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BAINBRIDGE, GA., THURSDAY MORNING, MARCH 8, 1883.
YOL XII-NO. 22,
S'tooch on Southern
. ^ ...How Daniel Martin lie-
Ul! ' r ;! ) ">ote---The Need of More
j Better Schools.
hashing!gon’s birth day,
V'Vu'a;. llaygood delivered
lih iu Washington City
Lm. the Mi»«*on Telegraph and
prints in full. The
^ an extract from the
■ ,r ihilitv to write one’s name
' lo * read" coarse print imper
il j s n o good proof of fitness
This sort and degree of
r . v , maV exist with absolute
of the merits of the
nH involved in popular elect
ee give a fair specimen,
hwn from life. There is not a
U ( ,f fancy or burlesque in it.
|r nearly eight, years I have had
|mv employment a colored man
ml character and supe-
ir oualities. lie is above the
0, r,. of bis race in intelligence;
j ; ' a hout my own age ; be can
liis name imperfectly and lie
p a little. You will miss the
jut in my story unless you hear
distinctly in mind that this
1. Daniel Martin by name, has
;Ja Republican ticket every
i since lie was made a voter,
that lie so votes to this day.
mesliow how well qualified a
a may he to be a voter who
just write his name and read
ore sign. The day before the
es and . Til don election,
icl was ploughing m a little
| near my house. One of the
,ents asked him: “IIow are
going to vote to morrow, Un-
D&niel ?” The Southern negro
vr delivers a grave judgement
bout coining to a full pause in
itever engages him. One eon-
ueuce is lie conies to a great
by steps. Moreover, he thinks
aetaphor and speaks in para-
So Daniel came to a full
in his plowing, and sticking
plow deep into the ground, de-
red himself as follows:
ow, Mr. Longstreet, you see
plowin’ along dis furrow here ;
plow dis furrow all de time, I
;e dis furrow too deep and I
t plow do balance of de patch.”
ip street admitted the force of
statement. The philosophic
t continued. “I think things
a swine on dis way ’long
tgh; (loro ought to be a
ge. Wharfore I’se gwine to
for Hayes to-morrow.
® next day lie and I went to
county town and voted. He
for Hayes, that there might
a changeI voted for Tilden
there miglit.“be a change,”
we were equal before the
tlh to such a man about the
tion, the currency! You had
‘'ell talk to him about, hori-
parallax aud spectrum
10re ^ no question so burning
e United Slates to-day as this:
at can we do with Daniel
Ju in politics—the white
cl and the black Daniel ?”
tidng is more certain than
t:ie South cannot, unaided,
the emergency that is now
her.
5 are told that Northern
! . v is sending hundreds of
sands every year into the
to help do this work of edu-
n p That is true; and this
otic and Christian benevo-
!s appreciated to the fullest
best people. Heaven
M them—the Peabody’s, the
? > Vanderbilts, Seneys,
N and others as generous,
A not so rich. They have
a good work indeed. Chil-
children will have them in
-'ting remembrance.
^ this should be considered as
into the question of the
■ ot ' the Southed whites to
Ue work that is upon them
11 Ls the ability of the white
c ' that is to be inquired into,
they pay the taxes.) Nearly
ic tt °ney sent South since
1865 for educational purposes has
been devoted to the education of
the negroes, especially the great
sums expended by” the churches
and benevolent societies of the
North. This is not regretted; we
do not envy the negroes the help
that Providence sent them. They
need it sorely and we rejoice with
them. But this method of help
good as it has been, left the white
people, thousands of them, as poor
as the negroes, to struggle with
(lieir own burdens without the
help the negroes had, and left to
the white people who were a little
bottle off, the burden of their own
responsibilities inth e matter of
education and the payment of the
taxes for such public schools as
they had, dividing it with the
negroes who paid next to no taxes,
and yet had help that they had
not.
Nothing less needs proving than
this: Xhcre must be more schools
and better; more teaching and
better teaching. This will cost
money, a great deal of money,
more than these impoverish States
can raise.
Whero it is to come from ?
From individuals ? But a nation
cannot depend on individuals to
do a work almost too great for the
whole people.
From churches and other bene
volent societies? They are but
aggregations of individuals and
societies, representing but a part
of the people, cannot do a work
that belongs to all.
It is the duty of the whole na
tion to help, for a time, the States
with their heavy burdens. Is it
%etter for this nation to leave
these millions of illiterate people
with ballots in their* hands un
taught, than to help the States
carry a load that is crushing them?
Is it better for this nation to en
dure. these evils that are now
upon us, and to brave the greater
evils into which they are growing,
day by day, than to spend a few
millions, paid into its treasury by
the people, and to do this for the
benefit of the people—that is for
its own benefit.
This duty of helping the States
educate these millions of illiterate
people is a national duty; for na
tional interests are involved in it.
It is a national duty,, lor it must
be done ; the States most deeply
involved cannot do it and the
nation can. It is a national duty
for the plain, historical reason
that the nation, as much, made
these millions of negroes citizeus
and voters before they were pre
pared for their new duties and
relations, and in the very act of
doing it, and by the very method
of doing it, largely took from
those who are now caUed on to
prepare them for their new duties
and relations the ability to do it.
The men of the South who have
accepted the issues of the war in
good faith may well use the lan
guage of the Hon. W E Forster, of
the English Parliament, in reply
to the radical wing of the party:
‘You demand universal suffrage;
I demand universal education to
go along with it.”
Universal suffrage we have, and
in the South, as to the large ma
jority, illiterate suffrage. There
is no remedy for the evils of this
state of things ; whether by re
pressions within the States where
the trouble is; whether front force
of anv sort with these States.
There is no remedy that leaves
out the school house and the
school-master. Ethical education
is sorely needed: but ethical edu
cation will make slow progress
without the education of good
schools.
Sensible and just men are not
now discussing slavery—that is
passed out of the argument. They
are not discussing the relative
blameworthiness of the sections.
Doctrinaires and narrow and bit
ter men do that. Sensible and
just men say:
“See here, this multitude must
be educated; it concerns us all;
the nation is endangered by this
iirnorant ballot, these Southern
States cannot carry this tremen
dous weight, this- burden no
longer theirs in any exclusive
sense, but now the burden of us
aU. The nation can bear it' and
bear it easily. Let the nation
forthwith get about it”
A SOFT SOAP RACKET.
The Old Man Helps to pat np a Job and
Gets the Worst of tt
“You 6ee,” said t^e bad boy to
the groceryman, pa like6 a joke
the best of any man you ever saw,
if it is on somebody else, but he
kicks like a steer when it is on him.
I asked him this morning if it
would not be a good joke to put
some soft soap on the front step,
as the letter carrier would slip up
and spill himself, and pa said it
would be elegant. Pa is a Demo
crat, and he thinks that anything
that will make it unpleasant for
Republican officeholders is legiti
mate, and he encouraged me to
paralyze the letter-carrier. The
letter-carrier is as old a man as pa,
and I didn’t want to humiliate
him, but I just wanted pa to give
his consent, so he couldn’t kick if
he got caught in his own trap.
You see ? Well, this morning the
minister and two of the deacons
called on pa, to have a talk with
him about his actions in church,
on two or three occasions, and they
had a pretty hot time in the back
parlor, and finally they settled it,
and were going to sing a hymn
when pa handed them a little
hymn-book, and the minister
opened it and turned pale and
said “what’s this ?” and they looked
at it, and it was a book of Hoyle’s,
games, instead of a hymn-book.
Gosh, wasit’t the minister mad?
He had started to read a hymn and
put the arnica. O, but she did go
through the air like a bullet
through cheese, and when she
went down the steps bumpty-bump
I felt sorry for ma. The minister
had got so he could set up on the
sidewalk, with his back against
the lower step, when ma came
sliding down, and one of the heels
of her gaiters hit the minister in
the hair and the other foot went
right through between bis arniand
his side, and the broom liked to
pushed his teeth down his throat.
But he was not mad at ma. As
soon as ho seen it was ma he said,
“Why, sister, the wicked stand in
slippery places, don’t they,” and
ma she was mad and said for him
to let go her stocking, and then pa
was mad and he said “look-a-herei
you sky pilot; this thing has gone
far enough,” and then a policeman
came along first he thought they
were all drunk, but he found they
were respectable, and he got a chip
and scraped the soap off of them,
and they went home, and pa and
ma they got in the house some
way, and just then the letter
carrier came along; but lie didn’t
have any letters for us, and he
didn’t come onto the steps, and
then I went up stairs and I said
“Pa, don’t you think it is real
mean, after you and I fixed the
soap on the steps for the letter
carrier, and he didn’t come on the
step at aU,” and pa was scraping
the soap oft’ his pants with a piece
of shingle, and the hired girl was
putting liniment on ma, and heat
ing it in for palpitation of the
he quit after he read two lines
where it said, “In a game of four- ;L f art > and P a / a ^ “Ton dam
1 .1YAA 111 V>A T t-Vi lfl AY» T ' 1 1 A 111
handed eucre never trump your
partner’s ace, but rely on the ace
to take the (rick on suit.” Pa
was trying to explain how the
the book come to be there, when
the minister and the deacons
started out, and then I poured the
two quart tin pail full of soft soap
on the front step. It was this
white soap, just tli© color of the
step, and then I got it spread I
went dpwn in the basement. The
visitors catne out and pa was try
ing to explain to them about
Hoyle, when one of the deacons
stepped in the soap, and his feet
flew up and he struck*bn his pants
and slid down the steps. The
minister said “great heaven?, dea
con, are you hurt ?. Let me assist
you,” and he took two quick steps
and you have seen these fellows
in a nigger show that kick each
other head over heels and fall on
their ears, and stand on their
heads and turn round like a top.
The minister’s feet slipped and the
next I saw he was standing on his
head in his hat,-and his legs were
sort of wilted and feU limp by his
sides, and he fell over on his
stomach. You talk about spread
ing the gospel in heathen lands.
It is nothing to the way you can
spread with two quarts of soft
soap. The minister didn’t look
pious a bit when he was trying to
catch the railing. He looked as
though he wanted to murder every
man cn earth, but it may be he
was tired. Weil, pa was paralyz
ed, and he and the deacon rushed
out to pick up the minister and the
first old man, and when they
struck the step they-went kiting
Pa’s feet somehow slipped back
wards, and he turned a summer
sault and stuck full length on his
back, and one heel was across the
minister’s neck, and he slid down
the steps, and the other deacon
fell aU over the other three, and
pa swore at them, and it was the
worst looking lot of pious people
I ever saw. They aU seemed mad
at each other. The hired girl told
ma there was three tramps out on
the sidewalk fighting pa, and ma
she took the broom and started to
help pa, aDd I tried to stop ma be
cause her constitution is not very
strong and I didn't want her to do
any flying trapeze business, but I
couldn't stop h*r, and she went
out with the broom and a towel
tied around her head. WeU, I
don’t know where ma did strike,
but when she came in she said she
had a palpitation of the heart, but
that was not the place where she
idjut, no more of this, or I’ll maul
the liver out of you,” and I asked
him if he didn’t think soft soap
wouldn’t help a moustache to
grow, and he picked up ma’s work
basket and threw at my head as I
went down stairs, and I came over
here. Don’t you think my pa is
unreasonable to get mad at a lit
tle joke that he planned himself ?
The groceryman said he didn’t
know, and the boy went out with
a pair of skates over his shoulder.
—Peck's Bun
The New Steamer.
The Columbus Times says the
new steamer soon to be placed on
our river will be a model of beauty
and convenience. She vtill be
one hundred and thirty feet long
by twenty-six feet wide, with
twentv-two state rooms. The
stock has all been taken, and the
boat will be constructed and
equipped at once. The stockhold
ers propose to have her qn the
Chattahoochee ready for business
by the 1st of July. The gentlemen
at the helm are steamboat and
river men of long experience and
know how to handle a craft.
Business men all along the line of
the river have stock in the new
boat. Messrs. B. F. and T. A.
Marcrum, Geo. L. Lapham and
C. E. Hubert are the prime mov
ers and largest interested in the
new boat, and we wish for them
and their associates the fullest
success. We welcome all enter
prises that tend to the benefit of
our city or its citizens.—Eufala
Bulletin.
C hants of Tu lsdom.
WhileWMU Times.
“Better is a dry morsel and
quietness therewith” than washed
down with Jersey lightning. “A
wise servant doing housework
shaU boss the whole family. “Ex
cellent speech becometh not a
fool,” yet if he is rich his words are
applauded all the same. “A fool
hath no delight in understanding”
the path to knowledge. “Better is
thepoor that walketh in his integri
ty” than the rich that rideth a fool
ish hobby. Rob not the poor be
cause he is poor,” but slam socie
ty’s door in bis face because he
bat^no money. “Boast not thy
self of to- morrow,” neither be
ashamed of what you left undone
yesterday.
Columbus enterprise has taken
the direction of a new steamer for
the Chattahoochee river. It is
supposed the steamer wiU be ready
for a trip by the first of July.
Wiid Oats.
They who sow wild oats will
reap wild oats. Our young friends
do not believe this, but it is true
whether it be believed or not
Boys often begin this sowing at
an early age, without any thought
of the reaping. They have an idea
that it is “spoony” to be “good,”
that it is “soft” to be careful to
keep clear of all that is wrong
that it is manly to chew, to swear
and to swagger; that it is “smart”
to be careless as to what parents
and teachers wish.
Young men fancy that they are
proving their independence by
staying away from the Bible class
and throwing out doubts about
Christianity. They_pride them
selves on being “out of leading
strings,” on their ability to choose
their own company, and to judge
for themslves how they will spend
their evenings and where they will
pass their Sabbath. Their noses
take an upward curl at the men
tion of the “pioue young men
who hold on to Sunday-school and
prayer-meeting. They have gotten
beyond this!
Now in their hearts they know
that “the saints” are right and
they themselves are wrong. They
have no idea of going on in the
neglect of God and religion all
their lives. They expect to “have
a good time” while young and
later in life to turn over a new
leaf, and to come out all right in
the end. They are sowing their
wild oats.
But who is to reap what they
are sowing ? And what shall the
harvest be ?
“Whatsoever a man soweth that
shall he alone reap.”
Character is forming. It is
formed in youth. Men at
thirty and forty are commonly
what they are at twenty, only
ripened and hardened;
and at twenty they are to be
what they were at fifteen, only
more set. From the quarries that
are dug under Jerusalem a fine
creamy lime-stone is cut that is
soft to the knife or chisel when
first taken out, but that hardens
into solid rock when exposed to
the air. So it is with us. In
youth we readily take shape under
the influences which we invoke;
in manhood we find our characters
are set. We stamp our souls
while young and plastic with the
impress that they are to bear in
after-life. Let our young men
understand that sowing wild oats
in youth means a harvest of sorrow
and sin. Even if repented of, the
old seeds are there, to be fought
and bewailed as long as life lasts.
Better—far better—is it never
to sow seeds of evil. No man ever
regretted that he began to serve
God in his youth.
The Railroad of the Future.
Tallahassee Floridian.
For Florida, is a line fromjsome
point on the Transit road, either
at Waldo or Gainesville running
West to the Chattahoochee river
or Bambridge, and from thence to
Chattanooga, in as direct a line as
possible. A road like this would
open the Western markets to East
and South Florida, whereas these
markets are only reached now by
roundabout way, unsuited to
perishable products. Practically
the whole of Florida is at present
tied on to the Eastern markets,
which are only reached by way of
Savannah and Fernandina.
A much married man resides at
Simmons Gap, in this State, whose
matrimonial record is reaHy extra
ordinary. He is eighty years of
age, and has had the extreme felici
ty of being married nine times,
his ninth wife now supporting his
declining years. Fifty-three chil
dren are entitled to call him
father, and at a recent family
gathering, over three hundred of
lineal desegndent were present
Judge Powell says that Prohibi
tion in Newnan, Grantville and
Senoia is about to break ftp the
County Court of that county.
Mix It
Perry Home Journal.
From the standpoint occupied
as a post for observation during
the past seven years, we have
reached the conclusion that a di
versity of interest and pursuits is
the only way by which Georgia
can eryoy the practical fruits of
beirf& in fact what she has long
been called, the Empire State of
the South.
Being naturally an agricultural
country does not neccessarily in
dicate that cotton shaU constitute
the only crop from which the pro
fits of agriculture shall accrue, for
bitter experience has taught our
farmers that only iu imagination
does the profit from the cultiva
tion of cotton show itself when
provisions are purchased for con
sumption on the farm. Experience
further teaches that the farmer
who makes liis farm self sustain
ing and has some product for
market at different periods of the
year is the one, and the only class
of farmers, who can demonstrate
that there is clear money in the
business. We do not claim that
every farmer in Georgia can profi
tably raise corn and meat for sale,
but we do say there is no just
reason why they should purchase
these neceessary articles for home
consumption.
It is our purpose to tell each
farmer the exact proportion of the
different crops he should cultivate
but simply to call attention to the
fact that none who plant cotton
and seH nothing else, buying pro
visions at credit prices, have ever
found the business to be profit
able.
No man who intelligently en
gineered a'truck farm ever gave
up the business in disgust, or
declared that there was no profit
iu it. The same can be said of
stock-raising, where the land is
favorable to such an enterprise.
But. above all farming lands
should be improved in fertility
each year they are cultivated, and
a manure that costs each year
more than the land on which it is
put could be sold for, and does
not leave it any richer at the end
of-the year, is not oftly worth
purchasing, but is actually damag
ing the farmer and the land on
which it is put. Manure is em
phatically as legitimate a product
of the farm as cotton, corn, oats
or potatoes, and he who annually
purchases commercial fertilizers
and raises no manure on the farm,
will never reap the profits that
will render him independent.
In commercial circles the suc
cessful men are those who meet
the demands of the tirade, and the
great diversity of the commodi
ties handled indicate the varied
wants of the people who are sup
plied. Any merchant who would
ignore the wants of his market in
the selection of his stock of goods,
could not evade bankruptcy.
In manufacturing there is also
room for great diversity, and
recent developments have proven
conclusively that many of the
wants of domestic life can be suc-
cesefully manufactured in our
own state. In this line the field
is extensive, and the more the
industries are diversified, the
greater will the benefits to our
state and to our people.
*CHARLES C. BUSH,
Attorney at Law
COLQUITT, GA.
Prompt attention given to all business en
trusted to me.
JNO. E. DONALSON, ~~
Attorney and Counselor at Law;
Office in the court house. Will practice
in Decatur aud adjoining counties, and
elsewhere by special contract.
Feb’y 15, 1833.
D* MCOIlt, M. O’HBAt
McGILL & O’NEAL.
Attorneys at Law.
BAINBRIDGE, GA. •
Their office will be found over the post of-'
fice.
D r
MEDICAL CARD.
£ . 1 . M
organ
Has removed his office to the drug store;
formerly occupied by Dr, Harrell. Resi
dence on West street, south of Shotwell;
where calls at night will reach him.
DENTISTRY.
I . C . Curry, D. D. 8.,
Can he found daily at his office on South
Broad street, up stairs, in E. Johnson’s
building, where he is ready to attend to the
wants of the public at reasonable rates.
dcc-5-78
DOCTOR M. L. BATTLE,
Dentist.
Office over Hinds Store, West sido
coert house. Has fine dental engine, and
will have everything to make his office
first-class. Terms cash. Office hours 9
a. m. to 4 p.m. jan,13tf
DR. L. H. PEACOCK,
Respectfully tenders his professional serv-i
ices to the people of Bainbridge and vicini-
ty.
Office over store of J. D. Harrell & Bro
Residence on West end of Brough tori
street,where he can bo found at night.
April 6,1881—
JEFF. D. TALBKRT. WM. M. HARRELL;
TALBERT & HARRELL,
Attorneys and Counselors at Law;
BAINBRIDGE, GA.
The above have formed a copartnership
under the firm name of Talbert & Harrell
for the practice of law. Will practice id
all the courts of the Albany Circuit. Office
over Barnett’s store;
August 14,1882;
ALBERT WINTER,
Real Estate and Collecting Agent;
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA.
I will be glad to receive the patronage ef
all who have property to sell or rent, rol
collecting to make. All business placed in
my hands will receive prompt attention. I
will look after wild lands, investigate titles;
pay taxes and protect from tresspassers.
1 propose to make the collection of bad
claims a specialty. The worse the elaini
the more attention I Will give it.
Correspondence solicited.
Aug. 1-, 1882.
THE
SOUTH-WEST GEORGIA LAND AGElfCVj
Russell & Brown, Ag’ts.
BAINBRIDGE,
GEORGIA;
The ship canal bill that passed
the Florida Legislature has been
approved by the- Governor. The
bill provides that the company
shall not receive any donation of
Florida lands from the United
States. It is now probable that
Florida will be cut in twain by a
canal for ships.
The new freight depot at Way
cross will be a fine building, 150
feet long, finished in modem style
and famished with all the latest
improvements. It will have a 350
feet platform, and will be the
model of others yet to be built by
the Savannah, Florida and Wes
tern Railway.
Connecticut has 1,055 clergy
men and 1,180 bar tenders.
Offer to buyers the. following briefly
described Real Estate—improved and unim
proved in the
14TII DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT.
Lots of Land Nos 157,266,217,216,133, 301;
175, 9, 225. 28.
1.5TH DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT.
Lots Nos396, 394, 391.
17TH DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT,
Lots Nos 71, 396, 338, 343, 392, 321, 241.
279, 174, 287, 264, 165 166.
20TFT DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT;
Lots Nos 35, 149, 173.
21ST DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT
Lots Nos 217, 374, 97. 103, 1, 115,163.107;
175, 309, 267.243, 320. 336.
27TH DISTRICT OF DECATUR COUNTT.
260, 216, 176, 58, 59.
These lots are all full, having 250 acres
in each, and Will be sold in lots to suit tha
purchasers.
We also have control of a large quantity
of lands in the counties of Jtfiller, Early.
Baker. Mitchell and Irwin, besides a num
ber of desirable lots in the city of Bain-
bridge—improved and unimproved.
Parties wishing lands for turpentine,
timber, farming or other purposes, will find
full description and all necessary informa
tion in onr hands.
N. B.—Non-resident land owners will be
faithfully served, their lands leased,
returned, looked after and protected against
trespassers, and if for sale, advertised and
sold for a reasonable charges. Business
respectfully solicited aud satisfaction
guaranteed.
D. A RUSSELL & BROWN,
Beal Estate Agents,
Bainbridge, Go.
A RARE BARGAIN
Is offered in that splendid River plantation
known as the J. W. Latbrop & Co place on
Flint River—containing 1250 acres—300 of
which is the finest River Bottom land and
produces 40 bnsbels of corn per aere.
Lying near the mouth of Spring Creek on the '
river is the key to the finest stock farm in
Georgia, being fenced thus on three sides.
A boat landing, fine drainage, good water,
healthy, an inexhaustible timber supply
and a good neighborhood are among its
numerous attractions. The price Is extreme*
ly low because owned by people who have
no use for such property. For farther in
fer ma tion address this Agency.