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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XIX.
THB SOUTH BBOOSUG AH
nuußM if 93L J
A well-versed and deep-thinking
gentleman, whe has made the sltua
lien of tho country a study, the oth
er far, remarked to us: “Do you
kfow that the South is fast becom
ing to the North what Ireland is to
the English ? Everythin* of value in
Ireland is owned by Englishmen,
Who reside at homo and collect tbcir
ta*e through paid agents.leaving the
natives of that oppressed and down
trodden land nothing but poverty
hod wretchedness. I have
er years noticed tho same
innovation of Yankee capi-
in the South. Nearly ail of
‘ Stir railroads, our minerals, our
‘ taints, our factories and our public
’ Works are now owned and controlled
Jjy aliens, and they are now attempt
ing to get possession of even our lands
httd undeveloped resources, and from
the way farmers are mortgaging their
property at an extortionate rate of in
terest, In toil years the South will be
as completely tinder the domina
tion of Northern millionaires, as is
the Emerald Isle beneath the feet of
Englishmen,”
There la a great deal ef truth in
the above and it is time that the
Ekmlbatm people Were arousing them
selves and realizing the threatened
danger, if they Would rescue their
'country and their Children from snch
a fate. If we keep oil hi the channel
that we have boeh traveling since the
war, in ene or two more decades the
South wilt be inhabited by a race of
aerfs to Northern task-masters. But
tht argument is naturally made that
Our people are poor and In debt, and
to continue business there is nothing
left for them to do but sell oillnort
gag thohr property. Asa general
thing this is true, bnt no man ever
paid a debt by going deeper in.
What onr Southern farmers need is
to economize, and use their brains
more and sinews less. They depend
tss much, on corn and cottcyy—the
fnsst expansive crops that can be
grown—for support. They should
diversify their agriculture ar.d plant
largely of small grain, that Is equally
as profitable as the above staples and
can be grown with less than half the
labor. There is no class of men in
America who live harder than the
ayerage Southern farmers, or who la
bor more unceasingly. But they fail
to bring to bear the same manage
ment as exercised by the shrewd
Yankee. He makes improved ma
chinery and fertilizers do the work
of msny hands. Bnt tho chief draw
back to agriculture in the South is
that our farmers try to bore with to
large an auger for their means, and
must run in debt to do so. Let them
reduce their plantations to farms er
even patches, nntil they have the
means ahead to extend the area cul
tivated, and then they can branch out
with a certainty #f success. Just so
long as they g* bevona their means
will debt and bankruptcy bo their
portion. With our cheap lands and
low priced labor, our fertile country,
capable of producing almost any crop
grown on this continent and control
ling, aa wo do, the great staple of the
world, there is nothing In the way of
Southern farmers being the most in
dependent class of people on earth.
In their present deplorable condition
they have no one to blame but them
aelves. Our young farmers, too, are
more extravagant than they should
be. They want to oegln life where
their parents left off. When a young
man roaches his majority, instead of
pulling off his eoat and going to
Work to get a Start in life, the first in
vestment he makes is m a fine suit of
clothes and a horso and buggy, giv
ing his bone and sinew as security.
So he no only starts out in life in
debt but these luxuries give encour
agement to idleness and neglect of
business. When he umrries and as
sumes the responsibility of a family,
instead of having something ahead
to help him support them, ho is in
debt. This is the true history of tiie
trouble with the bouth re-day. We
say to our farmers, sell your land for
what you can get in cash, and either
rent or work snch portion as is left
r yon, rather than give a mortgage, to
these Northern Shylocks. No busi
ness on oarth can stand the interest
thev charge, and when you place your
self in their clutches yon that day sell
yourself and children into slhverv.
We have a beautiful and fertile land,
and let us reserve it as a heritage to
our prosperity and not barter it to tho
millionaires of the North. Better
had we accept privation forafew
years, than sell onr birthright for a
mess of potage.
WASHINGTON, GA„ FRIDAY, OCTOBER 24, 1884.
THH OOTGBKE DRAWN BATUMI
Tho October elections present a
fairly drawn battle in results, with
Uio prestige of the greater victory
with tho least effort on the side of the
Democrats.
With incomplete returns from
Ohio, enough are at hand to warrant
the Republicans In claiming the. Stab
by over 100,000 majority; and tho
scattering returns from West Vir
ginia Indicate from 6,000 to 7,000
Democratic, majority—much the lar
gest majority ever given against tha
combined Republican and Greenback
vote.
After the most desperate and ex
haustive effort* ever made by any
party in any atato; with Blaine lead
ing the battle in person for a fort
night ; with Federal officials swarm
ing In every county and Important
centre of the State; With hundreds ol
thousands of dollars lavished to
bribe the venal, quicken the sluggish
and debauch the ballot; With the lar
gest vote ever cast ia the state at any
election, aud with a majority of over
30,000 on the vote polled, Ohio has
been saved to Blaine by littlo morq
than half the majority a lolld Re
publican vote would havo given him.
This Is a Republican victory that
strongly foreshadows Republican de
feat in November.
On the other hand, West Virginia
is reported as Democratic by a major
ity largely In exoess of any rqajorHy
ever cast against the combined Re
publican-Greenback vote, and the re
sult has been achieved without 'ex
hausting the resources of tho party
throughout the nation. Indeed, it
was accomplished not only withont
lavish expenditure, but In the face of
one wing of the Blaine debauchery
that covered Ohio. West Virginia
was the picket line of the Southern
Electoral vote, as Ohio was the pick
et line of tho Republican West and
Northwest, and West Virginia has
increased her Democratic majority
wfidersto effort, whapOhfb ha*
reduced her Republican majority af
ter the most exhaustive and costly
contest of enr political history.
The Presidential battle is now re
manded back to New York, and
Cleveland starts on the home-stretch
vastly in the load and with odds
largely In his favor. With Ohio
saved by only the most violent party
efforts, Indiana Is not a doubtful state.
Iter vote will be given to Cleveland;
and Illinois, Michigan and Wiscon
sin will tremble In the balance. New
Jersey may be counted as safo for
Cleveland;New York and Connecti
cut will be desperately disputed, with
Blaine on the ontsido track, and
New Hampshire and even Massachu
setts will demand desperate Republi
can effort to hold them to Blaine.
The vote of New York will now
deride the great Presidential battle of
1884 as it settled the desperate strag
gle of 1880; and it ia evident that the
present current of sentiment in that
btate must be materially changed, to
give Blaine a reasonable hope of de
feating Cleveland. It is possible that
local complication* may give New
Hampshire to Blaine as it was possi
ble- for like complications to give
Onio to the Democrats and West Vir
ginia to the Republicans; but the Oc
tober States prove that national is
sues aroparameuntto local complica
tions, and New York is not likely to
be an exception. The present out
look promises a majority of from 30,-
000 to 60,000 for Cleveland in New
York, and the aspect of tho contest
must be essentially changed, if Gro
ver Cleveland shall not be elected
President in November.—Philadel
phia Times.
A TOUHG LADY’S PERIL.
Rome Courier: Miss Fannie Ar
cher, telegraph operator at Hebron,
on the East and West Railroad, is in
the habit of getting on the train
when it stops at her office every day
at noon, and riding a short distance
p to the eating house, which is kept
by her fatlior, for dinner. Yesterday
at noon the train started off before
she reached it. She ran up and at
teaapted to jump on. but missing her
tooting fell. The' break-rod preven
ted the young lady’s body from fall
ing between the cars; bnt her left
hand fell across the track and was
run over and mashed to a jelly. An
eye-witness says that Miss Archer
sustained herself bravely after the ac
cident, and submitted to the amputa
tion of her hand with the courage oi
a real heroine.
BISKAXOX’S ACHIEVEMENTS.
How th* Han of Iron WOl Moat tho
Bslohstax.
Bismarck v-ill come before the new
Reichstag with fresh prestige. Nev
er siuco the creation of the new Ger
man Empire and the conquest of
peace las his lead as K>retgit
Minister boon so uncontestably aud
brilliantly successful us now, He }>|
drawp two-thirds of Europe Into a
coalition of which Germany and Ann
tfia—an humbled enemy turned Jnt#
a staunch friend—form the nucleti*
of which he Is htthself the arbiter.
Ho returns from a threo Emperors’
conference, hold under his oracular
guidance, which promises to Europe
anew era of peace and stability. Hi
ha* proved to France that her expect
eatlon or an alliance with Russii
agalnat Germany was a chimera, an 4
has lulled her into security concern
ing her expansion in tho East, wflicH
makes her forget her lowered posil
tiouon tho European continent.. 114
ha* planted the German flag on the
African shores, and intoxicated tho
German nation with expectation* of
colonnial glory in rivalry with Eng]
land; His advice is followed in don
stantinople, and his word may to
morrow be decisive in Egypt against
Great Britiainand in Peking against
France.
And all these advantages have been
secured withont sacrificing a single
“Pomeranian landwchr-man” in a de
cade. Within, too, the advance of the'
empire has been uninterrupted. The;
work of unlfieatlon goes on slowly
but iteadily. Tho stringent socialist
law has worked well; tho struggle!
with the HI tramontanes has beeu re
duced—by concessions, it is true—to a j
contention without convulsions; the
StatCHioeiallstio innovations inau
gurated by the Chancellor havo exs
sercised a rather pacifying influence
upon the laboring classes; his agra
rian protection schemes have not
nrovqd a failure. lUm lpirdbf nec
essary to -added thaPlho army tho
navy and the whole machinery of the
empire are in a most efficient condi
tion.
A HANDSOME THIEP
Uvm la Sty Is at tht PMth. Avenua Hotel,
and Stools $3,000 Worth of Dlomcnds.
Ono day last week in Boeton
woman dressed in mourning and
and of fine appearance, was lodged in
the Charles street jail living been
arrested on the charge of grand lar
ceny. Her name is Georgians Heas
tis, and sho is the widow of Fred
Heustis once a prominent stack broker
in New York. She has had three hus
bands, tho first named Leavitt and
and the second Moody. After Heus
tis death she went to the Fifth Ave
nue Hotel and lived there In grand
style, until the incurred a debt of
1600, which she eon Id aot py. She
had a private coachman and a fine
turnout constantly at her service.
About four months ago she went to
Theresa Lynch’s place, at 225 Broad
way, and represented that her name
was Vanderbilt, and that sho was
nearly related to William H. Vander
bilt. She had told the same story at
the Fifth Avenue Hotel, and the
Lynch woman believed it. Heustis
aU that she was going to attend a
very fashionable reception that night
and wanted to borrow diamonds to
wear. Lynch loaned hers2,ooo worth
of diamonds, and, instead of attend
ing a reception, she came to Boetou
with them, and soon aftsr “fenced”
them. A New York officer is here
with extradition papers, but sho has
retained counsel, and will fight the
case. A writ of hobeas corpus has
been obtained, returnable to-morrow
morning, when there will be a hear
ing. She remains in jail in the mean
time. She appears to be a handsome
adventuress.
A negro dressed in a convict suit
and giving his name as Simon Files
was captured near Spring Place Mon
day by A. P. Duncan and placed In
the county Jail. A fow nights ago a
suspicious character was met in the
road by A. K. Ramsey, near his res
idence, and upon being commanded to
halt put whip to his horse and was
galloping away, when Capt. Ramsey
fired at him, and he jumped off the
horse and took tho woods. Piles says
he was tho man, and that he “bor
rowed’the horse from a man, near
Ellijar. He was sent to;the Marietta
and North Georgia camps from Floyd
county for the murder of Pink Smith,
colored.
A CARGO OEjUCBLBTONS,
Five Hundred and Twenty-two Tone
of BOnee.
A cargo of skeletons has been re
cently received by a fertilizer estab
lishment in Philadelpltis, says thy
■ Boeton Transcript, from Texas. M
was an interesting load on account df
the fact that the bonee represent such
a variety of animals aud had so many
complete skeletons, but a special iif
terest of a rather loathsome and hart-
Mt bio sort centres in the circumstance
•ffiTat among the skeletons of the ani
*mals are many of the most Interesting
of animals—map,- Uiuntil' ■'
, In the 622 tons of bones which the
New Havon .Schooner brought froi*
Galveston, it is estimated there were
at least 500,000 animals represented.
The wild animals furnished the 1 great
er share, Indicating as did other evb
deuces, that the collection was mostly
made on the broad plains and prai*
offhat state. There were car-
Masses of buffalo by the hundred;
■elks with their flae antler’s, and
.seme of the heads were kept a* orna
ments ; thousands of deer ef all sizes,
Wtelopc, horses, cows, goats, sheep,,
■anthers, various small animals, allir
■to"' from the bayous, and evsu tl>o
of snakes. The bones were
ffipflo from long exposure to the sun.
ipomohadevidently perished in prai
rie fires, and other akolotons were
sarj|y charred. More had no doubt
pertthrt from hungor, want of water
and similar causes, and some had
-been shot. ra u| h-*---’! !■>. f
he men on board the schooner
tfay tho human skeletons wfere numer
ous, and tho boilers and grinders at;
the bone mill laughed and said*
“There wore always some of them,;
btit that didn’t matter. Some of the
human skeletons wore intact, skill l
and all, but most of these Were bro
ken in loading and unloading. There
were a few skeletons rhat were rec
ognized as women- Portions.ef one
Wig and j okher pad* of skeletons
weroTshattcreWs irby bullets', and no
ft>u m there were on board and arc
now being made into bone dust evi
dences of manslaughter, murder and
desperate deeds of border ruffilan
ism. _____
THH ALPINE TRAGEDY.
Mrs. X. X. Davis and a Guest of Her
Hmband Shot Doad.
A letter from LsFayctte, Ga., says:
I liavo just learned of a most horrible
murder ia Broomtown Valley, one
mile from Alpine, Chattooga county.
'l'hoclrconistnnces, as best I can learn
them, are about as follows: Living
in the neighborhood of Alpine is a
man and wife by the name of Davis.
On last Monday evening Mr. C. C.
uones, formerly of this county, asked
to spend the night, whieh request
wasgrantod. Just about dusk Mrs.
Davis and Mr. Jones were sitting in a
room, when someone called at the
gate. They both went to tho door
and opened it, and as they did so a
man standing at the gate fired at
them with a double-barrel shot gun,
shooting both barrels. Mr. Jones was
struck with eighteon buckshot, rang
ing from his hips to his shoulders.
Mrs. Davis was somewhat behind
Mr. Jonos and was only hit by two
shot, one passing through her heart
and the other through her head.
They both fell dead instantly. It Is
said that a man by the name of Dor
sey had sworn that day that he inten
ded to Kill Mr. Davis and his wife,
and it is supposed that if it was him
that did the deed, that he mistook
Mr. Jones for Mr. Davis. Anyway it
may be locked at, it is an awful mur
der. I havo learned nothing about
the feud, but nave understood it was
an old quarrel.
Wrightsville correspondence Savan
nah, News, Oct. 13: Friday night, in
Emanncl county, a bloody tragedy
occurred winch resulted in the death
of A. E. Odom. Odom and John
Cheek were at Chess Flanders’ dis
cussing the friendship that existed
between them. Odom intimated that
Cheek, who was intoxicated, became
offended and walked out. Shortly af
. towards Odom stopped to tho door,
when Cheek shot him twice with a
pistol, killing him almost instantly.
At the inquest the jury rendered a
verdict of willful murder. Cheek
made his escape. Ho was in Wrlghts
vije late Saturday night, and was
clfcely pursued by armed men early
slnday morning, and in ail probabil
itf will be caught soon.
A DUEL WITH JAOKKNIVES.
TsrrUßo Tight Between Two Stratton
Which Bnded in Harder.
A recent dispatch from Norwich,
Conn., says: A mile northwest of
the pleasant country village of West
Ashford, in Windham county, at a
lonely crossroads, Is a big, old fash
ioned form house, that was the seen
last Wednesday of a terrible fight be*
tween two brothers that ended in a
murder. Georgo Squires owns and
lives on the farm, aud his father,
Bradley Squires, lived with him. A
brother, Josoyh, has been visiting at
the homestead for several weeks. Oa
Wednesday there was a buckwheat
thrashing bee in the old barn, and
Andrew farires, another brother,
was present. To make the flail:
swing *arer three quarts ot whisky
had been provided for the party, and
in the afternoon all wore under its in
fluence. Nol*®y the brothers talked
over wagon trade*, at first in goad
humor, but finally Andrew and jTof
soph quarrelled, and the latter 1
'knocked brother down with hi*
fist:’ 1 Andrew at ossce sprang to hi*
! feet, and drawing * big jack knife, a
popular weapon with Con
necticut farmers, savage
ly attacked Joseph cutting
and slashing at fife head. In an in
stant Joseph's knifb wa* *nt, and a
regular duel ensued that lasted for
several minutes, and sprihkled the
barn floor, the buckwheat straw, aud
the doors and walla with Wood.
Both men were skilled in handling
tho stout, curve-point
ed blades, and backward and forward
the taenpressed each other, deftly
alining and warding off murderons
thrusts. Before the fight terminated
Joseph, Who was Overmatched, re
ceived thrte gaping wounds in the
breastbone in the shoulder, another
across the arm, several m the back of
the he*ad, and a long, fatal cut that
extended from back of the ear across
tbo Pug Alar Wn. In his death ago
ny he struggled out ofth* barn door
in an effort to get away from the
murderer, but Andrew, with one arm
around his victim's body, repeatedly
plunged the kuifo into his brother’s
head as he was dragged along. It
was not until George Squires pulled
Andrew off his brother’s body by
main strength that Andrew ceased 1
his bltvWs, Joseph died about nine
o’clock tho same evening. Andrew |
and his father esoaped with the farm
team, driving vapidly away. No at
tention was given to the wounded
man until Selectman Alfred Walker
sailed at tho house, and then he was
dying. He was about 45 years of ago.
Next day Andrew Squires was ar
rested at his form, a few miles away.
He was taken before a Justice of the
Peace, and the caseadjournod to Sat
urday at 10 o'clock. A Coroner's in
quest was held then at Squires' barn,
where the murder was perpetrated,
and Andrew was committed for trial
before the Superior Court on the
charge of murder.
A HEAVE ENGINEER.
An Accident on the Memphis and Charles
ton Railroad.
A dispatch from Chattanooga says :
The east bound Memphis and Char
leston passonger train due in this city
at 6:30 this morning met with a
frightful accident at Bailey’s station
last night. The train was going at
full rate of speed when it ran into
ton box cars which had run down
on the main line from a side track.
The shock was terrific,
and the passengers were
thrown from their seats fully twenty
feet distant, many of the* being bad
ly bruised. Tho engine turned over
with the bravo engineer, Bob Tanner
and the fireman, John Mansfield.
They were taken from tho wreck
alive. Tanner ia badly hurt. He
coaid have escaped by jumping out,
but remained on his ongiue trying to
break tho terrific momentum. Ru
dolph Dendlebliss,express messenger,
received slight intemalinjuries. Four
coaches were demolished.
Captain John W. Nelms, principal
keeper of the penitentiary, has un
earthed some damaging evidence
against Dock Johnson, the negro
guard who shot and killed P. M.
Faulkner, a white man, at Lockett’s
camp, on the sth Inst. A warrant
has boon sworn out and the negro ar
rested. He will be tried at the next
term of court for murder.
NO. 48
aw*al to not fbo rts or as R
■‘>n p* oia. ■ ’
th * P f op,Cof Gao1 ’S‘• The an
dersigned have been appointed by tho
appeal to your slate prido and
resityto raise two thou^^r.
GS >lelbemlo haVB tbe *t<> f
Georgia represented in the ureafc
world’s centennial exposition a* New
Orleans ih December next. Eyerv
other atato ip the union b aa piJI
Major Bacon, the United S.at„oo
appeal io your state society to come
to hi* relief and aW repaving Geqr
represented. A meeting of ft* exe
cutive committee was called this day
and after full discussion It was Z
solved to make an effort to mVe GeJ£
gia, the empire state of the somb,
ibe mortification of having JK >
in this, the world’s exposition. Tho
legislatures of overstates made am
ple [appropriation, Georgia made
ene. It has been detcrmfld that if
‘* Seorll ‘ *1" contribute
the state agricultural eociety
will sac, with whatathW money they
can command, that Georgia win havo
a place with h* other states ft* the ex
position, mid in order to raise that
amount they have appointed the fol-
IPHiug gentlemen to solicit subscrip
tions, to-wit; L. F.. Liv
ingston, of Nawton; George H. Jones
of Norcrps*; J. IL. Warren, Savan
nah ;P. W. Martin, Newnan; Jerry
HoHis, of Macfen; J. L. Fleming, Au
gusts, amt Pierec Horn, Augusta.
Now you aaeu of Georgia, who
bare the means and ftel any state
pride, do respond! ohaetftiMy and
promptly to these gentlemen when
they come to ask you foy their con
tribution*. A smell amount from
many would soon raise the amount,
butleitbe able audit ben 1 avail them
selvas of this opportunity of aiding in
this gre*t work. All olAirhich is real
pectfully submitted. j i
JUfl. J#. MOMJBT, j
E. C. Geb,
HLHLCsrt/
Committee.
In Monroe county Saturday night the
family of L. O. Hollis were awakened
by the report of what sounded like a
cannon. All rushsilatonce oatuoors
and Ciscevered the kitchen and house
on fire. The former Msl been grad
ually burning but bad made so head
way, and was extinguished. The
house had been buratng fast, bat the
explosion, which *a. a keg with
powder in it, had been caused by the
flames roaohing it. When it buret
the smoke smothered the fire. It was
a slnguirr happening, and but for it
the whole premises would have been
burned. Mr. Hollis suspects negroes
and has them under surveillance.
At a gathering on the place of James
Searoy, near Macon, a difficulty oo
cured among some negroos, in which
Horace Moore cut Willis and Eugene
Thweat and Ben Howard. A few
days afterward Moore, who is an en
gineer on tho Holt place, was getting
up steam when he discovered Willia
Thweat stoaltbily creeping up on
him. Thweat, on seeing he was dis
covered, took position behind a stump
and fired a load of duck shot into
Moore’s body. Moore, the wounded
man, is likoty to die.
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