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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. ftpu *AKIH 6 POWDER Absolutely Pure. Till* powder never varies. A marvel of purity strength sod wholesoraenesa. More economical than the ordinary kinds, and eannot be sold 10 competition with the multitude of low tets; short weight, alarm or phosphate powders. Held only in oans Royal Baxiko PowdmCo., ICO Wall BL, mwiom. -.