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THE-WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. jilLAlVrA, GA, TUESDAY APRIL 0 1886
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THROUGH DIXIE
WHAT THE SOUTHERN FOLKS ARE
SAYINO AND DOING.
Thought to b# JohaCoffoo-A Booth Carolina Farmer
Fiodi •la.ooc-A BaagiBg in Toxas-i'ho A-
bama Bute Democratic Executive Com
mittee-Worth Carolina ft otea.
Arkanaaa.
The fair penitents of Texarkana have
mean* of extracting pleasure from penitential
retreat. They met in the Episcopal church
and organised themselves into the “Lenten
Hermits,” under vows to wear sombre gar
ments and walk with cast-down eyes until the
Easter chimes shall summon them to festivity,
when they will inaugurare the anmmer season
by a grand ball. The first meeting had ieven*
teen members, the second twenty-coven. The
following are the official heads: Rev. N. George
(castor.) president; Mrs. Pitcher, vloe presi
dent; Mrs. W. H. Twigg, secretory; Miss
rhemy Richardson, treasurer.
Texas.
Wsih Washington, colored, was hang at Mar
tins on last Friday, for the mnrder
of Willis Durden, a year ago. The condemned
man confessed his guilt on the scatfold,and said
it was right that ho shonld bo hanged. He
stated that he waa instigated to the crime by
Ephe Durden, a half brother of the victim.
Epbe Durden was immediately arrest
ed on tho strength of Washing
ton's confession. Washington exhibited great
nerve. He rode on his coffin from the jail to
the grove near the edge of town, where the
scaffold was erected. After admonishing his
large and ience of colored people to avoid the
pitfalls which brought him to tho scaffold, he
anid lio wanted his body to be burled in tho
Adjoining county, and passed his hat around
for contributions to defray tho expenses of
transporting his body. He gathered $28 for
which ho heartily thanked the donors. He
took his place on tho scaffold, the noose was
adjusted, and in a moment his neck was brok
Florida.
Mrf. Miller,of Philadelphia.disippeared from
St. Augustine quite unexpectedly, aud tho last
time 6ne was seen was m Jacksonville. After a
prolonged search she was finally found by
Captain Bowyer, of tho Waycross police force,
in tho woods between Orlando and Kissimmee.
When found she was sitting beside a pino
stump, wfth her faco blackened, apparently so
as to diiguieo herself. Sho said that she had
slept in the woods for several nights. Sho
seemed to possess all of her mental faculties
except that she feared that if canghtshe
would be taken back to the insane asylum at
Philadelphia where she (lid not
want to go, and to avoid
this she had taken to tho woods. Captain
Bowyer carried her to Orlaudo.and locked her
up in a room, but she succeeded in escaping
by jumping out of tho window. She ran to a
lake near by, it is supposed for tho purpose of
drowning herself, but was overtaken beforo
she had gotten out any distanco into the
water. It was ascertained that sho had tele
graphed her friends in Philadelphia that she
would go home on the condition that the was
not to be rotnrned to tho asylum.
South Carolina.
The Savannah Valley railroad has a new sec
tlon muter who is strongly inspected of being
John Coffee, the murdcror of Deputy Marshal
J. M. Merritt, who was killed at Lula, Ga. An
la being kept on him while his description
been sent foi
K finding of a
ng gentleman near Batesbarg, has created a
emotion and a deal of talk.
" " - "— i wu nlnwlnff In ___
a
row, Mr, Oonghmon
id no attention to the pot, hot on tho rctnrn trip
topped to examine It, and found that it con-
rd ,old coin of eomo kind. Catherine hlenetv*
d treasure, ho trended hi. war to a Bttcsbnr*
', and after the money man had carefully ex
ned the “Und," It traa pronounced .12,000,
Ken of the itrcikoflnct aoon epread oyer tho
™ty, and In a half dozen hours half tho conn*
were plotring the Held In icarch of other bidden
idenre of having comernn different national-
lee. Hour it found Its way Into tho Held, or when
t waa deposited It not conjectured. Mr. Cough-
an'a friends rejoice at hie good fortune,
.Louisiana.
Wednesday night tbreo negroes shot a
~lorcd woman, Henrietta Smith, with intont
kill, one milo and a half from ongwood,near
breveport The men—Adam Kelly, Sam
Goodman and Aaron Dodson—planned the
crime whiio at work in tho Held, and that
night met at a ginhonio on tho Sharpo place,
armed with a iron. They conccalod them*
•circa in ambush near theroadiidoand awaited
the approach of tho woman, who waa op her
way homo.
Having executed their diabolical deed they
fled, leaving the woman on the roadeido ap
parently dead. Tho woman woe picked up
and token to her home, and although filled
with ehot it le believed ohe will recover. The
crime woe prompted through eplto and lit
feeling entertained by the men for the wo-
min'a hatband, Kelly wu lodged in the par-
lth Jail. Goodman was arreeted and le held at
Uanhall, Texas.
The steamer Mary Lewie, left New Iberia
Thursday afternoon on her return downward
trip, bonnd for Morgan City, and whon in tho
neighborhood of Fattcnonvllle, about one
o’clock thie morning, sho wu etruck by a wind
storm. Herttern wu driven into Steel &
Co.’s pontoon bridge, and in leu than ten
mlnntea the filled with water and tank. The
crew, about twenty In number, became terri
fied, and some jumped overboard, whit, others
eeenred life boat*. All lucceeded la nvlng
thamietves except Berry, tho second engineer,
add Jtnklne, the cook, who were drowned,
Tennessee.
Jim Baxter, who wu to hang at Lebanon
April 0th, wu respited till July 8th.
The itate democratic committee met at Nath
Title. All were present except Mr. Sail!
van, of Knox, who wu detained at homo by
•Ickneta in hit family. Thero wu considera
ble discussion by the committee and other
democrats In the morning u to the
number of conventions. The com
mlttee met in secret session this afternoon
Mr. Hlllsman resigned. Mr, H. J. Lynn, of
Memphis, wu chosen secretary. The Tote on
holding one convention wu e tie, six and six.
Two conTentions were then unanimously
agreed on. The call wu tuned for the Judi
cial convention on June 9th, and the guberna
torial convention on August 11,
Governor Bate hu granted a respite nntil
July 1, to Allen Herbert, who wu to hang
Friday for the mnrder of Henry Everett.
Herbert and hli friends claim that they can
pretent evidence on which they can accnrc a
commutation of sentence to Ufa imprisonment.
The gailowe bu been built, and would have
been placed in position Thursday but for the
respite,
A sensation wu created in KuhvtUaby the ar
rest of A. D. Bcoby. a teacher in tho normal school
at winchester, on the charge of seduction, last
‘complainant la a beautiful brunette, BeUte
McDaniel, ol Lebanon, who fire years ago wu a
pupil In Ecoby’s school near her home. She wu
ihen fourteen years old. Scot,, made love to her
there, and when he went to Woodbury, Tonn., to
tsa.h *om„aded her father to let her come to
t there, lie still courted and become
deraN.000bond. Sheinca for .10, . —.
which he to weU able to pay, and aara he will pay
■f she gales the suit, but he asserts his Innocence
In the strongest terms.
North Carotins.
At Guilford superior court Judge Thomas
Baffin, and Judge David Schenck, the former
ax-goprems court judge end the latter ex-Judge
of the superior court, were oppoaiog counsel in
e civil suit before Judge Walter Clark. Bath
gentlemen are uid to be uncomfortably ag-
trrearire In the practice of the law toward tbelr
fellow members of the bar, and in thh caw
8ehenek hod offered a number of affidavits,and
Baffin remarked: "Ah! offered for a contin
uance.” Schenck took offense at the manner
end tone, end nid to Baffin that he did not
allow any one to pnt on such airs u that to
him. Boffin fired np and remarked: “You
don’t, yon infamous puppy! - ’ Schenck imme
diately knocked ICulfin down, and as Baffin
recovered Schenck struck him again two or
GEORGIA NEWS.
Asheville was shocked Friday by the an
nouncement that a mnrder had been commit*
ted on Horning creek.fi vc miles from that city,
by a boy only uine. Mrs. Charles Presley had
two boys, sged ten and twelve. A negro man
by tho usme of Black lives nearbv. Her boya
had an altercation with Campbell Black, the
ninc-jcar-old son of this negro. Yesterday,
wLile the littlo Presley boys were passing
the bonio of Black, Campbell Black,
threw rocks at them, followed them to where
the read ran through the woods and attacked
them with a stick. One of the boysi the old
est, attempted to defend himself with a board,
but the negro boy rushed upon him, drawing
a shoemaker's knife, and stabbed him to the
heart, instantly killing him.
A curious case baa been compromised a War-
renton. A man named Pettit inflicted a serious
wound upon another named Beavans. Both
were men of means. Beavans sued for $10,-
000 damages. The case was removed from
Halifax county, where the aflfcir oocurred, to
Warren county. There tho parties met here,
were reconciled, and the matter was compro
mised by Pettit paying $000 and costs.
Hews reached Asheville of the total shoot
ing Friday, at Pigeon River, of a young
man by the name or Madison, from Alabama.
He was walking out a hair mile from his
boarding bouse, along tho road, and a pistol
■hot was heard. Persons hearing the report
hastened to the place. Madison said a strange
man had demanded his money. He refused
to comply, and was shot in the region of the
heart. It is said he can't live. '
rounds the aflklr. Some think i
sur-
Alabama.
A meeting of the state democratic executive
committee has been called to meet in Montgom
eryonthoUth of April. Thla meeting, it is
supposed, is to consider the propriety of post
poning the stato convention a low days. The
change of gauge in the railways has been
fixed for May 31 and Juno 1. The conven
tion as now called is for June 2. The proba
bility that tho change in railroad schedules
might prevent a. full attendance, the suggos*
later,
Mayor W. 8. Reese has just returned from
Beauvoir, where he was tho guest of Mr.
Davis. The venerable statesman was fouud
to bo in excellent health for one of his ago.
Jn regard to Ills proposed trip to Montgomory,
the dates upon which he will bo
present. On the 28th of April, he will deliver
anaddrers on the fair grounds, and on the
29th be will officiate at the ceremonies attend
ant upon the laying of the corner-stone of the
con fid era to monument. He was not only
overtho selec-
as his associate
upon that occasion. He was fervent in his
praise of the cbhalric career of the gallant
and intrepid Georgian, speaking of him as the
type of brave southern manhood which won
inch renown during the four years of strife.
During tho next two days Mr. Davis will
make bis trip to Atlanta, whero he will pay
his respects to the memory of the eloquent
Hill, which Mr. Davis holds in special venor-
atiou. _
A state of lawlessness exists in the swamps
on Dog river, near Mobile. A Urge number of
negro thieves have concentrated there, and
nightly make incnrslons into the surrounding
country, stealing horses, cattle and hogs.
Others go to Mobile, and after committing
acts ol burglary, find their way back to the
swampe beforo daylight. A gentleman who
went out!fish!ng tied his horse to a tree. Ten
minutes later be fonnd that the hone was
{ -one. In one cabin there are seven negroes,
or each of whom warranto are out. but they
openly defy arrest, and tho officers know that
death will be the portion of the one who dares
make the effort.
TOPICS OF THE WEEK.
Tax visitation of Immense bugs at Raleigh
reported in our dispatches yesterday morning
created something Ilka a panic. An estem ed
subscriber in that city at onee fonrardedtho
amount of an ovorduo bill to Tun Coxsrru
Tioif. Ho alio inclosed two of tho bugs, and
wrote: "I want,to bo square with the world if
such looking things aro tube sent among as.”
Quite a number of our citizens viewed tho in
sects, but wero nnable to deddo upon their
species. They seem to bo a combination of
buy, locust aud Kansas grasshopper.
The horrlblo bugs which overcame Raleigh
like a summer cloud, tho otherday, havo at
last been identified. The manager of tho
North Carolina experiment station has issued
a circular, in which he says:
These tups era the lsrgcrt water-bags of the
fsmll] l'cClroptl, which ate included in the sub
order to which tho squash-bug, bed bag, water-
measurer, etc., belong. They Tin principally In
water, snd feed on aquatic lame, Insects, young
fish and probably fish eggs, It to said they havo
been reen before In poods near Raleigh, nod also
that they have been known to kill small tub. This
aquarium. Their sting la poisonous, though per
haps not deadly to the human body, This
may account for tbelr ability to kul Urge
fish and sparrows, which wu noticed
yesterday. They conceal tbcmaelres in crevices
during the winter, and lire In a torpid state till
warm weather, when they leave tbelr quartets
end fly to considerable distances, usually during
the night, and rarely before Jane or July.
There need ha no roar of tbelr Injuring tho crops,
u they ore not mentioned u being at all hurtnil
to any kind of vegetation. As theyllve on fish,
however, It would not he well for thou having
udo lo havo them near.
wero a few beetles (of the species Dytlscus
Illbrldui) found with them bugs, which aro de
scribed u having very elmllar hablu—that to, llv
ngtn waterana cation other Insects, Itoh, etc.
IWesfor Riley also mentions the factor the bags
t.elrK^sitrsctcdbytllBbtji which wu noticed to a
WxznutoToiqa Pennsylvania town, adopted
prohibition nlnoteen yean ago. Tito numbar
of drag stores hu grown daring that time
from fifteen to forty-five, showing that the
unities sre still preserved.
Ah afternoou paper in Washington pub-
...hresn article written in a gloomy vein, pre
dicting all sort* of cal unitie. If the United
States does not change its treatment of the
Chinese within odr borders. Mysterious hints
are thrown out of secret arrangements bo-
tween China and Germany to "down” thb
country by force if necessary. The aathorahlp
of the article has been traced to a member of
the Chinese legation.
The rioters in one of the Belgian towns se
lected singular breastworks. They placed 900
women in front of them. Thb did not prevent
the iolditn from firing a deadly volley. Many
women were killed and wounded.
Peopu in Washington express the opinion
that President Cleveland will fkl! a victim to
apoplexy within a year, tf he does not work
lets and take more exercise. The president
hu gained forty-two pounds in weight since
he entered the white hettse. He weald per
haps grow thinner if he reed what the newr
pepers are saying about him.
The citbens of New Iberia, Ism, will tobr-
ate no nonsense. A business man In that place
who defied public opinion by odvertblng such
sentiments ss "An honest Ged bthe noblest
work of man,” wu promptly sat down npon.
Fbming placards at once appeared on all the
walb calling npon Christians to boycott the
infidel. The New Iberia Enterprise says:
The bold snd defiant attitude or tbs infidel hu
_ mated much Indignation in t community not yet
prepared to Imbibe or even totorate sachadraooed
potmens In the field of free thought. The step to
certainly a very injudicious one, to say the least
oflt, end we should advise th* apostle to furl his
An Acoldtntal XUllax Hear gylvanta-Xn; Old-Tlms
Sssk«t-A Peculiar Way of Butins a XXarst—A
Kardsrsr CodTmm.—The Oaorgfa mid
land Itallroad-Other Oeorgta Hew*.
A mulatto girl, named Catherine Bareoy,
wae accidentally shot and killed near Brblow
Lawton's store, five miles above Sylvanls, on
Wednesday. Washington Lawton, a colored
man, wu handling an old mnsket loaded with
blrdihot, near where the girl wu standlog,
when the gnn suddenly went off and tho eon-
tenb were nnloaded In the hack of tho unfor
tunate woman’s head. Medical aid wu hasti
ly snmmoned, but tho wounded woman died
before the physician, who hod been sent for,
arrived.
Paudcrsvillo wu startled Wednesday
morning by the cry of fire. Tho blaso wu lo
cated on the premises or Dr. M. D. C. M. Sum
merlin, whoso residence focee tho depot. It
was discovered that the barn and stable of
that gentleman were being rapidly oonsamod
by the flames.
The fences that stood near tho burning
building were tom down, os waa also a small
outhouse between it and the dwelling, to cheek
the advance of the flamee npon the latter build
ing. During the program of tho fire the by-
•Under! witnessed a pitiable spectacle, utterly
unable to render any uebtance whatever. A
cow and two hogs were routed alive in tho
flames, and their pitifol dumb appeab
excited genuine sympathy. Two horses were
olio In the stable. One camped without Injury,
whllo tho other wu to badly burned that ho
can scarcely stand an his feet. He rushed out
of the stable into the streets with biasing mono
and hair. ^
Msrshsllvllle Times: There bat the home
family formoro than one hundred years. Mr.
■ " id hie father
fiat for the preeet
season for giving
such prominence to his
Do not throw away you money, bat whon
in need of a good liniment hay filtration OIL
Only 23 cents.
A action ec is have a nod way of receiving Mda
Why don’t yon try Carter’s Little Liver
Pilhr They are a positive an fin sick head-
•che, and all the Ub produced by disordered
Liver. Only one pill a dose.
sn old-style gram
family formoro tl
fitoppy is himself 74 years old, ont
first learned to walk by holding to tho top of
thb buket and toddling around it. It will be
passed on down from sire to son probably for
many generations yet.
Conyers Solid Sonth: Thoro is a colored
preacher who lives near Juper, Ga., that
tubs bin horro by butting him. If tkehona
is fractloua or stubborn ho takes the kinks out
by deliberately seizing it by tho ears and but
ting it sqnarelr in the forehead until It falb to
Us knees. This it generally dou at the sec-
end or third batt, when the old parson steps
behind and drives ahead again.
Valentino bu eonfeeocdhe murdered Wm.
Vtlec, who was watchman at the street car
depot In Augusta Ho Implicated several
while men in the crlmr, bat no ono believes
thb part of hb story. Valentine crashed In
the head of Valeo with a pick, then utarsted
tho body and office with oil and
set it on fire, hoping to hide
lie evidenro of hb crime by burning
■tho premises. There is a bitter foclingagslnst
tho prisoner, but the law will bs allowed
to mete out Justice to tho accused. Valentino
hss travelled under several aliases. Ho killed
a hoy in Carolina, bnt wu acquitted. Ho ltu
several wives living in different states. Cap-
tain E. B. Purcell hu boon on hb track for
eighteen months.
One northern tourist bought a form at
Greeuesboro at $10 per acre.
A prominent member of tho Ath
sorted on tho streeto “that before prohibition
went into effect In Cbrko county his criminal
practice alone amounted to $1,000, and now ho
would take $150 for hb practice In tho crimi
nal court.’
On Sunday lost, at Lovett’s, on tho Dublin
and Western railroad, Mr. J. F. Mayen (hot
and slightly wounded Ms brother-in-law, Mr.
J. M. Kessler. Shortly after tho shooting.
Kessler, it b sold, procured a doubio-barrolod
min and walked np to the house whore Mayor
nod entered; he told him to come out u bo
intended killing him. Meyer came out and
coolly seated himself upon a log, and Keasler
railed the gun aud pulled both triggers. The
caps pepped, bnt tho gnn wu not discharged,
Kessler pat on fresh caps snd mode another
effort to fire hb gnn, bnt without avail. Ho
then returned to hb house, drew the loads,
sud put in new ones. In the meantime Moyor
had left. Both are determined men.
Daniel Beddick and Mr. Whoeler, both of
Putnam county, married sisters. Daring the
war Mr. Wbeelor wu killed at tho battlo of
Grlswoldvillo. On hb body wu found a let
ter commending hb wife ana four children to
tho cue of Mr. Beddick, When the war clos
ed Mr. Beddick wu without a dollar. Never
thelea ho took the widow and her foar chil
dren to hb homo and uid to hb wife: “Wife,
wo are childless; your sbtor and her cMIdion
•hall bo our care, and share whatever we may
make in tho foture.” Mr. Beddick spent no
time In Idleness, bat he went to work llko a
man. Today ha b ona of the wealthiest citi
zens of hb county, his fortune going far into
the thousands. The four children ofhb wife's
widowed sister are usefol men and women, all
of them well provided for.
On Tuesday night a most dastardly attempt
wu made to mnrder Mr, Willie Walton, In
Wilkes county. Mr. Walton lives at Max
well's mill, and when ha went oat to food hb
hones abont dark he uw a man at the back
of hb lot. Ho went hack to hb houso and,
taking hb gnn, went near to whore ho uw the
man standing. When noariy to tho spot tho
party fired at him, at a distance of about ten
paces. Mr. Walton returned the fire at once,
and hearing (omethlng move, fired tho second
barrel in the same direction. He than called
to a negro boy to briog him another gno, and
when tho boy arrived he commenced walking
■round to make further dbcovarlu. He soon
■aw an object lying fiat on tho ground, and
•apposed It wu the man ho had killed. The
negro boy wss greatly excited, and patting the
E un against tho man's body wanted to shoot
Im again. Mr, Walton decided that It wu
nseleu to shoot a man who wu already dead
and ordered tho boy to goofier uatohee. Find
ing that tho negro wu afraid to go ho wont
himself and the boy followed him. When he
retained tho dead man wu gone.
Weapons in a ball room tonight paralysed
in young gentlemen and ladies present, and
resulted in the dangerous cutting of oneof the
participants. Itwua general shooting affray
at ona time, bnt nono of tho balls did any
damage, W. T, Archer and hb vto a vto had
secured a position in aqnsdrilla, which wu
about to bo danced, when Tam Bice, accomps
Died by hb lady partner, sought to dancs In
the umo position. The yonng men quarrelled
and after exchanging compliments in an un
dertone, arranged to settle tho aflhir after the
usdrille had been danced. Accordingly at,
he foot of the stair com leading to tho ball
room, they met, Archer knocking Bice down,
the biter nslng a knife while the two were
clinched with terrible effect, cutting hb an-
tagonbt seven timei, none of which aro pro
nounced fatal. Both parties returning to the
Loll room. Bice drew a revolver and
fired at Archer, misting him. Instantly a
friend of Archer’s fired at Bice, bat withoat
effect. The gentlemen present in tho ball*
room succeeded in securing tho parties amid
the screams of the ladles and tho oaths of tho
interested parties.
Joe Johnson, col, attempted to outrage the
•non of a white child about five years old,
ere, tut evening, Tho frenzied father at
tempted to kill tho fiend, batmiued hlevictlm,
the pistol fiUilng to fire tho first time. The
negro wu caoght and whipped by a crowd of
dunns with alnggy trace, thru or four hun
dred lashes being applied by muscular men.
He wu then lodged in jail. As the
story fpread, however, the nature of the crime
Influences public fooling so that Johnson was
today removed from Waynesboro and brought
to Augusta. It wu feared he would bo lynch-
Mldltnd read, bu returned from New York.
nysthe contract for baildlne the road wu award,
iff to Ur. B. P. Dickinson, of Hew York, who built
the Air Line and the Savannah and Memphis. The
week le to ho completed by May 1, us;.
The Bugaboo Business.
As tire gubernatorial campaign approaches,
many of our esteemed stato contempora
ries, edited by veterans in politics, are be
ginning to betray a restlessness that threat
ens to give them serious trouble. The situ
ation, it seems, b not precisely ns they
would have it. A (Taira aro growing some
what too complicated to suit them, and
their symptoma show great uneasiness. In
deed, several of those contemporaries are
beginning to perspire finely, albeit tho
weather is not nearly go warm as It will be
when the dog-star stands in the midheaven
•tnoon.
The trouble seems to he the “Atlanta
Ring.” We had supposed that thb im
mense bugaboo bad been permanently laid
upon the shelf. It baa been shaken In the
air, and pounced on, and ripped np and
worn to a frazzle in half a dozen campaigns,
and it waa natural to expect that it would
be allowed to e:\joy a much-needed net.
Bnt it seems too convenient a bugaboo to
ho let alone. Like a Christmas mask, itb
handy to frighten the children on the fourth
of July; and the consequence b that sev
eral of our state contemporaries have dragged
the old myth ont for the purpose of frighten
ing country candidates and cross-roads poll-
ticians.
For s frazzlcd-out bugaboo, it b wonder
ful what power tho “Atlanta Bing" myth
possesses in the hands of some of our esteem
ed contemporaries. Already, we are told,
it b about to bring out General Goidon as a
candidate far governor for the purpose of
(mothering the people of the state and de
priving them of their rights. General Gor
don, however, according to the before-men
tioned contemporaries, b to “he thrown ont
as a feeler," and if he shonld develop any
weakne»,then tho “Atlanta Ring" b to pro
ceed to take other measures necessary for
preventing the people of the state from hav
ing their way. One of onr contemporaries,
which has been in the habit of finding rep
resentatives of the “Atlanta Ring” behind
every green treo, announces that ex-Govern-
or Smith b a tool of the aforesaid “King,”
and declares that he b supporting the rail
road laws of the state merely for the pur
pose of defeating Bacon.
Not only thb—we are told that the
"Ring" b actively engaged In putting ont
local candidates all over the state, ranging
in namo and fame, from W. B. Jones to Teto
Bmith. Tho complaint, as we understand
it, b that the “King” b In favor of every
man in the state except Bacon, and, if nec
essary to defeat him, will seise ail the other
candidates and bnneb. Certainly snch
programme b n tremendous one, and we
have no doubt that oar esteemed contempo
raries will succeed in making n few of their
readers shiver snd shake.
Onr advice to the susceptible editors,
however, b that they drop the “Atlanta
Ring" myth. It was a very fine bngaboo
years ago, hut time and circumstances havo
shown that the attempt to get np local prqj
udlces in thb way b a failure. If any of
onr contemporaries ore really afraid of the
“Atlanta Ring," they shonld strive to make
the gubernatorial convention a representa
tive body—a people’s convention, which
shall thoroughly discuss and consider the
merits of Ifie candidates whose names may
be brought beforo il The dbgrantled ed-
llora shonld use their Influence to secure a
convention on which no single candidate
has a lien. Above all, they should discard
the idea that only one or two men haven
right to aspire to gubernatorial honors. Thb
bthe right of the humblest citizen of tho
stato. Every man in the state, who thinks
he b qualified, has the right to offer himself
as n candidate for governor beforo a conven
tion ol hb party.
Tho people themselves hare a remedy
against all rings, real or mythical. Let
them send representative men to the state
convention, men who will give every candi
date fair play.
AGAINST CIVIL SERVICE.
The zyMem le borrowed from Enslsnd, and u, no
doubt, comonant with that limited monarchy,
where the title to the highest oflloe In the realm it
Inherited as a piece of property for life. Hut I be
lieve It to be utterly at varlanco with the genlur
end spirit of onr Institutions. I do not believe tt It
In accord with the seotlment ot democratic
America. This Is a government of the people, by
the people and for the people, and should so con
tinue. Public office is not held as of right by a
special class, but Is a public trust, confided by the
1-conic for the public good,
Tho act sought to bo repealed Is a radical de
parture that leads away from these fundamental
principle!. Human nature Is much the same
without regard to political party affiliations Long
continued and uninterrupted rule, by say politi
cal party, will establish abuses and corruption In
the public service. The remedy la not la a special
office-holding claei, hot la with the people, by a
change In governmental control. So that the ser
vice fs not made to tuflbr, It aeema bnt lust that
thoae who fairly and honorably labor for
the triumph of the political principles
which they believe will beat pro-
mole the good of the whole country
should have the offices with tbelr emolumenle in
cident toauocesa Equity ought to be Mtdilbhed
among the people ofthe several states In the ap
portionment of departmental offices Equality is
equity, but It hat no exlatenco In this matter. At-
tentlon Is invited to the following atatement ofthe
number of offices within what la called the claaal-
fled service, that Is, the salaries of which are as
much as MOO and not more than 11,300 a year,cred
ited on the lit day of July, IMS, to tho atalea
nsmed below, as shown by the official regtster.
The statement of population la taken from the can-
Ohio
Massachusetts
Mary load.............
(.108,002
1,733,006
bSii’iS
1,542,180
no.Mol
878,000
WB.fiOO
75.100
07,400
71.100
loyosln
These numbers defcnot tnoludo any omplo;
the postofllco or custom houses In (m
named. Many other states, not; named, have suf
fered equal tnlnstloo under egregious dlscrtmlns-
•ubllcon administration. It will bo
dltcd with one iu this
r citizens, while Texas
Df republican adminlstrai
hat Maryland le credited i
d to about 8,625 of her cltlsei
lions or
seen tbs
service 1
is credit
citizens. It is well known that a largo per cent of
the few employes credited to the ztatea most dis
criminated against in the past are not, and have
never been, bona tide residents of inch states.
The Inequality above shown le thoroughly main
tained in tho service both above and below the
classes named. A great majority of those now in
tho service entered without examination: many of
them were appointed npon partisan considerations;
some of them upon a slight pretense of fairness
appointments according to the population
of each slate regardless of existing Inequalities,
Indefinite perpetuation of tho
portion si
of etch il
which means tho Indefinite perpcl
wrongs existing. If wo sro to havk>»uv
official community, it ought to ho organ!:
a better basis. Ilutl bclievo the most direct way
to substantial reform Is by repeal of the law re-
lupon
ferrcd to.
J. a Clkmknts.
DOE8 FARMINO PAY?
The Views of the llember From the Ninth
District,
Congressman J. O. Clements, of tho 7th
districts is a member of the house commltteo
on civil service. To this oommlttoo was re
ferred a bill to abolish the civil servloo com
mission and tho majority report of the com
mittee wu against the passage ofthe bill. Mr
Clements, however, submitted a minority re
port which wu u follows:
VIXWS OF Till MINORITY.
It appears to have boon the design of tho
founders of our government that responsibilit y
and power should go together. For nearly a cent
uryftwos administered upon this theory. I do
not believe that the grave abuses that grew up
under the long continued rule of the republican
paity following the elvll war demand or Justify the
new and radical departure In principle and policy
embodied in the act known as the elvll service
law. The president’s power or appointment and
removal with respect to executive offloes is fixed by
the constitution. Therefbre.ln so tor os the act in
question attempts to limit this power In any way,
whether directly by Its own terms or by the rales
established In pursaanoe of the same. It Is note
valid law and can only operate by virtue of execa<
tlvo acquiescence. Not only the president but the
political party that elects him are held responsible
by the whole pcoplo for bis administration of the
tests, unnecessary to the practical ascertainment
of the fitness of applicants tor the employment
sought. By the rules adopted, all persons over tho |
ege of forty-fire years, however well qualified and
| honorable, are absolutely barred from examine-
H few of’the
{■■PBI u>.uvlly u
i" i, except Wiiili-
tlic pcoplo havo mi
■MMHVHNMHMEjHace. and it is inooa* I
I venlent snd expensive to many of those who have
notice to attend. However creditable may bo the
standing of an applicant upon examination, if he
is not appointed within a year.hls nemo Is dropped
from the roll of eligible* and If he desires a ebanoe
I for admission to the service, be mart again apply
for examination. This Is pot Inconvenient to |
.1 >V •'
HHI to fWSBSBBfBBBB
^■t to enter the service in
| order to secure efficiency, for hoaerty and efficien
cy ought to be Indispensable requisites to the hold-
ng of any office. And while there are as honora
ble end as capable men In one great political party
las another, is it not reasonable to believe that if,
In addition to the requisites above named, the
subordinate officials are In oocord with the admin
istration they will aid its purposes snd policy in
tbc pub’ic service more fslthraijythen ifhostile to
It? May they not be in aeconf with the party
charged with the responslbtiUy of the administra
tion without being offensive partisans, without
prostituting their offices to partisan purposes, au
without neglecting official duties for such purpo4
The abuses in the service which brought
Dr. Westmoreland flsya that Mr, Smith Is
Angry.
In a communication to the Athens Banner-
Watchman explaining hla looses In farming,
Hon. James M. Bmith, of Oglethorpe, uses the
following language:
In June 18851 lost (4,000 in a fight with tho gov
ernor and penitentiary officials to disprove tolse
charges brought against me by theso officials and
to prerent them from making political capital for
thrmtolvca at the expenso or my honor and good
ntme. In the ahovo (t,ooo Is not tncliutaT my
own time, which in that particular Umo of the
year wu worth a great deal if I could have usod
It in looking after my legitimate business; hence,
1 charge (4,000 cub teas In a fight with opium
eaters, drunkards, political aspirants and oaten of
public huh. I might have softled thla case with
■onto less expense by bootlicking, fawning and
surrendering principle.
Dr. Willis F. Westmoreland, principal physi
cian of the penitentiary, says:
"Mr. Smith Is mad because ho hu been
brought to tow with his convicts. When I
visited the camps, I found that his barracks
were Insufficient, unhealthy and unsafe. I
therefore ordered him to build a new barraoks
which he did after great remonstrance. I found
that his convicts were being badly treated,
and Insufficiently fed, and kept on impropor
food. Thero wsa scurvy In nls camp whtoh
is simply impossible whero proper food Is
given. I reported theso facte to tho gov
ernor, os was my sworn duty. The gov-
ernorj thereupon ordered Mr. Smith to
appear beforo him. Mr. Smith secured
... . x i
.._j to
ovlli. Bo-
fore the tlmo for tho hearing arrived Mr.
Smith represented that he had made improve
ments and corrected the trouble. I paid a
visit to the camp and found that this waa
true, and tho governor thoroapon laid tho
case uide. I cannot see how this cost Mr.
Smith four thousand dollars. He was repre
sented before the go jrnor by Judge Krwln,
and Mr. Bussell, and as no argument was
had, I do not see how ho could have been out
four thousand dollars.”
“Ho states that hli loos is four thousand dol
lars.”
“I suppose he may charge up the mousy ho
spent in improving the comp. If so. thla
should bo charged to humanity rather than to
litigation. Tho troth Is Mr. Smith found that
the convicts wero not paying him on tho farm
as hs had sxpoctod, and he determined to
dues expenses. This meant pinching the ~
vlcto, and It is against pinching the
that wo are bound to protest, and
which ws did protest. If tho oonvlcttfll^not
pay on Mr. Smith’s firm, that glve^hlm no
(iccnio to underfeed them. It j^uld havo
been much pleasanter for mo \w get along
quietly with all tho leiseos, butchers I havo
seen an outrage on bamanlU?cruelty, ineffi
cient buildings, insnfflcient^improper food. I
have reported the samo tedhe governor. The
records will show whether the present admin
istration of the penitentiary la not better than
It has been, and ou thb record we are willing
to rest.”
"Hu there been znr difficulty between you
and Mr. Smith lately?”
"Nothing, except that I havo ordered him to
build . hospital, which he hu promised to do
next month. Ulsprawnt hospital Is inefficient,
snd will he go decided by any Impartial men
who look at It. I bare simply called hla at*
tentlon to this fact, and lutractod him that bo
must bare a better one. The difficulty with
Mr. Bmith is that ho considers every complaint
lodged against the treatment of tho convicts at
a perrons! matter against himself. If he will
treat tho convicts humanely, give them good
quarters and proper food, he will havo no
further trouble. I aln perfectly Indifferent to
him. In making my official reports I never
consider tho I cues. It la simply the convict,
and their quarters that I look after. If Mr.
Smith trill be humans hla temper will Improve,
and if ha Inafits on bring omul ha will proba
bly get madder than bs b now.’’
“Mr. Smith bu boon very conspicuous,” Dr,
Westmoreland went on, "In tbs newspapers,
with what b* calls his trouble. His troublo Is
•imply this: ho hu determined that ho will
not treat hb convicts bamnnoly, and wo are
determined he shell. If he woala Improve hb
camps, feed hb prisoners, and moat the gov-
ernor frankly when eomplelnts aro made, he
would havo no troublo. Bat ho iqjoete ererr
suggestion, postpones every reform, dodges the
governor, snd raliu on bullying hb way
through. Instead of doing right, ho balllu
and abuses. Now we propose to stop him.
Colonel Towers b not In the city today, and
wa cannot get certain papers that we noed.
As soon u ha returns, wa will makoafuU state-
ment, that will show the public exactly what
the trouble Is.”
DIED IN OBOROIA.
J to their r L .
fezrof Iczinc tbelr ptaceeT^H
If the superior officer* of the department!, though
partisan.-, have a proper appreciation ol theeo-
gMggngof public trurta. there need be no partleon.
pn the pert of the zuboMlnatc*. even If all |
the trurta confided to them by the retention of a
part, or even all, of three hoblfag clerical or other
officee In the verloae department* of the govern
ment, they have the power to do ao without thla
The most lerioua objection to It ta that It tend!
toward a permanent office holding oonsmnnity.
DURING THE WEEK.
Tnenday, March 30.—The locomotive flhopf o
tho Northern I>«clAo railroad, together with sev
eral other building!, at Bralnard, lllun., wcrcdc-
itroyed by fire....Thomas Margrave, a etcamboat
engineer, wee drowned at Oooeaw, 8. C John
Lovln end Sam Loviu were arreeted in North Caro
lina for robbing the mails ......Great preparations
arc being made In Richmond, Vo., for tho general
confercnco or the Melbodlit Episcopal church
Eouth, which meets in that city on tho fifth of M&jr.
Moody end Benkey are In Columbia, 8. C.
In the City.—Governor McDaniel re appointed
Hon “James M. Bclloh to bo Judge of the county
court of Chattooga county Mr. Floyd Merchant
fell from a trapeze end broke his right leg In two
placet.
Thursday, April 1.—T. T. White, a promtnont
and wealthy merchant of New Orleans died sud
denly In Staunton, Va, of heart disease It le es
timated that the public debt for March has been re
duced about (14,250,000.
In the City.—W. P. Fonts, of Gilmer ooanty,
died In the Fulton county Jell yesterday of spotted
fever, or mentoglUs Mr. George T. Merritt ha
made a flnt-class violin out of Georgia wood, and
•ays he would not take lees than ono hundred dol
lars for it.
Sunday, April 4.—The visible supply of cotton
for the world Is 2,768,859 bales,of which 2,269,759 aro
American ThoBelme, Ala., gas works wore de
stroyed by fire.
In thk City.—Tho poultry show to bo held In
Atlanta on tho 15th lnstaut will be a grand affair.
......It li settled that the non, Jefferson Davis will
be In Atlanta at the unrolling ofthe Hill statue,
on Saturday, May 1st.
Pensioners of the Seminole War.
From the Caiterevlllo Courant -
Thero are two pensioners of the Sominolo
war living In Bartow, aud so tor as we learn they
ere the only ones In our county. They are Mr*.
Elisabeth Heath, sged hty-four £ee™.,»nd^Mr*.
Margaret Hobbe, stepmother of Captain J. N.
Dobbs. The Courant baa enjoyed a pleasant chat
with Mrs. Heath, who wes found to be a very In
teresting character. Her husband, if living, would
now be near one hundred yean old.. The old lady
la toll of Interesting information, aud her accounts
of things during "Indian times" would fill a
volume. She draws $24 every three months, which
Is all tbs sustenance she has.
A STANDARD MEDICAL WORK
FOB TOONS AND MIDDLE-AGED MEN.
ONLY SI BY MAIL. POSTPAID.
irxrSTItATIVK BAJ1PLB FltEB TO ALL.
KNOW THYSELF.
A Great Medical Work on Manhood
Kxhanited Vitality, Nervous and Physical De.
bllttr, Frematora Decline In Kan, Errors or Youth,
tnd therm told miseries resulting from Indium-
lions for all “acute and chronic diseases. cachHIH
ofwhichlstovalaable. So Jtandnyth* Author,
whose experience for 25* years u such as probably
pages, bound in beautiful Frenon muslin, emboss-
• any other work si
raff;
b to anybody*. I
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^of^soclety to whom thg
to!, whether youth,
clergyman.-Argo-
Bulflnch street, Boston, Maas.,
« Itedon all diseases requiring
skill and experience. Chronic and obstinate dlsoft<e
g’dSS&STHYSELF
tton thla paper. may«-dly mon wed frtdnrky
OrTOgrTreKT";^ 93 * ho «
1 NeagGenalneante.. benringlMeBtnmu
JAMES MEOWS’
Judge o. F. RrMowe, CrswfordsTlUe Mrs. B.
K. McDonald, Rockdale county, Mrs. John (ill
belt, Jonesboro^ Rev. A. II. Horners. Atlanta—
Hl/s Lucy Clark, Midterm Mr. /. K. Wise, lr„
Cal boon county....Mr. Claud J. TooUlnam,
Adslrsvllle Mrs Halite O. (lauldlng, Atlanta....
Mr. K. W, Pool, Banka county.,..Mrs.Thomai Da-
Wolf, Chittahoocbee county Mr. Theodora Eg
gleston, Aitsnts Mrs. Dud Redding, Moorot
county....Mr. J, A. Stockton, Macon.
MAttniED IN GEORGIA.
Mr. Eugene Clark and Him Wallace, LaOrsngu
.. Mr. AO. Carter and Mlu Ware. UOrange.....
Mr. Morris Mlchelson snd Mbs Hlnchfietd, lining,
wick.
Derangement of the liver, with constipation,
iniuro the complexion, Induce pimples, sallow
skin, etc. Brmore the cause by using Carter’s
Little Liver nils. Ono adorn.
lfantt-wi thin paper. fohl—dAwkr>m
/1EOH0IA, FAYETTE COUNTY. J. F. JACK
vJ son as next (Hand of Mrs. Frances A. Callaway
has applied for exemption of personalty, and stb>
ting apart and valuation of homestead, for her tho
said > ranee* A. Callaway, and I will pom upon tho
lame at 10 o'clock a. m., on tbo J7th aay or April,
lttfl, at my office. This Msroh 27. iwa.
April I why 2t D. M. FRANKLIN, Ordinary.
G eorgia, fayettk county, j. k. jack-
ton hss applied for exemption ol ifemonalty.
•nd .ettlug tpart and valuation of homestead,
• ml I will pus upon the .erne et 10 o'clock a. m.,
on tb. g^rof A^.^.t^.moajtob
r6why2t
tlon, Now
Orleans,
■■■and
railed in spy contest, hss been still further Improv
ed, snd is now tolly adapted to any character of
coil end tho most unakiuoil labor, two style* and
it lathe adirdurat’fc planter made, and will
Save* its Cost Three Times Over
SINGLE ISEASON
TWO HANDS!AND ONE TEAM.
The price hss been reduced to suit tho times,
fiend for circular giving full deKrtptlon and
GLOHE PLANTER M’FG. CO.,
sen Marietta Street, AtLraU, 6a.
lfenllln this paper.