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WalM|n«ton. D. 0. Sept. 8, 'BS.
To the Editor of. the Times:
As autumn approaches the bustle
and activity around the Government
Departments comes with it, and is in
pleasing contrast with the quiet and
dullness of the eummei months. Al
ready Government officials of both
high and low degree are wending
their way toward the Nation’s Cap
itol in great numbers, fortified by
a few weeks’ iecreation for a hard
winter’s work.
Secretary Bayard will return
this week from Wilmington in his
own State: and so will Secretary
Wliitney return. It is said that
the latter proposes to devote a
great deal of attention to the prep
aration of estimates for the Navy
for the next fiscal year, and has
already formulated instructions for
the guidance of the chiefs of the
various Bureaus of his Department
in submitting data to him for his
report.
The conditions and needs of the
Navy formed the subject of pro
tracted and sharp debates in Con-,
gress last winter, and it is believed
here that they will receive more
consideration the coming session
than they have for some years, and
heated and racy debates may con
sequently be looked for.
When such questions as the tar
iff, modifications of the civil service
rules, and the land and railroad
laws that are of so much impor
tance to the West, are among some
of the leading subjects for Con
gressional action, an unusually
exciting session may be expected.
A call made at the House and
Senate Dost Offices furnishes the
information that there are not
more than eight or nine members
of the House, and fewer Senators,
in the city just now. These Post
Offices, located in the Capitol build
ing for the special convenience of
Members of Congress, are open the
year round, and information as to
the whereabouts of a member can
at most any time be obtained from
efficient and obliging officials in
charge. The number of letters
received here for members when
Congress is not in session is appall
ing. If constituents would send
their letters to the member at his
home, except when Congress is
sitting, their cases would receive
much prompter attention.
A paper is being circulated in
some of the Government offices
here ostensibly for the purpose of
obtaining information for use in
the Biennial Register, prepared
and used by the Departments as a
reference book. The paper calls
for the name, age, place from
whence the clerk was appointed;
influence on which appointment
was made etc. Its circulation at
this tune and the nature the in
formation called for is regarded
as ominous of coming changes, and
consequently there are a great
many clerks on the anxious seat
just now. The life of a government
employee here in these perilous
times is not an enviable one by
anv means. The strain on the
nervous system occasioned ’by un
certainty and anxiety as to his fu
ture vocation is beginning to be
seen in tire careworn expression of
his face, and unless relief comes
soon the consequences may be se>
rious. Young man, don’t seek to
serve in an easy Government
clerkship at Washington.
Judge Maynard, Second Comp
troller of the Treasury, has deci
ded an interesting pension quess
tion. Under Section 4718 of the
Revised Statutes, if a pensioner
dies leaving no widow or children
the pension due at the time of
death cannot be paid, except so
much thereof as may be necessary
to reimburse the person who bore
the expenses of the “last sickness
and burial” of the decedent, and
only then provided there are not
sufficient assets to meet such expon
ges. A pension amounting to
$2,000 in the aggregate was recent
ly granted, but the claimant died
before payment was made. Appli.
cation for payment was then made
by a person who rendered a bill
for $4,000, as expenses incurred
during the last sickness of the pen
sioner, on the theory that his sick
ness was continuous from the time
the soldier was wounded—2o years
ago—until he died. The comp
troller holds that the phrase “last
sickness,” as use# in the statue,
means the sickness which is the
immediate cause of death, and can
not be applied to a long period of
disability, such as existed i n this
case, and from which no fatal re
sults w’ere to be immediately appre
bended, and under the construc
tion of the law disallowed the
claim.
President Cleveland has sent to
the National Museum a petrified
squirrel. It is about the size of a
gray squirrel and was taken from
the heart of a tree by some wood
men in the pines of Central Wis
consin, near Knowlton. It is of a
brownish color, hard as a rock,
and as natural as life, even to the
kink in its lortg bushy tail. The
President has heretofore returned
all presents sent to him, but regar
ding this one as a subject of public
curiosity and of interest to science,
he sent a personal letter of thanks
to the donor, saying that it would
be carefully preserved and placed
in the Government National Mu
seum.
Commissioner of Indian Affairs
Atkins is opposed to the transfer
of Indian Affairs to the War De.
partment, and recently expressed
himself in very strong terms about
the reports of Indian disturbances
in the west. He denied the truth
of the reports, and said that they
originated with army officers who
wished to be appointed in charge
of the Indians. After seeing what
he had said in print the Commis
sioner regretted that he had used
such strong expressions, not be
cause he did not believe what he
said to be true, but because he did
not think that one branch of the
public service should criticise an
other in such a public manner. In
short, he apologizes and reiterates
what he said. Gentlemen of the
army, take it as you please and
make all out of it that you can.
H.
Busting a Drama.
“By gum.”
Mr. and Mrs. Defoe were at
home the other evening. There had
been a long period of silence, when
Mr. Defoe suddenly exclaimed as
above.
“What is it dear?” She responds
ed.
“Say, we’ve got tired playing
games, wdiat do you say to private
theatricals? We’ll get two or three
of the neighbors to join in and we’d
meet at each other's houses and
have regular plays.” *
“That will be splendid,” she
gasped.
“Hanged if it won’t! Twenty
dollars will get us all the scenery
we want, and each one can furnish
his own wardrobe. By gum! we’ve
got the idea now!”
“What sort of a play could we
play?” she asked, as he marched up
and down with tragic step.
“I have it.—aha!” ho exclaimed,
as he stopped short. “Don’t you
remember I started to write a play
about live years ago? Dll finish it
and we’ll bring it out. Now let’s
see how the characters run. There
is the Count Dumdorff, who is in
love with Geraldine the fair. I’il
be the Count, of course, as he is the
hero. He kills four men, rescues
Geraldine from several dangers,
and there is a good deal of kissing
and love making, and a happy mar
riage.”
“And I'll be Geraldine.”
“You! Oh, you couldn’t play
that part. She must bb young and
vivacious. Let’s see. I think I’ll
cast you for Hannah, who keeps a
bakery near the park in Paris.”
“I’d like to see myself playing
Hannah in a bakery, I would!” she
defiantly answered. “If you can
play Dumdorff I know I can play
Geraldine."
“Oh, no you can't, my love, you
are a little stiff in the knees, and
how you'd look throwing yourself
mmy arms as the villains puisne!
I shall cast that little widow D.
for Geraldine.”
“Then there’ll be two Geraldines
of us. If you can play Dumdorff
with your lame back and catarrh 1
know I can plajy Geraldine with
this little lameness in mv left
knee.’’
“Now you listen to reason, Mrs.
Defoe. You aren’t built for a
Geraldine; you are too fat; your
feet are too laige; you haven’t got
the voice for it.”
“And you’d make a pretty Count
Dumdorff, you would!” she fired
back. “You want to get that
crook out of your back, that bald
head shingled over, your mouth re
paired and }oiir eyes touched up
with a paint brush! I think I see
you killing four villains—ha! ba!
ha!
“Woman, do not anger me!” he
said in a Jeep-toned voice, as he
rose up.
“And don’t you anger you Ger
aldine, either!”
“Geraldine. Why you don’t
know a sky border from a flat!”
Dumdroff! And you don’t know
a skye terrier troin a big fiddle in
the orchestra!"
“Then you needn’t When I
play Hannah in a bakery to let
you hug and kiss the Widow D.,
or any other woman, all over the
stage, you’ll be three or four Count
Dumdorffs!”—St. Paul Pioneeer
Press.
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The Mortgage Crop.
Savannah News.
While the corn crop of Georgia
is about made and the cotton crop
is rapidly opening, especially in the
southern half of the State, the
mortgage crop is also fast approach
ing maturity.
The cotton crop of 1885-6 may
not be the largest ever produced,
but there are indications that it
will be a large one. The question
of gathering and marketing it in
good condition is now an import
ant one, as is also that relating to
the price the staple will probably
command. The prospect for a good
price is not now very flattering,
but it is to be hoped that the out
look will be better when the mar
ket fairly opens.
It is believed that the area in
Georgia and Florida planted in
mortgages last spring, estimated in
dollars and cents, was smaller than
it has been at any time since the
war. There are thousands of mort
gaged crops in the State, however,
more than there ought to be, and
tiiese mortgages have grown and
flourished, especially where they
were given for supplies bought on
credit, or for money borrow’ed at
from Ito per cent, per month.
There will probably be few far
mors, comparatively, who 'will not
be able to gather their mortgages
pretty early in the season, but it
may be safely assumed that none
of those who have a large mort
gage crop will have much profit
left after squaring the year’s ac
counts.
Will the Southern planters ever
be independent again? This is a
momentous question. They never
can be so long as they have to beg
for credit and mortgage their land
and stock and crop to get it.
A noted Georgia planter said a
few years ago that “a farmer in
debt was morally a slave, and if by
any misfortune he was unable to
pay his debts when due he was
regarded as almost as degraded as a
convict.”
Let the Southern farmers get out
of debt and resolve to stay out,
and they will be the most inde
pendent and happiest people in the
world.
He Always Took Salt.
The Lewiston Journa 1 tolls the
story of the lion. .Robert Martin,
of Auburn: “Once during one of
his visits to the Legislature, Mr.
Martin sat at table at the hotel,
where before him upon the table
wore individual salt-cellars, the first
which he had ever seen. When
his tea was brought to him, mista
king the salt for sugar, he took the
salt celler up and poured its con
tents into his cup of tea. The
whole table looked at him. He
stirred it up and tasted of it. If
an expression of distaste was on
his placid countenance, no one saw
it, for he was imperturable. He
drank it all and asked for a second
cup. In the meantime the waiter
girl had filled his salt-cellar again,
and it was beside bis plate 'when
his tea was brought in.
“Squire Martin lifted his salt
cellar again and was just turning it
into his tea when the waiter girl
said: ‘1 beg your pardon, sir, but
i that is salt. Do you use salt?’
“Mr. Martin looked up, and with
a gleam of satisfaction in his eye
at his own read}' tact, he replied
with decision, intended for the
entire table:
“ ‘Always, madam: I always use
salt.’ ”
Ingersoll does no harm. The
real infidels are in the churches.—
They believe, but don’t practice. —
Sam Jones.
The North and South Railroad.
We have known for some time
that there was a movement on foot,
by our leading capitalists, to relieve
LaGrange of her present railroad
environments. On Monday, a deed
to the right of way, franchise, sur
vey and grading of all that portion
of the North and South Railroad
between Chipley and Carrollton
w’as executed and delivered by
Hon John Peabody, President of
said railroad, to the citizens of La-
Grange. The grade from Chipley
to LaGrange is completed, with the
exception of a gap of about two
miles,and the entire road is partial
ly graded to Carrollton. This was
done at a cost of $150,600.00 to
our people. Now, that the control
of this road has been secured, a new
company has been formed that will
push the work forward to comple
tion.
They propose to solicit stock
along the line on a business basis.
There is no i/ason why this railroad
should not pay handsome dividends
and the people will not be loth to
take stock in it. If our neighbor
city, Franklin, will hold the $20,-
000.00 that she has raised for the
branch road from Newnan, and
put it into a through line from
Chattanooga, she will immeasura
bly benefit herself. We have been
informed that ' $20,000.00 will
insure the road touching Frank
lin.
We like the spirit of this new
enterprise. There have been no
public meetings or big demonstra
tions. Our leading merchants and
capitalist have met in a quiet way
and agreed to put up all the money
necessary to secure the completion
of the road. They have paid for
the grade and franchise, and now
propose to consider propositions,
decide upon a plan and go to work.
The money is forthcoming and our
long cherished hope for a line to
the West is now about to be real
ized.
Thus the end for which the Re
porter has labored so earnestly for
several years—even when the out
look was dark as midnight—and in
the faith of which it has never fal
tered, seems about to be consumma
ted.—LaGrange,Reporter.
The Externals of Conversion.
It is not wise for us to make too
much of the externals of conversion.
Sometimes there is a great deal of
dwelling upon the process as one of
penitence not only, but of sorrow,
deep contrition, agony; then light
breaking, of peace, of joy. When
such experiences are recounted, the
natural feeling of those who hear is
that they must have the same or at
least very similar expeiiences, or
they will question the genuineness
of their conversion. Such ideas
ought to be laid entirely aside.—
These things are but the mere exter
nals. They will differ with the
temperament and the circumstances
of each individual. There is no rule
concerning them that will fit all
cases. Here, for example, is a man
of deep emotional nature. The Spirit
of God convicts him of sin.
There is immediately a tumult of
feeling in him. The fountains of
the great deep are broken up.—
There is in his case great contri
tion, and then when the conflict is
ended great peace and content.—
Here is another in whom judge
ment and calm decision predomi
nate. The work of conversion in
him will differ vastly from its
course in the other. It will be
fully as thoiough and complete a
work, even though to the casual
observer it may not be so apparent.
With all the strength of his will he
tends now to the service of God,
and yet there may be but very lit
tle outward demonstration of his
feelings. The tides of Jiis being flow
Godward with the strong, steady
sweep of the river towards the sea,
there is neither the prattle nor
brawl of the mountain torrent. —
The thing we are to look at is not
the emotion, but the purpose of
the heart. What now is the ruling
love of the being?—that is \ the
question.
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Montreal. One hospital contains
36 patients.
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For sale by W AV Fitts
Application for leave to sell land.
—Notice is htfrebj given that I will applj-to
-the court of Ordinary of Carroll county, Ga., on
the first Monday in October ISBS, for leave to sell
the lands belonging to the estate of Lewis Taylor
deceased, late of said county. Heirs aud creditors
take notice August 21st, 18S5.
JOHN TAYLOR,
Adm’r. of Lewis Taylor.
SHERIFF SALES.
On the first Tuesday in October
1885 within the lawful hours of sale
before the court house door in Car
rollton, Ga., I will sell at public out
cry to the highest bidden for cash.
The South half of lot of land num
ber ten (10) in the (sth) fifth District
Carroll county Georgia, as the proper
ty of Dr. J. C. Brown -to satisfy a
fifa issued from the Car roll Superior
court, in favor of J. R. Hood against
J. C. Brown, to be sold for balance
of purchase money. Deed filed and
recorded in office of the Clerk of Su
perior court of said county before
levy and notice of levy given accor
ding to law, J. M Hewitt,
Sept. Ist 1885. Sheriff.
ALSO.
AH the interest of Asa While, who
holds under bond for titles
made by J. W. Ivey, with pur
chase money partially paid, in
fifty acres of land in the north
east corner of lot of land number 70
in the 6th district of Carroll county
Ga. Levied on as the property of Asa
White under and by virtue of a justices
court fifa issued from the justices
court of the 649th district G. M. in
saver of C. 77, Dyer against W. R.
Henry and Asa White, levy made and
returned to me by a constable, Notice
of levy given to the maker and the
holder of the bond and tenant in pos
session. Property pointed out by
Plaintiff’s attorney. Adi the interests
stipulated in the bond to be sold.
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