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THE ATHENS WEEKLY BANNER
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I r«BKelidatrd with the
[ Athena Bnnnrr, Bat. 1831.
ATHENS; GA., TUESDAY MORNING^ JANUARY 27; 1891.
VO!,. .59—NO. 10
HAHRiSON ON VETO POWER.
It is told by the Washington cor
respondent to the New York Tri-
Nido that when questioned upon Lis
conception of the veto power, Presi
dent Harrison said: *• I often sign
b ill„ passed by Congress for which I
wou ld not have voted if in Congress.
1 hold that it is not sufficient for a
President to be opposed to a mea«
tone to venture to interpose bis veto.
I bdieve the veto-power is only pro
perly exercised when some act hsB
been done by Congress without sufU
tic cut deliberation or care, or where
some manifest errr has been com»
inittcd. I know that a different view
has prevailed at times, and that the
vetoes have multiplied within recent
veiM . But I do not sec that the
We don’t want, nays the New York
Herald, the bloody scenes of recon*
strnction days repeated. We now
have pesce within our borders. The
whiles of the South are developing
their own resources. The negroes
are being slowly prepared for the
duties of citizenship. Everything is
moving along serenely, and the pro
mise of the future is brighter than
ever before. We have no wish to
exchange that condition ef affairs
tor chaos. As we would not fora
moment tolerate the intervention of
Federal troops in New York, so we
declare that troops shall not be sent
to Richmond or Charleston. We can
take care of our own State affairs, and
stand ready to tell Mr. Harrison or
j any other President to .keep his
President has any right to set up hands off. There is no reason why
MR. GANTT’S RETIREMENT FROM | stockholders as he well knew and the
THE BANNER.
his judgment against the manifest
will of C 'Ugress. when that will has
been expressed in a thoroughly de
liberate manner, after careful cono
sideration of the subject, and where
no manifest error or encroachment
upon constitutional rights has been
made ”
Now this gives President Harrison
cl, ar away. It shows that he has a
low conception of the dignity and
impoitarfce of the office of President
of these Uuiteil Slates—in other
worii», that he concedes-with humble
good-will that he is a figure bead.
The Memphis Appeals Avalanche
very correctly says: “if this view bs
errect, the office of President has
not neatly the dignity or importance
that the peopl^ supposed it had
The Constitution says that all bills
shall be submitted to the President
for his approval, and, in order to
emphasize the presidential power,
further declares that a twoothirds
v ue is necessary to override h,im
It is dear 'hit the makers of the
C institution regarded the President
as a highly important official,ag linst
whom C ingress could not # ruo with
impunity. Being charged with the'
execution of the laws and with »h«
dtt y of making suggestions to Con
gress,'lie founders oftue government
gave him power to assert his will in
a formidable manner. They «ti
d< ully desired that be prove a posi
live rather than a negative quantity.
Hu President Harrison, evidently
with a desire to lake life as easily as
possible, m I, mayhap to soothe his
couscience, prefers to think the
President merely a clerk with the
power of certification. Andrew Jack-
son did not regard the PrestiK nt as
that kind of c Ulcer. Neither 'did
a^y of the others up to Harrison the
Second’s lime It is probably, ot
course, that Mi. Harrison is endeav
oring tr reconcile himself to an
approval of the free coinage bill, to
which he is really oppose!. He is a
very curious sort of President, in-
devd, bat fortunately for the country
he is not for long. 1 he country in
1892 will show that it prefers a
President who signs bills out of au
honest, sincere and intelligent con*
victiou that they will make good
1 w ."
S.»uth Carolina should be treated
otherwise than New York is treated
Therefore Democratic senators and
a few among the Republicans are try
ing to render the passage of the force
bill impossible. If they fail, after
Itavit g done their utmost, they will
still have the consciousne -s that they
did what they could to avert the in
evitable disaster.
Mr. T. L. Gantt’s connection with
The Banner as editor having been
lately discontinued and an abusive arti
cle having appeared over his signature
giving, what he calls, the reasons for
that action, the board of directors deem
it proper to make to the public this
reply. ■' ,
With his charges against some of the
individuals connected with the paper,of
course we have nothing to do, uor do
we propose to indulge in any charges
against him, bnt to give a short, digni
fied and business like statement of the
case.
On the 1st of December 1889, the Ban
ner-Watchman, owned by Mr. Gantt,
and The Athens Chronicle, owned . by
Messrs. Stone &. Christy, were, by these
gentlemen, consolidated into a stock
company, the balance of the stock being
taken largely by the business men of
Athens and the farmers of the adjacent
country. Mr. Gantt was the owner of
one-fifth of the capital stock. At the
suggestion of himself and Mr. Slone a
SLAPPED HER FACE.
Marshall Horne, a Lunatic, Deals
Very Ungallant Blow.
The white man, Marshall Horne, who
was recently confined in the Clarke
county jail and who secured his release
on the condition that his mother
would send him to the country, is still
a disturbing element.
Horne, after his release, accosted
Mrs. Snipe, in East Athens, and asked
her for his pist >1. On that lady’s, de
claring her "ignorance of the wherea
bouts of his weapon, he dealt her a
stinging blow on the face.
This man’s mind is in such a de
ranged condition that he should be
confined until room can be made for
him in theasyluni.
If WAS RUMORED
That Two Spans of the Q., C. & N
Bridge Across the Savannah Had
Fallen.
Vagne rumors were afloat yesterday
that two spans ef the new bridge on the
G., C. A N. in progress of construction
across the Savannah river had fallen
The cause assigned was heavy water.
The Savannah is up considerably from
the rains that have fallen recently and
we suppose the incomplete condition of
the spans caused them to yield to the
increased pressure of the water. The
prevailing impression doesn’t accord
much credence to these rumors though
they may be true.
MR. GANTT RETURNS.
election was held this year in precisely |
the same way.
Mr. Gautt intimates that the failure |
to re-elect him will take from bis fam
ily their “daily bread” when he boasts I
in private that he can always make by j
his pen more than we were able to pay,
but whether be could or not, I** I
Banker is not carried on as a charita- |
ble institution and no appeal was
made to help Mr. Gantt as an object of I
charity. Moreover, Mr. Gantt, as is
well known to the people of Athens,
resides on real estate which cost him.ten
thousand dollars and hit* recently sold I
other real estate for more than six
thousand dollars and he has property in
Athens which he thinks will yield him ]
an income sufficient to support him.
The business manager, Mr. Flanigen, I
as above stated, was selected by the
board at the earnest solicitation of Mr.
Gantt, and throughout the year Mr.
Gantt has asserted time and time again |
that no better man could be found for I
the position. The business, manager
CONFEDERATION-
PLAUSOUTLINED By A COMMIT
TEE AT WASHINGTON.
A BAD WRECK.
board of directors was selected and I haa nothing to do with the politics of |
the only change ever made in the Board I tbe P a P* r > but 11 he had » we ret * T
was the substitution of Mr. Burnett in
Mr. Gantt’s own editorials in which be
the place of Mr. Geo. T. Murrell, who | wa rmly eulogised Mr. Flanigen’s well
known democracy. Mir. Flanigen,
since early youth, has become a citizen
of Athens, identified with its people and
was uuable to serve. At the first meet
ing of the Board Mr. Gantt was employ
ed as editor A a given salary for' One
year ending December 1890, and at his I ito int * rertB » and if the boanThas made
suggestion Mr. Flanigen was made Bus- a mistafce in 8e, « 5tin * bim ’ < w ‘ ,iuh ^ey
iness Manager, It was further agreed den » ^mistake is largely attributa-
that Mr Gantt should have the power
to employ such assistance as be needed
ble to Mr. Gantt.
Mr- Gantt is oorrect in the statement
in the editorial department and have en- | tflat prohibition nad nothing to do with
the change in the editorial manage
ment. The Board of Directors are
themselves divided on the question.
tire control of what appeared in the pa
mper without any attempt te control his
1 own views
After a few months of service Mr.
Gantt took the position that his health
would not permit bis working at night
on the paper and his supervision of the
work of the local editor. At his request,
Mr. Flanigen undertook, as far as his
Mr. Gantt has within the last year been
[ on both sides of the question and the
Board is not a present advised which
i side he advocates.
The Board of Directors eiqpbatically
&• Meeting la Conformity 'With tbo
Ocala Conference—Terrell of Texas Made
Chairman and Gantt of Georgia Seer*,
tary—The Confederation of the Different
Labor Orders Effected.
Washington, Jon. 24.—There was no
meeting in the morning of the repre
sentatives of the committee on confeder
ation of the National {Farmers’ Alliance
and Industrial Union, on account of the
non-arrival of 6ome of the delegates.
Late in the afternoon some' of the
missing delegates arrived, and a meeting
was held to discuss the objects for which
they were called together. '
The meeting of the committee is sim
ply in conformity with the instructions
of the Ocala conference. Grand Master
Workman Powderly and his executive
committee have arrived.
Organization was perfected by the
election of Ben Terre ll of Texas, as chair-
mau, and G. T. Gantt, of Georgia, as
secretary.
The organizations represented are the
Knights of Lattor, the ttolored Farmer/
Alliance, the National Farmers’ Alliance,
Farmer/ Union and the Citizens’ Alli
ance. Representatives from three other
organizations are expected.
A committee on business was appoint
ed, consisting of Livingston of Georgia,
Wright of Pennsylvania, Humphreys of
Texas, and Wild of Washington city.
After a long discussion,, a formal
agreement looking to the.confederation
of the different organizations was
Soached on'the following basis:
First—A confederation.
Second—A joint Committee on Con
federation'of tire from each organization,
who shall represent this confederation.
Third—Each organization shall he en
titled to as many votes as it iias men.*
bers, who are legal voters in a State or
fta ional election.
Fourth—The St. Louis platform shall
be the basis.
Fifth—Each shall stand pledged to as
sist, when jiossible, in ail local efforts to
better the condition of our people.
Sixth—Fraternal delegates or corre
spondence shall never be denied to one
by the other as long as the confedera
tion exists.
Seventh—The joint Committee on
Confederation shall hare the power, by
a majority vote, to admit other organi
zations with similar objects upon appli
cation.
Eighth—When plans are agreed upon
by the joint Committee ou Confedera-
assert that Mr. Gantt’s advocacy of
other duties would allow, to select and A H ,ance principles had no sort of infln- (j on f or mutual co-operation, each or-
aid ip the supervision of the local re . euce upon their action. The honesty | ganizatioa shall be beund to support
porter, and the Board supposed, until
the appearance of bis card, that it was
and truthfulness of tbeTHrectors them
selves need not be appealed to,to sustain 1
this statement—the outside facts sub
said plans fully and cheerfully.
Ninth—Expenses accruing on account
of the joint Committee on Confederation
shall be defrayed by their respective or-
<» « carry “• »" I lUnUot. them. If hi, .spoos.l ef Alii- I fSC*™’ “ ^
G„„„ advertis S'2tZ
A few weeks ago Mr. Gantt advertis I tbe Q oar( j Q f Directors Jhey would long such by-laws for the government of the
edfor sale at public outcry on the I ^ gouJ(ht a of hiacoa _ | joint committee as they may deem be^t
streets of Athens, his entire interest in nection * itb paper as editor;
the paper and the day before the time whereaB| they made ^ complaint to
Augusta’s gay week was a brilliant
success.
Sleet, rain, ice—whew ! This is
winter in dead earnest.
Few persons kuow that the State
University has a most interesting
museum.,
There was a time when the United
States Senate had some dignity and
some power of intellect.
He Speaks of Building a New Hotel
for Athens—He Is WeU and Happy.
Mr. T. Larry Gantt was iw Athens
yesterday.
Mr. Gantt is just back from his visit
to Atlanta, Washington and New York
where has been arranging the* pur
chase of the majority of stock in the
Sou them Alliance Farmer.
He says the thing is fixed and talks
most cheerfully about his future plans.
He will do the greatest part of the edi
torial work for the Alliance Farmer
and Harry Brown will assist him, be
sides running around a great deal ma
king Alliance speeches and the like.
I am going to build a hotel for
Athens” said Colonel Gantt, “and its
going to be a Sandy, too. I have al
ready given out the plans for tfce build
ing. It will be a three story building
ing with twenty rooms, with every ap
pointment common to the best hotels of
the land.”
There’ll be two stores under the
hotel.”
The Colonel was never looking better
and has thoroughly recover, d from his
late illness. He will spend muql^of his
future time in Athens.
Pencil Xn His Eve.
New Yoke, Jan. 24.—Four-year-old
ills etockthus severing his connection j but j et continue in the service for I foot-stool in the dining room, with a
, ■ .. .. .. . I slate in his lap and a slate pencil in his
nearly two months after the time for J ^ j n the afternoon. His mother
which he had.been employed had ex
pired. Moreover when his successor
was chosen the Board of Directors went
with the paper as a stock
holder and having no further I
interest in its financial success. He as
serted time and again that he would
All honor to the Grady Cadets,
Atlanta’s gallant company. Their
generosity is only exceeded by that
of him for whom they are named.
It does seem that the country is
gradually forgetting Mr. Cleveland
for Mr. Hill. Cleveland went wrong
on the silver question,and that seems
to have settled his haa*\
Major Fitzsimmons and Col. Demp
sey have shaken bands over the
bloody chasm, and Major Fitzsim
mons says be will challenge the
world’s champion next time.
The Courier-Journal says: As
the sister of the dead King of the
Sandwich Islands is married to an
Englishman, and Englishmen are
said to rule their wives, the Island
will come very near to having an
English King.
The Tribunesof-Rome says tha
Senator David Bennett Hill, of New
York, is still a presidential possibil
ty. Iudced, be is a presidential pro*
liability. 1 he country might go for
ther and fare worse, for Senator Da.
Vld Bt nnett Hill is » democrat.
conduct the paper after his own fashion I j nt0 tbe editorial department of the At-
if it lost to the stockholders every cent | , anta CoD8tUut ion, a paper recognized
of their investment. For more than
half of the last year Mr. ‘Gantt’s only
work on the paper was to write one or
two columns of editorial matter and be
declined to do .any work in the way of
local or general new. The financial
condition of the paper did not author
ize the employment of two editors and.it I
as a matter of necessity with the paper |
that an editor-in-chief should be selec
ted whf would overlook, correct and
guide the work of fibe entire paper. I g ANNER 8 hall always be the firm friend
When Mr. Gannt’s contract expired, I and cbam pj 0n of the alliance and all
December 1st, 1890, he was at perfect I otber principles and measures looking
liberty to make any other contract be tbe re jj e f an d improvement of the ag
saw proper and the Board had the like ^cultural and material interests of the
right. He made no application to the I coun j ;r y. There can be no permanent
Board of Directors for a renewal of the I and luting prosperity save that wrought
contract or a continuaueq of the ser- | by tbe Ellers of the soil; tradeincreases
HE BRANDISHED A KNIFE.
Sut he Will Spend Some Time In Da
ranee Vile.
Will Lay, a white man, an attaelte
on the G., C. & N. road, proceeded u>
paint the town red last night much to
the dismay of all quiet citizens.
His first manoeuvres were at the store
of Mr. Autry, near the upper bridge,
where he made himself peculiarly unde
sirable.
He next went to some negro tene
ment houses on the hill in the vicinity
of the G., C. & N. cut, and locking
some negro workmen up in an old
shanty he began to flourish an ugly
looking knife in semi-circles around
bis bead.
The officers appeared on the scene
sbout this time and Policeman McKie
grasped him aronnd the waist, while
Policeman Moon fitted a pair of hand
cuffs on his arm,
It was with the greatrst difficulty
that be was taken to the lockup where
he now is.
He was crazy from drink and created
considerable disturbance.
His Honor will give him a bearing on
Monday and decide on the merits of his
case. •
And Now Comes a Drug 1 rust.
Special by News Telegram Association.
Detroit, Mich., Jan. 24.—A ding
trust with a proposed capital of several
millions is a matter which it it is re
ported has been submitted to some of
Detroit’s wholesale drug manufacturers
recently by promoters, from New Yot k
representing capitalists tiom both New
York and London.
called to him. from the front room, aud
he ran to her, holding the pencil in his
hand. He stumbled and fell over the
sill of the parlor fioor, and the pencil
penetrated the brain through the inner
corner of the right eye, producing death
in a short time.
A Passenger and a Freight Collide on
the Central.
Atlanta, .Jan. 23— (Special).—A
bad wreck occurred on the Cent! al at
Clarks’ Cove, seven miles from Atlanta,
at 2:25 this afternoon. -The passenger
train left here for Macon at 2:15. At
the point of- accident a switch engine
and eight cars attached, loaded with
guailo, was standing on the sidetrack.
The switch was displaced, and passen
ger going forty ifiiles ' an hour crashed
into this. Passeuger engineer, Ed
.Waterhouse, stuck to his engine, having
just enough time to reverse the lever
and jam on the brakes. He wasjthrown
into the air, falling between the boiler
of the epgtne and the front of the next
car. rfe was scalded on the leg and
thigh and his head jyas badly bruised.
Fireman J. JR. Prater jumped, escaping
with left band and-arm sprained, and
severely bruised. Both engines
were completely demolished. The
roof of the passenger car
was torn oft' entirely and hurled
against a telegraph pole several feet
away, breaking it down.
The engineer and fireman jumped in
time to save their lives.
Two freight cars were thrown down
the embankment and the passenger mail
car derailed.
Conductor Ennis, of the passenger,
w'as thrown against a seat and his knee
joint painfully injured.
Henry Beatie, a negro train hand,was
badly bruised.
George A. All, of Hampton, Ga., was
thrown against the stove and injured
about the bead and chest
Rev. C. E. Davis, of Atlanta, was se
erely bruised about the chest. Nobody
injured fatally.
The track was not torn up,but will be
blocked until morning.
INGALLS ON THE FIELD.
Kansas Senator Leads His Own Fight,
Special by News Telegram Ass ciation.
Topeka, Kan., Jan. 24.—Senator In
galls arrived in the city last night, and
although it was then midnight a num
ber of the leading republicans were*at
the Copeland hotel waiting.
The town waa swarming with old sol
diers, who have appeared for the pur
pose of working upon their fifty com
rades in the-legislature, and it is plainly
apparent that a last determined effort is
going to be made in behalt of Ingalls
Elder held a caucus of his followers
last evening and twenty-seven AUi
ance members pledged their unfailing
allegiance to him. Elder by'no means
considers himself defeated and ts pre
pared to squander a few of bis bard
arned dollars upon his prospects.
Col. Harris can control to-day thirty-
five votes, including the straight demo
trutic contingent, and there is no ques
Hon chat his candidacy meets with fa
vor among the more' conservative of
the Alliance. However the wholesale
invasion of the grand army set upon
the scene has somewhat upset calcula
tions, aud uo one can now tell what
day will bring forth as the pressure
bearing upon the opposition is almost
superb a man.
Religious Department.
as in full sympathy with the Alliance.
Again, the new editor, Mr. Crawford, j
was asked by the Board his views on
this subject before his election and^ie
was elected after he bad assured the |
Board that his sympathies were j
with the Alliance and bis be-1
lief • in its. principles was
no less pronounced and emphatic than
Mr. Gantt’s. In this connection the
Board of Directors desire to say th it the I
Money Made Her Crazy
Evansville, Iud., Jan. 24.—Mrs. Eliz
abeth Krone, an old German woman
committed suicide by jumping into a
cistern. She worried over financial mat
ters till she iost- her reason, and believed
that she would be sent to the poor house.
Her husband died recently, leaving ber
and two children an estate valued at
110,000.
Cheering Newi Indeed,
Paris, Jan. 24.—The Siecle states that
Mr. Wm. O’Brien has received from Ar
nold Morley, the Liberal whip on the
part of Gladstone and bis colleagues,
such guarantees for a measure of home
rule as. are sufficient to meet the condi
tions upon which Parnell will retire
from the leadership of the Irish parlia
mentary party. •
Freight Manager Mack Hu Resigned.
Atlanta, Jan. 24.—Mr. E. P. Black,
who lias been with the Western and At
lantic railroad since Governor Brown
s | - i and his associates leased it, twenty years
vice but .announced, without secrecy, I wealth and glory of the country but ago, as freight manager, * has resigned,
that he hi.il been offered and thought of ^ refd wealth and 8tamina muse ^ Mr^L >. Jackson, of Nashville, is his
accepting connection with another pa- I {rQm prosperou8 agric alt U re.
per which tl,e Board thought would | Adoptin<? the motto of the A]nance ,
not leave his undivided attention to
the interests of The Banner. For
“measures, not men” shall guide the
policy of The Banner. We ask the
the first four, months, during I th e]?ap e rin thofntffre
which time Mr. Gantt gave his entire by itg Qwu coljmn8 and not by I county, GaTi the boy will be sent back
attention and interest to the paper, the ^ made by U3 or by others i Walton ' . ■ -d * ■-
circulation of the daily and weekly
, il rrested on a Bench Warrant.
Atlanta, Jan. 24.—Charlie Sigmore,
a young white hoy, was arrested in this
city, charged with disturbing Divine
worship by smoking and drinking. He
is the son qf a police officer in Walton
showed a gratifying increase, whereas, ]
for the last eight months the increase |
was scarcely perceptible.
Mr. Gantt complains that he was
summarily dismissed by tb% Board j
without conference with the stockhold- |
ers. So far frbm this being accurate,
Ht was not dismissed at all. His term
of employment bad expired nearly two
months before action was taken by the I A mostdangerous thing is to allow
..... I catarrh to run on. Use at once Old.
Board to fill the vacancy. There was I Catarrh Cure and get well.
nobody to turn out«r. dismiss but an Price only 25 cents,
office to be filled by an election and the I The “baby’s best friend” is Dr. Bull’s
Respectfully,
George Dudj-ey Thomas,
President.
C. G. Talmadge,
W. D. O’Fabrell,
E. R. Hodgson,
M. MyehP, *
j W. B. Burnett,
Directors.
The Defaulting Cashier,
Atlanta, Jan. 24.-‘-{Special.]—J. E
Morris, the absconding cashier, is back
in Atlanta again.
He arrived this morning in charge of
Officer Jesse Jordan, and for the pres
ent is making his headquarters at the
station house.
He was arrested in New Orleans last
Tuesday
Morris will not talk until advised by
hie lawyers.
He was brought back from New Or
leans on the charge of larceny after
Dr. C.’W. LANE, Editor.
FROM TALMAGE.
•ATLANTA AND WEST END
Are Discussing the Matter of Annexa
tion.
Atlanta, January 23.—[Special.—
There seems at last a probability that
West End will consent to become a
part of Atlanta;
About a year ago the people of that
delightful little town voted down a prop
osition to become a part of the city,
their objection being that Atlanta
wanted the earth. That election, if I
remember right, was brought about by
an act of the legislature and some of
the opposition wa6 due to Atlanta’s
attitude of trying to force them in.
Our friends at West- end are,
you must know, decidedly inde
pendent. They constitute a
separate corporation and they hold the
whole mater of coming in in their own
hands. They propose,. therefore, to
dictate the terms -of the coalition—or
absorption. The advocates of the an
nexation have started onadifferent lay.
Mayor Hemphill is at the back of.the
movement. His plan is to have a com
mittee of six Atlanta gentlemen and six-
West Eaders get together ;and try to
agree upon some terms that will, suit ail
concerned. The Atlanta committee
has been appointed. Mayor Nelms, of
West End, is favorable to this arrange
ment and will call th5 West End coun
cil together m a few days.
The outlook for annexation is decid
edly good. ‘
A Forger Assemblyman.
Nyack, Jan. 24.—Democrats here as
sert that Frank If. Demarest will re
sign this week as a member of the as
sembly. Thomas Finnegan, a Haver
Straw, beer bottler, who was beaten by
Demarest by one vote in the nomi
hating convention, wants to fill bis
chair at . Albany. Ex-Assemblyman
trust, a true bill having been found iDiokey is also said to be'a candidate. If
against him by the grand jury.
A snug reward was offered for his
proceeded to tteYoo '^|2S^»SKS«S?SS‘ii: V***,*?*.^ *r***‘.
Who would give his entire time and tal- ic, diarrheea/ete. charges against ^im, which the^ New
ent to the service of the paper. This I
action was reported to the stockholders
TO HOLD YOUR COTTON.
■ ... . We have plenty of room in onr flrst-
m convention a hour later, there was I c i aBg covered warehouse. We are ad- |
no dissent and the same board was re-1 vanning liberally on cotton instore;
.,*.*:*,*.,*i» u„ our charges are most reasonable. We
elected unan o sly. Mr. -Gantt *was j ^j ve j nd ivldual personal attention to
elected editor a year ago by the Board
of Directors in accordance with the By
laws without consultation with the
weighing and selling cotton. Consign
raents solicited.
Davison & Fargo* Cotton Factors,
739 Reynolds St. (next to Cotton Ex
change) Augusta, Ga. wkSc
Orleans official will get for capturing
him. .
During the morning Captain Clifford
Andereon, who will prosecute him.
callen to see him and had a long talk
with bnp* *
Morris will endeavor to'secure the
seivices of Judge Dorwsy,
Finnegan runs he will probably be op
posed by Ex-Assemblyman Torjpkins
AN OVERSTOCK OF STOCK. -
.Holman & Nicoll have .every pen full
of mules and horses and. new lots ar
riving daily. They are doing a tremen
dous rushing business and -can meet
anybody’s wants lor farm, town or city
use. * Yesterday they received a car of
extra floe brood mares, ail of them well
broke and in good order. Tbey.haye
two hundred head of mules fresh from
the West, all of them ready and willing
The many friends of Mr. Hiram
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TOO CHEAP.
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NEW TORE OBSERVER.
Rats may; sink a ship. One lucifer
ma’fib may send destruction through a
bldck of 'siore-Uouses. Catherine de Med
ici g >t her death from smelling a poison
ous rose. Oolumhue, by stopping and ask-
ng for a piece of bread and a drink of
water at a Fracciscau convent, wan lead to
the discovery'Of a new world. And there
is an intimate connection between trifles
and immensities, between nothings and
everything8.
We h ive plenty of state, ins’pid, lelha*-
gic, balr-and-bulf re'iaious lile The
Church needs more caloric. The stove
must have the damper open and the grate
shaken ; and the dull heap of darkness
must bicom: a bright illumination.
it: —
A dissipated life soon stops. The ma
chinery of life is so delicate that it will
not endure much trifling. As the herds
man throws a p< ck of corn to the swine to
be crunched a d devoured, so di-sipatiou
is throwing the bod es and souls of men,
by the scores, into the maw of death.
Faith in to-morrow, instead of Christ, is
S tUn's own muse for man’s perdition —
Cheevtr.
Preserving unbelief is the only sin that
wiH prove the ruin* of a soul.—Dr. Cold
stream,
Man’s prayer and God’s mercy are like
wo buckets ia a wed—while one ascends
the other, descends,
ON TRUTHFULNESS.
“Above *11 things, tell no untruth, no
notin triflts. Toe customs ef yi; is
uauzhte, an 1 let yit not shuffle yaw that
for a time the hearers take it tor trn he,for .
after yii will be known as vit is, to your ‘
shame. From a letter of Sir Henry Sid-.
uey’s to his little Puiilq pe. *
Jennie and I were renting together the
life of Sir Puilip Sidney, and we camvto .i
the passage which 1 have quoted above in
a quaint, ana beautiful letter which was
written to Sir Puilip when he was: a
iittle boy at school by his father. When
I had rend to the end ot the sentence I
paused. y
“1 wish," said I> “that I-could print that
sentence in letters of gold upon the walls
of every school mom in the land. I wish
I could tell it to every boy and girl whom
1 know, and make them teel its force.”
“Why,” 8aid Jennie in a surprised way.
‘D i you think that boys and gilds are so
untruthful?”
“I am sorry to say wP I answered, '‘but
I think a good many of them are not per
fectly truthful.”
•*I uever told a lie in my life." said Jen
nie proudly, and I know plenty of other
tiiria wuo m-yt-r did, either.”
“I am sure, Jennie," I answered, “that
J you discovered that you had made a
mis-staL-imunt about anything .you would
at once correct i< ( but was if not you who *
gave M.iggie Upjohn no less thao five cor
rect dates in her history examination, and
helped her on two examples, and let’her
copy from your defininions beside?" . i
“ iVelli ’said Jennie, “yes, 1 did, but I
don’t call that anything.” ‘
“Did Mrs. Amersiey know it?" I then
asked,.
“Of course not."
“•Would' Sife have' allowed Maggie’s ex- *
ami nation to pass if she had?” . ,.
“Certtiiuly not,” answered Jennie, “I ’see .
what you are aiming at, Miss Margaret; of
course I would not accept any hej^ on my,
examination, but the girls would have
thongiit me awfully mean if I bad refused .
to help Ma'gie." . ,
• Tioit is where a reboot girl’s code of
morals is often, defective,” said I. “You't
helped Maggie to do what you kne.v to be
rung, and what you would not do your
self, because the girls would think yon
mean if you didq’t. To put it in plain.
English, you helped Maggie, todteeive
your teacher, and what is that but untruth-
tuluess? liis not always that one can
trace the consequences of such a deceit,
but in this case the effect is very plain.
Miggie did not gain her pr-itno.ion by .hon
est work, and therefore she . will not be'
able to k< ep her - position in ber Class.
Mrs. Amersiey was speaking to me of-her^
yesterday. S ie said Maggie bad tieen so
idle that she was surprised at h er being
able to win a promotion, and that site wca
evidently unable to. keep her new position
now that she had it, and she should be
obliged to put ber back where she was be-,
fore. That will be a just punishment for
Maggie; but,” said, pausing and speakibg
gently, “how will the girl who helped her
to commit the fraud be puniahed?”-G’hurch
Year.
A preacher of the gospel bad gonedbjvfi
into a coal mine, during the noon hour, to - r
tell the miners of that grace add truth
which came by Jesus CbrisL -After telling
them the simple story qf God’s love to lost
sinners—man’s sfate and God’s remedy—h
full and 7 free salvation offered—the timn
came for the men to resume work, and tbo
lireacher came back to the shaft to ascend
i; i the world again. Meeting the foreman,
he asked him what be- tbought'Gf God’s
salvation. The man replied: . .
Ob, it’s tdo che»p. ' 1 cannot believe' in
such a religion as. that.” • • , ' ,J
Without an immediate answer to bis re*
mark, therpt'eacher asked r: f t
“How do you get out of this place?” , >
“Simply by getting into the cage,” was
the reply. * ; - 1 * ’
. “Does if take , vet y long to get to the
,. ,
^Oh; no; only a’ few seconds ”
“W^ll, that is very easy and simple; bnt
do you nqt neefi to help ■ raise yourself ?”
asked the'preacher. ‘ .it ..
Of cdurse not,” replied the miner: “4*
I' havq said, you- have nothing to do but
get into the cage.” .
' * But what about tbe people who sunk
the.shaft and perfected all this arrange
ment ? Was there much labor or expense
about it?” ' *' *' ;i - i8
“Indeed,-yes ; that was a laborious and
expensive work. Tue .shaft , is eighteen
hundred feet deep; hnd it - was suok-dt a
great est to the proprietpr; but it is opr
only way out, and , Without it we should
never be able to get to the surface.”
■i “Ju*t so. And when G-id tells you that
whosoever believeth on the Son ,of Gdd .
b»th everlasting life, you at once sUV,
•Toocbesnl too cheap!—forgetting . that
God’s wnigt to bring you and; others out of
the pit of destruction and death was ac
complished at a vast cost, the: price being
the death of his ow;n Sou.’’—B tplisiTeach*
er . ' '..’.“viifi®
• - ‘ : O'.' ."i! I o
The many frietlds.in Atpe.ns of Mr. Al-
bin Dearing will be pleased to learn , of
bis success in Savannah, where he d*
go to work ip earnest for the next crop, embarked into tbe cotton business,
ag-