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: shoit profits, and Fandlp the best goodst
for their past liberal patronage, and solid?
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FAYETTEVILLE, 6A„ FRIDAY, DECEMBER 27, 1889
NO. 2.2.
GRADY IS DEAD.
$ The Last Sad Scenes Which
Close a Brilliant, Grand
■*. and Noble Career.
» yn who sold Constitutions on the streets,
iring the night the little fallows sto’od
on the street corners in the bleak night
wind' and with chattering teeth asked:
“How's Sir. Grady?”
Among those who felt tne deepest in
terest in liis condition were the printers
in the composing rooms of the Constitu
tion. Prom the newest sub. up to flic
gray and grizzled veterans who have been
with the paper since its first issue. One
man who set up the first thing he-ever
wrote for the paper, a letter from the
Virginia Military Institute, away back in
1808, and who has .watched his career
with surpassing admiration and interest,
exclaimed when the last sad moment,
came: “We have lost .our best, friend! ”
And in savin" this, he but echoed the
sentiments of the army of employes who
loved this man so well, not alone for his
brilliant attainments and dazzling .suc
cesses,, but for his geijeroCisdieiirt and the
kindly interest however ..showed iu, their
behalf and welfare. ' ■* . ■
$
Mi:. OilAl)V S JAKE-
lion. Henry Moodtin Gratly was borfi,
inyUhens, Ga., in 1851. Duripg hig boy-*
bpod he enjoyed; the best dtlucirnonal ad
vantages, but the four years of the civil
war seriously interrupted' his studies, and
much of his ■ tune was, spent in visiting
the vammapoints where- his father, Cof.
Grady,,;was, stationed .with his regiment.
Wheh peace caine it found the. lad father
less. Colonel Grifdy having fallen in battle
bile leading his men. in a desperate
Vm
ho.
%;n,
1’™1
name
section; demands upon him for speeches
came from Texas to Maine, and every
word he wrote, and every word he spoke,
but added to his rounding fame. I Lis
speech at thc< New England dinner, two
years ago, was a revelation. It aroused
such an interest, and a friendly interest,
too, in the north regarding the south,that
its delivery has become epochal. Spoken
Vith all proper boldness, and with sincer
ity welling up from the heart, it disarmed
criticism and invited friendship. Fol
lowing this came Mr. Grady’s great Texas
speech, one year ago, in which he spoke
of the white and colored people of the
south. While claiming Anglo Saxon su
periority as final and definite, he spoke
also for the humane and Christian treat
ment of the colored people. During the
same year he addressed* the visiting
legislators of South Carolina and
Georgia at .the Augusta exposition.
'The last great speech which he I
delivered—but a few days ago in Boston—
was the crowning eVent of his life.. Such
•an pceasion, 411$^ tui uudfeiiee,, Such an
‘diratbr, seldom meet. Tb$ words spoken
there have not died Away before the.Sad
intelligence follows that the gifted orator
is stricken unto death.
D. M’LHGAS k SON,
INMAN - GEORGIA.
—DEALER IN-
BOOTS, SHOES, TINsWARE, HaRD-WARE, NOTIONS, and
FANCY GOODS.
ehgrgb. YoungiJrady found tlmt lie had
no timy t$Ipse,ihVequippi ng himsolf for
” ' ’ luating at,tHe State
to lira
e he
He
Of these institutions, the
in attcndnnCe, He
suited his intcl-
iit.tle attention to
felt no interest.
60x911 at-
was very
transrerred
graphic'- and
lightniug-'
in n
1-Ie was true to their interests. He
faithful to his friends. He had an ear for
tales of woe. He had a heart for the
poor.
Such a man as Ilcnry Grady is seldom
given to the world. lit the hour of his
triumph he is stricken dowu. Returning
a victor to the bosom of his people, lie
sinks in death, while in his cars ring the
plaudits of an admiring, loving and de
voted people.
The scenes at the home during the last
hours were most pathetic. It was shortly
after eleven o'clock that Dr. Everett an
nounced that Mr. Grady was sinking rap
idly and that the end was near. Then it
was that all the numbers of the family
and relatives gathered about the sickbed,
hoping against hope, yet praying that the
cup might he taken from them. Friends
who had, at the doctor’s suggestion, left
the house a few hours before, were hastily
summoned. Among those who came
were: Captain E. P. Howell, Mr. W. A.
Hemphill, Mr. 8. M. Inman, Mayor
Glenn, Judge Newman, Major Kiser,
Captain J. R. Mvlie, Mr. W. B. Lowe,
Mr. W. L. Peel, Mr. T. 1). Meador, Mr.
Donald Bain and others. It. was Mm.
Grady’s wish that those who loved him he
permitted to take a last look upon his face
while life remained: and one after another,
those who had loved him with a love
that was exceeded only by that of the
nearest and dearest, stepped' into the sick
room which was so soon to be the cham
ber of death. Gradually his condition
grew worse until death came.
Late Sunday evening, when it became
known that the end was only a question
of a few houis at the most, the expres
sions of sorrow became universal among
the groups gathered in public places as
well as among those who had gone to the
special meetings for prayer of the various
churches. About the hotel corridors sor
row was expressed by all to whom the sick
man’s condition was known. Men who
had lmt heard his fame, and who were
utter strangers to his wonderful personal
ity, mingled their regrets and admiration
with the anxious words and love of those
whose neighbor lie had been, and whose
hand he had often grasped in friendship.
Sorrow and solicitude reigned in all the
city. As Mr. Grady grew worse inquiries;
after his condition grew more frequent.
In a church vestibule a minister was seen
to stand at the entrance, stopping each
that Came to ask of them the most recent
news from the sick chamber. Neighbor
inquired of neighbor, and from early 1
morn till bed-time Sunday nb.vlit anxious
tongues spoke anxious words ot inquiry
for him whose life their hearts were praying
Tlure was a constant inquiry at the tel
ephone exchange all through the long,
lonely watches of the night. As the
replies grew inure anxious, voices faltered
in calling the numbers, and when at last
the night operators were compelled to
give tlie sad intelligence that
no hope, sounds of weeping
heard over the wires.
This time one year ago he was busied
in getting up a grand dinner for the little
d ti
“silver-tc
mnellei
there
could
be
ragged and tattered five lmudred news-
onguei
orator.” In the literary societies of the
two universities he carried off the highest
honors as a speaker.
While still a student lie wrote a. IctUr
to the Atlanta Constitution. It was
printed, and the editor was so much struck
with the sparkle and dash of the com
munication that he signified his desire to
hear from the writer again. When the
first press excursion after the war was
leudercci a ride over the State load, the
editor telegraphed liis boyish correspond
ent, who had then returned to his home
in Athens, that he wished to have, him
represent the Constitution on that trip, mid
write up the country and its resources
along the line of the road. Mr. Giady
accepted the commission, and of the hun
dreds ol’ letters written 011 the occasion,
liis, over the signature of “King j Ians,”
were the most popular and most widely
copied. It is quite likely that this pleas
ant experience caused this precocious boy
of seventeen to turn his thoughts seriously
to journalism. At all events, he was, a
year or two later, the editor and one of
the owners of the Rome Daily Commercial,
a sprightly, newsy and enterprising jour
nal. Borne, however, was at that time to
snutii to support a daiiv run on such a
scale, and in 1872 Mr. Grady purchased
1111 interest in the Atlanta Herald. Here
lie found a field wide enough for him at
that stage of his experience.
The Herald was one of the most bril
liant newspapers ever printed in the
South. The young editor from Rome,
who had established himself in Atlanta to
compete with the older journalists who
were conducting the Constitution, started
out with audacious pluck, and proved
himself to be so fertile in resources and
expedients that his esteemed contempo
rary recognized the fact that it lipd a
strong rival to fight. Th0 Herald's Sun
day editions and trade issues were.’the
marvels of that day. After the sharpest
competition with the Constitution
known between any two papers i .
South it disappeared from the field. *15y
this time its editor's abilities had made
him many friends abroad as well as at
home, and James Gordon Bennett at
once made him the Southern correspond
ent of the New York Herald. O11 this
great, journal Mr. Grady did some of the
best work of his life. In 1880 he purchased
a fourth interest iu the Constitution,
taking the position of managing editor,
which he held at the time of his death.
Of his work in this position, Colonel
Avery, in his History of Georgia, says:
“Mr. Grady's flashing and inimitable
sketches, editorials and articles gives an
unremitting sparkle to the paper. liis
contemporaries on the journal will con
sider it no derogation to their high claims
to say that. Mr, Grady is the genius of
this powerful paper. There is a vivid
ness, an audacity and a velvety splendor
about liis articles that arc peculiar to him
self, that nootliermanhasupproximntrd.”
Mr. Grady’s interest in state politics
was such as to attract toward him the at
tention of the republic. His editorials
in the Constitution were quoted iu every
;5**i’riE ncfc.:iAS: vr.A:4‘ r :,,. T !Vs «* mu.vnvi? is
DETROIT AND KANSAS CITV.
,r e
n Atlic
TITE IT.I.NESS.
When he left Atlanta to go to Boston
lie was threatened with pneumonia—he
went, in fact, under the protest of his
he replit-d to
of
physician. “To stay now,” he rej
his physician’s objection on the
starting, “is out of the question.”
LARD, CLOTHING, MEAT, CALICOS, RICE, LINDSEYS*
LARD, JEANS, and CLOVES, COFFEE, All Qualities.
GRITS. SUGAR of Dry Goods. FLOUR, SPICE
and DRESS GOODS. MEAL, GINGER.
After the Thursday night speech iu
Boston he contracted a new cold from ex
posure. The visit to Plymouth Rock was
unfortunate in this respect.. Mr. Grady
stood for some time in the raw atmps- I
phere with liis head uncovered. Friday ;
night lie was seized with a chili, and for
the first tiine seems to have realized that !
his health was in .a critical condition: J
In New York ho v. as treated ov Dr. j
Goldthwaite. Before the party stalled j
homeward, Mr. Gvadv was' assured that •
all danger of pueuinnnia was'past, and I
that it would be entirely safe to return j
home at once'. 1
We sell as cheap as the
or any town; deal fair, make shoit
/>*
We thank our costomers for their
a continuance of the same. Prices on
QUICK SALES1 SHORT
MORE INFLUENZA.
Dj Musas
The influenza has reached Detroit, and j
curiously enough so far only bank cm- j
ployes arc afflicted. This is attributed, I
however, to the report that microbes 1
travel in paper money and when conta- j
gious paper lias been freely circulated hi j
a city the disease will become epidemic. '
At the Peninsular bank, nine of the cm- ;
pioyes were sick at one time. :
In “ the Preston National there are j
four eases. The entire stall of the 1
First National has it, and there are two I
cases in the Merchants’ & Manufacturers’ |
bank. The symptoms are different in !
nearly every case. In some it produces j
“an all gone, tired feeling,” as one ex- 1
pressed it, while in others lining to nose, I
mouth and throat is affected; still others |
have a cougli. Lameness is one of the [
general points iu which it shows up |
strong.
The Kansas City Star says: A number ;
of eases of influenza, distinct euough in j
type to be readily recognizable, have at- 1
tracted the observation of local physicians •
in this city. Interviews with several i
physicians arc presented, and the number
of cases are placed at about one hundred, i
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WHOLESALE DEALER IN
OS.
les,
Tobacco and Cigars,
Carries in stock a full line of Imported and Domestic Goods. Leading brands of
Bye, Corn and Bourbon Whiskies.
Tfirst-elass Corn Whisky from $1.50 to $2.00 per "alien. Rye from $1.50
to $2.00, $2.50, $3.00, $3.50, $4.00 to $6.00 per gallon.
ji!i kinds of Gin for $2.00 per gallon up.
If you want samples send for quart in cartoon boxes. No charge for jugs.
ORDERS BY MAIL MILL RECEIVE PROMPT ATTENTION.
MORE INFLUENZA.
Me ask the people of Fayette, Clayton and Campbell counties to try our good£
for family or medicinal use, as we don’t keep any
THE RUSSIAN ri.AGUE 1IAS APPEARED
DETROIT AND KANSAS CITY.
The influenza has reached Detroit, and i
curiously enough so far only bank cm- j
pioyes are afflicted. This is attributed. I
however, to the report that microbes i
travel in paper money and when conta- j
gious paper inis been freely circulated in j
a city the disease will become epidemic.
At the Peninsular bank, nine of the cm- [
ploves were sick at one time.
In ‘ the Preston National there arc ;
four cases. The entire stair of tin; j
First National has it, and there arc two j
cases iu the .Merchants’ & Manufacturers’ j
i*ank. The Symptoms are different in j
nearly every case. In some it produces |
“an all gone, tired feeling,” as one ex- j
pressed it. wtrile in others lining to nose, I
mouth and throat is affected; Still others i
have a cough. Lameness is one of the |
al points in which it shows
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The Kansas City Star says: A number
of cases of influenza, distinct enough in
type to be readily recognizable, have at
tracted the observation of local physicians
in this city. Interviews with several
physicians are presented, aud the number
of eases are placed at about one hundred.
An Old Slave’s Return.
John Hardin (colored), of Ottawa.
Canada, who ran away a slavo from
Flemiugsburg, Ivy., in 1840, .went back
tire other day to gather up liis family.
He has prospered siue.e Ins flight. He
found one son whom he left a prattling
child, a grandfather. The rest of the
family wore dispersed in some slave
silo, and nil trace is lost.—[Cincinnati
Enquirer.
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