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Adapted from IciKh Hunt.
Winfield S. Hancock, may Lis life be blest,
Avoko one night from, a sweet sleep of
rest,
Aad saw’ within a corner of bis room
One with a book marked “ Presidential
Boom.” ,. _
“"What lias thou there?” said Hancock
bold,
“Step to the light and let me this be told.”
The Presence then replied, while stepping
forth,
“These are the names of those who love
the North."
“And is mine one?” said Hancock,speak
ing low.
The Presence sadly smiled and answered
“No.”
“Ah! then,” said Hancock, “let your re
cord tell >
That I am one who loves his country
well.” . j •
The Presence wrote and vanished, but
came again,
A countless host of voters with him then,
And allowed the names that patribts loved
the best,
And, lo! our'Hancock’s name led all the
rest!
Forney's Progress.
GEORGIA PRESS.
The editor of the Valdosta Times is
fetid out with the mumps.
The new iron railroad bridge across
Holland’s Creek, near Columbus, is com
pitted. No fears of any more accidents
there.
Two boys in tbe upper portion of Co-
feoabus got into a quarrel, and one of them
brought out the contents of the hip pock-
at, and several shots were fired, but no
damage was done. The Enquirer thinks
% “ hemp necktie ” will be their end some
day.
H. C. Cameron’ and L. L. Stanford
were nominated for tbe Legislature in
Harris county on last Wednesday.
Col. Laiiuy Powell has arrived in
Columbus, and was reported to have held
a levee at the mayor’s office on yesterday.
Larry is a tramp of the first water, and is
known all over the State.
And now the barbers in Columbus are
so a strike, anticipating tbe defeat of Nor
wood, and as their customers are mostly
Norwood men, their faces will be so long
that they refuse to work at old prices.
They demand a share of the profits.
Hr. J. A. Thomas, of Cincinnati, died
jc I Come, Georgia, on last Thursday.
Prof. R. M. McIntosh has a music
slass in Athens of 125.
T. C. Mitchell, o£ Thomas county,
hits one acre in bermuda grass, which fur
bishes grazing for four head of horses and
three head of cattle. He has five acres in
LeConte pear trees. He also has four
.uutulred living pecau trees.
There were six hundred visitors in Au
gusta last week from along the line of the
Port Royal Railroad.
Brooks county Democracy is broken
all to Hinders, and will result in sending
a negro to tbe Senate, and one to the low-
• er house of the Legislature.
Hon. L. F. Garrard was nominated
for the Legislature at the primary election
on Saturday in Columbus. There was a
little doubt as (o the other nominee,
whether R. Crawford or IV. F. Williams
was the lucky man.
A tbcnk which had been lost for
twelve years turned up in Columbus the
oilier day, with the contents all right ex
cept from moulding. It was found in the
cellar of Messrs. Pearce &Renfroe’s store.
Hamilton Journal: We are glad to
see that our fanners are patronizing the
railroad in the shipment of cotton much
more liberally than any previous season.
We think that in this they certainly pur
sue rhe wiser policy. It is a very poorly
regulated farm on which a team cannot
earn more at this season than it can haul
ing cotton twenty-five or thirty miles at
seventy-five cents a bale. Of course we
do not expect all the fanners to do this at
once. It is hard to break old habits, and
many will take their cotton on wagons
through force of habit, but we can but
congratulate many of them who ha\$
adopted tbe better methods.
Thomaston Times: Mr. R. A. Mat
thews has in his yard a cotton stalk which
grew out from under one end of a post,
late in the spring; has not had a plow or
hoc about it, and on the-lOth inst. had 240
forms, 150 of which were from blooms to
bolls. This stalk ilid not seem to suffer
from excessive droughts, as it.is seven
feet high; nor from the protracted rains,
as it lost only five forms. Mr. Matthews
intends counting the number of bolls that
open white cotton.
Athens Chronicle: We boast very
much of our reason—and yet, fully nine-
lenths of all we do or say, are the result
sf impulse. There is no question that the
grandest orations, the noblest deeds, have
Seen the children of impulse—conceived
and bom in an instant.
The best friend a man has is his books.
They never talk back at yon, never show
two faces, but are faithful and true. Tbe
man is unfortnnate who has not made
them his friend. Go with people when
you must—with your hooks when you
can.
Albany News and Advertiser. Col.
James H. Spence, who had annonneed
himself an independent candidate for Con
gress provided no Republican man man
man run, has withdrawn from the race
since the nomination of Brimberry, and
will stump the district for Turner. Col.
Spence is exactly on the right side now,
and will no doubt remain there.
Athens Banner: There i3 a general
impression abroad that the cost of educa
tion at the University of Georgia is much
greater than at other schools in the State.
This a mistake, and a very serious one,
when Its possible effect on the University
ie considered. We desire to correct this
wrong impression, and to do so, we ask
that our exchanges—which are friendly to
the prosperity of the University—and
which of them are not?—will make a
aote of what is here said. Board can be
obtained in the college buildings for $12
a month. Board and lodging—Including-
looms furnished, bedding, servants, atten
dance, in fact everything except fi.el and
-H{ill's, can be had for $13.50 a month.
Itlj two college building have been con
stituted boarding houses by the trustees,
aad put in the hands of ladies of refine
ment and experience. Each ono is virtu
ally a large home, presided over by a la
dy; and the order maintained in these is
perfect. The board and other accorn-
dations are good. We doubt if there is a
college in the United States where board
ing and other arrangement are cheaper;
and there are few where they are so
cheap. There are colleges where messing
arrangements can be made cheaper possi
bly than tho prices given above; but the
Mine thing can be done in Athens.
Columucs Times: Mr. Joseph Jones
died at his residence on Tronp street, af
ter a lingering Illness of several months,
which he boro with Christian fortitude.
He was a consistent member of the
Methodist Church, a kind father and a
loving husband and leaves a wife and sev
eral children to mourn his death.
Thomasville Times: Among the
many Northern visitors who will be m
TfeomasvUle this winter there.will doubt-
V.w be quite a number from Maine.
V' going to si-lect and save the longest
rrd sweetest stalk of sugar cane which
-rtes to town this fait for the first gentle-
xiaii or lady who arrives from Maine. .
served Him Right.—Sumter Repub-
. .in: On Thursday morning a young
. an from a neighboring eounty was In the
r i;y early, preparing to marry a young
... iy- of the country. The ceremony was
take place at tune o'clock that morn.
...... Our festive friend leaded up his
•.urcass with frequent potations, and.
. h other friends in the same fix, started
tlie fair maiden’s house— some six or
... ui miles from town. When they ar-
::vod the I .our had passed, tbe guests as- .
. tabled, and the expectant bride waiting ^
impatiently, the advent of her tardy lov- 1 a tall, well formed, and remarkably hand
er When he entered her presence with some man, and was known among ratt
an unsteady step, flushed face, and the ! roid men and builders all over the conn-
fragrance of the intoxicating bowl float- try. The fact of liis death was telegraph
ing off his breath, she indignantly asked ■ ed to his relatives. He was a colonel on
him to retire, and consider their engage- Lee’s staff.” -
meut cancelled. The previous under- LujirKix Independent: Mr. Thomas
standing had been that if he or any of his i J. Yarbrough was returning from Kim-
friends went there drinking, there would Lie’s mill in a one horse wagon last Sat-
be no wedding. We commend this young
lady’s example to all of the marriageable
girls of our country. A pure woman ^3
too good and holy to he the wife of a
drunkard, and any girl who knowingly
marries a drunken man, courts misery
and risks degradation.
Madison Madisonian: Judge Bartlett,
of Monticello, was in town this week.
We are rejoiced to learn that his most ex
cellent wife is slowly convalescing. God
grant that this noble lady may soon he re
stored to health, and bless and halo ahome
she has so loDg gladdened.
Eably County News: The Norwood
papers and politicians are sick of the
“ Convict Catechism,” and seem to regret
that it was ever published. They say,
however, that it was issued against a doc
ument put out by the friends of Colquitt,
headed “ Why the People Should Vote for
Colquitt—Why they Should not Vote for
Norwood,” and thus attempt to justify its
publication. Now, we don’t know which
of these documents was put out first, hnt
this we. do know, that we heard of the
“ Convict Catechism ” several days before
we did the other document.
Rome Tribune: Superintendent Fink,
of the Selma, Rome and Dalton railroad,
has just returned from the North. We
regret to hear that he has resigned his po
sition on the above road to accept • the
game or similar position on tlio Mexican
Central road, which is in progress of con
struction by a Boston company, and will
connect the city of Mexico and El Paso.
Although we regret much to lose Col.
Fink, we may congratulate him on his ap
pointment to a place which must be ex
ceedingly remunerative.
Madison Madisonian: T. W. Aiken
comes out in invective against Colquitt for
saying anything concerning - Norwood’s
Oxford speech. Did he ever utter a word
against the convict catechism ? No, some
other bull is gored this time. The Nor
wood faction, seeing this catechism is re
coiling upon them, are trying to convince
the people that it originated from Col
quitt’s friends. Too thin, gentlemen.
You sowed the wind, now leap tLe
whirlwind.
Rome Tribune: Some one asks us “if
editora are dangerous?” In reply we
would say, only when they are intruded
upon by a book agent, who wants a forty-
five line local for a seventy-five cent book,
or by a poet with some verses about the
gentle spring.
Auousta News: JulienS. Rodgers, of
Waynesboro, passed through Augusta on
Saturday evening, on his way to Mercer
University. Julicn goes ahead of time in
order to give the Macon girls a “racquet”
a few days before college opens. He is a
Senior in the University, and a talented
son of the distinguished Judge A. M.
Rodgers, of Burke.
$600 Reward Griffin News: A few
days ago Gov. Colquitt issued his procla
mation, published in the News, offering a
reward of $300 for the apprehension and
delivery of the unknown parties who killed
W. H. Waldroup, in this county, on the
ISth of August last, with proof sufficient
reconvict. The father of the deceased,
Mr. Aaron Waldroup, regarded the kill
ing of his son as a brutal murder, and is
determined to use every means and ef
fort to bring the parties to justice. He
visited the News office yesterday, and
handed us for publication the notice
which will be fouud elsewhere, supple
menting the reward offered by the State,
by a like reward of$300. If there is any
possibility of discovering the parties amt
bringing them to justice, the reward of
$000 oflered will very likely accomplish
the work.
^Atlanta Post: Yesterday information
was received at the police headquarters to
the effect that Sheriff Fink Stevens, of
Cobb county, had arrested at Marietta
Bud Broom, one of tbe men implicated
in the robbery of Mr. John Atkinson,
which occurred only a few days since,
about seven miles from Atlanta. Captain
Flynn, as soon as the news reached At
lanta, hoarded a train for Marietta, and
returned to the city last evening with
Bud Broom, whom he placed in Fulton
county jail to await trial in the Superior
Court of the county. Jim Ruffin, John
Coppage and Bud Broom are now in jail
charged with the crime, and one or two
others charged with being accomplices are
at large. These, it is hoped, will be arrest
ed in a lew days.
The Hot Springs (Ark.) Telegraph haa
this to say about two Georgia boys:
One of the principal drug booses in Hot
Springs is that of Dr. J. T. Jelks, situated
ou Central Avenue near the Malvern road.
Dr. Jelks is a practicing physician and
surgeon, a graduate of the medical depart
ment of the University of Nashville,
Tenn., and was for many years a resident
of Georgia. The Doctor is the President
of tlieEoard of Health of Hot Springs city,
which position he has held for tbe past
three years, and numbers among his pa
tients many of the resident families be
sides strange re and visitors from dif
ferent States throughout the Union. The
drug store is under the charge of Mr. R,
P. Menard, formerly of Macon, Ga., a
practical pharmacist. The stock embraces
drugs, patent medicines, toilet articles,
etc. All drugs sold or used in compound
ing are of the purest character. Great
care ig observed in making up prescrip
tions, and the prices charged are very
reasonable. ■
Americes Recorder. It has been re
peatedly hurled in the face of Governor
Colquitt that in violation of law, as de
cided by the Supreme Court, he paid the
Alston fee. In his justification many of
the best lawyers of the State have argued
that the new law did not apply to this
case, but that the principle governing
this payment is laid down by Judge
Lumpkin in the 18 Georgia Reports. The
Governor has simply affirmed his own
act, without animadverting in tbe slight
est upon the court.
if the self-respect of Judge Warner
would not allow his farther service on
the bench, it differs very much from that
of Judges Crawford and Jackson, who are
equally responsible for the decision, hut
who have never felt that the honor of the
State’s judiciary has been impugned by
her Executive officer.
Sad Death of Col. John G. Clark.
—Savannah News: The many friends of
Col. John G. Clark, formerly connected
with the Central Railroad, and who had
recently been awarded the contract for
building the bridge for the Waycross Rail
road over the St. Mary’s river, will be
pained to hear of his sad death by acci
dent. We find the following account in a
New York paper of the 16th, which, how
ever, contains a slight error. One of the
bridges he was examining was for the. St.
Mary’s river, and not tha Broad liver:
“John G. Clark, a well known bridge
contractor of Baltimore, whose family re
sides in Richmond, Va., was killed on the
Erie track at Paterson on the 15tb. Mr.
Paterson bad a good deal of work done at
the Paterson Rolling Mill; and he visited
the place on that day to examine the pro
gress of two large bridges being made for
him, one for the Savannah and the other
for the Broad river, Georgia. Sir.
Clark wished to lako the
10:07 a. m. train for New York,
and Watts Cooke, President or
the Bolling Mill company, accompanied
him re the depot. They stepped from the
track to avoid a locomotive coming be
hind them, and then stepped on the track
again, not noticing that the locomotive
belonged to an incoming Newark train
that was making it flying switch, and that
the care were coming on rapidly behind
them. A passing freight train on tbe
main track was making a' great noise at
the time. Mr. Cooke heard some one
call out, and turning, saw tbe passenger
care close upon them. Mr. Cooke jumped
aside, and took hold of Mr. Clarke to pull
him off, but at that instant Mr. Clark was
struck by the corner of a car, and thrown
bead first alongside the track. His skull
was fra;tured. lie was probably instantly
killed, although it was not definitely de
termined that he was dead .until after his
body had been carried to the Ladies’ hos
pital. The car struck Mr. Cooke’s hand
and skinned his knuckles. Mr. Clark was
urday afternoon, and when descending
tho hill near Mrs. Brazier’s on the Eu-
faula road, one of the breeching straps to
the harness gave way and caused the mule
he was driving to run. Mr. Yarbrough
was thrown from the wagon and badly
bruised about the head and face. He is
rapidly recovering, but the marks he re
ceived will cling to him some time.
Savannah News: Business along
the Savannah river is fairly booming, and
freights, coming and going, are unusually
heavy. The popular steamers Katie and
Carrie, on the Savannah and Augusta
line, are now running on high pressure, as
it were. Yesterday morniDg these steam
ers arrived here from • Augusta and way
landings, bringing 951 bales of upland
cotton, in addition to a large assorted
freight. As soon as they were discharged,
they departed for Parachucla. They
were compelled to make this extra trip on
account of the large freights awaiting
shipment from points along the river to
Savannah. They will arrive here this
morning, discharge, and with good freights
depart in the afternoon.
Berrien County News: The most se
rious difficulties are frequently those be
tween persons of the same household.
As a general rule great bitterness is en
gendered by the efforts of both parties to
expose each other’s private character. If
our political brethren are allowed to go
on, we fear they will start a neighbor
hood scandal in the “Democratic” house
hold.
Sandersville Mercury: The plat
form at the railroad depot has been great
ly increased in size, yet it is unable to ac
commodate the large amount of cotton
being brought forward for shipment; the
platform is crowded and over a hundred
bales are piled up in the yard around the
depot.
Dublin Gazette: In a conversation a
few days since with one of our best farm
ers, Mr. D. H. Coombs, we were greatly
carried away with his idea of farming
with a double plow, or at least, preparing
lands for cultivation. He says: “Where
I used the double plow this year my cot
ton kept fresh and green all the time, du
ring the divest season, it retained all of
its fruit, while other parts where I used a
single plow, shed badly all tlie time,
and where I used a double plow, I have
already gathered a bale per acre.” This
is certainly good farming, for he will, in
all probability, get half as much more
from it, and if all our old lands were
prepared in this way In the fall, the yield
would be quite different.
Montezuma Weekly: We are willing
to vote an indefinite furlough to the rail
road commission. Order No. 10, as it
now operates, is about as near correct as
they will ever get the rates. While it put
freights from Montezuma to Savannah
back to the old rates, nearly, it taps our
neighbor over on the Ocmulgee on the
shoulder, and puts her on an equal foot
ing with us. Just.
Sylvania Telephone : Master Sammy
Sasser, a boy about 16 years old, picked
four hundred and thirteen pounds of cot
ton one day last week. This is the best
picking we have ever known, and we
doubt if it can be beat. Trot out your
rapid cotton pickets. It is much more
commendable to be able to pick more
cotton in a day than any one else in the
county than to be able to whip any of
your fellow-citizens.
Athens Banner: Mr. Budd Fellows,
a young man in the employ of Col. J. H.
Huggins, met with a severe accident Sat
urday morning. Just after starting from
home to the store, he was attached with
an epileptic fit—to which he is subject—
and fell so heavily re the ground that his
jaw-bone was broken on the left side.
Some of his family saw him fall, and
went to his assistance. His jaw was set
by Dr. William Carlton, and he is now
doing as well as can be expected.
Columbus Times: The primary elec
tion agony is not yet over, as the result
has not been officially announced. Yes
terday evening Mr. James W. Barber and
T. J. Chappell, Esq., went to Nance’s af
ter the official returns of that precinct, as
nothing could he heard from them. They
found the managers, who stated they had
been given to two young men, whom they
did not know, representing themselves as
sent by the chairman of tho executive
committee for them. On being informed
that the returns had not reached the
city, we understand they prepared certi
fied copies which have been turned over
to the committee, and all will be opened
to-day and the result announced. There
were many surmises on the streets yes
terday, and much dissatisfaction at the
delay in she returns from Nance’s, and
let the result be what it may, the friends
of the aspirant counted out will probably
demand that lie run anyway.
Athens Banner: There was a hat in
Athens yesterday which was bought by
Mr. Samuel Hunter sixteen years ago.
He gave seven dollars for it, wore it two
years, and then sold it to its present owner
for six dollars. He has worn it every
winter for the past fourteen years. How
do you like that for a hat story?
Milledoeyille Recorder: Business
has opened briskly for the season, and
our merchants seem to be very hopeful of
a profitable tall trade. Cotton is coming
in rapidly, and we hear the farmers are
paying their obligations with promptness,
as far as they are able. Our information
leads us to believe that the farmers will
have lighter debts to pay, and more ready
money in pocket this winter than has been
the case with them any previous year
since the war. If they will be cautious
how they spend their money ift extending
the area of their cropping next year, they
will ba wise, and have some money to in
vest in other waj3 than buying mules
and guano. Smaller farms and a greater
attention to the improvement of his
best lands will enable the farmer to make
just as much money and give him a
chance to add to his home comforts, at.d
increase the happiness of his family.
Talbotton Register: Public atten
tion has of late been directed to Talbot
ton and Talbot county, on account of the
real prosperity of our people, and the
steady strides they are making m the race
of progress. Our fanners have turned
over a new leaf, and do things somewhat
after a modern fashion, realizing that it is
poor economy to let lands run to weeds
and waste when by proper care they can
be made to yield profitable returns every
year. Talbotton is increasing her busi
ness from year to year. Her merchants
are enterprising, keep good stocks, and
are willing to sell at small margins. With
the completion of our railroad at an early
day, a cotton market will he established
here with good prices for all grades of
cotton. The hotel accommodations of
the town will be second to none in the
State. As a place for summer residence
for people in the cities and the lower sec
tions of Georgia, no town in the State can
otter superior advantages. Our popula
tion is annually increasing, our schools
are flourishing, and more attention is be
ing paid to tho comforts of home life.
Our people generally are progressive, and
fully alive to the demands of tho age.
Athens Banner: Rev. Dr. Patterson,
of Wilmington, N. C., has been called lo
Emanuel church in Athens, and there are
strong hopes that he will accept, as the
people here have heard glowing encom
iums bestowed .upon him, as a man and
a minister.
Columdus Times: A report was gen
erally prevalent yesterday that a negro
woman bad beaten her child to death in
the “ bottom ” at the foot of Wynn’s Hill.
A warrant was sworn out, the wo
man arrested and lodged in jail. Her
name was Rosa Crenshaw. She had a
preliminary trial, and the proof not sus
taining the charge she was discharged.
The child was not dead at latest reports.
That she heat the child, and that it is in
critical condition, there is little doubt.
Moxroe Advertiser: Mr. John Cham
bliss died at his honfo four miles from
Forsyth on last Friday night, aged eightyr
three years. He was one of the pionee-
scttlers of Monroe county, and with the
hardihood, economy, energy and thrift
characteristic of that class of citizens, had
accumulated a large fortune. The war
despoiled him of a large share of his pos
sessions, hut left him a competency.
Milledoeyille Recorder: The Mid
dle Georgia Military and Agricultural
College opened on the J5tb with over two
hundred students. The new professors
were at their posts. The prospects are
good for a large attendance before winter
sets In, and the friends of the institution
are much encouraged. With an able fac
ulty, a merely-nominal cost for tuition, a
healthy climate and a splendid college
building, wo expect to see five hundred
students in attendance by the beginning of
spring.
The First Arrival.—Griffin News:
Out on one of the country roads, leading
into Griffin, in the cool of the afternoon
yesterday, a novel caravan might have
been seen toiling along the dusty high
ways. The caravan consisted of a pain
fully ancient looking one-horse wagon,
built after the revolutionary model.
Braced np on the shafts was a lean and
lanky looking steer, to whom seemed to
have come the patient resignation of de
spair, who pulled its weary load with a
painful energy. On the rickety wagon
was laid out a rusty looking bag of cotton
which famished a seat for a countryman
and his wife. The latter was a simple
looking old lady, clad in the most primi
tive gingham bonnet and homespun dress.
The man was fully as primitive. He
looked a lean and hungry, and withal a
copperas-clad Cassius. There was that air
about the caravan that indicated a
weightier purpose than the mere going to
market. As the team neared town, a re
porter of the News ventured to interview
the State, said:
.“Well, sonny, we hain’t thinkin’ so
much about the cotton as we be about the
circus. We have come nigh onto thirty
mile3 since yesterday mornin’,—me and
the old ’oman hain’t been to Griffin in ten
* Upon being informed that the show
would not get to Griffin until Thursday,
he said: “We are goin’ to see that thar
circus, and we wasn’t goin’ to resk any
accidents. We can jist santy’round an’
see the sights ontel Thursday, an.’ the old
’oman thar, site wants to buy some
store things. Yes, sonny, we’re goin’ to
see the show or bust.” At a late hour
yesterday evening the couple were stand
ing in rapt amazement in front of the
show hills.
Berrien County News: Mr. Elias
O’Quin, our postmaster and telegraph
operator, left us on Wednesday for Macon,
where he has gone on business, and w|l 1
probably move there at some future day,
to make it his permanent home.
Athens Banner: Mrs. Niceler, the
widow of the late Dr. Niceler, died a few
days ago at Butler, Ga., at an advanced
age—more than ninety years, as we, are
informed. Her remains arrived in Athens
yesterday afternoon, and were conveyed
to the old family burying-ground, a few
miles from Athens, for interment. She
was the mother-in-law ot Dr. W. L.
Mitchell, and the mother of Mrs. Peter
Hutchison, and was a resident of Athens
many years ago. Rev. Dr. Lane perform
ed the funeral ceremonies.
Conyers Examiner: The conductor on
the through freight, schedule 14, section
first, was very much abused by an old la
dy, on last Tuesday, whom he had put off
in the ditch between Decatur and Clark-
ston, because he did not want to stop at
the latter place to accommodate her. Sec
tion No. 2 came along, took the old lady
on board and carried her to Clarkston.
She said the conductor had kept her tick
et and put her off to take her chances on
the train following, and to think she was
put off in an old field when she liad paid
her fare, was more than she could bear.
If that conductor could have heard what
she had to say on the subject, we venture
to say that he would have been more than
glad to have stopped at Clarkston. She
vowed that she would report him to head
quarters
Savannah News: John James, a col
ored watchman employed at the bridge
over the Ogecchee river, on theSavaunah,
Florida and Western railway, was run
over near No. 1$, on the road on Wednes
day evenins, by the passenger train. His
right arm* was completely severed
near the shoulder, and bis head and face
badly cut. He was removed to No. 1|
station, and a physician Irom Savannah
was sent to his assistance. He was sub
sequently brought to the city, and con
veyed to the Georgia Infirmary (colored),
where he died late on Friday night. We
understand that the unfortnnate man was
paid off on Wednesday, and had gone to
No. H, six miles from his post, for the
purpose of sending some money to his
mother. While at th^station it appears
he drank quite freely, and on his return
to the bridge was overcome by liquor, and
dropping beside the railroad track, fell
asleep, his arm being thrown across the
track, and was in this condition when the
train rattled over the track.
Xumpkin Independent: Judge J. M.
Scott passed through Columbus last week
and the gimlet attachment to the Enquirer
office reported having had an interview
with him, and charged him with saying
that ho had found all the country above
Columbus “solid for Norwood,” etc.
Judge Scott authorizes and requests us to
state that -the reported interview never
took place, and that the statement attrib
uted re him was manufactured in toto by
tho aforesaid gimlet. That, in point of
fact, there are many Colquitt men m that
section, and that he doas not want to be
reported as having uttered any such false
hood as the Enquirer puts in his mouth.
Washington Gazette: Eveiything
shows signs of life, business and activity.
Tho cotton fields afford employment to all
who want it. The steam gins are crowded
with work, and the air of prosperity per
vades the country.
There is some land in this county that
the old people say is better now than
when it was cleared a quarter of a century
ago. But it is land that is owned by a
man who knows his business and attends
to it. There is no reason why land should
not be improved under cultivation, and
every reason why it should.
Savannah News: About half past 1
o'clock Saturday morning a citizen, while
passing up Congress street, encountered
three negroes who wore running rapidly,
and who apparently had committed some
crime. A short distance further he found
oh the sidewalk, in front of the clothing
store of Mr. E. Heidt, a white man, whose
head was badly cut and who was bleeding
freely. The injured man was perfectly
sober, and stated that as he was walking
quietly along the street he was snddcnly
pounced upon by three negroes, who fell
ed him to the ground and attempted to
rob him, when they became frightened at
some noise and fled. Ho was assisted to
his feet by the citizen and ambled off to
his boarding house.
From the Circus to the Grave.—
Savannah News: On Saturday night an
~id colored woman, whose name we were
unable to ascertain, attended the circus
performance and secured a scat ou one
ofthe top benches. She wassubject to fits,
and during the performance a fit came on
her, and the poor old creature tumbled
between the benches to the ground, a dis
tance ol over twenty feet, where she lay
writhing in convulsions. She was re
moved by some colored people, and at
the time was not thought to be seriously
injnred, hut we learn that she died at her
home shortly after midnight, her spine
having been greatly injured, and was bu
ried yesterday afternoon.
Maine Will Vote fob Hancock.—
The Springfield Republican says that cal
culations based on the assumption that
Maine won’t vote so m November
might as well be suspended. The
happy family which has got toother
since last September, and won an elec
tion, is not Lkely to go to pieces in the
next six weeks. R will he quite as sale
for parly managers to add “solid Maine”
to other Democratic solids.
The peculiar adaptation of Dr. Bull’s
Cough Syrup to so many phases of throat
and twouclnal diseases has rendered this
remedy immensely popular. Twenty-five
cents a bottle. Sold everywhere. ’
—Mrs. Langtry has gone home to Jer
sey and is so charmed to find herself there
that, Vanity Fair says, she has written to
her friends in England that she never in
tends to return to London again.
Mrs. Smithkins Sends After Her
Quince Recipe.
Mr. Smithkins went home a few days
ago, and as he mopped bis brow and
threw his coat over the bed on the floor, a
boy walked in with a note from Mrs.
Smithkins, which read as follows:
Dear John : Please send me my re
ceipt for making quince preserves; it is in
the left hand side of the wardrobe in the
pocket of my steel blue silk. The key to
the wardrobe is down in the right hand
corner of my trunk, and the trunk key is
in the lower little drawer of the bureau.
Am up to my elbows in syrup over at Mrs.
Johnson’s, and can’t come.
Mollie.
P. S.—The key to the little bureau
drawer is under .the vase on the mantle-
piece. Don’t muss up the trunk. M.
Smithkins ran his hand through his
hair as he read the note for the third
time, and the valley between his eyes got
deeper and deeper. He laid the paper
down and tried to get the little drawer of
the bureau open; it was locked. He tried
the trunk, it was locked too. He jerked
a knob off the wardrobe, hut the door nev
er quivered. Then Le took another look
at the noto.. His face lighted up as ho
saw the postscript, and got positively
cheerful as he lifted the vase and found
the key. He tried it in the trunk, and
then.in the wardrobe, but with no other
effect than to get his face wet with per
spiration again, and to run np his account
on the profanity side of the eternal regis
ter.
Smithkins spread the note out ou the
mantle, hunted up a pencil and proceeded
to carry-out the instructions slowly and
with the air of a man determined to suc
ceed. He checked the first key and un
locked the drawer. Then he checked off
the trunk and unlocked that. Running
his hand down in the right hand corner, he
began to search around, hut no wardrobe
key turned up. He took from the trunk
seventeen white garments, eleven pairs of
hose, seventy, pieces of scrap ribbon, a
bundle of lace, two bonnets, some false
hair, lemon peeling, poems, old letters,
feathers, braids, edgings, and a peck of
smaller plunder, and then the key from
the left hand corner. I
“So, Mrs. Smithkins,” he muttered, be
tween his bloodless lips; “so, you are
never wrong,-oh no! oh no!” Then he
tackled the wardrobe. He took down a
dress, turned it round, slid his hand in
one hundred tucks that looked like pock
ets, lammed it across the room, kicked
over two chairs and then sat down to
think. The dress lay on the floor like a
bursted balloon. He got ou his knees and
felt every square inch; there "was pot a
pocket in it. He was but human. He
thundered at the boy:
“Go tell Mrs. Smithkins to come
home.”
The boy was gone at the word “go.”
Bursting in upon that estimable lady he
informed her that her husband had gone
crazy and tom the house down. In three
minutes she was in her room—
“Oh, John, John! what u it?”
“Didn’t you tell me,” he said, hoarse
ly, looking from among the wreck of the
tmnk and the dress, “£hat the key of that
wardrobe was in the right hand comer of
that trunk ? ”
“I did; I did; where was it ? ”
“There—in the left hand comer. Oh,
no, you are never wrong—and that dress,
didn’t yon tell me that receipt was in the
pocket of that dress? Don’t deny it,
Mrs. Smithkins, don’t deny it. I have
the paper in my hand.”
“I did, John. Didn’t you find—
“Don’t come on me. The man doesn’t
live who can find the pocket of that dress,
Mrs. Smithkins, much less the receipt,
and yet, as I remarked, you are never
wrong, oh no.”
“That thing yonder, John Smithkins,”
exclaimed the little woman, firing up, “is
an overskirt. Here is my dress, and here
is the receipt.” She walked to the ward
robe and produced both. “Now, will you
be kind enough to tell me how yon stood
when yon opened that trunk.”
“There,” (sullenly.)
“That is the rear of the tmnk, Mr.
Smithkins, (sarcastically.) It made
your right and left wrong. Where are
those keys.”
“They all fell in the trank and the cov
er fell down and snapped,” he ad
mitted. He was crushed. He
spoke no more, but jamming
his liat down on his head, walked out of
the bouse, kicked the front gate open and
was gone, and Mrs. Smithkins sat down
among her things, cried and then laughed
Wntil the locksmith, John -had sent up,
arrived, and order was restored.
Mercer University.
On to-morrow morning the fall session
of Mercer University opens. The bojs
are already coming in, and the prospect
for a good opening is very encouraging.
Tbe vacation has been improved by the
officers and board of trustees in looking
up boys all over tho State. There ought
to be 200 students at the opening on to
morrow, and the Baptists of Georgia, so
numerous aud wealthy, should feel
ashamed if there is a less number. Mer
cer being centrally located ought to com
mand the largest patronage of any college
la Georgia. The local patronage is good,
and it remains for this large denomina
tion to send in the hoys from the various
sections of the State and thereby show
their appreciation of tha efforts of the offi
cers and board of trustees in supplying
the very best facilities for a broad culture
and finished education. Let every pnpil
be prompt at roll call.
Not Room Enough Yet
Professor Zettler informs us that, not
withstanding the erection of two addition
al school rooms on the Academy lot, there
are about twenty-five children in that dis
trict without seats. The school at that
point was opened on yesterday morning,
and 140 pupils presented themselves, and,
as above stated, twenty-five had to go
back home, there being no room for them.
Somebody is to blame, but wo don’t know
who. It is a reflection upon the enter
prise of Macon, that she does not provide
room for the education of her children.
The most assiduous parental attention
will frequently fail to prevent coughs,
colds, croup, etc. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup
is a most valuable remedy to have con
venient when needed. Price 25 cents.
Needs of Our Public Schools.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Al
low me to offer to our people through
your columns a few thoughts upon the
needs of our school system, so far as the
city of Macon is concerned. Those who
have scudied this subject agree that we
need three full-grade grammar schools
and one secondary or high school.
The-three grammar schools should ac
commodate each about three hundred and
fifty pupils, and the high school one hun
dred and fifty, making in all twelve hun
dred. The grammar schools should he
located at three equidistant points, and
the high school as nearly central as pos
sible with reference to these.
Let us see how nearly we have ap
proached thi3 organization. At the south
ern terminus of Second, street, we have
the South Macon Grammar School, com
plete in organization aud equipment and
provided for in a splendid building, per
fectly adapted to the purposes for which
it was intended. Three hundred and fifty
pupils daily assemble here for instruction.
A little northwest of the center of the
city, on what is known as the “Polhill”
lot, we have another grammar school,
complete as to its organization and equip
ment, but miserably provided for in the
matter of a building. At this school 260
pupils are accommodated.
At the northern terminus of Second
street, on what is familiarly known as the
“Academy” lot, we have just organized a
third grammar school. Yesterday, the
opening day at this school, 140 children
were enrolled, twenty .more than could be
seated. The buildings here are the prop
erty of the Free School trustees, and fur
nished without cost to the Board.
At the junction of Pine and Spring
streets, and very near the center of the
city, we have tho Central High School,
numbering ninety pupils, and occupying
a building owned by the “Macon Free
School Trustees.” Tliese four schools
constitute the main reliance for public
educational facilities with the people at
large —the Fourth street school, while
forming a part of the system and opera
ting under the direction of the Board of
Education, being intended to provide for
the children of our Roman Catholic citi
zens, who preferred a school adapted
somewhat to their own ideas of educa
tion.
Such is our city system. With reference
to it, we find that, as to organization, it is
complete and adapted, In the main, to
our needs. The location of the schools is
also quite satisfactory. But what of build
ings ? At the Polhill lot the North Macon
Grammar School is provided for in build
ings that are a positive eyesore. They
are not only small and poorly adapted for
school-rooms, but are unhealthy and so
dilapidated and unsightly that they pro
duce a false impression upon strangers as
to the character of the school and the peo
ple who patronize it.
At the Academy lot the rooms are well
adapted and sufficiently commodious, but
they are only furnished to the Board as a
temporary relief.
At the High School we have a building
which, until the prtMent year, has proved
equal to the demands upon it. It is too
small, however, for the number of pupils
now in attendance. Our need, then, is
school buildings. If asked what ought to
be done about the matter, I would suggest
that the Polhill lot be sold (to be given up
next spring or summer) and the proceeds
used to purchase a lot farther west, per
haps in the vicinity of the Appleton
Home, and to commence a building upon
it to be finished by the incoming council.
Then as to the Academy place grammar
school, I believe if “tho Free Sffiool
Trustees” were asked to set apart a por
tion of the old Academy lot and erect
upon :t a commodious school building
they would comply with the request. I
have been informed that such a petition
is even now being circulated.
As to the High School, I have been as
sured by several of the Free School
Trustees that before the beginning of
another school year they will erect a
commodious and handsome building for
the accommodation of that department.
Such is our condition as to buildings.
Shall it remain as it is or will our people
determine on better things?
Atlanta’s appropriation of one hundred
thousand dollars in bonds to erect public
school houses has made her the Chicago
of the South.
Respectfully, B. M. Zettler,
Supt. Public Schools.
Jones’ Gate.
I want to enter a protest—a mild,
peaceable protest—against Jones’ gate.
You see Jones is a first-class citizen of
East Macon, and it would ill become me,
having so great a reverence for those self-
made men who spring up from waste
{daces and carve their names high up, to
say aught against Jones; hut when I
think ot that gate, of his, and feel the
braised places on my harked shin, I must
utter some little complaint.
Now, as previously remarked, Jones is a
good citizen. He ruus a big store as well
as a wagon yard; but his business interests,
being so multifarious, cause him to forget,
day after day, month after month, that the
big double-jointed gate of his wagon yard
remains aggravatingly wide open, block
ading the sidewalk on which I travel
twice a day.
And this gate, ten times the size of an
ordinary gate, rims a schedule of its own
which is calamitous. It seems to be pos
sessed of a very wicked spirit, and often,
when you turn the comer and glance in
its direction, you perceive, to your great
satisfaction, that it is shut. Then you
keep right on the sidewalk until you get
near, and then it swings round just in
time to strike yon on the shin.
I think that it all the abuse and invec
tive I have heaped upon knd hurled at
that gate were collected together and
pointed at any one candidate, it would
wipe him from the face of the earth. I
have cursed it night and day, aud once I
was wicked enough to give it the whole
of a Sunday.
It haDgs open, and you might fasten it
up with railroad spikes, and yet it would
swing around at the proper time aud get
in its work. And should the ground be
wet, and that crimson Ea3t Macon mud
ger soft, then ail the power of a hydraulic
press couldn’t keep it shut.
Dark nights seem to act upon it, and
keep it unlatched. The darker the night
tho wider open you’ll find it. It has ta
ken off four yards of skin from my legs,
and on one occasion took off a foot of the
best skin on my nose. I am compelled
to go out into the street to get by, for I
have sworn a terrible oath never* to at
tempt to shut it again.
Now I "wouldn’t hurt Jones’ feelings for
anything in the world aud I wouldn’t like
to call out the militia to attack the en
emy; but ff Jones will just turn his atten
tion to the gate for five minutes and en
deavor to keep it latched only one day in
tho week, I’ll vote for him for any office
within the gift of the people. And fur
thermore I’ll send him* a card of thanks
from the very core of my soul.
Tom Abter.
Extract from Telegraph and
Messenger, Macon, Ga.: We have tested
its virtue personally, and know that for
dyspepsia, biliousness and throbbing
headache arising therefrom, it is the best
medicine the world ever saw. We had
tried forty other remedies before the Sim
mons’ Regulator, but none of them gave
us more than temporary relief, hut the
Regulator not only relieved, but it cured
us.
The new tobacco crop will be the
smallest for years in Virginia. Worms
and heavy rains at a critical *111116 are
among tha causes.
fine Cotton.
Yesterday evening k Telegbath re
porter took a tour.through the cotton
lands in the swamp, and was both pleased
and astonished at the condition of the
crops. Upon tbe lands of Mr. Abel stands
about the finest growth of cotton ever pro
duced In middle Georgia. The field of
thirty acres aloDg the river is a mass of
tangled bloom, boll and weed, and scat
tered through it could he seen the pickers
hard at work, the heads and shoulders
only showtBg.
From this one‘field has already been
picked eleven hales, and it is still white
with cotton and blooms. It is estimated
that there is now within the field twenty-
five bales. The yield will be li hales to
the acre.
The com In this section is also better
than any where else. The hay is abun
dant, but is not being harvested except on
some farms.
Dost.
Such clouds of dust as we were
afflicted with on yesterday were appalling.
It seemed almost impossible to live in
them.
| NOTES ON THE CAMPAIGN.
Till.—The Bancb.GarlinartoB-Alatoii-
I JackMa-lAwton-Bawinger Pee.
Consolidating all that has been said
about this fee (miscalled the Alston fee)
by Governor Smith, Judge Warner, Mr.
Norwood, and others, the “charges” may
be analyzed as follows:
THE CONTRACT.
1st. It is said that the contract by which
the 12| per cent., first agreed on, was
raised to 25 per cent, was not sufficiently
established. Let us see. Governor Smith
admits tliat lie indorsed on the back of
Baugh's power of attorney to Jackson,
Lawton & Bassinger a memorandum,
when these attorneys were brought in,
that the fee was to be increased not to ex
ceed 25 pet cent. He also admits, that
when he went out of office General Gar
lington .brought to him a memorandum
which, he'said, contained the terms of the
contract made when the attorneys were
taken in. (It contained a statement sim
ilar to Governor Smith’s memorandum on
the Baugh letter.)
This Governor Smith did not read, but
it was left by him in the executive office.
He did not call Governor Colquitt’s atten
tion to the matter, or in any way notify
him that the contract was not complete.
Afterwards, Col. Alston made an affidavit
that the Garlington statement was filed
during Governor Smith’s administration.
When, therefore, the attorneys claimed
that their commission was twenty-five per
cent., and when this claim was based on
such respectable evidence as Alston’s affi
davit (whose honor was never impugned
while living), establishing the Garlington
memorandum as an executive record, aud
when this was further corroborated by
Governor Smith’s own indorsement on the
Baugh letter, and when such gentlemen
as Jackson, Lawton and Bassinger and
Alston and Garlington—men whose char
acter forbade the idea of wrong—claimed
that they were entitled to the twenty-five
per cent, under the contract, surely this
was such evidence as left no ground for
suspicion as to the existence and good
faith of the contract.
the amount.
2d. It is said, admitting the contract
was established, that there was no agree
ment that the amount was to he 25 per
cent. Men’s contracts aud the laws of
the land are full of such expressions as
“the amount not to exceed,” etc.; hut I
have never yet heard of an instance where
tills was construed as meaning “that
much but no more.” For instance, the
constitution of Georgia says “the per
diem of members shall not exceed four
dollars, and mileage shall not exceed ten
cents for each mile,” etc. "While these
amounts might be less, it was not con
templated at the time that they would be
less. In fixing the salary of the Treasur
er, the constitution declares that it “shall
not exceed $2,000 per annum.” So, of
other officers. This language was used
to fix the salaries at the amounts
so limited. So, in regard to
the claim of these gentlemen for
the additional 124 per cent. The first set
of attorneys had a retainer of $3,000
cash, and 121 per cent, conditional. The
second set had collected (as they might
well claim) this large debt—pending for
twenty years—regarded as almost hope
less. They had no retainer, and as their
work had been done upon a wholly con
tingent fee, they might well urge that
they had fully earned the extra 12| per
cent., even if the contract did not, by its
terms, entitle them to that in the event of
collection, as it clearly did. This topic
to be continued.
The only remaining point to be noticed
about tbe charge is that Gov. Colqnitt, by
paying to Alston bis part of the fee, lost
$$,000 to the State, inasmuch as Alston
owed the State that sum. It is said he
should have put the money in the treas
ury and waited for legislative appropria
tion. The facto are as follows:
. ALSTON'S DEBT.
1st. At the time Gov. Colquitt paid the
money to Alston it was not known that
he owed the State. Alston tva| public,
printer. The State owed him and he
owed the State. Gov. Colquitt could not
appoint himself master in chancery and
investigate the condition of the accounts,
Gov. Colquitt was not bound to antici
pate a judicial investigation, and assume
that a debt existed, which Alston denied
and afterwards defended in coart, and
which, if it did exist, was not established
as to amount or in any ocher particular.
By what strange logic is Gov. Colquitt
termed a- “weak man” and yet held re
sponsible for the omniscience of -the Al
mighty ? Besides, Alston had given a
hond as public printer, with good security,
to protect the State against loss.
ALSTON’S BOND.
2d. But it is said that Governor Col
quitt’s act discharged the securities on
this hond. Not so. The Supreme Court
has decided (see parnp. page 59) that
these securities were discharged by the
act of the Legislature in 1875, an act pass
ed before Colquitt went into office, and
passed several years before Colquitt paid
over this fee to Alston. In the same de
cision the court says that, if the securities
had not been already discharged, Gov.
Colquitt’s payment would have discharg
ed them. But the Governor can well af
ford to compare his act (for which, as I
show below, he had Judge Lumpkin’s au
thority, and by which the State lost noth
ing) with the act of the assembled wisdom
of the State in the General Assembly by
which the whole loss occurred. The
truth is that all the attacks on Governor
Colquitt, made in reference to this fee,
hit nobody but the Legislature. The
richness of it all is that some of the mem
bers of that body are ignorantly assailing
their own folly by animadverting on Gov
ernor Colquitt!
THE SUPREME COURT DECISION.
Cd. It is therefore clear that when Gov.
Colquitt paid the fee to Alston, there was
at that time no amount known to be due
the State as an offset, and that the pay
ment by the Governor did not cause any
loss to the State.
The only question, therefore, is this:
Was Governor Colquitt’s act (although it
did uo harm) such a violation of law as
to show that he was “weak and incompe
tent?”
Undoubtedly the Supreme Court held
the position, as staled. above, that Gov.
Colquitt’s act would have discharged the
securities, if not already discharged. Rut
they nowhere say In the case that Gov.
Colquitt’s duty as Governor was to put
the money (fees and all) into the Treas
ury.
1st. In order to understand this, it is
necessary to advert to the law as to secu
rities. Any act of the creditor which in
creases the surety’s risk will discharge
him'(code, §2154.) To discharge him, it
is not necessary that the creditor should
know that his act increased the risk. Any
act, however innocent, having this effect,
works a discharge. Hence, Governor Col
quitt’s act would have discharged the se
curities, although he did not know at the
time and could not have known by rea
sonable diligence that Alston owed tbe
State a certain debt, provided it after
wards turned out to be the fact. The
court, in deciding the law, very properly,
treated the whole transaction as a unit;
but it was not decided that Governor Col
quitt was in any default in not anticipa
ting the liquidation of the Alston debt. ]
THE PRACTICE.
In paying over the fee by virtue of Al
ston’s lien, Governor Colquitt had the
sanction of universal usage. I boldly as
sert that the governors of Georgia have
done the same thing in more than a thou
sand instances. In 1843 the State owned
the Centra! Bank, and the hank loaned
money in almost all the counties. When
the notes were not paid, they were turned
over to attorneys for collection; and nev
er, in a single instance, did thoGovemor
put the whole collection iu the treasury.
The lawyers were allowed to reserve their
commission.
THE LAW.
A case of this sort arose in 18 Georgia,
658. There the Supreme Court (compos
ed of Lumpkin, Starnes, and Be ruling)
held that “an attorney who has collected
money for the Central Bank, to whom,
the State is indebted for fees, has a right?
to retain in his hands money sufficient to
satisfy his claim.” This was held in tho
absence of any contract as to the fees;
and Judge Lumpkin says in a note
(p. 664): “Had it been passed upon by
the Governor, the law having clothed him
with the power-of employing counsel and
1 an’end “SSL®**. 0 **® would have been
. an ena of the business.” This was nra-
cisely what had been done in this
CONCLUSION.
Although, therefore.Governor Colquitt’s
act. was held to be such as hypothetically
/r cb , a v rs \ a s * curit y> it is beyond
doubt (1) that he did no harm, and (“>■)
it was justified at the time by the contin-
?!,\rffr eXCCU } v ® P ractice of Georgia’s entire
history, and by the existing decision ofthe
Supreme Court. This was strong justifi-
caaon even for a weak governor.
“ d , this high authority,
the attorneys had a hen upon, an otener-
r'H™’ r bS m ?, n ? y S° llected to the extent
of their fee. It had never been doubted’
it is as old a principle as the common law
itself. The decision ofthe Supreme Court
was never styled a persecution by Gov
ernor Colquitt. If it persecutes anybody,
it persecutes, every governor Georgia ever
had, and persecutes Judges Lumpkin,
Benning and Starnes. Their memories
are safe from all partisan zeal.
No-Axe.
FoondUuis.
A night-gown is nothing but a nap-
sack.
Rowell, the pedestrian, is writing
his biography. It will abound in foot
notes.
Burglars have been finding oat. lately
that there Is a good deal of danger in a
safe robbery.
Said an old woodchopper, “Whenever I
want a chip of the old blcck, I just ax the
block.”
At an inn in Suffolk county, the land
lord has a sign posted outside his door.
“Good beer for sale here, but don’t take
my word for it.”
It is not true that a married man can
ever become a bird, although when he
comes home at two in the morning, hi3
wife very often makes him quail.
The Prince of Wales’ two sons are
somewhat lively. While on a sea voyage
recently, the younger was heard to ex
claim : .“Come, bub, tune up your fiddle
and give us “God save your old Grand
mother.”
When they can’t make an Albany baby
quit crying in any other way, they let him
crawl under the bed and make him be
lieve they think he’s lost and are looking
for him, and ho will keep quiet for two
hours.
An amateur punster informs ns that
some houses have wings, and he has of
ten seen a house fly. We thought no
part of a house save the chimney flue.—
Norristown Herald. That floors us. Did
you ever sec the front stoop?—or the
side walk. ?
“Which is the more delicate sense, feel
ing or sight?” asked a professor in Co
lumbia College. ‘Feeling,” responded a
student. “Give a proof of it, with an
example,” said the professor. “Well
my chum can feel his moustache, but no
body else can see it,” replied the student.
She was a four-year-old blonde, gener
ally quiet and tractable, but mamma had
provoked her. “I don’t love you any
more, mammal” “Yeiy well, dear, you
needn’t.” “ Well, I don’t love you.” “All
right, dearie, mamma will try to get
along.” “ Well, I do love you, but I don’t
feel just like it now.”
An Oil City gentleman, who recently
traveled in Europe, said that he was at a
dinner one day in Paris, and while telling
a story was attacked with'a sudden and
continued sneezing. When,-he ceased a
Russian gentleman at another table,
named Pitcheekee, turned about and com
plimented him on his excellent and cor
rect pronunciation of the Russian lan
guage. . '
The Rifles’ Fair.
The ladies ve manifesting much inter
est in behalf of the Floyd Rifles’ fair. On
Monday afternoon the ladies of East
Macon held a meeting at the residence of
M. H. Cutter, aud much determination
was shown that the assistance from East
Macon should he ahead of any other part
ofthe city.
Last night there was a large meeting
of the Yineville ladies ah the residence of
Colonel Thomas Hardeman, and Yine
ville promises not to go into it half way.
This afternoon all the ladies who are
willing to aid the company are requested
to meet in the ladies’ reception room at
the-Lanier House.
The committee acknowledge the follow
ing contributions: Capt. W. W. Carnes,
cash; J. D. Frederick, cash; G. S; Ober,
Jr., (for his New Jersey house) 1 tea set,
2 changer sets; Livingston Novelty
Works, Pittsburgh, Pa., I improved Mon
itor Corn Sheller.
IN M EMOIU4.M,
Mrs If.ry Her.riftU Huiih-K, wife of Col. J).
G. Hughes. died in Twiggs county, September
1 183’'. st the age of fifty-two y tars.
She was reared in tha mo t intellectual and
po.iehed circles of Athena, Gecrg’a, and «» fit
ted by ratursl endowment* and educational ad*
vantages to adorn the higbeat wr.ti* of life, and
to shine as a leader in the most refined and cul
tured aocit ty of her day. Harrying h r husband
before he attained hia maj irity, ahe accompanied
him to hi* rural home and col tecrated to the
new and unostentatious, hot not !eaa noble du*
tiea oi a country life, the high qcalitiei of her
nj^ureandher training. In this sphere, ahe
gave herself with all the energy of her nature to
the endettirg relation ships of stife aid mother,
neighbor and iriend, in etch of which the nobly
sustained her part.
As a wife, she was in every tense a help meet
to her husband. Through varying fortunes ahe
clung to him in unchangng love. The tieaot
affection were on'y strrhgtbentd by adversity.
Her vivacious temperament >» ever eierted to
lighten hia carat asd enliven hia bom .*. Every
thing gloomy was dispelled by the radiance of
her sunny smile. • :■ \
At a mother, how shall I apeak of bar ? Her
work speaks for itself. “Hu chilJren rise np
and call her blessed “ Gentle and sympathetic,
ehs ruled in k>ve Obedience waa the fruit of
affection. To gain bar smite of approval was her
children’s highest ambition, aud her disphasure
was an instant cheek. Her ir liuenre ever her
youi'g friends waa wonderful, and yet easily ex-
p aiued. 8ho entered into and thus brightened
their joys; tha shared, and thus divided their
sorrows.
While the inner beauty of htr borne life la aa-
cred even from praiae, delicacy doca not forbid
noticing her in. tbe cap«city of neighbor and
friend, da such, she won the confidence and
love of those whs knew her best: the admiration
iX. 111 who taw what she waa To .tho sad and
poor and the sick around her, she was a minis*
taring spirit. Wherever there waa sorrow, suf
fering or death, there ,bc went, whether to the
cabin 1! the negro, or tbe scant home of poverty.
Fo ail she bad a ocidial and a balm. How many
there were whose spirits soothed in their last
esrihiy hours by her gentle ministrations, have
sped tb.ir way to tbe world beyond ! And leav
ing their bright abodes, they have come again to
earth—thaye happy spirits; o hnvering over the
dying ooaeh ed their benefactress, ahe hesid tho
ao't fluttering of angel wings and the sweet mu
sic of ie:aphic voice*, bidding her cornel eomo
Convoyed that, her gentle spirit winged its Sight
to Du sonowiess, painless, sinless land,
"When Death strikes down the beeatifol spir
its cJ earth, of every tear that sorrowing mortal*
shed on such gTeen grave*, tome good is bore,
acme gentler nature comes. Iu the destroyer’*
steps, there spring up bright creations which
defy his power, and his dark path becomes the
way to Hsa-cn ”
My friends, her neighbors, your good Bamari*
tan is gone. She needs no monumental pile, no
memorial scroll; her name end her memory are
inscribed go the hearts ot sufisring humanity.
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