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The sixteenth annual convention
the female suffrage women is in
cssion in Washington.
The Augusta Chronicle has de
clared for McDaniel for Governor.
. will he reseated by a perfect ti-
b ;l l wave of popular endorsement.
The New York harbor is said to
L> filling up in many places so as to
Inusc the frequent grounding of
cssels. Hardly a day passes with-
lit an incident of this kind.
President Arthur was willing
nit Postmaster Gresham says posi
tively that Miss Lizzie Nutt’s appli
cation for the post-office at Union-
awn, Pa., cannot be granted.
The late Senator Carpenter once
lescribed Alexander Stephens in
this wise: "An empty coach halted
|t the treasury department and Al-
Stephens got out of it.'
About 60.000 Northerners have
wintered in Florida during the past
Jason, and n ill soon begin to wend
way home. The great hegira
toms on March 15 and lasts for a
unth or more.
The outlook is now that Col.
11.Her will have a walk-over in
nth. Seal). Reese is as solid as
Itonc Mountain in the Sth, and we
edict his renomination by accla
mation.
The people ol Athens are over-
tl.eiiningly in favor of Tilden. VVe
e interviewed a number of lead-
democrats, and with but one cx-
(ption they declare for the old
fcket.
We cannot agree with Mr. Scott
khen lie insults the people of Mas-
Icliiwctts by advising thit some of
surplus spinsters wed witn the
African. The people of that state
; not responsible for the wild rav-
Dg- of one amalgamator.
A gentleman who has travelled
trough Georgia tells us that he
ids a hitter opposition to Senator
tow if. that only needs organiza-
aml confidence to fan into a
Irmidahlc campaign. Our inform
ant. too. is a staunch friend to the
tiiutor.
NO XXXVII.
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, MAJEtCH 18,1884. :
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Fred Douglass’ rcd-lieaded white
fe not only parts her hair on one
e half an inch above her left
, hut she sits by the stove hours
a time reading the Atlantic
nit lily The enemies of Doug-
s feel fullv avenged.
The report that Blind Tom, the
otic negro mnsician, had been
rated out of the proceeds of his
averts by his manager, has been
nied. Gen. Janies N. Hethune,
Muscogee county, Georgia, is
mi s guardian, and both Tom and
5 mother are said to he well pro
filed for by bun.
iGeorgc Washington, the first
Ircsidcnt of the United States,nev-
steamhoat, John Adams, the
cond President, never saw a rail-
Andrew Jackson, the sev-
1th President, knew nothing about
legrapli Abraham Lincoln,
cteen President, never dream-
ucha thing as a telephone.
IWc believe it would be a calami-
ieorgia just at this time not to
Jturu Senator Ilrown, but we will
vote for him or any other
who proved recreant to his
and party in those dark days
on-truction. The reconstruc-
•ra is the point where we will
all party lines.
[Alliens puts in her claim as the
:e to hold the district convention,
has no axe to grind, and that
fdv can deliberate here without
of outside lobbying. Besides
city is the most convenient point
1 hold a convention, as we have
nod hotel accommodations and
lilroad facilities verging to every
action of the district.
The Macon Telegraph is an able
ttper, hut it seems to be afflicted
fil’11 a chronic case of the sorehead.
: goes oil' after the false prophet
protective Tariff and is now oppos-
; Tilden. The people of Gcor-
[ have one consolation, however
Jn politics the Telegraph is al-
i found at the head of a hopeless
nor i tv.
Ir. llanson, of the Telegraph,
po owns a few shares in a little
ttory in Macon, declares himself
[favor of a protective tariff on cot-
1 goods. There are several old
ies living in Rabun county, with
sir looms and spinning-wheels,
tio are equally’ interested in pro-
ction. hut they are willing to sac-
personal interest for the good
[the masses. Mr. Hanson should
: more patriotic.
I The New York Herald says: “Mr.
pden reached the age last month
hen, according to ‘the Preacher,
son of David, King of Jerusa.
1," all things become ‘vanity’
Presidential nominations included)
Id ‘desire’ fails. King David
mself, before his son thus
Dralized, had specified three score
kd ten years as the term of man’s
lefulness.” No doubt the Herald
pd the rest of the republican organs
lould like to see the most formi-
phle man in the democratic ranks
■tired, but our party is not ready as
et to go to its political enemies for
■vice.
neoro colonization again.
The Savannah. News says: The
recent agitation of the schemes for
the colonisation of the negroes,
where they can have the blessings
or curses—as the case may be—of
self-government, has attracted very
genej-al attention. It is stated that
State Senator Kerner, of Virginia,
who introduced the bill in the Vir
ginia Senate lately to inquire into
the expediency of an experimental
colony for colored people, lias re
ceived many letters from distin
guished men all over the country
approving the project. By far the
greater number of these came from
the North. Some of them express
ed the opinion that the proposed
colony ought to be established in
Africa, where the colored people
would not only develop the country
and improve their condition, but
become profitable to the commer
cial interests ot the United States.
Negro colonization has already
had a trial in Africa. It is a curious
fact that the colonization question
was first brought before a legislative
body in Virginia by a resolution
similar to the one recently introduc
ed in the senate of that state in the
first year of the present century.
No definite results were obtained
buf so much attention was attracted
to the subject that a few years later
the American Colonization Society
xvasorganized. In iSi7that society
sent agents to Africa to locate a col
ony. In 1S19 congress appropriated
$100,cno for th,e purpose of carry
ing back to Africa such slaves as
should be surreptitiously imported.
A colony of SS persons was sent out
in 1S20, and two years later was es
tablished at Cape Mesurado. Ad
ditions were made from time to
time of manumitted slaves from the
Southern States, but the powers of
government were retained in the
hands of the agents of the society
until 1S2S. when the colonists were
given some voice in the manage
ment of affairs. The colonists were
gradually given greater powers, but
the society retained the right to nul
lify any act of the legislature until
1S47, when a declaration of inde
pendence and the constitution of
the republic of Liberia were adopt
ed. Since that time the society has
continued to send out emigrants and
to provide them with temporary
means for support. About 14.000
persons altogether have been sent
to Africa. Since the founding of
the colony the parent society has
spent nearly three millions of dollars
in its settlement and encourage
ment
This colony was established un
der exceptiohally favorable condi
tions, and while the experiment in
self-government by the negroes
cannot be called an absolute failure,
it has not been as successful as the
friends of the colonization scheme
hoped. The colonists have only
been moderately prosperous. A
few have acquired small fortunes
by traffic with the native Africans,
of whom there are over 700,cx» in
Liberia and adjacent regions. The
Americo-Liberians have not
creased rapidly and now mber
scarcely 20,000. No considerable
number of the colonists have re
lapsed into barbarism. The colon
ists maintain a good many public
schools, as well as churches of the
Methodist m Episcopal, Protestant
Episcopal and Baptist denomina
tions. A great many of the native
Africans are Mohammedans, and
they have prevented the spread of
Christianity among the idolaters to
any great extent.
The republic contracted a loan of
half a mi im in London in
1S71. The President, James Roye,
on his return home, was accused of
having appropriated the money thus
obtained to his own use and that of
his cabinet. In consequence, there
was a popular uprising, and Roye
was deposed and imprisoned, and
an executive council was intrusted
with the government until a new
President was elected,
Liberia contains nearly 20,000
square miles of territory embraced
in the present political jurisdiction
of the republic, which might be ex-
VISIT TO OGLETHORPE.
[An inteiesting prohibition case
is just been decided by the su
pine court of Tennessee. A man
limed Boyd rented the bar privi-
ges of the steamboat City of
■shville, which navigates the
umbcrland river. He obtained
be usual license from the state and
Jnited States authorities and sold
?uor thereunder. The river, how
rer, at one point passes through a
prohibition county where no license
recognized by the authorities,
loyd was indicted for selling with
out license and convicted in the cir
cuit court. He carried the case up,
claiming that he only sold on the
boat while under way, and was not
liable to the local law. The supreme
[court affirmed the judgment of the
[court below, holding that the law
[applied as much to the river and
[boats running thereon as to the
[land. v
tended to 100,000. There is room
for all the negroes ot America who
desire a country governed exclu
sively by their own race. The con
ditions necessary for success are
probably more favorable there than
in any portion of the west, besides
the social and political influences
which cause race antagonism# in
America. It would be very hurtful
to the race should they attempt to
colonize in Liberia or any wheite else
en masse.
It is said that Hon. L. F. Living-
ton will be a candidate for thd
horse from Newton, and if elected
will be a candidate for speaker of
the house. The Honorable Lemuel
certainly expects his agricultural
presidency to bear fruit very early.
We ate rather inclined to think the
“homey-handed sbns'of toil” that
compose this body pulled Col. Liv
ingston most too green, and that he
will sour upoh the political stomach
of Georgia.
Two of the five Confederate Gen
erals are still living—Joseph E,
Johnston and G. T. Beaurcguard.
The Confederates had twenty-one
Lieuteant-Generals, and of these
nine are still living—James Long’
street, Wade Hampton, John B.
Gordon, D. H. Hill, S. D. Lee, A*.
P. Stewart, Jubal Early, S. B. Buck'
ner and Joseph Wheeler.
It ■ seems that Rev. Atticus G
Haygood, the great Southern amal
gamator, has dropped out of public
notice of late, and bids'fair to take a
stand beside that famous national
fraud R, B. Hayes.
A Day with FrionOlorYcro-A Pouts Oonductor-
Tfco Orala Crop and Foods Law-Otior Dots
Picked Up tytko Wayalde.
Last Saturday afternoon we felt
like we had earned a day’s rest, and
as Oglethorpe is always the Mecca
to which we journey when in search
of ease and pleasure, boarded the 3
o'clock trainf for that destination.
We had for a companion Mayor
Dorsey,who report saysjis a budding
candidate for municipal honors in
the thriving town of Crawtord.
We tackled Mr. Dorsey in regard
to his weekly pilgrimage down the
road, andhe replied:
“Yes; I intend to’give Athens a
good drive, and shall begin oh
l’rince avenue at Hemphill’s shop,
where I want to erect a pretty foun
tain at the intersection of the street,
and then set out a row of shade
trees up to the Rock College. It
will be one of the finest drives in
Georgia, don’t you think so?”
“Yes,” was our reply, “but about
this trip to Crawford? Anything
special on foot?”
“I am opposed to tapping the old
sewers, but for $3,500 can we build
a sewer large enough to carry ofl
artificial drainage and empty it into
the river below the factory pond.’
“We agree with you there; but
what causes your tour to Crawford
every Saturday evening?” we per
sisted.
“I have the biggest kind of a
thing on foot for Athens, that only
myself and five other men know. It
will be developed in a few months
and will astound the city. But I
am not prepared yet to give it away.”
“Any connection between that
boom and your visit to Crawford?"
“I tell you, Athens will be the
best lighted city in Georgia. It—”
Just at this time Conductor
Hutchins came with a demand for
“tickets, please,” and when we
handed over our strip of pasteboard
certifying “Pass the bearer free,”
the Captain seemed so thankful for
the favor that we felt like the con
ductor was under a lasting debt of
gratitude to us.
The first person we met upon
landing at Crawford was Mr. S. H.
Slokcly, the merchant prince of
Oglethorpe. We at once plied out
steam gimlet to him with a query
about the oat crop.
“Well,” was his reply, “we have
none down this way worth talking
about. They are killed out ruinous
ly, and will make the shortest crop.”
Mr. Stokeley is one of the largest
land-owners in this section, and we
asked what effect the stock law
would have on prices?
“I do not see any perceptible
difference. I am selling off a great
deal of my land now, and do not
propose to ask any advance.”
“What interest does your real es
tate pay you on cost?” we asked.
“About 10 per cent, on an average,
after deducting all expenses,
owned one place that paid for itself
in three years. I do not know a
better investment for capital than in
farming lands in Middle Georgia.”
After shaking hands with the boys
and getting in four new subscribers
we hunted up Col. J. S. Baughn, of
Maxey’s sweetmash fame, with
whom we had an engagement that
night. We foundjoe and his horse
both propped up against an old
China tree. It is three miles froirf
Crawford to Lexington, and it took
us (our hours to make the trip.
Joe’s tor’s is about the size of
half-grown Texas rabbit, and as he
greases his buggy with tar, is
not likely to solve the problem if
rapid transit. Toe has lately turned
his attention to fine stock. He says
he isn’t able just yet to invest in
Jersey cattle, but he thought of buy-
ln ‘ ing a “Pilgrim Rock” rooster and a
“Mansard” ram and gradually im
prove these lines as a beginning.
In passing Dr. Jarrell’s we found
him with a number of hands at
work on a cyclone pit. The Doc
tor says it is a combination potatoe
house, dairy and storm retreat.
And speaking of cyclone pits some
one the other day asked that grand
old Christian gentleman Uncle
Fielding Dillard what protection he
intended to take against them?
“Ah,” replied the old man, “I carry
a safeguard with me wherever I
go, and try to live so as > I can meet
death when it comes in any form.”
There is a fine sermon in this re
joinder.
We knew as soon as we struck
the newly-incorporate limits ol
Lexington, from the mud wc en
countered. John Knox, the efficient
marshal, began to work the streets
before arriving at an understanding
with the clerk of the weather. So
they have been at war ever since
Christmas, and we are rather inclin
ed to a belief that the mud has-the
drop on the town.
We noticed several evidences of
improvement in the town. The
Methodists are now finishing their
new parsonage; Messrs. Arnold &
Stewart have just erected a good
warehouse, while most of the old
fully sacrifice bis own desires, as he
thinks all good citizens should do.
And speaking of the stock law
issue, we can always tell whether a
man advocates fence or no fence as
soon as we reach his farm. The
former are building and repairing
tences around their fields, while the
latter are at work on pastures only.
It is reported that the fence men
will not accept the decision of Judge
Pottle as final, but continue their
suit But from our brief comming
ling with the people we are inclin
ed to the belief that already the
trouble is subsiding, and that by the
time'the new law goes into opera
tion the chasm will be bridged. _
We took supper Saturday night
with Mr. Peter Baughn, and then
went home with our friend Joe and
remained until after dinner, when
we returned to Crawford and were
hospitably entertained by Mr. J. J.
C. McMahan until train time.
Crawford is slowly but surely im
proving. It has live merchants,
whole-souled, affable citizens, and a
trade that can never be taken from
it For a companion on the train
we had Hon. Samuel Lumpkin, of
Lexington, one of the ablest law
yers in Georgia, and of course were
delightfully entertained. Mr. Max
Joseph, our big dry goods mer
UNDER THE CANVASS.
chant, together with his friend Mr.
Levy, from Cincinnati. were
aboard. Mr. J. has been water-
bound out West, and chartered a
special train to bring him back to
Georgia. He was in fine health and
spirits, and reports buying the fin
est stock of spring goods ever open
ed in Athens.
BURIED TREASURES.
A Chest of Hold Said to ho Blddoa oa Crahtree
Island-
A few days ago, as some work
men were making an excavation
for a windmill on the farm of Henry-
Smith, near Unionville, this county’,
just over the Sussex county line in
New Jersey, says a Goshen, N. Y.,
special to the New York Times,
they came upon a flat stone, a foot
wide and two feet long, about four
feet below the surface. Upon re
moving it, it proved to be the cover
ing to a shallow pit, the four sides
qt which were laid up with brick.
A Spanish dollar, which, on being
cleansed, showed the date of 17S1,
was found in the pit; also an oblong
pile of something resembling
scorched paper,' about six inches
long and three inches wide, and
which reached half way up the top
of the pit. Upon being touched it
crumbled to pieces. There were
no legible marks upon it, but from
its shape and appearance it is be-
lieved to have been a pile of bank
notes.
At different times since the Rev
olutionary war buried treasure has
been unearthed in the above neigh
borhood, and in different parts of
this country. Many coins have
been found ante-dating the Revolu
tion a long time. The plow has
frequently brought these treasures
to the surface, notably in a field
near Unionville, where only a few
y’ears ago a farmer came upon an
earthen jar which contained nearly
$1,000 in gold and silver coin. A
gentleman named Corwin discov
ered a sealed jar, in 1S71, near Corn
wall, while excavating for a cellar,
which was filled with ancient coin,
the whole amounting to over $1,500.
Gold and silver plate and
jewels have been found hid
den among the rocks
the Ramapo Mountains and isolated
recesses in the Hudson Highland.
It is supposed that these hoards of
money and treasure were secreted
by persons who lived in the vicini
ty to keep them from falling into
the hands of predatory bands of
toiies, cowboys and Indians, which
were continually raiding the early
settlements, and that the owners,
driven from their homes by these
marauders, were either unable to
return and recover their property
or to locate its hiding places. Many
of the present generation are firm
believers in the legend that there is
$100,000 in gold buried in an iron
chest on Crabtree Island, in a wild
part of Vernon township. This,
according to the legend, was placed
there by a large band of Tories who
secured the plunder in the lower
portion of Delaware valley, and, be
ing pursued and close pressed by
American soldiers, they were guid
ed by a Tory named DeWitt to the
spot named, where they deposited
it DeWitt lived many years after
the revolution near Port Jervis, and
a son of his died only a tew years
ago nearly 100 years of age. The
family always insisted on the truth
of the buried treasure story, and in
years past much money-and time
have been spent in endeavors to
find the hidden riches. The find
ing of the pit with the evidences
that money had been buried in it
near Unionville has awakened new
interest in the Crabtree Island le
gend, and there is talk of another
search for the Tory plunder.
02u8tpUn*B Great
Banw-Ths Acton WufcottKoMj.
Some Courier.
Yesterday morning it was rumor
ed on the streets that a roman had
purchased the outfit of the Champ-
lin Great Southern show, which ar
rived in the city Wednesday morn
ing. Visiting the tent over in De-
Soto our reporter found everything
in confusion. Mr. Champlin was
nowhere to be found, bujt a number
of the actors, members of the band
and employees of the show stood
around in * groups engaged-
gaged in an excited discussion of
the probabilities of the rumored sell
out U nable to gather any informa
tion from these, our reporter return
ed to the city and looked up Mr.
Champlin, who was found on the
street iri conversation with Mr. J.
P. Webb, and in answer to our in
quiries Mr. Champlin said:
“Yes, I have sold out my show to
Mr. Webb her. I was compelled
to do so in order to save myself. Du
ring the past three weeks I have
been very unfortunate, and suffered
heavy loss on account of bad weath
er, which prevented me from doing
any business. I was short of mon
ey and unable to pay off any of my
men. But I expected a pretty day
and a large crowd in Rome, and
hoped to be able to make enough
money to pay all saliaries due. The
rain again interfered, and I was left
without money. Last night my
men demanded what was due them,
and threatened to sell me out if I did
not pay. So I took things by the
forelock and. sold out myself,
want it understood that every debt
in Rome by myself and agent will
be satisfied.”
After returning to the office our
reporter was approached by Mr.
McQuith, the leader of the orches
tra, who also desired to make a
statement in behalf of the boys. He
denied that the members of the
show heard anything of its being
sold out until yesterday morning
while they were preparing to leave
for the next town, when they learn
ed .that Mr. Mr. Champlin had sold
out to Mr. Webb. McQuith said:
The sale was only a sham, but it
has ruined us, as it leaves us far from
home without money or friends, and
Champlin says he cannot pay us a
cent of the money due us for the
past four weeks. If he had come
to us like a man and said here, I will
divide what little I have with you,
the boys would stick to him through
thick and thin. But as it is he has
left us without even enough to buy
our supper. Through the generos
ity of Mr. Sargeant we will be pro
vided with a place to sleep to-night.
Mr. Nevin has kindly consented to
allow our men the use of the opera
house to-morrow night, when we
will give an entertainment, and hope
thus to raise money sufficient to get
out of town, and start for home.
The exhibition which the compa
ny propose to give to-night will be
very entertaining, and we hope
they will have a good house. The
actors are in sore distress, and will,
we are sure, highly appreciate any
little courtesy shown them by our
people.
Mr. Champlin expresses great con
cern at the stringent circumstances
of his men, and says that he has al
ready paid out every cent he realiz
ed from the sale of his outfit and is
without money himself. We give
both sides of the question just as
they were furnished our reporter by
interested parties,
A number of attachments and
lieus have been served to prevent
the removal of tha outfit and the le
gality of the sale will be thoroughly
tested; and the chances are that the
Great Southern show will remain
in Rome until the spring time
comes.
Mr. Webb says that everything
will be quickly adjusted; that the
show will be remodled and again
put on the road under new manage
ment, with new stars, and with
plenty of means to back it.
buildings arc undergoing repairs.
The lawyers here seem to be over
whelmingly on top. Hon. Samuel
Lumpkin owns one of the handsom
est residences in Middle Georgia,
and has a set of water-works of his
own that are a complete success.
It is cairied all through his building
and over his premises. Hamilton
McWhorter, Esq., has completed a
beautiful cottage that cost him
$2,300, besides owning a profes
sional farm, carp pond, about a
dozen- bird dogs and other adjuncts
to rural happiness. Mr. J. W. Ech
ols is improving his splendid place,
and adding many conveniences.
We did not have long to tany
with our kind friends, and were
busy raking in new subscribers.
The Banner-Watchmanis a popular
favorite ' down here, and there is
scarcely a house in the county, it
docs not visit. Parties wishing to
subscribe can leave their
money with Mr. R. A.
McMahan, ■ at Crawford, or
Mr. George H. Lester, of Lexing
ton, both of whom are empowered
to receipt for us. And speaking of
Mr. Lester, a prominent lawyer of
Georgia remarked to us that he was
the best county officer is Georgia,
and should ber in charge of the rec
ords in some large city. Oglethorpe
is justly proud of him, for his place
can never be supplied.
We had a short conversation with
Dr. R. J. Willingham, who is prom
inently spoken of in connection
with legislative honors. The Doc
tor says he has been solicited to
offer for this place by friends on
both sides of the fence question, but
Has not as yet mqdc up his mind on
the 'subject His whole aim and
ambition is to allay that ill-feeling
which thiS'Ctrife has engendered,and
poor oil on the troubled ' waters; u
it were. To this endhe will cheer-
A SWIM FOR LIFE.
fe
Bolton Globe
This is a handsome dog,” remark
ed Patrolman-Magee, of division 8,
to a sea captain whom he met upon
Atlantic avenuJJ in the vioinity of
Commercial wharf.
“Yes,” replied the captain, v/ho
is in command of a coastwise col
lier, looking down with all the ten
derness of a woman at the beauti
ful beast that'stood gazing upward
in his weather-beaten face. “He is
a handsome dog and also an extra
ordinary one. I picked that noble
fellow up at sea, eighty miles from
land.”
“Eighty mi’ts from land!” ejacu
lated the officer.
“Yes, sir; eighty miles from land
on my trip to this port and I think
when we got him aboard that he
had been in the water at least forty
hours.” ■
Why,” said the officer, “how in
the name.of heavens did he get so
far from shore I”
“Well, I can’t say that I really
know t butit’a my opinion that he
belqpged aboard a dismasted Nor
wegian bark bonnd for Baltimore,
that we passed hours previously,
think he was washed overboard
from her. deck.”
At this junctnre some gentlemen
acquaintances of the Captain ap
peared upon the sccoo ana he walk
ed away front the officer in their
company; the dog, a handsome
Newfoundland and St Bernard
crossed, leading on ahead wigt all
the playfulness of an urchin just out
of school.
The Governor of North‘Carolina
has respited a condemned murderer
until 1940—fifty years hence.
METHODIST GROWTH.
Intersstlag Figures Showing Bow That Chulch li
Progressing.
The General Minutes of the
Methodist Episcopal Church, South,
for 18S3, just prepared by Rev. W,
P. Harrison, D. D., the Book Editor,
reveal some interesting facts illus
trative of the rapid growth of that
church. During the past calendar,
year its membership has increased
26,949, ar >d now numbers 904,248.
This growth is at the rate of 3.07
per cent, per annum. This is a
gain upon the population of the
southern states, the rate of which
is 2.^0 per cent, per annum com
“ound. The gain in the number of
iunday school scholars is equally
as decided—26,50s. For the cause
of missions the gain in the amount
of contributions is $19,881.32—the
total amount collected being $227,
640.3S. The amount collected fo
worn-out traveling preachers and
the widows and orphans of deceas
ed preachers was$S7,146.07—again
of$5,713.25.
In this connection, it may prove
interesting to note the wonderful
growth of Methodism in the south
It is a well-authenticated fact that
Methodism has flourished and pros
pered better in the south than in
any other part of this countr
Bishop McTyeire will, in his fortl
coming History of Methodism, sue
cessfuny demonstrate that Amer
ican Methodism was first planted
in the south, and that the first Meth
odist church in America was built
and organised in the south by Straw-
bridge in Maryland.
When the Methodist Episcopal
church in America was organized
one hundred years ago—an event
that will be appropriately celebrat
ed this year throughout the bounds
ot the church—three-fourths of the
members were to be found in the
Southern states. While this pro
portion has net been maintain
is true that the largest part of the
membership of the various branches
of American Methodism is to be
found in the south.
In 1S61, just after the close of the
war, the membership of the M. E‘
church, south, -was* 500,000. The
statistics which we give for *88(3
show that it has nearly doubled its
membership. If the number of
members that was given to the col
ored Methodist Episcopal church it
America when it was organised by
the southern church in 1870$* taken
into the account, it will be shown
that the church, has doubled its
membership daring the past eight
een years. This is a remarkable
showing!
A Victoria (Columbia) China
man, worth $200,000; is to marry, a
white girl, with the consent of her
parents.* . • ; -
ARISTOCRATIC DARKEY.
AWemtfrdtomwilt*. who teamed Ms Traio
la ItSou. Qfc.anSCHteata, Bare Pinintel
Prom noma* Joffura.
Indianapolis, June 1878.—A
few days ago a reporter of the
Journal ascertained that a colored
man in the employ of Dr. W. C.
Thompson was possessed of a histo
ry at once strange and interesting,
and with a view of ascertaining the
facts connected with this person,
sought the Doctor out.
“Yes,” said he, in response to the
reporter’s question, “I have in my
employ an aged colored man whom
' have no doubt is the son of Thom-
JTeffersoii, third President ot the
United States. He has frequently
told me ol his reasons for believing
himself such, and I make no doubt
of the truth of his statements. I
have known him for a number ot
years, and would believe the word
of Robert Jefferson as readily as I
would the oath of any man. He
lives at 185 Minerva street, and will
be pleased to see you. Give him a
call and hear what he has to say on
the subject.”
Shortly after the hour ot noon
isterday the reporter found him
self on the corner of North and Mi
nerva streets, and, turning to his
left sonthward, looked for the num
ber to which he had beeb directed.
The second house south of North
street proved to be the one for
which he sought. Large evergreen
trees cast their shadows on the
front of the house, a two-story*
frame, simple in architecture and
neat in appearance. He knocked
at the door, and after a moment’s
)ause the summons was answered
)y a colored man, rather below the
medium height, apparently sixty
years of age, a dark mulatto in col
or, and with hair straight and
black.
“Does Mr. Jefferson reside here?”
He does.” “And is this he?” “It
Won’t you come in?” and the
reporter entered.
The door opened into a parlor, on
the floor of which was a carpet of
modest design, and which was well
furnished. Everything presented a
scrupulously neat and clean appear
ance, Irom the different articles of
furniture to the central object of
attraction, their quaint looking pro
prietor, Mr. Jefferson himself. The
reporter made known his errand as
he seated himself on the sofa and
watched the effect of the announce
ment on the old gentleman. He at
first appeared surprised, and an
swered, alter some hesitation'. “Yes,
I believe I am the son of Thomas
Jefferson. I have every reason to
relieve him to be my father, and no
reason to think to the contrary.”
Alter some persuasion on the part
of the interviewer, the old gentle
man continued:
“It is a short story and easily told.
My mother was a slave girl, a tall
and handsome woman, belonging to
Mr. Christian, of Charlestown, Va.
Thomas Jefferson and my mother’s
master were warm personal friends,
and frequently exchanged visits,
Mr. Jefferson passing a good deal
ofhis time in Charlestown and at
Mr. Christian’s house. My mother
was one of the housemaids and had
the care of Mr. Tefferson’s apart
i./Oi : v i
y df “Robert Jef- ^Uy l£ qf ftn*
ogress,
the date if July
speak’in‘high tt
ferson, a freeman-Of utaquestiohed
integrity,and worthy of confidence.’*
Continuing his story, lie . added:
“I came to Aladison, Indiana, in
1S54, and removed here the year
following. I built this house, then
the only one anywhere near here,
except an old farm-house. I saved
what money I could, and educated
my two daughters. One of them
married a St Louis man, the pro
prietor of ‘Robinson’s Tonsorial
Parlor,’ in that city. He died a
short time ago, *and she sold his
shop for $11,000, going to live with
her sister, Mrs. Smith, who lives
with her husband, in Pana, Ill. My
wife died five years age, and since
that time I have lived alone.”
“You seem to keep everything
neat and in good order,” remarked
the reporter.
“Yes,” continued Mr. Jefferson,
“I have alwaj’s been accustomed to
have everything about me in good
order, and I cannot bear to see
things go dirty and uncared for. It
is just as easy to keep things clean
as it is to allow them to go unclean.”
“You appear to be a man of some
education,” again put in the inter
viewer. The old man smiled as he
replied: “I can neither read nor
write. I was raised among educat
ed people, though, and was always
taught to speak properly.”
“I am told that you are a man of
some property?” persisted the re
porter.
“Well, I suppose I have enough
to keep me from want,” was thi
answer. “I have some property; I
don’t know what it is worth. Per
haps from $26,000 to $25,000. My
son-in-law, Mr. Smith, owns con
siderable property here, also. This
lot adjoining mine is his.”
“How does it happen that you
have been here so long, and yet no
one knew oi your history, Mr. Jef
ferson?”
,‘Well, I never felt called upon
to tell it. I don’t know that, every,
thing considered, J have anything
to pride myself for. ' Besides, I
don’t know as it makes very much
difference to others whom I may
be.” *
During the interview the news
paper man was enabled to obtain a
good view of the subject of his in
terview. He is a dark mulatto, of
low, broad build, and rather striking
mein, with hair perfectly straight
and still black. He was dressed in
a well-fitting suit of dark cloth, mid
wore nicely polished .boots. He is
decidedly impressive in manner,
and clear and concise in expression.
His language'’ is well chosen, and .
his demeanor unassuming. Those I °oks.
who know him best place the most'
implicit confidence in the word of
Robert Jefferson, and his]reputation
is of the best.
Having elicited the story related
above, the reporter took his leave.
TELEGRAPHIC, SPARKS C ni
• tit In'!
Yl-:r K .-:d‘,„t)„;
The river at Helena, Ark., is fall-
ing and a flood averted.
A New York man, crazed at the
death of a child, suicided.
Mrs. Alfriend, youngest daugh
ter of Bishopi’ierCe, died in Sparta
The final -spike in the Mexican
Central Railroad has been driven
Congress is investigating the
hanging of a revenue informer in
Virginia.
A New York jury gave a verdict
of six cents in $100,000 damage suit
against the Times.
Smalls was nominated on the first
ballot to fill the vacancy of Mackey
congressman from South Carolina.
A Texas rapist has been sentenc
ed to hang for one offense and to 00
years in the penitentiary for the oth-
A man by the name of Adams
got his house and furniture all de
stroyed by fire a few days ago in
Banks county.
A drunken father in Buffalo, in
censed at a son, fired a rifle at him,
wounding a daughter who was in
the same room.
The senior Cash is in jail at Co
lumbia, S. C. His son .was seen
armed near his father’s house, but
has not as yet been arrested.
The Massachusetts House yester
day passed a bill providing that
wife beaters shall be flogged by the
keeper of the house of correction in
the county-where the offense occurs.
San Francisco, March 8.—A
cloud burst near Caliente last night
covered in an instant the track of
the Southern Pacific railroad for a
distance of several hundred feet with
two feet of sand and water. Build
ings near by were covered to a
depth of eigteen inches.
Washington, March 11.—In the
House to-day, under a call of com
mittee for reports, Mr, Hammond,
of Georgia, irom a Committee on the
Judiciary,, reported lavorably the
bill for the payment to the State of
Georgia, of the sum of thirty-five
thousand dollars, for money expend
ed for common defence in 1777.
SUFFERINGS AT SEA.
HOW WE LIVE.
Nutrltloni Qualities of Various Foods Variously
Oookocl.
The world little imagines how
largely it is indebted to the 'aborious
researches of scientific medical men
. lor many of the.most important
ments during.* tlieAne he passed at. .truths relative to human JaejJth, hap-
Is rtr m n c fnf'e IwSMc.-a ' Uns* mmcmb ttsnn ninaen nr, J 1! f- « 1 . ’ " !’ '•da! • '
her master’s houset Her name was
Millie Reddford, and she was said
to be a very pretty woman in her
young days, although a dark mulat
to in color. I was born in the month
of March, 1S03, at Charlestown, and
am consequently seventy-six years
old at the present time. I can re
member my master’s house and
grounds very well, and have myself
seen Thomas Jefferson. My mother
and all of her people always told
me that he was my father, and I
have no reason to doubt them. My
mother was then unmarried, and
Mr. Christian himself said my name
was Jefferson, and gave me the
name I now bear, that of Robert
Jefferson. Those are my reasons
for believing myself his son. I sup
pose I am really his offspring.”
Here the old gentleman ceased
talking, and only continued at the
reporter’s request to narrate the vi
cissitudes of his life and fortune.
“When but a child I was sold
with my mother to a man named
Stovall, and shortly afterward re
sold to Asa Dearing. I don’t know
how much he gave for my mother,
but l have heard it said that the
irice laid down tor me was $450.
Hr. Dearing died a few years later
and left me to his son, John P.
Dearing. They were a family of
great wealth, and owned plantations
at different places in the southern
states. One of these plantations
furnished employment • for 700
slaves, and was left to the brother
of my master. I was allowed a great
deal of liberty, and my master was
always very kind to me. \V hile in
Athens, Ga., 1 learned the rarpen-
ter’« trade, an’d was allowed many
opportunities to make a little money
working at my trade. His eldest
son and myself grew up together,
and I was in his company as a body
servant a great deal of the time. I
met and became acquainted with
Senator Toombs, ot Georgia, and
Alexander H. Stephens while in his
company. Toombs was in Frank
lin College when I met him. My
master used to say, and has oftoh
told me, that I should never serve
another after his death, and that he
Would‘give me my freedom before
he died. But one afternoon he was
taken suddeuly ill, and before nine
o’clock that night was a corpse. I
went to the oldest son, the one with
whom I had associated as a boy, but
he refused to give me my freedom.
I had set my heart on becoming a
free man, and was not willing to
; rive up the hope of becoming such,
[had married then, and the thought
of leaving of my wife was out of
the question, so I began to make
terms with my new master ior my
freedom. We finally agreed upon
the price to be paid, &nd I set to
work at my trade to make the mon
ey. I bad already laid un some
thing that I had earned during my
spare moments, aud my master
agreed to give TOU *dy time for one
year to allow me to raise the mon
ey. At the cod of that time I had
earned enough to make up the re-
lUWCd sum when placed with m
‘ I]
pi ness and life. ’As ' population in
creases and the value of food is en
hanced, the knowledge which chem
istry has elicited is becoming more
and more valuable in a practicable
point of view.
Some kinds of food are more nu
tritious than others, and if it should
be found that articles which are
cheapest have the most nutriment
and give the highest ability to labor,
then knowledge becomes money to
the poor. Tables vary, but some of
the general results are as follows:
One pound of rice, prepared for the
table, gi\>es SS per cent, of nutri-
ment, and, consequently, a relative
ly proportional ability to labor, com
pared with other articles of food. A
pound of beef, costing 15 cents,
gives only 25 per cent, or nutri
ment. Yet countless numbers of
the poor in New York strain a point
daily to purchase beef at 15 cents a
pound, when they could get a pound
of rice for one-tnird of the amount,
the rice, too, having three times as
much nutriment as beef, making a
practical difference of 800 per cent.,
aside from the fact that boiled rice
is three times easier of digestion
than roast beef, the rice being di
gested in about one hour, roast beef
requiring three hours and a half.
There is meaning, then, in the re
puted fact that two-fifths of the hu
man family live on rice.
We compile the following tables
for preservation, as being practically
and permanently useful. All the
economist requires is to compare
the price of a pound of food with
the amount of nutriment which it
affords:
A Captain Found I naans, and Every one on Board
Badly Frozen.
. Boston, March 7.—“I found the
Baltimore schooner Stephen J.
drifting helplessly off
George Bank, with her crew in a
terrible condition,” said Captain
'ames, of the Portsmouth fisherman
ary S. Hontact, which reached
this port to-day. “She was sheath
ed with ice to the verv topmast, and
every sea was breaking over her.
Her sails were all blown away, and
she had seven teet of water in the
hold. When- we boarded her we
found Cranmer lashed to the mast
shouting and screaming at the top
ofhis voice. He had become insane
through suffering, and, after break
ing up all of the cabin furniture, with
a loaded revolver in each hand had
started to ' kill all' on board- The
crew overpowered him after a ter
rible struggle, and secured him
as he was found. His hands
and feet were terribly frost bitten.
When we boarded the vessel none
of the crew were able to move,
they were so badly frozen. They
had had no food for two days and
their water was all salt. They had
been drifting for a week, in which
time they had come 200 miles. The
Fooks struck a shoal off Martha’s
Vineyard, February 2S, and sprang
leak. The men worked at the
jumps till they dropped from ex-
laustion and were almost dead with
the coid.” The captain, steward
and mate, who suffered the most,
have been taken to the Marine Hos
pital in Chelsea. The others ot the
crew were cared for in Boston. The
Stephen J. Fooks was bound from
Elizabethport to Boston with 6S5
tons of coal. She was a three-
master, built in 1S74 at Solomon’s
Island, Maryland, 40S tons burden.
Captain T,J. Cranmer is also her
principal owner. She is now being
lowed to Gloucester by the fisher
man Fannv Belle, which at last ac
counts had her forty miles off’ Cape
Ann. .
STONEWALL JACKSON’S DAUGH
TER.
Kind of
food.
Oils
Mode of
preparation.
raw
boiled.,.,
Barley ..boiled’
Com Bread .. baked
Wheat bread baked
Bice boiled gg
Oat meal....
Mutton ....
Plums
Grapes
Beef
Poultry..,.
Pork
Veal
Venison...
Codfish ...
Turnips....
Melons....
Cucumber*
_ porridge...,
..broiled....
raw „
raw
raw ,
roost
toast....
fried
......broiled
boiltsd
whipped
boiled
raw.... :. m
.raw
—Journal of Health.
FAILURES IN GEORGIA LAST
WEEK.
tie store, and 1 paid it over,
gave $2,764 for myself and $1,500
tor my wife.
“This was in 1852, and I received
my free papers. Then I bega
thinking of coming north to - live,
and finally set out for Canada, and
Was in that country for a short time.
Before leaving Canton, Mississippi,
my father’s home, I received these
papers. Here the old man drew
from his pocket two letters, yellow
with age and well worn as if by
Atlanta—Jackson Craddock, suc
cessor to Lawson, Craddock & Co.
wholesale and retail tobacco anc,
cigars, assigned.
Atlanta—A. T. Maxwell, grocer,
failed and transferred stock to mort-
gagee.
Augusta—John Gallaher, general
store, reported embarrassed. Lia
bilities about $11,000; nominal as
sets $13,600, of which $900 is in
stock and the balance in real estate
heavily mortgaged. He has deeded
the stock to P. Armstrong for $900,
and it is said the latter will probably , Mn
run him along until he can dispose C °° n
ofhis property without sacrificing
my it
. 1 Augusta—O’Brien Brothe
i, failed '
loon,
and sold out for
rs, sa-
r $400.
Liabilities $2,000.
Savannah—L. Emanuel, fruits,
reported left town.
Savannah—W. D. Wiplfes. rice,
failed through inability tot meet hea
vy transaction in rice arid sugar in
the New Orleans house of W. D.
Waples, whose habiHtieshre 135,00a
General Beauregard, came out of
the warm comparatively poon nufrfe
but he Is npw, wealthy., fha Gen
eral is interested in a number of
paying enterprises. ’ lFJWKir ' J
'..carried; .the eleetkm in
Thomas county 'Monday. J
Putnam county is .perforating the
earthzwith pits fo* another eyefbne.
hundred majority.
? A- fteefij Of <lbs an-
tiotmoadirfor rtfari la#dager& > He
will make a good member.
Mrs. John Dennis, the lady so se
verely Injured by the cyclone, died
near Eatonton on last Wednesday.
Drummers and travelers generally
have to pay only seventy-five cents
per day for board in Blakeley. This
includes lodging also.
A Grand Division of the Sons of
Temperance for the state of Geor-
fiia Will be organized in Atlanta
about the 2otli of this month.
Rev. J. S. Bean, a learned divine
of Augusta, is spoken of in connec
tion with the vacant pastorate of the
LaGrange Presbyterian’church.
Georgia has 543,315 sheep, worth
$1.50 a head, as against 7,956,275
head in Texas, worth $2.24 each,
and 1,682,116 hogs, worth $3.67
each.
The State Sunday School con
vention will meet at Columbus on
the 23d of April. It is expected
that the attendance will be large.
There will be between 700 and 800
delegates.
Atlanta had another triumph of
“high art” Thursday night at De-
Give’s opera house. It was in the
shape of a boxing match, in which
four female boxers and two male
fencers appeared.
The work of grading the Augusta
and Elkerton railroad is progressing
favorably, and President James P.
Verdery tells us that the force has
advanced to the north of the Co
lumbia county road in the direction
of Mr. Grif. Lamkin’s store.
Dr. Wm. H. McIntosh has ap
pointed next Tuesday, the nth, to
open in Barncsville an institute for
colored preachers and deacons of
that section. He is under appoint
ment of the Georgia Baptist Con
vention for holding these institutes
in all sections of the state.
The Tennille correspondent of
the Sandersville Mercury says: “At
a sale of property of an estate a
few miles below here corn brought
$1.60 per bushel, meat 19 cents per
pound, lard 17 cents, and everything
else high in proportion. Cause of
boom: Credit with security until
1st ot January next. Of course
such a chance was not allowed to
go by."
The number of Confederate vete
rans of Georgia who have made ap
plications for benefits under the ap-
propriations for “artificial limbs” is
now 771. It is estimated that there
are 150 more scattered about over
the state who arej yet to be heard
from. The governor has received
numerous applications for relief
under the act from ex-Confcderatcs
who are crippled in arm or leg, but
who lost neither. The legislature
made no provision for them in this
act
GENERAL NEWS.
Gen. Grant walks on crutches.
Mr. Spurgeon has fallen heir to
a large fortune.
The Governor of North Carolina
grants ho pardons.
The _Czar of Russia is said to be
going insane from panic.
The_greatest known depth of the
Atlantic ocean is five miles.
succeed Lord Ripon as Vjreroy of
India. '
Wat King ton Stao,
The world lias just discovered
that Gen. Stonewall Jackson left a
daughter, and England and. France
have discoverdd that she is the
most beautiful woman that has vis
ited their shores this season. Miss
Julia Jackson is said to be a much
more beautiiul girl than the now
famous Jennie Chamberlain, and
there is every probability of her be
ing the rage the coming season in
London. It would appear that the
crop of English professional beau
ties has’ gone out, as we hear of no
one who takes the place formerly
filled by Mrs. Langtry and Mrs.
Cornwallis West It is a new field
for American enterprise. Miss
Jackson is a dark type, and half the
artists in London are raving about
her'eyes.
THE COON CONVENTION.
Na$\ville American.
A certain polecat, with an eye to
business, having obtruded himself
upon a convention of coons, was re
ceived very coolly, whereupon he
rebuked them for their lack of par
ty-spirit and fraternal feeling, im
sisting that he himself was as much
a coon as any of the colored gentle
men present, and moreover that he
was endorsed by President Arthur.
An aged coon, who had been re
garding the intruder in a very sinis
ter manner, remarked cynically:
“Look heah, white man, you
haih’t got no business heah fiohow.
Vnn fl'in’* l. J. A..*. _1 _ '
The other party indignantly with
drew from the convention and the
coons passed the following resolu-
tions:
Whereas; the republican voters
of Tennesse number 100,000 of
wnich 75,000 are colored, and
whereas, we colorored coons only
gets a very small per centsge of the
Federal chicken diet, thefeiore,
. Resolved, that hereafter • we In
sist on a goberment of de coons ‘
ae coons and for 'de coons afad v
hot vote for any white republican
.ftMidiite until de loaves and fishes
am divided out more evenly.
The resolution was passed by ac
clamation.
It is said that Lord Lome will
The Russian army now consists
of 864,219 men, 28,070 of whom are
officers.
Beecher says the angels hold their
noses when they look down on a
Wall street man.
The London Truth finds fault
with the Queen’s extravagance at
the public’s expense.
Seven married women haveelop
ed from Evansville, Ind., within
the past three months.
Sergeant Bates and his little boy
are engaged in patching their Amer
ican flag, preliminary to an invasion
of Canada.
Queen Victoria is said to look
older than before her illness, and
her hair is whitening.
There is a banking firm in San
Francisco composed of four ladies
and two gentlemen.
A Dallas, Texas, museum has on
exhibition a petrified ; baby. It is-
much admired by bachelors.
The New ^England railroads arc
said to have killed in the past year
221 persons and injured 535.
The Methodist ministers of the
Ohio conference have voted to sign
a pledge of total abstinence from
opium and tobacco.
Nearly 500 of the inquests held
in England and Wales in 18S3 re
sulted in a verdict of “died ffoni ex
cessive drinking.”
In analyzing the wells used for
drinking water in New Hampshire,
it was found that ninety-five per
cent, of them were polluted*.
A short horn heifer named Lillie
Dale, belonging to J. W. Dawson,
of (Russellville,. Ky., died in four
hours alter eating a leaf of tobacco.
A Dakota paper is authority for
the statement that there is not a
Baptist church in the Black Hills
country, though every other relig
ious denomination is in some way
represented.
A series of prehistoric mica
mines have recently been discov
ered in Louisiana. The surround
ing vegetation shows that at least
500 years have elapsed since they
were abandoned.
There have been over 30,000 Jer
sey cattle imported into the United
States, but tney have not all tog eth
er created so much talk as one Jer
sey Lily. Probably they have been
more prudent than the Lily has.
An experiment is being made with
a traction engine for general farm
work in Maryland. It is expected
to make it plow, thresh, .haul pro
duce to market, and do any work
that can be done by horse-power.
Chicago, March J.—Frank
Rande, the notorious - desperado
who has killed ten 1 men, and ' was
recently wounded in Joliet penitenr
tiaiy ia an affray.io wbiph he killed
an overseer, committed Suicide’ this
morning in .hi? pell by hanging.
..Baton Rougk, La., March 7
Walter Burch, colored, -aged sixteen
years, wad arrested and lodged in
jail charged with trying to commit
an outrage upon the person of a
seven-year-old: daughter of William
Kirby.
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