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WASHINGTON GAZETTE
J. W. ChlpFan, Proprietor”
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A VERY IMPORTANT BILL.
Prortaloa* to* th. Education of Worthy
Yoanc Hon Prom tha Entiro BtaU.
Con.tituUoo.
Mr. Russel, ot Clark* 1 , has intrduc
l a very Important measure In ihc
bouse In the shrpe of “a bill to place
the benefits of a liberal education in
Hie reach of all young Georgians by
providing the means for the education
of young men from each county and
senatorial district In the state who
arc unable to pay their own expenses.
A Constitution man had a conversa
tion with Mr. Russell as to tbo pro
visions and objects of Ibis bill, baid
he: “Thetwo chief charges made
against the University b> those who
are unfriendly to it, are that its bene
fits only reach the rich, while all the
state helps bear the bnrden of its sup
port, and that its students are only
from a few counties of the state,
which are alone bencfltted. The lat
ter charge is entirely groundless, but
tbe first is true to this extent: That
there isn large class of poor youngbovs
all over the state who have bright
minds and are worthy of a liberal ed
ucation, and it educated, would re
flect honor on the state, who arc too
poor to pay their college expenses and
to whom free tuition at the university
amounts to nothing, for the reason
they are unable to reanh the Univer
sity, to pay for their board, clothing
and hooka while pursuing their stu
dios. To this class of boys the gift
Of free tuition aloue is almost like say
lug to a Wind man : “Here is beauti
ful scenery: look at itl” My bill pr.v
vidua for the education of these boys
In eur stale who want an education
and deserve it, but are unable to ob
tain it. It provides that each county
shall be entitled to as many scholar
ships as it has representatives, and
each senator may appoint one, ami
the governor name six, making 225
In all. Kach beneficiary' of a scholar
ship Will receive S2BO per annum
with which to pay alt his expenses
and relieve bis mlud of every care
except the pursuit of his studies.
Kach frso scholarship must be Ailed
by a bona fltle resident of his county
r senatorial dish let as the case may
be, and no one shall remain over tour
years.’’
“Does the bill place any other qual
ideations in the appointment f”
"None except that the appointee to
each scholarship .must swear that
ho Is anxious to ebtaln an education
and is unable from poverty to do
so,”
‘•How are these scholarship* to
be maintained, and will the amount
b* very large K
“The bill provides that the benefl
eiarles of the scholarship* shall be
paid by the atate treasurer on their
endorsement and the forwarding of
their notes payable to him for the an
mini amount will be |f13,000 per an
num of seven per cent, on a donation
of ♦1)00,000, for which tho governor is
authorised to Issue an obligation run
ning fifty year in the same way as
other funds of the nnnlvordty. Tho
amount may seem largo, but when
you take into consideration that it
w 111 reach every section and every
•ciunty of the state, and when furthor
it is compared with the amounts ex
pended on other public institutions,
and, lastly, when we contemplate
tho great benefits to accrue to the
atato at targe.it dwindles Into compa
rative Insignificance. Fur this sum of
♦03,000 per annum wo extend the
bencfiig of a liberal educi tion,uot only
in name, but in fact, to all the young
men in tho stale,not only in tho name,
but In reality,and.make tho university
an institution in which the state, as
such ran feel a laudable pride.”
"Will not this stimuli appropria
tion increase tho rate of taxation in
tho State?”
"No sls-it will uot The stale will
tavc annually about IOOjOOO annually
in tho way of tho decrease in interest
tavised by this issuance of tho new
bonds at per cent,so that the ft>3,-
000 can be distributed to the counties
tortlic fioc scholarships- and still
leave a neat sum ftom thestate’s pres
ent income.”
“What do you think of tho prospect
for tho passage of your hill ?”
•"This lam unable to say at pres
ent. I Introduced it on my own mo
tion, without consultation with the
trusteesor any ofll -ers of the univer
sity, simply because, as a Georgian, I
believe the passage of such a moasure
would bo greatly to the interest of the
statu and promote its material wel
fare. This will be a question which
will address itself to the sound discre
t!on of the gwiera! assembly, and Its
benefit* are so equally and equitably
dis!isliutdi that I have every reason
to believe it will receive favorable
consideration. ThejMitc of Virginia,
with all bet-financial embarassment,
has never failed to give SIO,OOO per an
num fober state university, and other
slates give larger sums, and yet even
tuition, so far from being free, costs
$l5O per annum, and tim boys who
attend are noted as being generally
sons of wealthy parents. There is
another provision In the bill, howover
which will yearly lessen the amount
required to provide for the free schol
arships,” said Mr. Russell, “the S2BO
is only leaned to the student, and
many of them will repay it with the
interest. These payments when made
will be deducted from the appropria
tion needed for the next year,and fin
ally get it very small.”
AS BAD AS KENTUCKY.
If to know one’s fault is to bo on
the way to reform San Francisco is to
he congratulated. The newspaper*
there,as in many parts of the country,
have been expressing horror at the
lawless condition of Rowan county.
Ky., but, says the Alt! California—
It so happens that whilo cur com
tsmporarles are discussing the hor
rors ot the Kentucky vendettas their
local columns are filled with accounts
of a row between two firms of con
tractors in this city, in which rifles
and threats of bloodshed figure
dally. One setof contractors is build
ing a horse railroad and the other
Arm opposes its progress claiming to
have a lease of the ground. A fortifi
cation has been built, aud high fight
ers guard It day and night with rifles,
threatening to kill the graders if they
advance toward a given line. The
police stand around and look on. un
able to interfere until the swaggering
results in something more
trail; 11', and the news
paper reporters also patrol the neigh
borhood, impatiently walling for the
fight to begin. There ought to be
some wav In which these brawlers
can be suppressed. It is very likely
that neither party has the slightest
idea of fighting, but their threats to
break the peace and their display of
weapons constitute an offense as
grosiasitis inexcusable. In a city
where there are a dozen court* In
leisiou every day no person need* to
trm himself with guns or pistols to
take life in a quarrel over property.
Employers who do such things should
he seized, along with their hired ruf
fians, disarmed and put on the same
reservation with the Apachos or oth
er low specimens of savages.
This Is brave talk.and timely. Law
lessntes in the abstract is at had in
one place as in another, but It is par
ticularly reprehensible where police
men and courts abound. And Han
Francisco is not the only city in which
the newspapers, in their capacity of
teachers and prophet*, should put on
sackcloth and ashes.
the sorierr sitectivc.
Nowaday* the practice of having
detect I vee in full dress at parties and
balls is known to alt prominent enter
tainer*. They haftr odd experience*,
some of them deeply tinctured with
romance.
One happened last winter to be In
attendance at a wedding. It was a ty
pical wedding of the fashionable
kind. There was a large gathering,
a reception by the brido and groom
under great floral marriage bells in
tho drawing room and a large survoy
of wedding presents np stair*. He
noticed there an elegantly attired
lady gaxlng Intently at n jewel case.
There was a jewel In It,'of course,
and a beauty of It* kind, blit he felt
it received all the admiration it called
for. When the detective lounged in
the lady floated out. Later on she
was back again when he chanced to
be called away. He was back again
In a twinkling and In time enough
to notice her tiptoeing out alone. He
slipped inside. The jewel box was
gone. Ho came out again to find
her going down stairs with hor wrap
on and a iittlc hand aatchcl at her
side. She omitted to present her re
spects, but went tocall her carriage.
He made np his mind at once and
oflbred to assist her down tho steps.
She took his hand, he noticed ner
vously, and with that he said cour
teously :
‘•Permit me to relieve you.madame.’’
and took the satchel in his hand.
They had not reached tho walk before
he felt the jewel case in it. lie call
ed her carriage and taking out the
box. handed her satchel back.
‘•Pardon me, tnadame, but you for
got to leave your offering behind you.
Never mind, I will replace it.”
This was all he said. Sho never
said a word. But she sank In the
carriage scat as though she was shot.
There was no publicity. But there
after the lady’s name was onrtled
front the card list ot tho house.
LEE AND GIANT.
(Atlanta Constitution.)
•‘Grant was the greatest soldier pso
duced by the war.” was the some
what unexpected remark given l>y
General Robert Toombs. “General
Lee was a very good engineer, a man
of fine family, a companionable gen
tleman, but he was not the man to
head a revolutionary army.”—*Con
stitution.
Whatever the high source of this es
timate of General Lee, there is not a
confederate soldier in all the land hut
will repudiate it as incorrect and un
just.
Ills a fact well known to even the
privates in the great army of North
ern Virginia, that in tho campaign
beginning at the Wilderness and
ending at Appomattox. General Lee
was the equal In strategy of the dis
tiugulscd general who commanded
the federal army opposing him; and
lids, too, with fewer numbers and
greatly inferior resources of war. At
tho Wilderness General Grant made
the heaviest and most determined ef
fort of his life with tho most for
midable army ever scut to menattce
Richmond. In that battle he hurried
his legions upon Lee with a well evi
denced determination toovcrwhelmcd
and crush the confederates then and
there. It was confidently hoped and
expected in federal army circles that
that battle would he final and* deci
sive. It was delivered deliberately af
ter ample preparation, with the view
of opening an obstructed road to
Richmond.. But General Grant was
driven hack at every point, and with
drew thoroughly vanquished from
that sanguinary field.
A few days later, and a few miles
further on, tho memorable struggle
at Spottsylvania was but a repetition
oftho Wilderness; aud as the cam
paign progressed Gen. Lee confronted
the well equipped forces of General
Grant and accepted battle whanevei
and wherevnr offered. And this,
too, with diminished ranks, while
Ills adversary received new levies
daily. The battle worn veterans of
Lee had neither rest nor recuperation
nor source of augmented numbers to
relieve fearful attrition from which
they suffered in each combat.
When the end was reached at Pe
tersburg, the army of the immortal
Leo was lengthened out to confront
Grant’s increased forces until it did
not amount to a skirmish line. The.
crisis came on the confederates right'
where federate broke through the
corps of A. P. Kill and allied that
gallant commander on the field. In
the desperat ion of the situation, Gen
eral Hill attempted a feat for which
the science of war had made no pro
vision—the beating back of massed
ranks with askirmish linot Human
endurance could bear no more. It
was a physicial impossibility, and
even the valor of a conspicuous for
deeds of valor went for naught. The
tension was toe groil. It broke the
confederate ranks, never again to he
united, and the hearts of it* people
alike! Theu and there the hopes of
as gallant an army as ever bore the
brunt of battle floated iulo thin air
amid the iraoke of desultory shots
fired on the retreat. Tills final scene
at Petersburg as the depleted ranks
moved out —“on Liuden when the
sun was low”. Appomattox quickly
followed, ot which volumes have been
written, and of the chivalrous con
duct of the lamented Grant on that
occasion. Of lids all breve confeder
ates speak in bated breath and would
place ehapiot* on his bier. Whatever
his merits as a military man, which
confederate desires to detract from, it
is duo to the truth of history to claim
that Robert E. I.ee was his equal, and
impartial historians will so record it.
In coming time the north wid hold
as a proud Ametican heritage the gal
lantry of Loo's veterans. It was too
colossal to bo despised. It forms a
a brilliant chapter in American his
tory. Costed.
The Springfield Republican tells of
Professor W. W. Bailey, of Brown
University, that he once had journal
istic aspirations. Armed with a let
ter ot Introduction to Manton Marble
then editor of the World, he started
for Now York. He was cordially re
ceived and engaged. The first day,
however, they gave the raw recruit
tho task of interviewing Tweed, who
was just beginning to bo investigated.
He got no interview. The second
day the read; “In
terview with Tweed—W.
Whitman Bailey.” Tho boy tried
hard, but oonkln’t reach Tweed, Toe
third day tho flashed up. Bailey re
signed and has had no desire to enter
journalism since.
Queen Victoria dislikes the memo
ry of her grandfather, George 111, so
much that she never visits the royal
park ar.d palace of Hew, his favorite
residence.
A Marvelous Story
TOLD IX TWO UTTXIS.
FROM THE SON: m fJSSZS:SZ
“ Gentlemen: Mj father resides at (Bam,
Vfc Me has been a great suffer.* from Kcrof
nla, and. the Inclosed letter wUI tall jo* vital
a mar retool effect
Ayer 8 Sarsaparilla
has had in hi* c*m. I think his blood most
bars contained the humor for at least ten
years; but It did not show, except In the form
of a scrofulous sore on the wrist, until about
five yean ago. From a few spots which ap
peared at that time, K gradually spread so as
to ©over his entire body. I assure you he was
terribly afflicted, and an object of pity, when
he beg in using your medicine. Now, there are
few men of his age who enjoy as good health
Mhe has. 1 could easily name fifty persons
who would testify to the facts in his case.
Yours truly, W. M. Pzuu.in.’*
FROM THE FATHER:
* doty for me to state to yon the beneOt I
hate destrad bora tha use of
Ayer s Sarsaparilla.
Six months ago I was completely eorwred with
a terrible humor and scrofulous sores. Tho
humor caused an Incessant and intolerable
Itching, and tho skin eraoked so as to oauso
the blood to flow in many places whenever
I moved. My suffering* were great, and my
life a burden. I ootnmeneed the use of the
Sarsaparilla in April last, od bavo used
It regularly since that lime. My condition
begun to improve at once. The sores hare
all healed, and I feel perfectly well in every
respect being now able to do a good day’s
work, although 73 years of age. Many Inquire
what has wrought such a cure In my case, and
I tell them, as I have here tried to tell you,
Avan's Sabsapartlla. Glover, YL, Oct.
31,1883. Yours gratefully,
J Mibax Phillips*
Aran's Bahsafavtlla euros Scrofula
and all Scrofulous Complaints, Erysip
elas, Enema, Ringworm, Blotches,
Sores, Bolls, Tumors and Eruptions of
the Shin. It clean the blood of all Impu
rities, aids digestion, stimulates the action of
the bowels, and thus restores vitality and
Strengthens the whole system.
PREPARED BY
Dr. J. C. Ayer A Cos., Lowell, Mast.
•old br Oil Drnszi.u, 11, els bottle, for |L
New York an* make a somewhat
queer explanation of tiie hissing of
the “Gale City Guards,” of Atlanta,
while that company was marching in
the Grant funeral procession. A cor
respondent says: “Many spectators,
in 'htir admiration of the soldierly
appeared :o of the Guards, allowed
their enthusiasm to manifest itself
sell in repealed cheer*, to repress
which in deference to the proprieties
ot the occasion, other people along
the line were moved to biss—not to
affront the visiting military, but to
teach tho former that what would be
’perfectly proper at a public reception
or on some fete day, was wholly mal
spropo* amid the solemnities of the
funeral. This Is the whole story, and
It I* a pl>y that so much has tccn
made of so small a matter.” It the
explanation Is not correct, It is cer
tain! y very ingenious.
A wise conclusion from the Thont
asville Times: “Pendleton says the
reason why more bacon was sold in
Lowndes county this year, than us
usual, iaon account of meat being so
low. It pays to make one’s own
meat—no nutter what the Western
prices may by.”
At Athens Thursday, the grand
jury found a true bill agaiust the oc
cupant of the old bank, in rear of Bn
ge'.’s store, for keeping a lewd house
The counsel for th* defense surprised
that body by summoning the foreman
a prominent church member, and a
bachelor farmer as witnesses.
A colored woman of Camilla be
came very angry at the baptism of
her daughter because tho minister
sprinkled water on her head. The de
gress consulted a lawyer and was re
conciled when she learned that it was
a part of the ceremony.
A Great Discovery.
Mr. Wm. Thomas, of Newton, la.,
says “My wife has been seriously aff
ected with a cough tor twenty-five
years aud this spring more severely
than ever before. She had used
many remedies without relief, and
and being urged to try Dr. King's
Now Discovery, did so, with most
gratifying results. The first bottle
relieved her very much, and the sec
ond bottle lias absolutely cured her.
She has not had so good health for
thirty voars.”
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