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Banna's responses that day were not
hearty, but constrained, incoherent and
unmeaning. Mr. Augustus Frazee iusisted
upon holding her prayer-book, but he did
it with such an awkward grace, as told at
once that, however devoted Mr. Augustus
Frame may have been in his native Puri
tanism, lie could lly comprehend the beau
ty and the power of the Episcopal Liturgy.
Kuima's pure heart reproached her for her
want ol devotion; but she cruld not, fot
the life of her, restrain her wandering
thought*. They shrank with a shudder
from the presence of the man that stood
by her side, and they rested with an uneasy
fluttering upon the shoulder ol him whose
head w ,s bowed by the side of Viola. She
did not envy Viola. She was not jealous
of Viola, but oh, whiit a relief to her soul
would it have been to have changed places
with that gentle girl; to have knelt where
Viola knelt, and to have mingled her own,
as Viola mingled tier’s, with the rich voice
of Hiram iu the earnestness of a pure de
votion. Nor could the eloquent words of
the sermon soothe her purturbed thoughts;
and that night, when left alone with her
G d, Eaima with penitent tears coulessed
that the day had been one of rebellious
passion.
‘What a bewitching little wench that is
Lavender is driving,’ said Mr. Augustus
Frazce, as the Phaeton dashed by Hiram’s
buggy. Emma looked up with an indig
nant just,
‘Yes, sue said, ‘it is a very fine animal.’
‘I did not mean the animal—the horse;
1 meant the lady,’ stammered Mr. Augus
tus Frazce, surprised at Emma’s dullness.
•Oh, you said wench! and as that term is
never applied by a gentleman to a lady, I
supposed that you meant the animal,’ re
torted Emma with ill concealed irony.
‘Oh, ain’t it, though? I thought that
she was a wench—a saucy little wench,’ re
plied Mr.Augustus Frazee, with an air that
told how much he esteemed his own right
to regulate the tastes of his auditors.
‘I have no disposition to argue the ques
tion, Mr. Frazee,’ answered Emma, ‘but I
presume Mr. Lavender would readily en
gage to correct your opinion, should you
trouble yourself to speak thus of a lady in
liis presence.’
‘I dare say he would, Miss Eustace, and
what he would lack in words, he would
make up in fierce looks and grinning threats.
I am sorry he leaves to morrow; I want to
call him to account for his insolent looks
yesterday,’ said Mr. Augustus Frazee, with
a swaggering swell.
‘You will have ample time for that, sir;
the train doe3 not leave before 10 a.
m., and from my knowledge of his cour
age, you can be gratified in a less time than
that,’ and Emma’s beautiful eyes were wild
with an almost nncontrolable anger.
‘Mr. Frazee,’quietly interposed Mrs. Eus
tace, ‘I cannot permit this Viola Mngg'e-
ton is a sweet girl, a good, pure and gentle
lady, and it illy becomes a gentlomen to
speak disrespectfully of her; and Mr. Lav
ender is not what you esteem him to be.
He does not indulge in fierce looks or men
acing threats.’
A slight blankness bleached the brass of
Mr. Augustus Frazee’s cheek, and he
stammered an apology:
‘Oh, I beg pardon. I really did not
know that Mr. Lavender stood so high in
jour favor, although—’ and the blankness
gave place to the ruddy brass—‘I might
have guessed from what I saw yesterday
that—that—
‘You need not tronble ydurself to express
what,’ interrupted Emma. ‘Whatever he
is to me, he. at least, can appreciate the
courtesies due a lady from a gentleman.’
Among the other elegant adornments of
Mr. Augustus Frazees person, was a gold
headed cane—a slight dandyish looking
cane—which cane Mr. Augustus Frazee,
by a studious practice had learned to switsh
with as much trace as Colridge’s devil
could switsh his tail. This elegant adorn
ment of Mr. Augustus Frazee’s elegant per
son, was being caressingly stroked by the
purple-gloved hand of Mr. Augustus Fra
zee as Emma said this, and for once since
Mr. Augustus Frazee began his study of
gracefully switshing, he forgot to switsh
his cane. But with a sudden jerk, he
clutched it up and plunged its gold head
into his mouth—not to stop any angry words
that might escape—but as if to hush out
the biting sarcasm of Emma’s voice. This
sudden stopping of Mr. Augustus Frazee’s
mouth, put a sudden stop to the conversa
tion, and the balance of the homeward
drive was made in silence.
STATE NEWS.
The Calhoun Times gives the following:
On last Saturday evenig, at Planeville,
Jesse Barnett deliberately and with malice
aforethought, disehar. cd the contents of a
l i'leguu at John Turner, a mechauic, while
he was sitting unsupecting, in a car in
which he was staying, having quit his work
on the new depot being there erected. The
ball broke his right forearm just below the
elbow, and pasied on io dangerous proxim
ity to the heart, inflicting a sore cut abouj
the left breast.
Burnet escaped, but his whereabouts is
known, and he will doubtless yet find that
the affair will have to undergo judicial in
vestigation.
Tt is said (but by whom we do not know)
that Georgia has 123 newspapers and jour
nals; 14 dailies; 5 tri-weeklies; 7 semi-
weeklies; SG weeklies; two semi monthlies,
nnd 4 monthlies. The average circulation
is 14,447;388. This is 12 a year for each
persjn, or4SD lor each square mile,
friotn the Columbus Sun we clip the fol
lowing :
Showers foil again last afternoon. They
• have descended every afternoon since yes
terday week. Some ot these rains have
been very heavy, and have helped grass
wonderfully.
The same paper says :
It is estimated from pretty accurate ob
servations that the property in Muscogee
county changes hands every twenty years.
Of course we speak of averages, not ex
ceptions.
This is giving every dog its day.
The Savannah News gives the following
notice of the arrival in that city of a party
of Swedish iuiigrauts:
Mr. John A. Moreno arrived yesterday
on the steamship Cleopatra, from New
York, bringing with him 23 Swedish im
migrants. These peopla have been induc
ed to come to Georgia to accept positions,
the females as house servants and the males
as hosiers, carriage drivers, etc. They were
on their way to Macon.
Mr. Morane, the gentleman having them
in charge, is a native of Swcdcu, hut has
been living in this State lor several years,
and is now acting as the foreign agent of
the Immigrant Society of Jones county, Ga.
• He lias made several trips to Sweden for
the purpose of bringing to this country
sueli as desired to make their homes among
us, and he has thus far met with much
success.
He left there with these immigrants on
thp 2d of the present month, and arrived
in New York ou the same day the Clcopa=
Ira sailed for Savannah. Having consider
able oxnerience in the business, he man
aged to'fiuvo them transferred to the Cleo
patra it> timo to sail'in her to Savannah,
thereby remaining in New York only four
hours. While'in this o'ty they stopped
at McConnell’s European House. They
are a fine healthy looking set of young men
and women, able to do any amount of or?
dioary work. They left for Macon on the
7 lYeioek train yesterday evening.
The same paper says :
While a crowd ol negro boys'were swim
ming in the river yesterday about noon, op
posite the lower cotton press, one of their
number, whose name we did not learn, was
drowned, The boys who accompanied him
in the water seemed to know nothing -it all
of the cause ot the accident, accept that
their comrade had becD accidentally drown
ed.
We learn that he was about twelve or
fifteen years of age, and been in the em
ployment of a colored cotton sampler, Sam
Smith. His clothes were carried home to
his parents, and up to dark all efforts to re
cover the body had faffed.
The same paper reports a fire in that
city ou last Friday morning. Loss as fol
lows : The buildings belonging to Judge
Law were insured in the Southern Mutual
Insurance Company for §7,000. Loss about
§2,500. The Ioes on stock was about §7,-
500, insurance §14,000 in three companies
—the Southern Mutual an i two New York
Companies.
The Rome Courier
FRIDAY MORNING, June 30.
LEWIS E. PAItSON IN THE ROLE OF
TITOS OATS.
If it requires the darkness of night to
bring ont the brightness oi the stars, it al
so remains for it to obscure the faint glim-
mering of the slimy fox fire. Rotten mack-
oral that shined and shimmered in the
bright moonlight, only stinks when the orb
from which its reflections are caught is hid
behind the clonds or sets behind the hills.
And so it is with hnmah worth. Men of
true merit only stand out the truer in times
of adversity and of darkness, while those ot
superficial virtue, pale within the gloom,
and become like the moonlit mackeral de
prived of its borrowed light, a lump of
stinking filth.
The dark days of our adversity have
brought out in bright relief the true char
acters of our Southern men, while at tne
same time it has, much to the disappoint
ment and sorrow of their friends, exposed
the-utter worthless ness of others whom we
have honored with our confidence and en
trusted in our high places.
Among those who have thus proved false
co the kindly estimate placed upon them by
a generous people, and whose real little
ness has been exposed by the troublous
times that are upon us, is Lewis E. Parson
ex-provisional Governor of Alabama,
Northern man who came among us; was re
ceived kindly and trusted and honored, but
who is now playing the role of Titus Oats
before the ku klux inquisition.
The following which we clip from the
Montgomery Advertiser will probably ex-
p'ain the point that must bo greatly dark.
“The reason why they do it’.
The mercenary and unreliable character
of Ex-Gov. Parsons seems to be as thor
oughly* understood outside this state as in
it.
‘The St Louis Republican thus speaks of
him, and our people who know him can tes
tify to the appopriateoess of its remarks.
Does any body know what Ex-Gov. Par
sons, of Alabama, wants? Is there a fat
oustom house appointment vacant any
where? Or a foreign mission, or a snug
consnlat, or an Indian agency, or any choice
sineonre where the work is light and the
gages heavy, whioh the keen-nosed Parsons
souffe in the breeze and is going for, after
the maoner of Settlers and Warner? Some*
thing of this sort there most be; else why
should our ex-governor “suddenly become a
Republican?” and why after becoming a
Republican shoald he suddenly discover
that “a ku kiux organization exists in Ala
bama 8 000 or 10,000 strong—also 12,000
of Hu-same in Georgia, with headquarters
at Atlanta?” Such conversion and discov
eries are paiofully common now-a-days,
and we have observed that, with what may
be considered a remarkable coincidence,
they arc always followed by the reward of
the converted and discovering sonl. Set
tles swore tO4&0,000 ku klnx in South Car
olina, and was paid with a Sonth American
mission; Warner of Alabama aid not swear
so high 1 and consequently the best offer he
could get was the governorship of New
Mexico; Parsons, it seems can’t raise bnt
22,000 ku klnx. all told, and must there
fore be content with a tolerable' low seat in
the Radical synagogue. Bnt a seat he
must have, as nicely cushioned as circum
stances will permit, and a bone of patron
age with more or less meat on it to pick.
The tribe to which Settles, Warner and
Parsons belong is famous for two things—
patriotism and appetite; and tbs former
never exists without the latter. Patriotism
induces them to go to Washington, at the
rate of five dollars a day and traveling ex
penses, and there reveal the numbers, loca
tion, and damnable dorogs of the kn klnx;
appetite nrges them, the moment they de
scend from the witness stand to
straightway to the President for enough of
government pap to assuage the pangs of
hunger. As they never fail to ask, so they
seldom fail to get; and when the general
manager of the kn klnx business refuses to
respond to'the demands ot his faitbgul
swearers, the investigating committee will
suspend its sessions for lack of material.
“No pay, no preach," is the motto of the
lively terrifiers who are now manufacturing
outrages to order.
.Communicated.
Chieftains, near Rome, V
June 26th, 1871. j
Mr. Editor—Among the many inven
tions and improvements of agricultural im
plements of the present day, I noticed one
at the depots short time since, directed to
yon, which is intended to cot clover for the
seed. I have never seen it at work, hot op
en examination feel satisfied that it; is a
good thing, and must facilitate the work of
gathering clover seed very much.
It' formerly was considered a great diffi
culty to thresh or hnll the seed, and many
inventions have been made for that purpose
bat sinoe the ase of the common threshing
machines has become general, ‘there may
be bnt little trouble about it.
- Tho greatest difficulty in the way of pro
curing good and clean eeed, is in managing
the crop, so as to have a good, clean sec
ond crop, as that is the only chance to make
the seed worth saving.'
A good second crop generally springs up
idler moving off the first crop, if the season
is propitions. If the season is very wet,
the clover will continue to produce green
bloom at the same time the earlier g-owth
will ripen and fall off, and if the season is
very dry it will not grow. If the first crop
be mowed by the middle or 20th of Jane,
one may very reasonably expect a pretty
good stand of the second crop for seed.
The ordinary way to save the seed when
it has become ripe, is to get a common grain
cradle, and take ont all the fingers except
cept the two next the scythe.
With this first cat the seed so as to
throw two swaths together by going and
coming. After cutting, let the double
swath lay for several days, or until it bo-
oomes pretty well weather beaten. Then
gently put it in piles, and when quite dry
haul and shelter. Select a dry; harsh time
and with a flail, or threshing machine,
thresh the heads or bloom from the stiaw,
rake the hay from the heads, and scatter it
over galled or poor spots on the plantation.
Yon now have your clover heads ready to
be separated from the seed. With a good
spike thresher yon must close np the enter-
ance, or throat, with a plank, except a
small hole on the left side, large enough to
pat the heads or blossoms in with an old
broom. Also close np the space where the
grain is designed to be discharged, leaving
a small opening five or six inches square
for the seed and chaff to come ont at. The
maehine will then resemble a sausage cut
ter—the entry hole being at yonr left and
the exit on the right.
It takes nearly the same power to run
the machine to thresh clover seed that it
does to thresh wheat.
Yon have nothing to do now bat to ran
the clover heads through the machine, and
and yon will find that the seed have been
well rubbed ont of the little sacks in which
they were contained.
They can be cleaned by twice running
through a common wheat fan; bnt it it is
necessary to get some fine screen cloth to
make a seive for the fan of proper size.
The first person I ever saw get ont clo
ver seed in this way, procured a piece of
common Bheet iron, large enough to line
the cap of the thresher; pnnehed the iion
full of holes witn a sharp piece of iron,
making it resemble a grater. It was so ar
ranged in the cap and aronnd the cylinder
as to suppose the* sharp hnrs would aid in
hnlling the seed.
I have mine fixed in that way, bnt be
lieve that it is nnnecssary, as nothing more
seems to be required than to close np in
part the ingress and egress of the machine,
as before described.
I have seen many little patches of good
seed left to waste in consequence of not
knowing how to get it ont; and as simple cs
this plan may seem to some, others again,
perhaps, like myself, would never have
thought of it, if it had not been told them.
I have not described a plan that is only
plansable io theory, tat in reality a ma
chine can be fixed, aed any one feeling de
sirous io see how it is done, can come to
my place and see it for themselves.
Yours respectfully,
A. A. Jones,
[Communicated.
LaFayette, Walker Co., Ga. 1
June 17,1871. j
Mb. Editor—We have seen, with
much regret, the recently published corres
pondence between Gov. Bnllock and the
prosecuting counsel in regard to the killiog
of Thos. W. Coulter, and the removal of
Marcus A. Ellison from our county jail,
who is charged with that offence.
We say with regret, simply because that,
taken altogether, it does exceedingly great
injustice not only to the accused; but to
this community. This we do not believe
will be denied by any one acquainted with
the facts in the ease. Tho effects of this
injustice we have been made to feel more
sensibly since seeing <he numerous com
ments of the press and the eroneons con
clusions arrived at in regard to the mat
ter.
It is not onr intention to charge any one
with an intentional misrepresentation of
the case; nor do we desire in any way to
oast reflections apon the character or con
duct of any party to the correspondence.—
I represented the defendant in the prelim
inary investigation, and feel that it is bnt
due to him and the community to give the
following statement of the facts of the case
as then developed by the evidence :
On the morning of the 7th of May Coul
ter am} Eljcfsop met- at a still house on
Lookout Mountain, sphere they bath became
drunk, and engaged in a quarrel of consid
erable length. Mr. Looney, who was the
only person present except the parties, un
derstood the quarrel to have originated
from the fact that Conker there accused
Ellison of being a kn klnx, which he de
nied.
Mr- Rooney having several times tempo
rarily quelled the copteption, finally sup-
cceded ip quieting them. Daring the course
of this qaa'rre], while both were drank, a
pistol was presented by Ellison, and some
allusion was also made to Gen. Grant. The
parties then remained at tire still house un-
til near night, which was several hoars, dur-
iog which time they seemed perfectly
friendly and peaceable, having, (as Looney
thought) made fri nds, and to some extent
become sober.
A little before sundown Ellison started
aw ay in the direction of his nncle’s, with
whom he was living; Coulter followed and
THE LATEST NEwS.
Heavy rain-falls are reported in all parts
of the Union. In Chicago, the streets and
basements of business houses were flooded,
and the damage will be great At Long
Branch, the rain had the impudence to
come down in the very face of the Iligh
and mighty ruler of the Yankee Universe,
the Great Ulysses himself, and the Yacht
race had to be postponed in consequence
thereof.
The Secretary of War has gone’for five
days to Akrrman—so says the Selma Times’
dispatches—and his cause must be a des
perate one, if it takes five days for Aker-
man to file it. The same dispatch says
that there is a furious clash between the
OomuiiMoncr of Internal Revenue, and the
Secretary pf the Treasury. Rut what they ! overlook him nearby, and they went off
clashed with, they did not .-ay. 2(jpirt together apparently on good terms. In
guns, we reckon.
Governor Haight has been re-nominated
by the Democratic party of California.
The Democrats of Sou Francisco have’
nominated Judge Archer for Congress, in
the place of Axtell,
Io Jfranpp qll is j^uiet, but grept destitu
tion prevails in Pans.
The Court Cassadon will henceforth set
in Paris. The Patrie states that the se
cond postponement of the trial of Roche
fort, Assi and Courbet is jp copseqqpnpe pf
the elections. Albert Jolly defends Roche
fort.
Forty-seven ships of tho French navy
have beep discharged and twelve thousand
soldiers dismissed,
The directors ot the beak of France have
not yet commenced the publication of their
weekly returns, they are waiting for detail
ed reports from branches of the'hank.
about liplf pu hour Ellison came back and
told Rooney that ha h?d shot Coulter; that
he had dono so ip his own defense^ that
Conker had assailed him attempting to ent
him with his knife, and asked Looney to
go and seo after him, whereupon he went,
and found him dead.
The next day Ellison went and placed
JjimseJf in the hands of J. F, Smith, J,
P., relating tho matter to h{m, apd there fie
remained a day and two nights without a
guard, awaiting the preparation of the pros
ecution, after which he was duly placed un
der arrest and guarded until tho hearing,
whereupon be was committed.
Now; as the jrijling ryes fiopo in the ab-
senoe of all the persons except the parties,
how can it be said that it was done' under
circumstances of “great coolness and de
liberation ?” The evidence certainly clear
ly shows that the first difficulty during the
day was rather a drunken, quarrel than a
political one; and as considerable time had
elapsed after that difficulty, am} before-the
killing, daring which they appeared to be
perfectly peaceable’ and friendly, and eo
went away together, have we any evidence
of the slightest mixture of politics in the
encounter that resulted in the killing?
As to the conclusion that Coalter was
stricken down for havi tg spoken well of
the President, it is simply ernoeous, and
without the slightest foundation in fact.- -
How can we conclude that Ellison was a
ku klnx, when the only evidence on that
point was that Coniter accused him of be
ing one, at whieh be became insnlted, and
denied the charge ?
In view of the fact that Ellison was on
the mountain near his relatives, with am
ple opportunity of making his escape, that
he went to the Justice cf the Peace of
his own accord, and then awaited with pa
tience his trial, having been advised that
he would, in all probability be committed,
have we any reason to fear that he will be
released, or that he desires to be, other
wise than according to law ?
.Let the plain, authenticated facts answer
these questions. Wc will, however, indulge
the pride we have in common with other
citizens, in saying we believe there is yet
virtue enough iu Walker county not only
to detain this or any other prisoner, legal
ly charged with an offence, bnt also to
guarantee to him an impartial trial, and
the full measure of justice, whether the
act was the result of a political or drunken
qnarrel, whether “committed under cir
cumstances of great coolness and deliber
ation,” or from necessity, in self-defence,
and under circumstances of justification
Respectfully,
J. C. Clements.
State of Ga., Walker Co.
We the undersigned do hereby certify
that the statements contained in tho fore
going letter, as to the case therein men
tioned, are just and trne, as developed by
the evidence on the investigation before
ns,
J. F. Smith, J. P.
D. Stout, N. P. and
Ex-Officio J. P.
June 20th.
Letting ofContracts.—Public atten
tion is called to an advertisement of W.
D. Chipley, Secretary, calling for proposals
for grading and bridging the first twenty
miles of the North and South Railroad
leading ont from this city. Such proposals
shonld be addressed to W. J. Wynn, Ch’f.
Engineer, by July 10th. Bids will be re
ceived far the entire section or fractions
thereof. Maps, plaDS, etc., may be seen at
the office of the Company, in thU city on
and after Jnly 1st.
This looks like business, and we trust
the day is not far distant when we shall
not only witness the commencement and
completion of the line to LaGrange, hnt
when the lino from St. Marks to Cincinnati
will constitute one of the grandest and most
profitable roads on tho Continent.— Colum
bus Enquirer.
Rev. J. G. Pence’s Appointments for
Rome District, 3d Round Qnarterly
Sleeting.
Van Wert Circuit, at Van Wert, June
24th and 25th.
Cedartown Circuit, at Cedartown, Jnly
1st and 2d.
Cave Spring Circuit, at Cave Spring, Ju
ly 8th and 9th.
Rome Circuit at Shiloh, July 22d and
23d.
Rome Station, at Rome, Jnly 29th and
30th.
Forrestville Circuit, at Mixpah, August
5th and 6th.
Oostananla Circuit, at Union Grove, Au
gust 12th and 13th.
Summerville Circuit—Distrust meeting
August 23d and 27th.
LaFayette Circuit, at Tricky, Septem
ber 2d and 3d.
The District Meeting will bo held from
the 23d to the 27th of August. We hope
to have Bishop Wightman from first to last
All the delegates are earnestly requested
to attend. Let all who can, famish their
own conveyance. Those who cannot may
expect conveyances at Rome, Monday morn
ing, 23d of Augast.
The preachers of the different stations
and circuits will please give dne notice to
Rev. W. C. Dunlap, at Snmmerville, of all
who expect to attend, and of those who
catmot furnish their own conveyance, that
he may provide horses and conveyances ac
cordingly.
And now, dear brethren, suffer a sugges-
gestion and word of exhortation: Let none
go, to write loDg reports, or make long
speeches, wasting precious time to the dam
age of more precious interests, the elevation
of the church and salvation of souls. Let
n; be sure we go “in the fhlncss of the
Gospel of Christ.” This is the Pauline
type of aggressive faith. Let ns go filled
with the Spirit, not of self, bnt of “power
and of love, and of a sound mind.” Let ns
go to counsel and to conquer- Let all
come to the “Help of the Lord against the
mighty.” J- G. Pearce, P. E.
Here is another one of those heroes who
are so common that they attract little at
tention. John Olvany, of Michigan City,
Indiana, was sailing on the lake with three
friends, when the boat was capsized by a
flaw ot wind, and as the little craft could
bear only three persons, Olvany, saying
that he had no family, released his hold,
and was drowDed. Sir Phillip Sydney
never did anything half so noble as that;
and yet who will remember the name oi
John Olvany to-morrow ?
Tho LaGrange Reporter records the
death of two old and highly esteemed cit
izens of Troupe, Luke Johnson ana Geo.
Kidd.
■ 'WF'.fa—.
Up to last Saturday Mr, Parnell, living
some five or six miles below this place, in
Chamber connty, Ala., had stripped to New
York three hundred bushels of peaches,
r. Parnell is making it quite profitable.
4 fell
[From-the New York Herald.
NARROW CADGE.
Important Facts for Railway Projectors,
Engineers and Factors—New and Vast
Field open for Capital and Enterprise.
• Daring tho early history of railways in
England, a great controversy arose among
engineers as to the brat goage to be adopt
ed. Two great engineers, the greatest of
the times, Branel’and Stephenson, took op
posite sides and divided the profession into
two hostile tactions, wtio carried on with
much energy and some ascerbity of feeling
what was called the “war of the gnages.’’
The Brnnels went for the broad goage and
the Stephensons for the narrow. The for
mer gave to the Great Western line the
seven foot gnage. The latter to the Liver
pool and Manchester, the London and Liv
erpool, the four feot eight and a half inch,
or narrow goage of the period.
This controversy lasted twenty years, and
every argument that skill and ingenuity
could invent was brought into requisition.
It extended to the eentinent and to this
country. Volumes were written to prove
what, after all, had to be determined by
experience. Like most controversies, this
one at last come to an end, under the acen
undated evidence of years, leaving the nar
row goage victor. The extreme breadth of
the Great Western track, no doubt, hasten
ed the-resnlt, and the pnblie opinion of
England accepted it sooner than it has done
in this country, where six feet was the
greatest breadth adopted on any of onr
lines.
COMPARATIVE COST OF THE TWO OUAGES
IN ENGLAND.
Careful observation long ago demonstra
ted the superior economy of the four foot
eight and a half inch gnage in comparison
with the seven foot goage. It has now
been reduced to figures, and it is settled
that there is a saving in the first cost of
the permanent way of about £2,000, or
10,000 per mile for a doable track line.—
The saving in rolling stock is pnt down at
from 25 to 30 per cent., and in operating
expenses at about the same ratio.
CHANGE OF GUAGE.
These startling results have at length led
to the laying of a third rail on the seven
foot lines, and all the new rolling
stock is made to conform to the four foot
eight and a half inoh gnage, so that in a
few years the old broad gnage will disap
pear. The same process is now going on
in this country, where the six foot gnage
has been found unable to compete with the
fonr foot eight and a half inch gnage.
THE CANADA GUAGE.
Onr Canada neighbors adopted a goage
differing from all onr lines, from which
their railways might hope to draw business
or with which they would have to form
business arrangements. Sir Fransis Hincks,
the Canadian Prime Minister of the day,
being intensely British in his sentiments,
used the very singular argument in favor of
the five foot six ineh gnage* that it would
prevent the trade of the province from
flowing across the frontier and on to lines
tending to onr seaboard.
Against this absnrd reason for non-rail
way intercourse it was argued that the most
profitable trafic likely to offer to the Cana
dian lines would certainly be from onr Eas
tern and Western States. The high Brit
ish view of the question, however, prevail
ed, and it was determined to try the costly
experiment of forcing the trade of the
province to Montreal and Qnzbeo. The ex
pense has fallen on the English public who
famished the money. After spending at
least 830,000,000 in extra cost of construc
tion, equipment, maintenance, and running
expenses, the Canadian Legislature has
consented to change to a fonr foot eight
and a half ineh gnage, which has been
adopted and in nse'for over four years on
the Great Western of Canada, and is to be
laid on the Grand Trunk.
the Erie Railway.
The New York and Erie line, and all
its kith and kin of the six foot goage—
snch as the Ohio and Mississippi, and At
lantic and Great Western—have proved
most costly and disastrous undertakings to
the original stockholders. The Erie line
may be said to have been the victim of its
gnage. The Erie and Ohio and Mississip
pi line will be constructed to a fonr foot
eight and a half inch track by laying a
third rail. Thos both in England and
America, fonr feet eight and a half inches
has become the road goage of the time.
THF. NEW NARROW GUAGES.
While time was settling the gnage qura-
tiod between the old broad and narrow
gnages everywhere in favor of the latter,
a new experience was bring acquired. Long
prbr to the establishment of the steam rail
way system, tram or horse railways had
been much in use in the ooal and iron min
ing district of Great Britain and the Con
tinent of Europe, as well as in this conn-
try. These, unlike onr horse railways, had
extremely narrow gnages, ranging from two
to three feet in breadth. One in Sonth
Woles, still in nse, was only two feet six
inches wide, and the writer traveled on it
in 1852 in company with an American gen
tleman and his wife, in a small carriage at
tached to a long train of ompty coal and
iron tracks from Newport, on the British
Channel, to Elbow (pronounced Ebboo)
Vale, some fifteen or eighteen miles. The
train was drawn np a grade in some places
of eighty feet to the mile by an engine of
nine or ten tons weight, at twelve rules an
honr. There were first, second and third
class passenger cars attached so as to ac
commodate all classes. Twelve miles was
then the limit ef speed imposed by the gov
ernment inspector on these supposed dan
gerous railways. The practice of nsmg en-
infancy, and was considered hazardous.
THE QUESTION SOLVED,
More recently, however, this prevailing
delusion began to yield to practical tests,
just as the snccess of the first smooth-tired
engine on a smooth rail, forty years ago,
was demonstrated by an.actual trial, after
fifteen years of argument os to the best
method of preventing the wheel from slip
ping. the speed was at first inereased to
twenty miles an hoop, then higbep and highr
er and higher till fbrty was attained- The
inspector has now fixed the maximum speed
on snch railways at thirty miles.
It being thus established that so narrow
a gnage even as two feet can be operated
with entire safety at thirty miles an honr,
the little railways soon became a national,
as well as a professional sensation, and the
Anglo-Indian and two or three Continen
tal governments lijst year appointed com
missions of eminent and skilled engineers
to visit Wales, the location oflhe narrowest
The N. & S. Railroad.—It is expected
that the digging of dirt on this Bond will
commence on Jnly 1st. The incorporators
have some §230,600 in cash with which to
be*to work. They and the Atlanta line
will probably run one track to a distance | of the narrow lines, to examine and report
of some fifteen miles from Columbus. A ' on the alleged facts. The line specially at-
nieetiD" of the incorporators is to he held traetiig attention runs from Port Mahon,
- - * * — on Cardigcn Bay, and Festiniog, the seat
of extensive slate quarries. The gnago of
this line is twenty-three and a half inches,
and its ehief freight goes on the down
grade, whioh in many places is very steep,
with extremely sharp carves. The usual
time for passenger- trains is twenty miles
an hoar, bat these eminent experts found
that thirty miles was not an unsafe speed.
Tho passangep carriage} srj ten feet long'
wheeled velocipede or bycicle. which main
tains its stability by the rapidity of its mo
tion and the shifting of the body of the ri
der in making curves. So in the carves
of the railway, the inside rail is always de
pressed in order to counterbalance the ten
deney of the weights of the carriages to or a twentieth of the business. The rails
fly off in the direction of the exterior of would have to be somewhat heavier, and
fly offiu
the curve, whieh end is effected iu the ease
of the bieycle by the action of the rider.—
The child tumbling his hoop also illustrates
the effect of velocity in preserving stabili-
ity or a vertiele position in the moving of
the body, which topples over as soon as it
stops.
All other things bring eqnal, a narrow
gnage train on a track adjosted on the
curves to meet a given speed, will be as
safe as a broad gnage train under similar
circumstances. But it may well be claim
ed for narrow gnage rolling stock that there
is less liability to one main class of acci
dents—namely, those arising from the
breaking of axles. A three foot axle, f>r
instance, may be reduced one-third in di
ameter, as compared with a seven foot axle,
and be less likely to break thaD the latter
under an eqnal load.
TRAFFIC CAPACITY OF THE NEW NARROW
GAUGES.
The evidence furnished by the several
government commissions establishes be
yond question that the four foot eight and
a half inch gnage possesses a capacity far
greater than is needed on a large propor
tion of the England lines. If this is true
of England, which contains a population
two-thirds that of the whole United States
in an area oaly a little greater than that of
the State of New Yoik, and where all
branches of industry are stimulated by a
superabundance of cheap capital, how
much more forcibly docs the remark apply
to this country, whero capital and labor are
scarce and dear ? The Legislature of Mas
sachusetts has lately had this very, impor
tant subject nnder consideration, and a
joint committee of the two branches was
appointed to toqnire into the subject. The
committee, accepting the reports of the
European commissions as trustworthy, on
the 11th of March last made a very able,
though not an exhaustive report, pointing
ont the great capacity, safety, economy and
general adaptation of the narrow gnage for
branch lines in this country.
On the snbject of capacity for traffic, the
committee says, speaking of the Festinoig
railway :
WHAT IS THE BEST GUAGE?
is a question still undecided, and the joint
committee, deeply impressed with the vast
importance of secnriDg uniformity in the
breadth of the new narrow gnage, has wise
ly adopted the views of Mr. Robert Fairle,
a rising and able mechanical and civil en
gineer of London, in favor of the three foot
goage. Mr. Fairlie is of opinion that
three feet would be eqnal to the require
ments of of nearly all the trank lines of
England for the present and for some time
to come.
THE THREE FOOT GAUGE.
would unquestionably serve for onr chief
trank lines for one or two generations, if
not for all time, by laying one or more ad
ditional tracks near the great centres of bu
siness to accomodate local traffic. Even
should this gnage be found unequal to the
through traffic on any trank line odoptiog
it, it would be better to lay two additional
tricks throughout, so as to devote one set
to the passenger and the other set to the
freight traffic instead of increasing the
gnage, Let the Legislatures of other States
therefore adopt the report of the Massachu
setts committee, so that when the mileage
of the three foot gnage shall, as it sorely
will, exceed that of the present trunk lines,
the latter may be convertad to the common
•Standard.
THE IMPORTANCE OE UNIFORMITY OF
BREADTH,
it will therefore be seen, cannot be over
estimated. Although the Anglo-Indian
government commissioners favor a three
foot six inch gnage and a trirty-six pound
rail as brat for all new railways in India,
they think that many lines may have a
much narrower gnage and lighter rails.
Even admitting snch doubtful reasoning as
to varying gauges, to be appricable to the
case of India, it certainly does not admit of
application to this country, where onr mile
age of projected lines is at least five times
greater than in that country. It most be
regretted that some general urderstanding
has not been arrived at in all onr States.
The Massachusetts committee favor a three
foot gnage, and lines are projected or buil
ding in Ohio, Tennessee, Georgia, and oth
er states of various widths, np to three feet
six inches. Thus we shall soon have a
greater variety of gauges than ever. It
might be well to hold a convention of all
railway men who are agitating the question
or who favsr the narrow gnage, in this city
at an early day, to come to some under
standing on the subject of gauge.
COMPARATIVE ECONOMY OF THE THREE
FOOT AND FOUR FOOT EIGHT AND A HALF
INCH GAUGES IN TDIS COUNTRY.
In nearly all parts of the United States
there has beeD a great negleot of our com
mon roads, and the chief products of the
soil and the return merchandise have to be
transported many miles over the worst con
ceivable roads. Daring the wisterand the
antnmn and spring rains snch roads are
very often impassable. But owing to the
very formidable cost of a fonr foot eight
and a half inch railway it is ont of the
question to afford to the larger proportion
of onr agriculturists easy communication
A WORD MORE ABOUT THE CAPACITY
o” the three foot gnage for trank lines. As
a matter oi course, the first cost of such
trank lines wonld be greater, both for per
manehtway and rolling stock, than for
branch lines, having only a fourth, a tenth
the rolling stock* proportionably increased.
Bat there would still exist the same ratio ol
saving on the business done, and the same
beneficiai result to the pocket of the share
holder in comparison with the present broad
gnage lesnlts. As we have betore observ
ed, two additional tracks might be needed
for local traffic near the great centres of
bosmess, onstfeh lines as the Nsw York
Central Erie, and Pennsylvania Central at
the present time by running, if needed,
more trains. These might be donbled, or
even trebled, if it shonld be found that the
capacity of trains was materially diminish
ed by reducing their gauges to three feet.
Bat it is almost certain that snch capacity
will be about the same as' that or the fonr
foot eight and a half inch tracks,, just as
the latter has been found eqnal to the six
and seven foot gnages.
“It is a wonder of mechanical science
and lamp of hope to the railway forsaken
everywhere. In one year its tonna?.
amounted to X3G* 131 tons, averaging 9,-
880 tons per mile of road, which is more
than doable the traffic of the Connectient
River Railroad—a fair example of the thir
ty railroads of Massachusetts—and its pas
senger business (though not strictly a pas
senger road) amounted the same year to 6-
807 passengers per mile, which exceeds
that of the prosperous Worcester and Na
shua Railroad for 1870."
PASSENGER TRAFFIC.
Let ns consider a little more in detail
how the change of gnage will actnally .af
fect the traffic. First as to passenger trains.
The three foot gnage wonld probably lead
to a revolution fn onr passenger system
greatly for the better. The breadth of car
for the three foot gnage is considered by
experts in the science of “railroading” to
be seven feet. The present passenger cars
vary from eight to ten feet in width. Sev
en feet is the ordinary width of the Eng
lish 'railway coaches Let Americans not
be startled when we propose to adopt the
latter plan under some material modifica
tions. It is time we had an improvement
on onr comfortless, dusty, and unhealthy
cars. It is proposed to introdnoe on to the
narrow gnage lines, cars seven feet wide
and forty-eight feet loDg, divided into eight
compartments, the two end ones to be six
and a half feet each, and to he fitted- for
saloons for ladies and gentlemen, and the
six other compartments to be five feet each
for general nse. One of the saloons to be
exclusively for ladies, the other exclusive
ly for gentlemen. Ladies with children,
or invalid or ailing gentlemen, can take
seats in their respective saloons before start
ing, and others can visit them at stopping
places. Thos we shall still retain what we,
in America, consider an indispensable, ne
groes on those little lines was then in it its _with railway facilities. If, however, a line
io a few (Jays, and a permanent organization
effected; We hope to hear soon the whis,
ties pf its engines'.
The Delphes, Ohio Herald tells of a la
dy meeting with a serious.mishap while
making soap at Sandnsky City recently.—
While the soap was boiling at a lively rate
she turned into the kettle a quantity of
cold lye, when the contents explode J with
great force, soalding the persons present in
a shocking manner. The explosion was
instaneens and so powerfal as to leave the
kettle entirely empty.
Tfift manufacture of reaping apd mow;
ing machines has attained snch large, pro;
portions as to make it one of general inter
est. The annual production is now estima
ted at about 125,000 machines- Pew facts
more clearly demonstrate the immense
wealth of the farmers of onr country than
that they expend each year about §20,000-
000 in the purchase of implements of thip
one riots.
.'six' and a’half high, eaeh
holding'twelve persons. ' '
HOW HIGH 8PXED AFFECTS STABILITY.
The element of speed as it affects the
stability of train* is one which involves
the application of $ law of nature. Of
coarse uiere is more risk and greater lit.
bility to accident* on railways from high
than from low or more moderate Bpeed; but
the danger arises from the inadequate
strength of the materials of which the per
manent way and rolling stock are construct
ed, and not from the stability of the trains
pq the track. This will appear evident
from the .illustration we have'in the two-
that will cost §20,0QQ or §22,GOO a mile
cannot be constructed, it may be possible
to raise funds, by connty and town subscrip
tions and the issue of bonds, to build one
that will only cost §10,000 §12,000 a mile,
that will folly meet the requirements of
the localities seeking accomodation. Fur
thermore, and what constitutes the main el
ement in railway finance, it m be easier i ()ir ^ the lan recom|
shown that the letter class will pay a better - -- - - -
return on the ^investment than the fir
mer.
The Massachusetts committee gives a
comparative estimate of a two foot nine
inch and a four foot eight and a half inch
gauge, including rolling stock. The for
mer foots np to §13,756. the latter to 823,-
074, showing a saving of over §10,000 a
mile. Bnt the rail estimated on for the
narrow gauge is unnecessarily heavy, jndg-
ing from the price given per mile—namely,
$4,254. This price wonld indicate a for
ty-pound rail, whereas twenty-five pounds
is abundantly heavy for thi small class of
engines and lighter cars used. We woo’d
reduce both estimates for lines required in
nearly all our Western and Southern States
and make them §12,000 a rqi!e in favor of
the three foot gangs.
ECONOMY OPERATING THE THREE FOOT
The entrance to the compartments will
be by ride doors, all on a side, to be open
ed and shat by a single crank or leaver,
worked by the conductor or a porter either
from the inside or the outside. The same
method of signalling the engine-driver as
we now have to be retained, and the tickets
in ail cases to be purchased before entering
the cars, and collected either before leaving
or at a door or gate, as is now done on some
of onr roads, and as is universal in Europe.
Now let ns see what we shall lose and what
we shall gain by this innovation in onr
railway carriages. First. We shall seenre
exemption from the often intolerable nuis
ance of the continual opening and slam-
ming of doors by brakemen, conductors,
and restless passengers who infest every
car. We shall have less dost and fewer
cinders from the engine flying through the
length and breadth of the cars, and com
parative freedom from drafts cf air caused
by the aforesaid opening and shutting of
doors, and the additioal accompaniment of
yonr neighbor insisting on having yonr or
his window opened or shot, when all others
want it otherwise. Yonr compartment be
ing warmed and ventilated by the great
improvement (not adopted by onr slow and
totally indifferent railway managers) of
conducting hot air or steam through pipes,
yon will not be alternately roasted and fro
zen by the abominable stoves at each end
of the car,’which are always either red hot
or out altogether. The present unsafe plan
of ‘“t'reaking np” the speed of trains will
have to give way to the more effective
method of the steam brake, which is opera
ted iastantaneonsly by the engine-driver,
who is always the brat judge of the emer-
gency for its nse.
The danger of being burned to death, in
cases of accident, by the stoves setting fire
to the ears, will be diminished, and there
will be freedom from the assaults of gangs
of pickpockets who infest and ply their
trade in the long aisles of onr present cars,
whieh seem admirably adapted for the pro
fession. Last, thoagh not least, the pro
posed plan will enable ns to seat comforta
bly at least as many persons in a car of a
given length as can be done on the wider
cars of the wider gnages. This comes from
economizing the large amount of room
wasted in the long aisles between the ends
of the seats and the end platforms. A for
ty-three foot car, with eight compartments
each seating eight, will carry siffikgfoor
persons; whereas to scat as many in iHSrbad
gauge car nine feet wide, with the project
ing platforms and siloonjtBL stove room,
requires sixty feet icngtjSBfc latter will
weigh at least doable the^j^w. Hence
it follows that by adopting"* the proposed
gauge and style of cars is ft gain in the ca
pacity of the narrow in eomparrison with
the broad gange. * *
Nftw, what are the’ drawbacks? Only
one have we heard mentioned. It prevents
restless people from stretchifig their legs,
by promenading the cars, and from airing
themselves at the doors to the annoyance
Of all the other inmates of the oar. That
is shoot ali. It does not abolish the sleep-
e plan recommended admits
of’ the application of berths.*fcross the car,
or lengthwise of the oomfiartment. The
palace cars will no longerjfid needed, as ev
ery car will seenre the privacy and comfort
claimed for them. , -
branch roads which can be hnitt^TT^
thShi&ral wi " m -SfeSi
ne most costly ones now in on. ^
THE SOUTHERN PACIFIC
of which Mr. Marshril O TfoST*’
to be the controlling spirit‘.C,n “ ^
adopt the three foot an d l p,0n, P tl J
tate the financial arran^’^ 05
the work into early exwntion
easier it will be to raise twelra JX*
thousand dollars a mile than t» °*, ® flw »
or twenty four thousand no man
appreciate than Mr Roberts. beu ‘t
THE NORTHERN PACIFIC
should change its gna-e nm! . ,*.
same desirable result. 0 Tho ,1* tb «
gauge will enable both these llom? S
bid the one already i a existed ?“ det *
tnrough tariff, and seenre the ln^**
th§ir construction. * mone J fa
. B.
Cherokee Georgia and Alabama Pair .
elation. Allfc
I. W , C r “ lur . n 0 “ r ^nts to this A- 1C -
tion lor having done us the honor
its Socrt taty; B. F. Jones, K*,
toting ns an honorary member ot lf'
body. # l *ut
This Association is au-on- the biom •
.ted Sontbern Agricoltnral Societies
fairs already held have been most cri u
to their managers. This Pair if. 1 *
del stand it aright, is designed **
only Agricultural but al^ofod^
show whatever there is in the mil of d
section which is of value to man .hJt
it be of food or clothing or of MeW „
Was it in aecor lance with the comma „
mark, that the shoe maker is often witta ,
shoes snd the tailor very often with ay
in his elbow, that the Rome Fair haJ
year bnt an adumbration of iron on ertfc
bition? If the iron interest aronnd aat
about you turns np its nose at joo ,° n
must not be surprised if the rest of tL
world shonld think that the fotnre Pirn!
burg has not got so much iron after al!
Therefore, let us see this fall all thatvow
can do in this line. Let ns see it in A?
gust at the Convention—every varietvof
iron ore—every variety of uses to
each is applied. Let the same erte..
be repeated at yonr Fair. The iron trot
of Georgia is destined to exceed ia nine
at no remote period, the cotton crop of
Georgia. Let it be understood by jom
circulars, by personal agencies, in p;uj.
bnrg and other iron towns, that in the Ot-
to Fair, you will show in the aggregate M d
detail the frill measure of yonr afflneoee h
this material so essential to men ia peace
and war. This announcement, well folk*
ed up, will bring yon capitalists and capitil.
It will show a wealth in iron on, qnantitr
and varied quality to whieh the Kerstme
State is a stranger.
Onr friends in Rome will pardoi this
gentle intimation of a material deldenn
last year, which we hope will not occur thb
yoar. With the manufactnred plow or ea-
gine, let us see the varieties of the erode
ore from which these useful implements ud
machines are made.
We suggest a joint offort on the part of
onr principal Fair Associations, to induce the
proprietor of the Thompson Road Steamer
to have that grand invention on exhibition
at each of onr principal Fairs, begimnt*
at Rome. The expense could be jointly
defrayed. Not a farmer in the several sec
tions, in which these Fairs are held, »i
stay at home, if by geing to the Fairle
can see a steam plow at work.—Plattatia.
We would suggest to those of our friends
who are favorably impressed with the abort
excellent remarks of the Plantation, tbit
we will take great pleasure in reoriring
and exhibiting any specimens of minenk
that they may send ns.
Tne cost of the permanent way and roll
ing-stock of the narrow pa compared with
the iri^er gqago it will thos bp seen is as
twelve to twenty or three-fifths; If the
same nnmber of trains ran on the narrow
gnage can do as much work there will be
the same or nearly the same proportionate
diminntion in expense* of operating-
tho managers of nearly all onr railway*
ponder oyer these frets, and consider what
the stocks of their several companies would
be worth had their lines been constructed
and operated on the mono economical
gauge. The saving in the operating expen
ses arises from the diminished dead weight
ti be perpetually drawn at a high rate of
speed, and the consequent diminished wear
(rod tear qf permanent wjy and rolling-ptok
or in other words, the lessening of the cost
of maintenance and renewals.
The Washington correspondent ol
Charleston Courier says : ^
Valhtndigham’s “new departure,’ *^
’ ;enerally believed, c~* ~jj| ■
This new road was
COST OF TRANSFEBRING FREIGHT,
Tho'only objection yet urged against the
narrow gang; for onr new railways is
the cost of transferring freight. To this
the Massachusetts committee have ably re
plied. The loss of time, they say, is very
inconsiderable, and “the cost only ten cents
a ton, which, divided over a road ten miles
long, wonld amount to OGe cent a ton per
mile.” But “the practice is to sprevd the
charge over the whole distance hauled. If
we suppose this to be 75 miles, it will
only amount to one and one-third mill.”
The committee suggests the use qf cranes,
to transfer the ear bodies (constructed of
conrsawith ‘hat object) from *tof ^ i"raily“believ7a; e'nd .ith
platform cars to the othe^and ticevem. ^ g T his new road was to conduct
Each narrow gqage car-load can thus be
transferred in about tyro minutes, either
way. The question of cost is, by this pro*
cess, reduced to an almost nomittid sqm.
the SOUTH ASP west J
still afford tq immense field for raijtmay en
terprise, qu.d ia qino oases ont of ten the
projectors of the lines whieh are to fill np
the spaces between the trank lines have
only the choice to acoept the narrow gange
or have no railways. Now that the ques
tion of plaoing cheap railways''within the
reach of almost every settlement is solved,
it will be surprising indeed if there is not
very shortly a vast railway developement
in thesa regions where so large a propor
tion of the products of labor is expended
in hauling them to a railway station or to
navigation. Bnt even in onr own State
there is room for thousands of miles of
Bone Felon.—Of all painful things
can there be anything so excruciatingly
painful as a bone fekm7 We knot of
none that flesh is heir to. As this malady
is quite frequent and the subject of much
earnest consideration, we give the last red-
pe for its enre, which is given by that high
antbority, the London Lancet:
‘As soon as the disease is felt put direct
ly over the spot a fly blister, abont the site
of yonr thumb nail, and let it remain Or
six hoars, at the expiration of whieh time,
directly nnder the surface of the blister,
may be seen the felon, which can instantly
be taken ont with the poiot of a needle or
a lancet."
The Stock Panic in New York.-
The New York Herald thus sums np tie
result of last week’s operations in Her
York:
The week in Wall street has been oneof
great excitement and heavy losses to tie
frequenters of that vicinity. Hundreds of
men who were rich last Sunday are poor
to-day. We wonder if the Sunday ser
mons will be listened to any more earnestly.
Dr. Talmage, of the Brooklyn Tabernacle,
ought to repeat that discourse of its
the evils of stock gambliog. Last weeks
incidents will furnish him with plenty o'
material to “point the moral.”
It seems that the trouble all grew out of
the operations of a street broker, Wood
ward, who conceived the idea of running
np Rock Island stock, and selling out upon
the tide. He succeeded in running it of'
from SI 15 to 81 32, but did not sell oet,
bnt left his brokers with a crushing
to carry.
’ GEORGIA AFFAIRS.
The Macon boatists are prepanog for
the boat race prize* that are to ho
at the next State Fair.
The citizens of Macon are moving io tie
matter ot changing the place ul holding
the State Fair, and in two days the suu>
.86,000 was subscribed.
The Macon Telegraph says
Mr. Arthnr McCarthey, »
well known yonng maq m this
section, died on his plantation in u
oouoty yes to: day aooraiag, about lot
A call for a Convention of the
physicians of Georgia, signed by over
hundred of the brethren in the State,
been published. Its object is to
satisfactory settlement of tho
questions relating to the Atlanta ‘
College. The questions have been disturb
ing the peace of the medical fraternitf
some time, and it is to be hoped t ■*
Convention will make ample anangt**
in regard to all the Matters in J>sp“ ,c
life, xnis new iw was ™ V T _
to the United States Senate, as the
so* of John Sherman. , ^
We believe that it will, and for
n would be glad to seeonrSooth^F^
discontinue its discussion. The g
to keep it alive is to talk about ^
do its own dying, and then we
whisper over its silest remains, Kur
in pace. ^ J:
Judge Woods, of the United States^
cuit Court.has dismissed the
in bankruptcy again* ^ ^y re*
Chattanooga Railroad^ B*■ of
versed the decision of Judge ^