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il. DON. McLEOD Editor.
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Mr Brady’s gnano bill was killed in the
senate last week.
The legislature are very properly
strengthening the laws against dueling.
Cheap prices and poor work always
saunter side by side.
Tanner hangs on the ragged edge
whiie all trust men call for ins removal.
Atlanta printers, pressmen and press
feeders, each have their seperate unions.
Gen. Legitime, ex-president of Hayti,
nude America a pop-call last week, on
his way to Paris.
The Georgia farmers are doing Ohio
in grand style and are delighted with
what they have seen and learned.
It is rumored that Huff and Patterson
are still bent on fighting and have ar
ranged to meet in South Carolina.
The American Press says the effort be
ing made to “educate Journalists” at
Cornell University is proving a failure.
Journalists are born not made.
The Southern Alliance Farmer advises
members to have nothing whatever to do
with the question of Livingston and
Northens candidacy for Governor.
The death of Rev. Dr. II. H. Tucker
editor of the Christian Index, which oc
curred Monday morning in Atlanta,
from injures received by a fall from a
window, casts a gloom over Baptist
brethren all over Georgia.
Jack the Ripper still gets in his mur
derous work at Whitechapel, London.
The mutilated body of another abandon
ed woman, was found Tuesday morning
with the head and legs cut off and
stomach ripped open.
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In the death of Hon. S. S. Cox the New
York democracy have lost one of their
most valiant leaders and the Southern
people have lost one of their truest
friends in Congress. His funeral takes
place to-morrow morning.
“ The code of honor” (?) which requires
a man to go out and and rnuder or he
murdered, nicy do well enougli for ruf
fians. bullies and desperadoes, but gen
tlemen of true courage and manliness
need no such coercion to do right.
The senate has passed a bill to extend
the term of the common school system
in .Georgia to six months. The Hill also
prescribes the duties of the several offi
cers of the system and corrects, amends
and consolidate existing school laws, hut
is yet to be considered by the house.
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Envy burns in fires of its own kind
lings, writhes under its own torturings,
Has, but never has enough because otlr
ers have more. Give it no countenance,
suffer it not to dwell under your roof or
in your heart. Flee from it as you
would from the face of a deadly serpent,
____________
AVe were glad to find on our recent
visit that Florida has escaped the yellow
fever scourge this summer anil is look
ing forward to a busy and prosperous
winter season. Crops all over the State
are good, real estate is recovering from
the shock of last years epidemic, hope
and confidence is taking a new hold on
the people and the beautiful Land of
Flowers will goon be its self again.
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B'bb county should call her represen
tatives. Huff and Paterson, home, retire
them to the quiet shades of private life,
and fill their places with better material
Georgia has had enough of ibis dueling
farce. Men who defy the laws of the
State, leave their seats in the legislature
to sneak around the swamps of Alabama.
trying to get a shot a each other, might
l»e fair representatives for n hand
Bedouins, but Georgians, in this enlight
ened age should lie represented by men
of a higher, grade of personal courage,
men whose manliness ran rise above the
m -thods of the blustering bully, dare to
resect the law that they have sworn to
protect and defend.
THE NEWS MUST SUCCEED.
By the valedictory copied from last
week’s Tallahassean it will be seen that
we sold out our newspaper business in
Florida, while there last week, and will
henceforth devote our undivided atten
tion to the Schley County News!
With the limited teritory here we can
hardly hope to build up the News to a
point of profit and influence equal to the
business we have left in the capital of
Florida, but having found health as
well as congenial neighbors in Schley
county we will be content here with far
less than were our profits there. Though
small in area Schley county is thickly
settled and her people rank among the
most prosperous and intelligent in the
South. The patronage of every citizen
in the county would enable us to place
the News among the best country
newspaper of Georgia and keep it there.
We are willing to spend the remainder
of life in the beautiful and healthy little
city of Ellaville and are anxious to make
the News a permanent fixture here. A<1
we ask is the patronage of every good
citizen, without it success is impossi
ble, with it we can and will succeed.
VALEDICTORY.
From the Tallahassean of Sept. 6.]
Finding it too laborious and difficult
to satisfactorily conduct two newspapers
located in different States, and so far
apart as the Tallahassean and Schley
County News, I have yielded to better
judgement and have sold the Tallahas
sean to Messrs. John G. Collins and
Walter N. Shine, and with this issue my
connection as editor and proprietor
ceases. Founded by me, not even a
practical printer, nine years ago, at a
time when the field of journalism was
already thought to be crowded in Talla
hassee, and when the condition of the
State and County was not near so pros
perous as now, the Tallahassean has
steadily grown from a small begining
to one of the most prosperous and influ
ent midweek I v journals of the fairest and
most progressive State in the South.
To its persistent efforts Florida is large
ly due for the tremendous reductions
made in the State Printing, which saves
to the taxpayers of the Stste thousands
of dollars annually, and let me say right
here that the change of ownership will
not deter the Tallahassean from being on
deck when the State Printing is to be let
out in the future. In fact, it will he
better than ever prepared (o bid on the
State Printing, for the reason that the
new proprietors are both thoroughly
j ! practical and competent printers and
will give their personal attention to the
w ell equipped Book and Job Printing
Departments.
These young men need no introduc
tion to the people of Leon and
ing counties. Both are to the manor
born and connected by ties of consan
guinity as well as friendship to many of
the largest and most influential families
in the Capital City. They are full of
pluck, push and vim and for them we
ask a continuance of that liberal patron
age and generous support that has built
up and sustained the Tallahassean for
the past nine years. I believe that they
will recieve that support and the Talla
hassean starts out to day with even
than
I shall leave in a few days for my
home in Georgia to devote my undivid
ed , attention . to the , Schley County News
but for the people of Honda s fair capi
tal l shall ever entertain a tender feelir/g
and those kind friends who were *ver
ready to tide me over the embarassments
incidents to a new yentureand stood by
me ns staunchly amid the frowns of ad
versitv as when fortune showered her
sweetest smiles, I can never, never for
get.
In bidding adieu to lovely Florida and
charming old Tallahassee, it is with a
feeling of regret that the stern decrees
oEfiite are adveree to my residmg in the
lAni ot Flowers.
R. Don McLeod.
Dueling, we thought belonged to the
dark ages of the uncivilized past. Im
mediately after our late conflict, when
the minds of men were degraded by the
baneful influence of war, it was more
reasonable to expect such bar carious
methods of settling difficulties, hut now,
that we are enjoying every* privilege
that a civilized life can give, it is not
natural to expect men to meet on (he
fields of honor (?) to .settle their petty
grievances by making a target of each
other. Some of our legislators have had
the subject of dueling under considera
tion. but in what manner? The man
date of the goddets has gone forth that
even some of our lawmakers must de
grade themselves by this queer method
of vindicating their honor. It is a
shame on Georgians that they are the
leaders in this great curse. A man who
refuses to accept a challenge isj» by the
unthinking considered a upward. Not sc:
for the rrtatt who'c«n in tyjilv
the braver of the two-challenger and
challenged,
SCHLEY COUNTY NEWS.
FLORIDA.
[The following lines were handed to the edi
tor of the N kws hist Monday by a Tallahassee
la-ly as she boarded the North bound train for
the homo of her deceased husband’s lelatives
in Petersburg, Va.]
Florida, fair Florida! with her hills and her
dales,
Her clear flowing streams and flowering
vales.
No country so lovely, howe’er grand it may be
As Florida, sweet Florida, embraced by
the sea.
Like a queen she is crowned with jewels so
bright.
Her hills are like emeralds, resplendent
with light,
Her lakes are like diamonds, pure first gems,
Rivaling in beauty any queen’s diadems.
The beauty and fragrance of blossoming
flowers.
As fair as were culled in Edens own bowers.
The song of the mocking bird, so joyous and
free,
The inurmer of soft winds, the hum of the
The glow of the orange, the blush of the rose,
So much to Dame Nature, dear Florida owes!
Who scattered her gifts with bountiful hand,
And blessed, doubly blest this beautiful
land.
The sheltering oak and the towering pine,
Thy many broad acres of clustering vine,
A 11 speak of thy beauties so fair and so grand,
Florida my beautiful, my own native land.
Of all thy beauties there is still one untold
That rival the others ah, more than tenfold!
'Tis thy brave sturdy sons, thy lovely fair
daughters,
More bautiful far than birds, blossoms or
waters.
Florida I love thee, swept land of my birth
To me thou art dearer than all elsewhere on
earth,
For thou boldest my loved ones in slumber so
deep,
Who have wearied of life and fallen asleep,
Upon thy broad bosom they have pillowed
their head,
My loved ones, my own, “my beautiful dead."
For this do I love thee more than tongue can
te jj
Dear beautiful Florida, fare-well! fare-thee
well!
S. H. P.
MUSIC
What is it? Wherein consist its magic
power? why will it soothe the tortured
nerves and lull the tired body into
ful calm when nothing else will? Why
will a mother's lulaby hush the crying
and freting in the nursery and cause the
baby's eyes to close in soft-sweet sleep?
Why do strong men pause in the rush
of this busy world to drink in sweet
strains of music? Why are the hardest
hearts the most savage breasts softened
and charmed by its magic influence?
Why does martial music thrill the sol
diers heart with patriotic zeal? What is
this mystic tlfis wonderful power? Opin
ions differ, it is hard to define,
Some say it is the science of sound,
some< it j s a combination of harmonious
sounds, others say it is one attribute of
divinity, the one thing common to an
ge ] s a nd to men. others still, music is
poetry and poetry is music.
The best and most satisfactory is, mu
sic is any thing that excites within ut. a
sense of the beautiful it is not necessari
ly in sound. There is music in motion
in fliA’ers, trees, and sunshine, all the
world is full of music to a musical soul,
Byron truly says- “There is music in
all things if men had ears” and “strange
we never prize the music till the sweet
voiced bird lias flown.”
“Love makes music,” sings a poet and
every mother’s son, be he ever so prosy
will admit that music often makes love,
while men best versed iu that questiona
^ lo accompfishment. courting, will tell
y ou it is simply ^ indispensible j
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Shake8 ar put8 it , .'The man who
)mg no tllUsic in his solll and is not mov , |
,,| p v l 0 ncord of sweet sound ”’ is fit for
treaMJI1 strategem ‘ ' and spoils
I he swiftest . Moore
inustc is song
poss< - sset '' 1 s " eet ' whu ‘ h a< e<1
In “ l ‘ ‘ to *.”' :iut v ° '^verses
M ‘ re ,s 11lot 'j” g ln ° re 1K> "'“ r u l "
. n<1 holding the
' vmn,ng ! ‘ attention of
hsteners than a clear sweet musical
voire; either in apwkto* or in song.
F >' w " s "»*“ ■»«* " «*
pressed m the tones ot t lie voice, some |
one has said “speak that 1 may see thee .. ” |
The character is known by the amount of
music in the voice.
Poe says. “Any thing truly beautiful
has a touch of sadness.” We admire and
prize the beauty of the lily, because its
pure white petals, its delicate perfume j
and fragile wither stem drop remind and die; us Flowers that it fade will ]
soon
wit h the summer “the roses must die
with the year.”
A strange sweet sadness a musical
sensation pervades our souls as we lie
hold the fleeting beauty of a sunset sky.
A beautiful face will attract and dial
lenge ad miration where fun hubbies up
from an innocent heart and ripples out
over the ruby lips in silvery ringing
laughter, and mirth twinkles in the
beamingeyeR: hut we love when a low
sigh parts the quivering lips, and acrys
tnl fear hangson the drooping lashes that
almost touch the white cheek. It is the
divine touch the musical ton h, that per-j
fects the charm.
Tis said there was more music in the
pieces grand-mothers played, than in i
the modern productions. They were
more graceful and less difficult.. They
were sadder and simpler. The comic
SO ng8 that stir the risables, the bubbles of
human nature were in a measure un
known, and that nameless pathos in
words and air touched a deeper finer
chord. The sweetest instrumental mu*
sic of to-day rests in the variations ar
; ran g e J from those old airs. There is
no music in anything that grates or
jars.
“Often in our moods of gladness
When gayest songs are sung.
Some hand strikes a note of sadness
From a chord we thought unstrong
And we feel a gentle beaming
Like the twilights mellow glow
And visions come like dreaming
Of the golden long ago.”
The hand that struck that note did it
unconsciously perhaps; a look, a smile, a
word, a tone or gesture and the lyre of
the human heart is Unified and sad
sweet strains of some half forgotten mu
sic floats in the soul, and visions associa
ted therewith are vividly recalled, mem
ories music, that which belongs to a dead
and buried past, is to many of us the
dearest anti best.
Musical composers have a peculiar and
individual style as well as writers and
speakers. The productions of one are all
sad soft and sweet, another bright wild
and merry; some only comic, others sa
cred. Then the grand works of such
men as Mozart Bethoven and Chopin
thunder in major chords; then flash like
lightning over the keys in runs and
scales, now wail off into the sad mi
nors like the low moan of the autumn
wind, now comes an irresistablv sweet
aJ soft and simple, then bright merry
trills with the right hand while the left
carries the air of the bass. It is long, it
is ondroups, it is loud then soft, but at
last comes the grand finale, mighty lum
bering chords, like artillery on a battle
field.
The style of performers differ widely
as that of composers, some find music in
the key hoard and woo it cunningly, with
dextrous touches, some drop it like fire
on the cold ivory from their own throb
bing finger tins and its just this music
which sways multitudes and finds the
the surest way to single hearts.
The taste of listeners vary too. Some
men say they know no music equal to
the low sweet laugh of some loved wo
man. A childs rich innocent glee, rip
pling in laughter is certainly musical
There is a young man who thinks the
most exquisite music ever heard is when
his best girl calls his name. A corn
stalk fiddle and a shoe string bow makes
music for some. The most inspiring mu
sic’to man v of us is the dinner bell. Burns
like many other poets, was not captiva
ted by science or skill in music, but an
old reel, or roundelay awoke exquisite
pleasure. Scott too was melted by pim
ple tunes, while a complicated harmony
was but a babb'e of soun Is. The ears of
tho sweetest poet are awake to every
tone of nature, her sigh her murmur, her
whisper of love, the cadence of the moon
of the river, sledge each sound passes
over their minds like a cunning finger
upon a harp, and thus we have our sweet
son ff s - Every body loves “Home
sweet Home,” hear it when, where or
how you will, memory glides hack
back to the low thatched cot once mere.
There is a musical craze now ever}*
body wants to sing or play on some in
stimnent < Martyn in De.noresfs says
“In New York pianos and fiddles have
* hard time of it. and, so, often, does
the human ear, even cats on the hack fen
ces have caught the contagion. Some
times as one walks the streets the differ
ent sounds get strongly mixed up. A song
,j r if ts out f roni t hi s Douse, t h e blare .-f a.
wind instrument floats out of that one,
a strain from a piano, conies from over
the way, the organ grinder in ihe cor
ner< a nd the protesting cry of an awak
j n{ r baby completes the chaos
L M „ e;
-And the night shall te Ailed with
music.”
Has a grand and wide ' meaning.
Not that the night must he full of song
and instrumental pieces; hut it refers to
the sweet hannonv of a hundred souls
beautiful sympathy of home circles
one may read while the others work’
they ,„ ay i, ave games, vet the gentle
smoothness the perfect love, makes it
truly musical, even tlio there be no in
strmnent in the house.
Music is refining and elevating in its
influence,' I think the hardest hearted
could not do alow Vnean thing or commit
a crime while singing or ever listening
to a sweet song*
There is no power so effectual to han
ish care, disappointment and grief. Mu*
sic is a sure cure for 1 Juck, “If you are
blue, sing the brightest sweetest song
you know, forae your thought to follow
the sur^JPunget words, if y-Ai can't sing whistle and
W* internal the tunc right. “ Bines”
ini an ailment, its where the soul
is out ot' tune and in utter dischord with
surroundings, music sooths and dims
Stick to the remedy and you’ll he cured.
Bill Arp says, that a negro’s passion
for and ability to produce music, i
proof positive he lias soul. s
a He a l$o
observes, “what a strange good gift j t j
to our fallen humanity.” Yes, a gift
of Gods best 0|)
to man, and its such We
should prize it. should cultivate it, atl(1
guard it with jealous care, for it i s ^
yond price.
This is a boundless field for invests*
work, tion. an and exhaustless when life theme, a life tinje
is over and join
the chorus of angels; we will find we’ve
only just begun, for:
"Heaven is the birth place of music,
And heaven shall he its final home”
Little Mamie Parker, fourteen years
old, died Sunday afternoon at Nashvil] e,
Tenn.. from the effects of of medicine
administered to her by her little cousin
Bessie Woods. They were playing doc
tor with each other, with Bessie pretend
ing to be the physician. She made her
little cousin take ten pills which resulted
in her death in a short time.
PIEDMONT EXPOSITION.
Events of the day admonish us that the
Piedmont Exposition of 1889 will attract
the largest number of capitalists, invest
ors, agriculturists, manufacturers, am!
practical men general y. that ever altejxj.
ed a Southern Exposition, who will vis.
it Atlanta during October of the present
year. For this reason it behooves everv
county and county alliance to be repre
sented at this great Exposition, which
will be a material factor in adding to the
prosperity of the South. It is the earn
est request and desire of the Exposition
Company, that the material resources of
your secti )n be advantageously display,
ed at our Exposition. We appeal to yon
on the ground of local pride, State fealty
and Southern prosperity, to gather the
best samples of your products, and pre
sent (hem here in creditable form. We
know it will require time and money,
but the results will more than compen
sate you for your trouble.
What we offer to county or county
farmers’ alliance and individual displays:
To the county or county farmers’ alii
ance making the largest and best display
of products, grown or produced by resi
dents of the county, $1200.
To the county or county farmers’ alli-j
ance making the second best display as
above. $700.
To the county or county farmers' alii
above, ance making $800. the third best display as]
To the individual making the largest
and* best display of products grown or
produced hv him or her, or under his ur
her direction, $500. j
To the individual making the second
best display as above, $250.
To the individual making the thud
best display as above, $150.
Single exhibits contesting for prem
iums in any of the other groups may lie
included in either of the displays of this
group, and individual displays may ah'
form a part of county or county farmers’
alliance displays.
The whole of this department is limit-j
ed to articles produced in States of the
Piedmont section, viz: Virginia, North
Carolina. Georgia. South Carolina, AM
barna and Tennessee, and all articles ex
hibited must be grown or made by thej
exhibitor.
For information, see page 26. premium
list.
The management of the Piedmont Ex
position will extend every facility W
Alliances or counties desiring to make
exhibits.
Trusting that we wifi receive vour ap
plication for space at an early date,
desire to call your attention to the fad
that this is not a State, county, or local
exposition, but will be national in its aim
and results. Yours respectfully,
Piedmont Exposition Co.
Atlanta, Ga.
CITATION FOR ADMINISTRATION.
»le bonis non.
Oeohgia Schi.ey County. To all whom it
may concern: P. <Clevg of said State, huv
in«- applied to me for letters of administration
de bonis non, on estate of C. D. Clegg of slil1
County deceased. This is to cite all and fiW 11
lar Hie heirs and creditors of C. T> Clegg toR
and appear at the Oct. term 1880 of said " ,u "
and show cause if any they can, why letter*
administration, de bonis non. should n (,t t,( '
granted on said estate of C, I). Clegg. Wifno*
niy oflieial signature.
Sept. 2nd 1880 . T. B. Myers Ord’y.
FOB SJAX.IE
A five room dwelling with dining roo' 1 '
and kitchen attached within the inc" r '
porate limits of Ellaville. Nice H (|Wet
yard;good well of water and four u ,ri ’
of land with (lie dwelling. For s!1 ^
cheap for cash.
Apply to C. R. McCrory.
1 m.
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