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THE OGLETHORPE ECHO
By W. A. & L. SHACKELFORD.
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UlIR AGENTS.
For the convenience of our subscribers in
this counly we have established the following
agencies. The gentlemen named are author¬
ized aud will be glad to receipt for new sub¬
scribers or receive any renewals. They have
lists and can give you any information con
cerniug your time:
Bairdstown—E. M. Callaway.
iVinterville—J. Crawford—C. S. Hargroves.
B. Winter.
Stephens—J. E. Freeman.
Glade—G. ilaxeys—Henry H. Irby. F. Hurt.
Millstone—H. Phillips.
Philomath—Williie Peek.
Sandy Cross—J. C. Martin.
CLINARD HOUSE
Convenient to Business.
CLAYTON ST.. ATHENS, GA.
ClPECIAL rates given my Oglethorpe C_ friends.
O Kegnl."if rates reasonable.
A. I>. LXIWABB, Proprietor.
FOUND AT LAST!
Jackson & Brydie,
rpAILOUS, 1 No, 51 Clayton Street, Athens, Ga.,
remove greasy spots; alter clothes to latest
styles; cut or make suits to order. satisfaction. Samples on
hand. A U work guaranteed price. to give septo '
We have but one ' _
DAVIS, HARRIS & BRYDIE,
TONSQRAL ARTISTS
ATHENS, GEORGIA,
J I TAVLSG I recently moved into their targe and
nicely arranged respectfully shop on Broad invite street, tlie near citi
University Bank, them when they
zens of Oglethorpe shave to call stylish on kair-cut.
want a clean or a
BARBER SHOP REMOVED
■\T7 E have removed our Palace Barber Shop to
VV the stand on Broad street, formerly oecu
piedfoy Lowe N r 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 us. We have the handsomest and best
equipped barber shop in Athens, and only the
most skilled tonsorial McQUEEN artists are employed. DURHAM. Give
us a trial. &
ROANE HOUSE
LEXINGTON, GA.
TT A VING taken charge of the above House, 1
JL X shall do my best to give good fare, polite
attention and satisfaction in bed and board.
Rates i?2.00 per day; single meals, 50 cents.
I shall be pleased to have any citizen of the
county stop with me duiing Courts, and I will
give them reduced rates,
I shall be prepared to give feed and attention
to horses at reasonable rates.
JIKN. B. E. ROANE,
GLOBE HOTEL,
Under New Management.
rpHE A undersigned respecifully informs ti e
public that he has secured the control of the
old aud and popular be kept GLOBE and HOTEL, in the of Augusta,
it will open run same ac¬
commodating manner and as formerly. will Every specially atten¬
tion paid to guests the table be
looked after. Families accommodated with
pleasant rooms and lodging. at moderate rates. J. W. Special tiKAY. rates
for board
STONE MOUNTAIN ROUTE,
fieorgia Railroad Company.
OFFICE GENERAL MANAGER, )
Augusta, Ga., Nov. 21, 1885. 5
/COMMENCING SUNDAY, 22d inst., the fol
Vv lowing passenger schedule will be operated
Trains run by 90th meridian time.
fast line.
Lv. NO. 27, WEST DAILY. NO. 28, EAST DAILY.
Lv. Washingt’n.7:2G Augusta....7:40 a m Lv. Atlanta.. ..2:45 p m
a m “ Athens......2:50 pm
Lv. Athens.....7:45 a m Ar Winterville.3.11 pm
Ar. Winterville..8:04am “ Lexington...3.42 pm
“ “ Lexington..>:33 am “Maxeys......4.16 “ Antioch.....4.0(5 pm
Antioch.....8:55 am pm
“ Maxeys.....9:04 Woodville...9:26 am “ Woodville- .,4.40 4.55 pm
am “ Union Point. pm
“ Union Point.9:40 am “ Washington.7 35 pm
Ar. Atlanta......1:00pm \r. Augusta....8:15 pm
Lv Union Point.10:35am Lv Union Point.5.50 pm
ArWoodville... 10:48am Ar Woodville.-.6.02 pm
“ Maxeys......11:12 am “ Maxeys......6.23 pm
“ Antioch.....11:22 am “ Antioch.....6.32 pm
“ Lexington. Winterville. .11:44 am “ Lexington. ..7.47 pm
“ 12:14 pm “ Winterville..6.52 pm
Ar Athens......12:35 pm “ Athens......7:40 pm
No. 27 stops at Grovetown, Berzelia. Harlem,
fordville, Dearing, Thompson, Union Norwood, Barnett, Craw
Rutledge, Social Point, Greenesbofo, Madison,
Stone Mountain Circle, Covington, Corners,
and Decatur, aud all stations
named on Athens Branch.
No. 28 stops at all above stations with Lithonia
added.
REGULAR TRAIN.
LEAVE Athens...... . 9.00 a m
Leave W interville.... . 9.31 “
Leave Lexington..... :A 0.16 “
Leave Antioch........ 0.49 “
Leave Maxeys........ . 11.12 “
Leave Woodville...... .11.42 «
ARRIVE Union Point .11.55 “
Arrive Atlanta....... 5.44 p m
Arrive Washington... 2.20
Arrive Milledgeviile.. . 4.20 “
Arrive Macon......... . 6.15 “
Arrive Augusta....... . 3.35 “
LEAVE Augusta..... .10.50 a m
Leave Macon......... 7.16 “
Leave Milledgeviile.. .. 9.19 •«
Leave Washington... .. 11.20 “
' Leave Atlanta........ .. 8.00 “
Leave Union P-»int... .. 2.20 pm
LEAVE Woodville... 2.39 “
Leave Maxeys........ 3.18 “
Leave Antioch........
Leave Lexington.....
Leave Winterville....
Arrive Athens.......
Trains run daily. Close connection to or from
Washington tions and on from Sundays. Double dail^ conuec
to Athens and Washington by
fast mail. E- R- DORSET, Gen’l Pas’n’r Agt,
'JOHN W. GREEN, Superintendent.
JOE W. WHITE, Gen. Trav. Pass. Agent.
Augusta, Ga.
LEXINGTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNI-NG, MARCH 26, 1886.
W. H. REYNOLDS,
PRACTICING PHYSICIAN,
Lexington, Ga.,
/""NFFERS yj his professional services to the pco
pie of Lexington and vicinity. All calls
promptly attended to. Office at G. W. Smith’s
store.
MONEY TO LOAN!
Farm Loans Negotiated!
nr HE undersigned is prepared to negotiate
A Loans of Money on farms in sums of ove
and not less than three hundred dollars.
W. (*. JOHNSON,
Attomey-at-Law, LEXINGTON, GA.
FOR SALE.
nnHE JL residence in Lexington recently vacated
by Mr. Stephen Upson. he The buildings beautiful are
capacious, the grounds at el most in
the town. Land enough attached for orchards,
pastures, etc. A new roof is being put on dwell¬
ing house. A bargain perfect. can be had in this desira¬
ble property. Titles Apply to.
MRS. SERENA b. UPSON,
February 5,1886. if
WANTED.
300 Hens.
200 Frying-size Chickens.
300 pounds nice Batter.
200 dozen Eggs.
200 bushels Peas.
Wiil pay highest market prices.
W. J. POSTER, Lexington.
Made as Good as New at
JOHNSON’S DYE HOUSE,
Opposite Clinnrd House, Athens, Ga.
T"\ON’T J-/ throw away your last spring clothing,
but bring it to me, and at a small cost 1 can
clean and renovate it so that it will be and
as good as new. Any color on gents’ Cleaning or la¬
dies’ goods guaranteed to stand. of
ladies’ dresses a specialty. Best of references
given. [jl9 3] MILES JOHNSON.
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nnHE 1 Public Schools of this county may open
at any time from second Monday in J une to
first Teachers Monday of in Private July. Elementary schools, that
are to continueat least eight months, will be al¬
lowed to give their pupils of school age the ben¬
efit of the Public School Fund upon their atten¬
dance at any time during the term. Such teach¬
ers license are required regular to present Public certificate School. and obtain
as for
The County School Commissioner will be in
Lexington on fourth Saturday in May and Sec¬
ond Saturday in June to examine applicants for
License.
By order of the Couuty Board of Education.
February 22, 1886. R. C. LATIMER,
Thos. H. Dozier, Sec’ty. Pres, of Board.
MOTtCB!
A LL persons having demands against the es
r\ late of John Winter, late of Oglethorpe
county, deceased, are hereby notified to render
their demands to 1). II. Winter, in care of H. K.
Nicholson & Co., Athens, Ga., according to law;
and all persons indebted to said deceased are re¬
quired to make immediate payment at the store
of John Winter & Co., where T. A. Harris is au¬
thorised to make settlements.
MARGARETT WINTER, Ex’tr’x.
Winterville, Ga., March 12th, 1886.
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Oglethorpe County having “gone
dry” we desire to issue this our proc¬
lamation, informing that our friends “dry” and
customers we are not April yet,
but will keep “wet” until next,
and up to that time will keep on
hand a full stock of the purest Liq¬
uors for “medical” purposes, at rea¬
jugs sonable and prices. will Send take along pleasure your in
we
filling them. Terms strictly cash.
R. S. Gilllam & Co.,
novC-tf Maxeys, Ga.
New Bridge Across Big Creek.
TT7ILL V be let to tlie lowest bidder, on Thurs
▼ day, the 8th day of April next, the building
of the bridge across Big creek at Rylee’s mills,
in Wolfskin dist., to be 100 feet in length, which
includes the span of 40 feet, besides the ap
proaches. The sills to be SxlO, supports 8x10,
cap-sills 8x10, mud-sills 12x12, two stringers 8x10
to be 40 feet thick; in length, upright posts 10x10, long; floor
\X inches lx inch rods to be 10 feet
ail material to be heart oak. To be let out at
the place Commissioners of building.
The of Roads and Revenues re¬
serve the right to accept or reject any and all
bids. For plans and specifications apply at the
Clerk's office. March 17th, 1886.
E. I). MARTIN,
J. F. CROWLEt ,
C T. GUMMING,
E. J. CAMPBELL,
J. B. RYLKE,
Commissioners.
LONG & CO.
Wholesale and Retail
IBMIlISn, ‘ ! 1 ,
| i Garden and Grass
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SEED,
A Specialty.
broad st „ Athens.
Horses ai Males.
I have on ban*! now, and will keep constant
ly during the season, a
A Large Stock of
HORSES & MULES
Of all kinds, to suit al! classes customers.
I ! W. S. HOLMAN J
j Axttienss, G:i.
OH! MY BACK
Every strain and or nearly cold prostrates attacks that weak back
yon.
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BESTTOHIC ?
Strengthens tlie Muscles, Steadies the Mcrvrt,
Enriches tlie Blood, Gives New Vigor.
Db. “Brown’B J. L. Mtehs. Fairfield. is the Iowa, best says: Iron l
Iron Bitters gears’ medicine
have known in ray SO practice. I ha ve fonn
it specially beneficial in nervous or physical exhauft
tion, and m all system.Use debilitating freely ailments that family,” bear so
heavily on the it in my own
Genuine has trade mark and crossed red lines on
wrapper. Take no other* Made only by
BROWN CHEMICAL CO., BALTIMORE, MD.
Ladies’ Hand Book— nsefnl and attractive, oon
ining list of prizes for recipes, dealers information about
_ by all medicine,
coins, etc., given away in or
mailed to any address on receipt of 2c. stamp.
CVS !
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How the Unsuspecting
are often Gulled.
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CAPITAL vs. MERIT,
It is possiole that money dipped into 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 potash
ing B. B. B., as the latter contains
properly combined.
Opium, morphine, strychnine, aconite, whis¬
ky, etc., are all deadly poisons, and are daily
destroying the lives of people, them and why It do is not be¬
these men cry out against sight ? do Io¬
cause there is no money iu to so.
dide of Potash, in proper combinations, is re¬
garded grandest by the medical profession as tlie remedy quick¬
est, and most powerful who blood believe in
ever known to man. Those
revealed combinations and Indian foolishness
are surely in a condition to become rather
"crank?” in their ideas at any time. We as¬
sert umhrstandingly that Potash, as used in
the manufacture of B, B. B., is not a poison, in
an' 1 the public need not put any confidence
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. fi. B. is working such wonders in the cure
of blood poisons, scrofula, rheumatism, their ca
tarrh, etc., that others are trembling "fraud,” in be
boots, and cry aloud, triumphant “poison,” march. It is
cause they fear its Atlanta than
making five times more cures in
all other blood remedies combined. Wedon’t
say that other arc poisons or frauds; we lire
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.
CMTnWt
Editors Atlanta Constitution: grateful
Below we hand you a letter from a
heart, which was sent to and published in the
Vanalystine, Texas, “Enterprise,” and desire without give our
knowledge or solicitation, columns. we to
it publicity through your
We Earnestly Entreat every Suffer¬
ing Woman who sees this to Head
il Carefully and Well.
Moravian Falls , N. G. ?
November 25, 1884. 5
Mr. Editor: “An ounce of prevention
is better than a pound of cure,” and a
pound of cure is better than a ship-load
of argument in your columns. 1 saw
some time ago an advertisement of a
medicine called Bkadfikld’h Female
Regulator and the wonderful results
from its use; and as my wife had been a
sufferer and invalid for fifteen years
from prolapsus and conjestion of the
Momb and painful menstruation, and the
doctors could do her no good, I was per¬
suaded to try the remedy. So I sent for
two bottles, and the result was she im¬
proved so much I sent for another pack
age, and she is now able to do her house¬
hold work, and goes about wherever she
pleases. I am confident she is perma¬
nently cured. I sent for a lot of this won¬
derful female regulator to sell, and every
bottle that I have disposed and the of results has given
complete satisfaction, could be desired. are
in every case all that
With thanks to the “Enterprise,” it, which the
called mv attention to and to
Bradfleld Regulator Co., the proprietors
of this great boon, I am gratefully J. yoms,
C. DAVIS.
p. S.—You can publish this or not, as
you see fit, but for the benefit of woman,
i hope yon will.
Anyone who doubts the genuineness of , the ,
above can write to Mr. Davis, who will give all
particulars.
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Senator our treatise on the “Health anil Hap
pineBs of nmned free to any ^dress.
TH E BBADF. tU . B R^c.ATORCo ga
Wholesale and Rrtail
DRUGGISTS & SEEDSMEK
And Mannfiictnring Chemists.
We keep everything in the Drug
line at rock bottom prices.
We special . , attention . to mail ..
give merchants and
order from
physicians generally.
When in Athens do not fail to come
and see us.
JOHN CRAWFORD & CO.,
OPPOSITE PO TOFFICE,
CJayion Street, Athens, 6a.
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HINTS ON FREE LABOR.
A Correspondent Touches up the Advantages
and Disadvantages of it.
There are but few things, in a farmer’s
life especially attended with more per¬
plexity than the vexation of free labor,
if male or female, but more especially
the former. In the cities and towns
their vexations are not near so great, be¬
cause there changes are conveniently
made, for it is almost an every day oc
currence. In tlie country it is not so.
Changes are made with inconvenience,
and most of the time with great expense,
and when these changes among hands
are made a greater evil is created than
tlie one availed, which frequently
renders the evils ot the last too great to
be endured, and less to be repeated than
renewed efforts to get rid ot them. De¬
pending on this class of labor, as most of
we farmers do, is it not indeed surprising
that we find so many iu debt aud buying
everything that they consume on the
farm when it ought to have been raised
on the farm? 1 have just read one of
Bill Arp’s letters on free labor. I can’t
agree with him on some, things concern¬
ing them. I think that they are the
most worthless class of laborers that a
inan ever had to contend with. My
great objection to them is we can’t put
any confidence in them. They are us
destitute of honor and principle as an
Indian. I must sav that I have never
known one to exercise any regards for
the interest of his employer beyond what
is necessary for retaining his situation.
Indeed, the smallest amount they can
perform, without putting iu properly
their own wages, becomes the ultimate
rules of their religion. You can’t fiud
one in a hundred that the preservation
ot property gives any feelings of solici¬
tude any further than they are held le
sponsible for it, and when wasted or lost
they manifest no regret, unless personal¬
ly identified iu its destruction. Some
may say this is not the case with all la¬
borers, but I sav it is the rase ninety
nine out of every hundred. 1 have nev
known one to do as much as even try
to do anything that, would have attended
to elevate him with his employer. All
they seem to care for is to kill as much
time as possible and to get their employ¬
er’s money without giving him value re¬
ceived for it. We larmers have got to
make a change in our mode of farming
and managing free labor, and the sooner
we do it the better it will he l'orall kinds
of business, for the farmers keep all oth¬
er businesses moving. To make a
change in our mode of farming and
working free labor has become a necessi¬
ty, and when a necessity presents itself—
such a one as this—I tell you. farmers,
there aint no use in fighting it. There
must be a change made in farming some
way, and the sooner we make a shift in
that direction the better it will be for us.
The war was a necessity and we had to
fight; the tence was one and we had to
dispense with it because it was a necessi¬
ty to do it. The fences around here are
nearly all gone and I am more than glad
of it, for I do bate so bad to see Cuflee
burning rails when they are such strong
advocates for fence. Speaking neighbors of fence,
myself and one of my rode
some twenty miles over this county and
a portion of Clarke a few days ago and
we found most of the fencing moved, and
it does help the looks of tilings so much.
I find the fence moved where there was
strong opposition when it was voted on.
When a necessity presents itself, espe¬
cially one so important as doing nwav
vvitli tlie fence, there ain’t no use in fight
ing, it will come. Whiskey was a good
tiling in its place, so some men say, but
where is its place? Well, it had become
to he such a great, evil it became a neces¬
sity to dispense with it. Men did all
they could to keep it here, but there was
no use in fighting it. A change in our
farming has become a necessity, and the
sooner we farmers make tlie change the
better it will be for us. The low price
paid for cotton and the high prices for
provisions will force we farmers to make
a change some way ; we Can’t stay in the
old rut much longer. The press has ad¬
vocated a change ; the agricultural men
have done and said all they can ; smart
men have done all in their power, and
men that have tried the change in farm¬
ing and have succeeded, and it all seetns
to be spent in vain. Here is one reason
why I say we have got to make a change,
to say nothing of anything else. Where
is Texas ? Did you ever think of the
creat advantage it lias over our State?
Some will say it has none. I will give
you one advantage it has. Texas makes
cotton without the use of guano. Bome
that don’t amuut to much.
If you will just up cost ol gu
ano that is used this State and you will
see what it amounts to. it lias been
time-'tha* time tha. the the ereat'advant^c" great advantages that that iCi- itx
a«, Mississippi and Arkansas has over
^akfa Ina f e d t chaoge c nao £~* arD1 *; JurtTh B “ nk OU of e Texas' ’
with , her level , lands. She can cultivate , ,
more land than we can, for they can use
improved implements on their farms, and
t hey am t be ho filing to Cuflee a- we
What will our State do with those three
I r , have ma , le mention when tlie cotton
harvester input in the field, bomow.il
say that will never be. llie-re are great
er things invented than aco.ton harvest
er. I uoiiope I may live long enough to
gecth harvester at work, and
then, thanks be to the Good Lord, it will
be a necessity for Cuffee to make »
change in Lift mode ot d0,l ?£ business.
He won’t ask his boss when he wants to
makeacontract " lth h
time he is going to give hum i hi ti
business is asabsurd “"'at one o my
!h e 'f r I!i d
that fhe the Lord r ' in nt tended eiiflel for we formers
to raise cotton and the west » ra e
f°K n ' Jilt hrleWesternmei He
can be one by raisins'
his corn but I ain’t, sure. Siinnrmp ; 1
W HH to go to some business man for em
ployinent and he would offer me ten dol
lars per month, and I would ask him
bm¥ muc |, time he would give me, I
think be would do me just like I heard a
merchant sav he would do one of his cua
tomer* the other day. Said if one of
them offered to his cigars on time
he would ask Him to settle, and my man
would tell me to “git.” Some say one
in nothing that ever had a greater hand
in placing the farmer w here he is today
than this time business wiin Cuffee Idv-
ery man in this county will join me in it,
but still when they hire CufFee they will
give him his time. I was at one of my
neighbors the other Saturday to dinner
and it was holiday with Cuffee. It rain¬
ed on Friday evening Saturday and got morning the land he
out of order, so
had about fifteen acres of new ground
land that was in fine order for plowing.
So he had to move his hands from the
old land to the new ground, and it took
them till nearly dinner time to get there
and after dinner it was holiday. When
I went in he was sitting by tlie fire and
seemed to be in a bad humor. I said,
“What is the matter with you old prrd?”
“I want to plow in my new ground and
it’s holiday with Cuffee.” He said if tlie
Good Lord had just kept tlie rain off un¬
til Sunday he would have been so glad.
Farmer.
STONEWALL JACKSON.
How the Confederate Hero’s Life Went Out.
About daylight upon the Sunday of
his death Mrs. Jackson informed him
that hia recovery was very doubtful, and
that it was better that lie should be pre
pared for the worst. He was silent for
a moment and then said :
“It will he infinite gain to be translat¬
ed to Heaven.” He advised his wife in
the event of Iiis death, to return to her
father's house, and added :
"You have a kind and good father,
but there is no one so kind and good as
your Heavenly Father.”
He still expressed requested a hope iiis that wife, he in would
recover, but case
lie should die, to have him buried in
Lexington, in the valley of Virginia.
His exhaustion iucreased so knelt rapidly "by that his
at 11 o’clock Mrs. Jackson
bed and told him that before the sun
went down he would be with iiis Savior.
He replied: “O, no! You are fright¬
ened, my child. Death is not ho near.
I may yet get well.”
She fell upon the bed weeping bitterly
and again told him amid her tears and
sobs, that tlie physicians declared that
there was no longer any hope for iiis re¬
covery. After a moment’s pause he asked
her to call for the family physician.
"Doctor,” he said as the physician en¬
tered the room, “Anna informed me that
you have told her I am to die to-day.
Is it so ?”
When he was answered in the affirma¬
tive, lie turned hia sunken eves toward
the ceiling and gazed for a moment or
two as if in intense thought, then looked
at tlie friends about him and said softlv :
"Very good, very good heart-broken ; it iVall right.” wife
Then turning to his
he tried to comfort her. He told her
that there was much he desired to tell
her hut that he was too weak for tlie un¬
dertaking.
Col. Pendleton came into the room
about I o’clock. Gen. Jackson asked
him :
"Who is preaching at tlie quarters to¬
day ?” reply the whole
When told in that
army was praying for him, be replied :
“Thank God ! they are very kind.”
Then lie added : “It is tlie Lord’s day ;
my wish is fulfilled. I have always de¬
sired to die on Sunday.” fail and
Slowly Iiis mind frequently began talked to in hia
wander, and lie
delirium as if in command of his army
one the field of battle. He would give
orders to his aides in his old way, and
then tlie scene was changed. He was at
the mess table in conversation with
members of his staff; now with his wife
and child ; now at prayers with his mili¬
tary family. Occasional intervals of his
mind would appear, and during one of
them tlie physician offered the dying
man some brandy and water, but he de¬
clined it. saying:
"It will only delay my departure and
do no good ; I want to preserve my mind
to.tbe last, if possible." the end arrived
A few moments before
the dying watrier cried out in his deliri¬
um :
"Order A. P. Hill to prepare for tic
tion! Pass the infantry to tlie front
rapidly.” Tell Maj. Hawks-’’then
iiis voice was silent and the sentence re
mained unfinished.
An instant later and a smile of ineffa
ble sweetness and purity spread itself
over his calm, pale face, and then look
ing upward and slightly raising his
hands, lie said quietly and with an ex
presaion of relief:
“Let us cross over the river and rest
under the shade of the trees.”
And then without sign of struggle or
of pairi his spirit passed away. Was
death ever so sweet and peaceful ? Was
ever rest so antieinated illlMroit or Heaven so re
vealed ?-/rom tree /*ress.
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A Georgia Willow Farm.
, . . helow the citv of Macon
i« the osier willow farm of Mr. J. C.
which lias been visited bv a corres
()f t j )e A iuer j cau Druggi»t two The
willow switches, at the end of years,
aro “ re f ’3 roin f 0 ^ ,, r h^d to M»v«n ^to feet bunci.es lontr and are
^and »»* l k-e
bujuJ „ d jn watc , r anl j
the |, barlt ar k at at the the lircer larger end enU loosened loosenea for lor a a
inches bv machinery. Ihe
{“*“ j “ a l k r ,. moV ed bv a
acl , jne devised bvMrH’luit
( ^ or) lh e switches are placed in
mechanical tire strinoer arid with a pair
of ™ P"? p lier« r * Bre milled through with a sud
jer^ They Hiey are tnen wipea on
etotb * bUnd ‘ e ’
leaves Ire and bark are dried and
Th ev used for medicinal
purposes, and command a price of twen
tv-five cents a | pound There are at pres
^ 4()0 000 wi lowg growing on the farm,
and 80,000 additional slips have recently
been set out. The entire levee is to he
ever)tua „ c0Vere(J with them> whe n six
ty acres will be devoted to this single
acre. When dried, tlie willow* corns
mand $200 per ton, and find a ready mar
ket.
There is a feeling at Atlanta among
the federal officials that the state officers
have little or no ambition to apprehend
criminals ... who , offend ^ against the state
law by assaults on federal officers, or by
murder of the same.
.SSiiSS’SS , . .. .
A caj»t whi he made tlie norse, and
his skin will be atuwi asu t«e skeleton
mounted.
SENATOR JOE BROWN.
A Breezy Sketch of the Senior Senator From
Grorttiu.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Tribune writes as follows :
Joseph Emerson Brown—old "Joe
Brown, as he is familiarly called—is one
of the most conspicuous figures on the
floor of the Senate. He looks eighty
years of age. though in reality he is but
sixty-five. There is a certain patiiarclial
look about him which at once attracts at¬
tention. He has head a is long silvery bald, beard ;
tlie top of h ; s almost and
his hair is of that smooth, lank and only
kind which in the popular mind is gen¬
erally associated with a certain odor of
sanctity. His enemies say that lie looks
like a Mormon. His friends pretend to
see in him a second Abraham. It is
hardly necessary for me to say that he is
neither tlie one nor the other.
“Jos” Brown, though a Baptist, is a
firm believer in his own destiny. Among
all the Democratic Senators he is to-day
the only one who thinks that lie will yet
ho culled upon to occupy the White
House. His ambition is boundless, aud
surpassed only liud by his egotism. Cool,dis¬
creet, patient, calculating, lie has all
the attributes oi a successful intriguer.
He is a born schemer. In Georgia he is
"boss.” Nothing is done there without
his consent. Tlie political fortunes of
every public man in the State are in his
keeping. He makes and unmakes them
as he sees it. Jt would not he wise in a
young the man just entering public Brown. life to
incur enmity of “Joe” He
has crushed more than one in his day.
Senator Brown is one of the few South¬
ern men prominent in public life who
can lay any claim to being self-made.
He is a native of South Carolina, though
tlie greater part of his boyhood was spent
in the mountains of Northeastern Geor¬
gia, where his father owned a small farm.
Here he labored in tlie field and attend¬
ed stock until lie was 19 years of age.
In tlie winter time he managed to attend
a distant country school, where he learn¬
ed how to read and write; but beyond
this, nothing. He had heard, however,
of Calhoun Academy in South Carolina,
an institution of learning under the
charge of Wesley Leveritt. His ambi¬
tion was to enter it for u term. But how
was he to do it? He had no money.
He had no friends. He had no clothing
even, except the suit he wore on ins
hack. His worldly possessions consisted
in a yoke of steers ; that was all. But
he had courage and the determination to
succeed, lie set out with the oxen, ac¬
companied by iiis younger brother,
James, now an eminent lawyer at Can¬
ton, Ga., to ride alternately his father’s
plow-horse aud drive tlie steers, aud to
carry back the horse after tlie main part
of of the about journey was completed—a distance
ISO miles. He sold iiis steers
after airivnl for eight months’ board, en¬
tered the school aud went in debt for tu¬
ition, llis earnest manner gained him
credit and friends. At tlie end oi his
board contract lie returned to his home
and taught a three months’ school, with
tlie proceeds of which he paid iiis tuition
debts and had some money left to apply
to the expenses of another term. From
th’s time on lie taught school and went
to the academy, alternately ; paying for
his own tuition with tlie money lie had
earned as a teacher. Through the kind¬
ness of a friend who 'advanced him the
money, he was able to attend the law
school at Yale in 1845. Being graduated
among tho highest in his class, he return¬
ed to his home and began tlie practice of
law. Twelve years later he was elected
Governor of Georgia.
This remarkable political success in a
man so young attracted universal atten
tion. "Joe” Brown’s subsequent career
only increased the wonder of politicians.
While bis methods were not always tlie
best or the purest, nobody ever doubted
Iiis sagacity and shrewdness. He proved
himself a “trimmer” of unusual resour¬
ces. Indeed, Senator Ingalls in one of
his savage onslaughts on “Joe” Broivti
in the Senate compared him, under the
thin guise of the "Senator from Alaska,”
to a "canting and sanctimonious hypo
crite, who was forever washing his hands
with invisible soap in imperceptible wa
ter.” referring thereby to a habit old
“Joe” Brown bus of constantly rubbing
his hands when he is addressing theSen
ate. Mr. Ingalls, too, denounced his coi
league from; Georgia, still under tho guise
of tlie "Senator from Alaska,” as the
"Uriah Heep of the Senate.” "the Joseph
Siiriace of American politics,” "a shrive
ling sides political Pecksniff who hud been on
all of every political question, who
bad belonged to every political party in
his lifetime, and belonged to none that
he did not betray.” This denunciation
of "Joe” Brown is not altogether unjust.
It characterizes methods. in a broad manner 'Iiis
ways and But it was not my
purpose to enter into a review ol Senator
Brown’s publie and political life, it was
rather to point out the difficulties he
overcome in Ins youth and the succeas
which attended him in later years.
Like many other men in public life
who have been extraordinary success
ful, "Joe” has had the assistance and
counsel oi a faithful raittiiui and ana symputaetic svmnatbetic
wile. Mrs. Brown, in her wav, is a typi
cal Southern woman. She is the daugh
for <>t * Nuptial clergyman. 1 illustrates recently
heard a story about her which
>“>t «»nly her own wlinia peculiar shrewdness,
shows power old “Joe”
& h j Q 0 ia polilk . 8 . Ue came
to the Senate originally appointed by the
Governor to fill a vacancy caused bv the
resignation of Gen. Gordon. should It was but
natural in him that he pretend
» f>t to covet the hone. In fact, it was
gGen out that lie woui.l not be a candi
date forre-election to the Senate. So
before the Legislature met, the friends of
other aspirants came to Washington to
fold.out il the report was true They
nowe\er, anu were a gooa aeai oewnuer
J h. e y ca ^ e< * u P° n ^ rs * Brown
P a y *heir when she a*ked them
jbat they were doing at Washington. |
frankly told her that the object of
!r v,Hlt a8Certa, n * “finer Mr.
J Legislature ,ro ! vri wou *“ or not. candidate 1 before the
•You might have saved your
she replied, for Joe likes the Senate,
and he al.owa he II stay. ’
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f or horses, cattle, hogs and sheep, it has pro?
ed its worth “in thousands of cases.” For
eule by M. li. Little, a id all general dealers.
Y 0 L. XII—No. 25 ,
Governor McDaniel and His Record.
The correspondence between Governor
McDaniel and General Lawton will be
read with interest. It formally declares
that Governor McDaniel is not in thef
gubernatorial race, and puts him on i
higher ground than any other cause'
could possibly have led to. will 1
With the knowledge that the state of Gov»
for the present lose the services
ernor McDaniel comes a sharp and defi¬
nite recognition of what those service*
have been, it is not too much to say
that his and official record is perfect. does A
careful deliberate review not
disclose a single mistake. Hh* business
judgment has been unerring, his decis-.
ions prompt and firm, his integrity un¬
challenged, and his devotion considerations. to the state’s
interest above all other
No better governor ever administered
Georgia’s attaifs ; a scpiarer and safer ad¬
ministration will never be seen.
In one item alone Governor McDaniel
saved the state uutold trouble aud larget
expense. When the authorities of the
East Tennessee road owed $750,000 as
balance on the road, they claimed thef
right to pay it in cash instead of bonds.
This the governor denied, insisting that
they must pay in bonds of the state.
The money was thus saved for the reduc-’
tion of the debt instead of being frittered
away in current appropriations. In
Boating the last issue of over three mil-'
lions of bonds the admirable good sense
of the governor, his firmness and hia
foresight, was again displayed. Quietly
and laboriously he plodded through the'
mazy considerations that invested the
matter, and reached trie right result fvheril
a hundred men would have missed it.
Iu every official transaction—from the
smallest to the greatest—he has been the
same headed painstaking, conscientious, level¬
man, undeterred keeping the straight and unde¬ road
of duty, by threats
ceived by sophistries. He will close his
administration amid universal approval
—without a single spot on which hia
most malignant enemy can justly lay the
hand ofcensu.e.
It is the highest and most patriotic
consideiatiou that leads Governor Mc¬
Daniel to his present course. With an
unassailable record, with friends iu every
rtiunty in the state, with steadfast ami
growing popular strength, the temptation repeated
must have been great to yield to
solicitations and allow the use of his
name for a third term, lie has bravely
turned aside from this suggestion, and
standing on the traditions of his party
und the spirit of the constitution, candidate. arc-'
Bounces that he will not he a
Another term in the gubernatorial chair
could not have given htin the honor that
comes with this letter. That position
had already yielded him all its dignity
and prestige. that His letter adds could a lustre to
Iris name office holding never
give. McDaniel
From the first day Governor .
entered tlie state’s service, a young and
unknown legislator, his influence has
been good, his judgment valuable, hie
counsels wise, and his integrity above re¬
proach. His ability lias shaped much
of the most important legislation of the
past fifteen years, and not a measure has
been laid on the statute books in all that
time that his watchful eye did not see
and iiis active supervision review. For
the first time since he entered the lower
house, he now sees a chance for release
from public service. Whenever there is
perplexity affairs, or entanglement in Governor Georgia’*
political the invoked name of
McDauii l will be to bring peace,
and around his unblemished record and
his unassailable character and factions
will unite, iiis retirement—voluntary
now—will not be long permitted. The
people understand fully that the slate
does not hold a more devoted patriot, aim
abler administrator, a cooler bead, a bra¬
ver heart, or a purer man than Henry
D. McDaeiel. Such tnen are scarce,ami
are likely to be called often and again U*
public service. Hut if this should not be
so—if Governor McDaniel, retiring )n
the prime public of life, hia life, he should never from again the
enter may accept
people ol Georgia this morning the as¬
surance that ho has already made, to be
distinguished, transmitted to Iiis children, a record for
and useful, and honorable
service, clean and conscientious work,
that few men can equal and no man sur¬
pass, at tlie close of a long and laborious
public life.— Atlanta Constitution .
A Good Joke.
Last week about the time our citizen*
expected midst, tlie delegation of Ohio visitors
in our there turned up in town a
young man, rather seedy in appearance,
who represented himself as a member of
the excursion party and was looking
around tor a home in the Sunny South.
He was at ouce taken in charge by a
worthy und enterprising gentlemen of
Cuthbert, boused, fed and carried arotnid
over the country The in splendid style for
several days. resources of South
west Georgia, the delightful climate the
aociabiiity of the people, ana healthful
ness of our location, was talked to him
from early morn till dewy eve. Tho
young man was charmed. He liked tlie
town, the people, tho climate, the soil.
the tne aroresaio aforesaid eentleman gentleman, ana and above aoovo all alt
the palatable dishes prepared and placed
before him by the excellent wile He
was coming Captain to Randolph to live, and just
as the was congratulating liim
self upon his success in securing one of
the Ohioans a:; a citizen ol Cuthbert, he
discovered that he was caring for a
tramp. Iiis disgust was beyond descrip
tion, and the more he thought about it
the madder he got. It would have been
very unhealthy for his trampsbip if he
could have been found at that moment,
As it was be got off with a slight appli
cation from the sole of our friend’s boot,
and the imposter took French leave,
avowing that bis kind host was the most
wholesouled gentleman in America.—
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Robert Morris, the Habersham coun
ty murderer, has been sentenced to he*
hanged April 1, He murdered WUllaiu
J. Henderson. Morris laughed aJAtht*
time the Judge was delivering the-aen
tence and said to the sheriS when be was
carrying him back to jail: “Send men
plenty to eat, so that I will beheavv
enough to break mv neck when I fail,’
\ motion for a new trial has been made- w
I so Bash’s Horse aud Cattle
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Collies. Carry Broad your watches and jewelry to C. K
street, Athens, Ga , foe repairs