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EDITORIAL NOTES.
If the <Ha<l«toiJe Minisfry- go aht,
will not its pence policy go with it?
«T,
Chattanooga has begun the manu
facture of steel rails witboutany “pro
tection” agafnsf PJt6>|urg p4ai4c4]
turers.
profitable b
Iteabi,
Disturbing my serener life.
ty reason’s sway;
Calm pleasure cornea where lore’s bestowed:
And quiet friendship soothes mv wav
Along Jife’s peaceful autumn road.* }
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No fierce ambition drives me on;
I gaze from life's sublimest hill
On dangers past and victories wm.
laisteSd,
mg sun.
—Ji**e II. L&rd.
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It Is hard to find a man so depraved
as to be without any good point. Old
Ossawattoinie Brown scrupulously
avoided the inexcusable and ridiculous
habit of profane swearing.
John Bull could stand defeat in
Egy.pt jtnd humiliation ip-^igbanii- I’ve^een'hfm stand a h*mdred-feet off
A
\
tan, but when the Government laid
bands on the old fellow’s liquor be
.straightway,got on the rampage.
The specimen extracts from Gener
al GrantVWjck lmlfeatfe that it will be
a “child-like and bland” production,
lie writes fully as well as Oliver
Cromwell did when Ids liver was off
duty. ' ’ _
The post-offices in the Indian Terri
tory should have Indian postmasters.
Will a Democratic Administration in
dict carpet-baggers on any people un
der the sun ? ;Jt would be an inexcus
able outrage.
Mb. Cleveland lias “recognized”
Henry Ward. Beecher’s services in his
interest by the appointment of the
Brooklyn preacher’s son, Ilerliert, to
be collector of customs in the Puget
Sound district of Oregon.
The Y. M. CyA. fund of the Atlan
ta Constitution is about ten thousand
dollars greater than the Pedestal fund
of ti/e New York World, and lias been
collected in less than half of the time.
This is a big feather in the cap of the
Gate Ci^y. :. .
Asiatic cholera has been olHchilly
declared to be epidemic in the province
of Valencia, Spain. It will be a rare
deliverance if the United States should
escape its ravages. The most rigid
quarantine should be maintained at all
the Atlantic ports.
The lightning continues lo strike
the capstone of Citizen George Wash
ington’s monument. Editor Beid
may think that this is because he was
a “rebel”; but we suspect it is be
cause the shaft is too exalted. Light
ning won’t take a dare.
We are sorry that the Telegraph lias
so little influence with Mr. Cleveland,
but, really, it is the Telegraph's fault.
It could have suggested a better line
of Federal appointments than we are
likely to have, under prevailing meth
ods of distributing patronage.
4 ‘Tinkkiong on economic questions’*
is how the beneficiaries of protection
term reform tariff legislation. A dog
will fight to retaiu possession of a
juicy bone when he gets hold on it.
The beneficiaries of protection don’t
intend to give up their bone without a
fight... No wonder “tinkering” seems
to them a great sin.
Thebe is a great deal of luxuriant
grass in Georgia to-day, and it is of
indigenous growth. There will be a
great deal of hay iu Georgia next
winter, but it will come across a num
ber of State lines to get here. Geor
gia farmers work hard to destroy the
grass in order to raise cotton with
which to buy the grass which the
Northern farmer saves.
It is claimed that the revised edi
tion of the Old Testa incut needs revi
sion, and we suspect it does. But
where is this thing to stop? Some of
us can’t live long enough to get a text
that will satisfy the scholars of all de
nominational persuasions. After all,
it is not so great a matter what one
may think as to Samson’s foxes and
the wheat fields of the Philistines, or
as-lo Jonah’s adventure with the
whale, if he but “fear God and keep
His commandments.”
So far, the temperance movement in
Georgia has l>een conducted with less
intemperance and more positive wis
dom than* have characterized the
movement in any other State in the
Union. It is to be honed that the com
ing ei^uveiitioh in Atlanta-will repress
radical- tendencies, and let
the good 'Cause continue to" ? win victo
ries on the present line of policy. It
is a great' socic* f question. Let the
Legislature pass a gerftyal local option
law and leave the rest for the people.
This should not be askc.l as a privi
lege; it should hi* demanded as a
right.
El Maudi lias issued a proclamation
auuouncing his purpose to invade both
Egypt and Arabia. And so the report
that a rival False Prophet had seat-
tered -the old fellow’s forces, and
driven him back into the desert was
false, like most of the other reports
from that quarter. The announce
ment is indicative of serious trouble to
Turkey, and possibly to England. The
Soudan has been evacuated. The
Mahdi’s troops follow the retreating
English and Egyptian troops and oc
cupy all abandoned positions. Osman
Digna still haugs- like a storm cloud
over Suakin. - He imav capture*,it by a
sudden dasil, amt open communication
with Arabia—just across the Red sea.
Ei Mahdi is victorious. There is no
disputing the tact: and there is no rea
son to doubt that he will turn the fact
to a tumultuous account.
“The Natioual aud State banks are
showing a disposition to assist the
treasury in getting minor silver coins
into circulation, ami offers are received
daily from the banks to take a special
sum weekly, in this currency,” says a
Washington dispatch. This is good
so far as tt goes, and it is bettor late
than never. If they had shown this
disposition all the while, aud hail ex
tended it to the standard silver dollars
at the urgent instance of honest,
law-abiding 'treasury officiiAs; as should
have been the case, there would have
been no occasion for the howl about
the silver dollar’s notbeingan “honest
dollar!” It is an honest dollar, but it
has not been honestly dealt with. If
the “disposition to assist” ^n gettin;
these coins into circulation had exist
ed all the.while there would have been
no point in the dispatch. The fact
that it did not exist shows what has
My earthly work is nearly done,
A calm come, to me fnim the skier,
As slowly sinks life’s scttina'snn.
11Crib" an
convicts. 3*50.13 Oi .
“After living a short lime in Mel
bourne, hisjlislike.or.the city "As .being:
the place where he had suffered :so.
much, unjustly, Urpve him tojnbve
TAfMLtia M fcfthlijiinp cut
far npTnlo’Vlie" inferior, in the" Bush,
miles away from any human" beings,
except the natives, and there built a log
hut abiitived ibr twelve years.
“I was bom soon after pur new
home wes 'fi nished, and in le
" J yea I* after, my bro there,:
jw np together,’ with no com]
ip but each other ami the i
who HVed in'flurmoomaii
us. From. them .we learned howto
throw'the' boomerang' and draw the
6 We
the
bow at abnndred yards, even if it was
raining "at foil speed, and smash a
bottle set behind* txee a ) hundred feet
away, with the boomerang.
“wi hen I was thirteen and my broth
er eleven, father discovered gold-on his
A CONVICTS SON.
By A. J. Lehman, in Tid-Bits.
“He was the best shot around. .Wily,
How He Got the Best or Tbrock
morton in a Game at Whist.
From a Washington Letter. . f:
Senator Beck, of Kentucky^ Is. one
of the best story-tellers in. CongresV.
He went to school as iTWpy at a college
near jCshland, the residence of Henry
Clay, and he describedxhe other night
a visit which a number of the college
boys made upon the old statesman. ”
said: “As Mr. Clay rose to meet us
face shone with smile, aud eveiy /bp;
in the party \yas straightway his
friend. In.the course of the talk hi
asked-us what we thought of his pic
tures. There were a number, some
paintings and some engravings, hang
ing upon the walls in different parts
of'the room. We finally decided upon
one, the picture of a woman holding a
bowl of steaming mush in her hand,
__ as the-finest on^liEthet collection. As
farm, which by that time had grown we did'so Mr. Clay laughed and said:
to thousands of acres, ami in two {*¥cs, boys, I think you have picked
—A considerable amount of build
ing is going on in Thomasville. It is
bound to grow.
—An -ailjmifned term of Schley Su-
-pertor" Court commenced yesterday,
Judge John,T. Clark* presiding.
—Americus win's a large hotel. A
great many places need something of
the sort* without seeming to want it.
—Atlanta Constitution: While break
ing some eggs for dinner yesterday
ts. Botes, who lives on Decatur
' broke an egg of unusual size,
it was found another egg, per
fectly formed and with a shell.
—“Will the pr^ss of Georgia please
agitate the question of a technical
school before thb Legislature meets?
Legislators have^to be educated to
public necessities as well as otlier peo
ple,” says the Montezuma Record. .
been and _
silver money.
and pnt five arrows, one after another,
into the bull’s-eye,” exclaimed Frank
Howson, enthusiastically,, as his older
brother’s.prowess with the ashen bow
rose up.before his mind. .
This remarkable statement caused a
profound sensation among the group
of young archer# lying beneath one of
the largest. ptms^whieh skirted the
lawn which ran,down from Mr. IIow-
sou’s villa to the sparkling river be
low.
It was a glorious August afternoon,
and the half-dozen schoolmates of
Frank, whom he had invited to spend
the summer with him at his father’s
place on the Hndson, had just appear
ed with long bows and quivers full of
arrows for a “range” in the woods
which covered the southern part of the
llowson estate.
A murmur of wonder and admiration
rose from the “boys ofLincoln Green*”
to whom their young host’s elder
brother appeared a wonderful marks
man.
To all but one, to speak more cor
rectly, and Frank, who chanced to be
looking at him, saw his full lip curl
with a contemptuous smile, which the
next moment disappeared.
Not, however, before Frank, net
tled at the smile, had cried:
“Perhaps you don’t believe, Bud
Murkbam? You are always laughing
at everybody. Maybe you could do as
well, or perhaps better, yourselt ?”
The oue addressed, ji slender, dark
faced boy of about sixteen, turned his
brown eyes upon the speaker with an
. _ _ —The Sumter Republican te\\s> of an
months thei country was flooded with out my best picture jnd as you have old that ,« fon 01lt about a chew
miners and he was worth half a mil-« doueso l must tell its history. I gpt • ■ * „ . „
lion dollars.. v -that picture at Ghent^.and in a cnrioii3 of tobacco and come near separating
•n-isi* way. Albert'Gallatin, John Quincy *« "Ananniumm. it u .. mmr nw
Adams. aqd myself were there making
the treaty,'and Mr. Gallatin and my
self took chances in a picture rafiie.
My prize turned out to be that pic
ture,’. pointing to an inferior engrav-
ipologetle look.
“I did i
not mean to smile incredul
ously, but I could not help it—it
seemed such an easy thing to do.”
“Humph! perhaps you could do it
yourself?” said Frank sneeringly.
“I could—and better!” replied Biicl,
confidently.
“Let’s see you do it, then,” cried
the others incredulously.
In answer the boy took a memoran
dum book from his pocket, tore a leaf
from it, ami then with his pencil
marked a circle of black in the centre,
about the size of a peuuy, then,, he
walked to an elm, about two hundred
feet from them—pinned the leaf to it,
and returned.
“What on earth do you mean to
do?” asked Frank, in amazemeut. as
he stared at the paper and theu at his
guest.
• “I mean to hit it. You haven’t seen
me try the bow vet, you know,” an
swered Bud, with a laugh, as he drew
the longest of his arrows from his
quiver, carefully, notched, and draw
ing it to the head, aimed it for a sec
ond at the troe, and theu let fly.
The shaft darted through theratrand
buried itself fully two inches in the
tree, passing directly through the cen
tre of the paper.
A shout of wonder arose from his
comrades, but without heeding them
he quickly drew another and shot
again, the arrow also striking the
black circle which was now filled by
the two shafts.
“I can’t land another there, but I
can split the first one,” he said c re-
lessly, as he shot again, and the third
arrow struck the notch of the first and
split it nearly half its length.
“Where—on—earth—did you ever
learn to handle a bow that way ? There
isn’t an archer iu America who could
do it unless he was an Indian, and I
don’t-believe any of them could !” ex
claimed the amazed Frank.
The other hesitated a moment as he
sat down on the grass, aud then, with
a flush on his dark face, said:
“I have never told you fellows where
I was born, or where I livediratil I
come to your school and I suppose you
think I am an American, but Din not.”
“What are you, then—an Indian?”
ejaculated Jim Crawford, one of his
schoolmates.
No—worse than that! I am the
son of a convict! 1 was born iu Aus
tralia. where my father was transported
lor life; twenty-eight years ago!”'said
Markham, quietly, as he looked at the
faces ot his comrades.
Frank Howson instinctively drew
away from him, as did the others, and
for a moment no one spoke.
“It seems I’ve made a mistake, I
thought you were the sou of an honest
mail, or* I should never have invited
you here!” said Frank, bluntly, at last,
with a flush of vexation, as he abruptly
rose to go.
“So he was, as honest a man as ever
breathed. Don’t be too quick to as
sume that human justice is never
wrong, nor that the law never makes a
mistake, my dear Frank,” said Bud,
with an impressive earuestness which
made bis hearers hesitate to follow the
angry Frank, who turned and looked
at BudJ
“Whitt do you mean?” be asked.
You know very well that if you’re
the sou of a convict we can’t associate
with yon, and so I’ll tell thecoachinau
to have the carriage ready for the five
o’clock train.”
His young host’s plain speakiug did
not seem to give the other any uneasi
ness, for lie answered, with a short
laugh:
“All right—as you please. But you
may change your mind about my not
beiiig good enough to associate with,
after you have heard my Story.”
* Frank looked uncertain at this mo
ment, and then sat down aud looked
uneasilv at the other, who “began :•
“My* father was arrested twenty-
Uight years ago on the charge of killing
his uncle, and tried for the murder.
The testimony, which was entirely cir
cumstantial, was uot suflieient to bang
him, but was so damaging that, in spite
of bis most solemn protestations'of in
nocence, he was transported for life to
the penal settlements in Australia.
“He was taken there, and for ten
years worked like a ,slave, with a chain
and ball dragging at his heels.
“At the end of that time another
convict died in the same prison, where
he had been sent for high way robbery,
four years after father was transported.
Ou his death-oed he coniessed that he
had murdered ray father’s uncle, and
gave minute details m oC the crime, and
crime, and also where he had hidden
the murdered man’s watch and pocket
book. _ _
. “Of course, my father was released,
and everything doue for him by the
government of New South Wales, to
show how deeply every one regretted
that an inuocent- man Should have suf-
fered for so long. . ....
“But his spirit had been nearly
broken, and for a long time he felt the
most terrible bitterness towards socie
ty. In a year he married the daught-
e'r of a merchant, who had visited the
prison very often, and been a minis-
*“M/ 'rabthCr the'li' prevailed upon
him. to. move back-to Melbourne,
where he'is now the “Governor of New
South Wales and one of the richest
meu in Australia.”
“I beg your pardon^ my dear fel
low!” exclaimed Frank, Eagerly ex
tending.'h is hand while the others
crowded around him with equally pro
fuse apologies.
But to xneir astonishment auil cha
grin he did not seem to notice any of
the proffered hands,. but with a quiet
smile, tiirhed to'Frank.
“Now .that you know bow I, caiue
to handle a bow* so well—as also, how
a man can be a. convicted felon, and
yet be innocent of any crime—it would
make your stock ©f information still
more, complete, if yon could learn .that
even if a father is guilty of crime it
does not make'hfs son 'any the less
honorable, or fit to associate with the
world. Every man’s honor is in hil
own hands, and. is not affected in the
slightest by what others may do—it is
by a man’s own (feeds that" he will be
judged by his Maker! ami now my
dear Frank, I will go to your house
and paek my valise, and if you w ill
have the carriage ready for the five
o’clock train I will relieve you of my
presence.”
And in spite of his friend’s protesta
tions, the boy, that afternoon, shook
from his feet the dust of the Howsou
estate.
FASHION NOTES.
New York Sun.
The overskirt is moribund.
Skirts'grow plainer and fuller.
Coiffures grow’ higher and higher.
Dress bodies are cut" to produce
square shoulders.
Stringless bonnets are worn by
youthful women only.
The fine embroideries on fine bon
nets are marvels of artistic work.
Corsage bouquets are very large,
and worn in the centre of the bosom.
Sleeves with a sagging puff at or
above the elbow’ are coming in vogue.
Full belted waists grow in favor for
wash dresses, both white and colored.
Fans of large and unique forms are
the only ones that shonld be used for
wall decorations.
Large bows of white ribbon or of
piece goods, generally soft silk, adorn
many summer frocks.
Embroidery, flowers, feathers and
tinsel are the combinations found in
dressy summer bonnets.
Velvet bonnet-strings are being laid
aside for those of lace and gauzy stuffs,
especially gauze ribbons.
Dresses composed entirely of black
lace, real Chantily, Llama, yak or
w oolen lace, piece lace or laize and
robe dresses, are all the rage in Paris.
Belted waists are in great favor for
summer dresses, and are especially
popular for wash dresses of cambric,
gingham, satteen, Clmmbery, watiste,
and the most expensive prints. Other
ladies prefer to keep the waist separate
from the skirt, hence they extend the
whole bodice a finger deep below the
waist line, for this part to pass under
the dress-skirt after a drawing-string
lias been used with the waist gathered
outside it.
More fanciful belted waists are made
with a cluster of gathers at the top of
the front just below’ the collar, and
also at the waist, while the back Is in
fan-shape, with fulness exteuded to
the shoulders from the waist line.
There are several ways of making
belted waists, but those most easily
ironed are plain on the shoulder, and
merely gathered to a belt in the mid
dle of the front and back. The fronts
are buttoned up close to the throat
with sniall pearl buttons, round as a
pea, but with eyes sunk iu for sewing
them on. The back is made all in one
piece, and stayed by a facing of them,
beginning on the shoulders, following
the outline of the arm-hole, and being
sewed in with the belt.
ing on the other side of the room, ‘and
Gallatin got this. Now Gallatin knew
very little about art, and I did not
know very much, but I could see at a
glance that his picture was far better
than mine, and that I should be
laughed at if w’e took the pictures home
and comparisons were made. I saw
that I must get hold of Gallatin’s pic
tures, and I said to him: ‘Mr. Galla
tin, these tw’o pictures were made to
match each other and the man who
has one ought to have both. Now I
will tell you w bat I will do. I will
put my picture against yours and we
will play a game of cards for them.
The man who wins shall take both pic
tures, and you ma}* name the game.
“ ‘Mr. Gallatin, thought a moment,
eonsented, aud said ‘seven-up,’ ’ and,”
contiuued Senator Beck,, “I can hear
Henry Clay’s hearty laugh now* and
see hissmileofinten.se merriment as he
concluded: ‘As soon as Gallatin said
seven-up I knew I had him. He
knew* but little about cards and 1 was
one of the best seven-up players in
Kentucky. The result was as I" had
anticipated and 1 got the picture.’
Another story about Clay, so well
authenticated that it conies almost di
rectly from Henry Clay’s mouth, re
lates an adventure of* his with old
Throckmorton, a noted hotel-keeper at
Louisville in Clay’s day. Throckmor
ton was one of Mr. Clay’s most inti
mate Kentucky friends. * In their lat
ter days the two were almost insepara
ble anil they often joined hands o\ er
the whist table. Throckmorton was a
fine whist player, and nothing irritat
ed him more than to have bis game iu-
terrupted or spoiled by talking.
Throckmorton generally beat Clay,
but Clay got ahead of him at a whist
party in Louisville when he anil
Throckmorton were partners. The
stakes were nominal—$1 a game, I
think—and as soon as the party sat
down at the table Clay began to tell
stories. The result was that lie paid
no attention to his hand, and through
liis blunders trick after trick was lost.
Throckmorton protested from time to
time, finally, saying: “Really, Mr.
Clay, for a man of your ability, educa
tion and reputation you are the poor
est whist player I have eyer known.”
The game continued in the same way.
and Throckmorton grew more and
more angry. At last Clay said: “Yon
are making more fuss by your object
ing than i am by my stories. Now,”
and here he pulled out a $10 gold piece,
“we will each lay $10 on the .table, and
the man Who talks first shall lose his
money.
To * this Throckmorton consented,
and the $20 were laid besides the
stakes of $1 a side in the middle of the
table. Clay then began to play worse
than ever. He trumped Throckmor :
ton’s aces, and threw away his own
suit, until Throckmorton, w*ho for
some time had been gritting his teeth,
rose, and pushing the money at Clay,
said : “Here, take your $20. I am not
going to let $20 stand in the way of my
telling any such a card" playing idiot
as you are showing yourself to be
what £ think of him.” He then went
over Clay roughshod. Clay laughed
as he put the two gold pieces in his
pocket, and the company laughed with
him when he said that he had beeu
trying for years to l»eat Mr. Throck
morton, and he was glad to feel chat
he had done so for once.
The Fourth of July in Macon.
There were over five thousand peo
ple in Central City Park last Fourth of
.Till}- to Witness the many attractions
arranged by the'Macon Public Library.
This year the Library has doubled the
attractions, presenting more interest
ing features, and Macou invites all peo
ple of the State to be present. Wegive
below some of the leading features of
the programme:
Grand Military Drill between^ teams
off sixteen men from various companies
os the State. There will be from fif
teen to twenty teams present, and they
will make one of the most brilliant
military displays ever * seen in the
State.
Grand Tournament, in which the
voung men of the State will enter.
The successful Knight will receive a
J. P. Stevens & Co. Georgia made
watch, worth $135.00, and also crown
the Queen of love and beauty.
Grand Swimming Match in the Oe-
raulgee, in which a number of ex
pert swimmers will take part.
Grand Hurdle race. This was one
of the most interesting and exciting
exercises of last year.
Grand Bicycle Race, in which the
experts will engage. The Macon ^Bi
cycle Club have their o»vn track at the
park, within good view of the graud
stand.
Trotting and Running Races between
the best horses of the State.
Matcli game of Base Ball between
the best anietenrs.
Grand Ball at the Park at night, at
which the Queen will -be crowned.
Grounds will be lighted with electric
light.
Fireworks at night, and numerous
other features will make up one great
day and night. The various Railroads
will give very low rates, thus allowing
every body within a radios of oue hun
dred miles to spend the great holiday
in Macon. It will be the grandest
Fourth of July Celebration ever seen
in Georgia.
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Mr. Henry S. Feagin, another prom
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The Silver Question.
Atlanta Constitution
It is not necessary to give up bi-
iii'etallism in order to get the silver
dollars into circulation. If the silver
dollar is too large and heavy for gen
eral use, let it stay in the treasury
vaults and bt represented aiaorig the
people by one and two dollar certifi
cates. Every such certicate would be
based on silver dollars In the treasury,
and unless the Eastern folks discredit
the certificates, they would of course
speedily become a part of the circula
tion of the people. They probably
would, in spite of all efforts aud in-
triques to the contrary.
Still another.plan is possible. There
are now* iu circulation greenbacks of a
less denomination than $5, to the
amount of $55,000,000. If the one and
two dollar greenbacks were retired as
fast as they are represented, the silver
dollars would go out, or if they are
too heavy for- every day use, certifi
cates based upon them would be ac
tively circulated.
The retirement of the lesser green
backs shonld uot be postponed, and
when that is accomplished it will uot
be difficult to ascertain whether the
people want the silver dollars or certifi
cates based upon them. There need
be very little difficulty in getting the
silver dollars iuto circulation if Con
gressmen will consult the people and
act up to their views on the subject.
J ust now the enemies of the double
standard are doing all the talking, but
the chances are there will be, after
awhile, an inning for the other side.
The Odds Against the Confeder
ates.
Lansdale (Pa.) Democrat.
Brother Beaver is an honest, out
spoken veteran of the late war, made
<Vj£Ood soldier, and, we’ve no doubt,
means all he says; “bnt the war is
•over.”
Brother Beaver should remember
that the persons who engaged iu that
struggle residing in the South, were
all Americans, to the manor born,
and represented in that sense a very
large minority of the Americans of
the country. The 'United States had
for allies 176.000 Germans, 150,000
Irish, 55,000 British Provincials and
Canadians, etc., 45,000 English, 22,500
nationalists unknown, and 209,000 col
ored troops; gross 668,500. This is
from Stanton’s official fignres; a num
ber equal to every available fighting
man that the South threw into the
army. Had the Sontb not had her
people divided in Kentucky, Missouri,
Tennessee, Virginia and West Virgin _
nia, with all the odds, Brother Beaver, but. when put on the road, the pump j Parkers Tonic when they show
would not draw water. What would of heing unwell. This famous re
„ is . vou do?” “I shonld look into the tank is so pleasant that any infant will
entitled to consulates or anything and ascertain if there was any water to it, and it will soon quiet and
else. ° draw,” replied the student. their aches and pains.
In consequence. It is a poor-man that
will raise such aj:dw- as .that with a
woman over a chew of tobacco, or a
pound of it. for that matter.
—-There is grim humor in the fol
lowing from the Washington Gazette:
“When the insurance man is about,
property fe, valued very high; but
when the tax man is about, values run
down very low. However, as insur
ance agent and tax assessor are com
bined in one man in this county, we
suppose values will about strike an
equilibrium.”
—The Amerieus Recorder's snake
story: “A young city gent went out
with Mr. Windsor’s Sunday senool ou
a fishing frolic to Phileinniy creek, a
’few days since, aud while a party of
the pleasure seekers were paddling
around in a bateau the young man
heard a terrible rustling in the bushes,
and on looking in the direction of the
racket he discovered a large moccasin
coming directly toward the boat. He
aimed a blow with the paddle and
knocked the sexpent Into the water.
On fishing the snakes from the water
be was surprised to find two dead ones
instead of one.”
—The endorsement of Judge John
T. Clarke, given by the Cuthbert En
terprise in the following paragraph, is
not overdrawn: “The papers oi
Southern and Southwest Georgia are
getting clamorous about our section
furnishing the next Governor of Geor
gia. In this connection the/ names of
Judge John T. Clarke and Hon. II. G.
Turner ate tqentioned as among those
best fitted for the position. Either
would 5J0 first-rate, but Turner is do
ing so well in Congress that we are
willing to allow him to remain there,
and we therefore suggest Judge Clarke
as the man for the place. His ability
and fitness are well known. I11 hiur
the grand old Empire State of the
South would have a chief magistrate
of whom from every standpoint she
would justly be proud.”
—The Augusta Chronicle prints this
interesting paragraph showing what a
thrifty, hard-working"negro may ac
complish in Georgia: “The purchase,
by 3Ir. Lexius Henson,, of the old
building so long occupied by the
Chronicle before its evolution into
newer and grander quarters, is, as the
papers of this city have already said, a
notable event. This worthy colored
man has won by bis way to prosperity
by honest methods, strict devotion to
business, aud the successful establish
ment in Augusta of a first-cl:is3 res
taurant. The white people of this city
have been his staunch friends and sup
porters, ami they rejoice at his well-
earned prosperity. He will surpass in
his new building, when completed, all
former efforts at gastronomic enter
tainment, and the Chronicle, echoing
the popular wish, trusts that he may
indeed ‘live long and prosper.’ ”
—The Sumter Republican is respon
sible for the following attack on the
character of a chicken? “Americas
has but one specimen of the genus
dude; a chicken owned by a gentleman
in the city, which went to roost one
night, looking like an ordinary chick,
and next morning appeared standing
on its legs as erect as a man. This
was nearly four months ago aud it still
persists in holding its position. It im
itates its brother ’biped of the dude
persuasion in nearly everything ex
cept that it don’t drink, swear- and
smoke cigarettes. It holds its N wings
down close to its body and only needs
a switch-cane under one of them, an
eye-glass, a little round-top derby and
tootb-pick shoes to make the resem-
blence to the human specimen com
plete. This chicken cannot get Its
head to the ground, and has to be fed.
His human brother never eats except
the food be furnished by* the labor of
others. Now we expect tills dude
chick w ill continue to grow in stature
and perpendicularity, and when tall
enough, walk into some fashionable
saloou and call for a julep or a cobble;*.
True be may not be very Intelligible,
yet bis crowing will be as sensible as
the affected slang of the other. This-
wonderful chicken is now four months
old and healthy, and bids fair to live
to a green old age aud in this the re-
semblence will not be broken; for w*ho
ever heard of a dead dude -any more
than he ever heard ot a dead gray
mule?”
A Frank Explanation.
Detroit Free Press.
Two men, strangers to each other,
sat side by side in the Brush-street
depot. *he other day. One was a cor
pulent, pompons man, and the other
under-sized and humble-looking. A
third man approached, and without
looking directly at either, one inquir
ed:—
Say, Major, will you tell me what
time the Niagara Fall’s train leaves
this side?”
Both men pulled ont their w’atches
and made answer in chorns, but as
they did so the ponmpons man turned
in hir seat and said:
“I suppose be was addressing me,
as he mentioned my title/’
“Did you say major?” asked the
little man of the inquirer.
“I believe I did.”
“Oh—ah! I beg a thousand par
dons. I understood yon to say colo
nel, and supposed, of course, you
meant me.”
The big man lost ten pounds of
flesh in the next two minutes, and it
took twenty minutes’ hard walking
under the freight sheds to cool him
The Babies in the Cradle.
Babies are very little things, yet
they leave great gaps of loneliness be
hind them when they die. M
save your little ones by giving
The second of Mr. Beecher’s project
ed ten sermons upon ‘'Evolution' and
Religion,” was delivered to a large au
dience in Plymouth church Sunday
morning. The sermon was read from
manuscript. He said in part:
“That the whole w’orid and, the en
tire universe are- the creation of God is
the testimony of. the Biblej with b6th
Jewish and Christian. But hbvv He
made them, whether by the .direct
force of the creative will or by gradual
changes, is by no means so well agreed
upon. Bnt the world is uot a chance;
not a creative formation; not a self-de
velopment. It is the product of an in
telligent being and of a divine will.
We have two records of creative ener
gy. One shows how man was unfold
ed by the inspiration of God’s nature,
and there is another record or revela
tion of the physical globe of the divine
thought iu the unfolding history of
matter. One is God’s thought In the
evolution of natural forces, and the
other in the evolution of mind. It is
the Old Testament and New* in a new*
scientific sense, and no one should
turn in scorn from the literature of the
rocks w ritten in the band of God all
over the earth. The Ten Command
ments written on stone, are only a par
agraph in the book of nature. Science
is the only translation of God’s revela
tion. There is as much or more infi
delity in regard to the history science
lias unfolded as iu regard to the book.
Both revelations are of God. They
are both to be intelligently understood,
united and harmonized. The men
who decipher the heiroglypbics of God
ought to be honored and encouraged.
But bigoted theologists, ignorant piet
ists anil jealous churcbmeu rail attnese
adventurous surveyors of God’s handi-
wrork. When meu pretend to be in
spired of God, with grins and shallow*
ridicule, with veteran jests, and un
productive reasoning, enact the feats
of the monkey in trying to prove that
man did not originate wi*h that ani
mal, we seem likely to have internal
evidence that such was the case.
[Laughter.] It is urged that science
is unripe and will not do to rest upon;
that there will be a time to consider it
when it becomes a certainty. Well,
how is it with the book? Is its record
uny more stable than the record of the
rocks? Theology seems like a broom
with infinite splinters. If theologians
attempt to pour ridicule on the legiti
mate doctrines, if scientific investiga
tion is less trustworthy than revela
tion, I say no ground can be less tena
ble.
‘.Some call evolution pseudo science,
and laugh to scorn the idea that mai.
descended or ascended from the mon
key. The descent of man from th*
i.nthropid apes is only a hypothesis
not proven. I see no present expecta
tion of it being proven. It stands as a
hypothesis pressed by a multitude oi
probabilities. It throws a light unto
many problems in history and life
gained in no other way. I incline,
not to the belief, but to the supposi
tion that man is an aualogy with the'
rest of God’s work. At what time and
by what methods he left behind his
fellows and stood on the spiritual
ground that separates him from the
brutes is unknown; But it does not
change the destiny and moral grand
eur of man toehold the evolution of
the human from the inferior race.
Evolution is the method of creation
accepted by the scientific world, and a
few venture to doubt it. Ninety-nine
per cent, of working scientific men
use this theory and do not doubt its
validity. They are divided as to its
causes and results, but every decade
brings them more and more to a com
mon belief. Without it all science
w ould fall back into unrelated atoms.
It is taught in all our schools, and
another generation will regard it as
the Copernican theory of astronomy,
or the New tonian theory of gravita
tion, Evolution is held by such Chris
tian men of science as Dana, a Congre-
gationalist; Le Cont, a Presbyterian
elder; McCosb, a Presbyterian of the
Presbyterians, and a Scotch Presbyte
rian at that; Asa Gray, an Episcopal
ian; Mivart, a Roman Catholic; Wal
lace, a Christian spirituals, and by
the Bishop of London, whose Bam-
brod lectures of 188*1 contain bold and
frank statements' of Christian evolu*
tion. It will oblige theology to be
reconstructed, but it will take away no
ground of true religion.”
GOBBLED BY THE WESTERN
I'NlON.
The Southern Telegraph Company
Become* a Part off Jay Gould’s
System.
New York World.
The Western Union has absorbed an
other telegraph company. This time
it is the Southern Company, which
owns 4,000 miles of wire, extending
from Washington through the South.
It has been a part of the Bankers and
Merchants’ system, and by means of a
traffic, arrangement was used by the
Baltimore aud Ohio Telegraph Compa
ny. At the time the Bankers and Jler-
chants! became bankrupt, the South
ern also passed into the hands of a re
ceiver. The Western Union gets pos
session of the lines by means of a traffic
arrangement with the Mutual Union,
one offthe many companies controlled
by the Western Union. The wires of
the Southern wereconnected with those
of the Western Union Monday night.
Association.
Independent Press
From the Savannah Times.
For some time past there iias been
agitation among the various daily
newspapers in Georgia. Florida, Alaba
ma, Virginia and Tennessee, that are
outside the Associated Press, of a pro
ject looking to the formation of an in
dependent press association, having
for its object the more systematic gath
ering of new’s and the improvement of
their telegraphic service. ^ This agita
tion culminated yesterday evening in
this city of a number of the repre
sentatives of the press and the organi
zation of the association. under the
name of the “The Independent South
ern Press Association.” Mr. B. H.
Richardson of the Savannah Times was
elected President, and Mr. H. M. Mc
Intosh, of the Albany News and Ad-
VERrisER, was elected Secretary.
There was considerable earnest inter
est manifested in the movement, which
it is confidently believed will result ad
vantageously to every member of the
Association.* The facilities for procur
ing news win be increased and tiie pa-
lle*benefitted/^The' President was au
thorized to take tbe necessary steps to
secure a charter, and to call a meeting
of the Association in July in Atlanta,
when applications for membersbip'from
Bain bridge, Ga.,)
' . June 9* 1885. )
Xctcs and Advertiser:
Summer amusements amongst us
are varied and vigorous. Saturday a
lively fight occurred between James
Wood and George Icenhpwer; cause,
tiie latter hitjthe.fonner’s dog: result,
volleys of cuss wrords, cracked crowns,
and bloody noses, council scrape and
fine. 'Monday Icenhower was arrest
ed at tiie instance of Wood for assault
and battery.
L. F. Patterson, Sheriff, cap
tured Drew Guyton, colored, who
killed a negro in Baker county about
four years ago.' He was captured on
Monday, in Florida, and the Sheriff
will arrive here with the prisoner to
day.
Louis Robb, our barber of big words,
had a job put up on him last Saturday
by a mischievous, lawyer. Louis and
a dentist occupy adjoining rooms up
stairs, and when» patient goes in to
have a tooth polled, Lonis gets Mown
on the street in a conspicuous place so
that when the patient yells on acconnt
of the operation passers-by won’t think
it is one of his customers yelling over
a shave with a dull razor. This law
yer observing Louis’s sensitiveness
on this point, got up a convenient
crowd, sent one of tiie number up
with instructions to shave. Louis put
him in position, lathered his face,
took the razor and made a stroke at
his beard. No sooner bad the blade
entered upon duty, than to Louis’s as
tonishment and consternation, the
young man yelled murder! murder!!
at the top of his voice. Pell-mell
rushed in the crow*d—those who did
not, as well as those w*ho did, under
stood the trick. Our Marshal, hearing
the fearful cry rushed up and in.
Every one in loud, confused and ex
cited tones were demanding, “what’s
the matter?” Louis, at sight of the
Marsha], trembled like an aspen leaf—
was dumb—bis hired man, shaving
another in a loud and frightened voice
said: “It won’t my man that yelled
murder.” The scene was ludicrous
beyond description, and too much so
for the instigators—they had burst out
in side splitting laughter. Louis saw
the point, a broad grin of relief flitted
over bo frightened features and he ex
claimed : “Dod-gone dat obfuscated,
boistitorous lawyer, if he don’t beat de
*lebbel,” and went nervously to biz.
'Ourting, flirting, cbe^s-playing,
checkers, fishing and marbles consu
me a large share of our eujqyinents.
O. G. Gurley.
COLQUITT COUNTY.
Crops—Sheep—Wool Stealing.
movement is an excellent one, and
it-will prove as successful as the origi
nators anticipate can scarcely be doubt
ed. m f
Nervous Debilitated Men
Yon are allowed a free trial oft
days of the use of Dr. Dye’s C
Voltaic Belt with Electric T
Ap
pamphlet, with
etc., mail
Belt Co.,
Bridge Creek, Colqnitt Co., Ga.)
June 8th, 1885. f
Xews and Advertiser:
Farmers in our section are generally
engaged in harvesting their oats. Oats
are a pretty good average for this
county. -Corn and cotton looks well.
There was a good, rain throughout this
section yesterday. Everything seems
to smile under the assiduous care and
labor of the fanners.
The stock men have not gatherd al
together as many sheep as they thought
they were entitled to; however, I hear
but little complaint. *
This reminds me of a very disgrace
ful act, perpetrated by some low aud
vile demons *n the shape of human be
ings, a few nights ago, in our vicinity.
During the night of the 27th of May
two persons entered a crib on the
premises of Micajah R. Horne and
stole therefrom about eighty pounds of
wool. Missing it. the next morning he
commenced looking here and there
and soon found traces of the .wool
which was placed in two sacks and
carried by two men to where two
mnlcs were tied. His son then, in
company with other citizens, tracked
the mules and also noticed portions of
the wool hanging to limbs, stumps,
etc., as they followed the regular
traveled roads but a short distance at a
time. They seemed to go through the
woods and hurricanes and to avoid go
ing near houses. They were follov^ed
about six miles—seeing signs of the
wool all the while-r-when the parties
in pursuit, after passing the last house
In Colquitt county on or near that road
this side of the Mitchell county lflie,
became satisfied as to where the wool
was carried or at least the parties who
had stolen the wool. Mr. H. thinks
that the parties, or at least one of them,
:re acquainted with the surround
ings of his place, and had probably
been around between the time of
shearing and tiie stealing. About 9
o’clock on the night of the theft two
inen on mules were seen to pass a
house traveling iu the direction and
on the road to Mr. ^Home’s. Mr. H.
says he has spotted the two boys.
Subscriber.
ASlrau?t* Being.
Anjrnstn Chronicle.
Victor Hugo did nothing common
place. Much of his sublimity narrow
ly escapes be]ng ridiculous when read
in cold-blood by a practical, phlegmat
ic man. His egotism was also enor
mous and rarely concealed. Perhaps
the best recent specimen of his elo
quent bombast and brilliant conceit is
contained its the following letter, writ
ten only two months ago, to Bis
marck :
From the Weimarisebe Zeitnog.
VICTOR HUGO TO BISMARCK.
By special favor we have been per
mitted to see the copy of a letter of
congratulation sent by the French
poet to the German Chancel lor -on his
last birthday. . The address in its
grand simplicity betrays the writer:*
‘•Victor Hugo to Otto Bismarck.”
The letter is as follows:
“The giant sends to the giant grec
ing. The foe to foe. Tiie friend to
the friend. I hate yon madly, for you
have humbled France. Ilove you, for
I am greater than you. You wen*
silent when the clock on the tower of
my fame boomed out eighty. I speak
now that the stolen clock on your
desk refuses to proclaim the comp'
tion of your seventy years. I elglii
you seventy; I eight, you seven, the
human race behind us a cipher,
of us united as one man—and history
would be at an eud. You the body, 1
the vntl thn thnnilo. . I
the I
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we ask is for you to come to ace ns and p- ioc
our Shoes, and yon will be rare to bay. He
bought our Boots and Shoes to all and are art
going to sell them.
GROCERIES
Faiw'Ts and the pabtte grne/wltr vriTMhrd
ourbweerv Department aimoct ovctIow'mk
oithcvervUnnc in the way oCl'AMlUY AND
fancy Groceries.
We buy our Groceries In ear load ke*nwd
can save you money in the rwtbimTttfl
hinds of ftmfck
FLOUKi
We handle th* tot townds ^
to tht* marhee, and only bey by etoewrtosi.
FURNirrUE!
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Come and sc* n
prompt and polite
