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The Christian Index.
Established 1821.
—Rev. L. R. L. Jennings has been
called to Horeb church, near Mayfield.
—The Baptists at Rehoboth, Upson
county, contemplate repairing their
church building.
—Revival meetings are in progress
at the Savannah Baptist church, and
are largely attended.
—Rev. A. Van Hoose, of Gainesville,
has been called to the pastorate of the
Elberton Baptist church, and has ac
cepted.
—The Dalton Citizen remarks:
“Rev. V. A. Bell has again been called,
unanimously, to the pastoral care of
the Ringgold Baptist church. This is
a renewed expression of confidence in
him as a Christian minister.’’
—Speaking of a sermon recently
preached by Dr. Warren, at Macon,
the Telegraph and Messenger says : “It
was one of those plain, apposite dis
courses, the embodiment of piety and
simplicity, which a child of tender
years might appropriate and take home
with him. And this is the secret of
this worthy pastor’s success.”
—The Savannah News says : “Rev.
Hugh Emmet Cassidey, of Whitesville,
a Baptist minister of high standing
and great usefulness, died in this city
on the 25th of November, and was
buried in Laurel Grove Cemetery.”
A full biographical sketch of the
faithful life and fruitful labors of this
beloved servant of the Lord, will be
given (with portrait) in aluture num
ber of The Index.
—At a regular meetingof the church
at Harmony, Putnam county, it was
resolved that the credentials of Rev.
J. P. Baker be re-called, and the fellow
ship of the church’be withdrawn from
him. Also, that a notice of the action
of the church be published in The
Christian Index. I. R. Branham,
Moderator. £. U. Aliston, Church
Clerk.
—The Eastman Times of last Thurs
days says : “The regular services of the
Baptist church were conducted Satur
day and Sunday last by the pastor,
Rev. James Williamson, assisted by
Rev. P. A. Jessup. The meeting con
tinued till Monday night. The con
gregations were good, and considerable
interest was manifested. One candi
date was received for baptism, on
Monday night, and will be baptized on
the fourth Sunday in December.”
MERCER HIGH SCHOOL, PEN
FIELD, GA.
This school is now in the hands of
the Executive Committee of the Geor
gia Baptist Association. The circum
stances and events as they transpired,
which have' led to this happy termina
tion, need not be repeated. All parties
are satisfied. The suit in court is
abandoned, and both parties have
signed the documents which contain
the consideration, terms of settlement,
and the transfer of the property to the
Georgia Baptist Association. This
transaction took place in Penfield on
Wednesday, November 26th, 1879.
The Board of Trustees of Mercer Uni
versity was represented by its President,
and the Secretary and Treasurer, Rev.
G. R McCall, and the Executive Com
mittee of the Georgia Association by
Rev. J. H. Kilpatrick, President, and
Rev. J. 8. Callaway, Secretary. The
papers were read by Rev. G. R. McCall
in the presence of the Executive Com
mittee, consisting of twenty-one mem
bers, of whom sixteen or seventeen
were present, and afterwards signed by
the officers above named. When the
signatures Were written, and attested
by the officers, as the law requires,
the President of the Boe rd of Trustees
of Mercer University delivered the doc
ument, and with it all the estate and
interest of Mercer University, at Pen
field, to President Kilpatrick, who re
ceived it for the Executive Committee,
by whose authority and direction he
and the Secretary had officially signed
it.
All the matters and things in con
troversy between the citizens of Pen
field and the Trustees of Mercer Uni
versity, are now completely and finally
‘ settled. This settlement and transfer
of the school, and property at Penfield,
has relieved the managers of Mercer
University of a troublesome question,
and at the same time, placed the con
trol of the enterprise in the possession
of those who are most interested.
The Georgia Association did a very
wise thing when it selected the brethren
now on the Executive Committee. They
are strong men, pious men, and have
a mind to work. A great deal of busi
ness was done at this time; measures
were taken to repair such buildings as
were needful to the operations of the
school, and to preserve the others.
Rev. J. W. Ellington was unani
mously chosen Principal. He was not
a candidate, but present as a member
of the Committee. Brother Ellington
accepted the call, and will, with the
• ’blessing of the Lord, open the spring
term on the 14th of January, 1880.
The friends of Mercer University
everywhere, and the friends of Mercer
High School likewise, will rejoice when
they see this announcement. The last
objection to the location of Mercer
University at Macon is removed, and a
good school for the people of Penfield,
and country adjacent, is pretty well
assured. Let us«pray for the prosperity
of both, and make our faith known
by what we shall do.-
D. E. Butler.
November 28. 1879.
GEORGIA BAPTIST ASSOCIA
TION.
Minutes have been distributed to points
as follows: Brethren T. A. Nash, J. A.
| Shank, H M. Adams J, 11. Hortson, W.
R. Willis. D. Jones, H. A. Whitman, B.
M. Callaway, will find packages at Wash
inuton, in the hands of brother T. W. Cal
laway.
Brethren J. Hogan, P F. Bingess, J.
W. Ellington will find packages with
j brother T. B. West, at Thomson.
Brother L. R. L. Jennings, at Crawford
i ville.
Brethren B. W. Tucker and T. J. Pil
cher have a package at Warrenton.
Brethren J. R Young and J. R. Calla
way have packages together at B irdstown.
Brethren H. P. Williams and J. E Finch
j have packages with brother Straton, at
(ireenesltoro. Brother W. T. Woodruff, at
Raytown. Brother J. A. Carter, at Wood
. ville. Brother W. A. Overton, Union Point.
Brother J. H. Kilpatrick, White P.ains.
Brothers. M. Johnson, Crawford.
Any brother can ge, at the Express office
named the pa kage, and open it, and get
therefrom his Minutes. The packages for
each person and church are carefully' folded
and addressed in the general packages above
mentioned.
The Christian Index.
Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 8. Broad. St.
The Swiss Federal Council, having
received pressing membrials from sev
eral quarters urging it to stop the pro
paganda of the Mbrmon missionaries
in divers parts of Switzerland, has de
cided not to take any general action,
| but to act only in special eases.
There is intense excitement through-
I out Ireland, and Fenianism is show
-1 ing a very defiant front. Numerous
arrests have been made of I ioters, and
troops are stationed at many threat
ened points. A number of the ring
leaders of the mob will be tried at once.
A significant line in a foreign dis
patch reads as follows: “Rifles are
j selling very rapidly in Ireland.” It is
I a little remarkable that a people who
claim that they are starving to death
for want of means to purchase food,
are able enough to purchase rifles.
Ireland is knee deep in a political
! muddle, and its ways-are like the ways
in a bog—hard to find out.
MOTHER.
Where is the light, on earth or In sky,
That is like to the light of a mother’s eye?
Hath the fairest star we may look upon,
Or splendor of rising or setting sun.
Glory to thrill us, or magic to move,
Like the eye of a mother illumine! with love?
What’s like the gloom, the total eclipse,
That sudden surroundeth us—sealing the lips
To grave-like silence, save only the cry
Os the wounded sou writhing In agony—
The storm that o erwhelmeth us, cloud upon
( cloud,
When that eye’s peerless glory Is veiled by
tue shroud?
Are the sweet sounds on earth and In air,
Or those which we deem that the angels must
hear,
Hweet as the love-words that tenderly come
From a mother's lips, in the dear old home?
Blessing us. guiding us ; filling the hours
With beauty and fragrance, as God nils the
flowers I
What’s like the hush, the silence supreme,
The mid-ocean solitude, vague as a dream,
That burdens the heart when, forever and aye,
We turn from her coffined dust, weeping,
away—
And O! tell me where hath Love holler shrine
Than the spot where a mother’s blest ashes
recline?
Charlee W. Huhner.
The report of the U. 8. Commission
er of Internal Revrnue, shows that
during the past three years and four
months 3,117 illicit distilleries have
been seized, 6,363 persons have been
arrested for illicit distilling, and 27
officers and employees have been kill
ed and 48 wounded. He recommends
that United States Courts be given jur
isdiction over such crimes. The total
revenue from spirits during the year
was $46,778,000. From tobacco in
all forms the revenue was $40,000,000,
a decrease for the year of about
$7,000,000,
♦
It is evident that, in the contest be
tween Russian and English intrigue
for the political favor of Persia, Eng
land has won. The Russian govern
ment is greatly chargrined.at this turn
of affairs, as the alliance of Persia
with British interests in India, thwarts
the designs of the Czar forextending
his empire Indiaward. Persia will
make a formidable bulwark against
Russian aggression in the East.
It is stated on good authority, and
believed in Russia that, the English
will occupy Herat next spring, in alli
ance with Persia.
Beaconsfield is playing a subtile
game.
Literature Secular Editorials Current Notes and News.
Atlanta, Thursday, December 4, 1879.
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AMONG THE MAGAZINES.
Gody’s Lady's Book, for December,
closes the year with eclat. The pub
lishers have redeemed their promise
made at the beginning of the year, to
keep this favorite monthly for ladies
at a high standard in every respect.
In the December number we have an
exquisite steel plate, Darley’s original
design, suitable to the set’son, remind
ing us to whom we should render hom
age at the cheerful Christmas gather
ings. In addition is a beautiful color
ed winter scene and a double page of
dainty trifles for Cristinas presents, at
once beautiful and suggestive. The'
literature of this number, and the fash
ion illustrations and designs, are choice
and attractive, as usual.
The popularity of Scribner’s Monthly
is proven by the fact that the immense
edition of 100,000 copies of the Novem
ber number was sold, and had to be
reprinted, and the December number
has an edition of 103,000 copies. It
is certainly superbly managed, and its
art and literary departments are kept
up to the highest standard of Ameri
can magazine literature, exceeding the
European in freshness, brightness, va
riety, color, and the purely sensuous; i
but decidedly inferior, as a whole, to
the strong, marrowy, philosophical,
manly, and classically scholarly litera->
ture which distinguishes the first-rate '
transatlantic monthlies and reviews. |
The editor, Dr. Holland, is a talent-.
ed but eccentric man, who seems to
have an irrepressible penchant for po
lemnical writings. He is apparently
no more disinclined fora bout with his
brethren of the press than the Irish
man at Donnybrook Fair, with the im
ordinately long coat-tail, upon which
be politely requested the passers to
step, in order that he might have oc
casion to I’.ive employment to his shil
lalah. He sometimes says silly things,
and imperils the reputation of his mag
azine for impartiality and a proper re
gard for political veraciousnesfl; but
the editor’s occasional vagaries are more
than counterbalanced by the general
excellence of the magazine, and the
undeniably successful efforts made by
the publishers to give to the public a
periodical of which our country may
well lie proud.
The December number has a pro
gramme of even more than usual at-'
tractivenoss; it is a feast for the eye
and the mind, and the literary interest
is peculiarly strong.
We extract the following paragraph
from the editorial department, as wor
thy of serious reflection. Much has
been said of the duty of pupils and of
parents to teachers, and as much can
be said of the duty of teachers to pupils
and parents:—“The public have not
held teachers to their trne responsibili
ty. We send a young lad or a young
girl to school, and find that, while we
are paying out a great deal of money
for them, they are gaining nothing.
We complain and arc informed that
our children are not industrious, they
do not seem interested in their studies,
that they arc absorbed in their play,
etc., etc. In ninety-nine cases in a
hundred, our disappointment is entire
ly the fault of the teacher. He or she
is simply incompetent for the duty they
have undertaken. A first-class teacher
always has good pupils. Lack of in
terest in study is always the result of
poor teaching. We send a boy to col
lege, and find that he regards his studies
as a grind,—that he is only interested
in getting good marks, and that he is
getting no scholarly tastes, anil winning
no scholarly delights. We inquire,
and find him in the hands of a young
tutor, without experience, Who really
pretends to lie no more than a task
master, and who knows nothing, and
seems to care nothing, about the office
of teaching. The placing of large
masses of young men in the hands of
inexperienced persons, who do not pre
tend to do more than set tasks and re
cord the manner in which they are per
formed, without guidance or assistance,
is' a gross imposition of the college
upon a trusting public, and it is high
time that an outcry so determined and
persistant is raised against it that it
shall procure a reform.”
The International Review, for De
cember (A. S. Barnes & Co., publish
ers, New York,) contains some notable
papers by eminent writers, and on sub
jects calculated to interest, not only
critical scholars, but the casual reader
also, who may tire of the excessively
florid sort of literature which usually
monopolizes the magazines of the day,
and who turns, for a grateful change,
to the solid intellectual food provided
on this monthly’s select table of con
tents.
The papers of this number are:
"Technical Education the Supplement
of Free Trade and Protection,” by Hon.
Lyon Playfair, of England. “Catul
lus,” by Win. Everett. A. M. “The
Paris Salon, 1879,” Ch. Gindriez, o£
France. “The Art of Casting In Plas
\ ter among the Ancient Greek and Ro
mans,” W. W. Story, of Rome. "Prince
Bismaikand Protection,” John E. Cur
i ran. “Johannes, ‘King of Kings,’ and
i His Christian! Empire in Africa,” Ed-
I win De Leon. “The Smithsonian In
' stitute,” Henry W. Elliot. Contem
porary Literature.” “Recent English
Books.”
—Harper’s Magazine, holds its “pride
of place” as the king of American
monthlies. The immense resources of
the great publishing house of the
Harper’s are drawn upon, to an
unlimited extent, in furnishing litera
ry and art supplies of the highest or
der of merit for this, their pet, and
most popular, publication. The illus
trations are peculiarly fine and numer
ous, and the variety of subjects treated,
especially in the fields of travel, explo
ration, historical researches, and the
elucidation of the progress made by
modern science in the useful arts, place
Harper's above any other similar publi
cation, here or abroad.
The December number opens with an en
tertaining article entitled “The Fortunes of
the Bonapartes,” illustrated with sixteen fine
[Kirtrails of the most prominent members of
the Bonapare family.
We then have “Sea Drift from a New
England Port.” by Lizzie W. Uhampney,
illustrated by Howard Pyle, containing some
very novel and curious information respect
ing New London society a hundred years
ago.
Miss J. L. Cloud continues her pictures- j
q tie description of Irish scenery and charac
ter in the Connemara Hills, accompanied by ,
some quaint pencil sketches.
Ernest Ingersoll contributes a paper on
Atlanta, Georgia, with some excellent pic
tures.
“The Palestine of to day,’’ by Dr. J. F. I
Hurst, is illustrated with engraving from the
Harper 1 * new edition of Dr. Thomson’s
‘ The Land and the Book.”
Miss F E Frvatt describes the “New
York Cooking School,” Miss Curtis con
tributing sx beautiful illustrations.
“BlosHcms” is the title of an exquisite lit
tle poem by Philip O. Sullivan, illustrated
by Miss M. R. Oakey. The ballad of Whit
tington—a sac simile of the British Museum
MS. —is given, with five illustrations by
Abbey.
LongfeUow contributes a poem of curious
interest, the subject of which is an iron pen
(presented to the poet by a lady in Maine)
inada from a fetter of Bonnivard, the pris- i
oner of Chillon—the handle of wood from
the frigate Constitution, and bound with a
circlet of gold, inset with three precious
slo es from Siberia, Ceylon, and Maine.
James T. Fields contributes a charming
poem, entitled “A New and True Ghost
Story.”
in fiction, besides the three great serial
novels by Black, Blackmore, and Miss Mu
lock, there is a very strong short s'ory by
Rose Terry Cooke.
The "Editor’s Easy Chair.” and crit
icisms of new books are, as usual, very |
good. Mr. Curtis is master of a pol
ished and exceedingly graceful diction.
His idyllic “A September Saunter” is
worthy of Thoreau.
Because of its local interest to our
readers, we clip the following descrip
tion of the industries of our city, from
the paper on “Atlanta,” alluded to in
the table of contents above given :
It was in 1865 that the citizens and mer
chants came back to their desolate homes.
Only one building, of all the commercial
part of the town, had survived the flames.
Business had to be built up from the very
foundation again, and the energy with which
this task was attempted shows the strong
faith Atlanta men feel in their lively town.
One of the first to return was the presen
president of the Board of Trade. He se
cured a cellar under the sole remaining
building (on Alabama Street) paying $l5O
a month for it use, and began the produce
and groceries trade, increasing his income
by renting ground privileges of a few feet
square on his sidewalk at S2O a month each.
Soon the owner of a corner on W hitehall
Street built a brick building containing two
s ore rooms. As soon as these w re ready,
our merchant anil another moved in, paying
S3OOO a year each, and giving half of it in
advance, in order (o aid the proprietor to
go on with his construction. (The accom
modations for which that S6OOO a year was
paid now rent for $1500.) Thus by mutual
help and enterprise, together with a vast
amount of personal labor, the ruins were
replaced by substantial business edifices, new
hotels of magnificent proportions were erect
ed, churches more lofty in gable and spire
arose upon the sites ol those destroyed, and
the vacant streets were refilled with people.
Atlanta btcame at once the distributing
point for western products, and now finds
tributary to her a wide range of country.
She handles a large portion of all the grain
of Tennessee and Kentucky, besides much
from the Upper Mississippi Valley. Much
ol the flour of iheNorthwestern mills comes
into her warehouses, and thence finds its way
southward and eastward. The same is true
of the canned meats of Chicago, St. Louis,
and Cincinnati packing houses; this is a very
important iiem of her wholesale business.
The provision men naturally were the first
io obtain foot hold in the new town. After
them came the dry-goods people. Most of
them began in a very modest way—brought
their goods tied up in a blanket almost—yet
now the jobbing trade in dry-goods alone
amounts to some millions of dollars annu
ally No tobacco can be grown in the
vicinity of Atlanta, hence she is without
lobacco factories; but she used to handle an
enormous quantity of it, and there are half
a dozen firms who deal wholly in it now. L
was found that Atlanta’s dry, equable cli
mate, consequent upon her great altitude,
unde this point the safest place to keep stores
of the grateful plant; it would not mould,
as it is liable to do in a damp atmosphere.
A few years ago the revenue regulations
were n6t as eflective as at present. The
practice of stencil-plating packages of tobac
co afforded easy means of evading the pay
ment of duty, and great warehouses here
were stored with “blockade" tobacco, from
which .Uncle Sam had derived very little, if
any, pocket money. Enormous profits ac
crued, but the introduction of the stamp sys
tem put a stop to this, though Atlanta was
left a very 1 irge legitimate business in stor
ing and selling tobacco at wholesale.
Another source of prosperity to the city
is cotton. The “cotton belt” of Georgia
is a strip of country between here and Au
gusta. Years ago the land became exhaus
ted, and he cultivation of cotton became to
beofsinall account. Then followed the dis
covery of the guano islands of Peru, and the
s bsequenl invention of artificial fertilizers
having similar qualities to the natural ma
nure. These superphosphates are manufac
tured mainly in Boston, and cost the farmer
about forty dollars a ton. It was proved
that by their use the worn out cotton belt
could be made to produce as bountiful crops
in a series of five years as the M ssissippi
bottoms did; snd, moreover, that cotton
could be raised as far north as tlie foot of the
Tennessee mountains. Atlanta, therefore,
has c >me to be not only agreat depot of sup
ply of this guano, furnishing its vicinage a
hundred thousand tons a year, but also the
entrepot of all the cotton produced within a
circle of nearly two hundred miles. This
cotton is bought mainly for foreign export,
and is shipped under through bills of lading
to foreign ports, thus dodging the factors at
New York, Savannah, and other coast cities.
The business is not done on commission,but
by buying and selling on a margin of profit.
There are other extensive business inter
ests. Iron is mined near by, and extensive
founderies and rolling mills manufacture it.
Great crops of corn and grain aie raised
throughout the central part of the State,
which find their way into Atlanta distiller
ies, while her wine-merchan s are many and
rich. She can make the best of brick, and
has a who’e mountain of solid granite close
by, with other building material accessible
and cheap. She sighs for only one more
commercial advantage, namely, a railroad to
the coal regions of Alabama. Now her coal
s largely supplied from ex-Governor
Brown’s mines in the extreme northwestern
corner of the State.
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young people wholesome and instructive
rending nuitler should send for specimen
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give more than two hundred stories yearly
by the most noted and gifted authors, be
sides one thousand articles on topics of in
terest, anecdotes, sketches of travel, poems,
puzzles, incidents humorous and pathetic It
conies every week, and is emphatically a
paper for the whole family.
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his work, which letters are to be seen at the
studio. ,
Mr. O’Conor has been in Atlanta over six
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GEORGIA NEWS.
—A military company has been organized
in. Thomson.
—A Uni versalist church is being organized
in Columbus.
—The Arkwright cotton factory at Savan
nah has resumed work.
—Covington will soon have a factory with
a Clement attachment.
—The Atlanta cotton factory uses ap
twelve bales of cotton per day.
—The penitentiary of the State contains
1,300 healthy, hard-working convicts.
—The sale of the and Brunswick
railroad will take place January 13th next.
—The local election in Augusta was char
acterized by shameful and riotous conduct.
—The fare from Augusta to Macon on the
Georgia railroad has been reduced to $3-75.
■ —The Western and Atlantic railroad em
ploys fifty enginesand over five hundred
cars.
—Mr. George Mabry will start a paper in
Danielsville, Madison county, at an early
day.
—A Teachers’ Convention will be held at
Warrenton, on the lath and 16tb of Decem
ber.
—The new Atlanta Custom House and
Post-office is rapidly approaching comple
tion.
—E. C. Wood was accidently shot and
killed in Macon on Thursday by a young
man named Jerry Ally.
—Hon.H.W. Hilliard and family will return
to Columbus early next spring. The family
will make this city their home.
—lt is stated that the taxable property of
Scriven county has decreased about $25,000
during the past year.
—Albany owes no debts, and the munici
pal taxation of four-tenths of one per cent,
is ample for all purposes.
—A car load of the Richmond county coal
is to be brought to Augusta and placed on
sale. Price about $1.45 per ton.
—Atlanta has issued six per cent, bonds to
meet a pressing floating debt ofs3Bs,ooo,and
the bonds are being sold very readily.
—A solid company ofAneusta capitalists
has just been organized to build a
new 2,400 spindle cotton factory on the ca
nal in that city.
—The factories in and near Augusta sell
all their goods as fast as they are manufact
ured. The Graniteville factory received one
order, a day or two since, for 200 bales.
—The Crawfordsville Democrat is inform
ed that the farmers of that section are sow
ing larger crops of grain this season than
they have done any year since the war.
—Butler M. E. Cnurch has apnointed a
committee to secure subscriptions to a mon
ument to the late Dr. L. Pierce. The move
ment thus inaugurated will become genera!.
—The Central railroad is doing the heav
iest business that has ever been done over
the road since it was built, and immense
quantities of all kinds of freight are being
handled.
—The earnings of the Upson county rail
road, for the past fiscal year, ending August
31st, was $9,309,17 and the expenditures were
$8,355,79. The excess of earnings over ex
penses, is only $952, 38.
—lt is estimated that there are about four
thousand ex Confederate soldiers in Georgia
who have lost a leg or an arm in the war,
and who will be benefited by the act of the
Legislature providing for the purchase of
artificial Ihnbs by the State.
—The Drew temperance revival in Atlanta
has been a most notable success. Prominent
speakers have made addresses each night to
large audiences assembled in the Capitol. The
number of those who have signed the tem
perance pledge reaches about two thousand
thus far.
—The Talbotton Standard says: “Suppers
and parties are all the rage with colored
folks now. The happiest being in the world
at this writing, is a Georgia darkey ” Let
the crocodile tear weepers North,who be
moan the "awful condition of the Southern ’
negro,” make a note of this,
—The Columbus Sun thinks the naviga
tion of the Chattahoochee, immediately
above Columbus, impracticable, and wants
Pie appropriations expended upon improv
ing the channel between the city and the
Gulf. The business along the river is esti
mated to oe worth $9,000,000.
—The Central Georgia Bank of Macon,has
been designated by the Governor as one of
the State depositories. The tax collectors of
Bibb, Houston, Crawford, Macon. Twiggs,
Wilkinson, Washington, Putnam, Baldwin,
Jones, Jasper and Monroe counties are or
dered to deposit their collections in that
bank.
—A successor to the Gulf Railroad Com
pany, recently sold in Savannah, has been
organized under the name of the "Savannah
Florida and Western Railroad.” The Capi
tol stock is two million dollars. The direc
tors are: H. B. Plant, W. S. Chisholm,T. M.
Norwood, J. H. Estill, Geo. H. Tilley, J.
Cronin and D. A. Adams. At a meetingof
the directors the following were elected :
President, H. B. Plant; Secretary, Geo. H.
Tilley;General Superintendent,H. 8. Haines.
—A verdict has been rendered in the Uni
ted States District Court < f Savannah
against that city for $360,000, and in favor of
Eugene Kelly, of New York. It was a suit
brought by Kelly to recover money due on
bonds and coupons of. the Savannah, Al
bany and Gulf Railroad, guaranteed by the
city. An appeal has been taken to the Su
preme Court.
—Free Masons of Georgia are warned
through the Rome Courier, that, one James
M. Ferguson, a man of middle age, small
stature and black eyes, who is traveling
through the country proposing to repair,
clean up and repaint scales, and who claims
to be a member of Rogersville Lodge No. 16
of Tennessee, is an impostor. The Secretary
says that no such man is or ever has been a
member of that lodge.
—The Pulaski cotton factory of Hawkins
ville has bbell bought by Messrs. J. C. Me-
Burney and Hollingsworth, of Macon,
who will put in new machinery and begin
operations at once. The property has been
idle several years, and its resuming work
now is a healthy evidence of the fact that
our people are getting their eyes open to
the advantages of manufacturing their own
cotton.
—The Franklin News learns that a very
rich copper mine has been discovered about
ten miles west of that town. An old negro
was digging a well, and after he had dug
down about thirty feet, he struck a bed of
very rich ore. ,