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JEFFERSON, JACKSON COUNTY, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 18S0.
(From the Atlanta Constitution.
Moral Reflections Indulged in by Wm. Arp.
Extracting a Little Cold Comfort from the
Late Elections — Mrs. Arp's Contempt
for the Noble Art of Politics —
Talrnage's Foolishness
About Wives.
Daniel Webster remarked there were but
two classes of people who loved to go a fisli
ing, gentlemen and vagabonds. lie’s not
exactly that way about the radical party at
the north, but it’s made up of the dependents
and the independents, the rich and the poor.
The middle classes who are just tolerable
well off and make a comfortable living by
industry and economy compose the Demo
cratic party. The rich men have got most
of the bonds and the money and they are
afraid the Democrats would tax ’em or pay
us for our niggers, or do something, and as
they own nearly all the railroads and . facto-
ries and workshops, they make the opera
tive vote just as they want ’em. If they
don’t vote to suit ’em they turn ’em off. Be
sides this they send their money to other
States to help carry the elections and it looks
like we poor democrats never will get a show
ing again. We haven’t got enough money
to buy votes with, and I’m afraid we never
will have, for we haven’t got any public treas
ury to steal from. If we could only get in
power once more there would be no difficulty
in keeping in, for we know exactly how the
thing is done. I believe in four years’ time
our party could be educated up to their stand
ard—with a little help. I don’t mean to say
we would steal all the time, like they do, but
then we would carry the keys, and even- four
years we could draw on the treasury, in a
pinch and put the money back again after
the election. Now, there is Wm. E. Dodge
& Cos., sending money down here to carry a
congressional district, and enough money
will do it, I reckon. They sent over money
to Indiana from Boston, and New Y'ork. and
Philadelphia, and beat us, for they’ had ten
dollars to our one. Money is a very insinu
ating thing. I’ve known men to bo bribed
when they didn’t know it. Sometimes it just
slips in on a poor fellow so gently he don’t
perceive it—some apprehension of evil or
some hope of good and the times are so hard
and his family so poor. Maybe he can get
a contract, or a situation, or a little office, or
something. I’m always sorry for the sort,
but I have a great contempt for these half
pint or half a dollar bribes that a vagabond
or a darkey takes for his vote. If a man
feels constrained to sell himself, I want him
to get something for himself—some thing that
will do some good. It’s curious how we all
get reconciled to corruption. Every State
has got laws against getting votes by bribery
—getting office by corruption, such as re
peating and intimidation, but it’s done every
where, and it looks like a man can’t getelec
ed without some kind of trickery or decep
tion. The highest men in the nation fur
nish money to buy votes, and they call it in
lluencing an election—just like they call steal
ing money an embezzlement. I think it would
be better to abolish the laws and license the
business. Let a feller put up his sign over
his door, and say “ licensed vote broker.”
Then he could work round and find out how
many he could sell to a candidate at a dollar
a piece, and how many at two dollars, and
five dollars, and ten dollars, and have their
names all in a book, and get his commission
ers like a cotton broker, and have a law
passed to punish a voter if he went back on
his contract.
But T havent give it up yet—by no means
—Haucock is going to be elected. My faith
wouldent remove mountains, but its a great
comfort to me. I had a letter yesterday
from a friend in Indiana who voted for Por
ter, but says he is going to vote for Hancock
and he knows of lots of folks of the same
mind. lie says he likes Porter better than
Lander, for he is a whole-souled big hearted
man and got many a vote outside of his par
ty. llis opinion is that the democrats will
have the next President, and the republi
cans the majority in both houses of Congress.
Maybe we will have to compromise on that.
I don’t know. I’m going to he reconciled
anyway and not give up the ship. Recon I
can sta} r at home and make corn and cotton,
and frolic with the children, and ruminate
on the uncertainties oflife and bask in the
sunshine of the family queen. She don’t
care for politics—She don’t—nobody has
ever been able to convince her that a north
ern democrat ain’t a yankee, and she has
about as much respect for one as the other.”
“ But,” said I, “ m} r dear, the northern dem
ocrats want to restore constitutional govern
ment and —” “ Never mind the government,”
said she ; “ let them restore my furniture and
carpets and pay us for our negroes. The
government don’t need restoring. It’s all a
squabble for office.” “But then you know,”
said I, “General Hancock might give me a
little fat office that would—” “Take you
away from home,” said she, “ and leave me
and the children alone. Office is a poor
tiling; when a man gets one, everybody is
envious of him, and lie has to give away
about half his salary to keep his popularity.
We’ve got a good home and we are getting
along in j’ears, and I think we had better
stay here and be as happy as we can. Don’t
you, John Anderson, my Joe?” and she
placed her little soft hand so gently and lov
ingly on ray frosty brow, my reverened head,
that I haven’t thought about office since.
I’m going to camp right here. Dr. Talmage
has been preaching a sermon lately on mar
ried folks and he says its the way the women
do that drives their husbands off at night to
the club houses and the stores and the loaf
ing places about town, says they don’t sweet
en upon ’em like they did before they was
married, don't come to the door to meet ’em
—don’t dress neat at home and set up
straight—don’t play the piano, hut sorter
give up and are always complaining about
something or scolding the children or the
servants. Well, maybe that’s so to some
extent, hut my observation is that most of
them fellers went to the club house and loaf
ed around before they was married. I’ve
knowed men to quit home and go up town
or down town every night because they said
they was in the way while the children were
being washed and put to bed. My wife,
FOR THE PEOPLE.
Mrs. Arp, taught me a long time ago that a
man could perform those little offices about
as well as a woman, and if they are his chil
dren he ought to be willing to do it. There
the poor woman sits and sews and nurses
the little chaps all the day long, tieing up
the cut fingers and stumped toes, and doc
toring the little tooth-ache, and leg-ache, and
stomach-ache, and fixing ’em something to
eat, and helping ’em in a thousand little
ways—while the lord of the house is chat-
ting with his customers or sitting in his office
with his feet up on a table or against the
mantle-piece, and another feller just like him
is doing the same thing, and they talk, and
swap lies, and laugh, and carry on and its
“ ha, ha, ha” and “ he, he, he” and “ ho, ho.
ho,”,and about dark he stretches and yawns
and says, “ Well, I must go home; its about
my supper time,” and BrotherTalmage wants
his poor wife to be a watching at the window
and when she secs him coming she must run
out and meet him twist the house and the
gate and kiss him on his old smoky lips and
say, “Oh, my dear, my darling, I’m so glad
you have come.” Well that’s all right. I
reckon if a woman ain’t got nothing else to
think about but fitting herself for heaven,
but to my opinion a man ought to go home
a little sooner than he does, and take a lit
tle more interest in things, when lie gets
there. Women are a heap better than men
if they have half a chance. They were crea
ted better. They begin the world better in
their infancy'. Little girls don’t go round
throwing rocks at birds and shooting sling
shot at the chickens and running the calves
all over the lot and setting the dogs on the
barn cats and breaking up pigeons nests and
all that. Never saw a boy that didn’t- want
to shoot a gun and kill something. It’s a
wonder to me that these kind, tender heart
ed girls will have anything to do with ’em,
but it seems like they will, and I reckon it’s
all right, but if I was a young marry in’ wo
man I would be mighty particular about mat
ing with a feller round town who belonged
to half a dozen societies of one sort or an
other and was out every night. If I wanted
a man all to myself I would look out for
some farmer boy who would take me to the
country where there ain’t no clubs or Mason
ic lodge or Odd Fellows or Knights of Hon
or or Pythias or Scylla or Charvbdis, or fire
companies, or brass bands, or mardi gras, or
paie defoi gras. I’d force him to love me
whether he wanted to or not, for there
wouldn’t be anything to distract his atten
tion. But then, if a girl wants to fly round
and be everybody’s gal, and have all sorts
of a time, why then she'd better marry in
town. It’s all a question of having one good
man to love y-ou, or a dozen silly ones to ad
mire. But as I ain’t a woman, I suppose it’s
none of rny business. Yours. Bill Akp.
A Great Invention, Which will Interest the
People of the South.
Cotton is still king in the south, and any
thing which aids its culture or facilitates its
transformation in fabrics, or economises the
raw material, is of immense value to the people
of this section. Perhaps the most important
improvement recently made in this direction
is the Osgood cotton gin, which is just now
being introduced to the public by Mr. A. G.
Jennings, of New York, the manufacturer or
this excellent machine. Complimentary
notices of the superiority of this gin have
frequently’’ appeared, but a practical demon
stration of it was given to the thousands of
people who visited the North Georgia Fair last
week.
Mr. Osgood, the inventor, had in machin
ery hall the original machine which he ex
hibited in all the completeness of its median
ism. Like all great inventions this is eminently
simple. The principle .of the old style cotton
gins is to pull the cotton from the seed. All
the saw gms work on this principle and the
most perfect of them are necessarily imperfect,
for they have large quantities of cotton cling
ing to the seed. An examination of seed
from any ordinary gin will prove the truth of
this assertion. Another defect is that they
injure the staple. It is impossible to find a
saw gin which does not more or less cut the
staple.
Toinvent a machine which would not waste
or injure the staple in the least was the work
which Mr. Osgood proposed to himself, and
on which he spent long } r ears of arduous toil.
His success has been wonderful. It will
prove of great value to the people of the south.
The operation of the gin which he has perfected
will convince anyone of its great superiority.
The cotton flics through the machinery, leaving
the clean seed outside andjalling in a snowy
mass, the perfection of tl:je staple. As the
operator feeds the gin a swiftly-moving saw
shoots hack and forth like a shuttle in a loom
and takes away the seed with the greatest
precision. To prove that the process does
not hurt the cotton a sheet of paper may be
run through the gin without being scratched
or injured in any way. And then the operator
is in no danger whatever. The horrible
accidents which happen every season with the
ordinary gins are impossible with the Osgood
gin. The hand may he put right against the
gin without being hurt. Indeed it, is impos
sible to see how one could be at all injured
by this machine. This is one of the many
facts which will recommend it to very general
use.
This is the only machine which gin long
staple cotton without cutting it. It will gin,
it is claimed, three times as much long staple
in a given time as any gin yet invented. It
gets fully two ounces more cotton to the
pound of seed cotton than any other gin. and
the fact that it does not cut or injure the
staple in the least recommends it so well to
buyers that they are willing to give a much
better price for either short or long staple
cotton which has been ginned by this machine.
Such superiorities as these are bound to be
appreciated by the public and will make the
Osgood gin speedily popular.
Another remarkable superiority of the gin
is its absolute safety from fire. It is so far
from being in danger of fire that it is really
a sort of fire extinguisher. Before a large
crowd at the fair grounds a mass of cotton
which was going through the gin was ignited.
The flame flew up instantly but the cotton
was swiftly drawn through the machinery and
: fell into the mass of ginned cotton completely
extinguished. It is remarkable that this
great danger to gins which destroys thousands
of dollars and hundreds of gin houses every
year should have been so easily circumvented
by the skill of the inventor.
Among the many' other superiorities of the
Osgood gin is the fact that it needs no con
denser and thus economizes in space. There
are many other valuable advantages in the
machine which practical farmers will at once
see and appreciate. All who witnessed its
operations at the fair grounds admired its
completeness and agreed that it was an
admirable invention which would prove of
great value to the people.
The judges were very much pleased with
the gin and will, we learn, recommend it for
a special premium. They' awarded it the
regular silver medal, but they felt that some
more special tribute should be made to its
excellence. It was one of the chief attrac
tions of the machinery hall, and was one of
the features of the fair. The Osgood gin will
come into speedy popularity wherever it is
seen, and its superiority will soon put it into
use. Mr. Jennings will manufacture the gins
very largely, as lie is confident of a very
general demand for it. —Atlanta Constitution.
The Northeastern Railroad.
Through the kindness of Dr. 11. A. Low
rar.ee, Secretary' of the road, wc have been
allowed access to the reports which were
made at the annual meeting of the stock
holders, day before yesterday, and from them
we extract such matter as will probably' in
terest the readers of the Banner.
SYNOPSIS OK PRESIDENT'S REPORT.
President Childs, in his report, stated that
the Directors had changed the ending of the
fiscal year from October Ist. to August 31st,
and therefore his report would be for eleven
months. For this term,
The. gross earnings are $17,0*0.71
Expenses 30,238.03
Warnings over expenses 17.432.02
Net earnings for September 2,250.00
Net earnings for 12 months $19,682.63
The increase of operating expenses will
necessarily continue, as the cross-ties first
placed on the road are fast wearing out. The
extraordinary expenditures are accounted for
in the purchase of anew passenger coach,
which was absolutely' necessary, at a cost of
§3,900. During the next few years the ex
traordinary expenditures will increase, as the
rolling stock will have to be repaired, and
also added to, to do the increasing business
ot the road.
During the past four years §14.500 have
been paid out of the earnings of the road for
buildings, engines and cars, and during all
that time the interest has always been met
promptly as it become due. The road-bed,
bridges, buildings, &c., are now in excellent
condition.
ESTIMATES OF COST.
Since the last annual convention the Di
rectors have had the lino of road from Lula
to North Carolina lino permanently and defi
nitely located. The profiles, estimates, &c.,
are now in the office of the company. Capt.
J. C. Turner, the Civil Engineer who had this
work in hand, estimates that the cost of
grading, trestling, masonry, cross-ties, &c„
from Lula along the Air-Line road, to the
point of leaving the same, (about 41, miles)
will be §14,435.30; the same from the point
of departure from the Air-Line road to
Clarkesville, §70.040.70, making a total for
tiie first twenty' miles of §85.070 ; and from
Clarkesville to Rabun Gap, §275.000. Total
from Lula to Rabun Gap, §300,082 —a dis
tance of about 50 miles. The cost of the
same work for the five miles from Rabun Gap
to the North Carolina line, is §13.320. making
the total from Lula to the North Carolina line
§373.402. Leaving out cross ties, the .cost
would be §310.402; average cost per mile,
§6.189.13. These estimates, Capt. Turner
say's, are liberal ; and contractors would take
the work for less than these figures.
AS TO TIIE EXTENSION.
Under discretionary authority given by the
Board of Directors, President Childs stated
that he had taken steps to secure the rights
of way along the entire line, and had also
given instructions to solicit subscription of
stock.
lie advised against any action looking to
the completion of the road, which contem
plates a transfer of the control of the road
from the present stockholders; and also
against letting contracts for any portion of
the extension except on the faith of bona fide
subscriptions to pay for the work as done.
In these views he had the unanimous sup
port of the Board of Directors then in ollice.
lie was satisfied, however, that somo steps
should be taken at once to secure necessary
stock subscription to grade and iron and
operate the road, at least as far as Clarksville.
If this is done, the road will not only secure
ample business to justify the extension, hut
it will then he in such position as will neces
sitate making it a link in the trunk line from
the west to the south Atlantic coast, when
that line is ultimately completed. Every
mile built and operated towards Knoxville
renders it more certain that the road will be
a part of the great trunk line which the com
mercial needs of the south and west will
demand, at no distant day.
President Childs thought that the idea of
foreign aid should be abandoned, and that
earnest, persistent effort should be made to
raise local subscription to grade the road at
least to Clarksville, at once. When the
superstructure has been done and paid for with
the proceeds of stock subscription, there will
he no difliculty in securing iron to equip the
road.
There would be no difliculty in having the
road built by other parties, provided the
present stockholders would sacrifice their own
interest in the road to accomplish it; but to
secure the fruits of the enteprise permanently
to the city of Athens, the country contiguous
to the road, and the present stockholders, it
is absolutely essential that the control of the
road be retained as at present. Any other
course would prove suicidal to the interest of
all who have given labor, money and time to
constructing the present road.
$ TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM,
l SI.OO For Six Months.
A surrey has been made of the line and *
estimate made of the probable coat of ctn&
necting this road with the Georgia railroad,
nt the Athens depot. The estimates, profile*
&c., of this survey are in the company’*
I office.
In conclusion the President paid a well
! deserved tribute to Col. Lyman Wells, the
Superintendent.
Col. Childs tendered his resignation, for the
reasons stated in yesterday's Banner.
TIIE SUPERINTENDENT’S report.
Iho Superintendent’s report of the opera
tions of the road, was substantially stated in
the opening of the President’s report, and
need not be repeated here.
The net earnings for the past fiscal year
show a net increase over those of the preced
ing year of nearly two percent, notwithstand
ing the extraordinary expenditures, as men
tioned by tho President. The net earnings
for September, 1880, show an increase of about
eight per cent, over those of tho same month 1
ill 1870.
The principal items of tho increaso In
operating expenses have been incurred on
account of pool balances, amounting to sl,-
550.00, and for cross-ties, $3,072.51.
1 lie track is in good safe running order,
and the road-bed in good condition to with
stand the coming winter season. The bridges
and trestles needed some repairs, which have
been made. Anew depot is being built at
Nicholson station.
The motive power is in sufficiently good
condition to do the work of the present season,
without any extraordinary repairs. Tho
rolling stock needs some repairs, little or
none having been made upon it heretofore.
The road has been operated for the past
eleven months without any accidents of a
serious nature ; and tho employes of the com
pany Imve been diligent and faithful in tho
discharge of their duties.— Athens Banner.
Long Engagements.
A St. Louis young woman enters into somo
interesting statistical and matrimonial con
jectures. She figures out that she knows
perhaps one hundred young men, in round
nurfthers. Of* these she thinks she knows
about thirty intimately, and of these thirty
there arc not more than four whom sho would
consent to marry for love or money on tho
spur of the moment. It may not be a plea
sant way of putting it, but what sho says Is
that, taking one hundred young men as they
come and go, only one out of every twenty
five can be set down as unobjectionable and
able to make a living for himself and wife.
The St. Louis young lady goes on to nd
vise her sisteriiood as sagoly as though she
spoke from the pinnacle of experience. She
tells therp : “ Now, that you are being court
ed, you think, of course, it is all very well,
and it will be nicer when you get married.
But it won't. lie thinks he’s going to keep
on this high pitch of love all the time. But
he won’t. 110 doesn't know himself, and you
don’t know him. It can’t last. It must cool
down. When he secs you as many times a
day as he wants to, and may be more; when
he sees your head dono up every morning
regularly in curl papers aud the bloom is all
off the eye ; when your home contains a good
deal of wash-tub, cradle and cook-stovo, ho
won’t stand in front of the house for one hoar
out in the cold, watching your light in your
window. lie’ll he thinking rather of getting
out of the house. Young woman, protract
this courtship as long as you can. Let well
enough alone. A courtship in hand is worth
two marriages in the bush. Don’t marry till
Christinas after next.”
A Farmer’s Q/Iset.
A “ hired man” who had been employed
on a farm in this county for several months
entered suit against his employer the other
day for balance of wages, amount, as lie
claimed, to $32. The suit was on trial in
Justice Alley yesterday, and it looked at first
as if the plaintiff had a clear case. lie gave
dates and figures in a straightforward way,
and seemed a very honest young man. When
the farmer took the stand he said :
‘‘l claim an olfset for that $32. No man
need sue me for what-1 honestly owe.”
What is your offset?” asked the lawyer,
“lie’s an unbeliever.”
“In what?”
“ W r hy. in tiie Bible.”
“ W hat has that to do with yourowino p him
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“It has a heap to do with it. I had six
hands in my employ, and we were rushing
things when I hired this man. He hadn’t
been with us two days when they stopped tho
reaper in the middle of the forenoon to dispute
about Daniel and the lion’s den, and in three
days we had a regular knock down over tho
whale swallowing Jonah. The man who run
the mower got to arguing about Samson and
drove over a stump and damaged the machine
to the tune of $lB, and the very next day my
boy broke his leg while climbing a fence to
hear and see the row which wa3 started over,
the Children of Israel going through the Red
Sea. It wasn’t a week before my wife said
she didn’t believe Elijah was fed by the ravens,
and hang me if I didn’t find myself growing
weak on Noah and his flood. That’s my
offset, sir; and if he was worth anything I’d
sue him for a thousand dollars besides.”
The court reserved his decision fortwonty
four hours.— Detriot Free Press.
The enormous apple crop in New England
has been squeezed into so much cider that
the price of the fluid has dropped to ninety
cents a barrel. It is said that drunkenness
is in consequence far more common than usual.
A justice at Westfield, Mass'., whenever a
cider drunkard is brought before him. lets the
prisoner off on condition that he will go home
immediately and knock the heads out of the
cider barrels.
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