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New York Sun: Mr. Cleveland
begins very well by dismissing the
superfluous men in his own office.
They are not there for any useful
pui pose, and it would not be right
to keen them for an hour after their
uselessness is discovered.
After he has got through with
tliis. process at the Executive Man
sion. we look to see it extended to
the departments. Most probably
t: ev all overflow with needless
clerks ansi attendants. Turning
them out is the beginning ol a sort
,,l civil service reform against which
uo sensible city caa make any oppo
se on. Indeed, tbc first step to
ss:, id lire real reform of the civil
.vice is to reduce its dimensions to
i iu-exact dimensions of the public
ssork lo be stone.
One of our correspondents at
Wa-liiogton describes this morning
some of ibe minor abuses which
have grown up in the departments
there Carriages, he says; are pro-
s .led at the public expense, not
in s fur secretaries, but for chief
I's-jis and their families and friends
,, the false pretext that they are
required lor the public use. We
:i-e sine that the hand of reform
,s ill so >n strike away all these excre
scitt-cs. Mr. Cleveland begins
sv .11. Let hint continue with re-
Vn le-s energy, and the whole peo-
. ic ss ill approve.
Y.n it must n..t he forgotten that
wl.cn ail this is dor.e, that radical
:c .•: in .>r the Government which
NO XXXIX.
ATHENS, GBOHGXAi TOESD^T, MARCH 34, 1885.
i i fa,-. ■ ■ . , 1 but <-• ~ 1 ■
^ftl In : | .
OUR TRAMP ABROAD.
SAFE ABRfVAL IN SAVANNAH AND A RE
TBOSPECTIVE GLANCE,
THE HARD LIFE OF A PRINTER BRIEFLY
DESCRIBED.
TIIE A CTHOB OF If A JOB JOKES' COURTSHIP
AKD HIS LITERARY WORK.
THE EARLY CAREER OF JOE HARRIS. NOW
OF TIIE CONSTITUTION.
topic look for, vti.l hardly be
i,diced. When -Mr. Tilden
med away the canal ring in
.late, lie perlormed an iqtmense
. that was far more laborious
permanent than lopping oft a
her ot so pel ft ttons clerks and
hi lent cai tinges. To borrow
1.1 sim.le. saving at the spigot
■i\ g.. ..I; hut saving at the
hole is the great tiling
A NEW PHASE OF POLITICS.
N. V. lie
I. gh
line
ident
aid: Mr. Cleveland is
n get a comprehensive
miseries as wcil as a
te . f the honors of his
ill. The dollar hunters
•d Washington, a very
casts, coming from every
corner of the continent.
hem is tager to engage
ery.nion ot the Union lot
j compensation. The
has somewhat chilled
high hop. s by making
i i . t he th.es not propose to
ornately turn the present
In. t- <n.t of office, and that
con-lilt the welfare of the
will a- the hungry appe-
i applicants in the changes
in |\ become necessary. He
e tiuless very clear on one
-a ..net), the propiicty of dts-
id i loi cause,
i. c -ton on his pact has giv
. . new phase in the politics
d.\ Ever) man who wishes
bu his native land at the
... nc one who has been
t,.r it dining the last few
ha- suddenly discovered that
ni.eman who now occupies
vi ted pust has been guilty of
. ye-t possible misdemeanors,
eSs charges are made by the
and others equally damaging
be bad for the asking. Not
Ins been doing his duty as it
nt to he done, and the atmoS'
eis thick with revelations of
or pretended ftaud. Indeed
-.u ation, though comical at the
glance, is tapidly assuming the
racier of a tiagedy.
Cleveland is moving.slowly
■ office-holders must go,
richly deserve to; but others,
who have not neglected th**irduties
to further the plans of a - party, will
he retained. Such a course may
give offence to the advocates of the
spoil, system, hut it will also give
s.it.sfaction to those who desire that
tin- public service shall not he put
to inconvenience or loss when one
patty steps out and another steps
LETTER I.
'ScmvFx House, Savannah,
Ga., March 16, 18S5.—Dear Ban
ner-Watchman: After an all-night’s
ride from Athens, passing over the
Georgia and Central roads, 1 awoke
this (Monday) morning in the For
est City, which I left twelve year,
ago to become an humble tiller of
the soil, and have not been hack
since. I am quartered at the Scriv-
House, and will to-day stroll
over the city and write about the
changes and improvements. The
writer resided for live years in Sa
vannah'being employed as a type-
sticker on the Morning News. Mr.
K-iill wt that time hail Just com
menced to accumulate the large for
tunes he now enjoys, and was com
paratively a poor man. We well
remember the morning we first
reached Savannah, with only a few
dollars in pocket, and not a single
acquaintance in the place. But we
carried on the ends of our fingers
trade that was sure to be in de
mand, and gave not a thought to the
tuture. By 11 o'clock that day we
had found work as a “sub” for an
old printer named Marshall, and in
snort time had a steady “sit” at
which we could earn from $40 to
$50 per week. Those were flush
days with the “art preservative,’’
the Printer’s Union was at its
strongest, and the craft recognized
no boss except their own sweet
will. They were a jovial, careless,
generous set of men, who let each
day take care of itself. Paid oft’
every Saturday at noon (working
on Sunday), Monday morning
scarcely ever found a half-dollar in
one's pocket. They knew that a
single day’s work would bring them
in from $5 to $S. But it was a hard
life they followed. Commencing
work at 11 o’clock, it .was 3 or 4
the next morning before tney’ quit
ted the office, while on special oc
casions, such as the President’s
message and during the Franco-
Prussian war, we have often turned
ofl'the gas and worked by sunlight.
You could take as many holidays as
you wished by putting on a “sub,’
d.
Y
t!i
ator Hill and made him a life-long
friend to Harris. It was while that
emineut gentleman was a candidate
for congress in the 9th district
agairst Col. Bell and had published
a card stating that be would stand
against the nominee of die Gaines
ville convention. Harris noticed the
card as follows: “A Dooly county
granger writes ns that he notices
Ben Hill js standing, in the 9th dis
trict, and wants to know what kind
or pedigree has he.” When the
yellow fever broke out in Savannah
Harris was among the first to leave
and took refuge in Atlanta. He
was married there, had but little
money and was out of a job. He andfVoro
was dejectedly walking down the’ knew sh«
street one morning, not knowing
how he could longer-meet hi* board
bill, when some friend .called Harris
into a store and introduced him to
Senator Hill. That gentleman af
once took out his pocket-book, in
which he had the little- dipping:
above referred to and asked Harris |
if he was the author of the same.
Upon an acknowledgement, Mr.
Hill remarked, “The satisfaction
that I demand is that you move
your family nt once to the Kimball
House, stay as long as yon Want,
and tell the proprietor to send the
board bill to me for settlement.**
Mr. Hill was
condition.
fences had all rotted - down,
ditches filled np, and the ottl
anything but bright. I went
work, however, and sden had sev
eral fields enclosed, but! could not
use the spade, and had no money tb
Mnsttta wsek lsns, At *
hired a n^pa far this purpoM,-iq-<
tending to sell my watch Mid thus
pay him; bnt when the work was.
neatly done I had not found a pur
chaser, and started for home one
afternoon from the swamps in in
unenviable state of mind.
W
When nearing the house I met my
“better half” cordln - to meet me,
die looks of her face I
arris ship-wrecked
so pressing in bis
command, that Harris thankfully
accepted. At one time Mr. Hams
acquired the habit of drinking te
excess, but it did not seem to blunt
his intellect in the slightest degree.
He for a long time made it his prac
tice to drink a quart of whisky every
Sunday, that he carried home with
him on Saturday. But one night
several years ago he made up his
mind to stop square off, and asking
his wife for a piece ot wax, he in
her presence sealed up and stamp
ed the half-emptied bottle, and set
it back on the mantle, with instruc
tions not to let it be moved until
orders from him. It remains there
to this day, and Joe Harris' 1 has
nver since touched a drop of intox
icating liquor. The proprietets of-
the Atlanta Constitution, as an ev
idence of their appreciation of his
services presented Mr. Harris' with
a beautiful home. He has sew a
handsome income, derived from hit
salary and literary work, and has
built up a reputation that will
dure as long as time.
To-morrow 1 will write you about
my experience as a fanner in El
bert county. T. L. G.
A PROFESSIONAL FARMER.
HOW THE BANNER.WATCHMAN EDITOR
BECAME A TILLER OP THE SOIL.
kriew sbe bxd some good news lor
pie. I was''not ' disappointed. It
teeinathxt in searching the pockets
of a discirdfcdWit Of‘clothes that I
bad thrOwti‘stnfe'in'Savannah, the
■fotind'afzd gold piece, that I had
carelessly-forgotten in - my days of
plentyi—The sight of a skit to some
•ktn wrai>lrail * ■ ’ Mtlnf- '- tlftf
mu*
>*-— 1 .A ImInj th£ Altana
VOL XXXI
sailor could not
been more welcome
than' this 1 gold to me at
that particular time. It paid off
my ditchet and left me a couple of
dollars over, enda dollar about drat
time began *6 look aS* big as a cart
wheel to me: ' I wilt never forget
my-first experience -at'the plow, in
a stumpy new-ground. It was the
most trying- ordeal of my life, and
to this day I look back to it with
horror. In fact, I found the life of
a fanner strewn with any thing bnt
roses, and spent every idle moment
that I could spare repenting in sack
cloth and ashes' that 1 bad ever
been beguiled by such a Will-o’-the-
wisp to leave’ a trade that, with all
ot its drawbacks, was a downy bed
of ease to the new avocation I had
chosen. I calculated that had I
been paid the wages of a printer for
my services, I ought to have cleared
fully $50,000 for nay service on that
farm. I had determined, however,
to succeed, and Worked in rain and
shine. Each day added new tor
tures to my lot Cattle, would break
in my fields, and. I would -be sum
moned forth by daylight to drive
them out. and return home wet up
to waist with dew; then the mules
took the epiiooty; -and had to be at
tended to; at one time high waters
washed, up; a .great deal of the corn,
and then a long drought threatened
to exterminate, what was left. It
made me.-aick-to even think of the
fields, and the sight of a pair of
draw-bars’ would effect me like a
dose of ipec«£. At last the crop
was laid toy, and 1 returned home
that day to ruminate. Ilocked my
self up in a . room, 1 aod -carefully
weighed ray. experience ■» a plan-
ter; and fouad'- thataot . only f'
bright CsstlesthAtli built in Savi
and'trembling we Watted
its nearer ^approach; when loUit
peafiasiousl iIIiiiUkSSwwmww it
would be an old-fashioned) Irish
tp PS. K With the fortitude of
a martyr we stood the . infliction
until the train halted at Milieu,
where we had a : three-hours’ ■' lay
over. It was then that the rivalry
of, the coal-burning locomotive
ceased, and the midnight musician
had undisputed possession of the
field. We never listened to a finer
performance on the nasal cornet
There were no breaks sor stops, but
one steady, uninterrupted snort.
Our every nerve was on a wire-
edge, ana we wracked our brain to
devise some scheme to abate the
nuisance. We had read somewhere
that if you would whistle it would
arouse a snarer. We tried every
tune we knew, from the Mocking
Bird with variations down to Yan
kee Doodle, but to no avail. - If
there was any change in our. neigh
bor’s notes it ‘ was for the worst.
We looked' at our watch and It was
. 2:30 o’clock,’and still old Morpheus
It was the did hot even come in speaking dis
tance. We had paid {1.50 for a
berth, with the privilege of sleep
ing, end the latter part of the con
tract had not been complied with.
Our mind was made up on two
points: 1st, as soon as we reached
Savannah we would enter a dam
age suit for $10,000 against the
Pullman Car Co. 2d, If we were
ever so unfortunate as to be sen
tenced to the legislature, our first
S ublic act would be to introduce a
ill making it a capital offense for
any man that snored to take pas-
GRATrrUOH EXPRESSED.
siif}
TELEGRAPHIC sparks.
" Meeting up with Lietft. Arnold of
the police force, we inquired if he
hlSf ever been Sent to- Arkansas to
priest a member ’of the , legislature
Of that'state for burning a house in
Monroe, Walton county. ' r ; * 7 ' * &
sage on a sleeper. But this silent
indignation did not help matters.
**Tho villain still pursued us.” At
last, in a fit of desperation, we seized
ana of our shoes and hurled it with
ail the vim and power at our com
mand against the frail partition
which separated us from that
two-Ugn»j Was* hanJ Fnr «... •
thirty seconds a death-like stillness
I travailed, and we began to lay the
1 Uttering unction to our ‘soul that
the nuisance was at last abated.
But our happiness was short-lived.
The fiend quickly rallied and came
back at us With renewed force, - his
new notes, being more discordant
than ever, if possible. We then let
fly the other shoe,, and this time
there was a rustling of the cover,
and a silence that lasted perhaps
two minutes. Then the agony be-
the gan anew, and we saw there was
, ... , 1 ... .t.——~ . an- nothing else for us to do but to
^.t. I U,s urK I uah had’ crumbled, into ashes, hut groan and bear it Wespentthe
° one'yearof.«ny1ifo.-iacl been worse balance-of the night of horror pic-
than Wasted... My' mifcd whs made taring in our mind Whatkind of a
up. I would- leave- the-farm next brute was this fog-horn demon,and
ICE LEAVE THE PLOUGHSHARE 1H DIS■ I tyP* **
work half their time. As a natural
consequence, such a liie was very
tiying to the constitution, and the
health of the writer gave al
most entirely away. Colonel
Thompson, author of “Major
Jones' Courtship,” was edilor-in-
chiel of the News, and was an ex
ceedingly kind old gentleman and
a general favorite with the printers.
The Colonel did his writing, how
ever, by fits and starts, but when the
spirit was not on him used his scis
sors instead ot the pen, but so
adroitly did he disguise this appro
priation of those stolen ideas that it I Dear
was difficult to detect the clippings ised
(torn the original. But Mr. Estill complete the ” history” of my.early
asad warnimg to tbose who are a j-1 day forever,.- and any one who felt
tacked with thkmania. I j^e gathering the -fruits of onr toil
could dofsoi -W* determined to stick
; per thousand, and
At a, grand hallelujah and jollifi
cation meeting of the victorious pro
hibitionists of Elbert in the court
house on Saturday evening of elec-
Editorial Corrcmondenee Bannar-Watchman.
burnllH WAtelgtnfl the balance
of our days, before running another
furrow-in-the bosom of old Mother
Earth. Had every -car of corn in
* ,J ~— promise.to :be*r
our field given promise.to ;Oe»r
grains of gold, WO doubt if .we would
have remained toharvesttbem. The
LETTER II.
decided that he was either a rhinos
erous-hided drummer, composed of
'nothing but lungs and bloat, or an
oithmatic old codger who was tot
tering on.the brink.oi an unknown
sea. We arose by daylight; weary
and worn, and took a seat opposite
the thttkwal berth, totake an eye-
stograph of the occupant We
■not -have long. to . tarry. Soon
there peeped, from below the ^ui>
‘Yes, I can give you a full his
tory of it In ib66 or 1867, Joe G.
Hudgins apd a man.named Adding
ton came into Monroe and set fire
to a store that stood where the store
of C. G. Nowell now occupies. The
proof against these two men was
positive, and the next morning I got
up a posse and followed in pursuit. -
I caught Addington in Jefferson,
but Hudgins made his escape and
went, to Arkansas. .Addington
was brought back to Monroe, con
victed and fentenced to the peni
tentiary, but Bullock gave him a
pardon without his ever serving a
day. I learned that Hudgins had
settled. in Dallas, Arkansas, and
had been elected a member of the
legislature. I knew he was the
man.I..was'after, and immediately
-jot a requisition from Governor
ame« M. Smith and started for
-'ttle Rock. A. H._ Garland, at
present a member of President
1 Cleveland’s cabinet, was then Gov
ernor of Arkansas, and to him I
went with the requisition. Gov
ernor Garland expressed great sur
prise at the requisition, and said
that there must be some mistake, as
Hudgins was a very prominent
man in Arkansas, and was a warm
]>ersonal friend of his. I informed
Governor Garland that I knew my
business, and knew that Hudgins
was the right man. This happened
about ten o’clock in the morning,
and 1 wanted to get the requisition
signed and get off to where Hudgins
lived by 1 o’clock, as I had to trav-
el over the mountains through a
dangerous country one hundred
miles before I could get to where
Hudgins lived. I lelt the govern
or’s office and I never got the- re
quisition untH that evening at 5
o’clock. This delayed me 12 hours,
as T could not leave before the next
day. Wnue 1 „ .n» i.. M
waiting a young clerk that I saw
in the Governor’s office came in
and pointed me out to a man who
was with him, and I am certain
that this, man went on ahead of me
and gave Hudgins the information
that I was coming, as a perfect de
scription pf myself was given to
parties in the town of Dallas long
before I arrived. When I reached
there Hudgins had been gone some
time. He went over in the Indian
nation and from there to Texas,
where he lived for a few years, and
then came back to Arkansas, and is
now a member of the legislature
and a prominent man. Gov. Mc
Daniel is after him now and he
knows all the circumstances, as it
happened at his home. Hudgins
will be caught and brought to jus
tice. I had a perilous and risky
trip over the mountains of Arkan
sas. While traveling along I saw
an old bear with two cubs lying in
the sun on the side of
tee mountain. At a place where I
stayed, oyer night the wolves at
tacked the sheepfold, and trom the
fuss they made I thought pandemo
nium had broke loose. Hudgins
will be convicted . if he is ever
brought to Walton county.
tioqday, tho following resolutions
wore introduced toy George Gro-
~-i, Esq., and unanimously passed
the’house
Resolved, That we, the people of
Elbert, do most heartily recognize
ide
with profound gratitude the kind
and cordial interest which has been
exhibited by the gentlemen who
compose the Hartwell Brass Band,
and those .other good citizens of
Hart who came to rejoice with us in
this great moral and social victory;
farther,
That we express our readiness at
all times to respond to any occasion
by which we may help our sister
county in any good cause and work;
further, -
To Mr. T. L. Gantt, who in per
son and through his -paper, has
dope so much in the interest of pro
hibition, W6 return sincerest thanks
and beg to assute him that in our
hearts and in our homes he shall
ever have the warmest place; fur
ther.
That in our general rejoicing we
will remember with deepest grati
tude the labors 'of Dr. W. H. Fel
ton, of Bartow, and others of both
races, and especially Rev. S. C.
Upshaw, col., of Troup, all of whom
have so valiantly labored in our
cause, and to whose efforts our
glorious victory is so largely at
tributable; further,
Thata copy of these resolutions be
tendered the Elberton Leader, Ban
ner-Watchman, Hartwell sun, Car-
tersville Courant and LaGrane Re
porter. J. P. Shannon, Ch’n,
W. W. Grogan, Sec’y.
WIMttlWX OGLETHORPE.
sue from so fair’a source? Cotila - it
be possible that the midnight demon
who had driven repose from our
ey«-lida was this angelic creature?
A half mile from the Lexington
depot, on the plantation of Dr. Wil
lingham, is the grave of the illustri
ous William H. Crawford. A plain
marble slab lies over his remains,
N. Y. Herald: The Western
Union Telegraph Companyis hold
ing out a tempting bait to Wall
street operators in an offer to re-
Jncc the price of its gold and stock
• tickers.” Just what sort of a hook
is concealed beneath that particu-
larly tempting piece ot bait; just
how that skillful fisherman, Mr.
Gould, proposes to land the silly
full that nibble at it, is told in our
news columns. Before the bait is
swallowed, hook and all, would it
not be condusive to the general
happiness of those concerned to
consider whether the momentary
enjoyment of the delicate morsel is
worth the later proceedings on the
hjnk when the line is pulled.
VANNAH, Ga., March 17.— I next day we hitched. up.,om train, tains, a dainty little pink foot,
Banner-Watchman: I prom-1 an( j left our fields in. the band* of then we heard a rustling of gar-
in my yesterday s letter to I Providence and hired labor. Bnt meats.’ In due season the folds
-. .. , .lete the history of mycarly e ven after our departure, hard luck parted, and there stepped forth into
always kept his eyes wide open, life, after 1 had laid aside the com- The the aisle one ol the most seraphic
and tut little transpired around the posing stick to take up the plow- j gj n to which our cotton was carried little virions of female loveliness our
officethat he did not know. At share. Doubtless such. a> sketch burned, and with it our crop of eyes ever rested upon. Mercy upon
length becoming dissatisfied with I may be uninteresting to many and I th< . ,taple. Then the neighbor’s us! Did these discordant sounds is-
an unusually prolonged absence of I foreign to our promised-letters of I^ttleHiade amublic pasture of oHr
original articles from his editorial travel; but as it will be a d*y ol so com .fi e ld and we didn’t save quite
columns, the proprietor gave secret yet before I will have anything of enou gh to’ pay a doctor’s bill of $25.
instructions to Mike Divine the especial note to pen, wiU send if as } In . fcet> I think about $18 would e ye-ua%— . r „ . . . .
foreman, to inclose all of Col. a sort of prologue. While exhaust-1 covered the gross receipts Alas 9 it was only too true. Every wth the following inscription:
Thompson’s dipped articles with I e d from toil at the case, my temples I f rom our y«ar’s toil. Our team and rose has its thbrn, and from the ‘‘Sacred to the memory of Wil-
quotauon marks. Those who knew often wracked with pain and mylfonn ttftj wen t to pay debts entail' depths of our compassionate heart r, * ro Harns Urawford; born 24th fo
the Colonel’s disposition can best brain in a chaos, the delightful jlile I ^ during the year, and it was an- we 'pitied the poor tellow who February, 1772, inj Nelson county,
judge his indignation and dismay of the farmer would rise up before ot he r twelve months before we would pluck this fair flower. Virginia; died 15th Sep. 1831 in
the next morning upon discovering me like a beautitul mirage* and to coul d,hpWa clear balance sheet for The first .intimation a traveler has pg>ct hor P= county, Gain the leg-
the exposure. He at once tendered become such was the great goal off 0 or’Brief agricultural experiment. t Wh e is.nearine Savannah is when l? Utu T r f ° f< peorg.a; ■“ the senate of
his resignation as editor, and Mr. my ambition. I pictured myself We do not |pe<S these liues^withi ^ ^ h ai u .tthidepot. There S.ates; tis minister to
Estill had to compromise by revolt- sitting astraddle some rustic - fence, T iew- xto discourage any one Wh6 ^ will t ‘ ie court of France, in the cabinet
ing his order. Col. Thompson was beneath the shade ofa widespread-1 fihd^Wm»elf«eized-w»th an oldma- Xvi that mwlr th* *nd on the bench he was alike in-
one of the best writers on the ing beech tree, complacently watch- SffS/wnuJdW succeedbd. WSSS£S!SSSS^ depcndcnt.energctic, fearless and
Southern press, and you could refer ,ng the contented laborers riorkl when we fjl1Icd . .But we Me cop- totintry m the. picture of deso- Cv H * he , h,d
back to the files of papers edited by among the waving grain. My iart+$jU e d of one thing—an All-Wise utmrJ^witb•:uprightly, pools and *il- 8e JT ,Ce h,s - COuntry .’ f? d , left
him for half a century, and there would be no longM greeted withlp roV ide! n ee never designed u» for a mM ridecked trees ^ Itoere are Oc- b <;hindhtm the unimpeachable fame
was a most perfect consistency in theshrin. ay of 'e^r? tod ^loi^w-thefe to • i ‘ c ffliiftle^*Si,‘eettle d with of f T
hts political course. The pecqfie ot the song of the mockmg-birdwiuldl^^^^,,,^ Polar Expedition 1 wd hntadd surrounded by small About half a mile from the Lex-
Savannah appreciated Col. Thomp-1 take the place of the dm ofaUcipn-^itutfiftever attempt it again. patches add vegetables much fur-
I- will tell yott about, ther advanced than with us.1 Eng-
and how -1 imi liah peas mxy atnck, Irish potatoes
thing described that you could al- all the capital necessary to start in I an important DTSCOVEETMASX BY DAY-
most imagine yourself on the spot, business. So dissatisfied I was I ■tnmL’f •
Col. Thompson was exceedingly with ray old life, that I looked upon I
kind to the writer, and we can each days labor at the case, csrea if
and large job office; be has a
The special correspondent ot the
Savannah News says that Senator
llrown is looking after the desires
of his friends in Washington. We
ate inclined to believe the day of
Joe's usefulness is over, for with
democratic President he will not
siand much of a showing. The
President probably knows Joe too
'sell and his flopping over from
one side to the other will hold a
small place in the memory ofPresi-
idrnt Cleveland.
son county
hisdeath, in 1797. He had a largi
o the writer, and we can 1 eacn days tapor ai mo case, even H | T—A.i:.i .-ra:. family of sons and daughters. Hii
uever forget his kind words of ad- it added $10 to my Uttfortote^’l**”* ^SSEST**?'. MUT 1lived to an advanced age
vice when we bade him good-bye precious timethrownaway/Lmade tJ^ -«W died in Athens, Ga. Many of
and quitted the printing business!- my first purchase of agricultural * Swwlrfet NoAk for *- ^
wc then thought for good and all. implements before leaving _9avau4 Safe ARRivJUL lRAAfjClHr^SfAm A call longer to the N rth for such Jarittt-
Joe Harris, who has since become nan, and remember investing ini • > rOJ
famous in the world ofletters by his grubbing hoes of all-makes add
“Uncle Remus,” was an assistant to sizes. I had entirely overiookad
I»r. William A. Ruddack, who
theii recently in Pennsylvania, had
during the last years of his life,
been made miserable by the delu-
*>'<“) that thirteen women were after
him with matrimonial intentions,
Can't blame the old man from pass
‘»£ in his chips with such an itnag
'nation. A man should comro’i
suicide.
Mr. Cleveland not only pay* for
his railroad tickets, but refuses to
secept free boxes at the Washing-
•on theatres. We are only afraid
the President wilj get tired of this
Wa y w hen his country cousins com
mence coining to see him.
Texss celebrated the 49th anni-
v ersary of her independence on
Monday, 2d inst, by .laying the
«orner stone of her new ; capitol,
]»hich is. to be the largest state
1 in the union • f!
r City, 1
son very highly, and once made up ery in the press room below. I
handsome'purse and paid his ex- read so much about the happy lot
penses on a European tour, condi- of the farmer, that the little expe-
tioned that upon his return home he j rience I had as a “boy Gif "slavery
would write a book of travels. But days” was almost forgotte^ 'All
the great fault with Col. Thompson that I asked for was a trial, attd
was piocrastination, and he put the felt assured that my success was a
task off until his death. Doubtless sured. I bad reajl all the bool
literary treasure was thus lost to and papers on agriculture that I
the world, for this gentleman pos- could gather, and intended to en-
sessed a rare descriptive talent. We tirely revolutionize the old fogy
have often, after quitting work at way. So I set to work, and it did-. .... ... , ,
night, sat for hours listening to his n’t take me long, by close upplieM j rxorts-
accounts ol the sights in the Old tion to business, to save up about 1 oomazhhorzb.
World, and so minutely was every- |$6oo, which_ I calculated would be
ington depot in another direction,
eeffisssUfe isssasar»
inbridge, to attend the
\fatttoiv from- -which- po ; nt I
1 go to New Orleans.
T. L. G.
right to the traveller is an
liil tildlive oak grove, that
weal atr air of veneration
possessed by no.other■, tree. > We
ANIGHTOFHORROR.
cent, to a ’bus to taj^e u. to
the Screven House, which is a well
kept hotel—the best in the city.
After ‘an excellent breakfast we
strolled' around fo the; Mottling
News office, and 1 were kindly re
, j — : complet
t South.' Besides the newspaper
l litho-
Col. Thompson on the News. Well, plows, axes, etc., but bought, netel
do we remember Harris’ first ad- inventions, many of which! never I ■ ■ * -"
vent into the composing room, Mr. | could find use tor. No crown I ..
prince, on his march to take pot-
vent into the composing
Estill came up one afternoon, fol .
lowed by a gawky, red-haired, I session of an inherited - king, felt
freckldtfaced youth, whose every more certain of success than yt re
glance and movement betokened tired typo. At Augusta I paid $30*
ihe countryman. After their de- for a pair of unbroken Kentucky
parture we turned to Divine and mules, invested in a, second
asked him what kind of animal was hand wagon that broke down befort
that the boss had captured. “That I got five miles from that city, au<
find,” replied the foreman, “i» our guided by an agricultural friend,
now editor, “but judging from his bought some useful plantation toolli.
looks I don’t think toe’ll ever riie I hired a darkey - and started { for,
above office scavenger. ’ They say, Elbert county through the country,
however, he is a right sharp and leaving on Christmas day, and-.-I
wittt young fellow, and has made don’t think the roads ever
quite a reputation editing some lit* ever will be in so bad a .4
tie weekly up the country.” But I counted my capital, and found
- - r ' -* 1 —lted av
UringinrtheiSouth. lt will print, house
ftW [aBijTaste «v»p aheets pet
boor. The, press cost $17,000
don tii
ttufaKWhantoun. a M
away.- Fa
... t up 1
that night, when copy came in, the nearly all melt .
estimate of the assistant editor went first time my ardor began t»G
np several hnndredper cent. Every and I soon realized the sad -*
line be penned had a good point, his that even silvery -clouds mi ‘
copy was neatly prepared and writ- dark linings. No one wil.
ten in a good hand, which went « know the hardships I endured dffjjl
long ways to elevate an editor in a ring that long ride. Having lead s I
printer’s estimation. Agaiu, Harris life of comfort, with every - r*-‘ 1
proved to be one of the tew men easily supplied, I found myselft
that success and public praise did upon an unknown sea, witht * pair
not praise. He was a modest, re- of wild young mules and -aalGold
tiring young 1 man, “plain as an old wagon that I expected to fall fo
shoe, but when once “drawn out” pieces every time a who ’
was Liim-full of life and fun. He ifito a mud-hole _ I at .
had at first charge of the Georgia reached my destination, in.no
news column, which became the enviable frame[ofmind, as--lui
most important feature of the paper. I see no charm of h
He fired hot shot jright and left, and pntil acropvras i—. —
out leaving any sting behind. We my new depattnre; .Btrf the Rabi- 1
never knew him to wound a man’s I con was mossed and- it - seasons
feelings, but at the same time could too late tb retreat. L:.stfcce«4«d j
that immensely tickled the late Sen-1 com and rations* I found fhfmq
• thjt
win
» “tooth
’Ttoe
iatriari
;upon ttoe1
A STRANGE STORY.
A Dead Woman Said to Hare IteTlred and
Spoken to Her Friend.
Portland, Me., March 10.—Mrs
Jane Fossett died four days ago after
a brief illness.' The body was pre
pared for the grave and lay in the
.
customary still in Maine. She tells
the following story of her remark
able experience
“I was sitting near the body and
looking intently upon the features
that had been so dear to me in life,
could not restrain my tears, and said
in a low voice, ‘Where are you now?’
At the sound of my voice the
apparently dead body moved,
turned on its side and at last turned
up. The eyes opened, and in a
thrilling voice the woman, who had
been dead, but who lived again,
spoke. Mrs. Fossett said she had
been in heaven; that she had there
enjoyed a happiness that was be
yond her power to describe; that
she had met and talked with her
mother, long dead, and with other
friends. For some time Mrs. Fos
sett talked, giving me a description
of her experience in the spirit land,
Gradually her voice grew fainter,
and she fell hack upon the bed clad
she was in her grave clothes
As the-last word was spoken the
spirit took its final departure and
returned no more.”
Some people believe that the la
dy saw a vision in a dream, but she
convinced it .was all a reality,
and that her friend returned and
talked with her,
The senate to-day confirmed
-John C. Black, of Illinois, to be pen
sion commissioner.
The President sent the following
nomination to the senate: Joseph
3- Miller, West Virginia, commis
sioner of internal revenue.
Henry Ward Beecher had a long
talk with the President, and came
away saying fine things about the
prospect of the administration.
There are reports In Calcutta that
an actual collision has occurred be
tween the Russians and the Af
ghans. The government is very
reticent concerning frontier news,
J. D. Chickering, clerk of Le
Flore county circuit court, while
out hunting on the 13th inst, was
caught in a hailstorm and was so
severely injured by the hail that he
died before reaching home.
Allen Mayor, a school teacher
from Pikeville, Tenn., was taken to
the penitentiary to serve out a rix
year’s sentence for forging school
warrants. He is seventy-six years
old.
The Missouri Pacific railway offi
cials here 6tate that the strikars at
Sedalia, Parsons, Denison and
Atchison refuse to return to work
unless a written guarantee is given
that none of the strikers will be dis
charged within a year from date.
The Economy mills of Sevill,
Schofield, Son & Co., at Manayunk,
which have been closed for some
time past, owing to the strike among
the operators against a reduction of
wages, has started up again.
General Sherman received a tele
gram from Gen. Hatch, stating that
upon the receipt of the president’s
iroclamation, concerning the Okla-
torha lands, most of those preparing
to invade the Indian territory decid
ed to return to their homes.
Prof. J. L. Richardson, editor of
the Bloomsburg Journal, Pa., and
formerly superintendent of the Lu
zerne county schools, dropped dead
to-day while transacting business
connected with his newspaper. His
death was due to heart disease.
Hundreds of inhabitants of the
southwestern counties of Virginia
The country they have ctjffsl&t^t
blue grass grazing lands, and is fer
tile, but owing to want of railroad
communication and the disaster of
last year’s drought, the moving emi
grants approaches an exodus.
Dover, Del., March 16.—At a
senatorial caucus this evening to
nominate a successor to Senator
Bayard, Attorney General George
Gray, of Wilmington, was nominat
ed on the second ballot, receiving
votes to 9 for Congressman
Lore, and 5 for ex-Congressman
Martin.
the first Presbyterian ministers in
Georgia. His grave is without a
monument or Headstone. “He was
bornln,Pennsylvania,Feb. 20,1759.
existing
lenburj^h county, N. Ci, Aug. 20,
snburgh c „ 0
780. He came to Georgia in. 1788,
and took charge ot Bethsalem
church, in Oglethorpe county (a
church formerly standing about a
mile from Lexington depot) and
the New Hope church, now MadU
Here he labored' until
longer te-the North for such-print- nfhu
ing; for you can hare prices' dupii- foL^d de^nd^nteh^vI fifw
rated rightat home, this ir a very E
dclicatn teak,**!: hands, tnS nffid fiRomcialposi-
'^S^^P*:'****church *
it8 loginning under —
° CC G P fhyvR«S! , ^r l pice* of.Rev. Dr. Gouldiug.
atchman officC. , It4?“ .the academy
' f building so long and so successfully
r iinojjt'gy its present rector. Cot
enclosure is the
ife j**? d *LJ tomL ofc ^rU Frauc"w' Me«on. ih
SB'S gL'S
tleman, and has the re-
admiration of all who
HUH some day to
of our--state
* • '
rther on is the old
’ Grfdha* m<ine / toy teaching,''embarked in
n ** rc handizipg. and .made aiortune,
hini «t- theheSr of our- state w erc be h d ” ad ® *"» a re related to- the woman, and the
riteetotHdfif better 'GorernOT XfitSe farther nn i. r..; descendantsofiathe pau moved out
wmbamAr' • . ’ wherolheg pass off as whites
SlMHtelh sdetes rety dnll.' We
R ce near by, where so many emi
aSSSSSSJSS^KSS
t are no
ijn Savin-
on someof the most prom
inent thoroughfares wretched —hen'
little shanties that would do no cred- - *•’- •
. among the capitalists jol the K
I lO JlKtT a VIno Et -v; .
i’^aleSre tthneraar tedknhig forat«.r- a
“ - thft citja^na; .of that •: Isaac Dixon, a well known negro
tog tendered the Geor- in Athens, died suddenly on Sunday
a IfranflrecePtion!-’ Wi kwt ! He was on the streets on Fri-
Bain- day.-’ IIIs disease wa*. pronounced
bridge, but nothing more. T. L.G. I plucrisy. .
HEM AND HOTS.
A close observer, who delights
noting the minute characteristics
which will inevitably crop out in
the general deportment of a man
and rush unavoidably into the cur
rent of “life,” be it great or small, is
amused, profited and astonished, at
the universal recklessness with
which the great tasks of life-mak
ing and life-living are performed.
If we could but begin to see our
selves as others see us, the almost
instantaneous reformation in the
characters of men would be woti
derful indeed. It is really shock
ing to visit any of out places of pub
lic resort, churches, theatres, polit
ical meetings, or any other kind of
gatherings where men congregate,
and note the alarmingly small num
ber of perfect gentlemen present
The close observer, who has ever
given the study of human nature
thought, can spot the gentleman
crowd with as much readiness
and precision-as the needle in
storm points to the North pole.
How few men there be, who, when
sifted down to the true analysis
a gentleman, will bear the test!
Show us the man who is polite and
courteous to the rich- and to the
poor alike, who values virtue, not
clothes, who shuns the company of
such' as gather at public places to
gaze at tne fair sex, or nkake unkind
remarks of the passing' girls; show
us a man who abhors a libertine,
who scorns the ridicule of a moth
er’s sex and the exposure of wo
manly reputation; show us a man
who never forgets, for an instant,
the delicacy duewomanaaa woman,
in'any condition or class; show us
the man who never forgets that ’tis
his duty to be a gentlenian under
all circumstances, and you show us
a gentleman, in the most compre
hensive meaning of the word.
' Observer.
Potatoes should all be planted. If
you have not the seed, look in the
columns of the Banner-Watchman
English peas should be planted
if possible. If not possible, then
don’t plant them. They are only
good for small children.
Bode will furnish garden tools,
and Edge & Dorsey a rocking chair.
This mode of gardening is consid
ered the best Rock and dig.
Onions for bouquets should be
put in the ground as soon as con
venient so as to be ready for the
commencement exercises.
The egg plant ought to be planted
by next Sunday at farthest
Get your mother-in-law, if you
have one handy, to plant more po
tatoes, as the hard times are looked
for in August.
Celery might do to plant later on,
as there is very little demand for it
only with the a:sthetic.
The cow, we hope, has already
been planted by the city council.
Sun bonnets have been discarded
by the ladies while working the
garden. A beaver hat belonging
to your pa is considered the most
esthetic.
The garden gate must not be
used tor swinging-purposes during
working hours. The front g:
the best.
Plant pepper, and a great deal of
it
In April or May you can com*
mencc sending large baskets full of
your earliest vegetables to the Ban
ner-Watchman office. They will
be eaten, and puffed according to
the size of the basket
Irish potatoes, onions, radishes,
and, in fact nearly everything that
§ rows in the garden, are relished
y editors.
GEORGIA NEWS.
- - « '. ^ „
, Irwmtqn has commenced boring
an artesian well.
Planting will be later this season
than usual on account of the back
wardness of spring.
®The city council of Griffin has
passed an ordinance taxing drum
mers ten dollars per year.
A Carrigan and Nash, one of the
Augusta batteries,'played last sea
son with the champion club id the
Massachusetts League. ..
The young ladies of the Southern
Female College, at; LaGrange, hold*
a -prayer meeting every Sunday .
afternoon immediately after ditaqen
A little son of Mr. W- C. Bentley,
at, C rawfordvitte, caught a rabbit a
few days ago, which measured two
feet from tne tip, of its nose to the
end of its tail.
Mr. J. F.’ Hodges has shown
two or three lumps of copper ore
taken out of a well in the neighbor- •
hood of Houston factory.—Fort .
Valley Mirror.
The Columbus Iron Works Com
pany are now building three ice
machines. They are of ten tons
capacity, and will be sent to three
different states.
Intelligence was received in Au
gusta yesterday of the death in At-
antaofMr. Maximilian Meredith.
He was the adopted son of Mr. '
James Meredith, a well known citi
zen of Augusta, who died a number
'years ago. -
During telephonic connection be-
tween Macon and Columbus Sun-
day, Maj. Hanson, of the former
city, listened to the singing of the
Presbyterian church choir at Co
lumbus. The. detonation of the
voices was almost perfect.
Carter, Gainesville’s runaway
hotel proprietor, has written a letter
to his heaviest creditors, in which
he says he intends entering business
in a Western town and will pay all
his debts. He does not name the
place in which he intends locating
Mr. Wiley Britt, residing near
Forsyth, exhibited the other
day a shingle which had been riven
from near the centre of a pine tree
thirty-two inches in diameter, and
in which was imbedded a small bul
let. Actual measurement showed
the location of the bullet to be
about thirteen inches from the cir
cumference of the tree, and by close
inspection no trace of its penetra
tion could be seen.
A Danish tramp, apparently
about thirty-five years old, giving
the name of John Petersen, applied
for admission to the Savannah hos
pital yesterday. He was suffering
from injuries received iir falling
through a trestle near Oliver, about
forty-five miles west of the city, on
the Central railroad, between mid-
fiig!” He was : <fktKVfi^e£daX.jn.iHn*-
tie when his foot slipped and' he
tell through, a distance of abdut
thirty feet. '
The citizens of Swainsboro offer
ed to pay half the cost ofsiuking an),
artesian well if the county would
pay the other half. This the county -
refused to do. ' '
Thirty-eight wagons were count?
cd in one place in Carrollton one
day last week. This is given as air" "
evidence ot the growing trade of
that place.
Montgomery and Columbus were
connected by telephone to-day, and' •
the subscribers ol bbth cities were
put in easy communication, and
talked for hours.
No more “soap” men can get li
censes in Darieti to swindle the
poor raft-hands out of their hard
earnings; Every community should
beware of these fakirs.
Ordinary Yancey, of Troup coun-^
ty, has received three petitions re
questing him to order an election
under the local option law for that
county. One emanates from La- ,
Grange, another comes from West
Point, and a third from Hogans-
ville. \
Mr. James Staten, Jr., showed'us
a huge lemon several days ago,
grown on his cousin’s grove in
Orange county, Florida, which
weighed six pounds and ten ounceq,
and measured twenty-five inches in
circumference. The largest shad
dock was small beside it
GENERAL NEWS.
Negro Blood la Her Veins.
Before the war, in Hart county, a
White woman wanted to marry a
mulatto, but to do so had to first
swear that; she had negro blood in
ber>vein>. The negro opened an
artery in his arm, when the white
woman drank of his warm blood.
Then going to a magistrate over the
riyerin South Carolina, she. took
thet;required oath and the couple
were duly married. Some of tlie
Mulberries are said to make a
good crop, if planted in the light ot
the moon.
Rutabaga turnips should not be
planted at this season of the year.
They are for the cow, and the cow
is non est.
Radishes could be planted with
impunity, and eaten the same way.
Beef steak and onions are good
later on, especially for young men
going to see their sweethearts.
If the garden is well broken and
the seeds' have been bought. and
paid for, a few more Irish potatoes
could be safely put in. Eatables
will be scarce next summer.
It is the time to commence pre
paring cold shoulder and cracker
lash for summer visitors.
Dried apples may not be in. the
way of gardening, but they are
good to have when your old uncles
and aunts come early in the spring.
PToMMUm in Gwinastt.
Ironists up to the present time are
pot very well organized, and the
whiskey men, aie doing everything
in their power’to win the race. The
in thpir power to w»n
only ,w«Y$o.'Whip the fight, is for
the prohibitists to organize thor-
bly and go to wort. By this
ougl
means they may accomplish the de-
sirctf reatma. w, -'g-
John
I in'
Glrn Ball.
„ > hasbeen confin
Augusta ^’jail for some
Mar: ‘ Mr. Young
the brother-in-law of'Mr. Sikes, be
came his bondsinan.. The bond is
perfectly good, as Mr. Youngblood
is worth 'about twenty thousand
dollars.
To Watermelon Kaisers.
Cartersville American: Mr. Phil-
p King furnishes the following nov
el plan of promoting the growth of
watermelons: Dig a hole in the
ground a short distance, from the
young melon, place in the hole an
old-vessel that will hold water, and
keep it filled. Place a ball of yarn
in this vessel of wfter, carry the end
of the thread to the stem from which
the melon grows, split the stem and
put the thread through it It the
vessel is kept full of water, the
thread will; convey enough moisture
to the melon to keep it growing,
and the. melon ’ will not ripen unit 1
the string is reraoved or cut off.
Ten thousane miners are on strike .
in Pennsylvania. '
France is discussing the question
of an advance to Pekin. t
The bill, making gambling a fel
ony, has been defeated in Texas.
Some of the California farmers
are feeding their hogs on grapes and
figs. '•
The Fenians, Stephens, Davis
and Leroy, have been sent out of
France into Belgium.
The departments are still besieged
by office-seekers, but they obtain
very little encouragement
Memorial services in honor of ■,
General Gordon were held in sever
al English cathedrals yesterday.
Secretary Manning has reduced
the iorce in the Treasury Depart
ment by dismissing forty-two per
sons.
Indications go to show that the
triking railroad men will carry
their point. Mr. Gould’s lieutenants'
are weakening.
Ex-Secretary of the Treasur
Windom would put enough silver in .
the dollar to make it equal in value
to the gold dollar. ,
Secretary Whitney has ordered
three American cruisers to repair to
Central American waters -to pre
serve the autonomy of the repub
lics.
The Connecticut House of Rep- -
resentatives passed a bill permitting .
women to vote in any school district
meeting or „be elected on school
boards.
The Afghan war clouds have
been temporarily disseminated. Mr.
Gladstone announces in the House
of Commons yesterday that the ad
vance of the Russian and Afghan
forces would be stopped.
You can get strawberries now lor
25 cents a quart; but you will-have
to go to Fairbanks, Fla., to get them.
That’s about the way things go. We'
all know there is a balm at Gilead—
boat loads of'it—but the gall of it is
to get to Gilead.—Burdette.
* The Arkansas wheat crops have
been ruined by the alternate freez
ing and thawing of the past month.
' "The - Episcopal church ot St.
James, T corner of Madison • avenue
URHY GANTT.
No man has won more hearts'
among the people, of Elbert county
than T. L. Gantt, of the Banner-
Watchman. When he had won
the fight in Clarke, the prohibition
ists of Elbert, with one voice, said:
“Gantt must be with us.” On Fti
day evening Mr. Gantt arrived. A
large delegation of citizens met him
at the depot jyith a brass band: He
was escorted into the town, where
he was greeted with cheers. Wher
ever he went Mr. Gantt put in some
fine licks, and_ made many most val
uable suggestmns at the request of
the Executive Committee. Mr.
Gantt • is - a»born campaigner ' and
newspaper man.—Elberton Leader
and Seventy-first street, New York,.
which cost $275,000,' was dedicated.'
recently.
Rigid economy is the rule in all
the government depirtmehts; sine
cures are being abolished,' and the
carriage horses heretofore used by
prominent officials are being sold.
A derision by'Judge Colt bojds
the stockholders of. the wrecked
Pacific Natiotaa} iBank, ol Boston,
liable to pay a second assessment of
100 per cent making their loss near-
ly $3,ooqvoock. ‘l 1 ’
Gen. James S. Whitney; father
of Secretary of the Navy, W. C.
Whitney, was for several yeats su
perintendent of the Springfield ar
mory, and was also collector of the
port of Boston.
*.ZobehrPacha, the ex-slave king,
whom Gordon wished to be restored
to power in thei:Soudan, .has been
arrested for treason by the Khedive’s
government, and is on board a Brit
ish frigate bound for Cyprus.
'