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FRA: KLIN COUNTY REGISTE
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BY ELLEN J. DORTCI
GENERAL LOGAN.
THE NOTE© SOLDIER AND DISTIN¬
GUISHED SENATOR DEAD.
< Gen Logan died m Washington
jDity at 3 o’clock p. m. Dec. 20th
'Hisillnes was short and his death
sudden and unexpected. One of the
greatest men of the nation has fah
len. The following from the Sa*
vannah Morning News,gives a brief
! account of his public services, and
gives a fair estimate of his eharac
ter.
“Senator Logan whose deathis a*
nouncedin our dispatches this morn
ing, was one of the most widely
known public men in the country,
and one of the most prominent lead
ers of the Republican party. His
death will cause ve:y general sorrow
’especially among the soldier element
of the North.
Gen. Logan was a politician and
a soldier, and in both characters he
was sufficiently distinguished to be
entitled to a permanent place in
history. His admirers and he had
many—-may regard him as a states¬
man, but the unbiased historian of
the future will hardly class him
with those is whose possession ofj the
statesmen unquestioned.
He was a good soldier and deserv¬
ed the high rank which he attained
in the civil war, He was perhaps
the ablest volunt§ep Mujor-General
on tne Union side, f
It was as apolilici an however,that
he will be chiefly remembered. H#
began his political career very early
in life. While he wa& «J.w:iys >.«*•*.
fc rstate his agephe upjf have
Deen a very young man when he oc¬
cupied the position of quartermaster
in Mexican war. Jt is probable that
he was over sixty, years of age whem
he died. In 1849 he held tht office
ot Clerk of Jackson county,fell inois
the county in which he w ^3 born
and from 1852 to 1 185*7, inclusive, he
was four tunes elected tofche Kegisla
ture and was prosecuting .attorney
fjpd presidential elector. He was a
member of the thirty-sixth and
thirty-seventh congresses, add re¬
signed to take part in ti|e war. He
w as ol|ered the mission i to and Mexico
in I 860 , but declined - was
elected to the fortieth ar, forty-first
congresses. In 1871 fie fas elected
to the Senate, and reifiai^d a ’ mem
ber of that body from mat pretty
much until his death. \ 1884 he
was a candidate before tLw National
Republican conveutioif n o niina
tion to the presidency frog liis party
He was nominated for \kq president
and contributed his frit fshare to
the popularity of ticket. 4
Gen. Logan was an iluHost man.
During all the years if 3 pilbllO
life no charge was broirili against
him touching his intig ty. He
lived within his mcan .1 md the
gteater part of his Wasli ton life
was passed in a couple of r ms in a
very unpretentious boar< r house,
Ills friends and admirers : ght him
there, and he entertains# | them as
satisfictorily receive them as in. if he bad : j ialace to
Geo. Logan did uot ha the ad
■vanHageMvof an early Incation.
This was quite apparent u ,s speech,
• s and his writings. He j ssessed a
very considerable amonnt culture,
however, and his efforts i^^congreas and
and on t he stump possess^ force friend
eloquence. He was a stre g $mick
and a bitter enemy, but ho V 28
to forgive when forgiv e ess was
songnt. the Sen
i He striking figure! i
was a
ate, not only on account of tusproin
inence, but also cn acco 4 of bis
appearance, liis long co; lack hair
CARNESYILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 4 1887.
and austache and his swarthy com
plexi n gave him sometning of the
look if an Indian, ne was popular
with post of the Senators and Rep¬
resentative*, and his familiar form
will bfc greatly missed when congress
reassemble!.
f-H IS WINNIE DAVIS.
Miss Winnie Davis, the daughter
of Jefferson Davis is a different ^ro¬
man from what would be imagined
)y reason of the sentimental 'inter¬
est snrjrounditig her. In the first
plac* *he is a grown woman, born
during the war, at least twenty four
or twenty-five years ago Of deli
cate health all her life, she is natu
rally jaeeome more soberly inclined
tliansjmost young women, aud this
tendency has increased by long and
close companionship with hei fath¬
er. Mr. Davis was, in a great meas¬
ure her tutor during her girlhood,
and kept her sequestered until she
went ifo Europe to finish her educa¬
tion. (She dresses with extreme sim¬
plicity and seems to care very little
about the modes. Her skin is of the
fair southern type—aark complex
ioned. brown eyed and oval, and her
hair itj jet black. She i- tall, and
holds herself very erect. Her voice
is soft and musical, and her move
ment^ are very graceful, She is
interesting and intellectual rather
than i pretty, though she becomes
prettf when she smites. Study is at
once ! ler -’--J pAstime and vocation, and it
is saf l a^onishes all who talk
wittier tw%«r iTidenhigo 'And eon-'
fident grasp of knowledge Her
friends say that she expects to auopt
literature as a profession.
Her northern visit has been treated
as a semupolitical one, but nothing
could be farther from her plan or in*
clinatioi. She is simply resting and
enjoying a needed change of scene
and has accepted long repeated invi«
tations in order to do so. In this
city she is the guest of a playmate of
school days, Mrs. J. Harvey DeU a
famous belle in the South, who, (be¬
fore her marriage, was so intimate
wkh the Davis’s as to be almost a
member of their household. Miss
Davis says that since she left Rich¬
mond she has seen more of Northern
than Southern folks, and that all
have treated her with hearty friend¬
ship.
THE ANDOVER TRIAL.
A special from Boston of Dec 28 says:
at 10 o ’clock this morning the now
famous Andover trial bsgan at the
United ,States Hotel in this city.
There Were present the full Board
of Visitors, complainants, respond¬
ents, and counsels on both sides.
The large dining room of the hotel
was filled, even the standing room
along the walls be*tig occupied. A
considerable portion of the audience
was made up of clergymen, hut
many laymen and a number of ladies
were present.
On luftring of Lamartine,s death
Victor Hugo wrote: Lamartine tas
experienced every kind of glory, be¬
ginning with popularity and ending
with immortality. He was a radiant
poet and a powerfnl and durable
orator. He appears to be dead, but
he is not. He has not ceased to
shine- He is now a double source of
light in onr literature, where he is a
spint, and in the great unknown
where he is a star
PRESIDENT CLEVELAND.
SENATOR INGALLS EXPRESSES HIM
SELF PLAINLY.
There is in the last number of
Lippincots Magazine a curious but
rather interesting article, which con
tains what purports to be a private
conversation between Mr. William
D, Howell’s, the novelist, and Sena¬
tor Ingalls, respecting the President
Mr. Howells says little or nothing
that the public is specially interest¬
ed in, but Senator Ingalls gives his
impressions of the President very
freely. In view ef the fact that tho
Senator is one of the ablest of Re¬
publican Senators, and seldom says
pleasant things of a political oppo¬
nent when he can say unpleasant
ones, liis opinion of President Cleve¬
land can hardly fail tc attract attenj
tion and a certain amount of inter
est.
The Senator’s first impress! on of
the President appears to have been
obtained at the latters inauguration.
This impression he thus states: “It
was something to see a man who
lad never been in Washington but
once before enter the Senate cham
icr with perfect self possession, m
company with that polished gentle¬
men, Mr. Authur. The leading men
men of the nation were present.
(The galleries were full of distinguish
ed people. Amid such surroundings
le coolly took his seat beside Mr.
Muthnr, witu every eye, every opera
.oJass cet K -ed on him. He Jao'ic
ifoV nervous in 11
the least. He never moved during
that half an hour of preliminary ox-j
cises. not his hand, nor his foot; he
did not wink oftener than usual; he
might huve been bronze for what ef¬
fect the inspection seemed to have
to have »n him. He then moved
out to the front where he took the
oath of office and delivered the first
inaugural L ever heard prouounced
without manuscript. He stood there
there and delivered that harangue
of dogmatic platitudes with out any
attempt at oratory.”
The self possession of the Presi¬
dent and his apparent confidence in
his ability to prove himself equal to
the occasion appears to have im¬
pressed the Senator favorably. He
says that “the fact that, in the few
months of intense excitement be¬
tween tho time of his clectio and
the inauguration, he should have
gotten that speech into his mind so
as to give it calmly before that vast
multitude, whom no man could num¬
ber, was to me inexplicable.”
That the president is a perfectly
self reliant mau and is alone respon¬
sible for all his acts, the Senator has
no doubt. Iu tact, he states it to be
his belief that the President has no
intimate friend, no counselor no ad¬
viser.
It is probable that the Senator’s
belief about the President, relying
wholly on himself ie true, aud his
self-relience is one of the reasons
doubtless why the President is not
as popular as he might bo with some
of the .Congressmen. If he were to
consult them more they would show
more appreciation of him, even if he
did not follow their advice.
What Senator Ingalls says of the
President is calculated to l*avea fa
yorable impression of him, and if so
strong a political enemy and eo se
vere a critic as be entertains a favor
able opinion of the President, it is
but fair to conclude that the great
majority of the people not only ha ve
confidence in him but have a high ap
preciatiou of his fitness for the office
he fills.—Sav News
SNOW IN ENGLAND.
Oue cf t .1. tho severest snow storms
that ever visited the country passed
over England Dec 27. Railroad
trains were blocked and telegraph
wires were borne- down by the storm
in many places.
,
The daily News says that the tele¬
graph wires in the city last night
were snapping with alarming rapid
lty, ana in Fleet street the police
curled the broken ends around the
lamps posts. A train on the Midland
line was delayed over anhour by the
falling of a telegraph over the track.
A large number of telegraph and
telephohe wires fell last night over
the Metropolitan era.
STRANGE SCENE.
R-r-as during the I residence of
Lord Shaftesbury (thefi Lord A§bky)
at Harrow that an incident occured
which influenced his wjholo after-life.
Bfe was one day walking alone down
Harrow-hill when he wps startled by
hearing a great shouting and yelling
in a side street and thp singing of a
ow baschanalian sonjg. Presently
the r.oisy party turned <,the corner of
the street, and to his hjorrov he saw
that four or five drunken men were
carrying a roughly n .ade coffin, con¬
taining the mortal r jmains of one of
their fellows for ourial. Staggering
as they turned the cornei they let
their burden fall, ;«ind then they
Y'.g nG'o horrible .'rnguage.
solitary sonl was there as a mourner.
A fellow creature was about l.o be
' ignc<l (hc t0(nb ilh
c011 , „
ities to which not even a (dog
should be subjected. Young Ashley
Was horrified, aDd stood gazing on
tihe scene spell-bouud. Theu he ex¬
claimed, “Good heavens! Can this
be permitted simply because the
man was poor and frieneless?”
Before the sounds of the drunken
songs had died away iu the distance
he had faced the future of lus life,
and determined that with the help of
Gcd, uC would from that time forth
devote hss life to the pleadiug the
cause cf the poor and friendless.
HEAVY LOSSES.
Madison, \Vis*, Dec. 27.—In the
Circuit Court for this county to-day
the State secured judgements ag¬
gregating $3,332,500 for violatiug
the insurance laws of the State
against the following insurance com¬
panies: Southern Insurance Com¬
pany of New Oilcans. Planter in¬
surance company of Memphis.
Citicenfj’ Insurance fiompany of
Mobile,* capitel insurance company of
Memphis, Home insurance company
of Rome, Ga., Birmingham insurauce
company of Alahama, citizens’ insur¬
ance company of Memphis, East
Tennessee insurance company of
Knoxville, Mechanics aud traders of
New Orleans, Home insurance com¬
pany of New Orleans, Vanderbilt
mutual insurance company of Tenn¬
essee, people’s insur ance company of
Memphis, commercial insurance com¬
pany of Montgomery Ala., Louisiar.a
insnrance company of Now Orleans,
Washington fire and marine insur
ance company of Mobile mercantile
insurance company of nubile. Arling¬
ton insurance company of Memphis
Alabama insurance company of mo
bile, Hope insurance oompany of
New Orloans, Pelican insurance com'
pany of New Orienas, Home rnutua
insurance company of Tennessee,
and some others. Tho individual
VOL XY. NO. 1.
judgments range from $4,000 to $5,
000. One-lialf is awarded to the
State insurance Commissioner under
the law, and the other one-lialf goes
to the State.
WEBSTER AND THE FARMER.
Webster was one one fine summer
day, near Marshfield, busily shootiug
birds. It was a hot afternoon in
August. The farmers were getting
their salt hay on the marshes.
ne came in the course of his
rambles, he came to the river
which he wished to cross, no came
and beckoned to one of the men on
the opposite bank to take him over
in his boat, which lay moored m
sight.
The man at once left his work
came over and paddled Mr. Webster
across the stream, no declined the
payment offered him. but lingered a
moment to question his passenger.
“This is Deniel Webster, I believe?
“That’s my namo, repliod the
sportsman.
•‘well,now, said the farmer, it
seems to me, i declare, if I could get
$5 or $6 a day, pleadin, cases in
Boston, i would not be wadin over
these mashes this hot weather shooti n
little birds. Ex
Drops Dead at al Crave.
Mrs. Margaret Ashton, of Factory
ville, who was widely known be¬
cause of her 'eccentrie fondness for
attending funerals, she having been
present at the burial of ev ry person
but three who had died m that part
of thi> and adjoining counties
jj e vast u\.rty years, died suddenly
„ uiloat the i^ueral of a
She was 70 yemLrriadtFy.
Besides being present at so many
local funerals, she had been among
the spectators at the obsequies ot all
the noted people of this country who
have died in the past half century }
iucludmS Deniel wsbster, Abraham
Lincoln, Horace Greely, Genera^
Giant, President Garfield and Stenhen
A. Douglass: she was prevented
pom being present at .President
Arthur’s funeral by the death of a
relative who was buried on the same
day: the dates of
Mrs Ashton could give
the death and burial of every person
who had died within a circuit of 50
miles of Factory ville since she was a
child: she dropped dead wliiie the
body of the person whose funeral she
was attending was being lowered into
tho grave: airs Ashton’s linsband died
suddenly lart Christmas, and of 13
bhildren but one survive her: She
had attended over GOO funerait!” .Ex
THE OLD AND NEW YEAH.
The old years has gon e and the
new year lias come. The old year
was a remarkable year, and will be
remembered on account of its many
incidents, for a half a century to
come. Deith has reaped a rich bar
vest of the great men of the coun
try, not in our own land but through¬
out the worfd. During no time for
many years, has there in time of
peace, been such a restless, tuibu
leni spirit manifest among the people
in the United states. Parties seem
ready to‘fall to pieces, new and poiv
erfulorganizations have been f rmed
and labor and capital have been ar¬
rayed against each other, with great
erenergy and determination, and
with more disastrous resuits than
ever before. The elements were
greatly disturbed, and storms, cy
cloneg and flowl> devastated the land
Thecxtremes of heat dnd co l d have
**** almost without precedent. . . ™. The
earth itself joined in thetnmuty, as -
sorted its might, quaked trembled,
roared, and sproid the wildest con
sternatiou ov*r a large portion of its
surface. With the expiration of the
old year, i^is to bo hoped that quiet
will bo restored in the elements, that
the restless forces ben eadi the earth’s
surface may be calmed, and that
peace and goodwill will prevail
among men.
It is common to enter upon the
new year with many promises of
amendment aud reform, which we
so often broken long before the
year ends. Most of us can make
vast improvements on the work of
the old year. It lies behind us a
dark and blurred and blotted page.
Tho new year is unfolding before us,
bright and clear. Upon it we are
soon to trace charaoteA that will nev¬
er he erased. They will tell upon us,
for good or evil, for weal or woe,
for joy or sorrow, forever. Each
day will bo freighted with its bujrdou
of trials aad temptations. May we
be able to bear the one with patience
and withstand the other with firm¬
ness* We hope that when the pres¬
ent year rolls by, we may be able to
say, that it has been the brightest
and best of our lives.
EXPERIMENTAL FARMS.
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Although Georgia has kept tho
lead of her Bister States of the South
in almost everything pertaining to
agriculture, she is behind several of
.them iiytho maj$er surprisq of 4
Vai larm.' *Tt is a to
that an item of such impoitance
should have been so long neglected
by a State that has in all other rcs
pects manifested tho spirit of [practi¬
cal progress in the cultivation of tho
soil. This much needed help to our
fundamental industry should Lot be
longer neglected.
It would be a tedious work to
mention in deta,l tho beneficial re¬
sults of an Experimental Farm. Un¬
der the control of an intelligent and
methodical person, a great variety of
experiments could be annually made,
reports of which would interest and
enlighten the farmers generally. The
nature and capabilities of different
soils in the production of certain
plants would he a special purpose of
such a farm. The particular fertili¬
zers best adapted to various products
and required by certain soils would
also be determined by experiments.
Then the proper modes of culture
harvesting would be ascetaiued
by tests from year to year. A rcc:
ord of everything casting any light
upon agriculture should be carefully
kept and published for distribution
within the State. Ga Stock Journal.
Charles Patton has been found
guilty of murier in Whitfield Supe¬
rior conrt arid sentenced tojbe huDged
o n the 28th of this month. If th
sentence is carritd out, it wil 1 be the
first execution in Whitfield county.
I through the solicitation of
friends announce jnyself a candidate
for clerk of superior court of Frank - *
iin county an d I earnestly solicit
the support of the people in my be
half. G. W. Weldon