Savannah morning news. [volume] (Savannah) 1868-1887, 1881-02-28
LETTER FROM MACON.
The Attractions OF the City-Con-
eerts OF she ssHarmOnfcass-The
Recent Tragedies.

MACON, GA, February 28.-Editor MornSss0
Neaes: Macon Is quiet.city, yet has the usual
excitement common to modern towns OF her
size. Marriages. births, deaths; MURDERS
burgIaries. infantcides: fires foods, mumps:
circuses theatres, concerts None OF these
disturb her Equilibrium or retard her pursuit
for wealth or learning.
Merchants, wholesale and retail, stick to
their desks and counters; professors and
teachers toll assiduousy in college halls and
academies
There is no Bernhardt or ''Dlzzy Blondes,
excitement, as in the Gate City, vet there are
enough attractions in the way OF shows to keep
the average young clerk depleted In purse as
the excitable curiosity of his dlI.cined must see
all that comes aiong-good, bad and indif-
A young lady from the country. who has
spent the winter in Macon. was heard to say
'Oh, have had such nice time; Macon has
been very gay this winter" etc. She looked
gay. Such is life. Some live to see and be
seen. They roll from one excitement to an
other like feather tossed by the waves, or
float like beautiful prismatic bubble. Live
without purpose-useful in nothing. Wan
dering vagrants in thought and action. Men
and women make their ripper years miserable
in the wasted hours of youthful dreams.
A substantial and innocent pleasure was en-
joyed by the best of Macon's citizens last
night, who crowded Masonic Hall to witness the
superb musical performance of 'sThe Har-
monicS.' OF her size this city may well boast
as to culture in voice, dramatic art and skill
in instrumental performance.
The main feature in last evenings entertain
ment was the randering OF q dramatic can
tata, Trial by jury" The audience were cap
tivated and are delighted at its repetition TO-
night The music charmed most. but the
whole performance by critics was pronounced
surprisingly fine for amateurs.
Several voices In the Harmonics have not
only been trained by the highly cultured
teachers in Wesleyan College, but also in the
Conservatory of Boston.
You have noticed the two recent murders In
Macon A negro bartender kills a white man,
and negro paramour kills his woman (white).
The cold world indifferently looking on would
say, what business had q white man in negro
barroon, or a Caucasian woman playing the
role of concubine to an Africanl Did either de
serve better fate The young man muir
dered was the grandson of one Of the noblest
men that ever lived in Bibb county, an honest.
high-toned Christian gentleman; and the youth
himself was free from bad habits His patron
age at the barroom was in treating his country
When win the depraved, corrupting and
Cheap John system be abolished by our mer-
chants, Of treating their customers to mean
whlskyf 1t is as unwiS9 as corruptng. Such
habits fostered renders the purchaser less able
to pay, besides inducing them to become
drunkards.
Temperance men and lovers of good morals
should cease to patronize merchants who mix
liquors in their merchandise. But what shall
be done with the murderers-if caught? II
with wilful intent-hang. But how many who
are not thus convicted labor along beside some
convicted of petty crime. Those bloodthirsty
monsters should be chained to hard labor in
the depths of a coal mine, never more to see
the sun. and an annual report of their abject
condition published for the benefit of all their
like minded fellows-or else for life carry
ball and chain working the streets where the
blood Of the slaughtered cries from the ground
against them-a convict catechism of the in
tense scrt-if by any means the coming crimi-
nails could be frightened from their deadly
work. WEST MARVIN.