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WEEKLY (CONSTITUTION.
VOirjMK XIV.
TUESDAY MOBNESra, AUGUST 15, 1882.
PRICE 5 CENTS
COL. WM; M. WADLEY.
HOW THE news of his death
WAS RECEIVED.
When His Bamaln* Will Iwk AtlantaKjaaze Cun-
n:B|taUB Pax* * Tribat. to the Worth of the
Slid Railroad Xto*-Tha Ooorc'th Ball,
road Laaaa and Other Matlar*.
The news ot tire sudden death <sf Colonel
'William M. NVadfrey, which, ooctftttd at Sar
atoga Thursday, was read in tfc* city yester
day with tuingied consternaUo*, sorrow and
regret. While*Colonel Wadlty’s herl'h was
not as wood as could liavc <been desired, his
death was by wo means excelled, nor was bis
Cowiftion sort: os to causehis friends uneasi
Bw. The *Iispatch wnfcti announced his
decrh wosmt-ccived by Thtc Constitutumi at a
!»”*• liotfr wild as no Other telegram was tent
Ropurtieti.n the city, tiie news of Ooiorrel
Wnrtlej'r death did nd!&ain circulatroa tmtil
•the.pupw.- was printed. Even the relatives of
<Cblon$! Wudley wflx not apprized -of Iris
•death,that when the paper went outit
■ntrrief. with ittbct&st account of tbc start
ling *nfcws. Afwr the announcement w«s
'rehd There was mer'n specnlation as to what
wfltf.d follow lit* sudden taking -off -of the
It
(great head of tfed Central system -of Toads. 1
•wr". generally W.icved that Coleoel Wudley
"dsjtli would c#;se a flutter in Central rail-
rroud stock, bwsi ,uite a number«f ,proi*inenl
rmilroud ini H-iaid that them wits no cause
•for a decliwr. An attempt to get
"a eontroMh.g interest (might run
• the stock uri’jr a doubt as to the next mati-
■ agement onO .ts probable policy (might cause
'It to go dokn. During yesterday the stock
•dropped (i»: or six points, And Major Cum-!
'niiiigs thinks that it will go'ton to fifteen j
points lower. He attributes tlictfall to Colo-,
ntd WadlF 's death. State Treasurer Speer,
soys that 'he sees no reason why the stock!
should ge'down.
< COLONEL WAIII.EY'S'PWBRAI..
A very general desire t« know 'When Colo
nel Wateiey would be buried was shown. -A
dispatch was received in thccity -stating that
Mr. Wadley’s remains left'ftrru toga on a tw.in
that rer.ches New York »taip. 'in., and they
would leave New York lastmightby the:Peid-
mont Air-Line, and if *no 'connection 'Was
missed would reach Brolingbroke 'Sunday,
latter the following was received hero:
Savannah, August 11. M2.~D. W. Appier, At-
• hints. The remains of Ur. Wadley will arrive In
Allan's by Piedmont AirJdite Sunday n"1-jfC p in,
• fr<en thence to Bollngliroir.. Whcu tbc*4*neral
will take place I can’t say ;■«.
Wtiuu Koarcs,
<4oatte>ri Superii.tendent.
• Tt will be seen by G»c«above telegram that
1 the remains will readl- -Atlanta tcmiorrow.
• During yesterday theeuginea, coachestfreight
• depot and union passenger de|>ot were draped
aas a murk of respect for'the dead'railroad
• president. Mr. Appier's office was draped
’■with excellent taste. (Itis-probable' that the
»-crowd at tiie d> pot aewnorrow to "meet the
r remains will be overwhelmingly large.
COLONEL WADtU.T^S CilAUACTKIL
Judge John I>. Cunningham, an intimate
• friend of Colonel Wadley, said to a Cokstitc-
•> 'TIon reporter yesterday:
' “Colonel Wadley wt-s a broad-brain*], big-
r-souled nmu. He w-w ■ man of great, ideas.
It <s impossible that snob a matt could be an
. illiterate one. He was»born for a great man,
■ and ho lived the life«rf..».great man—a man
■ of unswerving 'ntesrin-, and I believe-as hon
est a man as Cod ever made.’ 'It was one ot
the desires of my KfeUhut Colonel "Wadley
I lie made secretary «fttu:e inttrior. lie would
have cleaned out Liu: liungers on in Ti-at de-
; iiartmcnt in sliort order. He was strictly
honest himself, and t Indian agenfe: and
: swindlers would ikk'. have been tolerated
. by him. His inU5gr|ty . was such that he
would never use the-rdvantages of lira jiosi-
tion to speculate am-Uentral railroad s'ock.
He, of course, knew when the stock/would
c rise or fall. lie hud it itin his power ta make
a a princely fortune ijy.lln- use of info auation
..which lie became possessed ® r by
(.reason of iris official position. l.Biit
i Jic was above such an act, .. and
would not speculate .am the stock wl.-en lie
1 know that lie would .lmve reaped a gulden
.harvest. So that hie Jang and active life and
. his eminence as a railroad man were uot ac-
. companied by the fortune that usually at
tends such mlvantiaiHiOT were in the piisses-
sion of Colonel Wudley. His life wa; cer
tainly a grand example of what brains and
enyrgv and hard. Hint like honesty c*i ac
complish. He hat- <1 'hypo racy and treach
ery, jni.i his contempt .for anything false
were among his leiulirg characteristics,
equaled only by his Jove of truth, ife.-le
tested speculativeschemas nnd watered sleeks
and refusing to specalift-C'.himself upon ithe
Central stock, he would ..never liesitab ,.tp
warn a man who was sfevulaling upon Aba
strengtli of what he «iif-posed Mr. Wadley
was about to do if Ulmt supposition was
wr*>ng. 1 don’t believe tie. man was cajole
of telJL-g a lie or deceiving any
body. . His word was J.bis bond aiid
• lie wbuid have died by what he said. .1 have
lnul amuli business witil: W.'jdley for a long
series of years and I knAsrihatn well, too wall
to ask a fa-.-or of him withiLbe expectation of
, getting it «t the expense*a~Jus roiui—even if,
, 1 bad tell if.dined to do u ihipg of that sort.I
While he was true to eveg*v«;ord that be ut-l
■ tered be demanded every &igb; that belonged
i to iris road. . I could pay UiiunEo higher eulo-
,sy than to s» v that he Ii.vetli.snd died ani
..Iionest man.,“’lit-Central nrikoi-l lias suffered:
j#n irreparable loss, and ihorc >i« no man who*
..can till his pl*:V as lie tilled lit. His son-in-
. Jaw, Mr. Kaotri. is a man afvir Jfr. Wadley’s
.qwn manner life. He .understands the
,.jilans that Mr. i'.’adley had iiujnf cd out, ami
ltjcjprobable tkf.t the mantle will fall on him
ip-.d'vhat. he wiU.be called ujvjcn to rake up the
s wqrkwhere Mr. ATadlcy has laidii: down.”
COLOSHU. VADLKY’S FOfc-'.C.'C.
For a man of m much ability arid pronri-
,jience/-?o otu-1 U» .dley was cjua- arauvely
,poor. ,IIis entire iy-tune will hardV:' amount
ito mpre than a hu sired thousand 'dollars or
<a little, nore that that sum. Iff do a year
-or so ago .be was uuwa poorer than >bo was at
itbetime.vf his death. If he had ^peculated
■in Centra* railroad clock he could, with the
fuiformatiw- that lius position gave bin; easily
Lave made a million or so and &UU have
uvaintainod. an untorq.shed repatatcuu for
honesty, yiben severe years ago tlie/itock
of ilfe road i.-ent down to 35 he wat.weil
a •Ace of the cayse and Smew
full well that a rise was
cerr.in and sure. He kept *bis
liatukoff the steck, howevor, and by keeotng
his (iit rounsel^rept it also out of the bauds
of speculators. AVbcn the 6!me for the rise
came heaaw thcxtock go baoi to its old fig
ures, and those wvo had held on again re
ceived dividends. £n the early part of Colo
nel Wadley’a career fie went to sew Orleans
and became connect*.! with the Xew Orleans,
Jackson and Oreat Nurltiern railroyd, but lu
resigned his position Jicrc. He found that
the road was in the hands of spscuiators
who endeavored to make him their
kM>l. He came back 'to Georgia, but
Wihsequently formed a company to
build a railroad in Louisiana, and at the
commencement of the war they .had a very
nice rueiri of if. When the war'broke out lie
tendered his services to tiie confederate gov
ernment aq • was assigned to the position of
chief superintendent of transportation with
the title of coloqel. At the close of the war
be struggled back to Louisiana and found
that his company's railroad had been abso
lutely stolen ‘
was terminated abont a year ago by the old
company being paid for its property. Colonel
Wciiley' received about $85,000.
COLONEL WAULET'S SUCCE-SOE.
Of course there are many rumors as to vha
Colonel Wadley’s successor will be, but. noth
ing is known definitely _ abont th<j -feaVter.
There have been some differences between
Mr. Wadley and members ol the board
about the management of the. road for about
twelve mouths, and since Vn(s_ death of Mr.
Moses Taylor, who was a strong friend of
Mr. Wadley, it 1>as been thought
that Mr. Wadley would resign,'
and that General E, P. Alexander would be
elected as bis successor. At that time Gener
al Alexander was vice president of the Louis
ville and Nashville. He has since resigned
that office and Is not *t present engaged in
any railroad business. Mr. W. G. Raoul,son-
in-law of Mr. Wadley, is vice-president of the
Central and the general manager. It was nn
deTstood when Gee rumor was circulated
that Mr. Wadley would resign the presidency
of the Central and General Alexander
be appointed, that Mr. Raoul would
retain Iris piece as the general mana
ger of the road. If General Alexander is ap
pointed it C-j altogether probable that Mr.
Kaoul will continue as lie is. Nothing is
known of what will be done by the manage
ment of the Central railroad abont filling
this vacancy. It will be a very difficult mat
ter for the Central to find a successor for Mr.
Wadley. While he had his faults iti
railroad management, he has cer
tainly made a grand success of
the Central and its connections, and many
tiiiioowheii it was thought that his manage-
meiM'wus not good it always resulted for the
benefit of the stockholder* of the road. Gen
eral Alexander is a capable man, fully com
petent to •ischurge the duties of the office
aral there is no doubt that lie would be as
good a selection as could be nude for the va
cant place on the road.
THE GEORGIA RAILROAD LEASE.
The death of Colonel Wadley brings tip tiie
question of the Georgia railroad lease. The
road was leased to Colonel Wadley, and his
interest in the lease was subsequently trans
ferred to the Central and the Louisville and
Nushville. Colonel Wadley and the Georgia
railroad filed a bill of injunction
asking that the railroad -commission
of Georgia be restrained for regulating their
freight and passenger tariffs. The case was
argued before Judge Simmons, who refused
the injunction on the ground 'that Wadley
having sold out had no interest at-stake. The
case goes to the supreme court. 'It is held
by some that the lease -is -void because
the Georgia road cannot be leased to a road
where competition would be'lessened. It is
an interesting case, which has -been written
up fully heretofore. It is,proper to refer to it
though in order to state that the death of
Colonel Wadley in no wity effects the case,
and that the question will -eotne tip and be
decided by the supreme court the same as if
Colonel Wadley had lived.
GR YflDFATHER'S DAYS.
The little urchin of the third
generation.
H.w TRry Climber Around tb« Grandparent*! Knee,
and Hare Tbtnaa Their Own Way-Tne
Mother and Her ChUd-BiU Arp’* Beat
Touch ot XLumen Nature, Etc,
BITTEN BY A. RATTLESNAKE.
Jcnup Knjnylns 8■etc <IMlraad Kun
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Jbrcp, Augusts?.—Mr.-'S.'E..Gennett’s little
sou, Hopps, aged about :12 . years, was bitten
on the leg by a rattlesnakes feet and S inches
long, about 0 o’clock .yesterday evening and
died at 0 o’clock tliie -morning. The little
boy was in a cornfield about - a half a mile
from town wheu bitten and-was brought ini
mediately to Dr. F. Ji. McRae’s office, but all
the means employed could uot counteract the
influence of Lite poison. .
Jos' now vague .’tuii’Oe-j of gigantic rail
road enterprises Are in the air and some of
our sanguine ciUzens.put.Jesup one ahead of
Atlanta as a rac-kvad centre in the near fu
ture. However,-a few<Hio»«'li» will bring forth
facts. Until Chon we will say 110 more on the
subject.
KEROSS3CE AE.A.*lfiEdC!NDLER,
Special Uortespondeiice «»f the Constitution.
Canton. Aatg-unt JO.—Che wife of Abe
Wyatt, Jr., who -resides-anar Ophir, in this
county, a tewolcys since-(undertook to start a
fire in the stove'bj-,ponruig-kerosene in, and
the tiumes ignited and caught her clothing
on fire, ami site -was frightened and fatally
burned, and -at&his-writing, l.liave no doubt
but that she i*-dead. *We deeply sympathize
with the husband and friend and warn all
others to kindle fires -with -anything rather
than kerosene <jr-«'her.gastrinfluids.
On Sunday iaet Mr. ,N. .1“.. McClure and
daughters were going,to-cliuceli and the horse
working in the baggy in .which the daughters
were riding became frightened ami ran,
throwing the two young-ladies out and con
siderably bruising them. iTiiemule Mr. Me-
Cluie wuf riding ideogot frightened and fell
upon him. No serious hurts were sustained
by either. Our delegates to. the congressional
convention, J. R. Mc&insey, W. H. Ferker-
son and Ben S. Periy, have returned, and are
enthusiastic over the .unanimous.nomination
of Judson C. Cletuoats.
THE SOUTH GE&LR£tlA.T<£A&HERS.
Special Correspondence of Ihe Constitution.
Akkricus, August Iti.—IT he tiwuth Georgia
teachers’ institute, in .this .city, has about
-sixty teachers in attendance. 'The teachers
.are very'enthusias'ti<t v mtd -interest in the in-
-Etitute increases d*yly. A reception was'
,tendered them at the Ferry house, a few
,U,;ghts since. The institute ’herejs in,charge
,*>f Professor Neely, of Aiu&ricus, Professor*
iBsker and Cannon, of Savannah,.and.Proies-
,sor B. T. Hunter, of Albany.
.Colonel Jack Brown has gsme-to.Eastman,
nmihas been appointed to-defe-nd-the rioters
.over, there.
.We are looking for a heavy trade this fall.
Tbc .merchants are getting additional force
ito.hejp manage the expected trade.
. A COOL ESCAPE.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
(Gn,THU Train. Air-Line Railroad, August
JS.—This morning while the Northeastern
train from Tallulah falls was waiting at Ka-
bua Conjunction for the north bound pas-
scugerbii the Air-Line railroad, a man who
is AV.uimcring it near tiie station started down
tbeASB&.antUMul to cross a long trestle a
shunt distance .from the junction. When half
way (User the.Air-Line train ho .-e is. sight.
With nonderfgUv cool nerves and courage
the tuaB quietly laid his satchel on u beam
under the trestle.end .hen squeezed himself
through -the ties .rrid hung down until the
train passed over him. He was unhurt trod
got up-a&t’ walked, aff with his valise.
ZO£ .UPSOA* PRIMARIES.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Thou aktok, August It.—Yesterday the dem
ocrats of Upsax nominated the H-n. Benja
min G. McK-easev to trpresent Tier in the
legislature, and Captain' Thomas J. Neal, of
Harris,' for the aenate from this district
. Early yesterday die differet-t candidates could
i be seen marshalling their (jrces to the polls,
; ind to-day, wnen all the reyarns had got in,
tt was much to the wish of th*ir many friends
ia this county that the vote* were found to
be in favor of Uncle “Doc” MefcTenney (as he
is more familiarly known) for rt^-reseutative.
and iraptain Neal for the senate. ^Everything
passed off quietly.
Taking the Whole Family.
From the Dublin Post.
Mr. Eugene Watts, who, with his vrf£e and
two childiat), lived with bis mother d3W/i on
the Emanuel line, died on last Monday. His
mother diel op Tuesday, one child os
Wednesday, and the attending physician
thought the other child and its mother past
all hopes of recovery. They were a!i »ick
A suit was instituted, which • with typhoid fever.
Written for The Constitution.
When a man begins to get along in years
he gradually changes from being a king in
his family to a patriarch. He is more tender
and kind to his offspring, and instead of rul
ing them, the first thing he knows they are
ruling him. My youngest children and my
grandchildren just run over me now, and it
takes more tljgn half my time to keep up
with ’em, and find out where they are and
what they are doing. It rains most every
day, and the weeds and grass are always wet,
and the branches are muddy, and there are
six little chaps around here perusin’ the
premises, and Mrs. Arp just knows they are
bound to get sick or snake bit, for it’s tramp,
tramp, tramp from inorniDg till night, and
her anxiety reminds me of a hen that we set
oil some duck eggs, for when the brood was
batched they made for tbc branch, and
the lieu like to have took a fit and
llew from one side to the other, and made
an everlasting fuss trying to tell ’em they
would get drowned, but they sailed around
arul around and was as happy as happy could
be. These litUe. chaps riue the horses and
colts over the nxeadow and pasture, and uiake
the sheep jump the big brauen, and they go
in a washing two or tiiree times a day, and
they climb the grape arbor and the apple
trees and stuff llieir craws full of fruit and
trash, aud they can tell wbetbera watermelon
is ripe or green, for tuey plug it to see, and
every one of ’em has got a sling shot and my
pigeons are always on the wing, aud the other
day I found one of the finest young pullets
laying dead with u bole in her side, and all
the satisfaction I can get is I diden’t mean to
do it, or I won’t do it any more, or I diden’t
do it at all. J esso.. It’s most astonishing how
the little rascals can shoot with their slings,
and now i don’t believe it was a miracle at all
that made David plump old Goitah in the
forehead, for these boys can plump a jaybird
now at 40 yards, aud we have hud
to take all their weapons away
to protect the birds and poultry. Sometimes I
get mad and rip up ana around like X was go
ing to do something desperate, but Mrs. Arp
comes a-slipping along and begins to tell
how they uideut mean -any harm, and they j
are just like oil other boys aud wants to know
it I dident do them sort of thing* when 1 was
a boy. Well, that’s a fact—I.Uid—aud I.got
a lickin’ for it, too You see, I was one of tne
oldest boys, and they always catch it, but the
youngest one never gets a lickin’, tor by the
time fie comes along the old man has mellow
ed down and wants a pet. The older children
have married aud gone and the old folks .feel
sorter like they have been ihrowd off for
somebody no kin to ’em, and so they twine
around those that are left all the closer, but
by-aud-by they grow up, too, aud leave them,
and it’s pitiful to see the good old couple be
reft of tueir children aud living alone in
theirglory. Thou is the time tuat grand
children find a -welcome in the old family
homestead, fur, as Solomon suith, the glp y
of an- old mail is his children’s chiloun
There is the time that he little «:*■ -y- t; -1
second and third generation love to es-
escape from their well ruled home,
and for awhile -find refuge- and free
dom and frolic -at grandpa’s. A child
without-a.-grandpa and u grandma can never
haye its snare of -happiness. -I’m sorry for
’em. Blessings on the .good old people, the
venerable grand parents of the land, the peo
ple with good old honest wuys and simple
habits and-limited desires, who indulge in no
folly, who hanker-after i.o big thing, but live
along serene and covet -nothing but the hap
piness«f >their-children and their children’s
children. 1 said to a good old mother not
lung ago:'“Well, I hear that Anna is to be
married.” “Yes, sir,” ..said she, smiling sor
rowfully., “J -dori’t-know .what 1 will do. The
last daughter I’*-e got is going to leave me.
I’ve nursed her and petted her all her life,
and 1 kinder fhouglitsliewas mine and would
always he .mine, but she’s run off after a fel
ler she':; no Jdn to in -the world, aud who
never did-do a thing -for -her but give her a
ring and a-book or two .and a little French
candy now and then, and it does look so
strange and .unreasonable. Xcouldent under
stand it at all if—if J hadent dune the same
thing myself a long time ago,” and she kept
knitting away with a smile and a tear upon
her motherly face.
But I’m not going to slander, these little chaps
that keep us-so busy locking qfter them, for
there is no meanness in their mischief, and
if they take liberties it is because we let ’em.
Mrs. Arp says they are jest too sweet to live,
and is always narrating some of their smart
sayings. Well, they ace mighty smart, for
they know exactly how to get every thing and
do everything they want, for ithey know bow
to manage her^and they know that she non
ages me, dnd that settles it. A man' is-the
head of a house abotlt some things, and alpsut
souie bther things he is only next.to head, if
fie ain’t foot. A man can punish his chil
dren, but it’s always advisable to make an
explanation in due time and let bis wife know
what he did it for, because, you see they are
her children shore enough, aud she knows it
and feels it. The pain and trouble, the nur
sing and night watching have all been hers.
The washing and dressing, and mending, aud
patching—tieing up fingers and toes,
and sympathizing with ’em in all
their great big little troubles all
falls to her while the father is tending to his
farm, or his store, or his office, or his friends,
or may be his billiard table. When a woman
says “this is my child,” it carries more
weight and more meaning than when a man
saps it, and I’ve not got niueh respect fora
law that will give a man the preference of
ownership just because ho is a man. I re
member when I was a boy a sad, pretty
woman taught school in our town, and she
had a sweet little girl about eight years old,
and one day a man came there for the child
and brought a lawyer with him, and the
mother was almost distracted, and alt of us
boys—big and little—got rocks and sticks and
thrash poles and hid the little girl up in the
cupalo, and when the sheriff came we at-
taeked him like killing snakes or fighting
yaller jackets, and we run him off, and when
ne come back with more help we run ’em all
off, aud the -uan never got his child, and I
can say now that the soldiers who whipped
the yankees at Bull Run were not half so
proud of their victory as we were, though I
found out afterwards that the sheriff was
willing to be whipped, for he was on the
side of the mother and didn’t
want to find the child no how.
But the world is getting kinder than it used
to he—kinder to women and to the poor and
the .dependent, and kinder to brutes. Away
up is New England they used to drown
women for being witches, but they don’t
now. YTell. they do bewitch a man power
fully socustimes, that’s a fact, but it any
drowning it done he drowns himself because
he can’t get the woman he wants and live
under her witching all the time. But a man
is still the head of the house and always will
be I reckon for it’s according to Seri'pture.
He has got a natural right to run the machine
and keep up tbe supplies, and if he always
bits money when the guod wife wants it and
her take it as a favor to him. then he is a suc-
ess as a husband and peace reigns supreme.
Jesso. When there is money in the till a
man can sit in his piazza with his feet on the
banisters and smoke the pipe of peace. A
woman lores money for its uses. She never
hoards it or hides it away like a man—and
when I used to be a merchant I thought there
was no goodlier combination _ in all nature
than a new stock of dry goodkand a pretty
woman in the store with a well filled pars
m her pocket. Jesso. Bill Arp.
HILL'S FIRST SPEECH.
A REMINISCENCE OF THIRTY-FIVE
YEARS AGO.
The Box Orator In Troup Coantx—HU Advocacy ot
the Cauie of Temperance—Old Citiaens on Mr.
Hill’s Career—A Visit to Hia Old Home—
How the Mansion Appears.
THE EIGHTEENTH GEORGIA.
. Acworth, August 10.—A reunion of the
-urvivors of the 18th Georgia regiment was
Held here in Good Templar’s hall to-day, at
which abont one hundred were present, as
follows: Field and staff. Colonel (General) W.
T. Wofford, Surgeon E. J. Roach, Captain
and A. C. S., J. R. Wikle, Captain (Colonel)
Joseph Armstrong, Captain (Major) I. A.
hiewart
Company A. Cobb county.—Captain J. B.
O’Neill, Captain I. L. Lcrnon, Lieutenants J.
.Jackson, M. M. Phillips. N. Avery and L. II.
Tanner. Privates I. C. Fitzgerald, N. C.
l’riest, A. G. Dempsey, J. M. Abner, G. W.
Peacock, R. S. Thompson, B. F. Thompson, J.
M. Tanner, George House, D. B. Whitfield, J.
W. Smith, Janies McLain. W. H. Jackson,
Geo* A. Smith, A N. Boring, W. A. Steele,
1 R. Whitfield. H. W. Gregg, I. N. Babb, F.
‘ . Boring, J. P. Durham, F. M. Summers.
’ .enry House, Jno. W. Garrison, John Brown,
J 5nn M. McLane, T. J. llnrdage, J. Q. Tanner,
U. L. Graves, W. F. Brown, Thos. J. Pyron,
C. C. Phillips. E. C. Stancell. Chas. W. P'vron,
H. M. Scott. A. Nichols, T. J. Helton, G. S.
Hull, Geo. S. Owens, J. S Goodwin.
Company B. Newton county—Captain J.
\. Btevart, Lieutenant T. D. Guinn, F. S.
"readwell. Privates J. B. Smith, W. B.
“eagin. H L. White, W. F. Hardin, R. A.
■ uinn, W. W. Swann, H. L. Dempsey, J. W.
\lman, W. B. Smith, G. W. Parker, J
Valker Almatid.
* Company E, Gordon county—Color Ser-
■ cant F. A. Weems.
Company F, Cass county—Fountain Wlrit-
ker, William Kay, F. M. Durham, George
Kay. •
Company G, Cass county—Captain George
\V. Maddox; Private Albert Smith.
Company H, Cass county—W. W. Cotton,
IJ. Corbin, A. L. Barron, Jason Walters.
Company I, Dooly county—Captain Joseph
. rmstrong. »
Company K, Cass county—G. A. Dempsey,
J. T. Headden, E. D. Shaw, Richard Lead-
l-etter, D. II. Underwood.
Tbe regiment was formed and marched to
ihe stand led by the Marietta Silver Cornet-
; and, where prayer was offered by Rev. A.
•i:. Demsey. Lieutenant M. M. Phillips
then introduced the several speakers in the
following order, who delivered speeches ap
propriate to the occasion:
Welcome address by Mr. R. M. Mitchell, of
Acworth, Dr. E. G. Roach, Colonel Arm
strong, Major J. A. Stewart and General W.
T, Wofford. The band contributed appropri-
u e music between the addresses. The stand
w.ts beautifully decorated with evergreens
r.?id flowers, and in the center back ground
v.-.is a tall white frame, on which was lettered
tbc names Barbamsvilleor Elllmnis Landing,
Seven Pines, Seven Days Around Richmond,
Gaines’s Mill, Cedar Run, Second Manassas,
Sharps burg, Fredericks jurg, Chancellorsville,
Gettysburg, Ashby’s Gap, Chickamanga, Car
mel Station, Knoxville, Fort Steadman, Wil
derness, Horse Shoe, Second Cold Harbor,
. Martinsburg. Strausburg, Fisher’s Hill, Cul
••-JiTper. Petersburg, Siege and Silver‘Creek,
* battle-fields in which this regiment was ac
tively engaged.
A light shower, and the dinner hour having
arrived, Lieutenant M. M. Phillips announced
that, there was enough to feed the entire
crowd, variously estimated at from three to
four thousand, and it was soon found tiie
crowd was inadequate to the overwhelming
supply of everything good to eat. After din
ner the crowd began to stroll back towards
the village proper, and at 3 o’clock the mem
bers of the 18th Georgia were called to order,
and on motion Major J. A. Stewart, of Co. B
was elected chairman, and H. M. Scott, Co.
A, secretary.
On motion General W. T. Wofford, Dr. E.
J. Roach. Captains George W. Maddox, J. L.
Lemon; Lieutenants T D Gwinn, F. M. Dur
ham; Sergeants John Hayden. A. L. Barron
and F. A. Weems, were appointed a commit
tec to prepare for perfecting the organization,
They retired and soon reported the following
which wasunanimously adopted: Thatouror-
gauization be called “The Survivors Associa
tion of the 18th Georgia regiment;” that Cap
tain J. L. Lemon, Co. A, be selected as presi
dent, and Lieutenant L. H. Tanner, Co. A,
secretary for the next year; that Colonel
Joseph Armstrong, Captains S. D. Irvin and
George W. Maddox, Lieutenants T D Gwinn
and Bell, of company C, Sergeants A. L.
Barron, Joseph Headden and F. A. Weems, be
elected corresponding secretaries of the asso
ciation; that the president and secretary be
empowered to appoint the day for the
next reunion, giving sixty days
notion of the time, and that
Atlanta be selected as the next place of meet
ing. That Dr. E. J. Roach and Captain
George W. Maddox be a committee to have
this* day’s proceedings properly published.
That the thanks of tbe association be tendered
Company A and the citizens of Acworth and
vicinity for the very hospitable manner in
which we have this day been entertained, and
especially the ladiesjfor handsome bouquets
an i decoration of the stand.
On motion of Colonel Joseph Armstrong,
the following committee was appointed to
get up any data pertaining to our regiment:
Captain J. R. Wikle, chairman, Assistant
Surgeon J. B. Brown, Lieutenant M*. M. Phil
lips and T. D. Guinn, Captain J. B. Sillman,
D. H. Ramsaouer, William Kay, Albert
Santli, W. W. Cotton, J. I. Lassiter'and John
Andersou.
Our regiment being composed of companies
from Cobb, Newton, Jackson, Dougherty,
Gordon, Dooly and Cass counties, it
is respectfully requested that pa
pers published in these counties
publish these proceedings; also that the Hawk-
rosville Dispatch, Montezuma Weekly,
Athens Chronicle, and Catoosa Journal be
also requested to do so. One thing very re
markable for such an occasion was there was
no drunkenness or even the smell of liquor
or profanity heard -durjng the day, which
speaks well for Acworth and vicinity.
On motioned adjourned sine die. •
J. A. Stewart, Chairman.
H. M. Scott’ Secretary.
A MODEL FARMER.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Lovelace, Troop Co., Ga., Aug. 12tli.—
Yes, this is historic ground upon which
these people have assembled,” said an old and
prominent citizen of this county to me to-day
at the annual celebration of Pleasant Grove
Sunday School. “I was present at this same
place about thirty five years ago, and heard
Ben Hill deliver his first public address after
leaving college. A singing school was being
taught at this place at the time, and he came
up here from Long Cane with a party of
young ladies, and though he was called upon
unexpectedly to himself, he delivered the fi
nest address I ever listened to.”
Ypu knew Mr. Hill then in early life.
Tell me something of his young days.”
BEN HILL’S BOYHOOD.
Yes, I have known Mr. Hill ever since he
first came to this county, a little boy; lie
lived at that time at Long Cane, where lie at
tended his first school; afterwards he attended
school over in Heard county, and from there
he went to tiie university in Athens. But
there are men here to-day that can give you
the history of his young days better than I
can; come let me introduce you to Judge
Bigham, of LaGrange, and Mr. John Traylor
and Dr. Pitman. They all knew him well at
that time, and can give you all the information
you want.” I then had a pleasant conver
sation with each of these gentlemen, and from
them learned the following facts in regard to
the great statesman who now lies at the point
of death, aud for whom not only the people
of Troup county, his old home, but a whole
nation mourns. Judge Bigham sai'd: “Yes,
I have known Ben Hill a long time, and have
heard him deliver the finest speeches of his
life. He came to this county trom Jasper, I
think, and after graduating at Athens
where he had taken the first honor,
be read law and was admitted
to the bar in Meriwether county, and after
wards located in LaGrange. Aud I want to
say now, that the finest orations ever delivered
in Georgia by any one, was about that time
delivered by Mr. Hill upon a temperance
cause which was known as “sons of temper
ance.” These lectures by Mr. Hill had a won
derful influence which has been felt in this
country every since, and which will be felt
for time to come. These speeches stamped
him at once the coming statesman which he
has since proven himself to be. “Yes,” said
Dr. Pitman, “I have one or two of these
temperan;e speeches printed in pamphlet
form, and I keep them as mementoes of tbe
C ast-, something with which I could not
e induced to part. I shall give
them to my children for their couuselor and
guide in future life.”
Mr. John Traylor also spoke feelingly of
his early acquaintance with Mr. Hill, of Mr.
Hiil’s first speech on this ground, and as he
spoke of the great statesman, then and now,
his voice trembled. These gentlemen with
whom I talked are all old and prominent
citizens of this county and were jar. Hill’s
boyhood friends. These same kind expres
sions I have heard on every hand since I
have been in this county, now some two
weeks, in regard to Senator Hill.
JIB. HILL’S OLD HOME.
I asked a citizen of LaGrange to show me
Mr Hill’s old home, which he kindly did,
and I walked down the broad street until I
came to the magnificent mansion which was
once the home of this distinguished man.
The rock fence that surrounds the old resi
dence is going to decay, and in places has
fallen down; the grounds look desolate, and
the large oaks that stand thick in the grove
have a look of sadness as though weeping for
him who will n ver again behold them.
There never was a man more universally be
loved than is Mr. Hill by the people of this
county, who know him best, and it is always
in a voice of sadness that his name is men
tioned. If the prayers of his people were
answered, Senator Hill would soon be restored
to health.
BUTTER AND PEACHES.
Who Brine* Raoon and Corn Into hi* Home Mar kef
Special correspondence of The Constitution.
Dawson, August 9.—Hon. Lawson Fulton,
mayor of Galveston, Texas, is here on a visit
to his brother. Captain J. A. Fulton.
Judge T. M. Jones has sold bU mercantile
interest to Dr. YV. C. Paschal.
0. B. Stevens, of our town, is having a cot
ton warehouse built at Ward’s station, a pro
gressive village ten miles west of here on the
So ith western railroad.
Mr. Steve Senn, an enterprising young
farmer of onr county, brought to town to-day
a lot of home-raised bacon and corn. He
sold the same to one of our merchants, re
ceiving 10 cents a pound for his bacon and
$1.25 a bushel for his corn. Mr. Senn also
has oats, wheat, potatoes and syrup for sale,
all his own production.
Tbe well in tbe court house square here was
thought to be an oil well, as tbe water tasted
recently very much like kerosene. This is
_ u now explained by finding one of the street
dofffl't wait for her to ask lor it but makes i lamps in the bottom of the well.
Borne Remarkable Example* of Georgia Farm Indus
try Noted.
From the Monroe Advertiser.
Every pound of really good butter that is
raised in this county can be sold for twenty-
five cents. Here is a chance that ought to
supply the wives and daughters of our people
with spending money. Poor butter won’t
bung any such price.
From the Athens Banner.
Some of the butterflies in this section have
to market value of $10.
From the. MilledgevUle Recorder.
Mr. Emmet McCornb called, our attention
on Wednesday to a muskmelon raised by his
brother Hunter. It- measured 27 inches in
circumference and weighed2 5 pounds. It is
is the largest melon of its kind we ever saw,
and certainly lakes the cake.
From the Wdghtsville Recorder.
Captain J. H. Hicks presented us the other
day with the most prolific peach limb we
have seen this season. It was nothing more
than a small sprig cut from the tree, and con
tained eighteen fine peaches, fifteen of which
covered a space of ten inches.
From the Covington Star.
The hay crop in this section is the finest we
have made in years. Our people should not
suffer a blade of it to be lost. It can be easily
pulled or cut, as the rains have made the
stalks tender and brittle. If properly cured
and saved it will be worth many thousands
of dollars to our people. It would l>e an ab
solute shame to see a bale of western hay
brought into this section next year. Colonel
L. F. Livingston thinks he has an acre of
cotton with 4,500 pounds of seed cotton al
ready made. That is equal to three 500 pound
bales and is unusually fine.
From the Walton Vidette.
We know a farmer who, front only eight
common scrub cows, maxes and clears $40 a
month. He does it without any expense,
either in feed or costly machinery, and with
out any loss of time from his crops. He lives
several miles from a railroad, and only goes
there once a week to ship his butter. Dairy
ing will pay well in this county, and we do
not see why some one doesn’t go into it.
A Walton lady has in the last three yeare
made $800 worth of cotton on rented land.
This year she^has 22 acres in cotton, which
promises to make 10 or 12 bales. She does the
work with the house servant and iter hus
band’s buggy horse, and her husband is at no
expense whatever. Such a wife is well worth
having.
THE growing CORN.
were. We have not been informed this year
of the result of his farming. Will the captain
be so kind as to give us the result? When
such results can be attained what better proof
could be asked for, as a corn-producing coun
try? And why should this country ever have
to buy corn from the west even for the non*
producing class, we mean mill and turpentine
men, who are much the greatest con
sumers? The answer is simple enough: We
have too few farmers. If tillers of the soil
could, by a liberal policy of the large land
owners, be induced to come here, a very
large amount of money could be kept in cir
culation at home, which would in time en
rich the whole country. It is the fault of
the large land owners, we mean the mil
and turpentine men, mainly, that the coun
try is kept down. They should, as soon as
they strip the forest of its timber, dispose
of the lands to settlers at a nominal price—
or a better plan would be to give, as an in
ducement to settlers, for a few years, alter
nate parcels, of say fifty or ofie hundred
acres, to each head of a family of actual set
tlers. This course would create in a very
short while a demand for the
lands held by them at a very much higher
figure than they would be willing to take for
the whole, at present Besides they would
be building up the country. We hold, that
no man or set of men have or should have
the moral right to retard the progress of the
country.
Results of the Tax Digest.
From the Waynesboro Herald.
The tax digests shows thirty-nine names
in Burke that pay taxes on oyer $10,000
worth of property each. Major Wilkins leads
with $102,902 worth of propi rty, and Mr. S.
A. Gray comes next with $54,647. There are
fourteen lawyers, thirty-one doctors, and one
dentist. There are 1,036 white polls, and
2,515 negro polls. The total amount of prop
erty returned for the county aggregates $2,-
712',903. There has been a falling in personal
property since last year.
From the Montezuma Weekly.
Mr. Z. T. Penny, tax receiver, furnishes us
with the following synopsis of the taxable
property of Dooly county for 188:’: Improved
lands 305 259 acres, valued at $81,605; wild
lands 173,163 acres, valued at $16,703; stock
of all kinds $276,225. The total value of the
taxable property of the county amounts to
$1,506,706, probably the largest since ante
bellum days. Increase over last year, 1881,
$90,167. Polls, white, 1,088, colored 760;
five lawyers, thirteen doctors, one dentist.
Fight With Two Deer.
From the Dublin, Ga. Gazette.
. One day last week a party of gentlemen
were out deer-hunting, when quite a remarka
ble scuffle occurred between Mr. W. B. F.
Daniel, two deer and a dag. The dog it ap
pears caught a fawn, and Billy Daniel ran to
secure the fawn for a pet and get it from the
dog. Just about the time he had fairly got
ten hold of the fawn, the mother deer, a fine,
sleak doe, came upon the ground and joined
in the fight to rescue her young Mr. Daniel
screamed at old Roper to catch the mammy,
and at the same time caught hold of the old
lady, preferring larger game. Well, Mr.
Darnel's face has not entirely quit shaking
yet. He saw stars and smelt brimstone. At
last the mother deer jerked loose and left the
field just a little conqueror. This is the truth
and no paint about it.
Bereft of Reason^
From tiie >foijtezq^ ltt Weekly.
Mrs. Ti-Uiuck, of our county, has been ad-'
judged a lunatic, and is now awaiting an order'
to be sent to the insane asylum at Milledgc-
ville.
Mr. G. W. Lane, of Henderson, Houston
county, lias recently become dangerous:y in/
sane. After being found guilty by a jury of
his countrymen he was placed in the jail at
Perry until accommodations could be given
him in the insane asylum.
On Thursday last John Hughes, of Dooly
county, was tried and convicted of insanity.
On Saturday Messrs. Jake Heard and Free
man Mason passed through here with him on
their way to MilledgevUle. He was admitted
into tiie asylum. Mr. Hughes has had a long
spell of sickness, and has formed an opinion
that lie would be better dead than alive, and
it is almost impossible to keep him from end
ing his own existence.
In Remembrance of War Days.
From the Sandersville Mercury.
Mr. G. W. Bateman gave a splendid dinner
to some of the surviving members of his old
company, of Houston county, a few days
ago, at the Sandersvilse hotel. Ever since
tiie war it has been the custom of the
members of the company every year to have
a reunion at some point, and'have a big
dinner. Each member of the company
takes it in rotation and furnishes the dinner;
there are now about twenty-five of the mem
bers of the company living.
Nine Ear* Grown from One Grain—The Need of
Farmers.
From the Waycross, Ga., Reporter.
The Rev. W. H. Thomas, of this town,
brought to onr office a few days since three
well developed stalks of com grown from one
grain, which contains nine full grown ears.
This is a new variety of Indian corn that was
introduced into this country by Captain Ken-
non, of Hoboken, who made an 'average of
over one hundred bushels per acre on several
acres last year, as unfavorable as the seasons
Mr. Hood's War Horse.
From the Cartersville, Ga. Free Pres*.
"Barney,” tiie old veteran war horse of our
friend, Mr. VV. H. Hood, died last Friday.
“Barney” was captured on the Stoneman raid
on the 30th of July, 1861, just eighteen years
and five days before he died, the whole of
which time lie has been in Mr. Hood’s posses
sion. It is supposed that he was about five
years' old when captured,, making him twen
ty-three years old. Mr. Hood feels keenly
the loss of bis .Old-friend, which feeling was
attested by- the decent burial which lid gave
him. -,
Barbarism in Oconee.
From the Athens, Ga., Banner.
Yesterday an old negro man named Mose
Huff, who resides in Oconee county, brought
a fine cow to the city to sell to the butchers,
that had two or three of her teats cut off
close to her bag. He says that a day or two
ago, parties living in his neighborhood,
offered him fifty dollars for the cow, but the
offer vras declined, and that a night or two
after the offer was made, the fiendish act was
committed. Since tiie deed was perpetrated,
the cow has given birth to a calf, and her
condition was such that lie was forced to sac
rifice her.
The Babies in McDonald. •
From the Thomasville Enterprise
But before taking our leave of the clever
people of McDonald we can’t refrain from no
ticing the little folks—the babies, we mean—
which are as numerous, healthy and pretty as
any section of any county can boast of. With
sturdy, industrious fathers and healthy,noble-
hearted mothers, this little generation cannot
fail, in the near future, to make their impress
upon society, and to people this or some
other portion of our country with a popula
tion unsurpassed for true worth.
An Aged Convert;
From the America*, ua.. Republican.
We learn that the baptizing on last Sunday,
of the old lady, Mrs. Butler, of Marion coun
ty, aged one hundred and twelve years, of
whom we spoke in a late issue of this paper,
an immense crowd witnessed the ceremonies.
The aged communicant was carried to the
water and baptized in a chair. Mrs. Butler
was at one time in her life a Presbyterian,
then a Methodist, then a Missionary Baptist,
and now a Primitive Baptist.
Hancock’s Explanation.
From the Americas Republican.
Some boys whose ages vary from twelve to
fourteen were passing Oak Grove cemetery in
this city a few nights ago, and as one of them
said: “We were badly scared, for the grave
yard was full of lights, jumping about in the
air like so many fire bugs.’’ It is proposed to
send these boys to the public schools on their
opening next fall to learn that oftentimes a
gas exhales from the bodies of the dead, pro
ducing these lights
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