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TIIE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH: TU ESPA Y, M AY 8.W83--TWELVE PAGES.
WASHINGTON.
Melville W. Fuller Nomina
ted for Chief Justice.
THE SELECTION HIGHLY COMMENDED
\ Gentleman, n Scholar, An Kmlnent
Lawyer aud ft Sound Democrat—
Georgia Member* Who Will
Not Speak on the TarifT.
|r»OM OUR SPECIAL CORRESPONDENT. |
Macon Telegraph Bcrp.au, '
No. 515 Fourteenth street, N. W.,
Washington. May 1, 188*.
It was developed to day that r clandestine
movement, involving the President, wm
started here and was attempted to be car
ried out in the Georgia county conventions.
It has beeu represented tliut Senator Brown
called upon Ur. Cleveland and had a con
versation with him on Georgia politics, and
especially upon the snbjeot of the tariff and
appointments to the State and national con
ventions; that the President told him he did
not desire a division in the party, and that
it would be better not to draw the Hue too
strongly, either in regard to resolutions
4,(opted or delegates chosen. A part of the
programme, it is understood, is this: To
Jiisuitde from adoption by State conveu
tion of any strnightout declaration of con'
currence in tlie President’s policy. It will
p e cliimed that the people of Geor
_jj do not indorse Cleveland's
silver policy or his views in
regard to the civil service reform, and there
fore that any concurrence in his policy in
general would include these items,
* As a matter of fact, Mr. Cleveland has
made no such suggestion to the people of
Georgia. The statement that he has, im'
putes to him both cowardice and stupidity,
It U his administration that is to be endorsed,
and U he willing in order to please a hand
ful of protectionists to have the State com
ventious fear to endorse him I Nobody who
knows the man thinks so. Everybody here
knows the statement that he said any such
thing is without a particle of foundation,and
is the last clutch of drowning men.
THE NEW CHIEF JUSTICE.
Melville Weston Fuller, of Chicago, nom
inated to-day to be Chief Justice of the
United States, was born in Augusta, Maine,
February 11, 18*3. His mother was a
granddaughter of Chief Justice Weston,
lie was graduated from Bowdoin
College in 1853, afterward attended law lec
tures at Harvard. He began the practice of
law in his native town in 1855, but for a time
devoted himself chicily to editing the Au
gusta Age. He was chosen president of the
common council and city solicitor. He did
luug remain in Maine, but moved to Illinois
and established himself at Chicago. Here,
~ : *h the utmost S!!iduit v h u IsbWKl f
profession, finding time, however, to take
part is a speaker in the Democratic cam
paign of 1856. Subsequently he was a dele
gate to the State constitutional convention,
and during the war was a member of the
legislature, in which be was a leader. Mr.
Fuller delivered the notable address of wel
come to Stephen A. Doug
lass in 1860 at Michigan City.
He was a delegate to every national conven
tion of the Democratic party, except in 1868,
from 1864 to 1880. He is now a member of
the national executive committee. But
while his literary tastes und his devotion to
sound Democratic principles were both pro-
nounced, it was as a lawyer that Mr. Fuller
made his chief reputation. In 1863 he was
connected notably with cases before Illinois
8upreme Court arising out of the proroga
tion of the Legislature by Governor Yates.
In 1869 he defended Rev. Charles Edward
-Cheney, the now bishop of the Heformed
Episcopal Church, for having omitted from
the office of infant baptism the word "regen
erate." His argument before the Supreme
Court in 1810 was one of the
most brilliant ever delivered in
the State. Of upright character,
elegant in social life, accomplished and
gifted as a lawyer, Mr. Fuller is almost the
ideal uiau (or the position. He is strongly
indorsed by Messrs.Townshcnd and Springer,
Senators Parwell and Cullom, and very many
others of both parties. The Chicago press fs
uusnimous in his praise. It is said by Illi
nois men here who preferred Justice Sehol-
field before he refused to permit his name to
be considered, that the nomination will give
general satisfaction in the Northwest. Mr.
Barnes, who has served with Mr. Fuller on
the executive committee, says that he is a
first-class man and is an excellent selection.
Messrs. Blount, Crisp and Stewart concur in
this opinion, so far as they are advised.
t sm informed that when Chief Justice
IVsite died, the tint man that Presi
dent Cleveland inquired about was
Mellville Fuller. He knew Mr. Fuller per
sonally very well and had offered him suc
cessively the positions of solicitor-general,
commissioner of inter-State commerce and
-commissioner of Pacific railroads. It is be
lieved that there will be no trouble about
«>• confirmation. Mr. Fuller married in
18M C'alisla A. Remolds, and after her
death, or in 1866, Mary Ellen Coolbough,
6sughterof Hon. Win. F. Ooolbangh. lie
mu seven children. The nomination of Mr.
Fuller was foreshadowed in tl-is correspond
ence.
UKOHOIA MEMBERS AND MATTERS.
Mr. Turner will speak to-morrow, if the
arrangement Is not changed. Messrs. Barnes,
Blount and Crisp hare concluded not to
make tariff speeches, as ao many are apeak-
mg. Judge Stewart's speech has beeu post-
?°ucd fvr a few slays.
The Senate committee on commerce re
ported Judge Crisp’s bill authorizing the
construction of a bridge across the Oconee
*t or near Dublin by Laurens county.
.Senator Brown presented the petition of
six druggists of Georgia asking a reduction
•■duty on alcohol.
Mr.lUouot presented the petitions of citi-
Mni of Harnesville for the repeal of that part
of the internal reveune laws which class
druggiats aa liquor dealers; also,the petition
of valentine Kahn, <>f Macon, for reference
ol a war Maim for 81,030, and of W. U. (fur
ry, administrator Henry Barnet, deceased,
of Bibb county, for $3,648.
in his tartflspet.il to-day, Mr. Galiinger,
Kepnblictn, quoted with high approval -Sen-
tor Brown's speech on the views of Major J.
r-Hanson in opposition to the President's
policy.
Mr. Rayn er poured hot shot into the cue-
“JJJ c * President's policy.
The following are Georgia post-offices af
fected by the MIL reported from the Senate
committee on public buildings, giving iaet-
office bnildinga to nil towns exceeding $3,000
amount of receipts: Albany, Ameri-
riettn, MilledgeviUe, Newman, Rome, Sa
vannah, Tlioinasville.
There is a public building at Atlanta.
Rents are now paid as follows: At Au
gusta, $1,000; at Columbus and Macon, $900
each; at Rome, $500; at Savanuah, $1,850.
Mr. Charles L. Springs, proprietor of
Warm Springs, is here. C. W. n.
HENRY iom
The Chattanooga Hnplst is ItespUeit on tlu-
Old Plea of not Guilty.
Atlanta, April 30.—Governor Gordon
issued the following crde> this morning re
spiting Henry Pope, who was to have been
hanged at Summerville May 18th:
To the sheriff of Chattooga county—
Whereas, a petition has been recently filed
in this department asking the exercise of
executive clemency in behalf of Henry
Pope, convicted of an assault witli intent
to rape, at ' the last term of the Superior
Court of Chattooga county and sentenced
to be hanged, and, whereas the said peti
tion is accompanied with affidavits from a
number of white persons, endorsed as alto
gether worthy and entitled to full credit,
who swear that.they know Henry Pope,
and that on the day that he is alleged to
have committed said attempt to rape, he
was in Cherokee county, Ala., more than
fifty miles from the locality of the crime.
And, whereas, the statement in said peti
tion is made that his alibi can be conclu
sively established by the testimony of
thirty witnesses in said county of Chero
kee, it is ordered that the said llcnry Pope
be, and he is hereby respited for sixty days
from tltis date, and that he be delivered to
Col. J. K. Towers, or his accredited agent,
upon the presentation of this order, to be
carried to Atlanta and committed to Ful
ton county jail.
Col. Towers has gone to Summerville lo
take charge of Pope and bring him to At
lanta. It is feared that lie will be lynched
before lie can be removed front the jail.
EMBEZZLEMENT.
County Treasurer of .Stewart
Indicted.
13 SHORT THIRTY-SEVEN HUNDRED
Fort Yallry Sunday School a to PfottlO In
Central City Park on Thursday—Key-
nold* Invites Her Neighbor to
the Same Place—Notes.
Lumpkin, April 30.—[Special ]—As the
result by investigation of a committee ap
pointed to examine the books and record
of our county officers, it was found that
the treasurer is indebted to the county in
the sum of thirty-seven hundred dollar-',
and a true bill was found by the last grand
jury for the embezzlement of the same.
LEWty.
THE AMERICAN LANGUAGE.
An Ambitious Kansas Wants Us to Tnlk
United States.
From the New Orleans Picayune.
It has heretofore been the belief held by
philosoph- rs and thinkers from the ear
liest times that language is an evolution
growing in development as human
thought needed a vocal vehicle for expres-
sjon. Savage. tribes with an extremely
limited range of ideas, and whose actual
transactions of daily life embraced only
tlie simplest facts, would necessarily have
need for an extremely simple and scant
language. As they might advance in civ
ilization and culture, they would improve
their language to meet the necessities of
expression. ' The invention of alleged
universal languages t-y tlie act of a single
individual sets all the laws of linguistic
evolution at naught, and can therefore
accomplish nothing useful in any large
sense.
Tite history of the English language
presents a great number of facts which
illustrate this evolution. Since no race
so far as known possesses an indigenoni
or original civilization, hut has always
learned from some external and superior
totfree, so there is no language which is
complete in itself, developed from indige
nous roots without admixture from the ex
terior. Tlie English tongue, composed as
it is of many diverse elements, has long
been undergoing the procetsesof evolution
which must continue to operate for a great
period in the future, so tliut tho day will
conic when the language will be as differ
ent from the English of to-£ay as is our
language from that of Chaucer.
In America the development must take
to itself forces and forms which will never
come into operation in the mother coun
try and finally through their intervention
we will have a distinctively American
language. On this head some rather strik
ing views are presented by a Kansas man.
Eugene F. Ware, in it recent letter to Sen
ator IMumb of that State. Says this new
linguistic evolutionist:
Tite United States of America is now
getting ready to take charge of the earth,
and by the year 11)00 wo will have niuety
million of what are technically known as
"American freemen.”
“Americanism” and "American ideas”
are soon to be a sort of war cry, not only
as connected with tariff matters, but also
with general policy. Whatever can be
done to promote Americanism by a Re
publican ought to l>e done. I inclose you
project of a bill, which, if I were in Con
gress, I would introduce, fully one-half in
earnest. First, because it really ought to
pass, and second, because whether it passes
now or not, it will have a good iufiuence
in whooping up the boys.
My pro|K>sitiun is to appoint, say ten
well known American educators to form a
hoard to perfect the language now s(token
in the United State* into a language to he
called tlie “American Language,’’ with a
view to its becoming the universal language
of the aaid earth of which we are about to
take charge. The bill should contain the
following duties of the board:
To fix a definite pronunciation for all
language words and for all geographical
nmi historical names in the United Slates,
to be called tho American l’ronun ialton.
To fix a phonetic system of spelling all
language words, to be called American
Spelling.
To add such letters to the present alpha
bet as may be necessary to accurately rep
resent the sounds now used in the United
States, to he called the American Alph:
bet.
To fi#such official abbreviation! of lan
guage words as are-tonvenient and possi
ble for use in telegraphy and shorthand.
Theonly trouble witli Mr. Ware is that
he is a few centuries ahead of time. It ii
impossible to formulate an American lan
guage until wiyease to have constant and
extensive accessions of foreign immigra
tion; until, indeed, we can assimilate and
absorb all the admixture ol foreign blood.
Then we will have an Amerh an race, then
wc will have an American lauguage.
Noah Webster was its great forerunner.
CUT ms HEAD OFF.
A Methodist Pastor Kills Illmself While in
Delirium.
Columbus, O., April SO.—C. T. King, pas
tor of the Miller Avenue Methodist Church,
committed suicide last night sidle delirious
from fever.
He arose from his bed, secured a razor and
before hi* landlady could reach him, had
dashed into another part of the house and
eut three frightful gashes in his neck and al
(nnat his head from his body. Its
died almoet instantly. King was thirty years
of age. lie was a successful minister and
well known. I t *•”* * -*-■
GRIFFIN.
Resolutions of the Democracy of Spntdlng
—Canning Factory Assured.
Griffin, April 30. — [Special.]—The
Democracy of Spalding met with full ranks
at 11 o’clock this morning at the court
house. The object of the meeting was to
give expression to the sentiment of th
people, and to voico this sentiment with
no uncertain sound, and also to uppoint
delegates to tlie State convention.
The following committee was appointed
to draft resolutions: Jno. 1. Hall, Tho*.
R. Mills, F. D. Dismuke, K. T. Daniel, J.
O. f. Miller, Clark Dickinson and II. K.
Bishop. They retired to the grand jury
room, and after consultation presented the
following as the result of their labor:
Resolved, 1. Wc approve of the admin
istration of the Federal government by
President Cleveland, and we heartily in
dorse the views set forth by him on tariff
reform, in his message to Congress in last
December.
- Delegates selected by tiiis convention
to tlie State convention be, and they aro
hereby instructed to vote for delegates to
the. national convention who are known to
he in full accord with tite views of the
President on tariff reform, is tet fortli in
his me-sage to Congress.
3. Senator Colquitt’s position on the tar
iff'question meets with our unqualified ap
proval, and Hit course as United States
Senator has been such as to entitle him,
in our opinion, to re-election.
4. We take pleasure hi thus stating that
our county man, Hon. John D. Stewart,
has made a most faithful and efficient
member of Congress, aud wc ask the other
counties of the Fifth Congressional district
to unite with us and nominate him for rc-
election to the position he so worthily fills.
The resolutions show that old Spalding
stops boldly to the front as an administra
tion county and confirms tlie prediction
made by your correspondent several
months ago.
The convention selected Capt. J. M.
Kell, Judge Jno. I. Hall, Capt. John II.
White and Col. W. E. II. Searcy a* dele-
gates to the convention. All the members
of the delegation are solid tariff reformers,
and would bo Clevelaiid-Colquitt-Stewart
men without a line of resolutions at their
back. They are a quartette who will
do honor to the Spalding Democrats and
grace nny assembly of thinking men.
Altai the cuiiveuiiuii adjourned the ex
ecutive committee met and set apart May
0 for a mass meeting to select delegates to
the gubernatorial convention, and also to
elect a new executive committee for tlie
coming year.
It is now a settled fact that we are to
have in the next sixty dayB a canning fac-
for; to be managed by Capt. Anderson
Bates, who has now fifty acres planted in
tomatoes: and a broom factory to he in the
hands of Mr. Jno. Bishop.
Ne*jro Arrested for SleulhiK Meut—Pro
tracted Mooting.
Leary, April 30.—[Special.]—Saturday
night wheu Mr. Thomas Burch, railroad
section hots at tiiis point, went to his car
preparatory to leaving for home, some of
liis hands discovered that their provisions
had oeen tampered withand a part of them
wer.- inihaing, nn-i they at onee cried oat,
“Russel Wuliagta has Stolen our meat,”
but as he lived some four miles from here,
Ute boa. thought best to defer the matter
until morning, when he, with the hands
whose meat had been stolen, came down
town and prornred a horse and buggy and
went to the house of R-t*«d Williams,
where, without anv trouble, they readily
found the identical meat, except one
pound, conceal'd in a box in Williams’s
house. He denied it being there, but after
it was found he dilfl to have bought it
from atmtherdarky who lived at Williams
burg. He gave bond and was let go till
court day.
A protracted meeting at the Methodist
church has been going on for a week, and
bids fair to hold another week.
Oats are ruining for want of rain.
Fishing is the order of the day.
ganizations of tiiis sisterhood, and C. Gorham, General Beale and the late J.
that 8,GOO silver crosses have D. C. Kennedy, an old gentleman who
been sold with the initials 1. M. N\, and murdered in the streets of Washington
t|$d with tlie purple bow. In January, last summer. "With tlie gentlemen I have
1880, a circle of ten ladies met to discuss named and some others he used to spend
nd arrange some plans which should , what hours lie gave to recreation, hut they
unite ait Christian women in one grand i were few.
sisterhood of service, and Mrs. Irving sug-1 Mr. Conkling has hern in tite Senate
gested that tho order be Bailed King's chamber but once since he resigned, and
Diughters. It was favorably received and . that was when lie appeared as a pallbearer
adopted. The immense growth of the i at the funeral of General Logan, [neon-
order has been a great surprise, \ersatiun with a number of friends at
it has moved silently, stand- > Chamberlain’s ore evening alterdinner, hi
lly and (juictly, going about expressed the opinion that Judge Gresham
doing good, until now they number 10,000
or more. Tite rapid growth, harmonious
unity, sympathetic co-operation of the
King’s Daughters are said to he unparall
eled in the history of any other orvaulsa-
tiuu known. Wnen I witnessed the last
days of several ot the Kidg’s Daughters in
the hospital, and their peaceful deaths. I
felt like urging all poor girls who can
barely live off'their wages to become mem
bers of this royal family. 1 saw two shop
girls die peacefully holding up their little
crosses, witli their heads resting ou the
bosom of a King’s Daughter of wealth and
position, who had found them ill in tene
ment houses ami brought them to die in
comfort in the King’s palace.
{•auaii H. Heston.
FORT VALLEY.
Tho Young Cotton Damaged—A Plague of
Cnnillilnto.— Picnic In Uncoil.
Fort Valley, April 30.—[Special.]—
The cool, dry weather for th'e past two
weeks has damaged young cotton very
much in this section- Some farment re
port their crops as suffering for rain.
' Houston county politics is perhaps the
liveliest thing among ns, and growing
more interesting each day. Each candi
date is thoroughly (tested ns to tho livge-
nic condition of every household in the
county. The count shows only one candi
date to every twenty-threo voters. Our
friends from' without may expect warm
tidings from Houston soon.
Our Sunday-schools have decided to go
up to Macon on next Thursday, May 3,
and picnic in your beautiful park.
The Telegraph has made many strong:
friends in this section hy its fearless ana
well sustained position in favor of “tariff
reform.”
McRAK.
TY.TY.
Worth Superior Court-Sheep Shearing
Time—Unto Neeileil,
Ty-Ty, April 30.—[Special]—Worth
county Superior Court adjourned Frilay
evening. No business outside of the gen
eral run was transacted during the week.
There are a few criminal cates on the
docket that it was hoped would be disposed
of, but for some cause (good reasons I sup
pose) they were continued. The two most
noted criminal cases are the Matind case,
the charge being murder. It has been in
court ond continued from term to term for
several years. The other is the case
against James Hamans and others for
sheep stealing, true bills Itaring been
found against tlie parlies to the latter case
at the present term. It was reported here
that his Honor, J udge Rowers would hold
n special term of the court to try those
two cases, but whether he will do so or not
I am unable to say, not being in attendance
at court. I have been informed there
was a good many true bills by the grand
jnry for various small offense*.
Our town has been almost deserted all
the week, nearly everybody having been
summoned before the grand jury.
To-day being the annual day, tlie sheep
owners oi^the county began henrding their
Ancles preparatory to tho shearing. The
Dealt) of Mr. Jns. Campbell—Telegraph
Oftlce Closed—Picnic.
McRae, April 30.—[Special.]—Mr. Jas.
Campbell, of near this place, died yester
day morning of that terrible lingering dis
ease, white swelling, having suffered with
it for about twenty-five years, and being
unable to walk a step most of the time.
The Western Union Telegraph Company
liavo moved their office from tiiis place
rather than pay a tax of $500 a year im
posed upon them by the town council.
The members ot tlie Methodist Sunday-
school will picnic here next Friday.
Valdontn Note*.
Valtosta, April 30.—[Special,] —Mrs.
Morgan, an aged widow, anil one of I ho
first settlers of Valdosta, who was recently
stricken wi.h paralysis, is. thought to he
dying.
Miss Beulah Whittington, who has just
graduated from the Boston Conservatory
of Music, returned home this week.
The “'os’s •‘-••ght-r-
From tiro Courier-Journal.
• “Who arc these royal daughters of the
King? What is their mission? What
the potency of tlie mystic motto: ‘in his
name?’ ”
I watched with delight the marvelous
growth of this beautiful order of sistcra in
New York,and from the hell---ii Rffi erP
mic to the street gamin of the Bowerv, the
influence of the littlesilver cross, tied with
purple ribbon, is felt. It has done much to
Weak down the barriers between the rich
and th- poor. The elegantly attiied lady
who alights from her carriage and steps
into one of the large fashionable stores of
New York, holds out her delicately gloved
hand to tho shop girl, whom she
sees wears a little silver cross, if she
herself ‘is a king’ daughter. “In
hi- name,” she says softlv, and
iiwuntl; the mystic watchwords draw
them nearer. One of the King’s Daughters,
Mrs. RL II. Townsend, of New York, has
built an annex to Bellevue Hospital, called
The Cottage, at an expense of $13,000, and
other_panAtan of the King have fur
nished it with all the luxurious appiint-
ments found in their own beautiful
homes. I went through tho four
rooms in The Cottage; one is fur
nished in pink, another in blue and
wine color, with beautiful pictures on the
wnlls. A soft harmony of colon and every
thing that was restful to the eye of an in
valid had been placed in these rooms by
girls of wealthy parents. I met Mrs.
Townsend there on Easter, going through
the wants, giving beautiful Easter cards
and flowers to different sufferers. Her face
was like a benediction. She seemed to
have faith, hope and charity written in
her countenance.
A little girl from the South, who had
been ill in tlie hospital for some time, and
had enjoyed the lovely surroundings so
THE LATE SIR. CONKLING.
woods for some time will: resound witli kindly prepared for these patients, asked
the crack of the drivers whip and the hoi-; when *1,0 was dying, that the Cross of the
low of the men engaged there in. King’s daughters, which she wore, might
Our county convention meets in Iuebella be given to Mrs. Townsend, the kind lady
. -I-* .l.l.a.».~ re .b- w ho had done so much “In IIU Name.”
on Tuesday to select delegates to the State
and dUtrict conventions.
We are getting very dry here,there hav
ing been no rainfall in the month of April.
A good man; people are holding hack
finishingliuiting in their cotton seed on
accouul thereof. The oat crop is begin-,
ning to suffer on account of droughts j Mnefit of
more thau anything except gardens. jest amount
in
!**• Athens, Atlanta, Augu.ta, Bainbridge, =: - .
Bwnesville, Brunswick, Columbes, Dalton, Li,, l - h * ■ •' ‘
in. ii. u. wires i
The most cultured and gifted ladies in
tho city devote their time and talents to
the entertainment of the poor, and in char
itable concerts accumulate funns for tlie
support of various missions, thus bringing
into use the talent of the wealthy for the
the poor. The great
of good, and that
REYNOLDS. | most needed in thu busy work-
Th. Sunday-school "to Picric Cta. 1
cuy raru-T... consent,„„ I ^ Yhr^raa^nl^dfwomen en"
Reynolds, April 30. [Special.]—The gaged in any kind of good work in such a
Reynolds Sunday-school decided as hi way as to secure to each the sympathy
where the; would hold their Sunday-; and co-operation of all. The tired shop-
school picnic. They will go to the park i gils in tho large stores thirst for a
In Macon. The; have invited the Geneva, -ight of a King's daughter. It was
Talbotton, Bostick, Howard,, Butler and a pathetic- sight for mo to see the
Byron Sunday-schools. ! glad light beam in the eye of a tired deli-
Taylor county Sunday-school cooven • cate shop girl as site spied the little cross
tion met in this place on tlie 23th, with peeping oat from my friend’s wrap. She
Colonel A. A. Carson, of Butler, in the said with s sigh: “You are the first
chair and II. If. Griffith as secretarv. The King’s Daughter I have seen to-day. They
Advice to Mothers.
Mrs. wiBriew’sfeethlMayrepsNonl'' *lw»»v
e 11-e l for children issuing. It «N>lh<r. the
a Lid. ,often
Osiaesviiie, Griffin, LaGrange, Macon, Mr.- *,u:e.
Hi_ HHHH to-day. They
majority of the schools were represented always sjK'ak so kindly to me; give so lit-
by delegates, who reisirt good schools and | tie trouble; inquire a’fp-r my welfare and
in a_ flourishing condition in the virions j make me ieel llmt perhaps some one would
sections of the county. It was decided to miss me if 1 sin mid drop out of my plaee.”
have a county Snnday-school eelehration With many of thi s., girls it is only a fight
at Batter on the 23d of July. Professor ! to keep the wolf from tin- door.
John Scare; awl Mr. J. N. Bryan were I As I-■ r tli- kind of work done by this
elected president and secretary of the as- j noble sisterhood, it is L-i varied and' wide
•ociatioD for the present year." Delagrte* [ to be recorded in detaiL There arc “tens’’
were also elected to attend the State con- 1 that provide plea«.mt countrv homes for
vention at Gainesville in June. j the ili>erving poor; "tens” that visit the
Mr. J. A. Adams, who rein earn tad the -ick, and there are the courteous “ten-’
Remolds church at the district ceaferesce . whs rtaim that “Kings’ uauvtrn should
at bolumhus, returned Sunday evening. 1 «*r display tlie mannci- of the court.'
Mr. L. W. Gray and wife, of Macon, 1 I understood from one of the mem
visited relatives at this place Punday. hers that there were Continual
Reminiscence* of Ills Llfo nt tlie National
Cnpltnl.
. E. Curtis tn Chicago News.
The difference between Mr. Blaine and
Mr. Conkling began in 1880, during n de
bate in the House over the conduct of Pro-
vest Marshal Fry. Mr. Blaine was the
aggressor and attacked Mr. Conkling in
the following words: “1 hope ho will let
me escape his disdain. His lordly pomp
osity, his grandiloquent swell, liis majes
tic overtowering, his turkey-gobbler strut
ting have been so crushing* to myself and
to all the members of the House, that I
know it was an act of the grossest temerity
on my part to venture on provoking him.
But 1 knew who was responsible for it
all- I know that for the last five weeks
extra strut had seized the gen
tleman. It is not liis fault; it
is the fault of another. That gifted mid
satirical man, Theodore Tilton,of tho New
York Independent, was over here spend
ing some weeks and writing home letters,
in which, among some serious tilings, lie
put some jocose things, among the cruelest
of which was thst tho mantle of tho late
Winter Davis had fallen upon the member
from New York. He (Cunkling) took it
as serious, and has since strutted more
thin usual. Wed, the resemblance is
great. As striking as Hyperion to aHstyr,
l liersites to Hercules, mud to marble,' a
dunghill to a diamond, a singed cat to a
Bengal tiger. Shade of (lie-mighty Davis,
forgive the profanation of even that jocose
satire.”
Mr. Conkling made no reply, but never
forgot or forgave tlie insult. ' There w as a
partial reconciliation while Mr. Blaine
was in the Senate, which was brought
about by Senator David Davis, of Illinois.
No man appreciated a kindness more than
Mr. Conkling, and he spoke freely of his
gratitude to air. binineioraupporting tutu
in his contest with the Hayes administra
tion over the removal of Arthur and Cor
nell. lie and Blaine had nevercxchanged
a word or even a courtesy for twelve years.
They had not bowed or recognized each
other for that length of time, although
thaw Mt nnt mreya theij ejw (nut **'*JTt 111
the Senate, Hamlin and Howe only being
between them. The fight over the New York
nominations closed with a victory for
Conkling on a certain Thursday. Tlie fol
lowing day it so happened thst Blaine ami
Conkling stood side by side st tlie desk of
the clerk looking over some papers.
David Davis, who sat nearest the clerk’s
desk, saw them standing there, and, leav
ing his sest, spprouched them from be
hind, threw his massive arms around them
both, and said in a jovial tnne:
“I have at last got you two fellows to
gether, and I want you to make up and he
friends. Conkling. Blaine has supported
you nobly in this light, and ;on owe him
mi acknowledgment. Blaine, you nrc too
good a fellow to b« an enemy oi Conkling,
and I want yon to shake ami make up.”
The apjieal was too much for the two
great leaders, and they shook hands for
the first time in twelve years, and 1 do not
believe they have shaken hands since, or
have raoogniaed each other in any way.
Mr. Coasting's style of oratory wus pe
culiar and epigrammatic. He never spoke
in the Senate unless he had something to
say, and his arguments were always lis
tened to by an attentive Senate and full
galleriea.
Probably the greatest speech he ever de
livered in Congress was in executive ses
sion, at the time of tho impeachment trial
oi General Belknap. One hot summer day
in 187(1 tlie debate was ended, and Senator
Ferry, who was in the chair, put the ques
tion. As is usaai the first vote was viva
voce, and it appeared from the sound of
the voices that Belknap would be con
victed.
Before the result was announced Mr.
Conkling rose in his place and in alow
tonejsaid that, before the ayes and nocs
were called, he would like to give the rea
sons tor his vote. This was about 1 o'clock
ia the day. For six hours he addressed the
Senate, and scarcely a man left while he
was speaking. About 7 o'clock that eve
ning, when Mr. Conkling finished, a mo
tion was made to adjourn and the Senate
dissolved, leaving the vote to be taken
another day. I stood at the main door of
the Senate chamber as the members were
pouring out, waiting to discover what mys
terious delay hid kept the vote from being
announced, for ever; one expected the re
sult to be declared that afternoon. As Mr,
Conkling passed me he stopped and shook
hands, but his appearance did not indicate
that anything extraordinary had happened
Following him was Senator IngalD, and,
Jtoppicgnin:, I —cJ jAit ~ Lappcssi
in the Senate that afternoon.
"A purple earthquake of oratory,” ho
replied. “The most powerhri argument I
have ever listened to. Conkling has been
speskiDg lor six hours, and has changed
the resolt in this case.”
Allot his speeches were full of epigrams,
quaint phrases, odd words, and sentences
put together as no other man could frame
them. For example, in describing a
Southern witness, ne said: “HU mouth
spreds across the wide desolation of his
face, a fountain of falsehood and a sepul
chre of ram.”
Mr. Conkling was in no sense a society
would he the strongest man the Republi
cans could nominate for President, and
that he could carry New York against
Cleveland without a doubt. He said Mr.
Blaine’s withdrewal had saved tho Repub
lican party from dissolution, as it could
not survive another campaign with him
as tlie candidate for tho Presidency. He
believed that with Blaine out of the way
there was a fair show of currying the
country and electing tho next President,
lie said that he should not take part in
tlie campaign, no matter who was nomi
nated. as he was entirely out of politics,
and, while he would vote whenever he had
the opportunity, he would never attend a
convention or tuako a political speech
again.
DENTISTRY—DR. 8. R BARFIELD,
No. sOj*. Mulberry street, Macon, Usorgia.
Uulce hours—9 a. in. to s p. oi.
Tho Too Honest Uootblack.
From the San Jose Herald.
“Look here, mister! Did you drop this
here five dollar piece?”
Tlie part; addressed turned around and
looked at the bootblack, «« the latter held
out a shiner in his hand.
"Why, good gracious I lemmc see—why,
yes; you’re a fine boy, you arc; here—here’s
a couple dollars for you. Thai’s right, my
boy; be honest—it pays.’.
So saying, the delighted San Josean
slipped the five dollar pieco in his pocket
amt walked off.
“And you hadn't lost the money nt all?”
inquired a companion of the fortunato
possessor of the$l>, as the'two comfortably
rested tiicir elbows on the Auzerais bar ami
proceeded to hide tlie respective ends of
their noses in a couple of glasses.
"Of course not! But you see I gave the
kid $2. which was certainly fair. And I’m
just $3 ahead,” exclaimed the individual
ns he tossed the V on the counter and
called for change.
The bnrtcnder picked np the coin, gavo
it a careless glance and quietly pnsh«l it
back.
“Bogun!” he «nid
For "the next minute it won eoquiet that
you could lienr the beer foam.
“And this is the highly moral ci'y of
San Jose!” bitt rly exclaimed the duped
insn as he passed out into the cold und
cheerless street. “To think that the very
bootblacks are dishonest I”
But liis feelings were too deep for ut
terance.
An Ol.l Gitluu Npeiiks.
Mr. J. U. Norris,, «n old resident nt Rome,
Gu.;says, thun lie hail beeu badly troubled with
llvar complaint for u great mudy year; and vgth
eesmna for three yuan: at times could scarcely
walk and bad, tried many remedies without be 11;
wm*.ummipinc§aaumiui mwh musra ami
annoitliiKhU tiumls and feel wltb.Dm-Men's
Arnies Salve. This treatment afnnled him
great relief aud he •trongly recommends Elec
tric Hitters to sll who sutler with Kidney com
plaints, or need a blood purifier. Sold hy la-
mar, Rankin A Lamar.
Adieu.
Is-t Time and Cbaucu combine!
The falreet love from heaven above
That love ot yonrs wus mine,
My dear.
That love ol yours was mine.
Tho r»st Is fled and gone, and gone!
The Fast Is tie I sml gone;
If naught Imt palu to me remain.
I'll fare hym mory on.
I’ll tore In memory on.
The saddest tears must toll, must fall;
The saddest levs must fall;
In weal or woe, la thts world below,
f love you. eter and all,
My dear.
I love )ou, ever uud all.
A long read full of Data, of palu:
A long road fill! of pain;
One soul, one heart, -worn ne'er to part—
Wo ne'er i »o meet again,
My dear.
We ne'er (an meet again.
Hard tote will not allow, allow;
Hard tote will not allow:
We tdcNMd are, as tba angels are,
. Adlen forever, now.
My dear,
Adieu forever, now.
—Thomas Carlyle.
man. I never saw him at a reception, or
a ballj or any other large gathering in
Washington, and nothing could induce
him to go. He was foml of a dinner
party, and frequently accepted invitations
of that sort, hut he preferred always' a
small company, of his friends. His'most
intimate associates in Washington were
Justice Miller, the late Justice Ward
Ilont. Senators Jouev, Zach Chandler,
Hamlin. Anthony, Howe,Thurman, Davis,
of Illinois; Dennis, of Maryland; Boat-
well, Cameron and Frelinghuysen, George
Long-Standing
Blood Diseases aro cured by
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Bead these testimonials : —
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Lost May a large carbuncle broke out
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liUa; I-an-d and I was e.-mplen If
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Haverhill. Mass.
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