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The Christian Index.
BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO.
The Christian Index.
Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 8. Broad. St.
Through the courtesy of Hon. N. J.
Hammond, M. C., we have received a
public document containing papers re
lating to the Foreign Relations of the
United States, transmitted to Congress,
with annual message of the President,
December Ist, 1879.
The Messenger says: The Baptists
of Eatonton do not contemplate build
ing a church for their use at present,
but are agitating the subject of build
ing at some future time, when matters
would seem to guarantee such a step.
We hope they will succeed in their
enterprise.
In San Francisco there are four
hundred places where opium is sold,
and each one of them receives an in
come averaging seventy-five dollars a
day from the outragous and injurious
traffic. The opium habit is increasing
all over the country, and it is an evil no
less terrible than that of drunkenness.
The English government will soon
have another Ashantee war upon its
hands. The natives are preparing for
war along the Gold Coast, and, assisted
by the deadly climate, will give the
English a tough fight. England must
hasten a crisis in the Transvaal diffi
culty, in order to have troops available
for the Gold Coast.
The farmers’convention in St. Fran
cisco, California, resolved to form a
wheat growers’ association for Califor
nia for mutual aid and protection
against middlemen, the first meeting of
which will be on April 14th. One of
the projects of the proposed organiza
tion is the establishment of an agency
at Liverpool for freights and commis
sions.
The Christian Index and South
ern Baptist comes to us this week with
a new head, and this reminds us that
we have often thought, while perusing
the instructive and valuable matter con
tained in its pages, that we should say
something in commendation of this,
one of the purest and best family jour
nals in all the land. Not Baptists only,
but all who appreciate an able and hon
est paper, should secure its weekly vis
its. As an editor, Dr. Tucker has no
superior in the Union. Address Jas.
P. Harrison <fc Co., Atlanta, Ga. — Mil
ledgeville Union and Recorder.
Dr. Engel, head of the Prussian
Statistical Buteau, calculated fifteen
years ago that it cost Germany over
£ ICO to bring up a member of the
lower classes to the age of 15. Dr.Fabri,
in his work on colonization, places the
cost at £ 150, every penny of which is
spent before the citizen becomes a pro
ducer instead of a consumer of wealth.
He estimates the average net loss to
Germany on every emigrant who leaves
her shores at a hundred pounds sterling,
and it is found that the average capital
broughtoverbyeachGermanimmigrant
who lands at New York is over £ 20.
It is, therefore, a low estimate to reekon
the net lost to Ireland, by every emi
grant unnecessarily forced beyond the
sea, at 100 pounds sterling.
Hon. J. T. Henderson, the vigilant
and efficient Commissioner of Agricul
ture, has issued from his department
two publications of great value to our
agriculturists; one is “Results of Soil
Tests of Commercial Fertilizers and
Seeds for the year 1880, conducted
under the direction of the Commis
sioner of Agriculture of the State of
Georgia, with comments on the results
of the experiments,” —the other is a
supplemental report, showing the yield
of the leading crops of the State com
pared to that of 1879, average yield per
acre, etc., consolidated from the reports
' of crop correspondents, returned to the
Department of Agriculture, December
15th, 1880. Also a short chapter on
the “Habits and Management of Ger
man Carp.”
—Considerable surprise was mani
fested at the favorable report agreed up
on by the House Special Committee, on
a bill to incorporate the “Inter-Oceanic
Ship Railway Company,” of Captain
Eads, and the recommendation of the
Government guarantee asked for of
interest on the company’s bonds.—
Upon examination of the report, how
ever, it is found that Government lia
bility can hardly attach until the prac
ticability of the enterprise is shown.
For instance, until a vessel and load
weighing together 2,000 tons shall have
been carried safely both ways upon ten
miles of the railway, the United States
shall not be liable, and then for not
more than three per cent, interest upon
five millions of dollars. Further lia
bility, to the same amount, attaches
whenever the like success is achieved
upon twenty miles of the railway, and
so on to the extent of fifty millions.
Capt. Eads says he can raise the capi
tal without the guarantee, but more
easily and more advantageously with
it. He does not expect final action by
'Congress at this session.
LITERAR Y NOTES AND COMMENTS
—Lord Beaconsfield’s “Endymion”
is said to have paid him about fifty
cents a word.
If the value of the work were to be
computed by its weight (minus the au
thor’s name) it would bring about fifty
cents per pennyweight.
—Mr. Henry O. Houghton, the well
known publisher, worked in a print
ing office when a boy, and began his
collegiate course at Burlington Vt.,
with twelve cents in his pocket. He
was S3OO in debt when he was gradu
ated.
So much for pluck and determina
tion. As George Eliot says in her
“Spanish Gipsy
“Nay never falter. No great deed is done
By lalterers who ask ter certainty.
The greatest gift the hero leaves his race
Is to have been a hero."
—This is from the Connecticut Cour
antoi March 9th, 1773 : “N. B. This
day’s paper makes a despicable appear
ance upon a half sheet (owing to the
want of paper), but it is to be hoped
those indebted will receive it gladly,
and entertain it kindly, as their neg
lect in making payment is the sole
cause of its disgrace.”
So, there were naughty people a hun
dred years ago “who wftuldn’t pay the
printer”—alas, for the romance of the
“good old days”!
—There is no truth in the rumor,
current a short time since, that Lord
Beaconsfield contemplates writing his
own life. The residuum of truth is
that, with the assistance of his faithful
secretary, Lord Rowton, he has revised
and placed in order the enormous and
interesting papers that he accumula
ted at Hughenden, and that when the
time comes the inevitable biographer
will find abundant material.
—The London Religious Tract So
ciety has circulated more than seven
ty-seven and a half millions of books
and tracts in 130 languages and dia
lects. It requires $2,700 every week
day to keep it going, but the receipts
from sales are so large that it is able
to devote all the money received from
gifts and collections to grants of its
publications. The sales last year also
supplied $75,000 to be expended in
gifts of books, etc.
—lt is stated that Dr. S. F. Smith,
author of “My Country, ’tis of Thee,”
has been engaged to deliver the poem
at the coming anniversary of the al
umni of Brown University. Dr. Smith
has quite dropped out of sight of late
years. He was a member of that fa
mous class of ’29 of Harvard, of which
Dr. Holmes, who was also a member,
has sung so often.
The trouble is, there are too many
Smith’s in the world.
-Mr. Osgood, the Boston publisher,was
asked at a dinner by Mr. Aldrich how
ten per centum came to be hit upon as
the remuneration for authors. Mr.
Osgood replied gravely that it repre
sented a happy compromise between
the broad-minded liberality of pub
lishers, and the greed and rapacity of
authors.
“Broad-minded liberality of publish
ers” is good—very good; and the sar
casm is heightened by the “replied
gravely.” It is the most decorous
and saturnine joke of the season.
—Gustave Dore is working every
night, and sometimes almost all night,
on his illustrations of Shakespear’s
plays. Some of the drawings are said
to be extraordinarily powerful. He
thinks that “Coriolanus” is the poet’s
masterpiece.
—ln an elaborate article in the New
York Herald concerning the forthcom
ing book of ex-President Jefferson
Davis “The Rise and Fall of the Con
federate Government,” the following
comment is made on the chief points
of the work:
“The two most important points of
the work—for after all the constitu
tional argument, which will doubtless
be fine, became res adjudicata after a
certain fine morning at Appomattox—
will be the discussion of the peace
movements and the defense of the pol
icy of the Davis administration as op
posed to the Stephens, Brown and
Toombs policy. The first is vastly the
most important point. History is
gradually settling upon the head of
Mr. Davis the burden of a war pro
tracted long after he was assured that
success was impossible. It is said that
Lee assured Mr. Davis, long before the
conclusion of the war, that inevitable
failure awaited the Confederate arms.
It is even said that prior to the first
visit of Mr. Blair to Mr. Davis, Gen.
Lee had demonstrated to him the im
probability of success, and that the in
terview between Mr. Davis and Mr.
Blair will show this. Mr. Davis sent
out his commissioners, however, in
structed to listen to nothing but the
full recognition of the independence of
the Confederate Government. The
country, North and South, will look
with interest to see how Mr.
Davis can clear himself of the suspi
cion that he prolonged for months a
struggle that was known to be hope
less, and that involved the useless sacri
fice of a hundred thousand lives, when
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ATLANTA, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 24, 1881.
honorable terms of peace and reunion,
as will be shown, were awaiting his ac
ceptance. This discussion of the special
policy of Mr. Davis, and the determ
ined opposition of over half the states
men who were leagued with him, the
incompetent financial system of the
Confederacy, the alleged lack of intel
ligence in the Cabinet and Congress,
which no valor in the field could com
pensate, all these will demand some
pertinent writing on Mr. Davis’ part,
and will stir many an ugly feud.”
1 ABOUT THS BOERS.
There are two sides to every ques
tion, and such as are largely influenced
by sympathy and mere opinion, are apt
to be largely colored by our prejudices.
The insurrection of the Boers in the
Transvaal against British authority is
an instance in kind. We are all prone
to take sides with the weaker against
the stronger, without inquiring very
deeply into the real merits of thecause
of the weaker party. But the strong
have rights that should be respected as
well as the weak, and both sides should
be heard in the controversy, in order
that justice may be done.
At present there is a flood-tide of
sympathy for the rebellious Boers in
Africa; their bravery is extolled, the
righteousness of their cause is strenu
ously insisted upon, and the despotism
and dishonesty of the British govern
ment are enlarged upon with an en
thusiasm aflame with indignation and
unreasoning partisanship.
That the Boers, a mixed race, and
consequently a degenerated race, are
not heroes and patriots of the Winkel
ried or De Ruyter and Van Tromp
sort, should be acknowledged, if judg
ment instead of fancy were allowed to
testify, and we could divest ourselves
of the influence of that enchantment
which distance lends to the view. Their
cruelty to the natives, their aggressive
and intolerant spirit, are the unamiable
qualities which have been frequently
dwelled upon by those familiar with
their habits. Certainly the interests of
humanity would not be subserved by
any enlargement of their means to op
press the weaker races in the midst of
which they have pitched their tents.
The “other side” to which we allude
is well expressed by a contemporary in
the following paragraph, with whose
comment we, under the facts stated,
must agree. “Freedom, according to
the Boer interpretation,” says the Mo
bile Register, “means liberty for them
selves and slavery for all others, pro
tection for their own rights and a de
nial of the rights of all others. The
first right they claim is the right to
hold slaves, and to gain possession of
their slaves in the most cruel manner
—namely: by attacking the native
tribes in their vicinity, slaughtering the
adults and carrying off the children in
captivity. They allow no liberty of
any sort to those who disagree with
them. Even Dr. Livingstone barely
escaped with his life, and his house and
books were destroyed by them, because
he would not give assent to some of
their doctrines. They have always de
manded the right to encroach upon
their neighbors, to seize their lands and
cattle by force, and by such acts as
these have kept the Zulus, and even
the white settlers, in a constant state of
irritation.
“Their incessant inroads upon and
quarrels with the natives around them,
were calculated to embitter them
against all the settlers in South Africa,
and kept the English possessions in
fear of being involved in a war with the
natives the whole time. England,
consequently, annexed the Transvaal,
and it seems to us, upon the whole,
better that it should remain under her
authority.”
The Camilla Dispatch contains the
following notice —would it not be well
for leading men in every county to
imitate the example of the Mitchell
county friends of temperance and mor
ality?
“On the night of the 18th inst., which
is next Friday night, at the Baptist
church of this place, Rev. J. L. Under
wood will deliver a lecture on “Mitchell
County and Whiskey.” All, both white
and colored, are invited to attend. We
beseech every one who has burning in
his or her breast the least spark of love
for Mitchell county and the cause of
Christianity, to come onton that night
and hear what Mr. Underwood has to
say. To brave God and fear man, and
history sustains the assertion from the
earliest ages up to the present, has
worked out the destruction, not only
of small towns and communities, but
of nations; and if we, regardless of the
behests of a Supreme Ruler, continue
by silence and inactivity to encourage
evil, why should we expect anything
but a lamentable state of affairs to
exist among us, to say nothing of any
destiny that may await us.”
Rev. J. H. Corley, who accepted
a call from the Baptist church at
Blakely, will preach on the fourth Sab
bath of each month and Saturday be
fore.
THE NEW HOSPITAL—ONE OF
ATLANTA’S MOST BENEFI
CENT ENTERPRISES.
[Atlanta Post-Appeal]
“We have been kindly furnished with
the Charity Hospital circular, issued
by the Executive Committee of the
Ladies’ Hospital Association of Atlan
ta. It very forcibly and truthfully
sets forth the great need of such an
institution in the city, the necessity
for aid from abroad by reason of the
impoverishment resulting from the war,
and the inability of our people to meet
the pressing emergency of raising the
entire amount of money necessary to
provide for the afflicted poor in our
midst, both white and colored.
“As one of the means for securing
the necessary funds, the ladies of the
city propose to hold a Fair at an early
date, and the benevolent everywhere
are appealed to for aid, the contribu
tions to be cither in money, or samples
of goods and articles from business
men at the North, West, and elsewhere.
The goods to be forwarded to any of
our business merchants in the city, all
of whom are warmly enlisted in this
charity, and have indorsed the circu
lar, and join in the appeal for aid in
this good work.
“Great confidence is felt that this ap
peal will be liberally and promptly re
sponded to by the philanthropic and
more favored citizens of other sections,
and that all who hold business with
our merchants will be induced to help
us, not only as an act of benevolence,
but because of their sympathy with
our rising and struggling city, devel
oped by their personal acquaintance
and business relations with our people.
“We note with pleasure that the press
of our city, and the ministers of every
denomination, have also indorsed this
movement, and heartily concur in the
absolute necessity for the institution,
and approve the method adopted by
the Fair Association for raising the
necessary means for its accomplish
ment.
“We are assured that our citizens of
all classes are warmly interested in
this enterprise, and are ready and anx
ious to assist in the good work, and it
is but a just compliment to our phi
lanthropic friends abroad to suppose
that they, too, will extend to it their
sympathy and substantial support.
Indeed, from what we can see and have
heard, the Fair will be one of the
grandest and most successful ever held
in this city.
“We see from the circular that the
appeal is for anything, either in cash
or goods. Any article will be thank
fully received from a two cent toy up
to a diamond or the largest manufac
tured article. The articles thus con
tributed will be disposed of at the Fair
by the ladies in a manner that will ad
vance the interests of the hospital as
well as that of the donors. We wish
the enterprise unbounded success, and
hope that the ladies will have the
pleasure of recording a large list of
names upon their roll of benevolent
friends.”
We reproduce the above with pleas
ure, and cordially indorse it. The ob
ject of the proposed Fair is a noble
one, and appeals strongly to the gener
ous feelings of all. The Fair will open
April 18, ample time being given to per
fect the exhibition in all its details, and
to secure contributions from as wide a
scope of country as possible. We sug
gest to our lady readers everywhere
that they consult with one another, in
every hamlet, village, town and city,
and, in company, prepare any gift for
the Fair they may agree upon, and
forward the same to Mrs. J. J. Toon.
President Hospital Fair Association,
Atlanta, Ga. Anything from a cake
to a cotton-press, a baby’s doll to a set
of furniture, will be acceptable and
highly appreciated. The Fair will
be under excellent and reliable man
agement, and will unquestionably do
a vast amount of good in alleviating
the want and suffering to be met with
in our community. We call upon our
generous and benevolent people to
heed this appeal for assistance.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun gives
the following synopsis of a recent very
interesting discourse by Rev. A. B.
Campbell, pastor of the First Baptist
church of that city, on Education : In
speaking of the good werks which
commends religion to the respect and
confidence of the world, he took occa
sion to urge the importance of educa
tional enterprises. He affirmed that
no man of intelligence doubts the value
of education. It gives the possessor an
important advantage among men. He
who questions the proposition proves
himself too stupid to feel the force of
an argument, and it would be a waste
of labor to reason with him on the sub
ject. A denomination engaging in this
work encourages its own people to ed
tftate their sons and daughters, and in
other ways lend their sanction to en
lightenment in preference to ignorance.
Thus it happens that their sons are
advanced to the highest positions of
influence and authority, and their
daughters move in the highest circles
of refinement. By this means also the
standard of pulpit intelligence and
power is enhanced. One needs only
te observe the facts continually coming
before his eyes to be persuaded that an
educated ministry is a mighty element
of denominational prosperity.
It is not merely our securing educa
tion for our families, but our advocacy
of it before the world, that inspires
popular respect for our religion. Zeal
in this cause is among the good works
which, when men see it, will glorify
God on account of his deed. It is for
this effect on the minds of others that
the text enjoins us to pursue good
works “before men that they may
see your good works and glorify your
Father,” etc. It has been said of
Mercer University that it is “the right
arm of the Baptist denomination in
Georgiathis not merely because it
sends out our sons equipped for a use
ful career, but yet more because it pro
claims to all men that we are ready to
help improve and elevate humanity.
If this be true we ought not to be slow
to support that worthy institution with
our patronage and our donations.
Mr. Campbell also alluded to the
power of the press in very compliment
ary terms, and said the bayonet must
fall beneath its influences.
Chancellor Crosby of New York,
while friendly to the cause of temper
ance, is known to be an unbeliever in
what is called the doctrine of total ab
stinence. The people of Boston,knowing
this,invited him to deliver a lecture,and
he selected the subject of Temperance.
As matter of course, he advocated his
own views, and not those of other
people; whereupon the righteous in
dignation of the good Bostonians, and
of nearly all the Northern religious
press, was aroused, and many of those
who are temperate in drinking because
very intemperate in language, and
spoke of Dr. Crosby in terms, by no
means respectful, polite or kind. There
is some disposition to boast of free
speech and free thought in that part
of our country, but let one say what is
not popular, and while it is true that
he will not be hanged by the neck un
til dead, as the witches were, yet the
present case seems to show that he
will nevertheless be subjected to great
indignities, and that his reputation will
be ruined if it is possible for hard words
to ruin it. We have nothing to say, at
present, for or against the position
taken by Dr. Crosby, but we must
think, that he is inti tied to the respect
which is due to a gentleman, to the
confidence due to a Christian, and to
the charity which is due to all.
We were about to copy an article
from Our valued exchange, The Interior,
defending Dr. Crosby from some of the
attacks that have been made on him,
but we find that is as truculent, per
haps, as those whom it justly censures,
and hence we forbear.
Since writing the above we have read
an editiorial article on the same subject
in the National Baptist. That able
journal differs with Dr. Crosby, but dis
cusses the subject with calmness, cour
tesy and dignity.
The Palatka, Fla., Herald says; The
new and fast steamer Frederick de
Bary arrived at our wharf on Thurs
day afternoon. She made the trip
from Jacksonville in four hours and a
half. We gave a full notice of this el
egant boat in our last issue. She is
the finest painted boat on the river.
The work inside and out is costly, and
she has the advantage of all the mod
ern improvements. Capt. Shaw, well
it is not necessary to eulogise him ; we
all know him as one of our very best nav
igators, and withal a very clever gentle
man, and her Purser Mr. Charley Fen
wick, than whom none are more com
petent or genial. Mr. W. B. Watson,
the manager of the de Bary line was
on board on his way to Enterprise.
Mr. Watson has certainly shown com
mendable zeal and good management
in his position. Mr. Watson may be
termed the Commodore of the St.
Johns. The de Bary line is fortunate
in the make-up of good steamers, and
number one captains. There is Capt.
Joe Smith, of the Rosa, Capt. Shaw, of
the Fred, de Bary, Capt. Charley
Brock, of the Florence, and Capt. Am
azeen, of the Bird. Travelers will find
these steamers comfortable, and in ev
ery respect pleasant.
The Germans, in their usual business
like way, and without any eloquent
speech-making, have started a society
in Philadelphia for the purpose of or
ganizing a colony on an extensive scale,
as a field for German mechanics, trades
men and farmers emigrating to the
United States. They are already pro
vided with the requisite capital. They
propose to buy up a tract of land in
some of the Southern States, and when
that is accomplished they will have
their agents in Germany to provide the
requisite facilities, and to give all nec
essary information to families desiring
to occupy them.
Now let our “Commissioner of Im
migration” put himself in communica
tion with this society, and endeavor to
secure the proposed colony for Georgia.
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GEORGIA NEWS.
--Many improvements are being made in
Dawson.
—Dawson's cotton receipts for this season
will approximate 10,000 bales.
—Georgia has had twenty-three new mail
routes granted this session of Congress.
—The Grand Lodge of the Knights of
Honor in Georgia will meet in Savannah in
annual session in April.
—The colored Baptist Georgia Convention
will meet in Thomasville on Thursday be
fore the fourth Sunday in May.
—Elsas, May & Co., contemplate starting
a factory at Atlanta with a capacity of 10,000
spindles, and which will employ 000 hands.
—The Altamaha river was higher a few
days ago than it has been for a long time
before. The water was over Ohoopee White
Bluff several inches.
—The Macon Telegraph and Messenger
has passed into the hands of a stock compa
ny, and will hereafter be controlled by the
Telegraph and Messenger Publishing Com
pany.
—The State of Georgia keeps about a mil
lion dollars in the treasury. AU the Janua
ry interest and one thousand dollars of the
State's debt was promptly paid at the end of
the year.
—lt is thought that over 100,000,000 feet
of pitch pine timber and lumber wiU be
shipped from Darien this year. A little over
85,000,000 feet was shipped last year from
that port.
—Tne Pullman sleeper, which formerly
ran from New York to Jacksonville, Florida,
via Charleston and the Charleston and Sa
vannah Railroad, will now run from New
York to Savannah, via Augusta and the
Central Railroad.
—The Vindicator says: ‘ That Meriwether
is one of the best counties in the State is
proved by the fact that the markets now en
joying its benefits are most unwilling to be
deprived of our patronage, while other cities
and towns are assiduously courting our
favor."
—The Burke County Herald wants a rail
road built from Waynesboro to the Savan
nah river. It says such a road would tra
verse thirty-five miles of good farming
country at present without any great facili
ties for transportation, and would add ma
terially to the trade of that place.
—The Chaplain of the Savannah Port So
ciety reports that over twenty thousand
sailors arrived at that port during the past
year. These sailors leave again for every
nation that requires the products of this
State. From this we can form an idea of
the growing independence of the chief sea
port of Georgia.
—Col. Charles C. Jones, Jr., will deliver an
address in Augusta on the evening of the
17th of March, commemorative of the life
and services of Sergeant William Jasper.
The address will be under the auspices of the
Hibernian Society, and the proceeds will be
in aid of the monument to be erected in Sa
vannah to the memory of Sergeant Jasper.
—The decision of U. 8. Judge Woods has
been rendered in the case of Tilley vs. the
Savannah, Florida and Western Railway.
He has refused the injunction asked for
restraining the Railroad Commission of
Georgia from enforcing its rates upon that
road. An appeal to the Supreme Court of
the United States lies from this decision, but
the matter may be regarded as virtually set
tled, and the constitutionality of the Rail
way Commission law as finally sustained.
—Col. A. Pope, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent for the Associated Railways of
Virginia and the Carolinas, has arranged a
table of very liberal rates of fare for immi
grants coming to South Carolina from New
York, Philadelphia and Baltimore, to every
station on the following roads: Wilming
ton, Columbia and Augusta, Charlotte, Col
umnia and Augusta, Cheraw and Darling
ton, Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line, and
the Northeastern Railroad.
—A meeting has been held in Cedartown
to take steps for the construction of the Ce
dartown and Rome Railroad. It was esti
mated that the cost of finishing the grade,
the trestle-work and putting on ties, will be
about $25,000. A committee was appointed
to confer with the authorities of the East
Tennessee, Virginia and Georgia road, and
with citizens of Rome, and ascertain what
assistance they could render to the project,
when properly under headway.
—The Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist says: “Rev. Dr. Curry’s pay as
agent of the Peabody fund will be $5,000 per
year and expenses. Dr. Curry is a man of
very high endowments. As an orator he has
few* superiors. In both the Federal and the
Confederate Congresses he was prominent.
As a preacher he is a light unto the Church;
and as a college Professor and President he
is a model. The South will take it very
kindly that this man, whom it honors, has
been given a high and responsible position
by a body composed mainiy of Northern
men.”
. —Since the new passenger rate went into
effect, Mr. Wrenn, General Passenger and
Ticket Agent of the Western and Atlantic
Railroad, has written to the passenger agents
of the various lines with which his road acts,
asking them either to reduce their rate to
three cents per mile or pro rate the excess
with his road. To many of these letters re
plies have been received, some agreeing to
the reduction, while others signify a willing
ness to pro rate. So far as heard from, but
one road declines to accede to Mr. Wrenn’s
request. This, the Louisville and Nashville,
still demands four cents per mile.
—The Americus Reporter remarks : “At
but small expense every farmer can have a
fish pond that will furnish abundance of
fish for home and plantation use. The rais
ing of carp is no experiment. Their excel
lence has been abundantly tested for many
years in Europe, and the waters of the South
ern States have shown a wonderful adapta
tion for their culture. The government will
be able to stock every pond, and we trust
that the planters of Sumter and the adjoin
ing counties will not be slow to appreciate
the virtues of this fish, whose introduction
is hailed with delight in every part of the
country, and as a common food upon our
table is destined to supplant in good measure
the everlasting grease and hog meat.”
—lt is the intention to work on the track
of the Georgia railroad all the spring and
summer. The steel rail is being distributed
all along the line, and the work will be con
tinued until the iron is laid and the road bed
ballasted from beginning to end. Thegran
ite is being got at Lithonia, where they have
laid a track out to a little mountain, and
have machinery in operation grinding up
rock to put on the road-bed. When this
work is completed the Georgia road will be
one of the most substantial and smoothest
roads in this country. The present admin
istration is alive to its every interest, and in
the course of time it will be one of the beet
equipped and best paying roads in the Btate.
Freight at this time is very heavy, and the
passenger trains are crowded every day.