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VOLUME IX.
PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 12, (879.
NUMBER 24>
A JOAB STAB.
ihomScbtonbu’s Maga-
\je can recall no article the reading
of which has caused ns more pain than
Ibc leading editorial in the last Scribner.
It has pained us for several reasons.
In the first place Scribner’s has always
bean kindly disposed to the South or
ye have looked to this honse to balance
in jome degree the venom displayed by
the Harpers. In the next place, the
slanders uttered by a voice that feigns
friendliness, will convey more weight
because of the source from which it is
issned. And finally we regret to eee
one of the foremost andmost genial and
scholarly of our magazines descend to'
scurrilous work of politics. Even the
Harpers have held them magazine above
fbis doubtful business and have cribbed
their malignant sentiments in their week
ly. But, without wasting any tears
orer this monstrous and inexcusable
slander, we proceed to discuss its mer
its.
The article is headed "Southern Civil-
zation’ in Topics of the Time,” formerly
a genial, amiable, suffusive department,
edited by Dr. J. G. Holland. The arti
cle contaius an untruth in its .prologue.
It say: We understand in this quar
ter perfectly well that the south has no
great lovo for the national flag, and
that ‘the lost cause’ is still very dear
to its politicians and people.” This is
not true either in a technical sense or the
wider senso that the author would have
it understood. The south quit fight
ing after the war was over. When
Lee surrendered at Appomattox he
pledged the word of his people with un-
ucltled sword. Our people
have never gone back on that
pledge. They were brave enough to
fight—they have been heroic enough to
accept in good faith the results of the
rongh arbitrament to which they ap
pealed. There is no more loyal section
than the south—if wo use the word loy
al in its honest sense. Twice in the
four past years has the convcrsative
and palriolism of southern members
of congress, saved the country from an
other war— that it might have been
prolonged as the last one, would have
been greatly more disgraceful and de
moralizing. The south is ”lion?st and
frank in its pretenses. Governor Col
quitt sounded the key-note of southern
icntiment when be said, "We want
peace and harmony in the union and
under the constitution.”
But the main poiut of the article wi*b
which wo have to deni is much more
direct and unjust in its motive than
what we have noted. He says:
“Certain events have occurred in the
south with astounding frequency that
reveal a state of morals and society
that makes every true friend of the
south and every true American hang
his head in shame.”
Of course, the southerner who reads
this paragraph, as soon as he recovers
from his surprise at seeing so bold and
wanton a slander in to respectable pe
riodical as Scribner's will begin to im
agine what these events are that have
put a blot npon the escutcheon of Amer
ica. The specific charge follows quickly.
Here it is. Head it carefully:
1 ‘Murder after murder is perpetrated
in high life with the coolest blood, and
nobody is arrested for it, and nothing
is done about it.”
A more stuped, basefnl, inexcusable
falsehood than this was never pat in
print. The proof of what we say is at
band. The three most notable homi
cides of the past year are the killing of
Elliot by Buford, of Alston by Oox,
and of Porter by Cnrrie. In each and
every ease, the slayers have been ar
rested, and lodged in jail. To-day
each one of them is in a celL One of
them is under. the. highest sentence of
the law, and lias appealed against the
judgment. The others, beyond the
reach of bail, are awaiting trial. Let
ns look at the records in Atlanta- Of
the last- six killings in Atlanta, every
man who did the slaying has been ar
rested. One is nnder sentence of death,
two to imprisonment for life, and the
others are awaiting trial. We do not
mention these things to prejudice the
case of any of the unfortunate men
whose Hves or liberties are in Jeopar
dy, bnt simply cite them as a part of
the argument of rebuttal of this as
sault. Within an hour of the writing
of this the supreme court of the state
has affirmed thefjudgmtnt of the superi
or court of this city condemning cue
man for murder. Many of these men
have all the advantages of money and
position, and yet nothing can save them
from the operation of the law.
What is true of Atlanta is equally
frue of all other sections Thelaw
m faithfully enforced without fear orfa-
y°r, and no man is too high for its aveng
es hand or too humble for its protec-
fr°n. As if the mendacious writer was
fi ot satisfied, however, with the simple
statement of the slander, he reiterates
fr in ampler and more offensive terns.
He says;
“Murder is commited and the mur
der shakes his bloody hands at the
w everywhere, and walks the streets
with entire freedom and impunity.”
The men who have done the killing
n the south for the past year or.two,
gazing through the barred windows of
their cells, can give reluctant but con
elusive denial to this statement. “Who
of them “Walks the streets in impuni
ty and shakes his hand at the law?”
Can the Scribner man point cut a single
instance? If he cannot has he not the
manliness to retract bis abominable
and wanton statement? With his state
ment disapproved everywhere by the
facts—by accumulation of facts—will
he net have the grace to withdraw it,
and thns dear the character of his
magazine?
But, as if not satisfied with having
reiterated this slander, he brings illus
tration to intensify and emphasize it.
Take this extract and read it word for
word, and ponder well what it means.
See if in utter and absolute mendacity
in miserable venom and spleen—in
wanton and outrageous recklessness, it
has ever been"surpassed by any of the
dirty radical organs, that with no pre
tense to rspectable echaracter, live by
pandering to the lowest passions of
their readers, and inflaming the hearts
of the bummqrs of their neighbor
hoods:
We read of the banditi in Italy, who
make it unsafe for a traveler who has
any money to get outside the lines of
ordinary travel, and we wonder at the
imbecility of a government that can
give him no protection, and at the low
civilization that renders such abuses and
outrages possible. We Lave no longer
any reason to look abroad for anoma
lies of this sort. These southern mur
ders give evidence of a lawlessness and
a degraded civilization much more no
table than anything thalj can be found
among the Italian wilds and moun
tains. They are abominable—beyond
the power of an ordinary pen to .char
acterize. There is nothing whatever
to be said in apology for them. The
American, when he reads them, can only
hang his head in horror and shame,
and groan over the fact that such fiend
ish deeds can be perpetrated under tho
national flag without punishment, and
without even the notice of those who
pretend to administer the law.
Our new Titus Oates then goes on to
refine his slanders with a sentence that
looks miserably out of place in the
heretofore amiable and scholarly Scrib-
Tbis one sentence saves Dr. Hol-
That is the land of the psalm-singing
Bishop, who poisoned his own wife and
the husband of his paramour, and then
turned state’s evidence to save his dirty
neck; of Hunter, who insured his friend
Armstrong that he might coin gold from
his life-blood; of Cove Bennett and Mrs.
Jennie Smith, who clubbed to death
the man they had dishonored; and of a
hundred other similar bloody crimes.—
In New England we find a fanaticism
that leads to abnormal crimes—the right
oatspring of the old Puritan roundheads
that "abolished bear-beating, not be
cause it hurt the bear, but because it
pleased the people.” There is the
Freeman fanatic, who sacrificed his own
child in a fetish performance beyond
the most degraded of our negro witch-
er. If there is once in a while a flash
of smoke and a death that is repented
of as quickly as it is committed, we
thank God that we have none of the
slow-foiming and deliberately-planned,
cold-blooded, sneak-tbief mnrders that
characterize New England. We prefer
the pistol, bad as it is, to the stealthy
weapon of the poisoner.
We have written the truth plainly and
directly about this slanderer and his
slanders. We now pronounce them
wickedly and utterly untrue—wantonly
and infamously issued—and we ask of
the writer to either prove them or re
tract them. If he is manly he will do
one of these things. If ha is not, we
hope the owners of the magazine will
put their periodical beyond the reach
of his hands. It is too respectable to
avoid this infamy it has brought upon
itself. Let it come to time! It has
one of three alternatives—"proof, re
traction, or infamy.”—Atlanta Constilu-
iion.
laDd, who is decent iD bis work at least,
from the imputation of having written
the article. That it escaped his eye
and was slipped into the magazine
through stealth is a calamity. The
impassioned subordinate, warming well
up to his business, says:
“A man might as well live in bell as
in a community where the law has no
force and life has no sacredness.”
We submit it, without anj’ desire to
go into the discussion of this ques
tion, that until the writer dies he will
uot be fully capable of pronouncing
upon the comparative comfort of a resi
dence. in helL After that interesting
event takes place, we shall be pleased
to accord to any opinion be may trans
mit to us, the value that attaches to an
opinion based on a more or less limited
experience.
And then our author reproduces that
stalest of stole political campaign lies,
as follows:
"Any man may commit a murder
there, and if he be a man in high life,
and do it for personal reasons, and
have a white skin, with a great certain
ty that no one connected with the law
will take notice of his crime.”
It begins to b6 tedious to remark
this is utterly and absolutely false.
The present solicitor-general of this cir
cuit, Mr. Ben. Hill, jr., remarked to
day that not a single white man tried
for murder by him had escaped, and
that the negroes had nearly always done
so. There are white men hang in Geor
gia every month or two. And two
white men have lately been huDg for
the killing of negroes. The truth is
that the negroes h is just as much chance
as a white man before any southern
court, and a white skis does not avail
one iota against a black crime.
We need not foUow this man further
in his article. Enough has been given
to shock onr people—and intelligent
people everywhere—with all sense of
injustice and wrong, with a sorrow that
a magazine, hitherto so reputable, im
partial and candid, should have lent it
self. to such despicable misrepresenta
tion. It only aggravates the offense
that the slanders are masked be
hind an appe&Sance of sympathy, and
conveyed in a current of advice. There
is no blade so hatefnl as the bladejof Jo-
ab.
We have shown that violence is re
buked by the law, and that the slay
ers of men are sent to jail and locked
up to wait inexorable justice. These
things we can prove by the records. It is
eqnaQy true that there is not
as much crime in tho south in propor
tion to population as in New England,
The statistics will prove this, and the
Scribner men may invoke them when
ever they please. There is a difference
also in the sort of crimes committed in
the two sections. In the south there
are sharp, passionate conflicts between
high-strung men, inflamed beyond con
trol. They usually come from a hastily-
spoken insalt, an imputation upon wo
men, or some such thing; or at most
from drunkenness. In the New Eng
land states we have the cold-blooded
sneaks, the lecherous villians filled up
their small amours against .human life
—the avaricious thieves who murder
with the deliberation and greed of a
Theuardier.
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A KANSAS HORROR.
The terrible cyclonic storm which vis
ited portions of Kansas, Nebraska, and
Missouri on Friday night was one of
the most destructive to life and proper
ty that ever devastated that section.—
The Philadelphia Record thinks the rap
id increase of population is tho reason
for this. Storms of equal or greater
fury are not infrequent in many parts
of the great tornado belt, bnt wben the
country was more sparsely settled the
whirlwind could vent its force without
encountering many human Imbibitions.
It is a sad thought, remarks the Record,
that the frequency and violence of these
cyolones are not lessening; Bor does
there seem to be a natural reason why
they should. The peculiar conforma
tion of the country and the varying
temperature of the air-currents insure
conditions which are liable at auy mo
ment to result in storms of terribly de
structive force. As that country be
comes more and more crowded with set
tlements it will be well nigh ^possi
ble for one of these air bolts to strike
the earth without consequences awful to
contemplate.
We would be baldly justified in sus
pecting that the negro exodns now
being so zealously worked up by Gen
eral Conway and his stalwart associates
is only a diabolical plot to get rid of
“the wards of the nation” by patting
them in the track of the Western cy
clones and tornadoes. Be that as it
may, there is no disputing the fact that
owing to the frequency of terrible tor
nadoes, and the prevalence of horse
thieves, grasshoppers and chills and
fever, Kansas is not a desirable country
in which to seek a permanent location
—Savannah News.
LEON (tAMBETTA. ] remarkable. The great speech of his
1 life before the war, was delivered be
ar james pabtoh. ; fore 1870, when the imperial govern-
The French people did wisely in notj ment * alarmed by the growing liberal
electing Gambetta their president; for
the head of a nation should not be a
brilliant man. Let the cabinet and the
legislature be brilliant and gifted; bnt
the chief should be a great, strong,
plain, prudent man, cf slow and sure
judgment, one in whom the average
good citizen naturally confides. Presi
dent Grevy appears to be such a man.
Bnt Gambetta is a young Hod, with s.
romantic history, popular talents, com
manding personality, who, at forty-one,
still needs restraining influence.
He was bom at the cathedral city cf
Caliors, four hundred miles south of
Paris; his father, as we arc told, a deal
er in crockery-ware, and a good Catho
lic. The easiest way in France for a
poor man’s son to rise in the world is
to enter a seminary for the education
of priests,''Gambetta had an uncle in
the priesthood who was exceedingly
pleased at his nephew’s facility in learn
ing Scripture history, and induced his
father in conseqnence to send him to an
institution in Cahors for the training of
priests. But Gambetta was not made
to serve at the altar, and the mode of
life at the seminary was so little suited
to his character that he was often a reb
el, and, after two year’s’ residence, was
expelled.
'Ton will never make a priest of him, ”
wrote the superior to his parents, “he
has an utterly undisciplinable character. ”
His father next thought of making a
doctor of him, and sent him to an acad
emy with that view. But one day as he
was playing in a carpenter’s shop near
his father’s honse, his companion, thrust
ing at him with a pointed stick destroy
ed one of his eyes. As a doctor is sup
posed to need two eyes, the young man’s
next proceeding was to study law, in
which he took his degree in 1859, just
twenty years ago. It was three years be
fore he had a case, and even then be was
only employed to defend a certain Grep-
po, one of fifty-three persons arraigned
for conspiracy against the usurper, Lonia
Bonaparte. The public prosecutor, it
is said, was much struck by the ability
shown in the young man’s speech, and
advised him to pnt his talents to use on^ ^ame a great camp, and ifc-is the. opin-
Rojiance.—A beautiful young gentle
man had his ears boxes by a very pretty
girl in tbe streets of Home last winter.
As soon as the girl looked at him she
blushed, begged ten thousand pardons,
and said she was mistaken—she had
boxed the wrong man. Now the gen
tleman could not forget the box, the
blush, the apology, and all the rest, and
he determined to see the girl again, if
possible. He did see her—she was a
shop girl; nevertheless, he fell so much
in love with her that he offered her his
heart and hand. She refused both,
saying she was engaged. This time he
tried to forget her, and had nearly
succeeded in doing so when he received
a letter from her asking him to go and
see her at a hospital He found tbe
poor girl dying, and from her lips he
he heard her stoTy—the old one—
"Love and abandonment!” Sbe asked
him not to let her baby die of hunger.
He promised, andfwhen the girl died he
took the child and placed it with proper
people. He did mere—he sent a chal
lenge to the girls seducer, fonght him,
and, though he did not kill Mm, disa
bled him for life.
—We are sore a modest Christian
statesman like Gov. Colquitt must feel
intense grief when he sees Ms good
words and works paraded by the secu
lar papers with such disgusting frequen
cy. He is not the man to want to make
political capital of his piety.
—Gaunt, of the Oglethorpe Echo,
has seen wild in that county spotted
rabbits, wMte rats, cream-colored
crows, hay monkeys and bine jim-jams.
He should be dosed with cinchonarubra
at once.
The State Sunday School Convention
wMch met in Macon last Friday week
had s most interesting session. They
were entertained with
by the citizens.
the other side.
“The days are passed,” said thisoffi-
cer. "when a lawyer could make his way
by truckliDg to the mob.”
And, indeed, his progress at the bar
was very slow. In 1867. when he bad
been eight years a Paris lawyer, he was
only known as promising young man,
or, ns a friend describes him, "a jovial,
leather-lunged, brazen-voiced fellow,
who would tread in the steps of Danton
if occasion served, and yet never let
himself be guillotined by anew Robes
pierre.” But his opportunity came at
last. One of the things a bad govern
ment is surest to do is to attempt to
muzzle the press, and its so doing is
one of the surest signs of approaching
destruction. If Bismarck were a truly
able governor, he would kill socialism
in thirty days, as Horace Greeley did
free-love. And bow was that? Publishing
verbatim reports of free-love meetingsl
In 1868 the editor of a Paris paper
was prosecuted by Louis Bonaparte’s
government for advocating a subscrip
tion to raise a monument to the repre
sentative, Bandin, kiHed Dec. 2,1851,
in defending the freedom of his country
against the usurper, The second of
December was the memorable day upon
which the bogus Napoleon seized the
government. Gambetta defended the
prisoner, and he made a point against
the government from which it never re
covered. He contended that the ob
ject of the prosecution was to get from
the judges a legal sanction for what had
been done on the second of December
by the Bonapartists, which would, of
course, pnt in the wrong those who had
perished at the barricade. If Louis Na
poleon was right, if what he had done
was in harmony with public moralitv,
then the 'men who fonght against Mm
were rebels or traitors, and were justly
put to death, Gambetta finished this
part of Ms speech thus:
"For seventeen years you have been
the masters of France. You have never
dared, with all your boasting, to cele
brate the second of December as a na
tional anniversary, though all eovern-
ments make a festival of the day of their
accession. Two anniversaries alone are
exceptions: the eighteenth Brumaire
(the day of the first Napoleon’s usurpa
tion) and the second of December. Be
it so. This anniversary, wMch you have
not desired, we accept as the day of the
great national expiation in the name of
French liberty."
The French are very anscepiible to
happy turns like ibis. They are not
merely applauded at the time, but -re
peated and remembered. It was indeed
an impressive fact that neither of these
odious Bonapartes dared to celebrate
the day of their accession to power; for
both those days were marked by perju
ry and the massacre of-the innocent—
From this time Gambetta was the favo
rite lawyer .of that small and noble band
whom history will honor by the name
wMch Gambetta gave them—the “Ir-
recondlables.” From the descriptions
we read of Gambetta’s speaking, we j ” ^
mast conclude that his oratorical talents \
are very great
spirit, made some accessions to it
Gambetta was not deceived.
"No, no,” he cried, "I do not desire
a sham repubUc. I wish a real repub
lic. Yon (the new ministry) are only a
bridge between the republic of 1848 and
the republic of the future, and we shall
cross the bridge.”
It was in the course of this great
speech that the incident occurred which
showed how completely liis audience was
enthralled. On the ledge before Mm.
as be stood on the tribune, or platform,
in fall view of the audience, there was
a bowl of beef tea which had been piaced
there to enable him to snpport the fa
tigue of his speech. Toward the close,
when every eye and ear were intent np
on Mm, with a sweeping gesture he
knocked ofi this bowl npon the heads
of two ushers standing beneath him,
who were well soused with the liquid.
Not a man in the honse laughed. Not
a titter was heard. The ushers wiped
their ears and coats, with gravity and
decorum, and the orator continued his
speech triumphantly to the end.
One secret of his power is his fine
physical proportions, An American la
dy describes him as a man of Hercu
lean breadth of shoulders, with a mas
sive, shaggy head, shaded by long, dis
hevelled locks. He has a voice, too,
like a lion, A man thus constituted
exerts a kind of magnetic influence over
a nervous and susceptible Freuce audi
ence.
Gambetta was in Paris when tho news
came of Louis Bonaparte’s contempti
ble surrender >t Sedan. He instantly
moved to depose the imperial govern
ment. During the rest of that disas
trous war he was the only conspicuous
Frenchman who rose to the height of
the occasion. He was miuister of the
interior when the German armies gath
ered about Paris, and he was prompt to
discover that Paris was no longer
France, and that the city could only be
defended from without. He escaped
from Paris in a balloon. He established
himself at Tours, and took charge of
the great' business of delivering bis
country. All that part of France be-
lon of Germans opposed to him that
Gambetta alone of the French leaders
showed genius for the conduct yf affairs.
A respectable German author has late
ly published a work npon that part of
the war, relating Gambetta’s proceeding
in great detail, from which it appears
that, bnt for Bazaine’s surrender at
Metz, Gambetta would have been able
to make far betrer terms of peace for
France than surrendering two provinces
and paying an enormousindemnity.
Gambetta is still to be tried by the
awful test of success. He is now rich,
powerful and almost universally ad
mired. So far, he appears to have
borne the test well. He does not talk
like a demagogue. He is in favor, for
example, of the public servants being
permanently appointed and rising by
merit alone. He is an ardent promoter
of the new public school system of
France, and urgently recommends that
girls shonld be educated as well at boys.
He demands complete severance be
tween politics and the army, as also be
tween church and state. He ttonksthai
theological students ought to be no
more exempt from military duty than
medical students or law students. He
seems to be sincerely opposed to every
measure which gives one class of people
a better chance than the rest. He ap
pears to be a prudent man, and one
who desires to promote harmony be
tween parties, sects, and orders. He
has also the good sense not to over
value popularity. A few weeks ago, at
a banquet given in his honor, he spoke
of this happily and wisely:
"I am,” said he, “deeply moved by
the sympathetic reception I have met
with among yon. I have nothing bnt
words of gratitude to address to you;
bnt allow me to remind you of a thing
I have always dwelt npon—that you
must beware of the prestige of personal
ity, and that there is nothing more
dangerous than idolizing a man. Yon
will always find me the enemy of exces
sive worship of personalities; I have ta
ken my place in Democracy to serve it,
and not to held myself above it. I have
never been desirous of widening the
breach wMch separates the Republican
party from the rest of France, and my
strength among yon is in my spirit of
concord and conciliation.”
It was well spoken. Let ns, however,
call no man happy before Ms death, If
he is sound and sterling he will be the
first man in Europe before he is sixty.
If there is a flaw ia him—if be is any
thing less than a patriot—if he wants
to be president—or if he di inks too much
Burgundy—he may turn out a failure,
after all.—New York Ledger.
The worst mistake a presidential as
pirant ever made was that of Thomas
A. Hendrix, when he said he would
not accept the nomination for vice-
president next year.
The Louisville Courier-Journal calls
the Boston Herald a republican paper,
wMch will be news to the Herald and
CONDITION OF LIBERIA. ,
The Department of State is indebted
to the Navy Department for very inter
esting reports of the condition of Libe
ria. Ike flagship Ticonderoga is now
cruising on the coast of Africa. Com
modore Shufeldt bas assigned to Pay
master Thompson , the duly of preparing
the commercial reports, “Liberia,”
says Mr. Thompson, "occupies the nat
ural gateway to the rich lands of the in
terior The Liberians are naturally
proud of the richness of the countiy.
The Mils are full of minerals and met
als. Coffee grows naturally and re
quires very little care and cultivation.
It fiuds a ready market at good prices.
But important as these considerations
are, the great opportunity of Liberia
lies in her geographical position
—the key to the immense commerce of
the interior.” Among the ports of en
try already established on the coast are
Monrovia, Robertsport, Marshyll,
Buchanan, Edma, Greenville and Har
per. Tbe trade with the aborigines is
conducted by the Liberian merchants at
various points on tbe coast and np the
river, and to a great extent is simply a
system of barter. Not only all kinds of
fruits, grain etc., that belong to a tropis
cal country thrive in Liberia, but many
of the plants and vegetables of thetem
perate zone. Physicians, teachers and
clergymen receive fair salaries. The
professors and teachers in the college
are paid by mission societies in the
United States. The Liberian Govern
ment pays the salary of the principal of
the preparatory deportment.
Paymaster Thompson’s glowing ac
count of the attractions of Liberia is
not corroborated by those emigrants
who, after making (he experiment of a
settlement in that country, have return
ed in disgust to their old home in the
South. While they do not deny that
coffee and all kinds of fruits grow there,
they represent the climate as exceed-
n gly unhealthy, living expensive, and an
opportunity for making a comfortable
support extremely discouraging.
BISMARCK ON RELIGION.
I cannot conceive how a man can live
without a belirtf in a revelation of a
God, who orders all things for the best,
in a supreme judge from whom there is
no appeal, and in a future life. If I
were not a Christian, I would not re
main at my post a single hour. If I did
not rely on God Almighty, I should not
put my trust in princess, I have, enough
to live on and am sufficiently genteel
and distinguished without the Chancel
lor’s office. Why shonld I go on work
ing indefatigably, incurring trouble and
annoyaricc. unless convinced that God
has ordained me to fulfill these duties.
If I were not persuaded that this Ger
man nation of ours, in tbe Divinely-
appointed order of things, is destined
to become something great and good, I
should throw up the diplomatic profes
sion at this very moment. Orders and
titles have to me no attraction. The
firmness that I have shown in combat
ing all manner of absurdities for ten
years past is solely derived from faith.
Take away my faith and you destroy
my patriotism. Eut for my strict and
literal belief in tbe tenths of Christian
ity, bnt for my acceptance of tbe mirac
ulous ground-work of religion, yon
would not have lived to see what kind
of Chancellor I am. Find me a succes
sor as firm a believer as I am and I will
resign at once. But I live in a genera
tion or pagans. I have no desire to
make proselytes, bnt I am constrained
to confess my faith. If there is among
us any self-denial and devotion to king
and country, it is a remuant of religious
belief unconsciously clinging to our peo
ple from the days of our sires. For my
own part, I prefer a rural life to any
other. Sob me of the faith that unites
me to God, and I return to Yarzin to
devote myself industriously to the pro
duction of rye and oats.—Berlin Corres
pondence London News. ^
Judge Bbaddex has decided the
Florida railroad cases against the rail
road companies and ia favor of the
Dutch bondholders. The verdict against
the Florida Central is tor one hundred
and ninety-seven thousand dollars, with
interest for about nine' years, and that
against the Jacksonville, Pensacola and
Mobile Bailroad is for about two mil
lion seven hundred and fifty thousand
dollars, with like interest. Appeals will
be taken. Decrees ordering the sale
of the roads are in course of prepara
tion.
A majority of the Supreme Court at
Jackson, Tenn*. Saturday morning de
cided that the previous charter cf the
city of Memphis has been validly
repealed by the late Legislature, and
that the same people and same terito-
tory lias been constilntionally reiheor-
porated under a general law providing
for the reorganization of municipal
corporations. A minority of the court
held that the repealing act was valid,
but the law creating a taxing district is
unconstitutional and void. .
The- man who waits to get three cr.ia ^ decorated reUc3 ,
‘In a line before he shoots will some day
find the poor honse waiting for him.
sSfl; i. i.ft; ‘--'a
TERRIBLE-AWITH.
Tecs.—"The man that will take a
newspaper for a lenghth of time, aad
then send it back “refused”, and un
paid for, would swallow a blind dog’s
dinner, and then stone the dog for being
blind.”—Times.
“He would do worse than that Hb
would marry a-girl on trial, and send
her back with the words “don’t suit”
chalked on her back, after tho honey
moon.”—Sun,
“Worse than that. He would steal
the chalk to write it with, and after- _
wards he would use it on Ms shirts, tci
save the expense of washing, and theri
sue his wife’s father for a month’s
boarding.”—Standard.
“Worse yet. He’d chose a sick rat
ten miles over a corduroy road, and in
stitute a post mortem examination after
he had caught him, in order to recover
a stolen grain of com.”—Moryantoicn
Star.
He would steal rotton acorns from n
blind pig. He would steal all the win
ter meat of an editor.—Somerset Herald,
He would sponge a living from the
hard earnings of Ms poor old father un
til the poor old gentleman became una
ble work, and then let Mm . die in the
poor house and afterwards sell his re
mains to the medical students for anat
omical pnrposes.—Blufflon Banner.
Ho would dig up the bones of his ;
mother and make dice of them, and
play “chnck-a-luck” on Ms grandmoth
er’s tombstone for a copper cent which
a horse thief had stolen from the eye of
a dead fifteenth amendment.—Quitman,
Banner.
A puppy’s eyes open in nine day£
We have waited that time in the vain
endeavor to add something else to this
mans character, bnt to use the expr0$
sion of a Georgia Judge, “the English
language is insolvent.”—Americas Re*-'
corder.
Still worse. No man in America*
would trust him with the anchor of the
“Great Eastern” and that too in the
middle of the desert of Sahara. He
would stick pins in a blind and crippled
orphan baby two weeks old.—Atlantal
Dispatch.
-A-CO
—Tbe Bainbridge Democrat says that
Mr. H. F. Gaulding has a little daugh
ter eleven years old to whose nerve and
courage he is indebted for the life of
his three year old boy. The circum
stances were briefly these: The boy
was playing by the cistern in Mk G.’a
yard. There was a plank off, and
through this apertnre the little fellow
fell. He caught a plank, however, in
falling, and held for some time before
he was discovered. Bnt Ms hold weak
ened and with a splash be fell into the
cistern. His sister saw and appreciated
the situation. Most girls would have
screamed and mn off in quest of help.
Notso with tMs little girl. Thescreams
and straggles for life of her baby broth
er gave her the courage and strength
of a man. She saw a ladder, and with,
all her might she dragged it*to and
placed it in the cistern, and then went
down into the water, reached out and
caught her brother jnst in time'tc save
Mm from a watery grave. By this time
help arrived and both were landed safe
ly from their periloHS position.
All honor to this little heroine! May
she live long to illustrate the true no
bility of womanhood.
The Methodist ministers at Chicago
have adopted a declaration presented by
Bishop Merrill in regard to what they
style the “civil Sabbath.” The delara-
tion disclaims all designs of creating any
religions establishment contrary to the
Constitution, and all expectation of po
licing men into tbe performance of moral
or religions duties, but urges that the
preservation of the “the civil Sabbath*"
substantially as regulated by law, is in
dispensable to the moral, social, and
physical welfare of all classes, “and es
pecially of the industrial populations.”
The closing resolution denounces the
prevalent lethargy in regard to the non
enforcement of the Sunday laws.
Conjugal felicity depends largely np
on mutual confidence. “I make it a
rule,” said a wiseacre to Ms friend, "to
tell my wife every thing that happens.
In that way we. manage to avoid any
misunderstanding.” Not to be outdone
in generosity the friend replied, “Well,
sir, you are not so open and frank as
I am, I tell my wife a great many things
that never happen.”
Most of the wine nsed in England fox 1
the holy communion in Roman Catholic
churches comes from the vineyards of
the English colleges of Lisbon and Val-
Iacelid, and is wMte; bnt elsewhere red
wine is usual. Roman Catholic an d
Episcopal ehurelsb have no rule as to
the color, bnt demand pure juice of the
grape.
A party of colored men in excavating
a mound in Major Fielder’s plantation
near Union Springs, Ala., discovered
the skeleton of an Indian wamor bu-«
ied sitting erect on a skeleton horse.
Large lumps of gold and sheets of isin-
—The Atlanta telephone exchango