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DOCTOR AND MRS. W. H. FELTON.
Ot TOBER 1. 1885.
Tin. Atlanta Journal is an honor to its
management. .May its shadow never
grow le^S.
Mu. Sin. I.kwis takes charge of the
Sparta Ishmaelite. It had an able editor
before and will have another under pres
ent management. These gallant young
men are worthy of the grand old name,
and every blast from their bugle tells ot
honest independence and courageous
effort.
ViHi i inia Politics. —Mr. Mahone and
John Wise, are confronted by formidable
foes in Virginia, and it now looks as if
Fitzhugh Lee will have an easy victory.
But those who think to catch the übi
quitious little politician “napping” will
reckon without their host. For indomi
table perseverance, pluck and hold fast
energy, Senator Mahone is a trump.
As regards the canard about Mr.
K ‘ile v s ex-Jewish wife, we are told that
the Fmperor of Austria appointe-d two
ex-Jews, Dr. Olaker and i)r. Unger,
members >t his Cabinet and another ex-
Jew, Ceil. Krons, Covernor of Bohemia;
hence he has no objection to an ex-Jew.
—From the American Israelite.
And so the trouble was not the Jewish
wife--who had turned Catholic. The
Keiley question promises as much mys
tery as the “Mail of the Iron Mask.”
New York Politics. —Both parties
have nominated for governor in the State
ol'New York. Gov. Hill, who succeed
ed Gov. Cleveland on the latter’s elec
tion to the Presidency, was made the
standard bearer of the Democrats, and
Mr. Ira Davenport is the republican
nominee. The race promises to be close
and exciting, especially since Mr. Ros
well P. Flower declined to serve on Gov.
Hill’s ticket as lieutenant-governor.
The most serious outlook for the cotton
crop of this year is threatened just now.
Torrents of rain are falling continually.
The bolls are near the ground, which arc
now opening, and much of the lleeey
staple will he Hooded—especially in low
ground—and if it does not rot on the
stalk will be irretrievably damaged as to
color and quality. Unless dry weather
comes to its relief there will be a* falling
off in yield and price from these contin
ued rains.
It is a matter of pride to all Georgians
that those demoralizing methods, known
as “the commercial policy,” never was
attached to the names of Howell Cobb,
Ben Hill, Alex. Stephens, or Robert
Toombs.—Albany News and Advertiser.
Are you “certain sure,” as the chil
dren say? Some of them, we arc satis
lied, were not traders in politics, but it
will tie well to wait awhile before you
are qualified as to what is not yet reveal
ed in regard to other prominent public
men who have not been subjected to the
ordeal of public criticism, in the light of
facts and unimpeachable testimony.
Ohio Politics, —Both parties have
nominated in Ohio. Gov. Headley and
.1 utlge Foraker are again opposing can
didates. We opine Gov. Hoadley’s
chances to be the best, especially since
Senator Thurman is announced to speak
for him. We sincerely wish President
Cleveland had given the attention to
Senator Thurman that his merits war
rant. He was defeated for the Senate
because he antagonized Jay Gould and
Huntingdon in the Pacific railroad atfair,
lmt it is a sad day for a republic when a
man’s honesty is not lnmored In- Ills own
party. We would be glad to know he
could wave his bandanna in the Senate
as long as he lives, for his name is a syn
onym of honesty and incorruptibility.
Tuk Atlanta correspondent of the Ma
con Telegraph, under date of the 21th,
nit., says: “Everybody is smiling to-day
about the editorial In the Constitution
favoring high license. It is well known
that one of the owners of that paper is
very much interested in the Kimball
House. The Kimball House bar is run
by the Kimball House Company. Pro
hibition would close that bar. High li
cense would not only keep it open but
would run out all the little bars, and
Kimball House whisky would be elevated
to about twenty-five cents a drink, and
might be very mean at that. In this
way, you see, the milk in the coeoanut is
neatly accounted for!” Where, oh,
where is Dr. Munhall? Come back,
Doctor, and recall your wandering sheep
to the fold! Between the Capitol City
Club and the Hi Kimball, there is mis
sionary ground it will not do to neglect.
Chattanooga Commercial: “The un
dertaker’s bill for services rendered at
( Jen. Grant’s funeral is #14,152.75. Mr.
Merritt says his charges were no greater
than they would have been for like ser
vices rendered to any one else. The car
riage bill alone was #5,000. The bill has
lH*en forwarded to the War Department
and Congress will be asked to make the
necessary appropriation *<> pay the bill.”
And Congress will pay it. This ex
pense recalls to mind a story related by a
Methodist minister of Bartow county be
fore the war. He was being entertair ed
at the house of an old gentleman whose
son expected to marry soon. The expect
ed bridegroom was very full of his ap
proaching marriage, and remarked: “ I
could not think of paying the officiating
minister less than #*>o for his services.”
The pastor stroked his chin and felt good
over the prospective fee, when the old
gentleman, with the utmost sang froid
said, “ Pray God, son, that you don’t
have to marry often at that lick.”
So we think a few such funerals will
satisfy the nation.
UK.If SCHOOL IS CHINA .
“THE ISHMAELITE axd cocrant.
“Will liie papers above named and j
from which we quoted two weeks ago t
consider some facts and see how their
comments in the papers ot the 10th and
17th, inst., respectively, agree with them, j
In China there has never been a Christian >.
high school for girls. In Georgia,there
are now more than a dozen female col
leges. China has over 300,000,000 of
people—nearly all heathen—the women
practically imprisoned slaves. Georgia
has not 2,000,000 people—nominally
Christian, and the women enjoy all the
liberty and blessedness of Christian
homes. Miss Laura llaj'good wants to
establish one high school tor girls in
China. The Anglo-Chinese University
does not admit girls. Shall we wait till
ever}' rural district in Georgia has a high
school before we aid Miss Ilaygood to
establish one high school for the missions
in China?” —Wesleyan Advocate.
We are glad to be offered an opportu
nity to make a very respectiul reply, to
a civil inquiry. We are bound to the
editorial staff of the Advocate by more
than common ties of friendship, and we
are always prepared to endorse them in
every good word and work; but we sub
mit that they misapprehend the point in
controversy between us. We do not op
pose schools lor Chinese girls. VV e are
entirely willing that Miss Ilaygood
should have a high school in Shanghai.
We are ns anxious to see China redeem
ed from darkness to light as any Metho
dist In Georgia.
We make issue on none of these things,
nor do we feel obliged to defend our
selves from what we never attacked.
We did protest against expending $25,-
000 on one school house, a kind ot col
lege, especially as the women in China
are hardly qualified for the first grade ol
a primary school. The church is now in
debt, deeply involved—much of it grow
ing out of the building of the Anglo-
Chinese University. We thought (and
think still) we could do better than to
hurry-skurry all over Georgia to raise
$25,000 to build another college, even if
it was intended as a compliment more
than a necessity, while this debt was al
ready pushing the church. The treasurer
of the missionary fund published an
alarming exhibit in the Wesleyan Advo
cate last week. The church owes to-day
one hundred and twenty thousand dol
lars, much of it pledged to the building
of the Anglo-Chinese University. This
is now due, besides the large assessment
for the prosent year. The treasurer
states that the prudent financiers on the
board begged for less haste, less waste of
money, but they were overruled by the
hot-heads.
We only begged for less waste of mon
ey, especially when the church has such
a large sum to meet at home, and the
people are so needy themselves. Fine
colleges and line churches are very grat
ifying to us all, but like all other luxu
ries, they should wait until we can af
ford them. A woman in a fine silk
frock with her toes sticking out of her
shoes, ts a poor show, and if she went in
debt for the frock when she was not able
to buy a pair of shoes with cash, she is
either insane or beneath contempt. Plain
clothes, plain houses, plain food, suit
people in debt and who are trying to
work out, and we protest that fine col
leges in China should wait until we pay
the people we are now indebted to, and
especially should we see to it that nobody
suffers at home before we lavish luxuries
abroad, even after our debts are paid.
Whenever wc foster vanity at the ex
pense of judgment we are bound to come
to grief.
It will be useless to state it, perhaps,
but it is a fact that this year’s good crop
will hardly pay for the supplies of
the last three years of loss and failures
We should meet the obligations that we
have assumed—we should pay the people
who have trusted us—then wo should
try to clothe and feed those dependent
on us for the coming year. We should
then try to help the ignorant poor and
destitute in our midst. We should try
to supply our missionaries abroad with
needful funds to make them comfortable,
and after these things are done, if there
is $25,000 in Georgia to lavish on a fine
school house in China, send it over. We
“want” to do many things for philan
thropy and religion, but the “want” of a
China high school building is only a drop
in the bucket compared to the solid actual
wants of suffering, perishing humanity,
around and about us.
GEN. TOO MBS' CRITIC A L ILLNESS.
The dispatches tell us Gen. Toombs is
very low and that the end is nigh. lie
has lived to a good old age, and the time
will necessarily be short even if he pass
es away within the limit allowed to aged
men. When he dies, which may occur
before this paper goes to press, Georgia
will have lost a true and patriotic son,
who never failed her in an hour of need,
and to whom her honor and good name
were ever dear.
lie was rash and impulsive sometimes,
erred through excess of feeling, but his
mistakes were patriotic mistakes. He
never traded on her poverty or misfor
tunes to till his pocket or to lower her
standard in the eyes of the world. He
was so jealous of her honor that he de
spised traitors and commercial politicians
with a contempt that was overwhelming
and a disgust that was withering. We
shall never see his like again. Afflicted
with some weaknesses that injured both
body and mind, he had, nevertheless,
gifts that any man, living or dead, might
have coveted, and his patriotic honesty is
unquestioned and unquestionable.
Among the most sterling newspapers
in Georgia is the Brunswick Herald. It
is fearless and honest.
Thousands of children die under the
age of live years. Why ? Physicians at
tribute it to various causes, and have a
vocabulary of infantile diseases too num
erous to mention. Worms! Worms!
Shriner’s Indian Vermifuge wiltkitypChem
and restore the child.
FOK SALK
A tine young milk cow,with calf three
days Id. Apply at this office, oetl-lt
OI'AXO INSPECTIONS.
Labe-: is paid for in proportion to the
skill required to perform it. The black
smith receives more for one day’s labor,
th in a cotton-chopper, because it requires
more skili to lay a plough than to hoe a
row of cotton.
The inspection of gumo is very simple. !
It requires no skill. The inspector has a
sampler, which he sticks into a sack ot i
guano aud draws out of the sack about
one tablespoontul and empties into a pint
bottle. He pierces enough sacks with
his sampler to fill his bottle, which he
corks up, numbers it, keeps a record of
the number and sends the bottle to the
State chemist for analysis. He thus in
spects the several brands of guano put
upon the market. What skill is required
for this? The labor is very light and the
time occupied very small.
There are six men employed by the
Commissioner of Agriculture at salaries
from $1,200 to $1,500 per year. There
are perquisites besides that enable some
of the inspectors to realize $3,000. The
work is or can be done in three months;
the skill required is such as is possessed
by clerks that labor from Christmas to
Christmas on salaries of three or four
hundred and farmers that do not realize
SIOO for a year’s labor.
Such are the services performed and
such are the salaries paid. Who pay the
sa'aries? The burdened farmers of Geor
gia, as they use the guano. About $lO,-
000 is paid by the farmer of Georgia an
nually for the inspection of fertilizers by
the direction of the Commissioners of-
Agriculture.
The State chemist makes the analysis.
This requires skill and is meagerly paid
for. The inspection requires but little
skill and is paid too much for the labor.
Ought this to be so? Every inspector is a
skillfull manipulator of county politics,
or the son of a skillful wire-worker. The
older inspectors are not business men in
other respects, which one may suppose
from the manner in which they managed
their own affairs. Ido not suspect them
of wanting in skill to inspect, but Ido
object as a farmer and tax payer to pay so
much for work that might be done for
one thousand dollars as efficiently as it is
done. The Commissioner of Agriculture
can have it done for one thousand dollars,
and save nine thousand dollars to the tax
payers of Georgia.
If we have to pay the ten thousand in
taxes, pray let it goto some public enter
prise in which all the State is benefitted —
not do pay the henchmen of the agricul
tural bureau.—Alfred S. Franklin in
Telegraph and Messenger.
If these things are true, it is high time
something was done for the relief of the
farmers. This tax comes solely out of
that class, und it is a heavy one, when
you consider how many taxes they are
forced to pay besides. I t really looks to
us as if the farmers of Georgia have no
showing in public affairs. With lawyers
to make the laws, providing a law to
suit every particular case that promises
a fat fee, there is no end to the crooks
and turns that catch the unwary, to get
their money. The fanner is not exempt
from a single regular tax, and yet a3 a
class they are liable to this special tax,
every cent of which comes out of their
hard work.
Let anybody take a circuit of five
miles around us here, go into the hum
ble homes that are a scene of daily toil
from the first day of January to the last
day of December, and watch the heavy,
hard licks it takes to make “buckle and
tongue” meet; and these uncalled for
extra taxes would provoke a saint. Why
not allow this money to stay in the pock
ets of those who literally dug it out of
the earth ? The whole tendency of the
age drifts towards consolidation of capital
and the impoverishment of labor. We
see no remedy unless the farmers unite
for self-protection. It has been the rule
in Georgia, to raise the bloody shirt and
cry “nigger," whenever anybody tried to
afford relief in a national way, but, thank
the Lord, the Yankees have found that
ensanguined garment a failure for the
first time since the war, and the South
will find It out also, when the next deal
is made. Common sense should take the
place of sectional tomfoolery, and it be
hooves the people to sec that they have
justice.
A CAT IN TEE MEAL TUB.
Some days ago Mr. Kingsberry, an at
torney for the Savannah, Florida and
Western Railroad Company, wrote a let
ter to the Greensboro Herald, authoriz
ing said editor to publish favorable com
ments for the railroad bill, as against the
Commission, and the said attorney then
proposed to pay or “remit,” if the arti
cles were favorable.
Now, we •would like to know whose
money he uses to pay or “remit” with?
If the Herald editor had tilled one col
umn—two or three columns —with “fa
vorable” comments, was it likely to be
a cheap bargain for Mr. Ivingsberry’s
employees? Who is trying to bribe?
Alas! Alas!!
The sly attorney proposed to take the
Herald editor up into a high place and
show him something, and that something
was money—so much printing for so much
bribe. Money was to be used with the
Herald to prejudice the public against
the Railroad Commission, and to favor a
railroad encroachment bill.
Yet the Constitution of Georgia is fierce
, upon men who thus seek to control pub
lic opinion, and in our opinion if the law
had been enforced as it deserves to be,
we would now see fewer “favorable”
comments in the newspapers than we do.
This is not the first time public opinion
in Georgia has been manufactured to or
der —and paid for by railroad money.
In the year 1872 many thousands were
spent to influence legislation and public
opinion. The sums were set down and
the editors named—-to their everlasting
shame and confusion.
That such things should be done, and
such money offered, indicate a very low
standard of public morals. It really
looks as if the “trail of the serpent is
over it all.” Aside from the lack of pa
triotism —from the low instincts that
would make a newspaper editor thus be
tray his constituency—there is the get
ting of money under false pretenses,
which all honest people would shun like
a leper's touch.
A newspaper that makes filthy mer
chandize of its good name is unworthy
of success or of decent respect. Too
much credit cannot be bestowed on the
Herald, which had the nerve to face not
only a bribe, but the patriotism to put its
contemporaries on notice of the “ cat in
the meal tub.”
Fruit I’owder at Curry’s.
THE BA ILROA I) BILL.
Before this week closes —aye, perhaps
before The Courant reaches you—it
will be settled whether the present Legis
lature intends to subject the labor of this
country to corporations and if the people
are to be left helpless at the mercy of
railroad syndicates, or whether railroads
are to be made amenable to justice and
fair dealing. The State gave the rail
roads such advantages in right of way
and charters that they have driven out
every public conveyance but their cars.
They were granted these privileges un
der the stipulation that they give the pro
ducers and the travelling public fair and
honorable treatment. This they did not
do. Georgia, by a constitutional act, re
quired them to lower these rates, and
they have continued to make fortunes
while the present depression is driving
the producers into poverty, and the bulk
of this class of citizens now live on
mortgaged farms, and scuffle for an ex
istence.
The railroads have filled the Legisla
ture with men who are seeking promo
tion at the hands of wealth and corpora
ted power, and we wait to see if these
men elected under the promise to deal
justly by the laboring class shall forge
chains of slavery for us and our chil
dren. We are now compelled to pay
transportation rates that not only afford
a handsome income to railroad magnates,
but which pay* a tremendous profit to be
re-inKSttfedt
Compare this condition of things with
the producing class. Hon. A. 11. Steph
ens never said a truer tiling than that
“Georgia grows poorer every day”—and
the railroads are growing richer hourly.
It would be well for legislators to re
member that the people are not fools.
There will be a day of reckoning. May
a merciful Father protect our homes, our
industries, our future existence from the
spoliators and their minions!
AUTUMN.
The summer is passed and gone. The
chill breath of winter is felt around and
about us. The year 1885, with its roll of
crimes, losses, failures —as ivell as it
hopes, pleasures and successes is drop
ping behind in the march of time, and
with three more short months its record
will be signed, sealed and delivered to
the Great Auditor of accounts —for the
judgment.
As we write —propped up in a sick
bed—after a sharp, short struggle for life
and health, the melancholy wind is sway
ing the branches of the trees, sighing and
sobbing as it heralds the speedy coming of
an easterly storm, that even now casts its
gloom and shadow over the landscape.
Nature is beautiful under the soft rays of
an October sun—but she is inexpressibly
sad when gray clouds flit over the sky,
and the wind whistles and moans as it
hurries past. It was a wise man who
said, “All things with which we deal,
preach to us. What is a farm but a mute
gospel? The chaff', the winds, the rains,
blight and insects, woods and* plants,”
etc.
What a sermon this year’s ups and
downs have been! From the first fur
row itv the spring until the yellow corn
is sheltered from the snows of winter!
And oh! what a year of struggle in
the toiling marts of life! Could we be
transported to an elevation that would
command a faithful insight into the
homes and hearts of all about us; could
we watch the struggles, the hopeless ef
forts, the brave endurance, and the resig
nation that would rear its modest head
among weeds of noxious growth; how
we would crave the boon of rest, sweet
rest! If Heaven should be only Rest,
how sweet the thought! If with advan
cing years and increasing infirmities the
soul can rest in the promise of the
Father, the autumnal rays of life will be
the brightest, softest, most comforting
gleams that have irradiated its existence
from the cradle to the grave.
ATLANTA LETTER.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 29, 1885.
It is not my daughter that I am still
harping on but it is the bill to curtail the
powers of the Railroad Commission. The
railroad men have blocked action on it
as much as possible, to gain time to catch
their breath and win more votes. Not
only are the merits of the bill used as
arguments. Recognized and well known
lobbyists have been on the floor of the
House daily ever since the bill came
from the Senate. Members of the House
whose influence is enlisted in behalf of
the bill, have also been very active in
missionary work among their fellow
members. One member tells me that on
Sunday a railroad man visited him in his
room and remained three hours, arguing
in behalf of the bill and making strong
personal appeals for the member’s influ
ence. He assures me that in all his life
he never, never was appealed to so
strongly on personal grounds. Other
means resorted to by the railroads is to
get up petitions in the counties whose
representatives are opposed to the bill,
calling on the hostile members to obey
the will of their constituents, which is
that the bill be passed. lam told that in
several instances the person getting up a
petition received compensation for his ser
vices per capita for the signers thereof.
THE RAILROAD COMMITTEE
Held a meeting last night. There were
absent Turner of Troup, Robbe, Teasly,
Lewis of Hancock, Mason, Cason, Har
rell of Decatur, Word and McCants. On
motion of Mr. Gustin of Bibb, the com
mittee was instructed to report the bill
back to the House with recommendation
that it do pass, by the following vote :
Yeas—Gordon, Bartlett, Dart, Simms,
Langston, Abbott, McLendon, Turner of
Floyd, Backsdale, Miller, Gustin, Ray,
Russell.—l3.
Nays —Hawks, Everett, Clay, Arn
heim, Berner, Eason, Butt, Stewart,
Lafley.—9.
The chairman, Mr. Tate, who is op
posed to the bill, did not vt>te. Mr. Ab
bott, of Fulton, gave notice to the com
mittee that although he had opposed a
similar bill ottered earlier in the session
by Mr. Harris of Bibb, he voted for a
favorable report of the bill without any
obligation to vote for the bill. He want
ed the bill before the House as soon as
possible that it might be fully discussed.
I hear that Mr. Abbott will vote against
the bill. Mr. Russell, of Clark, served
notice on the eommitteec that he also re
served the right to vote against the bill.
There were two pairs absent: Mr. Wood
for, with Mr. Ilarrell of Decatur against
the favorable report; and Mr. Teasley
for, with Mr. Turner of Troup, against,
the report. Mr. Teasly occupies a very
unusual position. He is entirely op
posed to the bill. Ilis vote for a favora
ble report of the bill, was given to ac
commodate certain friends, lie does not
hesitate, however, to openly declare his
opposition to the bill.
A STAR CHAMBER PROrOSAL.
Just before the committee was called
to order Mr. Gordon of Chatham, chair
man pro. tern., called the only reporter
present, and said to him:
“I am sorry, sir, but I must tell you
that you will have to retire when busi
ness is begun.”
The reporter replied: “No sir, I shall
not leave. There are several here who
are not members of the committee,”
‘‘Yes, but you are a reporter. The
Constitution reporter was in here just
now. I told him he could not remain
and he left. You’ll have to go, too.”
“But I won’t.”
“Very well, then, you will compel me
to pass a resolution excluding you, and I
don’t want to do that; it will hurt your
feelings to have to leave by request of
the committee.”
“Well, I cannot help what you may
do about the matter. lam going to stay
here unless I am put out by the com
mittee.”
At 8 o’clock Mr. Gordon took the chair,
no said that the committee’s proceedings
were always private, and as there was a
reporter present, he would have to re
quest him, in the name of the committee,
to retire.
Mr. Clay of Cobb, jumped to his feet
and said that he did not want to smother
the proceedings of the committee. The
bill before it was one of public interest.
The people ought to know what the com
mittee did. For himself lie opposed star
chamber proceedings.
Mr. Arnheitn, of Dougherty, said that
the last meeting of the committee, when
the railroad commission bill was up, was
not secret. Every one who wished came
to the room.
Mr. Clay, of Cobh, moved that the
press be admitted.
Mr. Bartlett, of Bibb, said he had no
objection to the individual presence of
the reporter in the room, but it was a
rule to regard committees’ proceedings so
secret as not to be spoken of in the
House even.
Mr. Gustin, of Bibb, also objected to
the presence of reporters, but if Mr.
Clay’s motion prevailed, tho reporter
who was present ought to promise to give
the report to the other reporters.
The motion was put to the House. It
was carried without a dissenting voice;
but there were several who did not vote
at all.
When the meeting was about over, Mr.
Gordon moved that inasmuch as the press
had been admitted, the chairman Instruct
or request the reporters to confino their
reports to only such proceedings as were
before the committee officially.
Mr. Clay said he did not suppose it
made any difference whether the report
ers were instructed what to report or not,
but for himself he opposed the motion to
be passed by that committee.
Mr. Gordon did not press his motion,
but he personally appealed to the report
ers to coniine their reports to what was
ollicially before the committee.
THE BILL IN THE HOUSE.
The bill was reported to the House this
afternoon. Mr. Hawks gave notice that
there would be filed a minority report to
morrow morning. This report is being
drawn up by a half dozen of the brightest
young men in the House. I wish I
could get it in The Courant this week,
but it will be impossible. It will be a
bigger bombshell than the friends of the
bill dream of. From what I have heard
I am safe in saying there will be points
raised in that document that will throw
new light on the whole subject.
Dr. Felton moved to make the bill the
order of the day for Thursday of this
week.
Mr. Gordon, however, was anxious to
press matters, and so he opposed the mo
tion.
Mr. Eason seconded Dr. Felton’s mo
tion because the minority report will
not be ready until to-morrow, and it can
not be printed before Thursday.
Mr. Gustin, of Ilibb, opposed the mo
tion.
Dr. Felton said that he must insist up
on his motion because lie desired that this
bill should be fully considered. lie re
plied to those who objected that the de
bate would run into Saturday, unless ta
ken up Wednesday and gotten through
with Friday, and that Saturday there is
generally but a bare quorum in the House,
that he would not fear that every one
would be present. He would rather see
all other bills fail, and all legislation
wiped out than that this iniquitous bill
should pass.
After several amendments, which wero
voted down, the Doctor’s motion pre
valed. The bill will therefore lie in or
der for debate Thursday.
VALUED POLICY BILL.
Mr. Calvin’s valued policy bill is the
special order for Thursday. It has been
subject to much opposition. lam frank
to say, however, that my own private
opinion is that the bill will not pass.
A BARTOW BILL PASSED.
The bill providing justices’court hous
es in every militia district in Bartow
county passed. By the time The Cou
rant is issued, the bill will likely be
signed by the Governor.
FINAL ADJOURNMENT.
The House has passed a joint resolu
ti6n, prepared by a joint committee of
the Senate and House, that the General
Assembly adjourn sine die on October
10th. In my judgment the business now
ready for final action, cannot be com
pleted bv that date. To adjourn with
many bills that have been in process of
legislative labor for several months, just
ready to pass, will be a foolish waste of
the time and money already spent. The
work already cut out should be comple
ted before adjournment.
DR. ARMSTRONG.
It is reliably reported that Dr. Arm
strong will have to stand a regular canon
ical investigation into his recent conduct
in Cincinnati. His vestry has thorough
ly acquitted the Doctor, and he now
seeks the vindication of this ecclesiasti
cal examination.
NOTES.
Atlanta is growing restive under the
approaching prohibition election in No
vember. The real issue is between the
Kimball House and the temperance peo
ple.
It some one would whisper to O. A.
Bacon that he is “appearing in public”
too much just now tor a gubernatorial
candidate, he would do the gentleman a
kindness. Politicians, like star actors,
need managers.
Usury is a common practice in Atlanta.
Bartow Sheriff’s Sales
FOR NOVEMBER, 1885.
ttt ILL BE SOLD BEFORE THE COURT
V V house door in Cartevsville, Bartow county,
Georgia, between tiie legal sale hours.
On tho First Tuesday in November, 1885.
The following property, to-wit:
All that part of the William Hardin
place, the place whereon he resided at the
time of his death, which said Sayre was
in possession at the time of the date of
the deed of J. J. Calhoun and N. C.
Sayre to him (said Sayre) and which he
was in possession of February 7th, ISSI,
the same being that part of said place
which fell to Sayre upon a division of
said place between himself and said J. J.
Cal non ti made in September, IS7O, and
consisting of parts of lots Nos. 329, 330,
331, 332, 333, 388, 403, 404, 392, and
whole lots Nos. 389, 390, 391 and 405, all
said lots and parts of lots being contigu
ous, and containing three hundred acres
more or less; all being in the 17th dis
trict and 3rd section of Bartow county,
Georgia. In possession of said Sayre and
John F. Hardin, tenant of said Sayre,
and pointed out by the mortgage li. fa.
and plaintiff's attorney. Said Sayre no
tified of lcyy. Levied on and will be
sold under ono mortgage fl. fa. and one
common law fi. fa. from Superior Court of
Bartow county, Ga. —both in favor of
Thomas W. Akin and John W. Akin, as
executors of Warren Akin, dec’d.,
against said Sayre. Will be sold together
as one tract. $7.62.
Also at tho same time and place, all
that tractor parcel of land which lies in
the filth district and third section of Bar
tow county, Ga., and known and distin
guished as thirty acres more or less of lot
of land number two hundred and thirty,
it being that part of said lot known as the
D. F. Bishop mill property, and of which
said Bishop was in possession on the 21st
of May, 1881, and on which his mill is
located, and all of lot number two hun
dred and thirty-eight (238) except that
portion of said lot heretofore deeded by
said D. F. Bishop to Martin Munford and
to Charlie Gunter and to W. B. Bishop
and to W. V. Smith, and all of lot num
ber two hundred and seventy-three (273)
except those portions heretofore deeded
by said Bishop to J. R. Stephenson and
to Gabriel Culver, and all the ores and
minerals on those portions of said lots so
conveyed to said Stephenson and Culver
which was reserved by said Bishop and
afterwards sold to E. H. Woodward, and
all of lot number two hundred and sev
enty-lour (274) except tiiat portion ot
same heretofore deeded by said Bishop to
Gabriel Culver, including the ores and
minerals on that part of said lot conveyed
to Culyer, and afterwards sold to said E.
11. Woodward by Bishop. And all of lot
No. two hundred and sixty-seven, except
that portion heretofore deeded to W. Y.
Smith. The whole of said land so levied
on containing 400 acres more or less. All
said property contained and described in
a certain deed from D. F. Bishop to E.
11. Woodward, dated 21st of May 1881,
and recorded in book “W.” of Deeds,
pages 4 and 5, in Clerk’s office of Bartow
Superior Court. Being tho property
pointed out in the mortgage fi fa hereby
levied. Levied on and will be sold as the
property of E. 11. Woodward, to satisfy
one mortgage fi fa issued from the Super
ior Court of said county in favor of I). F..
Bishop, vs said E, H. Woodward. Said
property in possession of the I’yrolusite
Manganese Cos. at the date of levy. Levy
made by John A. Gladden, former sheriff,
on February 4th, 1884. Proceeding for
the use of Thomas W. Baxter, assignee.
$12.12.
Also, at the same time and place, lots
of land numbers four hundred and sev
enty-eight (478) and four hundred and
seventy-nine (479), tiotn lying in the
seventeenth district and third section of
Bartow' county, Georgia. Levied on and
will be sold as the property of L. A.
Bailey, under a fi. fa. issued from the Su
perior court of Bartow county, in favor
of Newton and R. T. Cochran as execu
tors of Jno. M. Cochran, deceased,
against said L. A. Bailey. Said fi. fa.
proceeding for the purchase money of
said land. Deed filed and recorded in
clerk’s office as required by law. Prop
erty in possession of defendant and
pointed out in said fi. fa. and by plain
tiff’s attorney. $3.75
Also, at the same time and place, lots
of land numbers 140, 141 and 142, each
containing 40 acres, more or less; lying
in the 17th district and 3d section of
Bartow’county, Ga. Levied on and will
lie sold as the property of W. F. Alford,
to satisfy one fi. fa. issued from the Su
perior court of Bartow’ county, in favor
of Graham & Graham, against W. F.
Alford, principal, and D. L. Martin, se
curity on appeal. Property in posses
sion of said Alford. $2.7G
Also, at the same time and place, one
house and lot in Euharlee, Bartow coun
ty, Ga, containing one acre, more or
less; bounded north by Baptist church
lot, east by the Tom Tumlin property,
west by public road and south
by the Tom Tumlin property,
formerly occupied as a residence by de
fendant, and now occupied as a res
idence by Daniel Lowry, tenant of
defendant. Levied on and will bo
sold as t*e property of defendant,
under a fi. fa. issued from the
Superior court of Bartow county, in fa
vor of W. W. Ilincs against W. B, and
Jas. M. Bohannon. Property pointed
out by plaintiff's attorney. $3.18
Also, at the same time and place, x
one-story house, with an “L” a*-one side
and lot of No. (257) two hundred and
eighty-seven, on which said house is
erected, in the 23d district and 2d sec
tion of Bartow county, Ga., the Tennes
see road running through the cast end
of said lot; bounded on the south by A.
Johnson, north by B. A. Barton, and
west by J. R. Adair. Levied on and
will be sold as the property of Mrs. Mit
tie McDaniel, to satisfy one li. fa. issued
from the Justice court of the 827th dis
district, G. M., of said county, in favor
of J. A. McCandless vs. Mrs. Millie
McDaniel. Levy made and returned to
me by J. F. Brawncr, L. C. $3.72
Also, at the same time and place, lots
of land Nos. 600 and 601, lying and being
in the 17th district and 3d section of
Bartow county; levied on and will be
sold as tho property of the estate of
Robert Speer, deceased, under and by
virtue of all. fa. issued from the Supe
rior court of said county, in favor of
Alice Nelson and Georgia W. Tinsley,
against Thomas W. Tinsley, administra
tor de bonis non of the estate of said
Robt. Speer, deceased. Also, at tho
samejime and place, and under and by
virtue of the last mentioned fi. fa., and to
satisfy the same, will be sold, lots ot land
Nos. 130, 131, 158 and 159, lying in the
17th district and 3d section of said coun
ty; levied on and will be sold as the
property of the estate of said Robt
Speer, deceased. All of said property
being in the hands of said Tinsley, ad
ministrator as aforesaid, to be adminis
tered. Notice of levy having been giv
en and waived as required by law.
$5.70.
\v. W. Roberts, Sheriff.
J. A. Gladden, Dep’y Sh’ff.
County Court Bailiff’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Bartow County :
Will bo sold before the court house
door, in the city of Cartersviße, Ga.,
between the legal hours of sale, on tho
first Tuesday in November next, the fol
lowing described property, to-wit: One
house and lot in the city of Cartersvillo,
Ga,, and bounded as follows : East by
Erwin street, south by John W. Akin
and 11. M. and C. M. Milam, north by
Mary S. Latta and west by Dr. W. L.
Kirkpatrick; lot containing ono acre,
more or less. Levied on and will be
sold as tho property ot the estate of R.
C. Roberts, deceased, in the hands ot
Mrs. Adelaide N. Roberts, executrix of
R. C. Roberts, deceased, to satisfy one
county court fi. fa., issued from the coun
ty court of said countyfavor of the
Milburn Wagon Cos., vs. Mrs. Adelaide N.
Roberts, executrix of R. C. Roberts, de
ceased. Property in possession of the
defendant, and notice of levy waived.
Property pointed out by plaintifi’s at
torney. This September 28th, 1885.
Jas. G. Broughton,
$4.11 County Cottrt TGl!;'.'.'.
Administrator’s Sale.
GEORGIA, Bartow County:
By virtue of an order from Hon. J. C.
Fain, Judge of the Superior court of said
county, in reF. M. Durham, administra
tor of JamesC. Young, deceased, vs.C.C.
Parrott, administrator of J.*R. Parrott,
deceased, et. al., creditors, I will sell the
real estate of the said estate of James C.
Young, deceased, to tho highest bidder
for cash, on the first Tuesday in Novem
ber next (1885), within the legal sale
hours, before the courthouse door in
Cartersvillo, Ga., and from day to day
until all said property is disposed of, to
wit :
Ist, The reversionary interest of said
estate in the dower set apart to Mrs. Sal
lie P. Young, to-wit: Being lots of land
Nos. 486 and 487, in the 4th district and
3d section of Bartow county, Ga., con
taining 75 acres, more or less.
2d, All that part of lot of land num
ber 455, in the 4th district and 3d section
of Bartow county, beginning at the point
of intersection of north and south line of
F. L. Freyer’s lot, on west side with
the east and west line of said lot, on south
side at a rock corner; thence due west
65}£ rods to a post, it being the south
west corner of lot No. 485; thence north
76 rods to center of Baxter road, and es
tablished a corner by planting a rock on
side of road, thence along center of Bax
ter road and original line 66 rods to a
corner in center of said road, and oppo
site the northwest corner of lot of Sam
Saxon, thence south 13 rods to southwest
corner of Saxon’s lot, thence east 12 rods
to junction of lots of Saxon, Bradley and
Williams, thence west on line of Wil
liams, Adelaide Riverson, William Mil
ler, 24 rods to a post near corner of Mil
ler’s lot, thence west 13 rods to a rock
corner, thence south 37 rods to the be
ginning point; containing 33 acres and
7 rods.
3d, All of lot of land No. 483, and the
east half of lot of land No. 459, begin
ning at a post on west bank of Pettit’s
creek, it being the south corner of lots
487 and 488; thence west on the line of
fence between said lands and the lands
of R. A. Clayton and William Hood, 115
rods to southwest corner of same; thence
north 63 rods to grave yard; thence
north 30 degrees east 4G rods; thence
north 10 degrees west 11 jA rods to center
of Baxter road, thence along*the center
of said road 112 rods to the northeast
corner of lot 488, and established corner
by planting post by side fence of Mrs.
Young; thence south 70 rods to the be
ginning corner; said lot and part of lot
containing 53 acres and 100 rods, all in
4th district and 31 section of Bartow
county.
4th, Lot of land No. 444, in the 4th
district and 3d section of Bartow coun
ty, containing 40 acres, more or less.
Plats of all said property can be seen
in my office. Said property will I>e sold
in the order herein described.
This, 30th September, 1885.
F. M. Durham,
Adrn’r. J. C. Young, Deceased.
$17.91