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' EDMUNDS VAMPS.
rs loaded to the muzzle with
eloquent gas.
Miller’s Successor to Be a Demo
lator crat, etc.
Washington, D. C. Mar., 14, 86.
The senate galleries are crowded
i8 week, and great interest is felt
the discussion of the presidential
Irero^ative. For more than two
Leeks nearly every senator on both
j j es of the chamber has been at
c conflict
rork preparing for the grow
Jg ou t of the refusal of the adminis
ration to send to the senate papers
d information bearing upon the
n touching
is pension of officials and
be appointment of their successors.
Probably no such thorough over¬
ruling and minute examination of
istorical documents has ever before
icen made with reference to this
[uestion. Consequently both sides as one “were sen
tor expressed it,
Laded to the muzzle with material”
hr the performance which is now in
Irogress. It was to have begun on
Monday, but the “star,” Mr. Ed
lands, plead a sore throat and the
people went away disappointed. He
lept his engagement for the follow
lg (lie day, however, and promptly at
appointed hour arose with an
Imposing pile of manuscript before
him (his precedents to support his
position), which he used freely dur
mg his speech of two and a half
lours.
| When it was learned in the house
If representatives that Mr. Ed¬
munds was actually dischaiging his
long loaded broadside at the white
louse, members poured into the
kenate chamber and filled the space
p rcarof the senator’s desks. The
Inly vacant seat on the floor was
heavily draped with black. It was
hat of the California senator, Mr.
Miller, who had died the other Qajr
iefore.
Mr. Edmunds, in his speech,
which had attracted much attention,
ind which will be generally discuss
sd throughout the country, made,
is was expected, the best of his
aeak side of the controversy. He
took such precedents as best suited
him and handled them with ingen
iitj;
lie was most specious perhaps in
paying that the senate does not ask
pile president’s reasons for making
removals, but simply for the papers
of every description relating to sus¬
pended officials. In saying this he
admits that should papers which the
senate wants be foithcoming, they
would show the very confidential
reasons which he disclaims aiiy in¬
tention on the part of the senate to
demand.
Mr. Edmunds said with a sneer,
tlmt the most conspicuous result of
improved government methods under
the “reform” administration, was
suppression of official papers. At
this point Senator Beck caused a
smile to ripple over the audience by
remarking in an undertone, but
loudly enough to be heard half
Across the chamber, that it “was a
clear case of a fly 7 on a barn door.”
l"ou remember the Vermont leader
has been accused of seeing a fly on a
ham door when he could not sec
the door.
As yet only Senator Pugh of Ala¬
bama has replied to Mr. Edmunds’
speech. Mr. Pugh showed among
other things that the papers called
for by Senator Thurman when chair¬
man of the judiciary committee, in
a case °f suspension, related to
a
territorial court, and that the tenure
°f office act especially exempts judi¬
cial officers from those to be suspen
fled by the president Mr. Ed
nmnds haa been followed by Sena
t°r Wii S0B 0 f j owa an( j SeugjQfg j
ga-s n .
and Evarts will be next to sup
Pert him. On the democratic side
gators “ amra Kenna, the Beck champions and Jackson
administration. , g of the
A prominent democratic lawyer
ot
city who was walking on this
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Vol. 4.
subject a few days since, remarked
that there was nothing in the posi
tion of the majority of the senate ju¬
diciary committee but a political
maneuvre. The president stands on
impregnable legal grounds, continu¬
ed he, but the republican party is
languishing for an issue. The expe
dient of bullying and embarrassing
the president, seems to be the best
it can do for the present.
Senator Miller’s death lessons the
republican majority in the senate
temporarily; The legislature of
California does not meet until De¬
cember, and the governor of the
state, General Stoneman, being a
democrat, will doubtless appoint one
of his own party to fill the vacancy.
Senator Miller’s funeral will take
place at the capital Saturday after¬
noon, and the senators, in a body,
will escort the remains to the rail
road depot en route to California.
The social season closed brilliant¬
ly at the white house. The third of
the series of diplomatic, military and
congressional receptions eclipsed
those preceding it in several res¬
pects. The attendance was larger,
and the proportion of distinguished
men, and handsomely dressed wo¬
men, was unusually large, while the
white house apartments were rarely,
if ever, more effectively decorated.
Senator Edmunds' presence there at¬
tracted attention owing to his ar¬
raignment of the administration a
few hours before. He and Mrs. Ed¬
munds stopped to chat a few mo¬
ments with the president and Miss
Cleveland.
A Baptist paper, speaking of the
revival in C'arbondale, Kan., men¬
tions three classes of converts that
have been turned from sin and
brought into the blessed fold of the
church, “drunkards, gamblers and
the city marshals.” Thorp *»■«» ” <T< '
many city 7 marshals in the section,
but the total reformation of the oth -
er two classes would leave sinners in
a hopeless minority.
The whisky license for the town of
Leary* for the year commencing with
the 1st of April next has been fixed
by the council at $500.
Jasper county will claim at the
hands of the next General Assem¬
bly the judgeship of the Ocmulgee
circuit, in the person Major John C.
Key.
During the service’at a Baptist
church in Troup county last Sun¬
day a runaway team* demoralized
the congregation. The pastor, on
seeing the hurry to get out of the
building, hastily took up a collec
tion.
In less thanja twenty-four hours
after stealing an umbreila Joe Reese,
a sixteen year old negro, w as sent
to the Decatur county chain-gang.
A LaGrange lady keeps a penny
box on her dining table, and when a
member of her family speaks ill of
any person she requires them to con¬
tribute to the box.
In slavery times a jolly slave in
South Coroliila bought anew hat,
and when it commenced raining he
put it under his coat. When asked
whv he did not keep his hat on his
head he replied: ‘De bat’s mine;
bought it wid my own money. Head
belong to massa; let he take kecr ob
his own property.’
Farmers are taking hold of the in¬
tensive system more and more every
year. Less acreage and better
working seems to be the idea, and
if the principle of diversity could be
added, it would be all the better.
A Telegraph reporter, who called
at the jail at Macon Wednesday,
found Frank Humphres, the Bald
win county murderer, engaged in a
game of cards. He was playing with
Will R. Jackson, of Americns, who
postal is carged with defrauding the
department
It is said to be settled that Rev.
Dr. Armstrong will buy an interest
in'Charles Logan’s Atlanta Sunday
Telegram.
TRUTH, JUSTICE AND PROGRESS FOREVER.
CONYERS, GEORGIA, MARCH 20, 1886.
PUBLIC OPINION.
Persons who have the wisdom to
know and the strength to do what is
right, need have no fears of the opin¬
ions of the majority of those who
know them in regard to their actions
and motions. It is those who know
they are in the wrong, or who are
not certain that they are right who
fear public opinion. The former
are made miserable by knowing
that sooner or later they will be con¬
demned by honest men and women
for their wrong doing, and the latter
live in miserable uncertainty as to
the estimation in which they will be
finally held.
But of all men, he is the most cra¬
ven that tries to prejudice the pub
lie against a man, his enemy proba
blj 7 , bj’ catching hold of a sympathet¬
ic plea, made by the man whose con¬
duct has justified adverse criticism,
to crush out the one who had the
manhood and the honesty to disap¬
prove wrong or unseemingly conduct
in one who should, by his vocation
and standing, have beeta an exemplar
of morality.
A morbid fear of public opinion
often keeps men from doing things
which it is their plain duty to do, or
cause them to do things which they
certainly know is not right. Some
people become slaves to this fear,
and dare not stand up and speak out
in a straight forward and manly
manner for fear of offending some
one. They make themselves both
ridiculous and miserable by their
weakness, and in the end receive
that which they have fought so hard
to avoid, theeontempt of the public.
—Madisonian.
The committee appointed by the
Mayor of Atlanta to look into the
organization of a house of correction
mvt A LUl iuiiy discussed the matter
Wednesday. - - - j? ____
elected chairman, and Judge James
A. Anderson secretary 7 , Another
meeting will be held on March 23.
The members of the Walton conn
ty Guards have opened up the spring
programme without any abatement
of interest. At the meeting last
Friday night three new members
were enrolled. Others will apply
for membership at the next meeting,
George W. Malcom, of Walton
county 7 , excels in all athletic exer¬
cises, and is a noted wrestler. On
returning from a bird bunt Friday
afternoon, he was bantered tor a
fall by one of his friends, and they
hitched. The trial resulted in a “dog
fall on a limb,” in which Mr. Mal
com had his collar bone broken.
Gov. Fitzhugh Lee approved the
Virginia local option bill before the
ink had time to get very dry, thus
showing that he is not liking in
backbone. It is said that elections
will be held in many counties of that
State at an early day, and that the
fight will probably open right in the
city of Richmond.
When a man becomes great, anec.
dotes and reminesences of his youth
are related by the hundreds. But
the man who never rises above med
iocrity seems to have never had any
interesting places in his youthful
days. Whether this has been so or
dained, or whether writers love to
lie simply because they have a good
chance, will in our opinion, always
remain a mystery.
The negroes of Worth county now
creinate dogs that are supposed to
be mad. They first kill the dog and
then pile brush around the carcass
and then stand off and watch the in
cineration.
“Father, what is a deadlock?”
asked Johnny, who had been read¬
ing Washington dispatches’. John
ny’s father believes in answering
promptly all questions proceeding
from bi« offspring, and answered
immediately, “X tfe'adlack, my son.
is what your mother’s back hair is
made of.”
/Dooly county is endeavoring to
hold a prohibition election.
Clay county’s prohibition election
occurs April 7th,
The ink found in an excavation at
the foot of Kennesaw Mountain a
few years ago, is used by the ordina¬
ry of Cobb county in recording offi
cial papers.
The cornet was introduced into
the Sunday school at Lawrenceville
last Sunday, and the older mem
bers now want to accompany it with
a fiddle and tambourine.
Col. M. J. Hatcher, of Macon, has
been thinking out an invention for
two years, and at last he has about
perfected it. It is a simple, durable
corn and pea planter.
The Covington and Macon rail¬
road will be graded to Monticello
by the first of May.
A young man in Monroe uses old
socks in the patching of his pants
He doesn’t keep bachelor’s hall.
The Atlanta Working World in
sinuates that a leading member of
the church and prominent citizen of
Athens is selling whisky on the
sly.
The board of county commission¬
ers, of Gwinnett, at their meeting
the first Monday, established a new
militia district to be knowffas Puck
et’s district.
A liver weighing three-fourths of
a pound was recently taken out of a
LaGrange chicken.
A Worthville lady, in Butts coun¬
ty, killed a hawk with a pistol. The
hawk had caught a chicken and flown
and was pursued by the lady to the
woods.
The chicken when dressed is real¬
ly undressed. There are many,
many chickens in society.
The Smiths are coming to the
front again. John Peter Smith is a
candidate hundred for Governor dollars nfTeras. have been
Several
subscribed toward erecting a pub
lie school building at Kingston.
Twenty-four hundred applications
have been sent into Postmaster Ren
froe for positions in the Atlanta post
office.
“A cigar” remarked old Topco’
“is like an advertisement; the less
it costs, the more puffing it wants.”
The weekly edition of the Atlan¬
ta Constitution has reached a circu
lation of 64,000,
Elbert county stock law election
case was settled Thursday by the
Ordinary declaring the result to be
for no fence. The law goes into ef¬
fect on July 1 next.
In Butler county, the other day,
“Lose” Bill fired into a flock of black¬
birds and brought down fifty-three
at one shot.
The mica mine which is now be¬
ing operated in Oconee county prom¬
ises to be the best in the state. A
sample has been sent to Commission¬
er Henderson who pronounces it the
best he ever saw. The amount taken
out each day is worth $180, and the
expenses are less than $10 a day.
The quantity of mica is inexhausta
ble. There are also large quantities
of asbestos being taken from the
mine which is in great demand at
lucrative prices.
There lives in Early county a man
who always has an abundance of
corn but has never been troubled
with rats. He has what is known as
a rat snake, known all over the plan¬
tation, who makes daily visits to his
eorncrib and plays more havoc with
the ennning rodents than any cat ev¬
er did. His snakeship, when having
fully satisfied -himself, leisurely
glides out and makes headquarters
around the well near by, amusing
himself splashing around in the wa¬
ter troughs. His owner states that
he frequently gives him a sound lit¬
tle switching, when he is off to his
den only to appear again next day.
Nature accommodates herself to
the circumstances of the people.
You never heard of a water-spout in
Kentucky.
9.
The cost of making cotton is thus
given by Commissioner Henderson:
Cost of land, fencing and planting,
cultivating and all other expenses
per ,acre, $14; less value of seed,
$12; average yield, per acre, 250
pounds. To make the average plan¬
ter whole on expenses he should not
get less than 9 cents per pound.
And yet two thirds of the crop sells
for less, while the expense of sup¬
plies on the advancing plan has add¬
ed not less than 69 per cent, to the
above estimate cash cost of produc¬
tion. Is it any wonder th t ail who
grow cotton without making their
own provisions, fail.
The boycott by the Knights of La¬
bor of the Atlanta Constitution, has
been abandoned. The terms of set¬
tlement are that the Constitution
will not dischr rgc any man because
he belongs to the Union, or will not
refuse to employ any printer because
he is a Union printer, and the com¬
pensation for work will be made sat¬
isfactory. If at any time trouble
arises between the Constitution and
the printers, the matter shall be re
ferred to a committee of three from
the Knights of Labor. Of this com¬
mittee the printers shall select one,
the Constitution one and these two
select the third. The committee dc
cided also that the Constitution re¬
tain their present employes. This
seems to be an honorable comprom¬
ise all round, and it is to be hoped
will forever settle the difference.
The shaipest test of a man’s char
acter is in his treatmant of what is
in his power and wholly below him.
Motives of self interest are suffi¬
ciently strong and numerous to pro
duce irreproachable conduct towards
superiors or equals in strength or
knowledge, or station, or wealth, or
intelligence. When however we come
accept without appeal what we
choose to give them, who have no
more substantial reward to bestow
than gratitude or affection and no
severer penalty than regret and po
tent wrath, we know something of
our true selves by the way in which
we treat them.
There was a remarkable coinci
dence of events in the lives of Jeffer¬
son Davis and Abraham Lincoln un
til each approached the climacetrics
of his public career. They were
born in Kentucky, Davis in 1808 and
Lincoln in 1809. They both were
removed from their native State in
cbi.dbood, Davis being carried to
the Southwest and Lincoln farther to
the Northwest, then socalled. Both
of them began their political careers
at the same period, in 2844, Davis
then being a Presidential Elector for
Polk and Lincoln an Elector for Hen¬
ry Clay. Both served in the Indian
wars of the West, and both were
elected to Congress about the same
time, 1845 and 1846. And, lastly in
the parallel, on the same day, they
were called upon to preside over then
respective Governments, Davis as
President of the Confederate States
and Lincoln of the United States.
Sam Jones has insulted all dry
goods dealers. He says: “Hell is
filled with women shopping.”
Jeff Davis has consented to deliv¬
er a lecture in Montgomery, Ala.,
some time in April, for the benefit of
the Confederate Monument Associ¬
ation. A special car will convey
him and Mrs. Davis to that city,
and it is believed one of the largest
gatherings seen in Montgomery since
the war will meet on that ocasion.
We heard a little four-year old
child say to its mother who had
threatened to spank her if she did
not keep quiet at the dinner table:
“Yon tant do it. I’sc sittin’ on it”
The Rev. Joseph Cook says: “Ifl
had a dog which smoked I would
shoot him.” So would any man.
The rascal would as like as not sneak
in and steal all the cigars.
Belief in self is the taproot of ev¬
ery great life.
JOB fflORB
~sflOF ALL KIND DONEgjj
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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 second-class mall
matter.
T. <J. Crenshaw, Collector of In¬
ternal Revenue, makes the follow¬
ing report of the business of his of¬
fice during the month of February 7 :
Total collections, $21,460.54, derived
from the following sources: Tax on
brandy 7 , $4,199.67; on corn whisky,
$14,129, $20 on tobacco, snuff and
cigars, $1,459 09; on fermented li¬
quors, $519; from retail liquor deal¬
ers. $306 26; from dealers in manu¬
factured tobacco, $253; penalties
$1 32. Seizures were made during,
the month as follows: 1 steam en¬
gine, 32 illicit distilleries, 2 mules,
1 yoke of oxen, 1 wagon, 18 gallons
of corn liquor.
Contents for April. The April
Bivouac will have the first of two il¬
lustrated articles on the Virginia
Cavaliers, written by Miss K. M.
Rowland of Baltimore. The illus¬
trations are portraits from a number
of old photographs and are unusual¬
ly interesting.
“Papa, what does mamma mean
when she says ‘chesnuts’ every time
you tell her that you were at lodge
when you come home late nights?”
asked a bright little boy.
“My son,” replied the father, with
a sad shake of his head, “my son,
after you are married you will learn
a great many things you never knew
before.”
Robert Burns Wilson has a short
reply in the April Bivouac to Mr.
Howell’s recent onslaught on tho
poets.
The late Hugh Conway wrote a
few poems, a book of short sketches,
•‘Called Back,” and “Dark Days.”
It is not probable that he left any
other works, and yet not a month
passes without the announcement of
anew novel from his pen. It is gen¬
erally understood that these bogus
j'ro(luction«..ar<Mvei“vritl-r tfas Orig¬
inally a Brooklyn man, and his right
name is Joseph Williams. He has
lived in London some time, and aid¬
ed Conway in dramatizing “Called
Back.”
Richard Roalfs opinion that the
poem “Lilith, Princes of Ghouls”
was the production of Poe, is up¬
held by Henry Austin in an article
which will appear in the April num¬
ber of the Southern Bivouac, and tho
poem itself will be given entire.
Great destitution is reported
among the inhabitants of the Irish
coast. So great is the distress of
the people that in many instances
buxom girls of seventeen and eigh¬
teen haye parted with the last thread
of their clothing in order to procure
necessary food. They are compell¬
ed to remain concealed in the day
time,|and even at night they do not
move around to any great extent.
This embarrassing state of affairs
has materially affected thejreunions
of the young people.
R. T. Durrett, in the Southern
Bivouac, April number, describes
the reception given by the other
Legislature to the Kentucky Reso¬
lutions of’98 which brought forth
the Resolutions of’99. An official
copy of this last series accompanies
the article.
“If spring poets were hens,” says
an exchange, “even an editor could
afford to eat eggs.” Doubtful. If
spring poets were hens, they would
not send their lays to the editor.
The invention of a cctton picker
means as much to the South as did
the invention of the mowing machine
to the North and West. N. N.
Starnes describes at length in the
Southern Bivouac for April, the la¬
test claimant to his honor, which
he judges to be successful. The ar¬
ticle is accompanied by a series of
drawings and illustrations which,
for the first time, make the princi¬
ples of the invention.
A scientist tells us how flying fish
fly. He had no need to tell us how
frying fish fry.
It is proposed to get out a search
warrant to find those Ohio excursion¬
ist who bought land in Georgia.
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