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The ALBANY ADVERTISER, established 1877, (Consolidated Sept. 9,1880.
A Family A-srn Political, Journal Devoted to the Interests op Southwest Georgia.
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GA., SATURDAY, FEBRUARY 25, 1882,
a Year.
Number 24
Colombia, Brmios county, Texas, is
rei orted badly inundated. Many in
habitants fled. Others bare taken re
fuge in churches and are supplied by
boats.
It is said that the Readjustee will
soon make an effort to adjourn the
Virginia Legislature, as tho defection
from their ranks will increase if they
do not.
The Sparta Ishmaelite has absorb-
Tivies and ,Planter. The
Talk Wltn a man Who Can Whip
Any Other man In America.
Chicago Special to Cincinnati Commercial
“Do 1 think Paddy Ryan a game
man?’’ said Mr. John L. Sullivan,
as he stood among fifty of the fancy,
including Billy Madden, Pete
McCoy and PaUon Davies, in Mike
McDonald’s store this afternoon.
“Of course I do. No man ever jet
took off bis shirt to fight in a ring
unless be was a game man, for he
knows very well what he ia going
Some of the newspapers said that
Col. bRMIdki T
Lamar another nut to crack. Read his
article in this issue of the News ano
Advkbtiseb on the Tariff
Planters’ Cotton Tie Account .
A drummer in town yesterday
thought of the fact that it was his
wife's birthday. Wishing to give her
a present, he bought one pouad of good
country butter and a violet bouquet,
and earned them lo her on yesterdays
train. This drummer live* in Macon,
and says these two presents will he
most acceptable to his wife, as such
are seldom to he had in Macon.
The Georgia Coalition has been saved
the trouble and expense of advertising
for a leader by Dr. Felton, who volun
teered his services. No one appears to
be champing on the bits as a contest
ant with the Doctor for leadership, so
it is to ho presumed that he will run.
on his record, or “against time’’as it
were, while the other statesmen who
have coalesced will follow the cham
pion as “scrubs.” But followers are
going to bfl very few and far between
in this part of the State.
The &C .Louis Jtepublican hits
“Qatii’’a bird but well deserved lick
• when it says: •‘ ‘Gath’ is down South
again, and does not approve of that
section. That calls to mind that tho
South does not approve of ‘Gatli.’ But
.this peripatetic Georpo.A|ould not
stroke of the pen, tho intellectual fame
■of John C. Calhoun. Ti
olina statesman never 1
tages of association which raado a po
litical philosopher of ‘Gath.’ ”
leading Southern Senator remarked to
day at the Capitol to your correspon
dent and otheV* ihahiAi fuhlijjtaan in
or out of ; Congress'hai more Wisdom*
judgmentand^OKMl faagaditydhau
Senator Brown, kfbfifaortfb-fJ0*3*
thinks for himeelft” aaifli the
Democratic party: wiU'i^et ? r,;loae by.
heeding his adviec.’; i ,A yii;^fatt who
was present, said:
• Senator ; the Democratic partv could
afford to dispense with a national com
mittee and leave the management of
t|e next Presidential campaign to Sen
ators Brown and Gorman 8 *-
Senator Wallace.’’
•■..Oh! they have been havings regu
lar parrot and monkey oi a time down
at Quitman. Mr. S. G. Brinkley, the
new school teacher in the academy,
undertook to thrash Ledly Groover,
aged about fourteen years, for a gross
violation of the rules of the school.
The boy resisted, and undertook to
draw his knife, when Mr. Brinkley,
who is said to be a weak man physi
cally, lost his temper and handled his
rebellious pupil rather roughly. The
boy went home bleeding from a alight
wound on the head. Now that boy
has got a “paw,” Mr. Clayton Groover,
and when the latter saw his bloody,
weeping offspring he got mad. And
when he got mad he ariped himself
with a big stick and took tho nearest
trail for the academy. Oh. he was
fighting blind mad, and when he reach
ed the school room he did not linger
at the threshhold to aak questions or
demand explanation”. No. not he. He
walked right up to that school teacher
and laid him out wiih that big stick.
Bat this is not all. In the language of
the Widow Bedott, “there's lots mere
to come yet.’’ Mr. BrinkleyTell sense
less under the blow of Mr. Groover’s
stick, but he got weB tiCXfm <*»!
Ana wnen tie goti
mad. And the wall
der he got; but he didn’t get mad
enough to try to kill anybody-with
a big stick. His madness took a more
Beginning lo Realize a Small Crop
mmm Fact—AVliy It Docs Not Affect
Price*. . .
Ryap dirt very
nntil I struck him once or twice,
and after that lie was dazed—I
Alight say about half crazy.’’
“Is it true there was not a body
blow struck dliring the whole
fact; there wasn’t
Ryan’s nose is
tony direction, ao he sent off to Atlan
ta for his old frierd, Col. Joa. A an Holt
Nash, to carry a little note to Mr.
Groover. Col. Van Holt Nash re
sponded promptly, and soon delivered
a note to Mr. Groover for Mr. Brink
ley,- demanding satisfaction. Mr.
Brinkley’s note read like he “meant
business,” but Mr. Groover, instead of
complying with the forms of the code
duello, sent an apology to Mr. Brink-
ley by two of his friends. Mr. Brink-
ley declined to accept any communica
tion except through his friend, Col.
Van Holt Nash. Mr. Brinkley and
his friend seemed to be “up to suufl”
all the time, and finally got all the sat
isfaction they wanted without spilling
any gore. Meantime the trustees ot
the Academy held a meeting and
whereased and resolved and sighed
and groaned over the fracas, while the
whole town was convulsed with ex-
T the E:
Ount or
adj
• etc.,
it is from that source we gather
foregoing facts.
fight ?”
“Yes, {hat is a
one.”
“Do yon think
broken?”
“I do not; it was that blow ill the
nose that split his lip, and knocked
him down, blit I don’t think it broke
Iris nose.”
• “Some of the newspapers repre
sent that Ryan was whipped by fee
ing knocked out of his senses until
after time was called by your last
blow, and that blow was delivered
on the neck; is that true?’’
’ “No, that is a mistake. On the
last round I fought him down, and
he fell in a heap from a succession
ofblows on his head, not from any
particular one. His strength was
evercomennd exhausted.”
“How did you feel when Ryan
struck you that blow on the left
'eye ?”
“lie didn’t strike me there with
his fist; that black eye came from
lii* failing toward me from weak
ness, and striking me with his
head; in fact, he struck me no blows
on the face. His blows all fell on
tho back of. my head, which was
much better for me,’’
•‘Did you part oil good terms?’’
“Oh, yes; we shook hands pleas
antly at parting.” .
“Are you thinking of another
match yet ?”
“No, not yet I don’t mean to he
a prize fighter more than a year or
two more.’’
“Do you think a man is apt to gel
killed in the ring?”
“No; I do not. I think whenever
mdti are killed in the prize ring it is
in consequence of their having some
thing the matter with them, like
heart disease.”
“Have you scruples of conscience
about fighting?” ^ •
“I have hot. I never fight a man
to kill him—I fight him only to lick
him.”
“Doesn’t it generate a great feel
ing of hatred ?”
“Not at all. Sometimes, when it
lain- dispute which Is the better
ranD,bad .feeling springs up, hut
there is, no bad feeling in a fight, or
after it.’’
Billy Madden is considerably
proud of bis, piotege, and he said Re
would match Sullivan with gloves
against any living man without
gloves. Ho says speculators are try
ing to work up another match, hut
he doesn’t know a living man in
America, England or A'ustralia, who
would bo likely to fight Sullivau. He
says Ryau said when Sullivan first
struck him ho thought a telegraph
pole had been shoved against him
endwise. No one would ever guess,
from his appearance, that he had
been through a “mill” within a
week. He is slightly yellow under
the left eye, and there is a speck of
bloodshot in the eye, and there is a
small gash on the first knuckle of
the left hand, which came in contact
with one of Ryan’s teeth, but with
those exceptions he appears to be in
the flower of health aud spirits.
A.S of considerable interest to onr
commercial readers we give the fol
lowing synopsis of the last monthly
circular of Messrs. Smith, Edwards
& Co., of Liverpool. Alluding to
the situation ot the cotton trade
they say:
“The prospects of onr market have
been very keenly discussed of late
in connection with the extraordina
ry and unlooked for colla'pse in
American receipts. The great fea
ture of the mouth has been the ap
parent drying np of the American
crop, leading, as it has done, to a
large reduction in current crop esti
mates. At the end of the year the
favorite idea in this couutij was six
millions, though in America lower
figures prevailed; bat so bitter was
the memory of last season that the
public could not be persuaded to be
lieve in so shortacrop as the Ameri
cans constantly-asserted.
“Now, however, it is clear to every
one that the very bad accounts which
we received unceasingly since last
September have had only too much
foundations fact, and even the
bureau estimate of 4,900,000 bates,,
which we all thought so absurd at
the time, had at least some semblance
to truth. We have seldom or never
seen sci startling a collapse in figures
as was witnessed this month. Vari
ous explanations are tendered to ac
count for it, such as bad roads, spec
ulative holding by planters,
etc., but we must admit that
the unanimous opinion in America,
so far as yve understand it, is that
exhaustion of supply is the true ex
planation. The general opinion in
the Sooth now is that the yield will
not exceed 5,500,000, a few in New
York adhere to 5,750,000, but others
go as low as 5,250,000. We venture
no opinion, except that the sca’e of
receipts during January looks more
like 5,500,000.than any other figure.
“Not less wonderful than the col
lapse of receipts is the perfect Indiff
erence with Which it is regarded.
Had any one in December been ask
ed to predict the effect of such small
figures, he could have confidently
prophesied a sharp advance; but a
series of events, which we have al
ready glanced at, chief among which
is the disturbance of the money mark
et and the dull state of trade, has
neutralized for the present the great
reduction in our probable supply of
cotton.
“The large movement pf crop at
Bombay, and at the heavy ship
ments to this country, also tend in
the same direction, and it is coming
to be felt that there will he no severe
scarcity even with a crop of five and
a : half millions, while five and three-
quarter millions will yield suffi
cient." ...
Endorses flic Platform Formulated
by Dr. Felton, and Blodestty An
nounces Himself as an lndepen- !
dent Candidate for 4,'overnor.
JAMES CALLAWAY, EIIITUR
Camilla, Ga., February 24,1882.
Atlanta Post-Appeal.
? For several months past great
nnxiety has existed in the public
mind throughout the State to know
what position Gen. Lucius J. Gar-
treit would take in the coming cam
paign. Hundreds of friends all over
Georgia have been pressing him to
define his position. Alter repeated -sj-p. - ”.,7
solicitation, the Post Appeal is glad e ‘ ,h,n “ 9 Mr ' Uav,s sa,d •
to announce that on Saturday oneof
its reporters obtained from him the
following interview:
“Gen. Gartrell, it has been under
stood fc-r several months that yon
will be an Independent Democratic
candidate for Governor at the elec
tion to be held next fall, and the peo
ple thronghont Georgia arc anxious
that you should make some distinct
declaration on the subject.”
“I have not hesitated - when ap
proached on the subject to state
that, ia ebedience to the earnest so
licitation of friends, I wouid allow
the use of my name as a candidate
for Governor at the election in Oc
tober next,' and that, at the proper
time, I wonld, in an address to my
fellow-citizens, formally and fnlly
set forth the principles and rules of
conduct by which I shall be govern
ed in the event of my election.”
“Then I may announce your can
didacy asa fact?” asked the repor
ter.
‘II was not my purpose this early
to announce my candidacy, but as
■he canvass seems already to have
been opened, I yield to the general
desire of my friends in making this
announcement, and in doing so
A DRUNKEN ULAN’S DEED.
A Woman’s Brain* Scattered on tlie
Floor,
A Soft Place.
“I was down to see the widow
yesterday,’’ said Tim’s ancle, “and
she gave me backbones for‘dinner.
I went down rather early In the
morniig; we talked, and langhed,
and chattered, and ran on, she going
in and out occasionally to see to
things till dinner was ready, when
she helped me graciously to back
bones. Now, 1 thought that, Tim,
rather favorable. I took it as a
symptom of personal approbation,
because everybody knows I love
backbones, and I flattered myself
she had cooked them on purpose for
me. So I grew particularly cheer
ful, and I thought I could see it in
her, too. So after dinner, while sit
ting close beside the window, I
fancied both felt sorter comfort
able like—I know I did. I felt that
l had fallen over bead and ears in
love with her, and I imagined from
tfiq way she looked, she fell teeth
aiid toe naiis in love with me. She
appeared just for all the world liko
she thought it was coming, that I
was going to court her. Presently;
•I couldn't help it, I laid my hand on
her beautiful shoulder, and I re-
remarked, when I had placed it
there, in my blandest tones, Tim, for
1 tried to throw my whole soul into
the expression, I ’ remarked then,
with my eyes pouring love, truth,
and fidelity right into her, ‘Widow,
this is the nicest, softest place I Over
had my hand in my life.’
“Looking benevolntly at me, and,
at) the same time flushing a little,
she said, in melting and winning
tones: ‘Doctor, give me your hand,
and I’ll put it on a much softer
place.’
“In a moment, in rapture, I con
sented, and, taking my hand, she
gently, very gently, Tim, and quiet
ly laid it on my’ head—and burst
into a laugh that’s ringing in my
ears yet
“Now, Tim, I haven’t told this to
a living soul but yon, and by jinks I
you musn’t;butl couldn’t hold it
but mind,
any longer, so I tell you; 1
it musn’t go any further.”
A woman cared her hnshand of
staying out late at night by going
to the door wheh he came home
and wh !
hole,. ~
husba
effect in the woman’s prosperity we earnestly desire and
face. Her brains were w m diligently foster; and to this
Columbus Enqufrer-Suu.
Last night the facts.of a most terri
ble tragedy, enacted at Hood, the
-terminus of the Columbus and Rome
railroad, reached this city. Yester
day afternoon Mr. Robert Garner
was drinking, hut hia friends antici
pated no mischief at his hands.
About 7:30 o’clock he was at tie
store oi Mr. Zac. Hardy, and a ne
gro woman named Vick Simpson
aud a negro ng) were njso in the
store. Mr. Garner had a dispnte
with tho woman about opening a
door, whan he picked qp a shot-gun
and threatened to shoot the woman
and the map. It is said that the
negro man told him the gun was
not loaded and that Garner thought
it was not. Our informant did not
know whether Up was pointing it to
ward her on purpose or not, bltt the
gun was discharged and the whole
load took “
head and
scattered over the floor and she died
almost instantly.
It was said to be a most ghastly
sight, and all froiu a careless use of
fire arms in the bauds of a drunken
man. The gentleman who relates
the circumstance of tho killing could
not tell how the gun was discharged,
more than that it waB said to be pu re
ly accidental.
It is stated that the young man
was very much depressed, and even
while drunk regretted as deeply as
possible that such a terrible tragedy
should come from his hands. It is
enough to make him ieel regrets.
He has taken the- iife of a human
being without provocation and all
by a careless act. That he would
not have committed the deed inten-
tionolly for any amount that could
be named may all he very trie, hnt
this does not bring the dead to life,
nor does it atone for his careless
ness. Had he done the shooting pur
posely, the law woald not excuse
him on the ground of being drunk.
Humanity is more charitable than
the law is merciful, and this will
make the public look at the matter
more as a strong temperance lec
ture. No doobt Mr. Garner feels
sad, and it should be a warning, not
only to him bat to all others, never
to again drink the vile staff that robs
him of his reason.
igh the key-
Uie ?” Her
n, and he
stay vat-home evfcij-nfght now, and v».......------ —— . — -—c— —
he sleeps with one eve open and a I the subject of much amusement
revolver under his pillow. I among the Legislators.
law making In Virginia.
Virginia Letter.
Somebody will get hurt befoie
this Legislatnre adjourns. It has
jnst leaked out that Mr. Owens, the
capitol clerk, discharged some weeks
since and a negro substitute in the
auditor’s office pot in hia place, has
found out that a certain member of
the House was instrumental in hav
ing him (Owens) discharged. Late
Tuesdey night, or rather early "Wed
nesday morning, Owens went to the
member’s room and told him to get
up and dress himself, as he -was
going to thrash him. The member
dressed himself and they went into a
rough-and-tumble fight, keeping it
np until both got out of wind, when
a member coming to the rescue they
declared a truce. The most Indi
crons part of the fisticuff was the
crying out of the attacking party in
the midst of the melee not to strike
his vaccinated arm, and his oppo
nent was so considerate as to re
spect the requestor the man who
was thrashing him. After pu mm cl
ing the delegate, Owens added
insnlt to injury by making the dele-
. drink-iw.itb him- The fight is
trust it will not be inferred that 1
wish to create any division or politi
cal excitement among our people.
Nor is it my intention or desire to
disgorge or disrupt (even were it
my power to do so) either the Na
tional Democratic or Republican
parties. I realize and shall insist
upon the great right of the people
to select, by a free ballot and fair
count, their own servants and agents
to administer their government for
them and for their benefit without
caucus dictation or the application
of the party lash.”
“You are, then, an Independent
Democratic candidate for Govern
or?”
“I am; and if elected it will be
my earnest desire, by strict and gn-
remitting attention to the duties of
this high and responsible office, to
see to it that the laws are so admin
istered as to advance the prosperi
ty, protect the rights, apd-promote
• he welfare of all the people of our
beloved State. The people are enti
tled to efficient, impartial and good
government. It is not only the
right but the doty of freemen of all
classes to demand it, To secure
this end, I believe—and I cannot
better express it than in the lan
guage of a distinguished Georgian
—‘That every child should have the
opportunity of acquiring a common
English education in schools forever
made freelby a liberal support from
the State Government.
“‘That monopolies, by which a
privileged class exercise a control
ling power oveivthe properly and
labor of a multitude'of citizens, are
opposed to the genius and spirit of
our government; and we will stead
ily resist every measure or system
that tends to concentrate political
power or undue business opportoni
ties in the hands of the few at the
expense of the many.
“‘That the present system of leas
ing the State convicts mast be wiped
from our statutes as a tool blot upon
oqr civilization and hnmanity.
“That party proscription and sec
tional prejudices have greatly retard
ed the material development and
growth of our Sta’e—which material
end we will use every moral and le
gal-means to suppress proscription
and to liberalise sectional prejudices
—recognizing the unity of our com
mon Federal government, and
equality of all men before the laws.’
■ “You endorse, then, the platform
of principles recently formulated by
Dr. Felton.7’
“Ido.”
“What about the alleged coalition
in Georgia? 1 ’
“I do not believe that any coalition
has been formed, or even contem
plated. In the progressive and lib
eral movement now sweeping this
State I rejoice that the people have
become alive to their true interests,
and that men of all parties who think
and act for themselves have resolv
ed to unite for the patriotic purpose
of securing good government.”
“General, I thank yon,’’ and the
reporter retired.
President Arthur’* Romance,
Wathiogton Cor. Boston Adrestlser.
When a-young lawyer, unknown
to fame, Chester Arthur happened
to attend service at the old Church
of St. John’s, in this city. There he
.beard for the first time the rick so^
prano voice of Ella Herndon, as the
notes of the “Yenite” rang through
the shabby old chnrch. She was the
daughter of a saval officer, who had
won distinction in the Mexican war
and commanded an exploring expe
dition np the Amazoh. Bat his
crowning deed of valor was upon
the ill-starred steamer Central
America, that foundered near Ha-
vanna with several hundred passen
gers and more than a million in gold.
By his heroic efforts, about halt of
the passengers were saved, and,
faithful to his trust, the gallant cap
tain' went down with his ship, which
he refused to desert. The echo of
the sweet voice still lingered with
Mr. Arthur, and soon after her great
sorrow he sought the acquaintance
of the fatherless girl,-andshe became
his wife. Now, every Sunday, on
foot and unattended, President Ar
thur finds his way to the dingy lit
tle church, and sits in the pew where
the beautiful Lady Madison wor
shipped so long ago. Perhaps,amid
the “Venite” to-day he hears “the
sound of a voice that is still’’—the
voice of one whose portrait hangs in
his chamber. Amid the pressure of
State duties, it is said, the President
never forgets the daily tribute of
flowers to the inemory’of this lady,
who, had she lived, wonld have
graced the White House.
—I have just re-iead “F. A. B’s.”
account of his visit to Jefferson
Davis. The Southern Cultivator
and Dixie Farmer published this
correspondence in the February
number. What an interesting visit
“F. A. B.’’ made of It 1 Amongplh-
War was
not necessary to the abolition of
slavery. Years before the agitation
began at the North and the menacing
nets to the institution, there was a
growing feeling all over the South
for its abolition, but the abolition
ists of the North, both by publica
tion and speech, cemented the South,
and crashed the feeding in favor of
emancipation. Slavery could huve
been blotted oat without the sacri
fice of brave men, and without the
strain which revolution always
makes upon established forms of
government I see it stated that 1
uttered the sentiment or endorsed
it, that ‘slavery is the corner-stone
of the Confederacy.’ That is not
my utterance.’’
“Slavery, the corner-stone of the
Confederacy,’’ was the utterance of
Alex H. Stephens in hia Savannah
speech—dubbed the “coruer-stone”
speech. “This stone, which was re
jected by the first builders,. ‘is be
come the chief corner-stoue’*in our
new edifioe.” I. W. Avery iu his
new book, called the “History of
Georgia,” says of this speech : “If
put squarely against the Confedera
cy the abolition sentiment of the
world. It prevented foreign recog
nition, It narrowed the issue from
the broad domain of political inde
pendence, founded upon a contract
that had been violated, and upon
which the sympathy of the world
was with ns, to the untenable foot
hold of the intrinsic righteousness
and supreme good policy of slavery,
in which civilized mankind stood
against us. It changed the battle
ground, shifted the war flag, sub
stituted a new slogan, and pnt us in
isolation.’’ According to this, Mr.
Stephens proved the “evil genius”
of the'Confederacy ip its inception
as well as its close.
Mr. Stephens was born on tho 11th
of February, 1821,'and was 49 years
of age on tLe day he took the oath
as Vice-President of the Confedera
cy. The night of the day on which
the Confederacy waa ushered into
existence, Mr.Stephens was serenad
ed, and an immense throng gather
ed to bear him. In this model
speech he said: “Ours Is a repub
lic, and all republics, to be perma
nent and prosperous, mast he sup
ported by the virtue, intelligence,
integrity and patriotism or the peo
ple. These are the corner-stones
upon which the temple of popular
liberty must he constructed, and
stand securely and permanently.’’
In this same address is this sentence:
“We ask of others simply to be let
alone, and permitted to look after
our own safety, security and bapppi-
ness our own way, without molesting
or giving cffbncp to other people.”
This is a peculiar sentence in the
light of event”. “To be let alone!”
How we have bogged that simple
boon ever since llie war! To be
■e’ alone, to" look after our own
safety and happiness in our own way!
Bat this boon is not granted as yet.
When Mr. Arthur sent Mr. Steph
ens a bnnch of flowers on his seven
tieth birthday, it wonld have been
appropriate to have copied the
above sentence from his Montgom
ery speech in hia reply of “thanks.’’
The grand old commoner, now sev
enty, and Senator Brown, the great
apostle of acquiescence, and Sena
tor Hill, who wants onr Father's
House to remain as the old heroes
left it—all may beg this boon for the
Sonth to be let alone to look after
onr own safety in onr own way, but
it will not he granted. So long as
we have an irresponsible, unthink
ing element, withont that virtue and
intelligence necessary to the perpe-
tnity^of a State (or republic,) so long
will Republican Administrations
seek to let ns not alone, and permit
ns not to look after onr own affairs
in onr own way. We are but step
children to a Stalwart Administra
tion. We are not allowed the easy
way of sons~and daughters. All
our little foibles and defects are
paraded and held np and talked
about.
—Brother McIntosh has again
found it necessary to correct W. T.
Thompson, of the Savannah News.
The veteran editor, it seems, still
insists that the opposition to Col-
qnitt was the foundation of this
present coalition movement. It is
better to not call np the acts of that
convention. Had there been a
nomination, perhaps the coalition or
Dr. Felton would have had less
hope. Party fealty and party ad
hesion, rather than personalism,
should have been the object of the
majority of the convention. But in
spite of the convention and the dis
graceful campaign, the people are
union enough in feeling and senti
ment not to join a coalition that prom
ises nothing. What does the coalition
promise? Does it offer better wages
to the laborer, help the needy, edu
cation to the ignorant? Will it keep
off the caterpillars,prevent rnstin cot
ton,.bring rain in June, furnish food
or raiment? Of coarse not. Politi
cally jnst now, Georgia is doing
very well. Messrs. Brown and
Hill and Stephens all agree that we
are progressive, moving on with
the changes last enough. Bourbon'
ism means opposition to progressive
ness—a failure to acquiesce in the
new featnres ingrafted on the Con
stitution by the war, aud a desire to
restore the old order of things. Our
readers are well posted as to the
state of feeling in Georgia, and con
sequently know how silly and dema'
gogueish it is to chargo our people
with Bourbonism. The word has no
meaning in. Georgia. The facts do
not fit it. It was a good word to
apply to the condition of France af
ter the fall of Lonis XVI., when the
House of Bourbon desired to rein
state its line of rnlership.
It makes no difference what im
pressions Dr. Felton labored under
or what impresrions editor W. T.
Thompson labors under, those who
supported Norwood are still Demo
crats, and expect to be. The cam
paign, though so disgraceful, did
this much good—it awaked the
whole people; they know more of a
Governor’s duties, and their anger
over the past mismanagement
brought about a wholesome change.
—Many of onr farmers havo plant
ed corn. Others say they look for
much rain yet, and would prefer to
plant after the rains. In portions of
Sonth west Georgia we hear of the
Hessian fly in the oats. If they at
tack the oats here and the crop is
«nt short, the com crop oan be in
creased by applying gnano in -the
siding furrow. The warm weather
is favorable to the Hessian fly. It
was they which produced rust two
years ago. From our talkB with
farmers gnano alone is not pat so
much on cotton this spring, bat ap>
plied to corn, while the phosphates
and composts are nsed for cotton.
We nsed to hear old farmers say
that cotton seed listed on was not a
good manure for cotton. If the seed
ore listed on early enough not to
sprout about planting time they are
excellent, especially if some acid
phosphate is pnt out with them.
We have seen no farmer fixing
np his place in such good order as
Mr. James Palmer. He has well-
arranged gates to his fields and high
fences; and his place looks as if
farmer lived on it Farms do not
look that way where the owners
live at a distance and have agents.
—From an article by J. W. Walk
er, Franklin, N. C., in the Cullivat-
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ONV sinara m
or and Dixie Farmer, we extract as
follows: “Hypophosphites was
fonnd about two years ago, near
here, on the hill above the famous
Consumption Spring, by a gentle
man, while having a well dng. It
is a whitish substance, having a pe
culiar taste. It has been analyzed
by chemists and found to contain all
the elements of several of the hypo-
phosphites, a phosphate and sul
phate or so, besides other properties.
Its great value consists in its medi
cal properties and the wonderful
power it has in caring that dreadful
disease, consumption. It has never
been known to fail in a single case,
and since its discovery the famous
Consumption Spring has nearly
gone into disuse, because the hypo-
phosphites act more speedily and
sorely - than the spring water , and
is less expensive, as it can he nsed
at home.’’ *“ Y '
—The same correspondent has
this to say 6f Lespezeda striata or
Japan clover: “It will grow, ac
cording to the soil, all the way from
one inch to two feeL It is of a most
rapid increase and speedily eradi
cates broom sedge. It will grow on
the poorest soils. Cattle are inordi
nately fond of it, and keep fat on it
from first appearance until frost. It
doeB not require plowing or har
rowing in; just sow on the surface
and it will grow.”
—Bill Arp, on city and country
life, has this to say: “A town boy’s
liver is always getting ont of order,
and a town girl don’t cat much of
anything but candy and ice cream
and cake, and by the time she has
two or three weasel-faced children,
which have to he raised on the bot
tle, she is pretty well nsed np, and
has to go to the springs every sum
mer. Who ever heard ot country
folks going to the springs?’’
—Camilla holds np pretty well.
The trade has not fallen off, as we
expected, although we saw a crowd
a few days ago draw a ring, as if
ready for a game of marbles.
—Mr. Charlie Roles has made a
new house ont of his old one, and it
looks cozy indeed.
—T. R. Lyon, Esq., has gone to
Florida on a tour for his health. He
does not know when he will return.*
We trust he will find a bracing cli
mate and regain his strength and
vigor. He promises to let hisfriands
hear from him through this depart
ment. We hope he will not disap
point us. We felt sad to see Tom
go. He is away from the pleasures
of home, seeking health in a land of
strangers. The best of luck to him.
—To those of our subscribers who
are in arrears and have not the cash
we say we will take cotton seed,
corn, potatoes, guano, chickens, eggs,
anything that will make “the pot
bile’’ or buy'.“the baby a frock.”
The Apt and Brief Chronicler.
Ktshville American.
Were the editorof a newspaper to
dictate what shall appear in the col
umns of his paper, and what should
be left out, he might make a very
valuable paper of it, and it would
be a vast improvement possibly on
the paper as it Is, but it wonld not
be a newspaper. There are many
organs of special causes, but they are
not newspapers* and do not pretend
to be; they are organs and month-
pieces of the causes they represent.
If the editor conld make the news,
i£ he could control events, the
world, l.ke his newspaper, would be
vastly improved. There is not an
able-bodied editor in the land who
is not confident he could improve
on the present order of things could
he have his way; bat, as he cannot,
he is bohnd to accept them as they
are, and make hi9 newspaper a faith
ful reflection of the passing show;
and he endeavors to compass su
much that there will be something
to suit the tastes of everybody in his
news columns. He cannot expect
to suit all tastes in everything, and
if he tries to do that, a brief experi-
ence soon convinces him that he is
destined to make a melancholy fail
ure of it. S5o he becomes cosmopol
itan in spirit at last, and gives a
hearing and space to whatever event-
commands for the moment public-
attention.
BUST PBOOF SEED OiTS,
I OFFER for sale ten thousand bushels of
Genuine Texas Red Rust Proof Oats se-
lectod by a party on the spot with a rievr to
getting nothing but the genuine article. ~
are the same quality that I sold so m
last season, which gave such genera
tion; in fact I have not heard of a.
stance in which they failed give perfect
tion. If reports from the com crops out West
“^toheCTedited, the . price of corn willri le
much higher next season than it did the past,
hence the necessity of sowing more Oatsand
earlier than last season, in order to secure a
stand before the freesea come on them. I am
1 to dll orders for early sowing. The
for Seed Oats will be unprecedented-
“ have advices from
the price of
, for those in
needof Seed Oats to secure them at once.
Lytt exchange Oats for Cotton Seed, or
jriR buy aii the Cotton Seed! oan get, at the
highest market price, for the money.
J. R, FORRESTER.
Albany, Ga., AugustMth, 1881.
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W. H. Brimberry,
.Manufacturer of and dealer in
Carriages and Buggies,
CAMILLAg GrA,
A GENERAL assortment of Buggies al
ways on hand, and for sale at as low
prices as first-class work can be furnished
anywhere in this section. All work turned
out of
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satisfaction.
I also deal in
offins, Burial Caskets,
And all kinds of Undertaker’s Goods. A full
line of Coffins, etc., constantly on hand.
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W. D. BLOXH AM. Got. of Fla.
GEO. F.-DREW. Ex-Gov. of Fla.
Hon. T. M. NORWOOD,
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Hon. GEO. B. BLACK,
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