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The Christian Index.
BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO.
The Christian Index.
Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 8. Broad. St.
Prohibition has been defeated in the
Rhode Island Legislature.
—There was great rejoicing in Fer
nandina, Florida, over the completion
of the railroad connecting that city
with Jacksonville.
President Garfield has accepted
an invitation to deliver an oration at
the Yorktown Centennial celebration.
A United States man-of-war will be or
dered to Yorktown upon which to en
tertain the French representatives
who will be there.
The body of the late A. T. Slewart,
the New York millionaire, and which
was stolen by thieves last year, to ex
tort money from the estate, has been
recovered. It is now hermetically
sealed and placed beyond the reach of
grave-robbers in its crypt in the Stew
art Memorial church at Garden City.
. The Citizens’ Bank of Atlanta sus
pended last week. It was one of the
State depositories. At the time of sus
pension the bank held SIOB,OOO of the
State funds on deposit. There are also
a large number of private depositors.
It is stated by the directors that the
resources of the bank are sufficient to
cover the liabilities.
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The latest returns from Chio state
that 8,000 persons were killed and 10,-
000 injured by the recent earthquakes.
The locality, which suffered the most,
is Nevita, where 1,200 were killed. The
violent shock, which occured on Mon
day, caused the surface of the ground
to subside three feet. Great numbers
of the inhabitants are emigrating.
A mass meeting of the physicians of
New York City, held a few days ago,
declared that the metropolis is threat
ened with pestilence, because of the lax
manner in which sanitary laws are en
forced ; many essential health-laws are
not enforced at all, for political reasons.
To meet this deplorable state of affairs
strong resolutions were adopted, among
these one item deserves the attention
of our people here at home, to-wit:
Resolved, That we deny the right of polit
icians to decide matters pertaining to the
health of the State by claims upon party
fealty, and that we protf st against the poficy
which subjects the in alth and welfare of our
citizens to the behests of party leaders, how
ever exalted their position.
Disraeli. —The death of Disraeli,
Earl Beaconsfield, which occurred in
London last Monday, removes from
' earth one of the most remarkable men
of the nineteenth century. His his
tory is as startling in surprises and as
thrilling in incidents, as a romance.
In political and social life he achieved
the apparently impossible; he was
unquestionably the most brilliant
statesman of the age, and in literature
occupied a position of eminence. His
genius was of the dazzling, flashing,
meteoric sort; very beautiful to be
hold, but rather unsafe to follow. Eng
land will be proud of him, despite his
glaring faults. He will live in the in
tellect of the English people when the
heart of the nation shall have long for
gotten him.
The Georgia Mutual Relief As
sociation. —This is the name of an as
sociation, purely mutual, organized un
der the laws of Georgia, for the insur
ance of life. The office is in this city,
and the following well-known gentle
men constitude the board of officers:
G. J. Foreacre, President; W. P.
Orme, Vice-President; Robert M. Far
rar, Secretary; Jas. F. Alexander,
M.D.; Medical Director; R. A. Varne
doe, General Agent.
The Association is wisely and
thoroughly organized, and affords an
excellent opportunity to all who desire
to provide for their families by life in
surance on an approved and very ec
onomical basis.
Public School Panics.—They are
excited at Baltimore about the means
of egress from the public school build
ings, in case of fire, and the council
has provided SIO,OOO for immediate
use in- improving such means. The
lesson should apply to all builders of
structures designed to shelter large
numbers of people.
Prof. Slaton, the very efficient Super
intendent of the Atlanta public schools,
has an admirable “fire-drill” in opera
tion in his schools, by which it is claim
ed at a given signal the inmates of
any school-building in the city can be
placed beyond danger in sixty seconds.
The recent alarm of fire at the Ivey
street school should incite all in au
thority to sleepless vigilance in this mat
ter. The Board of Education should
examine into the means of egress in
our schools and promptly remedy any
defects that may exist, and officially
notify our citizens of their action.
The public mind is disturbed on this
. subject in our city, and not without
reason—it is horrible to contemplate
the calamities resulting from a panic in
crowded buildings.
LITERARY NOTES AND COM
MENTS.
—Carl Schurz’s book, a sort of po
litical novel, will be out next fall.
Yes, and Carl’s publishers will be
“out,” too— of pocket, unless they take
the sad experience of Endymion's
burnt fingered publishers to heart.
But of course they will, and Carl
must foot the bill.
—A paper by R. W. Emerson, on
his personal impressions of Thomas
Carlyle, made up from his unpub
lished letters written at the time of
his first visit to England, will appear
in Scribner for May. The publication
is made by special arrangement with
Mr. Emerson and the Massachusetts
Historical Society, before which the
paper was read, and in the minutes of
which it is to be printed after its ap
pearance in Scribner.
—Sir Julius Benedict, the famous
London composer who, as pianist and
director, accompanied Jenny Lind in
her American tour in 1850, has writ
ten a biographical and critical paper
on “the Swedish nightingale” for the
May Scribner’s. The article is said
to contain interesting comparisons of
her with Malibran and other contem
porary artists. The accompanying
portrait of Jenny Lind, engraved by
Closson from an old daguerreotype,
taken while she was in America, will
be a striking feature of the number.
At the end of his article, Sir Julius
hints that he may follow this paper
with another, upon the subject of
musical conservatories in this country.
—The earliest printed Bible known
was sold recently at auction in Lon
.don. It brought $3,800. It is sup
posed to be also the first book ever
printed from movable types. It con
tains only the Old Testament, is in
Latin, is a folio, and is known to have
been printed at Metz about 1452 by
John Gutenberg. It was found by
accident in the sacristy of an old Ba
varian church.
—A little anecdote of Mr. Carlyle
describes him as looking at Holman
Hunt’s picture of “Christ in the Tem
ple.” He admired the faces of the
doctors of the law, but added : “I dis
like all pictures of Christ; you will
find that men never thought of paint
ing Christ till they had begun to lose
the impression of him in their hearts.”
—Mr. Moncure D. Conway writes
to the Cincinnati Commeicial as fol
lows about Mother Shipton’s alleged
prophecies: “I observe that Mother
Shipton’s ‘Prophecies’ still excite at
tention in America. It does not 'seem
to be known there that the said
‘Prophecies’ are the confessed forgeries
of Chas. Hindley, a resident of Brigh
ton.”
—The London Figaro commenting
on the unnecessary use of French and
other foreign words in our conversa
tion, and especially in our current liter
ature, aptly says : “The only possible
excuse for using French, or German,
or Greek, or Chinese, or other foreign
words is, when no word in our own
language expresses quite the meaning
which the adopted term conveys.
How seldom this is the case let Charles
Dickens’ works show. He wrote all
his novels without, so far as our obser
vation goes, using a single foreign
word or phrase. And no one can say
his vocabulary was defective.”
Our best writers avoid this blemish,
finding the wonderful flexibility and
frank expressiveness of our language
altogether sufficient for conveying to
the mind the subtlest meaning of
spoken or written thought, in the loft
iest flights of the imagination, or the
profoundest disquisitions of metaphys
ics.
A pure, idiomatic style is a grace
worthy of the care and attention of
every writer. To pepper and salt an
article with foreign words and phrases
is either pedantic or silly affectation, or
it is done to hide the poverty and
meanness of the writer’s effusion by
anostentatious display of borrowed
-spangles and imported gew-gaws.
—Each number of Harper's Maga
zine, since December, has had three
extra editions, and the May number
will be the largest ever printed. The
regular English edition is now 15,000
copies.
—A very interesting sale of rare
and ancient books is in progress in
New York, comprising a portion of
the famous Brinley Library. From
the Sun we quote the following des
cription of some of the quaint works
sold:
At the sale of the Brinley library
yesterday the auctioneer, having pas
sed through the list of biographies,
touched in the afternoon the depart
ment of “Mexico.” “The Pleasant
Historic of the Conquest of the West
India. Achieved by the Most Worthie
Prince Hernando Cortes, most delecta
ble to reade,” translated from the
Spanish by Thomas Nicholas, and
printed in London by Thomas Creede
in 1596, was bought by the Yale Col
lege Library for $34. Two other books
published in the city of Mexico in the
years 1766 and 1738, brought sl6 and
General Literature —Domestic and Foreign Intelligence—Secular Editorials.
ATLANTA, THURSDAY, APRIL 21, 1881.
$26 respectively, and were purchased
by the Library of the State Depart
ment at Washington.
The highest price so far obtained in
the sale was brought by Rikcl’s “Com
pendio,” printed at the City of Mexico
by Juan Cromberger, in the year 1544,
said to be the second book ever printed
on American soil. Dr. Trumbull, who
compiled the catalogue, says in his
preface of this book«that it is “a land
mark in typography, half way from
Gutenberg, and the first Bible to
Steven Daye and the Bay Psalm Book
of 1640.” It is a little book of a dozen
leaves bound in white vellum, and is,
in truth, as the catalogue note says,
“Bright and clean as when it came
from the press of Juan Cromberger
336 years ago —almost a hundred
years before the Bay Psalm Book was
printed at Cambridge.” The book was
bought by Mr. Sabin for a gentleman
of this city who has a rare collection.
The price paid was $525.
A narrative of the voyage of the
brothers Bartolome Garcia and Goncalo
de Nodal, containing the log and daily
journal of the voyage, which was made
by command of Philip 111, of Spain,
in 1618 and 1619, to verify the discov
ery of the Straits of St. Vincent by
Schouten and Le Maire in 1617, the
volume being published in Madrid in
1621, was bought for a private col
lector for $240, Mr. Brayton Ives being
an unsuccessful competitor.
Increase Mather’s “Brief History of
the Warr with the Indians in New
England,” published in Boston by
“John Foster over against the sign of
the Dove” in 1676, was sold for $65,
and John Eliot’s “Further Account of
the Progress of the Gospel Amongst the
Indians in New England,” published
in London in 1660, was bought for
$l3O by the Library of the State De
partment at Washington.
Prizes amounting to $1,500 are
offered by the American, of Philadel
phia, to American college students and
graduates for the best editorials, special
essays and poems. There are two sets
of prizes, which number twenty-one in
all—one for college students only, and
the other for graduates. The topics
are not limited, and all articles unsuc
cessful in the competition, but which
reach the standard adopted by the
American, will be accepted by that
journal and paid for at the regular
rates. Well known journalists have
been selected as judges. The particu
lars of the competition may be learned
by writing to W. R. Balch, managing
editor of the American, Philadelphia.
The Magazine of Art.—The April
number, No. 6, vol. IV, of this splendid
Art publication is before us. The con
tents are : “The Forbidden Book,” from
the painting of Karl Ooms. The Dul
wich Gallery; by Henry Wallis, with
three engravings. Wood-carving—ll,
by G. A. Rogers, with four engravings.
Italian Modern Sepulchral Art; the
“Campo Santo” of Genoa; by W. Dal
low. Symbolism in Art—l, by Alfred
Beaver; with ten illustrations. Our
Living Artists: Leon Bonnat; by Alice
Meynell, with portrait and two engrav
ings. A Roman Majolica Manufac
tory, by T. A. Trollope illustrated. Ar
chitectural Sculpture—l, by E. I. Bell,
with s'.x engravings. The Story of an
Artist’s Struggle —I, by John Oldcastle.
“Young Troubles,” from the painting
by George Knorr. The Ideal in An
cient Painting, illustrated. The Story
of an Old Picture, by C. Duncan. The
Royal Scottish Academy Exhibition,
by G. R. Halketh, with five engrav
ings. “The Lizard,” from the statue
by M. Antoine Felix Boure. Art Notes.
It is unquestionable that the “Art
Magazine” is the most perfect and ele
gant publication of the kind in English
literature. It is a treasure-house to
every lover of art, and indispensable to
all who desire to keep pace with its
development in Europe and America.
Yearly subscription $3.50. Single
numbers 35 cents. Cassel, Petter, Gal
pin & Co., 739 and 741, Broadway,
New York.
Maj. W. J. Houston.—The traveling
public, as well as the Richmond and
Danville railroad, are to be congratula
ted upon the fact that the invaluable
services of Maj W. J. Houston will be
retained by that great corporation as
Assistant General Passenger Agent.
A more laborious, energetic, consci
entious and public-spirited man than
he is, is not to be found engaged in the
railroad service. He is deservedly
popular with the people because he is
ever alive to the wants of the people,
and popular with railroad manage
ments because of his faithful and con
scientious discharge of duty. His
broad views, long experience and ex
ecutive ability, fit him for any position
in the railroad service. It is as fortu
nate for Atlanta and the Piedmont
Belt as for the railway, that he is still
with us.
Late dispatches affirm that the
threatened war between France and
the Bey of Tunis has been averted;
Italy failing to support the Tunisian
government in its demands.
POPULAR AMUSEMENTS.
[Few modern writers are better quali
fied to discuss this subject in its high
est aspect, than Mr. Theodore J. El
more, the gifted author of “Family
Memorials,” an elegant illustrated vol
ume of prose and verse, and biographi
cal sketches of members of that large
and prominent family.
As an active member of the great
Southern music firm of Ludden &
Bates, of Savannah, Mr. Elmore has
had an opportunity to study the char
acter and influence of some of the best
and most attractive amusements of the
day,—those of a lyric nature. His fine
literary and classical education, in
Chicago, was early supplemented by a
thorough knowledge of the art and
practice of music, and that knowledge
has been used to the best advantage
ever since.
The influence of musical culture
upon his character has been most
marked, not only in the quiet refine
ment of his manners, but in giving
chasteness and beauty to his prose and
verse. No one can read his literary
productions and not see in them the
traces of a musical and religious train
ing, which has softened their tone, beau
tified their style, and consecrated their
sentiments to the service of the true,
the good, and the beautiful.
In his “Family Memorials,” under
the head of “School-Day Writings,”
Mr. Elmore portrays the importance of
“Popular Amusements” in one of his
sweetest prose effusions, which I take
pleasure inre producing below.]
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“ Life is real; lite is earnest;’ exclaims
one of our modern poeis, upon contemplat
ing its fearful responsibilities And, as we
ponder man's wonderful powers for good or
evil; his superiority over the entire animal
creatien; the limitless empire over which
his intellect reigns supreme, we daily realize,
more and more fully, the truth of this asser
tion.
"The chief end of our earthly existence is
happiness, that one word summing up the
whole. All the various objects for which
life is given us ; all the diversified »oals to
be attained, which have been rehearsed in
countless numbers, are comprehended in
that one prolific term —happiness. For al
though this world is only a place in which
to prepare for that which is to come—our
true, our eternal existence—yet here we must
learn what true happiness is; here we must
study the true fountain of all felicity, if we
would ever know it hereafter.
“Our happiness in this life depends, in no
slight degree, upon our success in making
others happy. In assisting others, we our
selves are blessed; encouraging others, we
find ourselves strengthened; living for others,
our own lives are rendered doubly joyous.
Happiness, then, being the great desidera
tum of existence, he who adds to this in any
manner, must be regardtd as a benefactor
of his race; and whatever increases our joys,
we must not disregard. Os such a character
are harmless amusements.
"Tbe morning-glory closes its bright bios
som, hides its beauties and prinks in tbe re
viving dew of evening ; that at the dawn it
may come forth smiling through the glisten
ing drops gathered upon it, to greet that
glorious sun, which now rises to assume ac
customed sway, and summons this bright
flower to do him homage. What tbe dew is
to the morning-glory, amusement is to man.
In like manner he must rest from toil, a d
invigorate his we .ried faculties by healthful
recreation, if he would enter upon each sue
cessive day's duties with zest, and regard
them, not as irksome tasks imposed by an
irrevocable fate, but, on the other hand, as
one of his most fruitful sources of enjoy
ment.
“The amusements largely engaged in and
patronized by the people, should be such as
will invigorate both mind and body ; and,
if well chosen, such will be their effect.
They were appointed for man's good ; or
dained to improve his condition, to increase
his pleasures, to render his life more happy.
They were destined to be one of the most
effective weapons against care and adversity.
Such popular amusements have been (and
sueb they should continue to be) wherever
vice has not made them subservient to its
base purposes. Sad, indeed, would be tbe
corruption of our popular amusements, our
chief sources ofharmless recreation. Sadder,
stili, would be their utter downfall. For in
that fall would be lost all that has been so
fondly hoped concerning their powerful in
fluence for good, even as one, watching a
beautiful rosebud, expecting to see it burst
forth into the glory of the full blossom, be
holds it withering and fading before his eyes,
with a worm at its heart.”
Georgia Press Association.—J. H.
Estill, Esq., President of the Georgia
Press Association, makes the following
announcement:
“The annual meeting will be held at
Rome, on Wednesday, May 11th. The
attention of all interested is called to
the following extracts from the Consti
tution of the Association:
“The membership of this Association
shall consist of such newspapers or oth
er periodical publications in Georgia
as shall be elected and admitted under
this Constitution; these may be repre
sented by their respective editors and
proprietors or by one proxy each. No
person shall be entitled to represent any
paper by proxy who is not the editor or
proprietor of a paper which is a member
of this Association.
“Applicants for membership shall
submit their petitions in writing,accom
panied by the fee ($2) which applica
tion shall be balloted on by the Associa
tion, and the ballots of two-thirds of the
members present shall be necessary to
the admission of the applicant.”
Newspapers, as a rule, are provided
with annuals over the railroads on or
near which they are published. Spe
cial tickets, therefore, have been only
provided for over the Central Railroad
and branches, the Western and Atlan
tic and Rome Railroad. Compliment
aries (including a lady, if requested)
over the Central Railr< ad and branch-
es will be issued on application to J. H.
Estill, Savannah, and over the Wes
tern and Atlantic and Rome Railroads
by B. W. Wrenn, Esq., Atlanta.
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Savannah News, 18th: “Rev. Dr.
Sylvanus Landrum, the respected and
beloved clergyman who has been pas
tor of the Savannah Baptist church the
past several years, having resigned to
accept a position in another field of
labor in the State, yesterday morning
preached his farewell sermon to his
congregation. The church was crowd
ed, there being a number present from
other denominations who are warm
personal friends of Dr. Landrum. The
sermon was able and eloquent, and the
concluding portion, in which he bade
farewelf to his congregation, was pecu
liarly touching and beautiful, and made
a profound impression.
“At the close of the services, a church
meeting was held, at which a series of
resolutions, expressive of the regret the
congregation felt at parting with their
pastor, and tendering their best wishes
for God’s blessings upon him in his
new field of labor, were unanimously
passed.
“Rev. J. E. L. Holmes, of Danville,
Va., was then unanimously elected pas
tor of the church, and will be promptly
notified of the action.
“We may here mention that a few
days since the congregation, as a testi
monial of their esteem and affection,
sent Dr. Landrum a very handsome
gold-headed cane, and to Mrs. Landrum
a beautiful silver tilting pitcher, with
goblets and salver, accompanied by a
letter, expressing their regard.”
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Biography of Baptist Ministers
of Georgia.—Rapid progress, consist
ent with absolute correctness of text,
and beauty of workmanship, is being
made in the Biography by our pub
lishers. No expense or labor is spared
to make the work perfect in every re
spect. We are satisfied the work will
exceed the highest expectations of our
patrons and the denomination. A few
days ago the publishers obtained pos
session of a rare and valuable map of
Georgia, published sixty-three years
ago. It shows the territory our de
nomination extended over then, and
gives an idea of the Indian territory we
were trying to evangelize. There is a
good deal about State history in the
work now going through the press, and
this old map is admirably suited to
make an interesting feature of it, hence
we have secured this map, and are
having it handsomely engraved for
that purpose.
Our friends will see, and we are sure
will appreciate, our efforts to give them
a book of unique interest, and invalua
ble as a permanent repository of the
history of our denomination, and of the
devoted men who have illustrated this
history by their worthy lives and useful
labors.
A dispatch from Berlin to the Lon
don Times says: “The anti-Jewish
petition sent to Prince Bismarck a few
days ago, had been going about the
Empire for signatures for six months
past, and aims at imposing restrictions
on the immigration of Jews into Ger
many, and excluding them from cer
tain walks of activity altogether, in fact
undoing much of the legislation of the
past in their favor; but the objects of
the petition are hopeless in view of the
utterances of the government that it
does not intend to permit the existing
laws affecting the Jews to be repealed
or altered. Prince Bismarck has also
told the Bundesrath that the anti-
Jewish agitation is against his wisher.
The Crown Prince, Frederick William,
and the Emperor have still less sym
pathy with the movement.”
Gen. Garibaldi’s declaration that .as
sassination is the secret whereby tl e
ultimate triumph of the revolution is
to be secured, and that the assassins
are the true precursors of the reign of
the future social republic, has been
hailed with delight by the communists
of the continent. At Ghent a Socialist
orator, after eulogizing the murderer
of the Czar, declares that the King of
the Belgians ought to share his fate.
Among those who ought, in M. Roch
efort’s phrase, to be “nitro-glycerined,”
according to the theory of the social
republic, are included all tne author
ities from St. Petersburg to Washing
ton.
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—Mrs. Blaine, Mrs. Sherman and
other ladies in Washington have ad
dressed an eloquent appeal to the
American people in behalf of the suf
fering people of Chio. Pastors and
business men are specially urged to be
gin the work of opening subscription
books. Telegrams from the island
state that additional earthquake shocks
have occurred since the first disaster
and it is presumed that not a house
will be left standing on the fated
island. The number of dead and woun
ded is estimated at eighteen thousand.
Thirty thousand people are homeless.
Greece has officially anounced the
acceptance of the Turkish proposals
touching the frontier question. So the
Greek fire ends in smoke, after all.
ESTABLISHED I 811.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—Brunswick is improving commendably.
—Cotton seed are scarce in Dougherty
county.
—The condition of McDuffie county, finan
cially, is excellent.
—Large quantities of hay are being bought
in Georgia this year.
—The 26th instant is the sixty second an
niversary of Odd Fellowship.
Judge Hiram Warner is not improving
in health, and is now very low.
Labor on the farms has been greatly re
tarded by the late unfavorable weather.
—The farmers of Meriwether county are
plowing up their corn and planting over.
—The extremely cold weather has effectu
ally killed the fruit crop in the greater part
of Georgia.
—A ugusta has relapsed into barbarism in
the matter of giving vagrant cows the free
dom of the city.
—Rev. Dr. Robert Irvine, a venerable and
distinguished Pre<byterian divine, died in
Augusta last week.
—lt is estimated that the damage from the
freshet in Douglas county will amount to
fifty thousand dollars.
—Field bands are very scarce in Monroe.
Several large planters have very few, and
many have not a single one.
—Tbe passenger trains of the Macon and
Brunswick railroid are now supplied with
air brakes of the latest improvement.
The ladies of Hancock cou ity are gath
ering means with which to erect a handsome
monument to the Confederate dead.
—The survey of the Gainesville and Jug
Tavern railroad has been completed to Jug
Tavern via Hosch’s store, in Jackson county.
—The better class of colored men in At*“
lanta have inaugurated a movement for the
reform of the worthless portion of thair
race.
—Over three hundred thousand dollars of
stock in the proposed Enterprise cotton fac
tory, at Augusta, has been already sub
scribed.
—The turpentine business is rapidly grow
ing in importance in Dougherty county.
Pine lands, therefore, are now in great de
mand.
—The Oglethorpe Echo notes that $20,000
has already been expended on the Guarantee
mine, and much more than that on the
Morgan.
—Dr. D. A. Mathews says he will grade a
railroad from Elberton to Broad river—to
connect with the new road to Crawford—for
$1,500 a mile.
—Tbe Rime Courier states that the burn
ing of the church Tuesday night made the
fourth one burned in tnat county within tbe
past two months, all of them belonging to
the colored Baptists.
—The people of Oglethorpe are enthusias
tic over their prospect for a railroad from
the Glade to Crawford. They will build it
a narrow gauge. Col. Lumley, ot Elberton,
is now making the survey.
—The subject of steam navigation on the
Sunbury, Riceboro, North Newport and
Ogeechee rivers, is being agitated. An en
thusiastic meeting was held at Midway,
Liberty county, a few days ago. The matter
is receiving the attention of business men
and capitalists.
—The Sparta Ishaiaelite says: "Only a
small area has been planted in grain in
North Georgia. The cotton mania has inva
ded the valleys away up in the mountains.
It is evident that our people will have to
learn to eat cotton seed. We do not see any
other hope for them.”
—The people of Carnesville have in con
templation a railroad running to their town
from West Bowersville, on the Elberton Air-
Line, and, if we are not much mistaken, they
will build it before many months. The dis
tance is nine miles, and it is estimated that
$20,000 will build and equip it.
—The Elberton News says: “This section
of Georgia is about to become famous for
murders and lawlessness. In tbe lour con
tiguous counties—Hart, Elber, Oglethorpe
and Wilkes—there are prisoners in jail for
tbe commission of murder. Some of them
arc awaiting trial, while others areawaiting
the day of execution."
—The Atlanta and West Point railroad
paid to Hopkins & Glenn, attorneys for
Allen Johnson, $5,540.95 as damages recov
ered in the Atlanta Oity Court for the loss of
his left hand. Johnson was a train hand,
and in coupling cars got his hand mashed so
as to render amputation of a portion neces
sary. Tbe case was twice tried by a jury
anu in the Supreme Court.
—The McDuffie Journal remarks: “We
recommend that the General Assembly, at
its approaching July session, pass an Act
making tbe hire of penitentiary convicts a
fund to defray, so far as it may go, the ex
penses of the conviction of such criminals in
the various counties of the State. As it is,
the counties either pay the officers of justice
for their services, or else those officers go
uncompensated. We believe that any fund
arising from this class of convicts ought to
be devoted to lessening tbe expenses of such
counties as pay their officers; and to pay
officers of other counties that do not pay
them.” . ‘
—Says the LaGrange Reporter: “Nothing
has been written for the Reporter on the
whisky question as we expected. Everybody
who is at all well acquainted with the situa
tion in LaGrange, knows that our statements
a few weeks since were in accordance with
facts, and hence nothing to tbe contrary can
be truthfully said. A law has been passed
to prohibit the retail of liquor In LaGrange,
but no law can prohibit its use, and about as
much of it is now consumed as there was
before the bar-rooms were closed. Whenever
whisky is wanted it is easy enough to obtain
a prescription from a physician and then
buy it from the drug stores. In many ins
stances it is sold without any prescription.
In view of these tacts we again say it will be
better for tbe bar-rooms to be re established
and let the city derive a revenue from them.”
—The Gainesville Southron says: 'The
f;old mines of Northeast Georgia are yielding
arge dividends, with all the drawbacks of a
winter and spring unequaled for severity in
half a century. The rainfall in March and
April largely surpassed that of any season
within the memory ofthe oldest inhabitants.
Notwithstanding these great drawbacks, tbe
Findley and Pigeon Roost have yielded
from $3,000 to $6,000 per week, and the nu
merous other mills in proportion to their
power. Mr. White, from the North, has re
cently purchased the Lamar lot, on the east
side of tbe Cbestatee river, adjoining the
celebrated Beers and Boly Fields lot, which
embrace the tellurium ores, the only mines
of tbe kind in the United States, except in
Colorado and a limited lode in Spotsylvania
county, Virginia This lead has been, as yet,
but superficially developed on the Fields
fraction, where we saw less than one bushel
of ore yield over 4.00 Q penny weights—nearly
SIOO,OOO per ton.*