The weekly clarion., 1879-09-17
Signs of Progress in Georgia.

/ EDITORS CLARION: Are YOU aware that there
is county in one of the Southern States of this
Union from which dram-shops of every des-
cription have been banished? That county is
the County of Carroll in the State of Georgia.
/ The good effect is said to be wonderful. If
/ there is another county in the South that has
/ taken such position in behalf of temperance
| am not aware of it. Be this as it mav that
county deserves honorable mention for being a
leader in the only rapidly effective plan of
lessening the great evil of ofintemperance Moral
suasion has done a great deal, but can never
eXtirpate the curse. Drunkards can never be
cured except by removing all intoxicating
drinks beyond their reach 1t is false to say
that drinkers will have their drains whether
there are saloons or not 4 few would, the
Majority would not. Perhaps one-half of the
present generation would be stopped by the
abolition of drinking-saloons In the next
generation the good result would be far greater
Drunkards may never to kill themselves
drinking while drains can be had in anv way
but thousands especially of the young would
be saved from the habit of intemperance if
there were no dram-shops As things now are
the facilities for drinking afforded all over our
land, produce and train a large number of
drunkards who are as incapable of reforming
themselves as the insane are of curing their in
sanity. The State that leads its citizens into
temptation to drunkenness by licensing drink
ing saloons commits crime against itself
and them. Let them be forever abolished.
y bill has been introduced into the Leoisla-
ture of Georgia, now in session in Atlanta to
abolish pistols that it shall be penal offense
tor any one to own, buy sell a pistol in the
State. Whether the bill pass or not this is GER
talnly an advance movement in the right di-
rection. Pistols are to be classed among the
meanest inventions of man. Nothing perhaps
that was ever supposed to be useful has done
SO much harm and so little good in the world
as pistols They almost always kill the wrong |
man, whether by accident or intention. Con
structed and intended for the killing of men, |
ana designed for concealment, they are essen
TALLY murderous and dastardly weapons The |
laws torblddlng men to carry them concealed !
must forever be Intellectual while every man /
knows that his neighbOr may have one. Ten |
men have lost their lives undeservedlv bv /
pistols where one life has been saved by them
They are almost unmitigated evil Let them
be hanished from civil society, and thousands
of lives will be saved
Georgia has recently discovered and proceeded
to hono1 one of the greatest men she ever pro
Long of Athens, Georgia, had lived and labored
and died in his native State a comparatively
obscure man. Recently, however, through the
thorough investigations of DR.. J. Marion Sims,
ormerly of Alabama, but now of New York. DIR. e
Crawford w. Long has been concIusiveIv proven
o have been the discoverer of surgical An;rs- Y
hesia. For more than two thousand wears il .
las been known that insensibility to pain j..
night be produced by opiates, but their effects
Fere uncertain and dangerous. Wells of Hart
ord, ald Morton, of Boston, used nitrous oxide
0 prevent pain in the extraction of teeth, as F
arly as the 11th of December, 1874; in 1916
ackson of Boston suggested the use of sui c.
huric ether for the same purpose. Chloro-
'rm, discovered in 1881, was introduced as an j.
n@sthetic by Sir j. q. Simpson of Scotland in
S47. 1t is now satisfactorily ascertained that -
r, Z. w. Long, late of Athens Georgia, ampu- =;
tied a limb, the patient being made entirely on
sensible to pain, by the administration of
llphurie ether, the 30th of March 1912. B
y this discovery Dr. Long conferred an meal
liable benefit upon the human race. Mr. H. SO
. Stuart OF New York who took great interest
this question, recently presented to the
lumni society of the University of Georgia a
'rtralt OF DIR. Long costing eleven hundred
'llars: The Alumni have placed it in the care tn
the Legislature of the State. Copies of this wi
'rtralt have been ordered for the Iibrarvt of ar
e State University and for the Corcoran Art
allery at Washington. :,
Congress having invited each State in the IN
MON to send statutes of two of its distin- Sc
lshed benefactors to be placed in the Nation Ju
Art Gallery, Washington Hon A. IT ins
ephens in recent address before the Uniyer- thi
y said that Georgia could not do better than 20
send those of James Oglethorpe and Craw- NJ;
I'd w. Long. utl
La a beautiful poem written bv DR. Tono,s ad
lighter in commemoration of his name short a g
after his death, the following prophetic dis
ought occurs of
erthee, dear one, stately column rears SCI
Its lofty head
Y life, thy noble life is all that cheers ant
Thy humble bed; On
ough known to few thy unrewarded fame the
Was truly Won; ~,
me day, thy nations heart will proudly claim hor
Her gifted son. oai
cor
The early fulillment must be grateful to the cho
irt OF the gifted young authoress. nr
W. l.. c. HUNSICUTT ri