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Wi‘lim‘mlii> MorniiUf. AlllTUNt 1. 1H77.
The Great Railroad Strike.
Our daily exchanges arc ill led to over
flowing with excited details of’ the great
strike which had its commencement at
Pittsburg, Fa., but which has rolled on
day after day until it has swept across
the continent, gathering hosts of re
cruits from nearly all of the great thor
oughfares in the North and West, and
the country is one vastsceneof anarchy
and dismay. The New York Sun says,
that “ at least one hundred thousand
men are engaged in it, and that not less
than a thousand million dollars’ worth
of property is immediately affected by
it.” Miles of railroad shops, cars, hotels
and track have been burnt and destroy
ed, together with vast amounts of
freight of all kinds, and quite a num
ber of people and sc Id'ers have been
killed. In one round house alone 125
first-class engines were burnt and to
tally destroyed.
Worse than all, the municipal and
military authorities have all been set at
defiance, and the Governors of some of
the States, acknowledging their inability
to do anything, have called on the Pres-
ident, who is at loss himself. Cabinet
meetings have been held, and the Presi
dent even contemplated calling Congress
together. How it is to end, or what the
remedy, no one can tell.
The immediate cause of the strike
was the reduction of wages of railroad
employees ten per cent. This they say
will -not onfiice to ou.-tuTT. tilCTu, mkc
Gen. Toombs, we sympathize with the
poor men’s necessities, but not with their
method. For, while there is no doubt
but that this violent emute is all wrong,
and if unpunished a dangerous prece
dent, yet when we reflect that thousands
of these poor people are actually starv
ing for the commonest necessities of life,
we cannot wonder that they take this
high-handed method of demanding a
living price for their hard and incessant
labor.
The great first cause of all this is the
corruptness that has distinguished our
government for the past few years, which
has destroyed all confidence in business
and is finally bringing about a mighty
collapse.
It looks a little like retributive justice
that the very cesspool of this corruption
is now suffering the worst; for while
business languishes in the South, and
the weight of hard times is severely felt,
yet in the mighty North, where no car
pet-bagger has set his devastating feet,
the sowers of wind arc now reaping the
whirlwind. We are proud of the fact,
that while gloom and despair is hang
ing over them, the rainbow of plenty is
now beginning to arch our Southern sky,
and that bright hopes are cheering the
hearts of our long tried and sorely op
pressed people.
Terrible Accident on tin? Georgia Kail
Koad.
Last week a train, composed of the three
regular coaches, viz : the baggage car, the
.second-class car and the ladies coach, and
three extra cars containing two companies
of United States Infantry from Columbia,
S. C., en route to Louisville, Ky., was
wrecked. The engineer, Mr. Zach Armi
stead, and the fireman. A. W. Streeter.
President John P. King and Superintend
ent S. K. Johnson were on board. At a
point called Oak Grove, three miles above
Union Point, the train was running at its
usual rate of speed when it ran into a drove
of cattle and was instantly wrecked. The
engine was thrown from the track, and the
cars piled upon it, the engineer was killed
and his body consumed by the fire. The
cars caught fire from the engine and were
soon wrapped in flames. The Express
mail matter was lost. One gentleman lost
a trunk with a large amount of bonds in
it. The loss to the road will amount to
about ten thousand dollars.
The Enterprise Factory, Augusta, will
commence operations in October. The
amount of capital invested is one hundred
and fifty thousand dollars. This amount
will be increased, as the enterprise is view
ed in a most favorable light by capitalists.
A lii IK At II Ii Mr.
Atlanta Constitution.
Hon. Alexander 11. Stephens arrived in
tlio eity on Saturday and took rooms at the
Kitnball house as the guest of his old-time
friend General Toombs. He is accompa
nied by .Mr. T. K. Oglesby, his trusted
private secretary, who leaves nothing un
done that will add to the comforts of the
great Georgia commoner, who is at present,
to all intents and purposes, an invalid.
On Sunday, a reporter of the Constitu
tion, learning that Mr. Stephens was dis
engaged culled to pay his respects to the
distinguished statesman. He found Mr.
Stephens seated in hi* comfortable roller
chair enjoying a postprandial smoke.
There has been very little change in the
appearance of the venerable Georgian du
ring the past low years, notwithstanding
the fact that for months he lay at the point
of death in Washington. With the excep
tion of the roller-chair, which has taken the
place of the crutches, the reporter could
perceive no signs of failure in Mr. Stephens.
His eye is as bright, his mind as clear, and
his voice as ringing as when, in the olden
days, he led his party to victory. His man
ners, even surrounded as he is by the em
barrassments of invalidism, are simply
charming, and his conversation combines
the vivacit y of youth with the logical meth
ods of experience. To the reporter sitting
over on the other side, the decrepit figure,
rolling itself backward and forward, and
talking all the while, seemed like an oracle
that knew all the past and was anxious to
tell of the future—a vision of the better
days of the republic,—a sage whose ambi
tion had compassed all that is worthy of
fame and all that is pure in life. The con
versation somehow turned upon Gen
eral Toombs.
“I have known Mr. Toombs” said he,
a bright smile lighting up his wan face,
“ longer and more intimately than I have
known any one in the world except my
brother. Few people know Mr. Toombs
as I do. To-day forty-three years ago 1
shook hands xvith Mr. Toombs, and since
that time our friendship and intimacy have
been almost uninterrupted. The day is
therefore in some sort an anniversary.”
And so, for some little time the vener
able statesman went on to talk of that
other distinguished Georgian who, to all
intents and purposes, has taken the place
in Mr. Stephens’heart left vacant by the
death of that purest and best of men, Lin
ton Stephens.
“ Mr. Stephens,” said the reporter,
“what do you think of the convention?”
“it is a remarkably intelligent body of
men, ami contains, as far as I have been
able to observe, not only the best men in
the state, hut the best average men. But
there is one thing.” continued Mr. Ste
phens,“that I am afraid of, they are going to
reduce the number of members to the leg
islature. This will he a very great mis
take.” ,
“ But they say, Mr. Stephens, that as at
present constituted the general assembly
is too unwieldy.”
“Exactly so. Tt ought to he unwieldy,
— j -- - -- . y ’
in so far as its unwieldiness might resist
the approaches and influences of the lobby
and similar influences. There is a good
clttoj in I?U ciJcli*
ment and reform ’ by which a few hope to
become popular with the people and ride
into otfice. The proposed reduction is a
poor piece of economy—a very poor piece
of economy. Both the senate and the house
had better be increased in numbers than
decreased. Ifl lmd any voice in the mat
ter,” Mr. Stephens continued, “ 1 should
suggest that the senate he composed of one
member from each county and the house
contain at least two hundred members. In
my opinion the Senate should consist of
one member from each county, to be elect
ed from the Congressional Districts. I'n
der the present apportionment, this would
give eleven Senators to each Congressional
District and one from the State at large, 1
think it would be in the interests of econ
omy to have the people as largely repre
sented as possible. When I was in the
legislature—at least from 183Gto IS42—the
general assembly contained three hundred
and odd members. These were the days
of the glory of the State, and the people
were not burdened with debts and taxes.”
“ But wouldn’t this largely increase the
cost of the sessions?”
“ Well, as to that you can see for your
self. If there were five hundred members
in the Legislature, the per diem of live dol
lars a day for forty days would only be one
hundred thousand dollars. Compared with
the millions of debt piled up by some of
the reduced legislatures, this is an exceed
ingly small amount. The more largely the
people are represented, the more econom
ical will the legislature be, for it is mani
festly the purpose of the people to look
after their own interests. We want a gen
eral assembly too big to be controlled by
lobbyists, jobbers, and log-rolling bar
gains.”
“ Does it strike you that the convention
is progressing as rapidly with the business
before it as it should?”
“ Well, yes. It is no little thing to
frame an organic law for a people. The
convention should be emphatically a de
liberative body.”
“ What is your opinion of the homestead
question ?”
“Oh, 1 believe the convention will make
the homestead permanent and inalienable.
I am in favor of a reduced, but liberal
homestead.”
Mr. Stephens says he is more hopeful
of the country now than since 18o(!. Said
he:
“ Light is breaking, Mr. Hayes is doing
what Mr. Tildcn never could have done.
Had Tildcn attempted what Hayes has
accomplished we would have had another
civil war. The revolution of sentiment in
the north is something wonderful, and in
dicates a return to right principles. 1
think the inauguration of Mr. Hayes was
equal, in the good it has etf'ected. to the
abdication of James 11., of England, and I
think that events since that time have con
spired to produce great results and prevent
great evils.
In my opinion the people of the south,
outside of party should sustain and aid
him in his policy of pacification. I told
Mr. Hayes that he should cut loose from
party and give the people good government
and pacification, and seven-tenths of the
people would uphold him. I advised him,
moreover, not to have a hand in the speak
er’s election, but to appeal to the country
on the strength of his own executive right
doing.” ,
Thus, for a half hour or more, Mr. Ste
phens talked, giving his views of matters
of public concern, in which he takes a
keen and hopeful interest, lie will remain
in Atlanta several days, and will consult
freely with the leaders of the convention
in respect to questions of constitutional
law.
A lightning-rod man was struck by light
ning in Washington county the other day.
Justice is slow footed hut sure.
On last Sunday some lunatic preacher
preached in Gainesville for the .special pur
pose of proving that the world is flat.
Turkish buildings do not endure over
two hundred years. Therefore Ardahan
won’t he wortn much when the Russians
capture it. —Vomit Free. Press.
A runaway couple were married in a
Columbus Sunday-school last Sunday.
They are commencing early to train that
family in the way it should go.
The pro tern editor of the Irwinton South
erner alludes to a young lady “playing a
vocal peace.” So far as we are concerned,
this is a peace that passetli all understand
ing.—ll arrenton Clipper.
The Thomasville Times says that nine
teen pound cabbages, trimmed for the pot,
arc common on the streets of Thomasville.
And yet some people believe that fine cab
bages cannot he raised at the South.
The Constitution says: “About one
hundred young ladies from various parts of
Georgia are now visiting Atlanta and socie
ty is as gay as if it were mid-winter.” We
trust that they will not prove pull-backs to
the work of the convention. Lobbying is
now a crime.
The Georgia Railroad machine shops at
Augusta are busily engaged in repairing
their engines in anticipation of an active
business season this fall. The engines are
being changed from “wood burners” to
“ coal burners ” ns fast as the smoke stacks
and other wood-burning appurtenances are
worn out.
The State Sunday School Convention
meets in Athens August 24th to 26th.
The convention sermon will be preached
by Rev. W. P. Harrison, 1). 1)., and the
music led by J. L. Wallace, of Augusta.
The programme will he an interesting one.
Delegates will he transported over any rail
road in the State at half faro rates—paying
full fare going and returning free.
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Slabs, Marble Box Tombs and Cradle Tombs.
Specimens of work always on hand and tor sate. It
is a saving of money ao buy your Monuments and
Tombstones in Athens, Ga.
Marble Yard adjoining Reaves; &. Nicholson's
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Manufacturers of Clegg’s Patent Portable COPPER EVAPORATORS and Galvan
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LAND FOR SM
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