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THE ATLANTA 8UN
Frew The Daily Sun of March 7, 1878
the presidents inaugural.
President Grant says in his inau
gural that his “efforts will he directed
to the restoration of good feeling be
tween the different sections of our
common country; to the restoration of
our currency to a fixed value as com
pared with the world’s standard of
values—gold—and, if possible, to a
par with it; to the construction of
cheap routes of transit throughout
ihe land, that the products of all
sections may find a market and leave
a living remuneration to the produ
cer, to the maintainance of friendly
relations with all our neighbors and
with distant nations; to the re-estab
lishment of our commerce and 6hare
in the carrying of trade upon the
ocean; to the encoaiagemenl of such
manufacturing industries as cuu be
economically pursued in this coun-
tij, to the end that the export of
home products and industries may
pay for our imports as the only
method of returning to and. perma
nently maintaining a specie basis; to
the elevation of labor, and by a hu
mane course to bring the aboriginecs
of the country under the benign in
fluences of education and civiliza
tion.”
The President most assuredly
the opportunity and the occasion to
redeem many of the errors of his past
administration. With the experience
of the past four years, and with no
aspirations for a further tenure upon
the Presidential office, it is to be
hoped that he will have the courage
and the inclination to restrain the
excesses of his party by wholesome
counsel nnd advice in his future ad
ministration of the government.
Thoso best acquainted with the
President, personally, claim that he
has uo sympathy in those excesses;
but that he lias, somehow or other,
cn circumvented iu his efforts to
prom >te t ha ends to which be alluded
in that part of his inaugural quoted
above.
While the great bulk of the South
ern people have regarded the Presi
dent in the light of an enemy to
them, we believe he may be assured
that lie will find a most cordial re-
ppon ■(' from our people in all his ef
forts to bring about the era of good
feeling bet ween the sections and the
general prosperity of the country.
There an* no ]*eople more fully alive
to the importance of snch a state of
our national affairs tliau the ]>eople
of the South; and the President,
therefore, may rest assured of the
most hearty co-operation of our peo
ple on the line he has indicated in
the above quotation from his inaugu
ral address.
Indeed, the President and his party
arc most solemnly pledged to carry
out these ends, and there is no better
time to begin the work of reform of
which the President speaks. We be
lieve the people of the whole country
arc anxious for the restoration of the
era of good feeling between the sec
tions and the prosperity of all sec
tions. The popular mind has become
fatigued and disgusted with the spirit
of crimination and recrimination
growing ont of the passions of the
late war.
President Grant, as the central fig
ure iu the late conflict between the
States, on the conquering side, aud
now at the head of the Federal Gov
ernment, has a splendid opportunity
of rising high above the passions of
■ectional partisanism and rebuking
the turbuleut spirits that would
longer divide a people that should
now be united.
senator roMKKor asd -bricx.-
“Brick” Pomeroy, in reply to sev
eral gentlemen from Illinois on the
subject, says he “is in no way rela
ted” to Senator Pomeroy, of Kansas.
Brick goes on to state there never
was a dishonest man of his family;
but from the best information he can
obtain “S. C. Pomeroy is descended
from a former servant of bis great-
graud-father, who, on leaving Eng
land years ago to avoid arrest and
punishment for stealing, dropped hi*
real name, C as talon, and appropriat
ed that of his employer. From this
family of “appropriatora,” as he be
lieves, came the Kansas •Senator, S. 0.
Pomeroy.”
Atlanta Markus is Tmnn-Wi
Me from the Knoxville Chrouiole that
Messrs, Gould, Helena A Go., the live
•Ommiwion aierebants of thie oil/, daily
fonnah the readers at that paper with aa
extended and comet list of pnoaa cur
rent in this oily. Oar Tumw—ee friends J Maine
may rely upon the oorre^tneaa of the re
po rva furnished by this firm.
cotton nanofacturino in rum booth
We have recently published an
editorial *r two in .I'm Sir*
gnrd to the importance of the estab
lishment of numerous cotton facto-
ri08 * n the Sooth. We now propose
to revert to the subject again—not so
much for the purpose of presenting
any new facts in connection with the
subject, as to “stir up the pure minds”
of our readers in regard to it.
There is no reason why the pro
ducers of cotton should not become
interested in the manufacture of
their own great staple. There is no
reason why the profits of the manu
facture of cotton should not be re
tained to the Southern people instead
of allowing it to be reaped by others.
There is no reason why the profits of
the cultivation and manufacture of
cotton should not be utilized to the
benefit of the South—enriching her
people and advancing the material
progress of our section. Enterprise,
in this direction, will accomplish this
great good if our people can be
aroused to the magnitude and
grandeur of the field open to their
energy and industry.
Some time ago the statement was
made in these columns, obtained
from the Columbus Enquirer, that
the Eagle and Phoenix Manufacturing
Company of that city report profits
equal to 24 per cent of the capital
invested, by last year’s operations
the Columbus Manufacturing Com
pany report 23 per cent; the Tallas-
see Factory 19£ per cent; and the
Roswell Factory 9 per cent for tne
last six months of 1872. Even iu
Virginia, the Petersburg Cotton Mill
for 1872, yielded 25 per cent profit
upon its capital stock, running one
hundred looms and 3,022 spindles,
while it is stated in one of our North
ern exchanges that the “reports of
the Northern mills represent their
profits to be from 4 to 6 per cent for
six months during the last vear, or
at the rate of from 8 to 12 per cent
per annum.
If it is pecuniarily interesting to
Northern manufacturers to get
profit, of from eight to twelve per
cent., it certainly would be more in
teresting to Southern manufacturers
to receive double that profit upon
such investment, especially as the
profits would remain here in our own
midst to enrich and advance the ma
terial prosperity, not only of the cap
italists who may engage in such en
terprise, hit of the whole country.
Besides we could more than compete
with Northern manufacturers for the
reason that our profits would be bet
ter, and we should be able to pay for
and keep for our own manufactories
the best grades of the staple.
If is not expected that these great
enterprises can be inaugurated in a
year or two; but rapid strides can be
made in that direction within the
next five or ten years, if our capital
ists, planters and middle men of
means will go to work and exert
themselves properly. Ourpopulation,
too, is rapidly increasing, and we
must have employment for all, or else
thousands of them will become pau
pers to live upon the taxable property
of the better classes.
Manufacturing is, iu our humble
opinion, the salvation of the South.
Those who have the means ought to
have the sagacity to understand that
as the business affairs ot the South
become more settled and stable, they
will not have such a harvest in reap
ing large per cents upon their money.
Nothing presents better inducements
for investments for the future than
capital put in manufactural and me
chanical enterprises.
DEATH OF HON. ALFRED IYSRSON.
It is with much regret that the
people of this State will hear of the
death of this distinguished Georgian,
which occurred at his residence at
Macon on the morning of the 5th
insk, at about 4 o’clock, from a sud
den attack of inflamation of the bow
els.
Mr. Iverson was one of Georgia’s
most honored sons. He had filled
important positions in the State—at
one time that of Jndge of the Supe
rior Court. He was a member of the
United States Senate for two or three
terms, he and Gen. Toombs rep re
resen ting Georgian! the beginning
of the late war. As the Macon En
terprise says, he was beloved aud re
spected by all who knew him, and his
loss will be sorely felt.
The Enterprise states that his re
mains will receive burial at Columbus,
his former heme. Thus, one by one,
the good and great mtn ot the better
days of beloved old Georgia are pass
ing away!
melancholy hamlet in
of fifty-five widow*;
and yet it would lot seem to be a
good place for men.
ARMED CONFLICT IN NSW ORLEANS. *7
3y reference to our telegraphic)
dispatches it will be. seen that an
armed conflict has occurred in the
city of New Orleans. The Odd Fel
lows Hall wa3 seized by the Metro
politan Police, and the McEneiy
Legislature prevented from assem
bling. Gov. McEnery submitted the
question whether this seizure of Odd
I ellows Hall met the approval of Gen.
Emory, Major-General commanding
the Lnitcd States forces in that city.
Gen. Emory, as will be p*r-n, replied
that previous instruction* had. direct
ed him to recognize the <. .v. rnment
of the State of Louisiana as repre
sented by Kellogg, which instruc
tions were given by Gen. Grant
It w ill also be seen that about fifty
citizens, who had participated iu the
previous night’s affray, have been
arrested, charged with violating the
Enforcement Act The city was
quiet yesterday evening, and it was
believed no further demonstrations
will be made while the United States
iorces remain in charge.
We are now to understand that the
administration has taken the course
indicated by the President’s message
in regard to the Louisiana troubles,
in the event no action was taken by
Congress to relieve him of the re
sponsibility of deciding the question
of the legality between the contend
ing bodies there claiming to be the
Legislature of Louisiana.
The Kellogg Government has been
recognized by the Supreme Court of
Louisiana; and the President will
most assuredly sustaiu'tkhe action of
the highest judiciary of the State in
their decision.
SPIRIT OF TUX GEORGIA I RESS.
The Columbus Sun, referring to
the national convention, in behalf of
a religious amendment to the Consti
tution and recognition of Christian
faith in the organic law, says: “ Not
satisfied with the political patches on
the Constitution nntil all the origi
nal material is almost covered, some
of our pious Northern brethren are
anxious to complete the work in an
orthodox Christian wav." The Sun
conclude*:
FATHER RYAN'S HEALTH.
The Morning Star and Catholic
Messenger (Father Ryan’s paper)
publishes the following extract from
a recent letter written by the poet
from Rome:
“I have deferred a long time writing
to you, but ever since I left America
I have been sick. For four weeks I
have been eon fined to bed aud was
seriously sick, so that I was obliged to
give up my trip from Palestine and
go back to Paris to consult physi
cians. They advised me to go back
to Italy and then to Malta for my
health. I am also suffering from
weak sight.”
S2T* General B. F. Butler is re
ported as having expressed his thank
fulness in a public speech, that he
was not a man whom the newspapers
bad mad?. The press may be truly
thankful for having nothing to do
with the making of General B. F.
Butler.
Cgr > Colfax has no respect for the
man who stole his bonds, and the
people should have no respect for the
Vice President, who was engaged in
the Credit Mobilier swindle.
J SIOJV/FICJ.NT SIU.NOF TUB TtGIBS.
Mr. Stephen* In Congrest. v
One of the most significant signs of
the times, and of the change for the bet
ter in Northern sentiment, is the recent
election of Mr. Stephens to Congress,
pnd the approving comments of the
Northern press, of all parties, upon the
fact. Bnt a very short time since the
mere mention of such an intention would
have raised a shriek of “loilty” through
out North and South, which would have
been terrific, and very possibly new de
tachments of the military would have
been sent into Georgia. For Mr. Ste
phens has not only been a “Rebel,” bnt
actually Vice President of the Southern
Confederacy, and one of the chief acton
in the great drama of secession.
Moreover, Mr. Stephens has had the
manhood never to profess penitence, or
regret for the port he played; has made
no concessions to power, nor swerved a
hair’s breadth from the principles of
strict construction and Jeffersonian De
mocracy, of which he is to-day a caam-
pion. With nnabated powers of intel
lect, and fall of fight as ever, a powerful
engine encased in a frail steamer—he
goes to Washington to insist on equal
rights for his people.
Again, we repeat, that the choice of
snch a man, immediately following that
of General Gordo?, an equally repre
sentative man, with the approval, even
the laudation of the Northern press,
conclusively proves that we are approach
ing a new phase in our politics again, and
may hope for an early restoration of the
era of good feeling, succeeding the era
of had feeling and fraternal hate, which
Luted now eight years after the last man
laid down bis arms at the cloee of the
oneqal contest.
There is no abler Parliamentarian liv
ing than Mr. Siephens, nor any man who
comprehends better the actual attitude
and needs of the Southern States and
of his own constituency. With a spirit
as strong as his frame is frail, we prediot
for him a prominent and distinguished
part in the next Copgrees, in which he
will he a moat conspicuous figure, even
as was John Qoiuoy Adams before him,
under aomewiiat ■itwilur circumstance*.
—•Sarannab Republican, 5th inst.
Tkb Constitutionalist aa>s the sleep
ing ear "Giorgia,” on the Georgia Rail
road. was lately i»a. iu the suop* of the
Cjxupauy, in Augusta, for repairs, aud
ill be soon re_dy for toe road again.
The »ir has Iwc in ciH..»iant nee for six
yearn, rod had hremiK nearly worn oat,
when it **- iniu ap for repairs. I; was
rig im It I mitt at Troy, N I.. and pat
i the Geort.ii Kuiroad by the Pa'lman
oleepmg Car Company.
These gentlemen forget that the Con-
stitutinn of the United States is a politi
cal document, iboa?h permeated in er-
erf principle with Christianity or some
other religious system. The framers of
the Constitution were good men and
patriots, and many of them professed
Christians, but no bigot*. The wisest
thing they did was to refuse to do the
very thing now demanded, and to leave
every man free to worship God agreeably
conscience and convictions",
without any dictation from the civil
power. Christ said “His kingdom was
not of this world,” and the since expe
rience and history of the human race to
unite what He baa put asunder has onh
resulted in hypocricv and pride, revela
tion and bloodshed, tyranny and the
kind of slavery—the enslavement
of the seal and intellect.
Tbo Columbus Enquirer says Presi
dent Grant’s inaugural abounds
good promises, and it will “not go so
lar as to say that they are promises
made only to the ear, with no inten
tion to carry them out in practice.”
It thinks Grant’s first administration
is too full of instances in which his
apparent good purposes and fair
promises were overruled by the press
ure of his radical advisers and the
clamor of his party, to warrant any
strong hopes that he will be more
successful hereafter in shaking off
the malign influence that have here'
tofore gotten the better of him.
Still there are intimations in this in
augural that might be regarded as sig
mficant of a determination to be more
independent of party hereafter, if we
onlj knew that Morton or Wilson did not
‘put that in.” The value of the inan
gnral as an announcement of future
po icy depends largely upon the personal
prompting to which the President gavt
heed in the preparation of the address.
But Gen. Grant’s second term affords
him a glorious opportunity to restore
the equality of the States in substance
and reality, aud history will judge it In
its success or failure in this respect.
The Chronicle and Sentinel, in an
ai ticlc on Colfax s connection with
the Credit Mobilier transactions,
comes to the conclusion that—
The VicePresident has sunk deeper in
thu mire With every flounder, and he eai
have no possible hope of extrication. H<
\vilL do well to cease to struggle, and bear
h:s load of infamy as best he may, with
out adding fresh perjuries to his Durden.
The Savannah Republican says
that while President Grant’s inaugu
ral is composed of the usual stereo
typed phrases on such occasions, it
varies from the ordinary routine in
adopting the tone of Caesar at jts
close. Says the Republican:
His admission that the late conflict wias
between thb separate States and the
Federal Government, is good Sfcatep
Rights doctrine. The Sumner Sfchdol
would have put it the “Southern people
in rebellion against the National Govern
ment.” General Grant’s early Demo
cratic training and tendencies are begin
ning to reassert themselves. With the
exception of the objectionable passages
at the close of this address, there is
nothing in it which calls for particular
comment; and if General Grant will carry
ont the promises he gives in the earlier
portion, he will be forgiven the bad
temper and the bad taste which mar the
conclusion of this inaugural.
Decisions of
compromise or aocord and satisfaction
withhig female ward and her husband
for her claim against him as her goar-
diaa, she being at the time a minor nod
having married after the passage of said
A.CL
Ctrl' roLtcB covet.
3 If each compromise be made whilst
suit is pending against the guardian ii
favor of his ward by her next friend
without the authority of the Court, oi
*be knowledge and consent of the next
friend it is so far a nallity that no deduc
tion for the claim against the guardian
oan be allowed for what be may advance
aa a consideration for the
Southwestern Railroad Company vs, Jas.
R. Knott & Co. Complaint, from Ter
rell.
TRIPPE, J.
L * supervisor of a railroad, who
aas authority to purchase cross-ties for
his principal, contracts with a party for
their purchase, stating to the seller that
His principal wants them to lend to an
other railroad to whioh it had Dromised
them, and the cross-ties are famished
and put on the cars of the road whose
agent has thus contracted for them,
men road is liable for their payment,
notwithstanding the statement as to the
purpose for which they were purchased
be not tree, and the real fact was that
the supervisor was the agent of another
party in making the pnrohase. The
seller is not affected by the truth
falsehood of the statement.
2. The questions in this case were
prop.riy submitted to the jury, and the
evidence sustains the verdict.
JaJmmnt affirmed.
W.K. DeGraffonreid, LyonAIrv^n
tor plaintiff in error.
Hoyle k Simmons, C. B. Wooten, for
defendants.
• ho Supreme
Georgia.
Court oi
Delivered at Atlanta, March 4, 1873.
From the Atlanta Constltntion.
The Singer Sewing Machine Company
vs. the Domestic Sewing Machine
Company. Injunction, from Folton.
McCAY, J.
When the agents of two sewing ma
chine companies were competitors be
fore the Georgia State Agricultural Soci
ety for the premium fer the best ma
chine, the sucoess/nl partv who secures
the premium, is not entitled to an injunc
tion to restrain the other from publish
ing in a newspaper that he and not the
other received the premium. Courts of
Equity will not restrain the publication
oi a libel, nor use the writ of injunction
to prevent parties from publishing un
truths respecting their wares when there
is no infringement of property right.
Jndgment affirmed.
Hillyer Sc Bro., for plaintiff in error.
V 8 !®^® 7 * s - D - McConnell, J.
M. Clark A Son, for defendant.
Margaret Johnson by her next friend vs.
J. R. Janes, et at New trial, from
TorrolL
TRIPPE, J.
1. If a guardian purchase land, intend
ing to receive a promissory note on
other parties, from an administrator in
whose hands is the estate in which his
ward has a share, and to pay for the land
with such note, the consideration of
which is- the purchase money of the
sAine land when sold by the adalnistra
tor, and he does receive the note from
the administrator a. the portion of the
ward in said estate, and pays the whole
price of thel.ciii wah it, and takes (be
title to himself, ii will so charge the tend
as a trust iu the hands of the gnardiui,
and his veudt e who purchases with no
tice of such facts, as tc entitle the ward
through her next friend to assert her
right of election between the fund thus
appropriated, and the laud tbn* pur
chased and paid for.
Under the prooer
Act of 1886,
consideration for the compromise,
unless it be shown that the same was ap
plied for the use and benefit of the ward.
4. The admissions of the husband of
fered as evidence by the wife for the
purpose of showing, in connection with
other testimony, that the marriage was
vo.d, and therehy to relieve herself from
Any effect that his assent to snch com
promise might have, were properly re
jected by the Court, as they are imma
terial under the construction riven to
the Act of 1866. 1
6. An exemplification cl the returns
of a guardian to the ordinary, though
made several years alter the ‘actings of
the guardian therein contained, and after
tfao commencement of suit against him
by his ward, are admissable iu evidence
when tendered by him, and such facts
■ire circumstances which, with the other
testimony in connection therewith, may
he considered by the jury in determin
mg the weight to be given to it.
6. Judgment is reversed in this case
bees use the court erred in not granting
* new trial on the ground that the ver
dict was contrary to the law and the evi
denoe.
Judgment reversed.
Yason & Davis, F. M. Harper, repre-
sented by Clark A Goss, A. Hood, for
plaintiff m error; O. B. Wooten, for de
fendant.
R. 1. Harpor vs. Wrigley & Knott,
Complaint, from Terrell.
TRIPPE, J.
1. The maker of a promissory note,
payable to a partnership, at sixty days,
cannot set up a defense against the note
hat ic was agreed between him and two
>f tne partners, when the goods were
bought and tho note given, that it should
oe settled at a future time by being
credited on account held by the maker
on one of those two partners, the other
partner not being a party to such agree
ment. (30th Ga. Rep., DOS.)
2. The evidence introduced by the
defendant was sufficient to show that the
partnership was composed of three parc-
ners, and to require the charge of the
court and the verdict.
Judgment affirmed.
0. B Wooten for plaintiff in error.
F. M. Harper, represented by Clark &
Goss, for defendant.
proper oon*< ruction of the
securing m the wife the
had a* marriage, or tnat
may oome to or bn acquired by her dar-
Humphrey Grimes va P. B. and J.
Jones, Certiorari, from Early.
TRIPPE, J. J
1. Where a writ of certiorari has
been granted, and the Court dismisses
the same on the ground of non-compli
ance by the petitioner with some requi
sition of the statute, and plaintiff in cer
tiorari makes application within three
months from said dismissal for another
writ, he is not barred by lapse of time,
from having his seoond application heard
—32 Ga. Rep. 437.
2. The facts set forth in the applies
tion for the writ of certiorari in this case
entitles the plaintiff to the granting of
the writ.
Judgment reversed.
Thomas K. Appling, represented by
Jackson and Clarke far plaintiff in error,
No appearance for defendants.
interesting Jims.
ADVKBTIBED BY RMTt.vh
Is Sozodont, and if yon nse it daily, the
white gleam of the pearls between the
parted rubies will prove its excellence as
a dentrifice, and the sweatness of the
breath will attest its purifying properties.
An invaluable remedy for emigrants
and persons traveling or temporarily
visiting malarious districts, is to be found
in Simmons’ Liver regnlator. If taken
occasionally it will prevent chills, fever
and injurious effects f.om change of
water.
dr. Terr’s nus.
It is purely vegetable concentration for
keeping the bowels in natural motion
and cleansing the system of all impuri
ties, and a positive care for constipa
tion. They restore the diseased liver,
stomach ani kidneys to a healthful ac
tion, while at the same time they brace
and invigorate the whole system.
Rom*, Ga., Janaary 11, 1871.
Dr. W. H. Tutu Dear Sir-Having
used your Liver Pills, and finding none
that have done my wife or mTself as
neneh good, I would like to know if they
wonld do es well north a* here. I in
tend going North in March, nnd if they
will have the same effect as in this cli-
m ^ e ; I want to take them on with me.
Hoping to hear f om you soon,
I remain your ohed’t serv’t,
HnsBY A. Mills.
Dt. Tnt&’a Hair Dye imparts life to the
hair.
8^*Try Dooley’s least Powder. You
will soon find ii not only kite best, but
*’*> the cheapest, Baking Powder. Put
lag coverture, a gourd:-a oanuot make a 1 up fn'l, net weight. mh2eod
•'Xhasmdj. bUbbmc sod rwaoraaral du
I» cr»pt into the ixMom of tha »*»• ^
Anc now loud bowhcff wo’.re* tt oa»» the j*de* .
lUff *£• tr MP<s. melancholy night, «
Who. with tnetr droirey, *1ow » B <1 fl wtan
™f Q * w* sad from UMttMkhi!
Breathe foul ocmtaglon'a darkneea In the air."
The melancholy assemblage of the
nwhly importunate, and several “more
nnfortouate,” that appeared at the Polioe
Court yesterday morning, to be gazed
upon by the merciless and promiscuous
audience, evinced dearly that many a
howling wolf of thejungnlar fastnesses
had b*en drugging the “melancholy
night.”
H. N. Marshall, for instance, who is
chief marshal of tho day in a torchlight
procession of brandy cocktails, msr-
shaih d them Into his throat, and turned
the head of the column towards the
nearest alley. The procession moved
from the neighborhood of the Macon
depot up the railroad to Whitehall,
thence to the intersection of Decatur and
Peachtree, thence down Decatur to the
neighborhood of Cliftonia, where the
procession was halted to take breath—
the head resting on the enrb-stone, and
the teet lying about loose. The proces
sion is now assembled on Mitoheli street,
listening to a powerful forensio effort on
the part of a dozen or two atone ham
mers for the benefit of the corporation.
Carry Hall was about the color of well
palled molasses candy. Ugly charge*
were brought forward as to the way she
had acted. Jonsen called np Becky
Boyd, a notorious bandy-shank colored
nymph, as witness. After swearing her
she turned the book over several times,
looking fora clean pJaoe to ki«, and
spying the edge of the leaves, made a
dive and a smack, whioh sounded like a
Chinese fire-cracker. The foul and in
decent epithets Carry had used on Becky
were returned by the latter with com
pound interest. As no blows were re
ported-only talk—they were each fined
five dollars and costa. ’] o
Henry Battle, the buck who assisted
Frank Dent, the day before, in his inan-
goration celebration by * ’swinging*^his
whiskers, was fined five dollars and costs
lor the expense occurred in getting up
tu6 display.
Moses Garner enme in from Decatur
with his wife and bngvy. When discov
ered he was driving nil over the sidewalks
in a fruitless endeavor to turn his buggy
around. An officer went to his assist
ance, and seeing something piled up in
the ‘ boot, asked Moses what it was.
Tho patriarch replied that it was a bag
of fruit. Ou examination it proved to
be bis wife, who, to keep him company,
had got dead drunk and tumbled over.
The entire Garner family were locked up
for the night in the station bouse. Mo
ses, like all the illustrious representatives
of that distinguished name, ecorneth dhe
idea that a soul so great should yield to
the seductiveness of the cup, and a cog
nomen so mighty should trail in the pie-
bian dust. He was a root doctor by pro
fession — a coloied apothecary “pre
scriptions carefully put up at any hour
of tho day or night.” On coming to the
city he entered the first Decatur street
drug store, and purchased a quart of the
ambrosial nectar of tho gods, soliloquis
ing thus:
“Put this in »ny liquid thing you will,
And drink it off; nnd if you had the strength
or twenty men, it would disp&tch you straight."
Instead of putting it into a liquid thing
he poured one pint down his wife and
took the other into his own abdominal
recesses, and in an hour was wrapped in
the arms of the municipal Morpheus,
whioh is the police. The Court consid
ered that the Barry dispensary needed a
druggist, and he was accordingly sent
down to—
“Minister to » mind diseased.
And with some sweet oblivious antidote
Cleanse the foul bosom of that perilous stuff
That weights upon tne heart,"
The woman was feeling sick and bad,
and the Mayor let her off free.
Abner Virgin was np for running his
express wagon without license. When
detected he was pursuing his business
with virgin modesty. The Mayor had
known this virgin in earlier days, and aa
no foul aspersions had ever oome to his
ears regarding his purity in matter* gen
erally, he got off with the costs.
On this occasion the Mayor (forT. and
was still absent), had the smiling ap
proval of Aldermau Morris, who tipped
back his chair, elevated Lis feet on a ta
ble at an angle of about sixty degrees,
and langhed out load at portions of tho
testimony. The Mayor frowned at
several times, ont that only tickled him
the more. He thought the Court looked
tnnny when it tried tc be serious.
The Court stiffened itself in the back
and looked terrors at Morris, who got up
and left, aaying to himself—
Heaven, there'* treeewi ia hi* eepeotl
That cheerlese gloom, thoee eyes that glare on me,
That straightened body and those folded anas."
After disposing of several other naim-
portant oases the Court relaxed its mus
cles until this morning.
Hettee of the War.
' At the gun shop of Charles Heinz is
shelf bushel boa of mumie ball*, which
wer« picked up around the old battle
fields near this city by little negroes and
white children. Some of these balls are
perfect ia shape, while a great many are
flattened and ercoked, showing with
what force they were sent. Could these
dumb mementoes of the bloody scenes
arosad Atlanta apeak, what stirring tales
they could tell I How many of these
bullets caused the death of some brave
so’diem ? or carried away an arm or a
leg ? Tne sight of this ugly mass of lead
is sufficient food for reflection for the
carious.