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DAVID E. CALDWELL.
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«'OI.QIIITT’S FRIENDSHIP.
The inquiry made in these col
umns Sunday, concerning Gov.
Colquitt’s failure to consult his in
timates upon the supreme bench
about the appointment of Joseph
E. Brown to the Senate, has
brought us no response as yet. It
has, however, caused the veil to
be lifted from what appears an in
teresting by-play in the affair.
It is reported that when Judge
Martin J. Crawford met Gov. Col
quitt after Brown’s appointment,
the latter told Judge Crawford that
Brown would not be a candidate
for the Senate in November; that
Brown only wanted the appoint
ment for the unexpired session in
order to get on the record and be
“vindicated,” so to speak; and
that the Governor remarked, sub
stantially : “Crawford, now is your
time to put in for the Senatorsnip!
I am your friend, and will do all I
can for you !”
A few days thereafter, it is fur
ther reported, Judge Crawford, in
the Supreme Court consultation,
remarked upon the affair, and de
tailed to Judges Jackson and War
ner the interview between the
Governor and himself. At the re
cital we learn that Judge Jackson
sat aghast. At its conclusion he
asked Judge Crawford if Gov. Col
quitt really made such a declara
tion. The reply was that he most
assuredly did so!
Judge Jackson, it is still further
reported, thereupon confessed that
Governor Colquitt had talked with
him in almost precisely like terms,
saying: “Now, Jackson, isyourtime
to put yourself forward for the Sen->
ate! lam your friend and desire
your election !”
We give the above version as it
was given to us by parties whom
we deem trustworthy. We are not
desirous of making the Governor
of Georgia appear as chief actor in
such an instance of duplicity to
his nearest and warmest friends
and advisers. We state the case
as we learn of it, and ask if we have
heard aright ? The Governor’s de
nial of the truth of the above
should be prompt and should be
sufficient; but Judges Crawford
and Jackon could, with a word, at
once establish the truth or falsity
of this most damaging imputation
upon the fairness and fidelity to
friendships of our chief magistrate.
THE GOVERNOR AND THESUPREME
COURT.
Before Governor Colquit again
denounces a certain pamphlet,
now in circulation, and which, by
the way, contains some unanswer
able points, against the present
State administration, as nothing
but “lies, lies, lies,” it would be
well for his Excellency to reflect
that among the matters contained
in the pamphlet is the decision
of the Supreme Court in reference
to the Alston lee. In delivering
the decision in the case of Walsh
et al vs. Colquitt, Governor, the
venerable Justice Warner said:
Alston, the public printer, was insolvent;
he had misappropriated $5,000 of public
funds advanced to him. and had become
liable for liquidated damages amounting
to $3,000, in addition. The Governor, as
the agent of the State, received $l9B, 028,-
50 from a claim of the State against the
United States. He did not deposit all of it
in the State Treasury ; but out of the sum
so collected be paid to the use of Alston
$15,000 as a fee in connection with said
claim. The indebtedness of Alston to the
State »as not reserved out of this amount;
Held, that such action increased the
liability of the sureties on Alston’s bond,
and thereby discharged them. If the Gov.
had paid the money recived by him into
State Treasury, and Alston had presented
hie claim and it bad been found due, the
State, as a creditor, would have been bound
to have retained enough out of what was
due him to satisfy his liability, for the pro
tection of its own interests as well as that
of securities —he being insolvent- It can
make no difference so far as the principle
is concerned that the governor, as the agent
of the State, paid the money directly to the
use of Alston instead of first paying it into
the treasury.
Judgment reversed. •
Are these calm and unbiased ut
terances of the highest tribunal in
the State to be denounced by Gov.
Gqlquitt as “lies, lies, lies ?” Cpm
rfient is unnecessary. The law
and the facts in the Alston fee
case condemn the Governor’s action
in such emphatic terms as to
make his abusive replies sound
like scattering drops of rain after
a peal of live thunder,
COI.IRriTT’N DEFENME BOILED
DOWN.
The Daily Post desires to give
every public man a fair opportuni
ty to make himself heard when' he
is engaged in vindicating himself,
and for that reason it affords us
pleasure to summarize the main
points of Gov. Colquitt’s defense, as
we gather them from his numerous
speeches.
Boiled down and condensed, the
Governor’s defense is about as fol
lows :
I am not an ignorant ass.
I am not a fool.
I am not a hypocrite.
I am not utterly incompetent.
I am not a corrupt politician.
I am not a weak Governor.
I am not destitute of backbone.
I am not begging for office.
I am seeking a vindication.
' The editors who oppose me are
slanderers.
The politicians opposing me are
disappointed office-seekers.
The people generally, who
are against me are liars and
thieves.
They are blackguards, thieves
and yellow-eyed cats.
I am a Christian, a friend to
Sunday Schools, and a friend to
Joe Brown.
I am the “Hero of Olustee,” and
an endless variety of other mat
ters too numerous to mention, and
if you don’t believe my word, ask
Henry Grady.
I am sustained by the Christian
sentiment of the State, by Joe
Brown, and by the Dupont Okefen
okean.
A sense of what is due to my ex
alted position forbids that I should
enter into details, but if somebody
isn’t careful, I’ll cause the crimson
to gush from his neck veins, if not
from his face.
We are willing to leave it to any
intelligent reader of the Govern
or’s speeches to decide whether or
not the above is a fair summary of
the main points in his Excellen
cy’s defense.
THE RACON-HUFF AFFAIR.
The people of Macon were ap
prehensive last week that a person
al duel or difficulty would come off
between Hon. A. O. Bacon and
Hon. W. A. Huff. Fortunately,
the misunderstanding between
these gentlemen has been honora
bly and satisfactorily explained
and arranged. We learn from the
Macon Telegraph of the 27th, that
in April last Col. Bacon addressed
a letter to the mayor and council
of Macon, in which he gave cer
tain reasons for not considering
himself legally bound on the offi
cial bond of the city treasurer. On
the 20th of July, Mayor Huff was
signing up the minutes, and when
he came to the letter of Col. Bacon,
he entered the following emphatic
protest:
“As mayor of the city of Macon,
and one of' the few men in Georgia
who has paid in full my part of
the bond of a defaulting officer, I
must enter this, my solemn pro
test, to that part of the foregoing
minutes which is filled up by the
cowardly, treacherous and ' infa
mously false communication of A.
O. Bacon.”
The next day Col. Bacon called
on the city clerk and got a copy of
this protest. Senator Ben flill
heard of the affair, and thinking
that it grew out of a misconstruc
tion placed by Mr. Huff on Col.
Bacon’s letter, he called on Mr.
Huff, and found that such was
really the case. When Mr. Huff
became assured that his protest
was written under a misapprehen
sion of Col. Bacon’s letter, he at
once wrote that gentleman a man
ly note, stating the factsand with
drawing his protest. Col. Bacon
replied in the same spirit, and the
mutual frankness of these gentle
men enabled them to arrive at the
conclusion that, after all, no points
of difference existed between them
and certainly nothing that would
justify any ill-feeling.
It affords us great pleasure to
chronicle so satisfactory a termin
ation of what might have been a
serious affair, if the principals had
shown less candor and common
sense.
The following old rhyme contains the
names of all the English sovereigns,
since the conquest, in chronological or
der :
First William, the Norman, then William, hia son,
Henry, Stephen and Henry, then Richard and John;
Then Henry, the third, Edwards one, two and three,
And again, after Richard, three Henrys we see.
Two Edwards, third Richard—if rightly I guess—
Two Henrys, sixth Edward, Queen Mary, Queen Boss,
Then Jamie, the Scotsman, and Charles, whom they
slew,
Yet received, after Cromwell, another Charles, too;
Then James, the second, ascended the throne,
And good William and Mary together came oh,
Till Anne, (leorges four and fourth William, all past
God sent us Victoria; n ay she long l>e the last.
THE ATLANTA DAILY POST: J LLY 28, 1880.
Clerks.
How difficult it is to distinguish them
from proprietors until you ara used to it.
Then it is easy. Proprietors wear clothes
that clerks wouldn’t be seen wearing to
sift ashes in.
At the start, however, clerks always
speak of themselveS as “salesmen.*
They have a faint idea that the latter is
a dictionary word and means something.
The king clerk is the “ floor walker.”
He is a drum major without bear-skin
cap or baton, and fills an important posi
tion in an important manner. Poor hu
manity always feelsits knees quake when
before his awful presence, until he says
“show these ladies them hose,” and it is
proved that he is but mortal.
The active clerk shows all the goods in
his department, talks a steady stream
and wears a customer out. He makes
a few sales, and does not stay long in a
place.
The listless clerk, with drooping eyes
and pale necktie, drops his goods on the
counter in a don’t-care-a-tive sort of way,
wearied l>y the exertion, and the cus
tomer trades with him because he is so
refreshingly lazy.
The average clerk comes up town in
the morning the very ideal of spick-span,
newness. He is fresh every day, his
collar and shirt-front are just from the
smoothing-iron, his clothes are molded
to his form, and his hair looks as if his
good, kind grandmother had slicked it
down with bear’s grease. He is a daisy.
The poorly dressed clerk. There are
no facts in regard to this nonentity.
The “ masher ”as a clerk. He is en
gaged because of his superlative attrac
tion to silly women, who call on him
every day and buy some little knick
knack, in order to bask in the sunshine
of his radiant and charming smile.
The genial clerk, a man who is always
too good for his position, and ap< sitive
addition to a well-regulated establish
ment. One clerk of this sort is worth a
whole store full of average clerks. He
sells goods before you know you have
bought them.
The genuine business man sometimes
begins life as a clerk, but he pushes out
of the position in an amazing hurry.
The lady clerk. Who would be so un
gallant as to say she is not interesting?
She is. Gentlemen always like to trade
at the counter where she presides, and'
she is usually assigned to a department
where they are sure to come on little
errands. Ladies, on the contrary, do
not like to purchase of her, and it is
noticeable that she is seldom in the dry
goods department.
There are a great many varieties of
clerks—drug clerks, grocery clerks, and
ten thousand others. They are the orna
mental and somewhat useful mile-posts
on the highways of business. They seem
to be a necessity, but why they should
carry the world in its entirety on their
shoulders and superintend the progress
of the planets in their orbits, is a mys
tery. But they all do it, or at least they
think they do.— New Haven Hey Inter.
A Southern War Story.
In 1853 four gentlemen entered their
sons at boarding-school at
8. C. 'They had been for years intimate
iii< lids and clergymen in the Methodist
church. These hoys remained at this
school, room-mates and class-mates, and
entered Wofford College, standing rela
tively first, second, third and fourth in
a largo class. They remained at this
institution four years, were room-mates
all the time, graduating relatively, first,
second, third and fourth. They entered
a law ollice at Spartanburg, and studied
law under the same chancellor. The
war broke out, and nt the call for troops
they all entered Jenkins’ rille regiment
from South Carolina, and were mess
mates in the same company. Being
near the same height, they stood together
ns comrades in battle in this regiment.
At the second battle of Manassas, Au
gust, 1864, a shell from the enemy’s
batteries fell in the ranks of this com
pany, killed these four boys and none
others in the company. They are buried
on the same battle-field, and sleep to
gether in the same grave. Their names
were Capers, McSwain, Smith and
Duncan, and they were the sons of
Bishop Capers, the Rev. Drs. McSwain
and Smith, of South Carolina, and the
Rev. Mr. Duncan, of Virginia, the lat
ter being a brother of the Rev. Dr.
Duncan, of Randolph Macon College.
The grave is marked by a granite cross,
and inclosed with an iron railing.—
Columbia (& C.) Hegister.
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you need, beyond all question.
Is that remedy Saline,
Tarrant’s wonderful Aperient,
Duplicate of Seltzer Spring-
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Pure, refreshing, comforting.
M. C.CARROLL,
Merchant T ailor,
6 WHITEHALL ST.. Up-ttalrt,
Just Received, a tine line of Spring Suiting,
Dress Sults, Business Suits, Summer Suita and
Sults to suit everybody. Headquarters for
School Uniforms,, made promptly and in the
best style. Cutting done on short notice.
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BAKER AND CONFECTIONER
and Dealer in
Staple and Fancy Groceries,
Nos. 88 * 88 Decatur at., cor. Collins st. Atlant*, Ga.
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„ .given, aud reference to cured
HABIT 'patients and physicians.
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ATHENS, - - GEORGIA.
This Hotel is a great favorite with the trav
eling public, and for good fare, pleasant and
agreeable entertainment, cannot be excelled
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For Rich People.
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For Poor People.
hats l
For Everybody.
HATS!
To Suit All.
Largest stock of hats in the city,
and will be sold
25 PER CENT
Less than any house in the South.
His stock of Straw Goods is very
choice, and if you want anything
in that line, money will be saved
by calling on him.
Orders by mail will receive
prompt attention.
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REMEMBER
CLARKE
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HATTER,
Keeps everything Neat, Nobby
and Stvlish.
Walking Canes,
All Styles aud Prices.
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Traveling Satchels,
All grades and prices.
IJMBRELLAS,
In great abundance at BOT
TOM PRICES.
These gooas must be sold, and
you are respectfully invited to call
on
LEWIS CLARKE,
No, 6, Whitehall Street,
ATLANTA, - GA.
W. A. HUFF PHIL. F. BROWN
Macon, Ha. Blux Kidgk Springs,Va.
MARKHAM HOUSE,
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HUFF & BROWN, - - Proprietors.
ATLANTA. GEORGIA.
MARELEIITE.
It is a beautiful substitute for, and far superior to
WHAT IS IT ? Wall Paper, Kalsomine or White Wash.
lf not > B et nat once, llß is EXCEEDINGLY POP
HAVE YOU SEEN IT? ular,
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HAVE YOU TRIED IT? it is loud in its praise.
It will give a More Beautiful Tint’and Finish to
DO YOU KNOW WHAT your walls and ceilings, than can be had with waU
paper, so-called KALSOMINE, OR ANY OTHER
IT WILL DO ? Wash. For other uses see Sample Card.
txzs VHTT TTItfAAV HOW For 75 Cents you CAN COVER A SURFACE OP' 500
DU IVU nun SQUARE FEET, and IT REQUIRES NO EXPERT TO
CHEAP IT IS? apply IT.
It is Ready for Use by Merely adding Water, and is Easily Applied with a Brush.
It will not Rub or Scale from the Walls.
Ask for PRICE’S MARBLEINE, Manufactured by Price, Kellinger & Co., Bal
more, Md., and take no other.
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Separator, 22 to 30 in. cylinder. Down and (j,
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—MANUFACTURER OF—
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Furniture, Bedding, Etc.
12 E. Hunter st., near Whitehall, Atlanta
NV. 11. Uentley,
TONSORIAL ARTIST.
15 Peachtke Street
Sharp Razors and AtMut’v’s Harberf.
SCHUMANN’S
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1$ STOCK DEPOT
Ohenf.cal Laboratory.
Sign of the Golden Bear,
63 Whitehall st., cor. Hunter, Atlanta, Ga,
Pliyslciaus’ Prescription. Carefully Put
up al all Hours.
Fresh drugs, pure chemicals, a
large assortment of Toilet Articles.
HOMOEOPATHIC MEDICINES constantly
on hand. Also, a large assortment of native
and artificial MINERAL WATERS, some on
draught, others bottled and others in syphons
constantly' on hand.
Great Southern Tea Co.,
TEAS, COFFEES, SPICES
AND FANCY GROCERIES.
SUGARS. MISCELLANEOUS.
Sugar lie Grist 12%e
Stendird A... 12 Rice 8
Cut toil sugar 12 Oat Meal 6
Granilated sugar.... 12% Barley 8
Farina.... 8
Wolfe’s self-raising
TEAS. flour per pound... 5
Wolfe’s self-raising 20
Gunpowder 50, 75, SI buckwheat 620
English Breakfast 50, Canned Tomatoes...
75, sl. Canned Co n 20
Oolong 50, 75, $1 String Beans 20
Young Hy50n....50, 75, $1 English Peas 12
Imperial 50,75 Peaches 15
Mixed 50 Salmon 15
Lobsters 20
Asparagus 35
COFFEES. Mixed pickles, qt.... 20
Chow Chow, qt 20
Good Roasted Rio 20 Smoked Salmon 25
Best Roasted Rio 25 Yeast Powder, pound 30
Best Roasted Maracabo.27 Turkish Prunes.. .10al2
Best Perfection 30 French Prunes.. . 15a20
Best Old Gov. Java 35 Valencia Raisins 12
Best Arabian Mocha.... 40 Currants 8
Our COFFEES are roasted fresh daily on the
premises.
AU orders of $5 or upwards delivered to any pait
of the State free of charge.
GREAT SOUTHERN TEA CO.
85 Whiteball Street.
Wesleyan Female Institute.
STAUNTON, VIRGINIA.
Opens Its 31st Session September 20th, 1880.
Among theflrst schools for young ladies in
the United States. Climate unsurpassed. Sur
roundings beautiful. Pupils from Seventeen
States. Among the lowest terms in the
Union.
Terms: Board, Washing, Lights, English
Course, Latin. French, for each half of the
Scholastic year 8115
All extras very low, For Catalogue address
Rev. WM. A. HARRIS, D.D„ President,
7 - 3«. Staunton, Virginia -
E. H. OLCOTT & CO.,
AUCTIONEERS,
33 MARIETTA ST., Under Opera House.
Send us your goods to sell. Sales every
night. Day' sales: Mondays, Wednesdays and
Saturdays.
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