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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY. JANUARY 5,1880.-TWELVE PAGES. THE TELEGRAPH, 9CEL1MIKD EVERY DAT IN TUB TEAS AND WEEKLY Teieg-raph ami Mes>«nsrcr Publishing Co.. 97 Mullierry Street, Macon, Go. The Pally la delivered by canie<n In the city or nailed j-ohte.ro free to auliRcribcrN, for |1 per monta, f‘i.80 for three months, $5 for alx months, or 910 a year. Tue Weekly Is mailed to subscribers, postage free, at $1.25 a year and 75 cents for six months. Transient advertisements will be taken for the Dally at $1 per square of 10 lines or less for the first Insertion, and 60 cents for each subsequent in sertion, and for the Weekly at $1 for each insertion. Notices of deaths, funerals, marriages and births. $1. Rejected communications will not be returned. Correspondence containing important news and disciuisiona of living topics is solicited, but most be brief mud written upon but one side of the paper to have attention. Remittances should be made by express, postal tote, money order or registered letter. Atlanta Bureau 17>i Peachtree street. All communications should l>e addre«Had to THE TKLEORAPH, Macon, Qa. Money orders, checks, etc., should be made paya ble to U. C. Hanson, Manager. 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