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JOHN H- HODGES, PnLlisliev.
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VOLUME X.
.PERRY, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 27, 1880.
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Notice to 'nebtor^ and
Creditors.
Notice to all Persons hold-
jn(? claims against the 'estate of duo. N.
Evans are requested to present them to
uic, and all persons indebted will make
payment to tbe undersigned.
D. H. Culler, Adm’r.
6wks. JDe Bonis Bon.
^Tax Collector’s Sales.
WILL l>c sold bcfdro the cottrt house door in the
(owu of ivrry. Houston collnty, during tho legal
Jimirs of Bale. on. tlw first Tuesday in Julie, 1880, the
Allowing property, to. wit.
One lot of laml containing 2 l A ilcrcs nlore or less
In the 9tb district of said county, numbers not
known. Levied on and sold as the property of A.
jl. prater, agent for wife, lor state and county, tux-
it for the year 187U.
Also at the same time and place, two hundred
niid forty-five acres of land In tho 8th district of
nnhl comity, numbers not known. Leveled on and
nohl as the property of II. A. Mathews, trusteo for
fi. MatUewB, for ntnte and county taxes for tho
year 1870.
Also at tho same lime and place, Five HnndrO'j
ami Fifty acres of lnud, more or less, in the
Lower i.levriith district of said county, numbers
u„l known. Levied on anti- sold as the property of
j, S. Maliet, for stale and county taxes ffor the
Wr 1879.
W. BRUNSON, T. 0. H.C.
May 3rd 1880.
^SHERIFF’S SfLESd
TTTILL lie sold before thj court house
W door, in tho town of Perry, Houston county,
(It'orgla, within the legal hours of sale, on the 1st
Tin-silay in .lime, lssu, the following property, to
"Vhe Fort Valley and Hawifinsviile liailroad to
wit, the right of, way of said liailroad, the
same extending from Perry to Fort Valley in sjjld
county, being a distance of a tout twelve miles the
length of sai l Load and being t-jsf yards wide, also
on the road bed ami all rsuii mild, ties, stringers,
twinges, water tanks, pnmpS iud all other fixture*
belonging to and appertaining to sai l lioadi also
ih.'t dci«it in Percy in said tonut.v, also on the
dwelling hoilso find out houses* uu the right of way
nt anitl liailroad about 0 miles from Perry now or-
,■nulcd by it. It. Hurst, together with all improve-.
ii|S.,t«0U said right of way of said liailroad.
All levied on and sold as the property of the Fort
Valley and UawKliievillo ituiiroad to satisfy four
eje.-iitlons in favor of tne State vs said Foi l Vul-
l,.v aud lluwkiiVsvUle railroad for tax.'S and penitli.
tj.'a din- bv sahl Itailroa Is to tile State for tin* years
1X71. IS'.L ISTIi ami 1877. siu.d .-xt rations Imviug
h -n iesneil fay tV. 1. MidsmitU. (hmiptroller-Uell-
eralofthe Mate of Usoig a. ngniiist .-aid itiilrcnd.
A<iril », iSaO.
TSOI. Hires Kg. Sheriff.
I ilness my official sigi alr.re tils April 28. 1SS0.
A. S', (fll.lis. Uidinary,
Written for the Home JotrUsAL.
Editin' Home Journal:—
B afore the Wat Atlanta/Was a small
town, a way-station—compared with It
self of to-day. At the close of the war
it Was a vast pile of rubbish and ashes,
bnt the spirit, energy and enterprise of
its citizens, though beaten in War, was
not crashed, and as fasf as they could
return they went heroically to work;
bnt being poor, made only SDch tempo
rary ifilprbvctnents as they could nntil
fortune should smile upon their efforts
and enable them to do better. Its ge
ographical location and its healthfull
ness attracted people from every quar:
ter, and it grew arid prospered beyond
the expectation of nearly every one,
until now it is the largest city in the
state, and from home is, perhaps, inore
generally anil equally as favorably
known as any city in the south. At no
time has it seemed to be at a stand-still,
as it is the case often with other towns
aud cities, bnt improvement, both in
building f.hcl business,jhas been contin
uously progressive, and yet it grows
faster and faster each year, and no
one can tell how long jt will gfow in
size ai d add to its population. Its cen
tral lobation, between the cotton pro
ducing country south and south-west
and the grain, tobacco and stock pro
ducing sect:oh cast., north, and west.,
together witlijits fine sys'em of raihoid';
gives it tniequnled advantages. Its ex
emption from yellow fever and cholera
has attracted some people from other
cities subject to these dreadful diseases
and as time proves, year after year its
absolute exemption from them,-thous
ands will come and remain permanent
ly*
While the present railway system is,
and 1ms been of grent commercial ad
vantage to Atlanta, the continual pro-
gressiveuess of Geoi’gia as a state in its
agricultural and financial condition has
added much to her prosperity, and she
in turn has done much for the state.
The state, by its last, legislature, dis
posed of the Macon «fc Brunswick rail-
read in such a manner that,if the spirit
and let;er of tuo contract is faithfully
complied willV, will add to Atlanta's
prosperity ami be of great advantage
to southern Georgia. .The Georgia
Western Railroad wiil become a posi
tive necessity aud will be built. Then
Atlanta will be, indeed, tlie most en-
tral and easy of access of any place
s *uth of the Ohio.
The public spiritedasss of Atlanta’s
eitizeDs, the energy, enterprise and
fair dealing of her merchants, the
thoroughness of her public schools, the
cordial welcome ever ready to be giver
to men of holiest purposes for good to
themselves a ad those around, from
whatever section of our common coun
try, or even other countries— all these
have had nud are having a reflex influ
ence for gapd to Atlanta. But with all
tbe past successes and future prospects
as a noble city there is a defect which
ever most remain to mar the beauty of
the city, and it is strange that such a
defect should ever have been allowed to
attach itself to it; I have reference
to the streets, which, for their general
narrowness and serpentine meaudeiiugs
cannot be excelled, if equalled, in this
country. To a considerable extent the
real architechural beautity of the city
is lost simply by tbe narrowness and
winding course of tbe streets- White
hall, one of-the principal streets, not
wide enough by half its width, cramp
ed by the presence of a street railway,
beautifully built up for lbore than a
a mile, grows so narrow at a mile and
a half, near wliefe the C. B. R. crosses
it, that vehicles can scarcely meet, and
reminds one of standing on a railroad
aud looking away in the distance to
where the rails seem to come together.
Marietta Street for a short distance is
wide enough*, bnt like Whitehall, seems
to have concluded that width was npt
essential, and draws in on both sides, or
rather by curving inward on the one
side, the other continueing in a direct
line-until going between the houses on
one side and the huge wooden awnings
on the other reminds us of the “nar
rows” of the Apaladhrcola river. Broad
street, a prominent one, seexus to have
been generously ond .socially minded,
judging from the varied business done
on it, iseems to diverge 4 from Peachtree
street at an angle of 40 or 45 degrees
and at a distance of abont six
blocks runs into West Mitshel street,
square in the face of a fine block on the
south side of Mitchell. Fair street,
gag by some to be the longest street in
the city, is very narrow and in a cer
tain portion of it, it makes so many
carves and ofl§gt§ that no one mot guid
ed by sign-board^ cqald possibly know
it wasth^same street throughout. The
streets. w W® whole southern portion of
The City V® Matter #scribe£
than by imagining a large fgr^
m horizontal rows (of coprsa
of Deposit, Discount and Excliau- rows on tannin*/'
,r C , I intact) and then beginning on one side
~ * i 0 f the farm lay off straights rows cross-
; wise tha others.. As The Ho:
• isal is read by more -farmers,
® ven' l Cj tho'
GEOLUilA—HotvroN 0« umjt:
.Mro.jSi'lilaAiili Kill.*n iins a;ipli«-1 f.u- ii lmlit-
oil tile rutate «'l f&imUcl 1>. Jvillc*H t luto of
Ml id outity. dec» atiert..
1'hiffis therefore t*/ eilo all vo: houk concerned
toajij.etvr at the -J-ane term 1KS0 of tlse Court
i*f Ordinary of wtitl eoiiuty, uutl s*lio\v c:iv.«e,if any
t'liry have, »hv said application should not be
emu tod.
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GEORGIA—Houston Cuuntt.-
0. L- Greene, adhuintetrator do bouia- iton of
Miles L. Grcnuc, of said county, lias applied for
difiuiissiou from hie trust:
Thin is therefore to cite all persons concerned to
ippenr at the August terni 1880,of the Court of Ordi
nary aad fcbov pjnijrcif any they li&ve, why said ap
plication slio lid uot be granted.'
Witness my official signature this April 20,1880.
A. S. GILES
3m. Ordinary.
GEORGIA—Houston Counts-
•W. H, Blown, Guardian of tho njiuor children
?f Win. E. Killcn, deceased, has applied far difi-
wlssiou from his trusti;
This is therefape to eit;all porsous concerned to
appear at ilia .Tunc term F8tTO of the Court of
i iciiuary of mid county aud show cause if any they
hare, why said application should not he granted.
Witness my official signatnro this April 29
1881). A. S. GILES,
4w. Ordinary.
A PPLIUATION FOIl DISMISSION.
-I GeojioiA—Hors-iojj County:
E. D. Brown, adniiuisiratoi of Mrs. Itncaetia
Brown, deceased, has applied for dismission from
fiis trust;
This is" therefore io cite all persons r 'ncemod to
appear st the June term 1880, of the Court of
Ordinary of said comity aud show cause i - any
they have, why said application should not be
granted.
iVi ncss my official signature this Feb, 25th, 1880.
3m A, S. GILES, Ordinary.
A 1 ‘PLICATION FOE DISMISSION.
Geohoia, Houston County.*
James W. Belviu,executor of Jesse T. Brewer, of
said county, deceased, has applied for dismission
worn his trust:
Thi» is therefore to cite gjl persons concerned to
li'peai at tho June term 1880, of the Court of
Ordinary of said county, and show cause, if any
they ihave, why said application should not be
granted,
'itnesa my official signature this Feb. 5th. 1880.
3la * A S. GILES, Drdinary
FOR
PIANOS, ORGANS,
SHEET MUSIC,
VIOLINS, GUITAR STRINGS,
ARTIST MATERIALS,
WAX FLOWER MATERIAL,
STATIONERY,
MACAZINES,
FASHION PUBLICATIONS,
ETC., ETC., ETC.
CALL ON OR ADDRESS
L.W. SMITH & CO.,
O MACON CA.
1880-3m.
ir NATIONAL BANK.
MACQ3J, G-A.
understand the description, arid those
of them acquainted with the city will
appreciate the correctness of the draw
ing. Now why was this so ,or ever be
permitted to become a fixture of the
city, I know not. It i3 a great pity; it
is so. Originally there was plenty of
land, plenty of room to have laid out
wide and, straight streets, crossing at
right angles. Had this been dorie, At*
lanta wc aid have been, would be to*
day not only the largest and most pros*
peruns bnt as beautiful as any in the
state.
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THE SOUTHERN PLANTERS.
From Colonel S, S. Scott’s “Southbook.”
No finer type of ‘the gentlman has
this world ever produced than the south
ern planter. Loot at him before the
late war! Brought up to feel when he
stjod upon his maternal acres, that he
was monarch of what he savveyed, and
watchfulness, and tenderness with re
gard to all confided to his hare was a
great duty, a paramount obligation, he
vas independent without haughtiness,
and determined without obstinacy.
Surrounded with an ample supply of
this world’s good, which his early train
ing taught him were to be enjoyed, uot
hoarded; were to be used as the means
of-beautifying life, mot as the end of it,
he was geuerous without calculation,-
charitable without display. With all
the health-giving influences and free
dom of the country about him, and with
the purity which God had so legibly
written upon oarth and sky, entering in
to and eimobbling his spirit, he was
strong without arrogance, honest with
out ceusorionsness, genial without levi
ty, aud candid without rudeness, his
mind engaged in superintending and
providing for its varied interests, his
frame developed by manly exe.rcise, and
bis heart invigorated aud brightened by
close and almost constant commuuion
with nature in all her visible forms,
there was iu him no part of the man
wanting,.he stood forth in mental, mor- v
al, and physical proportions, complete
and finished, as nearly so at any rate, as
was possible, to mere mortality with
its m iuifulu weaknesses and imperfec
tions.
When the war was ended he was the
last'in the field, he was the first when
it began. Feeling that all was lost save
honor, he accepted the settlement of
the great issue by the sword, and hon
estly renewed his allegiance to the gov
ernment, aud quietly turned nis atten
tion to his private affairs. He found
his plantation in ruins, his supplies
scattered; his stock gone aud the charac
ter of his labor changed. The accom
plishment of tl 6 task before lr.m, with
money, was not easy; without money, it
was most d.ffi ’ult; with habits i f system
atic, undeviatiug thrift, and a thorough
appreciation cf the situation, it was
simply impossible. Accustomed to pay
off large debts every yeuf by the pro
ceeds of his crops so- that he war never
troubled, nnd had consequently no fear
of such obligations, prinoely in hisstyle
of living, in his hi apitality, in his char
ity, careless in the manageriient of his
property, iu his expenditures, in bis
collections; he soon found himself in
extricably involved, and was speedily
crushed between the accumulated weight
of fiuancial burdens. Xet a few yeais,
and the last traces of him have disap
peared; aud despite his faults, indeed
because of his faults; for they all sprang
from tbe noble attributes of humanity,
a generous and unsuspecting nature, it
can then be truly said of him, that the
world has forever lost the man whom
••Take hint for aU in all
Wo ne'er sliall look upon liis like again."
TEACH THE BOYS, TOO.
Dixie FanBeT.
A great; deal is being arid about the
influx of emigrants into New York from
Europe, while slight mention is made
of the arrivals at other Atlantic ports,
and yet Philadelphia and Baltimore are
receiving emigrants at the rate of 1,200
each a week. The number of emigrants
arriving at these ports is four times as
great as last year, and increasing every
day. The Antwerp line, from January
1 to Iriay 1, brought no less, than 5,258
emigrants to Philadelphia, the Liver-
Pool line 4,392, and so on in propor
tion. These emigrants are of more va
ried nationalities than those coming to
New York, there being comparitively
few Geimans and hardly any. ^rish,
while Swedes, Hanes, Norwegians, Ital
ians, Belgians, Swiss and Russians are
numerous.
of the —^—„ dramatic
company cast aside ag 'old corset at a
hotel in and had been awpy from
tha^ town a week before she recalled
the fact that $250 in greenbacks was
stitched into that article e£ apparel-
When she remembered this a member
of the company was dispatched p,ost
'baste to and was le?ky enough,
after- digging over a lot of rubbish in
the hotel yard, tp find t^e corset and
cash ail right.” This itemu with differ-
¥* ply 1 ®® of (he dash.es is to
ift the western ne
sister
It is mighty bad, but it looks like we
can’t help it, I met .a preacher the
other’day, who was trying to raise a
lot of girl children on a six handred
dollar salary, and he can’t .do it—that
is. decently—acbordin'g^ to ’their social
position. Two of e’m aie abont grown
now arid are smart and likely, but they
dont know what to do for a living.
They could* teach school, bnt there pint
any vacancy'iri reach. They can pew
and knit, but that's a powerful slow
and nnromantic way of making ( a little
money. I tlrnk they could be persuad
ed to many, but somehow our thrifty
boys don’t seem to fancy, poor preach
er’s daughters. I’yg floticed that when
a preacher’s daughter marries it’s gen
erally to another. poor preacher,^ and
they settle down in some .little town to
perish to death in the name of the
Lord. Tlie like of that grieves me. I
met nnother man last week who manes
two or three thousand a year, and spends
it and. keeps lively, but don’t lay up
anything, and when I asked him how
he was getting along in this sublunary
woild he iinid, “Oh, pretty well—pretty
well considering. I’ve just got through
educating my daughters and I think
now I Ciin lay up some money. They
have cost me four thousand dollars iu
the last four years, and now I’ve got
but one aim iu life and that, is to marry
’em off to Some body that i won’t have
to support - ’’ I’m afraid he can’t do
that, His girls he ve got style and man
ners, aud kuow arightsmartaboutmus-
ic, and rhetoric, and botaDy and the
sun, moon and stars, bnt the trouble is,
they won’t have anybody that will have
them-. There are several reasons why
nioe, well-educated, well behaved weal-'
thy young men wont have em; the first
of which is, there aiut no such young
men; secondly, it there is abont one in
a Congressional district, be is apt to bjjji
already married or mortgaged to some
banker’s daughter, whom ho met
off at the springs. There’s fifty nice,
refined welel ducated poo? girls waiting
for just such a nice young man, aud
forty- aine of ’em will have to go to bed
without him. Che trouble is, there
aiut anymore such men. There’s plenty
just us snarl, by nature and more
industrious, but. they haven’t got the
money or the elegant manners. lhcn
there’s another class who’s got the
manners and tlie education, but that s
ail they have g >t. They are worthy
young lawyers and doctors who are try
ing to get a start in the world, and they
are afraid to marry oue of these college
girls for rear they can’t support ’em ac
cording to expectations. Somehow,
those things dou’t fit up together now
a days like they used to, and I’m a
thinking it is because our people are
a over doing the tiring in doing too
much for the girls, or, maybe, too little
for the boys. I remember when the
boys were sent off to college and the
girls stayed at home, but it’s on the
other extreme now. Female colleges
have sprung up in almost every little
town. There are abont five times as
many gills at college as there are boys
There are about five hundred now being
educated at Rome, and Dalton, and Ma
rietta, but I don’t believe, there are fifty
beys at college frorii the whole- district.
A thrifty farmer or merchant thinks he
can’t spare his boys from the field-or
store, or if he can, he can’t afford to
send them away off to college, ai an ex
pense of four or five hundred dollars a
year,but he can spare the girls,and there
is a i o lege close by,and so the daughters
are getting all the refinement and pol
ish, and by the time she graduates she
feels a iitile above the family, and
wouldn’t marry her brother’s best friend
unless he was rich and could ret her .up
like a queen. She has got a new social
position. I’ve hi en trying to think who
are going t j marry those girls who have
cost their father four thousand dollars
in four years, but I don’t spot anybody
they would have that would have them.
Maybe they can go off and catch some
body at the springs next summer, bnt
going to springs costs money and takes
a power of fine clothes. ^hen girls
get through a fashionable college it’s
mighty hard for them., to sjt down on
the old family platform. Their fond
fathers and brothers have been giving
and working on a strain -to put them
through, and the consequence is they
come home elevated in sentiment-and
ambition. New pastures have been
opened up forever to graze in, and the
s^ore clerk or the farmer’s boy or the
handsome mechanic who used so squeeze
her warm hand'on the siy^eams mighty
quick to keep at a respectful distance.
I know its all right for-girls to b.e edu
cated, a^d to. take just as high § posi
tion as they pcgsibly can, but, t^eri. if
her father' aint richvand she has no great
expectations,she min a badjvjay for niat-
ritui?riy, unl?ss she has a power of good
and makes up her mind
to. come, down
obliged to be done or I won’t have any
clothes after awhile. I wish it was so
that folks could dress up all the time,
for X don’t believe a man is inclined to
a lit tit mean thing nhea he is well
dressed. I., wish the girls could go in
purple and fine linen, and diamonds
and pearls, for they do look so sweet
and charming, bnt a poor girl can’t do
it, that^ nllj jmd if she tries to live and
dress bpyond her means, noboby but w
fool will marry her, college or no col
lege, . .They say a smart mother makes
,a smart Bon, but how is , a girl going to
be a mother at.all unless some feller
marries her, Society is veyy exacting,
I know, very caustic and envious.
Sometimes when a smart, refmed, edu
cated girl manies a mechanic or a work
ing man, society whispers around that
see has lowered herself, and the girls
are afraid of society. So * between all
their troubles the old maids are accu
mulating at tlie South like they do at
tbe north. Now, the girls up there are
more shifty than ours, and so .they will
not sit down and braid straw .and wait
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forty* years for a fellow to conie along,
they pick up a few dollars and go west
iu Bearch of a school) or a husband, I
read the other day about a lot of ’em
arriving on every train -that goes to
Lendville—going there to teach school;
and the Leadvilfe boys watebout for
’em everywhere betwixt the depot and
the school house, and so they haven,t
got any school in Leadvilleyet. '1 lin’d
bad,-ain’t it? but still I’m glad of it,
for it always done me good to seethe
young folks hitch together and settle
clown to business.
Now, >vhat we need in this blessed
land is more high schools and'colleges
for our young meu »Dd boys, so as to
prepare them all right for the college
bred girls—so they will all be on an
equal footing, and can talk rhetoric and
SENATOR GORDON > RESIGNS.
United States Senate-Chamber, Wasli
ington, D. C., May 15,' '1380.-—To His
Excellency, governor A. B. Colquitt, At
lanta, Ga.— Sir: /-I hereby teudel you
my resignation as United States Senator
frpm Georgia. i 11 !
In taking this step I am simply car
rying out a long cherished desire to re
tire from ynblic life. I haVe hitherto
subordinated- that desire to a sense of
duty and to : my reluctance to leave the
service of a roble arid generous people
who have honored me with the most
exbalted station and supported me in
the discharge of its duties with un
swerving confidence.
Since April, 1861—for : nearly twenty
years—my life hasbeen one of incessant
anxiety and of great labor. For more
than one-half of that long period, either
in war or m public office, my energies
have been devoted to what I conceived
to be the welfare of the Southern people
aLd the best interest of the whole coun
try. And now that the restoration of
Louisiana and South Carolina to .the
rights of otself-government, secqrts to
the entire .South her fullnnd ligbful
representation in the legislative depart
ment of tho Federal government, my
riiost cherished object in politics has
been attained. 1 am left free to consult
my inclinations and the imperative in
terests of my family, without the least
detriment to the public service.
I give way to some snccessor who will,
I trust, serve the country with more
ability than myself; bnt who, I am sure,
will not do so with greater devotion or
purer motives, I am, most respectfully,
your obedient servant,
J. B. Gordon.
THE GOVERNOR’S ANSWER.
May 18, 1880.—General John B. Gor
don, Washington, D, C.: In behalf oi
CV1C4CIA - UUWU DI X
botany and astronomy together ancr the people of Georeia, I beg that you
clothes goa loDg
off and go
quote poetry from Tennyson and Long
fellow, and court one another in French
or German if they want to. Something
must be done right away, for things
are not working right.
Yours,
Bill Arp.
THE GAME OP KITE CUTTING-
I wish to tell the boys about a game
I learned to play when I was a-boy. It
is a game played with kites and cntiers,
by Mexicans and Cubans. Cuttera-are
things made of glass. You fasten tliem
on your kite’s tail and cut other fellows’
strings with them.
With a good'stendy brepze, you must
put your kite np at about twenty yards,
aud have your ball of string so arranged
tnat j-ou con let out or pull in. as yon
wish. Your object is to/ bring your
kite’s tail reross the string of your op
ponent, and so cut it, letting his kite
fly off. You have the right to cut eve
ry other kite that carries cutters, and
you are fair game for any of them; but
you are bound in honor, of course, not
to interfere with those who you know
are not armed.
Your best plan is to get what the sail
ors call "the weather guage”#f the oth
er kite. If the wind is blowing from
your kite to bis string you have him at
your meroy, for you can make yonr kite
fall to his by letting out string. If yon
are to lbeward of a kite, with the wind
blowing to you past it, you can.hardly
hope to get at it. ,
On one occasion I had been very
lnoky, and, after enttiug half a dozen
kites and having several narrow-escapes
myself, only miue and one other were
left. We were both on the bank of the
creek, ^md the only chance left for one
t o cut the other was to get one kite over
the other’s string, either by making
the kite go straighter up, or by reach
ing np and putting one string oyer the
other. He had a little more string out
on his kite than I had, bnt he was tall
er. I ran off down the bankand he fob.
lowed me. He thought that be would
cat me soon, for there was a high fence
that would compel me to stop or turn
off. and give him the dhance he want
ed.
Bnt I had a plan of my own. As I
ran I pulled in about thirty feet of
string and coiled it in my right hand.
When I reached the fence I turned to
leeward a dozen feet, and then, when
my enemy was not more than five yards
off, I wheeled round* threw my ballot
string-over his string, canght yt on the
hand, and started back, pulling in with
both hands, Befpre my adversary knew
what I was doing, hi® kilo cat and
mip$ war. soaring in triumph.
Sometimes we would make up sides
and have a regular battle. One of the§e
between a dozen boys on each side was
very exciting. We would agree not to
go . «rt of a certain .field; but there
would be more leaning over fences and
throwing np balls, than yon ever saw in
yonr life.—Exchange.
A couple-in the backwoods of Michi-
recall your resignation. If you can not
do so unconditionally, withhold it, at
least, until the meeting of the general
assembly.
Alfred H. Colquitt.
GENERAL GORDON’S REPLY.
Washington, D. C., May 19, 1880,
Governor A. H. Colqnil: In response
to your flattering request that I with
draw my resignation, I beg to say that,
though anxious to oblige, I feel con
strained to decline,
John B. Gordon.
LEXTER OP ACCEPTANCE:
Executive Office. Atlanta, May 20.
—General John B. Gordon, Washington
City—Dear Sir: It is with profound re
gret that I learn by yonr telegram of
yesterday that you adhere to yonr de
termination of resigning yonr seat as
senator of Georgia. While I have no
option but to accept yonr resignation,
I feel very sure that the regret I express
is universal with the people of this state
who have cherished with an almost un
exampled pride and love the repntation
yon have achieved in their service.
. Your devotion to the interes's and
honor of Hie people of Georgia since yon
assumed the obligation of a senator has
only been equalled by the moderation
yon display in surrendering a trnst which
.von have ncbly sustained and which
promised for yon such splendid results
and future usefulness. While the judg
ment of yonr fellow citizens will con
cede yonr claims to a large sLare of re
pose and more care for your private in-
tererts thanJiave been allowed you in-an
arduous official career, I mast be allow
ed to say that your withdrawal from
the public service will be felt us a loss
to the commonwealth yon have fo faith
fully and efficiently served.
I am confident I only niter the uni
versal feeling of the people of Georgia
when I express the hope that yon may
long be spared to the country to which
yonr patriotic devotion has so endeared
yon. Onr eai nest good wishes attend
^you, and the wish that yonr future lift
may be as prosperous ana happy as the
past.hasbeen nsefnl and honorable. I
haye the honor to be yours truly.
Alfred H. Colquitt.
John Williams, a merchant at. Rut-
v
ledge, Ceorgia, sued a desperado. Thi
fellow entered the store in a furious
passion, held oat the summons in on<
hind, clutched a long knife in the oth
er and said: “Williams* have yon sneci
me? u Williams knew- that an immeili
othey side, let loose the string in my "ate “yes” won Vi moke him suie of a
stab. “Let me get my spectacles, s*
that I caa read the paper.” said.he. He
went behind the connier aud come back,
not with his glasses, but with an axe
across his shoulder. “Yes,” he said,
“I have sued yon.” “All right,” re
marked the desperado, “I guess I’ll pay
the bill.”
Angusta CJiresklc and Constitntiotuliijt.
- Among the most' gallant of' southern
yohtb, who left home and comfort and
all that makes life pleasant to boyhopd,
for the hardships rhd trials of i a i gyc^t
war. wnsWm.A. Wright,., the eldest
son of General A. R. 1 Wrigkb He .did
not go fox th like'the Prince Imperial of
France to meet his baptism ot fire suy-
aohnded with all that could render the-
struggle a holiday caprice, nor yet did
he, alter the first booming of tfie gnhs*
retire theatrically from danger. Qn tho
contrary, he cast in his lot with that:
“tattered infantry” who bore on their
bright bayonets the most heroic causa
of the nineteenth century for four tre-
fhendons years, and whose privations,
heroically endured, were often the only
reward they ever received, save indeed
that self-respect or elevation of charac
ter that_kindles the sonls of the brave*
When hut a mere stripling of 17 years,
on August 30th, 1862, he lost bis leg a|
the second Manassas, while acting aa
ordnance officer of his fathei’s splendid
brigade. It was while serving as aid to
the General .that this misfortune befell
him. With bnt one leg^and, therefore,
dispensed of military dnty, he voluntA^
lily rejoined the army in Match, 1863,*
while his wound was yet newly healed, ‘
In the terrible fight at Gettjsbnrg he
was captured and suffered the dreadful
orment of imprisonment in the living
grave at Johnson’s Island nntil May,
1864. Released on parole, he returned*
home for 60 days, wa3 exchanged, and
again rejoined Jiis colors, which flew'
over the remnant of Lee’s Spartan Rand’
before the works of Petersburg. There
nntil the army of northern Virginia was-
reducecl to a shadow and overwhelmed
by mere avoirdupois, he clung to the
banner of the sonth nntil “furled for— ♦
ever,” and came back to the mother-
state maimed in body bnt glorious ini-
the performance of more than duty and
the consciousness of being ol those who t
endure to the end and are fatihfnl
•unong the faithless. \ !
After the war, Captain Wright Inroed*
his attteuri in to farming, and gallantly*'^
strove to support the family that gri w
around him.
In 1S77 he was appointed Clerk of the -
Wild Land Office., After the impeach- -
ment of the then Comptroller-General, -
Captain Wright, by nnanimons Legis
lative recommendation, was appointedt*
Comptroller by Governor Colquitt, in^
1879. He has discharged the duties of ~
his offioj with signal ability nnd fidfcli- "
ty, with credit to himself and advantage "
to the commonwealth. His claims fo*--'
a renomiuation-are submitted to the- 1
Democratic State Convention which'
meets r.t Atlanta next August.
We believe that his claims will be- ’
recognized with a unanimity seldom ac-'
corded to any public man and officer.
His noble self-sacrifices in yoitth have.
endeared him to his fellow citizens. His
modest worth is equal to his valor. Hiar
inteliectnal and moral qualifications for'
the position aspired to are unrivalled.
It- is with the greatest pleasure- that we
endorse him for the office* feeling; that
be is eminently fitted for it and* that ;
there is no ground for opposing'him in.
any quarter.
A FIGHTING EDITOR’S WORK
Boston Post.
A western editor, whose style of writ
ing was calculated fo arouse people to
deeds of gore, being himself not.mncfr
on the mnsele, found it becessaty to
keep a fighting editor, and he Jfiad a
speaking tube conneoted with the heel
er’s room, to call him when danger re*
qnired. One day a gentleman* whom
the editor had referred to as‘^a cross
eyed dromedary,” came in to request %
correction-, and as the fighting editor
was out-, he didn’t respond to the.signal
of distress, and while the editor and hii,
visitor were on the floor underthedesk^
the .former agreed to correct the mis
take, and the irate-man left. Pretty
soon a gentleman from the rand dis
tricts came in to give the editor- a big
-quash and get a notice, and abont that,
rime the fighting editor returned, an&a
boy in his room told him that the boss
wanted help. The man of war. waa
quick to-respond, and dashing into the-
chief’s room and seeing, the latter in a.
somewhat disordered condition, thexe*.
salt of his previous visit, he thonghfe
shat the conntryman was the cause of-
t, and clutched him, and after staving;-
up some furniture, i aa the victim across:
; be street to where an empty hearse
was standing in front of an undertaker's
hop. Into the vehicle he jammed: tl»e
farmer and shut the door, Tho Qoa^u
motion he had created scared the hojses-
attached to the hearse^ and they started
off on a ran- People soon noticed tho
a servant who kas never bees, in servict
i before. will give yon fifteen dollars
a month, and I will tress yon,” says
the master. The country hid looks de-
runaway and ran aftes it and; weno
-hocked at beholding the hearse, oollido
A gentleman hires a countryman for, wi th a post and become- a complete
, — j wreck; and then-horror cA
corvonf wnn boa norov luin-% e.wriA. . ,< . _ _
man body precipitated to the sidewalk
waa only equaled by seeipg it spring
nimbly to its feet, and aike off across,
the country, yelling murder. They
thought it was an attempt ' *