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Milledgeville, Ga., August 9, 1887.
Number 5.
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The Knights of Labor.
EDITORIAL GLIMPSES.
Mrs. Stephen Morley, of Montreal,
keeps 200 cats in her house. To a-
mews her, we suppose.
When Blaine gets back to America
it will not take him long to knock the
middle man out of John Sherman’s
ring.
Oh, de grass will grow,
Inde yard ebrv day,
Whar da aint no Chilian
To run er bout an play.
Old Bach.
Think of a parasol entirely of nat
ural flowers. A Russian officer re
cently presented one to the Czarina
with his regimental coat of arms at
tached to the ivory handle by a white
satin ribbon.
We do not think any good results
can flow from the organization of the
Knights of Labor. If we are not mis
taken it has caused much harm al
ready to the laboring classes. We
recently saw an article in which the
writer, who had closely investigated
the subject, estimated the losses by
strikes at oyer a million of dollars.
Doubtless it far exceeds that sum.
The great mass of laborers know noth
ing of political economy. They do
not comprehend the danger to their
interests in what is termed “strikes,”
but they readily comprehend the poli
cy of the labor organization which
tells them that the great body, called
the Knights of Labor, have an accu
mulated fund from which, in case of
a strike that is resisted by the owners
of factories, and other great labor or
ganizations, their wants can be sup
plied until the owners of those estab
lishments shall yield to their de
mands. This encourages laborers to
refuse to work and remain for weeks
or months in a state of idleness. In
cases of countless strikes all over the
country, that limited fund is soon ex
hausted and the workmen suffer want
of the means of living. The old plan
of bargains between operatives and
capitalists is the only safe policy for
the laborers. Ordinary reflection
ought to satisfy the operatives that
the safest plan for them is to get the
best pay they can from capitalists,
and rely upon their sense of justice.
These great corporations can better
bear the strikes than the laborers.
Indeed in a majority of cases, they
can find unemployed men and women
enough ready to take their places al
most as soon as they retire from work.
The world is full of trouble for the
poor, and it is better for them to hold
their situations with moderate pay
than to throw them up without any
means at all.
We say that the Knights of Labor
an never accomplish the promises
fiey make, for our country is opened 1
to the whole civilized world, and ev
ery year several hundred thousand
emigrants land upon our shores to
make this country their future home.
They want immediate work and more
than enough are always ready to take
the places of the strikers.
We are the friends of the labqjfing
classes, and have no possible hostility
to the great industrial corporation of
our country. All have their difficul
ties and embarassnients. Not famil
iar with the operations of the great
workshops we are still glad to know
that they exist and meet the great
wants of our sixty millions of people.
All that can be desired is, that they
will be so managed as to promote as
well the interests of the people while
promoting their own. We only de
sire as all good and honest people do,
that the hearts of the proprietors may
be free from a bias of avarice that
leads to unjust and unconstitutional
gains. We allude of course to the
much mooted question of the tariff.
That we hope will yet be settled so as
to leave our great country prosper
ous and happy with no stain upon its
shield, or its star-spangled flag.
Make Friends With Your Stomach.
Only Two of Thkm Lkkt.—'Of all
the men who left the United States
Senate to cast their fortunes with the
Confederacy, only Jefferson Davis, of
Mississippi, and Thomas L. Clingman
of North Carolina, are living.
A fashion writer says, “belles when
they travel take more and more what
may be called aggressive costumes.”
They take more and more room, and
their costumes are rather expressive
and oppressive than aggressive.
Judging from the number of cor
responding letters from Georgians in
Europe published in Georgia papers,
we take it that there are more Geor
gia girls traveling in Europe than
ever before and that the old man’s
crop prospects are powerful pleasing.
What pretty images flutter through
Tom Moore's tribute to the rose :
“They tell us that Love in his fairy
bower,
Had two blush roses of birth divine,
He sprinkled the one with a rainbow’s
• shower,
Hut bathed the other xvith mantling
wine.
Our friend “R M. O.” draws a lino
line between “caution” and his “non-
progressive.” We rather think, on
reflection, that ‘caution’ was the pro
per word used by us in the connec
tion. We said “too much caution,”
&c. Caution is a good thing, wise, in
in its exercise at the proper time and
in proper proportion. Physic is a
good thing, given rightly and in the
proper proportions. The excessive
use of any good thing renders its ef
fects hurtful if not absolutely bad.
Probably timidity would have suited
“R. M. O.” better; but timidity is
only one of caution’s offspring and a
very weak child it is too. We explain
ed
ed in our article that we used the
word caution to soften what might
properly have been called selfishness,
or an utter disregard for the interests
and welfare of neighbors and com
munities.
Gov. Brown is a cautious man, all
will admit, and has prospered in all
his ventures. Yet, he is far from lie j Thk Election in Ohio.— 1 This elec-
inga reckless, timid or a selfish man. I lion will really be the first gun in tire
It is men like him who build cities ! Presidential campaign. Hut the ro
und States, and originate great enter- .suit will lie of little significance unless
President Cleveland and the State Fair.
The Macon Telegraph of Wednes
day last contains three telegrams, one
from the committee of the Board of
Trade of Macon, one from Mayor
Price representing the city authori
ties, and yet auother signed by L. F.
Livingston, President, It. A. Nisbet,
General Superintendent and E. C.
Grier, Sec’y and Treasurer, officers of
1 lie Georgia State Agricultural Socie
ty. all containing cordial invitations
of the various bodies represented by
tile signers of the telegrams, to Pres
ident and Mrs. Cleveland and the
members of his cabinet and their
wives to visit Macon during the ses
sion of the State Fair which will open
on the 24tli of October next.
This action on the part of those
who have extended the invitations
above named is very commendable,
and it would greatly gratify the peo
ple of all portions of the State if it
should result in bringing our worthy
President to tiiis section of it and give
our people an opportunity of seeing
him.
The telegrams were forwarded to
tile care of Secretary L. Q. C. Lamar,
witli the request that lie would [ire-
sent them to the President and em
phasize the earnest wishes of the
senders and those whom they repre
sented that he would make a favora
ble response.
Boston Courier.
If you can show us anything pret
tier at this season than a girl of 19
with golden hair, rosy cheeks, ruby
lips and dressed in white tulle with a
blue ribbon around her neck, let us
see it.
Yes, we can. Her sister, 16 months
older, with raven hair tumbled un
kempt adown her dusky shoulders ;
her two eyes shining like ripe chin-
qnepins ; a coral necklace round her
dusky throat, and a bunch of holly
leaves and red berries stuck in the saf
fron corsage over her flattering heart.
There now, sir. N.
prises—cautious but courugt
Disinfect all foul places about your
lot, by sprinkling lime over them.
rowcii, Democrat, shall boat Foraker,
Republican. The probability is For- j eut and boiled,
aker xvill be elected as Ohio ranks ^ 1 ~ J
with the Republican States.
For while it may not be the most
important organ of the whole human
frame it to certainly one tti&t plays a
most prominent part in the economy
of life. The operation of living and
of sustaining life has long by medical
authorities been likened to a steam
engine of whieli the stomach is the
furnace, the other viscua the boiler
and the food we eat the fuel that
keeps the engine in motion to manu
facture and sustain animal li>. If
the real furnace is not supplied with
fuel the lire dies out and tne engine
of life ceases to run and we perish
from starvation. The stomach too
is our best‘friend for besides being
the means of generating the necessa
ry heat and converting our food into
chyle to nourisii and sustain us it is
an organ endowed with such extreme
sensitiveness that it instantly re
jects whatever is put into it that is
not proper and necessary to sustain
life. It is perhaps the first organ
that gives notice that all the re.;t
are not acting properly.
It is also a kind of vital barometer
that shows unmistakably the condi
tion of health. If in the mechanical
furnace improper fuel be used the fur
nace will either not heat up well
enough or on the other hand heat up
too much and burn out before the
other machinery is worn out. So with
the stomach of a man who has abused
it by using in it improper fuel such as
alcoholic stimulants. If the stomach
of an inebriate be examined after
death it will be found red. inflamed,
all the blood vessels tinged, swollen
and congested, presenting the appear
ance of a piece of raw flesh, and lit
erally burned out as is a real iron
furnace. But it is not alone tile pres
ervation and maintainnnee of life the
stomach has to perform. There is a
very close connection between it and
the whole nervous system and it
[flays a most important part in gener
ating nervous disorders or keeping
the nervous system in a state of equi
librium and health. The most casual
observer, must at some time have no
ticed that some nervous disorder and
derangement of the stomach accompa
ny each other and non medical men oft
en mistake a cause for an effect. One
striking and popular error indicating
‘that taking of cause for effect is exhib
ited in that barbarous yet very com
mon practice of burning with a red
hot iron the tender swallow roof of a
horse’s mouth for that disease known
among horsemen as the Lainpas. The
stomach and the whole of the aliment
ary canal from the lips all the xvay
through its entire length is lined by a
thin delicate sensitive coat called the
mucous membrane and when inflamed
from some disorder of the stomach it
exists throughout but is only recog
nized by the ignorant in the mouth,
simply because that is the only part
of the mucous membrane they can
see. The same thing ig the case with
the sore mouth that often troubles
nursing mothers and we might with
as much sense think of putting a red
hot poker into the mouth of a nursing
mother with sore mouth as into the
u outh of a horse with the lampas.
But we were speaking of the stom
ach's influence in nervous disorders.
There are a variety of ways in which
disorder of the stomach may produce
nervous diseases.
As we took the inebriate to illus
trate tlie effects, upon the mucous
membrane of the stomach, we may
also illustrate by him some nervous
disorders. The nervous centres are
seated in the brain. The inner sur
face of the stomach contains the
mouths of thousands of little vessels
called chvliferous ducts. They take
op u lint is put into the stomach and
convey it to all parts of the human
organism. Alcohol taken into the
stomach is, under some circumstances
(. which we have not space to explain
in this) as completely, burned up in
the process of digestion ns if it were
burned in a spirit lamp. Under oth
er circumstances like in consumption,
or persons with weak lungs, it is not
immediately burned up, but is con
veyed to ull parts of the body, and
even to the brain, where it comes in
its pure state in direct contact with
the albuminous matter of the brain
and neives. Albumen, of which the
white of egg is a pure example, exists
in all parts of the body, brain and
nerves. We know that albumen by
boiling and also by coming in con
tact witli alcohol, becomes co-agula-
ted and white like a boiled egg.
When alcohol then is conveyed to the
brain and comes in contact with the
albuminous portions, it produces an
isomeric change in the nervous struc
ture and the albumen of the L.ain
and nerves is as completely cooked as
ever was the white of a hard boiled
egg. This serious change in the
structure of the nerves cannot take
place without a corresponding injury
to the health of the person both men
tally and physically. This condition
of the brain and nerves prevents
them from acting properly and hence
the man is drunk, unable to talk in
telligently, or walk, or do anything
he ought, because that strict obedi
ence of the limbs and other members,
to the brain is interrupted. The man
is intoxicated and the word “intoxi
cated” is a much more appropriate
i term than “drunk" for “intoxicated”
I if we study its etymology means liter-
| ally poisoned—and a man so drunk
| that he cannot walk or talk as lie
: should, is poisoned and the aibumin-
| ous portion of his brain is as com
pletely cooked as if had been taken
interest and benefit it xvould require
more space than is available in a
newspaper article, lienee we desist,
but may continue at some subsequent
time. “Mkdiciis.”
Milledgeville, July 27th, 1887.
Yes, That Did It.
People stand aghast at Atlanta’s
wonderful progress and growth in
population, and are slow to account
for it. Most of the knowing ones say
the Constitution did it. That never
ceasing horn of Grady's and Howell
and Harris—that untiring crowd a-
bout tile paper—they dia it. Yes,
that did it. But how was the Consti
tution able to do it? By the munifl-
cent advertising patronage given it
by her Doughertys, Ryans, Stevens,
Jim Andersona, the Millers, Chamber
lains, and the hundreds of other_ live
and pushing merchants and business
men within nor gates—this is why the
Constitution can print forty pages in
one issue, and hire brains to fill them
all witli the latest, brightest news
and most attractive reading. Oh yes!
the Constitution did it, is doing it,
and will keep on doing it as long as
Atlanta’s merchants are live and lib
eral men. Other towns can well
profit by the example Atlanta has
given them.
But this subject is so prolific that
were we to say all that would be of
Perhaps the Oldest Man on Earth.
In a letter from Laredo, Texas, to
the St. Louis Globe-Democrat, an ac
count is given of James James a ne
gro man who was born in South Car
olina in 1762. His master James
James, after whom lie is named, man
ned one of the guns in the defence of
Sullivan’s Island against the attack of
tiie British fleet under the command
of Sir Peter Parker. The Americans
were commanded by Col. Moultrie,
who, with 500 men, compelled the
British to withdraw after a ten hour’s
conflict. Jim followed his master
through tlie war and was culled
James James after him. Ho is 135
years old and still lias strengtli enough
to walk very short distances at a
time. The Globe-Democrat’s corres
pondent recently made his photo
graph while sitting in front of Ins cab-
The Plugged Watermellon.
New York Correspondent Washington Star.
More watermelons are consum
ed iu New York than in any oth
er city in the world, and the wa
termelon season is now at its
height. One of the largest and
finest of the 200,000 watermelons
that reached the metropolis last
week found its way into the cafe
of a fashionable up-town hotel.
It was prepared for use and plac
ed iB the ice box.
People from the country and
smaller towns come to New York
in great numbers at this season
of the year, and among the recent
arrivals was a worthy gentleman
from a little rural settlement in
Southern Michigan, who came to
see his brother, a Wall street
broker, from whom lie had been
separated ever since they were
boys together on the old farm.
The two brothers dropped in at
the cafe in whoso ice box rested
tlie big watermelon first mention
ed.
“Let’s have a watermelon,”
said the broker. The rural
brother assented. Will you have
it plugged?” asked tho broker.
‘Of course,” answered tlie rural
brother. “Din’t wo always plug
a melon before xvo ate it when we
were boys?” The broker xvhisper-
ed some order to tlie waiter, and
directly that servitor returned
with tlie big watermelon afore
mentioned. When he cut it
it seemed very juicy and aromat-
ici Tho brothers ato it greedily.
Tho rural brother'declared that
he had never tasted such a water
melon in his life. It seemed to
loosen and later to thicken his
tongue. Finally he stared at his
broker brother and asked,
“George whasher masher wish
shat mel’n?”
George smiled and answered.
“It was plugged.”
“How plugged?” asked the ru
ral brother with a suspicious, not
to say silly, leer.
George replied: “A hole had
been cut in the end and a bottle
of champaign and a gill of brandy
poured in. Then it was left in
the ice until it becamo perfectly
cold. The sweet juice of the mel
on mingled with tlie liquor so
mellowed it that you did not tasto
it.' 1
Governor Gordon lias attended sev
eral confederate reunions and made
eloquent and sympathetic speeches.
THE LEGISLATURE.
Since our last report which
was cut off at Friday tho 20th of
July, by the floods, we give the
following important action of the
legislature:
The session of tho Senate on
the 28th was mainly taken up in
reading bills tho first, second and
third time. The Governor sent
a message to the Senate announc
ing the election of Hon. Joel A.
Smith, vico Senator D. N. Smith
deceased. The most important
feature of the bills introduced
was the following introduced by
Mr. Davidson of the 18th dis
trict: A bill to amend paragraph
1, of section 2 of article 5, of the
State Constitution, so as to en
able tho General Assembly of this
State in its discretion to increase
the number of Judges of tho Su-
S remo Court of this State from
iree to fivo, to consist of a Chief
Justice and four Associate Jus
tices. Referred to Getieral Ju
diciary Committee.
Some discussion took place on
the bill of Mr. Brown, of Chero
kee, to prohibit the sale of any
fertilizer or chemical for manufac
turing the same, when they do not
contain tho ingredients named in
such analysis, and making it a
misdemeanor for any dealer to
sell such fertilizers.
The Committee offered an a-
mendment to tho caption of the
bill by striking out the words
“such analysis,” and substituting
these for the “analysis required
by law.” Adopted.
After some discussion partici
pated in by Mr. Mathews, of
Houston, Mr. Featherston of
Floyd, Mr. Lamar of Richmond,
and Mr. Harrell of Webster, on
motion of the introducer, the blil
was recommitted to the Commit
tee on Agriculture.
THE REFORMATORY PRISON BILL.
The second special order for
the day was Dr. Felton’s bill, No.
188, to create a reformatory pris
on or house of correction for ju
venile criminals.
On motion of Dr. Felton the
House was resolved into a com
mittee of the whole for the con
sideration of the bill, and Mr.
Felton, of Bibb, was called to the
chair.
Dr. Felton spoke at length in
explanation of the bill’s terms and
provisions. Ho said the senti
ment of tho civilized world was
against the policy of Georgia in
the treatment of her juvenile crim
inals. The object of tho bill is
not to establish a charitable ro-
fugo but a prison whero they are
sent as criminals to enduro pun
ishment consonent xvith their of
fences and whero thoy shall not
bo associated with murderers and
other hardened criminals. While
being duly punished his reforma
tion is sought, he is instructed
from tho pulpit and God’s xvord
with the hope that at the end of
his term of imprisonment ho will
go out ready to obey tho law and
prepared for a useful and indus
trial life. Wo merely hint at tho
purposo so eloquently set fortli
by Dr. Felton. Tho Doctor xvas
frequently interrupted xvith ap
plause .
The Senate, on the 29th recon
sidered its action in regard to a
resolution providing for a joint
committee to which should be re
ferred all matters relating to the
State road. The resolution was
lost the day before. There was a
lengthy debate on it, and the res
ing daily of 200 copies of an ab
stract of tho journal of tho House,
for the use of members.
The House in committee of the
whole (Mr. Felton, of Bibb, in
the chair) resumed the considera
tion of the special order of the
day, Dr. Felton’s reformatory
prison bill.
_ Mr. Clay of Cobb, opposed the
bill, at length, as also did Mr.
Arnheim of Dougherty. The
consideration of the bill was post
poned until tho 4th of August.
On tho 30th of July, a resolu
tion xvas adoptod, as folk ws in
tho house: (Senate not iu ses
sion.)
A resolution instructing tho
railroad committee to inquire and
report what legislation is neces
sary to enforce tho provision of
the constitution which pnfliibits
one corporation from purchasing
or leasing the property of .moth
er, with the view to prox outing
competition.
By Mr. Howell, of Fulton—A
joint resolution for the appoint
ment of a commission of six, to
report to tho next Legislature tho
probable cost of the equipment
of the nexv capitol, and to adver
tise for and receive bids for sup
plying tho same. The commis
sion to bo composed of three ex
ecutive officers of tho State and
three members of the Legislature,
of which tho Governor shall bo
ex-officio chairman. Referred to
tho committee on public property.
By Mr. Gordon, of Chatham—
To amend acts and sections of
the code relating to the organiza
tion and government of volunteer
troops of tho State. Military af
fairs.
Members of the Legislature.
The Journal this afternoon-
publishes the following informa
tion about the members of the
General Assembly, gathered from
Judge Richard H. Clarke, who is.
an authority.
Judge R. H. Clarke says that
there are more members of tho
present Legislature who xvere so
before the war, orxvho before' or
since have achieved political dis
tinction than any Legislature since
the war. The oldest legislator of
both bodies is David J. Bailey.
As much as fifty years ago, when
he was just of age, he began his
legislative and political career.
Russell, of Chatham, is not so
old a member, but he has been in
public life about as long, and thir
ty-five years ho has been and is
yet clerk of tho City Court of Sa
vannah.
Shumake, of Burke, notwith
standing his youthful look, was a
member forty years ago.
Dr. Felton, of Bartow, was a *
member as early as the session of
1851. He and Harper, of Nexv-
ton, had the reputation of being
the ablest debaters in the House,
both then being very young men.
Mr. Hale, of Dade, xvas a Sena
tor in 1853.
In tho Senate there is LeGrand
Guorry. Ho was first a member
of tho Legislature in 1845.
Senator Hand was a member
before the war: so was Senator
Turnipseed.
Col. Guerry, also Col. Bailey, of
tho House, have been Presidents
of the Senate, and tho latter was
a member of Congress.
Hon. W. E. Smith, Senator
from the Tenth district, xvas for
three successive terms a member
of Congress. So was Dr. Felton,
and Hon. Mr. Rawls, of the
olution xvas adopted. The com-, House. David B. Harrell,[of the
‘ House, has been a Judge of the
Superior Court.—Macon Tele
graph.
mittee will be composed of five
from the Senate and nine from
the House.
In the House, tho committee
on education reported favorably
on Mr. Denny’s bills to amend,
revise and consolidate the com-
f ion school laxvs of the State, and
o provide for tho holding of
teachers’ institutes.
The committoo on finance made
an advorso report on tho bill to
levy a tax on dogs.
The committee on printing re
ported favorably Mr. Calvin’s res
olution to provide for tho print-
Mr. Powderly says he does not
intend to resign unless the Con
vention which meets at Minneap
olis in October desires it. This
is not probable.
Dangikr in Wukckinu Trains.—
David Hiffuian was hanged at Ne
braska city on the 22nd, for wrecking
tlie Missouri Pacific passenger train
on the 11thof January last. His con)
federate, in the wrecking, is serving-
ten years sentence in tlie penitentiary.
He saved his neck by turning state’s
ex’idence.