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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 • < f f HARACTERS : > Dick Hatherly, a ¥ /&JL M young Letty Lorimer,'his painter; second cousin an '.'v T, orphan; tain Vere and Grierson, Cap- y/f T'orffT- ( kM V. w j soldier on a fur- a '” Bh ' 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. 1) 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.