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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.
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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.
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