Georgia Historic Newspapers

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tribe present null ofiadependentscon-
q mmi, it will take a'l ten of our fingers
tb»*oeptally wltli.
mv 'Wh.de is six teet three inches in
fte&t, broad and muscular in proportion.
$g* hasten to remark that Mr. Wilde will
‘Im# is as a fricml.
Timer- are exactly nineteen pedestri*
are fin New York who hare beat the best
mow*, it looks as if we are in a fair
was to bare a convention of champions.
Mnclb Sammy Tildes is looking
to 1884. It is rumored that his
tart has become a hogshead, a fact which
w&i ajpe.il poweifully to Western patri-
JbavEZssED with the belief that this is
Be Jones year in politics, Congressman
i W. .Jones, of Texas, has set him*
> cm the Mabone programme in
Ocs correspondent at Gordon says in
■Jk; election on prohibition, which took
(feuoin that city on Wednesday, that
gpaflJbttion won by threo rotes. It was
ueefcend neck affair. 0
ttx. Wallace is making a desperate
iftrtto keep in fashion the drama
Hr. Wallack will knock the las'
IsStes off ot drama, he wilt hare ns rally-
s£x£husiaitlcally to his support.
Bs will be noticed generally that when
iBr great Central railroad game took place
yaw {fade Wm. M. and yonr Uncle Wm
TL were on hand with a pocketful!
-Mbps and refused to be raised out of their
Mth
Tax fight for the leaderehip was short
tat sweet. Parson Felton had not been in
dtoarena ten minutes before Marcellos
lay jreca beneath bis feet. The Constl-
taHire will please obserre that our thumb
iaferesd downward.
SOi Lewis Insists that Emory Speer
fisspprored of Senator Hill’s great speech
ub jihene. We are Inclined to doubt
Sits. Mr. Hill certainty would ndrer
tews taken so important a step without
moral support.
3s is officially directed that Arthur’s
■ Madmen shall wear the livery that the
Scat coachmen wore. As Arthur is
$*xaing the Grant livery himself, it would
appear that the White House folks, poet!
tally speaking, are in tune.
A .United States sailor complains
YiaS be has not had a square meal in two
xjacx It is barely possible that oar sail
.xa are fed on round steaks. We suspend
as'iieivm until the government has had
toe to prepare statistics.
Countess of Crawford positively
•testings to offers reward for the recovery
jfftha stolen body of her dead husband
roantess lias a level head. Toi much
■moiety over a dead husband might injure
tar prospects for catching a live one.
Let it be put on record, that we here,
jtw and all the time, refute to accept
3Bxk and Butler as onr ticket for 18S4.
Go? auctions are elsewhere immovably
m/s. Don’t try to argue with us. We
• MlT want to hear a word from anybody
murderer has met his fate in New
Arvy. Martiu Kankowski, the fiend
ado outraged and butchered Miss Mira
tfeilsr in the woods near Guttenburg, in
Hay last, wa3 on day before yesterday
tang in the Hudson county jail.
7a* press should calmly wave aside
dcot gentlemen who are seeking to intro-
tece for discussion again tbe merits and
-Snails of “tbo duel.” As it now stands,
*3* modern duel is less expensive than
•sswott, and by no means an immoral
ent. Let os rest on that.
death of three boys at Oskaloosa,
Ur**, was brought abtrat yesterday by
tfohardiness. They wero practicing with
sruie on the window of a magazine. Five
tasdred kegs of powder exploded, the
■ojEwsxeblowu to pieces and a whole
‘ws damaged.
tkWAS Wilde was disappointed with
l-a-ooesn trip. He seems to havo ex
Neptuno to arise like a four-legged
w Osispout from the sea, seize the Arlzo
sn-fc his hellish grasp,and fan the terri
dM face of Venus with her. It is evident
Is* Mr. Wilde expects a rebate on his
i money.
United States Commissioned a. E,
now springs clear into Hie middle
vf.-cnaw arena, iliaggiug by tbe collar
x*'. Bigby. It is hardly necessary to rc-
r.-sr'i that the performance has scarcely
xron, yet those who desire tickets to the
w-acKt can obtain them from the gent la-
caa.Iy agent who will now. pass around
U1.T. .1. M. Marshall, presiding elder
.r. the Wayeross district in the South
-3»<cj.a Conference, writes: “My sub
xT.yt.Dn to the daily will expire on the
instant. Iler face is so charinhig and
ix ^essence to refreshing that I must
XEl'.n-e her visits.' So I send you the
litui-r to pay my suhscrlpUon uu to Jail
iiry, TbS3."
^tientific' men have yet to figure out
* TW noise and clamor operate in tbe
-■x-.i’a progress. And when a premium
jaS rail for tiio sluif, we propose to rush
T “ '• 7 P°n the nitrke'. a Telegraph news-
3-.y only two and a half feet high, hut
wvli enough condensed- noise in him to
'scot a whole system of planets. His
jaao :s “Minnow,” hut we desire to re-
auSr. in this connection that lie belongs
the breed that harbored Jonah.
Ztzbt true American must regret that
i>.r.rjWilde lias been disappointed in his
eirch tor tliat subtle force in nature whicii
a -xtn to power as expressed, and first
yx_au to truth. OidJ Ocean was tame to
rise, and the roaiing tempest was as a
?;b/r. Mr. Wilde should not despair
-advance. He lias never sat upon a
„ vaaeounty muie and attempted to take
.oci.-caI license with Ins rear ribs. Really
to Treat astheto should employ, a pliysi-
,u jo prescribe a Southern tour for him.
ALoSTO.v posui has just turued up in
isi office. It describes Paulina as a girl
o breast of snow, a heart of ice, and
► sib velvet lip. We fear it Is by this
• aao too late to advise, but the truth is,
» r at*ima ha* every indication of general
^-ir^wtiou. Sho should at once be
scrubbed fore and aft with coarse towels,
landed with hot drinks, deluged with hot
rater, and eet in a warm place to dry.
The velvet lip i* • new feature in the I The art exhibition will bring to this
irtesae, and we labor under the dlaad- j city, if properly managed, tbe finest col-
uoiage of not knowing tbe color of tbe I lection of antiquities, bric-a-brac pottery,
If it bed been a balrlip we could f china, painting* and carving* ever aeen in
Otar National Blackmailer*.
The committee of the Garfield Memo
rial Hospital acknowledge the receipt of a
bill of exchange for X8C—$400—from tbe
Khedive of Egypt, through the personal
exertion of Consui-Goneral Wolf, who
write* that he intend* shortly to supple
ment this with further subscriptions to
the fund to aggregate $1,000 at least.
Minister Morton has also an- active com
mittee of eight at work in Paris, and the
American Exchange in London, through
Mr. Gillag, the manager, are performing
the like good offices there, while our
consuls at Amsterdam and elsewhere are
doing the same.—National Republican.
The above paragraph may be viewed
with pleasure by some people, but every
honest American must regard the *|ate of
affaire it describes as a national disgrace.
By what authority do representatives of
the United States in foreign countries so
licit funds to build a monument to a dead
President of this republic ? Has this gov
ernment established begging agencies
among the nations, and authorized black
mail to be levied upon tbe courts of the
world ? It would so appear from the re
port which the administration’s Organ
makes to our people. The poor Khedive
of Egypt, “through the personal exertions
of Consul-General Wolf,” has® been in
duced to run his band into his depleted
pocket and draw out $409 for the “Memo
rial Hospital.” We can well im
agine this enterprising representa
tive of America calling in per
son upon tbe trembling guardian
of the Nile, to unfold tbe plans of tbe pro
posed building; and that uneasy dignitary,
with but a dim idea of what constitutes
Memorial Hospital, fearful of offending
this great government, responding with
Ifceble cheerful nets. The ‘'personal ex
ertion” of Mr. Wolf—so reads his letter—
for these men never fall to place such
honor where it belongs—the personal ex
ertion of our consul has secured $400 for
the fund; but if he had taken the Khedive
by the throat and shaken the slieckles
from his pocket, it could not have been
plainer case of robbery. We do not sym
patbizemuch with the £B.cdive,well know
ing that he will get Ills money back if he
has to wring it outof a Jew, or cut off the
official head of some active sneker of tho
royal sap. Wc are dealing with cur lion
orable consuls only. To complete the
story, we quote from the Republican
“Minister Morton has an active commit
tee of eight at work in Paris, while our
consuls at Amsterdam and elsewhere are
performing like good offices.”
While the subject generally is not
without a certain grim humor, there is
sickening aspect about tbo memorials and
monuments erected nowadays to distin
guished men. Few of them would ac
complish the purposes for which they are
planned, if it were not that the gracious
band of time covers up the means and
leaves only results. The truth of the
matter is, the charity and contribution
business is entirely, overdone. We do
not object to contributions to relieve dis
tress occasioned by want. There is
bond that unites all men, all nations; tbe
bond of humanity. A breaking string
awakens a response throughout the liarp.
Let tbe voice of despair echo in Ire
land, and America lifts tbe fallen. Let
tbo voice of suffering be heard, and comes
it from a burning northwest
or a plague-stricken South, Eu
rope, with memory green of des
dated homes, stretches out a helping
hand. This is right and natural. The
gjfls are bestowed to relieve suffering hu
manity, and they came from the heart. It
is charity, blessing alike the giver and re
ceiver. Bet strip the cause of necessity,
and its life is gone. To the petition which
went ont in behalf of Mrs. Garfield, the
people and the government, which Is of
the people, responded with princely lib
erality. And to the call for funds to build
tho Memorial Hospital, they may respond
if it so please them. It is a question be
tween their hearts and pocketbooks. We
have nothing to say about It. Nor bare
we aught to bring against tbe dead Presi
dent for whom tbe memorial Is intended.
On tbe contrary, viewed in tbe light of
recent events, we believe that aside from
the stain upon our country’s fair name,
Ills death was a national calamity. Hero
in the South especially are the people
learning to so regard it. HU was the
hand that checked the advance upon our
liberties, and his the blood that was shed
to preserve them. But there can be no
honor to Garfield in a monument built
by funds wrung or begged from king or
peasant. Honor bas for its foundation
something far removed from blackmail
and cravenness. After all, it U the spirit
that brings tbe monument into being
which makes it, or makes it not a memo
rial. If from tbe coffers of the rich whose
riches be made secure; from the
poverty of those whose poverty he
made not slavery there had poured forth
spontaneously a stream of dollars and
myriad of pennies to find lodgment in
building that should wear liU name, then
would there have an honored and an hon
oring memorial. But from the meddling
actions of these consuls—sycophants at
home, beggars abroad—there can come
no honor to Garfield. Tho clothes of theifc
men smell too loudly of ambition, self ad
vancement and corruption. To preserve
the dignity of thU people, Congress should
refund to the Khedive hU “gift” wrung
from him by an American diplomat. We
say wrung, for what has Tyranny to do
with Liberty or her dead? And when
this money U laid at bU command jet it
be with a message, that America can take
care of her own. Than sweep intoobscuri
ty the men who have dared ask foreign aid
for her. It is bad enough to have our living
“presidents” crying “Charity, sweet char
ity,” about the nation’s heels, without
having officious imbeciles shouting It in
Europe for onr dead.
Mr. Stephenson's Smithsonian Insti
tution exploring party have mado won
derful and valuable discoveries in New
Mexico, but none more interesting to the
archaeologist than the discovery of an Im
mense city cut out of solid rock cliffs.
The city Is sixty miles long and contains
dwellings, cut one up m top of the other
up tho face of the cliff. On the plateau
above there are tbe remains of temples of
worship built of carved stone,and through
out the once inhabited cliff houses were
found pottery similar to that found in tbe
Pueblo villages. It u supposed that all
this section of country was once inhabited
by a prosperous and Intelligent people,
and that tbe cliff houses were cut for se
curity. How long the destruction of this
race was in progress, the hiatoiy of Its
ilse and fail, its religion and literature
may perhaps somo day be figured out of
the numerous hieroglyphics that yet re
main.
Bacon Art Exhibition.
A few days since we announced a prop
osition to hold In Macon an exhibition of
works of art. Macon does not propose to
reach out for ono of these enterprises,no.w
so popular, merely because they are pop
ular. The ideas embraced In an art ex
hibition are manifold. The State of
Georgia bas jnst held in Atlanta an in
dustrial exposition which, taking into
consideration the time in which it was
prepared, tbesizs of the city in which it
was held, and the extent %nd variety of
its exhibits, is without parallel. In that
exposition was set forth every variety of
machinery, farming implements aud ma
terial used or to be found in the Southern
States. It was in fact a complete conven
tion of tbe powerfal factors which are
operating to advance her to her proper
position. So complete was the work that
nottoig else in that direction will be need
ed ^ for several years. What
the exposition was to industry and to
business, the art exhibition will be to tbe
mind and to education. It is designed as
an education in tbe higher branches. No
sensible man disputes tbe axiom that edu
cation is progress; and education bas a
hundred colleges not chartered. From tbe
knowledge gained amid tbe wheels and
shuttles have come all of the Improve
ments in motion, texture, and force. Out
cf the storms, the rains, the currents and
the clouds has come the knowledge of
how to annihilate distance and forestall
the elements. In every grade of life,
wherever there is aught to stimulate the
imagination, or lift tbe mind from its an
cient grooves, there is education. No pow
er bas exerted so great a force m tbe
world’s progress as art. There is no men
tal stimulus so strong as art, and because
weak minds drink too deeply of it, and
become aesthetics, which is but another
name for art sots, is why tbe study of it
lias been brought Into IMlcule. Art, true
art, is nature; and art i%Jie foundation
of our literature.
Tbe Southern States bav&v«bistcry pe
culiar and impressive. In tq^history, if
he cares to, tbo reader may fi^l a cause
for tbo lack of borne literature and home
authors; for even; now tbe Ust of native
Southern writers of distinction embraces
only a half dozen. Orators Qie bas pro
duced. Hersunuy skies, bi ght flowers,
blue waters, mountains and { valleys gave
them fancy aud metaphor, byt of authors
site bas few only. Aside from tbe narrow
pride of section hinted at, we believe tbe
want of art collections and art centres bas
4Rre than anything else to do with our
feeble literature. Scenes and shapes
gazed upon through childhood and youth
loose tbeir inspiration after awhile.
New scenese, new tints, new
combinations are required and
each, comes it from what quarter* It
may,*' brftgs with it a writteu history.
Upon the two do mind and imagination
feed, and if the mind and fancy grow
strong, from them are offsprings born,
Friction and attrition in the busy world
mako men valuable, and It is friction and
attrition in the mental world, the rubbing
of one idea against another; and the feed
ing of fancy with fancies that makes the
mind productive. An art exhibition, if it
be a worthy one, will scatter seeds that if
they never reach a seed time,- will make
the field in which they bloom seem less
rugged.
A more practical view of such an exhi
bition is its influence as an advertisement.
When it is seen that an industrial exposi
tion cau be successful in Atlanta, and an
ait exhibition successful in Macon, the
vision ot pistol and bowle knife, kuklux
and desperado will no longer haunt the
sleep of those whose co-operation we de
sire in tbe development of this country.
Art and industry have no place in a civil
ization born of thw knife and tbe pistol,
and tbe people know it. Here in middle
Georgia, ‘In tbis city of colleges and
churches, is tbe place for tbo art exhibi
tion. Tbe people are ready for it,and from
them it will receive a hearty support. Not
an exhibition of home work ODly, but a
national exhibition of art which shall in
clude everything embraced in the broad
significance of the word. All that is need
ed is a leader. The Atlanta Constitution,
writing upon the subject, says:
Hindsight is a vastly superior article to
foresight, and it Is very easy to set down
and say how “the exposition of 18SI
could have been . made better
than it was; but surely no one
will accuse us of being hypocriti-
cal when we say that in artistic exhibits it
was lamentably lame. At tbe head of
the so-called Art Ha’l there was an ama
teur graveyard, and at its foot a collection
of kitchen utensils. Except the porcelain
display from Wisconsin, the antique
furniture from New Tork and. the
rrppussc woik from St. Louis, there
was very little indeed to satisfy, much
less to cultivate, the tastes of the vast num
bers that passed through the exposition
gates. Perhaps such a meagre display of
art should not have been; perhaps it was
unavoidable; neither proposition is worth
discussion now; and the loss that our own
peopte felt in that respect promises to be
made good in tbe art exhibition that is to
be held in Macon next May.
The project is a happy one, and we
hope its projectors will at once rise to its
full scope and importance. It should not
be a State exhibition simply. It should
not be wholly made up of pictures painted
to secure proffered premiums. It should
be a loau exhibition as well as an exhibi
tion of competing pictures. Tbe pictures
and statuary and rare bric-a-brac of Sa
vannah and Augusta, and Columbus and
Atlanta—for Atlanta is not wholly given
up to money getting—should be gathered
together at the May exhibition. There is
no reason why tbo private collections of
Charleston and New Orlesnj shouldnot be
drawn upon: Let us have, in other
words, at Macon m May an exhibition
that will be not only a means of cultivat
ing tbe tastis of tbe people, but a pleasant
surprise to those who think that art is
dead in the Southern country. Local
committees in tbe chief Southern towns
could in co-operation with the Macon
committees bring all Ibis about; and if
Macon herself will do her part, there is no
reason In tbo world why she should not
haye in May a much more beautiful and
almost as successful a show as the oue
just closed in Atlanta. One would &u;
Major Cental's Report,
The report of Mayor Corput, published
in our yesterday’s issue, shows a very
gratifying result in the condition of our
city finances. This is especially the case,
when the same is compared with the long
years of misrule to which tbe city bas
been subjected, aud the consequent .de
pletion of her treasury, and confusion in
her financial affairs resulting therefrom.
We commence the now year with a
cash balance on hand of $10,432.21. It
Is probable that a like surplus will this
year be realized, over the necessary
amounts to psy the ordinary expenses of
the city. This condition financially will
enable tbe council to undertake with con
fidence the carrying forward of many
needed Improvements. .
Tbe mayor recommends tbat tbe city
ball building be repaired at once; and as
a starting point in tbe systom of sewerage,
tbat is rendered imperative by tbe intro
duction of water works, tbe prompt build
ing of tbe sewer leading by tbe court
bouse, between First and Second streets.
In tbis we heartily approve bis recommen
dations. In tblsconnection we would call
tbe attention of tbe county commission
ers to tbe recommendations of a recent
grand jury, by wblcb they were requested
tq sewer the county’s property to tbe
depth of tbe court bouse lot.
Macon bas a future before her. No city
within our knowledge, in tbe South, lias
so small a debt compared with her popu
lation, property and location. All she
needs is an honest administration of her
public affairs, and the improvement of her
splendid advantages by au enterprising
population.
We voice the sentiment of the commu
nity when we tsy to the mayor and coun
cil, in reference to tho condition of tbe
city: Gentlemen, yon have done well.
Tbe Ashland Murder
This country is familiar with crime and
casualty. An ordinary murder hardly cre
ates a ripple outside of the neighborhood
in which it Is committed,bu* now and then
there comes a tragedy so base aud bloody
t^at the whole line of States hold their
breath for a moment in horror. The mur
der of the girl Muller In the woods near
Guttenburg, New Jersey, the horrible re
ligious murder or sacrifice in New Eng
land, the butchery of the Cramer girl,
have all had their days in th.e public
mind. The latest sensation comes from
Kentucky. The newspapers a few days
since announced the outraging and kill
ing of two girls at Asblaud, Kentucky,
the murder of their defender and the
burning ot their dwelling. The particulars
of this crime make up a chapter of hor
rors that put to shame the sensational
stories of the age.
In Geigerville, a suburb of Ashland,
there dwelt a lady named Gibbons. On
Friday, two days before Christmas, she
leftler horns, accompanied by her son
Sterling, to go to Irqnton, Ohio, upon a
visit. Her daughter Fanny, aged four-
teen,and her other son Robby,a one-legged
seventeen-year-old lad,wero left in charge
oi the house. The two were joined in tho
evening by Emma Thomas, a girl of four
teen, who came over to spend the night.
The next morning the house was discov
ered in flames, and the neighbors broke in
aud dragged out tbe half burned remains
of the young people. It was' discovered
then tbat they liad been murdered and
tbe girls outraged. Amid tbe most in
tense excitement the funeral took place :
and detectives set to work to bunt up tbe
perpetrators of tbe crime. Three men
were at last arrested. Two of them
were married men and none over
twenty-eight years old. Ellis
Craft confessed the whole crime. They
had gone to the house, outraged the girls
killed the boy with an axe when he in
terfered, and dashed the girls’ brains out.
Then saturating the bed clothes with coal
oil they set fire to it aud left. For safety,
the men were immediately taken to Cat-
letsburg. People gathered from sixty
miles around, and soon a force of fifteen
hundred men filled the place. It seemed
impossible that the lives of the fiends
could bo saved, but a hasty preliminary
trial was had, and under a strong guard
they were remanded to jail. Finding tbat
trouble was brewing tbo authorities or
dered tbe steamer Mountaiu Girl to get
up steam, in order to carry tbe prisoners
to Maysville. The prisoners could not be
gotten to tbo steamer, however, and were
started in a canal boat. The mob took
possession of the steamer and pursued
them. The prisoners were transferred to
another steamer, the Mountain Boy, and
telegrams sent to Maysville for assistance.
The military of that place, seventy-five
strong, were put upon tho Hudson. It
met the pursuers twelve miles above
Portsmouth aud transferred the militia.
Tbo prisoners thereupon turned back.
Our telegrams this morning announce the
arrival of the prisoners at Maysville.
Taken all in all, it is a story with horror
and excitement enough about it to satisfy
any one.
Tbo HnflT Caie—Maeon'a Duty.
Tbe history aud status at present of
tbe Huff case, a brief outline of which
will be found elsewhere iu • our columns
to-duy, cannot be fully appreciated with
out reference to the law, which was vio
lated at every step in tbe remarkable
transactions that go to make up tbis now
notorious case.
The Legislature of Georgia passed
and, on March 2d, 1874, the Governor ap
proved, what is commonly known as the
Jewett bill. For tbe information of our
readers, we append the first section of
the same, which reads as follows:
Section 1. Be it enacted, etc., That the
charter of the city of Macon, and the vari
ous acts amendatory thereof, be so amend
ed tbat on and after December I7tb, 1874,
it is hereby declared unlawful for the city
of Macon, through its mayor and
oouncM, or in its corporate «»- attome v B 0 f the city and the bond com-
pacity, in any way, to borrow money on the *
faith and oredit of the city, either on tbe
notes or bonds of the city, or by tho issue
of scrip, change bills or other obligations,
intended to be used and circulated as
money, whereby the faith and credit of the
city is pledged for the payment of money,
for any purpose whatever, and that the
issue or negotiation of any such promissory
note, bill, of exchange, bonds, or change
bills, of the city of Macon Is hereby de
clared illegal and void, and the payment
thereof, or any part thereof, illegal, and the
ma r or or member of council so offending
or violating the provisions of this act, by
the issne and pledge, negotiation, or sale of
any note, bond, change bill, or other obli
gation of the city of Macon, pledging the
faith and credit of the city for the payment
of money on or after the said 17th day of
December, 1874, ohnll bo gmlty of a misde
meanor, and shall be removed from office
in the manner as is now provided by law.
It will be seen tbat tbe plain intention
ofthislawwas to protect tbe property
holders and tax payers of tills city from
any injustice in the administration of her
finances, which might grow out of a reck
less utterance of city obligations. This
law was approved by tho people of tho
city, and was regarded as a needed pro
tection to its finances and credit. For a
time its provisions were regarded, and no
man pretended that any power short of
the Legislature could change Us terms or
evade its force. In time, it is claimed,
as the necessities of the city became more
pressing, tho city council passed resolu
tions, known as the “Conner resolutions,
which read as follows:
Resolved, That the mayor be clothed
with authority to hypothecate the mutilat
ed currenoy in the hands of the city treas
urer, and the unsold bonds of tbo city,with
the exception of $5,000.00 of ths currency
bonds, for tbo purpose cf meeting tbe
present financial necessities of tho city.
Resolved farther, That the mayor be au
thorized to proceed to the cities of Au
gusta and Savannah for tho purpose indi
cated, if found necessary.
Resolved farther, That whatever action
is taken in the premises, we, the council,
hereby pledge all the funds accruing from
license and tax income to tbe payment of
any money borrowed under these instruc
tions, to the exclusion of everything else.
Resolved farther, That if found practica
ble, tho mayor is further authorized to hy
pothecate any past due coupons and bonds
now in tbo bands of auy parties in tho
city.
of this matter with a vigor and determi
nation tbat will bring it to a speedy and
final settlement. If the city council re
fuse to take tbe case to the Supreme
Chart, tbe citizens must do it. It is im
portant for us to know whether there is
any law a mayor and council are bound
to obey, and whether the courts are crea
ted to execute the resolutions of city coun
cils or tbe statutes of tbe State.
THE HVFJF CASE.
Statenaaat of Facts Connected With
tbo Bam*.
We pnblish below a statement of facte in
reference to the Hnff case. This statement
is made np from the records in the case,
and from the proceedings of council, when
action was taken in reference to with
drawing the bill of exceptions filed by the
Success is intoxicating,and makes fools
of women as well as men. Everybody
remembers how Bernhardt stalked and
stormed like a female Napoleon, and now
comes Clara Louise Kellogg, who snaps
her pretty fingers and stamps her French
heels, because the eating house proprietor
at Milan, Tennessee, wanted to put her
colored maid at a side table. Only a few
days since Patti ventilated bar Indignation
through the columns of a newspaper be
cause she was not led out upon the stage
by her manager. We are not among
those who believe tbat because a woman
takes to tbe stage she is worse than her
sex generally, but hanged if we beliera
she is any better. In tbo language of
Dr. Feiton,*tbis is our “ultimatum.”
plemcnt the other, and the new project
capable of bringing to thebtate and to the
South as much fair fame as the old one.
Art is not sectional. It knows no State
lines. It probably never stopped to con
sider tbe beginning, course and end of
tbe line that immortalized the lamented
Mason and the otherwise lamented Dixon.
Art Is world wide, and any attempt to
confine tbe Macon show to new works or
to pictures from Southern easels will
cripple the proposed exhibition and limit
it usefulness. Let all tbe world come to
aa spectators, exhibitors, or donors.
Let tbe uso of pictures be solicited, no
matter when or where painted. Let ns
see how ranch art we have in tbe South,
as well as bow many living artists. If tbe
citizens of .Macon will do this, and will at
the same time draw tbe line severely on
mere curiosities, tbe coming exhibition
will be one that every citizen of tbe State
will be proud of, and that every person
who attends it will be very grateful for.
In view of the support given to tbe ex
position by the West, it teems base in
gratitude on tbe part of tbe Constitution
Its vesse p|Mast bom
Tire Eoatbena Farmer'* Monthly
For January is at hand and full of most
entertaining matter. It has an excellent
address from Dr. J. P. Stevens, of Macon,
on “Tho Recuperation of Exhausted Soil,”
read before tbe State Agricultural Society
last spring. Tbis magazine takes its stand
among tbe first agricultural journals of
country. It is published by J. H. Estll),
Savannah, Georgia, at $2 per annum.
To the long list of martyrs who have
suffored in the cause, these lines on the
“Georgia Frying Pan” are respectfully but
firmly dedicated:
Early and late I spatter and fry,
Early and late I toil;
' The people eat end the people die,
Bnt never a tear and never a sigh
Do I waste over upturned soil.
What do I care for dyspeptic pain ?
What do I oare for bile ?
The preacher may groan and teacher
complain.
Bat poor in the fat and shake me again,
I piekls their livers and smile.
“I am shot on the stomach with red-hot
lead!”
And the lawyer emptied bis maw.
“I have swallowed poison, sorely I'm
dsedl”
host of merchantmen rose np and said.
only langbed as I fried and fed
my glee, Hath* l
ndshr
It was tbe intention of the council, evi
dently, by these resolutions, to give tho
mayor what authority it could to make
certain negotiations for tho immediate
relief of the city. It was never intended
by them tbat he should permanently ex
ercise tbe extraordinary and unlawful
powers with which they attempted to
clothe him. He went to work, telling va
rlous parties with whom he negotiated
that the law prevented the mayor and
council from making transactions that he
(Huff) was empowered by the council as
an individual to make. He signed vari
ous notes personally,and hypothecated on
tbo same collaterals belonging to tbo city
and cited tbe Conner resolutions as bis au
thority thus to pledge tbo city for tbe pay
ment of these notes. *
The verbiage of tbe Conner resolutions
(quoted above, which we take from the
record) shows plainly that the resolutions
intended no such thing, and, in fact, gave
no such power. In every resolution the
party named as authorized to make nego
tiations was tho mayor. If they had in
tended that Mr. Hoff should act as an in
dividual, they would havo so stated, and
would havo named him instead of the
mayor.
The conclusions to be drawn from these
facts are too plain to admit of mistake,
l sFirst, the. Jewett bill was in force as the
law governing tho miyor and council in
the premises. It was enacted by tbe Leg
islature, and its conditions could only
have been repealed, modified or suspend
ed by tbis body,which the sovereign State
has designated as tho law-making power
of tho State. Tho mayor and council are
the creatures of the Legislature, and can
not exorcise any power or authority un
less the same be granted by the Legisla
ture, and hence it is supremely ridiculous
for any man of common cense to assert
that the city council of Macon can, by res
olution, suspend or repeal a statute of the
State of Georgia. If they (the council)
had the power to authorize Mr. Huff to
make the transactions he claims to have
mado, as an individual, tho reso
lutions quoted show very” plainly
tbat they did not delegate
to him any such powers, nor is there
any evidence that they intended to do so
Hence, he has acted without authority
from any source. The Jewett bill pre
vented tbe mayor and council from doing
what Hoff bas done. If tbe council bad
the power, which we deny, to delegate
authority to him to make these transac
tions, they failed to do It, and every one
of bis acts under tbe pretended authority
of the Conner resolutions, bas been in di
rect violation of a statute ot the State and
without tbe authority of tho city council
Under tbis aspect of tbe case, which we
insist Is correct, it is easy to discover who
is on trial in this matter—Huff or the city
of Macon. The city council undertook to
force him to a showing by trover suits
The injunction granted by Judge Sim
mons restrains this action. Upon what
grounds we do not know, tbe Judge hav
ing failed in making his order to state
the grounds upon which it was
based. Tbo city council have since
instructed tho city attorneys to
withdraw the bill of exceptions on
whicii tbe case was sent up to the Su
preme Court. It is a matter of vital iu
pittance to the city, that tbe questions of
law involved in this ease should be set
tled. Mr. Huff graciously consented, when
before council at its last meeting, to allow
the city to carry the case to the Supreme
Court, provided they would give boud not
to plead usury or tbe Jewett bill against
him.
What would be thought of a defendant
in a criminal court,' if he were arraigned,
and should propose to tbe judge to go to
trial, provided he would give bond not .to
allow the $enal statutes pleaded against
him? One case in effrontery is equal to
the other.
What tbis city may do with Mr. Huff, as
a matter of favor or clemency, is one
question. What tbe rights of the
elty are is another. The people
cannot maintain their self-respect, or the
respect of others, if they foil to take hold
mission, and on which the case has been
sent up to tbe Supreme Court. It is made
up from facts obtained from the attorneys
in the ease, and is published for informa
tion upon this question:
Mr. Huff 'claims that, in 1878, the city be
came muoh embarrassed financially. There
were in circulation about $76,000 of city
currency, which was much depreciated,
and could not be used. Tho bonded debt
was then about $000,000.
On February 28th, 1877, the Legislature
passed an aet authorizing the issue and
use of $50,000 in bonds (afterwards known
os the Whittle and Ross bonds, $25,000
each) in liquidation of the indebtedness re
ferred to. Tho Whittto bonds wero ifssued
and disposed of. As the city’s necessities
become more pressing, tbe city council
passed a resolution, known as tbe Conner
resolution, whereby the mayor was author
ized to hypothecate the mntilated currency
and the unsold bonds (Ross bonds) to meet
tho financial wants of the city. By this res
olution the mayor was farther authorized
to hypothecate any past due bonds and
coupons in the hands of any partiesln tbis
city.
Mr. Huff says he acted under this resolu
tion, pledged the currency and bonds, and
took up debts against the city which now
amount to $67,426.16. He admits this
amount is to bo rednoed by the amonnt of
collaterals used by him, belonging to the
city, tho amount of whicii ho fails to
give.
Ho further claims that ho bought part of
the armory property for $5,772, but tho title
to it, he says, is not good, and he wants 12
per cent, per annnm cn this sum, which
principal and interest, will amoat to $12,
000. He claims in round figures, after giv
ing up the city’s collaterals in I‘a hands,
about $12,0GO.
. Tbo city council, not willing to submit to
a claim whioh they consider exorbitant, say
that the Conner resolution was in direct vi
olation of the laws of Georgia—the Jew
ett bill particularly. Mr. Huff know this,
and every time he acted under it lie pro-
tended to do so individually.
The interest account rcQs up to $15,-
994.61, whioh grows' out of the uso of
$49,000. This amount of $49,000 is also
drawing interest, making $26,000.00 inter
est in three years on $49/.'). TPs the
oounoil claim was unauthorized, and that
Mr. Huff had no right to pile up this great
amount of interest against the city. The
council further say that although Mr. Huff
Was pretending to aet as financial agent
of tho oity, he bought up largo amounts of
debts against the city at a great discount
and now holds them aud claims full pay
ment for tho same.
Thoy council farther say tbat they do not
believe Huff has the collaterals he got from
the oity; that ho iB insolvent and cannot
obtain the collaterals placed in his hands.
They further say that his conduct has
proved a positive injnry to the city to an
amount not less than $25,C30.00. The conn
oil say they have always been willing to
confirm the title to the Armory property,
have been willing to pay ail just oinims if
he would only surrender tho collaterals in
bis hands belonging to tbe city.
Tbe council, unwilling tc longer be dal
lied with,brought two suits in trover against
Huff to compel himlo give up said collat
erals. They also brought suit against R.
F. Lawton to compel him to give up some
collaterals which Huff says Lawton holds
for a dent Huff made for the city.
Before commencing this last suit, Mr.
Dunlap, chairman of the finance commit
tee, tendered the money due on said debt,
and demanded the collaterals Dawton
held on same. Lawton refused to receive
the money and give up the collaterals until
he could communicate with Hnff. In
few days afterwards Lawton stated he had
been paid his money ($10,516), but refused
to surrender the city’s collaterals httfor
some $21,516. Tbis was justtwo for one of
collateral in oity currency and bonds, for
tho amount of Lawton’s loan to Huff.
Therefore, Lawton was sued in trover.
Huff being unwilling for these cases to be
tried brought tbe bill, the substanco of
which is already stated, and the council re
plied to, as already set out.
Huff’s bill was argued before Judge Sim.
mans and the court enjoined tbe trover
suits. That decision has gone to the Su.
prerne Court. After the cose bad gone to
tho Supreme Court tho city council passed
a resolution directing the oity attorney to
dismiss said case, so far as the city is con.
eerned. The notion of the council was
great surprise to the attorney who had tho
litigation principally in charge. The order
of Judge Simmons, .while not necessarily
final, afforded an exrellent opportunity to
have the whole unfortunate dispute settled
by a decision of the highest court in the
State.
In taking the order also, it 'was after
wards ascertained, that it in terms embrac
ed much more than Judge Simmons in
tended enjoining; in fact a petition for
mandamaspending against the bond com
mission; also restraining the oity from
using its resources other than for certain
specified purposes, and possibly from pap
ing over the funds, due each quarter to the
bond commission. It was well understood
that the Supreme Court would reverse the
judgment as to these latter points. Iufact
the attorneys for Mr. Huff asserted openly
that the order wns the result of inadvert
ence, if it did in fact bear snob interpreta
tion. An affirmance by the Supreme Court
results in a dismissal of the ease from that
form, and the affirmance of such an or
der as this, though taken inadvertently,
might, Bind doubtless would have been at
tended with the gravest results to the city’s
finances
The city oounoil, probably without being
aware of the dangers attending such a step,
some four weeks ago passed a resolution
instrnoting the oity attorneys to withdraw
the bill of exceptions. This aetion was con
firmed at a subsequent meeting. After
wards the city attorney, Mr. Harris, who
had principally in charge the litigation with
Mr. Huff, addressed a note to tbe mayor,
desiring to be 'heard before the action re
ferred to was consummated. At the next
meeting, at the nrgent request of Mr.
Harris, the resolution waa suspended and
the city attorneys were direoted to ascer
tain whether some settlement of the bill of
exceptions coaid be made, and to propose
that if the Lawton matter was separated
from the Huff case and the injnuotion so
modified aa to allow the city a free nae of
her resources, that the judgment of Judge
Simmons would be allowed to stand with
out further proceedings relative to a re
view of tbe same.
This proposition was rejected, hot tho
the order so as not to trammel the bond
commission >n any way. This action was
reported to tho council at its last meeting.
Mr. Hnff was present. The case was dis
cussed before oouucil, and the reenlts of
suoh action were shown to them, but they
saw fit to adhere to their former aetion
and by a vote of 7 to 5 directed the case
dismissed. This course was in the inter
ests of Mr. Huff. If carried out it will
prevent the Supreme Court from passing
on tbe oaae, or from laying down the law
in reference to it.
go far as tbe bond commission is con
cerned, it is safe to rely upon them to teet
all the questions in the case before the Su
preme Court, if permitted to do so by the
court.
attorneys for Mr, Hoff proposed to modify tost care]turns*
A Chinese Catholic priiset is at work at
Los Angeles, Cal.
J auks Gobdon Bennett has gone to St.
Petersburg from Paris to organize another
Polarexpedition.
The dome of tbe colossal Palais de Jus
tice at Brussels, now approaching comple
tion, is to be papier mache. It will weigh
about 16 tons.
An Omaha railroad man got for a Christ
mas present a silver looomotive thirteen
inches long, made at a cost of $530 and a
perfect miniature in eve'y detail.
Fbank Hebefobd, Charles J. Faulkner,
Henry M. Matthews and Congressman
Hoge of West Virginia are ail waiting to
get into Senator Davis’ shoes when he gets
out.
Tildkn and MoDouald as one tioket and
Arthur and Porter are said to be the tiokets
mapped ont for the respective parlies in In
diana for 1884. Both are somewhat prema
ture.
Loud Salibbubt has remitted the whole
of his agricultural rents'for the last half
year. He has, howevor, a London estate
worth sprne $150,000 a year to struggle along
upon.
Gen. Gbobge McDonald, now over 97
years $ld, has the honor of being “father”
of the British army. He is colonel of the
Bedfordshire regiment, and entered the
army in September 1805.
Dbesses in Paris fashions are notsolong
as they were, and shoes and stockings are
principal considerations. Old-fashioned
diamond buckles are returning to favor.
Shoes have lower heels and sqaarer toes.
It will be gratifying to every housewife
to bear that there has been trouble iu Queen
Victoria's kitchen, and that a first-class row
has led to a discharge of the royal, f.
It was feared that this domesCre-exiftirfence
was wanting at Windsor Castle.
„ Gen. Hancock stated to a New York in
terviewer Thursday tbat be will not take
any action to summon the court-martial to
toy Sergt. Mason, who attempted to shoot
Guiteau, until ho receives instructions from
Washington.
Religious circles in Decatnr, Ill., are
strired 1$ disclosures ju-t made, growing
ont of the dismissal of the Rev. F. W. May
nard, late of New York, os pastor of the
Christian Chnrch. He is charged with
dronkenness and o^er conduct unbecom
ing a minister.
Miss CnAnLorre K _ ;iifeb, of the Virginia
Kompars and lately tsacber of higher
matbematirs and Latin in the Augusta
Seminary, is about to go as a missionary to
Brazil. Miss Kemper is known throughout
the South as a woman of great acquire
ments and much strength of character.
The Albert medal has just been given to
an English school-teacher, Miss Hannah
Rosbotham, of Sutton, who when the stone
belfry fell through the roof, killing ono
child and injuring others, saw all of her
class removed in safety, and at the peril of
her own life dag out and resuscitated seve
ral of their number.
Secbbtabx Hunt is said to have written a
fatherly letter to a young officer who had
applied for increased pay or leave of ab
sence or something of that sort in order to
get married, granting his request, com
mending his purpose and expressing the
opinion that early marriage should be en
couraged in thMiavy and everywhere else.
Son British shipowners hare begun to
man their vessels with negro seamen ex
clusively, the officers alone being white
men. They lake them at the same wages
as ordinaary Engluh or foreign seamen.
Those who h&ve,tried the experiment state
that they find colored men as good sailors
as Europeans, and that they are more docile
and less inclined to ran away.
Axabge portion of the pro: osed memo
rial to Lord Beaconsfield, at 'Hughenden
has been carried out. A magnificent west
window has been erected, and the chancel
wall has been riohly decorated with paint
ings of evangelists, prophets, end angels,
so as to harmonize with the east window,
which is the gift of ihe late Earl’s execu
tors.
M. Paul Bbbt, the new minister of pub-
lic instruction in France, has, through the
prefect of tbe district, laid an embargo on
tbe distillation of that palatable liqueur
chartreuse, which is manufactured at the
Convent ot the Grand Chartreuse, in the
department of the Isere, after which it is
named. The monks will be financially
rained, and the world have no more char
treuse.
Sudden wealth has had a bad effect on a
Bos! on stock speculator. Formerly he wns
well-behaved. Now he keeps a bouse light
ed from attio to cellar all night long, and
passes hours in smashing costly china and
glass. Occasionally he opens the windows,
and yells like a lunatic. Offiuers who en
tered the house lately found bushels of
broken articles. He goes to his offioe in
the daytime quite soberly.
Mining for emeralds is carried on in a
section near the Blue Ridge Mountains in
North Carolina, about sixteen miles from
the town of Statesville. Although the em
eralds found hare been too small to be use
ful as gems, the explorations have brought
to light the new emerald-green mineral
called “Hiddepite,” which was a surprise to
to the scientific world, and is destined to
answer- the same purpose as tbe gem
sought. Emerald-green spodumeue has
also been discovered.
When Rowell first won the Astley belt, in
the pedestrian match at Gilmore's Garden
in 1879, be made 500 miles and a few yards
over in six days. This was considered a
great performance in that line. The net
pecuniary proceeds to tbe winner were
nearly $20,000. Fitzgerald, who has just
won the six-days walking match in New
York, made 582 miles and some yards more,
which is thus far unequaled. Ho will re
ceive only about $3,C33.
Max Mabetzee is distantly related by
marriage to Patti. He has a la w suit pend
ing against her for failing (i keep a con
tract mads with him twenty years ago for a
tour in Mexioo. Ha is now living in Cin
cinnati, and when Patti arrived in that city
he proposed a cenfsrenoe. NiooUni replied:
If be comes here I will throw him down
stairs.” To this threat More trek answered:
“I most respectfully invite Bignor Nioolini,
alias M. Nicolas, to pay me a visit and ex
plain first what social position in referenoe
to Urns. Patti entitles him to throw any
body down stain who comes to see her on
bosiiuies.”
Fathxb Huoor, of Tallahassee, brought
bask with him from France reoently speci-
irnens of doth, yarn end raw fibres nude
in France from Uu straw or leaves of the
pine tree. The Floridian soya this owkms
fibre makes e sample of doth es fop m Uu
Per Stale.
A few fonts of job type, in oases, can be
parchased at this offioe at low figures for
cash, during the next three or four days.
Also a small lot of metal furniture.
J. F. Hanson, Manager.
Ex-Cokobxssman bTABQt, of New York,
used in his earlier days to sell horse medi
cine for a living.
Thebe were more than 600 suicides in
the United States during the year ending
December 81. The murders foot up 1,226.
C. O. Pkbbault, vice oonsul of France at
Montreal, has been informed that he bas
been created a chyralier of tbo Legion of
Honor by the President of the French Re-
blic.
Gen. Hazes in his post-offioe repo, t notes
that not one obsoene book has been receiv
ed at the dead-letter offioe the past year,
and to find an indecent photograph is a rare
ooourronoe.
Ik tux Russian government project of
imposing an export duty on grain is carried
into effect, America’s principal competitor
in tho European breadstuffs market will bo
put out of the way.
It was only on Tuesday evening last that
John WiUiam Draper was elected foreign
corresponding secretary of the New York
Historical Society. A few hours later and
the position was vacated by Ds. Draper’s
death.
A Massachusetts man is charged with
giving his wife three hundred dollars to
sign a deed, and then on tbe way home he
put r. pistol to her head and told her to
shell out the cash. She obeyed the com
mand.
Indian Commissioneb Pbice bas signified
his intention of resigning his position when
Secretary Kirkwood retires from tho Inte
rior Department. W.J. Pollock, at present
Indian inspector, is a strong candidate for
the place.
A straw, showing in what direction
Northern capital is seeking investment, is
Been in the announcement that a Philadel
phia capitalist lias taken $6,COO of Btock in
the Adams ootton factory, of Montgomery,
Ala., soon to be put in operation.
The securities of the Boston millionaire,
William F. Wold, who died recently in l’hil-
adtlpFa, which are estimated at from $15,-
000,000 to $20,030,000, are in the vaults of
tbe Guarantee Trust and Safe Deposit
Company of Philadelphia awaiting their
new owners.
Thebe are now nearly 100,000 miles oi
railroad in the United Statee. It is said,i
that more railroad track was bui]
year than during any previous ye
country’s history. Tbe estimate
8,000 miles, while in 1872, the t
year, built Only 7,160.
John Bbice, who lives ns
found a oorked bottle on tho 1
few days ago. Upon a bit of pi
bottle was writteu the following j
edin tbe bay, Bill Lej
George Hall. Lire
truly.”
People who have bnsine
Department are commenti^
euce in the conduct of
linghuyseu as compar
regime. They say thsj
takes time, and is guard
wheroa^uuder Blaine it wa
and tbe whole t^^wa
Mhe. OurJ
French minil
thnr’s receptl
court mornq
trimine
with re
fa
TnJ
trading:
WhI
lieu ten
bis head,1
Thady Caffe,
day bis Grace ’
done, and calling^
ise. “Your Graced
7, I’dbe willing to
would sooner part \
tie.” It has been (
the sAme noble duke^
ities have
knighted Sir Ch
corn's iionsehok
done no servj|
in a similari
who had hem
demoiselle I
Charles, gain
to get him kn]
the viceroy’s a?
visit to her at Baronscoil
doae. It may be added til
Sir Charles might have bej
ise, “Sydney Lady Morg
ed to call herself, wonld
as reluotant to forego
Lady Caffe. The history of'
gal knighting* would probaS
curious chapter. - ,
With the creation of I
other day at St. Peter’s,
ioent personage# upon:
has oonferred tbe highe
termination of tbe tenth i
brought up to a total of
century has added more 1
endar of saints than any of
Forty-nine have been cano
1st of January, 1880, whsrea
fourteenth and sixteenth cent
tivcly, only eleven church notabli.
sanctified by the reigning Pontiff*,
bas been published of the names, c
and qualifications for canonization^
225 saints in question. Only one i*.
has been deemed worthy of supreme
tinetionby the Roman Church duri
period of nearly a thousand years,
largest contingent—eixty-one—i# j
by the minor Catbotie clergy. Ne
the martyrs, forty-seven in nvs
thirdly, as many prelates, save one.l
two pops*, three cardinals, three
three doctors of tbe church, and t
martyred laymen are aet down in tK> I
mentioned list, whioh, however, rooorvfcth^
canonization of an emperor, an empr«H 1
seven kings, two queens, two dokm, end ]
one dnahesr, as well aa of three
woiidsr-
working virgins and one widow.
CL made more saints than any of hu I
dcocaeors.
Whiln Colonel Marcellos Thornton ig
away off yondor iu Washington lndosm,
onsly formulating the right vrihg0f$
In k
referring to hima* a «■» of
TFbtelewfcaUt
• 'v. '■