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DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
AUGUST 27, 1885.
VVb sire truly glsut that Ex Governor
Conley’s post office accounts have been 1
harmoniously settled with the deficit in '
his favor. We have never been willing !
to think him a defaulter, and this settle
ment must he very gratifying t/> himself,
his family and friends.
As Article signed “Hclindy Jonze,’ in
the Augusta Chronicle, gets into the
marrow of the prohibition question. We
detect in it the marks of a skillful pen
and brain, owned by one of Georgia'.-
noblest daughters. We shall not expect
a reply to it, because it. is unanswerable.
A X A FFUCTIOX I.lh’E JOE'S.
In n rural district of Pennsylvania
there lived an aged widow by the name
of Truby, who was the mother of four
sons. One of them was killed in a New
Yoik grocery store, sorno years ago, by
an accident, but three were alive last
Friday night, a week ago. The youngest
son, John, was a switch tender on a rail
road. About 11 o’clock that night he
changed a switch. Running along the
track lie fell into a cattle guard, struck
his head, broke his neck and crushed in
his skull, causing death. Isaac, his
brother, worked in the quarries, four
miles away. In going to hi:' place of
work very early next morning he at
tempted to walk across a ravino on a
single piank and fell head foremost Into
the water. His head struck a rock, stun
ning him, and he drowned before lie was
taken out. Wyman, another brother,
was a rjiiller. He worked near ids
mother’s house. On Saturday morning
he started his mill and worked on, ig
norant of the death of Ids two younger
brothers. While the mill was under way
the ceiling above him broke, pouring sev
eral hundred bushels of grain down on
his head. He was crushed and suffocated
before ho could bo taken out. The mes
senger who came to the mill to announce
John’s death mot the in' ssenger who
came to announce Isaac’s death, and botii
were met by the lifeless body of Wyman,
who was at that moment brought out
into the open air, hut dead beyond recov
ery. Not one of theso brothers was made
aware of the domiso of either of the
others, and it is said the poor old widowed
mother is at death’s door herself, and who
can wonder ?
In reading of the occurrences we could
recall no parallel to it except the chronicle
of Job’s repeated afllictions. The oldest
man was 38 years old and the youngest
21, and all three met their final end
within twelve hours of each other, and
in no case was it to be attributed to aught
~hntTm"acbiJs.ut. AH were industrious,
sober men.
TilK .ST A TK ROAD LEASE.
As an effort will be made to soil the
State Road during this session of the
Legislature It is well to know as inueh of
its value and its importance to the State
of Georgia as possible, especially as the
State cannot all'ord to giyo away any
more valuable property, or even lease
property under its real value again. The
lessees have controlled the Shite Road
for fifteen years. They took charge in
January, 1871, and we have a return of
their profits for the years 1871 and 1872.
Then we have returns of their gross
profits, expenses and not income for the
time beginning on M.y Ist, 1877, up to
May Ist, 1885, a period of eight years.
Wo will try to verify these returns with
the official books in Atlanta very soon,
that there may be no mistake or injustice
to anybody. The constitution of 1877 re
quired all railroads to make suen returns
to the State, and therefore we are able to
find a meagre report from 1877 to 1885.
The lessees, as we said before, took
charge in 1871, and in that year their
gross profits were $1,375,417. There are
twenty-three shares in the lease, and (al
lowing more than the amount used tor
expenses during the second year) each
share netted to these shareholders at least
$5,000 tho first year. Remember, they
paid tho State’s rental, run the road, put
on several new engines, and yet they had
an enormous return in cash to meet the
annual interest on their bonds (less than
$30,000) and the rest was actual profits.
There is no room for doubt as to their
profits in the year 1872. Their gross re
ceipts in that year were $1,500,245.27.
They bought four new engines, built a
bridge, bought materials in excess of
what they usod, ainouuting to $15,855.09,
and after all expenses were paid they
were In possession of $140,658. Divide
that by twenty-three and you will see
the net profit.
For five years—reaching from January,
1873, to May Ist, 1878—we have no re
turns at present writing, but every man
living on the line of road knows their
profits were continually aud steadily in
creasing, until in 1880 the gross receipts
reached an enormous sum of money,
namely, $1,297,045.71. Their net in
come, after all expenses, rental, every
thing, was paid, was $406,794. Divide
that sum by twentry-three, the number
of shares, and you will see that each
shareholder drew $17,686 to each share.
Col. E. P. Alexander holds 4 3 4 shares
as trustee; his income was $84,000 that
year in round figures. Chas. Phinizy |
ow is 3 ; h shares; he drew $68,533 as his
ahare fixim that return. W. G. Raoul
owns 3 shares; he also drew- $53,058 as
his income in 1880 from it. lu the eight !
years (covering which we get these re
turns) the gross receipts of the State Road
arnouut to about ten and a half miilious
of dollars. They have controlled it fif
teen years. Allowing all reasonable ex
penses their individual profits have been
equal, at least, to $3,000,000. In fact the
figures are considerably more, if the ex
penses of the first years are to be taken
as a guide, and the profits of same years
as an average.
The lessees were the following persons
when they organized in 1870: J. E.
Brown, lt£ shares; H. I. Kimball, 1 1 2
shares; Simon Cameron, 1 % shares,
Thomas Allen, 1 shares —amounting to
five shares. The following gentlemen
had one share each: B. 11. Hill, VV. S.
Holt, W. B. Johnston, Chas A. Nutting,
W. C. Morrill, John T. Grant, J. S. De
lano, W. T. Walters, E. W. Cole,Tlios.
A. Scott, Geo. Cook, 11. B. Plant, Ben
May, Ezekiel Watizfelder, Win. S. Dins
more, J. P. King and Richard Peters.
Mr. Stephens took a half share, but
when he found out Messrs. Miles Dob
bins, Austell, Seago and other responsi
ble men had made a hid of $35,000,
which was refused and $25,000 accepted,
he made a deed to the State of hi3 half
share, giving to the State “all control
and pecuniary profit” from this half
sh ire. Gov. Bollock refused to accept
the deed to the State, but turned the half
share over to Geo. 1-lazelhurst. In two
days after he made ibis illegal transfer of
the State’s-property he is said to have fled
the State. The right to the half share
was either in Mr. Stephens or in the
State, and if the profits of that half share
were now returned to the State, where it
justly and honestly belongs, the State
to day would be in receipt of a large
amount ef money that it has not received
and which will have to be accounted for
before the “betterment” question is
settled. Mr. Stephens, in an open letter
to Gov. Brown, dated Jan. 24th, 1871,
says: “If you had been the Executive 1
do not think you would h ive awarded
the lease as Bulh< k did I think you
would have accepted the Sj v million bid
rather than the six million bid.” This
letter was published in the Augusta Con
stitutionalist. Mr. Stephens is on rec
ord as saying “the lease was illegally and
unfairly made, and he regarded the legis
lature that ratified it as but little, if any,
better than Bullock.”
That half share belongs now either to
Mr. Stephens’ estate or the State, and no
sort of legerdemain can place property
where it does not belong unless the law is
openly violated.
The present shareholders are the fol
lowing: E. P. Alexander, trustee, 4>£
shares; E. P. Alexander, share; C.
11. Phinizy, shares; W. G. Raoul, 3
shares; Moses Taylor, W. M. Wadley
and C. I. Brown, 2 shares each; J. H.
Cummings, N. L. Hutchins, 1 share
each; Thos. Allen, E. W. Cole, J.E.
Brown, % share each; Leonard Phinizy,
% share; S. B. Chittenden, % share;
John T. Grant, 11. B. Plant, W. B. Dins
more, W. B. Johnston, W. S. Holt, W.
T. Walters, % share each; Thomas A.
Scott and John S. Delano, 1-16 share
each.
These shares were simply divided out
at the first, and no money was paid for
them. In future transfers the shares
wero nearly all paid for out of the enor
mous dividends. It is all clear profit—a
gratuity from the State. After the pe
riod when the road was run down to zero
our neighbor and citizen, Miles Dobbins,
run the road for a number of months.
He began without a dollar—not oven a
gallon of oil—and he not only paid every
dollar of expense, salaries and every
thing, but he turned about $ ; 4,001) into
the State treasury before he w.-.s p-nmvd
and other schemes set on foot. *Ve <!>
not blame the lessees for securing s-m>!i s
bonanza for themselves. We only be
moan the fate of poor Georgia, who had
no friends to protect her interests against
officials who were willing to deprive her
of her just and lawful revenues.
ATLANTA LISTTEKS.
Atlanta, Ga. Aug. 18, 1885.
Mr. Connell has withdrawn his bill to
tax bachelors. He says he only offered
the bill for fun. At least one day was
occupied in the fun of discussing the
bill, at the cost, at the lowest, of one
thousand dollars. If it is not possible,
it ought to be made possible, to sue a
member of the legislature for the amount
of money the state pays for the time oc
cupied with his fun. There ought even
be putative damages. Mr. Connell
made a greater blunder in withdraw ing
the measure than he did in proposing it;
for the fact is, a majority of the people
had come to look with favor upon the
taxing of bachelors. It is, indeed, al
most certain that, had the bill come to a
vote, it would have passed.
GEORGIA MARBLE VS. OOLITIC.
It now looks as if Georgia marble will
be substituted for the Indiana oolitie
limestone that was to have been used in
the state eapitol. Mr. Mitchell, chair
man of the senate committee on public
property, has reported in favor of the
substitution, and it is conceded that the
report will be adopted. It is also recom
mended in the report that an amend
ment of the act to build the eapitol be
passed providing for an increase of taxa
tion to build the eapitol.
While Georgians will readily acqui
esce in the use of the state marble, the
thought suggests itself, why was not
Georgia material first adopted, and why
the change now? If a contract has been
made for oolitic stone, it will be well to
thoroughly know die context of the con
tract before undertaking to substitute
marble. If there be a snake, scotch it
in time.
taxing railroads.
The senate spent most of last week dis
cussing Mr. Rankin's bill to allow coun
ties to tax railroads. Mr. Rankin con
tended that the railroads do not pay tax
es on more than one third their known
value, and that it Is perfectly right for
counties through which railroads piiss to
levy taxes on them, because the counties
are responsible for the protection of mil
mad property, and that responsibility
certainly implies reciprocity which, in
the nature of existing circumstances, can
only mean taxes.
Others contended that it is not right or
wise to attempt to hamper capital. The
railroads have their charters which guar
antee vested rights, and which exempt
them from county taxation. A few rail
road- are not so exempt, hut it would not
be just to tax the helpless few, while the
richer go free.
These objections were duly met by Mr.
Rankin, who argued that he was not
pushing the bills out of opposition to
railroads, but to protect the poor people
of the state, who are already paying far
more than an equitable share of the taxa
tion. The cry of vested rights had no
terror for him: he far more dreaded the
cry of the oppressed and over-taxed and
unjustly taxed poor of the state of Geor
gia.
The opposition contended that the hill
was one to raise revenue, and as such,
must originate in the house. This point
was forced with such vigor as to make a
listener suspect that the opponents of the
bill feared a debate on the merits ot the
bill. However, the bill is yet in statu
quo. It will probably come up later this
week, or further on in the session.
DISTRESS WARRANTS.
Mr. Fite made a strong argument yes
terday in favor of the Dill to allow ten
ants to file pauper affidavits in eases of
distress warrants. He rebuked the house
for its hastiness in such an important
matter of legislation. Members were
too anxious to vote down this wise meas
ure, when they could spend hours dis
cussing trilling matters of irrelevant res
olutions, motions to adjourn, and such.
llis appeal for the rights of the poor was
not such as to “split the ears ot ground
lings,” hut it was an honest argument
for a just cause.
Mr. Humphries, of DeKalb, opposed
the hill on the ground that it would make
a mean tenant meaner, i wonder if the
present law does not make a mean land
lord meaner.
The bill was lost. This suggests the
fact that nearly every bill passed this
session leans to capital and against labor.
That statement is really worth serious
consideration.
POLITICS.
By the last issue of the Couraxt I see
that it is thought that I am Dr. Felton,
or that Dr. Felton is I. The compliment
1 appreciate. If Dr. Felton feels offend
ed, I cannot blame him. However, we
are not unlike in personal appearance,
and as to age, I am sure the doctor is
quite as young in thought as I am. Still,
Ido not want to lose my identity. It is
true, 1 am not a very noted or a very
great man, hut I assure you, that small
as I be, *1 love my individuality, It is
certain that the doctor and I would not
write on politics alike. For instance, I
can tell all I know, while he, being a po
litical factor, cannot always speak.
The latest point is that Gov. McDaniel
is marshalling his forces to oppose Ba
con. There are many knowing ones who
assert that the fight will lie between
those two. The governor is making ap
pointments rapidly, and it is admitted
that his patronage is being dispensed
with great advantage to a gubernatorial
aspirant. The “powers” are for Bacon,
but tiiey do not care to oppose McDaniel.
It was hoped he’d be out of the fight by
precedent of two terms. This cannot
wag with Senator Brown, however.
THE CONVICT SYSTEM.
The war against the convict system
that the Couraxt is waging, is not with
out effect. Of course, it would not be
policy for the Constitution to make di
rect issue with the Couraxt, but, never
theless, it is endeavoring to bolster up
the system. To-day, for instance, it has
a sly art! . \ • telling how the lessees are
losing m mcy. llow very funny that is
to know ing folks. This week’s Couraxt
is awaited w ith interest by many. I my
self am very much interested in it, for I
have an order from a northern paper to
treat the subject at length, and I am re
lying on the Courant’s columns for
many of my facts. One thing lam sure
of, and that is, the system must go.
B ARTOW LEG IS LATION.
Yesterday Mr. Fite offered hills as fol
lows :
To provide for a justice court house in
each militia district in Bartow county.
Also, to abolish the county court of
Bartow county.
Also, to amend section 4,083 of the
code.
By Mr. Felton—To allow free board to
the family of the superintendent of the
lunatic asylum, and also to allow 7 the
care and keeping of two horses.
NOTES.
The council last night repealed the or
dinance prohibiting delivery of meat on
Sunday that had been purchased Satur
day.
Charles T. Logan has bought out the
Telegram Publishing Company. He
will publish the Sunday Telegram alone
hereafter.
Society folks here are not doing much
entertaining these days.
Atlanta’s physicians equal any in
America.
The saloon keepers wear smiling coun
tenances these days.
Some folks mistake toadyism for chiv
alry.
The number of vacant houses is on the
increase.
There is only one million dollars of
banking capital here for the hundred
millions of business done in the year.
This really places many merchants rath
er as agents than otherwise, which speaks
volumes for the excellence of Atlanta as
a distributing point.
The death of Heuke, the first baseman
of the Atlanta nine, resulting from a col
lision between him and another player,
at first base, is very sad. Henke was
really a noble fellow, generous, honest
and true.
Atlanta, Ga., August 25.—The new
cupitol is not to be built of Georgia marble
or of Georgia granite. The Capitol Com
mission put specimens of the oolitic lime
stone, now being used, and the state
marble and granite into a furnace for an
hour. The heat seemingly did not aflfeet
the limestone, while the Georgia marble !
and Stone Mountain granite were re- i
duced to powder. The Commission there
upon lias decided not to use state mate
rial, and to continue the Indiana oolitic.
Now, of course, if the test was thorough
and because Georgia marble won’t stand
furnace heat, it is therefore not fit for
building purposes, why, then, use a for
eign material. Whilst lam not a “spec
ialist” on building stone, I cannot help
thinking that a stone might not be able
to stand a furnace heat and yet be fit for
building purposes. Anyhow I shall not
regard the Commission as having given
it a thorough test until they shall have
put all the stones ou ice and frozen pro
portionately as much as they were heated.
Of course, there is a hint of asmoke in
all this business. If there is a hidden
serpent, I know him not, thank heaven.
CHANCELLOR MELL.
Chancellor Moll addressed the joint
session on the State University and edu
cation generally, hut surely avoided any
thing in particular, which happily de
monstrates that the worthy Chancellor is
not a specialist, and therefore free, from
eccentricity. Senator Brown and Gov.
McDaniel were present. The Chancellor
hits the bull’s eye in saving that a chasm
exists in state education between primary
education and the University curriculum.
High schools and academies are very in
efficient; hence students are admit*- ’ ■
colleges before tiiey are prepare 1, a*. 1
consequently eeldn-n wi* m-v.-r
thoroughly oducmu h !’he snuc <-.i> • ;
not hope for that u •>{*<•• I uio,, with t
makes education pi • thorough and
efficient nnios- h -pent more money in
improving the high schools.
In regard to the much talked of practi
cality of education, the University is as
practical, contended the Chancellor, a® a
teachers logical school could be. Uglier
education is as practical as shoemaking
or blacksmithing. Our stn ’cats of chem
istry, engineering and mechanics get as
practical training as it is possible for
them to get. The University is in fact a
technological school. It is not a perfect
one, but a successful one. He favored,
however, the establishment of a so-called
technological school. Such a school
would supplement and complement the
University. As to universal education,
he did not think it possible or desirable.
He wanted some one to black his boots,
and he could not get an educated person
to do it.
The Chancellor’s address evidently was
not a prepared one, or if it, possibly,
were, it certainly did him no credit as
the Chancellor of the State University.
MORE COURT HOUSES FOR BARTOW.
The bill providing for a justice of the
peace courthouse for|every militia district
inßartow has been favorably reported on.
Mr. Fite offered the bill. Ido not know
what you folks of Bartow want, but 1 do
know that there is an expense implied in
thit bill that a county ought to be rich to
afford. Howeyer, I am very old-fashioned,
and I believe in economy of public ex
penses and plainness and durability of
public edifices. I would not put SI,OOO
in ornamentation on a fifty thousand dol
lar postoffice. Tills is a remark en pas
sant, and, of course, ha.s nothing to do
with Bartow and her justices’ courts,
SLOW WORK.
Several vain efforts have been made to
determine upon a day of adjournment.
Legislators love Atlanta. They enjoy
the work of both houses. They have a
nice time in Atlanta. They enjoy being
legislators. For these reasons they are
loth to give tip its sweets. Early ad
arljournment, therefore, meets with little
favor. Even to-day a resolution to hold
two sessions daily, so as to hasten ad
journment, was tabled by an aye and nay
vote. Theie is more work before the
legislature to-day than can be acted upon
the rest of this year ISSS.
'['lie nearest thing to hurry was shown
in adopting a resolution that no new
matter should be introduced after Sept
ember Ist without the consent of two
thh’ds oi those present. I may volunteer
to -a- e:;!• .11 .5 .• the “consent” may be
ha.s v h 0.. i; i, nii :i‘ inn.
BUSINESS DONE.
Tin, ibrns*' i>-. - pas- e l the hi!! to pay
coroners’ jin is.
Also, To incorporate thf (i ,;-_pa Mu
tual Insurance Company.
Also, To provide anew judicial circuit,
called the Stone Circuit. The Senate has
asked a committee of conference on tr.is
bill.
NEW BILLS.
Mr. Fite has ottered a bill to amend an
act prohibiting the sale of liquors in Bar
tow county.
Mr. Wilson, colored,of Camden, offerep
a bill last Saturday to prevent discrimin
ation on the part of common carriers,
hotels, etc., on account of color or pre
vious condition, This bill was laughed
at by many; but really the rights of
voters ought to be legally equal, and the
time is coming when “caste” and not
law will regulate all these questions.
“Caste” prevents the dirty white man
from seating himself beside a well
dressed white person, and caste must
govern in the negro question. Of course,
if a negro is willing, under protection of
law, to obtrude where he is not wanted
and is not fitted to be, he will be treated
to proper indignation that will teach him.
A good many bills are at a third read
ing. When they pass I hope to give you
a full list. Up to now no bill of public
general importance has passed.
To-day is being devoted to discussing a
bill for compulsory pilotage. The day of
compulsory pilotage is nearing its end in
coast harbors, whatever may be the fate
of the bill being discussed. Coastwise
steamships are exempt by United States
law from pilotage, because harbors are
now lighted, channels cleaned and buoys
mark every spot of possible danger.
VALUABLE HISTORICAL RECORDS.
To-day the Governor sent the House
the following interesting communication : j
A prominent and influential resident of
London, England, formerly of the United j
States, Mr. J. S. Morgan, has com mis- j
sioaed the Hon. J. B. Gordon to present !
to the State of Georgia the original rec- j
or j> of the transactions of the Trustees
for the establishment of the colony of 1
Georgia, in the handwriting of Sir John j
Pereival, the first Earl of Egraont, Presi
dent of the Board of Trustees. These
records are of lasting historical value,
parricularly to Georgian?,-who must ever
cherish a deep interest in all details con
nected with the foundation of the colony.
The attention of the General Assembly is
invited to this gift of rare manuscript ;
records for such action as may be deemed
appropriate.
GEX. TOOMBS.
The great man, this true Georgian, is
now declining in feeble health, perhaps
he will not be with us many months
hence. He has his faults, who has not?
but his devotion to the state which gave
him birth has never known a “shadow
of turning.” For this we should give
him reverence, and when lie dies Geor
gia will have lost a son that clung to her
good name through evil as well as good
report—who loved her better in her days
of adversity than when she prospered,
and who upheld her honor when glitter
ing prizes tempted many others to weak
en, and caused failure to some, in the
hour of trial and temptation.
In his feebleness an 1 physical weak
ness it is meet and proper to give to him
not only reverence, Mt to shield him
m unjust aspersions, from the new
- wolves, “who seek whom they
■ ! lestroy.” When he talks ho nl
■ speaks “his mind,” but that is no
-a he should be thrown into pri- y
■ ait his personal knowledge of what
is afterwards written, even though he
scorns to correct their misrepresenta
tions, a contempt born of his thorough
fear' ssness and independence of charae
‘er, as well as a hearty- indiffrence to pub
lic opinion that is as rare as it is in many
particulars praiseworthy, tint when you
touch the honor of Georgia, her legisla
tion, her progress, he is never indiffer
ent, never careless. This trait is promi
nently before us in the wide-awake in
terest he felt in the reformatory meas
ure lately defeated in the legislature.
He thus expresses himself: “I read in
the Constitution day before yesterday
Dr. Felton’s speech on the ‘criminal re
form act,’ with a great deal of pleasure,
and I was astonished at its defeat by the
house of representatives. While juve
nile criminals should undoubtedly have
an opportunity for rdform, and by that
remark I do not mean to exclude the old
and hardened sinners In crime, I was
perfectly astonished that the measure
seemed to meet with so little favor from
the representatives of the people, and
the motives whi.ch seemed to influence
the opponents of the measure were still
more reprehensible and indefensible than
the opposition itself. The idea that such
a measure should be in eonfliot with the
Constitution of the United States is not
only stupid but ridiculous. The wildest
dreamers of the Dartmouth College de
cisions never dreamed of such an appli
cation of the principle of that case. It is
pretty clear at this day that the decision
was obtained by fraud. Old Jack Ran
dolph once said in congress, ‘the book of
Kings came after the book of Judgments
in the bible.’ There was method in his
madness.”
Gen. Toombs is -oo considerate for the
honor of Georgia to allow the convict
lease system to stand as a type of our
civilization. We are judged abroad by
our laws, and by our protection to all
classes of our citizens.
COL. MADDOX’S TESTIMONY.
As the legislature is about to pay the
M. cc X. G. 11. R. the sura of $65,000, be
cause that road was granted 250 convicts
to build it, and the other lessees took the
convicts away before it was finished, we
intend to print the sworn testimony of
the persons who are interested in it.- Let
the truth come. If the other lessees could
not How the stale to carry out- her own
contract, lot us see who is to blame and
where the wrong lies.—E.
GEORGIA,
Fulton County, Personally ap
pear. and R. F. Maddox, who on oath say :
the year 1576 the Marietta & North Geor
gia Railroad Cos. sent the convicts worked
by J. M. McAfee & Cos. to Fannin coun
ty to work on the grade in that county.
Gond. Philips, President of the company,
reported to the company and stated in
did'‘rent conversations, that the Gover
nor had agreed for the Marietta & Xorch
Ga. Railroad Cos. to hold these hands
under that provision of the Act of 1876
which allowed an incorporated railroad
which had convicts at work on a railroad
at the passage of the Act to retain the
hands they had until the grade was com
pleted. When it was understood that
Governor Smith had advertised, or in
tended advertising, the convicts to be
leased under the twenty-year lease, as it
was called, Gen’l. Phillips was instruct
ed to tile an application for the two hun
dred and fifty hands which the company
was entitled to before any disposition was
made of the convicts under the twenty
year lease. About this time it was un
derstood and believed that the twenty
year lease would go into operation as
soon as the lease was made the after expi
ration of the sixty days’ notice, and that
the Marietta & North Ga. R. R. Cos.
would get her quota of convicts first as
the law directed, and we proceeded to
make arrangements to work the hands in
the upper counties. In May, 1876, there
was a meeting of the Directors, and
Phillips, McAfee and myself were ap
pointed ta make a contract of lease and
give bond. In July, 1876, we made ap
plication for the Stevens hands, and Col.
Alexander, President Penitentiary Cos.
No. 3, objected and insisted that we had
no right to any convicts under any pro
vision of law. This produced considera
ble feeling, and I got the Secretary of j
the Executive Department to telegraph
Gov. Smith, who wa3 then in St. Louis,
and he replied by telegram to give U3 the
hands and he would arrange it when he
returned home. The Principal Keeper
then delivered us a portion of Stevens j
cEvicts, but don’t think we got all. and
we sent them to Gilmer county and put j
them to work on the grade in Gilmer !
county. After Gov. Smith returned, ex- \
act time not remembered, but in fall of j
1876 he ordered bond given, or in default j
that the Principal Keeper take the hands
we had. 1
This created considerable feeling with
our company. I remember well that in
the store of Maddox & Rucker that there
was a controversy between Phillips and
Alexander, in which Alexander claimed
tnat the road had no written lease under
any section of the law, and that Gov.
Smith had leased all the convicts for
twenty years, and that they had given
bond, and that their bond and lease were
recorded, and that our application was
not worth one cent, as he said the law
required an obligation or bond from the
company, and that none had been given.
Phillips claimed, as he always did from
the very beginning, after the passage of
the Act of 1576, that the company was
entitled to the oouviets they had under
renewal of lease and their pro rata com
ing in until the road was completed, and
to ihe two hundred and fifty, and that
the law gave them to us, and that the
Governor couldn’t take away our rights
by any contract or lease he could make,
and that the company could give all the
bonds required. 11. M. Hammett, Secre
tary, was present.
Col. Thomas Alexander then tried to
prevent me from going on the bonds of
the company. I was vexed, and told
him 1 would, and told Phillips to do
everything that was necessary to secure
the ri -hts of the company, and as I lived
in Atlanta I agreed to look after the in
terest of the company in Atlanta. I know
we gave two bonds; the stipulations In
the bonds I don’t remember, nor do I-re
call any fact which fixes the time of giv
ing these bonds with absolute certainty,
but I know H. M. Hammett was on cue
as security with me, and the bond signed
by Philips, Hoskins, McAfee and myself
was the ether. Xo distribution of con
victs was made under the 20 year lease
after the bonds were given, or at least
we got none, for Phillips, McAfee and
myself were appointed a committee by
the Directors in May, 1876, to make the
leases or contracts and give bond, aiul it
could not haye been done without my
knowledge and consent. My house was
headquarters of the company in Atlanta,
and I looked after these matters for the
company.
In December, 1876, Phillips and Mc-
Afee and Hammett came to qjp and said
that Lockett, Lowe and Lochrane were
anxious for our company to surrender
about twenty convicts from our road to
enable the Governor to locate the camps
and organize the companies under the
twenty-year lease. I objected, and Ham
mett was opposed to it. Phillips said he
had refused, but wanted to accommodate
them if he could .
I took the position that we had had
trouble enough, and that these Peniten
tiary companies had shown themselves
hostile, and that we had all our rights
secured, and I was afraid to complicate
in any way. We all refused to do any
thing, and Lockett, and Lochrane and
Lowe came to my store and offered to do
anything we required. What we wanted
was to be certain to bold the hands we
had and the two hundred and fifty- hands
from first April, 1879, for three years.
Lochrane, Attorney for Penitentiary Cos.
Xo. 2, did most of the talking. They
said that Governor Smith held he could
not locate camps and organize their com
pany- unless some lessee holding under
Act of 1874 surrendered some convicts,
and that Grant & Alexander and Gov.
Brown all refused, and that we were the
only chance for them to organize and
cite t mtr camps under the law, and
their organization depended on our sur
rendering some convicts; that these oih
er companies had the advantage or* Lock
ett and his company and were disposed
to hold it. I was afraid of some advan
tage being taken of the surrender. They
promi ed to come up and help defend our
rights if attacked. They knew what our
claim was, but I still refused to give n y
consent. Lochrane went off with Phil
lips. Governor Smith told rnc that he
would be giad that it could he arranged
seas to enable him to organize and locate
the camps and the Penitentiary under the
twenty-year lease during his term.
Phillips, Lochrane and Lockett came
back, and 1 told Phillips that if a lawyer,
he was satisfied we would lose no right
that we claimed, he could do as he pleas
ed; but still my judgment was against
surrendering any hands.
Phillips then refused to take any-hands
from the road but to allow four convicts
said to be in Fulton county- jail assigned
to the company- and then to surrender
them, which was done. Phillips claimed
to me as a reason for the surrender and
for complying with their urgent request
that it was a recognition of our right to
the hands we had and their pro rata un
der the several Acts of lease and to two
hundred and fifty for thiee y-ears from
Ist April, 1879. This was Phillip’s con
struction of the law and our rights, and I
think it was then so understood by Loch
rane, Lockett and Lowe.
Afterwards when we claimed the Al
exander convicts surrendered by Broom
head, it was a fight to get any, and we
got a portion, and my recollection is that
another bond was demanded whether it
was given or not, for I know Jas. War
ren said we had to give a bond whenever
we got a lot of hands.
At the expiration of the fiye years’
lease, in 1879, wo demanded two hundred
and fifty convicts for three years, but
Gov. Colquitt only gave ua one hundred
and fifty, and we went before the Legis
lature and asked for 100 more. Peniten
tiary Cos. Nos. 2 and 3 then fought us,
as 1 had suspected they would. Judge
Lochrane stated the agreement and un
derstanding as I have to the committee
of the Legislature as a witness and
the papers were examined and the
lution passed. I know from my own
knowledge that the Marietta & North Ga.
It. R. Cos. is not insolvent, but perfectly
solvent.
I signed no bond for the M. & N. Ga.
E. R. while Gov. Smith was in St. Louis,
but did sign the bonds after his re
turn.
R. F. Maddox.
Sworn to before me, this
Oct. 14th, 18S1.
Wii, L. Pjeel,
Notary Public,
Fulton County, Ga. i
An Exploded Boom.
A long, lank, loan and chronic Anti-Iv.taJi
Boom met the now, fat and saucy Atlanta in*
Bold Boom, on a hot, sultry day.
"Who arc you?” asked the B. 15. 15. Room.
1 am tho old Anti-Potash Boom,” was the sad
reply, as tho perspiration rolled down, and it
leaned heavily on the 15. B. 15. Boom for sup
port.
Don’t lean on me," said the B. B. B. jamiii.
"I may look strong, but I am qu'te youutr-?only 1
14 months old, am growing rapidly, ami am
mighty weak in the knees. lam doing the work
which yon have failed to do, although you am
jO years old. You arc old, and tough", and ri<t
and don’t require a support. But what
you to look so tirm of late?” -uses
“Well, I hardly know,” replied the n t
ash Boom. "My physicians toll me-,-) )
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to worship out all opposition F) ,) Wo'!!?
that l have proven nr* inaUD* v * ,v J ; r ‘i
creeping on mo-having fw.Vf
fore any one knew I v r „ j' 7 ’ l '
i'im v"i,. ;™
a mm®.
Compared to other remedies, B. B. B. is the ra
diant: sunbeam of midday, Hinging its glittering
glare to saddened hearts, while other-are pale
moonbeams, pushing along through misty mesh
es of darkness, in search of svinVUiittg they can
cure. '
It cures Blood Diseases and Poisons, catarrh
Old l'leers, Scrofula. Uhcum&tistn, .--kin
JSC-. Kidney troubles, etc., and we hold a page
hook full of evidence—Atlanta evidence—that
cannot be doubted, proving all we claim. Our
certificates are not phantasmagoric;!!, nor far
fetched, but are voluntary outbursts of men ami
women of At auta.
RHEUMATISM.
Although a practitioner of near t won tv years,
my mother influenced me to procure B. li. 15. for
her. She had been confined to her bed several
months with Rheumatism which stubbornly re
sisted all the usual remedies. Within tweutv
four hours after commencing B. B. 15. 1 observed
marked relief. She has just commenced her
3 bottle and is nearly as active as ever, and lias,
beeu iu the front yard “rake in hand,” cleamnjv
up. Her improvement is truly wonderful mad
immensely gratifying,
<J. H. MONTGOMERY, M. D.
Jacksonville, Ala., Jan.olSßs,
NOTICE.
THE PARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE Ex
isting between John J. Howard and Win.
11. Howard under the style of j. J. Howard &
Sou. is this day dissolved by mutual consent,
John J. Howard having no interest in said part
nership but his name having been held out to
the world as a partner to give credit to the busi
ness. This July 16, 1885.
J. J. HOWARD,
W. 11. HOWARD.
NOTICE.
Office of J. J. Howard & Son, Bankers,
Cartersville, Qa., July 18, 1885.
All persons having claims against J. J. How
rfrd & Son, whether in tho shape of certificates
otf deposit, receipts for money deposited, or mt
i
•iny way due by said J. J. Howard & Son, nr©
requested to present them to mo at once.
And all persons indebted to said J. J. Howard
& Son by note, or In any way, are hereby notified
to pay said indebtedness to mo at once.
jly24-lm R. A. CLAYTON, Assignee.
A GARB.
Office of J. J. Howard * Son. Bankers,
Cartersville, Ga., July 18, 1885.
I hereby earnest ly request my friends who are
indebted to the firm of J. J. Howard A Son, to
exert themselves to make prompt payment to
IMr. Clayton, the assignee. A great many of tho
depositors of J. J. Howard & Son have placed
Mie under the strongest obligations, by their kind
Words of sympathy for. and confidence in me, in
this hour of trouble. It' those friends to whom I
have loaned money will promptly come forward
.and pay, it will enable the assignee lo make a
ilividendina very short while and this is do
f arable. It is my earnest desire that all who had
t noney with .1. J. Howard* Son should he paid
i a full at tho earliest possible moment. To no
complish this, you who owed me must be prompt
to pay.
Friends! remember that l helped you when
yoai needed help! Now 1 need help and I appeal
to jam for it. W. 11. HOWARD.
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