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The Christian Index.
Established 1821.
The Christian Index.
Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 S. Broad. St.
Washington is filled with tramps on
their migratory journey South.—
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Hon. Alexander Ramsey lias been
confirmed by the United States Senate
as Secretary of War, vice McCrary.
All the theatres, beer-gardens and
other places of amusement in Cincin
nati that have hitherto defied the
Sunday law, are now closed ; the police
vigorously enforcing the statute.
The Russian Czar has given up his
warlike policy in regard to Asia, and
will confine his labors to reforms in
Russia. This change of policy has
created quite a sensation in Europe.
Wages in Germany have increased ;
the crops are good, and trade is more
active than it has been since 1873.
Business men are exceedingly hopeful
of prosperous times io the near future.
The German Minister of the Interior,
in the Prussian Diet recently, declared
* that the Social democratic agitation
had increased in the last year, and the
connection with foreign agitators has
been maintained.
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Two hundred and fifty colored emi
grants from Nortn Carolina, for Indi
ana, arrived in Washington the other
day. The National Emigrant Aid
Society is endeavoring to provide the
means for forwarding them to their
destination.
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—Rev. W. I’. Pledger, a well-known
and greatly-beloved minister of the M.
E. Church (South) committed suicide
at the Markham House, in this city,
last Friday, in a fit of insanity. He
was buried last Monday.
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The United States Board of Trade,
in its session at Washington recently,
passed a resolution calling on Congress
to pass ■ bill for an improved mode of
transportation of beef cattle, so as to
prevent torture t> them and injury to
ihe meat.
Recently a party of gentlemen from
the EastconveiS'd with friends in New
York from a railroad station in Ne
braska, using the connected line of
telegraph wires for the purpose. The
distance talked over was two thousand
miles. Every whisper was distinctly
beard.
William Davison & Co.—We direct
the attention of farmers and planters
to the advertisement of the Commer
cial Fertilizers from the works of
Messrs. Win. Davison A Co., Balti
more, Md. This is an extensive and
reliable firm and their manufactures
are very popular.
We call attention to the card of
Messrs. Traynbam, Geise A Ray, pro
prietors of the Central Planing Mill,
of this city, whose office is No. 08
Decatur Street.
As manufacturers and dealers this
firm has achieved extensive popularity,
and their large establishment is
one of the busiest in Atlanta.
Italy is preparing to establish uni
versal suffrage. Under the present
laws, not more than one person in
fifty enjoys the elective franchise in
that kingdom. A bill extending the
suffrage to every citizen above twenty
one years of ago, who can read and
write, has already been introduced in
the Italian Parliament, and another
bill, it is said, will soon be introduced
therein granting women the right to
vote.
A priest in Holyoke, Mass., excom
municated a hackman, and then for
bade his church to patronize the man.
Joseph Barker, the hackman, had
spunk enough to sue the priest for
breaking up his business, and the court
gave him $3,433 damages. The judge
very properly remarked thab ecclesias
tical authority had no right to wanton
ly interfere with a man’s private busi
ness, ar eutav. .... ’ ,
of attacks of this kind. The principle
is sound, and we hope that the perse
cuted will continue to seek legal pro
tection for priestly outrages.
"Kind Words." —In this season of
Christmas enjoyment let not the pa
rents and teachers and scholars of our
Sunday-schools forget that beautiful,
instructive Sunday-school paper of our
denomination, Kind Word*, published
at Macon. Its influence for good
upon the Sunday-school cause is im
mense. We do not see how any well
organized shool can do without this
genial, eloquent and handsomely il
lustrated weekly visitor. Make a
Christmas gift of it to the children, ye
parents; and let the teachers resolve,
and the churches determine, that
every Sabbath-school in the county
shall have plenty of Kind Words.
.literary notes and com
ments.
The literary world is in a state of
pleasant expectancy in regard to the
; national drama, which the poet Long
i fellow, and Mr. W. D. Howells, editor
! of the Atlantic Monthly, are now writ
i ing conjointly, and which will soon be
placed upon the stage in Boston.
Ihe subject is Miles Standish, the
' famous Puritan hero,and the co-ordinate
; characters are all familiar personages
j of the “Plymouth Rock” epoch.
Bret Harte is in Paris, attending to
the publication of his new book. This
is all very well, provided he has ceased
io be a servant of the people of the
United States, and is not drawing wa
ges for services he is supposed to render
as consular agent for this country, at
Crefeld, Germany. It has not been
announced that he has resigned his
office, or that he refuses to accept the
large salary attached to it. Con
j sequent])’ he should be at Crefeld, at
tending to his duties, and not at Paris,
attending to his private interests.
—Appleton & Co., the publishers,
will sell out their entire retail stock of
i books, and confine themselves to the
, wholesale trade.
1 —" Mark Twain is accused of pla-
giarism by Miss Mary Gay, of Georgia,
who will bring out a new edition of her
, book toprove her assertion.”
I Ihe public will be curious to see
i this "proof.” “Mark Twain” is a weal
thy man in humor, and if it is true
, that he stole from a lady, it would be a
very remarkable instance of literary’
kleptomania.
—Mr. Whittier’s own statement of
> the origin of his poem of "Maud Mull
j er” is quoted by a correspondent of the
Springfield Republican : He was driv
ing with his sister through York, Me.,
I and stopped at a harvest, field to in-
I quire the way. A young girl, raking
hay near the stone wall, stopped to
answer their inquiries. Whittier no-
I ticed as she talked that she bashfully
I raked the hay around and over her
t bure feet, and she was fresh and fair.
The little incident left its impression,
I and he wrote out the poem that very
j evening. ‘Butif I had had any idea,”
lie said, ‘that the plaguey little thing
. would have been so liked, 1 should j
| have taken more pains with it.’”
j' It is a notablA fact, that some of'tlie
mostexquisitegems of poesy have fallen
I from the hand of genius in some care-
less mood, with little elaboration, and
which were scarcely considered as
worthy of a second thought. Now, if
j the genial Quaker-poet will just explain
■ that '. Barbara Fritchie” question, and
I give us the true "inwardness” of that
i famous war-ballad, the critics will
I throw up their hats for very joy.
Mr. John Bright is noted for his
i pure and vigorous English. When
asked how he acquired such command
lof the language, he replied : "By al
j most learning, by heart, the purest
I English writers.” A correspondent of
the New York Evening Pont writes: ‘I
■ mice had a conversation with Mr.
Bright on the same subject, and the
answer he gave me was,that he had not
| for many years, gone to tied a single
night without reading some good Eng
j lish poem. He added to this that of
late he had been compelled to confine
I himself almost exclusively, to our
j American writers—naming Bryant,
I Longfellow, Whittier and Lowell. He
; said that the English poets of the pres
' ent day had become, some of them, too
obscure, and others too finical and af
fected to suit his tastes ; butthat the
Americans continued in the line of the
‘simple, sensuous, passionate’ begun by
Shakespeare and Milton, and jierpetua
ted by Southey and Wordsworth.’ ”
The fact that Littell’s Living Age,
this standard weekly magazine,has had
a successful career of over thirty-five
years against much competition, is
proof sufficient that it meets an un
doubted want of the public. It furn
ishes what is essential to American
readers in a great and indispensable
current of literature —a literature
which embraces more and more every
year, the work of the ablest thinkers
and writers of the day. As the only
satisfactorily complete and fresh com
pendium of this literature, its import-
I anco and value have steadily increased.
It enables the reader,at trifling expense,
I of the reading furnished, to keep pace
with the best thought and literary
work of our time; and its great con
venience to every intelligent person or
family can, therefore, hardly be over
rated.
The extra offer to new subscribers
for 1880, and the reduced clubbing
rates, are worthy of note, in the pros
pectus published in another column.
Tne magazine is well worth the atten
tion of those who are selecting their
reading for another year. As the mul
titude of periodicals increases more
and more beyond the means and leis
ure of readers, the value of such a
comprehensive one as this, becomes
more and more apparent.
Mr. Tennyson has written two child
songs for St. Nicholas. They will ap
pear in the January number. In our
Literature Secular Editorials Current Notes and News.
Atlanta, Thursday, December 18, 1879.
opinion, the genial, pure, simple-heart
ed and white-souled patriarch of song,
Whittier, stands nearer the child-heart
than any other modern bard. To write
truly of children for children requires
genius of the highest order.
the publishers of the Atlantic
Monthly gave a reception and break
fast. at the Hotel Brunswick, Boston,
on the 3rd of December, in honor of
the seventieth anniversary of the birth
day of Dr. Oliver Wendell Holmes.
—Mr. Paul H. Hayne, the poet, em
phatically denies having said anything
tie rogatory of the Southern people, rel
ative to their alleged lack of sympathy
for literary culture, and their want of
appreciation of Southern litterateurs,
during his recent visit to the North.
He says : “If ever I have uttered any
thing touching the lukewarmness of
the South (even in the days of her
prosperity) toward her literary chil
dren, the melancholy truth has been
embodied in Southern journals, frank
ly, openly, fearlessly, over my own
proper signature, and not bruited with
treacherous or embittered breath for
the delectation of the alien.”
It will now be in order for Mr.
Hayne to prove that the “bruiting” of
this alleged lukewarmness would be a
delectable thing for the “alien.” In
simple justice to the intelligent people
of the North, we deny the assertion
that they, the “aliens,” would take de
light in the bruiting of such a melan
choly thing.
The pastors of the Methodist, Pres
byterian, Episcopal, Baptist and Lu
theran churches of Columbia, S. 0.,
have petitioned the Legislature to pass
an act prohibiting the running of
freight trains in that State on Sun
days. In their memorial they set
forth the following as their reasons :
"The running of height trains on that
day violates the spirit of the laws of
this State. Individuals are restricted
by law from pursuing their secular
employments on the Sabbath, and why
should not corporations be subject to
like restrictions? The running of
freight trains on that day disturbs the
peace and quiet of the Sabbath, pre
vents ni my persons from attending to
the duties of religion, opens some of
the flood-gates of vice, and removes
sonic of the barriers of virtue. The
virime of the people is the «afe-<guard
of republics, whilst the lack of it
opens the door to despotism.”
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“The Red Mark.”—We have earn
estly requested all subscribers, whose
time is about to expire, to renew their
subscriptions. We repeat the request
this week. On the 20th of this month
we will be compelled to discontinue
sending The Christian Index to all
who fail to renew their subscription,
or who fail to write to us, by the first
of January, that they will renew by
that date.
If any of our friends fail to receive
The Index after the 20th of this
pionth, they will please remember our
request and this notice. To censure
us, under these circumstances, would
be unjust. We will sincerely regret
the necessity of erasing a single name
from our subscription books. The In
dex for 1880 will be made more at
tractive than ever.
Friends! ipfnd the “red mark,” and
renew immediately.
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The Chinese in California are leav
ing that State. One of the steamers
which recently sailed from San Francis-
Co, took back 901 Chinamen to their
native land. The port statistics of San
Francisco show that the arrivals of
Chineseduring the year ending Novem
ber Ist, were 0,128, and departures
8,746 —of whom 6,229 went to China,
and 2,517 to Honolulu —the excess of
departures over arrivals being 2,618.
It is estimated that there are 62,000
Chinese on the Pacific coast, which
shows that this population is decreas
ing, instead of increasing, for when the
anti-Chinese agitation was begun, a
few years ago, the estimate was 100,-
000. The total number of Chinese
arrivals for the twenty years ending
December, 1878, was 230,430, and the
departures and deaths 133,491.
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The statistical and financial report
of the Trinity M. E. church, of this
oft”, made at the recent session of the
NoiUi G • ia. Conference, makes a
fine showing for this leading Methodist
church of Atlanta: Members, 784 ; ad
ditions during the year, 192; in Sun
day-scnool, 685; money raised for
Sunday-school, $625; church sittings,
800 ; value of church, $50,000 ; raised
for building and repairing, $15,820;
for pastor, SI,BOO ; for Presiding Elder,
$350; Bishops, SSO; superannuated
preachers, $325 ; home missions, $l6O ;
foreign missions, $165; for missions by
Women's Missionary Society, S4O; for
the poor, S2OO ; other objects, $3,000 ;
Advocates taken, 90. This foots up
$22,535, which this church has con
tributed this year.
The weather is very cold in Great
Britain, and on the Continent. Dis
patches from Rome and Madrid report
heavy snow falls.
- A NEW INSTITUTION FOR COL-
ORE!) STUDENIS IN THIS
t CITY.
3
s i A Constitution reporter wishing to
learn the facts concerning the Atlanta
! Baptist Seminary for colored students,
. called on Rev. Frank Quarles, who
, cheerfully gave the desired informa
f tion.
The building was begun about the
middle of last September and will be
completed within three weeks. The
, outside is already finished and the
’ work on the inside is being rapidly
, pushed forward. The building is situ
j ated on a commanding eminence at
the corner of Elliott and Hunter
' ' streets, and stands boldly out as the
’ handsomest ornament of that portion
• of the city. It is two stories high,
. forty ami sixty-five feet long.
j It is surmounted by a neat bell-tower
j and covered with a slate roof. The
brick-work is w’ell done, and taken
altogether it is' an elegant and sub
stantial structure.
Up stairs there are five apartments,
which are to be used as recitation
rooms. Down-stairs is a large apart-
I ment wl-ich will be used as a chapel,
and two smaller rooms which will be
used as library and professor’s room.
, The college was built under the aus
picies of the American Baptist Home
Mission Society of'New York and the
colored Baptists of Georgia. For six
years past Rev. Frank Quarles has
been working in the interest of this
college. He has traveled North aud
South everting himself to the utmost
, to raise funds for its erection. His
i efforts have been crowned with suc
cess, and we congratulate him upon
the victory which he has won in the
face of many obstacles. The lot upon
which the building stands was pur
chased by the American Baptist Home
Mission Society from Mr. Richard
Peters through Rev. Frank Quarles.
The price asked was three thousand
dollars, but on account of the good
cause, Mr. Peters sold it for twenty
live hundred. The same society have
expended seven thousand five hundred
dollars in the erection of the building
Rev.” Frank Quarles having made
the contract with Longley and Robin
son. I-- colored Baptists of Georgia
i.own five acres of land in the
. They expect to sell it
for twwnty-iive hundred dollars, and !
have flawed to devote that sum to the
college fund. The college will be
owned by the American Baptist Mis
sion Society and the colored Baptists
of Georgia jointly.
The Seminary proper was organized
on the first of October last. There are
thirty pupils in attendance, the exer
cises for the present, being conducted
in the basement of the Friendship
colored Baptist church, of which Rev. i
Frank Quarles is the pastor. The j
object of their Seminary is to fit col
ored young men for teachers and
preachers. Rev. Frank Quarles as
sured the reporter that none except
young men of the best character are
admitted. Upon the completion of
the college building it will be dedicated
with appropriate exercises. Rev. Frank
Quarles certainly deserves great credit
for the good work which he has per
formed. As the moving spirit in this
enterprise we congratulate him, for
through his untiring energy another
temple has been reared in our midst,
the influence of which will lift Atlanta
i higher in education, morals and re
ligion.—Atlanta Constitution.
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The total number of census super
visors' districts in the Whole Union will
approximate one hundred and fifty,
1 and the number of applicants is already
; very large. By the law, they are made
Presidential appointments, subject to
confirmation by the Senate. Mr.
Hayes says it will be impossible for
him to give the very considerable time
required to examine into the merits and
1 the fitness of the applicants. He has,
' therefore, concluded to entrust the
whole matter to General Walker, the
' Superintendent of the Census, and
when the list is made out he will, if
! there are no objectionable names upon
it, approve it, and send it to the Sen-
I ate.
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, Choice Christmas I'au-m., .Brii g
I pi.otog'sphs Os the loved on h at home to
' the Giulio of H. O’Conor, 27| Whitehall St.,
- j who wid paint them in oil colors in the
■ j most perfect and artistic style possible. We
- have seen the most satisfactory teslimouials
r from the most reliable and wHI known gen •
tiemen and ladies of high standing, bearing
’ undoubted tes imony to the listing nature of
I his work, which letters are to be seen at the
! studio.
, Mr. O'Conor has been in Atlanta over six
I months, and we think such beautiful work is
worthy of patronage. Thesilver medal at
’ the North Georgia Fair was awarded for
r first class perfection. dec4 3t
r a ■
’ Herring's Salve beats all other salves or lo
’ tions for neuralgia, rheumatism, sores and
ulcers of all kinds, erysfirelas, piles, tetter,
itch, ooms and bunions, and all eruptions of
the skin; aches and pains. Call on your drag*
I gist for it,or send 50 cents for a box to L. W.
• Whitehurst. Barnesville, Ga., general agent
t for the State, and it will be sent by return
mail. deoU.Sm
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The annual report of Mr. Hayt,
i Commissioner of Indian Affairs, gives
an encouraging view of the capacity of
the Indians for improvement, as attes- ,
ted by the experience of the year. The
most important civilizing influence is
agriculture, and there is a growing ad
diction to agricultural pursuits, espe
cially the raising of cattle. T.ie tran
sition from the life of huntsmen to that
oi herdsmen is easy and natural, and
will probably be the intermediate stage
to the extensive growing of crops. !
The Commissioner recommends the j
breaking up of tribal relations so far as I
regards property, and assigning to each
Indian portions of land in separate
ownership. When this is done it will
be a great step in advance. One of
the hopeful evidences of improvement
is the extension of education. The
young Indians are bright and quick in
elementary studies, and there ure al
ready thirteen thousand three hundred
and fifty of them under instruction
namely, six thousand two hundred and
fifty in the five civilized tribes, andsev-;
en thousand one hundred at the agency I,
schools. Agriculture and education I;
are the two grand levers of civilization
for the roaming tribes, and when the
older part of the present generation of 1
savages shall have died oil' their will
be a great hope of the now rising
youth.
WOKK FOii JESUS.
Work for Jesus 1 Work for Jesus !
Little bauds aud little feet,
At the heartb, or ou the street,
Work for Jesurl Work for Jesus!
Work for Jesusl Work for Jesus!
Hearts lu uulsou suould beat
lu .bis purpose, blest aud sweet; ,
Work for Jesus! Work for Jesus !
Work for Jesus! Work for Jesus!
Bravely toil aud dauger meet —
God will shield you from defeat!
Work for Jesus! Work for Jesusl ;
Work f.rr J esus! Work for Jesus I
Deatti is sure, au.l lime is fleet—
Little bauds aud little feet,
Work for Jesusl Wora lor Jesus!
Charles IF. Hubner. '
A report of the disasters to the fish
ing fleet from Giouchester, Mass., this
season, shows an unprecedented de
struction of property. Thirty vessels
nave been lost, and two hundred and 1 <
forty men drowned, leaving eighty-eight i
widows, and two hundred and nineteen
fatherless children.
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The Thomaston Times says : “El-1
tier J. P. Lyon has accepted a call to ;
serve Flint River church, in this coun-i
ty next year. He is a good preacher i
and a good man. We congratulate j
the church on seem ing his services. i
Columbus Enquirer Si n. -We call
attention to the advertisement of this
able and well conducted Georgia
journal. Its terms are low, and all in '
want of a good paper will do well in j
subs ci ibiiig for the Enquirer-Sun.
The insurgents in Cuba arc meeting
with severe reverses. The Govern
ment troops are driving them from
their strongholds, and this new rebel
lion will be a fiasco.
THE “ONE-THIRD MORE."
Editor Index : Georgia, with her
sister Slates, has, in the last few years,
declined in her contributions to For
eign Missions. Timeshave been hard,
and it has been difficult to raise money.
We have claimed partial exemption
from duty’ on this account. God in
His good providence is again blessing
our country with prosperity. As the
cause of missions was the first to feel
the pressure of the times, shall it not
first rejoice in the abundant free-will
offerings of its friends?
The old year seems likely to close
with bright skies, and the new to open
auspiciously. "What shall we render
unto the Lord for all His benefits to
us?” Shall we make a thank-offering j
to Him? Will not the pastors invite '
their churches to receive a great bless- i
ing in enlarged contributions to the I
cause of Foreign Missions? Will not i
Georgia Baptists this Conventional
year manifest their love for the souls :
of the perishing, by raising their con
’ tributionsto the amount we contributed
1 previous to 1873? It is now a crisis in .
I ihe history M onr missions. Let us
j meet the crisis as true friends of the :
I cause, and as faithful disciples of Him, 1
“who though He was rich, yet for our j
I sakes, became poor that we, through
I His poverty, might be rich.”
Lovingly, A Disciple.
Another revolution is threatening!
in Spain.
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Cause and Street.
The main cause of nervousness is indiges
tion, and that is caused by weakness of the
stomach. No one can have sound nervee
and good health without using Hop Bitters
to strengliten the stomach, purify the blood,
and keep the liver and kidneys active, to
carry off all the poisonous and waste matter
of the system. See othercolumn.
—The Bianal saya that just now a vang
deal of building and repairing is beint
done in and around Dahlonega.
$2.60 a Year in Advance
GEORGIA NEWS.
—C tlumbtis has the telephone epi
demic.
—Game is plentiful throughout the
State.
—Macon claims a population of twenty
thousand.
Appling county contains twelve tur
penfine distilleries.
—Real estate in Americus is rapidly
advancing in value.;
—Milledgeville is anxious for the estab
lishment ot a bank in that town
—There are 284 applicants from Geor
gia for appointment as Commissioners
of Census.
A considerable number of emigrants
are leaving Georgia for homes in the
Southwest.
—Mormonism has gained 400 converts
this year in Georgia and Alabama, says
the Atlanta Bost.
—1 he pecan crop of Talbot county
this year was of good quality but not
very plentiful.
ihe Columbus and Rome railroad is
progressing finely. Chipley will be
reached in a few days
—Tee teachers of Middle Georgia had
a very interesting meeting at Warrenton,
and formed an Association, of which
Hon. G. J. Orr was elected president.
—lhe Board of Public Works have
elected Mr. John Neely, of Augusta, to
be Superin tMident of the public schools
of Americus.
—TheGriffin News is seriously alarmed
at the growth of intemperance in that
city, and it wants to send for Drew im
mediately.
—Mr. D. ow, the temperance lecturer,
wno has been so successful in Atlanta,
W’iil open the campaign for temperance
in .Savannah on the 18th inst.
A powerful and popular Temperance
Reform Association has been otganized
in Atlanta, as the practical result of the
great temperance revival recently held
under the auspices of Mr. Drew.
—The cotton crop of Talbot county will
reach this year about 10,000 bales, which,
at an advance of $lO per bale over last
years prices, will give lite people a net
margin of SIOO,OOO.
--Mis. Emily Hayne, Ihe mother of
Mr. Paul IL Hayne, the well-known poet,
dte i at the residence of the latter, in
Richmond county, last week, at the ad
vanced ag-of seventy-four years.
A car load of the Richmond county
coal nas been placed on sale in Augusta
ats2 50 per ton delivered. The coal now
being mined is said to be of a superior
quality, and, when burned, entirely free
from offensive smell.
Commissioner Raum, of the Internal
Revenue Bureau, has sent to'Collector
Clarke thirty guns, with instructions to
organize thirty men to pm down opposi
tion in the mountains to Revenue officers,
at all hazar *a.
Eix Hundred maimed sobliers have
been supplied with the cash to purchase
artificial legs and arms, at a cost to the
State of forty thousand dollars. It is es
timated that there will n >t be'ess than
two thousand applicants.
lire Rev. Qr. Thomas Skinner, of
Raleigh, N, C , was recently presented by
one of the Lot il lards, of New York, witha
box of cigars and a$l,(X)()bill. The recip
ient is a cousin of the Lirillarr's. Dr.
.skinner is well known all over Georgia,
especially in Athens and Macon.
--It is proposed ‘o build a new railroad
to Augusta. It is intended that Hie road
shall connect at Harlem or Dearing, on
ihe Georgia railroad, and thence run
thiotigh Columbia and Jefferson, in the
dii ection of Fenn’s bridge, over the Ogee
'chee river, into Washington county.
—The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
has donned a bran new and looks
as fresh and bright as a day in spring.
The editors say that with this improve
ments the appearance of their paper,
they Aill redouble their efforts to make
il the true reflex of opinion in Middle,
Southwestern and Southern Georgia.
—The city of Savannah bonds, issued
in aid of the Southwestern tailroad,
which matured on the Ist of November,
1879, and were not paid by the city, are
now being taken up by the Central rail
road, that corporation paying the par
value of the bonds and coupons attached.
The liability of the Central in the bonds
arises from the fact that it is the lessee of
the Southwestern railroad, which corpo
ration ha<l endorsed the bonds. The
issue amounted to $300,000.
—The people of Morgan and adjoining
counties have petition 'd the Governor to
suspend for a time tiie collection of their
taxes. The petition is based on ■he fact
that the past agricultural year has been
an exceedingly disastrous one. A long
and severe drought early in the season,
followed by drenching rains, so blighted
their crop prospects, that they say they
will be unable to respond to the demand's
iof the Tax Collector. The planters, it
says, are almost ruined.
—The Atlanta correspondent of ihe
Augusta News says: "The Academy of
Science in this city is a noble institution,
and one which will undoubuallv accom
t , V.’
. l-robel, ttio Tresident, ana Hi. n. t>. «a.u,
; the Secretary, are very zealous workers
lin its behalf.” Its list of members em
braces some of the best eitizenb of Geor
gia. Monthly lectures are given by nota-
I ble men, to which select audiences-listen
I with deep interest. The lectures are free
1 to all.
i —The Berrien County News says!
; " William Rickerson, of Coffee county,
! died on the 24th of November, being at
that time eighteen years old. It is doubt
ful if there is another person in the
United States who at that age attained
the weight of thia remarkable bov. He
was known far and wide ih the ‘lat boy
of Coffee county,’and people came froih
long distances to Bee him. At the time
of his death, he weighed five hundred
and fifty-six pounds, and was apparently
in good health. The cause of ins death
was suffocation. His fat her, the late lyey
i Rickerson, was a man of ordinary size,
' and his mother—who is still living—is a
lady of small stature."