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RELIGION AND SCIENCE.
It is alleged that there is an irre
concilable antagonism between Science
and Religion ; that only a forced and
superficial, not a natural and legiti
mate, union of the two is possible; that
each stands upon opposite ground;
that in our day they are rivals and
foes, instead of being friends and co
laborers in a common cause. Upon
these points much has been said and
written, and the unprofitable war of
words and clash of pens knows no
abatement. We feel constrained to
place briefly our own opinion upon
record:.
There is no antagonism between
true Religion and true Science. There
is no conflict between them, and there
can not be. God’s revelation of him
self in man and in nature is in abso
lute haimony with his equally divine
spiritual revelation of himself in the
Bible. True Science is the dutiful,
humble handmaid of Religion, ever
ready and willing to acknowledge her
allegiance and to serve her divine mis
tress ; anxious to proclaim the heaven
ly origin of her employer, and to re
veal her charms, so far as a servant
may be permitted to unveil them to
the eyes, and to explain them to the
understanding, of humanity. i
Science serves herself best by serving
God, and is entitled to praise and res
pect only when she proves her right to
intimate relationship with Divinity by
guarding, with sensitive affection, the
claims of the Supreme Being upon the
love and reverence of men; and when
she sternly rejects false teachings, and
anathematizes those who usurp her
place and counterfeit her noble
speech.
Genuine Science has never found
anything, nor demonstrated anything,
nor ventured an opinion upon any
thing, that did not demonstrate to the
unbiassed conscience of mankind the
truthfulness of the divinely inspired
Scriptures. Every atom of the mate
rial universe is vitalized by the omni
present spirit of the Creator. Go
where we will His footsteps appear,
and the unspeakable effulgence of His
glory beams upon ohr wondering eyes.
The voice of the sea tells of His al
mightiness, and it holds enshrined for
ever in its bosom the indubitable
proofs of His existence; the storms
beat their iron wings againsj the rocks,
and the attrition reveals the hiero
glyphics of His omniscience; the dew
drop, as it globes itself upon the point
of a blade of grass, proclaims His infi
nite power, and the majesty thereof,
with an eloquence as emphatic as that
of the brilliant sphere which His hand
holds suspended amid the rival splen
dors of the heavens; the great, pro
found heart of Earth throbs for Him on
ly, and her face blushes with reveren
tial love at His presence; the blossom
ing valleys, the harvest-bearing fields,
that smile in the exuberance of their
. gladness, teach His truths; the hoary
mountains rise to do Him honor; the
skies are uncurtained by invisible
hands, and through the silvery shad
ows that envelop them,we may gain dim
glimpses of the unportrayable face of
Almighty Love, and a faint idea of the
ineffable beauty of his celestial handi
work. “The heavens declare the glory
of God; and the firmament showeth
his handiwork. Day unto day utter
eth speech, and night unto night
showeth knowledge. There is no
speech or language where their voice
is not heard.”
But more sublimely even than na
ture manifests Him to our senses, He
has condescended to reveal Himself to
our souls through the Bible. Stone
blind, indeed, must be the heart that
cannot see His presence in every line
of it, and His holy, all quickening
spirit on every page. In nature, He
speaks to us through the necessarily
inadequate medium of soulless matter;
in His book we meet Him face to
face; He talks as a father to his child ;
we hear every tone and modulation of
His voice; when He stretches forth
His hand we feel it resting upon our
hearts; there is no missing or broken
link, no impassable gulf, between us.
What right, therefore, have we to en
tertain any doubt of Him in any way,or
not to give absolute and unquestioning
allegiance to His sovereignty, when He
has condescended to reveal Himself to
His creatures through the medium of
the Sacred Scriptures ; when genuine
Science, devoutly investigating the
mysteries of nature, reverently ac
knowledges the supremacy and incon
testable truth of His revelations in
those manifestations of His being also;
and when wonder, admiration, and an
awe that is utterly unable to express
itself, are the emotions that exclusive
ly occupy the soul when we contem
plate the eternal evidences of His truth,
wisdom, and power? Should we not
rely as implicitly on God’s exposition
of Himself in the one case as in the
other? Is not spirit greater than mat
ter? Is it not egregious folly, then, is
it not arrant blasphemy, to pervert or
to deny the truths of the statements
made in the Scriptures by holy men
under the direct inspiration of Heav
en?
Whosoever does this, places mere
human opinion above divinely indors
ed Truth, and the creature above the
Creator.
It is not worth while to pay atten
tion to the vagaries of pseudo-scient
ists. Let them float their bubbles as
they please; they Will do no harm. To
give charletans of this sort audience, is
to give them the coveted opportunity for
a display of their gaudy word mongery,
and to show off their clap-trap meth-
Secular Editorials—Literature— Domestic and Foreign Intelligence.
ods of sophistry, the end of which is a
manifestation of their own mental bar
renness, and an exposition, altogether
superfluous,of the hollow cant of skep
ticism and materialism.
Faith is all sufficient to the Chris
tian. It is to him an anchor that
never drags, because it holds to the
Rock of Ages. Itisa ship made fast
by an indestructible chain to the shore
of Eternity. It is a sun that never
sets. It is a star that shines steadfast
ly, and with a glory that increases as
the gloom of the night grows apace.
Christian faith may be reviled, de
nounced, hissed at, spurned, cursed,
crucified—nevertheless, it continues
to be what it is, unchangeably. It is
divine, consequently it is immortal.
Its beauty is brightened by contrast.
The weakness of folly only demon
strates its omnipotence more fully.
Opposition emboldens it; error vindi
cates it; time deepens, widens, exalts
it; eternity crowns it.
Commenting upon the deplorable
fact that the temperancecause in North
Carolina was defeated in an election a
few days ago by a majority of over
one hundred thousand, the Christian
At IForfcsays: It is openly charged,
and not denied so far as we have seen,
that the leaders in the Republican
party, for political purposes, marshalled
the blacks against the measure, while
the Democrats supported it as they
did in the Legislature last winter. But
wherever the responsibility belongs, it
is clear that Prohibition has been de
seated by an overwhelming majority,
and that free whiskey is to be the
rule in that State for some. time to
come.
One thing is clearly and forcibly
taught in the reverses which the Tem
perance cause is suffering,from time to
time, and that is that the people must
be educated up to the point of regard
ing the sale of spirituous liquors in
its true light, as the great curse of
society, the source of nine-tenths of
the crime and misery that abound,
and that until, as in the State of Maine,
the mass of the community eo regard
it, and have moral sense enough to
wish the fountain dried up, all pro
hibitory and restrictive laws are passed
in peril. They may be swept away by
the next tide of popular feeling, or
what is just as bad, they will remain a
dead letter, while the evil itself runs
riot in the community.
Leo Hartman, a Nihilist, lately ar
rived in New York. It is said that his
stay here is indefinite. He has come
to this country to excite, in every way
possible, a sympathy for the Russian
people, by giving the American people
some idea of the state of affairs in Rus
sia. Hr may lecture, though he speaks
English very poorly as yet, but it is
possible for him to learn a lecture, and
after the hot season is over it is thought
he will lecture. He intends to write
for the press whenever and wherever
possible.
It is quite unnecessary for Mons.
Leo Hartman to trouble himself by
lecturing in behalf of Nihilism, since
in our own Wendell Phillips this dead
liest of dogmas has found so devoted
and eloquent a champion. There is
nothing, good or bad, that America
cannot excel in. Mons. Hartman had
better become a pupil of the Hon.
Wendell Phillips, and learn the theory
of what lie and his consorts are wont
to put into practice.
We are indebted to A. Pope, Esq.,
General Passenger Agent of the Asso
ciated Railways of Virginia and the
Carolinas, for an interesting pamphlet
entitled, “Guide to Richmond and the
Battle Fields.” It is written up with
much skill and is artistically illustrated.
We have also received, from the same
gentleman, a copy of a very finely
printed and profusely illustrated man
ual, descriptive of the Health Resorts
of the picturesque section of the South
traversed by the Piedmont Air-Line.
For the pleasure-seeker and invalid,
no more attractive section can be found
in America. We commend the route
represented by Mr. Pope; as regards
excellency of management, enterprise
and popularity, no railroad system in
the United States excels the “Asso
ciated Railways of Virginia and the
Carolinas.”
Parties connbcttd with the Irish
Land League and the Fenian organi
zation are manufacturing torpedoes
and other explosives in the United
States, and are sending them to Eng
land to be used by conspirators in
blowing up public! buildings. The
wanton destruction of life and proper
ty, not the liberation of Ireland, as al
leged, seems to be the purpose of these
demons in human shape.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, AUGUST 25, 1881.
LITERARY NOTES AND COM
MENTS.
Victor Hugo has no reason to com
plain of a loss of popularity. The first
edition of his last poem, “Les Quatre
Vents de L’Esprit,” consisting of 17,-
600 volumes, is exhausted.
Signor Gallengo, who has been sent
by the London limes to examine the
prison pens of Siberia, is an Italian
scholar, who wrote a remarkable histo
ry of Piedmont in the English lan
guage.
Bismark objects to the new fashion
of printing German books in Latin
characters, as appears from the follow
ing letter to a well known publishing
house in Leipsic: “With reference to
the letter directed to Prince Bistnark,
I beg to return you herewith the pam
phlet sent, informing you at the same
time that it is contrary to the rule to
lay before the Chancellor any work or
works written in the German language
with Latin characters, because the
perusal of such would take too much of
his Highness’s time.”
In the course of a rearrangement of
the Municipal Library at Mayence two
printed boo.es from the press of Guten
burg have been discovered, of which
the existance in the library had never
before been suspected. These are a
copy of the “Tractatus Rationiset Con
scientite” (1459), of which another
copy exists in Paris, and a print of the
Bull of Pius 11, addressed to the Chap
ter of Mayence, and dated 1461. This
latter, so far as can be ascertained, is
absolutely unique.
An important and hitherto unknown
treatise by Copernicus, on the move
ments of the celestial bodies, has been
discovered in the archives of the astro
nomical Observatory at Stockholm.
This treatise is said to fill a valuable
place among the writings of the great
astronomer. There is no doubt as to
its genunineness, and it is soon to be
printed and given to the world.
The Fijian name for doctor, on being
translated, turns out to be “carpenter
of death,” and Miss C. F. Gordon Gum
ming, in her work, “At Home in Fiji,”
says that Dr. Macgregor, who is prac
tising the healing art in that part of
the world, has substituted a new term,
signifying “man of life,” though how
far it has superseded the original is
not known.
The Royal Spanish Academy named
recently Archbishop Trench, James
Russell Lowell, and Lord Houghton as
judges for the Calderon prize. The
judges reported that they did not feel
justified in awarding the prize to any
of the competitors, whereupon one of
competitors forwarded his rejected
address to the Spanish Academy in
Madrid. The Academy forthwith tes
tified its approbation of the poem and
awarded its great medal to the author,
Mr. R. H. Horne.
There was no Roman Catholic on
the Bible revision committee. Cardinal
Newman declined.
It is proposed in London to start a
Browning Society for the study and
discussion of the works of the poet
Browning, and the publication of es
says on them, and extracts from works
illustrating them. This is modern
culture run mad.
Dr. Vigfusson, the well-known Scan
dinavian scholar, has in type an an
thology of Icelandic poetry.
Prof. Edwards A. Park, who lately
resigned the active duties of his pro
fessorhip at Andover, is to prepare some
more of his lectures for publication.
It is remembered that in his novel
of “Figs and Thistles,” Judge Tourgee
put into the form of fiction something
of the lives of President Garfield and
his wife.
Rev. W. M. Baker, the novelist, who
is a Presbyterian minister, has remov
ed from Boston to Philadelphia, and
taken charge of a church in that city.
“The Americans,” says the London
Literary World, “are stealing a march
on us. They not only reprint our ex
pensive works in a cheap form on the
other side of the Atlantic, but they
are actually sending their cheap re
prints over to the Continent. At Rot
terdam, for instance, may now be
purchased for a few pence all the cheap
reprint of English authors of the
Franklin Square Library of the Messrs.
Harper of New York. Amongst the
latsst reprints thus to be had cheap
on the Continent are Froude’s “Car
lyle’s Reminiscences.’ This competition
will quite destroy the trade of Tauchnitz,
and other reprinters on the Continent,
of English books.”
The superiority of Scribner’s Month
ly over other magazines is easily main
tained in the August issue. A more
attractive summer numberofaperiodi
cal could not be asked for, —as regards
both text and illustration. In this
issue Mr. Edmund Clarence Stedman
presents a noteworthy critical paper on
Poetry in America. Our literary criti
cism has nothing better to show than
these admirable chapters by Mr. Sted
man, which will ultimately be collec
ted in a volume, —an American com
panion to his well-known “Victorian
Peet",” 1 which has now come to be
considered as worthy of a place in
that choice list of books deserving to
be called standard literature.
A correspondent of the Rome (Ga.)
Baptist: Sun, gives some interesting
reminiscences of prominent Cherokee
Indians assembled, on a momentous
occasion, at Cassville, Georgia, in the
fall of 1835. A bill of injunction had
been filed by these Indians against
the whites for taking possession of
their lands before they left, and as the
Cassville Superior Court was in session,
many of the chiefs with their wives
were present. John Howard Payne,
the author of the immortal “Home
Sweet Home,” had been sent out to ob
tain the history of the “Cherokee Coun
try” from the aborigines. He had
letters of introduction to the writer’s
father at Cassville. The latter invited
the bar, the chiefs and Mr. Payne, to
tea, inorder to give opportunity for
social intercourse, and to afford Mr.
Payne a chance to acquire desirable
information. The social was a success,
and the writer remarks : “Mr. Payne
was highly interested and pleased, hav
ing met with facilities for getting in
formation unexpectedly. I am sure
I was quite flattered when all the
guests had retired he asked me to
play “Bonnie Doon,” again. His man
ners were extremely courteous. In
bidding good night he took his cap in
hand, walked up in front of each lady,
bowing gracefully and leaving the
room without turning until he reached
the door. My father regretted not hav
ing an opportunity of rendering him
further assistance as he (my father)
left in a few days with his family for
Southern Georgia, in time to re:urn to
MilledgevilLe.to take his seat in the
Se.'.ate.
“Soon after our arrival, father was
surprised and mortified to hear of Mr.
Payne’s arrest by Gen. Bishop as a spy
and abolitionist. It caused Mr. Payne
some trouble before he was released.
I heard that when he returned North
he wrote a drama, the scene in Spring
Place—the place of his arrest. In
this play Gen. Bishop and others were
made very conspicuous characters. It
was acted on the stage in Washington
at one time when Gen. B. was present,
who recognized himself in the drama
in a very unenviable light. Mr. Payne
also wrote a noble defence of the
Cherokees, and presented the memori
al to Congress during the succeeding
winter.”
LitteL’s Living Age is the best re
pository for select current literature,
published in this country. From
week to weekit gives the cream of
European literature. Excellent taste
is shown in the selections.
For fifty-two numbers of sixty-four
large pages each (or more than 3,300
pages a year), the subscription price
($8) is low; while for $10.50 the pub
lishers offer to send any one of the
American $4 monthlies or weeklies
with The Living Age for a year, both
postpaid. Liitell & Co., Boston, are
the publishers.
Among the new books announced
for publication early in the fall is
“Poems and Essays,” by Charles Hub
ner, of Atlanta.
The London Times, in a leading ar
ticle, says, “The National Convention
of the Land League, announced to be
held in Dublin on the 15lh of Septem
ber is obviously intended to prevent
the Land Bill from having any tran
quilizing effect. This is, no doubt,the
last desperate effort of the League. To
prolong its active existence, to the
ruin of the country, the agitators will
be bound to defeat the settlement of
the relations between landlord and
tenant by the new tribunal, and it will
be necessary for the government to
make it perfectly clear that they in
tend to support the decisions of the
land court.
A delegation of Indians, embracing
representatives of the Poncas, Chey
ennes, Arapahoes and other tribes in
the Northwest, are to arrive in Wash
ington on the 15th of this month, and
will hold a conference with the Com
missioner of Indian Affairs concerning
the allotment of lands in severalty,and
other questions of importance to the
Indians.
♦ ♦
The corn crop of Illinois and lowa
is reported light. Many localities an
ticipate but half a crop.
NOTES.
—The Land Bill,in a modified form,
has passed both houses of Parliament.
Its enforcement will meet with stolid
resistance in Ireland. I’he idea that
England is governing Ireland as if it
were but a conquered province, will
never leave the Irish mind.
—A mob in Paris recently prevent
ed Gambetta from speaking at a pub
lic meeting.
—The Pope feels uneasy in Rome.
It is rumored that he will move his
throne and other effects to some safer
place in the near future.
—Outrages upon Jews are still com
mitted in some parts of Germany.
—The Conference of the Association
for the Reform and Codification of the
Law of Nations, is in session at Col
ogne, Germany. Distinguished dele
gates from all parts of the world are
present. It is the ninth conference of
this Association, and it is expected to
surpass all previous ones in practical
benefits to international law reform
and arbitration.
—Dr. Robert Moffat, the venerable
African missionary, has no confidence
in the professions of the Boers that
they do not hold slaves, and says that
no reliance can be placed on their most
solemn declarations.
—ln Russia the Jews of Kieff, for
the purpose of avoiding the orders is
sued for their eviction, were at last
accounts taking refuge in barges on
the river Dneiper. The local authori
ties had not decided whether their in
structions allowed them to pursue the
Jews on the water as on land.
—An extensive war is again brew
ing in Afghanistan.
—Egypt has a fine cotton crop.
—Socialists are so rimpant in Bres
lau that its feared the city will be
placed under martial law.
—We are indebted to Hon. N. J.
Hammond, M. C., for a copy of a val-
I liable official document: Reports from
the Consuls of the United States on
the Commerce, Manufactures, etc., of
their Consular Districts, May, 1881.
—We have received a copy of the
“Kind Word” series, No. I—Bible
Catechism. Prepared by request of
Rev. S. Boykin, editor of Kind Words,
and first published in that paper.
This neat and valuable series is from
the pen of Rev. William Cary Crane,
D.D., President of Baylor University,
Independence, Texas. Published by
J. W. Burke & Co., Macon, Ga.
—There have been very heavy rains
in the far West.
—The party of Chinese students
who have started from this country for
home are to be employed in the es
tablishment of a telegraph line from
Shanghai tef Pekin. They were sent
to this country to acquire English so
as to fit them for the telegraph busi
ness.
—Says the Louis’ville Commercial :
The Indianapolis Journal, referring to
the averment that Mormon polygamy
is part of their religion, says :
“Polygamy is not a religion. It is
noteven the religion of Mormonism.
It came into Mormonism by what was
claimed to be a ‘subsequent revela
tion,’but is denied and scouted by a
large body of Mormons themselves.
Polygamy is simply a bestial crime.
To claim that it is protected by the
Constitution is a horrible perversion
of truth and justice.”
The crime, which is a penitentiary
offense in every State of the Union, is
not protected by any legal sanctions in
Utah.
—A permanent organization of the
Anti-Monopoly Associatio'n has been
effected. The Conference met in U tica,
N. Y., last week.
—lt is believed that the assassin
Guiteau’s attack upon one of his guards,
a few days ago, was done to convey
the impression that he is insane. The
“insanity” trick, however, will be of
little service to him.
There has been a decided advance
in the price of provisions within the
last month. A partial failure of the
crops and the speculation of monopo
lists are the causes of this advance.
Hon. J. P. Wickersham, who has
long been connected with the school
system of Pennsylvania,has closely ex
amined the relations of education to
crime. His investigations show that
one sixth of all the crime in the coun
try is committed by persons wholly
illiterate, and that the proportion of
criminals among the illiterate is about
ten times greater than among those
who have been instructed in the ele
ments of a common school education
or beyond.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—A High School is to be built at Jesup.
Ex-minister H. W. Hilliard has returned
to his old home in Georgia.
—The colored people own property In
Muscogee county to the value of $151,304.
—Hon. W. L Scruggs, U S. Consul in
< 'hina, is on a visit to his family in Atlanta.
Die peach crop is reported unusually
abundant and tine nearly all over Georgia
and Florida.
Augusta mills are turning out from one
hundred and fifty to two hundred barrels of
Hour each per day.
—Some of the Hancock farmers will not
raise cotton enough this year to pay fortheir
guano and provision supplies.
—The fail term of the Middle Georgia
Military and Agricultural College will open
on the 15:h ofSepteaiber next.
—The eighth annual session of the Georgia
Sunday-school Association convenes in
Griffin on August 24th, continuing two
days.
—The army worm has appeared in por
tions of Marion county in large numbers,
and is greatly damaging the prospects for a
good hay crop.
—The tax digest for 1881 brings Bibb
comity up to the grand aggregate of $9 043,-
313. Macon now contemplates having an
artesiau well.
—Madison county is going to issue $50,000
worth of bonds with which to build a rail
road from Harmony Grove, via Danielsville,
to Broad river.;
—The Dublin Post says : 1 Fifty per cent,
more guano was used in Lamenscounty this
year than last, and there is fifty percent, lets
cotton to pay for it with.”
—Contracts for the extension of the En
terprise factory, at Augusta, have been let
out for the brick work, rareway, etc-, and
work will be be-un immediately.
—All the rice crops on the Altamaha river
are looking splendidly. If the storms don’t
interfere our planters will come out all right
ibis season. Toe prospects certainly look
promising just now-
—The Southwestern railroad will soon
complete the line of their extension from its
present terminus, Arlington, in the County
of Calhoun, to Blakely, the county site of
Early, a distance of some sixteeu miles.
—Muscogee’s wealth, according to the late
tax digest, is $8 108 719. Toe decrease in
lands value is $22,702. and of noils 124. The
increase of city property is $297,272, ot which
$49 r 231 was in cotton factories.
—The election in Butler -esultedin a large
majoiityfor the public schools, which are
now controlled by the mayor and co mail,
who have elected Prof. John W. Dozier,
President, and Prof. Chas. A. Carson first
assistant.
—lt is the intention of the managers of
the Columbus and Rome road to extend it to
Chipley, a distance of about one mile beyond
the present terminus at Hood. Iron for
this purpose has already been received and
shipped up the road.
—The West Point Mills, W. T. Lang, Su
perintendent, now runs 5 (00 spindles and
100 looms. They expect to make 200,000
yards of duck goods per month, weighing
nine and ten ounces per yard. The factory
consumes from eight to ten bales of cotton
per diem. They have orders ahead to De
cember first.
—Albany News and Advertiser : ‘‘A paper
has been prepared and will be circulated
throughout the city for signatures petition
ing the City Council to invest in an artesian
well Since Col. Forts experiment has
proved a success beyond all question, there
seems to be a unanimous desire upon tbe part
of our citizens to have an artesian well in
the city.”
—The editor of tbe Monroe Advertiser
writes his paper from Atlanta that "the State
road earned last year, after paying all ex
penses. $687,000. When the rental of $300,-
000 was paid to tbe State, there was left the
handsome sum of $387,000 to be divided
among the lessees, and that each share is
worth at least $109,000.”
—Georgia is the only one of the original
thirteen States that refuses to contribute
anything towards the Yorktown centennial.
Tbe legislative committee reported unfavora
bly upon the bill. Tbe other t welve States
have made arrangements to send troops, and
have also made appropriations; and France
even will send a ship load of representatives.
—The new mam ge uent of tbe Hartwell
railroad are a ranging to sell tickets from
Hartwell to all points on tbe Elberton Air-
Line railroad, and the Richmond and Dan
ville railroad, Athens and Atlanta, and to
New York and all Eastern cities. Tickets
from Athens and Atlanta, and points on the
E. A L and R & D. railroads will be sold
through to Hartwell.
Gainesville Southron: “Tbe new rail
roads are all on a boom. Colonel Foreaere
says the one from Lula to Clarksville will
be completed by Christmas. The one to
Jefferson, and the branch to Jug Tavern,
will certainly be done before that time, and
Colonel Price thinks work will be resumed
on the Gainesville and Dahlonega at an early
day. All this should make a great many
people happy.”
—Dr. M. B. Wharton, accompanied by his
family and his Secretary, Mr. J W. Nisbet,
of Macon, was recently in London on the
way to tbe German Consulate, to which tbe
Doctor has been appointed. He is going to
one of the fimst portions of tbe Fatherland,
and to a great literary and social centre. He
will be located within a few milts of the
celebrated Kissingen Springs, and many
friends in Georgia will congratulate Dr.
Wharton on his pleasant location.
Constitution : “Mr. G. E. Cranford has
brought to Palmetto the first bale of cotton
for each of tbe past ten years. He is again
in ahead, and tbe first baleof Coweta county
cotton, so far as heard from this year, has
been delivered at Palmetto by him and
shipped by J T. Beekman, Esq to Lmgs
ton, Craue & Co. This is also ihe first bale
of cotton received at this place from this
section this year so far as rep >rted, and will
be sold by Messrs. Langston, Crane & Co.
—The Early Obunty News says: “We
would suggest, if we thought our suggestion
would be adopted, that the State of Georgia
appropriate about SIOO,O- 0 to be expended
in sinking artesian wells all over Souths
western Georgia. The money would come
back into the Treasury in a few years from
the increased value of lands in this section
and the consequent increase of taxes. Be
sides this, it would be a handsome return to
the people of this section for the money they
have paid tor building railroads in other
portions of the State.”
—Augusta News: “Col. G. J. Foreacre, of
Georgia, President of the Northeastern rail
road. a line from Athens, Georgia, to Lula
Junction, on the Atlanta and Charlotte Air-
Line, and across the Air Line nearly to
Clarksville in tbe direction of Rabun Gap,
while in Knoxville stated to a reporter that
tbe prospect for the early completion of the
road to Knoxville was very flattering. He
thinks it will be done within two years, and
expects that work will be commenced within
I sixty or ninety days This road, when com
pleted to Angusta, will be Knoxville's most
important Southern connection."
