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THK MACON WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TUESDAY MORNING. AUGUST 0. 1887.-TWELVE PAGES.
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I. H 0. Htrice Man.
Sir, Cleveland Invited to Macon,
Letters have been forwarded to Mr.
Cl.tv eland, from the Macon Board of Trade,
from the Macon olty authorities, and from
(be Georgia Slate Agricultural Society, in
viting him to visit this city during the
State Fair. There is no pnblio occasion
that is so representative it the masses of
Georgia as is the State Fair, It is
not a looal enterprise nor a sectional
oompetitive exhibition. The State fair is
what its name indicates. At it can he seen,
the tgrionltnral resources that have made
Georgia the Empire State of the South, The
people of the State assemble there. It is
the one occasion that draws together the
yeomanry of the State. If, then, the Presi
dent really wishes to oompliment the State
at large, he should >isit the only gath ring
that Is purely Georgian.
Should he come, he will be heartily wel
comed.
The Star's Krror.
The Washington Star is nsnslly an aeon-
sate and reliable paper, and it never mis
represents knowingly. Under these cir
cumstances it is all the more surprising to
-find this error in ifs editorial column:
A ottriona state of thing, prevail, in tb« Oeorgla
labor market, where Ibe operative. In tb. cotton
mill, are struggling to prevent the enactment of e
law limiting the nnmbcr of hour. In a dsy'sfcrork
on (he ground that It put. an arbitrary raetrlction
on their power to earn money.
Such a report as the Star has, did get ont
through an Augusta pspor, but the Knights
of Libor at onoe contradioted it. The real
cause of the case is that a majority of the
mill owners ara opposing the bill. Its fate
just now is uncertain', but the probabilities
are that the hill will become a law.
A Watch Free.
Yon can get an improved Wnterbury
Watch, with chain, and the \Vexalt Tzli-
omarn one year, for $3. For particulars,
see advertisement elsewhere in this Issue.
This is a specimen of the rot telegraphed
by Mr. Carlisle’s private secretary the day
before the Kentucky election:
Tha lamp of Democracy abide the highlit utd
the only pur* and andurliii lltht to gnid. the (tape
of American citizens. By Its rays they can see to
walk, think end vote. This light has oft been
dimmed and blurred by disreputable acddishonest
traitors and politicians, but It baa never gone ont,
and It never will go ont. It will eblne on end on
aa long ea freedom llvee. end the .tarry banner
waves. In Kentncky, to-morrow. It will eblne
brighter end more brilliant then In any other State
in tbta greet end glorious Union.
Great Republican gains followed this ont-
burst. ________
Aw interesting discussion is going on be
tween the Detroit Trihnne and the Courier.
Journal as to which is preferable, "a dis
eased loyal liver" or “a disloyal heart.
This Is obliged to depend upon circum
atanoes: if the man with the liver can prove
that be sprained it during the war climbing
fenoes between Bnll Bun and Washington
City, it does seem to ns that financially
speaking he has the bulge.
Tub esteemed Watterson says that "ths
iron interests cannot much longer afford to
permit ‘a pent np Utica to confine their
powers.’ " We think there Is something in
this. Ths pent np Utica consists just now
partly of 30,000,000 gallons ot whisky and
an able intention to create more with gov
ernment help. It the esteemed Watterson
snoceeds in getting a good point ot view he
will probably see Utiia smashed some time
this winter. •
8ari the Courier-Journal: “A Georgian
dreamed the other night that he bad been
appointed cnatodisn of a Kentucky bonded
warehouse, only to awaken and find his jug
entirely empty. A new set of dream-books
is needed in Georgia." The Georgian moat
have emptied bis jug before dreaming ot an
impossibility. When the Kentocksn's jug
is empty, the Kentuckian is fnU.
Tmuon his able argument in ths House
against the Brady bill proved ineffective,
Mr. Calvin, of Richmond, deserves the
thanks of the farmers of ths State for his
able.eipcse efthe fallacy and danger of
ibe measure. Bach men as Mr. Calvin give
ns renewed faith in republican institutions.
Tbe passage of the Gleen bill in the
House with only two dlssentiog votes, and
those negroes, may open the eyes of our
Northern contemporaries to the unanimity
of pnblio sentiment in Oeorgia on social
equality between the African and Canca:-
sian races.
Would the editor of the Chicago Inter-
Ocean allow his daughter to go to sohooi
with a promiscuous class of nrgro children?
Let the editor answer this question as
frankly as he would, had bis wife or mother
asked it Do not theorize, bnt answer yes,
or no.
Alabama has adapted the system of pay
ing salaries to county solicitors. It is jnst
tha time for Georgia, while the Legislature
is in areal on, to adopt a similar system.
The fee system is neither just to the people
nor to all the solicitors.
The New York Times auil the Glenn ltlll
The New York Times is tearing its hair
over the Glenn bilb It, with characteristic
sophistry, confonnds the merits of the
Atlanta University as on educational insti
tution, with the.queation cf mixed schools.
When the North will have mixed schools,
mixed churches, and mixed literary and
social organizations, then it may be in tbs
Timee's month to rant and rave about
the absence of such in the Sonth. The
negro, can no longer be made a success-
ful political issue in tha North, and the
Times is barking up the wrong tree. In the
GleDn bill no right of the negro is abridged,
and no wrong done him. It comes with
ill favor from the North, after so many pro
fessions of good will, to try to stir np a
race excitement in the Sonth. There is
consolation in the fact, however, that moat
Northern people have become too well ac
quainted with the footing of the negroes In
the South, to give heed to the vaporing) of
the Times and of such papers as seek to
ake political capital out of the Glenn bill.
As the Telegraph has on more than one
occasion remarked, it is the Republican
party's sectional policy that has kept the
South solidly Democratic. The intelligent
people of the South differ widely on prin
ciples of parties and on policies of economics,
but they do not differ on the question of
social equality, ss was illustrated by the
passage of the GleDn bill in the Georgia
House of Representatives by the vote of
every white member of that body. As long
as the Repnblioan party endeavors to stray
the Sonth on its social ethics, s« long will
the Sonth present a unit lot that party that
leaves each State to govern its own domes
tic affairs, so long as it does not infringe on
the Federal constitntion in so doing. To
recur to the Times: If its information on
the entire question of the Glenn bill, does
not exceed its knowledge of Mr. Henry W.
Grady's position on the bill, it is in order
for it to adjourn ths discussion. That pa
per ssys
It Is certain that the sort of people eent ont by
the Americen Mteelonary AeeoclaUon will not bn
deterred by ruffian lam of tble sort from doing
what they believe Christian duty requires. What
otject Governor Gordon sod his abetters and It
looks very much aa if tne silver-tongued Grady la
amoog them-can have In stirring op eecUoual bit-
temniin this wny It la herd to see. Bot the feet
that inch an ontrage should be even proposed le
evidence that the ewfnl lesson of the war as to the
Impolicy of treating men and women as If they
were mere animals has not yet been learned by
eomewbo boast that they belocg to the new Sonth.
That It can be helpful to Industrial development
end render n residence In Oeorgla Inviting to the
most dealrahle Northern people no one who knowe
the facts can believe.
The Atlanta CoDstitntion, which it is
presumed represents* Mr. Gradyls opinions,
speaking editorially of the Glenn bill, on
Tuesday, said:
The Stele provides the earns edncet'onel facili
ties for the blacka. that It does for the whiles, but
she Instils, end Insists wisely, on the claselfteatlon
of the races In different schools. The courts, some
ot them presided over by Republican Judges, have
held that this claaslllcetlon la not dlecrlmlcatlon,
If there were any danger that this policy would
be changed, we ehonld unhesitatingly Indorse and
support the Olann bill, halt la, wa consider the
isaure unnecessary,
It will be seen that Mr. Grady thinks the
bill “unnecessary."
The SouthAi opposed to It,
Senator Daniels testifies briefly but to the
point in connection with the cconomlo sys
tem. “Our people are a nnlt in favor of the
repeal of the internal tax,” says he, and in
that be expresses not only the sentiment of
Virginia bnt pretty mnch the whole South.
This tax, which dnnngthe last fiscal year
netted the government $118,000,000, is a
war tax. It is so declared by the Demo
cratic platform of 1884, which pronounced
against it when it said “so long as it re
mains" it must be applied to pensions nod
tbs lifting of certain war burden, and that
the custom house since the foundation of
the government has been the chief sonree
of revenue, and must continue so to be.
The opinion of Tonnessee is ably stated by
the Avalancne in a discussion of the same
subject. It says:
It la! moat offenalve II was condemned by Jtfferaon
and Madison. Ths theory of the government le to
collect cur i avenue by n duty on Imported goods.
This power was given to be need in time ot great
emergency, when war or other canea made an In
teraal tea a ntceealty. But nothing save a depleted
treasury could Justify, 0lc*a» «* even pallets
Ills ea odious tea. It lean unjust tax; a few
the Btatea pajlog It alL And yet wa have an ele
ment who Insist on retaining this Infamous shot
gun system, simply because they are unwilling for
the laboring people to get the benefit of the tact-
dental protection which a duty on Imported goods
brings them.
Are theca gentlemen consistent? They pretend
they are not for tree trade, and that whatever pro
tection labor can get by Incidental protection they
are wUUng they shall have. And yet they Insist on
retaining this cdlour, Infamous, nnjoat, unequal
system of collecting tease, Juat to keep the laborer
from getting Incidental protection by, oc from, the
tax on Imported goods.
Two ascsecsive LvgMMuree in Georgia
have instructed Senators and Representa
tives in Congress to vote for the repeal
the internal tax, and unless we ire greatly
mistaken, Tennessee, North Carolina, Yir-
Mr. Flowers’s Gourd Cutting.
Mr. Roswell P, Flower has been absent
from bis native land for some months, and
is presumable that be is not ovtr familiar
with the exact political situation. When
he ccmes home, which he proposes to do in
few weeks, he may look at things in a
different light While disporting himself
Paris for s brief season be unbosomed
himself to a New York Herald reporter,
who immediately pnt the cable to use. The
moat important observation falling from
Mr. F.ower is thns related:
Be would send Invitations to the leaders of both
parties In the Bouse end Benete, end when ell bed
eaeembled In the ceblnet room, he won :d eey:
Gentlemen, we ere piling up 1150,103,(100of sur
plus yeerly. Now, 1 went texetlon reduced by
Ills 000,000. Here ere 0,900 articles on which duties
ere levied. Let's tit down end cut tble gonrd.' The
Job could ell be done et one sitting. There ere ex
cellent business reaeons why something must be
done with the terriff et once. It le e thing in an-
Ucipatlon. and business le elweye unsettled by
doubt ss to (he fature.
Fortunately, or unfortunately, for the
country, Mr. Flower oannot pnt hie phm of
ontting the tariff gonrd into practical execu
tion. Mr. Cleveland has declared that be is
an executive officer alone, and if he stieks
ss closely to this declaration as ho has stnok
to Mngwnmpisn ideas, it is not to be ex
pected that he will go into the business of
entting tariff gourds, or of formulating free
trade bills at the suggestion of Mr. Wat
terson.
If Bose McLsnghlin's man Sterling had
voted the other way at the Chicago conven
tion, it is possible that Mr. Flower would
have enjoyed an opportunity ot ontting a
tariff gourd. One thing is certain, tjia
Mugwumps could not have frightened him
np to the point of negleoting Sterling.
However, all of this is neither
here nor there as to the immediate
necessities of the sitnation. But when Mr.
Flower shall have returned, he will perhaps
discover that political snrgery for the tariff
w.ll be made easy.and painless by the chop
ping off with one stroko of ths internal
revenue, which is responsible for the star-
plus of one hnndred and twenty-five mil
lions. The body pohtisis suffering from
whisky tumor. It may kill the free
trader to out it out, but it will save iho
Stats. After this is done, we may trim ihe
tariff gonrd, bias or in points,[as fancy leis
ure or the pnblio necessities may snggsst.
We again repeat that we do not think Mr.
Cleveland is a gonrd ontter. Catting gourd)
is a dangerous practice, except with an un-
usually sharp koifeand stout wrist. An in
experienced man at the business might kart
himself.
The Author of the Glenn 11111.
Happily for Colonel .Glenn, the able
yonng legislator from Whitfield, the North
ern press has ponred its vials of wrath on
his raoe coeducation bill, and not on him
self. Yet, for all, there are Lot wanting
evidences that the eloquent and enthusiastic
Colonel his not been insensible to the
attacks that have been made on his j pet
measure. Although he has heretofore keen
ajgentleman of exuberant spirits, whose
horizon was bonnded by roseate hopes, we
are pained to note that a change has come
over the spirit of his dreams. This is noted
with sorrow, because of the ghoalisk glee
which b sure to follow from the G. A, R.
press.
The Colonel, however, has only himself
to blame; for it is he alone who has be
trayed his ntter dejection, and that, too, in
verse, the best possible sign of irremediable
melancholia. The Colonel has a musical
versification in Wednesday's Atlanta Jour
nal, under the caption “Rest," In it are
the following two pathetlo stanzas:
Shadows thick sad dark and dreary
O'er ray llfa have thrown thalr pail;
From this world now sad and weary
Bops hath Had bsyond recall.
BETTERMENTS.
Ball, mighty Deathl thon, only thou.
Hast In thy hands tha powar to bleaa;
But that (or which ws hop* and sigh,
Thon but th* boon ot luting rut.
Whilst it may be true, and it doubtless is,
that this world now appears “sad snd wea
ry," it is a matter of sorrow to the Colonel’s
friends to see him wooiDg death u having
“the boon of lasting rest.”
SHREDS AND PATCHES.
Ne-rar oomac amiss -A mar rl ad woman—Dam villa
Brian,
Klaaee between women us mars formalities.—
Kansu City Journal,
In moat places In California lend ceuee to boom
when the eeeeeeor heevee In sight—Virginia, (See.
Enterprise.
Jim-Jams la Uie eon of Jamboree. This the gene
alogists who have clinched the family tne dtclera
to ho e fuL—Portland Argue.
Some of the milkmen bang palta of milk down
the wall to keep the milk cool. Borne of them nee
too mnch rope.—Milwaukee Sentinel.
A Burlington girl la learning to play the const,
snd her admire re apeak of her u 'the (street
flower that blowe."—Burlington Free Frau.
Dog deye ere hen. Tha dog that owns this one
can have It, if he wlU only take it away with him,
end no qtuetlon used.—Bangor Commercial
j When a young men detecta the Bnt avid etc# of
ginia andWast Virginia have, through their tal f « “* <,pp " Up h * f “ u *i***ted. when in
Legblsturee, taken similar action. The EL** '* ** “^ °' ‘ ccmlngdown.-YonkeraStet-
preea on ell sides is in sympathy with this
movement
The Avalanche aptly terms ths internal
revenue tax “a shot gnn system." The tax
is a direot one and has pnttheagants of the
government in the homes of many simple-
minded people of the Sonth with power to
oonfiscate property and imprison persons.
Oar hills and valleys have been stained
with the blood of the people who dwelt
thereon and in, butchered to collect a tax
for which the government has no tun Re
peal it, sweep it from the statute books
and 1st the aoenrud system be forgotton
as soon as possible.
Ir General Tattle’s mouth could have
been borrowed tor the Ocmnlgee, perhaps,
the disastrous freshet would have been
avoided. But that it wonld stand as a crit
icism upon nature, we might lay that with
the Ocmnlgee in posaeseion of Tuttle's
month and Tuttle in posaeseion of the Oo-
mnlgee's, the country wonld be greatly im
proved.
Porter—Ovate, tble way, pleue. Swell (who dte-
ltbee th* word "grate”) -By Jove, fellah!
gent: Porter (tn apparent oonmelon)—Beg y'r par
don, mill, but y’r clouting deceived ms.—Ufa.
Inebriate—"I ehey, etruger!” Bober
Party—Well, what do yon want? Inebriate—
Can't yon help e gentle <hk) men Snd * hooeh
that'll lit thlah (hlcl Uchke)V'-Taxu Btftlnga.
Peatheily (to messenger hoy)—"Did yon deliver
Ute note to the yonng lad)?" Meeeenger boy—••Tea,
PeaUurly—“And what did aha isyr Un*
•anger boy-she eeld: •Oh. pehew, It's from Mr,
Feather!/.'"—New Tort Bun.
■■Whet in tksnder did yon pnt In that glaee
soda?" he gasped. "Whiskey," replied the clerk.
"Ton winked." "I winked? My yonng friend,
one of my tyeele made of gl«u. I'm a temperance
apoetle.”—New York Ban.
A.-Whiten yon reeding? B.-II le a vary use
ful beak tor thou who don't know how to awlm.'
A.-Bow 10? B.— It yon tell overtvard aii yon
have to do lemtnra to page t; end read the dlrec-
Mlee Ooldcuh—"Do yon know, Mr. Onffan. that
P» re marked brutally the other day that ho wu go
ing to dreae me one more aeuon.- Yonng Onffan—
"Deer me, MluColdcuh: howl ehonld like to—
ew-eeo yon two yeere from now."—Town Topics.
A Correspondent Reviews the Stnto Lease
And Claim For Betterments by the
Lessees.
Editor Teleobafh: When the State
leased tbs Western and Atlantio railroad
to Governor Brown A Company, no better
ments were provided for, and it is said
the Governor bimself so admitted in the in
vestigation oil872. HeBtatedto the com
mittee at that time that such a provision
had been incorporated in the measure, bnt
on motion of Mr. Price it was stricken ont.
If words stand for anything, the intention
of the Legislature lauthorizing the lease,
was therefore opposed to any fntnre claim
for betterments.' In the year 1882, Colonel
Julians L. Brown, attorney for the lessees,
appeared before tbe joint judiciary commit
tee of the Legislature and made the follow
ing statement:
“The lease act does not provide for pay
ment of them, (betterments.) Tbe lessees
put them there on the pledged faith of the
State that the lease wonld last for twenty
years. Now, there is no court of equity
which would under the circumstances al
low the State to take them before the expi
ration of that term and deprive tbe lessees
of the nse of them without paying for
them. We wonld commence smt in Ten
nessee to reoover the value of those better
ments. * * We coold be heard there.
We conld begin by attaching that end of
the road or by serving process npon who
ever might be in ebarge of it * * If tbe
lessees fail to pay rental when it becomes
due, and it remains unpaid twenty days, the
Governor osn seize tbe property If it takes|
the whole power of the State to do it.^^H
The improvements they have pnt noon the I
road are fixtures (!!) How can bridges on
ballast or steel rails be carried off!” En-
paesant, why did paps Brown threaten to
do it on July 8tb?) “If they were to seekl
to remove personal property (cars and eul
ginee) belonging to the State they would be]
Isufcjest to indictment and oriminal prose
cution, Would gentlemen of their charac
ter ran that risk? They are powerless to
injure the State if they (the lessees) should
attempt it” Ferbsps son Julius lacks
judgment and said more than ho was taught
to say, bat he at least, was of the opinion
that the lessees expected to leave such im
provements on the road when the State
again took its property in possession.
■Let ns hear Gov. Brown on the snbjeet
■the year 1880, for be appeared before al
joint committee on July 12 of that year. It
will be remembered he had jnst been made
Senator by tbe kind offices of Gov, Colquitt
and tbe extraordinary magnanimity of Sen
ator. Gordon, On July 12 tho newly made
Senator was very anxious to jilacate the
feeling in Georgia that was inimioal to bis
appointment, and the testimony develops
none ot the irascible temper that we find in
his late blustering three?, for Recording to
bis own attorney, likewise his son, be can-
mot remove “fixtures” and is “powetless”
■cripple this handsome property of the
commonwealth. He indulged in a little
•sarcasm” at Mr. Wadley’s expense, bnt
Otherwise he “roared mildly ns a sucking
Move.”
IMr. Hunt asked: “There is nothing in
that lease act that provides for payment of]
betterments?”
■Mr. Brown—“No, nothing for bettei]
mients—not a word in it.”
INow, Mr. Editor, would not these state-]
mients appear to be conclusive? I bold au|
other dooument that shows however that,
BweeUb wee went, whoee plenty made bin poor,
[Who had enough, yet wished evermore."
■When he went into possession and con
trol of the “best property the State had or]
will ever have,” according to his own con
fession—recorded in a Legislative journal
in my possession—the State relinquished
inch control and possession for throe tea
sons:
1. That it might receive a monthly rental
[of $25,1X10.
I 2. That the State might be protected by
Isatiafnotory bond for the safe return cf
her property at the end of twenty years.
3. That citizens of the State might reap
advantages which foreign corporations
might enjoy under other conditions.
The leeaseVct did not beeome operativo
nntil all these provisions were secured. No
railroad was permitted to beeome a lessee
under any circumstances, and according to
the understanding of the lease company as
explained by themseves, they are the only
I individuals who could ever vote
I directors — no matter how
[often the shares change hands.
The authority to control rested with the
signers of the original lease in porpetno,
and tho attorney of tbe road, Col. Julins
Brown, emphasize this belief, although
■seven of the twenty-three slept in their
graves" five years ago. Onos a lessee, for-
ever a lessee. With all deference to l'resi
dent Brown in his version of tbe leaso set,
ho should have been therefore more can
tious before be taunted the State as he has
done within the lost few weeks; for when
ho vaunts his liberal expenditnres
tho State's road to chargo
tbe people with unfairness he manifest y
overlooked the fact that he, as bead, preei
dent and actual manager of the lease com
Liny, had permitted the Lonisville and
Nashville railroad to own several shares in
the lease without reporting the same to tho
authority which confided this trust in bia
haml#. In defending a quo warranto anil,
instituted by tbe Stato npon information
received from th" Attorns)-General, liiv
attornoya admit the trusteeship of General
Alexander for the Louisville and Nashville
railroad, which violated tbe lease act.
the people ot Georgia ehonld develop a cap
tions spirit, under provo.-ation, a strict
construction of tbe lease law might work
disadvantsgeoualy to tbe friends of tbe
Lonisvillo and Nashville railroad, which
corporation crept in in an unwarranted and
illegal manner.
Governor Brhwn wu again called before
a committee of tbo Legislature on July 28,
1881, and a*k*d this direct question: “Hu
there been any violationof section 10 of the
lleue act?"
lAnswer—“I cannot ny; bnt never with
|my knowledge and consent; and, if I have
ever learned of any, I corrected it,”
■Beotian 10 declares “no railroad company
lor express company, or companies, or a
combination of either, •ballln any event be
come the leuew of arid road." Gov. Brown
swore he sold one share of bis own stock ■
Gen. Alexander and Mr. Wedley, and it earl
puses the marvellous that he should have
ignorantly sold to a trustee for a railroad,
i (or Gen. Alexander ii accredited by Gov.
trown u a present shareholder), which
Gen. Alexander also admits in ths pnblio
prints, to be held in trnat (except a quarter
share) for a foreign corporation, namely,
the Lcnisville and Nuhviile railroad. When
the a hole matter I- overhauled at the cl,we
of the lease, this exception in favor of ■
railroad may take on itself a peculiar color-
iDg. Thirteen of the original twenty-three
lessees are Id their graves, or clear ont
the concern; three ot the otberaM
only half a share. One I
a quarter of a share and seven content
themselves with an eighth each, while
Philadelphians shelter a meagre sixteenth,
and by a system of hocus pocus unknown
to any ether corporation, they are bosses
and big “Ikes” over men who paid $50,0(Xh
a share to get into this powerful andmoney.
making machine. "Tell it to the marine*'."
Tbe flavor of a trick is indisputable.
In the defense of tbe aforesaid quo war
ranto snit there is formulated a uble o!
''betterments" which the leasees will claim
and
settling with tbo State. There
some figures that bear notice,
as this matter ia vital to the tax-
ayerp, let us examine very carefully,
“ ere is first a graDd total of $1,590.517.46.
* in 1871 and 1872, they claimed to have
fxpendeu on the road bed, in tbe first year,
1,601.46, and the second, $221,024 93,
which included new iron rails, ballast and
grading, new bridges, and right of way.
According to this table, they spent nothing
in those two years for buildings, masonry,
wire fences or side tracks.
In tbe report made by President Brown
tbe leuees for the year 1872, the grosa
earnings were $1,590,245 37, and tho entire
expenses, iuolnding rental, constrnction
cars, engines, everything, inclnding sala
ries, (which are enormous) were $1,410,-
687.31, leaving as clean net profit,
$149,558.06, which, divided into twenty-
three shares, made the handsome retnrn of
500 per share. The gross earnings in
1871 were $1,397,742.06, and by their own
showiog they spent only $5.00 for tbe right-
'way in that year, $189.81 to repair a
bridge, $3,237 to grade and ballast - that
excepting twenty-five miles of iron rails—
tbe expenses on tbe roadbed for the first
year of the lease were only $3,432.21.
Now these are their own figures, and
this track was so well conditioned that it
earned for the company $1,397,742 06, in
first year they run it. Do not
forget, Mr. Editor, all that has been said as
' the terrible condition of tbe track when
wu first leued, and here is their aotnal
outlay estimated by themselves on the
and openly insulting, bnt reaction „
inevitably. The day w,ll“ Xt
Georgia will hold np to public |m.®‘ *k*t
man who, from fear, interested i fa ? y *»J
corrupt money, shall trafflo aws? «J*! «
spoliation to the "best proDertV'.S *"<>»
has or will ever have.” 1 Slat*
THE SMART HORSES
That Fall the Machines to the F| r „ -
or their Tricks, Etc. ~ S ° m '
Those who have been about the tm*v ,
engine houses of the paid fire den?,. 1 " d
at practice hours have been strS;?®' 11 '
wonder at the horses. It is at thu 7 1Ul
they seem to have aa muoh sense aa (o f
as one ot the fire laddies expressed h-
it is between times that they ,hoi’
they can be trained like dog,. Thow t° h !
have knowledge cf horses say that .
almost impossible to lesrn an 0 rdl».. h
sornb horse anything more thin to mu hi
tween shafts or to jog along nnai.
saddle, and that it takes the horse of° w !
and character to go beyond the ..l? 1
routine The horses purchased by lfi
Price and selected by Captain B
seemed to possess all thi requisite?
real artistic animals. They .m l.',™ *
yet handsome animals, and instead of h.i,!
olumsy, as their siza wonld lead y ou ft
lieve, are as aotive as colts. *'
Aa is known, they stand in stalls on
side of the house, and at night tho ham™
is kept on them. Should the #on« staff
they spring to their places alongside h
tongues of the machines end the Aren.:
wholi roadbed for a single year, namely, in LupVffiTgong
firemen themselves. If it strikes for
they tBke their plaoes, but it j.
air of indifference, as j(
knew that it is not Mended they shoald
leave the engine house, but merely to hi
hitched np. Bnt when the genuine alum
strikes they fairly jump into position aad
are resiles,, aa if anxious to feel tbe drim'a
lines pnll tight and hear his command ta
go. There is no need of iaah or argim,
for they plunge forward, paying no alien,
tion to anything bnt the pressure on ths
lines to gnide them in the proper direction
There is a telephone in engine bouse o!
No. 2., where Chief Jones makes his head,
quarters, and sometime ago when s chin,
ney on Mulberry street turned out an alum
was telephoned. Ever since then when the
telephone bell rings, no matter how muy
times a day, the Dorses Punch sod Tob*
; prick np their ears and listen with all attend
;ton, even stopping with a wiap of hay in
their months. If they do not see the W
men jnmp about, they drop their ears, and
if eating, finish the mouthful. '
Perhaps the smartest horses of the lot an
Ike and Obe, who do duty in the unci
bouse. They have been taught a numb*!
of tricks by Hairy Smith, the driver, and
tbe ladies can see them aDy day if they v.U
carry an apple or a little eandy, of which
tbe two horses are very fond. One of tha
tricks is that ot shoe shining. A boot-
black's box is placed before one of then
and at the word of oommand he will
place both feet upon it and then lock
around for the apple with which Harry al.
ways rewards him. Both Ike and Obe will
perform this trick, and so will Tobe it the
engine house,
Tbe public, especially the ladies, are al-
ways welcome at theae practice,, and b;
attending they will see what can be taagli
a horse. They will also see John Stuki
trained dog that sits np on the back of a
horse and stands npon his bind lege. Anl
by a little coaxing they can heat Fit
Pierce's lectnre.
The paid fire department is now one cf
the institutions of Macon.
owns
1871—and their outlay excepting fifty
miles of rails in two years, nsmel", for 1871
and 1872, are covered by the snm total $19,-
338.28, and $13,684 of that amount was pnt
on a single bridge over tbe Oostananla,
whioh was fired by an incendiary, and when
the “Howe Truss," erected by the State,
was consnmed. In the year 1873 they
were forced to build another bridge which
uunj $9,000, and yet they ex
pended only $11 889 in that
year on tbe roadbed. These figures
tell the tale. They show what was spent
and for.two years we know what was made
—as the figures above stated will show. In
the year 1872, thty paid $106,097 for 24J
miles of rails, and in their claim for better-
hients, they charge the State $203,118 for
the same;—and yet they do not set down
any allowance for the old rails placed there
by the State end which had earned them
more than a million and a half of dollars
the year before. They pnt down a frac
tion over twenty-five miles the first year,
namely 1871, and it ia not likely that tboae
rails cost more than in the
year of 1872, yet thoy claim
as “betterments,"from tbe State the modest
snm of $283,169.25 on iron rail account of
that year, 1877. The patting down of new
iron rails on the State road, seems to be
something like contribution money; it took
two dollars to lay down one dollar's worth
of iron rails. There is no mistake here,
and allow me to recapitulate: Iu the year
1872, the lease company bought and laid
down iron rails on 24J miles of track,whioh
E. W. Cole, the superintendent, in his re
port to the leasees for that year, declares
cost tbe lessees $106,097 92.
In their formulated claim for betterments
S resented by attorneys Julius Brown, Jas.
i. Smith, J. B. Camming and A. R. Law-
ton, who were employed by tho leasees in
the year 1882, it is claimed that the lessees
expended $’208,118 86, and “labor for put
ting down the Bame; dnecredit having been
allowed for old rails.” The figures stand
for themselves—and develop into a scheme
of tbe most consummate greed and inso
lence.
Let yonr correspondent place a capstone
on this pedestal of audacity—and I am
done.
They present in their defense, for which
they expect retnrn, the snm of $10,000 paid
to B. H. Hill, their attorney, in tho year
1872, to defend the lease against the Legis
lature. This, it will be recollected, is the
year that Treasurer Morrill told certain
rnrties thev spent $70,000 on a "d—d legls-
atnre.” Gov. Brown, on oath, admits he
spent $21,000 on “newspapers and lobby-
iats“to influence the Legislators and pnblio
opinion,”
They present for the year 1874, $10,000,
laid to B. H. Hill and son Jnlins, to de
end a tax fi fa.
They present for tho year 1876 $2,687.66
mid to McCay and Trippe to defend the
easo against tho Legislature of that year.
In the year 1879 they prld $20,000 to B.
U. Hill, K. J. Moses, and son Julias, to de
fend tax fl fas, all of which is brought for
ward without a blnsh or apology. (Lawyer
Moses had good reason to support tbe Gov.
ornor for Senator, as yon will reoollect.)
Now shall tbe State pay for It?
In tho year 1882, son Julias made an
argument and said the lease paid the law
yers finely. When each year's costa are
added on to the sum total, end the State is
drained to foot the bills, won't it be a sweet
arrangement for the parties In power?
The leaso sot stipulates that ths officers
of the Western and Atlantic railroad shall
not extort big salaries, and mentions tbe
Georgia road os a gnide. O. H. Fbinizy,
late President of the road, testified that
Morrill was paid $8,000, Gov. Brown $7,000,
and the Georgia road paid no such amounts.
Poor old Georgial—When the history of
the State, since the war, is written, it will
astonish the world!
Tho men she honored—enriobed—adver.
Used and snbmitted to—have never ceased
t» hr,>m h.-r rescuneff into their own pook-
ets. The revenues of tbe State from the
State road and tbe convicts have traveled
in a direct lino—and they have been appro
priated bo long, that the approach of the
end of the railroad lease wakea np in Gov.
Brown a rabid intent to dismantle—drain
off and break down the properly which
Gov. Bollock, for reasons known to him
self, tamed over to him neatly twenty
years ago. It correctly stated by
a late Interview in the At'anta
Journal, it was Gov. Brown's influence
which placed the power to lease in R. B.
Bollock’s hands, shntting ont the proposed
intention to authorise a commission which
might consider the equities of the case and
give some protection to the taxpayers.
With Bollock in his control, and nobody
ever doubled bis plastic qnslity, tbe State
made a bargain as unfair, ss Hon. A. H.
Stephens declared it to be illegal. It wu
so coarsely set np that the latter repudiated
the whole thing and gave bis share to the
State, merely to have tbe State go behind
the scenes and nncover the scheme. After the
"Legislature and pnblio opinion” had been
influenced by tbe lobby money of the
lessees, he withdrew the legal
attain commenced by General
Toombs, as his attorney, and prononneed
the Legislature, which “ratified the lease,
no better than Bullock, who made it."
Gen. Toombs inaiated on continuance tc
expose the "gang," bnt Mr. Stephens de
sired to remain in Congress, and preferred
to “let sleeping defca lie,” and It broke
friendship for a period most violently be
tween those eminent gentlemen. The
whole matter is susceptible of proof, and
the denunciation of Mr. Stephens, once a
shareholder, is one of the "spots which
will not out,”
It hss been so futile in the put to insti
tnte any measures to protect tho State
against tbs rapacity of those who have
drained tho commonwealth of her revenues,
that tbs pnbllc has become disheartened
and the robber barons bavs grown insolent Gibraltar.
STATE AGRICULTURAL SOCIETY.
Programme of th« Summer Mealing Ink#
Meld Ht Canton Next Week.
The following is the programme for tie
summer meeting to be held at Canton At
gust 9tb, 10th and 11th.
FUST DAT.
Convention opens with prayer it tan
o’clock a. m. Address of welcome by Col
W. II. Perkinson, of Woodstock, G*.
Response for the convention by Capt. I
G. McCall, of Quitman, Go.
Privilege motions.
Semi-innnal address by President Living
■ton.
Roll called and perfected. Adjonresut:
for dinner,
amthNoox bxssiox.
An address—“Discus Destructive to®»
mestic Animals," by Dr. J. N. Cook, vatu
inary surgeon, Atlanta, Ga.
An address— “The Farm snd PireiiiA
by Major O. H. Smith, (Bill Arp), of Car
tersville, Ga.
Reports of committees. New imainr*
Resolutions and miscellaneous bertnaa
Adjournment.
NU’.UT SESSION—KxrEKIZSL'K MISTIN'.
All questions discussed under the I*
minntes rule.
SECOND DAT,
Convention opens with prayer st 82
o'clock a. m. Reports of special coot
tees.
An address—“The Tariff and its
to ths Farmer," by R. J. Guinn, Esq.,
Conyers, Ga.
Au address—"Law In ite Relations
Progress," by Hon. W. 0. Glenn, of As
ton, Ga.
Miscellaneous business. Adjoarnz*
for dinner.
ArriaxooM session.
An address by Hon. Robert L. Ben)*?,
Forsyth, Ga.
An address—“Common Schools, ojy
Gustavos J. Orr, State school oommiho-*-
Atlanta.
Discussion on reports of comlIll l!, ' ,
Unfinished business. Adjournment
NIOBT SEMIOK—EXPEDIENCE MEXTBO.
All questions discussed nnder to*
minntes rale.
THIEF P»T.
Convention opens at 8:30 o'clock, s.
An address—“Improvement of
soil.," by Dr. L. O. Mattox, of Hem**
Report of experiments of the Coi™"
farm, etc, by Dr. W. J. Jones, of its*
Miscellaneous business. Adjourn**®*
APTEENOON SESSION. ,
Election of offioers. Selecting pi** -
next meeting. Dlscnuion on any o*
unfinished ttuinwa. Report of to**?!
live committee. Uenal closing reaoW 0
and ceremonies.
AN KLECriO.\~OW.
Several Men Killed In an Oot-of-'k*-* 1
Kentucky Mountain Town.
Louisville, August 3.—Concern::?
fight snd killiog at Manchester, Mo*
Con tier-Journal special to-night, sap-,
difficulty aroeo sbont a negroesvow, ^
fight ensued between D. W. White, •
White, Iisn White and A J. HaeW .
Dale Little. Hacker was ebot and **
ly killed. N. W. White and IaW*
both serionsly wounded. It >* 1 C*
that the friends of both parties *[*,“ jJ
and armed, and trouble is * x P l tvf a l B lfc
learned that a negro WM *S) Ue iv «* »•’
body thrown into a creek. The ' -
Republicans, and Hacker is s Dem
The Cholera at MaU»- j,
London, August 3.—Tbere
cases of cholera and one “•“"—jit*
disease at Malta. Ten ,1*)
agaicst that place has been •**■