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YOL. II,—NO. 1.
CARROLLTON, GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 21,1884,
Coweta Correspondence.
Editor Free Press :-Mrs. Eliz
abeth Shackelford, mother of Mrs.
Newton Rewell, .died suddenly on
last Thursday evening just at dark
in her 85th year. She had been a
devoted
How it Happened-,What will Come of it.
Editor ttie Sun:—One of the
very good features of The Sun is
that it allows people to say their
say through its columns when it
does not concur in all their opin-
member or the Baptist i ions. I write on the run, for 1 have
church 68 years. Henry McLinde,: not till this moment accepted the
a pauper in the county farm of this j f act that Mr. Cleveland is elected,
county is quite feeble heis now in his I J have only time to gather up a few
86 year. lie has been a good citizen, waifs that float on the surface of the
lie is a member of the Primitive i stirring campaign which has just
Baptist church and on last Sunday
.some of his brethren held religious
services for his spiritual benefit.—
Mrs. James Roaning is sick, also,
Mrs. J. H. Smith, Dr. J. 0. Smith,
is her son and visited her last week.
She Is doing well at this writing.
There is more democratic joy
over here than Christian joy. Two
houses were burned in Newnan
last Friday during the torch light
procession, supposed to be the work
of an incendiary. Tom Barron
lost about 300 dollars worth of sew
ing machines and tools. I think
the women all ought to throw up
bonnets and give the editors and
news reporters a good supper. I
dont know whether poor
folks will have any more
money now Cleveland is elected
president. They cant have any
less. If they do they had better quit
living.
I think about the best law our
Legislature could pass would be
to law a to adjourn sine die on the
first of their meeting days, fcjuch
a law would lessen our taxes more
than any law since the war.
Mr. Dimmock of Carrollton isam-
ong us making Sabbath School ad
dresses. He is a faithful worker,
good looking and pretty. I sympa
thise with brother P. Chandler in
his sad misfortune and if he will
come over and go with me to minor
key singing at Luthersville on Sat
day before the fifth Sunday in this
month, I will do him all the good
I can. Come musicial brethren let
us help our distressed brother. We
know not how soon like calamities
may befall us. Let us live for each
other and not for self alone.
The weather is cool enough now
to get up weddings—its time to go
into winter quarters.
We are having greasy times at
our house eating sapling shoats.
Mrs. Ripples grand baby is here -
and the ways she takes on over it
is distressing to look at, for I am
loosing a many sweet'smack. There
is nothing like grand babies.
Yours with good appetite,
RIPJ’RES.
Who Elected Cleveland.
The revolt of Independent Re.
publicans against Blaine, resulting
in Cleveland’s election, had three
conspicious leaders.
George William Curtis went as a
delegate to the Republican Nation,
al Convention. He fought to the
last against the nomination of a
corruptionist, and when it was ac
complished he came home to re
new the fight against his election.
He made Harper’s Weekly one of
that large number of Republican
journals which repudiated the Re
publican candidate, and addressed
their sober appeal to the consci
ence and patriotism of Republican
readers. Mr. Curtis worthily led
the anti-Blaine Republican press*
Carl Schurz stood forth as the fit
type of that once foreign but now
thoroughly American element
which constitutes so large a percen.
tageofpur population. German by
birth, American by long residence
always a believer in the Republi
can party, but never so partisan as
not to place principle above party,
Mr. Schurz spoke to native and for
eign-born hearers alike with a
unique impressiveness. His long
series of speeches against Blaine in
nearly a dozen States left their in
effaceable impress oh the returns of
Tuesday’s elections.
Last, but not least—so far from
that, the greatest of all—came Hen
ry Ward Beecher. The Plymouth
pastor contributed to the canvass
the element of religious fervor.—
Broklyn Eagle.
Many farmers are deterred from
the use of mutton on their tables
from the wool taste of the meat
when killed at home. The reason
of this is almost wholly in the man
ner of dressing. To obviate this all
that is necessary is the exercise of
care. Allow the sheep or lamb no
food for 24 hours before slaughter,
but allow all the water it wants
Just at nightfall, having every
thing prepared, seize the animal,
hang up by the hind legs, cut the
throat, being sure to sever all the
arteries of the neck. As soon as
dead disembowel at once and then
skin quickly and without allowing
the wool to touch the flesh. Spread
the quarters to coo! the carcass as
quickly as possible, hang in a
sweet place and you will
troubled with woolly tasty,
ton.
passed.
1. Upon the whole, Mr. Blaine
proved to be a weak candidate. At
the opening of the spring the Re
publicans, owing to the blunder of
the Morrison bill, had every ad
vantage in their favor, especially
in the States of New York, New
Jersey, and Connecticut, whereon
the election was sure to turn. This
advantage was intensified by the
nomination of Mr. Cleveland, who
so demoralized his party that no
Republican candidate could have
thrown away these three pivotal
States except Mr. Blaine. Fie dis
tracted the Republicans even
worse than Mr. Cleveland did the
Democracy.
2. Mr. Blaine never got wholly
over the Mulligan-Fisher scandal.
It adhered to him all through the
canvass and kept a great number
of sober, conscientious men from
voting for him. I do not refer to
so-called Independents, nor to Stal
warts, but to adhering Republicans
who had no grievances, and did
not follow George William Curtis or
Roscoe Conkling. Enough of these
stood aloof from Blaine in New
York to defeat him.
3. Mr. Blaine was aa inconven
iently noisy candidate. He con
ducted the entire campaign on the
brass band system. He hunted for
his delegates to Chicago with a
brass band; besought the nomina
tion there with a brass band; he
struggled for his election under the
blare of an unbroken procession of
brass bands. He stunned and dazed
the country with an uproar and a
glare that made its head swim. To
ward the close of the contest this
method lost its novelty, it palled
on the public sense, and reflecting
people got tired of it. Moreovor,
at a critical stage of the canvass,
and at important points in the
doubtful States, his friends stood
waiting for him to appear and set
things agoing. This diverted at
tention from that kind of organiza
tion which leads voters straight to
the polls. In the light of Cleveland’s
small plurality it is not difficult to
see that Blaine finally threw away
his victory by the carnival he kept
up in the cities of New York and
Brooklyn in the last week of the
campaign. Close elections are not
carried at the last moment by wav
ing torches and shouting aloud in
the streets.
4. The Blaine men kept a sharp
eye on the Independents in New
York, but they overlooked the Stal
warts. It is within my personal
knowledge that the Blaine leaders
in this State did not seem to see
that this was, as the lawyer say,
the very pinch of their case. Per
haps they did not wish to see it,
but preferred a desperate push for
a verdict every dime of which
would have been theirs, rather
than an easier victory won by the
aid of hated coadjutors with whom
they would have had to share the
spoils. Well, they pretty much had
their way in the conduct of the
fight. From the moment Blaine
entered New York till the hour he
left it, he was, with few exceptions,
under the guidance of men who de
tested Roscoe Conkling and had
slaughtered Charles J. Folger. One
of the prominent Stalwarts said to
me only twelve hours ago: “These
Blaine Half Breeds thought two
years since that Grover Cleveland
was a good enough Governor for
us, and now, , we have
taught them that he is a good
enough President for them J” And
so, this third-term Stalwart is to
ride conspicuously in the proces-
that as small blunders as the Bur-
chard babble about Romanism soon
consumed it; much more the large
pieces carried off by the Prohibi
tionists. Indeed we know in the
rural counties that this alone suf-
From “Gilderoy.”
My letter on “fast girls” woke up
a hornet’s nest, and the hornets
have been buzzing about my ears,
and “peppering” it to me ever since.
The women, young and old, are
do llOt tell on me. 1 accidently left Lawyer’s Morals,
that awful book on the table. It is 1. A lawyer ought to be a gentle-
uot mine. I got it from Lizzie, and j man. His function as an attorney
Lizzie got it from Ann, and Ann ] gives him no dispensation to disre-
got it from Mary, to whom it be- gard the ordinary rules of good
longs. I must return it.” “No, my manners, and the ordinary princi-
ficed te destroy Blaine. His votaries j “hauling me over the coals” every- daughter,” said I, “bring it to me,” pies of decency and honor. He has
are burning with indignation at the j where I go. My only answer is, “If which she did, and I laid it in the no right to slander his neighbor, ev-
defection of the St. John contingent, you ar’nt hit, you ar’nt hurt.” I fire. “Now tell the girls what I i en if his neighbor be the defendant
In 1828 during the memorable tar- ! “That’s true,” they say, “Pm not have done, for your good and theirs, in a cause in which he appears for
iff struggle in Congress, John Ran- : one of them, and my girls are not.” | Two of the girls were disgraced, and the plaintiff. Fie has no right to
dolph, the eccentric Virginia Sena-[Some mothers don’t know where j all of them are dead. bully or browbeat a witness in
tor, said he hated the protective their girls are, nor what thev are ! Mothers, O mothers! for God’s cross-examination, or artfully to
policy so intensely that he would j doing, nor who they are with*; and sake, take time to see what your j entrap that witness into giving
at any time go half a mile out of
{ his way to kick a sheep. Judging
! from up-country utterances_ just
now, I think the admirers of Mr.
Blaine would go at least half a mile
out of their way to kick a Prohibi
tionist.
6. Well, what is to come of all
this? Will Mr. Blaine retire from
political leadership, as Henry Clay
did after his terrible defeat in 1884?
Will the Republican party dissolve,
as the Whig party did after its dis
astrous overthrow in 1852? I have
neither time nor space now to even
look at these interesting questions.
I only throw out the reminder to
exulting Democrats that for a
whole generation they have always
found the Republicans a very diffi
cult party to defeat, and that that
powerful organization may think it
will soon be able to rise pp in it
wonted strength and pull down the
administration of Grover Cleveland.
—II. B. S. in New York Sun.
Arkansas Pathos.
In one of the southern counties of
Arkansas recently a man was sen
tenced to be hanged; but a few
hours before the time of execution
a dispatch from the governor an
nounced that the sentence had been
commuted to imprisonment for
life. The large crowd of people
that had assembled to witness the
tragedy exhibited great disappoint
ment at the shameful action of the
governor, and threats that the
prisoner would be lynched were
made. Sometime during the
afternoon, when the excitement
was as its height, the sheriff re
eeived the following eommunica
tion:
“Mister Sheriff: As I am about
the only scholar of any note in this
great concourse of folks, I have
been app’inted to send this here
dock’inent expressive of our feel
in’s. We have come here to see a
feller hung, an’ we’re goin’g to see
him hung if tluir’s money enough
in the crowd to buy a rope. We
don’t know whuther lie’s g’ilty or
not, an’ we don’t kere a dried apple
doggon. That ain’t none of our bus’
ness. Our bus’ness is to see him
hung. We have paid ferriage over
the rever, an’ it ain’t right to dis-
app’int us. Thar’s many young wo
men in this here crowd who, if dis-
app’inted now, won’t never have
no mo’ confidence in man. It ain’t
right to cast a damper over young
lives. I know of one young fellar
of high character that has just mar
ried the putties kind of a gal on the
strength of fetcliin’ her to this here
shindig, an’if the thing don’t turn
out to be a success, blamed if I
don’t think she will apply for a di
vorce. That young fellar is me, an>
that young gal is my wife. Maybe
the governor of this here state
don’t know who he’s foolin’ with
We are mighty quiet, say-nothin’
sort o’ folks so long as nobody
treads on the coattails of our rights,
but w’hen that is done, the log
chains that hil old Satan fur a tlious
an’ years wouldn’t hold us for five
minutes.”—Arkansas Traveler.
The Mississippi steamboat men
have a general superstition against
all boats whose name begins with
the letter M. One captain says: “I
have never known a boat on the
Western waters that commenced
with the letter M that has not eith
er burned up, sunk or been blown
up, or been a financial disaster to
her owners.”
sion of his town that next week cel
ebrates Cleveland’s triumph over
Blaine. Remember, the hinge was
New 7 York, and 1,000 men turned it
at the polls. Last Saturday night
the Cleveland procession rolled up
Broadway, and Roscoe Conkling
stood on a balcony and divided its
cheers with the Presidential candi
date. As the rear of the tumultu
ous throng approached, Conkling
bowed and waved Ms hand signif
icantly toward Cleveland, wrapped
his cloak around him, and retired
from the balcony. It w T as meant
to be dramatic, v It wjvm^sar at
Philippi. The A election the fcyted
the scene /->Ve undoubtediy gaino
State fit advantage; but it remains
hoqrrtJ seen which faction will most en
joy the favor of the new chiefs who
are now to take control. Under
Welcome Home.
In the Mountains of Tyrol, it is
the custom of the women and chil
dren to come out when it is bed
time, sing their national songs un
til they hear their husbands, fath
ers and brothers answer them from
the hills on their return home. On
the shores of the Adriatic such a
custom prevails. There the wives
of the fishermen come down about
sunset and singing the first stanza
they will listen awhile for an an
swering melody from off the water,
and continue to sing and listen till
well known ypjfif&rqjBe Vj bft r ’YdJ ( on
the watery,, farmers would be tl/ed
one is impendent class on k earth.^ to
ta Advertiser. >;*#d-
\ be
The well broken saddle hoi
Kentncky has five different
jf you were to go and tell them how
their daughters act when away
from them they would not believe
you. No one is so blind as the one
who will not see. The mother of
“fast girls” and “pGrt misses” are
largely responsible for the conduct
of their daughters. In the first place
they dress them up too fine and
force them out to soon.
Girls in their teens run with
young ladies in their twenties; and,
when they ought to be timid, blush
ing misses, they are as bold as C*e-
sar and as brazen-faced as a brass
door-knob. Men, not gentlemen
particularly, widowers and oldish
young men, take undue liberties
with these misses because they are
children, and pretty soon the face of
the child is hard as a brickbat. I am
only a young man, quite a boy for
one of my age, but I’ve lived long
enough to see a number of little girls
start from the home of a foolishly
fond mother, and go step by step to
the verge of ruin.
Nothing is more certain than that
certain causes will produce certain
effects in the training of children as
well as in other matters. The good
and great men and women of the
world were not accidental charac
ters. In nearly every case the foun
dation of greatness was laid by a
good mother. Read history and
biography, and see for yourself
I’m afraid the mothers of “fast
girl” pay little or no attention to the
kind of reading their daughters do.
For twelve or fifteen years I have
kept my eyes open to the books in
the homes where I have visited,
particularly where there were “fast
girls” and dissolute boys. I rarely
or never fail to find that the children
have been eating the “apples of So
dom.” The “dead fly” is in the “pot
of ointment” kept in the library,
and on the center table at home.
Here is a flashy novel. Lets look
at it. It is a thrilling story, clever
ly well told; just the kind to cap
ture and captivate a girl innocent
and ignorant of the ways of the
world;but from first to last it is
tinctured and stained and tainted
with the theories and doctrines of
hell. I would rather my daughter
would take a full dose of strichnine
in a saucer of ice-cream. The ice
cream is good, but it is a vehicle for,
not an antidote to the poison in it*
The heroine elopes with a coach
man, or a gardener, or a German,
music teacher, or some other roman
tic but silly, foolish thing is done to
begin with. There is a jealousy on
the part of the wife and husband,
each jealous of the other; there are
two or three blood-curdling mur
ders, one or two suicides, and all
sorts and shapes of pure devilment
and sin; and, perhaps the heroine
goes down to infamy, and loses all
that is dear to pure womanhood
and after a long time comes back
to the paths of purity and makes a
model of piety and virtue. Moral:
“All is well that ends well.”
Rome of you may think I am
“shying at a shadow,” but if you
will go with me, I will show you
wagon loads of such books in a very
small area. “Do you tell the peo
ple the danger of these books ?’
Certainly I do, but generally my
word of caution comes after the
book has been read. About one fath
er or mother in a thousand will
hear me, and burn the books. I of
ten think and say to myself: “O
fools and slow of heart.” One time
in a Christian home I was sent to
sleep in their daughter’s room, and
the sweet girl and her mother
charged me to see how sweet and
neat it was. It was a gem and mod
el of order and neatness. Next
morning, while waiting for break
fast, I looked over the books on the
girl’s table. Many of them were
good, some indifferent, some dan
gerous and one, small, but thumbed
till badly worn, was the foulest and
vilest book, in print and pictures, I
ever saw. I would not print the
name of that book in the Wesley
an Advocate for my right arm. I
wrote on a slip of paper: “My dear
daughter, for God’s sake, and for
your own sake, and Tor the sake of
others, burn this book.” After
breakfast, that sweet girl, so doted
on by her parents,- with flushing
face, bated breath and steaming
eyes, took me to the parlc j and
said: 01 my brother, for Gc }’s sake
daughters are reading. They are | false testimony. Whatever the
young, innocent nnd ignorant’ and privilege of the court may be the
if you do not guide them the d<^vil lawyer who is guilty of much prac-
will. Mothers, don’t be in a hurry j tiees in court is no gentleman out
to get your daughters out into soci- of court.
ety. Mothers, whatever you do, J 2. A lawyer ought not to lie. He
don’t commit your daughters to ; may defend a criminal whom he
drunkards and libertines for mid
night moonlight drives, merely be
cause these men have money and
position in society. Marriage is one
thing, and a good thing, but a wo
man bought with money—“drop the
curtain! drop the curtain!”—Gilde
roy in Wesleyan Christian Advo
cate.
Facts about the Presidents.
Mr. Blaine or Mr. Cleve
land, as the case may
be will be the twenty-second
President of the country. Of the
Presidents, seventeen were elec
ted and four—Tyler, Fillmore,
Johnson and Arthur—succeeded to
the office from the Vice-Presiden
cy. Thomas Jefferson and John
Quincy Adams were elected by the
house of Representatives in default
of an election by the electoral col
lege, and Rutherford B. Hayes was
declared elected to decide the dis
puted election of 1876. Seven of the
Presidents—Washington, Jefferson,
Madison, Monroe, Jackson, Lincoln
and Grant were elected a second
time.
General Grant was the youngest
of the Presidents when inaugurated
being 47; Pierce and Garfield were
49; Polk and Fillmore, 50; Tyler, 51;
Lincoln 52; Van Buren and Taylor,
55; Washington and Johnson, 57;
Jefferson, Madison and John Quin
cy Adams, 58; Monroe, 50; John
Adams and Jackson, 62; Buchanan,
65; Harrison, G8. Garfield died the
youngest, not having reached his
fiftieth birthday; Polk was 54 at his
death; Lincoln, 56; Pierce, 65; Tay
lor, 66; Washington and Johnson,
67; Harrison, 68; Tyler and Monroe,
73; Fillmore 74; Buchanan, 77;
Jackson, 78; Van Buren, 80; John
Quincy Adams, 81; Jefferson, 83;
Madison, 85; John Adams, 61.
The honor of furnishing Presi
dents has not been evenly distribu
ted among the States, Virginia,
Mcissachussetts, Tennessee, New
York, Ohio, Louisiana, New Ilam-
shire, Pennsylvania and Illinois
furnishing all the incumbents so
far. If Cleveland is elected he will
be the third President from New
York—Van Buren and Arthur be
ing his predecessors—and if Mr
Blaine is elected he will be Maine’s
first contribution to the White
House.
It is somewhat remarkable that
no member of the United States
Senate should ever have been elec
ted to the Presidency at the time
of his incumbency. Disregarding
the fact that experience in this
body ought to fit a man for the high
office, the people have ignored the
Senators. The army has furnished
a large number of Presidents, and,
with the exception of Hancock,
McClellan and Scott, no military
man nominated for the office has
failed of election. Washington ow
ed his elevation to his success in the
field; Jackson’s record in the war
of 1812 was the wave which* lifted
him into the White House, and
Harrison, Ta.vlor, Pierce, Grant,
Hayes and Garfield wore the epau
lets of a general bsfore they were
honored with the chief magistracy
of the nation.
There are now two ex-Presidents
living—Grant and Hayes—and af
ter the 4th of March Mr. Arthur
will make a third.—Baltimore
Herald.
Why He Went.
“I thought you told me you did
not intend going to the circus, Mr.
Jarphly ?” remarded Mr. Goshorn,
interrogately.
“Well, you see, I had to,” replied
Jarphly, apologetically. “I grew
tired of them years ago. They’ve
lost all fnterest to me. They’ve got
to be wearisome and monotonous;
but the children’s fond of them, just
like you and I used to be when we
were children, and my little boy
wanted to go, and I didn't have the
heart to disappoint him.”
“But I didn’t see any little boy
wfth you.”
“No, poor little, fellow he was la-
ken sick, and I thought Pd go, so
I could tell him how everything
looked, ahd not disappoint him al
together, he’d set suen store by it,
you see,”
knows to be guilty, but he may not
say to the jury that he believes this
criminal to be innocent. He may
not in any way intentionally con
vey to the jury the impression that
he believes the man to be innocent.
He may not, in his plea, pervert or
distort the evidence so as to weak
en the force or conceal the mean
ing ot it. He is a sworn officer of
the court, and his oath should bind
him to the strictest veracity. It
would be quixotic to expect him to
assist his adversary, but his obliga
tion to speak the trtith outranks
every obligation that he owes to
his client. It is notorious that some
lawyers who would think it scanda
lous to tell a falsehood out of court
in any business transaction lie
shamelessly in court in behalf of
their client, and seem to think it
part of their professional duty.
That bar of justice before which by
their professional obligations they
are bound to the most stringent
truthfulness is the very place
where they seem to consider them
selves absolved from the common
law of veracity. So long as the le
gal mind is infected with this dead
ly heresy we need not wonder that
our courts of justice often become
the instruments of' unrighteous
ness.
3. A lawyer ought not to sell his
services for the promotion of injus
tice and knavery. Swindlers of all
types are aided by lawyers in their
depradations upon society. The
mock broker, who operates in Wall
street, and strips green country
peculators of their hard-earned_
gains by the most nefarious ro_
guery, always has an able lawyer as
his accomplice. The gentleman by
whose agency a nest of these ras
cals was lately broken up, says:
“The great difficulty in stopping
swindles of this class is that the ras
cals make enough money to be
able to employ the best of legal ad
vice, and are, moreover, careful to
do nothing which will render them
liable to arrest.”. This is the testi
mony of a lawyer, Mr. Ralph Oak
ley, of Ney York. “The best of le
gal advice” can be had, then, in
New York city for such purposes.
It would be more difficult to be
lieve this if its truth were not so of
ten illustrated in the stupendous
frauds and piracies of great corpo
rations, all of which are carefully
engineered by eminent lawyers.
Our moddern “bucaneers” —our
brave railroad wr^kers—are in
constant consultation with distin
guished lawyers. They undeniably
havo “the best of legal advice” in
planning and executing their bold
iniquities.—November Century.
Good Society.
Many parents who have sons and
daughters growing up are anxious
for them to get into good society.
This is an honorable anxiety.
Parents,your daughter is in good so
ciety, when she is with girls who are
pure and true-hearted; who are not
vain and frivolous; who think of
something else besides dress, flirt
ing and marriage; between whom
and their parents there is confi
dence; who are useful as well as or
namental in the house; who culti
vate their minds, and train their
hands to useful and skillful work
manship. Neither wealth nor fine
clothes make good society—they
are counterfeits without character
to back them. Intelligence, simplic
ity, modesty and goodness are the
true coin—and the same rule, with
manliness, applies to boys.—Union
Recorder,
$1.00 A YEAR.
Result of License.
License me to sow the seed of
poverty and shame all over the
community! License me to coin
money out of widow’s sighs and or
phan’s tears, and the blood of souls!
License me to weave cords of habit
about strong men and lead them
coptive, bound to the chariot wheel
ofde;aon rum! License me to make
Widows and orphans! License me
to write the words “Disgrace” upon
the fair foreheads of innocent chil
dren! License me to break the
hearts of fond mothers and fathers,
whose sons I will bring to poverty
and shame, and of whose daughters
I will make drunkard’s wivesl Li
cense me to take bread from hun
gry children, and rob them of shoes
for their little feet, and comfortable
clothes for their shivering forms!
License me to befog the mind, par
alyze tne reason and benumb the
conscience of your legislators, and
thus corrupt the very ^fountains of
your political life and prosperity!
License me to incite redhanded
murder to work of destruction, and
turn loose upon society a whole
brood of evils that will fill your jails
and penitentiaries, poor-houses and
asylums! License me to aid in the
work of sending one hundred thou
sand of our American citizens down
to drunkard’s graves every year!
Throw around me the protection of
law, while I poison the bodies, en
feeble the minds, and ruin the souls
of my fellow-men.—Catholic Tem
perance Advocate. *
Salt Springs Leased.
Yesterday Mr. E. W. Marsh, 01 m
the firm of Moore & Marsh, leased
the now famous Salt springs,on the
Georgia Pacific railroad, tor a term
of fifty years. In this venture Mr.
Marsh is associated with Mr. Ash
ford, the firm’s book-keeper. They %
will proceed at once to a full inves
tigation of the merits of the"water
and if it turns out as is expected
Mr. Mar.-ffi will build one of the fi
nest hotels in the south near the
springs, and will dot the country
around with cottages. The lease of
tee spring includes fifty acres of
l and, and that ground will be made
a most lovely spot. Mr. Marsh in
fo nds, if the water is what he
thinks it is, to spare no £ai*r>‘»ar
expense in pushing Salt Springs ^
forward to deserved prominence.
The chances are that Atlanta will
thus have a great health resort
at her doors.—Constitution.
P
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It is a common complaint, says
Scribner’s Magazine, that the farm
a rd farm life are not appreciated
by our people. We long for the more
elegant pursuits, or the ways and
fashions of the town. Bat the farm
er has the most sane and natural
occupation, and ought to find life
sweeter, if less highly seasoned than
any other. He alone, strictly speak
ing has a home. How can a man
take root and thrive without land.
He writes his history upon his
field. How many ties and resources
he has; his friendships with his cat
tle, his team, his dog, his trees, the
satisfaction in his growing crops, in
his improved fields; his intimacy
with nature, with bird and beast,
and with the quickening elemental
forces. Cling to the farm, make
much of it, put yourself iafo> it, -be
stow your heart and your brain up
on it, so that it shall savor of you
and radiate your virtue after your
day’s work is done!
Time’s whirligig has spun out a
pretty thread of poetic justice in
the vote by which the democratic ’
party takes its revenge for the /
great fraud of 1876. It has elected
a president from Samuel J. Tilden’s
state and elevated to the vice-pres
idency the Indiana statesman who
was defrauded of that affice eight
years ago. The victory, too, is won
by carrying identically the same
states which cast their electoral
votes for Tilden and Hendricks. It
was New York, New Jersey, Con
necticut and Indiana, with the
states of the south, which elected
Tilden and Hendricks and which
now elect Cleveland and Hen
dricks.
Signs of a Hard Winter.
We may look for an extraordina-
severe winter if there is any virtu©
in the Indian hornet sign. All the
nests we have found this year in
the woods are built on the ground*
from
Texas bids fair to become the
wonder of the world. Her increase.
in population and wealth is beyond . v en are suspended
all precedent in the history of any tj f e ‘ s U P ** * 8 a ^ f° r *
country. In 1880the census show | ’ nI,d wint * r ‘ Our old prognostiea-
that the total valuation ot property , ors tnat they have never
in the State was $311,000,000. The j £ no ' v ” thw 81gn
returns this year show the sum to k ul T ost.
be $583,000,000. It is stated that the
immense immigration which began
to faiL—Middle-
ten years ago is kept up to-day.
This season’s yield of apples is re
ported as enormous. Throughout
New England, it is stated, great
quantities of cider and yin ”
The Sun hints that a great deal of
fun remains ahead. There is i
in this. When the rival
for country postoffices 1
in to entertain