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We are due the public an apol¬
ogy for not issuing The CoitMf.r
last week. We feel that the fail
tire was no fault of ours. We
took every necessary precaution hand,
to have material on and
but for the failure of the hack
driver for three successive Weeks
to bring our paper from Carters
Ville, we know that no such mis¬
fortune would have happened.
In the future we will ship to oth¬
er points, and entrust our hauling
to more reliable parties. And
We assure the public again that
all our obligations to them will be
met and performed regardless of
cost and consequences. The Cour¬
ier, for the future, and until we
otherwise announce, will bereg
ularly issued on Saturday. This
is done in order to connect with
the mails, and also meet the
B
cants of our local subscribers.
the revenue.
This question, which has been
r such momentous interest toour
people for the last year or so, has
reached its zenith, and is rapidly
declining in importance. Some
six hundred men from this coun¬
try have plead guilty and return¬
ed to their homes. While the
pardon gives substantial relief
to our people In the luture, the
impression has gone abroad that
these men were guiltv of crime,
and helps to substantiate the base
falsehoods made against our peo¬
ple to the effect that they are all
violators of the law. We feel
authorized to say that two out of
evety ten could not have been
convicted before lliA U. b. Bis
twct Court for any violations
whatever. Why do we say so ?
In many instances Warrants have
existed for years against these
men, but for the want of proof
they were never arrested. The
proof never could hare been ob¬
tained.
A great many others were very
poor men who had no means with
which to stand a suit if arrested,
and accordingly plead guilty to
save future trouble. Others in
> advertently and through igno
ranee have committed minor vio¬
lations, in which they were not
lefited, nor was the Govern
^nt injured. A few were gnil
)d as a matter nt course they
ITrally take advantage of this
iiency.
The cause of this wholesale ad¬
mission of guilt does not result
or grow out of real guilt, but the
wholesale persecution and black¬
mailing that lias been going on
for years—a kind of martial law
—a reign of cut throats and rob¬
bers. So man was secure in the
enjoyment of life, liberty and
prosperity. No man knew when
he retired to rest at night but
that he would be dragged off un
der cover of darkness a distance
of fifty miles without seeing the
Warrant against him, then thrust
into jail. In the meantime a gang
of Deputy Marshals, Special Dep
uty Marshals, reporters, black¬
mailers and compromisers stand
around like so many hyenas
around the grave of a hero, and
catch at the last red of the poor
mail’s pocket change as it freely
jws to satisfy the vengeance of
law. The bill Uncle isam holds
[st him is settled, ami these
i pocket-riflers march ofl'
beery to prepare to spend
pin debauchery and crime,
plunderers of the “hardy
>of toil” know the very day
hour when the work is to be
"repeated, and other good citizens
subjected to the same cruel tor¬
ture. Some are advised that they
will be arrested—that they can’t
get a fair trial—that they will go
to jail, and be subjected to ex-
States.
Do yon wonder tliat men plead
guilty in order to leave no excuse
to these thieves ?
Deputy Marshals can’t take the
money—the blackmail—but some
trusted triend can. and unfortu¬
nately for these Deputies their
trusties havn’t always been trus
ty. The Deputy fearihgthe hon¬
or ot his trusted confederate Will
occasionally ask the unfortunate
paymaster how much is it, and
who to? Some may think this too
bad to be true. If they do, let
them call for the proof and it can
be furnished.
The Deputies are the appoin¬
tees of Major Smyths, and yet he
thinks the President ought to re¬
tain him, because of his efficient
management of Ills office.
We know nothing of him, but
generally a tree is known by its
fruit, and we conclude that his
Deputies photograph his own
H ue character.
The country demands a change,
and our people should be bold
enough to ask for it, and to de¬
clare the facts touching Smythe’s
administration, or more properly,
his Deputies. If the Government
is for reform, it will reform him
back to his home in Maine, to re¬
main in obscurity the balance of
days.
The blackmailing game is up
now. And as the cloven foot has
fully shown itself, these Deputies
and reporters are getting ready
to leave old Georgia, and find
some better stealing grounds in a
more genial clime.
Anything from a brass pin up
will help to satisfy their thirst
lor plunder. We havn't a word
to take back nor a line to erase,
but to vindicate truth an^expose
falsehood atid crime in all de¬
partments of Government.
Washing Black Calico.
A correspondent in Moore’s Rural
New Yorker, given the following as
the b,et way to wush these goods! “ I
do not Wash such dresses »s other colors
so long as it can be avoided but simply
wipe them off carefully wi'h a damp
sponge and warm water and iron them
smoothly on the wrong side, or with a
cotton cloth or paper between the iron
and the goods. And they always look
nicely and rets n their new look after
being thus treated I have Worn sucli
a <tres«, usually, for afternoons surprised tor near¬ short
ly , year,in d was quit- friend, examin¬ a
tun. i,g . whin a upon
ing it, told me she ‘had thought it
woollen gi ods all the while.' The lin
it g of the waist and sleeves 1 have made
so they • an be detached and washed as
ften as eqtiired. Maty ittiu the
starch for black go. ds. but I have i ot
found • bje tionahle as a stiffening one
part of sweet milk to two of boilibg
water.**
Science and Sound.
[St. Louis Republican.]
the Keely mo or iephone has pass d into ob
-edrity an” the t is now the
sensation of the day. Tli rearetwotcl
e.phones, that of Professor Bell ahd
that of Professor Gray, and between
them it ee» uts t at we are about to be
• d reduced t>> a new world of wonders
that, if of less extended benefit than
the long heralded miracles of the dis¬
graced m tor, have at least the virtue
of being pracical. These telephones it
have been put to severe tests and
secuis pre ty well demonstrated that
they enable the transmission of vocal
and even complex musical sounds by
telegraph. The how are the why ol
this is .rl'lrss interest to the genera!
public than the bar fact that *he phe- !
nou eooi. itself, which is seemingly
tup- ssitile is ma.l lioth p ssibl and
raeticoble. P 1. (5, li .nee- s-fol
ly c nvirsi-l h' gl -• v r Ut'dreu
links of woe sad ut ized his invention
by the tran-missn.n of press m.asages!
between Salem and Boston. Prof.
Gray put his telephone to an equally se¬
vere test the other day by transmitting
musical sounds between Chicago and
Detroit, “ Fort,” Coming “Life Thro’ the Rye.’’
“Hold the on ihe Ocean
Wave,” and other selecions being con¬
veyed from one place to the other by
telegraph. The distance in this cs-e
was 284 miles and it is believed that
the length of wire used can be indefi¬
nitely increased by increasing the
strength of the battery.
ot being forced down flat with¬
cutting, as when laid by. These
many other instances are offered to
that the ultimate panicles of
matter are aiwavs in motion.
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The Marvels of Photography.
[Bridgie Smith’s Paper.]
A freckled-face, cross-eyed lady went
Motes’ beautiful gallery the other day
called the genial Motes aside.
“Yer see,” she said, whisporingly,
“there's a fellow up North that Use been
with, an’ he Writ me for my
Now yer see fer yerself that I
much on good looks, an’ I want yer
ter git a good pictur of nte so I kin sen’ it
that chap.” just seated for
“AH right, madam, be a
minutes and I’ll try to suit you.”
The lady from the Country spit on
of net fingers, plastered a lieaii-cntr freckl?
on the Northwest cornet' of her
brow, gave a Violent bat of
so as to get them in proper position
for one time anyhow, and then sat down hi
the chair with a royal tenderness as if she
was about to sit down on u ripe boii.
In the meantime Motes rolled Ins camera
into place, quietly went down stall's into
ttraumuller’a picture store and selected a
photograph of some actress, and then re¬
turned .
“Turn your head a little more to the
left, please—thete. NoW look at this post
age'stamp for a second, aud be perfectly
] i...
A
went . in with a slap and Motes darted he into
the dark room, In a few minutes tv
turned with the fraudulent photograph. It
pleased her to a fraction.
“Don’t ver think yer made me sorter too
sad like,” she said with the usual woman¬
ish way.
“Oh, no; you wouldn’t want to wear ^
smile this kind of weather, besides, yon
know, you should appear as if regretting
that THdeu is not President.’’
“That's so; didn’t thinker er that.
Ilowsomever, I reckon it’ll do. What’s
the charge f”
“Twenty-five cents.”
“Oh, my! everything.” how much you town people
charge for
“Twenty-five cents is mighty high hard fof a
picture like that, but times are so we
are obliged to charge it,”
“Well, don’t tell ’botit my havin’ corrcs|iondin’
with a man, an’ ’bout my this pic¬
tur tuck !” and the lady of freckles swept
out of the gulh-ry with a grace that would
have become a queen.
A Romance in Real Life
Rome years ago,says the Baltimore Amers
mnrt'iitint mnecutist hV by profession, liPrtfpMlnn. nnH and liflvintr having u a
small captital at h's Federal command, he He entnark¬
ed In a strife on Hill. progs
pered in Ills business, and being single and
without relatives in the city,he determined
to tnarrv. After a Imsty courtship he was
united to a Miss S.ick, the daughter of a
tinner, living then, as now, on Gutman
street, near Kiltnw. Previous to this mar
riage, which came off nt.out five years ago
the young German, with a view of extend¬
ing his business Wrote to his friends in
Germany for money. Receiving a favor
able answer, vtthorizing him to draw f..
a certain amount, he deposited a draft fur
1,400 thalers with the firm of Messrs
Kuninier & Becker, bankers and brokers,
on Soutli street. This draft w as paid on
sight, mid the money was placed to the
credit the of the young had married, druggist. in which Mrnnwhq^ there
young man
was nothing unusual ; hut when within
two days after the ceremony the husband
disappeared the matter was strange enough Phillip
indeed. There was, however, a
Ray, as in the Enoch Arden story of ymire,
who Ntiaihed to sympathise with, and woo
and win the Annie of this truthful story,
and a marraige followed in the course of
three years. Meanwhile the firm of Kfun¬
nier & Becker held tile money they had re¬
ceived from Germany, subject to ttic order
of the missing man. One day the wife
walked into the batik and demanded the
tnoney which lielonged to her husband.This
of course, she could not have, as she had
hitherto had no connection with the trans¬
action, and whatsoever claim she had fer
the money was not backed up by the neces¬
sary legal right which would justify the
firm in making the payment. The lady
became, it is said, abusive, but finding that
line of action to avail nothing, accepted
the suggestion pointed out to her that the
of Courts th‘> funds, alone could and left place A her week in posse.-, fccij A*
or so
tenvardsshc hntise, tihie ap|»eared with again order in the bunting"
this an fri.m the
proper authorities, and upon giving her re¬
ceipt for the amount in full, the money
was turned over to her. The tmnkersth eu
balanced their !milks, and give the matter
no futlier that thought. tothebank Last Thursday luvm Hiie.ngJ
letters came was one
Uic postmark of Cincinnati. It Imre th
signature of the missing bridegroom, win
had long liefore been counted as one who
had .................... joined the .........................— silent majority, and about
whose death tin otic cnUTtiined any doubt
Ibis letter stated that lor five years the
writer thernf had I men confined in a Inns
tie asylum: that recently, having been dis
charged as cured, he had rente nr ered bis
R ,s,.riation with Messrs. Kummer &
Becker, who he now hoped would tell him,
for God*s sake, what bad become of his
wife and property. He was
and on the verge starvation. The
was informed of this letter; in fart, it ws*
read to her. She admitted that she was
mairu-d, but claimed she was
vorced from the man who had <(mem¬
ber, but wbo-e property she had not ile*
spised. Here the matter rests. Messrs
Kumnw - & Berker have written t> the i.n
fortunat- man telling him the history of
events Si -e his departure. Whether
will enao the rule of Enoch Arden to the
end ami ixtnte home to see Ids wife's
once more and then die without speaking,
remains t" be seen.
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