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mkßarncsville Gazette.
GA.
V, OCTOBER 19.1882.
■HHpfu backer see a.'*." be Govern-
HHngKoiitli Carolina by the aid of
and Independents.
#
S. M, lnmun dechnes to Ist
be used as a candidate for
Atlanta though the pros-
success were yery good.
Zarhrv's eat in the
Pgß. be contested by Mr. Fus
county will get. in as bad
years as Spalding,
if" not change her ways.
It i now said that ilr. Itiaine will
IBut be a candidate for President but
HBl name the man for tl.e place who
when elected make Mr. Blaine
HHH|B'elarv of Slate.
%
BfiJjJJJKoe Folger secretary "f the
UKtn has not yet resigned and it
jjjßaid will not do so until the New
||Bork election determine* the luet as
lie is to be the next Gov-
New
;^ , |*‘^B' , ;sentali\c \\ . M. LoweolAi-
Wb&M'a died last Week at his liome in
HHfiMYilk'. The cause was eontiae
of the bronchial tubes. Con
gressman Emory Speer was one of
the members appointed by the
fcpcaker to attend his burial.
O. 0. Horne d§al M hif
in Hawkinsville last week. He
a|jßs Supreme orator of the Grand Le-
of Honor for Lite United States,
laud Vice-President of the associa-
I lion of Mexican veterans.
■ The Macon Telegraph and Mes
■Snger has arranged with Col. P. W.
the famous war corres-
to serve up the agts and do
the next Gene® Assembly.
to liml the Telegraph
if possible -
has taken new courage
the defeat of the Republicans
HBo and gone Aflß assedßeni
HBcJHss with than ever.
ly Una defeat and plenty
|||l||lßy to put in New York all
1 vania thu Republicans hope
butter in these States.
gU| Atlanta Constitution is iinu-
in referiug to ihe Seu
&RHcniit<>st. For instance it says:
igs in connection with the Sen
|j|||^Pi! contest are waxing warm. It
|||!||Hh that the grand jury aieinvcs-
BBiii" the matter, and will proba
some important action, it
ively stated t hat man
Up t( and illegally will be i..dieted.
|||||Ku is done llieto will certainly
in the air.
|PHK>erina that it took the city Hall
in Atlanta two days to
|Bftit Judge Hoyt’s 11J majo-ay
'J^g^Lt'erguson.
Henry Ward Beeeher pro-
another sensation by with
|Uawii)g from membership in the
York and Brooklyn association
( oiigrcgationalists lie docs not
|||UHlra\v lrom the Congregational
reli, but from a rcligi a social as
jjUciation composed of members of
SlTeienf congrtgallons, these con-
Mpregations being themselves niem
vbers.
HAMILTON <fc 11l l)SON.
WHOLESALE FRUITS AND PRODUCE.
~ Messrs. Hamilton & Hudson, the
jLvhok'snle fruit, and produce dealers,
t\o. 21, East Alabama JSt., Atlanta,
Ga , have opened the fall trade with
one of the largest and linest stocks
of select apples, pears and produce ,
to be fonnit anywhere in the city, j
and are prepared to promptly meet
all orders made upon them. The
firm are the most extensive handlers
oforanges in Atlanta and having
effected arrangements with heavy
growers in Florida, by which means
obtain them direct from first
Bauds, come before the trade with
of the choicest lines of oranges
South. In the matter of pine
bananas and cocoa nuts, they
always prepared to promptly dll
jMfiers, and in short every arrange
ment of their establishment is such
|Hwo guarantee satisfaction in every
Jj'Bieet.i The firm occupy a promi-
position among the most en-
houses, and ve take pleas
jPUHi ealliift; the attention of the
to their superior facilities for
all demands upon them A
Fai feature of their establishment,
■Hrone possessed by no other house
is an air tight compart-
for ripening bananas during
H winter. This will enable the
to supply tho trade with a su-
quality of this fruit, as in
stead of purchasing them half ripe,
and having them bruised in trans-
they buy the bananas
and by placing them in this
ripen them by moans
furnished by a gas stove.
|Hi consequently carry a full
of bananas throughout the
Messrs. Hamilton & Ilud
n are also large handlers of Ten
|H >see potatoes, onions, butter, eggs,
|H.>u!try and general produce.
■ A MEAN MAN.
the Turf, Field and Farm.
i'he father of young Weed, who
lost $150,000 by gambling
Newburgh, was a very close man.
i'\Hen 1 was a boy-, says one who
him well, he hired me to pick
He weighed me before I
'•■ut up into the tree, and he reques
stop when 1
1 wtflunic pound licav
"'hen I ascended, and he
illlpll™'* the price of a pound of
ajaßajM? from my wages. The next
■■Bot even with him. I filled
with stones preyious to
weighed, and l threw them
after climbing the tree. I ate
as many cherries as 1 did the
H|iy before, and yet tho old gentle
■kn was unable to chalk anything
■ Against me when I came down,
boys of the neigiiborhood ?oon
oat the trick, and thru the
H| man applied the scale test in
Bu." The son of Mr. Weed, who
HBve l a fortune on cards, does not
|Mbc as much value on a dollar as
did. Easy come, easy go.
HH ‘ LOOK.' LOOK!
■■H and look at the pretty suits at T
KjjlgHvons. They will fit any body.
to the farmers.
e bought an
aiding e Jmm
.Bme durjn Jm 1 ’
TALMAGESS SERMON.
SitueCT —“Deoradation or Modern
Politic rs.”
Text —Jeremiah xix, 6: ••Thi*
place shall no more be called Tophet,
nor the Valley of the Sou of Hill
iiom but the Valley of Slaughter.”
This was Gohenna on the suburb*
of Jerusalem, u place where the car
casses of beasts were cast, and the
otial of the city. Perpetual fires
were burning there to hinder it from
brecdiug pestilence. It was a God
torsaken spot, and lias, by religious
writers and speakers of all ages, been
uocAs a symbol of perdition. I
shalffise it as a .symbol of modern
politics. But instead of being in
the suburbs, this Gehenna is now in
the center of ail our towns and cities.
Its carcasses rot on the steps of city
balls, aiid its tires sias, and siummn,
and through the long night
of corruption, and those
who have freen the bodies, the minds
and souls of men going down under
its pestiferous influence can see that
like the Valley of Ilinnoro, spoken
of in the text, it may well be Called
the Valley of Slaughter.
The present degradation of State
and national polities is appalling. I
speak without any allegiance to any
political party. I have purposely
kept myself aloof from any party or
ganization thftt I might, its a religi
ons teacher, be independent in moral
discussion of each, or both of them,
By tiiat Ido not mean that I &it on
the fence in mattters of politics, for
I have always voted iuee coming of
age, except when, through changAjf
residence or necessitated
the time ef registration, I had no
light to But 1 have never vot
ed the entire ticket or either party
A man belittles himself esti
mation when he says he -Amaya votes
the entire
man bought awArelof apples and
boasted that he ate them all, not on
ly the good Tnies, but the worm-ea
ten ami the gnarled and |the rotten.
We have hud m the different States
during our the suprem
ac.y of both pft’ties, and there has
been gradual descent into lower
depths (f corruption, Ever and
anon the party out of power promi
ses, if it get| in. a great rcforlfl.
The pasgv oi* goes into power and
the ditferunoe is anew roll of
officers. We hear a great crash!
what is the matter now? S Jim. 1 Repub
Jioun or Democratic machine is bork
en. We say, “I thank God for the
demolition!” But by the time the
At election arrives anew machine
ills taken its place. one of larger
crank and stronger wheel and wider
hopper, We haye been killing bosses
for the last fiftee# years, and we nev
er had so many* bosses as to-diU’.
There are many young men nVf
starting out for the performance of
their civic aiA public duties, and I
want them iSlore JMfV enter the
arena to iinderstanosorae of the wild
beasts they will have to fight; or, to
come baoK to the figure suggested
by my text, I want them W come
forth with shovel and si™ie and
plow to turn under the carcasses of
the awful Gehenna pf modern poli
ties. 1 give of
the present debasement, drawn most
ly from th 6 past year. £
The purity of poijLies
luyuiever been anything to boast.
has been a of
scurrility and Aaron
Burr, the debauchee, cmho near
being the President of the United
States. He had as many votes as
Thomas Jefferson, the mtriot. The
yote being tied the CTWilon was
thrown into Congress, and then Jef-
him by only one vole.
1708 ITT the great American Congress
Lyon spat m Graswold’s iace-. then
Griswold struck Lyon with a hicko
ry stick, and Lyon SMjed the tongs,
and ( the affair endeeffy the two com
lifltuutti rolling on the floor in the
which other members had to extric
ate them. On th| i^pguration of
Thomas the
Sentinel, of - Boston, published a
long obituary of the American na
tion saying; "?iouumetal In scrip
tion: Yesterday expired, deeply re
gretted by miyious (ff grateful
Americans’ and ny all good men, the
Eedemk Administration of the Gov-
of the United States; aged
twem? one tribute of
gratitude this monu
ment of services of
the deceased by the Sen
tinel.” Prc&AdflM(irtin Bail Bwr
en was always as a rat.
Horace Greeley was maulra into his
grave. The election campaign docu
ment against Andrew Jackson whs
a picture of tAor twenty cotlins, in
allusion to tme deserters vrhcgn he
had ordered shot. Last.year people
seemed surprised at the spirit of
assassination in high juices. But it
tr.ed to shoot PrcsideH^Jackson on
his way from the funetwof a Con
gressman, and would, have JsucciH
ed but for the fact that his assailant
was struck to 11 e floor. It attempt
ed to poison President Buelianan at
the National Hotel the day bef< re
his inauguration. So that we ought
not to have been so very much sur
prised at the "sinftessful assafsina-
two of the following Chief
Magistrates, In 1832 Hon. Mr
Houston, of Texas, bludgeoned lion
Mr. Stansbery, of Ohio, in Washing
ton, for remarks,
and the PreHent of the United
States approvdß of the assaults by
saying, ’’After a few more examples
of the same kind Members of Con
gress will, perhaps, learn to keep
civil tongues in their heads.” She
two political parties of thirty ymrs
ago perished through corrupturn.
The old Whig party went out of ex-®
istence. It compounded until iniqui
tv and was hung by until
dead. The old
went out of power, as
member of the present
party iu onreity said, in an editorial
last Monday, because **it happenedjto
the Demoaracy a$ to nil political or
ganizations, that long continuance in
ortk-e spread abuses for which no cure
could be obtained, short of turning
the party out of office.” It was the
corruption of parties that
killed them.
But the last year, from October,
1871, to October, 1861, seems to me
to have been the bftickest year of
American poliflks. I give a few illus
tracions: First, the Yorktown carou
sal. On the 19th of October, 17S1,
o\e British forces under Cornwallis
surrendered to Washington, and the
long agency of our Revolutionary
fathers was ended. Last October
the centennial was to be celebrated.
The descendants of eminent foreign
ers who had assisted ns in the achiev
ing of American independence arriv
ed as our guests, Appropriate cere
monies were promised, and at the
quaint village of lorktowu many
people assembled. The Congress ot
the United States had voted moneys
for the proper observance. Many
good people l )iescrv
their
< mi
flag and the English flag and th*
American flag. But all the flags of
all the Nations there present could
not cover up the shame of their de
bauchery. Look at the wine bills,
and the whisky bills and the cigar
billa 1 and then look into the columns
ef your daily -papers of las< Octo
ber and read the story of that occa
sion, gotten up by politicians, con
troltd by politicians, ended by politi
cians and everlastingly besmirched
by politicians.
1 draw a second illustration from
the Garfield funeral carousal, reach
ing from Washington to Cleveland*
While the whole nation was sick with
sorrow after the worst disaster that
ever befell any country, were
public men who, at
guzzled and swilled and staggered on
the way to Cleveland, after thev got
to Cleveland and on the way Lome
from Cleyelaud. Bead the wine bills
and the whisky bills of that occasion,
which you and I helped to pay for, if
we have paid any taxes. Cleveland,
one of the most beautiful cities of
all the earth, never had so much
drunkenness and debauchery as the
night before Uarueids burial, when
the Mayors and Common Council
and Congressmen of cities and States
were there wailing for the obsequies.
I call up HMOtne'r illustration from
the last Legislature at Albany. Look
at the yeas and nays and the dod
giug of members on tie General
Street iUijroad Bill, ad the C’onrict |
Labor Bill, and the Railroad Com- I
mission Bill, and the Elevator Gain
Bill, and the Bill, and other
bills, and eyes o widely
opened yon can never get them shut.
Asa sper m -i, they decided forever!
to ruin -.he finest street in the world J
Bros' 1 .ay, by a railroad. There
has ouldomAtieu a U&y of more relief
for the peo™ of tho State of New
Yprk than when Legislature
\toic home.
1 draw the fourth illustration from
the accident atSpuyten Duyvil. The
politicians on the way home from
having qverpoiverett tl+e con
ductor, turning the car inio a bed
lam, an# one of them pulling the
rope of air-brake till the train
halted ai*l another train swept round
the curve, and thp'ijves of valuable
citizens and the bridal tour
massacre and horror, the flamWn-
what the collision left.
"T firuw another illaatrJSMn from
the River and Harbor misa® ropma
tiou—at least $50,000 infamowsly
misappropriated. Gentlemen gdng
round making campaign speeches
for their re-election may try to fix
that up, but never can fix it up this
side the Jay of Judgment and that
will fix it down. During this sum
mer I saw two of the places for
which large
made in the River and bill.
The one was a dry creek in West Vir
ginia. There was not a drop of
watojMdiere then and there seldom is
than two or three feet
deep. U starts in no particular
afl ends nowhere. Thousands
ox dolliws Voted for the development
of that creek! The appropriation
for the improvement of that creek is
of no more public value than an ap
propriation for a river or
the top of the City Hall. BwMrJle.
all swindle; nothing but swindle of
the pnblie! 1 w this summer
one place off the
soltq for which
dollars w*K3 voted. A sea uupnHl
wno his life on that coaß
told me that the change which wou
to be made there would have
one effeet. and that would bo to |H|
up the ice in winter and impede naF
igation. So there is one laugh of de
rision going around the land at that
Congressional outrage. But the peo
ple who pay the taxes seem
stupid to understand the joke. ojK
it is such an easy thing to vote
other people’s money. Many of IB
leading men of both political parties
voted for that Ration insulting, God-
What a beautiful
was for Congress
practicajrtysay: “The people of
the United States since the war have
been taxed till the blood came, now
let them irn, and with this vast stufli
plus in we can afford
to put the taxes xnfty down. Let us
give them a surprise party by light
ening their burden and giving the
young men and women of America a
better opportunity to take care of
themselvM and their families.” Not
so 1 Let people sweat! Keep ou
grinding the faces of the poor! Prana
the imckle of the harness one holH
tighter! Let Divesmave finer
and the dogs be left t^take narHH
Lazarus’sores! These oppressors oj
the common people had better loo™
out! God will mash some of them
yet! He hath declarJll that he wil
want the hairy scalp of him who go
eth ou still in transgressions.
I draw another illustration froH
the Star Route swindle. What H
precious revelation! Ai|HR proml
nent miscieants of that fraud are
politicians, Their guilt was proved
beyond all question, aud hud they
been poor men the trial would have
lasted four days, aud then they
would haye been thrown into the
Penitentiary, they had plenty
of money, so tho trial lasted four
months and left them comparatively
free. The reason that people get
condemned in this cmyitry is because
they do not steal eHigh. If you
must steal, steal •over SIOO,OOO or
there is no for a-ou.
Star Route trialHtfe to We institu
ted, but as long as there are sucli
large resources ■’ money to draw on
there will be no conviction of impor
tance. •
But there never was any thing
more beautifully consistent than
that this great crime should have re-
its side the leading infidel
of America. The only foundation
for 101-1116 and government is
the Bible. Ov<Bhrow that book and
Star Route thievery runs up to a pi%
minrn. The eharapiou infidel aavs
he does not see any crime iu his cli
ent, Of course he does not. There
is no God! There is to be no judg
ment day! There are no command
ments of Divine authority!
everybody be as he
a pandemonium such
soon make out of this
this is certain write it up soingh
aud so plainly that all the earth may
read it—*that the behavior of these
Star Route defendants is in harmo
ny with modern infidelity. Colonel
Ingersoll says so. I am glad that
infidelity has gone out of the
übstra<®Hito the realm of practical
morals, and we are having demon
strated beyond ali controversy what
itfavors and countenances.
To come down to the present time
I draw another illustration from this
present time. There were three fac>
tions in the convention at Saratoga.
You know about the forged telegram
used in the Stale Committee in be
half of one faction, and that forgery
has been rightly excoriated from one
end of the earth to Otfk other. But
there was an attempt at fraud by oimi
of the other factions at SaratoH
yiat has nut been properly ventilfl
came a moment of wUdest eicite _
itwasevddent 410^
the most vo “ cbacFol * er * ould g*
the moilwo ag nomiiiee for q QVv
ern ® r j. x lieu a man from Oneida, in
a3 Do .and a spirit of fraud as was ever
at Lempted this side of pandemonium,
said that the whule Oneida deiega-
I tion would now change frsm Wads
! worth to Cornell, trying to make a
stampede m that direction without
the consent of the members them
selves. The fraud would haye been
successful had not a man with sten
torian jxpee from misrepresented
>o(reiaasnouted: “I am from Oneida
District, and I want to change my
vote to Judge Folger.” Some honest
man demanded the calling of the roll
of that county, and it was fouud that
instead of going solidly to Cornell, as
was stated, the vote of that county
stoodkeveafur Cornell,four for Wads
worth and two ror Folger. The forc
ed telegram was intended to h3p
Folger, The fraud of that member
who misrepresented Oneida, to help
Cornell and. while honest men ana-
thematize the former, eommon jus
tice demands that they anathemat
ize the latter. While righteousness
is cruafied in the center, I show you
that on the right aud the left are the
two thieves; the forged telegram on
the one side aud the Oneida fraud—
the worst of the two thieves—on che
other. While the Cornell men hold
up their haf ds in holy grief at the
forged telegram sent to the State
Committee, they g£>v%r up with
their skirts the OnShi abomination;
but they can not hide it. J drag it
oul aud lifi it up, bo that all the
land may see to what insufferable de
-1 gradation modern politics have
come.
But there are illustrations more
than X can mention. After the large
expenditure in misting up anew
in this
still have one of the meaimst pflsons
iu Qlw-istendorc*. Money, money.
WhojA got the money? The Brook
lyn Bridge, which vjas to oost be
tween $0,000,000 and $7,000,000, is
to cost $15,000,000 or $20,000,000.
Money, money. Who’s got the mon
ey? It seems to me that it is time
. m call a halt of the political misdo
ing in this m#htry, . <1
encouraging sign
seem
spflt
the republican
rious split no one will deny.
present the split in the Democratic
party seems healed, but if \Wi have
any idei* that because Tammany is
silent Tammany ia dead yoa^make
grievous miscalcuUtion. WBt till
they a dWtribution Mf offi
ces. I think that 188 T will wegin a
new order of thiugs. I wish that a
new party conld he organ I
would have the first
recognition of tMMjißod iia
ihe affairs of men ts/
The trouble is, wo God
recognized in Wc
have a devil, yea, a of
spirits—the
devil of
devl*M falsehood, the
tice—llit no God.
plenty rye, plenty ofschnaj^PP
plenty of fraud, plenty of Legisla
tive outrage ond Congressional swin
dle, but no God. I never want to
see any union between Church and
“State in this country, I do want a
party whlxioh will openly aud with-
MMany disguise or cant recognize
Y Cod iu whose Columbus
■hdiose name Washington
dependence, and in whose
MB our institutions have advanced,
the clod of the three last
the God of those genial and in
dustrlous rivers, the God who has
given merciful protection to our ar
mies in 177 G and 1812 and 1865, the
God of our peaceful and beloved
homes. JMgwed be His name forev-
You say it would not be fair to
have such a platform of Divine
ognitiou, because •there are sofl
people who do not believe in
Well, so there are people who do not
believe in chastity, do not believe in
marriage, do not Iffelieve in rights of
property, do not believe in any sty r le
of Government; people who would
rob and steal and murder. Do you
refiaiu from makiug laws against
crime, because there are criminals?
Then why should you deuy us a
platform of Divine rccognitJßß* -
caHethere are many That
All
0 u
irty who hauHiNf^
this coun-
so blessed of God as
no other nation, blessed in bar**
jHsts, blessed in protection from for-
enomies, blessed in civilization,
we here aud now recognize HU
goodness, and ask His couf^flfPd
mercy, and in his name we set up
our banners ” This preamble, fol
lowed by a common-sense and right
eous series of resolutions as to what
you propose to do for the moral, and
agricultural, and commercial, and
mechanical, and literary, and mining
industries, would sweep every city,
every county, every township of the
United States with an overmastering
triumph,
The other plank of the platform
needs to be economy. It costs too
much to run this Away
witli foreign diplomatic machinery,
by which costly establishments are
kept up in foreign lands to settle
questions international! What is
the use of these men abroad ou large
salaries when by submarine cable
our Government may any morning
converse with ali the nations of the
earth? It once was necessary to
have these Ministers Plenipotentia
ry when it took six weeks for a let
ter to go to Europe aud six weeks
for an auswer to come back, but not
now. There is also
when it takes $200,000 to haioue
Presidential assassin. Many look
upon tfte United States Government
as made to steal from. The shovel
ing out of the nation’s treasures,
without discrimination and without
right, to sicken every phil
anthropist. Let a naan rise- with
talent and character enough to lead
in a great movement in which the
moral and the economic ideas shall
dominate all others, and the Gehen
na of modern politics will be fumi
gated and plowed under. We look
for such aA&rty and the coming of
such % niM. There must be either
reform uiruestructiou. A flight of
parrots showed Columbus the direc
tion of the land. We will come to
new and regenerate America by
flight of prayers. Ia our homes,onr
churches and our common schools
■t the principles of pure patriotism
■jjl inculcated. We want to live in
National atmosphere cleansed of
all moral contamination, and we
.want the dust of our graves untonch-
feet of demagogue anddes-
HLfiod save thß^tutc! God
Jack
-:J\. LG; C'LV IKprd Bla-
GEORGIA’S BATTLE-FIELD.
ATLANTA AND ITS SCARS OP WAR.
Correspondence Philadelphia Times.
ATLANTA, October and.
That Atlanta of which I caught
sight from Kennesaws crest seemed a
group of spires uplifted like glitter
ing obeliskspu the distant blue. Asl
thus looked foward, with forests un
der and rocks around me, it appeared
only the shining mark at which
Sherman had shot his shaft, but as
seen now, from the midst of its rum
ble, its rattle and its shrill noises, it
is so quick with the life of trade as
to threaten to drive dry history back
into the books. Overiu the quiet
woods, by New Hope Church, thought
of the things done there, during the
grand campaign came freshly up at
every turn; at this young giant
umoug cities, itself born .of battles,
one must get into the suburban fields
to catch again the echo of strife so
long siuce succeeded by factory whis
ties piping peace.
THE city’s 810 GUNS.
“Why Peach-Tree street first?” I
asked Plutarch, who held the reins
as we began to rattle over the stones
outward bound.
“Peach-Tree street fust; ’coase,
sail, hobotlyez am enuybody doan
think e’gwine no udder way. All de
big guns out tlar!’’
“Lawd, Lawd,” said Plutarch,
with a half dozen guffaws ; “no 1 sa%,
doan yo’ see I'se driven’ at the big
gun citizens? Fur instance, ole
oss Ben Hill, dead now; dat house
dar on de lef uz hissun. An’ den
dars ole (xuvnur Bullock, head’d
bout his skeedadlm’, didn’t ’ye? He
iibes iu dutnex’ house ober dor on
de lef; see ’im gwine in de doali
now.”
“Any other big gwus?”
Plutarch looked at me as if shock
ed that 1 should be so ignorant of
the distingishec Georgians whose
homes adjoin on the lovely thorough
fare out which we were riding. By
and by he liftod his whip towards a
tine mansion and fell to snatching
out words by the seore: “Hemphill’s
house; Constertution man; nics
place; boss house; mountains of
jmoney in dem newspapahs: huch,
by golly! got busted once, but he
cuk an’ come agin: sharp man; bag a
iwo ez ebber was but yo’ can’t bust a
like dat; cut and come agin.
ober dar:
yo, kno‘‘
“Whose find plains that?”
‘*B long Yankee. Ebber see
a Yank’oo didcu hab no tants? Gee
up dar, yo’ lazy critters J” •
footprints or the armies.
1 was learning more a- ut the bie
guna of however, than
a Jout Victors that concerned Atlan
ta’s battle-field, aud when I se said
to the guide he put lees exertion in
to his tongue and more into his legs.
Leading from the buggy at a place
which he mentioned as North Aven
ue hill, he pointed out the ruins of a
fort aud other objects roundabout, so
klhat I soon bad au idea"of tkacon-
Idition of Hill’s defenses. We were
*u au undisturbed section of the in
terior line of earthworks, which,
whileitmay be traced several
the in
hundreds of places by streets, gar
dens and soiled suburban blocks. At
lanta’s growth has been so wonderfu
that the war-jacket of mail knit by
Johnston about the place uo longer,
fits- The Lares and Pwiates sit
above the mantles of happy homes
(that themselves stand where once
i Mars bulged the hills with his heel.
•Sweet shrubs, gay coleus and the
bright oleander are nooked into the
depths of | ifie-pits now fringed with
theweds of the garden instead of by
circles of fire. At one place we saw
laborers hauling awthe earth of
a dismantled fort, with which to
grade a sdket, nor was it uncommon
to find a bix of parapet capped with
hedge for the preservation *of the
relic.
i THE FIELD OF PEACH-TREE Cl^jEK.
While the Federal line of circum
val latiou was not as strong as the
lines of defense, it is better preserv
ed because further from the city’s
skirts. Yet it has been plowed down
shoveled out and overgrown in so
many places that it would be quite
as hard to follow as the stretch of
works that encircle the suburbs.
PI utarch took me out to the Federal
line on the road and drove
toward a dozen other points of the
compass, indicating where sucl? and
fcuch an incident of the siege of six
plough Tight Squeeze none
Wthe girls of which looked pretty
Enough to warrant the name of the
place, and bowled along the country
end of’ Peach-Tree street to Peach
Tree Creek, where ,was fought the
first of the battle on this side of the
Chattahoochee. On that geld, now
largely in scrub oak and pine, we
found lesses lints of works, as well
as any number of shell marks and
bullet holes —scars that will stick to
the trees long after those made upon
the veteran’s body shall have moul
dered back to dust.
A RIDE ALONG- MTHERSON’s AVENUE.
But all rays of battle-field interest
focus at a certain spot in the wild
wood whereon chance left sprinkles
of heroic blood,- whereto the loving
fancies of a nation cling and wher e
of many songs shall yet be sung.
There it was that McPherson tipped
his cap towards the biting black
mouths of a dozen muskets and in
nis quick spur for liberty struck
death full tilt. It is the place of
all others hereabout to see, and to
fail in the sight is to miss the meat
from the nut, the life from the wine,
the Hamlet from the play. So thinks
ing, as the guide let his horses take
their bits freely out the Flat Sboala
pike, past some scattering houses
and to the extreme edge of the city’s
southeastern suburb, I was eager
enough when he impressively drew
rein at a roadside oak. Nailed to
ithis tree was a fingeKboard which,
n faint lettering, directed us down
aoarrow lane labeled “McPherson’s
avenue.” As, in obedience to the
sign, we wheeled to the left we found
ourselves jolting along a by-way
roughened by jagged stones, pro
jecting roots and uneven ruts.' It
was clear that McPherson's avenue
never had been used lor any other
purpose than to reach the place of
McPherson’s death. Picket fences
bordered both sides of the road and
bushes swept mud from our spokes
as we labored along. Though our
ears caught the hum of a lively city’s
noises it seemed as if we had drop
pea into a genuine bit of wilderness.
Trees were set thickly among rem
uants of ri tic-pits, and at the fmther
end of the lane rag-weed choked
briars and briars fought rag-weed in
a wild tangle over the surface of a
desolate field.
m’pherson’s .monument of iron.
I was put in m id of similar sights
seen on the skirts of the Bloody An-
I gle and happened
; to beAhinking of the unmarked spot
!of Sedgwick’s fall there when we
drew suddenly op before a patch of
black iron,
one word McPheJlV)^:
standing muzzle up on a pedestal of
stone with a picket fence of blacken
ed musket-barrels closely encircling.
The cannon, now as voiceless as the
hero whose death-spot it stands
upon, bears the peuciled names of
many comrades and of men from
eyery part of the world, nor may it
be amiss to say Time's own name
written in rust from the shell at the
apex to the stone below. Yet what
Time has done in the way of de
struction is as nothing compared
with the vandalism wrought by small
rascals whom Time will make an
swer. As made by comrades who
loved McPherson, the euclosino
picket had thirty-one muskets on
eyery side, or one hundred and
twenty lour ou the four sides, togeth-
er with nine barrels grouped at each
corner iu fanciful posts. Now the
bayonet is missing from most of the
barrels and thirty-two of the mus
kets themselves have been torn from
their iron sockets. So it comes that
the unsightly gaps in the picket, the
scratched camion and the hacked
stone make the monument rather one
in memory.of|the spirit that possess-.
es the relieshunter than in honor of
brave McPherson.
IN THE FAMOUS BY ROAD.
Scattered around the monument
uie clumps of undergrowth, saplings
Irom which canes have been cut and
stumps out of which bullets have
been taken. About twelve feet from
the enclosure stands a pine with a
girth twice as extended &s that of
the cannon. It was at the roots of
this tree that McPherson fell and
here he gave up the ghost. Old
wounds and new wounds give the
tree the look of a veteran, for its
bark has tieen chipped time and
again by persons who seek to get the
very bullet that took McPherson’s
breath. We made our way ou foot
along the blind road down which
the lallen general was spurring when
slain. As if this bridle-path always
was to be a place of misadventure,
Plutarch also ran plump into a hor
nets’ nest, but, unlike poor McPker
son, the darkey escaped to count his
stings and to damn all battle-fields
from Bunker Hill to Tel-el-Kebir. I
began to fear that the distressed
darkey might not be able to go on to
the Howard House, which was the
headquarters of the Army of Ten
nessee at the time of Hardee’s as
sault, but we pushed the horses
through the woods and reached
just at sundown. Mr. Patrick Cal
houn, a nepbew of Jo>- n C . Calhoun,
* whose battles w^ re fought with the
Q , kla/ie of logic and the lauce of
*i lore, is the present occupant of
house, now a residency bearing
few marks of fche that once
teat round. Mr. Calhoun’s absenci
l om home was deemed a misfortune;
for flhich, however, there was
compensation in scene.
The last of found us halt
ing there on the while be
fore us the wide swem? of battle field
from that height mHw, was cur
tained by the shades about to fall.
No crack of picket-gnu nor sudden
streak of flame was
upon the senses, for the star that
burns blue hard by Orion’s sword
caught the twe and the first calls of
the whippoOTwill rang from ruined
fort to fallen parapet^
* r Qt M.
EXCEPTIONAL ARCTIC ICE
DRIFT.
New Tork Herald.
The latest reportjffrom the Artie
Ocean reveal an exceptional move
ment of its ice masses, which in the
nWe of the ca#B must have a deeid
ed effect on .the coming European
winter. Owing tothc#buermous quau
tities of drift ice in,the Kara Sea the
steamer fNordenskjolk was last
month compelled to her
voyage to the Ywlisei andtput back
to Vardo. AAr being four times
battled in the to penetrate
Matoscnkin Schar her commander
went to Waigats Island, where lie
saw ice extended as far as the fifty
fourth meridian, and would haye
been frozen in there if his vessel had
not possessed such powerful machine
ry for extricating herself. On the
Iceland coast the steamer Valdemar
found some of the ports %napproacha|
ble by rSkon of massive ice even at
the close of the summer, and other
vessels arriving at Orkney on the
19th ult. from Reikiavik report “ics
already settling on the Iceland
coast, “giving promise of another
severe winter there.” Professor Nor
denskjolk hazards the opiniefu that
the Kara Sea probably does not
pletely freeze over during the wiqfer
aud that it is not entitled to the bad
name of the “ice-house” given it bv
the old northeast voyagers, but than,
“during autumn this sea is quite
available for navigation.” In August,
1870, Mack, Ulve and other naviga
tors found the Kara Sea comparative
ly free of ice, as |Payer, Nordensk
jolk and others have since found it
summer. But its present ice .condi
tions attest its unreliability as a per
manent summer route to ports ,on
the Siberian coa3t and show that
in exceptional years ikis impossable.
The profusion of OTift ice seen in
the Arctic sea all through the past
summer indicates that the previous
season has been one of unusually
large precipitation and high tempera
ture. While the sequel of these con
ditions may not be an extremely cold
winter in 1882 83 the polar
basin proper, the diffpion of its gla
cial drift toward Iceland and Noya
Zembla will most probably so far low
er the temperature of the ocean be
tween Europe and these Arctic is
lands as to make the coming Euro
pean winter at least colder than was
its predecessor. So marked and
well observed is the connection be
tween anomalous ice drift in the po
lar seas between Nova 'Zembla and
Iceland and anomalous European
wether that foreign meteoralogist s
profitably keep a sharp eye on the
former with a view to the prevision
of the character of approaching
European seasons.
Sheriffs Salesfor November.
Will be Sold before the Court Heuae door In the
town of Zebulon on the first Tuesday In Novem
ber next between the legal hours of sale the fol
lowing described property to wit:
Forty-nine (49) acres of land a part <* lot No.
One hundred and nlnety-flvfrlylng In the Second
or Flat Rock dlstrlc t of bounded
North by lands of W C by lands be
longing to estate of Mrs. IBKlia Ly le deceased,
South by lands of E F Marlin and West by lands
o Jacob Wadsworth. .Levied on by virtue ot and
to satisfy two Justice court 11 fas Issued from 592
district levied on in favor of Maddox & Rucker
vs, W I and Samuel Tate, the other In favor of
Hugh I Inman £ Cos., vs. w I and Samuel Tate,
Property levied on as the property of Samuel
Tate by J N Shockley, a lawful constable, and
returned to me. Defendant notified In terms of
tha law. October sth, 1882.
185w6t-$6.22 W. P, BUSSEY, Sheriff,
Administrators Sale- *
By virtue of an order from the court of Ordi
nary of Pike county will be sold before the court
house door In the town of Zebulon on the first
Tuesday In November next, one hundred acres of
land In the Second Dlst- Pike county being the
East Half Lot No. 165. Sold for payment of
debts anddlstrlbutlon among heirs at.law of M.L
Shockley Deceased.
JAMES M SHOCKLEY.
J. N. SHOCKLEY-
Admr. J. N. Shockley,
G EORGlA— Pike—County— C t Trice Admin
lstrator of Ben)amlj#Trice applies to me for
leave to sell aU the land of said estate for purpo
ses of distribution. This is therefore to cite all
concerned to show cause if any they can why an.
order
Arst Witassssm
E. ra WHLE t EH,
MAOTriOTOEEBS
ATLANTA, - - - GA
International Cotton Eiposltiou,
ATLANTA, GA., 1881.
Saw Gin and Self Feeder,
Exhibited by E. Van WINKLE £ CO., awarded
for Best Sample, Best General Results lu Gin
ning, and Best Constructed Machine, the First
Prize, SIOO or Gold Medal.
i B. s. ricks, Miss.
JCDGSs: <T, W. SMEDES, Miss.
(W. E. BARROWS, Conn.
H. I. KIMBALL, Director-General.
0. A 3 Pirst Premium at the south Carolina
State Fairs and Georgia Fairs.
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Send for prices.
E. Van Winkle Cf Cos.,
mayll (Box 83) ATLANTA, Gy.
Hendrix, Rockhill &. Willingham,
IN CONNECTION WITH THE DIXIE WORKS, HAVE OPENED A
GENERAL BUILDERS’ SUPPLY STORE,
No. 40 Ootton Avenue, Opposite Dixie Works,
Where they will keep a full stock of all kinds of Building Material, such as
Sagh, Doors, Blinds, Shingles, Lathes, rfhne, Hair, Cement,
Plaster, Weights, Cords, Hinges, Ijoeks, GlaSs.Wails. Paints, Oils, Putty, and
| BUILDERS I HAHBDWARE.
on all kinds of Building Material promptly furnisllfd. mar23-6m
EORGIA— Pike County— Application will be
y* made to the court of Ordinary Pike County
Georgia on the first Monday In October next
thirty days after sale of this notice for leave to
sell all the lands belonging to the estate of Hen
ry Jones of said county dec eased, consisting of
the power of the late M. E. Jones Deceased con
slstlng of 360 Acres more less in First District of
said County for the benefit of heirs and Creditors
of said Deceased. August 29th 1882.
JOHN M. PHILIPS, Admr, Henry Jones.
~G EP ^G IA—Pike County— J. F. Cauthen and
Mrs J F Bush having applied to me for perma
nent letters of Administration on the estate of
Ihomas J Bush, late of said county deceased.
Ihls Is to cite all and singular the creditors and
next of kin of T J Bush to be and appear at my
office on the nrst Monday In October next, and
show cause If any they can, why permanent ad
ministration shall not be granted to J F Cauthen
and Mrs J F Bush. Witness my hand and official
signature wugust 30th, 1882.
HARRY WELLS, Ordinary.
UniversityofiGl-eorgia
P. H. MELL, D.D., LL.D,, Chancellor,
THE 82nd session of the departments at Ath
ens Ga., viz: Franklin College, State College
or Agriculture and Mechanic Arts and Law school
wiu open Wednesday, 4th October next. Full
courees of Instruction in Literature, Science,
Engineering, Agriculture and Law. TUITION
FREE In Franklin and State Colleges. For cat
alogues and Information,address the Chancellor.
L. L. CARBOXNIEk, secretary,
aug3-im Atlanta. Ga.
GEORGIA— Pike County— September sth, ISB2
Those indebted to the estata or Mrs. c E
smith, late of Pike county, deceased, will make
immediate payment, and those having claims
against the same will present them in terms of
the law § R. j. POWELL,
sept, t: Administrator.
TO LET,
•
On Saturday the seventh day of October next,
before the court House door In the town of Zebu
lon, Pike county, the contract to build a jail
house for Said county will be given to the lowest
bidder. Said jail house Is to be built of wood tim
bers 12 inches square; to be forty two feet by
twenty feet the walls to be twenty teet high
making a two story building. The timbers are
to be aawed logs 12 Inches square and the walls
are to be weatnerboarded.
At the same time and pla#e a contract will be
given by the county Commissioners to the
lowest bidder for building cells for
said jail and doing all the Iron work thereon. The
two contracts will be separate, but the same par
ty may be awarded one or both.
The building will be required to have an 8 foot
hall running through it For plans and specifi
cations apply at county Commissioners office in
Zebulon.
Contracts will be let on Saturday October the
7th next.
EORGIA— Pike county— Notice is hereby
VJT given that unless objections be filed In the
office by the first Tuesday In October next an
order will be past making public a road leading
from near W, M. Hartleys passing Bluff Spngs
camp ground Intersecting the Zebulon and Bar
nesvliTe road near the residence of J. F. Cauthen
Also a road leading from near ~the residence o.
C. Parker and passing through lands ot Mrs ta
HUth, C. W. Sullivan, intersecting the Thomas®
||gßcd Zebulon road near the residence a®
Mil
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ZEBULON, G^B
PROMPT attention given
courts. Criminal law a sfl
Joseph. . RcJ
A TT 0 R NEY A
BARNESVILLE. G
Respect fully tenders his servlci
lisurlng prompt and Immediate *
business intrusted to Uls care In S
al courts. JWCoUectlon and CrU
c laities.
T. A. Atkins!
A T TO 11 N E Y jJ
greenvill^H
All business Intrusted
prompt art em ton.
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PHYSICIAN AND M
Officb at Gem Drco Stoke—
Pkofkietok. HS
When not at my office, I can be
residence on Railroad St.
&f~ Will use Magneto Electricity an<M
sin when desired. 10)
J.iL. FOG-Gr, i
OPERATIVE AND MECHANICAL M
(Office Up-Stairs in Bank Buildii^H
Barnesville, - - - - Greol
ljoh.ii !M!oyer, Tail
HAVING returned to Barnesville, j
found up stairs, near the post offiM
warranted. Perfect aatisfacUou given®
me.
BAJIBBIR SHOII
Robert f. miller and eli c. si
having consolidated the Barber busll
the convenience of customers and thea
wish to announce to the public that tlioM
ten prepared than ever to prosecute thwS
art. Every thing will be kept in first c!®
no pains will be spared to please all wH
lze them. '
MILLER £ STEW/
• Wesleyan Female Institute®!..,/
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA. ® .
Opens September 20tli. 1382. One of the
Schools fob Young Bodies in the
States. Surroundings beautiful, climate
surpassed. Pupils from eighteen
TERMS AMONG THE BEST IN THE UM®
Board, Washing, English Course, Latin,
German, Instrumental Music, a:o., lor
year, from Sept, to June, $253. For Catalog®?
wrlte to
Rev. WM, A. HARRIS, D. D„ Pros’*, Stauni®
Va. julill
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THE undersigned has located In
with a view to a B
MercMt Tailoring Business 1
a 1
Is prepared to supply the dßand for
Eiiliii ul Ft 1 mi Cimi , )
Broadcloth,fboeskius,
andjsuch goods. Old clothing repaired, cleanetMfl
and
MADE
la short everything in the tailoring lino wilaßj:.
Promptly Supplieam
A TEST OF
SKILL and workmans™
is respectfully asked and
Satisfaction Guaranteed™
Call at the room opposite Gazette
,-lck building, Respectfully, v
Jans-ly C. H. CORBIN.*
HAMILTON FffIALEILLIB
Weli selected course of study. Special
ment for all the ornamental branches. Faculty 1
large, able and experienced. Extensive grounds
tor recreation. Excellent buildings. 160x88 feet
four stories, containing 125 apartments. Coral
modlous chapel, Nice Recitation, Ornamenta-
Play and Batn rooms. Warmed by steam and
lighted with gas. Only two young ladles occupy
a room, charges lower than any school offering
equal advantages In the United atates. Session l
begins Sept., 11, 1882. For terms, catalogues ’
and further particulars address J TANARUS, PATTER
SON. President, Lexington Ky.
7ilnai .FariimLaiis'
813B 1 3 SALE.
By virtue ot an order from the court of Ordina
ry for Upson county will be sold before the court
house door In the town of Thomas ton in said ,
county on the first Tuesday In October next, all
the real estate belonging to the estate or James J
T. Rose late of said county deceased, that lies In M
said county consisting ot lots of land number 66,-1
67, 6s, 69 and 70 and half of lot number 71 all Hi. 1
the tenth district ot said county also us,'/ acres I
of lot number 101 and 177)4 acres of lot burn her MB
10-i in the same district me whole
1431 acres more or 1-ss iu said district. This
one of ihe most valuable and desirable tracts oi B
land In middle Georgia. It Is situated on the B
line of the Upson county Railroad s miles from®
Barnesvllle ands miles from Thomaston. There®
Is on the place one eight rooat frame
good gin house, barn, stables and all necessar jB
out houses in good repair, also a good grist mill®
run by water power, and quite a number ot
tenant houses. There is also on the place
er settlement consisting of a six room tram®
dwelling splendid new barn guou tdabl.-s and ,iB
other necessary out b uildlngs in good repali .milMl
a splendid orchard of select fruit. Ml
The lauds wIR be sold in parcels to suit u Bjl'
chasers. The terms of sale will be one half <Js|mßF'
and one half due lu 12 months secured by
the laud. Parties desiring to purchase can
munlcate with me at The Rock, Ga. Responsibly®
parties can also make easy terms as t o the pa vt®
ment. All of said lands to be sold for th; benenM
of the heirs and creditors of said debased, M :
ThoOT:. Rose Bp
▲dm. Estate of J T Rosy JK®|
Aagust 15 th, 1882. MjMwA
EORGIA—PIKE COUNTY. j||||||
Application will be made to
nary of Pike county
term after expiration of
jiLte notice, toi letf'WjJtosdlJ®'‘ ’“. ; ‘
estate of Emily J. FfrjH