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.. IIASCOCK
Passing By.
REILLY. 1 EY TUE AUTUOK OP “JOHN HALIFAX <
TLEMAN.”
'’And tltey told him that Jr.tvt of Xazareth
pa**1h by."
0 rich man, from your happy door,
Seeing the old, the sick, tho poor,
Who ask for nothing, scarcely weep.
To whom even heaven mean9 only sleep;
While you, given good things without ineas-
Sometimes can hardly sleep for pleasure ;
Let not the blessed moment tly,
Jesus of Nazareth passes by.
Is there a sinner, tired of sin,
Longing a new life to begin l
But all the gates of help are shut.
And all the words of love arc mute ;
Earth’s best joys sere, like burnt up grasi
And e’en the very heavens as brass;
Turn not away so pitilessly—
rf]-€Ctfyiufc the length ol
cipy llxed places will be
regular rates,
run icaerted for teerty
FEED GRANT.
Professional Cards.
iiUl , A . HAWKINS. ELT1K.NR A. 1IAWKI>
Hawkins & Hawkins,
YVTOKSUYS AT LAW,
COOK CRISP,
aitoney ax law
AMLItlCUS. OEOltOlA.
rfiLL ir..*-:ioe in the Counties <>r Macon
/ i Schley, Webster, Sumter and Let
> r'ivnioCourt of Georgia. and the U. H
rt t -.irts. Tho partnership does r.ot ex
B. P. HOLLIS,
Fort & McOleskey,
“ f’guiig
.!c?us of Nazareth pa
Self-hardened man, of smooth, bland smile;
Woman, with heart like desert is!
Set in the sea of household love
Whom nothing save “the world” can move
At your white lie, your sneering speech.
Your hnckward thrust no sword can reach,
Look, your child lifts a wondering eye—
s of Nazareth pnssos by.
Oh, nil yc foolish ones, who feel
A sudden doubt, like piercing steel,
Win n your dead hearts within you burn.
And conscience sighs, “Return, return.”
Why let yc the sweet impulse licet,
Love's wave wash back from your tired felt—
Knowing not Him who came so nigh—
Jesus of Nazareth passing by ?
He i
In innocent face of iittic child:
Clasp him—quite certain he—
In every form of misery;
rill n
t him up on high,
t pass thcc by.
"/ Soln Uors
5, GEORGIA.
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rn Circuit in the Supreme Court ol
,l in the District an.l Circuit Court*
N A. SMITH,
■n’aoy At Izaw
ITS, : : GEORGIA.
e in Ilia Courts of Sumter ant
i nn;- • 'entities, am! in Circuit Conrt ol
j\.'. O.!:«*•> street, next to RopuU'-
MERREL CALLAWAY,
Attorney at Law,
amkutous, ga.
ct*i»tVK’.> tiver Kendrick - * Wheatley’s !
Guerry & Son,
A.ttoru.oy® nt Izavy
<>i,l C I TORS IN EQUITY
actin' in tho Superior courts o.
r, Schley. Macon, Dooly, Lao, Ter
or and Marion conntiea; in th«
ourt ( f Georgia and in tho Unitct
Dr. W. A. GREENE,
G RATEFUL for tho liberal patronage bestow
ed upon him diu.ng tho ^ast ten^ years,
ti B>i..nal Services as hereto r ore, and solicit*
coiiiinuanoe of their patronage.
To Obtain Fruit From Barren
Trees.—A correspondent of the Ameri
can Agriculturist says:
I wish to describe to you a method
linking fruit trees bear that 1 blun
der d on. Some years ago I had a small
trie that leaned considerably,
drove a stake by it, tied a string ti
limb and fastened it to the stake. The
next year that limb blossomed full, and
another blossom appeared on the tree,
and, as Tim Bunker said, ‘it sot u
tliinkin/ and I came to the conclusion
that the string was so tight that it pn
vented the sap returning to the roots;
consequently it formed fruit buds. Hav
ing a couple of pear trees that were
large enough to bear but had never
blossom'd, 1 took a coarse twine and
wound it several times around the tree
above the lower limbs, as tight
could. The next Spring all the top
above the cord blossomed as white
sheet, njid there was not one blossom be
low where the cord was tied. A neigh
bor, seeing my trees loaded with pears,
used this method with the same result.
I have since tried the experiment with
several trees, almost with the same re
sult. I think it a much better way than
cutting off the roots. In early Summer,
say June or July, wind a strong twine
around the tree, or a single limb, and
tie it. the tighter the better, and you
will be pleased with the result; the
next Wiuter or Spring the cord may be
aken off.”
Dr. W- J. REESE,
x SEEDS, Ac.. Ac. Next door t<
. Co Ho would like to eee hi
lia Store.
Dr. G. F. COOPER,
Will give hii
K N T RE X I 31 L
Tilth*- Practice or Medicine, and solicits a share
oM.tii.ho patronage. Cade left at tho Drug
Stun-of Dr. E. J. Eldridge. or his residento
near the Female College, will receive prompt
Jan.2-tf
Dr LB. HINKLE.
IMi.vMloinn anil Wiir^eon.
C VI.1.S li ft at tho Drug Stoiv or Dr. E. J. El
drolge or at hi* residence Ira front of Ce'
W. A. Mtxwella), will receive prompt and faftl
Kttontiou. mar 13 73tf.
Dr. S. HAWKINS,
Stop the Interest.—Daniel W<
er once dined with an old Boston nv
jant, and when they came to the wii
dusty old bottle was carefully decanted
by l’etcr and passed to the host. Tak
the bottle, he poured out Mr. Web
ster’s glass aud handed it to him. T"
pouring out another for himself, he held
to the light and said—
‘•How do you like it, Mr. Webster?”
‘•I think it a fine specimen of old
port.”
“Now you can’t guess what that cost
me ?” said the host.
“Surely not,” said Mr. Webster. “I
only know that it is excellent.”
‘‘Now I can tell you, for I made a care
ful estimate the other day. When I add
the iutcrest to the first price, I find that
it costnie the sum of just one dollar and
twenty cents per glass I”
“Good gracious', you don’t say so,”
said Mr. Webster; and then draining his
glass, he hastily presented it again with
the remark: •
“Fill up again as quick as you can, for
I want to stop that confounded inter*.
[From the Chicago Times.]
Colonel Fred Grant, one of the staff
of General Sheridan, the son-in-law of a
Chicago millionaire, a graduate of West
Point, and the son of his father, the
President of the United Sjates of Ameri
ca, is at the Grand Pacific Hotel. The
reporter called iu tho afternoon and sent
a ootCjCouched in the following language,
to the son-in*law of II. H. Ilonore :
Grand Pacific Hotel, April 7.
Colonel Fred Grant, U. S. A.,
Dear Sir—The Chicago Times de
sires to obtain your views upon certain
matters which its reporter will present to
you this evening at 7:30 o’clock, with
your kind permission. Very respect,
fully,
Reporter Chicago Times.
The clerk whistled up his “livery”
and sent him flying to “Colonel Grant,
202,” while the reporter waltzed before
a mirror to get himself in proper shape
to appear before
tiie young man from west point.
“Colonel Grant will be down in a few
minutes,” said the chrk.
The clerk, with a wave of the hand
and a twist of his mustache, turned to
the trembling man of the Times, and
said in a stcutorian voice :
Col. Grant will be down iu a few
minutes—ah.”
The reporter bowed, and awaited the
approach of the man from “202.”
In a few minutes there descended
from the grand stairway a young man
with a mustache "and a cutaway coat.
His checks were broad as though they
had been mapped out for a crop of Burn
side whiskers and failed to produce. His
step was high, aud his bearing a la mil-
latairc in the cxtreme.JThere was a slight
lull iu the grand hall way as he ap
proached aud picked up a tooth pick at
the office desk, and then the hum of hu
man voices went on as before. The hour
had come. Hastily the Times
glanced into a mirror and pulled up his
collar. Here is what followed, accord
ing to the rules of etiquette at West
Point.
Col. Grant (to clerk)—Who sent that
card up to my room ?
Clerk (to the blushing reporter)—Arc
you the gentleman
WHO SENT A CARD TO COL. GRANT?
Y'ou arc the Times reporter ?
Reporter—I am.
Clerk—Col. Grant, this is the gen
tleman from the Times.
Reporter touches his hat according to
rules of West Point, bows as they do in
Europe at a court reception, and
paused.
Col. Grant—What do you want?
(This was said in an excited manner.)
Reporter—If you are not engaged
r a few minutes, the Times desires to
ascertain your views about—
Col. Grant (drawing himself up as
they do at West Point when they are
learning etiquette)—Don’t you think it
pretty G—d u—d cool iu Storey to send
down here to ascertain my views about
anything ?
The reporter begged leave to iuform
Col. Grant* that a reporter was not ex
pected to make inquiries beyond his
instructions. He was detailed to do his
work, and was expected to carry it
A Few Funny Fancies-
Something about dogs—fleas.
A doughmcstic difficulty — heavy
bread.
Spring* n on band. Lettuce have
peas.
Improving one’s time—mending the
clock.
It take3 a pretty smart man to tell
when he is happy.
The home circle — walking around
with the baby at night.
What is better than a promising young
man ? A paying one.
When a man can’t find anyth
do he has lived long enough
Why is the sun like a good loaf? Be
cause it’s light when it rises.
Iu what ship has the greatest numbei
of people beeu wrecked ? Courtship.
A Spanish proverb says “A kiss with'
. a mustache is like an egg without
salt.”
The spelling mania is raging. Parties
of four in the cars turn two seats facing
each other and spell.
The Rock County Recorder heads its
funny paragraph column in this way:
“Written with Scissors.” Thoeb witti
cisms ought certainly to be sharp.
A young lady while out walking
heard, for the first time her mother’s in-
tenticn to marry again, and she was
obliged to sit right down and cry ibout
it. She could not go a step-farther.
“Cut this out; it may save your life/
is the heading of an advertisement in
the Portage Register. A Porta^
cut it out, pasted it iu his hat, and the
same day was killed by a brick which
fell from the top of a building.
A clergyman iu one of our Eastern
cities was met by a seedy-looking man
with a flask of whiskey in his pocket,
who inquired : “Sir, is the nearest road
to the almshouse?” “No sir,” replied
the clergyman, pointing to the bottle;
“but that is ”
Hon. Edward Kent, ex-Judge aud
ex-Govcrnor, tripped on “synonyme” at
tho great Bangor speeling match, but he
cutcred heartily s into the laugh that fol
lowed. This is the way to aid the fun.
once in a while adds materially
to the interest of these occasions.
Cdnrier-Joiinalisms.
The father nbo does not punish bis
child for insolent language addressed
oitber to himself or the child’s mother : s
raising a boy who, fifteen years hence,
will chew, smoke and swear and speak of
bis mother as “that old female nuisance,”
and of his father as “that dashed old
bald-headed 6ou-of a-t’uree-legged-stool.”
Who would not ‘rather be a dog and
bay the moon,’ ” asks an Alabama paper,
“than be such a man as Benjamin F. But
ler?” For our part, we would rather be
full pack of bounds and bay the entire
planetary system than to be such a man
Benjamin F. Butler.
“See here!” exclaims the Rochester
Chronicle, “who kissed Miss Anthony
If such conumdrnms as this are suffered
to permeate the American press, what
to become of Susan’s claim to tho title of
The Great Unkissed, wo should like to
out.
i tell Storey to «;
Thcuew Grange Business Association
eitSan Francisco, has a capital of 1,000,-
000 in 40/100 shares of §25 each.
BQW 1 Herbert, ” said a perplexed moth-
r, “why is it that you’re not a better
boy?” “Well.” said the little fellow, so
berly, looking up into her face with his
honest blue eyes, “I suppose the real rea
ls that I don’t waut to be!” We thiuk
the child gave the real reason why all of
us, big as well as little, are not better
“Xe3t»hidiug,” as defined by Brother
Beecher, menus simply the hiding of
one’s troubles in the bosom of c
family. It is a miserable, low-browed
mystery how anybody could for
ment have supposed that it meant any
thing else.
“Compulsory education,” says
change, “does not impress itself upon
tho Ohio Legislature.” There is nothing
in the proceedings of. that body to indi
cate that any sort of education Las
impressed itself upon it.
We must decline the advice of a Chi
cago contemporary to try Cincinnati
whisky os a remedial agent in any case
whatever. A single drink of Cincinnati
whisky gives one a feeling of “true ’
wardness” that we despise.
Brother Talmage exclaims: “May God
speed the cylinders of an honest, intelli
gent, aggressive Christian paper.” Amen,
But where is He going to find thecylin
dersto speed? %
Tho Cincinnati Gazette names Jeff.
Davis as a likely Democratic nominee for
President. “Good God!” said the wood
cock, and away he flew!
“We then kissed all round,” says
Brother Beecher. Beecher kissed Til
ton and Mrs. Tilton, and Tilton kissed
Mrs. Tilton aud Beecher, and Mrs. Til
ton kissed Beecher and Tiltou. The ser
vants below must have thought that some
body up stairs had let off a package of
fire-crackers.
I kissed Josli an 1 Josh kissed me,
And we went bobbing around.
The Aztecs were necessarily long at
their meals, for when they wanted bread
they had to ask for totauquitlaxcallilln-
quelpacholli. Their poor jaws mnst have
felt as if they had perpetually just come
from the dentist’s.
HON. BENJAMIN II. HILL.
HE GOES FOR THE POLITICAL
TRADERS.
What He Tliiuks of l lie Deadlock
in Gainesville.
UE DEFINES HIS POSITION CLEARLY.
* th?t
Dr. W. M. HARDWICK
H AVING resumed the Practice of Medicine,
oilers hi* service* to hi* old friends aud
I’i'roiif* knd to tho paying public gem-rally.
■V \al attention will be given to all Chronic
r -‘particularly tWo of Females. lie will
* - oid’
•ug 8
sidonco—Starkvillo
Col. T. M. Fur low.
Dr. B J. HEAR,
S AVING again located in Amoricus, offer* Id*
profesaiontl aerricea to the citizens of the
Liy and surrounding country. Thankful for past
hvoru he will give bi* entire attention
his profession, aud therefore feels
ed of giving satisfaction. Ho has for many
re made tlio study and treatment of chronic
*poeia’.ty, particularly those diseases-
peculiar to feraak-8, and dain to have discov-
«<1 rmedioi and treatment peculiarly adapt-
hemdsnee on the East aids or public square, i
hie house formerly occupied by Mrs. McCree.
W. P. BURT,
DENTIST,
A.MEUICUS, OA.,
T^ERFORMg skillfully all Dental operations,
* »nd »t reasonable prices. Office over J.
ynonwood: rooms fnrrr.ml 1 — v —
'•wenwood; rooms formeily
dress making Establishment.
Best Kerosene XT.? £
E. J. ELDRIDGE’SDrugstore.
Does Sunshine Put Out a Fire?
A good deal of discussion has lately
taken place in thiscouutry over the old
question whether sunshiuc checks
bustion. It is an old notion that
shine lessens the intensity of a fire,
and the theory was that the sun’s heat
by expanding the air caused a dimin
ished supply of oxygen to the coal.
This and all other exphmations arc
now condemned, and the fact is denied.
Ono writer says that if a few pieces of
charcoal are ignited in a chauffer, and
placed in a sunny room provided with
closely-fitting shatters, the fire will ap
pear like one, which is due not to
’s heat, but to the fact that
light, being stronger than that of the
coals, overcomes and subdues. Tho fact
of cnmbustiou is so intimately connected
with glowing ignition in our minds, that
anything which lessens the glow ap
pears also to diminish the combustion.
They arc telling the story that a
Brooklyn resident, name not given, ap
peared at the gate St. Peter guards for
admission to Paradise. The Saint turned
to tho register pages: “Where nro you
from r “Brooklyn.” “I don’t think we
can admit you; rules very strict. In fact
can’t do it. Think of the scandal. It is
said the Brooklyn man looked steadily at
Peter and croiced three times. Ilia saint-
ship colored, fumbled bis key a minute
and then said: “Well you can go in, but
don’t you do that again to me.
A Milch Cow—A Garden.-—No
two interests pay better, if well and
wisely cared for, no two departments
contribute no larffly, no pleasantly, no
healthfully, so richly to the comfortable
living of a family M a good cow, well
kept, and a garden well cultivated. 1 et
many persons say that they cannot af
ford to keep a cow or work a garden.
The simple truth is that they cannot af
ford to dispense with such aids. Either
well done pay is sure; half done is not
worth anything.—Grange.
Col. Grant—Y
to hell.
The reporter blushed, and again ap
proached ihe Colonel in an apologetic
waj.
Col. Grant—What do you want, any
how ?
Reporter—Will you inform the pub
lic through the Times that you will soon
open a bank here ?
Col. Grant—You can tell the Times
i none of its d—m business. If Storey
wants to know what I am going to do,
let him come here to see 31E ! He has
abused mo aud my family, and now sends
to interview me!
The reporter again spoke mildly, and
said something about people getting un
duly excited.
Col. Grant—Don’t speak to me, sir !
Don’t speak to me! I want no reporter
to speak to me—no reporter of the Chi
cago Times. I want nothing to do with
you or anybody who is
Several gentlemen gathered around and
the reporter walked away. He was
followed by two or three parties, who
spoke very disrespectfully of Freddy.
But they were reminded that West Point
etiquette was peculiar. _
The reporter who visited Col. Grant
has in his journalistic time had occasion
to meet the James boys, of 3Iissouri,
Quantrell, and several leading cut-throats
and bummers of the W*
never received with
and frankness by them as he received
from Col. Fred Grant last night, of 202,
at the Grand Pacific Hotel.
Will Col. Grant open a bank ? “ Let
us have peace.”
Bgv, 1 lie Columbus Enquirer s:
last year Mrs. Ogletrce, of Stcwsrt cou
ty, with two small children, succeeded
raising three five hundred pound bales
of cotton and plenty of corn to subsit
the season, with sufficient pork for her
use and that of her family. The assistance
of one man was secured to pick out the
staple. She ploughed the land herself.
Both children are small. He* husband was
killed during the war. Honor to such noble
>n ! I fall planters would follow her
example, the South would soon be the
richest country ou the globe
The Whole Truth.—The Courier and
Journal, of Connecticut, a Republican
paper, says:
We have been fairly and soundly beaten
in a square, stand up fight. There was
no contention in our ranks, no pretence
of “apathy” on either side, and no :
son why we should not have beaten,
cept the very one that wo didn’t have
Votes enough.
We learn that Mr. Reuben Borgi
who was arrested in White county,
some weeks since, for illicit distilling,
has been tried, convicted and placed in
tho Fulton county jail for six months—
also, to pay a very heavy
ega Signal.
-Dahlon-
^^,Tho Brooklyn Argus has been
permitted to copy the following letter
from a moral young woman: My Dear
Lucy—I think I won’t come to Brooklyn
this spring. I understand thero is some
thing goiug on there that had’t ought to.
Papa won’t let any papers come into the
house, so 1 don’t know what it is; but I see
the parson at the post-office every morn
ing reading his mail aud laughing fit to
kill himself, and I think it must be some
thing awful wicked. Yours, lovingly,
Caroline.
Jcst So-so.—“Is that your child?”
was tho question put to a colored female
yesterday iu ono of our courts, the ques
tioner pointing to a child beside her.
“That’s my own dear child,” replied
the woman.
‘Is a white man or a black man its
father?”
“A white man.’/
“Are you married ? ’
“No, sir.”
“Are you a widow, then?”
“No, sir.”
“Well, then, are yon married or a
widow, or just so-so?”
The answer to this last question was
inaudible, but it was thought the female
replied, “So-so.”—Courier Journal.
[Fiorn the Atlanta Herald.]
Thinking that the public would like to
hear from Mr. Benj. Hill on the issues at
stake in the Ninth District, a Herald rep
resentative called upon him yesterday to
got his vtuw3. The annexed conversa
tion took'place.*
Reporter—Tho public would liko to
know from yourself the real causes which
have produced tho “dead-lock” in the
Convention at Guiuesville.
Mr. Hill—While the Convention is in
session I am disinclined to say much on
the subject. When the Convention shall
have adjourned I may have something
very specific to say. I prefer to say it to
tho people, and face to face with those
who may be involved in my statements.
I am very anxious to know tho facts
they are, and especially that the issue
not a personal one, that I can control. It
I could honorably solve tho issne by
withdrawal, it would have been done long
ago. If I were dishonorable enough to
make a trade, I could solve it at any time
ift fifteen minutes.
Reporter—Will you not lot the public
know the general facts of tho case?
Mr. Hil!—I will do that with tho dis
tinct understanding that-, at present, my
statements are not to have a personal ap
plication. One of tho most intelligent
and worthy members of the convention
states tho issue well, in a letter to me, in
these words:
“Your friends will never yield tinder
any combination of circumstances. We are
making tho fight on principle, and can
not honorably surrender. Your candi
dacy was not tho cause of the contest,
s but simply the occasion for the commence-
” ment of an inevitable straggle between
the democracy of the ninth district and a
poicerful digue of political traders.”
We have often heard cf trading in po
litical offices. But this crime has reached
a point in the Ninth District that is ab
solutely startling. If it cannot bo broken
up politics in that district will ceaso to
bo decent. Almost every office, Federal,
State and county, is now being brought
into theso trades. Wo have determined
to break them up. Tbcso trades art
ght to be carried out through combi
nations in convention. Wo aro trying to
break up these trades and still preserve
the convention, if possible to do so.
This vtry convention, now sitting, lias
been manipulated expressly to defeat
me, aud tho desire to defeat me, with the
principal actors, is solely because I
fuse, on any terms and under any
cumstances, to join the ring aud make a
trade. Therefore men in that convention
now, who got into it under the most sol
emn assurances of supporting me, intend-
inding at the same time to defeat tac un
less trades could be made. Trade after
trade has been offered me since
vention has beou in session, and they
have become so unblushing in their offers
tiiat they have offered to reduce the om-
trads proposed to xrriling! I am pre
pared to furnish tho people the witnesses
to pruve this charge beyond all doubt.
There are twenty-seven men in that
convention who aro honoring their State
and their generation. They would repu
diate mo if I were to ask them to make a
trade, and I would repudiate them and
withdraw my name from the convention
f they were to ask me to entertain an
)ffer to trad *. They have deliberately
determined to make the tight ngainst this
‘powerful clique of political traders,”
and have chosen me to make it with. I
had rather prove worthy of such men
than have a life lease to any office on
earth. Yon now have tho whole secret,
and the only secret of tho “dead lock” at
Gainesville. Wo caunot take a third man,
because we can neither yield to, nor com
promise with, political traders. We i
tend to break up political office trading
the Ninth District if the people will si
TELEGRAPHIC NEWS.
THK .SUPREME COURT.
Washington, April 2.—It is tho gen
eral impression of those likely to bo in
formed that the case kuown as the Grant
parish cose, iuvblving tho constitutional
ity of the enforcement act, of May 31st,
1370, will not bo decided at this term,
bat the same authority asserts that a large
majority of tho court, if not all. are of
opinion that the act is unconstitutional.
All the cases which have been argued at
the present terra, except this, it is
thought-, will be decided before adjourn
ment. Ono of these is what has been
called the Capitation tax case, from Ma
ryland, arising under a statute of the
State, passed in 1832, which secures to
the Stato one-fifth of the gross amount
received by the company from passenger
travel ou tho Washington branch road
of tho Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Com
pany. Before the counsel of the company
advised that this tax was unconstitutional
the company had paid into tho State
treasury, on account of the lax, more
thim 83,000,000, aud had paid in divi
dends to the State, as a stockholder in
the branch road and as a stockholder in
the main road, more than $3,000,000.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Secretary Delano will certaiuly resign.
Sir Edward Thornton has over a bun
dred rases referred to him, as umpire of
the Mexican Commission, and will not
reach a test case deciding the responsi
bility of sacking Bagdad at the mouth of
the Rio Grando very soon.
The steamer Swatura was at Melborne
the 22 of February.
RESIGNATION OF WILLIAM:
Attorney General Williams lias resign
ed. His resignation takos effect on the
15th of May. No successor has been
uamed. Williams goes home, hoping to
back ns Senator from Oregon.—
Nothing tangible can be obtained regard
ing the rumored retiracy of Delano
Secretary of the Interior.
SUICIDE.
Raleigh, N. C„ April 22.—Jacob B.
Rnmbough, cigar maker, of Charlottes
ville, Va , more recently of Lynchburg
and Richmond, shot himself fatally
the head here this evening with a small
pistol. The cause of tho act was a fj”
to obtain work and disheartened
consequcr.c?. He leaves a wife and three
children in Lynchburg. He belonged to
both tho Knights of Pythias, of Char
lottesville, and the Red Men, of Rich
mond.
A TERRIBLE MISTAKE.
THREE MEN SHOT—POLITICS—
THE WEATHER
Bt-n IIIII—Farming—Business,
Etc., Etc.
Rutledge, Ga., April 18, 1875.
Messrs. Editors: Thinking a few dots
from this part of Emperor Grant's broad
domains would be of some interest to
your numerous renders, I propose togivo
somo sketches.
On Friday evening hist Rome children
who reside ‘in the town of Rutledge went
out into tho woods to look after a calf, re
amed about sunset aud reported that
they saw some negroes skiuuing a yearl-
the woods. About dark several
_ . itb guns went out to look for tho
negroes, some going one way and some
another, when one of the party named
Shine Hanner, camo upon, or insight of,
sumo persons whom he took tot tho ne
groes, and fired upon them with_ back
shot, about one hundred yards distant,
and lodged fifteen shot into Mr. Nunn,
seriously wounding him, and shooting
his little sou through the thumb, and
putting two shots through both legs, just
below the hips, of a young man named
Wages, very badly wounding him. Mr.
Nnnn is in a critical condition, but prob
ably not fatally wounded.
\Ve have had three very cold days and
nights in this section; nearly all vegeta
tion is injured by tho frosts, if not all
killed.
Thero is considerable talk in thiscoun-
ty about tho convention breaking up at
Gainesville without makiug a nomina
tion. All of the voters, or near about
all, aro in favor of the Hon. B. H. Hill
for Congress. We think Mr. Hill is tho
No Scliool Masters Wanted.
Some years ago some emigrants from
Ohio and Illinois settled in a little town
__ this State, and soon began to agitate
for the election of a sclioolhouse aud the
employment of a teacher. A town meet
ing was called to consider the prop
osition; and ono of tjie Northeners made
a very neat little speech, telling of the
blessings which education has brought
with it to Ohio and Illinois. When he
had set down an old uiat\ in the corner
arose, gave the the customary hitch to
his corduroys, pushed back bis hat a tri-
much familiarity' * int I answered thus: “Stranger up in
. . i .v
Went for One Night and Stayed
Ten Yeaus.'—Going over tho Lowell
railroad the other day was a fusscy little
man, who was in evident doubt as to
which of two New Ilamshirc cities it
would be advisable for him to stop over
night. He questioned the conductor as
long as that worthy would stop to listen,
and theu turned to the other occu
pant of tho scat, a thick-ncckcd, short-
haired party, and querried:
Is C a good place to stop at ?”
Fas rate,” growled his companion.
Did you ever stop there ?” asked the
noxious traveler.
“Yes, went up thero to stay for
ight and stopped for ten years.
“You don’t say,” said the delighted in
terrogator. “What’d you do, ’n where’d
you stay?”
“Opened a store and stayed in the
State prison,” responded the gruff one,
and the little gentleman changed seats
and cars at the next station.—Boston
Commercial Bulletin
yer Oliio State you’ve got a big peniten
tiary full of people; h‘aint yer? Well,
yer’ve got lamin’ up thar! Up iu yer Illi
nois State yer‘vc got a big penitentiary
full of people; yer’ve got lamin’ thar! But
I’ve lived here for thirty-seven years : “
peace and happiness. I’ve raised n
boys and lew gals, and I sleep perfickly
sound o’ night, ’cos I ain’t Traid any of
it has been ascertained that bed bugs
can live a year without air or food, per
haps this is what is meant by “the
vival of the fittest.”
Amadeus,ex-king,is a confirmed gamb
ler; but be at least keeps his head level
to some extent, and he couldn’t have
done that if he had remained in Madrid.
Mr. Beecher says he dosen’t remember
to have had Mrs. Tilton on his lap. But
Miss Anthony—However Miss Anthony
dosen’t appear to be a witness in this
Kate Field annihilates Talmage in two
and a half columns of the Tribune for his
sermons against theatres; and now if that
blessed girl dosen’t meet with success
the stage the public will be to blame.
Ohio.—The Ohio Republican managers
say they cannot carry Grant in the next
State election. They may not like to do
so, but how can they help themselves?
A terrible monster, this Grant, to the
Republican parly.
A New Way to Pay Board-
‘What do you charge for board?”
my boys’ll go to penitentiary for forgin’ I asked a tall Green Mountain boy, as he
notes, ’cos they can’t none of ’em write!” walked up to the bar of a second rate
(Sensation in the audience and sympathy hotel in New York; “what do you ask a
j£r What is mode stly spoken is gen*
erally better received than what carries
in it an air of boldness and confidence.
Most persons, though ignorant of a thing,
do not care to bo thought so, and wonld
have somo deference paid to tjieir under
standing.
ifested) Another of the new-comcrs
then spoke, arguing in favor of education;
and then a tall, lank native stood up and
“fixing the Northerner with his glittering
eye,” mado his speech, “See, hear mister,
ain’t you the machine man?” Yes,” said
he; “I did fell some machines here last
year.” “Wa‘ll when the wheat got ripe,
all the people went to neighbor Johnson’e
to sec how yer raowin machine would op
erate. We got tho tarnal thing into the
field, and neighbor Johnson ho hitched
his young filly into the shafts. She oilers
—s a fractious critter, and the first thing
knowed she gave a flounce and caught
_. ighhor Johnson’s hoy Bill’s leg and cut
it clear orf! (Manifest sensation.) Then,
mister, in just about two weeks yer pard-
ner come aronnd pedlin’ wooden legs, and
neighbor Johnson had to buy one of them
’ere things. Nice eddicated peopie yon
are! You understand it, you do! Fast you
sell the machine, and then yer pardoes he
furnishes the wooden leges!” This ended
the matter, and no schoolmaster will be
welcome in that village for some time to
come.—San. Antonia. Herald.
week for hoard and lodgings ?” “Five
dollars.” Five dollars! that’s too much;
but I s’pose you’ll allow for time I am
absent from diuncr and supper ?”
“Certainly; thirty-seven and a half
cents each.”
Here the conversation ended, and the
Yankee took up his quarters for two
weeks. During this time he lodged and
breakfasted at the hotel, but did not
take cither dinner or supper, saying his
business detained him in another part of
town. At the expiration of two weeks
he again walked up to the bar. and said,
“S’pose we settle that account. I’m
goiog in a few minutes.”
The landlord handed him his ac
count.
“Here, stranger,” said the Yankee,
“this is wrong; you’ve made a mistake,
you’ve not deducted the time I was ab
sent from dinner and supper—meals at
thirty-seven and a half cents each—ten
dollars and fifty cents. If you've not
got the fifty cents that’s due me, why
I’ll take a drink and the balance ! -
cigars ”
Understand me distinctly: I say there
has not been an hour since the Gaines
ville convention met when I could not
have terminated its sittiugs with a trade.
I make the statement, and am ready to
go before the peoplo of tho district and
sustain it.
Reporter—Is Mr. Bell a party to these
offers? t
Mr. Hill—I am not making any per
sonal charges. Mr. Bell has always beet
esteemed by me as a man of integrity. If
I canid soo him I have faith that be would
repudiate those who are seeking to use
his name in this way. I intend ho shall
know the facts, and he shall either repu
diate them or shoulder them. My friend
ship for him requires this much. I will
not aland and ace others disgrace him
warning of tbeKlangefc We have always
been warm personal friends, und I will
not injure him myself nor allow others to
J him if I can prevent it. Wo in
tend to break up jwlitical trading—the
crime. We would avoid a personal war
on individuals, but if political traders
force it they shall have it. I have fought
power, prejudice, and madness in every
form since I have been in politics, and I
am now ready to fight political traders,
beginning in the ninth district. I shall
deal unjustly with none, but fearlessly
with all. I will make no charges which
I have not witnesses to prove.
Tho truth is, all tho troubles that have
been brought upon the country; all the
corruptions at Washington City; oven
rpet-bagism itself, have sprang from
:d been produced by office trading and
offico greed os the primarv cause. I have
long seen this and wished for an oppor
tunity to make war on it. The oppor
tunity is at hand, I believe. If we can
not atop political trading, we can never
stop political corruption; and if
not stop political corruption, it is utterly
useless to talk longer about reforming
abuses or restoring healthy government
anywhere.
Reporter—We are to understand, then,
that yon will take tho field in tho ninth
Key West. April 22.—Advices from
Havana report that 1,000 well mounted
insurgents entered tho jurisdiction of
Samuel on Friday last, and burned seven
large plantations in tho district of Quc-
tnnda do los Guinez. They met with no
resistance. Manuel Suarez, formerly an
officer of the Spanish army, was in com
mand.
Another rebel cavalry corps, estimated
to bo 1,500 strong, is operating under
Gen. Sanqnile iu the eastern part of the
jurisdiction of Colon. It was supposed
at Havana that reinforcements had been,
received by Captain General Valmazeda
sufficient to prevent the insurgents from
overruling Colon, and to check their
progress westward for the present.
IIE LOUISIANA LEGISLATURE.
Orleans, April 22—Tho Senate
to-day resolved itself into a conrt of
peachmcnt, to impeach Charles Clinton,
of high ciitnes and misdemeauors in of
fice, and notified the House of their ac
tion. A committee was appointed to
prepare rules to govern the Senate when
sitting as a court of impeachment, and a
joint resolution was passed suspending
Auditor Clinton from offico pending his
impeachment.
Southern Mutual Insurance Con
i’any.—We have beeu informed that the
Directors of the Southern Mutual Insur
ance Company, at their meeting on the
16th inst., adopted a resolution for the
erection of a handsome and spacious
building. A committee has been ap
pointed to select a proper location.
The business o! the Company has in
creased largely—its a .sets amounting at
this timo to over a half million dollars.
Tho condition of the Company is c
ceedingly gratifying to its many friends.
It could scarcely be otherwise, as long
the management is left to Judge Har
President, and Col. Thomas, as
itol will do more good for the South than
any man in tho ninth district; yea, his
picture hung on a seat wonld have more
real effect upon tho Radicals than ths
presence in person of some others spoken
of. We will vote for Hill'in this beat
anyhow.
Everybqdy in this section are putting
in large cotton crops. All the merchants
at Rutledge aro farming on a largo scale.
Old fields that have been lying oat for
twenty years nro all clearcd up and be
ing planted in cotton. Mr. A. J. Wil
liams, an extensive merchant, has left his
store iu the hands of clerks, and is giv
ing his farm his personal attention. Mr.
R. B. Ethredge, tho leader in the mer
cantile business here, is farming on a
large scale, is agent of the depot, post
master, carrying on a wagon-making
business and blacksmith shop; and is
commencing tho manufactory of brick
very extensively. He is, literally speak
ing, a practical business man. Mr. A.
G. Viuiug has also left his store in tho
care of his mother and gone into the cot
ton field.
The many friends and acquaintances of
Dr. Wilson, of this place, will be glad to
learn that ho is getting well, after five
months of painfnl illness.
Gcucial Julml Early aud the
Scalawag.
The following characteristic incident is
told of General Early in a recent Rich™
mond (Va.) letter to tho Lonisville (Ky.)
Ledger;
Gen. Jubal Early is in tho city, attend
ing tho Supreme Court of Appeals, in
which lie practices. A few days since he
and Col. Fleury were in Gorot’s saloon,
wheu in walked Rash Burgess, United
States Internal Revenue Collector, lately
defeated for Congress, together with
Hon. J. Ambler Smith, by ox-Governor
Walker, and shot a negro burglar under
circumstances which caused the jury of
inquest to return a verdict of “commend
able homicide.” He at once approached
Gen. Early and his companion, offering
cigars, which they accepted, supposing
him to bo an old comrade in arms.—
“General,” said Rnsh, “you don’t seem
to know me." “No,” replied the Gen
eral, “Ido not recollect you.” “Well; I
am Rnsh Burgess.” “Are yon that d—d
scalawag,” replied the General, in his
emphatic drawl. “I am Rush Burgess,
sir,” replied Rush, flushing as red as a
turkey-cock; “but you should not apeak
of me in that way.’’ “Sir,” said tho old
General, with that expression, scorn and
contempt in tone, look and gesture in
which he has no equal, “your impudenco
in addressing gentlemen deserves much
Secretary. ■ >u uuuin-mug gsuu»i»u U w*.iw
We congratulate tUe Company upon I aDd hntl Y known too, I wonld not
having these two gentlemen as -officers, jj ave rece ived your cigar,” and he tossed
m i,„ . n„,l from hjm jn loathing aQd lurned , way .
district.
Mr. Hill—That is exactly what I shall
do if the Gainesville convention fail to
make a nomination, as it will do if I am
nominated. My nomination would de
feat the traders at once. If there is no
nomination, I shall offer the traders bat
tle before the people, and meet any and
all leaders they may send against me. I
only regret the time is so short. I would
like to go into every connty. One thing
is settled beyond all possibility of change.
I will never trade for an office nor accept
or hold an office which is the resnlt of a
trade by others in my behalf. I will die
in a dungeon first If the people of Geor
gia do not snstain me on this line thoy
need not snstain me at all. I sincerely
hope the next legislature will make office
trading, or offers to trade in office, either
for money or one office for another, a
penitentiary offense. It is certainly do
ing more damage to society than any and
all forms of theft
it would be a difficult matter to find two
others more polite, more attent* ' ,l bpd
better capacitated.
Tbe building will be erected wfth £h
eye to oomfort and beauty, and will be h
benefit to this most excellent Company
and nu ornament to the city.—Athens
Watchman.
Sad With Something cf Hope.—Cot
ton is declining, both spots and futures,
both spots and futures, under the influ
ence of various causes, and nolders are
looking blue. The fair weather and tem
porary enhancement of receipts, drawn
at the expense of various stocks to the
seaboard are having their influence, to
gether with the stock in New York. The
reaction is bound to come. If tbe pres-^
ent depression will have the effect to’
force farmers to plant corn sufficient for
subsistence, great good will have been
accomplished.
Meat is shaky too, and promises to
tumble.' That is good for the buyer, but
heavy on the merchant who has a large
stock on hand.
We all have our reliance. The black
berry crop promises to be large and plen
tiful. Crops divisions, brigs dee, regi
ments, companies and squads aro now
beiDg organized to make an onslaught
on the crop as soon as it ripens. Tho or
ders of commanders will be obeyed so
long os they are not too greedy, and want
more than they can pick themselves.
Then there are mulberries, dewberries,
plums, corn and tnrnip patches, with
peaches and apples thrown in occasion
ally, and catfish. Tho spring and sum-
.i i..
Burgess made eome remark to Colonel
Flenry about the General’s age, when the
old hero returned, “Sir,” said he, “lam
old enongh to know what I am saying,
and I am yonng enongh to stand np to
it.” “Then, sir,” cried Burgess, “onr
acquaintance ends here! “Ends’.” ex
claimed tho General; “by heaven, sir, it
has never begun!”
be worried throngb; so be atill
sad hearts and ceaso repining about cot
ton.
The above we clip from tho Colnmbns
Enquirer. Tho “tumbling of meat,” if
it comes, will suit this latitude. All that
list of berries and fruits of which you
speak are probably by this “gone where
the woodbine twineth.” We hope not.
Bat that was a telling card on Saturday
night which Mons. Jack threw, eh?
Ties Northern Ku-Klux. — There
was a full attendance at the Laborer*’
Association held at Pottaviile, Pa., on
the 21st inst. The vote to continue the
strike waa almost unanimous. This re
sult surprises business men and the pub-
lio, as it was thought the miners were
i anxious to resume work.
GOVERNOR BETTS.
A NOTABLE ARRESTED.
He is Escorted to Augusta.
Ex-Governor Bates, of Idaho, who
filled tbe Gubernatorial chair,. by virtue
of an appointment from Preaident Lin
coln, has bet n sojourning for the past
few days at the police barracks, having
been arrested in this city under advices
from Augusta. It is stated that he be
came somewhat mixed np in a nine hun
dred dollar transaction of some kind in
Angusta, of a choractar which rendered
his sadden disappearance advisable. An
officer from Angusta arrived here yester
day, and escorted the ex-Governor to the
scene of his enterprising exploits.—Sav.
News.
LATER.
WHY HE WAS ARRESTED.
[Special to the Atlanta Herald.]
Augusta, April 21,1875.
An old man named Williams, from
Crawfordsville.lost one thousand dollars,
while under the influence of liquor. He
charged ex-Governor Betts with taking
nine hundred and thirty dollars. Betts
was arrested in Savannah and brought
here. He gave bond in the snm of one
thonaand dollars for his appearance for
trial next Friday. Betts claims that
B&- The destruction of crops through
out the country by the late frosts has
been frightful. The details are fully as
bad as the first telegrams indicated. In
•Virginia and all south of that State, com,
cotton and vegetables were generally up
and growing finely. They have all suf
fered more or less.