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cheapest. We compete with any man : shoit profits, and Fandlp the best goodst for their past liberal patronage, and solid? Prices on all goods GUARANTEED.» )RT PROFITS! FAIR WEIGHTS^',, 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 S. S. SEiLIG, 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 “ BAR-ROOM LIQUOR. 0 Oust'GDeds are recommended by doctors, preachersand the best citiiens of Atlanta. S. S. SELIC, 35 Mitche-.l St., cor. Forsyth., ATLANTA, GEORGIA. Manufactory .Baltimore, Md„ { 213 W. German Street t f Washington, D. C., \ Cor. 7th & E. Sts. general po strong. 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. EISEIAN ONE Clothiers, Tailors PRICE FURNISHER S. ALL GOODS MARKED IN PLAIN FIGtffeES. E i s e man Broth o r s. 17 & Id WHITEHALL ST., ATLANTA, GA.
