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THE GEOBGIA PRESS.
The new proprietors of the Home
Tribune have changed tho hour of going
to press from 12 to 9 or 10 o’clock at
night.
The business of Romei says the Tribune,
is “picking up.” That is rather a ques
tionable business in some sections.
It is said that Mr. Thos. P. Ilanbnrg,
only eighteen years old, is one of the
most accurate and rapid short hand
writers in the South.
Du. Felton, like Mr. Stephens, is
“toting his own skillet,” and giving the gu
bernatorial flurry a wide berth.
Mr. Young Reese, of Warrenton,
while feeding a steam coUon gin, near
Camak, had his arm torn to shreds by his
shirt sleeve becoming entangled in the
saws. He was doing well at last ac
counts.
Gen. Toombs will speak in Wilkes
county on the 11th inst.
George Handel, of Augusta, a man
of eighty years, had his first accident a
few days ago by having liis leg broken by
a cow.
Eufaula, (Ala.,) Times: We regret
the necessity for stating that Prof. J. C.
Hinton has severed his connection with
Eufaula Graded School. He has been
elected to a chair in tin Middle Georgia
Military and Agricultural College, lo
cated in the fine old Capitol building at
Milledgeville, Ga., and hence his resi
dence in our city will cease. We con
gratulate him upon his success as an edu
cator, while we regret to lose him as a
citizen.
Deaf and Dumb Asylum.—Rome
Tribune: We were informed yes'erday
by Prof. W. O. Connor, principal, that
the exercises of the above named institu
tion would be resumed to-day, with 30
or So pupils in attendance. We noticed
quite a number of the mutes going down
on the different trains yesterday.
Warrenton Clipper: It has been sug
gested to us that Governor Rabun, one of
Georgia’s greatest Governors, lies buried
in a neglected grave m Hancock county
on Mr. G. F. Rhodes’ place, about four
miles above Mayfield. It lias been fur
ther suggested to us to make the inquiry,
“If there be any one in reach of the Clip
per who can point out the precise spot
where the Governor was buried?” The
locality can ersily be located, but the
precise spot has nothing to designate it.
. Two of Governor Rabun’s granddaughters
are now living in Macon, Ga. They are
daughters of our father’s eldest brother,
William Shivers, Jr.
It may be that should any action he
taken to place a monument over their
grandfather’s grave, they could give some
information concerning him. It has been
remarked that it is quite'strange that Han
cock county, so full uf enterprise and his
torical pride, should have allowed this
greatest of her sous’ grave to pass into ob
livion and obliteration. The State should
take this matter in band and see that
something is done to mark the last resting
place of one of her best executives. Our
attention has been called to this subject
by disinterested parties, and we are
pleased to put the Clipper on record as
being strongly in favor of immediate ac
tion.
• As a Norwood paper, on Macon’s dis
grace, the Sumter llepublican has the fol
lowing to say, speaking of Governor Col-
a uitt: He was frequently interrupted
uring his remarks by cries for “Nor
wood,” and once or twice the clamor be
came so great that Mr. Bacon had to ask
that the noise should be stopped—at one
time it was so great that he made an ap
peal to the crowd. We can but condemn
such things. It was a disgrace to the city
of Macon and an insult to the State of
Georgia through their Governor. No
matter what the people may think of Gov
ernor Colquitt, he is their Governor and
they should respect him. It may be true
that he was dodging the issues thrust
Upon him, but they should have waited
patiently to have given their verdict at
the ballot-box, which from the indications
and what we could learn will be heavy
enough in Bibb county.
Augusta Chronicle: Not often in
September do we have a succession of hot
days and nights like these. When the
mercury gets no lower than 72 degrees at
4 a. m., the coolest hour, usually, of the
night, it shows such nights as we com
monly experience about the 5th of July.
Yesterday the heat was 76 to 91 degrees
in the shade. Gales and hurricanes may
Well follow such “spells of weather” as
We have had ever since the 1st of May,
and the gales and hurricanes have not
been lacking.
Savannah News: Yesterday morning
Captain Thomas Dermot, master of the
bark Will W. Cbas;, was arraigned be
fore the mayor, in the police court,
Charged with violating quarantine regula
tions by coming to the city without per
mission of the quarantine officer, on the
2d inst. The charge was made by Dr. J.
T. McFarland, health officer, and was sus
tained by the evidence. The mayor en
tered a fine of $100 against the captain
Marietta Journal; The “ Convict
• Catechism,” illustrated with the pieture
of a negro with ball and chain, contain
ing four pages of matter, is a very unwise
, publication, and reflects more upon the
Democratic party and the civilization of
the South than upon Gov. Colquitt. That
publication and Gen. Wofford’s recent
convict speech will be used North to in
jure the Democratic party in the Presiden
tial race. Gentlemen, please be discreet
In what you do and say. Remember,
curses like chickens may come home to
roost.
Columbus Enquirer: The news reacli-
• ed this city yesterday morning of a fatal
cutting scrape which occurred the previous
■ day on the plantation of Frank Sizemore,
in Stewart county, the particulars of which
are as follows:
Calvin Moses and Robert Wimberly,two
negroes, were brothers-in-law. Calvin
treated his wife so badly that she sepa
rated from him and went to live with
Robert for protection. Monday Calvin
went to a field where Robert and his
(Calvin’s) wife were pulling fodder and
worked with them until 12 o’clock and
then went home with them to dinner.
Aftei dinner Calvin began to abuse his
wife when Robert interfered. Calvin
drew his knife and attempted to cut Rob
ert. He made a desperate stroke, but
Robert dodged th? lick and Calvin buried
the blade in his own thigh, from the ef
fects of which he bled to death in less
than an hour.
No legal investigation was considered
necessary, though we heard it rumored
yesterday that efforts would be made to
fix the murder on the negro Robert.
Butler Herald: Henry Wallace, who
is about ten years of age, son of Col. W.
S. Wallace, while out bud hunting on
Friday evening last, in loading his gun it
was suddenly discharged, the contents of
Which entered his left hand inflicting a
painful wound, and causing the arnputa-
| tion of his middle linger.
The Grand Lodge of Good Templars
i of the State of Georgia, commenced their
- annual session in Savannah on last Tues
day. Tho News says:
There are present in attendance upon
[ the Grand Lodge one hundred and thirty
i delegates representing almost every lodge
in the State, among whom are quite a
• number of ladies. They are a fine looking
body, and represent the best elements of
Georgia society, mostly farmers, but
with a small sprinkling of professional
| Th* Savannah News of Wednesday
I says:
We regret to announce this morning
the death of one of Savannah’s old and
respe. able citizens, Hiram Roberts, Esq.,
which sad event occurred at his residence
at 4 a. m. yesterday. Mr. Roberts was
an exceedingly active man lor h-., years,
and until lately could be seen rn-ing out
to Ui$ plantation every afternoon, ror a.
short time past b« has ueeu serious.y m-
.,.j and was confined to his house,
- ,' a 11,;. ;„.i. Skill was of no
avad._.j iife passed slowij
Grand officers were selected for the ensu
ing year:
The hour often o’clock having arrived,
being the hour constitutionally appointed
for the election of oflicers for the ensuing
year, the Grand Lodge proceeded to elect
its olficers, with the following result:
G. W. C. T—H. G. Everitt.
G. W. C.—J. D. Ross.
G. W. V. T.—Miss Jennie Gay.
G. W. S.—J. G. Thrower. .
G. W. T.—R. A. McMahon.
G. W. Representative—C. O. Lamotte.
Alternate—J. G. Thrower.
The committee of nine to devise a . lec-
ture plan for the ensuing year submitted
their report, recommending a change _ in
the present system, looking to the division
of the field into Congressional districts,
which report elicited considerable discus
sion, and which finally terminated by the
adoption of a substitute, offered byJ. G.
Thrower, placing the whole matter in the
bands of the executive committee.
Hon. A. P. Adams has been recom
mended by a meeting of Iris friends as a
candidate for the Legislature.
A negro, W. Woodson, was badly in
jured by another darky named Jackson in
Savannah. It is thought Woodson will
in session in that city, that the following name of the city called for. When
* Washington City, D. C. was announced,
our friend quietly subsided, twenty dol
lars poorer, but swearing he would never
again forget that in WashingtonDity no
votes are ever polled for a President.
Col. W, S. Bassinger, lawyer; Capt.
Geo. M. Nichols, workingman, and Maj.
D. G. Bacon, merchant, were nominated
for the legislature in Chatham county.
Columbus Times: It is astonishing how
disgusting tue “nigger” element Las be
come to the Norwood crowd since Nor-
cross failed to carry them against the Col-
quitt-Bourbou Democracy.
The Griffin News on “our hoys:”
The Macon cannoneer fires off his .how
itzer -every time Mr- Norwood -passes
through the city. The discharges are
blank cartridges, he it remembered.
The behavior of the “wise young men”
in Macon Monday night is making votes
for Colquitt.
The Macon cannoneer is still for Nor
wood. This is a cumbersome piece of
bluster. The people will spike that how
itzer iu October.
Rosie Tribune: Tne ran off of the up
passenger train on the Selma. Rome aud
Dalton railroad last Tuesday tvening, wa3
caused by a spike beiug driven in one of
the cross ties, which extended about two
inches above the track. The spike whieh
caused the accident was put there by a
tramp, who lias since been arrested, and
is now in jail at Jacksonville, Ala. He
should receive the fullest extent or the
law.
Brunswick Advertiser: We under
stand that Dr. W. B. Burroughs will erect,
at an early day, quite a number of neat
cottages, to rent to mechanics aud others
unable to pay high rent. He will thus
supply a long felt need.
LaGbange Reporter: We have, rare-
ly witnessed a more touching scene than
occurred last Sunday morning in the
Methodist Sunday school when Superin
tendent Watermau resigned liis position
and spoke farewell. He had been con
nected with the school so long that he
had endeared himself to all, teachers and
scholars alike. It was a severing of old
ties for him to leave, and his loss is little
less than a calamity to the school.
The Coffee county Gazette mournfully
asks: “Is Colquitt’s office to he perpetu
ated because he fought a battle at Olus-
tee ? Is he the only General that ever
fought a battle?”
He is the only mau that ever foughtoue
now running for Governor.
The Brunswick Advertiser, in speaking
of the Berrien county News, says: The
last issue of the above sheet pre-seats a
“uiixtry” of gubernatorial matter. The
senior editor, Col. Hanlon, got up the out
side of his paper, aud then made a flying
trip to our fair city. Taking ou too much
“sea air,” he went back sick, aud liis ju
nior, Col. Lastiuger, got up the inside of
the paper. They evidently sing a differ
ent song in politics, as these few lines will
show:
From the outside:
“Hold the fort, for we are coming,”
Cry the Norwood clan;
“Shout the tidings over Georgia,
Norwood is our inanl”
From the inside:
Open the fort, let Norwood in,
He, retreats from the Colquitt band.
The Independents are too few,
And he’s deserted by the Republicans.
Take him off the political track,
Tell him that the people say
The unfortunate event of his life
Was taking back-salary pay.
Tm Sal annaii News says of the Grand
Lodvt: ul Good Tcinpiars, which is now
recover.
The old Chatham Academy is being
put in order fot the opening of the public
schools in Savannah.
A burg lab entered the office of Mabry
& Crovatt, in Brunswick, and robbed the
safe. Mr. Crovatt lost S150. A man by
the name of Moulden was arrested, but
was subsequently discharged for want of
testimony.
Brunswick Appeal: Again our Glynn
county jail falls under public censure.
The building, besides beiDg a disgrace to
the county in appearance and in its com
fortless condition, is utterly unsafe, and
only has the name of a prison. It is about
as easy to break out of it as to break in,
and enterprising prisoners remain iu it on
ly so long as it suits them.
On Sunday night last, George Mattox
and Sandy" Jones, both colored, the former
lodged for hog stealing aud the latter for
horse stealing, tore away the grating from
the window to their cell and walked out
and away to parts unknown.
The Albany News shows us what other
people think of us:
Mr. H. A. Ledbetter, of Baker, called
in to see us yesterday. Mr. Ledbetter had
just returned from Macon, where he wit
nessed the disgraceful scene of Monday,
occasioned by the meeting of Governor
Colquitt and Mr. Norwood. Mr. Led
better says that the Norwood rabble made
such a disturbance that Hon. A. O. Ba
con, one of the Norwood committee men,
arose and denounced their action, telling
them that such action on their part was
outrageous and would do the Norwood
party harm. Mr. Ledbetter also states
that he saw and talked with many men
who went there for Norwood and came
away for Colquitt, on account of the ill-
treatment the Governor received at the
hands of the NorwoCdites.
Gainesville Eagle: The King’s Moun
tain centennial promises to bring together
one of the largest crowds ever assembled
in the Souh. The transportation lines
from Texasto Maryland will sell tickets
to King’s Mountain and return, good for
thirty days from date of sale, sale com
mencing October 1st and continuing to the
5tfi, at the rate of one and oue-lourth
cents per mile each way. This is the
lowest excursion rate ever offered to the
the public, covering such an area of terri
tory. For full particulars address W. J.
Houston, chairman transpoi.ation com
mittee, Atlanta, Ga.
Columbus Enquirer: Mr. John I. Da
vid died very suddenly yesterday evening
at his residence, about eight or nine miles
northeast ot this city. He was taken with
apoplexy yesterday morning about 10
o’clock, and all that human skill could do
brought him no relief. He suffered until
0 o’clock in the evening, when death re
leased him from all pain. Mr. David
would have been sixty-three years of age
in Novembei next, and has lived iu this
county about twenty years. He was born
in Elbert county and moved from there to
Harris and subsequently to this county,
where he died. He was a consistent mem
ber of the Baptist church, aud died with
an assurance of a better life beyond die
grave.
Augusta Chronicle: Mr. Hill Sande-
ford, one of the oldest and most respect
ed citizens of Waynesboro, was buried at
Old Church Sunday. He was about 75
years old, and had been a very active
planter up to within a mouth or so of his
death.
Caktebsyille Express: Mr. Cornelius
Willingham, of the Free Press, will start
to-morrow morning ou a tour through
Georgia, as advance agent for “Bill Arp,”
the great Southern humorist, who pro
poses to lecture during the fall, iu this,
and adjoining States, on the subject,
“Dixie Now and Dixie Then, 1860^80.”
With Mr. Willingham as agent, “Bill
Arp’’ as lecturer, and “Dixie” the sub
ject, we predict a grand success.
Mb. Lott Warren, in retiring ..-om
the editorial chair of the Albany News,
says: “My journalistic life, though brief,
has been most pleasant. With my asso
ciates, my intercourse has been most
agreeable aud friendly, and toward the
readers of the News I have grown to feel
a nearness of sympathy that bound us in
a common friendship. I have loved the
labor in which I have engaged, and have
endeavored to perform it purely and faith- me *
fully. 1 can only hope that others may
have found in the results of my labors
some of - the pleasure their performance
has given me. I bid adieu to these asso-
ciatious with many regrets, and shall often
revert to them with pleasure. To the
brethren of the press, I return thanks for
the uniform courtesies extended me, and
bid adieu to the Fourth Estate with many
pleasant recollections and sincere regrets.
Lott Warren.
Darien Gazette: The rice-birds are
late coming this season. This time last
year there were plenty of them in the
fields, but so far, this season, the planters
have not been bothered much with them.
Captain Barnwell informs us that they
will not hurt the rice on General’s aud
Cbampney’s islands now, but he is afraid
that they will do harm at Selon. When
they come, it will no doubt be with a
rush.
“ Broken Bone Fever.” — Augusta
News: This disease is spreading through
out our city, in some cases we hear of
three or four being dowu iu a single
family. There are about 600 cases re
ported here, and we learn that there are
1,500 cases in Charleston. It Is also very
prevalent in Savannah, as we learn from
the News. The disease is not fatal, but
very annoying.
LaGbaxge Reporter: We learn that
Mr. Cox, a young man of Mountville,
while out riding last Friday, accidentally
cut himself in the neck. His horse stum
bled and in tiyiug to recover the reins,
Mr. Cox punctured the jugular vein with
an open knife which he held in his hand.
The wound is not dangerous.
Buunswick Advertiser: Of all the dis
respect ever heaped upon a public speaker
of note, IntheStato of Georgia, that re
ceived by Governor Colquitt in Macon
the past week was the blackest. We blush
to own that tl\ere was to be found iu the
State of Georgia a place where the peop’e
were so ill-mannered as to insult their
chief executive in such a manner. Macon
aud Columbus have been lowered in the
eyes of the world.
The Cuthbert Appeal gets off the
following old story: A certain citizen of
Randolph who will talk politics under all
circumstances, was returning from Macon
afe.r days since and was exceedingly
boisterous in his propositions to bet so
many bale*- of cotton or a thousand dol
lar): that Hancock would be elected, was
completely sucked in by au unsophisticat
ed fellow passenger who said that cotton
he uaa none, and liis cash could be easily
coumcu if iu uickles, but that he would
Sldk6 bis last dollar ou the declaration
that ,e could name a city iu the South of
o\ er .0,000 inhabitants that would not
pall a single vote for Hancock. This
proposition was eagerly accepted by our
county friend, when forty dollars were
placed in the bands ot a friend, and the
Chatham. Nominations.
At a very large mass meeting held in
Savannah on Thursday night, delegates
to the convention of the first congressional
district were appointed, and instructed to
present the name of Hon. A. Pratt Adams
as a candidate for Congress.
Hon. Rufus E. Lester was also recom
mended and endorsed to represent the
first district in the-State Senate.
The next business in order was the se
lection of candidates for the lower house
of the General Assembly. The following
three gentlemen were nominated: W. S.
Bassinger, G. N. Nichols and D. V. Bacon.
The first a lawyer, the second a mechanic,
and the last a merchant. Captain A. A.
Winn then offered the following resolu
tion, which was received and adopted with
unbounded applause:
Resolved, Tbatjthe citizens of Chatham
county, in mass meeting assembled, do
most cordially endorse and strongly re
commend to our immediate representa
tives, and to the people of Georgia, to fill
the unexpired term in the United States
Senate, occasioned by the resignation of
the Hon. John B. Gordon,our distinguished
fellow-citizen, Gen. A. R. Lawton.
Gen. Lawton was present and re
sponded as follows. We quote from the
News:
Fellow-citizens of Chatham county, not
often have I been embarrassed iu appear
ing before you iu any capacity in which 1
have been called from the simplest to the
highest. I say it, aud I feel you will be
lieve I am sincere, that I had no idea of
any such resolution being introduced or
so flatteringly and cordially passed or
would not have been here. It is, how
ever, another evidence of the kindness
which has always been accorded me in
this community. With my hand on my
heart, I can truly say that I have never
sought office from you, though apppreci-
ating the honors you have bestowed upon
.[Applause.] I may say here, how
ever, that from different pans of the Stale
I have received letters urging me to be
come a candidate for this high position,
but I have not announced myself until
presented by my own community iu
this most flattering manner. [Applause.]
Up to this time no such auuouncement
has ever been made by my authority. I
say It with pride that I have letters from
many distinguished Democrats iu the
State on the subject, and if it is the pleas
ure of the people to place me in this high
position I will take all the risk and re
sponsibilities, and whether in suroess or
defeat I shall never forget this demonstra
tion by you, my fellow-citizens. [Ap
plause.] These offices belong to the
people and not to any one mau or set of
men, and when auy man is presented
who is considered better and more able
to* strike down a coalition that would
seek to make these offices subjects of bar
gain or sale, or who may be deemed bet
ter qualified for the Ugh position, my
name will be withdrawn. [Applause].
Whenever I shall be advised by the citizens
of Georgia that my name is the cause
of distraction or occasion of discord,
_ will promptly retire. In the full
ness cf my heart I return to you, my fel
low-citizens, thanks for this flattering ex
pression of your kindly feelings and wish
es, and I can tell you that if it shall result
iu defeat, no man, no friend of mine shall
ever blush for auy effort I may make in
the contest. I will at all hazards be guided
by self-respect. Should your wish be
gratified, and my pride be gratified, for
such a prize so tendered can but excite
emotion, £ will endeavor to represent
faithfully your interests and good name,
and the people of the State of Georgia.
This movement will still further compli
cate the Senatorial succession. Mr. Nor
wood was indorsed for governor.
The Cape Cod Canal.—Tbs' Cape
Cod Canal ia now. promised as a fact
soon to be realised. The capital neces
sary to the work. $8,000,000, U said to be
pledged and $1,550,000 is paid in. By the
twelfth of September a thousand laborers
will be at work, and the canal will be
hurried to completion'. This will, if fin
ished, save ninety miles of distance in the
all-water trip between New York and
Boston and will alto cut off the danger
ous part of the present route. It is said
that 6,000 tons of shipping aud thirty-five
lit es are yearly lost there now. ' One ffea-
lure of the canal’s work will be that it' am in hopes before the election you will
will, when i's day comes, break up the ! have the scales removed from your eyes,
mixed Sound steamer aud railroad ' and you’ll vote for Gen. Hancock.”
routes, the present popular but very un- ; “Aunt SaUy” lias been free from Repub-
comfortable line of travel, by which pas- licau callers ever since,
seogers hare to change from cars to boat ] ■ ■ — ■■
aud beat to cars. With the canal’s help,' All who want spinach, carrot, beet or
through steamboats can ran from city to turnip seed for fall planting, by the pound
city, making the trip between five or six' or paper, call at L. W. Hunt’s, who has
o’clock in the afternoon, and six or seven them fresh—corner Second and Cherry
the next morning. But it is not built yet. streets.
THE •'CONVICX^CATEggSM."
lion’ tlie Convicts are Treated at the
Dade County Mines. *
“The Convict Catechism” is luckily ..so
ineffably vile that it aots like a boomer
ang. Attempting to help Norwood and
hurt Colquitt, it smites the former mor
tally, and, though not intended, advances
the cause of the latter immeasurably.
When partisans push their zeal too ftr
and beyond the bounds of. decency aud
truth, a healthy reaction always takes
place in public sentiment, and the authors
and abettors of malpractice are, by tlie
rot’sed indignation of their fellow-citizens,'
consigned to utter defeat. This will he
tlie case with those*who sought to defame
Colquitt and uphold Norwood by spawn
ing falsehood and compelling innocent
type to print their monstrosity.
' The intent of this pamphlet on the con
vict system is to impress all readers with
the idea that a hell on earth lias been es
tablished iu Georgia, and that Governor
Colquitt is responsible for it. We need
not repeat that Goveruor Colquitt is ia
no sense or degree responsible for this
convict system. It did not originate in
his terms of office, and what could he
done to alleviate the condition of prison
ers has been done. The insidious design
is farther reaching than the mere implica
tion of Governor Colquitt in the existence
of the system. It seeks to create the im
pression that whatever may have been
the evils of the convict camp they
now exist, and that Norwood must be
looked to alone for deliverance. All of
this is mendacious romance, and, in proof
of what we say, let a Norwood man, and
one, too, who docs not favor particularly
Senator Brown, speak. This gentleman
has had extensive personal acquaintance
with the Dade county coal mines, where
so many convicts are at work. He is in
dignant that false statements should be
made, calculated to injure not only the
Governor of this State, but the people of
the commonwealth and tho Democracy of
the Union. With the righteous horror of
the sinister means employed for that pur
pose, ho delivers his testimony, which we
vouch for as follows:
The convict camp in Dade county leased
by Senator Brown is a model one. No
laboring men are unkindly treated there.
The prisoners are moderately worked aud
humanely cared for. A fair task for good
labor is the loading of five small cars, of
eighteen bushels each, a day. Any coal
above that maximum task is paid for by
the company to the convict. Some con
victs make as much as forty or fifty cents
a day. One man has made and now
holds $500, aud there is now to the credit
of convicts the considerable sum of $2,
000, ready to be paid ou. demaud. A mur
der convict, Jim Collius, has sent home to
bis wife at times as much as $15 in one
month, and often $10.
In regard to the feeding and general
care of convicts, our informant says that
nothing is left to he desired. They have
.plenty of meat aud the finest coru meal
aud vegetables every day and as much
wheat flour as they want on Sunday.
There is a first-class corn mill in the
camp and a garden of over sixty acres to
supply vegetables to about 400 convicts.
They are also abundantly- supplied with
fruit, wagon loads of 'watermelons and
cantaloups beiug driven into the stockade
at tlie time of refreshment.
The convicts arc never forced to work
in a hard rain, aud, in case of a drizzle,
each man has a big tatpaulin, which the
company furnishes, to completely protect
him from being wet. About “the poor
fellows being forced to grub in the bowels
of the earth,” it is answered that there is
no hardship in it at all, as they seem to
prefer work iu the excavations to being
on the surface. It is cooler aud pleasanter
than working in the sun, and, in winter,
more protected from the cold than out
side.
They are well cared for by a good phy
sician, when sick, and never obliged to go
out until pronounce'd well.
Our informant states that, as to punish
ments, there have been but two or three
flogged or disciplined iu anyway during
the past six months, which comprise the
term of his personal observation. No
boss or overseer is allowed to strike
convict or to use harsh or profane language
.to him. Cases of neglect of work or
stubborn insubordination arc reported to
the assistant superintendent, who is a
most just and considerate man; and auy
punishment thought proper—always mod
erate—is ordered or administered by
him.
Our Norwood friend declares that the
convicts all seemed cheerful and happy,
and that he was never more surprised in
his life than when ho began to look into
and investigate the convict camp of Dade
county. He was struck by the humanity
and justice exercised toward the laborers,
about seventy-five oi whom are white men
and the rest colored. Both classes are
treated exactly alike, and the conduct to
ward either could not be improved in any
respect.
A great deal has been said about Cox
who killed Alston, being kept out of the
mines and given an easy place. Our in
formant states that Cox is made to do the
kind of work lie is most able to perform.
to the utmost extent of his capacity. He
has charge of all the tools aud picks, of
the harness, of sixty mules and carts—to
keep them in order. He has not a mo
ment of idle time, and no laborer works
harder in his way than Cox, who has
been placed in this position, not so much
to favor him, but because he is more use
ful in it than any other. He is made to
give labor to the company that is worth
from $50 to $75 per month, as it would
cost that to employ a man who could fill
his place.
Iu furnishing these details, our inform
ant emphatically stated that nothing
could be made against Governor Colquitt
by talking against the convict system, so
far as he bad any observation of it at the
Dade county camp. He adds: “Al
though I am going to vote for Norwood
and hope to see him elected, I have been
in a position to know all about the treat
ment of convicts in the camp, and I do
not like to see injustice done or condem
nation given where it does not belong and
i3 not deserved.” What the special rea
son is tint guides this upright man to
rote for Norwood we cauuot say. But
his testimony as to the convict system at
Dade couniy—which we presume is but a
type of the whole—completely demolishes
“The Convict Catechism,” aud adds an
other load of opprobrium to tlie man who
begot it, and to those who circulated it.—
Chronicle and Constitutionalist.
A “Level-Headed” Old Lady.—
Satintown, Long island, has an ancieut
and highly respected resident in the per
son of Mrs. Sarah Betts, who has survived
the snows of eighty winters with a sound
body and a sound mind. “Aunt SalJy,”
as she is familiarly called, is frequently
visited by members of the clam hake par
ties which frequent that neighborhood,
aud a few days ago a delegation of clam
baking Republicans thought they would
interview her on political subjects. This
is what they got, according to a report iu
the New York Star:
“Well, hoys, I don’t know what you
are, but I am a Democrat, uot iu name
butiu principle. I learned Democracy
from the constitution; it gives us liberty,
and I revere the memory of the good men
who made it. Ouly read the history of
the countryfor the past twentyyears, and
what is it but a reign of rascality never
equaled!” [Sensation.]
A Garfield- man interrupted the old lady
to ask her about the old Whig party.
Aunt Sally replied: “Why, the old Whigs
were a set of mongrels. 1 love Democracy.
Look at tlie way Mr. Tilden was robbed
of the office the people elected him to.
My God, what kind of.a conscience must
the man have who stole the presidency!
[Sensation.] I don’t know Gen. Hancock,
out they tell me lie was fighting for his
country on the battlefield while the other
fellow was making mouey on the pave
ments at Washington'.”
A young man of the party interrupted
Auut Sally, when she replied: “Well,
George, we don’t agree iu politics, but 1
NOTES ON THE CAMPAIGN.
Ill—Tlie Crnvsutlou.
Several of Mr. Norwood’s “tools,” who
are anxious forfame ‘ as stump-speakers,
and who are rapidly making a reputation
as the champion stump’suckers of the
State, have-charged that Governor Col- jntfn who has beetfrqSommended by ndar--' joint discussion, I can but think how in-
quitt is.a disorganize! - , and is responsible
for the dismemberment of the Democratic
party. The Colquitt men have watched
this boomerang with pardonable pleasure
as It returns with double force to flatten
the heads of those who hurled -it. Let us
have the facts and figures on this point,
fop the matter can be settled, with statisti
cal, accuracy. " .
In tlie preliminary campaign, Governor
Colquitt went before tha'pfibple for re-
electron, and vindication h’ganiSt tlie dismember the Democracy, auilbefraught
charges oi his enemies. I his is the fa.- with disaster to the business interests of
ly two-thirds of the representative* of the
people of Georgia so unfit for office that it'is
our duty as patriots to put out a candidate
against him and involve the State in the
risks of such a course ? Cannot our con
victions of his unfitness be sufficiently ^re
spected by ourselves in refusing to vote
for him? Is the danger in his having the
- office greater than, the calamity of- precip
itating upon the people a campaign which
Will 'galvanize Republicanism into Jife,
the State'? Mr. Norwood in the chair,
vorite cry of the Norwood orators, aud it
does not lio in their mimth3 (except soj with, power to appoint committees, said
far. as. everything lies .in the tlir.oat uf Yes. oh, patriotism, what crimes have-
prejudice) to deny it. The opposing can
didates m most of the counties made
common cause against Goveruor Colquitt,
and the issue was fairly, openly, under-
staudingly. fought between him and -
the opposition. The two ' hundred
and tea delegates who were in
structed for him could only fairly
represent the suflrages of their constituents
by voting for him. The delegates from
those counties in which the issue of Col
quitt and anti-Colquitt was made were to
the same extent hound (up to the time of
the. disclosure of the result) to vote for
any other candidate except Colquitt.
But when the assembling of tlie conven
tion revealed the outcome of the canvass
—then, after tho adoption of the two-
thirds rule, the question which confronted
the majority aud minority was this. Since
we on tlie one hand are instructed
to sustain Colquitt, and we on the other
to sustain anybody but him—which sine,
to-preserve tlie union of the party, ouglit
in reason and justice to yield ?
One little incident, a specimen of many
others, will show how the anti-Colquitt
element answered that question: Mr.
Watson, of McDuffie, a young man al
most unknown, was raised to the pinna
cle of hero, because he expressed so aptly
the feeling that prevailed among the mi
nority. Said he, speaking of the Demo
cratic party as “Old Ironsides,”
“Nail to the mast the holy flag,
Set every threadbare sail,
And give her to the god of winds,
The lightning and the gale.”
This was cheered until tliq. cornerstone
of the State house trembled. Now, trans
late it into plain Euglish aud it simply
means, “Before we will nominate Col-
quilt, the Democratic party may go to
li—1, or any other place in tlie dash dia
lect.”
Against this spirit the majority opposed,
for day after day, the solid frontof its 210
and finally 224 votes. They had two
grounds upon which to base their plea to
the minority for concession—1st, That
the people had fought the fight aud gained
the victory by all except a technical frag
ment ; 2d, That since division was inevi-
teble, if neither would yield, 210 had a
greater right than 140 to expect concession
from the other.
But it is said that this position of the
majority was
PERSONALISM.
the minutes.” They remained in tlie con
vention and voted against the recommen
dation, but .as members.of the convention
they, took no other step.
the political MKLfcniZED&K; atfentfofc, although I am to speakas you
When they met as private citizens, the! i‘, ave spoken, fortlie majority’s choice’for
question before them was this Ms the
. O Norwoodites, where are your diction
aries? The word “persoual” isoftenest
used as indicating objection to a person,
as in the phrase, “a personal remark.”
“Personality” is commonly used to ex
press au unfavorable comment on a per
son'. Who, theu, is guilty of personalism ?
Why is there any more personalism iu
saying “Weshall re-elect Colquitt gov
eruor,” than in saying “We will take any
body but Colquitt?”
modesty.
But it is said Gov. Colquitt should have
had the modesty to retire when he saw he
had a mammoth fraction less tliau a two-
tliirds majority. Colquitt is accused of
sentimentalism; hut this view is so emo
tional, so Utopian, so unlike anything that
happens in this practical world, that it
must emanate from “political infants.” A
candidate with a minority sometimes
patriotically retires; a few candidates with
majorities have been known to retire from
that “gratitude which is a lively sense of
futuro favois.” But no sensible, mau
could say that Gov. Colquitt was uuder
any duty to foifeit the fruits of his victory.
That the charge of immodesty should
come from a candidate who was sent to
the convention to elect another man and
who is out by the call of a mutual admi
ration society appointed by himself is
part of the brilliant irony of the cam
paign.
THE PLEDGE.
It is said that Governor Colquitt was
bound not to run unless-he received a
nomination under the two-tliirds rale.
But this is a flagrant misrepresentation,
because its assumes wliat is utterly un
true—viz: that the convention pledged
itself to make a nomination. This they
did uot do. They merely said if we nom
inate, we will do so by the two-thirds rule,
Failing to nominate, the convention re
commended. So, tho question is, uot
whether Governor Colquitt has broken
pledge, hut has not au honored Georgiau,
for the first time iu his life, in making
such a charge, fractured the clear crystal
of his reputation for perfect candor? Is
he not, too, (he same mau who received a
part of the Alston fee, although as a mem
ber of another firm? Let him tell the
people if it was not right for Colquitt to
pay what it was right for him to receive.
I conclude with the figures. The respon
sibility of breaking up the convention was
mutual. The justifications for it were in
tlie votes of 224 for Colquitt to 132 for the
opposition aud nine for Norwood.
No-Axe.
P. S.—Iu these notes I do not wish to
vary from the plan intended, but under
the proper heads I will notice what is
said ou the other side. As to the indorse
ments of Norwood I can only now say
that I have seen very good indorsements
secured by very bad-priucipals, but 1 do
nor think auy indorsement can holster
up what is wrong. The constitution of
1871 expressed tlie opinion of Georgia oil
the salary grab in these words: (Code
sup. § 0S1.) “The General Assembly
shall nut grant or authorize extra com
pensation to auy public officer, agent or
comptroller, after the service lias been
rendered or the contract entered into.”
Are tlie people of- Georgia ready to go
back ou themselves-? Mr. Norwood may
claim no vindication at the end of his im
aginary administration; hut there is a
strong necessity for white-washing now.
IV-
been committed in thy name! The com
mittee ou incubation was appointed, but I
cannot dwell on the mysterious process by
which Norwood, like Melchizedek, with
out father or mother, leaps from his own
shell.
THE REAL ISSUE
is not, therefore, a mere question, of
choice between Colquitt and Norwood.
No I^mocrat who looks to the history of
this matter and the principles involved,
lias the right to treat it as a mere question
of preference. It will not do to say that
since two candidates are out, we will vote
without reference to what those candi
dates represent. It is true, beyond con
tradiction, that Mr. Norwood has no
earthly justification for his candidacy ex
cept iu the position that Colquitt, al
though the choice of the people in the
primaries, is so unfit for office that the
people’s interests will be more endangered
by his election than by -dividing the party
aud throwing the State into a heated “civil
war.” Unless this is true, Mr. Norwood
has ho claim on any Democratic voter,
even though the latter would prefer him,
if he came before the people in the same
way.
As an open question between the two
if staudiug ou the same footing, until.
Mr. Norwood can defend the salary steal
ou some other ground than that it has
been indorsed—until he can convince tlie
people that it is a worthy occupation to be
“attorney” for a railroad that expects to
get intoexisteuce by lobbying—until he can
show that the man who “had sense enough
to keep out of the fire” during the war
(and kept out) is entitled to equal honor
from Southern people with the man who
was “weak” enough to go in it—he is not
entitled to champion the patriotic attempt
of the minority to convince tlie majority
than they are wrong.
To the issue, aud that alone, let us
keep. The minority do not deny that the
calamity of the party division is very
great. Therefore Colquitt’s unfitness
must be very, very great, to he a greater
evil. If unfit, why ? Gov. Smith, the
bitterest and strongest of his opponents,
says Colquitt is not corrupt. No such
charge is made, even in all the floods of
detraction poured out upon him. The
only change then (with seventeen hydra-
‘J heads) is weakness. It is proved that
this weakness was so menaci ig to the
people (deluded into confidence by his
mental and iuoral strength) that his elec
tion would be a greater evil than Nor
wood has brought upon us ? The evi
dence is before us. Let it be discussed
solely-with reference to the point at stake.
.No Axe.
P. S-—Since “Norwoodite” still hob
bles ou the crutch of Norwood’s “indorse
ments,” I will take up the gauntlet and
make the comparison in due time.
Au Outside View.
Eufaula, Ala., Sept. 9,1SS0.
Editors Telegraph vnd Messenger: Par-
don me for me^claiming any share of your
Governor. from your account of the
•The Beal Issue Before the Peo
ple.
In the late convention the crack of the
caucus whip kept the minority iu liue.
When Judge Lawson was nominated by a
Colquitt man, and the applause of the
minority threatened to unroof the house,
he got three Colquitt votes, but not one
from the minority. It was kuowu that
Colquitt was the second choice of enough
delegates to nominate Jiiui; aad the only
way to prevent their goiug to him was to
keep the first choice of these delegates be
fore the convention. This was done by
caucus rule. The minority were afraid to
trust even their leaders ou a committee of
conference, unless the dreaded name of
the weak Colquitt was withheld from
their consideration.
The convention had the right by its
own law to do anything by a majority, ex
cept to noiniuate. Finding a nomination
impossible, tlie convention recommended
Governor Colquitt to re-election by 22
out of 350. This they had the right to
do. Except tor Mr; Norwood’s objections,
there wouiJ have, been other additions to
the 224, sufficient to make a nomination.
But ah 1 he haJ bis axe to grind, .and he
stopped the revolutions of the grind
stone just iu tiuid to keep it large enough
to answer hU purposes. People sup
posed, at tlie time, that Mr. Norwood’s
purposes had some reference to Mr. Les
ter, who was so great a mau that Mr.
Norwood’s words in describing him were
to turn to pearls ou li’s lips. But Lester
was his handle—not his axe.
THE KiGUTS OF TUE MINORITY.
Minorities hare rights which majorities
are bound to respect. If the latter were
attempting to foist on tbe convention a
corrupt aud unfit man, whose election
would endanger aud disgrace the State,
no one will deny the right of the minority
to resist such a result in auy mode less
uaii irons than the result itself. But in
this case the minority did not secede; they
did uot even cuter a slashing “protest on
Letter from Louisiana.
Lake Providence, La.,
September 1st, 1880,
Editors Telegraph and Messenger
A few jottings from this distaut laud may
uot he altogether uniuteresting to some of
your readers. We are in the midst of a
very trying ordeal. The third crop of
cotton worms made their appearance in
this locality about Saturday last, and on
some plantations have about eaten the
entire foliage from the cotton, leaving the
stalk perfectly bare. Fields that promis
ed fully 1J to 1$ bales per acre 10 days
ago will not now make over one-half bale
to the acre. This applies to the late cot-
tou—that was made so by the high water
last winter, which made it necessary to
plant a great deal of it in June—from the
middle to the last, iu some iustances.
There is considerable cotton here, that
the worms may do their worst aud it will
make over a bale per acre. But aside
from the worms, our crop here would uot
have been a full one, m consequence of
tlie excessively wet season. I think
two-thirds crop would have covered the
prospect even Without the worms, and I
think a half crop will cover it now, every
thing considered. How generally and in
wliat scope of the bottoms the worms exist
is very difficult to fiud out. The general
impression here is that they are couiincd
to particular localities; but my opinion is,
that when they fully develop them
selves they will be found
throughout tlie cotton portion of the
valley, especially south or, say, Green
ville, Miss.; and I have reliable informa
tion that they were reported on several
plantations above Greenville. * There
was a large yield here last year, aud iu
consequence there is in cotton every acre
that could possibly be planted in cotton,
So our future is not so bright from a cot
ton standpoint. Could we have had
large yield per acre, with the prices ob
tained last season, this country would
have ofiered greater inducements to young
men who desired to make money than
any country I kuow anything about.
As it is, tho way is not so. pre
eminently clear. With all its
faults, it is certainly a great
country still. Any country is good where
a mau cultivates three or four hundred
acres of land, without, perhaps, a single
dollar to his credit with liis commission
merchant in New Orleans, ou the first
day of January wiuds up his crop with
from three to fi'ur thousand dollars in his
favor. This happened iu more than one
instance in this immediate neighborhood!
aud that, too, after indulging in extrava
gances unknown to a Georgia cotton
grower. But let me say that we ouly
make a good crop every four or five years,
such as last year, aud we make au almost
total failure about once in five years.
I am sorry to see disruption in the
Democratic party in my own native Geor
gia, and it is especially to be regretted
when there is no real cause for it. My
sympathies before the meeting of the
convention were not so much with Gov.
Colquitt as they are now, and I have no
doubt as I feel a great rnauy disin
terested Georgians feel. Of all Georgia’s
noble sons it seems that Mr. Norwood
was the only one willing, at a word, to
lead iu the race in this move.
If it is uot “sat down upon” by
the best people of dear old Georgia, at
once and forever,It may end more seriously
than iu satisfying the ambitious cravings
of one or two spotted Democrats, that
never allow au opportunity to pass to en
courage disruption aud a holt.
Ex-Georgian.
Colquitt-Norwood and tbe Jail.
Blakely, Ga., Sept. 10,1880.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
I feel a delicacy iu appropriating your
valuable space .to discuss a political ques
tion, as every other little orator and news
paper-minded man of small calibre has
done, hut the fact of the business is our
paper dowu here does uot recognize the
rights of the Norwoodites or treat them
With' proper consideration. Oh this ac
count I want to let the people at large
know that Early oouuty has a great rnauy
intelligent mop who favor Norwood, aud,
to Bay .the least, the result of the ballot
ing is extremely doubtful. So, when you
put down this county for Colquitt, you
may throw your hat ou the back of your
head, your pedal extremities ou the table,
aud feel perfectly sure you’ve got bar
down wroue.
Night before last, (Wednesday) about
three o’clock, some unknown party blew
off the locks of the jail with gunpowder
aud liberated one white man and two ne
groes. A negro inmate also escaped on
tbe previous Sunday, through carelessness
of the jailer.
Nearly three small cheers for Colquitt!
Yours truly, Lemons,
Consistent were a portion-’of the audience
that gathered in* the tomple of just See, to
do justice tolioth of two candidates. Of
ten have I gathered with thousands of
your city’s sons and daughters to do hon
or to Colquitt. Then no hisses met his
eloquent words of wisdom, cheer and
tribute, but each voice echoed back a
^proid people’s response to an honored
governor, and when last ‘ we - Beard*
hnn paying a soldier’s tribute
to his* sleeping-comrades,Tvliat Maconite
would uot have quickly silenced the hiss
ing voice that dared insult the highest
power of the Empire State. Failing to
secure the nomination of li'er choice and
mine, and prejudiced against the majority’s
action, Macon even in part should not for
get the dignity of the State and him whom
history will honor as one of her illustrious
sons. Separated ouly by the. Chattahoo
chee from tho field Of contest, I am still
far enough removed to view without bias
the contending sides and their causes.
A native-born, I have watched with
eagerness Geoigia’s actions. since the as
sembling of tlie Atlanta convention, and
when that body adjourned without a nom
ination, I felt that a great gulf had been
made iu the unity" of our party; and
though the end will not affect
tlie Democratic supremacy in Georgia we
at this particular moment should stand
more than ever a solid South, not only
upon national issues, but those of State.
The supremacy of the Democratic party
as dictated by reason should alone govern
our political action.), and no State or sec
tional breach should divide our ranks.
Having viewed without prejudice the ad-
miuistration of Colquitt aud his past, I
think with the senior editor that he has
more claim upon the people of Georgia,
and I must agree with the majority and
wish that the present executive may again
occupy the chair of state. In this I am
joined by every Eufauiian with whom I
have talked of Georgia politics. Of course
our opinion amounts to nothing, and for
fear anv one may think thus I will say
our cause has often been one, aud this is
but a natural interest in our sister State.
While I honor Norwood and remember
well his grand effort for. the Democracy
of Alabama and our city a few years ago,
still I must join the great throng in sav
ing, “honor Colqu'tt who has honored
Georgia and the South as a Christian, sol
dier and statesman.” R. H. W.
Public Hoads.
Twiggs County, Sept. 11,1SS0.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger:
Please allow me space in your paper to
Call the attentiou of the Bibb county road
commissioners to the old road to Jeffer
sonville by O. W. Massey’s cotton gin fac
tory, laid out by the General Assembly in
1816. About three miles of it, from Cross
Keys, is iu Bibb county, and 1 believe has
never, been worked since—at any rate it
is verjr bad.
Near 2,000 bales of cotton come to Ma
con yearly over this road, from the north
ern and eastern part of Twiggs county,
and some from the northern part of Wil
kinson county, but unless the road is
fixed, farmers there will have to haul their
cotton to Griswoldville and Gordon.
Very respectfully,
H. R. Brown.
Speaking of the “Solid South,” the
New York Herald, pleased at its solidity,
and congratulating the New York mer
chants-on the fact, says:
“It would not be extravagant to say
that their people are on the whole more
prosperous than those ia most parts of the
North. Undoubtedly the conditions of
living are easier in the South than in the
North. But the change for the better in
the last four years is very remarkable.
Everywhere we read of new industries
starting into life; manufactures of various
kinds are rapidly increasing and give em
ployment to increasing numbers of the
poor whites, to whom factory life is a dis
tinct advauce iu the scale of prosperity.
The business of market gardening for
Northern consumption has been found so
profitable that vegetable aud small fruit
gardens aud orchards are found in all the
States from Virginia to Louisiana. It is
absurd to charge that a region thus health
fully prosperous is lawless or idle. The
South produced last year the largest cot
ton crop in its history, and this year's
crop will be even greater. But, over and
above the cotton, it is producing a multi
tude of other things which were totally
unknown in the South before the war.”
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sight, says the New York Sun, in the
counties of Passaic and Bergen, in New
Jersey, is the migration of the potato
bug. Meadows, wagou roads, and rail
roads swarm with these pests, all moving
westward. In some places they are so
thick upon the rails of the railroad as to
impede travel on an up grade. Where
obstacles are met they turn out of their
way. Great numbers are destroyed by
the feet of travelers and the wheels of
moving trains, but the gaps thus made are
sooni filled. Ou the coming of cold
weather they immediately go into the
ground.
A lady in Hackensack avers that she
swept up a peck at one time in her front
hall. They are a plague in that section,
creeping into houses aud entering all
rooms.
Boston Herald: Indiana is to-day a
political camp. Business is interrupted
by the hurly-burly of zealous partisan
ship. The farmers are talked at by hun
dreds of full-lunged orators, and the ante
rooms of the rival State committees are
thronged with applicants for stump ser
vice. Special trains with speakers, bands
of music and political clubs go flying ovei
tbe State. If the Democrats are to be be
lieved, the Republicans are importing
gentlemen of color from the neighboring
Bourbon provinces of Kentucky and Ten
nessee. The Democrats are charged with
filling the lower counties with the surplus
white men of Louisville and other Ken
tucky towns, who are ostensibly engaged
to aid in harvesting the maize crop, but
who may he relied on to be at the polls
on election day. Every lndianian is
busy saving the country.
Be wise in time and procure Dr. Bull's
Cough Syrup, which always cures coughs
and colds, and prevents consumption.
Price 25 cents a botiie. _
—At the meeting of ministers called to
take action in regard to the death of the
late Rev. Dr. William Adams, for so
many years pastor of the Madison Square
Presbyterian church in New York, the
addresses of the eminent divines were
marked with much pathos and eloquence,
and some of the tributes were very beau
tiful. Rev. Dr. Theodore L. Cuyler of
Brooklyn, who was one of the principal
speakers, remarked upon the pride of Dr.
Adams in his New England birth and
ancestry* Dr. Cuyler said he used to re
mark playfully in speaking of this subject,
that his “bones were made of pumpkin
fie.” He always took great pleasure
hhis Thanksgiving discourses, aud some
of his sermons on that annual festival
will bare comparison with any ever
preached by anybody.
Everybody suffers from dj'spepsia in
some form. -’Tis a dreadful dise.ase. By
calling at L. W. Hunt’s you can get the
thing to cure it—Darmstadt's Dyspepsia
Cure—comer Second aud Cherry streets.
A Hew "Bonanza.
A special dispatch to the TForW from
Denver, Colorado, the 8th instant, says a
well-known and reliable raining superin
tendent, just in from Gunnison, confirms
the rumors of the last few days of a won
derful discovery of native gold on the
hanks of the Cachetopa creek, eigh
teen miles southwest of Gunnison
City. Many lodes, apparently true fissures,
from three to twenty feet wide, crop out
at a stretch over a belt twenty miles long
and'five in width of low, timberless moun
tains. Masses of quartz daily brought
into Gunnison City sparkle with native
gold. Ofhundreds’of assays made in the
last few days none run lower than $100
in gold to the ton, while numerous speci
mens from Lubricator, Maple Leaf and
other claims assay $2,000 to $20,000 per
ton. One of the most exciting stampedes
on record is taking place from Gunnison
camps and neighboring districts to the
Cachetopa mines, 4,000 people going
in the first forty-eight boms after the dis
covery was made "known. Thousands of
claims are already staked, business men
who have closed their stores iu the
neighboring towns being largely interest
ed. The ore is a decomposed quartz, ear
sily reduced, and bids fair to lead to the
immediate erection of several stamp
mills.
Salt.ie tSPBiGGiNS, one of our rural
sisters, had her picture taken the other
day, aud the likeuess was wonderful to
behold, but no remedy like Portal ine, or
Tabler’s Vegetable Liver powder lias
ever been prepared. It will cure you.
Price 50 cents. For sale by Lamar, Ran
kin & Lamar. jul 16
The battle begins in the earliest dawn
of the child’s existence. If it is delicate
worms fasten upon its vitals, and as yeais
pass they increase, aud if not destroy-d
will kill. Sliriuer’s Indian Vermifuge
will destroy them and save the life of the
child. lw
If Sidney Smith, whose genial nature
was a well spring of pleasure to his
friends, had suffered with an inactive
liver, he woutd have used Portaiine, or
Tabler’s Vegetable Liver Powder. Price
50 cents. For sale by Lamar, Rankin &
Lamar. juy20.tf
A SuRgestiou To Summer Tourists.
A change of climate is at all times more
or less dangerous. There are elemen’s
in a new atmosphere which are injurious,
especially when the system is exhausted
by care and overwork, and which should
he guarded against. After careful obser
vation, we have come to the conclusion
that Warner's Sale Kidney andL’rer
Cure is the best preventive for atmospher
ic evils, and that it will restore health
and vigor sooner than any remedy which
has been discovered. lw
Messrs. Lamar. Rankin ifc Lamar—
Gentlemen : My wife has been
troubled for several months with bronchi
tis, and during that time, tried nea-ly ev
erything imaginable, without the slightest
benefit. A frieud of hers to whom I men
tioned it, told me to get a bottle of Brew
er's Lung Restorer, which I did, and tot
than one bottle cured her entirely. I will
recommend it to all who are similarly af
fected. Yours very truly,
Nathan C. Munbce.
TLe Votalic Belt Company, Mars:.ail,
Michigan, will send their celebraUd
Electro-Voltaic Belts to the afflicted upon
thirty days trial. Speedy cures gua.an-
teed. They mean what they say. Write
to them without delay.
TUTT'S
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SYMPTOMS OF A
TORPID LIVER.
A husband eloped from Portage,
Wis., with a widow and her two daugh
ters. After traveling as far as La Crosse,
he deserted the mother and one daughter,
disappearing with the prettiest of the
girls.
They stopped and looked,' and com
mented upon liis being drunk or asleep.
Finally one said, “Oh, come alone;; can’t
you see the fellow’s-drunk?” Lpcame
the head of the drowsy individual, and
bis eyes, half unclosed, leered at th# man
who bad just spoken as he answered, with
bit oath: ‘-V>s, I in-er drunk, but I
can-er get over»hat. You’re a d—u (hie) j
fool, and you’il never got (bic) over that.” j
night, 'Oihry colored Ux
IF THEWS WARNINGS AAE UNHEEDED,
SERIOtlS DISEASES WILL SOON BE DEVELOPED.
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body to TaAe as Ttc*n, thus the U
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