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.Official Organ atSchtoy County.
Official Organ of t— County.
pfficial Organ of WabatarggnJ.
roll GOVSBNOB:
ALEXANDER H. STEPHENS
OK TALIAFERRO.
FOR COXORESSMA W-A T-LABO ffr
THOMAS HABDEMAS,
OF BIBB.
For Secretary of State—K. C.BAKNETT,
~ ''mptroller General—W. A.WRKJUT.
For At^Gcnera&UFTOra ANDERSON
FOR COXQREBSZrd DISTRICT;
.JUDGE C. F. CRISP,
OF sniTER.
Fur Slate Senator IZlh District:
J. D. FREDERICK,
OF MACON COUNTY.
For County Representative*:
WM. M. IIAWKES,
WM. A. WILSON.
Vritar Hondag. toga* 26J888.
Official Organ of aumtar County
The Majerily til* Ma^rthyTwo-
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liASTJIAS, GA., A
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every
kmuL J.df.C.J'.O.Uf wta«*;
luted by « vote of 28 to 11 oa'flwfiret
ballot, Denton of Coffee county n
ing to rote. * * ‘ * *****" u
Ten vote* were given to McRae.
Everything passed off bamooiocaly.
We congratulate Judge Crisp on hi*
xnination. - A. T. Forr, ..
. • a • H. H. Glove*,
J. B. Hinkle,
Allen Fort.
To the Democrats of the 12th
Senatorial District.
At a meeting of the Executive Com 1
mittee of the 12th Senatorial District
this day held. It was unanimously
ordered.
1 Rt, That a Convention of the Dele
gates of the sefbral counties composing
the 12th Senatorial District be called
to meet at Lnmpkin, at 10 o’cloclc on
the first Tuesday in September next,
to nominate a Senator for said District.
2nd, That each Militia District be
allowed one Delegate In aaid Conven
tion, as heretofore; and to facilitate such
selection it is recommended that the
voters of oach District meet together at
their respective Court grounds on the
Saturday previous to said first Tues
day, then and there to ssloct said dele
gates. m ** **-•-
R. F. Watts, Chm*r
I/CC County Mass Meeting.
J.r.csnuno, Lu Cocamr Ga
August 22nd. 1882.
lly virtue of the authority vested in
e by the Demoeratie Executive Com
mittee of Lee oountv, a Mass. Meeting
of the citixens of said county is hereby
called to assemble at the court house in
Leesburg at 11 a. m. on Tuesday, Sep
tember 3th. 1882, for the purpose
appointing delegates to attend the S
atorial Convention to assemble in
Albany on Wednesday Sept. 6th.
ItepnbUcnn Executive Meeting.
Wasiiixutos, D, C., ) ,
August, ISth, 1882.)'
A meeting of the Executive Commit
tee of the Republican party of the*Third
Congressional District is hereby called
to meet in Amcricus, Ga., at Liberty
llall, on the second day of September,
at two o’clock. A full attendance of
members is requested as matters
much importance are to be considered.
B. F. Bell, Chairman.
It is thought that no successor to
Mr. Hill will be appointed. The Leg
islature will meet before Congress
setubles.
Boh Ingersoll says that as sooi
the Star Route trials are over he will
quit the law aud go to the lecture field.
Let him quit both and go back to Illi
nois, that would be the most sensible
thing he could do.
Wh-n George Robeson entered the
Cabinet of Orant and took the naval
portfolio he was so poor that he could
hardly pay his washerwoman. Within
two years after he got into the Cabinet
there was money to his personal credit
at five different banks, amounting to
*467,546,61.
llawkinsville Xeiet: The gentleman
who carried Alexander H. Stephens
from Craw fords ville to Milledgevilie
the first time Mr. Stephens was elected
to the Legislature, is a resident of Pu
laski county. It was in the fall of 1835
and the trip was made across the
try in a one-horse gig.
The Columbus Tima says there ip
a mail robber between Columbus v'
Opelika; that several letters containing
money have been filched from the mail
hags between those points, and that
the letters have never reached their
destination. An effort is on fi
detect and arrest the thief.
The Dooly Vindicator.
We have received the prospectus of
a new paper to be published at Vienna,
Dooly county by Messrs Dupree A
Rainey. The first number of the Vi
dicator will appear on or about the 31st
of August. It will be a four-page,
thirty-two column paper, and the pub
lishers will spare no pains, labor
pense towards giving their subscribers
neatly printed and interesting sheet.
The publishers, in their prospectus,say:
’The chief aim of its publishers is
make it an outspoken, fearless and
earnest advocate of the interests of the
people of Dooly county; their enter
prises, industries, resources—agricul
tural and otherwise—and the natnraf
advantages offered to good, live citixens
by that section.”
The subscription price of the Vindi
cator will be two dollars per annum.
Timely Word to Planters.
The Montgomery Adrertiaer aays:
“Our farming friends, with whom we
have the greatest sympathy, will par-
loa the suggestion that they have their
jetton clean, well ginned, and properly
graded before shipment. The last sea-
> showed the propriety of thie cau
tion. The Booth loses much by mix
ing good ootton with an inferior grade,
and it sells according to the worst, not
the best part of it. Loss is also occa
sioned by not having the stapls dean,
free from dirt, Ae. Slight specks de
tract from the valonof the article while
sand and mud render it almoct unmer
chantable. Cotton ought to. he care
fully handled through every operation.
Tta prtapoct i. that cottMi will kri.g
> good prico tbi» WM, hotter poor
oottoa U*n U mrr liui«de«Md. Tk>
true Mcnt U to iMtowpxtm.ewo opoa
•old.” r ,, > ****-- < *****
22d, 1882.
Senatorial Convention.
Ameucus, Ga., Aug. 22d, 1882.
The delegates to the Senatorial Con
vention of the Thirteenth Senatorial
District met at the Court House, this
day, in accordance with the call of the
chairman of the Senatorial Executive
Committee, for business. Tbe Con
vention was called to order by Chair-
1, L. O. Niles, and the following
delegates enrolled their names:» •
Macox Coitxtv—L. O. Niles, J. B.
Murray, Charles Keene, J. C. Eling-
A* * t
Senlev Golxtt—C. B. Hudson and
A. M. Caskey.. •
Scutes Coeirrv—K. L. Worthy, G.
W. Hosier, James A. Wilson and A.
J. Buchansi
course of the following year, and made
hie mark tout afterward in the case of
Jordan vs. Jordav, which came up in
the Superior Court of Troup countv,
where be obtained a verdict. Through
out the progress of tbe lengthy aud
complicated litigation which ensued/
IWl .ttoll ll»lll>flMHriil M«S»i
teat before the Supreme Court, be not
Ftet-AppeaL ‘* fC ** 3r *
■d&Mnb&sjrs
L
The last sad rite has been
Thu Chairman then
Convention ready for business—the
election of a perm aueat Chairman. '
On motion Hon. C. B. Hudson wap
elected to the Chair and A, J.Bochan-
i was elected Secretary. /
On motion Hon. J. D. Frederick, of
Marshalville, was put in nomination
as a candidate for Senator from the
Thirteenth Senatorial District, and was
icted by acclamation. - t
On motion a Committee was appoint
ed by the Chairman to select a new
Executive Committee, which action re
sulted is tha following persons being
•elected: »lc- i
Macox Cocxtt—L. O. Niles, J.'C.
Elingtoa, W. H. FIsV, J. B. Murray.
8chlev CocjtTT-r-Dr/lp X. iWk,
J. N. Hudson.
Sumter Cocxtt -Ben. P. Hollis,
.1. L. Page, K. L. Worthy and J. H.
Black.
On motion it was requested that the
newspapers of the District publish the
proceedings of the Convention. « -
On motion the Convention adjourned.
C. B. Hudson, Chairman.
A. J. Bccuaxax, Sect’y.
J. B. Hudson Esq.
Mr. Editor—As tbe time is rapidly
pproaching when we most select a
Representative in the Ligislature, per-
o my fellow citizens
of Webster county a suggestion. Now
many men who would credit
ably represent us, but 1 don’t know any
that would make a better Representa
tive than Joseph B. Hudson Esq. Hi
started in life with a very limited edu
cation, and has attained a good position
at the bar. He is and always has been
a moral, and sober man, his integrity
is without spot, be possesses industry,
ability, and has had experience that
would be advantageous to him
Legislator. For five years he was a slerk
in the Georgia House of Representa
tives, and heacegis quite familiar wkh
the rales of procedure, and the mode of
doing business there. In my opinion
he would make a member of whom we
would be prond, and then to elset him
wonld show that we Che people of Web
ster county appreciate morality and
sobriety, and it wonld farther show
that when a yonng man among
tice these habits, and at the ta
possesses all the other qealificatkms of
a good and useful member of tbe'Legia-
lature, we seek to encourage him, and
others in a like cause. I
that we nominate J. B. Hudson Esq.,
for tbe Legislature. Who’ll second t
motion. Wkrstkr.
4
paerty aud oratorical power, but evinc
ed that unyielding devotion to a cause
which always compels respect and ad-
liratiou.
The same qualities made famous at
. U UUr fati the hard-fought case of
Choice vs tbe State, wherein he as
zealously battled for his client’s life
ms though his own had hung upon his
efforts.
In his youth sad early mtubood be
is said to have been a constant student
of Cicero, and to the influence of tbe
master are to be traced many of the
cxoelleociee, which lent grace snd vigor
to tbo productions of the scholar,
Henry Clay was also one of his bean
ideals; and here again appear* the
wonderful facility of am appropriate
mind to seize apoa aud profit by the
nobler characteristics ot its model.
HIS EXT*AXCK INTO POLITICS.
In politics Mr Hill was originally a
Whig; having been sent to tbe State
Legislature in 1851 as a representative
from that party. When the Whig
as an organization ceased to exist, he
affiliated with the American ar Know-
Nothing party, and in 1855 became
their candidate for Congress against
Hiram Warner, the Demoeratie nom
He was defeated, though only
by an insignificant majority. In 1856
he may be said to have first become
widely distinguished as a most elo-
E at, and popular orator. He was
; rear a presidential elector on
the Fillmore ticket and from the day
oil which be made the first grand effort
in support of his candidate, must bu
dated his recognition as the leader of
hia party ia Georgia.
Daring the same canvass he met up-
i the stamp Mr. Stephens at Lexing
ton, and Mr. Toombs at Washington,
and achieved, his friends have claimed,
victory over both. Cut of the former
cf these political encounters proceeded
a controversy with Mr. Stephens,
which finally drew forth a challenge
from that gentleman to personal combat.
This challenge a commendable spirit
r_j_ i u. nm j.
sprac-
Bea Hill In Ameriew.
The Atlaata Constitution devotes
several colamas to tht memory of the
great Ben HiH, ami we dip the follow
ing extract relating to his visit to our!
eity a few years after the war:
Guests from Columbus, Aperient,
Madison, CartersviRe, Savannah, Ma
con, Augiuta, every oorucr of the state
had some incident to t«U of ‘Jour Ban.”
One gentleman from Americas inter-,
rnpied and said: .“You people oi tbe
large cities cannot estimate Hill as do
ws of. the smaller towns. In your
large cities directly after the war, there
was tome form of govern went. White
you had negroes to Coaieod with, yon
had a good .body of white men to help
yon hold jour own. . Yon had among
your basinets men>a large proportion of
•“p 1 "** *■*-“*"'*“**»
r,dictum, tad buiMW i.tenr.t. u,
WTO. TliWfk ttair Wen
will lb. federal.autbontic. lb. eitira
tad Mu mraier. of protection, of
wbicl tbe Icier tewae were draid.
T.le u an cuaple. America.. Net
a ftmiljr ia oar Iowa bat bad siren
ite fiowere to ttacrmj of tbe deedooei-
ledaracj. Oorold axa were broken ia
fottana, broken ta eptnt, and without
hope for tta fatare. Tbac a( middle
life apoa whom tnibaaM baraleanud
wenmttwr tad ia UttU ar Mol of
mingle with that of tbe State be
land fine, laet—alwaje. m d
IK THE CITY.
: P* Saturday our streets were filled
with sad faces, representing every sec
tion of Georgrn and her sister States,
who had come together to mourn over
a national calamity, and to mingle
their tears over the bier of the peer lees
orator, true patriot and Christian gen
tleman.
. The whole city was draped ia mourn
ing and the bells sent forth tones of
wailing. Everything betokened an
acknowledgment that tbe chastening
hand of God had*been laid heavily
npon our people. Crowds of grief
stricken people lined the sidewalks uom
Mr, Hill’s residence to the church and
from tbe chnreh to the cemetery, a dis
tance of two miles.
„ , „ ».. . THE CROWD, r l>« -# '
Various estimates of the number out
on Satnrday have been made, varying
from twenty to twenty-five thousand.
The route of the procession was throng
ed and the windows, from which views
conld be had, and tbe flat roofs of
houses, every available position was
of propriety induced Mr. Hill to de-
IV THE CONFEDERACY.
In 1859 be was elected a Senator in
the Gaorgin Legislature, where he ro
sined np to the time his State
l. Having again been chosen a pres
idential elector in 1860, be canvassed
the State ia the interest of tbe Bell
and Everett ticket. He was at this
time's strong Uaion man, and ns such
became a delegate to the Secession
Convention of 1861. In thin body
he warmly advocated the Union, until
n test vote had been taken, when, see
ing tbe case hopeless, he yielded, and
upon the final ballot. sweated to the
popular measure, though against hia
own judgment. Daring tbe tameyear
* as sent to the Provisional Con
gress, at Montgomery, and later to the
Confederate Senate, at Richmond,
where, both as chairman of the Judicia
ry Committee, and npon the floor of the
Senate.be rendered the most faithful and
efficient eyrvice. Mr. Davis is said to
have honored no other senator with such
confidence as ht reposed in him, for
though origionally a Union man, when
once he hadjoioed hands with the Con
federacy he became oneofite most zeal-
champions.
is an evidence of his indomitable en
ergy and devotion to the cause of his
adoption, it. is sufficient to eay that
when toward the close of the war,
heartened by defeat, exhaustion of
sources, constant desertion of soldiery
and inactivity of statesmen, the popu
lar con rage dwindled down to zero.
Hill was jonmeying, burying
country, endeavoring from, the rostrum
to breathe new life and infuse new hope
into the flagging spirits of the people.
TROUBLE IX TII SENATE.
A personal encounter is said to have
occurred-in the Senate Chamber of the
Confederate Congress between Mr.
Hill and Hon. Wm. L. Yancey, of Ala
bama. An unfortunate affair con
cerning which no particulars were eve
reliably furnished, the chamber having
been in secret session at the time and
there being no official publication of the
facts. * ' r
AFTEB THE WAR.
At tbe dote of the war Mr. Hill
arrested aad^ confined in Fort LnFsy-
ette. . When released be returned to
Georgia and devoted hiawel f to h|s pro
fession. A few jusrs Inter he causfd
considerable excitement by the yrjgpC'
oua protests which be entered Cram
time to time against the iron policy of
the Federal Government toward, the
Sooth and high-handed
tta wi.ee, tta euttra. tta MTMtta.it.
of .. brara a pMpl. Merer taw ttair.
•word for litartj, were subjected to tta
iMolUofttabbck
of'fil.iratttay _ __
i wte M Toio. to radtai tki, ie
ram Md tad among kit auditor! I’m-
jow,C(UU, Hamm! ** YeMgAUm
rasas
Amsneusm-free,,; wuJ imilluaH
the Reconstruct wnist—first in n speech
at Davis’ Hall, and afterwards in kin
“Notes on the Situation” and in the
famous Bash Arboc address.
The “Notes ou the Situation” which
appAred at intervals in the daily pa
pers,became famous for their elegance of
style as well as tor their denunciatory
strength. Ia piling np of vituperative
epithets it has been aptly raid
Cicero could equal him.
• In 1875, Mr. Hill was elected
Forty-fqurth Congress to fill the vacan
cy caused by the death of Representative
Garnett McMillan, and at tbe expiri-
tion efhis term, was re-elected to tbe
Fortv-fifth Congress. In January,
1877, he resigned to accept a seat in
the Senate,to which the Legislature had
just elected him. Jt was daring his
servif-p in the Ifon-e that he engaged
ia th# memorable discus-ion with Mr.
Blaine, which Man probably the first
effort that brought him great national
prominence. Hia fight against the
admission of Kellogg, gad later, npon
Mohone, not only served to reteia the
reputation be had before achieved, hot
broadened his fame for oratory and car
ried it to n height above that of his most
eloquent compeers.
The term lor which > was elected
will expire in March next- but, had he
lived, no man in Georgia conld have
successfully apposed him so long as be
desired to remaia in service^ Virtually,
His character hi too widely under-
BB&sSssi&fe
wm, Ita Etaiek Ungeag.
force ud ewg&nc. M ta-
aeatli is not bis loss—a xatiox’s.
New Orlcaxs, August 16.—Hon.
Edward Pilsbnry, a native ofEastport.
Me., ex-mayor of New Orleans,an hou-
ig and profound wi
sorrow that swept over tbe Stats and
wbere-ever tbe name of Wadley was a
i lousehold word, on learningof tbs sad
den* death oi the greatest name in our
railroad annals, culminated Tuesday
ed rural retreat, nearBJug^i”
Mayor English, the Chief Marshal,
and ms aids. Chief of Polico Connolly,
Major W. D. Lnckie, Colonel Howard
Van Epps, Major John A. Fitten, Re
corder H. C. Cllenn, Capt. Harry Jack-
son and Capt. H. Castleman, assembled
at the Mayor’s office and proceeded to
the chnreh.
The Congressional delegation, the
pell-bearers and the bar assembled at
the 8tata library, at three o'clock, and
proceeded to the bonse; the bar on foot
and the others in carriages.
The visiting' delegations, with the
local and visiting clergy, assembled at
the Department of Agriculture, at three
e'eloek; and went in procession to the
chnreh.
The executive and judicial officers of
the State, together with the members
of the Legislature, met in the office of
the Secretary of State at half past three
o’clock, aud marched in procession to
the chnreh 'at the same hoar. The
county officers met at the Mayor’s office
and proceeded to the church.
THE FROCEHSIOX FROM THE RESIDEXCE.
At half past three o’clock the pull-
bearers and Congressional delegation,
together with the Marshal and Us aide,
sre at the residence of tbe dead Sen-
Tbe pall-bearers weve: Guv,!a. H.
Colquitt, Chief JostiesJanme Jackaou.
Judge H. K. McCay. Judge R. H.
Clark, Hon. J. 3- Boynton, President
of the State Sea aim Hon. M. A. Can
dler, lion. H. V. Miller. Hou. R. I.
Moses, Hoe. R: J. Lowry, Dr. R. D.
Spalding, Maj. B. E. Crane, Col. P.
W. Alexander, Dr. W. F. Westmore
land, and Col. G. W. Adair.
The hearse was drawn by six iron
gray horses, wearing harness draped
ia mourning. The beantifnl bronze
casket, covered with garlands of flow
ers, was placed within and the proces
sion proceeded to tbe chnreh in the fol
lowing order:
Tbe asarshsl and his aids.
Tbe pall-hearers.
The family.
te congressional delegates, in carriages
The Atlanta bar.
The Augusta delegation.
Other citizens.
The hearse was followed by tifty-
fonr carriages. Arriving at tbe ehnrch,
tbe caaket was carried in, followed
slowly by tbe escoit.
AT THE CHURCH.
The interior of tbe church was draped
ia mourning. The altar and chande
liers were decorated with flowers. Above
tbe altar, in black letters, on a white
ground, was suspended Mr, Hill's last
words—“Almost Home.” " ,
1 ‘As the family entered the choir
chanted, “Thy will be done,” and as
the congressional delegation entered
they sang “Rest Spirit, Rest.”
The chnreh was filled with an andi
eace over whom the very stillness of
death seemed to reign. The Rev. J.
H. Martin, D.D., read the 15th chapter
of 1st Corinthians, from the 20th verse.
After the close of the reading, the ehoir
rang that glorious old hymn, “How
Find a Foundation,” when General
Evans arose and delivered an appro
priate and touching sermon. -
! At, the conclusion, General Evaas
announced the services wonld be con
cluded at the grave.
faox THE CHURCH TO THE CEMETERY,
Tbe casket was removed by the pall
bearers from where it ley iu front of the
palpit,. followed by a weepiag family
and mourning ifjends.
The procession was again formed,
and proceeded down Bread to Hunter
street, and thence to the cemetery,
When tbe processioiLnrrived, the cem
etery was thronged. Around tbe grave,
which was in the extreme eastern part
of tbe grenade, the people gathered
thick, to catch a glimpse of the last
■rtFWUhtJ. fifteen
of Mason, A CAroafcfe correspondent
w^nt down Tuesday morning on n
special train, kindly tendered the inter-
ested public. The party increased at
every station til! tbe raveral coaches
were wall filled. Business along the
Central Road seemed suspended. The
habiliments of death draped all the
buildings around the stopping places
and every moving train. The sup
ne ©ot splendidly from a lapis lazuli
sky, decked here and there with a lint-
the, gaasy cloud, lighting op the hills
in sylvan green, and teeming with over
flowing abundance, all in great contrast
to the solemn shadows on tha faces of
the crowds hurrying forward on special
and regular, trains to the scenes of ab
sorbing interest.
o Th* remains of Mr. Wadley had
preceded tbe day before, in charge of
nia immediate family, borne on a train
drawn by n locomotive bearing bis
honored name. Arriving at Bolingbroke
about oue r. x., the multitude directed
their way toward the Wadley home
stead, more than a mile away, to the
West, over aeonntry broken by bill
and dale. Some found vehicles,bnt the
larger party, being men, did not shrink
from the prospect .of a walk, and
promptly took np a straggling line of
march m irregular procession, taking
the shortest paths through the fields
and along tht nnkept hedges of the
wayside. Representative men from
every section of Georgia were in the
throng, nil with words of lofty respect,
reverence and sorrow, looked by the
occasoa, constantly escaping their lips.
On nil sides were beard broken expres
sions of eulogy of one of the most re
markable characters ia the history of
any people—» man, not of war, but of
pence, and the nit of pence; n man un
heralded by personal influence, unaided
by tha theories of the schools; the fol
lower of none of the
Episcopal Chnreh, in tbe hearing of a
vast concourse, among whom there was
scarcely a dry eye. Then the casket
was lowered, and th* sods hid forever
from view the remains of Bevjajuk
Harvey Hill, ;
and bn^QH^houdi^e, ^arujjsll
cnred'brDr
anti-billious grannies. 25 eta. a vial.
No cheap boxes to allow waste of vir*
The rage for public positions is best
illustrated by the fast of a mas ia Phil
adelphia who agreed to go far a certain
person for Sheriff, if, in rase of
ination and election, hs would appoint
him “hangman.” We have surely
fallen npon evil times when era
office of “hangman” is made a barter
of in elections.
Our Druggists htve Just received a
fresh lot of Tcethlna (Teething Pow
ders) which is so rapidly diminishing
the mortality of intents where It has
▲re yea 4ietarbedaLaight and bistre *
jesr rest Vy a siek child ssffsriag and ery
la^FISSiS!»
Mas. Winslow's seaman rravr It wil*
araietai.l*':
Ait*?
forty years,
rose steadily ia the public eye, till,
rolling to Titanic proportions, he
red among men like Stone Mountains
among the surrounding hills.
Reaching th* Wadley Mansion, an
ituple, tasteful edifice overshadowed by
i stately grove of oaks, a large crowd
ras found already assembled, collected
ia the rooms and hall where the remains
rested—tbe case covered with floral
offerings—on the piazza and under the
shad* trees outside. At 8, r. u. the
Bev. Mr. Winchester,of ChristCharch,
Macon, leading the way—tbe body was
borne out by the pall bearers, followed
bv tbe family, a deputation of tbe
Masonic fraternity from 8svanaab and
Macon lodges, end a long procession of
many friends. His grave had
prepared among tbe vonng oaks
gentle hill, immediately in front <
mansion, about three hundred yards
distant, skirted by a deep wood of
whispering pines. After the rending of
the banal service, the impressive,Ma
sonic rites closed the ceremony, and the
casket was soon hid from mortal gaze
and tbe curtain fell upon the scene.
There had been n nope that so won-
1 a man wonld be honored with
more conspicnons and public resting
place, where thousands of nnborn sons
of men might pans* in their daily walks
and learn practical lessons of windom;
bnt snch did not seem to be the wishes
either of himself or of others more
mediately interested, and hence
sleeps hi tbe solitude of the peaceful
forest wher was wont to retire for
tranqn;. jetion and repose from the
contest ^nd exciting problems of stu
pendous enterprises that convulsed
cities and great communities, while the
whole commonwealth often groaned and
heaved under the throes of a moral
earthquake. It was there ho sought
rest from the conflict; it was there he
desired to take his last long sleep—far
from the scenes of his harrassing labors,
in the loving bosom of mother nature.
A strictly private funeral it was simple
and rural—free from the trappings of
ostentation, with nothing to remind one
of the great Railroad King before whose
sceptre lately bowed hundreds whp had
in vain contended with him in tl»^ lists
for the mastery. A simple, straight
forward man he was, bnt one of uncon
querable force; unspoiled by success—
indifferent to praise—scorning stage
effects, and even in the last closing
scene, as th* drama of bis life ends, no
red iirenor adventitons display illum
ines with false light the simplicity and
unadorned truth of his unique and glo
rious career.
the South for all legitimate purpose*.
Where comes the money for oar "Tori
sonsl decoration? We have enongh to
EVILS.
Lwai aaS Hsakipal IvHsmnm by
BM Eight >od She Unpsnmble Par-
ly Brssihlio View.
There is np in this world' that
strictly absolute 'fend; unconditioned.
God and his distinguishing attributes,
goodness, wisdom, and love, am alone
unconditioned, nil else is ephemeral in
its nstnra, it may be here to-day and
gone to-morrow. As darkness is bnt
the absence of light, aud ccld the ab
sence of heat; so hatred is bnt the ab
sence of love,- cruelty the absence of
mercy, sickness tbe absence of health
and death the Absence of life.
Having demohstraied in my last that
God is the final and efficient cause oi
moral and physical evil by producing,
causing the 1 conditions upon which
it rests, 1 now affirm that man in his
legislative and municipal capacity is
the secondary cause of alljocal, nation
al and municipal evils that exist and
rest npon, or grow out of the laws which
he has made for the government of the
ition or a corporate city.
Then to reason justly, man
law-making capacity is tbe responsi
ble party for all local evils, whether
they be of a national, State or munici
pal character, and as each should by
right suffer all the consequences arising
from imperfect legialation or th* nnc
tain enforcement of the laws enacted.
From a Christian standpoint ws see
clearly that God ia hia transcendent
goodness and wisdom, has instituted
laws of relationship and dependence
through the perfect operation of which
the sine of the fathers are visited npon
his children even to the third and. the
Our Sentiment*.
The following from the pen of a dis
tinguished Kentuckian we heartily en
dorse, and snch should be the senti
ments of every true Southern man:
tired of bearing the depreciat
ing cry of 'We want Yankee brains and
enterprise.* We don’t want any snch
thing. We want Southern brains and
enterprise. What the Sooth wants is
common sense and action. The old
ruling class was not and is not a more
inefficient class than tbe same strata in
New England. On the contrary, his
tory shews that when we applied our
selves to the thing in hand w* ex relied
th* North. We had more rood states
men aad orators than the North. Our
military men wore the foremost. In
manners and taste tbe Soath, with nil
her smeller cities and spare* popula-
was at least equal, and abroad,
superior to the North. In physi
cal development they are and have been
superiors to the North. Slavery pre
vented maaufactnres and commerce and
interfered with common education, and,
n block to most of the
chanic arts, roads, buildings, ships and
nil that. It prevented inventions and
tbe intelligent ns* of th* methods al
ready known. It warred against econ
any and self-restraint. Bnt alavenr ii
com, and gone forever, and the road to
progress lies foil and free before ns. If
w* take th* old slave line as the bor
der of the South, we have n larger and
better surface and soil than the North
end alee better dimes. We are the
place ol th* great world staples—cot
ton, com, (maise), tobacco and rice.
There are vast field* yet to be occupied
with the sugar cans. Th* cotton and
all these other staples should i
ir highest preparation for eonsump-
i here. W* have all the minerals
of the world. W* have the dime for
the best peaches, apples and cherries,
not to speak of tbs orange, banana,
lemon aad the watsrmaloE and maav
small frmu. The vine and the filk
culture must succeed hew, it anywhere
in America. The South has the heat
timber; the wood of the sunny dime is
firmer, stronger and more varied than in
the North, and its growth more rapid.
place . of ita highest success. When
fourth generation. This be has-done
as a great incentive to virtue and the
acquisition of knowledge upon the part
of tbe lather that he may walk ii
narrow way that leadeth to life evei>
lasting. If this be a fact, whioh all
Christians should admit, then by parity
of reasoning we are forced to tbe legiti
mate conclusion that this wonderful
law of relationship pervades the
»of God. We, as a nation. Stats
nnicipal body are compact and fitly
framed together so that one member
there cannot suffer without nil tbe i
bps suffer together. From the^aged
sinner a violator of this great law of
relationship dependence, down to the
helpless babe that nestles at the moth
er’s breast, all, aR suffer together,
now in yonr imagination with me
throngh the dark alleys of onr great
and prond cities of traffic and cri
and see by gas light the result of
imperfect legislation and* the uncertain
enforcement of onr State and municipal
Go prond and thoughtless man
e by the steady beams of gas light
yon have furnished with your ill-gotten
wealth, yonr neighbor’s poverty and
destitution; see the death struggles of
your own youth as they writhe to free
themselves from the shining folds of
that hydra-headed evil that stingeth
like a serpent and biteth like an adder.
Look into that brilliantly lighted saloon
as the proprietor and liis clerks deal oat
the deadly drafts of alcohol to the yonth
of the city. See the unsteady steps of
that aged city father who has been
drawn from the paths of sobriety and
honor as he reels aud totters home from
that fountain of vice, carrying his budg
et of misery and shame to his confiding
wife and dependent children. See now
on yonr right those yonng men, the
pride of onr city and former hope of onr
country, as they pass throngh her dark
alley leading from that fountain of luna
cy and crime to other places -of a kin
dred character still more despicable and
hateful to ladies when clothed in gar
ments of virtue. See them as they
stagger onward and downward to that
gilded palace oi infamy, prostitution
and death. No intelligence is seen to
beam and flash from Godlike features.
We see nothing bnt wrecked manhood,
perverted intellect, and that vacant and
unmeaning stare that reminds yon of a
bonse of coriection, a criminal’s cell, or
a^ drunkard’s grave. They are but
ripening fruit from our alcoholic vine
yard that must sooner or later be trans
ferred by the trembling bands of fond
parents to the sad qnietnde of a drunk
ard’s grave, or carried by officers to the
prisoner’s cell. We look at all this
and city fathers ask ns who did it? Who
is responsible for the tragical end of
those misguided youths? Who placed
tbe temptation before them? Who made
them drunk? Who robbed them of
reason, honor and life? Who, we fere
asked, created all the conditions npon
which this great evil rests? In the
langnage of one of old to David, who
placed Uriah in the front of bfettle and
robbed him of all that was dear unto
him, “Thon art the man.” It is by
roar votes the law is sustained author
izing the erection of tbe bar room, and
by yonr votes the license is sold, and by
yonr habits of taking a little wine for
the stomach’s rake the bar keeper is
led and influenced to sell the deadly
drafts to ns and to onr sons. Like
David, we.have created all tbe condi
tions upon which the death-dealing
traffic rest, snd the bar keepers are onr
victims placed in the front of the great
brattle against temperance. Like the
Psalmist, we are the guilty party, and
like him we mnst snffer all tbe conse-
qnence, even the loss of the beloved son.
By the enactment of foolish and de
structive laws based npon avarice, cu
pidity and sensual desires and appetites
we have filled the asylnms with Inna-
ties; tbe bonses of correction with
drunkards, and the criminal cells with
victims. By snch laws we have trans :
formed man, the noblest work of God,
into brainless burlesques of the Genus
Homo. We have made him a walking,
reeling, movable aign-board, showing
always the locality of bar rooms and
other plaoes of Questionable morality.
W* nave filled her month with blas
phemy and vulgarity, and set him up
at the corner of onr streets as though
we wonld familiarize the minds of our
children with languages and abusive
jestures that are unknown in heaven.
Lacos.
Large Supply of Five and Six Horse Power Engines on
for sale atBpttppi^igpre^j!;;
Don’t buy without examining our Engines, ascertaining ipur Prices and
comparing sizes with others. Our, Ihig£i#s af6,bflre on the spot and you
can haul them home the same day you briyy if you choose, thus avoiding
vexatious delay of Railroad Companies at this season whan they are
crowded with freight. We irefeTijpjgjjr 4efgHm^O“«C«ltVJ«)ttire
using the IkSipso»hid.Woidd havo no other—
•ugi9-iy , HARROLD. JOHHSON & CO.
'
An dio un cj ifi m icBur to.
SCHLEY COUNTY.
FOB TAX COLLECTOR.
Thankful for past favors I again offer my
self as a fyuUdato for Tax Collector of
Schley county, hoping that the good citizens
of the county will appreciate the afflictions
of myself and wife and give me, their sup
port in the coming election.
Yours, very respectfully,
auglltdo
LIBEL FOB DIVORCE*
Geokgia Thdkyioxd ) libel for Divorce
vs. > in Lee Superior
AlkxaderTbuhxoxd ) Court.
' It appearing that the defendant rerides
out of the SUte of Georgia; disordered that
service of abovo case be made on sslcda-
fend ant by publication hereof In the Scxter
Republican, a public Gazette of said SUte;
as required by law, requiring said defend
ant to appear fend answer said lltel for
divorce at the next November Tern eftiiis
Court, this 5th day of March, March Term,
1882. O. F. CRISP,
aug25m lm Judge Sup. Court S. W. C.
A small cash payment aw
SPECIAL HIMUVKEK SrfEH. ;
PIANOS, $23 cash tod balance Not. 1,’M.
buy cheaper Eext fall wtth cash la hand.
Closing out to redacr stock m* keep werk-
to^SraLa*
sa
South.. , , , Jnly28w4t
To Whom it May Concern:.
GEORGIA—SnSTEH COpWCT.*^ 1 .
Whereas, Jacob Smith having filed Ms ap
plication in my office for letters of **
ship of Robert, Anmretta, Ids
Jesse, minor children of Elizal
These are therefore to cite and i
Ih'iny
"all
lorn cl CoVrt The
day In October, 1882, why said letters should
not be granted to the said petitioner as pray-
...tnessmyhand ai
this the 24th day of Ai
CONDENSER.
International Cotton Exposition.
The onlj
Lint CottuL..
Tbe only Condener that docs not choke
nor possess some objection.
The only machine thfet unites
1 perfect ■’ —
tag
enabling the (inner to gin, clean and
dense cotton ht the aaaw •perkttea. witfe lew
ptMer then the gin eanbenm wttboatft. :
It assures abetter sample of clean cotton
than can be made by running dirty cotton
throngh any Seed Cotton Cleaasr on tbe
ket, and afterwards gtaaing U an the
b kind of a gin,with any other Condeasfer.
. dirty cottmrts made to enhance
cents per pound
■MikeV
same klr
By Its use, dirty cotton is made to enhance
In value from one.to five cents per pound
by cleaning and Improving the sample.
tta Utter —U, perforated crtlnderTt"
Every Machine is Guaranteed.
JgnnsWWS
Agents wanted. Send for circular.'Atd
***“•,«. Euscab Maxupactciuxq Co.
aug23tf- . Troy, Ala.
I?
“*"* . ,i -
C. W. FELPER, Proprietor,
LAMAR STREET, : : : : AMERICUS, GA.
T RESPECTFULLY ANNOUNCE TO MY FARMER CUSTOMERS, AND THE
patrons. A long experience in the business, aided by an earnest desire to please, si I
think, a sufficient guarantee that satisfaction will be gives. I will kave an able corps' of
assistant*, chief among Ahem, i r - - jn\
JACKSON STREET AMERICUS. GA
Are 1 prepaired to Dress and Match ’Dumber with accuracy and dispatch. Scroll Work,
_urningaud Moulding of any dcslredpattern done to .order, on shortest notice. ROUGH
and DRESSED LUMBER constantly’ on hand. Having superior facilities we are prepand
tocontractfbr ’ . . , :
BUILDING AND REPAIRING!
SASH, BIJNDS, DOORS, MANTLES. BUILDERS’ SUPPLIES AND LUMBER
vays oh hand. The Proprietor will, in all cases, give ids special attention to work nn-
— ’ ifttcient guarantee hat all who favor him will get good,honest woik,
e. A full line of PIPE FITTERS’ TOOLS and MATERIALS.
FURNITURE.—I also ke«;i> a good assortment of Bedsteads, Safes and Collins of my
[facing?, at lay^sjore or Forsyth Street, under^ ’IVVfheatlffi's' jlry goods
neatly a
ril cheap fife- UWCASIi. (ina^Gtf) C. M. WHEATLEY, Proprk
LEGAL NOTICE.
D. L. Reeves, f Divorce in Sumter Su-
v». , J.parior Court and decree ii
Anna,C. Reeves } favor of Plaintiff. ,
April Term, 1874.
hereby given that the defendant,
*—this day—* ’
Court, 1
7QU WANT IT—
No®
, weekly Liter
with four rooms, two • ry, Humorous and decidedly original new
— servant house, good paper, containing a fund of valuable co
-* "built tents found in no other journal. Among U
pet^toes^and^oa
y L. T> EDWARDS.
Drs. HEAD & BL
various in<,
life, by imparting a pleasant aud vitalizing
sensation to the patient without the Shock of
the old manlpidatioraof dccb-icity ltjm-
promotes nntriJon'-aad' difjsSa, fttoffles
constipation, and while removing all op-
syltem overcome* repression
aagaafiax xzs&nxz
ing the system internally aad externally.
Dr. Black continues to make the treatment
of UANCER8 a specialty, '
enre of all cases under his
Office rooms over Mrs. Raines’ millinery
store. Office hours from 8 a. k. to 12 x..
and Biliousness, the water of the fa
mous seltzer Spa. it duplicates ’
with a spoonful of Tabbaxt’s S
biext, which contains every valuable cle
arest Of the German Spring. Th*
' „„
fac-slmlle, fresh
of every invalid In the westei
of.EarttttH
Providence the ttfaeti potent ef -HIT
;uojvn alternates, aud its fac simile, fresh
and foaming, is now placed within the reach
:ry invalid In the westei
hOLD BY ALL DRU<
nvestors. Address, for full 'particulars,
IL E. KENDALL St CO., Commission Mer
chants, 177 At 179 La
and its Cure. Free.
TO FARMERS.
We expect to have onr Min In operation
MkMqpZfa'&toUVU
hour, and —111 boy tta K«d If tot rale. ■
r.’o
States; Amusement and L_
‘Prominent people;” crisp editorials and the
rinSfr'
Address s
communications to JAS. U. MILLER,
Publisher and Proprietor “Cheek,
• .Chicago, IU. re
nciaimed Freight
riiless chimed before, I will sell on the
of AugSHt,’at the depot in Americas, the
iwing d^crihcd, freight tor accrued
lerA. N. At Co., 6 eases potash.
. J. B. Bragan At Co., 2 boxes soap.
W. F. Greene, 1 boxes crackers.
ing: ,
F. A. Hill, 1 guano distributor.
A. Latten, 1 groundpea parcher.
mgmmhL
PEDIGREE:
sired by Jack Malone, he by
SSeSiaSEwjHor,
wffiMEjiSS
Tta tartar rtmpoj tta WKJ-
W, -111ta~55HE>“£5 1 gJSSSfl
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