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Published every Saturday by the jD south PUBLISHING im B Maddox, ) proprietors. ,rcusD. D* in > a SUBSCRIPTION. $1 25. nc year • 65 j months 35 hree ‘‘ aecimen copy free. ' 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 m-jsm |g’sa5aa*s| «8 f® »• k s. X fir m m t && 9 ,h: jn? f 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 NEATLY AND PROMPTLY. 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. Subscribe lor the Solid South.