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THE CARTERSVILLE COURANT.
VOLUME 1.
THE CITY BOA UDKR.
>lie i plump anti rlic in fair,.
And h)x' U nows just how to wear
The tlrc'M that says: “I’m city finale,” as plain
as plain can be;
And she trips the country ho-I
With footsies neatly shod,
A jet .•••(.•* quite as nice a picture as man would
•a ish to see.
A she wanders round the place,
Tli,. hml’n chirp welcome to her, in a bright and
friendly way,
And the ancient fanner grins,
And he barks his age-1 shins,
Ah- tries to do u civil low and keep on mak
ing hay.
Put his daughter, Sairy Ann,
From the window loans to scan
The lovely metiopolitan whose charms can thus
beguile;
And she murmurs, with u sigh,
As she. sees her passing by—
“Oh, ain’t them stuck-up city girls too awful
much on sty/e!”
THE WESTERN AM) ATLANTIC ItAIL
KOAI).
The next general order being the bill
providing for the re-lease or a gale of the
Western and Atlantic railroad was taken
up.
Mr. Hawks moved to indefinitely post
pone the bill.
I >r. Durden offered an amendment
sinking out reference to sale.
.\ir. Brandt favored immediate notion
on the bill, it cost ns $582,000 annually
to own tb<! road.
Mr, Felton opposed the stile of the
State road in his earnest, magnetic style.
He, averted to the fact that it was built
by our fathers under the most discourag
ing circumstances, out of their resources
ami with their own labor tnid money. It
is unexcelled as a piece of public proper
ty and was considered by them only
second to the great canal of New York.
It was held then that under proper man
agement. it would relieve us of taxation,
educate the people, and cheapen rates of
freight. A spirit of gratitude and a sense
of public regard for our fathers should
impel us to vote against this proposed
outrage on their memories. It lias been
u wonderful revenue producer when
properly and honorably controlled by
Georgia. It, has turned millions into our
treasury. The fable of yEsop’s about
killing the goose that laid the golden egg
bad its apothesis in the Georgian wish
ing to destroy this world, lie referred
to Hie honored dead who consecrated
their lives to this work. In 1851, when
a member of the General Assembly, it
was stated that the road needed new
.equipments.
Francis S. Bartow, of Chatham, with
an eloquence never surpassed, joined
hands with upper Georgia, and a sulfi
cieut sum was appropriated.
At the hour of adjournment Mr. Fel
ton had rite tloor, and will conclude his
speech this afternoon.
AI'TKHNOON SKSSION.
When the House mot at 3 p. in. Mr.
Felton continued hi* argument oil the
bill to s.-,li or re-lease the Western ami
Atlantic railroad. Ho favored leasing
the road again, provided it could lie done
at a remunerative price to Georgia. Be
fore the war the road paid into the State
treasury $150,000 per annum. Our State
debt is $0,000,000. The interest at -lb,'
|H*r cent, the present standard rate would
be not quite $500,000. After the war
the road, under Governor Jenkins, paid
$50,000 per month. Governor Brown
knows the value of the road more accu
rately than any man living. In a sworn
statement he estimated it as worth $50,-
000 per month, or SOOO,OOO per annum.
At 5 per centum this would place the
falue of the road at $13,000,000. After
the war the “dark age” came, when the
superintendent only paid into the public
treasury $40,000 in eleven months.
Mr. Felton had read from the clerk’s
desk Gov. Brown’s sworn statement op
posing the sale of the road, dated No
vember 21, ISOS. lu this statement Goy.
Brown said the people of Georgia oppos
ed the sale of the road and would hurl
irom power any Legislature or Governor
win l would sell it. lie said further that
the mooey received for it would be squan
dered by the Legislature, and the end
would be that the State would have its
debt but no road. Mr. Felton compli
mented Gov. Brown on the fact that
whenever he managed public allairs for
the people of Georgia he managed suc
cessfully for the interests of Georgia.
Whenever he was in one of his patriotic
moods he looked to the good of the State.
When lu* made that statement about the
the road he seemed to be inspired.
Would rot the money now he squander-
Would not a constitutional cotiveu
ti<u hsye to be called to keep the Gen
eral Assembly from pocketing the entire
runouut f
The next man, Mr. Felton proceeded,
who bwd knew the value of the road
was W. M- Wad ley—a man who had
dune ni'iiv for the material advancement 1
ofUeotgia than any other man—a man
he loved and cherished, and was gratified
to see that in one city of Georgia an un
perishable monument had been erected
to his memory, lie ottered for a con
trolling interest in the road—a fraction
over one halt—sooo,ooo, equivalent to
$1,200,000 for the le ise, without a dollar
of investment.
i;i IST2 the gross Income of the road
Was $1,590,215, while the net income
was $H5,555. Of the amount paid out
for
All the betterments were paid for, and
the lessees divided out about SBO,OOO.
Gov. Brown lias stated that there was no
such word as betterments in the lease
contract, and that the lessees would nev
er demand pay for betterments.
He paid a glowing tribute to Ale'S-- 11 *
der 11. Stephens, who returned the half
.share given him, donating it to fhe stated
Bullock disregard*!} the law £ud dispos
ed of it otherwise. It was a secret
for months, and a few days -‘ifter Its dis
position became known, 'Bullock lied
the State. What has "become of that half
share, legitimately the property of the
State? If there was backbone and man
hood in the Legislature, suit would be
instituted for its recovery. In the last
eight years it would have netted the
State $38,000. It is the right of the chil
dren of Georgia, it belongs to them, for
their education, and they ought not to be
deprived of it.
The doctor g ive a review of the earn
ings and the net income of the road for
the last eight years. In 1877-8, there
was divided out clear $7,500 for each of
the twenty-three shares. In 1880, after
every expense had been paid, the net in
come was $406,704, paying a dividend of
over $17,000 per share. In the eight
years to which he directed attention each
share netted over $76,000. At the end of
twenty years, eacti shareholder will have
netted $100,000,. a total of $1,300,000,
which vast sum ought to be in the treasu
ry educating the children of Georgia.
Go into the back fields, the valleys, the
highways, and you will lind the children
without clothing and without education,
and here is the State sluicing the great
revenues from this splendid property into
the pockets of a few political managers—
revenues which would not be despised
by the kingdoms of Europe; hundreds of
thousands to a few men who have paid
nothing for it and risked nothing for it.
The lease contract lias been violated in
every one of its provisions, except the
payment of the monthly rental. When
the lease was made the lessees were re
quired to give a bond in the sum of SS,-
000,000. In the last Legislature it was
announced after investigation by the at
torney-general that the bond was abso
lutely worthless, but the resolution pro
viding for the better protection of the
State was dropped by that Legislature.
They didn’t want any bond or security so
long as Governor Brown was managing
matters. Mr. Felton said lie did not de
sire to rellcet on any member of that
Legislature. God forbid! lie was op
posed to the sale of the road at any price
—would reject a bid of $12,000,000. Mr.
Wadley said it was worth $12,000,000,
Gov. Brown had said it ought not to be
sold at any price.
The Doctor said let everything go but
this property —keep it. It will educate
our children and it will pay oil' the pub
lic debt. Scorn any public oliicial who
asks you to sell it. 110 was sorry it was
ever rented at all. When Senator Bro\yn
was governor lie paid into the treasury
from the road $450,000 per annum, and
it could now easily pay $500,000. lie
would like to blot out the whole record
of that lease, a dark stain on the escutch
eon of Georgia—an infamy. But it can
not be blotted out. The Legislature of
1572 could have helped it. They ratified
the lease, and now it must proceed, lie
favored a lease and thought the mini
mum price should be fixed tit *35,000 and
believed it would command SIO,OOO per
month. Let the lessees understand that
it is not subject to betterments, and more
than that, let it be understood that the
road is subject to the rules and regula
tions and all the restrictions of the Rail
road Commission. 11c thought Senator
Brown’s recent letter denying that the
road was subject to the commission was a
very humiliating proposition. Certain
railroad syndicates are now growing up,
winch, if not cheeked, will be masters of
Georgia. South of Atlanta every railroad
is under the control of the Central. Gov.
Brown’s strong argument against the
stile of the road was that the Central
would buy it and control the whole rail
road system of tho State.
He referred to the attitude of the press
toward the commission. The edict had
gone forth from some source, and the
newspapers were all in a lino, and some
of them had to make a great flop. But
the people hadn’t flopped, and they
would not see the commission touched.
The Doctor did not think there was
any necessity for action now, and that it
would be best to leave it for the next
Legislature. He thought Georgia would
be better off in two years, and the road
would be worth more. He concluded by
appealing to the Legislature to lay aside
every other consideration but pure pat
riotism in acting upon this question.
Honor the old State; guard her prop
erty’ by every safeguard. God bless her!
her people, her children, her property.
God bless Georgia.”
During Dr. Felton’s speech which was
powerfully delivered, the house was
crowded, and the eloquent period of the
gentleman from Bartow was frequently
greeted with applause.
At the conclusion Mr. Felton’ argu
ment, Mr. Clay, of Cobb, said he was .
opposed to the sale of the road, but the)
question before the House is whether
there shall be action now or whether
the hill shall be postponed.
Mr. Brandt,of Richmond, said the gen
tleman from Bartow had spent two hours
in a discussion of this question from a
sentimental point. Notwithstanding the
eloquence of the gentleman the facts is
that the keeping of this road costs the
State over $250,000 annually. The State
pays annually^s33,ooo tax on its debt.
The railroad if sold would wipe out
this debt. The roadjpays only $300,000.
Deduct that from the interest on the
debt, and it is clear that retaining pos
session of the road costs the btate s2t>2,-
000 annually, even if the road should be
leased as the gentleman from Bartow
advocates, tor $35,000 per month,’ keep
ing the road still cost the State a
large amount —$152,000. Asa plain bus
iness proposition the road ought to be
soul. .....
The motion to postpone indefinitely
prevailed. _____
The farce enacted iu Cleveland, 0., of
fining John L. Sullivan $1 for pitching
ball on Sunday, when his part of the gate
receipts amounted to considerably over
SI,OOO, is in keeping with many other acts
of the Republican officials in that city.
CARTERSVILLE. GEORGIA, THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 24, 1885.
HON. JEFFERSON DAVIS NAILS AN
OLD AND OFT EXPLODED LIE.
Ills Capture as Explained by Himself to
the New York ll*rald~“TUe Said Is
grigg” a Romancer and Falsifier.
! New York Herald. |
Bkauvior, Miss., Sept. 9, 1885.—T0
the editor of the Herald : On my return
after a protracted absence from home I
received a slip from y r our journal, which
I enclose for greater convenience id no
ticing its contents:
Indianapolis, Ind., August 16, ISSS.
—At the recent reunion ot the veterans
of the Fourth Indiana Cavalry in tills
city, Lieutenant Isgrigg, of the com
mand, who was provost marshal at Ma
con, Ga., at the time of the capture of
Jefferson Davis, related the circum
stances of the capture. He described
his participation in tills affair as follows.
”1 went out to the line of my jurisdic
tion to receive Davis. Two miles and a
half from Macon he became my prisoner,
and I brought him to the city in an old
farm wagon. It was a vehicle with a
great deal to condenu) in the way of un
sigbtlness. It had weaknesses all over
it, but sufficient strength to hold Jeffer
son Davis, myself and his secretary.
The rebel chief sat between us, and over
his head, from a polo fixed to tho seat,
hung the hoop skirt, calico wrapper and
n old straw’ hood, which formed his dis
guise when captured.”
“So Jeff Davis was disguised?”
“Yes. It is no use to question the fact.
The articles of his costume hung from
that pole. Davis bore himself with the
fortitude of a brave man in trouble. He
was courteous to me and to the guard;
talked freely on every question but that
relating to the result of the war.”
“When we stopped at the International
Hotel, and wero about to get out of the
wagon, Captain Thompson, of the
Fourth Indiana Cavalry, drew his revol
ver to lire at Davis. I saw his movement,
struck the weapon with my arm, and the
bullet tore my coat and shirt. At the
moment, Davis, seeing Thompson’s pur
pose, cried out, “For God’s sake, Lieu
tenant, save my life!” I got the priso
ner out of the wagon and into the hotel
with a good of alacrity.
“After that I met Davis at the Louis
ville Hotel in 1872, when he recognized
me, and approaching said: “I must
thank you again, Lieutenant Isgrigg, fo.-
saving my life.” Wo. had quite a chat
about tho war then. Before this I hud
received a letter of thanks from him.
He was my prisoner eight days, together
with his wife, daughter and commissary
of his guard. These tlireo we took into
Macon in an old family carriage. Jeff
was not sulky as a prisoner, but one
could see that the breaking of tho Con
fedracy bore grievously on his thoughts.”
Though accustomed to see slanderous
publications in regard to myself l have
lead this with no little surprise, because
of the total absence of any foundation or
pretext on which to build the fiction. 1
avail myself of your usual courtesy in
asking you to publish this seriatim refu
tation of the several statements of ihe
story.
It is not true, as stated, that I was
turned over to the custody oi one Lieu
tenant Isgrigg two and a half miles (or
any other distance) from Macon. The
troops by whom I was captured remained
my guard to Macon, and a detachment of
them accompanied me to Fortress Mon
roe in charge of their own officers.
Equally untrue is it that I rode with
the said Isgrigg and my secretary (or
with any one else) in “an old farm
wagon.” My private secretary, Burton
N. Harrison, Esq., now a member of the
Bar of New York, was captured with
me, and rodo On horseback to Macon. I
had for several days occupied an am
bulance with ray wife and children, and
rode into Macon on it.
There was no such cowardly attempt
to otter insult to me as would liaye been
shown by hanging over my head the ar
ticles of clothing which lsgrigg falsely
avers I had worn at the time of my cap
ture. Nor did my captors obtain at the
time of my capture the hoopskirt, etc.,
which lsgrigg describes, unless they were
found among the apparal taken when tho
trunks of my wife and her female servant
were pillaged.
On our arrival at the hotel in Macon a
small body of troops in front of the en
trance were at open ranks, facing in
ward. When I got out of the ambulance
to enter the hotel they presented arms
w hile I passed through, and I received
the salute as an expression of the feeling
brave men show to a fallen foe.
The story of “Captain Thompson, of
tlie Fourth ludiana Cavalry,” attempt
ing to shoot me as l entered the Macon
hotel is wholly fictitious, and I leave to
that regiment itself to repel tho imputa
tiou that one of its officers would have
been guilty of so dastardly an assault on
i pri-oner.
Upon that falsehood the uarrator hangs
Hifiiihor, that I met him at the Louisvilie
hotel, in 1572, recognized him and re
newed thauks to him “for saving uiy
life,” and that 1 had previously written
a letter of thanks to him. I have not
beeu in tiie Louisville hotel since the
war; I do not remember ever to have
seen or heard of this Lieutenant lsgrigg
at any time or place, aud it is not true
that, as he ali-gess, 1 was eight days in
custody, or (hat l have ever written to
him a letter of thanks. I remained in j
Macon but a few hours, and was sent for
warded to Fortress Monroe the evening
of the day of uiy arrival there.
Yours respectfully,
Jkfkkksox Davis.
The California pipers report that a
new species of bear has been , discovered
| on Mt. Shasta which is found in no otb
fer part of the world. It is about the size
| of a shepherd dog, is white, and very fe
i roeious. Three have been killed lately.
* Fruit Powder at Gurry’s.
A DAY OF LITTLE THINGS.
Mary Lee rose early, and remembering
her mother’9 headache of yesterday, stole
softly to the nursery to see if Robin was
awake.
Yes, indeed,a veritable “wake” Robin
was he, cooing in his little crib, and
greatly admiring a pink toe which had
peeped out below his night-dress. She
caught himnip and carried him below,
where she kept him amused and quiet,
till the family gathered for. breakfast.
Her mother’s bright eyes and rested look,
when she came in, were thanks enough,
even without her bow—“You were
thoughtful to let me get my sleep, dear!”
as she took Robin from his sister’s arms.
Mr. Lee was a fidgety man, and that
morning his muffin was burned. He dis
covered it just as Bridget entered with a
plateful.
“These muffins are very poor, wife!”
he said sharply, at which the girl’s face
grew red and wrathful. .
“Ah! but the coffee’s Jplicious!” cried
Mary instantly. “Aqd t|iese fresh muf
fins are much nicer—aren’t they, fath
er?”
At this Bridget’s frown lightened, and
she turned a grateful glance upon the
child, while Mr. Leo, a little ashamed,
said more softly : -■ ■
“YeSj’Ves.T think si—Bridget’s muf
fins are usually tip-ttjjD” at which the
girl, who had been promising herself to
give immediate notice of leaving, went
out quite molified.
After breakfast, Mary had just seated
herself for a good time with a fresh piece
of Kensington, when she noticed her
father peering anxiously and hurriedly
about, \yith a quiet smile she rose,found
the glasses lie was constantly losing,
crushed bis hat, and started him off in
time tor bis car—returning his ‘Thank
you, bright eyes!” as he hastened off’,
with a merry kiss thrown at him from
the upper step.
She had just turned in again when
Bridget’s distressed face peered aboyo
the basement stairs.
“Ob, honey!” she coaxed, “could j'ou
go jist around the cornea- and get a Icetle
soap for the washing? I’m out entirely
and Mary went without a grumble,
though “jist around tho corner” meant
four block at least.
While hurrying home, before the sun
should get too scorching, sho yet found
time to pick up a little fellow whom some
rude boy had knocked down, set him on
tils fat legs again, and brush off the dirt
and tears in so motherly a way that the
bruised little heart was comforted.
In sight of home again,ishe saw pre
cise Miss Templeton stalfeilg up the steps
for a morning call, and feeling by in
stinct that mother wouhlbb in her looso
Wrapper dressing baby—(wsave h'Cr trep
idation she tripped lightly up the d&o?,
ushered the lady in, engaged her attention
over anew folio of engravings, and then,
(first quieting Bridget with tho soap)
raced up to the nursery, hustled her
mother into a fresh cambric, and herself
took Robin —deftly finishing his bath and
then rocking him to sleep.
After lunch,the lovely embroidery pat
tern called her powerfully, but sho put it
resolutely by again for a visit to Nanny
Hale, who had been shut in the house
with a low fever all through the beauti
ful blossoming time, this year. Remem
bering Nanny’s love of beauty she even
stopped to don her best dress and make
herself as nice as for a party, trudging
bravely off through the hot sun to her
friend’s house. But all trouble was re
paid by Nanny’s rapturous greeting.
“Oh, I have been so lonesome!” she
cried. “Do tell me everything that is
going on out of doors —it looks so lovely
through the window.”
Mary laughed gaily as she moved her
hat.
“So you don’t care lor my dress time I
wore just to please you !”
“Yes, I do. It is very pretty. How
you do think of everything, Mary? No
one else \fould take pains to wear their
best, just to please my tired eves,” and
Nanny sighed.
But Mary would not let her be sad,
and told her so many funny things that
Nanny was soon laughing heartily. As
sho left, Mrs. Hale followed her to the
door.
“Come again,” she said, urgently,
“you are better than medieiuo!”
And yet that evening, as Mary closed
the book she had been reading, she heav
ed so doleful a sigh that mother looked
up in alarm.
“Oh, mother!” she said, in answer to
that inquiring glance, “I do got so dis
couraged with my own life when I read
of these heroic women. Now to-day, for
instance, how I have frittered it away:
It seems as if I had been busy enough;
but after all, what have 1 accomplished?
Just a mess of little tilings—and not even
one flower on my embroidery !”
“You have wrought a good many flow
ers to-day, Mary,” said her mother soft
ly, “ami imperishablo ones, too, I ‘hope.
It is nothing to have made so many ieo
ple happy, even in little tilings?”
“Why, mother, whom have I made
happy ?
“All of us at home, dear—and Nanny,
too, I think, from what 1 hear* but bcst
of all, my' child, you have pleased your
heayenly Father; and all your heroic
women together could not do more thaii
that!” ’
Thomas Pliilpot, of Haralson county,
several weeks ago observed a small pimple
on his wrist, and picked it, which caused
it to increase into a sore of much severity,
until it finally became much swollen and
involved his whole arm below the elbow.
A sloughing of flesh followed and caused
Mr. Philpot such alSttn that the aid of
physicians was sought. They observed
gangrene in the sore and set to work to
save the arm without amputation, which
they have succeeded in doing.
REV. SAM JONES.
His Great Gathering In the Cartersville
Tent on Sunday Last—Wliat He Said to
the Assembled Thousands.
“Richmond” in Augusta Chronicle.]
One week ago Rev. Sam Jones, the
noted revivalist, began a service of camp
meeting exercises in Cartersville. Ihe
meetings have developed phenomenal
features, and are attended by an audianco
of many thousand. It is the most nota
ble affair of the kind ever held in Geor
gia. goes to St. Joseph, Missouri,
when these meetings are over. On Sun
day, in Cartersville, fully five thousand
people were seated, ready to listen to the
most popular preacher, to-day, iu the
South. The tout is situated just on the
edge of Cartersville, on the side of a hill,
which is protected by backwoods ot scrub
oaks and small pines. It is not more
than three-quarters of a mile from the
railroad station, on a straight road. Bug
gies, carriages, rockaways, landaus, han
soms, dog carts, drays, lumber wagons
with seats, and omnibuses run from the
depot, or hotel, right at the depot, every
few minutes. The faro is only a dime.
By this constant driving to and fro, of
several hundred vehicles, the unpaged
street has six inches of dust on it, which
helps the jehus very much, for one who
walks out will be sure to ride back to
keep from being literally covered from
head to foot with dust, started by vehi
cles passing every minute.
Just to.the left as one turns to the tent
grounds is Sam Jones’ new two-story
frame residence. He says that house
was given to his wife by the women of
Georgia.
Tiie tent has comfortable board seats
arranged throughout. The crowd was
so large Sunday that tho aisles were filled
with camp-stools and chairs that the peo
ple themselves brought. About a thou
sand people come down the road, and
about two thousand from Atlanta and
intervening points. Cartersville lur
nished 1,500, and about 1 ,CO9 came from
adjacent places in their own vehicles.
To tho left of the enormous tent was an
eating booth, which sold only coflee, tea,
milk and lunches. Prices wero very
reasonable, but in spite of that it could
do but very little business, lor the fami
lies of Cartersville and neighborhood had
provided such ample dinners that no one
could remain hungry, for every one was
invited to eat dinner, whether stranger
or not.
Sam Jones’ text was, “What I have
written, I have written.” His sermon
on that text was more surprising to that
vast audience. I veiily believe that jt
was the most sensational sermon lie ever
gave. Every one nearly was looking for
something lively, funny, witty, bright,
or even shocking to strict ideas ot ritual
istic dignity.
He preached an able, cool, dignified,
connected, forcible sermon. Only once
or twice he used comparisons or Illustra
tions, that from their uncture, caused
smiles. Throughout the hour and a
quarter’s discourse, he was argumenta
tive, deliberative. He wore thin black
coat and pantaloons, with light colored
linen vest. He is worn to a razor back
thickness by incessant labor,but his form
is erect and liis motions suggest wiriness
rather than grace. His enunciation is
very clear, and his language yesterday
was ornate enough for the most fashion
able pulpit. The pulpit platform faced
the five thousand audience, and although
he spoke in a conversational tone it is
certain that everyone present heard him
without the slightest effort. Notwith
standing the immense crowd, the order
was perfect. There was not the slightest
unrest apparent. Only once when a sud
den shower came up, was there any in
ruption, and then a few started out, but
Mr. Jones soon put a stop to any possible
stampede by remarking, that all those
who thought more of their buggy cush
ions than of their souls, would hasten
out and look after the more valuable pos
session. None left after that, llien be
followed up by saving that the safety of
the tent was assured by experience. It
was absolutely water-proof, and it was
almost impossible to blow it down; and
even if it down, the roof be
ing only canvass, could not hurt any
body.
Colonel Wash Johnson, of Dalton, is
reported as found dead in his garden near
Dalton. He had been missing for a week.
He went crazy some time back and was
put.in the asylum. He was released as
cured, but evidently was improperly
discharged. On his return he gave im
mediate signs of insanity. His death was
the end of a life that had lost hope.
Col. Johnson was much of a man. He
was a good criminal lawyer, and a rousing
advocate. His speaking was peculiar. He
had a voice of keen compass and swelling
emphasis. It was a shrill voice, but lull
of music and fairly rang with fire. He
held juries spell-bound. He lead the
criminal practice for years in his circuit.
He was adroit, and plausible and had
ability above the average.
He made a good stump speech, but did
not take to politics as he did to criminal
law. He had a defire to be Judge, but
never realized his ambition. The fond
ness lor spirituous indulgence that carried
him to the asylum prevented his reaching
the Bench. He was an able Solicitor,
and served after the war In Miltedgoville
a creditable term of service as a State
Senator.
lie was quite a local celebrity at one
time and very well known in State poli
ties. He told a racy anecdote, was at
times crusty in temper, but withal was a
clever person, and true to his attach
ments. He had capacity to make a bet
ter figure and leave a kinder, final memo
ry than he lets left.
♦ •
A far-seeing lady of Louisville has a
scrap-book made up almost entirely of
cholera-cure Jtctapes.
IS FARMING IN GEORGIA PROFIT
ABLE.
As it is commonly conducted we think
it is not. Agriculture in the.whole cot
ton belt is now, and for several.years has
been, in a digressed condition.
Asa general rule the best intelligence
of the South has been engaged in other
pursuits and farming has been for the
most part left to the ignorance ot the
country.
Just after our civil war the action of
the general Government was such as to
unduly elevate a very ignorant element
in the South. And as a natural conse
quence that elevation gave them very im
proper conceptions of their rights, which
made them very disagreeable to deal
with.
Most farmers could not so control their
business under the new regime as to
make it profitable. And the great diffi
culties they had to contend with made
mea seek other ways to make their prop
erty profitable. What was the result?
Tho white left the field, the negro rented
the land and became the farmer. Since
then there has been little profit in the
business either for the tenant who oper
ates on credit or tfie legitimate farmer
who owns land and operates his own
capital. Tiie latter could make money
by economy and diligence but for the
fact that in his most salable crop be has
to meet competition in a class who grow
tiie same crop on the money of others
and without any regard to its cost and
profits. Tiie object, of that class is not to
reach the best results, but to obtain a
very meagre living tor the least efiort.
And as what they do get, is mostly ob
tained before tiie crop is marketed,
there is little incentive to them to labor
diligently.
The tenants are not so much to be
blamed, for tiie same arrangments would
easily demoralize a more provident peo
ple. The tenant, as a rule, employs the
whole family in the field, and does not
make more than half a living as com
pared with any other laboring class in
this country.
The tenants in Georgia as a class arc
incompetent to successfully conduct the
business of farming and so long as it is
left to them there will be no improve
ment in the business, but on the other
hand it will grow worse.
We cannot compete w’ith the oouth
west in growing cotton as our only re
source. We cannot compete with the •
Northwest in growing grain. But with our
cheap lands, our mild climate and great
diversity of good food crops, we can com
pete with any section of the country in
stock raising and cotton growing in com
bination. Some will ask, how and when
will this change come? We cannot say.
Probably the necessity is not pressing
enough yet, but it surely is becoming
mbre pressing. And whenever the cli
max is reached Georgia’s natural advan
tages are too great, her civilization has
reached too high a plane for her to go
backwards, and our faith is stong in the
future. Georgia can produce all the
grain, hay, beef, mutton, pork, butter
and wool consumed within her borders,
and some to spare; and half as much
cotton as she now produces. And when
Georgia farmers do this it will not be
necessary to ask the question, do<g farm
ing pay? Tiie evidences will be seen in
tiie improvements on the farms, and the
highways leading from them to market,
in tiie increased number and value and
comforts of life enjoyed by farmers and
their families; in the better class of goods
they will buy and the promptness with
which they will pay for them.
HOT TEMPEK AND SUPPEIi.
Macoa Telegraph.]
The Atlanta correspondent of the Sa
vannah Times is authoritv for the state
ment that Governor Colquitt and Gen
eral Gordon are very angry at the pas
sage of a resolution by the Legislature to
raiso a committee to inquire as to the use
of the right-of-way of the State Road by
the Richmond and Danville railroad.
The resolution seems to have provoked
some ebullitions of temper in the Legis
lature, and was subjected to a dilatory
and painful passage.
Why should anybody get mad on ac
count of an attempt to protect the State
and people? Least of all, why should
Governor Colquitt and General Gordon
get mad ?
Neither the preamble nor the resolu
tion referred to these parties by name,
and the preamble was so modified as not
to bear an inuendo.
Temper and strong language are not
answers to an open nor an implied
charge.
If a man who has held a fiduciary po
sition In behalf of the public feels that
his conduct is the subject of suspicion,
the first and best thing for him to
do is to invite and demand a prompt
and exhaustive investigation. This can
wrong no one; it may vindicate some
and should satisfy all.
But it appears that this temper of the
parties referred to is not warmer than
their suppers. From Atlanta journals
it is learned that the presiding officers of
the two Houses, and other prominent
members, have been banqueting with
Governor Colquitt and General Gordon.
This was a delightful little interlude, no
doubt, to the eminent Solons, whose pal
ates had cloyed over the canned and
adulterated condiments of the average
Atlanta liashery.
A man, not u dyspeptic, has a most
wonderful appreciation of a generous
host, and there lingers just below his
heart a warm appreciation of good bread,
salt and wine. The rule of hospitality
casts out the man who proves unmindful
of these favors. But it is not always safe
or becoming for legislators to banquet in
advance of the report of an investigating
committee. Tle heavy supper of an
opera singer hao been known to disap
point an audience tbai ha I paid tor sound
and honest notes.
NUMBER 34.
TllK CHINATOWN HORRuK.
Sixty Bodies Represented by the Boiled
Bones.
San Francisco, Sept. IG. —The discov
ery yesterday afternoon of the terrible
practices of the Chinese in preparing the
bones of their dead fellow countrymen
for shipment to China, which has been
carried on under the very nose of the
city authorities, has created deep and in
tense excitement. The knowledge that
such a mass ot putrefaction was lying
exposed in the very heart of the city
while at the same time, the drainage and
sewers of the city arc known to be in a
tilthv condition, has created a feeling of
fear for the health of the city. After all
the boxes containing the remains of dead
Chinamen had been removed to the
morgue theeoroner was interviewed in re
gard to the matter, lie stated that when
he arrived at the cellar in which the pu
trefied remains which had still to be
boiled were lying, he set to work to break
open the boxes.
SIXTY BODIES.
There were some sixty bodies in all.
Each box contained a tin case, in which
carefully wrapped in oil clothes were a
number of human bones. The smaller
bones and long strips of skin wore wrap
ped up in separate parcels and placed
within the larger ones. On the outside
of each was a label bearing Chinese char
acters, giving the name of the dead per
sons within, so that the remains could be
identified by the relatives in China.
After having opened several boxes the
Coroner concluded to seize the whole
lot and remove them to the morgue.
Express wagons were called tor the pur
pose. While the cases were being placed
in the wagons some of them rolled off
and fell to the pavement, breaking open
and exposing their contents.
TRODDEN UNDER FOOT.
The crowd which had assembled, upon
learning the cause of the excitement,
jumped on the bones, and, in their indig
nation, trod them under foot. Police quick
ly interposed and the loading continued
without further interruption. The remains
were removed to the morgue. Most of the
boxes containing remains were, on exami
nation, found to have come from cities in
the interior of the State. The remains
were shipped from there to San Francisco
in common tea boxes. Those that come
from the interior are boiled and prepared
before shipment so that no odor is percep
tible on tlio route. Only those removed
from San Francisco cemeteries have the
iiosli still on them when brought for
preparation to the cellar. It was the in
tention to have shipped all those on the
steamer City of Pekin, which sails Satur
day next. It is rumored that the Chinese
Six Companies will bring an action against
the Coroner for the removal of the boxes
and remains.
PAIN.
Pain being the result of too much blood
in a part, as a very general rule, the
the remedy, in severe and pressing eases,
is to apply a mustard plaster "neur that
part, which draws the blood away, as is
seen by the reddening of the skin.
The most agonizing pains are often le
moved in the twinkling of an eye by dip
ping a bit of cloth (woolen or cotton), in
a mixture of equal parts of sweet oil, chlo
reform, and strong spirits of hartshorn
just shaken together and spread over the
spot, with a handkerchief wadded in the
hand and held over the cloth so as to re
tain the more volatile ingredients, toi>e
removed the moment the pain ceases.
The safest and most comfortable ap
plication in nature for the relief of all
pain, especially that arising from inflam
mation,is a woolen cloth kept very warm,
even hot, by the steady addition of hot
water, or a stream of warm water, where
the painful part admits it. When pain
is severe, sh o p or thrilling there is in
flammation, and arises from there being
too much blood in the veins.
The pain of inflammation gives heat;
hence, houdache with a hot head is from
too much blood in the arteries, and there
is throbbing; draw it aWay by putting
the feet in very hot water; this often re
moves pain in any part of the body above
the ankles.
Xo disease ever comes without a cause
or without a warning; hence, endeavor
to think back for the cause, with a view
to avoid it in the future, and on the in
stant of any unpleasant bodily sensation
cease eating absolutely until it has entire
ly disappeared, at least for twenty-four
hours; if still remaining consult a physi
cian.
The more clothing a man wears, the
more bed clothing he uses, the closer he
keep to his chamber, whether warm or
cold, the more he confines himself to the
house, the numerous and warm his night
garments, the more readily will he take
cold, under all circumstances, as the
more a thriftless youth is helped the less
able does he become to help himself.
When there is too much blood in the
veins of the hand there is a dull pain or
great depression of spirits, and the feet
are always cold. It is this excess of
blood in the veins ot the head or brain
which always produces the dependency
which so freauently causes suicide.
When this is attempted by cutting the
throat the relief is instantaneous, and the
would-be victim become anxious for the
life he has just attempted to destroy.
Hence, a good out door walk or a hot
bath, a suden lit of laughter or a terrible
burst of passion, by dispersing the blood
to the surface from the centres puts tl e
blues and megrims to flight.
It was rumored at Macon T uesday that
Rhodes Danfortli, who is confined in jail
for the murder of Landsburg, under a
j -entente of life in the penitentiary, had
received an offer to keep books at one of
Senator Brown’s coal mines. Rumor also
g fid that the offer includes the support of
Danforth’s sister and his mother, who
should accompany him.