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INTERNATIONAL COTTON EX
POSITION.
We •earnestly commend to the at
tention of our readers who are inter
ested in farming, planting and stock
breeding, the circular recently issued
by our excellent Commissioner of Agri
culture, Hon. J. T. Henderson. The
subject is a matter of great importance
to the vital interests of Georgia, and
should secure our earnest and most
practical support. We reproduce the
circular in full as a matter of general
interest to all who love to promote the
welfare of Georgia, and are ready to se
cond the efforts made in that direction.
The State Commissioner of Agriculture
says:
The International Cotton Exposition
to be held at our Capital City, At
lanta, commencing October sth. 1881,
and closing December 31st following,
will afford an oportunity for exhibiting
the products of our soil,’ which will
probably not be duplicated within the
next half century.
We failed to avail ourselves of the
opportunity of advertising the resour
cesof Georgia at the Centennial Exposi
tion held at Philadelphia, in 1876 »let us
not fail to utilize, to the utmost, the op
portunity now about to be presented.
■The atteniion of capitalists and emig
rants is being directed to the South, and
especially to Georgia. Vast numbers of
persons from foreign countries and
from the other States of this Union
will visit Georgia during the continu
ance of the Exposition.
Let every citizen who loves his State
and desires to see Georgia creditably
represented and illustrated at the ap
proaching Exposition, feel that the re
sponsibility of contributing to the de
sired end rests upon him individually.
Let every citizen of Georgia do his
duty, and no Georgian will need to
blush at the exhibit of the products of
her soil.
Georgia possesses a variety of soil
and climate which is not equalled by
any other State in the Union. She
numbers in her list of products those
of every State in the Union.' Were
she excluded from the rest of the
world she need not permanently de
prive her citizens of any important ar
ticle of consumption except coffee. It
is earnestly desired that the farmers
and stock-breeders of the State demon
strate by their exhibits at the approach
ing Exposition, the capabilities of the
State in every department of produc
tive industry.
Begin now to collect specimens of
crops already matured and to prepare
stock and crops for the Exposition.
Let county societies take the matter
in hand in each county. At the next
meeting of each society let each mem
ber be appointed a special committee
for the purpose of enlisting the farmers
in the county in a combined and con
certed effort to illustrate the productive
industries of the county. The premium
list will be arranged and widely dis
tributed, but do not wait for this ; go to
work at once and organize with the de
termination that your county shall be
properly represented in the Exposi
tion.
If each county will do this, the best
informed Georgian even, will be aston
ished at the illustrated resources of his
State, and the representative visitors
from all parts of the world will have
an opportunity-of realizing the richness
and variety of our resources.
Success or failure, so far as the agri
cultural display is concerned, will de
pend upon the interest manifested by
the farmers, and the efforts made by
them. Other States are organizing to
display their products and illustrate
their resources. Georgia must put
forth vigorous efforts or lose her boast
ed ascendency.
No admission fee will be charged on
agricultural displays.
The agricultural department of the
•Exposition will not be permitted to
conflict with the State Fair, but will
be open for entries unt Ithe week after
the Fair of the State Agricultural Soci
ety, which will be held at Macon, Ga.,
commencing October 17 th, and con
tinuing one week.
Further information will be prompt
ly furnished to those who desire it. Let
Georgia’s agriculture be fully and
creditably represented.
Dr. J. G. Holland, the editor of
Scribner t s Magazine, in the June num
ber, has a characteristically candid and
timely article concerning proprietary
remedies in which, among other
things, he says:
“Medicine is all empirical”—or ex
perimental. “Diseases change in their
type from generation to generation.
Local influences and climatic pertur
bations and variety of temperaments
and constitutions in the sick themselves,
make every new case, a special case,
removed from all fixed rules of practice,
and place every exhibition of medicine
in the category of experiments. This
is true with regard to the practice of any
so-called system of medicine.” Allud
ing to the intolerance of allopaths and
homeopaths of each other’s systems,
each calling the other quack and butch
er, he continues, “Men equally well
educated and equally conversant with
disease and with remedies, denounce
each others’ practice, and 'when doc
tors disagree, who shall decide?
“We have is no such thing
as medical authority. We may go far
ther, and declare there never will be
in the nature of things. There are too
many incalculable factors that enter
into any disease of the human organ
ism to permit its treatment ever to en
ter the domain of exact science. Life
Secular Editorials —Literature— v ' X Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.
itself—its fountain and forces—is in
calculable. The human mind, the
human will, the nature of the subtile
poisons that breed disease—these are
all incalculable. So we are forced to
this: Nobody knows; nobody can
know—exactly how to treat any case
of disease ; but there are some physi
cians, knowing most of that which is
known about disease, and with native
and acquired acuteness of observation,
both as to the disease and the effects of
the remedies, who are wiser and more
skillful than others. These, whenever
we can fix upon them, we choose for
our physicians, and we are very glad to
get their services, when we have need,
and to pay for it. No medical school
can decide that question for us. ...
Men are obliged to trust themselves to
select their physicians and the mode
of practice to which they will submit
themselves. There is no authority
whose prerogative it is to say to the
public that this or that man, or this or
that system of medicine, is the best and
the cure in all cases to be resorted to.
The people are and are obliged to be the
only judges of medicines and of physi
cians. They are always obliged to select
those agencies for their own healing which
seem the best and to take what comes
of it.
Out of all the uncertainties of medi
cine has grown quackery. It has lived
and thrived on the blunders of the
doctors. If medical science had been
a reliable resort, in all cases of disease,
quackery would have been impossible,
but it so happens that the doctors them
selves are the great foes of quackery.
They have recently been taking the
religious papers to task for publishing
advertisements of patent medicines.
We have received a missive from one
of them, who, in his private letters,
seems to be surprised that we do not at
once admit” [Mr. Holland is an M.D.]
“that all patent medicines are fraudu
lent, and that to advertise them is a dis
reputable thing. Now, we are bound in
honor to say,—however heterodox it may
seem to the profession—that we believe
that there is a large class of patent
medicines whose ingredients are skillfully
and conscientiously selected and com
pounded, and that they have been very
useful in the domestic treatment of dis
ease.
“We must come to this conclusion
in precisely the same way that we
come to the conclusion that a man is
a skillful physician—by what they ac
complish, and by the testimony of those
who have used them. The reputation of
a patent medicine is sustained by exact
ly the same evidence that supports a
skillful physician’s reputation, and we
know of no physician in this or any
other community who can furnish as
many genuine testimonials to his
success as a healer as twenty patent
medicines that we could mention if we
would. Many of these medicines came
out of the regular practice, and were
prepared and originally prescribed by
the best physicians. Many of them
are medicines whose virtues had been
established by domestic use before the
enterprising quack began to advertise
them. Very few of them, we believe,
are humbugs and frauds in the con
sciousness or intent of their makers.”
In the matter of advertising such
medicines, Dr. Holland thinks that
there is no rule of propriety or equity
which can justify a publisher of any pa
per or periodical in refusing advertise
ments of medicines of attested worth and
purity in composition and purpose. “It
is easy, of course, to turn away all ad
vertisements of patent medicines,' if we
adopt the theory of the doctors that
they, are all frauds, but it would be
equally just to say that doctors are all
frauds, because some of them undoubt
edly are. The people who are neces
sarily the judges, both of doctors and
of medicines, say that these medicines
are not all frauds, and if human testi
mony is good for anything, that fact is
established.” .....
“All simples—all extracts of simples
—all medicines and external applica
tions that have proved to be not only
not dangerous but salutary in the treat
ment of disease, have a right to be
known through whatever medium of
advertising their owners are willing to
pay for. And publishers of religious
papers or of any other periodicals, have
a right to judge what medicines and ap
plications have this right to be known,
and to do their advertising without be
ing hauled over the coals by anybody.”
“Again, what we protest against—
and this only—is the professional idea
that all pate_t medicines are frauds,
and that those who advertise them are
parties to an intentional popular de
ception.”
Judge Warner is in a most feeble
condition, and does not improve any.
He has given up all hope of recovery.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JUNE 23, 1881.
BOOKS AND MAGA ZINES.
The July Scribner contains contribu
tions from the following Southern wri
ters : J. Eaten Cook,Virginia; Joel Qhan
ler Harris (“Uncle Remus”), of Geor
gia ; Sidney Lanier, of Maryland;
Wm. Murfree, Sr., of Tennessee ; Geo.
W. Cable, of Louisiana; J. A. Macon,
of Mississippi; with extracts from thd
recent book on “Decorative Art,” by
Mrs. Constance Cary Harrison, of Vir
gin's.
The editor says this is an entirely
accidental conjunction,and claims that
it is a pretty good showing for one
section of the country. In this con
nection the editor considers it necessa
ry to discuss a point of considerable
interest to Southern litterateurs; be
says':
“The assertion is still occasionally
heard in the South that Northern edit
ors are disinclined toward the contri
butions of Southern writers per se. To
anyone who knows the thoroughly
commercial principles that underlie,
and. if it is to be successful, must un
derlie, the publishing business, this
needs no comment. It is, moreover, a
fact that Scribner has in its safe
enough live material by Southern con
tributors to make up three or four
numbers of the magazine, and, judging
from the lists of contributors for the
last ten years, to the other maga
zines and reviews, there is no reason
to think this state of affairs exception
al. The truth is, that good material is
in demand from any source, and where
MSS. are declined, the reason must be
sought for elsewhere than in any sect
ional prejudice of the editor.”
It is not to be questioned that a cer
tain amount of prejudice againstevery
thing “from down South” did exist in
the high-bred, powerful, self-conscious
successful and arrogant North. A
feeling so bitter and pronounced as to
give tonfe to its press, shape to legisla
tion ,and color to social intercourse,
could scarcely fail to influence,in some
degree, the literary journals and maga
zines of the North, in a manner calcu
lated to cripple the efforts of Southern
writers to gain cordial and general re
cogition from the conductors of these
publications. There is, or rather,there
was, substantial ground for the asser
tion alluded to by Scribner, and gene
ral enough to warrant the disclaimer
it now makes in behalf of these publi
cations.
It was a feeling somewhat analogous
to the feeling which prompted super
cilious English reviewers, forty years
ago, to ask who reads an American
book?
We readily admit that this prejudice
against Southern labor and laborers in
all the fields of human activity, social,
industrial, political and literary, has
almost passed away, and that a new
era of brotherhood is at the threshold.
Especiallf is this the case in literature,
—the literature and the literary pro
fession of the “New South,” so eloquent
ly portrayed by the gifted Mrs. Preston
in one of her recent essays. In the
promotion of this noble cause, Scrib
ner’s Magazine is now taking much
interest, with commendable tact and
gratifying success.
—The American Book Exchange, 764
Broadway, New York, favors us with
three additional volumes of its “Library
of Universal Knowledge.” It has also
issued Carlyle’s “French Revolution”
in one volume, and the first volume of
Grote’s “History of Greece.” They are
standard works, and are published at
the low prices that have made the Ex
change famous.
■ —The June number of The Maga
zine of Art (Cassell, Petter, Galpin &
Co., New York), maintains the high
station it has long held among the
foremost art publications of the day.
A glance at its table of contents will
satisfy all art-lovers that a rich feast
has been prepared for them : Artemis,
(an exquisite engraving) from the
statue by Hamo Thornycroft (exhibited
at the Royal Academy, London, 1880).
Pictures of the Year, with four engrav
ings. Pornic, by Llewellyn Lloyd, with
four engravings. The Place of Pictures
in the Decoration of a Room, by Lewis
F. Day, four illustrations. The First
Troubles of a Young Artist (a delight
ful thing!) from the painting by Eu
gene Stieler. Hints for a Sketching
Club, by R. St. John Tyrwhitt. Our
Living Artists: Hamo Thornycroft, by
Edmund W. Gosse, with portrait and
engraving. Treasure Houses of Art,
by Arthur Griffiths, with four fine en
gravings. An Exhibition of Old Mas
ters at the Hague, by W. M. Conway.
Famous Equestrian Statues, by R. Ker,
with two illustrations. The Dudley
Gallery. Lady Art Students in Mu
nich, by Miss C. J. Weeks, with en
graving of “A Lady’s Studio at Mu-
nich.” How Oxford was Built. Art
Notes.
—“Sunday-school Class Book” is the
title of a practically arranged little
blank-book, adapted to the wants of
the teacher in reporting the condition
of his class. It is by Dr. B. H. Catch
ing, Atlanta, Ga. Price, one dollar per
dozen.
—Twilight Zephvrs. Fur the Sunday
school. By G. W. Linton. St. Louis : John
Burns, publisher, 1881. Price, single copies,
25 cents.
The music, with a few exceptions, is
new, and of a pleasing and sprightly
style, while the hymns are choice and
adapted to the wants of the Sunday
school.
—The Wesley Memorial Volume; or,
Wesley and the Methodist Movement.
Judged by nearly one hundred and fifty
writers, living and dead. Edited bv Rev.
J. 0. A. Clark, D.D. LL I). Phillips & Hunt,
New York, 1881. 743 pp , elegantly bound
and printed. Price, $5 00.
This is a thoroughly Wesleyan vol
ume, as a matter of course, and is in
tended to be; yet, there is nothing nar
row or sectarian in it. It is a judg
ment of Wesley, not only by Methodist
writers, but by writers of the Estab
lished Church, and of the Noncon
formist Churches of England ; by wri
ters of America who are not Metho
dists, as well as by many of the most
celebrated secular essayists and histo
rians on both sides of the Atlantic. An
eminently catholic spirit pervades the
book, and all the writers assign to Mr.
Wesley the chief place in the great re
vival of the eighteenth century. Those
outside the pale of Methodism have
written the most eulogistic things of
Mr. Wesley, which appear in the book;
and they seem to regard Mr. Wesley as
not belonging exclusively to Method
ism, but as the gift of God to evangeli
cal Christianity. They assign to him,
in ecclesiastical history, the place of
chief reviver of spiritual life, in the
ecclesiastical connecticns of the eigh
teenth century. Judging from their
standpoint, the Methodists can no more
exclusively claim and appropriate
Wesley as their own than the Luthe
rans can claim Luther, or the Baptists
John Bunyan. John Wesley “looked
upon the whole world as his parish,”
as his work was a blessing to many
outside of his exclusive followers. So,
this book, while in many regards of
peculiar value and interest to Metho
dists is, as a book of history, and as
pertaining to Christianity, of great
value and interest to other denomina
tions. The book is intended to benefit
a particular Meshodist church building
in Savannah, by aiding to raise money
for its completion; yet, it may, and
probably will, result in promoting the
cause of Christ. As Dr. Dobbin, of
Trinity College, Dublin, expresses it,
the book will do real good to souls, and
will lead the world to consider what it
was that wins so much renown to one
who was once but an humble preacher.
Those who wish to add much that is
valuable to their knowledge of the
great revival movement of the eigh
teenth century, will find the informa
tion in this book, which is published
in the interest of the Wesley Monu
mental church, in Savannah, Georgia,
and is made up by contributions from
many famous living writers.
—lntercommunion Inconsistent, Unscrip
tural, and Productive of Evil. By J. R.
Graves. LL.D. Memphis, Tenn., Baptist
Book House.
Take away the first word from the
title of this volume and the words that
are left express its character.
ALEXANDER AT GATSCHINA.
CHARLES W. HUBNER.
111-fated scion of the mighty Czars!
What profit thee thy sceptre and thy crown ?
The dazzling splendors of thy high renown?
Imperial blazonry and bauble stars?
Find me in all thy realm a rustic clown
Would give his hovel for thy gilded bars I
What wouldst thou give,thou terror-haunted kingl
For that with which the meanest hind is blest—
A day of peace, a night of perfect rest ?
The freedom of a bird upon the wing ?
The love that dwe’leth in the humblest nest?
Or aught that maketh life a blessed thing ?
I pity thee, thou deaths-head mask of State!
Mock Majesty! that tremblest on thy throne,
And caust not even call thy life thine own ;
What eye so keen as that ol sleepless Hate ?
Hide where thou wilt, her dors will run thee down,
Doomed victim of Inexorable Fate!
The second annual commencement
of the Middle Georgia Military and
Agricultural .College, (Department
University of Georgia,) will take place
at Milledgeville, Ga., July 10-14th,
1881.
The following is the programme:
Sermon by J. W. Hinton, D. D.
Oration by Hon. J. C. 0. Black. Soci
eties—Address by Hon. Emory Speer.
Medal presentation by Chancellor
Mell, LL.D., D.D.
C. W. Motes. —Altogether unsoli
cited, and simply to give some expres
sion to our respect for true merit, and
to give its possessor the benefit of pub
lic recognition, we desire to impress the
fact upon our readers that Mr. Motes,
as an artist in Photography, has few
superiors in this country. Certainly, it
will scarcely be questioned by connais
seurs that he stands unrivalled in this
city in the beauty and perfection of
his work. He has the artist eye for ef
fective grouping,and for the production
ofthe good impression that springs from
due attention to becoming surround
ings, his details are worked out finely,
and all the resources of his art are in
voked to give high style and perfect
finish to his pictures.
We have recently seen a large-sized
portrait of a venerable lady of our ac
quaintance which is a gem in its way;
it is a speaking likeness, with all the
softness and delicacy which character
ize the best products of leading artists
of New York or Philadelphia.
We consider this high praise, but
believe it is deserved. If our readers
desire to spend a pleasant hour in
viewing really excellent photograhic
art-work in all its branches, we advise
them to visit Mr. Motes’ rooms on
Whitehall street.
Southern Business University.—
To the young men of the South, who
desire to secure a first-class business
education, we heartily commend the
Southern Business University of Prof.
B. V. Moore, at Atlanta. The advert
isement will be found on another page.
The success and universal popularity
which this University has achieved, are
the best credentials it can offer to se
cure the patronage of our people.
A dispatch from London says: The
Emperor of Russia is reported to be
completely broken down. Correspon
dents who have visited Gatschina re
cently say it is pitiable to see what a
wreck this man of herculean frame ha s
become since his father’s murder. It
was thought at first that he would defy
the Nihilists, and when he appeared
once or twice at reviews and other public
ceremonies his brave and manly bear
ing elicited hearty applause from the
people. But since he issued the “proc
lamation of autocracy” and called in
Ignatieff, Alexander 111 has almost
withdrawn from public view. It is not
grief for his father but sheer fright.
The shock of the assassination complete
ly prostrated the Czarina, and her
nervousness has affected the Czar.
His palace at Gatschina is a perfect
arsenal. Cordons of trusty Cossacks
surround the whole district, and the
palace itself is guarded night and day •
by police and picked officers of the line.
The Czar lives in a state of siege. All
visitors, except the high officers of State, ■
are searched, and at night there is a
password and countersign not only for ;
the precincts of the palace, but all the i
roads approaching it. Like all the
Romanoffs, Alexander 111 is supersti
tious. Just before the assassination,
the late Czar’s houshold was upset by
the discovery of a dead pigeon in the
main courtyard of the Winter Palace,
which had been killed by an eagle.
Gatschina is now terrified by an omen
of more serious import. During a
storm of thunder and lightning on
June 4th, the granite statue of the
Emperor Paul was overthrown, and the
sentry guarding it killed. There is a
legend that:
“When falls Paul’s column, dies the Tsar,
Aud Russians upen Russia war.
The deed was done in eighteen one,
And when twice forty years are run:
Wall, Russia, for thy crowned one. ”
And the Czar believes as firmly as the
most ignorant peasant that the proph
ecy was not fulfilled by the murder of
Alexander 11, but that 1881 will wit
ness a civil war and the overthrow of
the dynasty.
The largest body of people in this
country keeping themselves separate
from the rest of the population are the
Mennonites in Kansas. They are Ger
man in language and customs, though
they came from southern Russia. They
undertook to establish village life in
Kansas, similar to that which they had
left in Europe, the farms running off
from the village in long, narrow strips;
but this plan was not found practicable,
and the farming is now done in the
ordinary Amercan manner. Where
the land is owned in quarter sections,
however, four houses are built in the
adjacent corners, enabling the inhab
itants to become near neighbors. As
a rule, the Mennonites are richer than
the average Western farmers. They
are not communistic, as has been said,
though clannish, and opposed to mix
ing socially or in business with the
people around them.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—There will be a railroad mass meeting
in Carnesville July 4th.
—An effort will be made to establish a
County Court in Mclntosh county.
—The Macon Library is in a flourishing
condition. It is managed with prudence.
—The Augusta Chronicle announces the
resignation of Mr. 8. K. Johnson, superin
tendent ot the Georgia railroad.
—Senator Brown has been requested to
deliver an address in Macon for the benefit
of the public library of that city.
—The Sabbath-schools of Franklin county
wifi have a celebration at the Baptist church
in Carnesville'on the 10th of August next.
—Hon. Logan E. Bleckley, ex-Justice of
the Supreme Court, is lecturing. His lec
tures in Rome and Atlanta were very suc
cessful.
—John C. Rutherford, Esq., of Macon, has
been selected as the alumnus orator at the
approaching Commencement of the State
University.
—A company has been organized to build
a canal to tap the waters of the Chattahoo
chee for the benefit of the manufacturing
interests of Atlanta.
—Waycross Reporter: "Corn crops in
this county are said to be excellent. Capt.
Crawley thinks his crop will average thirtv
five bushels per acre. How will that do for
Ware?
—A correspondent writes from Berrien
county . "A large majority of the farmers
of this county are generally leaving the old
ruts and adopting a more scientific mode of
fanning.”
—The Commissioner of Agriculture says
that there is this year more cotton planted
in Georgia than there was last year, and
that, owing to the late day of planting, more
fertilizing has been resorted to.
—At a monthly meeting of the Preachers’
Association, of Atlanta, a resolution was
passed withdrawing their appointments from
the Sunday editions of the city papers, and
a request made that the Sunday issues be
discontinued.
—Walton Vidette: “The temperance re
form is growing steadily all over the State,
and with the present lights before us we are
inclined to predict that the next gubernato
rial campaign will develop a prohibition
candidate for that exalted position.”
—Albany News and Advertiser: “Emi
grant agents have a shrewd way of avoiding
the tax of S2OO per day, fixed by the Georgia
Legislature. They now go to a town, select
a man of the place to gather the laborers and
deliver them to the railroads'of the West.
In this way we shall look for thousands to
leave Georgia and planters in this
section may look out.”
—Macon Telegraph and Messenger: “Yes
terday afternoon a large crowd of citizens,
including many ladies, assembled on the
west terrace ot the University grounds to
witness the ceremonies attendant upon the
class-tree planting. The ceremonies were
more than ordinarily interesting, the
speeches being all good and exceeding witty.
The class of ’Bl has in it several very fine
speakers, who will make themselves heard
and felt before Georgia is ten years older.”
—This significant paragraph is from the
Dublin Gazette: “Last Thursday we saw,
in front of this office and surrounding the
store of Jones & Co., nineteen wagons and
carts. We paid close attention to this, and
saw the nineteen wagons carry off Western
corn bought on credit. The Colville arrived
the previous evening, with nearly its entire
cargo composed of corn. Such was never
seen in this county before, and it must surely
lead to something bad. There will be more
broken farmers in this county this fall than
she has ever witnessed."
Ata recent session of the Board of Edu
cation of Richmond county, State School
Commissioner Orr delivered an address for
the purpose of gaining the active co-opera
tion of the Board of this county in the adop
tion, by the General Assembly, of bills of
legislation which will practically advance
the cause of education, and give to the school
authorities the means to forward, and more
effectually carry out, the great system of
public education. Mr. Orr’s address was ar
gumentative and practical, and gave an
outline of what bills he wanted adopted. He
is addressing the people and Boards of Edu
cation of all the counties of the State on the
subject, and is having much effect with
legislators and the people.
—Professor A mes, the Boston expert with
reference to the Augusta water supply, re
ports in favor of utilizing Lake Olmstead,
separating it from the canal by a dam. the
water to be forced into the city by a Holly
pump. This will throw eight streams one
hundred and fifty feet, and, if neceesary,
Red’s creek can also be turned in. This and
Ray’s creek would furnish five millions of
gallons a day. The Mayor proposes to.re
commend the Council to issue four hundred
thousand of thirty-years 6 per cent, bonds,
with a tax of two mills for the payment of
annual interest and the extinguishment of
the principal. This tax in thirty years would
pay the interest and principal. It would
only amount to two dollars on every thous
and.
—Augusta Chronicleand Constitutionalist:
“On yesterday the learned, energetic and
distinguished State School Commissioner of
Georgia, addressed our County Board of
Education on the question of increasing the
educational fund of the State. The address
was clear cut, interesting and instructive.
His plans are sharply defined, and seem to
be eminently practical. He plants himself
squarely upon the Constitution of 1877, and
presents unanswerable arguments in advos
cacy of his views. Doctor Orr is to-day
the foremost of public school men in the
South, and second to none in the Union. In
the highest qualities of head and heart, he is
the peer of any man in the country. By and
by the people of Georgia will rise up and
call him blessed.”
—Athens Banner: “The survey of the
extension of the Northeastern railroad is now
being made, and bids will be received up to
noon of June 25th for the grading and ma
sonry of the first section of the extension.
This includes all that part of the road lying
between its junction with the Air Line road,
near the seventy-eighth mile post, and the
town of Clarkesville, a distance of seven
miles. Profiles and specifications are in the
office of Colonel G. J. Foreacre, President,
Atlanta. The contract to be let calls for the
completion of the work by the first of No
vember next. The work from Clarkesville
to Tallulah Falls will be ready to let within
sixty days. Thus it will be seen that the
Richmond and Danville company are going
right ahead with the work of extending the
Northeastern,”
LaGrange Reporter: “The ordinance
of the city or LaGrange, requiring sls 000 for
license to sell liquor, was repealed last Fri
day, and the license reduced to SSOO. Three
of the councilmen voted against repealing it
and three for it. The Mayor cast the decid
ing vote.” The cause of this reactionary
movement is explained by the Reporter as
follows: “The law which has been in
operation here has not been as tffectual as
its projectors anticipated, and for that reason
it was repealed. " here is no doubt, however,
that it has effected good by removing the
temptation from those who would notarink
unless bar-rooms were convenient. All who
were addicted to drinking procured liquor
elsewhere whenever they could not get it in
lAGrar.ge, Liquor is, no doubt, one of the
most destructive ettrrmodities known, and
various means have been devised to prevent
its use to excess. But however vigilant offi
cials may be, those who want it will procure
it, and dealers will elude the letter of the
law. The Reporter has always been an ad
vocate of temperance, and we regret (hat the
law could not give the benefits hoped for.”