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article, included in the calendar cut,
on the eighth page of this paper,relative
to The Index Book of Ministers, and
the History of the Denomination in
Georgia. A vast amount of labor and
large expenditures of money have been
devoted to the preparation of this work,
and we are gratified by the assurance
of many brethren that it is destined to
prove of great interest and value to
the Baptists of Georgia. It will not
only be an authentic record of events,
but a preserver of the features and the
noble deeds of a noble ministry.
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Besides these sketches the book will
contain a newly compiled history of
the Baptist denomination in Georgia,
from the settlement of the State down
to the present time, recording much of
the unwritten history of our denomi
nation. This history is the result of
the collation of facts and historical data
from the large collection of material
made with a view to this very purpose.
Doubtless, in the eyes of all who wish
to gain a plain and connected view of
our denomination in Georgia, this his
tory will add greatly to the value of the
“Biographical Compendium.”
A Roman Catholic church paper,
printed in the German language, will
soon be published in Savannah.
—A very interesting and successful
revival meeting is in progress at the
Columbus colored Baptist church.
Rev. M. B. Wharton, D.D., of Geor
gia, has been appointed U. S. Consul
at Sonneberg, Germany, by the Presi
dent. Dr. Wharton will find his post
a delightful place of residence, and the
situation remunerative.
On the 9th of June the centenary
of the birth of George Stephenson will
be celebrated at Chesterfield, England.
This was not the birth-place of the
father of the railway system, but was
his chosen home, where he lived to the
last, happy among his dogs, his rabbits
and his birds, and busy in his favorite
pursuits of horticulture and farming.
The seizure of Tunis by the French,
and the treaty forced upon the Bey,
amountingvirtuallyto annexation of the
Bey’s territory to France, has aroused
the statesmen of Europe wittya new sen
sation. Turkey and Italy are specially
. interested, and the latter government
considers its interests seriously threat
ened by this startling procedure on
the part of the French in the Tunis
embroglio.
Temperance men are to be “Boy
cotted.” The brewers at their National
Convention in Chicago, May sth, were
pledged to oppose every person seeking
public office who is in any way iden
tified with the Temperance movement.
“Is he honest? Is he capable?” has
heretofore been asked when men have
been proposed for office, but in the
domain of King Gambrinus the test is
to be: ‘ Does he drink beer?” “Will he
vote for license.”
The Superintendent of Immigration
at Castle Garden, New York, receives
every day hundreds of letters asking
him to secure labor for different sec
tions of the country. These demands
have hitherto come principally from
the West, but lately a great many have
been pouring in from Southern States.
Last week the first colony sent South
in this manner was shipped to Routh
Carolina, where they will secure places
in the cotton factories. The Super
intendent declares that he will do
everything reasonable in the future to
direct emigrants toward the South.
It is stated that the Col. Cole, the
wellknown Tennessee “Railroad King,”
has formed a syndicate by which a
through line is assured to Brunswick.
He represents that his organization has
secured the East Tennessee, Virginia
and Georgia line; the Memphis and
Charleston, the Rome, Selma and Dal
ton, and the Macon and Brunswick.
To connect the systems it will be nec
essary to build the Macon and Bruns
wick extension to Atlanta, and a new
line from Rome to Atlanta. The for
mer he promises to complete by Jan
uary Ist and the latter by March Ist.
Col. Cole is said to be in possession of
all the lines named, and will at once
proceed to the work of building the
projected connections.
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Secular Editorials—Literature— Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.
THE MAGAZINES.
—lt may surprise some of the young
readers of St. Nicholas, who are enjoy
ing the rollicking fun of the serial for
boys, “Phaeton Rogers,” now being
published in that magazine, to know
that its author, Mr. Rossiter Johnson,
is most of the time engaged in the
staid work of editing the “American
Cyclopiedia.” He is already well known
among older people as the editor and
originator of the “Little Classic” series,
and the author of some admirable
magazine articles and stories. And
not a few literary people remember
with admiration his faithful friendship
for that gifted and unfortunate poet,
Richard Reals, and the kindly vindica
tion of his memory which he gave the
press a few years ago.
The short stories which he has here
tofore contributed to St. Nicholas have
been specially notable for their boy
spirit and the overflowing humor of the
situations and the dialogue; but in the
present serial he has far surpassed any
thing which he has done heretofore,
and no more laughable and more boy
like adventures are to be found any
where in recent writing than those of
his inventive hero, Phaeton Rogers.
Mr. Johnson’s power of caricature and
of picturing character is so great that
he seems to deserve the title lately
given him by an admiring reader, “The
Dickens of Boy-literature.”
—The Magazine of Art.—The
number for May maintains easily the
high reputation this publication has
achieved in the art-world. The con
tents comprise the following engrav
ings and articles : “The Symbol”—
from the painting by Frank Dicksee.
Treasure-Houses of Art. English Birds
and their Haunts. Our Living Artists:
William Q. Orchardson, R. A. “Apple
Blossoms”—from the painting by M.
Beyle. Children in Painting and
Sculpture. The Homes of our Artists:
Mr. Millais’ House at Palace Gate. The
Future of our Sculpture in London.
Decorative Iron Work. The Streets as
Art Galleries. Pictures ol the Year.
“Shepherds Discovering the Head of
Orpheus.” Art Notes.
All cultivated people who desire to
keep abreast with the progress of Art,
in Europe and the United States, can
subserve their interest by subscribing
for this unsurpassed publication. Year
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New York.
—The Popular Science Monthly for
May is rich in its varied and interest
ing papers, some of them very curious
and instructive; the practical chapters
on Eyes and School Books, on the
Horace Mann School for the Deaf, and
on Color Blindness, are specially im
portant to the general reader.
—The London Quarterly Review for
April, American Edition, from The
Leonard Scott Publishing Company,
41 Barclay street, New York, is to hand.
Contents: The Revolutionary Party.
Literary Life of Lord Bolingbroke. The
Speaker’s Commentary on the New
Testament. Thomas Carlyle and his
Reminiscences. The Russian Land
Laws and Peasant Proprietors. Sir
Anthony Panizzi. . Endowments of the
Church of England in 1830 and 1880.
Ministerial Embarrassments.
—The Edinburgh Review, April,
(same publishers). Contents: The Ox
ford School. Egypt Bound and Un
bound. The Song of Roland. The
Public Life of Mr. Herries. River
Floods. The Pellagra in Italy. Remi
niscences of Thomas Carlyle. Darwin
on the Movement of Plants. Schlie
man’s Ilios. Local Debts and Govern
ment Loans.
In both of these classic publications
the “Reminiscences of Thomas Car
lyle” are made the theme of elaborate
reviews. The article in the London
Quarterly opens thus:
“Carlyle's merits and demerits have been
so fully discussed that men’s minds are
tolerably made up although far from agreed
concerning blm. It is admitted on all hands
that he was a man of genius, a man of energy
and earnestness, who has exercised consid
erable influence on his generation, butopin
ions differ widely as to the amount and en
during quality of that influence, as well as
to whether it has been for evil or for good.
His style has found no imitator—except an
occasional one in Mr. Ruskin, who has or
had an excellent style of his own—and it is
no more likely to be reproduced than the
very peculiar clats of intellect that created it
and indeed needed it as the fitting instru
ment, the eccentric exponent, of eccen
tricity. It was emphatically the man. But
his tone of thought, his mode of viewing
and estimating things and persons, the phis
losophy, the morality, which he preached
unceasingly, have made many proselytes;
and it may be well to test the soundness of
his general principles and methods of judg
ment, before coming to the particular appli
cation of them in his Reminiscences.”
The result of this minutely made
“test,” as made in the London Quarter
ly's retort, is concisely summed up in
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, MAY 16, 1881.
the concluding paragraph of the arti
cle :
“That his admirers should still think it
right to raise busts or statues in his honor is
their affair; but they are assuming a grave
responsibility. They are encouraging genius
simply because it is genius, without regard
to its application or direction, careless of its
good or evil effects upon mankind. They
are sanctioning a false philosophy. They
are setting up a false standard of excellence.
They are winging and pointing anew arrows
aimed at the reputation of their most dis
tinguished contemporaries. They are doing
their best to diffuse and perpetuate a baneful
influence, to give increased authority and
circulation to works composed for the most
part in open defiance of good sense, good
feeling, or good taste: works whose all
pervading tone, spirit and tendency are radi
cally wrong."
The Edinburgh Review, in its review
of the same subject says, in the course
of its remarks:
“It is, and will ever remain, the honor and
glory of Thomas Carlyle that he contended
without ceasing for what he termed the
’dynamical’ energy of the human soul in
opposition to the tendencies of a ’mechani
cal’ age. His whole work was an indignant
protest against the materialism of modern
science, and an assertion of the spiritual dig
nity and duty of man. He poured forth a
torrent of scorn and invective against the
vulgar passions and motives which degrade
society; he poured forth, in a perpetual an
them, his veneration for the higher powers
to which he attached all that is noble, heroic,
dutiful and true in human life. This mode
of thought, expressed in highly rhetorical
and eccentric language, and enhanced by a
strong Northern dialect, a rugged aspect, and
blunt manners, gave him the demeanor of a
mystic, or, as some said, of a prophet. His
influence over the younger generations of
his century became considerable; his works,
which had not found much acceptance when
first written, became popular: and his au
thority has extended beyond tbe circulation
ot his writings. Doubtless, then, he pro
claimed, or was supposed to proclaim, either
some new truth to the world, or some old
truth in a new and striking form. What
was it?
“Some fifty years ago, Mr. Carlyle address
ed to a young man of letters, then entering
upon life, a brief letter couched in the fol
lowing words—we have them now in writ
ing before us—‘Remember now and always
that life is no idle dream, but a solemn reali
ty, based upon Eternity, andencompased by
Eternity. Find out your task : stand to it:
the night cometh, when no man can work.’
“This oracular lesson conveys all that is
best in tbe faith and teaching of Carlyle. It
is not new. It is not original. He himself
repeats it iu a thousand forms. But there is
something in the grandeur and simplicity of
the language which exalts tbe intellect and
touches the heart. It is to such utterances
as these that we ascribe whatever beneficial
influence Carlyle has exerted on his times.
Such lessons are not given in vain.”
The article, however, expresses as
tonishment at the exaggerated esti
mate which has been formed of Car
lyle’s writings and opinions, and ad
mits reading the “Reminiscences” with
interest tempered by regret.
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—The telegraph and the railroad,
two of the most powerful agencies and
adjuncts of civilization, are gaining
sure foothold in China.
The pogress made by the spirit of
the age in the last thirty years is truly
wonderful. The lethargy of centuries
is giving way to the energy of renewed
life. The light of a new day is beam
ing upon the ancient world, dispelling
the vapors of superstition and the
clouds of ignorance, fitting the soil of
humanity for the golden seeds of
knowledge from which shall spring fu
ture harvests of gladness, prosperity,
goodwill and peace.
Owing to alleged grievances of vari
ous kinds and dissatisfaction with the
President’s administration, Senators
Conkling and Platt, of New York, have
resigned. The matter has created
much sensation and excitement in
political circles.
NEW BOOKS.
—Luke; Gospel History and Acts of the
Apostles, with Notes, Critical, Explanatory
and Practical. Designed for both Pastors
and People. By Rev. Henry Cowles. D. D.
New York: D Appleton & Co., Publishers.
The author, in his preface, says:
“Luke’s Gospel History and his acts of the
Apostles are here brought into one volume,
forming a continuous history of the rise and
early development in our world of the greet
gospel kingdom of our Lord. It is well to stu
dy these two books in their mutual relations,
beginning with the life, the labors, the teach
ings and the death of the Incarnate One, and
followed by the wonderful development of
spiritual and moral forces, under the minis
try of the apostles when tilled with the Holy
Ghost,
"These Notes on Luke, written previously
to those on Matthew and Mark, nave been
held in hand till Matthew and Mark were
written, in order to facilitate the fullest ad
justment of their mutual relations in the
Gospel Harmony. Matthew and Mark being
now in readiness, may be expected to follow
the present volume without delay—thus
completing my work on the entire sacred
volume.”
—The Land of Gilead, with Excursions
in the Lebanon. By Lawrence Oliphant,
author of “Lord Elgin’s Mission to China;
Piccadilly,” etc. New York: D. Appleton
& Co., Publishers.
In every way an interesting and
handsomely illustrated book of travels,
by a writer of ability; a practiced trav
eler who notes, with appreciative mind,
the social as well as the natural char
acteristics of the countries traversed.
The historic and scriptural interest per
taining to the places visited, give pecu
liar flavor and charm to the narrative,
which Christian readers will appre
ciate.
A political and social question, which
has occupied the attention of some
prominent men in Europe for some
years, was the basis for the expedition,
whose results are embodied in this vol
ume. Immediately after the close of
the Russo-Turkish war, regarding Eu
ropean intervention in Ottoman affairs,
or the final disentegration of the em
pire as inevitable, the author conceived
the idea of such colonization of the
Turkish provinces as would form the
nucleus of a new civilized nationality.
He selected Palestine as the ground for
his experiment, and the Jews as the
race, of all others, less likely to arouse
hostility to his enterprise and to insure
its success. In his selection of the
Jews, Mr. Oliphant seems to have been
actuated by no particularly philan
thropic motives. He was not interest
ed in them further than as a means to
an end. He cared nothing about the
fulfillment of the prophecies pointing
to their ultimate return to Palestine.
His scheme was purely political and
reformatory. He was convinced that
there were large tracts of land in Pal
estine that could be brought under
cultivation with great profit, and that
the Jews scattered over the kingdoms
and petty provinces of Eastern Europe,
where they are persecuted and impov
erished, might easily be induced to
emigrate thither. He believed that it
would be a good thing for the Jews, as
well as for mankind, and above all,
that the enterprise would, from a mere
ly pecuniary standpoint, pay well.
The rottenness and tyranny of Turk
ish government are emphatically
brought out, and, though the political
and reformatory plan which incited the
author to undertake the trip will not
easily find a practical solution, the liter
ary result is of permanent value and un
questionable interest.
—The Christian Experience: An Inquiry
into its Character and its Contents. By D
W. Faunce, D. D. Philadelphia: American
Baptist Publication Society, Publishers.
The purpose and scope of this inter
esting volume may be gathered from
the chapters in their order: The Chris
tian Experience as a Problem; The
Christian Experience as a Reality ; The
Christian Experience as a Renovation ;
The Christian Experience iu its Limi
tations; The Christian Experience as
a Confirmation ; The Christian Exper
ience as a Prophecy.
It is a solemn, soul-touching subject,
demanding our most earnest considera
tion, and in this devout spirit it is
discussed, clearly and convincingly, by
the able author. It addresses itself to
four classes of readers: first, those who
do not accept as a fact what is popu
larly known as “religious experience.”
Secondly, those who admit the phe
nomena to be true to a man’s own con
sciousness, but that question whether
there are any answering facts outside
the man’s own mind; whether it is
not all a subjective feeling, with no
corresponding objective realities; a
shadow of the man’s own self, rather
than the reflected radiance of his God;
a delusion honestly believed, but a de
lusion certain to be dispelled in a more
complete development. Thirdly, those
who think that this Christian experi
ence is fruitful in answers to certain
questions about God and the soul which
are agitating the minds of many
thoughtful persons to-day. Fourthly,
it addresses all Christians who are
specially interested in any book which
discusses that work of God in the hu
man soul, about which they claim to
have experimental knowledge. All
these classes of readers will find much
to reflect upon in this little volume.
—The Four Gospels: Tbeir Age and Au
thorship. Traced from the Fourth Century
into the First. By John Kennedy, D. D.
Edited, with an Introduction, by Rev. Ed
win W. Rice. Philadelphia: American
Sunday-School Union.
This little book will be useful to Sun
day-school teachers and missionary
laborers, giving, as it does, a clear and
concise survey of the historic testimony
of the early ages in support of the au
thenticity and inspiration of the four
Gospels—evidence which has been
called forth with increased power and
circumstantiality by the recent elabo
rate efforts of sceptics and infidels to
question the evidence. The evidence
in support of the genuineness and
truthfulness of the four Gospels is
treated in this volume under four heads:
1. The internal evidence. 2. The tes
timony of adversaries. 3. The testi
mony of believers, or that derived from
early Christian writers. 4. The proof
from the past and present existence of
Christianity, tracing its origin chiefly
to these Gospels, or to the facts they
narrate.
The exposition is made clearly and
indisputably, and the indubitable fact
of the genuineness of the apostolic
writings, and their holy inspiration, is
impressed upon the reader with irre
sistible force.
“Two interesting problems,” says the
London Telegraph, “which have long
perplexed the scientific world, appear
to have been at least definitively solved
by the eminent geologist, Dr. Hahn.
These questions are, first, whether or
not celestial bodies, other than the
earth, belonging to our solar system,
are inhabited by animate beings, and
secondly, whether the meteoric stones
from time to time cast upon the sur
face of this globe emanate from incan
descent comets or from volcanic planets.
That they at no time formed a part of
the earth itself has been conclusively
demonstrated.
“Dr. Hahn has recently completed a
series of investigations upon some of
the huge meteoric stones that fell from
the skies in Hungary during the sum
mer of 1866. Thin laminae of these
mysterious bodies, subjected to exam
ination under a powerful microscope,
have been found to contain coralline
and spongeous formations, and to re
veal unmistakable traces of the lower
forms of vegetation. All the organisms,
animal and vegetable, discovered by
Dr. Hahn in the delicate stone shav
ings he has thus dealt with indicate
the condition of their parent world to
be one of what is technically termed
“primary formation.” But the presence
of water in that world is proved by the
fact that the tiny petrified creatures
revealed by the magic of the lens one
and all belong to the so-called suba
queous classes of animals. They could
not have existed in comets, at least
if the assumption be correct that these
are in a state of active combustion.”
The following, refering to the efforts of
South Carolina to induce immigration
to that State, may offer some practical
suggestions on that subject to the
friends of immigration to Georgia: Dr.
E. M. Boykin, the newly elected Super
intendent of Immigration, has return
ed from New York. He spent a week
in the metropolis examining the prac
tical details of the work, and will pre
pare a plan of operations to be submit
ed to the Board of Agriculture. In an
interview with a representative of the
Columbia Register he adverted to the
family relation as calculated to give
permanency to the settlement of im
migrants in any place, and seemed to
think it would be better for this State
to have a large proportion of the im
migrants brought here composed of
families, and not exclusively of single
men. He expresses a sense of the im
portance of having the full co-operation
of the people of the State in his efforts
to introduce the most desirable class
of immigrants, by giving them employ
ment, offering them homes on easy
terms, and in many other ways which
will suggest themselves as occasion
arises. With this co-operation he feels
confident of being able to accomplish
all that can be desired.
—Compliments to American Or
gans.—A dispatch from Milan, Italy,
says that at the opening of the Grand
Industrial Exposition, now in progress
there, the American Organs made by
Mason & Hamlin were played before
the royal family by Carlo Ducci, of
Rome, and were warmly compliment
ed by the Queen in person.— Boston
Daily Journal.
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GEORGIA NEWS.
—A $250,000 hotel is to be erected in Sa
vannah.
—Mr. Sidney Lanier is lying seriously ill
at Baltimore.
The total receipts of the recent Masonic
fair in Savannah foot uy $19,700.
—The Methodist denomination in Dublin
are preparing to build amew house of wor
ship.
—Locusts, in immense numbers, have
made their appearance in some portions of
the State.
—The Grangers of Elbert county have
subscribed $5,000 for the purpose ot estab
lishing a co-operative store at Elberton.
—A new post office has been established in
Macon county by the name of Wier, between
Jay, Lumpkin county, and Amicolola, Daw
son county.
—ln Greenville, Meriwether county, field
peas are selling from $2 to $8 per bushel.
Fodder is now worth $2 per hundred, and
but little to be had at that price. Hay in
Hogansville is selling at $2 per hundred—
war prices.
—The Dublin Gazette says: “Those who
are wont to complain about everything, and
who said the fruit crop was a failure, may
cease their grumbling. The prospects now
are better than we have any recollection of
ever seeing before at this time of the year.”
—Says the Berrien County News: “The
depressed condition of many of our farmers
—many more of whom will feel the pressure
before the summer ends—is attributed, very
properly, in our judgment, to the planting
of cotton to the exclusion of provision
crops.”
—The Gainesville Southron says that the
prospect for a very fine peach crop is good,
and other fruits never promised better. It
says further: “Indeed everything looks
splendid for a prosperous year for our far
mers. We have never seen wheat, rye, etc.,
look better at this time of year.”
—The New Orleans Times says: “One of
the results of the Cotton Exposition at At
lanta next fall will be that the eyesofNorlh
ern cotton manufacturers will be opened to
tbe fact that cotton can be manufactured in
the South at less cost and with greater profit
than in the New England States.”
—The Georgia Press Convention, held in
Rome, was a very pleasant affair. The foU
lowing officers were elected for the ensuing
year : J. H. Estill, President; C. W. Han
cock, First Vice-President; J. W. Burke,
Second Vice-President; F. V. Evans, Corres
ponding Secretary ; H. W. J. Ham, Record
ing Secretary ; S. R. Weston, Treasurer.
—The Hartwell Sun has been shown a
ftiece of white quartz which was well sprink
ed with gold. It was found in that county.
It has also some particles of fine iron ore
which it shows contained silver. It says
there are undoubtedly many large and valu
ablemines of minerals awaiting development
in that county.
—Says the Timber Gazette: “Dr. Barnwell
has shown us a fine-sample of tobacco raized
on Champney Island. It has been valued
by a cigar-maker of Savannah at 35 cents per
pound. Two thousand pounds can be raised
to the acre on suitable land, which is equal
to S7OO per acre. We think this should wake
up old fogy and induce immigrants to in
spect our vicinity."
—Mr. B. F. Sawyer, formerly an Atlanta
journalist, and later a newspaper publisher
at Rome, has invented a patent bag machine
which his friends claim will revolutionize
the manufacture of bags. E. W. Marsh,
Esq., and other Atlanta capitalists, have
formed a company to operate these ma
chines, and 001. Sawyer will soon reap tbe
benefit of his inventive genius.
—Says the Advertiser and Appeal: “An
effort is being made to organize and thor
oughly equip an oyster and fish company,
with headquarters in Brunswick. Its mem
bership will embrace leading fish and oyster
dealers in Atlanta and Albany and inter
vening towns to this city. The supply is
inexhaustible, and one of experience states
that he can get ready cash sale for all he can
get.”
—The Sparta Ishmaelite speaks wisely
when it says: " The wealth of a State can
not be judged of by the number of bales of
cotton its planters produce. Some people in
Georgia plunge headlong into debt, to the
extent of twelve or fifteen hundred dollars,
for the privilege of raising the worth of a
thousand dollars in cotton. We suppose
this is done because ‘cotton is king.’ ”
—Says the Greenesboro Home Journal:
“Three cotton mills near Augusta, Georgia,
have, during the past four years, with a capi
tal of $1.600 000, paid their operatives in
cash $1,560,000, and their stockholders $540,-
000 in dividends, besides expending $5,673,-
o<jO for the purchase of cotton and other
material for manufacturing purposes. Such
substantial figures as these ought to attract
not only capital but intelligent laborers from
points where work is scarce.”
—Bays the Columbus Enquirer-Sun: "Mr.
Edw. Atkinson’s latest article on cotton
manufacture is, without intending it, the
most powerful argument for Southern facto
ries. If an investment of machinery to pre
pare the crop for shipment to the mills adds
only forty million dollars to the value of toe
crop, and the same investment in New Eng
land adds two hundred and fifty million
dollars to its value there, the sooner the
South manufactures the bulk of her staple
the better.”
—Gen. LeDuc, the Commissioner of Agri
culture at Washington, has received eigh
teen boxes of tea from the government tea
farm in Mclntosh county. It was this tea
that was sampled in New York by the lead
ing tea merchants of that city, and was
found to be an excellent article. The super
intendent of the tea farm, Mr. Joseph Jack
son, writes to Gen. LeDuc thus encouraging
ly of his labors this year in Mclntosh : "We
have had a most successful gathering, having
manufactured double the quantity of tea we
did last year, and it is of a superior quality.”
—With reference to the Tecumseh furnace,
the Rome Courier remarks: "The furnace
at this place is making an average of twenty
tons per day, and has been i tinning on the
same hearth fornix years, having never been
cool in that length of time, which speaks
volumes for our superintendent, General
Warner, and reflects no little credit on our
foundryman, Mr. R. B. White. The Te
cumseh Iron Company has just finished two
churches, one for the white and one for the
colored people, which adds very much to the
place.”
