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THE MACON WLEKLY TELEGRAPH. TUESDAY, APRIL 27, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES.
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Tbb Columbus Enquirer announces Thos.
"W. Grimes, Esq., as a candidate for Congress
in the Fourth district. Mr. Grimes is strong,
popular and experienced in public life, Lav
ing served with distinction in the Legisla
ture. The Enquirer backs up his claims,
and he will be a formidable man in the can
vass, aa Columbus, the main city in the dis
trict/nhonld have a chance at ; the Repre
sentative^
Thr Reverend Samuel Small’s attempt to
use the peculiar rhetoric of the Reverend
8am Jones has canned a commotion. A
Columbus, Miss., special says: “The
Democrat, a prohibition paper, attacked tho
celebrated divine, condemning his language,
and said that Columbus did not require
such religion, ns it was a moral city and did
not requirtrttam Small to pilot the citizens
to heaven with a helm full of blasphemy.
This attack was answered by Small in lan
guage very emphatic. It is understood that
the Democrat will reply to-morrow in lan
guage mofe emphatic, and war is looked
for.” The polico have already had to at
tend to the Salvation Army In maty places.
In view of the death of the Poet Priest,
Father Ryan, how touching are his words:
"Some day In Spring
"When earth is f*lr aud glad,
"And aweet bird* sing
• ‘And fewer hearts are sad—
"Shall I die then?
"I know It will be sweet
"To leave the homes of tj^an
"And rest beneath the sod.
"To kneel and kt*s Thy foot
"in Thy Home! Oh: my God.
"Haste, death, lie fleet,
"1 know it will be sweet
r To rest beneath the sod—
"To kneel »nd kiss Thy feet
"in Heaven, Ohl my Oml.
Ohio, like many other States, has a bar
association. The member, of this associo-
tion hold some peculiar views, but wo can
not say that they ore open to criticism. A
Cincinnati diapateh says: "Mr. Washing
ton T. Porter, an attorney and secretary of
the Cincinnati Bar Association, was * ex
pelled from that body by a vote of 27 to 24
at a meeting to-night for violation of a rule
of the association Which says that a mem
ber that seeks the nomination (or a judge-
ship shall be liable (o expulsion. Mr. For
ter sought the nomination of tbs Republi
can convention lost fall and refused to ex
plain to the association.’' Down here in
Georgia we hare a bar asaociation, bat law
yers and judges are permitted to seek any
thing in the way of political preferment
that they may take a fancy for. If our bar
association is indisposed or unsble to cor
rect the evil, perhaps the people may un
dertake the job. If they do so in earnest
the work will be complete.
Mb. Cleveland is undergoing another
ordeal, the reanlt of which will bo watched
with interest by the Democratic party. The
New York 8nn says: "The term of Post
master McLeer of Brooklyn terminated
more than a week ago. The regular Demo
cratic organization in Brooklyn and the
Democratic Congressman have made a for,
mal request for the nomination of former
County Clerk John Delmar. President
Cleveland was informed that Delmar was
the man whom the united Democracy of
the dUtrictwiahW to see appointed to the
place. Yesterday Beecher said he had
written to the President on Saturday urg
ing him to renominate McLeer, and that it
was his purpose to go to Washington and
press the adoption of his views on the Ad
ministration os on act of public policy. All
the Mugwumps are supporting McLeer,
hut the Democratic leaders cannot bring
themselves to believe that the President
will ignore their wishes in regard to the
postmastership, particularly aa Gen. Mc
Leer was so conspicuous a partisan during
the last Presidential campaign.
A Small but Important Blatter.
Mr. Vilas, the Postmaster General, is re
ported to havo gone to Virginia to devoto
two weeks to recreation and fishing. It is
almost too early for angling in Virginia,
and besides tho moon and other signs are
not right for this popular and contempla
tive sport.
Bat just as soon as he can return re
freshed and invigorated, we would invite
bis attention to n small but important
matter. Upon the first signs of life in the
approaching gubernatorial campaign in this
State a complaint was lodged against sn in
ternal revenue collector to the effect that he
and bis deputies were taking part in a fac
tional o ntest. There is reason to believe
that this charge was unfounded, in fact,
and it is more than suspected that the
offense of the collector was a refusal to take
the part assigned him by sundry political
managers.
Be this as it may, it seems that he was
warned from tho Treasury department.
About the same time the Attorney-General
found it convenient to attempt to pat a
brake npon some of the underlings of bis
department. It is held by the administra
tion that those enjoying "public trusts”
shall not take an active part in State
Federal polities. We do not come to argue
the wisdom or efficiency of the rule, but
to ask its impartial enforcement. It is
well established that the most efficient
strikers of the Republican party _were tho
fourth-cl&ss postmasters.
These officials frequently run rural pa
pers, preside over country stores, write
deeds, pull teeth, doctor horses, cut hair
and perform inauy other chores, which bring
them into frequent contact with tho people
of their vicinity, and thus enjoy unusual
advantages for booming their candidates
and politicians to whom they may be undor
obligations for official preferment.
Mr. Vilas has made a number of fourth
class postmasters in Georgia, and the Presi
dent has appointed others of a higher grade.
There may not have been any design in
these appointments, but regarding them as
to the past affiliations of the appointees,
the very inrge majority hnve been selected
from one division of the Democratic party
in this State. These will make up a form
idable array of active canvassers if they are
not restrained by orders from hoadquarters.
We furnish an instance in point Mr. J.
Dorsey Alexander is the editor of n small
weekly paper. Editor Alexander is also
postmaster at Thomaston. Now, Mr. Editor
and Postmaster Alexander is a most noisy
and industrious partisan of Mr. Blount for
Congressman and whoever Mr. Blonnt may
desire for Governor or other official posi
tions. Tho publication presided over by
Mr. J. Dorsey Alexander, P. M., takes a
very advanced and pronounced position,
and is virulent and onesided. True, it does
not amonnt to much, bnt if Postmaster-
Editor J. Dorsey Alexander is permitted to
become "an offensive partisan,” others may
claim the same privilege. Wo trust we have
made the point plain.
After Mr. Vilas has placed his fishing-
poles in the chimney corner, wound np his
lines and hid his bait gourd trader the ush-
liopper, perhaps he may find timo to issue
an order to his fourth-class assistant post
masters in this State to cease any active
politicul work until we hnve this guberna
torial question settled.
As the whisky gangers and deputy mar
shals have been ordered to uttend to official
business, will not Mr. Vilas instruct his
fourth-doss strikers to "hands off?’
A Little Black Cloud.
The remark. of the colored Methovllat BUhop Tur
ner at the Richmond Conference disclose to view
upon the Southern political horizon a little cloud,
now no bigger than > man’s hand, but dark with
the portent of "considerable of a shower." The
Bishop denounced the Republican Supreme Court
for nullifying the civil rlghta law, and declared
that for himself he was "neither a Republican nor
a Democrat," but a Prohibitionist. If the colored
vote should take an exodus in this direction, what
would become of the Republican party at the South,
and of tho bourbon Democracy ?—Boston Herald.
The question is pertinent; and behind it
is one yet more pertinent. What will be
come of society? Intemmirance is crime;
no one should deny this, And all wise ef
forts to put down intemperance should
command the support of people of every
raoe and both sexes, bnt let it not ho for
gotten that thero larks in this age and sec
tion a danger that threatens white woman
hood more terrible than even intemper
ance. It is easy to understand that the
white women who, on the streets or else
where, lay hands upon negro men to pin up
on their coats the badges of reform, or meet
them in tho lunch-rooms, or stand with
them npon a level, aro actuated by tbe
highest of motives, aud that they heroically
sacrifice much to popularize a principle;
bnt clothed in its best,' this experiment must
ever^eem deplorable. The exorcism thnt
lays one devil and frees ton thousand worse
had better be left nnuttered.
The “little cloud, now no bigger than a
man's hand," yet visible in Mossaclmsetts,
is the Prohibition party in Georgia politics
led by unscrupulous white men, enthusi
asts, and followed by the negro race. It
means n balance of power from the worst
elements of society, and may mean a con
flict before every white man’s door. To
some people it mny seem better that a - man
should be carried over his threshold dead
than drunk, hut drunkards sometimes re
form, while the dead return no more. What
ever faults it may have, it must always be
said of the Democratic party in Georgia
that it has defended her womanhood and
guaranteed it protection in every county.
This is something, and since the danger it
confronted is still active, perhaps it would
be well to leave the party still on guard.
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Sow e people are wearing their spring colds trim
med with poroua plastors.—Philadelphia Herald.
The campaign lu Pennsylvania is almost open,
but 'twill ho an early and agile lie that eclipses the
cyclone story of the gravestone blown from Bt.
Cloud three miles across the Mississippi.—Philo.
Uelphia News.
TELEGRAPH BYPLAY.
The editor of the Deseret News, Salt Lake, is in
jail for supporting four wives. We will guarantee
the payment of hia fine if he will give it away. Just
let the profession know' how he supports four on
one paper.—San Francisco Alta.
When a Republican gets a government appoint
ment under a Democratic administration the mem
bers of Congress say he is an "expert," and politics
have nothing to do with the cuse. Such men ap
pointed aro expert* in getting places.—Picayune.
Our Friend, the Mocking Bird.
A great deal has been written in the Tble-
aiiAPH during the last thTee years concern
ing tho gradual extermination of the South s
splendid songster, the mocking bird, or to be
more definite, the Mimas Polyglottus. The
Telegraph first called attention to the sub
ject, and I see no reason to doubt that the
theory then advanced to account for the
growing scarcity of the birds was and is
the true one. The reason given was the
unchecked slaughter of the birds by negro
"sportsmen,” and the destruction or capture
t>f their young from wantonness or a desire
for gain.
Changed Hla Order: Temperance advocate (to
young man in restaurant)—"My dear young friend,
do you know that tbe Bible says, ‘Look not upon
the wine when it la red?’" Voting man (surprised)
—"No; does It? Here waiter, make that Rhine wine
instead of claret-"—New York Times.
The Mlnueapclis Tribune baits for new subscrib
ers with a crosscut saw, and calls it tbe "grandest
premium over offered by any newspaper." There
is indeed little left for future newspaper conquer,
on after this: but possibly something might be
done with a cyclone pit—Boston Herald.
" ’Deed, miss," ssld he addressing the daughter,
'ycu’so lookin’ mighty peart, you Is, and growod
big 'ootnan, too, alnco 1 fust knowed ye. An' dar*s
yo' mudder, too. Lawdt Lawdt 'stonlshin' how
smart she looks. I ain't gwlne ter say 'at yon look
's old's yo' mudder, but I 'clar It am a sartiu fack
yo' mudder looks ’■ young as yon." And the courtly
old coon chuckled softly as ho resumed his shovel
ing.—Detroit Free Press.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York World writes that Sec
retary Lamar was at his department
to-day. His Southern trip appears
to tsif .improved his physical condi-
• ioB very much. He ia in the beat of health
andapirits. In speaking of the Sute of
Oeorgia, recently visited by him, he said
that he had seen nowhere in the South such
evidences of growth and prosperity. He
was asked: "In wbat way is tbe State pro
gressing and prospering?" He replied
"Throughout the State property is rapidly
increasing in valne, business is good and
the people appear to ba doing well. Yon
see signs of thrift and prosperity in every
village. Between Macon and Atlanta it is
almost one continuous settlement .of new
houses. The State is growing very rapidly
in its manufacture*. There should be many
more banka, so aa to afford better facilities
to the people who desire credit. Money
now commands altogether too high a rate
of interest, considering the kind of security
that can be given. This makes a heavy tax
npon every bniiness.”
Tuk l'ublic Ledger's correspondent writes
from Washington as (oIIowb: "Mr. Ran
dall to-day informed your correspondent
that it was unquestionably true that the
President had spoken to a number of mem
bora about the necessity of tariff legisla
tion at the present session and that somo of
those thus addressed left the White House
with the impression that the President fa
vored the Morrison bill. Mr. Randall
believes, however, that such efforts on
the part of the Executive will have lit
tie indnenee with the members, os they
will vote according to the interests of their
respective constituencies rather than follow
tbe dictation of the President It is not only
inpolilic bn?, dangerous, Mr. Randall thinks,
for the Executive to attempt to indnenee
members upon any question pending before
Congress, and particularly to attempt to
imduence them upon such a question aa
the tariff. "President Buchanan," said
Mr. Randall, "took members by the throat
and attempted to coerce them to support
his policy touching the territories of Kansas
and Nebraska, and the result of his inter
ference was not only to bring overwhelming
defeat to his administration, but division
and disaster to hia party. Mr. Cleveland
will succeed no better then Mr. Buchanan.
The Preeident may communicate to Con
gress his views npon the tariff or any other
public question, and may indnenee the body
in this manner, bnt bs cannot with pro
priety corral individual members and at
tempt to coerce them into voting npon great
public questions, intimately affecting tho
material interests of tbe people, according
to his individual views. The members of
the House are in constant communication
with the people end know whet they want
and do not need advice npon the tariff from
any executive officer." From these expres
sions it will be seen that Mr. Randall is not
likely to be swerved from his sense of daty
by any efforts the President may make on
liehalf of the Morrison bill. Mr. Randall
■ays there it no foundation for the report
that the Democratic members from Penn
sylvania are divided upon the tariff bill.
He believes all of them will vote against
that measure, and he is confident that it wilt
be defeated.”
Senator Coke may be put down as a
rather sturdy Democrat He is quoted as
follows: “The President may make as many
Repnblican appointments as be pleases, but
Pll be damned if I'll vote for them.”
The New York Herald says: “Our wide
awake contemporary, the Macon Tele
graph, Bays that Macon men in Florida laugh
to see the natives opening canned tomatoes
in sight of tomato plants loaded with ripe
fraih Then the said Macon men go to their
homes and buy Florida shad—at Washing
ton market prices—although their own
river is full of them, and the Telegraph
asks, ‘Is it not a little singular ?’ Bless yon,
no! Tbe same sort of thing is going on nil
over the country. There is not a year when
hams and bacon do not bring higher prices
in some great pork-prodneing counties of
tho West than they do in New York. There
are Southern counties where the water
melon grows so easily that the stnaU boy
scorns to steal it, yet in some towns
in these counties a watermelon costs
twice os much ns in any Northern city.
There are cattle ranches in the West where
milk—when thero is any—brings fifty cents
a quart, and great grain farms on tho prai
ries whose owners never in their lives tasted
an ear of sweet corn. And—coming back
to shnd—there are times, when these fish
arc running up our own river by tens of
thousands, that a breakfast of shnd costs
more than one of beef-ateak, although the
shnd comes right to town and needs only to
be taken from n net, while the beef has to
be fed at least three years and then brought
half way across the continent by rail. No;
there's nothing singular about it, except in
the fact that whore food products most
abound, human nature seems most incom
petent to make full use of it« opportunities.
America is, above ail others, a land of
plenty, but no one would imagine it after
looking at a price list of family supplies.
Two day* before be died, Dennis Wilcox stood by
tbe "ticker” in the ofllce of a broker with whom be
had been on terms of social intimacy outside of
Wall street for many years. He was silent a long
time, watching tbe figures as they came ticking out
on the "tape” from the Stock Exchange. Then wijh
the air of a man disheartened he turned to his
fnend and said: "If I had taken some advice and
quit this speculation, I would have beeu a great deal
better off to*day.” "Then why not stop now 1
will. I've had enough. I shall never touch another
share." lie kept hi* word with the aid of hi* pis
tol.—New York Times.
A blatant, braying sample of tbe loud-voiced,
self-conscious, look-at-me variety of men took his
seat in a Philadelphia street car, and called to the
conductor: "Does tills car go all the way up
Eighth?,” "Yes, sir,” responded tho conductor, po
litely. "Does it go up a* far a* Oxford street?
want to get off there.” "Yes sir, wm the reply.
"Well, 1 want you to tell me when you get there.
You’d better stick a wafer on your nose, or put a
straw in your mouth, or tie a knot in one of your
lips, so that you won’t forget it.” "It would not be
convenient for one 1n my position to do ao,” said
tho conductor, courteously; "but if yon will kindly
pin your ears around your neck, I think I will re
member to tell you.” Amid the roar of the passen
gers, tbe man said that bo had "foTgotten some
thing,'’ and got off at the next corner.—Puck.
to raise young mocking birds i, D]
feeding at too long intervals,
and the wrong brad of food, tw'u,
gives a worm every few minutes.
gives egg and potatoes about three
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Mocking birds can be tanght aim™..
thing in the way of tnnes. “ MaconT
boast of a bird that whistled Din?'
years ago a Frenchman traveled aC,
country playing airs npo n the piano *,
his bird would follow accurately i,
Pulaski House in Savannah a naora .
keep a bird that would whistle » l!?
to tunes his master whistled. 6 u
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This theory has been combatted. It is
stated by some that the English sparrow is
driving out the singers. By others that the
destruction of the forests has something to
do with the evil. It is even suggested that
hurricanes may be tbe real cause. None of
these theories will stand the test. The Eng
lish sparrow, in fact no bird, can drive out
the mockers, .who belong to a game and bel
ligerent family. The common mocking bird
will attack dogs, cats, hawks, crows and
buzzards when they invade his range, and I
have never known one of them to give up
the contest. But the sparrow theory is en
tirely npset by the fact that the English
emigrant of that family does not inhabit
the country, but towns, villages and cities,
as recently pointed out, and the additional
fact that instead of becoming more numer
ous in the rural districts, as they naturally
would if driven from the business commu
nities, the mocking birds are becoming
scarcer everywhere. Nor will tbe hurricane
theory do, since but few sections have suf
fered from these storms, and that not more
than before the war.
The charge is often made that th.
mocker will poison its young when th:
ter has been caged. It would be had *
prove this, and it is easy to account t* a
youngster’s death, otherwise.
that t
One of the most populur errors
iug the mocking bird is the belief
has no song of bis own; that he ad„„n
blends only the notes of other birds i
song. This is pure nonsense. The »
mocking birds reared in th; garrets oi
cities and beyond the reach of the soi
others, sing as do the natives in their
dom, t though not as strongly
they lack the inspiration of
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The destruction of forests has nothing to
do with the loss of this bird. He is not u
forest bird, bnt of the fields. He prefers
an open situation and the haunts of man.
The orchard, the hedge, a solitary haw bush,
where he has plenty of sunlight and a
breadth of view, suits him best. And it is
in tho fields and orchards that he finds food.
Of all nests his is probably the most care
lessly built and little trouble is taken to con
ceal it. He seems to feel that his song is
the price of security, and this mistake is
fast playing havoc with him.
BACON IN THE LEAD
The
Recently Louisville, Ivy., was shocked
by tho murder of a prominent sporting man
on tho streets of that city by a hoodlum
for the purpose of robbery. The trial has
taken place, and with the usndl result. Tho
wretch escaped the gallows, whereupon the
Courier Journal indignantly says: "Nothing
is as cheap in Kentucky us life. No crime
is committed with sach impunity as murder.
Yet it is impossible to secure a change of
the law- from this Legislature. Criminal
lawyers thwart the popular aense of jus
tice at every step, yet the people are
undoubtedly right and the lawyers are
miserably wrong. There is not a county in
the State from which there does not cry the
blood of some murdered men. Ail in vain.
Out power to punish the worst of crimes
has departed.” Kentucky cannot corral her
murderers until she depiives juries of the
power to apportion punishments, and this
is equally true of other States. Georgia has
a clause in her criminal code which cheats
the geUows of its victims. Juries dodge
their responsibilities and render wroug ver
dicts, because they are permitted to make
recommendations for mercy to judges who
ore looking for political preferment.
For tlte Nomination for Governor
Feeling In Macon.
A correspondent of the Augusta Chronicle,
under date of Macon, April 20th, writes to
that paper as follows:
Your correspondent is in a position to
give a correct view of tho political field in
the State. Matters aro certainly in good
shape for the nomination by the convont.on
of Hon. A'. O. Bacon for Governor; but
thero is no disguising the fact that there are
some infiuences which are very shrewdly
endeavoring to shape opposition to him.
The public mind is being very industri
ously worked upon to produce tho impres
sion that the antagonism between Judge
Simmons and Major Bacon is ro great that
tho division resalting therefrom offers an
inviting opening toother candidates.
Tho scheme of the opponents of Major
Bacon is to get other candidates announced
in different parts of the State whose local
following will draw away from his support.
Booms will bo started in certain sections
where Major Bacon is strong, in favor of
local candidates, the object being, if possi
ble, to woaken bis strength, and thus pro-
v. nt his nomination on the first ballot. It
is thought, with several candidates in the
field, that Bacon can he defeated in this way.
While Bacon and Simmons have undoubt
edly strong friends in Bibb, and while it is
almost certain thnt Bacon will carry this
connty, it is not true that there is either
E :at excitement or greet bitterness between
con and Simmons, or their friends and
supporters respectively. Dispatches from
Macon alleging mutual bitterness between
Messrs. Bacon and Simmons and their
friends are sent out for the purpose of cre
ating the impression that it will be best for
the intereat of the party to bring a new
man into the race. All this is done for n
purpose and tliat purpose is to defeat Bacon.
The people of Macon are not bitter or ex
cited, but they have settled down into the
conviction that the general verdict of tho
State is in favor of Major Bacon for Gov
ernor.
In tho language of the turf, tho field will
be against Bacon, and the people over the
State who are in favor of a new and square
deal should understand that the various can
didates who are or may be announced in
this race between Simmons end Bacon will
be used (although not themselves perhaps
intending it) primarily to secure Bacon's
defeat, and not for tbe advancement of the
persons so used.
All over the State Major Bacon has active,
earnest snpporters, and, unless ell signs
fail, yon cun teU the readers of the Chron
icle that he will be the next Governor. The
people will see to it that he is the nominee
of tue Democratic State convention.
I do not think the original theory is wrong.
ITp to emancipation times, or rather the
close of the war, mocking birds were plenti
ful everywhere in Georgia. During the
years that followed, freedom armed a race
to whom guns had been forbidden. The
negro became an enthusiastic hunter, hut
he was unskilled and conld gratify his craze
for destroying only npon birds that were
nearest at band. Mocking birds, cardinals,
jo-reels, cat-birds and thrashes went down
as easy conquests before a class that had
never been taught better, and had neither
sentiment nor conscience. The negro hunt
ers of to-day, with possibly a few exceptions,
are not wing shots, and they fill their bags
with birds that can bo killed in the trees.
It goes without saying that theso are the
birds that should be spared to the fields and
to society. My observation has been that
few, very few negroes will pass, gun in
hand, anything that has feathers and is
large enough to cook, and this is borne out
by the fact that the blue-jay, the wood-peck
and cat-bird are disappearing from the fields
and woods almost as fast as the mocking
bird proper.
Tho destruction of the mocking bird has
boon more rapid because liis nest has beon
systematically robbed by parties of both
colors for private gain or gratification. A
yeor or two since wo noted ono shipment of
these birds from Savannah, which con
tained six or seven hundred. Upon tbe
streets of this and all other cities thoy are
openly sold every summer.
Their song is in fact
of songs, but entirely original,
ever heard the divisions ot tbe
birds song in any forest. That he
sperses them with cat calls, the I
screech, the whirr of the bull-bat and
en’s melancholy “peep" and
from other birds is true, hut t|
are only characters in his recitative bi
features in the romance of his summ<
that he sings his parts backward and
ward and combines them anew is also
The mocking bird's song is to the ear
theflSleideoscope is to the eye, and the
binations of bis songs is ns endless a
glass forms in the toy. But the song
are the same.
*This bird is probably the most coni
ous singer in the world, bnt there are
weeks out of every fifty-two when notl
can tempt him to sing, and that is
is molting. At such times he may
moping in a secluded spot lost in
melancholy. He looks, then, hot and
and the only note he ntters is a short
whistle, not unlike that which the fat
makes as he removes his bat and mopi
brow. Perhaps during this season tbe
lays aside mockery, repents and makes
resolutions.
I of Hi
r»nd[
’ ben j
rat'd
Georgia has no law to protect hen
singers, whose songs delight and astor
the world. Some of our Southern i
have laws to protect buzzards, and e
them rigidly. The negro who by pullini
trigger may banish more melody from 3
world than human lips can sound, man
it with impunity, but it costs him $5 Blj
« buzzard with a clod of dirt. X. 1.1
The loss of theso birds and others not
named from tho fields is very unfortunate,
if we consider the matter merely from the
standpoint of economy. It is said, and
any ono who has seen the mocking bird feed
ing his yonng may readily believe it. that a
worm or bug goes to its nest every five
minutes during the day. T’hiH would give
more than a hundred to the day for evory
pair during the nest life of their young,
three sets of which are raised every sum
mer, When it is remembered that every
bug or worm thus cut off may represent
thousands, the value of the bird’s sendees
can be understood. True, he takes figs and
berries, bnt ho earns them.
When, however, we look at him from a
sentimental point, the wonder that anyone
can harm a member of the mocking bird
family increases. No Bong bird in the world
can equal the sweetness of bis notes or sus
tain a song so long. No bird known to
naturalists can produce the notes of others
and of fowls or even animals with sneh pre
cision aud in sack combination. Tbe little
gray singer that balances himself npon trei
tops, or dances along the ridges of our
houses seems to have all the binl notes of
tho land at his tongue’s end and to delight
in weaving them into new forms of
beauty. That he has never been .the
uoet’s theme to the extent that
ho lark, the nightingale, or even the robin
has, I attribute to his name. It is not fitted
for verse, nor is it at all poetical. Had he
home tbe name of Orpheus, aa does his
cousin, of the Greater Antilles, he would
have filled the song lore of the South. Paul
Hayue, William Hamilton Hayne, and a few
others have used him, but none have con
quered his p ebian name. Sidney Lanier,
who loved and observed every form of na
ture, pays attention to him, and the descrip
tion is so graphic and perfect it should he
noted:
INDICTING CHARITY.
DEEDING AWAY HIS WIFE.
Tbe President is st liberty to marry. Lav
ing gotten a divorce from tbe Democratic
party.
A Philadelphia Brewer Siena Over Ills
You as Spout* to a Fricud.
Reams", April 21.—Max Rekstock, a Phil
adelphia brewer, Frieda ltebstock, his wife,
a prepossessing young woman, ami Albert
Wolf of this city called nt Aldermnn
Scheetz’a office here to-day and boil that of
ficial settle a novel suit between them. Mr.
and Mrs. ltebstock were married three years
ago. She is twenty-fonr years of age and
moved in excellent society among the Ger
mans of Philadelphia. Wolf aud ltebstock
were very clone friends for years. Lost year
ltebstock sent hia wife on a European trip.
Several years ago she first met Wolf, a band-
some young German. A strong attachment
sprung up between the two, which was
q u -kly noticed by iUbstock. Alderman
Hcliee:z was called npon to amicably adjust
tl.cir marital difficulties. Mr. and Mr*,
ltebstock signed a paper by which they
agreed to separate, provided she gave him
certain arti-lea which be bought her when
they were married. Kebetock renounced all
claim to the woman as his wife. He then
left for Philadelphia. Mr*. Itebviock and
Wolf were married this afternoon ami will
make their residence in this city.
The Work or 111* Thomas County Grand
*lury. Which Has Adjourned.
Thomabvillk, April 24. The last grand
jury of Thomas county, which adjourned
to-day, mode a special presentment of
man who, as an act of charity, got np
raffle for a diamond ring, the property of
Northern man, whose money gave ont be
fore he bought his ticket to go home, ami
thus enabled him to sell it and get home.
He is charged with keeping a gambling
house. Likewise the board of directois oil
the Library Association for allowing the
ladies in charge to raffle some expensive
articles that bad been donated.
They managed to find several other cases
of the same sort, hut no poker pluyrag or
anjthing else of that ilk. As the solicitor
■aid, they got all the sheep bnt do wolves,
and then wound up with a recommendation
that the prohibition question be agitated
immdiately.
A Substitute lor Sugar
Of late years many valuable products
have been got out of ccal-tar. Sir Lyon
Playfair rnnounced about a week ago in
Liverpool that it has been discovered that a
crystal can be extracted from it, an almost
imperceptible amount of which i
fully sweeten a considerable quantity
solid or liquid food, and that this new
sweetener has the advantage over sugar
of passing so rapidly sway from the diges
tive organs, that it neither fattens those
who take it nor encourages rheumatism.
This will be good news to the disciples ol
Ranting who still have a hankering after
sugar.—London Truth.
Supreme Court of Ueorfla.
Atlanta, April 22.—No. 2, Pataulacirci
You vs. Baldwin. Argued. W. C. Woi
for plaintiff, A. Hood ASon contra.
No. 3, Patnula circuit. Mosely rs.
ders. Argued. E. C: Bower for phi
Bacon A Rutherford contra.
No. ii, Patauia circuit. McLenuoa
Stokes. Argued. D. A. Vason, 8imni<
Gnerry for plaintiff, Hawkins ® Hawk)
E. G. Simmons, J. G. Parks contra.
No. 7, Patuula circuit. Cox vs. J
Argued. D. A. Vason for plaintiff.
Wooten contra.
southwestern circuit.
No. 10 (continued), Southwestern
Dismissed.
‘Nos. I, 2 and 3, Southwestern
Marshall et al. vs. Livingston. Arqi:
8. Wallace A Son for plaintiff, B. B.
A. A. Carson, contra.
No. 5, Southwestern- cireuit. Bl
vs. State. Argued. B. B. Hinton,
McCorkle^B. H. Wilkinson for plaintiff,;
B. Hudson, Solicitor-General, C. And
Attorney-General, contra.
Court then adjourned to t> o'clock a.
morrow.
The Albany circuit may he reached
morrow.
Atlanta, April 23.—No. 4, Southwest
circuit. Johnson vs. the- State. Arg
J. W. Brady, S. C. Elam, B. B. Hinton
plaintiff; C. B. Hudson, solicitor-gen
W. A. Hawkins.
No. H, Southwestern cirenit. Bis)
No. 'J, Southwestern cirenit. Kind
vs. the State. Argued. E. G. Sinn
for plaintiff; C. B. Hudson, solicitor-gei
by Hawkins,
No. 10, Southwestern circuit. Li'
ston vs. Frick A Co, Argued. Be
Lumpkin, B. It. Hinton, Charles R.
Crary for plaintiff; E. J. Reagan, 11
Hammond contra.
No. 11, Southwestern circuit,
vs. B.irfield. Argued. J. W. Dnl’
Simmons for plaintiff; John W. IUji
contra. .,
No. 29, Southwestern circuit. Confine*]
Gay vs, Gilmore. Argued. E. 0.
mons, Hawkins A Hawkins for plaint
T. Snead contra.
ALBANI CIRCUIT. ,
No. 131 continued), Albany circuit.
drawn. ,,
No. 14 (continued), Albany circuit.
drawn. .
No. I, Albany circuit. Moody vs. Travi
Argued. Gurley A Talbert for plaintiff. 0-,
F. Westmoreland contra.
No. 2, Albany circuit. Continued-
No. 3, Albany circuit. Continued
•Superb and sole upon a plumed spray
That o’er tbe general leafage boldly grew.
He summed the wood* in song; or typie drew
Tbe watcb of hungry hawks, the lone dismay
Of languid dove* whose lovera a tray.
Or all birds' passion plays that sprinkle dew
At morn in brake or bosky avenue.
Wbat e’er birda did, or dreamed, this bird could say.
Then down he shot, bounced airily along
Tbe eward. twitched grasshopper, made song
'Mid flight, perched, prinked and to his art aj^in.
Bweet science, this large riddle read me plain,
How may the death of that dnl) inaect be.
The life of yon trim Bhakeepere on tbe tree.”
Court then adjourned to 9 o’clock
to-morrow. .
The heel of the docket will be retch* 1 *
morrow. . ,
Atlanta, April 24.-No. 6. (ContiaW
Oconee circuit Bowen vh. Penny,
pued. J. W. DuPre, Jno. B. Holme*.
A. Hawkins for plaintiff; R, Q. Orier,
jin A Hall contra. u i
Nos. 1 and 2. Oconee circuit tree*"
A Sons vs Roebuck et al Argued. R
ir,.T H ntainuff;
Another and a tenderer mention does he
make ot a pet mocking bird that met death
in the grasp of a cat;
"Rethinks I **e the* fresh from death's de.plte
Perched in . palm grove, wild with pantomtne
O'er blissful companies couched in .had? thyme.
Rethink. I hear thy .liver whistling bright,
Hla with the mighty dleconrve of the wire.
TUI broad Beethoven, deaf no more, and Keate,
'Mhlat mnch talk, uplift their emillng eyea.
And mark the muale of thy wood concert..
And half-way pauee on Mime larfe courteoue word
And call thee "Brother." O, Utou heavenly bird."
Most Southern people are familiar with
the habits of these birds, but it will be
news to many to be told, aa in tho Encyclo
pedia Britar ira, that they go to New Eng
land in the summer to breed and return fn No. 4 Rome cireuit. Keans • J £
the fall. Andubon's statement was that Argued. W. D. Elam for plaia •
some of them “go north," and this term
Applied to the migration of birds means
with him northward. In Maryland and
Virginia the bird can be found in summer,
but he comes southward in tbe autumn. I
am inclined to think that some pass ns and
go to Florida in very cold weather. I have
seen them late in the antnmn Hying south
ward high in air and northward early in the
spring. Audubon says that tbe stay at
home birds of the family fight these migra
tory fellows upon their return.
The gnat mistake made in the attempts
i, J. H. Lumpkin for plaintiff
Martin contra. ,, ,
No. 3. Oconee circuit. Yoongblo^J
ministratrix vs. Youngblood et aL j
Hawkins A Hawkins, Dnncan A
for plaintiff; J. II. Martin contra.
nurssw lev. oineun.
No. I. Brunswick circuit l>
Chess Csrley Company. ArtrieA
Sweat by Harrison A Peeples 'for
W. R. Lane, Denmark A Adams conus-
No. 2. Brunswick circuit SkipPX ^
Chess Carley Company. Argued. .
Sweat by Hamsun A Peeples for
Denmark A Adams, W. R. Lane -onlta
HEEL OF BRUNSWICK. . n
No. 6. Macon circuit. Lamar et
Lanier Honse Company. Argued
A Gresham for plaintiff; Dessau
contra.
HEEL or ENTIRE KOCEKT,
Keans
Jo:- I
Wright contra.
No. 7. Rome cireuit Mooj>e7 0
Rome Railroad Company. Argued-
A Denny, W. D. Elam. Dabney *
for plaintiff; C. A. Featheiston by
Hillyer contra. , ^ * I
Court then adjourned to 8SW oc
to-morrow.
Advice to Mothers.
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