. Not a car in sight! It had
been blown away before the terrible
wind, and was perhaps at this instant
rolling swiftly onward with its prec
ious load to destruction. What
would happen to it? Would it meet
a train or run into a station? Would
the children try to get out, or would
they stay in the car until it was wreck
ed?
He sprang to the depot to telegraph,
the terrible news down the line, but
jus! ns lie opened the door he saw a
faint white cloud on tho western ho
rizon. It was a train. Help was com
ing. At tho same instant his wife ap
peared with new grief and terror in
in her eyes.
“I cannot get a call in either direc
tion. Tho wires are blown down.”
: This only added to the danger, for
there was now no means of sending
I word in advance of the runaway car.
1 It must go on to its fate without help
! or warning.
1 “Help is coming, mother. Here’s
a train bound east.”
Nearer and nearer came the train,
and the father and mother stood
watching it ns it crept along the rails,
j It scorned ns if it would never come.
I At last it reached tho station and
I proved to be a passenger train bound
up the Black river road, and not in
tended to go in the direction in which
tho car had boon blown away. The
instant tho station-master ran to
the engineer and told his terrible
story, the mother, with quicker xyit,
found tho conductor and demanded
that tho engine bo taken and sent
after the children.
The conductor was a Arm man of
regular habits, and such a bold re
quest struck him as something extra
ordinary. Take the engine off and
leave tho passengers waiting at this
lonely station? Tho idea was prepos
terous! Some of the passengers gat h
ered near and asked what was the
matter.
Three children lost; blown away on
an empty car. Some one said, “Yes,
go at once. We can wait here till the
engine returns.” The conductor said
he must telegraph for instructions;
but some one said “the wires are
down,” and the people only cried out
j the more, “Let the engine go!” so the
i mother ran to the tender a rid began
to pull out the pin that the engine
| might start.
1 “Hold on, ma’am” said a brake- I
man; “I'll cast her off. You jump I
aboard if you want to go too. Fire up
Jack, and make her hum.”
I It was all done in a moment, and
away flew the engine, leaving the con
ductor and the station-master stand
ing in surprise at this singular pro-
, ceeding.
| “Fire steady Jack,” said the engin-
I cer to tho fireman. “It’s no use to get
I excited, for wo’re in for a long race.”
“It’s enough to make a fellow exei-
! ted to see that woman,” said the lirc-
| man.
I Tho engineer turned around, and
I ( here by his side stood them other, her
: eyes straining ahead down the line in
I soureh of the missing ones.
“Oh, sir! open the thottle wide.
Don’t try to save coal at such a time
as this.’ ”
“Wo must keep cool, ma’am, and
go steadier, or Ve shall run out of
coal and water and come to a standstill
on the line.”
The woman said not a word, but
nodded mournfully and leaned against
t ho side of the cab for support, and
tho fireman gave her his seat, where
she could look out ahead over tho
line. How the engine shook and
roared! The little finger on tho steam
guage trembled and rose higher and
higher as the pressure increased over
the raging lire. The engine seemed
to be eating up the track in front, and
behind the rails spun out like shining
ribbons in the sun. The station and
train had already sunk down out of
sight, and the grassy horizon on either
side seemed to fly away in a kind of
gigantic waltz. Tho wind died away
to a dead calm, and in a few moments
a little breeze sprang up and blow in
at the front windows.
“Wo are beating tho wind,” said tho
engineer. “If we can keep up at this
pace wo shall soon overtake them.”
“How long have they been gone?”
shouted the fireman above the roar of
the engine.
“I don’t know,” screamed the wo
man without taking her eyes from tho
horizon where the rails met the sky.
“It may have been two hours or more.
They were playing in the empty ear.”
How did she get out of the siding?”
(He meant the car)
It is one of the new switches,” said
the engineer. “Cars can easily jump
out upon the main line.”
Ah! something ahead. Was it the
runaway car? No, the next station.
What a terrible pace! Twenty miles
already!
Oh, don’t stop!” cried the woman,
as she saw the engineer put his hand
on the throttle-valve.
I must ma’am. We are getting out
of water, and perhaps we can learn
something of the runaways.”
The sudden arrival of a solitary en
gine, containing two men and a wo
man, startled tho station-master, and
he came out to see what it meant, He
seemed to guess at the truth, for ho
said.
“After the*runaway car?”
“Yes, yes. There were three chil
dren inside.”
“Oh„ nfa’am, I’m sorry for ye. It
went past here going twenty miles an
hour. It came down grade all tho way,
but the up grade bogius two miles out.
I was inside when it passed, and didn’t
see it until it had gone past the door.”
How long it took it to fill tho tender!
The engine stood hot and smoking
by the water tank, and the water came
out in a slender stream, while the
poor mother stood looking on fearful
and impatient.
“Good-bye? I’l\ put up tho pipe.
Heaven help yo!—tho up grade—”
Tho rest was lost, for the engine
shot ahead on and on out over the
open prairie. The water-tank seemed
to sink down into the earth, and the
shining rails stretched longer and
longer out behind.
Ah! what was that? A cloud of
steam on the horizon, far ahead. The
engineer took out his time-book and
studied it carefully.
“Freight No. 0, bound west stopping
on the two-mile siding.”
How swiftly Freight No. 0 rose
above the way! Listen! A whistle.
THE GEORGIA GOLD BELT.
ARTICLES OF IMPEACHMENT.
NAUGHTY CONKLING.
A STUPENDOUS RAILWAY SCHEME.
FOUND AGAINST THE COMPTROLLER RV THE
J U DI Cl A RY COM MITT EE.
Tho “gold bolt,” of which tho most
productive portion lies at this point,
consistsof' a strip of laud runningsomo- | The following is the substance of the
what irregularly nearly duo northeast! articles of impeachment reported to
ami southwest across tho northern end j the House by the Judiciary Committee,
of tho State. It averages about ten ! against Hon. Washington L
WHAT Till! JIOVH ARE HAVINO ABOUT HIM.
Gold-
The engineer whistled in reply nml { miles ill width, and has been Iraeed smith, Comptroller-General. As will
shut oil'steam. Their engine quickly j 200 miles In length, parallel wit h the lie seen, then: Ih but a slight difference
slowed down and they could see men ! Blue ltldgo. White, Lumpkin and j between these articles and those pre-
Habersham counties otnbruuo tho rich- I (erred by tho Special Committee of
est deposits, so far as now known, hut j thirteen. Tho House will proceed to
the limits of mining are gradually wid- 1 the bar of the Senate to-morrow morn-
ening. Tho presence of gold here has j ing and formally present the charges,
been known from tho earliest times. | Article 1. That Washington I
leaning out from tho other engine us
if to speak to thorn.
“ft’s tea minutes bn.uk. Running
slow on tho main line—road—clear—”
“Thank Heaven!” said tho woman.
Tho engineer saiil nothing; but at
Gold-
(Atlanta Constitution.)
Conklin# properly belongs in the
party of the “honorable bilks.”
Professor Linck appears to have been
1110 Bessie Turner of the Colliding*
Sprague affair.
The Baltimore Sun has condensed
from various sources an interesting ac
count (if “one of the extraordinary
projects with which the bruins of mod
ern French engineers appear to be
teeming, that of constructing a railway
from the front iers of Algiers across the
desert of Sahara to Timbuctoo, the
GOOD FOR TIIE COTTON CROP.
Cherokee Indians were the occupants j smith, Comptroller of the State of
! situation in Bhodo Island.
that moment tho engine gave a great. I of tho territory when white settlement Georgia, did on the 1st day ol Ootobei,
leapand dashed ahead,at the ratoof 111- i first began, and they were accustomed
ty miles an hour up tho easy grade, to sock the gold for ornamental pur-
How long the minutes seemed and yet ! poses, and to dispose of it in barter to
each meant almost a mile! I loss fortunate tribes. Evidences of
All! a spook—a black dot on tho their mining still remain, but are in
horizon! The car? Yes. It was the significant. The methods adopted by
car. It grow bigger and bigger. the first white settlors, and in vogue
Now they could see it plainly. But I until recent years, were very rude,
tho children! Where were they? Tho | consisting merely of washing out the
illegally, wrongfully and corruptly,
collect 50 cents on all 11. fas. against
wild lands.
Art. 2. That said Goldsmith, on the
25th day of September, did illegally,
wrongfully and corruptly, issue writs
of 11. fas. against lands in certain coun
ties.
Art. 3. That said Washington L.
(Baltimore American.)
Senator Colliding isn’t tho sort of a 1
man to stand being culled an Adonis
without proving it.
(Baltimore Gazette.)
Ex-Governor Sprague is evidently
fireman sprang out through tho for- ! gravel of the beds of tho streams by j Goldsmith, Comptroller as afoiesuid
ward window and ran along the engine
and down upon tho cow-catcher. The
monster began to slacken its terrible
pace, and in a moment it struck the
car with a gentle jar and stopped.
The 11 rein an thought himself a lively
man, but the woman wus before him
and sprang up into the car.
There they lay safe and sound, in a
corner of the ear—Mary and Tommy
fast asleep, and Kitty watching over
them.
“Oli! mother, I knew you would
come. Mary and Tommy cried them
selves to sleep, and I 1”
Nobody could say a word. The
fireman tried to rub his eyes, and only
marked his face with black streaks.
The mother laughed and cried all at
the same time. The engineer picked
up the little ones and quietly took
them in the cab of the engine.
“There now my hearties, you have
had a risky ride; but it’s all right.
Come! We’re more than thirty miles
from home, and it won’t do to be late
| for dinner. Fire up, Jack.”
running it through sluice-boxes and
splint baskets into a “gum rocker,”
which was nothing but a split and hol
lowed out log a dozen or so feet in
length. While the water from the
sluice-box passed through this trough
from cud to end, the rocker was kept
in constant motion, and the heavy
gold, permitted to sink to the bottom
through the constantly agitated silt,
was caught by traverse cleats, with or
without the aid of mercury. It is said
that tho first piece of gold' ever taken
in the United States belonged to this
deposit, and was picked up in 1799 by
Conrad Reed, a boy who lived in Ci
extorted from W. P. Anderson, four
dollars on eight 11. fas., although said
lots had not been advertised thirty
days according to law.
Art. 4. That said W. L. Goldsmith,
Comptroller, as aforesaid, did illegally,
wrongfully and corruptly refuse to re
ceive from W.~ P. Anderson taxes on
wild lands, compelling said Anderson
to pay $4 on eight li. fas., although
said land had not been advertised the
requisite thirty days.
Art. 5. That said W. L. Goldsmith,
Comi>trollor-Gcnoral, as aforesaid, did,
on or before the 31st day of October,
1877, for and in consideration of $109
IMPEACHMENTS 117 GEORGIA.
barms county North Carolina. It was | paid by Daniel Lott, issue li. 1'us. on
as large ns a smoothing-iron, but was the lands of Rondeau & Co.
sold to a silversmith for $3.50. After- Art. G. That said W. L. Goldsmith,
ward much larger lumps were found, i Comptroller-General, as aforesaid, on
one weighed twenty-eight pounds, ac- | divers occasions after October 11th,
3rding to tradition. This excited j 1877, did illegally pay out to divers
so much attention that exploration was j parties money aggregatin
begun, and tho gold traced southward
until tho borders of tho Cherokee tel*
ritorv in Northern Georgia were roaeh
iu amount
$8,175,711, witfiijut tho consent or war
rant of tho Governor.
Art. 7. That said W. L. Goldsmith,
xl, and tho prospectors began to on- I Comptroller-General, as aforesaid, un- ! that German is nut the language of
crouch upon tho reservation.
The hazy skies and remarkably cool
spell of weather which lms been expe
rienced for tho past week after such
Hoods of rain, seems to have been a
special interposition of Providence in
behalf of tile planter.
Tho saturated earth has had time to
dry off gradually, without being sub-
Conkling’s thanksgiving jubilee Is to great mart of Soudan, in Central Al'ri-, j,,,-tod to the usual fierce suns of Au-
Ihe air of “Willie, .you have missed ! ,. u .” Oar contemporary says; It wus K ust, um j it | s reasonable to suppose
me.” In Soudan, in 1800, that Mungo I’nrk, n ul t the cotton wued continues to hold
A leading editorial In tho New York the once celebrated traveler, was killed „ n sturdily to Its early l’ruit, while at
Tribune under tho head of "Shot Gun : on his second African journey, and it the same time putting forth all of its
Despot ism” makes no allusion to the was in the same region that Clapper- j>owers to make more iibre, leaf and
ton died during ins explorations in blossoms'. Hot weather and vertical
1827. Denlium, Culllio, Lander, Rarth, : sllMB j„ u,, u 0 f the breezy autumnal
Vogel, Rohufs and Nachtigal have days that have supervened, would have
since struck Soudan In their trav- ' oarried blight and destruction to tho
els from various points, but it has nev- j growing crop.
er been thoroughly explored. What is . Ab matters stand, the turnip patches
known of It is that it is very populous; j , u .e luxuriant, the natural grasses
drinking man, ns he has a right to be | tdiut it contains magnificent rivers, promise an abundant yield of excel-
under tho circumstances, but ho knows large lakes, and that, except in its lont hay if cut just when the bloom up-
how to hunt for the missing Linck. I southern portion, where marshes liearSl peas never looked more promis-
(Qottion Post.) : abound, it is extremely fertile. Hut i„g, and half dead tomato and bean
It looks us though the'German music Hie heat is oppressive, and the climate v i nog , cabbages and other gurden truck
teacher was merely a connecting Linck ' cry healthy for Europeans. The total have put forth again, and will continuer
between ex-S Sprague and the population is roughly estimated at fifty to add to the .comforts of the domestic
ineffable statesman from Syracuse. ; millions. Its trade with Europe is ear- ; board. All this has been accomplished
ried on by caravans from Morocco and by t he timely rains and favorable seas-
Algiers across the great desert. The ons 0 f the past fortnight,
exports consist of attar of roses, gold Let us take heart then, and renew
dust, gum arable, indigo* Ivory, ostrich the struggle for bread and independ-
feathors and skins. Of these, Algiers en ee another year. The battle is not
receives about $7,500,000 worth un-; ypt ]ost . A profusion of sweet potatoes
anally. Its imports, which average ; \ v m be harvested, sugar cane and rice
about the some amount, consist chief- have ample time to recover from tho
ly of cotton goods, cutlery and weap- | efrects of the drought, and though the
ons. The distance from Algiers to I yiold 0 E norn will fall far short of ait
Timbuctoo across the desert is about
1,000 miles. It is traversed Ly the
camels, which arc; the beasts of burden
of tho caravans, in about four months,
or ut the average rate of about fourteen
miles a day. The proposition submit
ted to the French Government in the
interest of its Algerian colony is to cov
er tliis distance with a railway, which,
starting from the village of Appeville,
would penetrate thence 220 miles to the
Oasis of Laghouat, the last Oasis in
Algeria before entering the desert.
From that point the road would stretch
across some 200 miles of desert to the
! Oasis of El Goleali, and tlience to the
(Now Haven Register.)
Perhups Colliding will suggest Gov.
Spruguo as Minister to England, or the
“German music teacher,” which was
very likely a missing Linck in the re
cent trouble.
(Boston Globe.)
It may be shown later that Conklin#
was not atNarragansutt Pier, that Mrs.
Sprague never had a German tenoher,
and that Win. Sprague never was mar
ried anyway.
(Washington Pont.)
Hasn’t that German tutor been con
founded with the Senatorial looter in
some way?
We probably never will get the true
account of the Sprague-Oonkling affair
until George Alfred Townsend and Eli
Perkins effect a literary copartnership
and write it up together.
(Chicago Times.)
Ex-Scnutor Sprague evidently hold
,i vo rage, yet with plentiful fall and
spring sowings of oats, rye, barley and
I Hon. Salem Dutcher, of Augusta,
j has collected some facts regarding
| previous impeachment trials in Geor-
j gia, which are pertinent at this point.
! We give them for the information
| t hey contain:
1791—Henry Osborn, judge of the
superior court, for election irregular
ities in Savannah. Result not recor
ded.
1890—John Berrien, ex-state treas
urer, for embezzling $8,950.52 of the
“Yazoo deposit.” Case dismissed. |
Trial lasted ton days.
1808—Obadiah Echols, Reddick Sims |
and Francis Flournoy, land commis
sioners, for selling land illegally for
gain and making false returns. They
were found guilty, removed, disquali
fied,fined and imprisoned in Oglethorpe
jail. Trial lasted over a month.
1824—John Lovoring, Samuel Jack-
son and Fleming F. Adrian, land
commissioners, for embezzling public
funds, “raising” land grants, etc.
Found not guilty as to Lovering; nol.
pros, as to others. Trial lasted three
weeks.
1832—Shad rack Bogan, co ra m issi on -
er of land and gold lotteries, for fraud
ulent drawings. Found guilty, re
moved, and disqualified for twenty
years. Trial lasted two weeks.
No ono of these eases approached
the magnitude of the Goldsmith ense
by many degrees, The trials were
speedily and economically carried for
ward, and they cost in proportion more
than the highest estimates made for
tlie coming trial.—Atlanta Constitution.
... mindful of his duties, etc., did illegally | love,
tests from the Indians naturally fol- issue to the sheriffs of tho State cireu-j Love, to a certain extent, levels ranks | Oasis ofTouat, 434 miles further on.
lowed, and Georgia sent a large police | hirs delegating to tho same certain ; and distinctions properly enough; and ; Exploring parties have already been
force to keep back the invaders, but it j trusts and duties entrusted to him by
was of little avail. The rush to thc|theStat
mines was much like the stampede to
hen it causes Roseoe Colliding to , pushed out as far as El Goleah, and it
the Pacific coast in 1849, and reckless,
dissipated men from all quarters of the
country flocked in, prowled about the
woods, set up log-huts and shanty gro
ceries on all the streams, and paid no
respect to the rights of the Indian, or
any one else unable to defend them.
Even United States troops were power
less to keep the lawless hordes west of
the Cho.sta.toc, and here as elsewhere
the discovery of gold was the end of
Indian possession and aboriginal sim
plicity and charnf.
Art. 8. That said W. L. Goldsmith, 1
Comptroller-General as aforesaid, un- |
mindlul of his duties, etc., un the first |
day of June, 1879, without the color of :
right, and in disregard of the duties of j
his office, did fail to turn over to the !
Treasurer large sums of money, aggre
gating $4,582.50, which had been col
lected by him as taxes upon wild lands,
keeping, holding and retaining in his
possession said money.
Art. 9. That said W. L. Goldsmith,
Comptroller-General as aforesaid, be
tween March, 1874, and February, 1875,
masquerade as a Gorman music teacher
it over-does the thing.
(Springfield Republican.)
Gov. Sprague went gunning tho
other day for male intruders upon his
midsummer domesticity, and there
is stated that “data have been obtain
in regard to that part of the desert
which separates El Goleah from
Touat.” One half of the route may
therefore be said to be more or less
perfectly known. The remaining half
Tims
of
days are known ns (Ii
the Intrusion”—one of
dates from which the mountain men
reckon nil events; the ol her being “the
late war.” Finding that, no protection
of tho Indians by police measures was
feasible, the State in 1830 adopted tho
Indians, territory and all, and consti
tuted the region a county called Cher
okee, out of which several small coun
ties have since been made,
mineral lands wore divid
1 did make and present to John Jone
pcrioc
m two treasurer, fraudulent returns concern- :
n men ing moneys collected by him on ac- j
e “the I count of wild land taxes.
Art. to. That said VT. L. Goldsmith, i
Comptroller-General, as aforesaid, col
luded as insurance fees, tho sum of |
$12,1)78.0(1, and paid into the treasury
of t his sum only $2,157.00, keeping in
his possession tho sum of $11,720.40, the ;
Then the law requiring him to pay immediately j
1 up into i into Hie treasury all sums thus col-
promises to he a grave historical doubt (some 800 hundred miles) is described
ns to how many of the enemy he en- i liy Caillie as a flat country without wu-
countered. Gov. Sprague is not a man : ter, and “where the route of the euin
to bo trifled with, however it may be vans is strewn with the skeletons of
with Mrs. Sprague. animals, which no doubt have all died
(Courier-Journal.) . from thirst. ” Tile cost of const) acting
Colliding is a cowardly brute; cow- the road is put at $80,000,000; the time
ardly in polities; cowardly on the occupied in crossing the desert, at an
stump; cowardly on the floor of the j average rate of speed of twenty miles
Semite. Behold your god, stalwarts, ’ an hour, would be four days, instead
with blanched face, trembling lips, i of four months by camels, as now. The
quivering legs, sneaking like a whip- project is a bold one, and even if feusl-
ped dog by night out of Providence, j file, tlie doubt still remains us to
wit h a shot gun pointed at his sleek whether, on a commerce of $15,000,000,
carcass! such an enterprise would pay.
(Chicago TlruRs.) -e<-
The lady in the case is, of course, an
heat, Hie deficiency in bread stuffs
can be more than made up.
It is a noteworthy fact also, that very
large stores of corn are still uncoil-
suiued in almost every section of the
State, and sad to relate planters are
soiling it. This is short-sighted policy.
Let them hold on to every grain and
replenish their pile instead of dimin
ishing it by every possible expedient.
An intelligent anc^shifty farmer need
never buy a bushel of corn, even if his
crop is cut oil by summer droughts.
Peas, millet, crab grass, potato slips,
rye, oats, barley, wheat and turnip®
can he made to more than eke out the'
partial loss of this important cereal.
The writer lias demonstrated time mid!
again tne feasibility of what he no\V
urges upon the farmers of Georgia with)
so much pertinacity. We tell you,
“men and brethren,” that to thrive,
you must produce ut home everything'
needed to support the wants of mart
and beast. Otherwise, agriculture is a
failure and a farce.—Macon Telegraph.
A QUAHTEB OF A MILLION JEWS
AND NOT A
HIXULIi PAUPER AMONG TUP,
NUMBER.
TO KEEP UP A TOWN.
A NOVEL FLY TRAP.
The Pittsburg Telegraph says: A res
taurant keeper in the Alleghany Dia
mond during the past week, like many
others, has been infested with flies.
Patent gum paper, poison, everything
known to fly-exterminating scieneo lias
been tried, but still they come. Sun
day last was a good day to experiment.
Tho room, with closed doors and win
dows, was a perfect buzz of flies. A
train of very lino gunpowder was laid
in narrow strips over the floor, and tho
spaces between the strips wore careful
ly painted with molasses. In an in
credibly short time all the flies in the
room seemed to bo on the floor, enjoy
ing the luxurious repast so temptingly
set before them. It was but tho work
of an instant; a flash, n cloud of
smoke, the work wns done, and the re
sult, when carefully weighed, wns two
pounds three ounces of fly carcass.
Tho proprietor of the restaurant, is hap
py, and is about to apply for a patent
on tho now process.
CORRUPTIBLE PATRIOTS(P)
The Legislative committee investi
gating the wild land crookedness, ex
amined Comptroller Goldsmith’s
cheeks and found some of them paya
ble to newspaper men. A great fuss
was raised over tills matter, some de
manding to know who received
this money. The Constitution grati
fies this curiosity by publishing tlioir
names. P. F. Lawsho, the independ
ent editor of tho Gainesville Southron,
received $10(1, drawn July 8t.li, and
Marcellus E. Thornton, the independ
ent leader, and correspondent Augus
ta News, received $50, drawn July
14th. They are tiro only newspaper
men who received Goldsmith’s ques
tionable money. So it seems that
these independent Pharisees, after all
their abuse of the Democrats, aro no
better than tho rest of mankind. Tho
Atlanta Phonograph says it was offer
ed money not to write an editorial on
the wild land committee’s report and
rcjoctod the bribe.—Marietta Journal.
forty-aero lots, and put up at lottery
by the State. One of these lots, on the
Yuliroln river—No. 1052—now a part of
the Hand Company’s property, had al
ready become celebrated. It was with
in tho reservation, but men used to
creep across to it at night, and carry
home a meal-hag full of dirt, out of
which they would pan from twenty to
forty dollars next day. The instant it
was ascertained that an old farmer
down in the central part of the State
had drawn this prize, shrewd specula
tors set off post-haste to buy it froyi
him.
Ii soon came to be found here, as
elsewhere, that gold was not to be
picked up in twenty-eight-pound lumps
every day, nor did the bushel of soil
pan out a double eagle. Tho worth
less, lazy, and dissolute majority of
tho early horde of invaders gradually
drifted away, while only the small mi
nority of new-comers, whose accession
was of real value to the community,
staid. The population, like the dirt,
wns slowly panned out, and the cur
rent of events carried the dross away.
At present the mines are largely
owned by corporations, or by private
capitalists who arc not residents of the
district. Only two of the companies,
however, are represented in tho New
York Mining Board, if I am rightly in
formed. It was found that as the gold
occurred neither in extensive placers,
like those of California, nor in indes
tructible quartz lodes, the methods of
mining in vogue elsewhere would not
answer bore if Hie best results were to
he obtained. The inventive genius
and practical knowledge of those in
terested were therefore set to work to
devise the best means of meeting the
case, and it was speedily found that
tho talisman which alone would open
the riches of the hills to human use
was water. So far as this mere fact is
concerned, it could hardly be called a
“discovery;” but the utilization of the
idea, and the practical methods by
which the enormous power of tliis nat
ural agent lias been put under tho
miner’s control, arc the works of Col
onel Hand, to whom, more than to any
ono olso, no doubt, belongs tho credit
of the splendid development of tho in
dustry during late years, and the glow
ing prospects it now holds out.—Ernest
Ingersoll, in Harper's Magazine fur Sep
tember.
looted.
Art. 11. That said W. L. Goldsmith,
Comptroller-General, did, in the month
of May, 1870, permit to be fraudulently
changed and altered certain records
used in tho Comptroller-General’s of
fice.
Art. 12. That said W. L. Goldsmith,
Comptroller-General, us aforesaid, does
keep and employ in his offleo one Jus.
M. Goldsmith, after knowing of his
unlawful nets in changing records in
the Wild Land office.
Art. 13. That said W. L. Goldsmith,
Comptroller-General, did, on the 1st of
October, 1878, make and prepare false
and incorrect statements and exhibits
of money collected by him to tho Gov
ernor and Legislature,
Art. 14. That said W. L. Goldsmith,
Comptroller-General, as aforesaid, lias
appropriated to his own use money be
longing to tho State.
Art. 15. That said AY. L. Goldsmith,
Comptroller-General, as aforesaid, did
on the dates of the inth, 12th and loth
of July, 187i), collude, combine and
conspire with one Hinton P. Wright to
control and inilueneo P. D. Davis, a
member of this hotly.
Art. 16. That saitl AA r . L. Goldsmith,
Comptroller-General, as aforesaid, did
on tho July, 1870, employ one Hill-
ton P. Wright to bribe Hon. Lewis
Strickland, a member of this body.
Art. 17. That said AV. L. Goldsmith,
Comptroller-General, as aforesaid, by
tho proceedings and conduct as set
forth in preceding sections, for the
sake of lucre and self-aggrandizement,
has sot a miserable precedent to those
in high offleo.
Ohio man.
“She Stoops to Colliding” will shortly
be produced by Mrs. Sprugue’s parlor
dramatic company.
The Senator from Now York retires
from the Presidential canvass at the
point of Mr. Sprague’s shot gun.
Prudent peoplo always have Dr.
Bull’s Baltimore Pills convenient.
They often take the place of a doctor
and cost only 25 cents. For sale every
where. *
A man {lied of liver complaint I One
dollar’s worth of “ BLACK-DRAUGHT ”
would have saved lus life.
For sale by T. S. Brudficld.
Wool-Gathering.
The Sisters of Sarah, a negro relig
ious society tit Amherst, Va., engaged
the Rev. Mr. Hall to preach the funer
al sermon of a deceased member, and
tho relatives the Rev. Mr. Pratt for
tho same service. The two clergymen
met angrily in the church, and each
insisted upon preaching. Acomprom
iso, on tho busisof having two sermons
foil through, because the question of
precedence could not be settled
fierce fight ensued between the factions
ami tlie relatives-finully drove the Sis
tors of Sarah out of the church.
(From tlio Philadelphia Record.)
For nearly four years past Mr. Wit-
liam R. Hackenburg, of this city one'
of the most prominent Hebrews of the;
country lms been engaged in the prep
aration of a statistical record of Jaws
| and Judaism in the United States,
This work, which is intended to format
! permanent record of American Israel--
1. Sell your building lots at reason-| ites. is approaching completion and
able prices. will shortly be in the printers’ hands.
2. If you can afford to do so, donate Not one of tlio least of tho discoveries
a building lot for seine large business made is that there is not believed tf*
enterprise, and thereby enhance the be a pauper Jew in the United States,
value of town property. : Every Hebrew who is able to work
3. Induce business men to locate in | finds something for bis or her hands-
your own town. | to do, while tho sick and infirm are
4. Patronize t lie business men of abundantly eared for by the local soef-
your otvn town. i oties. A Jew is never permitted to-
(From the Atlanta constitution.) j 5. Always sum up your expenses seek assistance in sickness from) any
A short time since we published the when you visit places outside your i denomination or charity outside of
fact that the Constitution’s circulation o\cn town to buy goods. i his own faith.
on Sunday, the 27th of July, was 7,250 ; «■ Speak well of worthy public on- j it is calculated that there- are- notv
copies These figures provoked eon- ! terprises. i fully a quarter of a million of Jews
siderable comment, and some persons j 7. If anything should be undertaken .scattered over the United States,
contended that this was an exceptional that may lie of benefit to the town, do They have fourteen public institutions
day, andjjelected as the best ever done. I not speak ill of it to others because! under their exclusive control, although
To disprove this we state that tho cir- ' V 011 happen to be prejudiced against it.
rulation of the Constitution on last I 8 - Speak well to strangers of your
town and its people.
9. If you have any surplus money,
do not invest it in far off speculations,
but give yourself and your town the
benefit of it by establishing some prof
itable factory.
Blood Will Toll.
Silas M. Patterson, tt son of ex-Sena-
tor Patterson,'of South Carolina, fins
turned up in Chicago in an unenviable
role. He reached Chicago from San
Francisco a few weeks ago and began
to live ia a swell style. Bearing per
sonal letters from Secretary Sherman,
Secretary McCrary, General Devons,
General Key and others, lie soon plac
ed himself in the good graces of AVil-
liam Henry Smith, Collector Harvey
and all the government people. Tho
other day he told Mr. Smith that ho
had lost $1,800 betting on tlio wrong
horse, was dead broke, expected a draft
from Secretary Sherman and would
like, meantime, to borrow a temporary
loan on some family diamonds which
luckily ho had with him. The scapo-
grace got three or four thousand .dol
lars on the diamonds which AA’arren
Knight,_ a pawnbroker^ uow claims to
have loaned Patterson. The latter
disappeared.—Philadelphia Times.
Sunday was 7,560 copies. This shows
an increase of 250 copies over the issue
of the week before, and is simply the
ratio of steady and regular increase in
our circulation. It may he held that
tliis issue was not bona fide, or that it
was swelled by the orders of advertis
ers for extra copies but tliis is not true.
Every copy of tho 7,500 was printed
and sold, and not one single copy was
ordered before tho forms went to press
and not a copy bought except for the
news it contained, so far as we know.
It was a quiet day, and there was no
especial sensation on hand. If there
had been the issue of the paper would
have gone over 8,000 copies.
AA T e call attention to these facts, not
for self-glorification simply, but to
show also the growth of our city, and
the returning prosperity of the people.
Tho Constitution is an index of tho
business and condition of the city and
State. Three years ago we publishod
barely 3,000 copies. AA’o have nearly
trebled that business now, and our cir
culation increases daily. It is our
firm belief that by thqttime the cam
paign of 1880 is fairly tqiened, the Con
stitution will issue its 10,000 papers
daily. It shall be our aim to make the
paper worthy of tliis great patronage,
and deserving tlio approbation of its
readers.
some of these are not sectarian in
their benefits. There are fifteen news
papers and magazines devoted to tlio-
cause of Judaism and published anti
edited by Jews. They have four Jew
ish orders, all secret societies,. having
for their object the advancement of
Judaism, tho mutual assistance of
10. Encourage your local newspaper ; their members ami general charitable;
by subscribing for, advertising in and ! objects. The value of property of all
paying for it.
TO KILL A TOWN.
X. Put tq) no mure buildings than
you can occupy yourself.
2. If you should have an empty build
ing to rent, always demand three times
its value.
3. Look sorrowful, belittle, and in
sult every now comer; give the cold
shoulder to and underrate every me-
ehunie and professional man who de
sires to come among you.
Go abroad for your goods and
wares. By no means purchase from
your own merchants and manufactur
ers even at the same price or less.
5. Finally, give a thorough finish to
your wOi'lc by working against your
local paper. Bornean everybody con
nected with it; refuse to subscribe to
or advertise in it, so that persons liv
ing a distance will not know that any
business k being done in your town,
or they limy want to come and settle
among xjtou, or buy something from
you, and that would give you trouble.
If your baby is restless while teeth
ing, get Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup; a dose
of it will relieve the little sufferer at
once. Only 25 cents a bottle.
“BLACK-DRAUGHT” cures costivcncBS
nd tSick-headache.
For sale by T, S. Bradtteld,
Sensational Newspapers.
Perhaps, no feature in modern jour
nalism has done more to increase
crime and to make scandal in some de
gree tolerated with indifference than
that of writing sensational details of
murders, executions, and orim. con.
eases. The journals read by our wo
men and children should not contain
sueh miserable stuff. It is demoraliz
ing and degrading to sooioty, and we
are glad our best newspapers do not
indulge in gratifying the morbid and
prurient tastes of the reckless and
abandoned instincts of human nature,
—Cartersville Express.
Exquisite Pleasure.
Tlie most exquisite pleasure is de
rived from Dr. Price’s Unique Per
fumes. His Alista Bouquet, Sweet
Clover, Ladies’ Favorite, and other
handkerchief odors, are as fragrant
and natural ns the flowers from which
they are mado. They tire truly de-
ii^hfui,
A Bad Negro.
Ono of tho worst cases ever heard
of in tliis section has come to light
over in Laurens county, S. 0. It is in
the person of a negro boy named Sum
Matthewson. Wednesday night last
the. barn of James Epps was destroyed
by fire, and with it were fonr mules,
one horse, five calves and one hundred
chickens. Sam was arrested on suspi
cion, and afterwards confessed the
crime. Ho says he tied the mules to
gether to lceop thorn from being saved.
He also confesses to have burned 200
hales of cotton lost winter, which is
supposed to have been the lot burnt a*
Newberry, on the. Greenville and Col
umbia railroad. It is rumored that, lie
kinds owned by congregations is valu
ed at upward of five million of dollars.
The oldest synagogue in the country
is that of Shoaritli Israel, of .New
York, which was established prior to
1681. ,J88
Perfectness.
Upon examing tlie edge of the sharp
est razor with a microscope, it will ap
pear fully us broad as the back of a
knife—rough, uneven and full of notch
es and furrows. A very small needle
resembles an iron bar. But tlie sting
of a bcefseen through the samq.instru-
mont exhibits everywhere the most
beautiful polish, without a flaw, blem
ish or nnequulity, and ends iu-a.point
too fine to be discerned. Tito threads
of a line lawn are coarser than- tho
yarn with which ropes aro math) for
anchors. But a silk-worm’s weU ap
pears smooth and shining, mid every
where equal. The smallest doii.tj^ut i*
mado with a pen appears irrqgtiltip and
uneven. But the little speelt^^q, the
wings or bodies of insects orc.fciund to
be an accurate circle. How lnoxfmii'
cent are the works of God' i
/I
Tlie Caljla Charges..
That cabin.telegraph campunies-haYO
their charges high and need tlqi threat
ened competition of the new French
line is obvious by the profits now made.
During the first half oflfWOtheineomo
of tlie direct cable across, tlie JjfclunlRi
was $438,530, the. working .es^tac s
$102,615, arid the , net profits
There wore $ 14,725 expended, fqj- re
pairs during tlie half year, and divi
dends paid amounting to $J5i,7(j),, tba
remainder of the net profits.^mjyuid
ol to tlio r-'seivo fund,.- v(hi%.jRow
amounts to $5(0*000, ttnd is an ite.c-ftma-
lalion to be devoted to buying a new
also admitted that-he had burned some ; oablo or ropaU . ing lh e old one, shbuld
house in Abbeville county.-Augusta aMV luvi , k , nt lt . -I -.-4
Evening News. i ‘ , •
Atrial packagoof ‘BLACK-DRAUGHT”
free of charge at
T, RwUieWs,
Glop Uhing Calomel nndlry-*t:BL4CK;
DRAUGHT ” for liver ai«0aacte. r '
Foi sale by T. ;j. btudftekL
