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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, SEPTEMBER 27, 1881.
GEORGIA GRIEVES
OVER THE REPUBLIC'S MOURNFUL
CALAMITY.
calamity, and feel mon profoundly the his lofty patriotism as an American citizen, and to
which his assassination fixes uj>on the good them his untimely death comes in the shape of per-
the people of these slates, who should, to sonal bereavement.
The People, aa one Kan. Unite in the Bereave*
aent of the Occasion???Governor. Mayor,
Judges and People Attest Their Peel*
ing in the Matter.
Tuesday morning the news of the president's
death enmo upon the city, not a?? a surprise, but as
the realization of a disaster that long had been threat
ened. For the first time the dread event was com
prehended, and there was a universal expression of
orrow.
Karly in the morning the streets showed the
mournful emblems of dentil, and by 10 o'clock all
the prim-ipul thoroughfares were festoon
ed with the black and white and were
almost ns still as if it were'Sunday. On the corners
end the places of general rendezvous the sad intelli
gence wns the staple of conversation. As the day
wore on.and the hours which are generally busiest
oimc it was more evident how deeply the city was
affected, business was almost at a standstill. Peo
ple seemed to talk lower on the streets. There were
none of the excitements or noises which usually
disturb noonday in thla active city.
It was impressive to wulk down the principal
streets and note the evidences of a city???s sorrow.
From almost every store depended the drapery of
mourning. The jsiliee headquarters lind been
draped by order of Chief Anderson. Thchotelihud
em|>e on their doors and balconies, und in front of
the Kimbull house hung n huge national flag on
which was the inscription: ???We mourn our loss"
The lire companies had their halls approprintely
liung, while Tub Constitution .office and all the
surrounding buildings on Hroad street were faced
by the emblems of grief. The flngs on the capital
and at the barracks were at half must. Indeed the
whole city boro such signs of sorrow as it had never
aecn before, and *not a man who walk
ed the streets could fail to feel
the influence of the solemn surroundings.
In the afternoon the capital wils put in mounting
ns an expression of the sorrow of the jieojilc of
Georgia. The supreme court adjourned. All the
offices nt tin- state capital were closed and the
United States circuit court was silent, while the
federal offices and the entire custom house wore the
sable laidge.
A pall seemed to rest over the whole city and the
day {Missed away in the bright beauty of its autumn
sunlight lint durk in its sombre suggestions and its
depressing sorrow.
Nowhere in the city did the sad news create a
more profound sensation than at the capitol. It wns
discussed in groups of senators und representatives
before the hour of meeting, and when the two
bouses were called to order there was a strange still
ness in striking contrast to the hum und rush which
has been characterizing these lutter days of the ses
sion.
NKin after assembling the following message from
the governor was received in each house:
Executive Department, Atlanta. Gu, Septem
ber S). lssi???To the General Assembly: An inscru
table but all-wlie Providence lias removed from
lilts life the honored chief magistrate of the repub
lic. While receiving the blow with iMiwed heads,
and with humble submission to the w ill of Him
wljo inflicts it, it is becoming that the people of
Georgia, in their organized capacity, should signify
n in the grief that t '
l to-day oppresses
their participation
the millions of tills land
i lag to express my willingness to co-operate with
the general assembly In any observant*) they may
deem appropriate to the melancholy occasion.
Alfred U. C'olqititt.
The senate passed a resolution for a joint session
nt 10 o'clock, and the house concurred. At thnt
hour the senate was announced nt the door of the
house and entered headed by the governor, and the
justices of the supreme court with a number of dis
tinguished citizens.
President Boynton took the chair anil announced
that the joint session hud met to give some expres
sion l>y the general assembly for the people of
Geqrgia on the death of President Garfield.
The secretary then read the following joint reso
lution
Resolved, by the senate and house of rep
resentatives that in view of the announce
ment by bis excellency, the governor, of the
tiealb ol the president of the United States, the sen
ate and house of representatives will con
vene in general assembly at 10 o.elock a in
to express the grief of the people of
Georgia for this national calamity; that th _
enter, United States senators, representatives in
congress, justices of the supreme court, judges of
the United States court, and of the courts of this
state, und the mayor and authorities of the city of
Atlanta, ami citizens of Atlanta generally, be in
vited to join in the expression of grief and syin
pathy. '
That njxin the conclusion of the exercises, and
when the joint session is dissolved, the senate and
house of representatives will stand adjourned until
to-morrow morning att* o'clock.
Senator McPanlel offered the following rosolu
lions, which Avert) unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That a committee be appointed consist
ing of the governor as chairman, Senator Joseph K.
Brown, Chief-Justice James Jackson, and seven from
the senate and fifteen from the house of representa
tives, lobe appointed by the presidentof the senate,
to rv)Mirt suitable resolutions on this oceasiei
o'clock in.
The following committee wns announced:
Governor Alfred II Colquitt, chairman: United
States Senator Joseph E Brown, Chief-Justic
James Jackson; Senators McDaniel. Haekett, Bilker,
Meldrim, Byrd, Brown and .Ionian; Representatives
Twiggs. Barrow. Milner, llatuinond, Janes, Mad
dox. Rice, Basinger, Adderton, Gray, Rankin
Wright, PuBignon, Roney and PuPree of Macon.
The president of the senate then announced thnt
the joint assembly could consideritself at ease until
noon, when it would reassemble.
At 12 o???clock the general assembly reconvened,
and the galleries ivere filled with Indies and gentle
men.
During the recess the speaker's stand, and the
desks surrounding it, had been hung in black and
white eratio, so that they presented a very solemn
appearance.
The committee entered with Governor Colquitt
Senator Brown, and Chief Justiee Jackson in front,
ainl they were followed by Mayor English, with the
general council of the city.
Governor Colquitt said:
A people weep to-day. We have hnd our trial
our sorrows, and. as a people, our occasion for
funeral ceremonies. But never before in the history
of this country since that memorable 14th of De
??-ember when the nation wept over the grave of the
???father of his country??? has such all prevailitiL
sorrow fallen upon this land as has been felt since
tbe announcement of the death of James A Gar-
ficld.
We deplore it, not merely ns the representatives
of the people, but as casting sadness and gloom on
every home and heart in this land. From the moun
tains to the plains, and from the plains to the sea
board could we lint gather the whisi>erings aud
meanings of distress, there w ould come to us a fu-
iraral knell over the newly made grave of ourpresi-
<lvht.
Governor Colquitt then offered the following reso
lutions:
Whereas, The protracted and painful solicitude of
the people of Georgia, felt universally and w ithout
exception, for the suffering and critical condition
of our late president, has, at last, been ended by
his death, the representatives of that people deem
it meet and proper that their horror over this sad
event, and their deepfelt sympathy should have ex-
J iression through us, and In as solemn form as the
oim notion of this general assembly can make. We.
therefore, for ourselves and in behalt of the people
of Georgia again express our horror and indignu
tion nt the awful sin of the president's assassination,
anil feel that while the memory of this historic
crime survives, the people of the United States \ytil
never cease to recall it with abhorrence. W e feel
that no more* appropriate time than this will ever
present itself to the people of this union for self ex
amination???for wise forecast, aud provident safe
guards.
The peaee and honor of this great government
demand that its best and surest defenses should lie
found in the care and guardianship of the pcopl
for whom it was created and for w hom it exists. \\
can but feel assured that when it is assailed or even
disregarded bv those whose inheritance it is, whose
pride and cion- it should be, that its daysare num
bered and that those who value peace and safety
more highly than forms of government w ill be ready
to Mirrendertlienmst revered of our traditions rather
than the more vital aims and objects of human ex
istence and society. Over the open grave of our
lamented president???cut off by a murderous hand
in the prime of life and usefulness, we should not
spare a just and searching self-examination or the
offer of earnest heartfelt co-opcration w ith all the
good among our fellow citizens in every quarter of
our bread laud in restoring our beloved country to
its highest purity, dignity and tranquility.
The general assembly of Georgia joining with
the executive and judicial departments of the
state in profoundest sorrow at the decease of James
A. Garfield, late our preisdent. no resolve:
1. That we deplore his untimely death as a
is a sacred charge upon every citizen. 1 us. tne sympathy of our whole people goes forth as
the people of Georgia hereby extend to j with one impulse, to the stricken family of the dead
ed household???the heroic wife???the ??r- president???the heart-broken wife, the gray-haired
national
disgrace
name of the people _______
the last man, have felt that the president's safety
and life w as a siiervd charge upon every citizen.
?? That ' - - -
the bereaved ,
plumed children???the stricken mother of our late
president, our dce]iest symjmthy and most earnest
condolence.
3. That avc request the governor to have the capi
tol draped in mourning,
4. That we request liis excellency to transmit the
action of the general assembly to the president of
the United Stutcs, to tbe members of the cabinet,
to the governors of the several states of the union,
and to the family of the late president.
Senator McDonald said:-
I rise for the purpose of asking the adoption of the
preamble and resolutions just read. It might be
enough to leave these resolutions to speak for them
selves the sentiments of the committee and general
assembly, especially after the appropriate remarks
of the chairman of the committee. But the deep
anxiety shown in the faces of the people assembled
here to-day lead me to add ii word to what has
already been said. It seems to me that a becoming
promptness has been shown by this
action of the general assembly to-day.
It seems well that this joint session
should be held immediate!*' on the death of the
president and that we should give the expression of
our feelings on this occasion promptly aud in the
most authoritative manner known to our institu
tions.
1 therefore trust that these resolutions will he
unanimmisly adopted. ???
Hon II D D Twiggs, representative from Rich
mond county, said:
Mr President, gentlemen of the assembly and' fel
low citizens: 1 rise for the purpose of seconding
the resolutions upon the ]??irt of the house, and
move their adoption.
In doing so, sir, 1 lmve no formal speech to make,
feel that upon an occasion like this it were better
to tie silent than to speak. It were idle to attempt
to formulaic in adequate and fitting language words
of sympathy or of condolence upon the occasion of
great national bereavement like this.
A little over two montlis ago this entire country
was inexpressibly shocked und stunned by the an
nouncement which flushed over the w ires that In a
time of profound peaee and quiet.and without appa
rent cause for it, the honored chief magistrate of this
country fell wounded and bleeding by the hand of
a bud, depraved and tKilji assassin. That intelli
gence was received with profound sorrow and inex-
iressibie indignation everywhere in this land, and
. am glad to say that in no part of our common
???ountry was there a more general expression of the
sentiment than that which welled up from the
hearts of the people of the south. It has long been
iipimreut that the end of the president was drawing
near; it was apparent yesterday morning that the
hour of death was near at hand, thnt the shadows
of life???s light were drawing gradually to a close.
The president isdead, and speaking for myself,
and I know I am echoing the sentiment of this gene
ral assembly, I do not hesitate to say that his loss is
both a private and public calamity. He was both u
good and great man.
Again, Mr President, I desire to say thnt I do not
wish to prolong these remarks, but merely to move
the adoption of these resolutions.
United States Senator Brown said:
Mr. President: As the general assembly did Gov
ernor Colquitt, Chief Jackson and myself the honor
i appoint us members of the committee to report
resolutions on this occasion, it was considered liy
the committee appropriate that each of us should
submit a few* remarks. The occasion is indeed a
sad one. The whole republic from the gulf to the
lakes, from the Atlantic to the Pacific, is to-dav
draped in mourning. A few months since the presi
dent of the United States ivas inaugurated and en
tered upon the discharge of his duties under
circumstances that promised, as we trusted,
much for the future. His inaugural ad
dress aviis conciliatory, kind and just. All
sections of the union expected good results from his
administration: that we would be enabled, -under
him, to see all sectional strife reach an end und the
whole country again united. As has been so well
said by Judge Tw-iggs, it Avas a time of profound
peace. Tlie'prcsidcnt wusenthroiied in the affections
of the grent mass of the people; he was engaged in
his appropriate pursuits, and w hen going on the
streets and enteringii railroad depot, he w as assailed
by an assassin, whoemue up behind him and cruelly
shot him down. Not only the people of the United
States, but of the ivhole civilized world, were
shocked.
It was the more unfortunate for us because ours
is a government of law mid freedom. In foreign
governments where monarchy exists there inav be
supposed to he conflicts between the sovereign???and
the people. Here it is not so. The people here
govern, and their chosen representative, the presi
dent of the United States, is only selected to exe
cute their will according to law. How unfortunate
it is, then, that In this government of ours this
groat crime against society should have been com
mitted!
But 1 will not dwell upon the horror of the crime.
I prefer rather to mingle with you a tear of grief
over his grout misfortune. His career has culmi
nated honorably to himself.
??? Once in the early period of life, a poor boy, with
out friends, a strong will, energy, fidelity, industry
and jierseveranec, lie started out in life to be the
architect of his ow n fortune. Stop bv step he climb
ed the ladder, round by round lie ascended until
he reached the topmost round of earthly glory.
How evanescent are human affaire! How bright
the future seemed to him! And yet how unfortn-
nate the termination. It reminds us that avc should
never forget tlie Divine admonition, ???Be ye always
ready.???
lit the midst of the great misfortune, however, avc
can only trust that there is a better future before us.
We have had sectional strifes and sectional divis
ions. There is no longer any reason for them. We
have looked to the president to give us an adminis
tration of lienee, and I trust to-duv that all the sec
tions of tills union and all good men everywhere,
in every state of the union, over his open grave w ill
determine to bury the past and to become united
and to be in future fraternally one union. If this
result will follow, we have much to console us in the
midst of this great misfortune.
Chief Justiee Jaekson said:
Mr. President: In deference to the opinion of
the committee of which you did me the honor to
make me a member, I am induced to add a word to
what has been so w ell slid in the report and reso
lutions and by the distinguished gentlemen who
havo preceded
w hile Georgia
department*
the common lamentation. On behalf of her judi-
4. That tvitli the sense of personal lossstrong upon
ns. the sympathy of our whole people goes forth as
ON THE LINE
A TRAGEDY THAT IS CLAIMED BY
TWO COUNTIES.
mother and the weeping children
??????>. That these resolutions he spread upon tile min
utes of this body, and an oflicial eopv be feat to Mrs
Garfield at an appropriate time hereafter.
The Hall Service.
At the general convention of the United States
railway mail service mutual benefit association
yesterday, the folloiving resolutions on the death of
the president were ottered by Superintendent
Jaekson, and unanimously adopted:
On arriving here from our annuhl'convention,
we are met with the sadness of the death of our
much loved and long suffering president.
This great calamity which" has befallen 1 the na
tion is so overwhelming'that the whole people
stand in awe before it.
We keenly feel that we have lost a friend,
ana one who always felt a deep in-
tercst. not only in our t>ersonal welfare,
but also and especially in the branch of- the service
Avith which we are identified and our hearts go
forth in sympathy towards the near relatives and
personal associates w ho must feel his loss so much
more keenly than even Hie nation itself. But in
this event, which seems to us so terrible ami so dis
astrous, we still reeogntze the hand of the Almighty
und believe that however it may appear to our
short-sighted vision. He knotvs what is best and
???docth all things well.???
It therefore seems eminently fitting thnt this con
vention now adjourn.
The Chamber orCocnmcrce.
THE ACTION OK THE MERCHANTS IN I???.KLATIOt ,TO THE
DKATII OK THE PRESIDENT. -??
Chamber of Commerce IIall, Atlanta, Ga, Sep
tember 20,1881???At a called meeting of the Atlanta
lxmnl of trade, held this day. a committee wits up-
pointed to present resolutions expresMyesf the
sorrow of the merchants of our city on .'account of
the president???s death, and said committee reported
the Pillowing:
The merchants of Atlanta, in common with their
countrymen of all sections of the United States, re-
alized on the second day of July last, when l*resi-
dent Garfield was stricken by a mnrderer's weapon,
that anarchy had dealt a fearful blotv to' societv, to
government und to civilization itself. They'felt
that in these mutters of supreme importance no
The Late Terrible Bead in Douglas or Paulding
County???How the Trouble Originated and the
Destruction of Life Incident Upon It???A
Terrible Tale of Malice and Envy.
James A. Garfield every citizen of this government,
from the Atluntic to the Pacific, from Canada to the
Gulf, hud in deed and in fact a just and fearless
chief.
Wherefore, resolved, that ns an expression of our
respect for the memory of the late President Gar
field. there shall be no meeting of the Atlanta
board of trade on to-morrow.
Resolved, That as a further testimony of our
sense of the loss our country has sustained in the
dentil of the president, the board of trade rooms
be draped in mourning for thirty days.
W. J.Garrett,
John Stephens,
John N. Dunn,
??? Committee.
uy me iiisuugiiisueu gentlemen wno
ed me. Yet. it is not inappropriate,
in is draped in mourning, that all the
i of her government should be heard in
i lamentation. On behalf of her judi
ciary falls to my lot to drop if tear on the grave
sacred to us all???sacred, not because of the human
dust that fills it, hut sacred for the high office w hich
that sacred dust onec occupied and well adorned.
It is, perhaps, peculiarly appropriate that the
judicial de)Kirtnieiit should weep ut a time when
the law has been thus outraged???when violence
takes precedence of that order to conserve which
the judiciary labors.
On behalf of those men who nrc now- engaged in
administering that law in tltis state, from that court
on whose benrli? have the honor to sit, to the hum
blest magistrate who disi??cnses it, 1 unite in condo
lence and symiiathv on this sad occasion.
Mr President, while avc thus fotmaUy, and yet I
knoiv from the heart, unite with the American peo-
E le in expressions of sorrotv and sympathy, my otvn
cart goes after two persons of all others in the
laud. The aged mother Avho held this man in her
lap Avhcn u boy. Avho ivatehed his progress in his
youth, his development in manhood, and to honor
whom he interrupted the ceremonies of his inau
guration, which she aviis permitted to Avitness.
And to that other heart made by the Almighty
his companion for life and ivhosc grief no tongue
can tell, my heart goes out in earnest synii>athy.
Sir. it is well that in these resolutions Georgia
sends them her sympathy and her sor-
roAv. Yet. Mr President, it is u grand
thought, grander than the American re
public, grander than anything of eurtli, that these
agonized hearts lmve the greatest consolation: "He
that llveth and liveth in me shall never die.??? The
mother's son and the wile???s husband, an humble
believer in him lives to-day, and the immortality
he Avon upon our earth gives place to the brighter
and purer immortality in the skies to which his
spirit has soared.
"Be ye always ready..??? said the distinguished sen
ator. tittering the sentiments of Holy Writ.
Mr President: I trust yon and the speuker, every
member of the general assembly of Georgia, and
overy <me who hears me speak, may all and each
lie enabled through thnt faith and that readiness to
meet the president ou that better and brighter shore.
And I hope the resolutions here offered will lie
tmssed by this general assembly by a unanimous
vote.
At the conclusion of the remarks of Judge Jack
son the resolutions were adopted by a unanimous
rising vote, on motion of Senator McWhorter.
The Ctty Council.
After tlie exercises at the capitol there was a
called meeting of the general council to consider
Avliat action ivas proper concerning the president???s
death.
The following beautiful resolutions were unani
mously adopter!:
Representing the people of this city and in some
sense the jieople of the ivhole south, the mayor and
general council of the city of Atlanta feel called
ujion to gii-c expression, how ever feeble and inade
quate. to the deep grief aud sorrow- in w hich our
people have boeji plunged by the announcement of
tlie death of President Janies A. Garfield. Such
grief and sorroiv are not to be formulated in Avoids
but in the presence of so momentous a conjuncture
all that is nierclv formal aud perfunctory must dis
appear. It is therefore resolved by the mayor and
general council. ...
X. That we regard the death of the president as a
calami tv to the country' not to lie measured by any
compensations of peaee and good* order ivhleh the
law aud common sense of the people may provide
nor bv the continued prosperity of the republic,
nor by tlie highest patriotism of a ueiv administra-
2. That w'e regret the loss of his statesmanship, of
his example, and of his broad and genial sympathy
which promised so much for all sections of the
country, and especially for the south, as irreparable.
Tliut while personally unknown to the people
of this section of the country, vet they were quick
Salt Si-rings, September IS???A bloody tragedy???
an old feud ends in death.
I liad heard several different reports of the diffi
culty, and to satisfy myself I have this day visited
tlie battle ground and conversed with tivo of the
main actors in the fight. The fight took place in
the extreme northivest comer of this (Salt Springs)
district.
W H Mitehell lives in this (Douglas) county, and
J F Cook lives just across the line in Paulding
county. A portion of Cook???s land lies in this
county, and on the hind in this county is where the
fight took place.
AN OLD FF.t'D.
Cook and Mitchell have been at dagger's points
for twelve ??r fifteen years. The first difficulty was
about the land line bctiveen them. Cook's land
runs ivithiu fifteen steps of Mitchell's door. CooV
shot some of Mitchell???s chickens over in his field
near Mitchell???s house, and Mitchell moved the line
fence betw een him and Cook all on his side of the
line, and Cook prosecuted him in Paulding superior
court. Mitehell lived in Paulding county, but has
been cut to Douglas since then. The jury found
Mitehell guilty of a misdemeanor, and Judge John
W Undertvood fined him one dollar and costs
which was three hundred and thirty dollars, and
ever since the old feud has been kept up. Each one
seems tohhve cultivated his hatred, and a bad diffi
culty has long been expected betiveen them us they
were both considered dangerous men when mud.
THE CAl'SEOF THE VlGIIT.
Last Friday morning about 9 or 10 o'eloek Cook
treat in his pasture field and commenced dogging
Mitchell???s hoar hog and trying to get
him out of his field, and Mitehell
heard him and went to where Cook ivas, taking his
two buys, and a yottng man he had hired, by the
name of Nottingham, ivith him. They had some
rvsharp quarreling about the hog, aud Mitehell
id his erow'd stopped Cook from dogging the hogs,
le report says Mitehell and his crowd followed
Cook about iu the field and cursed him at a terrible
rate. The Mitchells say they were after the hog and
trying to drive it out of tlie field. They got
separated by some means, and Cook sent his little
sou doivu toDunenn???sgiu a short distance, after his
step son, a young man by the name of Mahathy, to
otneup there. Muhathyivcnt in hot haste.??? Bv
Unanimously adopted.
J. J. Toox,
Secretary.
Benj. E. Crane,
President,
The Colored People.
At night the hall of the house of representatives
was filled to overflowing ivith the colored jieople of
Atlnnta. There iverenlso many ivhite persons pres
ent, among ivhoin we noticed Senator Brown,
Speuker Bucon und a number of members of the
legislature.
\V A Pledger presided aud made some appropriate
remarks on the sad nature of the occasion.
Bishop H 51 Turner made a speech ivhich ivas
heard with great interest und ivas remarkably good.
He spoke forcibly of the lessons ivhich this national
calamity should teach. ,
Rev XV J Gaines delivered a few well-timed re
marks. He ivas folloii-cd by Hon John McIntosh,
representative from Liberty county, and by Captain
CCWlmbish.
The tailored military w-as out ill force.
The following resolutions ivere unanimously
adopted:
When in n republic like ours, the trust
reposed in one of the jieople tor the bene
fit of the ivhole, is snatched from, him
by unlawful and coivnrdly means, as w as done
by the assassin of President Garfield, it behooves
all citizens of all races mid color to rise with indig
nation and condemnation, since it affects not only
the citizen in ivliom the trust is reposed, hut saps
the foundation of our form of government, mid
thereby injures each citizen individually.
Kc-solvcd, That ivc recognized in President Gar
field, u jiatriot, and a healer of dissensions between
sections, and in his loss a void not soon to he filled.
Resolved, That ive rise above party interests, and
rejoice that in the president's suffering till classes of
citizens, aud men of nil parties lmve laid 'asidp. po
litical bias, and in humiliation und led^Bnvc
bowed at the altar of anxiety and implftnji^Htesto-
ration to health. ??? /??? _
Resolved, That ive rejoice that in his death, citi
zens of all sections, and parties hove realized the
great menace and encroachment to our form of
government, and unite alike in demanding u
speedy and swift judgment upon the eoivurdly and
brutal hand that Induced his death, and in .condo
lence to their fellow- citizens, nnd the president???s
family.
Resolved,Thatthe president???s family In this hour
of their bereavement have our sympathies, and to
tiod ive extend our prayers for protection to a great
and good form of government.
Resolved, Thut a copy of these resolutions he for
warded to the grief-stricken family and the cabinet
of the United States.
Resolved, That these proceedings be published in
the city jiapers.
.1 B Fuller, F J Wimberly, P B Peters, S W Easley,
SB Davis, N Holmes, C11 Morgan, R J Henry, W D
Moore.
At tho City Court.
When the city court 'convened .Tuesday Colonel
N J Hammond, our congressman and a member of
the Atlanta bar, arose aud made a beautiful little
speech of five minutes' length, iu ivhich he urged
that as a murk of respect for the dead president,
court work should be suspended for the day. He
closed his speech by quoting the noble words with
ivhich Garfield endeavored to quiet a mob in New
York when Lincoln tvus assassinated: ???The presi
dent is dead, but the republic still lives, and the
Lord God omnipotent reigns.???
He ivas followed by his honor,
Judge Clark, who referred to the
eireuinstances in connection with the death of
President Garfield, nnd among other things ex
pressed the hope that the rintiounl calamity might
serve to unite in bonds of the strongest love the
jieople of the ivhole country, and that the people
would emerge from their grent grief more clinritnbli
townrd each otilers shortcomings and more deter
mined than ever to wipe out forever the Inst shad
ow of sectionalism ana establish in its stead a feel
ing of brotherly love, confidence and respect.
Court then adjourned for the day.
Gate City Guard Armory-
Tile Gate City Guard armory is beautifully draped
in tings festooned with mourning???one large nulion-
nl ting susjiended from the top of the building and
nearly covering the entire front, bears the. words:
???A nation weeps.??? The company colors hung from
one of the windows aud ivas draped with crape.
Note* of the Da7-
???Civur De Leon commandery Knights Templar
will hold memorial services ou the day set for the
funeral of tlie president.
???The drapery of mourning at the Kimball house
is imjiressively sad. A picture of President Garfield
hangs in the oflice heavily draped, while the bul
cony and jMirtieo beur the badges of sorrow. A
large national ting outside bears the inscription:???We
mourn our !
Advised to Hedge-
Virginia City Chronicle.
Two friends were discussing the merits (of their
acquaintances. One said: ???Talk about mean men,
now's there old Strassbcrger. He's tlie hardest, dri
est, meanest old Shyloek that ever lived. That
man! why!??? And there hestopped as if words
couldn't do justice to the subject.
???You???re mistaken.??? said his friend. ???He's not so
had: even the devil Isn???t so black as he is painted.
Now, I'll bet you S101 can borrow 250 of hint before
night.???
???Done!" nnd the money was put up. Ou posted
the sanguine book-maker to his intended victim.
???t-tnissheiger, my boy, how are you???? and he
slapped him on the back of a faded coat.
???Veil, I vass all r-i-g-h-t. Vot???s de matter mit
you????
???Look here, old fellow. I made a little bet about
you just now???ha. ha! it???s a capital joke.???
???Im!??? said Strassberger. ???YeUV'???
???Yes, I just bet $10 with Smithy that I could bor
row $.50 of you to-day.???
???Feefty tollar????
???Yes, that was the amount.???
???And von bet ten????
???That???s what I put up.???
???Veil, now, look here, my friend (in a low whis
per), vou go straight away and hedge.???
MRS. BOYD???S COWHIDE.
to recognize his attractive qualities as a man, and ' her name published.
Why She Applied It to the Shoulder* of Mrs. Sher
wood.
Washington. September 19???Mrs Boyd's account
of the eoivhiding sensation here is that she had
just heard oi the death of her grandchild, anil was
driving to tlie census bureau in which Colonel
Bovd holds a jiosition, to tell him of it. She says
on'the way she saw Boyd walking arm-in-ann with
Mrs Henrietta Sherwood wjjo lives here
that Boyd had been intimate with
Mrs. S for several years, and in spite of all ills
wife's remonstrances has maintained the intimaev.
Mrs. Boyd says in her indigation she snatched her
buggv whip, j uni] ted out and laid it vigorously over
the shoulders of Sirs. Sherwood. Mrs. Boyd added,
if you publish anything about it. put in the name
of that woman. Mrs. Sherwood. Colonel Boyd don't
care what is said about it in the papers if he can
screen Mrs. Sherwood. I did whip her aud I want
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LEGAL NOTICES.
State of Georgia. Fulton County???To the Suj??crior
Court of said County:
T HE PETITION OF THE INTERNATIONAL
Cotton Exjxisition shows that on tlie 4th day of
April, A. I)., ISM???during the regular term of said
court, an order was passed inooriionuing petitioners-
under the name aforesaid, ou the petition of Joseph
E. Brown, S. N. Inman and, others, ivhich jietiliors
and order are entered ou the minutes of said court.
Your petitioner noiv asks thnt its charter be
amended by an order of tlie court, so that the busi
ness of petitioner shall not be confined to an expo
sition ot the ???appliances and machinery used in the
cultivation. prc]??anitiim and manufacture of cotton
and other fillers, together with exposition of cotton
and other libers and fabrics and whatever else is
directly or indirectly connecsed with with or bene-.
ticial to tlie cotton and other textile Interests, of the
United States and other countries." But in addi
tion thereto your petitioner prays thnt it may have
corporate powers and authority to hold at the same
time an Universal Exposition oi natural products
and products of industry and art in all tlie deport
ments, aud to purchase land aud erect such build
ings for the accommodation of same and fc
the accommodation of visitors to said ???ex,
???position, as may be necessary, to make such charge
???tor admission of exhibits and persons, for the us
of power, sluice aud other privileges, and collee
same as may be necessary and proper.??? And in it
discretion to award premiums certificates
medals for such exhibits and to do
all and singular such other acts, and
exercise such other powers as it may deem requisite-
to the full and complete carrying out of tho objects
specified in this jietitiou. Wherefore petitioner
prays Hint an order be passed allowing said amend
rneitt niih {lowers, rights and privileges herein be
fore mentioned, and witli such other powers ns arc
incident to corporations under tlie laws of said state,
B. F. ABBOTT,
Attorney for Petitioner.
A true extract from the minutes of Fulton su
perior court, this September 3d, ISM.
. C. H. STRONG,
Clerk Superior Court.
92 septr???ivkv only w4tv
this time Mitchell aud his party had got into a piece
of woods in the field near Mitchell's house.
THE HOSTII.ES MEET.
When Mahathy got to Cook they went out of the
field Into tlie woods and met Mitehell and his purty
at an old road, and there the tight took place; the
evidence is a little different here. Mnhuthv and
Cook???s son swears thnt Nottingham was advancing
Cook with his hand in ???his pocket,
and he had a pistol in it, from up-
pearanee, and that Cook ordered him to stop
and he never stopped, and Cook shot him. Mitch
ell???s sons sivear that when Cook ordered him to stop
he stopped, and when stopped Cook shot him. ???The
load took effect in his breast, und he walked thirty
: raids west towards Mitchell???s house, und when
found he was lying on his face dcud. 11 seems from
ivliat I could gather thatCook hnd his gun presented
and cocked at the time Mitchell aud his crowd
came up.
THE FIGHTING RESUMED.
Immediately after the sliootingof Nottingham,Cook
and Mitchell commenced fighting. One report says
Mitehell run on Cook. The other savs they run to
gether. Anyway Mitehell got the best of him, and
had him down, and 5Inhathy took Cook???s gun and
beat out old limn Mitchell???s brains with the butt
of the gun. During tlie light between Cook and
Mitchell young Bill Mitchell stabbed Cook iu the
buck with a small pocket-knife. Muhuthy then
struck young -Mitchell und broke his arm ivfth the
gun, und run him about tliirtv vanls from
the battle ground towards Mitchell???s house, und run
upon Nottingham lying dead. He thou returned to
the battle ground, aud together with Cook they run
off towards Cook???s. About halfway between the
fight nnd Cook???s house Mnhuthv discovered the
knife still sticking in Cook???s back and stopped
him and pulled the knife out of his back. This
was the first thut Cook knew he ivas cut.
THE DAMAGE DONE.
. Drs I???ool and Cotton say Cook is doing very well,
aud there is no chance for Mitehell to get well.
Mahathy is not hurt. Young Bill Mitchell's arm is
doing well.
Judge Nottingham, of Perry, reached Atlanta on
Monday on his return from Patildingcounty. Judge
Nottingham is a brother of the young manwhowus
killed by Cook in Paulding county Friday, und had
gone to Douglas county to disinter the remains of
hisbrother and have them carried to Macon for jier-
manent burial. He had the body with him last
night nnd left on the Central railroad train at 12
o???clock for Macon, where the remains will be in
terred at 10 o???clock to-day.
Mr Winslow, a member of the house from Hous
ton county, accompanied Judge Nottingham to
Douglas county. List night, in conversation with
a Constitution reporter, he said:
This is a sad, sad ease. Young Nottingham was
a bright, noble fellow. He had gone up there to
teach school, nnd the articles of agreement were to
have been signed two hours after the time at which
he was killed. I went up with Judge Nottingham,
and at Marietta we purchased a casket. Late in tlie
night we passed the house of Cook. The lights nt that
unusual hourand the flitting figures told the tale
of what was going on there. The next house, per
haps a quarter of a mile away, was 5Htchell???s, and
there a like picture presented itself. Further on
and we came ujion the little graveyard where the
body of young Nottingham was buried. Three or
four kindhearted countrymen gave us assistance,
and. the grave ivas opened and the body of Notting
ham taken uji and transferred to the casket ive had
purchased."
???Are there any developments in the ease????
???I can???t say there is any really new development.
You have all heard wrong reports of the killing.
On Thursday a difficulty arose over some hogs, but
on Friday the serious trouble took place. The men
were engaged in getting Mitchell???s hogs out of
Cook's field ivheu a difficulty arose. Cook told his
stepson Hathaway to knoek young Mitehell down,
or words to that effect. Nottingham interfered and
started toward Mitehell to protect him. Cook there
upon tired a load of buckshot into Nottingham???s
breast. Nottingham turned, walked a short distance
and fell a corpse. A general fight followed in
ivhich old man Mitchell ivas hurt, Cook was cut
and young Mitchell hurt. I don???t think Hathawav
was hurt.???
???Have any steps been tnkmi to bring the matter
before the courts????
???We had a warrant issued to-day charging Cook
with murder, and have retained Mr R A Massey and
Mr Edge to assist the state in the prosecution."
???Bnchupalba???
New,quick, complete cure 4 days, urinary affee
tions, smarting, frequent or difficult urination, kid
ney disease. SI. Druggists. Depot, Lamar, Rank
in & Lamar, Atlanta.
lYlrat ConcreM Should Do.
Chicago Tribune.
Congress ought now to provide a standing appro
priation of $.50,000,009 annually in uid of national
education. This money ought to beapprojiriated
per capita among the several states in aid of the
schools. The money appropriated by congress for
this purpose would be a release to the land in all
these states. The $3,000,000 falling to the share of
Illinois would enable the state to relieve the landsof
Illinois of $3,000,000 now raised from them by direct
taxation for educational purposes. So in other
states, where nearly the whole burden of taxation
falls upon the laud, and where the taxation for
schools is limited because of the inability of
the already tax-oppressed lands, to hear the
burden. The appropriation of this $50,
000,000 would be one of the greatest
of national blessings. It would be the beginning
of school funds in states where there are now none,
and where they are especially needed. The school
svstems thus endowed with a fund of $1 per head of
the jHipulation, once begun would never cease, hut
would grow until made equal to the educational
wants of each community. Let congress now abol
ish the no-longer-necded and yet burdensome sink
ing fund, and tu'm the money noiv sunk in that
fund over to the several states to endow a school
svstem in all jiarts of the land. The establishment
of schools is of infinitely more impc-* * l ??? **--
jiayment of bonds not due and only
cent interest. -
Art and OIL
Reading (Pa.) Times and Dispatch.
The Norfolk Virginian of January 16. 1881,
refers to tlie remarkable cure effected by St.
Jacobs Oil in tlie case of Prof. Cromwell,
known the country over for his magnificent
art illustrations, who had suffered excruciat
ing torments from rheumatism, until he tried
the Oil, whose effects, he says, were magical.
nportancc than the
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RICORD???SVITAL RESTORATIVE.
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NOTICE.
T ins ISTONOTIFY 1>R. J. E. ( ORB, WHO LEFT
his home in Dawson county, Ga., several years
ago, that his father is dead, and his mother desiren
him to return home and assist in the transaction oi
her business. MRS. JAMES M. COBB,
sept:??????tvkylm
A DMINISTRATOR'S SALE???BY VIRTUE OF
an order from the court of ordinary of Knyettc.
county, Georgia, will lie sold on tlie first Tuesday iix
October. 1SS1. at tlie court house door in said conn-
tv. between the legal hours of sale, lot of land No.
N> in tin- Fifth District, of said county, containing:
(202V.) two hundred tivo and half acres, more or
less, belonging to tlie estate of Ephraim Sweet.
Sold for tlie benefit of heirs and creditors. Terms-
cash. D A McLUCAS,
*50 sepll???illt iv4t Adm???r.
G eorgia, fayette county???ordinary*.
oflice, September 5, 18S1.???Whereas, Mrs. Mari.
Matthews has implied for letters of iiduiinistmtiot
on the estate of W. W. Matthews, of said county
deceased:
All jiersons concerned are hereby'notiflod to fills
their objections, if any exist, on or before tlie first
Monday in October next, else letters of administra
tion will be granted the applicant as prayed for.
se{??5 w4iv I-. it. GRIGGS, Ordinary.
'vtotice FOR LEAVE TO SELL LAND???APPLI-
cation will be made to the court of ordinary
of Jasper county, Georgia. ??t Die October term, 1SS1 _
of said court for leave to sell tlie lands (except
widow???s dower) belonging to the estate of Sum To-
land, late of said county, deceased for the benefit of
heirs und creditors of said deceased.
W. H. HEAD,
Administrator of Sam Poland.
August lfi, 1881.111^2:1 w4iv
A DMINISTRATOR???S SAI.E-BY
i
RECORD???S VITAL RESTGB4T1VE
Ricord???s Vital Restorative has been indorsed by
tlie Academy of Medicine, Paris ns mi infallible
speeilic for Nervous and Physical Debility, etc., con
tains no jihosphorous, cautliarides or other jioison;
is purely vegetable; is a sugar-coated pill, can be had
of Leviisscr, 10 bis Rue Richelieu, Paris, France, or
Dr. S BROWN SIGESMON, 40 World building. New
York Lnonc genuine without the signature of S. B,
Sigesmond on side of each box: boxes of 50 jiills,
$1.50: of 100, $3: 400, $10; sent by mail upon receipt
of price. Sold by nil Druggists.
Notice is hereby given that It. L. De Lisser,, of New
York, is no longer authorized to net as agent for IU-
cord???s Vital Restorative.
The counterfeiter of Rieord???s Vital Restorative
tried to keep the agency and prepare himscif with a
spurious imitation and change the name from Ri
cord???s Vital Restorative to Dr. Kicord???s Restorative,
to have a similiarity in name.
The testimonials of Dp*. R. Blanchard, C. -Cheva
lier, M. Peri go rd, Iieblg aud Sir Thompson,
copied from my circulars.
FRAUD EXPOSED.
Dr. Ricord, of Paris, wrote to Wm. R. Woodward,
of the well-known firm of E. Fougera & Co., of 30 N.
William street, New York City, instructing him to
order that the bogus letter with his (I)r. Ricord???s)
name forged thereto and published in various i??i-
persbe discontinued immediately, or he should
commence legal proceedings without delay.
The letter published by del-isser nnd which ht
pretends to have received from Dr. Ricord, is false
Dr Ricord, of fi rue do Tournou, Paris, writes utidei
date of April 13th, HW1, that he never knew R. L. De
Lisser, of New York City, or sold him any formula
Neither has he ever authorized Del-isser to use his
name to any remedy whatever,, and thnt the signa
ture of the letter published by Del-isser and pur
porting to come from him is copied or transferred
from an original, but the text is not his handwrit
ing.
The genuine can be had at Schumann???s Pharmacy
Atlanta, Ga.
Dr. Sigesmond agrees to forfeit $5,000 for any fail
ure to cure with Ricord???s Vital Restorative (under
sjiecial advice) or for anything impure or injurious in
it. Over 10 t 000 cures in the U. S. alone has been ef
fected within the last five years.
Address, with inclosed jiost stamp for descriptive
circular with testimonials and symptoms, to Dr. S.
B. Sigesmond, 40 World Building, New York.
sep 6 101518 20 24 29???oct 2 4 1316 27 30??? nov 1510
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VIRTUE OF
an orderifrom the court of ordinary of Milton.
Co.,Gn??? will be sold on the first Tuesday in October'
next, at the court house door, in said county, be
tween the legal hours of sale, the following lands o3
Ellis Wright, deceased, to-wit: 22 uerea of lot No..
599; 22 acres of No. GOO; 22 acres of 601; 39 acres oS
No. 626, and one acre of 624, all iu the second dis
trict of the second section of said county. Sold as-
the property of Ellis Wright, deceased, for the bene
fit of trie heirs and creditors of said deceased-
Terms???Half cash; balance due 25th December-
1882, with iuterest at 8 per cent per annum. This-
August 31st, 1881. LOUIS WRIGHT,
T. E. WRIGHT,
sci>6 w4w Administrators.
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Descriptive of the country along and tiibutarj to
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