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THE MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH; TUESDAY. JUNE 1, 1886.-TWELVE PAGES.
THE TELEGRAPH,
fGBLlJinvD IVX.it DAY II* THE TXAB AND WIIttt
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gla to 77. f'. Hasson. Manager.
Has amoral Gordon any lettors from C.
P. Huntingdon on file?
Isn’t it funny, very funny, for General
Gordon to be on a bond to indemnify the
Stato for anything? lie is bondsman for
lessees of convicts. What could the State
recover?
’ Broadway, (New York) Office of John B.
Gordon. (Sign on door)—"General Gor
don is absent for a few days at his DeKalb
county farm. He will return permanently
on July 29th.”
Consul General Young need not be
alarmed. It is not the cracking of the ice
in the Nova. It is only "Hightower Bill”
frightening Newt Trammel and the Gordon
gang with the hallelnjah hand clap.
"Don’t shoot and I'll come down" was
what tho redoubtable ex-Governor Smith
exclaimed when he Baw Colonel Sam Jemi-
son level his musket of cciimon sense on
the Gordon tree Saturday. But the Colonel
did shoot, and the reports are that some
thing dropped. We warned the ex-Governor
that Colonel Jemison was loaded.
An Early eonnty paper is authority for
this: "A prominent Gordon man of oar
county says he would vote loi Gordon if he
was to catch him stealing a sheep.” When
General Gordon closed his sheep ranch,
it ia said that there was but one sheep on
hand, but wo have never heard that it was
claimed by any of the neighbors.
The Greenville News thus does public
penance: “In stress of weather and scarc
ity of newspapers we were driven to an in
sane effort to extract some general nows
from the Atlanta Constitution. We can
amend the wrong only by renewing the
vow heretofore recorded never again to re
sort to the Constitution for facts."
An old and intimate personal friend of
Mr. Stephens, and a very prominent Geor
gian, writes us: "For myself I want to
siy that I have, or know of, evidenee that
sustains nearly all the charges made by
‘Plain Talk’ against General Gordon, not
to apeak of some others." These may find
their way to the publio.
When Mr. Davis was being enthusiast!
cally received in Georgia a Northern con.
temporary remarked' that it was evidence
that all the fools were not yet dead. We
respectfully suggest that the row being
made over Captain Saunders is evidence of
tho fact that the fools that survive do not
all live in Georgia
Dbeyet Brigadier General of llhotoric
Avery says General Gordon oppoaed the
appointment of Joe Brown aa his aneeee-
sor. General Gordon lays he did not know
who was to be his anccciaor. A question of
veracity is raised here between the Brevet
Brigadier and bis senior in command. Has
the Brevet Brigadier opened his mouth and
put his foot into it?
Bonn of the friends of the Atlanta Consti
tution have been disposed to excuse its
dirtiness in the publication of the filthy
card of one Hinkle. The xympathy is mis
placed. The Gordon organ glories in Hin
kle and his work, as may be seen by this
"Colonel Hinkle’s card appears to have hor
rified the Bacon organs. The colonel will
have to be more particular next time.
(Iordan’* Kind or Primaries.
General Gordon and bis friends have
strenuously endeavored to mislead the peo
ple of Georgia into behoving that Major Ba
con and his friends were opposed to prima
ries, and that General Gordon and his
friends were in favor of prim ,ries. Force
was attempted to be added to this by de
claring that primaries are the only f tur mode
of getting at the people's will and prefer-
ence in the choice of candidates.
Of course, the first position, that Major
Bacon opposes primaries, is aa false as it is
malicious, and as futile of its purpose os its
object is palpable. Major Bacon haa never
said one word against primaries. What he
has said, and what he now holds, is that he
has no right to dictate to tho counties of
this State how they shall choose their dele
gates to the gubernatorial convention.
With becoming propriety, he absolutely
refuses a proposition of General Gordon's to
attempt to coerce the people into any one
mode of choosing delegates. It is clear,
then, even to Major Bacon's opponents,
that it is he who is not only willing to, but
will not do otherwise than, leave tho ques
tion entirely to the people, to exercise their
judgment, and convenience, and freedom,
in selecting a mode of electing delegates.
Without dwelling 3fpon the manifest in
sincerity of Gen. Gordon and his coachers,
in their declamatory demand for primaries,
as illustrated in the hastening of tho Lee
county convention to take snap judgment,
when the Gordon men were a majority of
of tho executive committee and conld have
ordered primaries, the attention of all fair-
minded men is invited to the caso of Coweta
county:
It is only a few days ago that the exec
utive committee of that eonnty met Seven
out of thirteen members were present, of
whom fonr wero Gordon men. They, of
coarse, controlled the convention, as in
deed, they clearly showed in sitting with
closed doors, a thing unheard of in the
Democratic party until General Gordon
comes forward and insists on ‘‘giving the
people n chance.” The majority decided to
hold primary elections in each militia dis
trict, to select ton delegates from each
militia district to meet at the court honse
to choose delegates to the State gubernato
rial convention. The Bacon men pro
posed to consolidate the vote of the eonnty,
tho candidate receiving the majority of the
votes to be entitled to the delegates from
the eonnty. Tho Gordon men refused to
consolidate the eonnty vote, hot allowed a
majority in the militia districts to oontrol,
well knowing that the town militia districts
wonid give two to one in favor of Bacon,
thereby disfranchising the Bacon majority.
There are thirteen militia districts in
Coweta county. According to tho tax books
for 1884, these districts uumbered voters as
follows:
Ueuenil Uurdon an a Financier.
It will be admitted by. every voter in the
State that we shall need a wise and cool
business nmn in tho gubernatorial chair for
yearn to coma.
It has been charged in this canvass that
os r, business man Gen. Gordon is an un
mitigated failure. He nor his friends have
attempted to answer these charges. They
may be summed np as follows:
He failed as a lawyer.
He failed in the saw-mill business.
He failed in the book agency.
He failed in life insurance.
He failed os a planter.
He failed os a sheep ranchero.
He failed aa a coal miner.
He claims to have made some money out
of a railroad enterprise, bnt he did not keep
it long.
He has failed as the bnilder of a great in
ternational steamship and railroad line.
It is charged by a Washington corre
spondent of the Cincinnati Commcrcial-
Gazatte that General Gordon, in 1882, was
trying with ex-Postmaster-General Creswell
and others to lobby a bill through Congress
to build an air-line road from Washington
to Now York. This failed. Somo time
afterward General Gordon, George C.
Gorham and others were mentioned in the
Philadelphia Press as corporators in a
thirty-million telephone enterprise.
This failed. It is not within our knowl
edge as to ho sr many people failed to realize
npon these several schemes of the General.
Broken in credit and resonrees, he is
now endeavoring to get the people of Geor
gia to pay him again for his military ser
vices by electing him Governor. The Ath
ens Banner quotes a capitalist of that city
Jo the General’s financial capacity in
these words: "General Gordon’s financial
inability has coat me exactly $7,500, not
counting the interest on the investment.
He came to me once and said he had a big
thing, into which he would only admit a
few of his chosen friendX It all seemed so
plausible that I risked $5,GOO, and never
received a nickel back. Bat etill I bad a
most abiding confidence in Gordon, and
when he came to mo with another big
scheme and wanted $2,500 more, I sub
scribed that also, and it went the same way
the *5,000. Well, I have already $7,500
worth of the General, which knowledge was
obtained in the school of experience, and
won't take any more in mine.”
>
•, The United States Marshals in Georgia
appear as Gordon boomers. They were
also nsed for a similar purpose in Alabama.
The Montgomery, Ala, Dispatch contains
this: Capt. Eichelberger said: "My name
is O. W. Eichelberger. My father was bom
and raised in Hanover, Pa., and sent to
school in Carlisle, Pa. I am a Depnty
United States Marshal for the middle dis
trict of Alabama. I »aa in Montgomery on
the 27th of last April, and was invited by
Capt. B. W. Bell, the chairman of the com
mittee, to receive General John B Gordon,
to accompany the special train which went
ont with soldiers and citizens to meet Gen
eral Gordon st Mount Meigs. While at
Mount Meigs, I was detailed by Captain
Bali to stand at the car door and keep the
crowd from pleasing into and filling np the
car, which General Gordon and Lis party
occupied.’*
Tins is the plan of the Journal of Com
merce to regulate the liquor traffic: "After
the places where liquor is sold an made as
orderly as possible, and are restrained from
selling to known drunkards, the latter having
forfeited their right to bny by their misuse
of the beverage, and era charged so mneh
for a license that only men of some char
acter, means, #d self-respect can engage in
the lioxineiA, all is done probably that can
be at present in the way of regulating the
traffic. The attention should then be turned
to the people, and specially the children,
who ahoald be trained to habits of sobriety
an.l temperance. This is oar policy for the
l. r.led r.-formation, and the only one, in
©or judgment, that will accou-pllrb any
pri.», ,1 g, alia this I and gen-ration.'
First • 259
Second llCt
Third 113
Fourth 134
Fifth 279
Sixth 100
Seventh 08
Cedar Creek 78
Panther Creek 110
Hurricane 42
Grantville. .>
Turin ! 45
Since 1884 the First district has been
divided; now there are two districts, tho
First 200, and Haralson 69.
Now, then, under the fair method insist
ed on by the people’s friend, Genoral Gor
don, and by the order of his friendly
executive committee of Coweta, the 45
votera of Tnrin district will have jnst
mneh to any in choosing delegates to the
State Convention as will the 279 voters of
the Fifth district, which virtually means
disfranchisement of 234 voters of the Fifth.
The G8 voters of the Seventh district elect
ten delegates to the eonnty convention,
who can vote with the exact same power
the ten delegated from the second, where
there are 103 votes; thus also disfranchis
ing 95 voters in the second; and ao on with
the other districts.
Here, then, are the primaries for which
Gordon and hia friends are clamoring, and
which they have forced on tho voters of
Coweta eonnty. See how it works:
Take these seven districts,
Uaralaon 59
Sixth district. 100
Seventh district
Cedar Creek
Hurricane
Grant rille
Tnrin
The Atlanta Gordon Clubs
It must have been terribly stormy in At
lanta Sutnrday night, for, according to tbe
Constitution’s pun account of tbe meeting
to organize the Gordon Club, not more than
three hundred people wer<Tpresent.
“Tho smallness of the crowd wire duo to
the rain and threatening weather,” etc.
And thia, too, in face of all the spontaneous
combustion that fairly made lurid the po
ll tioal horizon!
One would think that more than three
hundred persons conld have been mustered
jnst to he ar the excellent Hawkinsvillo band,
bnt when it was known that the eloquent
Colonel Cox wonid hold forth, and that the
cause was the lost cause, so to speak, of
General Gordon, it is surprising, truly, that
only three hnndred people could be corailed.
It is true it rained, but then the weather
was worse—it was "threstening.” Trust
Cob Cox to recognize "threatening" weath
er, even when the slues ore obscured by
rain; and, trne weather prophet that he is,
he did not stay at the meeting long enough
for it to materialize, but hied himself home,
whence he was only dragged forth by the
violent bauds of the sergeant-at-arms com
mittee of the spontaneous combustion
meeting.
The report does not say whether the
Colonel had retired when the sergeant-at-
arms, mace in hand, Bnmmoned him forth,
with the piteous cry, “Help us, Cox, or we
perish," but the idea suggests itself that I
with the three hnndred in attendance, all
commissioned as sergeants-at-aims, they
might have gone out and, by ringing front
Additional Testimony or the Slander,
General Gordon at Amerieua slandered
Ben Hill. When charged with it by the
Telegraph he denied it. The Telegraph
sent a special representative to the spot,
and gathered cumulative evidence that Gen
eral Gordon used (hia language:
Ben Hill met me at tbe depot one day and told
me be bad a good thing for me. He said he had a
share in the 8tate road leaae, and that aa soon aa it
waa in my name he could get me fifty thousand
dollars for it. and the ahare would not coat me any
thing. The aharea afterwards sold at eighty thou
sand. I tried hard to bring my conscience to accept
that fifty thousand dollars, for I needed it badly.
I tried to get my conscience to endorse the transac
tion in which Ben Hill and Alex. Stephens w ere
concerned, but I did not see how I could earn fifty
thousand dollars in five minutes without doing any
thing, and I wrote Ben Hill a note, saying be need
not save any ahare at fifty thonaand dollars for
mo. [Applause.]
Mark what he said well. His conscience
would not permit him to do what Ben Hill
and Mr. Stephens had done. He refused
to make fifty thousand dollars offered to
him by Ben Hill.
Jemison will understand that
no mood to bo trifled with, and
we cannot but feel a sympathy for t
who finally receives the combioedlo
paroil for 8mith. When he got, oBi
tho mountains or in the pinev woo,’ T
thing will be heard to drop’ \\\'' 1
formed that probably Mr. Miller vfflT
duced to come ont from behind hi,.
pot a ehip on his shoulder. It tli,
we take oooasion jnst here to bid Mr ]
along farewell.
SHREDS AND PATCHES
A counter Irritant-tha lady who prtc *|
thing and buys nothing.—Burlington pr
There are plenty ofopeningt for yout. J
are not waiting to be pushed into them - *
Mamma—Why don’t you move out of the I
if troubles you so? Kitty-’Cause I got b "
—Life.
There le e hen in Florida that lays t* 0e J
This country will be rained by chesp \ **
ton Budget.
The balder we get the more strongly Ve
T.rf, T T aj e . _ „ a opinion that the “Black Crook” wm
All this examination of conscience must „ p. lnt .d.-PhU...lphl. N.~ “
have been done alter the completion of the
lease, for Mr. Stephens did not acquire his th * Pre,llI ' nl ’
interest until this was accomplished.
"Not very many,"
"Why?" "Oh. nothing; but yoo are miibj
Ben Hill and Mr. Stephens had a ch&nce Don." ’ 1
to make fifty thousand dollars, and ho -•! understand our friend Mi., Highnot.
(Gordon) knew it and was offered the samo lag with cou.ldorabls success in South
"Ii oh? Glad to hear tt." "That aha a ,1
"Yes—to South America"— 1 Tld-Bita.
eliance, but bis conscience stood ia tbe
way, and yet he needed the money. Ail
this was done after the lease was a fixed
In tho Pooobawnr oelnetery, iu lud,., u I
lowing amuoing epitaph; "Sacred to tho d
Now a writer attempts to help Gordon I "howUd^: »olVdono7thoa good uriiicj
ont by this publication. I ant.’"—Exchange. *
In 1872 a committee of* tho Lcgtelaturo we. ap- | Tim Couvlct Loom
** Grandest and Hoot."
We reforred yesterday to tho humorous
side of the campaign. To-day wo are
tempted to take np the ridiculous. No bet
ter illustration could be desired than the
following extract irom the Atlanta Const!
tntion’a editorial column in an article
npon General Gordon:
Ilela the treat and graudest leider that man
■T.r followed, to peace aa in war."
We have been taught that the Savionr of
tho world was the best leader whom men
ever followed in peace, and wo have never
been informed before that General Gordon,
grand as he is, waa rated so high. The
world has been blessed with oonntless good
men who wero leaden in peace; men whose
names are hallowed by their good deeds,
and calendared in the affections of
grateful people. And they were not
only grand leaders, and good, bnt
safe. They never loat their friends’
money in wildcat schemes or dragged them
down in tbe ruins of fraudulent insurance
companies and extravagant book concerns.
Nor did they yield up at the critical mo
ment the traits confided to them.'. Per
haps the Con*illation'senthneiast ba* never
heard of any of these. Perhaps hs intend
ed to say that General Gordon was the bnt
and grandest leader in peace with whom he
had ever associated. That might hare been
within bounds.
Bnt was General Gordon the grandest
and beat leader that men ever followed in
war? Waa he really grander than Alex
ander tho Great, Napoleon and Wellington,
or grander and better than George Wash
ington, ltobert E. Lee and Stonewall Jack
eon? Perhaps he was, bat ia it not singular
that the Atlanta Constitution first discos,
ered the foot? By the way, it is ths Consti
tution that now furnishes the ‘‘facta" of
Gordon’s campaign.
The Primary tlulni
General Gordon and his organ have in
dulged in a large amount of talk and blas
ter as to primary elections, claiming that
this is the only fair way to ascertain the
pnblic choice. Major Bacon and bis friends
hare made no objection to any plan that
may be adopted by the people, the voters,
who are the interacted partita in the mat
ter.
General Gordon’s friends controlled the
exeoutivo committee in Lee eonnty, yet
they did not order a primary.
The Dalton Citixen says: "We learn
that at the meeting of the eonnty executive
committee on Saturday last, to arrange for
the selection of delegates to ths State and
Congressional conventions, there were only
three of the five committeemen present,
and that one of these, the chairman and a
Bacon man, favored the primary method of
selecting delegatee, and the others, Gordon
men, wanted what the Conititntion calls a
'little court iymae meeting,' and wanted it
to assemble ss early as Saturday next, in
order, we presume, to get np a Gordon
boom iu town and take snap judgment on
the country people, who art said to be al
most two to one for Bacon.”
In addition to this, we have been informeed
that the executive committee of Hoax ton
county, with a majority ot Gordon men,
declined and refused to order a primary.
Donbtiesa there are other instances which
will go to show the insincerity of General
doorbells and sounding the fire alarm, pointed to investigate the State rood leave. That I . I
have gathered a sufficient number to make committee wae composed of Hon. William M. tbeIa ®Jivra whether a m^whowTuI
at least a feint showing ot tbe Goidon I B»», chairman; Goorte V. Pierce, C. B. Hudson. I tbe j l j 0 tbe ] ease Q j ^ coa *
boom, even though more than half 0001150 M ' N <’‘‘ ori “<7 and A. D. Nunnally. this Mate, and who is still liable ia ti
the attendance uikht have been good brad- Th “ “ mmlltee * ummoned wl<ra * wltnewe. (or the faithful performance of that 1
the attendance might have been good bnal- ta(or , lt> among them Mr. H1U and O.n.rel Ooe is tlle propet »n to-be governor3T
noBS-tramcd Baeon men. I don. The aworn testimony taken before that com- gj a This question has taken stroJ
Tbe Gordon spontaneity in Atlanta, where mlttee wire published by order of the General As. I upon the working people end J
tho batteries nre, has clearly petered out. I eombly. Mr. HiU testified before that committee I clagaes. Gen. Gordon’s name appeal
The uprising of the people seem, to have ‘hat General Gordon', name waa euggreted a. aval- the lease bond He says he weuij
, i i f ii ii j mu* i I uablo man t> get into the lease. I lease to protect a friend. Hedeciarl
bfen suddenly andawfully quelled. Think I on pages 242 and 47 of supplement OeneralOor-1 innocence that he doeg not know i
of it, a city claiming fifty thousand inhahi-j don testified to what took pUce between himself 1 he is atill on the bond or not. 1
tanks and the home of the spontaneous and Mr. Hill, and appends to his testimony his I bo is still liable, and the peol
candidate, can only muster three hundred declining the profr.red share, which t. « that be cannot protect his friend *
ere . re . *1 folio*** * I tliOm tOO.
men at the first meeting of the campaign, OA Decemb . r „ The convict lease has been.diJ
for one of its own citizens. Doesn t the since talking with you end Colonel Gm»t in refer- I element in party politics and in tU
fact carry IU own argument? Where are J3.* SMSA RfftfKtiS I J
the Atlanta business men who wereolamor- not to accept tbo internet., kindly tendered me. l; ’
. m n -a vao a i.« , .. q . . „ I appreciate most ully your Rood will In the matter, 1 principle and cruel in pKictid
mg for Gordon? Although it was Saturday, I b U *b aT e decided to decline it. Very truly yoms, I lags. That it is an enemy to hon-i
it waa at night and after business hours for 1 Hou * B * u * HiB * J * B * Oobdow. j and a disgrace to the commonwealth!
four-fifths of the people, so business conld 11 on, y naib the Klan4 « r down more has been a doubt in the minds of p
not have detained them fully. Wo have shown that there were °fH°« »7> d ®* to how best to
not hnvo detained tnem. . , , I undoing anil to arrange the peuitrai
But it was raining, and the weather was three companies bidding for the leaae, and I t i tul i on t0 beBt advantage, lint cJ
‘threatening.’’ Col. Cox saw the danger Gordon’s natne does not appear on any of I no mtt n who has gone into thelaf
and sought the shelter of home. There them. nesa, who u on the bond Md tli»J
are many more weatfiercoeks in Atlanta company that finally succeeded in ^, b t ‘with ^tedo^Tr rolve
than Gordon thinka for, who want to get I securing the lease was a combination of I w j tb gatisfaetion. This ia one of i
two opposing ones. Mr. HiU received a | convincing issnes in this camp
share in this one for his legal services, gusto Chronicle.
Docs any one suppose that be offered this
to Gordon? He had no other share and no I
in out of the "threatening" weather.
A Bloodthirsty Major.
Iu yesterday's issue of the TELEaaArii,
mention was made
8. M. Saunders, ot”™“‘ "** I tbe shares sold for lessthsn fifty thousand
York, who toasted Hon. Jeff Davis at the | doUurg
All Styles mill Prices o
of the troubles of Otpi. I ” ... *»».. —*" "“I
tho "Old Guard," £Z.T.I Wall I>apC
F. R. POMEB01
Chatham Artillery banquet. In addition to
his having reaeived notice from the Farns-
What is this evidenoe, as quoted from
. ,, , ] Mr. Hill, that is relied upon, viz: "That
worth Post, G. A. It., that a courtmartial _ _ ’ , . ,
1 Gen. Gordon s name was suggested -- - 1
awaited him and plenty of abnse from
newspapers in tho North, a crank by tbe
Near Armory Budding, Macon, 0
SEND FOB SAMPLES. ml**
valuable one to get in the lease;’’ nothing,..
,u uie nuiui, . uwu 0/ wo 1 ... . , , , ,, 111 Blmuuus, administrator of the muu
nnmn of Wm F. A llird alonino >1 iin.clf mure. Ho uld not get in. 1 erhaps the I K. RlmmdfL, lata of said county, dti
. , . J , l! , „ , oh valuable. such .
«7oUo“. The challenge reads ^telse? Gordon writes to Mr. HiU IttEiZf&Sgg&SSiS
"Capt 8. M. 8aundera, 1. South William .treat co “™“ Uo “ «**“ » nd I
Clly-DaorSir. BoUoringyou area brsv* man, I C® 1 - Grant May. 78*8. OKO. L.W
srtrald like to meet you at ten (10) paces to dscldt At Americas it waa a conversation with tnyaiwJm
jour love for Jeff Dart. {WinchMtcr rid., to doetd.), I HiU. Gordon declines an interest, not a JOMt coW_
and would name Pat Eutan. Eighth street ud Uni-1 a t, aM I » Muy 35, lHMfl. WhervM, John H. w
T*,„. , .. share. to ma lor Ilia susrdlauablp of ttap«nMi “
YWSity place, w try Treat friend. Tour, truly," _ . . . ... ... - MW __ erty of John 1. Lowe, a person oi annual
.to, at.. This 1* too thin. It has nothing to do (m t«tte.etc.; These arelherefora tocM
The blood-thirsty M.jor Bird live, at No. I wilh lb “ “"*• 0ordo ?''. M “« w “ » n 88“«’ I
4 Maiden Lane, and hia
novel one. Aa we understand
S.A.00Z1
May 27, fieW-jnnat-wkydt Adatoj
Bridgo Notice.
Oeorgia, Jones county—On the
duly neat at no'elook m.. before the u 4
door to Cllutoo, 1 wlU let at public oaaq
iltda f
Total 488
These seven districts, composed of bnt
488 votes, have the power of sending sev
enty delegate* to the eonnty convention;
whereas the other six districts, to-wit:
First District 200
Second District 103
Third District 113
Fourth District 134
Fifth District 279
Panther Creek 116
Total 1,005
can only tend 60 delegates to the oonnty
convention.
Under Gen. Gordon'! primary method,
then, 488 voters will have more power in the
eonnty convention by ten delegatee than
will 1,005* men. And thia is what haa al
ready been ordered in Coweta.
Of course, the Gordon people may reply
that the method U ai fair for one as it U for
the other. That ia true,' but a primary
ought not to be a jnggling; bnt no method
which by any chance even, not to say pre
concerted arrangement, gives 488 men more
power than 1,006 men can possibly be fair
or jnst.
Gkxeral Goidon conld not be elected
Governor of Florida. The Levy eonnty
Times, published at Bronson, in that St*; j ^onimd ii frUnd.in thUm^. Tho
■aye: "We. would like to be a citizen of
Ijor Bird fives at NO. , • • .. . the Ant Monday to July next. If »y »
s plan is certainly a e< " It nowhere appears that anything was uhyaaid sua-diauahtp .boil not f. pare
derstondit, if Major | done bnyond the suggestion. It may have | “ mi “LTew*
Bird’s Winchester rifle destroys Captain beon “ connccUon with 0D « oI tho tbreo v A ?;„„ T no ™ Kail
Saunders’s ability to dispense, bis excellent com P' mie * “ flrs ‘ broached. It certainly >OllCC—LPUVC tO DC 11
wine at No. 19 South William street, it must “ nno ‘ *““ bed to tbec0 “'
bo taken for granted that he has no right to Mr * bte P“ en * 11,11 had shore* in county for *uU»ortty to asiljll
love Mr. Dsvis. On the contrary, if Captain * com P 1<!,eJ company. Gordon .ays he de- “' u £* r MU “ * tua " 0ora ^ H d ”
Saundtro’s Winchester rifle wings Major dmed *o take a ahare in this company like ’ “ ‘
Bird and give. hi. friends caime to GUI mid Stephens, because his conscience
(peak of him aa late of No. 4 would not permit him. HiU had bnt one
Maiden Lane, as weU as of the * h "*- * n<1 no Authority to offer Gordon one.
Fifth Cavalry, it is to be assumed that Cap- Bbare did not sell for $50,000. _
tain Saunders is free to love Mr. Davis aa Tbe ouly P* 00 * oftered u tb » t Gordon’s loweMibidder»cooiroct to Irefid. 13- *
much as he pleases. This certainly seems nftme WM eaggeated u ▼elueble, and the I Tha brt *d Re Ju, b« i-ju ftU ions sod iT3
very simple. The question is, though, wiU *“ n0 ‘ , , , IIS
tbe authorities aUow a Winchester rifle con- And tbu P 1 ® 0 * ^ aatiafy every fair- lu keep the tirtd*e in safe
test between a cavalry m.jor and a win. ““ ded ^‘tat General
merchant to go on in this country? Can tookles8 "Pc® 0 * 1 , slanders the dead Ben Hill. September „„„„ tb nosey a**
we afford to risk our farlrs.our live W * ‘®* lament, SKW? A
•toek, growing crope, and poultry, merely "—r*■>-'-> to tire Waat T '“'’ J * T °' '""‘VicBABD J0*«
to decide CaptMn Baundera'a right to love W hen ex-Goveroor Smith determined to *****
Mr. Das re? think there U a better ms ke . dash down among the Bacon men in KOTICfc.
plan. We clip from the PhiUdelphi. Wcit#nl Georgia, and Brevet Brigadier-1 r.^.'ren^T^^'.o^ ^
■Z: Boylre created . rauraUon to hi. McKrere ° f \ J* b ‘“
port Church js.frd*r. whan in preaching before s G ® ne » 1 ******* <***&*, he
O. A. B. Post h* sold that Jefferson Darts should be | vrM ,elle ^ with a desire to "lari” over the 1 ^ amendatory thMSof. iff 1
buried in s living tomb, and thot every soldier*# situation. He little dreamed that he would I b#r *» 1HM9 * ., f -
widow should kneel down si her hosbend’s grave soon be called upon to “Urf” again. ch2f?l2?to SUttSStSTnUtt! 5q«i75|
“*“ ud ™ h “ , • n ' , *""• °“ I Governor Smith’, firat appointment was | f
d *Why donTiUjor Bird amend tb. above I At liogansvillo he w U fortn-1 Bgf5*'5^-
by adding Saunders to the bpriai scheme “!* ln ® n ding a Bacon crowd assembled. | Pui£i3IuredWoaceb«W*|
and letting him share the euraee with Mr. | , , . ,
| meeting which waa at ones organized, a [
Oeorgia only long enough to cut a vote for
Baton, for Governor, against the man that
sold a United States Senatorship for enough
money to start a fraudulent railroad in
Florida, with which to dap* silly purchasers
of n.ilr ,, i ‘bond*’ with 'land certificates'
-tu.-L-d.'
public win informed that "Gordon'* was a
name to "conjure" with. And the proof
has followed very feat
The Galveston Nears most have been ob
serving the Georgia canvass, for it heed;
leader with the** words: "The ox-cart
or-.m-i getting angry."
for sale.
Bnt, perhaps. Major Bird .1*. has wine ^““ b,trodn “ d , bi “’ ®~*d
1 cheered for Bacon, and after the speaker
had mopped hia face and sat down, a Bacon |
A atndions attempt is being made ^ 1 ““ 8®‘ ®P and mopped t* floor with him.
create the imprtreeion that Dr. Felton i. a ^“ ‘“' d t °“ *° F " nk :
candidate for romething. A ‘ tb “P Uc * be “ iTetl n U “ et ® fin d
We Uv. already .fated that he ha, not ^‘ «>®t*>Ui.Undi«g hi. coming had been
Altered this canvass at the solicitation of
Major Bacon, to whom he is an almost
stranger.
We are in position to know that he leaves
hie retirement solely at the earnest instiga
tion of hundreds of Georgians, who have
expressed e desire to hear his views on the
preeent campaign. He is a candidate for
nothing. He cornea to the aid of Georgia.
ntber
The Boatou Herald says: "It
straining the point to discipline a member
of the G rand Army for proposing the health
of Jeff Davis during fjit letter’s trip through
the South. If the government had needed
cr desired tha life of the Confederate chief,
it should have hanged him. The courtesy
of wishing him well, twenty yean after the
close of the war, ahoald hardly be con
•rimed a* indicating sympathy with IreaaOO,'
heralded by the general man’ager, nobody
had assembled to hear him speak. Sadly
folding his tent, and advised that Colonel
Samuel U. Jemison, whose middle name
happens to be Banter, we* really
after him, he quickened his pace I
and fled to West Point Here he found the
man whose middle name is Hunter on a |
aland, loaded for beaj and awaiting him.
Pausing long enough to send word that he I
waa needed at home, and declining to meet
the eager Hunter anywhere, he again fled,
thia time toward Alabama, never pausing I
until he reached Columbus. Thu. ended
Governor Smith's first campaign. Colon. 1
Jemison, who had been loading his gnu
eyety time a bosh shook, rammed down a I
final char.e, shouldered hia piece an-1 fell |
hark on Atlanta.
People who know Colonel S. Hunt.
John A. Dunn ef ration conatj-
Aaron lias, of Tnlton rennU-
Thomas I. Langston of row*®
James B. Wjlv of Enltoo »«'
8. B. Hoyt of Enlton county.
E. W. Marsh of Fallon eoanU-
-W. P. Inn nmn of Pull*
L. r. Blalock of rayetre m***?'
J. If. Hand of Ptk* eonnty.
W. B. Dnvlaof Monroe count?;
H. o. Hair:, of Bouton coeOT-
W. M. Gordon of Hotuton re**U
P. a Clegg of Palaakl aunty-
Atlxktx. Qa., May II tsss.
SMITHS
<9
USE Billons**
One dote r* I
prevent Chills >
: Slrv {
Breath. Ci^ar the Skin, ron* 1
Ute n* Yl9«r lo the s»»Um. JJ*
Irt them once and >ou «iU igj #r S fr#
Price. 25 cent* per battle. 9* ^ *f
Me^tctat OcxUrt o«n-raIlT. 3C
prHe In jtampv postpaid, to *
j.F. smith * co .j'iyA
d»*«fscturers and Svle Prop*-*
f«bJS sue evly