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ATHENS GEORGIA, him c .' M time t< bruslie erune noiniqfl State?® crats if strugd 13, 1877.: UNIVERSITY OF GEORGIA LIBRARY OLD SERIES, VOL. 56 i|.8.DOKTCII, i ATTORNEY AT LAW, j Cnruesville, Ga. t i anl8-18?S-tf JACKSON A TIIOMAS, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Athene, Ga. OfUca South West Comer of C'olk-ge Avenue ::n<i Ciavtoa Street, aba at tiie Court lionse. All parties deMT'ngS'riiniiiul Warrnnts, can pot them a*, any time hy applying to, the Comity Solicitor at tills office. doclti-lfC-1-tf HILL, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Athens, Ga. fT Prompt. attention given to all hhsincaa and the same respectfully solicited. jnnll-ly POl’K UaUTcOW. I>. C. Babiiow, Jk. TKuh’oxv j j .. n | ’ ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Aiiciir, Ga. Olfloc over Tulu .idga, Hojgsou & Co. jan4-1y ]j 33. TlfltAHHEU, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Wutkinsville, Ga. ', i Office in former Ordinary a Office. jan25-1876-’y ■ J, ^nr r_ ' ^ I,! ... Serenading tbe wrong Party C. Claude t Culpepper, came down from Dayton, Wedffeiday evening witlMW wimtiop. 11 D/tringi^Vo Ipig 1 *t Lexington, of youth he had met a Baymiller street belle, who smote him heart and soul. Mr. Culpepper’s in tention in coining to Ciucinuali was to serenade his love. So, gathering a qu: r.ette of his tuneful friends, he started for the house of his heart’s idol. It was twelve o’clock when the boys anchored under the window of what C. Claude believed was the shel tering fold of his dear lamb. He made a mistake of 100 in numbering the houses, and it was John Sanscript’s humble abode that was about to be honored with a serenade. John, however, is uiie ef those misanthropic The American Comnutne. . . ... r A Tlllftr COHHUXITY IX PENNSYLVANIA. I [From the Philadelphia Pres*.] Darby, Pa., October 20—In a \ ■ woodland on Darby road, in one of the moi-t picturesque sections cf country in the vicinity of Philadcl- pliia, there is a curious little commu nity or settlement of t raiups. During tin day the lounge around , fires of brushwood, made in a little stony hollow, sometimes singing, sometimes cooking or mending, or washing, sometimes drinking. Occasionally some of them, spurred by appetite, or tired of idleness, go out into the fields and gather herbs or flowers, and bring them into the city to sell, and with tlie money received buy whisky, upon which they all get drunk, and make the woods ring ‘ i i • . i i.i men who never seems to recognize a with songs and boisterous laughter ° favor when they meet one and when he was awakened from his slumber of standard es, coal, liair old man, thrusting his j York, a Republican iu politics, np- fot the window. It took j pointed to arrest crime aadadvocating Jv ten seconds j; pitch boots, shoes, •jf books, toilet sets, ottoman, lies and all upon the heads of or-stricken serenaders below. Ho quartette realized the sit- he storm was over. They Ived, bat were unmercifully sd. And when a voice ni above, articulated in the the one word “git," they "Pulpit Diatribe. p a. THOJimsoTf, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Speciul attention paid to crir.ii-.el practice. For reference apply to Ex-Gov. T. ll. Watts and Hon. Huvla Olopton, Montgomery, Ala. i iffioe over P.xtUfllea Atheiu, Ga. fob3-lS7S-tf JOHN' XV. OWEN, ATTOUXF.Y AX LAW, Toeon City, Ga. Will practice in all tlie counties of the We;t- ••rn Circuit. Hart and Madison of tlw Northern ' '.".cult. Till give special attenion to all claims eutre t'o .o liis care. oct20-lS75-ly. Lamar Cobb. Howell Cobb. <fc II. COBB, ATTORNEYS AT LAW, Athens, Gr.J I 8^-^ ■ §' Office in Denpree building, ftr-tS-ISIO-lv Alev S. Erwin. Asprkw J. Cobb. yRwiN & conn. ATTORNEYS AT LAW. Athens, Ga i tffico on Corner of Bioad and Thomas streets, over Childs, Nickerson & Co. • fek22-1870-]y M. COCIIHAN, ATTORITEY .&T LAW, Gainesville, Go. ^Reul Estate and General Land Agent for the n.irebtise and sale of Mineral and Farming Lands in Hall, and the other conntiesof Nortli- oart Georgia. Mineral ores tested and titles to property investigated. Special attention given totlio purchase and sale of city property, may2—lim J. N. DORSEY. Attorney ^SIHJHYG. MoCUURY, Attorney act X.aTT, ii.UITWKLI., GcOROIA, Will practice in the Superior Courts of North east Geoigia and Supreme Court nt Atlanta. Aug 8. 187fi tf James K. Lyle, Alex. S. Ekwin, Watkinsvllle. Athens. | YI.i: .t ERWIN, A TTORNEY'S A T LA TF. Wall practice in partnership in the Superior Court of Oconee County, and attend promptly to all business intrusted to their care. j&sd-Sin. sttshtesss clqjrds. fjl A. 1LKR, evtcLurraiaJ.-Enr St Jewalor, At Michaei’storCj next doorto Reave; «fc Nich olson's, Broad street, Athens, Georgia. All work warranted 12 months. septlS-tf. £ SCIIAKPER, GOTTOZT BTTVER, Toeoa City, Ga. price paid for cotton. Agent na and Pre*a. oeSO-1876-tf It. LITTLE, ATTORNEY AT LAW, Carncsville, Ga. snl8-187S-tf CUAS. C. JONES, JIL joistss T. a EV1. «sc avii, ATTORXEVS AND COUNSELLORS AT LAW SIBLEY’S NEW BUILDING, 241 BROAD STREET, ACGl'STA, GEORGIA. o6-6tn J^IVERY AND SALE STABLE. Carriages, Bugglea «fc Mosses for hire. Terms reasonable. E. M. WHITEHEAD, Washington, Wilkes county, Ga. u . io»26-187>tf . or savage cries. The size of this motley gatering varies the • ;me and the seasons. It hardly ever numbers less than twen ty, and has reached to eiglity. There are men and women, old and young. Nearly all day long, as I have said, they linger around the fires in the wood, and when the weather is not unpleasantly told they also sleep out. imd<-r the trees; hut in i"he winter, and when storms ol great violence occur, they take refuge in barns in the neighborhood. Upon a beautiful wooden knoll they liavo set up a little cabin made of logs and the bark of treess. In the stony hollow in the side of a hill, where they pass much of their time, they have kettles and pans and other household utensils, and a wooden tripod upon which to hang a kettle over, a fire, and strung from tree :<> tree, lines upon which to hang their clothes to dry. They fare well. They beg from the farm ers in the neighborhood, who dare not reluse them, and fear even to murmur at their demands. Any offence to them might result in the burning of the liarn or home of the helpless offender. It is no wonder that a man should live ; n dread with a gang of lawless vagabonds about his door, and no protection near him for himself or his wife or daughters. This community seems to be gov erned by a master and mistress—the latter an old, white-haired wretch, who has been known in the vicinity for years. They receive the allegi ance of all the others, and refuse admittance into the circle to such applicants as do not for any reason please their fancy. Of course their authority is not always submitted to, but to a great extent they are rulers of the colony. The society generally is not inviting, and individually it is repulsive. So many low-browed, scowling, savage human beings one seldom meets with in the same day. If an honest laborer looks contemp tuously at them, they scowl in return or mutter threateningly; if a curious stranger go too near their residence, they warn him off, or if he laugh at their patched garments flapping in the breeze, they curse him; if he al ludes to them as bummers, they rise in their majesty and pour forth their indignation. Now, to break up this settlement is a question which has agitated the minds of the fanners round about for a long time. Win ter does not destroy it. All last winter the tramps could be tracked by the footprints on the snow from the barn where" they slept to the hollow in the wools, where they had gathered together an immense mound of leaves and withered brush. No one is willing to order them off. It is not safe. They have been toler ated until patience has given way, and how to get rid of them is a problem yet to be solved. by “ Don’t you remember sweet Alice, Ben Bolt?” snug in one treble, ope tenor, two basses and four keys, he was, to draw it mild, ruffled in his temper. Mrs. Sanscript heard the melody, too, and whispered, “ Them’s serenaders.” “I’ll serenade them,” snarled John, getting up, opening the Minds shyly and looking down upon the choirisiers below. “ What in the name of the Nuuii- dian lion are you going to do?’> asked Mrs. S., rather uneasily. “ Just wait and see,” said he, gath oring up an armful of boots and laying them do\\*n handy near the window, Just then the boys tuned up— Thou art so nsar, and yet so tkr! “Not so' far as you imaghit-,^ growled Sanscript, as lie dumped the coal front the scuttle conveniently near the window. Then he tugged the brimming slop-bucket across the room and added it to his armory just as the gay gamboliers switched off into— AVhat lias a poor girl Bat her unme tc oeteud licr? “She sometimes find her father does that pleasant duty,’’ muttered the desperate man. The boys were singing a medley, and while Sanscript was gathin the tongs and shovels, they began to warble: My heart is broke, God knows it is! “ And your head will be in the sa ne condition when I get through with you,” panted the avenger. Then he added the Bible, Webster’s una bridged dictionary to the pile ol mis siles by the window at the very mo ment there floated up from below— •• I shall lit er forget the day ? “ Nor will you ever forget the night when you came to serenade iny Ionise,” smiled the old innu, reaching for the oil can. Oh! my heart is gone ! sang the boys under the window. “ Yes, and if you saw me pilling up these bricks from the fire-place you’d fellow your heart mighty quick.” Thou art sleeping, ray^love, Thou art sleeping! chimed the quartette. “I’ll be if I ain,’’declared Sanscript, as he scooped up the hair brushes and the toilet set from the dressing case. While he was toting tie ottoman across the room, the boys pitched into— Don’t forget your little darling! “ Oil, I’ll never forget you, never fear, and you won’t forget mo either, after I am through with you.’’ Open the windew, my dearest one, “ Damme if I don’t,” grinned San script, as he added a pailful of ashes to the pile of destruction by tie window. Come, birdie, “I’m coming, you yelping hound, 1 On ffiday night last Rev. Do Wilt Tahnadge thus poured out the vials of his^rulh upon the head of John Morrisgfcy; AN O AVION FOR JOHN MORRISSEY. Our natural politeness leads ns first to mention the politics on the ether _ jde. Talk of the height of Trinitj Church steeple? There’s somet| ng higher than that in New Yorkv* [Talk of $16,000,000 spent in buildiu | their new court house 1 There® a wose infamy that. It is the o^rstopping, overtowering fact most notorious gambler of lited States could get. the for the high office of lioator and that many Dnmo- many Republicans arc now g for his election. John y, the reformer! (Laugh ! Ha 1 I wonder if Herod the Gi ?at won’t open an infant school! to beh If of all the respectable homes of Bro klyn and New York I protest againe .the elevation of that jailbird, indictc l for burglary, .indicted for nmgjMqgff battery with iutent to kill, inflicted eighteen times, his gambling lieHs scattered in different parts of this country. I think it is high time that the pulpits of the land spokeout. (Applause.) Where are the New York pulpits, the guardians of the morals of the peo ple ? Are they dumb dogs that cannot bark ? There is no one man in the United States who is doing so much to debauch young men as that public villian. He is fast making gambling respectable. There .s no man from ocean to ocean the repre sentative of so much sin as John Mor rissey. Tweed trafficked in contracts, Morrissey traffics in the bodies and souls of men. lie is, in his gambling hells, breaking up a home every hour of every day of every year. He is covered with the blood of his victims. I was very much blamed, some six months ago, for saying that I wished this man was oft* the face of the earth. I will go fnrther to-night and say I wish he had never been born. (Laughter.) You say lie keeps only the better class of gaining bouses— none of these low places behind rough screens, where men shuffle their greasy cards and chuckle, with rings in their ears instead of their noses. His places are palatial, mir- rored, silver-pitchered, bronze-statu- etted, upholstered, the carpets and curtains as crimson as though dipped in the red carnage of his victims, the fountains tossing in sheaves of crystal to drop in rain of pearl. All the more dangerous for that! If you are going to lead men to destruction don’t cover up the tracks with rose leaves; give them at least one chance for life. One brilliant gambling saloon will do more harm than one hundred vulgar of appearance. New York is not so rich in shipping and commercial palaces that it can afford this outrage. Let Wall street and Water street and Front street and Broadway shut up their stores and offices for two days and band to gether to fight back this plague. The Attorney General of New Morrisey, and prominent Democrats speaking: themselves hoarse from night to night in behalf of him! If that be Republicanism let it go into everlasting demolition ; and if tlat be Democracy let the red lightnings of God’s wrath-split it to flinders* (Applause.) It is amazing that any party influence, that any working of political machinery, that, any possible combination of circumstances, should bring decent men to bow before this hero of fisticuff, this universal hater, this champion cf nose-pounders, this lowest rinsing of the political sewer, this king of bruisers, this smasher of the human visage, this foul, execrable, unmitigated outrage which the slums of New York are trying to spew into into the State Senate. (Great ap plause.) How John will shake hra sides over this outburst. “The Dance of Death.” A ROOK THAT HAS 3 IDF. A SF.XSA ITOX OX THE Pacific co as r. San Francisco, October 2.—A ripple of excitement has agitated the society circles of San Francisco for the last two months, the subject of discussion being the morality of mod ern dancing and its moving factor, the appearance of a little book with the ominous title of “The Dance of Death,” by William Herman, a iiom de plume assumed by one W. II. Rulofson, a photographer of this city. Among the other surprises and flut- terings caused by the appearance of the little volume was the claim of Mr. Forrest’s Challenge to Kil patrick. In a sketch of the late Gen. Fori est the New York "Worldsays: Gen. Forrest was not an educated soldier, but he had that within him— energy, dash and pluck—which goes to make a successful cavalryman. Flint he was successful, his remark able marches and numerous victories fully attest. More than one ttuw^ary federal General went into camp in fancied security thinking the enemy an hundred miles away, and before morning, was awakened by an attack in force, against which he was power less. His excuse at headquarters would be that it was Forrest who had made the attack. The cavalry man's movements were as rapid and eccentric as those of a guerilla, yet ho carried with him always a large and well-organized force. Some-one asked him just before the close of the war, when his victories made him par ticularly conspicuous, what was the secret of his success. In his own homely way lie said that it was by “gitting the most men thar fust.” Summer before last, when Genera! Judson Kilpatrick was canvassing Indiana for the Republicans, lie spoke of Gen. Forrest iu such a way that the latter challenged him to fight a duel. As soon as the challenge was sent, Forrest, wrote to Gen. Basil Duke, of Kentucky, that, in case his invitation was accepted—which he did not doubt for a moment—he would call on Duke to bo his second, The letter further said that in the uecessaiy arrangement, he would like Gen. Duke to insist that the duep be fought on horseback with sabres, a scholar, and people who know the putative author kuow him to be inca pable of any higher literary flight than an advertisement setting forth the superior excellence of his photo- gi aplis. It now appears that " The Dance” was really written by a son-in-law of Mr. Ilulolson’s, a Mr. Harcourt, a Cambridge (England) man, who is assisting Mr. Hubert Bancroft in the preparation of his historical works on the “Native Races of the Pacific Coast ” and the early history of Cali fornia. The book itself is an extra ordinary production to emanate from a decent man or to circulate among decent people. If one-half its charges against, the votaries of the waltz, the German and the Boston are worthy of belief, the current morality of our day and generation has reached a disgustingly low standand. It is to he hoped that few of his readers will accept the conclusions of the author, as it is obvious that whatever judg ment of morals lie may possess is overborne by the exuberance of a prurient imagination. Report says that Rulofson hns made $10,000 by the sale of the pub lication ; and as his financial success has aroused the envy of all the cheap literateurs of the town, we stand in fear of a whole brood of nasty publi cations. Luckily, an antidote has appeared under the title of “The Dance of Life,” by “ Mrs. Dr. J. Milton Brow ers.” I give her cognomen in full, though it leaves one in the dark as to whether she is a doctress or only the wife of a doctor. Whichever she may be, she is obviously an adept in the art of concocting quack advertise ments, of which there is a strong flavor in her otherwise vapid and dull pages. The book is so fearfully and intolerably stupid that it is likely to deter its readers from ever again opening a volume with “Dance” upon its cover or title page. cavalryman to meet. Gen. Dube at once engaged for his principal a steed for the encounter—a horse recom mended by his owner to go over a church steeple, if necessary—and awaited Gen. Kilpatrick’s reply. Kilpatrick, however, declined to fight, on the ground that he and Forrest “did not move iu the same social sphere.’’ Had this duel taken place, it doubtless would have been conducted in a style delightfully dramatic. Astonishing Success.—It i« the duty of every person who has used Boschee’s German Syrup to let its wonderful qualities he known to their friends in curing Consumption, severe- Coughs, Croup, Asthma, Pneumonia, and in fact all throat and lung diseases. No person can use it without immediate relief. Three doses will relieve any case, and we consider it the duty of all Druggists to recommend it to the poor dying consumptive, at least to try one bottle, as 40,000 dozen bottles were sold last year, and no one case where it failed was reported. Such a medicine as the German Syrup can not be too widely known. Ask your Druggists about It. Sample Bottles 16 try sold at 10 cents. Regular size 75 ce>’ts. For sale by R. T. Brumby & Co Now and Then.—It is only now and then that such men as Hon. Alex. H. Stephens, Ex-Gov, Smith ard* Ex Gov. Brown of Ga., endorse a medicine for the throat and lungs, and when they doit is pretty good evidence that the remedy must be good for the cure of coughs, colds and lung affec tions. They recommend the Globe Flower Couon Syrup, and their testimonials are to be seen round the teu cent sample bottles of the Globe Flower Syrup, for sale by Dr. C. W. Long & Co., Athens, Ga. A sample bottle relieves the worst cough and will cure sore throat. Regular size bottles, fifty doses, $1.