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The True Citizen, A Liva Weekly Paper on Live issue* Published Every Friday Morning, at Way nesboro, Ga., bv tho SULLIVAN BROTHERS. It A TES OF SUBSCRIPTION: One Cony One Year, $2.00 “ “ Sin months. 1.00 “ “ Three months 60 X3F~ All subscriptions must be aocompanled bv the CASH. THE TRUE CITIZEN. Vol. 1. Waynesboro, Ga., May 26, 1882. * V- No. 5. The True Citizen. Advertising rates liberal. Transient, advert Laments payabte in ad vanee. All contract advertisements payable Quar terly. Ail communications for personal benefit, wiil be charged for os advertisements. Advertisements to oooupy special places will be charged 25 per cent, above regular rates. Notices in focal and business column 5 eta. per line; In local 10cs. per line, each Insertion For terms apply at this office 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