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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. ^ ^ w.-. V"W if 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.