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Governer Neil, of Idaho, in his
message to the Legislature, says that
polygamy is being rapidly introduced
from Utah.
—We wish to get the Biographical
sketches of Revs. John Crawford, W.
C. Cleveland, J. D. Carlton and M. L.
Smith, and will greatly appreciate it if
some friend will furnish them promptly.
The Irish World reports a very rapid
increase in the number of Land Leagues
in this country in sympathy with Ire
land’s work. Sixty-five new branches
were organized in one week, mostly in
the Middle aud Eastern States.
General Walker estimates that the
total footing up of the population of
the United Stateswill show a popula
tion of about fifty millions, being a
gain of about ten millions over the
■census of 1870.
Arbitration on the Greek frontier
question has been abandoned, and w3t
between that country and the Porte
is deemed inevitable. The main ques
tion now is whether hostilities will be
postponed till March or begin now.
Blanqui, the famout French Com
munist, died last week. Owing to ex
traordinary precautions taken by the
police authorities, the apprehended
disturbance at his funeral was pre
jjentfd. J j-' * '
The United States is constantly ad
ding to the already large list of ex
ports to the Old World. The latest
addition is the shipment to Europe of
wild “game from the West which has
assumed considerable proportions.
The Warrenton Clipper says: “Read
the advertisement of the Christian
index. The Index has no superior as
a religious journal. We unhesitatingly
recommand it to every family as the
paper."
The Dublin correspondent of the
London Times says a more repulsive
and terrible yefir has never come upon
Ireland and it will take many years
to reconstruct the social system now
in ruins.
The Meriwether Vindicator says: Rev.
Dr. Van Hoose will begin his minis
terial labors in the Greenville Baptist
church for 1881, on the first Saturday
and Sunday in January. We extend
st most cordial welcome to this able and
popular divine.
We call attention to the prospectus
of The Christian Index, in another
column. All Baptists in the State
ahould avail themselves of the liberal
terms upon which they can obtain one
of the best religious papers published.
—Greenesboro Herald.
Mr. LeDuc, Commissioner of Agri
culture, has completed arrangements
for the establishment of an experiment
al tea farm. The location selected is
twenty miles from Charleston, and two
miles from Summerville on the line of
the South Carolina Railroad.
♦ —♦
It is not surprising that the Boers
are giving the British trouble in South
Africa. Although diluted Dutchmen,
they still retain to a considerable ex
tent the courage and fighting qualities
of that race that defied the whole
Spanish Empire, and contested with
England the sovereignty of the seas.
The celebrated Liquid Enamel Paint,
of which Mr. C. P. Knight, 93 W. Lom
bard Street, Baltimore, is the General
Agent, is universally admitted to be
the best in use. Builders and others
will find it to their interest to consult
the advertisement in this number of
The Index.
There is now in Ireland an army of
over 30,000 regular soldiers, the Hower
of the British army, so that a success
ful insurrection is impossible'—The
Government is at least fully determined
to keep Ireland nominally under the
rule of the crown, though all law con
tinues to be openly trampled under
foot by the great mass of its popu
lation.
LITERARY NOTES AND COM
MENTS.
James B. Hope, editor of the Norfolk
(Va.) Virginian, has been invited by
the joint Congressional Committee on
the Yorktown Centennial Celebration
to prepare the poem to be delivered on
that occasion. The Committee could
not have made a better selection. The
poem will, unquestionably, be worthy
of the theme. Hon. Robert C. Win
throp, of Massachusetts, will deliver the
oration. This celebration ought to be,
and doubtless will be, another strong
1 link in the chain of fraternity which
should bind together the people of our
common country.
—At a dinner given to Father Ryan,
in Baltimore, Mr. Latrobe replied to the
toast, “The City of Baltimore,” and sug
gested that Mr. Ryan should recite one
of his poems, to which the poet an
swered that although he had written
from his heart, he could not repeat any
of his poems by heart.
—Dr. Nathan Ganz, of New York,
has issued his prospectus of The An
archist, which will be a Socialistic-Rev
olutionary Review. It is to be the
organ of the wildest kind of Commun
ism. This individual’s name is sug
gestive of his enterprise: only a “Goose”
would undertake it.
—By the recent death of Mrs. Cross,
“George Eliot,” English literature has
been deprived of one of its most bril
liant stars. She was a woman of extra
ordinary genius and rare erudition.
The best of her novels are remarkable
studiesof human character,and her word
paintings are masterly! As a novelist
she stands without a rival among Eng
lish female authors, and but few of the
opposite sex have equaled, and fewer
still have excelled her in her peculiar
field. It is to be regretted that her
writings revoice so strongly and sub
tilely the carping, sceptical, agnostic
spirit of the age—they are brilliant out
cold, lacking the warmth and soul of
true Christian spirituality. We may
admire the masterly intellect and su
preme genius of such writers, but we
can neither love them nor have faith in
them.
—Mr. Elliott Stock, a London pub
lisher, lateiy issued an edition of the
New Testament for two cents. He has
sold 400,000 copies at last accounts.
—BlacAwootPs Magazine is always
welcome, and the December number
has recently been published by the
Leonard Scott Publishing Company, 41
Barclay street, New York. The prin
cipal contents are “The Private Secre
tary. —Part II,” the new serial; “Mr.
Kinglake’s New Volume,” describing
the winter troubles in the Crimea;
“Dr. Wortle’s School. —Conclusion;”
“The Indian Famine Report,” a criti
cism of the reports sent to Parliament
from 1875tol880; and “Winter Sports
and Pleasures,” a seasonable account
of indoor and outdoor recreations in
England and Scotland during the win
ter season.
We observe that the Publishing Co.
are offering very strong inducements to
subscribers to this famous magazine,
and the Reviews which they publish,
for this year. A new subscriber to any
of the periodicals for 1881 can also ob
tain the numbers of the same for 1880
without charge, if application is made
direct to the Publishers. As the stock
available for this purpose is limited,
early application is necessary to secure
such a premium.
—Mr. A. Lang has translated The
ocritus, Bion, and Mosehus into Eng
lish prose. Mr. E. C. Stedman has for
some years, it is understood, had in
hand a metrical translation of these
authors.
—The Society for promoting Chris
tian Knowledge has in preparation a
series of works dealing with Early
Britain, which will comprise "Celtic
Britain,” by Prof. Rhys ; "Roman Brit
ain,” by Mr. C. Roach Smith ; “Anglo-
Saxon Britain," by Mr. Grant Allen;
“Scandinavian Britain,” by Mr. F. York
Powell; and “Norman Britain.”
—Prof. J. S. Blackie, of Edinburgh)
has translated Goethe’s Faust into
English verse.
—The London Folk-lore Society an
nounces several new publications.' The
MS. of the “Denham Tracts" is in the
hands of Mr. Hardy, the editor. Rev.
W. Gregor is passing through the press
his “Folk-lore of the North-East of Scot
land,” which will soon bo published.
The MS. of Mr. Black’s “Folk Medi
cine” has been received. Signor Com
paretti, of Florence, and Prof. Pedroso,
of Lisbon, are preparing MSS. for the
Society. Harvard University has sent
a transcript of the titles of its English
folk-lore books towards the Bibliogra
phy of Folk-lore” now being compiled
by Mr. Gomme. The new number of
“The Folk-lore Record” will contain a
translation of some Danish stories, be
sides the papers which will be road at
the forthcoming series of evening
meetings.
—There is little danger, says the
Boston Traveler, that the work of the
woman who is experimenting in journ-
Literature Secular E d itorta ls —Cur re nt Notes and News.
ATLANTA, THURSDAY, JANUARY 13, 188 I.
alism will be of such superhuman ex
cellence as to be above the comprehen
sion of the average intellect. “Care is
taken that the trees do not grow up
into heaven;” if the work is of that
exalted character, the writer is of an
other guild, and has a place in the rare
and radiant land of genius, and for
such a writer one has not suggestion,
but reverence. That nebulous indi
vidual may be eliminated from this
equation. It should be remarked, en
passant, that the term journalism is
used here distinctively from literature!
While no thought is too high, no
knowledge too profound, no accom
plishment too refined to be of practical
use in daily journalism; while the study
should be to produce work that is good
enough—and there is never any dam
ger of its being tqo good—while this is
true, it is yet equally true that the bor
derland between the two fields is dis
tinctive. It is a truth of to-day that
there is a large amount of journalistic
talent among women. It is a power
that may be well utilized. The pro
fession is an eminently practical
one for women, and a bright,
sensible woman will discuss certain
phases of the world’s news, or of home
and social life, with a swift,sympathetic
insight, which brings a valuable ele
ment to a profession that, of all others,
demands the united strength of both
men and women. No better advice
could be given an aspirant than the
terse little counsel of Emerson, “If you
want success, succeed.” And so to the
girls who long after the flavor of print
er’s ink we would say, “If you want to
write, write.”
—Says the Athenxum: “As the
papers have been announcing various
sums from £IO,OOO to £30,000 as the
price paid for ‘Endymion,’ it may be
as well to say that Lord Beaconsfield
will eventually receive £IO,OOO. It
may also be added, fol the benefit of
the curious, that the novel was begun
some ten years.”
—The Mobile Register severely con
demns Mr. Cable’s Grandissimes, espe
cially in the point most lauded by the
Northern critics—the life-like portrayal
of Creole nature and manners; the
Register says : “Mr. Cable is very in
correct in his sketches of Cregie life.
The Creole population which, with its
customs, language and curjous w,.'iys,
still thrives in New Orleans, is grossly
misrepresented by the author of the
‘Grandissimes,’ and even to-day after
'the rude storm of misfortune has swept
over its once so opulent and princely
homes,’ they are the same genteel and
captivating race, with the same noble
bearing and dignified character. Many
of the incidents of olden times, handed
down by the tradition to the descend
ants of the old regime, and known to
every Creole child below Canal street,
are distorted to suit the author’e pur
pose. The story of Bras-Coupe for
instance.”
Mr. Francis Adams, in his work on
the American school system, says:
“The most conspicuous feature of the
American school system is its repre
sentative character. The doctrine of
the sovereignty of the people, pervad
ing all American social and political
organizations, is carried to its fullest
limit in the schools of the country.
The principle to which the people are
most attached is thus fitly exhibited in
the institution upon which they set
the highest value. * * * The
simple principle of the American
school laws is that the people can bo
trusted to attend to their own busi
ness.”
And as a corollary the fact should
be added that the history of the com
mon school system shows that
wherever the free school system has
once obtained a foothold, no retro
grade movement can be permanently
successful. Local or sectional preju
dices may retard its progress, but the
good sense of the people will in the
end tirumph over all obstacles.
The idea lying at the foundation of
the American School system is found
in the apothegm : “An ignorant peo
ple may be governed, but only an edu
cated people can govern themselves.”
The doctrine which has been incorpo
rated into many of the State constitu
tions, and is the governing principle in
all, is that “knowledge and learning as
well as virtue generally diffused
throughout the community are essen
tial to the preservation of a free govern
ment and of the rights and liberties of
the people.” Hence, for the protection
and perpetuation of free government,
they have inserted in their State con
stitutions provisions requiring the leg
islatures to establish and provide for
the maintenance of an efficient and
uniform system of public schools, free
to all children of the State within the
school ago.
The Legislature of Illinois will, at
its approaching session, be asked to
pass a law making it an offense to sell,
give, hire or loan a pistol or other
deadly weapon to any minor. This is an
excellent law, and a similar one should
be adopted by every State in the Union.
“DOES INSURANCE INSURE?’
The severe article in this month’s
Harper’s entitled “Does Life Insurance
Insure,” which denounces the life in
surance system as unworthy of confi
dence, unreliable and dangerous to
those who trust in it, has attracted
considerable attention on account of
its alleged mis-statements. An article
affirmatively discussing the subject is
to appear in a short time. The New
York Commercial Bulletin, in a lengthy
editorial deprecates the .magazine ar
ticle and, in conclusion,Mys :
Whatever, therefore, may be said re
specting the disgraceful frauds of for
mer years cannot fairly be fastened
upon either the system of life insur
ance or the compaiues whose survival
attests both their soundness and the
security of that system. And it ap
pears to us to be about time to stop
this raking up of old scandals, which,
while they prove nothing against life
insurance per se, only avail to gratify
spite and obstruct the progress of a
business which is a,public need. The
question, “Does life insurance insure?”
is a proper enough question ; but it is
not to be fairly answered by those who
know nothing about the subject, but
-who rattle around it with a muck-rake,
adjusted only to gather what is bad
and discard what is good. A system
, whiffi has held its own for more than
two centuries, and whose exponents in
the United States alone, have, since
1868, distributed among policy-holders
some $600,000,000, for death claims,
endowments, surrender values and
dividends, is not flippantly to be dis
missed to contempt or denounced as a
£i&re. That life insurance does insure,
the millions who have been its benefi
cuM ies stand ready to attest. And,
leaving the dead past to bury its dead,
we.can truly affirm that the system was
never before so solidly founded or so
secure in its future as at this very mo
mqpt. The American life companies
can show to-day, on the average, $l2O
for every SIOO of liability; their
management is absolutely honest, con
servative and economical; their finan
cial condition is sounder and more se
cure than ever; and, in short, they will
bear favorable comparison, as regards
all tic essentials of security and good
T- with any other business
i j tsoevsr. This’ is saying
a great know, but we believe
it to be the truth and susceptible of
demonstration. What sense, then, is
there in propounding such a conun
drum as “Does Life Insurance In
sure?”
The statistics of United States trade
and commerce for the year 1880 are
most gratifying in character. Our ex
ports and imports aggregate $1,594,-
000,000, with balance of trade in our
favor of $73,000,000, and a net coin
and bullion receipt of $84,000,000 in
excess of all imports of specie. Our
imports aggregate $760,989,056, of
which not more than half were manu
factures. Our exports foot up $833,-
294,246, of which breadstuff's covered
$588,036,835, cotton $211,535,905, pro
visions $121,900,814, and illuminating
oils $34,903,011. In these products
the United States has no competition,
the foreign demand is always increas
ing, and our supply is limited only by
the demand. We exported during the
year $16,379,107 in tobacco, $9,931,-
418 in manufactured cotton, $13,344,-
195 in horned cattle, $5,404,418 in
furs, $7,689,232 in tallow, $5,086,118
in leather, $6,259,287 in oil cake and
$2,717,563 in refined sugar. Ameri
can vessels carried ; $280,005,497 of
these exports and imports, while sl,-
300,466,596 were carried in foreign
vessels.
Os interest, in connection with the
allusion to the Steven’s battery, to be
found in the “Peace Notes” in another
column, is the following item furnish
ed by the New York correspondent of
a daily paper: “The work of breaking
up the old Steven’s battery atlloboken,
recently sold at auction, was com
menced this morning. The battery is
composed mostly of huge wrought-iron
plates, which will be sent to the found
ry and melted up. Very little of the
structure can be used, and it will all go
back into the furnace.”
The White House is a rather expen
sive institution, aside from the Presi
dent’s salary of $50,000. The staff of
employes in and about the executive
office requires $32,000 a year, and the
stationary and miscellaneous appoint
ments some SB,OOO more. This is ex
clusive of SIO,OOO a year for care and
repairs of the mansion, $15,000 for
lighting the house and grounds, $2,000
for fuel, $5,500 for the greenhouses,
and a single item of $30,000 for refur
nishing.
—— l ■ • -
By the burning of a tenement house
in New York last week ten persons
were burned to death and several oth
ers were seriously injured.
The Union loss during the war was
327,184 ; the Confederate nearly 209,-
000. This is the • ocently verified offi
cial account.
—An important bill before Con
gress is the one introduced by Mr.
Reagan, of Texas, for the regulation of
inter-state commerce. A correspondent
who has ascertained the temper of the
House in regard to this proposed mea
sure of government says that five-sixths
of the members agree that some mea
sure asserting the authority which
Reagan’s bill recognizes in the Federal
government should be passed. But
this is legislation upon a new line, and
both House and Benate will act with
deliberation.
Some of the great railroad mono
polies whose special interests are con
sidered by their managements as para
mount to the common interests of the
whole people,are opposing the bill with
great vigor and pertinacity. There is
peculiar force, therefore, in the action
of the New York Chamber of Com
merce. At a recent meeting the report
of the special Committee on Railroad
Transportation was unanimously adop
ted. The report sets forth the import
ance of proper legislation to regulate
railroad charges; discusses the two rail
road bills now before Congress, known
as the Reagan bill and the Henderson
bill, and urges the necessity of encourag
ing competition and preventing the
organization of pools and combinations.
It shows that an advance in freight
rates of five cents per hundred pounds
upon the grain crop of the West is
equivalent to an export tax of seventy
five million dollars, which comes out
of the pockets of producers. In con
clusion, the committee submit the fol
lowing resolutions:
Resolved, That the public welfare
urgently demands that the commerce
by railroads should be controlled and
regulated ; that such regulation should
take the form of: first, positive laws,
defining public rights ; and, second, a
supervision by an executive power, to
see that these laws are carried into
effect; that with inter-State commerce
these laws and supervision should be
provided by Congress, and for those
railroads exclusively within the juris
diction of a State, similar action should
be taken by the Legislature of that
State.
Resolved, That of the measures now
pending in Congress for the regulation
of inter-Statye commerce, the bill known
as the Reagan bill, in the opinion <vf
this Chamber, is the one best calcu
lated to protect public interest, and
that it should become a law without
unnecessary delay.
Be it further resolved, That an addi
tional and separate bill, not inconsistent
with the Reagan bill, should be passed
providing a National Board of Railroad
Commissioners, to see that all laws of
the United States relating to railroads
are duly executed, and generally to
supervise the operation of inter-State
railroads.
To our Subscribers.—We are com
pelled to ask the indulgence of our
subscribers, and beg them patiently to
wait until the date of their recent pay
ments are extended on the printed slip
found on each paper. We have not
been able to keep up with this depart
ment of the business, owing to the
pressure upon us. We shall try to have
it all right in a week or so.
If any of the subscribers, new or old,
should fail to get this number, let us
know, and it will be mailed to them
at once.
A New Route.—The President hav
ing signed the bill allowing the erec
tion of a bridge over the St. Mary’s
river, the completion of the Waycross
and Jacksonville railroad will be push
ed ahead with renewed vigor.
With steel rails and a solid roadbed
this new route will give the Savannah,
Florida and Western railway a short
cut to Jacksonville, Fla., and make
that the great through line of travel
from the North and West to the fair
and sunny “Land of Florida.”
—Messrs. J. H. and H. P. Jones, of
Herndon, Ga., advertise the world-re
nowned “Jones’ Long Staple Prolific”
cotton seed. We advise every farmer
to send to them for a descriptive circu
lar. This variety has achieved na
tional fame for its preeminent qualities.
A dispatch from Rome states that
the Pope has requested all the Roman
Catholic journals to submit their art
icles on the state of affairs in Ireland
to the Vatican authorities.
A serious rebellion is in progress
among the Boers in Africa against the
British government. A Transvaal Re
public has been organized. A reign
of terror prevails.
The Communists of New York, like
those in Boston, will soon begin the
publication of a journal devoted to
hostility to the United States Govern
ment.
—There is a bill before Congress to appro
priate $150,000 to Savannah harbor, $50,000
to the Brunswick harbor, SIO,OOO to the sur
vey of the St. Mary’s river, and a like sum
to the survey of the Ogeechee river,
—Cylinder Oil. Mr. E. H. Kellogg,
New York, advertises the famous anti
corrosive cylinder oil. See card.
ESTABLISHED 18 2,1.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—There will be a Railroad meeting at
Carnesville on the first Tuesday in February
1881.
—Hon. Joseph E. Brown gave one hun
dred tons of coal for the relief of the poor in
Atlanta.
—A new paper, the “Walton News,” is
now being published in Monroe, Walton
county, by Messrs. Walker and Ray.
—On account of the bad weather, the
Street Railway Company of Atlanta sus
pended the running of cars for two days.
—Eighty families of negroes, numbering
over 150 souls, left in a body frbin Randolph
county for Texas. They were induced to
emigrate by a former resident of Cuthbert.
—The Brunswick Advertiser says: “The
denizens ot Tarboro, Camden county, had a
little melee Christmas day. Result: Two
dead and three wounded—all turpentine
hands.”
—The Washington Gazette says that near
ly all the white families in that neighbor
hood have raised meat enough, not only for
their own use this year, but also for all their
hands.
—The Columbus Advertiser is the latest
candidate for public favor in the newspaper
line. It is published at Harlem, Columbia
county, with John A. Shivers, proprietor,
and J. W. Veronee, editor and publisher.
—There is a general inquiry for homes in
North Georgia, and by February next some
thirty families from Michigan, New Jersey
and Florida will have located on the line of
the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line Rail
way.
—The Special Committee of the Georgia
Historical Society on selecting an orator for
the annual meeting, February 14, announce
that the address on that occasion will be
delivered by Mr. Charles C. Jones, Jr., of
Augusta.
—Fuel has been very scarce and the price
of it, in consequence, very hisrh in Atlanta
and Columbus. The poor suffered greatly
duringthe recent extraordinarily cold weath
er. Their sufferings, however, were mitiga
ted to some extent by organized charity.
—The citizens of Bainbridge are preparing
to liberally entertain the State Agricultural
Association, which will meet there next
February. No organization in Georgia con
tains more intelligence or general wisdom
than this Agricultural Society.
—Mr. 8. W. Thornton, President of the
Talbotton Railroad Company, states that the
iron, rol ing stock, and all necessary equip
ments for the road have been purchased.
The laying of the track will commence with- '
in a few days, unless unavoidably prevented,
and the road will be pushed steadily forward
to completion.
—Hood is growing very rapidly From a
correspondent to the Hamilton Journal we
learn that ths merchants do a fine bue.qess,
commanding the trade of a large aixj pros
perm.v sectrae. The be itico'rpo
rated, and a mayor, aldermen and a marshal
elected. The hotel is nearly completed, and
a livery stable is being built. Lands have
advanced considerably in value.
—Augusta is to have an increase in her
banking facilities. The Legislature, at its
recent session, granted a charter for the
Citizens' Bank, of that city, and the compa
ny is speedily to be organized. The capital
of the bank will be $200,000, which may be
increased to SSOO 000. Business will be be
gun as soon as $200,000 shall have been sub
scribed, and teu per cent, thereof paid in.
The Chronicle and Constitutionalist, allud
ing to this new bank, says: “ The banking
capital of Augusta is now only about one
million two hundred thousand dollars. Be
fore the war it was three millions, and the
banks had the privilege of issuing three
dollars for every one of capital. Very often
nearly the whole banking capital of the city
is locked up in cotton, to the serious incon
venience of business, and an increase of
capital, therefore, would be a great bless
ing.”
—The Rome Tribune touches, in its
last issue, on a subject of exceeding interest
to the entire State, being the Servant Girl
question. It says: “We have repeatedly
been requested to ask if our people cannot
devise some means to get rid of the existing
house-servant nuisance. It is true, as many
have represented to us, that many of our
present servants are utterly unreliable, and
a great nuisance to housekeepers. Periiaps
the Chinese would be an improvement, and
perhaps if a move was started in that direc
tion that many of the ill-paid and almost
starving seamstresses of the large cities would
gladly accept places as servants in Southern
families, where they would be well treated.
We will allow a reasonable space in our col
umns for a discussion of this important and
vexatious subject. At present the burden
under which housekeepers are suffering is
one they should resolve not to bear.”
—The Augusta Evening News speaksjubi
lantly of that city s progress; it says: "The
new Augusta is not only constantly improvs
ing, but is progressing more rapidly than
any Southern city. Glorious prospects are
ahead of us during the year just opening,
and improvement is substantial because Au
gusta has the natural advantages and finans
cial ability necessary to success. facto
ries are going up along our canal, and the
banking capital of Augusta is about to be
increased by one of the finest banks in the
State. The Sibley Mills is no more of a cer
tainty than the Citizens' Bank, for both are
in the bands of prominent, safe and monied
men.
“Improvements are going on all over the
city, but most conspicuous in the heart of
Augusta, and in a nest of buildings that,
when completed as contemplated, will give
our city an appearance at once magnificent,
solid and commanding.”
—From Mr. Redding, of the Agricultural
Department, we get the following record of
thermometer for the 30th of December, the
coldest day during the recent severe weath
er:
Gainesville—Four degrees below xero ;
depth of snow six inches.
Athens—Ten degrees above zero.
Thomaston—Four degrees above zero;
depth of snow two inches.
M oun t Airy—O ne degree below zero; depth
of snow four inches.
Oxford—Five degrees below zero ; depth
of snow six inches.
Augusta-Six degrees above zero; depth
of snow two and one-fourth inchee.
Brunswick—Seventeen degrees above zero;
no snow. Orange and banana trees injur
ed.
Thomasville—Thirteen degrees above zero;
no snow—rainy.
LaGrange—Four degrees below zero; depth
ot snow six and a half inchee.
Atlanta—Two degrees below zero; depth
of snow six iuche*.
Rome—One degree above on 30th, and one
degree below on 31st; depth of snow four
and a half incbee.