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THE SEMI-WEEKLY SUMTER REPUBLICAN;
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AMERICUS, GEORGIA, WEDNESDAY, FEBRUARY 28, 1883.
'VO'E.'YRN.
I’M GROWING OLD,
BY J. Q. SAXE.
My (lays pass pleasantly away ,
My nights are blest with sweetest sleep ;
I feel no symptoms of day;
1 have no causa to mourn nor weep;
My foes are impotent and shy;
My friends are neither false nor cold;
And yet of late, I often sigh—
I’m growing old!
My growing talk of olden time;
My growing thirst for early news;
My growing apathy to rhymes ,
My growing love of easy .shoes;
My growing hate of crowds and noise ;
All whisper in the plainest voice—
I’m growing old!
I’m growing fonder of my staff;
I’m growing dimmer in the eyes;
I’m growing fainter in my laugh ;
I’m growing deeper iu my sighs;
I’m growing careless of my dress ;
I’m growing frugal of my gold ;
I’m growing wise; I’m growing—yes—
I’m growing old!
I see it in my changing taste;
I see it in my changing hair;
I see it in my growing waist;
I sea it in my growing hair;
A thousand sighs proclaim the truth,
As plain as truth was ever told,
That even in my vaunted youth,
I’m growing old 1
Ah, me ! my very laurels breathe
Tlie tale in my reluctant ears,
And every boom the hours bequeath,
But makes me debtor to the years !
E’en flattery’s honied words declare
The secret she would fain withhold,
And me in “Howyoungyou are!”
I’m growing old !
Thanks for the years ! whose rapid flight
My sombre muse too sadly sings;
Thanks for the gleams of golden light,
That tints the darkness of their wings;
The light that beams from out the sky,
Those heavenly mansions to unfold,
Where all are blest, and none may sigh—
“l’m growing old 1”
\\ Y ft C Yrlnla VH Y.OY3 S .
YELL’S ELECTIONEERING.
How an Old-Time Congressman
Alternately Shot Beef and
Sang: Psalms.
In 1835 Colonel Archibald Yell, of
Arkansas, became a candidate for con
gress. He had a competitor at the be
ginning of the canvass, but soon scared
him off the track. Here hangs a tale,
and I must tell it. The two were to
dine together on a certain day, and
can e across some men who were shoot
ing for beef - Colonel Yell asked them
if they woull allow him to take part
in what he called their “game.” On
receiving their assent, he alighted, made
several shots, and won several quarters
of beef. He then inquired “Who are
the poorest families in the neighbor
hood?” On being informed he sent
them all the beef he had won with his
compliments.
Mounting their horses they soon ar
rived at a camp meeting on the wayside.
There they tarried several hours. When
the competitor thought it was about
time to be moving on he searched all
over the camp ground for Col. Yell, but
could not find him. At length he went
up near the altar and there stood Col.
Yell, singing at the top of his voice:
“How firm a foundation, ye saints of
the Lord.” The reader may imagine his
surprise. With some difficulty he suc
ceeded in getting Col. Yell from out of
the bretbern, took him to one site and
said: “I’m off. “Off where?” asked
Col. Yell. “Off the track,” responded
he. “I see it is perfectly useless to run
against a man who on the same day
can shoot for beef with ungodly and
sing pions songs over the mourners at
a camp meeting.
Colonel Yell was elected, and re
elected in 1837 serving until the 4th of
March,lß39. In 1840 ho was elected
governor of the state for four years. In
1845 he was again returned to con
gress, but resigned in 1846 to serve in
the Mexican war v He mustered into
the service as colonel of the First Ar
kansas volunteer cavalry, and was kill
ed on a gallant charge upon the enemy
at the battle of Buena Vista, February
23,1847.
Kissing as a Cure for Freckles
One fine evening recently Mr. 8.,
a government employee in the town of
Brun, was taking a walk in the castle
grounds, when on reaching a less fre
quented portion of the park he saw a
lady coming towards him. As they
were about to pass each other the
young lady suddenly turned toward
Mr. 8., threw her arms ‘round his neck
and kissed him; then, as if ashamed of
what she had done, she covered her
face with her hands and van off as fast
as she could. The gentleman, unable
to account for this agreeable surprise,
followed the young lady, and, taking
her by the arm, asked for an explana
tion of her strange procedure. “I beg
a thousand pardons,” was the reply of
the blushing damsel; “you must be
greatly shocked at my behavior. I
had been to consult a ‘wise woman’ as
to the best means oi charming away
the freckles on my face, and she ad
vised me to kiss the first gentleman I
met, when they would be sure to dis
appear.” The couple continued their
valk together, and though we are not
told whether the singular remedy
proved efficacious or not, it may in
terest the reader to learn that, not
many days after, the two were joined
together for better or for worse.
A news item states that “the Boston
young man is beginning to wear knee
breeches and eye-glasses and cultivate
the cookney dialect.” Next thing we
know draw one degree lower in
the scale of idiocy and begin to eat sixty
quails in thirty days on a wager.
THREE MINUTES TO TWELVE
On a cold December night, some
twenty years ago, when the earth was
bounded in a black frost and the bit
ter wind blew strong and shrewdly, J
was returning home from spending the
evening at a friend’s house, situated
some three or fonr miles out of town.
The sky was so black,the country lanes
were so dark, that I was truly glad
when the scattered lights of an outlying
suburb began to twinkle in the dis
tance, and it was with a sigh of relief
that I stopped under the first lamp
post I came to and looked at my watch.
It was no easy task, for the lamp-glass
had a pane broken and the strong wind
blew the gas in all directions and
almost extinguished it.
I read the time at last—three min
utes to twelve/—and looking up from
the watch face, I started to see a man
standing close opposite me. I had
heard nothing of his approach. We
looked at each other but for a mement,
yet it was sufficient time to imprint his
features indelibly on my memory. A
tall, shabby man, in a threadbare,
black frock coat and a seedy tall hat,
his face lantern-jawed and sallow, his
eyes sunken and lustreless, his beard
long and ill trimmed. In a tone of
elaborate civility be asked me the time,
thanked me for my answer, and giving
me good night, passed into the black
darkness, which seemed to engulf him
like a grave.
I turned for a moment to think of his
lonely walk in that grim obscurity,and
resumed my homeward way, laughing
at myself for the start he had given me,
and reflected that the strong wind had
blown away the sound of his approach.
I thought of him as I sat and smoked
my pipe over my fire, and felt a com
fortable shudder steal upon me as I im
agined him facing the bitter blast in his
insufficient clothing.
In the course of a week or two. the
incident, trifling enough, heaven knows
—faded from my memory, and I
thought no more of it.
In those days I was actively eDgaged
iu the timber trade, and the course
of my business took me a good deal
about the country, and brought me
largely in contact with the agents ot
the different noblemen and country
gentlemen of the district’ With one
of these agents, who resided near the
country town of L., I had numerous
transactions, and I used often to run
down to L. to meet him, for the town
was only fifteen miles away, and was
on a line of railroad. It was a dull
little hole enough, that only warmed
up into life when the militia were out
or the assizes were on.
One night I returned from L., hav
ing just made a large purchase from
my friend, the agent, whose master, a
sporting nobleman, was reduced to cut
down the family limber. When I fell
asleep that night I had a very simple
but vivid dream. I thought I was
standing on a lofty hill. By my side
stood a veiled figure, who, with a com
manding gesture, motioned me toward
town of L., which lay in the far
distance. Then I awoke.
Of course, I explained the thing to
myself easily enough. I had been a
good deal engaged in the neighborhood
of the place, and had a large venture
more or less remote connected with it.
Still tile dream was so vivid that I
could not dismiss it from my thoughts
during the whole day, and when 1 went
to bed at night I wondered if it would
again visit me.
It did come again; precisely the same
dream, in precisely the same manner.
Once more I found a convincing ex
planation. Doubtless I had been think
ing too much about the first dream, and
this had given rise to the second. But
my explanation did not convince me in
the least; again I was haunted by the
thing throughout the day, and when I
came home at night my preoccupation
was so evident that it attracted the at
tention of my wife. She questioned me
upon the cause, and, only too thankful
to unbosom myself of what was now
almoet a trouble, I told her about the
fact she did not laugh at me, but was
evidently little impressed by the nar
rative.
The third night it came again, if any
thing more vivid and startling than
before. This time I was utterly un
hinged, the pale face that fronted me
in the looking-glass was barely recog
nizable for my own. I went to break
fast, filled with a foreboding of some
misfortune—bad news in my letters—
-1 knew not what.
The maid entered with the letter bag.
"There,” said ray wife, passing me
a letter on which was the L., post
mark. “That breaks your dream,
John.”
I opened it hurridly. It was from
the agent, requesting me to meet him
at L. that day at 1 o’clock, to arrange
a difficulty that had arisen in the per
formance of his contract.
I was intensely relieved. Here was
an opportunity to go to L,, and per
haps the very fact of gorag wonld put
me right. There were two fast trains
to L. in the morning, but I decided to
go by the first, regardless of the fact
that I should have some hours to wait.
Bo I found myself speeding away to my
destination.
The train was full. Pipes exhaled
their fragrance, newspapers were turned
and flattered, and there was that leis
urely kind of morning conversation
that prevails among men going off by
an early train to their day’s work, 1
soon discovered that I had fallen among
a party of barristers and their topic
was a peculiarly interesting case which
was to be finished to-day at the L. as
sizes.
“He must sum up against the pris
oners,” said a gentleman with a flat,
florid face and long sandy whiskers,
who wore a light overcoat aud shep
herd's plaid trousers. “The defense
was a complete failure, and deserved to
be.”
“It was certainly rather audacious,”
returned a clean shaven young man
with a double eye-glass, who sat oppo
site me. “But I don’t like the circum
stantial evidence.”
“All evidence is more or less circum
stantial,” answered he of the florid com
plexion; “aud this man is as clearly
guilty to my mind as if there had been
a dozen witnesses to stand by and see
him do the deed. “That’s my opinion,
Heywood,” and the oracle disappeared
behind its newspaper.
Feeling glad to discover any topic
that would divert my thoughts from
their gloomy forebodings, I addressed
myself to Heywood, the young barris
ter, with whom 1 had a slight acquain
tance.
“You seem much interested in this
trial that is going on,” I said. “May
1 ask you are you engaged upon it?”
“No,” he answered. “But it is a
curious case. A man,'a clerk dismiss
ed from his employment, is accused of
murdering the cashier of the firm. The
evidence against him is entirely circum
stantial; but the defense broke down at
the most critical point, and the case
certainly looks very black for the pris
oner.”
The train was now slacking speed,
and there was a general rising. I Tose,
too.
“Are you going to get out here?”
said Mr. Hey wood, opening the door as
we glided into the station.
“Have you come down so early on
business?”
“Ye—s,” I said, wishing to good
ness I knew wliat the immediate busi
ness was. “Nothing very urgent,
though, I added, liali to myself, as I
got out,”
“If you have the time to spare, you
had better turn in and hear the end oi
the trial,” saidllcywood. “The court
will be crowded with ladies, no doubt,
but I can smuggle you into a corner.”
Not knowing what to do with my
self for the next two hours, I accepted
the offer with gratitude. I was soon
seated in an obscure corner of a dingy,
ill-lighted, ill-ventilated court house,
which would have been ill-smelling
too, had it not been for the scent waft
ed from tho numerous ladies who were
present. One of these, a buxom female
obstruction who ought to have known
better, was just in front of me, and
blocked my view with an enormous
bonnet. I could not see the prisoner
or his council, or even the clock over
his head, at which the people kept
looking eagerly as the hour fixed for
the recommencement of the trial ap
proached.
At last there was a stir and bustle,
caused by persons invisible to me, then
a call for silence, and, after a few pre
liminaries, the summing up commenced.
I listened the more intently because
I could see nothing. The clear, cold,
telling sentences cut deep in my con
sciousness. How distinct and convict
ing it all was! How all those minute
facts, the mute testimony of footmarks
and the like, arranged and distributed
by that powerful intellect, grouped
themselves in the damning proof of
guilt!
1 cared nothing for the prisoner, had
no personal interest in the trial, but my
mind was wonderfully fascinated by
this tale of horror. At length the
weighty tones ceased, and a murmur of
relief and expectation ran round the
assembly. At this moment the woman
with the high bonnet shifted her seat,
and I obtained a full view of the pris
oner. I started involuntarily. Where
had I seen that face before?
The jury returned after a short ab
sence; the verdict was guilty, reccoin
mendation to mercy. Again the judge’s
solemn tones sounded through the court
again they ceased.
There was dead silence. I sprung to
my feet as if impelled to do so by some
unseen power, and looked steadily at
the prisoner. His face was averted
from me for the moment, but the looks
of the people showed me that he was
about to speak. Slowly he turned
round, and in a voice whose deep,
earnest tones could be heard all over
the assembly, he said:
“There lives but one man who can
prove me innocent,and there he stands.”
With white face and outstretched
arm he pointed at me. I gazed at him
with a sudden flash of recognition. It
was the manl had seen under the lamp.
And, by a strange coincidence, at this
moment the court clock struck twelve.
The plea that had been got up by
the defense was an alibi. But there
was a space of some two hours that
could not be accounted for, and the
theory of the proseontion was that the
crime had been committed during that
time. My evidence supplied the miss
ing lirfk, for the place in which 1 had
seen the man was so far distant from
the scene of the murder that it was im
possible for him to have been anywhere
near at the time of its coincidence.
And the dream? Only a coincidence
yon will say, perhaps, or a fit of indi
gestion, or my timber contract. Never
theless, as I have told you, so it hap
pened. Explain it away who can.
At a wedding in New York the or
ganist raised a laugh by playing as the
bridal party left the church that fa
miliar and suggestive tune: “Now
You're Married, Yon Must Obey.” He
didn’t think Tie was so smart though,
after the bride’s brother had let him go.
THE GEORGIA FARMER.
Proceedings of the State Agri
cultural Society.
The annual session of the Georgia
State Agricultural Society convened iu
Macon on the 19th, Hon. Thomas Har
deman presiding, Both the Macon
papers contain full reports of the pro
ceedings. In the Constitution we find
it in a condensed form and use it. The
exercises opened with prayer by Rev.
J. W. Hinton, pastor of Mulberry
Street Methodist church. An address
of welcome in behalf of the city of Ma
con was delivered by Win. 11. Felton,
an attorney of the Macon bar. It was
an entertaining speech and finely spo
ken. Hon. F. O. Furman, of Bald
win county, made the response in be
half of the convention. It was a
chaste production. Secretary E. C.
Grier called the roll of members, and
nearly two hundred were present. The
membership of the society is two hun
dred and eighty. The attendance is
quite large for the first morning’s ses
sion. The personel of the convention
is very distinguished. Among the
prominent men present are David E.
Butler, P. M. B. Young, L. M. Felton,
J. M. Mobley, R. J. Powell, Geo, W.
Adams. F. 0. Furman, P. J. Berck
man, General Wm. M. Browne, Pro
fessor Charbonnnier, Professor White,
ofthe State University, L. F. Living
ston.
THE ANNUAL ADDRESS.
The annual address of President
Hardeman was a learned essay, evi
dencing great research. It was the
most practical speech the distinguish
ed gentleman ever delivered, replete
with wholesome advice, material
knowledge and grand conceptions. He
only once alluded to the recent com
ments of certain papers concerning the
agricultural society growing out of the
change of place of holding the present
session of the convention from Albany
to Macon. Said President Hardeman:
“I have been accused recently by cer
tain papers of Georgia as being indif
ferent to our beloved State University
Far be such a feeling or thought from
me. I would not rob it of a student
or pluck a flower from its glorious
brow. But on the contrary rather
would I see it endowed by legislative
with $100,000” Tremendous ap
plause greeted this sentiment.
AGRICULTURAL EXPERIMENTS.
General William M. Browne, pro
fessor of agriculture, delivered an in
teresting address embracing “the re
port of experiments at the university
farm.” At the close of the address
General Browne drew from his hip
pocket an article published last fall in
the Telegraph & Messenger, on the
subject oi establishing experimental
farms, attacking the action of the ag
ricultural society endeavoring to pass
through the legislature a bill creating
several experimental farms or stations
in different parts of the State. The
article was a severe criticism of Gen
eral Browne and his reports. Gener
al Browne to-day denounced the arti
cle as a reflection upon the agricultu
ral society and its intelligence. The
speech was sharp and caustic, and \jras
heartily applauded, showing that the
mass of the delegates were sympathi
zing with him.
COL REEBE TAKES UP THE GAUNTLET.
General Browne’s remarks brought
Colonel W. H. Reese, of Marshall
ville, to say that he was the author of
the article. Mr. Reese endeavored to
defend the position, and asked if there
was any one present who had received
practical benefit from the Athens ex
perimental farm to rise and say
so. Several instantly aroso and ac
knowledged, giving their indebted
ness to General Browne and his report.
Then Colonel Reese maintained that
no good ever came of this farm. The
expensive luxuries should be abolished.
BROUGHT TO A VOTE.
Hon. L. F. Livingston, of Newton
county, replied to Mr. Reese in an ef
fective speech, demanding a positive
decision on this question, so that the
Legislature would know what the agri
cultural society desired. Mr. 11. H.
Jones, of Bibb, offered a resolution de
nouncing the attack of Mr. Reese, and
indorsing Gen. Browne’s experimen
tal farm and reports. A Bartow coun
ty delegate moved to table the resolu
tion. The motion was lost. The res
olution of Mr. Jones’ was adopted,
save two dissenting voices. This de
bate was the liveliest work of the
morning’s session.
A few remarks were made condemn
ing the recent press articles burles
quing the agricultural society, and cal
ling its members tramps. The con
vention then adjourned.
THE STOCK LAW.
The afternoon’s session began at 3
o’clock. Owing to the absence of W.
Leroy Brown, president of the Ala
bama State Agricultural Society, cho
sen to read an essay on “Experimental
Stations,” Mr. David E. Butler was
substituted, and delivered an address
on the “Stcck Law.” He was on to
morrow’s programme, bat spoke this
afternoon instead. The address was
able and entertaining. Prof. N. A.
Pratt, of Atlanta, delivered a fine ad
dress on “The material used in the
manufacture of commercial fertilizers,
how they are mixed and prepared for
market.” Some discussion took place
on the stock law. A few resolutions
were passed, and adjourned for supper,
after which an experience meeting will
be held at night.
At the second and last days session
the following resolutions offered by F.
<). Fnrnian was adopted:
| fOUR DOLLARS PER ANNUM.
NO. 45.
Resolved, That it is the earnest
wish ot this body representing the far
mers of Georgia, that the Legislature
give a favorable hearing to this, their
petition, and give to them for the ben
efit of the entire State, one or more ex
perimental’ stations, and with such ap
propriation as may be sufficient to
make them efficient and operative.
Resolved, That the State Agricul
tural Society of Georgia respectfully
request her Senators and Representa
tives in Congress to support the meas
ure now pending in the House of Rep
resentatives to appropriate money tor
the establishment and support of ex
perimental agricultural stations in the
several States.
Resolved, That the thanks of this
society be and the same are hereby ten
dered to the Hon. Farish Furman, for
his able and successful experiments in
the culture of cotton and for his ex
treme liberality in giving, gratis, to
the public the benefits of his practical
experience.
Resolved, That the matter of hol
ding a fair this fall be referred to a
committee of seven, with authority to
determine the question whether a fair
shall he held or not, and if held, when
and where, with full power to arrange
details; said committee to meet in the
city of Macou by the first day of April
next, and determine the question.
The following were appointed the
committee; Messrs. Adams, Living
ston, Hatcher, Mobley, Carey, Fur
man, Holt, Hardeman and Grier.
Atlanta was chosen as the next place
for holding the convention.
Dr. J. 8. Newman, of Atlanta, de
livered an address on “Plows and
Plowing.”
G. E. Thomas, Jr., of Muscogee, in
troduced the following;
Whereas, on account of the recent
floods in Europe and in our own coun
try, thero has been a rise in the price
of all grain, and there lias not been a
corresponding rise in the price of cot
ton. Believing it to be a duty we owe
our families and the families of those
who have suffered by said floods, and
further believing that we can thus ren
der them more substantial aid by so
doing, therefore be it
Resolved, That each member of this
Convention pledges himself to plant
and cultivate an increased acreage iu
grain of all kinds suitable for food for
mar aud beast the ensuing season, and
further pledge themselves to get their
neighbors to do likewise.”
The chairman then put the motion
to adjourn sine die and it was carried.
A PENITENTIARY ROMANCE.
A Released Convict En Route
Home to Marry the Girl Whose
Honor He Defended.
Chattanooga, February 24.—Ramey
Thomas was released from custody
at the Coal Creek coal mines on yester
day, having served out his sentence.
He passed through the city last night
en route to Nashville, his former home .
There is quite a romance connccte and
with Thomas’ imprisonment. In 1875
he killed Joe Deal, a clerk at the Max
well House, for insulting a young lady
to whom he Was engaged to be married.
He was sentenced to the penitentiary
for 21 years, but his sentence was com
muted to ten years by Governor Porter,
and again reduced on account of good
behavior.
Thomas has been at work in the
coal mines since he was sentenced, with
the exception of a few weeks, when ho
worked on the Cincinnati Southern
Railroad for his health, which became
very precarious on account of confine
ment. Thomas says he is going to
marry the young lady, whose honor he
defended at such a dear dost, as soon as
he succeeds in getting work. She has
remained true to him during his im
prisonment, writing to him and often
sending him many delicacies and sweet
remembrances. He is a man of neat
appearence, about 35 years of age, and
has a manly face and a clear, bright
eye.
You may say what you please, but
there is luck in horse shoes. A man
nailed one up on the fence not long
since, and a week afterward his wife,
who used to wear out the furniture on
him, eloped with a friend to whom he
was owing forty dollars, so he got rid
of two encumbrances at once.
De wust whippin’ data feller gits
is from the man what doan’ wan’ter
fight. De wasp is mighty quiet, but
his sting is awful.
The Batl and Worthless
are never imitated-or counterfeited.
Tills is especially true of a family medicine,
and it is positive proof that the remedy imi
tated is of the highest value. As soon as
it had been tested and proved by the whole
world that Hop Bitters was the purest, best
and most valuable family medicine on earth
many imitations aiming up and began to
steal the notices in which the press and
people of the country had expressed the
merits of H. 8., and in every way trying to
induce suffering invalids to use their stuff
instead, expecting to make money on the
creditand good name of H. B. Many others
started nostrums put up in similar style t j
H. 8., with variously devised names in
which the word “Hop" or “Hops” were
used in a way to induce people to believe
they were the same as Hop Bitters. All
such pretended remedies or cures, no mat
ter what their style or name is, and especi
ally those with the word “Hop” or “Hops"
in their name or in any way connected
with them or their name, are imitations or
counterfeits, Beware of them. Touch
none of them. Use nothing but genuine
Hop Bitters, witli a bunch or cluster of
green Hops on the white label, Trust noth
ing else. Druggists and dealers are warned
against dealing In imitations or counterfeits
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