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THE FREE PRESS.
An Independent Democratic Journal.
cTa! C. WILLINGHAM, EDITOR.
The Free Press is an Independent Democrat
ic Journal, opposed to all Rings, Cliques and
combinations, of whatever sort, organizedto de
feat the will of the people in all public matters
or interests in whatever shape presented.
Cartertrlllc, Georgia, November 21,1H,8.
Special Notice.
Subscribers receiving their papers with a cross
mark opposite their names will understand that
they owe for it and that we want the money at
once. We cannot and will not continue the pa
per to those who do not pay up.
../■£■ WA RDS A ND PUNISHMENTS."
Tills Is the title of a lengthy .article in
last week’s Ezpress, and we are frank to
.say it provoked some little anger as well
as amusement. To have read that jour
nal as closely as vve have done since the
4th of last July, and to consent to the
premises of that argument on “rewards
and punishments,” is altogether impos
sible. We are constrained to say, the
impudence exceeds the audacity of the
article. When we recollect that the edi-
rhe street by the Lester party, with a
large family on his hands and no other
livelihood under heaven to provide the
bread that filled their mouths it seems
quite presumptious to hear the Express
talk about the spirit of the opposition in
ostracising the T.ester faction. “What
meat has this Caesar fed upon?”
Now listen: “ Dr. Felton and his
friends all claim to be democrats and we
have never heard the friends of Judge
I,ester call them anything else!!!”
Great God! can it he possible that men
can talk thus, when a falsehood is brand
ed on the assertion of every reader of the
Express? When was Dr. Felton allowed
to be a democrat, since the canvass be
gun? “
“radical,” “liar,” “slanderer,” etc.,
were the on’y terms employed by this
unfair journal—never once allowed to be
a democrat, or respectable, even.
Talk about ostracising the Lester fac
tion ! Why the Lesterites were allowed
to he the “respectables” of Bartow
county (thank God, they are a blessed
small minority!) by the “organized.”
Dr. Felton’s family are denounced, his
wife and daughter slandered, to help
out the ostracism. Did Dr. Felton ever
allude to one of Judge Lester’s family in
the the remotest way? Never! Never!
nor he will never. We are proud,
thankful to know that ostracism, abuse,
slander and vituperation marked the
campaign of the “respectables.” As
members of the second class, so-called
by these arrogant organgrinders, we are
happy to know we scorn such “respecta
bility.”
Listen again: “The people of Bartow
county will crack the whip over the
heads of those who have gone down in
defeat,” etc. Hotgßtyt toighty! We re
joice that you have arrived at an under
standing of the situation that we have
occupied since we first endorsed Dr.
Felton in Congress. Bartow county
cracks no lash—she has heard the slan
derer’s whip in the columns of the Ex
press for four long months —she has been
browbeat, and reviled. She has been
slandered and derided. The Express lias
filled every sheet with threats and me
naces. Governors and senators have
cracked the party lash over her head. A
horde of thimble-rigging politicians with
little brains and much malice, have ram
paged over her borders and filled her
with dissensions and strife —all because
she endorsed and honored a faithful friend
and servant, and did not endorse nor hon
or a man who was signally rebuked in
his own county. Party lash indeed!
Shame upon such journalism!
Perhaps some of the editors desire to
start an independent paper—as we are
aware that a chronic longing of that sort
periodically possesses them. One week
Bartow county is told that the childen of
the voters will live to curse the memory
of their fathers, because they voted
for Felton. The next week we hear a
maudlin cry that the Lester faction will
be ostracised. Call on “Citizen” or
“Cato” to write up your respectability,
but never expose your weakness and
your malice again by a dissertation on
“rewards and punishments.”
CAMPAIGN CHIPS.
The Express says it hewed to the line,
with no thought of where the chips
would fly. 11a, Ila, chips like chickens
generally come home to roost.
Judge Lester hacked a little on the
Cole matter in Cobh. The chips flew
all about. Cobb county gathered them
up, and sent them home in a campaign
basket that held 271 and upwards.
James Brown chopped a little in Cher
okee county and Cherokee gave Felton a
nice little house warming of 738 majority,
made of James’ chips and shavings.
Jas. O. Dowda chipped a little on
“Wool Hat.” When he got through
he had raised such a blaze about bis
heels, that he will never get over the
burn while he lives in Cherokee.
L. N. Trammell hacked off some chips
in a primary meeting in Whitfield. His
county made him pick them up, carry
them home, and store them away beside
the Chas. L. Frost testimony, as a re
minder of past folly.
The workman is always judged by his
work. Always hew to the line; the
chips will tell the tale.
“I never heard of ‘old Felton’ making
a speech in my life that he didn’t ring
sn something about‘myself,’ ‘my record,’
etc ” exclaimed one of the late “organiz
ed’’ as he read Felton’s great Atlanta
speech. Dr. Felton has just grounds
to continually allude to himself in his
speeches, for haven’t the little flees of
organization as well as the big curs been
barking and snarling ut his heels ever
since be became a public man? He i>
obliged to speak of himself beiore the
people. If you would believe the “or
ganized” Dr. Felton is a real ogre.
DP. FELTON IN ATLANTA.
Perhaps no political event in Atlanta
in years has produced a more profound
sensation than the speech of Dr. l elton
there on Friday night last. He made an
impression that few, very few, men
could have made. It was the honesty of
the man that gave him a prestige in ad
vance; and when the people from all
parts of Georgia heard him they iound
him a true man. Hon. B. 11. Hdl ne\er
spoke truer words than he did when he
introduced Dr. Feltoh to that laige and
respectable audience. Said Mr. Hill.
Fei.low-citirens— One of the greatest
needs of this country is more Feltons m
public life. [Cheers.] I do not mean
more independents. [Laughter and
cheers.] You know' I am not much on
that line—but what I mean by more Fel
tons is more honest, brave and capable
men, whom money cannot buy, whom
power cannot intimidate, and whom chi
canerv cannot ensnare. [Loud applause.]
I speiik what I know when I say that in
two long sessions of the most important
of congresses he proved himself that
man. [Applause.] Without detaining
you further, I have the honor and pleas
ure of presenting to this audience to
night, my friend, your friend, anil the
friend of the country, Honorable W. 11.
Felton. [Great applause.]
Dr. Felton never made a greater vic
tory over the hearts of the people, not
even when he denounced the “wreckers
night in Atlanta. All day Saturday,
Sunday and Monday he was the the
theme of general conversation. Men
were wild with enthusiasm. Some said
they were never for Felton before, but
that they were now for him for Governor
or anything he wanted. They had heard
him speak and they saw that he was an
honest and true man, and that his hands
w ere clean in the public service. We
met men from all parts of the State and
they w ere enthusiastic in the praise of
Dr. Felton.
The friends of Dr. Felton in the sev
enth may feel proud of their support of
him. They may feei assured that they
have a representative who lias won the
confidence t>f all fair-minded men over
the whole State. None can assail his
official record. None have dared to do
it in the bitterest campaign know n to the
political history of Georgia.
HOW TnE ELECTION STANDS.
In the first district, Nichols received
8477 votes and Corker 5031; Nichol’s ma
jority 3440.
In the second, Smith received 8126
votes, and Wade, 3642; Smith 4433
ahead.
In the third, old Phil Cook had no op
position. There were six scattering
votes against him.
In the fourth, Persons received 13,330,
Harris 10,101. Person’s majority 3235.
In the fifth, Hammond got 10,262, and
Arnold 1899; Hammond’s majority 2,073.
In the sixth, Blount had 18 scattering
votes against him.
In the seventh it stood, Felton 14,315,
Lester 12,909; Felton’s majority 1,350.
In the eighth, Mr. Stephens 54 votes
east against him as scattering.
In the ninth, Sper received 10,897
votes and Billups 10,075: Speer majority
222.
Of the nine members elected four are
independent—Persons, Felton, Stephens
and Speer. All in all, these four are the
ablest and most brainiest of the Georgia
delegation.
LOBBYING AS A CRIME.
Among the evils to free government
tlie system of lobbying has grown to he
in Federal and State government a fear
ful power in the hands ot: the money
pow'er and gigantic corporations. It is
a source of some hope to the welfare of
the people that the legislature of Geor
gia will define the crime of lobbying so
distinctly that it may he certain to he
punished and with vigor. '1 here is no
higher crime against the public interests
when wholsome legislation is to he de
feated in the interest of powerful corpor
ations who employ lobbyists in their in
terests. Look at Georgia and see what
she has lost by the system.
It is a wise provision of our new con
stitution that directs such legislation as
shall punish lobbying as a crime. It
will be difficult to know when sharp and
cunning men are employed in such dirty
work. But the penalty can be made so
severe as to have less ot lobbying than
heretofore.
“NOBLESSE OBLIGE .”
The first man in the late heated cam
paign to raise his voice in forgiveness
was our gallant old hero, 4) JH. 1 elton.
When victory perched on his banner,
when the shouts of the host who follow
ed him was heard in glad huzzas, this
faithful Christian soldier called on the
multitude to lay aside all dissensions and
strife, and to forgive and forget.
He was grander than when he was
pressing to the last’victorious height that
made the field his own.
He was nobler then thqn when he drew
the assailants to their breastworks and
tore their banner from the walls.
Aye! it is great to conquer, but it is
greater to forgive.
If he can counsel peace, who received
only blows, if he can forgive who bore
such dire assaults, if he can forget whose
home and family were thus attacked, we
will ground arms and say, Go in peace,
and may the Lord forgive you.
As we expected Senator Gordon was
re-elected on Tuesday, really without
any opposition, though Ex-Governor
Johnson received the votes of Cannon, of
Bartow, Reese and King of Floyd, and
Roberts,of Cobh; Mr. Sheffield of Miller,
voting for “Tete” Smith. Gordon’s
election had already been fixed. The
votes had been bound together months
ago and there was no chance to beat him.
Ring rule had fixed the matter effectual
ly. Well, we only hope Gordon will
improve upon his first term, stand by
true democratic principles, vote in the
interest of the people and kill the news
paper men who make him talk too much.
Can’t somebody throw a wet blanket
over the Rome Courier? It won’t recon
cile itself to defeat. But, never mind,
Court/, we’ll go fishing next Spring.
THE GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
This bodv has scarcely got down to
real work yet. The most sensational
matter that has come up is the investiga
tion of the Governor’s conduct in sign
ing the Northeastern railroad bonds. A
committee from each branch ot the leg
islature have been at work for several
days in secret sessions. We sincerely
hope his Excellency will come out all
right yet. Until the w ork of the com
mittee is completed we withhold fuither
comment.
Mr. Gray, of Catoosa, has introduced
a registration bill for voters. If it means
honest voting we think it ought to pass.
The writer hereof was among the first to
advocate such a law'. We have not seen
Mr. Gray’s bill and don’t know' whether
vve can endorse it or not. It is thought
by the friends of independentism that
the purpose of the advocates of the law
is to defeat freedom of action in elec
tions. We think a good registration law
w ould have given Dr. Felton 3,000 ma
jority on the fifth inst.
The introducrion into this State of the
Moffett hell punch is the object of another
bill before the body. It is said to be very
popular among the retail liquor dealers
and people of Virginia. The bill pro
poses to levy a tax of 2}.i cents for every
drink sold, tobe used as a public school
fund. Such a law would not only greatly
aid in the education of the children of
the State, but it would equalize the tax
burdens of the liquor dealers. The man
who sells only ten dollars worth of liquor
a day ought not to pay as much for the
privilege as lie who sells fifty dollars
worth per day.
The election of Superior Court Judges
and solicitors will take up considerable of
the time of the legislature. The candi
dates are numerous and anxious, and
they will w orry tlie members a great deal.
There are many “anxious souls” button
holing everybody who lias a hit of in
fluence with a sidgle member.
We have concluded not to encumber
our columns with the dull and monoto
nous proceedings of the body. Hereafter,
as important matters come up we will
keep our readers posted.
For some weeks we have been receiv
ing at this office a newspaper which vve
consider the very best one published in
Georgia. It is the Atlanta Sunday Ga
zette. For pleasing sketches, fine edito
rials, crisp news items, and exquisite
typographical appearance it certainly
bears off tlie palm. It lias such contrib
utors as Henry Grady, J. C. Harris, C.
11. Hubner, Miss Bertha Peck and we
know the people are always delighted to
read after this array. By all means sub
scribe to the Gazette.
The bill presented in the legislature to
reduce the judicial circuits of the State
from twenty to sixteen has been defeated
in the house. When it is remembered
that the Judge of the Blue Ridge circuit
did not perform a single day of official
duty from the 4th of July until after the
sth of November, and that his courts were
held by other jueges, it shows the Stile
Is paying too much for such services, at
least in this instance. But you see things
are fixed according to the “organized,”
and there is no remedy.
We have received a copy of the Xew
Departure, a periodical published by a
class in College Temple, Newnan, Ga.
The New Departure: has been running
some time and surely ought to be a fa
vorite wherever it goes. We like its
present form better than the old, and it
fully demonstrates that the excellent
lady under whose diaection the typho
graphieal part of the paper is conducted
is a first-class printer, The type are all
set by tlie class.
The Constitution says Speer is elected to Con
gress in the Athens district by something over
two hundred votes. Well, he has gone down
deeper in the mire to get them than any candi
date we have heard of since the war.— Macon
Telegraph.
Yes,he went down deep into the hearts
of the toiling masses of his district, a
class of people who we remember “IT.
H. J.” failed to reach the time lie wanted
to go to the legislature.
Remember that unless you pay up for
Thf Free Press it will be discontinued
as we are unable to run our business on
the credit system. We hope our friends
will understand the situation and “gov
ern themselves accordingly.” “A word
to the wise i-3 sufficient.” All who wish
to sustain this paper must come up like
true friends and stand by it rightly.
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Our Lester friends should not continue
to grumble about colored voters for going
for Felton in the late campaign, especial
ly as they were exceedingly anxious to
secure their votes. There were two dem
ocrats to choose from, and we think they
selected by far the soundest one and much
the abler man. They exhibited good judg
ment.
One of the ablest men Georgia sends
to Congress is Nat Hammond. In the
fifth we took no decided stand; but when
they began to call Reub Arnold “an
East Tennessee interloper,” after having
fought his way to his present home, our
sympathies could not be restrained in
behalf the persecuted.
The election of Mr. Rufus E. Lester
as president of the State Senate and Gus
Bacon as Speaker of the house meets the
approbation of every Georgian. They
are both able and presiding officers and
will reflect credit upon the legislation of
our grand old commonwealth.
The committee investigating the con
duct of Governor Colquitt in signing
the Northeastern railroad bonds are still
in session. Until the report of the com
mittee is reached we shall say nothing
except that Governor Colquitt may come
out all right.
Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens is al
ready at hie old quarters, at the National
Hotel, Washington City, preparatory to
his Congressional labors. We are glad
to learn that his health is as good as
usual.
Hymn for the investigating committee: |
“Pull down the blinds.”
THE DEM OCR A TIC PA R TY OF GEO i. >J ' 1
The democracy of the State has stifl
ed more from the influences of design
ing political tricksters than from any
other cause. We refer to a certain ele
ment who use the name of the party to
carry out their own purposes of getting
into office and use organization as the
party whip with which to force freemen
to vote for whhomsoever a few court
house politicians may order them to v ote
for. This reign of mere partisan force
is about to end. So corrupt and intrigue
ing has the so-called organized become
that the honest people have become dis
gusted—so much so that they will not
attend conventions for any purpose; and
the idea that a few shall get together
and say what the mass of the people
shall do is causing a rebellion against
the party lash. When organization sim
ply means the work of a few* interested
politicians the people will not submit to
being ruled by it. Whenever it is nec
essary to organize or concentrate in or
der to defeat bad government the honest
people w'ill come together in some way.
They will do right.
The democracy of Georgia has become
too powerful to be further controlled by
tricksters and thimble-riggers. The
party has got to unload itself of certain
elements who are democrats simply be
cause they hope to gain thereby. They
would he good whigs or republicans
which ever should be in the ascendancy.
To fight these the independent spirit of
true and genuine democracy is beginning
to assert itself, and it has elected the late
campaign four Congressmen out of
nine.
We hope to see the day soon come
when we shall have a pure and undefiled
democracy representing free and repre
sentative government according to the
full meaning of the term. When that be
comes a fixed fact we shall have no di
vision in our ranks.
•
The Atlanta Constitution having inter
dicted any mention of The Free Press
in its column during the late campaign,
it goes to show' that The Free Press is a
little sort of a whale to continue to exist
under such circumstances. Such is me
tropolitan and rural journalism.
Mr. Claude Cochran is now the sole
editor and proprietor of the Ellijay Cou
rier. Mr. Cochran is a sprightly and
witty young man and the people of
“Gilmore” should rally to his support.
We hope he will receive encouragement
commensurate with his deserts.
The editor of the North American De
view is mentioned by a Michigan news
paper as “the enterprising editor of that
sprightly publication.” The Free Press
says the editor of the Congressional De
cord should take heart—his reward is
coming.
Atlanta promised to build anew capital
building for the State. Now, let Atlanta
do what she said she would do and have
no “flickering” about it. We supported
Atlanta on her word of honor and Atlan
ta must stand to her promise.
And no\v they say our good friend Boh
Alston is pecuniarily interested in the
Moftet bell punch business. We don’t
believe this. We could not believe that
Bob Alston would ever lobby for any bill.
Pay your bets. If Lester had been
elected there would have been no dodg
ing. Square it up, and let us confide in
your honor if we cannot trust in your po
litical foresight. Pay up, gentlemen.
Wanted. By the “Organized.” Sev
eral young men to mock “Old Felton.”
Amateur stump speakers and mimics
preferred. Old hands need not apply as
their services have proven useless.
Did any body vote for Iloltzclaw, the
decoy cluck lor Lester? If they did, there
lias been no record made yet.
We have just received the Ellijay
Courier which brings the startling intelli
gence that Speer is elected.
THE BANKS AFTER THE FIRST OF
JANUARY.
I In relation to the action of the New
York hanks after the resumption of specie
payments by the government Mr. Robert
Bliss the Vice President of the bank of
New York, was asked:
Suppose I am a despositor and on Jan
uary 2, 1879 I offer for deposit in your
bank fifty trade silver dollars, will they
lie refused?”
“No; we take them as a special de
posit to be paid in the same coin. Trade
doihu-s, by the way, would not be re
ceived at all except as a special deposit
for they are not a legal tender.”
“How would it be with fifty full coin
age dollars?”
“We should receive them, to be paid
off in the same coin.”
“How if I offer subsidiary silver coin ?’’
“We would not take it at all; that is
not over five dollars worth to make
change.”
“Suppose I am a dealer and present a
check for five hundred dollars on Janu
ary 2, 1879. and ask for gold; shall L get
it?”
“Yes, if the government resumes.”
“Jlow will the daily banking in the
city of New York differ, if at ail, from
the hanking of 1^70?”
“It won’t differ any; it will he just as
it was then, only its volume will he
largely increased.”
• “Are the nationol banks likely to re
tire their one and two dollar bills after
resumption ?”
“Not if they can help it; not unless
they arc compelled to, for they are a very
great convenience. It depends entirety i
upon the action of the government, upon
the silver hill.”
Washington, November 19. The i
signal corps station at Cairo, Ills., re
ports as follows: Quite a heavy shock i
of earthquake occurred here last night, j
which lasted one minute and ten seconds. |
It was first felt at 51 minutes and 50
seconds after 11 p. in. The houses were s
distinctly felt to totter, hut no damage j
has yet been reported. Another slight !
shock was felt at 5:15 this morning. The
houses tottered from west to northwest *
to east to southeast.
Our latest advices from Atlanta state
that the -Northeastern railroad bond inves
tigation is stilj progressing, but, as the
meetings ot the committee are held with
closed doors, nothing reliable has trans
pired. The worst feature of the whole
business is the secrecy with which the
investigation is conducted. Secrecy in |
such a case is the mother of suspicion.
Savannah Xeirs.
OUR CITY GOVERNMENT.
Why Should the Tax-Riilden People Pay
ho Much for so Tittle.
To the Free Press:
Ah the end of the year is raphlly ap
proaching, bringing with it our munici
pal elections, permit me a small space in
your columns, that I may make a resume
of the public or official acts of our public
servants for the past twelve months, that
we may see whether they can give a just
account of their stewardships. First, let
us inquire into the revenue of the town
—the amount collected and how expend
ed. Our taxable property amounts to
some $500,000 or SOOO,OOO. Upon that they
levy and collect $4 on thesl,oo0 —making
some .$20,000 or $24,000 tax they collect
on the taxable property.
There are some 6(0 males in the incor
porate limits subject to a street tax of $3
per capita , making about SI,BOO. There
are eleven bar-rooms in town, paying an
annual tax of $l5O each, agregrating
$1,050. There is collected annually from
fines about SI,OOO, and from the proceeds
of exhibitions and the town hall rental
some SI,OOO, making in the aggregate the
sum of some $25,000 or $30,000 collected
from our burdened tax-payers to support
our municipal government.
And yet this enormous sum, fabulous
as it may seem is not sufficient to defray
the running expenses of our simple little
machinery of town government, and our
city authorities arc forced to borrow mon
ey 'without consulting the will of the
people or tax-payers at an enormous rate
of interest to meet current expenses of
the town. Now, in all candor I ask how
can this enormous or fabulous sum of
money be spent yearly in a radius of one
mile with so little show of expenditure.
Let us try and see if we can divine the
methods by which it is gotten rid of. W e
have a mayor at a salary of $200; eight
aldermen with a salary of some $75 or
SIOO each, aggregating some S6OO or SBOO
yearly. We have a tax collector with a
salary of some $125, a clerk with a salary
of some $125, a treasurer with a salary of
some $125, two marshals with a salary ot
some S6OO each, making $1,200. Making
in all some $2,500 or $3,000 in salaries
paid out by the town yearly.
Now, with all candor, common sense
and reason, I ask is this not an unreason
able sum to be paid out annually, by a
town whose government and municipal
machinery is so simple is this, and whose
people are so oppressed? And yet after
all these salaried sinecures are so extrav
! agantly paid, we have an unexpended
balance in the treasury of some $25,000.
What.becomes of that? We have our
i street boss at some S3O per month or $360
per year, and the average of some six
street hands, with wages at an average of
some $25 per month, making a sum of
some $1,500 paid yearly for street hands,
and a team to be kept up at an annual
cost of some S3OO. And yet after all this
1 we have an unexpended balance in the
city treasury of over $20,000. For extra
team hire 1 suppose we pay annually
some S3OO, and an insurance on the city
hall'some SSO per year. And after all
this is deducted we have in the treasury
some SIB,OOO or $20,000. What becomes
of this large sum? Can it be possible
that this great sum is expended, even af
ter the street hands have been paid in
cleaning out ditches, cutting holes in the
streets, hauling rock and placing in the
streets so as to make them impassible and
obstruct the highways, and in building
causeways and little ditch bridges, and in
placing stone on the edge of ditches and
covering them with dirt or earth after
the manner of a child at play? I admit
that a large sum is uselessly spent In this
way but cannot for once think tnat tne
enormous sum of some SIB,OOO yearly ex
torted from the hard earnings of the tax
payers, can in this way be disposed of. I
assert, and have heard it asserted on the
streets by our best citizens, that the whole
annual cost of our city government
should not exceed the whisky license,
show tax, street tax, and fines, which at
the present estimate is some $6,000 year
ly. And I verily believe the city in the
proper hands could be kept up even bet
ter than it is and better order preserved
with this sum without any ad valorem tax
being collected that it is under the pres
ent administration of affiiirs. Think,
tax-payers! on your house and lot worth
some SI,OOO you pay the State and coun
ty some $9 or $lO and the city some $4.
(’an you live at this rate of burdening
you? Can you be surprised at the de
pressed condition of your property when
you think of this drain or lien upon it?
Do you wonder at the industries of our
town lying torpid and of the destruction
of her business and enterprise, and her
general retrograde? Let us make an is
sue upon valorem or ad valorem tax and
elect it. The town can be run on the
special tax and let us have it done for the
next year. Caktkhsvii.le.
GENERAL NEWS.
Items Picked up Here and There from
our Exchanges.
The bonded debt of Memphis is $2,688,-
140.
Matt R. Lee, of Goldsboro, X. C., ex
hibits a fourteen pound potato.
Cock fighting is in vogue again in
Charlotte, North Carolina.
Bids are out for erecting water works
in Jacksonville, Florida.
Two premiums were awarded to col
ored men at the North Carolina lair.
The sugar houses are in full blast in
Louisiana and the yield is a good one.
The police say there are at least two
hundred tramps in Texas at present.
Capt. C. E. Johnson, of Monticello,
Fla., recently killed a 400 pound bear.
One of the best performers in the great
London circus is William Gorman, a
North Carolinian.
Benj. Halon, near Shelby Springs, Ala.,
raised eight bales of cotton on eight acres
with one mule.
Carl Cushing, of Florida, will have one
thousand four-year.old orange trees set
out in January.
The Charleston bagging company is
succeeding so well that the directors ad
vise an increase of stock.
It seems undoubtedly true that Martin,
Republican, is elected to Congress from
the first district of North Carolina by 40
to 50 majority.
S. D. Rich, recently of the Hannibal
(Mo.) Clipper , lias* purchased the daily
Commercial, of Toledo, which will here
after be published as an independent pa
per.
A special to the London Times from
Pesth says “Rhoumania has appealed or
will appeal to powers to demands from
Russia.”
Wm. B. Hill, a prominent lawer and
secretary of State of Marryland under
Governor Bradford during the war, died
day before yesterday —aged 63.
Mrs. J. IT. Bryant, of Benton, Ala.,
cut the hair, 42 inches long, irom her
head and sent it to New York to be sold
for the benefit of the yellow fever suffer
ers.
Millet brothers, cattle kings of north
west Texas, have the contract for. fur
nishing beef to all the Indian agencies in
certain territories, and to supply them it
requires about one thnsand head of eight
hundred and fifty pound cattle per month.
EVERYTH TNG.
A Column of Fun, Fact and Fancy in Con
glomeration.
The man who nominated Lincoln is
dead again.
It has got to be fashionable in England
to marry American girls.
The Paris jockey club has resolved to
have no more races on Sunday.
Talmage is getting to be a bigger man
than old Beecher.
The son-in-law of Horace Greeley was
defeated for Congress.
They now call it the “pull-back party" j
in Massachusetts.
Turkeys are getting big around the
waist.
They “pulled down the blind’' in Penn
sylvania. That is they pulled down Cm -
tin.
At the Tennessee candy-pulls the young
men carry along an extra clean shirt to
put on after the entertainment is over.
Oberlin calls it a scandal for a young
gentleman and lady to walk arm in arm.
It. is in Oberlin, but not elsewhere.
The Princess Thyra is 25 and the Duke
of Cumberlin is 33. P>less you my chil
dren.
P. T. Barntim will sit in the next leg
islature of Connetieut. All the worid sa
show.
“David Davis,” says the Boston Post,
“has got anew ulster. Four women have
been at work upon it since last winter."
Mrs. Bonanza Maekay spent $70,000 at
the Paris exposition. The ancient adage
of fools and their money can be rung in
her©.
A gutta-percha nose was furnished a
hospital patient in London, and he became
so vain and conceited that they had to
steal it away from him.
The New York A r eics is of the opinion
that the police can’t work up any case
which involves anything more than
knocking an old man down.
It takes six weeks of singing, dancing,
swearing, fighting and rejoicing to crown
an African king, but the place is a good
one and pays big wages.
“The deuce take that tray,” said a di
ner at a betel, when the waiter spilt its
contents over his broadcloth. ‘‘Sir, the
deuce can’t take the tray,” replied the
waiter.
Windsor Castle is being made ready for
the approaching marriage of the Duke of
Connaught, which will take place about
the middle of February.
The Russian general start' has had
I printed several thousand copies of anew
j Afghan-Russian dictionary for the use of
; the Russian officers.
“Joaquin Miller has had his hair cut.”
But lie’s going to advertise for proposals
when it comes to cleaning his finger nails.
—Hartford Times.
A man named Smith, of New A ork,
dropped dead on receiving the news that
he had been elected to Congress. He pre
ferred death to dishonor. —Chicago Times.
The Rev. Jasper, of Richmond, is mak
ing a model of the solar system according
to his ideas thereof, lie is bound to con
vince the world that the “sun do move.
The San Pedro orchard, four miles from
Hollister, California, contains 65,000 fruit
trees, embracing the almonde, quince,
nectarine, apricot and other varieties, and
the inclosure measures over 400 acres.
At a coming masquerade in Portland,
Maine, at which each person will repre
sent an author, there will also be a
groupe to represent “Keramos,” Mr.
Longfellow’s poem, with a real potter
turning a wheel.
James A. Scott, editor of the Montgom
ery, Alabama, Advocate, a Democratic
paper, is a colored man. He worked faith
ful lv for the success of the Democratic
ticrKct ti 115 reci*lit election.
A Chinese drama which will not be
played to a close for four years, has just
been put on the boards in Canton. It
Anna Dickinson had started out that way
she would still be playing.
There is where clergymen get left.
They get no more for marrying a couple
weighing 200 pounds apiece than they do
for splicing a sharp-nosed woman to a
man with a voice like a darning needle.
Mr. Ilennon teaches a district school
in Missouri, and his sensitive nerves are
shocked every time he approaches a
group of his scholars to hear them sibilate:
“Keep still boys; thar’s a Ilennon.
Keokuk Constitution.
It is not the servant girl who is under
arrest in Allenton, Pa., for opening her
mistress’ letters, but exactly the reverse.
The servant received letters from her lov
er, and the mistress yielded to curiosity
and read them.
“In no other city in the country,” says
a correspondent of the Pittsburg Commer
cial, “is there such an army of half-edu
cated, half-witted, no-mannered, vulgar,
hobbledehoy girls as one' meets constant
ly upon the Washington streets.
A writer who was present says that at
the recent funeral of a Cincinnati man
who had been barely able to earn the nec
essaries of life for his family, there was a
band ot music, twenty carriages, pall
bearers wearing many yards of crape, a
profusion of flowers and a heavy plated
casket.
Some commotion has been caused in
Paris by the arrest of 28 persons con
demned by default some six years ago for
participating in the commune. In one
case a publican named Finet has remain
ed unmolested for the last seven years,
and was not aware of his having been
prosecuted.
A youth of sixteen in DuPage county,
111., he fell madly in love with his school
mistress, about thirty, but his wise father
induced him to give up his sweetheart
whom he had planned an elopoment to
Kansas, for and in consideration of “a
real nice double-barreled shot-gun.”
Gambetta once jocularly said that he
ought to be considered a commercial trav
eler, as he had often been called a politi
cal bag-man. The jest won the hearts of
the commercial travellers of Paris, and
they propose to entertain their illustrious
associate at a public dinner next January.
Governor McClellan’s thanksgiving
proclamation recommends that in church,
in New Jersey, opportunity be given to
every one to make an offering of money
for the xever sufferers both as a thanks
offering to God for abundant mercies to
wards us and as a pledge of our afflicted
fellow-citizens of the South.
A letter with SSO in it is among the cu
riosities of the Washington dead-letter of
fice. It reads thus:
Hoboken, Sniffy Tiddleywinks & Cos.
Pig-dealers,
222 Hoffensnipper’s Terrace,
co. Tiddlekee ave. and 405th st.
Nantucket Mass.
The surgeon to the British national
training school for music advises that a
pupil should be taught to sing as soon as
he can read. He adds, however, that the
lessons should last only for fifteen or
twety minutes, and that the range should
not exceed an octavo. Children, he says,
should not be allowed to sing songs ex
cept those written in the same moderate
range.
The sultan is showing signs of an earn-,
estness and a decision hitherto supposed to
be entirely foreign to his nature. He is
willing to listen to unpleasant truths;
and, in order to conform himself concern
ing the true condition of affairs, has or
dered a number of reports to be sent di
rectly to himself, instead of to his minis
ters, who have always taken care to let
him know just as much or as little as
agreed with their own private interests.
The 46th Congress will be conspicuous
for the absence of old meinljers wiie have
long been in public life. General Banks,
Burcliard, General Buttler, Banning,
Eden, Chits. Foster, Chapman,Freeman,
Eugene Hale, Carter Harrison, Governor
Hendee, Hartridge, Judge Durham,Rev.
Dough lass, Taylor, Southard, M. Towns
end and Governor Walker will be miss
ing.
The Knoxville Tribune says: “Hon.
Alexander 11. Stephens is in Washing
ington and in better health than he has
enjoyed for months. He now weighs
nine-two pounds, which is a democratic
gain of about nine pounds. This is to l>c
looked to if the presidential election is
thrown into the house.
NEW ADVERTISEMENTS.
GOO D BAR Or AIKS
MAY BE EXPECTED
AT THE CLOSING OUT AUCTION
& a i:
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X. Gilreath A s<>n.
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under ihe management of
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tyFor full particulars see programmes.
Admission, 50 cents: Children under 12. 25 cts.
Doors open at 7 o’clock; performance to com
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