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Inconsistent Democrats.
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parties iu the State calling attention to
similar movements:
Albany, Ua., March 16th.—Editoss Tele-
oraph AND Messenger: Ihave been so
forcibly Impressed of late with the incon.
h latency of Georgia Democracy, tba I feel
constrained to make public wbcreln this
inconsistency consUts. For instance, a few
weeks ago a howl of censure went up from all
parts of the State over tbo appointment of
Emory Speer to a Judgeship in the federal
courts. Senator Brown has been woefully
abused, and very propci ly too, for the part he
took in securing Speer’s confirmation. Of
course the people feel that they have been
outraged and are Justly indignant. But I find
some of these very people now clamoring and
petitioning to have some of the Speer stripe
Macon,
Money orders, checks, etc., should be made
payable to 11. C. Hanson. Manager.
The appointment mill grinds slowly, but
^he griat is tolerably good.
Vaxdirbilt is building him a two hun
dred and fifty thousand dollar tomb.
Psurcxss Beatrice, as soon as married,
will take her petty-coart to Balmoral.
Sam J. Tildxn and General Grant are
said to be preparing for a great change.
It is the poor man who now threatens to
build “liberty” a pedestal. He labors with
all his mite.
Editor Dana's cat, up to date, has not
had anything flung to it by the new ad
ministration.
uiu uiKuttiuui ui ut iuk 11 Euui;ni-u,uui. * ^iiaaova ai |iubiiuuicii. i
hSLltteEtLSE 0 ” bUl ° ne ,ld<! 0f ,nd Th,t0 T "? * ,mo PO»*m««ten
Remlitaucci .hould be made by expreu, b » Te tor ?«*>» kept U>e Bepubllctn p.rtj in
money order or registered letter. power by the use of money, and by keeping
paid/ Poitmasteri are especially reqneited to know. thu lh0 Republican party in Oeor-
write for terms. gia has been defunct lor years, except
10 y l . t . h “ b « n drilled,.ndkep. to,ether *>?
,0a. Radical poatmaatera. Yes, the wdrk of these
very fellows a (e* years ago kept our people
In constant dread oi an outbreak. Tbo liver
0! even our wives and children wereendati
gored by the work tbeie fellows were required
to do, and nothing but the work of a bold and
united people deterred them Irom banding the
State of Georgia over body aod soul to the cor
rupt taskmasters they were required to serve
and obey. The tablci are turned at last, and
we see the terrible spectacle of Intelligent peo
pie asking II r. C'eveland to keep the men In of*
lice who paid their money to secure blsdefcst.
Ob, but they are good D mocrata now Yes,
they will do anything and be anything keep
their places. Ihls depones A!7erhc tn of
fice and don't want one,bo neartlly disgust
ed with people claiming to be Democrats abut-
Ing Joe Brown for befriending Speer and then
asking thst the Radical postmasters of the
State be retained. cSssistekcv.
There can be no donbt that Georgia
has her full share ot Democrats for of
fice only, and they do not care by what
means paying places can be obtained,
which wilt keep their occupants from
honest labor. It has been patent to
every observer that a ring in Georgia
has been enabled to hold power for
many years by trading and dividing
offices with the Republicans, and by
using their votes and influence.
The honest people have felt the
weight of this coirupt coalition on
more occasions than one. In Speer’s
case, which was a most shameless one,
the excuse was held out that ho would
become a good Democrat under a Dem
ocratic administration, just ns he had
disgraced and dishonored his people
for office under a Republican adminis
tration.
If it is impossible now to find a Re
publican in Washington City they will
be correspondingly scarce in Georgia.
There will be attempts to swap offices
and influences here and to keep kins
men and henchmen in place and power.
The coalition ia not going to surrender
its power without a struggle.
Rut the administration intends to be
Democratic. There will be attempts,
canning and insidioua ones, backed by
petitions and letters to mislead
and to deceive Mr. Cleveland and his
cabinet. If these are not promptly
met and uncovered, they may in some
cases bosuccessful.
But the people have the preventive
in thetr own hands. Whenever and
wherever political chicanery and trick
ery such as is alluded to by our cor
respondent is attempted, the proper
authorities at Washington should be
fully informed of it.
Ko swapping or trading of officea
will he sanctioned, and when places are
to be filled, the administration desires
to fill them with capable Democrats
npon whose record their is no stain
Mr. Cleveland will not countenance or
support the Democratic-Republican
coalition in this Stato by making the
appointments it desires and asks for.
We thank our correspondent for calling
the attention of the public
this important matter, and our
columns are at the disposal
of any one who desires to expose simi
lar trickery. Wo shall be (laid to pub
lish facts about all of the combinations
now being made to retain Republicans
in office, or to get them in, by conni
vance with so-called Democrats.
ScsDBT editors are advising the grom d
hog to come forth, but the ground hog re
lies on Instinct, not sdvice.
The Fresldent informed some Virginian!
that the office of bommissioner of agricul
ture will go to a Northwest) rb State.
The handle ot the spoon nsed by Mr.
Cleveland in feeding ent the patronage
pudding li not long enough to reach
Georgia.
Turns ia one Richmond lets in the field.
John W., of the Salvation Army, has been
locked np for obtaining goods under false
pretenses.
Tnx feed in some of the troughs of the
Augean stables is getting to be “powerful
akeerce.” The noble steeds will have to
go to gross.
Mb. Vabdxbbilt merely called upon the
Fresldent to' pay bis respect). Rnmor has
it that Van la gettiog down to where he
can't pay anything else.
Ir it is true that the star-eyed goddess is
droopy, the Tkleobafh recommends thst
during the spring months cornhread be
substituted for her matutinal aourmash.
The Washington correspondent of the
New York Times has come to the conclu
sion that the Mew York post-office is
“scarcely likely to be given to anybody but
an tmmistakablo Democrat.”
The lack of plums tossed to the Western
section ought to chill the enthusiasm of
tho youngsters who contemplate going out
to grow up with the country. Bettercome
South boys and grow up with a poet-office.
It is said that the coal fields tn Ken
tucky supply two-thtrds ot tha consump
tion in MaahviUe, Tenn. But this is not
etrange. The cold fields of tha Northwest
supply nearly all the consumption In
Florida.
What Cleveland's policy to the lady
clerks Is to be has not jet been developed.
It is the fond belief of tbe fair sex that it
can fill any office, bnt it will certainly look
strange to ate females acting as mail
agents.
Ahcsihemtooiiio people will hear this
with tenor: Colonel Jack Haverly has
organized a minstrel company of fifty
people—the old familiar “SO, count ’em, SO'
—and will devote bis personal attention to
them hereatter.
the telegraph and messenger: Friday, march27, 1885.
is remembered that this is a greater
case might serve aa a warning to otuers near
er home, who have made themselves public
nuisances, even 11 they have not been guilty
oi the same degree of Indecency. Ko one la
more Intereited m seeing tbe profession rid of
these fellows tbsn high-toned journalists and
conscientious correspondents themselves.
Gee. William F. Rouses, of Beflaio.and
member of tbe late Congress, wants toauc-
ceed Martin I. Townsend as United Slates
marshal for the northern district of New
York. Somebody should speedily succeed
the old ruffian,
Tub New York World leys Col. Hcoby
Thompson will not be made collector of
the port of New York. Tbie it in the
straight directloh of civil service reform
One trouble with Colonel Booby ie, that he
collects too much for Colonel Hooby.
Tub free trade organs are busy denying
that Randall had anything to do with the
defeat ot Phil Thompson. Well, let Mr.
Cleveland have foil credit for tbe good
work. Little FhU will not get aplace. Mr.
Durham, ot the Treasury Department, ie
from his Congressional district.
Hob. David Dcdlxt Field hu announc
ed that under no circumstances will he ac
cept the poet of minister to England. Dud
ley’s chlliren to the third end fourth gen
eration will now be able to proudly relate
that their distinguished ancestor “once de
clined the position of minister to Eng-
’and.”
The ninth volume ot tbe tenth cenma
rrpert, just issued, shows that the forest
product of thla country for the census year
amounted to 1700,000,000 In value, while
the wheat harvest, valuing the product
even at 71 a bushel, amounted to only
7150,000,000, and onr Iron and steel pro
duction is leas than 7500,000,000, All our
coal, soft and hard, for the year, was valued
at 7100,000.000, while onr wood burned for
domestic purposes alone was estimated to
be worth more than three times that snm.
The Philadelphia Press makes this good
point: “About the beet testimony that
President Cleveland could offer of bis tin-
eerily In the matter of civil service reform
would be tbe prompt discharge of Leoni
das D. Thoman, Democratic member of
the dvil service commission. Thoman
not only violated tbe epirit of the dvil
vice hy making flaming partisan speeches
in Ohio last tel 1 , but be ia charged by a
leading Democratic joornal, tbe Cincin
nati Enquirer. with being little better then
a habitual drunkard and with having
nsed the com mission's mousy for his per
sonal benefit without accenting for ft
Simpathv for Macon
Tbe recent dirty aasanlt upon this
community hu called forth the follow
ing wordi of sympathy from the Water-
bury (Conn.) American, a clean and
honorable journal. It says:
We have a profound sympathy for Itacon,
Ga. That city has been suffering Irom that In
fliction of modem Journal lam, known as tha
special correspondent. Of course there are
special correspondents and special correspon
dents. Some of them an as canful to tell
nothing bnt tbe truth aa tl they were writing
fora local paper, printing Ilea which would
bring immediate nlutatlona and unsleaaant
consequences npon tba head of the reaponal.
Me editor. Bnt many of these special makers
of news have no conscience at al>. All they
can about la that their stories may
spicy enough to make catchy bead-
■ and sensational reading. They
nly upon the fact that the yams an
printed at a convenient distance from the
scene of the plot and npon conceding their
own Identity to Insure them against the honest
Indignation of their victims. Connecticut hav
suffered. It la near enough to New York so that
iheae sensations may be lent by mall, saving
the cost o! telegnpMng. Waterbary baa suf-
farad. There [ore we say we have a profound
sympathy with Macon, Ua. That city has been
victimized by a special correspondent named
Brown. lie wrote ft np for the Cincinnati En-
qulrer, especially any social gossip that he
eonld manufacture or rake from the sewers.
When Ms articles appeared they came out
nnder inch head-lines aa: “Scandals Bumping
Againtat Each Other In the Air,” “Serious
Charges Against an Aged Gentleman,"
“An Injured Husband Gunning for His
Rival," “Editor Lamar Provokes a Duel
and Then Takes Water." etc. The owner of
the Inquirer, Hr. McLean, waa made to apol
ogize, ao hot was the Indignation. But this
did not satisfy the focal paper, the Macon
TELEonarn. It soya that before the apology
le accepted Mr. McLean, must “deliver the
correspondent (Brown) tothe legal authorities
and have the sources of hU Information <—-)y
known." It also remarks that “U tbo borae-
whlp ermnot correct tbo evil, tbeabotgnn wlU.”
While, of course, no one could Justify tho lat
ter, the public eonld hear with greet equanim
ity of a vigorous application of tho former.
Florida Railroads nnd Land Ornnts. fS
Senator VanWyck, who ie very bold
and independent, is likely to stir up a
sensation in Florida. His resolution
has been referred to the committee on
public lands, bnt he will pursue the
subject at the next session.
The Florida Railway and Navigation
Company came under discussion in the
Senate last week under a motion in
reference to its land grant. This cor
poration having advertised for sale
large tracts of Florida lands occupied
by numerous settlers with orange
groves and other agricultural ventu res
a motion was made to instruct the S ec-
retary of the Interior to intervene with
a stay of proceedings until the rights of
the company and the settlers could be
investigated. ,
This company appears to he one of
those peculiar institutions whose func
tion in this busy sphere is chiefly to
illustrate the ductility and elasticity of
private rights and franchisfes under
American law. It is a corporation
which has been once or twice reorgan
ized, and appears now to flourish un
der certain aliases, which vary accord
ing to the matter in hand. In the ad
vertised sale of land its title is the At
lantic and Gulf West India Transit
Company. The stockholders of the
present incorporation are the same par
ties, with one or two exceptions, who
owned the stock of its predecessors. It
has never cost any of them a cent, as
it appears the United States and the
State of Florida presented the concern
with.the property which forms its re
sources of credit, and the State has
also spent about 71,000,000 in carrying
iron and other material for tho con
struction of the road.
In 1850 there were 20,000,000 ac^i
of swamp and overflowed lands ceded
to the State of Florida by the United
States, and of this territory 700,000
acres were granted to this railroad. The
projected route was between Amelia
Island, Cedar Keys and Tampa Bay.
Ia addition to this grant there was a
cession subsequently of 1,100,000 acres
conditioned on the completion of the
road within ten years, that is to say,
by tho year 1800. A short branch road
was constructed, but about fifteen
years had elapsed before even a begin
ning had been made in building the
main line, tho construction of which
formed the consideration of the grant
of 1,100,000 acres. About sixty miles
ot the main, or Tampa Bay,
line have been constructed by a com
pany claiming to be the assignee ot the
original grantees. In the meanwhile,
other railroads have been built through
that section; the lands conditionally
granted the company have been settled
up and improved, and are now worth
from 75 to 750 per acre. The value of
these lands at the date of the condi
tional grant, and indeed at the expira
tion of the ten years which were al
lowed the company for perfecting their
tile, waa nil—they wero wholly worth
less and unsalable; and the present
valuation of 75 to 750 per acre, accord
ing to location, represents the wealth
increment which has been created by
agricultural development, in a period
when the railroad was merely an unex
ecuted grant, or thing on paper.
Senator Call illustrated tho general
status of the company’s finances by re
viewing the pod lullum reorganization,
He says: “The railroad was sold in
1800, under n provisional State govern
ment,without any dccreo of any court,
without any authority oflaw, and in ex
press violation ot the statutes.” Tho
railroad, 150 miles in length, was sold
for 7520,000, payable in State improve
ment bonds, rated at 20 cents to the
dollar, and the State of Florida be
came the only paid up stockholder,
The State subsequently paid about 71
000,000 for th-i rails and other materii
used in constructing the road. Senatok
Caii maintains that the present -corpo
ration haa never paid a cent of its own
for the property, haa never established
a shadow of title to tho land In ques
tion, and is proceeding in a high hand
ed way to sell the holdings of Innocent
settlers without a vestige of right. To
arrest this wrong be seeks the inter
vention of the Department of the Inte
rior.
iti
pressure than is ever allowed upon
brick foundations, the point will be
understood. The wind pressure in
high storms, it is stated, will increase
the weight to fourteen tons.
Mr. Goodridge evidently thinks that
the varying and enormous pressure
will in time displace the unequal foun
dations. If it does, Washington will
worse shaken up than when it waa
announced that the Plumed Knight had
measured his length in the dust and
pulled out the pillars from under the
roof of the Republican party.
Thoman makes no denial of these accuia-, _ ... . .
tiona. Can the administration afford to ,ell fT wb# * m * 11 Mdr ** n,u
■— anor “ “I fo»aciLialtoput,llahtoUi.»orMhunorl*ht«
that hi* Tlctinu an hound to reapccL Browa't
An (nslneai'a Foreboding.
John C. Goodridge, Jr., who has
patent process for renewing and
strengthening the foundation of heavy
structures, publishes a circular letter
illustrated by diagrams to prove that
the Washington monument cannot
stand.
Mr. Goodridge’s process, which he
claims to have successfully used under
many tall and heavy structures, was
adopted in part when the foundations
of the monument were strengthened
prior to resuming work npon it.
He claims now thst the introduction ot
innovations in connection with his
plan was a fatal error. Beton
ia the name of the cement need by
Goodridge. When a foundation ia to be
aaaiated, narrow trenchea are dug un
der it and the Beton introduced in
plaitic shape. Aa tbe cement hardens
into slabs, the work ia continued until
a sub-foundation ia supplied. In thus
treating the Washington monument,
the engineers, it is claimed, introduced
crushed stone into the cement and (ail
ed to carry the slabs far enough under.
A portion of the monnment therefore
rests npon the original concrete founda
tion, which doe* not extend down to
bed rock, and the balance npon
a foundation that haa been
deprived of its lateral strength by the
introduction of fragmentary atone. The
pressure upon the foundation, without
calculating wind pressure, is
Mark A. Cooper.
In the death of this distinguished gen
tleman, Georgia haa lost almost the last of
generation that gave latter to the name
and fame of Georgia, and raised her to a
prou l and honored position. He was the
contemporary of Robert Flournoy, Gen.
Blaikshesr, Wm. H. Crawford, Walter
Colquitt, Judge Berrien, T. Butler King, R.
W. Habersham, Lott Warren, Thomas
Stocks, Jesse Mercer, Wrn. C. Dawson,
Gov. C. J. Jenkins, Gen. Floyd, Gen. Mc-
Dongald, John Howard, Ell Shorter,
Christopher B. Strong, F.C. Cone, Seaborn
Jones, Robert Toombs, E. A. Nisbet.Gov.
Towns, Charles Gordon, Gov. Wilson
Lumpkin and L. Q C. Lamar, all of whom
and many more that might be mentioned,
by their statesmanship, patriotism and
eminent abilities honored and elevated their
State. And it ia doubtful if, among them
all, there was a spirit more heroic and
patriotic or one that rendered the
State more substantial service than
Ma'k A, Cooper. When Governor Troop,
1425, called for volunteers to protect oni
Southern border from the Beminole In
dians, he tendered his services and
throughout tbe campaign.served in the reg
iment of Col. Evrard Hamilton, afterwards
the old warehouse firm of Hamilton &
Hardeman, of Macon. In 1830 he again
responded to the demand dor volunteers,
when the general government called on
Georgia fortreops. Five companies, tbe
Macon Volunteers in tbe number, were
formed in Middle Georgia, and organized
Macon, into a battalion, of vehich M.
. Cooper was elected Major; and he serv
ed through the campaign raado by Gener-
Winficld Scott, against the Seminole In
dians in Florida. Subsequently he enter
ed successfully npon the practice of law at
Eatonfon, Ga., snd was elected solicitor-
general of the Ocmnlgee circuit by the Leg.
isiatnre, as tbo succrssor of Colonel Gibson
Clark. He served three years, and the
prominence thus given him as a successful
lawyer, in the Ocmuigee cironit under
Judges Kennan, Harris, Longstreet, Shor
ter and L. Q. C. Lamar, led to his
election to Congress for two terms.
Nominated for Congress by the State
righto party, be was elected, together with
Julius C. Alford, Edward J. Black, Walter
Colquitt, Wm. C. Dawson, Richard W.
Habersham, Thomas Bntler King, En-
ginlus A. Nisbet and Lott Warren. This
delegation became divided In Congress,
and Cooper, Colquitt and Black voting to-
f ether as Stale rights men, held tbe bal
ance of power, tbe Whigs and Democrats
being equal, and, by an arrangement be
tween Henry A. Wise and M. A. Cooper,
secured the election of R. M. T, Hunter
to tbe.SFCtkerrhlp of the House, after a
contest of many days.
IS13, by the solicitation
hie friends, he resigned bis
seat in the House of Representa
tives, and accepted the nomination for
Governor in opposition to his old friend
end classmate. George W. Crawford, bnt
was defeated In tbe race. He then retired
from politics and entered upon a civil
career as farmer, banker and mannfac-
tnrer, by which he did orach to develop
and stimulate the Industries of Georgia.
While practicing law in Eatonton, he, in
connection with Charles I’. Gordon, ot
Eatonton, uncle of Gen. J. B. Gordon, called
a meeting of thedtlzeniof Putnam county
to consider the project of building a rail
road from Anguita, and at that meeting—
the first of the kind held ia Georgia—he
delivered the first public addreai in
Georgia in favor of railroads. Soon
after, he and Gordon were mainly In
strumental, as members of tbe State Leg
islature, in seenring the first railroad char-
ter granted by the G-neral Assembly. At
their instance, that charter was drown np
by William Williams, thin of Eatonton,
sftsrwudof Athens.
The com| any which built the Eatontoi
factory-one of tbe firet built In theBtate-
was organized by Mart A. Cooper, on
plan - furnished by liha. FoFizvcral years
he rciided in Coinmbns, Georgia, and
waa tha president of a success
ful hanking company In Colnm-
bai, called 'The Western Iosnrance
and Trust Company,” and lor many years
he was the controlling genius of in exten
sive Iron and Floor Manufacturing Com
pany, at Etowah, Georgia, now In Bartow
county. He was the first to open the
Dade county coal mines, on the Team
river, (or tbe shipment of coil to Georgia,
for manntsctarlng purposes. He founded
described would be accepted. It oc
curs to us that any one who ebonld
tender to Mr. Davis, or the average
hearty ex-Conledcrate,honnty from the
United States treasury or elsewhere,
might be met with a rebuke that would
bring to cheek the blush of shame.
Mr. Davis and the men who fought
with him in the late war are engaged at
present in earning an honest living by
tbe sweat of their brows. Of course
among the great number of those who
survive, there are some who follow
questionable callings, but theso aro
notable exceptions. Misfortune may
make the best of men
After the Chase.
“X. I. E.”
Night in the barrens and I.
Tho weary limbs of the bound aro
stretched in sleep. A pine cone falls, dies
in a half rebonnd, conquered by the tilence
that has seized its companions whom my
weary feet have crushed for honrs.
Alone and lost I It matters not. Nature
kind. Her bosom is soft. Her breath
warm. Bbe hovers her children where'er
night finds them.
How tbe dog sleeps! Natnre dees not
own him. Here in tbe pathless barrens,
close to the heart of nature, lie dog and
man. Which is dearer? Which is hum
bler? Which worlhier? It is a mystery.
ke the beat of men paupers, bnt it ia
an element in the make-op of a ma
more lamentable than misfortune, tb
impels him to place his name upon tL„
charity list, while poaaetaing the means
or the strength to sustain himself.
This element ia foreign to Jefferson
Davis, and to the Southern people who
to-day carry into business life the grit,
independence and courage that made
them conspicuous during the war.
The only kind of charity ever de
sired by the able-bodied men of the
8onth, was the charity of judgment.
Did they receive it?
A Wasbibotox special says o( the late
Presidential reception: “There was
more Democratic sir about tbe whole re
cepUoo than has been observed for many
yea/s. There was so me comment because
some of the invitations sent out were
printed on a type-writer instead of being
expenses ly engraved, bnt this feature
■scared more appreciation from thinking
people than otherwise from its apparent
return to tbe oid-fathloned simplicity
which coo trolled the White Home a qnar-
ly eleven tons to the square foot. When I ter of a century ago.”
Prepnrod for «he Telegraph nrd Messen
ger by W. B. Hill, or the Macon Bor.
New York city has a sensation some
what similar to that which was created - -rooa.yn relates to a Melt —
some year, ago by the publication of Cape tend the weddinw of )ll * ‘ h f re 10 «•
Cod Folks. A little Yaukto woman went fnend wh^ fired in Mont. U * ht ’ ‘
U*.® N*w Eogland village as teacher, and I 11
Which ia guiltier? This morning the
doe fled swift as the wind. Tbe fire of
(right filmed in her eyes. The muscles of
her neck stood forth In agony strained.-
saw the moon once as I stood npon the
seashore, riee above a cloudbank that
banded the east in shadow. The light
struck tbe ripples at my feet, then ran to
aea, leaping from crest to crest nntil
the eyes swam and tbe glint
was lost. Bo fled the doe; and down her
flanks rippled the changing lights that the
pine fiogers weave in the barrens. A liv
ing wave was she, the foam npon her lips.
Bnt the rifle's bite overtook her, and tbe
rifle’s voice outran. One spoke to ■train
ing nerves; the other mocked before, be
side, above, behind her, until, blind with
horror, she leaped high, gasped, flung
herself against the trees, and bleeding
passed away.
Then the hound IMnltiplying the echoes
nntil the wilds about me rang with the re
lentless, thirstfnl, vengeful cry of a phan
tom pack. Rang untilhnmanity died, and
the human throat gave baok cry for cry,
What a vision! Well might I pause to see
the great yellow beast, with nose to ground,
sweep past, the foam of frenzy upon his
Ups, the dream of hot blood reddening his
swelling eyes!
The blood is yet npon his month, and
stains his great lore feet. I Know it, be
cause he Bought me ont, when he came
back slowly from Ills faraway banquet and
dropped at my feet, as night spread her
cloak.
Vehich is guiltier? He sleeps. And I,
straining every sense, stretch my limbs
amid the gloom, In vain.
Silence is absolute. Tbo cry of an owl,
the bark of a fox, the night bird's cry
wonid be music. But the barrens have
no voice. I know that abont me, mile af
ter mile, league after league, the round
straight pines uplift their arms and mur
mur unheard above the grim silence that
bathes their feet, even as the still depths of
ocean bathe mutely the limbs of the
drowned. A wandering bat brashes my
cheek with his uncertain wing. Does the
blind fish in the depths, haunt the dead
with the solemn circles of his wandeiiogs ?
Where is thesoandof the world? Where
is fight? Wifi It never again break in
the.e depths? The palpable silence and
darkness are walls of water; the waves
swell noiselessly away np where tho pine
fingers work in dumb pantomime. Tbo
hound at my feet is dead, lying where he
drowned and sank.
Hark! A sound at last—the long, low
lope of a deer! It comes! It passes! It
comes again, swift as a shadow; persistent
as a phantom. But I see It still. There
is blood npon the throat, and tbe eyes give
forth no luitre, tbe glazed eyes of a doe.
And as I gaze, a fawn comes out of
the barrens and lays Us lips
npon the stiffened adder, snd walls tbst
it yields no flow. The darkness weighs
upon me, and out of the depths rises
voice—“Which is guiltier ?” I lift my gun
and send a ballet crushing through the
pine fingers in the air. It may (all back
as the raindrop in the ocean, bnt the spell
is broken, and the chilled heart beats
■gain.
Back and forth ths echoes spring, far
and faint, faint and far, sounding, sound
ing, sonndlrg, falling, fading, fainting,
nntil I crouch again and pray for silence.
And the itartled hound, turning thrice
above his couch, links down restfnlly to
sleep. I fire no more. The doe, the
dream, the despair ia gone.
Tbe niter silence ia gone. Voices come
I faint at sheep belle beyond the eye reach
listless ts dreams, uncertain as ths wind.
And they weave themeelve* into a song
that twlnee ia and ont ol harp notes from
a sliver string. It is bnt a shiver of melo
dy, the long of the pines.
The dnmb prayer ot nature has ended,
Ths forests sing their hymns. The breeze
thst bears onward ths faint and Heeling
melody has laid a kiss upon the fevered
brow. It to sweet with tbe gift! of the
woedand (nil of pleasant dreams,
woman’s hand, cool and tender, lies nnder
the mytery of the wind.
And as I lie and listen, a faint flub
strikes npon the steel In my hand. I tarn
and see tbe giant trees loom np one by one
in tbe paling gloom. In the far distance
there is a glow in the pines. Behind me
the shadows gronp and shrink. And
etui the pale lUverr light grows
in the silence, and still the
hymn deepens. The dog'e form grows
clearer. Tbe bright steel gleams as ths
great warriors around go marching by.
Where ia the Queen? She comes.. Up
through the narrowing vista riaea the Em
press of Night, Diana, barfing diamond
point spears, and aettiis,-! her boundaries
where the jewels fall!
Hark I Ia it ths wind? Ie it a loader
note from the silver string? No. It swells!
It rises! It soars! It swells sgsin! It
here. 'Tto the vole* of the elgnsl horn.
Tbe grim beut at my feet lifts hte
betd and tarns his eyes npon me. Again!
and be rises, bat my hand la on his colter.
Again! and he leaps to tbe sound. Bnt
the colter i■ of leather, brass bound, and
breaks not. Tugging be leads; bending I
follow ont of the barrens, oat ot the
depths.
The New Orleans Picayune uye: “The
schoolmuter’eideaof a soldier may be
seen in the persons of boys who visit this
dty u pnpUs from military schools. No
two Icok alike. They wear colters, neckties
and vests of various styles, coats open,
hair every way, walk awkwardly, lounge
abont, aod present moot unsoldterliko ap
pearances; tbe very opposite of results
expected of inch schools. A month of
Wait Point discipline wonid set the kids
np In soldier shape.” This in written
before Gov. McDaniel evoluted tbe Oeor-
gia PohHHlf.
concluded she could make more money by
writing up ihe people than abecou din
her school. So, ia a qnaint and humorone
way, eho pictured in a novel the inhabit
ants of the town, Names were disguised,
but there was no need to name photo
graphs. Ooeol the aggrieved “charac
ters" sued the publisher and obtained a
small amount ot damages. The new
novel, "The Money Makers," has stirred
np the nabobs of New York in the tamo
way. One of them got the publishers to
alter one pago, so as to make a portrait css
exact. The publishers refused to do it for
others. One of the delineated offered to
buy up the whole edition. It Is hkely that
Messrs. Appleton & Co. may yet hear more
in the courts of the consequence! of the
publication of this audacious satire.
A general and consolidated index of tbe
records of the clerk’s office is a great want.
An act was passed by tbe General Assem
bly at its late session providing for this
indispensable work, and the public at large
has an interest in an early completion of
the index. The pulling down of forty dif
ferent books to examine a title is the “dirly
work of legal business. I heard a lawyer
threatening to eu* the county for neveral
salts of clothes be bad ruined in this way.
But it is not the lawyers only who feel the
need of this work. It is a public necessity.
Many of our citizens resort to the records
to ascertain if there are Lens npon prop
erty. There are many lawsuits over titles
now pending and yet to be brought, caused
by want of a methodical ana complete
genera' iodex The cor mUsloners of ether
counties, wha: «the t/insfer? of land are
small compaicd to what they are in Bibb,
hare long since provided their cit'zens
with this time-aiTing and money-saving
LEGAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Bom, of the coon Th-’nu. 8old b ,
New York Broker. *
A etory told abont Mr. Wm I! vs..
in Brooklyn relate, to
after he bad aicended the stabs hell Hi*
UP .he h.fi from the ferry, he weot i'.:
In Montague terrace, and was i„ *f
compelled toasklor directive. 8 h
“Ide.be to reach M-Montagne etreet ”
bSSSKkwkk
patent lack ot good ian„er. PI ’.V," *P-
.t™tLou£lS d wilh «
Aten witn gigantic schemes have
him time and again. Onr* h. J. 0 ”*" 1
pealed fo by a wuileman who^amJd’S:
sell a mine. He shoved all rh,
andeald he hail taken 71000 OOf/rSo'* 1 ',
mine. He waa » filing to*seutiu?n. 0ut ot
lmo* u „r;‘jS derRbly
tMn'krw^rd^^vjSrmrnr^te
responded. ' lf *ven
./«S^^h' U n r «tt
tewanit. over title. %£%££* ^ Trerere^;^ ‘h*
np a street, w oatcd toy f etranger ir|I5
appliance.
An amusing case was tried years ago in
England involving the copyright to a jong
which was then at the acme of popnlarby,
“The fine old English Gentleman." Tom
Cooke was called as ■ witness. Conn-el—
Can you ting the song? Cooke—I'm not
sore I could, unless I had a refresher
(langbter). Counsel—Well, ityon couldn't
sing It, could yon play it? Cooke—What ?
At sight! ’ After some sparring a fiddle
was bronght into court, and Cooke began
to tune it. When he sounded the first
note the pompons usher, to suppress a
titter, cried "Silence!” Cooke—“What,
must I play it?” He played the air slowly,
and the judge remaiked, “Tnat teems
simple enough.” “Yes," said Cooke, offer
ing the violin and bow to the Jndge.
“Willyonr Honor try It?” (Roara of
langhter.) The counsel pressed Cooke to
dtfine a melody. He protested he could
not. Counsel—Csn you decline ave-b?
Cooke (seemiog to think deeply)—Yes;
I'm an ass, lie’s an ass (and pointing to
the barrister), you’re an ass. Counsel—
That witness can come down.
The controversy between law and liter-
atnre for the a ir-glance of certain choice
spirits is a yet unwritten chapter in liter
ary history. Bbakapearc came so nesr
being a lawyer that not a few writers have
been fonndT to claim that Shakspeare
wrote Bacon. No loss than three books
have appeared within the past year in
which the "law in Shakspeare” is trested.
The darling purpose which the father of
G-iethe entertained for hte son was to make
him a jurisconsult, but the young student
bnsled himself daring the law lectnres
which this parental ambition forced upon
his impellent ear with drawingcsricatures
of the learned lecturers. A memorial Is
preserved In the Law Reports ol William
Cnllen Bryant s legal career. As a lawyer
would ssy Id hit brief, see to this point.
Bloss vs. Tobey, 21 Pickering 320. Tho
pen which genius guided so unerringly in
Thenatopsls faltered and blundered in the
“nice, sharp qnilleti of tbs tew." Mr.
Tobey had charged Mr. Blots will arson,
saying “he burnt his own store;’’ and Mr.
Bioea employed young Bryant tosnehim
for slander. Bnt alas! when Bryant drew
the declaration he simply alleged that
Tobey aald tbat Bloss burned bia own
store, and utterly (ailed to lnseit a col
loquium and an innuendo to the effect tbat
said Toney meant to impute a felonious
offense. Mr. Tobey gut a virdict, but
whea Ihe cue went to tbe Supreme Coart
of Mueachasetts tbe learned jndgeeeet
ulde the verdict. They laid tnat a case
might be imagined in which burning one's
own store would not be criminal, and so
they taught Mr. Widiam Cullen Bryant a
lesaon In tbe nee of the English tengusge.
He revenged himself by a Una In ttblchni
spoke of a lawyer u drudging for tbe dregs
ol men and scrawling strange words with
a barbarous pen, and finally by quitting
the profession. The names of Cnancer,
Scott, Pioctor, Irving, Lowell, Landor,
Southey, Corneille and many others would
figure fn the record! of genius rescued for
literature from Ihe bar. On the other
hand Blackitone, in hte devotion to the
jettons mistress. Is found bidding “Fare
well to a Muse,” who had never (so far as
others can tell) given him a nod of recog
nition. The great) at lawyers have been
lovers of poetry, snd in many ways have
delighted to scatter the (towers of polite lit
erature over the thorny brakes of Juris-
prudence. Ereklnc and Choate were poets
in all but the form of tbelr speech. Lord
Coleridge hu written tbe beet critique
ever made of Wordsworth, in which he
generously confesses his indebtedness to
tbat bard for the noblest inspirations of
bis life. The i’hilllstlnism of clients will
pet mil«lawser to iuve poetry; but to
write it—never!
Among recent decisions ere the follow
ing: Any one owning or keepiog an ani
mal that he know! to be of a ferocious die
position, accustomed to attack or bite
mankind, Is bound to restrain inch animal
at hit peril. Allowing a dog to be kept on
the premises does not render the owner of
the premises liable for Injuries inflicted by
ihe dog away from the premises, if such
owner did not own or have control of the
dog. The oans Is on the plaintiff to prove
the knowledge of the owner or keeper of
the vicious propensities of the animal, if it
be of a domestic nature, tbongh Hte other-
sriae, where it Is of a wild and untamable
nature. 23 Am.LiwReg.191 A railway
compaoy Is liable tor the loss ot a passen
ger’s ordinary traveling baggage, but not
for such articles as window curtains,
blankets, cutlery, books, eta, even when
these are packed with the baggage tor
which they are liable. When goods re
main at Ihe station at which a passenger
alights, bnt It does not appear tbat the
railway ompany has charged or teea-
tiffed to charge lor storage, the company
la not liable u warehousemen. Ik. 175.
Sicxetasv Whitest hu pat Mr. Wm,
Calhoan, a New York expert accountant,
at work npon the bookx of the Navy De
partment, and will keep him at work nntil
be bu satisfied himself tbat the bnilneae
of tbe deputment hu been conducted
honestly, upon eonnd business principles
and by correct methods. Mr. Whitney, It
le said, propiees to spend a good deal
money—not government money, bnt ont of
hte own pocket—in tbe prouentlon of hte
inquiries In the deputment of which he ia
the bead. He eayi he knowi very little
yet .boat the affairs he is to direct, and
that be may discover nothing wrong. The
inquiries to be made be enppoiee wlU re
quire some time, u they cannot be har
ried. While Mr. Whitney does not talk as
If he expected to discover any grave
fraudv. bis friends bare say tbat be hu
■tuted ont with a definite purpose, that
be bu been supplied with vefnsble points,
end believee tbu be srlfi get at an import
ant history embracing tbe administrations
of several of hte predecessors.
“Meneunalneorpmedso;” "Aeonnd
mind tn a e-rand body” is tha trade mark
•f Allen's Brain Food, and we usnre oar
readers that, it dissatisfied with either
weakness of Brain or bofiliy powers, this
remedy srlfi permanently strengthen both
7L At drnggiiu or by mall from J, It
Alien, 315 First Are,, New York dty.
witiv mr. Travers.
...wv. puunaug citizens who
b *PE. ento bp for his earnin'v-9
m," Travers said alterwa d In dt-
8 the incident, “I b-Dfgan to on.
was curying more liquor than ».» «JL'i*
for him, end bad a hex ol cigar, uudefou
•jtroeting,® y ° U * ^ ,ncoclc "ton?” ...
replied.’ I m * H H4nC0<:k Travers
" Weil iff. da n lucky tor yon. Tike
a efiar; they are firet raters. I- m
btSh'; r ., ra ,f t c o s o n ” idite ’ 1 am ' ® n '
Accepting the cigar without offense
Travers walked on, bnt he,ring a row £
hind,, turned and looked back. He
Hancock min pounding citizens who
uid not h f -—-*■« * ^
“Then
icribiog _ | | w
erst-staud b-both ways of w-working!”
Two raps for Henry Clews, tho banker,
•rerecorded. It haa been a frequent b^ast
of Mr. Clews that ho is a self-made min
Travers beard him on one occasioo, and
immediately dropped into a sort of reverv
with his eyea fixed on Mr. Clews’s bald
pate.
“Well, what’s tbo matter. Traven?"
Clews asked, somewhat impatiently.
“H-Henry,” Travers inquired, “didn’t
yon s-s-iay yon were a self-made ra-man?”
“Certaiuiy; I made mysef,” Clews re
plied warmiy.
“Then, when yoo were ab-b*oat it, why
d didn’t you p-pat m-more h-h-hair on the
t- too of you r h- head?”
The famous Vanderbilt ball exercised
many gentlemen on tbe question of char
acters and cosinmea. Mr. Clews was in a
quandary, aud ho applied to Travers for a
feugges’.ion. It appears that Travers had
taien advantage of hia friendly relations
with Wallaok. Mapleson and Abbey by
sending inquiring friends to them for per
mission to ‘elect from th**ir theatrical
wardrobe*. Tho story goes tbat the man
agers had mildly hinted to Travers that
patience with ttie “fashionables” bad
ceased to be a virtue, and Travers was not
inclined to favor any more.
“Clew*.” he said, after some reflection,
why d-don’t you sh-ah-ug&r-coat yonr h-
hend and g-goas a pill?”
Ho doubt bis most severe remark
touched on the reputation of a well-known
lawyer. While itandlng at the wlodow of
his office Travereaurpriud several friends,
who were chatting at one aide, by a forcible
exclamation.
“ThereI” he added quickly, and point
ing across the street: “There's ’8lem’
B-Bsrlow wita his h-hands in his own
p-pockets.”
B-sides knowing how to rap other*,
Travers knows when he receive* a rap.
Going up town with *eTeral broker*. Trav
ers *pied a man selling parrots in front of
St. Paul’* Church.
“H-Hold on, boy*,” ha said, mysteri
ously, “we’ll have some fun.”
Hailing the ptrrot-tclli-r and indicating
one of the birds, Travers asked: “C-Caa
that p-parrot t-talk?”
“Talk?” the man replied, with a con
temptuous sorer, “If he can t talk better
lh*n you can I’ll wring his blasted neck.”
“G-Oome on, b-boy*,” ’l ravers called
out; “this f-fnn is p-pos^poned until an
other d-day.”— AVw York Tima.
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the best snd only certain cure known.
They set surely nnd quickly, every bottle
guaranteed to give entire satisfaction or
money refunded 8old at fifty cents a bot
tle by Lamar, Uankin & Lainar.
Some Wonders of thw Lnnaunie*
Indianapolis Journal.
v Unless most carefully handled the Eng-
inti ittugiinso is very ambiguous. The
Macon (Ga) Telegraph tells of a water
melon seed tbat was “found in tbo Inside
ot a handle of a km fa carried by a man at
the time of the death, twenty-eight years
sgo.” There is nothing very stran.e in
tbat, for tbe seed may have slipped into
tho knife only last week. It would have
been interesting bad a watermelon been
found in the handle, with a vine
several feet in length running along
tho blade. In the same careless
way the Waterbary (Conn.) Republican
tells of a dog tbat “ran a fox Into a tree
twenty feet high." A fox could probably
run into a tree forty or even 100 feet high.
From the context it appears that the fox
i np the tree to a height of twenty feet,
a performance qnite surprising. These are
instance*) clipped from one paper, so thst it
does not appear so absurd that a man
should inadvertently advertise for sa e “a
piano belonging to a widow with carved
legs.”
Wz depart from our usual practice and
rei'oiiiineiul Hunt's Remedy «‘i attire cure
for all kidney diseases.—Medical Gazette.
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