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JOHNSTON’S SURRENDER.
REFUSES TO GIVE BRECK 1 N
BHEBMAN
MORE THAN ONE DRINK.
RIDGE
Field to CMe«go News.
details of Ike surrender to
»Tbe been told, said
Skermsa have never
Joe Johnston a few weeks be
Gen. “They will probably
fore bis death. public—I
never he known to the
refer, of course, to the personal inci
that seem amusing now, but
dents time full
s^pich at that remote were
L tragic and pathetic meaning U>
S. I recall one day, that I went^to
alk over the preliminaries of the
osecl surrender. Of course, it
prop wish to the best
as my secure
■rms I could —I wanted to spare
ny people all unnecessary bumi
iatioii. It occurred to me, that if
Sherman’s feeliDgs could be worked
pen— if his heart could be touched
-I would be able to secure more
dvantageous terms from him. Ac-.
ordingly, on this particular occa
ion, I asked him if upon the follow
Bg day I might bring John C.
reckinbridge over to talk with him.
“And who is Breckinridge?” asked
jhernian.
U l He is our secretary of war,’
iid I
u 1 No, sir,’ said Sherman, harshly;
shall allow no ciyillian to enter
1 this matter. We are to conduct
lis affair upon a basis of war and
3 between soldiers.’
“ ‘But,’ said I, determined to bring
reck in ridge’s eloquence to my as
Btance, ‘our secretary of war is a
lajor general in our army,’
“.‘Very well, then,’ said Sberman.
should be glad to talk with Gen.
reckinridge, but I intend that no
jvilian latter.’ shall have to do with this
“Next day Breckinridge and I
arted for Sherman’s headquarters.
dw, Breckinridge was a man who
id been used to his ten or twelve
(inks per diem. Circumstances
rer which none of us had any con'¬
ll had finally cut off all supplies,
hekinridge was simply 7 perishing
| want of a drink. I recall how, as
I toiled along in the heat poor
leckinridge sighed dolorously and
ft reiterating his pining for a keg
pee old Kentucky sour masb. At
|t pnd in sheer and whipped despair, he reached
out of his
:ket a long, thin plug of green
iaceo. That too, was a rare
ury at that particular time. A
ud had given it to him only the
before. He bit off an ample
and as we trudged along our
1 though, ac solemnly masticated the cud
forsooth, he hoped there¬
to allay the cravings of his
l , 1 at! * fauces. When we reached
1 °adquarters Sherman was not
U’ but presently he came in with
P lr of saddlebags over his
was cheerful arm.
as a breath of early
Q g<
" n ’ fmen j’ said Sherman, ‘I
e br °ught along some hospital
plies. pinrid Will you honor me, Gen.
idy?’ S e » by sampling this
i rppt;„ ;;:^ ■,
e no answer. I
:
hands ur> deitly he got
1 ° 18 ^'P 8 gathered
l tol a-. C0 ’
i ", 0lltj his mouth and
e ,j ae odious
Qre Cor quid into an
ner. Upon my word
” i & thetic.
''' W ^ e n,’ said Sherman,
■ a(
, bottle
“ e and pourin
ll ’
>ol, delicious beverage *
bless you! Rrp i • -a
C <lnn
nian to i C1 ,, -' en °ugh.
, „ '•“-iuia.a fill
* tfio
Conyers, Georgia, Saturday, May 16, 1891-
glass to the tab and then at one
prodigious draught he drained off
the amber liquid. The effect was
instantaneous; all at once he was
the Breckinridge of old. And elo
quent? Never before had the man
pleaded for his fellows as John C.
Breckinridge pleaded for his fellow
confeuerates that day. Antiquity
was ransacked for instances illus
trating the benignity and mercy of
conquerors to conquered; the realms
of poetry were invaded and bits of
tender verse were utilized to soften
the auditor’s proud heart; history,
biography, philosophy—yes, every
art was employed to gain the speak¬
er’s end; it was a masterpiece of
scholarship, of oratory, of eloquence,
of pathos.
“Sherman was visibly affected.
With his hands thrust down into the
pockets of his trousers he paced rest¬
lessly to and fro. I neyer saw a man
more deeply moved. He strove to,
but could not conceal bis agitation.
When, finally, Breckinridge ended
and sat down Sherman said not a
word for several moments, but con¬
tinued to pace the floor nervously.
Breckinridge reached around, drew
forth the plug of green tobacco and
bit off another chew. The silence,
so long unbroken, became painful.
“At last Sherman turned to the
saddlebags, picked them up, pro¬
duced The brandy bottle again and
poured out a noble horn of the fiery
substance. As deftly as before
Breckinridge put his hands to his
lips and made away with his quid of
tobacco. But no, the brandy was not
for him this time. Sherman tossed
down the coveted draught himself.
‘‘The draught was fiery; it rasped
Sherman’s throat and brought the
water into his eyes. But pulling
himself together Sherman looked
straight at Breckinridge and said:
“General, you find a virtue in this
brandy that I do not find. I was
hoping it might give me, too, the
erudition, the eloquence, the tender¬
ness and the power with which you
have wrought upon me. General
Breckinridge, I believe that if I were
to give you another tumberful of this
brandy, you would be inspired to
efforts so God like that before sunset
I should surreuder the union arms
to you instead of demanding the
surrender of vour arms to me.”
“Some rime after this incident,”
continued General Johnston, “I was
talking with Breckinridge and Sher¬
man's name happened to be men¬
tioned.
“ ‘Joe,’ said Breckinridge, ‘I can
never forgive Sherman for denying
me a second drink that day. Do
y T ou know I had half a notion to say
that day’, when he paid that tribute
to my eloquence: “General, if I
have not accomplished the melting
of your heart, I ba v e at least earned
another chance at the hospital stores;
suppose we compromise to that ex¬
tent.”
The Republican papers continue to
boast about the reduction in the price of
sugar caused by placing it on the free
list, but they can’t see the logic of ap
plying that principle to other necessi
ties.
Wbenit becomes generally understood
that magnate Pullman foots all the bills
of the presidential junket there will be
ver ft little surprise felt at the extraordi
nar ^ the President is
carting around the country with him .
People who are interested in the moral
welfare of their fellow beings wiil be glad
to learn that Jack the Ripper is not in
New Yerk after all. A man of his tem
perament might fall in with book presi
dgxffg and other people there who would
drag hjm down to eternal perdition.
IT WILL EE BUILT
The New School House Is
an Assured Success.
A MAGNIFICENT STRUCTURE.
CONYERS TO HAVE A FINE GRADED SCHOOL
AT AN EARLY DAY.
We will build it.
The new school house is an as
sured success.
It will be a magnificent structure
one of which our citizens may feel
proud.
We herewith give you a splendid
picture or the proposed building.
So soon as the plan was completed
we secured a cut and the Solid
South gives its readers the new
building as it will appear.
It will be 70 feet square with two
large halls running through it each
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way. This will give eight rooms
with a seating capacity of at least
four hundred.
The building will be ready for the
fall terra and a splendid corps of
teachers will be engaged.
Let us all put our shoulder to the
wheel and help make this a magni¬
ficent school.
Not only will the town feel proud
of it, but the county can also re
joice.
Let us make it such a school as
will attract patronage from far and
near.
We have all the essential pre¬
requisites to make our town a
splendid educational point and we
must do it.
Let us go to work in earnest and
all pull together.
Harrson is now afraid Blaine will
resign for his health and recover too
rapidly.
_
Lightning rod agents are . infesting
Campbell county, and some arc having
trouble with them. One lady claims to
have bought rods for her house for $30,
but unsuspectingly signed the contract
without reading it, and when the roads
were up she was presented with notes to
sign amounting to about $00. Another
lady says she made a contract some way
for $80, and to her surprise they pre¬
sented her with a hill for $75. A colored
man says be refused to allow them to
put rods on his house and positively
forbid it, and he says now that, after he
left, they got his wife to sign, she thought
for $15, and they now claim to have her
oi-jstica for $30.
Price per Year, $1.00
JERKY SIMPSON’S VIEWS.
WHAT THE SOCKLESS STATESMAN HAS
LEARNED EAST.
Representative Jerry Simpson is
quoted as being like other Alliance
leaders opposed to beginning the third
party movement at the Cincinnati
Alliance convention although he will
favor it at the Washington convention
next year. He says that he learned
a good deal of interest to him during
his eastern trip. He found that in
the New England states perhaps
90 per cent, of the farms
were mortgaged for ,more than
they were actually worth if sold now.
Tney were mortgaged when farm
lands were high and many of them
are not worth half what they were
then.
In New Englandhe says the people
are rapidly becoming free traders.
He predicts that the manufacturers
will discover that protection is as
much a mistake for them as was slav¬
ery for them South. The Democra¬
tic party, he says, is not a free trade
party, it is and will be conservative
and a new party will accomplish the
reforms that are necessary. A tariff
for revenue he says, is not free trade.
The free trade party will have no use
whatever for the custom houses.
Protection will have to be uprooted as
slavery was, by a bold radical action,
not little by little.
Speaking of the organization of the
next house he said that he supposed
that the Democrats might elect Crisp
speaker, as he was a strong, well bal¬
anced, brainy and conservative mem¬
ber. As to the Framers’ Alliance
members they would he said, act to¬
gether. Their number was not
definitely known but there would be
thirty-five or forty of them. He
thought they would demand some
concessions from the candidate they
supported, and if they could not get
those concessions they would bolt the
Democratic caucus. He thought
probably it would be easier to get
concessions from Mr. Springer than
from either Mills or CrUp.
That surpassingly smart Washington
man who swore that he was worth between
“five and six thousand dollars,” and
then explained that he meant “between
five dollars and six thousand dollars,’
stands a good chance to live in the pen¬
itentiary between five and six thousand
years for his little joke.
The story that Jay Gould, on the occa¬
sion of his recent visit to Washington,
went through the United States Treasury
is probably a baseless fabiication. 5' hen
Jay Gould wishes the United States
Treasury gone through he knows how
to save time and avert suspicion from
himself by engaging Congress to do it
for him.
SAW THE SPIRIT DEPART.
a frenchman’s marvelous study of
DEATH WITH A MAGNIFYING LENS.
A French scientist has invented an
optical instrument whereby spirits,
or astral bodies, can be plainly seen.
This experiment, according to the
savant writing in a French publica¬
tion, was very difficult. Recollecting
that it had been asserted that it was
possible to see the astral body (le
corps fluidique) leave the body at the
moment of death, he says he was not
willing to remain longer in ignorance;
he therefore arranged the apparatus,
and when he had succeeded in get¬
ting the most perfect adjustment as
to light and magnifying power, he
was called to the bedside of a dying
person. He had been expecting the
summons, and he remained beside the
dying man until the approach of
death became manifest.
“A sudden trembling shaking the
whole body announced that the
supreme movement had come. With
one of my friends who was assisting
me, placed our heads under the dark
apparatus and kept our eyes stead¬
fastly fixed on the object glass. The
particles of dust in the air were mag¬
nified many thousands of times, and
for a moment their violent movement
produced a cloud in front of the glass.
Then a delicate column of violet vapor
condensed into a flocculent mass, was
clearly seen above and around the
body. Particles appeared to pui’sue
one another as if obedient to some
kind of central attraction. The
cloud condensed more and more,
and took the vaporous form
of a man, then rapidly became puri¬
fied until it was as colorless as the
most perfect crystal.
“At this time there wsas around us
a feeling of terrible stillness—a calm
that was almost agonizing. An inde¬
scribable sensation held us to the in¬
strument, while our hearts seemed to
cease pulsating. We kept our eyes
fixed on the glass. Particle after
particle grouped themselves together
so as to reproduce the exact form of a
man we knew so well- The form
floated at about a tinctly united by a
del’cate cord.
“The face was undoubtedly the face
of the man, but much finer and calm¬
er. The eyes were closed and the
astral shape seemed to be asleep. By
a double impulse we, both of us, ex¬
perienced the desire that the form
should awake. At that very moment
the bond which joined it to the body
broke.
“A slight trembling passed over
this beautiful perfectly-modeled from;
a violet flame shone where the heart
should be. It stood up and gave a
sorrowing look at the abandoned body
extended the right hand with a gest¬
ure of adieu then vanished condens¬
ing into a small sphere which disap¬
peared in the dawn of the everlasting
tomorrow.”
WHAT IT COSTS
Must be carefully considered by the
great majority of people in buying
even necessities of life. Hood’s
Sarsaparilla commends itself with
special force to the great middle
classes, because it combines positive
economy with great medicinal pow¬
er. It is the 'inly medicine of which
can truly be said “100 Doses One
Dollar,” and a hottle taken according
to directions will average to last a
month.
The Florida senatorial contest is
still on. The fight now seems to be
between Call and