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icrald and ^dccrfeer. Newnan, Ga., Friday, Jan. 6, 1888. Why Senator Brows toiled. 'Washington Spoolal. .'Senator Brow n, of Georgia. «®nfce seeii .Hi not likely to be forgotten. His long, yellowish white beard gives him a pa- “trottfchal appearance, and bis placid fare was unreadable as l!ie*Sphynx. A darg'Hi' man, but one not less-striking, is Doorkeeper Bassett, whose long, snowy white beard gives to him also the air ol a patriarch. His face is quite a- placid and unreadable as t lie Senator s coun tenance. The very marked difference between itlie two men is that the fv-na- tor’s step is soft and catlike, and one almost hears the “purring” as “Old -Ire Brown.;” tJie richest man in .Georgia, moves about the Senate Chamber. Mow, on tJie contrary, although then can be but lit tie difference in t heii Doorkeeper Bassett’s step is >]inn and active. X<»l long ag<>, when tlif deluge of New York “interviewers on the President's message -wept over the capital, Senator Brown and Senator t/orman happeneil to be in the Senate restaurant get ting luncheon, they "ere at, separate tables, but it .^ems that.! “Old Joe”vi'ascombining t he business id e;it ing wit h t he pleasure ol watching t he Maryland Senator get rid <>i an “inter viewer.” Mr. Gorman's lace expressed surprise, annoyance, and. it must he said, disgust. Of course he made short work of it, and Senator Brown’s! curiosity led him directly over and he • asked, as he sat down with confidential nearness to Senator Gorman: “What is the matter, Gorman? seem put out about something.” “Why, one of those fellows from Xew York, you know. Tie wanted me to tell him what 1 t hought of t he message, ami what my views were on the tariff.” was (lie reply, in a vexed tone. “Well, what did you tell him?” ask- returns, who can picture the gladness, ; the woe, upon these century-old I wbanes and siips'd' j They say that «do<wn at brave old 1 Marblehead every -tliird woman is a j widow. Here among fisher-folk the | same is true. And -so the going and ■ coming, and going aaul never coming, have woven a warp and woof of smiles and tears here, whii’dh have mellowed and softened thousands of human hearts in a- way you can quickly see . and feel. Your fisherman who comps, and the wife, sweetheart or child that feet, I could always* get railroad passes ferr myself and family, and we always vaeut home*to s|>end the holidays with the people who elected ate. But I can- net*. have that pleasure this year.” Itiie needless to say that the gentleman referred to was one of tbe snost enthu siastic supporters of the law, and prac ticably lay awake of nigfcts thinking Old Southen^Vomes. Savannah News. A great many of ,yhe plantations in different parts of the South, which were once well known for their size, the magnificence of the residences upon them, the hospitality of their owners, or on account of the prominence of the families which possessed them, whaft a blessing its passage would be to ; are now falling into mins. The reason his ^constituents when he could strike 1 of this is. perhaps, that the land has his breast with his fist and say to them been worked -o long without being fer- that "i helped to pass it.” The mem- j tilized that it has become poor, or it ber, continuing, said of the law: “I be- may be that those into whose posses- is here to greet him, are o”er tender for J lieve now it was a mistake to pass it. sion they have passed lack the energy it all. The old city is used to it, and After all, the people are little bene- and skill which are required to make does not mind it. It istlie way its toilers fited by it. I hey do not get their pro- them pay under the present system of ! of the sea have. And so if you ever | ducts shipped to market any cheaper | labor, walk ber streets and see a bulk of a fel- j than they did before, and the earnings One of these famous old places, in of the roads have steadily increased Liberty county, in this State, was since the new law went into force. So, ; lately sold to a colored man for $2,500, you see, after all about the only per- \ only a part'of the purchase price being sons benefited are the officers and j required at once. Iris known as Lau- owners of-the roads. AN bile Cullom ! rel View, and is within two miles of the THOMPSON BROS. NEW NAN, GA. FINE AND CHEAP FURNITURE - AT PRICES- THAT CANNOT BE BEAT IN THE STATE. low holding a happy woman as he would clutch a fire-rail or a capstan- head in a heavy storm, you will know he is simply “making fast” witli the strong hawser of an honest love to the very anchorage of his life, utterly un-1 andJteagan supposed they were doing j historic town of Sunbury. It was the '.T m * conscious of your or aiiylxdy’s sense of; a great jtliiiig for the people, they in ; home of the gifted John Elliott, and a the proprieties. And this tenderness;, j fact performed the greatest possible very beautiful home it was. John proprieties. And this tendetne too, is all-compassing. There are many trusts and funds for the widow and fatherless, and these men give gener ously to them. On every week-day night the whole year through, when the seaport is stirred by the arrivals of fleets with their “fares” or cargoes of fish, there is a “fisherman’s ball,” and often many. These are never for individual profit, but invariably for the benefit of women whose hearts are breaking. Two Southern Humorists. New York Tribune. Mr. Richard Malcolm Johnston, whose | Georgian stories have become deserv- You j e d]y popular, was received with curi osity and heard with evident pleasure. I do not vouch for the truth of it, but I have heard that Mr. Johnston is mor bidly modest about these inimitable stories, and that it was with the great est difficulty that his friends finally in- i duced him to give them to the world, ed Senator Brown, stroking his beard . Even now it is'said that he occasionally with unbelieving deliberation, and de termined to get at the bottom ol it by ferreting out the cause of the other’s annoyance. “I told him I had nothing to say about the message or tariff at present.” “Well, l am sure there was nothing in that to put you out,” soothingly commented the Georgia Senator. “I’d like to have put him out. AN hy, Brown, the fellow’s first question was— well, now, what do you think he asked me?” “Haven’t the least idea,” with full emphasis on the first letter of the word “idea.” “Why, he began, ‘Senator Brown, are you a Democrat or Republican?’ Think of asking me such a question.” “I wouldn’t talk tariff, or anything else, with a newspaper fellow who did not know enough beforehand not to ask me such a question!” Seven years in the United States Senate and unknown by name and of unknown political faith was more than the Maryland Senator could stand. And to be taken for “Brown, of Geor gia,” too. Of course it came out plump enough and with merciless directness. There was a dead pause, but only for a moment. A smile more than slowly passed over Senator Brown’s serene countenance—passed slowly down and lost itself in the long, yellowish white heard. Then he-said, with his deliber ate, ministerial condolence manner: “Gorman, I can tell you something much worse than that. One of these newspaper fellows went for old Door keeper Bassett yesterday and inter viewed him on the tariff. Now, what do you suppose the fellow said when he got through with Bassett and went out?” “Oh, I haven’t an idea,” replied Sen ator Gorman, brightening up with the hope that somebody else had been hit harder than himself, “Well, that newspaper fellow -went out and said: ‘I’vebeen talking in there for half an hour with old Brown, of Georgia, and the only tariff he knows anything about is the tariff of TS19.” The Sad Wives of Gloucester. Correspondent Pittsburg Dispatch. Thriftlessness is uncommon among Gloucester fishermen; drunkenness is almost unknown; harmless banjier^juid bellowing and boasting are the nearest approach to brawls. There is a ten derheartedness among them that is re markable and almost ■ pathetic. Many go away that never come back. Stand here, if you will, at these crowded wharves, and watch the arrival and de parture of fishing fleets; and if you have a heart you will feel something heavy in your throat. The oft! mothers and,fathers, the younger brothers and sisters, the wives and wee fishers’ chil dren. jure all here, score on score. They are trying to look brave as the vessels sail out. There is pride and loyal valor in their faces all. They shout and shout to the departing ones, who send it back in good measure, every manner of good cheer and sea lore for luck, becomes possessed with the notion that they are mere trash, and are making a laughing stock of him, and he insists on settling up with his publishers and having them recalled as sdon as possi ble. The reception which an audience of such culture as the one lie faced re cently gave him, ought to be enough to drive such notions out of his head if he has had them. “The Early Majority of Mr. Thomas Watts,” is a work of ex ceptional talent. Its pictures are thor oughly funny, and the remarkable thing about this, as about all his stories, is their delicate setting. He presents the most amusing scenes, in language that suggests the grace and beauty of Washington Irving. He has the pleas ing faculty of presenting incidents fam iliar to everyone who looks back upon his own childhood in a way that is irre sistibly comical. Mr. Johnston is a strikingly handsome man, and a typi cal Southerner in appearance. He is tall and slender in figure. His hair is silver white and a large moustache of the same color adorns his face. His long, straight nose, and slightly hollow cheeks, are peculiar in their shape to the Sunny South. It was a Southern author, too, who immediately succeeded Mr. Johnston, and he also won the admiration of the audience. Mr. Thomas Nelson Page, of Virginia, is yet a young man, but he has shown himself capable of excellent work. He read the Christian scene in “Unc’ Edinburgh’s Drownd’n,” and Air. Page’s dialect was, as it should have been from a native Virginian, sim ply perfect. There is as much differ ence between the dialect of Houston street and that of a Southern “Jim- town,” as there is between the lingo of a street brat and that of a Fifth avenue dude. To that portion of his audience who have never been south of the Mason and Dixon line, the perfect music of Mr. Page’s dialect was a rev elation. Northern men who derive what notions they have of the true negro tongue and character from min strel shows and mnlatto cooks do the colored race of the South a great injus tice. Their voices are mellower than a Moore’s. Even in conversation it -rises and falls like the music of a chant, asjd they often possess the noblest traits of character. Mr. Page’s hero tbld his simple tale of devotion to his dashing young master in a strain that touched every heart, and fyet he brought out the amusing weakness of the negro with that fidelity to nature which distinguishes the genuine artist. He was warmly applauded, as he well deserved to be. . Abolishment of Congressional Rail road Puma. Washington Special. There is a state of affairs brought on by the passage of the inter-state cpm- merce law, which, in Congressional cir cles, is very noticeable. It is a fact that a very large percentage of the members of Congress that have hereto fore gone home to see their constitu- fact performed t lie greatest possibh service to the roads, and by the bill practically voted thousands and thous ands of dollars annually into the treas uries of the roads, and the public, in no particular way is any better protect ed than it was before. If there were to be an effort to repeal the law, there would not lie a railroad manager in the country who would not work to have it remain as it now is.”. Some Autobiographies of Congress men. Lewiston Journal. It is well known that the Senators and Congressmen write their own hi- j ographies that appear in the Congres sional record. This fact makes them all the more interesting. The statesmen are allowed in a general way to say what they please, but there are some in stances where the compiler of the Di rectory has to do some pretty thorough pruning. Oiie Arkansas Congressman wrote in answer to the usual request what would have filled a dozen pages of the Directory. -He gave the full his tory of his and his wife’s families, the characteristics of his children, the names of the husbands and wives and children of those married, and intro duced several illustrated sketches in bear, bee and coon hunting. He intro duced a poem on spring written by bis second oldest son, gave the names of two young fallows,- rivals for the hands of one of his daughters named “Pink,” and described the distress she was suf fering over the question of which one she should choose. The compiler cut the “biography” down to eighty lines. A Kentucky Congressman in his biog raphy described a stock farm owned by him, named the horses and gave their pedigrees and prices. Another Ken tuckian mentioned, among the events of his eventful life, the number of fights he had been in, and gave de scriptions of two, in each of which he had killed a man, • and gave the names of the men he had slaughtered. One Ohio man gave the number of sheep he owned, the fluctuations in the prices of wool in an elaborate table, and in troduced a strong protest against the reduction of the duty on wool, all of which was sacrificed. A Congressman from Iowa sent in his biography in verse, and very bad verse, too. Another from the same State stated that he was living separate from his wife, but in a detailed statement laid all the blame upon her, and appealed to his brother Congressmen to overlook the matter, and to the Speaker not to allow him self to be influenced by it in assigning him to committees. very beautiful home it was. John Elliott represented Georgia in the United States Senate from 1820 to lS2(i. The plantation contains 2,800 acres. It was purchased during the war of se cession by lion. Linton Stephens, a brother of Hon. Alexander II. Ste phens. and was sold to the present owner by his heirs. The district in which the plantation is situated was noted, from* the first settlement of the State until the emancipation of the slaves, for the in telligence and wealth of its citizens. It is now, however, almost abandoned to the colored people. Its great planta tions have been divided into small farms, and the superb mansions, once the homes of men noted for wealth and culture, and for women famous for beauty and refinement, are falling in to decay, and are being replaced by cabins and huts, whose chimneys of slicks and mud tell more plainly than words of the marvelous change for the worse which has taken place in the once rich and prosperous district. The Decrease in Yield of Cotton per Acre. Columbus Enquirer-Sun. The fact that the cotton yield, per acre, is fast decreasing, has set the thinking men of the country at work to ascertain the cause. There, has been an increase of thirty per cent, in the area since 1880, and a corresponding de crease in the yield per acre. This is due to several causes. One is that the indiscriminate use of commercial fertil izers has rendered the cotton plant susceptible to climatic influences, and hence a poorer yield is obtained. Another, and perhaps more impor tant reason assigned, is that this enor mous increase of 30 per cent, in the acreage is, for the most part, poor and unproductive uplands. It is the worn- out lands that were allowed to grow a young forest of small pines, and have for the second or third time been clear ed and put in cultivation. The yield of this land is not to be compared with that of lands just taken from the origi nal forest, and as a consequence, the yield per acre is not so great as was the case when the increased area was for new lands. But there is one fact in this connec tion that should strike terror to the heart of the farmer. It is the cotton seed oil industry. It is exhausting the soil. As far back a? 1879 the danger of exhausting the soil was seen. In that Bill Nye Concerning Women. Two young ladies, named respective ly Burroughs and Springer, in a town in A Vest Virginia, each carried a keg of powder out of a burning building re cently, although the kegs were so hot that wet cloths had to lie wrapped around them in order to hold them without burning the hands. This was an heroic act. They then went back to rescue a dude who would not come out of the building in a pair of tan-col ored gaiters for fear it might excite re mark. While the girls were reaching under the bed for him, one of them got her hand on a mouse and fainted. All were rescued by a hook and ladder company. Some thought the tire was the work of an incendiary, while others st ated that it was started on purpose. Woman is a strange contradiction of heroism, cowardice and clothes. A stranger in New York recently tried to hire a good servant girl, but did not succeed very well, for she was a haughty woman and rarely soaked her hands into dish-water. She came of a proud and arrogant race, which had for years retained in its grasp the magnifi cent Dutchy of Council Bluffs. For centuries her family had vaunted its long, dark-blue lineage-and put out its washing. “And who are your references?” she asked an applicant in an uptown intel ligence office day before yesterday. “I have good references,” said the girl, “which I will produce when you show me that you are a suitable person to work for. We will exchange refer ences at any time you may name.” What we need here is not so much a better class of servants, but a better class of employes, and who will try to live up to and be an honor tb their servants. Now that the new year is coming so near us and the expensive and dark-red Yuletide also, let us resolve, one and all, that during the next year we will try to lead such lives that our servants need not be ashamed of us. Bis; stock of Chamber suits in Walnut. Antique Oak, and Cherry, and Imitation suires. French Dresser Suites (ten pieces), from £22.60 to £125.00. Plush Parlor Suits, $35.00 and upward. Bed Lounges, $9.00 and upward. Silk Plush Parlor Suits, $50.00. Good Cane-seat Chairs at $4.50 per set. Extension Tables, 75 cents per foot. Hat Racks from 25 cents to $25.00. Brass trimmed Curtain Poles at 50 cents. Dado Window Shades, on spring fixtures, very low. Picture Frames on hand and made to order. SPLENDID PARLOR ORGANS Low, for cash or on the installment plan. Metallic and W T ooden Coffins ready at all times, night or THOMPSON BROS., NEWNAN, GA. FURNITURE! I buy and sell more FURNITURE than all the dealers in Atlanta combined. I operate fifteen large establishments. I buy the entire output of factories; therefore I can sell you cheaper than small dealers. Read some of my pfices : A Nice Plush Parlor Suit, $35.00. A Strong Hotel Suit, $15.00. A Good Bed Lounge, $10.00. A Good Single Lounge, $5.00. A Good Cotton-Top Mattress, $2.00. A Good Strong Bedstead. $1.50. A Nice Rattan Rocker, $2.50. A Nice Leather Rocker, $5.00. A'Strong Walnut Hat Rack, $7.00. A Nice Wardrobe, $10.00. A Fine Glass Door Wardrobe, $30.00. A Fine Book Case, $20.00. A Good Office Desk, $10.00. A Fine Silk Plush Parlor Suit, $50.00. A Fine Walnut 10-Piece Suit, $50.00. A Nice French Dresser Suit, $25.00. I respectfully invite everybody to examine my stock and ge: my prices before buying your Furniture. I have the finest a." well as the cheapest Furniture in Atlanta. Write for prices. A. G. RHODES, 85 Whitehall St., Atlanta, Ga. HUNNICUTT & BELLINGRATH, 36 AND 38 FEACHTREE STREET, ATLANTA. GA. “Mister, would you like to do a little suthin’ in the cause of science ?” “What science ?” “Periitical economy.” “What can I do ?” “I s’pose you have heerd this discus sion ’bout wether a man can live on 50c. a week?” “Yes.” “Wall, if you want ter encourage sci ence, you jest let me have 50c., and I’ll make the experiment fur a week.” ents on the occasion •£ the Christmas As the schooners clear the har-' holidays will this year remain within l>or, out past the Ten Pound Island, sight of the dome of the Capitol, some will run away around the harbor’s j This is all attributable to the inter- j was edge, as if to keep company to the last. ! state commerce law, which prohibits j and But those who stay, leaning far out the indiscriminate issuance of passes, time over the dark bulkheads, look fixedly 1 In fact, there are few members who been increased fully *200 per cent, and on and on until the white sails disap- have any hesitancy in assigning the the processes have also been improved CoiMumption Surely Cured. To the Editor—Please inform your readers that I have a positive remedy for the above named disease. By its timely use thousands of hopeless cases have been permanently cured. I shall be glad to send two bottles of my reme dy free to any of your readers who have consumption if they will send me their express and post office address. Respectfully, T. A. SLOCUM, M. C., 181 Pearl street, New York. year it was estimated that no less; o n December 7 the King of Spain, than one-seventh of the whole crop ! aged 18 months, was taken to the Sen- worked up into oil cake 1 ate H° use an< * *“* 1 ' S laced on his father’s the paraphernalia, otner products. 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Then, when the licet tlie Courier-Journal correspondent: VNo, I will not go home this year. It cost- too much money, for railroad ! transportation. Before this infernal has greatly increased and threatens the productive power of the land. These facts explain the decreased cotton pro duction per acre and excites wonder neaiung inter->taJe> law went into ef- 1 that the decrease has heen 110 greater. The close sympathy existing between the stomach and brain is noticeably exhibited in the headache resulting. from indigestion. Laxador always! cures headache, when caused by indiges tion. MICKELBERRY & McCLENDON, • v ... WHOLESALE GROCERS, PRODUCE AND COMMISSION MERCHANTS, NO. 15 SOUTH BROAD ST., ATLANTA, GA. Hay? Oats, Corn, Meal, Bran, Stock Feed, Onions, Feathers, Cabbage, Irish Potatoes Dressed and Live Poultry, Meat, Flour, Lard, N. O. Syrup, Dried Beef, Cheese, FRUITS ANI) AI.L KINDS OF PROVISIONS AND COUNTRY Consignments solicited. 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