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JESSE E. MERGER Editor k Fror.
FRIDAY, AUGUST 21, '<883.
Dr. Haygood lias suddenly fallen in
love with the brother in black.
Negro highwaymen iu Atlanta, put
IB their work in the day time.
Prohibition would be worth mere
to Emanuel county if it were possible
to relieve it of such men its the scribes
of the Itemizer.
The jail in Lexington cost the coun¬
ty about 89,000, and last week it had
in it three prisoners, and on last Fri-
slay eight they all crawled out at the
♦ye light above the door.—Ex
The brotherhood of strikers should
•eethat no woman who obeyed the
order and stood by the strikers, re¬
mains without work. Let all tho wo¬
men operators have the first p aces—
.AVtrs and Advertiser.
Ex-Governor Talbot says lie ennn t
* accept the nomination for Governor
of Massachusetts 011 account of the
pressure of business, It is not busi-
ness, perhaps, so much as Butler
■which induces him to decline 8)
promptly a nomination which has
nevrr yet been tendered him.
McDonald is still determined to
mnke speeches for Hoadly in Scptem-
l>er. His chances of getting the
Democratic Presidential nomination
W1 decrease in proportion to the 11 ti lu¬
her of speeches I 10 in ikes. If Ire is
wiso he will be dumb as an oyster.
The Louisville Courier—Journal re-
S ar< l s 15® exposition us n "rent suc¬
cess, and is jubilant nv. r the 5’popular
indorsement” oi fire management re¬
ceived on Thursday. I 1 says the crowd
was simp), immense. That ,‘thev
came by tW' S, by tens, in excursions
of hundred*, and ut night tlio people
who waited to. see the fireworks cover
*d the tiille and spread iu every direc
Ron.
There is one American abroad who
is certain to bo envied by our dudes
and dudiuoH. His name is J. A. Har¬
deman, and he is American Consul
Ocneral in Siam. The King of Cum
hod in lias created him a Commander
of the floyal Qrfit 1 of Cambodia. This
u almost equal lo being made a Count,
» Mprquis, an Earl or something of
that sort.
New Jersey hasn't all I lie snakes.
Georgio has a few. One of our cor¬
respondents says that a party of yonug
men, while riding through a swamp
near Eden a day or two ago, came
across a hole in which fifteen moeca-
. sin snakes weto discovered and killed.
Some of them measured five feet in
length. Tho moccasin is far more
dangerous than the had man from
Bitter creek.—She annah Jfem.
The health authorities of Newburgh,
H. Y., says tho Sanitarian, are in
vestigating an epidemic of typhoid
fevor which appears to bo connected
with the pollution of drinking water.
The patients—oighteen or twenty in
number—are confined to one block,
and, it is believed, contracted the
disease by drinking the water from a
particular well in tho vicinity, which
a partial analysis shows to contain
chlormo, indicating sewago contami¬
nation.
A Touching incident‘occured on
the Georgia Railroad the other day. A
lady noticed on the seat, bofore her a
woman, whose refined appearance led
her to engage in conversation with
the stranger. Noticing the latter’s
beautiful babe, she expressed admira¬
tion. “Yes,” she said with a sigh,
“beautiful, but blind.” Then point¬
ing to two other children by her side,
she added: “That is not all—these,
too, arg blind.” Tho sad announce¬
ment brought tears to the eyes of the
listeners. Tho mother’s sorrowful
lot and tbe children's sad future awak¬
ened the deepest interest.—Ex.
Lieutenant Mullet, who commands
the revenue cutier Ewing, now cruis-
iog in Chesapeake bay on the lookout
lor yellow fever vessels, is not the
kind of a fellow for pilots and cap.
tains to fool with. He signalled a
British steamer to stop a day or two
•go, and the signal not being obeyed
be fired blank cartridges across her
bow and stern. These biuts not be-
icg noticed he ordered a rouud shot to
be put into her. The order was
about to be obeyed when the steamer
came to and allowed the quarantine
officer to board her. The pilot would
bare been taught a lessou if the shot
bad btcii fired and a hole been cut in
the steamer,—£ai\ News,
A Government Piwtal Telegraph.
Al n tme wl oil it was thought that
Uie strike of the telegraph operators
would create considerable delay and
confusion in the ordinary business of
thecountiy, some one of our esteemed
exchanges suggested that it might pos¬
sibly be prudent after awliile-’-lhat is
to say, in the course of human events
—for the government to erect a postal
telegraph for the benefit of the public.
The suggestion was very timidly pre-
as wo remember, but not too
timidly, for the ink had scarcely been
washed from the types before it was
pounced upon by numerous other es¬
teemed exchanges" E li or Dana, of
tiie Sun, lose and remarked, no more
government jobs, no more movements
in the direction of centra izalion, if
the country please: and Editor Joseph
Pulitzer, of the New "York World,
also protested in terms equally us em¬
phatic.
No doubt these voluminous protests
frightened the o-teemed exchange
which had the audacity to make the
suggestion, f-r we have heard nothing
more on the subject excopt an o0i;a '
si. n renewal of the protests. There is
no doubt that centralization is a bar-
ful thing to contemplate, but it, is
questionable whether tiie operation of
a postil telegraph by tire general gov¬
ernment is in tho direction of ccntrul-
ization. It is very certain, for in¬
stance, tlitit neither the power 11 >r the
strength of the govern mo ..t would be
iucreaS'd by it. Such u system would
operate to inereuse the efficiency of
the post-office department, and, iu
that direction, would till a long felt
went.
In arguing against a government
poBtul telegraph , Mr. D.ma points to
the jobbing and corruption in tbe
burciu of printing and oilier bureaus
iu Washington. These are facts, to
lie SUl’c, but, they arc not arguments
against a postal telegraph. Thera is
a good ileal of jobbery in the treasury
and navy departments. Does it fol¬
low that these departments ought to
be abolished? Not at nil. This is a
of the people, by tho peo¬
ple, for tire people. If the people are
dissa‘i-fhd with the corruptions at
Washington, there is a cheaper and
surer remedy than abolishing the de¬
partments.
The Sun says that the government
might as well bo expected to engage
in the exprt ss business as t» establish
a postal telegraph. The il ustratlon
is not an apt one. If the post-1 ser-
of the country were as perfect as pri¬
vate enterprise has made the express
companies, the government would do
a large and growing share of expres 8
business through the mails. Even ns
matters stand, hundred and thousands
of valuable packages are carried
through tho mails, for, while the ser¬
vice is not perfect, it is reasonably
sure. Not a day passes that tho gov¬
ernment does not compete with tho
express companies.
The truth i«, a government postal
telegraph would not only increase the
efficiency of the postal service, but
would effectually dispose of one of the
m< st dangerous monopolies the coun¬
try has ever seen. But if there are
nuy real arguments against a govern¬
ment postal telegraph, we should like
to see them, If it is really a move¬
ment in the direction of centralization
we should like to have it explained.—
Constitution.
The Agricultural Society and Free
Passes.
As often ns the State Agricultural
society meets of late a resolution is
introduced by some one to change the
constitution so as to hold one, iostead
of two sessions per annum, and ttie
argument in favor of the resolution is
invariably the same—“that two ses¬
a year are two much drain on
the railroads for free pa-s s,” and the
advocates of the measure ‘ do not be¬
lieve the railroads will be much longer
be able to stand it, owing to the great,
competition,’’ etc., etc. The same
kind of discussion t»ok place before
the society last year, and the iuipivs-
dou made was that either the movers
were interested in railroads and de-
sired to get rid of their pld friends, or
else they hoped to gain the favor of the
now powerful corporations, and “b-iug
meat fruit for” reeommendatiou.
What the railroad companies had to
say about the matter was not revealed
except that members had been told
by some railroad officials that compe-
tition was so great that tlrere vas
doubt whether the free pass system
would bo maintained. Wo not ce
however, that such statements do not
usually accompany the annual reports
of these Companies, and on such weak-
ness is admitted in the grand roll of
annual dividends. The fact is the
miinw k w#*io n**ve ' more poqierous
IImu- now uiij ao well able 10 make
,
thin small concession. The society
seldom has more than 200 members
present, and half the time not 150.
A large number of these are always
from the immediate neighborhood
the place of meeting, requiring little
or no railroad accommodation. But a
great many people attend the meetings
of tire society who are not members,
ami many of them from coiisid- table
distunces—even from oth.-r >-tutos.
Howdu they get there? Do all of
them have free passes? There should
tie something oi a rei-off in tlm tr.ms-
action- it seems to ns—something to
acquit the 8"ci>-iy of being a burden
upon the railroads. But if the rail¬
roads >re really tired of the society
and d c-ire to get rid of it they should
be honest about it and refuse passes
without any excuse.
The ruiiroads, however, know liow
t > take care of their own interest. It
is safe to say that tin y will not furnish
p as8(3 p 0 p;,,, agricultural, or any
KOci , l(y any longer tlmn it is f-r
th ,. il . intere ^ t0 \l 0 so. There is no
g 00 j reason why the members of the
'
sociwty sll0 „iq „ ot accept passes,
They cannot harm the nilroads in
!lU y way; neither are they in a po item
to do them any particular service.
There is no suspicion of a bribe there¬
fore, attach (1 to passes issued to
them. Their society is engaged in
building up the country, and in pro.
O'tioo as the country prospers the
ruilr ads prosper. The railroad-*,
therefore, are as much interested in
the Society as the members uiv. In
all probability they get tlu wroth of
their passe*, and they nn lerstan i that
fact. There is 110 occasion, however,
for show ing a lack of appreciation of
their courtesy, and lo-s occasion for
the society to boost the pa .s question
into notorictv.— Sav. eivs
Sale of the State Road.
Mr. Jordan, of Hancock, Inis intro¬
duced a resolution looking to tire sale
of the state road. We are not p;e-
pared with the lights before us
to indorse or to antagonize the propo¬
sition. But we are clear in the opin¬
ion that our representatives should
give it earnest and careful _c insider, 1 -
tion.
It is an accomplished aud admitted
fact that tbe action of the last legisla¬
ture, in granting what is known as the
Cole charter, greatly decreased tho
value of the state’s property.
It is known that the syudicale ben-
efitted by the granting of that charter
is preparing to give the sttitd road and
the Central system a very sharp fight
for busines*. It is reported that the
Senev syndicate now owns and con¬
trols tho East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia system, running through
the state, with connections east aud
west.
It is believed by many sagacious
meu that this syndicate aspires to gob¬
ble up the Central system, and that it
is but a question of time as to when it
will be done. If this should be ac¬
complished, it is absolutely certain
that the state road would be at its
mercy, aud could be made dependent
upon its local traffic alone. Its rich
rental would be lost to the state, and
its value greatly impaired.
When we sit down and think how
the interests of the state were sacri-
fied in the Macon and Brunswick road,
how the two roads, the Georgia Pacific
aud tho East Tennesee, Virginia and
Georgia were allowed to take the
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franchise of the state road worth many
hundreds of "thousands of dollars, in
older to gi t into Atlanta, we are dumb
founded at the stupidity and folly, if
nothing worse, of those who are rospon-
for those tilings.
Whatever interests Georgia may
have for the present or future in rail¬
road property should be strictly com¬
puted if possible, now. There is an
inviting field for a searching investiga¬
tion ju>t here.
If anything can be doue to protect
the property of the state, it should be
done at once. If the state road is in
danger of being emasculated, then it
would seem to be the part of wisdom
to save everything possible while
there is opportunity .—Telegraph and
Messenger
The proper way for the people of
North Georgia to disp^e of the Mor-
mfin missionaries is t > take them out
aud bang them. They disregard the
laws of society’ aud should not be
granted any of its privileges .—Sparta
Ishmadile,
Dr. Hay good is fast winning fyr
himself an unpopularity as a chri-t'an
and S3,('KX1 a year,
Thi Craza for Office.
Information Df an entirely reliable
character reaches us, that even before
the capitol bill Las reached the Sen¬
ate, members of the General Assem-
lily are being importuned through
letter and personal interviews, by pn-
sons in all stations of life, to be elect-
od to the place of commissotier,
provided for ill that bill. .Such is the
desire to hold office that men are will-
ing t > relinquish honorable and useful
pm suits to hold one of these posi-
tions. Any man lit to act as one of
these commissioners must of a necessi¬
ty be earning more than one thousand
dollars a year. A man who cannot
earn one thousand dollars a year eith¬
er at a profession, trade or calling
ought n t (o be elected commissioner.
The object in putting a clause in the
bill providing for commissioners was
not to create public offices or to pro¬
vide soft places for stat#rmau and oth¬
ers that might be out of a job, but to
protect the Slat •. It was to secure
the closest and most intelligent obser¬
vation of the work from its inception
to its completion. Tire men corn pi -
teut to fill these positions will have to
till them at some sacrifice to their per¬
sonal interests. Practical business men
of experience in tli£ variotu depait-
incuts of life are wanted, and it is
more thau doubtful if such can be se¬
cur'd through the machinery of an
election by the Legislature. Now that
it has been developed that there is
likely to be a disgraceful scramble for
the places, accompanied by trades,
jugglery, combinations and coalitions,
it will be wise ou the part of the Sen¬
ate so to amend the bill, as to empow¬
er the Governor to select and appoint
the commission by and with the advice
and consent of the Semite.—Telegraph
and Messenger.
Upon the arrival of government tug
Emma Etheridge, at Louisville, Ky.,
Thursday hut, the pilot told the fol¬
lowing pitiful sfcbry: Tuesday, while
about eleven miles above Shawnee-
town, III., he noticed a boat contain¬
ing four persons immediately under
the tug’s bow. The boat had been
unnoticed till then, Efforts were
m*de to reverse tiie direction of the
tug, but those were ineffectual. Sud¬
denly three men jumped from the
boat, leaving only a young girl therein.
Tho tug charged iutotlie boat, which,
with its occupant, was semi no more.
Ropes were thrown out to the men,
and they were resource!. But the oldest
of them was terribly discomfited on
learning of the disappearance o'f the
girl. He told the pilot his name was
Smith; that he lived iu Union couuty;
that the girl was his daughter, aud
that she was engaged to one of his two
companions, but the young man had
got into trouble aud inti the Joliet
penitentiary. He had managed to es¬
cape, however, and had commuicate 1
with the young lady, who li id indue, d
her father and brother, the other
young man of the party, lo go with
her, under cover of night, across the
Ohio and land her lover safe at home
with them in Kentucky. Investiga¬
tion has proved tho okl man’s story to
be true.—Ex.
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