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The outside world little knows the
trial*, troubles and tribulations that
; m editor is forced to >ndure. He
is always surrounded by enemies
an d tormentors, and among the lat
ter class stands the spring poet.
With what a yawn of welcome he
greets the first chilly blast of win
ter, feeling that six peaceful months
stand as a wall ot protection
between him and this arch enemy.
]: gives him a fiendish delight to sit
by his cozy stove and feed its glar
ing coals with the brain labor of his
poetical correspondents, and he
watches with grim satisfaction the
inroads thus made upon his sum
mer waste basket. Bleak winter
. always looked forward to as
iw.i-on of rest to the weary editor,
jceding that its frosts, its snows, its
fret /.es and its icy winds fortify him
against anv attack from the paper
missives of his greatest enemy. It
was while we were enjoying one of
ourjileligl t fill reveries over this rid
dance, on Tuesday last, and count
ing the days of relief between now
ami spring-time, that the evening’s
mail was placed upon our table,
’attic did we, in our happy inno
cence. know that a small white en
velope concealed a can of poetical
dynamite that was to blow our
of mind into a thousand
atoms and bring us to a stern reali
sation of the fact that “man was
made to mourn.” That letter read:
“A miens, Ga., Dec. 30, 1SS4.—
liditor Banner-Watchman: Please
I'" 1 ’ 1
thi
little poem on ‘Spring’
nr next issue and oblige
A Young Subscriber.”
It is fortunate for our tuture peace
i, i’ mind and also for ‘‘Young Sub
scriber's" sake, that he, she or it
dal not send a full name, or at this
moment instead of wielding a harm-
It-- l'abre wc would be dipping
pat pen in his gore. This thing
0: firing spring literature at a man,
ami talking about “blooming flow,
e s," tlie "earth full of gladness,”
•uiulterllies," “warm days,” etc.,
etc., when hoary old winter is sit
ting a-traddle 01 zero and debating
a- to which side of the therniom-
e'er he will tumble, is, to say the
ii. i-t, very harrowing to a sensitive
i; an - leelmgs. In lact, that poem
wa "Gentle Spring” is as much out
0: place as would be a hog iq heuv-
1 .. or a scalawag in decent and
h .nest coin, “y. It is like a man
intending an ice palace carnival ar-
r.yn! in a linen (luster and a straw
: . t Bat we must say that we ad-
ni re ' Y mug Subscriber’s” grit, and
a- timely warning, with a hope of
;■ /.{■ GEORGIA ITEMS.
Talbotton is now a dry town. No
liquor is sold there unless the seller «
" 7»$5,000.
NO XXVIIL
ATHENS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY, ?TAJSfTJARY 6, 1885.
Ifis 1
Be from some irate
. ill reproduce a few of
and point out their in
-. The first reads:
■ i«» lit:Hr it.' the gentle Spring,
,|,r ilhurr* ar.- blooming bright;
1 iv.t til.psl with unaj.e-itable joy,
.a .ciiohUng the glorious sight.
in this connection we would re-
■pectfully ask “Y. S.,” what satis-
jetion can he reap in diving into
lie dim and uncertain vista of the
mure daring the tail end of Decem-
tt? And if he was filled with
unspeakable delight” in beholding
lowers he must either have broken
nto somebody’s hot house or in-
esied in a few cheap floral Christ-
n.is cards.
■ \ oung Subscriber” has doubt
less not been out promenading late
ly or he would discover that instead
01 "gladness” old Mother Earth is
now lull ot water. Our talented
(respondent, if he discovered any
:.s must have bought it in
some bar-ioom at ten cents per
urink. After the effects die out
suspect that he will find a ray of
“sadness” hid somewhere in his
heart.
ci.tdt]
h '' tt.cn thnt the birds love to sing,
•' '"t ,h e Dee is busy Hit .lay;
• l.e Diaiertly is ever on its wing,
ana ihe ,ua sheds Its warmest ray.
The only birds that we have
Heard singing lately nre the plaster
ol l’aris fellows, lastcned on a little
bellows and sold in toy stores. To
sec the butter fly you must tackle a
college boarding-house about sup
per time. But wouldn’t oleomar
garine have been more appropriate,
e'en if the ireter didn’t fit?
• it thu f.eids the lilies white,
rurer than the snow;
l'« ti l ftiui nod their stately heads;
1" each other speaking low.
The only lillies we have seen late-
■' "nodding their stately head in the
'cals are American citizens of
rican descent, and the reason
tl.ey were speaking low was
through fear the owner of the pro
duce might find them out. They
may he purer than the snow, but
lh 'y are not so white and free from
ail thr seasons in the year
1 hat ruMi »o quickly by,
won..I that spring would eYer stay,
•aml teTcr onward fly.
a°w “Young Subscriber” is evi-
'•vntiy not in the newspaper busi-
n ‘s\°i he would want Spring to get
U P and git as soon as possible. But
* man " ho can crowd a season like
c 19 <lo ing, and grind out hot
"father verses with a snow storm
“"•■ring overhead, call the mud in
“Dr streets “gladness,” a nigger a
i!1 - v white,” and talk about bees,
° nd birds and butterflies that have
°ng since gone into winter quar-
,trs - can adapt himself to any situ-
alK)n - We hope that the churches
"‘H remember “Young Subscriber"
ln " ;tlr prayers during New Year’s
S(r 'ice to
•day.
It is 1
reported that Major A. O.
aeon has made a treaty with the
d Atlanta ring and will again
tr ‘ter the Gubernatorial arena.
It strongly impresses ua that the
‘ e w Orleans Exposition bids fair
!° ^ eve '°P into a gigantic bubble.
Wa9 pulled entirely too green.
u ^ lr ehuT7w'as a “Radical Ready
f "f to the democratic party. It
in a ' * b*ppy hit in his sons load-
_ R'he Old man up to the muzzle
the letter R and firing him at
“*me.
In the'
hv ear, y days of Atlantic ca
» m 8r#ph y> transmission of
or 1 * S,age cont *ining twenty words
imr, 5 * COSt ^ Ioa Now, owing to
tiof° Vcd “ethods and competi-
e r * te >* down to forty cents
r > »nd it may go still lower,
' YVv '
“* PEG FOR A PROBABLE HOLE.”
Under this caption the Macon
•Telegraph throws out a great many
dark and dire insinuations over the
candidacy of our young friend Har
ry Hill for the shoes of Capt.
Nelms, should that gentleman be
promoted to the U. S. marshalship.
Onr Macon cotemporary also states
that Harry’s boom was hatched in
that great politicaf spawning-place,
Atlanta. This single fact is enough
to^makethe Telegraph assume a
pugilistic attitude toward Mr. Hill,
for Col. Lamar evidently looks
upon the capital of his state as sec
ond only in sin and iniquity to that
historical lake filled with fire and
brimstone. As a sort of narcotic to
the Telegraph’s irritated feelings,
we will state that Atlanta is as in
nocent of Harry Hill’s candidacy as
a babe unborn. The ink-slinger of
the Banner-Watchman is entitled to
all the credit of this great discovery
and it was made during a recent
visit to Atlanta. Harry intimated
that he would be willing to sacrifice
his time and talent on the shrine of
public good for about $2,000 per
annum, and we at once selected the
place for nim and was the first
paper . to throw his
to the breeze. With a spon
taneous, unsolicited uprising the
state press at once tumbled over
into the breech, and the popular
conductor awoke one morning to
find himself famous. This is the
history of Harry Hill’s candidacy
in a nut-shell, and there is no “cold
deck’ about it. He is a young man
in every way worthy of the place,
and by his courteous, gentlemanly
bearing in the capacity of conduc
tor on the fast train of the Georgia
road, £has made a host of
quaintances and a friend of every
man, woman and child he met; and
in the event of the retirement of
Capt. Nelnis, Harry’s appointment
by the Governor would cause
broad grin of satisfaction to wrinkle
the face ol old Georgia from the
mountains to the seaboard. In
fact, the peg would fit that prob
able hole so nicely that we are con
strained to predict that even the
Macon Telegraph would join in
hearty congratulations—as it did
over the recent victory of Mr,
Cleveland.
VOL XXXI
fsa
LEGISLATURE’S WORK.
PARTIAL LIST OF THE ACTS PASSEO AND
APPROVED.
An Explanation Thereof-Work Lc/t Ocer-Intcr-
ctling to Crippled Soldier,-An OjKeial Sched
ule oj Hew Laic, in Preparation.
Awjutta Chronicle..
Atlanta, GA.,Dec. 27.--I return
ed from Savannah’last night I en
close you a list of the acts of the
legislature approved by the Gover
nor, 114 in number, 4 Senate bills
and 1 to House bills. The Governor
received 68 bills on the 22d, and in
m two days read, examined and
approved, pretty rapid work.
The general bills in the lot are
Nos. IO, II, 13, 51, 52, 33 3, 33
5^1 57> S9> 60. 64 an£ I 65. only 14' in
number, covering the tax, appropri
ation and bond acts, allowing rail
roads to bond $3,000 a mile, touch
ing juror, repealing the road law
act of 1873, giving the ordinaries
and county commissioners discretion
as to issuing licenses to sell liquor
under a gallon, as to rent and me
chanics liens and drawing money
from the county treasurers, enlarg
ing the crippled soldier’s act so as
to include those who have lost limbs
since the war as a result of service,
and requiring railroads to post no
tices when trains are half an hour
behind.
Of the 114 acts passed no are lo
cal. Liquor laws were passed for
Bartow, Clarke, Madison, Merri-
name wether. Butts. Rabun, Upson, Har
rison, Floyd, Fayette, Elbert, Oco
Habersham, DeKalb, Gwinnett
seventeen local liquor acts in all. ’
In the House 423 hills have been
introduced against 360 two years
ago and 410 four years ago. In the
House too resolutions have been
troduced and ten passed. The
House has passed altogether 122
House bills, so that there are 22 of
them not acted on by the Senate.
The Senate has passed 26 bills
which have come to the House of
which the House only passed four
There are to be acted on at the sum
mer session 335 bills and 90 resolu
tions besides the new matter that
may be introduced.
So far the Governor has paid
money to S41 crippled soldiers.
Last time there was about 970, so
that a number are yet to be heard
from.
Mr. Harrison, of the Executive
Department, has arranged a very
convenient record of legislative
acts, giving him the title, who in
troduced by, when received and
acted upon by the Governor, and
when turned over to the Secretary
of Stale. J
city
\\ e don't like Mr. Randall’s junk
eting tours through the South. It
looks like an effort to stock a Presi
dential hand in the interest of Eas
tern protectionists. While we ad
mire Mr. Randall as a statesman,
he represents more the*issues of the
republican than the democratic par
ty. He owes his seat in congress
to the fact that he is as strong a pro
tectionist as can be found in the
rpublican r anks.
You can already see the effects
of the approaching elections by the
crowds ot old howling Zulus con
gregating on the sidewalk in front
of bar-rooms. This is a foul blot
upon the good name of our city.
They will be watched on the day of
final contest, and woe unto any
candidate whose cause they es-
poitse. They never attend the polls
unless as hirelings.
The South will insist that Mr.
Cleveland make a clean sweep of
every carpet-bagger and, scalawag
in our midst. This is the issue that
has always kept us solid. It is not
right that true and tried democrats
should be kept in the background
that place may be given to men
who have deserted their flag and
principles and fought us to the
death.
Rev. R. Ileber Newton, a cler
gyman of the Protestant E. Church,
in New York, whoa year ago, de
nied the divine authorship of the
Bible, is now supposed to be insane.
His case will be investigated by the
church authorities. In one of his
recent sermons he blasphemously
doubted the sanity of our Savior.
This man ought to be taken care of
by his friends.
LIST OP APPROVED ACTS.
The following is the list of im-
portant'acts passed at the recent
session of the legislature and ap
proved by the Governor:
To amend charter of Atlanta, in
creasing aldermen.
Liquor election in Bartow coun
ty-
A sewerage act for Savannah.
To allow railroads to issue bonds,
$3,000 a mile.
To amend section 3936 code, as
to jurors.
To repeal road laws of Monroe
and Houston county.
To incorporate Rome and Chatta
nooga Railroad Company.
To amend charter of Macon, to
erect market place.
To provide pay for Solicitor of
Oconee County Court.
To amend charter of Watkins-
ville, in Oconee county.
Liquor election for Gordon coun-
ty •
To amend charter of Atlanta as
to sinking fund.
To amend charter of Atlanta ma
king city marshals re-eligible.
To pay R. J. Wilson, of Richmond
county, for an artificial arm.
Registration law for Baldwin
and Lee counties. *
Liquor election for Clarke coun
ty-
We think President-elect Cleve
land is running the refusal of gifts
into the ground. While it would
not be proper for him to accept any
article of great value, this declina
tion of trifling little tokens of kind
ness from individual democrats and
clubs smacks too much of bun
combe.
The old Southern radicals and
scalawags are still hugging the hal
lucination to their bosoms that
Cleveland won’t be in a hurry to
turn them out to grass. The Presi
dent may use all the policy he
wants in the North, but the South
will insist on a clean sweep.
It is high time that President
elect Cleveland unwound himself
and let the country know what
it must expect from his administra
tion. His stern silence is harrow
ing to the people who placed him
in power, to say the least.
We should hereafter nominate,
by primary election, candidates for
every office. It is the only ’.way to
put down the pernicious system of
buying and selling votes.
The death of Gen. R. S. Wil
liams, in New Orleans,, while en
route to Texas, removes one of the
historic landmarks of the great “fili
buster” era.
A
Washington correspondent
puts down Senator Colquitt as a
millionaire. It is hard to estimate
the General’s assets until he is kill
ed and cleantd.
Dr. Cash, representative from
Jackson county,* positively refuses
to ride on a free railroad pass. The
Doctor is a conscientious and level
headed statesman.
To abolish county court of Mon
roe county.
To create a county court in Doug
lass county.
To incorporate Commercial bank
of Rome.
To pay Fee Wilson, of Richmond
county for an artificial arm.
Liquor election for Madison coun
ty and Danielsville.
To regulate sale of liquor in Meri
wether county.
Election for issue ,of bonds in
Randolph county.
To create the city court of Col
umbus.
To abolish County Commission
ers of Marion and Worth counties.
To authorize public schools in
Palmetto.
Liquor election in Butts county.
To abolish the county court of
Bibb.
To amend the liquor law of
Greenville, Meriwether county.
To amend the grand jury act of
the state.
The tax act for 1SS5 and 1SS6.
The appropriation act for iSSc
and 1SS6. 3
To amend section 661 Code,
changing 50 to 10.
To amend section 1419 Code to
let Ordinaries and County Commis
sioners refuse or ’grant license to
sell liquor less than a gallon.
To relieve certain articles from
lien of rent.
To amend section 3947 Code as
to drawing warrants on County
Treasurer. <
To amend section 19S1 Code as
to merchandise laws.
To authorize the Governor to
issue $3,435,135 of state bonds to
pay debt due in 1885 and tSS6.
To amend fence law in Floyd
county and allow elections only one
in 3 years.
I'o transfer Laurens county from
the Ocmulgee to the Oconee Judi
cial Circuit.
*To amend the crippled soldiers’
act so as to allow the benefits to
those who received wounds which
afterwards caused the loss ot the
limb.
To prohibit the Atlanta
co “ r t Judge practicing law.
To repeal the dog law in Flovd
county. J
Liquor election in Floyd county
To incorporate Sharon, in Talia
ferro county.
Liquor election for Fayette coun
ty'-
T° prohibit the sale of liquor in
Libert county.
To amend charter of Griffin to
create public schools.
To prohibit liquor sale at Shady
Grove, Oconee county.
T ° prohibit liquor sale at Glade
Methodist church and Glade acade*
my, Oglethorpe county.
To prohibit seining Connesauga
river, Murray county.
To prohibit camp-hunting in
Murray county by non-resideuts.
Liquor election for Habersham
county.
Liquor’election for DeKalb coun
ty-
To provide tax assessors for New
nan.
Liquor election
county.
Cattle election in 241st district
Llarke county.
Cattle election in 220th district,
Clarke county.
To incorporate Jug Tavern, which
town lies partly in Jackson, Walton
and Gwinnett counties.
To amend grand jury law in Sum
ter county.
Liquor election in Troup county,
Richmond.
Gwinnett
JOHN COPPERTUG’S FALL
To require railroads to post at
every telegraph station when train
is behind half hour.
To let Cochran in Pulaski issue
$17,000 education bonds.
To prohibit the sale of seed cot
ton in Henry county from August
12 to December 13.
To incorporate Union street rail-
way company of Atlanta.
To incorporate the Macon and
Snburban Street Railway company
To prevent disorder in West
View cemetery Atlanta.
Liquor election for Rabun county
, Liquor election in Upson county.
To pay convict hire in Morgan
county to insolvent costs
. To incorporate Harmony Grove
in Jackson county.
Liquor election in Haralson
county.
To amend the charter of Clarks
ville, Habersham county.
A Tate of Prohibition and let Water,
“Please, sir, has my father been
here yet?”
It Was a timid, shrinking child
who uttered these words. Her gold
en head was barely level with the
polished top of the bar, and, as she
stood there, the loungers in the gor
geous saloon cast glances of wonder
at her. She seemed s’rangely out
of place in that glittering palace of
strong drink. The bartender, glanc
ing at the sunny face and beseech
mg blue eyes, said, in tones of un
wonted tenderness:
“N-a-aw.”
“Then, sir,” said the child, a deli
cate flush mantling her cheeks as
she spoke; “mother says will you
please fill her bottle for her, and
lather will pay you when he comes
up-town?”
John Coppertug was a man of
kmdly, genial disposition, except
when deprived of his needed quan
tity of strong drink. When in his
cups, no kinder father or more in
dulgent husband could be found.
Then it was that he brought home
toys for his children, took his wife
to the theatre, and made glad the
hearts of all about him. It was only
when he yielded to his evil cravings
and tampered with the pernicious
ice-water that the dark side of his
character appeared. Then he
would go home sullen and cross,
ready to find fault with his wife,
scold his children, and cast a gloom
over the family circle. No wonder,
then, that in the bitterness ot her
heart his wife would utter a wailing
cry against the water works and
bitterly deplore the existence of
street wells.
And on the evening of which we
write John Coppertug was making
his way up-town with bowed head
and scowling visage. He did not
stop at the corner-saloon for his
customary evening “nip,” but bent
his steps directly toward the little
home in which his wife and children
awaited him.
The curtains were drawn in the
cozy parlor, and the lamp on the
centre-table shone softly on the
face of the mother plying her nee
dle and listening anxiously for her
husband’s footfalls. The cherry
light fell, also, on the happy faces of
the children at play on the floor. It
gleamed on the polished sides ot
the bottle, which stood, half empt
ied, on the table.
Mary Coppertug was at work on
a pillow-case, and as she sewed she
wondered whether her flhtsband
would come home sober or not.
Would he roll merrily in with un
steady step and a breath as fragrant
as a zephyr from the far off Spice
Islands? Would the theatre tickets
gleam on her from his vest-pocket?
Would his face have a spring-bon
net leer?
“Papa’s coming!” cried the gold
en-haired child from her place by
the window.
Coming!” echoed the wife,
dropping her work and leaping to
her feet: “Look, child, and tell me
if he is full.”
“No,” said the little girl, sadly.
“No,” repeated Mary Coppertug,
the bright vision fading from her
mind. “Then may Heaven protect
us! There will be no treat for us
to-night. He has been at the water-
faucet again. Run and hide, chil
dren, for your father is not himself
to-night.”
When John Coppertug entered
the room he found his faithful wife
seated, needle in hand, by the little
centre-table. His eye fell upon the
bottle which, in her anxiety, she
had forgotten to conceal. His brow
darkened.
“What is that?” he demanded.
“It is the growler,” she replied,
firmly and" sadly; “I have been
working it for myself and our little
ones. Oh, John, the time • was
when you used to share our simple
pleasures. Why not now, as in the
happy days gone by?”
Her husband seii
I BLOWN UP B
A Terrible Explosion Report
UP BY GAS.
I Terrible Explosion Reported From Augusta-
Three Men Blown up in the Air, and Supposed
to be Fatally Injured—The Incidents of the Ex
plosion—Its Cause a Matter of Doubt.
Augusta, Dec. 3a—A terrible
explosion occurred here to-day at
the Augusta gas works, in which
the meter room and office were
blown up and completely demolish
ed, and sever-. people seriously,
perhaps fatally injured. The cause
of the explosion is not known, un
less from the heat generated in re
pairs, while tapping a large pipe
leading from a big meter just re
ceived from Philadelphia, costing
$1,200. The workmen were engag
ed in the meter room underneath
Superintendent Hookey’s office,
when suddenly the pipes and meter
burst wide open, and the force of
the explosion was so great that the
office above was blown up into the
air, and the entire brick building of
two stories was a complete wreck.
The building was one wing of the
main gas works, and more perfect
destruction cannot be conceived.
The machinery and office furniture
was shattered, and the total loss in
machinery and building is fully
$5,000. The miraculous part of the
explosion was the
ESCAPE OF THE WORKMEN
from instant death* William Pen
dleton, of Pendleton foundry, was
superintending the work, and he
was saved from btfing crushed un
der the falling wreck by being
blown like a cannon ball by the
current of escaping gas and the fu
rious force of the explosion through
a hole in the wall of the meter room,
used for ventilating the building.
He was bruised and buried under
the falling bricks, but was extricat
ed before the fire could harm him.
His hair and whiskers were badly
singed. He was sent home on a
litter, injured internally, and proba
bly fatally. Two negroes at work
were blown out and seriously in
ured—-Pompey Youngblood and
Dennis Davis. The latter was ter
ribly mangled, and is now at the
point ot death, Several others
were stunned near the scene of the
explosion, and Superintendent
Hookey had left his office but a
few steps when the accident oc
curred.
The fire flashed over the building
immediately after the explosion,
but it was soon extinguished by the
firemen, as the main building is of
brick and iron, with a tin roof.
Great excitement followed the acci
dent, and many thought the city
would be without gas, but the sup
ply is all right to-night, as there is
enough in the gasometer to run the
town till the damage is repaired.
Written for the Banner-Watchman.
PHILIP EDEN’S NEW YEAR’S.
A HKJB NARRATIVE.
BY JOHN S. W1GHTMAN.
SPEER’S ELOQUENCE.
husband seized the bottle
and emptied its contents out of the
window.
“There!” he exclaimed; ‘Tm
done with bottles for ever. Come
here, and I’ll tell you what I’m go
ing to do."
She came nearer, with a strange
look of horror on her face. He
bent his head and whispered some
thing in her ear. Then he went
out into the still, cold night, and
left her standing by the table with
lips compressed and wild, staring
eyes from which no tears would
flow. .
An hour later Maty Coppertug
entered her father’s house leading
her three children by the hand.
“I have come home to you at
last, mother,” she said wearily, as
she sank into a chair; “I can bear
it no longer. Tohn and I have been
growing apart from one another for
* long time, but I never thought it
would come to this. To-night he
told me that be had resolved to
to—”
“What?” demanded her mother.
“To vote for Prohibition.”
A fight is expected in the Congo
region between the French and the
International Association.
and the
Capt. Harry Jackson is appealing
case in which Emory Speer op
posed him, and one of the grounds
is Emory’s eloquence. This ques
tion has been decided by both the
supreme court of the United States
and the supreme court of Geoigia,
the former in passing upon the elo
quence of the wonderful Prentiss
and the latter in passing upon the
eloquence of J. C. C. Black. Emory
Speer’s eloquence was over a suit
by the heirs of a colored woman
who was killed by a Central rail
road train. One passage of Mr.
Speer’s was aimed at the city dog
catcher, who was a witness for the
road. He said:
“Gentlemen, the desperation of
the defendant company was never
so manifest as in the production of
their witness, Henry Holmes. He,
ot all men, is invoked to vindicate
this great corporation. From the
sublime to the ridiculous is but a
step. _ Here is the gigantic client of
my gifted friend, a huge, avaricious
monster ot corporations, which has
absorbed well nigh all the railroads
in the country—the Macon and
Western, reaching from the Central
City to this thrifty gateway of com
merce, our own prosperous and
splendid community; the Georgia,
which connects us with that home
of opulence and dignified comforts
and contentment, the beautiful city
of Augusta; the Southwestern,
which reaches almost to those south
ern shores where the spray of the
Gulf is dashed upon the snowy
blossoms of the magnolia and the
golden fruitage of the orange. The
spectacle of a railroad bo great, cov
ering a territory so vast, defended
by counsel so eminent; the specta
cle of this great company following
with anxious gaze this dog-tag
champion as he pursues, through
the slums and back aiieys of Atlan
ta, the Nomadic fice and the vagrant
cur, and keeping an eye on his
movements, to produce him as a
witness to blacken the character of
a poor dead woman, is one of the
sorriest and scurviest pictures in
the book of time. A dog don’t
know everything, and it is well for
the main witness that his victims,
the mongrel curs and whelps of low
degree, are not acquainted with his
general character, else the veriest
cur of them would lose respect for
the institutions he represents. Gen
tlemen, if by the testimony of such
a witness the Central railroad can
win your verdict, they may hence
forward feel no alarm. With the
cow-catcher to kill and the dog-
catcher to justify, the honorable
President and Directors may cut
their coupons with scornful indiffer
ence and say with that other railroad
king, the great Vanderbilt, ‘the
public be damned.’ ”
CLEVEDAND’S INAUGURATION.*
A club in Cincinnati will attend
the inaugural procession in Wash
ington with aiq men in line, repre
senting the electoral vote given
Cleveland and Hendricks. Each
squad will represent in number the
electoral vote cast by the state
whose banner it will bear. Dela
ware will be given the right of the
line as having the smallest number,
and her representatives will ride
white horses; the remaing states
coming in order of numbers:
Florida, with black horses;
Connecticut, baya; West Virginia,
grays: Arkansas, darks and duns;
Louisiana, sorrels; Maryland,
whites; ^ Mississippi, blacks; New
Jersey, bays; South Carolina, grays;
Alabama, darks and dnns; North
Carolina, sorrels; Georgia, whites;
Tennessee, blacks; Virginia, bays;
Kentucky, grays; Texas, darks and
dons; Indiana, light bays; Missouri,
black.; and New York closes the
scene on thirty-six white and proud'
steeds.
The Long Island deacon who ran
off with the pastor’s wife, and after
wards returned home, has been
made to travel.
December 31st A chilly twi
light; the gradually rising wind
whispers faintly of the coming
snow-storm. Philip Eden is listless
ly pacing up and down the narrow
confines of his gloomy cell in the
still more gloomy-looking old stone
lunatic asylum on the Hudson. He
ceases his slow and measured steps
to gaze for a moment through the
iron-barred window, where the
picturesque scene spread out be
fore him. The noble Hudson, on
the opposide side of which towered
tall and bleak palisaides, flowing
gracefully on its way to the great
metropolis. A mile down the
hedge-lined roadway, leading up came ‘
to the green, and seemingly senti
nel to the valley below,
nestles a little village, right along
the river’s bank, with its hundred
hlue columns of smoke curling lazi
ly upward from as many dwellings,
underneath the roofs of which are
little groups ot merry, laughing
children, and older people cluster
ing together to patiently watch for
the old year to die and the new
year to be born. Fresh hopes aris
ing in the hearts of the young; new
resolutions being formed in the
.hearts of the old. Perhaps Pussy
is softly purring before the hearth;
old Carlo feels the increasing cold
and barks loudly for admittance to
the interior; even the turkeys seem
to gobble apprehensively in the
coops, for to-morrow they will be
the all important dish at the dinner-
table. All the world seems to be
full of joy. But the wind blows
more fiercely; the dark clouds above,
as it jealous of the serene peace and
prosperity below, almost rents it
self asunder, and the great mass ot
blinding, driving flakes of snow
comes whirling madly downward.
The landscape, the village, the riv
er, is shut out from Philip Elden’s
view, and a sigh escapes his lips.
Then there was nothing in that
splendid picture he had just beheld;
nothing in the thought that to
morrow was New Year’s Day to
cheerand gladden his heart. No,
absolutely nothing, for his heart was
heavy with sadness. One short
year ago he was a rising young
lawyer of Lockport. Not a care on
his mind; not a cloud on his life’s
sky. He met Rosa Richmond.
She was young, lovely and accom
plished, and the child of wealthy
and aristocratic parents. He loved
her; his love was reciprocrated. He
had a rival for her hand; but he
cared naught lor him since Rosa
had told him her heart had belong
ed to the young lawyer, and none
other. Tnen he asked her to be
his wife; she consented; the com
pact was sealed with one sweet
kiss; andthey were made man and
wife on the 22d of February, rather
soon after their engagement, to be
sure, but then they loved each oth
er so. After a delightful wedding
tout through the southern states,
they returned to their native town
and betook themselves to a neat
and pretty little residence on B
street, that Philip had already pre
pared for their reception. All went
well until one bright day in May;
velope, and with abated breath and
changing color, read:
“Lockport, Dec. 31, 188-.
Philip Eldon, Esq.: It is with a
feeling of pleasure, and a conscious
ness that I am lifting a great load
from your heart, as well as from my
own, that I write to inform you of
the gpeat wrong I did you and your
innocent wife some seven months
ago. My heart was full of rage bee
cause she loved you in preferenc-
to me; because you successfully
won her. I determined to wrong
you if I could. She had written
me several polite notes months
previous to her marriage, asking
me to cease in my attentions to
ward her. I laid those letters be
fore me and forged a cruel letter to
you, signed her name, and watched
for an opportunity to place it where
it would do its work. I watched
your home. At last the chance
Your wife’s mother called
TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS.
the birds were singing so sweetly,
and the scent of the roses filled the
air with their fragrant perfume,
Philip returned to his home at the
noonday hour, with eager, quick,
nervous step, for that morning his
stock operations had been very
successful and he was ten thousand
dollais the better off. How he
longed to tell his little helpmate of
his good fortune. But as his foot
crossed the hall a feeling of cl re^d
and anxiety stole over him. Why
he could not tell. The house was
still. Perhaps, perhaps—but he
dare not think further. He advanc
ed, and for the first time in his life
he found his home—empty! His
wife was gone! Ah, there is a letter
on the centre table; it will certainly
explain; most likely, after all, she
has only gone to do some shopping.
He hastily breaks the seal and
reads, in her handwriting:
“Philip—When I became your
wise I thought I loved you, but
since that time I have found out
that it is only a fancy; that my heart
does now, and always did belong to
another. So I have left you and
your “love in a cottage,” for you
must remember that I have been
brought up in extreme luxury, and
fled to a far-off land with your for
mer rival, in the sunshine of whose
love I will henceforth bask. I have
no doubt this will be a severe blow
to you, but I cannot help it, for I
cannot, do not-love you. Rosa.”
Was it possible that Rosa was,
after all, untrue to him! And he
loved - her so! His frightened glance
about the room chanced to rest upon
an object lying near the foot of an
ottoman. He snatched it from the
floor. It was a Russian leather ci
gar case. He knew he nevet
smoked. What could it mean!
Turning it around the name “James
LeClare” stamped in gold along
the edge, was revealed to his aston
ished gaze. James LeClare had
been his rival for the hand of Rosa
Richmond. His thoughts were
maddening; something was pressing
heavily down upon his brain. He
put his hand to his forehead, burst
forth into one loud, wild laug h and
rushed frantically from the room.
He had gone stark mad! He knew
no one; was violent at times, and it
was thought best by his friends to
incarcerate him within the walls of
a lunatic asylum, and there we find
him at the opening of our story. His
mind is much improved, and his
ideas are vague and undefined. He
remembers nothing but seems to
feel that some sad thing has over
taken him. The day so anxiously
looked forward to by the villagers
is born at last. When Philip
opens his eyes he see the faint light
of dawn struggling between tbe
bars of his window, and dreams
not of what the day has in store for
him. The ground is hidden be
neath a deep snow, like a huge
mantle spread o’er it; there
are clouds in the sky, blit they
seem to be motionless. Every
thing is still and quiet. Philip feels
that there is something very im
pressive about this calmness; that
it only betokens, perhaps, that
another storm is nigh. A storm
was drawing nigh—not an atmos
pheric one, however. The atten
dant appeared, annonneed break
fast, and handed him a letter. A
letter! Philip bad not seen a letter
for so long that he had .almost for
gotten how one looked. The hand
writing was that of a man’s.. He
tore open the granite-colored en-
on her, and together they went
away. I gained entrance to the
house. There was a note left by
her, to inform you that she had
gone to dine with her parents, and
that you should follow as soon as
you returned. I stole that note,
and in its place put the one that
has caused you and her so much
misery, purposely dropped my
cigar case on the floor and sneaked
away. I have seen what trouble it
has caused you and have repented
of what I have done, and hasten to
make what reparation is in my
power to make. By the time you
receive this I will be on my way
ot the far West, as fast as ste-m
can carry me. I know it would be
folly to ask you to forgive, but I
hope that God, who saw the un
mitigated act, will extend His infi
nite mercy to heal my wounded
soul. James LeCx-are.”
To say that Philip was stunned
is expressing it mildly. His aston
ishment was beyond measure.
When he had read it his biain was
befogged no longer. He was sure.
The scales had fallen from his eyes
at last and he saw. Seating him
self by the window he wept, long
and loudly, but tor the joy at the
thought that the wife whom he
thought unfaithful had been true to
him after ail, and he had wronged
her for believing one instant that
she was not. But why had she not
come to see him. No matter. He
would fty to her, fold her to his
breast, tell her of the cruel deed
that had been perpetrated against
them, and whisper assurances of
fond love once more. There was
no doubt in his mind any more.
Arising, he pounded vehemently
on the iron door of his cell, and
soon wasjin consultation with the
head physician of the asylum, who
was also now convinced, and to
his great surprise, that his patient
was a sane man once more. When
asked by Philip why his wife had
not come to see him, he replied
that she was quite ill, and had been
since his imprisonment. It did not
take long for Philip to pack his va
lise and make his way over the
glistening, creaking snow to the
railway station in the village, and
soon the Chicago express was
thundering along its way with him
aboard. Lockport was reached in
due season. In a short time he
reached his home and stood in the
presence of his poor, wronged wife.
“Philip, at last,"
A picture of Niagara Falls was
sold for $30,000.
A fillibustering expedition against
Cuba is being fitted out.
Bald mountain, N. C., again
shows volcanic symptoms.
A fratricide in Mississippi took
his own life through remorse.
The Western distilleries are re
ducing production. .
The Kimball House Will not be
opened for two weeks yet.
Many persons died of fright dur
ing the earthquake in Spain.
There are thousands of skilled
workmen out of employment in St.
Louis,
_ __ _ and she burst
the flowers were bloming brightly; into tear s-
“Rosa, oh, my darling, my darl
ing;” and the next moment they
were in each others arms.
Reader, let us withdraw and
leave them to their happiness.
Philip’s wife did not forget to pre
sent her husband with a New Year’s
present after the long abse nee. It
was a charming little “Philip.”
FRESH HUMOR.
A sealskin sacquecovereth amul-
titude of pins.
Bacon says, “Reading make a
full man.’’ So does eating, Bacon.
The bang covereth a multitude of
foreheadiness in a young girl.
Of late it seems that every man
who bores for water in Georgia
strikes a vein of silver.
The beauty of the Mormon relig
ion is, that even a married man can
sleep with a piece ot wedding cake
under his pillow and dream of his
future wife.
Reports from various parts of the
country show that game is more
abundant now than it has been for
several months past. The principal
varieties, we understand, are eu
chre, draw poker and seven up.
Des Moines, Iowa, has an old
Sioux Indian who has dug wells in
that town for many years. Still
no doubt, he feels insulted if any
one speaks of him as a Digger In
dian.
The following occurred in a
Lowell Sabbath school on Sunday:
Teacher—“On what were given the
commandments to Moses?” Little
boy—“On two marble-top tables.”
“I am speaking,” said a long-
winded orator, “for the benefit of
posterity.” “Yes,” said one of his
hearers, “and if you keep on much
longer your audience will he here.”
A gallant ex-Confederate officer,
reformed from early drinking hab
its, is reported to have remarked at
the club upon wedding a well
known Catholic lady ot Washing
ton, “Well, boys, I’ve tried run.
and rebellion, I guess I’ll now go in
or Romanism.”
“Thank heaven,” exclaimed a
fond father, as he paced the floor at
midnight with his howling heir,
“thank heaven you are not twins!”
After all, there is a vast deal of
common sense in the remark of the
deserter when he said, “I’d rather
be a coward all my fife than be a
corpse 11 minutes.”
An old poker player of Idaho
City remarjked the other day as he
was rising from the table after a ses
sion lasting three days and nights,
“I’ll be eternally hons waggled if i
can tell whether this is yesterday
to-day, to-morrow, day befoie -to
morrow or the day after yesterday
A heavy pounding on the floor
above caused young Mr. Staylate to
inquire of the girl on whom he was
calling: “Are your folks tacking
down carpets this evening?” “Oh
no,” she replied, “it’g only papa
putting on his heaviest boots, and—”
“Good evening,” interrupted the
youth, as he dashed out of the door
like a circus Clown through a hoop
A young man in Caliiornia tried
tojpunch a rabbit out of a hollow
log with a gnn the other day. The
rabbit came out and so did the gun
—some of it And that young man
will never make his sisters mad by
blowing his nose with his fingers
any more, because he has no thumb
to catch hold of his nose with, and
if he had, he has no nose to catch
hold of.
The state railroad will broaden
its guage from Knoxville to Chat
tanooga.
Gen. Hancock has been elected
marshal of the day at Cleveland’s
inauguration.
The charges made against Coun-
cilman Longley, of Atlanta, are
withdrawn.
An appeal will be made to con
gress to assist the N. O. Exposition
to keep it from gorng down.
The trouble between the rival
Dakota towns will be appealed to
the courts. The mobs have disband
ed.
It is thought that Vanderbilt will
give Gen. Grant back his property.
The retirement bill has been bur
ied on the speaker’s table.
Mr. Randall has been tendered «
house warming reception in Louis
ville.
Columbia,^ S. C., voted in favor
of granting liquor license by a large
majority.
The treasurer of the L. & N.
road, at Louisville, absconded with
$34,000.
•iV 1 ^ y° un & man accidentally
killed another while 'out hunting
near Acworth, Ga.
The ex-Empress Eugenie is charg
ed with selling bogus jewelry,
knowing it to be such.
An attempt was made to blow
up a train on the Jersey Central
railroad with dynamite.
^ negro has been arrested near
Chattanooga for ravishing his little
niece, only nine years old.
Buck Grant is telling on the wit
ness stand of the rascalities of the
firm of Grant, Ward & Co.
A fire at Lauridburg, N. C., de
stroyed eleven stores on which
there is very little insurance.
A man was killed on the B. & O.
road by a train while taking a drink
He did not see an approaching
A New \ ork schooner discover
ed tour men on a wreck, but was
unable to rescue them, and they
were left to their fate.
Two negro burglars, at Clayton,
N. C., were taken from jail by a
mob, loaded with chains and drop-
Jed into the Neuse river. The
bodies have not been recovered
Madrid, Dec. 27.—So far as
known two hundred persons were
killed in Andalusia by the earth
quake. The Alhambra, the famous
palace near Granada, was not dam
aged.
The earthquake in Spam swells
out into the proportions of a genu
ine disaster. The death list will
r “ n U P several thousand when
all the towns are heard from. The
destruction of property is also
great.
Racine. Wis., Dec. 2S.—The
beautiful Blake opera house and
hotel, one of the finest in the Unit
ed States, was burned to the ground
this morning at t o’clock. Three
lives were lost. The hotel contain
ed about sixty persons.
While a party of twenty in Peter
county, Missouri, were treating a
newly married couple to a charivari
with cowbells, horns, pistols and
shotguns, the leader of the party
received a load of shot in the side
and died instantly. The shot was
accidental.
Mr. Cleveland haa written a let
ter to Mr. Curtis, in which he de
clares that faithful party service
does not entitle a man to office.
Ihe civil service act will be rigidly
enforced, and all offices will be fill
ed on the hasis of fitness. He de-
dares that men who used their pla
ces for partisan purposes will be re
moved.
Knoxville, Tenn., Dec. 27.—
s P e 5 :ia * t0 the Tribune says:
The Warm Springs hotel, at
Warm Springs, N. C., was burned
to-day. The hotel was one of the
largest m the south. Nothing was
saved. The loss is $150,000, insur-
an< j e ?5°’ 0 p o - The hotel, in which
,ol- Kumbagh owned a two-third
interest, will he rebuilt.”
The evils of lynch law are to be
seen in the tragedy at Purvis sta
tion on Friday. While under deep
excitement over a fiendish train-
wreckmg the mob arrested two
suspicious negroes, and by torture
forced a confession out of one of
them, when the two victims were
taken out and hanged. It is now
thought the men were innocent.
Augusta, Ga., Dec. 30.—Wm.
Pendleton and the two negroes
blown up in yesterday’s explosion
at * he . Augusta gas works, are still
suffering very much, but have so
far escaped the fatal consequences
ot their injuries.
Sumter, S. C., Dec. 30—Grief
has extinguished the holiday festiv-
r * t,es of Sumter. The belle of the
rum town, a beautiful girl, who has been
almost worshipped by everybody
who knew her, has been murdered m “ n
in Orangeburg by Major Hender
son who killed her in a pang of
j ealousy and then fled.
Willingham, or the '
Eatonton Messenger: A negro
woman aged tz8years, died at Den
nis Station last week.
The race for-Ordinary in Bartow
county {continues to be an exceed
ingly, acrimonious one.
Brunswick has been selected as
the place of meeting of the Metho
dist conference next year.
Georgia is said to have 1,257
lawyers.
The prohibition counties in
North Alabama have paid Rome
over $4,000 this year for stimu
lants.
Rev. J. F. Goode has been called
to preach to the Toccoa, Hudson
River, Nail’s Creek and Indian
Creek Baptist churches for 1885.
From all accounts, Florida orange
culture has been, like many other
things, overdone. At any rate,
prices have fallen at the great cen
tres. • ■-
Gov. McDaniel will be busy for
the next few days signing commis
sions. Within the next three weeks
he will have to commission about
1,300 Justices of the Peace, about
i,ioo county officers and several
hundred commissioners of roads
and revenues,
A company is being formed by
A. H. Powell, of Macon, to buy the
famous Uplands Hotel at Eastman
and remove it to Macon. The
house and furniture cost Mr. Dodge
$75,000. He now offers it for sale
at $15,000, and it will cost $10,000
to remove it from Eastman and put
it up in Macon.
The grading is practically finish
ed for twenty-five miles from Amer
icas, on the Lumpkin, Preston &
Americus R. R.
One of our Georgia wonders, Ma
ry Lee Price, is-cow-astonishing the
people of Baltimore' with her mys
terious feats. Her power is said to
be increasing.
The aggregate membership of
the churches in the South Georgia
conference, lately in session at Sa
vannah, is 35,000, an increase ot
2,075 over last year.
Gainesville, Ga., Dec. 26.
Deputy Marshal Lofland arrested
ana brought to Gainesville this eve
ning for trial, J. O. Robertson and '
Edwin E. Nichols, of Dahlonega,
Ga., charged with counterfeiting.
Recently while a Mr. Adams and
his son were working in the Loud
gold mine in White county, a heavy
Dank fell in on them, covering the
senior Mr. Adams completely and
killing him. The son was badly
mashed, and it was thought for a
long while that he could not recov
er, but he is now rapidly improving.
At Butrell, Carroll county, an
old negro woman, supposed to be
90 or 100 years old, blind and almost
entirely helpless, living with her
grandson, Clark Smith, near the
colored church, Pinetuckey, tell in
the fire Monday, and was burnt to
death, during the absence of Smith
and his wife, and with only a little
girl with her. She was buried Tues
day.
A terrible storm or cyclone pass
ed through Nashville, Ga., Wednes
day evening, making but one dip.
The place of Hass Griffin was al
most completely demolished. His
meat, cotton and corn were scatter
ed through the woods. About two
thousand pounds of seed cotton lines
the woods for miles. His buggy
and cart were demolished, cooking
utensils and stove mashed, and a
new garden blown to atoms. Grif
fin is a new beginner in life, and
this misfortune will nearly ruin
him.
Barnesville, Ga., Dec. 27.
This morning in Thomaston, the
house of John Drake, a colored bar
ber of that place, was discovered
to be on fire. Upon being extin
guished, Ella Drake,- his wife, was
found in bed with her skull broken
and her throat cut. THe facts de
veloped at the inquest caused Ihe
jury to render a verdict that the de-'
ceased came to her dfeath from
wounds inflicted by her husband;
The excitement among the negroes
ran high. There is talk of lynching
Drake to-night, who was arrested
and is now in jail. 11
GENERAL NEWS.
POLITICO-RELIGIONISTS.
A BojmMlcan “Chares" to ho Started la Oooifla.
Boston, Dec. 27.—A special
from Atlanta, Ga., says: “Shortly
after the Presidential election, a
number of colored men invited Sen
ators Colquitt and Brown to make
olive-branch speeches. Out of this
grew great troubles, strong factions
in. each churches accusing their
ministers of selling out to the dem
ocrats, and' in one case a church
was invaded and the minister walk-
ed out by the shoulder. The Rev.
Mr. Jones was threatened with in
cendiarism. Finally, the matter
was referred to the arbitration of
three white men. These gentlemen
had a conference with the two
committees, who stated the church
had decided tq leave tbe matter to
a vote of the congregation. The
arbitrators then made the two com
mittees sign an agreement to abide
by the decision given by the con
gregation’s vote. The cqngregation
convened m the church, and the
vote stood 64 for Jones, and 56
against him Jones’ majority was
S, and after the trouble was settled
letters of dismissal were granted to
2? 5| who voted against Jones.
5 6 wih start a church which
will Be strictly republican in politics.
•v.'- >-.v .
Mr. Tilden will not atteud the i n-
auguration of Cleveland.
Colonel Ingersoll made $25,000
from fifty lectures during two
months. v
Bogardus and Carver are again
abusing each other through the pa
pers. '
Russia wants to provoke a row
with China, as a pretext for seizing
upon a portion of her Pacific coast!
All important towns in Beigium
are connected by telephone and five
minutes’ use of the wires cost but
four cents.
Several India rubber- gatherers
oa the Putumayo river, South Amer
ica, have been captured and eaten
by the natives.
Claiborne Nicholson, colored
Charlotte, N. C., murdered his
father with a club, beating Bis head
into a black and bloody mass.
A loafer in a St, Louis foundry
turned over a heavy casting on his
toot, and has in consequence sued
the proprietor for $15,000 damages.
Marie Columbier, the liheler Of
Sarah Bernhardt, occupies • in her
imprisonment the room, not in a
prison, but in a hydrophatic estab
lishment, lately occupied by “Plon-
Plon” Napoleon. ,, ■
The hair of ex-President Boice,
of the wrecked Jersey City, (N. J.)
bank, has turned gray from two
years imprisonment in the 1 peniten
tiary. This is one case where gray
hairs are not honorable.
At Toronto, yesterday, a FreucB-
tn named Paquet; a professed in
fidel, while denying the dOstrine of
et ® r “ a ! Punishment in a discussion
with his fellow-boarders, was strick
en with paralysis of the whole of
one side from hq*4 t® foot, includ
ing his tongue,
ed his family'most shamefully, and
almost immediately afterward acci
dentally fell down stairs and rolled
into the,yard, where he lay alLAight
and froze to death. , , 6
For setting fire to the finest nut
pine orchard lp .the west,, the Wa
shoe Indians Were sentenced to nev
er mort appear dd horseback, the
treaty between them and the Piutes
being; that ; if one- did the Piutes
might shoot him ana take, his horse.
ty, N. Y., has just died and his wife
quarreledwith..tbeqndertaker for
boards the miser had previously
provided. In searching the'house
after the wife’s death $35,000 in
gfrffiifoa ^5, $2S,ooo in bank
certificates and three bushels of pen*
mes were found!: They had been
so saving that {hey had used neither
m
meat nor soap for twenty years.
Twomen yvere foumi freezing
to death in Colorado, a miserly old
woman was found stiff in her chair
in New \ ork, and a child was froz
en to death while being abducted
by its father.