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THE IRISH CRISIS.
We have no disposition to be un
-charitable in estimating the motives
which prompted Mr. Parnell to assume
•the defiant and rancorous attitude he
has recently assumed toward his gov
ernment; but the circumstance that
the “ Land Act,” which he denounces
so bitterly now, and upon which he
hurls scorn and condemnation in the
name of the Irish people, was, at one
time, approved by him, sets the mind
to thinking that his change of base was
not altogether the result of genuine
patriotic feeling, but rather the result
of vindictive motives of a personal na
ture ; probably the desire to retain, at
all hazards, the political eminence be
has attained, a daring purpose, bracing
itself to risk even the disasters of civil
war, rather than to retire voluntarily,
and without a flourish of trumpets, to
the uncongenial level of a second or
third-rate position in the arena of pub
lic affairs, which would be the conse
quence, in his case, following the paci
fication of Ireland under the honestly
administered provisions of the Land
Act.
It is extremely difficult for men of
unlimited ambition, and who are not
punctilious as to the means they em
ploy in promoting their high-wrought
schemes, and who, by the force of extra
ordinary circumstances, have been
thrust into high places in public life,
to curb their vaulting ambition, or to
exercise their easy power in the inter
ests of peace and order, rather than in
an opposite direction. Should they
cease to play the role of reckless agita
tors, and prefer to hearken to the
counsels of moderation and serene jus
tice, they would necessarily cease to be
demagogues, and become statesmen.
We are afraid that Mr. Parnell has
been confronted by this alternative,
and, goaded by the spurs of ambition,
and misled by the counsels of indiscreet
and. passion-blinded adherents, has
decided, unfortunately for himself and
the best interests of his people, to for
sake the ark of wisdom for the purpose
of following unreasonable and fallacious
guides to and ruin.
We are sorry that so much strength
and influence should be misdirected,
■when it might be made to do great
service in promoting public and private
welfap, by assisting good men of all
parties in restoring quiet, and the feel
ing of security and stability, to a dis
tracted and faction-torn country, and
by earnestly giving its sanction to all
honest and legal measures whose object
is the removal of century-old evils, the
re-establishment, by slow degrees, at
’least, of right and of justice between
man and man, and a liberal and per
manent adjustment of the difficulties
between landlord and tenant.
The great mass of the Irish people,
we believe, are anxious for such an
adjustment, and are willing to give the
new laws, devised for the melioration
of their condition, a fair trial. They
know that the Land Act was conceived
in an honest-minded purpose to im
prove an irksome and troublesome
. aitiw tion ; that concessions were made
by prudent and considerate men of
different shades of political opinion
during the discussions of its numerous
and elaborately-prepared provisions;
that it was opposed, as a whole, by a
small faction of irreconcilable malcon-
tents only, in Parliament; that it re- f
ceived the indorsement of the reasona- (
ble press in all lands; that the majority <
of Irish members voted for it; that (
many of the most influential leaders of j
public opinion in Ireland, such as Arch- |
bishop Croke, Sir Charles Gavan Duffy,
admitted the merits of Mr. Gladstone’s j
plan of reform, and that even Mr. Dil- ,
lon, one of the most noted of the Land ;
League leaders, declared that it would
be wise to wait, and to observe honestly
the practical working of the law; and
the Catholic bishops entreated the peo
ple to “avail themselves of so large an
installment of justice, for which grati
tude is due to Mr. Gladstone and his
government.” Altogether there was
rejoicing among sober-minded people
when the Land Act was passed, after
many great obstacles had been over-
come. , ,
But tranquility, good government
and good order are elements inimical
to the plans of Communistic revolu
tionists. Their trade thrives best in
general turmoil and excitement, or the
war of factions. Their fortunes are
made by spoliation, and “rule or rum”
is their battle-cry. It is to be regretted
that Mr. Parnell has seen fit to join his
fortunes with this malevolent and
blatant faction, rather than join hands
with the peacemakers, and the consci
entious friends of his people. He can
not have the approval of his conscience
in his recent unwarranted and spiteful
assault upon Gladstone, nor hope to
win the approval of good men by his
persistent efforts to incite the populace
to deeds of violence and insurrection.
He and his vociferous lieutenants,
insist upon placing the arbitrary dic
tates of the Land League before the
law of the land, they refuse to listen to
reason or to moderation, or to anything
save the voice of passion and unbndled
license; they usurp the functions of
judge and jury, court and commission,
in fact, they are engaged in establish
ing a tyranny more intolerable than
Sepne they profess to assail, name y
—mob-tyranny. Their cry is “war to
theknife,” their shibboleth “death to
landlords.” They have not only im
bibed the animus of Communism, but
are using its peculiar phraseology.
The situation is full of danger. The
olive branch has been violently thrust
aside by mobs, ‘boycotting and
SECULAR EDXTORIALS-L.TERATURE- D ° MKBTIC AND INTEL ““-
bludgeonism have received renewed
impulse from the action of the Land
League leaders, an incendiary mani
festo, proclaiming the implacable hate
and continued resistance of the League
cohorts, has been issued, Parnell and
his cabinet of revolt, within their jail
bars fan, with greater energy than ever,
the flames of discord and fury, nursing
their pride with the feeling that the
honors of martyrdom are being paid
them by myriads of deluded followers.
We believe Gladstone will be able to
weather the storm, and bring the ship
of State into port, somewhat battered,
perhaps, by the winds and the waves,
but still sound in timbers, and sea
worthy for many years to come, we
hope, under better management than
of yore; when every man under its
flag shall enjoy to the utmost every
blessing of a free and enlightened
Christian government.
We believe that the man now at the
helm of the British Empire has this
intention, and is honestly striving to
consummate it. In this purpose he
has the good wishes of the civilized
world, and the prayers of all Christian
men.
Os course the supremacy of the law
must first be fully recognized and irre
vocably established in all the disturbed
territory. There can be no compro
mise with crime, no backward step in
the performance of duty now. Weak
ness would be criminal, flinching would
be fatal in the face of rampant rebellion
and the mad front of mob rule. We
have faith in the capacity, sagacity and
moral strength of the head of the
English government, in the legitimate
resources at his command, and in the
potent force of public opinion when
allowed to act untrammeled and
reasonably in this or any other great
public crisis.
History of Georgia.—The publi
cation of Col. Avery’s “History of Geor
gia,” which magnificent book will be
ready for delivery in a few days, is ex
ceedingly timely in view of the deep
interest, which the world is now taking
in the “Empire State of the South,”
through the grand International Cot
ton Exposition at Atlanta. The eyes
of capitalists, manufacturers, artisans,
mechanics, and agriculturis.ts, are
turned upon Georgia from all direct
ions, at present, and many influential
men of these classes are now in the
State making observations with a view'
to invest capital, or to establish them
selves in business.
Col. Avery’s splendid work aside
from its historical and personal value,
embraces elaborate statistics from offi
cial sources, and accurate descriptions
of the rich and inexhaustible natural
resources of Georgia, not to be ob
tained elsewhere.
This fact alone will make the book
indispensable to all who desire full and
authentic information concerning the
State, for all who have capital to in
vest, or who desire to settle here and
prosper in business.
For the same reason the book ap
peals to the patronage of our own peo
ple, as by its wide distribution Georgia
will be made known to the world, and
its resources placed permanently and
authentically upon record.
Bev. J. H. Ticknor, D. D. editor of
the Church Times, (the Episcopal pa
per published in this city,) and rector
of a parish in Opelika, Ala., died at
his residence, on the morning of
Thursday, October, 20 th, in the sixty
third year of his age. His life was
terminated by disease of the heart, and
his health had long been feeble. He
was a man of established Christian
character, of respectable scholarship,
of pronounced views, of usefulness in
his sphere; and his personal worth will
make his loss felt beyond the limits of
his own ecclesiastical communion.
Fifth Baptist Chubch Atlanta. —
On Thursday evening of this week a
concert will be given at the Fifth Baptist
church, corner of Bell and Gilmer
streets, for the benefit of that church.
A very excellent and entertaining pro
gramme has been arranged and some
of the best professional and amateur
musical talent of the city will be rep
resented. The charge for admission
will be small and a delightful evening’s
entertainment will be realized by all.
A cordial invitation is extended to
our citizens and “the strangers within
our gates.”
The fastest time ever made on a
railroad was by the Vanderbilt party
recently from Detroit to New York,
with the newly invented Fountaine
engine. The distance was 229 miles,
and the time made was two hours and
thirty minutes, with five stops of six
teen minutes. Tiffs is at the rate of
ninety-one miles an hour.
ATLANTA, GEORGIA, THURSDAY, OCTOBER 27, 1881.
LITERARY NOTES AND COM- t
MENTS. I
f
—The Century Magazine ( Scribner’s t
Monthly) will continue the series of il
lustrated papers on the scenes of Dick- ,
ens’s novels, and has entered upon the <
work of illustrating the scenes of the j
stories of Thackeray, Hawthorne, and i
George Eliot. i
—Whittier and Emerson are both
in ill health, the latter especially so,
mentally. A grand and unique intel
lect is crumbling to atoms in Emer
son.
—Longfellow is in excellent health.
—Bodeustedt, the German poet who
recently visited the United States, has
written a book about us. It must be
made up largely of statistics and fancy.
It is presumptuous in a man to visit a
foreign country on a three month’s
pleasure trip, and visit a half dozen of
the chief cities, mingle with a coterie
of friends, and then write a book, con
cerning the country and the people,
claiming to be veracious and honestly
meritorious. And yet literary birds of
passage, American and European, are
given to this fatuity.
—“By the death of Dr. J. G. Hol
land,” says the New York Sun, “we
have lost perhaps the most popular of
novelists, essayists, and poets. His
stories proved profitable both to the
writer and the publisher. Few vol
umes of essays have at any time had
so great a sale as the ‘Timothy Titcomb
Letters,’ and the demand for ‘Kath
rina’ and ‘Bitter Sweet’ has been extra
ordinary, especially when we remem
-1 ber that they are long narratives in
t verse. All of the volumes which he
[ published during the last twenty years
; were successful books; and some of
them were sold to the number of nine
ty and a hundred thousand copies
each.
Dr. Holland was one of the few au
thors of the United States who have
made a fortune out of literature—one
of the few not only of this country, but
of England also. It is true he was be
sides successful as a newspaper and
magazine proprietor, but his literary
fame was the foundation of all. As a
rule, however great may be the reward
a writer gets hi the'way of reputation,
in hard cash his recompense is com
paratively small. He may fondly hope
that hereafter his books will be includ
ed in the list of standard literature,
and his name remembered as that of a
master of his language, of a genius,
of a man of great or acute intellect, or
a writer of a beautiful style; but it is
usually vain for him to expect to win
by his pen enough to enrich his heirs.
He must content himself for the most
part with insubstantial glory, or get
his satisfaction from the consciousness
that he has been true to his art.
Dr. Holland, however, was one of
those fortunate writers to whom the re
ward comes at once, and comes in ac
tual money. Beginning with the ‘Tim
othy Titcomb Letters,’ his publishers
printed for him during twenty years
fifteen volumes —not a great number
by any means for this age so prolific in
literary production, when there are
novelists who, besides other work, reg
ularly turn out a new story every
twelvemonth. Yet the combined cir
culation of these works, which were
not sold at the present cheap prices
for fiction, but at the old and compar
atively high prices obtained for bound
and copyrighted books, was so great
that he received from them a total
royalty remarkable in the history of
our literature.
Still, Dr. Holland was never a writer
who commended himself to the favor
of the critics. They looked on him
as an inartistic novelist, a common
place essayist, and a poet to whom, at
least, had been denied the fire of ge
nius. He was, indeed, always a preach
er, in prose and in verse. He was far
more concerned with his moral than
his art. He wanted to make his read
ers better according to his lights,
which were those of an orthodox Puri
tan. And shall we not honor him for
so pure and admirable a purpose?
But, however much the critics might
find fault with him, the average run
of people, of New England especially,
were not afraid to call Dr. Holland
their favorite novelist, their favorite
essayist, and their favorite poet. He
drew for them characters to which
they were accustomed in their daily
lives. He placed his heroes and hero
ines amid circumstances which were
easily comprehensible by the class to
whom he appealed. He imbued them
with the moral and religious ideas
which had been imparted to his read
ers in church and in Sunday-school.
When he wrote of domestic affairs, and
gave advice concerning the manner of
I life, he addressed himself directly to
the respectable church-going people of
his own general theological bent, and
showed that he was in sympathy with
them.
His thought was never subtle, he
was without any puzzling cynicism,
could always be understood, was ever
in earnest, and in whatever he wrote
showed that he loved the good and hat
ed the bad. Therefore he became a
tdacher and a mentor for great num
bers of young men and maidens who
had received what we call a Puritan
training. They did not miss the spice
demanded by the literary appetites of
those whose experience has been more
with the world, and whose reading has
been less restricted by conventional
religious scruples of the old-fashioned
.kind.
That is, Dr. Holland represented a
great class of our society. Its limita
tions were his, and its prejudices his.
He shared its ideas and sympathized
with its convictions. He had the same
tone, the same religious and intellectual
interests, and the same notions of life.
He was like the beloved superintend
ent of a Sunday-school, whose anec
dotes, moral admonitions, and spirit
ual songs delight teachers and scholars
alike, and who can no more be displac
ed in their affections and their admi
ration by the sneers of scoffers than
Dr. Holland could be lowered in the
esteem of his readers by the gibes and ’
snubs of .the critics.
In truth, no writer can be made pop
ular by the critics, by newspapers, mag
azines, and reviews; and the popular
ity of no writer can be taken away by
them. Yet it is doubtful whether just
such an author as Dr. Holland was will
ever again be so successful in this
country. The conditions and ideas of
our society are very much changing.”
Dr. Curry, in presenting his annual
report at the recent meeting of the
Peabody Fund Trustees, in New York,
spoke favorably of the advancement
that had been made in educational
matters in the South, and reviewed at
length the work that had been accom
plished. Great and gratifying as has
been the progress, both in public senti
me? and educational system, the re
>i, .i>\ust,' not be concluded
that free schools were established be
yond the possibility of repeal or des
truction. The instruction of the
Board to apply the greater portion of
the income of the fund hereafter to
the education of teachers for the pub
lic schools, has met with general and
decided approval. The report reviewed
the educational condition of West Vir
ginia, Virginia, North Carolina, South
Carolina, Georgia, Florida, Alabama,
Mississippi, Tennessee, Louisiana Ar
kansas and Texas. The report con
cluded with tables, showing the dis
tribution of the income since February
Ist, 1881, as follows:
West Virginia Teachers’ Institutes,
$2,000 ; Virginia Teachers’ Institutes,
Normal Institute and Nashville Schol
arship, $5,150 ; North Carolina Insti
tutes and schools, $4,125 ; South Car
olina, $4,050 ; Georgia, $5,300 ; Florida,
$2,000; Alabama, $1,800; Mississippi,
$3,950 ; Louisiana, $1,700 ; Texas, sl,-
085; Arkansas, $4,000; Tennessee,
$5,500. Total, $50,375.
The Yorktown Centennial did not
fully come up to the measure of a com
plete success. Several distinguished
features of the celebration that were
in the published programme were omit
ted. Enough of the official programme,
however, was given to make the cele
bration a bright and memorable event
in our national history. An immense
concourse was present, including Fed
eral and State notabilities and distin
guished foreigners.
The general passenger and ticket
agents, at their National Convention
at St. Louis, decided to allow one hun
dred and fifty pounds of baggage to
be carried free on every ticket, and
seventy-five pounds on every half tick
et ; all over that will be charged at the
freight rate of fifteen per cent, on first
class unlimited rate per one hundred
pounds.
Advices from Mazatlan indicate that
the hurricane which visited that sec
tion September 29 th was terribly des
tructive. Several vessels were wreck
ed, and freshets occurred in the neigh
boring rivers. Three hundred houses
were destroyed, and over 500 lives lost.
The National Prohibition Alliance re
cently convened in New York, adjourn
ed to meet in Atlanta, Georgia, next
March. _ _
There has been severe fighting be
tween the French and the insurgent
Arabs in Tunis.
CENTENNIAL ODE.
PAUL H. HAYNE.
[The following Is a correct copy of the splendid
Ode, written for the Centennial Celebration at
Yorktown, Virginia, October 19th, 1881. It is
wotthy of the poet’s fame and the proud and
ever-ineniorable theme which it records “with
thoughts that breathe and words that burn.”]
Hark! hark! down the century's long reaching
slope,
To those transports of triumph—thoss raptures
of hope! , ~ .
The voices of main and of mountain combined.
In glad resonance borne on ihe wings ol the wind;
The bass ot the drum and the trumpet that th-ills
Tarough the multiplied echoes ot jubilant hills!
Aud mark! how the years, melting upward like
Which tne breath of somi splendid enchantress
has kissed, . drf
Reveal on cue ocean, reveal on the sh >re, g
The proud pageant of conquest tnat grace! them
of yore.
Chobus—Where blended forever in love as in
fame, , .
See I the standard which stole from the
starlight iu ilixne,
And typeof all chivalry .glory,romance,
The lilies,the luminous lilies of Francel
Ol stubborn the strife, ere the conflict was won I
And the wild whirling war-wrack, hali-stiued
the sun; , .. ,
The thunders of cannon that boomed on the lea
But re echoed far thunders pealed up from the
Where guarding his sea-lists —a knight on the
waves**"
Bold lie Grasse kept at bay the bluff bull dogs of
Graves— , .... .
Tne day turned to darkness, the night changed
’o fire, . , . a a,
Still more fierce waxed the combat, more deadly
the ire— , ,
Undimmed by the gloom, in majestic advance,
Ah I behold where they ride, o’er the red battle
tide,
Chorus—Those banners united in love as in fame,
The brave standards which drew from
the starbeams their il nne,
And type of all chivalry .glory, romance.
The lilies, the luminous lilies of Franc*. *
No respite I No pause I By the York’s tortured
flood , ~ _.
The gray Lion of England is writhing In blood I
Cornwallis may chafe, and coarse Tarleton aver—
As he sharpens his broad sword and buckles his
“This blade, which so oft has reaped Rebels like
grain,
Shall now harvest, for death, the rude yeomen
again.’’
Vain boast! for ere sunset he’s fljing in fear,
With the rebels he sceuted close, close in the
lear! „ , . .
The French on his flank hurl such volleys of shot
That e’en Gloucester's redoubt must be growing
too hot.
Chorus —Thus wedded In love, as united In fame,
Lol the standard that stole from the
starlight its flame—
And typ ; of all chivalry,glory.romance,
The lilies, the luminous lilies of France!
0! morning superb! when the siege reached its
close!
See! the sundawn outbloom like the Alchemist s
rose!
The last wreaths of smake from dim trenches up
curled x „ ..
Are transformed to a glory that smiles on the
world*
Joy I Joy! Save the wan, wasted frontof the foe,
Wl-t-tals buttle flags <urlo.l ayd Ins ami. trailing
Respect for the brave I In grim silence they yield,
And in silence they pass with bowed heads from
the field.
Then triumph transcendent! So Titan of tone
That so-re vowed it must startle King George on
his throne!
Chorus—O 1 wedded In love, as united in fame,
See I the standard that stole from the
starlight its flame—
And type of all chivalry, glory, ro
mance,
The lilies the luminous lilies of
France I
When Peace to her own timed the pulse of the
land 4 -
And the war-weapon sunk from the war-wearied
hand,
Young Freedom, upborne to the height of the
She hadyearned for so long with deep travail of
soul —
A song of her future raised, thrilling and clear,
Till the woods learned to hearken, the hill slopes
to hear 1 ......
Yet, fraught with all magical grandeurs that
gleam
On the hero’s high hope or the patriot’s dream.
What Future, tho’ bright, in cold shadow shall
The stern beauty that haloes the brow of the
Past?
Chorus—Ot wedded in love as united In fame*
See 1 the standard that stole from the
starlight its flame,
And type of all chivalry, glory, ro
mance—
The lilies, the luminous lilies of
France I
“The State of Georgia,” says the 1
Morning Star (N. H.) “has set a good
example to the United States Congress.
By a vote of 34 to 5 the Georgia Sen
ate passed an anti-Mormon law, mak
ing it a felony for any person to at
tempt to persuade others into bigamy
or polygamy. The bill makes it un
lawful in any address to a public or
private assembly to counsel or encour
age the violation of the laws of the
State forbidding polygamy. It is made
a penitentiary offense for not less than
two years. This will probably stop
the incursions of Mormon emissaries,
which have been quite common in that
State. All the States should follow
the example of Georgia in this legisla
tion, and Congress should pass such a
law applicable to the Territories.”
Mayor Means, of Cincinnati, issued
an order to Chief of Police Gessert, to
notify all the members of the police
force that when they have good
grounds for suspicion that any person
is carrying a concealed weapon, thdy
will immediately search such person,
and if any description of arms are
found, to arrest and prosecute the of
fender to the full extent of the law.
This order is to be strictly and impar
tially enforced.
Father Byan, the poet-priest, has
left Mobile, w'here he has been resi
ding for about eleven years. He has
been placed in charge of the Catholic
church at Eufaula, Ala.
GEORGIA NEWS.
—There are 98 men and 9 women in Fol
ton county jail.
—Savannah citizens gave SSOO to the
Michigan sufferers.
—Tite State Fair at Macou was very suc
cessful in every respect.
- -Farmers all over the State are puling in
a big crop of small grain.
—Spalding county will take a vote on the
fence question on the 28th.
—Bulloch county complains of the pre
vailing drought as unprecedented.
—The Georgia railroad has contracted with
the Government for carrying the fast mail.
—W. I). Day has been elected Treasurer of
county in place ot Joel Muuu, de
ceased.
—Farmers say that the staple of the cotton
crop *■'» this year is not up to the oidinary
standard.
—The election on the whisky question in
Randolph county comes off on the first Tues
day in December.
—The Gazette says it is generally admitted
that Wilkes county has not been so well off
in a corn crop as it now is in five years or
more.
—Houston county has voted on the liquor
question, and the vote stands 485 for, and
591 against, or 19 majority against the sale
of liquor.
—ln Floyd Superior Court, the Gassaway
vs, Georgia Southern railroad case ended in
a verdict for fifteen thousand dollars dama
ges for the plaintiff.
—Tne Grand J ury of Newton county stands
twenty to one in favor of the "no fence”
law, and the News thinks the county stands
about the same way.
—The Georgia State Convention of Uni
versalists will meet in Jackson county, at
Center Hill, on Friday before the fifth Sun
d av iu October, and continue in session three
days.
—Hon. John W- Brinson, of Jefferson, has
been invited to deliver an address before the
Washington county Grange at its next regu
lar meeting on the second Thursday of No.
vetnber. Subject: “Our Present Agricultur
al Embarrassment—Cause and Remedy.”
—The Monroe Advertiser says the stock
law is now in force in that county, and here
after every person owning horses, cattle,
bogs, sheep, etc., in Monroe county must
keep them on his, or her, own land, or else
pay the damages which these animals com
mit.
—Florida Lacon: “Judge G. W. Means,
an enterprising citizen of Orange Lake, has
sold a half interest in his lake grove, com-,
monly known as Means’ Landing, to General
John B. Gordon, of Georgia, for $13,000.
General Gordon will shortly visit the lake,
accompanied by several distinguished gen
tlemen, with a view to locating.”
—Coffee County Gazette: “ Near Mud
creek, in Clinch county, lives an old gentle
man by the name of David Fender, who is
107 years old. He is as active as most men
of 40, and frequently rides horseback to
Blockton, a distance of twelve miles, and re
turns home the same day without fatiguing
him in the least.”
—The Post-Appeal states that a strong
syndicate of Atlanta’s most enterprising
capitalists have bought all, or nearly all, of
the stock of the North Georgia Fair Associa
tion, with a view to converting the building
into a cotton factory as soon as the Exposi
tion closes. It is stated that a large amount
of the stock of the new company has been
taken.
—Recently the people of Marion county
held a meeting for the purpose of raising
funds to build a railroad from Buena Xista
to some point on the Muscogee road, and in
said meeting subscribed thirteen thousand
dollars. We believe the people are to fur
nish a certain amount of the money, and the
Central railroad the rest.
—Milledgeville Recorder: “Rev. A. J.
Deck told the Farmers’ Club about a man tn
Jones county who planted half corn and half
cotton. He started after the war with one
mu l e _had never bought any corn, but had
bought SIO,OOO worth of land. He now had
plenty of fat stock. One negro had plowed
the same mule for nine years. He had eight
hundred bushels of last year’s corn tn his
crib. With plenty to live on in sight, his
laborers were satisfied, and did not desire a
change. All-cotton men had foiled all around
, him.”
—Columbus Enquirer -Sun : “One who is
in a position to know, informs us that the
number of cases of measles in Early county
is unprecedented. He states that there are
at this time not less than six hundred cases
of measles in the county, and that in many
cases it has proved fatal. On one plantation
there are seventy-five cases. At Arlington
there is a great deal of sickness, and in ah
most every case of typhoid fever, which was
preceded by measles, the disease terminating
in death. There are also a number of cases
of measles in the town of Blakely.”
—Columbus Enquirer-Sun: “From a
gentleman who has recently visited some of
the western counties in Southwest Georgia,
we learn that the crops are not so bad as
reports have made them, and that the pros,
pects are encouraging rather than otherwise.
In Early, Clay and Randolph counties the
corn suffered from drought, but a fair crop
was made. The fields are white with the
fleecy staple, and in many places resemble a
huge snow-bank. The" worms having
stripped the weed of its foliage, and the warm
weather popping open the bolls, it has
opened more rapidly than the farmers are
able to have it gathered.”
—Douglasville Star: “The citizens of this
place and vicinity are just at present very
much alarmed about a very malignant type
of fever that is prevalent. The physicians
have pronounced it to be petrified fever, and
it is contagious. For a time the report was
spread that the much dreaded ‘black tongue’
had made its appearance. Upon investigat
ing this rumor we found but two cases of
this disease were in the county, and they
were in a very mild form. We do not think
there is much cause for alarm. Douglasville
is naturally a very healthy place, and this
unexpected and unusual amount of sickness
has occasioned unnecessary uneasiness
among our citizens."
—Americus is not pleased at the action
taken by the people of Marion county at
their late railroad meeting in subscribing
money to build a road from Buena Vista to
some point on the Columbus division of the
Southwestern road. The Sumter Republican
wants the business men of Americus to hold
a meeting and raise money to aid Marion in
building the road from Buena Vista to that
town and it says if the connection is made
with’the Muscogee road, it will take every
bale of cotton from Marion, Schley and Tay
lor counties, and convey the trade to other
directions.
—The Marietta Journal says: “Mr. G. W.
Shallcross, ot Philadelphia, an enterprising
capitalist, was in our city a fe w days ago,
and we learn he has sold a half interest in
the Franklin Pasco Gold Mine, situated in
Cherokee county, on the Etowah river, for
one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Mr.
Shallcross is not only a very clever gentle
man, but is actively engaged in inducing
Northern capitalists to invest in the mineral
deposits and gold mines of North Georgia.
During the Exposition he proposes to bring
excursionists to this section to investigate
and see for themselves what a rich section
we have. In thia he ia doing a laudable
work."