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THE DAILY SUN.
Frida t Morning Jane 9.
GEORGIA WESTERN R. R.
The Safrannah, Griffln A North
Alabama Railroad—Its Impor
tance to Savannah—Its Effects
upon Atlanta’s Interests.
The importance and value of this line
of railway—which is o ex In m Grif
fin, Ga., to Decatur, Ala.—to Savannah
and the Central Railroad, is well under
stood by the business men of the one
and appreciated by the astute managers
of the other. They are determined to
build the road; and that it will be bnilt
we have no doubt. The effect it may
have upon the future growth and pros
perity of Atlanta is worth giving some
attention to.
The northwestern terminus of the pro
posed road is Decatur. When it is fin
ished, the distance from that point to
Savannah by rail will be reduced about
80 miles. The present route is via Ma
con, Atlanta and Chattanooga—554 miles,
while the route via Macon and Griffin is
about 472 miles. This gain is one in
favor of Savannah and the Central Rail
road, so far as their trade from Decatar
is concerned. It reduces the distance
from Savannah to Memphis, St. Louis
and the Northwest generally.
Of course this will have a more or less
injurious effect upon the interests of this
city, perhaps to a very considerable ex
tent—to what extent we are not prepared
to say.&We leave this point to those
who are more familiar with suoh matters.
In view of these facts and considera
tions, it is undoubtedly a matter of special
importance to us that the Georgia Wes
tern Railroad be built without delay.—
The time has come when we can no
longer delay this enterprise without jeop
ardising our interests. We learn that a
meeting of the Directors of this road will
take place in a few days. We are glad
of it. Let the Directory, the city and
pur enterprising merchants and capital-
its take hold of this work and push it
to completion as rapidly as possible.
The Georgia Western will connect with
the Savannah, Griffin and North Ala
bama Railroad at or near Carrollton.-^
Continuing to Decatur and west of that,
it will reach Talladega and Elyton—form
ing a connection at the last named place
with the Alabama North & South Rail
road. This will give Atlanta two com
peting lines to Decatur and the West.
From Elyton another important road—
the Savannah & Memphis, to Eastport
on the Tennessee river—is to be built,
from whence wo have water carriage to
the entire West and Northwest.
Thus, by building 155 miles of railroad,
Atlanta will pass through one of the
riohiest countries on the globe, and put
herself directly in communication with
all the objective points and great re
sources which Savannah proposes to
shorten the route to, by building the
road from Griffin. We will not only have
the advantage of entering those markets
with fair competition, but every line of
road which is crossed or touched by the
Georgia Western, will bring to ns a large
trade from these lateral lines of railway.
By prompt action, we should seize the
golden moment, and benefit ourselves,
instead of being injured, as we will be if
we do nothing and allow other enter
prises to^go forward. Let our people
move in earnest, and let the road be con
structed without delay.
“The Philadelphia Age says that Sena
tor Morton is troubled because the Dem
ocrats do not seem at all disposed to oc
cupy the platform which he erected for
them in his Grant nominating speech.”
And he will pe troubled far worse when
he discovers upon what sort of a plat
form the Democrats mean to stand, du
ring the next campaign—the one in
which they mean to beat Grant.
Binghamton women on decoration day
scattered flowers upon the grave of Ru-
loff. Those women always do like a fel
low especially if he is a — of a fellow, as
in the case of Ruloffi
James Rayne, of Jamestown, Ohio,
attempted to kill his wife’s cousin, and
has been sent to the penitentiary for
twenty years. The “Rayne of terror” is
now over. - —
Grant objects to having Colfax on the
ticket with him next time. He thinks a
man who is no better smoker than Colfax
is not worth a cent as Vice President.
Hon. W. C. Flagg, of Moro, Illinois,
has been . awarded a gold medal on ac
count of liis fine orchards, which cover
over one hundred acres. “Oh, keep
that Flagg flying.”
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A Boston woman advertised for a
laundress and then wanted to pay her in
guitar lessons. The laundress replied that
she was not going “to battle” upon any
such consideration.
The Louisvillo Commercial says of
Grant: “he may go to the theatre some
evening." The Commercial forgets that
the rule in theatres is “no smoking al
lowed. ”
An Arkansas woman, whose name is
now Lord, is said to have lorded
it ovef^i^RH than nine husbands;—most
of tliemuer own. \
Griffin and Madison Narrow
Git age Railroad.
Senator Nuunally and Judge Boynton,
d Griffin, arrived in this city yesterday
morning, on their return frora an explor-1
ing expedition along the ronte of the
proposed narrow guage railroad from
Griffin to Madison. Colonel Nunnally
gives a most flattering account of the trip
and the disposition of the people along
the entire route. Everybody was for the |
railroad, and everybody is willing to sub
scribe their bottom dollar in order to
make it a success.
On last Friday the party consisting of
Hon. A. D. Nnnntdly, Judge J. S. Boyn
ton, Mr. J. C. Kimball, Mr. Joseph H.
Johnson, Mr. Charles Johnson, Mr.
Harry Johnson, Mr. T. J. Brooks, Capt.
F. S.’Fitch, of the Griffin Slar, and Wm.
J. J. Hunt, of the Middle Georgian, left
Griffin for the purpose of passing over
the ronte of the proposed railroad, in |
order to test the sense of the people and i
make some estimate of what subscription j
could be raised. The weather for the j
entire trip was very bad, yet the party |
met with the most encouraging success,
as will be shown below.
On Friday the party reached Jackson,
in Butts county, and held a meeting in
the court-honse. A good crowd was
present, in spite of the bad weather.
Several speeches were made, and the
subscription books were opened, and in J
a very short time $35,000 was put down, j
This was a good start
At half-past 10 o’clock Saturday, an
other meeting was held at Indian Springs.
Several speeches were again made,among
them one by Mr. J. C. Kimball, who went
into an elaborate discussion of narrow
guages and their many adantages as feed
ers to the great trunk lines. Mr. Kim
ball demonstrated clearly that a narrow
guage is what the people want The peo
ple must have thought so too, as they
come squarely up with a subscription o*
$25,000.
The party remained until afternoon on
Sunday, being royally entertained by the
hotels and people generally of that popu
lar watering-place. The hospitality of
the people knew no bounds. There was
nothing too good to be provided for the
party to eat and drink, the best of min
eral water was furnished in inexhaustible
supply and everybody enjoyed themselves
and talked narrow guage.
Sunday afternoon the party left the
springs and reached Monticello, in Jas
per county, before night. A small meet
ing was held on Monday and another on
Tuesday, the books opened and the very
handsome sum of of $42,000 was sub
scribed.
It was at Monticello that Mr. J. C,
Kimball made his biggest speech of the
trip. A pretty Jasper county young lady
had presented him a magnificent bouqet,
which had the tendency to stimulate him
for the occasion. He discussed railroad
more elaborately. and more eloquently
than ever. He wound up by saying that
before he came to Georgia he had heard
a great deal about the Kn-Klux, and all
that sort of thing; but since he had been
here he had experienced nothing but the
kindest treatment at the hands of the
people. His present trip had been but
a series of pleasant surprises to him—a
succession of kindnesses at the hands of
everybody he met. If this was what was
meant by being ku kluxed, he.would like
to be ku kluxed every day. This speech
was made at a supper given by the peo
ple of Monticello.
Tuesday evenjpg the parly continued
their trip fb Madison. The authorities
had been apprised of their coming and
had excellent quarters prepared for them
at the hotel At half past eleven o’clock
on Wednesday, the hour appointed for a
meeting, rain was descending it torrents.
CoL Nunnally says it was the heaviest
rain he ever witnessed. Yet there was a
large meeting—but mainly of the citizens
of Madison. It rained so hard that the
people from the country could noi come
in. Speeches were made by all the Grif
fin party, as well as by several gentlemen,
with good effect. On motion of Judge
Reese, a resolution was adopted
authorizing the city authorities
to submit to the people a proposi
tion to subscribe the sum of $50,000 to
the Road, and committees were appoint
ed to canvas the various counties through
which the Road will pass until the re
quired sum of $300,000 shall have been
subscribed.
The people of Madison were very en
thusiastic in favor of the road, and the
impression is that that city, together
with the citizens of Morgan county, will
subscribe fully $100,000.
Crops are looking fine along the entire
ronte traversed by the party; but owing
to the continuous wet weather the grass
and weeds are looking fine also. Farm
ers are very busy getting rid of the latter,
between showers, consequently they did
not have time to attend the meetings.
Their sympathy, however, is known to
be with the enterprise, and they are
counted upon for liberal subscription.
Griffin, or Spalding county, will prob
ably go $100,000 strong on the road.
This, with the subscriptions that have
already been received, renders the thing
a dead sure fact, and the engineers will
be put out at once. Mr. Kimball says
“ the road shall be built,” and that of
itself is encouraging.
It is seldom that a railroad or any
other kind of a public enterprise has
waked such a unanimity of feeling on
the part o£ the people interested. Its
projectors have become enthusiastic, and
there is now a very reasonable probabili
ty that the time is not far off when Mad
ison and Griffin will be nnited by one of
those iron articles of trado which are
doing so much toward an equal distri
bution of the wealth and intelligence of
the country.
[Written tot the San.
Lore In High Life.
B7 A. B. WATSON.
She lives in sn Alley—the maid I Adore
In s narrow back alley, up three pair of g'aira,
In a low little room, with a rickety door
And one little window, a bed and two chairs.
She is not a fine lady, who dresses In silk
And flaunts in her carriage or lolls with her beaox, .
With hair all a a-ramble and hands white as milk,
And plenty of nothing to do, I suppose;
But a neat little, sweet little, complete little imp,
To laugh in a frolic or dance in a reel;
Not one of your pale, lolling. Indolent limp,
Dull 8latternB of fashion set np for genteel.
The hue on her cheek is not daubings of paint;
Her hair was not purchased from Madame la Mode:
And no one to see her would call her a saint,
Though she lives like a saint in her lofty abode.
Her hands were not fashioned for thrumbing the
keys, - - v
Her nose—there’s where nature first gave her a
snub;
Her foot—number 5 always gives it a squeeze;
Her shoulders are round—bending over the tub.
My love is a laundress. With her pinky young face,
She is out all day amid fashion and suds,
A washing the fancy-fixed linens and lace
Which the ladies put on just to tickle the bloods.
, > • , , . . ; r “
And at night ahe goes home, with g, perhaps.
And throws off her bonnet and kindles a fire,
Makes her tea and her toast. Ah, you wealthy-bred
cbapB,.
You don’t know the charms of the girl I admire.
When the streets all are silent, the customers gone,
The doors are aU barred and the porter is free
I seek that back alley where Wanda, alone,
Dp her three pair of stairs, is a-waiting for me.
She knows I will come, be it never so late,
So the tea Is kept hot and I carry a bun.
And by light of the fire, that is low in the grate,
We eat and we drink and we envy no oner
And when we are married we’U set up in style;
She’s a bed an J two chairs, I will add as much
more;
Or, if grim fate may snarl, or If fortune may smile,
I’ll be happy through all with the girl I adore.
Love may feel quite at esse in fine silk snd brocade,
And rest quite home amid hrussels arid lace—
May flutter about mid the fumes of pomade
And shine its delight on a rouge-covered face;
But there’s love which s o fancy-bred lover may scoff.
In tlia' low little room, np those three pair of stairs.
Where we chatter and langb while the moments
steal off
And midnight steals on us, of course, unawares.
I sometimes have thought that if I were a king
And WAida a queen, we’d be happier; but then
High fortune was ever a troublesome thing.
To torture your nobly-born ladies and men.
Though our fortune is high, no,distrust ever mars
Dp those three pair of stairs, where we meet juBt at
seven;
Each step we ascend brings us nearer the stars.
And that, we conceive, is the short way to heaven.
U-iF” The Universalists of Syra
cuse, New York, have locked the door
of the Church against. the ”^or,
■Rev. G. P. Hibbard, for causing a
chancel to be constructed and iutro-
ducing some forms of worship not
customary in their denomination. It
is thought that the irrepressible ritu
alist movement is about to overtake
the Universalists.
A poor colored woman in
New Haven recently bequeathed be
tween two and three thousand dollars,
money she had saved by a life of toil
in washing and scrubbing, to educate
any poor colored student who might
enter Yale Divinity School to become
a preacher, and if no colored student
is presented, then the money may he
applied for the benefit of a white stu
dent.
• »-• <
UgF” Grace Greenwood made a
speech entirely out of the usual order
at a woman’s suffrage convention in
Boston on Monday evening. She
said she would limit the suffrage to
three classes of women, and include,
first, unmarried women, and third,
such others as may desire the ballot.
She recommended a property qualifi
cation, and thought a voting woman
should be required to have a watch
regularly wound np and kept to time,
a clothes wringer and a sewing ma
chine. As an intelligent qualifica
tion she suggested that a woman
should be able to add np her millin
er’s bill and verify its correctness, to
cut a pudding, to put on a button,
and in an emergency, to keep a board
ing-house, and support herself and
her husband respectably.
A Mormon Love Story.
From George Alfred Townsend’s Salt Lake Corres
pondence to the Chicago Tribune.
A Mormon, whom we call brother
Nelri Gibbons, took a wife at the
blooming age of twenty-five. He was
pious ana industrious, and seemed to
be perfectly satisfied with his bride,
whose name was unfortunate for a
heroine, being plain Mary Ann. She
was the best of wives, and she sang
in the choir, bore Nehi a child, and
helped to cultivate his vine and fig
tree. Their apricots and pears grew
and flourished, their cattle and sheep
increased, and nothing seemed want
ing in this comfortable establishment,
which was the envy of every youth
ful saint.
Still, there was a skeleton in the
closet. Mary Ann had a secret and
a passion. She wanted Nehi to take
a second wife! This was not only
because he was a good and true man,
and devoted and able-bodied, but be
cause she had set her mind upon the
oilier wife he was to take. Mary Ann
wanted to provide for her bosom
friend, Susan, who was in every way
deserving of Nelli’s affection, and
who loved Nehi as purely and as real
ly as Mary Ann herself! They had
conferred together about if. Mary to be severe; he did not like to beItt in the enforce-
Ann, who could not be happy where ,m ' ntof xhcU ' ri » nd 1 “ t1 ?.’ h ®
0 , . - j . .*■ . , ihai the nrisouor was drunk. He seemed to read an
^usan was not even atihau S Side— ^ for mercyill the prisoner’s face,*nd with
had broken the subjects Susan, and “ ‘
her clearest suspicions were confirmed
by the disclosure that both the ladies
loved the same saint.
Far from feeling indignant at this
frank and forward confidence, Nelli’s
wife received *it with delight. She
gave her maiden friend every assu
rance that their mutual choice was
worthy of their united ambition, and
they set to work to compel Nehi to
accept another Mrs, Gibbons. It
being unseemly for Susan to do more
than put herself as frequently as pos
sible in Mr. Gibbon’s way, the plot
ripened slowly, and, on conferring
with one of the Bishops of the Church,
he recommended both ladies to make
the consummation a subject for
prayer. They lifted np their hearts
together that it might be revealed to
Nehi what good gifts he was neglect
ing, but Nehi hardened his heart, and
refused to extend his table cloth.
He was as yet ignorant of the new
helpmate intended for him, but on
the suggestion of Mrs. Gibbons that
he was not glorifying his manhood
and his family, he said that a pair was
enough, and that he had no wish to
marry. Under these circumstances a
little extreme diplomacy was adj udged
necessaiy, and Mrs. Gibbons, to com
pel a marriage, declared that her
household work was too onerous, and
finally affected to be grievously ill.
Nehi Gibbons, unable to resist this
description of appeal, obeyed the de
sire of his wife, Mary Aun, but the
woman he married was not Susan!
He was too blind to guess the person
intended, and he married an entirely
different woman.
Grave complications ensued upon
this precipitate action of Nehi Gib
bons. The peace of his family was
disturbed, and none the less because,
after the usual period, the second Mrs.
Gibbons had a baby. Mary Ann, re
doubling her efforts,met with no other
success than that Mr. Gibbons took a
third wife, and this time also it failed
to be Susan. The third effort was
more directly made, and with less
diplomacy. Mrs. Gibbons the first
suggesting expressly that her choice
was her bosom friend; and the power
of candor was never so well attested
as on this occasion, for Mr. Gibbons
answered:
“Had I thought Susan would have
accepted me, my dear Mary Ann, I
should have made her my wife before
1 proposed to you!”
Thus piety and patience were
crowned, friendship was rewarded, and
Susan and Mary Ann being lovely in
life, in wedlock were not divided.
MAYOR’S COURT.
The Old, Old Story—One of Siler’s Carts
in Limbo—His Honor Safe.
After the adjournment of Wednesday’s Court, we
were bo afflicted in regard to the absence of His
Honor, that we went home to our little bed, and in
solitude brooded o’er the piobable dangers which
might have befallen him. During the night we were
troubled by hideous hallucinations, in which His
Honor was invariably prominent. Blood seemed to
stream from the heart, his head and face were horri
bly bruised, and his eyes seemed to be closed in
death. The scene became too horrible for endurance
and with a powerful effort we threw off the shackles
of sleep. Still, we could riot divest ourselves of the
idea that His Honor had been foully dealt with. It
may be imagined wi’h what heavy feelings we turned
our steps toward the court house. Arriving there, a
surprise of the most pleasant nature awaited us.
We rushed in, frantically exclaiming
** EUREKA 1”
His Honor was alive I His Honor was unharmed!
His Honor looked the picture of contentment! The
expression of his countenance was mild and pleasing,
his eyes twinkled with a merry light, and his whole
manner expressed loVe and good will. The cham
pion of the sex, the beloved Mayor of our city—upon
whose shoulders the mighty affairs of State are
pressing—was spared to us, and we felicitated our
selves upon the happy event. The police c'ustered
around him affectionately, and Johnson, ah! who
can forget the aspect of his face! He seemed to an
ticipate every wish of His Honor,, and waited upon
him with a sort of holy reverence. It is delightful
to attend a family reunion; it smooths away the
wrinkles of care ; it softens the asperities of life ;
and prepares the heart for the gentler emotions.
But “yet we were not happy.” His Honor was
there, to be snre, and that was a comfort. Johnson is
there, aspleasing as ever. Kicklighter, Hinton,
Barry, Patrick Fitzgibbons and many others are
here, hut bUU we were not happy. There was a va
cancy, a void, a something we could not explain.
We reflected,|We reasoned, we reckoned, we cogitated,
we ransacked our troubled brain, hut still
“WE WERE KOT HAPPI.”
What could the matter be ? Why this feeling of lone
liness? Our health was good, and so was our diges
tion. Then why do we experience this strange and
unaccountable feeling ? We beseechingly appealed
to His Honor for explanation, but he either did not
hear ns or.did’nt know himself. We then turned
our eyes upon Johnson. Instantly the troth flashed
across our minds.
“WHERE WAS LOWRX ?”
In onr anxiety to discover His Honor, we did not
mean to drive Lowry off We valued him very much-
notwithstanding the fact we do not think he had a
right to fine a woman more for getting obfuscated
than a man. His Honor would not have done it.
Nevertheless we did not mean to drive him off, and
felt very sorry not to see him. But as we were thus
reasoning and counselling and cogitating we noticed
that Johnson wanted to bring on the crisis ; in fact,
Johnson wanted to have some of the doughty crimi
nals arraigned. This laudable desire on the part of
Johnson received a ready “amen” from the lips of
the Mayor: as well as drawing forth signs of approval
from the numerous policemen by whom he was
flanked. He then called upon
HON. JOHN GULLATT,
a gentleman from the cod-fisheries of Nantnckett,
away up in the State of Main. The Honorable gen
tleman is one of the military supporters of our much
abused Constitution, as explained by Ben. Butler
and his party, and is in the city for the purpose of
enforcing the provisions of the Ku-Klnx bill. Find
ing that his search for those goblins'was unavailing
he fell into a fit of melancholy, and took to hard
drinking. In consequence of this extremely rash
act, he was attacked by a violent fever, with all of its
accompanying symptoms. His brain seem to float in
ether, his legs refused to do their duty, and his
whole frame seemed to tremble convulsively. A
friendly polioeman, in passing by, recollected that
onr friend Johnson had an effective antidote for
such »**—•*», gently conducted the Honorable gentle*
man to tho calaboose, there to await treatment at the
skilful hands of Johnson. His Honor listened to
the case with a good degree of patience, and, like
Martha Jones, “Alt sick in mind.” He did not like
remarkable equanimity directed Johnson to collect
$5 and costs.
OKU. JOSEPH GILTOn,
is another unfortunate from McPherson Bar
racks. His trouble arose In camp. He did not
get half enough to eat, the company fund was
large and the necessities of the officer’s holding
It were many. Pork and beans, as a conse
quence, were measured out sharfhgly, and Joseph
was keenly afflicted with the pangs of starvation. If
the company found was not so large he could get
along very well; he believed that Unde Sam pro
vided enough for all his wants, but he also belived
that those through whose hands it had to
piss were not strictly .honest. This was
hard on the officers, but it is, as a general
thing, the truth, and the truth pinches. Joseph
left the jCamp in disgust, came to town, met a
friend, took a drink, bought a cigar, and laid down
on the sidewalk to revolve his troubles in his mind
and devise means for relief. Ho smoked and thought*
and i\ asoned and puffed. The ba my air fanned his
fevered cheek; the intonations of grunting pigs and
yelping dogs were as music to his ear, and at length
Nature’s sweet restorer, balmy sleep, translated his
imagination to fairy land. He dreamt a dr earn. He
was in an army in which there was no company
fund ; in which officers did not seek to cut a swell
by robbing the privates of their scanty fare; whoso
commander-in-chief was not a vandal, whose
mission was the maintenance of the glory and
honor and liberty of the country. A man of earth,
whose principal adornment was a star on his breast,
was coming up the street just about this time, and
caught Joseph in this sorry plight, his only compan
ion being hog wallowing in tho same mudhole. (The
sidewalks in Atlanta arc almost one continuous mud
hole.) .He shook Joseph, and remonstrated with
h.m because of his imprudence,^Johnson was deeply
affected during the hearing of this case, and we have
no doubt his influence aided in mitigating the pun
ishment, as his Honor only required $5 and costs.
ET.TAK GARDNER, COLORED,
is a youth in the neighborhood of eleven or twelve
years of age. He was out of a job, had no bread,
and was thus reduced to driving one of Siler’s ten
cent expresses, as he thought that even that was
better than nothing. As ho had not conclud d to
make a horse of himself he drove his express upon
the sidewalk, thereby creating a blockade, and com
pelling ladies to step off tho sidewalk to let him pass
on. Of course a city policeman could not see such
things with an easy conscience, and the driver was
arrested. His Honor, who os our citizens know, is
a fond and indulgentfather, felt Borely at a loss to
dispose of the case. He did not feel justified i l be
ing harsh with one so young in years; he had noth
ing particular against Siler or hiB carts, but had made
up his mind to one thing—that the ladies should be
protected. Siler had no business to monopolize the
streets; boys should be careful in embarking in
su.h a business as driving Siler's carts; in fact, they
should try almost anything else. He would let him
off with the costs. This announcement seemed to
please Johnson.
Here a little diversion was created in court by the
conduct of Johnson. He jumped out to the center
of the floor and commencing a genuine nigger min
strel break down, sang:
“Sally, come np; Sally, come down;
Sally, come twist your heel around."
His conduct was explained by the appearanco of
mss SALLIE NEWBRINK
on the stand, whom he took this novel means of
calling out. Miss Sallie had been doing a hard day ’a
work. She came home tired and worn out and fa
tigued and ill at ease. Added to this, she found that
her sweet-heart had gone to a fancy ball with another
wench. The fire was out; the house looked cheer
less; the skies overhead looked murky and threaten-
iug. Is it any wonder that she flew to the bottle and
endeavored to drown sorrow and trouble and
jealousy and anxiety and tribulation?. She met her
sweetheart and gaye him a “cussin’ out.” A police
man heard her andAhat cooked her gooBe. HiB Honor
got his foot in it; he did not want his natural affec
tion for woman to overcome his discretion; he look
ed at Johnson to see if he could catch an idea. The
oxpresBion on Johnson’s race was fixed; his lips were
firmly closed; his eyes gleamed fire. His Honor was
magnetized, he could neither speak, nor move, nor
see. Johnson withdrew his gaze and His Honor
opened his month and spake. (This is precisely
what Balaam’s ass did.) The city demanded $10 and
costs.
HAJ. WINTERS
is also a recipient of Uncle Sam’s bounty, and suffers
by the operation of the company fund business. He
denied the soft impeachment. Two witnesses were
called upon to testify, and after being sworn, turned
around to look at the Major. They jumped back in
astonishment, their hair standing on end, and ex
claimed in chorus:
“ LAW BAKES 1 HE’S NOT THE MAN I"
This created no little stir in court, but was quieted
by a look from Johnson. Other evidence was pro
cured, and the Major was mulcted in $10 and costs.
“a dealer in sperrits.”
was arraigned for retailing without a license, but, as
he had since procured license covering the time, the
case was dismissed with costs.
In adjourning the court, we cannot neglect the op
portunity to urge upon the police, and upon Johnson
especially, the duty of taking care of our Mayor, snd
seeing tbatno ill befalls him. The lesson of the past
three d;ys should admonish ns, and urge ub to re
newed vigilance. We would also advise them to
hunt up Lowry, as it is very important he should be
on hand in case His Honor should he taken from ub.
THE MONEY ORDER CLERK ON HIS
travels;
He Failed to Reach the 'Woodbine.
He Again Languishes in Prison.
We mentioned two days ago the escape of E. A.
McLaughlin, the defaulting money order clerk.
This morning we announce his capture and return
to the city.
It seems that, after eluding the bailiff who had
charge of him, he made his way out of town by way
of Marietta street, and went toward Marietta afoot,
probably aiming to take the train at seme point where
he was not likely to run much risk of being detected.
Wednesday morning Mr. A. C. Heigbey was exer
cising a horse some distance this side of Marietta,
when McLaughlin came np. Heigbey recognized
him and spoke to him. The latter told Heigbey he
had gotten off the train at Fining's to see a friend,
bat failed to find him and was then walking, to Ma
rietta, where he would again take the train. He
passed on and Heigbey, in returning to town, passed
him still going towards Marietta. At this time Heig-
hoy wa3 not aware that McLaughlin had escaped and
that a reward was offered for his apprehension.
After arriving at Marietta, Heigbey went to
“Chuck” Anderson’s livery stable and there made
some remark about having seen McLaughlin. He
was then shown a copy of the Sun, in which appear
ed the advertisement of Major Smyth, offering are-
ward for the culprit.
Shortly after noon Heigbey and Anderson mount
ed their horses and concluded they would go oat and
make three hundred Hollars. They oonjectured that
McLaughlin would avoid Marietta and strike the
railroad again some distance above. Accordingly
they struck out for Green's station, some seven miles
np the road, and then separated to beat about for the
game. It was not long before Heigbey saw him
dart into some bushes. Biding to the bushes
he commanded McLaughlin to come oat. Not
being obeyed, he cocked his pistol and dashed in
demanding a surrender. McLaughlin threw up his
arms and said, “I surrender.” He told Heigbey
that he was armed. H. told him then to turn his
back and march ahead of him, which he did until
they arrived at Green’s Station, where Anderson
met them. Here McLaughlin was disarmed. He
was then brought to Marietta, and yesterduy morn
ing was brought to .Atlanta and turned over to the
United States Marshal, Smylhe, by whom the $300
reward was paid.
McLaughlin is now in jail, and will bo apt to re
main there until his new trial can come off.
ANTIQUATED IDEAS. -
Sticking Written Notices on tlie Wall—
Medieval Advertising.
There are people in this world whom it would be
impossible to modernize. They prefer the old see
saw way of doing things, believe in stage coaches,
are violently opposed to telegraph wires, newspapers,
sewing machines, and everything that savors of
advancement. They are constantly predicting im
pending ruin, and verily believe that the world is
every day becoming worse.
It is not to be wondered at that Atlanta should be
afflicted with some of these fossils, but it is a little
strange that many of them should be the occupants
of public offices. Yet it is a fact
Yesterday in our rambles around town, we made it
our business to hunt these fossils. Our first point
was the Court House. There we found notices of
real importance to all our tax-payers, stuck up on the
wall, in miserable chirography, where not over one
in twenty would ever see them. Tax notices,
with the name of A. Or. Grier, were thus posted
np, while seven-eighths of the people interested
therein, and who should be notified in a proper
manner, are people who never have time to
visit the court-house, and consequently never know
anything of them till they see their places advertised
at sheriff's sale to satisfy tax or some other demand.
We found notices front other authorities in the same
building, stuck up in places where people never see
them, and if they did see them, they could not read
the miserable writing. We visited the justices’
courts, and tho same thing greeted onr vision.—
Property is levied npon, a little notice is slapped on
the wall of the day of the sale, and when the day
comes few or none are there, and the property goes
at a sacrifice, thus inflicting a less on the owner.
Now, all this is wrong. If the officers are too
poor to advertise, and thus do justice to parties in
terested, and prevent frauds which too often happen,
we have no doubt but that our publishers are enter-
prizing enough to publish them, free of charge. It
is time this old fogyism was stopped. The next
thing we hear of these old fogies will be asking the
preachers to make thei announcements at church,
after the old style. In fact, if they will persist in
defacing tho walls with these notices, we would ad
vise them to send in their advertisements to
the preachers on Sunday. It would .take wonder
fully..
OUTRAGE ON McDONOUGIl ROAD.
A Man Attacked l>y Two Ruffians and
Rubbed—Escape of tbe Tbicvcs.
Crime stalks rampant throughout the country, en
joying high carnival. In the solitude of the country
as well as in the heart of the teeming city, the grim
spectre may be seen in all its hideousness, besmear
ed with the blood of its murdered victims and run
ning ri it on the products of plunder.
a siartimg case of robbeiy and attempted murder
has just come to our knowledge, which, for atrocity
and fi ndishness, is unparalfecL Mr. M. W. Clark,
an inoffensive citizen, was driving home on the Mc
Donough road, and when about one and a half.miles
from the city, he was accosted by two white inen,
who asked him if he know where they could get em
ployment. He answered that he was in need of help
himself, and asked them to jump in and ride home
with him. They did so, and almost immediately
commenced a violent attack upon Mr. Chark. A
fierce struggle ensued, in which Mr. Clark had
his whiskers pulled out by the roots, and
while one of the fiends held him down, the other
ransacked his pockets, but only found a $100 Con
federate note, 25 cents in lawful money, and a plug
of tobacco. Still the fight cont nued, choking, pull
ing hair, and tugging with all the forces of human
ferocity. The appearance of a traveler, however, put
an end to the brutal work, and the two villains fled
into the woods. Mr. Clark, though severely hurt, is
getteng over his injuries.
On enquiry the two villains were discovered to bo
Cofy Beaver and Tom Kennedy, two notorious char
acters, who are well known to our law officers as
being desperate men. Beaver, we understand,
has served his term at Hilledgeville; and is a dan
gerous man, while Kennedy’s record has nothing
good to recommend it. '
Justice Lynes has issued warrants for the arrest of
the parties. We hope they will soon be caught, and
visited with condign punishment.
SUPERIOR COURT.
Conclusion of tbe Alexander-Jobnsoit
Case—Judge Speer’s Argument.
The case of Calvin Davis and wife, formerly Mrs.
Alexander, vs. Matilda C. G. Johnson, which com
menced on Wednesday morning, was concluded on
yesterday. It involved the title to a house and lot
in this city, worth about $4.p00. Counsel for 'the
plaintiffs were Messrs. Glenn & Son, of this city, and
Hon. Alexander M. Speer, of Griflin—for the defend
ant, Messrs. Hooper & Bronson, of Cartersvillo, and
Messrs. Hill & Candler, of Atlanta. Either side in-
troduced a great deal of evide&ce. Three speeehes
were made—two for the plaintiffs, by Messrs. Glenn
and Speer—and one for the defendant by Mr. Candler.
While all did credit to themselves, and justice to
their clients, homo counsel will excuse us when
wa state that we have heard the effort of Judge Speer
spoken of by both members of the bar and laymen,
as an argument of great power, legal acumen and
eloquence. »
When Col. Candler, in his usual fervid andelo-
quent manner, concluded his argument for Mrs.
Johnson, claimant, he was replied to by Judge
Speer in a clear and forcible argument, occasionally
relieved by pathetic passages of eloquence. Judge
Speer remarked that he had heard with pleasure of
the progress of Atlanta; he came to see the wonder
ful progress made since the war, and could not but
admire the energy and enterprise of tho "citizens,
but during the course of this case he was reminded
that along the coast of Florida, among the coral
reefs and low islands almost hid from view, here
and there were to be found a class cf men that
during fair weather were not to he seen or lound,
but during a storm or afterwards, when a vessel was
driven on the sunken reefs, these men called
wreckers, came apparently from every inlet; men of
small stature, with black eyes, swarthy complexion,
long black hair, who soon boarded the vessel in dis
tress, and for the consideration of 33per cent,
would engage to save the cargo. And strange to say,
that among other strange things that he had found
in Atlanta, he had found wreckers here; men who
fonnd up old worthless deeds,and for a consideration
would undertake to save a portion from the wreck.
These deeds were like some remains of old vessels
whose timbers were rotten and not worth tho sal
vage.
When it is recollected that the description of the
wreckers was a word-portrait of CoL Candler, op
posing counsel, its application will be readily seen.
The Judge is a whole-souled, genial gentleman, and
we hope that whatever other fortune may betide him,
he may never be wrecked on the Florida reefs or in At
lanta courts. yK .
Alter a dear and lucid charge from Judge Hopkins
upon the legal points involved in the case, the jury
retired, and after a short absence found a verdict in
favor of plaintiff—Mrs. Davis nee Mrs. Alexander.
I «. * ■
, Hymenisl.
At the residence of the bride’s father, on Mitchell
street, at 8 o’dock yesterday evening, Mr. D. L. Hill
was married to Miss Kerren Caldwell. Rev. Gen. C.
A. Evans, officiating, No cards.
■While returning thanks to the happy couple for
their very kind remembrance of us, we offer, them
our congratulations and good wishes for all thebeaU-
tudes that those who enter matrimony usually antici
pate. Though life is an up-A ill work we hope in their
case the A ills will aggregate a range that will be no
impediment, but a comfort rather on the way.