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Mo Do sou on, Ga.
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commodated either hy calling on me in per
son or addressing me through the mails.
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IIRYAH A OIC'KItN,
ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
MuDonovoh, (la.
Will practice in the counties composing
,he Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and the United States District
Court. " »P r!i7 - | >'
| ASi. If. runxß,
ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Ga.
Will practice in the counties composing
the Flint Circuit, the Supreme Court of
Georgia, and the United States District
Court. marlfi-ly
Tt J.RIIUaY
lU ATTORNEY at law.
McDonough, (i.\.
Will practice in all the Courts oi ueorgin
Special attention given to commercial and
Other collect ions. Will attend all the Courts
at Hampton regularly. Office upstairs over
The Weekly oitice.
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ATTORNEY AT LAW,
McDonough, Oa.
Will practice in the counties composing the
Flint Judicial Circuit, and the Supreme and
District Courts of Georgia. Prompt aH ention
given to collections. octn- Cl
-yy A. ltHOW't.
* ATTORNEY AT LAW,
Mi Donoioh, Ga.
Will practice in all the counties compos
ing the Flint "nvuit#i! ' Supreme Court of
Georgia and the United States District
Court. iiil-lv
J| A. IT- i'M>.
attorney at law.
Ham.‘TON, Ga,
Will practice in all the counties composing
the Flint Judicial Circuit, the Supreme Court
of Georgia and tie District Court ot the
United States. S;.a inland prompt atten
tion given to Collections, Oct. 8, 1888
Jno. P. Stkavaht. | It. T. Daniel.
NTHWAKT a' I»A\!«:i,.
ATTORN'EYS AT LAW,
Gbivfin, Ga.
j j»t. It. J. AIJNOM).
Hampton*. Ga.
1 hereby tender my professional service to
the people of Hampton and surrounding
country. Will attend at) eal’s night and
day.
LA If CAM).
1 have opened a law oflicc in Atlanta, hut
will continue my practice in Henry county,
attending all Courts regular 1 v, as heretofore.
Correspondence solicited. W ill he in Mc-
Donough on all public days.
Office—Room -ill, Gate City Bank Build
in"-, Alabama street, Atlanta, Ga.
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January Ist, 1885.
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McDonongli, Tuesday. Oct. I,
Stock bridge. Wednesday, “ 2,
Shake liag, Ti v sday, “ 3,
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Sixth, Wednesday, “ ‘h
McMullens, Thursday. “
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Sai'dv Ridge, Saturday, “ I^*
Locust Grove, Monday, “ 14,
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Machine Works.
\\Te an - "mice to the PhM : e that we are
t T prepared to manufacture Engine Boil
ers : will take orders fur all kinds of Boil
ers. i- are prepart dto do all kinds of
repairing on Engines, .'' tiers .-‘-d Machin
ery, generally. 'Ac keep in stock Brass
fittings of all ' : is a Inspirators, In
jectors, Sat. Y.iHes, Steam ‘ luages,
Pipe and F’i|>e Fittings and Iron and Brass
Castings of everv Description.
OMISOUA A W IM OTT,
tn t iißi«>ni tsi sitißv.
Anti iJuu it tlniiiigrd i,i llliutc
file t'a.liinw Offieinls.
It will doubtless stiftle the worl to
know chut for the Inst month 1 have
; been engaged in the construction of a
great novel. When this story is pul>-
iishtd it will make \V lki- Collins and
\Y. Clark Ilussell and William Black
and the rest of those fellows regret that
they ever put pet; to paper. Some
idea may be had of the merit of this
story when I say that the manuscript
alone weighed two pounds, and it was
all closely typewritten. It fs easy
from that to calculate something of the
value of the story. Lord Tennyson
wrote a poem for an American paper
for which he got SI,OOO. That poem
weighed exactly half an ounce. As
there are sixty-four halt ounces in mv
story, it will be easily seen that the
value of that MS. is exactly .*t>U'oo.
1 don’t expect to make that much out
of it, but all the same the weight is
theie This great story will be pnb
lished first in England, and if the pub
lication doesn’t raise a riot or cause
another strike, l intend to go over to
England and stay there while the stoty
is being published in America. In
this way I expect to escape the ven
geance of either country. The MS.
was written in Detroit, and, of course,
it had to be sent to Louden.
I investigated the different methods
of sending. Ift uud that by sending
it from Detroit Postoflice it would cost
for letter postage just $3.20. On in
quiring at Windsor Postoffice, just
across on the Canada border. 1 found
that Canada and England had parcels
post-arrangements by which bulk of
MS. could be sent for thirty-five emits
a pound, or the seventy-five cents
all told.
I therefore determined to send the
story by parcel post from Windsor,
Canada.
Now, there is one thing 1 have never
been able to accomplish, and that is to
wrap up a parcel in such a way that il
1 went on the street 1 would escape
arrest lor carrying such a villainous
looking bundle. But there is a boy in
the Free Press office whose time is oc
cupied iu packing up parcels, and he
does the thing so neatly an ! trimly
that the post-office and express author
ities here hate to charge any postage
or expressage on such a parcel, when
it is banded to them. They fed that it
►is a credit- to them to be able to carry
so j.retty a parcel. Therefore f de
termined to have this boy wrap up my
manuscript, and I thought I would car
ry it over to Windsor and post it there.
But then arose the great specter of the
I custom office on the ivhatf. If 1 struck
an obnoxious official he would make
me undo the parcel, b>euk the ceiling
wax, and then, of course, I never could
wrap it up in the same ship-shape man
ner that the original packing had been
m. I pondered deeply over the mat
ter. Here was a difference between
seventy cents and $3 20. That would
be $2 50 saved, while the package
would get as swiftly and as safely to
its destination. 1 said to myself, I will
take this MS.Noose, over to the ens
toms house and explain matters and
perhaps they will allow the wrapped up
package to go through without exami.
nation, if they can be sure that I will
post it immediately afterwards. There
is one customs official at the dock who
seems to take special delight m worry
ing the soul out of me. 1 feel certain
that some day I shall massacre him
just w here he stands, and then shall be
hanged for itdovvn at Sandwich, and
this is one of the great reasons that in
duces me to leave America. The
massacreing would not remain on my
conscience for any length of time, but
the execution I decidely object to. I
feel certain that if 1 slaughtered this j
man I would he backed up hy the very
best opinion ot Windsor, including the
clergy. This man has a continually dis
satisfied look upon his face, andjie im
agines the whole world is composed of
smugglers. His eyes have a piercing,
distrustful and suspicious look, and
when tiie wind blows through his whis
kers the breeze ever aftei wards takes
on a -unset hue. 1 found this man
waiting there, so I went in and opened
my satchel on the counter and pulled
out the MS.
“There,” I said, “is two pounds of
literature.”
“What’s it worth?’’ lie asked, short
ly-
“ Worth, my dear sir? It’s worth
about $50,000.”
“Thirty per cent,” he answered.
“No,” I replied, “you mistake me.
I do not intend to pass it through the
custom house and pay duty on it. Far
otherwise. 1 w s going to say to you
that I am going to have this wrapped
up to-day in Detroit, and it will be ad
dressed to London. England, and all
1 want to do is take it through without
having it examined, and [tut it in the
post-office. Jt is not going to stay in
Canada, but is g, ing direct to London.
I wanted to show you what it was, so
that when it is wrapped up you will see
that it i, the same size and shape and
the same weight, with the addition of
the wrapper.”
“I have nothing to do with that.”
answered f he olftciai. g day.
“No. I know y o m ■ n . I sac;
•‘the bnv is going to alt' :.d tr Lew ap
ping. and 1 ain going to bring it over
myself. Hut wh-t i a .tiled 'o say was
that when 1 eon.e tier-., . \o.t to
let me pass lip to the p . •!’ . anti not
make me h e-ik open t! • mai and un
, do the parcel. ’
“You have got to opf .'t i f if you
bring it ovet here.
“Well, then, if 1 have to open it,
will you promise hat it you ft ml noth
ing t.utiable in it. and nothing in it but
what I tell you there i* in it. you will
McDonough, ga.. eridav.October, mnsd.
wrap it up again."
“I’ve nothing to do with ti nt. Yon
will have in wrap it op you'-self.
“llut, my dear sir, i can’t wmp any
thing up "
“1 ran’t help that.”
“Whv, yes, you can. You can nl
lyw me to pass to the post office with
it.’’
“You’ll h ive to open it if you bring
it over here.”
‘•But, my dear sir, don't you see that
1 -hall put on it be ore 1 come the seV
entv cents. < anadian stamps If 1 had
anything dutiable in such a small pack
age, the chances are that the duty
wouldn’t he more than seventy cents,
anyhow, and if 1 took this wrapper off
1 would lose my stamps. Besides 1
will register it if you like, and bring
you back the receipt so that you will
see that 1 have posted it ten minutes
after you let me pass with it,”
“ I can’t do it.”
‘ Well, then, as the head office of the
customs is iu the p-st-offioe building,
perhaps you will let me go up there
with it and have one of the gentlemen
come down and see me post it. I
know one or two who will do that for
me in a minute.”
“I can’t help it, I have mv duty to
do and 1 shall do my duty.”
“Duty? There’s no duty on priii
tor's manuscript.”
•• You can’t pass this gate without
opening that package.”
“Well, look here,” I said, getting
more and more exaspeiated as 1 talked,
“supposing I have a policeman here at
the gate who will handcuff me and t ike
me up to the P. O. by the ear, and
himself diop the package into their
hands. You see yourself this thing is"
going to London. England. It is not
going to stop in Canada. There w ill
he no possibility of my smuggling if 1
wanted to.”
“A great many smoother looking
men than you are smugglers,” replied
the cynical customs officer.
“Don’t you think there are some
who do not smuggle?” 1 asked
“Precious few of them.”
“Do you think 1 would smuggle?”
“1 wouldn’t risk you very far. I
don’t know you. How do I know but
you would smuggle if you got the
chance?”
“Well,” I said, “for the past ten or
fifteen years 1 have come through this
gate nearly every night, and that makes
about 7,500 times' and in that period 1
have generally carried this hand hag
ami al wavs opened it, and you have
never seen anything in it except MS.
or papers or magazines, and so it seems
to me ”
“Look here,” he cried, “theie is no
use of your talking here any longer.
You have got to open that package
when you bring it over.”
By this time 1 felt that if I did not
leave the precincts of the custom house
there would be a fight. However, 1
said to him:
‘ You remember about the first day
you were put on here that you made
me come into the office because 1 had
Harper’s Magazine in my hand, and
you spent about half an hour in finding
what the duty on Harper’s Magazine
was, although, 1 assured you there
'wasn’t any duty? A fine customs
' house officer you are.”
“1 don’t remember anything of the
sort, but there is no use of talking any
more about it. Any package that, pus
es here must be opened no matter who
carries it.”
“All right,” I said, “I’m coming
over here with that package and a shot
i gun loaded.”
As i sailed hack to Detroit on the
ferry boat 1 began to think that, after
all, it wasn’t worth while slaughtering
j even a customs house officer lor two
dollars and a half, when that was all it
really amounted to. My defense in
the case, even if I were triumphantly
acquitted for justifiable homicide,
would probably amount to more that
two dollars and a half, and from my
experience of Canadian lawyers, T
think it would have overreached that
sum. So 1 said to myself, “I will pay
the whole amount and let it go irotn
Detroit.” I brought it to a gentleman
ly official who sells stamps tor cost
! price at the Detroit post-office and
| handed it in to him to weigh it.
“What’s this stuff?” he asked.
‘"Stuff?” I replied. “My dear sir,
that i& a story that 1 have written, one
of the greatest stories that ever left
Detroit?”
“Oh. its going to leave Detroit?” he
said, with au.air of relief. “Well, in
that case we will have to make trans
portation just as cheap as we can.
Nothing in here but
“Nothing. It will be about three
itollats and ten cents, ! imagine”
“Yes, at letter postage. Hut if you
write above the address there ‘commer
cial patters,’ they will go at a special
rate.” -
“And what will the postage be?” I
asked.
“Let’s see: thirty-two ounces. Six
teen cents.”
And to think, I said to myself, as I
droi [it-d '.lie package in the proper re
ceptacle. that 1 came near making
away with a customs house oflicer in
order to have the privilege of paying
about five times as much to the Cana
dian post office author.ties, when after
all I have mote solid ignorance in my
head than even that objectionable cus
toms house official.
i tit what a row the Governor Gen
eral will raise when he finds that a
Windsor official caused the Dominion
|to lose seventy cents!
T:rt: Mood must be pure for tTe body
Itobe in peHect condition. Dr. .1. If.
McLean’s Sarsaparilla makes pure
i blood and imparts the rich bloom of
j health ai d vigor to the whole liody.
M»uv »■' ITIOI * t’KOM.r.
It is really wonderful how many fa
mous people otto naets r.t Atlantic
City hy the sea. It is, of course, a fa
mous |-.lace, and people, go there fiom
all ovi r t -o United States, hut the way
you can tin across dukes, ! rds, getter
als, governors, admit ids, judges and ,
senators is something po itively atnaz- j
ing. I hud been there just iwo hours;
this last summer when a (Hxli.nyuc \
looking man came up to mo on the
veranda ami •said:
“Beg pardon, but 1 feel that 1 should (
like to know you personally. 1 have ;
read your ‘ Innocents Abroad,” and
had many a hearty 1 mgh over it.
“But 1 did not write the Tnnoeeuts
Abroad,’ my friend, son have con
tounded ntc with Mark Twain.”
“( Hi— ah ! Well, ifi’a al! the same.
I’ve read after you, like your stylo,
and 1 desire to introduce myself us
Lord Cardovor. of England.”
“Glad to meet you, tuv .uni. You
dou’t look well.” ‘ v
“No, 1 am not well. That's why 1
came to America —for the change. 1
am in hopes to improve very fasi
now.”
“Did the Lordess and the little
Loidlings come with you ?’’
“Well, no. They couldn’t get away,
you see. It’s a sort of flying trip, you
know.”
“it must, he awfully nice to he a lord
and to boss everybody around and to
have a big castle and forty hired girls
1 and to trade with a grocer who daren’t
| send in a bill, and to have a coat of
arms, showing that you descended
from some haughty old ruler of 3,000
j years ago.”
“It is—it is,” he feelingly replied,
as he bowed his thanks, for the live
j cent cigar 1 held towards him.
We talked for an hour or two on va
i ions matters, and then he sai 1 he
\ must go, blit would see me again soon.
|He said it did his soul good to meet
with a man of nty stamp—a man with
, lofty ideas and an unsuspicious natur-,
I and ho still held my hand in a loving
i grasp when a sudden thought occurred
I to him.
“Oh, hy the way, I see that the
steamer hy which I shall receive L I,OOO
is reported as arrived in New York,
hut 1 won’t get the money in a day or
two yet. C'oufd you spare me S2O ?”
There were tears in mv eves as 1 re
plied that I could not. I had only sev
en cents after getting down there, and
didn’t see how 1 was to get any more
for two weeks. I would willingly give
him five of this, and try to run things
on a cent a week, hut he refused to
take it. He dropped my land as if it
had been a red-hot cold-chisel, and his
face showed that l;is liver was out of
order as he turned away and walked
off. 1 saw him frequently for the next
two weeks, and tfiou;: h I called him
my lord, and took off mv hat and
bowed low, lie cut me cold and dead.
How I offended him I do not know.
1 never had much experience with lords
and perhaps 1 rubbed the fur the wrong
way or checked him up too high.
Only a day or two after ray meeting
with the lord an admiral came around
to see me. I had just got a bag of
peanuts and a big.rocking chair, pre
pared to enter into the ftstiviues of the
occasion, when he interrupted. He
was a short, fat man, inclined to a large
lot of freckles, and the checks iu his
suit were rather loud, hut clothes don't
make the man, you know. lie intro
duced himself as Admiral White, of
the navy, and added that he had want
ed to sec me for upwards of eighteen
years.
We sat and had s long talk. 1 was
surprised at the perfect confidence we
seemed to have in each other from tho
very start, and our frankness would
have done your heart good. Incident
ally, of course, he referred to the fact
that he captured Fort Fisher and Fort
McAllister during the war, and that he
led the advance on New Orleans. I
didn’t dispute him, but I told half a
a dozen lies equally as good, and the
way we did enjoy om-selves was ini
inense. Finally the parting came. I
knew what it would bring, and I was
sad. As he tose up and put his hand
oti my shoulder in an affectionate way
he said :
“I have just sent to our paymaster
for a thousand or .so, hut it won’t come
down until this evening. Meanwhile
1 want to send my wife off on the Bal
timore train. If you can spare me
thirty or forty dollars, I’ll run over
with it about 8 o’clock to-night.”
Then 1 had to own up to him that
owing to the caving in my gold mine
in Yucatan, arid the of $3,000,000 by
fire in California, and the non arrival
ol rny semi-annual dividend of $500,000
from my diamond pasture in Africa, 1
was hard up and secretly using stove
polish on irty shoes in place of the reg
ular luxury.
“But von don’t doubt me ?” lie ask
ed.
“Never! I would die rather than do
it.”
But lie went away grieved and mad
and next day when I met him at the
postoffice and attempted to link
my arm in his in a brotherly way he
repulsed me and said 1 ought to be ar
rested on my looks.
The next caller found me down on
the sand-, w lit re ] was trying the ef
fects of a sunbath on a boil which
wanted to monopolize all my leg. He
was a line looking man, tall and straight
and he had on a black suit and sj>oke
seven different languages. I didn’t
hear hut one, bfit a boy further back
on tlie beach said he used the other six
i’t walking the first liftv feet away
| from me. lie introduced hint;elf as
Brof. Langley, of Harvard, and ex
plainer! that It s great specialty was
mathematics. \Ye shook. We liked
each other flora the first look. Some
people hold you off, you know, until
they can ascertain whether your great
grandfather wa- the confidential advis
er of William the Conqueror, or ©nlv
a foremast hau l on the Mayflower, hut
we were not that way. Y\ hen we had
talked a bit, he said :
“lining as 1 have read all the speeeli
cs you base made in the Senate, and
being as my friend, the President,
warned tue not to neglect to call on
you while here, 1 have taken this liber
ty. Have 1 presumed too much ?"
Oh, no !he hadn’t. Ho hadn’t pro
■muted even ten per ceiit. I’d have
been too glad to get up at midnight to
receive him, and if ho had brought
Harvard College along I’d have shaken
hands twice around.
The professor and 1 talked astrono
my, geometry, navigation, addition di
vision and lots of other things, hut
alas ! the moment came when we must
hid each other adieu. Ou> duodena
were betrayed hy our faces. A wo
man who w:rs looking down oil us front
die sidewalk supposed from our de
meauor that each of us li.td lost a step
mother.
"Old boy, farewell!” finally■exclaim
ed the professor as he kicked mv boil
and rose up.
“Well, old man, ii’s tuff.”
"It is, indeed, and 1 shall never for
get this hour.”
“Nor I, either.”
“I—l’ve got a cheek here for five
hundred," he went on, his voice being
much broken, “hut I am not to present
it until to-morrow. If you will let tna
have about S2O until 1) o’clock in the
morning 1 should esteem it a great fa
vor.”
1 had to tell him that 1 had just
been robbed of a cool $5,000, and that
my treasurer at home had just abscon
ded with $75,000, and that the pro
ceeds of the sale of ray 200,000 fat
Texas steers would not reach me for
three or four days yet, and he went
away as the others had done, wonder
ing at man’s inhumanity to man. I
saw him a few days after on the street
car, and when I called him ‘Piof.’ in a
friendly wsy, and asked hint to go fish
ing with me, he angrily retorted :
“Young man, don’t try any of your
tricks on nte! I’m right on to you for
a confidence man !”
Slick to A our Town.
There are some people in almost ev
ery town or community who persist in
buying what they need away from
home. Such persons are not the help
they ought, and could he, to their town.
The following remarks on this subject
from an exchange are. so appropos that
we give them for the benefit of out
readers :
“You would he surprised to see a list
of people who persist in this policy.
Some of them honestly believe they
are getting things cheaper. They are
ignorant because they come from abroad
—they are snobs.”
“Now look at it. You send to New
York or go there to buy a set ol furni
ture. You do not know where to go.
You are at the mercy of a dealer who
sizes you up and charges you two or
three prices. Your town merchant
goes there; he knows where to trade.
Ho understands where to get the best
fu.-niture for the least money. He buys
a large lot of it, and ten to one he can
sell you the identical furniture cheaper
than you bought it in New York.”
“There is a practical and a patriotic
lesson in this. You will find that you
will save money by purchasing your ar
ticles at home. You are sustaining a
legitmate business, building up a good
store, making your town a good market,
aiding in lowering the prices and in
creasing the quality and variety of
goods; you are doing the l>est thing for
your own pocket and your | rosperity.
(Eve your own dealer a chance; favor
him with your order. If he hasn’t got
what vou want lie will get it. The way
to ,r et the best goods lor least money is
to buy them at home. 'J he way to
build up your city is to trade at home.
The way to serve yourself and help
your neighbor is to buy at home. Don’t
‘roast’ your town, dust believe that
whatever you get in your town is better
than anything you can get elsewhere
which is probably true, and you will tu-t
regret it.”
HiS lilrdu in tlu; 'i'rniiNViiul.
Most of the larger birds that 1 have
seen in the Transvaal are evidently of
great bodily powers, which their ample
wings sufficiently indicate. These are
hall vulturine in form as well as habit.
My companion and 1 wounded a bird
of this description one day with the.
gun (with which we have fail liberty
here). I don’t know its name, hut
here is a description : body and neck
pure white, wings black, flat hill
inches long, legs 21 inches and bi feet
fiotn tip to tip of the wings. We
brough him home and had him going
about on the green for days. < )ne day
we discovered him “bolting” a snake
about two feet long (by description the
African cerastes, a rather evilly dispos
ed species, one of the cobras), and tbs to
days afterwaid we foe id hirn dead.
Next in size to this bird is the Kaffir
crane, which is dark blue, in plumage.
This is much of the build of the former
bird, with this exception—its bill is
m re of a beak, short and strong. Next
comes the vulture, truly of the fowl
feeding race, for he is not long in [lick
ing the hones of any oxen that die. It
used to be a line of £2O for shooting
this bird in the Free States, they weie
considered so \aluahle in removiug
putrescent animals remains, and I be
lieve their services are essential yet.
We have half a dozen dilferent kind of
hawks, gome resemid.ng our English
birds of prey in si/e and habits, hut of
much finer plumage.
\ < txri.v uisrtui-:.
Then-is great complaint that some I
of the cotton, covered with cotton bag
ging. that lias thus far reached the
pints, is insufficiently covered. The
farmer, who does not put enough cover
ing on It's Iwtles to confine the cotton,
makes a cosily mistake. One is, that
the cotton drops out o, the halo iu its
handling, and there is consequently, a
loss iu weight. Another is, that the
cotton is exposed to the weather and
becomes damaged. It’s value, there
fore, is decreased. Still another is.
that the exporter who purchases the
cotton has got to get additional covet
ing for it before lie can ship it, and the
farmer has to Tav fotr this covering in
some wav,
The M 'ruing News calls the atten
tion of the farmeHt to this matter for
their own good. It. it impossible to
get the best lesult t'rgni cotton that is
not iii the condition that the trade re
quire . Bite factors, of course, will do
the best they can for their customers,
hut it is impossible for them to handle
cotton, to the best advantage, when it
is not properly covered.
There is another thing that must he
taken into consideration. An effort is
being made to get the Liverpool cotton
exchange to make a tare allowance for
cotton covered with cotton bagging.
The effort, doubtless, will ultimately he
successful. At present, however, the
exchange does not regard cotton hug
uiug with favor, and is not disposed to
make any concessions in its behalf. If
cotton covered with cotton bagging, ar
rives in Liverpool in a ragged condi
tion, the exchange will he more hostile
to that kind of bagging than it is at.
present. The readjustment of tho tare
allowance, so as to put cotton covered
with cotton lmggittg on a footing with
that covered with jute hugging will he
delayed. If the fanners are careful of
‘heir own interests, those of them who
use cotton bagging will cover their
hales so completely that theie will be
j no cause for complait.
A n A uiil ysis «r Honor.
Tho New York World has an article
on the above subject which we consid
er worthy of editorial prominence,
as it has bearing upon a little affair
which lias boon engaging the attention
of Georgians for several days. The
World’s article in given below ;
“Honor,” of the code kind, is the
queerest thing on earth It contra
dicts itself without blushing and does
the. most astrociously dishonorable and
disreputable things without shame.
There are just now two mumbers of
the Georgia legislature, for example,
| who arc saturated with honor. Tluty
reek of it- It extends from their pores
i and, as chemists say, “determines to
I compound.” They have qfiorruled
about something and want to fight a
duel, hut Governor Gordon has Intel fer-*
ed by at testing one of them ami exact
ing his “personal pledge” not to leave
Atlanta without giving notice.
Now let us analyze this situation to
see wlrat honor consists of. As mem
bers of the legislature, these men are
sworn to not engage in a duel. Ordi
nary men would say that to violate
that oath would bo perjury and among
ordinary men there is a strong preju
dice against perjury as something dis
honorable. Yet it is honor which
prompts these men to commit it.
But while the precious pair are ready
and anxious to forswear themselves,
their sense of “honor” is so high that
the governor confidently trusts the
“personal pledge” of one of them as
surely binding.
Again, to destroy a man in a duel is
murder bv the laws of the State of
which these men are law givers. It is
a popular notion that crime is dishon
orable- Yet these two excessively
honorable men are prepared to commit
that crime with the jauntiest readiness
imaginable.
What a hideous absuidity the whole
business is, to be sure.
The great gubernatorial contest
election case, in West Virginia, still
“hangs fire.” The election took place
last November, at the same time the
presidential election occurred, hut the
ijuestion as to whether Goff, repubii
can, or Fleming, democrat, was elected,
has never been definitely Jsettled unfil
last week. At least, the legislative
committee having the investigation of
the matti r in charge, have only just
finished their labors and made their re
port, which is that Fleming is elected
by “214 majoiify; hut ho cannot be in
stalled until the legislature meets and
approves their report. They investi
gated near 4.000 votes, and found that
illegal votes were cast for both candi
dates, hut that tlieio were 324 more il
legal ones cast for < JofF than there
were for Fleming, which elects Flem
ing by a majority of 214.
Representative Mclver, the colored
Legislator now serving in the Georgia
House of representatives, i» a lonely
widower, and has made up his mind to
gel married. To a question asked by
a Journal reporter as to his matrimoni
al intentions, the old man replied, with
a low bow : Yes. sir, udien I have
found the woman I iutenrt to he mar
ried on the floor of this house. I shall
get one of the clergy men in the House
to perform the ceremony, and every
member shall be invited. 1 will ask
the Speaker to occupy his seat and I
will take my stand in front of his desk
with the woman of my choice, and
there, facing my brethren of the House,
i will once more assume the matrimoui
ai yoke. I lielieve in doing everything
in order, sir.”
If you feel “out of sorts,” cross and
ieevi-.li —take Dr. J. 11. McLean’s
Sarsaparilla; cheerfulness will return
and life will acquire new zest.
i\ Fi Ti kix
The little boys of ii well known gen
tleman of this city devote considerable
attention to tlio raising of ducks, their
fa'her taking all they can raise at the
usual market price when they are
grown.
Recently one of the boys aged alxmt
lf> approached the father and told him
he wished to sell him a brace of fine
woll grown dneks at 35 cents ouch—
for tutu re delivery. 'I he father Iteing
absorbed in some perplexing legal
question —being a lawyer—closed the
contract and paid over the price agreed
—although it was ten cents each more
than he had but recently paid a youn
ger biother for “spot” ducks—or ducks
delivered on the payment of the money.
Hut a few days elapsed before the
younger brother made complaint to the
father that he had paid the larger
brother ten cei ts more for ducks for
future delivery than he bad paid him
for “spot” ducks—and that the older
brother had no ducks yet hatched out
but that they had yet to bo batched
and raised bofero he could deliver them.
The information set the father to
thinking that his boy had lx:en guilty
of sharp practice upon him, and on
meeting him he asked him what lie
meunt by practicing such methods up
on him. The boy replied: “Well,
father, 1 have an absolute guarantee
that the ducks i sold you for future
delivery will be all I represented—and
I mean to deliver them in good faith
in due time.” “Yes, but sir,” replied
die father—“ Mow was it you charged
me more fot "future” ducks than your
little brother has for “spot?”
The son replied—“ Well, sir, you
know “futures” are often higher than
“spots” in market quotations—and the
rule holds good in ducks as well us ill
cotton, grain or other produce,” and
the answer was so shrewd that the as
tute Judge and father had to acknowl
edge himself “cornered” and threw tip
the spon„e.
This narration is an actual occur
rence and transpired in this city within
the past two weeks—the father being
his Honor Judge Is. R. Rower, and
the boys bis two eldest sons.—Rain
bridge Democrat.
Fiikliiikl vs. Ameriesi.
Touch tbo linance of England, how
ever slight, and you will hear the lion
growl. This is thu most wily beast of
all the animals known to the civilized
world. In all the contests with other
powers, lie has had the happy faculty
of keeping the enemy divided and his
own forces united. In this way ho has
brought France cronching to his feet ;
and in this way he was cnab’e to pro
long the war of ’79 and hold Ireland in
fetters, dictate the American financial
policy, and hold them in tribute to his
royal highness. Rut the most remark
able trait of characteristic displayed is
his power to make converts in overy
country. Cromwell found advocates
of the feudal system among the people
subjugated; bo probed Franco and
found those who were willing to sell
country and people; the tories of ’7G
acted the part of traitors and spies—
bartering themselves, their country and
their liberty to further the interest of
England. It was the great wonder of
the American patriot how an American
colonist, indentified with the American
people, could protect England against
American interest. Reuedict Arnold
is referred to as having committed the
most revolting crime known to the
American people. And while the same
exclamations of surprise are heard,
America is fast succumbing to English
policies. Silver is demonetized iu the
interest of Euglish gold; greenbacks are
called in the interest of Euglish bonds.
And even when tbo farmers of the
country detnurr against English mer
cantile exactions and intimate the sub
stitutions of home products for English
importations, the beast, though appa
rently asleep, shows his teeth with an
emphatic growl which defies interfer
ence with vested lights. And, strange
as it may appear, the press of this
country has done more to fuither Eng
lish interest than any other factor. For
the last half century England has had
access to many of the leading jcuruals
of this fair land of ours and have used
them successfully in keeping the people
divided, thereby enabling her majesty’s
subjec-s to fasten financial and commer
cial systems that are burdensome to the
producers of our own free continent.
And we are not allowed to say “tory”
now, as this class has so multiplied as
to attain respectability. We cannot
say “Arnold” with any degree of free
doom, as the financial policy of some of
tire leading papers of the nation mignt
be impaired. Let this Euglish beast
show liis menacing teeth and growl as
often as he feels like. The Mercury
will be found as true to the interest of
the peoplo as the needle to the pole.—
So them Mercury.
The legislature has passed the cig*
arette bill, which provides that it shall
be uulawful for auy person to furnish,
sell, give, or provide auy minor with
cigarettes, .cigarette .tobacco, cigar
ette paper, or any substitute therefore.
The penalty is the same as that pre
vided for misdemeanors, which is im
prisonment for not more than one year,
or a fine no. exceeding SI,OOO. It is
a good law, and the merchants should
help enforce it.
The bravery aud nerve af Napole
on, Ney, Wellington, Lee and Grant,
have been told and extolled, but the
courage of these men dwindles away
when compared with the nerve and
dauntless bravery of Mr. John Ter
hune, of Franklin, Indiana. He has
recently married his mother-in law.
Here's heroism for yt n.
NO. 2H.