The western Democrat. [volume] (Charlotte, N.C.) 1852-1870, 1856-12-09

bable, that by taking this amount OF stock
the commencement and completion of this
Road is secured. By the Road, then, the
1900 dollars worth of property is increased
in value to 5000 dollars. The owner, then,
by the payment of 500 dollars, on the pur-
chase of other valuable property to the
amount of 500 dollars actually gains 15OO
dollars besides in the value of his property
purchased. In what kind of an enterprise,
| in what other kind of an investment can
| the enterprising and Industrious mechanic
or any man of moderate property in Atlanta
embark, that promises SO good return =
These same remarks will apply to all the
property holders to the right and left for
ten miles from one end of the line to the
other, and here, too, we may remark that
the safety of subscribing to stock in this
Road consists in this. The installments,
except one per cent to cover the expense
of the survey will not be called for, unless
The $75O,OOO shall be subscribed. When
the S75O,OO0 shall be subscribed then the
commencement and progress of the work
will be certain, and the effect ON property,
as we have stated it, will beyond doubt,
be equally certain.
We will only add that those who have no
property in Atlanta, but wish to place a
portion of their earnings where they can
receive profitable income from the invest
ment they cannot do better than to take
one, two, three, five or ten shares in this
enterprise. For the past fifteen years in
vestments in Railroad stocks have proved
to be the best investments in the country.
The original stock in our leading Road
would cost now from $50 to 200 dollars
share. And those who have Railroad stock
they will sell that. No Road ever built in
Georgia ever promised to be so profitable
as the Georgia Airline Railroad promises
to be. We are happy to be enabled to say
that Atlanta Mechanics and other gentle
men of small means are coming forward to
take stock in this Road, and we hope and
trust many others will follow the noble ex-
ample.
HORRIBLE MURDER OF A FRENCH Mis-
sIoNARY IN CHINA.--The Hong Kong
Register of Sept. 18th gives an account of
the murder by the authorities of Kwang-S ST
of Rev. NJ. Chapdelaine, a French Catho
lie missionary. 1t says:
He was seized by the authorities on the
18th of February last, it is presumed under
the notion that he was there exciting the
people to rebellion. Without anything in
the shape of a trial, indignities the most
gross and cruelties the most barbarous were
heaped upon him. The Mandarin who or
dered his seizure, caused to be administer
ed to him one hundred blows on the jaws
with the sole of a shoe, from which the
poor missionary suffered intensely. He
was Immediately afterwards thrown upon
the ground, when he received three hundred
blows from a rattan. OVERWHELMINGLY did
NJ. Chapdelaine receive this cruel punish
ment, not uttering a word, on which his bru
tai judge, attributing his silence to some
enchantment, ordered dogs throat to be
cut, with the blood of which he was sprink-
fering he was conveyed to prison, where,
from an admirable constitution, he soon so
far recovered as to be able to stand and
walk. But his sufferings had not ended.
with the secret societies adverse to the
government, while they only allowed him
one meal a day, they prepared it of all the
meats reputed to be unclean and abhorred
by the members of these societies. To tes-
'tify to his tormentors that he had belonged
to none of the illegal associations, he freely
eat all put before him. After being in
prison for five days, and having made no
confession, which it would appear to have
been the objects of the Mandarin to obtain,
he was loaded with chains and placed in
the cangue. At the end Of that time he
was forced into cage, carried from his
prison and publicly decapitated. His head
was then hung to or placed on a tree, and
the boys of the town amused themselves
by throwing stones at it until it fell. It is
not known what became of the body, but it
ed it, took out the heart, cut it into pieces
and fried it and eat it,
When Judge Mclean was Postmaster
General he was grossly abused by disap-
pointed applicant for disappointment as
postmaster in one of the small towns. This
man at length demanded to be informed in
writing why he was not re-appointed. He
was so informed; and it is said that the
following is copy of the letter with which
he was favored by the Postmaster General:
Posi- OFFICE DEPARTMENT. June 6, 1923.
Sir: The allegations against you are
numerous and strong, and are chiefly these:
That you cannot write or read well
enough; are not safe accountant; have
been guilty of the grossest negligence in
not delivering letters when called for, a
negligence always inconvient and often at