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DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
SEPTEMBER l<>, HBS.
Wk wish again to state distinctly and
emphatically that Dr. Felton does not
write one word of our Atlanta liters,
lie floes not know the contents of these
letters until he reads them in Thk COU
KANT.
Tiik Coukant was the recipient of a
fine lot of peaches a few days ago, pre
sented hy Hon. G. L. Humphries, mem
ber of the Legislature from DeKalb
county. Asa rule peaches have been in
f<¥ ior in this county —but those were per
fect, luscious, delightful. In the long
ago we were acquainted in old DeKalb,
and this timely remembrance brings back
a memory of the happy past. Our old
county is fortunate in having so faithful
a representative as the Hon. Mr. Hum
phries, who is as reliable as he is able.
The Methodist foreign mission board is over
one hundred thousand dollars in debt with no
immediate hope or prospect of getting out of
the trouble. What a mockery foreign missions
are, when right here at home in Georgia there
are men and women absolutely ignorant of the
Master’s name. Let us convert our own people,
brethren.—Athens Chronicle.
To those who are disposed to criticise
some of us who presume to speak a word
in season, we commend the above to
their careful consideration. Let us do
our duty to the heathen, but let us also
do our duty to the poor people among us,
and especially let us be honest to God
and man in paying up all just debts be
fore we contract new ones.
The North Georgia members of the Legisla
ture appear to be opposed to the sale of the
State Head. We should rather sec Georgia out
of debt than to own two railroads.—Dalton Ar
gus.
Are we to understand by this that the
Argus favors the sale of the State "Road
for this reason alone? Remember it is a
property that returned to the lessees dur
ing last year,the enormous sum of $1,130,-
000 as freights and passenger profits.
That profit managed hy honest parties
for the benefit of the State would soon
pay off principal and interest of the State
debt and leave the property intact, to be
a continual source of revenue to the
State.
Bro. Argus, you would not sell your
printing press and circulation to pay a
debt of a hundred dollars, but yon would
work that property and pay it without
trouble. Georgia will have killed the
goose that lays the golden eggs when she
sells her bust paying property.
SA YE TUP MOSEY.
There are now in this State, we un
derstand, six inspectors of guano who
get SI2OO for a few hours labor on guano
shipments. The same persons are also
inspectors of oil—for which they get
i.U'ge fees. The fees from the oil inspec
tion ought to go direct to the State. We
also understand that this work is done in
the different districts by a man employ
ed in tho cities or large towns by these
paid inspectors—who gets about S3OO for
the work, and the rest, goes clear into the
State employee’s pocket. It is said that
M aeon, Atlanta, Columbus, Augusta and
Savannah, with Rome and Brunswick,
pay nearly $7,000 as fees in oil, to pay
men who already draw SI2OO each. Ten
thousand good business men in these cit
ies and in the vicinity could discharge
both duties for the SI2OO salary. As it
now stands one draws S3OO for making
guano tests while the other draws SOOO
for letting him do it, and gets guano fees
for nothing. This whole fertilizer busi
ness needs investigation.
VOSt’NT FIT US.
'I lie objection of the Cartorsville Cotrant to
tlio proposed schoolhonse for Miss Laura Hay
good might equally as well be applied to all mis
sionary enterprises. The fact seems to be over
looked that the heathen of our land are respon
sible for their own condition, amt that work
upon them is generally wasted, while those of
foreign lands are anxious for the light if they
could lo brought to sec it.—Atlanta Constitution.
Thk Couhant yields to no one, in hon
est respect for the faithful Christian work
of our missionaries in China, nor are we
objector* “to a school house for Miss
Laura Haygood” in China. As an hum
ble Methodist, a native of Georgia, and
one who has a warm interest in the
heathen of our own land —we simply
begged for a less costly school house in
China for the Mongolian that a little
more attention should bo given to the
heathen in our midst, whose morals and
manners so vitally affect our progress
and civilization. If it is also true that
the Methodist Foreign Mission Board is
SIOO,OOO in debt, we now think the $25,-
000 school house should wait until other
money matters are settled. The present
state of things in joining Territory
with six hundred Chinese murdered,
burnt out and driven into exile by our
own white heathen, would indicate the
necessity for a little attention to home
missions while we are so absorbed in re
gard to China. We do not like the Con
stitution to limit the promise of the
Father to our own heathen; and what
shall lie said of the people who allow
their own households to suffer while they
grow maudlin over Mrs. Jellaby’s heath
en in foreign lands? We confess to a
much greater interest in the poor white
and colored children in Georgia—upon
whose good conduct so much depends for
us and cur children than for the Chinese
who are very choice spirits in China—in
a $25,000 school house, but who are de
spised lepers, hated and butchered in
civilized America.
Rev. Sam Jones: l have little taste for
theology and botany, but I love religion !
ud flowers. \
TIIK XVAGE* OP MS—DEATH.
On Monday mornine, August 31st, a
rnan by the name of Tom Davis bade his
fashionable family good-bye, and went
to his down-town office, in New \ ork
City. His home was an elegant one, and
his estate was valued at SGO,OOO. His
family consisted of a wife and three
young boys, under fifteen years of age.
They have been gay, fashionable people,
all the summer, with the visitors at Co
ney Island and Kockaway Beach. This
was the outside history, but Tom Davis
did not let his family into the secrets of
his inside history. Most likely, they
were* entirely innocent of his trade and
ignorant of his real character. He be
gun life by clerking for a clothing swin-
dler on commission. His duty was to be
guile purchasers into clothing stores, and
for every fellow he fleeced he was paid a
commission. He next speculated on
false jewelry—sold it for real—and made
many dollars. When the war broke out
he managed a bounty brokerage, in
which the soldiers were swindled. At
this he made a great deal. Then he ran
a faro game. At this he is reported to
have lost so much that he turned to pock
et-picking in his necessity. He then
followed prize-fighters around, betting
on muscle, and gratifying his taste at the
same time. He was a pal with a bank
robber, his brother-in-law. He always
escaped prison, however, and generally
made money. Ho next took to betting
on walking matches, and he made six
thousand dollars on Rowell in a rowing
match. He raced horses, and he manag
ed roller-rinks, lie kept all this busi
ness from his family, however, and they
floated on the top of the wave of pleas
ure. Such was the situation on Monday
forenoon, when he met a great brawny
Texan at the Continental Hotel, in New
York City, and made an appointment
with him to call at Davis’ office to finish
their business that had been negotiating
some days. The Texan went at two
o’clock, and Davis sold him SIO,OOO in
counterfeit bank bills, for which the
Texan paid SSOO cash. The room in
which they sat had a partition. In that
partition was a door, hut it was conceal
ed behind a large desk. A3 the Texan
sat there he saw Davis place the counter
feit bills in the Texan’s saehel and push
the saehel towards the edge of the desk.
He also saw a secret hand slide that sach
et behind the desk. On this he arose,
placed a pistol to Davis’ breast, and
called out, “I’m on to your game, gim
me back my money.” The hidden con
federate was afraid to push it back at
once, and the Texan shot Tom Davis.
He died on the spot. The Texan was
arrested, admitted the shooting, and the
saehel was recovered, filled with three
bundles of blank paper, resembling the
missing counterfeit bills. Davis’ broth
er was found to be the confederate,
and the secret room was full of the tricks
of the trade. In the dead man’s pocket
there were nearly six hundred dollars in
good money, and his desk was full of
stocks and bonds, which were examined
and spread around in this blood-bespat
tened den of crime.
We have carefully traced the career of
this man who led dual lives; one of fash
ionable respectability at Coney Island,
with a brilliant wife and three bright
young sons, and the other in a counter
feit den, dealing in “sawdust.” Such a
life had a fitting close—the work he did
was worthy of the wages he received.
What a lesson to the boys of this coun
try ! Honesty is the best policy, hero as
well as hereafter. From tricking inno
cent people into shoddy clothing
his descent into crime was rapid and
easy. From a little beginning, the coun
terfeiter progressed into the intricacies
of great crimes—and he found—the wa
ges of sin to be death! Ah! but who
can tell the agony of that wife and chil
dren?
AS EX PLAN A TION IN ORDER.
The telegraphic wires are sending the
news far and wide that Chinese laborers
in Wyoming Territory are being massa
cred by white citizens their homes
burnt, and the survivors driven belter
skelter into hiding places until tlieir pur
suers catch up with the homeless crea
tures to complete the final work of mur
der and destruction. The Pacific coast
is said to be ripe for a similar massacre,
and it is evident the Chinese must either
go or the United States will be obliged
to hang its own white citizens by the
score for murder.
Will somebody please explain the rea
son why the Mongolian is so precious to
Christian hearts when the Pacific “rolls
between”, and so obnoxious to American
people when there is nothing but land in
the way. In other words the Christian
churches spend millions to evangelize
China and when Chinamen come among
us to honestly earn their daily bread in a
land of churches and bibles, we give
them mmuie-balls and the torch of ex
termination ! If converted Chinese are
taught by Christian men and women
from America to believe that this a free
country, where every man and woman
can learn Christ without hindrance and
if these poor converted heathens come
here to seek a Christian home, and en
deavor, by working honestly for it, to be
no burden to the people living here,
why do our do our people return shot
and powder as a welcome, and kindle in
cendiary torches beneath their humble
abodes—as a hint to shorten their stay ?
Just as sure as there is a God in Heav
en this will bear fruit that will taste bit
ter in the years to come!
We have made hypoeeutical treaties
time and We claim all and give
none in our policy—and when the Chi
nese come as laborers—to increase the
wealth of our country —we butcher their
bodies and leave their souls to get along
as best they can in bloodshed, cruelty and
injustice.
As gamesters would say, “ Put up or
shut up,” and it is time this question was
settled and a fair explanation given.
Mr. llarry Phixizy is making the
Athens Chronicle one of the very best
weekly papers in Georgia. Tke Coc
kant feels that it has a rival worthy of
its best efforts, and we extend the
right hand of fellowship to an able arid
active contemporary.
TUP I) EPIC IT IS TUE TREASURY.
The present existing deficit in the treas
ury, upon the statement made this morn
ing to vonr correspondent by Treasurer
Hardeman, is over $250,000. A few days
awo the State was forced to borrow $30,000
to pay for work on the new capitol, and
she has already exhausted or nearly so
a temporary loan of $172,000. It is prob
able that there will be a like deficit in the
treasury next summer, and each succeed
ing summer, until this running deficit is
wiled out by a sufficient increase in the
rate of taxation. In explanation of this
deficit, it is stated that it grew out of a
change in the fiscal y< a-- in 1881. At the
instance of Comptroller General Gold
smith, in 1877, the fiscal year was chang
ed so as to begin October 1, instead of
January 1. In 1881 the fiscal year was
changed back to Janary Ist, without
making any provision for three months
] o ,t_Gt.>ber, November and December.
The failure to make appropriations to
cover these months created the deficit in
treasury, which still exists.
The State is prosperous enough and rich
enough to have an easy treasury. While
it would be unwise and an unnecessary
and outrageous burden on the people to
carry a large surplus, there ought always
to be on hand funds to meet the current
expenses of the government. It looks
like bad financial management to see the
State run out into the street every sum
mer and solicit small loans.
Even accepting the statement now
made by the financial committee it must
he plain to them that the margin in the
treasury is far too small and uncertain.
It is small and uncertain enough for De
cember 31, ISSG when the taxes have
been coming in for three months, but
how will it be in the August preceding.
It does not need further argument or
figures to show that the matter is a press
ing one and a serious one. If is to hi*
hoped that the finance committee and tin*
Legislature will find some way to meet it
better and ill a mure business like way
than they have yet done.—Atlanta Cor
respondent Macon Telegraph and Mes
senger.
It is due to the committee on finance to
say that they hope to come out square
and even, if the state has no bad luck
this fall, and if taxes come in as assessed,
and no state depositories break and the
appropriations of this legislature do not
exceed $17,000, they hope to see the
state pay out, and leave a small amount
in the treasury to run next year’s expen
ses. Let us hope they will find the way
easy, and the road smooth to the desired
end. Our thanks are due to the bravo
men on the committee who signed a mi
nority report that made a full examina
nation necessary. There is no wrong
doing, no defalcation, but the state has a
heap of money to raise, and our people
should go slow, when that money comes
out of the tax-payers of Georgia, who, in
.the rural districts, have worked so hard
and lived so plain, during the past three
years of poverty and poor crops. Man
age the state’s business on common sense
principles. When times are hard, let all
draw in expenses, and when they are
flush, go ahead within reasonable limits.
ATLANTA LEXTER.
Atlanta, Ga. Sep. 7,1885.
Te latest development in the Arm
strong matter, is that the vestry of St.
Phillip’s church was in session nearly all
day Saturday, investigating the case.
The result of their deliberations was the
promulgation of the following resolu
tions :
Resolved, that after careful and thor
ough investigation of the reports which
have been printed upon Rev. Dr. Arm
strong, it is the opinion of this vestry
that the facts do not demand the with
drawal of confidence in our esteemed
rector.
Resolved, That we hereby tender to
Dr. Armstrong and family our sympa
thy to the mortification and distress to
which he has been subjected, and in the
work of the Master wo invoke the mer
cy ana blessing of God upon his life and
labors for the good fit' others.
The appearance of the resolutions in
yesterday’s paper created considerable
discussion. The public seemed to regard
the resolutions as evasive. They do not
say enough. They simply feay “ the
facts do not demand the withdrawal of
confidence in our esteemed ,“ rector.’
Now, if the unfortunate charges against
Dr. Armstrong are not true, it is due to
him and to the public that vestry should
have explicitly said so; and this the in
vestigators do not say There is more at
stake in this case than the mere reputa
of Dr. Armstrong. The mere
of an individual will not
repair the wrong done the cause of reli
gion. The wrong can only be repaired—
even in part —by an absolute acquittal of
the Doctor from all these uncanny charg
es, or of his conviction. Compromise
will not do, and evasion is worse. I
have no opinion as to whether the Doc
tor has, like all Christians, tripped on the
narrow, thorny path or not, for the re
port of the vestry, in its resolutions, is
not explicit.
Yesterday, Dr. Armstrong preached —
his first appearance in St. Phillips since
these ugly reports of his conduct in Cin
cinnati. He began by saying, “I cannot,
my brethren, suppress my feelings wnich
are upon my heart just now, nor conceal
the deep appreciation and the unfeigned
gratitude which I teel to the press of the
city of Atlanta and I might say to the
whole people of Atlanta and to the mem
bers of my own parish and to my vestry
for the l sympathy, confidence and
strength that they have given me during
the last two weeks when clouds were
rolling over my life. Believe me, that
that appreciation and gratitude are com
mensurate with the sympathy, confidence
and strength which you have given me.”
The Doctor chose for his text the 21st
verse of the ninth chapter of Matthew:
“If I may but touch His garment I shall
be whole.”
AX OLD CLOTHES FIGHT.
Some time ago Mr. Brandt, of Rich
mond, introduced a bill prohibiting im
portation into this State and sale thereof
of second-hand clothes. The committee
on public health reported the bill unfa
vorably. To-dav Mr. Brandt moved to
disagree with that report. He wanted
the bill passed because the importation of
secand-hand clothes is the most prolific
means of introducing diseases there is.
He read letters from the health officers
of Macon and Savannah, certifying to
his position.
Mr. Watkins, of Gilmer, of the com
mittee on public health, opposed the bill.
The second-hand clothing imported is
always of the best class of goods. Be
fore they are sent out they are thorough
ly steamed and disinfected. The men
handling these clothes would not subject
themselves to danger of catching obnox
ious infections or contagions, and they
are more subject to the possibility than
any one else. It is cheap, new clothing
dealers, who want a stop put to selling
second-hand clothing, because it com
petes directly and successfully with
them.
The report was disagreed to, and the
bill read a second time. It will likely
pass.
LEGISLATION FOR BARTOW.
On Saturday Mr. Fite’s bills to abolish
the county court of Bartow county and
to establish a city court for Cartersville,
with jurisdiction over the whole county,
were passed. It is provided that the
solicitor general, clerk, and sheriff of
Bartow Superior Court be ollieers ex-of
ficio of the city court. The judge is to
be appointed bv the Governor and con
firmed by the Senate.
Judge G. S. Tumlin, the judge of the
county court, it is said, has given
entire satisfaction, and he could be ap
pointed judge of the city court without
opposition; but as he has decided not to
be a candidate there are several appli
cants for this judgeship, among whom
are J. J. Conner, J. B. Conyers and E.
1). Graham. The bills now go to the
Senate.
THAT CORNER STONE.
The laying of the corner-store drew
only a moderate crowd from outside the
city. Gen. Lawton’s speech was deliv
ered in a tone so low as not to be heard
twenty yards from him. The address is
praised by old Georgians as being pru
dent and judicious. The Masonic cere
monies were the feature of the day.
Senator Davidson, as Grand Master Ma
son of the Grand Lodge of the State, of
ficiated. The ceremonies were interest
ing, and performed smoothly.
NOTES.
The local option bill comes up Tues
day. It will create great discussion.
Your exchanges continue to copy from
these letters without giving credit. Most
of them got their information on the
Armstrong affair from the Coukant.
The Rome Courier, or Bulletin, credits
these letters to Dr. Felton. Please
“twig” its ears.
The House held an adjourned session
at the opera house Fridray night to see
the minstrels.
Mr. Connell put in his appearance this
morning, the first time for over a week.
Larry Gantt seems to have “smoked him
out of his hole.”
Adjournment cannot bo had before
Oct. Ist.
The Courant’s article on the Western
& Atlantic railroad last week was a sen
sation. Copies of the paper were eager
ly sought by senators and members.
Chamberlain & Boynton’s really mag
nificent store building is rapii&y nearing
completion. It will be occupied within
a few weeks.
Lizzie May Ulmer appears at the opera
house here on the 10th inst.
The committee on finance have report
ed favorably a bill to levy a special tax of
one-half mill tor building the capitol.
You will remember that the capitol was
to built out of the surplus in the treasu
ry. This bill provides for the surplus,
and that is the only surplus out of which
the building could be erected.
The House meets in the afternoon
from 4to 0 o’clock. The night sessions
proved unpopular, and were abolished.
They may be resumed later on.
THE REASON WHY.
The state sentae rejected recently Mr.
Northerns bill requiring the teaching in
rhe public schools of the hygienic effects
of alcohol and other stimulants upon the
human i r one.
The bill had been called for by the W.
C. T. U., in session in Columbus, in
May; by the Stute Temperance Associa
tion in June, in Atlanta, and perhaps by
every temperance orgauiz ri*m in the
state. The teachers of the public schools
themselves favored it, and, so far as the
writer knows, without exception; the
state school commissioner favored it, and
there was not a shadow of opposition
manifested to the bill by any of the edu
cating or moral forces in the country.
The measure was certainly backed by all
the elements which had a right to be
heard on the subject. Why then should
it have failed of prompt passage?
Clearly, if the matter be referred to its
own merits, only one of the two answers
can be given. Either the subject of hy
gienic instruction must have been regard
ed as of too little relative importance to
occupy any of the pupils’ time in school,
or, the teaching must have been presum
ed likely to propagate errors, or inculcate
false views into the minds of children. As
to the former of these objections, we may
answer, that a modicum of modesty in
law-makers who are not themselves teach
ers, nor, presumably, experts in the
science of pedagogies, would naturally
suggest to them that some deference was
due to the men and women who have the
teaching to do, or to supervise, and who,
with no additional cost to the state, are
willing to take upon themselves the labor.
Some deference was certainly due to those
moral and religious organizations which
have been chief promoters of the intelli
gence and morality of the country. But
is not hygiene of enough importance to
demand for itself a place among the re
quired duties of the common school ? Is
it not of a* much value for the pupil to
know his own body and that which is ben
eficial or injurious to ii, as to know the
map of Africa, or to solve problems in
compound proportion? Would not the
poor slave of alcohol or tobacco gladly
give up all his geography and arithmetis
to be free from the thialdpm of an arti
ficial appetite ? And the probabilities are
that he would never have lost his man
hood and h&y become the object he now'
is, had the truth **en thoroughly ingrain
ed into his very fibre in his childhood.
The great arriy of inebriates who com
menced tippling through social influences,
or, perchance, through somebody’s pre-
scription, how
had the common school teacher but torn
the veil from the stinging adder, aud j
'shown the wreck of nerves and muscles, J
which alcohol strews in its track. Say- j
ing nothing of crushed hopes, and bleed- j
ing, despairing hearts, which curse the
day of their birth and die ; nothing of the
crime, poverty, and mental and moral
degradation which always follow such in
dulgence, still we have a thousand reasons
why the child should know what will ben
fit or injure him. In fact, no other study
in his curriculum has*such direct bearing
up on his health and his morals, as that
which teaches him to*conserve and prop-
erly use his wealth of nerve and muscle
forces, from which all the energies of
life must be developed, and upon which
all industry must depend. Is it of no im
portance to the child to know these things?
It seems too absurd to even discuss such
a question. But what of the other horn of
the dilemma? Is error so likely to be in
culcated that the patriotic senators seek to
prevent it. It was proposed to use, as a
text book, a little work of 207 pages, pre
pared by Prof. Palmer, Dean of the Med
ical Faculty of the University of Michigan.
This work, entitled “Hygiene for Young
People,” was prepared by its eminent au
thor especially for common schools and
intermediate classes. It is richly illustra
ted with cuts showing the forms and mu
tual actions and relations of the various
organs of the body. The whole bodily
apparatus is presented in its natural,
healthy state, as well as in its abnormal
condition, as superinduced by the use of
narcotics or stimulants. All is presented
so simply that any intelligent child of ten
years can easily understand the whole
subject. In fact, the writer knows of
children who read the book for the enter
tainment and instruction it affords. But
does it teach error ? Which of the honor
able senators will dare attempt to convict
the author either of falsehood or of mis
statement? If the book contains either, it
is before the world, and can easily be re
futed. On the contrary, nothing in it is
controverted, nor will refutation be at
tempted by any respectable, competent
authority. The subject, then, both from
its own importance and the trustworthi
ness of its text-book, demands a place in
the curriculum. Why, then, was it re
fused? The real motive is too apparent
to be dissembled.
The liquor party would not have the
truth taught to the children, and their
most obedient servants in the senate of
Georgia dare not disobey their mandates.
The good people of the state may desire
the plain, unvarnished truth of science
taught to the children, but the red-nosed
bacchanals of the saloon need but raise a
warning finger, and the average senator
falls into line with an alacrity that would
be amusing, were it not disgusting and
humiliating.
The truth cannot be taught in any in
stitution under state control, provided, it
may militate against the interests of the
dram-sellers. Was ever the slavery of a
great state more abject ?
If “scientific instruction on the effects of
alcohol upon the human body” inculcates
falsehood, why do not the “saloonatics”
meet it with counter-science and over
throw it ? Is anything easier or more con
vincing than scientific demonstration ?
What honest man fears the truth? No
better evidence of the baseness of a cause
could be furnished than the unwillingness
of its adherents to have the clear, impar
tial light of incontrovertible truth thrown
upon it ? Yet there is, to-day, the atti
tude of the senate of Georgia with refer
ence to one of the plainest, most unmis
takable propositions ever submitted to a
body of even ordinary intelligence.
Nearly half the states of the union have
already incorporated such instruction in
their public school system, and it is only
a question of time when Georgia will fol
low suite. The time, too, will come,
when these servants of the liquor ring,
now dishonoring the Georgia senate, will
leave their records as a legacy of shame to
their children. This senate has enacted
but little legislation of value ; it has pre
vented much which the interests and
morals of the people loudly call for. The
good of the state imperatively demands
that these obstructionists and tools of the
rum power be severely left at home, when
the next legislature is chosen.
One of the People.
AFTER DR. GREGORY'S SCALP.
N. Y. Sun.
Washington, Sept. 3.—“ Do you know
we are going to have Gregory remoyed
from the civil service commission as an
offensive partisan ?” inquired an Illinois
democrat to-day. “Well, we are,” he
continued, “or rather we are going to
see whether the administration means
business and intends to enforce its own
rules as impartially when civil service
reformers are involved as when a poor
clerk is the offender, We are going to
find out if a civil service commissioner
can go about the country and then home
to vote, all at government expense, and
not be called to account for it, when
other men are removed for the same
thing. Here Is what I mean,” and the
Illinois man drew from his pocket some
papers and read as follows:
The enacting clausa of the civil service
act provides that the members of the
commission shall each receive a salary of
$3,500 per year, and each of said com
missioners shall be paid his necessary
travelling expenses incurred in the dis
charge of his duty a3 a commissioner.
The duties of the commissioners, as in
terpreted by themselves, causes them to
travel about the country overseeing ex
aminations of such persons as desire to
enter the civil service of the United
States. On November 10,1884, Dr. J.
M. Gregory was paid the expenses for a
trip which he made to Illinois, of which
the following are items:
Oct. 27—Fare to Chicago, limited
express 50
Oct, 23—Cab 25c.; meals en route,
three dollars 3 25
Porter, 50e.: sei vice and pa
pers, 20c 70
Oct. 29 and SO—Service, papers
and cars 1 05
Oct 31—Hotel, Grand Pacific 15 It
Xov. l_Fare to St. Louis 8 70
Omnibus, 50c.; dinner, porter
and papers, $1.55 2 0o
Xov. I—Lodging, Decatur 7o
Service, porter, breakfast 75
have been thinned,
Nov. s—Omnibus, S' - . Louis, 50c.;
papers and service, 95c 1 45
Nov. o—Hotel bill, South’n hotel, 1 45
Fare, Chicago, $8.70; berth $2, 10 70
Carriage, 50c.; porter and pa
pers and service, $1.10; meals
$1.50 3 10
Nov. 7—Fare, Washington, $17.50
berth $5 22 50
Nov. B—Porter, 50c.; meals, $1.50
carriage, 50c 2 50
Notary ’3 fee 25
Total $lO5 07
This expense account was made out in
regular form upon blanks for that pur
pose, and sworn to as follows:
United States to John M. Gregory, Dr:
For traveling expenses, while travel
ling in the discharge of duty under or
ders of Civil Service Commission from
Washington to Chicago and St. Louis and
return, as per itemized statement, $105.-
07.
I certify that the above account is cor
rect and just, and that the detailed items
charged within are taken and verified
from a memorandum kept by me; that
the amounts charged for subsistence were
actually paid, and were occasioned by
official business or unfavorable delays,
requiring my stay at the hotels for the
time specified ; that I performed the jour
ney under order hereto annexed, with all
practicable despatch, by the shortest usu
ally traveled route, in the customary sea
sonable manner, and that I have not been
furnished with transporation or money
in lieu thereof for any part of the jour
ney. Joiw M. Gregory.
Sworn and subscribed to before mo at
Washington, D. C., this 11th day of No
vember, 1884.
Thos. J. Myers, Notary Public,
Received at Washington this 10th day
of November, ISS4, from Leroy D. Tho
man, special disbursing agent United
States Civil Service Commission, the sum
of $105.07 in full payment of the übovo
account. (Signed in duplicate.)
John M. Grbgory.
1 certify the account is correct and just.
L. D.Tuoman, United States Civil Ser
vice Commission.
“Now,” continued the Illinois man,
“according to the records of the Civil
Service Commission an examination was
held in Chicago on Oct. 30, 1884, and
Dr. Gregory attended it. There was one
held on Oct. 31 in St. Louis. Dr. Greg
ory did not attend this examination.
Did Dr. Gregory go to St. Louis on Nov.
1, which was Saturday ? There was no
examination to bo held on that day.
Did he actually go to St. Louis at that
time at all? The hotel bill liled with his
account, and tire account itself when
closely scanned, would indicate that he
did not. On the other hand, we can
show that he went to Decatur on the Ist,
stayed over Sunday with his friends,
went to Harristown, Macon county, on
Monday, and on Monday night delivered
a bitterly partisan speech. lie remained
in the vicinity the next day, and voted,
and did not go to St. Louis until the sth,
the day after the election. Did lie have
any special business in St. Louis the
week after the examination had been
held? Did he put in more than one
day’s work for the Commission during
the twelve days that he was gone, and is
not $lO5 07 a good deal to pay in the way
of expense for one, or possibly, two
days’ services? Is it the nearest and
cheapest way from St. Louis to Washing
ton by Chicago? Was not the whole
tour planned, as appeal’s on its face, as a
trip at Government expense to make par
tisan speeches and vote the Republican
ticket?
“Here are copies of newspapers giving
an account of I)r. Gregory’s offensive
partisanship. The Decatur Review
says:
“The good Doctor’s speech, made in
Decatur the week before election, is a
subject of record as published in the Re
publican the next day. That at Harris
town on the night before election was not
so fully reported, but exists in the mem
ories and the note books of his friends.
This one was the more damnable because
of its being in the nature of an ex ca
thedra given to those supposed to place
great confidence in his judgment. He
then said he hail carefully examined the
charges made against Mr. Blaine’s official
life and unhesitatingly exhonerated him
from any official wrong, that he believed
him to be as innocent as a new-born
babe, and that he believed on the morrow
the Arritrican people would sustain his
views by triumphantly electing Mr.
Blaine to the Clxief Magistry of the na
tion. If Cleveland was made president
the country would be put back to the
condition of things in 1861; that the De
mocracy of the North w'as but the tail of
the dog, and that the administration would
be controlled by the Southern brigadiers.
He said that any one visiting the two
Houses of Congress while in session, as
he had done, and seeing the brigadiers,
all on the Democratic side, could not help
but tremble for his country whenever
there was a prospect of the Democracy
coming into power, lie meqtioned many
names of Senators from the South who
had taken part in the rebellion, giving
statements of what they had done. He
paid his respects to Harris of Tennessee,
Brown of Georgia, Lamar of Mississippi,
and Wade Hampton of South Carolina,
claiming that they still gloried in what
they had done and would repeat in when
ever they had a chance. lie also said
that if Mr. Cleveland was elected Presi
dent he would take seventy-five cents for
every dollar of property he owned, while
if Rlaine was elected he should want
$1.25 for every doiiar. l{e said that be
fore God he believed that the election of
Blaine meant peace, prosperity, and na
tional grandeur, while the flection of
Cleveland would bring with it a train of
evils almost beyond comprehension. Dr.
Gregory said also in Deoatur, before a
select company, that he believed the elec
tion of Cleveland be a public ca
lamity, and that Cleveland’s nomination,
when spoken in comparison with Mr. |
Elaine’3 wax regarded as arearoach.
“I don’t know how hero
look at these things,” cMKpod the Illi
noisian, “but out the Demo
crats don’t why, if a cross
roads tacks up a political
handbill is a tor removal, a
man who makes the Government take
him home to work and vote isn’t also a
lit subject for decapitation. If Gregory
is a reformer, will you p ease tell mo
what a spoilsman is?”
♦
ON SULLIVAN’S ISLAND.
A Graphic Account of the llocont Cyclone
and its Kavnpos.
Atlanta Journal. |
I lie aged father and mother i between
eighty and ninety years old) of our woll
known fellow citizen, ,'jt. William B.
Burke, of the famous “Old Book Store,”
are residents of Sullivan’s Island. The
following letter,written by this venerable
lady to her son, describes in vivid lan
guage the terrible ‘scenes of the late ey
olone on that island and the personal ex
perience of this aged couple. We print
it as an interesting souvenir of that day
ot horror and devastation :
Sullivan’s Island, September 1, 1885.
My Dear Son : Gratefully th inking a
merciful God for the preservation of our
lives first ot all, I will now try to give
you a taint sketch of our experience as a
family, A little after midnight we got
up on account of the lightning more than
the wind, for, although your brother told
us when he come over Monday afternoon
that the storm signals were Hying, I was
very little alarmed and went to bed and
slept until that time. The wind and rain
kept increasing, and we awaited in much
anxiety the time of high tide. I was sit
ting in my room with the young baby, as
it was the dryest room in the house, the
wind having broken the glasses and
blown iu the windows of the other rooms.
When it was high tide the water was
nearly up to the Damon cottage, and
when l found it was no higher I breathed
a sigh of relief, but looking a minute
later I saw it madly rushing by us up the
street. 1 remarked to Edmund it was
very strange it should be so after high
tide, l’ale as death, he nodded his head,
and told me to give him the baby, lie
threw ashawlovGr him and made for the
Roberts’. He said his object was to got
as near Welling’s as he could. Aftor a
while he caine back almost exhausted,
but did not tell us how bad it was, being
afraid to frighten us, he said afterwards,
and took little Eddie. Returning ho, car
ried Emily and stayed. Your father and
I then thought we would go over too. I
apprehended no danger in going—noth
ing worse that wading through the
water. I took with me dry shoes and
stockings, and socks for your father; but
as ‘oon as I got in the water I found it
would be very difficult to move through
it. It was pouring rain in torrents, so I
put my black shawl over ray head and
pinned it, as I thought, secure, before I
started. With great difficulty I got out
our gate. The tide was then up to my
waist, when the wind blew mo down, the
shawl wound itself around my nose and
mouth,and I found it impossible to extri
cate it or to rise. I had gown down twice
when I heard a voice say, “take hold of
mo,” and felt my hand grasped by a
strong black man, who pulled me up to
a bank of earth near our fence, and told
me to hold on while iie went after your
father. He was inside our yard, lon the
outside. I looked around, and never
shall I forget the look of terror and blank
ness on his face—uis nat gone and he try
ing to grope on his hands and knees.
With great difficulty we g'>t him to the
fence, aud, exhausted and almost dead,
we at last reached Mr. Welling’s, for it
was impossible to reach the Roberts’. As
soon as I got in I looked over to the house
for Lousia and Katie. The}' were still
iu it making signs iui help. The negro
woman would not help to lift a child, or
help in any way. I called for the man
who had helped us and was still in the
yard and prayed him to go to them. A
German who lives on the other side of
Wellings’ heard ine, and although he had
been very ill, started for them. His wife,
who was at Welling’s too, came to me and
said, “Don’t fret, grandma; ray husband
won’t see anybody lost without trying to
save them.” When Katie saw them very
near she attempted to go to them, bqt
was swept oil’ her feet, and they had to
lift her up and bring her. They then
caught Louisa by her hand aud dragged
her along. I then began to look anxious
ly for Edmond, fearing he was dead, for
I knew it must be something very unus
ual to keep him from us at such a time.
I waited in that awful suspense for near
ly an hour, when he came in looking like
a corpse and with a strong chill. I?e said
he had fallen in his attempt to carry over
the last child and had been picked up,
and if every one of the rest of us bad per
ished before his eyes he could not have
put out his hand to help us. I’oor fel
low ! he groans aloud whenever he thinks
of it, and says if the storm signals are fly
ing again, and it is possible for human
beings to cross over to the citv ho will
take U3 over.
Thirteen houses in sight of ours were
washed away and destroyed.
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