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FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 24,1880.
Illustrated Papers.—There is
; ively tilt now going on between the At
lanta Phonograph, published by Christo
pher,and the Athens Blade, published by
Pledger, colored, as to which is the best
illustrated journal. Both have special ar
tists, and the rivalry will be really exci
ting for the next two weeks.
Egypt.—A cablegram from Cairo says
the condition of the river Nile causes
much anxiety. It is arising unsatisfacto
rily and several weeks late. The inunda
tion is lower than at the corresponding
period in 1870. Irrigation, however, pro
ceeds well. There are some complaints
from the interior that the cotton crop has
suffered, but to what extent is not known,
Brother Hancock, of the Sumter Re
publican, asks us to come over and help
elect Norwood. No, thank you; it would
be too hard a job. The time is too short
to produce so great a change as would be
necessary to carry that point. As to Tom
mie Akin’s flurry we know nothing; we
haven’t seen his pamphlet. Tom is a good
boy; at least used to be when at school.
The Republicans, says the Nashville
American, are inclined to use the figures
of off years in explaining the result in
Maine. This never deceives. Maine
gave 15,000 Republican majority in 1870.
At the same rate, allowing for increased
vote, they ought to have carried the State
by 20,000. To have done less was to lose
ground. It is simply a thin device to con
ceal defeat to take the off years as a basis
of explanation and comparison.
The Washington correspondent of the
Baltimore Sun says dispatches from New
Orleans represent the. prevalence of fever
at the quarantine station about seventy-
five miles below that city. The president
of the Louisiana board of health pro
nounces it malarial fever, but army sur
geons and others are said to. pronounce it
yellow fever. The national board of
health in Washington has received no of
ficial intelligence on the subject, although
some statements from private sources
have been made.
No Yellow Fever.—A dispatch from
New Orleans, states that a severe type of
fever has been prvailing about seventy-
five miles below New Orleans, near a
quarantine station. The disease was re
ported to be yellow fever, and Dr.
Bemiss, of the National Board <■ of
Health, thereupon sent an officiaHo ex
amine into the character of the fever,
who confirmed the statement. The Presi
dent of the National Board of Health
then tendered to the Louisiana State
Board the sum of $10,000 to be used in
staying the course of the pestilence. But
Dr. Joseph Jones, the President of the
Louisiana Board, denies that the disease
is anything more than malarial fever,
caused by exposure in the rice Gelds,
and declined the protTered aid, as the
State Board was competent to deal with
the trouble. Dr. Jones has had the lar
gest experience in the treatment of yellow
fever, and is thoroughly posted in the pre
mises.
Indications that the Frame of
the Hudson River Tunnel was
Crushed—The caisson at the shaft of
the Hudson river tunnel in Jersey City
has been sunk to a depth of 23J feet. The
upper deck of the structure is on a level
with the top of the bulkhead of the coffer
dam. The workmen have reached within
fourteen feet of the spot where the dead
bodies of the twenty men who were buried
alive are supposed to lie.
When the tunnel was begun in January
last, an excavation was made twenty feet
deep, where the caisson is now being sunk.
Some of the timbers used in this excava
tion have been removed, and underneath
Was yesterday found one of the heavy
wooden wedges used inside the tunnel to
brace up the Iron plates. The wedge
could only have reached the place where
it was found through the top of the tun
nel. The inference is that when the top
ol the tunnel fell in the iron frame was
crushed and broken like an egg shell, and
the wedge, which wa3 inside of the tun
nel, floated to the top. Should this be so,
the work of taking off the iron plates will
be saved.
last Week’s Cotton Figures.
Wet Weather and a Bad Report.
The New York Chronicle reports the
receipts of the seven daysending last Fri
day night, 17th instant, at 102,095 hales,
against 76,933 for the same ‘week of last
year. Totals, 185,030, against 120,907
last year—showiug a gain of 64,123
bales.
The interior port business of the week
was as follows: Receipts, 34,824, against
45,932 last year. Shipments, 27,547,
against 86,599- last year. Stocks 38,094,
against 23,S90 last year.
The Chronicle’s visible supply table
showed, on Friday last, 1,209,073 bale3 of
cotton in sight, against 900,389 at same
date last year, 1,080,478 the year before,
and 1,472,113 in 1877 at same date. These
figures show an increase on the visible
supply of last year of 368,634 bales, and
on the supply of 1878 of 18S,595 bales.
And they show a decrease on the visible
supply in 1877, at same date, of 203,040
bales. Last Friday middling upland was
quoted in Liverpool ’ at 7 3-16. At the
same date last year the quotation was C
0-16. In 1878, at same date, the quota
tion was 0 7-16, and in 1877, C3-1C.
The weather during the early part of
the seven days which ended last Friday
was generally rainy throughout the cotton
region, but more favorable in the latter
part of the week.
In Texas, at Galveston, they had hard
showers on fitfe days of the week, and a
rainfall of 2.40. The cotton plants were
all stripped of leaves by the worms, but it
was still said as much cotton would be
raised as coaid be picked. In Indianola
there had been 1.50 of rain, and cotton
was stripped, but would do well if the
bells did not rot from damp weather. In
Corsicana they had a deluge. All the
streams were out of their banks, and 4.49
of rain had fallen during the week. At
Dallas there was 1.10 of rain in three
days. At Brenbam, 2.50 of rain on four
days. In both picking had been interfered
with. In Waco there had been hard rain
on three days and a fall of 2.03.
At New Orleans there was very little
rain, hut in Shreveport 3.32 during the
we.ek. Roads in had condition. In
Mississippi, at Vicksburg, rain on four
days. Bottom and top crops will be
poor. At Columbus, raiu on three days
to the amount of 2.03. Crop seriously
damaged. Nothing from Arkansas. In
Tennessee, at Memphis, very little rain
but people, despondent about the crop.
The estimates of yield had fallen from
20 (which is called a conservative esti
mate) to 50 per cent. At Nashville they
have had a slight frost. Crop reports
less favorable.
In Alabama, at Mobile, they had rain
on four days with a fall of 3.00. Much
damage from rain, worms, rust and rot,
but still crop accounts were pronounced
more favorable. In Montgomery, five
days in which light showers fell. Pick
ing progressing finely. In Selma, light
rains on three days. In Madison, Florida,
rain on four days. Much damage from
the late storm.
As to Georgia, Columbus had one rainy
day, in which 1.92 of rain fell. Macon
had rain on one day. Savannah had rain
on three days, and a total fall of i.37.
Augusta had light rains on three days.
Picking going on finely, and crop hurried
to market.
Crop Report.—The Chronicle, fig
uring on the Agricultural Department’s
last report, finds it, with the exception of
the States of Tennessee and Alabama,
better than last pear, and In roost of the
States considerably better. “If,” Says that
paper, “we add to each the increase in
acreage also, it would seem that on the
first of September, according to the De
partment reports, the yield promised to
be considerably larger than the crop just
marketed.”
The table of the department figures, as
summed up by the Chronicle, shows an
average condition of 97.7 against 91.1 last
year. But the whole story lies in the du
ration and character of the picking season,
of which we have had so far only five to
six weeks. When we get into the last of
October we may begin to talk.
tion will probably ho the most notable
since the time of Jackson. He is just the
sort of man to keep the best elements of the
party in the front. It is absurd for the
Republicans to say that business will be
injured by a change. There will be gen
eral rejoicing at Hancock’s election.
“Last fall I was waited upon by a com
mittee of negroes who wanted me to con
tribute towards aiding afi exodus to In
diana of 10,000 negroes who were to be
usedffieyond a doubt to affect the Presiden
tial election. I told them I was no long
er on that side of the fence. Since then I
have heard that but 3,000 negroes reached
the State. In an ordinary election this
would make the State doubtful. It won’t
The Obelisk Landed in New York.
—The obelisk, says the Sun, of Saturday,
is now resting upon a heavy wooden
framework, constructed especially for its
reception, on the pier at the foot of West
Sixty-ninth street. At 2:30 p. m., yester
day the revenue cutter Rescue towed the
two empty pontoons out into the river to
ward the bay, and the men on board
waved their hats in token of farewell to
Commander Gorringe, who, standing on
the pier, responded with his handkerchief.
While the laborers were engaged in re
moving some tackle from a lighter, one of
them, an Englishman named Richard At
well, lost his balance and fell into the
river. Striking a piece of timber in his
descent, he bad his shoulder dislocated,
and was removed to the Ninety-sixth
Street Hospital.
At least a thousand persons visited the
wharf yesterday. The needle will proba
bly not he taken fromtlie piles before Satur
day night, and it will likely be two weeks
before it leaches the park. It will he
rolled on its way over cannon balls six
inches in diameter, held in iron tracks
with raised edges.
North American Review.—The Oc
tober number of this superb publication is
on our table, and is filled with good
things. Mr. Thomas A. Edison contrib
utes an article to this number of the
Retleic, in which he states that he has
succeeded in making the electric light
entirely practicable for all illuminating
purposes. He shows the advantages of
electricity over gas, and explains how his
system is to be introduced. He comments
upon the unfavorable opinions that have
been passed upon his work, and says that
similar judgments were pronounced upon
telegraphy, steam navigation, and other
great discoveries. Other articles in the
October number of the Review are: “The
•Democrat Party judged by its History,”
by Emery A. Stores; “The Ruins of Cen
tral America,” by Desire Charnay ; “The
Observance of the Sabbath,” by Rev. Dr.
Leouard Bacon; “Tbs Campaign of 18(12,”
by Judge D. Tbew Wright; “The Taxa
tion of Church Property,” by liev. Dr. A.
W. Pfizer ; and “Hermit Progress in As
tronomy,” by Prof. E. S. Holden.
Maine Election."
There are various parts of the earth
which are quite remote from somewhere;
hut the remotest part of all from every
where, including itself, is the State of
Maine. James G. Blaine, with all his
power, can’t get a'report from the Maine
election in seven days. We can hear
from India, China and Japan in forty-
eight hours and less, but Blaine thinks
Maine can’t be heard from till way into
November. It worries Mr. Blaine that he
can’t hear and settle this dispute sooner,
but so it is. The boys on the Penobscot,
as they fish for eels and sculpins off the
wharves, sing in melancholy strains,
“James G. Blaine**
Can’t hear from Maine.”
And so it goes on from day to day. Let
us see—how do the dispatches run? For
ty-nine thousand niue hundred and nine
ty towns give Davis (Republican) a plu
rality of 101. Six towns, plantations,
farms, post-offices and saw mills are to
be heard from, which gave before the
flood a Fusion majority of ninety-nine.
Should they vote the same way, Davis
will have a plurality of two votes. It Is
probable Davis’ majority is somewhere
between five hundred and a thousand;
but the official returns will he necessary
to determine the exact vqte. A special
from Madawaska says all the officials are
dead drunk a fishing, and getting over the
Prohibition excitement. Some of them
stove a hole in their boat, and let the
glory through, which ^accounts for the
chaDge.
Music from Conklins:.
Conkling made his debut in this cam
paign last Friday evening at the New York
Academy of Music. It was a select en
tertainment, to which tickets of admission
were necessary, and guests were expected
in white kids with Lubin’s extracts.
Conkling waved the bloody shirt in lemon-
colored. He was heavy on the accursed
South, which refuses to vote the Republi
can ticket. He dismissed Garfield with
few and faint words of commendation;
but as for Garthur—oh! he was sweet on
Gartbur. Having recently been on an ex
tended fishing trip with Garthur, he
had found out all about him, and knew
him to he honest. In fact, he had drank
out of the same bottle. Garfield was well
enough, but the true friend was Arthur.
An Old Republican.
The World intervie s-s Hiram Barney,
Collector of the Port of New York under
President Lincoln and gets the following
and a good deal more from him: .
“I know General Hancock personally.
General Grant introduced him to me on
the field at Peteisburg. His admimstra
tios year.” „ . „
“How will the Maine election aflect the
national campaign?”
“The final result is plain to every in
telligent mind, and I believe the masses
of the Republicans read the handwriting
upon the wall. The wavering Democrats
have been made firm and the vote cast
for Tilden in 1S76 is assured beyond any
doubt; the floating vote; which is always
large in Indiana, New York and Connec
ticut, will come to the Democratic party.
On the other hand, the Republicans are
sick at heart. I will venture the opinion
that New Hampshire and Illinois will
either decide for Hancock or ba very
close States. California and Oregon
may he counted upon as sure. New
York, New Jersey and Connecticut are
reasonably certain for Hancock. If In
diana goes Democratic and the Republi
can majority in Ohio is decreased Han
cock’s native State will not be wanting.
I really believe that all indications poiut
to a sweeping Democratic victory—such a
one as will effectually wipe out all traces
of the Republican party.
The Railroad. Commissioners
Refuse to Advance the Rates on
the Brunswick and Albany Rail
road.
The general manager of the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad, Col. C. L. Schlatter,
having petitioned the railway commission
ers for an increase of freight on that road,
the case had a hearing before the hoard
on the 17th instant.
Albany was represented by the follow
ing able committee of citizens: L. E.
Welch, D. H. Pope, L. P. D. Warren and
D. Glauber. The committee, the Consti
tution says, based their opposition to the
increase of rates on the following grounds
“That the present rates on the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad are agreed rates
made by the hoards of trade of Brahswick
and Albany, and the princ’pal shipping
along the line of the road with the officers
of the road; that these rates were perfect
ly satisfactory to all interested; that these
rates were presented to the Railroad Com
mission in May last, sanctioned by them
and put in force; that the merchants of
Albany and Brunswick and along the line
of the road arranged to have a line of
steamers on between Savannah and Bruns
wick, running twice a week; that eveiy-
thing was working harmoniously, trade
increasing and the people satisfied under
existing rates. »
“There is no cotton on the Brunswick
and Albany railroad except Albany. For
the last two seasons there’ll as been a pool
on cotton between the three railroads at
Albany. Since the enforcement of Circu
lar 10, the Central, and Savannah, Flori
da and Western railways have increased
their rates on cctton from Albany to Sa
vannah to 60 cents per 100 pounds. The
Brunswick and Albany railroad will be
shut out of the pool unless it increases its
rates.
“The committee insisted that the Bruns
wick and Albany railroad should haul
cotton to Brunswick at the present rate,
36 cents per 100 pounds, 167 miles, as the
rate from Macon to Savannah is 40 cents
per 100 pounds. At the same rate per
mile from Albany to Brunswick as from
Macon to Savannah, the rate wouM be 34
cents per 100 potmds, while tlie’Tsfe as
before stated is 30 cents. The committee
claim that the people of Albany spent
their money In constructing railroads for
the purpose of receiving the benefits of
competition, and by increasing the pres
ent rates on cotton, they would be de
prived of this advantage.
“They showed, including insurance and
the boat rate from Brunswick to Savan-
nah,.the present rate via Brunswick to
Savannah would be 50 cents per 100
pounds. Besides this there is some delay
as the steamer only runs twice a week.
■“The Central railroad has hanking facil
ities at Albany, aud the Central and
Savannah, Florida and Western railroads
have daily trains to Savannah, without
transfer, and have better facilities at Sa-
vanuah for handling cotton. With all
these advantages, if rates are not greatly
less by the Brunswick and Albany no dot-
ton -will go that way. The committee in
sist that the Brunswick and Albany rail
road should be operated as a railroad, and
not simply as a partner in a pool in which
they do no work.
“The present shipment of cotton from
Albany .amounts to 30,000 bales. If the
request to increase rates he granted, the
difference to Albany will be very great,
and great injustice will be done the city
of Albany, because it wrs a fixed under
standing iu April that These rates would
not be changed unless it was found to
work injustice to either of the parties.
“The committee showed that almost all
the cotton now moving from Albany goes
over the Brunswick and Albany railroad.
“A few years ago, the committee assert,
the Brunswick and Albany railroad would
have been glad to get cotton at 3.25 per
bale, for which now they get $1.70, per
bale aud are seeking an increase of rates.
“After a.patient hearing the commis
sioners -decided that the present rates on
the Brunswick and Albany railroad are
sufficient.”
This decision will be balled with the
liveliest satisfaction by the citizens of AI
bany and southwest Georgia, and shows
that the commissioners are ready to give
heed to the voice of the people wben;their
demands are reasonable.
Decision! of the Supreme Court.
We shall publish'the decisions of the
Supreme Court, as heretofore, in a slightly
abridged form, hut without omitting any
thing of importance, either to the practi
tioner or general reader. They will ap
pear, as a rule, on the day succeeding
their publication iu Atlanta. Mariy of the
head-notes, as now reported, consist of
such points as the following: “The ver
dict is supported by the law and the evi
dence ;” “ There being no abuse of dis
cretion in granting the new trial, this
court will not interfere;” “There being
no error in the charge of the court, a new
trial is refused,” etc., etc. These rulings,
when taken in connection with the full
reports of fhe cases which appear in the
printed volumes, have a significance which
can be ascertained; hut without a full
statement of the evidence, decision or
charge in the court below, they give no
information, except to show the result of
the ruling In the Supreme Court. In view
of this fact, such points will lie reported
only when the cases decided come from
those circuits in which the. Telegraph
and Messenger has its chief circula
tion . By adopting this plan, we shall be
able to report the decisions as fully as
those who are interested therein will care
to have them, without, trespassing on the
equities of those to whom they are of no
concern.
Returns from all but five counties in
Arkansas give Churchill,Democratic can
didate for governor, a majority of 52,000
over Parks. The same counties gave Til
den 23,266 majority over Hayes in 1876.
Democratic gain, 28,734. The five coun
ties not yet reported gave Hayes 3,864
majority.
"Too Rich,” and its Perils.
We have the authority of the New
York Graphic, and of some other North
ern papers, that the great danger now im
pending over the Southern States is an
excess of wealth. They are going to be
“(oo rich.” Our enormous cotton crops—
in demand at fair prices—hat chiefly the
census returns, indicating a fair increase
in population and products, have brought
outside minds into a wild reactionary con
dition, and with a -sudden flirt, as it
were, from a very contemptuous under
valuation of Southern resources and pros
pects, they have whisked over to the op
posite extreme, and are now prophesying
such vast and rapid accumulations of
wealth as will be demoralizing.
It is very certain^ that “we, the people
of the South,” cannot appreciate this
peril. The number of us embarrassed
by excess of wealth is so small as to be
invisible to the naked eye. Nor is it in
the nature of an agricultural community
to become very rich. Its fate, if prudent
and careful, is much better. It makes
slow and certain accumulations—safe ac
cretions—which, in time, produce a gen
eral diffusion of a comfortable abundance,
wherein there is no destitution or suffer
ing, and no gorgeous display of too easily
acquired wealth; a community without
nabobs or beggars; a people adapted to a
free Republican government; a condition
best suited to the highest moral, intellect
ual and religious development of man
Give me neither poverty nor riches, says
the Psalmist.
This state and condition we devoutly
hope the Southern people will settle down
into, and become illustrious examples of
a virtuous, prosperous and free people,
The natural resources of the country all
point to it—particularly the agricultural;
which, while promising no rapid gains,
do hold out the prospects of fairer and
steadier rewards than that of any other
country, and promise to build up
strong and intelligent yeomanry in the
very situation to develop the best traits of
manhood.
Now, looking at the general future of
the United States, it seems to us easy to
perceive that the security and permanence
of our institutions must ultimately find
their best guaranty in such a population.
The great agricultural populations of the
South and West must be the sheet anchor
of the country. In other sections the
people are rapidly assuming such widely
divergent conditions as to forbid the idea
of such a community of interest and sym
pathy as to permit hearty co-operation
When the philosophers of the North had
put slavery to death with the bayonet,
they were full of confidence that they had
extinguished the last and deadliest foe to
free government in America. But how is
it, that, in less than twenty years after,
very large part ot them are crying out lor
“astrong government”—“imperialism”—
a government which can take the people
by the throat and hold them down in
terror?
That Was the Grant third-term idea,
and it was hacked by a large part of the
capital of the country. It is easy to see
that it sprang out of a realization of that
dangerous process which is now going on
with marvelous rapidity, by which the
people of the trading sections of the coun
try are fast dividing themselves into
classes composedof peasants and nabobs
—the. small number rolling In wcaltb and
the mass struggling for subsistence. This
brings a crucial Test that will strain a gov
ernment by the popular ballot to its last
fibre.
Borrowing some strong hints and a pro
digious scare from the labor and wages
riots of three or four summers ago, the
capital oftlie great trading and financial
parts of the country could think of no
remedy or precaution but Grant—a strong
government'and plenty of soldiers; and
they came very nigh embodying that idea
in the existing Presidential campaign.
They mean now that it shall he repro
duced four years hence, after the end of
Hancock’s term—for few of them have
any idea of Garfield’s election; anil they
do see that this processof the poor gettin;
poorer and the rich getting richer is going
on steadily—that it tends naturally to an
ugly crisis, and they are able to see no
other remedy than one which will invest
the minority with powers and remedies
far more sweeping than any contemplated
by our popular system.
But the whole republican system is
founded on the assumed virtue of the peo
ple—their predominant love of justice—
their general fairness and good sense; and
if these foundations are'rotlten, the secu
rity afforded by any fraudulent perver
sion of the government, such as that pro
posed by Grant, Conkling, Cameron &
Co., is not worth the trying. It would only
bring about a more violent catastrophe,
made more bitter and destructive by this
cheating scheme.
Let everybody remember this, for they
will surely find It true: When the mass of
the American people become unable or
unwilling to control their government
substantially in the interests of justice,
honesty and freedom, it is not going to be
changed by any such peddling fraud as
that contemplated by Grant, Cockling &
Co. It is going' to pieces—the greatest
and grandest wreck that ever stranded on
the ocean shores of anarchy and revo
lution, and its awful fate will be such
memento as the latest generation will not
forget.
Hon. Thomas W. Akin.—The course
of Mr. Akin, one of the electors for Han
cock and English, in taking the stump
against Colquitt, is very generally and
properly animadverted upon. Of course
he, and eveiy other citizen, is entitled to
vote for his choice of the two gubernato
rial candidates. But inasmuch as there
is happily no division of sentiment upon
the merits of the nationar Democratic
ticket, hut on the contrary it will'be zeal
ously supported by the friends both of
Colquitt and Norwood, it is extremely in
decorous and out of place for any elector
who owes his position to the joint vote of
the Colquitt and anti-Colquitt men in the
convention to publicly take part either for
or against either of the • candidates for
Governor. If such a cours'e is persisted
iu, it will be to the manifest injury of the
national standard bearers of the Democ
racy. We are glad to learn, therefore,
that, save in the single instance of Mr.
Akin, no other member of the electoral
ticket, either as principal or alternate, has
become involved in the present bitter and
deplorable personal contest for Governor
which Is doing so much to Injure GeQrgia,
both at home aud abroad.
The Old War-Horse Snuffs the Bat
tle Alar.
An exchange says: “The principal bus
iness of Kaiser Wilhelm and Prince Bis
marck just now seems to be to prepare
the people for the next war. The full
text of the Kaiser’s address ‘to the soldiers
of the German host,’ on the occasion of
the tenth anniversary of the German vic
tory over the French at Sedan, wlnchuow
reaahes us by mail, breathes a warlike
spirit in its references to the future, which
the cable version of it failed to catch. He
appeals to the troops to preserve, under
all circumstances, the strictest discipline,
and to remember that the army can only
accomplish great successes ‘if diligence
in preparatory training for war never
wearies it, and If, furthermore, the slight
est detail is not disdained in orier to give
a firm and sure foundation to its trained
efficiency.’ ”
This octogenarian sovereign is a true
type of the nation of soldiers over which
he rules with an irou hand, and yet singu
larly enough is not only popular, but
greatly beloved. The late war with
France, which was prosecuted with so
much vigor and ended so disastrously to
Napoleon HI., brought Germany into the
front rank among the great powers of Eu
rope. There is a certain steadiness, not
to call it phlegm, about the German char
acter that makes of him a model soldier.
With proper training he becomes a verita
ble machine, moving like an automaton
regardless of consequences when under
orders. At the same time, a deep-seated
love of the “vaterland” and the tradi
tions of his race animates his heart, and
renders him well-nigh invincible in ac
tion.
It is said that the Kaiser’s warlike atti
tude has caused no little uneasiness in
France, and that irreprsible power is
girding tip her loins and preparing for ac
tion. The memory of Sedan is like
barbed arrow in the vitals of the republic,
which continues to fester and rankle
With superhuman efforts the military es
tablishment of France has been vastly
augmented, her immense debt liquidated,
her resources husbanded, and her people
trained and prepared for the inevitable
hour when they will • he called upon to
vindicate their beloved country from the
disgrace attendant upon the recent con
flict with Germany. When that day ar
rives, the shock of the contending armies
will startle the universe.
-Sallte Spriggins, one ot our rural
sisters, bad her picture taken the other
day, and the likeness was wonderful to
behold, hut no remedy like Portaline, or
Tabler’s Vegetable Liver powder has
ever been prepared. It will cure you.
Price 50 cents. For sale by Lamar, Iian-
£ kin & Lamar. Jul 16
Campaign Notes.
Hon. F. M. Longley, of Troup coun
ty, has been appointed by the Governor
judge of the Coweta circuit, vice Judge
Bucbanau resigned. Judge Longley is
regarded as an excellent lawyer and up
right citizen.
Campbell County.—A special from
Cainpbellton says: “Put down old Camp
bell from 1,100 to 1,200 majority for Col
quitt. Norwood will not get over 50 or
75 votes in the county. I hare just had a
talk with one of Douglas county’s best
posted and most influential citizens. He
puts the county down as practically solid
for Alfred H. Colquitt. He says Nor
wood thunder aud Colquitt lightning has
struck the county, and she will give Col
quitt from 800 to 1,000 majority.
The News From Carroll County.
A Constitution special says: Captain
Van Epps, of your city, addressed a large,
vast, stupendous assembly here to-day in
a pithy three hours speech; the crowd be
ing almost wild with enthusiasm would
only calm down as the speaker proceeded.
Immediately after the speaker began,
everything was quiet and remained very
quiet during -his entire effort. Every
cross-road had been posted in the fork
with large hand-bills that Captain Epps
and Small would address the people at
the court-house. For a week iu advauce
Norwood men had advertised it from the
house top to the tree, by the roadside.
Number that heard the speech, men and
A Change.—The far-reaching results
of the victory in Maine can hardly be over
estimated. Its importance at this state of
the canvass is simply lieyond calculation,
First, it proves that the Democratic party
in the North is aroused to the importance
of the occasion. Secondly, the moral
force of the victory hr equal to many thou
sand votes for the Democratic cause. The*
undecided will remain so no longer; the
independents will see their way clear at
once; the Greenbacker has been shown
the road to victory, and will hereafter
march to the music of the Democratic col
umn, giving Weaver and his inflation to
the winds. Again the depressing influence
on the enemy is the sure harbinger of vic
tory. They put forth their utmost strength,
well aware how dangerous a defeat would
be to them; but all availed naught; the
matter has passed beyond the domain of
uncertainty. General Hancock will he
our next President.
Americcs Fair.—We have received
the premium list of the fourth annual ex
position of the “Americus Fair Associa
tion.” This publication is handsomely
gotten up by Col. C. IV. Hancock, of the
Sumler Republican. The work is admir
ably done, hut we do not fancy the
paper.
The premiums ate liberal for a district
fair, and will no doubt draw many articles
from other points for exhibition.
The fair opens on Tuesday, October
2Cth, and will continue four days. Every
facility will be afforded to reach the
grounds at a nominal cost. The fairs at
this poiut are always interesting, and
draw large crowds. We hope they will
have fine weather and an appreciative, as
well as a paying, crowd to attend the
forthcoming exhibition.
Methodism in Great Britain.—The
Dublin Freeman’s Journal gives the fol
lowing statistics of the Methodist denom
ination, taken from the minutes of the
last British conference:
One hundred and three young men who
had passed the usual probation oC four
years were ordained to the • full work of
the ministry; 328 remain on trial: 2,344
ordained ministers are engaged under the
direction of the conference; 38 deaths are
reported. In each case a suitable obitua
ry record is inserted. Those who inti
mately knew Dr. Gather, and who will
read the record in Ins case, will conclude
that but scant justice is done to the mein
ory of a truly great and noble man. The
total membership is stated: In Great
Britain, 376,678, with 25,824 on trial; in
Ireland, 24,443, with 723 on trial; in for
eign missions, 86,788, with 10,33G on tri
al; French conference, 1,782, with 62 on
trial. Total, 4S9.711, with37,245 on trial
On the Maine Election.—The New
York Herald remarks: It really makes
little difference whether Plaisted is elect
ed by one or two hundred majority or is
found in a minority of one or two hun
dred. The effect on national polities
will be substantially the name in either
case. If, when Mr. Blaine has done his
best iu his own State, it is saved “by the
skin of its teeth,” such a result makes
Maine doubtful in the Presidential con
test and lias a depressing effect on Repub
lican hopes. If the party barely escapes
defeat in the State in which it confidently
expected a handsome majority, it may ex
perience similar disappointments in other
States in which its success seemed assur
ed.
An English Beecher.
Our readers will remember Beecher’s
famous advocacy from the pulpit of
‘Sharpe’s rifles,” to settle the question of
slavery and Southern Independence. It ap
pears that another'irate clergyman Is fol
lowing suit in England by way of exterm
inating the anti-Orange element. IVe
quote the following from the Dublin
Freeman’s Journal of recent date:
“Mr. Sullivan very properly brought be
fore the House of Commons last night the
advice given by an Orange chaplain to his
hearers in a iatif speech. This Christian
pastor of souls aud man of peace is re
ported to have counseled his amiable au
dience to aim themselves with the best
rifles that can be procured, and for every
Protestant shot to shoot a parish priest
and the Home Rule member for the dis
trict. - If a Land Leaguer were found
tripping like this, what would be his fate?
But the Orange lamb is allowed to go on
unchecked aud'nnrebuked. If Mr. Dil
lon used language of a tithe part that
violence, he would be called ‘a coward,’
and intimidated even iu his place in the
House; but our brave Orange hero on the
war-patli may whoop till he grows black
in the face without fear of prosecution.
Yet, when the London Standard sets ihe
example of violent and inciting language,
what car. we expect from an Orangeman
who, if scraped, would stand revealed a
savage?”
Central Railroad stock, says the
Savannah News, continues very strong,
and sales were made on Monday last at
par, with light offerings. ,
boys.
Of that number, boys under 21.
Colquitt men
Norwood men
For nobody
The speaker
75
. 18
. 37
. 16
. 3
. 1
75
Total.
Lawton in Athens.—A correspon
dent of the Constitution writes from
Athens thus: “General Lawton spoke
here last night. He sandwiched into his
speech a mild attack on Colquitt in order
to have an excuse to hit Joe Brown under
the ribs. The reason for the latter we
all know- Only one hundred and fifty
whites were present. One-half of them
were Colquitt men. Ail of tho colored
audience were for Colquitt. His speech
fell flat. We have four hondred aud fifty
white names enrolled for Colquitt. The
colored people are solid for him. Put
Clarke down for Colquitt by a big major
ity.”
Norwood Clubs.—“Many Norwood
clubs are being formed in various sections
of the State composed of colored people,”
is the latest style of putting it. We ex
pect they are as various as that club at
Nance’s.
Losing Ground.—The Athens Banner
says: “The Norwood boom has lost much
of its strength. When a boom consists
mainly of enthusiasm, it very soon leaks
out. Enthusiasm is good in its place, but
it needs to be thickened with a good ad
mixture of votes. You never saw men
more confident than the Colquitt men are
now.”
It is said the voters are paying up their
taxes well. It is not necessary that the
taxes for the present year should have
been paid to secore the privilege of vo
ting. It is only taxes due for past years
that must be paid. - v
Jury.—Columbus Times: “If a man
is an office hunter who was recommended
to the Democracy of Georgia by 225 votes
in a possible convention vote of 350, what
is a man who is recommended by no part
of any convention, hut hanks on nine
outsiders? Might he not he called an of-
-fice “grabber?”
Gen. Lawton’s Athens Speech.
Athens Banner: “He attacked the ap
pointments of the last two years, and
gave Hawkins and Brown particular tits.
His speech was able and diguified, but
sophistical. He was not enthusiastically
applauded hut three times; at other times
the applause was rather weak. He made
decidedly the best address we have yet
heard on the subject, and in conclusion
commended Norwood to tho people.”.
The Biggest Yet.—There is an old
fel.ow going about Newton county circu
lating the “Convict Catechism” and telling
negroes that the reason Governor Colquitt
is now a poor man is because he killed
300 negroes in slavery. This old tramp
appears to he a model Norwood orator.
A Great Orator.—Chronicle and
Constitutionalist: “Hon. R. J. Moses, is
an eloquent, logical and persuasive speak
er. He brushed aside all the sophistry of
Norwood’s followingand truthfully por-
. trayed the personal and official integrity
of Governor Colquitt.”
A Knawwood Club.—Covington En
terprise: “A Knawwood club of three
members was recently organized at New
born, Newton county. Great enthusiasm
prevailed and the names of the officers of
the club requested to l>c suppressed for
the present.”
Discouraged.—Columbus Times: “A
late Norwood gentleman from Chat: a-
hoochce comity hurt us yesterday by
giving if as his candid opinion that Col
quitt would not carry that county by more
than three hundred and fifty votes. The
reason we feel hurt Is our informant
knows every nook aud comer in the coun
ty, and knows the people back to a date
when some of them did not know them
selves, and what he says we know to be
his judgment founded upon the very best
information that can he obtained. We
wanted at least five hundred majority in
Chattahoochee.”
The Columbus Times says that the let
ter of R. F. Lyons, does that gentleman
honor. Judge Hawkins has been greatly
traduced, and this protest added to that of
the bar of Americus, Judge Hawkins’
home, should put to shame those who
would reach right and left over his should
ers to stab Governor Colquitt and over
Governor Colquitt’s shoulders to stab
him.
The Radical Nominee in the Sec
ond Congressional .District.—News
and Advertiser.—The nomination of B.
F. Brimberry, by the Republicans of the
Second District, is no surprise to Demo
crats. It shows tho weakness of the party.
He is a mere figure head, aud a fit subject
for political slauglier. Let Democrats
rally to Turner, and the victory is ours.
Rev. Dr. Felton made a speech at
Trenton, Dade county, last Thursday.
The Bade County Gazeile says he com
pared the Democratic party of the State
to a lizard with its head aud tail cut oil,
and that he alluded in glowing terms to
the divisions of the Democracy, which he
claims to hare caused.
Never Endorsed It.—Governor Col
quitt has written tho following letter de
nying that he ever endorsed Colonel Mc
Kinley’s speech made before the State
Agricultural Society several years since iu
opposition to the sale of liomesteads or
farms to the ireedmen:
Atlanta, G(C., September 13,1SS0.—Hon.
W. J. Northern, Sparta. Ga.: I have
your letter, aud am amazed at the variety
of the misrepresentation that the opposi
tion use to defeat me.
The statement that I have at any time
been opposed to selling laud to the colored
people is utterly untrue. On tho contrary
I am for everything that will make them
good, useful, moral citizens, hound to the
State by lies of property, educated for the
very highest discharge of the duties of
citizenship. The Agricultural Society
did not adopt the speech of Mr. McKinley,
years ago. His views were the views of
no one but the speaker, and while the so
ciety thanked him as a matter of formal
and customary courtesy for his effort to
entertain them, and possibly published
his address as part of the proceedings of
the society, they no more adopted his
ideas or endorsed them than they did the
conflicting opinions abont farming that at
eveiy session of the society gentlemen
constantly expressed. .
So far from my being opposed to the
colored people buying laud, I believe it is
the best way to make them the best citi
zens to give them property right to lands.
And 1 should sell to them land if I had
the chance. I am very truly yours,
A. H. Colquitt.
Betting on the Result.—The Con
stitution says: “On the counties there is
great deal of money wagered. It is said
that there is over $10,000 bet on Fulton
on 1,000 majority for Norwood, aud then
the betting dropped to 500 majority for
Norwood. At tills point a good many
bets were made, but within the past ten
days the wagers have been on even figures.
Bets have been freely made that Colquitt
would carry the county, and no odds are
asked from the Norwood men. It is
claimed by the Colquitt men that they
are sometimes unable to get takers of
even bets, and that the Norwood men are
not now so anxious to bet even on
the county as they were to give odds a
short time ago. A number of wagers
have been placed on Cobb county, no
odds being given either way that we know
°f* Two or three bets that Colquitt
would carry Muscogee have been taken,
the Norwood men giving four to one odds
for these bets. One gentleman who has
bet heavily on the election put up $100
even to sustain the proposition that Col
quitt would carry the three counties of
Hall, Jackson and Banks. There are
some even bets made on Hall. Clarke
has been a county for discussion, and even
bets have been made on Colquitt’s carry
ing it. A bet was offered on Saturday
by a Colquitt man that Norwood’s ma
jority in Bartow would not be over 500
and declined by the Norwood man. For
betting purposes Bibb’s Norwood
majority has been set at 600
hut there is little offered or
taken on this. Richmond’s Colquitt ma
jority has been put at 1,000 and several
bets have been made on this.
One gentleman wagered $100 that Nor
wood would not carry 25 counties of the
138, and another bet that i his
majority would not exceed 800
to the county in five counties in
the State. And so the money goes! Of
course, we discourage betting and advise
all men against betting. We quote the
above, merely because money is a busi
ness talker and never lays itself out on
boastful estimates. It generally, if not
always, represents the best judgment of
those interested and generally gets pretty
near to correct figures.
The Penalty for Illegal Voting.
As germain to the present situation, we
print the text of the State law for the pro
tection of the purity of the ballot box,
and hope every good citizen will give
heed to it:
Section 1. Be it enacted by the General
Assembly of the State of Georgia, That
section 4569 of the Code of 1873, which
provides a punishment for buying or sell
ing, offering to buy or sell, or being con
cerned in buviDg or selling a vote and for
voting unlawfully at any election in this
State bo, and the same is hereby amended,
so that the said section shall read as fol-
laws: Any person who shall hereafter
vote at any such election or who has not
resided in this State one year next pre
ceding such election or who has not re
sided six months next preceding election
in the county in which be has so voted; or
who lias not paid all takes, which since
the adoption of the present constitution
of this State, have been required of him
previous to the year iu which said elec
tion occurs, and which he has had an op
portunity of paying agreeably to law; or
who has been convicted iu any court of
competent jurisdiction of treason against
the State, of embezzlement of public
funds, malpractice in office, bribery or
larceny; or of any crime involving moral
turpitude, punishable by the laws of this
State with imprisonment in the peniten
tiary, unless such person shall have been
pardoned, shall be indicted and on con
viction shall be punished as prescribed in
section 4320 of this Code.
Section 2. Be it further enacted by the
authority aforesaid, That all laws or
parts of laws in conflict with this act be,
and the same is hereby repealed.
Approved October 16,1879.
The “rebel” Democracy nominated
McClellan in 1864, Seymour in 1868,
Greely in 1872, Tilden in 1876 and Han
cock in 1880. No wonder the intelligent
North is alarmed at the action of these
traitors.
Hebrews in the Councils of the
Nation.—There are now three Ha-
brows in tlie TJuiteti States VJOI)gre9S—
Messrs. Jooas, Morse and Einstein. In
the House there are six German Repre
sentatives, among whom are Heilman, of
Indiana, Poehler, of Minnesota; Muller,
of New York, and Deuster, of Wiscon
sin.
The Difference.—Athens Banner:
If the Rev. David E. Butler had been ap
pointed railroad commissioner, and the
Hon. Thomas M. Norwood had been ap
pointed United States Senator, there
would have been much less fuss in
Georgia. However, the Hon. James Mil-
ton Smith would probably have been
heard from.
A Norwood paper boasts that the Col
quitt meh have no large clubs like the
Norwood men have. Our esteemed Sa
vannah contemporary, the News, reminds
them that Colquitt has a club among the
people, that will show at the polls 50,000
stronger than all the Norwood clubs and
all tho Norwood men put together.
Keep Cool.—Hinesville Gazette: We
regret to see so much excitement exhibit
ed in reference to State politics. There
has been no necessity for it. It is to be
hoped, however, that all feeling engender
ed by the contest will be forgiven and for
gotten.
The Union and Recorder says: If Gov.
Colquitt had appointed on the bench of
the Supreme Court, in place of Col. Haw
kins, a Presbyterian, Methodist or Baptist
lawyer, eminent for his piety, tlie.Nor-
wood papers and orators would have
charged that he was trading in religion,
and buying support from religious denom
inations. But as Col. Hawkins is not
particularly distinguished for eminent
piety, at once the Norwood claquers howl
piteously and say, “See there! Colquitt
lias appointed a man to the high office of
Justice of the Supreme Court who is a
man of the world!” It is no use for Gov.
Colquitt to try to please these men, and
he will not do it.
Not So.—Houston Home Journal: We
see that the editor.of the Atlanta Post-
Appeal puts Houston in a list of counties
which he calculates will give majorities
for Norwood in the election on the Cth of
October next. Without being an advocate
for the election of Colquitt, we do not
wish the followers of Mr. Norwood to be
misled by a statement that will not be
verified. Houston will undoubtedly give
a majority for Colquitt, though our vote
will not help make it.
A Specimen Brick from the Post-
Appeal : The negroes of Florida are not
voting for Governor Colquitt, the “Hero
of Olustee,” as they remember how many
negroes were slruglitered at that fight aud
inhumanly treated In more than one in
stance. It is hard to make sensible col
ored men see how Colquitt ever favored
them except to get their votes.
Crawfishing.—A correspondent of
the Griffin News says one of the best
signs of tbe contemptible manner iu
which Governor Colquitt has been attack
ed, and that tbe people would not submit
to it, is shown by tbe fact that his ene
mies now claim that they never sympa
thized with the infamous persecution of
linn. Governor Colquitt was ridiculed
for the interest he took in the cause of
religion, and when his opponents found
that the people would not tolerate this,
they turned sail and said they never
countenanced such chaiges. They
got out the miserable convict cate
chism, and when the negroes
took it up as an insalt to their race, Mr.
Nofwood went to the extent of saying iu
his speech at Griffin, that . when he first
saw it, he disapproved of it, because it
was not the truth. In their wild course
they have charged the Governor with every
possible infamy, but when the sober sense
of our conservative people rose up indig
nantly, they took the back track and de
nied all responsibility. In their dire ex
tremity they go so far as to say that the
Governor and his friends originated these
reports. Was there ever such brazen im
pudence? The idea of a man charging
himself with conduct that_ would make
himself an object of scorn, contempt and
loathing, and, if true, would make him a
worse criminal than any one in prison to
day, is too absurd to consider.
A New Dodge.—The B1 ackshearNews
publishes the following copy of a cam
paign affidavit:
State of Georgia, Pierce County.
I, , d 0 swear that 1 will
election, and also to vote for A. J. Dick-
son lor Representative. The managers of
said club and said club is to be of force
aud said affidavit is to be binding on the
undersigned during the term of the guber
natorial election which will take place in
1880, and further swear that I will not
vote any ticket at said election uuless
handed me by A. J. Dickson, W. F. Dick
son, H. Williamson, Isliam Tyre, Arthur
Tyre, R. G. Riggins, J. A. Harper, D. E.
Knoles, J. M. Davis, T. A. Davis, A. J.
Wilson, V. L. Cox, James E. Gurry, James
Littleton Henderson, C. Johnson. Joseph
Thrase, Cippio Thrase, T. J. Fuller, J. E.
Joyner, R. W. Fuller.
Sworn to and subscribed before
this September, I860. !
Justice of the Peace
,ce. |
Thi3 sounds strange to Democratic ears,
and smacks not a little of Radical union
leagues, dark lantern doings, etc., etc.
Such expedients can only influence the
degraded and ignorant portion of the com
munity.
Nfcw Charges.—Griffin News: Tho
Griffin Sun, which is as reliable in its po-
litical statements as any Norwood organ,
very gravely makes the charge in its last
issue that Governor Colquitt and General
Gordon were botii leading members in
the ku-klux. The Sun neglects to charge
in addition that both of these bloody-
minded gentlemen "administered poison
to their respective grandmothers and cut
off the heads of several of their little chil
dren, and committed midnight murder on
several of their fellow-citizens. Let us-
have all the charges.
Gordon and Norwood at Eaton-
ton.—Eatouton Messenger: There is no
hiding the trutli that Norwood’s reception
was utterly devoid of enthusiasm even
among his supporters. Gordon’s stay from
beginning to the end was one ovation.
Norwood’s speech made absolutely no
converts to himself, aud lost him several
of his former supporters; Gordon enthused
the friends of Colquitt, put their ranks in
a solid front and gained several additions;
Norwood spoke to a gradually diminishing
crowd of 250; Gordon to a concourse of
something like 1,000, who heard him glad
ly to the end and were sorry when he
stopped. These are facts that no man
can disprove.
A Military Order.—The Governor
has issued the following order:
Exec. Department, State of Ga.
Atlanta, Ga., Sept. 20,18SO.
General Orders No. 5.
Permission is hereby granted to any
regiment, battalion or company of volun-'
teers or the national guard of any State;
or the District of Columbia, regularly or
ganized underjhe laws thereof, to enter
this State armed and equipped during tho
month of October, 1SS0, for the purpose
of participating in the reunion of citizen
soldiery and the ceremonies incident to
laying the corner stone of a memorial
armory to be erected by the Gate City
Guard. Georgia volunteers.
Alfred H. Colquitt, Governor,
By the Governor:
Jno, B. Baird, Adjutant-General.
A New Aspect for American Ship
ping.
Washington, Sept. 17.—Prof. John
Gamgee has addressed a letter to Senator
Blaine, in Maine, setting forth a new as
pect of American shipping. He points
out that iron iu ship building took the
place of wood, which rotted under the in
fluence of moist heat. He explains at
length the durability of iron steamers, but
holds that on almost every long voyage,
owing to the intense? heat of the tire-room,
one or more of the engineers or firemen
die, and that while iron steamships may
be advantageously used, owing to
the expense of building them they
cannot be owned by those in mod
erate circumstances. These obstacles,
he alleges, would be obviated were vessels
built nl* fgooC rendered InileStPUctible from
rot. He maintains that it is not only pos
sible to accomplish Ibis, but that the
methods are already kuown. In this con
nection he says: “ The time has arrived
for superceding the wasteful engine,which
utilizes about five per cent, of the coal
burned in the boiiers. Improved methods
of engine construction and a correct
knowledge of the laws of beat enable us
to adopt a new system on which high
pressures are secured at low temperatures,
approaching much more than the steam
engine to the animal mechanism which de
velops motion and unlimited horse-power
beiow blood heat.” Auer referring to
the capability of engineers m this country
who have developed this theory he con
cludes the communication as follows:
“Engines must he made like Waltham
watches—entirely by machinery and of
uniform excellence. Engines can be de
signed wasting only twenty-five instead of
ninety per cent, of fuel. In short, wood
en vessels can be built to cross the ocean
at an expense for navigation little, if at
all, exceeding the sailing ship, and filled
.with merchandise instead of coal. They
can be driven as fast as by steam, endur
ing longer than metal ships, and affording
at least equal chances lor comfort and
safety.
vote, as a member of the Norwood club,
for Thomas M. Norwood for Governor,
alone. There were some few bets made and use all my. influence to secure his
Northern and Southern Democracy.
On the sectionalism of the parties the
World makes this showing, which should
be remembered by people who prate
about the solid South and the sectional
ism ol the Democratic party:
The self-rediant Democrats who vote a
they think right must smile with con
tempt, of course, to hear it used as an ar
gument that either .“the South” or “the
North” i3 with or against their party or
their opinions. But there are weak mor
tals who may he deterred, perhaps, from-
giving effect to their real sentiments by
the fear of the feeling that in so doing
they will be going against their own part
of the country. Senator Conkliug’s whole
speech on Friday night was addressed to
such persons. To them we commend the
following table of the Democratic votes
cast at the last Presidential election:
presidential election of 1876.
Total Democratic vote in U.S. . 4,285,599
Democratic vote of South as-
follows:
Delaware,
Maryland, . .
West Virginia,
Virginia, . .
North Carolina,
South Carolina,
Georgia, . . .
Florida, . ...
Alabama, . .
Mississippi, ;
Louisiana . .
Texas, . . .
Arkansas, . .
Missouri, . .
Kentucky, . . 4
Tennessee, , .
13,381
91,780*
56,595
139,670“
125,427’
•90,696-
130,OSS-
•22,923
102,002
112,143
•70.50S
104,755
58,0S:;
203,077
159,696
132,166
Total Democratic vote South, .1,614,160-
Total Democratic vote North, . 2,671,430
•Returning Board count.
From the above, counting West Virginia
asra Southern State, it appears that so far
from the Democratic party being chiefly a
“Southern’’ party, the large majority of its-
members are citizens of Northern States.
Sixty-two and one-third per cent., or five-
eighths of the entire Democratic vote of
1876, came from the North, aud but three-
eighths from tbe South. The cry, there
fore, of “The South and its Northern al
lies,” which' is considered so useful a
campaign argument by Republican plat
formers and stumpers, has about the same
amount of tinth in it as their latter-day
claims of a “victory” in Maine.
Can’t Trust in Providence.—Mai-
sball Jewell, after tbe loss of Maine, made
a descent on the city of Providence, R. I*,
which is the honored residence of a great
many so-called Republicans of wealth.
He called a meeting, which but few of
them attended, and stated the situation
with great poiut and fluency; but tbe
Democratic papers allege that the appeal
was substantially in vain. But a small
amount of money was realized. Tbe
faithful hinted, not indistinctly, the opin
ion that it would be thrown away. They
considered Garfield a lost ball.