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WHOLE NO. 378. The Quitman Reporter ALLKN HIJO'S, PuO'iK. B. T. ALLKN. "’. A. ALLEN. TBMMS- One Year 00 gir 1 Three Months 50 All subscriptions must ho paid invariably n advance—no discrimination in tavor ol anybody. A cross (X) mark on the paper denotes that the subscription has expired, uud wo want you to renew RATES OF ADVERTISING. Eqrs IM. 2M. 3M. 6M- 12 M. 1 $2 50 $4 00 $5 00 $8 00 $lO 00 2 400 000 700 10 00 12 00 3 500 800 10 00 12 00 14 00 i col 700 10 00 12 00 18 00 25 00 * col 10 00 15 00 20 00 25 00 40 0 I col |ls 00 20 00 25 00 35 00 00 00 Advertisements inserted at the rate of SI.OO per square—one inch —tor first inser tion, and 50 cents for each subsequent in sertion, for three weeks or less. For a lon ger period the following are our rates: A square is one incn. These are our low est rates, and will be strictly adhered to. 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QUITMAN, (JA., THURSDAY, JUNE 10, 1880. BETTER LUCK ANOTHER YEAR. IIY THE LATE W. OII.MOItK SIMMS. Oh ! never sink ’ncoth Fortune’s frown, But brave her with a shout of cheer, And front her fairly—face her down— She's only stern to those who fear I Here’s “better luck another year!” Another year I Aye, better luck another year! We’ll have her smile instead of sneer— A thousand smiles for every tear, With home made glad and goodly cheer, And better luck another year— Another year I The damsel Fortune still denies The plea that yet delights Iter ear; ’Tis but our manhood that she tries, She’s coy to those who doubt and fear, She’ll grant the suit another year ! Another year. Here’s 1 ‘Better luck another year! She now denies the golden prize; But spite of frown and scorn and sneer, Be firm, and we will win and wear With home made glad and goodly cheer, In better luck another year! Another year! Another year! The Resignation of Gordon and Appointment of Brown. Edilors Albany Newt: The resignation of General Gordon and the appointment of Joe Brown by Govenor Colquitt are a perfect God-6end to few newspapers and to all those little fellows that itch to write. I say little fellows because nothing has been published from them yet that takes a comprehen sive view of the matter, aims at a single live issue involved, or does anything but vituperate, assert abuse without proof and parade those passions and prejudices that are the last barbaric relics of the late war. It is a little singular that these extraordinarily wise and Solomon scribblers have been so inconsistent and simple as to make charges with no proof to sustain them, but a mere guess or surmise of their own. They forget that the people of Geor gia will not allow her great sons and statesmen injured by anonymous writers, who have not even the fair ness to sign their proper signatures to the articles of impeachment that they prefer. It is charged that there was a bar gain between the three parties named. Leaving Gov. Colquitt nnd Brown out of the controversy for the pres ent, who is there in Georgia that would believe that tile noble, proud, chivalric, brave and battle-scarred Gordon would enter into any cor u'jLpt_har<pLuv w> a tpen. to. obtain the highest position that this country affords, private or public? Gordon has been faithful to even trust—on the battle-field when cour ageous pariotism walked with death, and in the Senate Halls, where even the extremists of the opposition par ty acknowledge him pure, spotless and true. He says he was no party to any trade. Who doubts him for a moment when he makes a positive assert' None that know him or his old veteran soldiers t®k : iN What act has he cotu ruitKy fair his useful life that in the least deviates from rectitude, or that would suggest a suspicion oven against his veracity? No man has or can authenticate a single one. But it is chaiged that because he bus resigned bis Senatorial office he must have made some corrupt bargain. Gentlemen who made this assertion are misanthropical in their views and underestimate human nature. Is it true that Georgia has sunk so low that even her noblest sou cannot retire form office except upon some corrupt trade; except he he bought to sur render it? Is it true that Georgia has sunk so low that the fact that her no blest son lias resigned au office to he even presumptive evidence of cor ruption and trading? Is in true that those we concede to be our best men have sunk so low that they measure the moral merit of everything by their own interest in it and stop at nothing until their own personal in terest in it has ended? Ido not be lieve it, and cannot believe it after the emphatic denial by all parties concerned. I believe that Georgia has patriots; patriots that stood by her in her darkest hour of need, that evidenced their devotion and love to her on the field of battle and in bet struggles in those trying times after the smoke of battle had cleared away and the hell-hounds and plunderers appeared upon the scene and made patriotic words dangerous to their speaker' Gordon and Colquitt were among these patriots and in the front when it was most dangerous to be there. But it is said that Gordon has betrayed his people because he re signed his office. He has been in the service of the people in war and peace since he was twenty-eight years of age, and his devotion to them has been unselfish, Will ha not now Deal lowed to devote his talents to the improvement of his private fortune, that is known to be but a paltry sum ? But it is charged that he resigned to obtain a larger salary in some department of private life. Well why not ? Has he not served his country sufficiently to be permit ted to serve himself and family a lit tle ? Must he be kept in an office, the salary of which barely sustains him in the dignity that the office requires of bins, while the fact is staring him in the face that if he should be taken from his family it would be left un provided for ? There can be hut one sensible answer. All that 1 have said concerning Gen. Gordon in relation to this trade ap plies to Gov, Colquitt and Joe Brown. They all deny the charges in uncertain words, and there is no proof against them. Colquitt could not possibly derive any beuotit from from it in any way, shape, manner or form, uuless Joe Brown had actually paid him money. I have yet to hear any one, even Gov. Colquitt’s bitter est enemies, make any such cliarge. Their chief cry has been that lie is a Sunday school man, too much chris tain to fill the office of Governor. We have progressed wonderfully iu this decade. We have gotten to where the simple fact of active and devoted Christianity is a disqualified tion for office. Give us more Col quitt’s, more noble, pious and Chris tian men in all branches of our Gov ernment and we will he nearer that political purity left us by our fore fathers than we are likely to be again iu many years, uuless this howl of anti-Christ shall cease. Colquitt is the lirst man iu Georgia against whom the fact of “Christian and (Sunday school activity” was ever urged as a reason why he should not fill au of fice. This very fact shows to what a stress his enemies are driven in or der to find charges against him. He is indicted for those virtues we teach our children are essential, found guil ty and a sentence of disqualification to hold office pronounced against him. Consistency, beautiful in the extreme. But it is said he has be trayed the people because he appoint ed Joe Brown. lam uo Brown man, and can see none of that grandeur about him that some of his ardent admirers claim for him, yet I do say this: If the Democratic party is riglt now, Joe Brown has been politically right all the time. He advised us to accept the amendments to the Con stitution of the United States and the situation generally, but we would not do so. W’e fought the amendments all the way through and ostracised, fyes, socially ostracised, those who wished to accept them, so hitter were we against them. Our platforms were full of these anti-amendment planks and we waged several political battles with them as the main issue, but we failed to gain anything by fighting them, because the results of the war made them accomplished facts. Compare the Democratic plat forms of those days with the subse quent ones and we will find that our position is reversed and that Joe Brown is consistent, and the same from beginning to .end. We have ■ha-kii4 Bv." u’s and. adopted it as our own, and with some effroutry say that Joe Brown has come hack into the party. The truth about the matter is, that the party has gone to him. We have gotten upon his platform, and after getting firmly seated there we attempt to ap propriate it entirely and kick him off. If we have boarded his boat is there anything very wrong in allowing him to pilot it a little ? There is another view about the matter. Ever since we failed to ac complish anything by making war on the proposed amendments we have beeu endeavoring to convince the North that we are in good faith ac cepting them and the results of the war. It seems to he the chief object of the Democracy of the South to convince the North that we accept the situation honestly and sincerely. If the party is honest in that regard, and I think it is, why should’t Joe Brown, the original acceptor of the situation, be as good a man to rep resent that policy as any one else? If the party is both sincere and con sistent, why isn’t he the very best ‘representative of that policy it could find ? Perhaps Governor Colquitt took this view of the matter. Ho could very easily have done so and not been wide of the mark. Then why censure him so much? To evince a spirit of conciliation didn’t w’e vote for Horace Greeley Didn’t we pass through the big house and go into the kitchen and bring out the black est Radical coon and vote for him, when he was greased all over with Republicanism and abolitionism ? Then should our stomachs get so del icate all on a sudden and heave at Joe Brown? Let’s wait and see if Gov. Colquitt has made a mistake. Let’s see what Joe Brown will do be fore we condemn him We confess now that he was right long before we were, and doubtless he will carry that same foresight and energy into the Senate that lias heretofore char acterised him. I wish it distinctly understood that I tun no Joe Brown man; hut I do think wo are wrong in abusing Colquitt for appointing him. We can say with certainty that he could have appointed a more popular man, but beyond this we cannot go. Logic. Citors in Alabama.- —Farmers who were iu the city on Saurday, says the Montgomery Advertiser, complain that there lias been too much rain, and that unless the rain ceases, the crops will suffer very greatly from grass, Some farmers also complain of a scarcity of labor and offer unus ually good wages for laborers for the next two months A manly man will acknowledge an error and make amends if he cun. A manly man will givo opportunity for such acknowledgements and re paration. The unmauly will neither repent on the one hand nor forgive on the other. A Great Enterprise. The Pullman Palace Car and the Alien Paper Car-Wheel companies will locate their works on the Illinois Central railroad between One Hun dred and Fourth and One Hundred and Eleventh st-roets, south of Chi cago. The improvement is a vast one, and will cost, aside from the land, >?1,250,000. The works of the two companies will occupy 1(50 acres. This will include between 300 nnd 400 cottages for employes, of whom over 2,000 will ho employed, and it is anticipated that a town ot at least 10,000 inhabitants will immediately spring up there. The works are tc he completed by October Ist, next. The machinery’will he moved by the great Corliss engine of 2,400 horse power, which was on exhibition at the Centennial Exposition in Phila delphia,hut has been lying idle ever since, because no work was found large enough for it. It cost $140,- 000. The grounds fronting on the track will be laid out in a park 300 feet wide, and broad boulevard will lead to Calumet Lake, ou the east. A little dredging will give tile com pany water connections with Lake Michigan, via the Calumet river. The Right of an OHicer to Kill. The Albany Law Journal has the following which will bo of great im portance to officers in the discharge of their duties, especially in the mat ter of escaping prisoners. The Jour nal says: While defendeut (in a case in the Tennessee Supreme court,) a constable was conveying to jail a j prisoner convicted of assault and hat- j tery, the prisoner attempted to es-l cape. To prevent the escape, defend-! ant, after giving the prisoner notice! to halt, shot and killed him. Held; that the homicide was not justifiable.; In cases where the person slain is ar rested or held in custody for a rnis-j demeanor, and be fly or attempt top escape, it will be murder in the officer! to kill him, although he cannot be| otherwise taken. Yet under some* circumstances it may be only roan-1 slaughter, as if it appears death was! not intended. It is considered bet-S ter to allow one guilty only of inisde-1 meaner to escape altogether than to take his life. ITiT Vish. - N. Y. Star.]' Ho stepped into a green grocer's yesterday morning with a vacant, weary, careworn look on his face. “I rever eat them. I can’t remem ber exactly wbat I came in for.” “Perhaps von want some coffee ?” “Ain’t it funny I can’t remember ?'’ remarked the stranger, as he scratch ed his chin with the hack of his baud and scanned everything behind the counter in a wild hut ineffectual ef fort to brush up his memory. “Do you want milk ?” “No, that ain’t it.” “Is it macareni, mustard, chow chow, soap or wine jelly?” “None of them sir'” “Possibly you want a small meas ure of beets?” “Indeed, Ido not.” Then his eyes sparkled and he said: “I have it now. I remember what I came in for; it all conies hack to me like a dream of love.” “What do you want ?” “Well, now, it’s as plain as day. Wasn’t it funny I didn't think of it before ?” “It was rather strange; hut what will you have ?” “You won't get mad, will you ?” “No, sir.” ‘Well, then, I’ll tell you. I just stepped iu here to ask if you’ll scratch my back a little for me; I have prickle heat.’’ lie wasn’t scratched, but had it not been for his activity ha would have been kicked. Education.— Every hoy should have his head, bis heart, and his hand ed ucated. Let this truth never be for gotten. By the proper education of the head he will he taught what is good and what is evil, what is wise and what is foolish, what is right and wrong. By the proper education of the heart he will bs taught to love what is good, wise and right, and to hate what is foolish and wrong. And by proper education of the hand he will be enabled to supply his wants, to add to his comforts, and to assist those around him. The highest ob jects of an education are, to reverence and obey God, and to love and serve mankind. Everything that helps us iu attaining these objects is of great value, and everything that hinders is comparatively worthless. When wis dom reigns in the head, and love in his heart, the man is every ready to do good ; order and peace reign around, and sin and sorrow are al most unknown. Savannah News: There are at preseut three vessels discharging cargoes of steel rail at the wharves of the Savannah, Florida and Wes tern railway, to-wit: The hark Frey, brig Atlanta and barkentme Steen from Rotterdam. This iron is being placed in the bonded warehouse, recently erected by the company, and comprises about 1300 tons. It is understood that the railroad to Waycross, and other purchases are expected. Some definite action will be taken probably the present mouth, after the decision by the United States Court in regard to the rail road commission. XJ~'Cr'o' vJj 1 'VO*"* Hats and Clothing. . i 129 and 131 Broughton Street, office: 39 A ,J‘J 'Ut V \ ill I' Broadway, N. Y. 0 M .1.1 A III) \if% April 1, ISS". ly Jk THE MbMT ABRAHAMS & SrIBAHI, RETAIL DEALERS J.\ OLOTIIING HATS, CAPS and v *M Gents’ Furnishing Gooda No. 158 Broughton StrquJM Savannah, ADVANCE IS ? of i*ia;\()| Didn’t we tell you so? .X| not high water ye® THIRD CALL 1 Piano manufacturers have raised prices on us three times in as many months, but we have nevertheless held to our old selling rates through it nil. We intended to light it out on that line but the lust ditch is close by—its a deep one -and ice have surrender ed. Five large manufacturers have to-day notified us of a fourth advance aud another likely to follow April 1. They claim the following advance in cost of production: Labor, 15 to 25 per ct. Rosewood, 15 per of. Iron, 150 “ Varnish, 25 “ Pine lumber,2s “ Glue, 15 “ Hard “ 20 “ Hardware 100 “ To sell longer at old rates involves direct loss. Wo therefore must announce upon our Mathusek, Southern Gem and Favor ite Pianos an advance of from $lO to $35 per style, Chickehing Pianos will be ad vanced April Ist $25 on each style. This is in Hi worst fit i<ta<raaiwKafr**igaß*iiMi wmnwvflaaiA*wiiJia',ii 1 Materials and labor are still going up. Immense strikes among piano makers are ill progress. Manufacturers are months be hind orders. America’s factories can’t sup ply half the pianos wanted. Large advan ces are yet to come. HE WISE IN TIME, Huy now and save twenty-five per cent. Those who wait for a decline will get very tired. It will bo years before old prices rule again. Those who need pianos within tin next two years should bnv as soon as possi ble. ORGANS Have not advanced but we can't tell what day they too will rise. The yeast is work ing and* they can’t be kept down Send your order now. Present prices areiuot guaran teed for even ten days alter this elate, March 10. 1880. LUDDEN & HATES, Savannah. Ga. Wholesale Piano and Organ Dealers. aprl-2m. **■ The i)A jd tie Muel.ijjjp greater i chine. Tgi ■>'V- * ' 1 ■ ll ■E• •|, V f Qi■VjY 1 -'.-4$ •• • i A ;;!." ’ .. ; till l. > v - r| Xf&fiygffll isTiu|ugHmHgsHnH -SBli&BHI ■'■ <’■ u’vnn. ',YY\\|| 1 ‘ A wBl (.HITMAN... -M?* \\ T K T \KP. :!.; •,-' \\ tlir pnUi,-. mi I t i‘olul:l< :ir. .1 :i -■ : TAX nil liimlslH suitable to the wants of the I lilies preferred, for which bcSgg will he paid. WYNN X BROOIS Quitman, On., Marcth 20, I‘- Tailoring in all Its Branches. To the Public? I take this method to inform the citizens of Quitman, and till the surrounding coun try, that I have located at Quitman perma nently; and am fully prepared to do ALL KINDS OF WORK that is usually done by FIRST CLASS TAILORS In as Neat Manner as can be found eleswhere, and at as reasonable prices. Give me a trial. Terms cash. Shop three doors east of this office in the building known as the Kintch Williams house. J. M. BROfIIM