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■• v FRA: KLIN COUNTY REGISTE i • 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. , I f 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