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The Christian Index.
BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO.
The Christian Index.
Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 S. Broad. St.
An interesting meeting is in progress
in Curtis Baptist church.
Rev. Dr. Landrum, of Savannah, has
accepted the position of general travel
ing agent for Mercer University.
The business portion of the town of
Plymouth, North Carolina, was recent
ly almost entirely destroyed by fire,
caused by the explosion of a kerosene
lamp. Only one house and a ware
house are left standing.
Attention is invited to the notice of
the prospective Rehoboth Sunday
School Convention, given elsewhere, in
the communication of brethren Smith
and Boykin. The programme is an in
viting one.
—Kendall’s Horse Book.-To any
one who pays full subscription price
for whole, or half sheet, Index for one
year, we will send a copy of Kendall’s
Horse Book, if requested at time of re
mitting. The book is very valuable.
Mr. C. P. Knight, manufacturer of
building paper, roofing paper, and
roofing cement, No. 93 Lumbard Street,
is also General Agent for the celebrated
Liquid Enamel Paint manufactured by
the New Jersey Enamel Paint Com
pany, See advertisement.
Rev. J. W. Ellington of Penfield
writes:
“I thank you for publishing Dr. Sha
ver’s sermon last week. It is indeed
goo'd. Oh ! that the churches would
profit by its truths. Dr. Tucker’s ‘strong
words’ on the same subject, were not
stronger than true. Without a reforma
tion, whither will we drift?”
We are indebted to our esteemed
brother Rev. E. R. Carswell, Jr., Au
gusta, for the following cheering infor
mation, and we cordially thank him for
his highly appreciated services:
“I sent through ‘Bro. J. M. G. Med
lock a club of ten promised some time
ago. I will continue to work for The
Index. Our interests are looking up
—the First Ward has changed name to
Calvary Baptist church, and with a full
corps of working deacons, every inter
est is brightening.”
Rev. John L. Girardeau, D.D.—This
good and distinguished man preached
in the Central Presbyterian church
here on Sunday night last on the
subject of “The Judgment.” This grand
and awful theme was discussed with
profound ability and eloquence. Few
men are equal to Dr. Girardeau as a
pulpit orator. He is now professor of
Theology in the Presbyterian Seminary,
located at Columbia, S. C. He is visit
ing Atlanta in the interest of this in
stitution. We bid him God speed in
the good wojk.
The Macon Telegraph and Messen
ger says: We regret to learn from the
Raleigh News and Observer that Rev.
Dr. Skinner, the pastor of the Baptist
church in that city, has been summon
ed to New York to the bedside of his
son, who is very ill. This a disappoint
ment to the public, as the Doctor had
consented to deliver the annual ad
dress before the Alumni Association of
the University of North Carolina. His
plane, however, will be filled by Hon.
K. P. Battle, the President of the Uni
versity, who will perform the duty
gracefully and well.
“Atlanta Trade NoTEs.”-This is the
title of a very neat and useful pam
phlet just issued by the Franklin Steam
Printing House, James P. Harrison &
Co., Atlanta. In addition to the cards
of a large number of the leading busi
ness men of “The Gate City,” it con
tains a handsomely ill ustraded Calendar
each of the twelve months being given
on a page filled with emblematic fi
gures and scenes. The manual contains
also pages devoted to valuable statisti
cal information, prepared by Maj. Sid
iley Herbert, the well known Atlanta
correspondent of the Savannah News,
and whoshas established a fine reputa
tion for himself as a talented and ver
satile writer, and as an indefatigable
purveyor or of news and statistical infor
mation.
The Census returns and Court Cal
•endar prepared by him for this publi
cation are as accurate as it was possible
to make them. The Court Calendar
has been fully indorsed by Chief Jus
tice Jackson, Associate Justice Craw
ford and Speer, and Attorney-General
Anderson, of the Suprem Court, and
Judge Hillyer and Solicitor-General
Hill, of the Fulton Superior Court, who
say: “The Court Calendar prepared
by you is correct, and will, no doubt,
be valuable for reference, especially to
members of the bar, containing, as it
does, all the changes to date in time of
holding Superior Courts, and an accu
rate list of the presiding Judges and
Solicitors-General.”
A copy of this pamphlet should be
found on every office desk in the city.
"FAMILY MEMORIALS.”—A RE
VIEW OF A BAPTIST BOOK.
It is always a pleasant duty to com
mend a book whose contents are pure
and whose aim is high and noble.
.This pleasure is enhanced when the
volume is one wholly consecrated to
religious subjects.
Such a book is “Family Memorials,"
in prose and verse, including selections
from the writings of Theodore J. El
more, and the history and genealogy of
the Elmore family, with biographical
sketches, and extracts from their writ
ings as far as attainable.
It can be called a Baptist book, be
cause the author is the son of a de
ceased Baptist minister, and an active
member of the Baptist church of Sa
vannah. The volume is also dedica
ted to an honored Baptist brother, Mr.
A. P. Abell, a revered and loving friend
of the author. Much of the matter
in the book was written for Baptist
Sunday schools and meetings, or has
reference to Baptist people.
“Family Memorials,” is an elegant
volume of three hundred and fifty
pages, printed on cream laid paper,
and illustrated with a portrait of the
author and a picture of the old family
homestead at St. Charles, 111. The
binding is purple and gold, and the
whole publication reflects the highest
credit on the Morning News publishing
establishment, of Savannah.
Mr. Theodore J. Elmore, the author,
is the son of the late Rev. David W.
Elmore, and was born at St. Charles,
111., but was educated with great care
and flattering success at Chicago.
After completing his classical studies
he took up music and became thor
oughly interested in the subject. This
led to his connection with several mu
sical institutions and firms in that city,
and finally brought him to Savannah,
Ga., where he is now a prominent
member of the enterprising and exten
sive music firm of Ludden & Bates.
During the month of September,
1862, in answer to a dear Christian
mother’s prayers, and as the result of
her faithful teachings, he became an
earnest Christian and a zealous
member of the Union Park Bap
tist Church, of Chicago. He was
then eighteen years of age, and yet
he filled more than a score of posi
tions of usefulness and importance in
connection with various religious or
ganizations in that great city.
This same zealous and laborious
spirit has clung to him until now, and
he brought to the Baptist church and
Sunday-school of Savannah, in 1877,
ripe experience and most efficient ser
vice. Among the selections from his
writings, which are the chief attraction
of the book, are numerous pieces in
prose and verse written for that church
and Sunday school. Among these are
his “Farewell Tribute to A. P. Abell,”
in prose, and his “Welcome to Rev.
Dr. S. Landrum,” in verse, which are
perfect gems of their kind, and will
long be remembered by those who lis
tened to their tender and graceful de
livery by the author.
Outside of the church, Mr. Elmore
has also done much good work for hu
manity. In the temperance cause he
has occupied conspicuous positions,
and by his tongue and pen aided
largely in giving success to the Good
Templar organization. Quite a num
ber of pages of the “Family Memori
als,” are devoted to his chaste and
beautiful addresses and poems and es
says on the subject of temperance.
No one can read these pages and not
be deeply impressed with the author’s
sincerity and purity of motive in his
zealous labors for this cause.
Mr. Elmore seems to have made an
early consecration of his cultured pen
to chaste and noble writing. He has
written much, and while some of his
pieces are hardly up to a high standard
of merit, no one can be set
aside for lack of pure sentiment, noble
aims or kindly feeling. With a heart
consecrated to the service of God,
and a character moulded and trained
into beautiful proportions by a devoted
Christian mother, he has kept his pen
and his tongue free from vain and
pernicious influences, and from sub
jects that do not commend themselves
to Christian fellowship.
No son, or brother, or husband can
read “Family Memorials” without be
ing made a tenderer son, a more loving
brother, or a better husband. This is
the tendency of Mr. Elmore’s writings,
and when he presents his own family
circle to view, as he does with much
tenderness, the reader beholds a family
where God dwells in the beauty of ho
liness, and where all hearts, consecra
ted by His grace, are bound together
with cords of affections that no world
ly changes can sunder. Only a hard
ened heart can view unmoved such
sweet pictures of domestic affection
and Christian living.
It was no small literary undertaking,
not to speak of the pecuniary burden,
for a young business man to undertake
the publication of such a volume. It
has been the work of years to gather
the memorials of all the various
branches of the Elmore family, and
to thus record in a permanent form,
General Literature—Domestic and Foreign Intelligence—Secular Editorials.
ATLANTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 17, 188 I.
• their many virtues. Mr. Elmore may
well feel proud to trace his descent
from such a pious and honored ances
try. Would that there were more
3 young men in these degenerate times,
• that felt inclined to trace out and
3 bring to view their sturdy and pious
3 ancestors—the men and women who
, laid the foundations of this Republic in
prayer and patriotic devotion to high
’ and noble purposes. Young men who
’ love to study such characters, and to
bring them into prominence in these
days of political degeneracy, are safe
men to trust in both Church and
State. They will never prove false to
the piety or patriotism of their ances
tors, however tempted.
’ If fifty pages of strictly private
matter were taken out of Mr. Elmore’s
book, it could be given to the general
• public with the best possble results.
But it was prepared only for circnla
’ tion in the family and among a few
' friends, and much private matter was
' therefore inserted. It is is to be hoped,
however, that the gifted author of
' “Family Memorials” will yet be able to
revise this volume, and under a more
’ appropriate title, give to its best
’ thoughts in prose and verse to the
young men of the South, for whom
1 they are so well adapted. Such books
’ are needed in every community, but
' more especially in our large cities, to
’ influence our young men to purer
lives and holier aspirations.
1 Sidney Herbert.
Markham House, Feb., 1881.
Chamberlin, Boynton & Co.—This
’ firm, whose business is conducted at
Nos. 66 and 68 Whitehall street, is ex
t tensively engaged in the line of fancy
and staple dry goods, notions, boots and
shoes, carpets, etc. Their stock is ex
’ tensive, varied and well assorted, much
1 of it being directly imported from Eng
’ lish, German and French manufacto
ries, and selected under the personal
supervision of an experienced member
’ of the firm. Ample capital is employ
; ed in support of a first-class business,
and the sales of the house extend over
, a wide area of the South. Wherever
the firm is known it enjoys the high
! est confidence of the people, and a rep
utation for integrity second to no mer
chants in the Southern States. Their
trade is large both in the retail and
wholesale departments, particularly so
in response to orders from various sec
( tions of the country—it being known
that selections to fill orders are made
with good taste and scrupulous hones
ty. Those who compose this firm are
’ all gentlemen of high moral and social
standing.
The Jewish Record published an ex
tract from the first carefully made
Jewish census, just completed.
The Jewish population of the United
States exceeds 250,000. In the year
1878, as far as ascertained, there were
278 congregations, with a membership
of 12,546. About 13,000 children at
tend t.:e religious schools. In addition
to the Congregational schools, there
are thirteen Free Schools for Hebrew
and religious instruction, five in New
York, four in Philadelphia, and one
each in Cincinnati, St. Louis, Chicago
and St. Francisco. There are Jewish
hospitals in New York, Philadelphia,
Baltimore, Cincinnati and New Orle
ans, which >ire open, however, to the
sufferers of all creeds. There are four
Orphan Asylums and Homes for the
Aged and Infirm in New York, three
in Philadelphia, one each in Cleveland,
Baltimore, San Francisco, and New
Orleans. The estimated value of the
hospitals and other public institutions
is $1,695,000; of church property (not
including cemeteries), $6,138,730.
—A Washington correspondent de
plores the procrastination apparent in
the conduct of business before
Congress, and the absolute waste
of time indulged in by legisla
tors. He says: If half the nec
essary business of the session is done,
therefore, it will, as is usual in short
sessions, be hastily and crudely done,
and much of it in the last days and
nights before the fourth of March.
Proper consideration cannot be
given to the Funding bill, the
Re-apportionment biD, the. Bank
rupt bill, the Inter-State Com
merce bill, the Ellis bill concerning
government use of the telegraph, bills
relative to the Electoral Count, the
more important of the appropriation
bills, or any of the other of the nu
merous measures pressing for action.
I say nothing of contested election
cases, private claims, etc. This is not
a state of things creditable to Con
gressmen, or of advantage to the peo
ple generally.
It is our painful duty to announce
the death of Mrs. Fophronia A. R.
Cooper,consort of our venerable brother
Hon. Mark A. Cooper. She was born
on the 28th of June,lßoJ, married on
the 6th of January 1825 and departed
this life on the 6th of February 1881.
She was the mother of ten children.
We tender our sympathies to the deep
ly stricken family.
y CENSUS OF GEORGIA.
Although the census returns from the various
‘ supervisors in Georgia have been twice revised
3 and officially announced from the Census Bureau
1, at Washington, the official returns which are
[ here given, may be considered sufficiently accu
rate and reliable for all ordinary purposes of ref
erence They have been carefully revised and
3 corrected for this publication, and show that
1 Georgia, with all her tides of cniigation to Texas
1 and other States, has increased her population
) during the past ten years to figures that reach
, over three hundred thousand, a showing of which
every Georgian may justly feel proud.
5 Five new counties-Dodge, Douglas, Rockdale,
3 Oconee and McDuffie—have been formed since
1 the census of 1870, and on this account several
> counties show a large decrease In population.
Columbia has lost 3,064 ; Clarke 1,239; Newton
996 ; Chattahoochee 389. Several other counties
have suffered a small decrease ; Dade having lost
> 330, Bryan 323, and Stewart 206.
1 The new Constitution gives three representa
[ to the six counties having the largest
population. These have been Chatham, Rich
mond, Burke, Houston, Bibb and Fulton ; but
Houston now gives way to Floyd. Twenty-six
r counties having the next largest, are entitled to
1 two representatives each. These have been Bar
tow, Coweta, Muscogee, Newton, Stewart, Sumter,
[ Thomas, Troup, Washington, Hancock, Carroll,
Cobb. Jackson, Dougherty. Oglethorpe, Macon.
3 Talbot and Wilkes. Os these, Talbot, Macon,
) Newton, Dougherty and Stewart will probably
, lose one representative each, which will be
L gained by Hall, Pike. DeKalb. Putnam and Wai
> ton if the census .eturns prove correct. These
changes, if made, will be arranged by the Gener-
1 al Assembly during the July session of 1881. The
; Senatorial Dis dets can also be changed, but not
increased in number; nor can there be more than
t forty-four Senators for the entire State. Should
, Congress give the South a new and liberal appor
' tloument, there may also be a change In the Con
s grefeional Districts, and au Increase in the num
bey of Congressmen. There will, at all events,
hardly be any reduction in the present number,
although the State may be re-districted by the
General Assembly, in order to better equalize the
population of the districts.
FIRST DISTRICT.
3 " 3 a
t COUNTIES.
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r
I Appling 5036 5273 239
1 Bryan 5252 4929 323
. Bulloch 5610 8053 2443 ...
Burke 17619 27127 9418
I Camden„... 4615 6483 1568
. Charlton 1897 2161 264
Chatham 41279 44995 3716
- Clinch 8945 4138 193
I Echols 1978 2553 675
1 Effingham„ 4214 5979 176,5
■ Emanuel 6134 9759 3625
Glynn 5376 6497 1121
• Liberty.. 76«8 10564 2876
Mclntosh 4491 6241 1750
’ Pierce 2778 4538 1760
1 Screven 9175 12786 3611
. Tatnall 4860 6985 2125
Ware 2286 4159 1873
- Wayne 2177 5980 3803 ...
’ Total 136370 178882 42805 323
’ SECOND DISTRICT.
1 § r
> COUNTIES. . . g £
MH
1 Baker 0843 7305 462
! Berrien 4518 6619 2101
Brooks 8342 11727 3385
Calhoun 5503 7024 1521
i Clay 5493 6650 1157
I Colquitt 1654 2527 873
I Decatur 15183 19071 3888
Dougherty 11517 126 2 1106
Early 6‘198 7605 6»7
Lowndes 8321 11049 2728
Miller 3091 8720 629
Mitchell 6033 9382 2749
I Quitman, 4150 4392 243
Randolph 10561 13341 2780
Terrell 9053 10151 1398
Thomas 14523 20598 6075
1 Worth 3779 5892 2114
, Total 128.61 159960 33814
THIRD DISTRICT.
—
COUNTIES. . . £ 2
£8 g 8
22 oo q
Coffee 3192 5170 1878
Dodge 5358
Dooly 9790 12413 2613
Irwin 1837 2696 859
Lee 9567 10577 1012
Macon 11458 11675 217 -..
Montgomery 3586 5381 1795
Pulaski 11940 14058 2118
Schley 5129 6302 17.3
stewart 14204 13998 204
Sumter 16559 18239 1480
Tavlor 7143 8595 1452
Telfair 3215 4828 158.3
Webster 4677 5237 560
Wilcox- 2439 3109 670
Total 104776 126738 17420204
FOURTH DISTRICT.
ai i
3 g
COUNTIES. . . 2 £
sial
Campbell. 9176 9979 803
Carroll 11782 16903 5J21....
Chattahoochee 6059 5670 389
C0weta........... 15875 21109 5234
Douglass., 9934
Harris 13284 15764 2480
Heard 7886 8769 903
Marlon 8000 8598 598
Meriwether 18756 17651 8895
Muscogee 16663 19322 2659
Talbot 11913 14115 220*2
Troup 17632 20566 2934
Total 132006 165380 26826 389
FIFTH DISTRICT.
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COUNTIES. § £
Bill
Crawford 7557 8656 It 99
Clayton 5477 802- 2551
DeKalb 10014 14497 4483
Fayette- 8221 8605 381
Fulton 38446 46126 12680
Henry 10102 14193 4091
Houston 204C6 23251 2845
Milton 4281 6261 1977
Monroe 17213 18808 1595
Pike 10905 11849 4945
Spalding 10205 12585 2380
Upson -- 9430 12400 2970
Total 147260 189259 41999
SIXTH DISTRICT.
COUNTIES. . . I £
if I I
Baldwin..... 10618 12998 2.380
Bibb 21255 27146 f,891
Butts 6941 8311 1370
Jasper 10439 11819 1410
Jones 9436 11613 2177
Laurens 7834 10051 2217
Newton 14618 13619 996
Putnam 10461 14539 4078
Rockdale... 6838
Twiggs 8545 8948 403
Walton 11038 15622 4584
Wilkinson 9383 12061 2678
Total 120565 153595 26288 996
SEVENTH DISTRICT.
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COUNTIES. . . P u
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I - - Q
Bartow 16566 18694 2128
Catoosa- 4409 4739] 330
Chattooga 6902 1002'. 3119
Cherokee 10399 1432a| 3926
• Cobb 13814 207481 6934
I Dade 5033 4703 330
Floyd 17280 21418 7188
Gordon 9268 1117" 1902
Haralson 4004 5973 1969
Murray 6500 8269 1769
Paulding 7639 10887 3218
Polk 7822 11954 4132
Walker 9925 11056 1131
Whitfield 10117 11901 1784
Total 17.1628 168858 89Mu_ 830
EIGHTH DISTRICT.
COUNTIES. . . § E
11 J. I
Columbia 13529 10465 3064
Elbert 9249 12957 3708
Glascock- 2736 3577 841
Greene- 12454 17547 6093
Hancock 11317 16989 5672
Hart 6783 9094 2311 ...
Jefferson 12190 15669 3479
Johnson 2964 4800 1836
Lincoln 5113 6412 999
McDuffie- 9449
Oglethorpe 11782 15400 3618
Richmond 25724 34569 8845
Taliaferro 4796 7034 2238
Warren 10545 10885 340
Washington 15842 21964 6122
Wilkes 11796 159.-5 4189
Total-157120 212796 49291 3064
NINTH DISTRICT.
COUNTIES. 3 £
S i a o_
Banks 4973 7337 2364
Clarke 12041 11702 1239
Dawson 4369 5887 1468
Fannin 5429 7245 1816
Forsyth 7983 10559 2576 '
Franklin 7893 11453 3560
Gilmer 6644 8386 1742 |
Gwinnett 12431 1953 1 7100 i
Hall ■ ■ 2607 15299 5692
Habersham 6332 8718 2396
Jackson 11181 16298 5117 I
Lumpkin 5161 6519 13’8
Madison 5227 7978 2751
Morgan 10696 14034 3338
Oconee 6849 i
Pickens 5317 6790 1473 1
Rabun 3256 4634 1378 ,
Towns 2780 3261 481 •
White 4606 5341 735
Union 5267 6431 1164 (
Total 132083 183702 46509 1239 1
————— I
RECAPITULATION. j
Population In 18801,538 983
Population In 18701.184,109
<
Showing an increase of. 354,874 (
Note.—Since the above table was first prepar
ed, It has been subjected to three revisions, made
In accordance with as many separate reports
from the Census office at Washington, D. C.; and
It is announced that additional changes may yet
be made. Nearly four thousand have been added
to the first census report of Thomas county, and
now Fulton county is claiming some three thous
and additional. Owing to these changes the above
table is not to be considered stiictly accurate,
although It Is more nearly so than any table yet
given to the public.
The total footings from Washington, in last re
port, are: Males. 761.152; Females, 777 831: Na
tives, 1,578,673; Foreign, 10,310: White, 814,218;
Colored, 724,765. Os the latter 17 are Chinese, 93
Indians and Half-breeds, and one Albino. Rich
mond county has 11 Chinese and 6 Half-breeds;
Chatham county has 13 Indians, and Harris coun
ty 20 Indians. The rest are scattered about In
other counties. The Albino is in Baldwin county.
The Savannah News publishes the
following warning:
Our charity disposed people, and
especially clergymen, whose indorse
ment may be asked, are advised
to interrogate closely an individual
who seeks to obtain assistance for some
struggling church in the Lake Superior
region. He has been perambulating
about the country on this mission, and
a gentleman from Wisconsin, who is
at present on a visit to this city, and
who is informed in regard to the pro
ceedings of the solicitor aforesaid, is
certain that he recognized the “tramp”
on the streets of Savannah. The party
is apparently well fed, has gray hair
and short whiskers, and a breath
strongly perfumed with tobacco, which
latter fact will be apparent as soon as
he approaches. He has a plausible
manner, and if his character is suspec
ted will promptly produce numerous
credentials as to his'high standing etc.
It would be well to beware of him.
The impression of our informant,
the gentleman from Wisconsin, was
apparently correct, as yesterday mor
ning a travelling missionary was on his
rounds, and called upon several of our
merchants, one of whom chanced to be
well acquainted in the region from
which the missionary collector claimed
to hail. He placed the solicitor on the
interrogatory stool, as it were, and
made it rather uncomfortable for him
by his close questioning.
■ ♦ ♦ » ■'
The growth of business in some of
our cities is simply amazing. A sum
mary of the trade of Chicago alone,
during the past year foots up aggreg
ates that are almost beyond our power
to comprehend. In many respects they
show Chicago to be one of the first
commercial cities of the world. Here
are some figures: The aggregate re
ceipts of breadstuff during the last year
amounted to 163,326,267 bushels;
7,059,194 hogs were received, of which
5,700,000 were killed in the city; and
1,382,397 head of cattle were shipped
off. The total value of live stock re
ceived was $139,900,000; the value of
manufacturing products was $285,000,-
000; while the value of the various
branches of trade and manufactures
gives a grand total for the year of
$900,000,000.
Lord Beaconfield has followed the
example of Mr. Gladstone in giving his
tenants a remission of 20 per cent, on
their rents.
ESTABLISHED I 811.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—Lumpkin has a colored debating society.
—Atlanta is henceforth to be a port of en
try.
—Measles and mumps are prevalent in
Macon.
Putnam county has raised the liquor lis
cense to S3OO.
—Hundreds of negroes are going to Texas
from Southwest Georgia.
■ —The new academy building at Lumpkin
will be completed in a few weeks.
—Tlie State Agricultural Society will be
held in Thomasville on the 23d inst.
The Randolph county Agricultural 9o
ciety has resolved to have another fair in
July.
—The license for selling spirituous and
malt liquors in Geneva, has beeu placed by
the town council at $3,000.
Mr. R. H. Johnson, of Newnan, has in
vented a plow for which he has been offered
SIO,OOO for a half interest.
—Mr. John Vickry, of Senoia, has invent
ed a cotton chopping machine which, it is
said, will do the work of six or eight hands.
—Mr. L. B. McWhorter, of Walker coun
ty, who was badly injured on the W. <fc A.
R. R., some time since, has been given $5,000
damages.
—There is to be a new post-office at Calla
way’s, about midway between Sparta and
Linton. It is to be known by the name of
“Manda.”
—The “Betty Crow Cut Silver Mine,” near
Acworth, in Bartow county, has been sold
to Northern capitalists for one hundred
thousand dollars.
—The bond commission of Macon have
decided to retire SIO,OOO more of the city
bonds. This will make $20,000 of the bonds
retired in one year.
—The farm laborers of Harris county are
holding back for an increase of wages, and
in consequence the crop prospects of this
year in that locality are a little gloomy.
—During 1880 there were seventy-seven
failures in Georgia, with liabilities amounts
ing to $1,018,763; and in Florida, twelve
failures, with habilities amounting to $104,-
500.
—Rev. J. E. Evans, D. D., and wife, of
Rome, will celebrate their golden wedding
in that city on the 28th of March. Dr. Evans
has been a minister of the gospel forty-seven
years.
—Thecitizensof Murray county are taking
steps to devise a plan by which a narrow
guage railroad can be built from that county
to some point on the Western and Atlantic
railroad.
—The Ocmulgee river at Macon only lacked
one and a half inches of reaching the high
est water-mark on record. Many houses in
East Macon were overflowed, and the in
j mates had to move.
I —The Conyers Weekly says : “The rebuke
. administered by Rev. Allen Thomas, on last
I Sunday night, to those who attend church
1 to have a good, social time, was the most
withering we ever heard. ’
■ —The Sparta Ishmaelite says : “We learn
‘ that a number of our citizens intend to set
. out for Louisiana very soon. —The Western
- fever seems to be prevailing all over the
; State to a greater extent than ever before.”
j
—The Thomasville Times says the vegetas
1 ble and fruit business will have a boom in
' that section this spring. Large areas will
be planted in vegetables, and the indications
are that it will be a good fruit year.
, —The Georgia Historical Society have a
drum which was used at the battle of Cow
pens, 17th of January, 1781. It is in good
preservation and serviceable, and traces its
. existence back to Major Cunningham’s Geor
gia Battalion, which crossed the upper Sa
vannah and joined Col. Pickens in time to
share the glories of that eventful day.
1 —The five railroads in the State which
1 have formally protested against the order of
. the Railroad Commission reducing fare to
three cents per mile, are the East Tennessee,
Dalton and Selma, the Macon and Bruns
: wick, the Central, the Western and Atlantic,
and the Cherokee railroad. All these roads
will charge the three cents, however, until
Judge Woods’ decision is rendered.
[ —The McDuffie Journal says: “There is
some complaint of the scarcity of farm hands
this year—many having moved from this
. county to some of the adjoining counties,
and others have moved to the northern part
oftheState. About twenty-five moved from
two plantations alone in this county recent-
i ly to North Georgia. Thev seem to be con
gregating along the lines of the different
railroads."
—The Atlanta Constitution learns that on
Saturday night an attempt was made to bum
the town of Thomaston. Some party or
parties had placed a lot of pine against the
framed store of Matthews & Mcßory, and
placing a live coal in the lot, the high wind
was not long in creating a blaze. Fortu
nately, the fire was extinguished before any
great damage was done. The fire occurred
at 2 o'clock, and is the third attempt within
the past few months to burn the town.
—The Hampton Weekly states that a sur
veying party of the Macon and Brunswick
railroad, under the charge of competent en
gineers, are in the eastern part of Henry
county mapping out a route for the exten
sion. They crossed Ocmulgee river at a point
near Worthville, in Butts county, ana ran
up in the direction of Sandy Ridge and
White House, cutting diagonally through
the northeastern portion of Henry county.
’ This contemplated route will leave McDon
ough lying about six miles to the west of it
—The Central railroad authorities have
issued a circular letter in which they state
that on and after February Ist., they will
' issue no half rate cards to ministers. Giving
■ as their reason, that they have determined
. to acquiesce for the present in the very low
' rates of passenger fare, promulgated by the
> State Railroad Commission, which they be
- lieve will very materially reduce the earn
. ings of the road, and that, in justice to the
stockholders, they will withdraw any reduc
i tions that may have been extended as a
i gratuity or voluntary contribution.
I —The following extract', from Wagner &
[ Avery’s Monthly Wool Circular, will be of
interest to Georgia wool growers: “The
’ large demand for medium wools in 1879
I excited speculation in Virginia wool, where
. by a large portion of the clip was bought in
the spring at an extreme figure. This feel
-1 ing did not exist to the same extent in
> Georgia, so that the bulk of Lake and Geor
f gia came more slowly to market. These
medium Southern wools are very desirous
for many purposes, and the supply is much
below the demand. It would be of great
) benefit to the country if the millions of acres
, of Southern lands adapted to sheep raising
could be brought to the notice of those in
1 the North and elsewhere who are ready to
put the capital into the business.”