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TION OF ALL THE OTHER
PAPERS IN FRANK¬
LIN COUNTY.'
Q>' 1jk.it Advertising Medium
In North Georgia
THE SUFYiVING
COFEDERATE VETERANS.
ATLANTA OPENS IIKR GATES
TO THEM.
Tho Annual meeting of the Con¬
federate Survivors’ Association of
Georgia, will he held at Atlanta, in
: n tho new Capitol, on Thursday 1
October 28,1890.
After tho business of tho Assoeia-
Is finished,the convention will adjourn
to the Piedmont Expostion.
In tho afternoon, at 3 o’clock, there
will be a Grand Sham Battle, in which
the Veterans will bake part.
I n the evening, at 8 o’clock, fliere
will be a’Conledcrato Reunion, at the
New Capitol, when Short Addresses
will be mado by a number of Con¬
federate Soldiers.
Every Ogamzation is urged to send
as laigo a delegation as possible.
Tbo Rail Iioad Faro tor this occu¬
gjon will be ono cent per mile pppb
Commanders are requested to
notify their Camp. Come in a body
and make this a great day.
Uuou II. CoLqm-,
Adjutant General.
J. 11. Gorham,
Commander in Chief.
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Atlanta, Ga., Sept 1st, 1890.—
Dear Sir: — A Confederate Re¬
union will ho hold in Atlanta, dur¬
ing the Piedinout Exposition. ’ The
dMq is Thursday, Oetolier 23d.
The Annual Meetiug of tho State
Association will he held at tlm Now
Canitol. at 10 o’clock a, ra.
Vvjll he a Grand fih.qti ti.ittle at tut
Exposition grourds, in which you are
invited to participate,
The vory Low rates given by <j*»- the
mrte » » wy #n»
tunity for your Camp to vinil Atlauttt»
filC AVOIulctful gVO’WUI^ ^ *
, 0 Jind SCO
me, best Exposition "that has ever
been held in the South,
mi J yj- CU‘I’fU13 _
!10 > Ot Georgia . wiliwel—
come yon as Brothers aud Comrades.
Atlanta will open wide her gates to
greet you, and the Piedmont Exposi¬
tion Company will rejoice to see
you.
A strong effort is being made to
bring together all the Confederate
Generals, and as many old soldiers as
possibles
On the evening of the same day,
at 8 o’clock, there will bo a Grand
Confederate Jubilee, at the New
Capitol, when Speeches will be made
by a number of Old Soldiers—God
blesfl them.
Yours vory truly,
Hugh H. Colquitt,
Adjutant General
Poodies and apples aro a disastrous
failnro In many parts of tho Union.
This is »ad nows to fruit lovers. Bnt
thero are yet two crops that will be
nbundout this foil, and those are sweet
potatoes and politics.
Tlwt S’aTmera’ Alliance of Maryland
havo taken pleasures looking to a practi-
col eoifftlon of thoir diffleulttea. They
propose to establish in Baltimore an
sgrionltural exehoogu which shall bring
producer and consumer into direct com¬
munication. In same such way as this
the question of tho traneportatkm of
/arm products must work itself out. It
Is our taodos of distributing goods te
consumers that Coot so much and eat up
tho profits through of all concerned. The good/
pass too many hands. Co-oper¬
ation ought to try its hand in this field.
Tho prospect is thnt applications foi
aid under tho dependent pension net will
exceed half a million. Tho now law
mereif- ptovitei peiwiona for eoldloreoi
their widows or children who aro de¬
pendent aud need aid. Thoee already
drawing pensions, those who are able tc
work for their living, or thoso who are
In government employ aro not entitled
to assistance cud r tho dependent ism-
lion act. It is said, however, that num¬
bers of persons already getting pensions
sr occupying good places in government
miplriy have applied for additional help.
Buffldeut to my they will uot Jtot to
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VOL XIV CARNESV1LLE, FRANKLIIS COUNTYr GEORGIA, SEPTEMBER 17,1890 NO 34
A CORRECTION.
W. C. Moss, of the Lavouia Nows
Rays that I made the statement that
there was only three or four first
grade teachers in Franklin county.
There must bo a defect in his
optics, I wrote no such statement for
I woqld consider it a stigma upon the
good teachers ot this county. Won¬
der it the Prof, makes such hlundort
in the school voorn as he in quoting
my si Moment?
J. M. Htilme.
The trwumry of tho Argentine Itopub-
Uo may bo empty, but tho rich soil will
still grow ns much ns ever, thero aro ex¬
actly ns many shoop, horses ftnfl cattle
in the country ns thero were before, and
every ono still holds it former value. 8o
let tho projfressivo republic gather up
and go on. There is nothing to hinder
her working out of tho load of debt slio
has piled up, but it will tako years, and
ihq must not go in any deeper.
pie Kemmler execution by. electricity
seems to haro been unnecessarily har¬
rowing. For weeks previous to the
event tho tiowspn-^ro of New York,
some of the prison ttfiVdnla «wi a te od
portion of the pqpukwo «f tho state ap¬
ing pear to have been tn a oaodltkm borhir¬
on hysteria. Several times the elec¬
trician in charge of tbo execution was
changed and there was a gouorot oxhl-
bition of nervousness and confusion that I
machineimpoesibfcx mado tbo perfect working A cool, <£ <lotorinine& Jbo ! j
head and stewly nerves aro woc^qi «
time like that. ad W' physicians
testify -j|hat after tb4' fli'st shock Kemm-
ler wn« nticoneckms.
TIk) horror that overcame thoeo pree-
eut ut tho sceiKi may have boon turgoly
due to tho irev/hess of it all. It may he
that hanging ts viewed with more
equanimity because we aro acountq^ed
agitate tbo p.ub t joct of doirg away
p ll0 d«ith penulty altogether and
rabatitutinu for Ufti. jM
SSi 3 ^ ^
_ wii t cf capital punishment:
From physical, humaaltarloa and ju«lk*Inl tstarjfV
poiuts tho time ia rlpo for tta cousiOeratlon. Wo
SK
m.i ttmt fanpHsnummt a*- lit" win be rtiu only
proper punlsbuiont iiwUmI to a murtiorv.r. Tliitite,
IrKloed, Uve ouly ratknutl uHtt-bvKl which ocienoi,
rccoaKnoDd.
r f nom whkJi
tw»doctm**m be preaohot
Robert. Purvis.
Aug. 4 a distinguished dtiren of Phih
adelphla, Robert Purvis, celebrahxl Iris
eightieth birthday. His name is fivmil-
iarly enough known even to this gonera-
tion as one of tho original American
abolitionists, of whom ho and tho poet
Whittier, along with Harriot Deechor
Stowe, are almost tho only survivors.
It is generally suppoaod thnt Robert
Purvis is a negro. This to a mistokre
Ey his mother’s side bo to tbe grandson
of a beautiful Moorish woman and a
German Jewish baron. Ou thin side is
the warm, impassioned oriental blood.
On his fatber'B sido ho to pure English,
fighting Anglo-Saxon; and Purvis has
tho two natures woll mingled. Not in
feature, manner or appeara.TK» hist ho
any look of tho negro. Ho has, Tbe
rhllndelphia Press says, "a skin so fair
that a Spanish beauty might onvy ft-; a
manner so gracious and cultured that a
scholar and poet might desire it/, a his¬
tory so remarkable that many of tbe
greatret men in this world would gladly
exchange it for tlteirs could tho records
of time bo changed.”
Purvis’ grandmother, tlKiugh a Moor,
woe betrayed into slavery l>y ft compan¬
ion, mi Arab girt. Therwe she woa
bought nod roecood by kind pooplo who
were struck with her remarkabte beauty
and stately manner. Purvis himeeif waa
bom to wealth. Ho might, if ho had
oboeen, oeeerted his white blood, and
been one of the first men nocioRy aud
otherwise in tlie country. Instead l»o
knowingly and deliberately cast his lot
with those who sought to froo the slave,
and lias bom to tills day the odium of
himself being a negro. His hnpnsnioned
oratory and remarkable personal beauty
at once attnr.tel the attention of oR tlie
early workers for autt-slavory. Along
with Garrison. Lucretia Mott, Wendell
Phillips and the rest, Robort Purvis was
mobbed, catted, threatened and Ills life
Bought more than anco. All of thoae
lived to note that whenever there is tre¬
mendous opposition to u cause to which
no radical immorality or wrong Is in¬
volved, that cause triumphs very quick¬
ly. Of some of his thrilling experiences
in slavery times Purvis remarks:
"There are moments wlwn any man,
nw hisllfe.*’ matter who ho is, cares nothing for
DEVOTED TO THE INTEREST* OF MtANKUN
FACTS AND
FANCIES,
FOUND HERE AND THERE.
lt. B* 'Tillman lias been nominate
for governor of S. C.
Aliases Julia and Fannie l’oule
are visiting relatives at Cromers
Mill.
1Ye want correspondents fi om oviwy
postoffice in the oounly, who will
write the news iu crisp, condensed
form.
Col. .Spencer Smith, who has been
m Cal. for two or three years, arriv¬
ed in CaVn^vUIe last Wednesday
night,
It is about (Free weeks till the
legislative contest A 1 ill be over, and
the candidates are warming up to
their work.
Wtni will it profit a man if ho gets
highest office within the gift of
Georgia at the sacrifice of honesty
aud selt-reqpect.
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Phfi Ti^vuucy CrroKi met at the
court house Friday night, and pre¬
pared a very interesting program
for next Friday night.
llm man who falls pqt with a
uowspsp.ef \>Ccause it prints some¬
thing he does not endorse, could just
.reasonahty ostracise the uioreh*-'
that deals in a hue of ~ .. t.
vvanl to - D ocds ho does
i >u rebase.
Tho Star of Bethlehem which
makes its appearance every 315
years, and which was piesent at the
birth oi Christ, can now bo seen in
the evening after 8 o’clock, a little to
tno south, ot east.
Miss Annie Bramlulte was in town
Friday. Miss Bramletto has been
teaching in Franklin county for
somo timo. It is probable that
she will attend Prof. Loony’s school
during the fall term. Itwould.be a
great blessing to tho people if most
of the teachers in the county would
do likewise.
The newspaper that is always on
the fence till it discovers the popu¬
lar side, and then ciawls down on
the big side, is not worth the pa¬
per it is printed on- As long as
we are able to wield a pen, wc
shall advocate the cause wo believe
is right, let the result bo what it
may. , We will tell the truth as we
see it. And if the peoplo are tired
ot truth and justice, political aud
individual honesty, and want fawn¬
ing demagoguery, they will have to
g° somewhere else to get it.
It has boon snggeoted tin** it will do
away with tho tedious roll ooH on votes
in the bouse of wpreeentafcires to intro¬
duce tbe method of registering and
counting votes by ek-ctrioity. A ma¬
chine could be perfected that would
count in an instant every vote for and
against a measure, and guard against
fraud at the same timo. A lock box
with a button attached to each mem¬
ber's desk would enable him to record
his vote.
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Photographs taken of tho planet. Mare
April 9 and tbe day following show whnt
astronomers declare io be » terrific snow
storm in progress. The storm la repre¬
sented by a white spot around the south
polo of the star. It is progressive, show¬
ing much heavier in tho latter of the
two seta of Impressions.
If tlw citloo keep on obtaining uow
counts they will havo long enough to
increase tn population up to tbo figures
they c»U for by tho time this thing w
ow*.
LITERARY CLUB
AND THE DANCE.
Km tor Tribus*— In your issue
of Sept 8rd, Mr. J. F. Shauuon
shoots again over one whole column
of your paper, and if he hits the
mark at a single shot 1 fail to discov¬
er it. Mr. Shannon seems to dote
considerably on the fact that 1 delay¬
ed so long about sending in my re¬
ply. I would have attended to the
matter sooner if 1 had known lie was
in such a hurry about it. The troub¬
le was I v as busy pulling fodder.
Besides my article was in Tub Trib¬
une office more than a week before
it was published.
Mr. Shannon says there is only
one .issue between us to-wit: “was
the disgusting performance, to(Ob-
server) at a meeting of the Literary
club ?” Oh, no that is not the issue.
If ;it is admitted that it was a dance
I have no more to say. lint lei us
see what the issue is. In my local
that appeared first in regard to tho
dance, l said: The members of the
Literary Society at a meeting a few
nights ago, engaged in a regular old
fashioned Viiginia dance. In Mr.
Shannon’s reply lie said: “There has
never been a dance in Central Acad¬
emy and I feel safe iu saying there
never will bo.” Now we have tlie
issue, was it a dance. But for the
sake of argument let us admit that
Mr Shannon has the issue down
nght. Lot us see what Prof- Cooper
had to say on that eventful night.
bor some cause, I know not yVu !
tho regular opening ««crc**a of the
dnh wer^omitted, and Prof Cooper
stopped to the front and satOi ’ iUc
u j.nu uts gont at to
have wo aro
V an w**, tion here to-night.
; aher myself m,r any of „,y pupils
have put out said •i i. iort w,. liv-o - •
have added only a few
regular program of the Literary c ut).
The Prof, further stated that his pu¬
pils had not lost a single lesson m
making preparation for the close.
Mr. Shannon says they had b rn
making prejmrati on for three months.
Pro'f. Cooper and most, it not nM his
pupils are members of the Literary
club.
Tho performance was not di-gust-
ing to me as Mr. Shannon says, I did
not think it such a bugger until he
called my attention to it.
The editor need not look for any
communication from me on the Alii-
auce or the protracted meeting, un .
less oue of those organ inations were
to engage in a dance. In that case,
I might possibly make notice of them.
I do not wish to charge, anything to
the Literary club but the dance, and
not that if it is not guilty. But why
does Mr. Shannon kick so furiously
at a local in regard to it ? If it was
a dialogue, it was not original. If it
was a dance of any other kind it was
not original. The truth is, there was
not any one there that night, that
. .
was capable ot getting up an ongi-
nal dance.
As to why I did not sign ray ra ne
to the article, I will say that is my
business. I am net afraid ><x ,n y
neighbors to know who I am, and
! the moBt ot them know who it is
without signing my name. If any
one is so very anxious to know who
it is they can easily find out.
I did not toll Mr. Bhannou I knew
nothing about the article whon he
asked me who wrote it, but I told
him I thought I kuejv. And when
ho asked mo who wrote it, I told him
that was a b cray horse of another col-
or. He said he was going to reply
aud 1 offered no objections, Ho is
a free man, and ibis is atreo country.
So you see thoro is as much old Pe-
ter iu Mr Bhauuon as myself.
OnSKRVKK.
Thero seems undoubted evidence that
the electric current at th@ execution of
Kemmler was feeble, owing to defective
working of the machinery. This was
one of the secrete that leaked out by ac¬
cident. There- ought to be, and doubt¬
less will he,'.-i thorough investigation of
why the machinery worked imperfectly,
AGAINST MR. WINN
But Not A Fawning
Demagogue.
W e clip the following from the
Caniesville Tribune:
\\ inn’s reasons tor refusing to meet
Pickett in a joint discussion might be
summed up in the one word roar.
Winn is an intellectual ignislatuus
lie has been thrust upon tho peup.o
of the ninth district by tho Alliance
party, llo lias said that he would
not bo bound by the Democratic
caucus, llo is not the choice of the
unbiased Democracy ot the ninth
district. lie is not a sound Demo¬
crat., and we would vote for Pickett
before we would support Winn.
The editor of the above paper
writes like a man who has been reud-
mg the Brunswick Times ami not
the Alliailoo Farmer. Our neighbor
should remember that fanners nrq
tlm mainstay of the state, and when
he defeats the Alliance, he defeats
the people and defeats democracy
If we lived in the ninth district
we
would certainly vote tor Winn as
every loyal Democrat will do. Woe
to the Democratic paper that bolts
thoparty now-Danielsville Monitor.
We don’t know Wa man writes
^ hag ^ m . }i ^ UmuM
^ Wo are not a man, hut w'e
find the Times brim full of health-
^ adi ,. cr Wfc flo not
deswas to IJftn'y Brow«;\ve
uot bcillg !cad , )y „, c
Alliance party; wo aro not support-
t he nominees of the ^ Al.fam*
1 J becanse ,, aro a
and do noUnid , .c-magoguery consist-
ent with « uud Democracy. There
. hmtago which is ours, and
the of
tage o .. n icm j o]d oi t* ,» i«au;ftinl . ,
speech. We me glad that fear 'of
the Alliance party has never deterred
us i tom condemning moves which
must be eoiideiilRod by every man of
any intelligence who has the back¬
bone to be honest, \Ys shall coh-
tiuue to speak the truth when we
speak nt all.
"Fanners’ Alliance” aro two words
conspicuously present in all political
now3 items this sumfher.
A loud call has gone across the water
for Cbauncey Depew to come homo and
straighteu out somo of his bad boys in
the New York Central railroad. They
took advantage of his absence to misbe¬
have.
English is tho tongue that will con¬
quer tho work-. Therefore let no not
talk it through our noses and buck in
our throats, but let uo open our lips and
pour it out as if we wore proud of it, ns
wo uro.
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A young Washington mother who has
to get up nights to attend to her littlo
child has discovered that if she walks
backward sbo will not bit her chins
againet tho furniture in the dark. There
is no patent on tho invention.
Tlm wavo of progTces lws curkd over
the Argentine Republic into Patagonia.
This country used to be described in
tlie geographieo an a wild and desolate
region inhabited only by savages. Pros¬
perous ranches and colonies now occupy
tts table lands, aud half a million Pata-
goniau sheep await the flret market.
Cardinal Gibbons ways of Sundayob-
servant*: "Sunday should be first of all
a day devoted to religious worship, and
sooond, to inuocont and lioalthful recrea¬
tion, as being tbo only (lay in which the
groat masses of the peoplo havo timo to
seek rolaxatiup. from their work
Tbo New Orleans Timos-Domocrnt
kat/wu how to extract philosophy from
failure. It tolls ua thnt tha Louisiana
orange crop is short this year one-half,
that tho Delaware pouches are destroyed,
and finally that Now Orleans herself i <
Importing onions from Egypt and potar
toes from Great Britain, and then re¬
marks: "The failure, however,, is merely
a temporary incident Wu shall prob¬
ably have a larger aercaoj anda larger
over"
OUR SCHOOL
Let Us Q.oo m 11
' It is gratifying to boo our people
taking school snoli lively interest in the
whioh opens the first Monday
in! October.
(Franklin county is appreciating the
fact that wo have secured the services
of oco of the finest educators in Geor¬
gia, torthe ensuing year.
.Competent assistans will be om-
ployed by Prol. Looney, and the mu¬
sic department will bo under the
supervision of Mrs. Looney who is
one of tlm (finest vocalists and pian¬
ists in the State.
It a expected that the attendance
will ruu up to more than two hundred
buforo the close of the first quarter.
Wo will have to build a new and bet-
tet school house. The present struc-
ttiio cannot accommodate more than
seycuty-five, and it has stood for
Jiftecu years a disgrace to oui civili¬
sation. There is not a shabbier
school building in any town in the
county. We have, boon so hide
bound about providing a commodious
school honso for Carnesvillo, that the
colored people are beginning to out¬
strip us in this line. Shame on us.
A county worth a way over a
million dollars, sports a school house
at its county scat, valued at $3QU1
A , town worth more than two hun¬
dred thousand dollars for fifteen years
has contented itself with a $300,
school building!
One oh the most illiterate counties
in .the mo-t illiterate state in the
lJ 1,1011 ran not afford to slumber while
the rest of mankind is up and do-
In this far , advanced age, edneatren
* th “ ^ "*"*'*’ ^
power. ‘
Th(>11 , et lls build up a good school
ll0 ^ ^ Carnesvillo and educate
Z' , 1 8 .
^- n ,
We have a fine teacher and a fine
(Ida f or tho work of an able I acuity
aml a , lnc Bclml ahuiul if wo on!y
^ 0 ,„. ghoiilder to tho wheel and
p , lslltile enterprise,
Aricfisoa.
It woe fitting that the United Utates
should designate one of hor faetest utsl
haiidsomeet cruisord to stop Ixmeath tlvj
shadow of tho Statuo of Liberty and ro-
cedve the remains of tho groat inventor
Ericsaai and convey them thenco to his
native Bwodea Of trim tt is to bo said
ho hardly received from any pooplo tho
recognition that ho doaorved during bis
Ufctlmo, therefore It la tho more appro¬
priate that, dead, he should have such
poor honors ca both his native and
adopted country can boetow on blin.
Eto wotlt rooms in New York city were
always Jealously guarded from visitors,
and their oocrote have never yot been
given to tho public. Bnt it is known
that up to Ids death he was deeply occu¬
pied with inventions which ho regarded
an important us any ho bad previously
given to tho world. An otllcxw tn tho
Swedish navy, ho woo promLnout at a
vory oorly ago, but ho resigned his place
hi givo himHolf wholly to m<«h»nlcs,
coming to America and making it hia
homo. In honoring hia remains tho gov-
ormuont pu-yu a compliment to all its
Scandinavian dtusoua, of whom, there
are hundreds of thousands.
Meautimo, of tho inventions wlioso
fruits mankind are now enjoying from
tlie hand of John Ericsson may bo men¬
tioned tho steam fire engine and tho re¬
volving turret battle slitp. In the latter
ho gave tho world what tho secretary of
tho navy designates iu his circular lottor
as "tho goon of tho modern battle
ship." Tho screw steam propolli* which
now driven votieols through tho water- at
f lip rate of WO miles a day was also
Ericsaon’fl invention. Tlirico honored
bo both his remains and his memory.
They will do it, tho ludics—smuggle
goods when they come borne from Eu¬
rope, and they nearly ulways got caught
at it, but that doos not stop thorn. If
they will pevwlst, however, at least they
ought to be vranied against concealing
amtndajid stuffs In. the bustle. That
article of femiaiuo uppure l is uow so out
of fashion thiit the vory sight of one ,1s
enough to awakv-u the sur.pic4>m of a
eruel custom house feminine in-ipoctor,
and ski uwkes r dtvo for it first thing.
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OCR AGE
DF DISHONOR.
I
Franklin is a prohibition county.
For nearly a decade.«fjycarsCarnes-
v|llo has boon a “dry town” in
practice as well as theory.
No people have witnessed more
btneficont influences of the prohibi¬
tion act, than tbo people who lived
iij Caruesville in the days when
dram shops wer o open, and were
still here in tho blessed days that
billowed their banishment
Suroly tlieru is uot one man with
a soul as big as a mustard seed,
who would raiso bis hand to aid in
filling poor housos, jails, or¬
phan asylums, insane asylums. But
tile man who strikes a blow at pro¬
hibition does this very thing. Aye
lie does more, ho aids iu popula¬
ting hell.
Now, drummers fiom anti-prohi¬
bition towns come into Caruesville
and sell spirituous liquors. Our
people don’t want whiskey here,and
tor that reason they voted it put.
It is a disgrace to our manhood, a
dishonor to tho cause ,whioti wo es¬
pouse, that we have so long permitted
the unholy tratlic.
flow much longer will Franklin see
tliu blessings of tbo grandest act that
ever breathed its benedictions above
our people, snatched from them?
In tho name of God and home, let
us make Carnesvillo the stronghold of
prohibition.
Let us make our town too hot for
whiskey drummers.
g. a. n.
When th. rovolutionary taffl.wlthw2L war ondacLe
aailliH . r , )f Amvvii ■ U nof i
tb-ir
the Cincinnati, to oedebrate their return
topWul pa»«tta. which in that fey
^-ultaxn- mwHj. benco tbo
name, IVy also thwlred to porpetewte
memory jailed of friendship that bad e»
muon# them, IkahkI togottrar m
they ware by "Oangera they had passed.*
The orgauiwition la continued among
their posterity to tide day.
When the Ann-rl on civil wur ended,
the common soldiers who had ftsigkt for
the 0nksi fttrtiKxl tbe sook<ty of the
Grand Army of Us itepubBc. At first
it wuu oeeupted < hloily with lAxiuratko
day coreinoukri, tbieo with tho proper
ixitennont oi devoosed rvoPbora' remains,
then with other thltifjsi Until finsfiy tt
came to Ainbraco in its eoxpo all matters
pertaining to tho welfare of the ex-
Union soldier. Ah tho old soldiers bo-
oomo tower in number tbo G. A. It. he-
! oomes mere imposing and influential.
Tho order will bo taken up and perpetu¬
ated whilo tbo republic elmll Inst liy the
Sons of Veterans. The time will come
when tho proudest hereditary honor a
man can have will ho that he is descend¬
ed from a veteran of tho Grand Army
of the Republic.
Thoro is good reason why the annual
reunions of tlio G. A. R. should beccme
more imposing with each year. Meu
who fought for thoir country in ’61, and
fought successfully, fc^vo fought tbo bat¬
tle of life since, and conquered just as
splendidly. When the G. A. H. ootne
together at their annual mooting, tha
magnificent purade which marks tha
opening of the encampment numbers in
its ranks senatora, congressmen, govern¬
ors of states, generals, famous orators,
lawyers, physicians and men of business
whose narnou uro known the world over.
Those successive, this honor, fame and
wealth, the gallant old boys of ’01 hare
gotood in tho twonty iive years siuce the
war ended. Among visitors present at
the late reunion in Boston were no leu
than five governors and oue ex.govumor.
Verily it was tho flowor of tho land
that oflored their lives to their country
in ’01. As timo goes on, and tho veterans,
With hair whitening each year, moot for
their animal rounion, bringing with
them those glorious old tom battle flags,
more and more honor will still be shown
(tw in. As thoir number grows lees their
fame will grow greater.
The original package dealers in meet
parts of tha Union havo signified that
they will obey tho United States law
which forbids thorn to continue business.
This is really very kind cf them.
c(ur co diish aristocracy may go, but
.Mi codfish bulla aro assured. Theef-
fort 0 £ tho United States fish commission
j ^ p^pagato codfish along tho shores of
Massachusetts havo boon entirely suo-
cessful