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THE TRUE CITIZEN.
Vol. 1.
Waynesboro, Ga., May 26, 1882.
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No. 5.
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Current Comments.
The Atlanta Drummer is a real good
paper.
Will somebody explain to us the
particular difference between Ingersol
and Talmago ?
It is hard to find a girl who hasn’t
gono back on some fellow, and would
go back on some other fellow.
Macon expects to have a shirt fac
tory in operation by the 1st of July.
The editors of the Telegraph can then
change shirts.
The cat is the great American prima
donna. If bootjacks were bouquets,
her nine lives would be strewn with
roses.—Newberry Herald.
Senator Brown was in his scat on
the 16th and was warmly congratulated
jnany Senators on his return. He
is hearty, and is ready for his good
t'/Washington.
fjexchange publishes a half column
flounder the head, “When to Curry
bio,” It could have been told in a
Jrords. The boat time to curry a
fe is just after he is dead.
re "Waynesboro correspondent of
Macon Telegraph & Messenger,
|speaking of Mr. Stephens, says :
Pestle commencement de lefiu.” Such
Planguage will fall with awful,
effect upon “the old Common-
/oted head.
yr Blair says his sympa'hies
Kith the “under dog”—Peru.
Id testimony, however, proves
Fhat Blaine, Blair and Boutweli, while
Weeping over “the under dog,” they
had concocted an adroit scheme to s'rip
the hide off him as soon as he was dead.
Mr. T. W. Powell, of Scull Shoals,
has 1,200 acres of the finest oats ever
seen, and has bought four reapers to
harvest them.—Ex.
fe merely print this to tantalize
of our farmers who live on Ton •
ee fried bacon and damaged wes-
korn meal.
Candidates for the judgship of this
judicial circuit are becoming numerous.
Judge Claiborne Snead, of Augusta, the
present efficient incumbent, will be a
candidate for re-election ; Judge Will
iam Gibson, of Augusta, and formerly
judge of this circuit, wants to get back
into his old place, -and has taken the
field. He is a shrewd and accomplished i
For The Citizen.]
SHILOH'S OFFERING.
IN MEMORIAM, GEN. ALBERT SIDNEY
JOHNSTON.
BY J. HOWARD CAKrENTER.
I would not wake the passions of dead years—
God knows I pray that they may ever sleep—
But I would glory in a sea of tears,
Such as a bruised people love to weep.
1 would not lift tho veil from burled wrongs.
Or strike one chord to whet Revenge's sting;
politican of experience. Judge John T. 1 Bul 1 wolll(1 drown hoart an,i soul ln s°ngs-
h, , , „ . , Such as a bleeding people love to sing,
bhewmake, also ot Augusta, will ask the
Legislature to raise him from the floor
to the bench. He is a good lawyer and
has age and experience, and is an hon
est man. On dit, that Judge R. O.
Lovett, of the Waynesboro Herald,
and present Judge of the County Court
of Burke county, will be on the roll of
candidates for the same position.—
We give this (rumor for what it is worth,
not knowing the fact. He is a good
lawyer, and has generally given satisfac
tion as Judge of the County Court.—
Hon. H. C. Roney, of Thomson, Mc
Duffie county, is also seeking the hon
ors of the ermine, and will com® before
the Legislature as a candidate for the
judgeship. Mr. Roney came from the
war a poor, wounded, crippled boy, and
by untiring industry and ridged economy
saved enough to educate himself, and is
a graduate of the State University. He
read law under Judge Potile, of War-
renton, Warren county, and has been in
the practice of law some ten or twelve
years, and in his profession commands a
lucrative practice,and holds an honorable
place. He has served the people of
his coun y in the Lower House of the
State Legislature, and he now retires
Irom the Legislature with the respect
and friendship of his colleagues and the
love and confidence of his peop'e. He
was for about t^o years editor a id pub
lisher of tho McDuffie Journal, during
which time he made a good name both
for himself and the Journal. Of course,
we cannot say who will yet become can
didates, or who will finally win, and
feeling a warm personal friendship for
some of the above named gentlemen,
and with no disposition to do any of the
others either injustice or injury, bu
with a learned, just and efficient, officer
already in place, we think we had better
“let well enough alone.”
Gruiteau’s .Latest Letter.
Washington, May 19.—Guiteau
has sent out another letter. It
reads:
I tell the American people and its
officials, from the Executive down
to the Court iu banc, who are review
ing my case, that I tell the truth,
“and lie not,” when I say I am God’s
man in the matter of President Gar-
The Greenback State convention of
Pennsylvania nominated Thos. A.
Armstrong, of Pittsburg, for Gov
ernor. •
Col. Wadley promises the citizens of
Athens to put tho rolling stock and
equipments on the road to Jug Tavern
if they will grade aud crosstie the road,
A good question lor a debating so-
len^Und professors out in Min-
pistols that they may ap-
awe-inspiring in the
[unsopTTmill^k|nidents. And
Iota is a State nmfflWWNjy “the
|that God made”—Telegraph &
iger.
l’t that last clause rather a debat-
juestion ?
r. John Yarborough, of Lumpkin,
me square of Irish potatoes from
Far den last week, and obtained twen-
Jfushels of potatoes. He has been
fng them from this square for several
[mAh,besides feeding his hoardors on
to during court week.—Columbus
Fctiies.
Well, yes ; hut how large was that
square ?
Sid Lewis, lately of the Sparta Ish-
laelite, is now on the editorial staff of
Macon Telegraph & Messenger.—
Messenger, already one of the best
lost enterprising dailies in the
editorial conduct of
*amar, will receive a new impetus
irom the pungent and facile pen of Col.
Lewis. Lamar and Lewis forms indeed
a strong editorial team.
* Waynesboro^
ing new
ClTI2
The Superior Court of Decatur coun
ty adjourned last week after a four
days session because there was n t mon
ey enough in the coun'y treasury to
pay court expenses. The docket it, is
reported, e a month to clear
it, close work, and more new cases mv
being continually begun than are taken
off the docket. Harrell, the defaulting
Tax Collector, w-is arrested some time
ago in Texas, and brought back, and-is
now at homo under bond, with little
prospect of being tried, from the fact
that he stole tho coun'y treasury so dry
that ho did not leave enough county
funds to pay tho expenses of a hearing.
Says the New York Sun : “An ap
propriation of a quarter of a million
dollars for American forts causes
grumbling in Congress while one of half
a million might create a riot. But
Russia is ordering foriy-five million
dollars to be expended on forts at War
saw, Konow and Gonionds. This
lavifihness eclipses even our annual
r&x and harbor jobs, and is only sur
>assed when we devote half a million
to pension swindles.”
I would not write npon a brazen scroll
The faults of those who met us in the strife ;
But I would tell of one heroic soul,
Who sealed his true convictions with his life.
A noble spirit, born to wield the sword,
And lead the charge—tho’ death lay in its path—
If but his consience did the cause approve.
And yet, as gentle as a rustle maid—
Who—all unused to sights that daily greet
Tho crowding throngs along the city’s streets,
Of hungry eyes, and still more meager dress,
With kindness speaks e'en to the lowest beasts.
The leaden hail was flying thick and fast;
Aud friends and foes, commingled, dying lay;
When, riding with his surgeon to a spot
Where bayonets had lately done their work,
He spied a soldier, ghastly pale and faint,
Whose life blood wag fast flowing from his side,
And tho’ he wore the Union epaulettes,
Our hero saw him uone the less a man ;
And yielding to that impulse of the heart,
Which buds and blooms in Christian charity,
Ho left, to aid this luckless man of war,
And catch, perchance, some good-by, soft and
low,
Breathed from Ids lips while in delirium
'"o loved ones far away in northern climes,
The surgeon of his staff, and rode away.
How truo it seems that, Fate can see afar
That object dearest to the human heart;
And, stung with envy, draw her cruel bow,
With keen precision, on the shining mark.
Scarce had the groans of him, whom ho had left
In skilful hands, ceased falling on his ear,
When he, too, fell. So fair a mark could not
Escape the sight of bleeding foes. His heart,
So warm with love to God and man, poured out
Its life-tide fast; and ere his surgeon could
Be summoned from *l\e last work he'd enjoined,
His spirit winged its upward flight to "shed."
Thou, god of war ! who didst enthron’d sit,
And nightly bathe thy brow in martyrs’ blood,
Poured out each day upon thine altars black,
As an libation for the cause they loved;
And kept thy temple with their marrow lit,
That thou mightst feast upon the tharr’d ra
in ains
Thy greedy eyes, and in the pool of tears,
By hungry orphans and 'one widows sited,
Baptize thyself, cans! thou, by lookiug back
O’er all the records, of thy bloody reign,
Recall an entry of a sacrifice,
For any cause, however true and just—
Which was as pure—so free from earthly stain—
So high above ttie venal thoughts of life—
As that, which was on Shiloh’s awful field,
When vict’ry perched upon the Southern Hag,
Offered up to thee ? Unlock thy rusty
Vaults, which for centuries have setu no light;
And rom thy ledgers brush the cobwebs off;
And break the seals -beginning with the one
Which first records an off’ring made ti thee—
And see, if Sparta, at Thermopylae,
With her three hundred, patrotic souls;
Or Ooriolanus, whom tho Volsol s'ew,
For yielding to his mother’s pray’r for Romo ;
Or Regulus, who rather chose the death
That cruel Carthagenians might invent,
Than have tho stigma of a falsehood laid
Upon the Roman name. Yes ; see if these,
In vlrt#e, love and truth, can bnllanoe sheets,
Tho' thousands to their credit be with him
Who died for the t lghts of man at Hhiloli ?
field s removal, and that if a hair of c } e ty : which causes tho greatest Rum
my head is harmed the Almighty
will make the officials that do it pay
well for it. If I was outside I would
lecture, under the auspices of some
bureau, on religious subjects. One
of my subjects would be, “Paul, the
Apostle, and kindred topics.” If
my time has come to
ber of deaths among the animal king
dom, the use of Western oorn ; or, tho
want of Georgia oats and corn 1
world I am willing, but I want the
officials that murder me on the gal
lows to understand the issue. If
they murder me they will incur the
wrath of Almighty God, aud it will
be a long time before He lets up on
them and this nation. The devils
that crucified the despised Gallilean
thought they were doing God’s ser
vice, but that did not release them
from liability. They and their nation
incurred the wrath of the Almighty
by that act, and he got even with
them at the destruction of Jerusalem,
and he will get even with this nation
and with the officials if I am mur
dered on the gallows. I want an un
conditional pardon or nothing, and I
want the Executivo to so understand
it. I have set forth my views fully
A mineral spring in Arkansas,
whose water turns an red as blood
when confined in a bottle, and an oil
leave this) well in Kentucky, from which flow*
an abundant supply of refined petro
leum, all ready to produce a pure
and brilliant flame, are among the
new wonders of the country.
Augusta News: The early peach
takes the gold rimmed cake. We
learn that a crate of early peaches
sent North from Florida were sold at
the fabulous price ol 75 cents a peach.
Tho variety was the Peen-to, a
Chinese peach introduced by Mr. P.
J. Berckmans all the way from
China and Australia. Mr. Berck
mans showed us ripe peaches from a
tree of the Pcen-do on the 12th of
May, inst., the earliest peach ever
ripened iu this section. The tree
has to be protected from frost in this
latitude, as it blooms in December.—
on this in my bock, “The Truth and (The variety is exactly suited for
the Removal.” If the honorable j Florida, however, and Mr. Berekmana
jurists representing the Washington j has been shipping the troeH to tho
Court in banc decide this case accord-1 Land of Flowers, with what success
ing to law, there is only one decision | is attested by the peaches selling iu
they can make, aud that is that they
have no jurisdiction. If they decide
contrary to the law the matter will
rest with President Arthur, and they
will have incurred the wrath of
Almighty God.
[above paragraph from
to tho Augusta Nows
Joro, and though wo do
[who the writer may be, wo
Mf ready to “set up tho boor”
Ifhall. discover our unknown
Citizen.
England htj
tho right to
for which eau
fought. But
the governme
at Washingto:
again boon exercising
aroh American vessms,
the war of lBlI^paa
speck of war nowAiks
1 horizm. Our in I era
ro too busy office soek-
No litter name could designate the place,
Whore throbbed the last pulsations of a heart,
Devoted to these principles in. life
Wnloh give to ev’ry man the right to speak
On subjects whieli relate to hU welfnre,
Or possible reproach—than Shiloh—peace.
Oakland Farm, April 01 h, 1882.
The Montgomery Advertiser says: In a re
cent analysis of twenty-nine samples of quinine
pills anti capsules, not one contained the
amount of that article called for by the label,
though sumo of them came near It. In two in
stancies the so-called quinine proved to be cin-
chonidla, one of the lower and weaker alkaloids
from ehinehona bark. It is important, especi
ally iu fevers, that the quality, quantity and
strength of quinine should be unimpeachable.
Augusta Newa: Col. Sullivan, lato of the
prize ring, has met his match. Mr. Wm. nagar'
ty, a Boston barber, thrashed him soundly for
slandering Mrs. Ilugurty. Mr. Hagarty dispens
ed with his little razor and polished the bully
off with Ilia fistH. Col. Larnar wants the umpire
to buckle the belt on the barber and “set ’em
up’’ at tho expense of tho Macon Telegraph
offloo.
New York for 75 cenU apiece.
A Hawkinsville man was walking along tho
street the othei day whon ho accidently tired
off his pistol and a section of his coat tail. He
lot the weapon slide to tho ground and walked
calmly away, a circle of blue smoke about his
flaps being tho only tiling visible to throw sus-
j pieion upon him. It is astonishing how nervy a
man can become when the grtiud jury is in
session. ,• IA
ing and devising schemes to Xb the
public treasury to care anything about
nation’s honor or the rights of its
In Elberto^he other day during a rain stonui
a terrapin fell from the clouds. Tills is vouch
ed for by several gentlemen. Our informant
failed to state what brand of “moonshine” they
use at present in that towu.
Mr. and Mrs. Allen Domas, of Smithville, have
three children, all born at tho same time, that
eeks oldj^nd all^^g^hWell
The French spoliation claims iu'w
before Congress are so old that few
people understand the nature of
them. The facts in brief are these :
la our struggle for independence we
became indebted to France in the
sum of about $200,000,000. Fifteen
years after the war our government,
fearing a war with England as a con
sequence of a settlement of this claim,
declined to recognize the debt. A
large number of American vessels
were then seized by French cruisers,
and when our government demanded
pay for them tho old French debt
was pleaded as a eet-off. The de
scendants of these ship-owners have
for years pressed their claims for
payment, on the ground that with
their ships this government had set
tled its debt. These claims have
been reported upon favorably about
forty times, but no further action has
been had, Efforts are being made
anew, now that the committee to
which the claims had been referred
lias rendered a repovt recommending
payment, to bring the matter to a
final settlement.—Macon Telegraph.
Charleston, S. C., May 16.—A
decree hai been filed in the United
States circuit court affirming the
validity of the Blue Ividge scrip is
sued by t 'he State of South Corolina
under an act of March 2ti, 1373, in
exchange for certain bonds of the
Blue Ridge railway indorsed by the
State. In 1873 the scrip act was de
clared unconstitutional and void by
the State Supreme Court, and it was
subsequently repealed ty the Legis
lature. The present decree orders an
account to be taken of all scrip in the
hands of bona fide holders, and prop
er process is then to issue to compel
the receipt of said scrip for State
lax, and to compel the levying of an
annual tax for its redemption, and
also to restrain county treasurers from
the collection of taxes in cases where Mr. Edward S. Stokes, who killed
the said scrip has been tendered and Jim Fisk several years ago, and who
refused. The plaintiffs are Amos. D. {has recently been released from his
Williams and E. B. Wesloy, of New {term of servioe iu the penitentiary
York, whose claims amount to about 1 h HS returned to New York city and
half a million dollars advanced to the I opened a splendid bar-room in tha
State upon the security of the Blue ! Hoffman House. After fixing it up
Ridge railway bonds, which were (in the highest stylo of the “deoora-
subsequently surrendered by them in
exchange for Bcrip.
It is said that Guiteau has only
sold about one hundred copies of his
book and that he is very much de
pressed in consequence. Ho has
ceased reading his Bible and gives
most of his attention to reading his
own hook. That appears liko a man
setting down and looking constantly
tive art” according to Oscar Wilde,
he had an “opening* and issued
about two thousand tickets to tho
ladies of New York. It would not,
strike an unsophisticated man, who
has any knowledge of Stokes’ history,
that his invitations would be accept
ed, and yet it is recorded that his
“saloon’ was filled, and that amid the
strains of music, tho clink of wine
at himself in a glass, but there is no g| nB8 , H was heard from nine o’clock
telling what a crank will do, when
he has nothing elso to do. We are
sorry for Guiteau and can only offer
him the consolation found in the
possibility that his book will be more
in demand after his death—if hung—
than now.
?bardj_lat^^g£on general
'on the
h the morning till late in the after
noon. Mr. Stoke* moved among hi*
guests elegantly dressed and with
wifi-bred ease, and of course was
greatly admired. He showed ua
signs of the trouble tit at is suppoaed
to haunt the 8f
id faces of*
wlio
is a
commit
queer