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j. a. DARR* Editor VOLUME I. |A S?K COIATI GAZETTE I*l HUSHED . ATj] .RISING FAWN, GEORGIA, (livery Thursday) ' DA Hll & CULLEY. J, A, r>AKR> * I).*M CI'IiLEY, Editor. ]>i siNK.ss Mixxckp, m, Subscription Rates. O|E Year, in advance $650. Bin Months, “ "•>. oMonths,0 Months, dvertising Rates. rti'cment< inserted a t'* 1.00 per incli’for fit i insertion and 50 cents for each subsequent kition.*for any time le.-o tb'.n tnrcc months, .oral items’ and Rus' >e..s Xut.a-s 10 cents |,r line for fir*t insertion ... 5 c*eiitJ,pcf line fto each subsequent in.-eruoii. V ■.TO" Announcing candidates for Jr 5.00 Btl jctlv in advance. mAll advertising accounts due and payable after tlu* first insertion. >,’ >i ( ,ccial contract for advertisements lAger than one month. Kates made known on undicar ion, 3 > (General Directory. LOIMSKS. ’ronton Lodge; No. 170, F . A. M.—.T. T. se|l, \V. M.; J. A. Kennett, Sec. Meets ftr.-t Wednesday night in each month at 7 p. in. Biising Fawn Lodge, No. ?915, F. A. M.—S tl. Thurman, W.M.; U. l\ ’i turn, See. Meets fiilt and. third Friday liiglus in each month. ■l o. <l. (’.— 1). M. Cm I ley N. C.j tide. Meets every Saturday night, t “ CHURCHES. pi. F. Chuprh, South.—Services at Rising Fiwn first Smidav in each month at If o’clock ; thafh School at ■ clock a. in., e 'er' - Siin . At Trenton, second Sunday in each montli t II o’clock; Sabbath School at ft o’tiock a. m., every Sunday. Prayer .meeting tvjij Wednesday at fi:dtl, . m. cur NT Y COURT." —: IB* entity Court, .meets first in M eacli mouth. J. Ken nett, Ordinary. SUPLIUoirCnUKT, Hon C. l. McCutclu-n, A. T. Unde- AHoriiev-Gcn r:il : N. W. Colt*, Clerk. Merit third Moikljiy in .Maieli md S iptember. .COUNTY OFFICIALS. J W. Blevins, ShniH : J. A. Bennett, Ordi hatv : XV. S. Taylor, County Surveyor : .lohn fUsjjrk, Tnx A*se*svr ; .lohn Moreland, Tsix Col* icfiM • O’Nrsil, Inai.'tirtr; J. C. Taylor, totally f'uprriulendcnt, * TOWN DIRECTORY. 1T- A. XI. "ale. P. M.,T. J. Park, Agent ;inl ©|*rtor ; Stewart, .J. P. LEG A L. m* HT..T. 1 Mtrjikh), Attorney at Law.—Office'on owner of ( liureli and Aialnima streets. ib. Ci. flair, Attorney at I.aw.— 0 ff.ee J JJrcu tj§A. \> . I.ale's I i.sii ss Lome. I’ll YSJCI ANS. @l’r. Fiirks.— residence, on Alabama 4 or’. PHY CO I>S, GROCE 111 ES AC. § |T>. M. CuPoy, dealer in staple and Fancy'Dry ©yds, eontli side public square. f\ otrhi rside ABn w n,’dealers hi Fry floods e#i > and General Merchandise: frontinir ralroad. . M. Male, dealer* in* Family Ct rocerics;"*at Pwtofliee. Trer.tor, J LEGAL. 'Jm • I*. A J. P. Jacoway, Attorney sat Law.— on east side public square. id'A; .PHYSICIANS. |Hb'. XV. F.. Brock.--Office at residence, in neti hern p;: l of the village. W- Professional Cards. I t. j. ".nii'Kimj attorney at law, USING FAWN, CADE COUNTY, GA. n.i. pay proic't at ion to the e.dleefion >f ®J§ llK * and nil L oss intrusted to bis car'," in ® f ‘ ev 'l courts lor of Made, X'llker nnd Catoosa. l-tf. .5. i*. MALk, & Coiirscilor at Law RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GA. W"-'- fTi'ctice :n tU Superio. Courtsjof Dade and Catoosa. Strict attei.tion“given to '"llretion ot claims, or other business in- to his ear-. j.jj* w. U. I t.owiv, 4"‘TOrNEY ATLAW, Tr.LNTCN, DADECOUTY, GA. lu. i rcct ce in counties of DaL' , r ;u, “ t Ciitoota. Collecting a specialty. The Rising Fawn Iron Fur nace- It 4 Jlaiiagcinc lit &c. Mr. Editor-— ln your issue of Jan. 11 there appeared an article in regard to the management of the Rising Fawn Iron Furnace, headed, “Information Want ed,” and after i ing facts that are known to every casual observer, closes as follows: “If all this he true, it is enough to awaken the sensibilities of i lie coldest sinner and arouse the indigna tion of every lover of justice and philan thropy in the land.” To this no reply has been made, although it was publish ed in sight of the furnace and in the midst of a people interested in its propci management. Their silence can only he construed into an admission of the facts fit- td, and a smiling ,hat to he true, a more gigantic fraud was never attempted to lie pcrpetrateil on a people, A short history of this unfortunate af fair may be of interest to your readers: This entciprifie was carried tlnough by a New York company at a cost ot over six hundred thousand dollars, and when completed, considering the close proxim ity of its ore and coal and other natural advantages, second to no property of its kind in the south. This company was authorized to issue first mortgage bonds to the extent of $125,000 for which a deed of trust was executed to the trus tees on all the property of the company except its product, to secure the the pay ments of the bonds which were due in 1881; the interest to he paid semi-annu ally, and if they remained in default af ter due six months, the whole became due. The coupons attached required the bonds to be presented and demand made for payment at the financial office of the Rising Fawn iron,Fo. in of \c \\ York. In the summer of 1876 this com pany blew (lit the furnace and went back to New York, leaving a considerable in debtedness, for which a large number of labor liens were foreclosed—in all about 140. .Some were on record before the act was passed authorizing ibe issuing of the bonds. And besides these, various other judgments were obtained and exe cutions issued, and the property adver tised and sold by the sheriff to.J. W. Cureton for SIB,OOO, he giving the Ris ing Fawn Iron Cos. bis bond to reconvey to ih m the property on ti e payment of the SIB,OOO in 80 and 60 days, and on failure they were stopped from any action against him. Soon af ter this sale Mr. A. S. Colyar appeared in the interest of the present bondholders to get possession of this valuable proper ty, and finally succeeded in making a lease for 90 days, and then formed a con spiracy, got possession of the contract, lost or destroyed it, and attempted to hold the lease 90 days more. Failing in that, they assumed to have a title, or ganized a company, and issued stock cer tificates. In the last named plan Mr. Warner was made president, and five out of seven of the directors from Nash ville and two from Dade, one ol whom was their ally and acted a piomincnt p"rt in all this strategy and fraud, for which he feared to return to Dade coun ty to his family, and finally went to Tex as. The.oilier was their attorney. How much fairness there was in this 1 leave the people to judge, and think when wc take into consideration the hundreds of poor creditors who arc the sufferers, whose rights are usurped by the bond holders, no parallel can be found for such a Wrong. After this failed hey turned their avaricious eyes on the bonds and bought up SBO,OOO of them and received the interest promptly on demand; but openly avowed they wanted the proper ty, not the interest; and when Cureton was making arrangements at the first na tional bank to pay the inkiest, I am told their attorneys were watching to gar nishee so as to create a default. Foiled in this, they filed a bill in the Federal court in Atlanta, in which they allgcd that Cureton had destroyed from one fourth to one-half of the property, and that the repairs would not last but a few weeks; but this was controverted by the best citizens in the country. An *■ * Ovlier allegation wi ~ there were eight bonds in default, and they refused to take tlie interest on them, and insisted on the trustees taking possession of the property, which they refused to do; tLey RISING FAWN, DADE COUNTY, GA.. THURSDY, MAY 22, 1879. to tin* IligSit, Fearless Against the Wrong.” also asked the court to appoint a receiver to take charge of the property. Cu c ton had, in the meantime, repaired and put the furnace in blast at a cost of sev eral thousand dollars, and was operating it more successfully and economically than it had been since its erection, and on his success depended tho hopes ot hun dreds of creditors who had entrusted their interests in his hands. These eight bonds claimed to he in default were de posited as collateral security, with an understanding that tho coupons were not to he presented, and thev were not and no claim or demand for the interest, un til the present holders bought them, and when they presented them at the office the interest was tendered them and they refused to take it, and claimed the whole to he due. Epon this issue a receiver WTi*appointed in the person of B. E. Wells. “Yeni, Yidi, Viei”—l came, 1 saw, I conquered. When lie came lie brought with him a U. 8. "Marshal and the agents of the bondholders, and re quired Cureton to move out his goods and commissaries at a heavy sacrifice, and give room ior the bondholders’ in terests, and they have been virtually in possession ever since. These parties bought their own coke and paid themselves for it out of the pro ducts of the furnace, paid themselves for their goods and commissaries out of the furnace, an l pocketed the profits, which will amount to two or tlnee thousand dollars per month. The prod iction of the furnace cannot be estimated under SB,OOO per month, this aggregated makes not less than $5,000 per month. They have b >n operating it fifteen months; the profits have reached $67),000. Mr. Wells has retired from the receivership and turned it over to Mr. \\ arner, one of the bondholders, i know of no par allel tor this unscrupulous action, save in the reign of Queen Anne or King George 11, when for petty treason or fel ony, a subject forfeited all his chattels, interests absolute, and the profits of all estate of freehold during life, and after his death all his lands fee simple, ex cept those entailed to the King. This must be the king’s year, day, and waste, when he had the liberty of committing waste on the lands of felons by pulling down their houses, extirpating their gar dens, plowing thei: meadows and cutting down their woods. All this, and more too, has been enacted by these parties in free, republican America. If this is to he tolerated, how long will it he before your liberties, your rights, will he tram pled ruder foot by these moneyed lords? Arc these people traitors,are they felons, that they are thus treated? or is it he eai: j thoy are in control of a large por tion of the convict force of both Tennes see and Georgia, and through the force of habit extend the same treatment for this country? T jy seek to monopolize by obtaining its most valuable interest by stratagem and wrong. These parties seek to make it appear that this proper ty is not profitable. If so, why, “after they have tested it”, do they show such a craven desire to own it? \. ny spend thousands of dollars to get it? Col. I>. E. Wells took charge of this furnace on the 6th of Feb. and I am creditably informed by one who knows, that it was running on foundry iron and did so almost entirely through that month; hut his repot t shows to the court that the highest grade reported was sil ver giey—. ~L worth by six dolia.s as much as foundry iion per ton, and hence his report shows a loss in that month of several hundred dollars. Now 1 am cred itably informed that Cureton was clear ing about one hundred dollars per day when he turned it over to Wells,and Wells claimed in his report that he mado iron €ith one-third less fuel, and paid ten percent, less for labor than did Cureton. Again, 1 quote from his port that the machinery of said company generally has been injured and the boilers greatly damaged through the unskillfulness, ig norance or carelessness of the former late management; that in all machinery run by st am, the invariable rule is to have from two to tliree,geiit*rally three,guaga boeks arranged one above trio other to show the top surface of the water in the boiler. Now every word quoted above was intended to deceive the court and misrepresent the facts. Wells knew that every gUage-cock was on tho e ho’lers when he got it that is on it now; and the mechanic that managed it for Cureton managed it for him for nine months af terwards, and he gave him a certificate and recommendation as an experienced, first-class foundryman. My God! what a solicism! his report abounds in mis representations, and is more an attack on Cureton than to show to the courMhe result of his management. His egotism abounds in almost every sentence. A am he says under present management of a thoroughly competent and ski led man in the business, employed by receiver, a much better iron is bring made. Now the laets are, this man was discharged from the South Pittsburg furnace for in compotency, and when here said he did not understand charging a furnace and was discharged by \\ ells, and Demurs, this unskillful and ignorant manager that he so often refers tc in his report, continued to manage the furnace for nine mouths, and deserves the credit for its success; rnd he ( Demurs) holds a paper under Weils! own hand and signature that charges hack on him a willful niis reprsentation when he alludes to his in competency and want of skill to run a furnace. lie refers eleven times to the former management in bis report. Now is, this old sinner knows noth ing about the former management of this furnace, for he was never there from the time they signed the contract for coke, be for** the repairs were completed, until he came to take charge as receiver. Now the facts are that all this waste and damage done to ibis machinery is charg able to them, and was done during their niimtv days’ lease, in which time thev burnt out the hearth, damaged the ma chinery, fixed the respo 1 superintendent who state and is now in Texas. And they made use of the entile products and refused to make any This is the sequel to this subterfuge, behind which he seeks to hide his i\Msei< us guilt, and fix it on an innocent pimy, and this is not all; lie has had the nari^r-gunge railroad torn up and theJron removed, destroying tlie conned ion Between the furnace and the coal bank. KSor does he stop here, hut suffers the enclosures around the lands to he hauled off the premises and used— posts and plank fence sold and carried off the premises. Hired emissaries are paid to lay around and watch Curetou’s acts to find something to found an ac cusation against him. Behind all of this lurks a moneyed power whose law is gain, and who commands the services of unscrupulous men who are ready to sac rifice friends, muzzle the truth, murder justice, and take power for right. Again, on the first Tuesday in June, 1877. there was sold four lots of coal lands and bank containing machinery, cars, drum, wire rope, and enclitic, and E. I). Graham bid it in with a distinct understanding with Cureton and other creditors that it was to he deeded to Cureton ns the other property when he paid the purchase money; but in viola tion of the agreoment, lie in a few days deeded the property to Warner and Mor row, and when Cureton made them a tender of the money they icfused to take it,and claimed the property as their own. This property was excepted from the other sale by a claim filed, wl-ich Gra ham publicly declared was worthless; and that he °nd the parties understood it, and done it to use in another way. Now the estimated value of this coal property is $30,000; this added to the profits they have made, amounts to $95,- 000, full, if not over, par value for their bonds, and yet they want full value and accrred interest besides. If ‘ill tliis is right, if this injustice, if this is equity, then the law as establish ed by human experience from the con nection ol causes and effects, and obser vation Oi human conduct and the ordina ry test of human nature, is false, and man has sought in vain through the. great book ot natural and revealed law, for a code of morals to govern the recti tude ol the world, and Christianity is a farce- Justice, There is talk of a bill to make a State of Xk idian Territory. Southern Justice. Prompt justice to criminals in the South has generally been associated in the public mind with the court of Judge Lynch, out no fault can be found on le gal and conventional grounds with the proceedings which have culminated in the conviction of CoX, of Atlanta, for tho murder of Col. Alston. ’The social position of the victim and of his murder er, gave the case more than usual promi nence in the Southern mind, and so averse, generally, is the respectable Southerner to admitting that a man of good birth and breeding can commit a crime that the pnhlic in both North and South was prepared for a disagreement of the jury, in spite of the positive quality of the evidence against Cox. But the trial seems to have been conducted with entire fairness, the prisoner has had all the de fense that his case would warrant, and the upshot is n reccommendation by tha jury of imprisonment for life. A start ling and dramatically suggestive feature of the case is that Cox is the first man upon whom (he new law, allowing ju ries to reecommend life imprisonment as a substitute for capital punishment has operated, and that this law was passed by the aid of Cox’s victim, Col. Alston. In spite of the angui: h suffered by the woman the wife of the prisoner, for whom all true hearts will bleed, the justice of the punishment cannot he doubted. The taking of life, except in ghsolute self-de fense, must he sternly rebuked by all so ciety that in modern days makes any pretence to civilization.—N. Y, Herald. Do Ihe Dying Suffer Pain? People do not like to think of dead). It is an unplcasent subject; but it con stantly obtrudes itself, and there lias been much speculation as to whether mental or physical pain attends the final act Ob serration teaches us that there is little pain of either kind in dying. Experience will come to us all one of these days but it will come too late to benefit those who remain. It seems to be a kind provision of nature that, as we approach the dread event our terrors diminish and the cow ard and hero die alike—fearless, indiffer ent or resigned. As to physical pain, Dr. Edward 11. Clarke, in ‘Visions,’ says; ‘The rule is that unconsciousness, not pain‘ attend the act. To the subject of it death is not more painful than birth. Painlessly we come whence we know not. Nature kindly j rovides an anaesthetic for the body when the spirit leaves it Previous to that moment, and in prepa ration for it, respiration becomes feeble often accomplished by long inspirations, and short, sudden expirations, so that the blood is steadily less and less oxygenated. At the same time the heat A acts with cor responding debility pjßucing a slow, feeble and often irregular pulse. As this process goes on, tin blood is not only driven to the head with diminished force and in loss quantity, but what flows there is loaded more with carbonicacid gas, a powerful anaesthetic, the same as that derived from charcoal. Subject to its in fluence the nerve centers lose conscious ness and sensibility, apparent sleep creeps over the system; then comes stupor, and then the end. Cheerful Valediclorj. Ashevil!e'(X. C.) Journal; In this is sue of the paper I offermy house and lot for sale. My object is to quit the country —possibly for the country’s goo<. For the past nine years I have endeavored to make a livelihood bore at tire newspaper business, and at this writing I am a good breathing representation of the Genius of Famine, or an allegory of Ireland (Paring the potato rot. The day star of m v pros perity lias gone down behind a dark cloud of unpaid bills and uncancelled obliga tions. As resort, I propose to cast my lor among the Mongolians of the Pacific coast, and with this view mv leis ure moments are devoted to deciphering the hieroglyphics on a Chinese tea chest while I patiently await the advent of a purchaser. The recent severe weather m Italy threatens the total destruction of the silk Worm. D. M. ( J I.LI'A , Business Max General Grant lias gone to Spain. King Alfonso of Spain will be married in ()ctober or November. r J be President has recognized R. Lehr as consul of Belgium at Baltimore Md. The Governor of Texas lias called the legislature to meet in extra session June 10th. \\ m. 11. \ anderbiltsailed for Europe from New 5 oik in the steamer Britannic yesterday. Tom Scott is in Florence, Italy, Mrs. Scott has returned to New York. I be International Congress to consid er the plan of a Panama ship canal met in Paris, Thursday. New York city is to have a great baby show. Over 300 entries have already been made. A conference at Barnsley, England, representing 120,000 colliers, decided to demand ten percent, increase of pay. In the wrestling match between Police man Mnldoon and Theobald Bauer at New York Wednesday, Mnldoon was the victory. One hundred thousand copies of Ben. Hill’s recent speech have been ordered bv the Republicans of Wisconsin as a campaign document. Captain Law f on, of the Fourth calval ry, shot and killed a soldier of the Twen ty-second infantry, for mutiny, at San Antonio Texas. The export and import duties of Cuba amounted in 1878 to $22,230,444. Dur ing the first four months of 1870 the the f -.toms receipts exceed those of the same period last year by $1939,254. The Evangelical Ministers’ Associa lion of Boston'have decided to call a convention of churches of all denomina tions in Boston and ten miles around for May 26 to sustain the municipal author ities in enforcing the Sunday laws. Ihe funeral of Rear Admiral Enoch G. Parrott took place from St. John’s Episcopal church, Portsmouth, N. H $ Wednesday Rov. Charles A. Holbrook, officiating. The ceremonies were of the simplest character, all display having been enjoined. Hon. Andrew D. White, United States minister to Berlin, accompanied by his wife and daughter, sailed from New 1 ork for Europe Thursday in the Inman steamer t City of Brussels. A large number of bis friends were present to see him off. The eight annual meeting of the Un derwriters’ Association of the South will be held in Atlanta, Ga., on the 21st, 22d and 23d instant, correct the existing demoralization in the matter of rates throughout the South. - Advice from Port-an-Prince Hayti, April 25 leport several sudden deaths from a fever, of which heretofore only foreigners have been victims. The city is very filthy and it is astonishing epidemic disease has not developed there before. m m The American correspondent of the London Times is Mr. Joel Cooky one of Mr. G. W. Childs, staff on the Ledger of Philadelphia. Mr. Cook receives from the Times, it is said, an annual salary of £l/000 in gold—or $5,000. M iss Annie Montague appeared as Josephine in Pinafore, at the Lyceum, Theatre, New York, Monday The World says she filled .he p>><* < cel lent ly well—her tine voice method being sustained by \.# V acting leaving uotl.ing to regret. NUK.ttER 29