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| Consolidated 1872. Milledgeville, Ga., July 5, 1887.
Numb^b 62.
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EDITORIAL GLIMPSES.
MIDWAY PARAGRAPHS.
College Avenue is a well travelled
street, just now. The Asylum coal
wagons in delivering 2,500 tons coal to
the Asylum from the Midway Station
gives the avenue an air of business.
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Parties having land in the vicinity
of the Asylum, especially between it
and Milledgeville, should offer it for
sale in small lots.
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A street railroad between the Asy
lum and the Milledgeville depots may
be deferred a while longer but Its
construction ultimately Is inevitable.
Of the undertakings suggested for
this community, this is the most prac
ticable now perhaps and should claim
the consideration of our local capi
talists. Even starting with fares at
10 cents (possibly 10) a paying pa
tronage of travel and freight would
be developed in a short time. Let a
local company be organized at once
and preliminary steps taken towards
putting tlio work underway.
■ It has been
>bi
suggested by several
iove it would ha conducive
lest fflour C’Mtege to have
h drUi few the aftls, de
barring the use of alLjewelry, lace
dressing durlbg the school
of good to the students and we be-
tees.
Jftion
i Faci
Slur
estion
Trus-
h. v.iluc hculth, perhaps l»fc, ejuuftinfc c*ch
v .i t the CrtUlUine. Sea
(1 L Tra<U*-M;irk and the full title
,nt of Wrapper, anil on the aide
al and signature of J. U. Zoilin Sc
r. the above f:\c- simile. Remember thero
,cr genuine Simmons Liver Regulator.
ireli 20,1887.
28 cw ly
entv divorces were granted -by
court in Atlanta, in one day.
all so-called remedies have failed,
"sage's Catarrh Remedy cures.
e Masons of Dakota have adopt-
rule to hereafter admit no sa-
keepers to the order.
bile there is an improvement in
st everything we use, the baker’s
il continues to crumble and folks
■limbic.
.’o Boston negroes, father and son,
ejected from the white people’s
in the Gra. R. R., last week. They
heil. but took the seats assigned
cob Sharp another one of New
hoodie” aldermen, 1ms been
guilty, and will go to the peni-
laryifhe doesn’t die. He is an
man, and in very bad health.
gineering skill has achieved in
a a notable triumph in the bridge
ov cr an •arm of the Ohina
this structure is five miles
• limit entirely of stone; has 300
0 feet high, tlie roadway is 70
and the pillars are 75 feet
Washington Letter.
From Our Regular Correspondent.
Washington, June 27, 1887.
Editor Union-Rkcorder:
Queen Victoria’s Jubilee wns cele
brated to some extent, even in tlm
the Capital of the greatest of Repub
lics; President Cleveland sent a con
gratulatory cablegram; Mr. West, the
British Minister, gave a great dinner
to which many distinguished guests
sat down, and a “Victoria Memorial
Room” was dedicated at the Garfield
Hospital, with appropriate ceremo
nies, by the Society of St. George.
The “Star Spangled Banner” and
“God Save the Queen” being sung in
honor of the Queen’s J ubilee.
Speaking of the Queen, reminds iue
of the return of our own lovely,
youthful, yet crownless queen, Mrs.
Cleveland who, for a time, holds un
disputed sway in the hearts of the
American people, simply ns the peo
ple's own daughter, who ha<< become
the. first “Lady of t he Land." From
her improved appearance, and bright
cheerful manner and conversation far
more so than ul
Cleveland has iml
brief respite fron
on her at the W1
ual—-it seems Mrs.
tensely enjoyed
the duties in;;
te House.
piwraBttVe o'fiiy *■*» takes- the public into her con
Work on t.lie Artesian Well at the
Asylum will be begun in the course
of the next two weeks. It is to he
hoped that the work will prove a
great success. This writer hopes be
fore a groat while to see numbers of
your citizens riding out on the street
cars to get a, copius draught of pure
water from this well.
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It affords us pleasure to bear testi
mony to the painstaking care bestow
ed by MiiJedgeville’s fair music teach
er tipori her music scholars. Miss
Gertie Treanor's concert on Tuesday
night of Commencement was a treat
to music lovers. We suspect her class
list will have no vacancies another
year.
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Mrs. Screven is on a visit to her
daughters, Mrs. E. C. Ramsay and
Mrs. Robt. Carr. Mrs. Boatwright of
Macon Is visiting her brother Mr. A.
P. Wynne and Mr. John L. Johnson
of Savannah is visiting his wife and
children in Midway.
GEN. JOHN SEVIER.
A Forgotten Hero of Many Hard
Fought Battles.
Augusts Chronica, June nth.
Champion, Ills., June 13,1887.
Gen. Sevier! Who ever heard of
Gen. Sevier? Why Gen. John Sevier
was <
sides
Capt. DeSaussure is leading a lone
bachelor’s life at present—his wife
and children being on a visit to rela
tives in South Carolina.
dence, and inforn^s them of the plans
of the President and herSelf in the re
mainder of the summer. She says
that she will probably be able to visit,
some Michigan friends when the Pres
ident goes to St. Louis, after which
they will both extend the trip to Kan
sas City, Chicago, Milwaukee, De
troit, Grand Rapids and perhaps
other Western Cities.
The printers of Washington are ex
ercised because tlie Commissioners
acting under the law which author
izes them to let it, to the lowest bidder,
have given the District printing con
tract, to a Philadelphia linn. Tlie
Printer's Union have taken up the
matter and there is a prospect of
much indignation, as it will take
$10,000 out of tlie hands of Printers
here, and throw a number of them
out of employment; nt least 50 per
cent was saved on the contract.
A special officer of the Pension Bu
reau arrested in Va., the other day
several persons, who in collusion with
an old blind soldier, swindled the
Government out of $13,000 in pension
money. Such frauds are always vain,
because the Government invariably
overhauls the offenders and inflicts
punishment commensurate with the
enormity of the crime. It is better to
swindle one’B own neighbors than
your vigilant and relentless Uncle
Will
may be “nothing new under
Min us Solomon said, but there's
fir inherence in the world in the
, 0 Vn,* u dross the same
ton 1 here's nothing new about
lj ut one man will dress up an
beverage so well the man who
■meil mixed drinks would never
I" ms child when he tasted it,
^ji lit f io » to their inability to find
* , of . t,1 e late Judge O. A. Looh-
‘ a |wily are troubled about
homls and insurance
1 ’/d ftre missing. It is sup-
t llla t they are in some safe de-
im.>, iu tl,e North. Judge
, e vas like many other law
’s |about everybody’s bus-
8 ‘*<it his own. f : i J
of Monticello,
]„);, e appointment as agent
• ! ‘V 'fairs at a point in CalTfor-
m,i V i re ®t° n is a prominent law-
fri„i l l )r °tber of the Representa-
I J,i.i . per county in the Geor-
"• tlfrrmm r a Tpu appointment
Mii,r> l L b, ‘ cl ' etRr y Lamar, ami
• r > is $1,800 per year. ^
f notoriety very often by
■> • °i't, but vfery foolish things
There is a rumor afloat than one of
our youthful M. D.’s is on the matri
monial war path in earnest this time.
Wagers are being laid on the matter,
Hancock stock farms ought to
supply the local demand for
horses and mulos. It would bo a
profitable business to the men
who engage in it, and it would
keep at home thousands of dol
lars that, otherwise, will be seut
out of the comity.—Islimaelite.
Any open weather in winter
when outdoor work can bo com-
fortable is the best time to prune
the grape vine. The earlier it is
done the better, not only to get
rid of surplus wood, but for the
purpose of dropping the vino on
the ground for protection against
cold. If left until spring before
being pruned, the sap will start,
and there will be some loss of vi
tality which should be directed to
fruitfulness. There is strong
temptation in pruning to leave too
much wood. By remembering
that every bud will another sea
son develop into a branch with
j p'J ln * is an instance:
m ®“« a great Frenchman,
toiofilfwb ?i° dls not dead; it is
J die without hliu.” To
sentanoa‘ S !S. in « he lft8t elauie
diotio. m?’ , th ® Frenchman utters
die w 0 ea m fl rfit. God can
>ut Hi,,? m 18 * 3 ne ver was horn.
u there is no beginning and
"nilennin? ? u illow beside the riv-
orllkenW* tbat which feeds
caul? bu tterfly, crushed by be
ck ti, . or bke a fox-cliase, of
‘ke p?>H? asure is in the pursuit-
lert <*d into 8 ?n™ hich is generally
se m J. 10 disappointment or re-
ke the will??' 1 ?!. 18 ac «omplished—
r whir l/ l, ' the . W18 P, in running
>- "nil r)nm^ rou ^ b P°nd and rno-
'X to cutcV 8 Paddles, one is
cateh nothing but-a coid.
M.
two
or more bunches of grapes,
to leave on tlie vine
the tendency
an excess^ of birds will be over
come.^-Courier Journal.
Cbover and Timothy.—The
roots of graifls, especially of clover
are an important part of the ben
efit from plowing under sod as a
manure. But it is quite proba
ble that in any old sod some parts
t>f the roots die off every year,
especially after a severe winter,
and their decay in the soil is a
S 'eat means for maintaining the
rtility of lands continued in
grass from year to year. If dif
ferent kinds of grasses are sown
some are liable to die sooner than
others, and thus furnish food for
those that remain. Clover, which
is biennial, is thus often sown
with timothy for a permanent
meadow. Tlio clover is mostly
out better the second year, and
the timothy holds in the ground
longer than it would if originally
sown alone,—-Courier Joumal.
Sam, wlio never forgives nor forgets
offenses.
In the third story of the Patent
Office, the model cases have been re
moved to ttie Southern corridor, to
uiuke space for twelve new rooms,
which are now being erected, to re
lieve the crowded rooms in other por
tions of tlie building. Of all tlie Gov
ernment Departments, perhaps the
different Bureaus of the Interior De
partment show the largest, healthiest,
and most constant growth. It is one
of the most important and extensive
of tlie Departments, really more so
than any other, if we except the
Treasury.
Tlie belief that Secretary Lamar
will be appointed to the Supreme
Court vacancy early next fall is firmly
impressed on the public mind and the
Secretary’s successor is being discuss
ed. Assistant Secretary Muldrow and
Commissioner of Pensions Black
among the number.
To give you an idea of the strict dis
cipline of tlie Washington police, I
will mention that one of tlie force lias
been dismissed from ollice for pluck
ing a magnolia blossom from the
Capitol grounds. This looks hard,
but it is just, for these guardians of
tlie city have no right, in tlie smallest
particular, to betray the trust re
posed in them.
Within the past week so many
prominent Democratic Statesmen
have arrived in this city that there
are those who think an important
conference on party policy is pending
and that it will be followed by good
results, all of which I hope is really
true.
The fact that Secretary Fairchild
ordered by telegraph the prepayment
of the July interest on bonds, amount
ing to about $9,000,000, caused some
alarm in iinancial circles, when con
sidered with reference to recent mon
etary disasters in New York, Cincin
nati and Chicago, but the Secretary
explains his action by saying that it
was not due to any apprehension
about the financial situation; the in
terest being due July 1st, and the
checks made ftut, the Department
was put to no inconvenience and the
effect, he believed would be reassur
ing.
The decision of Judge Speer that
the land loan companies could only
aollect their legal rate of interest, af
fects a large number of mortgages
now pending against Georgia farms.
As a matter o7 fact, we believe the
companies only get
was a great man in His time, and be
being a valiant soldier in the
war ot, the Revolution, held various
important eivil offices, among which,
exactly 100 years ago, was the posi
tion of governor of the state of
Franklin.
Worse yet! exclaims the surprised
reader, for who ever heard of tlie
state of Franklin? Well, then, the
state of Franklin corresponded to and
preceded by some ten tears tlie com
monwealth of Tennessee.
Up to tlie period of tlie Revolution,
Tenuessce was a part of North Caro
lina, andui 1777 was named the Dis
trictiOf Washington. North Carolina,
not lining averse to parting with it,
proposed iduding it to the national
govtirmimpt on condition tl^ftt, she
(North Carolina) should bo exempted
from paying, her sHut'c 6t tlm gi'trend 1
ncurred by the wafr.mT® iftdin-.
th or reject this proposition tlie
ment was given two yeai-s’
^ line the few whlteinhabitants
of thK distriot, to avoid tv bait seemed
little better than anarchy, took mat
ters in tbeir Own hands, organized a
state government, elected a full set of
officers, named their commonwealth
Franklin and made John Sevier its
governor.
After the lapse of two or three years
North Carolina repealed her act of
cession. Meanwhile tlio course of
government in the new country ran
anything but smoothly, for here was
one set of officers acting by the au
thority of the ‘‘statu of Franklin'’
and another seeking to rule tlie same
region—“the district of Washington' 1
—under tlie auspices of North Caro
lina. In this emergency Governor
Caswell, of North Carolina, issued a
conciliatory address that appeased
and forgave all tlie representatives
of the “Mtote of Franklin,” save its
late govertaor, John Sevier. He was
promptly arrested anil conveyed to
Morgantown, in North Carolina;
Where he was put upon trial for his
political misdemeanors. Want of
space forbids a detailed account of
his romantic delivery by brave and
devoted friends from the clutches of
the law to the freedom of his own
home at Knoxville. The very next
year he was chosen to the North
(Carolina / legislature, and upon his
appeara'.!?)e»before that body an aot
of oblivion was promptly passed.
John Sevier was born in Virginia,
45, but early in life removed to
a general and given him command of
u military district embracing the east
ern part of what was later the state
of Tennessee. Already (ntMl) dio was
the hero of thirtyflve butties, in all
of which lie was victorious, . and,
strange to 9ay, in none wounded. His
prowess on the frontier won'for him
the sobriquet of “Nolichucky Jack.”.
At the close of the revolutionary war
the Creek, Cherokee, Choctaw and
Chickasaw Indiafcs'in the district Of
Washington numbered 20,000. These
were the most daring, bloodthirsty
savages in Amerloa, and the handful
of whites who made their way across
the mountains and settled upon the
Holston at Knoxville could never
have escaped extermination had it
not boon for tlie bold, vigilant, irre
pressible leader, John Sevier. Sevier
wns for many years a resident of
Knoxville; tinll about 1781) there set
tled at Nashville, then on the extreme
frontier, another man, no less hand
some and commanding i in person,
equally brave, and destined soon tp
be as popular with- thei people* iTUh
liamo of tlie newcomer .was Audrey
Jackson. iBut between these. tw»
noted luhderB there • grew. up in the
pourse of tiaih tr doadiyj. feud*."upon
grounds we httv« not sparei to men
tion. This ill feeling: resulted!<in sev
eral persOnkl eneountersufor- fighting
Our Big Country.
Hon. E. Atkinspn in Centnry'. , ; '
The State of Texas alone is larger
than either the Austrian Empire, the
German Empire, France, Spain or
Sweden. California, Dakota and Mon
tana are separately larger than Nor
way. New Mexico is as large as Great
Britain and Irelapd, and larger than
Italy. Kansas is considerably larger
than. Turkey in Europe. Florida is
as large as England and Wales. Ken
tucky is larger than Portugal. In
diana is larger than Ireland or Scot
land. Maryland and Vermont are
each, but a trifle smaller than Bel
gium. Taken as a whole, the United
States arc vastly larger than any
European country except Russia. The
land iu uutual uro for growing corn,
wheat, hay, oats uud cotton in the
whojc country, up\v consists of 275,500
square miles, or a fraction leap than
tlie area of tlio State of Tuxaq., .
The entire wheat crop piithei Unit
ed. Slates fpvil'l <I>e. KW'va QUAvUegl ,
Mud of the best quality selected from
thofc part of the,area,,o£ the, Statu ,
Tejuw.ljy which.that,single State **,-
DMds Aim jpte^ent .ute*-Pt the firman
Jimpire. ,/The eqttpu..faqtprfps,id the
avorld' now, require about 12,000,000
(bolosof cpttnu ; af 1( 4jn,eirtpa^ weight.
Good land In Texas produces one bah'
ami dueling wore daily occurrences ii» (to an acre. , 'Tlie world’s supply,, of.
*'*“ 4 ■' t. 1ejotton ooukl, ihar<?fojH\i,hajgfowmon
less than 19,0Q0 square miles, or upop)
1
North Carolina, and then, toward tin
end of tlie revolutionary struggle, we
find him raising a detachment of men
in Sullivan county, district of Wash
ington, for tlie defense of the old
North State. But to raise and equip
men money is needed, anti this was a
scarce article in that region something
more than a hundred years since.
Sevier at last applied to one John
Adair, tax collector for the county of
Sullivan. Adair had no legal author
ity to. loan money in this way, but
being an ardent patriot he let Sevier
have something over $12,000 and took
for it the latter’s personal note. Well,
the money was well used and a line
regiment of men raised and equipped,
who, umler Sevier, did most valiant
fighting for their cjuntry at King’s
Mountain, N. (!., October H, 1780.
Here tlie British were disastrously
defeated, one of their best leaders,
Ferguson, killed and the enemy com
pelled to evacuate western and Anal
ly the whole of North Carolina. For
this great victory much praise was
given Col. Sevier. Iu this battle Se
vier's men made use of the Indian
war whoop to the dismay of the ene
my. Some prisoners captured said:
“We couid stand your lighting, blit
your cursed hallooing confused us;
we thought the mountains held reg
iments instead of companies.”
In 1790 North Carolina ceded tlie
district of Washington to the Uni
ted States, and in 1790 it became a
state and has since been known us
the commonwealth of Tennessee.
John Sevier became the first gov
ernor of tlie new State and was re
elected every two years for three
terms, when he for a time retired to
private life, as tlie constitution for
bade tlie same person serving more
than three consecutive tenns in the
executive chair. But Sevier had
such a hold upon the people of
Tennessee that as soon as he was a
second time eligible, three more con
secutive terms of the gubernatorial
office were conferred upon him, after
which he was sent to congress.
In person John Sevier was tall and
slender, his hair was light and allow
ed to grow long, his fovdhead high
and fair, his eyebrows arched,, and
his nose large, but his eyes were the
most characteristic feature about him
They were a light blue and often
twinkled with mirth, yet when their
that itey and oouatry. - ' I» 1780 JAtfai
soli clialleiiged Governor Sevier to
mortal combat, and, ilotwithistJindingi
the fact that the^ custom of tlis period
made it incumbent upon r a “gentle
man” to accept the challenge of an
other gentleman to fight a dnel, Se
vier had the nerve to decline. /He did
this on the ground that he bbd a
large family, was getting old, and/ as
lo personal courage, ho hiul already
given proof of this in tlie best possi
ble manner—fighting for his country
But Sevier’s reply incensed Jackson
more than ever, and shortly afterward
attacked Sevier upon the streets
of Jonesboro, Tennq (whan a number
of shots were exchanged between tint
contestants that harmed neither of
them, but put hi jeopardy the lives
of several bystanders'. • i
Gen. John Sevier died in 1816,. be
loved and respected by tbe citizens of.
tiis adopted State. Sevierville And
Sevier conpty, Teiut, perpetuate ,tua
name of the< brave' pioneer, skillful
leader, intrepid Indian tighter j (pad
first governor of the commonwealth.)
C. B. Johnson.
THE IRIDIANS? ; \7
ANNUAL RECEPTION OP THIS SOCIETY
AT THE LUCY COBB INSTITUTE.
The Indian society held their an
nual reception last ev
Lucy Cobb Institute. J It
attended. The spacious'piazza &ni
handsome parlors and halls of tlie In
stitute, were prettily lighted and dec
orated with the initials and symbols
of the Society. Tlie young ladies with
the rainbow, crescent and stars out
shone themselves in their social effort
last evening. Refreshments were do-
liglitlully served and the vine-trellesed
promenades were alive with gay
couples until long after midnight.
The Iridiun Society is a secret organ
ization, which has prospered at tlie
Institution for fourteen years. The
bright glimpses the x>ublic has gotten
of the Indians lias made them long
to know more of its charming myste
ries ami hidden btfauties.—Banner
(Watchman.
Marriage as an End.
N. V. Correspondent PUilfuleipliim Record.
The question of marriage is a se
rious one and because it is usually in
the future, however remote, of the
most young women they do not as a
rule take as serious a hold of a profes
sion as do youn^t men. When a young
man begins business lie knows lie will
probably stick to it to the end of his
days. The very fact that he may
get married makes it more necessary
that he should devote himself to mon
ey making. But with a young wo-
iqan it iu entirely different. 1 have
ktiown young women to become very
proficient engravers, for example,
and just as their employers were be
ginning to depend upon their work
they got married and laid tlie grav
er aside forever. How often you find
parents spending hundreds, even
thousands of dollars on the musioal
education of their daughters, and
when the daughters get married they
shut np tlie piano, and their musical
education is as good as thrown out of
the window. I have heard hundreds
of young married women say, when
asked to play something: “L am en
tirely out of practice I naven’t open
ed the piano since I was marriejL”
Whatever a man does he does for life;
but as a usual thing when a woman
undertakes a thing, instead of being
for life, it ls till she shall be married.”
tin area equal J
ot the area of ~
gpljr seven per cent.,,
ex as..
The Temple of Serpents.
The small town of Werda in the
kingdom of Dahomey, is celebrated
for its temple, a long building in
which tlie priests keep upwards of a
thousand serpents of nil sizes, which
they feed with the birds and frogs
brought to them ns offerings by the
natives. These serpents, many of
them of enormous size may be seen
hanging Irom the beams across the
Ceiling, with their heads downward
And in all sorts of strange contortions.
The priests make the small serpents
go through various eyolhtions bv
touching them witli a rod, but they
do not venture to touch the largest
ones, some of which are big enough
to enfold a bullock in their coils. It
often happens that some of these ser
pents make their way out of the tem-
f ilo into town, and the priests have
he greatest difficulty in coaxing them
WAcg. To kill a serpent intentional
ly is a ctline punishable with death,
and if a European were to kill one,
the authority of the king himself
would scarcely suffice to save ids life.
Anyone killing a serpent unintention-
t a _. 8 per cent, but ----- . —, «
the lawyers’ fees and charges amount ! owner so willed they filled with fire
+ mnwn oa I nrwl NPPiiiPi 1 tn PTncpcd nrilv at.<-»rn fforn*
to something more than 20 per cent.
Judge Speer holds the company
chargeable for tlie usurious contracts
of its agents, and holds tlie plaintiff
down to the legal rate of interest.
Wo believe this matter was reviewed
and seemed to express only stern com
mand. He was a cultured gentleman,
a genial companion, and was called
the handsomest man in Tennessee at
the time of his first election as gover
nor. At this period lie was 51 years
by Judge Spear once before, but the of age. and is pictured in the ordinary
principle established in this decision' hunting shirt of the pioneer, but upon
seems to us stronger and more satis-1 his shoulders were a pair of heavy
factory than any previous deliver- epaulets, for let it not be forgotten
ance. These companies are gradual-1 that in less than a year after his arrest
ly absorbing all the land ln Georgia, j by the North Carolina authorities
—Banner-Watchman. 1 President Washington had made him
place once a year.
Lieutenant-General D. H. Hill, one
of Lee’s sturdiest fighters, expresses
in his address, views In regard to
“The Old South” which can hardly
prove agreeable to Senator Sherman.
Cable and other pondits who would
have the world believe that every
thing valuable in Southern character
has been produced by the conditions
existing since 1865. The leading men
and the incorruptible men in the field
of national politics before the civil
war, the General contends, were very
largely Southern men. The war de
monstrated again their prowess and
patriotism. General Hill evidently
forgets nothing that concerns the
honor of his people, and can appre
ciate what is good in the present
without thinking it necessary to nut
lign the past.—Augusta Chronicle.
At Macon Saturday, in the United
States Circuit Court, in tlie case of J.
K. O. Sherwood against Rebecca
Rountree, Judge Speer rendered a
decision in his charge to the jury
which is regarded by leading mem
bers of tlie bar as one of the most far-
reaching and important in its conse
quences which lias been made in this
circuit for years. The pendency of
an immense number of suits against
land owners in Georgia in which the
principle decided is applicable, gives
it this importance. The testimony in
the case was that the agents of the
money lenders deducted 20 per cent,
by way of commissions, and counsel
in argument stated that in all the bor
rower hud paid 43 per cent, interest.
This, of course, under the Georgia
law, would bo usurious, and the usury
would render void any deed or mort
gage made to secure such a debt, pro
vided that the true lender of the mon
ey had notice of tlie usury. It was in
evidence that Hherwood, through the
Corbin Banking Company of New
York, had made many of these loans,
and Judge Speer charged the jury
that if from the nature of the trans
action, the great number of the loans
of this character made where the
deeds and mortgages were executed
to tlie plaintiff in this case; the con
tlnuous nature of tlie transactions and
importance of the amounts involved,
it was reasonable to be inferred that
a man of ordinary prudence in his
business transactions would under
stand and know it, in the absence of
proof to tlie contrary, and that pre
sumption not rebutted by proof would
charge him with all the consequences
of the usurious contract of his agents;
and that if this be true, the plaititiff
can only recover the legal rate of in
terest. The most widespread effect of
the decision will be that such usurv
would render void the deeds and mort
gages executed to these usurious
loans:
Mr. Allen R. Johnson, who lives on
the Lexington road, near Athens, has
an orchard full of peaches, while
those of all his neighbors have been
killed. Mr; Johnson last winter trim
med up his trees and plowed the land
among them. They took a fresh
start, and were late blooming. Capt.
Henrv Benssee tells as that while
traveling ln Elbert county he passed
a large peach orchard, ana while there
was no fruit in the orchard except on
two trees, they were loaded with
peaches. He asked some one the
cause of this, and they explained that
the fruit on these trees were saved by
hanging a horse-shoe on the favored
trees.
Are yon weak and weary, overwork
ed and tired? Hood’s Sarsaparilla is
just the medicine to purify your blood
aud give you strength.