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THE WASHINGTON GAZETTE.
VOL. XIX.
GOVERNOR M'MNIEL.
HU Address upon hia Second Inaugura
tion.
Gov. Henry D. McDaniel wai was
inaugurated in Atlanta last Saturday.
The Hollowing is his inaugural ad
dress: Gentlemen of the Genet al
Assembly and Fellow-Citizens:
The occasion of investing a citizen
with the office of Governor of the
State should remind us f the purpose
of government. This is to preserve
society and to seeuro its undisturbed
pursuit of happiness. The principles
are so simple, even under our com
plex system ef Federal and Slate au ■
thority, that they have become famil
iar maxims, embodied in fundamen
tal law. Difficulties arise mainly in
construction and administration.
The people of the United State* have
long differed among themselves as to
the limits respectively of Federal and
State powers and duties. These dif
ferences among patriotic citizens re
late merely to the best policy to attain
the common end—good govsmnieul.
As long as this is th i chief purpose of
politic*! parties onr ininstitutions will
bo safe. Experience will teach th#
people the host policy, and patriotism
will induce them to adopt it. But the
harmonious and successful working
of tho system requires that all the
States of the Union shall share equal
ly in the rights, privileges and duties
of administration, as well as bear
equally the burdens of the common
government. In this respect the con
dition of Georgia, when lister States
of the South has long been anomalous,
while subject to all the burdens, and
discharging all th* duties of the citi
zens of the Union, our people have
been denied equal participation in the
administration, privileges and bless
ings of the government The section
al bitterness which led to revoluuon
and stripped them of nearly every
thing save the ruins of thoir homes,
their snlf-respect and honor, and their
devotion to constitutional liberty, im
posoil upon them terms which threa
tened the existence of society. What
ever the purpose, its effect was to sub
ject intelligence and virtue and pro
perty to the rule of ignorance led by
rapacity. There were net wanting
men who despaired of republican
freedom, and looked for rolisf to em
pire.
The spirit ot our people roso to tb
emergency. Impovished and meiign
ed, the utmost they could do was tot
secure their State governments from
the control of alien*, and to devote
their energies to the restoration of
material prosperity and the readjust*
nient of shattered social relations.
No people of any age hare been con
fronted with evils of such magnitude
and non*, in so short a time, have
ever accomplished at much to re-es
tablish social order and prosperity.
Their present condition is Ihe reward
of gigantic labors, wisely directed and
nobly performed.
While confronting Ihese appalling
dangers and difficulties at home, we
were embrassed by the suspicion,
jealously and hatred of the dominant
political parly in the Union. The
fact that the war bet ween the States
was ended—that all the questions at
issue in the struggle were setlled
against us, and we had accepted the
decision as final—that we were loyal
to the Union and faithful to every
duty of citizenship, did not avail to
restore us to equality. Statutes were
were directed against us, which were
inoperative elsewhere, and which
seemed to cripple our efforts to re
store the losses and heal the wounds
of war. It asserted that we did not
understand our condition, and what
was best for all classes of our people.
Pretexts were invented to keep alive
sectional hate and distrust between
the raues, now living together in com
parative harmony. Persistent mis
representation has retarded immigra
tiou to tUis sestion. and has rendered
capital timid in seeking the rich re
turns of Southern investment It was
nothing to these unscrupulous parti
sans that the entire country shared in
the damage inflicted upon the pros
perity of the south. Their sole pur
pose was to retain political power.
This lias bsen used for purely parti
san and personal ends. Taxation has
wrung hundreds or millions from the
people beyond the necessities of eco
nomical government. These vastjsnms
have been need to enrich the leaders
and favored classes of the dominant
section, and to debauch the poU'.ics of
the country until the fear that the
WASHINGTON, GA., FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 14, 1884.
result of National elections will de
pend upon the amount of money ex
pended is fast destroying confidence
in the institutionsofthe country.
Each successive election for Presi
dent has awakened the hope that the
era of misrepresentation, sectional
animosity and bad government
would be ended. This hope has been
sooftcu disappointed that a people less
schooled in adversity, loss brave in
the presence of danger, less true to
their own manhood and less loyal to
American libery, would
have despaired of the repub
lic. Georgians ( can point with
pride to the conduct of the State
throughout these trials.
Forgetting the disappointment, we
have striven the more earnestly to
perfect our State administration by
the enactment and enforcement of
utst and impartial laws; to prevent
violence, suppress disorder and puu
ish crime ;to provide for the educa
tion of all children; to lighten the
burden of taxation by Judicious econ
omy in public expenditure; to reduce
the debt and improve the credit ef
the Stale; to foster every material in
terest of the people to the extent of
onr limited means, and to secure to
every citizen, without distinction of
rtce,color or previous condition, all
the rights and priviligcs to which he
is entitled.
The record ofthe State in these en
deavors, under conditions of suchdis
uourageraent should banish from the
minds of intelligent and impartial
observers ail doubt that her people
are liberal, just and progressive.
Another Presidential election has
offereu the people of tho Union an op
portunity to express their judgment
upon the policy and merits of the Fed
eral administration, tho questions
involved aro of vital interest to every
patriot, whether or not there should
oe reform of abuse, reduction in ex
penditure, equality and uniformity
in taxation, upholding in practice as
well as in theory local self-govern
ment throughout the Union, instead
of further centralization of power in
the Federal Government, the burial
of sectional differences and animosi
ties, and tiie turning ofthe attention
ef the entire people to questions af
fecting their wellare; these were the
issues submitted to tho ballot.
The result has not been ascertained
and declared as provided in the con
stitution, but there is reason to be
lieve that the American people have
demanded a change in the police of
tho government, through a change of
the administration. Should our an
ticipations of the result be realized,
thesntire country will experience re
lief. It will be demonstrated that our
system of government not only af
fords ths largest litertv to the citizen,
but the largest and readiest and most
effectual means ever devised byliuman
wisdom to correct tho abuses and re
sit ain the encroachments of power.
It will leach the lessen that public
officials are public servants, amenable
to the people from whom their powers
are derived. It will furnish assur
ance to mankind that our institutions
will be perpetuated because the
American people have not lost their
virtue. And what is of permanent
concern to Georgians it will be a rec
ognition of their equality in the Un
ion, and a word for the admirable
temper displayed iu their endeavors
to maintain good government. It
will relieve them from the menace of
Federal interference in local affairs,
and demand of them renewed zeal
and devotion in their assistance to
solve the great economic questions
upon which depend- the prosperity of
all section* Of tho country. And
t-bovc all other considerations, it will
be the acceptance of our pant princi
ples, that every right and privilege,
now guaranteed to the humblest citi
zen of the State, will be respected
and maintained, and that whatever
human endeavor can accomplish will
be done to promote the welfare of ev
ery citizen.
I cannot doubt that a people who
have turned the uses of adversity in
to lessons of self-insprsvement will
he equal to any rightful demand that
can be made upon them.
This is the arduousduty winch will
devolve upon all who enact'laws or
Interpret them or execute them, and
upon the entire body of citizens. The
responsibility of those who elect ru
lers, for the resnlts of administra
tion, it scarcely less than that #f the
public servants to whom they entrust
power. Jealous watchfulness an!
judicious criticism of official conduct
by the public at all times, and s\viit
condemnation or hearty approval,
whenever merited, will secure a fttith
fttl discharge of duty.
Were the responsibility for wise ad
ministration upon the executive atone,
it would warn mo to shrink from the
duties which lam now to assume.
The indulgence shown to my errors
ot judgment, ami the assistance ren
dered by all branches of tho public
service, not only increases nty grati
tude to the people for their confi
dence. but embolden mo to hope for
a continuance of the same encourage
ment and support. United . effort
alone by all citizens, in public or in
private station, can secure, under the
favor ot divine providence, tho wel
fare of the commonwealth.
I am now ready to take the oath of
office.
SWALLOWID AN A 18. CtUK DART
Yoauff Albert Austin Becomes on Object
ef Interest to New York Surgeons.
(N .Y. Sun.)
Albert Austin the twelro year
old son of Tax Collector R. S. Aus
tin. of Wallingford, Conn., was play
ing witli a toy air gun on Sunday.
September 7, and accidentally swat*
lowed the dart, which waa made of a
pin with worsted yarn wound round
the head. He soughed violently for
a time and then recovered without
getting rid of the pin. Several local
doctors tried to oxlract the pin and
tailed, and six days later the boy was
brought to the Mount Signal Hospital
for treatment.
When he reached the hospital he
was in good bodily health and fell
but little pain front tiio pin. Dr. Ells—
berg looked down the lad's throat
witli a larnygoscope,and after a min
ute examination, decided that the
pm had made it, way into the right
lung. Dr. Wyeth, who wa* associated
witli Hoase Surgeon Hitchcock, tliet>
called in Dr. Learning, a socialist oil
chest trouble, and by listening at the
chest he delected a whistling noise
iu the right lobe of the lung, reveal
ing the location of the pin. Dr.
Janeway and a dozen other physi
cians were called to the hospital, and
in their proienee, I)r. Wyeth cut open
the wiudpipuas near the lung as was
safe, and the wound was braced o|ien
with silken thread, while the boy re
mained tinder the influence of ether.
Dr. Wyeth began to fish for the pin
through the wonnd with a foacep.
The search was continued for hours,
and every forcep iu the hospital was
tried without success. Orders were
given for the manufacture of a special
forcep over a foot long, and the wound
was kept open by means of wads of
gauze stuffed into the incision.
Be,foro the instrument was made
however, it became evident that the
pin could not be extracted that way
and Dr. Wyeth,mi the 25th, resolved
tc send the bey borne, after fixing a
silver tube in bis throat, deeming it
likely that lie might after a time
cough the pin out. The tube hud
been in place but a short time, when
the windpipe seemed to close sudden
ly and the lad became blue in the face
and began to cough with groat vio
isnre. He coughed up the pin and is
all right now.
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HOW GOULD STANDS.
A Washington special says: “Pri
vate information readied hero to
night from New York that Jay
Goulds will, if Blaine’s defeated is as
sured. not only lose hundreds of
thousand which lie lias wagered on
the result,but it is not at all improb
able tint he will bo driven into
iiopoloss insolvency. It is believed
that he has been staggering under
the load of his watered stocks, and
liis only hope of relief was in Blaine’s
election. It is understood that the
bargain between him and Mr. Blaine
included not only the withdrawal of
suits against the Pacifid Railroads
for the hundred million dollars owing
by them to the government, but the
promise to use the whole power and
patronage of the Executive to saddle
upon the government the Western
Union telegraph at its inflated stock
valuation of SiSO,OOO,OOO. Of course,
lots of Mr. Blaine's particular friend
would come in for nice Hcoa out of
this.”
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Prof. Harris' Pastile treatment for
nervous debility lias cured thousands*
The proprietors having confidence in
its merit offer free trial. Address
Harris Remedy Cos., St. Louis, Mo.
AN EFFECTUAL PRAYER.
Tho Olwlm That Waa Met In a Mysterious
Way-A Prayer Thet Would Not
Admit ef Defeat.
“No,” said tho lawyer, *•! sha’n't
press your claim against that man;
you can get some ono else to take tho
ease, or you can withdraw it, just, as
you please."
“Think there isn’t any money in
it?”
•‘There would probably be some
money In it, but it would, as you
know, come from tile sale of the littl*
house the man occupies and calls
•horn*;’but I don’t want to meddle
witli tho matter,anyhow."
“Got frightened out of it, elt ?"
“No, I wasn’t frightened out of
it."
"I suppose likely the old follow beg
ged hard to be let off?"
“Well—yes. he did.”
“And you caved, likely?”
“No, I didn’t speak a word to him.”
“Oh, lie did all the talking, did
he?”
'•Yes.”
“And yeti never said a word ?"
“Not a word.’’
“What in creation did you do ? ’
“I believe I shed a few tears.”
“And the old fellow begged you
hard, you say?”
“Vo, I didn’t say so ; he didn’t speak
a word to ms.”
“Well, may I respectfully inquire
whom lie did address in your ltear-
Ing?”
•God Almighty.”
“Alt! he toox to praving, did
he ?”
“Not, for mv benefit, in the least.
You see”—the lawyer crossed bis
right toot over his left knee, and be
gan stroking hit lower leg up and
down, as if to help state his case con
cisely—“you sec, I found the Utile
house easily enough, and knocked on
k tlie outer door which stood ajar, but
nobody heard me, so I stopped into
the the little bail, and saw • throagli
the crack of another door just ns cozy
a sitting-room as there ever was.
“There on a bod, with her silver
head wav up high on the pillows,
was an old lady wito looked for all
the woil.l just as my mother did the
last time 1 ever saw her on earth,
Well I was right on the point ef
knocking, when she said as clearly as
could be; “come, father, now begin.
I’m all ready”—and down on bis
knees by her side went an old white
haired tnan, still older than his wife,
I should judge; and I couldn’t have
knocked then forthe life of me. Well
lie began ; first lie reminded God they
were still His submissive children,
mother and he, and no matter what
jio saw fit to bring upon them they
shouldn't rebel at His will! of course’
’twas going to be terrible hard for
them to go out. homeless in their old
age, specially with poor mother so
sick and helpless, but still they’d seen
sadder thing* than ever that would
bo. He reminded God in the next
place how different ail might have
been if only ene oftlieir boys had been
spared them ; then his voice kind of
broko, and a thin, wlti'e hand stoic
from under the coverlet and moved
softly over Itis snowy lour; then he
went on to repeat, that nothing could
be so shat'p again us the parting with
those three sous— unless mother and
he should be separated. But sit last
he fell tc comforting himself with the
fact that the dear Lord, knew it was
through no fault of his own that moth
cr and lie were threatened with the
less of their dear little home, which
meant beggary and the almshouse, a
place they prayed te be delivered
from entering, if it could be consist
ent with God's will; and then Its fell
toquoting multitude of promises cott
oerning the safety of tliftse who put
their trust in the Lord; yes, I should
say he begged hard; in fact it was th#
most thrilling plea to which I ever
lietoned; aod at last he prayed for
God’* blessing on those who were
about to demand justice”—the lawyer
stroked hia lower limb in silence for
! a moment or two, then continued,
1 more slowly than ever:
“And—l—believe—l’d ratlisr go to
the pool-house my self, to-night, than
to stain my heart and hands with the
blood of such a prosecution as
that.”
“Little afraid to defeat the old man’s
prayer, eh '< queried the client.
“Ble s votn soul, man, you couldn’t
del -a; it!" i■cn-ul 'tha lawyer. “It
i! • •Im’i of defeat! I toll you
ho left it all subject to tho will of
God : blit lie left no doubt as to his
wishes ir, the matter claimed, that wc
were told to make known oiir desires
unto God ; but of all the pleading I
ever heard, that beat all. You see I
was taught that kind of tiling myself
in my childhood, and why I was sent
to hear that prayer I’m sure I don’t
know, but I hand the case over.”
“I wish.” said the client, twisting
uneasily, “yon hadn’t told mo about
the old fellow’s prayer.”
“Why so.”
“Well I want the money confoun
dedly the place would bring, but I
was taught the Bible ail straight
when I was a youngster, and I’d hate
to run counter to such a haranguo as
that you tell about. I wish you hadn’t
heard a word ofit;and another time
I wouldn’t listen to petitions not in
tended for your ears.”
Tho lawyer smiled.
“My dear fellow,” lie said, you’re
wrong again ; it was intended for my
oars, and yours, too, and God Almigh
ty intended it. My old mother used
to sing about Gmt’s titering in a mys
terious way, I remember.”
“Well my mother used to sing it
too,” said tho claimant, as lie twisted
his claim-papers in his fingers. Yon
can call in the morning, if you like
and tsil mother and him tho claim has
been ntot.”
“In a mysterious way,” added the
lawyer, smiling.— Mrs. Harriet A.
Chcevcr, in Christian Uniou.
HR PAID THR MORTGAGE.
“Did I over tell you how I paid the
mortgage uu tho old gout’s farm ?” ask
ed the champion.
“Never,” said we.
“Well, 1 was fishing in the ereok
on# cold day last winter, when I
hooked on to what I thought was a
whale, but what proved to bo an enor
mous bass, that weighed ou tlie ion
350 lb*., and clinging to his tail was a
smelt that woiglied ten pounds. I
sent both immediately to tiie Smith
sonian Institute at.Wasliington.and re
ceived in return a chock for $2,000
and a request to catch more if possi
ble.”
“The bass was all right enough, per
haps, but how do you account for the
tsn-pound smelt clinging to the bass’
tail ?”
“Oh,if tho bass was to goon exhibi
tion ho wanted to go top,” replied the
champion.—Courier-Journal.
A east age.
“Come here, Lucy,” said an Austin
farmer to hia U-yoar-daughter, who
was champing a gum drop, and rock
ing her doll to sleep; “come hither,
girl.” She came. “I’ve a notion to
box your ears for talking to Tom
Jones over the gate. What do you
mean by flirting with the boys?”
“Fa, we were not flirting. Bye O
baby! Now gou go to sleep, dolly,
like a good little girl. No, fattier, ours
is no frivolous flii tation.” “I suppose,”
said the father, giggling at the iiloa,
“you are engaged; “No, wo aro not
engaged; but, pa, yon might
aid us in carrying out the desire of
our young hearts. It would make
ua so happy.” “Want to get mar
ried, do you ?” “Oh, no, wc were mar
ried two months ago. A divorce is
what wc are after now.”
WAYLAID.
The Middle Georgia Argus pub
lishes the following: “On Saturday
night Henry Price, colored, went to
the lionse of Mr. Dock Gilmore, near
Towaliga, in this county, while drunk
and acted in such a boisterous man
ner that Mr. Gilmore, not wishing to
hurt him persuaded him to leave and
went with him some distance from
the house. On entering the rosd,
which is about 100 yards from his
dwolling, ho was knocked in the head
by one Lewis Collins and Dav* Cal
vin, colored, who had waylaid him
for the purpose of robbery. They
struck Mr. Gilmore several severe
blows on the head evidently with the
Intention of killing him aftetr rifling
his pockets of their contents, taking
about thirtsen dollars, left him for
dead. Mr. Gilmore was conveyed to
hi* homo by some of his neighbors,
where ho lay for two days uncon
scious. lie is now some better, and
bopss of his recovery are'entertained.
The liegroos have fled for parts un
known, but diligent search is being
made for them and they will be ap
prehended.
NO. 46
VANDERBILT AND A CRIPPLE.
Why the Millionaire Gave a half a Mil
lion Dollars for a Benevolent Purpose.
... (New York Letter In the Albany Journal.)
As nearly as I can ascertain, Van
derbilt’s gift of $500,000 to the New
York College of Physicians and Sur
geons, all came from a small incident.
Vanderbilt stopped at a wayside 'inn
in upper New York, as it his cus
tom ot an afternoon, to rest ids hor
ses and take a glass of gin and water.
The place is known to our horsemen
as Barry’s, mid is commonplace
enough, except for being the favorite
stopping place for Vanderbilt, and
for that reason a resort forthe chron
ic roadsters. While he stood with
his bnck to the bar, his elbow on it,
and a glass of grog (“two fingers of
Holland gin, two of hot water and a
spoonful of sugar”), a pitiable cripple
entered—a little boy, with mishappen
legs and back awry.
“How did yon get into such a
shape, sonny ?” Vanderbilt asked.
“I was ruuned over,” the urchin re
plied.
An accident on the road had spec
ial interest for the questioner, and h*
got the particulars. The little fellow
had been overturned and trampled
on by a fast horse. He was 100 poor
to bo doctored at. home, and yet his
mother had foolishly objected to his
removal to a hospital where he might
have received proper treatment, but
he had been taken to the College of
Physicians and Burgeons, where ap
plicants get inadequate attention, or
only such as will serve as illustra
tions to the lessons which the stu
dents are learning, the facilities being
so limited as to preclude anything
further.
It chanced that Prof. Deremus, tho
specialist in chemistry, dropped into
the barroom at this juncture. In an
swer to the King of Mammon’s ques
tions, he Baid it waH a pity that this
college, witli the most skillful of sur
geons in its faculty and tho incentive
to utilize injared persons at once to
their own benefit and the teaching of
students, was prevented from doing
so by limited quarters and scant facil
ities. He said that a big building
would serve as good a purpose us ho
knew of in the whole range of New
York charity. From that directly
came Vanderbilt’s unexpected
$500,000.
VANDERBILT TO CLEVELAND.
Mr Dear Sir.— l congratulate you
and the people of tho whole country
upon your election to the Presidency
of the United States. You owe your
election, in my opinion, to the fact
that tho people believe yeti to be al*
honest man, and not to any particular
efforts made by any faction of either
democrat or republican parties. In
dependent men, who care more for
good government than for parlies or
individuals have mado you their
choice, because they were convinced
tiiat your administration would not
bo for tho benofit of any political or
ganization of favored persons, but for
tho interest of the whole people. Thi*
is just tho result which is most de
sired. We have reached a time when
party amounts to little Conntrv i*
above all, and the people want an
honest government by honest men-
Belief that we will Audit in you ha*
led to your election.
Yours very truly.
W. H. V ANDESaILT.
New York, November 7,1884
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