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is THERE ANOTHER TION FORMING? Macon telegraph. V he people of Georgia are quite fam liar with t.l e i & onnel and*pur- o it ion tor undated .by Pat ■>‘*n kUtou at the Markham IIouso conference Newspaper discussion on the subject has almost become wear! ;oiru‘. But there are hints and rumors and inueudoes, and even more tangible evidences than these oft-times airy nothings, that another coabtion has been formulated or a very serious attempt is b»g made to formulate one For weeA’s past it has been given out sotto voc *. or in a sort of semi-undertone, that the triumvirate Brown, Colquitt and Gordon, wore si; ling by turns on a political nest full of eggs. Regular semi-weekly publications have found their wav tlirouqli the press U, the public the State librarian, one of the ernor’s kitchen cabinet, while organized pay, could find time to prophesy regarding the certain coming triumph of an /mh-pemlent partv, of which he seems to be a consul r-ble portion. Only a few days sines and Potash Farrow, a notorious Radical politi¬ cian ot’devious wn\ v, and reputation, pubbs .c i the fact that he an 1 G >v- ernor Co'qu/U fa I c ly visited ashington l ity wi - :;r per pose, via: To offer to Mr. Stephens the Governorship of Georgia It may be sai i that any statement mad • by' Farrow needs corroborative proof to re ivc it, circulation, The proof d ■J not s em to be lacking. e have been informed on what we deem indisputable authority that Gov. Colquitt h s reoen propos el to (Jen (>or<l0n a e > ru e* with Gov. Brown w a view of bringing . r. Stephens as a candidate for Governor. It is a matter of notoriety » } * •; f G n. or ion though one of the for. n t and most successful rat road *1 ulators in the country, spends a g ><> ilv portion of fin time about \\ a-diington, jn-,t as many old top am who have sworn off hang around bar room* within hearing of the rattling of the glasses and near enough to catch the aroma of gin and sugar nj [ Vl , ( p Gov. Colquitt.has recently male quite a visit to t ie capital city. This fact- of itself alone goes hut a little way towards constructing a chain ot events, for the reason that our magistrate is very nomadic in habit and will follow the beat of a drum or the toot of aoampmecting born with the same zest and alacrity that a pointer dog will run after a man with a gun. Taken in connection with Farrow’s statement, however, it helps to forge a link. . bile fchesf things have been going on, one Elder Hook, of the eastern portion of t he SfctTe. has been doing active guard duty over the formulated coalition of Parson Felton, and has exhibited as much pugnacity as a gander in setting season, whenever anyone proposed to examine the thing too closely, Tne Elder has a son, w ho in the midst of these mys¬ terious movements finds time to wr,to a letter to Mr. Stephens, which has found its way into the public prints. > e give an extract from the most pertinent portion of the document as follows : Bis I said, Georgia wishes to honor you her young men, fresh upon the stage and unfettered by any allian- cos, want in their fu*st act to express tneii almba.ion, love an.I ie\e.cnce for your noble exa nple—the middle aged men iu thvir strength and ma- tur.ty oi t..eii judgment wish to tcst.fy to 3 0111 greatness an! power uer old men by their last.act want to your hto 0* purity and and as I said in my last letter, it you will only let us put your name for Governor at the right time, you will b : boi i.e imo the office on a per toot tidal wave <n pauiooic enthusiasm, Then, as l said before it you do not feel equal to the duties of the office, yon will have a clear roa 1 to the ted States Senate, in which and respectable body the people Georgia wouui lii\e to s 2 e you/ It would seem that vir. Stephens is in great demand. Eider Hook, if we may be allowed the expression, and other ‘unfettered’ young men want him for Governor and •Middle aged men in their strength/ wc suppose on account of their strength they must be unfettered also, rn OGCOA NEWS. i J3L By id * SCEEAFER. 1 VOL, IX. want him. ‘Old men’ want him.— Indeed it woul 1 seem, as is said in the circulars accompanying ‘Bull’s Cough Svrup/ that all the family want him, and the children cry for him. It isa tribute to the hold which Mr Stephens has upon the affections and confidence of the people of Gcor- ia - wl,icl1 1,0 has won in “ lon f u, > honorable public career. But all tl,om can't have him at once m the same way. Elder Hook, junior, and Potash Farrow might agree wonder- fully well as to how they woi.l<> have him. but the young unfettered me..' and the ‘middle aged’ and the ‘old in in might not agree upon terms. We cannot exactly see how Gov. Colquitt, Gen. Gordon and Governor Brown would agree with Elder Hook Potash h arrow and the young old a;i I iniddli aged men. The further we I00A into it the more sa 11 y we become mixed up about tiie whole affair There can be no doubt about the fact that Elder Hcok, junior, and Potash Farrow want him very badly. Without the aid and 00 operation of Hyphens, their clnonie want of vhe pleasures and proriis of office will become insufferable. The formulated coalition can gain no strength, can take no step forward save by the i dorsement. of its plans and purpo¬ ses by Mr. Stephens. lie has given no sign*that the thing appeals to any extent to bis wishes or judgment. But why should Gov. Colquitt, Clou. Gordon and Gov. Brown want him? Has any one or the whole of this distinguished triumvirate any ‘special purpose to gam b} r has ing eli . Stephens run for Governor? Are there no capable, hone^f gen- tlcraen in the De.novK.t.e pau\ <.t Am v. no »vil< be sat im.-cuoi 3 j-° L ? e triumvirate sav2 Mi. Stephens, it has faded to reach us it Mr. Stephen* desires to relinquish his present po ition for that of Governor. If he iocs harbor such a desire, doubtless l lie re are many Democrats who stand ready and villing to gratify him by their is 1 1») j) o r 0 It would afford us -reat pleasure to support him as the nominee of a Democratic convention. But ii’another coalition is to be for¬ mulated, the public should know up¬ on what basis and for what reason it is deemed neeessaiy at this junet- ure. Govcruor Colquitt is serving out a long term of office upon him by the Democratic party, Governor Brown has reache 1 a very high and honorable position through the same channels « Mr. Stephens is occupying a place of his own selection as a Democratic Representative. Gen. Gordon ot ins^ own accord, without notice of expiauation, left a position in which he was placed at lbs own urgent request, If there are reasons why they should now go to work to ’ formulate a coalition, it is due to the Democraey of Georgia that the) ^honidbt, 1 1 0i (.haigcd uuu c acquainted that . a coa w Lion n i t »em •- been iormulated, or isin that piocess, but we have m&Um facus waieh gi\ ^ roum ness to tue 111 mors a oat in tins connection. It is ia 01 del fin s )me one to use an 1 explain, the colums 01 tat 'itle- graph and Messenger aie open. ~ llc esca l )G °i ollc om ijU e ‘ troin the gallows, atter bG deliocrate murder of Judge Eliott-, has been com learned in the Kentucky legisla- ture anf j a f orraa ] expiession of gc * 1 L 1 verdict ^ v s all but secu.ed. A resolution to cicct a monument to Elliott was introduced, and the preamble asserted that he had been ‘shot down and murdered in the sight of the Capitol by the ruthless hand of an assassin, whc escaped just punishment under the guise of the recently popular plea insanity/ Devoted to Xews, Polities, Agriouiture aid General progress- TOCCOA, GA., M ARCH 18. 1882. THE HERO OF ALL. Gath's Pen Picture to Cin. Enq. Forty miles .. or so north of _ ,, Maeo^ is . Jill ledge , ville, ... where , tlie ,. of - secession was passed. „ Howell , Lobb .... unquestionably ,. . , the leading , j. was \ actional . to .* while ... man urge it on. Joseph y . E. y,, Brown, the ., Governor, ~ was the most precipitate . .. . secessionist . ^ in . the South ; he wanted, they say, to become the president of the Confeder. acv, while Cobb's heart was already broken, failing to become president of the United States. Meantime the Fallatalf ot the State md the most perfect representation of Fallstaff the United States has ever produced in public life Robert Toombs—wanted to be either president of the Confed¬ eracy or commander-in-chief of its army. At this recollection the most sensitive Confederate is fain to smile at the ludicrous side of a revolution with such pretensions. Meanwhile A. H. Stephens, not to be left behind in eccentricity, got up and made the corner-stone speech, saying to the Christian world in effect. We are going to make liberty an imputation, and slavery the light of Christ’s world, so recognize and despair !• Such were the four leaders of Georgia into secession. At that time Brown was'a new quantity, made Governor on a, compromise—in reality, on a shrewd plan, he being a muster of accidents, and going around with a saw of nigh!s to saw nearly through the limb where some contemporary peacock is roosting. Joseph’s favorite weapon is the hand saw. Brown played with the war as a political opportunity. To Toombs it was nothing but the circus fire ^nd the clown in the presence of a large audi- euco . (, 0 Q^bb it was the end of portunity, the flight from Paradise, He loved the places of honor and [lower around Washington, and had joined in the great game of bluff, stacked by his two hundred to three hundred negroes, till they called on him to producs them and let the die of battle be thrown. Ah! The. hollotc eyes that then began to deepen. where success would be ruin to the next generation and failure ruin to their own generation. In the midst of this hullabaloo the invalid mystic, A. II. Stephens, began to idealize like the monkey in the ark on the advantages of rain. Any situation suited him if he was only allowed to formulate on it. So here was a comic paradise lost, like Milton illustrated by Cham, or John Leech caricaturing the sublime. And 011 the public square of J/acon stands only the real hero of it all the Confederate soldier boy, that gallant fighter for the follies of his fathers, and whose errors he can scarcely permit himself to acknowledge to day, though in his reflective moments it must intrude that fora negro his father's generation staked its life, and re p us3( | to } et that negro take his p[ ace to.stop the bullet. They risked t Tiei r sons but not their bondsmen, ani j abandoned the Confederacy only w ], en demanded the negroes for go ] ( ^ ers to fight against their own prospects. ----- LUG RE IT A RUDOLPH GAR- FIELD. Shalt show 11s how divine a thing A woman may bo made. On the 11th day of November. 1853 , James A. Garfield married his first and only love, LucretiaRudolph * »i ^.V met her or l na some seven years before when , he was a poor student striving mightil3* for an education at Hiram. They together, they thought together, they ■ built castles together, and it was long before the firm which was based upon r common aspirations, blossomed into the passion. Before he bade good-by, as he left Hiram to Williams College, be had told his love and the maiden of his heart had engw^ hjrself to him. The match was made in heaven. these tw> were intended . , , for . each* ,. other in all ,, that , the , words . imply. . . He fT * was to her a fond, „ , devoted, , , chivalnc . . husband. , She was in ... the best sense - his , . helpmeet, , , his constant , inspiration . ... and , comfort, and , a; any many a time during their married life he bore emphatic witness to the immeasura- ble service which she rendered him. He declared that whatever success iie gained among his follows was largely due to her wise counsels, tier unfail- ing sympathy, her abiding love. . He named her his better self—the crown of his being—and so they went down the years hand in hand and heart to heart with their path shone upon by a never waning honeymoon—Albany Evening Journal QUEEN VICTOR r A ANi) THE CRANKS. We can well believe that Queen Victoria was not unnerved or even greatly alarmed by the attempt of a Scotish Guiteau fo kill her; for she has been under tire nearly as many times as any army veteran. As long ago as 1849 , when she and Prince Albert were newly married people, she was twice fired at bv a young man named Oxford. He was thought to be sane, but he was sent to an asylum, where he expressed the opinion several 3 ears later that he should have been hung In 1842 she was again fired at while riding in a carriage vvitn Prince gilbert, but the pistol missed fire. The queen did not sets the attempt, and no arrest was ma le. ' he roval couple concluded to drive out as if nothing of an unusual nature had happened, and in a short time, a shot was fired from the short distance of fiye paces, The ball even missed r.ie The man proved to be the son of joiner, about twenty two years old. He was condemned to death for high treason, but as the evidence did plainly show that the pistol was loaded, his sentence was commuted to transportation for life. He bore the name of John Francis. Boon after the trial of Francis, a hunchback named Bean pointed a pistol at the queen, who was riding in a carriage with her husband and the king of Belgium. The pistol missed fire and when it was examined it was found to be heavily loaded with powder and a clay pipe. The queen was again uneonscioas of an attempt to shoot her down. Bean was sen- tenced to eighteen months imprison- ment. His insanity was never doubt- ed. Parliament added a whipping pen- altt/ to those existing for such at* tempts, and it was thought- that this would put an end to assaults by cranAs, but it did not. Not many years afterwards Robert Pate, a late lieutenant in the army, tried to brain her with a stick, and not long ago an equally crazy Irishman pointed an unloaded pistol at the good queen, Pate was sent to an insane a.^dum, and the Irish 1)03' was promptly prisoned and whipped ; bu* the edge of similar punishment in store for him did not deter McLean from firing a random shot at the queen’s carriage. The would-be assassin of last da3 r is plainly as worthless a fellow as Guiteau, whom he resembles in many ; respects The act in each case was cowardly, but Guiteau wq,s the more resolute of the two, and had a more clearly-defined purpose. Guiteau wanted to change the administration, and the truth of histor3' compels us to say that he suecee led in all he undertook. MacLean could not hope to change the administration even he killed her majesty; and it will probably be ascertained that of the two cranks MacLean is altogether the 1 TERMS-$1 50 A YEAR. NO. 36 weaker and the less responsible. There was no effective method in his madness, whereas in Guiteau’s case there was enough cunning and calcu¬ lation to till the land with mourning. —Atlanta Constitution. SOME THINGS MONEY CAN’T BUY. Some boys and girls have an idea that money can do almost anything, buttnisisa mistaAe. Money, it is true, can do a great deal, but it can n °f *1° everything. I could name 3on a thousand things it cannot buy. it was meant for good, and it is a good thing to have, but all this depends on how it is used, if used wrongly, it is an injury rather than a benefit. Beyond all doubt, however, there are many things better than it is, and which it cannot purchase, no matter how much we m’iy have of it. If a man has not a good education, all his money cannot bu v it for him. He can scarcely ever make up his early waste of opportunities. He may say, as 7 have heard men say : ‘I would give all I have if 7 only had a good education and a well trained mind but lie will sav 7 it in vain. His money alone cannot obtain it. Neither will wealth give a man or a woman good manners. Nothing, next to good health, is of more importance than easy, graceful, self possessed manner's. But they can’t be had for mere money. A man who is what is called ‘siio lay/ who has no taste and correct manners, will never bii3 r them, though he would, no doubt, liAe them. They are no t to be had in the market. They are nowhere for sale. You might as well trv T to biiy the sky, or clouds, or sunbeams. Money can’t purchase a good conscience If a poor man, or a bo3’, or a girl—any one—has a clear conscience, that gives off a tone like a sound bell when touched with the hammer then be sure he is vastly richer than the millionaire who does no t possess such a conscience. Good principles are better than gold. All the gold of Golconda couldn’t buy them for a man who hasn’t them already.—Christian Union, A CHAPTER ON EDITORS. There are, says the Chicago Tribune, different kinds of editors. The editor-in-chief sits in a room all by himself, but he doesn't have such an easy time as 3 t ou may think. Feo pie who want offices come to see him. He says to each one, ‘Are you true to the old flag, and will yon do what we want you to after you are elected?’ If the man says yes the editor in chief writes an article saying that the countiy is on the brink of a crisis, that the glorious constitution is the | palladium of our liberties, and I the only way out of the woods is to | elect the sterling patriot and self- j sacrificing hero Mr.- to the office i of constable. When 3 T ou get to be | ; editors, boys, and want to w rite an article that will make things hum j sure to ring in something about the palladium of liberty. It is not libel- and reads pretty. After the editor in chief has read all the except his own he tells the ! editors what to write about. Once : very cultured and esthetic editor in j Boston didn t like a speech that Ben Butler had made in Congress, and he said to another editor who had s recentl3* come from Montaua: ‘You ! might touch up Butler a little j morrow, and mildly criticise his course.’ So the new editor wrote an ! article beginning: * If that cock-eyed j victim of strabismus, Ben Butler, i doesn’t quit biting off more than he can chew somebody should send him ! a new pair of ears. His present ones 1 are a little too small for a donkey/ i The next day the new editor said to j the editor in chief: ‘How did I ! handle old Ben? When you | the fnr knocked off of those Congress- men, come to me.* The editor tn chief looked at him steadily for awhile and said the cashier had his money all ready for him in an envelopedown stair9. The managing editor has to read)all the correspondence, see that the man in the next room has his letters from Paris and London finished by Friday night, so that they will be ready for Sunday's paper, look after all the poetry that is sent in and keep an eye on things generally. Managing editors hire other editors and report ters. Once a youug man in Kokomo concluded that he would HA*c to as¬ sume ft prominent position in metrop¬ olitan journalism, so he came to Chicago and asked a managing editor if they ‘were in want of any hands/ ‘Are you a journalist?' asked the managing editor. ‘That’s what 7 am, boss, and don’t let it elude your retentive memory/ was the reply. He kept on talking for a long while, and finally the editor said : ‘You must be an awfully strong man.’ ‘Why?’ asked Kokomo man. ‘Because,’ said the editor, ‘you act as though 3 r ou wouldn’t drop if a house fell on*you.* The young man then went back to Kokomo. Poets are funny people, and bother editors a good deal. A female poet once came into the office of a Chicago paper and handed the editor some manuscript, which she requested him to read, ft was pretty tough, but he waded along till he got to a place where the poetess said : ‘Mnd should your love fail me, I care not whether the morrow comes for me or not/ ‘Is that all right*?’ said the editor. ‘Oh, 3 T es,’ replied the poetess. ‘Then/ said the editor, kindly but firmly, ‘you had better hustle around, for it is after 11 o’clock now, and if the morrow is coming for you, it will be here in precisely forty-six minutes, and no woman ever got ready to go an3 r - wlicre in less than that time.’ This editor was a married man. COTTON SEED OIL VS. LARD* Since mentioning in these columns the fact that cotton seed oil was coming into general use as a substi¬ tute for lard, we have been asA*ed many times how it was employed in cooking. As a partial answer to the several inquiries, we clip the following in regard to the much talked of subject, written by Mr3. J. P. Walker, of Bay St. Louis, Mississippi, to the South ern Live Stock Journal: ‘I have been using cotton seed oil for more than ten 3*ears. In view of this long experience, 1 thinfc am fully prepared to pass judgment upon its merits, and I unhesitatingly say that /regard it as far superior to lard fer culinary purposes. When properly used it is impercep- tible to the taste, except perhaps in the case of keep biscuits cold for lunch, in that case lard or butter is preferable ; but for everything which is to be eaten immediately, the oil can not be detected. For my frjing fish and oysters it is far less liable to burn than lard, and a much larger quantity can be used without waste or extravagance as what is left can always be strained into a jar and kept for repeated use, with the addition of more as needed. It doe* not become stale or rancid and does not retain the ordor offish, j For frying fish or fritters, or for baking waffles and batter ca£es it should be kept hot on the stove in a suitable vessel, or they will not absorb too much of the raw cold oil. For corn bread add it hot the last thing. This makes the nicest egg bread without eggs, For waffles, made with cold boiled rice, or for corn meal batter cakes, the of a little oil in the batter makes it as rich and tender as though j two or three eggs were used. 1--■• • • - Beware of unlawful kerosine. Ev- j cry barrel that does not bear the name of the Inspector, is unlawful for the State of Georgia. Persons selling, or offering for sale, ‘uninspected or ‘rejected kerosene, are liable to a fine ; of not less than $250 or more than j $ 500 . and the person reporting and j j prosecuting such gets half the fine, j °® Senator r 9 °ld quarters Fair lives in Charles Washington. Sum i at- l 1 liB senator is the richest man m j ! Congress, and probably 7 the richest officeholder in the world. His leisure is devoted to the of finance,