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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY* JULY 11, 1882.
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Bill Arp has been sick but the genial hu
morist manages to make fun out of it in such
a pleasant way that his sickness seems to have
been like most men’s good health—produc
tive of gcod results.
Atlanta has many curious industries. It
will soon have one that is almost unique and
one which will be a great addtiion to these
which already exist. The useful broom will
soon make its appearance as a steam-made
Atlanta product. At present the Atlanta of
the west is the only place in the world where
they are made.
Tea as a Georgia product 3ecms to be taking
an upward movement. A Bohea plant, ac
cording to the Bainbridge Democrat, has
thriven through wet and dry, cold and heat,
and has had three or four ann ual crops of
leaves which are free from worms or insects.
Moreover the small plant lias now become a
shrub of seven and a half feet high with eight
feet spread. A few more such pian ts as this
would prove that tea can flourish in Georgia,
which is indeed already true.
It ts evident that Controller Pattison is a
remarkably strong man, and that he is greatly
favored by the republicans of Pennsylvania
or the proposals which coinc from the Cam
eron side, that the regular and independent
-epublican nominees shall withdraw and one
new coalition set be nominated, would not
be made. It remains to be seen how strong
.he independent feeling is. If the proposal is
accepted it means a continuance of Cameron
rule.
Congress will of course authorize the see re-
tary of the treasury to place a loan of $200,-
000,000 at two per cent. A one-per-cent bill
would lie even more popular. But it is seri
ously thought that tho banks which hold
about $250,000,000 in redeemable bonds will
absorb the two per cents, as they can well
a (Toni to do. The privileges and partial ex
emption from taxation which- the national
banks enjoy, enables them to fund money in
two per cent that other peoplo cannot. The
four per cento do not at present rates bear
over V/i per cent interest. They are now
quoted at 120, and this premium has to be
charged off in tue course of twenty-five years.
The imaum’s brother has rebelled against
the iinauni. The nature of the grievance of
the i mau in's brother is not stated in the
cablegram that brings the news, but it is
presumably a desire on his part to enjoy the
power and luxuries of his more successful
brother. The coveted place is that of Muscat,
and Oman is the capital of the states of Mus
cat, which is away down in eastern Arabia.
The city of Muscat are a port on the Indian
ocean, and a town of considerable commercial
importance. At this writing we do not know
whether to wish the imaum or the imaum’s
rebellious brothersuccess in his undertakings.
We are not, as we have already stated, folly
ip on Muscat politics.
Kx-polwkrs of both sides in the late war
ire fairly well represented in the departments
it Washington, according to Senator Harri-
jon’s report. The sergeant-at-arms of the sen
ate, for instance, lias seventeen ex-federal and
sixteen ex-confederate soldiers out of a list of
107 of his employes. The clerk of the house
has forty per cent of ex-federal soldiers and
one per cent ex-confederate _soldiers. So the
proj*ortion varies and runs as shown by ttie
senator’s report. It is a remarkable showing,
taken all in all, and in reality seems to mark
how great a proportion of citizens took active
part in "the late unpleasantness.” The offi
ces held are generally such at no one would
or should begrudge an old soldier, no matter
which side he fought on.
Poison probably did the work for the bril
liant young Skobeleff. Since his after-dinner
anti-German speech of last March, he has
been in quasi-retirement. He was not a
statesman, but a valiant, dashing hero, who
had been put forward too fast, and to the
envy and fear of what he might effect through
his great popularity his end is doubtless due.
He was the typical fighter. He became the
legendary hero of the Bulgarian campaign,
in which he gained world-wide fame first, and
in the minds of the common people he al
most monopolized its glories. He was always
' in the forefront of the hottest battle, four
horses were shot under him in ten days, but
he was only wounded once, and after being
in constant expectation of death for months,
he returned home safe and sound. His white
uniform was to his soldiers as the white
plume of Henri Quatre at the battle of Ivry.
‘‘I have heard the soldiers speak of him,”
says Lieutenant Greene, “as a general under
whom they would rather fight and die than
fight and live under another. They had often
to die—sometimes fifty per cent of his com
mand perislled; but he spared no exertion to
minister to their wants and to supply their
needs. His division was the bast fed, and
best clothed, and best armed in the army,
He was always with them in the most expos
ed positions in the fight, sleeping with them
in the trenches and looking after rll their ne-
tessities in the camp. In short," says Lieu-
enant Greene, “he succeeded so thoroughly
in making himself one with his division that
tis men responded to his thoughts as readily
ts the muscles obey the'will. I doubt if a
more thoroughly ideal relation between a
general and his men has existed since the
days of Cromwell.”
THE TWO-THIRDS RULE.
A recent issue of the Sparta lshmaelite
one of the most intelligent of our exchanges,
is teeming with editorial articles and para
graph! relating to the two-thirds rule Even
a casual reading of our contemporary would
impress one with the idea that it is engaged
in fighting a dark conspiracy against the two-
tliirds rule, the conspirators being a number
of allied sons of thunder, who are anxious to
shake down the blue firmament and shatter
the cast iron piliars of democracy. The fol
lowing is a specimen paragraph from the
lshmaelite:
The Intelligence of the state seem. to be In favor
of continuing the two-third rule, but intelligence
Is not worth mueh when it comes in contact with
brute force, intelligence adopted this rule in the
last convention ana brute force overrode it. and
inaugurated a bitter useless campaign. Will the
break be repeated? If so, Georgia is ruined.
Our contemporary evidently identifies the
majority with what it is pleased to term brute
force. It is to be doubted whether the mi
nority is more intelligent than' the majority,
but even if it were otherwise, our contempo
rary ought to bear in mind that the will of
the majority is supposed to prevail under our
form of government Whatever conspiracy
there has been Against the two-thirds rule
has been advertised in the democratic news
papers for several weeks. The state execu
tive committee urged the democratic prima
ries and county conventions to take measures
to secure an expression of opinion on the
part of the democratic masses, and it was
furthermore announced that the matter
would be decided by a majority vote of the
convention. This conspiracy consisted in
leaving the question of the two-thirds rule to
tiie people, and through them to tVie conven
tion.
The Constitution has carefully abstained
from any discussion of the two-thirds rule in
connection with the recommendation of the
executive committee. It is a question for the
people to settle through their representatives
in the convention, and that settlement will
be entirely satisfactory to every true democrat
in the state. The claim, however, that the
two-thirds rule is sacred is absurd. It is sim
ply one method of party organization, and it
is no more binding upon those who desire to
bolt than the majority rule. While it com
mends itself to some democrats, it is very
objectionable to others, and this growing
objection prompted the action of the
executive committee. Just how “sacred”
the two-tliirds rule has been in
Georgia since the war may be estimated
when it is known that the rule has been
adopted but once in gubernatorial conven
tions, and that was in the convention of 1880,
when the party was threatened with division,
and actually did divide. Let usrfin GVer the
facte of history.
In 1886, Governor Jenkins was called out by
prominent citizens.
In 1868, General Gprdon was nominated by
the democratic executive committee, which
had successively nominated Augustus Reese
and David Irwin, both ef whom declined on
account of ineligibility.
In 1871, after Bullock lied, the democratic
convention passed the majority rule, by a vote
of 131 to 38, and nominated Jan\es M. Smith
for the balance of Bullock’s term. Julian
Hartridge, as chairman of the committee on
rules, reported the majority rule.
In 1872, tho democratic convention adopted
the majority rule unanimously and nomi
nated Governor Smith. General A. R: Law-
ton was chairman of the committee on rules
and Colonel Thomas Hardeman president of
the convention.
In 1876, the convention took no action on
rules, but nominated Alfred H.Colquitt by ac
clamation.
In 1880, the democratic convention adopted
the two-thirds rule, the only time since the
war. Thus, it will be seen, the only prece
dent for the rule is the convention that ended
in a practical division of the party. At the
same.time, we merely give the facto and leave
the convention to take such action as it may
deem proper. The people have spoken. Let
the will of the people prevail.
than when a heated political campaign is
going on. We have striven to ameliorate
these results by temperate and common
sense discussion.
The second consideration—the first in im
portance—is the bannonv of the democratic
party. We place this above everything
When we say the harmony of the party, we
mean che’future as well as the present harmony
of the organization. Now that the people
have placed the matter in the hands of the
convention, there is no longer any necessity
for the useless and irritating discussion that
has been a marked feature of the campaign.
The future harmony of the party is quite as
important as present unity, and this fact
should be clearly borne in mind. It isde
sirable not only that the will of the great
democratic majority should be carried out
with respect to the nomination for governor,
but that the party should. be represented in
congress by a solid delegation. This result
cannot be brought about save through party
harmony and unity.
MR. STEPHENS AND THE VOTE.
Four days ago we published conspicuously
a request in our columns that if any delegate
to the coming convention saw that his county
was misquoted, he would notify us of the
error and have it corrected. This request has
been repeated daily with the table, but not
one correction has yet been suggested.
It is cheap and easy for outsiders interested
in hiding the real result, to attack the incor
rectness of our figures. We are used to that
sort of thing. It has been tried in many a
campaign, but we have always stood by our
figures, and the record has shown that they
were surprisingly accurate and liberal. We
appeal to the first ballot of the coming con
vention to justify the correctness of the table
we print this morning.
Ten days ago we predicted that Mr. Ste
phens would have 206 votes in the convention,
and probably more. He now has 20S14 votes,
by our estimates. Of the ten counties yet to
act he will get on a fair estimate six votes or
three counties. Add these to his present
strength and he will have about 215 votes.
Will he get 234 votes, which makes a full
two-thirds? We cannot say, but i, is our
opinion that he will. Of the counties put in
the “uninstructed” column, he has a chance
at several counties that may prefer him if
local favorites are not in the field, such as
Putnam and others, if Mr. Blount will not
permit the use of his name, or Muscogee and
others, if Judge Crawford will not consent.
He has a chance at others that seem t<S have
no particular preference, a: d from
tvhoiii nO sort of expression has
been obtained, such as Clinch,
Pierce and others. He will have a chance
also at certain counties that do not prefer
him, and would rather take another man, but
will vote for him in preference to Bacon.
There are still others, who, really against Mr.
Stephens, in preference will yield to the man
ifest will of the majority. From all these
sources we have little doubt that he will
secure the few votes needed to give him two-
thirds of the delegates.
As to the rule we confess we can see no rea
son to doubt that the majority rule will cer
tainly be adopted. There have been instructed
for it or have cpenly pronounced for it as far as
heard from nearly twice as many as were in
structed for the two-thirds rule. Of the un
instructed ilelegates we presume the majority
rule will certainly get its proportion. For
example, the six votes of Fnlton while not
instructed, will be east solid for the majority
rule. We are perfectly indifferent as to which
rule is adopted. We are willing to risk Mr.
Stephens’s nomination under either. But the
people have the right to settle it, and the peo
ple have spoken unmistakably as far as they
have spoken at all in favor of the majority
rule.
Those who think that Guiteau’* poetry isn’t up
to the highest standard should reflect tnat it has
been freely copied in all the New York and Boston
papers.
PARTY HARMONY.. A
It must be perfectly clear to those who have
watched the canvass which has been, going on
in the state during the past several weeks that,
to a handful of thos'j who have made them
selves conspicuous in opposing Mr. Stephens,
party harmony and party unity are matters
of small consideration. There has been a
studious attempt on the part of this small
and insignificant element to erect a barrier of
bitterness between those who are willing to
support Mr. Stephens and those who oppose
his nomination. They have attempted to stir
up all manner of strife, and they have failed.
There was no bitterness in the primaries, no
strife. Everything was in the direction of
democratic harmony.
We’allude to these things here and now for
the purpose of suggesting that the time has
arrived when further discussion of personal
preferences between individual democrats
may very properly be left to the convention.
Everything that can be said in the newspa
pers will not operate to change the vote of a
single delegate; its only effect, if it have any
at all, will be to irritate and stir up strife.
In all that has been said in The Constitu
tion in favor of Mr. Stephens, we have never
lost sight of the fact that the unity and har
mony of the party are of more importance
than the candidacy of any man. Our sup
port of Mr. Stephens, as we have frequently
taken occasion to say, has been entirely imper
sonal. He was not our first choice when the
campaign opened; but when, in response
to demands made upon him by The Consti
tution, he crushed the coalition and pledged
himself to lend his influence to destroy inde-
pendentism in Georgia, his nomination at
once became a necessary part of democratic
policy. That the people bate recognized it as
such and have thus indorsed the position of
The Constitution is made manifest by the
returns included in our table of counties.
The nomination of Mr. Stephens is assured if
the will of the people, as expressed in their
primaries, is to be taken into consideration;
but his nomination or his defeat is in the
haAds of the convention, and there the whole
matter may be safely left.
The people have practically decided in
favor of Mr. Stephens’s candidacy,
by instructing a large majority of their dele
gates in his favor, but even the suggestions
growing out of this fact, or a denial thereof,
may very properly be left to the convention.
The Constitution, in all political campaigns,
is governed by two considerations. The first
of these is that the state is never less pros-
The legacy that Guiteau left the country is a one-
horse administration.
Dr. Fedton doesn’t say he will not be a candi
date for congress. He says he is not yet in the
field.
Now that the Maliey boys have been acquitted, is
here any reason why John Sherman or some other
prominent republican shouldn’t be jlnt on trial?
The public must have its fun.
The independent leaders pretend that they will
support Mr. Stephens The truth is, they will
never forgive him for breaking down their coali-
tion.
The gently disposed colored people celebrated
tne day by eating watermelons and drinking red
lemonade. In the language of one of Milton’s most
esteemed contemporaries, long may they waft.
It is stated that Oscar Wilde never knew what
embarrassment was, until a Boston girl looked at
him over her spectacles and called him “old sugnr-
stick.” -
It is generally believed that the balloon and the
Florida watermelon will supercede the American
eagle. It is with regret we bid the noble bird
adieu.
It is singular what a large Fourth ef July can be
instituted by a balloon, a brass band and the West
Point road.
Next year Mr. Stephens will be at home to his
friends in Georgia- He will take rooms on Peach
tree street
The democratic ushers will please make room for
their Uncle Alex.
It Is understood that Major Josiah L. Warren, of
Savannah, will be a candidate for the congressional
nomination in the first district. It may be said in
this connection that Joe Warren deservesany honor
that the democrats may see fit to bestow upon him
He has worked hard for the party, and bis work
has been of permanent benefit. He would make
good congressman.
The Eufaula Times and News says it expects
see A lexander H. Stephens governor of Georgia.
We take pleasure in assuring the Times and News
that its expectations will be fully realized. The
truth is, the time has arrived when all genuine
Jeffersonian editors would be justified in hanging
out their shingles as prophets.
Mr. Jefferson, to-wit: the latter can never he gov
ernor pi Georgia, while the people have justde- I
clared that they are in favor oi Mr. Stephens.
The sultan of Morocco, has 361 wives. He is called
the sultan of the more-rocker because he gets so
much exercise in plucking the fruit oi the pare
goric tree. ’
Czars and their generals may pass away, but the
true Jeffersonian democracy of Georgia still sur
vives.
Judge Hilton has gone to Saratoga, while the
Stewart estate has gone to smash. Really, things
keep even. _
The republicans are not mad. with Robeson be
cause he robbed the government, but because he
was fool enough to be found out.
The Boston Post says the Vhedive’s wife and
mother fight. They are evidently from Massachu-
etts or Connecticut, and know t^eir rights.*
The republican reformers are still pouring their
plaints into the ears of the magazine editors.
Meantime the machine Is sweeping up all the stray
nickels in the departments.
People who are scratching and grabbling for the
almighty dollar ought to bear in mind that Stew
art’s heirs and assigns didn’t have enough money
to buy back bis bones. This is a good item for
Sunday.
Dr. Hicks is said to be entitled to the stalwart
badge. It is not known whether he earned it at
Chicago or fumbling around Guiteau.
If Miss Mamie Anderson marries at all, the cere
mony will not take place until after her nineteenth
birthday. '
Governor A. H. Stephens—Dear Sir: Permit The
Constitution to congratulate you on the verdict
rendered by the people of Georgia on the anniver
sary of the promulgation of the first platform of the
Jeffersonion democracy. Yours truly.
The friends of Mr. Stephens in Washington have
already congratulated him on the result of the
democratic primaries in Georgia. These congratu
lations were not premature—on the contrary, they
were very timely;
It is rumored that the state department has infor
mation that a number of Egyptians have attacked
our war-tub at Alexandria and completely riddled
her with ripe ^tomatoes. All hands are at the
pumps.
An exchange says that “Mr. Robeson is the step
father of the American navy.” The comparison is
unfortunate. Who ever heard of a step-father run
ning off with one oi Us wife’s children.
The majority for Mr. Stephens and the Georgia
oat crop are about the same size.
CERTAINLY HE WOULD.
From the Detroit Free Press.
The other evening as a muscular citizen was pass
ing a house on Montcalm street a lady, who stood at
the gate, called out to him:
“Sir! I appeal to you for protection 1 ”
“What’s the trouble?” he asked, as he stopped
short.
“There’s a man in the house, and he wouldn’t go
out doors when I ordered him to!”
“He wouldn’t, eh? We’ll see about that!”
Thereupon the man gave tjie woman bis coat to
hold, and sailed into the house spitting on his
hands. He found a mau down at the supper-
table, and he caught him by the neck and re
marked:
"Nice style of a bruse yon are, eh? Come out o’
this, or I’ll break every bone lu your body!”
The man fought back.and i> was not until a chair
had been broken and the table upset thst be was
hauled out doors by the legs and given a fling
through the gate. Then, as the muscular citizen
fiaced his boot where it would do the most hurt,
te remarked: “Now, then you brass-faced old
tramp, you move on or I’ll finish you.”
“Tramp! tramp!” should the victim, as begot
np, “I’m no tramp! I own this property and livi
in thishouse!”
“You do?”
“Yes, and that’s my wife holding your coat!"
“Thunder!” whispered the victim, as he gazed
from one to the other, and realized that the wife
had got squnre with him; and then he made a grab
for his coat and slid into the darkness with bis
shirt bosom torn open, a finger badly bitten and
two front teeth ready to drop out.
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. LOVE WALKS ON EGGS.
BILL ARP
ON VARIOUSMATTERSAND DIVERS
. THINGS.
The Philosopher Who Lives Near Csrtersville Un
folds’ His Usual. Weekly Budget of Timely
Topioe of Interest to Lovers of Human
Nature of the Georgia Variety.
Written for The Constitution.
"All the world’s a stage.” as Mr. Shakspeare says,
and all the men and women merely travelers. It is
mighty big stage, of course—in fact, an omnibus,
lor it carries us all, and we a e traveling along and
getting in and getting out all along the line, and
ever and anon stopping by the wayside to nurse our
sick and bury our dead. There is nothing else that
puts on the brakes as we move down the big road
on the journey of life. Sickness and death are a
veto uponall progress and upon plans and schemes
and hopes'and ambition and fame and fashion and
folly. We suffer awhile and stop awhile, but it we
don’t die we get in the stage again and move on
with the crowd. Sickness knocks up a man and
humbles him quicker than anything.
Just let the pitiless angel of pain
come along suddenly and seize him by some vital
part and twist him around a time’or two and shake
him up and he will know better what the word
torture means when he reads itln a book. 1 thought
I was a 6trong man and tough, and so tbeangsl has
had no terrors lor me. I’ve had the toothache and
masued my big toe with a crowbar and got around
lively with a green corn dance, but after it was over
I forgot the sting of It and only remembered the
joke. But there are some things without any joke,
u-.iti that won’t let you forget ’em, and when they
come and go they leave you humbled and
hacked and meek as a lamb with his legs tied,
’’’he* take away your pride, and your brag and
. our starch and stiffening. They strip you of
flowers and frills and thread lace and jewelry and
leave a poor mortal like a dependent beggar for the
clmrity of health good health, “if I was only well
again” the poor victim sighs, “Oh, if I was only
well.”
ON THE down grade.
That he is like a second-hand wagon pitched up
and painted and sold alauction to the highest bid
der. It will run mighty well on a smooth road
iih a light load and a careful driver, but it
out do to lock wheels pith an-
>ther or run into gullies or over
slumps or up to the hubs in the low grounds. A
man is very much like a wagon, anyhow, for his
shoulders and hips are the axle-trees and his arms
and legs are the wheels and the wagon body is his
body and the coupling pole is his spine and the
hounds are his kidneys—his reins, as the Scriptures
How Ethelbert and Mjrtle Game Near Blasting Their
Sweet Young Liven.
From the Chicago Tribune-
“I do not believe you.”
Ethelbert McGuire winced as Myrtle Hathaway
spoke these words—cruel bitter words, that seemed
tosear his very soul as he stood there in the glo&m
ing, the time of silence and shadows. The swallows
were twittering among the leaves in their noisy
way, the ice cream lairs were casting their baleful
light across the broad thoroughfare from which the
rattle, the roar and crash of life in a great city had
but just departed.
“Ycu cannot mean it, Myrtle,” the young man
says, his voice choked with emotion. “You surely
cannot doubt my,-word—the word of one to whom
you have plighted your troth and in whose life
your future is bound up.”
“But I do mean it,” replies the girl, “although
God knows my life would be brighter, better, hap
pier, were it not so. I have loved you with a strong,
country-butter love that has become a part of my
very existence. Audit is when I have taught my
heart to beat responsive to vour every- word, when
I have come to believein you with all the pas-ionate
trustfulness of a woman’s nature, that you come to
me. and here, on this beautiful June evening, when
the heavens are panoplied with stars and the air is
balmy with the perfume of roses, you say to me
that you have never bet bn a horse race—you tell
me this solemnly and earnestly, knowing that my
heart will not let me judge harshly any action of
yonrs. No. Ethelbert, I love yi.u with a maddening,
ninety-days or-ten-per-cent-off-for-cash trust that is
beyond compare, but I cannot let you abuse that
trust. I am but a girl—a sensitive, passionate, one-
bustle-and-a-four dol ar-baag girl, but I am not a
chump”—and, sticking her chewing gum on the
door post. Myrtle turned to enter the parlor.
"But 1 swear it,” exclaimed Ethelbert. “I swetr
to yon that I would not bet four dollars against ten
that Maud S. could beat three minutes.”
“You would not?” asked the girl.
“No,” was Ethelbert’s reply. “I would not bet on
anything.”
“Then,” said the girl, speaking slowly and
f -ave tenderness, “you had better head for the gate.
can never place my happiness and chances for
spring bonne's in the hands of a man who would
let as sure a thing as that get away.”
THE ARTLESS PRATTLE OF A BABE.
From the Detroit Free Press.
One of those unnaturally bright children who
are always getting people into difficulties was at
prayer meeting the other-evening with his mother,
when he asked aloud:
“Ma, say ma—who was Dinah Moore?”
“Hu-u sh,” whispered his mother cautiously,”it’
a hymn.”
“No, it ain’t, ma,” continued the hopeful; “it’s
a woman’s name; “say, whs’s going home toDlnah
Moore?”
“Willie,” said his mother, in a ghastly voice,
“you’re disturbing the meeting. It means going to
heaven to die no more.”
“Dine no more! O, ma, don’t they eat anythin:
there?”*
His mother explained as well as she could, and
Willie sat still for half a minute, his bright eyes
loving about the church. Then he asked in a shrill
whisper:
“Ma. is God out of town?”
“No-0-0, no-no,” answered the distracted woman,
falrtly.
"Then what’s Mr. Kelly running this meeting for,
ma?” continued the sweet child.
The choir sung him down, bnt as the meeting
closed with a m ment of silent prayer, his gentle
voice was distinctly heard.
After next year the post-offiee address of Mr.
Stephens will be Peachtree street, Atlanta, Georgia.
He will come to enjoy our worfderful climate,
and to look after the affairs of the people.
A Boston editor has arrived at the mature age of
seventy-eight. Evidently his business manager
never asked him to write a twenty-seven line puff
of a dry goods store.
As a general thing the “Atlanta ring” seems to
be composed of the people.
“Was Jefferson right?” asks the Springfield Re-
. . , - , Fnbliean. Undoubtedly he was, and so is Mr. Ste --nun pleasure,' - was tne answer,
perous, its people never less contented, phens. But Mr. Stephens has this advantage over growls except when the minister calls.
The question whether dogs have souls, as Goethe,
Byron, Sir Walter Scott, Guitean, Eli Perkins and
other distinguished men seem to think, can never
he decided in this world, but their intelligence and
sagacity are undisputed. Box Iugereoll once owned
a dog of which he was both proud and fond. One
day while he was entertaining some friends at • the
dinner table the animal, which had the free range
of the house, walked into the room and at once be
came the tonic of conversation. The colonel broke
out into a glowing and eloquent account of his
many noble qualities. When be had finished one
of tbe guests asked him what he thought the crea
ture’s two most notable virtues were.
“Shrewdness and amiability,” responded the
colonel.
“Can yon give us an illustration?” continued the
^“With pleasure,” was the answer. “Carlo never ' “f harmony and good feeUtTg.
rack with the fore wheels, and the whole Concern
moves alone with a hitch and a jerk and a double
wabble. “He tryeth the reins oi the children of
met 1,” for that was the test of a man. If the
kidneys were sound and well ordered the man was
right before the Lord, for in them were supiiosed to
l>e centered the affections and passions and emo-
lionsof a man. lhose old time philosophers at-
‘ relied a good deal of importance to the kidneys,
u 11 thought it was a superstition of their ignorance
nd X never cared much about my kidneys. In
fuct, I dident care whether 1 had any or not for I
wns a thinking what Judge Underwood told me a
long time ago about the spleen, which he said onlv
wns put there to make men splenetic and
cross, and keep ’em from getting overjoyful in
this subloonary world. I thought that may
be the kidneys were like the liver of a man over in
California, which was crushed out of him in amine
some fifty years ago, when he was about fifty years
old, but he was sowed up and got well and now he
is* hundred years old and not a hair turned grey
«*r a wrinkle come nor his eyes grown dim nor
bte teeth come out, and he keeps well and round
and plump and active and goes to balls and never
has an ache or a pain and its all because his liver
is gone. Jesso.
Well, you see I had promised to
BUILD A KA1I
across the branch down in the willow thicket and
make a bathing pool for the children: ana so a few
days ago I went at it with a will and got my timbers
across, and my boards nailed on, slanting up the
stream to a rock bottom, and then I put on some
old boots and old clothes and went to chitikiu up
the leaks with turf and gravel and willow brush
and sand bags, and as fast as X stopped one leak
another broke out, but I worked fast and worked
bard, and the children waited on me and brought
me.material, and after while the water began to
rise on me, and got higher and higher till- it went
over the dam It was theu about neon, and the hot
sun wns blistering down, and the cold spring
water was a chilling me up and X begun to feel age
and infirmity, so I look a good batn myself, and
>ut on dry clothes and retired to rest frem tuv ta
bors. That evening 1 listened to the shouts of happy
children as they frolicked in the pool, and 1 re
joiced, for it always makes me happy to see them
happy. The next day I didn’t get up well, and as I
was a knockin’ around In my garden, a holding up
my back, shore enough, without any warning, the
unfeeliu'angel of pain come along suddenly and
snapped me up by the left kidney like he wanted
to wrestle, and took all underholt, and he spun me
around with such a jerk I almost lost mv breath
with agony, and he purameled mt and thumped me
all the way to the house, and threw me on the bed
while I hollered. “What in the world is the matter
with you, William?” says my wife,
MBS. A UP SAYS
she to me, and the children all gathered around
and thought I was snake bit.- I’ve got a tumble
ain round here, says 1, and Its turrible turrible.
h. Lordy! They fired t .p the stove in a hurry and
brought water, and they gave me camphor and
paregoric and one thing another; but I got worse,
and groaned and grunted amazingly, for I tell you
I was a sufferin.
“I expected itl l expected it!” says Mrs. Arp, as
she mat ed round livefy. "I just knew some trouble
would come from all that dam business of yester-
upon Us, and nothing should be done to endanger
our success.
The party has not entirely recovered from the
bitterness of the last campaign. I <10 not wish to
become a “bone of contention" again Some years
ago I aspired to position. 1 saw the majqrity of the
people were against me, yet it was urge I, under the
required two-thirds vote, the will of that majority
could be thwarted. I declined to be a party tosuch
a contest, and determined that as far as it was in
my power the will of the people should be carried
out. Two years ago. id our s.ate convention, we
had strife, which, owing to passionate ana impru
dent speeches, solidified panic* and resulted in se
rious division in our ranks. It is known to many I
aid all in my power to maintain harmony then, and
p evented from following the dictates of my own-
judgment, 1 urged those personal friends to whom
t could appeal, to abandon me and make a
nomination and save the party. Some
yielded to my request, indorsed as it was
by their own sense of propriety, and had
all in that convention been prompted by similar
motives, we would have been spared a contest in
Georgia which reflected no credit upon the demo-
c-atic party. I desire no such struggle again over
my name, and for that reason I say I do not desire-
to enterinto a contest for the po ition. If the party
wish to confer upon me the honor of congressman-
at-large, they will of their “own accord” give it to
me, and I will accept it. If they prefer to confer-
it upon another, I will without a murmur do as I
did in the darn days of Georgia when we were-
struggling to rescue the state from republican rule
and reconstruction oppression fall into the ranks,
and as a private citizen go with the foremost into
every congressional district in Georgia, following
the banner and fighting as valiantly as I may be
able the battles of a harmonious and united demo-
eratieparty. X am, gentlemen, your obedient ser
vant, Thomas Hardeman.
BLAINE AND HANCOCK
Are the Two Names Jerry ltlaek Thinks Will be
Itutllcd to In Two Yenrs.
Chicago, July 8.—“Want to interview me on na
tional polities? Why, I haven’t had my breakfast
yet,” and Hon Jerry S Black, of York, Pennsylva
nia, the distinguished jurist and politician, smiled
suggestively. “How can I talk about such pon
drous suojects on an empty stomach?” “Will the
democrats, as a party, nominate a president?’’
“Certainly,” “Who will it be?” “Why, Han
cock, of course. I don’t see who else could
be named.” “And the republican candi
date will be Blaine,” interrupted Mr. Black, read
justing his eye glasses and gazing anxiously in
the direction of the Grand Pacific, diningroom, "I
think it will be Blaine. Things begin to point that
way, but you can’t tell what the republican party
will do.” “Wnat part will free trade play in the
next presidential campaign?” “Wbat part, did
you say? A very large part; free trade, or rather
fair trade, is a matter of much concern to the peo
ple at large. It must hold a promiuent position in
national politics.”
.judge black’s large sympathy.
“You are an.advocate of the anti-monopoly the-
“Call it by the name that suits
y t
you best, 1 am in favor of relieving the people of'
of taxations.
ory, are you not?”
’ st, I
rdens m tne way
taxed too much, and I only wish they might not be
taxed at ail. Political parties cannot dodge this
question of taxation, and it must be grasped atone
end or the othei." "Will the question of prohibi
tion find a place in the next presidential cam
paign.” “Oh, pshaw!" exclaimed Mr Black,
a shade of annoyance . chasing over his
grand old face, “I can’t be interrogated as to
such things. You newspaper people know
full well the standing and prospects of prohibi
tion as a national political question of reform, and
can judge of it as well as I.” “And civil service
reform—is there any?” And the next governor of
Pennsylvania will be "Mr. Pattison, of Philadel-
K hia:” and Mr. Ingersol’s great foe caimlv closed
is eye glasses, gave his morning paper auotiier fold
and strode away toward breakfast. Mr. Black is in
splendid health and spirits. He is in Chicago to
attend to business in the United States courts, and
will remain but a few days.
ImmeiM Wealth Watting In England.
Pittsburg, July 6.—D. F. Patterson, of this city,
and J. Murray Clark, of Washington county, Penn
sylvania, leave for London in August, in behalf of
a number of claimants to the estate of Thomas
Hamilton, a surgeon of the British army, who died
in India in 1788. Hamilton, in his will, divided his
estate into sixteenths. Some lime after his demise
the Indian executor transferred tbe estate amount
ing to £700,000, to an English executor named in
the will. Four-sixteenths were bequeathed to a
niece of Hamilton named Hemphill, from whom
the Washington county claimants descend. The
Stewarts, of Jefferson township, in that county, are
the principal elaimauts. The bonanza is estimated
to foot up abput fourteeu millions now, and the at
torneys for the claimants feel confident of securing
it without much trouble.
day.” My stomach had suddenly got out of order—
I don’t know how—for everything they give me
come up befere it was down, and so thev
tried salts and quinine and hot water anil
pain killer, and morphine, and magnum bonum
and everything in the house, but nothing would
stick, and at last the pain just left me as suddenly
as it came on, and I went to sleep. But my system
was all out of order; the machinery wouldent work
nowhere. The cold sweat poured from me all
night, and I dreamed I was away off in a wet
prairie, lying down in the cold grass, hiding from
a herd of buffaloes, and I woke up with a shaking
ague and had to have my night clothes changed
and dried offlike a race horse, The morning brought
another attack, still worse than the first, but
THE GOOD DOCTOR
Kirkpatrick came in time and put me on morphine
and spirits of nitre, a hot bath and shortened up
the time and told me my trouble was in the kid
neys, and what was going on, and when he left me
I was easy and meek and humble, and could look
around upon wife and children like nobody was a
sinner but me. When I was awake I could look up
at the old whitewash that was peeling off from the
ceiling and see all sorts of pictures I never saw be
fore. They took shapes innumerable, for there
were monkeys, and camels, and bears, and buz
zards, and turtles, and big injuns, and little French-
mep, and old witches, and anacondas, and other
meiTat eric animals, ail out of shape and funny and
fantastic: and while I was asleep I dreamed ridic
ulous dreams and
THE QUININE
that was In me made me ' to hear waterfalls and
mill-dams, and once I imagined the little one that
I had built had grown and swelled until Niagara
was bnt a circumstance compared with it. But
there is no rest for the wicked, for though I had
escaped for a day and a night and was luxurating
upon bright hopes of returning health, the pityless
tngel came along again, and seeing I had rallied
from the fight began on me with a maul and beat
up.my left kidney again till it was all in a jelly and
as sore and sensitive as a carbuncle, and as he left
me I seemed to hear him say. “You didn’t know
yon had kidneys, did you? How many have you
got now?” About a dozen, said I. Bight or ten
anyhow, and thev are es big and hear
as shot bags. The fact is my back anc
side was so sore and I was so nervous it almost
gave me a spasm to think of anybody punching me
there with a slick. But the torture would leave me
as certainly as it came and then I could get my
breatjt good ana free and get round as usual.
Bnt now I think I am all safe and serene lor a time.
Good nursing and the doctor’s skill and time and
patience has got the.old wagon upon a smooth
road again and I think I will keep it there. I’ve
made friends with my kidneys and signed np a
treaty of peace with the angel and the last article
is that I am to build no more branch dams dur
ing life if 1 have to wade In water to do it-and I
won't. ' Bill Arp.
HON. THOS. HARDEMAN
Killed by IIU Insane Grandson.
Columbus, Pa., July .—A dreadful murder was
committed near here on Saturday. Jake Wright,
an old Indian doctor, has for many years had an
insane grandson living with him, on whom he was
trying to perform a cure. On account of occasional
violent spells the grandson was kept confined in a
pen in one part of the bouse. On Saturday he was
iberated for a short time. When the grandfather
was putting on his hoots the young man seized an
ax and dealt him a blow on the back of the head,
crushing the skull and causing instant death. He
then hacked up the body of the old man. His aunt •
came in while ho was at the horrible work. She
called her husband, and the insane man was again
shut np. Mr. \Vright was literally cut to pieces.
THE GEORGIA SNAKE CROP.
From tbeJDanielsville Monitor.
Look out for snakes.
From the Swalnsboro Herald.
Rattlesnake season opened Sunday, and on the
first day Wek and Elb killed a large one.
From the Hawkinsvtlle News.
It was Joe Reynolds that killed that horned
snake and not Joe Burrows, as reported.
From the Sandersville Herald.
A rattlesnake five feet long and having eleven
rattles was killed by Mr. Henry Cook over Buffalo
creek on Tuesday of last week.
From the Madison Madisonian.
A large rattlesnake was brought in town last Sat
urday by Mr. Houghton. It measured five feet in
length and had eight rattles.
From the Crawfordville Democrat.
Captain Baxter killed a large rattlesnake on his
place the other day—the seventh one that has been
killed on his land this year.
From the Blackshea'r News.
A large rattlesnake was killed last week by some
colored boys and dragged in town. A largo one has
been seen recently in the vicinity of the colored
burying ground.
From the Newnan Herald.
Willie Smith killed a snake seven feet in length.
\\ here hogs are not allowed to range snakes will
abound and if they should grow to an enormous
size and length it need not excite any astonish-
ment.
From the Milledgeville Union-Recorder.
Mr- Jerome Tuttle killed a rattlesnake last
Wednesday about six feet in length, with sixteen
rattles. This is the fouth and largest he has lulled
this year The Supple plantation, cultivated Wy
Mr. Tuttle, is a good place for ugly snakes. Look
out where you put your foot, my boy.
From the Walton News and Vidette.
Little Willie Preston, of Good Hope, was bitten
Writes a Letter Defining III. Position In the Polltlca
Situation.
Macon, July 8, 1882—Hon John L Woodard,
Dooly; Mr William Bronson, Houston; Mr J M
White, Laurens—Gentlemen: Having received your
letters, with others of a similar nature, asking me
what course I intend to pursue In reference to con
gressman-at-large, 1 feel it due to answer you plain
ly and unreservedly. I reply to you as I have to
every one who has written me—I shall not
seek the position. I cannot enter into a
personal contest f>r it, yet I would not de
cline the honor should the convention tender it to
me. I do not desire any strife over my name. I
prefer peace and harmony, and would subordinate
dersonal aspirations and ambition to the unity and-
success of the democratic party. I have been
prompted also to this course, because I have per
sonal friends who aspire to the position, any one of
whom would do honor to it and the state. I do not
desire to antagonixe them, perhaps at the expense
og. This is no time for
dissension and strife. Important elections are
administration of half pint of whisky, however
soon overcome the poison and he is now welk
From the Sytvania Telephone.
Snake stories^re now in order, so we give the
following: we tire informed that Messrs R T Mills
and E H HiU, a short time since, killed a rattle
snake five feet four inches in length and ten and a
half inches around the neck. Its head was three
inches brood at the eyes: fangs inches In length,
and it had sixteen mules.
From the Dade County Gazette.
Pink Welsh killed a rattlesnake last Bunday
that was over three feet long, and had eight rattles.
Pink smiles, but oh! it is because the snake never
bit him.
Willie, son of Dr. Taylor, killed an enormous,
snakeone day lass week, with his hoe. The skin
was hung out before the depot here, and meas
ured nearly six feet.
From the Gainesville Eagle.
One day last week while Mr. John Champion was
out about a mile from town, he found a rattlesnake
and running it into a hollow log, he placed a bar-
rel over the end and ran the snake into the barrel
Having thus secured his snakeship, he brought it
home and placed it in a glass case, in which we
b lieve, he has once before had one of the same
kind. The snake is about six feet long, three
inches in diameter, and has eleven rattles and a
button. Mr. C. has it in the basement of his resi
dence.
From the West Point Enterprise.
A friend of oure, three miles from town, recently
Witnessed a singular attack of a snake upon a wood
rat. While walking in his farm he discovered two
wood rats near the fenoe, and very quiet: He ap
proached and pushed one with his cane, and as it
jumped it was seized by a large SHake that he had
not seen.
Wednesday at Reid’s station, Mr. L. W. Laisbs-
shot and killed the hugest snake that we have
heard of this season His snakeship was of the kind
commoDly coiled “water rattlesnake,” a species of'
the moccasin, and measured five feet one inch in
length and thirteen inches in circumference. The
snake was cut onen and inside was found a (rout
that was thirteen inches in length.