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VOL. 11l
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Practicing Physician.
QUITMAN GV.
Office : Rriek building adjoining store
of Messrs, liriggs, Jelks A Cos., Screven
street. 0"
R. H. Robinson,
Physician ami Surgeon
Having opened an office opposite the
Mclntosh House, in the building formerly
occupied by Mrs. Black. oilers ins services
to any who may call. Office hours from y
to 12 o'clock ’a. m., and from 2 to 4 r. m.
Quitman, Ga., Felt. 2, 1876. 3m
Dr. J. S. N. Snow,
DENTIST.
OFFICE—Front room up stairs over Kiiy
ton's Store. Gas administered for painless
ly extracting teeth.
r-frCliargos to suit the times.
jan 1!), ly
Carriage, Wagon and Ihiggy
Manufactory.
The firm of Knight and Scarborough lias
been dissolved bv mutual consent. The
liabilities will be settled by the undersigned,
who will continue the wheelright, carriage
liiul wagon manufacture as before. Thank
ful for past favors he still solicits public pa
tronage. Work cheaper than over, and war
ranted. Try mo and be convinced.
■J. H. KNIGHT.
Xovemhei'3o, 1673.
flic <QMtHit ilcpilyllT.
The Fighting Editor.
AN ARKANSAS M'KCIMEJf ISUICK OP THE
OOOI) OLD DAYS.
Col. Horace Fcathei stock was
scarcely twenty-one when lie entered
the office of the Eagleville TriAVoek
ly Tomahawk and Mirror, and had
been there scarcely three weeks when
the summary and scientific manner
in which he ejected a powerful back
woodsman, who had ventured to re
monstrate against a savage personal
reference to himself, determined the
chief to appoint Feutherstock to the
arduous and responsible position of
lighting editor: a post which he held
for seven years with honor to himself
and credit to his paper. He was a
good shot, and similar in his sudden
ness to lightning. It is said that du
ring his stay in the Tomahawk office
he killed nineteen men. In fact, the
number of those who bltiendered in
their dealings with him was so great
that it became a current humorous
saying in the region that Feather
stock kept a graveyard of his own.
There lived in a neighboring coun
ty a gigantic and bloodthirsty ruffian,
who had often heard of the renowned,
lighting editor of the Tomahawk, and
having held his own, and sometimes
mole, with everybody he had ever
met, he resolved to go to Eagleville
and clean out the colonel. When he
appeared in the Tomahawk office lie
might, but for his great size and fe- j
roeious aspect, have been mistaken
for the drummer of a firearms estab
lishment All liis pockets were full
of assorted weapons, and his belt
looked like a fence withpistol pickets.
He stalked in with an air of brutal
insolence, and said to the colonel:
“Are you the Tomahawk’s fighting]
editor?”
The colonel modestly allowed that
lie was.
“I understand you keep a select
burving-ground of your own.”
“Yes,” said the colonel, “I must ad
mit that I do find it necessary to
keep a private cemetery.”
The ruffian reached down in his
right-hand outside coat pocket, and
i lifted an immense old-fashioned re
volver that bore a striking reeem
' bianco to a young Gatling gun. He
swaggered up to the colonel, and
banged the muzzle of the pistol down
I so savagely that it made a deep dent
;in the deck, and the words that ac- ;
companied the action were:
“Well, I’ve come to be buried in
that graveyard 1”
For the tirst (and last) time in his
life the colonel weakened. It seemed
to him that life lmd never seemed so
sweet as just at that moment —a sen
timent fostered, doubtless, by the
knowledge that he was standing face
to face with a man who was fully de-
I termined to kill him. But if for an I
instant his courage wavered, bis su-
I avity never forsook him, and he look- :
ed np with a smile:
“I am right sorry, my friend, that
I can’t accommodate you, but my
graveyard is full. There really isn’t
room for another one.”
“I was afraid you couldn’t find
room in it for me,” said the stranger,
and he wrapped his words in a sneer
i that made the colonel think that life
I wasn’t worth a cent. If the stranger
: had answered the colonel with plens
j ant words, he might have retired on
a great victory, but that sneer chang
ed the whole programme. The colo
nel reached under his desk to the pis
tol-shelf, and brought out a weapon
that looked like the elder brother of
j the stranger’s shooting iron. The
expression of his face was changed,
j but he went on talking in the same
I cheerful, measured way, just as
though without interruption he was
! adding to his previous remark:
| “But though that one is closed,
] full. I have just opened anew ceme-
I tery, and my sexton has dug a sara
j pie grave that I should think (here
■ lie ran his eyes deliberately along the
j stangor from his feet, to bis eyes, and
| fixed them there) would fit you.”
The stranger’s grip on himself was
; gone. The change had been too sud-
I den for him. Of all the crowd that
the altercration had drawn into the
room, the colonel was the first to re
alize the change, and most accurate
in his estimate of its extent. He pro
ceeded pleasantly and deliberately:
“Now, I may have conveyed to you
when you first came in that this is
not one of my regular slaughtering
days, hut at the same time if you in
sist—”
The colonel tugged at the hammer
of his pistol, but the lock was rusty.
Probably that rust saved the stran
ger’s life; he didn’t insist, but turned
and started off; and before the colo
nel could get his pistol to a full cock
the stranger was ou the other side of
the door, walking away, sad and
thoughtful.
The dearest object to a man should
be his wife; but it is not unfrequently
her clothes.
QUITMAN, GA., THURSDAY, MAY 11, IS7IL
Ti Men's Strength.
[From tlm Rirlitnond Dispatch. |
I A potent argument in his favor,
adduced by Mr. Tilden’s friends, is
the almost positive certainty that lie
I could get the large electoral vote of
the State ol New York. Time and
again have they offered this reason
] for his nomination at St. bonis. Sue
I how tempting is the bait. The South
ern States, ommitting South Carolina
ami including West Virginia, Mary
land and Delaware, cast BID votes.
California, Connecticut and Oregon
east 15. That makes 145. Only 185
votes are necessary to an election. So
that 10 more votes will elect the Pres
ident. These to New York and Now-
Jersey would almost surely give to
Tilden, New Y’ork having 35 and
Now Jersey 0.
It will be seen that Ohio, Indiana,
Illinois, Pennsylvania, and all the rest
of the doubtful States, and also the
States decidedly Republican, are omit
ted from this calculation, which thus
presents the case in the most favora
ble light for Tilden. It is assumed in I
making this calculation that the I
Southern States will vote fur any
candidate whose election would re
lieve them from Radicalism, carpet- j
bagism, and sealawagism, and this as
sumption is not all unreasonable. It
is hardly too much to take it for
granted that every one of the South
ern States, except South Carolina,
would cast its vote for Tilden and
hard money, or for Allen and green
backs, or for Hancock, or Thurman, 1
or Hendricks, or any other Democrat.
Um overruling consideration with us
is to get rid of a political incunibns.
So that there seems to lie lacking no
element of probability in the calcula-
tion made by the. friends of Mr. Til
den. Ho can carry New York New
Jersey, Connecticut, California and
Oregon, because he is a hard money
man and a reformer. He can secure
130 electoral votes in the South with
out reference to his opinions on finan
cial questions. This would elect him.
Why should he not be nominated?
These considerat ot s will tell with
powerful effect upon the delegates to
St. Louis. We have ourselves, not
been particularly anxious to see Til
den nominated. On the contrary, we
have been rather inclined to think
that he ought not to be so favored by
the party. But we cannot shut our
eyes either to the plausible view of
the ease which his friends take or to
the desirableness of having him for
President rather than the best of the
Republican aspirants.
But Tilden’s strong point may
prove to be his weak one. The very
facts which we have recited, and
which tell so strongly in his favor,
may have the effect of uniting his ri
vals in the Democratic party as
against him. Why should New York
vote for him and not for Bayard or
Thurman? Either of them is as de
cided a hard-money man as Tilden,
and either is as pure in life and spot
less in reputation. No good reason
c n be given: an l the other States,
which in 18(18 and 1873 gave up to
New York and nominated her sons
for President, will think twice before
yielding a third time without a strug
gle.
Centennial Vampires
A Warning to the Innocent who will
Visit Philadelphia.
Our friends from the enterior, com-:
ing up next month to the Oentenni-
I al, must expect to find many saliant!
I points in the exhibition of which no!
j hint has been given them in the pro
j gramme, or even in newspaper reports
Where the prey is, there will the
vultures be gathered together; and
I even at this early date, Philadelphia
i is the central point toward which not
| only pick-pockets and snffrance of
j the baser sort are bending their steps,
j but the higher class of confidence
men and women, that htippy-ga-lnclcy,
audacious, intelligent gang.who hover
ou the confidence of society, like rob
ber-crabs, living on their wits and the
Stupidity of other people. The World’s
Exhibitions in other countries have
always attracted professional free
booters, and they ‘appear- to be
especially sanguine of success in this
country, where money is supposed to
j be plenty and innocence unsuspicious.
Strange women in foreign attire al
ready puzzle the eyes of sober Qua
kers; the London detectives, who ar
rived last week, declare that they
meet as many faces familiar to their
Rogues’ Gallery in Chestnut street,
as they would in the Strand. The
neighborhood of the Centennial build
ings is set with every inducement to
vice; private houses are besieged by
new varieties of shameless beggars.
As the crowd|increases,the temptation
and chances of plunder will attract
more of these outlaws. We warn our
country friends that they will need to
sharpen their wits for other purposes
than that of sight-seeing. —New York-
Tribune.
Stopping Investigation-
The Senate, the Administration,
and the Ring courts at Washington
have all combined to defeat further
investigation into the frauds and cor
ruption which have thus far astoun
ded the country. The Republican
lenders perceive that if the exposures
continue to he made as they have be
gun, defeat at the Presidential elec
tion is certain. They know how
] much is yet concealed, and they dread
' tlfc consequences that must follow
new proofs of an organized system of
robbery and rascality, such as has
already been found in almost
every branch of the public ser
vice.
It would bo impolitic, and, in the
present temper of the public milul,
jierhaps dangerous to oppose investi
gation openly, as that, would be nearly
, equal to a confession of guilt. Hence
the leaders have proceeded insidious
ly'to effect their object and to tie the
blends of the people’s representatives
by artful expedients. They have
: caucused and sought to do by indirect
means what they would not dare to at
tain pt directly.
After the flight of Marsh to Can
aim, it became evident that, unless
w|tne.sseH were properly protected,
investigation would he checked, and,
hr fact, be made dependent upon
voluntary testimony. A bill was
therefore passed by the House to ex
tend immunity for the purpose of
obtaining evidence of frauds on the
Government, and exposing the cor
rupt complicity of officials. The Senate
has stilled that Dill and thus given its
protections to Rings and rob
bers.
Under the power of tho House to
call for persons and papers, no ques
tion has been heretofore raised above
producing originals from the depart
mental files in aid of investigation.
In many cases they are imlispcnstWle
for that &j.ect, since copies wonk*
furnish one cine to a variety of frauds
that have been perpetrated. Recent
experience has shown that many of tl(fl|
large claims passed through the Treas
ury and the Pension Office were sup
ported by forged papers. The Pres
ident has now issued an order fofbid
ding originals to he delivered to the
House. This is his method of
ing inquiry and shedding forgers and
conspirators from detection and
punishment.
The House of Representatives
ordered Hat.i.ktt Kii.bourn, one of
the most notorious of the Ring job
bers at Washington, into custody for
refusing to answer questions which
would expose the real estate pool in
and out of Congress; and now the
Ring court has released him, in defi
ance of the authority of the House to
restrain a witness in con
tempt.
Thus the Senate, the Administra
tion, and the Ring courts conspire to
gether to conceal the villainies of
Grantism, and to prevent the House
of Representatives from uncovering
the iniquities which are hidden in the
books and records of the public de
partments. It remains to be seen
liow far the House will submit to
these assaults. The contest is be
tween the people seeking honest
government and an account of their
money derived from grinding tax
ation, and a corrupt Administration
and its tools and confederates, striv
ing to throttle inquiry and to hold
on to their plunder. — X. Y.
Sun.
Congressional Humor.
Hon. Samuel S. Cox publishes in ‘
Why Wo Laugh the following excel
lent specimen of Congressional hu
mor, of a much better flavor than is |
common now-a-days: Mr. Buchanan :
was defending himself against the.]
charge of disloyalty during the war ]
of 1813. To prove his loyalty, he j
stated that be entered a company of'
volunteers at the time of the battle of
North Point, and marched to Balti
more. True, he said, ho was not in
any engagement, as the British liad
retreated before he got there.
Mr. Clay—you marched to Balti
more, though?
Mr. Buchanan —Yes sir.
Mr. Clay—Armed and equipped?
Air. Buchanan—Yes armed and
equipped.
Mr. Clay—But the British had re
treated when you got thorc?
Mr. Buchanan—Acs.
YLr. Clay—Will you bo good
enough then to inform us whether
the British retreated in consequence
of your valiantly marching to tho re
lief of Baltimore, or whether you
marched to the relief of Baltimore in
consequence of the British having al
ready retreated?
“Why did Herod kill the boy babies
of the Hebrews and not the girls ?”
asks a Sunday School teacher. “Please
sir; wasn’t it because lie objected to
the Hebrews and not the Sho
‘ brews ?
W hut Extravagance Leads To.
If the habit, now so prehilent, of
living up to one’s income, and even
beyond it, was productive of no more
harm than to cramp the parties guilty
I of such folly, and prevent all material
progress it would he bad enough.
But that is the least part of the evil.
Then comes the temptation to specu
late, and resort to disreputable means
to procure money, which sooner or
later ends in bankruptcy, both of
character nud estate.
There is still another direful conse
quence also growing out of this uni
versal extravagance, which acts most
injuriously upon the morals and hap
piness of society. \\ e mean its effect
m diminishing the number of mar
riages. Young men who spend all
they make upon themselves, cannot
afford to marry fashionable girls
equally as extravagant, but who are
portionless. The latter, likewise, too ]
often throw away their chances of
happiness by rejecting the suits of i
worthy young gentlemen, simply be-'
cause they are too poor to gratify all
their whims and fancies. Hence the [
number of those of both sexes who
are now wasting the fllower of their
existence in cheerless celibacy.
The following remarks of the Al
bany Argus are appropriate, and in
sympathy with what we have written:
“The country never possessed so
many beautiful marriageable young
women as it does at the present time.
And why do we not have more mar
riages? Me answer because mar
riage for love is the exception not the
rule. The voting people of this age
have gone fashion and money mad.
If the dandy bank clerk who pays
oue half his income for board and the \
other for clothes cannot improve his
condition he will not marry. The
shop girl who earns good wages and i
cannot be distinguished by her dress
from the banker’s daughter certainly
..will not plunge into matrimony unless ;
she can better her condition in life.
If a man is fortunate enough to pos
sess money, it matters not how old or
ugly he may be, hundreds of intelli
gent, handsome young women can be
found only too willing to become his
wife. Love is an after consideration. 1
They marry to be supported and !
dj* ssed extravagantly. How often
do wo hear the remark, “Better to be
an old man’s darling than a young '
man’s slave.” Alas! too many of !
them are not satisfied to be darlings.
They will persist in loving other men
after they are married.
It cannot be denied that a great
number of the unmarried men are ad
venturers looking for wives who can
keep them without working for a liv- j
ing. The peace and contenment of a '
happy home is not taken into cotisid
eration. They are willing to suffer a
hell upon earth if they can bo kept in j
idleness. If our young people do j
not abandon this extravagance of ]
dress and greed for money our coun
try will he tilled with old bachelors |
and old maids. AYe must have more
genuine courtships and marriages to ;
have prosperity and happiness in this j
world. Too many marry for money ]
only to he disappointed and unhappy j
the rest of their lives.”
Does it Pay to he Boss.
A young contractor in one of the j
large Springfield manufactories, in I
company with h;s wife, a sad looking !
little woman in threadbare clothing, ]
entered one of the town meat mar
kets one recent Saturday evening,
and, after gazing around for a mo
ment, the man ordered a soup bone
for Sunday. While it was being
wrapped up, a spruce looking young
man, with a massive gold watch chain,
attired in a suit cut in the latest fash
ion and SOO overcoat, entered, and
pompously ordered four pounds of
sirloin steak at twenty-fivo cents per
pound. The little woman looked
wistfully at the tender, juicy steak as
it was being cut oil, and then at the
bone which was to furnish her dinner
the next day, and turning to her hus
band, said:
“George, why can’t we have as
good meat as that man; he works un
der you at tho shop ?”
“1 know it, Jenny,” replied the]
contractor,, drawing himselt up to
his full height; “but lie's only a poor
bench workman and I’m boss, and its
worth something to boss, you know.”
‘•Y_ c -s,” said tho wife with a sigh, j
which said plainly that she would j
much rather he a poor workman’s j
wife and eat sirloin steak than the
wife of a “boss” and live ou soup.
When Powhatan smoked his pipe
while Pocahontas pleaded for the
original John Smith there stands—a
chimney. All that remains to mark
the grandeur of that event is a huge
stone chimney, by the side of which a
bleached child of the first family of
i Africa has built a cabin. Tho shades
of the mighty dead di n’t seem
jto loaf about the place worth a
cent.
(Yntciminl Hotel ( barges.
! | Pliiliul. lgUiii Letter to the Chicago Trib
une. ]
1 have taken the pains to visit more
than fifty hoarding-houses and ho
' tels wiihin ton blocks of the Pres.l
office, and the result of my search is
! that ia such houses as advertise this
| way, “Nicely furnished rooms, heat,
gas and bath, at moderate rates,"
not a room can be had after May I
for less than sl3 or sls per week. If
you want a room now the owner
makes the condition that after that,
date you will submit to tho “raise”
;or vacate. You enn gut them for the
present for $5 per week. People who
mom here can get table board for $5,
sti, and $lO per week. At four of the
second rate hotels new paper has been
put on the walls, a brass knoeker on
the door, and English porter engaged,
end prices are placarded thus:
On lin’d att. r May 1 boarders w ill have
to pay 812 per week, or vacate their rooml.
J . S. TANARUS., Flop.
A clean raise of $5 per week on
i “grub,” bought after the regular cus
tomers at market are served. Five
and six dollars a day will be the price
at all first-class hotels. At those ad
vertised as first-class near tho
grounds the Globe, for instance—
board will be straight $5. And it
would be dear at seventy-five cents,
' considering the risk. It is actually
criminal to build such a house for
people to lodge in—nothing but a
vast pile of dry pine kindling wood,
plastered on the outside. Putty,
paint and plaster hide all defecets.
During the recent hard rains half the
daub on the outside was washed off’,
and the porch is anything but inviting.
Perhaps Forney’s ! Vets will deny
this. Perhaps the Press will deny
that a few months since it endeavor
ed to get actual figures from all ho
tel-keepers as to charges, and failed—
meaning, of course, that these, gen
tlemen would charge whatever they
saw lit. Why not tell tho truth?
Charges will he made just as-great as
the people will submit to and stay. It
is said that owing to tho stinginess
of the council, tho water supply is
likely to fail this suinmor, especially
if a drought prevails. The water
supply if meagre far too meagre for
a city like this, what will it be when
hundreds of thousands arc added to
this population? And, still Worse, a
professor of something says that epi
demics almost always follow throat
and lung diseases, such as are now
'prevailing. Halt tho city is on tho
cough, and the other half is swathed
in red flannel. Between the charges,
the want of water and an epidemic of
some sort, the visitors will have a
tough time of it.
Romance of n Widow’s Life.
Among the death notices printed in
the New York papers last week was
that of a middle-aged Englishman
■who had only resided in this country
about six months. His history is
linked lo that of a charming widow,
well known in society, whose grief at
his loss is well-nigh insupportable, or.
would, be lmt fur one circumstance.
About eighteen months ago the wid
ow, who by the way was the wife of a
deceased wholesale grocery merchant,
made a tour of Enrolls in company
with the family of an Eastern rail
road king. Her own fortune consist
ed of the income from her husband’s
estate, which she accepted in lieu of
dower, coupled with the condition
that the estate should go direct to an
only sou- a lad about twelve years
old in case she married a second
time. On this European trip she met
the English gentleman mentioned. It
is the old, old storv. He wooed audi
won her, but she stipulated that they
must reside after marriage in Ameri-t
ca. He consented, sold out his busi
ness in England, and removed to
America last November. It was ar
ranged the marriage should take
j place the next month, but in Janua
ry the man was taken sick with ty-
phoid fever, and continued very ill
! for several weeks. He wont to Flori
da and found temporary relief. About
\ three weeks ago lie returned, bub an
j imprudent exposure brought on !Vre
lapse, and last week he died. In liis.
latter sickness ho was attended l>y his
affectionate wife with all the tender
ness and care possible. She had giv
en her heart to him so completely.
Unit his death gave her a terrible
shock. For several days she has been
| lying very ill herself, and it was not
until yesterday that her relatives in
dulged in hopes of her recovery. The
! salve which awaits her wounded heart
i when she fully recovers is a bank-bal
ance at Brown Brothers’ amounting
' to nearly $50,000 in money, bequeath
jed to her by the deceased in a will
| regularly drawn and witnessed, and
! about which she is 11s yet in total ig
j noranee. This information is derived
I from the lawyer who drew the will,
| and to whom the deceased communi
cated the whole of the story herein
briefly outlined.
No. 11.