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UNION & RECORDER.
Milledgeyille, April 13, 1880.
NATURE.
Atlanta's New Railroad.
The people of Atlanta have been
restive under the working of the rail
road system which connects]her with
all other places, in that, of the seven
or eight lines composing the system,
not one of them is under the control
of Atlanta or of Atlanta men. Every
one, they say in substance, is worked
for the benefit of some other city or
section where the stock is owned,
and consequently the interests of At
lanta go to the wall whenever k there
is a conflict of interests.
Doubtless this feeling has been
growing, perhaps somewhat under
the surface, for quite a length of
time, but at length, the smothered
fire has burst through to the surface
and the building of a railroad, by At-
anta, for Atlanta, and to be managed
by Atlanta, to connect that city with
good river navigation to the sea, is
the thing which now excites the mer
curial and enterprising inhabitants of
our capital city, and sets both their
tongues and pens in motion.
A meeting of their business men
was held a few T days since to discuss
the matter, and it was found that
two different routes "were advocated;
one through Fayetteville, Culloden
and Houston county to Hawkinsville,
from which place they say large boats
can run to Darien at all seasons of the
year. The other route was through
Monticello, Eatonton, Sparta and
Waynesboro, and to strike the Sa
vannah river below Hershman’s, from
which point there is good navigation
to Savannah, and also a favorable
route to continue the road to Charles
ton or Port Royal. Committees of
active, substantial business men were
' appointed to gather useful informa
tion and statistics, concerning each
route, with the understanding they
were to report to a future meeting.
While each route had its advocates,
all professed their willingness to give
their best support to the one which
might subsequently be chosen. At
lanta does not often permit dissen
sions among her citizens to paralyze
her energies.
With due deference to those who
have the matter in hand, we desire to
say that we think there are two points
which should determine the route;
and one is that the road should be
carried to the nearest city on the sea
coast, having a good harbor and pos
sessing the necessary population,
capital and all the business appli
ances and foreign trade associations,
which would make it a desirable place
for Atlanta to connect herself with
by her railroad. This would be vast
ly better, it would seem, than to tie
on to a small town, like Port Royal,
which would have to be built up be-
ore it would answer her business pur
poses. Secondly, the road should
be built as nearly as practicable on
an air line, to give it the greatest ad
vantage over all its competitors.
With these two conditions complied
with, a glance at the map we think
will show that Savannah is the sea
port which Atlanta should connect
with. It will also show that a very
small divergence from an air line
would run from Atlanta, through
Montieello, Milledgeville, and San-
ders'ville, crossing the Central Rail
road near the latter place,) and
run thence for one hundred miles
through Johnson, Emanuel, Bulloch,
and Chatham counties to Savannah.
For about one hundred miles, the
lower end of the road would, in pass
ing through the above named coun
ties, pass through a region well
stocked with fine pine timber, com
paratively remote from railroad
iacilities, for it is separated from the
Central railroad by the Ogeechee
river for nearly that distance, 'i he
Central railroad would be the great
rival of the new road and from Atlan
ta to Savannah bv it is about 293
miles. By the map we have before
us. an air line from Atlanta to Savan
nah is about 206 miles. Add ten per
cent to that for necessary divergence
from a straight Hue to lessen the cost
of the grading, (a heavy allowance j
we think) and the distance when
properly located would be about 22(5
miles—making the distance by the
new road (5? miles less than bv the
Central. With such heavy odds
against it, could the latter compete
with former for freight or pns-
iAngers?
This Article has grOtt’h beyntul ‘air
CWceraton and we close by eomhtciid
mi the above facts-. pmrthUflg f ■> .he
cu^'didh bf H‘P K' v t Polite for the new
road, to the consideration o! its
friends who have that matter under
investigation. ^ ^
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What we call nature is the systems
of the world or all the worlds, and
all the beings created by the Omnipo
tent creator. We allude to the Crea
tor because it does not follow 7 that a
blind thing, called nature, could cre
ate the world on which we live and
the countless worlds that career in
space. Intelligence is needed to con
struct a house, to build a ship, to
mould a cannon, or to form a govern
ment. These are things that men
may do. But who made man and
gave him a world to live on, with a
sun to give him light by day' and a
moon to give him light by night? Na
ture is a system of worlds with their
atmospheres, their suns and' moons;
and philosophy teaches that between
these worlds, countless in number,
many of them thousands of times larg
er than the Earth, there are immense
distances altogether free from atmos
pheric air. The immensity of space
may be imagined, when as far as has
been ascertained, the outermost plan
et, in our system is eighteen thousand
millions of miles from the sun. How
many millions of miles of space inter
vene between this and the next plane
tary system in which there is no at
mosphere at all, can never be ascer
tained; but from this we can readily
imagine the vastness of the universe
where the systems,- thus separated by
voids without air enough to stir a
feather, are so immense to prevent one
system from interfering with another.
Thus are placed through all space,
myriads of systems of suns and worlds.
The universe has no end in space eith
er North, South, East or West, for if
one could travel forever in any direc
tion with the speed of lightning, he
would see worlds and suns many mill
ions of time larger than ours.
Now r does it not look absurd to sup
pose that all this interminable and
magnificent structure of glowing
suns and worlds, evolved and spread
out with unerring balances from a
blind source called Nature. From its
structure, character and magnitude
are we not bound to believe it is the
work of some intelligent being; we
call Him God. But the sceptic may
ask, who made God? Who can tell?
If you say all this vast machinery of
suns and worlds was the work of na
ture, I may ask you who made na
ture, and if you should say it existed
always, I may say God existed always,
and there is the end of the controver
sy, We prefer to believe that it is all
tiie work of an Omnipotent God who
rules the universe and the destinies of
all his creations.
Augusta and Chattanooga Rail
road.—There was a grand rally of
the citizens of Augusta last Tuesday
evening in favor of the Augusta and
Chattanooga Rail road. Gen. M. A.
Stovall was made President. Stirring
speeches were made by Mr. Walsh,
Senator Davidson, W. H. Fleming,
Mr. Perry of Gainesville, C L. Mc
Cord, Esq., and others. Ten thousand
dollars were subscribed making $65-
000 for Augusta. Other efforts will he
made in Augusta and elsewhere. The
friends of the road feel assured of its
success.
Messrs. A. B. Farquhar & Co.,
manufacturers of machinery and !
Wholesale Hardware Merchants of i
j Macon, are doing an immense busi
ness. Their Cotton Planter is one of j
the best in use,
reduced price.
nd is now sold at a
In machinery and
hardware of all kinds they iead the
van in Middle Georgia, if you want
new machinery, or if you want old
machinery repaired, or hardware of
any kind, call on Bob Smith, who is
one of the cleverest, most accommo
dating and reliable business men in
all this country, and will give you fair
dealing and low prices.
Messrs. Moody and San key who
held meetings from Thursday to the
succeeding Tuesday, in Atlanta re
cently are reported by the Macon
Telegraph’s Atlanta correspondent to
A Big Damage Suit.
The excellent Atlanta correspondent
of the Macon Telegraph, in a recent
dispatch, gives an account of a suit
just instituted, which will doubtless
be a celebrated case and excite much
interest throughout the State. A suc
cinct account of the circumstances
leading to it will therefore, we think,
be acceptable to our readers. We
quote from the dispatch as follows :
Atlanta, April 2.—A most interest
ing case was taken up in the Superior
Court this morning—the case of John
S. Candler vs. the Georgia Railroad
and Banking Company. The plaintiff
is represented by Hillyer & Brother.
He sues for $49,000 damages for per
sonal injuries.
In 1883, Mr. Candler lived at Edge-
woqd, a suburb of this city. He prac
ticed law in Atlanta. It was his cus
tom to take the Covington accommo
dation train for home late in the af
ternoon, getting off at the crossing
near the Fulton spinning mills, just
beyond Oakland cemetery.
On the night on the 13th of March,
1883, Mr. Candler came to Atlanta to
attend a meeting for the purpose of
organizing the Atlanta Greys, a mili
tary company. He remained in town
too late to take the Covington accom
modation. He boarded the night ex
press on the Georgia road, intending
to get off at the crossing near the
Fulton Mills. He thought the train
would either stop at the said crossing
or run sufficiently slow for him to
jump off in safety. In this he was
mistaken.
It was a dark night when Mr. Can
dler saw the lights of tile Fulton mills
glooming ahead of the train, he went
out on the platform and got down on
the lower step intending when the
train should slack up at - the crossing
to step off and go home. But instead
of slacking up the train passed the
crossing at the rate of about 12 miles
an hour. Mr. Candler did not jump,
but turned to go back in the car and
take his seat. In turning on the low
er step of the platform, his back pro
truded several inches from the plat
form. He was struck by .a pile of
wood stacked up within a few inches
of the track and knocked senseless.
He fell from the platform under the
cars. Three coaches passed over both
his legs, mangling them so terribly
that they were amputated the same
night. He suffered great agony and
will continue to suffer all his life.
At the time of the accident he was a
lawyer of nine year’s standing. He
had earned about $1,500 that year,
and with age and experience hoped to
earn from live to ten thousand a year.
His practice was broken up and his
capacity to pursue his profession re
duced at least two-thirds.
He was forced to abandon all busi
ness for six months at a loss of $600.
He expended $90 for nursing, $950 for
medical attendance, and $350 for a
set of artificial limbs, which set will
have to be replaced by a new one
every five years at the same cost. He
was just thirty-one years old, of sound
constitution and had a good prospect
of living at least fort}' years longer.
He was disabled for life. The case
will take several days.
LATER.
The Atlanta correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph under date of the
9th, says that after the conclusion of
the argument, in the above case, the
jury went out and “in half an hour
they returned with a verdict for the
defendant. The verdict was a genu
ine surprise. The case now goes to
tlie Supreme court. Mr.. Candler sued
for $49,000. He won a verdict for $15,-
000 about a year ago. The road was
granted a new trial on a technicality.
Before this the road offered to com
promise by giving Mr. Candler half
of the verdict. He declined the off er.
J udge Clark told the jury in his charge
to-day that if they were satisfied from
the evidence that the train did not
stop regularly at the crossing and
that Mr. Candler leaped from the car,
he could not recover.”
It is hard for a private citizen to
The Great Strike Continued.
have been paid just $50 each for their ) hold his own in a contest with a great
and rich corporation. The facts us
related in the first portion of this ar
ticle show that Mr. Candler did not
lea}) from the car. and furthermore,
it is hard to believe that if he had done
so, he would have fallen with his legs in
a position to be run over bv the
wheels.
services. This statement came from
Rev. ,T. W. Lee of Trinity (Methodist)
church, who thought it “a burning
shame that they were treated so nig
gardly." We incline to think that
Mr. Lee's opinion will be endorsed by
nearly everybody, except a certain
class who seem to take delight in cre
ating a prejudice against all who act
in the capacity of evangelists—or say
revivalists—in serving their Lord and
Master.
y&ds
, , . j v tog Oil all tin
1 he*T confined to ot
—in the At-
'sntce, was sr :p-
le F. S. prison-
>ther jails, ha«»
again made its appearance among t-z
same class of prisoners. One died
several da vs since, and another, after
an attack that threatened a fatal ter
mination, is said to be slowly recov
ering Judge McCay and other feder
al officials telegraphed the facts to l .
g Attorney-General Garland, at TVash-
imrton, who in reply, sanctioned their
nronosal that all the U. S. prisoners
be discharged and allowed to go home
1 Mr., Bam fc*mail oil bis return to {
j Atlanta from Chicago', **\'here he lias,
been assisting ReVd. Sam Jones in j
| riie ly.ng coYoi'AAed revival services
! which, he) c interacted so much atten-
I tie^ JTWyaghout the country, was
^ ked by a reporter of the Const it U-
* tiou what truth there was. in the TC-
j port which has been circulated in c’tfr-
• lain newspapers that each of the two
preachers received *3,000 their
I services. He repiled, tha$ '-roe Mul-
I hatton or some siiirila*r romancer J ed.
must have started vPv.Vt story, for gro
there was not a weftd of truth in it.
They had of CquT^c deceived a reason
able sain, but'it V<as out of all propor
tion to the a inbuilt stated.
The citbens, of Augusta, seem to be
very nfuch in earnest in the matter of
having an air-line railroad built be-
DOWN IN BAKER,
Nk well’s Plantation,
Baker Co., March 30, 188P.
mid Advertiser.
Mr. Hi U. Savage, the efficient man
ager or Capt. T. F. Newell’s large
planing interests in Baker county,
prevailed upon me to accompany him
tb his home last Friday. Mr. Savage
is, for the time being, a bachelor, hig
handsome and accomplished bride be
ing temporarily absent.
After supper, for my amusement, a
plantation entertainment wasarrang-
The performance was of the ne-
ininstrel ordeiv, with song and
dance. The music was made by a
trio, the instruments being the banjo,
bones and tambourine. The perfor
mance was not only good, but unique,
creditable and diverting, and I am
sure that such a performance would
captivate a New Tork or Boston
audience. Among the jig and clog
tween Augusta and Chattanooga, dancers there were two negro boys,
IJC They expect to have the warm co-op- j aged respectively six and nine years,'
without bail, all of them, we be oration of the people along the line, J whose dancing was truly remarkable]
lieve being of the class called moon-
shiner« This humane and conmieud-
•ible iail delivery has been accomplish
ed and in our judgment the miserable
law which brings them so often into
trouble, should, as advised by the late
\ H Stephens, be swept from our
federal statute books. Its present
working is simply in favor of the rich
distillers of the West, and against the
noor mountaineers who have no oth-
L w av of making their surplus corn
of value to them. This of course
■would not prevent any state from
prohibiting the manufacture and sale
of whiskey within its own limits.
Thu British Premier.—Mr. Glad
stone stands firmly by his Irish policy.
He will push it at the risk of Ins sta
tion.
1 and considering the strong feeling J I have witnessed many negro minstrel
manifested in its favor and the mark
ed revival of the spirit of railroad
building throughout the State, it
would seem altogether probable that
the enterprise will be taken in hand
and carried on to completion.
The Cabinet.—There seems to
have been a great deal of sickness in
Mr. Cleveland's cabinet. Secretaries
Lamar and Garland have fully recov
ered. Mr. Manning is considerably
improved. Mr. Whitney is sick but
not dangerously.
The Electric fire alarm poles and
wires are being put up in Augusta.
It will be completed in thirty days.
The Democrats were beaten at the
city election in Cincinnati on the 6th.
performances, but have never seen
anything on the stage to compare
with this performance of crude and
ignorant plantation negroes.
Mr. Savage has 300 acres of corn up,
a perfect stand, and the best I’ve seen
this spring. He also has 200 acres of
cotton already planted, this beino-
about one-third the acreage that he
will plant in cotton.
Snow Storms.-Fearful snow storms
have occurred at the North and
Northwest, sufficient to blockade roads
and prevent regular travel. That is
the reason why we have such cold
weather in this section. The streams
are rising again in those sections and
threatening disaster from tlieir over
flows.
\s we write (Saturday the 10th) the
great strike in the West is still in force
and the strikers have used force and
violence at various places to prevent
the new hands employed by the
roads from performing their duties
and have stopped, to a considerable ex
tent railroad traffic thus inflicting great
annoyance and financial losses, not
only upon the Railroads, but upon the
people of a large extent of country in
two or three States. The patience of
the people having finally become ex
hausted, they have organized them
selves into military companies with
arms in their hands, and the Govern
ors of several States have ordered out
volunteer companies to proceed to the
points where mobs have the control
and hundred of deputies have been
added to the regular police at differ
ent places. The Knights of Labor,
however, as they call themselves, de
pending upon the vast number be
longing to their organization, which
is said to be 100,000 or more in the
whole union, refuse to obey the man
dates of the law or its officers, and
have precipitated conflicts with the
civil authorities at various places in
Missouri, Arkansas, Kansas and Tex
as, and a number of lives have been
lost.
It is strange that at first, some per
sons were disposed to sympathise with
this lawless set of men, who will neith
er work themselves for the wages of
fered them nor suffer others, who are
willing to take such wages, to work
in their places. We might present a
suppositious but parallel case, which
would make more clear to some of
our readers the principle under
lying the matters at issue. Suppose
the men employed by the contracto
for our new Court House, should go
to them and demand an advance of 25
per cent on the wages they now re
ceive. The contractors might, and
probably would reply, “no, we can't
afford to do that. We took the con
tract expecting to pay the present rul
ing prices for labor, and if we should
pay you what you demand, we would
lose' instead of making anything.
Their men then, if they should follow
the example of the Knights of Labor,
would say, “well we won’t work for
such pay, and we shall strike and quit
right now.” “Very well” the contrac
tors would doubtless say, “we must
employ others to take your places.' 1
“Oh no,” the strikers would say, “you
shan't be allowed to employ other
men in our places ; or if you do, we
will prevent them from working, and
that by force, if it should become nec
essary.' 1 Thus the issue would be
sharply joined, and the contractors
would get other men after more or
less trouble, and call on the Mayor
to protect for their hands against
the strikers. The Mayor would order
the marshals to do so, aided by a
number of deputies, whom he would
appoint and the workmen, being mem
bers we will suppose of a secret or
ganization, extending over this and
other states, would call upon their
fellow members in Macon, Augusta,
and elsewhere, to come to their aid.
In compliance with the obligations
they had taken upon themselves and
perhaps sworn to obey these men
would come, until a formidable body of
men would be here to beat and drive off
from their work, peaceful laborers,
destroy their tools, and stand up with
arms in their hands, and set the offi
cers of the law, and their deputies,
and perhaps the men of our volunteer
companies called out to assist them,
at defiance. Then, if they should fol
low the example of the Knights of La
bor at the West, they would not hesi
tate to lire on our friends, neighbors,
and fellow citizens, who were attempt
ing to sustain the law of the land,
which gives them protection of life
and property, and anarchy and mur
der might reign, where all is now
peace and safety.
This may seem an overdrawn pic
ture, but it is not at all so, if the
workmen on our courthouse belonged
to such an organization as the knights
of labor. The serious truth is that
the labor troubles at the West are lia
ble to break out at any other place in
the North and West where great
masses of population are settled in
small, circumscribed limits, and there
seems to be no way in which they
can be settled under existing laws,
except by the putting down of tiie
malcontents by the force of arms.
That however is a remedy which men
in authority in this country dislike
very much to use and when used it
leaves evil effects behind which may
produce many ills in the future. A
great many of the socialists and com
munists from the lowest stratum of
society in Europe have been introduc
ed among our native working classes
and have poisoned their minds and
morals with ideas of principles which
are opposed to all that is just and true.
The consequence is that the problem
of the proper adjustment of the op
posing rights of capital and labor is
rendered more difficult than ever.
The outlook for the future, as regards
these matters is by no means cheering.
The Southern Press Associa
tion.—The representatives met in
Augusta ou the 7th. There were
representatives from Virginia, North
Carolina, Charleston, Tennessee, Flor
ida, Texas, Alabama, Louisiana, Mis
sissippi and Georgia.
Hon. P. Walsh was made President
and Hon. F. W. Daw'son, of Charies-
tion, Vice Presdent. An Executive
Committee was appointed consisting
of Messrs. Walsh, of Ga., Dawson and
C. R. Jones, of S. C., C. R. Jones of
N. C., C. H. Jones of Florida, W. N.
Screws of Ala., C. O. B. Cowardin of
Va., and J. H. Estill of Ga
The Strikes.—There has been
some improvement between the labor
strikers and the Jay Gould roads, but
not enough to justify the opinion that
they will be settled amicably. A few
more days w ill {brow more light upon
this element of disturbance to busi-
ness. ^
We were shown, last week, a very
handsome wedding cake, sent to
friends in this city, by Mrs. Sallie
Schiedeman, of Jacksonville, Ala.
A beautiful line of Parasols to be
opened, to-day, at.W. H. Carr's.
Adolph Joseph
Complete Stocks
OF ALL
easonable Goods!
The Choicest Dress Goods!
The JYewest Designs!
In all a ad Everything!
An Immense Stock of
Ready-Made Clothing,
*•
For Men, Boys and Children.
ADOLPH JOSEPH,
Joseph’s Corner.
Milledgeville, Ga., April 12, 1886. 8 ly.