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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.
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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,
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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
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il would go like the rest; but not so. Very
scon it will be
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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
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