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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION JANUARY 17,1882.
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ATLANTA, GA., JANUARY 17,1881.
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tions at once.
Justice Gray took his seat on the supreme
bench yesterday.
The court clown had had his day—the hang
man must now have his.
Governor Hagood, of South Carolina, on
yesterday respited a negro murderer for thirty
days. -
The census of Paris just taken shows a pop
ulation of 2,225,900 against a imputation of
1,'.<8,800 in 1870.
The success of Mr. Keeler shows that there
is money in Georgia land, if it is only tilled
with intelligence and discretion.
On the occasion of Mr. Stephens's seventi
eth birthday, he was made the recipient of a
beautiful bouquet from the president.
The land agitation in Scotland, though not
attracting the attention given the same move
ment in Ireland, is none the less aggressive
and i>ersistent.
There is a possibility that General Grant
has made too long a leap in the Porter exon
eration scheme. Some of his henchmen do
not seem inclined to follow him.
The progress of the temperance movement
in Georgia is not fanatical, but it is quiet and
persistent, slowly making ground and retain
ing every position once gained.
For the first time in its history, every de
partment of the French government is in
sympathy witii the republic. Sunday's elec
tions placed the senate in accord with clinm-
licr and the cabinet.
The capital invested in southern iron pro
jects 1 >cgins to look enormous. But there is
profitable employment for it all, and as much
more. The country is full of undeveloped
opportunities. ’
Gamhetta threatens to resign if his scrutin
de listc bill fails to become a law. It has be
come the fashion for the modern premier to
make this announcement on the presentation
of doubtful measures.
It is announced that on his 85th birthday,
which occurs on the 22d of March, the empe
ror of Germany will transfer the sceptre of
authority to the crown prince, Frederick Wil
liam, who will thus become the emperor-re
gent.
The house committee on agriculture has
decided to report in favor of accepting the
agricultural and mineral products which have
been on exhibition at the exposition. $5,000
will be recommended to pay tliV expense of
transportation. '
" The culture of silk is something in which
the south is peculiarly interested, as the de-
' monstration of its success would add a very
important element to our industries. The
results heretofore have been such as to give
encouragement for the future.
The correspondence between Mr. Stephens
and the post-office department draws attention
to a very important question, and one that
causes great annoyance in the south. Quick
transit and regular trains is a reform urgently
needed in the southern niail system.
The revised New Testament docs not seem
to make much progress. The book-sellers
complain that the demand has almost ceased
. Bishop Doane, of the Protestant Episcopal
diocese of Albany, now comes out and dis
courages the use of the work for other than
marginal purposes.
Tiik Florida Southern railroad projects
an extension to Perry, Georgia, which will
pass through one of the richest undeveloped
sections of the state. The company is com
posed of Boston capitalists, said to represent
$40,000,000. A heavy force is at work on the
Georgia line.
One of the young Chinamen who recently
returned home after finishing his course at
Yale has been beheaded because he fell in
love with a New England girl. This is an
awful warning to young men who linger
around the average young miss from Connec
ticut and elsewhere.
the work of extracting from the earth the
stores of wealth that lie hidden therein.
A disgraceful court scene is reported from
Kentucky town, where a drunken witness
undertook to prove himself the best man
present physically. The drunkard found
backers in bis lawlessness, and in the effort to
restore quiet a general fight ensued, even the
judge taking part. It is said that the law
triumphed at last, and that the offending
parties were put in jail.
DR. FELTON AND MR. HILL.
We print in another column a letter from
Dr. Felton assaulting Senator Hill in bitter
terms. With the personal controversy be
tween these gentlemen we have nothing to
do, further thau to express our regrets. Hav
ing printed Mr. Hill’s interview we give Dr.
Felton’s reply. In this, as in all other mat
ters, Mr. Hill will take care of himself.
We must confess, however, that we do not
see the cause of Dr. Felton’s savage spirit and
abuse, in Mr. Hill’s interview there was not
one unkind word about Dr. Felton. Mr. Hill
claimed to be in thorough understanding of
au alliance between the stalwarts at Washing
ton and the independents in the south. This
alliance he considered wicked—its purposes
selfish and its methods infamous—and he ex
pressed his views upon these points plainly,
as was his duty as a public man. When
he alluded to Dr. Felton he spoke
kindly, and said that he believed Dr. Felton
was honest and patriotic when he first started
out, but that he had succumbed to the inex
orable tendency of all independent revolt,
liicli is towards the enemy’s camp.
Dr. Felton pays little attention to the
movement discussed by Mr. Hill. He does
not defend the alleged alliance or the policy
that brought it about. Mr. Hill’s interview
rang through the state like a bugle call to the
democracy of Georgia, and gratified his
friends everywhere. Whether he will con
sent to engage with Dr. Felton in the bitter
personal controversy to which be is so sav
agely invited, or will hold the discussion to
the plane on which he first put it, we do not
know. Whatever he does, he will bear him
self as befits a senator of Georgia.
The scheme proposed by Messrs. Rice and
Richards, and endorsed by such men as the
Messrs Inman and Peters, is enough to make
one hear the steady tramp of one hundred
thousand people in Atlanta. We need man
ufactories of cotton, iron, woodwork and
everything else in which there is money.
The courts of New Orleans have upset the
alleged killing of Mrs. Cozart by her three old
child, and have committed the husband
the murdered lady on a charge of murder.
The story of the dead woman's life is a suc
cession of grief and unhappiness, from which
death must have been a relief.
ness of the other giving to the artist his most pare
and perfect joy.” Oh, you sweet, sweet young
man! We feel—well, by Geo-ge! if any of the
sesthetes. regardless of sex, desire to know how we I
feel, they can just come forward and feel of us. Two |
flights up, ebony door to the right.
The status of the latest Kentucky duel is about
this: Blackburn wounded Burbridge in the left
shoulder with a private letter, and Burbridge shot
off his gun in the newspapers, aiming at Black
burn’s chin whiskers. There is more morality in
this kind of war than in the old-fashioned crusade.
Oscar Wilde appeared in knee-breeches in New
York the other evening in order to give the female
noodles of the metropolis an opportunity to wor
ship his calves.
ON TO FLORIDA.
AN ATLANTA PARTY IN QUEST OF
ADVENTURE.
The Preparations For a Hostile Sleeting With
Florida Game.—The Anticipations of the
Ladies—A Glance Around the Coach.—
Characters that Compose a Life.
Os the Train, Jnnuary 11,1SS2 — [Special cor
respondence.]—I’m afraid there is a barbaric im
pulse in the gentlest of human kind.
Else why is it that staid and respectable folks
leave comfortable homes and hearthstones about
which all the felicities are clustered, and brave the
discomforts of the swamps or the wilderness merely
We judge from Dr. Felton's reply to Mr. Hill I for fun. Why is it that mild mannered men take
that he proposes to remain an independent. But pleasure in arming themselves with guns or fishing
the republicans say they will no longer support in- | rods that they may sprinkle bird’s blood over the
dependents. There is mystery somewhere.
face of the earth, or divide peaceful waters with
protesting trout?
Here we are off for a Florida trip—a party of peo
pic reasonably well housed at home—off for the ul
timate American tropics—journeying towards
All the symptoms are that Tommy Platt is to be
the stalwart candidate for president AU the anti-
Blaine papers are engaged in working up the boom.
Say what you will, there is not a more notorious
stalwart in the country than that same Tommy I swamps where the mosquitojnever dies and the
Platt | alUgator bellows to his echo.The ladies are inspired
with certain idyllic dreams of wandering arm-iu-
AN exchange says “the independent movement I arm with thfir husbands through green groves,
is beginning to crystalize in Georgia.” If this | or shaking pineapples from burdened shrubs and
means that everybody is beginning to see through
it, the remark is cutely true.
No description of OscarWilde is complete that
fails to include the measurements of the ears of the
society asses in New York who are making a lion of
him.
After awhile, when everything has calmed down petrified to a point.
plnckine oranges from willing boughs, while the
sunshine falls on a turf of violets, and the J>alm of
the banana hangs in the air. The men are cheered
with the prospect of ducks that circle iu swarms
above pendant boats, set in a field of lily pods, un
der which trout wait open-mouthed for flies, or
fields brown with stubble and dotted with dogs
COLONEL W. H. SPARKS.
In another column will be found the an
nouncement of the death of Colonel W. H.
Sparks, one of the best known citizens of
Georgia. It is safe to say that there is not a
community in the state—scarcely one in the
south—to some member of which the intelli
gence of the sudden death of this genial old
gentleman will not come with a shock. Col
onel Sparks was born in Greene county, in the
year 1800, and was therefore in his eighty-
second year at the time of his death. He was
connecting link between the present and
the past, and a wonderful memory allied to a
disposition at once generous, vivacious, hearty
and humorous made him a most engaging
companion. Wherever he went he was the
center of an admiring circle. He was just
such a genial and kindly lold gentleman as
Thackeray would have delighted to paint
His years sat upon him lightly, and almost to
the very last his step had' the buoyancy, his
eye the fire and his face the freshness of
youth.
If we mistake not, Colonel Sparks entered
upon the study of law in Eatonton. At any
rate, the earlier years of his life were spent
among the people of that town, and the tradi
tions of the village are burdened with stories
of the irrepressible humor of the young man
who was familiarly known as Bill Sparks.
He took an early interest in the somewhat
tumultuous politics of that day, and some of
his lampoons and epigrams have been pre
served. Upon one occasion the ticket which
he voted was accompanied by a series of satir
ical verses, that occasioned considerable ex
citement. The weak points of the “opposi
tion” were mercilessly dealt with, and the
whole was highly spiced with personality.
The identity of the author was finally discov
ered, and thenceforth the politicians had a
wholesome fear of the wit of the
young lawyer, and his personal
popularity finally secured hint i
seat in the legislature from Putnam
Colonel Sparks had considerable literary
ability, and was not without the poetic
faculty. He is the author of a most import
ant and interesting work entitled, “Recollec
tions of Fifty Years,” and had in view the
preparation of an additional volume of the
same nature. His poem, “The Old Church
Bell,” is a beautiful and touching piece of
verse.
The career of Colonel Sparks was a romantic
one, full of adventure. He left Eatonton in
early manhood and went west, but, finally,
in his old age he returned to Georgia and the
people he loved.
Fortune, which favered him, found him
true and generous, and misfortune neither
dimmed his eye nor daunted his spirit. Few
men have made so much of life, and no man
had truer friends. Peace to the ashes of this
gallant gentleman of the olden time.
and the Coalition gets to running smoothly, the
best friends of Dr. Felton will admit that the tone
of his reply to Mr. Hill is a little too violent. And j
yet, it must be admitted that martyrdom is sweet.
The Chinese pay their debts once a year. Seven
teen ship loads of missionaries will be required to
bring these desperate barbarians up to the Ameri
can standard of civilization.
The fact that “Little .Meek” will tote liis skillet
in the organized democratic procession will not oc
casion much comment on the part of the Coalition.
The truth is, the Coalition doesn’t want to give Mr.
Stephens an exense for writing a card.
Our esteemed northern contemporaries are put I dip-net'with which he declares he will catch some
ting their heads together and wagging them wisely oranges if he cannot kill any birds. As for myself,
over the exodus from South Carolina. They give I I do .not see why 1 should not bag considerable
various reasons therefor, and they suggest various I game. My preparations have been ample. I have
remedies, but the only remedy after all is to educate I a gun with which birds have been killed. I have a
the negroes so that they cannot be swindled by | hunting vest exactly similar to one that Willie
their own preachers or by white men. This is very I Venable wore through a very successful season,and
simple on paper, but it is a problem which will | a coat that could hardly be told from'Captain Gay’s.
Nothing further need be said of the ladies than
to remark that palm trees are already lifted above
their horizon and the bloom of the magnolia already
softens the skies that lie beyond. But I cannot
forbear noting the fine vigor with which the sports
men are preparing for their work. 1 should be
unfaithful scribe if I failed to' depict
Ben Hill, as, up to his throat in rubber boots, and
clad in corduroy duck, he walks up and down the
sleeper with the impatience of one who would be
afield with the game, or Frank Rice, as, with a
liver-colored pointer by his side, he sweeps the pass
ing landscape with his shot-gun leveled through
the window, or adjusts to his broad shoulders the
make large demands on Ume.
The independents and coalitionists havo very
little confidence in the colored voters. At any
rate they refuse to set up a branch office in south
west Georgia.
Jack Brown wants General Gartrell for govern
or, Dr. Miller is in favor of Dr. Felton, and some of I Atlanta, and which he now carries on his person
My hunting pants are borrowed from a redoubtable
hunter, and my cartridges were loaded
t'v the same man who loads Judge
Hillyer’s. With these accessories I have little fear of
the result. Our party is perfectly equipped, Frank
Rice having even brought along a hunting knife
with which he fought Indians iu the early days of
that he would be glad to take stock in the'ncw fac
tory proposed in the exposition buildings. He said:
“It is a very promising enterprise, and I should
like to be interested. I would take $10,000 worth
of the stock, and, if bonds are put
on, as many of the bonds as would be
desired. The two secrets of success
in manufacturing are economy in the buildings and
plenty of cash to start with, and to run on. The first
you have in the exposition buildings: You have
there buildings for $25,000 that ordinarily cost
$300,000. Imean that to accommodate as many spin
dles as themain building will take, usually takes a
quarter of a million for buildings.”
‘Thegentlemen associated with you arc strong
enough to raise all the money needed. With every
thing paid for and a commercial capital, no legiti
mate manufacturing enterprise in Georgia will fail
to pay. Mr. McCoy, of Augusta, started on this
plan, and when he had run three months he paid
2J .j per cent dividend. That’s the beauty of having
cash to start with. You make money from the
start.”
Mr. Rice will probably be able to get for Mr.
Phinizy'the interest he desires.
By the way Mr. rhinizy tells me that
ho heard from good authority that
John H. Inman had bought the Harker
property at Angusta, and would put up a cotton
factory to C06t $500,000. I had not heard this be
fore, but I am not surprised at it. I know that Mr.
Inman has been interested in the subject of cot
ton manufacturing iu Augusta for some time and
has been quietly invcstiga£^; it. An investigation
could bring only one answer, and that answer, 1
appears, Mr. Inman has made.
It will be remembered that I predicted about a
year ago that this gentleman would take a promi
nent part in the development of the south. Since
then he has bought the Sewanee coal, iron and
railroad property, involving about $3,000,000. He
has arranged for a heavy enlargement of this prop
erty, and the bniluing of a duplicate at Cowan of
the company's furnace, the finest in the United
States, now in operation there. He has bought an
immense iron property near Gads
den, Alabama, said to be worth over
hundred thousand dollars. Last week he bought
for the company that owns the Sewanee property,
the South Pittsburg property. South Pittsburg is a
thriving town, settled by English capital, and
among the largest iron works iu the south. Its in
corporation byjthe Tennessee coal,iron and railroad
company makes the latter one of the very largest
iron and coal properties in the south—much the
largest in all the southern states. And now it is
said Mr. Inman has put an odd half-a-million in a
cotton factory at Augusta. Besides the enormous
investments noted above, either of which would
take all the energies of most men, he has dipped
Into scores of enterprises, taking from $5,000 to
$50,000, in which his name is not known.
As I said, then, he is destined to become one of
the most tremendous influences at work in the great
industrial development of the south. He is just
getting fairly started. n. W. G,
COLONEL W. H. SPARKS.
A GIGANTIC MOVE
THAT WILL LIFT ATLANTA ABOVE
THE SLOUGH.
The Sale of the Exposition Buildings to Messrs.
Rice and Richsrds-A Magnificent Scheme
for a Half-Million Dollar Cotton Fae-
tory—What they Have to Say.
the coalitionists are anxious to compromise on Dr.
Duggar. In the midst of all this running hither
and thither it will be observed that Colonel Thorn
ton has not committed himself.
TnE harmony under which the republican party
is now laboring is apparently managed by the Cali-
thumpiaus. It is in the nature of a tin-pan sere
nade to Mr. Blaine and a series of clog dances on
Garfield's grave. The Calithumplans, we may add,
have been engaged for the season.
After the success of Miss Mamie Anderson, no
actress can afford to start in business without a
step-pa.
The leading Chicago editors have pooled their
issues, but Dr. Medill has turned your Aunt Jane
Swizzlehim loose on the Inter-Ocean man. This
new Chicago racket is a part of the harmony of the
republican party of which we hear so much.
A idt of hog’s fat caught on fire in St. Louis the
other day, and blew a packing house to pieces.
This shows that hog’s fat has as many attractive
qualities os kerosene oil.
Oscau Wilde will never know the truly heautUi
inwardness ol the North American search after the
secret of life until fourschooners of Cincinnati beer
meet and bow to each other beneath his white satin
vest.
against a possible hand to hand engagement with a
bear.
Already we have swept out of the merky atmos
phere that overlaps Atlanta into sunshine. The
muddy streets are replaced by brown slopes and
forests full of rustling leaves.
And on we go to Florida. Our little party with
its high hopes and its gayety, traveling against the
future and building against the morrow, is but a
type of all enterprise—one pilgrimage of thou
sands—with the humblest and the proud
est, with small • affairs and great
ones, with the army marching against
a king or a beggar seeking alms in a new
field—with any and all of the sons of earth, it is the
same venture and the same chance. It is God's
mercy that he lights the Heart with hope, even
while the seeds of failure have taken root in the
future, and disappointment is vailed by bpta
day. In the meantime the ladies and the children of
our party have set their faces resolutely to the
sunshine. Ben Ilill lias girded his boots yet more
tightly about his loins and let out another reef of
corduroy. Frank Rices gray eyes closely follow
jie barrel of his gun os it menaces every hamlet on
ie wayside, and the writer reads over once again
the guarantee that his cartridges are compounded
by the same receipt that makes Judge Hillyer's
so deadly.
The train on which we are riding is filled with
Ills Sudden Death at Marietta Friday l.ast.
Col.W. H. Sparks, whose name is a familiar one to
all the better classes of Georgians, as well as the cit
izens of several of the sou then states, died sudden
ly at the home of Mr. M. G. Whitlock, at Marietta,
about seven o’clock Friday night. Colonel Sparks
and Mrs. Sparks had been hoarding with Mr. Whit
lock since May. About ten days ago Colonel Sparks
was attacked by sickness and was confined to his
room for the greater portion of the time. Friday
evening while the family were at supper he went
into the garden. although forbidden to
go out of doors. When the family finished supper.
Colonel Sparks was missed and search for him was
instituted. He was found in the garden dead, his
dcajh having been the result of paralysis of the
lungs. His remains wore brought to Atlanta yes
terday and carried to Macon under the charge of
Dr. Lee and Mayor Huff. Mrs. Sparks accompa
nied the remains which will be interred in the
cemetery at Macon to-day.
Colonel Sparks was an unusual man in many
respects. He was born in Green county, Georgia,
in the year 1800, and had he lived until to-day
would have been eighty-two years of age. He was
singularly well preserved both mentally and phvs
’ illy,
“.Esthetic circles will regret to learn that JJie consumptives seeking a new lease of life in the
passion flower is known in the Georgia dialect as I tropics. They are in all the cars and traveling un
the May-pop bloom. But we are improving—that | derail conditions. In the second-rate cars you see
is, we are getting to be more artful.
Editor Waterman will
straight next season.
take his democracy
It isstated that Oscar Wilde resembles the Hon.
Arthur Gmy, of Catoosa. If this is true, we can
vouch for the fact that Wilde, in spite of his panta
lettes, has a soulful expression in his eyes.
It is mighty funny. The star routers didn’t like
Garfield, and he was assassinated. They didn’t
like MacVeagh, and he disappeared. They didn't
like Blaine, and he retired. They didn’t
like Janies, and he had to go. The truth is, the
star routers appear to be a busy and a powerful
gang. ___
CAPTAIN JACKSON’S RESIGNATION
And the Appointment of Mr. J. II. I.umpkln to the
Keportcrohlp.
When the supreme court met yesterday morning
here and there an invalid too poor to afford a
sleeper, crowded and hemmed in, his pale face
made still paler, and his weak lungs irritated con
stantly as he breathes the heavy air,made foul with
smoke and dirt. He is traveling alone—tottering
about the car and waiting on himself—shouldered
this way and that—getting little sympathy or kind
ness, reeling at last into the worst comer of the
car because he is too weak to contend for the best
one. In the sleepers you see the rich invalid,reclin
ing upon soft pillows, surrounded by friends Who
minister to every want and answer every wish be
fore it is spoken—wealth, hastening to console
where it cannot relieve and brighten the ap
proaches to a death it cannot avert.
There are all sorts of parties on the train. Here
is a worn, weary looking wife, w-ith love in her pa
tient eyes, ministering to her husband, whose
hectic flush tells too plainly that her labors are
nearly ended. There a father, with a brood of
children, are gathered about a dying mother,whose
sweet smile and loving words, even impending
the chief justice arose and read the resignation of | death cftlmot stnl or subdue . Yonder is a father
and mother watching a son, and reading in each
other’s anxious locks the truth that either is afraid
to speak. An interesting pair is a father, on whose
life this dread disease has fastened itself, traveling
alone with his boy—a chubby youngster of ten
years, surrendered possibly by a mother to watch
Captain Harry Jackson, the supreme court reporter.
The letter wae as follows:
Supreme Court Room, January 11,1882.—To the
Chief Justice and Associate Justices of the Supreme
Court of Georgia—Gentlemen: On March 30, 1872,
I was appointed the reporter of this
court, and have been honored by it
continuance in office until the present time.
The movement for narrow-guage roads, as
feeders to the main lines, is in the development
of the sections of country most in need of it.
Every county in the state should seek to place
itself in communication with the outside
world, by improved roadways, by bridging
the streams and by narrow-guage lines.
A magnificent showing is that made by the
Langley cotton factory of Augusta, which has
just declared a semi-annual dividend of twelve
dollars and a half per share, making over
twenty per cent for the year. Snch faefe as
these show that the south is not only the
place to raise cotton, but it is the place in
which to manufacture_it.
Sir Edward J. Reed is doing a wonderful
work for Florida in undertaking to develop
and extend her railroad system. Backed by
ample capital, and working with intelligent
discrimination, he will do more for that state
than all the politicians she has known for
years. There is room in every section of the
south for practical men who will engage in
The views of ex-Uovernor Bullock on the coali
tion of republicans and independents are very sen
sible, and they would hold good were there no
office-seekers hanging around on the outer edges.
The administration, however, proposes to give office
to those democrats who will go through the form of
making a campaign with the republicans; and
there are independent democrats (so-called) who
are mighty anxious for office..
The time will come before many years when
speculation will he regulated by law. Otherwise
every interest in the country will be sucked into
the bottomless pit of Wall street.
The bouquets and favors lavished on Chastlne
Cox, who strangled a lady in her bed, and the
crowds of women that attend theGuiteau trial, and
flock to the “receptions” of the assassin, and beg
for his autograph all go to show that there is some
thing rotten iu the society of Washington and New
York. These things are not the evidence of vul
garity merely: they aie the evidence of a most
hideous demoralization.
Some of onr esteemed contemporaries seem to
think that onr Washington correspondent didn’t
hear Mr. Stephens aright. It is to be remembered,
however, that Mr. Stephens never fails to correct
those who misunderstand him. What is writ is writ.
Mr. Stephens is an organized democrat, and will act
with the organized democracy.
There are symptoms in the air that the coalition
ists are endeavoring to crowd General Gartrell off
the track 6y a unique strategic movement. In the
meantime, the general, who was first in the field
as an independent candidate, will probably be
heard from before the 31st of January.
Nearly ten years have elapsed since my first ap- over a life that is precious to her, but that she
S ointment, and in that time I have endeavored to can not follow. Right across the car from me is one
ischarge. to tho best of mj ability, tnc arduous I , irwy^t toiicliincr figures in *hc car A. vounc
duties oi reporting forthe most severely taxed of the most touening ngures in -ne car. a young
court of which I have any knowledge.^ The time woman of perhaps thirty years—with plain.vesolute
has come when, on account of my professional en- I face—alone. She wears that indescribable air of
reserve and sadness that invests all women who
sav that my‘official and personal relations to all ihe I have lived their lives apart. fehe is dressed
distinguished gentlemen who have occupied seats I plainly and her well worn habit tells
IS have^cn of \h™?plea^"ri characte?!^ of prii ation and struggle She is probably a teach-
nardly necessary, for with one exception they are I er, who, walking to and from her work in some
all * still li'ving and are numbered j,j ea k New England village, thinly clad and illy
pride to call^my^ warmest M ?riends, t and over tbe protected the winds and storms of winter whipped
grave of the late chief justice no one, not of kin to into her slender form the seeds of disease. She has
him, grieved more than I. Youth has passed and rema ined at her post too long—so long that death
wtagS thishonored 5 Wbun2j > 2ndit is’with'much I has already set its *e«l on her cheeks, and looks
. ’• ’ -- *■ * 1 gaunt and inexorable out of her great clear eyes.
It was probably poverty that kept her there—proba
bly the demands of a mother or a sister upon her
| small resources pinched them so that they pinned
her to her martyrdom. And now at last, on the
savings of many years, the price of her life, she
of sadness that I feel impelled to ask the accept
ance of my resignation as reporter. Respectfully
submitted, Henry Jackson.
At the conclusion of the reading Judge Jackson,
as the representative of the court, stated that Mr.
Jackson nad served faithfully and well. That it
was due to his efforts that the Georgia reports had
attained such excellence and that it was the wish .. , .. ,, ... .. _
of the court that he retain the position which he comes to find balm and healing in the south. There
had filled with so much satisfaction to all con- <_ despair in her face, but there is no trouble there,
cemed. However, if it was his desire that he might Rro P i n nd1pss—her thin tins ere
be released so that he could enter a wider field oi Her treat eyes are clonoiess-ner thin lips are
usefulness in the discharge of professional duties, peacefully closed—her brow is calm, and there
it was right and proper that his wishes be regarded. I gentle resignation in every feature. Perhaps she
gSmaTwh^' stands be- looks with little regret to the end of a life that has
side the foremost members of the profession of law, been hard and laborious and lonely, and feels that
and who is the peer of any man in all that const! *. I Go( j g | ve her at last the rest and peace so long
of 1 SJtroSS®tofS shrewd,'and a'Tan denied her. Just beyond her there is a strong man,
orator he is brilliant and never fails to delight an chafing uneasilyinthelhrallofdisca.se. His face
audience. He resigned a seat in the Georgia house of knotted with suffering and dread. His wealth,
representatives in March. l872. to_aooept the^pod- ^ strengtl) his resources-none of these give
“The sunflower and the lily,” says our sunny-
haired Oscar, “are the two flowers in England best
adapted for purposes of decorative art—the gaudy j 7£th S of these two bright young Georgians noWlead
leonine beauty of the one and the precions loveli- ' in different directions.
tionas supreme court reporter—a position which
he has held for ten years. His predecessor was
Hon. N. J. Hammond. His colleagues in the legis
lature were Colonel E. F Hoge ana Dr. Wilson.
Immediately after the acceptance of the resigna
tion of Captain Jackson the court appointed Mr. J.
H. Lumpkin, who for two years has been the assist
ant reporter as well as a law partner of Captain
Jackson. Mr. Lumpkiu is a young man who has
the esteem and confidence of all who know him.
He has a bright future before him—one which will
bring to him a richer share of the
trophies of his profession than falls to
the lot of the generality of disciples
of Blackstone and Kent. He is well informed as to
the duties of his newly acquired office, and will
doubtless be able to give the greatest satisfaction.
As Captain Jackson resigned in order to give more
attention to the practice of law, the law firm o!
Jackson <t Lumpkin has beCh dissolved. So the
him the peace and content that has come
to this frail and slender girl. Truly, there is no
power like the consciousness of a life well spent,
dnty fully performed, a mission accomplished,
martyrdom endured. To the girl across the way,
death is hut a falling asleep—a sweet, dreamless
rest after a long and wearying work.
Mr. Ferdinand Phinizy rode down with onr par
ty to Savannah. He says that there is still some
doubt as to whether or not the dominant Darty in
the Central railroad will be able to carry out their
policy as indicated at the last meeting, and I pre
sume he is not going there for the purpose of clear
ing up the doubt.
Mr. Phinizy approached Frank Rice and said
ically, and had about him none of the langor
which usually attends old age. We believe that he
was never an office holder, but several years
before the war he was a candidate
for congressional honors in his district,
and was beaten by the small majority of 400 votes.
He was au old lino whig in politics. He was for
many years a resident of the state of Mississippi
and made an anti secession speech at New Orleans
when Louisiana withdrew from the union, which
rcatly angered the hot-blooded southerners of that
ay, and threats of lynching him were made. The
predictions made In that speech, however, were
verified by subsequent developments.
THE CAROLINA EXODUS.
The Matter Drought up In the Legislature.
Columbia, S. C., January 12.—[Special.]—
The legislature reconvened last night and
settled down to business. It is probable that
tbe session will last six weeks or two months,
as there is a mass of very important legisla
tion demanding attention.
To-day a slight sensation was occasioned in
the senate when Mr. Miller, the republican
senator front Beaufort, offered the following
resolution:
Whereas. It is reported that many of our citizens
are leaving the state, and that over five thousand
have left a single county during the past six weeks,
and.
Whereas, various causes have been assigned there
for, among which are bad legislation and oppres
sion in local administration, therefore be it
Resolved, that a committee of three senators b
appointed to investigate and report to this chamber
forthwith what are the grievances under which our
people are laboring to the extent that they are com-
jailed to leave their homes and native state at a
time when South Carolina needs an increase of
labor to develop her eminent resources.”
After along and animated debate it was in
definitely postponed.
It is announced to-night on trustworthy
authority that several hundred of the negroes
who joined in the exodus from Edgefield
have returned home disgusted with the
scheme.
A DISASTROUS FIRE
In Which the Fluent Structure* In Gslvcoinn arc
Swept Awuy.
Galveston, January 13.—At 2 o'clock this
afternoon, fire broke out in the eotton rooms
of W. S. Moody & Co., at the northwest cor
ner of Strand and Twenty-second streets.
The building was occupied by the supreme
court rooms on the upper floor, Moody it Jenii
son, Grace & Co., J. P. Kindred and others
on the second floor, and C. M. Pearce & Co,
wholesale grocers, on the ground floor. The
flames spread rapidly, and at three p.m. the
large wholesale dry goods establishment of
Greenleave, Bock & Co., was wrapped
in flames. The fire crossed the street to the
wholesale hardware establishment of E. S.
Wood & Son, and everything indicated a rep
etition of the fire of 1875. Moody & Jemisou’s
building is valued at $120,900. Greenleave,
Bock & Co. are reported to he insured for $40,
000, and M. Pearce & Co. for the same
amount. The county library valued at$25,000
is a total loss: The supreme and appellate
court room is a total loss. About one-third
of the records were luckily not in the rooms
at the time of the breaking out of the fire and
they are safe. The fire at 3:30 p. m. was
virtually under control. Brown & Co.'
establishment wfis saved. The fire in Aster-
man’s building was extinguished with but
slight loss. Moody & Jemison’s building and
two large buildings adjoining were burned to
the ground.
War on a Nnluaneo.
New York Herald.
The traveling public will be glad to learn that it
has been determined by a small band of reformers
to wage war against the wretched contrivances
called the bobtail care. Brooklyn has the honor of
leading the ernsade against this horrible corporate
money-making invention, which ingeniously con
verts every jiassenger into a servant of the bob-tail
line he patronizes Chicago had a problem of this
kind on its hands some time ago, and it solved it in
the way which the people on the other side of the
East river now j>ropose to adopt. Legislation has
failed to furnish a remedy for corporate imjiositiori
and tyranny of this character, and there is nothing
left except revolution on a small scale. “No con
ductor no fare" should he the motto of every trav
eller on all the bobtail lines.
A Constitution reporter went out yester
day to find out, if possible, what was the ob
ject of the purchase of the exposition prop
erty made the day before by Mr. F. P. Rice and
Mr" R. II. Richards, from the executive com
mittee oftlie cotton exposition.
The reporter found Mr. Rice first. lie was
preparing to make a trip to Florida, and leave
by the train to-day, to be absent from the
citv for two weeks or ten days. He was busy
picking out fishing tackle, and was carefully
examining a hunting outfit. He had just put
on a jaunty oiled, canvassed hunting coat of
English pattern, to see if it would fit, and was
plying the dealer about the price, when the
reporter walked up.
Pending his negotiation forthe coat we
said to him: , „ , .... .
“You have purchased the buildings anil
other property of the cotton exposition, Mr.
“Yes,” he replied; “Mr. Richards and my
self purchased the property. The Constitu
tion stated this morning substantially the
contract we made. The money has been
placed in the Atlanta national hank to-day to
complete the purchase when the titles are
made.” , ...
' “What do you propose to do with your pur
chase?” , .
“We purchased the property to keen it
from being torn down and scattered. There
are several men with capital in the city who
are Snxious to invest their money in manu
facturing, and a strong company can be or
ganized at once to fill these buildings with
proper machinery, and it will be done if
proper arrangements can be made.”
“Do you mean by that if the money can be
raised?”
“Xo, sir; there are twenty-five men ready
now to organize a joint stock company of
half a million dollars capital to commence
manu facturing in these buildings. The land
on which the buildings stand in Oglethorpe
park belongs to the city of .Atlanta.. Before
we invest any more money in machinery we
will have to make some arrangement with the
city for the land on which the buildings in
side the park stand.”
“Do you mean that you want the city to
give the land to a company?”
“Xo, sir. I would not have them give it. I
am a tax payer,and wantevery dollar thecity
owns to go to pay its debts. It will tnaketaxes
lighter, and that is one reason why I want to
get manufactories established here. It will
increase our population and lessen the.taxes.
I want the city to sell the laud at a fair and
reasonable price.”
“It depends then on the purchase of the
land whether a company is organized.”
It does?”
Suppose the city refuses to sell the land or
you can’t agree on the price?”
“Then no one is hurt. We will tear down
the buildings and sell out the material for
just what we can get for it.”
With this we left Mr. Riee to complete his
purchase and went to find Mr. Richards.
The reporter found Mr. Richards quite busy
with the stockholders of the Atlanta national
bank, yesterday being the annual meeting of
the stockholders of this bank. lie is a large
stockholder and a director in the ba'nk.
“What do you propose to do with your
purchase of the property of the International
eotton exposition?” we asked.
"We propose to fill the buildings with ma
chinery, if wc can get the land at a proper
price.”
“Do you mean that you and Mr. Rice will
buy machinery for that purpose?”
“Mr. Rice and myself will organize a joint
stock company, with a capital o.f a half mil
lion dollars, if necessary,, to put the mi-'
chinery in these buildings.”
“Raise the money here in Atlanta?”'
“Yes, here in Atlanta, every dollar of it.”
“Can it be done?”
“Certainly. It can be done in two days.
Atlanta must commence manufacturing oh a
large scale, if we expect to keep up. Onr
merchants must have customers, and our
laborers work. We have got all tbe railroads
we can hope for for a while. They want busi
ness. Tile ownersof real estate want tenants,
and when we commence to manufacture here
there will he no end to the prosperity of the
city. I did not join in this purchase as an
investment, but I am willing to go into a good
joint stock company as an investment.”
“Suppose you cannot purchase the land
from the city.”
“Then we will close out our purchase for
what we can get for it. There is nothing com
pulsory about our proceedings in this matter
so far as the city is concerned, and nothing
but what we are willing to lay before the pub
lic. We arc willing to pay a fair price for the
land for the purpose indicated—if we fail to
agree then we will sell out our purchase for
what it will bring.”
“When do you propose to move in tills
matter?”
“I cannot say. 1 am compelled to be ab
sent from the city for a while on important
matters, and Mr. Rice is going to Florida.
We will return inside of three weeks. We
have deposited the money in the Atlanta na
tional bank to pay for the purchase, and have
instructed our attorneys to examine the titles
and to make them to Walker 1*. Inman, as
trustee for ourselves and such men as we de
sire to associate with us. When this is done,
we will confer with the city council or others
who contemplate investing in a cotton factory
with us, ami the matter can he settled in short
order.”
With this we left Mr. Richards.
In walking back the reporter met Mr. Rich-
ard Peters and told him what liatl been said.
"i will subscribe to a cotton factory,” said
Mr. l’eters, “with such men as ltice and
Richards, and it will tlo more for Atlanta to
get up a factory, such as you speak about,
than any thing that can be done. It has been
demonstrated,” said Mr. Peters, “that steam,
where coal can he had for three dollars per
ton, is cheaper than water power. We have
the healthiest climate in the south, and we
only need to start the ball and Atlanta will
have one hundred thousand inhabitants in
less than ten years.”
W e next met Mr. Hugh T. Inman, and
spoke to him about the purchase.
He said that he had been spoken to on the
subject, and had said that he was willing to
join a good company if proper titles could be
obtained for the land in Oglethorpe park,
but that he was not, willing to invest money
in machinery and take a‘ lease. “I told a
man,” said Mr. Inman, rt a month ago,
I would raise sixty per cent
of the stock for a good cotton
factory here. We must demonstrate what
we have been saying,” lie continned, “that
there is money in manufacturing in the south.
If we wait for others to come here and do it, it
will never be done. We want
cotton factories, cotton-seed mills, plow
factories, _ and all kinds of factories,
that will increase our population and add to
t.ie value of every dollar’s worth of property
in the city.
“This, then, is the object of the purchase,
oliall wc have a huge factory, or a big pile of
second-class lumber? We will wait and see.”
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