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The Christian Index! VOL. 55— SO. 11. Table of Contents. Fibrt Fade. —Alabama Department: Record of State Events; Peter’s Wife—Rev. D, E. But ler; Spirit of the Religious Press; Baptist News and Notes; General Denominational News. Daisy'BDream—Poetry; Georgia News. Second Page.— Our Correspondents: Home Again—Wm. Warren Landrum; Tilings Un pleasant—Old Wiregrass Preacher; Our Coun try Preachers—M.; Matters in East Tennessee —N. J. Phillips; Subject for Church Confer ence—C. ; Letter from Rev. F. M Haygood; •‘Publishing Alms and Contributions”—Friend; From Nashville, Tennessee—L. ; Reply to the Moderator of the Towaliga Association’—H. S. R.; Miss Lottie Moon’s House; Letter from Rome. Georgia—Nomad. Definitions; Labor ers—Poetry; Minutes of Baptist Associations; God’s Dumb Children; etc. Third Page.— Our Pulpit : Duties and Qualifi cations of Deacons—An Ordination Sermon, delivered at Cuthbeit, Georgia, January 16, 1876, by Rev. John T. Clarke. Fourth Page.— Editorial: Zeal—Rev. S. G. Hill yer. Moody and Sankey—Rev. G. A. Nunnal ly. John Knox—Rev. S. G- Hillyer. Can Deacons or Laymen take official part in the Communion Service; Missionary Appeal; Georgia Baptist News—Rev. D. E. Butler. The Watch care of Churches—Rev. J. S. Ba ker. Fifth Page. —Special Contributions : Notes on the Act of Baptism—Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick ; Tertius—His Rejoinder—Rev. R. W. Fuller; First Baptist Church. Secular Editorials: Publishing Alms and Contributions ; Sunday school Institute at the Second Baptist Church, Atlanta; Reunion of the Members of the First Church, Atlanta ; Personals ; etc. Sixth Page.— The Sunday-School : Absalom's Death—Lesson for March 19. Sunday-School Institute at Savannah; Sunday-Bchool work in the Union and New Suubury Associations; the Institute at Atlanta—Rev. T. C- Boykin; etc. eyenth Paoe. —Agriculture: Cut Worms Among the Oats; the Distinction Between An imals and Vegetables—London Times; Tur pentine-Making end its Effect upon the Soil. Eighth Page.— Missions : The Red Man’s Ap peal for Education—Locho Harjo, and others; The Indians Begging for Help—Wm. H. Mcln tosh, Corresponding Secretary. Financial and Commercial. Marriages.’ Obituaries. Advertisements. ■■■■i i- ■ ■■■■ —■■ ■ i mi -i ■ Indexandbaptist. ALABAMA DEPARTMENT. In Etowah county wheat is looking well. Hog cholera is prevailing in Henry county. Oats are very promising in Choctaw county. Work is progressing on the Muscle Shoals canal. W. J. Bray lias been re-elected mayor of Eufaula. The Spring term ol the Greene circuit court bejrae April .‘ii-t, In Lawrence county wheat is looking re markably well.. The Southern Immigrant is the title of anew paper at Cullman. The publication of the Tribune, of Gunters ville, libs been suspended. The Randolph county Hews is anew paper published at Wedowee. It is proposed to put up a telegraph line from Gadsden to Etowah. A concert is to be given in Gadsden for the benefit of the Baptist church. The IBlh Kev. M. F. Whatley’s residence, in Clarke county, was burned. Pat Robinson keeps the paupers of Mont gomery county at 30 cents a day. Rev. Mr. Brewer has recently accepted]!!)* l pastorate of the Opelika Baptist church. One thousand hands are to be put to work on the Alabama and Chattanooga railroad be tween Eutaw and Tuskaloosa. The spring term of the Lauderdale circuit court was postponed until the third Monday in May, on account of small-pox in the county. Messrs Whittle and Bliss, the revivalist, have begun a series of religious meetings in Mobile. The meetings are attended by large audiences. The District Council Patrons of Husbandry, composed of representatives of the Granges of all the counties commercially tributary to Sel ma, will meet in that city on Thursday the 16th. 1 According to Superintendent McKleroy’s re port the school fund of 1874—’5 was distributed as follows: % To white schools $315,792 To black schools 234,021 Bnt the number of public schools were as follows: White schools 2,610 sSlack schools 1,288 With less than half the number of schools and teachers the fund for the blacks was more than three-fourths of that of the whites It is said that the English bond-holders will soon advance the means for putting the Ala bama and Chattanooga railroad in splendid working condition. Selma has received this season, for the year ending February 25th, 86,251 bales of cotton against 68,803 last year, a gain of 11,448. —The Macon Telegraph says that there has been more guano sold in Macon this season than has been sold any season since 1870. The faimers are coming for it from far and near, and buying it to the vety last limit that their credit will reach. They promise to pay for it in cotton, delivered next fall, at fifteen cents a ] Otin !. In some instances liens are given, but i. cber* the plain note of the planter is all that is requited. THE SOUTH-WESTERH BAPTIST, of Alabama. PETER’S WIFE. Matthew and Luke make mention of this woman, but, neither of them say one word of her duties, as such. She did not accompany him in his tours of preaching. Her mother was at Peter’s house and “ lay sick of a fever,” when the Saviour went there. It is clear, then, that Peter had a wife, and her mother, Peter’s mother-in-law, was there sick, and she may have lived there. How many of the other apostles had wives, is not so well knewn, but this fact is unmistakable, the apostles did the preaching, visiting and the la bor in the Master’s cause. Their wives did that share of the labor which be came them as preachers’ wives, but no credit is given them, no record is made, and it may he that most of them, as became “ women professing godliness with good works,” they learned in silence, and never “ usurped authority over the man.”—l Tim. ii: 10, 11, 12. Such was the station and condition of preachers’ wives, in the time of the Lord Jesus and tiie apostles. Times have changed, and, we fear, for the worse. In this generation a pastor’s wife must visit, nurse the sick, feed the hungry, clothe the naked, teach in the Sunday-school, hunt up the Bt;aggling children for the Sunday school, go to the meetings of the La dies’ Societies, receive companv, have dinner ready for any passing preacher, and dress like the wife of the most wealthy man in the church or congre gation. She must study much, and be always prepared to do every thing re quired of the pastor, except to go into the pulpit and preac’ a sermon on the final perseverance of the saints, elec tion, predeslination, or man’s free agency, at a moment’s notice. If she has children, they must be well dressed, healthy, bright, well behaved, and at Sunday-school before any others,by way of example; and she must bring them. She must never become tired, sick, or out of humor; her husband must supply her every want, and she, poor creature, must give of that abundance to every one who asketh. Nor does this list of requirements include all the duties which are expected from preacher’s wives. We are heartily sorry for them. It is a wonder that a woman can ever be so blind to the future, as she must be when, knowing these facts, she becomes the wife of a poor Baptist preacher. We take issue with all our brethren, who either thoughtlessly, or unjustly, require such service from a pastor’s wife. Preachers’ wives should be just like other good women,and they are so, wheu the church and congregation are wise enough to know what the real duty of a pastor’s wife is. And what is that ? Why, to stay at home, take care of the family and household af fairs, when her husband is in the discharge of his duties. Was she called when her husband was called ? Did tbe committee say that much salary would be paid to her ? No, she is expected to work for nothing, whilst the pastor and his children are suffering, it may be, for many of the ordinary comforts of life. Is this picture overdrawn, rough as it is ? Is there not enough truth in the foregoing to make these good women shudder when their minds con template pastor present circumstances? What shall be done for their relief ? Let every brother and sister reflect a moment, and every church consider its relationship to the pastor and his family. It is no rare thing in human exper ience for a man to be made apathetic by sorrow. The secrect history of many purposeless idlers, of many carers for nothing, of many spirits des titute of interest in divine things and human, is that of some sorrow taken amiss, not turned to account, not seen as a discipline of the All-Merciful. Lifa has lost its zest, and there has been a nursing of the lost, instead of a glean ing of the present. Not to feel has been the art cultivated, when God would Lave enlarged the scope of feel ing, and transformed it from the selfish into the human. FRANKLIN PRINTING HOUSE, ATLANTA, GEORGIA, MARCH 16, 187(1. Spirit of the Religious Press, —The Watchman pointedly replies to the following query of an exchange; “Singular. —How singular it is that people who were never alarmed that whisky should poison men, denounce the poisoning of pigs with the’grain from the distilleries, and think that the law should punish the offense.” Why, no, not singular at all! Alas Lis it not true that many people think more highly of their swine than they do of themselves? Was it not so with the Gadarenes? Did they not prefer their swine to the Lord Jesus, when they ‘‘besought Him that He would depart out of their coast ?” May not Gadarens live here as well as in Palestine? —Thus sayeth the Interior-. As we shall probably be called to account by some of our Roman Catholic contempora ries for an allusion to the heresies and contra dictions of the church, they may have an item or two to begin upon. Gregogry the Great in an _ official letter, 594. denounced the as sumption of the title of “Universal Bishop, as “vain, ambitious, impious, 7 execrable, anti christian, blasphemous, infernal [and diaboli cal.” Pope Leo decided that baptism adminis tered by a heretic was valid. Pope Nicholas that it was not valid. The council of Trent decided that they were both wrong, and cursed Leo. The council of Elvira strictly foibade the introduction of images or pictures into the churches. This was sanctioned by succeeding councils, The First Council re voked this decree, and permitted “ordinary worship” to such images. The Second Coun cil of Nice denounced the opposition to im ages as heresy. Bishop Purcell and a large majority of the Papal ecclesiastics vigorously resented the doctrine of Papal Infallibility not ten years ago. The doctrine that infalli bility was given only to a general council was the doctrine of the church for centuries. —The Biblical Recorder says: The leaven of systematic giving is working among the churches—Rev. F. H. Jones, writes : “My churches are operating on the following plan : The brethren agree to lay by them in store as the Lord has prospered them, and pay over to the Treasurer of the church quarterly what they gather in this way. The first quarter, for Education, ends in March; the second, for State Missions, in June; the the third, for Foreign Missions, in September; the fourth, for Sunday-schools, in December. —The Christian at IFor&says in regard to the care of the larger boyß in our Sunday schools : In a majority of the churches it is a frequent source of sorrow that the larger boys are not interested in the Sunday-school, and that, in consequence, they have a grievous habit of go ing away from it. The principal trouble is that they are not interested. The study of the lesson, as set before them, has no attractions for them. The teacher, too, often mistakes humdriim exhortation for the imparting of pious truth, and tiie boys are not to he im posed upon with the substitute. He tells them of David and Saul and Solomon, and the other Bible worthies, and it lalls flat on their ears. Hie lads hardly know tlie diflerence between Nahum and Nebuchadnezzar, or between Ba laam and Beelzebub. One by one they grow weary and stay away from the class, or they strike, and in a body present their valedictory. There ought to he talent enough in the church to do the rigid tiling for these growing boys. If a man is incompetent as a teacher, why not tell him so, discharge him, and get somebody else? If book-keeper, salesman, clerk, porter, or sexton fail in their duty, we let them go, and fill their places with better men. —The Northwestern Christian Advocate philo sophises as follows: “The wonder is that intelligent men who desire reform can consent to be silenced Gy this plea of danger to the party. What is a party worth to the country, to whose success corruption is necessary? What identification of interest can the good have with it ? Plainly it is seeking opposite ends, and they have lit tle to lose by its failure. If a party is really committed to important national objects which virtuous citizens have at heart, then it will be aided, and not injured, by the exposure and punishment of wrong committed by any of those whom it has placed in office. —The Presbyterian at Work commenting on family worship as a religious educator wisely says; One can hardly over-estimate the power of this service over young hearts, il wisely and earnestly conducted. A daughter of irreligious parents spent, not long since, a few months in a Christian home. Selected passages of Scriplure, usually the leadings connected with the current Sabbath school lesson, were read, each member taking a verse in course. Not seldom there was some familiar talk and comment cn the pas-age and (he Sabbath lesson. Then a song, and then all bowed in brief and simple thanksgiving and prayer for daily grace and protection. This gay young girl soon found the God thus honored and worshipped in this house to he her God and Saviour. Not long after another daughter, gay, cultured, and highly educated, spent a tew weeks in this humble home. Shi, too was sweetly won to the religion so magnified in the house in which she was a guest. Going to her own home she preached Christ to be her mother, and now all three are rejoicing in the Lord. These girls attributed tiieir conversions to the indirect yet powerful appeal that day by day came to their hearts and consciences from thege simple ordinary services of family reli gion. We fear that pastors and church officers are not watchful and faithful in the oversight of the church touching this matter, especially in the case of young couples just setting up their homes. . Habits of neglect once formed are not easily overcome. Starting right at the outset is often a guarantee of life-long fidelity. Let the voice of the preacher and the Chris tian teacher be lifted up with no uncertain sound on this subject. We need nothing so much as consecrated homes. —The Standard says that scepticism is noth ing new; it says : Most writers speak of the scepticism which makes ro much noise at the the present day. as if il were something new and alarming. But when we, read the record of other times we find that the same feeling prevailed, and on many occasions infidelity and scepticism were much more bold and aggressive than they are now. Read what Bishop Butler says in the advertisement to the first edition of his “Anal ogy It is come to be taken for granted by many persons that Christianity is not so much as a subject for inquiry, hut that it is now at length discovered to be fictitious, and accordingly they treat it as if in the present age this were an agreed point among all persons of discern ment, and nothing remained hut to set it up as a principal subject of mirth and ridicule, as it were, by way of reprisal for its having so long interrupted the pleasures of the world. — Zion's Herald on the subject of prohibition well says: It is hopeless to press for legal [measures without a hearty and general sympathy in the movement on the part of the people. It is simply urging a truism to insist that prohibi tion does prohibit. What is needed is the old enthusiasm, and a combination of active per sonal service, in urging forward the reform. —The Baptist Weekly well says : A person who has no object in life is apt to run a vagrant and useless career. A man who aims at nothing cannot reasonably expect to hit anything. In military operations there is what is called the objeetive point. The ob jective point is the point to be made, the thing to be done. All the forces of the " y are concentrated on the making of . point; and when that point is made success follows. In one sense life is a warfare—it is a succes sion of campaigns. And every one should have his objective point—a clearly-defined purpose —and work up to it with undeviating per sistency; This is the only way'to succeed. BAPTIST NEWS AND NOTES. —The three principal Baptist pulpits of Chicago are now vacant. The membership of all the Baptist churches in that city (22) numbers only 5,289, and in the State 65,998, though there are 887 churches and 911 minis ters in the Slate. Of the ministers, however, only 480 are pastors. —That was an interesting baptismal service at Goldwick, Oldham, England, where ten mothers from the Mother’s Bible Class pro fessed their faith in Christ together by being immersed. All of them had been brought up believe in the validity of infant sprinkling. The class now numbers seventy members. —The Lord is bestowing His blessings upon the churches in Ept Tennessee. From all parts of East Tennessee comes news of out pourings pf the Spirit, and consequent revival of His people, and increase of the churches. —A Chicago correspondent of the Watchman (Boston) emphatically says: There is no ques tion hilt that the greater denominational pride of the South has developed more of what might be termed distinctively Baptist eloquence. —T -. Baptists in Missouri are strong in nutirtfeifl®? ItiJHr.crcase rapid.—about 6,000 net a year. —Rev. A. J. Hacked, of Mississippi, has been called to Shreveport, La. —Shurtleff College, Illinois, is the oldest Baptist College in the Mississippi Valley. —Dr. Manly, President of Georgetown College, is to write a series of articles for the Examiner and Chronicle, on “ The First Bap tists of the South.” , —The American and Foreign Bible Society, (Baptist) is again renewing its youth and its usefulness. —The Baptist cause is looking up in Cali fornia. In missionary and educational mat ters we are advancing. —The new building of the American Bap tist Publication Society, at 1420 Chestnut street, Philadelphia—the corner-stone of which was laid at the last anniversity—is now com pleted, and is probably the finest Baptist edi fice on the continent, and probably the best for society purposes owned by our denomina tion in the world. —Rev. W. S. Fontaine, who has been in Texas for several years, has returned to North Ca rolina. —By invitation of the proprietors of that resort, the Baptists will hold a ten dayß’ meet ting at Ocean Grove, beginning July 11th. •—According to the Baptist “ Handbook for 1876,” the present number of churches in England is 2,620; of chapels, 3,364; of pas tors in chargA 1,86?; of members, 263,729; of Sunday-school scholars, 372,232. This shows an increase on the previous year of 8 churches, 33 chapels, 8,731 members, and of 20,318 scholars. There is shown a decrease of 49 in the number of pastors. The Baptists of the United States have drawn quite largely on the English pulpit for two or three years past, which may account, in some measure, for the decrease of ministers reported above. Home Mission Board. —The recipts of the Home Mission Board S. B. C., from October Ist 1875, to February 29th, 2876, from Georgia, amounted to eighteen hundred and fifty-six dollars and seventy-three cents. This amount does not include the general collections by Rev. N. M. Chaudoin, and Rev. S. Boykin. We glean the above figures and facts from an itemized statement, just received from brother Mclntosh, the very efficient Corresponding Secre tary, to whose wise and energetic man agement the Mission cause is deeply indebted for much of the success to which it can lay claim in these “hard times.” Not disagreeable ; hardly more bitter than la ger beer, and much more satisfactory and pleas ant. Simmons’ Liver Regulator can betaken at any time, without interfering wi U business or pleasure. It is so gentle, safe, and sucli a good digester, that it is often used after a hearty meal to settle the food and relieve any apprehension that the mealmay disagree with you. THE C HBLISTIAA UST EEZELELJAX-iID of Tennessee. General Denominational Hews, —The General Conference of the Presbyte rian Church, which convenes in Edinburg, on 4th of July, is being looked to with great inter est. There are twenty thousand congregations within the limits of the Presbyterian fellow ship, and fifty different forms of combined or ganization. —The number of Protestant converts gath ered in India during 1874 was 7,000, and in Burmah and Ceylon 5,000. The chief progress has been made among the aborigines, especial ly the Kola aDd Santals. Among ths most prominent conversions to Christianity have been those of a prince and two princesses in Travancore. —The number of Methodists in Georgia are given as follows; South and North Georgia Conferences, 84,074 ; Methodist Episcopal Churcl k, 16,180, African Methodist Episcopal Church, 152 ; Colored Methodist Episcopal Church in America, 13,572; Pro testant Methodists (about) 2,500. Total 156,- 478. —Dr. A. C. George, of Syracuse, proposes to settle the Presiding Elder question, which is such a troublesome matter in the Methodist church, by the simple plan cf abolishing the quarterly Conference and substituting there for four District Conferences in the year, in which the Presiding Elder shall have the office of Chairman, and take a stalion like any other minister. —The Universalists of New York have thus far raised over $20,000 for the purpose of erecting a free church of that faith in the city. — l The congregation of St. Paul’s Parish (Episcopal) at Marquette, Michigan, (a city of 6,000 inhabitants), have built a church which will accommodate 600 people, at a cost of $50,- 000 without fairs or festivals, and without one dollar from outside the city, and without any aid from non-Episcopalians in the city. —Professor Von Schulte, one of the German Old Catholic leaders, has published a pam phlet in which lie advocates the abolition of compulsory clerical celibacy. He claims that before the Reformation the whole Christian Church was agreed on three points only: 1. That the Bishop should not live in matrimo’ ny. 2. That a priest should not marry a sec ond time. 3, That a person who had been married twice should not be ordained prießt. —ln Constantinople eighteen evangelical congregations meet every Sabbath, and about one-lialf of those In attendance ;n'& natives. —Of one hundred and seventy-eight congre gational clergymen whose deaths the past year are mentioned in the Congregationalist, eight were above eighty years of age, and only six under forty. The average age of the entire number was sixty-four years and nearly six months. A pastor living near New York, not long since, read the Scriptures, offered prayer, preached a sermon, and pronounced the bene diction, all within 20 minutes. The preaching was intended as a rebuke to those of his con gregation who complained of the usual long service. For the Index and Baptist.] DAISY’S DREAM. “ There angels do always behold the face of my Father which is in Heaven Night Boftly stepped upon the earth, Bringing the time when dreams have birth ; That mystic time when without our will Visions please, distress, yet haunt us still ; Thus dreaming, sleeping, suddenly A grieving cry awaken’d me— Rousing the mother-love instantly. “ What is it dear V” The child replied, “I was dreaming, mother, when I cried ; God sent someone from Ileaven I thought, And this was the message to me he brought: ‘ Come home to Heaven, I want you now, Come, Daisy, come: O, come to me now !’ I cried and wept and the angel Bmil'd Because ho know ’twas good for the child. But, mother, I begged to stay with you, Until you could go to Heaven too. So back to the skios the angel went To bear to God the message I sent.” I hush’d her fears and sooth’d her to rest, Telling her God must know what is best. A few fleet days and fever came, Exhausting the childish little frame ; And the dream I ponder’d o’er and o’er, Wond’ring if on the beautiful shore Was winging an angel swift and strong, To hear my darling up to the song And the singers, who crowd the golden aisle, And delight in the joy of God’s great smile. Did he come, in pity tarry’ug awhile, Thus sparing the mother her lovely child ? To bear us both to God will he wait, Hovering near the Pearly Gate, To watch our growth in grace each day, ’Till ripe and full they take us away ? Did he hear to God her pure young tears, Add say it was only four brief years The sunny life had blossom’d ? Ah ! me, When the sweet bud will a flower be May each petal ope in love for Thee, And drop its bloom in Eternity. 0 mother-love ! 0 daughter-love ! God grant it ever thus may be ; As pure, as true, when many years Have pass’d, my child, o’er me and thee, And whene’er the angel comes again, If it be for one, or for us twain, May we calm our fears and go to rest, As we did that night, saying God knows best. —Lila. Oriffln, March 2, 1876. Does Your School take Kind Words? If not, by all means, send up a subscription to Bro. Boykin, lie advertises liberally with us, and desire us to tell our readers that it will de light him to receive money for new subscrip tions, yot lie believes that he really desires the good of the young in the wide dissemination of Kind Words. _ An Extended Popularity.— Each year finds “Bbovn's Bronchial Troches" in new localities in varioui parts of the world. For relieving coughs, colds, and throat diseases, the Troohes have been proved reliable. WHOLE NO. 2811. GEORGIA NEWS. —Eatonton has organized a Reading Club. —An Odd Fellow Lodge has been constituted at Whites’ Town, Jackson county. —The pay of jurors in Baldwin county, has been reduced to 75 cts. per da 7‘ OBBSHI ® ® —Five colored men, of Augusta, have volunteered to go as missionaries to Afr’ca. Colored churches have agreed to support them. —The Monroe Advertiser of the 7th says: .i.o. Mr. John Peters sent us last week a speci men of his wheat. The stalks were fifteen inches high and in a bunch, grown from one grain, there was, by ,actual count Sl6,blades. —This from the Fort Valley Mirror: Col. Winßlow asserts that there is not a Bible in Marshallville. He states that last Saturday a Bible was needed in court and could not he found. —The Knoxville correspondent of the Fort Valley Mirror, of March Bth, says : The wheat and oat crops never looked more promising, being very far advanced for the time of the year We saw a few days since a patch of wheat, consisting of several acres, on the farm of Ewell Webb that averaged over knee high. —The Augusta Constitutionalist says: A well known cotton house of this city, will contribute a most important feature to the Philadelphia Centennial. They have import ed and will exhibit specimens of the diflerent grades of cotton grown in the world. The most interesting part will be, that the cotton will be shown in its diflerent stages of growth, from the time it appears as a stalk above the ground until the boll bursts. The seed will be raised in a hot house. —The Georgia railroad has posted up in its round houses and work shops, the law passed by the Legislature Feb 26th, relative to criminal negligence of railroad employes. —The Darien Timber Gazette says : The colored Episcopalians are at work building anew church on the ground pre sented to them by the Rev. and Honora ble J. W. Leigh, of Butler’s lslind. Mr. Leigh has been very kind and liberal to the colored Episcopalians of this city. —The Presbyterians of Dahlonega are erecting a fine new church building. The church is to be located on the ridge Northwest of town, just beyond the muster ground. —The Dahlonega Signal says : A citizen who was born and raised in this county, and who has been over a large por tion ol it within the last fewweeks, informs us that everywhere the preparations for the coming crop are in advance of any hereto fore within his recollection; that more plant ing, better fencing and all kinds of farm work, are in advance of any previous season. —The Thomaston Herald savs: As an evidence of better times cominw we give the simple fact that Sheriff Blaisingame rode between forty and fifty miles, in the northern and western portion of the county last Tuesday, and did not meet a man, nor overtake one in the road the whole ’ day. They were all hard at work in the farms and not traveling the* road tor supplies or com mercial fertilizers. —The Butler Herald says : Cattle raising is becoming an important item with the planters in the lower part of the county. We understand that one or two of the planters in that section have between hve hundred and a thousand head of cattle. They require but little feeding winter or summer. Sheep raising would also be ex tensively followed if they could be protected from dogs. —Gainesville Eagle : “Tlie dogs in this vicinity seem to appreciate the new lease of life given them by the Legis lature. We saw a large cur whetting his teeth a day or two ago for the spring campaign.” —The Gainesville Eagle Baja : Talk about completion of the North Eastern railroad has given the citizens of our neighboring town of Bellton anew im petus, and all kinds of business is betrinnimr to.look up. 6 6 The LaGrange Reporter says : The present agricultural outlook of this county is very flattering. Some farmers have finished planting corn, and wheat, of which a very large area is planted, is looking ex ceedingly well, as are oats also. —The Butts Crescent Light of March 2d, says : On Sunday last a large congregation as sembled at the Fletcher school-house, and attended a genuine “Quaker meeting.’ Lec ures wei e delivered by two intelligent Qua ker ladies, and a friend, who was present, informs us the exercises were of a strictly devout, liberal and intellectual character. 1 lie ladies are educated and accomplished, and we understand are endeavoring to or ganize a school in Towaliga district. —-A gentleman who has recently traveled through Upson, Pike, Meri wether, Spaulding and Henry counties report that the wheat and oat crop never was more promising than they are at this time, and that there iS' a larger acreage of grain. —The introduction of the organ in the Methodist church in Forsvth has created trouble among the members. Talbot county never saw a better prospect for good wh<iat : and oat crops-