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hjlBOW™ STATE.
i tnril 21.-Dr. W. P. Ponder
l .tsvrn, M * # ^ sit t0 Augusta.
Ijetnrned f j t Cadets were drill-
- h yesterday. This school,
l onl , b# „a “ment of Prof. V. E. Orr,
L "l*,^finest iu the State.
J* .'it Iliehnmod, a charming Atlanta
P** sThas been visiting Mrs. It. 1\
| * b , has returned home, mneh to
Km of her many admirers here.
Kr.ntsin Merritt and Miss Aanme
P' Uii P‘ . . rc iatiTes m Barnesville.
ciddens of Barnesville has
fc^itWherfather, M.O. Turner,
f fi'Shoa of Florida has pur-
r,, h0 “uei3 Forsyth and will locate
|»« “ 9 ' „q, s since Jim Wilkes, colored,
K mfe *nd child here and skipped to
Monroe Superior
J tb .,n ,as found against him, charg-
1L »th abandoning his child. A short
s requisition was obtained and
■ . ’in Deputy Sheriff James Kings
If, ‘ i. e went at once to Florida and
IIS to morning with Wilkes, who
UonJ for his appearance at the next
k U °5 r0 J C enS,“of Macon, willde-
1 the memorial address at this place
if! 0 /*!'' pound, ono of the finest mu-
iu the South, will soon take
T e o f» l»rg 0 class, which is being made
K, him in this place.
If Miss Wallace, of Atlanta, are
ii the family of Rev. J. J. Singleton,
.f twtoan Guards and the Hilliard
t.-i-Cidets will leave for Savannah on
Kst afternoon. May 2d.
K* Forsyth Hotel Company has been
led with Hon. W. II. Head ns president,
r i t McGinty as secretary and
I* \y li. Head, T. J. Fletcher, W. A.
|E B. Roberts and Dr. L. B. Alexan-
V directors. An architect has been in-
I tew®* here and prepare plans fora
I hot»l to be erected on the vacant
Llot,’on south side of public square.
A ii. hambdin, M. G. Howard,
LMatthcws and Captain B. J. Powell
A down from Barnesville lost night and
Ida » meeting of the Knights Templar.
Ids morning Dr. J. B. Tomer received a
Km stating that his son George had
Iran orer by a train at Callahan, Flor-
| Soon afterwards he recived a second
Inm announcing the death of their son.
I,:,],! was a conductor on the Savannah
Eds and Western railroad, and unmar-
His remains will be brought here and
gred to morrow. The grief-stricken
Ij have the sincere sympathy of the en-
ftmranity in this sacl bereavement.
■ Athenian's Wonderful Invention.
[ere is a quiet, unostentatious meclian-
lAttens who, for some time, has been
Vlv at work on u machine that willrev-
|onize the icc business and make its in-
•imillionaire. This man is Mr. Con-
j, who came to our city n couple of
1 sgo, and his invention, that he thinks
» perfected, is a machine for the man-
pte oi artificial ice at a cost of a few
flits labor each day. Mr. C. is now
gap one of Jus machines at the Com-
3 Hotel, that was built by the Athens
[dry and Maddrey & Jones, and it
»n be given a practical test Mr,
ter is father reticent about dis-
gbis invention, but wo learn the
ing inch as to what he claims for it:
^ icMnltrs will be of different sixes,
safest costing $125, with a capacity
) pounds of ico per day, or forty
s is turned out every twenty minutes.
Inlyneceisarj to charge the machine
I which costs but little, and at any time
I yon want ice you have only to make
I one torn a crank for twenty minutes
la forty-found block is formed. If a
ps, the value of this invention is ines-
lle. for there is not a hotel in the conn-
ft will have one, while they will come
Vncrsl use by private families. The
Sue is very simple and any one can
|f and operate it.
The Ocmulgee Judgeship.
pxt«imu,E, April 21.—There
I number of distinguished gentlemen
“g to the high position of judge of the
circuit, which has been so long
.“‘y filled by Hon. T. G. Lawson,
imt desiring to antagonize the interest
■j candiilaui now in the field or any
~>y hereafter enter the race, we wish
I /Jhe name of Hon. Bobert Whit-
f! ibldwin county, who is now in the
I term of Use responsible position of
••’ general of the circuit. Col. Whit-
f** not been consulted in reference to
••her, and it is not known that he de-
T>'place, but a great many of his ad-
iK . ,nd other points in the cir-
him eminently qualified for the
■>« on account of his large experience
■ his distinguished abilities and
““■aments as a lawyer. Baldwin,
A Hotel Changes Hands.
: ' >UKV, April 24.—The Harris
Kw*?! 4 .'<"terday to Mr. W. J
I*,, 7 “bmgton, D.0 Mr. Bclding
1’ K? rof the HoW Brunswick at
IESP 1 * Ho I® 1 * yesterday for the
Ip ,^*^r, lirr:1 OBe"ients to take charge
l«l ? "I 1 ? 6 on the 1st of June. He
Ea ij . 118 highly pleased with
and says he will fill
L ?'th Northerners next winter.
Ini Ti “ hero very badly. A
fkl 'tjh he shipped from this
f we I'ouldgeta good
far? 4 indieationsare that we will
| 10 ‘he next twenty-four hours. '
rwhluelo. Killed br HU Train.
IC;.T!r 24 ’- A ‘ Dallshan, last
KsJj: Aufner, a conductor on
llori 'l» end Western Bail-
I Cra.*! by c hia own «
Kctor Tnio tr,un hail broke loose and
rnim?T r stood '“thecentre of the
ftth?Jr'- '“Wnoor back. When
Iwm, n®* ine ®T reversed his engine,
■£®i tho conductor failed to get off
I ws, |,. w “ thought that Conductor
I So bh^ nag °? der aberration of
in .v c “ h® Attached to the
^tbhmoSng. C ° aduoto,i Tttraer
J , *** Ur “wpwrlor Court.
t tiuDoHoJo* f I*hecriminal docket
I'lnly £o” Con, i w “ token up this
lid, iim.i.'nf* ot . not ® have as yet
il,i h i < !L e “J S°nley Thomas,
l«!tomhj d m r *?kDavenport, who
I B'.th W ' "'heatley s bank in
|'«u j *'’te.eonvicted, the former
fUeticnj b . |J T e“Port has “»* yet
ktv.n a , ?,t lt i» thought that he
Ee dint,, iin®. 11 ? f twenty years.
“I wifi be finished up this
B t?u? ,, s* ,f .' v **e* Increased.
I rit« Wpi* 1 !?- 1 ' *' ~ Th e director*
l ,a P«T of m 11 . Co «°“ Mantifac-
of .‘I Chj h «« decided to
r it ‘ r t^ > , ,„ h . e V r “Peratirea 10 pec
?‘“«d»ia.T^*?, a “® c t® d - Node-
1 “ w^^t^tion wai
THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1866.-TWELVE PAGES.
Threatened Strike bj Knight, of Labor la
Augusta.
Augusta, Gmj. April 20. -Two weeks a K0
the executive bMtrd of the Knights of &.
bor peUtionedThe presidents of 8 the cotton
factories to abolish the “line" or “pu ss "
system; that no Knight he forced to Uke
the place of a discharged Knight until in-
the eseen iive board of the
Knights; that all machinists receive three
dollars for twelve hours’ work; that
fifty yards shall constitute one cut-
that where one mill pays $1.30 daily
for card grinding and another nays *1 75
tho average price shall bo $1.52}; that the
average price thus obtained be raised 15 per
cent., this advance to begin May 1st. The
executive hoard asserts that tho operatives
have quietly submitted to 30 and 35 per
cent, reduction dnring tho last two years,
they ask an udvanco now because the mills
“^ ord it They desire a conference
with the superintendents and ovorseers on
any vacancy or discharges, that they moy
fill tho vacancies. They ask for a holiday
for emp oyes May 1, when they will die-
cuss the labor question and kindred topics,
and invite the presidents of the mills to at
tend and appoint two speakers to address
them.
There are eight cotton mills in Augusta,
employing 3,000 hands. It is thought most
of them have joimxl the Knights of Labor.
The presidents of the mills held n meeting
to-day and. issued the following circnlsr let
ter to their employes in the mills, not no
ticing the Executive Board of tho Knights
of Labor:
Your attention is ifequested to a calm and careful
consideration of this paper. We have received a
communication purporting to come from an order
known as the Knights of Labor and slimed by the
Master Workman and Executive Committee of
that order. This communication pretends to
•et forth certain gnovances under which jou are
•offering and demand their redress. This order
claims to be acting at your lCftUbce aud iu your be-
If this be true, we decline most positively to
11
recognize any outside interference between our
ployes and ourselves. W'e are always prepared to
confer with jouaa employes, but in no other ca
pacity, upon all subjects relating to the common in
terests. We recognize that the rate of wages Is a fair
subject of argreement between employer and em
ployes, and that the right to work or quit working'
for another belongs absolutely to every person who
is not a convict or a slave, and tho right to employ
or not to employ another la absolute and incontesta
ble. These rights can only be limited by the partios
themselves. We shall therefore bo glad to
receive and fairly consider any communica
tion from ur employes, as such,
but we will not allow any outside parties to manage
our affairs. In conclusion, we would call your at
tention to the fact ibat the mills aro earning very
little mare than expenses, snd that up to a recent
E erio<*hey have for several years been run at a
eavyToss, their stockholders receiving no divi
dends, while during the same period the employes
have at least received a living.
The Knights of labor held a meeting to
night, which was largely attended, and the
following preample and resolution were
adopted.
Whereas, Our Executive Board has been positive
ly ignored by the mill presidents, and as it is posi
tively contrary to our constitution for us to adust
any grievances other than through our ExecuUvo
Board, therefore be it
Resolved, First, that we, the operatives and em
ployes of the mills, do absolutely and positively de-
oliue to confer with tho presidents or any other
persons, except through our executive board. Sec
ond, that we .endorse fully the action of our board.
Third, that wo forward to each of the presidents
whose names appear on the circular distributed
through the mills to-day a copy of these resolutions.
circled around it until it reached the ground,
where it scooped out a hole clear down to a
coffin and scattered the bones aro and on top
of the ground. ,
Judge Lochrane, wife and son, Elgin,
have been baptized by Dr. Hawthorne into
the Baptist church at Atlanta. If reports
be true, the Judge has been a Homan
Catholic, Methodist and Episcopalian, and
now that he has become a Baptist we hope
he will stick—Madisonian.
The Central Railroad is forcing the Sa
vannah, Florida and Western to compete
with itself. For instance, the Central will
lay freight down in Thomasville over the
Savannah, Florida and Western cheaper
than the latter road can. This freight
comes by the Central boats to Bainbriage
and thence to Thomasville. Thus Thornns-
villo is a competing point, although she is
not a terminal point.
President Gaddis ot the Brunswick and
Western railroad, who is now in New York
in conference with tho Seligmnns, the own
ers of the road, says that the Isabella and
Americas extension will be pushed through
at once, and that the extension will be in
running order by November 1st. The
Brunswick and Western road has just or
dered ‘25 miles of steel rails, aud proposes
to get the entire line ih ft rat-class fix this
summer, preparatory to a big run of busi-
GUBERNATORIAL OUTLOOK.
The Baptists of Barn»vlUe.
The Eev. Mr. SLiusuury of Perry lias
been conducting a series of meetings at the
Baptist Church in B»rnesvi!!« His efforts
appear to have been highly productive of
good, and no preacher has ever mot with
stronger indorsements or warmer responses
of brotherly love from our people than he
has on this occasion. He left onr city Tues
day, carrying with him the kindest regards
of all, regardless of sect. We an in
formed that in his lost sermon
he called on his congregation to
testify that be had preached to them
nothing but Christ. This is said to be
strictly true, and that notwithstanding he is
a prohibitionist, he had the good senso and
sufficient Christianity to refuse to follow
the examples of those eminent cranks, Dr.
Hawthorne and Sam Jones. Now that
Sardis church has enjoyed a short season of
Christianity, it is in order to rclapso to its
normal condition of a local political organi
zation, and for its officials to issue permits
to members, allowing them to vote, pro
vided they vote only ono way.—Barnesville
Orthodox Democrat.
Preston Valentine Confesses His Crime.
Augusta, April 23.—Freston Valentine,
the negro who was arrested in Virginia and
brought to Augusta, confessed to the mur
der of William Vales hofore the grand jury
to-day. Vales was a watchman at the de
pot of the Augusta and Summerville rail
road. Valentine struck him on tho head
with a pick, satnrated the body with oil and
fired the bnilding. He avoided arrest for
eighteen months. The mnrder excited
deep indignation and fears were nt ono
time entertained that Valentine would be
lynched. Tho law will now take its course.
The object of the murderer was robbery.
The Labor Situation to Augusta.
Auousta, April 21.—Bev. J. 8. Mey-
nardie, Master Workman Gf the Knighta of
Labor, gives it as his opinion that there
will be no s .rike in tho cotton mills here if
the presidents will confer with the execu
tive board. Tho Knights. held a meeting
to-night, at which it was estimated that fif
teen hundred Knighta were present, men
and women. The Master Workman says
they do not intend to strike. All that tno
Knights wont is fair wages for their work.
They want arbitration.
A Heavy Verdict for rue fiovernment.
Savannah, April 23.—In the second snit
in the United States Conrt against the
sureties of John H. Gould, the former in
ternal revenue collector of tho First District
of Georgia, on his second bond, a verdict
was rendered for the Government to-day for
$11,622.35 principal and $3i,363.78 interest
and the cost. Trie sureties are J. B. Mar
shall, Levy Nathans and John Nicolson.
This suit, uke the one disposed of Wedn j-
day, has been pending^since August, 1872,
A. New Steamer for the Chattahoochee.
Columbus, April 23.—Capt. Samuel J.
Whitesides boa just returned from Cincin
nati, where he closed the contract for a
handsome new steamer to he run on the
Chattahoochee river.
Notes of Ueneral Interest.
The Cochran Messenger has suspended
publication.
The Georgia Baptist ConvenUon meets in
Borne to-day.
Morgan county will vote on the local op-
Uon on the 5th of May.
The GeoKia Medical Society is in session
in Augusta. About 100 physicians are in
attendance.
The Ordinary of Macon county baa or
dered an election on prohibition, to take
place May 5.
The bicyclist who is traveling from New
York to San Francisco on his bicycle for a
wager passed through Fairfcum last Sunday
evening. He ia twelve days ahead of his
time.
The Augusts, Gibson snd Handenville
Bailroad have placed all their bonds at par.
Two hundred hands are now at work at
Gibaon, and it is expected that in three
months “the beby road” wiU be running
into Ssndereville.
Near Lawrenceville, during the last rain
storm, the lightning struck a smaU pine
tret in a graveyard above that town anti
The Newnan Advertiser of Friday says:
We have been requested to Stato that the
telegram sent to tho Tslf.oiui’h concerning
the case of intimated suicide here iu New-
nan, is erroneous. Mr. Dews, the gentle
man who took the poison, wishes it under
stood that he had no such idea and called
at the drug store for no such medicine as he
swallowed. He took the medicine which
uu are Wttg given him through a mistake of the
cleik, who discovered the error after Dews
had taken a dose of tho medicine lie was
putting up for him. The idea of suipide
was far dista t from his remotest dreams.
The Talbotton Now Era tells of “»little
woman in Talbot county who is the mother
of eight children, and besides doing all her
domestio work save the washing, eno is ed
ucating her children at home, each one of
the older ones being now very well versed
in the rudiments of an English education,
received entirely at home. They do not
live convenient to a school and the good
mother has gotten over the diiHcttlty. She
is one of the brightest and most intelligent
ladies in Talbot county,”
Verily, the way of the transgressor is hard.
The Augusta News of Thursday says:
"Major George T. Jackson, accompanied
by bis son, Walter M. Jackson, and an
official guard, left Augusta on the Central
train this morning for the Old Town plan
tation in Jefferson county, to which Major
Jackson has been assigned. This camp of
the penitentiary is under the direction of
Col. James, aud although the particular ser
vice hasnot bceu assigned, it is thought that
some light farm work will he given to Major
Jackson. He was looking thin and worn
this morning, and his parting from family
and home was a very sad one indeed.”
A few yenrs ago .Southwest Georgia tried
truck farming, and failed, because they Bent
Irish potatoes to market about as large as
partridge eggs, and city people wonld not
buy them. Mr. Lewis Bnniph of Houston
county has made money already this spring.
As an experiment, be planted less than an
acre of ground in radishes, to be shipped to
Enstem markets. In less than ninety days
from the day he planted bis seed he had
shipped his crop and realized a profit of
nenrly $3<Ki, end now has the same land
planted in cubbago plants. This shows
what can be done in truek farming in South
west Georgia when properly managed. This
knocks the spots clear out of cotton when
it comes to cash.—Montezuma Hooord.
THE TARIFF OUTLOOK.
ItaiKlaU’s Plans toVliermt the Morrison
Bill.
Washington, April 21.—Reed and Ran
dall, having laid their plans for the defeat
of the Morrison tariff bill, have been testing
the sense of the House to see whether they
can be carried out. They have had can
vasses of the two tide* of the House made
by their respective lieutenants, with a view
to ascertaining bow many members would
vote for a motion to strike out the enacting
clause or for a motion to strike out all after
the enacting clanse of the bilk They re
port, as the resnlt of these canvasses, that
there are 137 Republicans who will follow
Reed and 37 Democrats who will follow
Randall in support of such a motion as
either of the above.
Three Republicans (White, Wakefield and
Nelson of Minnesota) are classed as in favor
of the Morrison hill, and one Republican
(Fuller of Iowa) is classed as doubtful. Of
the thirty-seven Democrats eleven are set
down as from Ohio, eleven as from New
York, seven as from Pennsylvania, three as
from New Jersey and the rest from Mary
land, Virginia, Wait Virginia, Louisiana and
California. Tho reports are based, it is
claimed, npon personal interviews with
members on both sides. If such interviews
were had, and if the figures given above are
correct, thero ia a strange discrepancy be
tween the statements mode to the canvass
ers, on the Democratio aide at least, and the
statementa made to others. It is pretty cer
tain that as the bill at present stands all the
eleven Ohio Democrats (Randall, Ermcn-
tront, Curtin and Sowden), the three New
Jersey Democrats and two or three New
York Democrats will vote against it; bnt it
is not safe to infer from a one-sided canrasa
that the twenty or twenty-one Democrats
will he increased to thirty-seven by the
time the vote is taken.
Reed has been whipping the Republicans
into line with great vigor, nsing the old ar
gument that all protected interests mast
stand or fall to-gether. Several Republi
cans who had looked with favor on the pro
visions of tho Morrison bill in the interest
of free raw materials hare been more or less
foreiby persuaded into a determination to
oppose the hill. Threats have been freely
used in some cases by the representatives of
interests affected by tho Morrison bill. So
fsrWliito, Wakefield, Nelson of Minnesota,
and Fniler of Iowa, hare not yielded to
these persuasions. If the vote* are deemed
necessary Reid proposes to call a Repnbli-
eaucus on the tariff question and try to
force them hy the full party strength to
vote against their convictions. There is
reason, however, to believe that they
will not yield even to such pressure os
that. Bead proposes to lead the forces of
the coalition in person. Randall ia ox-
K ted to do nothing bnt furniah votes.
d will probably himself make the mo
tion to strike out the enacting clatue and
insert the Hewitt administrative sections.
It is proposed to force the fighting and
make this motion as soon os possible after
the general debate.
Morrison is still hopeful, bnt he very
properly thinks it too early to be confident
either of snccesa or fall n re.
Consumptive patients are advised to live
in rooms where one or two drachma of sul
phur are melted on a hot stove. The first
ten days bring increased coughing and irri
tation, then thcae cease and the patient im
proves rapidly. Persons with catarrh and
in early stages of conaumption apply to
enter chemical factories where quantities of
snlphnr aro evaporated daily and at* cured
in a few weeks by the inhalations. Cholera
and epidemic disease* are never found in
such factories.
STRAWS WHICH SHOW HOW
WIND BLOWS.
Pointers Prom tho Stato Pres* Concerning
tho Candidacy of Hon. A O. Bacon
nod Judge Sfmuiona—Bacon
Evident ly In the Lend.
Augusta Chronicle: In no recent campaign
in Georgia in which there was pronounced
opposition has public sentiment been so out
spoken and unanimous, and so soon crys-
talized as in the present gubernatorial race.
If the finiah came to-day Bacon wonld pass
nnder the string an easy winner. From the
counties on all aides come the report tli&t
Bacon is the favorite with the people, and
our published comments of the press this
morning clearly refiect the popular senti
ment in his favor. Bat in every contest in
whatever field there are those ever ready to
combine against the favorite, and already
shrewd efforts are being made to divide
Mr. Bacon’s following and moke way for a
compromise man. Our special from Macon
this morning exposes this scheme and de
nies that there exists any excitement or bit
terness between Mr. Bacon and Judge Sim
mons and their respective supporters. The
attempt to create the impression that the
feeling between these candidates is such
that the selection of some outside man w ill
be necessary to secure party unity will meet
with little success. Tho efforts to produce
defection from the Bacon ranks by bring
ing out candidates with a local following
who have no hope of ultimate nomination
or Mention will inspire little respect among
fair ir inded men, and we do not believe
that gentlemen in the State will allow them
selves used in this unworthy way. There
is no bitterness between Mr. Bacon and
Jndgo Simmons. They are generous oppo
nents in an honorable contest in which the
eople of Georgia are to be the judges. Mr.
aeon 1ms shown in the past his readiness
to Iow to the expressed will of the people,
when it has meant disappointment and de
feats for him; now that the time of his ele
vation is at hand, and the people are ready
to testify to his faithfulness in the past,
they will not be led astray hy the
schemes of nniriendly factions. The
Democratic party is a liberal pafty
of generous impulses and honest ac
tions, ever ready to reward those who lmvo
proven themselves valient and faithful in
her aervice. Such an one is the Hon. A. O.
Bacon, and the Democrats of Georgia await
hut for the coming of the timo when they
can testify their appreciation by calling him
to occupy the gubernatorial choir of the
State.
Eastman Journal: With this issue we nail
to the masthead of the Journal the name of
A. O. Bsoou for Governor of Georgia. Here
tofore we have been reticent upon the guber
natorial question. While we had our indi
vidual preference among the various names
mentioned as suitable to hold the helm of
tho ship of State, yet as we believe in n
majority of tho people ruling, we have been
watching for the sentiment of the people,
and our opinion is, based upon information
from sources snd sections, that a large ma
jority of the people of Georgia are deter
mined to call A. O. Bacon to the guberna
torial eliair. For many years, berond the
shadow of a doubt, he has been the choice
of a majority of the people, yet the people's
will has been frustrated and their object de
feated by the deception and schemes of
cunning politicians. We believe that the
people are determined thnt their will shall
be respected, and will speak in sncli
decisive tones as to nominate him
upon the first ballot. With his long
legislative experience and the information
derived from bis active and leading part
taktn in retrieving Georgia from her down
trodden condition in (he hands of her foes,
and placing her upon an equality with any
of this galaxy of States, there Is scarcely a
man in Georgia as w'ell posted npon the
State’s condition and her necessities os A.
O. Bacon. His manly letters in support of
the Railroad Commission show that if
elected bis administration will be character
istic of Ills former conduct for wisdom,
justice and moderation. Bacon is a ripe
scholar, a polished gentleman, and thor-
roughly conversant with Georgia's history
and tho political questions of the day, and
if elected we believe he would make a Gov
ernor to whom the people would look with
S title, and that his administration wonld he
istingnished for its ability and justice to
all, and redound to the prosperity of the
commonwealth of Georgia. While in the
Legislature A. O. Bacon performed valua
ble services in behalf of Dodge county, and
to show their gratitude and appreciation of
his efforts in their behalf the people of
Dodge county are almost solid for him for
Governor. Dodge county will send a Bacon
delegation to the gubernatorial convention.
Lincolnton News: That Atlanta ring has
trotted out Gen. Gordon. Personally we
wonld like to say that we entertain no ill-
will towards Gen. Gordon. As a soldier he
was one of the most chivalrous; as a de
veloper of railroad enterprises, he has ex
hibited rare financial ability; all this is true.
But as a minion of Joe Brown and the At
lanta clique (which is as compact as a cove
nant with the power* of darkness) there
looms np a blot to darken and dim and
stain his fair escutcheon. This is to be la
mented; but the 8tate of Georgia doea not
propose to get into the jim-jams and roll
herself up in sack-cloth and wallow in ashes
on this account. The old commonwealth
does not aim to tie herself unto Joe Brown's
apron string, nor choose to liow the knee
to his moneyed minions. No! She does
not intend to follow behind, clap her bands
and cry out: "Thesebe ourgods, 0! Israel.’'
Atlanta hates Bacon because she cannot boss
him. She hates him because he will not
make Georgia, Uke Moab, the wash-pot of
Atlanta. And the rural press backed by the
rural districts, lore* him because he does
not love Atlanta men, Atlanta methods and
Atlanta money. He can't be ruled bv the
first, seduced by the second or bought by
the third.
Thomasville Enterprise: Gen. Gordon
was s gallant soldier daring the war, and as
soon as the people of Georgia had an op
portunity they gave him snch honor and
love as rarely fall to the lot of man. If
Gen. Gordon has done anything for Geor
gia in return for this wealth of adulation
given him we fail to remember it, antes* it
be that he conaiden foisting on the State
the most infamous system of proprietary
politics ever known paid the debt he owed
the commonwealth. He deserted the office
given him and became an alien far the sake
of gain. Since then he has been connected
with the wild cat railroads, bnnko mining
operations and questionable enterprises of
many kinds. He lost his good name by his
own acts, and not all the dry bones on
earth nor bngle calls from all the hills In
the State, nor whitewash, nor blarney, nor
threats can raise him again to the proud
position he once held.
Covington Star: From every section of
Uie State the indications point most unerr
ingly to Hon. A. O. Bacon as the coming
man for Georgia's next Governor. The
G es* of the State, except where thero may
local candidates, is almost a unit for
him. Two counties have already selected
their delegatee to the gubernatorial conven
tion, and nave instructed them to vote for
Mr. Bacon. Thus the ball is rolling, and
before the convention meets the tide of
popular enthusiasm will be sweeping the
ehtiro State for tho "Courtly Knight of the
Cejitnd City.* The Star baa long believed
that he was the strongest man in the race
for Governor, and we cannot bnt feel the
keenest gratification at the indications of
popular esteem thnt is awakening into liis
support all over the State. We feel safe in
saying Newton county is solid for him, and
now predict that he will he nominated by
acclamation.
Leary Courier: There seems to he a gen
eral desire ail over the State that Muj. Ba
con he our next Governor. The press is
almost a unit for htm, and the voice of 'he
press generally illustrates the sentiments of
the people. Political prophets, though, arc
of the opinion that the visit of Jtfferson
Davis to Atlanta on tho 1st of May r^ill be
made the means of working up a political
boom for some other man. It Mr. Bacon
;oes into the convention with a winning
land, ho should provide agoiust the manip
ulation of hia forces by Grady and Howell,
in the interest of some other man, perhaps
Gordon, as done at tho laat convention.
Because he was tricked out of the nomina
tion at the Iart convention is the strongest
reason we have iu desiring Mr. Bacon's
nomination hy the coming convention.
McVille correspondence: As to the choice
of the people down here for Governor, Tel
fair and Montgomery counties are both solid
for Bacon without a dissenting voice, and
they ore for him on principle, as well as on
acconnt of tho rray in which lie has tricked
out of the nomination two or three years
ago by certain thin-skinned politicians.
My opinion is that the people of Georgia
will be ready for the next nominating com
mittee, or any other trlek or device fixed np
to swindle the peoplo out of their choice for
Governor. Mr. Bacon haw stood by tho
peoplo of Georgia ever since be has been in
public life, and it has never been imputed
to him that ho has abased at any time his
public trust, and that is more than can be
aaid of some of bis opponents.
LaGrange Reporter Major Bacon's can
didacy is booming. If there is any mean
ing in the newspaper reports, he leads nil
others now before the people. Ho is a good
campaigner and bis work is telling. It is
evident that the people, who believe that
“turn about is fair play," nud who have not
been unmindful of his nntienco and dignity
under former defeats, nave determined to
see him well seated in the chair of State.
Major Bacon will make Georgia a faithful,
wise and efficient executive. No interest of
tho State will suffer in the hands of one
so experienced in legislation and so able in
dealing with all public questions.
Carrollton Free Press: If we are to have
either of the triumvirate—Brown, Gordon
or Colquitt, for Governor, or any of their
satellites, why not take old Joe himself?
He is sly und cunning and knows well how
to take care of number ono, lint thoro is no
discounting his executive ability, his good
management, his judgment, or whatever
you may plense to call it, while on the oth
er hanu it is notorious thnt Gordon nnd
Colqnilt have generally proven failures in
enterprises requiring judgment or executive
ability. As a choice between the three,
are decidedly for Brown, the brains of the
company.
Dublin Post: The "Atlanta Ring" bos
trotted ou t General Gordon into the guber
natorial race track, and a good deal of jock
eying is being carried on. Gordon was an
old favorite, hut the boys all say be haa
been hip shod since ho flew the track and
jumped the Senatorial fence a lew years
ago. He can still make very good time, hut
his gait is somowhat ungraceful. ;
Camilla Clarion; Two years ago we had a
nomination that provoked no blokoiing. Lot
us have another. Gus Bacon Is an able
man and admirably qualified for the Gov
ernorship. His manners sometimes appear
to ho cold, hut his head is level and his
heart patriotic. He has been tried and never
found wanting. His record is nnassailed
and unassailable.
McDuffie Journal: Coffee county U first
to declare her choice for Governor. Her
primary meeting last week instructed her
delegates to vote for Bacon. If ring trick
ery can be overpowered in the convention,
Bacon will be nominated on the first ballot.
Acwortli Nows and Farmer; Inaamnch aa
there seems to be a call tor Major Bacon
from every qnarter of the Btate, it seems to
us that Judge Simmons is standing in his
own light In antagonizing Macon's candi
dacy.
Thomasville Enterprise; Jndge Simmons
is sampling granite, dispensing justice and
shaking hands with voters in Oglethorpe
county this week. Thou art so near and
yet so for.
Thomasville Enterprise: The Constitution
haa waked up to the fact that Bacon is In
the race for Governor. The next awakening
will be at bis inauguration. Belah.
Eastman Times: Bacon is considerably
shove par in Georgia, snd continnea to ad
vance. We predict that Jew and Gentile
alike will take it this fall.
MR. KKEUTZ EXPLAINS
Ills Conduct la thn Hereof Hlectlon In
Ilaldwla County.
Editor Tslegbapb: I ask the privilege of
replying through your columns to certain
charges made against me by a gentleman of
high social and profeasional standing and
by a correspondent of your paper, both of
‘whom, in communications which appeared
in the Tslsobapb ot March 25tb, refer to
my action in connection with the recent
prohibition contest in Baldwin. To these
articles I should have repliod sooner, bnt
for the reason that my friends advised me to
wait until the pnblic mind had somewhat
recovered from the excitement of a heated
canvas and until'time had so far cooled the
tamper of the people of Baldwin connty as
to assure me a fair and impartial
judgment, after hearing my statement.
It is s very grave snd serious matter to
drive a citizen from bis home and
family, and to say to him that under
no cironmstances will he be allowed
the liberty of returning to a community in
which he has lived for four years, snd I am
satisfied that the good people of Mitledge-
ville and of Baldwin county will not deal
thus harshly with the humblest of their
fellow citizens without raving him a fair
and patient hearing, and that upon the pro
duction of evidence establishing his inno
cence, they wiU give to anyonewhoappea's
to them all the justice to which he is en-
titlsd. I make no complaint of the action
taken by the people of Baldwin at the time
and under the circumstances, for from their
standpoint, and accepting as true the mis
representations which were made about me,
that action was natural and to be expected.
I should have felt as they did if called upon
to pass judgment upon one arraigned for
snch language aa was falsely attributed to
me.
And, now, in this connection, I will say
that if anyone can be produced who will say
that on that or any other oceasion I used
language disrespectful of the ladies of Bald
win county, or that I said anything which
could possibly have been construed into a
wmt of respeot for them, I am willing to
confront such person, and ssy to him—sa I
now do—that such charges are false snd
without the slightest foundation. I did not,
on that or any other day, use language that
could be tortured into a want of respect for
the ladies of HiUedgeville or of Baldwin
connty, or that the moet ignorant negro
could have construed in that way. In one
of the communications of March 25 t
lowing statement is made:
“Laat night be (meaning mysell 1 I a
large orowd of drnnken negroes in bis bur,
and spoke to them in the bitterest terms
against the prohibitionists, and especially
about the laaies of the town who had taken
part in the prohibition campaign. He nsi-1
tho most offensive language tint coniJ lo
used about a lady. Several white men who
were near heard the remark and took it np,
and a general fight ensued.”
Now, Mr. Editor, I desire to Bay that your
correspondent was imposed on, and tliat
there is not a word of truth iu the fore
going statement, so far as the material parts
of it are concerned. If there were “several
white men" who hoard such remarks as lam
cliargedjwith having'made, I ask to be fur
nished with their names. I dare say no snch
white men” or colored either can he pro
duced. As to the latter part of the ftato-
ment that “a general fight ensued,” I deny
that there was any fight, or anything
like a fight except as foUowa; On the night
of the 23d of March I was in the front part
of iny store for some time in conversation
with a man, who, after awhile left, when I
walked back into tho bar-room. When I
got into that part ot the building I saw a
person, whoso name I will not mention, and
my clerk, each with a pistol in his hand
and in a threatening attitude. I seized tho
party referred to, because I was satisfied
that he was the assailant, and took his pis
tol from him, thereby preventing an attack
on myself ns well aa my clerk. About this
timo the person was taken off by an officer
aud this was all tho fight that "ensued." It
is due myself to state thnt tho
party referred to is tho only per
son have heard of who says ho hoard
the Odousive language from me on the
evening of the 236; that I hod, neuiciimu
before thnt day, bad a personal misunder
standing with him, and that on the evening
referred to ho was very much intoxicated.
In corroboration of my denial, I attach thu
affidavit of Mr. Jcsso Leonard, who wna in
the room the whole time, and says thnt I
uttered no ench language. The day after,
on being notified tliat there was great ex
citement in town, and that my life was in
danger on acconnt of the wild and unfound
ed rumors afloat, I asked Mr. Joe Leonard
to see nnd send to myhousoMr. Sol Barrett,
n prohibitionist, nnd some other good and
conservative citizens. Accompanying Mr.
Bnirett were some other gentlemen,
all of whom will no donbt
remember the circumstances under which I
asked for a postponement of an investiga
tion. Suffice it to say it would be great in
justice to me to construe this request into a
confession of my guilt. Threatened as I
was with violence, I most naturally asked a
postponement of an investigation until tho
pnbUc mind was prepared to hear my de
fense coolly and dispassionately.
As to my participation in the procession.
I can only say that I got into it by the merest
accident. I did not Know ot it until I saw
the negroes marching np the hill. I regret
that I rode along the line as they marched
through the town, bnt if tho language men
tioned by yonr correspondent was used
by them I did not hear it. I
was in no condition to bear any
thing with distinctness, but I do say that
there never was a moment in my life, when
I was nntrao to my own race, or wlicn^ I
would hate tolerated ouch utterances. In
a long procession as that was, snch remurks
may have been mode, hot If they wore, I
did not hear them. I am sorry that 1 put
myself ia a position to he even suspected of
dlsloynlty to my own race, and trust that
my friends in Baldwin will believe mo
when I say that no one regrets it ns much
as myself. 1 have thus made a plain and
true statement of my action .on tho 23d of
March, trusting that the peoplo who upon
misrepresentations of my motives nnd con
duct, nave unintentionally done mo Injus
tice, will give me a fair and impartial bsaj-.
ing. All I ask of my fellow C J;|.
sens of Baldwin, is to pass up
on my conduct, ns they would
ask to he dealt with if they were sitnated ax
I am, Since the ifnfortnnate occurrences,
which have resulted so unhappily for mo
snd my afflicted family, I have uniformly
udvised my friends to take a conciliatory
course, and asked them to say and do noth
ing that might disturb the pesos ot tho com
munity. while suffering what I felt injus
tice, 1 understood the cironmstances out of
which it originated, snd have bod all the
time an abiding hope that a returning sense
of justice wonld restore me to the confidence
of my fellow-citizens, llmtsv E, Kbeutz.
Mucon, G*„ April 25, 1886.
Millidoevill*, April 22.
I hereby oertify that I am a clerk In the
employ of Mr 11. E. Krentz, and was in liis
•tore on the night he is reported to have
used remarks of an incendiary and riotous
nature, and of advising negroes to treat the
ladies who "attempted to pin bine badges
on them or to talk prohibition to them" in
a manner which was revolting to any white
person. I was present and near Mr. Kroutz
all the while, and will swear that I nover
heard him make any remark even similar
to what he it accused of having made, or
advise any negro to any act of violence or in-
solt, nor did I hear him say tho least thing
against the ladies of this or any other plaoe.
Hod I have beard him use any remark that
he is accused of, I wonld have left his em
ploy on the instant and would have resent
ed ft as any white man should have done.
. Jesse T. Leonard.
Sworn to before me, Walter Panne,
Clerk Superior Court Baldwin county.
Frank Boling, of Cherokee, Kan., threw
himself on s fea’ber bed that lay on the
floor during a thunder storm. Heneglected
to draw np his legs, and his feet were teach
ing the floor, when the lighting struck the
home and played abont his feet, burning
them and knocking him senseless. That
part of hia body that was on the bed was
not hart, and a child lying on his side was
uninjured. AU of which may be used to
show that featherbeds are good places of
refuge in thunder-storms.
A letter with the following directions re
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Miss Jennie Jane will reed this
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