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The Christian Index.
BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO.
The Christian Index.
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Masonic Bazar and Faik.—Wc call
attention to the advertisement of the
Bazar and Fair to be held in Savan
nah for the benefit of Solomon’s Lodge
No. 1, the oldest Masonic organization
in Georgia.
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A. 0. M. Gay & Co.—This popular
Clothing, Hat and Furnishing House,
No. 37 Peachtree Street, Atlanta, pub
lish their business card in this issue.
We take pleasure in recommending
this firm and their excellent stock to
the patronage of our readers. For ele
gant and “nobby” goods, of this descrip
tion, go to Gay & Co.
Warrenton Hotel.—Mr. A. J. Ad
kins, the new proprietor of the Warren
ton Hotel, has made extensive
improvements, and the Hotel is now
one of the best and most popular in the
State. Mrs. Adkins is an accomplished
caterer, and the table is supplied with
the best the market affords.
We heartily commend the Warren
to Hotel to the favor and patronage of
the traveling public.
The school law which recently pas
sed the North Carolina Legislature is
considerably in advance of the former
law. County Superintendents are
provided ; money is appropriated for
teachers’ institutes; two normal
schools for whites and two for blacks
are established ; the tax is increased to
cents on the SIOO, and local
school support is encouraged by re
quiring'county boards to lay a special
tax to meet deficiencies in the school
funds.
House Furnishing Goods. —The at
tention of our readers is called to the
advertisement of Mr. G. S. Obear,
110 Cherry Street, Macon. This long
established and reliable house offers a
great variety of the most necessary ar
ticles for housekeepers, at prices to
suit the times. No house in central
or southwestern Georgia sells cheaper
or better goods. In the line of crockery
and chinaware it defies competition.
And, in the line of cooking stoves this
house invites special attention to its
stock, as probably the best in the State
and at prices to suit all purchasers.
Whatever you may wish in the way
of house furnishing goods can be sup
plied at this “emporium,” and be sent
by railroad, if desired. Send for a
circular and learn prices, addressing,
G. S. Obear, 110 Cherry St., Macon,
Ga. See the advertisement in this
number.
Personal. —Dr. H. C. Hornady paid
us a visit last week. We are rejoiced
to see him again well enough to be
about. He has been confined to his
home by severe sickness for two
months past. He is quite feeble as yet,
having lost forty odd pounds in weight
since his confinement, but we feel as
sured that the balmy spring weather,
and exercise, will soon restore him to
his wonted health and strength.
—Rev. Charles A. Stakely, the talent’
ed pastor of the Elberton Baptist
church, is on a brief visit to his mother
in LaGrange. En route he paid The
Index sanctum a visit, accompanied
by Dr. Gwin of our city. We were
glad to make the acquaintance of this
genial and accomplished gentleman.
—Mrs. Emily V. Battey,widow of the
distinguished and lamented Dr. George
Battey, of Rome, is visiting relatives
and friends in Georgia. She is now in
Atlanta.
Mrs. Battey holds a very responsible
position on the staff of the New York
Sun, and her literary contributions to
the leading magazines and other pub
lications are highly prized. She is a
very gifted and accomplished lady who,
surmounting many obstacles, in her
career at the North, has achieved the
literary success and the renumnerative
position to which her talents and her
indomitable perseverance well entitle
her.
—We were glad to welcome to The
Index office our esteemed brother
McWhorter, of St. Mary’s, Camden
county, who is on a brief visit to our
city.
—We had the pleasure of a call from
A. Pope, Esq., the Chief of the Passen
ger Department of the Associated Rail
ways of Virginia and the Carolinas, and
at present in our city on business con
nected with the recent consolidation of
the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line
with the former. This is a grand and
complex system of important roads, re
quiring extraordinary tact and remark
able administrative abilities.
To say that no man in this country
is better qualified to fill such a position
than Col. Pope, is simply to express a
fact known for many years in railroad
circles and by the traveling public. He
is also assisted by a select corps of assis
tants, thoroughly experienced in all
the details of this vast railroad system.
They have in their hands a very im
portant work, of vital interest to our
State.
THE TRANS-ATLANTIC TIDE.
The managers of the New York Bu
reau of Immigration state that the tide
of immigration already pouring into
this country from Europe is extraordi
nary, and that the year 1881 will
unquestionably stand pre eminent, as
to the number of persons seeking
homes in the United States, over all
the passed years.
The pressure in the leading German
ports is already so great that the lead
ing steamship companies have been
obliged to charter additional vessels to
transport the applicants for passage to
America, and the leading British ports
also show unusual activity in the em
igrant business.
The German peasantry, especially,
seem to be moved by the spirit of exo
dus and thousands are on the march,
whilst other thousands are preparing to
follow the others in search of brighter
fortunes in the “Land of Liberty.”
There is good ground for the predic
tion that at the port of New York
alone five hundred thousand immi
grants will land during this year. The
other large ports will probably receive
from fifty to one hundred thousand
more.
The number of immigrants landing
in the United States last year was 327,-
371, the largest influx recorded since
1847. Unprecedented as this number
was, it will be seen that the estimate
for the current year doubles that num
ber.
The Germans predominated largely
last year over other nationalities, the
record at New York showing the arri
val of 104,264 Germans; next the Irish
66,399 ; Sweden, 35,217 ; England, 33,-
768; Italy, 11,190; Scotland, 9,625;
Norway, 9,937; Switzerland, 8,223;
Russia, 7,693 ; Bohemia, 7,606 ; Hun
gary, 6,672; Denmark, 5.577; Austria,
4,461; France, 4,087.
This year the German ratio of in
crease is already much higher. It is
believed that this people will come
175,000 strong, many of them farmers
with some means, mechanics, and oth
er desirable classes.
The Holland steamers are also very
active, and a large number of thrifty
Dutch are expected. It is also esti
mated that emigration from Scandi
navian countries will be thirty per
cent, larger this year than it was last
year. The emigration from Prussia is
especially great. Ireland, too, will be
notably represented, and by a better
class than heretofore, in respect to
means.
But few of this immense host of im
migrants come South, a mere drop
compared to the flood streaming west
ward and northward; and the majority
of this small number go to Texas.
The great Northern and Western
railroad companies, and all the West
ern and Northern States, are represen
ted in all parts of Europe by active and
well paid agents, who reap a golden
harvest for themselves and their em
ployers by this annual tide of immi
gration. Every convenience for the
personal comfort of the newcomers is
provided in the Northern ports, and at
the points of embarkation; and every
inducement imaginable is held out to
them on their arrival to settle on the
fertile fields of the West or to secure
employment in the large cities.
The transportation system is siniply
perfect, and is administered with rare
tact and positive success. It is said
that fully three-fourths of the immi
grants on their arrival hold prepaid
passage tickets to the different points
of destination in the interior of the
country.
Speaking on this point, the New
York Herald says: “Seventy five per
cent, of the immigration to this port,
the Castle Garden people say, goes to
the Western States, and that chiefly of
the most desirable class of immigrants,
such as farmers. The entries regis
tered of the avowed or intended destin
ation at Castle Garden do not precisely
represent the facts. For instance, 137,-
561 reported their destination as New
York, when there can be no doubt that
a large part of these afterward went to
other States. Then the Western
States, to which, it is well known, the
bulk of immigrants go—as Illinois,
Wisconsin, Kansas, Nebraska, and
Minnesota—are credited in the aggre
gate with less than 40,000. The Com
missioners in their report say the lar
gest and best part of the immigrants
go for residence to the Western States.
The land companies, or great proprie
tors, and the railroads of the West
which hold large land grants,do a good
deal through agencies in turning the
tide of immigration to one point or an
other. If the 500,000 or upward of
immigrants which the Castle Garden
people estimate will arrive in 1881 be
worth to the country, according to po
litical economists, SI,OOO a head, we
shall have the present year from this
souice an addition to the national
wealth of $500,000,000.
•—Rev. S. Landrum, D.D., will de
liver the address before the Historical
Society at the meeting of the Baptist
State Convention in Athens.
General Literature —Domestic and Foreign Intelligence—Secular Editorials.
ATLANTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 1 4, 188 I.
Wide Awake makes the following
announcement: “D. Lathrop & Co.,
the Boston publishers, have now in
preparation a complete edition of the
poetical works of Paul Hamilton
Hayne, to be issued as a subscription
work. It is to contain a fine portrait
on steel of the author, with numerous
illustrations, and an introduction by
Margaret J. Preston. The work will
be'printed on the best paper, and in a
style similar to the Illustrated Library
edition of Whittier and Longfellow.
Mr. Hayne, by common consent, ranks
first among the poets of the South, and
is well known at the North, where he
possesses a multitude of friends. He
has written many exquisite short poems
and songs; and his more serious pieces
are characterized by fire and strength.
His works ought to find a place in
every household where a love of poetry
exists.”
JEWETT G. DEVOTIE.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun con
tains a full and interesting account of
the life and death of Mr. DeVotie, its
editor-in-ohief, and whose recent de
mise has filled many loving hearts
with profound grief. Talented, noble
minded,a forceful and agreeable writer,
the place he occupied in Georgia jour
nalism will be hard to fill again.
The Index has already endeavored
to express the profound sympathy felt
by all for our venerated friend, the be
reaved father,Dr. DeVotie; in addition
we publish the following from the En
quirer-Sun descriptive of the funeral
services and alluding to the impressive
remarks made be Rev. A. B. Camp
bell:
“Many dayshave passed since aduty bo sad
has fallen to our lot as that which requires
us to announce the death of Mr. Jewett G.
DeVotie, chief editor of the Enquirer- Sun.
He breathed bis last yesterday morning
about 3:30 o’clock after a short but severe ill
ness. He was the last of Rev. Dr. J. H. De
Votie’s sons; and a more noble and gener
ous hearted gentleman never lived. His
mental and social composition was a rare
combination, for with a warm hearted dis
position, he was a man of great energy and
positive habits of character. Asa friend he
was as true as steel. A sketch of his life is
published in our editorial columns.
“The funeral service took place at four
o’ciock in the afternoon from the First Bap
tist church, Rev, A. B. Campbell, the pastor,
conducting the services and preaching the
funeral sermon. Mr. DeVotie and Mr. Cam
pbell were in college together, and during
the hours of study sat side by side. When
he arose in the pnlpit and looked down up
on the coffin which enclosed the remains of
his dead fellow student, his heart was too
full for utterance and the deepest grief was
depicted in his countenance and the tears
trickled copiously down his face. His ser
mon was one of the moet appropriate of the
kind to which we have ever listened, and
tears came unbidden to eyes unused to
weep, as he spoke in feeling tenderness of
the goodness of God's mercy, and how it
had been extended to us all. He spoke of
the college life of the deceased, and how he
was held in high esteem by all the teachers
and students. How, after school days were
over and years had passed away they were
again thrown together, and" the cordial
friendship of former years ripened into ar
dor again. In closing his remarks he made
a statement of the last few hours of the
life of the deceased, in which he expressed
himself ready to meet his God, and that he
felt that he had a hope in the blood of Je
sus. Looking down upon the coffin, in a
burst of the most pathetic eloquence, he
said, ‘Oh, my friend, I would rather know
that you are in the hands of that God in
whom your father and my father trusts,and
where your mother and my mother are now
with Jesus; I would rather know that you
are in the arms of that blessed Redeemer,
than to call you back to your parent again.’
The large audience was deeply moved, and
there was not a heart present but went
out in sympathetic feeling to the bereaved j
father and in i imate friends of the decea: ed.
“The remains were escorted from the
church by the Columbus Guards, of which
be was an honorary member, followed by
the Enquirer-Sun office in a body. The fol
lowing gentlemen acted as pall bearers : H.
R. Goetchius, S. D. Moore, Dr. J. M. Mason.
W. 8. Holstead, Louis Wells, D. H. Sumner
and Will Redd.
“A large concourse of friends followed the
remains to their last resting place, where
they were placed beside his mother, his sis
ter and his brothers who have gone before.
They were interred with military honors—
the company firing the usual salute. Thus
has the last sad tribute of respect been paid
to one who had endeared himself to many
friends, and whose loss will be seriously felt
by the business men, as well as many others
in this city. But those who knew him best
loved and honored him most. His body has
been consigned to the grave to await' the
resurrection morn. May he rest in peace."
From the same paper we quote the
following deeply interesting incident:
“At the funeral of Mr. DeVotie, on Mon
day evening, on the front pew next the bier,
sat Dr. DeVotie, the reverend father and on
ly relative of the deceased present. A short
distance to tee rear, and in the midst of the
large audience, sat his long tried friend and
brother, Rev. T. B. Slade, his head white
with the snows of fourscore winters. Justas
the notes of the closing hymn died away,the
venerable form of Mr. Slade arose from the
seat and stooping with the infirmities of age,
tottered along the aisles toward the space in
front of the pulpit. Rev. Mr. Campbell, the
officiating minister, who was advancing to
signal the pall-bearers to resume the proces
sion to the cemetery, instantly paused mid
way the spacious pulpit, and with bowing
head awaited the movements of the venera
ted patriarch. The latter advanced towards
the solitary mourner, their arms were affec
tionately twined around each other’s necks,
and while they mingled their tears in silence
the weeping audience gazed upon the specta
cle with the solemn stfllnessof the judgment
day. The holy spell of heart-melting sym
pathy was not distured by a sound or a mo
tion till the aged men calmly released each
other and took their seats side by side. The
pall-bearers, followed by the audience, then
proceeded noiselessly from the house to "bear
their precious burden to its final resting place,
doubtless eveiy heart musing upon the ex
alted nature of a religion that binds man to
his brother in stronger and tenderer bonds
as afflictions pelt more heavily and earthly
hopes recede farther and farther from the
fading vision.”
LITERARY NOTES AND COMMENIS
CARLYLE.
When a mountain falls into the sea
great commotion is caused thereby.
From the spot of engulphment to the
farthermost shores the vibrations of the
mighty blow are felt. It takes some
time before the disturbed balance of
land and water is restored, and the
usual order of nature prevails. So,
when a mountain in the intellectual
world, some literary Olympus topples
and falls into the sea of Eternity, the
shores of the Present are conscious of
the vibrating fall, and the inky sea of
literature swells and sinks, and by its
unquiet throbbings manifests the po
tent event.
This figure applies, we think, to
Carlyle and his recent death. The
ponderous, Solomonic and altogether
autocratic Reviews, and the dapper,
nice, perfumed and altogether flippant
“Society” papers, and the cross-road
Buglehorns alike have had their say,
and have printed their diverse opinions
of the man and his works. The sea of
literature has been stirred to its depths
by a notable event. Rarely has one
mind and its literary mode—one man
and his dealings with the thought of
his age —created livelier and wider dis
cussion than the illustrious Scotchman
and crowned English master.
For the most part the thinking world
thinks well of him and his work ; he is
praised as an illustrator of spiritual
heroism; as a very royal man in an
age of royal men. But the minnows,
as well as the whales, among the crit
ics, have been incited to unusual ac
tivity by the general disturbance. Sev
eral have shown themselves among the
shallows, wriggling themselves into
notice by a proclamation of their opin
ion of the mountain that has disap
peared in death’s vortex. And they
say (the minnows) that he was neither
a great thinker nor a great writer, nor
had he any sympathy with, or knowl
edge of, human nature; that he Whs a
most noisy, jargoning ranter, a jaun
diced man-hater and slayer of respecta
ble and well-beloved theories —in fact
an uncanny, selfish fellow, who thought
with a weak stomach, and wrote out
his thoughts with a diseased liver 1
t Let us be charitable and believe that
the minnows have either not swallowed
and digested the "food for men” pre
pared by Carlyle, or that it is too
strong for them, being babes, and there
fore confined by custom and the doc
tor’s prescription to diluted milk and
paregoric.
We must bear with them good
naturedly. It is natural for flies to buzz
in the beams of the noonday sun. To
the Liliputians the shoes, even, of the
Brobdingnagians were monstrous and
incomprehensible things—there was
not tape enough in all Liliput to meas
ure the circumference of such a shoe!
If such was the case with this small
statured people in their first experience
with giants, what is to be said of our
minnows of the milk and paregoric
press? Or, in the apt words of Car
lyle himself, “Can the’minnow under
stand the ocean tides and periodic cur
rents by which the condition of its little
creek is regulated?” Nay, that were to
ask too much of them. Let us be
charitable, and heartily wish them safe
deliverance from their unprofitable
business.
—“The rejection of the manuscript
of an unfamiliar author,” says the Bos
ton Herald, “is perhaps oftener on ac
count of illegible handwriting than of
lack of merit. There is no greater tor
ture for an editor than to have to at
tempt to decipher a bad manuscript,
and the sense, especially of a poem, is
frequently entirely lost in the tangled
maze of wretched penmanship. Sir
Francis Jeffrey knew so well the diffi
culty of forming a correct judgment of
an article by a reading in manuscript,
that, when he sent in his first article
after he had retired from the Edinburgh
Review, he had an understanding with
Napier, his successor, that it should
not be read until it appeared in the
proof. A few years ago the editor of
the Saturday Review was accustomed
to have every article which appeared
as if it might be worth acceptance put
into type before deciding upon it, for,
as Charles Lamb says, there is no such
raw and unsatisfactory reading as an
article in manuscript. The same prac
tice is followed by the editor of Har
per’s Magazine, it is said. Even au
thors of wide experience, like Thomas
Moore and Macaulay, were seldom able
to form a judgment of their own works
until they had seen how they looked in
print."
—The fashion of publishing bio
graphical and critical sketches of nota
ble men and women in Series continues
to spread. The latest announcement
is of an “American Men and Women
of Letters” series, to be edited by Mr.
James T. Fields, and published by
Messrs. Houghton, Mifflin & Co. The
first volume will be on Washington
Irving, and is assigned to Mr. Charles
Dudley Warner.
—To the question of a correspon
dent, “What was the news to which
Browning refers in his poem ‘How they
Brought the Good News from Ghent to
Aix?’” Good Literature replies: “Since
receiving this query we had searched
for the answer faithfully, but without
success, and had almost concluded that
to write to Mr. Browning himself was
the only resource; when we found, in
the last number of the Literary World,
that the enterprising Boston journal
had done this very thing. Some time
ago, in response to a query on the same
subject, the Literary World had given
the Pacification of Ghent as the sub
ject of the poem; but it now says :
‘Renewed inquiry has led us to further
investigation, the result of which is to
demolish all historical foundation of
the poem whatsoever.’ The following
statement in a private note from the
author of the poem, dated London, Jan.
23, will be accepted, of course, as final:
‘There is no sort of historical founda
tion for the poem about “Good News
to Ghent.” I wrote it under the bul
wark of a vessel, off the African coast,
after I had been at sea long enough to
appreciate even the fancy of a gallop
on the' back of a certain good horse,
“York,” then in my stable at home.
It was written in pencil on the fly-leaf
of Bartoli’ “Simboli," I remember.’”
THIS POET.
CHARLES W. HUBNER.
True Poet I great or least,
How blest is thy vocation!
Seer, Teacher, Prophet, Priest
By holy consecration;
Who can thy sway resist ?
Who ranketh thee in stal ion ?
A laik above the lea
Her sheer flight heavenward winging,
A wondrous melody
Like silvery spray outflinging,
Thy perfect pattern be
Poet! in all thy singing.
Sing true, and sing thy best!
It is well worth thy doing
To bld the honest breast
Beware of Falsehood’s wooing,
To sing of love and rest
When hate and strife are brewing.
Behold! the morning light
Os a New Day is gleaming;
O Poet I wing thy flight
To greet its fuller beaming—
When Wrong shall yield to Right,
And Truth be more than Seeming. ,
The Georgia Pharmaceutical Asso
ciation, of which Mr. Theodore Schu
mann, of Atlanta, is President, holds
its annual session in Columbus on
Tuesday, April 12th. The druggists
are making strenuous exertions to have
laws passed by the General Assembly
regulating in an enlightened manner
the sale and manipulation of medicines
in this State, and placing the execu
tion of such laws and the control of all
matters regulating their business in
the hands of druggists, as it is in other
occupations. This is the case in all
the advanced or progressive States in
the Union. They are supposed to be
more familiar with such affairs than
members of any other craft or profes
sion, and they deserve to succeed.
Druggists and apothecaries occupy an
important and responsible position in
our communities, and everything cal
culated to perfect their work should be
encouraged. This organization is in
tended to do this, and they call for the
co-operation of all interested. Drug
gists and drug clerks who are, or are
not, members are cordially invited to
be present. A full, useful and pleas
ant session is anticipated.
The Broadway Tabernacle series of
May meetings in New York, which will
occupythe week from the Bth to the 15 th
of the month, has been arranged. The
following organizations will participate
and in the order given:
May B.—American Home Missionary Society,
■> a—Woman’s National Christian Tem
perance Union.
New York Port Society.
“ 10.—New York Sunday-school Associa
tion.
National Temperance Society.
“ 11.—American Female Guardian Society.
American Tract Society.
“ 12.—New York Institution for Instruct
ion of Deaf and Dumb.
New York Bible Society.
" 13.—New York Society for Prevention of
Crime.
Foreign Sunday-school Association.
“ 15.—American Board Commissioners foi
Foreign Missions.
—A Chicago Communist predicts
that the red flag of the Commune “is
destined in the near future to occupy
a higher position than the Star Span
gled Banner,” to which the Mobile
Register cogently replies, “The Com
munist forgets that ifhe had not sought
the protection of the Star Spangled
Banner he would perhaps have occu
pied an elevated position in his own
country.”
—The new Land Bill introduced in
the British Parliament by Gladstone
seems to have been framed skillfully
to meet the present landlord and ten
ant troubles in Ireland. It has met
the approval of the Conservatives, and
can hardly fail in having a quieting
and reassuring effect on all sides—the
Communists excepted.
~A Society has been formed in
New York for the prevention of street
accidents. The organization numbers
among its members Governor Cornell,
Wm. M. Evarts and other prominent
citizens. They purpose extending aid
also to those who are injured by street
accidents who are in need of aid.
ESTABLISHED I 821.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—The Carnesville railroad will surely be
built.
—Partridges are sold for five cents a pieoe
in Gainesville.
—There are two hundred students at the
North Georgia Agricultural College, in Dah
lonega.
—The route of the proposed Georgia Wes
tern railroad is now being surveyed by an
engineer from New York.
—The colored citizens of Darien want the
public schools in that city to be kept open
nine months of the year.
—From those who are in a position tn
know, we learn that more guano will ba
used in Meriwether county this year than
perhaps ever before.
—The Early County News says: “We are
happy to announce that the money has been
paid in to complete the railroad to Blakely;
and that operations have commenced at both
ends of the line.”
—Savannah has exported largely of naval
stores, during the year jmt closed, to Eng
land, France, Germany, Scotland, Ireland,
Italy, South America, Holland and Spain.
—The cotton receipts of Macon, up to
April Ist, were 61.422 bales, against 50,349
up to the same date last year. The receipts
foot up 9,735 bales more than was received
during the whole of last year.
—Rev. P. T. Babbet, the pastor of the
Episcopal church in Bainbridge, is dead.
He was seventy years old, and had been a
resident of Bainbridge for eleven years. He
filled his pulpit the Sunday previous to his
death, and preached an able an.d impressive
sermon. He had been suffering from asthma
for a number of years.
—Ex Senator Gordon, of Geergia, who is
getting liis engineers together for the build
ing of the Georgia Western railroad, says
that in the North there has been more inter
est in the South during the last six months
than was manifested in the last ten years.
Everybody whom Gen. Gordon met in the
North seemed anxious to invest in the South.
—The North and South railroad is now
called the Columbus and Rome railroad ; the
Atlantic and Gulf railroad is now the Savan
nah, Florida and Western railway ; the Sa
vannah and Memphis railroad is the Colum
bus and Western railroad; the Selma, Rome
and Dalton railroad is now known as the
Selma Division of the East Tennessee, Vir
gil ia and Georgia railroad; the Atlanta Air-
Line railroad is now the Atlanta and Char
lotte Air Line railway.
—The Augusta cow ordinance ha': been
repealed, and now the cows are restored to
their old privileges of promenading the
streets, frightening women and children and
destroying flower gardens in that city. The
City Council of Atlanta, on the contrary, has
just passed a stringent law against the nuis
ance, much to the gratification of allintellis
gent citizens.
—Elberton Gazette: “We announced a
few weeks ago that a small cotton factory
would be put up in Elberton. We now be
lieve that one will be put up in town and
another in the country—that Elbert county
will have two cotton factories in operation
within a year. A SSO 000 factory is in cons
temptation in the lower part of the county,
and the stock is all taken but $15,000, ana
this will be taken in a short while. The
factory contemplated in Elberton is to cost
about s3s,ooo—not less —to be run by steam,
and the buildings are to be so constructed as
to allow of an enlargement at a small ex
pense."
—S. C. Caldwell, Secretary of the Georgia
Teachers’ Association, makes the following
announcement: “The annual Convention
of the Georgia Teachers’ Association, for
1881, was to convene in Atlanta on the first
Tuesday in May. As the National Associa
tion meets in that city on July 19th, it has
been thought best that the meeting of the
State organization occur at the same time
and place. I therefore announce to the
members of the Georgia Teachers’ Associa
tien, and to our brethren throughout the
State, that the annua) convention will be
postponed from May until July 19th.”
—Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
“A gentleman from Elberton tells us there ia
a settled determination in that town to build
a railroad from Elberton and connect with
the line at the Glade, as soon as it is comple
ted to that point. If this be done, Augusta
and Athens will have restored to them a
splendid territory that the Air-Line road has
taken from them. The Glade is only twelve
miles from Elberton, and it does not seem
reasonable that such a thriving town would
permit an outlet to the Southern seaboard
stop so near them without connecting. We
only mention this fact to show the vital and
growing importance of the Broad River rail
road, to both Augusta and Athens.”
—There is a fat prospect for in
the winding up of the affairs of the defunct
bank of Rome. The assignee says: “I deem
it proper to state that I have been notified
by the Slate Treasurer that the State claims
a lien on all the assets of the bank for pay
ment of the deposit due the State, and a
priority payment over other creditors, and
that I must not pay any money to other
debts until the State's claim is satisfied.
Other creditors hare notified me that this
claim of the State will be contested. Various
other complications will probably he involv
ed, such as the right of depositors and others
holding claims against the bank to a set off
against demands of the bank upon them.
My purpose is to collect up the assets as rap
idly as possible, and as soon as a thorough
understanding can be had of the condition
of the bank, and of the various complica
tions alluded to. to submit the matters to
the court by a bill in equity for its adiudica
tion upon the rights of all parties.”
—Hamilton (Harris county) Journal- “The
visit of a Harris county farmer to Mississippi
to procure farm labor, of which mention was
made in these columns last week, is big-with
significance to this section of Georgia. For
a while we have been able to stay the tide of
emigration, and now we believe that there is
to be a return tide, of which the little squad
of Mr. Maddox is only a beginning, that is
destined to aid materially our already recov
ering agricultural industry. For years we
have supplied the States west of us with
Governors, Senators, legislators, mechanics
and farm laborers, until the interior country
has become almost a desert waste. That we
have been able to withstand this constant
drain upon our resources, and to gain in ma
terial wealth the while, proves the wonderftri
vitality of the old land, and now .that the
tide has turned, we picture prosperous times
for the not distant future. These hundreds
of negroes, anxious to return, will be sup
plied with means, and their experience has
been such as to make far better laborers of
them than they were before they went West.
As it was, certainly the better class that left,
and their experience has been such as to
improve their usefulness, their return will
result in much good to the country."
