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MOTOR AND MRS. W H. FgLTOR.
BEPI EM HER 3, 1385.
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A.iothkh young man killed himself in
Atlanta oil Sunday. It is almost a dally
occurrence.
Mrs. Walklt, a bride of a month, is
now in jail lor poisoning her husband,
the late mayor of Emporia, Kansas. She
hailed from Mow Orleans.
Two beautiful young ladies of Jersey
(dry were poisoned on Monday, by the
mi.-tuko of a druggist, w ho sent them ten
grains of morphine for ten grains of qui
nine.
The legislature is in favor of free pass
es on railroads. A vote on that question
was overwhelmingly defeated. Our
members split, one voting for free passes
and one against.
That free pass vote is significant, it
shadow's the vote on the railroad com
mission. It signifies absolute control by
railroads, in our opinion, but we hope
we are mistaken.
(H:k Atlanta correspondent goes into
details in regard to a prominent sensa
tion of that city. The Couraxt’h posi
tion on such matters is too well known
to bo repeated here, but as this matter
has been found in all the prominent pa
pers in Georgia and elsewhere, except
in Atlanta, while the explanation and
acquittal of the minister, whose charac
ter was so seriously involved, is only
found in our correspondent’s letter from
Atlanta, we allow its publication, be
cause the gentleman had many friends
in this vicinity, to whom this explana
tion will give great relief and satisfac
tion.
The Methodists are trying to raise twen
ty live thousand dollars to build a little
school house In China for Miss Laura
Hay good. It would be difficult for them
to get one-tenth that sum to build one in
this civilized but Impoverished section.
Why ure the Chinese more important
than the poor about us V —lslimadite.
We feel constrained to thank the Ish
m,elite for this most pertinent inquiry. It
is a humiliating fact that even the sacred
mission cause is tangled up with many
and divers (Quixotic schemes. We are
hardly emerged from the strain of an im
mense Anglo-Chinese University before
we are plunged knee-deop into a struggle
to build a high school edifice in China at
the small cost of $25,000. Why not put it
to $250,000, or even add one or two more
o’s ? A school house in this section cost
ing $25,000, for the children of poor Meth
odists, would be a goodly sight to behold,
and unless charity begins nearer home,
and takes hold of the heathen at our very
doors, it would be well to emigrate to
China for increased educational facilities.
HLOWIXG V V HELL GATE, X. Y.
On the Ist day of October, there will be
exploded under a small island, in East
river, 275,000 pounds of dynamite powder,
the greatest blast ever known in this
country. This noted obstruction to com
merce is a long, low, tlat island in the
river, and it is exceedingly dangerous to
navigation. This island has been tun
nelled many thousand feet in various di
rections. The walls of these tunnels are
bored full of holes, nine feet deep. In
each hole a cartridge is placed about a
foot long, all in reach of the communica
ting trigger which will explode all the car
tridges at the same instant. The work
men arc now placing these cartridges.
The least carelessness, the fall of a box,
or the report of a pistol, would blow
every human life into eternity, yet twen
ty men work at this hazardous business
every day, from nine to six o’clock.
When all is ready, the engineer in charge
will touch a button, the dynamite will
go oil’, and high up in the air will go
Hell Gate.
NEED FOR I.VVESTIOA TIOX.
If the Atlanta Constitution gives the
facts, public printer Harrison’s bureau of
public printing needs a thorough investi
gation. He gets all the department work
of the state to do. His large establish
ment holds a big contract with the author
ities. He prints all they need, and he
charges the state 20 per cent, over and
above what it actually costs him. That
may be fair ; we do not dispute it, but it
is enough to make him do the work well
and honestly. The Constitution says he
is the head of the “Perseverance Marble
Co.,’’ and is greatly interested in getting
the state to adopt marble for the new cap
itol instead of the limestone now employ
ed, at the cost of $200,000 extra to the
state. A committee was organized to ex
amine the subject, and public printer Har
rison employed a stenographer to take
down the testimony. The stenographer
was interested in getting a good deal to
do, and the Marble Company was inter
est.*d in getting a quantity to print for the
state, as well :us to advertise their stone,
it was a job that paid the stenographer
well—and the others better. When the
pamphlet appeared, it was full of the
marble lobby documents, and the state
pays twenty per cent, above the actual
cost of printing, as well as pays for the
circulation of the marble lobby documents.
Can these things pass without comment?
In 1879 the public printer was paid SSOO
to print 112 pages of testimony, and vet
the whole land is swarming with printing
presses, that would do it at one fourth,
nay, one sixth, of that sum, and be glad
to do it, Call a halt, legislators, and look
into the tricks and stop the leaks!
Quart Fruit Jars GOe, half-gallons 75c
a dozen at Curry’s.
THE St A TE HOAD LEASE AX D THE R.
It. COMMISSIOX.
Iri an open letter to the commission,
Senator Joseph E. Brown takes the po
sition that the commission has no au
thority over the W. & A. R. R-, because
there was no commission when the road
was leased. We think the senator is
mistaken. The state never loses control
over her own property: no matter where
it is handled, or by whom.
Two hundred years ago, and more,
Chief Justice Hale, of England, stated
a principle of law that hits never been
controverted yet, and will stand to the
end. He said, “Asa principle ot law,
when private property is affected with a
public interest, it ceases to be juris pri
vati only.” This has been acquiesced
in up to tlie present. Chief Justice
Waite, in the case of Munri, of Illinois,
4th Otto, page 113, uses these words:
“When, therefore, one devotes his
property to a use in which the public
has an interest, he, in elfect, grants to
the public an interest in that use, and
must submit to be controlled by the pub
lic for the common good, to the extent
of the interest he has thus created.
There being two parties interested in
said road, the power to determine their
respective rights in case of conflict must
be lodged somewhere; as law commen
tators are agreed thera is no such thing
a- a legal right without a remedy.
Now, these points are applicable to all
roads where the state has granted * char
ter, and even if they should be defective
in regard to all common railroads, the
railroad owned by the state is most cer
tainly affected by it. The writer is
not a lawyer, make no preten
tions to law education, but any man or
woman that can go to the spring and
back, is aware that loaning or leasing
anything does not rob the owner of his
rights; otherwise, every lease would be
a sale, and every man that lent or leased
property would have no redress if such
lessee was not under legal obligations to
the bona tide owner, during the time
that property was out of the custody of
the real owner.
Georgia owns the state road —she has
the right to say whether that road shall
levy an enormous tax on the industry of
this country—and every unjust discrimi
nation against certain towns and cities is
a wrong that she can remedy, and she
ought to do it.
It might he said that the state had no
authority to repudiate fraudulent bonds,
on the same basis of reasoning, and, to
be entirely candid, she had less right to
repudiate a promise to pay, than she lias
to protect her citizens against unjust
freight and passenger discriminations, as
used against the labor of this country.
It matters not that Georgia was dragged
into an unfair trade by lessees who were
able to control corrupt officials, and it
matters still less, that these men are pow
erful in political influence. The right of
the question lies with the great tax-pay
ing class, who bear those wrongs, and
only ask the poor privilege of paying a
reasonable price for freight over tlieir
own road.
Remember, dear reader, the lesseea of
the state road made the enormous sum of
sl,l.‘>().t)f>7 out of the carrying trade of
this county in a single year, beginning
in May, 1877, up to to May Ist, 1878.
Who paid that money? Whose cot
ton, corn, hay, etc., paid that profit to
these public carriers, and whose money
bought the goods, provisions, etc., that
came back as return freight? In one
single year you tilled their coffers with
this ready cash, and they collected the
last dollar promptly. You paid it, you
and your neighbors, all over the state.
In the year beginning May Ist, 1878,
reaching to May Ist, 1879, it made sl,-
068,587.61, a falling off of some sixty
thousand dollars, but their net income
was greater, by over $20,000, than the
year before. Now, how was that? In
the next year reaching to May Ist, 1880,
they made $1,297,048.71, and their not
income was $406,794.90. Just think of
it! The labor of this county paid the
whole of it—first in shipping what it had
to haul, and next in paying what it
brought in as return freight. The profit
came out of you every time.
Wo think Senator Brown, has made a
mistake in resisting the commission in
this public way, for he is certainly not
prepared to say that the people of Geor
gia who own this road, who built it with
hard-earned money, and who now sub
mit to its very low rental, and yet allow
to him and his company such enormous
profits, that they have no law to regu
late these prices, which they are compell
ed to pay them as public carriers. This
will not do, not a bit of it. Where would
it stop ? The suite has the undoubt
ed right to protect her citizens from un
just freight rates, and to say it has not,
is to limit the authority of the state, and
its citizens, to a point where slavery
would be synonymous, and to elevate
railroads to a place that dictators dare
not claim. Legislation by state or fed
eral authority has the power to make
such restrictions as rightfully belong to
both. Governors and the president have
the right and power to veto hasty and
imperfect legislation, and both railroads
and shippers have the right to appeal
against injustice on either side.
Now, take the profits of the state road
in the next year in course, from May
Ist, 1880, to May Ist, 1881, and we find
$1,575,910.73, an increase of $278,878.02
in twelve months ! !
Freights were no lower to the people
living on the line of the railroad; pas
senger rates were no lower; the railroad
commission had been no tighter on the
railroad one year than another; but here
was an increase of a quarter of a million
and more, that every man in this coun
try helped to swell —not that this coun
try might be more prosperous; not that
we might build up our cities, or schools,
or churches—but simply that we should
sti ff the already full pockets of the
lessees of the state road.
Last year, as you know, was a year of
desolation, of drought, of distress to one
and all of us, that made our support by
fanning and hard work geueraily. Yet
the state road made the enormous sum
of $1,130,000.01, from May Ist. 1884, to
May Ist, 1885, by freight and passenger
traffic.
That looks like the commission was in
juring tficrn, does it not? They did not
reach the enormous dividends of some
years, it is true, but they got ali. the
freight. In our poverty and scarcity,
there was no more to come to them, yet
they never lightened our burden a mite.
They did not pity, nor did they abate a
cent, because we were so strained —they
took the last copper that they could reach.
Since the commission was established
the lessees of the state road have made
clear profit, by their own showing, in
eight years) not counting this year),
since May Ist, 18* <, $1,750,445,i 5. Di
vide that by 23, and you get the value of
each share, in eight years, and* under
the circumstances by which the lease was
secured, and the exposures, showing
how it was ratified, we think the cour
age is sublime that would dare to do
more than draw the profits and say
nothing.
If we are to be slaves to an oligarchy
that is the growth of our own careless
and wasteful generosity, let us know it,
but if we have any rights, and are to be
permitted their enjoyment, let us know
it, also. Take Cartersville’s freights for
a sample of our privileges, and we ask
all fair-minded citizens if we do not need
protection from some quarter ?
Let charity begin at home for one time,
for there seems to be no limit to outside
greed.
SUICIDES.
In another column wiH be seen an ac
count of the suicide of Miss Laura Nourse,
a young lady well raised, well-connected
and well cared for, so far as the necessa
ries of life are concerned. She is charged
with extreme wickedness by some of the
newspapers, blasphemy and other direful
crimes. Unless Rev. Mr. Turner, Mr.
Speck, Mrs. Eddleraan and the hosts who
are crowding themselves into eternity for
the same reasons, are all wicked beyond
recovery, it would be useless to charge
this poor child thus. She put on paper
what the others thought, and that is all of
it. They are crazy ; the mental faculties,
from too great a strain on certain subjects,
are unbalanced, and like any other fine
machinery that gets a screw loose, tt wears
and rubs until the crash comes. If there
Ls an honest hour in life, we take the hour
of death to be that one, and the poor girl
was suffering, she did not get relief, and
in her blind despair she “cursed God and
died,” in her crazy delirium. The human
soul is a delicate thing, placed in a deli
cate frame, and from the cradle to the
grave it is subject to the wear and tear of
outside sin, hypocrisy, falsehood and
meanness. Many persons have kept away
from the comfort of religion because they
could not reconcile the precepts and the
conduct of those who professed to be teach
ers and guides. Their belief in God was
subjected to the trial of watchiug those
who, like some of old, made “gain” of
their religion ; and woe to the blind guides,
the hypocrits and Pharisees, by whom
such offenses come !
This epidemic of suicide that now devas
tates this fair land has a reason, it grows
out of something, and it behooves patriots
and Christians to understand the reason
and the remedy.
Tim IULL TO I'A C CRUIZE TENANTS.
Our Atlanta correspondents in his last
week’s letter conveys an impre-sion
which unintentialiv misrepresents Hon.
G. L. Humphries, of DeKalb county, in
bis remarks and vote upon the “pauper
tenant” Gill which was, fortunately for
the farmers of Georgia, defeated in the
House of Representatives.
Mr. Humphries said that his principal
objection to the pauper tenant bill was
that it would create endless litigation—it
would make a “mean tenant meaner.”
This is true because it would give a
worthless tenant the power and opportu
nity to deprive the landlord not only of
his rents but of the value of all supplies
which may have been furnished said ten
ant by said landlord, until both rents and
supplies are consumed in spiteful litiga
tion. There is no worthy tenant, who
is oppressed by a selfish and unjust land
lord, that will ever be unable to give se
curity for the maintenance of a legal and
righteous claim.
This bill, if it had been enacted into a
law would have given constant and prof
itable employment to the lawyers of the
country.
It might have been very properly de
nominated “a bill for the relief of impe
cunious lawyers.” It certainly would
have effectually destroyed the tenant sys
tem of the State, as no farmer would
have rented land to a man unless that
man could have given bond and security
for compliance with his contract. For
this reason it was a measure which would
have been ruinous to the pauper tenants
of the State. The tanners of the House
“sat down” upon the bill.
ALABA it A CLAIMS SCANDAL.
An act of Congress in 1874 created a
commission to adjusticate all claims that
pertained to an equitable settlement be
tween all parties, by which to divide out
some millions then in the treasury.
Enormous salaries were given to the
judge and all concerned, with an allow
ance of SB,OOO per annum to the counsel.
It now transpires that $35,000 per annum
was paid out extra to other lawyers,
among whom were Mr. Walker Blaine
and a son of ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen,
both getting nearly $4,000 per annum
each. Really, it seems as if nepotism is
to be the curse of all the officials of this
country. Xot satisfied with their own
huge profits, they contrive to get places
for all of their sons and near kinsman,
even if they go outside the law to do it,
as has been done in the matter under
discussion. It looks like “anchors were
east to the windward” at every turn by
some very enterprising politicians.
Fly Fans and Traps, at
V. L. Williams & Cos.
Fruit Powder preserves vegetables aud
fruits perfectly. Go to Curry’s drug
store and secure a supply at once.
THE MARIETTA. AX’D XORTIt GEORGIA
RAILROAD.
The Legislature is now being besieged
by this railroad for more help. Since its
inception there has been a steady cry for
help—and help it has had in large meas
ure. Oar readers are not unfamiliar with
how thpy in imaged convicts granted them
by the State, and how they became a
party to one of the dirtiest tricks ever
recorded—namely the deceit and chican
ery practiced with four miserable con
victs in Fulton county jail.
That affair should have vacated the
disgraced the men who were unfit-,
lease in every* single instance, as well
by lack of high sense of honor, to man
age the business for the State of Georgia.
But the Marietta and North Georgia
railroad has had a great deal of assistance
from the State. They were working con
victs in 1876, and they continued to work
them by the gracious pleasure of the
State until two years ago. Up to that
time it was agreeable to certain parties
to allow them to work convicts—but
their own greed overcoming that policy,
they took away their convicts for them
selves, and set on foot the plan to fleece
the State and the tax-payers again. Such
monumental clmek does beggar language
to express it. The insolence of certain
people is inexpressible.
According to the showing of the At
lanta Constitution, and it generally
speaks by authority, we have a Supreme
Court of a very variable and uncertain
mind to express it mildly. If its inca
pacity is betrayed in other matters, as it
is shown in this case, by the Constitution
of Monday, we are in a miserable plight
in Georgia, so far as the highest judiciary
is concerned. They decided one way,
in one year, and revived and revised their
decision the next year. Alas! Alas!
There seems to be no relief for honest
people.
ATLANTA LETTER.
Atlanta, Ga. Aug. 31, 1885.
The sensation of Atlanta for the past
few days is the reports that appeared in
the Cincinnati papers Thursday and Fri
day to the effort that the Rev. J. G. Arm
strong, the minister of St. Phillips Epis
copal church of Atlanta, had been found
in Cincinnati drunk in houses of ill re
pute. A private dispatch to this city
Wednesday night informed certain per
sons of the news. The information, the
next morning, was given to the vestry.
A committee was sent to Cincinnati and
returned yesterday morning with Dr.
Armstrong. It is worthy of notice that
the Doctor did not preach yesterday.
On Saturday five hundred copies of a
Cincinnati paper containing a column
and a half of the said affair, were sold
here in one hour. Another installment
of five hundred copies of the same pa
pers will be on sale here this afternoon.
The dealer assures me he has had calls
enough since Saturday to have sold a
thousand more copies than he had. The
city has been literally seething with ex
citement and curiosity over the sad af
fair. It is the only topic of conversation
that engrosses all. Everywhere there is
an honest regret about the report. The
committee of the vestry has not officially
reported yet; but it is thought the Doctor
will either be dismissed or allowed to re
sign. No paper in Atlanta has mention
ed the matter.
Dr. Armstrong has a wife and a grown
daughter. These ladies are universally
beloved in this community, and the blow
on them is terrible. The Doctor was
away on a month’s leave, lie had been
to Canada and was, it is thought, on his
way home. Possibly, fatigued by a long
ride, he took a glass of stimulant aX Cin
cinnati, when the taste fired by the drink,
may have led him unwillingly to take too
much. Certain it is that the Doctor was
out of his mind, for his character for so
briety and purity are too well known
for any one to even admit the possibility
of hia willfully falling as the papers say
he did. The rumor is on the streets to
day that It is beyond doubt that he is
suffering mental aberration. Thi is cer
tain : that since Dr. Armstrong came to
Atlanta his conduct has been ex mplary,
and his ministrations been marked by
aMlity and Christian zeal.
Developments are being awaited with
anxious curiosity by the community.
The Doctor, as well as his esteemed fam
ily, have the profound sympathy of the
people of Atlanta.
LAYING THE CORNER STONE.
The laying of the corner stone of the
new capitol will occur on Wednesday.
Preparations are being made to celebrate
the event in great style. The oration of
Gen. A. R. Lawton will, it is aid, be
really and truly one of the greatest
public addresses. The masonic ceremo
nies will be unusually imposing, the full
ritual being observed. The United
States soldiers encamped here will take
part in the procession by special invita
tion of the General Assembly. But why
go on when the next Courant will have
full report of the ceremony?
ABOUT BUSINESS.
We are doing considerable blowing
about business, whilst more stores and
houses are becoming vacant every day,
notwithstanding the fact that September
is the month when renting is the most
brisk. The fact is Atlanta’s phenomenal
growth and good business consequent
thereon, gave a fictitious value to real
estate. Rents went up to exhorbitant
figures. The boom enabled tenants to
pay them. Now' the boom i3 gone and
tenants cannot pay the abnormal rents,
and there is not a single street in Atlan
ta where there are not vacant stores and
dwelling?. It is hard to reduce the rents
because many owners bought property
at tl\ose boom prices. For instance, I
know one gentleman who paid five
thousand dollars for a five room cottage
on a side street. The cottage rents for
$25. That does not pay the owner and it
is too high for the house. Consequent
ly, the house is vacant now. It is not
worth more $18; and at that rent the in
vestment amonut3 to a positive loss to
the holder. Real estate is shrinking in
value and Atlanta has to face serious
loss therein. The Evening Capitol views 1
this as a very serious matter, and speaks
bewailingly thereof.
A CITY OK CHURCHES.
Atlanta is a city of churches, and I
may add a community of Christians.
There are as many churches in propor
tion to the population here as there are
in Brooklyn. All are handsome edifices.
All services are well attended, and the
pastors are liberally supported. In the
matter of preachers, there are half dozen
as eloqueut clergymen here as can be
found in any other city. The Baptist and
Methodist churches and congregations
dominate in numbers. The religious
sentiment is very strong, and in no
Southern city is the Sabbath so strictly
observed as it is here. Indeed, we bor
der somewhat on the Puritan; but it is
better that we learn that way than the
other. There is very little bigotry,
however, between the different denomi
nations, which is a sterling evidence of
the sincerity of the religion professed.
CONNELL —GANTT.
Mr. Connell retracted his language
ahout Larry Gantt, of the Athens Ban
ner-Watchman, and apologized for the
same; and Mr. Gantt published it, and
the fact that an arbitration committee
had awarded that when Connell made
his retraction in the House, Gantt should
retract his comments anent Connell and
his bachelor bill. This will be a good
lesson to Mr. Connell in two ways—not
to waste time in introducing bills for
fun, and not to undertake to smoke out
newspaper men unless he is thoroughly
prepared for the job. Other members
may get a wrinkle about fathering bills
for fun. Mr. Connell has looked very
depressed ever since he had to rise in his
seat and eat his words. However, his
remarks about Mr. Gantt were totally
unjustifiable, and his humiliation is a
just punishment for his baby peevish
ness and unmanly remarks.
NOTES.
The theatre opens hero Friday night
with minstrels. Three performances
will be given—Friday and Saturday
nights and Saturday matinee.
The police court is busy to-day. The
trial of W. A. Pledger for libel in his
paper called the Defiance, is in progress
to-day.
The hotels are filling up with visitors
to the corner stone laying.
Bishop Becker, of Delaware, is said to
be the successor to Bishop Gross as Cathr
olic bishop of Savannah.
LATER.
Sept. 1, 1885.—The friends of Dr.
Armstrong to-day utterly deny the re
ports in the Cincinnati papers relative to
his drinking. The committee of the ves
try have accepted the Doctor’s statement,
which they claim to have been verified,
and which is as follows:
Several years ago, when the Doctor
was pastor in Richmond, application for
membership of his charge by a lawyer of
bad repute was refused. The man
swore to be “even” with Dr. Armstrong
if it should take years. When Dr. Arm
strong arrived in Cincinnati a "few days
before the report appeared in the Cincin
nati papers, the first man who greeted
him was the; aforesaid man, who had
moved from Richmond to Cincinnati.
Me apologized for addressing the Doctor,
and said that his excuse for so doing was
an object of charity. He did not know
whether the Doctor was aware of it, and
he therefore came to him to tell him that
a niece of the Doctor’s had just arrived,
and she was living a life of shame. He
gave the Doctor her name, but did not
know her address. The Doctor at once
ordered a hack, at one o’clock in the day,
and started out on his holy mission to
save his fallen niece, lie drove from
house to house seeking his kinswoman,
and found her and brought her away.
While he was engaged in this sacred
duty, the Richmond scoundrel put the
reporters on his track without telling
them the Doctor’s missions. The sensa
tional papers, of course, saw “meat” in a
preacher’s visiting such houses, and im
meniately proceeded to publish the great
scandal.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. Ist, 1885.
The House yesterday killed the bill of
fered by Mr. Lewis, of Hancock, prohib
iting railroads from giving, and members
of the Legislature from receiving, free
passes. There were 75 nays and 24 ayes.
The majority said they could not be
bribed by a railroad pass. That is true,
and the president of the United States
could not be bribed by a present from a
foreign power, but the law says he shall
not accept any such present; and custom,
founded in a keen sense of propriety,
forbids his receiving gifts from citizens.
Crn. Grant shocked the sense of this
country by violating this worthy and
wise custom. there passes, bribes,
there culd be none gi w en openly. It
was not because they are briDt.: then that
the bill was framed, but because the
tora is not manly, and because it is perni
cious per se. The law allowing mileage
is a declaration on the part of the people
against the free pass system.
AFTER COLQUITT.
For soino time there huvo boen ugly
unfounded rumors about the part Senator
Colquitt took in securing the right of way
over four miles of the State Hoad for the
Georgia Pacific. The State got a thous
and dollars for the privilege. That sum,
it is held, ig by no means adequate for
tho use of four miles of railroad, and ru
mor says more was paid by the road, but
to whom there is no sufficient evidence to
determine. For some time the Macon
Telegraph has been hammering at the
Legislature to investigate the affair.
Yesterday a resolution was adopted that
had been offered some time before by
Mr. Bartlett, of Bibb, providing for a
joint committee of seven members of the
House and four from the Senate, to in
vestigate the matter. It is hoped that the
“nigger in the wood pile” will soon be
discovered. A question involved is that
the lessees of the State Road have no
right to sublet without the consent of the
lessor, the State. This point is recog
nized as being well taken, and the inves
tigation cannot but prove of great inter
est and satisfaction.
NOTES.
As prophesied last week the compul
sory pilotage bill was defeated.
There are two daily sessions now, one
from 9 a. in. to 1 p. m. and from 1 to 8
p. m.
A resolution is pending that the Leg
islature adjourn sine die September 26th.
Dr. Dugger, member of the House
from Fannin county, walks from his
home to Atlauta, a distance of SO miles.
He is over 70 years old.
Dr. Felton has introduced a bill to pay
Emsley Stegall compensation for a prom
ised life pass over the State Road for
right of way through his place.
Mr. Fite says ho has introduced his last
bill.
Mr. Pringle, who has charge of the
general local option bill, says he will
call it up this week. He thinks the
House will agree to the Senate amend
ments, the most important of which is
to allow election every two years by
either whiskey or prohibition petitions.
WHAT ABOUT ITT
Bishop Foster, of the Methodist church
North, preached a most remarkable ser
mon at Martha’s Vineyard a short time
ago. The occasion was the dedication
of anew chapel at that place. He spoke
from the text, “What shall be the char
acter of the services held here for years
to come?” To this he replied, In sub
stance: “Not a camp-meeting revival
service, at all events.” He took the
broad ground that modern revivals did
more harm than good. He said these
camp-meeting gatherings were “noisy
services ami religious crudities.” It
looks like there was something akin to
what is called “reform within the par
ty,” according to the New York Sun,
inside the M. E. Church. Now, if some
outsider should say this, it would raise a
fuss, and we wait to seo what will be
done with the Bishop, who steps so
boldly outside the precedents and au
thorized policy of the Methodist church.
What say our Methodist brethren down
this way ?
MARIETTA & NORTH GEORGIA R. R.
Enthusiastic Meetings Asking the legis
lature to Act in Sucha Manner as Will
Insure Its Completion.
Jasper, Ga., August 29th, 1885.
A large and enthusiastic railroad meet
ing was held at Jasper on August 29th,
1885. The Meeting was organized by
electing Colonel J. J. A. Sharpe, of
Cherokee county, chairman, and R. V.
Kelly, of Talking Rock, secretary. The
object of the meeting was explained by
the chairman, in a few pointed remarks
as to the importance of completing the
Marietta and North Georgia railroad and
the benefits that will accrue to the state
by its completion.
Colonel J. W. Henly then addressed
the meeting, showing the advantages
that we had already received from the
road, and the wealth that would bo added
to the state by its completion. He re
viewed the struggles of the p-'ople of the
couuties through which it is to pass, and
the obligations which the state is under
to deal fairly and equitably with the com
pany has done and say they are still wil
ling to carry out their part of the contract
if the state will deal fairly and equitably
with them. At the close of his remarks,
the following preamble and resolutions
were adopted:
Whereas, the people of Cobb, Chero
kee, Pickens, Gilmer, Fannin, Towns
and Union counties have been struggling
for ten years to build the Marietta and
North Georgia railroad, and
Whereas, the Marietta and North Geor
gia railroad company, by holding out to
an eastern company a former lease of the
convicts of Georgia, made to said Mari
etta and North Georgia railroad company,
and fully recognized by the state in its
legislative, judicial and executive de
partments before the trade was made, as
valid, said eastern company was induced
to extensively invest their capital in said
railroad, and did, in good faith, take
charge of said railroad and the convicts
under said lease, and thinking it to be
valid, and did complete about forty-five
miles of said road, at which time the said
convicts were taken from said company
and the lease under which said company
had taken charge of said convicts was de
clared void, and thereby the work stop
ped, and
Whereas, We are informed by said
company that if the legislature will equit
ably adjust the claims of the state and
the company that they will at once pro
ceed to complete said road, and
Whereas, i’ne early completion of said
road is of the utmost importance to the
state, and especially to this section of
Georgia, and therefore, be it, by the peo
ple of Pickens county, in convention as
sembled,
Resolyed, First, That our senators and
representatives be, and are hereby, re
quested and urged to use all their influ
ence to f iss such an act or resolution as
the endf of justice and equity between
this company and the state demand to
secure the early completion of the
said railroad,
Resolved, Second, That we as citizens
of Georgia, appeal to the judgment and
patriotism of the general assembly of our
great state to aid us in this our effort to
complete our road through to Murphy,
N. C., knowing that it has already
brought a great deal of capital into our
midst, and believing that when complet
ed it will briug in a great deal more and
thus develope our hidden resources and
add wealth to our state, and increase our
taxable property largely, and will be an
act of justice to our mountain country,
that has long been neglected.
Resolved Third, That our representa
tives and senator be furnished with a
copy of these resolutions.
J. J. A. Sharpe, Chairman.
R. Y. Kelly, Secretary.
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The regular fall term of this institution will
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The annual session of this school
wiil be resume i on the
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Carpenter and Mrs. Han is, ae cial principals,
witn Mrs. Raker teacher of Elocution and
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