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OUR NATIONAL LIFE, I
We shall depart to ; day somewhat
from lines *of thought ordinarily
employed on these occasions, thi* has
come to be necessary, or one would
be forced into the predicament of ti e
famous engineer who resigned his
place on a certain railroad, and as
signed as a reason therefor that there
was nothing of it left except the right
of way and two streaks of rust. It
must be perfectly in keeping with
these services to discuss any ques
tion in a line with the prupose for
which our soldiers consecrated their
lives. That they died to preserve
our National Life, all will admit.
This is (be great end, for which the
true soldiers North and South gave
all thatthey held dear. It is well for
us to remember too, that th 6 real ob
ject iu the interest of which so many
lives were lost, is preserved. Our
National Life flows on to-day with
greater volume and with director
aim than ever before, flcavier car
goes of precious human freight, and
material wealth areon its bosom than
ever before. Moro populous cities,
and greener fields and larger factor
ies areon its banjts than ever before.
It is true, that our National Life has
not manifested itself iu forms, or in
institutions that fiad been proposed
for it, hut, perhaps iu nobler forms
and better institutions. It often hap
pens that men build better than they
know. Many islands are to be found
to-day in Southern seas covered with
luxuriant vegetation, that stand out
as monuments to the patient indus
try of the reef builders, who lilted
fragmentary cqntinents into the sun
light without knowing it. One thing
is certain,"our National Life has not
flown in 'MwrUuibc with noljtieal
nor inohanneis thtrpoflri
cians dug/or it. It has surveyed its
ownrlghtuf way,, and cut its own
channel. It has come through unex
reted mountains. It has plunged
vii unforeseen cataracts, to move
on again in deeper and wider flow.
That we are tc-day as a nation in the
midst of such unprecedented materi
al prosperity, is sufficient to cause
the sell constituted prophets, who for
the past hundred years, from pulpit
ami Stump and rostrum and editorial
chair, have been proachhig our down
fall and foretelling our doom, to ex
plate their foolishness, iu sack cloth
and ashes. We have 50,000,000 of
people iu our country. We have re
duced the national debt from $2,292.-
000,000 to something near half this
amount. Wc made a small grain
crop last year of over 2.000,000,000
bushels. We have over 100,000 miles
of railroad. We havo coal and oil
and iron, almost beyond computa
tion. We have so many charitable
institutions, so much philanthropy
and boneflccnco, that it is almost a
temptation to turn tramp or pauper
aud live on the fat of tho lam!. We
iiavecometo Ihb, 100, iu spite of per
nicious Institutions, evils in form,
amt abuses ia the administration of
government, contrary to prophecy,
and the plaintive wailings of spring
poetry. Why such strength where
weakness wa* expected? Why such
health where disease threatened?
Why such wealth where poverty was
foreseen? Why have so many wise
men, . . framers of the constitution,
political philosophers, leaders of par
ties, publicists, at home and abroad,
been so mistaken iu forecasting the
destiny of the Ticpublic? I>id Jliey
not make the mistake of regarding
certain institutions of the govern
ment, certain parties, er party meas
ures—the Monroe doctrine, the fugi
tive slave hill, the Missouri compro
mise measure luitaw* or .ILmuou,
centralization or slate rights, the
fountain heads of our national life?
lias it not been owing to the fact that
men have con founded parties or par
ty measures with national life, that
-so many books have been written,
tiatuphiets and editorials, condition
ling the perpetuity of the govern
tuent upon the success of some can
didate for office, or some bill in eon
grew*? Has this not been the fruif
tul source of pulpit pessimism, of
editorial pessimism, of political pess
imism? lias not this been the cause
of all the downhill mathematics
wherein figures have been made so
wonderfully to lie?
The National Life is a far differ
ent thing I com any institution of gov
ernment. It is not synouimotis with
any party, or bill, or subsidy, or mo
nopoly. It is the aggregate of (he
home life of the people. The homes
of onr country are the sources of the
volume aud character of the National
Life. You may destroy republican
ism, or democracy, you may blow
upstatwartion with dynamite, you
may burn down the city of Washing
ton, with all the departments of gov
ernment. without lunching the vital
sources of the National Life. There
have been times When such Volumes
Of liquid flame, from Ihc mouths of
volcano*, have rolled into riTcrs as lo
cause the waters thereof to rise in
vapor and flv away in vapor from
their hanks. An uiisusjicctiiig native
etamliug by might have supposed
that the riyers were destroyed, but up
in the mountains, far away front the
scenes of,fury and death, pure bright
waters were gushing up from the
earth, to Cool the flame, to repair the
ravages of death, and to distribute
the charred elements of subterra
nean Are.
A man standing in the midst of
our war and reading the newspapers,
and recording the battles, and hear
ing the groans of the dying, might
have apparently had some rea
son for supposing the nation near its
grave of Are and blood, bnt at that
very time, there were being trained
In Northern homes and Southern
homes, boys and girls, with the ele
ments of a nobler political life in
them. These have come on to repair
flic damages of the war, to comfort
the hearts made sad by the war, to
distribute the misfortunes produced
bv the war, and to forgive the wrongs
.engendered by tho war. TJsis mis
take of confounding national life
with the institutions thereof, the
spirit of religious or progressive
movements with incidental phases or
manifestations thereof, has been the
standing blunder of the ages. For a
thousand years, men conditioned the
success of-Christian truth, upon the
maintenance of a certain view of the
earth’s shape, or of the movements of
the heavenly bodies, or of chemistry,
or of anatomy, or of diseases, or •of
the chronology of the earth, or of
ritos. or ceremonies.
The progress of the ages has swept
one bv’one of these opinions away,
and yet, Christian truth moves grand
ly and triumphantly onward to the
glorious conquest of the world. Men
are learning now. that tiic current
of Christian truth and life it.not sup
plied from flie earth, or from the hu
man frame, or air, or sky, or water,
• or disease, or time, er space, but from
Ihe Creat Father of us all, and the
cause of us all, Who is above all, and
through all, and independent of all,
for Whom, and by Whom, and to
Whom, all thiags consist.
Men used to think the light was in
the whales, and that wheir the fisher
ies wareexbausted we would have
rothing to illuminate our cities and
THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE
VOL X>III.
our homes. The whale fisheries were
hH'gely exhausted, then the oil wells
were discovered. Now they arc
prophesying a time when the coal oil
supply will be exhausted, but already,
they are learning to get. sunshine
the shape of electricity, lo light our
cities and our homes.. They are
learning that all the light was not iu
tho whales, nor in the trees, nor in
tiie coal, but in tho sun. You may
kill all the fish, cut down all the
trees, bni-ii up all the coal, but you
have not, then, left the world in dark
ness. It comes streaming down by
the ten billion gallons. Wo will
gather it straight us if conics from the
sun. aud not be at the trouble of
straining if from the whales, nor dis
tilling it from the coal, nor in bring
ingitto our homes iu the classic pine
knot. We will ship it iu india-rub
ber sacks, to cook our food, to draw
our engines, to light our lamps, and
1o perform our errands.
If we are iu no danger, then, from
the failure of political institutions,
where are we to look for \tlie sources
of danger to our republic! Wc are
to look to our homes. We should
keep llicyi bright and pure. Wc
should keep pictures iu them, honor
iu them, books in them, prayer in
inem, praise in them, love in them,
the bililc in them, sunshine and fresh
airin them. Then, when parties be
come corrupt, when Institutions, no
longer held together by a great cause
and consecration to noble endeavor,
topple and fall, we will have prepared
the fresh elements of better parties
and nobler institutions. Each boy
that goes from a pure homo will
have in the very plan of his being, in
his very blood and bones, in the very
fibre of his culture, that which shall
constitute a nobler form ol govern
ment. A man, fresh from the moon,
standing in the forest, in the Fall of
the year, aud seeing the leaves fall,
and the acorns fall, might mourn
over the fact, that acorns and leaves
would never be seen again, but be
fore she tdrtis off an old crop there
lias been woven on all tlie ends oilier
limbs the legmen and kernels
of a newer and more numerous crop,
and in the process of the years she
lifts the old crop back into her trunk
aud arms to give them another exis
tence iu a newer ami later day.
Men mourn over the death of par
ties. If they are not pure let them
die. Men nurse institutions for years
then grieve because they do not prom
ise to live long. Ltd them die if they
do not meet the demands of the age.
— Hte.J. If. Lee, in the Dalton Ar
gus.
TAX LAVISG AMI TAX PI.AYING
riRST PRINCIPLES.
Washington, Jefferson and the fa
thers of the republic practiced and
and counselled frequent resort to first
principles. Wc could abundantly
verify this by quotations, but the
Declaration of Independence, Wash
ington's farewell address,, the whole
scope of the Federalist are all full lo
overflowing of such appeals lo first
principles. In thu light of prWioiple
tot’it study the relations of gCineio ii
ment to taxation. The field of tax
reform we would approach with a
measuring rod in our hands. Feder
al taxation is a waste howling jvilder
ncss; it is intended to be kept so.
Any survey must be a rough one lo
begin with. Wo would measure
principles, measure methods and
measure amounts. Wc shall thus im
mensely si l engthen our convictions
and belter understand our remedies.
And first as to principles: The great
guiding principle is : Government is
lull an exchange of Public services fior
Private services. Political economists
have some times been puzzled as to
the exact place of taxation in their
scheme.
liatliul presents the solutions wit Is
unusual clearness —government lieing
the exchange or public for private
iarvices—tlie relation is not accidental,
but strictly logical. Taxation pays
watchmen to keep guard over the
laborer and the fruits of his labor.
The officers ol government arc the
agents of ttic people for public ser
vices. Elections arc the appointment
of these agents, and taxation the
means for their just compensation.
Such being the relations taxation and '
the benefits of government are recip
rocal, and should, as far as possible,
be commensurate. The citizen should
pay so much and receive so much in
rctWn. Yet • liia proposition was long
undiscovered, and rulers even now
deny, or refuse to act, on it, while tax
payers do not understand and enforce
their rights.
This is the key to the principle of
taxation —the measuring rod we need.
Applying this test principle of mutual
services, to the stale governments—
they generally stand the test very
well. Especially is this true, on the
whole witli the stale government of
Georgia. It is indeed a subject of
congratulation in ottr own state, that
at this present jucture the minds of
the people are especially turned to the
subject of slate taxation; to its princi
ples, the right and wrong of it, its just
and proper methods and the liko.
These things arc iin|K>rtaut to all, and
to each citizen individually, for no
one escapes annual and pretty hard
contract with laxatiou.
Indeed, at the very word, ‘‘state
tax,”‘‘county tax,” especially at the
words, “city tax,” the people prick up.
their ears. Why? Because they
know what it is. It is paid all in a
lump, in dollars and cents. It comes
hainc, to business and bosom, to tiiat
keen scat ot sensibility, the pocket
nerve. *
As to stale taxation, indeed, jve are
in little danger, andbesides, we are in
safe hands, as to safe guards, vii:
Executive and legislative diligence,
and constitutional limitations. In
Governor McDaniel’s thoughtful mes
sage to the general assembly, under
date of July 5, 1888, he remarks:
“The subject of taxation cannot en
gage too much of your attention.
Equality and uniformity are substan
tially seen red, in theory, nnderonr sys
tem. There are, however, defects In
valuation and consequent inequality
of distribution. These can be reme
died without increase of burdens.”
He adds: “You can afford to give
much study to this problem. We col
lect from the people of Georgia for
state and county purposes annually,
less than 11.25 per capita. The feder
al government collects from the peo
ple of the United States annually
more than $7 per capita. Contrasting
these aaaouuts with the benefits re
ceived wc have jusLeause for pride.”
Thus wc see that in the state we
know what we pay, and on what we
pay, and in whafc proportion. We
pay the state alone, ami pay no faro-
rites, and we grudge anything extra.
Because taxation is direct, ilis known,
and because known, it is checked and
limited by the tax-payers. The fa
mous saying: “Millions for defense,
not a cenl for tribute," finds a paral
lel, not quite so liberal, iu our state
system of taxation.
“For government—no excess. For
favorites—not a rent." In taxation
there should bo no exceptions (unless
for inability) and no duplication.
None should escape his just share—
else must some other citizen pay more
than liis just share. Under-taxation
of one is necessarily over-taxation ol'
another.
Such being tlie status of state taxa
tions, so critically scanned, how is it
with the Federal system taxation ?
Quite the reverse. The tax—rather
the taxes—the daily exactions of the
federal government, not paid in a
lump, but diffused and spread out—
a 101 l taken every day that we buy
sugar or iron, cotton goods or woolen,
a hat or a blanket—of thUssyelem we
know little. \
The tariff excites little attention
and but latiquid comment. Why?
Because the people do not know.
Little lied Hiding Hood goes to bed
with tho wolf,,ami believes herself safe
iu the arms of her grandmother.
Our government has tho secret tlial
Turgo wished for. It has learned
how “to pluck the goose without
making him cry.” Indeed, it makes
him grateful.
Governor McDaniel lays an excel
lent foundation for a correct study of
this problem. Wo should ask ques
tions, get information, understand the
question fully—hold on lo it and not
let go. Ho says, significantly :
“It is surprising that so liitlo inter
est is manifested iti the subject of fed
eral taxation and expenditures. A
common interest in the common gov
ernment should iiiduco the people of
all states to give the same attention
to this subject that they bestow upon
local system of luxation and expendi
ture. In no other way can our com
plex government he administered for
the benefit of all the people.”
These arc words of trulli and sober
ness. Surprising, indeed, is the want
ol attention to tins great practical
subject. That Hie people of Georgiu
should not interest themselves in tlie
luxation of the stale of Alabama or
Massachusetts is not woudertul. lint
it is passing strange that they should
neglect fcuurul taxation in which
tltoir interest so far exceeds that in
the burden* of slate government.
What would wc think of it if we
were required to pay the state tax of
Alabama, tlie tax of couth Carolina
and Florida. Yet if Hie Federal tax
ation is equally distributed then the
share of Georgia in the federal tax
would suffice to administer the state
governments of them all. Did Isay
of these three stales? It would pay
the state taxes of Virginia, North
Carolina, South Carolina, Georgia
(open yoiircyos and read on), Florida,
Alabama, Mississippi, Louisiana,
Tennessee, Arkansas and Texas!
. These const iluted the *>fll coiifck'.-
erntr stales. The federal! lax thrift)
on 1,600,000 of pespic, about tin av
erage state, would pay Ihe the aggre
gate state taxes of them all. The fed
eral (ax on 50,000,00 of people, SKX),-
000(000, or $8 per capita tax,on 1,500,-
000 at SB. is $12,000,000. If Georgia
does nnt pay her average share, $12.-
000,000, swine other stale, say lowa, or
Indiana, or Maine, pays more than
$12,000,000 lo compensate. Behold the
comparison lv the census of 1880:
Federal tax $12,000,000;
STATE TAXES.
Vlrglul* t1.U15,191
North Csrolius '00.901
South Carotins 743,010
Oaorgis .... 1,003,099
Floral* 333,930
Alabama 990,346
Mtaslsfiippi 633,370
Louisiana 1.771,034
Texas 7,1H5,640
Arkansas 716,33 H
Tennosseo 663,037
ToUl ~ $11,666,799
Think on |lie things; ponder an
them; they are worthy of your
thoughts.
DON’T BE ALARMED.
Fsst Trains Wafer tow Thsu Slow Once
Twenty-Five Year* Ago.
A railroad official who has seen
thirty-seven years of active service
laid week remarked that it was more
safe now to run passenger trains fifty
miles an hour, aud freight trains
twenty-five miles per hour, Ilian it
was twentyyears ago to run them at
halt tjiat rate of speed. The Miller
platform, Ihe Miller and the Jautiey
uouplerg, thu automatic air brakes,
the more substantial yet elegant cars,
the better track —and o* saying the
better track, he did not simply mean
the steel which basso largely replaced
the iron rails, but the road as a whole*
This fish-plates now make particular
ly a continuous rail. Many derail
ments of trains occurred in-early days
of railreading from chairs breaking
and rails getting slightly out of posi
tion. Then, on well-built roads, live
cross ties arc put In where three form
erly were thought to ho sufficient.
Further, equipments are now much
more substantially built. The loco
motive now, where there is any strain,
is built stronger to meet such strain.
The coaches, from tho trucks lo the
body, are now constructed much
stronger than even fifteen years ago;
aud last but not least, the manner
trains arc now liandlod by ex|iericnc
ed train dispatchers and telegraph
operators, all establish the truth of his
original statement, that it was safe to
ride fifty miles per hour, and really
mere safe than to ride twenty miles
per hour twenty-fl ve years ago.
A convert In a Methodist congrega
tion had been astriclly honest man,
but profane and a Sabbath breaker.
The Christaiii Advocate, in telling the
story, says that he made a full confes
sion in one of Hie meetings. He said
that he had lived an ungodly life, and
considered himself an amazing in
stance of God's mercy. The tide of
religious feeling rose high on the pos
itive testimony, and as he took his
seal a brother started the hymn, ‘‘The
dying thief rejoiced to sec that foun
tain in his day.” To the surprise of
all, the new. convert. in a towering
rage, left tlie building. On being
asked what the matter was, lie
said, “There is one thing 1 never
did—l never stole; and that they
should immediately sing like that
was a personal insult.”
8,000 weavers have struck Hi Eng
land for increased pay.
WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, AUGUST 24, 1888.
GEORGIA GLEANINGS. L
\ . Iv
' DeKalb county is to have a colt,
show September 1.
Albany has received thirty-tlir#
bales of new cotton.
The Sunday train on the Lawrence
ville road was discontinued on the
19th inst,
A dime was found in the entrails pH
a chicken recently killed for cooking
at Thomasvillc.
The licgroos have stolen all the
carp from C. H. Wood’s esirp pond at
Harmony Grove. ' —•
The Home engineer, William Rich—
aid soil charged with malicious mis
chief, lias forfeited his bend bv tico
ing.
The digest shows ait inerc asc in Jiiel
taxable property of Washington
county of $131,917 for tho present,
year.
The reported appointment ‘of a col
ored Postmaster at Wayiicsbon r j,
pronounced unfounded by" the put rtu (
incumbent. J v 1
Muscogoo's tax digest shows an in
crease over last year of $029415, and
over 18Si of $1,125,780, most of which
is in the city of Columbus.
At Btorkbi'idge. on the East Ten
nessee, Virginia and Georgia rail- 1 "
road, the cars van over a negro and
cut his body literally in two. ——)
Air. Ephraim Mann, of Hawkins
villc, is Ihe possessor of a little table
imported to this country from Eng
land. which is said to lie 175 Tears
eld.
The editor of the spicy liawkius
ville Dispatch is rumbling round
through Kentucky and Ohio, anflj
when last heard from was in Cincin
nati.
Arthur McMullen, colored, killed
George Anthony, colored, with a
piece of scantling at Couch’s mill,
iu Baker county, recently. The mur
derer is at large.
Cartcrsvillo with a population of
2,(XX), lyis 29 lawyers, 12 doctors,
and ten preachers The taxable prop-,
ertv of the city shows an increase of’
$17!!,388 over 1882. >
There is a man in Clarke county
wlu> married a woman nearly oltl
enough for his grandmother, and
strungo to relate, the union has
proved a very happy one.
James Baker, a young while man
of Gainesville, addicted lo the use of
liquor, was found dead in a straw
pen near that city a day er two ago,
with an empty beltlo by Ills side.
It is reported that every bridge on.
Towaliga river was cither washed
away or seriously damaged by the
recent freshet. The loss lo Monroe
countv in bridges alone will exceed
sß,(xx)".:
L. L. Varuedoc, of Thomaavlllo,
says that lie could have shipped 150
bushels more of the LeConle pear
this season if lie hail Intel tho fruit,
having received orders over aud above
his crop lo that extent from various
I oinls. | ( ( I
Tim Board of County CoiMttilsMoh-l
ers of Thomas county have ordered
.that the several Head Commissioners
callout all the hands subject to road
duty, and place alt the roads in eon
dilioif, as the law directs, hv the first
of September next.
The Athens water works tower
will he situated on Hie flat between
Dr. W. A. Carlton’s and Mr. Charles
Stern’s residence, and will lie made
an ornament to that, portion of tlie
city. Thomas-P. Stanley lias been re
tained bv Hie company as their en
gineer.
Officer Plate, of tlie Atlanta police
force, was at lacked by a mob of ne
groes andnegresses while arresting a
boy Thursday, and, iu addition to be
ing relieved of his prisoner, was bad
ly scratched up. The-lad and three
ot the women were subsequently r<>->
arrested.
The wool carding factory of
Messrs. J. A. C. Wynn & Cos., at
High Falls, was washed away recent
ly. Tlie building remained intact
until it passed over tlie fails, when il
was dashed to pieces on tlie Fucks lie
low. The bridge at this point was
also swept array.
John T.'Parker, of Thomas county,
says Hint the caterpillars are fast go
ing through liis cotton crop. The
bottom crop,he says, lias not been
hurt, and tlie middle crop is not se
riously damaged. The top crop is
well nigh ruined wherever they
struck tiic cron.
An old negro man named Alfred
Merritt was run over by Hie cars at
Block bridge early last Monday morn
ing, and instantly killed. He had'
been lo clittreh tiic night previous
and, becoming fatigued with tlie
walk home, it is supposed lav down
on the track and fell asleep.
Edgar It. Walts, ,of Fort Gaines,
was round dead in a stale-room ou
(he arrival of tlie steamer Kebccci
Everingham at Columbus, with a bul
let hole in his right temple, and a
pistol iu his right hand. Watts
somewhat addicted to drink and wax
just recovering from a spree.
In Cairipbelt eounly, John "Hearn’s
little baby was accidentally scalded
almost (o’ death on Thursday night
by a negro boy overturning a |>ot o£
boiling coffee on tier. Tiic child is"
scalded all over from its shoulders
down, and is suffering intense agony.
The scalding was accidental.
A ball was given near Longview
Saturday night, in the yard of Joe
Woodward. About ten o’clock tlie
ball culminated in a row. Iu the
melcea well known character,Smoky.
Joe, was fatally stabbed in the
neck and left breast by Henry lioss,
another negro,,.who eluded arrest.
The Governor lias ordered that two
And one-half tenths of one per cent,
ho assessed and collected upon Hie
-amount of the taxable property re
turned, etc., in this Stale. Tlie esti
mate based upon a valuation of $300,-
000,000, gives a revenue ot $750,000. |
B|>eeial taxes will add about $500,000-]
The Calhoun Times says: “One!
day last week a cow Is longing to Mi;..,
Jamiscn, ou the Dobbins place, a few
miles from lotyn, suddenly became
affeclcd in a very strange manner.
At first she seemed to he affected with
convulsions, and would whir! round
and round and bile her tail and snap
at anything within reach. When
she had gono on this way for some
time, and had bitten all tho skin off]
of her tail, sho started off in a fuLI rim
and went into Hie woods some dis
tance from tho house. Mr. Jamison
aml others followed as fast as possl- '
ble, and when they, found her she
wasdead. It is thought she must
have been hi t ten bv a rabid dog and
had hydrophobia.’’
. The Tax Receiver hue just comple
ted the digest of Richmond county
for the present year. It shows an In
crease of $1,(XX),000 over last year.
The greatest increase is in oily real
estate, nearly three-quarters of a mil
lion. Over two millions are inves
ted in cotton factories exempt from
(taxation.
Miss Ellison, of Cincinnati, who is
a guest at tlie cottage, had an adven
ture during last week at Tallulah
Falls, that thrilled the residents of
that fashionable resort. In looking
over the brink of Point Inspiration
sjyijost her balance and was precipi
tated over it, down to a terrible doom
that awaited her, but she was bite of
fortune’s favorites and was landed ul
,most unhurt on a. ledge 'about twen
ty feet below.
(fVt'lie reports to Hie Savannah News
“KB- forty counties in the cotton
WUof GOsVjfra And ’Florida, continue
complaints concerning drought, rust,
worms and caterpillars. The general
tenor of the reports bespeaks a prob
able falling off in this year’s yield as
.compared with that of last year of
between 30 and 50 per cent. Picking
finis commenced in some sections, but
will not ho general before September
' 8(0: Labor continues, as a rule, fairly
-plentiful and of modi urn quality.
f Tlie Campbell county News says:
“’Uncle Johnny Boyd last year picked
_ Trom a one acre lot in Fairborn 034
pirfiiuls of lint cotton. 11s then sowed
the land in oals, and this spring reap
ed forty-five bushels. After cutting
■'•'AH' his oats he planted cotton on the
"*32tb of June, and it is now in bloom.
With favorable weather lie will make
three hundred or more pounds of
lint. Mr. Boyd is over seventy years
of age. does all his work himself, and
liis iittlu four acre farm in town is a
good model for moro pretentious ag
riculturists to pattern after—lf you'll
allow the expression. He successful
ly raises two crops a year, and makes
• jitorc monev than many farmers with
Ten times the amount of land. Mr.
htoyd’s farming should put yorngcr
1110(1 lo blush.
11AIIX11 Ol.lll’S GREAT STATUK,
X rnuchmiu’* Description f It, anil
the Process of t’ostructloil.
The Immense scaffolding that can
he seen in the direction of line de
Ohasclls, reaching over tho highest
house iu tho neighborhood lias for
.ftpiwe time been puzzling many people
that pass along the Boulevard de Oor
cellcs. One would fancy that a high
tower was in process >f construction.
#n close examination of the beams
and planks,the thing that at first look
ed like tower a displays the lines of n
liuUlan form and the gigantic folds of
the vote llnu drapes il. It is in (tutli
a statue, the greatest that was ever
constructed up to the present time—
the statue of Liberty, of which the
;•“&%><:#rl hold! conceived tlie idea
sktxhe*^lln: model,mud wlißrii is
iopfhied to serve as a beacon at the on-*
tranei to the port of New York. Be
fore becoming one tho marvels of Hie
great American city, it is for the pres
ent one ol tlie most interesting ctiri
oaitiei of Paris.
.By purchasing a littlepicturc*of il
that the committee sells ta cover ex
tra expenses, the work can tie inspec
ted. From eighty to ninety artisans
,jre kept constantly employed. This
sfatnc is already completed up to the
chest. Perhaps in its present condition
itcan he seen to Ihe best advantage. Its
extrudinury proportions cun he
viewed, and as it is not completed, it
is impossible to take in all the details
Of the cons I ruction of this gigantic
works which will probably remain tin
equaled among works, of bronze.
Isi jiu hour one feels transported
, i*t of the real world,and. without Ihe
fliglk’st sffoi-t of the imagination,
the spectacle before Ihe oye* appears
fantastic. The plaster moulds ef the
eftormotiH limbs thrown across the
yard aud Hie busy workmen covering
them with innumerable pieces of wood
that, reproduce all the contoures and
linos and remind one of the wcll
kaovvu scene of Gulliver and Lilliput,
the meuliko tiny dwarfs endeavoring
to bind a giant. And if by a miracle
that great hand could become alive
Lid simply open its closed lingers, all
Unit solid wood work would fly in
sprinters, and tlie immense scaffolding
iisolf weuld come down like a castle
Myati'ds.
’Tlie first model was enlarged four
times. Then it was cut into slices,
and these slices are taken one after
the other and again enlarged lo tour
their original size; and thus tlie
dimensions ofilic colossal statue are
obtained. At present Hie workmen
fre engaged upon the portion that
forms tlie chest. The model of it can
be seen in (hushed. Il looks like a
little hill, over which tlie mtfli are con
stantly creeping. -When Hie draught
or the model of a portion is uiado,
impressions are taken Of it. In order
Lvdothjs.it is necessary to gather to
ijjMitlr fiihidreds of little planks, cut
tfeciscly upon tlie outlines of Hie
iiodel, aml hi this way a wooden
mould is obtained, that is divided in
to as many fragments as are necessary,
jtnon these fragments the copper is
xM-ond hammered until it copies the
presioo forms. Ten Chinese gong#
would not make a greater noise Ilian
U made all day long iu tho corner of
gashed where the copper is lm*m
meredi and thlacontiiieua and deafen
ing noise contributes not a little to tlie
strange impression that one gets from
Hie visit.
t When the shaping of a piece of Ihc
topper is completed, it becomes a por
tion of tlie statue, ami there is noth
ing further to do with it except to put
thin its place. Just now they are en
gaged in Ihe work of finishing
tin: left hand. The nail of tlie flrsl
finger would make a good-si zed shield.
The lop oQtlie linger would make a
lisiniet for*the largest head, aud, in
default of a better cuirass, William
| the conquer#!', who pus'sed for the big
i gest man of his time, might easily get
] into one of the phalanges.
Ljnyix mouths Ihe whole work will
•&?Hiit*bed. There remain only (lie
chest and llie left arm to complete.
The head which is large enough t
contain forty )>eople, lias already been
exhibited, in 1878, and the right arm
-has just come back from America,
where it was sent to give some little
idea of the the sizo if t lie sialuc. Af
ter tho Parisians have had urnplc lime
to admire tlie work it wHI be taken
(town and sent to New York in more
■than three hundred pieces. —Paris
JLimet.
GRAND CLEARANCE SALE
——OF
HANDSOME CARPETS AND RUGS.
SALE CONTINUED FOR THIRTY DATS.
Wm wish to clear mit anil make room lor* oilier Goods now on tlie way. liargaiua will le
given 1 the following Goode:
BODY BRUSSELS CARPETS, New Designs and Colorings.
TAPESTRY BRUSSELS, New Designs.
SCOTCH UAItPKTINGS. Beautiful DssigiiH and Coloriuftß.
VENETIAN CARPETS and 3-PLY CARPETS, New Goods.
HRAUTII RUGS, Beautiful Duttern* and Color*. .
CHEAP Itfe.Ml* and COMMON COTTON CARPETS.
* DOOR MATS and CRUMB CLOTHS, Nicu Gooda.
3.000 WINDOW SHADES. New Btjle , just opened.
1,000 WINDOW CORNICES, fo styles to select from.
I*OLE CORNICES, iu Brans and Walnut,
1.000 Pair WINDOW CURTAINS, Nottingham Lace, New Goods.
FLOOR OILCLOTHS, Nice G6od*.
CANTON MATTINGS. Kresli Now Goods, 25 different Patterns, 250 rolls, all now path fun, •
WALL PAPERS—Iu.OOO Rolls New Wall Palter, Dadoes and Borders, all Nice Fresh Goods. .Newest
patterns. tt*LRKMKMKEU l BIG BARGAINS AT
JAMES O. 11AILIE Ac MO NS,
713 Broad Street, Augusta, G-a.
OLD STORE JAMES G. BAILIE & URO.
Wm. M. JORDAN, FRED B. POPE,
Formerly ol Sibley k Jordau. Washington, Georgia. •
JORDAN Ac POPE,
Cotton Factors § Commission Merchants,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
WE WILL Rive our personal attention to the WEIGHING and SELL
ING of COTTON, ami guarantee Quick Sales and Prompt Returns.
We respectfully solicit the patronage of Wilkes Bounty Farmers aml^ferohnnts
WE'HELL THE
LUMMUB COTTON CHIT.
ASM and valuable invention for improving the staple of cotton. All who use it say it in the
best gin they ever saw. It. is light draught, rapid and has many qualities that are superior to any
other gin made. THE BEATER ATTACHMENT CLEANS THE COTTON TO SUCH AN EXTENT A8 TO
ALWAYS INCREASE THE PRICE OP* THE STAPLE. JORDAN & POPE.
W. IV. MERCEIR,
COTTON FACTOR;
—-AND
Genernl Commission Merchant,
It WARREN BLOCK, AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.,
Will give personal and undivided attention to the Weighing and Soiling ofGotton.
Liberal Cash Advances Mado on Consignments.
.T. M. AJNT DERSON,
iFormerly managing partner and salesman of PEARCE, ANDERSON St CO.]
Cotton Factor and) Conran Mordant
AT THE OLD STAND OF E. A. FLEMING,
903 REYNOLDS STREET, AUGUSTA, OA.
Personal attention given to all business. I make u specially of Belling Oats
and Wheat during tire Summer and am no.* prepared to receive orders
for sucks, and make advances on eoii.ignmu .ts in store.
HOTEL,
_A_TTQ-TTSTA., QrJ±.
Mrs. W. M, TlioinaH ( l*i , oprletreßs.
Thin hotel ho well known to the citizens of Wilkes and adjoining counties, is located in the
center of the lniHiueHs portion of Augusta. Convenient to Pop! Office, Telegraph Office and
Depot, and 6ffora inducements to tho plibT.c such an only tlrst-class betels can afford,
mTkusta cotton gin wobi
T. 0. BARRETT, 0. M. STONE,
Proprietor. Agent.
%
HAVE skilled workmen and suitable machinery, and are prepared to rep ilr in the bent trimmer any
make of Cotton Gina, especially Gullett and Barrett Gina. Rich Gin is thoroughly toated before
leaving the works.. Fill orders promptly for
GIN RIBS, SAWS, BRISTLES, Etc.
Pluntere having Gina njoding,repairs tro urged to aend them at oa re.
T7/~\T> CJ A T T 7 The Improved Gullett and Barrott Gina. Now and in pafae
rUil/ Oixljili* order at reduced price*.
ju„, 2 .ou, <>. M. STONE,
AUGUSTA, GEORGIA.
. •
THEODORE MARKWALTER’S
MARBLE WORKS,
BIiOAU ST BEET, (NEAR LOWER MARKET) AUGUSTA, GA.
MONin TOMBSTONES ill M\W TOILS HUUY.
always on hand or made to order. A largo selection ready for iettoriug and
elivery at short notice. Several hundreds of now designs of
The Most Modern Style of Monuments,
burnished at a lower prlcj than ever before In this market, and of the best workmanship,
similar to that of the now Confederate Monument recently erected by me in this city.
_A_ BOILER SHOP
Has long been needed in this part of the State, and we beg to say to our friends and all who
hat and boilers to be repaired or want new boilers to be bail*, that wo now have a good
bof shop, 40 ft. wide, HO ft. long, with an h 40x40 ft. We are fully prepared to do all
kIU of boilor work promptly. We have fltt extern r Boiler Fhop with the latest improved
Btei i Riveting Machlue, Rower Punch and power Hhears. Power Rollers and a good Crane
Cor landling iron with few hands. We have employed a thoroughly competent boiler mak
er as foreman of this department of our works, and a good set of men to work with him. We
now feel ready to build or repair Locomotive Boilers, Tubular Bolters, Upright Tubular
Boilers. Cylinder Boilers, feHiefrt Iron Tubes for carrying water to water wheel#, Tanks,
Htacks, and Hlieet Iron Work generally. Wo keep on hand a largo stock of Boiler Iron.
Rivets, Boilor Flues and all kinds of Boiler Fittings. t'ST Give us a trial.
GEO. R. LOMBARD Ac CO.,
Foundry, Machine and Boiler Works,
1016 to 1026 Fenwjc.c St., Just ahovk Pass. Depot, Atuum, G.v.
Mf“All kinds of Machine Work and Castings, both Iron and Brass, promptly done.
We are now workiuj about luu ban Is,
Legal l Advertisements.
Citation for Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA, WILKES COTTNTY.
WHEBEAB, W. H. T,in;i..y, etainlstr-tor, d<
bonfs non, ol eHt.t,. or J„lu,T O.li.wa.
reprcuout* to It, Court in In. petition dulv nS!?
.to., that h htuiattly o.rn.inißtorrf, Jolm T. c*;!a
way’s ustrtts Tlibarruc nrnrc to, rilu all pern..,,,.
eon r ed.M|,AW*,- f *+ ((W n| 0 .how
any Uictcm, why mud ndiulo&tntor .hot.ld not
l>e dinih.riictl iron* hi, aflmtiiiktalion. and ro.
ceivc luttera oriUunimion, on Ibelir.t Monday in
September, im. Thin M„, 30, ihri y
GKO. DispN.OtJiuar.v RJ. c.
Citation for Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA, WILKES form
WHKUEAB, Aftkuw Ulionantt, liilnjluLilrator of
Cookie/ Cheuanlt, rcpri-naiU lo the Court
iu 11, * petition, duly HI. J, &c.. Hurt ho lito fatly
ndtuinlulerea OookHey |Oliennir, estute. Thi. 1.
therefore to cite, all ptrSons conoerhccl, heirs and
creditor*, to ihow c mise. If iiuy thiiyenn, why said
odminlrtratorrtould not he dta'lurged from hi.
ad rainwtntion and receive lottentof rti,mia,t on
the first Monday iu September, lwfil. This Juno
4 1 '" 83 - CIKO. DYSON-,
Notice for Leave to Seli Georgia
It. R. Stoek.
eH.ORGIA, WILKES tX>I T N'I Y.
AMWOAI’ION will bo made to* tin; Ordinary of
\\Jlkwcounty at fht lfghhir August term,
iw3, of mtitl court. (or leave m;neU niu© (•.) ' sharps
t HCrCSiiiUl BttKk vt Kkil Uoid and
Bwtkins ;™|u,,nin!K,li i ß lw to the mute ol Maria
Adm’r de s*ou, £., J. llnndolyb.
Gitatfon fer Let lets of Dismission
GEORGIA, WILKES IH>l iNT'Y.
WHEREAS, Jobu L, Audeison, Administrator
ofE.lt. Anderson, repWdnß Ib'tlie Court
in bis petition,,duly tiled and .onternd on record,
that lu; hitt fully administered E. R. Anderson’s
Estate, Uiiß Ik therefore, to rite fl’l persons coil
corned, hvirnml crodU>r**, to show cause, if anv
they cau.wby said sUtiald aofc he
d*MißargaUlijmi.k4#, a**iinitrhon,. ad receive
letters ol dikmiHKlon on thofiiW Mohilav in Hep
tember, 1883. This 10 tb day of May, IMM3.
GEO. DYSON,
Citation for Letters Administration.
GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY,
r |So ALL whom it may cunwu, Ucnry .1. Welle,
having applied in proper form to inti for per
manent lotters of administration on the cstatu of
George Wolfe, la to of said county, this is to cite all
and singular, th'o creditors ami next of kin of Ohio.
Wolfe, to be and appear at iny office within the
time allowed by law, and show cause, if any they
can. why permanent administration should not bo
granted to Henry J. Wolfe, without security, ou
his bond on bald Geo. Wolfe’s wdattL WiLnpas my
band and official signature, July it IWS.
JulySWt GEO. RYaON, Ordinary W. C.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.
BY VIRTUE of an order ot the Court of Ordina
ry of Wilkes county, passed at the August
term. 1883, of did court, I will expose to sale before
the Court house door in Washington, 0„ on the
first Tuesday in Noptcmbor, 1883, at public outcry,
and within the legal hours of sale, uino shares of
the capital stork of the Georgia railroad ami bank
ing company; sold as the property pf Maria J.Ran
dolph’s estate for thn purpose of distribution. Thla
August(i, 11183. CHARLKa A. ALEXANDER.
augKMt Adai r of M. J. Randolph.
Citation*for Letters oi Dismission.
GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.
WHEREAS Job H. Stovall, executor of Abram
Burton’s estate, represents to the Court in
hi h petition, duly filed aud entered on record, that
bi- has fully administered A brain Burton'’h eintn.
This is therefore to cite all persons concerned,
heira aud creditors, to show cause, if any they can,
why said executor should not he duichavgiul
from bis executorship and receive letters of dis
mission on tho first Monday in NoVembor, 18tl3.
This 7th d|y of August, hum.
auglfl-ffin OEU. DYBON, Ordinary W. O.
Citation lor Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA, WILKES COUNTY.
NO. 34:
WHEREAS, p. O. Hill, Executor of A. TANARUS, J.
Wootfon, roprenenta to the court in his pu
tition, that In) has i'uUy ndniinifttnml A. T< J.
Woottou's estate. Tills* is, therefore, to cite nil
personsconcerned, heirs and creditors, to show
cause, it' any they can. why said executor should
not be dixebarged from his administration, ami ro
oeivo lei l ora of dismission on the first Monday in
Oeoeniher, 18H3. QUO. DYSON,
21-fini. Ordinary W. O.
Notice to Debtors and Creditors.
aEOItOIA, WILKES COUNTY.
NOTICE is hereby given to all persona having
demands against Oeo. \V. Florence, late of
aaid county, docouae.d, to present them to thfe’ ou
deraigned properly Jrnado out, within the tipi©
restrlbt il law,feo n.n L, Uov<l their tfiMhnMfei '
and amount, Andy*!* pewona iudabtfcd to
deceased are fiereliLV required toonako fmixmqiata
payment to the trti Tefalu iieft. July 3?l7TBb#.
0. E. FLORENCE
A; A. BXfcNISTT.
27-ot Kxr's Oeo. W. Florence.
Georgia Railroad Compary.
Okhcu Gknkual Manaokk, 1
Augusta, Ga., April 28,1883, j
C COMMENCING Sunday, 29th lust., Wash, gtoa
mJ Brandi Trains will run as follows, daily ,
Ueavo Washington 11.2 t a. w.
*• Fiekleu 11. f 4
** Raytown 17 23 v, U.
Arrivo at Barnett .2.40 "
" Athens . 5.05 ••
“ Atlanta 6.50 •*
“ Milledgevillo 4.40 "
" Macon G. 45 *■
“ Augusta 3.55
JJoavo Augusta ...10.00 a. m
“ Macon 7.03 *•
'* Milledgcville 9.10 “
“ Allanla H. 20 •
M Athens 9.05 “
“ Barnett 1.35 “
44 Raytown 1.57 “
• 4 Fioklcn 2.22 “
Arrivo at Washington 2.55 "
Trains conuoot at Atlanta and Augusta for all
points West, North-west, Eaid and South-west.
JOHN W. GREEN, Gen. Matiagon.
E. It. DORSEY, Gen. Pass. Agent.
CURED
Oliver’s Quick Relief
Rheumatism, Neuralgia, Headache
Toothache, Colds, Sore
Tuboat, Bites, Stint;a
of Insects, Colic
iv Houses.
PKEPAIIiiO HV
MA.YS Sc CO.
ATLANTA, GA.
For aale by G. R. I.YNDON, Waalilngton G,
Alima k Bro., Kchoboth, Ua., Mathew* .v Tally
I>unburg, (la., W. B. Norinan. Pistol, Ga.
L O O K!
IT THESE PRICE.
A Good Grain Cradjo, $2.50
A Suck ol Fine Ground Balt, 1.00
Now (hop Cuba Moinsse*, 62 ito 55c
Kxtra Family Flour, per Bbl, $7.60
PaluDt Process Flour, $8.60 to $9.00
A Good Family Flour, $6.00
Best Canvassed Hams, per lb, 15 to 18c
No. 1 Scovll Hoes, 600
No. 2 “ ‘ “ 56c
A Good Well Bucket, Tso
A Galvanized Hoop Well Bucket, 760
Cured Dry Salt Meat, per lb, 111 to 12c
Fresh Water G round Meal, per bu. 800
I Granulated Sugar, per lb. lie
Good Hie CofTee, “ 121 c
DOMESTIC GOODS
OF ALL SORTS.
| A LAB&K STOCK OF TINHTAEI
AND CROCKERY.
SHQES, HATS, &c.
j tvrvTHiNa at DcrroVt prices.
C. E3. SMITH,