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I ni: Christian Index. BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO. The Christian Index. Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 8. Broad. St. The French ministry is again in trouble. Work has been begun on the tunnel beneath the St. Lawrence river. France will be officially represented at the Yorktown centennial celebra tion. One hundred and fifty persons were killed by the burning of the Italian opera house at Nice, France. General Grant has resigned the Presidency of the World’s Fair, and Hugh J. Jewett has been chosen in his place. The emigration from Germany is becoming so large that the steamship companies have been obliged to char ter additional vessels. Readvilla Seminary, a flourishing home school for girls, at Baton Rouge Louisiana, is advertised in our col umns. Parents will please notice the same. Baptist Sonos.—Mr. A. B. Cates, of Newnan, Ga., advertises a choice col < lection of standard hymns, which are very popular. For prices see adver tisement. The Boers have definitely agreed to the British terms of peace. The Lon don Daily News says Sir Evelyn Wood’s main object was to obtain guarantees for the just treatment of the natives. The British resident will be clothed with the function of protecting the natives. A large number of persons are now under arrest in St. Petersburg charged with being implicated in the plot for assassinating the late Czar. It has been ascertained that the assassination was planned by Nihilist leaders in Paris and Switzerland. ♦ The pressed gla-s ware manufacturers, at a meeting in Pittsburgh unanimous ly resolved to shut down their works between May Ist and September Ist. It is believed this action will reduce the stocks of tableware to the extent of nearly $1,500,000. We have received a copy of Circular No. 16 from the Commissioner of Agri culture, giving analyses and commer cial values of the commercial fertilizers and chemicals inspected, analyzed and admitted to'sale in Georgia to the 20th of March, 1881. ■ » » Thanks.—Wc return thanks to Sen ator Brown for a copy of his able and effective speech in the U. S. Senate on the bill making appropriations for the construction, completion, repair, and preservation of certain works on riv ers and harbors, etc. A dispatch from Constantinople says anarchy prevails on the Armenian „ frontier. The Kurds openly defy the Turks. A priest is traversing the coun try preaching rebellion. Popular feel ing is so strong that the authorities are afraid to interfere with him. A general outbreak is feared. The Board of Aidermen of New York city have authorized and empowered Edison and his Electric Illuminating Company, to lay tubes, wires, conduc tors, and insulators, and to erect lamp posts in the streets, avenues, parks and public places in the city, for the purpose of conveying, using and sup plying electricity or electrical currents for purposes of illumination. Turkey is making preparations for war on extensive scale. Greece is do ing the same. The new Empress of Russia is a sister ol the King of Greece, and it is believed that her influence with the Czar in behalf of her brother’s government will lend a new aspect to the vexatious Turko-Greek question, and involve Russian diplomacy in an active interference in favor of the Greeks. The Christian Index.—ln answer to questions the publishers of the Christian Index desire to reiterate the offer heretofore made, to send the paper to any address at half the sub scription price, at the request of any brother who will remit the other half of the amount, stating that the person to whom The Index is to be sent is not able to pay the full subscription price. Let our brethren continue to send in the names of such. ♦ —The Columbus Times, alluding to the recent presentation of the Peabody medal to brother DeVotie, by the Trus tees of the Peabody Educational Fund, says; "Dr. DeVotie is much beloved in this city, and our citizens are grati fied to know that he is equally appre ciated wherever he is known. He has lived to do excellent work in the cause of the religious and educational ad vancement of mankind, and we hope that he may be spared for many more years of usefulness.” LITERARY NOTES AND COMMENTS Froude’s "Reminiscences of Thomas Carlyle” has been issued by Scribner’s Sons. —Edward Eggleston's "Roxy” has been translated into the Swedish, Dan ish and Russian languages. —Tennyson is quite sick. —Lord Beaconsfield has another novel ready for publication. It is said to deal with events and characters in English political and social life subse quent to those narrated in "Endym ion.” As the English publishers of this brilliantly weak novel lost heavi ly by it, the ex-Premier, we presume, will find the London publishers a rath er sensitive and cautious set in settling the financial preliminaries of the book. —194,000 copies of the four leading editions of Mr. Longfello<v’s collected works have been printed since 1867. —Mr. George Smith’s “The Chal dean Account of Genesis” has been re vised by Prof. A. H. Sayce, who, by means of the great advance in Assyr ian scholarship made in the last five years, has added much to the value of the book. —The third volume of Taine’s work on the French Revolution is out. —Mr. W. D. Howells, late editor of the Atlantic Monthly, is at work upon a dramatization of “The Courtship of Miles Standish.” —An unpublished manuscript vol ume of poems written by Shelley is said to be in existence, and will be probably published soon. It will be a refreshing breath from the land of true poesy, and will be enjoyed by all who are weary of the tinkling common placeness and bizarre contortionism which characterizes so much of the metrical literature of to-day. —Dr. Holland’s various books, it is said, have attained to a sale of 500,- 000 copies in a little more than twen ty years. His poem “Kathrina” takes the lead with 90,000; “Bitter-Sweet” comes next with 74,684, followed by the “Timothy Titcomb Letters” with 61,182. New and revised editions are soon to be published. —Chatto & Windus, of London, have in preparation a new illustrated work by Captain Richard Burton, entitled “The Book of the Sword,” being a his tory of the sword, and of its use in all times and in all countries. Now, let this be followed by a work on .the Pen, which is “mightier than the sword,” and by another on the Plow. The world can dispense with the sword, but not with the pen and plow. —Speaking of Wordsworth’s love of nature, Mr. Moncure D. Conway, in Harper’s says: It is doubtful whether any thinker of equal culture will ever again feel a passion for the beauty of inanimate nature like that which Wordsworth felt, or so strangely repeat the emo tions under which ancient nature-wor ship grew. The earth and air around him were so populous with the crea tions of his imagination—these being exalted to the stature of the exception ally grand natural objects amid which he dwelt—that man and his affairs be came petty, paltry, vulgar, in the pres ence of his majestic images. Yet, af ter all, a large part of nature is human nature. WcJfdsworth once invited Charles Dickens to visit him at Rydal Mount, praising the glories of that re gion. The novelist declined, and had something to say for the glories of London. “The wonder of these sights impels me into night walks about her crowded streets, and I often shed tears in the rustling Strand from fulness of joy at so much life. All these emo tions must be strange to you: so are your rural emotions strange to me.” Wordsworth was not without human sympathy and benevolence; it was his hope and aim to console, to bless, to uplift and encourage hearts and minds; but he thought of these as individuals undergoing the checkered experiences of existence; the conception of univer sal humanity, progressive, triumphant, was a blossoming plant which the French Revolution tore by the root from his heart and brain. A primrose by the river’s brim could give him more tears in his old age than any thing that concerned the masses of mankind. —Under the title “Round-Robin Se ries,” Messrs. James R. Osgood & Co., of Boston, announce the publication of a new series of anonymous novels. These novels will be chiefly by Amer ican authors, and will be chosen with great care. It will be the aim of the publishers that each novel shall be dis tinguished for power, originality, and interest, and that the successive vol umes of the series shall be marked by variety of'incident and treatment. The mechanical execution of the se ries will receive careful attention. Good paper, type, and printing will al ways be used, and an attractive cover of unique and ornamental design has been prepared. Each volume will contain from 300 to 400 pages of 16mo size, and the General Literature—Domestic and Foreign Intelligence—Secular Editorials. ATLANTA, THURSDAY, MARCH 31, 188 I. price of the series is fixed atone dollar ' per volume. Having thus the advantage of liter- i ary excellence, convenient size, attrac tive exterior, and reasonable price, it is hoped that the Round Robin Series ' will commend itself to all lovers and readers of the best fiction. Two volumes are nearly ready; “A Nameless Nobleman,” and “A Lesson In Love.” Others will follow at suita ble intervals. The series will be sold by the Trade everywhere. —Cassell, Petter, Galpin Co., of London, have made arrangements for the issue of a series of new and origi nal volumes, by well-known authors, on : subjects of general interest, to be pub lished under the title of Cassell’s Monthly Shilling Library. Among the' volumes announced is one on “Amer ican Humorists.” “The very healthy natural increase of our colored population,” says the New York Sun, “was one of the most interesting facts shown by the census of 1880. From 4,441,830 in 1860 the blacks advanced to 6,577,151 in 1880. That is, the increase was nearly fifty per cent in the twenty years. And this gain took place in spite of the de struction of the four years’ war which occurred during that interval, and the social revolution which followed the emancipation of the negro slaves. “Another suggestive fact shown by the census is the persistence with which the colored population cling to the old States wherein they were held in bond age. Out of the whole number of ne groes, only. 479,670 were found in the Northern States and Territories, while* 6,097,481 were in the former slave States. “These figures show how greatly the negro exodus, as it was called, was ex aggerated for political purposes. They must also be regarded as evidence that the reports of the ill-treatment of the blacks in the South have been sensa tionally colored for the same reason. It is hardly possible that the negroes would prefer Southern homes, and would increase in the South at the rapid . rate they have done since the abolition ' of slavery, if they were the victims ofl the wholesale persecutions of which we have read so much. “The negro population of the old slave-holding States, has increased from 4,215,714 in 1860 to 6,097,481 in 1880, and in the Northern States and Terri tories from 226,116 in 1860 to 479,670. The gain at the South has been about, 45 per cent., while at the North the total has been more than doubled. The excess at the North is undoubtedly explained by the emigration of negroes from the South since the war; but the number we have received is really small. Allowing for a natural increase among the Northern negroes of 50 per cent, during the twenty years, immi gration has brought us less than 150,- 000. “This tendency of the colored popu lation to remain in the South, and to increase most in the very States where their alleged ill-treatment has been made the subject of so much party thunder, is very remarkable and very significant. In South Carolina, for in stance, the blacks have increased about 50 per cent. In Mississippi, Louisiana and Alabama, their gain has been about the same, and in Georgia it has been considerably more than that. “The colored people like the South, and evidently mean to remain there. They prefer to enjoy their freedom in the land of their former bondage. Only an insignificant number of them have manifested a desire to move northward. They tend, instead, further toward the Gulf of Mexico.” A writer in the Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist takes one of its European correspondents to task for some severe strictures on the Parnell Land-Leaguers. He denies, in particu lar, the statement “that crimes of the worst kind were perpetrated” by the Leaguers, saying that there have been only seven murders committed in Ire land within a year, and the population is still close to five millions and a-half. This is less than any year in the pre vious twenty, and far below the aver age for the United States or any other country in Europe, according to popu lation. He says it is the same with re gard to other grave crimes. And that, though the outrages reported show a great increase in number, this increase is due to the magnifying of trifling cir cumstances into “outrages” by the local magistrates, in order to justify the coer cion law. Per contra, Justice Fitzgerald, on opening the Kerry assizes on the 16th inst., said that four hundred and sixty three crimes have been reported during the last seven months. There was, he said, some decrease in the record of crime for the last week. This is a terrible criminal docket for the Superior Court of one county to dispose of. It does not tally with the general statement made by the Augus ta writer. Mons. Gambetta still maintains him self as the de facto ruler of France. NEW BOOKS. South Carolina State Gazetteer and Busi ness Directory for 1880—81. To the courtesy of Mr. ft. A. Smith, Charleston S. C., the compiler, we are indebted for a copy of this work. It contains the names, business, and ad dress of the merchants, manufacturers, professional and business men, and the principal planters and farmers of the State, together with a brief sketch of all cities, towns, and villages, and how to reach them. Also a new map of North and South Carolina. As a ref erence book it is invaluable to every business man in the United States. A similar work, embracing the State of Alabama will be issued by Mr. Smith during the present year. A History of Greece. From The Earliest Times To The Present. By T. T. Timayen sis. With Maps and Illustrations. New York, D. Appleton <fc Company. For sale by J. J. A S. P. Richards, Atlanta. We have here in admirable order, and in clear and flowing diction, an account of the life and fortunes of the Hellenic nation, which will commend itself for its intrinsic value to the scholar and the general reader. This history of Greece is based, as far as pos sible, on the testimony of authorities contemporaneous with the narrated events. It is not, therefore, a mere re compilation of the standard Greek his tories, but an original, independent work, the material for which has been secured at the fountain heads of history. In paper, type, printing and binding, the work is a model of excellence. The Power of Movement In Plants. By Charles Darwin, LL. D. F. R. 8. Assisted by Francis Darwin. With Illustrations. D. Appleton & Company, New York. For sale by J. J. & S. P. Richards. A work full of curious facts and deeply interesting investigations of the wonderful life and mutations of the Plant-world. The minutest life processes of this plant-life are described with great clearness and illustrated by diagrams, which aid the readers con ception of the context to a very great extent. The work is especially devo ted by the distinguished author to elu ■ cidation of the phenomenon of rotary I movement, which Mr. Darwin calls cir ! cumnutation. To the scientific agri culturist this work would be one of fascinating interest. It is a very curi ous and remarkable contribution to this department of knowledge. Life and Her Children; Glimpses Os An mal Life From The A moeba To The Insects. By Arabella B. Buckley. D Appleton A Company, New York. For sale by J. J. & 8. P. Richards. To the reader with a loving heart and an attentive eye for Nature in all her forms, this book will have the interest of the most charming romance, whilst the fact will obtrude itself continuous ly on the wondering mind that “truth is stranger than fiction.” The main ob ject of the book is to acquaint young people with the structure and habits of the lower forms of life, and this com mendable purpose is carried out with fidelity and success. As the author truly says; “If we could but know it, all the history of Life’s Children, and the thousands of different ways in which the beings around us struggle and live, we should be overwhelmed with wonder.” Yes, and we would reverently acknowledge the force of Coleridges exquisite stanza: He prayeth best who loveth best All things both great and small; For the dear God who loveth us, He made and loveth all. Speaking of this book Nature says : “None will read its introducto ry chapter without advantage and few will read the volume through without enjoyment. Within its narrow limits of three hundred small pages no candid reader would expect to find all the de tails that might be wished for,or all the illustrations that might be desired. What constitutes the book’s chief charm is the marvelously simple yet quite scientific style which runs through it, the food for thought and future study which it affords, and the truly philosophic glow which lights up its every page.” The leading editorial in The Sanita rian for March is on the National Board of Health, which should be read by all persons who would be informed on the nature and value of its work, or who may be doubtful of its utility. The special advantages to the 25,000 res cued well persons in the depopulation of Memphis in 1879, and of the com plete insulation of that city ; of the in stitution of the inspection service at and in the vicinity of New Orleans, so effectual as to have stamped out the fe ver in that city, and to have effectual ly prevented the- transportation or re currence of a single case of fever on board of any one of the hundreds of steamboats, barges and other vessels clearing therefrom ; of the quarantine inspection service of the whole Atlan tic-and Gulf coast of the United States, the changes effected in the locations of the quarantines, and pecuniary aids appropriated, greatly increasing their efficiency; of the work of the Havana Commission; of investigations and re ports on the adulteration of foods and drugs; of investigations of atmospheric impurities; of investigations into the etiology of diptheria and other infec- I tious diseases now in progress—to any intelligent and unprejudiced person who will examine the work of the Na tional Board of Health in relation with an adequate appreciation of the pecu niary value of health and commerce which the Board has so signally pro tected and promoted, it is safe to say that the expenditures of the Board have yielded more substantial benefit to the well-being of the people of the United States than tenfold the amount of its expenditures under any other appropriation of the government. President Garfield has declared that he will exercise all the power and in- i fluence at his command to crush out I the Mormon infamy. Those in close ! positions to the President declare that lie has strong hopes of successfully dis- j posing of the matter during his admin istration. He is thoroughly aroused to the necessity of throttling the evil before it spreads all over the new Ter ritories, where it is fast reaching out. Already the influence of the Mormon vote is felt in Colorado, while they con trol Idaho, and will soon do the same thing in Arizona and Montana, unless polygamy is stopped. It is understood that a bill will be introduced in the next Congress, with the President’s approval, to change the form of government of Utah, as the foundation for the reforms for which he has declared. The bill will abolish the present form of appointment of Gov ernor and judges, and will provide a commission of probably seven persons, j who will administer all the affairs of this refractory Territory, backed up directly by all the power necessary to enforce the reforms they will institute. The commissioners will be named by the President, and will be men who are known to be sound on the polygamy question. Their terms of office will be continuous, under the pleasure of the President. In this way it is believed that the evil can be reached. It is pro posed to pass the law disfranchising polygamists, men and women. The females now yote, and the Utah law is such that an Indian or China woman, if a Mormon’s wife, can vote. —The wonderful scientific progress of our age is illustrated by the follow ing : In an interview which a reporter of the Chicago Tribune had recently with Capt. Archibald Forbes, the fa mous English war correspondent, now on a visit to that city, the reporter spoke of the wonderful feat in tele graphy recently performed—the ca bling of the account of the battle of Spitzkop, in which Gen. Colley was killed,some twenty thousand miles—Mr. Forbes however cited a far more curious instance of journalistic enterprise, the telegraphing of the storming of Khy ber pass, Afghanistan, which was pub lished in Chicago at 8 a. m. November 22,1878, whereas the storming really took place at noon the same day, four hours later, the telegraph having beat the san around the world just four hours. This is indeed one of the tri umphs of journalism. —The Baltimore Episcopal Methodist says: “Dr. C. W. Benson, a practi cing physician, at 106 N. Eutaw Street, Baltimore, Md. (who has paid much attention to nervous diseases), has dis covered that extract of Celery and Chamomile combined, in a certain proportion, invariably cures headache, either bilious, dyspeptic, nervous or sick headache, neuralgia and nervous ness. This is a triumph in medical chemistry, aqd sufferers from all over the country are ordering by mail. He prepares it in pills at 50 cents per box. The doctor is largely known and high ly respected in Baltimore.” See advertisement in The Index advertising columns. Mr. Parnell is rapidly losing what influence remains with him, among the better class of Irishmen. Whatever may be claimed for his patriotism, his discretion has been so faulty that his leadership has brought much unnec essary trouble upon his countrymen. Ireland has been very unfortunately represented in Parliament during its present session, and instead of securing relief, and a removal of burdens from their constituents, the Irish members have, by the violence of their course, and their opposition to all offered measures of amelioration, only intensi fied the grievances that afflict the home population. The Russian press is urging, as meas ures of reprisal against Switzerland, the rupture of diplomatic relations, the general expulsion of the Swiss from Russia,a prohibitive tariff against Swiss merchandise, and encouragement to Germany to annex Switzerland, be cause the Swiss authorities allow the Nihilists and Socialists to hatch their criminal plots in the Swiss cities with out endeavoring to suppress and arrest the conspirators. —— e——— There is no doubt that the new treaty with China will be ratified by the government of the United States. ESTABLISHED 18 21. GEORGIA NEWS. A cotton factory is to be erected in La- Grange. —Monroe county is to have a county fair, and an association has been formed. —One gentleman of Griffin offers to sub scribe one fourth the amount necessary to build a cotton factory. —A vast amount of damage has been done by the Hoods throughout the State. Many costly bridges were washed away. —The grand commandery of Knights Templar of Georgia will hold its annual con clave in Atlanta on the 18th day of May next. —The fourth annual Grand Lodge session of Georgia, of the order of the Knights of Honor, will be held in Savannah on the 20th of April. —The Executive Committee of the Atlanta Cotton Exhibition h ive selected ex-Govern or Bullock to visit Europe in the interest of the Exhibition. —Harris county was laid out from Troup and Muscogee in 1827. Its length is twenty miles, breadth eighteen miles, and contains about 360 square miles. —A portion of Augusta was Hooded last week, the Savannah river being higher than it has been since 1865. The river rose twen ty-tour feet in twelve hours. —The taxable property of Columbus has increased in two years from $3,823,135 to $5,131,072. There are few towns with more enterprising merchants and capitalists than Columbus. —The Thomasville Times reports the fruit trees in bloom in Upson county, and it hopes an abundant crop will be realized. It estimates the value of sueh a crop to the county at $20,000. —The Greenesboro Home Journal says: “There is a good deal of complaint about scarcity of labor and emigration. Sambo loves full cribs and smoke-houses. This may explain, iu part, the pending exodus of white and black.” —The Covington Star predicts that the day is not far in the future when Georgia will present a perfect net-work of narrow gauge railroads. It thinks there will hardly be two towns in the State not connected by some kind of railway. —The citizens of White Sulphur Springs are making overtures to the Columbus and Rome railroad regarding an extension to that place. About twelve thousand dollars have been subscribed to extend the road to the Springs, four miles from Hood, the pres ent terminus, —The Guarantee Mine, in Oglethorpe county, was last week bought by Mr. Cha'ues 11. Morehead, and is soon to be pushed to development. The drawback to this proper ty has been that it was owned by too many men. It is a rich mine, and can now be made to pay handsomely. —The LaGrange Reportersays: “Through out this section the peachtrees have been so seriously damaged by toe cold weather that but tew of them have bloomed, and for an other year we will be deprived of this deli cious fruit. In many instances the trees have been killed entirely.' 1 —The planters of Southwest Georgia have met with another enemy to crops in the way of field larks. They have never before been so mischievous. They go in great droves, and pull up the young corn by the roots as soon as it bsgios to come up, mid are doing an immense amount of damage to the far mers. —The Dahlonega Signal reports increasing activity in mining matters in that section. Chicago capitalists are at Auraria, and New York and Pennsylvania capitalists are at Dahlonega. All the mines areon full work, and much new machinery is being put in. The Dawson county mines are being actively developed. —The Campbell County News-Letter states • that Fairburn is on the eve of greater pros perity than she has ever known. Within the past two years,it state:, at least nine new business enterprises have been located there. It says this sudden impetus is doe to the in crease of population of the surrounding country, and to the fact that the people are realizing that, as a trading point, Fairburn cannot be excelled. —Two years ago Mr. Smith took pastoral charge of the Third Presbyterian church of Atlanta, which then numbered fifty-three members, and his sermon on Sunday was a review of the work of the church and of its condition. Organized on the fourth of March, 1874, with sixteen members, the membership now is 118. Seventy-three have been added to the church within the past two years. Only four members of the church have died since its organization. The total collections reach aboutsl,6oo, SI,OOO of which is paid the pastor. Some improvements are being made on the building, which will cost $550 SIOO of which was donated by Mr. John H. Inman. The pastor is furnished with a good house and lot by Mr. W. A. Moore, which cost $2,250. —Macon Telegraph and Messenger: "We are glad to see that the efforts of Senator Brown and several of our Congressmen in behalf of the preservation of the watercourses in Georgia, are meeting wilh favorable no tice by the Departments at Washington City. It was our pleasure to meet, a few days since, ♦ith Mr. Charles Filmore Swain, from Washington, an accomplished gentleman and skillful engineer, who was visiting Ma con and other places, seeking for the govs ernment special information in regard to our streams, their capacity to furnish water for cotton and other factories, etc. Georgia is peculiarly blessed with such water facul ties, and the wonder is that our people have not made them more extensively known to Northern and Western capitalists and manu facturers. There are many places on the Ocmulgee that can furnish as much water power as is used at Lowell, and over three hundred miles of the best and most varied woods of all sizes along its banks. The sup ply is inexhaustible.” —The following, which we clip from the Columbus Times, certainly has a tendency to indorse the dictum of Hon. A. H Steph ens, that the masses of our State are growing poorer instead of richer every day. The Times says: "Almost every day we hear some one speaking of the number of farmers who come to town for supplies and go back without them.. Yesterday we beard a busi ness man say that a farmer told him he would be forced to go home and turn out his fields to grow np in grass. He had tried the city over and bad not been able to find a merchant who was willing to trust him. This seems to be the sad condition of an un usual number this year. The merchants have made poor progress in collecting last year’s accounts, and they do not feel In the least inclined to supply a man who is in the arrear. Who can blame the merchant ? He , does exactly right. No man wants to let ont what goods he has in store without the least prospect of ever receiving his pay. It is the same way with the warehousemen. I n tereat on money has been so reduced that it does not pay to take any risks. The fact la, the outlook is gloomy, and the farmer who has no money or credit, stands a poor chance.”