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THE TOCCOA NEWS.
EDIT. S( IIAEFEIL, Editor & Prop tor
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TOCCOA, GA., MAY 27,1882.
EDITORIAL BREVITIES.
T lie State’Sunday School
tion met in Savannah last Wednes
day.
Early peaches ure being fffiipped
from Georgia to New York
Mastcn W. Iliden, of Gainesville,
died at his home in that city on
Sunday morning last.
Capt. John C. Sage lias taken a
contract to grade six miles of the
Dahlonaga and Gainesville railroad.
The wife of Senator Lamar, of
Mississippi* died at her home in
that State last week.
A telegraphic line has been put in
operation between Cartersvillc and
Uedartown, on the Cherokee railroad.
’ A boy who was bitten by a mad-
dog in Berrien county, last week,
has since died of hydrophobia..
JA. Abraham Mincy, of Bullock
county, who is seventy five years old,
was married a few days ago to Miss
Y’ulula Dugger, of Savannah, aged
eighteen years,
Mr. Walter II. Johnson, the new
Collector of Internal .Revenue for this
district, took' charge of the office last
Saturday.
Tolm9on and Echols, the two
negroes charged with an assault with
intent to murder Walter Roundtree
in Athens, have been found guilty
and each sentenced to ten years in
the penitentiary.
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While the evidence points very
clearly to the fact that the Mallev
boys were the exciting cause of Jennie
Cramer’s death, st 11 it does not fix
upon them the administration of the
poison from which she died, and a
verdict of “not guilty” will probably
be rendered.
Eureka Springs, At ay 24.—The
health of Senator Iliil. of Georgia,
who has been here several weeks, is
much improved, and his physicians
say there is a strong hope of cure, or
at least his life will be greatly
prolonged.
Governor Thomas J. Churchill, of
Arkansas, late State Treasurer, was
charged some year apo with mal¬
feasance in office, during his term as
State treasurer, in that he had de¬
frauded the State of a large amount
of money. The committee appointed
by the legislature to investigate and
report upon the charges, have made
their report, in which they state that
they find ex Treasurer Chu; chill
indebted to the State in the sum of
$114 82.9.
A new trial having been refused
Guiteau by the court in banc, lie will
be hung on Friday, June 30th, just
two days loss than a year from the
time he fired tlie shot that killed the
President. The Washington Post
says : “The prisoner will be taken at
once to a solitary cell in the jail
where he is now confined and placed
under a continual guard, better
known as the death watch. Every
action will be observed up t o the fatal
moment, and not a word will be
permitted to be spoken to him, except
by his spiritual adviser, or by persons
specially authorized by the warden,
General crocker, who has entire
charge of and responsibility for the
assassin, from this time on until his
dead body is ready to be consigned
to the doctors for a post mortem
examination.”
IION. A. II. STEPHENS.
Mr. Stephens’ letter, of the 22d, is
just such a letter as ought to be
satisfactory to every reasonable
democrat. Satisfying us fully
he is in perfect accord with, the
organized democratic party of the
country, we are of opinion that lie
will, as he ought to, receive the
unanimous nomination of the
democratic party of Georgia for our
next Governor. Ilis nomination by
the democratic convention to
ble ’in July, and his triumphant
election by the people in October, to
the office of jGoyernor, is now, m
judgment, a foregone conclusion.
We are an organized democrat of
straightest sect, and shall hail Mr.
Stephens’ nomination with the utmost
satisfaction.
HON. A. II. STEPHENS.
.. We publish below an editorial of
the Augusta Chronicle of the 23d
upon Mr. Stephens’ late letter touch,
ing his relations to the coming
eaavass for Governor of Georgia:
and also the letter of Mr. Stephens*
which democrats everywhere will
read with genuine pleasure :
“There will be general rejoicing
to day on the part of thousands of Mr,
Stephens’ friends in Georgia when
they read his letter telegraphed to
the Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
It is a strong, manly and
cal document. It places the
Commoner in thorough sympathy
with that party which has done
much to redeem and to build up
State, and to the success and
of which in the past no man
contributed more heartily than Hlcx-
ander II. Stephens. Mr.
must have realized too that such
letter was due his friends in
on account of the
condition of ihe party, which
been menaced by a coalition of
Arthur Administration and
office seekers, 'i he combination
the shrewdness to seize upon
Stephens’ name, and with this
of respectability ana strength
taunting the State Democracy
the keenest of political barbs.
kifephens, then, could not hate
less than what he has written,
more than that no one could ask.
is a heart of too much sympathy
too much appreciation to ignore
friends outside of th® party who
given him kindest evidences of
support. Such persons, if they
honest and sineeic in their
tions toward him, must admire
the more for his manliness in
matter. Mr. Stephens has been
to himself; he is not apt to play
to them. The assurance that lie will
not be a partisan official is not
Those who who know lion.
der 11. Stephens are satisfied that
the Executive Chair, to which lie
be elected, he will oc Oo\einoi ol
whole people, and will act singly
simply for the glory of Georgia.”
Nationan Hotel. 1 )
\\ asijINgion, D. C., Muy ay 188^ $
M/. (. hanes h. Snath, h ,ishmjton,
Dear Mu. —Tour letter o!
the 19th inst, is before me. In
to your inquiry about my position in
relation to the Governorship ot
6'eorgia, 1 can only say, briefly, that
the reported interviews with me on
this subject, as published in the
lauta Constitution, arc substantial!;*
correct. In reply to letters from all
parts ol the {State and Irom m-- 11
attached to. all political parties,
urging me to forego my intention
retire Irom public life at the close
my present Congressional term,
to accept the office ot Governor, I
have stated that if ray health contin-
lies as good as it has been during
past winter, and if
evidences should be furnished
that it is the will of the people
Georgia that 1 should so serve them,
1 knew of 110 reason that would justify
me iu refusing so to do. Ti.us
matter rests at present, so far as 1 am
concerned
When asked the question whether
would allow my name to be used in
connection with this office at the
election against the nomination
another person by the
State Convention to assemble on the
19th of July next, my uniform answer
has been “I would not.” This action
of the Democratic party would, with
ine, b 3 controlling evidence that it is
not the will oi‘ a majority of the
people of Georgia that I should serve
them as Governor. To this conclu-
sion/should come, notwithstanding
the numerous letters 1 have received
from men of the greatest eminence in
the State, and the many petitions
embracing hundreds
people in different counties to which
1 have referred, and the reeommeu-
dation of my name to be voted for as
Governor by the people of Georgia,
by the liighly respectable body of men
who recently assembled at Atlanta*
and whose good opinions and
dence I appreciate in no small degree,
deem it proper, in this connection,
to add that wl»ile my political affilia-
tion is entirely with the Democracy
on principles and measures, and
iu cither it has erred, such errors
be corrected within rather
than witho-.t its ranks ; yet if I were
nominated by the Democracy and
elected Governor of Georgia by the 1
I should not be a partisan
Governor but should look to the best
interests and welfare of the State by
protectiug the rights of all classes
society, which should be the chief
object of all government. The prin-
ciples perpetuated in the motto of
the grand old State, “Wisdom, Jus
lice and Moderation, ’ would be the
guide of my administration.
Since writing the above, I have
seeu a telegram dated the 14th inst.
from Atlanta, Georgia, to the Chicago
Tribune, published in the Augusta
Chronicle & Constitutionalist, of the
-Oth instant, siatiag that 1 had tele
graphed to the Atlanta Convention
of independents that I would accept
the nomination far Governor. It is
utterly untrue that lever sent any
such a telegram or authorized
; being sent by anybody. Tours,
Alexander II. Stephens.
P- & —This letter you can use as
you please. a. ir. s.
j Overworked men and Women, per¬
I sons of sedentary habits, and others
:
| . whose system needs recuperation,
nerves toned, and muscles strength¬
ened, should use Brown s Iron Bitters.
[For the Toccoa News.]
LIVE AND NOT KNOW.
Between Gainesville and Atlanta
i noticed a bush in the woods with
j j^ s large crimson leaves, as we
at g rst; wimt can it be? I asked.
llt3Ver having noticed anythin" lib e it
bcfbre . Says my husband, ‘Tt
be leaves, which, suddenly dried or
frost-bitten, turned to that color.”
Watching more closelv, I became
satisfied that they’ were flowers He
bJO yielded the point and said,
‘ flowers.” But what land of
we CO uld neither of us divine 1
\ noticed how a, follow traveler seemed
interested in the scone and so, direct-
j j n g b j s attention to the bush, I asked
what it was. .“Honeysuckle.”
j convince him of his error, I slipped
j f rom mv basket a bunch of real wild
jf ; honevsuckes fathered that mornim’*
rom OUPOW „ j oct>ja woods.
! said I, are wild honeysuckles.’
“Yes,’ says the traveler, “and those
yonder are the same, only they are a
c.'im on, instead of being
or pink-tinted.'
| Thus, with all our love for the
! honeysuckle and familiarity with, if
we never in our- lives. h;uf noticed
honeysuckle all crimson. How easy
’.olive on ami not hwtr; and this in
matters respecting which we suppose
ourselves perfectly ve sed.
Passing through the Cumberland
gorges, wc ha I our U\st vic\y of the
rcneysuckles-^as tiny bloom ii^ the
’woods—just like ours, white or cream-
colored^ more or less variegated with
pink. A lady entered the cars with
a large bouquet of them and, as she
had her seat immediately before me,
I cheered my eyes with them for more
than two hundred miles, all the way
to Lineinnati.
Cakrie \\ hitman,
Notes by the Way.
Dear Editor ;
Arriving in Atlanta about 2 o’clock
p. in., we did not immediately pass
on, as we might, but vested there till
midnight; then, taking the train,
napped it well till about the break
day, we alighted at the station called
Boyce. Soon, transferred to the
Cincinnati train, with the rising sup
we were borne over the Tennessee and
along its rich valley. Those lands,
newly plowed, were a goodly sight,
Erelong, leaving the Tennessee, we
were hurrying up the ravines along
that interesting stream known as
Emery : on and on through a region
little improved and yet rejoicing in a
score or more of depot villages,
destined,~uo doubt, to a career of
thrift. They are all in ravine or glen-
like places with exhaustless supplies
wood,—a situation, comfortable
indeed for winter, but not sufficiently
open to.the breeze to be desirable in
summer.
A few hours brought u.s to a region
more elevated, or one wliere the
villages were not so hemmed in, with
hills,—where, as at Bine Knot, the
enjoyment of the breeze, when there
is one, must give a desirable zest to
summer lile. Somewhere here,
think it was, w« were quite excited
with the weird scene as we passed
through strange dells of rock.
At length, borne along the high
ridge, we looked down, at our left
through a well cultivated valley, J j
where winds the prettiest river—the
whole scene most seducing w ith its
loveliness. On this same ridge it is,
the valley still in view, though not
quite so charming* we came to the
dinner house at Point Buraside. The
grounds immediately around
house are so pleasing that they make
Up for any falling olf in the beauty
of the prospect; and, when wc tale
into account the excellent fare one
enjoys and the kindly treatment he
meets with, all the accommodations,
like the seencry, being quite to his
liking, it is not strange that the
traveleroasib'gets his consent here
to make a pause in his journey, and
that, having done so, he regrets when
fli s time comes to leave. As for
ourselves^ we hope to rest here a good
fortnight oil our return in the autumn.,
The crossing of the Cumberland
river, as we leave Point Xlurusi.de,
] affords probably as taking a scene as
; any on the whole ro&te from Atlanta
i to Cincinnati, aot excepting the High,
Bridge over the Kentucky between
Danyilieand Lexington-^tke worthy
subject of comment by so many
travelers.
The tunnels are many—some of
them very long : and, as the brakes¬
men were not always careful to shut
the * ventilators, the smoke would
j become f° rcc 'I s necessity * n > a h f l thus endured the tunnel rather
• a
than enjoyed.
Now comes what, we m-ty consider
011 tll ° wllo * e the most enjoyable part
of the route. We are passing, for a
time, through the garden land ol
Kentucky. Scenery, which betokens
|n rich soil and a high state of culture,
i how it takes the eye ! Ao the Same
time we catch a glimpse of the people
"’bo occupy this fair country ; real
Kentuckians they are. The stations
j frequent, also junctions and cyoss-
i roads ; and, at each, as they come and
! they go, — these Kentuckians wy
j j mean ! It how is the they enliven thing our journ-
ey - s*mc over - what
I I always notice when passing through
! this part ol Kentucky. It is u\ore fue
that are on the stir. And, by
even n casual look around 11 s, wc
detect the sure indications of the
best habits,well cultivated minds.
tt 11 e U elj ud spirits. Nowhere on earth,
L believe, is unaffected jo\ soattiac-
H\c as here. How evident it is tuat,
! in tliG Ion S nin > the rich lands take
*^ ie society. l!ie junctions and
; o’oss-roads o. this fair region passed,
! tllC pofttry ended, we return to the
j | 3tlfe, y of P rose ? and » just at sunset,
crossing the Ohio (only prose is this)
j we here, lirG leaving Cincinnati Depot.
" the t>,ain loi oui
omnibua tv»«sfer, we are pqt down
j * n S 00! ^ F*me, at these comfortable
quarters in 1‘ourth stroeo near \ ino.
Healthfully tired and sieep\, deal
Axut’s, good night,
P. S Whitman
Cincinnati, Hprii 28th.
WASHIN G J ON L ET l'E R,
From our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, May ~’A 188 -.
It appears probable that the scheme
to raise the department of Agricul¬
ture to the rank of a tint-class exee-
utive department and make its head
a cabinet officer will finally come to
a head before the present session of
I congress ends. Nearly every corn-
■ inissioner since the bureau of agrioul
tare was created has been fighting to
this end, and the unfortunate Le Due,
whose efforts at raising cold tea and
i early boiled potatoes are so well
known, laid himself out in the strug-
gle to become a member of
cabinet. His visions all revolved
around that one central idea. Bub
i while Le Due has passed into ohtiv-
ion, his pet scheme still lives and
shows the effects of his careful
watering. Ex Secretary Schurz ex-
presses himself againao the proposi-
tion as it passed.the house* Me says
j that, under its operation, the husi
j ness of the department would still
| consist as it does now in gathering
and disseminating information, and
not in an} r administrative work,
A new executive department might
be constructed with advantage to the
publicservice aut of several bureaus
at the present forming part of the
interior department, to which the
department of agriculture might be
properly added—namety, the general
land office, the bureau of geological
surveys, and the railroad bureau.
The interior department has become
such a cumbersome and unmanagea-
1
blc conglomeration of heterogeneous!
branches of the service that the!
transfer of some of its constituent
parts to soEie other office may be *
advisable. The administration of the!
public lands, the geological surveys!
and the supervision of the laud-grant 1
properly belong together:
while there is also an obvious affinity
between the public lands and the
subject of agriculture. It is true, of
a new execu'ive department so eon-
struct ed, agriculture would Le only a
subordinate part, which would proba¬
bly not suit the advocates of the
proposition, a*. it now stands. But
this would be inevitable if tlio new
department is to have proper ad min -
ist.native functions s*t all. As to mak-
ing the head of the department of ag-
riculture a ‘cabinet officer’ the presi
d 'nt eaa do that now if he
disposed. W hat is called the ‘cabinet,
meaning the assembled
council of the President, i3 not a
creature of law, but merely of custom ;
l and the President might, if he
j pleased, invite the present ceunmis-
sioner of agriculture to take partin
it without any further authority
derived from a law raising the rank:
of that department.
Speaker Kiefer has not removed a
house stenographic reporter for
several week’s now, but he has recent¬
ly imide a speech before the New
York chamber of commerce, in which
he declared that this talk about the
purity of the earlier days of the
republic is all bosh. He insisted that
we are better in every way than were
our ancestors, and that wc are the
superiors of all natic.r.3—ancient or
mod til Mr, Speaker Kiefer forgot
10 add ugy compliments to the
American eagle, aor did he observe
that <mr home is ia the setting sun.
Perhaps op,r superlative goodness as
a people, the superiority of l is own
colleagues at Washington to the first
Presi lent, Jefferson* the
Jaeksom and the proud possession
ftohesan, yh pier \ Dors ’.v, B n
Butler, and hob Rigcrsoll, clouded
his memory, &inee the halcyon
when President Hayes made milk-
and-watcr speeches at county agyi
cultural fairs, tl^e nation has had no
( |efett<ler at all equal to the astute
j$p ea |{ e i« Kiefer, whose eloquence is a
C oinical blending of the utterances ol
;1 second-rate scho; Imast-cr and a
croS s_roads Eogrih of J^!t, epouter.
Speaking of Robeson, that famous
0 j j nianipulator of nav i! affairs and
sounder of ships has been a good
deal set hack by his failure to get
and 1 b , s congress is extravaunnt enimgh
foolish enough in all conscience,
out it had to spew out Robeson’s
pi<> . aintru ana tiic ol 1 salt is v in
^
lately been reveal'd throwing strong
light upon Robeson s administration
of the navy department during the
eight years he was at its head. He
expended over $149,0 )u, 0 ) during
that time, and lel’o the navy in a
worse condition and with fewer
vessels than when he took charge of
it. .Nearly a million and a half of
this amount was spent for ‘repairs’
upon a single vessel, and yet the okl
hulk is almost worthless aa a war
vessel to day. it would be a fine
thing to let. Robeson have a hand in
a scheme taepo^d $30,000,0 0 more
for navy ‘improve♦nent,’ wouldn't it?
Phono.
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Feb. 12 , j88o.
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I offer for sale the ‘ Toccoa News’ 1
and Job office. A good large-sized
Washington Hand press, a .vionumen*
tal Job press, and all necessary
material and furniture for running a
IFeckly paper, are embraced in^ its
stock. Apply to
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Proprietor, Toccoa Ga<