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Volume 4.
Waynesboro, Georgia, Friday, April 9th, 1880.
Number 49,
[' 0 8 IT 1 V E L Y C A 8 li.
Something About tin* I'ropONltion for a Mild Direci
to the <’on»t, flu tin* Savannah lllver.
Correspondence Atlanta Constitution.
Editors Constitution: In tin
outset all will agree that Atlanta’s
present needs renders it absolutely
necessary that a new railroad is the
only thing that will avert the im
pending injury to her business in
terests. Further, this road must
furnish Atlanta direct connection
with the sea, and must be controlled
by the city to insure for the city the
advantages which such a connec
tion will give it. Whether the
terminal point of this road be Haw-
kinsville or elsewhere, all business
men of the city agree that such a
road is necessary, and that it must
be built under the conditions above
cited.
Now, would not a road from At
lanta to the Savannah river, touch
ing the river at a point less than a
hundred miles from Savannah, Port
Royal and Charleston, be just such
a road. A straight line drawn from
Atlanta to Waynesboro would pass
almost directly through the county
seats of four counties—the towns of
Eatonton, Sparta, Gibson and
Waynesboro. A continuation of
this line to the Savannah river
would strike it about midway be
tween Augusta and Savannah, at a
point to which the river is naviga
ble to tne largest river steamers.
Almost a direct continuation of the
same air line passes through Charles
ton.
Were such a road built to the
Savannah river by Atlanta, Charles
ton would ask no bettor opportunity
of relieving itstlf from the op
pressive monopoly of the South
Carolina railroad, on which it is ab
solutely dependent, than to build to
tho river and make an almost air
line connection with that road
which could give it such great ad
vantages. Port Royal is still near
er, and offers the finest harbor on
the Atlantic coast.
Rut whether or not the Port Royal
or Charleston connection is made,
when such a road reaches the Savan
nah river, direct connection is made
with Savannah with an already
established lino of big river steam
ers, and the Atlantic ocean is
brought to our door.
With such a road, all the other
roads in the state could not “bottle”
Atlanta, nor could any imaginable
pool threaten destruction to her
business interests. On the other
hand, the city would be in a posi
tion to name its own rates for the
state.
At Eatonton it puts Milledgeville
at our doors. It crosses the Macon
and Camak branch of the Georgia
railroad at Sparta, and at Gibson
intersects the line to be built from
Augusta to Sandersville, while at
Waynesboro it crosses the Augusta
and Milieu branch*of the Central
just midway between those two
places. It reaches the Savannah
river at a point about half way be
tween Augusta and Savannah, and
distant from Atlanta about 175
miles—but a little longer than the
proposed line to Hawkinsville, thus
opening a direct line to the coast
far shorter than the proposed line
to the latter place.
In the diagram the proposed road
to Hawkinsville is also shown. It
would no doubt bo of great help to
to Atlanta and must eventually be
built. It opens a territory on which
Atlanta can count for a large busi
ness. Rut just now but one must
be considered, and that one must be
built.
Tne selection of either route
promises great good to the city, and
whether to the Ocmulgee or to the
Savannah, tho undertaking should
receive the earnest support of
Atlanta.
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;lh', Complaint.
Washington, (In., Chronicle.
A negro boy about nine years old
just on the Taliaferro side of Little
river in the Handy Gross neighbor
hood, whose business it was to nurse
a negro child, concluded last week
that it was a tiresome business, and
decided fo strike at once. Finding
it impossible to quiet the baby, lie
took a flint rock about an inch and
a half square and, opening tho
child’s mouth, shoved it into Ins
throat. Rlood commenced flowing
freely from tho baby’s throat and
the nurse became alarmed. He
took the baby In his arms and hur
ried to the mother, who gave the
alarm at once. Tho rock was Anally
pulled out, and the baby lingered
from Monday until Saturday, when
it died. The verdict of the coroner’s
jury was that death resulted from
pneumonia, caused by the severe
wound. It is believed that the
grand jury will ho asked to investi
gate the case.
In Ins communication to the Ath-
ens Banner, explaining his losses in
farming, lion. James M. Smith, of
Oglethorpe county, uses the follow
ing language:
In June, 1885, I lost $4,000 in a
fight with the governor and peni
tentiary officials to disprove false
charges made against me by these
officials, and to prevent them from
making political capital for them
selves at the expense of my honor
and good name. In the above $4,-
000 is not included my own time,
which in that particular time of the
year was worth a great deal if I
could have used it in looking after
my legitimate business; hence, I
charge $1,000 cash loss in alight
with opium eaters, drunkards, po
litical aspirants and eaters of pub
lic hash. I might have settled this
case with some less expense by
boot-licking, fawning and surren
dering principle.
Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland,
principal physician of tho peniten
tiary, says:
Mr. Smith is mad because lie has
been brought to taw with his eon-
evicts. When I visited the camps 1
found that his barracks were insuf-
iicient, unhealthy and unsafe. I,
therefore, ordered him to build
new barracks, which be did alter
great remonstrance. I found that
his convicts were being badly treat
ed, and insufficiently fed, and kept
on improper food. There was scur
vy in his camp, which is simply im
possible where proper foda is given.
I reported tho facts to the governor,
as was my sworn duty. The gov
ernor thereupon ordered Mr. Smith
to appear before him. Mr. Smith
secured a postponement of a hear
ing of the ease. I did not oppose
this, as my only object was to secure
a correction of the existing evils.--
Refore the time for the hearing ar
rived, Mr. Smith represented that
he had made improvements and
corrected the trouble. I paid a vis
it to the camp and found that this
was true, and the governor there
upon laid the case aside. I cannot
see how this cost him $4,000. He
was represented before the govern
or by Judge Erwin and Mr. Russell,
and as no argument was had, I do
not see how he could have been out
$4,000.
He states that his loss is $4$000.
I suppose he may charge up (lie
money lie spent in improving the
camp. If so, this should have been
charged up to humanity rather
than to litigation. The truth is
Mr. Smith found that the convicts
were not paying him on the farm
as lie expected, and he determined
to reduce expenses. This meant
pinching the convicts, and it is
against pinching the convicts that
we.are bound to protest. If the
convicts did not pay on Mr. Smith’s
farm, that gives him no license to
underfeed them. It would have
been much pleasanter for me to get
along quietly with all the lessees,
but where I have seen an outrage
on humanity, cruelty, inefficient
buildings, insufficient or improper
food, I have reported it to the gov
ernor. The records will show
whether the present administration
of the penitentiary is not better
than it has been, and on this record
we are willing to rest.
H as there been any difficulty be
tween you and Mr. Smith lately.
Nothing except that I have or
dered him to build a hospital,
which he has promised to do next
month. His present hospital is in
efficient, and will lie so decided by
any impartial men who look at it
1 have simply called his attention to
tho fact,and told him to have a better
one. The difficulty with Mr. Smith
is, that ho considers every com
plaint lodged against the treat
ment of tho convicts as a person
al matter against himself. If he
will treat the convicts humanely,
give them good quarters and prop
er food, lie will have no further
trouble. lam perfectly indifferent
to him. In making my official re
ports 1 never consider tho lessee.—
It is simply tho convicts and their
quarters that I look after. If Mr.
Smith will bo humane, his temper
will improve, and if he insists on
being cruel, lie will probably get
mndder than lie iH now.
“Mr. Smith lias been very con-
conspicuous,” l)r. Westmoreland
wont on, “in tho newspapers, with
what he calls Ids trouble. His
trouble is simply this, he lias de
termined that ho will not treat tho
convicts humanely, and wo are de
termined lie shall. If he would im-
prove his camps, feed his prisoners,
and meet tho governor frankly
when complaints are made, ho
would have no trouble. Rut lie
is not in the city to-day, and we
cannot get certain papers which
we need. As soon as he returns
wo will make a full statement, that
will show tho public exactly what
the trouble is.”
The Kepnill'ited lionets.
Chicago, April 3.—Hon. Robert
T. Lincoln, of the law firm of Ishain
it Lincoln, said to-day that his firm
held bonds of the face value of $100,-
000, issued by the state of Georgia
in 1869 and 1870, and since repudi
ated, which they had been directed
to present to the state of Illinois
for tho benefit of the Soldiers’
Home. The bonds are among those
bought up by foreigners, and have
for a long time been in the hands of
New York bankers. Mr. Lincoln
stated that suit would be brought
in the United States supreme court
within a short time by tho state of
Illinois against the state of Geor
gia to recover the amount of these
repudiated bonds.
In 1882 test suits were brought by
the states of New Hampshire and
New York against the state of Lou
isiana by the states’ attorney-gene
rals, in the name of the states, to
recover the amount of the repudi
ated bonds owned by their citizens,
but tlie decision of the supreme
court, delivered by Chief Justice
Waite, was that the owners of the
state bonds could not sue in the
name of the state after getting the
the consent of that state, or one
state could not assume the prose
cution of tlie debt of another state
to its citizens. It is because of this
decision that the, present mode of
action lias been decided upon.
While tho suit promises to pro
voke interesting questions of the
relations of the states under the
constitution, Mr. Lincoln said it
was impossible to say what tire
issue might be, although lie was of
the opinion that the legal questions
to be considered would be entirely
novel to the supreme- court. Some
time ago a move was made with a
similar end in view, by Judge Loclt-
rane, of Georgia, as the American
agent of a large number of German
holders of repudiated bonds. A
claim was filed against the United
Htates, in tho court of claims, at
Washington, in which the claim
was set up that the United States
was liable for debts contracted by
the Southern states, directly gov
erned by the general government
during the reconstruction period.—
This case in which Isham & Lincoln
are also interested, will have a spe
cial hearing before the court of
claims Monday morning.
A Farmer's Kind.
Batesburg, S. C., April 3.—The
finding a fortune by an industrious,
hardworking gentleman of this sec
tion has created a sensation and a
deal of talk.
While Mr. Joe Coughman was
plowing in his field, across the riv
er, In Newbury county, the plow-
sheare turned up a quaint old
earthen pot. Continuing his row,
Mr. Coughman paid no attention to
the pot, but on the return trip he
stopped.to examine it, and found
that it contained gold coin of some
kind. Gathering his new found
treasure, he wended his way to a
Batesburg bank, and after the mon
ey man had carfully examined the
“find” it was pronounced $12,000.
News of the streak of luck soon
spread over the county, and in a
half dozen hours half the county
were nlowing their fields in search
of other hidden treasure. The coin
is old and quaint, and bears evi
dence ot having come from differ
ent nationnlties. How it found its
way into the field, or when it was
deposited is not conjectured. Mr.
Coughmau’s friends rejoice at his
good fortune.
Twenty-three refrigerators of
strawberries were shlpued to New
York from Savannah Tuesday.
A llnitn Foiled.
A dispatch from Nashville, Tenn.,
dated tho 3d inst., sajis: Jim Caleb,
a colored hackman forty years old,
was jailed to-night lor attempting
to outrage Rettie Franklin, a little
white girl twelve years old. She
had been to town, and on the way
to her home, in North Nashville,
stopped at tHo house of Charlotte
Dodd, an old woman she kew well,
to got tv drink of water. Charlotte
sent her on an errand, and when
she returned made her stay for the
night, saying it was too dark to go
home, and sho would let her pa
rents know. The child had barely
got to bed when Caleb entered tho
room, got on the bed and lore all
her clothes off. She began scream
ing. A police officer heard her, en
tered (he house, rushed up stairs,
broke open the door and caught
Cftleb)ln|the bed. He failed iu his
a Gottit* onviuskr.
On the 4th of February, 1882,
Lieutenat Schultz started to the Le
na in seareli of Do Long and itis
comrades. Just before His depart
ure, several of his friends met in
the paymaster’s office, 20 Broadway,
New York, to bid him Godspeed on
his journey. One of theiy, Henry
C. Ellis, of New York, presented
him with a bottle of brandy and a
bottle of whisky for His cold jour
ney. Then Ellis handed Schultz a
bottle of fine whisky, and said:
“I want you to take this to my
old shipmate and friend, George
Melville.”
Melville was already in Russia,
on his way to the Lena on the same
errand as Schultz, and it was very
probable that they would meet in
the Arctic regions. In the presence
of half a dozen witnesses, the bottle
was sealed and labeled to protect
Schultz from temptation, and to
bear to Melville the names of the
friends who laid sent it.
On Monday, March 20, Schultz
and Sherber, whom lie had joined
in Loneon, left Irkutsk to proceed
on their mission. They met Mel
ville between Irkutsk and Yacutsk.
When their friends saw this state
ment in the New York papers they
discussed the probable fate of their
bottle of whisky, and tlie slim
chance that Melville had ever seen
it. It was unanimously agreed
that long before they had met Mel-
vilie, Schultz and Harber had in
all probability broken the seal and
devoted the contents to—tho cause
of science.
On February 20, 1883, over a year
after their departure, Schultz and
Harber returned to America on the
Trisia. A few days after their re
turn, Mr. Ellis, who was then in
Florida, received a letter from Mel
ville, who had also returned, saying:
“I am in receipt of the bottle of
whisky which you sent to Siberia
for me. Schultz, true to His trust,
delivered tlie bottle containing the
original whisky to me aboard the
Trisia immediately on his return
home.”
Ellis was still skeptical on one
point. It was evident that Schultz
had delivered the original bottle
filled with some sort of whisky, but
he had no idea that it was theffuid
he had sent Melville. One month
later, Melville, Schultz and Harber
met in Ellis’ office, in New York.—
Thg bottle was produced, and be
yond a doubt, it had never been
disturbed. The seal and label were
intact. Schultz then loomed up
as a hero before his friends. He
had carried that bottle 6,000 miles
by sea, and over 15,000 miles by
rail and sledges that lie might de
liver it intact to Melville.
What should be the fate of this
already historic bottle of whisky?
Melville suggested that It be sent
to the Pennsylvania Historical So
ciety. Ellis a moment later made
a suggestion which was at once
adopted. It was that Melville
should-take the bottle with him on
the Greeley relief expedition, and
that if Greeley were found, Mel
ville should draw the cork and give
Greeley a dram to warm up his fro
zen heart.
Again tho bottle started on its
travels. At last Greeley was found,
but the poor fellow was so near to
death’s door that it was many
weeks before he could hear any
thing ot home or friends. When at
last Melville could have an old
timo chat with him, the bottle
of whisky was produced, and its
history related. It brought a smile
and then a tear from the Arc
tic hero in llio appreciation of
the thoughtfulness of his far off
friends. Schultz proposed to draw
the cork. “Stop,” said Greeley. “If
thaf bottle is mine, I want to keep
it until my youngest daughter is
married. Then I will open, it and
drink to the health and memory of
the friends who started It on its re
markable career.”
The bottle was then and there en
closed in a second covering over
tho original wrapper. On the out
side the main facts of its history
were recorded. When Greeley
readied Now York, he placed tlio
bottle in a safo deposit vault, and
there it is now.
As the young Miss Grbeley is a
mere child, tho prospective banquet
of that bottle of whisky when it is
opened i.i enough to torment the
dreams ot an epicure.
Wanted to End Mis Days in Prison.
A dispatch from Louisville, Ky.,
of April 2d, says: At the last meet
ing of the board of directors of the
Indiana State Prison South, at Jef
fersonville, an old gray-haired, fee-
ble-looking man came tottering into
the directors’ room and asked to be
permitted to spend tlie remainder
of his life inside tHe prison. This
singular request completely non
plused the officials, and for a while
they sat gazing in mute astonish
ment at the poor old silve-haired
individual who preferred the gloomy
interior of a prison to the outside
world. His request being refused,
lie then begged them to erect for
him a little shanty near tho prison
and turnish him two meals a day of
such eatables as the men in the pen
are fed on.
While the old man was making
this last request the Warden enter
ed, and immediately recognized him
as John Ilieks, a former inmate of
the Southern prison. Finding lus
entreaties were of no avail, the old
fellow went away. As lie descend
ed tlie stone steps in front of tlie
prison tears as large as rain drops
trickled down his cheeks. A guard
on the wall who watched the totter
ing form as it took its departure,
heard tiiis remark: “Well, if I can’t
get in any other way, I guess I will
have to go and steal a horse, or
something else.” It seems the old
man meant it, for this morning he
arrived at the Southern prison in
tlie charge of the sHeriff of Orange
county, to serve live years for
larceny. Ilieks asked the judge to
make his sentence five years, as he
thought that would be as long as he
would live.
John Hicks is 86 years of age and
lias a criminal record which is hard
to beat. In 1840 ho made his debut
upon tho stage of crime and receiv
ed his first sentence, which was
served out in the Indiana prison, at
Jeffersonville. He has spent thirty-
six years of his life behind the bars
in different prisons throughout the
country. About two months ago he
was discharged from tho prison at
Columbus, Ohio. lie went direct
from there to Jeffersonville, and,
learning that tlie board of directors
were in session, begged to be taken
in. He is tlie oldest convict in the
penitentiary.
A Tube in his Throat.
Indianapolis, Ind., April 3.—
Preparations will begin Monday for
the execution on Thursday next of
Phillips, who cut his wife’s throat
last July, in a public alley, in tiiis
city, and immediately afterwards
tried to cut his own, which he so
mangled that he has been living
ever since with an air tube in His
throat. A very popular petition
signed by several hundred persons,
has been presented to the governor
on His behalf. After reciting the
circumstances of the murder, the
petition concludes:
“If lie is executed by hanging, as
the sentence and the law require,
the noose necessarily encircling his
neck above the opening of the tube
will in no wise produce strangula
tion or in any way interfere with
his respiration, and thus his death
must ensue from physical exhaus
tion, and not otherwise, unless from
decapitation, and that such an exe
cution would be an outrage on civil
ization and simply barbarous. In
tlie interest of Immunity and en
lightened civilization your petition
ers would, therefore, pray coinmu-
tion of such sentence to imprison
ment for life.”
John Ridgeway, of Oconee, is
opening a splendid mica mine on
His place. It is in very fine largo
pieces, as clear as glass.
A Johnson county wojnun, aged
66, has recently cut her third sot of
teeth.
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flinched With a Criminal.
A special to the Atlanta Constitu
tion from Milledgeville, says: Sun
day night, about dark, Sheriff C. W.
Ennis went alone to the plantation
of Jim Goodson to find and arrest a
negro, Gus Brown, who was wanted
for stealing another man’s wife, in
Hancock county. Alter some little
trouble the negro surrendered and
as Captain Ennis was about to put
hand-cuffs on him, lie suddenly seiz
ed the captain’s hands, wrenched
his pistol away from him, was brok
en in the struggle, and at once be
gan a hand to hand struggle. The
negro was much more powerful and
younger than Captain Ennis and in
few moments, after giving him
some severe blows about the face
and head, ran away carrying his hat
and pistol. The negro is a dark
mulatto with a clean shaven, oval
face, about twenty-live years old
and weigiis about 190 pounds, and is
about six feet high. He is above
the average negro in intelligence
and knows how to talk correctly.
Captain Ennis says he wants one
more chance at him when ho will
guarantee “habere corpus.”
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Tho Atlanta Constitution gives
tlie following definition of the
word “dude” to an inquiring sub
scriber:
lu a handbook of the Swahili lan
guage, iiH spoken at Zanzubar, a
book written Hy Edward Steoj,
missionary bishop of Central Africa,
is found the following: “Dude, plu
ral inadude, a whut-is-it, a thing
wo don’t know, or have forgotten
tiio name.” Iu English it means a
foplsh fool.
Story of s host Photographer.
A special to tlie Atlanta Constitu
tion from Hartwell, Ga., says: Near
the old “Line church,” on Mr. T. J.
Liiidoa’s plantation, a trunk has
been found in a branch. It is sup
posed that the recent heavy rains
washed out,the branch below its
usual depth, and left the top of tho
trunk exposed, which led to Its dis
covery. After tlie trunk was taken
out, opened and its contents exam
ined, a full outfit of photographers’
instruments, an old cloth coat, and
a knit sack was found. Tlie ap
pearance of the trunk and contents
would indicate a burial of ten years
or more. No one seems to have
any idea when, how, or from what
cause the trunk was put in sucli a
secluded place, and then mitdo to
rest lu a watery grave.
A colored beau of Hartwell got a
young white gentleman lo write a
letter for Him to tlie object of his
adoration, a dusky damsel in
neighboring town. Inadvertently
lie signed Ids own name to the ten
der missive instead of tho colored
beau’s. No doubt tlie young lady is
elated over tlie unexpected mash
sho lias made, and will respond
favorably to tlie overtures of Cupid.
Washington, April 5.—Repre
sentative Herbert to-day intro
duced a resolution to appropriate
$300,000 to be immediately available,
to be expended under direction of
tlie secretary of war in tlie purchase
and dist ribution of subsistence stores
and other necessary articles to aid
in the relief of destitute persons in
the overflowed districts of Alabama.
The resolution also authorizes tlie
secretary of war to use government
vessels In transporting and dis
tributing food to tho sufferers, and
appropriates money sufficient to de
fray any expenses so incurred.
A dispatch from Milledgeville,
dated the 8d inst., says: Ordinary
1). E. Sandlford to-day declared tlie
result of tlie local option election
for Baldwin county to be 281 major
ity for prohibition. This was done
after throwing out all votes which
he claimed were illegal, thus chang
ing a net majority ot over three
hundred to a majority for hrohlbl-
tlon. The anti-prohibitionists will
carry tho matter Into the courts,
claiming that tho action of the or
dinary was unwarranted. They
think they can make a strong case
of It, and will prosecute it to the
last.
A Now York Hundoy school
teacher told her pupils that when
they put their pennies into tho con
tribution box, she wanted each one
to repeat a tiihle verse suitable for
tlie occasion. Tne first hoy drop
ped In his cent, saying: “The Lord
lovetli the cheerful giver.” The
next hoy dropped his penny int<
tin' box, saying: “He tHat glveth
to the poor lendetii to tho l. ird.”
The third and youngest hoy drop
ped his penny in, saying: “A fool
and iiis money are soon parted,”
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