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THE ALBANY NEWS.
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OLD SERIES—Vol. 37, No. 8.>
ALBANY, GEORGIA, SATURDAY, JUNE 15 1880.
{ NEW SERIES—Vol. 14, No. 20.
Georgia Nears.
Fleas infest Elberton.
Atlanta wants a larger police force.
Labor is starve In many sections of the
State.
Mr. William Dent, of Coffee eonnty Is
dead.
Mrs. John A. Cobb, of Athens, is
dead.
Sheep-stealers are troubling Irwin
county.
Wok t iris res are troubling Berrien
county. ^ '
The blaekberry crop is tine in all parts
of the State.
An Augusta man pulls the reins over a
2.800 pair of horses.
Carteraville has six bar rooms—it re
cently had twelve.
Col. E. E. Brown, of Macon, has mov
ed to Atlanta to live.
The Brunswick amateurs piay “Pina
fore to-morrow night.
Mr. |pg|aah Singleterry, of Blakely,
fell dyadtMr other day.
The Southern Mutual Insurance Com
pany, of Athens, has recently declared a
dividend of 66*, per cent.
The “Watermelon disease” is killing
the vines in Middle and East Georgia,
and the cro(> will be a short one.
A little child in Berrien county was
bitten eighteen times the other day by a
moccasin., The child died the next day.
A good deal of upland rice has been
planted in Brooks county this season, and
there is a good prospect for a fine yield.
Mr. Blount has reconsidered his deter-
minktion not to run again for Congress,
and says that he will accept a nomination
TheWajicross and Jacksonville rail
road is bkng poshed forward. It is
thought it frill be finished by December
1st.
Atlanta boasts of five first-class literary
societies, via: The Lyric, the I.yston,
the Hemans, the Gate City and the
Dickens.
Hon. H. W. niliatd, U. S. Minister to
Brain, is now on a visit to his friends in
Augusta, Ga. He says he will return to
BrazO early next month.
The watermelon vines near Augusta
are dying .very rapidly in some places,
and it is thought the ordinary pumpkin
bug is the cause of the trouble.
Mr. E. H. Lowman, of Tenn., was
married on the 2d, to Miss Annie Wil
lingham, daughter of Mr. C. H. Wil
lingham, of the CartersvUle Free Press.
Macon's latest sensation was a runa
way marriage, the parties thereto being
Mr. Geo. Guice, of EofSols, and Miss
Susie, Johan, daughter of one of Ma
con’s hugest merchants.
Capt. Seaton Grantland, of Griffin, was
married ion the 9th to Miss Leila Ada Gil
lian, of Savannah. Mr. and Mrs. Grant-
land tcti for an extended tour to .the
North and Ear ope.
The sum of $66,240 has been paid out
under the act appropriating money to
furnish artificial legs and arms to disa
bled Georgia soldiers. Many men drew
the money instead of the artificial limbs.
Newspaper men are in the rise or fall
one, we don't whicn. Anyway Col.
Ben Russel, of the Bainbridge Democrat,
is a delegate from the Second DU trict to
the National Democratic Convention,
and Col. J. P. Sawtell, of the Cuthbert
Appeal, as an alternate.
Madison Madisonian: The white re
publicans’of Georgia wish to coalesce
with fhe ■ Independent Democrats, and
adopt.t£e following as their motto:
£ •Naught’s a naught.
The Product of Chicago's Labor.
The “dark horse,” who irotted in,
and won the Chicago prise, should
be promptly presented to tho Ameri
can people. While the outlook indi
cates his defeat at the ballot box we
are ail interested in even a possible
prospective candidate for the Presi
dency, and therefore we present to
our readers the following sketch of
Gen. Jas. A. Garfield:
lion. Janies A. Garfield is a native
purse and influence of Jay Gould
and other railway magnates, it wil
tell decidedly against him in Califor
nia and the Pacific States, where such
railway monopolies are notoriously
unpopular.
Mr. Garfield lias liclt^ a conspicu
ous position and is to-day the recog
nized leader of his party in that
branch of the nntioual legislature.—
He has served as a leading mcmlier
upon the committees on military af
fairs, ways ami means, bnnking ami
of the State of Ohio, having been currency, appropriations and rules.
Figger’s a digger,
All for de white man,
Nuffln fur de nigger.
Tbs recent splendid discoveries of gold
In White, Lumpkin, Dawson, and indeed,
all over northeast Georgia, has done
more to develop thU magnificent mining
region than all the newspaper writing
and individual talking that has been done
since the war. These practical demon
strations are bringing in hosts of experi
encedminers and capitalists to develop'
the bidden treasures of thU section.
Atlanta b going to have a grand mili
tary “to do” tills year. The Gate City
Guards, who made a tour of the North
ern and Eastern States last year, and who
were treated with such distinguished
courtesies, have determined to erect in
Atlanta a “memorial armory,” commem
orative of their Northern trip. For tills
purpose they will hold a grand Fair dur
ing the year. Many thousand dollars
worth of articles have been contributed
by parties both North and South, and the
affair will be one of the largest and most
complete of its Idnd ever undertaken in
thUeentn^. The Seventh "Regiment of
New York Washington Light Infantry,
.of Boston, and many other Northern and
Noutbem companies will join in the fes
tivities of the occasion. The time of hold
ing the fair has not been decided upon,
hut it will be a magnificent affair, w or
thy of Atlanta and of the whole State.
Chatham in Savannah News a The
“Georgia Orange Association” lias open
ed its headquarters in this city, and pro
poses, under a Florida charter, to locate
homesteads, cultivate orange groves,etc.,
in that State on the English co-operative
K bui. Gen. W. S. Walker, a one-legged
no of two wars, is the President, Capt,
E. T. Paine, the Manager, Capt. J. S,
Newman, of the State Agricultural De
partment, Secretary and Treasurer.
born in Orange, Cuyahoga comity,
on the 19th day of November, 1831.
He is now in Ills forty-ninth year.
He received • full and classical ed
ucation, graduating from William's
college. Massachusetts, in the year
1836. Alter liis graduation lie was,
for several years, the president of a
literary institution and proved quite
successful in his brief career as an
educator. Ilis taste led him later on
to study, law, and after pursuing a
thorough course he was admitted to
Uic bar ami became a successful prac
titioner. In 1856-60 he was a promi
nent member of the Ohio State Sen
ate, but upon the breaking out of the
civil war put nwav all political pre
ferment and entered the Federal army
as Colonel of the Forty-second Ohio
volunteers. On the lOtii of January,
1862, he was promoted to the rank of
Brigadier-General ami soon after
n appointed by General Rosecranz
chief of staff of the army of the
Cumberland. At the battle of Cliick-
aniauga he so distinguished liimsclf
to win promotion to the rank of
MajorsGencral.
For several Congresses past Mr.
Garfield lias represented the Nine
teenth district of Ohio, in the Lower
House, and lias but recently been
elected by the Republican Legisla
ture of his State as United States Sen
ator to succeed Hon. Allen G. Thur
man on the fourth of March next.
Unfortunately for him his intro
duction to public notice was during
the second administration of Grant,
when he became first conspicuous
from his connection with the infa
mous Credit Mobilier ring, and sub
sequently for nn unenviable connec
tion with the notorious and fraudu
lent De Goiyer pavement contract in
Washington. In this latter instance
he, through his zeal in endeavoring
to enforce De Golyer’s fraudulent
claim • against the government, laid
himself liable to the suspicion of be
ing a sharer in the spoils, and for his
course he received the name, by
which he has since been so generally
known, of “De Goiyer Garfield.” It
will, thus be seen that the present
Radical candidate for the Presidency
is very seriously tainted with the
odor of corruption.
When next Mr. Garfield appeared
prominently before the country it
was during the extra session of Con
gress last summer, at which time he
became the leader of liis parly in ad
vocating the right of the Federal
Government to interfere with State
elections by means of the army and
Federal overseers appointed to arrest
ad libitum free born American citi
zens, and, in the interests of Radical
ism, to hinder them in the exercise of
tbeic right of voting at the polls ac
cording to the dictates of their own
will. No doubt it is to the promi
nent part he played in this matter that
his nomination is dne, and from this
fact, says the Savannah News,
two very important deductions
can be drawn. First, that Central!
zation vs. State Rights, will be the
main issue to be decided in the com
ing campaign ; and, second, that al
though the refusal to nominate Grant
indicates a determination to destroy
Ciesarism in the Republic forever,
still, in the nomination of Garfield—
the personification of a strong gov
ernment—the spirit of centralization
is still decidedly alive and ready to
assert itself.
A third reason why Garfield will
proj'c a weak candidate, is that lie
has been nominated by the faction of
his party bitterly antagonistic to
Grant.. lie owes his success in the
convention to a concentration upon
him of the “anything to beat Grant”
element, and when it is remembered
that Grant’s friends composed nearly
half the membership of the body, and
that they stuck to their favorite dog
gedly from the beginning to the bit
ter end, it will he seen that lie will
not be likely to secure enthusiastic
support from a very large portion of
his own party. The result in this
particular would have been very dif
ferent had Wftslibnmc, Grant’s spe
cial friend, received the nomination.
Still another element of weakness
in Garfield’s selection is tiie fact that
he will he known ns the railway nom
inee. He and Blaine have ever been
the special friends and champions of
the I’aeific Railway monopolies, and
though this may secure lo hill) the
He is fully conversant with the oper
ations of the government and the leg
islature of the country for the past
twenty years. He was one of the "vis
iting statesmen*’ to Louisiana during
the cleetoral count in 1876, ami was
afterwards one of the house members
of the electoral commission which
counted Hayes into the Presidency.
It is needless to say that lie was one
of the “eight.” who got away with
the “seven.” He lias always been a
stalwart Republican and is one of the
brainiest and shrewdest men in the
party.
Socially he is a mail of most pre
possessing manners nml engaging
character. With friends and foes,
outside of the political arena, lie is a
favorite. In Washington lie is a nota
ble figure and a rare lover of out
door sports. His particular hobby
is base ball and lie is a steady atten
dant at all the first-class professional
games in reaching distance, lie is
also an ardent lover of literary recre
ation, and is president of n literary
society at the capital numbering some
of the brightest male nml female
geniuses of the city. lie is liimsclf a
frequent contributor to the weekly
programme.
lie is a tall, stalwart, hnndsotnish
mail, with full beard tinged witli
gray, and presenting a firm but at
tractive presence.
The big dailies arc full of Garfield,
and from several ol them wc catch
the glimpsed and arc reminded of the
facts which compose this article.
Concerning Gen. Chester A. Arthur,
the nominee for Vice-President, we
arc furnished only the following
facts:
lie is quite a wealthy citizen of
New York, who. was prominently
identified with Grant’s second ad
ministration as Collector of the port
of New York. It will be remember
ed that he was twice removed from
his position by Hayes on the grounds
that flagrant corruptions had been
discovered in connection with the ad
ministration of his important office,
and that he. had used liis patronage
to advance his personal and political
ends. His removal excited the bitter
enmity of Conkiiug and Hie anti-
Hayes element of the Radical party
in New York, and this enabled Conk-
ling, with the assistance of certain
Democratic Senators, to defeat Hayes
at the extra session of Congress.—
Arthur's successor not being then
confirmed, he was retained in office,
but after the adjournment of Con
gress, Hayes again removed him,
and nominated the present Collector,
General Merritt, in his place, which
nomination was afterwards confirm
ed. General Arthur represents the
anti-Hayes element of the Radical
party, just as Garfield represents the
anti-Grant element. He will there
fore prove a 'weak candidate in the
all-important State of New York, al
though it is evident he was selected
for the sccong place on the ticket to
conciliate Conkling and the adher
ents of Grant.
The speculations and estimates so
common in the newspapers as to the
probable result of a nominating con
vention, are becoming monotonous
and silly. Experience teaches the
fact that neither the newspapers, nor
any one else, can tell anything about
it, and it is a simple waste of lime
and talent to “figure up the chances'
of the various candidates, and prog
nosticating the result.
“Cotton,” a weekly journal for
manufacturers and planters, publish
ed in New York, contains proliahly
as much good matter, if not more,
than is found in the boll of the plant
which it is named after. It is well
gotten up, and merits public pntron
age.
The goose that laid the golden egg
lias generally been regarded a
myth, hut out West ail tilings are
possible, and there seems a likeli
hood that this exceedingly desirable
style of goose may be raised there.
Out at Fort McLeod a butcher killed
a cow, and found in its stomach live
(I .liars worth of gold dust. Of course
the gold dust got there when the an
imal grazed close to the surface of
the gold-bearing ground. Now, if
some enterprising individual were to
raise goese in that remarkable dis
trict, wc might linvc the goose that
lays the golden egg modernized.—
There is little doubt tliat a fowl of
this description would meet a long
felt want.
Save %'oiir Cww Words.
Editors Albnng News :
The way certain newspapers are
turning limy their anathemas at
Governor Colquitt just now reminds
me of a little eirciimslaiiee that hap
pened a few years ago, with a young
lellotv by tlie name of Jones, who
was a journeyman carpenter and
working witli me at the time the in
cident occurred.
We were shingling a large house,
and Jones had a very sore hand and
was a very profane man. One day
ilones seemed to be in an iimisiinlly
cross mood, and, although I was and
always had been conscienciously op
posed to profane swearing, in this
instance 1 became amused al the
many and ingenious ways lip could
express liis “damns” to give force lo
liis feelings of rage and resell I incut,
when the very least little tiling would
toueli liis sore hand. About the time
he had gotten through liis vocabula
ry of expletives, (extraordinary, ns it
turned out, for I thought liis stock
inexhaustible,) lie was moving n
plank mid his loot slipped and lie fell
with liis sore hand between the plunk
and roof. Now, this was a terrible
hurt—bad enough to make.anyone,
except a jiaint, curse a little, and as
Jones had proven himself lo he such
an expert at the business oil small oc
casions. I expected then to hear some
thing that would make my hair stand
on end; but not so. At first I thought
the terrible hurt had taken the poor
fellow’s breath nml lie could not
speak ; but ‘.his was again a mistake,
lie very gently laid the plunk hack
oil' ids hand, anil stood up and look
ed a very determined and sitrrastic
iook at the plank, and then u very
pitying ami sympathetic look at his
bleeding hand. A0cr standing in
this position for a few moments,
looking back and forth from the
plank and liis baud, lie remarked
very despondently: “Well, I can’t do
tills case justice!” and went to work
without uttering a single oath, and I
never heard another one from him
that day.
Now, it occurs to me that these pa-
papers that arc drawing so freely on
their stock of slang expletives when
there is really no cause or just prov
ocation for the expenditure, will,
when Hie time comes this fall when
such stuff will he iu demand, and a
little cursing by those who make a
business of it-not altogether inappro
priate, I think find themselves in the
same predicament that Jones was in :
unable to do the subject justice. For
a mere scratch, Jones had said his
most malignant curse words, and
when lie might have been a little ex
cusable for a slip of the tongue, lie
liad not a word to say, because he
had done liis best on a mere scratch,
and could not do the big masli-up
justice. Now, because these papers
do not understand Gov. Colquitt’s
patriotic motive in appointing Joe
Brown to fill the vacancy in the U. S.
Senate, caused by the resignation of
General Gordon, they, are spending
all their campaign slush on him,
when the oflense is merely a differ
ence of opinion. Because Gov. Col
quitt took the responsibility of ap
pointing a man whom we do not like
to fill this vacancy, should we turn
loose all our stock of withering in
dignation at his devoted head ? Bet
ter save it, gentlemen, for a more
appropriate subject. You have ah
ready said as much as could be said
of “the most inveterate enemy the
State of Georgia ever lmd”; and now
let me advise you to go to work and
get up something new for the fail
campaign,or else you will find your
selves in Jones’ predicament: unable
to do the subject justice. You should
keep at least a round or two on hnnd
for the Radicals this fall.
Mechanic.
Sheep Raising.
Mr. Francis Fontaine gives to the
New York Commercial Bulletin some
facts and figures about sheep hus
bandry in Georgia, viz: The price of
wool in Georgia is forty cents a
pound. The average annual cost of
keeping sheep is only 54 cents. The
average cost of raising a pound of
wool in Georgia, is only six cents,
while the average price for which
the unwashed wool is sold at 33)-,
cents, or 27,'-j ccuts net. The average
yield of unwashed wool to the sheep
is 3% pounds, which, at* 27J,' cents
net, gives an average clear income in
wool from cacii sheep 94 cents. The
average price received for lambs sold
to the butchers in Georgia is $1.87.
The average price of stock sheep is
$2.58 per head. The average price of
mutton, is $2.75 per head. The aver
age profit mutually received from
money invested in sheep iu Georgia,
despite the ravages of dogs, is 63 per
cent. The next legislature will prob
ably create a'dog law to prefect the
sheep. Ail owner of 3,500 sheep in
Georgia declares Unit liis sliccp cost
him annually 14 cents per
head, and that liis clear profit is 90
per cent, on the money so invested.
No food or shelter is required at any
time during the year.
I'ross Comment
HARMONIZING TIIE NOKTII ANII SOUTH.
OaliMM.UI. Ess 1 *.]
Gov. Colquitt lias done more to
harmonize the no;'tli and soiilli than
any Governor Georgia I ms ever hail.
TIIE oooii or IT.
Seotfca’* Iu the Augusta t'hronicle J
In this latter spirit Gov. Colquitt
lias acted in tliu appointment for a
brief period of ex-Goveruor Brown,
The Governor himself tells us so and
I give liis words:
••The effect of this appointment
with the Democrats of the Nortli and
West will be fell. You will hear of
it. It may be that your passions will
he kept alive, and your prejudices
excited, hut the time will come when
the responses from these States North
and West will show you that it is-lho
highest evidence lo them that the war
issues are no more alive in the South.”
In my poor judgment these words
will he verified, hilt, even if not. is it
not (o the credit of Gov. Colquitt Hmt
he should he willing to face passion
and prejudice at home in seeking to
do good lo his people and his party
abroad ?
TWO TIIINOS TO SAY.
Fort Caines Tribune ]
Two filings wc wish fo say in con
nection witli thisafluir: If (Jovernor
Colquitt honestly thinks Joseph 1C.
Brou n the loan who can best fill Hie
place then lie lias done no more limn
was his duty lo the people to do.—
The next is, Hint the action iu many
quarters has been loo hasty. It is
but another evidence of the great
haste witli which important steps arc
taken by many of our people. There
has been condemnation without evi
dence o ,J guilt—Hie cry of “bargain”
and “policy” lias been' raised with
out anything to base it nil oilier than
suspicion. Unless there be care Hie
tendency of the people ill' tills matter
will ho to divide the parly in Gcor-
ia and do us infinite harm in Hie
coming campaign. Already many
are expressing themselves as’ highly
in favor of the appointment, while
many are unrelenting in their cen
sures. A little patience now in heal
thy exercise might be invaluable,
both to Hiu party and to some ot the
greatly disturbed.
TO THE TOIXT.
Augusta Chronicle.]
.The Savannah News is right not to
have added any disturbing elements
to the situation, nud specially right
when it declares that it was “not will
ing to say to Hie Senate of the United
Slates, libellously, ‘Georgia sends you
an unworthy man j look out for him.”
Wc admit that while the Chronicle
is most solicitous to gratify, as far as
possible, all of its patrons, it cannot
lie made the medium editorially of
fierce, passionate and rash assaults
upon public men and their personal
honor. To any communication of a
parliamentary or decent nature in
opposition to its views there will lie
reasonable space given. If nnybody
wants to make a charge of bribery,
corruption, bargain and sale, or any
thing of that kind, let him coine up
like a man and sign liis name to a
document which will put the respon
sibility where it properly belongs.
American Millionaires,
No city iu the world, outside of
London mid Paris, it is said, can show
as much private wcallhasNcw York.
Indeed, there are capitalists iu that
city who are richer than the richest
Englislimau. The wealthiest man in
Great Britain, tiie Duke of Westmin
ster, lias an income of $3,500,000 per
annum, while Mr Wm II Vanderbilt’s
income amounts lo $5,000,000 per an
num—over $400,000 per mouth and
over $13,000 per day. In government
bonds .alone Mr. Vandcrhuilt has
nearly if not fully $50,000,000 invest
ed, while his interest in New York
Central Railroad and liis other prop
erty must aggregate at least three
times that amount. The Astor es
tate is valued at $100,000,000, and Jay
Gould is said to be worth $25,000,000
at the very least. Judge Hilton, the
late A. T. Stewart’s representative,
is put down at $20,000,000, and Edwin
II. Green, the chief owner of the
Louisville and Nashville combina
tion, is thought to be fully as rich as
Judge Hilton, if not richer.
Dresses at a Queen’s Drawing
Room.
Many of Hie dresses were magnifi
cent, and Hie display of flowers was
extraordinary. The Princess of
Wales’ dress of gold brocade over
gold colored satin was very striking.
On seeing Hie names of two Indian
ladies, Hie Queen expressed a wish
tliat they would appear in their na
tive dress, and accordingly they at
tracted all eyes in white muslin thick
ly stripped with gold, with a profu
sion of gold jewelry and gold hands
round the head. The Duchess of
Westminister wore violet and mauve
trimmed witli gold lace. The Diieh
css of Cleveland's colored jet trim
mings attracted much attention. The
Duchess of Manchester appeared in
dark brown, of a reddish shade, and
her daughter, the Duchess of Hamil
ton, in pink satin, trimmed witli
lace—a brocade train. Lady Knigiit-
ley’s dress was one of tiie most ra
markable, as its train was thickly cm
broidcrcd witli rows of peacock's
feathers. Lady Loudoun (presented
on her marriage hv her sister-in-law,
Hie Duohcss of Norfolk) wore white
brocaded satin, ami Hie same color
was worn by nnotlicr bride, Lady
Leighton, presented by her mother,
Mrs. Hoiililswortli,of Coltucss. Lady
Hastings was presented by Lady Suf-
ticld. One lady appeared in a white
satin dress will, hnud-pninted violets,
pansies and lilaes all over it.—Lon
don Truth, May 20.
rienutor Brown Interviewed.
From a recent Washington letter lo
the Savuniiali News we take the fol
lowing about ex-Gov. Jos. E. Brown,
of Ibis Stale:
There was Hie new Senator in liis
chair talking most interesting, and
your correspondent listening most at
tentively. "Yes,” said Hie former,
“there is n 'l.owl,' as you pill it,about
my appointment. It is only a howl,
though It bus done one thing: It
has slmwn me verv conclusively who
arc toy friends and who are not. For
that 1 inn thankful. I thought some
were my friends who prove my ene
mies, and some my enemies who prove
my friends. On three diHereut occa
sions I have had occasion lo disagree
with the Democratic party of Geor
gia and to vote against it, and on all
three of these points the subject of
reconstruction after Hie war was Hie
hinge of difference. Andrew John
son, if you remember, entered upon
a plan of rccniiHtriictinji of liis mvn
without consulting Congress. This'
plan included neither of Hie amend
ments lo the Constitution. I urged
its adoption, despile the opposition
of. leading Georgians. When Con
gress assembled it adopted a plan of
reconsiruction all its own, nml ignor
ed _ President Johnson altogether.—
This plan included the amendments,
and was objectionable to most of our
people, who thought tliat if they re
fused it the coining election would
sweep Hie country for the Demorals,
amt then all would be changed. I
thought differently. I had studied
history, ami came to the conclusion
from precedents that Hie victorious
party in every civil war remains in
power at least fifteen years. My judg
ment was tliat we should accept tiie
reconstruction nets, get representation
in Congress and do tiie best wc could.
I wns antagonized and villified
throughout Hie State. I knew I was
right, ami subsequent events showed
Hint I was. My letter in favor of the
reconstruction acts was attacked by
Senator Hill and all other Georgians
of prominence. I think, however,
that tiie final adoption of these was
pretty good evidence that I was right.
When Gen. l’opc was sent down
South to enforce these acts he was
made a military emperor over Geor
gia, Florida ami Alabama. lie in
tended to establish his headquarters
at Montgomery. Thinking over the
matter 1 concluded that it would be
Hie best for my State to have him at
Atlanta. I got up a committee and
met him at tiie depot. Wc took him
to a hotel, treated him most cordial
ly, and the following night got up a
bnnquct for him. After tiie banquet
Gen. Pope came to the conclusion
that lie might just ns well stay at
Atlanta—so there he made his head
quarters. I consulted with him al
most constantly. I prevented his ar
resting Gen. Toombs—just after the
latter’s return from Europe—for the
publication of a defiant letter in Cin
cinnati. While I was laboring with
him to prevent Gen. Toombs’ arrest’
Gen. Pope wanted lo know what in
tiie h—1 I wanted to interfere for,
because Gen. Toombs was attacking
me every chance he got I told him
it was for the principle, not the man
alone, tliat I fought. Albert Cox, of
LaGrange, made a fiery anil ill-ad
vised speech at Athens, for which
Gen Pope wanted to close tiie Uni
versity. I had a good deal of trouble
in keeping him from carrying out
this desire, too. In all this I acted in
antagonism of the Democratic party
because I believed submission tatthe
conqueror, which carried with ita re
newed representation in Congress,
was far better for the State than op
position. I voted and spoke for Bul
lock for Governor. This is the sec
ond time that 1 opposed the Demo
cratic party. I was for Bullock be
cause his ticket wns that of the rccon-'
structionisls. The third time that I
opposed Hie Democracy was in the
first Presidential election after the
war. Blair had written liis letter de
claring that Hie reconstruction acts
were null and void, and that the
President had power to set them
aside. Seymour and Blair were nom
inated on*n platform which substan
tially contained tliat plank. I could
not support them because I still held
that reconstruction on any terms and
a renewal of representation in Con
gress was the best chance for tiie
States. Therefore I voted and work
ed for Ulysses S. Grant, who was a
rcoonstructionist. I next went on
the State Supreme Court bench, and
have until now been practically out
of public life. When Gov. Smith
was nominated by tiie Democrats, af
ter reconstruction hud been accom
plished, I voted and worked for him
because I was a Democrat. X voted
in that contest against one of my
dearest friends—a friend from boy
hood—and have never, on the score
of friendship, quite forgiven myself
for it. But party conviction carried
the day. I-think I have been of some
service to my party—the Democratic
party—and that, without egotism, I
may claim that Joseph E. Brown lias
not been found wanting where he
was needed, cither in money matters
or in work.”
Newburgh, N. Y., June 4.—John
G. Thompson, Jr., of Ohio, son of the
sergeant-at-arins of Hie house of rep
resentatives, Washington, was shot
and seriously wounded in the abdo
men to-dnv, at Highland Falls, by
Beaumont Buck, of Texas. Both were
candidates for admission to the West
Point Military academy, and attend'
ing Coluse’s preparatory school.—
Buck, who had been made the victim
of a mild form of liaziug by other
students, became enraged at some re
marks to-day, drew a revolver, and
shot.Thonipson. Buck gave liimsclf
up io Justice Avery nml was com
mitted to Hie county jail to wait the
result of Thompson’s injuries. The
bullet pnssed through tiie lattcrls
body. Ilis condition is critical. Scr-
gcnnt-at-Anns Thompson was tele
graphed for at once.
TOO LA TE.
BY MISS MCI.OI.K.
Could ye come beck to me. bougie* bouglaa.
lu tin' old llkeueea that I kn«w.
1 would l«e eo faithful, w lofiti£, Douglaa,
bouglaa, Douglas, teed.»r and true.
Never a scornful word elionld grieve ye,
m lM smtle on ye tweet a« the angels d«»;
" * “ e shone ever.
O. to call back the days that are not.
My eyes wore blinded, your words were few:
bo you know ihe truth, now, up In Heaven,
bouglaa, Douglas, tender ana true?
Now-all men beside seetn to me like shadows-*
1 love you. Douglas, tender and true.
Stretch out your hand to me, Doug! an, Dougin*
Drop of forgiveness from Heaven, like dew;
As 1 lay my heart on your d«ad heart, Douglas,
bouglaa. Douglas, tender and true.
Still Another Enoch Arden.
UR. BOIISEK UESERTS niS YOUNU Wire
—SHE MARRIES HIS BROTHER AND
1HES BEFORE TIIE RETURN OF
HER FIRST HUSBAND.
Paris, III., May 25.—We arc just
now enjoying a pleasurable hit of
sensation in our social circle* over a
genuine romance in real life—u kind
of Euocli Arden affair—which makes
us feci tliat we are Hie people and
these the times so beautifully por
trayed by Tennyson. Twenty-one
years ago Josiah Bouser left his
young wife, Jane, and their little buy
Willie, iu charge of liis wife’s father,
Mr. Hollis, in the northwest part of
this county, and started on a journey
to the far West, after bidding wife
and little one a most affectionate fare
well, and promising to come again
when lie had made a fortune ami pro-,
vide richly for their comfort. Years
went by, and his Jane, like Annie of
the poet’s tale,^waited and watered
lor her husband’s return. When
hope hail died of long delay she mar
ried again—not Josiali’s playmate
only in this case, but the twin broth
er, Uriah. Together they lived hap
pily and she bore him two sons. Two
or ’three years ago she died. Her
first born, Willie, grew to manhood
and entered college at Bloomington.
Illinois. Last week the village of
Isabel, a railroad town tliat has grown
up where the modern Enoch Arden
was accustomed in other years lo see
a few widely separated farm houses,
wns startled* by the appearance of Jo
siah Bouser, who had come back in
search of liis wife and child. That
he wept over liis lost loved one's
grave we need not say. He immedi
ately sent for liis son who hastened
home from college not knowing what
a happy surprise awaited him. He
was overjoyed to find his father there
to greet him. And now father and
sou are spending happy hours visit
ing among their relatives. Mr. Bou
ser found what he sought in the
West, and is reported being im
mensely wealthy.
Sea Island Cotton.
Quitman Reporter.] >
The finest grade of Sea Island cot
ton, called nonpareil, lias sometimes
sold as high as $2.50 per pound.— ■
There arc millions of acres of land
lying on the line of the Savannah,
Florida h Western railway, in forest,
well adapted to growing it, only
nwaiUng the magic touch of the iu-
dustrious husbandman to cause them
to bring forth their teeming millions.
A few acres of Sea Island cotton
chimes well with truck farming and
does not materially interfere, as it is
gathered in the fall.
The Hood Orphans.—The Bind tor
the Ilood children had a few days
ago reached $17,864. The children
were left by their grand mother to
the care of J. C. Morris, who has
adopted John Bell. Dnncan has been
adopted by a rich lady of Fifth ave
nue, New Y’ork. The two oldest
daughters, Ethel and Anna, have
gone to Europe with Mrs Hennen,
their step grandmother. The twins,
Miriam and Marion, have been adop
ted by Mr. and Mrs. Thrasher Ad
ams, who live near New Y’ork, and
the other twins, Odile and Ida, have
been taken in charge by Mr. and-Mrs
George McGee, of Woodville. Miss
Oswald, three years old, was adopted
by Mr. and Mrs. Hamsy, of N. York;
and Anna Gertrude by Mr and Mrs
Joseph, of Columbus, Ga. The chil
dren are ali under the care of good
people.
A Young Girl’s Sad End.—Mamie
Tully, a young girl only sixteen years
of age, died last Thursday night at
the Charity Hospital, Jersey city,
from delirious fever. She was taken
to the hospital about a week ago by
the police, suffering from exhaustion,
and refused to tell her name. Iu her
delirium the physicians learned that
her name was Mamie Tully, and that
slic had run away from her home in
Easton, Fa. Word was sent to tier
relatives, but last evening she died
before any friend had reached the
city. The body will he cared forun-
til’her friends arrive. The deceased
had an unusually pretty face, and the
police say that her parents are very
wealthy.
Tliis is what Uic correspondent of the
Springfield Republican, a strong Repub
lican paper, thinks of the Chicago Con
vention: It is a low-toned crowd as a
whole, a fight without piinipliy even
without party principle < r other motive
than blind self-interest, so faras it exhib
its itself in these obvious, glaring and
noisy demonstrations.
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According to a Constitution reviewer,
Mr. II. I. Kimball would rather remain
ill Atlanta than accept a $15,000 salary in
Boston. This is a preliminary to boom
ing him for Mayor.