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The Morgan Monitor
VOL. II. NO. 25. $1 PEI! YEAR.
SMILE A LITTLE,
Smile a little, smile a little,
As you go along,
Not alone when life is pleasant,
p But when things go wrong.
Care delights to Bee you frowning,
Loves to hear you sigh.
Turn a smiling face upon her.
Quick the dame will fly.
Smile All along a little, smile a little,'' , '
the road,
Every life must have Its burden,
■Why Every heart its load.
sit down in gloom and darkness,
With your grief to sup?
As you bring fate’s bitter 3
Smile across the cup.
’
The Other Fellow
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> Dick Hatherly,
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¥ /&JL M young Letty Lorimer,'his painter;
second cousin an
'.'v T, orphan; tain Vere and Grierson, Cap-
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Scene I: A studio,
lyy Campden Hill.
v, Rough sketches
jaM pinned on walls,
some new can*
m lay vasses figure, on easels;
with
T am -o'- Sb.anter
rakishly a-top,posed on throne. Tray
with a plate of sandwiches and empty
beer bottles on piano. Under north
skylight Hatherly in a painting
blouse at work on six-foot-by-four
canvas “Autumn in the New For¬
est.”
hope Hatherly (soliloquizing): Well, I
to goodness no one drops in this
afternoon. There wasn’ta day I could
work from the time I brought it home
in November till last week. If I’m not
interrupted been midget on as well as I have
ing-in-day doing, I may be in time for send-
after all. (Gentle knock at
tho door, which Hatherly does not
hear.)
Visitor: Tap, tap.
I’ll Hatherly (impatiently): O, bother!
pretend I’m out.
Visitor (louder): Tap, tai tap!
Letty Lorimer (hesitatingly): Yes,
Dick, May I come in? You’re sure
I’m. not disturbing you?
Of Hatherly (mendaciously): O, no.
coiuwm you’re not. But i say,Letty,
you won’t mind my going on with my
work, will you? I want to get this
clone for; the Academy, and time is
short now.
Uetty (earnestly): No, Dick!
right, Hatherly (complacently): That’s all
then. Sit down there like a
clear, and flon’t mind me. You see,
the light is good now, and in a while
it will be too dark to paint.
Letty takes a seat behind him and
silently watches the progress of the
work. At last, summoning up courage,
she says nervously: Dick!
Hatherly (starting): Yes! why, I had
nearly forgotten has you, Letty. By the
bye, what become of the Dowager?
She doesn’t usually allow you out
alone.
Letty: Grandmama is tired to-day
and resting. I’ve been to the dress¬
maker’s. Ford is with me. She is
waiting in tho carriage downstairs. I
came alone (falteringly) because I
wished to speak to you.
,/" Hatherly: That’s right, my dear.
Gossip away. Tell me all your news.
I can listen quite well, though I’m
busy. How’s the old lady? Been any
pleasanter lately?
Letty (almost in tears): O, Dick!
her temper is simply unbearable.
Hatherly: Horrid old vixen. I’m
glad she’s no guardian of mine.
Letty: I do try to be patient, but
her tongue is so bitter and so cruel.
girl. Hatherly (absently): Poor little
, Letty: I sometimes feel as if I
could run away.
Hatherly (engrossed in studying
foreground of picture, sotto voce)
Ah, I’ve caught it now. Claxton was
right. That shadow to the left is too
heavy. What are you saying, Letty?
Do Letty (getting it out with a jerk):
you rember Captain Grierson, one
of the Leicester Griersons?
his Hatherly (squeezing fresh color on
palette): Yes, that alteration will
make all the difference. I beg pardon,
Letty. You were saying—
ber Letty (patiently): Do you remem¬
Captain Grierson?
Hatherly: Yes; he was at brother? Rugby
with me. Or was that his
Cecil Grierson—-sandy-haired chap,
tall.
Letty: Yes, Cecil Vere Grierson. I
want to tell you, Dick—(Hatherly,
leaving Easel abruptly, goes to a table
and returns with a small piece of card¬
board with square cut from the centre,
through which he gazes absorbedly at
the new arrangement. Letty sighs
despondently.)
Hatherly (turning to her): Say,
Letty! Just look through this square
a moment. Don’t you think the pic¬
ture will compose better with that
shadow lightened?
Letty (pale and agitated): Dick, I
must go soon. Can you spare me a
moment to-day?
Hatherly (penitently): rude, Excuse me,
dear. I’m beastly treating you
like this. It’s the fault of this glorious
ught. There hasn’t been a day like it
all winter. I’m a boor, I know, but
the fatal Monday draweth nigh after
which no man can work.
Letty: Well, I was trying to tell
you that Captain Grierson returns to
-India in two months to rejoin his regi-
riMut, and—
Dic> (cheerfully interrupting):
Lucky beggar! Seeing the world while
we all vegetate at home.
Letty (faltering); And—Dick—he
Smile upon the troubled pilgrims
whom you pass and meet.
Flowers are thorns and smiles are blos¬
soms
Oft for weary feet.
Do not make the way seem harder
Smile By a sullen face.
Brighten a little, smile a little,
up the place.
Smile upon your undone labor.
Not for one who grieves
his task waits wealth or glory.
He who smiles achieves.
Though you meet with loss and sorrow
In the passing years.
Smile a little, smile a little,
E ven through your tears.
Ella Wheeler Wilcox.
says he hates going back. He doesn’t
wish to go alone.
Hatherly (struck with sudden com-
punction): thoughtless I say, Letty, what a
brute I am not to have
given you some tea. Just touch the
bell, will you?
Letty: No tea, thanks, I really
couldn’t drink it. Dick, he feels nw-
ful at leaving—everybody—and grftnd-
mama keeps getting worse and worse,
and—
She’s Hatherly (painting away vigorously):
thing an unmitigated old wretch. Good
She Was a bit queer to-day, so
that you could get off the chain and
have a little flutter by yourself.
object Letty: O, I don’t think she would
to my Coming here so much.
She likes you pretty well, Dick. But
to return to what we were saying—
hand-mirror, Hatherly; Letty, just hand me that
will you? It’s on the
table beside you. Ah, thank you.
huskily): Letty (continuing, said doggedly and
So he he’d come this
evening—for his answer.
(Dick, staring fixedly at the reflec¬
tion . of his picture in the lmm! mirror,
makes no reply, Letty waits in breath¬
less silence.
Hatherly (speaking suddenly): Do
come here, Letty, and say if you like
that, or is it too strong?
ded, Lettie like (rising): yourself It is strong and cle-
and all men, Dick;
It is only we women who are weak and
irresolute. Good-bye. No, don’t
come downstairs; I can see myself
out. Good-bye.
Hatherly (relieved) Well, it" wou
must go, good-bye. Come again
soon, like a good girl, when I have
more time to spare. And don’t let the
old lady bully you too much qv,
and (Hatherly paints till the light fails,
then sits before the picture smok-
ing meditatively.) Glad I took that
hint of Claxton’s. Funny how the
duffer always gives you the best sug-
gestions. It will be easy sailing now.
The rest groups all right. Nice of
Letty not staying when she saw I was
working against happy time. She did not
seem Hateful so time as usual, somehow*.
she has with that old
grandmother. If I was richer I’d like
to carry her off out of that old witch’s
clutches; but she’s too young yet. She
was talking about Grierson. Capital
fellow he used to be. Going back to
India? What a lot of fun those army
chaps have-not like artists, shut up
in a studio half the year. By the bye,
what was it that Letty said about him
not wishing to go hack alone? He
can’t have been making love to that
child. She is only eighteen, and I al¬
ways day. thought of her as mine—some
What did she say about him
coming for his answer? Heavens!
what a fool I’ve been. That’s what
she was trying to tell me, and I was
ass enough to have thoughts for noth¬
ing (Getting but my picture. Blind idiot!
she said. up I hurriedly.) This evening
wonder if J can possibly
be in time, (Seizes hat and rushes
out.)
Scene II. Entrance to the Dowager
Lady. Lorimer mansion in May-
fair. Hatherly, alighting hurriedly
from hansom, runs into Grierson
descending steps of house.
Grierson (radiantly): Hullo, Hath¬
erly.'
Hatherly (blankly): Grierson!
Grierson: Delighted to meet you
again, old man. Seems almost a good
omen, don’t you know.
Ah, Hatherly (with hollow politeness):
very pleased, I’m sure.
Grierson (confidentially and effu¬
sively): don’t Feel you sort of relation,
you know. You see I’ve just—
that is, Miss Letty has just—I say, old
chap, by Jove, I’m awfully happy!
Congratulate me.—Black and White.
Horse Ment In Belgium.
As in consequence of the cable car,
the bicycle, and the electric eab, the
horse is no longer necessary as a means
of locomotion, the inhabitants of Bel¬
gium are importing this domestic ani¬
mal as an article of food. Over 10,000
horses were imported during the year
for conversion into meat. The num-
her being very largely in excess of the
import of sheep and oxen. Statistics
show that in the city of Antwerp alone
4000 horses were slaughtered last year
for human consumption, and the butch¬
ers’ shops dealing exclusively in horse¬
flesh in the Belgium port already num-
her thirty-two.
Women Kasier to Digest.
A member of the Ethnographical So¬
ciety merit in Paris has made a public nrgu-
in favor of cannibalism, from a
hygienic point of view, and proves his
case by the fact that those savages xvho
oat each other are stronger and more
virile than those who do not. Further,
this scientist affirms that “women are
more nutritious and digestible than
men!”—New York Press.
The average weight of a man’s skele-
ton is fourteen pounds.
POPULATION AKTD DRAINAGE.
MORGAN, GA.. FRIDAY. JULY 2. 1891.
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CONFEDERATE REUNION AT NASH-
ITLI,E DRAWS HIM OUT.
JLD VETERANS MEET AND WEEP
Not Win's of Sorrow, But Caused By tilt
Recalling of Old Memoirs
-ill© Battlefield.
My good, happy, genial friend,
Charley Lane, delivered a most en¬
joyable lecture on the analysis ol
laughter, or “Why l>o We Laugh',”
Now, if he will analyze btir teftrs and
tell us why do we weep, we will the
better understand another one of the
mysteries of our emotional humanity.
Why does a man weep when there is
110 sorrow in his heart—especially an
old man—-a veteran? If it were no!
pathetic it would be funny to Sfeg the
tears ili these old soldiers’ eyes as
I hey met. and marched and listened to
l he martial music or sat together Un-
ier the sound bf WoMk tjirtt clime
from the lips of olid hibii; feioHiifeirjt—-
old comrades in arms—Wolds thdi
iwaketted Soill-stitrihg life the mfemories find
quickened into hard bttt hferoi<;
scenes that were living facts it third oi
a century ago. How hard they look—
these old soldiers—hard in face and
feature but soft in heart. It seems
to me I can pick them out from com
mon people. Every wrinkle tells ol
service, of suffering and disappoint-
ment. 1 he bronze on their furrowed
faces has never yet been bleached, and
heir walk is still a true but tired
march. Yes, I can pick__them out all
iround mo. Look at old Captain
Neal, and Major Foute, and McCand-
less, and Durham, and MotihtcAstle.
they cant hurry now. Their quick
Wop has gone. They marched and
counter-marched, they advanced and
retreated, they charged and double-
qmcked for four long years, until the
spring of their iiistep w&s woi’ii (Ibwil
to a plane with heel and toe, and 110W
it is a fact that the hollow of the foot
makes a hole in the ground;
But why should an old man weep?
I remember that when Ben Hill’s
statue was uncovered and the great
speeches were over and queenly Win-
ne Davis was brought forward on the
Platform and presented to us as. the
laughter of the confederacy by Gener
M Gordon, acclamation® rent the ’
ond reached the heavens and made the
’welkin ring. Then everybody cried
except those who had no feeling—no
jmotion—no patriotism. Old General
Black was leaning heavily upon hie
and I felt the quiver of hi® massive
Frame. He leaned more heavily and 1
turned quickly to took into his face
and saw the tears coursing down as
Freely as if ho were a boy. As I bntsh-
ad my own away I said; “What is thr
matter, General? Do you want some
water? Are you about to faint?”
“Oh, no—no,” said he, “just let me
done and hold me up a little. I am
feeling good. Thank God for His
mercies. I feel like old Nicodeiuus
when he said, ‘Now let Ole die since I
have seen thy salvation. 1 n
The medical books tell Us that tears
are contagious. We all know that and
have experienced it, but ordinarily oui
tears come from our own emotions and
not from another’s. I suppose thal
there were probably ten thousand
bona fide veterans at Nashville, and
while under the influence of the oeca-
sion, the surroundings, the memories
of the past and the thoughts thal
breathed and the words that burned,
they all shed tears or felt like it.
What a spectacle for northern eyes.
What a commentary on northern in¬
tolerances. How long will it take tc
eradicate our love for the lost cause ot
our admiration for its heroes. Like
father, like sou and daughter, and it
is already transmitted adown the line
from generation lo generation and in
a few years more these reunions will
he baptized with another name and he
called the sous of the confederate vet-
srans. I said that probably there
were ten thousand real bona fide cou-
Federate veterans gathered at Nash¬
ville, for it is a fact that our veterans
ire swiftly passing away. There are
not 100,000 now alive—not more than
one in seven of all who served. There
might havo been more, but unpen¬
sioned soldiers don’t live forever;
neither do they multiply as the years
roll on.
"Time cuts down all
Both great and small."
Except a pensioned soldier.
No. For the peace and brotherhood
if all our people it would have been
Far better for the north to have said
thirty years ago: “Now let us be breth¬
ren. You thought you were right and
maybe yon were. You fought a good
fight and shall have your share of all
this pension money. ” If Lincoln had
lived he would have said so and stood
on that, platform.
Walter Scott says: “Woe awaits a
country when she sees the tears ol
bearded men,” and so it would be bet¬
ter to conciliate our people with kind¬
ness rather than to alienate them with
ibuse and unfriendly legislation. See
what a martyr ami a hero our people
have made of Sam Davis, the noble
buy who held his honor dearer than
his life. And this reminds me to say
that I have a letter, a good letter,from
II. S. Halbert, of Crawford, Miss.,
who was an army comrade of Calvin
Crozier, the Texas soldier who was
put lo death by order of Colonel
Trowbridge at Newberry, S. C,, for
resenting an insult given a lady by a
negro soldier. I wrote of this in a former
letter and of the monument the good
people of Newberry had erected to his
memory. The negro was but slight!}
wounded and in the confusion in the
car another man was arrested for the
deed. W hen Crozier learned this he
save himself up and was shot, at sun-
lise. Mr. Halbert had never heard of
Crozier’s fate until he read it in The
Constitution and lie now begs for more
inhumation concerning him and his sad
fate, Will some one who knows please
write to him. He says that Crozier was
a noble man and a gallant soldier and
belonged Halids; to Goode’s Kail! battery organized Gitlvifi
at. TelC Drtvis fi"d
Crozier were but twb. We had hidny
more just like them, but they were not
so tried.
But speaking of tears and war the
most touching lines ever written were
by Langhorne, who died more than
one hundred years ago:
"Cold on Canadian hills or VIunion's plain,
That weeping brother mollrnctl lifet htlshilnil
slain;
Bent o’er her, babe, her eye dissolved in
dew—
The pig drops mingling with the milk he
drew.
Wliat a sad presage of his future years—
The child of misery baptized In tears.”
What could be more sweetly, sadly
pitiful; No wonder that Burns shed
tears wlieii lie looked iit Hie print that
had been made of the scene. Why litis
not some great artist taken lire hint
and painted it to the life the iiiother
seeking her battlefield dead husband among the
slain on a itiid Webping bvef
her child as he nursed from her bi-edst
— “the big drops Mingling With thfi
milk he drew.” It is enough to make
an angel General weep. It is enough to em¬
phasize Sherman’s pitiless re¬
mark that—
“War is hell.”
The poet Rogers said the prettiest
thing about a tear. He wanted to find
a chemist who could crystalize one so
that he could wear it as a gem next to
his heart for a talisman. Shakespeare
calls the tears of an old man “honor-
able dew that silvers down thy cheeks,”
and another poet describes mrtn as “a
pendulum betwixt dsmile and a tear.”
So we Will let these old soldiers weep
if they wish to, It will do them good,
for they are nbt tears of sorrow not
grief. overflow They are the welling Up arid
of sacred memories. It is like
untb it man after years and years of With-
dering going hack to the home of ttild his
youth Lis dnd greeting his kindred
schoolmates and communing tb-
gether about the joys and sorrows of
the olden time. These veterans all
shaved a common peril and it is but B&t-
ural that they should love to get togeth-
„ « and ( talk „u r of *t bo <• let ,, n the nmeet . and .
b * wou "b tho >' beartless t " 8et ’V wb T* °
scoff Zoh, ’ ' the old war
go— . viiioe area flf it. -Bill An-,
Atlanta Constitution.
Burring Two Thousand fears,
When the tomb of Pallas, son of
Evandet, was opened, in the twelfth
pentury, it is said a lighted lamp,
which must have been burning two
thousand years, hung above his head.
Iu 1550 a marble sepulchre of the
Roman period was discovered on an
island near Naples. On opening it a
burning lamp was found, lighted which is
thought to have boon before
the Christian era. About the same
time a somewhat similar lamp was
found near Padua. St. Augustine men¬
tions a lamp burning in the Temple of
Venus that could not he extinguished,
and Ludvivicus, another that had been
burning for lOoO years. It is be¬
lieved that the perpetuity of these
lamps was owing to the consummate
tenacity of the unctuous matter with
which the flame was united, being so
proportioned to the strength of tho fire
that like the radial heat and natural
moisture in animals, neither of them
jould conquer or destroy the other.
Lumbeumen in the lower Mississippi
Valley are complaining, as one of the
sequelae of the great flood, that much
of their lumber will be unfit for ship¬
ment because it has been under water
and is covered witli silt. This mater¬
ial will all need to be cleaned, which
will involve a great amount of work
and expense, and where cottonwood,
for example, has been deluged it will
he practically ruined, because the dirt
can hardly he washed out of its fuzzy
fibre. Another complaint is that it
will he a long time before tho supply
of game, like wild turkey, for in¬
stance, is replenished. A Memphis
paper states (hat two hundred deei
took refuge on the levee near there,
and that the planters were caring for
them as tenderly as for their domestic
animals. This is one instance of many
vhere deer were protected, although
where they were needed for food, of
course, they were killed. In fact, the
number of those which were killed is
probably which small compared and drowned. with those
were starved
Pockets.
The savage is a pocketless being.
The civilized man’s position on the
ladder of development may be meas¬
ured by tho number of pockets lie
wears,—if one may be said to “wear”
what iu only a slit or cavity. The
schoolboy takes a much lower rank,
crowding a mass of incongruous arti¬
cles into one pocket—or, at most, two.
A woman takes a still lower position,
for her one pocket is frequently al¬
most inaccessible.
The Japanese prove their advance
in civilization by the possession of six
or 1 ught pockets inserted in t’ c cuffs
of their wide sleeves.
rudimentary Among the lower animals there arc
pockets, strivings of nature after
as iu the first stomach of the
ruminants, the pouches of th). marsu¬
pials, the craw of birds, and the addi¬
tional water pocket of the pelican,—
Housewife.
Spain smoked $31,000,000 worth of
tobacco last year—$1,80 per capita.
A fcOMfllNf: 1 M IOWA.
Threu Parties To March Under One tieiti~
ner—State Ticket Named.
The Iowa democratic state conven¬
tion held at lies Moines adjourned
early Wednesday evening, having com¬
pleted its work.
The two allied conventions, the sil¬
ver republicans and populists, com¬
pleted their work slightly in advance.
The three factions were, after much
controversy, able to agree on one plat¬
form, With frefi composed silver ns the of main idea
add 0tie ticket,- two dem¬
ocrats, two silver republicans and one
populist. the of¬
The ticket will be placed on
ficial ballot under the name “demo¬
crat,” and is as follows;
Governor, F. E. White, democrat;
Lieutenant Governor, B. A. Plummer,
silver republican; Judge Supreme
Court, L, M, Kinney, democrat; Rail¬
road Commissioner, S. B. Grain, pop¬
ulist; Superintendent of republican, instruction,
G. F. Reinhardt, silvor
The sentiment was almost over¬
whelmingly for Bryan. Every refer¬
ence to his name was greeted with
lusty cheering. His picture was re¬
peatedly pointed displayed, and every time an
orator toward it there was ap¬
plause, There
gold was 110 quarter given to the
democrats. The silver element
of the party had its OW11 w f ny in all the
proceedings. In largest point of number it
wfls 0116 of the democratic con¬
ventions over held in Des Moines and
in point of enthusiasm it Will compare
favorably with any of them.
RECEIVER FOR “OKEFENOKEE.”
Company That. Undertook to Di*alrt tho
Swamp In Trouble.
The enterprise sot on foot six years
ago to make a garden of the Okefenokee
swamp dentally in South Georgia, and inci¬
to make money for the stock¬
holders, after an expenditure approxi¬
mating half a million dollars, has
resulted In the financial embarrassment
of the company which undertook tho
Work, and stockholders seek the pro¬
tection of the court for their invest¬
ments.
The Suwanee Oannl company is in
the hands of a temporary receiver, ap¬
pointed by Judge J. II. Lumpkin, of
Atlanta, upon the application of the
sou’s administrator of Captain Harry Jack-
estate, This company purchased
the Okefenokee swamp from the state
of Georgia in 1891, acquiring about
240,000 acres at 26 cents an acre, and
paying tho stato the sum of $63,101.80,
Including this purchase money, the
total expenditure on tho property has
been about $440,000.
TRIBUTE TO VICTORIA.
Acting Clhnplnln .Johnaon Mentions Her In
Ills Senate Prayer.
An eloquent tribute to the long and
illustrious reign of Queen Victoria
was a feature of tho opening prayer
before the senate Wednesday by tho
acting chaplain, Rev. Johnson.
1 We thank Thee,” he invoked, “for
the demonstration of joy, both na¬
tional and international, over her
majesty, Queen Victoria’s completion
of her long and illustrious reign of
sixty years; we thank Thee for her
exemplary lifo and her social qualities,
as wife, as queen, as mother; that, her
court has been pure and hor throne
without a stain; we thank Thee for all
tho achievements of the Anglo-Haxon
race during this auspicious period of
the world’s history in all avenues of
literature, art, soienoe, for the cordial
relations between the two great na¬
tions, one in language, literature,
laws and civil and religious liberty.
May they ho bound together in per¬
petual bonds of peace.”
FATAL TORRID WAVE.
Muny ProMmtlona and Several Deaths
From Ileat In New Orleans.
For some days New Orleans has suf¬
fered intensely from a hot wave.
Sunday tho thermometer registered
90 in the shade and Monday and Tues¬
day it crept up to 98 with a little or no
air stirring. The effect has been dis¬
astrous and there has been probably
fifty prostrations within that time and
eight or ten deaths.
W. H. Dudley was found dead in bed
Wednesday morning as the result of
tho heat. He was one of the best known
cotton factors and club men in the
city. The other deaths during the
day were William Grady, blacksmith;
Peter Tickner,warehouseman; William
Driven, carriage driver, and John
Modtler.
HUDSON’S FATE SEALED.
Governor Atkinson flan Tt«f«ned to Com¬
mute tho Nogro’i* Sontonoo,
Torrcll Hudson, the young negro
murderer of DeKalb county, will now
hang. Governor Atkinson has refused
to commute Hudson’s sentence, and
the execution will take place at Deca¬
tur.
The scaffold which was erected sev¬
eral weeks ago, has been left standing
by Sheriff Austin, and is in readiness
for its victim. Hudson was to have
been hanged on June 11 th, but on ac¬
count of a sensational affidavit made
by one of the most important wit¬
nesses in the case the governor granted
a respite.
EVIDENCE ALL IN.
South Carolina Court of Inquiry Gets
Through With ltd Work.
A Columbia, S. C., dispatch says:
All the evidence the court of inquiry
desires to take is iu and their room
has been cleared for deliberation. A
report to the governor will be made at
once.
Jackson Memorial Hall.
The “Stonewall” Jackson memorial
hall at the Virginia Military institute,
Lexington, was dedicated Wednesday
with imposing cremonios.
CONFEDERATE VETERANS WOULD
NOT LET HIM RETIRE.
THEIR VOTES WERE UNANIMOUS.
The Generlii Delivers tin AddreSS Review¬
ing the Advancement of tlio Ofdet
During the Fast Eight Years.
The business meeting of the ex-con¬
federate reunion iu Nashville was called
to order by General John B. Gordon
Wednesday morning. Fl of ayer Cfilnnibla, was of¬
fered by Rev. D. C. Kelly,
Tenn.
The report of the committee on his¬
tory was presented and referred.
General Gordon then delivered his
address,prefacing it with an announce¬
ment of his intention to resign as gen¬
eral “No! commanding. from all There were tbe ball cries and of
no” over
when quiet bad been restored,General
Gordon proceeded With Mb address.
He said in part:
“Mb. President ANfl GomrAiJeS :
Permit me with few Words to retunl
tbe commission With which yoti hfivC
honored unanimous me for eight Within years, tho and few by
vote. next
hours you will elect my successor.
When this duty is performed by you I
shall gladly take my place by those
united heroes who so grandly bore tho
battle’s brunt in the stern work of
war. Such a step voluntarily taken
ought not to be considsred a strange
condescension by any man. To 1110 it
is a privilege.
“Mr. President, in theso closing
hours of my long service as command¬
ing general I must ask the conven¬
tion’s indulgence for a brief review of
(hat official relation and possibly for
some suggestions as to the future,
“Ou the 10th day of June, 1889,
eight years ago, while serving received as gov¬
ernor of my native state, I
from New Orleans the wholly unex¬
pected commander-in-chief announcement of my election
as of the newly
organized United Confederate Vei-
erans.
This new communion of ex-soldifirs
began its somewhat unpromising
career wilii the number of but,
ten organizations, united ’J’oday for it presents peaceful
and noble ends.
the proud array of more than a thou¬
sand onmns v, SW e» ing the roll call,
xstHectiiio Spirited honors upon
fKianfl#rs, and espe¬
cially upon our able adjutant general.
In the next Tew hours I shall turn
over to my successor this army of
more than a thousand organizations,
rapidly advancing toward the second
thousand.
“I said Mr. President, that I would
turn over an army. It is an army of
ex-soldiers, of eX-Confederate soldiers
of exfighting Confederate soldiers,
philanthropic and broadly patriotic.
It is an army still, Mr. President, but
an army for the bloody work of war no
longer. Its banners no longer bear
tho flaming insignia of battle. Its
weapons no longer Hash defiance to
the foe nor deal death to the opposing
ranks. Its weapons are now the
pen without malice, the tongue
without aspersion and history without
misrepresentation. Its aims are peace¬
ful, philanthropic and broadly patri¬
otic. fts sentiment is lofty, generous
and just. Its mission is to relieve
the suffering of the living, c.heri 1, the
memory of the dead and to shield
from reproach tho fair name of all.
This now mighty organization, while
insisting upon complete historical jus¬
tice to the south, will scorn to do less
than complete justice to the north.”
General Gordon Re-Klocted.
When General Gordon had concluded
his address, a motion that General
Joseph Wheeler he requested to nomi¬
nate General Gordon for re-election,
was made and carried. General
Stephen I). Lee, who had been called
to tho chair, declared the nominations
closed and General Gordon was unan¬
imously re-elected. The thousands of
delegates present cheered and waved
their hats and handkerchiefs and the
scene was a most impressive one.
Tho committee on credentials re¬
ported 7,090 delegates present and
1,000 camps represented.
General Chipley, of Florida, chair¬
man of the committee of the Confed¬
erate Memorial association, presented
the report of the oommitteo.
“OLD GLORY” TORN DOWN.
United States riag .forkod From a String
of Other Flags.
A news special from Halifax states
that the United States flag was de¬
liberately torn from a string of other
flags on Queen Victoria’s jubilee day.
The flags were displayed by Thomas
Lowndes from his residence. Tho
flag was a very large one and only the
hand of it was left on tho rope. Some
time ago Mr. Lowndes received a
threatening letter concerning the
United States flag which was display¬
ed by him on another occasion.
The outrage was committed early
id the morning and the perpetrators
fled before they could bo arrested.
JOHN L. AFTER FITZ.
It I» Halt! That Thfiy Will Coma Togethar
In tho King.
A Boston dispatch says: When
Johu L. Sullivan stepped through tho
ropes of the Corbett-Fitzsimmons ring
in Carson City on the 17th of last
March and challenged the winner of
that sensational battle, even his warm¬
est and closest friends were inolined
to make light of the matter.
It was a clever advertising dodge,
they said, for Sullivan’s fighting days
are past. But John persisted.
T. P. GREEN, MANAGER,
THROUGH GEORGIA.
Governor Atkinson had a hearing
the past Week with the proprietors of
penitentiary camp No. 2 on escaped
conwicts. .Nothing definite was de¬
cided, as the hearing was simply to
determine the question of responsibil¬
ity for the escape,
An effort will be Wind® to secure
representation for Georgia exposition at the
great trans-Mississippi to
lie held next year at Omaha, Nebraska.
Omaha is the center of the region
from which the south expects to draw
immigration and a good state exhibit
there would do Georgia lasting good,
...
A new enemy to the cotton plant
has made its appearance in the neigh¬
borhood of Abbeville, It is a dimin¬
utive hug, about the size of a bedbug.
It appears in great numbers, and de¬
vours the leaf, stem and bloom of tho
plant. The farmers of the vicinity are
greatly exercised over the appearance
of this new enemy to their - money
crop.
* * *
The Georgia Mining, Manufacturing
and Investment company’s case has
again been argued before J udge Lump¬
kin at Atlanta and another sale of the
property in the hands of Receiver
Julius L. Frown is ordered. The as¬
sets of the company were offered to the
highest bidder but no sale occurred,as
there was no one present who cared to
give as much ns the upset price of
$125,000.
* * *
In spite of the somewhat somnam¬
bulistic pose of the state fair move¬
ment at Atlanta, it may he said that
the outlook was never more reassur¬
ing than at present. The committee
has already raised in the neighborhood
of $5,000 and the railroads are yet to
be heard from. It is almost certain
that from this source a sufficient sum
will be realized to bring the total up
to the amount fixed, $6,000.
fit * *
The Northeastern railroad goes beg¬
ging for a buyer at $287,000. Not a
single hid was made for it. Not a
bidder appeared at Governor Atkin¬
son’s office on tho day appointed for
opening bids. Bo the stato will con¬
tinue to operate its thirty-nine miles
of road from Athens to Lula and will
make what it can out of the property.
Nothing else can ho done with it until
the legislature meets and authorizes
action.
Th re is a movement on foot to ring
the Curfew hell iu Atlanta. The city
council has been asked to establish the
ancient custom, ami the petitioners
are many members of the Woman’s
Christian Temperance Union, Tho
union people want tho hell rung at 9
o’clock every night. At that hour
they would have every boy and girl
under sixteen found on the streets
arrested and punished for violating
the proposed Curfew bell law.
Eight stalwart young men have re¬
ceived diplomas from the hand® of
President Hall at the Technological
school of Georgia. The school, which
has made such a name for itself in the
last few years, has turned loose an¬
other graduating class and there was
never a class better fitted to run the
race of life. The young men who
graduated were: R. V. D. Corpnt, R.
M. Crumley, F. C. Furlow, E.F. Huff,
W. D. Nash, J. F. Ogletree, Jr., A. L.
Reynolds and E. L. Wight.
An interesting order was handed
down in the Southern Mutual Building
and Loan Association's litigation a day
or two ago by Judge Lumpkin, at
Atlanta, denying the petition of Re¬
ceiver J. A. Tobin, who represents tho
South Carolina courts in the case.
Receiver Tobin desired that all the
assets of tho South Carolina creditors
be delivered to him, claiming that as
an officer of the court ho was entitled
to wind up the litigation in that state.
* * *
Advices from Macon state that noth¬
ing new has transpired in tho case
against the Southern railway. In a
letter to the attorneys in the case
Judge Speer has signified his in¬
tention of acting slowly and.carefully,
hut throws out 110 hint as to his prob¬
able course. It is generally conceded,
however, that Judge Speer will rule in
accordance with his former decision,
which said that tho Richmond and
Danville had no right to hold stock in
the Central railway.
The Atlanta city council may direct
the collection of hack taxes from cor¬
poration manufacturing concerns
which .have been enjoying special ex¬
emption from taxation for several years
past. The question came official up in the
council meeting and an ruling
on tho legality of tho exemptions was
made by tho assistant city attorney.
It is the opinion of the attorney-that
such exemptions are clearly illegal and
that the city has no authority to make
exemptions of the kiud.
* * *
Thomas J. McClain, tho Atlanta
man who shot his littlo son several
weeks ago, has been indicted for as¬
sault with intent to murder by tho
Fulton county grand jury. The child
hovered between life and death for
several days, and tho grand jury de¬
layed action on account of the strong
probability of its dying, and a charge
of murder being made against McClain.
McClain is confined at the county jail
where he continues to assert that he
did not intend to do any violence to
tho child, and that the whole affair
was an accident. Willie McClain, the
wounded child, is still at the Grady
hospital. The physicians state that
it is extremely doubtful that he will
fully recover. His mind is said to be
a perfect blank, and it is feared that
he will never regain his reason.