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Middle Georgia Argus
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MORNING.
INDIAN SPRING, GA.. OCT. 13, ISSL
Tocal MATTER.
‘ 'iu Arp” will deliver a lecture in
Jackfaoh on the night of the 27th inst.
Messrs. Shealion A Maddox art*
110 W organizing another forco to be
gin, work at Stockbridge.
Married, —Walter Andrews to Miss
ElizaMcMieliael on the. 13th, Rev. Mc-
Michael officiating. Wo wish them a
happy vbvute through life.
' '
The railroad darkies and the town
bucks Iried a little knock down and drag
out, last Wednesday night, resulting in
one stab and one head mash; such is
life among the wicked. ~
“Mr. Smith” said a lady at a
fair, “won’t you please buy this
boucjuet to present toyoqr lady you
love?” “Twouldii’i be right,'” said
Mr. Smith ; “I’m a married mart.”
1 I
“Come in Mr. Levy. What can
1 do for you?” “I waht a half a
pair of hose for my poy.” The
above conv©tf ition actually oceiur
ed in a store in this city. He want
ed a pair of half-hose for his boy.
, We call the attention oil our.readers to
the advertis< ment of J. Monroe Taylor.
This house has been established nearly
40 years, and tluiir goods are celebrated
i'or purity uul strength. We wouldyee
pmmeud i\ trial of their Gold Medal
brands to all who desire cookery.
The paymaster on the Macon &
jßrunsWick extension passed up the
lines again this week paying offcon
tractors for last months work, and
now the Jiaiids sing lively, scatter
ing the “shads” around does help
tilings wonderfully, and when we
see them come along with their car
pet sacks .full of green-hacks it
makes us feel like things is on a
.solid foundation, and it makes us
glad to see some of the green-backs
that we have sent North coming
hack to he divided up among our
people.
, “A beautiful young lady gave me
my first glass of wine, and now I
am in prison, condemned to be
hung for the murder of wife while
in a drunken .spree,”., .Thus spoke
the poor criminal. Thot same beau
tiful yonng lady was the murdered
wife of this brilliant, but unfortu
nate man. No wise woman who
knows the danger of strong drink
and the force of habit in men, will
ever tempt a man, young or old, to
the first glass of wine.
. From , Wilmingron, Deleware,
romei a xueer storey. A Mr. Long
strreet courted a Miss Johnson and
won tlio promise of her hand. His
love for-hex of the boundless
and brainless kind, and -rife an evi
dence ;of this insane love be gave
the lady daeds for all of his proper
ty. Shortly thereafter the sighing
sweetheart grew cold toward the
young riiah, and then jilted him out
right. Moreover, ilie keeps the
deeds, and is going to marry anoth
er youth.
TO THAT GAL OF MINE.
A young cuilud genmun from
Jasper who is now working on the
railroad gave our typo 15 cents, to
write him a letter to his “gal” one
day last week. He dictated the let
ter, and the following is an exact
copy of it:
Miss Mary Lada Penn
Oil! Lilia Gal , ,
Where 1... ,e you been long ,
T have been do>yn town,
You know my name:
Oh Lord, Miss Lula Gal
What makes you do me so,
Oh Lord, Miss Lula Gal
What have I done to you,
I'm going down the .lonesome road,
To never return no more*
There ain’t but one thing that grieves my
mind 1
The time 1 lost with you..
■I have got to die one of these day3
And my time will soon come,
The laat word yon wil) hear me say:
1 wish that Gal was mine.
William peyn.
DIED.
Its our painful duty to announce
the death of a mo9t highly esteemed
snd beloved ladies of our county.
Hits Matt Ball an exemplary Chris
tian a zealous worker in the ’cause
of temperance, a perfect lady, and
one who lived for the ghod'hf hu
manity and the service ol God, was
stricken down with typhoid lever,
and on Sunday evening last suc
cumbed to the dread monster and
passed “over ttye river” to rest.
May her rest be as sweet as her life
was beautiful and may the bereaved
ones emulate her goodness and vir
tues, and meet her under the shade
of t lie trees beyond the dark river.
SEED WHEAT FOR SALK.
£* , M ~ , ,
- I Will -eh spHM wheat of my raising at
Ocniulgee Mills at $2.00 a bushel stricth
cash. H. J. Lamar.
Wanted. —Fifty good hands to
work on railrojjfU, the highest wages
will I>e paid, t all at camp near
Argus Office. Maddox & Sheahon.
Notice. —My customers are ex
pected to come to the front do all
they can forme, I expect tills much,
more I do not ask, I am willing and
able to assist next year, all who
satisfy me, they have made an hon
est effort and failed,
oct. b-2t 11. J. Lamar.
GENERAL JOHN B. GORDON.
Nowhere in Georgia has the news
of < : eneral (Jordon’s fortune, in mak
ing a million or more ant of his
railroad transactions, been received
with more • genuine joy than in
Southern Georgia. Our people
have great admiration for the gal
lant (Jordon, and when maligners
were trying to blacken his fair name
in the late hitter Contest in this
State, they rallied around him as
they did when lie led them in war.
The people never had their confi
dence shaken in Gordon. He was
than, as he is now, their beau ideal
of a chivalrous, high-toned, honora
ble Southern gentleman. He has
made more since his retirement
from the Senate than lie would
have made by remaining in that
body fifty years'. Gordon was too
clean a handed man to make money
out of his position as Senator; oth
ers have done so, hut not John B.
Goidon. He was too poor and too
honest to live in Washington. But
he is rich now, nml we’re heartily
glad of it. We are .sure that thou
sands of old Confederates who fol
lowed his towering form through
the smoke and din <>f battle; who
watched his scarred face light up
with a smile ot encouragement,
when footsore and weary they plod
ded along; who saw his last hercu
lean effort, as like a tiger at bay at
Appomattax—we .are, sure that
these will bid him Godspeed on the
road to fortune. Fame he already
has, and that of an undying char
acter. Vive la Gordon.
PPv ESI !> E N T"A R TIT UR’ S
HOUSEHOLD.
The household now called to the
White House by the death of Presi
dent Garfield has no lady presiding
over it. President Arthur lost his
wife a year ago last January, .and an
acute feeling oyer her lossj is. among
the sad reflections which press on the
President at this time. /She was
daughter of Lieatenant-Commander
Herndon, of the United States navy,
who went down on his ship, the Cen
tral America. , A gold medal, in re
cognition of his bravery, was voted
by Congress to bis widow, and a
monument to his memory was
erected in the Naval Academy
grounds at Annapolis. General
Arthur married Miss Herndon, in
the early part of his career ns a law
yer in New York City. He has two
children, one a youth of seventeen
named after his father, but called
Allen by the family; the other a
girl of eleven, named Nellie. The
President has one brother, Major
William Arthur, of the regular ar
my ; he has three married sisters, of
these Mrs. Mary McElroy, has
spent much tinto at his of late, and
has looked as much after his house
hold affairs as she could. President
Arthur’s accession to his. new re
sponsibility has 'been too recent for
him to give any consideration' to
family arrangements for his resi
dence at Washington, but if the
cares of her own family will permit,
Mrs. McElroy will most probably be
the lady who will preside in" the
White House.
A TRIP TO ATLANTA. r
THE COTTON EXPOSITION, GEOR
GIAPRKES ASSOCIA TIOX AC.
On Tuesday morning, we had the
pleasure of mounting, behind the
“git up and .git” team of our Jolly
friend Wilev. Heard in -company
with Miss Bettie Moore and Miss
Alice Smith for a ride to Hampton
thence by rail to Atlanta, ‘'The de
lightful change of the weather Mon
day night was-very agreeable, and
as we dashed along through the
chilly breeze, the cotton fields that
had been striped of the foilage by
the catapillars presented such a
scene in the distance, that Wiley
exclaimed: “I knew it had been
snowing when I felt the • cold wind
from the north.” .
Now there is nothing r< mautiol
about a buggy ride ordinarily, but j
now that our count; is slashed into
cuts and fills for a railroad, and the
w-iie being stretched that is to speed
the news on the wings of lightning,
the working parties coming and go
ing, all kinds of railroad men, big
railroad men and little railroad men.
and feeling ourself one of the big
railroad men, we could imagine
there was something romantic in
our ride. This busy coming and go
ing, is only an index of the busy
hum ot industry that the wheels of
progress is going to put in operation
in our county.
Arriving in Hampton we learned
that the the Gaorgia Press Conven
tion would assemble in ihe cotton ex
position building, next day we be
gan to try to put on an air of*great
ness preparatory to being ushered
into the pi essence of the “knights of
the quill.”
As to the success of the Cotton Ex
position, what it is and how it is,
we can truthfully say it is a success,
and worthy of Atlanta’s enterprise
and the great state of Georgia.
It would be superfluous to at
tempt to tell what is to be seen there,
but to give an illustration, wo allude
to one quaint scene, that so very
forcibly illustrates bur progress. In
the Hall and in close proximity we
see the old rusty country spinning
wheel, the “whirl” fastened on with a
broken suspender, while by its side
we sec the puffing steam, driving
the tliousimds of spindles with al
most lightning speed. Passing up
the Hall we. see the familiar scene,
the old fashioned Georgia loom, with
two old ladies drawing in the thread
preparatory to weaving a peice of
cloth, by their side . the whizing
driving wdeel of.an engine drives the
thousands of looms, the Coats’
Spool Cotton machine, the tape,
embroidery, printing, binding, barb
wire and other machines, too nu
merous to mention'. . • •
The Agricultural display is mag
nificent and -while we would regret
to see Gcorgja out done in the dis
play ot her agricultural resources,
we must admit the truth and say
the state of Kansas stands head in
that line at present. The work is
not near complete and will be full 30
days before, everything will be in
perfect order, apd Avhile we advise all
our friends to wait till November to
go, wo would advise all who can
spare the time and means to not miss
the oppertunity.
SOME IMPORTANT WORK
DONE.
We print below, as.-found, in the.
Atlanta Constituiion, a summary
of some important lulls that were
passed by the Legislature and are
now laws. , }
A GENERAL RAILROAD LAW.
Probably the most important bill
passed during the session was a gen
eral railroad law, by which charters
can be granted by the filing of ar
ticles of incorporation. This . will
prevent any such dealers before the
Legislature 1 , as was witnessed ,in the
Gordon and Cole charters, and as
the theory of the present constitu
tion is fo have only, biennial ses
sions, great arid fatal delay might
be caused to important enterprises
if the projectors had to wait for a
meeting of the General Assembly.
This law, while ..if came from the
railroad committee, is said to have
been mainly the work of Hon. Lou
is Garrard, of Muscogee. In its pro
visions there is practically no limit
to the charters that may be granted
in the State. It, so to speak, takes
the bridle off and turns every man
loose.
THE USURY QUESTION.
Senator Hawes perfected- and
passed a bill on the usury question
which makes some important
changes.. The. maximum charge is
still fixed by law at 8 per cent., but
under the new bill the lender has
the right to charge whatever rate
the borrower agreed-upon, and can
collect the same if the borrower'
‘not appeal to the law against
paying. -If this be done, the lender
is mulcted orily for the surplus of
the interest above 8 per cent, and
not for the entire interest, as under
the present law. It also becomes
incumbent upon the borrower to
show that the lender has violated
the law, and it does not devolve upon
the lender to bhoulaer the burden of
proof as under the present law.
THE CONVICT QUESTION.
Senator Halves, who, by tlie way,
introduced only-two bills and pass
ed both of them, introduced a bill
upon the oonvict- question, which
passed. Although it came as a
substitute from the committee, it
was exactly as Senator Hawes drew
it in all its essential features. It
provides tor the appointment of an
assistant keeper of the penitentiary
at a salary m $1,200 a year .and
traveling exoenscsl Either the as-,
sistant or the princ ipal keeper shall
visit ekcli camp once every month
and report to the Governor. It they
find that the lessc has been violated
innny respect, the Governor is di
rected to at once institute proceed
ings to have the lease of the offend
ing lessee forfeited, and the Attor
ney-General is directed to represent
the State in these prosecutions. All
persons are forbidden whipping any
convict, except the regular whipp
ing boss, who is to be appointed by
tho V eos oi each c amp, his appoint
ing at U) be confirmed by the Gov
ernor. Upon the discharge of each
person, he is to be furnished with a
suit of citizen's clothes, and provid
ed with transportation ami expen
ses back to the bounty from which
lie was sentenced.
TIIE "ELECTION* he JUDGES AND SO
LICITORS.
Air. Garrard, of the House, intro
duced and passed a bili that will be
of vast help ih expediting the busi
ness of the Legislature. It provides
that on the Monday after the as
sembling of the Legislature, the two
houses shall meet in joint session
and then elect the judges and solic
itors general. That the. name of
each circuit shall be written upon
a piece of paper and these baUots
put into a hat. and shaken. The
president of the Senate shall take
one ballot from the hat when the
hats are ready aiid the. officers of
the circuit named on this card shall
be elected first. This is done to pre
vent combinations being made
against the later circuits. This bill
will prevent much lobbying and re
lieve the members of a vast amount
of worry and annoyance.
THE TEMPERANCE QUESTION.
While no general temperance bill
of importance was passed, the sale
of liquor was prohibited in a great
many counties, by reason of the in
crease of the license tax to such a
fixurc as cannot be paid, Secretary
Harris informs us that the counties
in which the sale of liquor is now
prohibited amount tq, forty-eight in
. c Stune, ir chiding his own county
oi "’Voxth. Brohibhion was asked
foi a great many other counties but
was hided or postpened by amend
ments which allow the people of the
various townships and districts to
vote whether yr not the sale of liq
uor should be .prohibited. The
temperance people on the other
hand gain a great deal in the pro
hibition of the sale- of liquor within
a certain number of .miles of certain
churches, colleges and academies,
and altogether the session has re
sulted in very materially enlarging
the circle of prohibition.
THE EDUCATIONAL QUESTION.
While the general educational
bill on which Commissioner Orr de
pended so much was defeated, the
cause of education was very much
benefited by special appropriation.
The excess of taxes on inspection
of fertilizers and the surplus receive
ed from the hire of convicts was
turned over for educational purpo
ses, ii|ereasing the fund about eighty
or ninety thousand dollars, which
wili Bea very material benefit. An
appropriation of $2,000 was mad© to
the State University, which insures,
we learn, its being made a free in
stitution of learning, open to every
youn : g man in the State -without
price, if he can meet the qualifica
tions set forth in its' curriculum.
Various special appropriations were
made to special educational enter
prises, including SIO,OOO to the ag
ricultural college at Dalonega, which
will insure its being built.
ABF'S AVERMENT.
The President is dead, and I reck
on the nation had better do like
King David when he lost his child
—get up and wash his face and
think ot something else. It’s all
very bad and very sad, I know, but
there are thousands of homes in
this happy land where death was a
visitor at the self same hour, and
the grief was just as great for the
loved one and the lost. There is a
skeleton in every eloset and death
has nailed his sign over every door,
and it had seemed to me from my
own experience 1 that when such a
trouble came I wanted it all to my
self and family, and the less the
fuss and parade and ceremony about
it the better. There is a kind of
sweet cecu solution about death in a
household, when we can shut it in
and look out tlie world, and have
the misery all to ourselves. Even
the three friends of Job were con
siderate enough to set a far ofl in
respectful silence several days, for
they siuv his grief was great. A
nation in tears is a very grand and
effecting tableau if there is some
thing grand and effecting t< cry
about, but there is no sense in over
doing the thing. I don t know
what Mr. Garfield lias done as states
man, a soldier, or a patriot more
than ten thousand other men. I
don't know what notable thing
would justify us in saying as David
did to Joab, a great man has fallen
this day in Isreal. Not many months
ago I know lie was be nounced as a
bad man and a dangerous one tu
the welfare oi the*country. 1 didn't
believe ii then, and 1 can’t see tne
propriety of denouncing a man as a
.devil when he lives and adoring
him as a saint when he is dead. I
wish, our people would quit the
like of that, it destroys confidence
and keeps up political strife and
bitterness. I don’t know much
about Mr. Authur and I don't care
If I don’t. I’m not afraid of him.
If he can do Die any harm 1 can’t
sea it. If he is going to cut up and
abuse us down South, wo can abuse
him just as bad. He can’t ruff
over congress niiich nor defy the
will of the nation ivhich will is now
for peace and lull nl’ony and co-oper
ation. I believe Sir. Garfield was
a 1 letter and a man but the death
of one man however great, can’t
stop the wheels of the government
from rolling on, nor bring a shock
to its accustomed motion. A gov
ernment that stood the test of four
years Avar, and the assination of
Mr. Lincoln (peace to his memory)
and the election frauds of Mr. Hayes
can stand any thing and it doesn’t
matter at all whether Mr. Authur
Avas born in Canada or the Feejee
islands, it’s all the same, the consti
tution is a sort of India rubber thing
any lioav, and can accomodote itself
to circumstanced softer like our own
in Georgia that has tolerated in a
year, and I reckon We Avill have a
third to redistrict the Slat . Let’s
wait and see >vhat Mr. Authur does
before Ave pitch Into him. If he .is
a good hearted fellow he is a coav
ard, and Avon’t dare to defy us; so
let him rip along. As Cube says
Ave Avill all knoAV D.y. waiting.
My Avife and children are all well,
my corn is pretty good, my cattle
are fat, and the barn is full of hay.
My nabors are kind and Sunday
comes once a Aveek as usual so let
him rip. v < .
What is the. matter with the peo
ple anyhow. Some folks are killing
one another for a little or nothing
and some are killing themselves.
When I Ava3 a boy I never hardly
ever, heard of a suicide. It Avas con
sidered a most ordinary circum
stance. Wo read about ’em over in
France and wondered what sort of a
people they weje. - It’s aiiu every
dad affair with us now. Four in a
week. Four sane men well to do in
the world, surrounded by good as
sociation. I don't understand it
and it worries me.- I was a talking
with Judge Underwood about it, and
says he solemnly, “Bill —William —
Mr. Arp, my frieiid you have known
me for thirty years, and I tell you
now I have seen a sight of trouble
aggravation and vexation of spirit —
losses and crosses -and disadpoint
ments, but if you ever hear of my
being found dead under the peculiar
circumstances, don’t you stop to
examine whether I killed myself or
not, but go at on©e and hunt for the
feller that done-it. . I tell you Wil
liam Arp,- I’m not going to die that
way?” What is the matter with
the men? There are no suicides
among the women. Well there is
now and then at long intervals and
they are always -drowned —drowned
in a well or a mill pond. Nobody
ever heard of one using a razor, or a
pistol, or a rope. : -When a poor wo
mon kills herself she wants to hide.
Of course” she don’t know how to
use a razor or a pistol, but she might
hang hers elf. I reckon she is afraid
somebody will see her in her dis
hoveled condition. The reeords set
down ten men men to one woman
as suicides,' and so I reckon it must
be on account of whig key or disap
pointed ambition in making money
or amagsiiig ficlies. Women are
not con cerned in such things. They
are wr apt up in raising children
and they love em too good to leave
'em. Domestic pleasure haye a ten
dency tp calm the mind am£ keep it
well Evc-ry day brings
its cares and trouble, but it bring
its comforts and pleasures too. There
is nothing like living for a day;
that is by the day anil for the day
Blessings on the man or woman
who gets up in the morning and de#j
termins to get as much happiness
before niglit as possible. Knjoy the
day, Be content. Don’t be always
hankering after something afar c:;
that may never come. Don t and '
too much in futures. I don't mean
of course, for a man to be like tie
average nigger who takes do ( .id
for the future, but there is no mid
die ground to occupy. Some men
say they are working for their (Li!
clien. If they are straining them
selves day and night for their chil
dren as they ought to, they w m
pay ’em more attention. They won and
stay with ’em more and talk to cm
more.
Speaking about the inditler* u*<
of niggers reminds me of my good
neighbor Freeinan. He has a lot o'
negro tenants, and after being go::
away from home a few weeks, In
came back and fouhd every rascal
of em gone to meeting. When the}
returned says he: “Wllat you been
to meetin for, boys?’’ “Well boss
we is been dar to pray.” “Kray for
what?” said he. . “Well boss we
know its most tod I'ate in the season
to pray for rain, for de crop is dim
gone up, but we pray for the Savior
to carry us all through the winter.’
“Well hit ain’t* that exactly,” said
another one. “We goes to meetin.
to fix for the next world. You whin
folks done got this one and if wo can
squeeze in a head of you in the next
we is gwinc to do it, dat’s all." Na
bor Freeman says it won't he a
month before them darkies will be
trying to make, a savior of him, for
he has carried 'em all the year while
they are running over the country
and going to preaching.
Calvin Lewis had quit his crop
and taken the pulpit—sys lie heard
dc Lord cah him while he was in
de field, and Uncle Jeff says lie ;
“Calvin dat is a lie—if you hear
any body call you it was the devil
and you is passin’ round do hat fur
him every night, and deae niggers
round, here is quit workin and some
of em is gwiife to school dat ought
to he in de cotton patch; and de
next that a school nigger do is to
quit the country and go to town’,
and de next thing is to steal some
thing in get in the chain-gang, and
go to work in the coal mines wha l
Governor Brown wants em. Dat’e
wdiat’s de matter,, tfeee whitefolkg
knows exzactly whar. an edicated
nigger is gwine to land. I never
knowed one to come to any good
yit. You cant make sheep meat
out en coon or chicken Out'on ciw,
I don’t care what you feed ’em on ”
Uncle Jeff says these young niggers
will have to belong to somebody yet
or quit the country.
Well the darky is a conundrum
and its hard to guess him.
Bill Arp.
A poet recently sent a cony ent
iled “What Shall My Love Wear?'
to an editor. The latter regard©'!
the question wholly in his moral as
pect, and set down and wrote a kind
but firm article recommending her
to wear clothes.
/. MONROE TARSI
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APPLICATION FOB PUBLIC HOAD
ORDINARY’S OFFICE, Butts Cow
tv, Ga., October sth, 1881. —Notice i
hereby given that a petition is on file ii
this office, asking that the road beginim’
near R. J. Woodward’s shop, on the M
Donough road, and intersecting the put
lie road at Heflen’s Foard on Tcnvalif?
River, also the road commencing at ■?
point near the residence of Dr. Henley -
thonce to the line of the counties e
Butts and Henry, be declared publi<
roads of the second class. Commission
ers having been appointed as provideo
for, and reported favorbly. This is to no
tify all persons, that on and after the
ijrst Monday in November next, said or
der will be finally granted ii no goo o
cause shown te the contrary. Witne
mv official signature.
J. F. (^abmiciuul,
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