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COLORED S’lETIES. .
Their Origin in Macon and
Their Objects.
ft LIST of the present societies.
IUe Names of Them and Their Presiding
* ( )lUc«*rrt—What in Accomplished
by Them and What
They are Worth. ,
THE WEEKLY TELEGRRPH; TUESDAY. APRIL2i, 188V- 1 TWELYE PAGES.
Shortly after the war ended and the ne
gro found himself his own boss, an army
of carpet-baggers swooped down on Macon,
well as other cities of the South, after
the manner of vultures, and while they
nut a lot of wrong notions in the heads of
the negroes, they dropped one good idea
which was seised and used to advantage.
The negro was for a long time in a stale of
helplessness, and if they grew sick they
died for want of attention, and if they
difd they were carted away and buried
like paupers. The carpet-bagger was a
carpet-bagger for revenue only, but ho
was generous enough to show them the
way to provide lor their sick and to bury
their dead. ,
The plan was by the tormation of ben
eficiary societies, and the first to organize
was the United Brothers, and it was fol
lowed by the King Doves. A monthly fee
was required, whi h was for the purposeof
hclp : ng one another when sickness or
death came. These two societies met with
every sort of trouble. As the membership
grew in numbers, the treasuryswelied,
and upon this money avaricious eyes were
cast, and it was diminished in various
ways, the failure of the Freedman’s Bank
gnaihwrin*' up lots ot it. Then politics
crept into the societies, and in the totter-
iegstages of their existence the famous
King Doves collapsed. Then followed
a year- or so during which lime
the negroes were dubious of societies and
would not touch them. The United
Brothers’ Society struggled on and man
aged to keep up until politics were com
pletely weeded out, and then it flourished,
and is" still flourishing.
Encouraged by its success, and by the
fact that the carpet-baggers had picked
clean all the bones of the negroes’ creduli
ty, and had gone hack home, other socie
ties sprang up, until now there are twenty-
five strong organizations with an average
membership of three hundred each, and
working much good among themselves.
The city has but few negroes to bury, and
in nine cases out of ten they are cither
expelled from the societies or never be
longed to them.
The plan of operation is about the same
in all of them. A person joins and pays his
initiation fee of one dollar, and monthly
dues of fifty cents. Daring the sickness of
a member he or she receives a weekly ben
efit of $2.50, and in case of death $25 is
demoted to funeral expenses and $30 to
the widow. In some societies, when a
member is sick, there is a committee to
furni-h nourishment and medicine, all of
which is paid for by the society.
These societies are not confined to grown
people hut to children. Malachi dames
has a society of children alone, the Stars
of Bethlehem, and by Ilia careful and
watchful prrsidency lie lias made it equally
as strong as any of those made up of grown
people.
liie unmet. of the societies seem to * have
been selected more for euphony than for
appropriateness, as the following lift gath
ered by the Telegraph will show:
Devoted Brothers and Sisters. Thomas
Bill, president.
Brothers and Sisters of the Evening
Star, Green Austin, president.
Brothers and Sisters of-the Morning
Star, Jere Bound, president.
Champions of Distress, Charles Cum
mings, president.
United Brothers, Henry Lewis, presi
dent.
United Brothers and Sisters. Alfred
Morrill, president.
Sons and Daughters of Jacob, John
Arrington, president.
Sons and Daughters of Jerusalem, Es
ther Jones, president.
Israelltish Brothers and Sisters, John
Williams president.
Hebrew Brothers and Sisters, Chas. Star
ling president.
^ Independent Pioneers, Joe Day presi-
.j^tars of Bethlehem, Malachi James pres-
. Centennial Brothers and Sisters, John
relder president.
Brothers and Sisters of Love, Henry
lewis president.
Congregational Sisters, Maggie Thomp
son president.
Zion Israelitish Sisters, Julius Brown
president.
Lilies of the Valiev, Geo. Armstrong
president,
dent! ni * S ^°P e ’ Itonr 7 Dillard, pr.si-
Golden Sentry, Eli Wilson, president.
King Doves (reorganization), name of
president unknown.
Union Laboring Sisters, Waiter Pitts
president.
Union Laboring Brothers, Harrison
Jones president.
Sisters, Win. Bentley president.
jot 8 ln ese there are several divisions
different pans of the citv, there being
«veral divisions of the United Brothers
»nd also the Devoted Brothers. The last
med having a membership of about 900.
Fell* ar ° a * 80 c °l° rt 'd Masons and Odd
and three military companies.
*, ? Devoted Brother! is regarded as the
wealthiest society. It owns the lot hack
10 Methodist church on Cotton
avenue’ besides a few acres of
• Jl, , ln . Tybce. They also own
*rs Re** 1 ^ B C*ilesville known as Travel-
Tb^*~** society has a distinctive uniform.
Lr.. n ." alc . member8 we »r regalias of dif-
1,1 enlorg, and the females a white.
a ,° r purple dress with aprons and uni
ts .. » ,at8 ‘ They turn out in full numbers
tinwJ*e a * a ’ an “ m any a lot-d clothes go
onl-Ieu ,“ n ^ dinners go uncooked tn
«r hat V"* fine '«>ay lie saved and prop-
* r "si-cel shown the dead,
am ' C "nnsetiis do a vast amount of good
5 r c . 0 . 1o kJ P "pie and are the
a . " P r °vtding dcccni burial of many
J '. aan or w..man who would other-
<* Interred as » pauper.
A HK Altcil AFTER TREASURE
1,1 fnltevl tn Han Out—An Ail venture
„ * lih a Couvtet.
non i"T/‘ ^■IntBarpo, Jenkins and Wag-
Wrti.i.. -^'erdny aliern no with William
»i„* 1 “"'I Clurlca Adkios, the two cote
‘^‘Pturcl by them
reveal the treasure if the Lieutenant would J
carry him to il. Lieutenant Wylie is a
shrewd officer, and his first mental guess
was that Wright was putting up a job to
escape. But Wright was so confidential
and so positive, and gave so minute a re
cital of the adventures in which ail this
treasure had been acquired that he smoth
ered the guess and believed just
little bit that Wright was tell
ing a straight story. Everybody in
Macon knows that Lieutenant Wylie
loves wealth, cron though lie is too big-
hearted to keep it, if lie had it, and the
prospect of digging down around a certain
telegraph pole and finding eighteen hun
dred or two thousand dollars was some
thing lie could not resist. Accordingly, lie
put on that citizen’s suit that captured At
lanta on a recent visit, hand-culled his
prisoner and put a chain around his neck
and left for No. 2 on the Southwestern
railroad Tuesday afternoon at 0:30 o’clock.
The story of what happened after that can
be told best in his own words:
“We (jot off in the dark, and just above
us I noticed that another man got off also.
The thought flashed over me that the trip
was made up for the purpose of allow
ing an opportunity of escape, and this
man who got off was in the
plan. I thought to myself, old fellow, if
you do try to help your partner I’ll settle
you first, and I cot a good grip on my gun.
Then we hunted around until we struck
the right telegraph pole and we dug and
dug. No treasure appeared, and Wright
found two negroes and told them he would
ive them $25 and a suit of clothes each to
nd the money. Then they dug and dug.
When they got tired, we dug and dug, and
it was dig and dig until about 1 o’clock,
when we were fagged out. We went to a
store where there was a front porch, and
there T locked the chain that was around
Wright’s neck to the post, and laid him
down with hands secured by the hand
cuffs. Then I used his body as
pillow and that’s the way we slept until
good daylight, when we went digging
again. We kept on digging until the train
due here at 9:10 came along, and then I
turned the digging over to some parties
down there, and 1 expect by this time they
have dug around every telegraph pole from
Powersville to Fort Valley.”
It seems that Wright makes himself out
an extensive burglar, a kind of profession
al cracksman, and was engaged in the safe
breaking at Juliette,James Station, Hamp
ton and other places, and was finally
caught up with at Albany when he was
sent to the pemtentiarv for ten years. The
money, he says, is hidden in Houston
county, is only a portion of the boodle se
cured on these forays, as he gave hundreds
of dollars to his wife.
Lieut. Wylie is somewhat puzzled oyer
the matter. He believes that Wright’s
idea was to escape, and yet he has an idea
that he had money. It is known that he
came to Macon wiih $300 in gold, but what
became of it is a secret the convict will
probably carry to the Chattahoochee brick
yard with him.
WOOLFOLK’8 CANDLE.
i on Tu'mday.
told 11* tl,uo •I'tring’ Tuesday Wright
iu huttenant Wylie of Ids wealth an I
ID g place, and furthermore he would
How the FrUouer Amused Himself a Few
Nights Ago.
A night or so ago, Jailer Birdsong made
his usual quiet inspection of the jail be
fore retiring, and, to his surprise, discov
ered n height light in that, portion contain
ing the great iron cage, and in which
Woolfolk has a cell. As the prisoners
were seemingly enjoying themselves after
their fashion, in songs, the jailer knew
that there was no danger; hut ho was curi
ous to know what caused the light.
Taking the keys, the jailer slowly un
locked the door dividing the two portiong
of the jail, and, then stepping up stairs,
peeped into Woolfolk’s cell. There was
the prisoner, almost nude, seated on his
couch, and in front of him
was a curious-looking light,
slowly burning. The prisoner was wholly
unaware of the jailer’s presence. He
laughed loud and long and talked to the
impoverished candle, for such it was, and
finally called out to Burnett, his favorite
prisoner anil said: “Burnett, what do you
reckon old Birdsong would say if lie knew
I took that butter I got him to get for tae
to-day and made this candle with it? He’d
rip nie up the back about it.”
The jailer watched until the_ light went
out nnu tlie darkness came again and then
quietly went down stairs and closed the
door without ever letting Woolfolk know
that he saw him. The prisoner had taken
a string made of a strip of cioth and
with the blitter made him a can
dle," probably for amusement more
than anything else, as it could not have
availed him in any way, and secured
a match front some of the other prisoners.
On Tuesday Sheriff Wescottand Dr. W.
C. Gibson went out into the Warrior dis
trict and found the negroes greatly alarmed
about Woolfolk. The report had been cir
culated that he was out, and were afraid
to venture outside their doors after dark,
THE GEORGIA SOUTHERN.
The Way Clear to Val*1o»to, ami More
HnuiU Will be Put On.
Tuesday several telegrams were re
ceived in Macon from New York to the
officers of the Georgia Southern and Flor
ida Kailroad, all of n most gratifying
character. One of these was as follows:
“All clear to Valdosta; puton all hands
yon can. Can get plenty of money.”
This was from President Sparks who is
in New York in the interest of the road,
and means that he ha» placed the bonds
carried with him for that purpose. A
number of bonds were placed in Macon
last week.
As in consequence, their is no doubt but
that there will he a big jump .-in Macon
Construction Company stock, and it will
he difficult to get hold of.
Tile work on the road has been progress
ing finely, and people along the line are
transforming the stations into prosperous
little villages to grow into big towns as
the road draws near completion.
The Georgia Southern is booming right
Along. ■
A Farmer** Misfortune.
Saturday night Mr. John Bragg, living
on the lower edge of Bibb, started nonie in
Jib wagon and was overtaken by night
near Gnswoldville Being dark he con
cluded to camp out. He built a fire and
laid down beside it and went to sleep. He
was awakened Sunday morning _ by pain
and then it was discovered that his left leg
had been badly burned, bis clothes burnt
from him, his wagon and harness burned,
and fire had been set to the wood of Mr. J.
II. VauBuron’s laud, destroying a number
of Rcres of tine timber. In ado it ion to all
this trouble his horse was gone, probably
driven away by the fire.
An Enterprising, Reliable House.
toimur, Rankin Jk I-mnsr can always be relied
iliKin, not only to carry in stock toe best of ev
erything,but insecure (he agency ot such articles
ns have well-known merit, and are popular with
the people, thereby sustaining the reputation
of being always enterprising, and ever reliable.
Having iccnred the agency tor the celebrated
Dr. Klin, ► New Discovery tor Consumption,
will S. lilt on a positive guarantee. It will surely
euro any and every affection ol Throat, Lunsa,
■ml Chest, and to show our confidence, we Invite
you to call and gat a trial bottle free.
TURNED THE KEYS ON HIM.
now Three Pi-laoners Mmle Their Escape
From the Houstnh County Jail.
The news comes in that the jail at Perry
was emptied on Monday afternoon of three
prisoners.
From what can bo learned it seems that
there was confined in jail Joe Jackson, and
his brother Alex Jackso.t, sentenced to
twelve and eight years respectively for
burglary, and another negro named IVyatt
sentenced to six years for horse stealing.
On Monday afternoon business called
Sheriff Collier away from town, and he
told his son, a young man about seventeen
years of age to go to the jail and feed the
prisoners that evening. Young Collier
went as instructed, and in some way while
liegjwos giving the evening meal to the
prisoners, they caught hold of him and
locked him up in a cell. They then put
thejkeys in their pockets and left young
Collier a prisoner. He began to call out,
and finally his cries reached the ears of
some passers-liy, and lie was released.
A search was made for the jail birds, but
they had flown. It is understood that
Sheriff Collier lias offered a reward for
their capture.
Joe Jackson !b the uegro mentioned in
the Telegraph a few days ago as having
walked into the office of" Judge Notting
ham and asking for a rccomendation, as lie
wanted to preach to the convict.. Before
Judge Nottingham could write the recom
mendation the sheriff entered and arrested
Joe for burglary. He was promptly tried
and sentenced to twelve years that ho
might preach that length of time to the
convicts.
The three men are described as being
burly black negroes, and would in all
probability offer a stubborn and desperate
resistance to recapture.
Fast Time on the East Tennessee.
One of the fastest runs ever made in the
South on record was made on April 17th
by Engineer W. T. Hamar with engine
No. 103. The train consisted of five cars,
and the run of ninety miles, from Eastman
to Jesup, making twenty-one stops, two of
which consumed five minutes each, and
one stop of six minutes, owing to a slight
mishap to the locomotive. The whole time
consumed in making the run was two hours
and thirty-five minutes; deducting the
three stops of sixteen minutes, making the
unparalleled record oWtiinety miles, mak
ing the additional eighteen stops, in two
hours and nineteen minutes. Engine 103
was built at the Atlanta shops by Mr. C.
F. Thomas and is 16x24 inch cylinder with
5 foot driving wheel. Taking into consid
eration the heavy train, in comparison to
the size of the engine, the record is simply
remarkable, and one of which Engineer
Hamar and Conductor Hamsun may well
feel proud.
Escaped From tlio Clmln-Gnng.
The police are looking for three mem
bers of the chain-gang who made their
escapet abou 2 o’clock yesterday morning.
They are Gus Everett, sent tip for three
months and served two and a half; Robert
Knox, sent up for fourteen months and
served two, and Bit Harris was sent up for
twelve months and served ten. They
were trusties and took advantage of this
favor hy escaping.
Always tlie Way.
Last Saturday a piece of scantling 2x8
inches and 8 feet long fell on end and
struck a colored workman squarelv on the
top of his head. He dropped to tlie floor
as if dead. The other workmen poured
water on his head when he jumped up and
knocking the water out of iiis ear with his
hand, united, “who done d«t.” Beyond
a small lump on his head lie was not jiurt.
A Fatal Cut.
From the Monroe News.
Saturday last the corpse of Elijah Burk
hart passed through Monroe cn route to
Bethlehem, his home in this county.
A self-inflicted wound from his pocket
knife killed young Burkhart.
He was'workingat ahawmill near Sparta,
Gi., and lie and some of the other hands
about the mill were engaged in slinging
their knives open by a quick jerk, as a
matter of pastime. ’ Young Burkhart, in
slinking lus knife open, buried the blade
in his thigh, and as he did so remarked
that he had cut himself to death. That
was on Thursday, and on tlie F'riday week
after lie died. Medical aid had been sum'
moned at tlie lost moment, and tlie doctor
had made preparations to nmputate the
limb, but before he could get from tlie saw
mill to Sparta theyoun^ man died.
Young Burkhart was in his twenty-first
year, a young man greatly liked hy all
who knew him. •
The Old Stiver Spoon.
How fresh in my mind are the days of my
sickness,
When I tossed me iu pain, all fevered and
sore;
The burning, the nausea, the sinking and
weakness,
And even the old spoon that my medicine
bore.
The old silver spoon, the family spoon,
The sick-chamber spoon that my mad!
cine bore.
How lotii were my fever-parched lips to re
ceive it,
How uauseus the stuff that it bore to my
tongue,
And the pain at my inwards, oh, naught
could relieve it,
Though tears of disgust from my eyeballs
it wrung.
The old silverspoon, the medicine spoon,
llow awful the stuff that it left on my
tongue.
Such is the effect of nauseous, griping
medicines which make the sick-room u mem
ory of horror. Dr. Pierce’s Purgative Pel
lets, on the contrary, are small, sugar-coated,
easy to take, purely vegetable and perfectly
effective. 2a cents s vial.
Jealousy anil Munler.
From the Orlfiln Sun.
News reached the city yesterday of the
killing of a negro man by another in Line
Creek district, on Sunday night. The
affair was caused hy jealousy. It seems,
uuiu Moot nv Could icsiu fiumuur Inform
ant, that I’ete Bagwell’s wife had been
washing for Andrew Wilson for some time,
much to the anLoyance of Pete, who in
sisted that she quit washing for Andrew.
This led to an open quarrel, and a short
time ago Pete and his wife separated.
The woman continued to do the washing
for Andrew. On Sunday night Pete went
to the church where his wire and Andrew
were and, calling his hated rival tn one
side, plunged his knife into him, killiug
him. Bagwell has fieri.
Political Acrobatlsm.
From the Baltimore American.
“Biding two horses running in opposite
directions is a mild pastime compared to
the effort- of the New York Sun and the
Atlanta Constitution to cling to tlie Dem
ocratic partv and a protective tariff at the
Two Lending Fallacies Exposed. 1 But Senator Brown is very zealous for wh sky
I have dealt thus far with Senator Brown’s In- and tobacco. Consider he sa-'S, the practice of
consistencies, and with the mask of Democracy the government for three quarters of a century,
which couceals his real Republicanism. . I turn We have shown that this practice was the
now from his true, as contrasted with his appa- very rev. rsc. T m Internal revenue, even In
rent, seH, to his fallacies. Us more onerous forms, was ever resorted .to In
He lays down as the basis of his speeches two preference to high tariff taxes,
resolutions, artfully drawn, which sound well. Were It otherwise, however, the
Here they are: | experience of 75 years Is not so good as
Resolved, That the practice of the government that of too, which Include the 75 and of which
01 the United States was correct, lor the first the last 25,ire hv f„r the most in.tr,
three-quarters of a century of IU existence, l °c last arc by far the most Instructive,
when It collected the revenues necessary to iu I Never was so largo a revenue raised with so
support at the poru or other boundaries of our little hardship as that on liquor nr tobacco.
spsasz h,,esom ° r ™ mv h,v °
Iawi Imposing direct tuxes were passed, which . home hardly and beeu abandoned, an ex*
were repealed as soon us the emergency which perience in common with that of the whole
™ItesolveiL Theft*t taffuese!it *1n\ernal revenue ! "° rW concentrates on whisky and to-
laws, which were enacted as wur measures in ! hacco.aa the two best and least burdensome taxes
time of a great emergency, which are onerous, , yet known.
“PP" I . , i v ^?P. < ?- u ?Jcmoc ; a,jc, have cxUtedtor Despotic Bismarck. Republican France, free
trade England, Democratic America, all unite
In this verdict and practice It to great advan-
thc government to provide against by a reduc
tion of the revenues, it becomes the Imperative
duty of Congress to enact appropriate legisla
tion for the repeal of said Internal revenuelaws
at the earliest day practicable.
All this sounds very plausible. In the school
of sophlsU these resolutions would entitle
Senator Brown to a diploma. Were Congress
a mere debating society, to play with the Inter
ests of 60,000,000of people for thelr;amusement,
this were well enough. But we have serious
work before us.
Let us see what real merit there Is In these
well souudlug propositions.
Senator Brown admiuthe propriety of raising
money by Internal revenue, on a proper emer
gency. Such an emergency fs found fn the ex
penses arising out of war. These expenses
are for pensions, Interest and striking fund.
Has the pension emergency ceased?
The pensions paid by the United States have
been as follows:
PENSIONS.
1786 1800, inclusive, below
1801-1820, lncluslvo,
1821-1850, inclusive
1841-1800, Inclusive,
J 1,000,000
8,500,000
. 35,500,000
. 35,000,OX)
Total to 1860 180,000,000
So the pensions from the foundation of the
government to the lata war amounted to
180,000,000 all told.
For the one fiscal year, ending in 1838, the es
timated payments are Just $80,000,000; equal to
the entire payments for the seventy years pre
ceding the war.
Those were the days of small things, of puny.
Insignificant expenses. We do things on a
large scale now. The pension frauds now prob
ably exceed the pensions of old times. Proba
bly the frauds and fees together In one year
sometimes exceed the entire pension list for the
first quarter of a century of our existence.
The foregoing statement shows what Senator
Brown calls the passing away of the pension
emergency. ,
War expenses Include also Interest on the
debt and sinking fund. For.the present year—In
which Ms resolutions are Introduced, declaring
‘‘the emergency passed away,” the following are
WAR EXPENSES, 18881
Pensions $ 80,030,000
Interest 44,500,000
Sinking fund 47,000,000
tage.
In this, as In other regards, It Is Instructive to
learn history up to date.
The light of later years Is muc|i the most In
structive, both tn science and history.
Senator Brown's two resolutions contain tho
essence of bisargument. Could more lalsebood
be crammed Into as few lines? I have shown
the pension emergency of $80,000,000-one year’s
pensions equal to those of tho first seventy years
of our existence as a people; the total war ex
ponses $171,000,000, an emergency exceeding
tho entire Internal revenue by
$30,000,000; the Internal revenue nevertheless
reduced aud embracing only two im
portant classes of articles, Rod these uot
of necessity. I have shown the peace tariff uot
only unreduced, but vastly exceeding the
tariff In rate and amount. But still Senator
Brown clamors for cheap whisky and dear
goods, and for that beloved trlbuto (which ex
plains the whole of his zeal), In which his pri
vate concern la In violent antagonism to me
public Interest and welfare. Re is artful and
nsldlous, but under the light of Investigation,
what is left of his two plausible resolutions?
Were emptier bubbles ever blown?
Hampel Bahnett.
Washington, Ga., April 16, 1888.
THE CONVICT BURGLARS.
War expenses 1 year .'. .$171,500,000
Internal revenue 120,000,100
Sufferers From Cough., Sore Throat, E!c„
Should try “Brown’s Bronchial Troches.” ■ »im-
G le but sure remedy. Sold only In boxes. Price
1 Cents.
Excess of war expenses over entire
internal revenue :..... $ 51,500,000
This is the biggest emergency of our whole
history—8171,000,000 ol war expenses. On Sena
tor Brown's own principles, the Internal reve
nue might properly he increased hy 850,000,000.
yet he proposes Us entire abolition for lack of
an emergency.
One of the conditions of Internal revonne tax
ation has ever been to avoid excessive tariff
rates.
The tariff during Washington's administration
averaged about It per cent, on a'l Imports. Yet
Washington, In that period of national and In
uuatrlal infancy, considered the emergency suf
ficient to raise part of the revenue by Internal
taxes. Now our tariff Is 31% per cent., also esti
mated on all Imports—more tbau double whqt it
averaged tn Washington's day.
Compare tbc present war tariff with the peace
tariff which preceded It. In 1860, the year before
the war, the rate on duliablo goods was not
quite 20 per cent., and yielded 853,000,000. The
war-addition to the tariff raised it from 20 per
cent, in 1860 to 36 per cent, in 1862, a rise of 16
per cent.
Now, In 1887, the rate Is above 47 per cent,
that Is more than 10 per cent, rise upon the
highest war rate, and more than double the
peace rate.
Thus the war addition to the tariff has been
actually increased both tn rate and amount.
The public haa grown unfamiliar with the
facta; hero they are:
Year. Rate. Dnty.
1860 20 853.000.000
1801 (highest war tar 111') 37 97.000,000
1887 .7. 47 217,000,000
Tbit enormous war tariff 8onator Brown does
not propose to reduce, but to fasten it on the
country by .making It tho sole great source of
revenue. Double tho rate and four times the
yield docs not furnish Senator Brown with an
emergency for relief from the war tariff.
A whole large field of positive argument boa
been left untouched.
I have not said a word concerning the tribute
which a high protective tariff levies upon the
people. Yet tbc tribute is by far tbc biggest
tax we pay. The specific object of keeping up
the war tariff is to keep up the tribute.
The government shore suffices to show the
abominations of the war tariff. To expoae them
all—In their full Iniquity—would require more
pace than can now he devoted to that brunch
of the subject.
There, however, ilea the true emergency de
manding reform. The war tariff having been
thus largely raised—Instead of reduced in time
of peace—how has it been with the Internal
revenue, of which .Senator Brown complains so
grievously? /
It haa been, from time to time, the subject of
large reductions—in the number of articles
taxed—in rate—and in the amount collected. In
all tlicae particulars, and elso in complexity,
the reduction baa been immense. Indued, al
most all of the whole Urge aystem haa been
swept away.
To Illustrate the changes; The reduction was
so great that in the year 1866 the tmfyielded no
leas than $236,000,000 on articles then taxable
but now exempt. A like reduction In the tariff
would lower It by $170,000,000 and reduce the
long list to perhaps less than half its present
dimensions,
Once the Internal revenue was troublesome,
snd required study. There were many hun
dreds ot articles. But the taxes are all gone on
Income (one of the most troublesome), on
stamps (another), on legacies, on contracts, even
the tax on banks. From a list of sixteen or sev
enteen pages all haa been swept away except the
taxes on liquors end tobacco.
One after aLother feature has been removed,
until now only the least burdensome and most
avoidable taxes remain. The thing now in
order is a like reform of the tariff.
The taxes on liqnor, and tobacco Henator
Brown pronounces onerous, oppressive and
undemocratic. I suppose taxes on necessaries
are light, pleasing and Democratic iu bis eyes.
He quotes Ur. Jefferson about ncrer seeing a
Federal tax collector. But who dees see him
now? About one citizen iu a thousand. The
number who see th-s custom house officers is
now greater. • Mr. JeOt-rsou’s ripest views and
last counsels strongly favored the whi-ky tax.
Mr. Mi ll-on preferred It t > raising the U'Iff
rate above 12 per cent.. What would they hare
thought of our prc-eul tariff?
The Rurglnry Committed Just Before
Reaching Mucon.
Last niglit Mr. J. K. Hill anil Mr. G. A.
Pennington, forming the firm of J. B. Hill
& Co., of Smnrr’s Station, on the Macon
and Western railroad, came to Macon to
see abouuthe capture of William Wright
and Charles Adkins, the two- escaped con
victs captured by. Officers Paletharpc,Wag-
non ana Jenkins a day or so ago. Mr. O.
S. Cherry had notified them hy postalcard
of some goods having been captured in
Macon, and they came down to see about
them, not knowing at the time that the
negroes had been captured.
Ill thu booty of the convicts ut the city
hall, Messrs. Hill and Penington recog
nized a lot of their goods, some of which
had not been missed!
It seems that the store of Hill & Co., is
the post-office, express and railroad office.
Lest Friday Mr. Hill noticed the two ne
groes going down the railroad and asked
about them, hut they were unknown to
any of the negroes in the locality. The
next morning it was found that the rear
window of the store had been opened with
a crowbar and the store robbed. The safe
had been broken open and about $30 taken
therefrom. Sixteen dollars of this money
belonged to the Ceiittal lAiuuiiu.
A few bolts of cloths, a
lot of shoes, pocket books, tobacco, cigars,
a pistol, underclothing anil a box of plated
jewelry that came by express and was con
signed to some one at the place.
The convicts brought the plunder to
Macon and disposed of the cl- tli and
money. Tlie .other ar’ieles, or portions of
them were found by Officer Pnlctharpc at
various places visited by the negroes while
in Macon.
Mr. Pennington will return on Monday
to get the stolen plunder. Both he and
Mr. Hill seemed gratified to learn that the
thieves had been caught.
SENATOR ltEllltY, OF ARKANSAS.
Sketch of n Romantic amt Successful Ca
reer.
Special Correspondence of the Globc-Dcmoerat.
Washington, April 14.—Mr. James II.
Berry is the Locltinvar of the Senate. But
in his case it wus an Arkansas river cinoe
instead of a steed. What makes the story
more interesting is the fact that it ull hap
pened alter he left a leg on the battlefield
of Corinth. He was only 20 when ho en
listed in the Sixteenth Arkansas Infantry,
and he had just turned 21 when he came
hobbling back to Carrol county. When he
got the hang of his crutches he crossed
mountains to Johnson county and
studied law, at the saute time main
taining himself by teaching. There
he made the acquaintance of Miss Lizzie
Quaile, tlie daugnter of a well-to-do mer
chant. Mr. Qnaile saw nothing prom
ising in the one-lejgged schoolmaster and
opposed the courting strenuously. Under
these circumstances young Berry commis
sioned a friend to call at tlie Qnaile man
sion one evening and invite the lady out
for a walk, while he waited with a canoe
at the river’s edge. Before the stern par
ent knew what was in contemplation, the
river had been safely ferried and Miss
Qunile had become Mrs. Berry.
The qualities which win at love are val
uable in JKilitics. Berry married, was ad
mitted to the bar and was elected to the
Legislature, the events occurring in quick
succession. He began his public life in
I860. In 1872 lie jras re-elected, and in
1874 he was made speaker. Two years
later he was president of the Democratic
State convention, and two years after that
he was elected Judge of tlie Circuit Court,
and he resigned the bench to accept the
nomination for governor in 1882.
A MODEL RECONCILIATION.
It was a unanimous nomination and
equivalent to election. He left Little
Bock at tlie close of the convention, and
on his way home stopped off at Ozark, his
wife’s old home. Then for the first time
since he set the parental authority at de
fiance, sixteen years before, he < rested the
thresillioiJ of iiU f^hcr-in law. The
reconciliation wus dramatic iu its simplic-
^“IIow do you do, Mr. Qnaile,” said tho
son-in-law, aa lie walked into the house
anil extended his hand.
“GooJ morning, Mr. Berry,” said the
father-in-law, as lie rone and took the olive
branc-ii.
And that was ail there was of it. They
chatted together about current events as
if they hud been in regular communica
tion and upon good terms instead of strao-
gen for so many years. The pieu-ant feel
ing has continued unimerrupteJIy ever
since, but it is said that neither itas ever
referred, in the presence of the other, to
the long estrangement.
“I thought after I was nominated for
Governor, said the Senator one day in
talking with a friend about that first visit
to hia wife’s inline, “that 1 could afford to
make up.”
A GLANCE BACKWARD.
Thera was another interesting celebra
tion of this nomination. When tho cannon
ball took oii'his leg at Corinth young Berry
found a home with a kind old lady living
not far from tlie battlefield. She "took the
youthful soldier in and nursed him through
the long months of convalescence. After
being nominated for Governor, Mr. Berry
journeyed to Corinth, found tlie old lady
to whom lie probably owed his life —for
the wound was a terrible one—and made
her a visit, to her great delight.
At the end of his term as Governor, Mr.
Berry was chosen Senator to fill out tlie
unexpired term of Attorney-General Gar
land. Fiext winter lie will, unless all
signs fail, have no oppesition for tho elec
tion to a full term, lie is only 47 years
old next month.
Kinc&he came to Washington*Senator
Berry has made his home at tlie National
Hotel. Jlis eldest daughter, Miss Nellie,
lias been ail iuvalid for several years, anil
is now iu Philadelphia under medical
treatment. Mia Bertie, tlie second daugh
ter, is an interesting young lady. The
third daughter is with iier grandfather at
Ozark. ’1 here are still several iittle folks
left, enough of them to make tho Senator’s
apartments at tin hotel lively of an even
ing. When Sunday comes Mr. Berry
charters a big carriage, puts his yonug-
sters into it and drives out into tlie coun
try, filling their lungs with good fresh air
at least once a week. . >
HE SCORNS THE COUNTERFEIT.
Tlie way Mr. Berry manages to get
around on hia crutches is marvelous to his
fellow Senators and to a good many other
people. Senator Butler, of South Carolina,
lost a leg during tlie war, at Brandy Sta
tion—not the Brandy Station where so
many other statesmen have lost tlieir legs,
hut the Brandy Station down in Virginia.
He wears a cork leg witli sucli grace tbit
nobody can tell winch leg is flesh. After
Senator Hampton had his leg kicked to
pieces hy a mule, his colleague per
suaded him to try cork, and Tie, too, is
now as firm on his pins as any man of
his years in the Senate. When
Berry made his appearance Butler and
Hampton showed him their cork legs and
urged him to try the sub-mute for nature,
hut he wouldn’t. They have labored with
him time and again, but the Arkansan
still goe i on one leg and two crutches.
He can start out and walk with anybody.
He hops into street cars, climbs long stair
ways, and gets about witli surprising
agility. When lie rites in tlie Senate to
speak he steadies himself beside his desk
and goes ahead without-any apparent in
convenience But of course lie can’t stamp
iiis foot to express his feelings. When lie
enters the Senate chamber a page takes
tlie crutches away and stands them up in
one corner, where they remain until the
Senator is ready to go out
A MAN FOR A* THAT.
The readiness witli which he uses iiis
crutches has made him a little careless.
Once he started down stairs in tlie dark,
missed a step and pitched headlong to tlie
bottom. But lie is a man of splendid
physique, and what would have ,kilted
many only laid him up witli a fipe assort
ment of bruises for a week 61 two;
The one-legged Senator is'widely known
and well liked in Washington. He has
black eyes, with lots of.fire in.tjigm, a
great shock of wavy black hair, tuuj t> very
agreeable manner C'fmil hiod with mi'^xccss
of nervous energy. He carries info lib
Senatorial duties a conscientiousness
wtiich is rutlier unusual in a body where
policy and courtesy are two. cardinal
principles. Some of lib colleagues
laughed a good deal at Sir. llcrrv.’s dilem
ma when the Blair educational bill was
up. At the time Mr. Berry was ejected
Senator the Arkansas.Legislature declared
for the bill, and requited a declaration
from the Senatorial candidates that if
elected, they would vote for the bill. Af
ter looking into the merits of the bill Mr.
B’-rry became convinced tltat lie cbhldn’t
approve the bill. lie talked over' his pre
dicament with hiB friends untrl -a.11 hf the
Senators had heard of it. Wlieit the time
came he didn’t dodge, but made A very
brief speech, expressing in empliatic'words
lib ban opinion of the bill, and then voted
for it with the air of a man taking a very
bad dose of medicine.
SUOTAGIRL.
A Contractor Wlio 11ml Itettor Leave III.
Gun at Homo Next Time.
Atlanta, April 19.—Sam Clark, a con
tractor, engaged in building a house at the
corner of Richardson and Ivy street, shot
a small negro girl in tlie thigh this morn
ing about 5 o’clock, with n parlor ride, in
flicting a painful but not dangerous
wound. For some days Clark lias been
missing lumber, and thb morning abont
daylight stationed himself in the building
with the view of detecting who it was that
was stealing bb lumber. About 5 o’clock
two girls and one boy, all small negroes,
appeared at tho building and commenced,
loading up with planks and blocks. One
of the two, a girl, stationed herself on
the lookout for the purpose of sounding
an alarm if any one should corno in sight.
Just ns the other two were about to leave
witli n supply of planks and blocks, Clark
yelled at them. They threw down wliat
lumber they had, and as the trio were
running away ill a bunch Clark fired hb
parlor rifle at them The ball struck Car
rie Peterson in her left thigh, and b still
imbedded ill the flesh.
This afternoon Clark was carried before
Justice Tanner, when he made a bond for
lib appearance to answer the charge pre
ferred against him.
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