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The Christian Index.
BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO.
The Christian Index.
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Rev. S. Maxwell baa been called to
the pastorate ot the Baptist church in
Geneva.
The colored Baptist Georgia Con
vention will meet in Thomasville on
Thursday before the fourth Sunday in
May.
Thanks.—We return thanks to Mr.
LeDuc, United States Commissioner of
Agriculture, for a package of specimen
garden seeds. His favors are appre
ciated.
We call the attention of our readers
to the touching obituary in this issue
on the death of Mrs. Emma Wynne
Evans. The memorial will be found
on the eighth page.
The graduating class of 'Bl in Mer
cer University promises to be the lar
gest in several years. Twenty-six sen
iors will receive diplomas at the ensuing
commencement.
We were glad to meet in our office
two esteemed friends of The Index,
Revs. S. B. Little and W. S. Tweedell.
Our friends, when visiting Atlanta,
must not fail to see us, but allow us the
privilege of greeting them.
The Baptists of Grantville have pur
chased a lot, and let out the contract
for the building of a church thereon,
in all to cost in the neighborhood of
one thousand dollars. A part of the
material is now on the ground, and the
house to be ready for worship by the
first of May.
The Elberton Baptist church has
sold the old church building, also the
lot adjoining. The proceeds of these
sales will be used in the erection of an
other house Os worship. Fifteen hund
red dollars more will build a neat, com
fortable church. The members are few,
and the enterprise is one in which the
county, and the town especially, should
be interested Work will be commen
ced as soon as practicable.
University of Virginia.—The ad
vertisement of this famous institution
of learning will be found in this num
ber of The Index. The University is
organized in separate Schools,, on the
Eclectic System, and is presided over,
in all the departments, by a faculty of
practical and distinguished scholars?
The expenses necessary are very rea
sonable, and candidates for the minis
try, unable to pay, are instructed free.
The University of Virginia is a noble
institution, and deservedly enjoys a
large patronage throughout the South.
For particulars see advertisement.
To The Ladies.—We commend the
card in this issue from the Wheeler &
Wilson Manufacturing Company, head
ed “Every lady her own dress-maker,”
to the lady readers of The Index.
Mr. W. B. Cleves, the agent of this
great company in this city, is a very
clever and popular gentleman, who
knows how to give complete satisfac
tion to every patron. He will take
great pleasure in answering all inqui
ries in regard to the world celebrated
machines which he has for sale, and
will promptly forward catalogues.—
Send your orders to him.
Parlor, Lodge and Church Furni
ture. —We call the especial attention
of our readers to the illustrated adver
tisement of Messrs. Shaw, Applin & Co.,
Boston. Mass. Established over one
hundred years, their wares have ac
quired a national reputation for ele
gance and durability. Officers of
churches and benevolent organizations
in need of furniture for church and
meeting rooms, will do well to send to
these manufacturers for an illustrated
catalogue.
The Franklin Printing House.—
We direct the special attention of our
readers, particularly business and pro
fessional men, to the advertisement on
the third page of The Index, of the ,
Franklin Steam Printing House and
Blankbook Manufactory of Jas. P. Har- ,
rison & Co. It is now the completes! 1
establishment of the kind in the South.
The large book-bindery, in charge of '
an accomplished superintendent, has
recently received.a large addition of
valuable machinery, of the latest and 5
best construction, among which is ore ,
of the celebrated Kirby Round Corner i
machines, the manufacturer’s adver
tisement of which will be found on our J
eighth page. There are also new rul- 1
ing, folding and trimming machines. J
Nothing but first-class work will be |
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best Northern product, and at New (
York prices. The Franklin Steam j
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in the United States. ;
JOSEPH EMERSON BROWN.
The distinguished subject of this
sketch was born in Pickens District,
South Carolina, on the 15th day of
April, 1821. His father, Mackey Brown,
was the son of Joseph Brown, a zealous
and gallant whig in the old revolutiona
ry war, who emigrated to this country
from Londonderry, Ireland, in 1745,
and settled in Virginia. The war spirit
broke out again in the son, Mackey, ,
who fought in the celebrated battle of
New Orleans, under General Jackson.
The mother of Joseph E., nee Sally
Rice, also descended from the early
settlers of the Old Dominion, and was
also of the Scotch,-Irish stock. The
Browns and the Rices removed from
Virginia to Tennessee, and it was in the
latter State that Mackey Brown and
Sally Rice, the father and mother of
the subject of this sketch, were united
in marriage. They afterwards removed
to Pickens District, South Carolina, and
soon after their arrival at their new
home, their son, Joseph Emerson, was -
born. The territory once belonged to
Georgia, and was ceded to South Carolina
by the treaty of Beaufort, in 1787, and on
this ground the admirers of Governor
Brown, in Georgia, sometimes playfully
claim him as a native of their State.
At the age of eight years, Joseph began
to labor on his father’s farm, and was
steadily thus employed until he was nine
teen years old. In the following autumn
he attended a neighborhood school, where
he acquired the rudiments of English edu
cation. About this time his father remov
ed to Union county, Georgia, and Joseph,
being anxious to further his education, and
having no facilities for that purpose near
home, determined to attend the school of
Wesley Leverett, a celebrated educator,
who taught in Anderson District, South
Carolina.
Clad in homespun made by his mother
and sisters, he set out on foot with a pair
of young oxen, given him by his father as
his patrimony, and in nine days arrived at
the end of his journey, having travelled in
this humble way a distance of 135 miles.
He contracted with a farmer in the neigh
borhood for eight months' board, giving
his pair of oxen in payment. Mr. Leverett,
the principal of Calhoun Academy, agreed
to give him tuition on credit, and thus the
lion-hearted young fellow began to gird
himself for the battle of life.
He made rapid progress in study, and at
the end of his eight months in school, hav
ing exhausted his means, he himself open
ed a schcol, and in three months, having
accumulated a small sum, enough to pay
for his tuition for the previous year, he
again, in January, 1842, entered Calhoun
Academy, drawing on his credit for the
payment of the expense about to be in
curred for tuition and board. In two years
he was prepared to enter an advanced
d.'ass in college. But having tyj means,
4 ,and being in debt for the of two
years, he was obliged to drti/aimself this
coveted privilege, and again resorted to the
business. z
While engaged in teaching, he had de
voted his spare time to the study of law,
but now abandoning his school, he en
gaged himself as a private teacher in the
family of Dr. John W. Lewis, a worthy
citizen of Canton. He paid his board by
teaching the Doctor’s children a short time
each day, and devoted the remainder of
his time to the study of his profession.
In August, 1845, he was admitted to the
bar, after a most thorough and searching
examination, which he passed with great
credit, calling forth extraordinary enco
miums from the bar and from the bench.
At the same term of the court, he made
his maiden speech and won his first
laurels.
Unusual as his attainments were for a
young lawyer, he was not • satisfied with
them, and encouraged and aided by his
friend, Dr. Lewis, he determined to attend
the law school of Yale College, and en
tered that institution in Octdber, 1845.
Keeping fully up with his classmates in
the law department, and that, too, with
great ease, he still found time to attend
lectures in other departments, and thus
received the benefit of instruction from
distinguished professors, in metaphysics,
and in several of the natural sciences.
Early in the summer of 1846 he passed
his final examination, and was awarded
the degree of Bachelor of Laws at the fol
lowing commencement.
On his return home to Canton, he open
ed an office for the practice of his profes
sion, and after a short but trying novitiate
he found himself sustained by many
clients.
In 1849, being only twenty-eight years
old, he was nominated by the Democratic
party as a candidate for the State Senate
of Georgia. It was the custom, at that
time, for candidates to make free use of
intoxicating drink among their friends and
others for electioneering purposes. This
Mr. Brown refused to do, and his defeat
was predicted as the result; nevertheless,
he was elected by a handsome majority.
In 1852 he was placed, by his party, in
the field as a candidate for Presidential
Elector in the contest which resulted in
the election of Mr. Pierce, Georgia voting
for the successful candidate. Mr. Brown
was the youngest man on the ticket, but
was elected by a larger vote than any of
his colleagues.
In 1855 he was elected by the people
Judge of the Superior Courts of the Blue
Ridge Circuit; and though young in years,
and only nine years old in his profession,
he sustained himself admirably, and added
largely to his reputation.
In 1857 he was nominated for the office
of Governor of Georgia by the Democratic
party, and was elected by 10,000 majority.
In 1859 he was re-elected by a majority of
20,000; in 1861 he was elected for the
third time, and in 1863 for the fourth time.
During his first candidacy he made speech
es in various parts of the State, meeting his
opponent on the rostrum and debating
with him the issues of the day. But in
the second, third and fourth campaigns he
never made a speech. “ The record of my
administration is before the people,” said
General Literature Domestic and Foreign I ntelligence—Secular Editorials.
ATLANTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 10, 1881.
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> he, “if they chose to indorse it by voting
1 for me, I shall be glad; but if not, their
1 remedy is to vote for my opponent, and if
they elect him I shall not complain.” But
’ never was Joseph E. Brown defeated when
he was a candidate before the people.
1 At the close of the war between the
• States, Governor Brown, still being in the
Executive chair, was placed under arrest
1 by the United States authorities, and was
confined in the Old Capitol prison for two
weeks, at the end of which time he was
released on parole.
In 1860 he was appointed Chief Justice
of the Supreme Court of Georgia, which
position he filled with distinguished ability
for about two years, when he resigned his
office ten years before the expiration of
his term. Soon after this he became Pres-/
ident of the Western and Atlantic Railroad.
Company, which position he still retains.
In the summer of 1880, General John
B. Gordon having resigned his seat as
United States Senator from Georgia, Gov-1
ernor Brown was appointed to fill the
vacancy. The Senate remained in session
only a few days after his appointment, but
in that brief period he made several
speeches, which put him at once in the
front rank of American statesmen.
Governor Brown is not what is called
an orator. He makes no attempt at di>
play, nor is he specially gifted with imagi
nation or fancy. His style of speaking is
calm and unimpassioned; his object seems
to be to convey the greatest possible
amount of thought in the smallest possible
number of words, and this he does wim
great clearness and great force. He
makes no preliminaries, and closes with
no peroration ; he goes straightMo the sub
ject ; exhausts it, and then stops, wasting
no breath. He never quotes poetry, sel
dom quotes anything, deals lightly wiiL
illustrations, but largely With facts, MK
these he handles with great ingenuity and
power. It is risking but little to say that
he never made a speech that failed to ac
complish its object. Really, he is an orator.
He possesses in wonderful degree that
gift so strangely named and so hard to
define, called common sense. Never
brilliant, he is always discriminating; nev
er originating new conceits, he is always
well-balanced and judicious; never misled
by sophistry, and almost never by errone
ous information, he has the luck, as people
call it, of being almost always in the right.
He indulges in no speculative inquiries;
his mind is purely practical in its turn, and
in all the affairs of this matter of fact
world, he is one of the most sagacious of
men.
In illustration of what has been said, Wt
present an extract, from one of the daily
papers published in Atlanta, under the
heading:—
the wisest man.
“ Who is the wisest man in Georgia ?
The moment this question is asked the
minds of hi! intelligent men in the State
will be turned in one direction and towards
one person. He is so well known to the
people of Georgia, he is so conspicuous
for his clear-headedness and level-headed
ness, that it is not necessary to name him.
His name has already suggested itself to
the mind of the reader. Some think of
him with dislike. Some, on reading these
lines, will indulge in severe apimadver
sions, and will have harsh things to say
of him ; some may even use terms that
are denunciatory; but the very fact that
they know who is meant when the wisest
man in the State is spoken of without be
ing named, is proof that whatever their
feelings may be, they pay intellectual
homage to a great mind, and their very
protest against this article is their endorse-
ment of it. No two names will suggest
themselves to the mind of any intelligent
Georgian in answer to the question, ■ Who
is the wisest man in the State ?’ The man
stands, in this respect at least, peerless
and unrivalled; there will be no debate in
one’s own mind, nor with his neighbor, as
to who this man is; nor will there be a
dissenting voice; everybody knows who
is meant, as well as if his name were an
nounced. Now, so long as this man is
alive, can we afford to do without him ? ”
It is needless to say that every reader
of the above extract was instantly remind
ed of Joseph E. Brown.
On the 13th day of September, 1842,
when in his twenty-second year, and while
at the Calhoun Academy, he was bapti’zed
by Rev. Charles P. Dean, on a profession
of his faith in Jesus Christ, into the fel
lowship of the Shady Grove Baptist church
in Pickens District, South Carolina. From
that day to the present his connection with
the church has been uninterrupted. Beset
with extraordinary temptations, he has
nevertheless maintained his consistency to
a degree which few men under the same
circumstances could approach. Through
life he has been a most liberal giver ; yet
his charities have been so unostentatious,
that few if any are aware of their extent.
Some of his donations have necessarily
been public, and a few of them it may be
well to mention.
He contributed SBOO to the building of
the Sixth Baptist church of Atlanta; sr,ooo
to the Georgia Baptist Orphans’ Home;
SI,OOO to Mercer University; SSOO to the
Southern Baptist Convention ; SSOO for an
organ for the Second Baptist church of
Atlanta; $3,000 for repairs and additions
to the same church; SSOO (some years
ago) to the Southern Baptist Theological
Seminary, and recently (1880) $50,000 to
the same institution; and last year he con
tributed SBOO towards the payment of his
pastor s salary. His smaller charities, from
one hundred dollars, and downwards, have
been simply innumerable.
Although he has been a man »f war
from his youth, in private life he is amiable
and gentle. He stands by his friends; is
patient and forbearing with his enemies ;
and kindly disposed towards al!.- In his
dopiestic relations he is exceedingly affec
tionate ; and when at home, he throws off
the politician and the statesman, and the
lawyer, and the man of business, and is
simply a man ; a man of warm and tender
heart, beloved by all who are about him.
It is almost impossible that a man who
has led such a life as his should be pre
' eminently spiritually-minded ; yet Govern
or Brown has always been a diligent read
er of the Sacred Scriptures, and an earnest
■ and sometimes a tearful listener to the
preached Gospdl.
' ' . A sulk r account of his political life may
be found in Appleton’s American Cyclo
pedia.
Since the above was written an import
ant event has occurred in the life of Gov
ernor Brown. In November, 1880, it be
came necessary for the Legislature of
Georgia to fill the vacancy in the United
States Senate, made by the resignation
of General John B. Gordon, and to which
position Governor Brown had been tem
porarily appointed. Governor Brown was
elected to fill the unexpired term, (about
four years of it remaining), by a majority
of more than two to one over his opponent,
an able lawyer and a man of great distinc
tion and influence; the rival candidates
both being members of the same politi
cal party. At the date of this writing
(January, 1881), Governor Brown is occu
pying hts seat in the Senate of the United
-States.— Biographical Sketches of Geor
gia Baptists. (Inpressi)
IM SCHWARZ WALD.
(‘Tn the Black Forest.")
[Fr, m Von Scheffers "Der Trompctcr Von Sal
kingen.' ’J
CHARLES W. HUBNKR.
It was March. And still the Winter
Masqueraded ; and fantastic
Garnished with their icy crystals
Low the boughs hung; here and yonder
From the ground their tiny heads raised
Primrose and anemone.
As out o’er the deluge direful
Father Noah sent the white dove,
So the Ice-encumber’d earth sends,
Restless, forth Wr firsdyig flowerets
Dubious,
k V.'i his death-bed mayL: lying.’
From the mountain-ridges rushing
Cometh Master Storm-wind, blust’ring;
Downward to the darksome pine-wood
Hies he, saying: ‘‘Friends, I greet you I
Well you kqow why I am coming.—
Faith, because from some one’s head I
Knock a hat off, people fancy
I come but to terrify them.
Tush ! that were a pretty business,
Cracking chimneys, breaking windows.
Straw-roofs sudden skyward whirling,
Gown of grandam toss and tousel
Till she cross herself affrighted,
Calling on the saints to help her—
Nay, my friends, you know me better!
Me, the Scavenger of Spring, who
Sweeps away the foul and rotten,
The worm-eaten tears to splinters;
Earth from all defilement cleanses,
That my radiant lord and master
Worthily his realm may enter.
You, my stately forest comrades,
Who with front of iron ofttimes,
And defiant, brave my onset,
To whose boles 1 am Indebted
For the blue marks on my skull here,
I my secret will reveal to—
Spring himself Is coming! and when
Every sprig and bough shall bourgeon,
Lark and blackbird carol joyous,
Warmly on your head the sun shines,
Then remember me, the Courier
Os the Spring, whom you to day see
In his service speeding onward."
But the pine trees took his homage
In hiih dudgeon ; from the tree-tops
Sharp and scornful rings the answer;
"Get thee gone, ill-manner’d fellow 1
We desire not thy acquaintance,
And regret that gentle masters
Should employ such boorish servants;
Surly fellew, leave us! Hunt the
Alps about for nuts, and crack them;
There, with barren p-ecipices,
Seek, sir, friendly entertainment.”
Prince Bismarck is endeavoring to
crush Socialism in Germany by banish
ing the leaders, some of whom have
taken refuge in this country. The vig
ilance of the police has had the effect
of suppressing the public demonstra
tions ot the Social-Democratic party,
but a great deal of quiet work is being
done by the order. It is shown by the
leaders that instead of diminishing un
der thevigorous policy of Bismarck the
Socialist organization is steadily in
creasing in numbers and in efficency.
The party publishes sixty newspapers,
distributes hundreds of thousands of
pamphlets, and has more than 700,000
electors and twenty members of Par
liament. It is now a political party
led by determined men, and it may in
time become too strong for Bismarck
or his successor to cope with. In the
past ten years the number of the party’s
adherents has increased ten-fold.
The highest premium was awarded
to the Liquid Enamel Paint, by the
Georgia State Fair. It has no rival.
See the advertisement of Mr. C. P.
Knight, 93 W. Lombard Street, Balti
more, in this issue.
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cording to binding, runs from two to
five dollars. It will make a splendid
gift book.
—Readers of St. Nicholas, who re
member Mrs. Oliphant’s charming
“Windsor Castle Papers,” which ap
peared in that magazine two years ago,
will welcome her stories of “Lady Jane
Grey,” and “Mary, Queen of Scots,”
the first of which appears in the March
St. Nicholas, illustrated with a frontis
piece portrait, in antique setting. This
number has also some interesting re
collections of Adelina Patti. Years
ago, it will be remembered, Patti trav
eled through the United States with
Ole Bull, and Maurice Strakosch, then
the leaking pianist of the day. There
are more than fifty illustrations, a page
of music, and an Anglo-Chinese story
for the boys and girls to interpret It
holds its own as the best child’s maga
zine in the world.
—Crosby’s Everybody’s Lawyer and Book
of Forms. John E. Potter & Co., publishers,
Philadelphia, Price $2.00
We are indebted to the publishers
for a copy of the revised and enlarged
edition of this useful and popular
work. It is a complete guide in all
law and business transactions and ne
gotiations for every State in the Union.
Containing plain and simple instruc
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the Constitution of the United States,
and amendments, with much useful
information concerning the general
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ernments, the copyright law, post-office
regulations, patent ane pension laws,
I etc.
—The table of contents of the Pop
ular Science Monthly, of March, is one of
more than ordinary interest. There
is also a very fine portrait of the late I
Prof. Benjamin Pierce, of Harvard
College, and a sketch of his life. The
leading paper is an essay on Physical
Education—ln-door Life, by Felix L.
Oswald, M.D. The readers of this well
conducted monthly can keep abreast of
of the best scientific culture of the
age.
—Scribner's for March is an elegant
number of this ever popular magazine.
The numerous illustrations maintain
their established grade of artistic excel
lence, and the literary contents are va
ied, and of strictly high caste. Every
taste will find something to suit it in
Scribner's. It is carefully edited and
published for The People.
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publications reflect the highest range
of contemporary British literature.
They are indispensable to every culti
vated mind. Contents of Blackwood's:
The Private Secretary.—Part IV;
King George the Third and Mr. Fox in
their Early Days; Mr. Cox’s Protege.
In Two Parts. Part I; On. some of
Shakespeare’s Female Characters—ll.
—Portia; Trollope’s Life of Cicero;
The Salmon of Clootie’s Hole; The
Government and Ireland; George El
iot.
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Memoir’s of Prince Metternich; The
Navies of the world; Jacob’s van Ar
teveld, the Brewer of Ghent; Endymi
on; Dr. Caird on the Philosophy of
Religion; Laveleye’s Italy as it is;
Army Reform; Grove’s Dictionary of
Music; Kinglake’s Invasion of the
Crimea; England and Ireland.
Contents of the British Quarterly:
Congretionalism; Ugo Bassi; The
Lord’s Supper Historically Considered;
The Constitutional Monarchy in
Belgium Christian Church and
War; Materialism, Pessimism and
Pantheism: Final Causes; Dr.
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GEORGIA NEWS.
—An Irish Land League has been organi
zed in Macon.
—The Augusta factory uses forty-five bales
ot cotton a day.
—A new Methodist church has been erect
ed in Hogansville.
—Dublin has a flourishing and numerous
temperance society.
—Two miles of the track on the Talbot
railroad have been completed.
—The Magruder mine, in Lincoln county,
has been sold to an English company for
$1,000,000.
—The Mountain Signal says that a fatal
fever is ragingin the upper portion of Lump
kin county.
—The Albany post-office is now doing
about SIOO,OOO worth of money-order busi
ness per annum.
—More than one hundred bushels of rice
per acre have been produced in Pike county
on a creek bottom.
—Farm hands are scarce in Bulloch coun
ty, aud prices range high. The negro prefers
Co work by the day.
—The Bulletin wants Rome to show off in
her best colors when the Press Association
meets there in May.
—The electric light has been at last fairly
and successfully introduced on the steamers
which ply the Chattahoochee.
—The Sunday Herald, a new Macon
weekly, made its appearance Sunday morn
ing. It is conducted by J. E. Christian <&
Co.
-Twenty-five thousand dollars has been
subscribed in Greenville for the extension
of the Columbus and Rome railroad to that
point.
—The Echo says there is no mistaking the
fact that farmers in Oglethorpe county are a
great deal better off than they were five years
ago.
—The Masons of Augusta have decided to
build an opera house at a cost of $55,000. It
will be capable of seating one thousand per
sons.
—The machinery for a rope factory will
be in operation in Rome in less than sixty
days. The capacity of the factory will be
five hundred pounds per day.
—The Georgia Railroad Company has pur
chased the old site of Markham’s rolling mill
at Atlanta, upon which to build the car
shops of the company,
—A larger acreage of cotton will be planted
in Murray county the present year than ever
before. Farmers are already purchasing and
preparing the fertilizers in large quantities.
—The Central railroad shops at Macon are
doing an immense amount of work. Their
force is almost double now what it formerly
was. In a short time the shops Will contain
about 1,000 men.
—The Dublin Gazette says: “Our timber
men are returning every day from Darien
with smiles on their faces, and large checks
or the cash in their pockets. The timber
business is very remunerative now.”
—The Oconee River Steamboat Company
contemplate building, during the summer in
time for the fall business, a steamer, which
will be adapted to the condition of the Oco
nee river. A boat of light draft and consid»
ersble power is needed.
—The Valdosta Times states that some of
the planters in that neighborhood are aban
doning cotton entirely and devoting their
lands and labor to vegetable farming. It
believes there is money in such a course
when prices are good.
—The business of the Central railroad at
Forsyth has grown to such proportions that
the present depot building is not sufficient
to accommodate it. The authorities will
either increase the size of the depot or erect
another building near by.
. —The Augusta Chronicle and Constitu
tionalist says: “The factories in and close
to the city now consume 45,000 bales of cot
ton annually, or one-fourth of the total re
ceipts, and we believe that the time is not
far distant when every bale received at Au
gusta will be taken by the mills here."
—Bradstreet’s Reporter says: "That cot
ton factories will pay in the South can
scarcely be doubted when the management
is skillful and economical and the situation
favorable. That it is cheaper to bring the
mills to the cotton than to send the oottoa
to the mills, is proved by the fact that the
cotton mills now in operation in Georgia
will pay from twelve to fifty per cent, divi
dends. Moreover, the whole of the capital
invested in manufactures in this State is
exempted from State, County and Municipal
taxation for ten years.”
—The Augusta News says: "Just after
awakening from a pleasant and peaceable
sleep, and after telling his wife he would get
up for breakfast, the Rev. M. H. Reese fell
back and died without a groan. This oc
curred at his residence on Barnes street at
about six o'clock this morning. Mr. Reese,
although an employe at one of our cotton
mills, was the pastor at Silver Run Baptist
church, and was well known in Richmond,
Columbia, McDuffie and several other coun
ties as a pious man and devout Christian.
His remains will be buried at the Palmer
place, two miles from Berzelia, to-morrow
morning. He was about sixty-four yeans of
age.”
—At a recent meeting in Augusta of the
directors of the Enterprise Cotton factory, a
dividend of ten per cent, was declared. En
couraged by the gratifying exhibit of the
company, and appreciating the reasonable
advantages to come out of an increase of
capacity, the directors adopted a resolution
to more than double the present size of the
mill. That is to say, the number of spindles
is 13,890, the proposed increase will make
the number over 33,000. The present in
crease of looms is 264, the increase 600, mak
ing the increase of capacity in the mill of
over 125 per cent, '['he extension of the
mill will make its total length 550 feet.
This will make an imposing building, and a
factory with more spindles than any in the
South.
—The Gwinnett Herald remarks: “Gwin
nett has always been known as a grain
growing county, and in the past has been
the Egypt to which the counties below sent
for their supplies. But within the last few
years nearly everybody have abandoned the
ways ot their fathers, who first looked to
making an abundance of hog and hominy
at home, and caught the cotton mania. Even
bottom lands, peculiarly adapted to com,
have been invaded with the everlasting cot
ton. The results are painfully apparent in
the county this spring. Farmers are running
here and there to bny com, fodder, seed
oats, dour—in fact everything necessary to
make a crop. Their cotton money will soon
be gone, and then their only hope is credit
at high prices, that will sweep away their
profits next fall.