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About The Solid South. (Conyers, Ga.) 1883-1892 | View Entire Issue (March 13, 1886)
lid go-o-tla. Saturday by the Usbedeve ry COMPANY. Sjflfil *® IB a [ 5 yfaddo*’ proprietors. . D. Irwin j sro scim-Tion. $1 25. rear • 65 ninths 35 ben copr free. OY THE SENATE. ins SfflAToisTARALEED MESSAGE* BY THS growler, Edmunds, Slapped in iant face, ete. the L L SH |sgt°n, D. C. Mar., 8, 86. the s administration lias shown ’[ 3ire of its convictions during the C by launching three aggressive bents upon the senate. The [was Lht the president’s senate to message share the on of the Uation on which he made ofii changes. The second also was ssage from the president con the . ning in very positive _ terms, ages committed on the Chinese , c far west, and urging congress ei in burse the victims for their niary losses. The third docu it was a decided letter Iroin the letary [policy of the treasury administration on the sil in of the L he shows no disposition to [promise [describes with the he silver has made men, the efforts bice the standard dollarinto circu¬ it bat. congress may see that has tried to carry out its purposes good faith, The statement he fees in regard to this should at Lt stop the talk :indulged in by pc that the dollars do not circu [■ because the treasury officials se tly use the machinery of the de tment against the coin. While Senator Beck may not agree Hi the administration on the silver Kstion, he is with it in the eontro lay lard with the senate. Said he, in to the coveted appointment liers, ‘No one has any right to Irm hut the persons who wrote Ini. Mr. Cleaveland can return pin to their writers tomorrow 7 , if he Isires to do so, and no one could [event him. The senate could not pke the people to whom he return the papers, tell what was in cm.” [Since the president sent his mes Ige to the senate in regard to its panel for papers, there has been p doubt as to what he is going to p. He bolds that the question of pnovalis ill one for him alone, and he not send the papers. It is not iat the senators are misunderstood nd misrepresented that they coin lam. On the contrary, it is be ause they are thoroughly under lood and as thoroughly exposed. Int say they, acts of suspension light to be public and the reasons T jr them explained. While this is 6 U6 i H>e custom and law of the gov Irnroent do nob require it. The law jhould require it, but it does not, hid the senate does not wish it. I he senate avoids publicity and eais it- R does not want the coun % ,r y to know all the facts and reasons [“ tllese cases. It wants to have a fwition of them given in secret, to ,e manipulated in secret, to be made ' 1L bas ' s of political maneuvers, duch cannot be fairly met because are plotted and perfected in se ret. Hie subject is the chief topic of ( wiersation at both ends of the Mo), and cap ii is noticeable that the president’s frank and strong state ment of bis determination not to be ^represented ! er hls nights or forced to surren '“creased or responsibilities has The admiration for him. «s has been a good deal of comment upon the loss of temper <JVer president’s eoixununication, exhibited by the usual!} placid, demonstrative 1 senator from Ver ^ * n Mr- Sec ^ et Edmunds. session The senate ji when the pres wi-i, V e pnvate ’ DQSSa secretary Business arrived reisn™ , § e- was he Wllen Was ^ earn Dd what -^ac !>■ 1 , brought with him, and the was dd before the body, ^ ^ arr * 8 P ro H° s ' n g that it be read Kcnn" * c ^ ose d doors. °^’ - Senator ofy, ^ a ” an( * ^ an Wyck, v sbai the Ka ’ T% demanded that deba corl -00 ) 3 d °7 >ene< I - Alter a the ! P°ndents °° rS Were filled thr °wn open, their gal- ■V. . I mm—tm C r ! •- : m •7 5 | a a % MIC ■o-. M TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER. Vol. 4. CONYERS, GEORGIA, MARCH 13, 1886. No. 8. lery, and the news spreading rapid¬ ly, people from other parts of the capitol hastily made their way to the senate. Extraordinary stillness prevailed on the floor, and the scene was unusual for the reason that ev¬ ery senator on both sides of the chamber listened eagerly. Chieftain Edmunds sat with his eyes closed, his chin on his breast. His hands were folded across his knees and twitched nervously dur¬ ing the reading of the message. At the close Senator Harris sprang to his feet with a motion that the doc ment lie upon the table and be print¬ ed. Mr. Edmunds arose to dispute this motion in a voice that betrayed his intense excitement, while his figure trembled and his face and bald head were scarlet with anger “I do not propose that it shall he laid upon the table if I can help it,” shouted he, and demanded the yeas and nays. He then proceeded to make a little speech which he delivered with un¬ usual emphasis, comparing Mr. Cleveland to Charles the First, the most arbitrary of the Stuart kings. It is impossible to foreshadow the outcome of the pending issue, which has stirred up party feeling among senators more than anything that has happened this winter. They were not prepared to discuss this communication in an offhand style, however. The message will first be considered by the judiciary commit¬ tee in a special meeting, After that the senatorial fight will begin, and it is likely to he long and exciting. J. G. Zachiy, formerly of Atlanta, is doing a capital law practice at Washington, D. C., and has a bright future ahead of him. There were 524 criminal cases disposed of in the United States Courts at Atlanta last term, viz: 370 pleas of guilty, 92 dismissed, nol pressed, and discontinued, and 58 verdicts; 112 civil cases were also disposed of. Most of the 96 cases nol prossed and dismissed were old eases, where the witnesses had be come scattered and their dismissal had heed recommended by the present District Attorney’s prede¬ cessor. “What is the worst thimg about riches?” asked the Sunday school superintendent. And the new boy answered, “Not having any.” Hereafter let us have it understood that a winter consisting wholly of backbone is not wanted in these lat itudes. A pauper in the Newton county poor house annoys the citizens of Covington by coming to town at will and getting drunk. A Son of Mr. Parker, who lives near Buckhead in Morgan count} 7 , was bitten by a mad dog last Wed¬ nesday while plowing in the field. It is proposed in Maryland to re¬ duce the marriage license fee from one dollar to fifty cents. The fee in Georgia remains at one dollar and a half which is, in many instances, prohibitory. An invention that this country badly needs is something that will hatch Easter bonnets from hen’s eggs. Milner - , it is said, has been great¬ ly agtiated over a special tax levied by the council on nearly every busi ness jn town except the specific ]j nes G f business in which the alder men are engaged. The best preventive of hydropho¬ bia is strychnine and powderand lead applied tc the dog beiore the dog is cauterized.—Walton News. A movement is being started for a statue of Bob Toombs to be erected Atlanta. If the majesty and and beauty of this king among men i can h> e caught in the maible, the i statue will glorify forever the sculp tor from whose hands it comes. Lumpkin has sold her last drop of whisky. GEORGIA FAEM MORTGAGES, The Only Sound Policy for Farmers is not to Borrow. Speaking of the mortgage system, Col. I. W. Avery, in the Atlanta Capitol, tells the following discour¬ aging story, to which the attention of our planting friends is called. Besides, every word of it is true: “Loan agents have been for a num¬ ber of years scattering mortgages upon our Georgia farms. There are probably a million and a half of dollars of such mortgages in sums of from $500 to $3,000. Numbers of the borrowers have failed to meet their indebtedness and the lands are being sold. Some of our best law¬ yers are making a handsome thing of it in foreclosing these claims. The farmer first paid from 30 to 50 per cent, for supplies and guano advances. He thought it a move forward to borrow money for three to five years’ time, mortgaging $3 of land for $1 of loan, paying 16 per cent, of commission in a lump to the agent and 8 per cent, interest a year. For instance, on a $3,000 loan he gave a mortgage on a $9,000 farm. His commission of 16 per cent, was $480, which leit him only $2,520 cash. His interest of 8 per cent, on $3,000 is $240 a year, or $1,200 for the 5 years. His account stands at the end of 5 years, as follows: Whole loan due $3,000 Commission gone $480 Yearly interest 5 years $1,200 Total $4,680 He gets use of cash, 5 years $2,520 For which he pays $2,160 This is a frightful thing. The farmer gets $2,520 for 5 years on a $9,000 place and pays for it $2,160 or $432 a year practically or 17} per cent. He lacks $460 of doubling the amount in the five years—that is he gets $2,500 in cash and pays out for it $2,160, or within $360 of the $2,520. He pays commission $480, which he gets no use of, and pays 8 per cent, interest on it for the 5 years, being $38 40 a year and $192 for tbe 5 years. Now let us see what the $9,000 farm has to do in 5 years. Besides supporting its master, his family and hands, it has to produce a sur¬ plus of $4,680 in the five years. This is a total of over 50 per cent, for the whole five years or oyer 10 per cent a year. A business that nets 6 per cent is a good one—a magnifi cent one. But this farmer has to net over ten per cent, straight along for five years, good or bad season, rust or no rust, drouth or flood, as his fundamental expense, and live outside of that, or at the end of five years be unable to meet his mort gage It can’t be done as a rule. It can only be done as a rare exception. The only policy for the farmer is to not borrow, but live and work hard, economize, diversify his har¬ vest, make home made manures, raise provisions and have his cotton as a surplus. Down with the mortgage system. Rev. Sam Jones has gotten him¬ self in trouble in Chicago by insist¬ ing upon it that worshippers at his altars shall pray only when on their knees and under his personal super¬ vision. The humble Christians of that city are very few in proportion to the population, and even they are inclined to rebel against the ex¬ actions of Mr Jones. They may be willing to go and hear him preach, but they have not yet arrived at the stage of humility to be ready to ac¬ knowledge him either as the keeper of their consciences of their spiritual master. A Monroe county farmer says that he has quit swearing, drinking whiskey and chewing tobacco, and that to make the reformation com plete, he will quit guano. ENGLISH CUSTOMS. When Judge Duffy sentenced the British seaman for upsetting ash-bar¬ rels in Washington street, lie put on his thinking cap and made some per¬ tinent observations about the intro¬ duction ofEnglisb customs into this country. His Honor very properly maintained the dignity of tbe law in this case; but, unfortunately, many other English practices equally per¬ nicious with barrel turning have crept into our social methods which the state is powerless to suppress. Extravagance, for instance, foster¬ ed and encouraged by a loose credit system that permits young people of both sexes to run up long bills on the strength of respectable names, which in the end are traded off for all they are worth. Late hours, that undermine health without add ing to enjoyment; dining at 8 and going to balls at 12, when the natur¬ al and sensible American habit craves food at 6 and bed at 11. Loose talk in the company of wo¬ men, a tendency to ribald jest and in nuendo, and the frequent employ¬ ment of slang and profanity. Lax morals in society, as a result of the three previous adaptations leading to duplicity, treachery and crime. A snobbish admiration for titles in gen¬ eral, ar c! abject appreciation of a real hud. High play at clubs, and inordinate gambling on race tracks, Loud, inapppropriate checks and plaids and jewelry for men’s attire and the scantest sort of apparel for women. Enormously high shirt col¬ lars for lads, and abnormally small waists for girls. Society papers brim full of the most pronounced personalities, to say nothing cf the cruel freaks of “docking” horses’ tails, chasing the aniseseed bag, smoking cigarettes and wearing pointed shoes. All these vagaries, and many oth ers, are fashionable follies of the day, borrowed without credit, and current without honor simply be cause they are English. And all the judges on the bench, and all the prophets on the housetops could not persuade the people that such cus toms are anything but delightful and entrancing. And if you haul them up before the bar of public opinion you will be greeted with an English stare, and called an ass for your pains.—New York Star. An old farmer observes that “a fast walking horse is of much great¬ er value practically to every farmer and to every man who has much use for a horse than a fast trotter.” It is strange that there are not more premiums offered for fast walkers. The Walker county grand jury says: We congratulate our people on improved moral condition of our county. We believe that there has been fewer presentments to our body at this term of the court than at any other within our memory. We at¬ tribute this healthy state of public morals to the partial suppression of the whisky traffic. We would say that we consider it an impossibility to overcome the appetite and habits of centuries by a spasmodic effort. The grand reform in the temperance movement can be carried forward to its final consummation only by patient, persisting labor. Howard Pierce, and agent of the Department of Justice, has visited Fulton county jail. He finds the jail overcrowded with Federal pris¬ oners. An estimate of the cost of transfering Georgia’s Federal pris¬ oners to Albany shows that there could be built and maintained a government prison in any city in Georgia at less cost than present arrangements require. A prison in this state might also serve for North Carolina, Florida and Alabama, and thereby result in a great saving to the government. The State authorities of Tennes¬ see have instituted suit against the Bell Telephone Company for taxes, which pay. OUE MOTHER. Around the idea of one’s mother the mind clings with kind affection. It is the first dear thought stamped upon our infant hearts when yet soft and capable of receiving the most profound impressions, and all the af¬ ter feeling are more or less light in comparison. Our passions and our wilfulness may lead us far from the subject of our filial love; we may be¬ come wild, headstrong and angry at her counsels or opposition; but when death has stilled her monitory voice, and nothing but calm memory re mains to recapitulate her virtues and good deeds, affection, like a flower beaten to the ground by a rude storm, raises up her head and smiles amidst her tears. Round that idea we have said, the mind clings with fond affection; and even when the earlier period of our loss forces memory to be silent, fancy takes the place of remembrance, and twines the image of our departed parent with a garland and graces and beau ties and virtues which we doubt not that she possessed. Two little white girls of Hartwell got hold of a bucket of varnish the other day and v nt several coats on the face of a little colored girl until her face shone like polished mahog¬ any. They said that she complained of headache and they were rubbing her with gizzard oil. A gentleman who never makes nn assertion that he is unable to prove by cold facts or figures, says it cost our farmers 10c. a pound to make cotton to sell at 9c. This is a ruin¬ ous business, and the wonder is that the farmers manage to keep body and soul together.—Hartwell Sun. Dr. and Mrs. W. II. Felton have retired from the management of the Cartersville Courant, and the paper in the future will be published by the Courant Publishing Company. An exchange enthusiastically re¬ marks that braided wire is coming generally into use for rounding out the proportions ot the female form Young men should take notice that the danger of getting stuck is grow ing greater day by day. Last Thursday the House passed a bill giving $200,000 for a public building in Savannah. Ethelberta—“I want a pair of slippers for pa. Number tens, please, and—squeaky.” Genial shoemaker—“Squeaky, miss? I’m afraid we bavn’t any of that kind.” Ethelberta—“I am so sorry. Couln’t you make him a squeaky pair? There is a certain young gen tleman who visits me frequently, and —and it would be very convenient for him to know just when pa is coming.” The war between Fort Worth and Dallas, Texas, is perhaps without a parallel. Smailpox is raging to such an extent in Fort Worth that Dallas protected itself with a quar antine, refusing to allow anybody or anything from Fort Worth to come in. This disorganized business, and the merchants of the pest-ridden city sued Dallas for $300,000 dam ages. Great excitement prevails, and il the two cities ever come with in striking distance there will be a regular hair-pulling time. Apropos of the fact that New York is trying to repeal the law authoriz ing imprisonment for debt a Chicago paper suggests that that State ought to enforce the law which prescribes imprisonment for bribery. Mr. Sam Small has been trying to convince himself that the habit of smoking cigarettes does not inter¬ fere with his work as an evangelist. The Chicago Herald, however, warns him that “no cigarette smok¬ er, with a breath like a joss-house, with clothing scented like a stable¬ man, and with fingers and teeth stained with the offensive nicotine, can hope to do much good in Chica¬ go.” 3 ob raoi® **S^OF ALL KIND DONEES NEATLY AND PKOMPTLY. ADVERTISING RATES MADE KNOWN ON DEMAND. Pay for advertisements Is always due after the first insertion, unless otherwise contracted for. Guaranteed positions 20 per cent extra. Entered postoffice as sccond-da-s mall matter. HOW TO SUCCEED. Success in this country is as¬ sured it you have the elements in you that command it—health, enter¬ prise, industry, ambition and princi¬ ple. Enterprise leads you to place yourself in the best possible rela¬ tions with mankind for serving them with what they need—whether it bo a horse, shoes, statuary, strawber¬ ries, or sermons, matters not, so long as your enterprise keeps you in ad¬ vance of the ordinary. The enter prising fruit grower is the first to adopt improved methods, the first to plant improved fruits, he is posted on markets, men, and things in general. Industry; is scarcely second in con¬ sideration, for every thing is possi¬ ble to the man who is willing to work for it, dig for it as though he’d die for it. If you see a man occupying a position of honor, do not say he is lucky—say he was industrious. Men are not usually lifted into po sition by others, they raise them¬ selves by industry, physical and mental. One conspirator excused himself for stabbing Geesar on the ground that Cesesar was ambitious. Foolish excuse; if you have not am¬ bition and self esteem, I would not give much for your chances of suc¬ cess. All successful men are ambit¬ ious; arc dissatisfied with their pres¬ ent position and seek for one higher. We often hear contentment preach¬ ed. Were all content the world would drag along like an overloaded stage¬ coach that needs greasing and is drawn by half starved mules. Prin¬ ciple we mention last as the farmer tops off his wall with the best stone. There are many men who have abili¬ ty, industry, ambition, but who, lacks principle, are a failure. They are as slippery as eels. You never know when you have them for cer¬ tain. Like the flee you put your fin¬ ger upon them and they are not there. Wavering as the winds, treacherous as the owl, cunning as the fox, still they do not succeed. People are afraid of them; their best capital, their honesty, is impeached. No man ever profited by a dishonor¬ able deed. John N. Merritt, Deputy United States Marshal, was shot and killed at Lula Saturday by John Coffee. Coffee Went into the boading house of Logan and said to Merritt: “I want to see you.” They walked out, turned between the houses and immediately Coffee fired five times one shot entering the heart and the others missing. Coffee escaped. No possible motive is given except that Merritt was an officer. There was no charge against Coffee, nor had there been any. Coffee killed a man several years ago at Longview, but was never prosecuted. The friends of Capt. H. H. Carlton are urging his appointment as one ot the commissioners of the Technolog¬ ical school. A Michigan county has imitated Pike county, Pa., in having a pretty girl for Deputy Sheriff. It is feared that the jail will be full of young men until her term of office expires. W. J. Smith, of Waycross, has a cat which plays the piano. This is quite a curiosity, and he says that the cat is very fond of music. He will amuse himself for several min¬ utes by drumming oa the instru ment. Jones, the Florida Senator, who has been playing love to the rich De¬ troit widow, has been jilted, and Jones will return to Washington and to business this week. The la¬ dy even refused to receive the bou¬ quets Jones sent her. Jones is a tropical ass and has made himself the laughing stock of the entire coun¬ try. Atlanta should abandon the arte sian business and begin to bore for gas. It is believed that there is plenty of natural gas very near tbe surface in several wards of that city. •
