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The latest advices in regard to crop
prospects in Great Britain are very dis
couraging. Drought and late frosts
have injured the growing barley, oats
and wheat.
Ths task of collecting, correcting
and revising the statistics of the tenth
Census is drawing to a close, ard it is
now announced that the entire work
will be completed in time for publica
tion by the first of October next. The
forthcoming census report will be more
comprehensive and complete than any
of the past, as the work has been ex
tended to embrace facts and figures re
lative to every interest and production
of the country, besides population.
The extraordinary precautions taken
at Gatschina to protect the Emperor
from the Nihilists are utterly useless.
The Emperor is said to have nearly
perished by poison a few days ago. One
of the palace scullions, who has been
arrested since, had sprinkled arsenic
over a bowl of salad, of which Alexan
der is known to be very fond. As the
dish did not figure on the menu, the
attempt was fortunately detected. The
Lanterns says that on the day previous
the Emperor received an invitation to
his own funeral.
England is beginning to express no
little uneasiness at the wholesale emi
gration of the industrial classes to this
country.’ The latest mails bring us re
ports of meetings in various parts of
the country, at which this subject was
freely discussed. This constant drain
of the bone and muscle was deprecated
earnestly enough, but no one seemed
to have any remedy for it. At one of
these meetings, one of the speakers said
that for years past emigration from the
British islands had been going on at
the rate of 150,000 per annum. ,
The Vienna correspondent of the
Daily News says: “No doubt the ris
ing in Russia against the Jews is a
consequence of the general discontent
of the peasantry, and not of religious
animosity. The Nihilists, taking ad
vantage of this discontent, incite the
peasants against the Jews as a class,
thus profiting by their misery. The
real intention of the Nihilists is be
' lieved to be to bring about a conflict
between the people and the authorities
when the latter interfere to protect the
Jews.”
The rush of Chinamen to America
in the next few weeks will be unprece
dented. Most of the new comers will
be imported work on the railroads.
There are three agencies already in
China collecting the Mongolians for
. importation. The Canadian Pacific
will need 6,000 men J, one of the Mex
ican roads’l,soo, while 3,000 will be
brought to work on the sugar planta
. lOUB in the ’Hawaii islands. Ihc tiiw
lots for the former road are already be
ginning to arrive in Oregon' at the rate
of 200 or 300 a week.
Governor Cobb, of Alabama, having
been appealed to for the pardon of a
man recently convicted of manslaugh
ter and sentenced to the penitentiary,
has written a lengthy letter addressed
to “whom it may concern,” in .which
he carefully reviews the whole subject
of the pardoning power. He declines
to grant the application under question,
and then says the pardoning power is
a great trust for the present committed
to him, and that he will not abuse it,
as he understands it, no matter how
moved by his own inclinations or how
strongly solicited by others.
The New York Sun remarks sarcas
tically : It is said that President White
of Cornell University, Minister to Ger
many, has been devoting all his leisure
for many months to the preparation
of a new series of lectures, which he
will deliver at the University at the open
ing of the next academic year. This is
certainly an innocent and, indeed, use
ful way of filling up that leisure which
would hang heavily on our foreign
Ministers without some way of passing
it. If they had any public business to
do it might be a matter of less con
sequence to provide for the terrible
amount of leisure.
A correspondent writing from St.
Petersburg says: While the sceptical
Russians laugh at the new administra
tion, the pious monks deplore the sedi
tious times. The orthodox Russians
in general, and the monks in particular,
hold that during each reign there
should be discovered holy relics, as a
sign of God’s special favor toward the
Czar. So under Nicholas, they turned
up the relics of St. Mitrophany; under
the late Czar, the relics of St. Tikhon.
Now the monks expect that the relics
of St. Platony will work wonders in
the Convent of Bithany, not far from
Moscow. For a number of years the
orthodox have crowded this convent,
engaging the monks to perform re
quiems for the repose of the soul of the
blissful Archbishop Platony and pay
ing their kopecks. A wooden shrine
stands over the grave of Platony, and
the worshippers, while kissing the cross
painted on the shrine, bite off little bits
of the wood, for they believe that these
will heal their diseases and preserve
them from evil influences. The shrine
is fast disappearing under their teeth.
The monks, who are obliged almost
weekly to make repairs, affirm that
they noticed a rapid growth of piety
among the people, and that soon will
come a time of peace and prosperity
when the reign of Alexander 111. will
be blessed by the manifestation of the
holy relics of St. Platony.
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Si<( 1,, Edoobuu—Literature— Domestic akd imm Intelligence.
GEORGIA LAND AGENCY.
Mr. G. W. Adair, the well known
real estate agent of this city, has pub
lished an interesting pamphlet under
the above title, embracing* such infor
mation about the State of Georgia as
persons who are not familiar with it,
would wish to have before moving to
or visiting the State to examine the
country in person. It is a valuable
compilation for immigrants, giving to
all who desire to settle in the “Empire
State of the South” all the information
they can desire, authentic and reliable.
Mr. Adair deserves the thanks of the
people for his timely enterprise in this
direction.
In Mr. Adair’s pamphlet are given
the laws of Georgia, which are of spe
cial interest to new settlers; features
and characteristics of the State; pro
ductiveness ; climate, temperature, etc.;
rainfall; health; matters of general
interest, etc. Os the great International
Ootton Exposition, to open next fall
in Atlanta, Mr. Adair’s pamphlet says:
The great International Cotton Exposition
which will open at Atlanta on the sth of Oc
tober and olose 31st of December, 1881, will
afford a favorable opportunity to visit Geor
gia, as cheap ronnd-trlp tickets from all prin
cipal stations in the United States, will be
placed on sale by all the railroads. These
round-trip tickets will allow enough time to
see the Exposition and also to visit any por
tion of the State to examine lands.
This Exposition is not simply a local enter
prise. It Is not thd offspring of an eflbrt of the
city of Atlanta, the State of Georgia, or the
Southern States only, but it is a “World’s
Fair,” in which every country on earth that
■raises, manufactures, dea's in, or uses ootton
or ootton fabrics, will take an active part.
Its main feature will be an Exposition of
the processes of tillage, planting, gathering,
gthnlng, pressing, marketing, manufactur
ing, etc., of cotton, and all the Implements
and machinery used in any of these, In full
operation. The splnniilg and weaving into
its many thousand fabrics, and the making
into its myriads of shapes and uses, and the
implements and machinery used for these
purposes, from the rudest to the most com
plex and highly finished, wil I all be exhibited
in working order. All analogous Interests,
every branch of industry in which cotton is
involved, will have its proper place and be
properly represented.
And it will not be exclusively confined to.
ootton, cotton products, ootton machinery,
etc , but will embrace all projninent branches
of Industry. It WIU be »■ grand panorama of
the world’s great industries and resources,
upon which its commerce and civilisation
R! ju*wfifbe an exhibition ol as much interest
and Importance to every part of the United
States, and to every country in the civilized
world, as any World’s Fair that ever took
place, and much more so in some respects.
The city of Atlanta, in the State of Georgia, a
great railroad center, near the heart of the
cotton region, has been selected as the most
fitting place for this great Exposition. It will
be worthy of a visit from the remotest parts
of the world, by any person wishing to see in
operation, in their every phase, the levers,
which, more than anything else, move the
commerce and progress of the world.
The flourishing colony of Swiss on
the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-Line
Railroad is alluded to as follows:
A little over a year ago the management of
the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-line Railroad,
running from Atlanta through the mountains
of Northeast Georgia, towards Richmond,
Washington, New York, etc , undertook to
give practical effect to a scheme to Induce im
migrants to settle tn that region. The matter
was placed mainly In the bands of Mr. W. J.
Houston, tbe General Passenger Agent of the
road. With his rare business tact, he matured
his plans and redu-ed them to a business sys
tem which have been practiclcally carried
out. He directed his efforts to Switzerland,
and already tbere are nearly fifty families
settled In that section near each other. They
have established a town on the railroad /tailed
New Switzerland. A handsome depot build
ing, a hotel of sixty rooms, and a number ot
residences, are now going up, all In the Swiss
style of architecture. They are preparing to
establish a school and church ; are pleased
with their new country and its prospects, and
are laying the foundations of their new socie
ty In good morals and Industrious habits.
They are engaging mainly in agricultural
and cognate pursuits.
We advise our readers who may wish
to give information concerning Geor
gia to friends abroad, as well as our
readers of other States, to send to Mr.
Adair for a copy of his interesting
pamphlet.
A statement prepared by the Post
Office Department for the gratification
of the curious, shows that 2,720,234,-
252 letters, postal cards, newspapers,
magazines, and other periodicals and
packages of merchandise, were mailed
last year in the United States. The
number of letters alone was more than
one thousand and fifty millions, an
average of about twenty-one for every
man, woman, and child in the coun
try.
In what parts of the country are the
most letters written ? A table show
ing the number of letters mailed in
each state and territory, together with
the average for each inhabitant, an
swers this interesting question. The
lowest average, of course, is in Alaska,
where there is one letter mailed during
the year for every five persons. Next
to Alaska comes North Carolina,which
with an average of 5.81, stands below
the Indian Territory, where the aver
age is 6.05. In most of the Southern
States the average is very low. Ala
bama, Georgia,'Kentucky, Mississippi,
both Carolinas, Tennessee, and West
Virginia, are all under 10, less than
half the general average of the whole
country. In New York the average
to each person is 41.58, and the total
number of letters mailed in this State
is 211,435,640, or more than one-fifth
of all the letters mailed in the United
States. The people of Massachusetts
write 38.70 letters apiece, in Connecti
cut 38.20 and in Pennsylvania only
ATLANTA, GEORGIA,' THURSDAY, JUNE 9, 1881.
24.57. The remote territories do an
astonishing amount of correspondence.
In Montana the average is nearly
equal to New York’s, while Wyoming
exhibits an average of 42.85. Colora
do, the youngest of the states, sur
passes all others, with an average of
55.22.
The International Sunday-school
Convention. —The Third Internation
al Sunday-school Convention will be
held at Toronto, Ontario, June 22nd
and 28d. Through the courtesy of
Mr. J. C. Courtney, Secretary, we have
received a circular giving all the nec
essary information to those who may
desire to attend the Convention.
Excursion tickets will be sold at
Atlanta, good to return within thirty
days, at $39.10, by £he way of Cincin
nati, Cleveland, Buffalo and Niagara
Falls, and thence across Lake Onta
rio.
It is proposed for the party to leave
Atlanta Thursday night, June 16th, by
limited express on Western & Atlantic
railroad, in special Pullman cars, and
after a daylight ride over the Cincin
nati Southern railroad, ’ arrive at Cin
cinnati at 6:20 p.m. Friday. Leave
Cincinnati at 9:15 p.m. arriving in
Cleveland to breakfast Saturday;
thence in parlor cars along Lake Erie,
arriving in Buffalo to dinner at 1:20
p.m. and at Niagara Falls at 8 o’clock
Saturday afternoon—in time to con
nect with the magnificent steamer for
Toronto, arriving there at 7:00 o’clock
p. m. A large number will remain at
the Falls until Monday morning.
Excursion tickets will be arid from
Toronto to Ottawa, Montreal, Quebec,
and all the principal points in Canada
at extra low rates, and arrangements
are being made for agents of Canadian
railroads and steamboat lines to be
there to accompany parties desiring a
guide.
Hotels of Toronto have reduced rates
to $1.50, $2 and $2.50 per da/, and;
f generally %U1 throw <?pen
their houses to delegates.
The excursionists will be able to see
more than they could on any other
trip, as the citizens of the provinces of
Canada will turn out en masse to enter
tain the visitors.
Parties desiring to avail themselves
of this delightful trip, should notify
B. W. Wrenn, Esq., the popular and
excellent General Passenger Agent of
the Western & Atlantic railroad at At
lanta, as early as possible, so that
sleeping car accomodations may be
provided.
Any further information . desired
will be furnished upon application to
Mr. J. C. Courtney, who will accompa
ny the party.
The following is a list of the dele
gates elected to represent .Georgia in
the Convention:
Governor Alfred H. Colquitt, Robert
A. Hemphill, Atlanta; Hon. James
Jaekson, Hon. John B. Estes, Gaines
ville ; Hon. John B. Stewart, Griffin;
Gen. Wm. M. Browne, Athens; Rev.
A. G. Thomas, D.D., Atlanta; Henry
Quigg, Conyers; Rev. W. T. Cheney,
Augusta; Dr. James Houston, Savan
nah ; W. R. Webster, Decatur; Oliver
T. Jennings, Glade Mines, Hall coun
ty ; Prof. R. W. Smith, Dalton; R. B.
Reppard. Savannah; C. B. Ellis, Ma
con ;W. P. Hemphill, Griffin: W. L.
Goldsmith, Decatur; Robert T. Har
grove, Rome; W. R. Power, Thomas
Moore, Boltonville; Miss Josie Wilson,
Campbell county; Mrs. A. C. W. Trav
is, Conyers; V. T. Barnwell, Atlanta;
C. C. Smith, Macon ; Robert T. Daniel,
Griffin ; John W. Heidt, D. D., H. I.
Kimball, Atlanta,
J. C. Courtney, of Atlanta, being a
member of the Executive Committee
of the International Convention, is ex
officio a delegate.
The Universal Peace Union was re
cently in session at New York. E. Fe
zandre, representative of the Interna
tional League of Peace and Liberty of
Geneva, spoke on the progress of the
peace movement in Europe. He
prophesied that the time was not dis
tant when arbitration would be almost
universally resorted to for the settle
ment of disputes between nations. Re
ferring to the adjustment of the Ala
bama claim, he said, “America should
be proud of having been the first na
tion to appeal to arbitration.” He
said that the league which he repre
sents publishes a paper in Geneva
called The United States of Europe,
and has about 7,000 members, and
that many of the smaller states of Eu
rope have accepted the doctrine of ar
bitration.
Rev. W. T. Cheney, pastor of Curtis
Baptist church, Augusta, Ga., preached
ably and eloquently last Sabbath, mor
ning and night, at the Second church
in this city.
CARLYLE.
Andre* James Symington, in a rec
ent aifcfcle, “Some Personal Reminis
cences* q£ Carlyle,” gives a number
of ver, meresting facts of the literary
life Os the great writer. Reverting to
the Bible, Carlyle said that its trans
lators were honest men, who indulged
in no vagaries, but gave literal render
ings. Hence, it is absolutely the best
translation in the world. He spoke of
the Bible as the grand old book, cram
med frill of all manner of practical wis
dom find sublimity—a veritable and
articulate divine message for the hea
venwajdjpiidance of man.
Reft’uhg to the New Version of the
Scriptures, then being prepared, he
said thac, of course, but for such re
vision, we would not have had our
present translation, sb that he could
not logically oppose it; but that his
whole feeling went sorely against the
altering of a single word or phrase, for
he liked to use the very words his
taught him, and that dear
old associations should be undisturbed.
For long, no book had by him been
read sj*>nuch and so often. It was not
only interesting as a matter of fact and
unapproachable in style, but entirely
satisfactory, because, while glowing
with jthe divine, it was also intensely
in short, the real thing
to a man could turn for all kinds
of. need.
• Ho often read through a whole
prophet or epistle at a time, so as to
take in the scope; and again, at other
timeih he liked to dwell lovingly and
thoughtfully on a single utterance, till
its light entered the soul, like a morn
ing sunbeam streaming in through the
chink of a closed window-shutter.
Mercer University Commence
ment Exercises. —Friday, June 17th,
8 p. ri. Masonic Hall.—Public debate
By members of the.PhiDelta and Cicero-
■ ui&n jocieties. •
m. Uni
versity Campus-Ciass-Tree cvtetaonies. 1
Sunday, June 19th, 10.30 a.m. First
Baptist church. —Baccalaureate ser
mon by Rev. Sylvanus Landrum, D.D.
8.15 p. m.—Sermon before Mercer Uni
versity Missionary Society, by Rev.
James G. Ryals, D.D.
Monday, June 20th, 8 p.m., Masonic
Hall.—Sophomore prize declamation;
delivery of medals for English Com-
position, by Harry S. Edwards, Esq.
Tuesday, June 21st, 10 a. m,, Mas
onic Hall—Oration before Alumni As
sociation, by Hon. Marshall J. Clarke,
of Atlanta; oration before Literary So
cieties, by Hon. Albert H. Cox, of La-
Grange.
Tuesday, June, 21st, 8 p m., Masonic
Hall—Junior Exhibition; Delivery of
Sophomore declamation medals by
Rev. Andrew J. Beck.
Wednesday, June 22d, 10 a. m.,
Masonic Hall. Commencement day.
Graduation ceremonies.
The Alumni meeting will take place
after the exercises of Tuesday morning.
The Alumni banquet will be spread at
2p.m. of the same day. All Alumni
are welcome.
Committee —J. W. Cabaniss, J. T.
Boifeuillet, H. M. Willet, W. D. Wil
liams, Jr., Thomas Willingham, Jr.
Treasury statistics show that our ex
cess of exports over imports for the
twelve months ending with March was
$243,445,899, and that our excess of
imports of gold and silver over exports
for the same time was $78,943,739. It
appears from this that the healthful
condition of our foreign trade, which
set in five years ago, is steadily main
tained. We are still selling more than
we are buying, and the balance has to
be paid to us in gold and silver and
bonds. Our excess of imports of the
precious metals is the result of our ex
ports of merchandise over imports.
Gold and silver in the country is con
stantly increasing, and must continue
to increase as long as bountiful crops
enable us to maintain our enormous
exports.
A number of ladies of Atlanta and
other cities have circulated four thou
sand'printed petitions for signatures,
requesting the members of the Legis
lature to pass a local option temper
ance law. This law is to be so fram
ed that at any election held by the
people they can vote on the liquor
question by simply writing for or
against prohibition on the tickets for
officers. This will not apply to places
in which prohibition has already been
ordered.
Boston takes hold of the project of a
World’s Fair with an enthusiasm which
is in striking contrast with New York’s
apathy. The date tacitly agreed upon
is 1885, and there seems to be little
reason to doubt that the fair will be held.
The Mormon missionaries who have
been trying to make proselytes in Ger
many are to be expelled from the
country.
A St. Peterburg despatch says that
the liberal project of the late Govern
ment will not be shelved, but will be
thoroughly investigated.
Rev. Dr. Gwin, pastor of the First
Baptist church, Atlanta, baptized two
young ladies—Miss Mary Kellam and
Miss Jessie Mims—last Sabbath night.
A despatch from Havana says that
Spain will colonize the island of Cule
bra, near Puerto Rico, which is now
uninhabited, and commissioners will
go there to fix a site for the settlement
and to distribute lots.
Roy. D. W. Gwin, D.D., of the First
Baptist church of Atlanta, will deliver
the commencement address before the
Greenville (8. C.) Female College on
the 16th of June. He will also deliver
the society alumni address of the Rich
mond (Va.) College on the 20 th of
June.
The annual report of the Health Of
ficer and Register of Montgomery
shows that that city is the healthiest
in the United States. The number of
deaths per thousand of population is
shown to be 7.07 among the white
people and 23.01 among the colored
pebple, or an average of 15.04 among
both white and colored.
Mr. Edward Atkinson computes that
the saving on the merchandise carried
by railroads during the last ten years
because of the reduction in the rates
for freight, has been more than twelve
hundred millions of dollars. This is a
larger amount than the aggregate sum
paid toward the extinguishment of the
debt of the United States since the
close of the war.
The total number of daily journals
in tmslonirtry during the census year
is placed by the Census Office at 962,
which includes 80 dailies which were
suspended, and 114 which were estab
lished in the course of that year. The
aggregate daily circulation is placed at
3,581,187, and the aggregate annual
circulation at 1,127,837,855. With an
aggregate daily circulation of 3,581,187
at an average price per annum of
$7.33, it appears the people of the
United States pay out annually the
sum of $26,250,100 for their daily
newspapers.
At the Sunday-school Convention of
the Columbus Baptist Association, held
at Hamilton, the following officers for
the coming year were unanimously el
ected :
President—Elder S. T. Fuller, of
Hamilton.
Vice-presidents—J. M. Crawford, Ist
district; 8. B. Baldwin, 2d district; E.
P. Willis, 3d district; Rev. 0. V. Ful
ler, 4th district.
Secretary—J. A. Clements, of Tal
botton.
Asst. Secretary—M. A. McAfee, of
Hamilton.
Treasurer —McCormick-Neal.
The meeting was a most interesting
and useful one, and largely attended.
The internal revenue receipts for the
ten months of the current fiscal year,
ending April 30th, amounted in round
numbers to $108,700,000, which was
an increase of $8,800,000 over the re
oeipts of the corresponding period of
the last fiscal year. It is estimated that
the collections during the two remain
ing months, May and June, of the cur
rent year will be about $26,000,000,
making the total receipts about $134,-
000,000 for the entire year, a gain of
$10,000,000 over the receipts of last
year. The increase thus far has occur
red chiefly in the collections on cigaret
tes. The outlook now is that the cus
toms receipts for the current fiscal year
will be about the same as for last
year.
The increase of the cotton crop and
also in the yield of cotton per acre,
which the agricultural returns of the
Census Bureau indicate, is further
proved by the tendency to increase the
weight of the cotton bale. Improved
means of compressing and the saving
in ties has something to do with this,
of course, but the main cause is the in
crease of the crop. The average weight
of cotton bales for the eight months
ending May, 1881, is 487.49 pounds,
against 481.55 pounds for the cotton
year ended September 1,1880. The
Texas bale averages 512.93 pounds,
against 501.15 last year; the Louisiana
bale 485 against 476 ; Alabama 508;
Georgia and Florida, 480; South Caro
lina, 472.05; Virginia, 473.42; North
Carolina, 469.68, and Tennessee, 500.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—Talbotton is to have a new paper soon.
—Atlanta has organized another street
railway company.
—G«a. Fitz liee's address netted about $l5O
for the Macon library.
—Mormon preachers are holding meetings
in some parts of the State.
—The first peaches shipped from Georgia
for 1881 are labelled from P. J. Berckmans'
Fruitland Nurseries, Augasta.
-Jbere will be a tolerable good fruit crop
throughout Bulloch county this season.
Much oetter than was expected at one time.
—Mr. Louis Schofield, of Atlanta, has re
cently invented and had patented an iron
cross-tie, which, it is said, is destined to su
persede wooden cross ties on the railroads.
—Wiramus Watchman : ' “ Eight out of
the ten German immigrants who remained
at the Dodge railroad left last Wednesday;
and thus ends another attempt to plant Ger
man Immigrants on this soil?’
—Rome Courier: “We were Informed by
a reliable gentleman yesterday that not less
than $3,000 had been sent to the Louisiana
State Lottery from Rome during the past
month.”
—The Commencement exercises of Young
Female College, Thomasville, will begin on
Sunday, the 19th of June. Rev. 8, Lan
drum, D. D„ will preach the Commence
ment Sermon.
—Bishop G. F. Pierce, who was appointed
as one of the delegates to represent the M. B.
Church, South, in the Ecumenical Confer
ence, to be held in London in September, has
declined to go.
—Tbe Gazette and the Elberton News have
been consolidated, and’will be published
under the name of thejGszette and News.
Messrs. J. T. McCarty and G. C. Grogan, are
to be the editors.
—The spring oat crop is, as a rule, a follure
in Hancock county. The exceptions are
where the grain was planted in fertile soil or
heavily manured. In such cases there will
be a pretty fair yield.
—The road from Rome to Brunswick will
be named the Cincinnati and Georgia Road.
It is calculated thM It will cost $4,500,000
not including the cost of the Macon and
Brunswick road. It will be laid with steel
rails throughout, and will be equipped in
the beet possible style.
—lt is proposed to construct a railroad
from Americus to Hawkinsville. At a meet
ing held in Americus, on motion the follow
ing counties were requested to send three
delegates each to a convention to be held at
the court house in that city on the second
Tuesday, the 7th of June: Sumter, Macon,
Schley, Stewart, Webster, Marion, Lee,
Dooly, Wilcox, Pulaski and Dodge.
—Atlanta will soon be rid of a part of the
nuisance of shifting trains. A company,
with Gen. Mcßae as President, have organ
ized to build a railroad track outside of the
city for the purpose of transferring through
freight. They will charge each company so
much tor every car they take around the
city.
—Mr. W. T. Revill, of Greenville, gives
notice that he will apply to the Georgia
Legislature, at its approaching session in
July, lor tbe passage of a local bill, to be
known as “an Act granting a charter for the
construction of a narrow gauge railroad from
Greenville, Meriwether county, Georgia, via.
the White Sulphur Springs, to Hood, Harris
county, Georgia, to form a corporation for
the building of the road, and to define the
rights, powers and privileges of the body
corporate.”
—Cedartown Advertiser: “We have been
shown, by Col. Millar A. Wright, some of the
richest specimens of maganese ore we have
ever seen. They came from a mine recently
leased by him from Mr. Reynolds, in Floyd
county, near the line of Polk. Mr. Wright
states that he has not yet gone beneath the
ground to inspect, but there are many tons
of ore no w lying upon the surfoce. He will
either make arrangements to have the ’ore
collected and shipped abroad, or will sub
lease the mine to some other party.”
—A large number of gentlemen from Ohio
were in Atlanta last week on a prospecting
tour. In reply to a Constitution reporter,
one of them said: “I think lam pretty well
acquainted with the resources of your State.
I attended your agricultural feirseveral years
ago, and have since studied your State, and
am free to say that the study has resulted in
its favor. I cannot see why the emigration
should go West when the land in the South
is better and cheaper, and tbe climate heal
thier, and if your railroads will only offer
such inducements as the roads running West
offer, then there is every reason to believe
your country will soon be the centre of emi*
gration. I know, from my past experience,
that I can—should the railroads do the right
thing—induce a thousand people to settle in
Georgia between now and the first of March
next.”
—At the International Cotton Exposition,
to be held in Atlanta next fall, the prizes
awarded will be determined by juries. The
first prize will be the great gold medal of the
Exposition, and will cover a very broad field,
being awarded the most important device or
process which shall have seen proved by
practical use to be of such value as virtually
to supplant all those previously used. Be
sides these, a number of special money pre
miums will be awarded for superiority in
cotton culture on the grounds of the Exposi
tion ; also special gold and silver medals and
money premiums on devices for cotton
cleaning, ginning, baling and packing. The
classification of departments Is as follows:
1. Productive machinery, implements,
presses, etc. 2. Natural products—textiles,
Including cotton, wool, silk, hemp, flax, etc.
3. Manufacturing machinery. 4. Manufac
tures. 5. Natural products—minerals, etc.
—Sparta Ishmaelite: “The Covington Star
is authority for the statement that a bill will
be introduced into tbe Legislature, at its July
session, to exempt from levy and sale, for
the next three yean, ‘all cereal crops pro
duced in this State, and all provisions of any
kind, together with all live stock.’ The ob
ject of the bill is declared to be 'not to im
pair the obligation of any contract hereto
fore made, but to stay executions on all form
products except lint cotton’ for the yean
1881, 1882 and 1883. It is easy to see the
design of this measu-e. It is to furnish the
farmer away of escape from the snares which
he himself has set for his own feet. It is to
encourage him to get up a rebellion against
tbe tyranny of king cotton. It is, in plain
language, to place a sort of bonus on the
raising of farm supplies at home. It is a sort
of bribe to the farmer to do what all the time
his beet interests have demanded that he
should do. There ought not to be any need,
in any State, for tbe passage of such a law.
There ought not to be any necessity for leg
islation to place a premium on the doing of
that which is demanded by the plainest
principles of self-interest And, yet, we are
not sure but such legislation would be
proper, under the circumstances, as a species
of ‘war legislation.’ If this measure were, in
its nature and design, similar to the misera*
ble, misguided ‘stay law’, which, just after
tbe war, undermined and almost totally de
stroyed public credit and business confi
dence, we should not hesitate to array the
Ishmaeliteagaint it; but, uncomplimentary
as it is to the average farmer, it does not go
to the extreme that the ‘stay law' went, and
it may really subserve a wise and benificent
purpose. There can be no doubt that there
is urgent need for a change in the methods
and purposes of our Georgia formers; and if
it requires legislative help to enable them to
make the change, it ought to be extended to
them. The soil of Georgia ought tb tarnish
the people of Georgia with provisions, and a
measure tending to secure that end is one in
which everybody in the State has an Inter
est."