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FRANKLIN C0UN Y REGISTER. BY ELLEN J. DORTCH GRADY’S SPEECH. iiriiLK'AKS don’t like the use IS PUT TO. Mr. Henry W. Grady, editor of the Atlanta Constitution, who made spe.ch at the dinner of the New England Society in Now York last week, is already proposed as Democratic nominee for vice-presi dent. , . Cleveland and A Grady is the . ticket 01 w ic a eor B ia paper is shooting and the news is borne on the wires from end to end of this great country. Mr. Grady’s sudden fame’ is due to having said, in a style of oratory especially liked in the sect'on from which he came, in effect that the South ’s all right, and it is mean in the people of the North to doubt their assertion and ask if elec tions down here are earned by fraud The courage that attempted to change the issue from the question whether the South is in fact faithful to the constitutional guarantee of E equal rights, to the question wheth: : er the North is not discourteous in i n suspecting the South of cheatiug in elections, has provoked a great wave of southern admiration. There ate it seems, Southern Journals which think the Vice-Presidency, or at all events the Democratic nomi¬ nation to that office, is not too great a reward for tho defiant orator. But we can assure our sonthern friends that Mr, ^rady’s speech has not changed the question which north ern men, who believe with all t aeir hearts that equal rights under the law are the fundamentRl condition of Republican institutions, are de termined'to discuss. Mr. Grady was treated with all the courtesy that a guest could claim, even if he some what tresspasses on the properties of the occasion, The northern people will not take Mr, Grady’s word for it nor for that matter the word of any other man who is an interested party that the south is squaring its conduct by the rules ot justice and right, while the fact stares us in the face that R obert Smalls was counted out by the Democratic election officers of Seventh South Carolina congression¬ al district , nor while tne Shoestring district of Mississippi is made to send a Democrat to congress. We are ready to laugh at Mr. Grady's wit to confess tbe rhetorical charm ot his sentiment, to accept bis declaration that the south wants no more either of war or slavery; but we do not for¬ get that men -it in the national senate and bouse, as representatives cf Southern slates, who would not occu¬ py these -cats except for foul crimes against law, against iibeitj, against humanity, by which the honest voice of the majority is suppressed, and the rights of ropiesei tation fraudulently wrested away. We do not dispute that Major G rady’s heart beats warmly for a native land, as did the heart of the late Colon si Yell, of Yellville, Aik., in spite of the circumstance that he was never able to account for all the public money he received. We must believe, for they all say so, that the Southern Democrats accept the constitution as it is, and are glad they did not suceed in secession. But the intimidation of voters, and he manipulation of ballets cast in order to make their report falsify the will of the people, are matters which CARNESVILLE, GA., TUESDAY, JANUARY 11 1887. will not Js be overlooked because any¬ body intimates that it is unkind to question the good faith of the party and the men who consent to condone such doings while they profit by them. There is an old proverb 10 the effect that those who would bare justice must do justice. We com’ mend it to the serious consideration of gentlemen from the South who come North bringing with them their weapons of oratory carefully loaded a bd piimcd, to force us, at the peril deeming to be rude to guests to listen without retort to intimations that question their , . honorable . and we p a j r ; 0 ^ c motives in objecting to the dishonorable and corrupting practices by Uich one party gains an unjust ascendency and the. other is unjustly defrauded of its rights. Boston Herald. -Editor Grady’s clever speech has put him in nomination for the vice¬ presidency by those who are en¬ thusiastic with regard to it. A bright editor ought to have a better prizedffered him than is this one., The viee"presidency if a shelf for an active man either in polilics or in the press. It ought * to be reserved for ■ those , who , , have made rather .. a career, than for the men with a career be :;ore them. The South cannot be excluded from this position in the government much longer, but when it selects its representive citizen lere, it will do well not to take this action upon impulse primarily. A GOOD SUGGESTION A Virginian, writing to the New ^ ork World, makes this suggestion: Now that it is the fashion, as evi denced by Mr. H. W. Grady s speech, f° r Southern men to praise Mr. Lincoln, is it not about time for some Northern men to have a good word for Mr. Davis? I approve of this commendation of Mr. Lincoln, but at the same time I think it is time that the learning, abilities, the patriotism, f r0 m his standpoint, and the high m inded qualities of Jefferson Davis should meet with recognition from all the people of our beloved Union. I am like the Irishman in love, who didn’t think die reciprocity should be all on one side. As we are certainly starting a new year, and we are told that we re be¬ ginning a new era of brotherly love and material development, will some Northern gentleman of character and ability rise up and propose a toast to Jefferson Davis? Horace Greeley stood as his bondsman when it re quired qualification as to nerve as well as cash. Mr. Davis is a type of Southern civilization, a gentleman of honor, courage and accomplishments. Has he North a man with spunk sufficient to say so? You ars feeling depressed, your appe¬ tite is poor, you are ootberad with h?»d achr, you aie fidgety nervous aud gen¬ erally out of sorts, and want to brace up Brace up but not with stimulants,spring medicines, or bitters, which have for their oasis cheap meau whiskey, and which stimulate you for an hour and then leave you in a worse eonditiou than before, what you want you want is an alternative that will purify your blood, start healthy action of liver and kidneys, restore yonr vitality, ana give renewed health and strength, such a a medicine you will find in Electric Bitters, and oulv 50 cents a bottle at Dr. H M Freeman’s drug store. SELAUS, THE HUNTER A fortune acquired with the ri¬ fle IN THE AFRICAN WILDS. An erroneous impiession seems to have gone abroad concerning Fred' rick C. Selaus. the well known African explorerand hunter of large game. It has ha6 been assorted that he is “only” a hunter,” gives one the impression that he hunts for a hying. This is a great mis take. Horn of wealthy parents, his father being an ex-chairman of the London Stock exchange, and worth anywhere from fifteen to twenty million; was literally brought up in the lap of luxury. In early childhood he evinced a passion for outdoor sports and was a good game shot before hjg father who resided a few miles from Lon don, sent him to that famous old institution, R ugby school When he had finished liis academic course he was one of the Rughy foot, hall oau fifteen ntteen, and ana had naa won von his ms “blue” ome at cricket . There is not a nook nor a spinney which' Tom Hughe ias made historic in “In Tom Brown’s school Days,” that he did uo t know thoroughly, and all the fauna of the neighborhood as well ag we ] k A restless being he at once, although only sixteen years determined to follow ,. w of age, up favorite pursuits. His father wanted him to go to Cambridge, but finding the boy , . . . . , ® , , ’° so re uc an * yle his wishes an provi e 1 m wi an outfit and passage to Natal, At> ica. In addition to this he made him a quarterly allowance of $500, but in the twenty years that have elapsed since first leaving his father’s roof tree he has never yet used a dollar of it. His exploits in Southern and cen¬ tral Africa are known all over the world. As a hunter he has "proba¬ bly killed a hundred times rao:e large game than any known sports-, man. A practical business man as well as a hunter, he utilized the vi£ tims of his rifle and amassed a large fortune by their sale. Ilis two wag¬ ons aud retinue of Hottentot sei vauts are ftnown to most of t,ne tribes. The Matbeil, the most war¬ like are his friends, and in the re¬ gions south of the Zambezi he is ever welcome, and he never goes empty handed, and gives th# natives what they want in trading for gsld dust ostrich feathers and ivory. 1 he book of his travels and adven¬ ture?.published when he was at home in London a few years ago is the liest handbook of a comparatively unknown country ever written. To the geographer and explorer it is invaluable; to the mincoogist aud geologist it is full of information, and the sportruan most entertaining He soon returned to the seat of his adventure*. At the present time he is occasionally heard of, but it is seldom mere than once a year,when he visits one of the trading pests in Transvaal. Mrs. Logan is already proposed a 8 the successor of her husband. It is held that there is no special prohibi¬ tion agaiust a woman being a Sena¬ tor. WOMAN’S MISSION. There is much talk of woman’s suffrage and doubtless it should ami will come to us in time, but already we wield a mightier power than the ballot box ever was.or will be. To us is given the bearing and reafoig of the rulers, the judges, the statesmen and the workers of tho nation. They lie in our bosoms they climb upon our knees, they chug to our skirts, they hang upon our words, they watch our looks, our tones, our ges¬ tures; we are to them as God. They believe in us; we mold their charac ters, they draw from us sustenance both for mind and body; what they are and shall be, we make them. Let us so labor that we may not be ashamed of our handiwork. S. A. M. BARNOMS ADVICE. Addressing a body of business men at Bridgeport the other dav, P. T. Barnnm said: “You do not, auy of you, advertise enough. You ought to use printer’s mk every day. l r ou mess to run itselt. Standing advertisements . in a paper command confidence. The man who for a yea^mes in one community and leads a reputable life even though he be of moderate a iitj.wi e 1( ^ 1,1 the con Heme and esteem ot his lelows. On the principles ... advertise¬ , same newspaper ment becomes familiar in the eyes of the reader. It may seldom be read, still it makes the name and business of the man familiar and its presence in the columns of a paper inspires confidence in the stability of its en - NOl ELIGIBLE. — The Washington Post, in nomina ting Mrs. Logan for Senator to fill her lata husbaud’s plare, says: “There is no express constitutional prohibition of such an electfon and such service; nothing but tradition precedence, aud inference could be qnoted against it. If the Legislature of Illinois should elect Mi's. Logan to the Senate, that body would probably indeed undoubtedly , admit her as a member.” The Rfchmon 1 Dispatch urges against this the fact that the consti tution always speaks of a Senator as “he,” but this in realty ,counts lor noth iug since in law “he” embraces “she” as often as in social life. But there is a valid reason why Mrs. Lo¬ gan should not be Senator and that is she is not fit for tlie position. J. J. Atkins, Chef of Police Knoxville, Teun., writes: “My fam¬ ily a nd I nre beneficiaries of your most excellent medicine, Dr. King’s xew Discovery for consumption: having found it to be all that you elrim for it, desire to testify to its virtue. My friends to whom I have recommended it, praise it at eyery opportunity.” Dr. King’s New Dis¬ covery for Consumption isguaran-, teed to cure Coughs. Colds, Brou ehitis, Asthma, Croup ani every affection of throat Chest and Lungs Trial Buttles Free at H. M Free¬ mans Drug Store. Large Size $1.00. Every good newspaper subscribed for adds another wind aw to the house it enters, a window through which the inmates may gaze out upon levely prospects, and the sunlight of noble lives stream in. YOL.XY. NO. 2. GORDON AND FELTON THEY make friends and bridge the CHASM OF ENMITY. The Macon Telegraph’s Atlanta correspondent sent his paper the fol lowing incident of the amiable meet j n , T 0 f Governor Gordon and Dr. Fel whioh he says has not hitherto been generally known, lire wntei . says: “The incident is nothing more than the complete reconciliation ana bnri a i p f the hatchet between Dr. Felton q{ Bartow> an(1 Governor Gordon The political and personal antngon ism between the two gentlemen has been of long standing, and a matter of public knowledge. Tho Doctor has felt the Governors blade, and the readers of the Telegraph, the vigor¬ ous attacks which the doughty par son raade on his excellency. Some weeks ago mutual friends became interested in bringing about a reconciliation, and their offices doubtless had much to do in tenmer . the exlstlD klttcr eelin ln S S * S At the first reception at the utive mansion a break was made theTee, wh»n Dr. Felton received an j nv it a tion to be present on that s:ou. 0n Saturday last, while the Cover nor was in his office saddened over the intelligence of his wigwam venerable fath e r, Dr. Felton called sym , „ , . ■ ^ 01 ll<i ovarnorB i and took occasion to >thank him tor ths kind iavitation to attend tho ro ception at the mansion. Thc gate was thus opened for friendly feeling and the two men clasped haads across the ancient chasm of antagonism, and agreed to bury the past and let by. gones be by-gones. The meeting was a pleasant and friendly one, and the difference between the two may be considered entirely obliterated, These be strange times, and strange things are happening in the new ad. ministration. If the signs are not deceptive there are stranger things yet to happen, and the peopio will not be sufferers thereby. I relate the incident with some con. fidence, as it was given to ms by a very reliable and well informed gen. tleman. SHALL WE MEET AGAIN? The following is one of the most brilliant paragraphs ever written by the lamented George D. Prentice: “The flat of death is inexorable. There is no appeal for relief from the great lair which dooms us to dust. We flourish and fade as the leaves of the forest, and ‘the flowers that bloom, wither and fade in a day have no frailer hold upon life than the mightiest monarch that ever shook the earth with his footsteps. Gene, rations of men will appear and disap. pear as the grass, and thc mullitmde that throng the world today will dis. appear as footBtops on the shore. Men seldom think of the great event of death until the shadow falls across their own pathway, hiding from their eyes the faces of loved ones whose living smile was the sunlight of their existence, Death is the antagonist of life, and the thought of the tomb is the skeleton of all feasts. We do not want to go through the dark vally, although the dark passage may lead to paradise; wo do not want to go d own into damp graves even with with princes for bed fellows. In tho beautiful drama of ‘Ion’ the hope of immortality, so eloquently uttered by the death devoted Greek, finds deep response in every thoughtful soul. When about to yield his life a sac, '*^ ,(Je 10 fate, his Clemanthe asked « ^y should meet again, to which ho re-ponds: I have asked that dreadful questiou of Ihe hills that look eternal—of the clear streams that flow forever, of tho stars among whose fields of azure my raised spirit 1 1!VV walked 111 S 10 ^ - AU are duml: “ But, i as 1 gaze upon thy living face, i feel that there is something in love that mantles through its beauty that cannot wholly perish. Wo shall meet again, Clemanthe.” W lien Gen. Sherman entered oolds boro, N. C-, after his march to the sea, on liia way to join arant before Bich moud, there dwelc in that town a cere tain col. X. Who was one of the most iu bid secessionists that could be found His house was situated in the North end of the city and at tje north end ot a 8lreet > 80 that aI,Y one cominng into town would see his residence as poon as h* would enter the south end of this ^ gtreeh When oeneral she rman and 8taffcaui0 nt0 the town they came up his street and stopped just in front of C ol. X.’s residence; tbs col. who was ■ out bis . porch, , greeted , , them, and on an officer, saluting him asked what his ^nthnents were in regard to the war I am a strong Union man, answered the co1 ^ 1 with a dry smite, Ah, indeed, said the officer,and how long have j ou been a Union mau?” I have iecn a Union man, said the coJ . slowly, as if considering his words, ‘ ever since I saw you and your staff come in to the end of that street, about fiftceu minutes ago,” i lie cantl °r in the colonels reply p/cased oen. sherman, and he ordered n guaid placed around col. X’s property and during the entire stay of the army in ooldsboro, not a thing was mo'ested iu or around hi* premises although many private as well as pubhe buildings were burned and pillaged. --- m* 99** Don’t forget, gentlemen, that the constitution and this government are rooted upon the “Old South.” That thc “Old South,” furnished tho men and her commanders whipped every fight in which the country engaged, We are outgrowing certain features of the “Old South,” and our systems are changing. God fgrant Jthat we never outgrow its honor, courage, ability, faith, manh ness, chivalry and simplicity, AN E.RA OF PROSPERITY. The dawn of a new era of pros¬ perity threatens to break upon the dark depression of the South. If it be true that tho darkest hour is just before dawn, then we know that the morning of a bright day is near. It is said that the eye of capitalists all over the world are turned to the South as a land of promise, and they propose to come and possess them¬ selves of xt. It will be an easy con quest, as a conquest bought at the sacrifice of gold ususally is, Under the policy of protection and other militating causes the agricultural interests of the South are at very low ebb, but revival in business gen¬ erally will necessarily stimulate fare mers to renewed exertions. The iress has labored to inspire the coun¬ try w’th hope, and it may be reward¬ ed with the increased prosperity that follows in the train of its exertions* —Albany, 6a., News.