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THE TOCCOA NEWS.
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HCHAEFER, Editor & Prop
TOCCOA, GA., MAY 13, 18S2
KDITOBIAL BREVITIES.
Mr. James Atkins will receive the
appointment of Judge of the Northern
district of Georgia.
Mrs. George Sceville, the sister of
Guiteau, is reported to be insane.
The anti-Chinese bill recentH’
passed by congress has been signed
by the’president.
Chief ----^ Justice f) ---------
Jac/tson, of the
Supreme court, will spend the sum¬
mer at Eureka Springs, Arkansas.
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Regular trains will be placed on
the Georgia Pacific next il/onday to
run as far as Douglasville, 26 miles
Lorn Atlanta.
A comet, which can be seen with
the naked eye, is now visible from 7
o’clock p. m. until daylight. It
appears in the north, just above the
horizon.
Dr. J.C. C. Blackburn, editor of
the Madisonian, had a partial stroke
of paralysis on the 29th ult. We
trust to soon learn of his perfect
restoration to good health,
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The board of health and city
council of Conyers have quarantined
against the travelling public, and
passed an ordinance requiring resi
dents of the town to be vaccinated
under a^aenalty of $50 for refusing.
A male infant, thinly clad and
wrapped in a blanket, was found
early last Monday morning, at the
i-eargats of Mr. William Gregory's
place, at Rutledge, on the Georgia
railroad, directly opposite where the
passenger coaches stop- The child is
supposed to have been left by some
person on the Sunday night up train
from Hugusta.
Mr Stephens happened to a painful
accident last Tuesday. As he was
going up the steps on the east front of
the capitol, leaning on his steward
Aleck and one crutch, his crutch
slipped, causing a sprained ankle and
wrenched knee joint, lie was taken
to his room and a phj'siciau called.
7’hc injuiy is not dangerous, but is
painful and will disable Mr, fetepheus
for a longtime.
Lord Frederick Charles Cavendish,
chief secretary for Ireland, and
member of the British parliament,
and Mr. Thomas Henry Burke, under
secretary of state, for Ireland, were
both assassinated in Phoenix Park,
Dublin, on the 6th instant. Intense
excitement prevails in Dublin in
consequence of the assassination and
the utmost indignation 13 felt over
the untoward event.
After a careful and thorough
investigation made by Dr. J. II.
Campbell and Dr. S. C. Benedict
who exhumed the bodv' of Walter
Roundtree, it is found that the ball
that killed him could not have been
fired by Frank Johnson’s pistol, as it
does not fit it at all, but exactl}' fits
the pistol of Bartow Roundtree, his
brother. In consequence of this
discovery, Solicitor General Mitchell
will not have Johnson indicted for
murder, but for an assault with intent
to murder.
For aged men, women, weak and
sickly children, without a rival. Will
not cause headache. Browns Iron
Bitters,
Atlanta has passed an Ordinance
requiring every resident of the city
to be at once successful!}’ vaccinated
or to be vacciuated a sufficient num-
ber of times to make it evident that
successful vaccination is impossible,
Persons refusing or failing to comply
with the requirements of the ordir-
nance by the 20th instant, are to be
arrested and taken before the
Recorder, and on conviction are to be j
punished by a fine not exceeding
$500, or imprisonment not exceeding
thirty* days, either or both in the
discretion of the court.
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WASHINGTON LET IER. •
From onr Regular Correspondent,
Washington, May 8,1882.
7’hcrc has never been a more
unanimous raid, so to speak, in the
direction of appropriations for public
buildings than is being made this
session. Bills for the erection of eight
of these structures were passed under
a suspension of the rules on Monday
last. 7’he amount appropriated by
these rules is about a million and a
half, representing, according to the
scale usually applicable tosuchcases^
an ultimate expenditure of some six
millions of dollars. And these are
but eight out of the one hundred and
twenty or thereabouts which await
recognition. One or two feeble
tests were made against the summary
method in which these bills are put
through, but as nearly every member
of the house has, or expects to have,
a bill for a public building in his
pocket, the desire to oblige those who
were fortunate enough to be recog
nized by the Speaker rose superior to
all considerations of party or
public duty. Mr. Holman was about
the only member who stood boldly up
in opposition to all of the appropria¬
tions, and he said it was not so much
against the bills themselves as against
the log-rolling ^method of putting
them through. He thought there
ought to be some demand for the
buildings indorsed by a committee
and by the Secretary of the treasury
The buildings voted are: one in
Detroit, $600,000; one in Denver,
$300,000; one in Jackson, 7enn.?
$Gt>,000 ; one in Council BlutF, $100,-
000; one in Peoria, 111., $100,000 ;
and others in Lynchburg, Va., Gal¬
veston, Texas, and Greensboro. N.
C., the first costing $100,000 and the
other two $50,000 each. The point
of the thing is that there is very little
use for government buildings in most
of these places.
It is to be hoped that the bill
agreed upon by the house judiciary
committee to fix the salary of the
supreme court reporter and hereafter
issue the volumes of reports by public
authority, will become a law. The
present arrangement is a striding
illustration of what snug nests come
to cling around the eves of the tem¬
ple of justice and have to be
down by the broom of legislation. For
many years the reporter for the
supreme court has enjoyed what in
street parlance would be called a
pretty ‘soft snap.' Under the present
arrangement he is paid a salary of
$4,0t0 per annum and is allowed in
addition to make his own contracts
with the publishers of the volumes,
who enjoy a complete monopoly in
the reports so indispensable to the
profession ancl so important to the
people. As a result, $5 and $6 per
volume is extorted for books that
could be sold at a profit for $1.50 and
$2. The sales of these reports are
very large, and it will be seen that the
profits to be divided between publish¬
er aud reporter are simply enormous.
It is estimated that the reporter
probably pockets $50,000 per annum
as his share. This, it must be con-
fessed, is tolerably comfortable pay
for work that would he gladly done
by any number of competent men for
$5,Q00 or less. Last year, under a
scare of tbreataned legislation, such
as is now proposed, the price of the
volumes was hastily put do»vn to $3.
and the beneficiaries of the present
system could easily have offered a
further redaction. The attorney for
the publishers, when before the
judiciary committee recently, refused
to give any information as to the
number of volumes sold or the
amount of royalt 3 r allowed the repor-
ter - It is time fora reform in the
matter. Several of the states are
already ahead of the general govern-
meat in respect to it, their court
reporters being salaried and the
reports belonging to the state to be
issued at a moderate price above cost
for the general good. But courts
themselves are usually unable or
unwilling to introduce any reforms
this kind, judges being apparently
governed by a strong fellow-feeling
of kindness for all their appointees
and dependents. Mr. Otto and his
publishers will continue to pocket
their snug little fortunes every year,
at the expense of the legal fraternity
and the public, unless congress
politely relieves them of the respon-
sibilit}'.
This session of congress so far
has been remarkable for its freedom
from exciting political discussions. It
has really been a period of peace, so
to speak- A leading senator remarked
f°day in conversation that there bad
scaroe ^ v * )ecn a ripple oi political
anta § oniSUi stirred up on the floor
ot tiie seDa * c * au ^ ascribed this
rcsn ^ t ^ e absence <;f three senators
' v ^ i0 ^ ia%e heretofore been eminently
COIi3 picuous in tomenting discord,
these, Air. Conk ling, is no
longer a mem.bei of the senate, and
^ iie other two, senators Edmunds and
ha\e been absent most ot the
j rime
j on account ot sickness of them-
sc ^ ,es 01 riteir families. Speaking
°I Senator Hill, the latest reports as
j condition ^ iavc been very
un -‘i\orable. He is sow at Eureka
l Springs, and his condition is reported
j so °ritical that his triends may antic-
H ;atc the voiat at anv moment. His
' voun: ^ s ■’’rill unhealed, and he can
j eat 110 s °bd food. He is very much
j depressed, an< i 'rill scarcely take the
^ lc l uu * ^lat
Prepaic for him.. It is stated that His
physicians have- said there is no hope
t° r his recovery beyond the
l0u3 cureL >tbat are said to have been
effected at Eureka Springs. While
very much depressed, Mr. Hill is
represented as being perfectly re¬
signed to the worst. Senator Hill is
a man of distinguished ability, and
one of the leading debaters in the
senate, and will be sadly missed
notwithstanding the peculiarity re
ferred to above, which is due to
constitutional excitability..
Phono.
MORE IRREVERENCE.
A WASHINGTON CORIlESrONDENT’s OFF¬
HAND SK1.TCHES IN Ti.E SUPREME
COURT ROOM.
(‘1L J. R.’ in Philadelphia Times.;
Washington, April 22.—The
Supreme Court of the United States
—that great harbinger, sheet-anchor,
safety-valve, etc., of our liberties —
has during tbe week sat with a full
bench for the first time in three
years. I dropped in on the Court a
day or two ago \\ hat a jolly old
set! There was the chief justice,
with iron gray hair, thick and stiff,
and whiskers just the same, a big nose
and a big mouth, wrapped in hi 3
black silk gown, but looking very
little like a Chief Justice. But he
attends to his business, leaves politics
to the dogs and is respected b} r his
associates. On his right, oldest in
commission of any one on the bench.
is Justice Miller, roupd aud fat and
sixty-four, a little bald and closely
shaven face. On the bench he is as
cross as a hatchet, for he hates
circumlocution and shams (and
the bar is made of them), but off the
bench he is as jolly and kind and
gentle as an>\mau you ever saw. He
has been regarded for years as the
ablest man on the bench. The three
last appointments on the bench may
change this, but J doubt it.
On the Chief Justice’s left is
Justice Field, appointed as a republi-
can, but now a pesky old democrat.
He is tall, bald headed, spectacled,
full bearded, with a Jewish cast of
countenance. Smart he is too, as all
the Field are. He writes strong
opinions and is popular He is a
most entertaining companion and a
great traveler and scholar. Drink?
yes, once in a while. iliiller and
Field respectively are the two oldest
Judges in commission on the bench,
Justice Bradley is the next in point
of rank—a thin, refined, closely
shaven, gray haired, scholarly, judi-
daily looking old gentleman, who
doesn't seem to have much to say to
a» 3 ’ one. Justice Harlan, fourth in
rank (excepting, of course, the Chief
Justice), is a.specimen Kentuckiau
a giant in his way. Big body, big
head, big hands, big feet, long arms
and long headed, without a doubt,
He is at least six feet six inches in
height. He rents a furnished house
from a friend of mine and my friend
had to have made, especially for the
great Kentuckian, a nine-foot
bedstead, with mattresses, blankets,
sheets, etc., to correspond, and also
one for the son of the Judge, who
tall Judge Harlan was a
acquisition to the bench, and is
lar on the bench and off. Chew
tobacco, did you say? Well I should
think so, and lie knows a glass of
bourbon when he tastes it. There is
not much known of Justice Woods.
He is a gritzly, slouching :nan, whose
personal bearing and appearance are
not at all striking. He is a Judge
>v appointment, but be doesn’t look
like one. lustice Stanley Matthews is
built on a big model, physically and
mentally. He is self-poised, dignified
and fine looking. As an
force lie scaiNtely has a superior on
the bench. lie is quiet in his inter-
course and does not seem to care to
extend his acquaintance. Justice
dray is a tall, white haired peppery
old bachelor, who snaps up everybody
and had rather quarrel than win a
cause. IFhen he first came on the
bench here he was nearly killed with
heavy eating and drinking, but that
time is over. As the old Judges, are
very tenacious of the rights of seniors
he is not likely to be popular. Jus-
tj ce Blatchford, the last appointment,
p )0 p s like your own George IF. Childs
aiK | therefore, clean, genial, affable,
w( qj dressed and kindly natured—
c j se looks do not count,
t bief Justice IPaite lives in a
i janc j SO me liouse on it bode Island
avenue . j udge Miller owns a fine
j louse on A/assachusetts avenue;
j U( ige Field has a large, well-built
liouse on Capitol Hill—a present from
liis brother Cyrus—a portion of what
was once known as the old Capitol
prison. In this building Henry Clay
presided three terms as Speaker of
the House, and in front of it James
Monroe and John Quincy Adams were
inaugurated President. John C.
Calhoun died in it. Judge Bradley
owns and occupies the house on I
street which was given to Genera*
Grant and from which ho was first
inaugurated. General Sherman then
became the owner and from him
Judge Bradley purchased it. Judge
Harlan lives in a costly rented house ;
Judge Woods boards on G street;
Judge Matthews is building a vcr\ r
imposing and costly mansion on
Connecticut avenue, opposite the
British Legation ; Judge Gray boards
at IFormley’s, and Judge Blatchford
has just purchased a $50,000 house
on K street. The mutations of time
affect even the Supreme Court, for of
the bench twenty years ago not a
single Judge remains—all dead. Only
two Judges of the bench of twelve
years ago remain, namely, Miller and
Field—all the others are dead, except
Dayis, now in the Senate, and Swayne,
retired,
THE CAVENDISH MURDER.
Savannah News,
As expected, the recent assassina-
lion of Lord Cavendish and Mr
Burke, in Phoenix Park, Dublin, is
the all-absorbing topic ot the hour-
The high official and social standing
afthe victims, the bloody incidents of
their murder in open daylight, almost
in the presence of frequenters of the
park, and in sight of the Vice Regal
Lodge, and the daring recklessness
and hideous bloodthirstiness of the
deed, all combine to divert the
attention of the civilized world from
every other topic and fix it upon the
terrible crime.
That these assassinations are gen-
erally regarded as thoroughly preju-
dieiai to the future welfare of Ireland,
is plainly indicated by the promptness
aud vigor with which the murderers
have been denounced by the Irish
leaders, both in Europe and America-
Mr. Parnell declares that they seem
to be the outcome of an unhappy
destiny presiding over Ireland—
which always comes at a moment
when there seems some chance for
the country—to destroy the hopes of
her best friends. Mr Davitt regards
them not only as the most fatal blow
which has ever been struck at the
Land League, but one of the most
disastrous blows which have been
sustained by the national cause
during the last century. The Irish
Land League declares that ‘that evil
destiny which has apparently pursued
us for centuries, has struck our hopes
another blow which cannot be exag-
gerated in its disastrous conse-
quences,’while Mr. James Mooney,
President of the Irish National Land
League of America, hastens to de-
nounce the assassination as execrable
and cowardly in the extreme, and
especially painful and abhorrent to
every true friend of Ireland. These
and similar expressions have been
freely uttered by every one promi*
nently connected with the Irish land
reform agitation.
The promptness with which the
dennn'Aat\ons of these murders moat
foul have been uttered show plainly
that Irish leaders fear the result,
and feel that the indignation which
will be .aroused thereby must excite a
hostility agaiast Ireland which will
prove too powerful for her friends to
make headway against. They fear,
and with reason, that the policy of
conciliation, which has been determ-
iued upon so recently that it has not
yet had time to be tested* will be
abandoned, and that the British
government will accept this crime as
a defiance from the Irish people, and
as a declaration on their part that
they will accept no compromise, nor
be satisfied with any action by the
government short of /rish independ¬
ence and absolute freedom from
British rule. 7'rue, it is not fair for
Great Britain to place this construc¬
tion upon these crimes, nor will it
be proper for that government to hold
the Irish people in mass
for the desperate acts of four
fanatics. Still there have been
many murders of late years in
Ireland, which have culminated
length in these assassinations,
British resentment will be aroused
against her people to the
pitch. As the South was held
sihle and suffered for the assassina¬
tion of Lincoln, so will the
crimes of these four masked
undoubtedly be cited to prove that
the condition of lawlessness which
has been alleged as an excuse for the
coercion act still exists.
The issue that will be presented to
England, then, on account of these
murders will simply be, ‘shall British
rule be continued in Ireland, or shall
that country be granted her absolute
freedom?* The answer to this ques¬
tion is plain. At this time England
will not consent to surrender Ireland,
but will determine to hold her in
subjection by the use of force
necessary. In consequence we may
expect to bear hereafter of more ill
feeling, more turmoil, confusion and
misrule, and, more than likely, more
blood shed, in that land. Since she
could not have been wholly free, it
would have been the part of wisdom
for her people to have accepted the
situation, and enjoyed what person¬
al Gladstone liberty the new conciliary move of
would have guaranteed.
Only one chance now remains for
these benefits yet to be secured.
That is for the citizens of Ireland
themselves to practically prove their
abhorrence of these murders by not
resting until they have arrested and
brought to merited punishment the
assassins. ]f they do this, they will,
to great extent, necessarily disarm
British indignation. Tf, however, they
do not, they will be regarded as
tacitly approving these assassin
tions. and their conduct will be looked
upon as a continued defiaace to the
British government, which will p e
met with all the force which
government can command. 'This, all
friends of Ii eland will deeply deplore,
for it surely will bode no good to that
unhappy land.
Why He Wouldn’t Hire Himsllf.
—A prominent ex-Confederate offi¬
cer, now Fesiding in Washington,
started out the other evening to find
a man servant. He met a pretty
good looking colored man and asked
if he con id recommend a good
servant. The colored man regretted
that he could not. ‘What are you
engaged at?’ asked the ex Confeder¬
ate. ‘Why can’t I employ }’ou?’ ‘I
am not doing anything just now, ’ was
the reply ; ‘but 1 expect to have a
seat in congress in a few da} T s. My
name is L 3 ’nch and I am contesting
the seat of General Chalmers.’—^
Washington Star.
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~Vs Iron Bitters
teed to be a non-
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it will, in nearly every case,
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and at the same time abso¬
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whiskey and other intoxi¬
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Rev. G. W. Rice, editor of
the American Christian Re¬
view, says of Brown’s Iron
Bitters:
Cin.,0., Nov. 16 , r 88 i.
Gents:—The foolish wast¬
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' JAMES W* HARRIS,
ATTORNEY AT LAW.
TOCCOA, GA.
ty Office Up Stairs,
Ove TURNER & Son’s Jt-.ivcliy Store,
Doyle St
Will practice in the courts of Franklin eoun-v
ty ot the Western circuit and Habersham
and Rabun counties, ot the Northeastern, and
elsewhere by special agreement.
TP-Special aitenliou will i>© cuto* to tho
collection of claims aud to the criminal
pracice. ap'291jr
MURDER
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blacking 2|c., Pinsand Needles 5c. La
ces 9 to 5c, per 3 'd., Paper 1 ollars lb’o-
pr box, Men's hose 2\c. up. Ladies’
hose 10c„ Men’s hats 40 to 65c. Oil
Table C loths 30c. per yd., Lead
Pencils 15c. per doz. tp. lens 5c..
per do*., Paper 5 to 15c. per quire,
Tinware - Vi ash-pans 10c., 5qt. P ana
10c. qt Cups 5c., &c., &c. Clothing,
Hosiery, Candies, &c., at proportion
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ine.
A, N. HAYS,
Toccoa, Ga.,
on ^41so, Depot St., near Davenport House..
at Corner Tugalo and Sage st«„.
dc3 4t
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classes of claims befoie the E* e «rti Te
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town site cases. Land warrants, homestead
floats, and allkinds of land scrip bought and
sold.
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TIMBER, TURPENTINE LAND
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