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£eculai\ Editorials.
Raleigh, N. C., has 17 factories.
The St. Louis fair will open Octo
ber 5 th.
Conway, Ark., is building a cotton
factory.
M. Krauss, of Munich, has made
a two-storied rail car.
The Turks have 90,000 soldiers on
the border? of Greece.
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Telephones are in use at the seat
of war in South Africa.
Wilhelmj has bought the Glen
Mitchell property at Saratoga, for $12,-
500.
It turns out to be a mistake about
the Texas railroads reducing passenger
rates.
There is in London a “society for
preventing street accidents and dan
gerous driving.”
It is said that Jefferson Davis hopes
to have his history of the late war
ready for publication this fall.
The two daughters of General R. E.
Lee, Misses Mary and Mildred, are
spending the summer in Norway.
General Newton reports that it
will take $2,615,078 to complete the
blowing up of Hell Gate, at New York.
Mr. Welsh, late United States Min
ister to England, embarked with his
daughter yesterday for the United
States.
A Waco map, M. F. Holton, has in
vented and patented a button for
clothing, which, they say, will make
his fortune.
The Princess Carlotta, widow of
Maximilian, is said to be recovering
from her prolonged and supposed to
be incurable insanity.
In the great Atlantic coast storm of
the 17th, the Atlantic Hotel, at Beau
fort, N. C., was partially submerged,
and finally dashed to pieces.
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Russia is on the point of signing a
contract with an American firm for the
construction of a number of cruisers
at an aggregate cost of 25,000,000
roubles.
The contest between the gas com
panies in New York city has brought
the price of gas down to $1.25 per 1000
feet for large consumers, with offers to
supply gas for sl.
McLennan county, Texas, has not a
black or white, between 14 and 18,
who cannot read. Out of a grand
total of 2973 children in that county
only 207 are unable to read.
The latest from the Zululand is to
the effect that further hostilities are
inevitable. It is also stated that the
Boers have determined to fight unless
their independence is restored.
Mr. J. M. Clark, at Howell, Mich.,
lately delivered a lot of hand-cars with
sail attachment. He is now filling or
ders for sail hand-cars from two par
ties in New York, one order being for
export. *
The export of cattle and fresh meat
to Europe is becoming so great that it
must command the attention of capi
talists. No less than seven New York
steamers, on the 7th inst., carried these
as part of their cargoes.
Prof. J. W. J)odd, LL.D., of Ky.,
has been elected to fill the chair of
Latin Language and Literature in Van
derbilt University, made vacant by the
resignation of Prof. Buchanan, who
goes to the Presidency of Emory and
Henry College.
Louisville, August 22.—Extensive
preparation are being made in this vi
cinity for the first annual Air of the
Kentucky agricultural, Mechanical,
zoological and l»otanical association,
which begins Tuesday, September 9,
and continues four days.
There exists in England a catalogue
of a Babylonian library, compiled oyer
4,000 years ago, appended to which
are directions to the student to write
down and hand to the librarian the
number of the book he wishes to con
sult, the same as in modern libraries.
Telephone in a Mine. —At Lead
ville, Col., Edison’s telephone was
placed in operation Thursday in the
carbonate mine. The mine will hence
forth be worked by orders per tele
phone, much time being thus saved.
This is the first experiment of the
kind ever made. It is proposed to in
troduce Edison’s electric light in the
mines at Leadville. It would be a
considerable' savifig of money it is
thought
LEGISLATIVE SUMMARY.
Both Houses have been most busily en
gaged since our last issue in disposing of
bills before them, and while much has been
done, there is yet a very large amount of
work on the calendars.
The House of Representatives has passed
the bill of the Senate providing for the lease
or sale of the Macon and Brunsweck Rail
road,” with a number of amendments. The
Senate concurred in all of these on Saturday,
so the measure only requires Executive
sanction to become a law. The annual
rental required is $60,000, and the price at
which the lessees have the option of pur- j
chasing the road is $1,125,000. The lessees I
are required to build a road fro-n Macon to
Atlanta, designed, evidently, to destroy the
tiower of the Central Railroad management
between these points. The Macon and West
ern Railroad, being the property of the
Central, is said to have been controlled to
the prejudice of rival nterests This bill
will have the eflect, it is thought, to prevent
injurious discriminations and extortiona'e
freigh tariffs over the Macon and Western
Road. The lessees are also required tobudd
other branch roads from the Macon and
Brunswick before they can claim the right
of purchasing. The question is now fre
quently asked, who will lease under the
provisions of this bill?
The bill to release Messrs Grant and Nut
ting, securities on the official bond of ex-
Treasurer Jones, has been killed by the
House Committee to whom it was referred,
and that, too, by a majority which indicates
the unpopularity of the proposition.
The committees appointed to investigate
the several departments are assiduously en
gaged and will report from <ime to time as
their work is completed.
On Thursday last the solemn work of
organizing the Senate as the high court of
impeachment and the arraignment of the
Comptroller General before that body came
on, and a vast assemblage of eager specta
tors, of both rexes, crowded the galleries of
the Senate. The Chief Justice of the Su
preme Court, after taking the prescribed
oath, occupied the chair and presided with
great ability. When the Comptroller Gen
eral was formally arraigned and all were
expectant to hear the plea of “not guilty’
proclaimed by his counsel, instead of this,
an application for a ten days’ continuance
was submitted and allowed. So that the
proceedings will be suspended until Monday
next, the Ist day of September. The reason
given for the request was that he might have
proper time to prepare his defense The
Comptroller General was attended bv his
counsel, Judge Hopkins, Capt. Henry Jack
son and Col. Candler, ex-Representative in
Congress from this district. Almost every
one is conjecturing as to the result of this
trial, and the friends of the Comptroller,
who understand the charges and the evi
dence, are sanguine that he will come out of
the fiery trial like pure gold. It is a solemn
thing to see a man who has enjoyed such a
high degree of public confidence charged
with the betrayal of that true’. Senators
will appreciate this fact and be slow in de
ciding upon the questions involved.
The House of Representatives has spent
much tme in regulating the freight tariffs
of railroads, a duty imposed upon the Gen
eral Assembly by the new Constitution. No
definite result has been attained.
Many of the load bills which passed
safely through ordeal of the House
have reached th* B«late, and some have
been passed by th* loiter body. These gen
erally concern mwuctpal corporate ns, con- I
sislUqj pj some modification of their charters.
A bill has passed the Senate which com- ,
pritfe most oi the legislation fonnd Accessary '
in regard to the V*l*at*er troop* of the
State. Its provisions ar*«*o nutnvtous for I
special review here, and it is perhaps sufii- ,
cient to say that its forty-nine sections have
been wall considered and wisely constructed,
a proper regard being had throughout lor
the distinctions bused upon “etder,” if ioton
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On Sunday hurt. Senator Jacob C. Clem -
ents, of ths 15th Dis’rict, died in this city,
after an illness of nearly two weeks. His
remains were followed to the depot at 1 p.
m., on the day of his death, by the Senate
and House of Representatives in a body,
and a committee from each House accompa
nied them to his home in Montgomery
county, whither they were taken for inter
ment. Mr Clements was 53 years of age,
and his malady was malarial fever. The
Senate, on Monday, appointed a committee
to draft suitable resolutions in relation to his
life and death, and then adjourned in re
spect to his memory.
Last week the Rev. J. P. Duncan, who is
generally known in the South
singing blind preacher, was elected Chaplain
of the Senate. Up to this time, that body
had been served with daily prayers by the
pastors of the city, who alternated in the
work, without pay. It was found necessary
to elect a Chaplain in ordei to secure without
embarrassment devotional exercises at the
opening of the daily sessions—the ministers
of the city not always being able to serve,
by reason ol their other pressing engage
ments at this season of revivals and pro
tracted meetings.
Senator Grantland has returned to his
place in the Senate, after a severe attack of
fever, looking quite feeble. Senator Grimes
is still sick at Columbus, hie home. Con
sidering the large number composing the
General Asgembly, the fact that this is the
most unhealthy season of the year, and that
most of the members reside in latitudes dif
fering from this, it may be said that their
freedom from sickness is most gratifying snd
even surprising. We have not heard of a
half dozen cases of illness among the 225
members of the two Houses.
■ Last week the elegant portrait of Dr.
W. Long, (th s recognized disoov- !
erer of anaesthesia,) presented by Mr. Stuart
to the State University, was formally re- I
aeived in the Representatives’ Hall, both
branches of the General Assembly being
jffiynni The speeches on the occasion were
by General John B. Gordon and the Hon.
B. C. Yancey. An immense multitude
crowded the hall, the galleries and all the
avenues of spproach thereto, fully testing
the security of the capital bidding and al- I
laying the ayprehenaions of some who have
imagined it insecure under heavy pressure.
The s|>eeciies of Gen. Gordon and Col. Yan
cey were both excellently conceived for the
occasion.
It has been resolved by the General As
sembly to offer the names of Dr. Long and
Gen. Oglethorpe as the selected representa
tives of Georgia in the National Art Gallery
at Washington—the former because of his
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Atlanta, Thursday, August 28, 1879.
great discovery for the blessing of mankind;
the latter as the founder oi the Common
wealth. Each State has the right to make a
selection of two distinguished characters for
this purpose.
The youngest officer connected with
the United States Government is said
to be Miss Sallie Ball. Although but
twelve years of age, she is postmistress
of Sitka, Alaska. Her name was
among the passengers, by the steamer
California on a recent trip from Sitka
to Portland, Oregon.
Wicked for Clergymen.
“I believe it to be all wrong and even
wicked for clergymee or other public men to
be led into giving testimonials to quack doc
tors or vile stuffs called medicines, but when
a really meritorious article made of valuable
remedies known to all, that all physicians
use and trust in daily,we should freely com
mend it. I therefore cheerfully and heartily
commend Hop Bitters lor the good they
have done me and my friends, firmly be
lieving they have no equal for family use.
I will not be without them.”
Rev. , Washington, D. C.
We have already published in our
columns that a colonization society
has been formed in New York, and
that their first colony will be planted
in Georgia. We now see it stated that
this colony will be composed of many
wealthy members, who will bring a
printing press with them and publish
an organ styled The Worker, edited by
Mrs. Elizabeth Thompson, a lady of
great wealth, noted for her many noble
acts of charity, and who gave last year
over $30,000 to the yellow fever suf
ferers of Memphis.
There is a bill before the Legisla
ture to accept the tender of the Lucy
Cobb Institute and to establish a State
female college as a branch of the State
University. It is proposed that the
State shall donate eight thousand dol
lars annually to the institution, which
is to educate free as many young ladies
of Georgia as there are Representatives
in the lower house of the General As
sembly, the Representatives to nomi
nate the pupils; and we may add that
in our opinion the bill ought not to
pass.
Georgia, From an Immigrant Set
tlers Stand Point.—This is the title
of a pamphlet prepared by Dr. Thomas
P. Janes, Commissioner of Agriculture.
It combines descriptive sketches of the
various sections of the State, with let
ters from a large number of intelligent
imigrants, in which statements appear
as to the condition of society, treat
ment of new comers, character of lands,
water, climate, productions of the soil,
the forests, mings, et®., etc.> the whole
designed to inform ,who may de
sire to find new homes. It i»a time
ly, juicious and valuable pamphlet and
should be freely and largely circulated.
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Mksbm. Fuixaa, Wizaw & Co., Troy. N.
Y., proprietors of Clinton Stove Works,have
an advertisement of their new stove “The
Traveler,” in another column. Having pur
chased one of their stoves, and also one of
their ranges, we speak from a thorough tcs>.
and cheerfully cmumend them to our read
ers, Those who pesire firibcldka articles in
this line ha’d'better write the firm for an il
lustrated catalogue and make selections.
There is no establishment in the United
States that will sell at lower figures, and
none more reliable in all their dealings We
take pleasure in commending them to pub
lic confidence and patronage.
Chatham, the Atlanta correspondent of
the Savannah Morning News, under date of
25th inst., writes an interesting letter, from
which we are pleased to extract the follow
ing:
"Hon. G. J. Orr,StateSchoolCommission
er. announces seven more male and six fe
male free scholarsbi|>s in the Tennessee Nor
mal School at Nashville, Tenn., with S2OO
per year from the Peabody fund. This is a
grand chance for Georgia Students who w : sh
to become teachers.
Miss Emily V. Prather, of Atlanta, is now
a member of the faculty of the Rome Female
College, one the oldest and best institutions
of the kind in the South. Years ago the
mother of this gifted young lady, who is
herself an accomplish'd teacher in our city,
was educated at the Rome Female College,
and now her well trained daughter becomes
a teacher where her mother was once a pu
pil. This fact alone speaks volumes for the
permanency of the Rome Female College,
and the long continued popularity of Prof.
Caldwell, who still remains at its bead.
Thk Buffalo Lithia Hi'sinoh.— Those who
are seeking health, recration, or pleasure at
the mountain resorts of Georgia and Vir
gia. should certainly extend their tours to
the Buffalo Lithia Springs, situated twelve
miles from the Scottsburg depot, in the lat
tor State It dots stem needless to speak
words of commendation in regard to the heal,
ing powers of these famous'waters. Their rep.
utation is world-wide,and they have become
an article of commerce, shipped to all por
tions of thecontinenttodo their certain work
of healing the afflicted. In our own city
large quantities of these waters are used,and
all who have tried them, cordially sustain
their high reputation. In confirmation of
this ;w'* invite special notice of the public
to the certifficate of Col. Barnett, Secretory
of State, to l>e found in another column,who
has experienced benefit from those waters.
We advise all who care to visit the Buffalo
Lithia Springs, and those who can not go, to
avail themselves of these waters by ordering
them to their homes.
A despatch from Berlin states that
much comment has been caused by the
absence of any representative of the
United States Government at the trials
of the new Krupp guns which have
been going on at Neppin. The ex
periment are regarded as possessing
great importance to all the powers in
terested and to the development of the
science of the artillery, and they have
been attended by the official represen
tatives of England and all the princi
pal European Governments.
It is positively asserted that the fam
ily and friends of A. T. Stewart have
been apprised of an offer made by
paties in Montreal who claim to be
able to produce the remains of the
deceased millionaire, and to do so for
$250,000. They have forwarded the
handles and plate of the burial casket
as proof of the truth of their assertion,
and have employed a lawyer to open
negotiations in their behalf. Judge
Hilton, it is said, refuses to accede to
their demand.
Kind Words.—This excellent little
Baptist Sunday-school paper for Sep
tember 15th and 22d is out, and, in
our opinion, is the equal or superior
of any issued in the country. It is
handsomely printed and beautifully
illustrated, and is creditable to the
laudable efforts of our Marion Board,
to furnish our Sunday-schools with a
paper. Its lesson expositions are ad
mirable. For terms, see our advertis
ing columns.
The New York World mentions,
with much satisfaction, that Lieuten
ant Gorringe, of the Navy, has been
granted leave of absence by the
Secretary of the Navy, at the re
quest of the State Department, for the
purpose of supervising and perfecting
the necessary arrangements for bring
ing to this country the obelisk so gen
erously presented to New York City
by the Khedive of Egypt.
A useful device for preventing a
class of accidents by which so many
people have been killed or crippled for
life, has been introduced on the Dela
ware and Hudson Canal Company’s
railway cars. It consists of movable
steps, which at the stations are let
down within one foot of the ground.
When the cars are in motion the steps
lifted high, so that it is impossible
to jump either on or off.
Tarboro, N. C., August 9. —The will
of; General Jesse H. prake, read just
after his death, as requested, bequeathes
his whole property, about $20,000, to
three former slaves, Calvin Drake,
Aaron Drake and Judah Drake. It
says: ‘‘They have been my faithful
slaves and remained with me since
freedom, nursing me in old age, and I
desire to show my gratitude.”
According to the New York Post,
M. Gamon, a “distinguished French
engineer,” is at present in this country
consulting with Mr. T. A. Edison and
Captain James B. Eades about the pro
ject for cutting the island of New
Foundland up into pieces and there
with building a causeway across the
Atlantic to Ireland.
The Augusta News says a gentle
man has discovered an extensive de
posit of lignite or brown coal, not far
from Augusta, in South Carolina, about
a mile from the Savannah river and a
few hundred yards from the Port Koyal
railroad.
A recent letter from London said
that several iron foundries in the North
of England were thinking of trans
ferring their possessions to this country.
They propose to build factories and
transport their employees here.
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The latest from South Africa states
that Cetywayo has made another effort
to ascertain whether his liberty would
be granted him if he submitted. He
said he had been completely deserted
by his warriors.
—Sunday excursions by railroad, or
other means, in quest of business or
pleasure, are both sinful and frequent
in these latter days. Beware of them!
Remember the commandment, and
obey it.
Dr. Luke P. Blackburn, the yellow
fever hero, was elected on the 6th inst.,
Governor of Kentucky. His majority
over his opponent is variously estima
ted at from 20 to 40,000.
The first bale of Florida cotton of
1879, was carried to Columbus on the
20tb. It was picked, ginned, baled
arid shipped, all on the same day.
An ounce of peach kernels contains
a grain of prussic acid, which fa a fatal
quantity. Amonia is the best antidote.
The registrar general of London an
nounces two fatal cases of cholera oc
curred in that city last week.
Salem, North Oarolina, during three
years has shipped three million pounds
of dried blackberries.
GENERAL NEWS.
—The Ex-Empress Eugenie, of France,
will, it is said, after a visit toher aged moth
er, retire for the rest of her life to a Spanish
convent.
—Pere Hyacinthe’s services in the Galli
can Chape 1 in Paris have been growing
steadily in the favor of the people, and are
attracting large audiences.
—lt is announced that the Rev. William
J. Tucker, the Rev. Dr. William Adam's
successor as pastor of the Madiso : Square
Presbyterian church of New York city, has
been invited to the Professorship at the
Andover Theological Seminary, recently
made vacant by the resignation of Professor
Austin Phelps.
—Rev. J. H. Castle, D. D., the able and
beloved pastor of the Jarvis Street Baptist
church, Toronto, was the first speaker at the
assembly of the National Baptist Association
at Chautauqua Point, last month, and he
spoke eloquently in defense of doctrinal
preaching. He has been called to succeed
the lamented Dr. Fyfe, as President of
Woodstock Coll ge (Ontario), and as Wood
stock College is to go to Toronto the transfer
would be easy to all save the bereft Jarvis
street people.
—Secretary Evarts, in addressing letters to
the various European capitals protesting
against the emigration of Mormons on the
ground that they come here to violate the
laws, takes a step that should have been taken
two decades ago. Latter-day Saints have
long slice given up the idea of extensive
proselyting in this enlightened country, and
relying mainly upon inflaming the ignorant
imaginations of emigrants. Mr. Evarts
intimates that in case nothing is done abroad
about it, measures will i e adopted to pre
vent these people from landing on our
shores.
—The world moves somewhat slowly in
Austria—but it moves. Os this two remark
able proofs have just been given. The first
is the election of Professor Brucke, a Protes
tant, to the rectorshipof the strongly Roman
Catholic University of Vienna, a fact with
out precedent in the history of that ancient
institution. The second is the choice of
Professor Grunhut, a Hebrew, as Dean of
the Jurist Faculty of the same institution.
—The British Wesleyans are both sur
prised and alarmed at the decrease of their
membership, as shown by statistics just col
lected. It appears that though 30,000 new
members have been reported during the
year, there has been a net decrease of over
3,000, which is shared hy nearly all the dis
tricts. The decline in numbers is greatest in
the agricultural and manufacturing districts,
and is attributed to the emigration on ac
count of the failure of the crops, and to finan
cial depression. In London they have b»-en
more successful, and have enlarged their
church accommodations from 40,000 sittings
to 100,000.
—lt seems that the settling up of the affairs
of the defunct Freedmen’s Saving Bank is
taking the usual cou'se; that is, the expenses
absorbing the receipts. It has been in the
hands of three commissioners since 1874,
whose expenses are $20,000 a year. This,
for the five years which have elapsed since
their appointment, amounts to SIOO,OOO.
The balance, which has come in sight of the
creditor-*, has been exceedingly small. It is
a pity that they cannot be made io hurry up
and get the rotten carcass of the concern out
from under the nostrils of the public, for its
odor is very offensive.
—At its late meeting the Lutheran Synod
of Central Illinois voted that no minister in
its jurisdiction should henceforth immerse
candidates. Sprinkling is to be reckoned
the only valid baptism hereafter. This is
taking the bull by the horns bravely, and
consistently too. Baptism is a specific act
of some kind or other. If it is sprinkling it
is not immersion, and if it is immersion it is
not sprinkling. Every time a Pedobaptist
minister immerses a candidate he virtually
admits that sprinkling is not valid baptism.
We hould rejoice to see all Pedobaptists
follow the Synod’s lead in this matter; ti.e
common sense ot Chrislian men and women,
with the Bible in their hands, might be
trusted to decide the question correctly,
were the issue once squarely joined in this
manner.
—Statistics of the Chur<-* of Rome.
—A German paper has computed the whole
number of Catholics in the world to be 216,-
356,000. Os these, Europe has 153,444,000;
America, 51,400,000; Asia, 9.J 67,000; Africa,
1,695,000; Australia, 650,000. This total is
s >mewhat more than 7,000,000 larger than
that given by Prof.Hh?m in the July number
of the MeVu>dist Quarterly, whose computa
tion is, perhaps, more accurate. For in
stance the German authority credits the
United States with 8,000.000. which is too
high, on Catholic authority, by more than
1,500,000. Nine countries contain nearly
four-fifths of the entire strength of the Ro
man Church, beginning with France, which
has 36,405,000, and ending with the United
States, which, according to Catholic compu
tation, has 6,500,000. According to Prof
! Shem’s article, the Church of Rome has
about one-seventh of the population of the
earth, Protestantism between a twelfth and a
thirteenth, an! Christianity in all its divte-
I ions not quite three tenths.
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GEORGIA NEWS.
—A new and rich vein of gold has been
discovered near Washington, Ga.
—The Democrat puts in a claim for Bain
bridge as being the healthiest town in the
State.
—A rich silver vein has been found near
Allatoona, in Bartow county. The silver
contains $42.50 to the ton.
—lt is reported that a new afternoon daily,
containing the noon Associated Press dis
patches, is soon to make its appearance in
Atlanta.
- Mr. George Hunt, of Cedartown, Polk
county, has sold one hundred and thirty
five dollars worth of watermelons from a
single acre, and has a plenty to spare.
—The Cedartown Advertiser says a very
fatal form of fever is prevailing in the neigh
borhood of Rockmart. Not a case has re
covered, so far as it is informed.
* —The Columbus Times says that a visitor
there would find the wheels of over 50,000
spindles and 1,800 looms oiled and in full
blast, and not an idle mechanic in the city.
—The North Georgia Musical Conven
tion that was to meet with the Society at
Broomtown, Ala., this month has been post
poned to Friday before the 4th Sabbath in
November.
—The Southern newspaper union, of
Memphis, has been removed to Atlanta,
where it will remain permanently. Our
patent inside brethren can now be supplied
near home.
—Steam, it seems, has proven a successful
competitor to water power in Macon. It is
stated that the cotton mills there are now
turning out sheeting, shirting and drilling
equal to any manufactured in the South.
—R. T. Gamblin, who lives 12 miles
north of Gainesville is the leading cotton
man in Hall. On the 10th inst. he pro
duced a stalk with 126 boils, with one boll
open; and he has plenty of that sort of cot
ton.
—Augusta has four cotton factories in
opperaliou and will soon have a fifth. She
has also a large waste factory, two iron foun
deries, three Hour and grist mills, an oil fac
tory, two ice factories, a cotton gin manufac
tory and three machine shops.
—Beuna Vista Argus: On account of
the exceseive high freight on the Southwes
tern railroad from Macon to this point, the
merchants of Butler have concluded in self
defence to run a wagon train to and from
Macon.
—Philadelphia Times: The Gate City
Guards, of Atlanta, Ga., which at home is
called the best drilled military company in
the South, will arrive hereon tne 15 h prox
imo, en route for Boston. The State Fenci
bles will receive them.
—A dispatch from Rome, Ga., dated
August 18th, says: La«t evening while lit
tle Charlie Mapp, aged about ten years, son
of W. T. Mapp, was throwing a stone at a
chicken, accidentally hit his brother Frank,
aged thirteen years, just back of the ear,
causing his death in a few moments.
—The news of the sinking of Ingall
Mountain, in North Georgia, is fully con
firmed. It is a large mountain, being over
two miles around the base, and has broken
loose and fallen into what appears to be a
chasm beneath. It first fell about two-thirds
under ground, but has been sinking since.
—H. L. Stufit, of New York, started for
i Georgia on the 13th inst. as representative
of the Co operative Colony Aid Association,
which proposes to plant its first colony in
Georgia. The organ of the society, The
Worker, is published by Mrs. Elizabeth
Thompson, and it numbers many wealthy
philanthropists.
—Prof. B. Mallon having resigned the
position es Superintendent ol the schools of
Atlanta, Maj. W. F. Slaton, Principal of the
Male High School has been elected his suc
cessor. Prof. Jas. T. White, of Butler, suc
ceeds to the post filled by Maj. Slaton. Prof.
Mallon goes to Huntsville, Texas, as Super
intendent of the city public school there.
—Ten young men appeared in Macon on,
Thursday as competitors for the vacant na
val cadetship at Annapolis from that district.
The entire class was an nnusually bright one
and though the examination was a rigid one
they all did so well that it was imposs'ble
for the examining board to decide as to
whom was entitled the first honors. The
result will therefore not be definitely deter
mined until Monday the2sth.
—There were eighteen graduates at the
recent commencement of the State Universi
ty. The degree of-Doctor of Divinity was
conferred on Rev. David Buttolph, of Ma
rietta, and the degree of Doctor of Laws was
conferred on Profs. John and Joseph Le
Conte, of Calfornia, and on Judge James
Jackson of the Supreme Court of Georgia.
The 'I rustees donated $2,000 each to the
contemplated schools at Cuthbert, Milledge
ville and Thomasville.
—The Hawkinsville Dispatch is inform
ed that a fearful epidemic of Typhoid fever
is now raging in Pierce and Charlton coun
ties. In the last named county fifteen
deaths have occurred in two families. In
one neighborhood in Pierce county thirteen
deaths have occurred since the disease made
its appearance, and five deaths have taken
place in one family. The disease is very
fatal.