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THE FREE PRESS.
iu Independent Democratic Journal.
C. It. C. WILLINGHAM, Editor.
The Free Frees is an exponent of the Free
Democracy of Georgia, a*il is opposed to all
Rings, Cliques and Combinations organized for
the defeat of the will of the Feople in all matters
•f public interest, and will ever defend Free
ThougUt, Free Action and a Free Ballot.
t artersville, Thursday Horning, Jane. 7, 1883.
THE SOUTHERN AND NORTHERN PEO
PLE.
There is a disposition on the part of
some of (tie and leading men of the
south to pander to the notion that we
should conform our moral and political
ideas to those of the northern people
without regard to our own convictions as
to what is right or wrong in principle.
YVe are opposed to any such humility
upon the part of the southern people.
This idea refers more especially to the
solution of the negro question just now,
with which the northern people have
nothing 10 do and of which they have no
conception. Hence, we do not propose
to go north for advice as to the proper
treatment of the subject. The good south
ern people expect to do right by the ne
gro. YY hatever we do in legislation for
ourselves results in the same for the ne
gro, for the reason that there is no “race
distinction” in our constitutions or laws.
Whatever laws exist for the white race
prevail for the protection of the negro.
Whatever of taxes are paid for public
schools are equally distributed per capita
to children of school age of both races.
The only difference is, that the white
man is paying more for the education of
the colored child than its father does.
This ought to satisfy the most exacting
demands of the Yankee’s most intense,
yearning benevolence for the negro. If
he doesn’t like it, let him “pour it back
into the jug.”
We refer to this matter to say to our
northern friends that the southern people
are abundantly capable of taking care of
their own affairs of government without
interference from them; and, also, to
suggest to a certain element of the south
ern press and politicians that it would
look more manly in us to remain true to
our own ideas and conceptions of right
and wrong in morals and politics rather
than conform them to the views of our
northern friends. In this we do not
mean to refuse to endorse whatever of
good they may practice, and to adopt it,
if we so desire. We are in favor of “har
monizing” with them in all measures of
good to the country and to the people.
YVe are for the Union, for its perpetuity
and its glory. In “shaking hands over
the bloody chasm,” we do not propose to
straddle or to pass over it without a
bridge upon which to retrace our foot
steps to this side when we get ready to
comeback to our own moral and political
views, and, in the full and complete
right, to manage our local domestic af
fairs. In other words, we propose to do
as we please with our own business with
out consulting others as to what we
should do. We insist that the people of
every state, north ard south, shall enjoy
that right.
There is a certain democratic element
in Georgia that hesitate to t xpress their
own convictions upon public questions
for fear it may not please* some of our
meddlesome northern friends of both po
litical parties, or that it may hurt the
success of “the party” in the next presi
dential contest. No true southern dem
ocrat can hesitate to practice his own
convictions or right to his state and peo
ple for the sake of a lew federal offices
that may be doled out by a democratic
administration for subservient loyalty to
“the party” in the presidential election
even if the democratic candidate is suc
cessfully elected, however much a demo
cratic administration may be desired by
the southern people. Our first love is for
Georgia; that for the Union is merely
contingent. No partisan purposes can
swerve us from the independence of look
ing to Georgia’s interest in all public
measures, state or national. In the man
agement of our local state government,
we purpose to consult the interests only
of Georgia and her people without the
advice or consent of the people of any
other state in this Union. YVe rejoice
that we thus feel and can thus act as an
independent democrat. YVe do not pro
pose to stultify ourself in pandering to
that maudlin sentiment that seeks to con
form our ideas of local self-government
to those of certain politicians and presses
of the north.
We are for Georgia first, now and for
ever! We are for the south next; and
we are for the whole Union as collateral
security for the protection of our rights
and liberties and the privilege of attend
ing to our own business of local self-gov
ernment without outside interference, or
from other quarters, and free from sug
gestions or the nodding of parties. For
these reasons we propose that the south
ern people shall be sufficiently independ
ent at the ballot-box to maintain their
manhood in spite of the arrogance of all
political parties, or the trickery and
thimble-rigging of political “dead beats”
and mendicant office-seekers.
Let our people be brave and manly
enough to have convictions of their own,
and the bravery to express them, and to
sustain them at the ballot-box.
At the beginning of the present year
our city council put the retail liquor li
cense at one hundred and fifty dollars,
to be paid semi-annually. In response
to a petition to that body to refuse to
grant such licenses after the first of July,
presented on the first Monday in May,
the council, on Monday passed an
other ordinance to grant sm-ii licenses
after that date for one month at a time.
We think the ordinance is wrong in
principle and in violation oft lie city’s
contract or agreement w ith elm liquor
dealers and ought not to have passed.
It should have been remembered ili r
these traders have state mid county li
censes, as well as United States revenue
licenses for the year, and this action of
the council is in contravention of vested
rights.
A NOVEL PROPOSITION.
The following novel proposition from
Mr. Corbin, is published for the purpose
of a few comments:
To the Editor of The Free Preen:
Now, Mr. Editor, if you hare no objectious I
winh to “Whoop up the Boys” a little more.
As you desire that all communications he short
and to the point, I will be as brief as possible.
I wish to make a request which I think is reason
able and appropriate, and, if complied with,
will effect much good. The request is this, that
all professed Christians in Bartow county re
frains frem drinking their toddy for at least
sixty days. If the preachers will take the lead
and the deacons and other officers in the church
es follow suit that will bring up about all the
rest.
Now, my opinion is if this course is strictly
adopted for the next sixty days, you will see the
whiskey business the dullest that you ever saw it
in this county. It will be so dull that I think
many of the bar keepers would be willing to
quit the business and rote to do away with it en
tirely. Should any one think this request to be
unfair or out of place, or that I have not reason
able grounds for making such a request they
will please let it be known.
It is not at all surprising that men who are
engaged in the whiskey trafic feel that their
business is harmless wh en they are so liberally
patronized by the leading members of thechurch,
which is the light of the world. Is not this light
almost turned into darkness and how grsat is
that darkness? Very respectfully,
\\ r . F. Corbin.
If Mr. Corbin can persuade thechurch
people or anybody else to abstain from
drinking whiskey for sixty days, we do
not object. That would be right enough.
It would be on the right line of promot
ing the temperance cause and the only
legitimate course to pursue in this land
of freedom where all men have the right
to abstain or not so that they do not in
terfere with the rights and privileges of
others. If Mr. Corbin can induce the
most blatant advocates of prohibition to
abstain lie would even then do a good
work; but, we are opposed to using the
club of the law to force them to do so.
If Mr. Cot-bin wishes to accomplish the
most good for temperance let him try
moral suasion.
But, the church people who desire to
indulge in their toddy when they teel
like doing so, will hardly accede to Mr.
Corbin’s novel proposition, and they will
not vote to force others to abstain by the
wild and fanatical plan of legal prohibi
tion. The greatest power the preachers
can wield is from their pulpits in teach
ing their flocks against the evils of in
temperance ; that it is not the use of stim
ulants that hurts, but* the abuse of it.
Every blessing may be abused if impro
perly used.
No, we think an attempt to carry out
Mr. Corbin’s proposition would hardly
be effective. The church people who in
dulge moderately “for the stomach’s
sake,” are going to continue to stir their
toddy with a stick even if they are forced
to send their ‘little brown jugs” else
where for the whiskey. If Mr. Corbin
and his co-workers don’t want to drink
we are opposed to any laws that force
them to do so. It is a bad rule that won’t
work both ways. Let Mr. Corbin adhere
to the rule, and grant all persons the
right to regulate their own private af
fairs. This is good advice.
We are opposed to getting the preach
ers and church people into unnecessary
trouble about prohibition. The best
plan is for all to mind their own business
and keep themselves strait; and the first
thing Mr. Corbin should do is to “sober
up” some of the noisy advocates of pro
hibition themselves and induce those
who have not done so, to pay up their
whiskey bills.
THE ONLY “ SECOND-CLASS ” HOTEL.
A friend handed us a few days ago a
hotel card, which reads as follows:
KITTRELL HOUSE,
GADSDEN, Ala.,
THE ONLY SECOND-CLASS HOTEL IN THE WORLD.
BY P. J. SMITH,
THE MEANEST MAN IN AMERICA,
Who neither deals in politics or religion, liis en
tire time being taken up in catering to the
wants of his guests. However, he ad
vises his guests to say their pray
ers before retiring at night and
to whet their teeth for a tough
beef-steak in the morning.
It is headquarters for com
mercial travelers,
“AND DON’T YOU FORGET IT.”
TERMS CASH TO BOTH SAINT AND SINNER.
Patent Applied For.
We like the candor of Smith. Indeed,
we like the unpretentious honesty of the
Smith family, not even excepting John.
All the Smiths are candid people when
they are not otherwise; but P. J. is the
most candid of them all. He honestly
confesses that he keeps a “second-class
hotel,” the only one “in the world.”
We’ll be hanged, if all men are capable
of “keeping a hotel,” especially a “sec
ond-class” hotel, one of which we have
never heard or seen before. Smith, we
mean P. J., is a “differ,” certainly. As
we have free passage to Gadsden, we in
tend to become a guest of P. J. Smith as
soon as possible, probably some time this
summer. We want to stop one time at a
“second-class hotel.”
But let us whisper to Mr. P. J. Smith
that his hotel is not located at the right
place. No such hotel as his can have el
bow room in so small a place as Gadsden,
Ala., however much honor and credit it
may be to that town. The truth is,Smith
ought to come to Georgia and settle in
Atlanta. There is no such a hotel in that
city. Atlanta needs some sort of “second
class” institution, and we think of noth
ing more important to her prosperity
than such a hotel as Mr. P. J. Smith
could establish within her wide extended
limits, with all of her metropolitan pre
tensions. There are some mighty sorry
hotels in Atlanta, but not one ot them is
“second-class.” They all claim to be
first class. Atlanta is the place for
Smith. The people there care little for
politics, and the religion of a majority of
them is not immovably fixed nor deeply
pious. The market, is supplied with the
best of “tough beef-steaks.”
We insist that Gadsden is not the place
for a man of such qualifications as Smith
possesses. He is wasting his talents upon
the piney-woods’ air of Gadsden, a place
Loo remote from the highways of civiliza
tion and progress and too circumscribed
for his transcendant ability to reach out
to the extent of his capacity to feed the
hungry and to entertain the weary at a
“second-class hotel.” Smith should leave
Gadsden upon the first boat for larger
and greener pastures.
OUR DIVORCE LAWS .
One of the growing evils of this coun
try is the tendency to regard the marital
relations as merely a temporary or busi
ness transaction. This tendency is being
daily demonstrated by the frequency of
successful divorce suits in various sec
tions of the United States owing to the
laxity of the divorce laws in many of the
states and the ease and privacy with
which so many divorces are obtained for
the most trivial reasons.
Now, this is not right. Asa Christian
people, believing the Bible, pretending
to base our laws upon the teachings of
that book, we must know that are cer
tain reasons therein given by which a
man may “put away I. is wife.” But, in
these utter days of progress, our law mak
ers have enacted statutes under which di
vorces may be easily obtained for the most
trivial of reasons —for instance, incon
geniality of temperament. A man may
become tired of his wife, leave her and
their children destitute or abandoned,
and go to another state and get a divorce
without trouble or publicity. There
ought to be inter-state lav\s upon this
subject to regulate this growing evil and
blight upon humanity and a common
posterity.
Asa legal marriage is recognized in
all the states, whereyer contracted, so
there ought to be such legislation agreed
upon by all the states to prevent bogus
divorces, or divorces granted except for
just cause, with atair hearing from both
parties so interested by the presence of
each in court. A divorce obtained
without a hearing from both parties is an
outrage that ought not to be permitted
among civilized people. These easy
modes of procuring divorces obtain
more generally in the northern states.
Two or three years ago a bill was offer
ed in the Georgia legislature, be it said to
the shame of our good old state and her
people, to give a man new ground for
divorce if his wife is four years a patient
in the state lunatic asylum. True to the
manhood and honor of the old Common
wealth, the infamous proposition was
not even considered, and it was scorned
by silence and is only remembered to the
shame of its author. Never has so in
famous a proposition been made in our
legislative halls by the true people of this
state.
YVe refer to this fact to show the ten
dency towards laxity of sentiment in re
gard to the marital obligations of man
and wife. YVe can think of nothing so
degrading, mean and infamous as the
proposition that any man should be di
vorced from an unfortunate wife upon
such so-called new “ground of divorce.”
As well might he seek to relieve himself
of his marriage vows from his wife be
cause she might be an invalid or a bed
ridden, helpless victim of disease, often
brought on poor women through the
agencies and contingencies of maternity.
There are grounds of divorce to be
observed and acted upon ; but they are
very few. They are well known without
stating them here. They are laid down
in the book upon the teachings of which
our whole civilization rests and upon
which the gieat fundamental laws of that
civilization is based. To these principles
our people should adhere with unyielding
tenacity.
THE '‘SHORTEST ROUTE" 7 O IIEAVEN.
If we are to believe the declarations of
the criminals whose lives end upon the
gallows, all one has to do to swing oft’
into a happy eternity, is to commit mur
der. Nearly every one of them, as they
stand for the last time before an admir
ing audience, extend the most cordial in
vitation to all present to “meet them in
heaven.” On Friday, of last week, two
wicked murderers were swung off’ into
heaven at Macon, Ga., if we are to be
lieve what they said with the noozes
around their’necks. Now, according to
their published confessions we do not be
lieve that either of the culprits are to-day
rejoicing with golden harps in their
mouths making angelic music, nor do we
believe they are promenading the golden
streets of the New Jerusalem. If their
spirits are basking in the light at all, it
is in the presence of the blinding blazes
of hell, if there be such a locality for the
punishment of infernal ftehds whose
hands are red with human gore. YVe
believe that murder, rape and seduction
of female virtue are the “damned spots”
that will not “out” at the instigation of
all the prayers of the priesthood nor the
forced penitence of such sinners. YVe
do not think that the crucifix can eyer
give such seoundlels hope of blissful im
mortality.
If the professions of murderers under
the gallows are to be taken with a rea
sonable degree of allowance, it would be
the grandest plan of salvation if one
half of the people of tins world should
murder the other half, especially in view
of the fact there will be but a modicum
of human souls saved in the “world to
come.” Such a course would be a great
saving of souls. It would do more to
bring about an early mliennium than
anything else we can think of. It
would end the toils, trials and tribula
tions of suffering humanity quicker than
religion itself. It would save all of the
trouble and uncertainties of getting reli
gion and all die self-abnegation of re
taining it under the unfavorable condi
tion of poor and weak human nature,
constantly laboring under all sorts of
temptations that so “easily lieset” man
kind.
We can hardly believe that any gentle
man would like to associate as an equal
with a murderer, even here on earth;
and it would seem that he whose life
should end sufficiently clean and unspot
ted as to entitle him to a seat among the
saints, would have no desire to affiliate
with a red-handed murderer upon the
golden streets of the city of the blessed.
Therefore, we cannot believe that the
“shortest route” to heaven is the path of
the murderer; and we have no faith in
his declaration under the gallows. The
thief is the only criminal that we have
read of who has ever laid hands on “the
horns of the altar,” by the intercession
of the Redeemer Himself as he was cru
cefled.
THE GRAND OLD PATRIOT!
There is a grand old Georgian, living
in Augusta, “the noblest Homan of them
all,” with his tottering feet at the edge
of the grave; his locks blossoming for a
happy eternitj'; with a political and per
sonal record as pure as the driven snow;
with a courage of manhood that knows no
fear in the cause of right ; with a soul as
innocent of corruption as that of a babe:
a man who ha* always maintained the
courage of his convictions; a Christian
who hides not his light under a bushel;
a governor who stood firm by bis people
in their darkest days with the utmost
fidelity; a citizen whose honor remains
unsullied; a manly and beautiful type of
the true Georgian in all that the term
means—scholarly, the Christian, the pa
triot, the statesman, the gentleman, ah!
the Georgian! That man is Charles J.
Jenkins!
It is a glorious reflection for one to love
his state, however humble it may be in
its pretensions. It is more glorious to be
a citizen of such a state as this grand old
commonwealth, the maiden queen of tlie
“original thirteen.” But the grandeur of
such a state and her citizenry is to have
such a man as Charles J. Jenkins as one
of her devoted sons; dutiful, obedient,
filial and faithful! The memory of such
a venerable and true son will go down
the corridors of Georgia’s future with a
halo of glory! Sweet and blissful may
be the last days of Charles J. Jenkins!
Hallowed be the memory of such a grand
old man!
YY'hen such men die the most appro
priate epitaph that can be written on their
tombstones is, “An Honest Man,” or
“Here lies a typical hero.” These cover
all there is of true manhood.
There was a terrible erush’ou the New
York and Brooklyn bridge on YVednes
day of last week in which about a dozen
lives were lost. It was but the week
before that the great bridge, over a mile
in length, was formally opened to the
public amid great display. It seems that
on the New York side there is a descent
of several feet wide, made by two stairs,
with a landing of a few feet between
them. It was decoration day over in
Brooklyn, and the bridge was crowded
with people crossing either way, and
their pressing tor ward caused people to
fall at this descent or landing, resulting
in the deatfi of a dozen people and the
wounding of a great many.
YY r e hope that the election of Gov. Mc-
Daniel will prove to be the break! :ig of
the power of the “bosses” in Georgia,
and that his administration, as we believe
it will be, will be a grand success in be
half of the people’s government. It will
be unmixed with the methods of Col
quittism, Joe Brovvnism and Gordonism,
the great triumvirate that dickered in a
United States eeuatership for selfish pur
poses and personal aggrauduzement.
The great Yazoo fraud was no worse;
but it is said to have made Cclquitt and
Gordon rich men.
There is being an effort made to dis
place Gen. Longstreet as United States
marshal for Georgia by a certain class of
carpet-bag republicans. If President
Arthur has any respect, for the people of
Georgia lie will not listen to any such
proposition. \\ r e think the president
ought to consult the feelings of the peo
ple in this matter and not inflict some
man upon our people as marshal who
may be distasteful to them.
In regard to the public roads question
we are glad to know that our editorial
on the subject last week has met with
much approbation from the people. A
friend has made a suggestion as to how
the tax shall be laid for the maintain
ance of our public highways, and that is,
besides levying a per capita tax, to levy
also a certain tax upon each vehicle.
That seems to be fair.
The proposition of Mr. Corbin, that
the chuich people abstain from indulg
ing in their toddy for sixty days would
go a long ways to kill the liquor traffic,
i$ a hard one on the church people. We
did not know before that the success of
the traffic depended on pious drinking.
Anyway, it is a hard lick on the church
people.
An attempt is being made to create a
boom for Mr. Samuel J. Tililen as the
democratic nominee’ for the presidency
next year. Mr. Sam Randall wants to
be speaker of the next house. It would
seem that the democracy of this country
ought to have a surfeit ot Samtildenism
and Sarnrandallism by this time.
It would be no stretch of our veracity
to say that the Atlanta Constitution, taken
as a whole, is of the best newspapers in
this country’, without regard to section.
It has cost fourteen or fifteen years of
hard labor and a mint of money to make
it so.
The Atlanta Journal seems to be fill
ing, the mission of evening paper very
successfully. It has an air of prosperity
we are gratified to see. We hope and
wish for it the most prosperous career of
usefulness to the public and profit to its
worthy conductors.
Brother Corbin seems to think that if
the church people will quit drinking,
that it would dry up the barrooms.
That is heavy on the church people.
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Dear church people! Brother Corbin
calls for a halt in the indulgence of your
toddy’ for sixty days.
Three negroes have been arrested and
lodged in the Fulton county jail Charged
with the murder of Mr. Martin Defoor
and his wife nearly four years ago. One
of them was living in Macon and has
made a full confession.
One of the best papers we get at this
office is the Savannah Sunday Telegram,
published by J. H. Estill, proprietor of
the News. It is a pleudid paper at $2 a
year.
It is said that the finest sleeping cars
in the country are those which run into
New Orleans, and that fully four-fifths of
them are equipped with paper wheels,
costing S9O each, or SIOBO a car.
BIG FIGURE*.
There is u business in coal to London of j
10,000,000 tons annually.
The Russian army has to defend an t
empire of 8,000,000 square miles.
New Mexico’s wool production last
year amounted to 30,000,000 pounds.
There is now on storage in Los Angeles
1,000,000 pounds of spring clip wool.
- Tuere is stored in the tanks of the oil
regions over 34,000,000 barrels of petro
leum.
Hartford, Conn. r boasts of $23,000,000
bank deposits, or about SOOO to every
person in the city.
A suit involving $7,000,000 between
John L. Colby and A. S. Peabody is now
on trial to New York.
It is said that the income of Senator Jo
seph E. Brown, of Georgia, is SI,OOO a
day. It comes mainly from iron and coal.
'1 he production of anthracite coal in
Pennsylvania in April was 2,511,709
gross tons, against 2,135,802 tons in April
of last year.
Hereditary landowners in the house
of lords collectively own 14,258,527 acres
of land and their collective incomes 'arc
about £15,000,000.
Tile Mexican revenues, which in 1879
were but $10,128,000, rose last year to
nearly $32,000,000, and are expected to
reach $40,000,000 this year.
Massachusetts possesses more than half
of the 1,957 shoe factories in tlie United
States, and produces over $100,000,000 of
the $170,000,000 worth of boots and shoes
annually produced.
The Desert of Sahara comprise an area
estimated at 2,000.000 square acres and
extends 3,000 miles from the Atlantic
ocean to the Nile, with a width of 1,000
miles between Soudan and the countries
bordering on the Mediterranean sea.
It appears from trustworthy statistics,
published last year, that there are
40 ? 000,000 of fowls kept in France, which
produce poultry for the table whose
annual value is £9,000,000 and 4,000,-
000,000 of eggs, worth £10,000,000 at the
lowest estimation.
Some newspaper statistician has com
puted the receipts of the Brooklyn Bridge
for one day at $3,500, the tariff on foot
passengers being estimated at $1,900 and
that on vehicles at $1,900. That would
make the first year’s revenue nearly
$1,300,000, which would leave, deduc
ting 6 per cent interest on the $15,000,000
investment’ $400,000 to apply on the
capital.
HOUGH ON COL(>UITT.
We have all along agreed with adistin
guishes statesman, now no more, that
SenatorColquitt is“a very weak brother.”
In what respect we will not say, but let
the Macon Telegraph tell it. That paper
says, speaking of Col. I. W. Ayery, as
the mentor and brains of Colquitt’s gu
bernatorial administration, that he
—“has clothed, during these manv years,
the ignorance of Colquitt. lie has
cloaked his moral deformity. lie has
put his own industry in place of Col
quitt’s indolence. He has placed his
own politeness in front of Colquitt’s inso
lence. In fact, it is known to all Geor
gians that Colonel Avery, in all matters
requiring work, tact, intelligence and
application, has been, virtually, the Gov
ernor of Georgia. When Colquitt was
off at negro parades and pray’cr meet
ings, and was roaming from one end of
the country to the other to attend Sun
day school picnics, Colonel Avery was
attending to the duties of the Executive
office. Patient, aflable and loyal to his
friend, he has no doubt suffered, in the
estimation of many, by his devotion to
the fortunes of Colquitt. It does not ap
pear that Col. Avery shared in the
bonanza business during the administra
tion.
“It is possible that he may, like all
honest men, come out of office poorer
than when he went in. T-he pay of the
position he held was inadequate to its
labors and responsibilities. He is too
proud a man to ask aid, but Colquitt will
be unjust and ungrateful if he shall for
get 4be man who was his right hand, his
friend, his mentor during the whole of his
administration.”
A terrible tornado struck Greenville,
Texas, Sunday night. Rain fell in tor
rents for twenty minutes. At one time
total destruction of the town seemed in
evitable. One hundred and fifty houses
were demolished, and a number of oth
ers badly damaged. It is strange to re
late that the only life lost was a colored
child. The loss is variously estimated at
from $50,000 to SIOO,OOO in Greenvile.
Loss in adjacent counties to growing
crops is very heavy.
Atlanta Constitution : The Marietta and
North Georgia is now operated over six
ty-three miles. ThC grading is within
four miles of Elijay, which point will
be reached in July, it seems, beyond
doubt. Tim road is said to be constructed
remarkably well and is probably the only
road in the country whose culverts are
built with marble. The present work is
through a region where fine marble is so
plentiful that it atlords the readiest and
best material for such work. 4
Mine. Jenny Lind Goldscmhidt lives in
her own house at No. 1 Morton Gar
dens, Brompton road, South Kensington.
She is no longer to be praised for beauty,
and she wears a wig. Iler voice is gentle
when she speaks and is charming when
she sings, but it no longer thrills.
Reports from twenty-one counties in
Nebraska gives a decrease in the acreage
of spring wheat, and six an increase, and
they all give the outlook for a good crop
as very fine.
Mable and Jennie Moody, of East
Rindgc, aged seven and eleven years, re
cently nailed 1,000 boxes in a day at a
shilling a hundred. They h ived nailed
this season.
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The salmon caught this season in the
Penobscot have nearly till weighed over
wenty pounds apieee, an l it is thought
by fishermen that the run of salmon will
this year be large.
General Joseph E. Johnson is taking
a rest at Old point Comfort.
General Grant says that Diaz is likely
to be the next president of Mexico.
♦ V.
Ex-Senator David Davis and his bride
have reached Denver on their way East
from the Pacific coast. ’’Sir,” he said to
a reporter, “I only weigh 271 pounds, as
against 305 during the centennial.
Brevet Brig. General George P. Buell,
colonel of the Fifteenth infantry,
U- S. A., is lying at the point of death,
the result of a wound received from be
ing thrown from a horse on the frontier
several months since.
Rome, May 30.—The contributions of
Peter’s pence have continued to decrease
so rapidly during the past few months
that an appeal, addressed to all bishops,
is be : ng prepared by the pope, urging
them to awaken the faithful to the
necessity of providing funds for the needs
of the holy see.
It is found by JL Schneider that dis
tinct traces of silver arc obtainable in
many of the commercial preparations o*
bismuth. Pure oxide of bismuth, when
free from silver, is not affected by light.
A young man died in Rome, Gt., a
few days ago, after an illness of forty
eight hours, and his phyHcinn said his
death was due to congestion of the lungs,
caused by smoking cigarettes.
Most of the treasury girls at Washing
ton are said to have their salaries mort
gage three months ahead.
—• 4
Siberia now ranks only: barely below
the United States and Australia as a gold
producing country. The best Russian
authorities think its mines will yield
nearly or quite $25,000,000 worth of the
metal this year, and the output is steadily
increasing.
Some 250 pilgrims will .set out from
London to visit the shrine of Our Lady of
Lourdes next Monday. The avowed ob
ject of the expedition is said to he that
England may be cleared from the troub
les which now threaten her with regard
to Ireland.
51 r. Gladstone, in spite of his great
age, goes not only to the opera and thea
tre, but constantly entertains members
of the theatrical profession. He had
Mine. Marie Jioze Mapleson to breakfast
recently at his official residence, in Down
ing street, and be will take a prominent
part in the complimentary dinner to be
given to Irving before his departure for
this country.
The Pope has vouchsafed permission
to Archbishop Spaulding for the erection
of a Catholic university in the United
States, which will probably be at Mil
waukee, and for which $2,000,000 have
already peen subscribe.
- 4
Mrs. Senator Pendleton had a ’’tea” at
the Senatorial residence in Cincinnati
Monday afternoon. Several prominent
political personages were among the
guests. Senator Pendleton smiled beam
ingly and shook hands vigorously.
Queen Victoria’s health is not good.
She has gone to Balmoral to try a change
of air. She lost considerable vitality
during her recent illness caused by that
fall on the staircase. A dispatch says
that “she is in a low, nervous condition
and utterly unable to make any exertion.
She is depressed in spirits and easily
alarmed.” There is a very strong proba
bility that her Majesty will not live to
see another birthday.
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There are 9,791 miles of railway in the
United States, assessed at $25,832,739,70.
It only costs four cents a pound to send
butter from Nebraska to New York.
The Tappen Zee, on the Hudsou River,
is to have five lighthouses this j-ear.
The principal horse car company in
Boston has given up the use of the bell
punch.
Deposits of one eeut can be made in a
Nebraska savings bank, which has organ
ized a children’s department.
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IN EFFECT NOVEMBER I2TH, 1882.
SOUTHWARD. r J ra c l? i Train
v o. 53. No. 51.
Leave Chattanooga 0:15 am
“ Ooltewah o..i)am
“ \'°J} , uttuh 7: ,8 a m 3:26 p m
, . £ alton -cm am| 4:86 inn
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Uockmart 11:05 am
Da’las I ■ :li>p in:
r * . oo p m No. 49.
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„ McDonough 4:15 p m 3:40 a m
t . Jackson :50 pm j 4:03 a m
Indian Springs ? :12 pm 5:10 am
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c Macon i :oopm i 9:00 a m
u v OC !? ran 9:47 pm li :05 am
Eastman E:3sp m 12:00 m
Arrive Jessup I -40 am s:2oam
Leave Jessup 3:00 a m
“ Sterling 4:55 am i
Arrive Brunswick.. ':3sam
SOUTHWARD. I J 11 *!' 1 Tram
! Ao. 54. >0.50.
I I I
Leave Brunswick :30 pm
Sterling ':10 pm
Arrive Jessup , 1:00 p m
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Eastman 4:13 ami 12:05 p m
Cochran 6:08 am j 1:25 p m
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Indian Spring 9:55 a m 6:45 p m
.. Jackson 10:08 a m 7:08 p m
McDonough 10:58 a m 8:24 p m
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“ Dallas 3:00 pm -Train
“ Rock mart 4:10 p m No. 52
44 5 ;25 pm | 7:55 a m
Dalton 7:23 p m 11:00 a m
** Coliuttali ! > :15 p m 12:00 m
Ooltewah B:4spm
Arrive Chattanooga . 9:20 p nil
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