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ROBERT S. HOWARD, )
Editor and Publisher. V
VOLUME 11.
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IS HEADQUARTERS for good reliable goods, and the Leader in Low Prices. My stock of General Merchandise is the
largest I have ever carried, and the most extensive and best selected stock ever brought to Gainesville. My
lOry Groocls ZOojp^ir'tiA'YxeDra.l;
Is full and replete in every line. The most elegant line of DRESS GOODS. SILKS, SAI INS. PrAI I)S, SHAPES and
DROCADES ever offered here. A superb line of FLANNELS, VV ATLR 1*110(MS, CASIMLLES, JEANS, CLOIIIS, Ac.
My stock of LADIES’ CLOAKS will equal that of every house in the city together. This line is complete in ail grades.
Every lady can be suited here. My
Glove, Hosiery and Corset Departments
Are full of (he best goods and lowest prices. In Ml LLINERY, II ATS. RIBBONS and TRIMMINGS, for ladies wear, 1 have
an elegant line, with MISS MARY DEADEN a superb Trimmer, at the head of this Department.
ClotlaiiTg' 2 Olotitiing: 2
In my Clothing Department may always ho found everything pertaining to a first-class clothing store. This stock is uncqual
cd in this section. “ KEEP’S” Shirts, Collars and Cutfs a specialty. No fancy prices. 1 have the largest stock of Boots and
Shoes, for Gents. Ladies and Children, ever offered to the trade in Northeast Georgia. Ziegler’s Shoes, and other noted brands
in full lines. My stockus complete in every department, and as to prices I will guarantee to sell anything in my stock as low
as similar goods can be bought in Atlanta or Athens, or any other market. All 1 ask is an opportunity to convince you.
Come to Gainesville. Come to see me. C. W. DuPRE.
P. S.—l buy all kinds of Country Produce at highest market prices.
£egnf ilduccliscmcuts.
Jackson Sheri]]’’s Sale.
WILL be sold, before the Court House
door in the town of Jefferson, .Jack
son county, Ga., on the first Tuesday in
April next, within the legal hours of sale,
to the highest bidder, the following prop
erty, to-wit:
The remainder, or reversion, after the
termination of the life estate in dower of
Orra Morgan, widow of William Morgan,
(she being between 70 and 7.) years ol agc)
in the following described property : The
tract of land whereon Orra Morgan now
lives, containing four hundred acres, more
or less, adjoining lands of John M. Burns,
J. M. Wilhite and others, on the road
from Jefferson to Harmony Grove, about
one mile from Apple Valley P. 0., on
which is a good two-story dwelling house
with eight rooms, good barn and stables,
with other out-buildings ; three or four
good tenant houses ; about forty acres of
good bottom land, on Parks’ creek, in cul
tivation ; about fifty acres up-land in cul
tivation; about one hundred acres in for
est, balance in pine ohlficlds. Said place
about three and a half miles from Jeffer
son. Levied on as the property of the
estate of William Morgan, dec’d, to satis
fy two ti. las., one issued from the Supe
rior Court of said county in favor of John
Simpkins, Ordinary, for the use of John
M. Wilhite, against A. T. Bennett, Ad
ministrator, de bonis non, with the will of
William Morgan annexed, as principal,
and Jackson Bell as security. The other
in favor of A. T. Bennett as Guardian of
William Morgan, against A. T. Bennett
as Administrator, de bonis non, with the
will of William Morgan annexed, issued
from the Court of Ordinary of said county.
Property pointed out by A. T. BenneU,
controller of fi. fas. Written notice given
to Orra Morgan and D. W. Jarrett, ten
ants in possession, and to A. T. Bennett,
Administrator, de bonis non, with the
will of William Morgan annexed, defend
ant in li. fas., as the law directs.
T. A. MoEL HANNON, SIP if.
Postponed Sheri])”s Sale.
WILL he sold, before thcGourt Douse
door in the town of Jefferson, Jack
son county, Ga., within the legal hours of
sale, to the highest and best bidder, at
public outcry, on the first Tuesday in
April, 1862. the follojving property, to
wit:
A tract of land ’lying in said county of
Jackson, on the waters of Mulberry river,
adjoining lands of Edwards, DeLapcrriere
and others, containing one hundred and
twenty acres, more oi less, known as the
Weatherly place. On said place arc rea
sonably good improvements, and a fair
proportion of open, cultivated land, and
old field pipe and forest timber. Levied
on as the property of Hugh R. Bernard
and William A. Weatherly, to satisfy a
mortgage fi. fa. in favor of Wesley Nance,
Executor of John Seay, deceased, against
said Hugh R. Bernard and William A.
Weatherly, issued from Jackson Superior
Court. Levy made by John J. Wallis,
burner Deputy Sheriff. Property pointed
out in said fi. fa.
T. A. M<. EL DA NX ON,
Sheriff J. C., Ga.
QEOItGIA, Jackson County.
Whereas, J. R. Brasclton. Guardian of
the persons and property of Johnson
Cowan and Helen Cowan, minors of S.
Cowan, dec'd, tenders his resignation as
such Guardian, and suggests the name of
T. L. Bryson as a suitable person for said
trust—
This is to cite all concerned, the next of
kin, to show cause, if any, at the April
term, 1882, of the Court of Ordinary of
s; "d county, why said resignation should
n'. . he accepted and said T. L. Bryson be
appointed instead. Guardian of said mi
nors.
Given under my official signature, this
March Ist, 1882.
11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
QEORGIA, Jackson County.
M hereas, 8. P. Higgins, Administrator
<'f Mary Simmons, dec’d, represents to the
t'ourt that he has fully and completely ad
ministered said deceased's estate accord
’ll to law, and is therefore entitled to a
discharge from said administration—
l iiis is to cite all concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if an}” they
ran. at the regular term of the Court of
"rdioary of said county, on the first Mon
day in April, 1882. why Letters of Dis
mission from said estate should not be
granted the applicant.
Liven under my official signature, this
January 4th, ISS2.
11. W. BELL, Ord'y.
QEORGIA, Jackson County.
M hereas. John Simpkins, Administra
tor of the estate of J. It. Holliday, dec’d,
as,;s to be allowed to resign said trust,
and suggests the name of Mrs. Hol
-11 >av (the widow of said deceased) as a
person for said trust—
I his is to cite all concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any, at
the Court of Ordinary of said county, to
m held on the first Monday in April, 1882,
7 applicant should liot be relieved
Holliday appointed in his
Given under mv official signature, this
March Ist, 18S2 * -
f „,. W- BELL, Ord'y.
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Jackson County.
Whereas, 11. -J. Randolph, Sr., Admin
istrator of the estate of John Lancaster,
late of said county, dcc’d, tenders his re
signation as such Administrator, and asks
that some other suitable person be ap
pointed in his stead —
This is to cite all concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any, at
the regular term of the Court of Ordinary
of said county, on the first Monday in
April, 1882, why the applicant should not
be relieved of said administration and
some other fit and proper person appoint
ed.
Given under my official signature, this
March Ist, 1882.
11. W. BELL, Ord’y.
/GEORGIA, Jackson County.
tjr
Whereas, it being represented to me
that Mary Thurmond (wife of J. E. Thur
mond) died in said <*bunty intestate, leav
ing an estate, which estate is unrepresent
ed and not likely to be represented—
This is to cite all concerned, kindred
and creditors, to show cause, if any, at
the regular term of the Court of Ordinary
of said county, on the first Monday in
April, 1882. why the administration of
said estate should not be vested in the
Clerk of the .Superior Court of said coun
ty. or some other fit and proper person.
Given under my official signature, this
March Ist, 1882.
11. IV. BELL. Ord’y.
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Oct. 21, 1881. Athens, Georgia.
JEFFERSON. JACKSON COUNTY, GA.. FRIDAY, MARCH 31. 1882.
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There are 100 per cent, more di
vorces in Philadelphia yearly than in
ail}’ other city of the Union.
A young couple were baptized to
gather at Trousdale, Tenn., and im
mediately afterward were married, in
their dripping garments, by the same
clergy man.
Nicodemus is a negro colony of JG7
families in Graham County. Kansas.
There are two churches, two schools,
and several stores ; but the remarka
ble fact about Nicodemus is the entire
absence of money. All the trading is
done with the produce of the fa; ms.
A story is told of a German shoe
maker, who. having made a pair of
boots for a gentleman of whose finan
cial integrity he had considerable
doubts, made the reply to him when lie
called for the articles: “Der pools is
not quite done, but der beel isii made
out.”
The Rev. ICz-a Window, of Boston,
whose forgeries and flight made a great
stir several years ago. is still living in
Buenos Ayres, lie lived there awhile
unidentified, under the name of Low.
and became superintendent of a Sun
day school; but the church turned
him out on Searing who and what he
was. Jle married a wealthy woman,
became a successful politician, and is
now living sumptuously.
Two masked robbers were lying in
wait for a lumber merchant at Russia
ville, lnd M on a day when he was
known to be carrying a large sum of
n oney from his mill to his residence.
A clerk came along first, and they
mistook him for their intended victim.
When they discovered the blunder,
one wished to rille the young man’s
pockets, but the other insisted that it
was foolish to waste time on him. The
highwaymen quarrelled over t lie ques
tion. and when they came to blows the
clerk escaped, with his employer’s
wallet safe in his pocket, it having
been intrusted to him because the
owner was too ill to go out.
All the merits of the eucalyptus tree
have not hitherto been recognized.
Reports have recently come from
Australia that its leaves are the special
abhorrence of nil insects which prey
upon fruit trees, against whose depre
dations they furnish a perfect protec
tion if the ground beneath bo only
strewn with them. If, however, it be
desired to make assurance doubly sure,
it is only necessary to bind strips of
eucalyptus bark around the trunks of
the fruit trees. Those are lire first
reports and experiments now going
on in Australia and in South Africa
will soon show whether they are true
or not.
An English resident of Odessa, who
has lived there many years, writes
to the London Daily Net's that the? re
ported outrages upon Jews in Russia
are grossly exaggerated. lie says
that the number of persons who have
been tried for taking leading parts in
these riots could scarcely have been
less than four hundred. They were
all tried publicly, in open courts,
whether civil or military. And though
several were found guilty of having
caused the death of Jews, nothing e e
seems to have been proved about
charges of rape. Had this crime, or
any of the more horrible and excep
tional crimes set forth in the indict
ment, been really perpetrated, the pa
pers would have noticed it.
A singular adaptation of t he railway
engine has just been made in Russia.
Information having been given to the
authorities at Alexandrove, on the
Polish frontier, that the. locomotive of
the express leaving that station for
Warsaw had been ingeniously convert
ed into a receptacle for smuggled
goods, was carefully examined during
its sojourn at the station. Though
nothing was found wrong, it was
deemed advisable that a Custom House
oflfreial should accompany tire train to
its destination, where the engine fur
nace and boiler were emptied and
deliberately taken to pieces. In the
interior was dFcovcred a secret com
partment. containing 123 pounds of
foreign cigars and several parcels of
valuable silk. Several arrests were
made, including that of the driver, but
his astonishment at finding the engine
to which he had so long been accus
tomed converted into a hardened of
fender against the laws was so genu
ine that he was released and allowed
to return to his duties.
FOR THE PEOPLE.
HuYcaAcaV WvscyVYo-ww
The Vice of Contentment.
AN ESSAY.
Who ever 1 am, whatever my lot,
Wherever I happen to be.
Contentment always shall hallow the spot
That Providence orders for me.
[ Tapper.
Honest John Tompkins, the hedger and
ditcher,
Although he was poor didn’t want to be
richer.
For all such vain wishes in him were pre
vented
By a fortunate habit of being contented.
[ English Poem.
Mr crown is called content: __
A crown it is that seldom King’s enjoy.
—[Shakspeare (an Englishman).
It is seldom that I attempt a real,
solid, instructive and philosophical
essay, but there are occasions when
all personal feelings must be set aside
and the call of Duty, with a big D,
attended to. I feel that I am called
upon to lift up my voice against a
great and growing vice. It is a vice
that has public opinion to back it.
Tiiis vice is preached from the pulpit
of the minister and taught from the
desk of the schoolmaster. It is the
vice of contentmei t. Contentment
and happiness are held to be synony
mous. Perhaps they are. I remem
ber seeing a beautiful and expensive
chromo (§1 without the frame) entitled
Ilappy and Contented.” It repre
sented a mud-puddle in summer in
which a lordly hog luxuriously re
clined. I wish to warn the youth of
tills country against being contented.
Shun contentment as you would saw
ing curd-wood. All of our improve
ments come from discontent. If our
ancestors had been con to II t to go on
foot, a wagon would never have been
made; if our forefathers had been
contented with the wagon, we would
never have had the locomotive ; and
if we had been contented with the lo
comotive, there never would have been
any Fontaine engine going over 100
miles an hour, and taking it easy, al
that.
Years hence, some person, who is
now a dissatisfied infant at school,
will not be contented with 100 miles
an hour, and lie will invent something
that will make the engines of that dis
tant day seem like oxen.
The moment the terrible vice of
contentment seizes a man all progress,
as far as he is concerned, stops. A
decade or so ago I read a story* to the
effect that a person advertised to give
a city lot to any man who was truly
contented. Whenever a man applied
for the lot, and certified that he was
thoroughly 7 contented, the advertiser
would say, ” Weil, if you’re contented,
what do you want with my lot?”
That staggered the contented man,
for he knew that all who are hopeless
ly contented had no desire to improve
themselves or better their lot—by ad
ding another to it.
Flow I pity the woman who is mar
ried to an utterly contented man!
Picture to yourselves but no ; sad
ness overcomes me at the very thought
of her condition. These tears —but
enough of this.
Looking back, adown the vistas of
the years that are past, until the path
that my footsteps have trod fade into
the dim obscurity of urremerabered
ness—now I hope you’ll admit that’s
rather fine—but as I was saying, look
ing back, etc., I sec along the road
many victims of contentment. They
stay 7 just where the dry rot of content
struck them. They are hopelessly
stranded on the shallows of complete
contentment.
Terrible as are the results of con
tentment in the individual, they are
infinitely more disastrous when a com
munity is affected. It is an awful
thing when a city gets contented.
Detioit showed signs of it awhile ago,
but the active neighbor
ing places enabled this city to throw
off the fatal lethargy. Auburn, ihe
Deserted Village, was contented, and
its pastor was “passing rich on forty
pounds a j’ear.” If the man who of
fered Chicago to that other man for a
pair of boots had been contented, and
didn’t yearn to sell out, tire place
would have been a swamp to this day.
Still that argument is a sort of boome
rang, for no doubt the swamp is pre
ferable to Chicago, and many proba
bly wish that the man had been con
tented.
A man, or a village, or a town, or a
city that becomes content stops short,
never to go again, till the dread dis
ease is overcome. Therefore, young
man, if you are a farmer, don’t be c in
tent; strive to be a better farmer. If
you are a carpenter, don’t be content;
if you are a lawyer, don’t be content;
if you are a journalist—but then, if
vou are a newspaper man there is no
danger of your being content.
Many Miserable People drag them
selves about with failing* strength,
feeling that tiiey are steadily sinking
into their graves when, by usiuo
Parker’s Ginger Tonic, they would
find a cure commencing with the first
dose, and vitality and strength surely
coming back to them. See other
column.
*• Before I was married,” said Mr.
Wiggs, with a mournful wag of the
head, “ I used to think I’d like to be
a great poet.”
“ And what would you like to be
now ?”
“ Anything,” he answered solemn
ly, “ that could run faster than a mad
woman.”
The GiiDeau Scaffold.
IIOW TIIE ASSASSIN OF PRESIDENT OAR
FIELD WILL BE EXECUTED.
The scaffold upon which Bedford
and Quecman were executed will be
used for* strangling Guitcau. It is
standing in the north wing of the jail,
and has been painted a drab shade.
It is of Georgia pine and stands twen
ty-one feet in height. The cross-beam
is of six by eight timber (strengthened
by a heavy top piece for double work),
supported by timbers eight inches
square. The platform is thirteen feet,
from the ground, and is made of two
inch hoards, on stout joists, morticed
and bolted, and is eleven feet square.
It is supported by six eight-inch up
rights in addition to those supporting
the cross-beam. About three and a
half feet above the platform there is
a surrounding rail. The trap is five
feet square, framed in the center of
the platform, and is flush with it. It
is attached to tiie platform by two
heavy strap hinges, and is held in
place by the ends of the U shaped
iron. At the bottom of the iron is at
tached a small, but strong rope, pass
ing over a pulley at the back of the
structure into a box about four inches
square, througji which the rope runs
into one of the cells, where some per
son, unknown to outsiders, at the sig
nal from Die warden (usually a motion
with a handkerchief) gives the fatal
pull. The platform is reached by a
flight of steps with a railing on either
side.
To complete the structure and make
it ready for use, it is necessary that
the rope should he attached and the
hinges* oiled. For a single hanging it
is customary to use a rope of inuniibi
seven-eighths of an inch in diameter
and tliirty feet long. It is not the
custom here, as in some cities, to use
a rope specially made for tlie purpose,
and have it prepared outside the build
ing, for the ollieers of the jail here are
always equal to the occasion. In fact,
with the exception of the manufacture
of tiie rope and iron, the structure has
been made in the building. There
are on hand now several ropes pur
chased for hanging purposes, and re
eently several have been received at
the jail contributed by persons anxi
ous to have them used on Guitcau.
When it is necessary to “ rig” the
scaffold a rope will be selected and
the hangman’s knot vrill be made by
one of the guards, who is quite an ex
pert at it. Then it will be run through
the center hole of the cross-beam,
thence to the side, passing down one
of the uprights to a cleat on the side,
where it will be made fast. Generally
the slack is four or six feet, and, com
mcncing near the knot, the rope is for
three or four feet annointed with soap,
that it may slip easily. In some parts
of the country tallow or other grease
is used, but General Crocker and his
associates prefer the soap. There is
also on hand a full supply of small
rope to use in pinioning the arms and
legs of the victim of the law, and
black caps to draw over his face. It
is customary to rig the rope the day
before the execution, and test it by
letting drop a bag of sand weighing
from 30 to 40 per cent, more than the
doomed man. Never having met with
an accident or mishap in hanging, the
jail officials look on this test as al
most useless; but it is always made
as a matter of precaution. To make
sure, however, of carrying out the
sentence within the hours specified
therein (usually two hours being al
lowed), the prisoner is brought out in
time to allow fifteen or twenty minutes
for services prior to the trap being
sprung, and with thirty minutes or
more to spare besides. Thus, should
there be a mishap of any kind, there
would still be ample time to prepare
and rig another rope, if necessary.
A Good Housewife.
A good housewife, when she is giv
ing her house its strung renovating,
should bear in mind that the lear in
mutes of her house are more precious
than many houses, and that their sys
tems need cleansing by purifying the
blood, regulating the stomach and
bowels to prevent and cure the dis
eases arising from spring malaria and
miasma, and site must know that there
is nothing that will do it so perfectly
and surely as Hop Bitters, the purest
and best of medicines. —Concord (A T .
II.) Patriot.
“ Komogeny.”
[Atlanta Constitution.]
Ilomogeny” seems to be coming
to life again. I thought it was dead,
ard the word about . Sena
tors Edmunds and Telior and Jones,
of Nevada, have just waked up from
a long dream and come to the conclu
sion that this is a white man’s govern
ment, and they have drawn the color
line and say nobody else is capable
of running the republican machine but
the old original genuiue Anglo-Saxons.
They talk boldly about homogeniety,
people of the same race, and
say that different races can’t live
together in peace, and they quote
from Mr. Lincoln to prove it. We
thought it would come to that after
while. We thought that when they
found out they cmiMent make any
political capital out of Luc nigger they
would abondon him. It is curious bow
they go from one extreme to another.
More than a century ago they thought
it was right to steal niggers from Afri
ca, and so they stole ’em, and after
while they found out the darkey didn’t
thrive in New England and they then
concluded in was a sin to own ’em,
and so they sold etu’ oIF to Virginia
and down south, and then commenced
to abuse the south for buying ’em.
Like the fellow who took the temper
ance fever and sold off his whiskies
to a less conscious nabor and then
joined the good templars, and then
went over and lectured the man he
sold to for pursuing such an ungodly
calling. Well, they kept pegging
away tit slavery until they abolished
it and hugged up the poor nigger to
their bosoms, and cried over him and
called ’em the wards of the nation.
Charles Sumner and his followers went
further and said that God had made
of one blood ad the nations of the earth,
and they hied to put us all on an
equality 7 socially and every other way.
but after fifteen years cxpi riment with
the Heathen Chinee and the nigger
their philosophers now take the back
track and say dident mean
that, and Dai win is a humbug, and
the Chinaman must go, and the nigger
lias no fitness for the ballot, and hom
ogenity is the watchword of republi
can government, and so the wards of
the nation are to have no guardian,
and what they propose to do witli him
I don’t know, hut I wouhlont bo sur
prised if they are net already looking
over the map ami picking out a plan
for ’em over in Africa, where they
came from. About fifty years ago
they had the same loving anxiety
about the poor Indian, and like to
have had a fight with Governor Troup
because lie removed ’em from the
Cherokee nation, but when they want
ed western territory themselves they
run ’em off from there, and they have
been running’em ever since, from riv
er to river and mountain to mountain.
They buy their lands and swindle’em
out of the purchase money. The}'
agree to give’em rations and steal ’em
before they get there.
Now we know very well that the
nigger was not fit to handle the ballot
but they said he was, and so wo sub
mitted, for we hrd to submit, and
therefore we took charge of him and
have been showing him how and we
are getting him pretty well trained
and we are voting him and expect to
vote him and if he don’t vote to suit
us we will do ’em like those big corp
orations and railroad kings do at the
north to their employes and depen
dents, we will turn ’em off. You see
we want to keep the relation between
the white folks and the niggers all
pleasant and serene as long as we
have to live together, and so they
must do as we do, for the white race
is the only race fit to vote and govern
this country which we can prove by
Mr. Lincoln and these senators. It
is a good thing for a people to be hom
ogenous. not only in race and color
but also in politics and religion, for
they pull together better in harness,
and so the negro must confrom to our
ways and principles or go up north
and conform to the other side. We
don’t attach any importance to tlie
little sprinkling of republicans scat
tered over this part of the moral vin
yard, for they arc only hero to amuse
us and give tiie editors something to
write about, and they do no harm that
I know of; and as for the coalition of
tiie independents and radicals and
darkeys, it is about played out al
ready and gone into bankruptcy’, and
a receiver would be appointed if there
was anything left to receive. The
nigger is a good institution and I like
him. I wouldent exchange hitn for
any other class of common laborers or
domestic servants and we know how
to get along with him and we can get
along and we want him to stay here.
Let him keep his homogenity and we
will keep ours. We are all doing
pretty well as it is and since our mas
ters have given him the ballot we want
him to keep it. Since the nation has
disowned her wards we will t ike out
letters of guardianship ourselves. We
raised ’cmjand raised their fathers and
mothers and if wo don’t know how to
manage ’em nobody does. Some of
’em are right smart and take on con
siderable schooling, but that don’t
prove anything, for I saw an educated
hog a few years ago that could play
cards with his nose and tell the time
of day on ryvalch, but that don’t prove
that we ought to educate hogs and
send ’em to college. The masses of
the negro race are never so happy as
when in the cornfield or the cotton
patcli and being dependent upon the
white man for protection and advice.
TIIE STATE HOAD LEASE.
I sec there is a great rumpus about
tiie state road lease and the bond, and
it looks I'ke we are about to raise
much adoo about nothing, and it troub
les me, for the way I see it the state
is about to*go to a great expense of
litigation that will last until the lease
is out, and cost us a hundred thousand
dollars or so, and it looks like a put
up job to grease somebody, and if it
don’t come from malice or envy or
inward wickedness, I don’t know
what it doc-3 come from. I never did
see whaj; anybody wanted with an
eight million bond no bow, or any
bond, except one to cover the old en
gines and rolling stock that was turned
over to the lessees. I don’t defend
the artful management by which the
lessees got the road for a little less
than it was worth—les9 than some
other parties would have given—but
that is all over now, and we thought
it was a right good trade when we made
it, for the road hadent been making
us anything to speak of, and was run
down, and these men took it at
a risk and a venture, and by smart
management have made a big thing
out of it and I am glad of it. for they
had to spend a power of money the
( TERMS, $1.50 PER ANNUM.
/ SI.OO for Six Months.
first few years, and they have put
down a heap of new iron and side
tracks and built new bridges, and if
they made a few millions thev had a
right to make it. What is the use of
such a bond ? It is tiie roadbed that
cost most of the money, and I don’t
reckon anybody can steal that and
carry it away. A bond of a million
will cover all the personal property
they got and the original lessees are
mighty good for that and always will
be I hope, and so what is all this fuss
worth about securities worth eight
millions of dollars. The great stTite
of Georgia, with her watchful legisla
ture meeting twice a year in biennial
sessions will be on hand about the
close of the lease to sec that the loco
motives and cars are not run off out
of the country. The lessees have
paid us up promptly every month
according to contract, and they have
improved the road in every respect,
and there is no suspicion of anything
wrong and I don’t think it is right to
be annoying the lessees with a suit
about the bond. Mr. Anderson lias
done his duty and made the law migh
ty plain, but still I hone the govern-*
or will pause awhile before he begins
proceedings that, won’t do any good.
Mr. Andersen says the bond is good
to bind the lesseee and it looks like
that is good enough for anybody un
til they begin to bust up and fail,
which is a remote probability now.
Bill aiu\
Too Much Proverb.
While the prisoners in the Austin
jail were out in the yard a few days
ago, two of them were under sentence
to. the penitent iary were heard corn-'
paring notes about as follows:
“ I don’t believe in proverbs,” said
prisoner No. 1 ; “it is my belief in
proverbs that brings me here.”
” How so ?” said No. 2.
“ Well, you see when I was a boj\
I often seen folks pick up pins, and
when I asked them why they did it,
they said:
“If you see a pin and let it lay,
you’ll have bad luck ail that day.”
“ Yes, that’s so ; I have heard that
myself.”
“ Well, it don’t work ; I’ve picked
up a pin and 1 have had bad luck ever
since. I was arrested the very same
day, and now I’ve got to go to the
penitentiary for three years.”
“ What has that to do with-picking
up pins?” asked No. 2.
“ Well, you sec the pin I picked up
was a diamond pin, worth $l5O. [
believed in the proverb about having
good luck if I picked up a pin in a
show case, but they telephoned for the
police and here I am,” and he winked
at the jailer.
The other prisoner thought for a
moment, and then he said :
“ When I come to think of it, prov
erbs are what have brought me to this
fix.”
“ How so ?” asked the man who had
picked up the pin for good luck.
“ Well, I had heard about horse
shoes bringing good lock, so I picked
up horseshoes. Horseshoes were my
weakness.”
“ Them horseshoes you went off
with were fastened on to another fel
low's horse, wern’t they ?” queried
No. 1.
“ Jess 90.”
“ When I get out I'm not going to
tamper with any more proverbs,” re
marked No. 2.
“ Me neither,” responded No. 1.
“ Fall in, boys,” said the jailer, and
they went back to their cozy retreat on
the inside of the jail.— Texas Siftings.
He Wasn’t Color-Blind.
“ Well, dear, I succeeded in getting
anew cook at last,” said Mrs. Banger
liar to her husband at dinner the oth--
er day.
“ Yes, I see you have,” replied Mr.
Bangerhar, quietly. “ She’s got red *
hair, hasn't she V*
“ Now, John, have you been fooling
round that kitchen already exclaim-*'
cd the wife somewhat excitedly.
“ Oh, no, dear, I haven’t been near
the kitchen,” calmly replied Mr. Ban
gerhar.
“ llow do you know the new girl *
lias red hair then
“ Why, bless your heart, dear, I
know your last girl’s hair was as black
as the ten of clubs, and here is a red
hair I just found in the pie.”
The explanation was satisfactory, -
and the remainder of the pie was fin
ished in silence. —Yonkers Statesman. '•
An old miner was brought up be
fore a Judge one morning for being
drunk. The judge gave the old fellow
a good wholesome lecture on the sin r
of drunkenness.
“ Were you ever drunk, judge ?'*
asked the old veteran.
“No, sir,” said bis Honor, “I never
was.”
The old man hung his head for a £
moment and then ejaculated :
‘' Well, I’ll be d—n ! But it ain’t too
late yet, judge ; there’s fun ahead for
you—heaps of fun.”
The old fellow was discharged amid •
roar of laughter.
One of General Jackson’s maxims
was, that the benefits of the govern
ment should, like the dews of heaven,
fall equally and alike upon all. This
must have the sanction and approval
of all who desire to preservo the bless -
ings of a good government.
Jane Swisshelni’s (lathing suit flat-*-
ters her.
NUMBER G.