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THE GLORY OF LITERATURE.
Variable conditions characterise the
trivial as well as the important affairs
and circumstances of individuals and
of nations. In the case of the indi
vidual this ebb and flow in the tide of
events may be manifest in a month or
a year; but in the slowly accumulating
history of a nation, the devolopmentof
these changes may require a century.
In like manner genius is subject to
changing moods, and there is an ebb
tide and a flood-tide in the world of
Intellect. The literal y value of an age
is to be computed by the standard fur
nished by either of these phenomenons.
It happens in the history of a people
that its native genius will fall into a
state of dormancy. A strange lassi
tude, a baleful torpor, creep over and
paralyze the forces of intellectual
energy ; the wing of its spirit seems to
be broken. A vast and arid expanse
of mediocrity extends over the entire
period, with, perhaps, here an emi
nence, apparently lost in the wilder
ness, and there a solitary spring, with
its waters of truth wasting away un
heeded in the sands.
This uninteresting period may be
followed by one of imposing intellectu
al activity. Imagination, resuming the
robes of its celestial rank, will mount
to the “highest heaven of invention,”
there to hold familiar communion with
the Spirit of Beauty in her divinest
forms.
The history of every civilized nation
shows these variations of the literary
barometer, this decrease and increase
of the mental forces. A single century
may witness the gradual decay of a
nation’s literary potency. The crystal
line waters of the Pierian fountain may
gradually diminish in volume, dwin
dling in their ancient channels until
shallows only, and barren sands, and
the crumbling wrecks of former splen
dor, shall remain visible.
In the succeeding century the fresh
fountains of Thought will again be
unsealed; the transparent and spark
ling waters of the soul will gush from
a thousand hidden springs; the swell
ing current will rush impetuously into
the dry channels, and fill them; the
waste of sands, the stagnant pools of
mediocrity, will disappear. The broad
ening tide, overcoming every obstacle,
shall again rise and crinkle around the
beacon-like monuments of the past.
By the force of rejuvenated intellect
trophies of intellectual success will
again be placed even upon the utmost
verge of the attainable. Genius, living
in the light and freedom of its royal
estate, shall again create works, the
peer of any that shine down upon us
from the Walhallas of past centuries;
nay, that shall be superioreven to these,
viewed in the purer light of the pres
ent, and measured by the standards of
increased experience and broader cul
ture.
No employment is more congenial to
a contemplative mind, or more useful
in many material respects, than, the
study of the literary annals of a people.
Such a study will furnish us with
means by which the moral standing of
a people can be accurately tested.
Moreover, the facts of intellectual de
velopment, thus obtained, will direct
us no less clearly and significantly to
the ascertainment of that people's rela
tive political position. By this u*ifail
ing test the proper place of any people
in the ranks of the grand phalanx
of onward marching nations can
be determined. Nor are the results
of a wise and consistent study of
this kind less interesting and valua
ble when the mind of the student
occupies itself, exclusively, with the
measurement of a people’s religious and
aesthetical progress.
Let the student of literature enter
the libraries of our own people with the
spirit of a devout learner. Let him
carefully examine the mental food
prepared for our people by the press.
Let him judge, fairly and critically, the
taste of the masses, as indicated by the
quality of the literature circulating
among them. By doing this he will
not fail to arrive at a point whence he
can satisfactorily survey the entire
field of the mental and moral culture
of the day, and ascertain the influence
of the above mentioned elements upon
the life and manners of the people.
Very subtle indeed is the growth of
the moral forces that successfully up
hold the foundation-pillars of a State.
Equally subtle are the evil influences
that operate against these sustaining
forces, and which, unless counteracted
in time, or promptly neutralized, tend
to the gradual subversion of social order
and the destruction of material pros
perity.
* A clear-headed, deep-thinking ob
server of a people’s literature, will hold
the key to results which to others will
be wholly unaccountable events.
In this connection it is proper to say
that it is consistent with both theory
and experience to hold, that a people
who seek satisfaction and pleasure
mainly in the gratification of selfish
purposes; to whom the exercise of the
grosser avocations of life is more con
genial than the pursuit of aims which
enlighten the mind, exalt the soul, and
purify the heart; a people resting con
tented in the worship of Mammon, and
who would rather lay sacrificial offer
ings upon the dark shrines of the Pas
sions, than to sit at,the feet of the
apostles of Truth, or to listen to the
sweet and blessed evangels of the chaste
Spirit of Letters—in short, a people
disinclined to admit the unquestionable
truth of the maxim that a people’s
chief glory lies in its authors, is one that
will, of necessity, suffer degradation by
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Secular Editorials—Literature— Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.
such injudicious contempt for the
superior claims of the pursuits of the
intellect. Willful blindness to the
fadeless charms of literature is strong
evidence of moral decay.
Intellect, thoroughly cultivated, with
all its splendid faculties consecrated to
the service of “the True, the Good and
the Beautiful,” is a king whose right to
rule the world is a divine and unques
tionable right. The ruler in the Em
pire of Mind has limitless dominion,
and the loyal hearts of men are his
subjects. He rules by wisdom, and
commands by love. His throne is the
earth. The lordly elements, the impe
rial potencies of nature, are his minis
ters. The mysterious operations, the
holy and omnipotent influences of the
spirit-world, obey his call, and unques
tioningly fulfill the behests of their
master. The gems that gleam and
flash around his forehead, are the
crown-jewels of Heaven. He is inde
pendent of time and of space. Innu
merable cycles of ages feel the effects
of his presence, and own the plastic
power of his will. Eternity alone is
broad enough, and deep enough, and
wide enough for the full exercise of his
sovereign powers.
Profound is the wisdom and lofty the
sentiment embodied in the following
words of that grand woman, Mrs.
Browning- “We want the touch of
Christ’s hand upon our literature, as it
touched other dead things. We want
the sense of the saturation of Christ’s
blood upon the souls of our poets, that
it may cry through them in answer to
the ceaseless wail of the sphinx of our
Humanity, expounding agony into
renovation. Something of this kind
has been perceived in Art whenever its
glory was at the fullest.”
We can not close without uttering
the profound conviction of our soul
that genius, exercising its functions to
the utmost, and endowed with every
element essential to success in author
ship, can never achieve permanent
fame, unless the accomplished work
shows, unmistakably, that the writer is
loyally devoted to the cause of Truth.
No laurel wreath, won in this arena,
shall encircle with unfading glory the
brow of the victor, unless its leaves
have been dipped in the blood of Jesus,
and the Spirit of Christianity shall
bless it with sanctified immortality.
Col. Avery’s History of Georgia.
The publishers of Col. Avery’s “ Histo
ry of Georgia from 1850 to 1881,” are
the strong firm of Brown & Derby, 21
Park Place, New York. This firm has
the recommendation of the Appletons
and the Scribners, and are sole agents
for the immense American News Com
pany’s publications. Both have resided
in Georgia. In its typographical exe
cution this will be the handsomest
Georgia book ever published. It will
contain fifty steel portraits of the dis
tinguished Georgians of thirty years—
statesmen, journalists, writers and
“Railroad kings.” It will have a splen
did map of Georgia, with the new cen
sus. It will give a list of the Georgia
Generals and regimental officers in the
Confederate service. It will have
chapters on Georgia journalism, litera
ture, and railroads.
The book will contain six hundred
pages, and will be sold on the subscrip
tion plan, like Mr. Davis’ work. It
will afford a chance to make money by
canvassing. Agents will be put all
over the State, and those desiring to
canvass should apply to Brown & Der
by, 21 Park Place, New York.
The book will be ready for delivery
in about two months.
Georgia. State Agricultural So
ciety.—The Society will meet in
Rome, August 10th. It will be an im
portant meeting. A circular received
from B. W. Wrenn, Esq., that prince
of General Passenger Agents, and one
of the most popular railroad officers in
the United States, informs us, that in
order to accommodate all delegates,
visitors, their friends and others who
may desire to visit Rome at that time,
a special train will leave Atlanta on
the W. & A.. R. R., at 8 o’clock a. m.,
August 9 th, arriving at Rome about
half-past eleven.
Special excursion tickets will be sold
at the very low price of 82.00 round
trip, good to return within three days.
An ample number of coaches will be
provided for the excursionists.
No doubt many will avail themselves
of this fine opportunity to visit the
thriving and beautiful “city of the
hills.”
The managers of the State Road
are energetic and enterprising men,
anxious to accommodate the people
and to promote the agricultural and
commercial interests of Georgia, so far
as it is within their power to do so—
an extensive power, unquestionably,
and exercised beneficially for all.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 4, 1881.
LITERARY NOTES AND COMq
MENTS.
Shakespeare’s works are being ren
dered into the Malo-Russian language
by a well-known writer in that dialect
M. Kulisb, who has already completed
a translation of six of the plays.
—Those who desire to know exactly
how Lord Beaconsfield looked in the
eyes of friends in the days of his youth
have but to turn to the republished
sketches of literary and political char
acters contributed by the artist Maclise
some fifty years since to the pages of
“Fraser’s Magazine.” This celebrated
gallery of contemporaries is not exact
ly a series of caricatures, though here
and there the rancorous party spirit of
the time has infected thedraughtman’s
style. But there is assurdly nothing
ill-natured in the portrait of the author
of “Vivian Grey” standing cross-legged
and leaning with one elbow on the
mantelpiece, unless it be found in the
preternaturally faultless cut of his high
collared dress coat, or the effeminate
nattiness of his lace wristbands. The
curl upon the left temple, and the flow
ing, wavy locks, are here to be seen in
all theiroriginal perfection. The smooth,
oval countenance, the luminous eyes,
and the delicate and regular features
bear out the reputation of the young
gentleman for personal comeliness.
—A bronze statue of Dante has late
ly been set up in the Square of the Col
lege of France, this being the quarter
in which he lived when in Paris in
1302.
—The new English Copyright bill,
just introduced, gives a copyright to
newspapers in respect of “compositions
of a literary character,” and in general
to any creative work of the chisel, the
brush, or the pen. In the case of writ
ten works, the author or publisher shall
deliver a copy to the registration office
to be hereafter established, fill up the
necessary particulars and make due at
testation, pay a shilling fee, and obtain
his certificate. There is to be no copy
right on sermons or lectures. The copy
right, after registration, is to endure for
fifty years in the case of all productions
of the pen, and in the case of other
works for the life of the author and
thirty years after. Moderate quotations
with an acknowledgment of the source
shall not be an infringement. Breaches
of the act are to be remedied by an ac
tion for damages, and by summary
power to enter and search for and seize
and confiscate to the owner of the
copyright all reproductions of his work,
and to obtain a fine of £a. Foreigners
may obtain the same rights as British
subjects.
—Col. I. W. Avery’s “History of
Georgia for the past Thirty Years,”
splendidly illustrated, will be ready in
September next. Brown <fc Derby, New
York, are the publishers. It will be a
deeply interesting and popular work.
—Two million copies of the revised
New Testament have already been
sold.
—An international congress of “Am
ericanists” is to be held at Madrid for
five days next September. It is to in
clude professors and authors in depart
ments of American history, geology,
anthropology, ethnology, and other
branches of learning.
—An English house, with a branch
in New York, —that of George Rout
ledge & Sons —will publish a new edi
tion of Shakespeare, in fifteen large oc
tavo volumes, richly illustrated.
—The issues of the Franklin Square
Library have been for some time al
most monopolized by grave works of
history and biography, for which there
is a growing demand among the labor
ing classes. The publication of such
works at 15 and 20 cents is a striking
feature of the times.
—Rev. Frank L. Dobbins, formerly
a missionary to Japan, has in press,
“False Gods, or Idol Worship of the
World.”
—The French Academy did not
award any prizes for poetry this year,
all the pieces sent in being “deplorably
weak.”
—Chatto <fc Windus will publish the
posthumous works of Mr. Arthur
O’Shaughnessy, under the title “Songs
by a Worker.”
—The authorities of the British
Museum will shortly issue their scheme
for publishing the great catalogue of
printed books.
—Mrs. Mary Hallock Foote has been
sketching in Mexico for Scribner'i
Monthly.
Mrs. Holman Hunt, wife of the
artist, has written a little book on Jer
usalem, for children.
Mr. A. R. Spofford, of Washing
ton, and Mr. Charles Gibbon, of Lon
don, are preparing for Gebbie & Co.,
Philadelphia, anillustrated “Library of
Choice Literature,” in eight volumes.
“The Birthday celebrations which
have been held in Cincinnati in the
public schools on the birthday of some
popular author for several years past,”
says the Springfield Republican, “have
been altogether wider in their popular
effect than has appeared in the publish
ed notices. The celebrations have been
preceded by announcements in the
schools as to the works of each author
and criticisms on them. Extra copies
of these books have been furnished by
the public library, and each celebration
has been followed by an extraordinary
demand for the author at book-stores,
not only in Cincinnati, but in southern
Ohio over the region reached by the
Cincinnati papers. Aided by intelli
gent work on the part of the libraries,
a healthy interest in authors, generally
more talked about than known, has
been developed by these celebrations
in a large population ; to say nothing
of the instruction given the children.”
Dr. Richard S. Storrs’ oration on
“The Recognition of the Supernatural
in Letters and in Life” has been pub
lished by A. D. F. Randolph & Co.
R. Worthington has bought the
stereotype plates of Dr. Barnes’ “Notes
on the Bible,” and will issue cheaper
editions of Isaiah, Job, and Daniel.
D. Appleton & Co. have ready, “The
Formation of Vegetable Mold through
the Action of Worms with Observation
on their Habits,” by Dr. Charles Dar
win.
William Ross Wallace, one a well
known literary man in New York, is
dead, aged sixty-two.
The will of James T. Fields bequeaths
legacies to Whipple, Whittier, Aldrich,
Howells, and Miss Larcom.
General Cheatham, of Tennessee, is
writing a history of General Hood’s ad
vance to, and retreat from, Nashville.
Mr. A. B. Richmond, the author of
“'Leaves from the Diary of an Old Law
yer,” has written a new book, which
like its predecessor, advances the cause
of temperance. It is a story entitled
“A Hawk in an Eagle’s Nest.”
Mr. 8. C. Hall announces, through
Griffith & Farren, a series of 220 short
poems, called “Rhymes in Council;
Aphorisms Versified,” written in his
81st year—“the result of knowledge
based on experience and matured by
thought, the proceeds of a long life.”
Although Oliver Wendell Holmes
talks rapidly, never hesitating for a
word,he writes laboriously,crossing out,
interlining, and studying dictionaries
for the best word. “He is now prepar
ing,” says a recent visitor, “an address
to be delivered at the centennial of
the Massachusetts Medical Association.
The original manuscript will be a cur
iosity. The small portion I saw had
been entirely rewritten two or three
times and looked like a series of hen
tracks in the mud.”
Grave apprehensions are entertained
it the Vatican concerning Father
Curci’s new book, the publication of
which is imminent. Its drift is to expose
the Cardinals, who prevent Leo XIII
from pursuing a conciliatory policy.
Every means has been tried to dissuade
Father Curci from publication.
It is stated that Mr. Sidney Lanier,
the poet, author and musician, who is
spending the summer at Asheville,
N. C., is not recovering his health, and
fears are entertained that he may not
do so. His devoted wife is with him,
and every effort is being made to pro
long his useful life.
We sincerely pray that these efforts
may be successful, and that many
years of fame and usefulness may yet
be his. His death would be a great
loss to the literature of our country.
Georgia is proud of her distinguished
son.
Mary Sharp College.—The adver
tisement of this venerable institution
of learning, at Winchester, Tenn., will
be found on our eighth page. For years
this college has occupied a conspicu
ous station in the front rank of the
Baptist Female Colleges of the country.
Its patronage is co-extensive with the
Southern States. Its faculty embraces
teachers distinguished for piety, learn
ing and skill as educators. Parents
desiring a first-class education for their
daughters will do well to consider the
inducements offered by Mary Sharp
College.
Mr. C. P. Night, manufacturer of
building paper, roofing paper, and
roofing cement, No. 93 Lombard street,
Baltimore, is also General Agent for
the celebrated Liquid Enamel Paint,
manufactured by the New Jersey En
amel Paint Company. See adv’t.
THE MAGAZINES.
—The Magazine of Art, published
by Cassell, Petter, Galpin and Co.,
London, Paris and New York, is in
creasing in attractiveness and value
from month to month. The number
for July is very fine. The contents are,
Alma Tadema’s “Sappho”, reproduced
in a finished engraving; Herkomer’s
“Missing,” a full page engraving from
an original pen-and-ink sketch ; The
Salon, descriptive article with four en
gravings ; The New Natural History
Museum at South Kensington; Our
Living Artists, Alphonse DeNeuville;
The Cenci Portrait, by T. A. Trollope,
with two illustrations; Pictures of the
Year, with four illustration; The Car
eer and Works of Flaxman, by E. S.
Roscor, with six illustrations; “How
Far Yet,” from the painting by Arz ;
A Study on Jam Pots, by Rev. St. J.
Tyrwhitt; English Birds and their
Haunts, by Rev. Grant Allen, with four
illustrations; Fact in Landscape, by
W. W. Fenn; “Her Character,” from
the painting by Herr Bakker Korff;
and Art Notes, Yearly subscription,.
$3.50 ; single number, 35 cents. Cas
sel, Petter, Galpin & Co., 739 and 741,
Broadway, New York, N. Y.
—ln Blackwood's Magazine for July,
republished by the Leonard Scott Pub
lishing Co., 41 Barclay St., New York,
we note the following articles:
“Besieged in the Transvaal; the De
fense of Standerton.” The first part
of a spirited account of some of the in
cidents of the African War, told by the
officer in command of Standerton,
which was surrounded by the Boers
and cut off from communication with
the outside world for ninety-two days.
“Reminiscences of Prison Life” de
scribes some of the peculiarities of
prisons and prisoners.
“The Land of Khemi. Part. II.: The
Labyrinth and the Lakes.” An ex
cursion to the pyramid of Howara,
supposed to be the oldest of all pyra
mids, and the Labyrinth ; also a trip
through the cane country to the govern
ment sugar factory, and a visit to a
“Bedouin sheikh living like a civilized
being in a large white washed two
storied house.”
“The Private Secretary, Part IX.”
“A French Lady and her Friends.” A
notice of “Souvenirs of Mme. C. Jau
bert,” with letters from her friends,
Berryer, DeMusset, and Heine.
“King Bemba’s Point. A West
African Story.”
“Recollections a la Fourchette” re
call some special occasions when food
seemed particularly good, and the cir
cumstances that produce that best of
all sauces, a good appetite.
“Tunis.” Its position, and enough
of its past history to explain its present
importance.
“The Late Andrew Wilson,” an ob
ituary notice of the author of “The
Abode of Snow,” and other sketches, of
travel that have appeared in this ma
gazine. I
—The Southern Musical Journal,
Ludden & Bates, publishers, Savannah,
Ga., for July, is to hand. It maintains
a very respectable rank among the
musical journals of the United States.
It represents a prosperous firm and is
deservedly popular among the musical
people of Georgia. Success to it.
—Littell's Living Age. The numbers
of The Living Age dated July 16th, July
23rd and July 30th, contain articles
on The Unity of Nature, Contemporary;
The Early Life of Thomas Carlyle, by
J. A. Froude, and, Intelligence of
Ante,Nineteenth Century; Hindu House
hold, Fortnightly ; A Talk about Odes,
and Tunis, Blackwood; In Umbria, Con
solations, and The Late Governor of
Madras, Fraser; Personal Reminiscen
ces of Lord Stratford and the Crimean
War, and Richelieu, Temple Bar;
Among the Dictionaries, Cornhill; Sir
Walter Scott and his Mother, Good
Words; Timoleon, Macmillan; The Ar
abs of the Desert, and The Small Squire
of a Century Since, Spectator; A Bquire’s
Note-Book in the Seventeenth Century,
Saturday Review; “Mere Chatter,”
“How She Teld a Lie,” by the author
of “John Halifax, Gentleman,” My Poor
Little Kite,” “Cousin Felix,” a continu
ation of “The Frere’s,” and the con
clusion of “The Shut-up Houses,” and
the usual amount of poetry.
It is noticed that all the government
supplies, so far bid for this year, will
cost less than at any previous time. In
the matter of stamps, envelopes, etc.,
for the Post-office Department, the re
duction is great. This is due partly to
improvements in machinery and in
competition, but in part, also, to a con
viction that the Department is to be
run on business principles, and that no
unreasonable bid would be accepted.
The methods of the Postmaster Gen
eral may well be imitated in this res
pect by all other Cabinet officials.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—The State Agricultural Society will meet
in Rome on the Bth of August.
—The citizens of Randolph county have
refused to build a new court house.
—The wine crop of Georgia last year was
903,244 gallons, worth $1,326,321.63.
—Columbus, with its twenty thousand
population within one mile of the court
house, ranks as the fourth city in the State
in size.
—A gentleman in Cartersville is suing the
telegraph company for $25,000, because of
the non delivery of two messages sent from
his dying wife.
—A bill has passed the House changing
the time of electing county officers to the
same day when Slate officers are elected, viz:
the first Wednesday in October.
—General Longstreet has appointed B. F.
Brimberry, of Randolph county, Deputy
United States Marshall for the Southern
district of the State, with headquarters at
Savannah.
—A petition, directed to the owners,
agents and stockholders of the steamers ply
ing on the Savannah river, requesting that
they discontinue their Sunday trips, is being
circulated in Hampton, S. 0.
—Blind Tom, when at his Georgia home,
stays at his piano night and day, playing
most of the time. He has about seven
thousand tunes in his head, and is constant
ly picking up new ones.
—Prof. Stone, of the Cincinnati Observes
tory, says the new comet is approaching, and
when in perihelion, about August 19. h, will
be very near. He thinks this may be the
return of the great comet observed from
China in 1337, as its orbit is very similar.
—Opelika Observer: “It is rumored in
railroad circles that the Columbus and Wes
tern is to get the Columbus branch of the
Western road on the first of August, and
that the Western is to absorb the Atlanta
and West Point road. We presume this
rumor is correct."
—The preliminary organization of the
Thomas County Stock Breeders' Association
has now been succeeded by a permanent
organization, with Judge H. W. Hopkins,
President, and Mr. W. H. Mitchell. Secreta
ry. The Association is now preparing for a
fine stock exhibition next fall.
—The pastors of all the churches in Alba
ny, without previous understanding, prayed
for rain last Sunday, and a writer in the
News says hardly had their benedictions
been pronounced when a little cloud gath
ered over the sweltering city—others gather
ed to it. and a refreshing, plentiful shower
descended.
—The Savannah News says: ‘ What Gen
eral Hill says of the boys of Atlanta is true
of thoee of other cities. The education of
the streets, the absence of punishments, the
carelessness or blindness of parents are hav
ing their effect. A boy ha, to be a very
good one if he can resist his surrounding in
cities. From rowdyism to theft., from theft
to murder, are short steps, and no institu
tions are growing faster than the penitentia
ries.
—Augusta News: "Judge Allen H. Wat
son has a plantation of two thousand two
hundred acres on Flint river. He will make
six thousand bushels of corn, and is good for
twohundred balesof cotton. Ourinformant
says there is not another such farm in Mid
dle Georgia, and few such farmers. The
place is worth fifty thousand dollars, and
will pay ten per cent, dividend on that
amount.”
—A bill has been introduced in the Legis
lature to increase the salaries of our State
officers. It proposes that the salary of the
Governor shall be five thousand dollars per
annum -. the salary of each of the Justices of
the Supreme Court shall be four thousand
dollars per annum; the salary of each of the
Judges of the Superior Courts shall be three
thousand dollars per annum, and the salary
of the Attorney-General shall be three
thousand dollars per annum.
—Atlanta Evening Post-Appeal: "Messrs.
A. C. Wyly and Ben. C. Crane give a thous
and dollars each to build the new and ele
gant edifice for St. Phillip’s church. Messrs.
Z. D. Harrison, J. P. Crichton, B. W. Frobel
and B. F. Wyly give five hundred. John
Keely subscribes seven hundred and fifty.
Henry Bovlston four hundred and fifty.
Benjamin Conley and George Schaffer three
hundred and fifty; Richard Peters three
hundred; P. H. Snook and T. E. Walker,
two hundred and fifty each."
—Rome Courier: “In the year 1879, as
the census of 1880 shows, there were 30,616
acres of cotton planted in Floyd county,
from which were gathered 14,645 bales,
being one bale to every 2 1-9 acres; while
in Polk county 16,774 acres were planted
making 8,126 bales, or one bale to every 2
1 16 acres. These figures show very con
clusively that this section of Georgia, while
it is the finest grain county in the State, is,
at the same time, also, the best cotton pro
ducing section. Floyd also ranks eight as
to number of bales produced.”
—At a meeting of the stockholders of the
Atlanta and West Point railroad, L P. Grant
was chosen President in the place of W. B.
Berry, and Cecil Gabbitt made Superinten
dent of the through line from Atlanta to
Montgomery. L. P. Grant and Wm. M.
Wadley were elected Directors ip the place
of Benj. 0 Yancey and Ferdinand Pninizy,
resigned. The outlook for the road is good,
and it is believed that the next year’s earn
ings will be over sixty thousand dollars,
which will be sufficient to meet the interest
on the common bonds, stocks and scrip.
» —The contracts have all been closed to
build the road from Atlanta to Macon. They
were assigned as follows: Sixty seven miles
to Condon & (Jo., who were contractors on
the Cincinnati Southern and Knoxville and
Ohio railroads; fourteen miles to W. D.
Grant & Co.; seven miles to Patrick Lynch,
of Atlanta, and five miles to J. W. Renfroe.
The contracts have all been signed, and the
several contractors will commence work at
once, and the work be finished attheearliest
possible date.
The route of this extension is up the west
side of the Ocmulgee. passing by the Indian
Spring and Jackson, in Butts county, Mc-
Donough, in Henry, and through the corner
of Clayton and DaKilb into Fulton and
Atlanta.
—Augusta Evening News: “Augusta will
be well represented at the Atlanta Cotton
Exposition, and all ®pr industries will ap
pear on exhibition in complete form and
series, bnt in compact shape. The exhibits
from cities will be either individual or cor
porate, and will be shown in very handsome
style. While our factories and large firms
can afford this expense of exhibition and
space, there are many industrious people
throughout the State who cannot afford to
spend money to have their exhibits promi
nently placed in the Exposition buildings,
and the idea has been advanced by Mr.
Hickman, President of the Graniteville Fac
tory, of counties combining to hire space, or,
better still, building a special adiition to
the main hall for special exhibits. Such
building or buildings might be made tempo
rary or permanent, just as the idea of con
tinuous expositions might be decided upon,
in this way the counties of the State would
be independent of any interference, and have
a piace which they might claim as their own,
fora season or so -ever. Lst several counties
combine, say those which have mutual in
r,erest and products, and put Chis ide&
through at the coming Exposition.”