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DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
ISKI* I'EMBER 24, 1885.
The Editress of The Cofkant lias
been very nick for the last ten days.
Though confined to her bed at this time,
we hope she Is in a fair way to recover,
and that under a merciful Providence
she will soon he at the “helm” of this
paper once more. Her home and her
friends will rejoice with grateful hearts.
RAIL no A D COMMISSION.
As we have expected for the last few
days, the Senate of Georgia has passed
the bill giving the railroads of the State
authority to make their own rates for
carrying freight and passengers, just as
it was before the creation of our commis
sion hy the Legislature of 1879. As il
in mockery of the helpless citizens, the
bill provides that if any person, pri
vate individual, is dissatisfied with
the i msenger or freight tariff fixed upon
by the roads, then the dissatisfied indi
vidual may appeal to tiie commission,
and from the decision of the commission
cither the private party or the railroad
may appeal to the Superior court, and
front that to the Supreme court of the
State. It is apparent to every intelli
gent and impartial man in Georgia that
tills bill practically abolishes tiie railroad
commission of our State.
Where is the man in Bartow county,
the farmer who ships his crop of cotton
once a year, who will be such a simpleton
as to undertake a long and hopeless law
suit through the Superior and Supreme
courts of the State for the sake of ten or
twelve dollars out of which the road has
robbed him by its extortionary rates?
Where Is the passenger going from
Cartersville to Atlanta a few times each
year who will, for the sake of one dollar
and live cents, the difference between the
old passenger rates and the passenger
tariff made by the commission, com
mence litigation with a great railroad
orporation, which can bring millions of
dollars into the field to influence public
opinion and thereby influence jury and
court. We believe no such “fool could
be found in Bartow county.” The rail
road managers who manipulated this bill
through the Senate know their object,
and right well have they accomplished
it, as far as the Senate is concerned—
namely; they tiave abolished tiie com
mission. If these interested parties should
boas successful with the House of Repre
sentatives as they have been with the
Senate, then the railroad commission of
Georgia practically disappears forever. It
is true, it may continue to exist as a fig
urc-homl. It may make annual trips over
the State in the palace car of some rail
road magnate, feasting on the fat of the
land at flit' 1 expense of royal railroad man
agers. It may occasionally seem to differ
with railroad authorities to give increased
credit and respectability to the extortions
of their masters, but while thus living, it
will be practically dead.
The railroads will have full sway, none
to molest or make afraid, ruling courts,
juries, legislatures, conventions, and all
officials. Every breakwater gone, all
safe-guards abolished, there will be the
unmixed and unmodified despotism of ag
gravated wealth ruling and absorbing the
profits of all labor. The Senate of Geor
gia has said amen. May God deliver the
old State from ever witnessing another
such Senate assembled in her capitol !
W. 11. F.
TAX ASSESSORS.
The Senate of Georgia has passed the
bill authorizing the appointment of tax
assessors for each county iti the State.
There is no telling what this wonderful
and most remarkable Senate will do next.
We think, however, that a body of men
capable of injuring the people they pro
fess to represent by virtually abolishing
the railroad commission, which saves
millions of dollars annually to the people
of the State, and which does the rail
roads no harm, should, as a finishing
touch to their manifest contempt of the
people, enact a measure which reflects
upon the honor, honesty and truthful
ness of every tax payer in the State.
This Senate bill says to the tax payers,
you cannot be trusted to value your
property even under oath, and we, your
distinguished Senators, will send inquis
itors over your lands, into your ward
robes, make them rummage through
your notes and accounts, examine your
furniture, your mules and cows, your
goods and chattels; see whether the ring
on your wife’s finger is pure gold or
spuriohs, inspect your watches, your
old pots and ovens, everything, so that
Georgia may extract the last dollar of
taxes from her toil-worn people, and so
that State Senators may have the pleas
ure of making liberal appropriations.
Such is the practical announcement of
the railroad lawyers, and railroad stock
holders in the Senate. Good Lord, de
liver ns from another Senate made up of
such material. Citizen.
Thousands Say So.
Mr. T. W. Atkins, Girard, Kan.,
write: “l never hesitate to recommend
your Electric Bitters to my customers,
they give entire satisfaction and are
rapid sellers.” Electric Bitters are tlm
purest and best medicine known and will
positively cure Kidney and Liver com
plaints. Purify the blood and regulate
the bowels. Xo family can afford to be
without them. They will save hundreds
of dollars in doctor’s bills every year.
Sold at fifty cents a bottle by D. W.
Curry. • 3
Fruit Towder at Curry’s.
RECOLLECTIONS OF TUB CIVIL SER
VICE OF THE CONFEDERATE GOV
ERNMENT.
ET tr. 1). CAPERS.
CHAPTER ITT.
It will be readily perceived by the read
er who has thus far followed t,s In these
recollections, that as the government
crystalized I was of necessity brought in
contact with those who had been selected
as the heads of the different departments
in such a manner as to have a knowledge
of each; whose wants, to a certain extent,
it was not only my duty, but my pleas
ure, to meet. The Treasury Department,
to which I was officially attached, was
really organized, and in some of its sub
ordinate branches actively at work, be
fore all of the cabinet officers were in
stalled. As these gentlemen would ar
rive Mr. Memminger, * with character
istic urbanity, extended such courtesies
through his executive officers, as the cir
cumstances readily suggested. It was
in thi3 way that I had the pleasure of
meeting with the ministers who were to
direct the several departments of the gov
ernment. When it is remembered that
their offices were at the outset in the
same building, and that this \iai a struc
ture of such ordinary dimensions as its
original commercial character would in
dicate, the reader can understand that
there was, in this formative period of ad
ministration, but few barriers other than
a sense of propriety would suggest, in
vesting tiie official dignity of executive
heads or their subaltern officers.
Tiie diagram below will illustrate the
arrangement of the cabinet officers on the
second floor of the executive building.
While it exhibits the close proximity of
tiie several secretaries, it may also assist
tiie writer in locating certain incidents
to which he will refer in subsequent pa
pers :
Market Street.
II “ ~
1 2 3 4 5
6
Open Court.
7
12 11 10 9 8
1. (Jliicf Olerk State Department.
2. Secretary of State.
3. —President’s Oilice.
4. Pr vate Secretary of President.
B.—Secretary of Treasury.
o.—Assistant Secretary of Treasury.
7. —Chief Clerk Treasury.
7}4. —Commerce Street Entrance.
8. —Register of Treasury,
9. Secretary of War.
10. Adjutant General and Chief Clerk.
11. Attorney-General.
12. Secretary Navy.
Shortly' after the Secretary of the
Treasury had become domiciled, in what
was then thought to be his permanent
official quarters, the President moved his
office from the Exchange Hotel to the
apartments prepared for him in the exec
utive building. Although I had met Mr.
Davis before he came virtually to live
with his devoted ministers at the execu
tive offices, yet the meeting had been
only such as the formalities of an intro
duction or the ceremonies of a set occa
sion would permit. At bis office and in
the routine of my duties I met him, after
he entered upon his authority as chief
magistrate, often, and at other times
when the social features of official life
brought into play the more genial ele
ments of nature.
The disparity of age, and the difference
in the rank of our ollieial positions were
such that I could not have been admitted
to any degree of personal intimacy; yet
there was in those day3 no lack of oppor
tunity for even a young gentleman to
stand in the presence of his superior in
age or rank, when he preserved a re
spectful recognition of the proprieties ot
life.
Mr. Davis never impressed me as be
ing an austere person who was unap
proachable by reason of any evidences of
asceticism or self-importance. On the
contrary his dignified deportment was so
naturally easy, his manners so graceful
in their simplicity, his conversation so
free from all taint of barbarisms, that
from the first I recognized in him a type
of the cultured Southern gentleman,who.
while he commanded your respect, in
sensibly won your admiration. There
was no blatant self-assertion, no vulgar
display of egotism, so commonly a char
acteristic of the politician whose eleva
tion to a place of distinction too often
carries with it the evidences of coarse
breeding and defective sensibilities.
Perfectly calm and self-possessed, never
moved to the exhibition ot temper how
ever exasperated; ready at repartee with
out a trace of low wit; warm in his com
mendations without a word of fulsome
laudation; strong in his censure of what
ever he believed wrong or unjust, but
never with vulgar adjectives; sincere in
convictions, frank in their expressions,
he despised deceit and abominated the
low cunning of the political charlatan.
Such were the impressions of the eharae
aeterof Mr. Davis made upon my mind
not in a single visit to him, but which
grew with the daily associations of my
official life until they fixed themselves in
my mind as a reflex of a naan who had
disciplined himself, and cultured the
graces of a nature richly endowed by his
creator.
I have to this day never had occasion
to correct these impressions, nor have I
ever known this character comnromised
by any word or act of its possessor. My
duties would at times bring me in direct
contact with the President. Whether it
was to furnish the abstracts of the Secre
tary of the Treasury’s report in advance
of a message to Congress and explain in
answer to his inquiry, some detail there-
in embodied, or whether to receive seme
suggestion or direction with regard to
the conveniences of the executive build
ing, of which I hail been made superin
tendent; whether I met him at tiie office
or, as once oeeured, at the Executive
Mansion to find him racked with the
pains of neuralgia, from which he was at
times a great sufferer. I never met other
than the expressions of a perfect gentle
man, or heard a word, under anyjcireum
stances of aggravation, which betrayed
an ungoverued temper, or evinced a harsh
criticism.
Immediately adjoining the offices of
the President was that of his Secretary
of State, Robert Toombs, whose ghastly
epigrams were rolled out in those clays
as freely about the corridors of the exec
utive building as they have since been
heard in the hotels of our Georgia cities.
Mr. Toombs did not remain long in the
cabinet of Mr. Davis, nor is this to be
wondered at by any who know the char
acters of tiie two men. In one respect
alone did they resemble —they wore hu
man beings—but, in their moral and in
tellectual expressions, they differed as
widely from each other as the cyclone
does from the steady trade winds of the
ocean. Why Mr. Toombs saw proper to
withdraw from the cabinet of Mr. Davis,
formed at the time a subject of much less
conjecture than in these later days of re
views and reviewer.-. It was reported at
the time that the Secretary of State
found his official duties so few that his
capacious hat furnished room enough
for hi3 diplomatic correspondence. Be
this as it may, he turned over his port
folio to his excellent assistant, Mr. Wm.
M. Browne, and sought to satisfy his pa
triotic spirit as a brigadier in the army.
There was no violent rupture, no antag
onism of policies, that we ever heard of
in the “kitchen cabinet,” composed of
the department assistants, who often
met and exchanged opinions in a social
way over what was transpiring about the
olflees of their chiefs. A single remark,
reported on one of these occasions to
have been made by Mr. Toombs, gave
me Mien what I. have always believed to
be the true reason, if there was much
reasoning in the matter, for his course.
About this time, and while the resigna
tion of Mr. Toombs w as the topic of con
versation, Mr. Phillip Clayton, the as
sistant secretary of the treasury, asked
ina company of gentlemen the question,
“Whose collar do you wear?” explain
ing the question by stating that Mr.
Toombs had said “lie would be it he
would wear the collar of any man on
earth.”
After this it was common to hear about
the department the question, “whose
collar do you wear?” It was then, for
the first time, that I became informed
that Mr. Toombs had aspired to the pres
idency of the Confederacy, and that his
name had been brought before the con
vention by the Georgia delegation. I
cannot believe, however, from my
knowledge of the gentleman, that a dis
appointed ambition was the sole cause of
the withdrawal of Mr. Toombs from the
cabinet of Mr. Davis. His imperious na
ture, I apprehend, made him ill at ease
in a position where he could, at best, be
no more than an adviser. There were
no representatives of foreign govern
ments at his office, and no easy approach
to the courts of European potentates.
Fie could appear there only as the repre
sentative of a people seeking the recog
nition of a national character not yet
passed beyond the erysilis state of a de
facto existence. Diplomacy, as an art,
he despised, and to supplicate was so for
eign to his nature that he could ask
nothing but in the form of a demand. As
to what may have privately transpired
between Mr. Davis and his unique secre
tary, I, of course, could know nothing.
If there was, as has been stated, an ulti
matum in tiie form of a line of policy
presented to the President by Mr.
Toombs, it was securely locked away in
the reticence of these gentlemen, and
was never permitted to become even a
conjecture among the subordinate ollicors
of the government.
(TO BE CONTINUED.)
One of the most telling speeches deliv
ered in the General Assembly for many
a day past, was Dr. FWton’s on the bill
for the sale of the State road.* It was a
powerful and unanswerable argument
against the covered scheme for “gob
bling up” the most valuable possession
of the jieople by certain interested par
ties, and the echoes of this incisive
speech will reverberate for many a day
to come over the hills and through the
valleys of Georgia. The honorable rep
resentative from Bartow proved himself
to be a true friend and champion of the
people on this and equally important is
sues where effective speech, high moral
courage, patriotic affinity with the peo
ple and incorruptible character are es
sential to defeat wily and unscrupulous
schemes of aggrandizement. —Atlanta
Journal.
ATLANTA LETTER.
A n.ANra, Ga., Sept. 22, 1885.
This and the coming week will decide
a question that will have a greater influ
ence on the political government of Geor
gia for the next twenty-five years, than
did the “reconstruction eclipse,” to bor
row a happy epithet from Dr. Feltou’s
late speech against the sale of the State
Road.
That question is whether the railroads,
of this State shall be subject to the peo
ple or the people be subject to tiie rail
roads. That is the real issue involved in
the bill to curtail the powers of the rail
road commission, as passed in the Senate.
Tiie bill as it now stands, if it becomes a
law, is worse than an absolute abolish
ment of the commission. A careful ex
amination of the text Will convince the
people of this. It entails endless litiga
tion in every county touched or penetra
ted by a railroad. It proposes to lodge
with juries decision on facts and conclu
sions from contingencies, of which they
must be in the main ignorant. Besides,
the law that leaves a citizen at the mercy
of a railroad for law suits, is a millstone
about his neck. But, it is nor my place
as a news correspondent to argue edito
rially-like, and.so I shall go to the news
in the case.
ITS CIIANCES IN THE IIOUSE.
The bill has been read once and re
ferred to the railroad committee. The
bill has a majority in the committee.
This majority recognizes that the mi
nority cannot be cajoled into a favorable
report at once, with the certainty that an
unfavorable report will be filed by the
minority. The favorable report will be
before the House Thursday morning. It
is probable the minority report will be
later.
The debate will he very int°resting,
and may be, exciting. Messrs. Gustin
and Bartlett of Bibb, Gordon of Chatham,
Harrison of Quitman, and Calvin and
Brandt of Richmond, may be looked to
for careful arguments in favor of the bill.
The opposition will not lack leaders. It
is expected that Dr. Felton will speak
against the bill, and the opposition is
clirystalizing about him as the leader*
Mr. Berner of Monroe, the best debater
among the younger members, and who
fought the bill for a prison reformatory
school, will stand shoulder to shoulder
with the Doctor in his defense of the
people against the encroachments of the
moneyed monopolists. Mr. Arnheim of
Dougherty, will oppose the bill, and it is
more than probable that that judicious
legislator, Mr. Turner of Troup, will lend
his aid to the interests of the people.
The railroads have their minions in the
lobbies and galleries, and on the floor,
in the hotels and on the street corners.
Everywhere may be found agents of the
corporations who are seeking to have ab
rogated a law which governs them in
the exercise of the franchises granted
them-by the State subject to the State’s
laws. 5V hat llui more cogent arguments
are that are used, I do not know; but
their cogcnqjy is admitted, and by the ini
tiated, may'he seen.
V
ANOTHER LOBBY.
. The insurance men are opposing very
bitterly Mr. Calvin’s bill providing for
payment in full of policy on houses de
stroyed by fire. As the lav/ stands valu
ation is made after fire, notwithstanding
that the value of tiie policy never ex
ceeds two-thirds the real worth of anv
house. It is rare that the full amount of
a policy is paid. The law as it stands is
altogether for the benefit of the insu
rance companies.
Commerce Street.
The agents here are publicly threaten
ing to withdraw from the State if the
proposed bill passes. They, too, are
thronging galleries and lobbies. Agents
are here from several larger cities of
Georgia. Their threat of withdrawal
from the State is foolish braggadocio. If
they are not willing to pay the amount of
the policy, the pro rata premium which
they take is taken dishonestly; and that
is all there is to it. Here is the bill:
Be it enacted, etc., That after the pas
sage of this Act, any insurance company
or companies, agent or agents of the
same, effecting or making insurance on
any buildings in this State, b?, and the
same are hereby required to make, or
have made, at the time of said insurance
is about to be effected and annually
thereafter upon renewal, an assessment
of said building or buildings; and should
the said building or buildings thus in
sured be totally destroyed by' fire, the full
amount of insurance, as set forth and
written in the policy of said insurance
for which all reauired premiums shall
have been paid, shall be paid within six
ty days from the date of the fire by
which said building or bull lings was de
stroyed as aforesaid; Provided, that
nothing in the provisions of this Act
shall be construed to prevent the insu
rance company or companies, agent or
agents of the same, from accepting, in
lieu of the assessment herein required, if
they so select, an assessment made by the
owner, or his authorized representative,
on said buildings desired to be insured.
Be it further enacted, etc., That in the
event of the total destruction of said
building or buildings by fire, there shall
be no further assessments. If the
amount of insurance, as sec forth and
written in the policy embracing and
covering said building or buildings, be
not paid, as provided in this Act, within
the prescribed sixty days, the claimant
holding under said policy of insurance
may bring said company or companies,
agent or agents of the same, and recover
said insurance and the cost of said suit;
Provided, that in the event of any partial
loss or destruction by’ tire of any build
ing or buildings so insured, shall be
held and determined that the company or
companies, agents of tiic same, having
issued a policy or policies thereon, shall
be liable for such damage as shall have
been done; Provided, the same does not
i exceed the amount of insurance erf
prefsed in the body ot said policy or pol
icies.
THAT INVESTIGATION.
The joint committee is doing its work
very slowly in investigating the use of
I four miles of the State road by the Geor
-1 gia Pacific. Here is an interesting dpo
-19
ttment, copied from the executive re
cords. It is worth its space.
Executive Department )
Atlanta, Ga., Aug, G, ’BS. (
Whereas: The Georgia Pacific Kail
road Company has petitioned for the
right-of-way over a portion of the Wes
tern and Atlantic railroad; it is there
fore ordered: That in pursurnce of the
authority of the general assembly, which
acts are specifically referred to in the pe
tition, That the privilege is granted to
the Georgia Pacific Railroad Company
of building its road on the right-of-way
of the Western ane Atlantic railroad for
a distance not to exceed four miles from
the depot in Atlanta.
Believing that the building of the
Georgia Pacific road and its extent-ion to
the West is of great importance to the
people of this State, and that the enter
prise should be fostered and encouraged
in its inception, and further believing
that pecuniary compensation for use of
the right-of-way should be moderate,
the privilege is, the right-of-way is here
by granted in consideration of the sum
of one thousand dollars to be paid.
Alfred 11. Colquitt,
Governor.
There is no evidence that that thou
sand dollars has ever been paid, nor is it
clear that the state received a benefit
commensurate with the cash value of
the franchise.
The committee meets again to-morrow.
NOTES.
The governor lias signed the general
local option bill, and the special levy tax
bill for building the capitol.
The bill providing a reformatory school
for Richmond county lias passed both
branches of the Assembly.
The House to-day passed a hill by Mr.
Brandt to encourage good conduct of
prisoners of ehaingangs by shortening
terms four days each month for good be
havior.
The House has reconsidered its decis
ion to have night sessions, and instead,
will work from three to six in the after
noon.
There will be a prohibition election
here November 0. The temperance men
are active. A fund of nearly $20,000 is
already subscribed for campaign pur
poses. The whisky men meet to-night
to perfect their plans for the contest.
A DANGEROUS MEASURE.
Telegraph and Messenger.]
There is before the Georgia Legisla
ture, a bill to require fine insurance com
panies to pay the full amount for which
policies may be written, in case of loss
by lire, without the usual adjustment to
cut down the payment to amount actual
ly lost, in cases where insurance is in
excess of value. We have before refer
red to a similar bill reported by the judi
ciary committee to the House some two
months ago, and we repeat in effect what
we then said, that this is one of the most
pernicious measures brought before the
present Legislature. Under the present
laws we do not know of any difilculty in
collecting the actual amount of any hon
est loss, and it is neither just nor expedi
ent that insurance— which is intended
only as an indemnity against loss—shall
be made a matter of speculation by un
scrupulous men. The bill before the
House offers a temptation to men of easy
conscience and loose principles, which
many will take advantage of—and the
best result must be great loss, or bank
ruptcy, to the insurance companies, un
less they can recoup themselves by great
ly advanced rates, which the honest men
must pay on account of the rascals who
burn or sell out to the insurance compa
nies, So ic would app; ar that the inter
ests of honest men are in the direction of
the defeat of this law. But there is a
great probability that the insurance com
panies will withdraw from the State
where their capital is liable to be stolen
from them under such a law, which gives
no advantage to an honest man, but puts
a premium upon rascality. Only very
recently fill the fire insurance companies
withdrew at once from the State of New
Hampshire upon the passage of a law
similar to the one now proposed in Geor
gia, and it is needless to present to the
consideration of men of business the state
of things that would exist should they
do the same in Georgia. Telegrams re
ceived by our local insurance agents yes
terday already indicate this purpose on
the part of companies represented here.
This law is not like those against outside
insurance capital, but effects home and
foreign companies alike. Our few home
companies could not carry a tithe of the
commercial insurance of the State, even
if they were not as disastrously affected
as the others, and when old companies
with large accumulations decide they
cannot safely do business under such a
law, it is hardly probable that prudent
men with capital to invest will be will
ing to form new companies that must
start under all the disadvantages of the
law which drives out old established com
panies. The proposed law if conliiud to
real estate only would be a bad law, as it
presupposes every agent of an insurance
company to have the knowledge of a
practical builder, and the enforcement of
it would compel the insurance companies
to protect them selves, as we have before
stated, by a system of inspections and ap
praisements that would greatly compli
cate and increase the cost of insurance.
But when applied to stocks of merchan
dise the law offers inducement to villainy
beyond anything heretofore known in
this State. As an illustration of its work
ings consider the following: A party
who has a stock of SIO,OOO on the Ist of
October may apply for and obtain, after
full inquiry and inspection, an insurance
of $7,500. We will suppose that by
spring he any have reduced his stock to
$5,000, or even leas, which reduction he
can conceal if he will. Finding business
unsatisfactory and wishing to close out,
he may, if unprincipled, arrange to sell
out to the insurance companies by a well
planned lire, and the companies must pay
him the $7,500 insurance regardless of
the fact that it may be double Ins loss.
Such protection to a rascal as is afforded
by this law not only encourages rascality,
but it exposes to the hazard of these ras
cally burnings, the property of honest
men who may not wish to have the ex
pense of full insurance, and so suffer loss
by the act of the speculative fire-bug.
As above stated, an honest loss is easi
ly arrived at under the present laws, and
competition for business will force the
various companies to settle with fairness
if they wish to continue to do a good bus
iness. In case ot dispute as to value, the
company is not allowed to fix the prices
but every policy provides tor reference to
appraisers. These appraisers are taken
from the community in which the insur
er lives, and it must be a hard case where
a policy holder cannot get justice with
his own neighbors for the judges. If our
Legislators are anxious to do something
for those who insure let them remove the
restriction of the deposit law, which
many good companies refuse to comply
with 0!i principle, and thereby increase
the number of companies doing business
in the State, making greater competition,
which is the best regulator of all com
mercial business.
WHERE DAVIS WAS CAPTURED.
A Visit to the Spot on Which lie Camped
for the East Time.
31. B. Lumsden in Telegraph & Messenger.]
Twice in the last two years have L visi
ted the spot where Mr. Davis surrender
ed the last title to the Confederacy, and
I wish to correct some errors and give
some correct information in regard to the
capture, given me by.reliable citizens of
Irw in county, who carried me to the spot
and pointed out the different positions of
Mr. Davis’s camp and the positions of
the two bodies of Federal cavalry. I
took notes at the time of my visit to the
historic spot, but they are mislaid and I
shall write from memory. Mr. Davis
was captured about two miles from Ir
winvilie (not Invinton), the county die
of Irwin county, on the road leading
from Abbeville, Wilcox county to Irwi.ii
ville, and about twenty-five miles from
the former place. Mr. Davis and party
crossed the Oemulgee near Abbeville,
Wilcox county, about twenty-five miles
below Hawkinsville, at a ferry called
“Poor Robin’s.” About 100 yards above
this ferry and in fifty or seventy-five
yards of the river is a remarkable spring
called “Poor Robin” spring. I visited it
when ice was on the shrubs between the
spring and Abbeville, yet the water was
quite warm and the young man with me
went in bathing and said he often did so
in winter. The spring is quite large,
twenty-five feet square, and there flows
quite a large stream from it. It is said
to have remarkable curative qualities in
skin diseases on man and beast. It is a
fact known by old citizens that a horse
with scratches carried into the spring a
few times is soon cured.
From the ferry Mr. Davis and party
came by Abbeville and took the road to
Irwiuville. The Federal cavalry got on
track of them at ferry or Abbeville, and
there they divided, the Michigan Regi
ment taking one road and the Wisconsin
another. The party of cavalrymen that
took the river at House Creek road, after
going some distances found out that Mr.
Davis had not gone that road, so they left
it and came on toward Irwiuville. This
village, although the county site, con
tained only the court house, jail, one
one store and two dwellings. Finding at
the village that Mr. Davis had not pass
ed, they then took the road back towards
Abbeville.
Mr. Davis and party were unconscious
of being so closely pursued, and when
they came to where one of those little
piny woods branches crosses the road and
makes a little pond aljove the road, se
lected that place for a camp and pitched
their tents to the right of the road on the
side of the branch next to Irvvinviile.
There, under the tall waving pines (for
there were no oaks at that place), upon
the green wire grass which at that season
covered the whole face of the country,
tired and worn out, they lay down to
sleep.
There was only one house near Mr.
Davis’ camp between there and Inwin
ville. It was at this house the party
who came around by lrwinville learned
where he was camped. Ido not now
recollect whether it was the Michigan or
Wisconsin party. They approached near
the camp and halted about dav-break or
just before the party from the lrwinville
side advanced. The party from the Ab
beville side, who were some three or four
hundred yards from the camp and per
haps waiting for the attack, and mistak
ing their own men for Confederates,
commenced firing, which was kept up
some time, until they discovered their
mistake, oeveral men were killed and
one or two horses.
“Right here,” said my informant, “a
fine mare was killed,” and strange to
state there is a clean place and no grass
growing there after so many years.
There are a groat many pine trees with
places cut out of them where relie-hunt
ers have cut out the balls that were
lodged in the trees during the fight. It
is known as the Jeff'Davis Battle Ground.
It is a fact that the two or three large
pines under which Mr. Davis camped
have been struck by lightning and are
now dead. One was burned down by
one of the fires that periodically take
place in the wire grass country. The
old man who lives near found, after all
had left, a carbine or musket. He kept
it hid for awhile but the roving band of
Yankee soldiers tv ho a few days after vis
ited the place, took it from him, and if I
mistake not, robbed him of all the mon
ey he had, about 25 cents in silver. The
old man and his house have both passed
away, A small plot of ground, perhaps
half an acre, devoid of wire grass (for it
is a fact that wire gras3 once Mug or
plowed up never again grows on the
land), shows where the house stood.
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LEGAL INTELLIGENCE.
Bartow Superior Court.
SESSIONS.—Sceomt Mondays in January aml
J illy.
OFFICERS.—J. C. Fain, Judge; .T. W. Harris,
Jr., Solicitor General; F. M. Durham, Clerk;
W. W. Roberts, Sheriff, John A. Gladden, Dep
uty Sheriff.
Bartow County Court.
SESSIONS.— First Monday in
Quarterly terms first Mondays in M fIL-j June,
September and December.
OFFICERS —G. S. Tumlin, Judge; J. J. Con
ner, Solicitor General; F. M. Durham, Clerk;
J. G. Broughton, Bailiff'.
Bartow SherifF’s Sales
FQK OCTOBER, 1885.
\T 7 IT.L BE SOID BEFORE TIIE COURT
3 V house door in Cartersville. Bartow county,
Georgia, between the legal sale hours.
On tlm First Tuesday in October. ISBS.
The following property, to-wit:
One lot in King- ton, Bartow cous.ty,
Ga., containing two (2) acres , or
less, upon which is situated one and welling
house now occupied by Mrs. Mary E.
Rainey; one small store house and other
outbuildings. Said lot bounded on the
north by vacant lot owned by Mrs. Mary
E. Rainey and Mrs. Lily Bailey, on the
south by street running parallel with tho
W. & A. R. the west by street
running north from W. & A. R. R , and
on the east by the Kuson Hotel lot. The
property levied on hei ng the T. R. Concho
residence lot. Also a vacant lot situated
in the town of Kingston, said State and
county, containing one-tourth of an
acre more or less, lying on the corner of
the street north ot ih town lot known :,s
the McCravey hotel lot, and running
north one hundred feet, from tinmen
west one hundred and four feet, thence
south one hundred feet, thence e rfi one
hundred and four feet to the starting
point. Ail levied on and will be sold as
the property of the estate of Thomas R.
Couche, deceased, to satisfy one ti. fa.
issued from the Superior Court of Bartow
county in fayor of George C. Wyatt vs.
A. P. Wofford, as administrator of the es
tate ofTho?. R. Couche, deceased. Said
11. fa. proceeding for the use of Mrs. M.
E. Rainey, transferree. Property point
ed out by plaintiff’s attorney and in pos
session of Mrs. M. E. Rainey and W. Y.
Bailey. Notice waived. $7.05.
.Also, at the same time and place, lots
of land numbers 222 and 199, lying in tho
15th Dist. and 3d section of Bartow coun
ty, Georgia; each containing 160 acres,
more or less (excepting 0 or 7 acres,
more or less, which has been sold off of
lot 199, on tho northeast corner, to the
Methodist church, and for burial pur
poses; and, also, 9 acres, more or less,
sold to Hart King, col'd, on the west end
of said lot, and lying between the line
of said lot and the public road, running
across the lot, also 8 acres, more or less,
sold off' to William Logan, and now
owned and occupied by Geo. W. Hill,
lying oast of the public road leading to
Adairsyille, from said Methodist church,
and being on the southwest corner of
said lot). All levied on and will be sold,
as the property of Mrs. Mary M. Martin,
defendant, for the purchase money, un
der and by virtue of a li. f.i. issued from
the Superior court of said county, i;i ia
vorof Jane McAllister, vs. said Mary
M. Mai tin. Del filed and recorded in
Superior court, . as provided
by law. Prep-Tty in posses.- Jon of de
fendant. $6.56.
Also, ad part® of jots of land num
bers 21-1,:B 15 and 213, lying in the slh
Dist. and 3d .sec! i m c.{ Bartow county,
Ga., known as the Mrs. Nancy Hender
son place, and said to contain 358 acres
in all, more or less. Said land levied on
and will be sold as the property of Mrs.
Nancy Henderson, to satisfy one ii. fa.
issued from the Superior court of said
count}', in fa vor of Sinclair Mac Hen
derson vs. Nancy Henderson. Proper
ty in possession of said Mrs Henderson,
and pointed out by plaintiff’s attorney.
$3.03.
Also, lots of land numbers 1250, 1251,
1268, 1269 and 1270, h ing and being ill
the 17th Dist. and 3 1 section ot Bartow
county, Ga.; each containing 40 acres,
more or less. Levied on and will be sold
as the property of the estate of Samuel
F. Stephens, deceased, in the hands ot
Jas. E. Stephens as executor, to be ad
ministered, under a fi. fa. issued from
the Superior court of said county, in fa
vor of Dan’l S. IVmtup, receiver, etc.,
vs. Jas E. Stephens as executor, as
aforesaid. J. B. McGinnis, tenant ,ui
possession. $3.56.
Also at the same time and place, the
undivided half interest in remainder (af
ter life estate of Celia A. Willis, wife of
said A. Willis, is terminated) in lots of
land Nos. 1216 and 1162, in the 21st dis
trict and 2nd section of Bartow county,
Ga. Levied on and will tie sold as the
property of W. 51. Wjins by virtue of
and to satisfy tvvo justice court li. fas.
from Justices Court 851st G. M., Cobb
county, in favor of A. Willis vs.
Willis. Fi. fa- , backed by W. 11. Martin,
N. P. and ex-ofneie J. P., Bartow cofiTD
ty, and levy made b} r L. W. Fowler, li.
C., and returned to me. W. M. Willis
tenant in possession and notified of levy.
$1.02.
W. W. Roberts, Sheriff'.
J. A. Gladden, Dep’y Sh’ff.
Administrator’s Sale.
By virtue of the last will and testa
ment of David Fisk, late of Bartow coun
ty, Ga., deceased, will before the court
house door in Carter ; ville, sai l county,
on tliH first Tuesday in October next,
within the legal sale hours, sell the fol
lowing property to-wit:
The undivided one-half interest in lot
of laud No. two hundred and eighty
nine, in the 2-did district and 2nd section
Bartow county, said lot containing IGO
more or less —about 70 acres cleared, the
balance in timber, with ordinary or com
mon improvements. Same sold as the
proper tv of David I - isk, deceased, tor
distribution under his will. Terms of
sale, cash. This Sept. Ist, 1885.
A. A. VixcKNr,
with will annexed.
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