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GEORGIA PRESS.
Says the Times of Columbus: Little
Gertrude Hood, the adopted daughter of
Mr. and Mrs. M. Joseph, died Monday at
the Warm Springs in Meriwether county,
where Mrs. Joseph had gone to spend the
summer. She was one of the orphans of
Gen. J. B. Ilood and was given to
Mr. and Mrs. Joseph by their earnest so
licitation while in New Orleans last
winter*
The attachment and devotion of the
foster parents could not have been greater
had the bright little girl been their own
offspring. They watched over it with the
tenderest care, and their hearts arc made
sore by the death of the sweet little baby.
And not only the parents but many ol
their friends had also formed a strong at
tachment for her, and many eyes wens
wet with tears yesterday as they placed
the little flower in the cold grave. All
Columbus sympathizes with Mr. and Mrs.
Joseph in their bareavement.
A correspondent of the Times gives
an account of a terrible cyclone that
passed eight miles north of LaGrange,
wrecking every building upon the farm
of Col. F. A. Frost, and severely wound
ing many of the occupants.
Hon. A. H. Stephens was met, as he
entered Augusta, by a committee and
greeted with a salute from the Washing
ton Artillery. He expressed himself as
having been a Hancock man ever since his
great controversy with Pease. He was
to have spoken in Augusta yesterday.
.The Chronicle and Constitutionalist
reporter has just emerged from a col
lege commencement. He has it all—
“pressure on our columns,” “lateness of
the hour,” etc., etc.
The Columbus Enquirer says it is
pretty well decided that Hilliard Dixon,
now confined in jail, is the murderer of | sash and glass, were blown in. The fam-
Mr. Gammon. ‘ Conventions between .. t „ 1 l c J.', 0U f. c
Dixon and a fellow prisoner have been
and a good citizen. It also says a “heavy
wind and rain storm struck this locality
about 0 p. m., Sunday last, tearing down
fences, shaking the fruit from the trees
and flattening some fields of corn a3 if a
roller had passed over them. Wo fear the
damage has been severe farther oft Mr.
John A. McKinnon, five miles east, we
hear, lost all his Le Conte pears by tne
wind.”
Thomasvili.e Enterprise: V> e notice
that several papers are urging the claims
of tHc Hon. A. O. Bacon, of Macon, for
the Senatorsliip, to fill the vacancy caused
by the resignation of Senator Gordon.
We do not know that Mr. Bacon is a can
didate for the position, but we know lie
would fill it with credit to himself and
the State, nc has served the State al
ready in several capacities and has been
in public life for several years, and we
have yet to hear the slightest whisper
against his lioror or integrity. He is an
honest man and an able one. He
is specially and peculiarly fitted
for membership in any deliberative body
by his thorough knowledge of the laws
governing debate. He is, in our judgment,
without a superior as a presiding officer.
He is strict without harshness, equable
and pleasant, but inflexible, and so
thoroughly posted that he decides the most
vexed questions, apparently, without a
moment’s hesitation, and yet his decisions
are never reversed. Should he present
himself a3 a candidate he ought to and
will be a formidable opponent to any one
else that may seek the office.
Griffin Xetcs: The rain and wind
storm on Monday night was one of the
severest ever experienced in this section.
The violent wind threatened much dam
age in the city and men in their stores on
Hill street aud people in their homes
about the city were in much fear of dam
age and danger. We are glad to state
that but little damage was done in the
city. At the lesidence of Dr. Connally,
just out of the city, all the fences were
■ blown down, and many of the windows,
overheard, aud there is no doubt of his
guilt.
We learn from the Savannah News
that the regatta at the Isle of Hope was
a success. The prize was won by the
“Annie” of Brunswick. Several beats
were upset by a squall but no lives lost.
The Sumter Republican contains an
account of a dastardly attempt at mur
der on the part of a negro, near Atnericus,
named Ike Clarke. Ike wanted another
man’s wife to come and ^ive with him,
and upon her refusing to do so, shot her
with a musket load of bird shot. Ike re
poses in jail.
The same paper contains the following:
An old colored man met an old woman
of liis race and talked with her for some
time. Zt last the old woman said:
“Wharyer born?” “I was born in old
Firginnv,” said the old man, “and Mars
George' Temple sold me when I was
’bout fifteen years old. 1 had a mammy
an’ a twin sister, an’ two brudders, but 1
never beam tell of ’em sense de war.”
“What your mammy’s name?” said the
woman. “Kate.’’ said the man, “an’ sis
ter's name was Betty, and Ben and Dick
was my brudders.” The old woman
jumped up aud hugged the astonished
man saying, “You’s my brudder Phil,
what Mars George sold for hittin’ him
wid a rotten egg:” and thereupon was a
rejoicing with the old couple. They had
not met in thirty years, and the old man
learned of his mammy’s death, aud that
liis brothers, like himself, had been sold
South and never heard from.
Albany Advertiser: The first peaches
of the season were brought in town this
morning, from Baker. The peach crop,
we believe, is a complete failure this
year.
A colored man shot and badly wounded
a large bear eleven miles from town on
the plantation of Mr. George Walker.
Bruin made good his escape.
The Louisville Courier says: The mass
meeting held at the court house Tuesday
was largely attended, and great enthusi
asm was manifested upon the selection of
delegates to the gubernatorial convention
which will meet in Atlanta to nominate
our next governor. The contest was prin
cipally between lire Colquitt and Lester
men, in which the latter were ririnriou*.
After considerable discussion the follow
ing delegates were elected A. E. Tarver,
John F. Toole, W. P. Johnson and Ed
ward Hunter.
The delegates go instructed to vote for
“the most available man,” but their pref
erence is Lester. Thegentlemeu selected
are all men of intelligence and integrity,
and will carry out the instructions of the
meeting faithfully, and without fear, fa
vor or affection.
Columbus Enquirer: Mr. W. A. Hud
son, the master car builder of the Colum
bus and Borne railroad shops, is about
completing a first-class passenger coach
for that road, that is, in our judgment, a
superior job. It is forty feet long and
eight feet three inches wide, with double
seats on each side, and with a capacity of
seating fifty persons. It is wider than
the can now in use on that road. Mr.
Hudson informs ns the car will be built
with a saving of about 23 per cent, over
cars ordered at the North, while the road
gets better and more substantial work
than the Northern. This car will lie fin
ished in about ten days when Mr. II. will
commence building freight cars for the
road. * — .
Atlanta Post of the 7th: Four coun
ties were represented in Uncle Jonathan's
white Republican convention yesterday.
Tlia meeting organized witli fourteen
members, seven from Fulton county, one
from Cobb, one from Campbell, one from
Spalding and two from Henry county.
Uncle Jonathan had an address, a plat
form and resolutions already cut and dried
for the occasion. The appearance of J.
W. Carter, colored, from Thomas county,
•was not on the programme. He made a
very pathetic appeal to the white
Republicans, asking that his people
who did not Indorse the disgrace
ful mob known as the Republican con
vention be allowed to send representa
tives tD the white convention. Uncle
Jonathan’s convention declined to affiliate
witli Carter and the dissatisfied black Re
publicans. Carter felt crushed, and witli
tears asked: “Wbar shall we go ? Pled
ger’s crowd lias shet us out an’ now you
won’t let us in. What are to become of
us ? ” W. A. Pledger, colored, chairman
of the State central committee was pre
sent, and made a lengthy speech, com
pletely sitting down upon Uncle Jona
than Norcross and his 30,000 white Re
publicans.
Savannah News: Our Atlanta con
temporary, in its issue of Sunday, says:
“Our esteemed contemporary, the Savan
nah News, attributes the falling off iu the
census returns of Georgia L» the law cre
ating the railroad commission.” Will our
contemporary be so kind as to state when
and where any such opinion has ever been
expressed in the Newst We have never
seen it. The only opinion we have ex
pressed at all on the subject, in the slight
est degree approaching to that charged on
ns by the Constitution, is that unless the
. railway commission law is repealed immi
gration to the State will be seriously re
tarded in the future. No prudent and
ambitious farmer is going to settle in
any State where he is. debarred facili
ties for transporting his produce to
market, and no capitalist is going to in
vest his means to famish such facilities
when he knows thaj, after his money is
expended and the' work is completed,
three disinterested partita will step in,
teil him to stand aside, and inform him
that they intend to take entire charge of
liis affairs for him. This op’nion we
maintain to be strictly correct, and al
though we Lave said nothiug about the
census returns being affected by a law
passed in the tenth year of tl:c present
i . ;istis deen:bs wo will venture one pre-
d: -tion. to-wit: That unless the railway
sr is repealed, the census of
• that in the inat'.erof popu-
i is talk behind tier sister
c 'innnsMon
1 will sill
la'.Ion Geer.
States.
Thomas ,
dentil of C;r
o! Talbot Co
aO* 1 announces the
t. (r. W. Gammage, formerly
inrv. A w«whv gentleman
would tumble down and vacated it,
There was no further damage. Through
this county and Butts the storm did con
siderable damage to fencing, but nothing
more than that has been reported.
St. Louis Republican: Gov. Col
quitt, the late Senator Gordon, and the
new Senator Joseph E. Brown, of Georgia,
have recently organized, a strong and
wealthy company, of which Senator Gor
don is president,"to construct a railroad
from Rome, Ga., to Aberdeen, Miss.
This road will pass through the counties
of Cherokee, Etowah, Blount, Fayette mid
Walker, of Alabama, the richest coal, iron
and copper region of the world. This
road will gather up the rich material in
the territory of Alabama and carry it to
Atlanta, or some other Georgia town,
upon which the mechanics and trades'
people of that State will grow rich.
Brunswick Appeal: Hon. Jacob E.
Dart is repairing his beautiful residence.
Mr. Charlie Moore, who is universally
popular as a boarding house keeper, is
making considerable additions to his res:
deuce. Mr. Leaner continues, work on
his new store house. Hon. J. F. Nelson
is pushing the new hotel right up. Dr.
Madden will put a laige addition to his
drug store soon. Messrs. Littlefield &
Tison are enlarging their wharf facilities.
The ladies will soon commence the im
provement of the city park. Col. Collins
is repairing part of the custom house, and
rumor has it that several new buildings
will scon he erected. There is life in
Brunswick.
Rome is all astir this week over the mili
tary encampment,which is now in full blast
They are proud of this enterprise, and
they should be. We arc always glad to
note the prosperity of other localities as
well as our own. This week will be
worth thousands of dollars to the “city
upon the hills.” There are now in camp
the Chatham Artillery’, of Savannah, Ga.,
Abbeville Rifles, from Abbeville, South
Carolina, Spaulding Greys, of Griffin,
Griffin Light Guards, and a detachment
of the Republican Blues, of Savannah,
The population of Savannah is 30.717
Total increase over the census of 1870 is
2,5X2. The increase is entirely among the
colored inhabitants, they outnumbering
the whites 753.
Jesup Sentinel: For some time past,
Mr. L. G. Clark, railroad ticket agent,
has been missing money from liis oliice.
lie suspected Frank Flagg, a colored em
ploye, and set a trap for him. A few dax«
•jrrQ ||£ market f> iivo dollar billy winch
was soon afterward stolen. Monday morn
ing be left a two dollar bill hanging over
the lop of the drawer anil left the office,
but got a friend outside to keep a lookout.
Oil liis return, the party who was on
watcli told him that Fmuk Flagg had
been inside. The two dollar bill was
missing. Frank was arrested and the
money found in his possession. A search,
warrant was taken out and the marked
five dollar bill was found in a trunk at
his house. Flagg was taken before Jus
tice Rumph yesterday. lie waived an ex
amination and was committed to jail in
default of $400 bail.
Savannah News: Yesterdry morning
a colored man named Adam Bellinger,
living about seventy miles front the city,
on the Savannah, Florida and Western
railway, arrived here on tiie passenger
train. He had a pistol ball in his head
and was anxious to have it removed. The
services of Dr. T. B. Chisholm were ob
tained and the bullet was extracted with
out much difficulty, the wound not being
serious. Adain stated that he been acci
dentally shot by a comrade whilst hilari
ously celebrating tlie “fourth” ou Mon-
day.
Albanv New*: Reports received at
this office from the country bring the grat
ifying intelligence that the rain on l ues-
day was pretty general in all directions.
The corn crop, however, has been cut
down considerably by the continued
drouth, and hardly more than a half crop
is expected. Colton is in splendid condi
tion, and an abundant crop will be made
in southwest Ucoigia, if the caterpillar
doesn’t take hold soon.
The BamesvilJe Gazette is filled with
the closing exercises of Gordon Institute.
The people are proud of their institution,
and they have a right to be. Among
other things they bad an address by one
of our townsmen, and the Gazette has
this to say about it:
Prof. Woodall, in the most graceful
manner, introduced to the audience the
orator of tlie day. Colonel J. L. Harde
man, of Macon. He spoke more than a
half hour, aud held the audience, all tlie
time, in tho closest and most respectful
attention. While lie announced no sub
ject, tlie gennain idea permeating tlie
whole speech was the husbanding of t.uie.
Appropriate examples were adduced to
siiow wliat had been accomplished by
utilizing the previous moments. The
speaker iu referring to the ladies, their
dress aud their husbands, struck a most
liappy coni. The presentation of this fea
ture was close to tiuth and liappy in its
effect. The ladies unanimously vote the
speech “simply splendid.” The speaker
was richly applauded, as lie made happy
hits, and the societies fed they made a
success iu tlie selection of an orator.
Savannah News: Yesterday a negro
man, giving his name as Henry Allen, ap
peared at the city dispensary to have his
bead dressed, having been shot tlie niglit
previous while standing in front of an ice
house near the corner of Montgomery and
Gaston streets. The wound was in the
scalp, aud was not serious. He stated
that the shot was fired at him through a
window by some unknown part}’. "Dr.
Lewis Cass dressed tlie wound and dis
patched tlie relieved iudividualon his way
rejoicing.
Waynesboro Herald: Henry Ryan,
the negro sentenced to be hung here on
the Otli, seems determined to disappoint
the public if possible. On several occa
sions he has managed, to pick the locks
around his feet. A few days since 31 r.
Hainill, tlie jailor, found concealed in
Ryan’s hair a small wire with which lie
hail been making these attempts to es
cape.
IIinesville Gazette: We had tlie
pleasure of a short visit from Prof. B. T.
Hunter, of Macon, who is in our village
to-day on business. Ibof. Hunter is a
distinguished educator of youth, haring
bet>n connocted with several of the best
institutions of learning in the State. To
I lie writer it was more than a pleasure to
reiie.w tbelrieudsliip of ante bellum days.
by meeting with an old college mate. We
hope Prof.'Hunter will again visit our lit
tle town.
Perry Home Journal: During tho rain
last Saturday night a kind of cyclone
struck the Smith place, on which Mr. J.
H. Houser now lives, about a mile and a
half from town. Several trees, some
fencing and a stable were blown down,
the latter falling on and killing a valuable
mule belonging to Mr. Houser. We have
not heard that the cyclone yisited any
other place in the county.
Columbus Times: Another instance
of boyish folly was illustrated yesterday
afternoon about 0 o’clock. Eugene Ste
phens, a lad of about sixteen years of age,
accidentally shot himself in the left arm
while handling a pistol. The pistol was
one of those little cheap concerns which are
hardly large enough to be dangerously
fatal, but large enough to cause much
pain and a doctor’s hill.
At a meeting of the board of 'directors
of the 3Iobile' and Girard railroad, in
Girard, Ala.,,on Wednesday last, the fol
lowing officers were elected for the ensu
ing year: R. L. Mott, president,pro
tern; J. M. Frazier, secretary and treas
urer, and IV. L. Clarke, superintendent.
Savannah Recorder: Mary Jane Mc
Clellan, an unfortunate white woman,
was arrested last night at a quarter past
eight o’clock, by oflicer Anglin, and taken
to the barracks. She was under the in
fluence of liquor and acting in a boisterous
and unbecoming manner. She has been
before the mayor for the same offense
several times, and many who knew the
woman’s fondness for liquor were satisfied
she was not in a right state of mind. In
stead, therefore, of bringing her before the
mayor’s court and fining her a few dol
lars, she was turned over to the ordinaiy,
so that her alleged insanity might be in
quired into.
Perky Home Journal: The fanners
of Houston county generally are in good
spirits concerning the crop prospect. In
some sections the com has been very
much injured by drouth, while in others
the rain has been plenteous during the en
tire season. In almost every section of
the county the prospect for au excellent
c'itton crop is very good. Peas have been
planted in large quantities, potatoes are
doing finely, and where planted sugar
cane promises a bountiful yield. All in
all, our fasmers have very little to com
plain of.
Columbus Enquirer: Mr. Elijah
Wiggins, aged sixty, died at the plank
boarding house on Tuesday afternoon,
from lung disease. lie had resided in
Columbus many years, and had been in
poor health lor several months. lie was
buried last afternoon.
Barnesville Gazette: Last Satur
day night the inmates of Upson county
jail bored through the roof and made their
escape. Young Lumpkin, who stole
the horses, and Leonard Daniel, a colored
man, charged with cattle stealing, were
the only occupants. They both escaped
aud have not been heard from up to this
writing.
Atlanta Constitution: Yesterday
morning Mr. C. H. Swift, tlie undertaker,
was requested to visit the Baptist Home,
comer of Pulliam and Jones streets, for
the purpose of making the necessary ar
rangements for a double burial. When
3Ir. Swift arrived at the Home lie found
tlie bodies of Mrs. Ortagusaud her daugh
ter awaiting burial.
The necessary arrangements were per
fected and the funerals took place in tlie
afternoon at the same hour, tlie caskets
being in separate hearses. Tlie remains
of Mrs.Ortagus and her daughter were fol
lowed to the grave by a large number of
the very best citizens of Atlanta. We
learn that Mis. Ortagus died from a can
cer, and that her daughter died of con
sumption. The two deatlis, we are in
formed, took place within a couple of
hours. The death of 3Irs. Ortagus left
motherless a twelve year old boy, and an
eight year old girl who will be taken
care of by tlie friends of the Baptist noiue.
A number of ladies showed every atten
tion to ills. Ortagi.s and her daughter
during their last hours of sickness,
Augusta News: A sad death occurred
at Clark’s Globe 3Ii!is this morniug from
tlie accidental falling of an elevator. The
ropes of the elevator breaking, it fell to the
floor and struck a young girl, Eugenia
Mitcham, who happened to be in tlie mill,
though she was not in the employ of
Messrs. Clark, causiLg her death in a few
minutes. _
The accident i»*ppc«cii early this mom-
ins, about 7 o’clock. An inquest was held
over the body, aud the above facts substan
tially stated, according to which a verdict
was "formed. A physician, summoned at
tlie time of the accident, could not be of
any assistance, as death was almost in
stantaneous.
The city of Rome is all agog with mil
itary enthusiasm and visitors. Yester
day Governor Colquitt reviewed the
troops, and “Camp Lee” was formally
put under military orders. There are
seven companies in camp, all under com
mand of Col. Clifford W. Anderson, of
Savannah. The artillery is commanded
by Captain Wheaton, of the Chatliains.
To-day will be celebrated as the Fourth
of July, a grand military display
will take place, a salute of one hundred
guns be fired, and General Robert Toombs
will deliver the address.
Killed by Lightning.—Rome Tri
bune: Yesterday the news reached the
city tliat on Wednesday afternoon, just
over the Floyd county line in Bartow, 3Iiss
Lizzie Watson, a lady of about forty-eight
years of acre, while hoeing com in the field
was killed by lightning. It seems that she
started for the house just as the storm
clouds began to gather, when there caiue
a terrific crash of thunder and a flash of
lightning, and a companion on turning
around discovered that the electric bolt
had thrown Miss Watson to the ground,
and on going to her found that she was
quite dead, the shock having taken effect
almost instantaneously.
If the country has got to be bored by
daily reports of Dr. Tanner’s fast, it is
perhaps better that he should collapse at
au early day.
There is a pathetic appeal ascending
from various disappointed cities of Geor
gia, addressed to such citizens .as were
omitted by the census bosses. It is as
follows, “If you love the city, baud in
ycur names immediately.”
Columbus complains that the men
who sprinkle the street, sprinkle^ passer
by also. We are not troubled iu that
way here.
Talbot county is suffering for rain.
Lexington has had a mad dog sensa
tion.
The Oglethorpe Echo says the cou“
victs at tlie various camps in this county,
knowing their letters are read before de
livered, hare established a secret corres
pondence by marks, and can thus impart
news of their treatment without the guard
deciphering the secret. It is adopted and
understood at every camp in the State.
Also, that the Supremo Court has de
cided that a renter has no right to dispose
of any part of a crop until the landlord is
paid; and that where a tenant attempts to
dispose of a crop with a view of evading
payment of rent, he coinm.ts a crime pun
ishable with imprisonment in the chain-
gang. The land-owners of the country
bear the burden of taxation and it is but
right that the law should throw around
them every protection.
We learn from the Reporter that Drl
B. B. Alfred, one of the oldest citizens of
LaGrange, died last Saturday., lie was a
native of Connecticut, and went to La-
Grange from Greensboro, Ga., iu 1857.
He hail accumulated considerable proper-
tv, and when his relatives in Connecticut
said to him, as they did a number of
times, “Why don’t you give up your busi
ness and come back to your old home ?”
liis reply would be: “Well, I like these
people down iu Georgia, and I’d better
stay where I am.” He was unmarried
and lived alone.
Americus Recorder: We regret to
learn that
ty-two years,
the fifth congressional district it is easy to
see wliat is before us. If Colonel Ham
mond receives the nomination for Con
gress, a very laige body of Democrats
will urge one of their strong men to take
the field as an Independent, and measure
lances with the nominee of the organized.
From present indications the contest bids
fair to be hot and lively.
The editor of the Albany Advertiser is
getting his “Irish up,” judging from the
following editorial:
There are some men in Albany who
have had their own way, and given direc
tion to all matters of a public or political
character, so long, that they seum to think
they have a right to do it, and that it is
not only presumptuous but impudent In
anybody else to bring their acts into ques
tion or even refuse to how in humble sub
mission to their every wish. The Adver
tiser is no respecter of persons, however,
and these celebrities will have to permit
it to exercise the right of free speech.
Fellow-citizens, we have come to stay.
Coffee County Gazette: We again wit
nessed last Tuesday a combat between a
mocking bird and a black snake, the same
one we suppose of which mention was
made two weeks ago. The bird stays
near our office and the snake is frequently
seen near an old stump some twenty-five
steps distant. Last Tuesday the bird
found tlie snake away from its hiding
place, and at once made a bold attack
upon it. Soon after the attack began the
snake stopped running and placed itself
in an attitude for defense, but tlie bird’s
attack became so furious that the snake
was forced to seek shelter utder Mr. Par
ker’s store. When the snake found that
its defense was weak, and concluded to
make its retreat, the bird caught it several
times, and no doubt, would have killed it
had it not found a place of concealment.
The combat was in plain view of our win
dow, and was witnessed by others.
The Atlanta Post is swinging around
into the independent vein
It is now certain that a strong indepen
dent candidate for the State Sen
ate will take the field in this Sena
torial district. The gentleman alluded to
resides in Clayton county, aud is an able
and popular lawyer. He will be an
nounced in a few days, and the ring men
will have warm work before them if they
try to defeat him.
Amekicus Recorder: Injunction
Granted :—The railroad filed a bill to
enjoin Mr. Beverly Mitchell from rebuild
ing his mill-dam. Judge Crisp has sus-
taiued the bill and granted the injunction.
As matters now stand, Mr. Mitchell has
only the mill by a dam site; w hat he
wants is a dam by the mill site.
Columbus Times: Mr. James Nowlan,
an old citizen of Chattahoochee county,
died at his residence a few miles below
Cusseta, Ga., Tuesday, and was buried in
the Cusseta cemetery yesterday. His age
was about 70 years. His remains were
followed to their last restiug place by a
large number of friends.
Mr. John M. Deason, an aged and re
spected citizen of Stewart county, died
last Monday at his residence near Hanna-
liatchee. Mr. Deason was a most estima
ble citizen and a man of influence and
highly respected in his community.
Bainbeidge Democrat: Hon. A. O.
Bacon will make things lively for Joe
Brown before the next Georgia legislature.
Joe, with his bar’l, is strong, but we think
the patriotism of the people will be
stronger. But we shall see.
LaGrange Reporter: Hon. Henry
Persons and Hon. J. F. Pou are brothers-
in-law. Nevertheless Capt. Persons is
“dead against” Judge Pou’s candidacy,
and expects, if nominated, to beat him
out of his boots.
Oglethorpe Echo: A gentleman
who had run a bar-room for twenty years
says for tlie last decade whisky drinking
has beendiniinishing in this county, and
that the books of any bar-room will show
that the business is each year growing
beautifully less. The class of customers
is also changing. The class of men who
would now consider it a disgrace to be
seen drunk, a few years ago prided them
selves on their whisky guzzling qualities'
Atlanta.—Darien Gazette: The writer
worked hard ai •.* voted for Atlanta to be
come the capital of the State. Witli only
tlie same lights before us which we then had
We would do it over auain- Dut ir Atlanta
io determined that all political influence
is to be concentrated in or nortli of that
city, aud if the best class of men, when
advanced by their friends for office, are to
be repudiated by the great bulk of Atlanta
people only because they come from south
Georgia, we shall regret to our dying day
that we did uot vote to put the capital at
Milledgeville, or, for that matter, in tlie
heart of Bull Town Swamp, rather than in
the Gate City. Oi-r faith has been
shaken, but not destroyed, in the
liberality and patriotism of Atlanta
towards all sections of the State. We
still believe that she will exhibit no nar
row-minded anil prejudiced spirit in the
coming nomination for governor. In the
meantime, many like us are waiting to
see whether our noble and enterprising
city can be controlled by an old rotten
ring, and south Georgia has woke up to
the fact that wc have recovered our polit
ical power in tlie State by the enfran
chisement of the colored people, and that
of late wc have been mere successful in
sustaining the Democratic party than our
friends of north Georgia.
Cutiirert Appeal: On Tuesday eve
ning during the storm a laige tree stand
ing in Mr. A. F. Hall’s yard was struck
by lightning and shivered, tlie hark being
thrown over a space of nearly au acre iu
width. The electric current passed from
the tree to a small ou’liouse, tearing off
the weatlierboarding and passing down
through the floor, set the building on fire.
The fire was extinguished before making
much headway.
No one was hurt, although several boys
were playing in tlie yard within ten feet
of the tree when struck. Mrs. Ilall and
the small children were badly frightened,
they being in the house alone. When the
lightning passed through the small
house it killed a ben and some small
chickens that were under there for safety.
Augusta News: Mrs. Thomas Arm
strong, one of the oldest residents in
Augusta, and the wife of Mr. Thomas
Armstrong, who lives on upper Broad
street, died this morning after a very sud'
den illness. She was not seriously ill till
last night.
Hancock’s Crimes.
•The thing is becoming interesting, says
the Philadelphia Chronicle. Tlie enor
mity of Gen. Hancock’s crimes against his
country is being discovered and unfolded
at a great rate. A New York letter in
the Chicago Tribune recites that Gen
Hancock occupies on Governor’s Island
sixty-four acres of land worth $15,000,000
if sold for city residences; that Governor’s
Island has ceased (presumably since the
Cincinnati nomination) to be of any value
as a defense, being only used as the resi
dence of some pet commanding general
(Hancock has always’becn a pet with the
Republican party (rom Grant down; that
a guu fired from the island at
enemy’s ship would go crashing through
the heart of Brooklyn; that tho taxpayers
of America support General Hancock in
lazy luxury on this $15,000,000 island;
that General Hancock is waited upon as it
he were a king; that there is a.steam yacht
there to take him to Delmonico’s to din
ner, or to Coney Island for a flirtation
with the ladies; that an armed sentinel is
on guard there day and night, in all sorts
of; weather (always the same sentinel
brutally kept at his post); and that if
General Hancock were not a major-gen
eral he would bo a country tavern-keeper.
This, it must be confessed, is a terrible
arraignment of General Hancock, and
shows what a botch the Cincinnati con
vention made of its work.
Crescent spnog Water.
For several years .had. been affected
j with gravel of the kidneys. My urine
Mr. Berry Wijljams, ageu twen- j wds carefully analyzed and found to con-
_ is, the son cf \Y. C. \\ illiams, ] t a f n nearly half an ounce of uric acid,
of the fifteenth district of Sumter, has ’ I had not taken the water three days nnti!
been adjudged a lunatic. The young the quantity was reduced fifty per cent.,
man’s health has been bail for over a J an( j three weeks after, a last analysis
year, and tho hope is that the eliange of ! slewed the urine free from gravel,
air and water and proper treatment will j ; Solomon Stein,
soon restore him. Of:S. Stein & Co., 4-13 and 448 Broadway,
Atlanta Post: The masses appear to 1 New York,
regard the county primaries witli apa- J September Stli, 1879.
thetic indifference. In many instances' For. information apply at Hall's Drug
there is something.back of all this,.and in Store.
ADDRESS
Or Robert Weston Patterson, Esq., on
the Occasion of the Presentation of
Medals to Members of tho Sopho
more Class, Mereer University.
Below wo reproduce in full the address
of our talented young townsman of the
Macon bar, on Tuesday evening last. It
has been pronounced, by competent judges,
the most classically beautiful speech ever
heard at a Mercer commencement. It
was delivered with grace and ease, and
reveals not only Intellect of the highest
order, but deep thought, and an analytical
mind. We commend it as good reading.
We regret that tho happy personal ad
dresses which followed the speech when
the medals were presented, cannot also be
produced:
Ladies and Gentlemen, and Young Gen
tlemen of the Sophomore Class of Mercer
University: As I have listened to the
diversified and sparkling speeches of the
young gentlemen of the Junior class who
have preceded me, I have felt that mine
to-night must be the humble task of Ruth
—to gather up the scattered sheaves of the
harvest which these diligent reapers have
garnered from the broad and fertile fields
of oratory. Yet am I glad that I follow
them, for these young gentlemen have but
illustrated before you that art of oratory
which it is my purpose to discuss. Art is
the exponent of labor, for labor is the basis
of art.
The results of intellectual work out
rank the achievements of physical exer
tion. The perfection of art must, there
fore, be found in the grandest creation of
mental labor. The prime object of the
labor of the mind is to impress its force on
other minds.
The highest test of art then, is the effec
tiveness with which it enables mind to
communicate with mind. Modern history
knows no Delphi save human thought.
Intellect is the only Pythoness now in
voked, and there are many who tell us
that the -press is the groaning priest
through whom alone the oracle cau speak.
Yet it is my hope to-night, young gentle
men, to increase the interest you have al
ready shown in another exponent of hu
man thought more circumscribed than the
press yet no less potential, an art through
which mind spoke to mind for fifty cen
turies before Guttenberg and Faust dis
puted the paternity of their marvelous in
vention, an art through which intellect
shaped the doctrines of nations, ere yet
Cadmus stole an alphabet from the sages
of the Nile.
As oratory is'an art,so like all other arts,
it finds labor necessary to its perfection,
lie whom history ranks as its most ac
complished oiator has testified that the
art of oratory requires more labor than
all the other arts combined, for its per
fection-implies a previous perfection in
the knowledge of all the other arts. Life
is too short for the realization of the lofty
ideal for whose attainment even this
prince of orators strove in vain. Yet
the necessities of oratory invariably de
mand a profound knowledge of books
and men wbicb years of arduous study
can alone afford, a pewer of reasoning
which only trained logic and patient
thought can furnish, the possession of a
vocabulary so various in its necessities
that a life time seems too .ihort for its ac
quisition, and a memory whose treasure
vaults are so well stored with poetic con
ceits and classic lore that it will prove the
banker on whom the imagination in its
utmost extravagance can draw without
fear for tho dishonor of its draft.
These necessities of orator}’ labor—pa
tient, persistent labor—cau alone supply.
Tlie same amount of intellectual force
is always necessary to the execution of a
required mental labor. The force requir
ed is always the same, though the power
which applies that force differs in differ
ent minds. Artistic perfection always re
quires the same amount of labor. The
unvarying quantity of force necessary to
the performance of a required labor must
be supplied by all, and tlie difference be
tween different intellects lies in the power
they can furnish for the creation of this
essential force. In oratory, as in ether
arts, the standard of excellence remains
tlie same to all its votaries, though nature
has ordaiuod tn»t to tins summit some
may soar, while others can only climb.
That which men call genius lias been well
defined to be that absorbing love for an
art which makes mental labor in itsprose-
ecution afford rest to the mind. This pe
culiar adaptability of certain minds for
certain arts renders their achievements in
them far beyond the efforts of other intel
lects, which, though their equal in
strength, lack thaUabnornial constitution
which concentrates the whole power of
tlie mind upon the exertion of a single
force. Talent can only approximate by
persistent effort and ceaseless practice,
that faculty of concentration wherein the
force of genius lies. The works of the
former are but dim copies of the creations
of the latter. Yet, let not talent be, on
tliis account, depreciated, for, if art is in
debted to genius for its advancement, it
owes to talent its perpetuity. The sun
wbicli lit tlie world to-day has sunk from
our sight, but to-night, ten thousand glit
tering stars—those diamonds sparkling in
tlie azure robe of God—are radiant witli
the reflected light of his vanished beams.
Genius is the sun which lights the world
of art, and when its splendor is quenched
in the shoreless ocean of physical death,
dark, indeed, would be the night through
which that world must pass, ere its glori
ous beams again appeared, did not the
stars of talent shed the light they reflect
from a sun that has set.
As the requirements of orator}' are more
numerous and diversified than those of
any other art, so in it of all the arts there
exists in the least degree that advantage
oi natural concentration which wo have
seen to be the prime distinction between
genius and talent. In this, then, of all
the arts, does labor lift talent most nearly
to the plane of genius.
You have shown us, gentlemen, that to
oratory, either genius or talent has thus
early directed your effort—to genius and
to talent alike would I say that only un
remitting toil can attain perfection in this
art. He who would drink the wine of el
oquence must with the foot*of labor tredK
the wiue press, though nature heaped
her purple clusters at his feet. You will
find many to whisper in your ears the
fond delusion that you are natural orators.
Ileed not the empty pla tdits of this sense
less praise, lest, Atalanta-iike, you lose
the race to gather the golden apples in
your path. Nature may have designed
you for otators, but nature has doue for
many a man what tho Democratic party
did for Mr. Tilden, elected him to an of
fice which he has never filled.
Do not imagine that because a man is a
good declaiiner he is necessarily an ora
tor.
Those speakers who derive their only
title to oratory from accomplished decla
mation are like the mocking bird who
warbles right dulcetly when he echoes
the strains of other songsters, hut whoso
rotes are harsh and discordant when he
would sing a song of Ids own. Do not be
misled by the too popular delusion that
eloquence, the highest style of oratory, is
merely tho art of making a pretty speech.
Well rounded periods which lack the sym
metry and strength of logic, graceful fan
cies clothed in the mellifluous words of
musical sentences, but founded not on
deep and earnest thought, may for tho
moment please a careless car, but you
might as well accept the flimsy finery of
a figure in a milliner’s shop for the
warmth and beauty of the woman whose
dress it wears, as to mistake this pretty
prattle for the passion and the power of
eloquence. Those who are popularly term
ed pretty speakers often present a
fancy bright as the radiant shape of Tita-
nia, but a thought ungainly as tho clown
ish form of Bottom; and the fairer the
wreaths which the fairy weaves to crown.
oneso unworthy of her care, tlie longer
and more unsightly protrude through the
leaves of the garland the care of the ass.
Avoid, I charge you, that oratorical menin-
getis, that intellect-dwarfing, eloquence-
deforming practice which is known as ex
temporaneous speaking. It may give you
the ready glibness of tlie jackdaw, but it
were better like tho fabled swan to sing
once before you die; yes, better like the
real one to die before you sing at all, than
to become one of these impromptu speak
ers who, like Damocles of old, assumes
for a day the prerogatives of power, but What tree is sacred from the liglitnine
finds no charm in tho mighty realm of flame? 3
thought, because the exigency of the mo- Learn now it is the laurel, even fate
ment bungs like the threatening sword Scathes not one leaf upon the brows of
fame.”
study has made famUUr wTthto lubjeS ttot n fhirmorraiymXTs n ’«,b f 1 i ambi *
he discusses, without preparation for' khidlevn^
a particular occasion mayf when inspired I “ Sv on t
by lofty sentiment or thrilled with sudden vou ’ r i lcal t / there wm w n of
passion, electrify an audience by what * J a °“ d ^ UlC
they may term an impromptu effort. But 1 slcerilV v«» a ? ^£5?’ v 1 pure
the contrast between such an orator as 1 trv morwthan i Scalds. E 0 GO®®*
tr y more than yours hath ever needed the
patriotism ofher sons, no patriotism more
than theirs could ever find its grandest
exponent in eloquence. Though the
monumental marble has long replaced
the red carnage of civil war, though the
issues for which rival factions fought have
long been buried ia the tomb of valor
still is your native land tom by the brazen
claws of that Medusa sectional strife, and
round its horrid head shall wind the snaky
locks of discord, and its Gorgon eyes shall
transform a nation’s progress into stone,
till among tho statesmen of America,
some Perseus shall rise, who, . with
the magic sword of eloquence, shall
forever rid his country of this monster
dread. Be this the lofty destiny for which
the coming orators of the South shall
strive? The willow weeps where we had
hoped the bay would bloom; but remem
ber, oh, Southern youth, that the olive
yet stands unbroken, the laurel yet waves
unreached, and he, who with the hand of
eloquence shall pluck for his brethren the
branch of peace from the one, shall weave
for himself the wreath of fame from the
other.
Recognizing these great needs for ora
tory, Mercer University, with that broad
wisdom which has ever characterized her
course, has fostered with peculiar care
this noble art among her sons. At her
bidding I am here to present these glitter
ing medals to those among you whom the
committee selected for that purpose have
adjudged most accomplished in declamma-
tion, that gyinnasim which trains for the
broad university of oratory. [Here followed
in a humorous strain the pretended report
of the committee supposed to be com
posed of ladies, and the presen
tation cf the medals.] But jesting
aside, young ’gentlemen, a bright futnre
awaits you all, medaled and unmedaled
alike, and the best dflvice I can give you
is, that in your future oratorical contests
you beware of each other. And now my
task is ended, and I commend you, each
and all,to the future favors of eloquence—
the bright divinity whom you worship.
O Eloquence! Thou voice through whom
the Son of God did not disdain to speak;
thou mysterious power worshipped in
every land, and loved by every people;
thou star of human destiny, whose ascen
sion sages watcli and tyrants dread, I bow
to thee, I kneel to thee, and, in behalf of
these thy votaries here, I invoke from
thy bright astrology an omen aud a smile.
A HORRIBLE FATE.
this, and the raw, young fledgling, who,
trusting only to the inspiration of desire,
attempted an extemporaneous speech,
would be as pitiable as that presented on
the one hand by Richard Occur de Lion,
who, lance in hand, came unheralded to
the lists, and on the other, by a
Digger Indian, whose feeble and defense
less form writhed in the sudden grip of an
unexpected foe.
Remember, gentlemen, that the oft in
verted stylus is a more reliable weapon
than the treacherous wand of inspiration;
and the lamp that bums the midnight oil
is the only one wherewith the youthful
Aladdin cm summon tho genius
of eloquence to his aid. Pegasus is at
best a tricky "horse to ride, and he who
rashly pricks him with the spur of the
moment is apt to realize the tmth of the
proverb, “Pride goetli beforo a fall.”
Young orators would do well to recall the
story of Jonah’s gourd and learn there
from that what is grown in a single night
will wither in a single day.
Horace has wisely told you that no
glowing chariot wheel will ever touch the
palm conferring goal unsoiled by the dust
of the hard contested course. Heed not
the dust if you would wear the palm
which waits on those it ho reach that goal
of oratory which men call eloquence.
When I bid you strive for eloquence I
mean not that oratory whose glaring im
agery butmake3 conspicuous the lean
and scraggy limbs of thought which in
such flaunting finery it has tricked out. I
mean not that oratory whose dwarfed and
feeble reason seeks to add some cubits to
its stunted statue by mounting on the bor
rowed stilts of the high sounding truisms
of logic. I mean not the efforts of those
oratorical sybarites who pause in the la
bor of thought to smooth the ruffled rose
leaves of verbiage wherewith they would
deck imagination’s luxurious couch. But
when I speak of eloquence I mean that
oratory which Minerva hath clad in that
impregnable armor of wisdom she wove
when she stepped, full panoplied, from
the head of Jove; that oratory in whose
hand Apollo hath placed the silver bow
of wit; that oratory which borrows the
winged shoes of Mercury, the messenger of
the gods, wherewith to tireless tread the
loftiest empyrean of fancy; that oratory
which snatched from the hand of Jupiter,
the king of gods, the thunderbolts of truth.
This is the eloquence which in the forum
proves the Midas whose simple touch
commands the ready gold; which, in the
affairs of state, is the Warwick who
rives and shatters thrones at
will, and when it dons the
livery of God, holds the golden
key which ^unlocks to sin itself, the jas
per mansions Of the skies. Idle would be
the attempt to analyze and enumerate the
varied powers of eloquence, and when I
now invite you to the contemplation of
its achievements I do not ask you to
count the million drop3 which compose
the cataract of Niagara,but only to admire
the rainbow that is formed by the match
less torrent of its rushing waters. Who
hath wandered amid tin- mysteries of the
far famed Mammoth Cave, with its moun
tain, its lake, its river, its vineyard, its
diamond grotto, its star chamber, and
hath not felt that nature, fearful of the
depredations and convulsions which mar
her beauty in the upper world, had here,
amid the’stalactites and stalagmites, form
ed by the slow accretions of centuries,
stamped upon eternal rock an unfading
miniature of her grandest works. History
is the Mammoth'Cave of the past. Race
after race has sprung up and flourished on
the face of the globe till the scythe of time
hath mowed them down for the vast har
vest of eternity. Thrones have risen high
er aud higher yet till weakened by their
weight they have tottered, fallen and been
forgotten. Religions have reared their
temples but to find in Hu»n n»ai» tomtey
jet on tiie walls of this eternal cavern a
shifting world stands photographed for
ever. Here might w r e wander for hours,
yea, for years, and contemplate in admir
ing awe the marvelous achievements of
eloquence.
Here, behold 3Xoliammed rise and
preach, anil yonder ten centuries later see
the sinking beams of an eastern suu gild
ing the spires on half a million mosques
and a hundred million worshippers bend
in adoration toward Mecca, the home of
the eloquent prophet. Lo, see yon ban
nered host, their helmets gleaming in the
Syrian sun? Mark you the chieftain,
who leads these marshaled myri
ads on to a glorious battle? There
he stands, that half-starred, half naked
monk, Peter the hermit, who lifts the
cross of Christ and electrifies the chivalry
cf Christendom by the resistless power of
eloquence. Wander yet further ia this
mighty cavern, and you will see the vast
throne of Charles V. cast over half the
world the bleak shadow of its supersti
tion; then beneath its protecting shade see
priestcraft discount ing for the hard earned
gold of ignorance those drafts upon di
vine forgiveness to which it has forged
tlie name of God Himself. See there
Protestantism marshaling her hosts to at
tack corruption entrenched by power.
Look! she chooses not the learning of
theology, she chooses not pastoral zeal,
but it is to the rugged eloquence of Lu
ther that religion confides her banner
when she would see it wave iu triumph
above the conquered battlements of error.
Deeper, deeper yet press on into the won
ders of this wizard cave, and see yon em
erald isle, like another Venus, rise in
beauty from the foam of tlie sea; but alas!
Liberty, lies cold and coffined in tlie
hearts ofher people, patriotism and pros
perity, like Mary and Martlua, bend iu
grief above their brother’s bier till, through
tlio clarion voice of O’Conneli, eloquence
bids the slumbering Lazarus arise, and
prove to an admiring world that freedom
was dot dead, but only sleeping in the
breasts of her sons. Lo! from these walls
of living rock see the mighty conqueror
whom Destiny conceived upon tlie isle of
Corsica, and in the English Senate figured
yonder, see that child of reason, whom
fame calls William Pitt, wearing the re
sistless spell of eloquence, which wraps
the “lion who ravaged all Europe in liis
wrath,” till at length he lies bound and
helpless upon the ocean-girded rocks of
St. Helena. Sea yut another picture on
the magic walls—this is the dread forum
which is figured here. A human
life hangs trembling in the scales of jus
tice. See there the surging populace,
frenzied with the wound the red kuife of
murder dealt; here in the jury box behold
the stem countenances of men whose
relentless purpose but echoes the clamor
ous curses of the crowd without. What
advocate hath despairing guilt in this
awful moment summoned to its aid?
Futile now the learning of the lawyer;
worthless the technicalities of tho trickster;
vain the astuteness of the attorney; but
mark that halting stripling enteriug now;
’tis Prentiss, tho darling child of eloquence.
He speaks aud his honeyed words fall like
the balm of Gilead upon the yet smarting
wounds of that frenzied throng; he turns
to the jurors, those dread arbiters of life,
whose hearts prejudice aud passion have
turned to stone, and sweeping the Or
pheus lyre of eloquence, he bids them fol
low him at will; higher and higher yet he
rises, grander and grander yet ho grows,till
at length he stands as the Prospero who can
control at will the storm which crime,that
reckless Calliban, has roused. But wo
will wander no longer here. Inspired by
the glowing beauties of the past, turn
you, young gentlemen, with lofty purpose,
to the thrilling aspirations of the present.
Enough have you seen to show that he
who is eloquent is great, and he who i3
great can make of fame the august herald,
who shall recount his honor to “slates un-
Tlie Skeleton of a Missing Child
Fonml in the Den of a Black Snake.
Ginger ridge, a nigged, sterile upland,
about six miles northwest from West
Union, Ohio, says a correspondent of the
New York Sun, is much excited over the
killing of an enormous black snake which
for several years has played havoc with
farmers’ flocks. Hogs, poultry, calves,
sheep, etc., have mysteriously disappeared,
always at night. Two years ago a band
of gypsies were camped in the neighbor
hood, and they were accused of stealing
the missing property. John Rainforth, a
farmer, who greatly suffered from these
depredations, swore out a warrant before
’Squire Peter Anns, and had several of
them arrested. They had a preliminary
examination, but nothing was proved
against them, and they were discliaiged.
They went away muttering threats of
vengeance.
Mr. Rainforth had a golden-haired little
daughter four years old, whose beauty
and sunny temper were the pride of her
parents. On the day after the arrest of
the gypsies, little Nellie Rainforth was
missed. She was last seen playing with
a pet lamb on the edge of a rocky ridge,
a short distance from the house. Search
was made for her, but neither her nor the
lamb were -found- - niioto- ncigiroor-
liootl .vas aroused, and men searched the
fields and woods for miles around,
3Ir. Rainforth suspected the gypsies of
abducting her out of rev nge for their ar
rest, aiid followed the party across the
Ohio rivei into Lewis county, Kentucky.
When he came up with them they indig
nantly denied all kuowledge of the child’s
whereabouts, and a search of their camp
failed to discover his little daughter. He
returned to his home broken-hearted.
One day last week Mr. Rainforth was
planting a field of about twenty-five acres,
situated near his house. He had not
been at work long when he discovered
what first seemed to be a fresh furrow
across the middle of the field. He stopped
work aud followed the track to a fence
which separated the field from a deuse
thicket of underbrush. Ou the fence he
found blood and some sheep’s wool,
which at once convinced him that the
body of a sheep had been dragged across
the fence. He went to his pasture and
found that a laige Cctswold ram was
missing. Accompanied by four or five of
his neighbors, Mr. Rainforth made search
for the missing sheep. The track through
the brush was marked by drops of blood
and tufts of wool. About sixty rods from
the fence they came to a ledge of rocks,
forming one side of a steep hill. The
trai-k led directly to this ledge, in which
was found an opening of sufficient size to
admit the body of a large man.
A laige charge of giant power was ex
ploded in the opening, and the rocks were
thrown asunder by the blast. When the
smoke cleared away the farmers drew near
and peered down the opening, and there,
among at least a wagon-load of bones, lay
a huge black snake, quivering from his
hurt. Tiie farmers waited ustil the snake
was dead and then attached a chain to his
body and dragged the monster out of the
hole. He measured fifteen feet seven
inches iu length, and the biggest part of
his body was two feet in circumference.
He had an ugly-looking head and enor
mous fangs, sharp as needles. The miss
ing ram lay beside him, crushed out of
shape, and covered with a sticky, glutinous
substance.
I visited the spot to-day, and saw the
monster snake. While 1 was there men
were at work clearing the den of the
bones. In the corner one of them picked
up a human skull. It was small, like a
child’s, and he brought it forward to the
light. Mr. Rainforth was standing by my
side when the man came toward us with
the skull in his hand. He glanced at it,
and, staggering against a tree, buried his
face in liis hands and burst into tears.
“Poor little Nellie,” he cried through his
sobs. “My God, it is horrible 1”
After a time he controlled his feel
ings and told me the story of his little
daughter’s mysterious disappearance two
years ago. The bone3 oi the little one
were gathered, together and buried in the
family plot in the cemetery at West
Union. The discovery was kept from
Mrs. Rainforth, for the poor woman has
never ceased to mourn for her Inst child,
and her husband feared that. this intellir
gence would seriously affect her, she
being, in delicate health. There can be
no doubt of the identity of the skeleton,
for a gold chain which she wore around
her neck was found among the bleach
ing bones.
Ups and Downs or Cities and Towns.
The changes of commerce that destroy
and build up cities rapidly, almost like
the visions of Aladdin’s golden lamp, find,
another exemplar in the seeming great
prosperity of New Orleans, not only pres
ent, but still greater in the near future.
War-worn, poverty-crushed, plague-strick
en, she, like a Phoenix, revives and pre
sents a busy scene of wealth-producing
industry. But amid it all' stands, the
Charity Hospital, which depends for its
existence and ever ready means of dbin^
'* good on the revenue it derives from the
l ' sale of the tickets of the Louisiana State
- - nKnow.i." \v oe, | Lottery Company, whose drawings month-
thrice woe to him who,.in the dreamy ., affo £ d . an ^portunity to win a fortune,
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The Meeting In Jaspcr-Fnll Partlca-
. Monticello, July 8,1880
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—
The Democracy of Jasper met on Tues-
day last, the 5th instant, in this place, for
the purpose of selecting delegates to the
governors and congressional conventions.
There was very little opposition to
Gov. Colquitt, and he easily secured the
delegates, who were instructed for him.
.The only other matter of interest wa3 the
selection of delegates to the convention at
Milledgeville on the 22d instant, to nomi
nate a congressman for this district. As
is knots n, J. W. Preston, Esq., a native
and citizen of this county, is a candidate
for Congress; and, as a matter of course,
twas but reasonable to expect he would
secure delegates from this county,
favorable to his nomination.
Nevertheless, our present able
and popular representation, the Hon.
James H. Blount lias a host of friends in
Jasper, who openly claimed that a ina-
jouty of the people preferred Col. Blount;
and for the purpose of establishing this,
the Blount men were anxious to have the
expression of the people’s choice made by
ballot, to which there certainly should
have been no objection, since it was both
fair and Democratic; and the method
that the counties of the State—during the
present year—seem to have adopted. It
was thought that this method of choosing
by ballot would be adopted, and objection
to it was not looked for from Mr. Preston’s
friends, who were claiming tli&t they
would carry the county lour to one. A
thorough and active canvass of the county
had been made by Mr. Preston’3 friends,
and cveiy effort used by them to secure a
full attendance of his friends. Col.
Blount had not been to the county, and
no active canvass had been made for him.
Nevertheless, when the meeting was
called to order it was found that both
gentlemen had friends present, their be
ing in all 100 or 150 people present.
A chairman, who has since proved to be
a friend of Mr. Preston, was selected with
out opposition.
Col. F. Jordan, who was known to be
in the interest of Col. Blount, moved that
it be determined by ballot who was the
choice of the convention, Blount or Pres
ton ; that the polls be opened, and who
ever should receive the highest number of
votes, should be declared the choice of
Jasper, and delegates selected and in
structed to vote for him. Certainly this
was fair. Mr. John C. Key, the law part
ner and friend of Mr. Preston, at first said
that this was a fair and proper way; that
he was willing to it, and requested 3Ir.
Jordan to reduce his resolution to writing;
and while Mr. Jordan was proceeding to
reduce his resolution to proper shape, Key
got up and proposed as a substitute for
Jordan’s motion, that certain men, whose
names he read from a paper, (doubtless
prepared before hand), including the
chairman, be selected as delegates, and
that they be instructed to vote for Pres
ton. This was at once hurriedly put, and
upon the yeas and nays being called,
about thirty in all voting, (so I am in
formed by those who noticed it), the yeas
apparently, from tlie sound, carried, and
so it was announced.
There is some complaint and dissatis
faction at the course pursued by Major
Key, Preston’s friend and partner, in re
fusing to submit to a ballot, especially
after agreeing to it, and many construe it
to mean, that he feared Blount was the
stronger, and that the result of a fair and
free expression of the people’s choice
would defeat his friend Preston. In this
day when there is so much complaint
against conventions, and so many eliarges
of improperly selecting delegates, it seems
it would have been a fair, just and unob
jectionable way of obtaining an expression
of tbe popular will, to submit to a ballot;
it certainly is an ancient and highly Dem
ocratic rule and recognized as such, al
most without exception.
There Certainly was no good reason to
urge against taking a ballot, by a candi
date or liis friends, in selecting delegates
from his own county, when his opponent,
who was a non-resident, had thrown down
the gauntlet and challenged him to an ex
hibition of his strength. Doubtless Mr.
Key and Mr. Preston’s friends have rea
sons satisfactory, to,themselves <w--tiie
-emirsvrpursued ; but T doubt whether they
can satisfy the people, many of whom, I
learn, are open in their exptessions of dis
approbation of the manner in which the
delegates were chosen, and what they call
a “fixed up job.” Jasper.
Mr.D. N. Speer.
Macon, Ga., July 10th, 1SS0.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:—I
see from extracts from tlie public press
that the name of Mr. D. N. Speer, of the
county of TroHp, will be put in nomina
tion for the position of State treasurer be
fore the Democratic convention that meets
in Atlanta on the 4th of August next.
I feel assured that every citizen of this
State is interested in knowing something
ofamauwho makes application to them
for a place of such importance. Mr.
Speer having never been before people in
any public capacity and living in tbe ex
treme western portion of the State, it is
probable that his acquaintance with his
fellow citizens of this section is very lim
ited.
Having known him for many years, I
hope that it will not be deemed obtrusive
or inappropriate for me to write a short
letter in relation to the gentleman who
asks of our people the position of custo
dian of their money. I was at college
with Mr. Speer aud roomed near him for
four years. His standing and character
among his fellows was above reproach.
The white fame of his youth has never
been darkened by any act of his man
hood. If entrusted with the public treas
ure, the people of Georgia can feel as
sured that the office will be conducted
with an energy, capacity ard integrity
that will reflect lustre upon our State
government.
Whether it be true that my advocacy
avails anythiug or not, I trust that no
over zealous feeling for any one would
influence mo to advocate that which I do
not believe will add to the credit and in- _
terest of our great commonwealth.
Jno. P. Fort.
Hew Honey Order Offices.
Washington, July 10.—The post-
office department has issued orders for the
establishment of a large number of money
order offices on Monday, August 2, next.
Among them are the following: Ken
tucky—BlandviUe, Berckville, Grayson,
Hawesville, Monticello. Tennessee—Al
amo, “Decatur, Dyer’s Station, Falcon,
Greenfield, Lexington, Newbern, Spencer,
Saulsbury. West. Virginia—Clanbeny,
Jackson Cotut House, Milton, Wirt
Court House. Virginia—Dayton, Es-
telleville, Hamilton, Rockymount, South
Roston depot, West Point, Williamson.
North Carolina—Laurensburg, Shoo
Heel, Whitakers. Whiterille, Winton.
South Carolina—Barnettsville, Central,
Gaffney City, Johnson depot, Society Hill,
Winnsboro.” Georgia—Canton, Eastman,
Hartwell, Rising Fawn, Summerville.
Florida—Apopka, Manatee, Orange City,
Titusville. Alabama—Northport,Rutledge,
Tallahassee, York. Mississippi—Black
Hawk. .Louisiana — Bonnett (Jarre,'
Greensborough, Homer, Marksville.
Texas—Albany, Brecketiridge, Brown-
wood, Center, Coleman, Dexter, Eagle
Pass, Fairfield, Floresville, Fort Griffin,
FranklyD, Grand View, Hamilton, Hills
borough, Ladonia, Mansfield, 3IiUican,
Matagorda, 3Iontgomery, Pleasanton, Rio
Grande City, Landrigo, Taylorsville,
Wimishorough.
An honest Quaker writes from Floy,
Ala: “Dr. Tutt: Respected Sir: Having
taken thy pills I find they have done me
good. I am induced to write this card to
kiiow how they can be obtained. I don’t
think I can do without them. They are
a great blessing to the sick, aud thou will
surely have thy reward.”
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