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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO PjtC.
By W. A. & L. SHACKELFORD.
THE ECHO.
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CLINARD HOUSE
Convenient to Business.
CLAYTON ST.. ATHENS, GA.
OPECIAL rates given my Oglethorpe friends.
iO Regular rates reasonable.
A. 1>. CLINAKI), Proprietor.
FOUND AT LAST!
Jackson & Erydie,
rpAILORS, No, 51 Clayton Street, Athens, Ga.,
I remove greasy spots; suits alter order, clothes samples to latest
styles; cut or make to satisfaction. on
hand. All work guaranteed price. to give sept5
XVe have hut one
DAVIS, HARRIS & BRYD1E,
TONSORAL ARTISTS
ATHENS. GEORGIA,
[LAVING recently moved into their large and
II nicelv arranged shop on Broad street, near
University Bunk, respectfully invite the citi
sens of Oglethorpe to call on them when they
want a clean shave or a stylish hair-cut.
BARBER SHOP REMOVED
il’i: YV have removed on- Palace Barber formerly Shop to
the stand on Broad street, ocean
jjiedby Lowe & Co., as a saloon, and are now
better prepared than ever to wait upon our old
customers, and as many new ones as will pat
ronize ns. We have the handsomest and best
equipped barber sliop in Athens, and only the
most skilled tonsorial artists arc employed. DURHAM. Give
its a trial. McQULEN &
ROANE HOUSE
LLXINilTON, GA.
TTAVrNG taken charge of the above House, I
X I shall do my best to give good fare, board. polite
attention and satisfaction in bed and
Rates $3.00 deased per day; single have meals, citizen 50 cents, of the
I shall be i to any and I will
county stop with me dining Courts,
give them reduced rates,
I shall be prepared to give feed and attention
to horses at reasonable rates.
VIKM- B. E. ROANE,
GLOBE HOTEL,
Under New Management.
npilE J imfleTsi jned respectfully the control informs of ti the e
public that be has secured
old and popular GLOBE HOTEL, of Augusta,
and it will be kept open and run in the same ac
commodating manner as formerly. will Every specially atten¬
tion paid to guests and the table be
looked after. Families accommodated with
pleasant rooms at moderate rates. Special UBAL rates
for board and lodging. J. W.
STONE MOUNTAIN ROUTE.
Georgia Railroad Company.
/COMMENCING Sunday, 22 d in*t., the fol- j
j lowing passenger schedule will be operated
Trains ran by 90U. meridian time.
FAST LINE.
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tXSZSa. tions toand “E.R.DOBSKnG^'lPasyrAgt from
JOHN Vf. GREEN, Superintendent.
JOE W. WHITE,Gen. T-av. Pass. Agent
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GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MARCH 19, 188(4
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Combining IRON with PURE VEGETABLE
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and ENRICHES THIS RLOOD. Quickens
the action of the Liver and Kidneys. Clears the
complexion, makes the skin smooth. It docs not
injure the teeth, cause headache, or produce con
Btipation-ALL Ol'iiER IRON MEDICINES DO.
Physicians and Druggists everywhere recommend it.
Da. N. R. TtTTGOLV.B, of Marion, Ma«v. says: 'T
recommend Bro vn’a Ir-m Bitters as a valuable tomo
for enriching the blood, hurt and removing the teeth. 1 all ' dyspeptic
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have prescribed Brown’s Iren Bitters vu case* of
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Bays: “Brown's Iron Bitters relieved me a case
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those needing a purifier.”
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How the Unsuspecting
are often Gulled.
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CAPITAL vs. MERIT,
It is possible that money dipped iuto a
bounteous supply of printer’s ink is to be used
to teach false ideas.
Why is it that such persistent anathemas
should all at once be hurled against the use of
“Potash and Potash Mixtures?”
Those who insist that Potash is a poison fight¬ do
so because that it the way they have of
ing B. B. B., as the latter contaius potash
properly combined.
Opium, morphine, strychnine, aconite, whis¬
ky, etc., are all deadly poisons, and are daily
destroying the lives of people, and why do not
these men cry out against them? It is be¬
cause there is no money in sight to do so. Io¬
dide of Potash, in proper combinations, is re¬
garded by the medical profession as the quick¬
est, grandest and most powerful blood remedy
ever known to man. Those who believe in
revealed combinations and Indian foolishness
are surely in a condition to become rather
“cranky” in their ideas at any time. We as¬
sert understanding^ that Potash, as used in
the manufacture of B. B. B., is not a poison,
an p the public need not put any confidence in
assertions to the contrary. Why is it that in
one thousand letters which we receive we nev¬
er hear a word against its use? The truth is,
B. B. B- is working such wonders in the cure
of blood poisons*- scrofula, rheumatism, ca¬
tarrh,, etc., that others are trembling in their
boots, and cry aloud, “poison," “fraud,” be¬
cause they fear its triumphant march. It is
making five times more cures in Atlanta than
all o$her blood remedies combined. We don’t
say that other arc poisons or frauds ; we are
not that easily alarmed, but we say ours is
the best, and we have the proof. Send for our
32 page book, free, and be convinced.
BLOOD BALM CO.,
Atlanta, Ga.
Wholesale and Rrtail
DRUGGISTS & SEEDSMEN
And Manufacturing Chemists.
We keep everything in the Drug
line at rock bottom prices.
We give special attention to mail
order from merchants and
physicians generally.
When in Athens do not fail to come
and see us.
JOHN CRAWFORD & CO.,
OPPOSITE PO TOFFICE,
Clayton Street, Athens, Ga.
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Passing: Thoughts of The Echo’s Loaf¬
er About Diflei’eiit Things of uo Great
Importance.
We had an article in last week’s Echo
on broom corn culture, it may be, and
probably is, as profitable a crop as
Messrs. Logan & Co. say it is, but, like
other crops, it is not one to be made an
exclusive crop. It is a good one would to di¬
versify other crops with aud we
advise our farmer friends to give it a
trial. Our lauds are adapted to it.
Some strangers wonder that Ogle¬
thorpe county has no larger tov\n within
her borders than she has. They don’t
stop to think of the number of small
villages, which, if moulded into one
place, would make a town of no mien
pretentious. To be more convenient to
the public we have scattered our big
town over almost the entire area of the
couuty.
It is now that the buggy shops are be¬
ing crowded with these vehicles to be re¬
modeled and made to shine ready for
the picnic season. These, of course, be¬
long mostlv'to young people, who are
expecting a number of these festivities
where Cupid always reigns supreme. god’s
The wot Id thrives by this little ca¬
pers, and there is no better place than at
a picnic for him to caper.
Now, wouldn’t a real wet planting
season play havoc with the high hopes of
the planter? We’ve had a dry winter,
and it is natural to suppose that there
will be a continued rainfall at some time
duriug the year. Wta could put up with
it better at almost any other time than
during the seeding season, for, should it
prevent the sowing, we can have no
hopes for an abundant harvest.
We wonder if Oglethorpe people county who is
any worse off with a class of
deem it their duty to kill every enter¬
prise gotten up for the good of its citi¬
zens. We seem to have a goodly in num¬
ber of men who always come in, some
way or other to discourage or entirely
kill every move of advancement inaugu¬
rated by those who have the county’s in¬
terest at heart. They do not deserve the
name of citizen.
It is strange to us that anybody, white
or black, should want toeramigrate from
such a God-favored spot as Oglethorpe
county or Middle Georgia. health Here and we
have every advantage of re¬
sources, aud why hunt a place which
lacks of one or both of these. Those
who emmigrate are often-times people
who are on the hunt for places where
man lives not by the sweat of the brow.
Where find that place.
Have you noticed how scarce four and
six-horse teams are getting oflate years?
In times gone by they were almost as nu¬
merous as two-horse teams, but of late
they do not seem to be so popular, and
we notice that one-hotse wagons are fast
superseding two-horse. This looks as if
things are being run on a small, sure
scale, and, to our mind, it is an index to
mor,e prosperous times ahead. “Slow
but sure,” is no bad motto.
Since our forest are being cleared up
so fast and the fuel therefrom is growing
to be a scarcity, we will rise up and call
the man blessed who discovers a deposit
of coal within the borders of our county.
All the many other things we have wili
be more valuable should this be done,
for unless we have the purifying worthless. heat We of
fires many minerals are
have never heard anybody say anything
about seeing any signs of coal, but it may
he here somewhere.
A GREAT need of Oglethorpe county in¬
and this section of the State is some
dustries tb t will convert valueless ar¬
ticles we already have into cash, that
this money may be brought from the
money centres and made to circulate
among us. If our granite quarries could
be successfully opened they would do
more towards bringing about this state
of affa'rs than any other. We have the
stone already made, it needs only to be
properly brought before the public.
One would be surprised should a peep
be taken at the record ot mortgages in
the clerk’s office, to see the number of
these papers there recorded and against
whom. There are many covering the
lands of men whom are considered to be
above water and well-to-do men who
were once well off, but have allowed
their wealth, as they say, ‘ To go down
the African throat.” This means they
have lost because of the worthless labor
they have been compelled to employ.
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There are numbers ot ways to wealth ,
lying idle in this grand county of Ogle
thorpe, which, with a little enterprise
and capital could be made to bring
among us millions of money in stagna
tion in other places. We might name,
for instance mines.’ our superb grani te. our rich
gold our numberless water-pow
era, our well-set meadows of Bermuda
grass our numberless acres of the best
tillable land lying in waste. If we had
the capital, we might hire the energy t.)
develop them.
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It is with pleasure we do not hear as
mu ch complaint of bad roads and negli
gent road commissioners as has been
general at this season of the year. Be
tween this and court week most of our
highways are to be worked and eood it is condi- to be
hoped that because of their been
tion, they will not be run ovecas has
a custom, but that tbevwill receive
ough workings that their good condition
^ niay be continued and grumbling kept
The time judiciously put upon
roads is not lost '
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We Mie, e the people Of ! Oglethorpe Y 7 e J
aethe ,, most famed lu e land for ... 1 >e -
e n g 1 an say P ‘!t the other y ,u day \ e h that ,l ar A he a c lrd n S
Y mtt * Kl s “ c!l treatment as he ha*
remark. a inat tad t Ug be :
been avis, ,ng pnnee or a known frienu
to most of the people he could not ha v*
treated letter Our people are full
of the milk of human kindness and are
never loth to giye demonstrations oi it to
friend or stranger.
You may be able to get a scaudal large city
weekly filled with murders, ca¬
ses, cock fights, etc., for the same money
you pay for your local papers, but these
city weeklies never advertise your coun¬
ty, and make your property valuable.
They do not help along vour schools and
churches, they do not publish your coun¬
ty news. A good newspaper is as much
of an advantage to a town as a good
school. Stand by your home paper. It
stands by you and is ever on the lookout
for your interests.
Now, somebody has tried to spoil all
the pith in our paragraphs upon the nat¬
ural resources and advantages in Ogle¬
thorpe county by saying it was simply a
blow made for effect. ’TaiVt so. Ev¬
ery word we penned in those paragraphs
was the truth and the whole truth. We
might have added, “And we have some
chronic croakers who are useful in mak¬
ing a man’s life not too smooth that he
might be better fitted for trouble, should
it come. These we only keep among us
for the sake of spice.”
If farmers were as particular garden¬ to get
good seed for their field crops as
ers are to get improved seeds for their
gardens, we doubt not we would see lar¬
ger yields from the farmer. When plan¬
ting time comes with the crops we are
too apt to take whatever seed that comes
to our hand, not stopping to think of
what varieties will give the best returns
or what varieties are best adapted to a
particular soil. Farming is a science,
and, when run on scientific employment, principals, it
will always be a paying select the
takes scientific experience to
proper seed to plant.
We wonder if money is really as scarce
as it, seems to be and people make out
like it is, or whether those who have it
are just holding on to it tighter than us¬
ual. We are inclined to cliug to the lat¬
ter solution of the problem. We know
that cotton brought low prices last sea
son which did not bring much of the lu¬
cre among us, but don’t forget that those
things we bought elsewhere were equally
as Jow, which did not make it necessary
to send so much of it away, and the ques¬
tion is where is it ? Those who have it
must have a death grip on it, for we
never knew of as little of it floating will
around as at present. It must and
be turned loose ere long.
TEACHINGS OF MY BOYHOOD.
A Lessons of Iluiuiiness Learned from tlie
Brook, tile Birds mill Ihe Lam Its.
Editor Echo:— When I was a boy
my grandfather was an old and grey¬
headed man. He lived to be one hun¬
dred years old before lie died. Age bad
brought him wisdom, and I loved him
because he was kind and wise. Once he
said to me. I know a way to be happy ;
I learned it in the fields. Then I en
treated him and said, “l’lease teach it to
me.” He answered: “Go forth into
the fields among the things that move,
study it there.” do I went forth and
looked attentively upon all that moved
around, but there was no voice grandfather to speak
tome. I returned to my
and he said, “What hast thou learned in
the fields?” I saw the brook flowing on
amoiia sweet flowers, and winding away
like a silver eel under its moss and twiriy
roots with its jooond melody to its source
of the great deep, i thought it was sing
ing a cheerful song, but when I listened
there were no words. The sparrow flew
by me with down in its beak, and the
red-breast with a crumb that it had galh
ered at the door. The hen sought food
for her brood of voting chickens and tho
ducklings swam beside their mother in
tlie clear stream. The spider threw out
its thread like a line of silver from spray
to spray. The ant carried a grain of
corn in its nincers, and the loaded bee
flew homeward to its hive. The dog
came forth to guard the young lambs as
they frisk around their quiet mothers,
cropping the tender grass. All seemed
full of happiness, f asked them the way
to he happy, but they made no reply. I !
asked again and again, yet nothing ans
wered save the echo, repeating over and
over again my last words—happy, hap
py—bin not telling me how to become
BO.
“And hast thou looked upon all these,”
said mv grandfather, "vet received no j
instructions? Did not the brook say to j
thee that it might not stay to be idle, but j
must hasten to swell the larger stream,
and that it had pleasure in refreshing j
the plants stretching their roots to meet 1
it, and the flowers bending down to its
face with a kiss of gratitude? 1’hou didst \
aee the bird building its nest and flying ,
to feed its young, and the hen toiling to
gather food for others,and didst not per
ceive that to make others happy is hap
pi ness? Thou didst observe the young
duck delighting to learn of its mother
the true use ot its oary teet and to bal
auce its body aright in the swift waters,
and did it not instruct tbee to seek with
equal joy the lessons of thy mother who
every day teachetl. thee and every night
lifteth up her prayer tha; thy soul may
live? And couldst see the ant providing
against a time of want, and the bee busy
amid the honey-cups and consider neith's i
er the wisdom nor the sweetness that
dwelleth with industry? Didst thou
admire the shepherd’s dog doing faith
f u |lv the bidding of bis master and not
consider that patient continuance in du- I
ty is happiness? Whither had thine un
demanding fled, my boy, that from all
these teachers of the field there came no
lesson to thee? With different voices they
spake, and didst thou not regard them ?
Each in his own language told thee that
active industry was happiness and that
idleness wa» an offense both to nature
to her God.” Then I bowed down
my head and my cluck was crimson with
shame because I bad not understood the i
lessons of the fields, and was innocent of
whatever the Birds and insects knew,
But tnv grandfather with hoary hairs
' comforted me. so 1 tanked him for the
„„„,i tpaeliin-’s of his wisdom, and I took
L ?itTJ into mv uu«.Ind heart and thought
>\ though r was
1 > % ^ nott . am old I ha ve never
SStttahapS-tS. doubt that useful employ
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IS THE NEGRO A FAILURE?
Wlinl a Prominent Plnnter in South-West
Geot’KiaHas to Say on the Subject.
Yours of the 24th ult., received, asking
my opinion on the labor question Columbus. and
Professor White’s address nt
I agree thoroughly with Professor
White in his views, aud am glad that
the question is being brought so promi¬
nently before our people, with the hope
that some satisfactory solution may be
found.
In the past twenty years every branch
of industry has advanced, and in some
branches very srreat improvements have
been made, except in Southern agricul¬
ture, where the negro is the principal la¬
borer.
This is not confined to any particular
section of the South, but the same report
comes from the. Potomac to the Rio
Grande. The men who are engaged of in
the management and control this la¬
bor covering this area are, as a class, as
intelligent aud attentive to their busi¬
ness as in other branches of industry,
and have becu faithful in studying the
character of their labor, and are as anx¬
ious to make it efficient and profitable. the long¬
Yet the universal report is that
er they watch and study the character of
the negro the less they know of him.
New traits and characteristics appear in
him constantly. Why is this? for
When the negroes were our slaves,
the purpose of discipline and eyeandcon¬ control,
they were always under the
trol of white men.
They were preached to by white men,
aud were throwu constantly under the
control and in the association of white
men; being very imitative and easily im¬
pressed, this association was improving
to him. Now they are under the control
of the white man only when actually at
work under his directions.
They are taught by negro teachers,
preached to by negro preachers, and the
white man, being a restraint on him. is
rarely seen at his gatherings. Their
preachers and teachers, the beRt inform¬
ed among them, for the purpose ot keep¬
ing up their influence, instead of trying
to elevate and enlighten them, are con¬
stantly appealing to their prejudices and
superstitions, class, has and been as going a result backwards the negro, for
as a
the past twenty years.
We have been studying his character
as be was twenty years ago, and are still
working on that lino, while he has been
rapidly We moving done away du'y from faithfully it. and
have our
have spent millions in the effort to inl¬
prove and make an efficient free laborer
oftlie negro, but have failed, beeauso he
lias been drifting away from us, and is
fast going back into the original state in
whion we found him. We cannot follow
him. Therefore, we must look elsewhere
for that which ive have failed to make of
him.
Improved modes of agriculture and in
tensive farming are impossible with the
negro as the laborer, and as tenants or
independent farmers they are worse fail
ures. As an evidence, see the hundreds
of plantations in Georgia that have gone
to ruin that have been turned over to
them as tenants. So thoroughly satisfied
are the people of this section of the State
on this question that we raised ironey
and had a pamphlet printed, setting forth
the advantages of Southwestern Georgia,
and sent Maj. Glessner, of the Americus
Recorder, with them to Ohio in company
of Dr. Easterbrook, and induced a large
part of both of bis excursions to come to
Americus, in which we were liberally
aided bv the Central railroad, giving re
duced rates to the excursionists. We
are now organizing an association, and
will raise a fund to use hereafter for the
purpose of advertising this section of the
State and encouraging emigration nil to it.
Associations should be formed over
the State, the railroads should aid liber
ally, and last, lint not least, the Legisla
ture should make a liberal appropriation bureau,
to maintain a regularemigration work entirely indi
and not leave this to
victuals and corporations. With an in
crease of our population emierration by intelligent from the
and industrious
North, the West and Europe, our large
plantation cut up into small farms, then
Georgia will retain that which sho will
otherwise lose—the proud appellation of
the Empire .State of the South, Yours
truly.— J. A. Cobb.in Augusta Chronicle.
A Fen Picture of General Lee.
In answer to the call for a true portrait
of General Lee, Mrs. Henry Savannahian, Bryan, the
widow of that gallant the
late Major Bryan, aud the daughter of
Georgia’s inimitable word painter, Ihe
late Charles Wallace Howard, sent to
the Richmond, Vs., States the following
pen picture ot the great commander, as
drawn by Mr. II. in an address delivered
in behalf of the Confederate Home of
Charleston, S. C., in 1874 by Mr. How
ard :
It will be invidious to dwell . for
not a
moment upon two of our illustrious dead.
For a brief period our army was blessed
with Hie presence ot one or the most re
markable men whom modern times have
produced.
He seemed born lor this momentous
crisis. He became a general, as it were,
by an instinct. He sprang Iron, toe pro
fesser’s chair into the arena of conflict a
full formed hero Intensely earnest, he
inspired among Utterly hi» troops unselfish, an irresistible he
enthusiasm. awa
keued among bis compeers, not jealousy,
but love and generous emulation.
Never doubting, always confident, to
lead his army into battleiwas to lead it
to victory. I he enemy fled at his name; .
with the Confederates it was a tower ol
strength, n.iidreii lisped it, men exul
ted in it. The chilliness of 8 H e wa8
warmed ardor at its Even ,.
into mention.
reluctant Europe yielded to its homage.
It was the constant, holy, lofty Christian
faith of this hero, never deserting him
in the camp, the council or the battle
field, which was Uie great element of his
extraordinary success His brilliant ;
course was like that of the meteor; hi. .
light still steadily streams from Ins grave. [
While history shall be written or lib
erty honored or lofty deeds be approved, |
th® name of btonewall Jackson shall be
cheiished by the Boulhern people, as the
ancients cherished their household gods,
But there wan another, greater than
Jackson, oH^ his character being rounded, *
full like..!* I..him were
united qualitif-H seemingly incompatible
in 1,1 the * same person. 1
Ibc , bravery of c I the .. of r
iciar, fau-wu
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Fabius, the impetuosity of Napoleon,the integrity
steadiness of Wellington, the and
of Scipio, the purity of Washington,
the tenderness of woman.
It was doubtful whether this hero was
greater in victory than in defeat. After
the final reverse his acceptance of the
inevitable was sublime. Who shall say
whether he was most illustrious at the
head of his college class or at the head
of a victorious army ? In the combina¬
tion of the elements of grandeur he is
alone in history.
Washington might have been his peer,
but the grand opportunity was wanting.
It is hardly necessary to say that I refer
to Robert E. Lee.
_
An Editor’s Tribulations.
Coming through Georgia a mau board¬
ed the train at a piney woods town. He
had a free pass and famished look, and
I spotted him for a journalist. The one
touch of nature that makes the whole
profession cheeky, soon brought us to¬
gether and set us to exchanging cor.fi
dentials, like amateur friends. My new
friend and brother said in the old famil¬
iar Georgia dialect: “I am dead broke,
and don’t know where in the devil I’ll
make my next rise. Was you ever that
way ?” My soft blue eyes gazed respect¬
ively out. of the car window, and I was
mute. The strapped editor continued,
"You are trying to ‘rickolict’ when you
were busted like I am now, I guess.” I
heaved a sigh, and told him 1 was “try¬
ing to‘rickolict.’” I wasn’t. Then the
strapped editor said tell : “Competition is
what floored me. I you when any¬
thing is started in a country town that
can give news to the public faster than a
newspaper the editor of that paper has
got to rnovo on or there’s steuliu’ or beg¬
in’ ahead 'o him sure.”
I began to open my eyes. The idea of
a new invention supplanting the print¬
ing press unnerved me a little, and I bes
gan quizzing him after a fashion that
might be excusable in a man who had
wandered into a printing office and swal¬
lowed a peck of interrogation “Oh points.
Finally he explained It : I it of ain’t no
new invention. was one these
durned sewing societies that floored me.
Nine wrinkled up widows, two old maids
and a couple of married women started
a sewing society in my town. It met the
day before my paper was issued every
week, and when the paper came out the
subscribers found that my Ires best news
was stale.
Why I got onto a scandal in town
three weeks ago. Me and my printer
thought nobody knew it but us and the
guilty parties. There was no way for
nobody else to find it out. We set up
and worked all night to get the paper
out a day ahead lor fear it would leak
out before we published it. in
Well, sir, the sewing society met
the morning, and the paper came out in
the evening. And I hope I may be hung
if that scandal wasn’t known all over
town and five miles in in the country be¬
fore 12 o’clock. The paper didn’t have
it all, either. That hacked me. I got
reckless and almost gave away my outfit.
I tel! you a county newspaper is a great
institution, but we’ve got to putou steam
and electric attachments if we expect to
snatch any laurels in a contest with a
woman’s sewing society. These societies
are breaking into several country papers
in this section. Something has got to
he done. What? An old woman
one of these kind that dips snuff and
weeps for the heathern—blamed if one
of’em can’t put her chin on her chest
and dream more news in five minutes
than the ocean cable could spit out in
twenty four hours. They broke I me and
they ought to be suppressed. truck get patch off
here. I’m going to start a
at this station. It’s lawful to shoot rab¬
bits, but not old women. I can protect
my property now. Goodbye.” And fellow’s he
was gone. I give you this poor
experience, so that if they ever start a
sewing society in Mount Pleasant and
ask for your “influence” you need not be
inveigled into letting the camel’s head
into your tent.— Waukeennh, Florida,
correspondent to Benkley, S. 0., Gazette.
Blind Tom’s Successor.
On last by Wednesday .1. W. Burdett evening wc were his
invited to go to
house and see what he termed a musical
prodigy. We accepted the acquainted invitation
extended an.l was soon made
with Barbara Robinson, a little colored
girl about nine years old. She was tak¬
en into the parlor and the young ladies
present plaved such pieces as they chose
„ n the piano, when this little negro
wo[ ,| ( j reproduce tlie production in an
H itnodt perfect manner. Those who know
R ar baia assure us that she has never
a t u( ]i(. ( j music, and that the accomplish
meat is entirely natural. To test her
power of imitation, we requested that a
piece he played she had never heard,
She at once took a seat at the piano and
ra ttled of the music in good style, and
what is singular, made hut few mistakes.
During the time we listened to this won¬
derful little negro playing, nearly an
hour, she never spoke a word, and unless
spoken to kept her eves fixed on the keys | i
of the piano, as if absorbed in the instru- i
meiit she so much loves. Barbara is a
n«ir«e in the family of Mrs. R. A. 8.
p reeman , and we are informed that she
w j|| d reproduce members anv of piece the of family music ren- by
dere bv or
visitors to the house, and when sent on
ar , errand will return, and if allowed to
do so, will play pieces heard whi>eab
sent, with remarkable correctness. This
little negro is certainly endowed with ex
t raor dinarj musical talent, and will, if
gj ven musical accomplishment, advantages, become fa
mnus for her and like
Blind Tom. become a coveted prize for
those who would win a fortune by the
aid ot a musical prodigy.— West Point
Feu's.
Business that should he patronized
will at all times recognize the fact that , a
due regard for the interest pothers must
be ga.d to reach success. Business that
m worth anything and worth patronizing
w.l always be found a paying one, aTib
eral one arid om calculated to be of ben
efit and pleasure to the community. The
man who sits back and fear, to invest a
dollar, encourage no enterprise, frowns
upon all new and advancing projects and
holds a dollar as if death was the result
of investing it, will never do much. His
life will not be a success. His small
earnings will not be a pleasure to him.
neither will he ever be a pleasure to any
one in a community, for he always J ftp* *
pear* „ verging upo.x deato. i .t
OLD DAIS IS 5IILLED8EVILLE.
Gov. Brown’* First ltcceptfon nt tb® Capital
us Governor.
“Captain,” I asked, “where was the
principal hotel in the good old days of
Milledgeviiie’s reign as queen city of the
South ?”
“Yonder it is,” said he, pointing to the »
large two-story wooden building on House.
opposite corner from the Oconee
“There is where those choice spirits, the
great majority of whom have passed into
the great beyond, used to congregate af¬
ter the labor and toils of the day were
over. After the heated debate and con¬
tusion of the argument were over, and
Senators and Representatives mingled
together and laugh and jest went merri¬
ly around. Up in that corner-room in
the second story they gathered to discuss
current topics, exchange gossipy com¬ The
ments and rehearse the latest puns.
safety valves were thrown open, and
those burdened souls enjoyed that free¬
dom of intercouse which was so sweet to'
men of their mould. There Alex Ste¬
phens used to get ofFhis sharpest sayings,
and the noble lien Hill exhibited a dis¬
play of wit that sparled like good old
wine There the haughty and imperi¬ flash
ous Toombs was nt his best, as the
of his eye bespoke the ready reparteer
and ready rejoinder. Herschel V. John¬
son, Gov. Towns and Gov. Jenkins, and
all the others were there.
“Ah, me! Cold is the heart of a Geor¬
gian that will not warm at the mention
of such scenes. It was the glory and
grandeur of the old regime ere theinfiu-* men be¬
came so tenderly susceptible to
ence of the almighty dollar. Rut “Icha- old
bod” is written on the walls of the
building now, and nothing is left but the
phantoms «f the past that still lurk in
the dusty corners of the rambling old
building.”
The Captain left, just at this time, and
I lounged up to a pointiwheresome vete¬
rans were ruminating among themselves.
Said one: “Do you remember when Joe*
Brown was first elected Governor what »
sensation his arrival created? Well,
Milledgeville, you know, Imd grown con¬
siderably aristocratic, and there was a
good deal of spirit manifested among the
leaders.
"When we heard that Governor Brown 1
was to arrive on a certain train the old
man said: "Look here, Gov. Brown will
be at the hitch depot this evening, four and the i want best
you to op the grays to
carriage and go down and bring him to>
tiie mansion in style.” pol¬
I did my best. I had those grays
ished up until there was never ii speck
on their glossy coats, and 1 had the har¬
ness rubbed until it shone again, and the
carriage was as bright as a mirror..
When ail was ready, rigged up in my
best clothes, I went clattering down to
the depot and platform. drew up with a grand flour¬
ish at the
"There were a number of carriage#
there, filled with the old bloods, aud I
fooled around awhile waiting for the
Governors appearance. On a trunk near'
the door sat a meek looking country wo¬
man with a babe in her arms, and I
brushed lightly by her and went on in
search of His Excellency. fussingand Presently'
the boss came along, fuming,
and rippeed out, ‘I’d like to know what
in the thunder lias become of the Gov¬
ernor and his affairs.’ The meek look¬
ing country woman leaked up and saidr
‘these are his trunks; I am Governor
Browu’s wife.’
The old man’s face was a study. He
scratched his nead, stammered out some¬
thing, and just then an ordinary of looking dea**
country farmer, who had the air a
con about him, came out, and—there was
Governor Brown 1 The old man was
broken up. He turned to me and mut¬
tered berween his clenched teeth: "Get
’em inside, for God’s sake, and drive to
the mansion by the shortest route!”
And you may be assured that I did as
directed, for i was as badly sold out as
the boss. Joe got there all the same,
though, and he has been governor of
Georgia ever since. — Atlanta Constitution..
EDISON’S COTTON PICKER.
Tlie Electrlcmn Get* mi Idea While Travel*
iiiM I" Georgia.
Thomas A. Edison, the fauiouse elec¬
trician and inventor, arrived at Atlanta
Friday with his bride. He is en route to*
Florida, fn conversation with a report¬
er of th Atlanta Constitution Mr. Edison
asked :
“How do the cot'on picking machines
work? Are they a success?”
"Only partially.” hand pick in
"llow much cotton can a
a day V
“About 250 pounds, Mr. Edison, may be. Why?"' he
“Because,” said as ran
his hand into his pocket, and pulled out
a piece of paper, “I have a cotton picker
here. See. To day began as I rode through
the cotton fields 1 studying the
question, and as sure as 1 live I’ve got
the idea here,” and as be spoke Mr. Edi¬
son spread out the made. paper and To pointed to*
? sketch roughly the reporter
ll looked like a prohibition map of Geor*
em , * but to Mr. Edison it looked like a
cotton picker. “Now,” said he, as he
pointed first to one succeed. mark and then an¬
other, “that will I am going to
give the matter a careful study. How
are the farmers ju this State? All poor,,
all rich 1”
“Then the machine —■”
Just then a gentleman unknown to
Mr. Edison walked up, and tapping him
familiarly on the shoulder with one baud*
extended the other.
“You are the greatest man on ‘earth,’ ”
said the gentleman.
"Thanks,” said Mr. Edison modestly.
"Let me see your forehead, please.”
Mr. Edison pushed bis bat back.
“Take off, your bat, please, won’t and you?”' stood
Mr. Edison removed his hat
bareheaded for more than a minute
“T hanks, said the stranger. ‘I have
seen the greatest man the world ever
produced. Shake hand* with me once
more and I’ll go.”
; Mr. Edison extended his hand, a smile
was on his face, and as the stranger left.
Mr Edison sat down, struck a match
and’lghted bis typical cigar. Southern ain’t
“That’s a man,
, he?” asked Mr. Ed, sou.
j “Why?” "Because he to be clever and
seems
polite.” Mr. Ldison place at Port
owns a
1 Myers, to which he is soiog to spend- tb»
I winter.- • * Const* rt r uuon.