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ovniMXr* PUTTER ' ment announcing tlie sale, and Captain
GEORGIA RKIS&b. fl c Cunningham the conditions or tlie
7* I deed. Tlie property had been appraised
Jokde Garrett, in Butler jail, came ^y g ve appraisers, two appointed by the
. _ erv ncar making his escape by filing the city and two by the Central railroad, and
lock off the door. In ten minutes more * w * «""■ its ralne
ho would have been free. The sheriff’s
investigation discovered an auger, file,
two candles and a box of matches. From
■whence came they? is the question that is
puzzling the Butlerites.
Swainsboro Herald • Last Sunday the
startling news readied Swainsboro that
Mr. Andrew J. Collins and his son, Thom
as, had both been killed the night before
by Jacob Anderson. We have been una
ble to get minute particulars, but from
wlint we could gather, the shooting took
place at or near the home of Anderson, in
Tatnall county.
Butler Herald: We are informed
that Hon. Thomas Hardeman, of Macon,
will address the dtizens of Taylor and
adioining counties at Reynolds, Georgia,
on Saturday, June 5tli, 1SS0, on the politi-
cal issues of tlie day. Col. Hardeman is
a talented speaker, and all are invited to
hear him.
Irwinton Appeal: There is now liv
ing in this county a widow lady who, at
the death of her husband, some five or
six years ago, found herself penniless,
with four or live children to support. In
stead of giving up the battle of life in des
pair, or calling on relatives or friends for
assistance, as many would have done, she
courageously determined to carve out her
own fortune from the generous earth.
Renting a farm, she cultivated it with her
own hands, and wnat little assistance her
children could render. Year after year
she supported her children, and in addi
tion managed to lay by a little. As her
children grew larger, the amount increased,
until she bad enough to pay for a small
farm. She bought the one which she had
formerly rented, and this .year expects,
with good reason, to make seven or eight
bales of cotton, besides enough com, and
perhaps meat, to do her another year.
Augusta Chronicle: The many friends
and admireis of Mr. Paul H. Haynewill
regret to learn of his illness at his place,
near Augusta. He lias had some hemor
rhages of late, and his family are quite
uneasy about him. We can only hope
that this favorite Southern poet will yet
be spared so that the lovers of his verse
throughout tlie land be not deprived of
bis songs “until years have come and
years have gone.”
Sparta Ishmaelite: The old Macon
Telegraph and Messenger has made
vast improvement within the last six
months. Its methods of publishing the
telegraphic news is better than that of any
other paper that comes to this office.
Brother Edwards is makingthe local page
as lively as a colony of bees, all on the
“rampage.”
Swainsboro Herald: Mr. William
Sumner, one of the largest sheep owners
in the county, informs us that the number
of lambs with the flocks this spring is
above the average. He will mark in the
neighborhood of 3C0 lambs this spring.
He says damage from dogs has been
light.
Thomasville Post: Let the farmers
remember, before it is too late to plant,
that many of them are buying Western
corn and that the oat crop is already con
sidered short. Beside, the late heavy
rains, not yet over, will retard labor and
make grass grow prodigiously.
Sparta Ishmaelite: The “discontents
and manipulators,” about whom our
neiglilior spoke so feelingly a short wliile
ago, seem to be on the increase in Han
cock. The governor is doing things up in
too brown a style to suit the natives that
go not up to Chicago to worship. It is no
funeral of ours. Only those that dance
need pay the fiddler.
McDuffie Journal: Priscilla West,
colored, widow of Frank West, was
brought to Thomson last week a raving
maniac and committed to jail by the ordi
nary. where, though considerably better,
she'still remains. She has periodica
spells of insanity, during which she imag
ines she has been wronged and tries to
kill somebody. This time she accused her
son of having murdered Ills father. Some
disposition should be made of her before
she has another opportunity to commit
murder.
Warrenton Clipper: We shall have
bo particular objection if Colquitt is elect
ed governor and then sent to tbe United
States Senate. Wo have never desired
any reflection to he made upon his char
acter as a good Christian gentleman. We
have never desired that one single laurel
or honor should be taken from his crown
of distinction. A11 we want is a governor
that will be fully stubborn and sharp
enough to meet all the sliaipers of the
land. We do hope that the Georgia Legis
lature will send Colquitt to the United
States Senate, if for notliing more than
to sustain his reputation as an honest man,
which, from the depths of our heart, we
believe him to be.
Wiregkass Watchman: A friend,
writing us a private letter from Tatnall,
after his compliments to ourself and in
quiring friends in this vicinity, says that
the voters of Tatnall county are anxious
to see our young friend, Richard W.
Grubb, of the Darien Gazette, in the
Georgia Senate from that district. Well,
“Dick” would reflect honor on Ills consti
tuency, bnt the truth is, we fear he has
too much timidity to announce himself.
We would like to see. Ills friends put him
forward.
Sparta Ishmaelite: Tlie largest
strawberry we bave seen this season is of
the Sharpless variety and from a slip
planted in January. It is about the size
of a guinea egg and has a delightful flavor.
Columbus Enquirer: Tlie trains on
the Mobile and Girard railroad ran tlirough
yesterday, all the breaks having been re
paired. Tlie Cocliicolediee bridge will
be rebuilt at once.
On the Columbus and Rome railroad
the culvert just above the city has been
temporarily repaired and the passenger
train came to the city yesterday morning
for the first time since the storm. It is
now, or will be in a few days, in its for
mer good condition.
The damage to the Western railroad,
near Holland’s crossing, was the most se
vere of any caused by the storm. The
rock culvert was washed away, leaving
tlie track suspended about thirty feet in
the air. Large rocks, that are estimated
to weigli between 35,000 aDd 50,000 pounds
were washed twenty and thirty feet from
the culvert, of which they were a part.
For two hundred yards down the stream
rocks from tbe culvert of 100 and 300
pounds weight are strewn.
McElvey’s mill, situated about a half
mile from this point, was washed away.
There are now about fifty hands engaged
in repairing the breaks. Yesterday pas
sengers were transferred, but to-day it is
thought trains will run through. Super
visor George P. Hughes has been doing
everything possible to facilitate matters,
and accomplished a large amount of work
in a very short space of time.
Savannah Hevcs: Hon. Walter T.
McArthur and wife, of Lumber City, re
turned by the steamship City of Savannah
yesterday, and are stopping at the Mar
shall House.
Marietta Journal: Wliile the passen
ger train was thundering along at tbe rate
of thirty miles an hour last Friday near
Yinings in this county, the engineer saw
a yearling calf running along the track.
The next minute the engine struck tlie
bovine and it was supposed knocked
it from the track a wrecked mass
of quivering flesh. On arriving at
Marietta, the engineer was greatly sur
prised to see the calf perched on the cow
catcher. The yearling was lifted from its
perilous position and it walked off unin
jured.
A Mammoth Grain. Elevator to
be Erected.—Savannah News: Yester
day morning at 12 o’clock, in accordance
nith an advertisement published by di
rection of council, the wharf tract belong
ing to tlie city, lying immediately west of
tlie Ogeechee. canal, having a front on the
Savannah river of 230 feet, and contain
er g about four and a half acres, was offer
ed' at auction by the city marshal, Captain
L. L. Goodwin, in front of the Exchange.
Although it wa9 understood who would
be tlie purchaser there was quite an at-
the fifth by the four selected, and its value
estimated to be $7,000.
This was in accordance with a commu
nication to the mayor from Colonel Wad-
ley, read at the last meeting of council,
in which tbe latter stated that it was tlie
desire of his company to erect a grain ele
vator, and to have it so located that' it
would accommodate the local as well as
the export trade of the city. The wharf
property west of the canal, belonging to
the city, was considered as the best, meet
ing the requirements desired, and hence
tlie inquiry was made upon what terms
tlie property could be had.
A resolution was adopted, authorizing
the mayor to inform Colonel Wadley that
the city would dispose of the property
upon conditions that we named, the prin
ciple of which was that it should not be
sold at less than the appraised value.
After being advertised for sale for the
required ten days, the property was offered
yesterday, as above stated. When Cap
tain Cunningham had finished reading the
deed, Captain Goodwin asked for bids.
Colonel Wadley bid $7,000, and there be
ing no other bid, the property, after the
usual formula, was “knocked down” at
that figure, and the purchaser announced
as the Ocean Steamship company of
Savannah.
Col. Wadley, taking from his pocket a
large envelope, rather plethoric in ap
pearance, handed it to the assistant city
treasurer, Mr. Geo. L. Cope, with the
laconic remark: “There’s the money,”
and quietly turned to go. The entire
transaction did not occupy five minutes,
and was an evidence of how expeditiously
such things can be done when business is
meant.
The purchase may be regarded as im
portant, and of great interest to this com
munity. Under the conditions the ele
vator is to have a capacity for one hun
dred thousand bushels of graih, and is to
be completed within twelve months. As
it is of importance to the company to have
it in operation by the opening of the busi
ness year, there will be no delay in the
matter, and it is almost certain it will be
finished by the 1st of September.
Capt. W. G. Raoul will leave for Chi
cago in a few days to inspect, the eleva
tors at that point, obtain estimates, and
make the necessary arrangements to have
one built for the Ocean Steamship Com
pany. There is every reason to believe
that this improvement will tend greatly
to enhance the growth and prosperity of
Savannah ; as without such facilities for
the handling of grain, no considerable
trade in the exportation of produce from
the Northwest could be reasonably ex
pected.
Augusta News: Mrs. P. E. Eve, of
this city, one of the oldest vice regents of
Mount Yemon, left this morning for
Mount Yemon, Ya., via Central Short
Line. Mrs. F. W. Pickens, vice regent of
South Carolina, will join Mrs. Eve at
Trenton, S. C., this morning, and accom
pany her to Mount Yemon, where the
meeting of the regents will take place in
a few days.
Atlanta Post: The Chicago conven
tion, which meets next Wednesday will
settle everybody’s hash. Grant’s friends
are more sanguine than ever of his nomi
nation. though this does not seem to cool
tl.e ardor of the Blaine or the Sherman
elements. There is but little prospect
that a dark horse will come in upon
which the Republican party will ride to
victory. They have ridden one dark horse
too many times and afterwards found out
that it developed into an animal of the
long eared species.
Rome Tribune: If some enterprisir
individual could get up the life of “our
new Senator,” illustrated with cuts, and
the fly-leaf ornamented with a picture of
that distinguished individual on his way
to the national capital, it would doubtless
meet with a ready sale.
Cartersville Free Press: The fin
est lot of Georgia raised bacon all around
we have over seen was brought to town
yesterday by Mr. Ephraim Strickland, of
Gordon county, and sold to Mr. A. R.
Hudgins. There were three thousand
pounds of it, and Strickland said he had
more at home. The truth is, Hudgins
ought to have advertised it this morning,
and but for this notice nobody would
know what a fine lot of bacon Hudgins
has.
The Perry Home Journal, in speaking
of the death of Mr. James Turrentine, of
Houston county, which took place last
Monday, says:
Mr. Turrentine was about seventy years
old, and had been a resident of Houston
county for over thirty years. He was one
of the best men we ever knew—a consci
entious and consistent member of tlie
Methodist church; an energetic and suc
cessful farmer; a man devoted to his fam
ily—kind and hospitable in all his deal
ings with mankind—a man against whom
we have never heard one worn of reproach
uttered. He was well known throughout
the country, and none knew him but to
love and respect him; his many good
qualities demanded nothing less.
Albany Advertiser : The local page
of the Macon Telegbaph and Messen
oeb has been very much improved recent
ly, and will compare very favorably with
that of any of the other morning dailies in
the State.
Ferry Home-Journal: Tlie city edi
tor of the Macon Telegraph has been
sojourning on Cumberland Island this
week, and his letters to that paper have
been published with profuse wood-cut
illustrations.
Sandersville Herald: Court Ad
journed.—As will be seen by order of
Hon. Herschel V. Johnson, Judge of the
Middle Circuit, the Superior Court begin
ning on Monday last, was adjourned over
two weeks to the first Monday, the seventh
day of June. The adjournment is owing
to providential causes, the illness of Mrs.
Johnson which forbids the attendance of
the judge. A considerable number came
in on Monday to attend court and of
coarse felt disappointed at its postpone
ment. Its delay, however, will give, we
apprehend, general satisfaction, as the
condition of the crops, and the harvesting
of wheat render the farmer’s attention at
lioine almost indispensable.
There is a general feeling of complaint
and dissatisfaction at the change in tlie
time of holding its session. It was not
recommended by any grand jury, and so
far as we can learn was not desired by tlie
citizens generally. If the wishes and
convenience of the citizens are to be con
sulted, it will be changed to the old time,
or at least to some other period as early as
practicable.
Columbus Times: The excitement
and indignation about Joe Brown’s ap
pointment is unabated. Anybody who
thinks the press is made by the politicians
and not the people will find that they are
mistaken if they will drop around about
the counting rooms and the workshops
and the places of business of the bone
and sinew of the country.
Houston Home Journal: Words can
not picture the surpriso of the lady of
Perry who went ont to her fowl house the
other day to examine tne nest of a turkey
hen that she thought onglit to be hatch
ing a brood of young turkeys. Instead of
turkeys she found three young kittens
cosily coiled up under the turkey. We
do not assert that the kittens were hatched
from turkey eggs, but, nevertheless, they
were found where the eggs had been.
Cochran Enterprise: The wild turkey
crop is just splendid, Mr. George L. Col
lins, of Twiggs, having killed twenty-
seven this season. We are in favor of
George receiving the belt as the champion
turkey slayer.
Eastman Times: The sale of woolin
our town for tbe past week has been rath
er light, compared with the week before.
Prices hare undergone very little change,
and we quote wool worth now in our
market thirty-three to tbirty-four cents.
Mr. Matthew Clark sold his .crop, two
bales, to G. Coleman on Tuesday last at
thirty-four cents.
Buena Vista Argus: Fortune some
times changes with times. Such is tlie
case, we learn, with a young-man, a son
of one of North Carolina's most able con
gressmen, who died sometime ago. The
son has been sojourning in the West for
tendance of business men and heavy cap- some time, and after being “strapped”
kalista. left to work his way back to^tlie old North
Captain Goodwin read tbe advertise
' on his return, and is there now employed
a3 a day laborer for dipping turpentine,
on the farm recently established this side
of Butler.
Albany News: Capt. Wight is en
deavoring to get twenty-four of the Albany
Guards to drill at the State Fair for the
$500 prize, and offers to bear the entire
expenses of the equipment, trip, etc. Fif
teen have already signified their willing
ness to go, and we hope the necessary
number will soon he made up. The
Guards have already won, and we believe
they can beat any company in Georgia.
The “Snapper Club” has returned.
They were wise men. Forseeing the evil
they provided against the venomous Flor
ida saake. The Columbus Enquirer, re
ferring to this fact, says:
Yesterday twelve hundred bottles were
taken from the steamer G. Gunby Jordan
(on which the Snapper Club has been
spending two weeks) and sold to a dealer
in our city. Jehosiphat! how many
snakes would have been killed had they
bitten those fellows. In “snakedom” a
Murphy association would he formed in-
stanter,and the woman’s society go on tem
perance crusades among these vile descen
dants of the tempter of their mother Eve.
Verily, Florida snakes made a narrow es
cape, to say nothing of the alligators,
which would have shared the same un
happy fate had they been indiscreet
enough to have tackled a Snapper.
Savannah News: About twelve days
since, three young men of this city hade
their friends farewell and started for
Leadville, Colorado, in search of fame
and riches. Their joint capital amounted
to exactly $17.50, but they possessed
pluck and determination, and had no mis
givings as to the result of their mission.
Yesterday they were heard from as being
at Nashville, Tenn., but how they suc
ceeded in reaching that point, “deponent
saith not.” They resolved, prior to their
departure, not to spend a cent, except for
actual subsistence, and from the fact tnat
they have got so far on their journey, it is
presumed they found the walking gobd.
Savannah has no cause to feel ashamed of
these young tramps, as they are sober, in
dustrious and honest. Two are mechanics,
who are just “ont of their time,” and hav
ing been “retired for the summer,” con
cluded rather than remain idle until fall
to follow the a’dvice of the deceased phi
losopher of Chappaqua and “go west.”
Their energy and pluck certainly deserve
success, end we hope their efforts will be
richly rewarded.
Talbotton Standard: TheTalbotton
branch road is progressing finely. The
chain-gang force is at work about a mile
from town. Messrs. Redd and Johnson,
the contractors, have begun work, and
we know of no cause to prevent the work
from steadily progressing till 'completed.
We suppose those who thought the pres-
sent eil'ort to build the road would termi
nate like several prior ones, are now as
sured of its success. Next fall our town
will show much material improvement,
■Our county will Immaterially benefited by
a home market. Surely we are on the
road to prosperity.
Atlanta Post: In Tennessee where
no railroad commission is in operation to
crush out new railroad enterprises, new
connections are having a fresh boom,
Two connections for Knoxville are being
pushed, one to tap the Cincinnati South
ern and the other to intersect the Atlanta
and Charlotte Air-line.
Savannah News: The recent hi;_
tides have made another cut into the gov
ernment lands, the lighthouse tract at Ty-
bee washing away about forty feet of the
sand hills. This end of Tybee is of no use
exceptjto the’govemment, and its washing
away is of no material injury to that part
of the island owned by private individuals,
but we think something should be done to
prevent further inroads of tlie sea.
Dawson Journal: Rev. W. C. Lovett,
the very popular and eloquent pastor of
the Methodist church at Fort Games
preached in Dawson to a very large ancl
attentive audience on last Sunday morn
ing and night. Mr. Lovett made a favor
able impression upon all those who heard
him.
Dr. E. II. Richardson, of Polk
county, is dead. Becoming over-heated
and morphine did the work.
Griffin News: “The “incorruptible
patriarchs” “who are too pure in heart to
lie or accuse their neighbor of wrong,”
might stand on top of tbe custom house in
Atlanta until their hides become as black
as tar, and tell the people of Georgia that
Gen. Gordon and Gov. Colquitt were cor
rupt men, and they would not helieve it
unless there was stronger proof to sustain
the charges.
Dalton Citizen: City cousins will
soon begin to come among us, and we
shall be glad to see them, of course.
They will lend an unusual gaiety to our
streets, and the female portion of them
will play bob with our susceptible youn^
men’s hearts. When they get upon a
chair and scream at an approaching bug,
or try to climb a five rail fence, all the
tenderness of our sympathetic heart will
go out to them, and wc, as a community,
will comfort them in distress, shield them
from the terrors of rural life, and give
them a lift over the mud holes. Let ’em
come.
Savannah News: Sheriff John T.
Ronan received last evening an order
from Judge Fleming, at present in Da
rien, to release M. B. Grant, now in jail
under eleven indictments for forgery and
embezzlement, on two thousand dollars
bail.
The death of James E. Gaudry, of Sa
vannah, is announced. This sad event
took place in Brooklyn, N. Y., on Thurs
day last. Tlie deceased was a gentleman
of many excellent traits of character, and
was held in high esteem by the business
men of Savannah. He was a member of
the firm of L. J. Guilmartin & Co.
The Savannah yacht club held their
annual regatta on Thursday at the Isle of
Hope. It was a gala day, with a large
crowd, and a splendid sail.
ArRiNTERby the name of Claiburne
is in jail in Albany for behaving naughty
at Mr. J. B. P. Durham’s, near Duckers’
station. His case will come up before
the county court.
Jesup Sentinel: The Savannah, Florida
and Western railway have made summer
excursion rates from Jesup to Savannah,
(good for one day) and put the price of
tickets at one dollar for the round trip.
We hope this liberal policy of the road
will yield a handsome revenue.
Savannah News: In accordance
with the order of Judge Fleming, tele
graphed from Darien, of which mention
was made in the Morning News, Sheriff
Ronan yesterday released M. B. Grant on
two thousand dollars hail. Subsequently
Grant was brought before the Ordinary,
adjudged a lunatic, and ordered to be sent
to the asylum at Milledgeville.
Meriwether Vindicator: Matt.
Lost.—Last Saturday evening Mr. Ander
son Melton, the mail rider from Wood-
berry to Barnesville, in attempting to
cross Elkins’ creek, had his mail swept
from the wagon by the swollen stream.
He recovered the sack containing the
Taper mail, but tho pouch that held the
otters was borne away and has not been
heard from. The mail recovered wa3
thoroughly soaked and some of our sub
scribers say they were unable to read their
Vindicator of last week, it being in the
submerged mail. •
Echoes from Gantt, of Lexington:
A negro working on Mr. R. B. Mat
thews’ place last week found a partridge
nest containing 200 eggs. A whole covey
of these birds must have consolidated.
Col. Morehead last Friday showed
us a gold button worth $85, that was
gathered in a two days’ lun at the Guar
antee mine. But for the presence of sul-
phurites this would be a paying mine.
Sweet potatoes are out, and we had
no scarcity of slips, as plenty could be
had at twenty cents per hundred.
Some of our farmers continue to plant
sorghum, but the variety of cane has been
improved.
The vetch, which appeared here at the
close of the war, is dwindling into a stunt
ed weed and disappearing.
Lucerne is growing in popularity and
furnishes food through the summer. If
not permitted to go to seed one sowing
will stand 100 years.
Savannah News: The usual weekly
excursion of Messrs. Dickerson & Paulsen,
agents of the Tow Boat company, took
place yesterday on the tug Constitution,
Blackfish Banks to try their luck. They
were eminently successful, the trip result
ing in the largest catch of the season.
Three thousand blackfish, or about one
hundred to each on board, were caught.
Brunswick Advertiser: D. B. Stal
lings, superintendent of St. Simons mills,
is clearly of the opinion that more lumber
can be sawed, all other things being equal,
at night than fn day time. Machinery
runs smoother and faster, and the hands
work better. This arrangement we are
sure would suit the average “man and
brother,” as he would then have all day
to lay up in the warm sun and do nothing
but “just sleep.”
Darien Gazette: Miss Clara Barrow,
an estimable young lady of Athens, Ga.,
died suddenly of consumption on Monday
last at the residence of Captain Bourke
Spalding, on Sapela Island. We deeply
symathize with the relatives of the de
ceased.
LaGrange Eeporter: It is hut proper
to say that if the Eeporter had had the
appointing power, somebody else would
have been Senator. While we have noth
ing but scorn and indignation for those
who are eager to cry “corruption” in this
matter, we recognize our right to differ
with the governor as to the propriety of
this or any other appointment. The Ee
porter has been a supporter of Governor
Colquitt, and will continue to be until
something is done to forfeit that support.
We do not consider that the apDointment
of one of the ablest men in the State to
fill one of the highest positions temporari
ly, is cause sufficient for the withdrawal
of support—even though we do not ap
prove the appointment.
Brunswick Advertiser: The Bruns
wick and Albany railroad is pushed to its
fullest capacity to supply transportation
for lumber and naval stories to our city,
notwithstanding the fact that much of the
freight legitimately belonging here is
switched off to Savannah at Waycross. As
soon as the injunction case against the S.
F. and W. Railway is settled, we hope to
see these products seeKing this their natu
ral outlet. #
Darien Gazette: We were an atten
tive listener to the lecture delivered last
Sunday afternoon in the Methodist church
by the Rabbi N. I. Benson, of Macon.
The subject of the discourse was “the re
ligion of the ninteenth century.” Evi
dently the doctor has given much thought
to the subject and delivered it ably and
intelligently. He claims to be tlioroughly
orthodox in Jewish creed, being a firm
believer in the faith and doctrines of the
once chosen people of God. Yet he is dis
posed to be liberal with Christians and
will allow them to partake of the joys of
heaven if they will be moral and honest
and tolerate Jews in this life.
Henry County Weekly: Our readers
will be deeply pained to hear of the death
of Uncle Holly Campbell, one of the old
est and best citizens of the county, which
occurred on Tuesday night last, at the ad
vanced age of S5 years. His remains were
interred at the family burying-ground the
next afternoon, being followed to the
grave by a large concourse of sorrowing
friends.
Griffin JVeios: Truth is mighty and
must prevail, and those fellows who hope
to inane political capital or to obtain a lit
tle cheap notoriety by abusing and villify-
ing Gen. Gordon and Gov. Colquitt, will
come out at the little end of the spout.
Columbus Enquirer: In the late flood
an expense of several thousand dollars
was entailed on tlie county by the destruc
tion of bridges. The damage to crops and
stock is very heavy. Mr. Bickerstaff lost
nearly his entire flock of sheep, some cattle
and colts that were left in the swamp pas
tures on the Uchee. The rise in the creeks
was so sudden that stock was taken by
surprise and failed to make their escape.
Mr. Thomas Perry had his entire oat crop
submerged, resulting in an entire loss of
the whole.
The Americus Eecorder, of Friday,says
Colonel Tom nardenian is expected to
arrive in the city to-day; will, .attend the
bridge picnic to-morrow. He is a promi
nent candidate for governor; has many
firm friends in this section who would re
joice to see him in the executive chair.
And we are not so sure that he is not now
the favorite in Southwest Georgia. He is
certainly the favorite in Americus. A
poll of the leading citizens of the city was
taken yesterday, and the friends of Har
deman outnumbered all other candidates
combined. He has certainly proved true
to Geoigia in war and in peace, and
no one who knows him well will doubt
for a moment that,as executive of tho State
he would prove true to the people and
to tbe principles of Democracy. Can our
people do better than centre on Hardeman
for governor ? We want a man who can
subordinate self to the interest of his party
and people. And the whole history of
Tom Hardeman’s political life shows that
he counts self-interest as naught when it
comes in contact with the harmony and
success of the Democratic party.
Darien Gazette: Styles L. Hutchins,
the colored lawyer, tried his first case be
fore the Superior Court on Wednesday.
We are glad to state that the colored man
was treated with the greatest respect by
both judge and lawyers.
Quitjian Eeporter: The news reach
ed Quitman early Tuesday morning from
the Tallokas neighborhood that a negro
by the name of Gus Thompson had been
shot and killed by some person who had
waylaid him for that purpose.
A young man by the name of I*. E1-
mondson, has been implicated as being
the murderer by the dying declarations of
the deceased, arrested and lodged in jail,
ne will have a hearing this morning at
ten o’clock, and it is thought he will suc
cessfully prove an alibi.
About Tooth-Pulling.
An Oil City man was standing in front
of a dentist’s office with an anxious, un
happy look in his eyes, and two yards of
flannel around his lower jaw. He cast
sorrowful glances upward to the dentist’s
sign, and in a hesitating sort of way
placed his foot on tlie lower stair;'.lien
came out to the street again, as if he had
forgotten something. Col. Solon came
along at this moment, and with a thought
ful interest in the man’s welfare, said;
“Toothache, eh? Goin’ to have it
pulled? No? Well, you’d better go
right up afore your courage fails you.
Worst thing in the world is pullin’ a
tooth. I’ve been tlirough the war, had
both lungs shot away, fifteen bullets in
my head, and doctors ran a probe through
a hole in my shoulder right down my
body to my toe—thought it would kill
me. But, man alive, I never knew what
lain was till I had a tooth pulled. May
ie yon think the toothache is horrible.
It is; it’s awful 1 But wait till the den
tist ran3 them air iron tongs in your
month, pulls the tooth right down
through your jaw-bone, and then yanks
away as if he was pulling on
an old eDgine, and yer’ll
think tho toothache • ain’t no
more to be compared to it than a flea-bite
is to a railroad accident. Ycr better go
right up and have it out. Don’t let eny
body say I caused yer to back out. I
merely wanted to prepare ycr mind fer it.
And don’t yer take ether. Knew a jnan
onct, about yonr complexion and build,
who took ether, and he died. It’s dan
gerous. Just go right up and have it out.
t’il go up with yer an’see how yer stand
it when he begins twistin’ the hones
around. Yer won’t sleep a wink to-night
if yer don’t have it out; aud maybe you
won’t anyhow, for sometimes the tooth
breaks the jaw, inflammatory rheumatism
strikes the what’s-its-name, and the what-
they-call it sets in.”
Just at tills moment a young man prac
ticing on a French horn in one of the up-
ler rooms blew a long ear piercing blast,
ike the yell of a man In distress, and. as
the sound echoed tlirough tlie hall, the
colonel said: “That’s it, there is some one
getting a tooth palled now, and the den
tist has not any more than given the first
twist, either. Come right up and have
yours yanked. Whoop! there he goes
agin 1” as another terrible blast from the
horn came down the staircase. “Hold on,
hold on, yelled the colonel—but he was
not quick enough to stop the man with
tbe aching tooth, who rushed out of the
doorway and down the street so fast that
bis two yards of flannel became unwound
and streamed behind him like signals of
danger—wliile the villainous old Colonel
sat down on the lower step and laughed
State. He has reached Tayior county apd about thirty gentlemen went to the till his eyes ached.—Ex.
Chicago—The Probabilities.
We are inclined to prognosticate that
the third-termers, having, in a thoroughly
determined mood, “put their hands to the
plow” with which they mean to upturn
Republican usage in this country, are not
going to hesitate or look back. We he
lieve that, as they did m the New York,
Pennsylvania and Illinois conventions,
they will ran rough-shod over all opposi
tion in organizing, and put Grant through
on the first ballot.
But there are many who don’t believe
it; and chief among them is the New
York Tribune, who anticipates a grand
battle-royal in the preliminary organiza
tion, over the question of the right to
force the unitary rale on the State dele
gations. The committee’s call for the
Chicago convention asks for two delegates
from each Congressional distnet and four
from the State at laige. The clear impli
cation is that while the convention must
select the delegates at laige, it- belongs
to each district to select its own delegates
and not to the convention to impose dele
gates upon them to represent a hostile
will and discretion.
And this has been the usage, according
to the Tribune. The giving a meager ma
jority of a State convention power, not
only to disfranchise but absolutely to
belie and misrepresent half of a State, is
monstrous, and will be met by a storm of
opposition. The Tribune and its corres
pondents flatter themselves that the na
tional executive committee which has
cliaige of the preliminary organization at
Chicago, is ajnti-third term aud will take
cognizance of this abuse. Says that pa
per:
The action of a packed majority in the
Republican State convention oi Illinois,
last week, and the steps taken for self
protection by the outraged minority, will
force the national convention squarely to
meet and decide the most important issue
ever raised in a like body in this country.
And being vital in principle, and wide-
reaching in results, the question deserves,
and should receive the candid considera
tion both of the convention and country.
Upon its decision will depend the char
acter of the future conventions of the
party—whether they shall become in fact,
as well as in theory, odious machines for
stifling public sentiment and forcibly
decreeing prearranged results,
whether they shall continue to
he great representative bodies, the
action of which shall be the expression of
popular preference, and the decisions of
which shall inspire the respect of the vot
ers of our faith. In this Illinois case, the
national convention will be confronted
with the distinct question: What author
ity has the rightful power to choose the
district delegates to the national conven
tion ? Docs it rest in each district, or can
it be seized and used by a State conven
tion against the protest of the representa
tives, or the people, of the district? Man
ifestly, the answer to this question must
determine the nature of the body. If in
tlie former, each district in the Union has
an indefeasible right of independent rep
resentation, which would secure the rep
resentation in the convention of all the
interests existing within every Congress
ional subdivision in the Union. If in the
latter, tlie districts will at-once disappear,
States will take their places, thirty-eight
voices will supplant seven hundred, and
representation will cease to be free and
equal.
Hitherto, this point lias not been pre
sented to the convention. It lias beeu re
served to this day and to the con
test which it has excited, to develop
the arbitrary aud abominable practices
which have at once startled and shocked
the country and scandalized all true Re
publicans. There have, however, been
controversies which partly trenched upon
this ground. And the decision in them
gives basis for belief that the coming con
vention will not be behind its predeces
sors in vindicating the rights now put in
serious jeopardy. But these controversies
were confined to the point whether a State
convention, by tlie adoption of “unit rule”
instructions, could bind the action of dis
senting delegates. This has been decided
at least twice adversely to the claim—once
by acquiescence, and once by direct vote
on an appeal. The decision by acquies
cence was 'in the national convention of
1808, whicli was held in Chicago, when
five Pennsylvania delegates refused to vote
for Andrew G. Curtin for Vice President,
as they were directed to do under “unit
rule” instructions adopted by the State
convention of that year. Then the right
of individual voting was accorded, on
claim and without resistance; and the
present Senator Cameron, now chairman
of the national committee, and member of
the coming convention, had the pleasure
of breaking the “unit rule” of that year.
Against so monstrous a perversion of the
proper powers of a national convention,
and against such a degradation of the
true theory of this body, there should he
a general protest. The national nomina
ting convention, in its origin, was the pro
test of the people against tlie selfishness
of the congressional caucus, which, in its
nomination of candidates, substituted for
the popular preference the Czar of the
caucus, or the choico of the cabal, for the
perpetuation of personal and factional and
dynastic rule. The peril now is that the
convention, as it is sought to be made, is
to become tlie protector of the very abuses
against which it was organized and
created. A grave duty will devolve upon
the coming convention. It must deter
mine whether the influences now at work
to undermine and debase and destroy our
conventions, as representatives of the
Republican voters, shall be checked, or
whether they shall he continued till cor
ruption, and force, and money have
wholly dishonored them in tlie eyes of the
people.
On the other hand, we believe the
Grant men will make short work of the
attempt to sap the foundation of the tyran-
ous assumption on which their entire
superstructure rests. They cannot afford
and will not permit dicussion, but will
aj-ply the gag remorselessly.
Not to Withdraw.—Grant has found
a voice at last on the third term. After
the publication of tho Galena Gazette's
telegram, saying that Grant would stand
as a candidate, that paper was telegraphed
to say whether its announcement was au
thoritative. Tlie following reply was re
ceived : “In answer to your query, I will
state that tlie article published to-day in
tlie Galena Gazette, stating that General
Grant would not withdraw at Chicago,
is authoritative.” So the General has
shown that he can speak.
To Oppose Grant to the End.—At
a meeting of the State executive commit
tee of the Independent Republicans of
New York, at their headquarters, No. 8
Union-square, on Monday last, the follow
ing resolution was unanimously adopted:
Eesolvcd, That in the event of the nom
ination of General U. S. Graut lor Pres
ident, by the National Republican conven
tion, it is the unalterable determination of
tlie Independent Republicans of the State
of New York to withhold their rotes from,
and to labor by every honorable means in
their power to defeat General Grant and
the third term, in the forthcoming na
tional election.
General Gordon Interviewed.
He Will Take the Stump in Defense
of ms Private Character.
Mr. C. H. Williams, the Washington
correspondent of the Atlanta Constitution,
has had a talk with Senator Gordon in
which he says he had expressed his deter
mination to resign to many of “my (his)
intimate friends for a long time.”
His fondness for domestic life and the
desire to provide a more ample support
for the loved ones at home, together with
physical weakness, growing out of his
manifold political labors and the wounds
received in battle, have all combined to
indace him to retire from public life.
This determination was precipitated by
the offer of the position of general counsel
for the Louisville and Nashville railroad
company.
When asked, “why did you not hold on
to the end of the session, and draw your
salary as Senator until the Legislature
met?” the General replied: “Simply be
cause I could not postpone the business
arrangements that long. Governor Col
quitt begged me to do so, hut I could
not.”
When shown the interview with Gen
eral Toombs, and the numerous attacks
that had been made upon him in the
'prints from various sources, he said:
“This is all ungenerous and unjust. It
is the misrepresentation and traduction
which my best acts have invariably met in
some quarters while I was in public life,
and which are now employed to defame
me as I retire from it. They will produce
no permanent impression upon the people
of Georgia. They know me, and I know
the authors of these attacks too well.”
He believed It to be his duty to remain
at his post in the Senate as long as the
South was in danger. But now the great
object of his political life had been at
tained in the restoration of that section
into the Union upon equal terms, and he
could still serve his country in the capaci
ty of a private citizen, and at the same
time more effectually provide for the
wants of his household and family.
In reference to the charge that there
had been a trade of some nature between
Governor Brown and himself, General
Gordon in an indignant tone replied:
I have this to say: the charge is a base
calumny and' falsehood in all its length
and breadth and depth. What Governor
Colquitt and Governor Brown say of me
in relation to the appointment of the lat
ter is strictly true. How preposterous to
talk about a trade in the face of the fact
that Governor Brown had nothing to give
me. The offer came to me from Mr.
Newcomb and was the consequence and
not the cause of my resignation. I had
already sent my resignation to the gover
nor, intending to accept another proposi
tion made me by another party, and which
was more advantageous in a pecuniary
point of view, when Mr. Newcomb learned
of my resignation, and made me the offer
to which I have referred. I shall accept
his because it will not—as the other
would have done—carry me from my
home and State.
Gen. Gordon has announced his deter
mination by telegraph to return to Geor
gia immediately, and discuss the misrep
resentations and issues growing out of his
resignation face to face with the people.
Who that knows him will question the
truth of his statements?
All Endorse It.
The Eecorder, Americus, Ga., says:
Clerks, senators, representatives, doctors,
lawyers, citizens, in public anil private
life, are testifying by the thousands, and
over their own signatures, that a remedy
has been found for Bright’s Disease of the
Kidneys and for Diabetes; these are re
spectively known as Warner’s Safe Kid
ney and Liver Cure and Warner’s Safe
Diabetes Cnre.” m27- 2w
Indian Springs Argus: Col. H. J.
Lamar and his daughter, Mrs. E. H. Mc
Laren, of Macon, were up on a few days’
visit last week.
Judge Davis’ Bid.”
Commenting upon Judge David Davis’
letter, which the Herald pronounces a
bid for the Democratic nomination, the
Herald says it is founded on a miscon
ception of the situation. The Democrats,
laboring under the odium of disloyalty,
and counscious of their own weakness,
might have been willing to go out of their
ranks for a candidate as they did in 1872,
but the case becomes quite different when
the last election shows them a quarter of
a million votes ahead in the popular suf
frage. It may he assumed as certain, un
der such circumstances, that the Democ
racy will not go out of their own ranks to
find a Presidential candidate. And then,
speculating upon the general political sit
uation, the Herald adds the following :
It is easier to say whom the Democrats
will not nominate than whom they will.
The nomination of Grant at Chicago
will give them wliat they most needed—
an issue on which the party can he fully
united. They have differed so widely on
the currency aud other important subjects
that is a perfect godsend to them to have
a new question come up which will put
their internal controversies far into the
background. The third term question
will eclipse even the fraud question, and
that is fortunate for Democratic unity.
They are strong enough to fight a hard
battle, and it matters little who their
candidate may be after he is once nomi
nated. The two-thirds rule will enable
them to set aside any intriguing aspirant
who is not generally acceptable to the
party. The election will be, in the main,
a contest between repugnance of the
country to the third term and the national
sense of gratitude to the illustrious soldier
who saved the Union.
As Washington, who is said to have
been the Father of the Union, established
the official price of his services at eight
years, the country might reasonably esti
mate Grant’s reward at the same—with
more than double moneyed perquisites.
Salvage never exceeds the original value.
Bqt the Herald is right on the concen
trating power of the third term proposi
tion on the Democracy. It is a proposi
tion which ought to bring not only Demo
crats, but every friend of popular self-gov
ernment, shonlder to shoulder, like the
Roman phalanx, in a mighty straggle for
our original plan of an elective chief mag
istrate, changed often and at will, by the
free and uncontrolled suffrages of the
people. This plan is the real issue, how
ever it maybe sought to he disguised.
No Organized Opposition.
As might well be anticipated, there is,
just now', very lively and threatening
talk of an opposition candidate to Grant,
by tho disgruntled Blaine men and anti-
third-termers of the Republican party.
There is much discourse of this character
in the cities of New York and Philadel
phia. In the former a paper is circulated
signed by 4,500 Republicans pledging
themselves under no circumstances to
vote for Grant as a candidate for a third
term, and the State executive committee
of Independent Republicans has solemnly
resolved that in the event of General
Grant’s nomination at Chicago they (the
Independent Republicans) will use all
honorable efforts for his defeat.
Nothing of any practical value in the
Way of an organized opposition to Grant
can reasonably be anticipated from these
movements. They only indicate a dissat
isfaction which may, to some extent, as
sert itself at the polls, in a silenWbte, and
will probably affect Grant’s cause more
unfavorably in withholding supplies. The
anti-third-termers in New York and Phila
delphia are, to a considerable extent, mon
eyed men, and whatever else they may
do, or refrain from doing, the probabilities
are that they will not bleed with their
usual freedom for the party.
Col. Blanton Duncan has sued the
Louisville Courier-Journal to recover
$25,000 for alleged libel.
Hon. J. E. Brown Sketched.
The Chronicle and Constitutionalist
in showing up the ignorance ofthe Detroit
Post and Tribune, whicli, alluding to the
Columbus indignation meeting, said
Brown “was first opposed to secession, and
sided with Alexander H. Stephens,
though he afterwards went with his
State,” exclaims:
This is ludicrous. Governor Brown
was an original secessionist—so much so
that he could-not wait for the secession of
the State to seize arsenals and forts. He
never “sided with AlexanderH. Stephens”
until the war was about over. Then he
took a splurge far ahead of Mr. Stephens
who favored closing the armed struggle,
but, for many years, was the ablest and
most unceasing opponent of the 14th and
15th amendments. Tho truth is, Gov
ernor Brown acts swiftly upon his con
victions, right or wrong. Convinced of
the practicability of secession, he
seized the government buildings. Con
vinced of the future of the Con
federacy, he sought the overthrow of Jef
ferson Davis. Convinced of his peculiar
position*as a “traitor,” he was swift to
makepeace for himself and his possessions.
Convinced of the collapse of Republican
ism in Georgia, he returned to extreme
Democracy. This was the method of
Talleyrand, and ex-Govemor Brown is
the Talleyrand of Georgia politics. It
was said of Talleyrand, who made fair
weather, as occasion served, with Bour
bons, Orleanists, Republicans and Bona-
partes alike, that he was as the house cat,
that care3 very little for the people, but is
attached to the premises.
We have no doubt that, in the Senate,
whether for a brief or lengthened period,
the ex-governor will maintain himself in
such a way as to command respect for
himself aud State. Tlie shibboleth of
modern usefulness is ability to secure ap
propriations, with or without the old flag.
If Hon. J. E. Brown does not, if the op
portunity be given, rise to the full height
of this great desideratum, it will be be
cause his right hand has forgot its cun
ning. The most ultra Democrat, we pre
sume, will have no occasion to find fault
with his votes, and we admonish the
mightiest of Republicans that he comes
forth from no controversy without dn ene
my's scalp.
Col. Thomas Hardeman, Jr.
We clip the following from the Talbot
ton Eegister:
The people of Georgia, and of Talbot
county especially, are wide awake to our
necessities in the line indicated. In this
section the eyes and the hearts of the peo
ple are turned toward one of Georgia’s
noblest, purest, most zealous and most
sacrificing sons, one whom they will be
delighted to honor with their votes,
whom they will he delighted to honor,
one whom they present with becoming
pride to other sections of the State, and
ask that they hail in him the man best
fitted to direct our affairs—we mean the
Hon. Thomas Hardeman, of Bibb.
The Democracy of the State are under
peculiar obligations to Col. Hardeman,
who to subserve party harmony has sacri
ficed personal preferment and subordina
ted all his political interests to the good of
the Democracy. Now, while we would
not advocate rewarding a man for the
discharge of his duty, whether to self or
arty, we yet insist that no man in the
Itatc could serve us better as governor
than Col. Hardeman, public recognition
of whose fitness should be made at an early
day.
We do not misrepresent the people of
Talbot when we say that the gentleman
we have named is their choice for govern
or, and suggest that they express to our
delegates to be appointed on the first Tues
day in June that such is their preference
An Arkansas Romanes.
A very singular termination to a love
affair has just occurred near this city.
Sometime ago a young man, whom it
would no doubt be well to call James, fell
in love, or thought he did, with a young
lady whom it would be well to call Susan.
Practical names, both of them. The
fondness of James was returned. Jzmes
told Susan that he loved her, and Susan
told James that she loved him. James
asked Susan to marry him, and Susan
said that she would. The young man had
spent sleepless nights in contemplating
the prize he was attempting to win, but
when he found that the pole of his at
tractions had knocked the “persimmon”
of Susan’s affections he ceased tossing the
cover at night and slept soundly. Finally
he mused: “I don’t love that girl. I
wish that I had not acted so rashly in en
gaging myself to her. It would almost
lireak”her heart if I were to tell her bf my
mistake. She is so affectionate. 'What a
fool a man is 1” Susan did not pass all
this time without musing: “Women are
so impulsive,” she thought. “I am en
gaged to that man, and I declare that I
do not love him. I would break the en
gagement, hut he might kill h:mself. I
don’t know what to do.” The parties
continued to be affectionate toward each
other, and the same grave troubles affect
ed alike the mind of each. Several nights ‘
ago the affectionate party oat beside each
other.
“Susan,” remarked James, “do you
think that a man should marry a woman,
when he doesn’t love her, merely to pre
serve his honor?”
“No; do you?”
“I don’t think that he should. By the
v'ay, Sue, I think that it would be better
for us not to get married. I have been
mistaken; I don’t love you. I hope that
you will forgive me. Have I wronged
you?”
“Glorious man,” said the girl. “You
have lifted a heavy weight from my heart.
I do not love you, and the fear of fatal
results has kept me from breaking our en
gagement.”
“Is that so ?” asked James, astonished.
“I speak truthfully.”
“Well, I will be dog.goned. I thought
that you cared for me.”
“And I that you cared forme.”
“I’ll be blistered if this affair hasn’t got
away with me. Say, Sue!”
“Yes.”
“Now let’s look at this business a little
closer. We are both veiy trank. I think
that frank people make tho best of hus
bands and wives. We understand eacli
other first-rate. Tell me, don’t you—that
is, don’t you entertain something of an af
fection for me ?”
“Y—yes. Don’t you for me ?”
“Yes. Suppose, as we understand each
other so well, that we get married.”
“All right,” and the ceremony was per
formed in a country church last Sunday.
—Arkansas Gazette.
More Truth than Poetry.
Of Mr. Tilden, the Boston Herald says:
“His attitude before the country has
not inspired respect. To associate his
name with reform thi3 year would only
excite sarcastic smiles. He is not the
kiud of man the American people select
for chief magistrate. He is an impossible
candidate. The Democrats would make
their crowning blunder should they nom
inate him again.”
Every word of the above is true, and
defeat, we fear in the next Presidential
campaign, is an assured fact for the De
mocracy with such a load to carry as the
feeble sage of Grammercy . Park, despite
his barrel of money. But, nevertheless,
if Mr. Tilden is fairly nominated again,
how could Democrats hesitate between
him and General Grant. We are not pre
pared to admit that any of the charges
against the former are correct. In fact,
the contrary is doubtless true. But tbe
course of Mr. Tilden has lacked that in
genuous manliness and straightforward
ness which are calculated to inspire con
fidence and respect.
There is a glamor at least resting upon
him, and the contest would assume
the character of a defense, whereas ag
gressive war should be waged to the hilt
against our Radical enemies, who present
so many vulnerable points of attack. But
there is very little danger that Tilden will
be- foisted upon us again. The two-
thirds rule will effectually kill him off,
and, we trust, prove the means of placing
before the country some other worthy and
representative citizen who will lead the
cohorts of the Democracy to victory.
The Unit Rule in 1876
The World,in along article,reproduces
the action of the Republican convention
of 1870 at Cincinnati, which nominated
Mr. Hayes. It is interesting just
The convention then decided “that it is
the right of any and every member equal
ly to vote his sentiments in this conven
tion.” Bob Ingersoll made an impassion
ed appeal, declaring “we cannot afford to
go before the country on the idea that a
delegate can be forced to vote against his
, will and conscience.” Finally the unit
rale was voted down, and with it Blaine
went overboard. It will be personally a
little hard on Blaine when the decision is
reversed in 1880, and Blaine again goes
overboard in consequence ofthe reversal:
The third day opened the balloting, and
Blaine received 285; Morton, 124; Bris
tow, 113; Conkling, 98; Hayes, 61; Hart-
ranft, 68 and Jewell, 11. Thc secondbal-
lot increased Blaine, 11; Bristow, 1; Hayes
3; Hartranft, 5, and decreased Morton, 4-
Conkling, 6, and took Jewell out of the
race. It was during this ballot that the
now celebrated debate on tbe validity and
strength ot the unit rule took place. When
Pennsylvania’s vote was announced as a
unit, Mr. J. Smith Futhey, of Chester,
who was the secretary in the convention
for that Slate, arose to a question of priv
ilege and said that his chairman of the
delegation refused to give two votes
for Blaine, and ho now demanded
they be recorded. Two other delegates
from the same State made similar de
mands. Chairman McPherson—who
was secretly a Blaine man—instantly
said, “The chair rules that it is the right
of any and of every member equally to
vote his sentiments in this convention*.”
Mr. McCormick, a lieutenant of Don
Cameron, appealed. Without a call of
States, but by a rising vote, the chair was
sustained. Then came the first had blood
of tbe convention. Said Delegate Cessna,
of Pennsylvania: “My colleague asked to
be heard before the vote was taken.”
Chairman McPherson observed: “I did
not hear him.” Returned Mr. McCor
mick : “The trouble is you did not want
to hear me.” Replied the chairman, hot
ly : “I say to my colleague from Pittsburg
that his imputation upon the chair is dis
honoring to him.” “Dick Thompson,” of
Indiana, and now secretary of the navy,
interrupted with a tart protest against the
retort of the chairman. An angry alter
cation between them consumed several
minutes, noar, of Massachusetts, endeav
ored ineffectually to pour oil on the wa
ters which kept growing more troubled.
Finally, when Mr. Oliver, of Pennsylva
nia, began with this threat: “I wish to say
something which concerns the chairman,”
the latter interrupted him with, “I with
draw the remark.” But the subject was
not withdrawn. A motion followed to re
consider the vote sustaining the chair,
whicli gave rise to a debate of an hour,
during which Governor Van Zandt, of
Rhode Island, with great dignity, protest
ed against the convention becoming a
mob. In the course of the recrimination
it, was charged and admitted that the
chairman, who had ruled against the invi
olability of the unit rale, had himself
drawn the unit resolution for the delega
tion which he was breaking up.
Then Vice Chairman Pomeroy assumed
the mallet while the chairman retired
with his delegation for consultation. It
devolved upon Mr. Pomeroy to put the
vote on the reconsideration of the unit
ruling, which was done by a call of States,
with the result of 350 to 359 favoring re
consideration. Then “Bob” Ingersoll
made an impassioned appeal, in which oc
curred this sentence: “I tell you that we
cannot afford to go to this country upon
the idea that a delegate from a State can
be forced against his will and conscience
to vote for a man that he does not believe
his own immediate constituents want.”
Governor Van Zandt made this point:
“These gentlemen who now desire to
vote for another candidate understood
those instructions when they accepted
their positions, and they are bound by
them.” Mr. Hale cited a precedent of in
dividual preference against State instruc
tions as allowed by the second Lincoln
convention, and added: “Can we assert
that this convention nominates not by a
majority of its own delegates, but by the
votes of its States controlled in caucuses?”
A vote by States of 395 to 353 sustained
the right of individual voting as against
instructions from State conventions.
During the third ballot Blaine fell off
three votes, on the fourth one vote. On
tlie fifth he only had one more vote than
when he began. On the sixth ballot he
rose to 30S, which was 12 votes nearer the
nomination than he had before attained.
On the seventh ballot he rose to Sol and
Hayes to 3S4—six more votes than was
necessary. In this ballot Pennsylvania
voted 30 for Blaine and 2S for Hayes,
showing that, except for the ruling of
Chairman McPherson, a Blaine man, a
majority by two of the Pennsylvania del
egation would have carried the vote of
the State as a unit to Blaine and nomi
nated him by one vote. Then Mr. Wheel
er—who is now no longer named at all—
was nominated as Vice President by ac
clamation.
Among Icebergs.
The temperature is favorable to the
consideration of iceberg3. The Belgian
steamship Helvetia, arrived'in New York
last Thursday, reports to the Herald that
on the 21st,the wind blowing a nice breeze
from the westward, a sudden change in
the temperature was noticed. An hour
before the weather was quite sultry, awn
ings being spread fore and aft, hut at
about three o’clock in the afternoon, al
though the sun was shining brilliantly, a
cold blast from the northwest set in. The
rapidity of the change from a sweltering
summer’s day to an Arctic frost naturally
caused considerable amazement, especi
ally among the greener members of the
crew. The more experienced knew what
was coming, and when the cry of “Ice
bergs on the starboard bow ! ” followed
immediately by the notification that
others were visible on the port side, the
mystery was explained.
Then, right in the track of vessels were
seen monstrous mountains of ice, some
of them pure White, others crossed in
many directions by broad stripes of blue.
Some of them were 200 feet high and
1,000 feet long. There were at least
thirty of them, extending for many miles.
The sea broke against them, forcing tor
rents cf spray up the steep acclivities of
their sides. Tho rays of the suu had
melted the upper parts of many of them
into the most fanciful shapes, and imag
inary likenesses of crags, clifls and castles
could be traced in those parts more ex
posed to the lines of heat. Streams of
water in picturesque cascades were flow
ing down into the sea, and the huge, ma
jestic njasses seemed to be moving slowly
to the southeast. The Helvetia passed
near enough to several of them . to dis
tinguish the noise of the waves as they
broke against the ragged sides of the
bergs. As night closed in and the moon
arose, the sight was indeed beautiful.
The beams of the moon ijJurained the ice
bergs, giving them a weird and ghastly
appearance. For many hours these gi
gantic bergs were seen by tbe crew of the
Helvetia, and it was morning before the
summits of the most towering had laded
into the distance.
Returned.—Hon. Henry W. Hilliard,
late minister to Brazil, has returned to tb.
United States, and at last accounts had
reached Augusta en route for his home in
Columbus. This gentleman is a polished
scholar and eminent orator, and bus friends
will gladly welcome him back again.
“ISoB’tWut thill stuff.”
Is what a lady of Boston said to her hus
band when he brought home some medi
cine to cure her of sick headache and neu
ralgia which had made her miserable for
fourteen years. At the first attack there
after, it was administered to her witn
such good results, that she continued its
use until cured, and made so enthusiastic
in its praise, that she induced twenty-two
ofthe best families in her circle to adopt
it as their regular family medicine. That
“stufl" is Hop Bitters.—Standard.
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