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OLUME 17
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REGULATOR
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“OVID O. SPARKS,
“Ex-Mayor of Macon, Ga.”
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GRIFFIN GEORGIA, FRIDAY MORNING, MAT>C1I 9 1888
THE FRUIT CROP.
TIIE PROSPECTS BETTER THAN
FOR YEARS PAST.
The Present Cold Spell Probably the
Salvation or the Crop--Inter
view Willi Mr, Wing.
Some people have.bad on idea that
the late cold snap, along wdh the
present spell, would work an injury
to tho fruit.
Hut the contrary is the case, ae
was learned lasf*night by a brief iu
terview with Mr. D. Wing, tho pro
prietor of the evaporators.
“The present cold spell,“ iio .said,
“will ju'it serve to keep the fruit
back nicely, checked as it was by the
recent severe snap. A few trees in
town had come out and these will not
bear, but the orchards have not ad
vanced far enough to be hurt. Some
buds may have bTaekened, but the
fruit will be found sound inside.
Peach trees will hardly be in bloom
to any extent now before :he 15th,
even if the weather should turn warm
right away. Last year, you know,
they were blossoming in February,
and then it was not until the lest of
March that the fruit was killed. But
I do not think there is liable to be
any more severe cold weal her this
year; this spell having come at this
time !3 probably the breaking up of
the winter in this section. Of course,
there will be frosts; but it will take
a decided freeze to hurl the fruit.
You may say that the prospects were
never better, cor safer at this time
of the year, than they are now for a
good fruit year.“
If anybody knows anything about
such matters, it should certainly be
Mr. Wing; and bo was sustained in
his opinion by a Virginia fruit raiser
of twenty'two or twenty-three years
experience, who happened to be pres
ent.
Let us be thankful that any poor suf
ferer can buy noth 25 cents a bottle of
Salvation Oil.
Bab Hardee Loses llis Milk Pail.
Major R. A. Hardee walked out
into kis back yard yesterday morn
ing and found a silk umbrella and a
silk overskirt, inside of the latter be
ing wrapped a china pitcher.
He was congratulating himself
upon hie good luck in that the
thieves had passed by his house this
time, since he knew that they could
not have stolen a silk umbrella from
him, when his wife reminded him
that he was forgetting to milk the
cow.
He turned to get the pail from its
place at the door, when he found
that it was gone, as well as the
strainer and the three-legged-stool.
The thieves had actually dropped
their purple and fine raiment to
steal these humble articles, thinking
them of more value because they had
belonged to Bob Hardee.
Such is the hold 6ome people get
on the masses.
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DON M. DICKINSON.
NEW STORIES AND GOSSIP ABOUT
THE LAST CABINET OFFICER.
Peu Picture of the New Poatmaater Gen¬
eral—How He Dlsniiated a Politician.
HU Allegiance to Cleveland—The Last
Interview Had with VV. W. Corcoran.
^Special Correspondence.)
Washwgtoh, March 0.
U it postmaster
general comes in
closer contact
with the people
the United
than any other
cabinet officer. He
coutrolsthe fixing
____ r of this seal which
- makes goo<l the
! —appointments
the postmasters in every village, town and
city of the United States, and tho great
postofflee building hero is the center from
which the wires radiate to every hamlet
of the country. From the little office, not
more than twenty feet square, in which
he sits, come out, the decisions which de¬
termine whether this or that city shall
have better or poorer mail facilities—
whether the postoffice saddle bags shall
carry the mails along this or that route in
the wilds of the west, and whether the
mails shall get to Havana by way of
Tampa several days sooner, or take their
longer voyage by way of the steamship
from New York. It is in this little room
that conferences are held through which
your letters are rushed to China or Brazil,
and a word from the man behind that big
flat desk controls the mail of the whole
nation.
There are over 50,000 postoffices in the
United States, and the average is not far
from a postoffice for every 1,000 men,
women and children in the country. Sup¬
posing five members to make up a family,
we have a postoffice for every 200 families
in the United States. We have now about
60.000.000 people, and it costs us $50,000,-
000 a year to carry our mails. So you see,
if the amount was paid by a direct tax
pro rata, each one of our citizens would
have to pay eighty-five cents a year for
the purpose of having his mail carried.
It cost $3,000,000 to build the big post-
office department at Washington. It is a
big marble building of two massive
stories, with a great vault like basement,
covering fully an acre and a half of
ground. It stands just opposite the patent
office, and in entering it you go up marble
steps, wind in and out through telegraph
offices and piles of paper, and pass in¬
numerable cell like rooms in which clerks
are grinding away, to the elevator which
leads to the office of the postmaster gen¬
eral. This lias on the second floor. It is
in the south end of the building, and
the visitor is first conducted into an ante¬
room, where a yellow skinned messenger
receives his card, and takes it into his
chief. This room has pictures of former
postmaster generals hanging upon its
walls, and its fur¬ f.
niture consists of
a table, a few
chairs, and a
couple of soft
cushioned sofas
covered with red
leather. These 1
sofas are ranged
at either side of_
a little pen made If
of a big screen of w i
baize curtain,
which forms the "m 'Jffijjl mb
office of the pri- T
vate secretary of
the postmaster
general, and into
which the post¬ DON M. DICKINSON’S
master general HOUSE.
now and then
comes from his room beyond, dictates a
letter, gives a direction, or asks a ques¬
tion.
But the yellow skinned messenger has
appeared and announced that the post¬
master general will see us. There are
two congressmen, three newspapermen,
and ten office seekers in the ante-room,
and the whole pai-ty crowd in* like so
many sheep, one after the other. They
take seats around the room just as they
do when they call upon the president, and
the head of the postoffice department re¬
ceives them in turn. I watch him closely
as be talks to each man, for he is still a
subject of much curiosity at the capital.
He is 1 ae newest cabinet officer, and a
man v. horn the people here least know.
Let me tell you sou rtbine about him.
His name is, you kno , ;,ju M. Dick¬
inson, and lie is the youngest member of
the cabinet. He was a lawyer in Detroit,
attending to his business, when President
Cleveland chose him as his confidential
adviser. His claims were not pushed by
liis friends, and he was not an office
seeker in any sense. It was one of the
few instances of the office seeking the
man rather than the man the office. He
was m:. -ing. it is said, $25,000 a year at
the law. ;,:i ! he is said to be one of the
finest lawyers in the northwest. He has
been a good political manager as well, and
though he has rejected a number of nomi¬
nations for different positions he lias kept
mm
THE FOSTOFFICE DEPARTMENT,
himself in the thick of party politics, and
has been known as a keen sighted, broad
witted Demoe at of the old fnshione}
type. lie unit r> lands the organization of
parties, and »vli;le be lias high ideas of
political ulations, action, and he he is skillful ia his manip¬
can map out a cam¬
paign. so Michigan men tell me. a* well
as any man m me country
But first let me tell you how he looks.
Of medium height and rather
his wiry frame is clothed iu black, and
Prince Albert coat is buttoned
across his chest. His brown hair
combed with a rather negligee air, and
falls in a semi-bang over his high
rather thin forehead. His face is thin
rosy. The eyes are bright and
The nose is straight, and the nostrils
and sensitive. The mouth is framed
mutton chop whiskers of a terra
brown, which stand well out from
cheeks, the hairs of which, if they
the cranium of a pretty girl, would
tainly attract a white horse. This
is firm in repose, but pleasant in
conversation. While listening to his
ers, and passing upon some serious
its thin lips come tightly together,
there is a slight pursing of the chin
Don Dickinson, however, is perfectly
home in his office. He receives his
and dispatches them quickly. He
all uiatters possible at once, and
this call a touch of a bell button on
table brought messenger after
to him, who gave Information which
Dickinson required for the passing
of the questions at hand. Not one of
men who called went away angry or
pleased, and the postmaster general
dently understood his business.
He is a hard worker in the postofflee
partment. He comes to the office at
and he works continuously along until
He lias almost mastered this great
partment, and its machinery is
as smoothly as though no change
been made. He often does not leave
department from the time he enters it
the morning until the time he goes
in the evening, and his lunch, which
confined to a glass of milk and a piece
bread, he sometimes forgets to take.
is a far different man from Vilas,
there is more suavity, cordiality and
might lac called good mixing
about him. Ho has great sympathy
human nature, and his honesty
loyalty to tho president and his party
unquestioned.
MU. DICKINSON AND HIS OFFICE.
The impression has gone out that he
been opposing the president ns to civil
service reform, and a story was lately told
of a remark that he was said to have
made to Senator Voorhees, that he would
displace a Republican and give his place
to a good Democrat whom Voorhees
recommended. This story, I am assured,
is untrue, and a true story of his rebut!
of a politician is quite to the contrary.
This politician thought Dickinson was an
ardent spoilsman, and bo came in and
effusively grasped his hand, saying:
“I am glad we have at last got a man
in the cabinet who ia a good Democrat,
ami that the postoffices of the United
States will no longer be held by Republi¬
cans.”
He was going on to criticise the presi¬
dent, while Mr. Dickinson’s thin lips grew
tighter a- <1 tighter together, until the
man made a mention of tho president’s
name, when Dickinson blurted out:
“Get out of here! I want you to leave
this room immediately!”
The politician was thunderstruck, and
he said:
“Why, what is the matter?”
“I want y i to understand,” rejoined
Dickinson, “that no man can criticise
President Cleveland in this office. 1 am
thoroughly in accord with the president’s
policy, and I believe that everything that
he has done and is doing now as a chief
executive is right. I want no more of
such talk here, and I want no more of
you. Get out of here—get right out 1“
It is needless to say the politician left,
and as a private hint I would not advise
any one else to try the same game.
Still, Postmaster General Dickinson is
ordinarily the mildest mannered man that
ever cut an office seeker’s throat, lie is
the Chesterfield of the cabinet, ns lie was
the Chestc-rfidd of the Michigan br.r. A
man of a strong social and literary taste,
he makes friends everywhere, and he is
president of the Detroit club, the leading
social organization of Detroit, lie is
president of his college class society, and
he evidei ' y believes with Marcus
Aurelius, t man's social nature should
be cultivat 1 ns well as his mo:"' ■ r d > c
tellectual i rare.
He lias, to a Michigan statesman tclk ;
me. a large sympathy for the poor. Ill
has done -Teat deal of “Thank you*’
business at the law, and lii3 poor and nor
paying clients have been many.
I have heard many instances ot' hi*
kindness, and I wiil here state that none
of the information iu this letter comes
from him or through bitn. He is noted
for liis loyalty to his friends, and it is
said that he has never forgotten a kind¬
ness. He has remembered even the little
favors that were done him during his boy¬
hood days, and I heard yesterday of how
he took care of an old sailor, who was a
tar when lie was in short clothes, anil
who, when he grew a little older, used to
j tell him stories which appealed to his Im¬
agination as strongly as those of Othello
j did to Desdemona’s. I think the sailor
left for a cruise shortly before Dickinson
grew up, but a few years ago he came
back to Detroit, poor, old and broken iu
health. Mr. Dickinson got him a place in
a hospital at Detroit, and saw that he was
fixed with a irood Jbertb ftr the rest of his
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life. Ills saw, i am tow, mat a gooa
doctor was provided for him, and my in¬
formant states that the old sailor does not
probably know today to whom he is in¬
debted for the kindness.
Don Dickinson has always been a strong
anti-corporation than. He sold his inter¬
est in telegraph stock before he came into
the cabinet, for fear that it might bo con¬
sidered as influencing his actions in the
postoffice department, and I am told that
he would not take a premium for it. As
a schoolboy he was fond of denouncing
corporations among his fellows, and his
hobby iu debating societies was, I am
told, corporations. He does not believe
in allowing corporations to trample on his
rights, and a few years ago the Brush
Electric Light company introduced their
system in Detroit. They put up bare,
ugly pine poles, along the streets, and in
many c. ses did not ask permission. One
day Dickinson was very busy at court.
He came home late, and ns he approached
his handsome brick house on Front street
he saw one of these white electric light
poles standing as a sentinel before his
front gate. Its foot was imbedded in the
earth, and it appeared to defy him as Cas¬
ablanca defied the tire on the burning
deck. The limbs of his favorite tree had
been clipped to make room for it, and as Mr.
Dickinson saw it his thin lower lip went
up, and his classical brows came down
into a f r ii. His nostrils quivered with
rage, out lie walked rapidly into the
house, took off his frock coat and vest,
and seized an ax which had'an edge like
a razor. It took just twenty cuts to lay
that electric light pole low, and the future
postmaster general then and there served
notice on the company that whenever any
corporation trampled upon his rights he
would defend himself, and the corporation
could act as fchey pleased in reply. *
I don’t imagine that Mr. Dickinson felt
sore after cutting down the electric light
pole. He is not a henry man, but hi3
muscles are Iron, and he keeps them in
good order by Sxercise. He is very fond
of rolling ten pins, and be is one of tho
most expert ten pin players in Detroit.
He delights in a ten pin game called
“cocked hat.”
Postmaster General Dickinson lives at
Washington in a fine brick house on Far-
ragut square, not far ot! from Secretary
Whitney’s and just across the reservation
from Senator Stanford’s. He is within a
stone’s throw of tho White House, and
not far from the millionaire Corcoran’s
mansion. He lives very well here, and is
worth, I am told, $250,000. His wite is a
fine looking woman, who came originally
from Grand Rapids, and whose receptions
here have been largely attended.
Postmaster General Dickinson was a
great friend of Tflden, and he always
visited Tilden when he came east. He
stands at the head of the Democratic
party of Michigan, and it is largely due to
him, I am told, that that state became a
doubtful one. Each Chandler used to say
that any man could carry Michigan, bnt
after Dickinson was chairman of the state
central committee the Republicans were
not so confident, and the late election in
Moffitt’s district, In which tho Republi¬
can majority was so radically reduced,
leads to a question as to how the state
will go this fall. Dickinson’s work has
been for the purification of the politics of
his party, and he downed, I am told, the
syndicate which a large number of Demo¬
cratic congressmen of Michigan formed to
control the offices at the beginning of the
present administration. His admiration
for and allegiance to Cleveland were
shown in the prayer which he made at
one of the conventions, in which, with
uplifted hands and solemn voice, he said:
“God bless anil save and keep that Demo¬
crat of Democrats, the noblest of them
all, Grover Cleveland, president of the
United States.”
Do you wonder that the president
thought of him when he was looking out
for a new cabinet officer?
I ilon’*
Frank G. Cabpbxtkb.
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It HULL IR LY ORUA VIZ ED.
F< ur Aldermen and Three Preachers in
Concord.
' oncgrd, Ga . March 8-—Our town
is >« yularly organized, with J. A-
Williams as mayor.T. D. McLsndon,
J. It Jenkins, N. B Waller and W,
E Loyd as nidemen. John Trim as
mars I*-! and i-treet oveiseei. The
town property is estimated to be
worth 870.000, which is assessed
one f jui lb of one per ctid. to pay
!ow»* expt-i e
R.vs. L>.,;kfc,t\>x and Duke preach
in town once a month.
Ti - ladies of the town Irtv. u n aid
sr iety, of which Miss Molim Irvin
is president.
J >hr. IT Tre is a bnpi • i.i : »
j ’
a k- .
Tu { : mere are j ianting corn.
j j Those who have a gnn and ammu
nition are killing birds every day.
Veanor’s predictions, though iu the
main pretty accurate, arc not infallible.
But Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup was never
knoxu lo fail, to cure a
NUMBER 39
lh.w lo L'vc Happy,
l b in <s J-fferson wrote tb* fol
i lowing exeeilrt! advice Ther* ia a
gr>at deal of human nature and
good sense in it ;
“Harmony in the married Male ia
the liist thing to be arrived at.
Nothing can preserve the affiectiona
uninterrupted bnt a firm resolution
never to differ iu wiil, and a determi
nation in each other to consider the
love of the other of more value than
any object whatever on which the
wish had been fixed. How light, in
fact, ia the sacrifice of any other
when weighed against the affections
of one with whom w* are to
paBs our whole life. And tr*» opposi
tion in a a ngle ir stone*' will hardly
in itself produce alter- • yet every
one has his pouch > inch all
these little opposiL - e put, and
while that is filling the alieneatioo ia
insensibly going on, and when filled
it is complete. It would puzzle either
to say why, because no one differ
ence of opinion baa been marked
enough to praduce a serious effect
by itself. But ho or ibe finds bis or
her affections weaned out by a oon
staut stream of little checks and ob»
stacks. Other source* of diacoo
tent, very common, indeed, are the
little cross purposes of husband and
wife in common conversation; a die
position in either to criticise and
question whatever the other says; a
desire always to demonstrate
and make him f«el himself in
the wrong, especially in sjm
pathy. Nothing is to goading on
the part of either. Much better
therefore, if our companion views
a thiog in a light differnt from what
we do, to leave him in quiet poesee
sion of bis \k w. What is the use of
rectifying him if the thing be unim
portant; and, if important, let it pass
for the present, and wait fort softer
moment and more conciliatory oc
casiou of revising the subject to
getber. It is wonderful how many
persons are rendered unhappy by in
attention to these rules of prudence.
A Bonanza Sine
of health is to be found in Dr. R. V.
Pierce’s “Favorite Prescription,’’ to the
merits of which, as a remedy affections, for female
weakness and kindred thons
amis testifv.
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