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JUdvqtiser and
T. G, STACY ts SON, Editors and Proprietors.
BRUNSWICK, - GEORGIA
SATURDAY MORNING, AUGUST 1, W».
Tim technological school bill ^bas
pasBed tbo Legislature; by a vote of
03 lo 62. Wo shall confidently look
for good results from this step.
LETTER FROM DAHLONEGA.
Dahlonega, Ga., July 26th, 1885.
Editor ADTXKttnBAXD Arrau.:—
As I am now settled in my "moun
tain home,” I will give your roaders a
few dots about my surroundinga
Gen. Fitzhugh Lee, ofVirginia, has
beeu nominated by the Democrats as
the standard bearer fur the Guberna
tonal chair. , May lie make a clean
sweep of Mahone, ltiddeberger and
others.
At a meeting of thirty business men
of New York the following resolution
was adopted:
llesolued, That the committee re
spectfully invite the people of the
CJuited States to send contributions
of money to the Mayor of New York
to uid in the erection of a national
monument in honor of General Grant.
“Harrison of Quitman,”, bus sud
denly gained notoriety far beyond bis*
expectations. His name has gone
abroad from Mexico to the Likes, ns
the man who stood up before the
Georgia Legislature and opposed the
eulogiziug of Gen. Graut. Democrats
and Republicans alike abuse fiim..
Massachusetts cabinet makers aro
ahead. They actually manufacture
"antique fund’are that came over in
tiie Mayflower." The wood, after be
ing duly brui.-ed and cut with knife-
m.irks, is given a <lmk, time-stained
appearance by being shut up in an
a i-tight room and subjected to tbo
lumes of ammonia. A
* The ravages of cholera appear to be
terrible'in some of the smaller towns
of Spain. Tbe village of Montnqndo,
with a population of only 800, has
had more than 200 deaths, and tbe
highest village officials have been
forced to bury their dead with their
own hands. In the meantime Dr.
■ Ferran continues to keep his alleged
inoculation secret to himself, and to
rake in thousands of dollars from his
dupes.
Bnlford Mackey, Uuited States con
sul nt Rio Grande de Sol Brazil,
has arrived in Washington
leave of absence. Mr. Mackey is the
consul who some months ago had a
shoooting affray with a Brazilian edi
tor, the latter having published scur
rilous attacks upon him nnd his
mother. Mackey was tried and hon
orably acquitted. The consul reports
that a colony of ex-Confederate sol
diers hnve settied in Brazil. Tbe col
ony numbers about 500 persons and
is doing well.
A long saries of experiments carried
oa by Professor Fischer, an eminent
chemist of Munich, bus resulted in
tbo discovery of a white powder in
tbo residuum of gas-tar which con
tains all the medical properties of
quinine, ndded to the advantage that
it assimilates mure easily with tbe di
gestive organs than quinine itself. It
has been proved to bo wonderfully ef
ficacious in subduing fever, ice being
unnecessary. One great advantage of
this discovery will be the cheap rate
at which it can be sold, by wbicb
menus' it would be brought witbia the
■reach of those poor peoplo who re
quire quinine, but who Audit difficult
to purchase so expensive n drug.
Atlanta Constitution says: Bishop
Turner, a leading colored man, has
written a letter in which be advises
the voting men of his race to leave
tho towns and cities and seek homes
ou the Government lands in the West.
He thinks the servile nature of the
■employment in which tbe majority of
negroes are engaged degrades them
and strips them all ambition. The
bishop says that you may take the
brightest young man in Georgia and
let him come out of Harvard uud Yale,
with n diploma as large as a bed
sheet, but after he has blacked boots
nt the Kimball House bis miqihood is
gone for life
kin, is situated twenty-five miles
northwest of Gainesville. To reach
Dahlonega, yon mast take the mail
back at Gainesville Tbe ride at this
season of the year is almost too warm
to be pleasant. If you expect to find
the level roads of old Glynn you will
be doomed to disappointment, for I
am reliably ibformed that Dahlonega
is just a thousand feet higher than
Gainesville. This makes the trip an
uphill business. There are about GOO
people who live in the town proprr,
and three times the number wbo live
in the small .villages adjacent. These
villages nre composed eheifly of
miners whose sole business is gold
digging. As a rule, they are very
poor aud ignorant, bat a better-
hearted class of people it would be
bard to find unywhere. The gold,
while not quite ns plentiful as some
would wish, is evidently found in suf-
jicieutly large quantities to pay the
expenses necessary to mine it. TL'her
are quite n nnafber of stamping mills
are around here. Iu a short walk of
tbree-qarters of a mile I passed three
of them, and the whole country
around is cut up by ditches and gul
lies, the unmistakable evidence of
former raining operations. Two meth
ods are employed for securing the
gold from mother earth. These I
will describe at some future some.
The Blue Ridge mountains, whose
peaks can be seen in the distance,
may readily be mistaken, at first, for
a dark cloud, but as the eye becomes
more accustomed to their outlines
one is lead to regard them as he
would some great monument of au-
tiquity.
The seasons are about six weeks
later than at Brunswick. Blackber
ries and plums nre just coming into
market. Peacbes are about ns large
as walnuts. Watermelons will not be
ripe for several weeks yet. The moun
tain as this season of the year is very
pleasant exchange for the atmos
phere of lower Georgia. It is possi
ble, however, that the comparison
may be iu your favor next January.
Yon nre certainly favored with good
water and plenty of it at Brunswick.
Many times have I stood at the arte
sian wells and wondered, as the water
came gushing up from the d ptlis of
tile earth, where it came from. I
have found several streams on the
tops of the tnountaiiiB that would
more than supply the two wells. Aud
shell water ! Well, just a little better
than the artesian water is after Mac
Haywood has iced it. As it is no
remedy for baldness, of course the
senior editor will prefer the artesian.
The market here is about Ibe same
as at Brunswick. Chickens and eggs,
however, are much cheaper—the
former selling from 12 to 15 cents,
THE LOCAL OPTION BILL.
Bow tt f« Betas Bandied In ibe Senate
—Ita Advocate* “Down In Ibe Month.’’
Atlanta,July 27.—The fate of the lo
cal option bill, in anything like the
shape it passed the House, may be
The friends of tbe bill have been over-
zealous and somewhat intemperate.
Their attack in the Senate of fbe mo
tives of Senator? who proposed
amendments to perfect tbe bill has
not been uttended with very good re
sults, and in tbe Senate this morning
tbe bill was bitten. The motives of
tbe rampant advocates of the bill were
severely, and cuttingly arraigned by
Senator Maddox, nnd it is understood
that be will repeat and double the
dose when tbe Senate meets to-mor
row. ,
The Senate has already amended
the House substitute in several im
portant particulars.
1. The provision requiring each
voter to cast his ballet iu his owu mi
litia district, bus been stricken
2. The local option law shall not
take effect until after propor.publioa-
tion of the result of the election.
3. The result, the conduct of the
ordinary aud the conduct of mana
gers of the election may be reviewed
by tbe Superior court upon petition
of one-tenth of the' qualified voters
wbo voted in the election. This
amendment was adopted after a bard
fight.
A fourth amendment is pending
which providts that both sides shall
have aright to a new election at the
end of two years. The grout tight
will be made ou this amendment.
There is a strong probability that
the opponents of the bill ns it
dime from the House will succeed
in grafting it upon the measure.
Tbe House will be ■ asked lo
recede from its position and concur in
these amendments. It is not nt all
likely that the House will do so.—
It is not at all likely that the
House will do so. It is already an
ticipated that a committee of confer
ence will have to consider Iheoill and
try to ugree upoi. its pa-sage iu some
shape. While u conference of both
houses may ngree upon tho bill with
some qualifications, it is now not un
likely the measure may fall through
owing to tho disagreement of the two
houses.
Senator Smith of the Thirty-second
insisted that the tffoit of the opposi
tion to amend the bill, under tbe
guise of an honest purpose to perfect
it, bad tbe voice of Jacob but the
hand of Esau, and warned tho advo
cates of the bill to beware according
ly-
The charge that'Senator Maddox
made, tbfit a majority of the advocates
of prohibition were habitual drink
ers; that they had no idea by the bill
to probibi themselves, but. to prohib
it poor folks and niggers; that they
were demagogues, anil tlieii- object
not so -much to save the State ns to
push prohibition into politic--, ivetii
direct home to the mark, and will
cause a great deal of equirm.iug. He
asserted that if all prohihitiitnirls
would honestly praetiui what they
preach there would be no need of a
prohibition law.
MONTEAGLE, TENN.
THE OLD MAN OBJECTED.
HopKnrsviLLE, Ivy., July 28.—Sam
Ransom, a young man twenty-one
yeaisofage, became highly enamor
ed with Miss Isabelle Dillon, who
lives in Crofton, this county, and who
is just reaching her fourteenth year.
■To tho match tbe father of the girl
, , ,, ,, , , , was bitterly opposed, and he watched
while tho latter sell for 10 cents per | || ]e j, a y nm i festive couple with a
never-resting eye. Last night about
'll o’clock, he missed his daughter,
Editor Adtxxtikb aud Arrau.:—
Tbe “Cbataoqiia of the Sooth” will
be visited by many of Georgia’s best
people this summer, hence I feel jus
tified in asking you to give space for
a few items concerning 'tbe past and
present progress bf the enterprise. ■
Considerable doubt was expressed,
when the design was given the public
as to its appropriateness to the condi
tions social andj religious existing in
the South;, many feared it would
prove a financial failure, etc. To
these the result (for you way safely
count tbe matter settled) bus been
most pleasantly' satisfactory. The
original determination by the commit
tee to settle on most favorable place,
pointed to Monteagle, nnd Georgians
came forward with their money, and
the enterprise was nssured. Three
years only has the Assembly bad its
sessions. The summer normal schools
now iu progress here were an after
thought, which has proved most ex
traordinarily successful.
Last evening nearly three hundred
of the very best of Southern teachers,
professors and strangers attended a
reception 'in the new Mississippi
Teachers’ (Hume. The rooms and pi
azzas were brilliantly lighted, and
decorated with ferns and flowers.
Some very good recitntions un.l mu
sic were rendered, nmoug them a
comic quartet, "The Serenade,” in
which a gentleman at the turn of the
stairs responds to the sentiments of
the serenading party by thrent| ol
imprisonment (?) aud "adjective"
abuse. Conversation and introduc
tion filled the measure of entertain-
went until ten o'clock, when we
found onr way back to the fino hotel:
through the lovely walks, flooded with
silver moonlight. The park was ih -
signed and brought out by Mr. Win.
Webster, the celebrated landscape
-gardener of Rochester, Vo Y. The
natural situation was very suitable for
such purpose, abounding in bills and
hollows an- 1 running brooks, which
arc spanned by rustic bridges. The
natural forest trees are preserved as
shade.
The buildings nre handsome, com
modious and varied, over forty in
number. A firs'-class restaurant, sup
plies at $3 per Week tu-tils lo every
one on Ibe grounds. The Teachers'
Homes supply free lodging to teach
ers, on application to the proper nil
thnrities.
I heir the universal expression of
an opinion that there are broader pos
sibilities for this charming resort than
any national enterprise of like charac
ter. A Christian summer resort—an
intellectual cen’tre—and a training
school for teachers, who can by this
means keep pace with their fellows—
it commends itself to the notice of ev-
Soutimrn newspaper, uud every Chris
tian householder. j. W.
a %vife-bka tkk"*m. a i an i:»
I JR A NT’S OBSEQUIES.
dozen
I am grillilied to note tho large in
crease of tax returns from Glynn
over last year. Brunswick, in my
estimation, is destined to become tbe
Liverpool of America. More anon
A. C. W
IION. J. E. DART’S REMARKS ON
GRANT.
Albany News: Tbe charter of every
new railroad ought to contain a pro
hibition of pooling. Competion be
tween railroads is a right ol the peo
ple, as we understand it, nnd the Leg-
i-iaturo should see to it that pooling
ikes not destroy this right.
Below we give the remarks of our
Representative, J. E. Dart, Esq., in
the discussion of the resolutions of re
spect to the memory of the great war
rior, General U. S. Grant, before the
Legislature last week. Said he:
“Who could ask a ‘smaller tribute
than tbis ? I thank God I have di
vested myself of prejudice. / have
felt his (Grant’s) strong arm, lint I
remember the terms he gave us, and
thoy were terms that no conqueror
and suspecting that she had rnn away
with Sam, and that they would prob
ably come to Hopkinsville, he imme
diately mounted his favorite steed
and hurried to the city, which he
reached at 3 a. m. In the meanwhile
tbe young people were anxiously
awaiting the tiorthbourd train at
Crofton.
The’ old man was too smart for
them, however, and when the train
arrived here nt 5 a. in. he could be
seen on the platform with two of our
“finest.” No imouer had the engin
eer shut down the air-brake than the
young couple were arrested and hur
ried away from the train, which was
rapidly bearing them to Springfield,
Tunri., their Gretna Green, where
they hoped to be made one. The
Thomas Brandy, of Decatur coun
ty, Ga., paid the penalty of his mis
deeds on the night of July 2Stb,
when he was tnken from jail by nu
armed mob, carried without tbe city,
bung to a limb and riddled with bul
lets. The following gives tbe culmi
nation of bis diabolical meanness aud
shows the drift of his past doings:
TIIE LAST STRAW.
One day last week he and his wife
attended together a picnic iu the
neighborhood. As they wero leaving
she accepted a piece of watermelon
from a gentleman, friend. This so
enraged the husband, who sat beside
her, that be immediately drove off lo-
ivards borne, and bent his wife with
tho buggy whip nearly the whole dis
tance of eight miles, aud after reach
ing home knocked her down, kicked
her, and broke two of her ribs:
TURPENTINE APPLIED.
He then nmde her undress and go
l<> bed uiid applied u bottle of turpen
tine in sucli a manner that the poor
creatiii-e at,this writing has scarcely
life enough to kuow that tho vigilantes
Tbo preparations nod programme
for the General’s interment are going
actively forward. Tbe remains will
be taken to New York in the funeral
car Woodlawn, wbicb, with the-entire
train, will be heavily draped in black.
Seven hundred Uuited States trfiops
will act as body gnard and special es
cort. The place selected for the great
man’8 burial place is Riverside Park!
ou a sort of promontory on the Hud
son river, and is the highest point in
Mnnhattanville, u suburb of New
York city. The outward swell of the
promontory begius at 122d street, nl^d
tho river bank returns to its regular
line at 129tb stieet. The sum mi t of
tbis elevation is almost a level plateai^
of something more than twenty acres.
On the riverside the descent is ab
rupt. Fort Lee is opposite. Old
Fort, iu Central Park, is on the south
east, Fort Washington is on the
north, and the Highlands uear West
Point shut in the horizon beyond
fuppan Zee.
GRANT’S COFFIN.
Gen. Grant’s coffin, which was made
to order, is composed.of oak, lined
with copper, aud covered with dark-
purple .Velvet. Ou each side, running
the whole length, will be solid silver
bars, and solid silver handles- at the
ends. The Jiffs on the top, which is
to open the whole length, will also be
of solid silver, and the plate is of solid
gold. The words to be engrnved upon
the plate are simply “U. 8. Grant.”
At each end are fou solid silver pil-^
lars. It will be lined inside with
tufted creatned-colored satin and
there will be a satin pillow. The cat
afalque is simple in construction an<L
consists of the base upon which th *
coffin is lo rest nnd some silk Ameri
can flags draped away from it to the
ground. Over the coffiu will be placed
the beautiful canopy which was made
for Bishop Simpson, the General’s
warm friend. The catafalque is eight
feet high, ten feet long, ami three
feet, wide, the wood work being of
mnhogony. Tbe corner posts ore
beautifully carved nnd Ihe covering
and draping is of rich black broad
cloth and satin damask. On each
side are heavy curtains of black broad
cloth with black satin damask linings,
which are parted beneath a wide
fringe of black clienille nt tin* top
nnd fastened below by heavy black
silk cords and tassels. At. each side
aud end of the top, above the fringe,
there are three panels of broadcloth^
with rope moulding the whole, being
about a foot in width. The inside of
tbe top is lined with while satin with
curled mouldings. When the body,
is buried tho coffin will bo placed inf
a cedar box, lined with lead aud her-
met’cally sealed. This will be placed
within an arched steel box, tbe end
of which will be riveted iu and tho (
whole will be hermetically sealed.
«•••*.
ITEMS ABOUT GRANT.
bnt a magnanimous oue would bav
given. I am ns true in my fidelity to tetiore, the greatest J.:
the State of Georgia as any
on this floor, bnt I do say, in Gist’s I , ”' 1 one hundredth luithday last | warrant
i . » . ’ * • , October, when lie -ms IIih rtcipient of was hoi
name, ns people nnd patriots, u» ' , „ ,, ' ,
. . .. 1 honors of honors Prom nil units of the | aud sill!
American citizens, show respect to tbe worM His )oD(? , ife ttlls hjM .,
office he held, if not to his memory ns works of benevolence, the menu-;
a man.” ! which Will long snrviye him.
young niHD was hacked, the girl blush
ed, ami tiie green old countryman j have freed her from the author of her
chuckled as he lol-l th- byaiunders misery. This last outrage broke the
that he Imd "i-otched’em.” .seal which wifely devotion had set.
♦•••♦- upon the fountain of her gr ef and
In exchange says: .Sir Muhms Mon- sadn. H-, ami in u I of t-iira she
since the :.conij i. ii in her brother the story of
member , days ol Moses, is dead.. He celt-bra- ' her -woe. He immediately sued a
• r Himitlv's hii- -i, ami In-
UeJided mid j ’lied Mini hung
. . »nd burnU in less than [tminsands of cigars, and tln-\ had
life was spent, in j days,* and all the people say amen and j lieen his greatest comfort through the
of lumen. Tin: lynching was done by 501 last years of tbe wm- on the buttle-
or GO men. fiel.l.
Throughout the war ho never re
ceived a wound. ''
His lust public spoech was at Oceau
Grove a year ago before tbo Christian
Commission.
He always disliked doctors, unn re
sented their attentions us much us
possible to tho lust.
He leaves three sons nnd one
daughter—Fred, Buck, Jesse mid Nel
ly—all married, and eight grand-
children.
His mother was an enthusiast^
Methodist, aud believed in personal
holiness and the nonruess of tho roc-
ond coming.
Gen. Grant's most intimate friend
was George W. Childs, of Pbilndel- *
pbia, whose house ho mado bis home
whenever in Philadelphia.
Like so many other great soldiers,
be w as a fatulis', ami believed that
"what is to be wil, i,o.” If had ad-
herml to any religions form he would
have hr.ii a Presbyterian.
The husband of Nellie Grant Sarto-
ris, his daughter, is mi Englishman,
only son of a nephew of FnnDiu *
Kemble, the actress, wbo became Mrs.
Pierre Butler, of Philadelphia.
SVhen n boy if he ever went beyond
place he never retraced bis foot
steps, but took a round-about, tour to
reach bis destination some other way.
He often said that be attributed his
success to a resolution made in youth
to “never turn back" iu any undertake
ing.
’eii. Guild smoked hi- Inst cigar
on th- 20th of NoV., 1881. [n a letter
to u tri tut nientiomiig the eiu i|m%
stance hr said he had smoked many