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OLD JAKE.
%
Boss —Jake, have you read the govern
or’s speech.
Jake—l herd ’em read sumfin’ tedder
nite, but, boss, I wuz sorter sleepifled,
an’ it sounded like a sarmon, kase he talk
so much ’bout Sunday schools, ehristi’n
governor an’ all sieh, but w hen da ’gin
ter rede ’Dout bon’s, his admin’stration,
“barg’in an’ sale,” Joe and sich, I waked
up fur I ’nowed dat wuzn’t in de bible.
Boss—What do you think of the speech
taken altogether?
Jake—Sum ob de speech wuz good
’siderin’ it wuz ’lectioneering foranudder
term. But sum tings Kolkit ort to lef
out. He sa’ de fo’kes wanted him to tell
de yanks dat w r e wuz dun fitin’, but
when you cum home we w r ant it under
stood%old ishoes ain’t de’d. Dat am not
de trufe. Who wants to dig up ishoes?
P’int out de man. Kurin up old ishoes
am one ting, but pickin’ up scallywags
dat hah wollered in de same hole wid
kyarpitbaggers, dun ebery ting dat wus
mean when Gorgy wus down on her
back, her witnmins in teers, an’ her boys
cowering for fear dat deir farders wud be
tuck up by blue cotes and flung in prisin,
am another ting. Den he sa’ he couldn’t
keep Gordon from ’dinin’. Nobody sed
he could. Den he sa’ he wus blighter
fill de vacation. Dat ’minds me oh old
Peter, when he ax de lawd ebery nite for
’taters. You, see, boss, de boys w r ent
dar, 'and when he ax agin, dey pores a
bushel down de chloily, right on he hed.
Den Pete hollers out, “not quite so fast,
lawd.” So we sa, Kolkit, not quite so
fast. Den agin he ’tends to Mefodis ’ba
tion, and ses Joe wus twelve yers ’pentin.
Dot am not so. Joe ’knowledges nuffin,
’pents nuffin, comes rite back arter he
couldn’t make no mo’ outen radicals, an’
ses tye to Kolkit, “You shall not shorely
die, here’s my han ? , I’ll see you outen
dis bon’ bisness. lam de state and hah
bin fur sixteen yeers, foeptin when dat
pot-gutted Smiff wus bossin’ ’round yere.
I run de masheen 6 yers, den I run it fur
Bullock. I jist took him by de hans and
pulled him thrue. Now, Kolkit, jist
stand up to me, and I’ll manage de legis
later. I ’trolls de Konstittishun , and all
de rulin’ men ob Atlanty. So fear not.”
Now, boss, Kolkit tells it sll, dat Joe
wiped away his teers wid “ policy {” Good
grasbus!’ 0
Boss—What do you think about Joe
being a democrat?
Jake—Joe am apy ting dat’s got Brown
in it, Mitten dal he turned radical fur
“policy,” as he and Kolkitses, dat didn’t
’blige him ter take de stump fur Bullock,
fur de 'pP.diation in de Konstertushun
dat de yank flung out. Why, boss, Long
street went over, but he got him meat
and bread and sot down and eat it. Kol
kit ses Joe am q$ :t gyod as dey
run inter your and nebber cum out agin.
Kin democrats swoller dat ? Joe went to
deradskase dey had de power to do
sumfln fur him. He did his best to be
’lected senator, bort all de votes he could,
but Josh Hill bort de moest. Den Joe
ses, “Rufe, r giye me de ship of high
jedge. Rufe rit it out. Den, when de
legislater ’greed to leese de railroad, Joe
ses, “Rufe, I want it.” Rufe ses, “O. K.
jest fling up to-da/ and I’ll ’port to-mor
row.,’ Dar wus hurryin’ times ’long
dar, too. Now, Joe got money nuff,
not quite do, he am still boss ob de rale
rode. As Andy and Grant didn’t notice
Joe. he cums hack and ses, “I fooled
dem yanks, I wus no rad. It wus all
‘policy.’ ” When did Joe’s mission end ?
Will some one tell? Gordon ses his
mission ended when Lousy an ny and
South Carolina was restored to deir vocal
rights. Boss, lam mighty furgitful eff
dat wusn’t dup befo’ Gordon wus ’lected
last time. De gratest war (fat eber raged,
is dat ’tween two rulin’ tings inside of
Joe— ambition and avorice.
Boss —What is your opinion of the peo
ple endorsing Joe ?
Jake —De fokes am ’onest, but dey
don’t tink nuff fur deirselves. When
dey see a man dat kin tawk dey tink he
nose it all, Dats all de resin dese little
lawyers goes to de jist kase
dey tawks so much. A man dat kin ride
and will tink fur hisself, and not look to
udders, will be rite as often as de biggest
Ike. Who kin tell de price ob cotton
next fall ? Who kin tell dat Garteel will
be ’lected president? Joe kin look
through a millstone and see a nickle on
tudder side, and is bull-heded nuff to
turn it ober and get it. In all matters ob
money, Joe’s dar, but outside ob dat, he’s
a common than and no mo’.
g oSS _What do you think of Colquitt
alluding to his father?
j a ke—Dat wus all outen place, kase if
de gost of old Walter Kolkit could come
back, it would sed, “Al; don’t ’pint Joe,
dat would be smirching de ’scutcheon of
Gorgy, and ’flectin no credit on yoreself
nor yore farder. De man dat would take
him coffin on him back, and go to 30 de
grees and 30 minits weod neber lock
arms wid a scallywag in pollyticks.
Boss—What of the governor ? Will he
do?
Jake—l wus fur Johnston before, and
lam not fur Kolkit now. He will do to
preach to piney woods fokes, but he can’t
keep a hotel. Shucks, he’s got no back
bone, and his water-tank is too close to
his eyes, he cries too easy. The best men
and wimmin I ever saw never cried. As
Kolkit can’t make a livin no udder way,
he better take a cerkit down ’bout Gor
don’s sheep ranclie. lam gitten as sher
rifeel ob these so-called democrats as I am
ob rads. De difference is. mortal dim.
Garfield’s pedigree seems to be a trifle
mixed. Already it is said he came from
Welsh, Irish and Dutch stock. And
then there is his Credit Mobilier stock.
Upwards of $400,000 was taken in at
the Chicago hotels while the radical me
nagerie was in that city. Some of this
was for drinks.
CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING, JUNE 24, 1880.
THE STATE TREASURY.
Executions by the Governor Against Ren
fros and his Securities.
Atlanta Constitution.]
There has never been presented to the
courts of this state a case presenting
more important and novel questions than
those arising out of the recent proceed
ing against Renfroe. A brief synopsis of
the history of these cases will be given
as of general interest to the public.
Immediately after the acquittal of Mr.
Renfroe on the impeachment trial had
during the last session of the general as
sembly, that body, of resolution, request
ed the governor to issue at once execu
tions against the treasurer for the com
missions and interest alleged to have
been received by him and his securities
on the public funds in his hands. It will
be remembered that Mr. Renfroe denied
this charge, admitting, however, that he
had received from some of the banks
where the public funds were deposited a
certain percentage as a gratuity.
He did emphatically repeal the charge
that he had loaned out or otherwise used
any of the public funds, whether in his
hands or in the banks. He insisted that
he simply made the deposists and check
ed out the monqy as authorized and di
rected by statue. Notwithstanding his
acquittal, the resolution as above indica
ted was passed. The law under the ex
ecutions were directed to be issued pro
hibited judicial interference. The gov
ernor had no discretion but to obey the
mandate of the general assembly? The
executions alleged that Renfroe and his
securities had penalties and interests
of about $30,000.
The facts that these sums had been re
ceived as interest and commissions to the
public funds w as determined by a legisla
tive committee. The governor based
the executions upon the resolution which
w r as itself funded upon the reports of
that committee. Hence, executions to
the amount of $30,000 were issued
against Renfroe and his securities with
out any investigation at which he w r as
present either in person or by attorney,
and the efforts were made to collect this
money from him and his securities without
even the form of a trial.
Liens were made upon abundant prop
erty to satisfy the claim and Renfroe and
one of his securities, Col. B. J. Wilson,
filed bills to enjoin further proceedings.
These bills presented mainly the follow
ing points;
1. That no interest has been received up
the public funds in the hands of the
treasurer; that the duties of his office, in
connection with the public funds, had
been pefformed precisely as prescribed
by statue.
2. The general assembly had no au
thority to direct the governor to issue
executions, and as the fi. fas. showed on
their face that the aforesaid resolution
was the basis thereof, and not an in
vestigation by the governor, they were
voidT
3, That if the treasurer had received
interest upon tlie ppblio funds, in viola
tion of law, his securities were not
bound, therefore, as they were only lia
ble for funds received by lien in accor
dance with law.
4. That the execution showed no
breach of the bonds, and if a breach was
shown, no damage to the state was set
forth, the state \yould not have been
'" 5"Thi 6 t
the act of 1876 providing for a summary
remedy against the treasury and his se
curities.
6. That the act of 1876, thus sought to
be used, was unconstitutional because it
deprived the treasurer and his securi
ties of trial by jury, and sought to take
their property without due process of
law.
7. That the hoiids \yere fatally detec
tive, etc, etc, ,
It was replied by the attorney-general
that the courts had no authority to inter
fere ; that there was a breach of the bond,
etc#
Judge Johnson, of the Middle circuit,
being disqualified to preside on account
of relationship to one of the securities,
the case was heard before Judge Sim
mons.of the Macon Girouit. Judge Sim
mons held that the securities were not li
able for the moneys claimed by the state,
that they had been released, and that
Renfroe, whether liable or not, was cer
tainly to have the questions made by him
passed upon, by a jury of his country
men. We are informed that this decis
ion is perfectly satisfactory to Mr. Ren
froe, and that such a jury find that he is
indebted to the state, the amount will be
promptly paid, however great may be
the sacrifice, He says that all he has
wanted was a jury trial, and his only
complaint has been that it has been
sought to deprive him of any kind of
trial whether by jury or otherwise.
We presume the cases will go to the
supreme court, and will there be finally
settled. In that judgment, whatever it
may be, all parties will cheerfully ac
quiesce. The state was represented by
Attorney-General the com
plainants by Captain Henry Jackson.
Captain Jackson drew the bill and argued
the case before Judge Simmons. We are
informed by parties who heard his argu
ment at Macon that he made the best
speech of his life. Captain Jackson has
studied the case thoroughly, and we
know no man could have managed it bet
ter, and the results proves that it could
not have been argued more closely.
AN IMMIGRATION CONVENTION.
Hon. Francis Fontain, Georgia com
missioner of immigration, with head
quarters at New Yotk, recommends that
the next state convention, when it fin
ishes its business, resolve itself into an
immigration convention. lhe ltnpoi
tanee of this matter we have often called
attention. We think the suggestion a
good one, and urge it on our readers.
The west is gaining thousands of the
foreigners, developing the wealth of that
section, adding to its material prosperity
and increasing its political strength. At
the rate at which it has been pouring in
to this country this year, and it seems
hardly begun, the west is gaming six
congressmen every twelve months from
this source alone. The south must do
something, and Georgia the empire state,
should lead the movement. Immigrants
of the better class will not come within
our borders unless information is convey
ed of our unperalied advantages. This
cannot he done without an appropriation.
Inducements suould be offered of temp
ting character. We cannot succeed un
less \ye employ the means and appliances
adopted by others and by wMct} they
have prospered. • Mr. Fontain thinks
that the state should obtain by put-based
wild lands and offer them at low prices,
and have paid agents to distribute illus
trated pamphlets, giving our resources in
the language of desired classes of foreign
ers. There are many questions oif ultity
which such a convention might discuss
and put in shape for legislative action.
We must kPP P aoe with the *** in
Which we live.—Gofaw&wi Enfoirtr, .
THE CENSUS.
Homt it Will Probably Affect Georgia.
The census which is just being com
pleted will present to congress a question
in the decision of which all the people
have an interest. It is whether the mem
| bership of the house of representatives
| shall continue upon the present basis and
I thereby largely increase the number of
mernbers, or whether the basis shall be
I so increased as to maintain the present
1 number of members.
THE PRESENT HOUSE
is composed of two hundred and ninety
three members. With the arrangement
existing, each member having a desk
and a revolving ehair,'the hall is crowd-
ed to its best capacity by the members.
The census will show a large increase in
population for the decade and the pros
pects new is that the country will regis
ter a population of fifty millions of souls.
Upon the present basis, this population
would add one hundred membeisto those
already allowed. To accommodate them
the method of seating the house would
have to be changed and the system of
benches, without desks, adopted, as is
case in the English house of commons.
The average American congressman is a
man of luxurious tastes, however, and
will hardly consent to the English plan.
Hence there is nothing to do but have
fewer of him.
THE NEW BASIS
w r ill be on the ratio of one congressman
to every one hundred and seventy-five
thousand of population, thereby main
taining about the same number we now
have. In doing this the west, which has
been filling up enormously will still find
its representation largely increased,
while some of the southern and eastern
states will be reduced in the numbers of
their representatives. The reduction in
numbers, however, will not materially
alter their relative strength in congress
as compared with their present power.
GEORGIA WILL LOSE ONE.
It will be at once seen that Georgia by
this arrangement will have to give up
one of her representatives, leaving us
with eight members instead of nine.—
This will be almost wholly due to the in
crease of the basis of representation and
not because of any reduction of popula
tion, for the facts now point to actual
increase of from eight to ten per cent,
Theie is an impression abroad that this
change will affect Georgia after the elec
tion this fall, but this is a mistake. It
cannot affect our representation until the
election of 1844, because:
1. The census cannot be reported to
congress until its session, which begins
in December of this year. The ratio
o£ representation cap not be settled upon
for severarrhonths later; and
2. Because the general assembly of
Georgia, which meets biennially and sits
only forty days will not be able to re-dis
trict the state until 1882, after the elec
tion of that year,
This will throw the first election un
der the ne\v appointment in the fall of
1884. So tpat Georgia will be represent
ed by nine members fully two years lon
ger than her contemplated right to that
number; and she is probably the only
state whose situation will present this
anomaly. Louisiana may find herself in
a like condition, unless they gain one
W'hich her press think is probable.
tricts wiiriJe uy ore
new appointment? So far as we have
heard suggestions it is pretty well agreed
that the physical construction of the
present fifth district best adapts it for di
vision and distribution; and that it will
be the victim. By its partition
additions will be made to all the adjacent
districts, but principally to the seventh,
fourth and sixth. So far as Fulton coun
ty is concerned it will probably go back
to its old sisterhood, joining the oounties
now composing the seventh district. — At
lanta Constitution.
DOWN IN DIYIE.
No cotton worths in southern Texas.
An oil factory will be established in
Hickman, Ky.
Anew Catholic church is to be erected
in Culpepper county, Ya.
There i3 a great mortality among ne
groes in Lexington, Ky.
A mission home for the reformation of
abandoned women has been dedicated in
Memphis.
Work has been begun on a $12,000 ad
dition to St. Cecelia academy at Nash
ville.
Two hundred thousand farm laborers
will settle in tpe Mississippi valley this
year,
Richmond, Va., consumed 80,831,766
cubic feet of gas during the year ending
January 31st.
Harrison county, Texas, boasts of a
hairless calf.
The new catholic church in Austin,
Texas, will be the most costly edifice in
the state.
Counterfeit ftve-dollar bills are floating
around in northern Texas.
Miss Painter, the female revivalist, is
preaching a series of sermons in Olin,
North Carolina.
Madison county Ky., baa sold 50,000
pounds of wool this season.
There is enough unfilled cotton land
in Texas to supply the world. In 1878
she made 500,000,000 pounds.
Two Louisville, Ky., men are making
a business trip through the blue grass
land mounted on bicycles.
Mrs. John Fisher, of Cobarrus county,
North Carolina, recently gave birth to
triplets, one boy and two girls. •
The raising of Angora goats in wes
tern Texas is increasing, and has proven
a profitable business.
The coming fourth of July celebration
in Sherman, Texas will be the grandest
event of the kind ever in that state.
CONFEDERATE DEAR*.
We clip the following list of confed
erate dead from the Nicholasville, Ky.,
Journal. Among them are a number of
Georgians, and their friends will see
where their last resting place is:
Capt. L- Scott, Louisiana; C. Richard
son, regiment unknown; Wm. H. Yar
brough, 41st Alabama; J. M. Washam,
17th Mississippi; M. E. Copeland, 3d
Alabama; John A. Bass, regiment un
known; S. M. Wilson 53d Georgia;
D. Campbell, 63d Virginia; J, R. Cox,
59th Georgia; J. Brock, 18th Georgia;
W. M. Bobe, 16th Georgia; O. H. White,
41st Alabama; F. L. Johnson, 6th Geor-
A. Boles, 53d Georgia; J. B.
Hale, 2d Georgia; E. Willoughby, Ist
Georgia; George W. Trabue, regiment
unknown; H. Owenty, 39th Car
olina; John Marrow, 30th Alabama; A.
L. Hall, 29th North Carolina; Henry
Rice, 52d Georgia; Eugene Dickson, 42d
Georgia; J. E. D. Morris, 6th Florida;
W. J. Hale 40th Georgia; If. B. Carter,
9th Georgia and one unknown.
TOO MUCH “VINDICATION*' CON
FUSES THE PUBLIC.
We have heard much lately that the
people w ould like to be informed about.
It seems that the syndicate in Atlanta
lost about SIOO,OOO In Louisville and
Nashville railroad stock in April. Of
the number, Henry Grady was reported
as a heavy loser. Also that he loaned
Governor Colquitt $2,000 which went in
the same speculation. Early in May
Grady is reported as returning from New
York flush, and repaying all the losses,
(except James, the biinkers’) to the par
ties in the syndicate. It is reported that
Newcomb, president of the Louisville <fe
Nashville road, paid back this money.
Whoever heard of any man losing money
in Wall street stock gambling ever get
ting it back before ?
It was then said in Atlanta that Gen.
Gordon was employed by the syndicate
as their attorney. He'presented their
case to Newcomb, About that time Gor
don was reported as absent in New York
on private business. So soon as Grady
received the money he returned to At
lanta. This was early in May.
Now* note this: An Athens exchange
says that on May 10t:h, Henry Grady said
on the train from Lula to Atlanta, In the
presence of an Athens fire company, that
General Gordon was to resign and take a
place under Newcomb at $14,000 a year,
and Governor Brown was to be appointed
senator. General Gordon says that he
resigned to be appointed by “Hogg, from
Oregon.” He publishes Hogg’s letter
dated May 15th.
Afterwards he received a letter from
Newcomb, May 19th. He then decided
to accept Newcomb’s offer. Of New
comb’s offer he seems to have had no
foreknowledge. At least his speech, and
the publication of the Hogg and New
comb letters carried such a belief to the
public. Is Henry Grady, or Gordon mis
taken ?
Who is Hogg? We have not examined
Bradstreet, or Dunn., Barlow & Co.’s di
rectories to lind his money value. Hogg
is quoted as from Oregon—so was Cro
nin. The democracy sat down on Cro
nin. .*
We hear that ex-senator Gordon, on
the day of the convention, in answer to
a direct question from the senator from
Haralson county, Mr. Head, Anally ac
knowledged that he did know that ex
governor Brown was *o be appointed to
succeed him before he resigned.
-Now this answer of Gordon’s taken in
connection with Grady’s talk of May 10th,
shows there must have been some fore
knowledge. Gordon’s letter of resigna
tion is dated May 15th, How could Gra
dy know a week before that the matter
would turn out as it did. People in Geor
gia could not believe it until consum
mated. E. G. Candler’s letter is on the
same line, showing that it was all fixed
before the people knew Gordon was to
resign.
Between Hogg’s and Newcomb’s let
ters and Gordon’s and Colquitt’s
speeches and various interviews, and
these Athenian reports of Grady’s talks,
we are getting confused. It staikes us
that there has been an immense afnount
of “vindication.” If there was nothing
ing in th Srown-ColquitfGordon mat
ter that needed vindication, why vindi
cate ? If there was anything wrong, let
the people know what it was. The fact
is the different “vindications,” speeches,
letters, interviews * don’t exactly dove-
Wellfyes, people win taia iu6 mi.v.i
sometimes for their own good.—Colum
bus Enquirer.
THE WORK OF THE SESSION.
During the session of congress just ter
minated, eleven hundred bills and joint
resolutions were introduced in the senate,
and forty-two hundred and eighty-eight
in the house; during the first or “extra”
session, seven hundred and seventy-three
and twenty-five hundred and twenty-six
were introduced in the senate and the
house, respectively, making a grand to
tal of eight thousand seven hundred and
eighty-four bills and joint resolutions in
troduced thus far during the present con
gress. At the hour of adjournment to
day there remained about eight hundred
bills and joint resolutions on the senate
calendar, and about fourteen hundred on
the house calendar.
The amount appropriated during the
present session, included in the regular
annual appropriation bills, the river and
harbor bill, the deficiency bills and the
miscellaneous appropriation bills, aggre
gate about one Hundred and eighty-six
millions.
The following important public meas
ures failed to receive final action, and re
main upon the calendar of the house or
on the speaker’s table: The bill to regu
late customs duties on sugar; the bill to
regulate customs duties, known as the
Tucker tariff bill; the bill to facilitate
the refunding the national debt; the res
olution for counting the votes of electors
for president and vice-president; the bill
to regulate the pay and number of United
States supervisors; the bill for the relief
of Fitz John Porter; the bill to define
the terms of office of the chief supervis
ors of elections, and the bill for the ap
pointment of a tariff commission—the
Eaton bill.
The Kellogg-Spofford case goes over
without receiving final action in the sen
ate.
GORDON’S BETRAYAL.
Columbus Enquirer.
Congress adjourned just twenty-seven
days after General Gordon resigned to
better his private fortune and allow Gen.
Gordon to repay personal obligations to
ex-Governor Brown and insult the de
mocracy of Georgia. By waiting not a
month Gordon would have saved the $3,-
000 of salary which he lost by giving up
the office, and delivered the trust and
faith Georgia reposed in him back to the
legislature who invested him with it. He
thought not of the party that had hon
ored him far more than his deserts, ami
o’a ve up her office, not his, to be paid
over by a weak-minded governor to the
most rampant ex-republican in the state,
and who would still be numbered among
the enemies of the democracy if it paid.
Nothing better was expected of Colquitt,
but that Gordon should forget the high
and perfect confidence nearly all—espe-
cially the young men—reposed in him
was the bitter pill, the galling reflection.
That there was an agreement and un
derstanding between these three men and
President Newcomb, indirectly, with a
majority of Georgians is not even a ques
tion of momentary doubt. The plan is
according to ex-Governor Brown’s meth
ods and his ability to work on Governor
Colquitt was not surprising. General
Gordon startled us. Ex-Governor Brown
knew his men and bided his opportu
nity. The people must defeat the ulti
mate conspiracy that has for its object the
retention of Brown and Colquitt in their
preseht positions, the subsequent suc
cession of Governor Colquitt to Senator
I Hill and the gaining possession of the
state road by the Louisville & Nashville
corporation.
NUMBER 50.
HIRAM WARNER.
Chief Justice Hiram Warner, of the
| supreme court, left for his home in
Gainesville, Ga., to-day at noon. Judge
Warner, in conversation with a Daily
Post editor, stated that he did not intend
to devote any time toward forwarding his
election to the office of governor. He
belongs to the old school of politicians
who believe that the ofiiee should in all
eases seek the man, and not the man the
office. He thinks that a governor should
go into the office untrammelled by obli
gations to any particular set*of friends,
but to be a governor for the whole peo
ple. The chief executive should be in a
position w here he can mete out equal and
exact justice to all, without favoritism or
personal preference.
J udge Warner has been in the service
of the state for over thirty years and has
not at any time worked for his election.
He has been the choice of the people who
have elected him because of his sterling
integrity, and his well known principle
of dealing justly and fairly by all. The
people know him to be absolutely safe
and trustworthy.
In this day of political corruption, in
which the offices of the people are made
the subject of barter and sale, such a
grand old man as Judge Warner stands
out in the full glory of a true American.
We have no intention of advocating any
man as a candidate for the office of gov
ernor before the convention has express
ed its choice, but when we see a man who
is so filled with a sense of honor as to his
duty, and who holds the office in such
high respect that he will not put in force
the customary and manipula
tions to secure it, we feel like throw ing
up our hat and going for his election
heart and soul. One tiling is certain, if
such a man as Judge Warner was now
in the gubernatorial chair the people of
Georgia would not be humiliated by see
ing him racing over the state in frantic
efforts to secure liis re-election. He.
would so administer the office that every
act would be to liis honor, and the good
of the people, and he would have no need
of a vindication. —Atlanta Post.
PLEDGER'S PREDICATION.
W. A. Pledger, the colored chairman
of the republican state committee and one
of the delegates to the late Chicago con
vention, passed through the city to his
home in Athens, Ho came via Washing
ton City.
“Oh, the ticket is going to be elected.
Everybody in Washington on our side
feels sure of it.”.
“What does John Sherman think?”
“I called to see him to pay him my re
spects. I stuck to him until the 54th bal
lot and then went to Blaine to try and
get some of his people for Sherman.—
While Sherman would have preferred
his own nomination, Garfield suits him
next best to any man w ho was before the
convention.”
SWORN TO STAY IN.
“What makes you think Garfield is so
sure of election?”
“ Well, he is a strong man with a good
record, and, besides that, the republi
cans have sworn to stay inppo r er anoth
er four years—and will do it!”
“Suppose, though, they get fairly
beaten in the election ?”
/‘You will never be able to make them
see or believe it. They are going to
sjfeft&hakh li firM6’wui m , Tiirw tic .t'
not. I believe he has more ambition
than any man who has lived since the
days of Caesar, and I doubt it Caesar had
so much!”
“And then the ex-delegate said he was
going off on the train and took up his
march for the depot. — Atlci'ita, Constitu
tion.
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TOM OCHILTREE, OF TEXAS.
Persons traveling in the south after the
close of the rebellion could see on the
telegraph posts on every route leading
into New-Orleans and in all public thor
oughfares large signs—“ Buy your shirts
of Moody”—Go to Moody’s to get your
shirts etc
One afternoon a stranger entered the
shirt store, and addressed Mr. Moody:
“I have come for my shirts.”
“Have yoa purchased shirts of us?”
“No, sir.”
“Oh, you wish to purchase?”
“No, sir. This morning I put on the
bed at the hotel some shirts to be washed,
and when I went to my room after din
ner, in place of my shirts I found this
notice on my bed” (producing a placard,
“Go to Moody’s and get your shirts”),
“and so I have come for them.”
“What is your name, sir?”
“Tom Ochiltree, of Texas,” and after
asking his size and his room at the hotel,
Mr. Moody said:
“Very well, Mr. Ochiltree, you will
find your shirts at your room,” and at
once dispatched a dozen of his best linen
shirts to carry out the joke.
As the “joke” found its way into the
city papers, and was copied into all the
provincial papers as a good joke on “T.
O.” perhaps Moody got value received
in the way of advertising; and T. O. en
joyed the free shirts. —V. 8, B. in Detroit
Free Press.
ALBERT 0. COX.
With this issue, we hoist at our mast
head the name of Albert H. Cox, as our
candidate for congress from this district.
While at the st te convention last week,
we met and mingled with the represen
tative men from all parts of this district,
and from what we then learned we are
satisfied that Mr. Cox is the best candi
date in the field, and the man for the
Pl Mr*. Cox has filled several public offices
and his course in each has been one
which he may well be proud. His speech
as the leading manager on the part of the
house of representatives in the Renfroe
impeachment trial, stamps him as one of
the finest orators of the day, a polished
scholar and a man who has a mind which
is able to grapple the great political is
sues of the day.
He informs us that he will take no un
due advantage of any of the other candi
dates, but is going to make a fair, square
and open attempt to'secure the nomina
tion. He is quite popular both below
and above the mountains and will enter
the convention as the strongest canui-
Jiidge Buchanan himself has assured
us that his friends will not present his
name to the convention tor the nomina
tiou. —Dovglassville Star.
The Philadelphia Ledger quotes with
the emphasis of italics the allusion in the
republican platform to a tariff: Import
duties for revenue should so discriminate
as to favor American labor. ” Upon which
the Record pertinently asks: ‘ VVillthe
Ledger explain whether it is the labor of
the thousands who manufacture protected
articles or the labor of the millions who
produce unprotected articles that is to oe
favored with discrimination?'
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