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About The Butler herald. (Butler, Ga.) 1875-1962 | View Entire Issue (Aug. 26, 1879)
THE BUTLER HERALD. W. N. HEN NS J VMHS D. HUSH, Editors. Subscription Prick $1.00. P*a Annum. TUESDAY AUGU8T 20th 1879. NEWS ITEMS, Rev. A. W. Buford, of Bartow county, is dead. Talbot county has only about thirty-five paupers. The yellow fever is still raging in Memphis with quite a number uf deaths daily. A few days ago Miss Celia John son of Warrenton,'ell from a step and broke her neck. The Senate has passed a bill leasing the Macon & Brunswick Railroad at $60,000 ynr annum. The jail at Vienna, Ga., has been vacated by the escape of its prisoners. Pulaski county has a substan tial new jailjwhen will Taylor do likewise ? Mr. John A. Ingram, of Dooly county, died on the 12th inst., in the 42nd year of hie age. New England morals received a considerable shock by the affair between Cockling and Sprague. Mr. WmT~ Barnes, of Talbvt county, has a cross-cut saw which has bedh in use eighty years. Rev. S. 8. Sweet, of Macon, the traveling correspondent of the Sa vannah News, has returned from a tour through New England, Little Freddie, a two year old daughter of Dr. and Mrs. J, K, Barnum, of Stewart county, died ou Saturday night I6th inst. Mr. S. T, Walker, a well kno merchant of Macon, Ga,, died in that city on Monday morning last, aged thirty-nine years. The taxable property of Berrien county has increased seventy thou sand dollars during the last twelve months. The Irwinton Appeal thinks there will he more com and cotton made in Wilkinson county this year than last. Master Earnest Harrison, also ot Stewart county, in attempting to jump from a fence to the limb of a tree fell' and fractured the bone of his left arm. A fire in Thomasville on Wed nesday the 13th destroyed the en tire rear of the livery stable occu pied by Messrs.McIntosh & Black- shear. Loss $2,750. On Sunday, 3rd inst., Warren P. Lovett shot and killed J. K. Reynolds, a farmer, of Meriwecher county, on ono of the roads of that county. The homicide is claimed to have been in self-defense. On the evening of 11th inst., at Rome, while little Charlie Mapp, aged ten years,son of W.T. Mapp, wae throwing a stone at a chicken he accidently bit his brother Frank aged thirteen years, just hack of the ear, causing death in a few minutes. Wm. H. Vanderbilt, son 1 ‘Commodore," has given one hundred thousand dollars in ad dition to the five thousand dollars given by his father,at the disposal of Bishop McTyere, who will build a gymnasium, and make other im provements on the grounds of the Vanderbilt University of Nashville Tenn. A new industry has been started in Atlanta. The Southern News paper Union of Memphis, Tonn., and the Sunny Sonth of that city, have united to form a large patent outside and inside manufactory. They furnish these ready-made in- sides and outsides to over three hundred paper in the southern Slates. Three negro prisoners in Perry jail ran over and knocked down the Sheriff, took his pistol and os- caped on the 9th. One was re captured. The deputy Sheriff shot another prisoner, not iatally, in self-defenso. Capt. Stone planted a mahoga ny seed at Moundsville, W. Vir ginia, twenty-five years ago, and remarked that he would live until it grew into a tree big enough to provide material for his coffin, Wind blew tke tree down lost spring, and the Captain had a handsome coffin made of it. Ee died a few days ago and was hur ried in the mahogany of his own planting. Northern v*. Southern Manners. The little ^pisode that occurred between two,distinguished states men in the gtod old State of Rhode Island we suppose is all right nnd proper alth takes largel, nors." St. thority) uuto themsi I that Senate gh apparently it par- of “plantation tnan- ’aul (if he be good au- ere speaks of a cer tain class ot people being “a law Wo prestini Oonkliug has become so intonsolv(Radical, nnd therefore so highly nub-ill Hint Ac is a law unto himself. “My Lord Roacoe” having arrive# at his present ex alted positionjin the moral woild, and, in addition being the great light of the Republican party, came to the ct nolueion no doubt that he was fully empowered and entirely compstent to lay down a now oode of morals, for superior to any system of which wo igno- rantasd perverted Southerners had any knowledge. One of the first edicts of this prince of the Radical party was b-velled against that command ment which forbids that wo should covet our ueighbor’s wife. Like other great men, our m iv lawgiver endeavored to demonstate by iiis own act that he had actually ab rogated the commandment to which we hare referred. And now oomes the tqoet wonderful part of the matter. When Lord Roncoe took ti) enforce the new law whiefrIteJuglestablished, by tak ing the trite of hie friend, that friend, no doubt greatly to the enr- prise of the now law-giver, obsti nately refused to give up his wife, and actually talked about shooting the Radical prince, and forced him to leave the house which belonged to him the said friend; although Roseos had done nothing but take the wile of that friend ! Now it it bad been a rebel who had refused to give up his wile to Lord Roscoe, threatened to shoot him for attempting to take her and had driven him out of his (the rebel’s) houge when he learned his businest, hie refusal could very properly have been attrihutod to bis,hostility to the “Government,*’ and his talk about (hooting, and the forcing him to leave bis house, would have both been a natural result of “plantation manners.” All this would have been very natural; but when it is known that ex-Governor and ex-Senator Sprague was the man who refused to obey Lord Roscoe’s edict, and who threatened to shoot him, and drove him out of his house, what can we think—;and how can the “episode” be explained? We shall anxiously wait for more light on the subject; we should not wonder if the true explanation were, that Rhode Islchd man was crazy. Certainly no “loyal” man —no man not a rebel, would, if he were in his right mind refuse to deliver up his wife to Lord Ros coe on demand. In the meantime if this little “episode” does not give Conkling the Radical nomination for Presi dent it will be treating him with the greutest injustice; for, in our judgement heis the natural and legitimate production of the princi pies and teachings of that party. Uuneoaled Weapons tilve Honesty an Kipinl Showing with It us-nitty. The Greensboro Herald,in speak ing of the law in regard to carry • ing concealed weapons, say-: We are apt to forget there are two sides of this question. We cee in which life is saved and prop erty protected Irom the attack of the robber or (tie assassin by the timely use or tlio exhibition of a deadly weapon. Only a few days since, soon after the recent mur ders in Fulton, a person in an ad joining county, saved nis life or property, it may ho both, from the assault of a sot of trumps, by tlio use of a pistol. We are con stantly hearing of suoli cases. Yet a person who arms himself for a defense against robbery or assnssi- natioa should ho punished indis criminately with the black leg, who is armed for no such motive 1 Is this reason or jus ice?—Still it is the law. But it is said the law applies to concealed weapons. Without stopping to show the in convenience and often the impract icability ot always having one’s means of defense exposed to view, we will say right hero that we nev er yet saw llic sense or tlio shadow of reason in concluding that there il more danger in one’s using a concealed woapon than ono exposed —more dauger in his drawiug a pistol from his pocket, than there would be if he had it strapped out side. You cannot stop the vicious from violating this law; then why deprivo the honest of this means of defense ? We trust then that the Legislature, instead of throw ing away time by making the law oD this subject mure stringent, will either wipe out what is in exist ence, or so modify it as to give honesty an equal showing with rascality. Sacrilegious Thieves. Karly Saturday morning m Uov. Father Gaffer ty and his assistants on* tore cl the CV,h<*dral, corner of Liberty and Hurris streets, previous to tho celebration of tho morning mass, they were surprised to note that tho alter was in a disarranged condition, and that several articles had apparently been removed. On closer examination lose sight of the thousand inqfun-* the ntntling discovery was made tlmt tho sacred edifice lmd boon entered by sacrilegious persons aud robbed, as several of the handsome branch candle sticks were missing. It was also man ifest tlmt the ruthless invaders of the edifice, not content with carrying otF the valuable ar idea named, hud en deavored, and with partial success, to attempt to remove with a chisel or some similar instrument portions of the marble with the view nppun ntly of reaching supposed hidden trersures. Whilst engaged in this nefurious work, these parties, it is supposod, found a key in the clmncel, and abandoning further muti'atio-s of the beautiful al ter, succeeded in opening the d >or to tho inner alter with tho key, and re moved tho sacred vessel or ciborimn. Father (JatForty is of the opinion that the party or parties who hnvo been guilty of this sacrileaious vandalism, had concealed themselves in tho Cas thedral after the services on Friday night, and when those whose kuty it is to see to the closing of the building had retired, commenced their work, and, by some means, succeeded in es- caping unobserved upon the opening of the Cathedral for early mass Satur. day morniug. No effort will be spared to ferret out the perpetrators of this crime.—Sa vannah News. Ono copy, ono year $2 00 Two copies, one year $3 80 Three copies, ono year So 40 ur copies, one year $0 80 •o copies, ono year, aud an extra to the person giiting up the .$14 2 r» ILL FATEH MEMPHIS. A very grave question ia pre Beer and the Cost oi it. From May 1st 1878, to May 1st ’79, there were made and sold in the city of New York, 1,342,180 barrels of larger beer. In each barrel there are four kegs,and each keg, at retail, averages 115 glasses of beer,makiig the total sales 617,- 392,800 glasses which,at five cents per glass, which the consumer pays for it, will give $30,870,140 as the amount annually expended iu New York for beer alone. It is equal to about $30 per capita of the en. tire population, or about $180 per annum for each head of a family— $15 a month; the wages, in fact of an average farm hand who boards on the farm. It amounts, iu an other view of the case, to nearly three per cent, upon the total as sessed valuation of New York, and is within about $3,000,000 of the total municipal taxation of that heavily taxed city. The beer score 18 probably larger than the whisky score, hut both together reach frightful sum. senting itself iu Memphis. It is,I are twelve hundred while people in citnp.s and thousands of ne groes in the city to be kept from starvation? The poor people are doing no work and the rich people, or at least the greater part of them, are away Irom the city. Businest* is at a stand still. No great want of food has been felt, but if the fe ver continues, and the cliancs are that it will, the want will become pressing and imperative. Mur- murings have already beeu heard, and two or three provision stores have been sacked. This is only beginning, however, but it shows that the city is threatened with a greater danger than yellow fever. The Memphis Avalanche deals with the question at leugth, and points out the necessity for prompt action. The funds contributed thus lar, by sympathizers at the North, and by a few citizens, are about exhausted, The Avalanche asks: “To whom shall the appeal be made—to people abroad or to our own citizens?” and answers the question by showing that it is the duty of the wealthy citizens of Memphis—those “gentlemen ot the long rent rolls and heavy cred its at the banks”—to come to the aid of the suffering people. The appeal of the Avalanche should not be unheeded by those whose property is in danger. From their places oi comfortablere luge they should send liberal aid, aud their efforts will bo freely seconded by the people of the country, should more be needed.—Ex. The Atlanta Phonopraph came to us last week with a new and attractive heading. Thia excellent paper has a gpod circulation in this county and we with its publish era much success. The Hawkinsville Dispatch is in formed that a fearful epidemic of ty phoid fever is now raging in Pierce and Charlton counties. In the last named county fifteen deaths have oc curred in two families. In one neigh borhood, in Pierce county, thirteen deaths have occurred since the disease made its appearance, nnd fi ve deaths have taken place in ono family. The disease is very fatal, .$17 00 Club, luiki'ig six copied $9 GO Eight copies, ono year, aud an extra copy to the person getting up tho Club, nmkiug nine copies Ten copies, oue year, aud an extra copy to the person getting up the Club, making eleven copies Vweufy copies, ono year, and nu ex tra copy to the person getting up tho Club, making twenty-oue copies$31 60 Now Is the Time to make up your Clubs, w to Remit.--Got a Post Office Money • on Philadelphia, or a Draf» ou Phil. - .1 lpliia or New York. If you cauuot get ei- •I ilieso send Hank-note, and in the lql- so, register your letter. Two Men at Dinner. Two men sat down to dinner at the same table. The dinner was not very good, uor yet was it very bad. It hud some good points and some uot so good. The original materials, though of the plainer sort, were excellent, but the cooking was none of the best,and some uf the seasoning was not exactly to the taste of either of the diners. Moreov it was not servi d up in the brht of style; •loth Was u little worn and some what tumbled, anil the table furniture us not of tho most elegant quality. Still the viands on the table were sub stantial and wholesome.aud with all its defects apparent enough to an oducuted tho service was,on the whole,much i*r than nine-tenths of the huiui.n One of the gentlemen was naturally squeamish; he was moreover dyspeptic; *as ill-natured besides, and from mrliest venrs lie hud cultivated a habit of fault-finding. The dinner be fore him gave him a fine scope for the cUe of his peculiar genius. Of course ho saw tlio objectionable points and he made the most of them. He first scowled and then growled, and to keep up tho music we may say he fin ally howled. He ute but little, and went away with an aching void in the place where a wholesome dinner ought to have been. The other gentleman was quite efined as the first, and really wus a man of more culture aud better breed ing. It was not necessary, in his case, that be should find fault in order to show that he knew how to do it, that he had been accustomed to better tilings. But he was a strong, manly fellow*, in fine health, and had u good t honest appetite; he was naturally amia ble, and had a way of looking at tho bright side of things and of giving pleasunt turn to any little untoward circvm8tnnce that might occur. On see ing tiio table he took in the situation at a glance. He had seen better, it iB true, but he did not say so; he said he had seen worse. He made a hearty onslaught on what was before him, and said that it tasted better than it looked, which was really the fact. His appetite grew on him as he ate; he act-* ually enjoyed his meal, and rose up satisfied and rejoicing as a strong man to run a race. Well, the story is told. Notice now three points; 1. The dinner was the same to both of them. 2. It wui the same. 3. There is more iu the man than there is in the dinner. General Robert Toombs said to Georgia interviewer tlio othei day: “I can’t afford to notice newspapers. They keep up a thundering racket, but the fuss is all sulphur nnd sheet iron. There’s no thunder there. I agree with Napoleon about scribblers.. A man that’s good ut writing is good for nothing else, is l»e ?” The newspaper man ought to have made a remark about the uselessness of the loud and _ limber-jawed tribe of talkors, of which ^ or ^» and improve and beautify their ■iv™ J I horaea “ ud render their section wimt it Qodey's Lady's Book, FoXl 1879 REDUCED TO $2 PER YEAR The Cheapest and Best Ladles Maga zine l’ubllwhed, and no ltotreat from its Present High Standard. Wo offer no choip premiums, bat give yon tho best Magazine published. CLUB TEKMS. (Postage Prepaid.) I have the pleasure of informing my friends nnd patrons that I am now receiving my SPRING: SUMMER STOCK OF MILLINERY, FLOWERS, ORNAMENTS ETC specimen copy, which will bo sent free. Address Godov's Ladle's Hook Publishing Co. (Limited) 10J8, Chesutut Street, Phila delphia, Pa. Parties wishing to subscribe for this Mag- by loaviug tho money with heir names at this office. THE CHRISTIAN INDEX SERIES —OF— Bibb Question Books. These books are now ready for delivery. They embrace Three Grades. Each grade is bound separately, and in a clear and com prehensive manner, gives a connected ac count ol the mofct important events i©corded in the Old nnd New Testaments—a general ewof the Bible admirably adapted for the le of Sunday Suhoob. The first giadu contains 10 pages; second grade contains 50 pages ; the third grade contains 09 pages. First grade per dozen 60 cents ; Second Grade, per dozen $1; Ihiid Grade, per doz en $1.50. Copies of each grade will be fr,rubbed to all* who may divire to M-e tin hi, on receipt of six ecnK iu postage Mumps, A very large •aliHou of tho «< rios lias been published, ntully printed on gnwl paper. Th«* publisher? hope that the books will find ready sale, nnd that they will be generally ulopted by the Sumh.y Schools throughout he country. The Chuistian Index Series of Scrip ture Question Books. They are accurate n fuel and sound in doctriue. Concise, tom prelum Hive and well graded, they nre lulculated tc impart a knowledge ol the out- ■I «'s of Bible truths ami to meet tho wunt of all classes ot Sunday School scholars. Send for sample copies. Address, JAS. P. HARRISON & CO.. Atlanta, Ga.s SI. SOMETHING FOR THE MASSES LOW PRICED DAILY AT COST. The Legislature. So many newspapers having died in AtlAn ta, that whan the Daily Post was onnonced, tne general opinion was that in a few months il would go like the rest; but not so. Very scon it will be one year old. It was announced as a low-priced paper for the masses, at only $4 per annum, It has succeeded beyend all expectation, and le to-day greatly improved and still improving. It is just moving into a large and HANDSOME NEW OFFICE, and proposes to serve the people bettor than ever before. Last year the Post published the proceedings of the Legislature in lull, und reference is unhesitatingly made to the uembet B of the Legislature in each county for preof of the assertion that the Legisla tive reports in the Post were the best at the capital. During the coming session in Jnly we shall again have ih© best and veteran Legis lature repot t of the State, Mr. G. W. Whid- dy. in the House, aud a competent reportei iu the Senate. That the people may have full proceedings of this important sejRion, otter to mail the Daily Post three (3)months lor one dollar', or one (1) month, beginning with the session, for 40 cento. Clubs at re reduced rates. Stamps received for singli subscriptions. Address Post Publishing;Company, Draw r 31, Atlanta, Ga, Respectfully, E. Y. CLARKE, Genl, Manager. Oglethorpe Echo: During the late protracted drought we heard many peo ple express fours that a famine would visit our section. Did you over con sider that a famine in this belt of country is a thing utterly impossible? There is not a month in the .year bu what you can grow some nutiitou vegetable that would ward off starva tion. "NVceavea soil uito climate adapt ed to tho growth of nearly every known product, and our mild winter permits the raising of numerous hardy vegetus bles. In middle Georgia we have the garden spot of the universe, where with but little labor large harvests are returned. Dwellers in this favored belt do not appreciate the mnnifold blessings they enjoy. Let them set to m , . . , , . i JiLMuea auu rentier utetr section wnat it Toombs is a conspicuous member, but wag deLigned b (he Maker to bc _ an he was too modest.—N. Y. Tribune. 1 £ dca on earth, W G. BATEMAN ft Co Agents, HITLER, GA. qMOKT Ij BLACKWKLL’8 M 1 W DURHAM mm TOBACCO At my New Location, No. 34 Randolph Street, to which your special attention ia invited. ]rf.rs. 7VfllE W. has charge of t:e trimming. S&* Pleating and Stamjdng to Order. Also Dress Making Mrs. M. A. BUSSEY, No, 34 Randolph Stree, Columbus, Ga. Carliart & Curd. IMPORTERS & JOBRER3 OF FOREIGN & DOMESTIC HARDWARE, CUTLERY. 0UNS, AC. ^A.GHLIO'CTf.TTTB.A.l. IMPLEMEN TS Iron, Steel, and Carriage Makers Material. Agent For Fairbarrtk Standard Scale?. Also Agent for O. W. Masosy Excelsior and Grswould Cotton giti. CHERRY STREET, — . — — MACOM, GA PHENIX CARRIAGE WORKS It, H. HERRING. J. R. ENGLAND. BEHRING & ENGLAND, MANUFACTURERS AND DEALERS IN CARRIAGES, UGG1ES AND VEHICLES OF ALL KIND ALSO oUanufacturcr of the Dexter Bugay• Oglethorpe Street, Opposite Disbrows Stables, COLUMBIA, GA AT M. w. CHRISTIA N’S. Bar and Bating Saloon, THIRD STREET, — — — — MACON, GA. IF llEN SOU COME 'JO MCON. Everything good to Eat and Qfririk Kept BETTER THAN THE BEST, AND CHEAPER THAN THE CHEAPEST Thanking my Customers for the liberal patronage heretofore extended me, I will exert myself to merit its continuance >.nd increase. GOOD BEDS FREE. J. M. W. CHRISTIAN. C. D. ANDERSON. M. L. TROUTMAN ANDERSON ft TROUTMAN, WAREHOUSE •Ind Xtommission oiler chants. (Opposite Biftkes's Block, Poplar Street,) GEORGIA Consignmen 8 Of Cotn i tU /©“BAGGING AND TIES FURNISHED AT LOWEST MARKET TRICES. sopt.lO-tf. S. S. TATTERSO W. J. PATTERSON. P ATTERS0N BROTHER 8 IMPORTERS AND DEALERS IN FOREIGN AND AMERICAN NIBBLE MROWN STONE AND GRANITE, OXUMEXIS, TOMBS, HEAD STONES, VASES, STA T VARY MANTLE PIECES And all Kinds of Ornamental Works. Office and Works CHERRY ST., Opposite ISAACS HOUSE, QRIAN’S.QVD STAND. - - - MAOOIT -
