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The Christian Index.
BY JAS. P. HARRISON & CO.
The Christian Index.
Publication Rooms, 27 and 29 8. Broad. St.
Sixty thousand emigrants are ex
pected to leave Norway and Sweden
shortly for the United States.
France is proceeding vigorously in
the war upon the Bey of Tunis. This
conflict may breed serious European
trouble.
The “spirit of the age” is even pen
etrating the darkness of Egypt—the
streets of Cairo, are to have their names
inscribed in Arabic and French, and
the houses numbered.
A South Carolina plantation is to re
ceive Chinese laborers from San Fran
cisco byway of experiment. If they
prove desirable laborers others will pro
bably follow.
The Nihilists have informed the Czar
that the indiscriminate execution of
those concerned in the Emperor’s
murder has driven the lukewarm
into the ranks of the extreme faction,
thus strengthening instead of weaken
ing their organization.
If you want to paint your residence
or any other building with the best and
most elegant paint made, get the “ Li
quid Enamel Paint”advertised in these
columns over the signature of C. P.
Knight, the General Agent. Write to
him for it. The office is No. 93, West
Lombard St. Baltimore.
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“H. C. Dickson,
At Home;
Wednesday, May 4th, 3 p. m.
Rev. T. C. Boykin—Miss Mattie
Dickson.”
The above tell-tale little note, inclos
ed in a neat, white envelope, came the
Index office a few days ago. It ex
plains itself.
—Personal.—Dre. Lawton, Tucker
and Gwin, of Atlanta; Landrum, War
ren and S. Boykin, of Macon; Chanc
ellor Mell, the able and esteemed Pres
ident of the Convention; brethren J.
H. Kilpatrick and H. D. D. Straton,
left this city last Monday to attend the
Southern Baptist Convention at Col
umbus, Miss.
Dr. I. G. Woolsey, paid us a very
pleasant and highly appreciated visit
on Monday while en route to Texas, on
a month’s visit to that State for health
and recreation.
—Rome Tribune: Rev. W. T. Cheney
of Augusta, will lecture in Athens, Ga.
His subject is, “The Gospel of Dirt
and the Banner says, “It is a deep,
studied, careful and laborious present
ation of thought, which is vastly in
teresting to every thinker and student,
and lover of wisdom and truth.” Mr.
Cheney is well known in our midst,
and his many friends will be gratified
to learn of the eminent stand he has
taken as a minister of the Gospel, an
other recognition of his scholary attain
ments. _
Abating a Nuisance.—The Grand
Jury of Fulton county, in their present
ments to the spring term of the Supe
rior Court,speaking of a matter in which
Atlanta is interested, say: An act, ap
proved July 25, 1875, authorizes rail
road engineers to substitute the ringing
of the locomotive bells instead of blow
ing whistles within the corporate lim
its, and it is respectfully requested that
railroad authorities shall instruct their
employes to discontinue all unneces
sary blowing of locomotive whistles in
the city of Atlanta.
We sincerely hope that the respec
tive railroad authorities will heed this
reasonable request, and issue the neces
sary orders for the abatement of an
altogether unnecessary and very un
pleasant public nuisance.
Buffalo Lithia Springs.—This cel
ebrated Virginian watering place, one
of the most famous in the country for
the medical efficacy of its waters, and
its health, and romantic location, will
open next month for invalids and
pleasure seekers. The advertisement
in another column, to which we refer
our readers, will give them the neces
sary information in regard to the local
ity and attractions of the Springs and
the wonderful healing properties of its
waters.
Under the superintendence of the
proprietor, Col. Thomas F. Goode, the
Buffalo Lithia Springs have acquired
a reputation national in extent. Everv
accommodation that can be desired is
at the sendee of the guests, and all who
seek health or pleasure will find their
hopes fully realized. The testimony
as to the wonderful curative powers of
the waters, are from the highest sourc
es and of unquestionable authenticity.
This testimony is not limited to the
general opinions of distinguished med
ical experts, but embraces a number of
reported cases of actual remarkable
relief. These might be multiplied to
any extent, but it is not conceived that
it could accomplish any possible good,
as those rejecting such proof could not
be expected to credit any human testi
mony.
LITERARY NOTES AND COM
MENTS.
Scribner’s will be known hereafter
as The Century. The change in title
will take place in the November num
ber. Though the proprietorship of
this popular magazine has changed, it
will remain under the excellent edito
rial management of Dr. Holland. We
see it stated that the net profits of the
magazine last year amounted to seven
ty-two thousand dollars. '
—A life of President Garfield, by
Capt. F. Mason, With a preface by
Bret Harte, is promised by James R.
Osgood & Co.
—Rev. Titus Coan, the veteran mis
sionary at the Sandwich Islands, is
writing a volume of personal reminis
cences of his work there.
—James R. Osgood & Co. will pub
lish next fall “Ralph Waldo Emerson ;
His Life, Writings, and Philosophy,”
by Mr. G. W. Cooke.
—Mr. W. D. Howells will contrib
ute to the June and July numbers of
Scribner’s Magazine a short story call
ed “A Fearful Responsibility.”.
—Jefferson Davis’ history and Bad
eau’s military history of U. S. Grant
are issued from Appleton’s press at the
same time.
—The Academy pronounces “the
Americans indefatigable and unrivaled
in the production and correction of
dictionaries. Messrs. Lippincott have
just brought out a new edition of ‘Wor
cester’s Quarto Dictionary,’ with a sup
plement containing over 12,500 new
words and a vocabulary of synonyms.
At the same time, Messrs. G. & C. Mer
riam announce a new edition of ‘Web
ster’s Unabridged Dictionary,’ which
will be composed of nearly 2,000 pages,
and will contain more than 118,000
words.”
—The valuable library of the Amer
ican Bible Union has been purchased
by Ebenezer Morgan, president of the
American and Foreign Bible Society.
Mr. Morgan will retain the Library in
New York, and ministers and laymen
of all religious denominations are to
have access to it for Bible study. This
library contains many rare books, the
rarest and most valuable of which were
purchased out of the celebrated Van
Voorst collection. It has been collect
ed for the past twenty-five years, chief
ly through the efforts of Rev. Dr. T. J.
Conant, who for many years was the
Bible Union’s principal reviser of the
English version of the Bible.
—Before his death, Disraeli, Earl
Beaconsfield, placed into the hands of
his former private secretary, Mr. Mon
tague Corry, now Lord Rowton, all his
private papers, letters, diaries and oth
er material for publication, and in
structed him in all the details to be
observed in the biography of the illus
trious ex-Premier of Great Britain. Lord
Rowton was his secretary during the
whole of Disraeli’s political career, and
is thoroughly familiar therewith. Dis
raeli prepared these memoirs minutely,
and little remains for Lord Rowton to
do than to attend to the publication as
directed.
Disraeli was particular in saying
that he did not wish any of his letters,
which contained unfriendly allusions
to certain persons, printed until after
they have passed away, or until events
had robbed them of any bitter sting
which they might now have.
The book will be full of strange rev
elations of State-craft, political jug
glery, glimpses of English high-life, of
photographic portraiture, and of obser
vations on creeds, manners, customs
and events, such as the marvelous
keenness and brightness of Disraeli’s
intellect knew so well how to portray,
and of which he himself was for years
the most conspicuous actor and fig
ure.
—The New York Tribune gives
utterance to common sense and shows
literary acumen of a high order in the
following criticism on the famous girl
poets, the Goodale sisters of Massachu
setts, the Tribune says:
“The clever Goodale children, who
put forth some time ago two volumes
of verse, entitled ‘Apple-Blossoms’ and
‘ln Berkshire with the Wild Flowers,’
are presented to us again in a collec
tion which includes the whole of their
second publication and a large number
of new, or at any rate additional pieces.
Their previous ventures in literature
attracted a good deal of notice, and
drew from serious critics a great deal
of cordial praise. These little girls had
acquired a marvelous facility and accu
racy in verse-making, and a command
of the simpler forms of poetical expres
sion very rarely attained by children of
their tender years—it would be rash to
call it unprecedented; they showed a
charming fondness for nature, and a
quick perception of the beauties of the
fields and woods. It was a rare pleas
ure to hear children singing so simply
and so daintily about birds and flowers.
But those who are responsible for their
training should beware of assuming
that they are already enrolled in the
great choir of the poets. The preco
cious utterances of the age of innocence
are quite distinct from the impassioned
outpourings of genius. It would have
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been better to let the celebrity of the
young people rest upon their earlier
songs, and to remember not only that
the surprise of the first books cannot
be repeated, but that our delight in
listening to the little verse-maker* is
rudely checked when it appears that
they are making merchandise of their
talent for lisping in numbers. In the
main, the contents of ‘All Round the
Year’ must be described as nothing
better than merchandise. As the poems
are not dated, we cannot tell which are
new productions, and which are glean
ings from the infantile portfolios. There
are some rather ordinary pieces of a
purely domestic interest which proba
bly belong to the latter class. There
are other compositions referable appar
ently to the callow period of adoles
cence, when the mind is prone to dwell
inopportunely upon the problems of
existence, and passion, and ‘mute sor
row and we must say that there is
something a little comic in the ear
nestness with which these misses in
form us that ‘we struggle upward
through the darkening years.’ If the
Goodale sisters hereafter make for
themselves a place in literature, they
will no doubt wish the present volume
could be destroyed and forgotten, and
they will lament the injudicious par
tiality which encouraged them to com
mit it to type. As a whole, it shows
no distinct progress. The blossom has
lost its freshness, and we are not sure
yet whether or no sound fruit will fol
low. Pretty fancies and a neat phra
seology, both apparently acquired in a
great measure by the habit of reading
poetry, however interesting they may
be in a child, have no permanent value
of their own. It is too soon to look for
poetic thought and original expression
in the Goodale sisters. Until they
have these to offer us, it is best that
they should cultivate their talents in
private.”
MERCER SENIOR CLASS.
The present Senior class of old Mer
cer has taken high grounds, and in the
future history .of this institution a bril
liant page is reserved whereon to re
cord its doings. It is standing shoul
der to shoulder with the foremost in
the grand march of progress and enter
prise, and well do the members of this
class desire to be called “Mercer’s im
mortal twenty-four.”
As commencement draw’s near, they
have been casting about in order to ar
range a "nobby” programme for the
class-tree planting. These ceremonies,
constituting the final act of the drama,
they intend shall fall behind none
in the past, but shall be in har
mony with their previous brilliant re
cord, and a close worthy of such a dis
tinguished set. To put before the pub
lic a programme at once popular and
entertaining, has been their supreme
object, and to effect this, a series of
class meetings have been called and all
arrangements perfected.
The class has decided, instead of or
namenting the compass with the usual
tomb-stone and tree-box, as has been
the custom with the previous classes,
to leave with the faculty a memento
in the shape of a fine compass, to be
presented to the mathematical profes
sor on the evening of the planting.
That graceful and polished speaker,
Drury Powers, was unanimously cho
sen to make the presentation on be
half of the class. When it is remem
bered that this is the Senior class who
presented Prof. Willet with a fine An
eroid barometer, their liberality can
not fail to be noticed. A committee,
consisting of Messrs. Blackshear,
Rodgers and Bunn, was appointed to
procure the apparatus and to make all
necessary arrangements.
The public has already been ac
quainted withthe election of the other
speakers who are to participate in the
closing ceremonies of the class.
Messrs. Rodgers, Bunn, Solomon and
Evans will doubtless endeavor to please
the public in their respective roles of
historian, prophet, orator and medal
deliverer.
But this is not all. To show the
progressive spirit of this class, is added
a copy of a resolution proposed and
adopted at the last class meeting:
Resolved, That the members of
the Senior class of 'Bl appear on the
college grounds on the first day of May
with beavers.
The class will finish its duties and
be dismissed about the 20th or 25th of
May. Most, if not all, of the boys
intend going home to recuperate their
energies for the enactment of the
closing scenes of 'Bl. — Telegraph and
Messenger.
We have hitherto failed to mention
the improved appearance of The
Christian Index, one of the best de
nominational papers published on this
continent. That paper has stood the
test of years, and we are rejoiced to
state, giving greater evidence of pros
perity than at any time in the past.
It is an honor to the church, the state
and country. Long may it prosper.—
Madison Madisonian.
Typhus fever is spreading in New
York Cits.
ATLANTA, THURSDAY, MAY 5, 1881.
SKETCH OF JERE If. MOORE, OF THE
MILLEDGEVILLE UtflOJi AKJ) HE
CORDER.
(From the Darien Timber Gazette.]
Jere N. Moore was born in Baldwin coun
ty, Georgia, on the 6th of April, 1815. He is
the eldest son of William Boling Moore.
When the Insane Asylum of the State was
erected, his father was plaoed in charge of
the institution as Steward, where be died in
1844, leaving a widow and five small child
ren. Young Jere, the subject of this notice,
attended the high-school at Midway, con
ducted by R H. Riuisey, a school that has
blessed the State with many great and good
men. In bis twelfth year he was placed in
the office of the Federal Union, at Milledge
ville, as an apprentice—this was in 1847,
and the paper was then owned and edited
by D. (!. Campbell and Hershel V. Johnson.
In 1851 these gentlemen sold the paper to
Boughton, Nisbet and Barnes, Mr. Moore
getting up to be foreman. In the year 1862
Mr. Moore purchased a f mrtb interest in the
Federal Union, and the firm was Boughton,
Nisbet, Barnes and Moore. This firm was
the State Printer, so to speak, during the
war they did all the work, paid out their
money for paper, workmen and everyt dng
else, and suffered serious loss, as the State
failed to remunerate them for their services,
and the money advanced by them to do the
public printing of the session of 1864-65.
The bad faith of the State in this matter, fol
lowed by the removal of the Capital, inter
fere! seriously with the prosperity of the
Federal Union, Mr. Nisbet sold his interest
to his partners, and retired in 1866. Mr.
Moore, who was the business manager, was
not discouraged, but labored most earnestly
and hopefully for the restoration oftbeState
government to the “Halls of our Fathers,”
and when that question was finally submit
ted to tne people, and decided in favor of
Atlanta, his best efforts were used for the
establishment of a college in the old Cap
itol.
The Southern Recorder was purchased
with the Federal Union in 1872, thus two of
the oldest, and for many years most influen
tial journals in the .State, (the former Whig,
the latter Democratic), were united under
the name of Union and Recorder.
In 1877, Mr Boughton died. Barnes and
Moore then purchased Mr. Boughton’s in
terest in the paper,and the business continues
to day under the same firm name. Mr. Wil
liam Barnes came from Boston, Massachus
etts, in 1840, to put up in the Federal U. ion
office a power press, and has been connected
with the office in some capacity ever since
He now resides on his farm at Midway and
Mr. Moore has had the entire managment of
the paper for many years. These gentlemen
have been associated in the office for more
than a third of a century.
Now, a few words about Mr. Moore. He
is one of thousands who have succeeded by
diligence, industry, honesty and sobriety.
He has a large family, wife a id ten children,
to whom he is devoted, which cuts off many
chances of success pecuniarily. Except a
vear at Eatonton, with the lamented Jos. A.
Turner, and six month employment on the
Christian Index, at Penfield, a trip to tlm
North in 1858, Mr. Moore has not been ab
sent as much as a month at the time, in
thirty-four successive years. He is emphat
ically a worker, a self made man. He
knows what work is, and how to appreciate
it. Honest, he owes no man—a plain,
straightforward, conscientious member of
the M. E. church is Jere N. Moore. He is
trustee of the Middle Georgia Military and
Agricultural College—Secretary and Trea
surer of the Board. He is a trustee an 1 stew
ard of the Methodist church—President of
the Board of Education of Baldwin county
—a Mason in high-standing, being senior
Warden of the Benevolent Lodge, and a
trustee of the Masonic Hall. He is in the
prime of life, and, physically, a finespecimeu
of manhood. Without any disposition to
trespass on his domestic relations, we may
say, very properly, that his eldest daughter
is a teacher in the college, and bis fourth is
a rapid little type-setter, and when an occa
sion requires can render efficient aid in
in the printing office.
Mr. Moore is devoted to the interest of his
native city, and has stood by her in sunshine
and in storm, even when more inviting
fields offered him brighter prospects of sue
cess.
Ehrich’s Fashion Quarterly, publish
ed by Ehrich Brothers, Eighth Avenue,
New York, at 50 cents a year or 15
cents a copy, is to hand. Like the
swallows, its coming proves that
Spring is here in earnest, and the
dreadful winter of 80-81 has at length
receded into the past, to furnish forth
a fruitful theme for fireside discussion
on many a future winter night.
The fashion Quarterly’ as usual is
full of information for the fair. It
tells them what to buy and how to get
it: what styles have gone out of fash
ion, and what are coming into vogue:
and its copious descriptions and price
lists will enable its readers to practice
a wise economy, by foreseeing, and
providing for, every item of the sea
son’s necessities.
A strictly novel feature of the pres
ent number is the system of ladies’
unmade dresses: which is intended to
enable a lady to secure the most fash
ionable goods and patterns, without
being subjected to the charges of a New
York dressmaker. Under this system,
the Ehrichs’ furnish the materia) and
patterns of the various costumes illus
trated in their journal, for a fixed
price; sending not only the dress goods,
but the lining, trimming, buttons, sew
ing silk, and, in short, everything' but
the needle and thread. The economy
of this system is evident, and it is safe
to predict for it immense success.
The Philadelphia Times.—This
paper is becoming quite popular in
this section, and has a large circle of
readers in Georgia and other Southern
States. It is managed on the best and
most approved principles of American
journalism, has a large corps of able
writers all over the Union, and every
department is full of valuable and en
tertaining reading matter. The prospec
tus says: “The Times aims to reach the
highest standard of the independent
newspaper. It fearlessly opposes cor
ruptionists and rings in all parties,
whether in city, State or nation. It
opposes form of imperial political
dominion, whether represented by an
individual, by a faction, or by a party. It
opposes sectionalism, North and South,
as the demon of the Republic, and it
demands public tranquility, and the
supremacy of liberty and law, for every
citizen of the Union.”
On such a commendable platform the
Times deserves to prosper. We wish it
abounding success in its notable career.
The Weekly is two dollars a year, the
Daily is six dollars a year. Address
The Times, Times Building, Philadel
phia, Pa.
Ou the very important subject of
sanitation aud education, Hon. John
Eaton, United States Commissioner of
Education, says in the April Sanita
rian:
“Bring up to a proper standard the
information, the theory and practice of
those who direct our public schools;
advance the 300,000 teachers of the
land to the full discharge of their duty,
with respect to sanitation in the teach
ing and training of our youth and they
would create public sentiment that
would leave no excuse for the short
comings of sanitary experts, either in
the breadth or accuracy of their resear
ches and inferences, or the efficiency of
their administration. There would be
no longer a lack of a satisfactory system
of registration of marriages, births and
deaths in any State or Territory.
Physicians would not fail to make suffi
cient record and report of disease*.
The community would not fail for op
portunity to know as accurately and
fully as need be the usual or special
causes operating to prevent disease,
either mental or bodily. Business aud
professional men would be warned
against the methods and business
hours that hasten sickness or bring on
decay and death. Apparatus and
systems of heating, lighting and ven
tilating, so often fostering disease,
would be banished from homes,
churches, schools and places of pleasure
or labor.
“The dust, heat, effluvia, or other
conditions so often destructive of life iu
certain mechanical industries, would
be reduced to the minimum of evil, and
alj possible remedies applied. Gradual
ly there would disappear alike from
city and country those regions of filth,
over the entrance of which all who ap
proach might fitly read, as Dante read
on the infernal gate, ‘all hope abandon,
ye who enter here.'
“There would be sought out and
removed those sources of disease that
conceal themselves in cleanly appear
ance, but send out the fatal diphtheria
or fever. The communication of conta
gion by commerce or travel or social in
tercouse would be understood and
prevented.
“I need not pause to show intelligent
religionists or moralists that, as sanita
tion is advanced by educational aids to
wards its proper position, their assaults
on vice and crime will be enforced by
arguments drawn from mental and
physical health or disease.”
—Rome Bulletin: At the Baptist
church in this city last Sabbath even
ing there was an interesting baptismal
service. The pastor, Rev. G. A. Nun
nally, very appropriately introduced
the services by reading several passages
of Scripture touching the ordinance of
baptism. Many were surprised to hear
from the Bible such explicit expres
sions upon this Christian duty. The
circumstances and qualifica
tions and symbols attached to the ord
inance by the Word of God, as recited
by the pastor, were indeed striking.
Deep solemnity pervaded the immense
audience, and the impressive scene will
not soon be forgotten. There were
twenty-two young ladies arrayed in
robes of spotless white, and three
gentlemen who had been received as
acceptable candidates for the ordinance.
Misses Alis Milner, Helen Gignilliat,
Emma Wood, Berta Pinson, Lucy Cal
laway, Mattie Turner, Annie Mallary,
Bell Willingham, Fanny Steed, Mollie
Walker, Lola Milner, Nellie Bass, Fan
nie Rice, Lucy Pringle, Sallie Pinson,
Mamie Harbin, Nannie Mcßeary, Lula
Mullens, M. L. Sargeant, L. H. Sarge
ant, Orie Buice, Bettie Ledbetter.
Mr. J. H. Sargeant, J. T. Moore and
Henry Woodruff. Two were also re
ceived by letter, John Banton and S. L.
Crook.
—A presbytery eonsisting of Revs.
P. J. Pipkin, J. M. Smith and J. R.
Wood, by request met with the Baptist
church at Mt. Moriah, Washington
county, for the purpose of setting apart
by ordination Bro. A. L. Brantley to
the full work of the gospel ministry on
Saturday, the 16th of April, 1881. The
ordination sermon was preached by
Rev.P.J. Pipkin. Rev. J.M.Smith exam
ined the candidate as to his Christian
experience, and call to the ministry.
Rev. J. R. Wood offered the ordination
prayer. Charge and presentation of
Bible by Rev. J. M. Smith.
—The population of Germany has
increased two and a half millions in
the past five years. The population is
now between forty-five and forty-six
million*.
ESTABLISHED 1811.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—A Catholic church will be built at Do
boy.
—Griffin has b.-eu made a regular baggage
station.
—Great quantities of timber are being
shipped from Darien.
—The Rome Tribune and the Atlanta
Phonograph (dailies) have suspended.
—The extension of the railroad from Ar
lington on to Blakely is progressing finely.
—Farm labor in Southwest Georgia is well
organized, aud the freedmen are working
well.
Nine-tenths of the work now being done in
Burmah is in the hands of the native preach
er*.
—Mr. John M. Kendall, of Albany, is try
ing the experiment of shipping strawberries
from his garden to Baltimore.
—Rev. John T. Mcßryde, formerly pastor
of the Preebyterian church in Albany, now
has charge of a church at Henderson, Texas.
—One hundred and thirty boysaud young
men have been in attendance at the Agri
cultural College in Uuthbert during the
year. .
—Unfortunately at a recent town election
at Greenesboro, the cost of a whisky license
was reduced from ten thousand dollars to
one hundred dollars.
—The corn acreage in Lowndes county is
reported by the Valdosta Times as greater
than last year, aud more good land aud ma
nure is being devoted to it.
—The Eastman Times thinks the fruit
crop of that section will be as large as usual.
The Sandersville Herald reports good pros
pects for a fair crop in Washington couuty.
—The Way cross Reporter says: “The
building of the new railroad close on the
margin of the Okefeenoke swamp has opened
up a number of lakes which abound with
fish of every kind, and the sportsman can
here enjoy himself to his heart’s content.
—The Sumter Republican, in an article oil
the public school system of Americus, says
there is an attendance of seven hundred aiid
sixty five scholars upon the schools, three
hundred and fifty four white, aud four hun
dred and eleven colored scholars.
—ln the Superior Court at Perry recently
there was a case iu which o le farmer prose
cuted another for hiring a farm hand that
was already under contract for the year.
The jury cave a verdict for the plaintiff, and
the court imposed a fine of thirty dollars and
costs.
—Three Mormon preachers are attracting
wide spread attention in Bonks county.
Their names are Kuler, King and Carter.
The good people there are much incensed
against them, although they have made nu
merous converts among the very illiterate
and ignorant.
—The Waycross Reporter has the follow
ing reassuring itsm : “Peaches! Why they
are a sight worth seeing in South Georgia.
Never before, within the memory of the
oldest inhabitants, were there so many on
the trees, or so healthy looking. At least
two thirds of them should be beaten off to
save the trees and secure good fruit.
—Mr. Francis Fontaine, the Georgia Com
missioner of Immigration, says he has never
had greater faith in the success of immigra
tion, both as means of selling land and ob
taining additional laborers, than atpresent.
Within the last few months Mr. Fontaine
has sent North and to Europe thousands of
pamphlets describing the soil, climate, etc.,
of the State, and his office is daily visited by
scores of people who are interested in this
business.
—Last year the carriage builders of Geor
gia met and organized an association that
shall be mutual In its benefits, and the ob
jects of which are said to be commendable.
They held their annual meeting in Atlanta
on the 27th, and elected the following officers
to serve during the ensuing year: President,
R. H. Jones, Cartersville; Vice-Presidents,
C. H. Osborn, Griffin; W. Collins, Macon;
J. G. Smith, Barnesville; G. W. Dexter, Cov
ington; R. P. Jones, LaGrange; Treasurer,
J. M. Smith, Atlanta; Secretary, J. W.
Weitzell, Atlanta; Assistant Secretary, N. C.
Spence, Atlanta.
—Commenting on the action of the Bap
tist Slate Convention, at Athens, on the
Temperance question, the Macon Telegraph
and Messenger says: "Without question
there is a strong and growing feeling in favor
of prohibition in Georgia. It mav not be
successful in accomplishing what is desired
and aimed at. It has not been successful to
that extent in other States, but the war still
goes on. It is felt that any evidence of pub
lic hostility to liquor is a good thing, and
that any abatement in its use and abuse is a
good thing. In brief, that it is a fight in
which all won is clear gain, and every pub
lic interest bils it God speed. Georgia can
not well be hurt by placing obstacles in the
way of the trade in consumption of liquor.”
—Says the Early County News: "We are
somewhat astonished that the Americus
papers have not come out in plain terms in
condemnation of Messrs. Burkhalter and
Fort for attempting to fight a duel. It is
true, they have expressed the hope that the
matter might be amicably and honorably
settled without a fight, but they have failed
to say that there is no honorable way of set
tling difficulties which involves a violation
of the laws of both God and man. We sup
pose these would-be duelists stand high in
the community, and the editors may feel a
delicacy in using their names in connection
with violations of law; but their high stand
ing is only an aggravation of their crime,
and they shonl I know it. There is too much
overlooking crime in the land because of the
high standing of those who commit it. We
hope the Grand Jury of Sumter county will
have the moral courage to take hold of the
matter.”
—The Grand Jury of Fulton county, in
their recent presentments, make two very
sensible and practical suggestions, which, in
the interest of the public good, should be
adopted at once and pass into laws :
"An ample supply of good water being
indispensable to the health and safety of
Atlanta, the jury tekes pleasure in com
mending the administration of the present
water servise, but recommend that, as soon
as practicable, measures be taken to strength
en the present works, and provide for an
increased supply as may be necessary. A
watchman should be stationed on the water
shed from which the supply is drawn, to
patrol the premises, prevent the accumula
tion of impurities, look alter the drainage,
and protect the property."
"There are professional beggars in Atlanta
whose appearance is unpleasant and repul
sive, ana who should not be allowed to prac
tice this calling. If they are physically
unable to work, or support themselves hon
estly in other ways, they should go to the
alms-house. We respectfully request the
I proper authorities to look after this matter,
and Also to see that the laws relating to
I vagrancy generally be strictly enforced"
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