The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1889-07-31

I 70 escape from the c'ou Is Of white limestone
{ dust, which sette th.cS On the velvet col
/ lar OF pas blue cloth c5a- II the deli
I caee pink Insrabod feathers OF ma bonnet,
( which Pompey cant do. for tie faster ne
/ goas, the faster the others 90, making al
! the more dust; 50 tai "a gets red III tae
/ face, and jumps up il the seat and looks
| ready to fight, and thrusts ms head out OF
/ the window a ID knocks II his hat; and ma
| looks nervous, and black Pc npey AMI vel
/ low Cesar both look white with dust and
/ fear
A rural calvacade indeedl Besides the
| carriages. buggies, hOrsemen and pedes-
TRANS, there are long drOyes Of stock being
hurried on foward the 10 0n-hundreds OF
them. By the time they come together IL
/ tue town they will be ma y thousands + or
Is not this the great stOcS-marker OF the
west, and does not the whole s1it1 LOOK
| from Its rich plantations and cities to
hentuc1y Tor bacon and mule'! by-ahd-
by our family carriage res at last get to
town, and is left out in the streets along
nth many others 10 block up the paSsway
| according to the Gust IN.
The town is packed 1t looks as though
Oy some vast suction system IL had with
one exercise of 70 &c dra wn all the country
life into itself The poor dumb creatures,
gathered In from the peaceful fields ami
crowded around the court house. send forth,
|
horror and despair at tue tlmul5 Of the
sceue and the unima Enable mystery of
their O vi fate. They quite overflow to
me by streets where they take posse sion of
the sidewalks, and debar entrance at pri-
vate residences. NJ stOck-pens wanted
then; nOue wanted now. If town legis-
lates against these stock sales on the streets
and puts up pens on its outkirts, st. aight-
way the st OK is taken to some other place,
ana the town is punished for its airs by
decline in its trade.
As the day draws near noon, the tide of
life is at The food All mixed in with the
tosSi e horns and uimbe neels Of the terri
led, distressed, half-maddened beasts, are
the people. Above the level Of csc is the
dIscordant choir Of shrll voiced auctio heers
on horseback. AT he corners of the streets
Iong-hai ed-and 10 lg-eared-doctors in
curious hats lecture to eager groups on
naladles and philauthrOpic cures Every
ltlnerant We ider of notion aud nostrum
he countryside is there every wandering
Italian harper or musician Of any kind, be
he but sightless fiddle, who brings forth
with poor unis n of voice and string tue
1r1ef and too tickle ballads of the time,
Gentle Annie" and Sweet Alice, Ben
Bolt" Strangely contrasted with ever
hing else in physical type and ma KS of
civilization are the mountaineers, who have
% ne wn TO 1.-THE settlemntsn drivi 2
erdS of their lean, stunted cattle, or bring
In slow-novmg, ox-trawn 'ste lmooa,"
wagons, maple sugar. aid baskets, and poles,
and wild mountain fruit-faded wagons,
faded beasts, faded clothes, faded faces, faded
everything. Ageaeral day for buying and
selling all over the sta e. What purchases
at the dry goods stores and groceries 70
Keep all those negroes at homo fat and com
Portable and comely-cottons, and gay cot
tonades, and gorgeous turbans, and linseys of
Jrlsmatic dyes, bag OF Rio ffa9 and bar
rels of sugar, with many another pleasant
thing! All which will not be taken home
in the family carriage, but in the wagon
which Scipio Africans is driving III;
Sciplo, remember; FOR while the New Eng-
ander has been naming hi, Owd flesh and
blood Peeg and Hezekiah and Abednego.
the Kentuckian has besn giving even his
negro slaves mighty and classic names, aft
er his taste and fashion. But very mock,
ngly and satirically do those victorious
titles contrast with the conditio of the n
tnat wear them. A surging popuace, an
ln-tOwn holiday for all rural folk, wnolly
unlike what may be seen elsewhere in this
cou try. The politician will be sure Of uis
audience to-day in the c urt house yard;
the sell II will be sure of the purchaser; the
IDLE man of meei ig one still idler; friend
| of seeing distan: friend; blushing Phyllis
come in to buy fresh ribbons, of being fol
! lowed through the throng by anxious Cory
| don.
And what, amid all this tumult of life
and affairs-what t the lstice of the peace
whose figure once lowered up so inelys
| Alas! quite outgrown, pushed aside. and
wellnigh forgotten, The very name of
the day which once SO sternly comlnemor-
| ated the exercise OF his authority has wan
dered away into an Their III aning County
court day" no longer brings up in the mind
the image of the central urt house and
the judge on the bench Il is 10 be greatly
feared his noble type is dying. The stain
of We ahty has soiled his h0mespun ermine,
and the trail Of the ofce-seeker pass d over
his rough hewn bench. So the new con-
! sututiOA OF the common wealth co mes in, to
make the Rutocrauc ancient justice over
into the modern cleo i've magistrate, and
with the end of the nalf century to close a
great chapter of wonderful county court
days