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Newnan. Ga., Friday, August 5tli, 1887.
BILL NYE MEETS A CITIZEN
And Draws From Him a Sad Story of
Modern Journalism.
On board a day coach of the great
trunk line running from the Battery
t ia Sixth avenue to Ilarlem I fell in the
other day with a highly cultivated old
gentleman who now resides in Brook
lyn. Together we enjoyed the delight
ful stretch of dark-red scenery and ad
vertisements which greet the enraptur
ed eye along this great scenic route.
Together we inhaled the thousand
odors of hot, sour alleys, and damp cel
lars, and together we looked into the
» second-story rooms where poverty lay
panting in the awful heat that had ac
cumulated all flay and now shut down
^*ith the night like a stifling garment.
Tie said something and then I said
something, and before long we were
conversing with each other. A great
many conversations have no doubt ori:
inated in this way.
Incidentally we got to talking about
the press and what a great influence it
wielded, and so forth, and then he said
if I would never mention his name he
would tell me of an incident that oc
curred some years ago when he first
came to New York. He said:
“I generally aim to let the papers
alone if they'll let me alone, but when
I first came here a friend of mine
brought me a slip that he had cut out
of a prominent morning paper in which
my name was used in such a way that
made me mad. While there was no
gross misstatement of facts, mv name
was handled in a w'ay I despise, and so
I went right down to the office of the
paper. Before I went I told my wife
about the piece and that I was going
down to see about it. She saw that I
was excited and she became alarmed,
k .She hung on to me quite a while and
1 said she wished I wouldn’t go. We had
r always got along so well, and since we
had been married I had never killed
anybody, and she wished I would take
her advice and not go, but I was thor
oughly indignant and mad. So I went
down, and at the counter I asked to see
the editor.
“The young man at the window where
I went was counting the words in a
‘Want’ advertisement, and it was a long
time before I could get his eye. Then
he said in a brief, cold way that the ed
itorial rooms wore on the fifth floor. I
did not like his way, and I would have
been glad to lick him if I could have got
over into his cage, but I couldn’t. Then
1 went to the elevator. I was going to
get in, but the elevator boy, who
weighed aboift nineteen pounds, put
his hand against my person and gently
1 mshed me out.
“ ‘You can’t go up stairs without stat
ing your name and your business and
who you want to see. Here is a card
that you can fill out.’
“I knew my own name, of course, and
could put that on the card; also my
business; but I didn’t know the name
of a blamed man on the paper. All
could do was to say that I wanted to see
‘the editor.’ That was a kind of a gen
eral statement, but 1 thought it would
be all right. Meantime the elevator
had made several trips, and I could feel
my collar getting soft. I was still mad,
but I had to control myself, so I asked
the elevator boy if he would mind tak
ing that up to the editor, and I gave
him the card.
“He said I would have to be more ex
plicit. If I wanted the city editor, or
the marine editor, or the literary editor,
or the birth and death editor, or the
polo editor, or the scrapping editor,
would find them in, but the managing
editor and the telegraph editor and the
night editor and the mirth editor and
the bathing editor were all out.
“I/lid not know who I ought to see,
but I got desperate and sent up my
card to the scrapping editor. It was a
wild thing to do, but I did it, for I
thought I could see him, and if I did
not feel like fighting him I could post
pone it the way other pugilists did.
“1 had to wait quite awhile before I
could see the fighting editor, for he was
busy with some other men who, I pre
sume, had dropped in to lick him early,
so as to be home for lunch.
“Finally I went in and found a small,
good natured man that I could have
handled without any trouble, but when
I stated my business he said that it was
not in his line at all, but that I ought
to go to the city editor. By that time
the city editor had gone to lunch. I
waited for him till I got so hungry my
self that I thought I would fall apart.
“When he came he had about nine
teen men to talk to all at once for an hour
or so; then he let me in and I told him
what the trouble was. He didn’t re
member any such story in the paper as
I spoke about it, but would find out
about it and see what reporter handed
it in. Meantime he would advise me to
write out a statement of my side of the
case and leave it there. He would in
vestigate the matter when the reporters
got in in the evening.
“I went to a long table and wrote
most all the afternoon on a piece which
was not so scathing when I got through
with it as I thought it was going to be,
so I tore it up. Then I wrote another
one It was quite bitter, but not so
bitter as Lwiahed it had been. It had
tame places in it where it seemed to all
flatten out and fail to get there. I
never suffered mentally so much in my
life, and now and then when I wiped
my brow on the tail of my linen coat I
could see that the city editor seemed to
enjoy it. By dusk I had completed an
article that was carefully written, and
yet I did not expect that it would be
copied very much. It was inclined to
be ornate in its system, and still there
were words in it like ‘eggregious,’ for
instance, that I didn’t feel sure I had
spelled right. It was now night, and I
went home, leaving my article for the
morning paper and feeling proud that I
was getting mixed up with literature.
“My wife was anxious to find out if I
had anybody’s gore on my hands be
fore I went in to dinner, but I convinced
her that my heart was still pure and
guiltless, but that I had written a piece
for the paper that would stir up the
town in the morning.
“That night I didn’t sleep much, and
in the morning I got up early and
waited around the comer for a paper.
I looked it through hurriedly, but didn’t
find my piece. Most everything else
was there but that, however. It was
crowded out! Probably the mush-and-
milk-sociable editor had a piece that he
wanted to run in in place of it, and ow
ing to his influence he had succeeded,
I was greatly irritated. I had lost one
day from my business, but I decided to
go down to the office again and see
what the matter was.
“This time I got to the city editor at
once, but it was another man. The city
editor I had seen the day before had
gone to Coney Island, so I had to go
through the same thing all over again
He thought I had better write a state
ment that would show my side of the
case, and then he would ask the re
porters who it was that had handed in
the story and we would have it rectified
some way.
“He was a very pleasant man, but
told him I had spent the day before
writing a red-hot rebuke which had not
been printed, and I could not give my
whole time to journalism. I told him
that I was in the ice cream business
and that I had been attacked by the
paper and wanted to be set right, but
couldn’t come down there every day
and take the brunt of editing that pa
per, especially when my stuff didn’t
get printed.
“But he said if I would write another
statement he would promise that it
would not be overlooked, and said that
as I was cooler now I would no doubt
write a better piece. So I was fool
enough to write another flapdoodle
card for the paper. It took me till 12:30,
and as near as I can remember simply
proved over my own signature that I
was an ice-cream man who aspired to be
a large straw-colored jackass. When I
took it in to the city editor he asked me
if I had the slip cut from the paper to
which I had referred. I produced it.
He looked it over a moment, and then
he said:
I am sorry that you have been
here for two days and sprained your
thinker over this matter, and absorbed
your time preparing an exhaustive ar
tide for our paper in your defense, for
this slip was cut out of some other pa
per. I don’t know what paper it is, but
we haven’t got any such type as that in
our office.’
“He then stated that he would not
detain me any longer, and I don’t be
lieve lie could if he had wanted to. I
went down the stairs rather than meet
the elevator boy again, and soon found
myself on the street. I bought my wife
a new dress on the -way home, and told
her I had thought better of my assassi
nation scheme on her account.
“That was ten years ago,” said the
old man, as he arose to go, “and al
though I have not always done right, I
can truly say that the gore of no news
paper man is on my hands.”
The Attack on Mr. Davis.
Augusta Chronicle.
Col. R. Barnwell Ehett, of South
Carolina, for many years editor of the
Mercury, and for a time editor of the
New Orleans Picayune, has an article
in the Century that will stir up a hor
nets’ nest. In his paper on “the Con
federate Government of Montgomery,”
he states that the failure of the South
was not due to the superior numbers
of the Northern soldiers—a common
belief which, the writer says, “may be
an agreeable sop to Southern pride”—
but to the mismanagement of “third
rate and incompetent men.” Colonel
Rliett says that his father regarded
Mr. Davis as an “accomplished man,
but egotistical, arrogant and vindictive,
without depth or statesmanship.”
As illustrating the incompetency of
Mr. Davis, Mr. Rhett states:
That early in 1801 an offer was made
by a responsible shipping house of Liv
erpool to furnish the Confederacy with
ten first-class East Indiamen, suitably
armed, at $19,000,000 or 40,000 bales of
cotton. They would have kept open
the Southern ports, which was of vast
ly greater importance to the rebel
cause than destroying the commercial
marine of the North, but the offer was
at once rejected by Mr. Davis. Again,
when early in 1861 an agent was sent to
England to purchase arms for the Con
federate soldiers, he was authorized to
purchase simply 10,000 Enfield rifles, to
arm 250,000 men. As another illustra
tion of the unfitness of Davis, the story
is told of Mr. Yancey’s trip to Europe
to secure recognition for the Confeder
acy. If he had been allowed to nego
tiate commercial treaties advantageous
to England and France he would have
been much more likely to have secured
the desired recognition. But the prop
osition to this effect was defeated by
Mr. Davis’ influence, and Mr. Yancey,
as he afterward expressed it, went on a
fool’s errand.
Col. Rhett says tfiat within six weeks
after Mr. Davis’ election as President of
the Confederacy, the Provisional Con
gress found that they had made a mis
take, and that there was danger of se
rious divisions, which would paralyze
the Confederate Government. “To
avoid this and to confer all power on
the President, they resorted to secret
session.”
Col. Rhett intimates that these mis
takes of the ex-President would have
been shown up before, except for his
arrest and imprisonment, which made
him a martyr and silenced the voice of
impartial criticism in the South. Colo
nel Rhett is mistaken if he thinks the
time has arrived, or will ever arrive in
the South, when the character and con
duct of ex-President Davis will be con
sidered proper subjects for adverse
criticism. Another generation than the
present may review with complacency
the mistakes of ex-President Davis, but
to the eternal honor of the Southern
people Mr. Davis stands to-day en
shrined in their hearts as the grandest l
living representative of the Confeder
ate cause. Whatever may have been
his faults, whatever may have been the
causes that produced defeat and disas
ter, the Southern people will never ac
cept or indorse Col. Rhett’s criticism
of ex-President Davis.
R. D. COLE MANUFACTURING CO.,
NEWNAN, GEORGIA.
Where They Were Born.
San Francisco Chronicle.
Some time after the war Gen. Crit
tenden met three ex-Confederate offi
cers at dinner, and they became very
friendly.
“Major,” said Gen. Crittenden to one
of them, “where were you born ?”
“Well,” said the Major, getting a lit
tle red, “I was born, sir, in Nantucket,
Mass., but you see I lived ten years in
the South, and I married a Southern la
ds', and, as all my interests were in the
South, of course I fought for them.”
“And where were you born?” he
asked the second.
“Well, sir, I was bom in Nantucket,
Mass., but I’d lived in the South twen
ty years, and of course ”
“I see,” said the General, turning to
the third, “Colonel, w'here were you
born?”
“I was born in Nantucket, Mass., too,
but I’d been thirty years in the South,
and ”
“That’s curious, isn’t it ?”
“Tell me, General,” said one of them,
“where were you born ?”
“Well, I was born in Huntsville, Ala.,
but I lived in the North many years,
and I fought for the Union.”
Then they all drank around.
2?aiIroa5 Scfyebules.
ATLANTA & WEST POINT rTr
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July 24th, 1887.
Up Day Passenger Train—East.
Leave Selma 5 20 a m
Leave Montgomery 7 52 a m
Grantville 11 45 a m
Puckett’s 11 57 a no
Newnan 12 08 pm
Palmetto 12 32 pm
Arrive at Atlanta 1 25 p m
Down Day Passenger Train—West.
Leave Atlanta 120pm
" Palmetto 2 20 pm
Newnan 2 17 pm
Puckett’s 3 02pm
Grantville 3 13 pm
Arrive at Montgomery 7 15 p m
Arrive Selma 10 CO p in
Up Night Passenger Train—East-
Leave Selma 3 30pm
Leave Montgomery 8 15 pm
Grantville 3 ]3 a m
Puckett’s 3 37 am
Newnan 3 55 am
Palmetto 4 45 am
Arrive at Atlanta 6 10 a m
Down Night Passenger Train—West.
Leave Atlanta 10 00 p m
" Palmetto 1126pm
Newnan 12 08 am
Puckett’s . 12 32 a m
Grantville .• 12 50 a ro
Arrive at Montgomery 7 05am
Arrive at Selma 1147am
Accomaiodation Train (daily*—East
Leave LaGrange 315am
Arrive Grantville 7 02 a
“ Puckett’s 7 20am
“ Newnau 7 33am
“ Powell’s .7 52 a m
“ Palmetto 8 10 a m
“ Atlanta 915am
Accommodation Train (daily)—West.
Leave Atlanta 4 55pm
Arrive Palmetto 6 09 p m
** Powell’s 6 27 p m
‘ Newnan 6 42pm
‘ Puckett’s.. 7 00pm
1 Grantville 7 13 p m
4 LaGrange 8 00pm
Columbus and Atlanta Express, (daily)
going south.
Leave Atlanta 6 50 a m
Arrive at Newnan xOOam
LaGrange 8 55 a m
Opelika 9 58am
Columbu3 11 07 a in
Montgomery 1210 am
Selma. 4 08pm
going north.
Leave Selma 1014 a m
Montgomery 12 30 p m
Columbus 1 25 p m
T.aUrange 3:41pm
Newnan 4 30pm
Arrive at Atlanta 5 45 p m
CHAS. H. CROMWELL,
Cecil Gabbett, || Gen’l Pass. Agent.
Gen’l Manager.
STEAM ENGINES.
WE HAVE OX HAND SOME SPECIAL BARGAINS IN STEAM ENGINES.
NERY OUTFITS, WHICH WILL REPAY PROMPT INQUIRIES.
A VERY LARGE STOCK OF DOORS, SASH AND BLINDS ON HAND AT LOW PRICES.
ALSO, SPECIAL G1X-
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SHOW-CASES D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.,
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NO
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No. 1—
Leave Carrollton 5 45am
Arr1veAtktnson,T.O 6 00 am
** Banning...... 6 15 a m
“ Whitesburg 8 20 am
“ girgent’a 6 54am
“ Newnan 7 14 a m
“ 8 06 a m
“ Brook. §06 am
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No. 3—
Leave Griffin
Arrive at Vaughns.
“ Brook.
* 50 am
12 01 pm
12 18 pm
„ 12 38 p in
genoia 110 p m
Turin ispm
Sharpsburg 1 50 pm
Ne""**!* 2 28 pm
18 J2
Carrollton...- 4 50pm
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ATLANTA, GA.
Please stand in the shower for a few minutes and allow
us to hold your hat and umbrella, and let us state that then:
must be some misunderstanding about the thing, for we did
not capture a line of ocean steamers, nor we have not scooped
in what few auction houses there are in New York; neither did
we have all of Broadway, New York, wrapped up and shipped
out to us as a sample lot, for we don’t do things by halves.
But here is the trouble for this week:
An immense stock of choice new WHITE GOODS.
45-inch wide Lace Flouncing and all over and narrow to
match.
New Nottingham for yokes.
Mull and Swiss—the largest and handsomest line we have
ever shown.
D. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.
LEAD IN LOW PRICES.
A.P. JONES. J. E. TOOLE
JONES & TOOLE,
CARRIAGE BUILDERS
AND DEALERS IN
HARDWARE,
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Manufacture all kinds of
Carriages, Buggies, Carts and
Wagons. Repairing neatly
and promptly done at reason
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$25,000.00
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New White and Cream Mits.
An immense variety of white fans.
A whole car-load of Table Linens, and we lead the pre
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It will pay you to consider well before you go elsewhen.
to buy Dress Goods. We know positively that no house cas;
touch us on low prices.
E>. H. DOUGHERTY & CO.
LEAD IN LOW PRICES.
Our lace and Swiss Embroideries are superb. We art 1
lower than ever, owing to “CUT RATES.”
A big job in Ladies’ White Dressing Sacks, beautiful styles,
formerly sold at $2 to $5, and we are closing them at $1 far
choice.
We beat the State on handsome Ruchings.
Elegant lines of novelties in Handkerchiefs.
SHOES.
We have had to add two more men to our Shoe De
partment, which shows for itself how our trade runs. We ant-
sell and undersell everybody on Shoes, and are prepared It
prove what we say. Shoes for everybody and lower than
body.
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