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About Toccoa news. (Toccoa, Ga.) 18??-1889 | View Entire Issue (March 20, 1880)
TOCCOA NKW’S. HOWARD SCHAEFER, Editor. TOCCOA, GA : Ittiriiy Morning, March 20, 1880 There are 34,024,000 hogs in. the United States. Pork packing ranks ns the third American industry. The only law in Alaska is the United States revenue law. The Virginia Legislature has re¬ pealed the Moffett Bell Punch law. The Atlanta Constitution has turn¬ ed out to be a regular railroad pa- per. Tha river is so high at Columbus that all the factories have stopped operations. The people of the United States have already contributed over $1, 500,000 for the relief of the Irish. county T^iere who is a have young been couple married in three Pike years and have four children. Twins twice—all girlp. The directors of the North Geor gia Stock and Fair Association are already working for the grand expo¬ sition to bs given next October in Atlanta. A North Carolina couple, who are each over ninety years of age, desire to die at the same hour They have completed their funeral outfit even to their tombstones. The town of Louisville is one of the oldest in Georgia. It was one of the principal trading posts with the Indians many years ago, and was afterwards the seat of gov¬ ernment for the State. Hon. J. B. Hawley, assistant sec retaryofthe treasury, has resigned J. K. Upton, at present chief clerk of the dep irtment, will be promoted to fill the vacancy. Upton entered the department as first class clerk in 1862 . The effect of the proposed new law in South Carolina requiring ev¬ ery voter*to write his own name on the registry list will be to disfran chise 70.830 colored voters, and 12, 490, voters, a majority of the present v ting population. > The Comptroller-general has ra- sued fi fas against S. R. Hoyle and his securities for the balance due by him to the State as tax collector lor Fulton county for about §29,000. Mr. Hoyle left Atlanta about a week ago, ana has not been heard front since. A man by the name of Douglass made three unsuccessful attempts to kill Rev. R. C. Foute, of Sc Philip’s Church. Atlanta, last Sunday. The reasons assiened by him were that Rev. Mr. Foute had persuaded his wife to Boe him for a divorce. He ia now under bond. Miss Julia, only daughter of Stone- wall Jackson, is a pupil at the school of M'ss Carey, in Baltimore. She is jnet sixteen, with her father’s nose and marvelous eyes. She is modest and retiring, perfectly easy iu her manners and exceedingly popnlar with her schoolmate?. The Athens daily Banner comes to us this week considerably reduced in sise, owing to a want of patronage. Dr. Carlton and his associates have worked like trojans to give Athens a daily paper, and it is to her discredit to a«e the present enterprise prove a failure. A counterfeit ten-doilar legal ten¬ der note has just male its appear¬ ance, series 1875, check letter C. John Allison, register, and John C. New, treasurer. The note is dark in appearapee, and the paper is heavy, and the imitation fibre is made by engraved lmes. Bankers, merchants, shopkeepers aud all others will do well to look out for these notes. “The conspiracy against Senator Hill,” is what the whole matter of scandal is now called. Northern pa- ptf* are filled with columns of the vilertStuff, aud the attempt to break the power of his influence is backed by th$ Radical press everywhere.— Pr<d)ably Senator Hill’s friendt made a rhi strike in charging that Kellogg was at the bottom of the con- Spiracy. There does.out seem to be any clear foundation for this charge, and of course its being made reerdh'd badly. Railroad Combination. This is the ago of railroad combi¬ nations, aud mammoth operations Huge and extended schemes for turning trade into one channel rise like a schoolboy’s soap and water bubble, georgously tinted, only to suddenly collapse and meit away in to thin air. These schemes are managed by shrewd men to fill their own pockets while it depletes the pockets of others. It is not of such a combination that wo would write, but one higher and nobler in its re¬ sults. It is a pleasure to rec.ird the efforts made by one railroad corpo¬ ration to build up the couutry aud benefit the people. That corpora¬ tion is the Atlanta <fc Charlotto Air- Lino Railway. A brief mention of what it has done and is still doing may not he amiss, and will fully Bet forth our position. While the pi licy of some corpo¬ rations h is been to ignore the people and country along their line, and that, too, ivhen the stock was held by many of the people thus ignored, the Atlanta & Charlotte Air-Line, from the very first day of the f resent man- age in sat (although owned by parties residing in other States far from its line), has sought to build up aud do¬ ve op the country iu every possible way. The liberal and wise policy pursued by them has resulted in the general growth and prosperity of the entire section traversed by it. What was a terra incognita before, is now attracting the attention of the whole civilized world. Every branch of enterprise and industry has felt its beneficent touch, thrilled, in re¬ sponse, to a healthy activity. Na¬ ture has distinctly marked it as the great iron artery binding the East and th# West, and North and South together. It is a grand missionary carrying with it Christian civilization and permanent progress. It is worthy of note that the man- agement of this road, while they are broadly benevolent and Catholic in their charity, believe it to be their duty “not to encourage vice and im- mortalitv ” This is right, for vice and im mortality degrade, and degra- dition is retrogression and ruicr The have not stepped at tbss, but .do all they cau to fencourage virtue, in- tegrity and mortality. This line has been the leader in giving reduced fares to the people; in giving reduced rates to all reli- gums assemblage-; in endeavoring to get rates equalized from the West, back to this section as well as out there, and in every way labored to do justly by all men. With lavish hand they have advertised the excel lencies of this section, and are now engaged in registering lands for sale to be published and distributed throughout, the world at their own expense. Not long ago the General Mana- ger urged the the pastors of the city to deliver a series of sermons to railroad men on consecutive Sundays, and the pastors promptly agreed to d 0 it. This is the right kind of railroad combination for tha country, aud is the result of the fortune selection of the right kind of men to conduct its affairs. Wheu the present company took hold of the road they selected for Presid ent Mr. Hiram W. Sibley, of Rochester. N. Y. a young m an of fine culture, clear head, well-bal- ancedmtnd, and spotless reputation, The management of the affairs of a railroad were new to him yet. As he conducted with signal s uccess some of the largest farms in the West, perfect confidence was felt in his executive ability. The result of his management for three years has fully attested the wisdom of the choice, and, to-day, while unostenta¬ tious aud unpretending, no railroad president can show a brighter record or grander results from his labors. The road-bed and equipments were in bad order and not up to the mark. In casting abo t for a Gen- e>al Manager, the company selected one whose reputation is known throngbout this country and Europe, as one of the best railroad men to be found—a self made man, of rare equipoise of mind, quick m percep- turns and prompt iu fits actions. That man was Col. G. J. Foreaore. As soon as Col-. Fv> re acre took charge, he at one, put the road bed in soli i order, equipped the sad in first class style, aud was ready lor business. His knowledge of hu- man character is wonderful, and his selections of men prove his fore¬ sight. liis vigilance over the inter¬ ests of the road, and for the prdteo tion of the people as well as the road, is Unceasing, and his active brain ever at work devising new improve- tuents and attract ions. One of the important of railroad service is the department. To that position Maj \V . J. Houston was called, aud the world may be suc- cesefully challenged to show a de- parment run with greater success at so little an expenso. Major Hous¬ ton is known arid esteemed as a Christian gentleman, “whose word is as a bond,” and "Whose career as a railroad maD contains no blemish. Gan a higher encomium be paid any man? Col. R. D. Carpenter, the Gener¬ al Freight Agent is built on a solid model. His knowledge of the laws of trade and the w,auts of the people, him to make bis dedartment tbe most successful and popular in the South. Capt. Harry C. Ansley, the Audi tor, is recogniz ul ns one of the bus¬ iness men. He is a young man of great probity of character, and his fidelity to trusts confided to him is that “of the needle to the pole.” Capt. Lewis Reneau, the Paymas¬ ter, was for a long time a popular conductor on this line, aud was pro¬ moted for his efficiency. He is a gem of a paymaster. Major J. J. McLendon, a popular and esteemed citizen, is the at the freight depot—the “noblest Roman of them alt.” The Conductors are all popular for the management seeks to have gentlemen only engaged iu their ser- vice. Success to this “Combina- tion .”—Christian Index. q{jr WASHINGTON LETTER- (From ontj regular .Correspondent ) Whatever else m .y be said of Sec- re, ary Schnrz by those who dis ike him, mi »tt be admitted by all thait his management <r tbs’ present Acuities with the Wte Indi ns beeu admirable, anfe 'successful, 3 far as results can nrpe be estimated*. ^ was 110 small job to induce these to give no those of their number accused of crime, and to prevM upon them to surrender their broad reservation and hunting pounds, held in common, lor. 160 acres apteco to be held in severalty, and open which they must settle to tilling the soil for a living, But this, in aubstauc* and in brief, ' s wb at they have agreed to. Tbi» is fil "d settlement with any tribe without giving them a reservation in the old way, but all the chiefs now here befit vn the terras will be promptly acc ipted They are to have, in addition to the 1GJ acres of each, annuities same as now amounting in all to about §75,000 per year to be divided amoDg them. The territory to be surrendered by khe Indians contain about half the erea of the six New England States, Some of it contains vast mineral de posits and some of it is good graz- ^ a S ground. Probably the reserv.i tio n system will bo hereafter abin doued by the Govermeut in dealing with Indians. No part of this coun tr y caa be a wilderness to fur aisb hunting grounds for nomadic ^ibes. We might as well talk of beeping a pub ie ccw pasture m the heart of a great city as to attempt to preserve vast tracts of country from the foot of the white man, while towns, cities and States grow U P around such resar vations. The decision of the Supreme Court ia the cases iuvolvmg the Constitutionality of the Federal election laws was anticipated, and therefore surprise's nobody. Tue Ceurt as at present constituted can he ielied tip t ou sustain any iniquity of the Radical party. The Supervisors and Marshals lav being thus de- dared Constitutional, Congress will at once pass a deficiency bill cover-. ing the cost of these officers iu last year's elections, acoor ling to the re¬ turn made tne Attorney G •d a «t luuie may Do some protests ou to Democratic side, L the uoerat io policy m/tb pass 'all appropr tious necessary to tire e Xacu.t ton even bad uwi if "line party is strong to repeal th.-m. and if on proper trial the Court declares them to be Constitu¬ tional. The appeal will be to the people, to authorize and effect the repeal of these laws at the n< x' el c tio ■. There is, however, • o be a- eff >rt to modify these laws by limi- ting the number oi Marshals enr- their powers of arrest and tarrie of service. Tne Inter-Oceanic Canal project has been a live topic iu Washington dle last week. The presence bun¬ of I)e Lesseps and of Captain Ea Is both of whom appeared logive th ii views to Congress, occasioned new interest in (tie scheme, or schemes I should say, as each of these di.stiu finished gentlemen has an entirely different plan. De Lessens propos¬ es to cut a Canal through the Isth rnus from Ocean to Ocean, or from the Pacific Ocean to the Carribean Sea, whose waters are on a level with each other. This would tie- teOssitate a huge tunnel through the range cf mourn ains which constitute tiie back-bone of the Isthmus. Cup- tain Eads proposes an nnmensi truck way with hoisting machinery at each end, by which vessels and their cargoes may bo lifted out of the water, taken across the land and let down again. His theory is that this would cost less than the canal and ensure greater speed, But I think the preponderance of senti¬ ment favors the canal if it can be coustructed under American control, in acco dance with the “Monroe doctrine” about wh.chwe have heard so much, Count de Lisseps gives his adhesion to this doctrine and confident of obtaining all the fi nancial aid required. The Republicans hero stuck to their purpose to mako a bitter par- tisan question of the Fitz John Por- ter case, chiefly because they re - gard that as the only chance they will have this session to fire off their mouths on the old sectional issues. A caucus of Republican senators the wtber morning decided to keep it up and make the most of it. This ex- b ' b ’ ls a depth of party degradation J-hafc has never before been displayed i n , such tbe Senate d.Wsiod the United States cSncns had been cached on a legitimate partisan is- sue, some excuse might be offered for it; but for Senators who are aet- »»R a3 R rave H*®* to decide an is «"« of individual rights involving m° re than life itself to a soldier of the Republic, is simyly monstrous. It is notice to the nation that the staternanship has fled from the minority of the Senate and that, justice had no claims which a partisan Senator i? bound t> respect No question presented to that body during the present generation, ex cepting the impeachment of the President, so strongly appealed to the impartial justice of Senators as the question of tne restoration of Fitz John Porter, anil it is a mock¬ ery of dignity', decency and fairness for the presumed leading lights of national authority to rush into cau¬ cus to decide how they can make party capital at the cost of jus¬ tice. If all the bills favorable to the Ag¬ ricultural Department now before Congress pass, why, Le Due will be “a bigger man than old Grant, or anybody else. The cattle bill makes Secretary of State and Treasury subordinate to him; the “sugar beet cu.'gives him $o0,00J to dispose of 8,3 h ® deems fit; ai other bill makes hlm a Cabinet officer; anether a branch department at Annapolis; another a vast tea garden, and so, ad libitum But, theD, the bills have not passed. Phoxo. The “business boom” has strucs the newspapers a Daekhanded blow. The cost of white paper has advan¬ ced 40 per cent., and there has been advances in all the other departs meats. The cost of publishing a newspaper now is nearly a thiid greater than it was six months ago. In St. Louis all the papers except the Post Dispatch have raised their prices to $2.00 per year, and the chances are that if the cost of publi- cation incresses, or even continues at the present rate, there will be a genera! Iv.moe. ----—<;<*--■ O io farm m Ogiettiorpe county oas 300 bales of last year’s cotton crop ou hand. »»KAOCRATIU EXECUTIVE COMMIT¬ TEE. failed to Meet la Atlanta on the 30th of March. Marietta, Ga.. March IT, 1880 — The mernb -i'R of the democratic exe- cn’ive committee of the S ate are Hereby called to assemble iu the city of Atlanta, on Tuesday, the S3 J h of the present month, for the tnvsac- tion of important business e unmet ed with the interests of Inf d mo era ic party an 1 the people of the Statm Malit r-i of prime itu > m auce ire to be considered and ac edupon, and it is, therefore, desired hat there should be a full meeting of the committee. Lot. us have no prox i.-s, but let every member be person* ally present, ready and faithful to discharge the duties imposed upon him by the preference and coufi dence of his party friends and asso¬ ciates, Tne place of meeting will be the commodious aud elegant breakfast-room of the Kimball house, which the proprietors have generously tendered for the accom modatiou of the committee. The hour of the meeting will be 10 o’clock a. m. I append hereto a full list of the committee. Geq. N. Lester, Chair¬ man. E. Y. Clarke; Secretary. F >r the State at large: H P. Ball, Forsyth county; John C. Nicholls, Pierce county; J. L. Warren, Cba- , liain county; E Y. Clarke, Fulton co unty. First district: J.- J. Jones, Burke coun y; Josephus Camp, Emanuel C uuuty. Second district: A. T. McIntyre, Thomas county; W. A. Harris, Worth county, Third district: Junes B. Hinkle, Sumter county: Marshall J Hatch- KVy Macon county, Fourth district: M. H. Blandford, Muscogee county; J. T. Waterman, Troup county. Fifth district: W. T. Trammell, Spalding county; W. L. Gunn, Houston county. Sixth distric : J. M. Pace, New- r«D couuty; W. W. Turner, Putrnau county. Seventh distric, P. M B Young, Bartow county; J. A. W. Jobmoj, Whitfield county. Eighth district Miles \V. Lewis, Greene county; Paul C. Hudson, McDuffie county. Ninth district: G. M. Netherlaud Habersham county, deceased; W. E. Simmons, Gwinnett county. Democratic papers of the State please copy. The Grand Army of the Republic aids in the support of the orphaus and widows of its deceased comrades, and thus thrown ever these helpless ones the broad shield of the protec tion of its poweiful organization. The sad fate of the ten little babes of Geueral J. B. Hood, (who lost a fortune of over $100,000 by the sud den depreciation of tha State bonds of L uisiana, and wbos s wife and himself died of yellow fever in the same weak last summer at New Orleans,) h is prorated the soldiers who were under bis command to announce their adoption but it is probable that a better guarantee for their care, nurture, support and ed ucation is afforded by the publication of the great book of war, (the fullest history of the inside, so far. from the Confederate side,) left by Ganer al Hood, and now published by Gen¬ eral Beauregard on behalf of “The Hood Orphan Memorial Fund,” which is carefully invested io the loans of the United States. Gen. Gartrell is so busy with his booming law practice that he has no time to spare iu political maneu¬ vering. But that is all the batter—• the people of Georgia are looking af¬ ter his inierests vigilantly, and our exchanges show that the gallant old patriot is the favorite for Governor in every section of the State, from the mountains to the seaboard.— Con ijers Weekly. The Macon Telegraph has started a new puzzle, which is an easy one The secret is to make both ends meet, and tne iiiVcuter thus describes it: “if a man can’t make both ends meet, let him sit down on the end of a shaky barrel. When the head caves in iho problem will be solved to his complete r iS fa For the first time in the history of Washington, says an Io-va corres¬ pondent, a member of the House has come here with his wife, and they have gone into the lucrative business of taking boarders. Nit merely a “fe-y friends for company.” They have gone about it in the most cold-blooded and business-like way —advertising It is all right, of course, and much more reputable than some of the ways Congressmen have of killing time, here, but it strikes Washington as a trills odd. Cmterfeit one hundred dolla r bills are in existence on the follow¬ ing banks: National Revere Bank, ot Bjston ; Pittsfield National Bank, of Pittsfield; Merchants Na¬ tional Bank, of New Be'f >rd, Mass., Second National Bank, of Wiikes- barre, Pa:; National Batik rt Com¬ merce, of Pitt3l-nrg, Pa. The cohb- terfeits are so edmira ly executed that they are liable to deceive even experts. Henry Ch.y is postmaster at Jamestown, Va., the oldest post- office in the old thirteen States Letters have beeu delivered there in vome form or otlrar for 2S3 years, and yet the salary is only §51 per annum. I'be Cincinnati excursionists ar¬ rived safely the night of the 17tb, and wire warmly welcomed by a cotnm iit> e i f 4C0 citizens. The city was brilliantly .’I'emirated wi'b fire¬ works, nnd th - banquet was said to be the finest «ver seen in America. The majority report of the Senate Privihges and Elections Committee in the Kellogg case, was made yes- terd y, rnd he will pick up bis car¬ petbag and walk. Spoffoid will taka his seat. Senator Hill made the re¬ port. The oldest surviving C mgres-man is 11 n. John A Cutbb»r*, now a practicing lawyer in Mobile Ala.— He was born in Savannah, Ga., in 1789, and represented ueorgu in Congress in 1819 ""* y>'(,d J ,much TJSour spues .thi8 week t-» *he p.iMicalTou of an article on “E ulroad Combina’ions ” It 18 a deserv-d cimpli.neut paid to an exc- ilent road and worthy officers. Read i'; it will be f u id interesting. In N - v Y <rk n baby is born every fifteen minutes, ni d a d mb r ecurs eve.y seventeen miuutrs. In Lon¬ don, a birth occurs every six tninuus, and a death evi-ry eight. Ab )’it 335,300,000 g-.lions of beer were manufactured in the United states in 18(59, and 1 245,500,000. gallons in Great Britan. Within three years, in the famine district of Brazi , 200,000 persons have died of starvation and 300,000 of pestilence. A new county has been formed iu Virginia named Stonewall, and the county site called Jackson, in honor of the great Confederate general. The Alabama rivor is on a big boom. It overspread the fields and wood i for four or five miles. GEORGIA, HABERSHAM COUNTY. Benjamin F. Church lias applied to we for exemption ot personalty, and voluation and setting apart of homestead, and I will pass upon the same at my offiee in Clarkesville. Ga.. on the ICth day of Match next at 12 o'clock M. It. N. GROVES, Ordinary. March 20, 1830. The Nobbiest Paper Out! THE ACANTHUS, ATLANTA.......GEORGIA. Tlic only illustrated young folks' paper is¬ sued regularly at the South. Now in the third year of its publication. No family should be without it. Contains beautiful Stories, prettjr Poems, Sketches, Essays, a Letter Box, Puz¬ zle Box, an Open Eye Club, and everything else to interest and instruct. From twenty- five thirty dollars worth of prizes given each month. Send seventy.five cents for one year’s sub* scription, or one dollar for sixteen months. Address, THE ACANTHUS. Or Annie M. Barnes, Oct25tf Atlanta Ga. WANTED. of A active, LIMITED energetic NUMBER canvass i-rs to engage iuuii In a pleasant aud profitable s illS \iC a ■. t men wilt find this a rare chance TO MAKE MONEY S icli wiii pfeaso answer this ndvnrtisi- men by Jetts r. ciHMwiing- antwp ■I’jr reply, matois what bu:’ii;in.-ui ti V havi iK-cii .-ngagtal ic.— N' nm “ ut thews'* h« n» an h'lfhn.;:; net J a ii- I'tNll V IlAMH A
