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Cartertxille. da.
DOCTOR AMO MRS. W. H. FELTON.
MAY 14, 1885.
Ocr thanks are due to C. C. Jones, jr.,
L. L. I)., for a copy of his very able ad
dress before the Georgia Bar Association,
at their annual meeting in Atlanta, on
the 14th of August, 1884.
Cartersvili.k had an old-fashioned
game of “town ball,” on yesterday, in
which no man under forty years of age
was allowed to participate. If it had
been a game for women over forty years
of age, the attendance would have been
smaller than it doubtless was. Women
are seldom that old.—Albany News and
Advertiser.
Maxhku,, the murderer of Preller,
whose body he concealed in a trunk in
the city of St. Louis, has been arrested
in Auckland, New Zealand. The mur
dered man Preller, was a fine scholar,
and a superior musician. He spent two
years in Leipsic schools cultivating his
musical talent, and was wealthy as to
this world’s goods. Maxwell has en
gaged counsel and prepared to fight for
his life in the courts.
Major-Genera i. Winfihi.d S. Han
cock is in Atlanta selecting a site for a
military post. This gallant soldier and
distinguished citizen of the United
States weighs 300 pounds and is more
than six feet high. His hair is almost as
white as snow, and his eyes are bright,
clear and gay. He wore a citizen’s dress
and a black felt hat. His dress is very
becoming to his quiet, dignified manner.
The Atlanta people will give him an in
formal banquet on Tuesday evening
when the citizens will be able to meet
the distinguished gentlemen for whom
Georgia cast an overwhelming vote in
1880.
The Empress of Russia nee the Prin
cess Dagmar of Denmark, is said to be
devotedly attached co her sister, the
Princess Alexandra of Wales. She is
painfully anxious to preserve the peace
between Russia and England. The Duke
of Edinburgh, who married the sister of
the Czar ot Russia, made her arrange
ments to go to one of the neutral king
doms of Europe until the war was over.
According to these statements it is pre
sumable that kings, queens and royal
families are people with Instincts similar
to those of uncrowned heads and com
mon people. For the womens’ sake,
let’s hpye nea<p. n |r ~ ■ n
P khidsnt Cleveland is doing well. So far
we cordially approve of bis administration. He
may have appointed a few improper men to of
fice but our surprise is that our presidents do
not make more mistakes than they do in this di
rection, dependent as they are almest entirely
uuett the recommendation of particular friends
of the applicant for information of his character.
This is all the iuformatio* they generally have
as to the character and quahfleattous of the ap
plicant for office. He is appointiag democrats
to Office, aud lie should continue to do so. The
question shoukt be is the applicant honest and
conij leteut, And did be support Mr. Clove land
for tlmqiroetdoncy, and the next queettoa should
be will be coup nue to support the domoeratio
nnnnpee for tffis presidency? If unworthy men
mrCapuoipted to offiee as a rule senators and
coagrelsmen are to blame for it. Asa olass they
are interested in procuring office only for men
who will help to re-elect themselves or renomi
nattf themselves (Or the positions they now hold.
I/Ot President Cleveland act independently of
these ielßsh sad partisan senators and congress
men and he will avoid many blunders into which
they will lead him. Our president is honest and
able. We have confidence in him and his cahi
net. ;
Several citizens of the county have
inquired of us recently if a member of
the General Assembly is compelled to re
sign his seat in that body when he ac
cepts or holds another office? In an
swer to these questions we give part of
section 3, article 4, ' Constitution of
Georgia : “No person holding a military
commission or other appointment or
office, having any emolument or com
pensation annexed thereto, under this
State or the United States or either of
them except Justices of the Peace and
officers of the militia, nor any defaulter
for public money or for any legal taxes
required of him, shall have a seat in
either house; nor shall any Senator or
representative after his qualification as
such be elected by the General Assembly
or appointed by the Governor either with
or without the advice and consent of the
senate to any office or appointment hav
ing auy emolument annexed thereto
during the time for which he shall have
been elected.”
SLA I EE'S, SP Y STATEJf.
It i currently reported from Washington that
every night by 13 o’clock Mr. James li. Blaine is
apprised of what has been done during the day
in every department of the government. This
information is imparted to him by repubilean
office-holders who are retained ih office. While
professing nen-partisanism in order to retain
their places these fellows are acting as spies
upon au administration to which they are at
heart bitterly opposed. The sooner the official
axe is applied to their heads the better for the
administration, which should be in the hands of
its friends. These, republican spies at Wash
ington frequently boast that they are “quarter
ing on the euerny,” and gleefully jingle the dol
lars they receive from the treasury ia payment
of their salaries, declaring that they are pulling
the wool over the eyes of a democratic adminis
tration that was chosen in order that there might
boa radical change in departments that were
known to be corrupt under republican rule.—
Cleveland Plain Dealer.
If the foregoing represents the facts, it
is a matter that cannot be remedied too
soon. There are honest, good men in
Federal offices who would despise such
tricks, and we are loth to think any de
cent man could draw a salary by the
grace of President Cleveland only to |
injure him and to play into the hands of
an intriguer. The right policy is the
safe one, and vice versa. No business
roan would intrust his interests in the
hands of a spy If he knew it, therefore,
the first duty to himself, and all con
cerned, is for Mr. Cleveland to examine
Into character and credentials promptly,
and to weed out traitors and ingrates as
fast as possible.
TIIK XPIOX MI C OF TYPHOID EX YER IX
PL Y MOUTII, PEXXSYL YA XIA .
There is a most fatal epidemic of fever
prevailing now at Plymouth, Pa. Ply
mouth is a mining and manufacturing
city of ten thousand inhabitants, sit
uated on the Susquehannah river, near
Wilkesbarre. This latter city is one of
the great coal mining points of Pennsyl
vania. It has a mixed population, na
tives and foreign—the foreign element as
usual in such mining centers predomina
ting over the native population. This
city mines and ships annually millions
of tons of anthracite coal.
Its little neighbor, Plymouth, lias a
population and surroundings very much
like it in every particular, with this differ
ence, the drinking water of Wilkes
barre is pure and delightful, while the
miners and people of Plymouth are
mostly dependent upon the river for tlieir
water supply. There are many poor
people in both places. The tenements
are crowded, the ventilation is bad, the
streets and yards are often filthy, sewer
gas is constantly escaping, and worse
than all, in Plymouth, the drinking
water is impure.
We need inquire no further for the
cause of this terrible epidemic of typhus
or typhoid fever now decimating the
population of Plymouth. Typhoid fever
occasionally, in nervous temperaments,
is caused by prolonged and excessive
mental or bodily effort, care, exposure,,
fatigue and insufficient food. But ninety
times out of a hundred cases it is pro
duced by purely external causes as by
bad ventilation, breathing of air loaded
with emanations from living beings,
sewer gas, exhalations from decomposing
matter and especially from contamina
tion of drinking water —water which is
contaminated by surface impurities.
There are many households throughout
the country mourning the death ot
friends, which might have been saved
such bereavements by timely attention
to their wells, into which the drippings
of many a “filthy place” have been per
colating for many months, or by looking
after their springs of water into which
every rain pours the sediment of the
surrounding surface. How much sick
ness could be prevented if our yards and
premises were thoroughly drained,
with a hoe, and lime or some other de
odorizer or disinfectant plentifully used
—if we would tolerate nothing offensive
to “eye and nose” within breathing dis
tance. Some one has said that “cleanli-
ness is next to godliness,” but it is cer
tainly a much better preventive of dis
ease, a much greater preservative of
health and life than all the medicines of
the world.
The average length of human life has
been considerably increased within the
last five hundred years. This increased
duration of life is the result of Improved
modes of living, increased attention to
cleanliness, better drainage, better venti
lated dwellings, better clothing, better
food and more physical comforts gen
ially. There are no “black plagues”
now~~wbtefr now visit Europe
and the United States' pcmdifeaiiy _
sweeping thousands to the grave. Even
cholera and yellow fever are being lo
calized, science and good sense are throw
ing their cordons around them and say
ing to them “thus ftr and no farther.”
It is only some town or city, or some
farm-house, which, like Plymouth, has
neglected the simple known laws of
health which must suffer.
In olden times, when an epidemic of
this character would visit a country or
city, the people would flock to the
churches, get up religious processions,
and put on “sackcloth and ashes,” but
now, at the approach of such a pesti
lence, sensible men resort to the spade,
go to ditching,resort to lime barrels,clean
out their wells of water, watch carefully
their diet,and God blesses them tn the act*
For after all science and knowledge are
only the instruments witn which the
loving Father protects, guides and makes
happy his offspring.
W. H. F.
SPRTEG II OUSE-CI. EA El EG.
This is about the time when the news
papers begin to wail over the woes of
the poor, down-trodden husband who is
always set forth as corning home from
his work, whether in the field* or at the
desk, to find the house all in confusion,
a “pieked-up dinner,” soapsuds and
mopping brushes in his way, and with
no place to lay his weary head for his
afternoon nap. It is understood by these
annual complaints that the women is a
persecutor for the time being, with no
method in her work and no mercy in her
heart. Now it is time these fallacies
should be overthrown, and “the truth,
the whole truth and nothing but the
truth,” set up in their place. Put the
average man on the witness stand, let him
tell of his sufferings and we are satisfied
nothing more will be needed. Suppose
the woman should undertake to clean it
all in one day—and she is a “green
goose” if she does—it is certain she has
the heavy end of the pole to carry, and
one day will not hurt the head of the
family very seriously if he should live
light at home or buy his dinner abroad.
But suppose she takes a room at a time,
and does her work by such installments,
then the grumbler can always retire to
quiet while he lingers about the house.
More than that it will be well to recollect
if she was the only person who inhab
ited the house so much spring cleaning
would not be needed. Grant it that she
is a little cross and speaks sharp with
this burden on her hands, it is also a fact
she cannot dress up and look pretty and
accomplish so much hard work as they
generally undertake at this season.
Proper Treatment for Coughs.
That the reader may fully understand
what constitutes a good Gough and Lang
Syrup, we will say that tar and Wild j
Cherry is the basis of the best remedies
yet discovered. These ingredients with j
several others equally as efficacious, en
ter largely into Dr. Bosanko’s Cough and '
Lung Syrup, thus making it one of the
most reliable now on the market. Price
50 cts. and SI.OO. Sold by D. W. Curry.
SEX A TOR BLACKBURX'S BROTHER.
A Washington special says another
newly appointed officeholder has come
to grief. The victim this time is a broth
er of Senator Joe Blackburn. The pres
ident, after consulting members of his
cabinet, has revoked Blackburn's ap
pointment as Internal revenue collector
for Lexingtou, Ky., district, because of
the following letter written by Black
burn. which has just been made public:
Abingdon, Va., Oct. 2, 1861.
My Dear Wife. I have lelt you and our
children in the land of the despot, hut God grant
that 1 may soon be abie to make the Union men
of Kentucky feel the edge of my knife. From
this day I hold every Union traitor as my enemy
aud from him I scorn to receive quarter, and to
him I will never grant my soul m death, for
they are cowards and villians enough. Brother
Henry and I arrived here without hindrance. I
have had chills all the way. but I hope to kill
forty Yankees for every chill that I ever had. I
learn that Hardee is still in the Arkansas lines*
inactive, and if this proves true I will tender
my resignation and go immediately to Kentucky.
I hope that r will do my duty as a rebel and a
free man. Since I know the Union men of
Kentucky, I intend to begin the work of murder
in earnest, and if ever I spare one of< them may
hell be my portion. I want to see Union blood
now deep enough for m v horse to swim in,
Your husband,
J AMES BLACKECRN.
It is understood that all of the presi
dent’s advisers approved of the revoca
tion of the appointment.
A distinguished confederate soldier
once remarked, “It would have been a
doleful day for the south if she had suc
ceeded under her political leaders, for
the simple reason that- nothing would
have ever satisfied them in their struggle
for power and control.”
It does seem as if our southern politi
cians are not satisfied with getting into
office for themselves, but are bent on
getting all their kin into fat places. If
the democracy loses its supremacy in the
next national election that spirit and
policy will be the cause of it. With such
a record as the foregoing in the files at
Washington, it was preposterous to ex
pect a republican senate to confirm Mr.
Blackburn. If the senator had been just
to his constituency he would have se
lected some other man in Kentucky
rather than his brother for such an office
in the first place. If his brother had
been perfectly acceptable to the presi
dent there is a fitness in things that
should have inclined Senator Blackburn
to another choice, if he had iiad the
slightest regard for his duty to his gen-
erous constituency.
Senator Vest has gone a step farther.
He inveigled President Arthur into ap
pointing his son to a Federal office and
he now inveigles President Cleveland
into a fresh appointment for the same
youth, with increased pay. Talk of
honor or principle in such greed! If
the democracy is retired to private lifa
in ’BB, it is just this that will do it.
Pray what right has a senator or a
congressman to pack his brothers or his
sons into such Federal offices? For
about eight years the democratic jour
nals of the country denounced General
Grant for nepotism, and here the demo
crats, (and southern democrats at that)
are rivalling the baldest nepotism in the
land. United States senators seem ter
think their first fruTydotfieir^country is
to fill up all the offices about the capitol
with their sons and kinsfolk, and now
President Cleveland is persecuted to get
the remainder of their kihtand kin into
all the places in his gift. It is disgu&t
ing and unsightly to say the least of it.
Just as we reached this point another
paragraph falls under our eye. Senator
Butler has gotten his brotherinlaw into a
South American mission at a good sala
ry. So it goes. Good bye dear voters,
after you elect these’political nalbobs!
Stand aside ye common people until the
royal families are served !
GEORGE B. GILES A TB.
Last Sunday afternoon we heard this
venerable and greatly respected citizen
of our county preach a touching and
scriptural sermon at Wofford's academy.
He is seventy-five years old, was born in
in Greenville district, S. C., in 1810.
He moved to this county in 1833, and
settled on the lot of land where he now
lives, three miles from old Cassville. He
built a little pole cabin for a dwelling
about fourteen feet square, and in that
cabin, with his wife and two children,
he commenced his useful and industrious
life in Georgia. At that time he did not
have a dollar, bought his land for seven
ty-five dollars, on credit. There was
not a church in the county when he
moved here, and be saw the first pole
cabin built that proved to be the nucleus
of the future Cassville. That pole cabin
was the courthouse.
He has been a member of the Metho
dist church for sixty years, also a steward
in that church for fifty years, and has
been a local preacher fifteen years. His
wife still lives. They raised eleven chil
dren, eight of them are still living.
They have forty grand-children, and
fifteen great-grand-children. He has
given every child a comfortable home,
and has lett a farm around him of 400
acres in elegant cultivation and nicely
improved, for his o|d age. He does not
! owe a dollar, and through his long life
he has followed the maxim, “pay as you
go.” He has given hundreds of dollars
to the church and to the poor. His suc
cessful life is the fruit of faithful service
to God, and of honest, upright dealing
with his neighbors. His faith in the
Lord has been an abundant blessing to
his own soul, both in temporal .and spir
itual things. i
Cassville, Ga., May 10th 18S5.—Edi
tors Coubaxt: —As there is likely to be
a vacancy in the representation of this
county in our state legislature caused by
the appointment ot Hon. A. W. Fite as
deputy collector of Internal Revenue for
this district, in behalf of tiie citizens of
the Cassville district, and the aurround
ing district we present ti e name of Mr.
W. A. Chuun as a suitable man to fill
the contemplated vacancy. He is honor
able, capable and efficient in every re
spect. He will look after the farming,
laboring and every other interest of the
county. A* the Cassville district has had
no immediate representative in any office
for some time we hope i£r. Chnnn’s can
didacy will be favorably considered by
the people of Bartow county in the elec
tion when ordered. Citizens.
THE SMALLEST WOMAX IX TBS
WORLD .
On another page you will see a notice
of Lucia Zarate, the midget. She is a
Mexican, and is now some five years
older than when the writer saw her, and
she was then the smallest human being,
we thought, that ever lived to walk or
stand alone. She was at that time ex
hibited with another midget, who, if we
mistake not, was born in a Northern
S.ate. He was as much smaller than
Tom Thumb as a year old child would
be less than a boy of six or seven. The
two midgets were a most remarkable
pair. The boy, whose name we forget
and who died not long afterward, was
more of a human looking child than the
Zarate girl, but he was also more deli
cate and fragile. Lucia was at that time
so small that ajinger ring would slip
over her hand and up to her shoulder.
She wore tiny doll shoes, and rocked
herself in a little doll’s rocking chair.
Her vanity and love of bright colors
were her marked characteristics. One
morning when the pair were performing
on a platform erected in the centre of
a large hall, a little girl of perhaps five
years of age, was lifted up to see the
midgets. She wore a bright red hood
and a knitted mull’ of the same color.
Lucia ran across her stage, clutched the
cord by which the muff was suspended,
and shrieked out for its possession. The
child allowed her to take it. Quick as
thought she tossed the cord over her own
shoulders, ran to her little rocker, and
laughed and rocked herself in the most
delighted way. The boy, who was a
trifle larger, was very sensible and an
swered all questions with intelligent re
plies. They lodged at our hotel, and the
writer was curious to see them feed. A
tablespoonful of food seemed to be satis
fying, and a thimbleful of milk was
about as much as either could manage at
a draught. Their parents gave a hotel
reception one evening, and among the
visitors present were Judges Clifford and
Davis, both weighing not far from four
hundred each. Imagine if you can the
tableau, with those four human beings
the actors. The Zarate girl was more
monkeyish in appearance than the other
midget, and Darwin could have explain
ed her peculiar characteristics in a very
satisfying way for himself. Tom Thumb
was often seen during those Washington
days, and was introduced to the writer
by Hon. Alex. H. Stephens. General
Tom was an exquisite in dress, wore the
most elegant solitaire diamonds, and evi-
dently felt his importance, although his
manners were not at all offensive or pert.
He and his little wife generally brought
their tiny carriage with them, drawn by
a pair of mouse-colored ponies, which
turn-out we understood to be a present
from a crowned head in Europe. The
ponies were not much larger than New
foundland dogs. The Thumb lamiiy
were always guests at the old National,
had their regular table in the dining
room, but it was different with the
midgets. They played about the cor
ridors, but both had cautious, anxious
nurses constantlakab°ut them. Lucia
Zarate is undodmedly the greatest cu
riosity of the age of the human species,
and her progress and development de
serves to be thoroughly understood and
studied, as her like has never been seen
before—so far as recorded.
EX-BA NKER FISH A GA IX.
The Courant has already given its
readers some particulars of the history
of this famous or infamous financier
who, with Ferdinand Ward, brought
grief and financial disaster on Gen.
Grant in his money operations a year
ago. The ex-banker now lives in fine
style in Ludlow street jail, without the
lack of a single comfort, and Ward is
equally as well taken care of, while their
creditors are whistling for their lost
shekels.
But Mr. Fish has been lately overtaken
in another affair that may trouble his con
science as much as the money failure
troubled his creditors. In Sandusky,
0., there lived a fine lawyer by the name
of Reber, some thirty-years ago. He
had a brilliant daughter, Sallie, by name,
who w r as cultivated, attractive and hand
some. She had all the attainments,
especially in music, that wealth and
positiou could give her. She married a
man of good family in New York city,
who became a drunken sot, Sallie had a
penchant for the stage, and made a suc
cess of the undertaking. Before Laing,
her husband, died from alcoholism,
banker Fish became enamoured with the
opera singer, and when Laing deceased,
Fish engaged magnificent apartments for
her in a flat that Fish ovyned. About
two weeks ago, Sallie Reber or Sallie
Laing died, in a lonely country village,
leaving a babe about ten day3 old. Pe
culiar circumstances aroused suspicion,
and facts have been developed that show
a very dreadful state of things. After a
denial and after the discovery of a false
medical certificate, Fish has at last
owned to a secret marriage with the
dead woman, who found her last lodging
place in the lonely hamlet before men
tioned.
“Vice has its agonies,” and to Fish,
immured in jail, disgraced Jp the eyes of
hjs fellow-men, overwhelmed with this
last deceitful and miserable transaction,
there must be agony enough for one poor
human soul. Barely a year ago, he was
a mighty man of wealth and power.
Money poured in on him like a flood, and
no mSU lives to do him honor. A New
York paper teiis of bi§ splendid box at
the opera last year, of his elaborate vine
suppers, his aged debaucheries, and :
worse than all, of his example to a young j
son, who net only trod in his father’s !
vicious footsteps, but who was that j
fathei’s boon companion in these mid-j
night orgies. Fish “sowed the wind”
and is “leaping the whirlwind.” An ;
expert thief in finance, he is also a e
betrayer of a confiding, weak wom*ii.
Br request of Hon. Mr. Pringle, we
publish the call lor the State Temperance
Convention.
Is cl* JCalachi is taken from the
Phoenix Agricuitur;sL
Mixist**: Kkily, who was first ap
pointed to Italy, and then mentioned for
Russia and accredited to Austrian, Hun
gary, sailed for Europe on the Bth of
May. He is a bitter partizan Catholic,
and a speech made in Richmond some
time ago induced the Italian government
to ask his withdrawal from that mission.
Mr. Bayard with his usual pertinacity
determined to send him abroad in spite of
this notoriety and now it is more than
likely that Austria will reject him. From
late political troubles the Jews are very
distasteful to that governmeu.aad Mrs.
Keily is a Jewess, although she abjur
ed her faith and took the Catholic church
vows after her marriage. It is hinted
that the senate will take the whole sub-
ject in charge next winter and Minister
Keily is likely to find the foreign Jordan
a very “hard road to travel.” Mr. Bay
ard might have awarded some of these
complications by a more judicious ap
pointment incur opinion.
Sheriff's Notice.
Hereafter the Sheriffs adver
tisements for Bartow county
will appear in the Cartersville
Courant. This May 11th, ’BS.
W. W. Roberts,
Sheriff' Bartow county.
By over confidence the democrats
have lQst one district in Illinois, and it
i3 supposed Gen. Logan will thus get the
needed vote to make him senator again.
If Mr. Morrison has thrown away his
chances by vain confidence, we shall not
grieve over it. If Gen. Logan is elected
we shall throw up our hand
kerchief for his plucky wife, who is
one of the best women in the United
States. For tact, ability and courtesy to
everybody, she is a jewel, and in our
opinion, she is about as near a genuine
political leader as ever wore a bonnet or
a hat either, for that matter. She de
serves all the good things that belong to
political success, and that is saying no
great deal, as the most of it is unmitigat
ed weariness and vexation of spirit.
Wk are in receipt of the Twelfth An
nual report of the Augusta Public
Schools. Mr. Lawton B. Evans, whom
our older citizens will remember as the
son of Gen. C. A. Evans, formerly pas
tor on this circuit, is the superintendent.
The report is a very flattering one to
Richmond county and a credit to Mr.
Evans himself.
llox. S. S. Cox is to decide in a few
days whether he will go to Turkey or re
main as the bulwark of New York de
mocracy. From the skillful way in
which his campaign has been managed
up to date, we think lie will be governor
of New York via the foreign mission to
Turkey.
READY AND WAITING.
Col. H. P. Farrow Says He Will Resign
When Cleveland Asks it.
Atlanta Constitution.
Col. H. P. Farrow was in town yester
day. His face wore an expression of
quiet resignation, so much so that a
Constitution man wondered if the
Colonel was contemplating a resignation.
The scribe asked:
“Are you still collector of the port of
Brunswick ?”
“Yes; but I simply await the pleasure
of the administration.”
“Would you resign if so requested?”
“Certainly I would. If I recollect
aright, my party was defeated last No
vember, and that defeat lost us the
offices. Of course it will take time to
make a complete change in all the offices,
as the president and the heads of de
partments have much to do besides in
vestigating the respective claims of
those composing the army of office
seekers; but it is to be presumed that this
will be done as speedily as possible, and
when, in the course of business, the ad
ministration reaches any given office and
makes a selection from its own party and
signifies through proper departmental
channels, its readiness to make a change,
the incumbent should step aside prompt
ly and respectfully. Such action by the
administration is no reflection, but is
reasonable and right. The democracy
have been out of office twenty-five years,
and now that they have whipped us at
the polls they are entitled to every office
from the presidency down, ft will take
them over one year to make all the
changes, but four years hence I think,
with our experience, we will be able, on
taking charge again, to clean them up
within one year.”
“You think your party will succeed in
next election ?”
“Yes, I have no doubt of it. Rut let
that be as it may, the democracy were
successful last November, and I believe
they should be appointed to all the offices
as speedily as it can be done without
detriment to the government. And w hen
we defeat them four years hence we
should remember, likewise, that it takes
time to make all these changes and
should proceed cautiously, as they are
now doing.”
“Then you are not in favor of your
party attempting through its majority in
the senate to keep republicans in office?”
“Xo; and I would regard such an at
tempt by my party as a fatal blunder.
The great beauty of American institu
tions is the cheerfulness and promptness
with which minorities yield to majori
ties, and this sentiment in support
of the ‘will of the people’ i* so
strong that an attempt by the repub
lican party through its majority in the
senate to rob the democracy of the fruits
of its victory would be rebuked by the
people in the next election. This is a ;
democratic administration, and the re
sponsibility should rest solely upon them, ,
and should ilie republican senate ‘side- ,
line’ them so as to divide the responsi- j
bility with them, republicanism would
suffer for it in the next campaign. My
judgment is that we should give them
undisputed and unobstructed possession
of all the fruits *f their victory, and j
then defeat them four years hence, if we
can; and when we do, lot them ) ield
with the same grace.”
“Are your views in accord with your ■
party on this question ?”
“I know not. I speak for myself
alone. I hold a commission which does
not expire till next March, and therefore
it devolves upon me to act for myself,
bnt I leave others to shape their own
course. From my experience and ob
servation in politics I am firmly ot the
opinion that no person of one political
party should seek to hold office under
the opposite party, and I am further-
more of the opinion that any one so in
discreet as to try it will live to regret it.
I think all republican incumbents should
continue the faithful and efficient dis
charge of their official duties until the
administration is ready to relieve them
and should then resign, and such will be
my course.”
“Has any request been made for your
resignation?” asked tlie reporter.
“None; but when it is made, I shall
cheerfully yield.”
SENATOR BROWN’S SPEECH BEFORE
THE BAPTIST CONVENTION.
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
Convention, the act of fornication com
mitted by a married person is, under the
New Testament dispensation, cause, and
the only cause, of absolute divorce from
the bond of marriage.
Resolved further, That it is the opin
ion of this convention no minister of the
Gospel is authorized by the New Testa
ment to join patties together in the
bonds of matrimony when either of the
said parties has a living wife or husband
from whom said party lias been divorced
for any other than the cause aforesaid.
At four o’clock this afternoon Senator
Brown ascended the rostrum to speak
on his divorce resolutions and caused a
big stir by repeating in effect and almost
entirely his famous Mormon speech de
livered in the senate. Many objected to
the consideration of his resolution on the
ground that the convention was simply
an organization to raise and distribute
mission funds. But Senator Brown de
fended his resolutions by saying that the
precedent was on his side, in that pre
vious conventions had passed resolutions
on temperance, on periodicals, at one
time a resolution sustaining the Southern
Confederacy. This question, he claimed,
was most important, as it affected the life
and well being of the church and the
purity of the family circle. He showed
by relation how the law of Moses per
mitted divorce, and how the law of
Christ abrogated this custom and com
manded monogamy. He contended that
moral guilt was the same in Georgia as
in Utah, when a man had two living
wives, although in Georgia divorced
from one for grounds other than adul
tery. Even the fact that the statutes of
the State permit such marriage does not
make it right. The statute says you may
do it, but Christ says you must not do it.
He was proud of the law on this subject
in South Carolina, his native State, and
sorry tiiat his adopted State of Georgia
did not have the same wise provision.
He then read his resolutions, and a mo
tion to table them was lost by a vote of
96 to 126. In a division called for the
original resolutions of Senator
Brown were put and adopted by the con
vention by a large majority, as follows:
Resolved, That in the opinion of this
convention the act of fornication com
mitted by a married person is, under the
new Testament dispensation, cause, and
the only cause, for absolute divorce from
the bond of marriage.
Resolved further, That in the opinion
of this convention no minister of the
gospel is authorized by the New Testa
ment to join parties together in the
bonds of matrimony where either of said
parties has a living husband or living
wife from whom the said party has been
divorced for any other than the cause
aforesaid.
TUB NIGHT SESSION.
At the night session Senator Brown’s
sensation was renewed. Dr. Furman
mdved to amend, objecting to Senator
Brown’s intimation that there was any
scriptural ground .of a divorce at all.
He said the senator’s theology was
wrong. Others objected to the status of
the convention or the subject iu that it
was outside of the scope of the body,
and because the senator’s resolutions
were adopted without discussion, except
by himself. A motion to reconsider the
whole matter was favored by Dr. Hatch
er, of Virginia, and others, and com
batted by Di. Hawthorne, Judge Vason
and others, and adopted.
The Brown resolutions were then laid
on the table by a vote of 194 to 96.—Ex.
Bartow' Comity Agricultural Club, No. 3.
This club met at the residence of Dr.
Beazley, May the Stti. All the members
w'ere present except Secretary Culpep
per. Pea culture was the topic of dis
cussion before the regular order of busi
ness was begun. Six members of the
club agreed to plant a test acre in peas as
compared with cotton as to profit. Capt.
Charley T. Sheluian, Charley Patterson,
Ilenry Sheffield and Dr. Thos. J. Lee
were invited to seats with the club and
to take part in its deliberations. Capt.
Sbelman gave some valuable hints as to
fruit culture, the main features of which
were to prevent blight in fruit trees. S.
C, McCormick read essays on “How best
to manage tenant (croppers) Lpibor,” the
main features of which were, it is not
profitable to farmers to use tenants as
croppers. “Croppers,” said he, “do not
work days enough, as a general rule, to
make for themselves a good living and
their landlord a good profit. Mr. Mc-
Cormick urged the use of more ready
cash to laborers of all kinds to insure
more faithful service. The club dis
cussed the whole essay at length, and
the conclusion reached was that the
wages system is the better form of labor.
Anew item of business was added to the
regular order, to wit; A crop report
from each member.
Inspectors were ordered to make an
inspection and report the same in writ
ing at the next meetiog. Subject for
discussion at the next meeting:
“Ought the State Agricultural De
partment be Encouraged or Discour
aged?” 11. J. McCormick, essayist.
A committe was appointed to draft a
preamble and resolution setting forth the
great evils arising from the lien and
homestead laws of the State. These rer
olutions are to be sent to the various ag
ricultural organizations of the State, and
the press, for aetioiT and publication, in
order to secure concert of action in de
vising a remedy for these evils.
The wives of the members were made
honorary members of the club. Mrs,
Dr. Beazley gave an old-fashioned quilt
ing to the lady members and a sump
tuous dinner to all. Charley Patterson
■ and Dr. Lee took charge of the nursery
of babies while their mothers partook of
dinner. I; is needless t<s say the little
innocents were well cared, for by these
young gentlemen. £| Anon,
CAE Ij for a STATE TEMPERANCE
CONVENTION.
SaxpersVill'e, Ga., April 28, 18S5.
A convention of the Georgia Temper
ance Association is iiereby called to
meet in the city of Atlanta, at 12 o’clock
in., on Wednesday, June the 10th, to
continue in st days.
The object oHHe convention is to ad
vance the temperance and prohibition
cause in Georgia. A full representation
is greatly desired, and each county,
therefore, will allowed four times as
many delegates as it has representatives
in the general assembly; and in addition
to this each Woman’s Christian Temper
ance" Union, and each lodge of Good
Templars; and each temperance organ
ization of any name or order, will be al
lowed one delegate for every fifty mem
bers or fractional part thereof.
< Let the friends of temperance in the
several counties of the State, whether
organized or not, call meetings (we
would suggest Oil the first Tuesday iu
Mayor June) and appoint their dele
gates, aud let each lodge and union ap
point its delegates. An interesting pro
gramme will be arranged. Distinguish
ed speakers will be invited to address
the convention on Wednesday and
Thursday nights during its session, and
if we would achieve grand results, let
the friends of the eavse rally and send up
full delegations, and let all assist as far
as possible in overthrowing the great
evil of intemperance, thereby working
for the cause of humanity, for God,
homo and native land.
C. K. Springle, Pros. Ga. Tern. As.
Executive Committee, State at Large:
John D. Cunningham, Geo. W. Adams,
W. J. Northern, J. D. Stewart, 1, J. 11.
Estill, 2, G. P. llansell, J, W. A. Wil
son, 4, H. F. Everitt, 3, J. G. Thrower,
6, A. A. Murphy, 7, L. N. Trammell, 8,
R. C. Humber, 9, W. 11. Simkins, 10,
Mrs. W. C. Sibii‘3 r .
. W. G. WarmiY, Secretary.
The following gentlemen of Atlanta
have been requested to act as a commit
tee to arrange all the details for the
meeting of the convention : J. G. Throw
er, S. M. Inman, J. D. Cunningham, J.
E. Bryant, W. I). Adair, W, A. Hemp
hill, W. G. Whidby.
Respectfuetly and fraternally,
C. It. Pringle, Pres. Ga. T. A.
To the friends of temperance in Geor
gia: Tty virtue of a resolution passed by
the State Temperance Convention, at its
July session last year, the executive com
mittee was authorized to collect such
sfims of money as were necessary to meet
the contingent expenses of the Georgia
Temperance Association. A small sum,
of say two hundred dollars, is now
needed to pay some expenses already in
curred, and to meet the expenses of the
approaching State Convention, to bo
held in the city of Atlanta, June 10th.
Brother James G. Thrower is author
ized to receive the money, which is to
be disbursed under the direction of the
executive committee. Let the friends
of the cause therefore sec to it that this
amount is raised at once.
C. R. Pringle, Pres. Ga. T. A.
Farmers and Mechanics.
Save money and doctor bills. Relievo
your mothers, wives and sisters by a
timely purchase of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough
and Lung Syrup, best known remedy
for Coughs, Colds, Croup and Bronchial
effections. Relieves children of croup in
one night, may save you hundreds of
dollars. Price 50 cts. and SI.OO. Sold
by D. W. Curry.
A KISS BY KOQNLIGHL
From time immemorial, no one will pretend to
Jeuy the fact that k'sse.s have been held iu high
reptile by botli sexes—whether active or passive,
it has been de ideef that a T.EGA L KISS implies
ACTrON oh both parties; but when a lady sim
ply consents to be kissed without action of her
lips, itoonstitutesonly a PASSIVE kiss— a sweet
deprived of }ts nectar. ,
Sfrugfy finconsccd within a moss-embowered
and vine-clad verandah, and almost hid from
►view amid sweet-scented honeysuckles, was
seated a fair Atlanta nymph, whose beautiful
dark eyes, alabaster complexion and voluptuous
contour, seemed to DAZE the young gent by her
side, who ever and anon,while circumnavigating
her slender w aist, gave her a BUSS and then a
liiLBUS;* to the amazement of a pedestrian who
happened to be passing that beaii(jful moonlight
night. At that moment the lover was heard to
ask, “My dear darling Sarah Jane, you are be
coming more b* autiful every day; your eyes
sparkle with more briPiancy, your once pale
cheeks h ive been painted by the roseate hues of
natyro, atrhwJ , i'!Cm to have entirely regained
Will you tell roe the cause of the
yi have simply used Uj.-.t wonderfully effective
blood remedy known as 15. B. li. ! ’
Tlie Atlanta Constitution,
In a long article relating to B. 11., of that
city, says: -
The Blood Balm Company started one year
ago with $162.00, but to-day the business cannot
be bought lor $50,000!
The derpand and satisfaction given in said to
be without a parallel, as its action is pronounced
wonderful.
We are glad to announce that our druggist
have already secured a supply, and we hope our
readers will supply themselves at once.
It is said to be the only speedy and permanent
blood poison remedy offered, giving entire satis
faction in all cases, before one bottle has been
used. For Blood Diseases, Kidney Trouble,
Scrofula, Catarrh, Old Ulcers, and Skin Diseases,
try one lwttie B. 11. E.
Blood Balm Cos.. Atlonta, Ga., will mail frea
of cost, a hook filled with information about the
blood, the Kidneys, Scrofula, etc., etc.
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