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A BOMB BURSTS IN THE CAMP OF THE INDE¬ PENDENTS. Smith Clayton thtstoves htr FROM TIIE STAR CHAMBER, AT THE MARKHAM HOUSE, COMMITTEE Si:VI-A' AM) GIVES HIS REASONS FOR so going. Disgusted with the WHOLE MOVEMENT. Hearing that Mr. Smith had withdrawn from the committee o£ gentlemen appointed at the late Markham house conference to prepare and publish an address to the people of eorgia, a Constitution reporter caught him on the wing yesterday and a^ked: Is it true that you have withdrawn from the committee?’ *Y<s. I have just returned from ilie Rost Appeal office, where I left a n quest that my name he stricken from the names feigned to the address which, as you know, is kept before the public in that paper. 'Do you object to staling why you have taken this step?’ ‘iVot at all. I never object to giving candid reasons for any course which I see proper to pursue. I freely confess that a decided change has come over the spirit of my dream within the past few weeks as regards the so called liberal movement in the state. I went into, that movement und r a misapprehension. 1 fully believed that it had for its object the format ion of a new party, which would unselfishly devote itself to the grea work of bringing about a mure libera! political sentiment in Georgia, thus enhancing her prosperity. I took this view from the audience and became enthusiastic, applauding as rapturously as any independent democrat at my side. But being of an enquiring turn of mind I passed the glare of the footlights and have been watching the play from behind the scenes. / marked the manner ii\ which each actor “made up.’ I noted the movements of every scene shifter. I talked with the property man. caiioussed with the prompter and hobnobbed with the stage manager. /a a -vord, I saw through and through the inner wordings of the whole corn- bination. I didn’t like it, and so the theater before the curtain fell upon tne last act.’ ‘Well, what did you see?’ ‘I saw enough to convince me that the political fight in Georgia is fast parrowing down to bourbonism on the one hand, and negroism on the other hand. Of these two evils, 1 regard bourbonism the lesser. The truth is, that the republicans are fooling the independent democrats and inflaming the negroes against the whites—and all for a wicked and utterly selfish purpose. The repub¬ licans known as the syndicate arc using the independent democrats as a lever to lift themselves and their friends into federal offices in Georgia. The republicans are inflaming the negroes by appointing many of their number to federal office. All this means that the federal patronage in Georgia is to be used two years to give Arthur a Georgia delegation to help him to another term.’ ‘But how?’ ‘\\ by, u ith the aid of the so liberals. Betoie the play is over good many independent will receive federal One has alreadv gotten an Mr. Tripp, of Oartersville, who ceived the office of a staunch lican, Darnell, who was kicked out by Arthur By this system of giving to independents, negroes republicans .-irthur hopes to ae l7 Literals ... , of Pr Georgia . - - m good j ,. Arthur is trying to make the pendents think that they are the procession, but they are reallv riding abreast with the republi- cans, while the negroes are in Sec Da\is, lledgei, Pleasants, Ihrough such appointments cloak, “ ’ of aid in building T a new 1‘ houcs 0 contr „, t negro vote ot tie state, which essential to the accomplishment of his purpose.’ ‘Were you offered an office?’ •Yes. A few nights since I offered a position as mail route agent I believe on the State road, 1 feel that I had doue anything deserve office at the hands of Y • HmiRie‘rstion &"■’ u sev- mi 4Gv TOCCOA NEWS By tdw SCEEAFER- II. future allegiance to Hrthur in the state, I declined. I was much obliged all the same, though, for the place would have paid me more than L am now making out of journalism.’ ‘ Jf’hat else did you find out behind * ‘7 Pat the object of Arthur-, new party in Georgia is to get the legis- latnre, /i* they should succeed, they will redistrict the state to su [ t themselves with a fair prospect Q f putting several republicans and negroes in congress from Georgia- To this end you will see in the near future many republican and negro candidates for the legislature, The negroes and republicans will support the independents for the state offices, and in turn the independents will expected to support the negroes and republicans. 7'he negroes even now openly declare that they- hold the balance of power in the state, and every day brings fresh indications of their determination to take the lead at the polls. They arc fighting their best interests, and will probably wish before the campaign is over that they had not entered the liberal move¬ ment.’ ‘Do you know that the present administration will give this movement substantial aid?’ •i know that Arthur told a promi¬ nent Georgia republican, to whom he has recently given an office, that he intended to do for tho new party 7 in Georgia what he lias done for the new party in Virginia. It is well settled that the office holders under Arthur's administration will be assessed to raise funds to build up this new party in (4eorgia. Such would not be the ease unless the presi lent thought the success of this movement would redound to the furtherance of his political fortunes- In short, Arthur is playing for a second term, the state of <- eorgia is the chess board, and he is going to use just as many black men and white men as he can in order to win a delegation. ‘You don t propose to help him to do it?’ ‘No, sir. • As a white Georgian, and a democrat, I feel that, knowing wh; t I know, it is mv duty to part coinpa nv with * he so-sailed liberals, I believe in the fullest political freedo n for both white and black but I see in this present movement in 6'eorgia, as now conducted, an element which menaces the lives and property of the citizens of this state, and warn all parties concerned that any collision between factions which tbe near future may develop will give over¬ whelming and, perhaps mournful evidence to the world that the white man still rules in Georgia. 1 say this, too, in all friendliness to the co j orc( j inan whose best interest socially, politically, materially lies in resisting with his full strength the unhallowed efforts ot the admiuistra- tion at Washington to sacrifice him in the interest of a second term. ‘How do they expect to carry the state with an overwhelming white sentiment against them?’ ‘They* count on the solid negro vote, moated by the administration, led bv white office seeders in arion9 ^ of disgusted thc state. with Seeing the this i became movement and, as a white man and a democrat, thought that my withdraw al wag in order. 1 trust that any of *“ %% %%% ^ accord me credit for my 7 conscien- tiousness, and profit by my example. in conclusion, tender" 1 beg you will state that I hereby my resignation as a committee of one to arrange for re j uce( j r ail r oad rates to the June mass meeting. I will state also, to office seekers throughout the state that the position of secretary of the |conference is open.’ 1 7 p^j s | s young cotton speculator, He is wearing crape on his hat. None of his relatives are dead, Whv th*™ Joes he wear crape on his ' , ® ecause * !e ~°* in l ron ^ of the cotton Devoted to News, Politics- Agiricuture and General progress- TOCCOA, GA„ MAY 13, 1882. A HORRIBLE TRAGEDY ITS SEQUEL. 1 cannot close this letter without chronicling a tragic event which took place recently. It was on the north- front,er, of this empire, a £ amst Saxony ; the scene, an mu ; time ' evcnin S* Man V old custom-* - ers of the place were assembled in the snug room, with its timi-polislied tables, its tail tiled stove, its ama- zing pictures of saints and angels. Beer enough to float an ironclad, wine enough to intoxicate a continent, had been served out in that place since its first dedication to Bacchus twoceutu- ries ago. To night the worship of the wine crowned deity was proceed- in o as merrily as usual, and the air was thick with tobacco smoke, when a man with a sleeping child in his arms slouched in and sat down in a corner. He drank a glass or two of beer, while the child, a golden haired little fellow of about five, rested his head on the table and went on with his nap The jolly topers soon forgot all about the stranger, who after a while desired to be shown to his room, as he wished to put his son to bed. But soon an angry dispute was heard with¬ out at the tiuot of the stairs, the father using shocking language, the child whining piteously father, father, you know I have been unable Da go up stairs by myself ever since I broke my leg.’ ‘Nonsense,’ exclaimed the m^n menacingly 7 , “you can get up very well if you choose, and, besides, you have only yourself to thank for your broken leg—up you go or I will beat you black and blue,’ and he adminigter- ed a blow to the cripple- Several of the guest? had come out into the pas- sage, and now 7 remonstrated vehe¬ mently with the brutal father. “Is that your child, you monster asked one. “What’s that to you ?’ was the an¬ swer. “Yes, oh yes, he is my father,” moaned the boy, as he sat helpless on the stairs, and rocked himself in an agony of tears. The man became still more enraged, and would, doubt¬ less, have belabored his son. had no one of the persons present, laid hold of him, exclaiming, “Cease your bru¬ tality, or we’ll fetch the police.” But this only had the effect of throwing the father into a real paroxysm of rage. He drew a knife and struggled frantically. ‘Take care, take care,’ screamed the boy, “he will rip us all up, same as he did my poor mother.’ ‘Little fiend,’ yelled the father, and freeing himself with a great effort, hurried the knife into the child’s body. The poor little soul sank down with a groan. A shout of indignation came from the others, who rushed at him en masse ; but the man, taking his hat off politely, said with a win¬ ning smile: “Gentlemen, we have to do with a wooden child. I am a \ enli iloquist and no mean one either, as you will admit.’ A pause of speechless astonishment, during which could have been hoard the drop¬ ping of the traditional pin, and then the rafters shook with prolonged (Homeric) laughter. The clever de- ceiver was dragged into the parlor, where, besides exhibiting many funny tricks of voice, he took much more wine than was good for him, and fi naliy rolled . to , bed . with ..... ins pockets , full of money, and his murdered clnld smiling blaudly 7 under his arm. From a Henna Letter. You just ought to see how I was paying attention to Miss Flapjack out picnic.’ ‘Did you speak to her 9 ’ -O do; I didn't proceed to that extreme, but T patted her poodle dog w J-W ■ ft Hr. Er J SISTER PATSY'S WEDDING, BY NANCY LONGSHORE. From the Southern World. My sister Patsy is an am ax. in witb eheeks uke ink raorniu . lories> ^ a3 tllaek ^ * ftg bcadg . She’d had a lot of bows, and now she had made tier chice among ’em and was goin to marry Seth Coggins. We was all proud of her many in so aristocratic, for Seth's pa keeps a store at Wilcox station on the railroad ; and maw and pap determent to give her a rale blow out at her weddin’. We had a new set of fiowerdy crockiy and pap had put a new shed-room onto the house, and we had six chickens and a turkey gobler up in the coop so fat the 3 r could hardly wad Ue, let alone a ’possum in the barrel what we’d been feed in’ on sweet pertaters till he looked like a ball. So we was mighty well fixed to give a weddin’. Tber was one trouble tho. Pap was in the habits uvdrinkin’ whenev¬ er tber was atiy^ big tiling goin’ on ; he’s as sober as a jedge only then, but forth er Julys and thanksgivins, and Ohrismusses, an camp meetins, and sicli onusual times he was sure to get n,p qoI in his princyples. But maw she talked to him about his behayvier at the weddin’, and he promist he’d do all right, and we all agreed to keep er eye on him so’s he wouldn’t git to whisky. Well, the weddin’ night come. We’d been cookin’ cake and tater eusUi-vls nigh on to a week, and I let you kpow the table did look butiful. We’d baked the ’possum whole and stood him up in granny’s big blue fiowerdy dish, with a red apple atween his teeth and a string of sassengers around his neck. He looked lovely. Then we had baked turkey 7 and a chicken pie as big round as a bushel basket and floatin’ island, and jam, an tater oust irds till you couldn’t rest. In the middle we had a big blue pitcher full er ever¬ greens with mock oranges tied on to ’em. I made the oranges myself outen balls uv cotton smeared over with yalter uv egg they looked natral as you ever see. Well, the rooms was all three dressed olf in greens and the hartlis was white as snow, and the candle stands was nailed all roun the walls with a whole home-made candle stuck in every one. Sister Fatsy was up stairs in the loft-room a dressin; her and cousin gaily Spriggs, who was to be second bride’s maid, and the two young gurls what was to be candle bearers. We could hear ’em gigglin all the time, as maw and me was standin’ in the company 7 room takin’ a survay 7 of things before the fokes come. Bimeby we heard somebody holleriu, ‘Hello Nance, you think you’r powerful fine/ and there was pap leanin’ ’ginst the door, with his nose as red as a termattus, an his hat all banged in. He’d got to whisky somehow, and ther he was in fine weddin'trim. He j a( q an( j hollered and danced maw rmm » t he room till he fell flat, and tker he lay, too tight to git on his feet agin. What on the face of the yearth was we to do with him? He'd disgrace us she. We yas looking ever minit for Seth’s stylish mother an sister to drive up, and all the tother folks wc had invited. I went out to thc work-shed whare buddy* was fixin the legs to one er the supper table benches, and said to him : ‘The game’s up, pap s got to whisky, and he’s jes holleriu tight.’ ‘I hcern him,’ ses he, ‘and me and cousin Zexe was studyin’ what to and I says fasten him u?» in the bie. i ii sprinkle clean straw all over the floor and put a big pile in fr 'to V - - 5 4t TERMS—$1 50 A YEAR, NO. 44 him in tber. But for Lord's sake make’haste, folks’ll be here afore you an say Jack Robinson.’ Well, by threaten 1 and coaxin’ and draggin’, they got pap in the stable and gin him hi9 bottle and fassened him up by puttin’a punchen agin the dor. We could hear him a whickerin’in tber like a horse, an’ a kickin’ the stable dy, but bime by be was still, and I had jes said, ‘thank gracious !’ when up drove ole Mr. and Miss Coggins, and Alamedy Coggins in a sky blue silk dress full ’er rutiles, an* a neck lace rouu’ her throat as big as ’er trace chain. They got out uv tiiar carryall with a high an' mity air, but I could see plain enulF when they walked into the company room, they was tuck back at seeiti’ how cityfied ever thin’ looked. The folks begun to pour in fast, an me an' Hlmedy Coggins went up stairs, for wc was bride’s maids. Seth, he come along with his waiters, and they sent to tell us the preacher was waitin’. We was a pretty sight when we filed into the room. Meek Rory gnd Flurridy Brown went fust, carry- in candles in tall brass candle-sticks, and the waiters come next* I had on my bran new white lawn an’ pink ribbins. Sister Patsy’s dress was a white switch inuslin, all •flounced, and she wore white orange artifishals in her hair. I saw by everybody’s looks that we was makin a grand impreslum and sustainin’ ourselves as the big bugs of the naborhood. But our pride got tuck down the nox minit. We taken our places before the preacher, an’ lie had jes clar’d his throte and fixed his spex, when we beam er awful whickerin’ outside the do, an in come pap on his all fours. We was so dumb¬ founded we couldn't do a thing, and pap jes pranced roun* the room, and cavorted aroun’ where maw was a siltin’ with Miss Coggins, a whickerin’ an’ kickin’ up his heels. Then he stopped in front uv the preacher and sich a brayin’ as y*ou never heard in your life. You’d a thought a dozen donkeys was trym’ to out-do one another. 1 was that mortified I dropped on the floor, and Miss Cog¬ gins went off into lfysterieks, and sister PatS 3 T burst out acryin.’ Buddy* and Seth toted pap out, a kickin’ and brayin’ all the time, and we burnt feathers under Miss Coggins’ nose to bring her to herself; but it was er full baf hour before tilings got strait enuffforthe weddin’ to go on ; an’ then it ’peared to me like the artifr slial toolip in maw’s cap, was wilted like a frost bit tater vine. She didn’t hole her lied nigh as high as she did at fust; not eyen when we went into supper and the company all taken on so over the looks of the table—the rows of cakes an’ custards and the tasty way the possum was drest off. HOLLIDAY’S HEART Is Where a Suicide’s Bullet Went. A tragic ending was given to a pleasant quadrille party at the resi¬ dence of Mrs. Gus Haynes, corner of Hunter and Mangum streets, last night. For several days past the young society folks of Atlanta have been anticipating a pleasant time at the party, but the awful tragedy which put an end to tbe gayeDes when they were at their height, will long be remembered by all who were present. Among others who re- sponded to the beautiful and unique cards of invitation v.eie Miss Maud Kenner, an attractive and entertaining blonde of fifteen years, and Mr. W alter Holliday, an intelligent lad of sixteen, Between these two young folks there seems to have been quite an attach- menfc until a day or two since, when disruption—the cause of which no - -r>^ i ,\ v*. v—occurred L?st be moving aloug soiootliiy "ith both, of them, and all of their friends who wgre cognizant oi their feeling towards each other thought that the tomahawk had been buried and the pipe of peace resurrected. About 10 o’clock, wheu the festi,*i- ties were at their height, Mr. Holliday who, it appears, as the evening's amusement advanced, grew despond¬ ent, wrote MISS KENNER A NOTE asking her not-tp dance any more, To this note, however, she paid no attention, and when the next set was formed she, with her partner, took her place on the ball room floor. Soon after the music began to put life into the toes of the dancers. Mr. Holliday approached Miss Kenner and asked her in an undertone not to dance any more, and at the same time made some remark which no one could hear. Immediately after this dialogue had taken place, Mr. Holli¬ day left the house and Miss Kenner turned to her partner and asking to be excused for the remainder of the set, entered one of the vacant rooms, where she INDULGED IN A GOOD CRY. which was interrupted by a servant telling her that Mr. Holliday wanted to see her. Responding to the call. Miss Kenner left the room, and entering the hallway found Mr. Holliday standing in the first door leaning against the facing. His hat was pulled down over his eyes, and his appearance was one of general despondency 7 . At Miss Kenner's appearance he put out his hand and said, I want to tell ‘YOU GOODBYE FOR THE LAST TIME/. Miss Kenner took the proffered hand and saying ‘good-night/ re*, entered the room from which she had just emerged. Hardly had the door been closed upon her when the loud report of a pistol followed by a second like sound was heard above the merry chatter of the dancers and music to w^ich they were keeping time. Instantly, almost, there was a rush for the door and the porch in front of the house. An unknown feeling seemed to draw all in that direction, but when the cause of the commotion was explained there was a general stampede and the entire assembly re-entered the house with a FEELING OF HORROR which took the place of the joy that but a second before pervaded the assembly. Out in the street, near the front gate, was found the key to the panic. There, weltering in his own blood, was Mr. Holliday who, but a few seconds before, was as full of life as any of those who stood about him. Close beside him was found a small twenty-two revolver, and from his left breast HIS LIFE'S BLOOD WAS FLOWING IN PROFUSION. Mr* Chas. Cole and Mr. Frank Tutwiler picked Lira up and carried him to his home, only a few yards away 7 , where Dr. E. W. Roach exam¬ ined the wound. The ball, he says, entered the. left breast just to the left of the nipple and passing between the ribs buried itself in the body 7 . Ir its course it passed, in very close proximity to, the heart, and in Dr. Roach’s opinion the young man’s life is in an exceedingly critical condi-. tion. Mr. Holliday is a son of Dr. Holliday, who came to Atlanta about eight months ago from Southwest Georgia. His father, who is in business on Broad street, says his son’s mind has been impaired for some time past, and lie attributes ills rash act to this course. Up to a late hour last night no hopes of his recovery were enter¬ tained.—Atlanta Constitution, ‘How to keep thc boys at home,’ is a conU ndrum that is agitating the p aren tg of the lagd. It depends on ti ie kind of a boy*. Borne boys could be kept at home by establishing a lager beer saloon in die basement, othei-3 need a ball room in thc parlor; but the best way to keep a boy at home is to tell him to stay there, and make it a point to have him obey you. Begin early and you have the solved*—New Haven Reg—