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~ Saturday, January 21, 1882.
LOO A L.
J. IIOFMAYER. E. GUNDERSIIElMEEi
BEFORE TAKING STOCK
J, IIOFMAYER & CO.
are NOW MAKING STILL FUR
THER REDUCTIONS IN
PRICES.
Special Bargains in Embroideries.
Special Bargains in Canton Flannels.
A New Supply of pnlaundiied
Shirts, for Men and Boys.
j. HOFMAYER & CO.
Animal license Ordinance
B E it ordained l»v the Mayor and Council ol
the City of Albany, and it is hereby ordain
ed by authority of the same, That the following
License or Specific Tax shall be levied and col
lected in the City of Albany, for the support of
the city government for t he year 1882: '
Each retailor of spirituous liquors, to be
licensed lay the year only ................... 8200 00
Each retailer of malt or fermented liquors
when sold separate from spirituous li
quor*. .'
Liquor dealers selling not less than 1
quart or more than 4*4 gallons
Liquor dealers selling gallons and up-
Each bacon and produce broker 10 00
Each hotel 25 «0
Each boarding house 10 00
Each restaurant 15 CO
Each IlucKster stand on streets 40 00
Each huckster stand on private lots......... 25 00
Each billiard table kept for pay 12 50
Each bowling or len-piu alley 12 50
Each shooting gallery kept for profit. 10 00
25 00
15 00
50 00
Each skating rink........
Each velocipede rink......—
Each two-horse dray .. ......
And shall he allowed to charge 50 cents
for each full load, and 10 cents per
bale lor cotton.
Each one-horse dray .:
And shall be allowed to charge 25 cents
for each full load, and 10 cents per
halo for cotton.
Each two-horse vehiclo conveying passen
gers for nay
~ 'i four-horse vehicle
conveying passeu-
10 00
10 00
25 00
10 00
Each . _.
gers for pay 15 00
Etch 11 very stable 25 00
Each warehouse or firm receiving 5000 hales
cotton or more 1 — .... GO 00
Those receiving 3000 bales and less than
5100 .. 50 00
Those receiving less than 3000 30 00
Eaeh pawnbroker 25 00
Southern Express Company...................... GO 00
Each telegraph company 50 00
Each dancing master. 10 00
Eaeh circus, each day, at the discre
crelion of tlio Mayor, hot less than 825
nor more than — 100 00
Each side show, under one canvass, at the
discretion of the Mayor, not leas than 85
per day nor more than.. 25 00
Negro minstrels, transient theatricals, jug- .
glersaud other like exhibitions, shall pay
a license tax to be fixed at the discretion
of the Mayor, except that the licenses
fixed for first-class theatrical companies
is not to exceed tho sum of 85 00.
Each persou drumming or soliciting trade,
except tu front of their Tegular place oi
business, and then only to the middle of
streot in front of the same, shall be con
sidered a street drummer, and shall pay
a tax of 200 00
Vendue masters, eaeh 26 00
and shall pay 1 per cent on grass .sales on
all property owned by residents,and two
per cent on property owned by non-resi
dents.
Each transient vendue master ..«•••• 100 00
aud pay 2 per cent, on gross sales.
Each person selling fertilizers, not manu
factured in the city 25 00
Each butcher 10 00
which shall not apply to farmers selling
by the quarter.
Each ice cream saloon or soda fountain 5 00
Each person dealing in carriages, wagons
and buggies, except home manufacture... 30 00
Each barber shop keeper shall pay for each
j chair 2 50
■ Each person buying cotton for himself or
otherpartieB .. 10 00
Each sewing machine agent .. 10 00
Each insurance agent shall pay for each
company repiescntedby lam 10 00
Transieut traders for the sale of goods, wares or
merchandise of any description what ever,by sample
protborwh 8,before*openingor otL ring the same for
s?le, shall pay a license tax, to be fixed at tho dis
cretion of the Mayor.
That ouc li»If of one per cent be imposed npon
the proceeds arising from the sale of each horse or
inulo sold within the city limits.
Bo it ordained by the Mayor and Council of the
City of Albany, that any person who shall engage
in any business lor which a license is required,
before obtaining such license, in compliance with
the ordinance or ordinances of said citv, shall be
fiued in a sum not to exceed double the sum of
such license, or be imprisoned in tho guard house
not exceeding three months, or both in the dis
cretion of the Mayor.
Adopted January 2d, 1882.
W. 11. WILDER, Mayor.
y. C. Bust, C|erk of CounciL jan6w3t
FOB SALE.
I WILL offer for sale on Tno day, the 3rd
day of January. 1882 before the Court
Hou*e door, in Leesburg, tin., to tho highest
bidder for cash, 5760 acres of land, situated in
the counties of Dooly, Lee. Terrell. Lowndes,
Clinch and Worth. l^ots Nos. 168,71, 2-8, each
half of 275. Eighty acres of • he east part of
No. :00 (with a ferrv on Flint river) and frac
tion; 301 aejv* in 14th listrictof Lee county;
Lots 245 and 34 in 13th district of Lee county;
Lot. 34 ami 120 acres of 33, in 3d district of Ter
rell county; 273 acres of north part of :3 in
2nd disTictof Teirell; 18'* in 7th district of
Clinch 129 in 16th district of Lowndes; 32 and
G2 in 7th district cf Worth, and .39 in 12th dis
trict of Wilcox. Some of these sre valuable
for farm purposes, others for timber. I will
trade i rivately for any or all of the above
lands before the day of'sale. Apply lo me at
l^aesburg, Ga. Warmnty titles
*jec23 G. M. STOKES.
Mints: ifMnii Count
I Office of the Railroad Commission. )
I2»i East Alabama Streets
Atlanta, Ga., January 10, 38S2. 5
! Tlic following extracts from the minutes of
this date are published for general informa-
[ tiou:
( “3 The meetings of the Commission shall
| lie on Tuesday after the fourth Monday in
I each month, and at such other times as may
I l>e determined upon by tho Board, and con-
I tiuue in session from day to day until the
I business is disposed of.
I *‘4. The office shall be open daily (Sundays
laud legal holidays excepted) for tnepurpose
I of auswering inquiry and giving informa-
ftion.
By order of the Board
R. A. BACON, Secretary.
janlS-dAwlt
li^you mant to iny
'tSloUrnuJ for MenorBcys
I cither ready-made or made
| to order, do not fail to
jsend fer our Calalogfee
Paints, OH, Glass, Putty
VARNISH, ETC..
PERFUMERY,
FANCY GOODS,
TOILET ARTICLES,
DRUGGISTS’ SUNDRIES,
The best 5 and 10 cent Ci
gars always on hand. Pipes
and Smokers articles gener
ally.
FRESH TURNIP SEEDS
JUST RECEIVED.
FBISH 600DS& LOT PRECIS
SSTPrescriptions filled with care,
day or night.
F. C, JONES, Agent, £ CO,
Albany Ga. September 11.1880-ly*
AT HOME.
Artesian water at last.
Albany is ripe for a sbow again.
Have you tasted the artesian wa
ter ?
Valentines hare already begun to
arrive.
We invite local news from every
quarter.
Kieye was the highest stepping man
in town yesterday.
And now Americus is going to haul
ofF and build a big hotel.
Ben Hill’s letter seems to give gen
eral satisfaction in Albany.
The only sure way to keep from
being dunned is to never go in debt.
Tiie Jewish Synagogue rapidly be
comes more and more a thing of beau
ty- ^
Youth needs one slipper and a stout
knee. Old age two slippers and a
chair.
Dr. E. W. Alfbiend has {gone to
house keeping in the residence of J. V.
Smith.
Rite tomatoes from Nassau were
enjoyed by a few of Albany's citizens
yesterday.
Man wants but little here below,
and il he is a local reporter he gener
ally gets it.
Capt. W. L. Yancey, the efficient
Ordinary of Troup county, was in the
city Monday.
A negro who has been forging or
ders on Capt. Davis was caught up
with yesterday.
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Mack Wilder is at Jacksonville,
and is improving in strength faster
than he expected.
The late Judge Wm. O. Fleming
was insured in the American Legioa
of Honor for $5,000.
Dr. Gambeta has decided to locate
here, and will have a dental office in
the Willingham building.
“Neely” Daniel has set out a twen
ty acre orchard. He expects to be "in
town” one of these days.
Mr. Kieve and his bride arrived
from Washington Thursday. They
took a suit of rooms at the Bogen.
Mr. Tatum, the Quaker temperance
lecturer, came to time yesterday, but
we have not heard that he lectured.
“A smile” iu the bar-room makes
tears in the home. Remember that
young man.—Chicago Inter-Ocean.
New lot fresh Garden Seed, Gol
den Dent Corn, Seed Potatoes, etc.
w2d2 AVelch & Muse.
We expect Albany will contribute
some of the work of her fair and ac
complished artists to the Macon Art
Exhibition.
We heard a Worth county man say
the other day that “Bor’l Kemp has
got the best licker you ever flopped
your lip over.’’
There is one comfort in living in
Albany. In Baltimoro they have to
pay one dollar for a white shad from the
Savannah river.
Bogen is ambling along with the
procession. The comfort of his hotel
is sought by a large number of the
traveling people.
Sanodine will cure the mange on your
dog. _
The colored girl, Nesbitt, saved
nothing from the fire Monday after
noon bat two trunks, and they were
rifled in the melee.
“Blissed are the annals of qniet
life,” or words to that effect, but it is
blessed hard on a newspaper man when
things are that way.
Albany has a host of good-looking
bachelors, who seem to be holding
themselves for an advance in the
matrimonial market.
The reason why New Year’s re
solves are so often forgotten, is be
cause many who tnrn the new leaf for
get to gum it down.
Zant Davis, colored, was committed
by Justice Greer, for complicity in the
stealing of the C. M. Clarke cotton.
The bond required is $300.
The peach trees will soon begin to
bloom if we bavo this sort of weather
mach longer. It’ll be all right though,
if we don’t have a late frost.
Sanodine cores all skin diseases.
A PARTY 3f photographers called the
“Union View Company” hate arrived
in the city, and are to take pictures of
the different views in and about Alba
ny-
The burglar was discriminating. He
tackled a cotton buyer and a Baptist
prelcher. He is hereby notified that
all newspaper men keep heavy ar
tillery in their apartments.
Uncle Ed Richardson has returned
to his post as expressman on the ex
tension. Yonng Wilder has been
transferred to the Southwestern, and
plies between here and Smithville.
Oranges from a grove in Florida,
owned by a real live Spanish duke,
have been received by ! Sterne
The box was stamped with bis jaw
splitting name and the ducal coat of
arms.
Snobs and shoddy people of low or
igin are always trying to get into what
is called “society.’’ Those of real blue
blood, and the cultured and refined,
want to keep as far away from “socie
ty’’as possible.
Albany’s ministers are very cour
teous to each other. Rev. Mr. Hanks,
Baptist, and Rev. Mr. Williams, Meth
odist, are doing all they can for the in
terest of the revival in progress at the
Presbyterian Church.
Albany is to have a first-class min-
stral show at last. “The Big Four’ 1
minstrels, one of the finest, have writ
ten for dates, at the opera house
Then you will hare at opportunity of
seeing what a minstrel show is.
A thousand men can go to work at
o’clock in the morning without the
ringing of a bell, and why is it that
300 people cannot assemble in a
church without a previous ding-dong
ing lasting half an hour?
Mb. Robinson yesterday showed us
a letter from Pauline Markham’s man
ager, announcing that this capital
actress would appear here in the “Two
Orphans” on Friday, Feb. 3. A rous
ing house will greet Pauline.
Some of the saloon men complain
that they were worked very hard last
week. The hundreds ofyeung men who
swore off.the first week of the New
Year tried to drink enough the second
week to make up for the lost time.
Sanodine cures cats, snags and
bruises on stock.
x-' .'• ■
The latest novelty is a dress album.
A piece of every new dress is care
fully cut and gummed ou one side of
the leaf, and the date attached. Thus
the book forms a complete history of
a lady’s costume from season to sea
son.
W. F. Turner, county Treasurer of
Worth, was in the city Monday.
While here he forced from us an
apology for the expression “bloody
Worth” that got into our paper ac
cidentally a few weeks ago. We hope
Mr. Turner will bear our apologies to
the good people of the state of Worth
Now, Jim Hanlon, let up.
TnE Atlanta correspondent of the
Savannah JHeics says: “Atlanta is re
joicing in the removal of Colonel B.
G. Lockett from Albany to this city,
near which he, with other capitalsits,
has established an immense brickyard.
As he controls several hundred State
convicts, it will no doubt prove a
profitable move.”
Commercial Saltpetre’ Muriate of
Potash. Welch & Muse.
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The Americus Opera House has
been finished, and was probably chris
tened last night by the amateurs in
the “Lady of Lyons.” From the de
scription of it in the Hecorder, it
mast be a handsome plate. The cost
of the building and everything com
plete was $14,000. We congratulate
our sister city on her acquisition, and
trust she may able to sustain it.
•Very few, if any, of the big farmers
in this county raise meat, but
there are some of our citizens who
kill a few porkers every winter. We
are sorry to learn that those who kill
ed their hogs during the last cold
spell are now losing their meat The
damp, warm weather that we are now
having is causing it to taint Judge
Wright is among the unfortunates.
Rust Proof Oats. 500 bushels
Thomas County Rust Proof Oats just
received.
d3tw2t Tift & Co. *
Take a reef in your Gainesboro
hats, dear ones. We see from an ex
change that the role now is for every
lady to have her age indicated on her
hat brim. Every inch of brim indi
cates three years. A ten inch brim
means that the lady is thirty years
old. A twenty inch brim shows that
she is sixty, and so on. We think but
few single ladies would wear them.
A new style of supporting the girls
is becoming fashionable among the
bloods. We cannot explain the faney
unless it be that the aethetic fair ones
are so frail that they are in continual
danger of drooping away or breaking
off. Bat it does look a little too too to
watch a healthy-looking 150 pound
young girl promenading with the
whole length of her arm encircled by
a masculine grip and nsing her escort
as a moveable prop.
Col. H. S. Haines spent last Fri
day in our town. He had been la
Bainbridge to start the surveyors to
work on the line between Bainbridge
and Chattahoochee, with it to connect
the S, F. & W. with the Atlantic and
Pensacola B. R. Col. H. S. Haines
has about as much on bis shoulders as
man ought to have, but he seems
to stand it all without any great offort.
He is General Manager of 425 miles of
railway in autnal operation, and be
sides is building two extensions, one
from Live Oak to Rowlands Bluff and
the other from Bainbridge to Chatta
hoochee, and in addition to these
has filed an application for a charter
for a road from Chattahoochee to Bio
Carrabelle, on James Island, in Flori
da.— ThomasviUe Enterprise.
. T,IC FI aibcs pi tdnlay;
The fire bell occasions a fiietropnli-
slir and activity iAd town yes-
iy. It rang outat tout 4 o’clock,
set everybody ruiihg to an as
cending smoke, issuing fin the neigh
borhood of the colored litisi church.
The fire laddies, alway&lert. didn’t
reach the scene until theuusc, which
a frame building owrl by a col-
l woman named Frails Hunter,
been consumed. It 4s tenanted
. Fanny Ivesbitf, who list every
thing in the house, except tro trunks.
A fire under a wash pot the yard,
played upon by a pretty ff breeze,
ignited the house. There ras^io in
surance on either the hous i>r its con
tents.
was
ored
had
by
Low Water Mar.
On the water table at th south we.-t
corner of the Court IIous, s a spike
driven op and broken off. r e expect
there are few of our citteus who
know ot it and what It meat. It was
placed there in 1875 by MrHodges, a
United States civil engineir, and is
■called a U. S. bench mark, b indicate
the low water mark of the
in 1855, upon which all
marks are based. It reads
100 above the low water mai
Capt. Slaughter says the rivei
er been that low since, until
mer, when it reached the 1
mark of that year. We give \he item
thinking it may be informition to
Somebody interested in t{ie rse and
fall of the river.
A Hungry Hawk.
A hawk descended into Fred Leh
man’s yard Thursday, And pounced
upon a little chicken, bearing it off in
his talons. Mr. Lehman gave ebase,
and dropped his game in front of Cut-
tiff’s store. Mr. Lehman picked up his
chicken, which was unhurt, and start
ed home with it. Bafore Mr. Lehman
could return home the hawk had pre
ceded him and darted down in the yard
after another chick. Jim Kemp was
standing near with a gun, and, as bis
hawkship grabbed his prey, pulled
down on him and the old fellow fell to
the ground. The flight of the hawk
was right down Broad street, and oc
casioned considerable fun to all who
saw the occurrence.
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HlsSIxiy-ici-iitli Birthday.
Friday wjs-the sixty-eighth birth
day of Unite Merrick Barnes, the vet-
ei an hdSt that has for years presided
over the destinies of that old landmark
of Albany, the Barnes House, and to
celebrate the event a feast was prepar-
e 1, and the immediate family (among
which was, of course, numbered the
News and Advertiser force) assem
bled about it to do it justice, and it is
unnecessary to state that all succeeded
in accomplishing that end.
“Uncle Barnes” was happy, and the
old man now “descending the bill oa
the other side’’ was wished
many another return of his natal
day. May he pass the residue of
his life peacefully and quietly, the
final end of his road strewn with Sow
ers of love and affection and finally to
be gathered to his Fathers mansion to
receive the reward promised a gener
ous, good man who has acted well bis
part in this life.
Chemicals for composting Fertilizers
for sale by Welch & Muse.
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Death or An Estimable Lady.
As we write the bell at the Baptist
church is tolling, announcing the
funeral of Mrs. Mary Irwin Callaway,
who died at her home in Mitchell
county, on Tuesday night She was
sixty-five vears of age, and the mother
of a large family, of whom are Mr. J.
T. Callaway, of our city, Mr. Mer-
rell Callaway, of Americas, and Mr.
James Callaway, editor of the Ca
milla Department of the News and
Advertiser. In her death her com
munity has lost a bright ornament, her
church, one of its pillars, her children
a devoted mother, and her husband a
faithful, loving wife. All who knew
her loved her, and none doubted her
piety. The tuling trait ot her charac
ter was unselfish devotion to her
loved ones and friends. Her remains
were followed to their last resting
place by a large circle of friends, and
funeral services were conducted by
Rev. Mr. Hanks, and Rev. Mr. Golden.
As a stranger to the deceased, we fill
incompetent to do her beautiful charac
ter justice, and only make die an
nouncement of her death, knowing
that a pen more competent will pre
pare a suitable obituary.
Quick Burglar Work.
One of the lightningest of burglars
struck our town on Wednesday night,
and from his work no one can doubt
but what he is the “boss” cracksman.
He struck the town at the residence of
Mr. Ben Wilder, who lives on the out
skirts, which he tackled at about ten
o’clock. The amount of “swag’’ he
gofwas Mr. Wilder’s pocket hook, con
taining $25.25. Coming on into town the
next honse he visited was Jack
Cheve’s. This he entered through a
window and as he was going through
Jack’s pocket, a slight noise awakened
that gentleman who got up in time to
see the receding burglar fly through
the window. Onward he came until he
reachsd Mr. Ed. Richardson’s resi
dence, but as he was reconnoitering,
Mrs.JRichardson, who was awakejheard
him and with great bravery went out,
armed with a shooter, to give him a
reception. He took to his heels.
Nothing daunted, he resumed his work
at the next house which was the resi
dence of Rev. Mr. Hanks. He entered
a sleeping apartment, where lay in the
arms of Morpheus, Mr. Hanks and his
father-in-law, Mr. Jones, of Virginia,
Mr. Hanks awoke and through the
darkness demanded “who’s there.” His
only answer was the noise made by
the burglar as he leaped through the
window. Getting np the gentleman
found that their pockets had been
rifled of about five dollars each.
Mr. Cheves and Mr. Hanks got a
glimpse of the fellow and describe
him as a low, chunky negro. Our
police are on the lookout and it is to
"be hoped that the daring thief may be
arrested.
TitnorGH THE PERlts OF TIIE
JIJ.1L TO THE PUBLIC.
Senator Hill Hakes Reply to the Re
cent Strictures of Hon. Wm. U.
Felton—A Statement of Political
Affiliations and. Hatters of Person
al Import, Etc.
Washington D. C., Jan. 14.
Editors Constitution : . .
In yonr issue of the 10th in&L, I
rend the letter of the Hon. W. H.
Felton.
This letter is certainly the most
bitter and veuomous summary of
charges against my public and pri
vate character I have ever seen. The
vilest production of carpet-bag slum
could not say more to defame me. I
am pictured as having been all
mv life—“before the war, daring
itie war and since the war”—a “cor
rupt,’’ ‘ hypocritical,” “malevolent,”
“mendacious” man, whose counsels
luv* “blighted the State of my
birth,” and “destroyed the Demo
cratic parly,’’and as one who, “un
der profe.-sions of friendship,” has
always been treacherous and vin
dictive !
All public men are liable to abuse.
I thought I had enjoyed my full
share and would have some exemp
tion fiomsnch in the future. But
this letter gathers up nearly all the
worst calumnies of the past, colors
them with new odium aud then adds
new ones invented by the author for
the occasion. This fierce flood of
vituperation comes, ti o, from a man
of whom I never in all my life spoke
or wrote one unkind word, but iu
whose behalf I had spoken and
written more kind words than I
ever did for any other min, and be
cause of my friendship for whom
for seven years I had almost im
perilled my own standing in the
.Democratic party.
My self-respect will not allow me
to retaliate in kind, and my respect
for the people of Georgia will not
allow me to descend to a contest of
dirty cpithefts. The explosion is
peisonally harmless from over
charge, but this letter from Dr. Fel
ton has a significance and meaning
of public importance at this moment,
and lo show this meaning and sig
nificance is the purpose of this writ
ing.
First, does Dr. Felton really be
lieve the charges he has rehearsed
and invented with such sudden
virulence? Dnringthe rugged voy
age of the stormy periods in which
my social and political life have
been passed, I have sometimes heard
pleasant voices. Many-kifitr-iud par
tial thiagsJuWe'heeu said and writ
ten " about me, and it has been my
ambition to deserve them. No mail
has been more earnest, or more fre
quent, or more fulsome in his praises
<>f me for forty years than Dr. Fel
ton. No man has repelled with
more indignation all slanders upon
my public and private life, and es
pecially some of the very slanders
he has now rehearsed to defend
me.
During four consecutive canvasses
for Congress in the 7th District lie
has warmly cnlogized me as ever a
model public man, and has made
conspicuous my indorsement of his
personal and political integrity as
proud evidence to the people of his
fitness to be their Representative.
All the people of the district will
bear testimony in support of this
statement.
Does any man or child believe
that when Dr. Felton was indulging
in theso high-wrought eulogies upon
me, he really believed I was, and ail
my life had been, a “corrupt,”
“mendacious,” “hypocritical” and a
bad man? If he did not believe so
while pronouncing such eulogies he
has certainly shown himself to be
the most expert hypocrite ever yet
known. To act the part of such a
hypocrite for a long series of years
without ever exciting the slightest
suspicion of his sincerity, is a suc
cess in hypocrisy never before at
tained, and wonld entitle its author
to the distinction of being the hero
of hypocrites.
Up to the writing of this letter I
do not believe Dr. Felton ever, ut
tered an unkind word of me, either
in public or private. I am sure I
never did of him. It is impossible
to conclude that Dr. Felton believes
the charges he has now made, be
cause it is impossible for any man
to attain such perfection in hypoc
risy.
On the other hand, if Dr. Felton
did not believe the charges te he
true, and yet made them, and made
them, too, with such furious men
dacity, then lie has shown himself
to be the most perfidious and un
grateful slanderer that the purlieus
of a degraded form of politics ever
produced. Without provocation,
witout explanation and withont tho
slightest previous notice he has slan
dered an admitted friend of forty
years, and a friend who, for seven
years, exposed himself to the re
proaches and criticisms of his party
in order to maintain this one man in
his political aspirations. And he
has slandered me, too, with a reck
less violence and an abandoned un-
truthfulncss never eqnaled by my
worst enemy, even of the carpet-bag
regime 1
As there could he no possible rea
son for this conduct the next ques
tion is, What is the excuse for it?
Dr. Felton uses for excuse an inter
view with me, reported by Mr.
Grady, in which interview he says I
abased him and made against him
an implied charge of dishonesty.
The reader will see the utter weak
ness of this excuse at once, for that
an interview reported in the lan
guage cf another should authorize
such a flood of calnmny against a
friendjof forty years ofunbrokenjeon-
fidence is too absurd. I am not now
explaining or denying the interview.
There is not a word in the interview
which is or which can be justly con
strued to be personally unkind, and
Mr. Grady, or the Constitution, has
so distinctly stated. Bat even if
there was one word which might
possibly bear such a construction,
even an enemy would have a9ked
for explanation heforo letting loose
such a deluge of billingsgate and
calnmny.
Bat, aside from all this, there is
one fact which it is my painful duty
to state here, which will make this
pretence of nnkindness more damag
ing, if possible, to Dr. Felton’s good
name than the slanderous letter.
For years Dr. Felton and myself
have been in the habit of writing
frank and confidential letters to
each other. One of the first things
I did after reading his interview
published in a Chicago paper and
embodying his new platform, I
wrote Dr. Felton just such a letter.
In the nnreverse of onrlong friend
ship, and feeling that his political
conrse would somewhat involve
me, as I had always maintained his
political honesty, and believing I
might be better posted as to the
meaning of recent political move
ments than himself, I expressed
the pain I felt on reading his inter
view. I also said that if it was true
I apprehended it wonld make him a
Republican and a Stalwart Repub
lic^ ai that: .1 uafftsa. him of tfis
dangers ahead, atid expressed the
earnest hope that he wonld not al
low himself to be ensnared at this
late dav into the Republican party.
Butin this letter I also said that 1
could never speak of him otherwise
than kindly. This letter he must
have had before him when he made
unkindness by construction his ex
cuse for abusing me aa-jio political
enemy had ever done! Tbd letter
was private, but I do not object to
its publication.
Either Dr. Felto.i believed the
charges made aud invented in his let
ter, hr did not believe them, and on
this subject these propositions are
now established:
1. If he believes tho charges he
convicts himself of being the worst
hypocrite on record.
£ If He does not believe the
Charges, he convicts himself of being
the worst slanderer on record.
3. Tho excuse he offers for mak
ing the charges was not only un
founded, hut was known to be
false when offered! I will not an
nounce the terrible conclusion as to
what the letter and the pretense to
gether convict him of‘being. I
leave him with facts, and the simple
statement that a man who will be
false to a friend will be true to noth
ing.
But every effect must have a cause,
and this letter of Dr. Felton being
an extraordinary cticct must have an
extraordinary cause, and that cause
is not and cannot possibly be in
anything I have said or done, nor
is iho cause of Dr. Felton’s belief or
unoelief of the charges lie has made.
To say he believes tlic charges is to
discredit him as a hypocrite. To say
he does not believe thelitis to dis
credit him as a slanderer. And to
say lie made the charges for the ex
cuse rendered is to discredit him
both as a hypocrite and a slanderer.
The truth is the only cause of this
unprecedented letter exists, and ex
ists only in Dr. Felton himself. Af
ter a hard struggle with the bitter
ness of defeat, and the wooings of
ambition Dr. Felton has formed a
new purpose, and is to have new
friends and allies. He has not
changed any' of his political convic
tions, but he has changed his politi
cal purposes and affiliations, and he
is himself ashamed of the change.
He hopes to deceive others who
have stood by him in ail his strug
gles, and he hopes by deceiving
them to carry them to his ncyv allies.
But he has no hope of deceiving me!
He feels and knows I understand
him, and that I will lose respect for
him. He cannot stand in my pres
ence, and remember the assurances
has so often given me when beg-
id-fty himraniethaf
§8 Sgfiib lit lBSO 1 thftde, with «l,ar8,
and at Dr. Felton’s request, arearn-
effort to
a, against
discourage ally iiciniiia-
him. He was aixiou
faxes 0? tho white race. Tlio state
has endowed a colored college.
Colored people own G.000 ac?es
of land m their own right Every
body votes aas he pleases and his
vote is counted. Factories are
springing up in all directions. Our
industries arc being multiplied as
never before. Thousands of the
best men of the North havo gone
home from Hie exposition enthused
with the brightning prospect of all
to be brought into accord wilt \his
party, but thought . the ocittre
should come, or seem to conn, frem
the party.
I deeply regret our effort wete
not successful. If they had ben sub
cessful I wonld not now be wiring,
tills very unpleasant letter, aid the
Republican manipulators of tlitiew .business in°the "state
coalition to capture the South wuld
have to find another leader for Gpr
gia.
I thus persouallyTcnew thaOr.
Felton-was not only a DemocraQut
a party Democrat, and that his ip-
parent hatred of caucuses was .ily
apparent, for he attended th cau
cus in Washington, ant) was ally
anxious to have a voluntary c/cus
nomination in tlio Seventh Drict
Onr taxes
were scarcely ever so low. Our
redit was never so high. Capital,
Ad people, and machinery, are
lowing m and every body is brnsh-
ng away the tears of war, and is
nughiRg with a new hope in a new
*ra! All this, all this, has been
accomplished under the rule of the
won who are denounced by trading
politicians as narrow-minded, intol-
hc could never deceive or disap
point me, and not lose respect for
himself! There was butone desper
ate resource left, and that was to get
rid of me. He gathered all his en
ergies for the blow. He called to
his assistance all the dirty scandals
of years which he had so often de
nounced, but which it now seems
he had preserved in his scrap hook,
and he adds to these such as the ad
vantages of a long confidential
friendship enabled him to invent,
and discharged the aggregate mass
at my unsuspecting head! If my
poor sadly fallen friend can survive
the blow, I can. I never wrote any
thing more in sorrow and less in
anger. I do not envy the man who
can witness the perfidy or feel the
ingratitude of a life-long friend and
not be sad. There is a manly way
to change opinions and affiliations
which every man must respect.
Such changes great and good men
have often made in the past and
will often make again. There is an
unmanly and fonl way of forming
mongrel coalitions of incongruous
elements for the common purpose of
winning spoils, which no man can
respect. These changes only per
fidious men ever have made or ever
can make.
We have now arrived at the point
when we can fully understand the
meaning and significance of Dr.
Felton’s letter and his “new move
ment.” But before showing this I
feel I ought to make a brief expla
nation to the Democracy of the
State, and of the Seventh District es
pecially. I did not approve of Dr.
Felton’s so-called Independentism,
but for four elections I refused to
go into the district to oppose him,
and for every election I gave him a
new certificate of good character,
personal and political, which I was
often told by both parties and by
himself he used with great effect. I
often spoke well of him in private
and in public, and twice, at his earn
est request, introduced him in most
complimentary terms to large audi
ences in my own city of Atlanta.
It is due to my self-respect to say
that all I said of Dr. Felton I be
lieved was true at the time, and yet
believe was true when said. Iu ad
dition to the fact we had long been
friends, and that both the ladies he
married were the daughters of high
ly esteemed friends, both.of whom
are still living, venerable in years
and good works. I say, in addition
to these facts, I had undoubted con
fidence in Dr. Felton’s Democracy,
and never once suspected he wonld
disappoint me. His personal assur
ances on this subject were very nu
merous and of the most earnest char
acter, and I would have believed
his assurances alone. Bat his ac
tions were entirely confirmatory of
these assurances. I will state two
facts on this point.
1. In Washington Dr. Felton at
tended the Democratic caucus and
respected its decisions as faithfully
as any Democrat in Congress. We
sat side by side daring the 44th Con
gress, and his votes were on the ex
treme Democratic line. In contest
ed elections for seats in the House
he voted for Democratic claimants,
even where Democrats of the most
pronounced type doubted their elec
tion, and I can now recall one case in
which he voted for the Democratic
claimant against the majority report
of the Democratic committee on
elections, who reported that the Re
publican was elected. These were
certainly severe tests of party fealty.
2. In 1876 I went to Georgia in ad
vance of the adjournment of Con
gress in order to be in Cartersville
on the day the Executive Committee
of the Democratic party was called
to'meet there to issue a call for a
convention. I made this visit at the
special request of Dr. Felton, and
for the special purpose of ascertain
ing, if I conld, whether Dr. Felton
con Id probably get the nomination
if he would submit nisname to the
convention. He was anxious to avoid
the repetition of the struggle of
1874, and I was anxious for him to
avoid it, and he was then not only
willing bnt anxious to be reconciled
to his party and get the nomination.
The resnR of my inquiries were not
encouraging and I so advised him.
So again in 18781 wrote a letter
urging the Ringgold convention to
tender Dr. Felton the nomination,
and said in the letter that if they
wonld tender it and he rejected it, I
would canvass the district against
him. I knew he wonld not reject
it, and I was anxions to see the re
conciliation. I regret yet that the
nominatian was not tendered him.
---- . _ . .... - «raut bourbons, and this is tho coii-
of Georgia. I thought Ins ares ditiou of things which must be r«-
were sincere and honorable, d I [ formed by a coalition ofi°Rorance
earnestly labored lo gratify tht disappointment and venality cemen-
I never saw defeat affect anpan ted by ihe public offices, and all
as it did Dr. Felton. It seed to shaped, directed and controlled bv
arouse all the evil of his humna- a lot of andacious machine renub-
turc. I have really had senotp- licans who own their prominence to
prehensions about him m more- corrupt methods in the politics of
spects than one, but I never suet- their own states. If any man can
ed that he-would actually ab»n not see and understand the real
all his convictions and pledgeihd meaning and significance of the new
aid in a coalition to secure Rsal movement in Georgia, he is one who
domination in Georgia, and I fly “having eyes see not, and havine-
denied intimations of that chXer ears hear not.” Must onr peace he
tl61*C Up tO woriT qnnonrtiTtrif I dnolimnnJ — - »>* • ”
his new
what that
pect even then that lie wouljy I men who are willing to ran'with all
into a mad rage with me auQ- parties and be true to none ?
come all at once my worst eg- For several years we have had
niator. I now see he is a fa divisions in the democratic party in
and a changed man, and U Georgia, because having no common
illustration of the danger* | enemy to fight, we have fought each
other. I have studiously labored
six years) to keep out of these party wrangles.
Georgia have. | I have not hesitated to-condemn
what I believed was wrong even in
my own party. But now that a new
movement Is made of a most insidi
ous character to take advantage of
our divisions and utilize then for
republican party, they will prove
mselves the best democrats and
qst Georgians,who soonest forget
J 1 * individual grievances and
labor most earnestly to heal : al!
party wounds. The new enemy is ai-
■'eady or^mizediamj are opening the
breed bitterness and permaneid campaign before the snows of win-
visions in the party. I was opp ter bare melted. Let us not in ke
to denouncing all independent the mistake of assuming that they
radicals because I thought the will be weak because their coalition
nunciatiou was neither true ji 3 incongruous and ilieir purpose-
wise. There are no truer demodan' iniquitous. They must not only
in their convictions than the a>e defeated but overwhelmed and
body of the independents. IdiiiI.en no like coalition will rise to
doubt that the rime would clYet this generation. Let regular*
when the dormant republican pmd independents now for"ct their
would wake up ana make anopiffereuces, and when we see a com-
licvcd in. tint event the independ
sad
reckless ambition for political
During the last
Democrats of
quently complained _ of what
called my encouragement of th!
dependents. 1 did not encotj
them and I did not abuse ti
While the Republican partyj
Georgia was dormant, and
was practically but one party it
State, in was natural that discui
would spring up, and'the oppe
Democrats under various
would contend for. the offii
was anxious that this should
w
ents wonld all come'^home, and
be as true and gallant as any
against the common enemy. I believe
the time has come when they will
justify my confidence. I believe no
independents in Georgia will go in
to the new coalition except a few
who have lost themselvs in the bit
terness of disappointment, or who
are hungry for office “and tired of
waiting.” I know I have no better
friend than the great body of the
the independents, and I do not and
cannot believe they will be led
blindly into the republican party.
Eveiy intelligent and patriotic
citizen of the United States must
see the great importance of eliminat
ing from our politics all war issues
and race issues. No man has been
more open and undisguised in the
expression of the opinion than my
self. But the truth is we can never
get rid of either the war issues or
race issues nntil we get rid of the
republican party, and especially of
the stalwart wing of that party.
This party lives by these issues and
would pass away forever withont
them.
Less than one year ago there was
some hope—more than a mere sug
gestion—that a great’and elevated
movement was possible which
wonld lift the country ont of the
mire of sectional hatreds, and form
our political parties on Uving issues
adapted to every section alike.
But this hope has been rudely
brushed away, and the lowest and
most infamous coalition for mere
corrupt party ascendancy has been
formed in its stead. This coalition
has already humiliated the noblest
old commonwealth of the union by
combining ignorance and venality
against intelligence, property and
honor. This coalition embraces
four distinct propositions:
1. The reopening of the race issues
by pandering to the ignorance and
prejudices of the black race.
2. By encouraging local divisions
among the democrats of the south
on any and ail questions that are
available for that purpose.
3. By promising the federal offices
to such democrats as will agree to
aid the work, and this called “ce
menting the coalition.”
4. By blatant pretenses of reform,
aud still more blatant outcries
against that mystical monster—the
bourbon democracy of the south.
And it is boldly proclaimed by
the most dangerous and efficient
man in the republican party “that
anything which will bnild up this
coalition in the South is justifiable
in morals and law.”
This/ is the foul ‘coalition into
which the independent democrats
of the South are - now so wooingly
invited. Of all men on earth, the
real, true, independent democrat
-ought to feel the most insulted by
the offer. It assumes that he will
betray his party either as the victim
of his local spite or as the corrupt
subject of a debauched civil ser
vice.
It is understood that the selected
leader in each state may write ont
his own platform that will suit him
and his state, and he is not to be
embarrassed by an; inconsistency in
his platform with that of the na
tional party, or that of any other
state. Any tbing tbat will entice
or hay democrats into the coalition
is to be considered- “justifiable in
morals and in law,” provided, al
ways, that the result shall enure to
the benefit of the republican party
and break down the bourbon demo
crats!
The is the whole . scheme briefly
stated. It is not new. It is precise
ly the scheme on which Catiline
formed his conspiracy, and it is
covered already with nineteen
centuries of infamy!
I have an abiding faith that even
the colored people will discard it,
for to them it portend the sgreatest
mischief. I believe the better class
of republicans will repudiate the
coalition and adhere to their party
integrity; and the democrats who
allow themselves to be ensnared
into it will find no life long enough
to repent sufficiently their folly.
Can anything be morc^utterfy dis
gusting than the proposition to re
form Georgia by such a movement
as this ?
In our state more than in
any other the people are recovering
from the effect of war and recon-
struction. The race issue has com
pletely disappeared from our poli
tics in Georgia. Nearly one hun
dred thousand of the colored chil
dren are being educated by the
. and meet that enemy
ith united strength. If we will do
ibis now and vigorously, and show
that we eaunot be enticed by preju
dices nor bought with promises of
federal patronage, the coalition will
die before any damage can be done.
Benj. H. Hill.
Give Ha a Clianze-
It frequently happens that the side
walks are so completely blocked, on
Saturday, as to make it very difficult to
pass. The nuisance is so great as to
make it impossible for ladies to pass
np or down the streets on Saturday af
ternoon without being rudely jostled.
Can’t the. Council do something to
abate this nuisance? 'Wehave called
attention to this evil once before, and
we do so again, in the hope that the
authorities will take some action in
the matter. Saturday seems to be the
great drinking day in this section; and
so drunkenness, profanity and vulgari-
to the evil already mention-
t entirely exclude the ladies
from the stores on Saturday after-
noo
■eitlnj to Fool Flayer*,
thod has been devised to
in playing pool. There
of pool balls to a table—
in the triangle while tho
other is in use, so no time is wasted in
starting a new game. Again, the pool
bottles are duplicated, so there is no
delay where the number of,playcrs in
a game about to begin differs from the
number who were in tho preceding
game. It is held, if only thirty sec
onds are saved in a game, a table that
averages one hundred games a day
will lengthen the playing year by
about twenty days, omitting Sundays,
and calling nine hours an average
day’s work.
Father and Son.
Columbia, S. C., Feb. 16,1881.
H. H. Warner & Co.: Sirs—I cured
myself of a kidney disease, and my son
of Bright’s Disease, by the use ot your
Safe Kidney and Liver Cure, when
every other remedy had failed.
John Aonew.
Lin cf Letter*
Remaining in the Post Office, Albany,
Ga, Dougherty County, January 18,
Allen, David Johnson, Ed
Arnold, Loui3 Johnson, Louis
Aurdt, Ida Jordan, Foster
Baiber, D Jackson, Oliver
Brooks, Mr Lovett, J
Boyd, Emily Moore, Charlie
Baley, Bobt Meakin, Ellie
Brown, Bobt Marshall, H
Baldwin, W H Pierce, Thomas
Butler, Mack Patterson, Fannie
Barlow, Consage Porter, Alice
Crawford, Andrew Reynolds, F P
Clark, Wm Robinson, Hpgh
Daniel, Harper
Diablo, Prof S E
Evans, Matilda
Gant, Peter
Hall, Anna ^
Hackney, Alex-
Hill, Ada
Hines. Nancy
Hamilton, Jack
Harris, Wm
HiU, Alex
Hagenton, Farris
Haddock, S A
Harton, D F
Jenkins, Rear
Jordon, Mary
Johnson, Calvin
Johnson, J H
Knight, C
If not called for in 30 days
sent to the Dead Letter office.
Persons calling for tho above letters
will say “Advertised.”
C. W. ARNOLD, P. M.
Robinson, Wm
Ransome, Nat
Roberts, B W (2)-
Ransom?, Martha
Smith, John
Sims, Rachel
Simmons, N (2)
Scott, Hettie
Smith, E H
Stewart, Minnie
Taylor, Phillip
Turner, J W
Tolesom, Simon
Terrell, John
Whitfield, J (2)
Wilson, Thomas
Williams, Howard
William, Jones
Warren, J M
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