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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. JANUARY 5,1880.-TWELVE PAGES.
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Tlie Cotton Mates Mfi/ Insurance Company.
We are daily in receipt of inquiries with
reference to th6 Cotton States Life Insur-
ance Company. Its condition, oh well as
some of the transactions that have crippled
the company, have been fully discussed for
sometime past. .
We have refrained from comment upon
this matter because we .were loth to censure
one who has been honored and
Greeting.
The Tklzoraph's greeting to the people
of Georgia, and may the year 188G bring
the ni health, wealth and happiness.
It 1ms been a great year with the Tele-
mu i'll—that which has just passed. Look
ing hack over the road we gee little to re
gret and plenty to ho thankful for. Every
month has helped swell the subscription lists
of the paper, until to-day they show more
honnjUh patrons than any journal in the
State of Georgia.
Every day has increased its popularity.
We believe that it has live readers to where
any other paper published in Georgia has
To-day the paper enters upon the new
year owing not a dollar, operated by a full
force, sonred with new and improved ma
terial, presenting the handsomest appear
ance of any newspaper traveler In the land.
It has made money; nioro in proportion
to the amount invested in it, probably,than
any of its exchanges. And it has made it,
too, by purely newspaper enterprise. It is
the tool of no politicians, and without in
come from clique or corporation. It has
no job office to help support it, no subsidy
. or outside business to keep it up. It is
strictly a newspaper enterprise, self-sup-
porting, money-making and the only one of
it* kind south of Baltimore.
% Four yenrs have elapsed since the present
owners took control. They found the pa
per without material, without credit, with
out cash, and with but few patrons. The
only things it possessed in abundance were
and bankruptcy stared It in tneface.
Before, tbreo years bad elapsed it was out
of debt, thoroughly equipped and bud in-
cre wed its subscribers four hnndrod per
ceht.
Wo attribute this unparaiellcd success to
the fact that the p.eoplo of Georgia want a
bold, reliable, incorruptible journal, clean
in character sn^ sound in business judg
ment, and that we huvo given them the
journal desired. Looking back over the
stormy seasons passed, wo cannot see
where the Telegraph has failed to crack a
guilty head, or. erred in judgment. Wt
tike tlie splendid coudilion of the paper
as a declaration from the people that it has
not so failed.
Wo note with pleasure, that journalism
in Georgia, during the last four years, has
boon greatly purified. We con point with
plraiure to tho fact, that the political rings
ami tlioir secrets have been exposed to the
noonday sun of public criticism. We sco
more careful public officers, and fewer nu-
chastised rascals. A great changoin rcs-
pe.’t to the feeling that existed between
the people and the railroads has been
made evident. Four years ago the Tele
graph was the only journal in Georgia that
stemmed tho stonu of prejudico which
bade fair to sweep these coporations into
bankruptcy. An industrial school, the off
spring of the Telegraph, has been secured
for the youth of Georgia. The tariff has
been examined and advocated until nearly
all tho dailcs hhvo joined in the Tkleubaph’h
policy, and, if brought to a vote,
it woold he endorsed by
tho people of the State. Four years
ago it was hardly mentioned in Georgia. In
the prohibition business tho paper’s posi-
ti m has received the endorsement of the
conservative element, and bofore the ques
tion is settled the whole State will endorse
it
The Telegraph has been conducted upon
principle, without regard to immediate
results. There have bean days
when its usefulness was temporarily im
paired. because it was forced to defend its
very existence from attacks of tho hirelings
of rings and the tools of corrupt politi
cians It has triumphed over all these; it
has lived to see it* national views endors
ed and its prophecies verified. It hss lived
to enter upon another year’s service in be
half of. this people, and pledging its future
to the principles upon which rests its past,
it stands ready for business.
News from the Indian country indicates
tbst the army * is afraid of the tame In
trusted by this community, as we
felt we would bo forced to
do, if current rumor with reference to the
conduct of Geo. 8. Obear, Esq., the former
secretary of the company, could be relied
Uj.on touching some of his transactions
while occupying this position. One or two
things are evidently true: either Mr. Obear
bus been grossly misrepresented or else he
has misappropriated a large amount of tho
funds of the company.
We have reason to know that he is not
ignorant of the charges that are being ci
lated against him, to the effect that he bor
rowed from himself while the funds
of the company were in bis custody, a large
amount of money, for which he hypothe
cated securities that were well nigh if cot
Utterly worthless.
lie has done nothing to refute these
charges, and we presume he canuot refute
them. *
So far as any loss that may fall upon the
stock and policy holders of the company is
concerned, they may bo trusted to do what
over is necessary for their protection. There
. is another feature of this caso which con
cerns every citi/en who has an interest in
the fuithfnl and honest management of
moneyed institutions. We allude, of course,
to the misappropriation of the company's
funds by Mr. Obear.
If ho has been guilty, as is charged, of
this great crime, he should be promptly and
severely punished. The fact that be has
occupied a high position in this community
should not shield him from the fate of a
felon, if he has been guilty of robbery. On
the contrary, his position imposes the high
est obligation upon tho grand jury and the
court to see to it that, if guilty, he
shall be mudo an example
of, in order that tho young, and those who
are otherwise weak, may bo warned against
yielding to tho temptation to wrongfully
take what does not belong to them.
Mr. Obear is grossly misrepresented, or
else be should be sent to the penitentiary.
Is the law equal to on honest investigation
and proper punishment if he is guilty.”
Prohibition Politics.
Judge Lochrane, in a recent visit to New
York city, was milked very freely by the
reporters of all tho leading journals. The
Jndge, being accustomed to tho ordeal,
stood with great equanimity', and talked so
long as there was anybody to listen.
We cannot, of course, reproduce tho col
umns which are attributed to him, and
which he, like all politicians, would not
hesitate to disavow if the occasion demand
ed, but we Lave fallen upon an expression
or two which seems to strengthen idea
that prohibition is to bo a coming feature in
Georgia politics, and its friends hope a con
trolling one.
The Judge is announced by the World
reporter as a great prohibition leader, and
he did assume that attitude, though a little
late in the fight.
Being a leader the prohibition party is
bound by bis utterances.
He is quotod as follows:
••Tho sentiment has grown rapidly until to-day
Uio majority of tho people in Georgia are enrolled
on one aide. I have no doubt that we shall control
tho next Legislature and succeed In driving the li
quor traffic from our Slate.
There is no mistaking this language.
The prohibitionists expect to control the
next Legislature. How? By electing a ma
jority of the members as prohibitionists. It
will not ninko any difference, wbnV their
color, character, or previons condition
were, they aro to be prohibitionists, and are
to control the Legislature and tho Htate.
In order to accomplish this, prohibition
must become a leading political issue in the
Legislative campaign.
In order to clinch this view of the caso,
we again quote tlieumiablo and once thirsty
•Judge:
Of course, iu tho matter of selecting men for our
standard bearer* iu tlie future temperance people
will take csre to put forward men who represent
their views.
The Judge, as we have said before, may
deny and disavow this, but it has corrobo
rative proof in that rr ost of the office-seekers
in Fulton connty, who have any hopeH or
aspirations for the future, young and old,
drunk or sober, adorned themselves with
Line ribbons, and when not physically in
capacitated, indulged in much turgid and
tiresome elocution.
Of coarse it did not require this proof to
convince any sensible and observant man
in Georgia that the professional politicians
were catching on to prohibition, but the
language of tho Judge, which we have quo
ted, is proof positive that it is to be the
leading issue in State politics, or that he
may perhaps have engaged in emptying an
other wine cellar, in New York, before the
reporter fell afoul of him.
never again to hold a public office until my State
should make prohibition a public isaue and should
noed me to carry its banner to the front. That time
came and I am here.
This stuff may have deceived the women
and children assembled on this occasion,
referred to, but the intelligent people of
Georgia will not bo deceived by it.
It is not true. Doubtless, when Gover
nor, and perhaps long before, he determin
ed to catch on to prohibition or any other
issue likely to place him office, but the rec
ord of his administration will show that lie
neglected no opportunity fair or foul, to
push himself into the United States Senate
A reckless use of the pardoning power
and a coalition, with white and black Re
publicans, helped to further the scheme,
which, though aided by the powerful re
sources of Senator Brown, would have
failed, but for the fact, that at a critical
juncture there was an unauthorized tamp
ering with the tally sheet.
He was frantically endeavoring to obtain
an office of honor and profit. Prohibition
was not on issue in the contest, and bat for
fraud and commercial methods be could
not have stood before the women and chil
dren of Mt. Vernon church, to delight them
with his “nasal drawl.”
The incident will exhibit bis desire and
intention to overthrow the Democratic
party in Georgia, and it ought to cure the
infatuation that is said to have possessed
Mr. Cleveland toward him. Georgia has
not entrusted him to hear any bsnnerlo the
front, and she has seen, with humiliation,
that he has been entrusted with the distri
bution of the federal patronage which
belongs to her. Does the administration
consent to be used to put prohibitiou upon
Georgia?
occured back in the seventies, those who
aro interested in the affairs of this company
will pkee but little reliance upon his prom-
Another Prohibition LnMlir.
Semi-occuaionally daring the past year,
here and there, in jonrnals leaning to pro
hibition have appeared Bnggestiona that
Colqnitt would be selected to ride behind
John Peter St. John in the next presidential
campaign. It has bom p’ain enough that
the vanity of Colquitt has been immensely
tickled at these suggestions, and he has lost
neither time nor opportunity to work the
incipient boom. It will be remembered that
in the early days of the running month, he
made his appearance before a small
audience of women and children at the Mt.
Vernou church in Washington city, and de
livered, in the language of one who heard
it, “a stupid address” with “a nasal
drawl” The Voice, a journal published
in New York city, and devoted to prohibi
tion as the next political issue, quotes the
reverend!?) orator on that occasion as fol
lows*
When X «s Governor of Georgia I determined
Prohibition anil License.
This, from the Philadelphia Tfmes, may be
read with interest, not only in Macon, bnt
all over Georgia:
“Hitherto the various liquor interests
have assumed that prohibition is the off
spring of New England cranks and Western
fanatics, and they have greatly underrated
its growth among a largo class of intelligent
and considerate men. They have not ap
preciated the now plainly visible truth that
there must be either radical license reform,
or prohibition is inevitable. High and
stringently regulated license was resisted in
Iowa and Kansas until prohibition swept
the whole traffic beyond tho pale of the
law; and now, when the highest and
severest licenso system would be glad
ly accepted by those who wish
to embark in tho traffic, it is unattainable.
The result is lawlessness in all the cities
and chief towns, and tho traffic is degraded
to legal crime. It should be remembered,
also, that Ohio, whero both parties were
afraid to father the high license law, cast
an overwhelming majority for a prohibition
amendment to the constitution, and it
failed only by being a few votes short of a
majority of the whole vote cost for State
officers. High licenso with just restrictions
will now be adopted in Ohio by tho new
I*oRislt>tare ’because all see that unless there
shall be radical license reform, prohibition
will surely follow.
But tho most improssivo lesson de
manding radical license reform comes from
tho South, from the States where it was
presumed that next to unrestricted license
was secure for generations. Georgia is
now practically a Prohibition State; North
Carolina is rapidly following, and even
Kentucky, tho citadel of the power that
creates and controls tho traffic, is threaten
ed with convulsion from centre to circum
ference by the Prohibition issuo. In all of
these States there would bo no hopeful or
even formidable Prohibition element but
for the Buioidal folly of tboso interested in
the liquor traffic refusing to accept thorough
license reform. Tbero as in New Eng
land and in the West, wheio high
and wisely regulated license could
have been established and main
tained, those who assumed to speak and act
for the traffiic refused to accept licenso re
form and they are now compelled to accept
prohibition. Tho recent elections in Massa
chusetts on the license issue teach the same
lesson so plainly that he who mns may
read. Loose license has become so odious
that a number of cities refused to havo li
censes at all and others carried it by the
narrow est majorities.
“And what is true of license reform in
New England, in tho West and in the
South, is equally truo in Pennsylvania.
Tho time has come when there can
be no more fooling with the issue,
and there will be either radical li
cense reform or the whole license system
will be overthrown. Illinois and Nebraska
are the beet illustrations of the wisdom of
the controllers of the traffic in accepting
high license. There is no license in those
States less than $500, and the system has
worked so well that prohibition agitation
has been enfeobled and practically ended.
There are many sincore people who do not
believe in any license system, but when
lions© is so judiciously regulated by law as
to destroy its glaring abuses, the great
majority of citizens prefer it to the lawless
ness that has maintained the traffic in the
face of prohibition.”
Mr. Obear’s position is plain and simple.
If he i< not guilty of the transactions with
which ho is charged, then he has been
greatly wronged by current reports, of
which be is fully advised If be is
guilty, then he has abused a trust, and has
committed a great crime against the stock
and policy holders of the company, a** well
as the laws of the State, and the good of
society demands that he shall be speedily
and severely punished.
Mr. Obear knows what tho charges
against him r.re. Will he say that he is
guilty or not;
Th t Alabama Tragedy.
A few days since in Clarke county, Ala
bama, a negro brute assaulted a young lady
upon the highway in a dastardly manner,
and to conceal his crime murdered her iu
cold blood. The people, white and black,
assembled, caught him, carried him to the
scene of his crime, and burned Lim at the
stake. The law furnishes no sufficient pun
ishment for such crimes as he had commit
ted, but they roused the devils that at last
sleep in all bosoms, who, breaking the
chains of custom, habit, religion and reason,
made madmen of peaceful citizens and
brought the guilty to a fearful end.
All civilized peoplo must regret the cause
which provoked this exhibition of savagery,
but no man of sense will regret, the crime
having been committed, the fate which the
furies ho aroused brought upon him. There
are deeds so frightful as to make whole
communities irresponsible. When brutish
and unrestrained passions are pleaded in
behalf of the guilty victims, uncontrollable
passion must be pleaded in behalf of his
slayers.
TELEGRAPH BY PLAY.
“The Guest.”
A few months ago, it will be remembered
Dr. A. A. Lipscomb, the venerablo divine,
payed a visit to Copse Hill, tho home of
Georgia’s great poet, Paul Hamilton Hayne,
and gave to the public a beautiful picture
of life in that snug little home. The Tkl-
EonAPH predicted that some day Mr.
Hayne would treat the visit from another
standpoint, a prophecy that has been veri
fied at last. In a recent issue of the Sun-
School Times appeared the exquisite poem
day given below*, which Mr. Hayne dedicates
to “My Rovered Friend, the Rev. Andrew
A. Lipscomb, of Georgia, ex-Chancellor of
tho Vanderbilt University, author of “The
Forty Days,” etc., uuder the caption “Tho
Guest.”
We held aweet converse, he and I,
His soul was like a boundless sea.
O'er which at times low breezes sigh.
From unseen lands of mystery.
A charm divinely pure and bright
Breathed round blm Its ethoreal calm;
His eyes were wells of marvellous light
Hla voice waa like a heavenly psalm.
Then, the old legond seemed to smile
Upon me through a sacred-vnlat.
Of one the saint of Patinos’ islo—
Our Lord’s beloved evangelist.
“What if ho terry tlU I come?”
Dear Christ these words so dtrange and grand.
Which smote thy reverent followers dumb
With Wondor in tho Holy Laud—
Tbeso haunting words of mystic breath
Seemed whispering to my soul apart:
Dreams fair as life, and weird as death.
Were nested In my bnfttding heart
And still he spoke on solemn themes.
And still tho glory In his oyes
Was that which woos the happy streams,
And crowLe tho hills of Paradiso.
And still 1 heard, and still I saw.
Till, trancod, my faltering Him grew dumb;
Deep lova waa mine and tender awe;
“Whatif he tarry till I come?”
Mr. Obear’s Card.
We publish elsewhere to-day a card from
Mr. Obear, in reply to onr editorial of yes
terday in reference to tho Cotton States
Life Insurance Company.
Mr. Obear doubtless felt that he had to
say something. It will be conceded that
he could not have said leas, in view of the
grave charges that are made against him.
His statement that "the*transaction allud
ed to is understood by the officers of the
company, and if the settlement made with
the securities they hold does not meet my
indebtedness I expect to make good any
difference I may be due them,” may sound
very well; but when it is remembered that
Mr. Obear promised one year when he was
abort $3*2, (JUO, to make it good, and at the
next meeting of the stockholders it waa
found that instead of doing this he had
doubled his defalcation; and that all this
At Pottsvillo, Pa., a day or two since a
party of roughs went to a negro church and
attacked the inmates who were engaged in
holding a fair and festival. Tho roughs
fired into Unchurch and created a stiun-
pedo which finally terminated in a riot.
A splendid text for a Republican sorunn is
spoiled by tho fact thot tho outrago was
committed in Pennsylvania.
The Montpelier (Vt.) Argus says : “At A
post-office up in northeastern Vermont
whero tbero was au outcry against any
change it transpires that the old postmaster
or his assistants wrongfully took a letter
from the office containing a check for $88.80,
forged tho name of tho payee on it, then
added their namca and drew the money.
Tho adherents of tho “g. o. p..” thero are
attempting to keep the matter hashed up,
and henco nothing has been done about it.
A You he Man's Ambition—a Bachelor's
Japanese Room—The Presbyterians.
Life would bo worth living if all of ua could fol
low our bent and arrange onr homo surroundings
just os wo want them. A young merchant told
the other day that bis highest ambition was a pretty
home. There is no office in the gift of the people
that he would rather hove than a little wooden cot
tage, covered with vines, and filled with pretty
carpets, books and pictures. "I bave a Jewel of a
wife," said he, “and.we agree fully on this point.
When I married her, not quite two years ago, she
never os much as swept a room. Now she not only
sweeps the house but she cooks, patches my clothes,
keeps tho bouse in order, and with all of it she had
tends the baby. She is helping me save money to
get us a home. Add when wo do get a home we will
AU it with the best pictures and works of art rich
carpets and furniture. Indeed we intend makiDg
it a gem of a home.” And my young friend meant
every word he said. He works hard and late,
hasn't an extravagant or lazy bone in him, and I
feel sure I shall yet live to see hia dreams realized,
even though he cannot now afford to have the boot
blacks shine up his shoes.
But I know a young man who has a sufficiency of
shekels to retire, and he Is making just such a
nest as my young merchant friend U telling fur.
He has no wife, however, and hi* home is to be a
kind of bachelor paradise where no Eve will ever
enter. You know this bachelor as well as I do, and
there is not a society girl in Macon or in this sec
tion who has not admired his superbly erect car
riage. his handsome face, and his princely posses
sions. Many a mamma has sought to tangle him in
the net for her daughter, but the meshes are never
strong enough to hold him. Ho la a splendid catch,
and just why he has never whispered soft words i.i
earnest, no oue seems to know, though I have heard
it intimated that a pair of blue eyes with silken
laabeH once held him captive. At any rate, from
the way ho is at work on his apartments now, there
does not seem to bo any immediate danger of hia
being enthralled by blue or even black eyes.
He is an odd genius, this friend of mine, and
there is nothing in hie life suggestive of the Ideal
bachelor save the fiv.t that he Is still single. A
bachelor, if we go outside the dictionary, means:
unmarried, smokes, chews, drinks, frolics: bnt iny
friend has none but the tonieet vices. Ho smokes,
but his cigars never cost less than two for aqnarter;
he drinks, but bix beverage never goes below
champagne la grade; he frolics, but his sinning
never rises higher In tho decalogue than a quiet
game of poker or a harmless flirtation at the ger-
mans. Thus you see he Is a bachelor In name
only.
Well, he went out of town a few miles the other
day and bought a .suburban farm. Ono room of the
big country dwelling upon it he has devoted to his
own use, and has commissioned a Macon firm to fit
it up. It U to be a Mikado room. The papering is
to bo of Japanese pattern, and quaint almond-eyed
Ko-Ko maidens in various postures form the da
does. Scenes from Japan, fram'd with fans, will
adorn the walls, and paper sirens will hide a genu
ine Titlpn mantel; while over tho door in tea-box
characters will read the legend “The Home of the
Black Prince.” The room will contain, in addition
to its Japanese designs and bric-a-brac, tho costli
est furniture. One piece of it is a marvel of beau
ty. It stands like a mammoth wardrobe, paneled
with the thickest of French plate glass. By a touch
of the spring it opens and falls apart noisclossly.
Hie transformation is comploto, and you see a bed,
soft aud inviting. The chairs, too, are works of the
highest upholstering art. They make yon lazy,
dreamy, and cause you to forget the world’s wor
ries. And yet, this beautiful room with Its wealth
of soft velvet carpet, Persian rugs and luxurious
furniture, will be cold and cheerless, no matter how
crimson burns the’amhraclte in the grate. Not un
til fair hands throw the bunches of faded violets
out of the window and take down the legend from
the door will the beaatjr develop and its comfort bo
felt. Join me In the wish that some lassie may yet
share my friend's heart and Mikado home.
Mtireds and Patches.
As New York is agitating for increased water sup
ply, why wouldn't it be a good plan to tap the
Gould vaults?—Chicago Times.
The telegraph announces trouble with the Flat-
head*. There U always trouble with the flatheads.
They make all the trouble In this world —Alta Cali
fornia.
Even women of to-day odtolt that nowadays a
man who has a spice of deviltry about him te more
attractive than a saint.-{Rev. John A. Porter, of
Philadelphia.
The laigest American cannon throw* a boll weigh
ing l.oto pounds. One of those balls striking a ty
rant utterly incapacitate* him for farther business.
—Courts t-Journal
It will tickle the ghoet of the late Mr. Sharon on
the other side of 8tyx to know that a Federal court
ha* pronounced hi* marriage contract with Althea
void.—PhU. Record.
Gladstone'* daughter 1* to marry a professor of
mechanics. This is doing pretty well for a girl
whose father hss got no further in mechanics than
wood-chopping.-Courier-Journal.
An exchange says that west of the Mississippi
••rye is very little u*ed in cooking.” That is doubt
less so, bnt in drinking rye looms np like a light
house.—Richmond State.
The friends of Senator Sabin will be glad to
know that hia physicians promise he will be up
in three or four days, having been prostrated bv
over-exertion st the New York banquet.—Fargo
Argus.
A Boston paper has au editorial showing Ben
Butler the folly of ever re-entering politics. This
is like givings patient who has lost both legs a
tract on the sin of dancing.—Philadelphia North
American.
Those misguided persona who supposed ulsvery
went out of existence In tbla country with the eloso
of the war are sadly mistaken. They still sell pan
pen to the highest bidder In MoMschaaetts.-St.
Pool Globe, Dam.
I have a profound respect for the Presbyterians.
I like their good old-fsahloned ways, their smooth,
oven way of worshipping, and could Z forget my
wickedness and join a church, myfchoico would lie
between the staid old Presbyterian and the nigged
but honest Primitive Baptist. There are no frill,
no faucy touches to their worship, and there seems
to be a bond between their members that you don’t
refind among other congregations. Now, don't un
derstand me a* disparaging other creeds, because I
■pect religion of any kind. But I must confess to
being considerably amused at the recent action of
the Presbyterians. Sunday, a week ago, if you re
member, the quiet, orderly congregation opened
wide their eyes in astonishment when young Me-
Cardle, the new basso, sang, la deep bass voice,
Rocked in tho Cradlo of the Deep.” The good
people could scarcely believe their own ears, and
many a sly glance Into the choir gallery was stolen.
They wanted to see who it was who dared desecrate
the Presb) tertan church with so worldly a song.
But the choir minded not the chiding glances and
sang the song through to the end. As may be im
agined, tho attempted innovation was the theme of
conversation around Presbyterian firesides during
the entire week. Tosomo, It waa pointed out in
tho Baptist hymn book os a sacred song, but that
no palliation for tho offenge. McCardle may
jnsta* well havo sung, “When the Robins Nest
gain,” or Rise Up William RUey.”
Lost Sunday, when the congregation were seated
and Arthur Wood was about to begin the prelude to
the offeratory, each devout member held his or her
breath In snspeme. In many hearts the hope was
kindled that the usual good old hymn vrculd bo
sung, and no doubt many were prepared to get a
little angry if another worldly selection should be
modo. Out their feelings were epared another
shock. The pastor arose quietly and announced
that a hymn would be sung a* an offeratory, and
then the good people of tho congregation heaved a
sigh of relief while the organ poured out lD^wect
volume the prelude of the usual song. Tho mgony
was over, and the first attempt at innovation on
the church music of the Presbyterian Church met
with a quiet, crashing defeat.
riAln Talk from an Old Citizen,
Editors TF.LEa:urH: It is quite refreshing t n
these degenerate days to read such a timely and I
ferries* editorial as appeared in the columns „f
your paper of yesterday. In relation to the groan »qj j
culpable mismanagement of the affairs of the Cot
ton States Life Insurance Company by it* officen.
It is certainly entitled to the serious consideration,
not only cf the stock %nd policy-holders, ;;at to th»
notice of the officers of our courts. That a gigantic
fraud has l>een perpetrated (If reports be true) ad-
mite of no doubt, and this will, indeed, be a patient
community, if some one does move to bave the
affairs of the company fully and fearlessly investi
gated.
If the president and late secretary feel that a
damage has been done them, they owe it, not only
to themselves, but to the company they were sup- I
posed to represent, to demand au immediate inqui- I
ry into their official action. If they are guiltless of
malversation their friends would be glad to know
it, and for this reason, if no other, they should ui
a rigid search into the records of the company, and
have an unprejudiced report rendered.
The community has always prided itself upon its
commercial integrity aud honor, aud very justly so,
and now /or th j sake of those who have earned ui
this reputation, let ns endeavor to emulate their ex
ample, and the one way to accomplish it is to punish
crime in high places regardless of riches, costs, or
social position. As Old Citizen.
A Card From Air. Obear.
Editors Macon Teleuraph—Gentlemen: Your
article iu yesterday's publication with reference to
the Cotton States Life Insurance Company and my
self may do me some injustice and calls for a reply.
The transac tion alluded to is understood by the
officers of the company, aud if the settlement mads
with the securities they hold does not meet my In
debtedness, I expect to mske good any difference I
may be due them. As to the charge of wrongdoing
I shall always be ready and willing to answer in
any way that might bo suggested. Very respoctfully,
Geo. S. Omkab.
Macon, December 30, 1885.
A Watch Free
We will mall a (Nickel-Silver Watcrbury Wstch of
the style represented in the ent below to any on*
who will send us a club of ten new subscribers te
The Weekly Tkleouaph at one dollar each. This
will enable each subscriber to secure the psper at
the lowest club rate, and at the same time compen
sate the club agent for his trouble.
Only new sudkckihkhm—that is, those whose
names are not now and have not been within six
mouths previous to the receipt of the order on our
books, will be counted.
These watches are not toys, but accurate and
serviceable time-keepers. Thoy are simple, dura
ble aud neat. The cases always wear bright Ten*
of thousand" of them are carried by people of all
classes throughout the United States.
“The Waterbury.”
Oh blest mid life’s troubles
And life's dread alarm*.
Is the baby asleep
In it* own mother’s arm*;
It heed* not the tempeat.
No cloud* hover there.
O’er that dear love-locked haven
The akiee are all fair.
Some day it must wander.
Soon enough too, God know*,
And launch it* frail bark
Where the angry wind blows;
It wUl sail the world over.
Spilling tears 'mid its charms.
But 'twill find ne'er a port, like
Its own mother** arm*.
FOR ®3.50
we will send Tam Weekly Telegraph one year
and one of the above described watches to any ad-
drcua. Thia proportion is open to our snbacritem
a* well a* those who ore not.
A.ct Promptly.
The above propositions will be kept open for a
limited time only and parties who wish to take ad
vantage of cither should do so at once.
Unless otherwise directed we will send the
watches by mail packed In a stout pasteboard box.
and our responsibility for them will end when they
aro deposited lu the post-office. They can be regis
tered for ten cents and parties who wish this don*
should Inclose this uuonut, or we will send them
by oxpress, the charge* to lie paid when they are
deliVVSd. Addrea* THE TKLEORAPH,
Macon, Georgia.
Make money ordori, check*, etc., payable to
U. C. HANSON, Manager.
pairing *
Iron aud
taction.
A. REYNOLDS, Proprietor,
Cor. Fifth and Hawthorne street*, Macon, Go.
Weary feet—how they stumble!
Weary brow—how it ache* I
Mind and heart, sonl and body
Wearing out for small stokes;
01 many time*, many times
Weighed upon by dull harms,
WUl it dresu of Mis nest In
Ifc* fond mother's arms.
Mother’s arms? Thera are Inllabies
There are trash-songs in the words
That come ** on breezes come.
Sweet song* of far bird*;
Ob. friend have yon heard them—
Havo • ’on neen 'mid heart storms.
Stretched oat through long year*
A loved mother’s arm*?
Aye, you’ve heard and you’ve seen,
You have wept through those years.
And you’ll weep yet again
Bitter in-falling tears:
Bnt you ne’er may return there.
No heart thy nest warms—
They are folded forever.
That dear mother’s arms. II, S. E.
COOS STOVES
EIGHTEEN SIZES AND KINDS
ill PURCHASERS CAN IE SUITED
UANCrACmtBD BT
Isaac fi.Sheppard & Co.,Baltimore,Bd.
AND FOR HALB BY
STOCK LA \V NOTICE.
ORDINARY'S OFFICE, JONES COUNTY, OA.,
December 94th. 1885.—Notice is nereby given to *11
persons concerned that a petition sa ordi eg to law
has keen filed in this office asking an order for
election on Stock law tn Roberts’s, the S9#tbOeorgie
militia district of this county, and an lea* some le
gal cause be shown to the contrary at the office on
Saturday, the 16th day of January next, at 11 o’clock
a. m... such order wUl be grouted. Wiraeee my
hand officially. R. T. RCJ88.
Ordinary.
REYNOLDS’ IRON WORKS.
Iron and Hruss Foundries nnd
Machine shops.
Iron falling". C«n» Mllto. Syrup K.IOm, Blum
Engines. Saw Mill*, Iren Front* for buildings of *11
Mud*, machinery of *11 kind*. Grist Mill*. Its-
engine* sod machinery a specialty.
forty year* in the iron business.
ttirvie guarantee to sell you Cane Mills cheeper
ban anybody, end tbst thoy will ghre perfect satis
f