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THE EXPOSITION.
The great International Cotton
Exposition, to begin at Atlanta on Oc
tober sth, will be a very different enter
prise from what was at first projected
—from a mere Exposition of cotton
and its analogous interests the projec
tois now find themselves making pre
paration for what, to all intents and
purposes, will be aWord’s'Fair, at which
citizens of most 'of the countries of
North and South America and Europe
will appear as exhibitors, and in which
there will be a place for every product
of human ingenuity, except such as are
in any way dangerous or offensive.
The Exposition will be opened on
Wednesday, October sth, on which oc
casion the (Congress of the United
States, the members of the Cabinet and
the Justices of the Supreme Court will
be present. Arrangements also are
nearly effected for a Governor’s day,
which will follow immediately after
the Centennial exercises at Yorktown
are ended; then the Exposition author
ities expect to receive the Governors of
all the States in the Union, and the
French naval officers who took part in
the Centennial exercises at Yorktown,
as their guests. At intervals during
the Exposition addresses will be made
in Assembly Hall by some of the most
distinguished representative men in
the country, and seasonable announce
ments will be made of the time and
name of such speaker, so that visitors
from a distance,who desire to hear, may
make their arrangements to be present.
It is the expectation that this free dis
cussion, participated in by eminent re
presentative men of all sections of the
Republic, will be one of the most pleas
ing'and profitable features of the Ex
position. The Chief of the Department
of Transportation has made some of
the cheapest excursion rates yet known,
and there is no doubt that more people
will go South this fall than ever before.
The rate from Chicago to Atlanta and
return is but fifteen dollars. Similar
reductions on other routes are ex
pected.
Members of the General Assem
bly.—Members of the General Assem
bly are cordially invited to visit the
Franklin Steam Printing House, and
the editorial and publication offices of
The Christian Index, during their
stay in the city.
A walk through the various depart
ments of “The Franklin,” and observa
tions of the employees engaged at their
respective tasks, will doubtless prove
both entertaining and instructive.
As one of the most extensive and
complete newspaper, job and book
printing establishments in the South,
‘‘The Franklin” is well worthy of a visit.
All visitors may feel assured of a
hearty welcome.
An important bill before the
General Assembly is the one looking
to the. construction of. a Capitol build
ing suitable to the wants of our State
government, and worthy of our great
Commonwealth as to size and archi
tectural beauty. The-bill recommends
the construction of a Capitol to cost
one million dollars, to be paid in five
annual installments of two hundred
thousand dollars each, to be built of
Georgia material, and to be finished by
1887. The Governor was authorized by
the last Legislature to offer $250 for the
best plan, and several have already
been sent in.
A suitable Capitol building is a ne
cessity, and as an appropriate site has
been tendered by the city of Atlanta,
our people will, doubtless, soon have
the pleasure of seeing their. State gov
ernment and Assemblies housed in a
• building equal, in every respect, to the
Capitol of any State in the Union.
The present building is a mere shell,
unfit for the use to which it is now put,
and utterly out of keeping with the
prosperity and dignity of our State.
A bill is before the Legislature to
empower the mayor and council of
Atlanta to prohibit the running at large
of cattle and other live stock in the
streets of said city.
It is humiliating to think that the
necessity exists for the great capital
city of Georgia to ask for such a privi
lege now. It should have been a rigo
rously enforced municipal law long
ago. To make cow-paths out of side
walks, and cow-pastures out of front
yards, may do for inconsequent towns
and rural hamlets, but for the capital
city of “The Empire State” —what a
sorry exhibition of the lack of propriety,
good sense and good breeding!
The bill to appropriate twenty thous
and dollars, and to authorize the Com
missioner of Agriculture to make an
exhibit of the minerals, agricultural
products and other resources of the
State at the approaching International
Cotton Exposition in this city, is one
that should meet the approval of every
progressive and liberal-minded citizen.
Georgia cannot afford to be niggardly
in such a matter. It will pay—and
pay well —to show the world on that
important occasion what Georgia has
done, will do and can do, in the matter
of her enterprise and the development
of her immeasurable resources.
There are strong reasons for believ
ing that the Legislature, now in ses
sion, will pass a general Local Option
law. The bill introduced has been
wisely worded, and the tremendous
moral pressure brought to bear upon
the question by tfie best people of the
State, cannot fail of a favorable result
for the cause of temperance in Geor
gia.
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Secular Editorials—Literature— Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.
BOOKS AND MAGAZINES.
—The Oath-Keeper of Forano. A Tale of
Italy and her Evangel. By Mrs. Julia Mc-
Nair Wright. Philadelphia: The American
Sunday-School Union, publishers.
The author is a popular and charm
ing writer. The book will add to her
well-earned fame. The story is his
torically true. A correct picture is
given of the methods and progress of
the Vaudois Church during the last
twenty years. The characters are
sketched from life, and much of the
narrative comes from the lips of actual
participators in the incidents related by
the author. The book was written
after a lengthy residence in Italy, and
can be relied upon as a careful study
of Italian life and Evangelism.
—From Messrs. Porter & Coates,
publishers, Philadelphia, we have re
ceived a copy of their “Comparative
Edition of the New Testament.” As
the changes that have been made in
the revision of the New Testament are
now exciting a great deal of interest,
and comparison between the new and
old versions will be constantly made,
this edition contains the two versions
arranged in parallel columns, on the
same page, so that the alterations can
be seen at a glance. This arrangement
makes the work one of great popular
value, as it does away with the necessity
of using two books, and saves the time
that would be occupied in seeking cor
responding passages.
All the American Readings adopted
by the Committee are included in the
text, and all those that were rejected
are in the appendix.
—The Stein and Ray Debate: A Church
Discussion between the Brethren and the
Baptists. By Elder J. W. Stein and Dr. D.
B. Ray. Mt. Morris, Illinois. Western Book
Exchange. Pp.,413.
In this discussion, J. W. Stein as
sumes to champion the Tunker (or
Dunkard) churches, and D. B. Ray the
Baptist. Each claims for the churches
represented by himself, and denies to
the churches represented by his oppo
nent, ‘the possession of Bible charac
teristics entitling them to be regarded
as churches of Jesus Christ.’ They
seem to us pretty fairly matched in
mental force, in range of thought, and
in learning and culture. There are
some very striking specimens of acute
discrimination and of logical deduction,
on both sides. But we regret that
bitter personalities should have been
allowed to sully and mar the pages
which, even without them, would have
been sufficiently distasteful because
breathing the spirit of exclusivism. At
about the middle of the volume, one of
the debatants charges the other with
having repeated one assertion “sixty-six
times verbatim, besides repeating its
equivalent a great many times; ” and
we regard the repetitions which con
stantly recur throughout the discussion
as one of its most marked and most
wearisome features.
—The numbers of the Living Age
dated July 2d and July 9th, contain
articles on “Some National Character
istics of European Society,” “A Last
Word on Disraeli,” and “Boycotted,”
Contemporary: “Sir Henry Taylor on
Carlyle’s ‘Reminiscences,’ ” Nineteenth
Century; “The Visions of Sane Per
sons,” Fortnightly; “Mattie, the Histo
ry of an Evening,” Blackwood; “The
Wit and Humor of Lord Beaconsfield,
and the Revision of the New Testa
ment,” Macmillan; “A Japanese Bride,
and a Pilgrimage to Cyprus in 1395-6,”
Fraser; “The Shut-up Houses,” Argo
sy ; with an installment of “ The
Frere’s,” by Mrs. Alexander, and the
usual amount of poetry. A new vol
ume began with the number for July
2d.
—The Popular Science Monthly, for
July maintains, in an able manner, the
high scientific standard which this
periodica), under its present manage
ment, has achieved. Every article has
weight and interest. The illustrations
are good and numerous; the entire
make-up worthy of the distinguished
publishing house from which it is issued
—D. Appleton & Co., New York. The
contents for July embrace the follow
ing : The Races of Mankind. By E.
B. Taylor, F. R. 8. (Illustrated). Eu
ropean Schools of Forestry. By N. H.
Egleston. Production of Sound by
Radiant Energy. By Alexander Gra
ham Bell. (Illustrated). Physical Edu
cation. By Felix L. Oswald, M. D.
Sleep. The Development of Political
Institutions. By Herbert Spencer.
Vlll.—Consultative Bodies. On Fruits
and Seeds. By Sir John Lubbock, F.
R. 8. (Illustrated). How to Prevent
Drowning. By Henry MacCormac.
Recent Advance in the Law of Intel
lectual Property. By Benjamin
Vaughan Abbott. Improvements in
Electric Lighting. By W. H. Preece.
Degeneration. By Dr. Andrew Wilson.
(Illustrated). The Phenomena of
Death. By Thomas D. Spencer, M. D.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, JULY 21, 1881.
Union of the Telegraph and Postal Ser
vice. By A. H. Huet. Sketch of Dr.
Charles T. Jackson. (With Portrait).
Editor’s Table. Literary Notices. Pop
ular Miscellany. Notes.
—Our Western Empire: Or, The New
West Beyond the Mississippi. By L. P.
Brockett. Bradley, Garrettson &Co., Phila
delphia, publishers.
The title-page of this large and
handsome volume indicates the range
of the work. It contains the fullest,
and most complete description, from
official and other authentic sources, of
the geography, geology, and natural
history (with abundant incidents and
adventures), the climate, soil, agricul
ture, the mineral and mining products,
the crops, the herds and flocks, the
social condition, educational and relig
ious progress, and future prospects of
the region between the Mississippi and
the Pacific ocean. Also, full informa
tion upon every statistical question
which the traveler or the settler call
possibly ask. It has numerous illus
trations and valuable maps.
No other book contains the informa
tion this gives. It is adapted to all
classes, and will be found to be of great
and general value. It has been pre
pared with great care and labor by Dr.
L. P. Brockett, whose experience in
extended work upon leading American
Encyclopedias has given him great
advantage for work of this kind.
The price is low for so valuable and
handsome a b00k—53.75 cloth binding;
$5.00, one-half leather.
RUSUKSAM.
CHARLES W. HUBNER.
Awful Death! Inexorable
Pursuivant of Destiny I
Sometime shall thy face confront me.
Thy cold hand be laid on me;
Somewhere shall this mortal vestment
Moulder back to dust again,
Blent with the forgotten ashes
Os a myriad other men;
Be it so I dissolution
Shall be wondrous gain for me—
Somewhere, in yon shining heavens,
I shall live eternally.
And my Spirit’s voided vestment,
Changed by heavenly alchemy
Into robe of radiant glory,
Sometime I again shall see.
Come, then, Death, great Liberator!
Smiling I will welcome thee,
Bless thy hand, tbat-sets the captive
Singing soul within me free.
The recommendation of Governor
Colquitt, in his message to the General
Assembly, to reduce the present charge
i of fifty cents per ton for inspecting fer
tilizers, to twenty-five cents per ton,
will meet the approval of all concerned.
His recommendation to apply the pro
ceeds of the inspection fees to the estab
lishment and maintenance of an “Ex
periment Station,” for the benefit of
agricultural science in all its branches,
said experiment farm to be under the
supervision of the Commissioner of
Agriculture, will please the farmers.
The usefulness of the Agricultural De
partment would be greatly increased
by such a practical establishment.
We are in favor of. every practical
measure which will add to the material
progress and power of Georgia.
It is generally believed that -the
Legislature will remain in session
about two months.
Southern Female College, La-
Grange. —This favorite and ever pop
ular institution calls the attention of
our readers to its excellent features and
very reasonable terms in our advertis
ing columns. Under the presidency
of Prof. T. F. Cox, this college stands
in the front rank of high-class schools
in this country.
—We are in receipt of the catalogue
of Austin Female Seminary for 1881—
82: This excellent school is located
near Plainville, Ga., in Gordon county,
and offers many inducements to par
ents for the education of their daugh
ters. Col. J. 8. Austin is the Principal
and he is assisted by an able corps of
teachers in all the branches.
The attention of parents and guar
dians is called to the advertisement of
this popular institution in this issue of
The Index, setting forth the advan
tages of the Seminary.
With sincere pleasure we note the
fact of President Garfield’s slow but
sure and steady convalescence. The
prayers of Christians everywhere as
cend daily to our Heavenly Father for
the ultimate recovery of the illustrious
patient.
He has suffered a great deal from
his almost fatal wound,but hiswonderful
pluck, excellent constitution, the best
medical skill, and the devoted nursing
of his noble-minded and heroic wiff,
above all, the precious mercy of our
God and Father—have enabled him to
survive the teiyible ordeal he has had
to undergo.
LITERARY NOTES AND COM
MENTS.
t
A correspondent of the Philadelphia
Press who recently visited Longfellow
at his residence in Cambridge, des
cribes the venerable poet’s study as
follows:
“Step into my library,” said he after the
greeting, and be showed the way across the
hall. It would not need the telling for one
to have selected this room of all others as
the place where the bard does his work.
There is a wilderness of books in aises, upon
the tables and on the floor. About his
desk were a score or more, all marked with
some bits of paper, showing that the poet
was at work with them. Over a large book
case stood a plaster bust of Shakspeare,
and in the far end of the room another in
marble, the likeness of some one I could not
recall. There was a wealth of pictures upon
the old walls, which had looked down upon
Revolutionary heroes >n their gravest and
gayest moods, and since have heard and be
held most of the prominent statesmen, phi
losophers,poets and men of letters who have
marked their names upon history. Plain
cloth curtains,tastefully draped,decorated the
two end windows ofthe poet’s workshop look
ing out upon the smiling and Hower-decora
ted lawn and half woodland. Tables here and
there m the room held a confusion of
books and papeis. Manuscripts were scat
tered about; books found, queer resting
places, and yet to Longfellow the confusion
seemed to be order and his hand went di
rect to whatever was necessary for reference
during the conversation. An old-fashioned
clock, much like the one that greeted me
with asong as I entered, stands io oneend
of the room and seemed to pace the hours
with a double step as I listened to the talk
of the gifted man.
—“ln a work on ‘The New Italy and
Old Zealots,’ Father Curci exhbrts Catho
lics to participate in politics, in order to
introduce Christian ideas into national leg
islation.”
Father Curci means, of course,Vati
can ideas—but he is mistaken in call
ing these “Christian” ideas. It seems
that the lust of the papal priesthood
for political dominion is ineradicable—
they assume to forget that this is the
nineteenth, not the fifteenth, century.
—Commenting upon the “Cyclope
dia of British and American Poetry,”
recently issued by the Harpers, an ex
change says:
“Modern and little known writers-often
the authors of only a single recognized poem
—have been very liberally drawn upon, and
not a few, of whom even the literary public
have known but little, have places in this
gallery. It has often been suggested that
the name of a recognized poet often gives life
and favor to pieces that else had never seen
the light, or else had been doomed to an
early oblivion ; and this thought will not
be set aside by a careful examination of
these waifs upon our current literature.
Another curious fact brought out by this
volume is that some of our best-known
prose writers have alsoappea*d before the
public in verse.”
It should be remembered, however,
that a fine prose writer is not, necessa
rily,a fine poet—the reverse is the rule,
as a general thing. The Muse of Poesy
is a jealous mistress, and declines to
allow an equal share of honors with
her sisters. Absolute perfection is at
tainable only by absolute devotion to
one pursuit. The lower is exalted at
the expense of the higher.
Our contemporary’s remarks illus
trate, also, another curious fact that,
despite the argument io the contrary,
true merit does not always win because
it sings in the hedges of obscurity,
while meretricious mediocrity, fortu
nately placed in high places, manages
to win the prizes. In other words,
there is a good deal in a name, as far
as the opinion of the world is con
cerned..
* —There will be sold in a few days
by Messrs. Sotheby and Wilkinson, in
London, the famous historical collec
tion of books made by Mr. Henry
Stevens, a well known American biblio
pole. The Franklin Department alone
comprises nearly three thousand MSB.,
which with books the earliest and rare
est known, will be offered in one lot at
$35,000.
—There is now being published in
Vienna, in periodical parts, “The Ori
ental Travels of the Crown Prince
Rudolph.” The work is profusely illus
trated with original sketches by the
royal author, and it is favoribly spoken
of by German critics.
—Sophocles’s (Edipus Tyrannus,”
translated into French verse, is to be
produced at the Comedie Erancaise
with great eclat. This version was
first played there in 1858, and the
music of Membree, written for the oc
casion, will also be revived.
—When the proposition to erect a
statue to Thiers was'put to a vote in the
Municipal Council of Marseilles the
other day, his fellow townsmen rejected
it by twenty-four to two. Such is fame!
on a pedestal to-day—in the mud
to-morrow.
—The essay-writing mania of this age
is attributed, by The Athenxum, among
others causes to “the method of educa
tion pursued in one University alone
which turns out every year a vast num
ber of young gentlemen thoroughly
competent to beat out to the utmost
thinness an idea which probably resem
bles gold in no other respect than its
capacity for undergoing such treat
ment. Then there are a certain num
ber of people, of unblemished conduct
in all other walks o f life, who cannot
perform the simplest domestic duty
without letting the rest of the world
know all about it. If they take a pill,
or have their front door painted,
straightway appears a description—
facetious or ‘analytical,’ according to
their bent of mind—of the whole
process, so that one has but to know
the journal to which the writer is at
tached in order to be as well acquaint
ed with his pursuits, his ailments, and
his pleasures as if one lived in the same
house. Lastly, there are the moral
essayists, who may be divided into two
classes, according as they deal in plat
itudes or paradoxes; usually a man
begins in one of these and ends in the
other.”
—An American lady now assists at
the lectures of the celebrated Prof.
Virchow, and is the first student of her
sex ever entered at the University of
Berlin.
—The books bequeathed by Carlyle
to the Harvard Library number about
325 volumes. •
—A translation into French of Mark
Twain’s “American Sketches” by M.
Emile Blemont, is shortly to be publish
ed in Paris.
—Prof. Von Ranke, the historian,
who was born in the same year and in
the same month as the late Mr.
Carlyle, is to visit London for the pur
pose of arranging with a firm of English
publishers for the issue of a new revis
ed and complete edition of his histori
cal works.
—Major R. E. Jones, author of
“Lincoln, Stanton, and Grant,” will
soon publish “Four Years in the Army
of the Potomac.”
—Mr. E. A. Abbey’s illustrations of
Herrick’s poems, which have appeared
in Harper’s Monthly, are to be publish
ed in bo6k form.
—The Japanese Government has
published a large dictionary of military
and naval terms, in five languages—
Japanese, French, English, German,
and Dutch, said to be the first Japanese
dictionary arranged on the European
plan.
—A biography of Ferdinand Freili
grath is appearing in Germany, in in
stallments. It is largely autobiographi
cal, and compiled from the poet’s letters,
by Herr Wilhelm Buchner,who gives it
the name of “A Poet’s Life in Letters.”
—The Academy relates “an amus
ing sketch of Carlyle’s plain speaking.
An acquaintance, with strong opinions
of his own,had supported them pertina
ciously one evening against Carlyle’s
views, and was thus taken leave of at
the door: ‘Good-night, sir! And let
me tell you that you have capabilities
for becoming one of the greatest bores
in England.’ ”
Astronomers and other “stargazers”
have been agreeably occupied for some
time in observing the great comet
now visible in the northeastern heavens.
On a clear night the spectacle present
ed by the celestial visitor, and his bril
liant neighbors farther east—Mars,
Saturn, Jupiter and Venus, was cer
tainly very beautiful.
An unusual number of these erratic
travelers in space are announced to ap
pear in the near future, and will offer
a fine field for unscientific conjecture
as well for scientific investigation. The
earth has frequently encountered these
mysterious wonders, and in the last
century was enveloped in the tail of a
great comet without any injurious ef
fects. The Director of the Naval Ob
servatory at Washington, in a recent
interview with the New York Sun, said
that the sun was constantly contract
ing, and eventually we might be frozen
out. The sun’s energy is probably
kept up by the constant violent impact
of erratic heavenly bodies upon its sur
face, and as long as this absorption by
the sun continues we need not have
any fear of the return of the glacial
period. If these strange visitors were
to entirely desert our system the sun
would eventually lose its energy, and
the earth would be frozen solid to the
core. It seems, therefore, that comets
are essential to the well-being of the
sun, and that they promote, in some
mysterious way, the physical har
mony of the solar system.
The work of discharging inefficient
clerks from the Departments at Wash
ington is now well under way. It is be
lieved that these changes now will be
greater than in any other year since
1866, and that unlike the ordinary
nractice, those who go out because of
inefficiency or other fault, will go to
stay.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—ln Decatur the fence question stood 1,171
lor and 529 votes against.
—The grain crop will not be as large as
was anticipated a short time since.
—The Adairsville cotton factory is paying
12 per cent, dividends, annually.
—Campbell county voted for “fence” 552,
and for “no fence” 543, on the Sth inst.
—The vete on the stock law in Wilkes
county stands: Fence, 1,453 ;no fence, 46J.
—ln Coweta county "no fence" received a
majority of 629 votes in an election held for
the purpose.
—A system of free schools for Lumpkin
meets with a considerable opposition from
some of the citizens.
—There is a church in Stewart county
which pays the pastor twelve pairs of woolen
socks a year for his salary—one pair at each
visitation.
—The Methodists had forty-t wo accessions
to the church in Athens during the recent
revival, and raised $10,600 to improve the
church building.
—lt is estimated that the citizens of Geor
gia have only twelve millions of dollars in
railroad property, while they have thirty
millions of dollars in fences.
—There is an Englishman living in Pen
field, Greene county, who makes a good
support for himself and a helpless sister by
working a single acre of land.
—Rev. 8. P. Callaway, of the West Point
Press, has purchased the LaGrange Reporter,
and this old and popular journal will hence
forth be under his management.
—A mass-meeting of the farmers of
Thomas county has been held, and measures
for improving the condition of the farming
interests of that county were discussed.
—A twelve hundred acre farm, one hour’s
ride from the flourishing town of Americus,
is offered for sale at three dollars per acre.
It is said to be one of the best in that fertile
section.
—There is little doubt—if there is any—
that the Legislature will promptly pass a bill
providing for the building of a new lunatic
asylum, or so enlarging the old one that it
will properly accommodate the patients.
—Atlanta is pushing forward every ar
rangement for the success of her great Expo
sition with commendable energy. The pri
vate houses of the citizens are to be thrown
open for the entertainment of visitors
—The total cotton exports from Savannah
to foreign ports.since September Ist, 1880,
have been 607 387 upland, and 6,025 bags sea
island, against 424,206 bales upland and 796
bags sea island for the same time last year.
—A bridge is to span the Oconee at Dublin,
and th,e survey has been made by Colonel
Powers, engineer of the Macon and Bruns
wick railroad, preliminary to drawing the
plan. It will be three hundred feet long,
with a trestle of seventeen hundred feet.
—Monroe Advertiser: “Corn and cotton
are growing as well as can be expected, and
if no untoward accident happens, there is
promise of a good crop, mth seasonable
showers through the present month, a corn
crop far in excess of the last will be made."
—Montezuma Weekly: "Farmers from
all sections report the crop prospect the best
of their lives. More corn will be made in
Macon and Dooly counties than has been
made in twenty years in a single season. A
ride through these .counties has assured us
of the fact.”
—The Pine Hill Hotel and Water Supply
Company of Richmond county held a meet
ing on the Ist, accepted the charter, fixed the
amount of capital stock at $50,000, subscribed
half the sum immediately, and appointed a
committee to solicit subscriptions.
—The Sheriffs’ Convention at Atlanta
showed an attendance of about fifty dele
gates. Governor. Uolquitt addressed the
Convention, and a fee bill was reported,
which was ordered referred to a committee
of one from each Congressional district to
present to the Legislature.
—A Bulloch county correspondent writes:
‘‘Crops are better in this county than I have
known them fur many years. If seasons
continue twenty days longer you could not
give a man a sack of Western corn next sea
son. Farmers are offering to sell corn at fifty
cents per bushel. Oat crop very short; seed
oats, rust-proof, worth $1.50 per bushel.”
—A correspondent of the Columbus Sun
reports the crops in portions of Chattahoo
chee, Marion, Stewart, Schley, Webster and
Talbot in a flattering condition. The corn
crop is fifty per cent, better than last year,
and the cotton crop about twenty per cent.
He says the farmers are cheerful and hope
ful of a fine yield, which he thinks they will
certainly have if the seasons are good.
—Macon Telegraph and Messenger: “All
doubts concerning the carp as a game fish
have been set at rest by experiments tried in
the pond of H. B JDavis, near this city. In
the pond * there are no other fish but carp.
Fifteen minuted fishing with a hook and
line filled a small- bucket. The line was
twice broken by large carp, about eighteen
months old.”
—ln 1880 Georgia produced 23,190,472
bushels of Indian corn, against 17,646,459
bushels in 1870. Os wheat she made last
year 3,158,335 bushels, against 2,127,017
bushels in 1870. The oat crop in 1880
amounted to 5,544,161 bushels, against 1,-
904,601 bushels in 1870. Only 19,396 bushels
of barley were grown in the State in 1880,
but the product in 1870 was still smaller—
-5 640 bushels- The figures of rye are 101,759
against 82,549, and of buckwheat 2,439
against 402. »
—Oglethorpe Echo: “In many parts of
this county are vast beds of kaolin, only used
by our good ladies to whiten their hearths
with. This is a very valuable mineral, and
when purified sells for S4O a ton. It is largely
used to adulterate sugar, candy, flour, elc.,
besides supplying other more legitimate
needs. It answers the purpose of fire brick,
and will some day be worth a fortune to
land-owners lucky enough to have banks of
it on their farms. Large quantities of it are
shipped from near Augusta to the North and
Europe.”
—James S. Rose, of “ The Rock," Upson
county, Georgia, writes the Southern Culti
vator that he sowed fourteen bushels of seed
oats on a fraction less than two acres of
ground and reaped 212} bushels on the 20th
June. He says also that be has raised 138}
bushels oats to the acre, and believes he can
make 150. Os course these oats were prop
erly fixed to grow. They were manured
with a hundred bushels of cotton seed to the
acre and turned under with a scooter. There’s
no doubt about crops in Georgia if they are
only fixed right.
—Speaking of Atlanta, a correspondent of
the Savannah News writes: “The movement
here in real estate circles, and the mania for
architectural improvement, seems to be on
the increase rather than otherwise. Brick,
mortar*and lumber lie around on every
hand. You stumble on them or pick your
way around them at numerous points on
every thoroughfare, and laborers group
around these places, briskly going in and
coming out, reminding one of so many ant
hills. Warehouses and stores for more busi
ness, churches .for more worshipers, houses
for more people, and palatial residences for
the more prosperous, all point to an im
proved city exchequer, and larger means to
improve these rough streets, introduce a
larger and better water supply, and to secure
the future health of Atlanta, upon which her
continued prosperity may be said entirely to
depend, for, after all, the exceptional eleva
tion of her site, and the natural salubrity of
her atmosphere have been the main secret of
her prosperity, and of her reputation abroad.
Let ner once lose this character, and the
Georgia Homer will have a theme for his
Iliad?’
