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A .Family and Political Journal Devoted to the Interests or Southwest Georgia.
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ALBANY. GA., SATURDAY, OCTOBER 1, 1881.
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Number 3.
^votcsstoual (Cards.
William E. Smith,
Attorney at Law,
ALBANY, OA.
field fuud are now^|2CQ,V34.
I'eemuen't Abtiicb decided not to
accompany the remains of Mr. Gar
field to Ohio.
/ vrriCK: la frool of lb* Court Homt. up j . ..
\ * »uln, over T*l*zra|A> OAee. Jebl-lr : and It
Five hundred Kuuian Jews are on
| the way to Tennessee and Texas,
is thought most of them will
_ _ _ , s . I come to Texas. ,
o ). W SIGHT. n.U. PllPfc
WRIGHT J& POPE, I Those persons who looked for a
! general clogging up of the machine
Attorneys at Law, i when Arthur took hold are gradually
ALBANY. OA.
•
Oi MCE:—Over ». Mayer A Glauber*! Here, cor
ner Brawl and Waaklofton SU.
Utc.M, inft4laily ;
%v. T. JUNK?*, JEHSE V. WALTERS.
J0NE8 & WALTERS,
Attorneys at Law,
ALBANY, OA.
OOce over Ceatra' Railroad Bank.
«utft-ly
l7. \. VAHOW. A. II. ALKKIKNO
VASON & A.L.FRIEND -
ree iveriog from their surprise.
Ocitesu wants to know why Ser
ge int Mason hits not been indicted,
lie thinks the fact that he has not
been in an outrage to the American
people.
Timm is a suspicion that Guiteau
will produce the autopsy to show that
hi had nothing winterer to do with
killing President Garfield. Guitenu.
you know, is a lawyer.
Law,
Attorneys ‘ at
ALBANY, GA..
Active ami prompt attention given to col-
:«ttn>OB i n.l all if e n era I l»u»inrw, Practice
.11 all the court*.
«•nice ov**r Hontlie n KvpreM olBee, oi»|h>-
Mtr Court lloiiifi. ImMw
GABF1ELD.
Atlanta Constitution.
OIL Fcrrymaa grim, the gleam of thine oar
I* Men, ’mid the shadows that wrap the far
above.
Where the bark lies aaieep
On the wide, waveless deep
Of that mystical river, whose cold waters
’Gainst yon desolate strand evermore.
Fotth from that shadow-land, ghost? and
uark.
Silently gltdeth thy .gloom-haunted bark;
While the shrouding mists shire*.
Above that chill river.
As o’er its still surface the sharp echoes
James Callaway.
Attorney at Law
CAMILLA, OA.
toll*-
W. A. FORT,
P&ACTHMYU and SURGEON,
ALAPAHA, OA..
'PENDERS lilt professional services to (he peo-
1 f.|H of llerrtsn sod adjoining counties, par-
• kularlv alonj tbo line of tho 0 A & Rail load.
.-i.t on hand a full line of Family and Paten'
didicliien. riiyairlana’ prescriptions promptly
iiIIinJ JuneiB-wiy
Mm & Osta,
DEMPISTS,
Albany, - - - - Georgia.
/ \KFICE—OVER PotJi' OFFICE, WASHING
V* TON SritErTT. JanSwIydl
Trowbridge & Ilollinshed
DENTISTS,
WAYCKOSS, .... GEORGIA.
Teeth extracted without pain. AU work
..minted. Terms moderate. Will go any-
i.o if on II. A A. and 8.F.AW, UailroiuR
nplH-lSm
vV.A. STROTHER, M.D.
ALBANY, GEORGIA.
Oise over Gilbert’s Drug Store
*:• orders left at the Drug Store will recalvs
arutap* Mention. Jan 7-1 y
1 Jr. B. W. AliFRIEJN D.
. aMPECTFULLY tenders his services, In the
1 b urldiu uranches ol his profession, to the
• tittut \ibrajr mud surrounding country. Of
fice opposite ^*rt House. on.Piue street.
HOTELS.
THE JOHNSON HOUSE,
illllTHVILLI, OA.,
is the place (o' stop amt get a GOOD
BQUARE MEAL. __
THE ALBANY HOUSE!
Me evict; Karnes, Proprietor
Albany, Georgia.
T
Philadelphia It. carder: In thi-
day of national alllictioii the hearts o(
the people of the Southern .Stale, beat
I responsive to the hearts of their
i Northern brethren. This is only one
j country.
Cincinnati cannot ship jher bac. n j
j South. The Enquirer says : “Orders
are here for Bacon to go South, but
| e r< can't be bad, because they an
: .landing on the track full of grain,
; which the owners are holding for hi^h-
■ er prices.'’
Tiie Chicago Inter Ocean, suppos
ing that Mr. Arthur would remain
Vice-President, expressed itself a>
follows :
“Tlie death of Senator Burnside eon.
plicates the' senatorial'situation an.
gives tho Democrats a powerful ad
vantage, as they ran object to his sue
cessnr taking the oath ul ofilco until a
president pro teui is elected.
A Cincinnati man named Van Bit.
her estimates tho cotton crop at 4.-
6(10,000 bales, and predicts that the
price will ultimately go to 14 and 16
cents per pound, lie says tho specu
lators will get the top prices, and not
the planter, unless tbo latter hold hi.
produce. Ilow the planter can retain
hi- crop, just and honorably, Mr. Vai
Bibbor docs not care to state.
The relief fund sent to the Michigin
suficrers already amounts to upward o'
$150,000. Over a toil of clothing has
been sent to them from the city of
Chicago alone. The coming wintci
will doubtless be severe, exceptionally
so to the survivors of tho burnt dis
trict. In a national grief, Michigan’s
woe ought not to ho forgotten. The
help thus far received fa Is short of lh(
barest necessities.
The story that Senator Bayard
olaiiusd, as a right, that he should be
elected President pro tern, at the Iasi
session of tho Senate, is going tbe
rounds again. Tbero is no truth in it.
Mr. Batard made no claim, and said
nothing on the subject.' There is no
President pro tern, of tbe Senato at this
time, because Vice-President Arthur
did not leave the chair and giro the op
portunity for an election.
“OATn,’’ writing to the Cincinatii
Enquirer upon the death of President
Garfield, gives the opinions of several
r Sliis House is welt fiiruisbed aud In ev- ; prominent men as expressed on the
ery wsy prepared for the «»*»• j Inorning , fler the President died, and
.iiitiou ol tbe traveling public, hntiru sat- | ® *
iMiuiion KUHiwntwSl. The table i* »up- ; anions them is the following: “Govrr
plie»l with the boat the country nffordii, i nor Curtin said «»r.e thing with a good
i-srSire i *■> * -.«~ny.« GO d ^
^uesu. Omnibuses convey passengers to | he, “this rocponal question is now
Slot from the different railroads prompt-, end#d f oreV er. Garfield's death closed
ly, f.-ee of charge. Chnrgcs to suit the' , , , ,
[ mci)- sepSO tf | >t all. The South behaved so heartily,
so manfully, in their Boards of Trade,
in municipalities, concerning his af
fliction, that it would take k petty
cruet radical to revive the sectional
prejudice again.’’
As Atlanta special to the Cincinnati
Enquirer at the 20lh inst. says : “Ilia
! definitely stated that General Gordon
is a candidate for Governor, and if so
I he will probably be nominated by the
I organized Democracy. The indepen-
: dent clement already has out Ex-Con-
ts rmrcwiimnn 8re * 8man tc, ! on * Thejr w,1 l lrjr *°
liall. IiXIBAH IT UUlla u*»* tho convict system against the
i-tttei. , * present dominant faction of the De-
1 mocracy, and thus secure the enthusi
astic support of the negroes all over
the State. It is said they have come
from Washington to break up tbe
Democratic rule. Politics in Georgia
are getting very muddy.’’
$1SH! DOORS! BUNDS!
J,
FOR SALE'BY
KIDNEY-WORT
■ WHY?
DOES
IWONDERFUL
CURES I
IbmumUstUm tks LIFER, BOWELS
I ufi K1D5ETS attboi
Imisi k Stork, or JastUos City. Ksmso.
ssjB,KidMy-Wortc«rsdklmonvrrsc«lorTky-
rtcUao bad dbbh trying for foor year*.
1 Mr*. Joka StMlkof WsAkwVHi. Okl^.of;
'ort.
tksr. but KUnay-Wort cnradmlai
. SkSiS&nS
SotkyrcnwpllcortoMBWM—dwllylfcoMooC
flSktaay-Woflt.
Aut L. Jsrrstt oTIootk I
KIDNEY-WORT
| KIDNEY DISEASES,
LIVER COMPLAINTS,
Ion and Piles.
Ify ft nr*m Wtt <
I on rr ATTHx'DKrooim. mcr.at.oo
IA WELLS. BICOVEDSOX* Co-, frcp’i.
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The report sent in to the Legislature
I by Governor Colquitt, on Tuesday last,
! in regard to the murder of William
i Mathews, a convict in the penitentiary,
; by Charli s Philip.*, a guard or oveiscer,
' ha. created quite a stir* in Atlanta, and
is being used to the best advantage by
those who are opposed to the present
system or leasing the State’s convicts.
Accompanying the Governor’s report is
tbe testimony of wilncs.es who sweir
that Philips pinned Mathews to the
earth with a pick driven in the ground
and the handle over bis neck. In th'a
attitude he lashed him until be was cut
and bruised so frightfully that he faint
ed and soon died. Ono physician says
Mathews was subject to heart disease
and diad from it. The general belief,
however, is that he was beaten to death,
and this has worked up an intense feel
ing against the leese system. A large
element in the Legislature demand its
immediate abolition in spite of con
tracts with leases, "and declare if it is
not done nway they will make this a
political issue in State elections next
year.
That Hfual th’ awawla’i mad work.
Death pierced sinks the form, strongly built,
and enfold
A chiralric sont. east in true hero mould.
As might fall the great oak,
’Seath the woodman’s Arm stroke.
WhUe its crash all the wild forest echoes
awoke.
Sweeps this shock thro* a civ Hired world.
Bat why dost thou pause, grim boatman, and
rest.
Thy gleaming, wet oa*s on the rirer*s cold
oreastf
Breaks a wall of despair
On the summer’s hot air.
And a nation’s great heart is pulsing with
prayer.
As it throbs in foreboding united.
And tarrying still in thy purpose relenting?
Ah, no! even now, of thy halting repenting.
With strong, sweeping oar.
Thou art hasting to moor
Thy weather-stained craft toonr grief-strick
en shore,
With a purpose that brooks no prevent
ing.
Ah! little reck’st thou of the embryo schemes
That glide, in fruition, a nation's bright
dreams.
* The long years, toil-fraught—
Gemmed with crystals of thought—
The blood and the agony, count all as naught.
And tbe grief, which the land overwhelms.
A land, crying out—a prayer on each breath,
We cannot resign, to insatiate death,
Him. whose strong arm has riven
Fraud’s fetters, and driven
Corruption from power; brave hearted, has
striven
To realize a people’s fond faith.
A pilot, who grasped with no faltering hand.
The helm, and with wisdom and right to com
mand,
ilo promised to guide.
O’er this perilous tide.
Our good ship cf state, into seas calm and
wide.
Whose waters flash clear and unstained.
Kind father, loved husband, most dutiful ton;
A patriot meet to succeed Washington;
Like Jackson, tho peerless.
In prompt action fearless;
Yet earnest thou, boatman, rcntlcss and tear-
less.
To snatch him from honor, hard won.
Dnt soft, thro’ night's thread, beameth faith's
golden inorning.
And angel.browed Peace sheds her smile on
Its dawning,
Tbe soul of the brave
Drcus not the cold ware.
For it trusts in the arm that la mighty to save.
While the land boweth tow In her mourn-
lug.
Yet stay; one there Is, who they purpose can
thwart;
lie hearcth the prayer from the nation’s full
heart.
Then, Ferryman, atern,
To yon eehtess bourne,
Thine errand defeated, oh spaed thy return.
For the shadows of death fall apart.
Thy lone form we trace, by the raya cranes-
cent,
That glimmer thro* clonds, from the moon’s
shining crescent.
With silver-sheathed oar,
Th’ empurple.) wares sweep.
As thy silent boat cleaveth
The fathomless deep—
Nor pause, till the mists of that shadow
world wrap
Around thee their drapery, sombre and
dark;
There, east forth thioe anchor, and tether thy
bark
To that strand, where tbe calm waters
steep. “E.”
Atlanta, Ca., Septmbtr 10, 1881.
L1KEVIEW CENBTEBT.
The Dead President's ft eating Place.
Cleveland, O., September 20.—
Lakeview Cemetery, where Presi
dent Garfield's remains will be laid
to rest, embraces 300 acres on tbe
Soutli side of Euclid avenue, just be
yond the Eastern limit of Cleveland,
five miles from tbe business center
of tbe city. On the other side of the
avenue is Wade Park, and in close
proximity the side where tbe new
Western Reserve University bedd
ings are being erected. Nature
seems to have designated this spot
for the purpose to which it has been
devoted, and all that art aud money
could do to enhance the uatnral
beauties has been done. The grounds
are owned by an incorporated asso
ciation of Cleveland—gentlemen of
of wealth aud refinement.'
The association was incorporated
under the law which required all
gains or profits trom the sale of lots
or otherwise to be appropriated to
tbe perpetual adornment and repair
of the cemetery.
“The feeling is growing in the
public mind that burials should be
made where tbe qniet repose of the
dead may be assured forever. The
human heart clings to the grave ot
its departed hopes and seeks conso
lation in rearing monnmeuts and
emblems of beauty over tbe remains
of its departed ones. This can be
fitly done, notin the lumnltuousdin
of cities, but amid the quiet vendore
under the broad cheerful light of
heaven, where the harmonious and
ever
minds
euce that to die is to live^gain.’
With this sentiment prompting the
plans, tbe cemetery has become in
beauty and tasteful adornment a
revival of the most celebrated ceme
teries ol the world, and has an air
of retired and restful loveliness, of
an inexpressible nearness to nature
and withdraii fron. the world not
fomd elsewhere. The great oblect
of the association was to provide a
resting place for the departed, free
from the gloom of the tomb, and
from which should be banished
everything suggestive of awfulness
in death. So fence, either iron or
wood. No coping or curbing of
brick or stone, no hedge, wooden
trellis, posts and chain or anything
to make an iuclocare is permitted.
Head and foot boards are pronibit-
ed, and head-stones are not allow
ed to exceed fourteen inches- in
height. Thus the cemcte>y rather
resembles a vast well-kept park,with WO nld reooire fi-nres like those of
state y shaft* and modert or ornate |he Ai ^ nce to ° ^ nearest fixed
A BLOODLI
The U I vr. Lewis
III lluwlen Jtt
the qtamh-Pran
Henceiilre.
IVimivut.ix, September 21 —A
duel iM-lween District Aiiurney
Lewis and (.'apia n I'eytou Wise, of
Virginia, was fought four miles
from Warreulon, Va., at 4 o’clock
this afternoon.
Colonel Campbell was Lewis' sec
ond, and General Payne, of Watren
tou, was Wise's second. Wise and
Lewis bare beeu dodging the police
and the civil authorities for two
day*, trying to meet each other tc
tight, it was knowu in Richmond
that a challange had passed, and tbe
authorities ot that city telegraphed
all over the State directing the ar
rest of the belligerents.
The parties fought with duelling
pistols, ten paces apart. At the
word of command Lewis fired at
Wise, but shot too low and missed
him. Wise raised his pistol after
I-ewis had shot aud fired iu tbe air.
Lewis’ second cautioned him tu
shoot low, aud he fired too low, the
ball strikine tbe grouud near Wise’s
fee'.
When the shots bad been ex
changed, and Wise fired in the air,
the seconds interfered, and lie af
fair was adjusted upon terms ar
ranged bv tne seconds and friends.
Wise is a splendid shot with the
pistol, and could, it is said, have
sily killed Lewis, bnt since accept
ing, it seems, his mind has under,
went a change, and he did not want
to kill his antagonist. Wise was at
Warrenton waiting foi Lewis aud
his second, who were too meet him
there, but Lewis came hv the way of
Washington yesterdav,. and, to
avoid arrest, took a train in a differ
ent direction from Warrcuton. He
had to ridcacroas the country ten or
fifteen miles aud that made him
half an hour late.
The explanation of Peyton Wise’a
conduct in firing iu the air is given
as follows: When he read the re
port of L L Lewis’ speech, in
which ihe latter said that it George
Wise had chaigcd ex-Senator Lewis,
who is United States Marshal, with
misconduct in office, he (George 1).
Wise was a fool and a coward, Pey
ton Wise immediately denounced
Lewis, and this provoked a chat-
iengo. That when George D. Wise
who was in Southwestern Virginia,
he ird of the affair he hastened to
reach his brother and to assure him
that he had nob said anything
against Marshal Lewis’ character, as
lie had a high regard for his integ.
rity. That in viow of this statement,
Peyton Wisesaw he had been hasty.
But he had gone too far to with
draw, so he determined to meet
Lewis, receive his shot and to fire
his own pistol in the air, and let ex
planations be mttdc after the ex
change of shots. This course he
adopted,
Ex-Congressman John Ambler
Smith, who is a son-in-law or ex-
Scnator Lewis, says that this morn
lug George Wise seul Thomas Jes
sup Miller, a lawyer or this city to
him to inquire where L. L. Lewis
was; that he (Smith) returned a re
ply that be didn’t know, as be had
nothing to do with the affair. Smith
-ays Millet; came to him a second
time on the same mission, and then
admitted that he represented George
Wise. Smith states be sent back
word to Wise that if he had come
to Washington to fight Lewis he was
not in the city, bnt that he (Smith)
wss willing to represent Lewis, and,
it Wise wanted to fight he conld
communicate with him; that he
(Smith) would assume th(vresponsi
bility for what Lewis had sai t
against George Wise, and the latter
could get satisfaction from him at
any time. George Wise seems to
have come down to prevent a fight,
and it is estimated that now that his
brother's difficulty is over he miy
hold Smith to account. There are
qnitea number of the Lewis family
aud|several of the Wise boys. Each
family will stand together, and now
that bad blood has been stirred np
it may not end here, so it ia said.
A friend of George Wise’s says
that he will not fight a duel if he
can help it, as he is a member of the
next Congreas. These Wise boys
•re nephews of tbe late Henry
Wise, whose soas are prominent
Readjustee. Peyton Wise and
Lewis parted friends, and unless
other members of the families em
broil them again, will probably re-
main so>
The duel fonght near Warrenton
to-day grew out of an alleged at
tack of George Wise upon ex-Sena
tor and United States Marshal
Lewis, charging him with using bis
office to oppress the people of Vir-
ginia. Lewis’brother, who isUnited
States District Attorney of Virgin
ia, said In a speech at Petersburg the
other night, that if George Wise
made tbe alleged attack he was a
fool and a coward. Peyton Wise,
George’s brother, in tbe;absence of
George, took np the matter and de
nounced District Attorney Lewis as
a “coward, liar and fool,” whereup
on the latter challenged him and
they met to-day. _
changing face of nature re-
Is us by its resuscitating influ-
vaulu in lien of statuary and struc
tures. President Garfield loved to
stroll in this cemetery. It was his
ideal of a final earthly resting
place.
An inch of rain ia that quantity
which tailing upon a level surface
and is not absorbed or allowed to
run off would stand ^une inch in
depth. The amount of water fill
ing upon an acre of land when the
rainfall is one inch would astonish
any one who has given no thenght
to the subject. On each square foot
of surface there would be 144 cubic
inches, and on one acre which con
tains 43,600 square feet would be
6^72,740 enbie inches, which reduc
ed to imperial gallons, each con
taining 10 pounds avoirdnpois,
would be 22,623 gallons, weighing
226330 pounds, something; more
than 113 -tons weight to an acre.
Tbe anunai average rainfall in this
locality approximates GO inches,
consequently each acre, receives
abont 5,653’.' tons weight or water
in a year. This amount of water
wonid require a train of565 freight
cars to carry it. If one had to wa
ter a 640 acre farm at this rate, it
star.
—
Why is H. H. P. like Senator Joseph
E. Brown? Give it up. Because its
chief aim is internal improvement.
IN WORTH COUNTY.
Mr. Fowler and Hr. “O.”
Wosth County. Sept. 21, 1281.
Editor yew* and Advertiser:
I eee in your paper of a recent date,
another communication from Worth,
over the signature of G., filled up en
tirely with acurrilloua and sarcastic
slang, aimed at me. 1 hope yon will
enforce the rule iu regard to such com
munications. I am well satisfied, be
sides 1 hare it from tolerable good au
thority, that this great, learned, insig
nificant St. Arlight was the manufhe-
turer of G’s. communication, and that
if 1 reply he intended to open fire on
me, and set me square up. 1 hope I
have doue that myaelf, and if my de-
pai tuner was atone on him, I would
feel that it was of littla consequence.
I therefore paas all his communication,
eonsalrriiig it beneath my notice, ex
cept that be request* me set the matter
square before the tax-payers of the
OJtuity, concerning tlie acts of the
BoarJ. It therefore devolves upon me
f* necessity of •loing so, and I request
that you allow we space iu your col-
i.mns for the publication of tbe same,
promising you to keep inside the rule.
Tv the good citizens of Worth G.
makes the first charge ou the Board
that they made an average of fifteen
pupils in tbe public schools, and that it
was contrary to law or the intention
of the law, I called G’s attention to
sections u here he could find the law
concerning that part of his charge
which roads thus:
■•Section 29. Be it further enacted.
That whenever ou account of sparse-
uess of population it ia impracticable
for keeping up the primary schools for
three months of the year, said Boards
shall have the power to provide for
schools to continue for two mouths on
ly, and said schools shall be so located
as to be convenient to the majority of
the children for whose benefit they are
established, and shall not contain less
than fllteeu pupils.’’
This is tbe law, and this is the lowest
average that the law gives that we
have been furnished with. The Board,
for the benefit of those localities reduc
ed the average to ten pupils, five below
that of the law, to have a school iu all
sections of the county, and if there is
not one the Board is not to blame.
Xow, good citizens, please give his
first charge and the law ruling thz
ease your honest judgment, and make
up your verdict accordingly. Now for
the baianoe of his charge. Hs says the
Board nukes and uses unjust discrimi
nations be ween sparsely settled sec
tions snd tlie more favored ones. Well,
I still say that it is untrue; we don’t
practice any such theory, and we
treat all alike that complies with the
law, and he can’t show to tbe contrary.
He then sums up that there is wrong iu
the Board, because lie and Mr. Ber-
rian Hobby did not get some of the
school funds. Now, Tf lie and Mr.
Hobby will show where they are Inw-
fully entitled to any they certainly
shall have it. He states that each of
them had a little school in their neigh
borhood and that they got none of the
fundi. Well, now, let iu see if they
bad a public school; we can only pay
the money to public school teachers.
Did yon make a contract with the
Board, and did your school have the re
quired fifteen pupils to set down with
an average of ten pupils through the
school? If so, you would have been
entitled to pay according to your
grade, bnt, for my life, X can’t tee
where yon or Mr. Hobby wonid be
entitled to any of the school lundi on
the grounds of your being tax-payers.
The Board has to be governed by the
law and by the instructions from the
State School Commimtoneia, and not
by tbe whims of G. or any other per
son. Then he desires to know ir we
can’t be troubled with a school for
them when they don’t comply with
tbe law in contracting with the Board,
why not pay them a pro rata of the
school fund? I have to answer him. It
la not in oar power to do it under the
law. I referred him to the law in that
ease, -still, he cries out some
wrong in the Board, he has still got
none of the ftinds. Good citizens, I
will give you the law in tbe case:.
Section 1. Be it enacted by the Gen
eral Assembly of the State of Georgia,
That so much of the General School
Law of the State approved August 23d,
1872, as required by the County School
Commissioner, to make an apportion
merit of tbe School fund of the county,
both that which jnay be raised by .gen
eral taxation upon the property ot the
county on the basis of tbe number of
children of the school-age in tbe gener
al sab. districts, and report the same
to the County Board, and ‘to disburse
said funds in accordance with said ap-
irtiocunent, be, and tbe same ia here-
j repealed.’*’
Sec. 2. “Be it farther enacted, That
all laws and parts of laws in conflict
with this act, be and tbe same are
Approved February
rr was entitled to any
fund, except when he was a public
.school to seller, awl had a public
school, but now I will answer your
question by asking yon another;
Why did the Board fail to get any of
it? Answer mine, and- Jt will answer
yours, probably. Now, Mr. G., I will
give yon and the rood citizens of oar
county, as near as I cau. the financial
condition of the public schools in
Worth when I became a member of
the Board, hat now took oat, I am go
ing it on my egotism, but yon force
me to it. 1 cannot tpeak ot tbe acta ot
tbe Board and leave myaelf out, but
wUl state facts as near as I can, and
give youVa reference the pahife school
teachers, and to our Commissioners,
where you can see our actings from
the Tstart. Hie whole matter was
bankrupted and the teacher* nlling
their claims at a discount) from seven
ty-five to eighty-five cents on tbe dol
lar, and no fund* in tbe concern to pay
with. We went to work end .cat the
Commissioners’ salary down from
abont $800 to $100. “G," this was my
move, and we commenced paying
teachers salary. This was my move
sgain, but I.don’t claim to be the
Board, as you have said, as presiding
officer I was not entitled to a vote.
The Board adopted them both, aod we
then decided to not involve on the
Commission the task to visit the schools
and we have endeavored to use the
strictest economy we practically could
and we have had schools in every sec
tion of the country where they complied
with the law, and have paid oar teach
ers for about three yen one handled
cents on the dollar, and “G,” you
would now place us before the Grand
Jury for Inefficiency, incapacity, gen
eral neglect or malfeasance. Our act
ings have been before the Grand Jury
several times, and they have never seen
the great wrong that you declare exists
in tbe Board.
Well, “G,” I have laid the matter be
fore tlie tax payers of this county, and
want them to scrutinize the whole
matter and give in their honest verdict
as the action of the Board under the
law, and I- am now done with the
scribbling; yon can go on aa tongas you
choose to do so. “Starlight*’ will
write for you till dooms day, if you
want him to, but my hnmbie Judgment
is, we had better give way for more
valuable matter and better talent. If
you won’t stop, let’s form a co-part-
n.-rship and resurrect the Worth Coun
ty VixiiieUor, or get up a paper
own, and run it for our special b
“Starlight” willbe fighting editor fortu
I suppose, for the fun of the thing. 1
hopeyon will if yon come out in anoth
er. You can name it, tty not to puff
111
WASHINGTON LETTER.
R IN THE
HOUSE THAT ni'TLER BUILT.
might
with
me any more, I have all I can bear at
present. Another puff, and especially
from the source it comes, would bunt
the boiler. Give St. Arlight my com
pliments, and tell him to noid on be
fore he stirs me np and tell him he
had as well stop his part or he ml
bring out something unpleasant
the proof accom panylng it.
Mr. Editor, x have written in the
dark, and if,I have hit the wrong man
I trust he wll consider all apologies
made. I desire to say before closing
this communication that I did not in.
tend as “G,” seems tc think, to inslnu.
ate that he was an “ignoramus” upon
general principals, but intended only
tossy that he was ignorant so far as
tbe public school laws and the rulings
of the Board were concerned.
John W. Fowler.
"tf
his last aqtdb, after he recovered
from his shaky condition, he gets np
reendts, and he and St. Arlight,
from the appearance of hi* , well,
1 dont know what to call it, bat it is
just like St. Artigbt’s, or siittie more
to, bat G. claims it, and he can bare It
if St. Arlight is willing, but I say to
G. that I am wining to stand upon the
merits of my conduct through life, if
“I have a trained the exalted position of
president of the Board,” aa he sarcasti
cally remarks. If I have been faith
ful to mr trust it it all that ia required,
and as an egotist, self-praise ia better
! at all. Mr. G., did yon
I lived* In the bounds of
Worth county before the county was
created; all the scribling yon and St.
Arlight can do won’t amount to any
thing at all in regard tome, and I do
not care anything abont it, hot I tea
the danger in it. Yon say the position
I hold and my great exalted name, to
gether with the fame I have won is not
equal to chat of Tours, president of a
water-gourd club, you will puff me up
so there ia danger of my trying to get
to he an official in
club. I have one i
you for the especial
' If he hasen’tjoined yoorwater-
tlub use ail your influence-to
get him to join it, a* it is, I suppose, a
JEFFERSON DAVIS,
A Conditional Promise to Write
History of the Knifed States.
Port Gibson (Kin.) Sontbtrn BsvtUls,
Some two weeks ago two little
Claiborne comity girls, students at
the Port Gibson Collegiate Acade
my, who weroj smarting under Ihe
necessity of reciting certain school
histories of the United Slates, now
used in all of oor schools, and so
full of slander and misrepresenta
tion, conceived the idea that Presi
dent Davis could ho induced to
write a proper and iruthfol history
as a benefaction to tbe school chil
dren of the South, and in childish
simplicity they ventured a joint let
ter to the great patriot and states
man ; and to their great joy and
gratification they received the fol
lowing:
Mine* Gewe Mtrrix, Angie Patton,
Port Qibton, Min :
Mr Dear Little Friend*.—I
feel vary sensibly tbe compli
ment in yonr request -that I should
write a history of the United States
which it wonid not pain you to re
cite. I have long desired to see a
school history which would do jat-
tice to our people and their ances
tors, and urged the late Dr. Bledsoe
to undertake the work. He died
without doing so, and I know of no
living man as well able to perform
the task. I should distrust my own
ability, but if my'life is spared and
lean get no one of such views aa
wonid suit yon to prepare such a
work, I will remeqfber your re
quest with sincere desire to grant it,
bnt I cannot promiso to do t
Many years ana hitler trials leave
me but little time or strength for so
important a labor. May God bit
yon, my dear children, and reward
yonr patriotic impulses with long
life and happiness.
Very truly yonr friend,
Jefferson Davis.
request to make of
ial benefit of St Are
water-gourd
touch a single drop in a
I must now bid yon adieu, and if you
fail to get out anything better in yoar
! of the
tax-pavers did not get' auv of the
school'fund of last year. 1 did not
know, as before stated, that a tsx-pay-
Thx artist doesn’t live who conld
have done justice to the scene pre
sented In one of the little rooms of
the Capitol on Thursday, when
Cheater A. Arthur sgain took the
oath of office. Ho canvass could
have ever been made to portray the
expression of the face of John Sher
man when he advanced to shake the
hand of the man who a few short
months ago was »he victim of his
petty spite, and whonotr the whirl-
gig of time has made his superior
in power. In extending his right
hand he was unassured it would not
be repelled; that tbe chief magis
trate of a mighty nation would not
then and there retnrn hate for hate,
scorn for scorn. No more could his
jealousy his disappointments, his
painful reflections be depicted than
could a dying groan. John Sher-
knows a good deal of the vi-
“Smitb,’’ said Jones (he other day,
“dirt you ever consider the differen-
tittion of absoluteness as compared
ith the indissoluble absolute?”
“Xo-o-o,” said Smith, “don’t think I
ever did. "But did vou ever consid
er why a pig’s tail kinks to the
left.” And that is the reason why
Jones calls Smith a diaphanous !jr-
noramus.—Oil City Derrick.
Washington, D. C., )
Sept 24th, 1881.(
All that remained of James A
Oarfleld was, on yesterday, moved
forever from the Capitol W the Uni
ted States. The city has not yet re
covered from the shock that
nouLced bis death, and will long
wear the black emblems with which
public and private bnildlnga are
hung. But, “with mirth in fnneral
and dirge in marriage,” politicians
are already turning their attention
to tho future, and endeavoring to
anticipate its surprises. The new
Administration, the Cabinet, official
changes that will be felt throughout
the country; policies that will affect
parties and swell history are known
by all to be possible, and believed
by some to be probable, under the
Administration of President Arthur.
There are rumors that the present
Cabinet will be continued, and that
the President will not depart from
the policy of his predecessor. Bot no
fact is better known than that events
shape administrations quite as much
as adminstratlons shape events. The
President’s brief inaugural address
is thought by many to be astutely
non-commital. It may be asked,
what were “the measures devised
and suggested by my predecessor
during bis brief Administration, to
correct abases aud enforce econo
my,” etc., etc., to which President
Arthur refers when he says that it
shall be his “earnest endeavor to
profit by them and to see that the
nation shall profit by them.” Presi
dent Garfield had outlined no policy,
except in the language of his letters
of acceptance and his inaugural ad
dress, both of which were remark
able for nothing above the common
platitudes and never binding gener
alities of party platforms. His brief
Administration was taken up in
fighting a faction in bis own party,
and listening directly, or through
his Cabinet, to a horde of ofilco
seekers, many of them os despicable)
as Guiteau. President Garfield wee
too old a politician and statesman,
if yon like, to outline a policy or
bind himself by unequivocal words
to a rigid programme. Tbe times
are not ripe for inch Presidents and
such policies. Let us not be too im
patient for the millenium.
Tbero are eigne which indicate
the policy of the new President
more definitely than any words be
has yet spoken. General Grant and
Senator Jones, twin umbrae ot
Conkling, are continually at Uie
elbow of President Arthnr. He is
the guest of Senator Jones, in the
house rented by the latter of Gener
al Ben But’er, snd will remain there
for some weeks. Senator Conkling
is believed by many to ho in the
city. At the honse of Jones he esn
have access to the Presidential ear
without the accompaniment of a
swarm of reporters, as would he
case at the White House. Tbe pqb-
lie heart is at present in the grave
of Garfield, and, as Mr. Conkling
well knows, too tore to endure any
ostentation of influence by him.
With tense of propriety be remains
in tho background, but he is the
Mephisto that controls, and none
doubt that he. will appear in the
fifth act C. A. S.
Is Stote from a Slispln Tropical Tnt ot
RanVshM, and b a Positive Rnntd, br
all tbs dlssssss that esas* pains n ihshmrpait
of thsbojj for Torpid I-I.er-Haadscbn-Jun-
Urinary Or*»ns.
sad dsrlBE rrasMuscV. It has*** taraL It
thi i nssslhslsuli lhi v lil *1 hnri
It Is the best Blood Partner. It U Ik* only
Ism Maid, that caws Brig Hi's Disease.
rot Dlahstaa, aae Warner's Safe Diabetes
H. H. WARNER A OO. Rochester. N. Y.
fr
Wesleyan
Female College
GEORGIA.
WUl beats Fortj-foJffiMBBMMffiB
list. A tall faculty ot axpestoacsd t
Adrancsd oonras of suidy. Th* bast a
re* la Music, Ait, Literates* aod
Careful attention to all the waste ol
jalylRsro
W. C. BASS,
TEXAS
ARKANSAS AND LOUISIANA.
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grad*ac*.asa»anXc
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Iis5s Information. In dtlsll. tjlb# Stats of Tszs*.
Arkansas, or Western UfiSpa Wsdaslr* ts
*o*Sr with thoto wishing to batter their condi
tion snd are meditating a ebsoos to* new coun
try. Address
. B.o.DDYAL,S*erate»T.AniUn,T*zas.
J. N. VICTOR, Eastern Manater,
_ . 241 Broadway, New York.
Foreign Office:—WM.W, LANG, F "
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A Yi
its a
St. Joseph, Mo., Sept. 17.—Some
ten days ago, a Young lady named
Miss Edwards disappeared mysteri
ously from her home at midnight,
no one knew where she Had
gone. Inquiry wss made in this
city, bnt to no purpose, and after a
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INDORSED BY
PHYSICIANS, CLERGYMEN. AND
THE AFFLICTED EVERYWHERE.
THE GREATEST MEDICAL
TRIUMPH OF THE AGE.
8YMPTOMS OF A
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IF THESE WAENINGB AHF. UNHEEDED.
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TUTP8 PULS**® especially adapted to
such rases,one dose eITVcta luchschson
of feeling as to astonish the safferer.
U»e Appetite, and causa tbe
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and by th»-irTonic Arfiloaou the
‘ Rrnlu-NUtoU art pro-
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TUTT’S HAIR DYE.
s changed to a Olobay
eadwVtflibMi
time the search was given np. Yes
terday the family of the girl became
convinced that she was in this city,
and her brother came down again
to search for her. Tho police head-
quarters were visited, and a descrip
tion of Hiss Edwards given to the
officer*. Officer Boyles immediate-
ly recognized the description as that
of a girl whom he had seen (luring
the past week at Madame Thornton’s
ranch, on Maine street He repair
ed at once to that place and demand
ed an interview with the misguided
girl. The officer kindly told her
wbat his mission was, that her broth
er was in the city, aud that she mutt
go home with him. She did not
want to go at first, but finally burst
out crying and said she would go.
She is a young girl, about sixteen
yesra old, good-looking and very in
telligent. In reply to a question
from the officer as to what made
her seek such a life, the said she ran
away from home with a young man
who had promised to marry he?.
They came to St. Joseph, where she
expected the ceremony to bo per-
formed. Before her dream of hap-
pine's was consummated, however,
the faithless lover had overcome her
scruples and then cruolly shoved her
into the street. He told her the
best she could do was to go to Mad-
Thornton’a and being in a
city and not knowing where
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r here or here*