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THE INDEPENDENT.
•Vri'RDAT, M, IMI.
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J. C. QALLAHER, Editor and Proprietor.
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"He that u not For m to Aminat oa"
He who eeeko t<> injure One cUiw of
cftizeiM in a disorgunizer of society, n pro
ducer of strife and discord; anil particu
larly, aitnated ae w* ore iu tbe South, lie
who triew to embitter tw race against the
other is on enemy to both raooa and the
country. And any nmii—after a knowledge
of the facta given in onr last iaaue, in re
ference to certain Radical visitors to the
negro church near Gottlden'a plantation,
soma three weeks siuce—that will an! and
comfort such men by dealing with them
aud associating with them, is meaner than
they are, and are enemies to their coun
try. The man who ai.client the invader
of tlie country, conceals his whereabouts,
aids him aud comforts him, communicates
to him intelligence to strengthen him and
weaken the country, is a more dangerous
enemy than the invader. Our people are
laboring, and bare been, for the general
prosperity of the country. E. C. Wade
aud Bam Grilßu are avowed opponents to
it. They are attempting to throw barriers
in the way, elog the wheels, anil lesson the
facilities for a progressive march. They
propose to weaken ami even destroy the
productive force of the country by estab
lishing a standard of wages so unreasona
bly large that no planter can give; and
what is the result that these parties de
sire? One half of the population, home
less and penniless, without food or rai
ment, to refuse employment that will sup
port t)ien> uixl declare their independence.
The planter can't give their Wade and
Gridin standard of priors; the negro won't
work foe less. If he won’t work for less
he must rob, steal or starve. If lie starves
he may justly accuse Wade anil Griffin of
his death; if he steals lie may be caught;
if he roll* ho w ill certainly be shot, and
Wade and Griffin are the criminals. With
a knowledge of these fai ls, no gentleman
will associate with them; and no honora
ble oilmen will encourage ami assist
them in their wicked schemes by dealing
with them. No irogro mati that lias oolo
rn on cornfield sense but wliat can see that
to follow their plan would ruin him; and
if he has nv honor he will disregard
thejr advice and have no dealings with
them. 'We ninlimtaml Hint certain par
ties have said if they arc published iu The
Indf.I'KNIiEN'T, as associating with Wade
and Griffin, they will hold us personally
accountable.
We will not censure them for that, for
we know of no disgrace tliat equals it.
We have told the people who their ene
mies arc; and we will tell, at the risk of a
dozen lights, who their enemies’ associ
ates are. We have no hesitancy in saying
that a man who associates with a negro
cqualist is a negro cqualist himself. Now,
we are going to notify Wade and Griffin
of the fact that there are men in this town
who are friendly to their faces, and be
hind their backs they denounce them with
the utmost bitterness. Wo think it is a
basely cowardly net to make a man no
matter how mean ho is -believe you are
his friend, and then make everybody else
believe you are his enemy. If you at
heart condemn his course you will not eu
eoumge him in it. If you associate with
him it is nn evidence that you approve his
acts, or else you ure acting deceitfully with
him, and that is contemptible; aud we
will publish it for the benefit of both par
ties.
To The Pres*.
In oecordenoe with a series of resolu
tion* passed by the Georgia Press Asso
ciation iu Convention at Americus, the
undersigned Committee were appointed
to take all necessary steps for the forma
tion of a National I‘hkkh Association,
The Committee hnviug received, through
their Chairman, a number of favorable
responses to the proposition to form sueli
an Association, from journalists of several
States and territories, giving to the Com
mittee the assurance of tlioir hearty eo
iippenition iu the movement, we deem the
object worthy of an effort, and the present
au auspicious moment to begin the
work, we therefore issue a call for a Con
vention of journalists throughout the
Union to assemble at St. Louis, Missouri,
on Wtdunitr, th* 1 2tltli. of November,
1873, to organize a National i\cya Associa
tion.
All jiupers in the United States are re
quested to make uoiii-e of the pluce mid
time, aud every joaonuUst is respectfully
solicited to attemh
The Georgia Press pJwiae de the
favor to keep a standing notice of the cull,
until the day of inmtiaig.
ItoliRIIT L. Rodgkuh,
Caxa W. Styles,
t W. Hancock,
X 3X. PIUU’LEs,
J. B. Reese.
Cbmtnittee.
The World MutiuU Life Insurance Com
pany lias in the United Stab's Circuit
Court at Philadelphia successfully contest
ed a policy on the ground of untrue rep
resentation* by the assured, though the
proof did netthow that the misstatements
were very material. In charging the jury
Judge McKeuuwA suiiltliut the answers iu
flic application were not mere representa
tions which might or might not have been
true without materially affecting the nature
of the arrangement between the assured
and the assurers, but they were of the na
ture of covenants, were of the essence of
the contract, and must, have been strictly
true in order to hold the defendants.
A passenger on uu Indian railroad not
being able to grt u seat refused to give the
conductor his ticket until a sent should he
found for him. The conductor could not
get him a seat, os the train was crowded,
but insisted on las ticket. The
passenger would not give it up, wherefore
the conductor put him oil' the train. and
threw his Iwggage afterlnw. The do.-cur
ded passenger then sued the company, and
the cast* lias just been decided in hia"favor,
the jury giving him two thousand dollars
dainagcs-
The Wisconsin Grangers and liwfumicr*
have set Up an independent SUeKe ticket,
with the understanding that it ia to he
adopted tyr the Democrats usd Liberal
He publics as
There are two wars of gaining a repute*
tiou—to lie praised by holiest men. or
abused by rogues.
THE THOMASVILLE FAIR.
[Special Telegram to Tin- Independent.
TnoaUirni.r.K (I*., Oct. 10, 1878.
At a large, enthusiastic meeting of the
stoekEofders of Hie Smith Georgia Agri
cultural and Mechanical Association, it
was determined to hold the Fourth Annual
Fair of the Association at the Fair Grounds
near Thomnsville, commencing Tuesday,
the fourth of November next.
Ample arrangements mode for the ac
commodation of visitors, and for the exhi
tion of machinery, and for the taking care
of stock that, will Is; upon exhibition.
A grand Toumuient will take place on
Friday, the seventh of November, and di
vers other amusements will be on the
grounds.
A. I’. Wk/oht. President.
The KaTsnuah AilverlUer-Hejtuhliaan has
the following sod account of a boiler ex
plosion, which occurred late last Monday
evening at Ellaville, on the J., P. it M.
Railroad: "The boiler of the locomotive
Ktonewall, while standing at Ellaville ex
ploded, instantly killing tiie engineer, Mr.
Charles Wiley, au JSuglisliman, and it is
thought dangerously wounding the fire
man and a wood passer. So great was the
explosion that the body of the engineer
was thrown fully fifteen feet from the en
gine, and the head of the unfortunate
□mu was completely blown off and thrown
about the same distance from the body.
“The Stonewall, we are informed, was
quite an old engine, and was used iu pro
pelling the lumber trains of Messrs. Grew
lit Buckie, extensive lumber men of tliat
loeslity. The tracks in tlie vicinity of the
exploded engine were terribly torn up, so
niueh so as to prevent the connection of
the passenger train on the ,1., I’. A M.
Railroad with that of the Atlantic it Gulf
at Live Oak, ”
Destruction of a Saw Mill.
Tlie Adrerliser-Jisjiultlieim says: ‘ Tue
large nod valuable saw mill owned by \
Messrs. A. Keppard A Son, on thu Atlan
tic and Gulf railroad, at what ; s known as
Station 71, was completly destroyed by
fire on Suuihiy morning. The tire broke
out about three o’clock, as is supposed, iu
the roof of the bidding above the furnace,
caused by the heat arising 1 herefrom. The
watchman at the mill was asleep and could
give no account of the affair, but the ouly
cause that could bo given is that the fire
originated from the heating by the fur
nace ns above stated. The mill am en-!
tircly destroyed, together with about fifty
thousand feet of good Uuulior, and tbe ;
same amount of refuse lumber; a’though |
there was at least five hundred thousand I
feet of lumber on hand, and but for the !
energy and work of the hands, all of whom
interested themselves and went to work
with a A’ill, more if rot it! 1 , of it would
certainly hove been destroyed.
We learn that between two and three
hundred people, men, women and children
ure now without the means of support.
The mill hud from seventy-five to ouehun
dred men, most of whom had large families
dependent on them for a support, in its
employment. These, as we have slated
altove,ure now thrown out of employment.
There, was no insurance on the mill or
lumber, and consequently, it is an entire
loss to the owners. Fortunately they have
another mill at this jiluco iu perfect order,
and amply sufficient to till nil orders,
though there may be some delay in con
sequence of the destruction of the other
mill. But the energy and enterprise of
these gentlemen is too well known to sup
pose that they will permit any of their or
ders to remain untilted for any longer time
than they call actually prevent.
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The religious movement of Christendom,
like the political movement, is tending to
ward centralism aud unification. The
Church of Rome owes its domination and
power to those two elements of strength.
The divissions in the I’rotestant Church
have not only been the occasion of enor
-1 inous wastage of useful energy but of
: enormous irreligiou. The sectarian spirit,
j like party spirit, is responsible for count
less errors and wrongs which have brought
j religion into discredit. The evangel
l ical gathering in Now York is destined to
|do a good work. It is ou the right rood
I nml deserves own more of the pub' ; c at
tention than it has received.
Alaska has discovered gold mines within
her territorial borders. The auriferous
region just laid bare to the light of day is
situated two hundred Mid forty-five miles
from Fort Wraugel, and yields a generous
amount uf the precious metal. Now, the
best thing to Vie done in relation to this
golil-flnd is to ullo-w the Alaskiaus to have
it nil to themselves. They deserve every
pennyweight of gold to be found within
II licit- inhospitable boundaries, and the rest
i of the world should, for once, be generous
and not invade this hyperboreun El Dorn
; do.
The Eastern people don't know what
to make-of the several wecfc* frof aunt si
lence and seclusion of lieu. Butler. We
have private reladde information that the
old fellow has resolved to retire from all
worldly pursuits and look after his spirit
ual interests. He will make his dehut in
a sermon before the New York Evangelical
• Alliance, and will immediately afterward
assume the charge of Dr. Newmans old
church in Washington.
A dispatch of the 15th ill forms us that
the Bmnswiek and Albany .Kailroad was
sold on Wednesday to the representatives
of the German bondholders, for 8530,000.
The telegraph line wns bought by 0. O.
Whitney for $2,900, subject to a five years'
lease.
——
The Odd Fellows of Jacksonville are
raisiug money in response to a call from
their distressed brethren in Memphis.
They raised 825 in two hours, and at last
accounts the contributions were still iu
etHisiag.
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If a umu is not satisfied with a little, it is
very certs in ho will never have enough.
A 810 SCARE.
Frightful Frrdli 11,,na uf th* Amrrlraa
•vlcnltUlc Assoc In lion.
We have no attack to make upon science,
or the legitimate results of scientific in
vestigations; but a science tliat robs tbe
sun of its warmth uud brilliancy, plucks
the stars from their sockets, and leaves the
universe without a shining gem, and then
runs a blind and crazy comet “into the
ground,” and All the universe with long
pent-up gasses aud oceans of melted lead,
we have no confidence in. We learn from
Scriptures that “One generation posseth
away itml another cometb on, but the
earth abideth forever.” Which is true,
the Scripture, or the five following fran
tic predictions, each' evidently the result
of a scientific mania? If the creator in
tends to destroy his works, his plans were,
no doubt, arranged before the creation;
and it isn't likely that he will employ all
the ]ikins suggested by these scientific
gentlemen, four of which must be wrong;
and if they are all of eqnal scientific at
tainments, we may safely conclude that
they are all wrong. But to us individually
it is Immaterial whether death comes to
us by the bursting of the earth, or from
the want of the suns warmth, or from
starvation, or in any other of its mysterious
ways, if we have lived right and can pre
sent a clean record. Read below their
mctliods of universal destruction:
TJfB HUN TO BE EXTINGUISHED.
Professor Young, tlie most, eminent liv
ing student of solar physics, read a paper
on the snn. Tliat body, he argued, is a
gigantic bubble, whose crust is gradually ;
thickening aud whose size is diminishing.
There is a constant loss of heat, which
will end in its extinction as a producer of I
warmth ami light. He quoted Faye, Hee
ohi and others to prove that the material
of tbe sun is gaseous, and that these gases
are retained by some kind of u crust.
Through this surface the tumultuous inner
composition is constantly spurting and
out-breaking with great violence. He
thinks that tlie crust “may consist of a
sheet of descending rain—not of water,of
course, but of the materials whose vapors
are known to exist in the solar atmosphere,
and wiiosii condensation un<l combination !
are supposed to furnish the solur heat.”
As this peculiar rain meets the gaseous
substance of the sun it coalesces into a
continuous sheet, forming “a sort of bot
tomless ocean, restingujion the condensed
vapors underneath, and pierced by innu
merable ascending jets uud bubbles."
This uctiou of the hiiii’h envelope will be a
quenching of the great orb upon which
we depend for heat and light. It will
grow : smaller, and more compressed and
surrounded by this crust, until it will be
so hidden and muffled as to be practically i
excluded from the economy of the universe, j
The result will be intense cold and dark
ness, a cessation of all animal life, and an
immediate return to original chaos.
THE HUMBLE EARTH TO BUBHT.
General <l. G. Barnard ihscrilied tbe iu- j
teriur of the earth as a molten thud. Pre
vious notions lias given thceartb, however,
a rigeil exterior surfuee from one to two j
thousand feet deep. He refuted this the
ory, and claimed the globe upon which
we live somewhat tbe coiiKtmotion of a
rubber ball filled With mulled h ad. The)
surface is, he thinks, a -pliable oentmg
that has been gradually formed over the
fiery mass inside. A globular form is j
maintained by rapid rotary motion, the j
inner fluid sustaining the soft shell in its
position, so that the undulations are ini
pereeptilde to us. Thus we ui>- being
whirled through spats: on a huge globule,
the surface of which flouts on an interior j
of liquid fire.
Only the rotary speed of this babble :
keeps it together, and any disarnmgment
or change in terrestrial | henomena would
resolve itself into vapor. General Bar
nard does not Ixdieve that the surface is of i
ail essentfairy different composition from
the liquid interior—it has only been con
densed sufficiently to form, * sort of cap
sule. The tenure of the world's existence,
therefore, is exceedingly uncertain. Any
' greatly disturbing influence--tlie breaking
j out of a huge volcano, any change in the
! surface that would render it brittle, the
j impact of a heavy meteor or coun t —may,
I in a moment, immolate it, leaving human
ity to whirling death amid the horror of
inorganic space.
DABKNEBS, BXX.EN3E, AND DEATH.
Mr. H, F. Walling began an essay on
“The Dissipation of Energy” by saying:
“Since the days of the ancients it lias been
known that all motion is gradually devel
oped by friction, and must finally cease
unless maintained by external power."
The heat power of the sun, which he re
garded as the motive power of the earth,
is being exhausted by the prodigious lav
ishness of its expenditure. It is supposed,
he said, that the satellite will fall into
planets, planets Into suns, and suns into
a common centre, after which “darkness
sileueo and death will reign.” He was not
without shadow of hope, however. He
saw two possible chances for a postpone
ment, at least, of the dreadful catastrophe:
First, a series of natural chemical evolu
tions atrracting to the sun a vast amount
of combustible material; and. second, the
infinite magnitude of the universe being
sufficient to permit a never-ending concen
tration of masses. One dreaded effect of
a loss of sun power, he said, is a displace
ment of atmospheric forces. Tidal influ
ences or planetary eoffissions may hasten
the final dreadful mtastrope. which will
be n slowing of tin l mnelunory of the uni
verse, until growing stagnation culminates
in a total extiuetioo of life forces.
I NIVEUSiI, UIiOVUHT AND STOBTATION.
Profess** Fkanklin Ik Hough foretold a
perpetual drought—the result of it clearing
off of tlri‘ forests. “The contrast,” he
said, “between an open and sun-burnt
pasture, ami or.e inteispcrsed with clumps
of trees, must have been noticed by every
careful observer. The fact that furniture
in houses too much shad'd w ill mould is an
ixistiuieyv of the humid influence of trees,
and the results ol' woodland shade explain
the fullness of springs and streams in the
forest, which dry up and disappear when
the trees are removed. “The rapidity
with which forests arc disappearing has
already been a matter of alarm; but when
we consider the effect upon streams—
practical illnstrtions of large ones being
lessened and small ones easinglii-shed—
there is cause for fright. Lund will bo
come uuwarteredguid consequently sterile;
crops will lessen iu volume until arid and
treeless plains, refuse to respond to the in
citement of the fartvyr; uuivevsal famine
will ensure, and the work!, entirely depop
ulated by starvation, will siuk into unin
habitativeuess, until some new change
calls another form of life into existence.
INSECTS TO END THE HUMAN R.U.3S.
Dr. I,e Conte, the new President of the
Association, read a paj>er ou the e.norm ous
increase aud destructiveness of injurious
insects. The present actual annual dam
age done by iua. cts te crops iu the United
States is over tlrree millions of dollars, yet
these figures give but all inkling of w hat
! the increase promises for the future.
| “Juntnow,” aaysDr. Le<suite, “aportion
‘ of the insect tribe* are sufficiently numer
ous,by nutate to inflict injury upon man
and his potafssiona; but civilization des
troys the balance of life which naturally
keep down inereaae, and perm its In the
ease of insauts—those previously insignifi
cant in numbers -to become proiniuautac
tors iu the work of destruction. ”
The only method suggested by this
scientist to avert a calamitous plague were
“to abandon the crops and starve out the,
noxious insect, or to establish “a system
of checks on their increase equivalent to
those existing before civilization inter
fered.” Either of these plans are. of
course, impracticable. The impending
dilemma seems to lie an increase of insects
so vast that the plague of Egypt will be
more than produced, anil that all vegeta
tion, and Anally starving and helpless
man himself, will be eaten.
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Heart Eloquence and the Latest Style of
Love-Letter Writing in Savannah.
The following loving epistle was re
cently picked up on the streets in Savan
nah.
Savannah, Ga., Oct 13., 1873.
Mr Dkarikt Ellen : If you could but
imagine with whig painful suspense I have
waited tor a reply from your dear hands to
the four letters I liavo written you before
this, 1 know that your kind and loving
heart would induce yon to send me some
kind response to relieve my great anxiety
of roiiid. I cannot rest uiglit or day much
longer if thou treutest me so. Do now,
my pnrciotis angel, flower of beauty and
idol o 4 lav heart, Answer this and still the
longings of my over-burdened soul. If
thou didst but know how full my heart is
with love tor yon; how I worship you in
thought, I know that yon would no longer
hesitate to be come my own beloved, an
gelical, supernatural, devoted and abomi
nable lady of my 1 wart.
he il in heaven or on earth,
Of all I know hi this world
You art- tin- muni heautiful labig
To my lorn-, aad, sail heart.
The rose hi rpl and the violet's blue,
Hngar is sweet anil ao are yon.
Do, sweet Ellen, don't treat this short
inspiration of my soul as you have the
oile rs, but, of sweetness, an
gel of beauty, reply shortly, as 1 will
conut the minutes as luMirs and the hours
as days till I receive one from my adora
ble, pnsilanimous angel.
Yrair ever devoted lover,
Hknbv.
Press on, Henry; a few more such shots
and she will capitulate, and you will enter
the citadel, it may lx-, with a tight
squeeze.
[From the Philadelphia Sunday Dawn, j
A STRANGE STORY.
A Out Iful Son—-Siml Meeting of nn Innorcul
but Convicted Man and hU Mother In
the Aubnrn \. V. State Prison.
A lady who was some years ago left a
widow with a small family of children,
after much tribulation succeeded in bring
ing up to manhood one son, who proved
himself aide and willing to be a support
not only of her, but to llis younger broth
ers and sisters. About a year after be
coming of age lie was offered a lucrative
position iu tbe West, and he emigrated
thither, and, settling there permanently,
soon married. Newsies, however, did not
absorb old affections, ami as he prospered
in business, he sent regularly to his moth
er the means neros-AAry fi>r licr support
anil that of la-r family. Two years passed
on aud made many change*; but still reg
ularly as the quarter came so also the am
ide remittance of this model sou and
brother. When the tide of emigration
flowed to the far West, this son was car
rh and with it to Omaha, where lie invested
his earnings in town lots, which speccdilv
rose in value and mode him a man of
wealth. At least this was the intelligence
sent his mother. Lately, while visiting
Auburn, his parent was invited to moke
the tour of the State prison, and whilst
passing through the various wards she ae
’ eidentlv encountered one whose presence
caused her cheek* to pale and her heart to
• teaqsiruiilv stop its heating. It was her
sob, her good and well-beloved l*>y. who
fox years had been -her pride and support;
for a br was speechless, but at
length, bursting into a flood of tears, iu
which the prisoner joined, she said: “O,
my son, my son! how came yon here?”
His stray being told, developed the feet
tliat lie had, by trading with strangers,
come into possession of a largo quantity
of counterfeit money, and that iu igno
rance of its character, he being on a visit
to New York, hail attempted to pass it, had
been arrested as a chief of a gang of coun
terfeiters, and having been identified as
, having endeavored to circulate it, was, in
spite of all evidence of previous good
character offered, convicted and sentenced
to serve out a term in tlie State prison.
His wife, with wlro.u he was in constant
corrcsiNuidence, had aided him in keeping
his incarceration a secret from his mother,
and hail regularly remitted the quarterly
allowance, together with letters forwarded
from the prison by him, But for the- un
fortunate visit the mother would have re
main'd frarever unaware that her son whs
serving rail a peuul Rcutcnea for a crime
never committed liy him; she banned,
however, that by tine rise of comer lots he
hud lieen made a wealthy muu-oud when he
he should come of prison, which would be
in a few months, he, through the skillful
stewardship o 4 his wife, would find await
ing him tlie sina of not less thsr. 82(KI,(KK)
in United States howls, Seb ore the' vi
cissitudes of life.
A TerbuUiß Tragedy.— St tsuw, October
13.—A special dispaeh from Carrollton,
Missouri, gives an account of a terrible
tragedy enacted near here. Robert Aus
tin, a young farmer residing near Carroll
ton, suspected his wife of infidelity, aud
on Friday bust left home, saying that he
was going to the St. Louis Fair, to be ab
sent several days.. He went to the depot,
but returned and secreted himself in a
closet in liis wife’s bed room, armed with
a double barrel shot gun. His wife soon re
tired, and shortly after Elijah Haley en
tered th* room and undressed himself. As
he was getting into bed Anstiu sprang out
and fired, but missed Holey, and the shot
entered his wife’s abdomen. Austin tired
again at Haley and killed hint instantly.
Mrs. Austin died on Saturday,and Mr. Aus
tin surrendered to the authorites. Ail
parties are highly connected.
Correction due* much, but encourage
ment will do more. Encouragement after
ens uv is like the sun after n shower.
State Gossip.
A considerable Earthquake was felt at
Eatontou few dAys ago.
Wheat in North Georgia is selling at
81 50 to 82 00 per buslieL
I'p to lost Saturday Atlanta raised 81,-
283, for the yello w fever sufferers,
Tlie Thomnsville Baptist are endeavor
ing to raise funds for anew church.
Brunswick ha* contributed one hun
dred and twenty dollars fa the Memphis
sufferers.
Columbus has raised about $7,000 up
to Sunday night for the yellow lever Sif
ferers.
The death of Mr. C. N. Powell, a prom
inent citizen of Thomas county, is an
nounced.
The brick work of the new Masonic
Temple in Thomasville was finished lost
week.
A “Dancing Club" has been organized
in Brunswick. Wonder if Smith la-longs
to it.
The colored Masonic fraternity of Sa
vunnuh have received their Grand Lodge
jewels.
Macon is receiving gold in exchange for
cotton. The basis of exchange is fifteen
cents per pound.
The Eatontou Messenger comes to us
this week w-ltli anew dress, enlarged, and
otherwise improved.
Friend Smith, of the Brunswick Appeal,
wants something started down his way to
exercise tlie mind.
The Early County Sews has n good
stock of thanks on hand tor all who want
to pay their subscriptions.
The Thomasville Timm mail has had a
ray of sunshine east around his lonely
heart by a visit from the ladies.
Seventeen freight cars were thrown off
the track the A. & G. R. It. a few miles
from No. 3, on Saturday last caused by a
defective truck.
Ida Wilson was recently lodged in the
Chatham county jail [or stealing a watch
from D. I* Moore, for whom she was
house keeping
The Are department of Thomnsville
seems to l- demoralized. Due cmuimtiy
has suspended for ninety days while an
other is talking of disbanding.
We learn from the Thoma.-villc Eater
prise that Mr. W. H. Hopkins hat? a horse
stolen from his stable last f ittxrduy ifight,
for which he is offering a lite ral reward.
The Fonrth Animal Fair of the South
Georgia Agricultural aud Median teal As
sociation will open at Thomasville on
the fourth of November.
Dr. A. J. Soinmes, of Savannah has left
his home anil gone to Memphis to render
bis services to the afflicted citizens. A
noble deed, and one tliat should never he
forgotten.
A venturesome servant girl iu Snvann h
recently tried to poor ken wane into a light
ed lamp. She now wraps her arm in a
molases bandage, as the fruits of her
folly.
A nurse iu Savannah sent iu a hill of
five hundred dollars for nursing a man two
hours, while the physician sent in his for
two hundred. Wouldn't like to get sick
there while the money crisis lasts.
The Atlanta Hern!' 1 is making arrange
ments to present each one of its subscri
bers with a New Year*’ gift. Allan months
subscribers will be entitled to u ticket in
the (lestfiliation.
Tlie Brunswick Appeal says: "The
country along the line of the Brunswick
and Albany Railroad is remarkable for
Uealtlifuhiess and is being rapidly devel
oped. It bids fair in a few years, to be
populous, productive and wealthy.
Tlie Tbomasvßle Enterprise has this:
A colored boy only some eight or ten years
of age, set Mrs. Bird’s bam on fire alxjut
dark last Wednesday night. Light wood
splinters were used and a decayed spot iu
one of the sills was chosen. The flames
were discovered in time to save the build
ing. Ho did it for fun.
A young man l>y the bsiao of Constan
tine had one side of his face and one
eye badly burned on Sunday last while
bird hunting near Savannah. It appears
that he had just shot a bird, and was re
loading his gun, when *u explosion took
place; also exploding his powder fttsk. It
is thought that the injuries are not dan
gerous. Another warning to Sabbath
breakers.
Says the Hinesville Gazette: “Tlie pota
to crop this year, in Liberty county is
said to be an unusual good one. We
hear several farmers, who generally make
a erop of one to two hundred bushels,
say, that this year, they will harvest six or
seven hundred bushels. The Mexican Yam
or “New Issue, "as it is called, is consid
ered the aaoHt productive variety. Pota
toes at the nibnaul eouxnaiud a very good
price—eighty cents per bushel.”
Mr. A. J. Dodge, who has been for sev
eral years foreman of the Morn ing Sews
job office, come to his death on the 12th
inst by the supposed accidental firing of a
pistol in his ow n hands. Mr. Dodge had
been a great sufferer from asthma for over
twenty years, which of late had become so
acute as to cause him at times to loose
his mind, and he was suffering intensely
throughout Saturday night and Sunday
morning previous to-his death-
The Savannah New* has this: ‘ ‘lnfor
mation has bees reeeived here that some
few’ilays since an oLd lisbernuui. rusiiliug
at St (.’atlairine’s Island, died within half
an hour after some medicine hail been
administered to him, anil was afterwards
buried without an inquest being held up
on the body. It is surmised that Ki-agawn,
the fisherman, was iu possession of certain
money, or other property, which parties
on the island desired to possess themselves
of, and adopted the means above stated of
getting him out of the way. Officers
Morgan and Crean left the city for St.
Catharine's Island last night for the pnr-
P'leo of investigating the matter."
Love Among Thorns.
The ri-ahatic age, which bos exploded
ancient legends, ui*proved traditions and
I reversed the oldest eiprioes of history, hus
i. stroyed neatly all the romance of court
ship by dragging "il into oourt. Judge
Neilsou, of Brooklyn, New York, deliv
ered tin mosi xtroordinory and unheard
of opinion in a mount case of brench-of-!
marriage-promise which was tried before
Lit n.
A merchant named Alexander Earle was
sued for breach of promise by Miss Roxa
leiia Homan, ai. i Judge Nelson, finding
that the lady offered no other proof of the
' contract of matrimony except the fact
Uiut she had been kissed by the aforesaid
Earle, decided that no words were neces
sary to constitute an engagement; that
“the gleam of the eye, and the coninne-1
tiou of tlie lip*, are overtures where "they
become frequent and protracted.” The'
| jury, thus instructed us to the law, gave j
Miss Homan 815,000 damages; the cose |
was a[i[s>aied, and the Court of Appeal*;
sustained the decision of tlie court be
low.
The flintv-henrfed Judge, compared :
with whom Judge Jeffries was n Mild as
the moonlight dream of a maid of sweet,
sixteen on a midsummer night, added, with
aii the acrid partiality of exusjieruting de
tail: “Iu au engagement to marry, the
contract can lie > i tered into between lov
ers without his asking in words tLe ques- |
tiou whether she will marry him, and with- i
out her answering in words that she will j
do so. * * * This contract or en
gageioent can be made without such •
word* H the facts and rircnmstar vs
, are sufficiently full and sigmficient to
urnouut to the engagement, were they or'
could they lie articulate, the spirit of the
luw supplies the lucking speech."
And so for lnxiiriuting in Roxr,lona’s
“eye-gleam*’ anil “lip conjunctions,"
; Sandy Earle is doomed to pay the enor
mous price of 815JKXI! Miserable lover!
He had better have bought 315,1KK) worth
,of Pacific Mail stock at 250, and seen it
drop to 50 the day foDowing, than paid so
dear a price for “eye gleams," which are
transitory, and “lip conjunctions,” whose
weetness, though fraught with entranc
ing bliss, fade away like a dream of the
morning. A Grecian philosopher once re
marked of a little intrigue, that threat
ened to cost him a thousand talents in
gold, that he did not care to buy repent
ance at so ih -.r a price, and the Brooklyn
merchant wiii probably conclude to strike
from his price list in future those high
priced commodities as “eye gleams” and
“lip conjunctions. ” The decision of the
Brooklyn court will lie s death blow to all
I the romances of love-making in New York.
A young man with any regard for his
purse would as soon think of getting into
; a pirate-ship as into a courtship in the face
of so terrible a decision. Moonlight ser
enades must go liy the board, and Penn
sylvania “bundling” is no longer to lie
tin mg!it of. The dead line of courtship
which no bachelor dare touch in future iu
, eludes buggy drives, sleigh rides, hand
squeezing, eve glances at church, and lip
eonjectnr** behind the hall door. Cupid
is utemliy kicked out of court, aud his
| bow and darts have been wkitted into ig
nominious tooth-picks.
We tfe&C the above from the Courier-
JourMif. C'iinssderiug the facts (which
were fe A aivf route , re Hiink the Verdict
exceedingly mud, though it interferes with
tb sweetest delicacies of life. Many, no
doubt, will think it a severe punishment,
and some will suspect the Judge of hawing
a daughter the 1-e don't want kissed liy
the wrong fellow. We think Roxuleua
did right, the Judge did right, and the
jury did right, and tlie Court of Appeula
! andi 1 right, and Earle bos no right to cos*-
j pnst 1J | for a kiss that isu't worth $15,098
isn’t worth taking, and he took it. If
Roxie was as pretty as either one of an
hundred girls we saw at camp meeting last
Snuday, we will give double the amount
for a single glance and half such a smack,
and make her mistress of our number one
Wheel, it Wi'son Sewing Machine. If,
however, Roxalena submitted to his ca
l' .•* under the circumstance* that caused
Susan’s tears, when Snooks kissed her,
Roxalena ought not to have sued. If the
Judge will read carefully the cause of Su
san’s tears, he will luive some doubt as to
the propriety of his expansion of the rules
jof evidence. Read Snooks’ report of
THE CAUSE OF SUSAN S TEALS.
Susan und I sut side by side, aud I
couldn’t have talked if I had tried. The
light of the lamp was turned down quite
tow, anil I felt, dear reader, exactly just
so.
Her little hand in mind did rest, and
her waterfall laid on my breast, while
imy heart beat fast and I couldn’t stop it ;
and 1 was taking a pain iu my left vest
pocket!
I chanced to look down iu her gemlike
eyes, and I saw big tears up in them rise,
which made my heart beat faster and fasfj
er, and if she would have me I conclude.?
; to ask her.
“Wilst be my little wife,” said I, to
make yon happy I will try. Wilst bake
me pancakes through this life, and never
1 cut me with the carving-knife? Wilst get
my dinner and bake my bread, and wever
throw forks aud plates at my head? Wilst
sew on my buttons and my shirt fronts
stitch, all other tliiugs of a nature like
sieh? I’ll not ask yon to work, for you are
able, and I’ll buy a patent self-rocking
cradle-”
I kissed a tear from her rosy cheek, aud
Jerusalem jingo! but it tasted sweet! But
still more tears came fro® her eyes and
j fiom her bwast came mu ay sighv
“Wherefore those tears’ said I. “Su
sie, what makes you look so roozy suoozy?
I’d give my life to make you happy, and
have your first to call me pappy!
Susan’s eyes look at her feet, and I’m
blowed if I didu’t just feel dead beat! I
kissed tin -c rosy lips once more, as I had
done oft-times before, then I pressed her
. close! to iny heart, aud swore by jingo!
we’lf never part.
But tears still flowed down her pretty
face, aud looked as though they were run
ning a lace; while sighs still came from
out her breast, ami she looked as if she
couldn’t rest.
“Speak, Susan!” said 1 “Speak once
to me, and tell me what the matter can
- l>e. You have roused mv utmost fears bv
shedding those tremendous tears; but \
know, my darling, they’re shed for me, j
and I Jote’t see why this should lie.”
“Snooks, ” said she, with a long, losg
sign, and I was just afraid she was j
going to cry, “those tears tliat I shed are
not for thy sake, but beeaaee I’ve got the j
stomach-ache! Then die ojswe and took
, a pill, and for all I know she’s suffering
still. Snooks, ,Th.
Poor Snooks! What a ma-love-en-ekolie
disappointmentt Be sure, the next time
you kiss Susan that her stomach is not j
putting on airs.
While a compositor on the Montreal!
Witness was setting up an advertisement;
| for a lost canary, a few days ago, the bird j
' flew in at the window. This shows the |
1 value of advertising.
Telegraphic Brevities.
THE FEFEIT Of MEMPHIS--NEEDY OLIHANS—
.HfewrCAWi AzrOirr.
Mewhir, Oct. Id. -Fifty of the re
cently made orphans hade been sent to th-
Church Home, near Buntyn Station, She!-'
by county, in care of the Sisters of St.
Mary, but that institution reports its ina
bility to supply them with subsistence.
An appeal is made to tiie citfzettt of
Memphis to fiftniih Cooked provisions
for their dinner to-day. The Catholic Or
phan Asylnm reports that they have rooms
for a number of orphans, but are unable
to feed and clothe them.
Another frost occurred this morning.
Lateh.—From noon yesterday untS
noon to day there were forty-seven deaths,
of which forty were from yellow fever.
Memphis, October IS!—There wef#
forty-one fever deaths yesterday
Memphis, Oct 14.—Mayor Johnoc.r,
who has devoted himself unremittingly to
his duties, has the fever.
the nrru* w hkbvkfout.
Shbevepobt, Oct. 15. —A gradual de
cline in the epidemic is reported. Tfc'rtjr
block vomito cases have recovered.
THANKSOIVIRO.
Washington, Oct. 14.— The President
has proclaimed the 21st of November
Thanksgiving Day.
the effect of a great hurricane.
Havana. Get. 14.—Advices from Hayt?
state that Jaemel and several other places
in southern Hayti were visited tef a hur
ricane on the 28th ult. Marry horses were
demolished, and trees torn from their
roots, and carried a grnit distance. There
was considerable lose of life still serious
damage to the shipping. The hurricane
did not reach to Port-au-Priuce or Aux
Cave*.
Washington, Oct. 14. —The Israelites of
San Francisco have sent 82,1KK) in gold
to the Memphis sufferers. The State
Grand Conunandcry of New York sent
8150 to Memphis and Shreveport.
MISC ELLANEOtK AUVEKTISI -IK-NTS.
MARKET SQOARE HOUSE
VALENTINE BASLER,
(Successor to hia brother Antony Bailer:
THE WEU KNOWN
Ti:N lIN AtoLEY,
At the Old Stand, 174 Bryan St,
OPPOSITE SUV. STAKMET,
Continues to keep on hand the of
Brandies, Whiskies, Wines, Ales,
AMJ) AI.L 07IIfa: liquors.
My Foreign Linear* arc aU ef my own Impor
iwim.
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