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(Eljniniclc $ (Consiiiuliondlist, «»4 cossolidatel march it iwr. THE OHIO DEMOCRACY JK>GE HOADLY NOMINATED FOR GCH’BRVOR, Strong Se«*tew«f the Ohi» Dem>cr.tlc Convention Yenterday—Some Oood Work Done—The PlatFrrm r nd It* Important Contents Po- Htteal Sews No«e«. J ■— f' (By Telegraph to the Chronr ole.} cratio State Convection nret at ten ofoleok thia morniorg. There is ■» krger crowed here than was ever seen before on any Mtr ilar occasion and the oren home wts filled to Ha utmost. The weaather sultry wnd’ rainy. The cot teat between Ward ■»« *Eoadly (or Gtrvortor was wag 3d fiercely d«riog the arernfajr boor*. The mittee. ’All preHwtnerj organisation being t»;apeoFed with, Hon. ‘Tobn McSweotoy, of Woofttar. «« in trod wce£ as pennon ant cbciKaan. As nr. eoeimitteea were-ready to report, the convention proceeded to notninst.ons. Effortsw. ere made to proceed to bal'd ting without Domioatiettfl.. 'tut after a long wait. Senator Tharmar. crowded tn. the g'atf a juiid the wild est enthnsiasce. T. L Poweli nominated General Durbi® A/ard, and. seconding Powell, Thurman made an able iprea for the reeognttion of the-eervices of Gen. Ward, and warned the convention against tying themeelvos to anyone issue, and « nounced that fee party hod always been arrainged against sumptuary legisla tion wnd should continr.e in that way. Ihe natste., of Messrs. HsaGly and Gedde.3 were then presented in 'the order named. TrowLle was reached • on the fl ret' ballet when Butler county was called. Thia conni; had a divided delegation end the result was a call of counties to do away with the unit rule, which was carried amid great confusion, showing the strength of the Hiding candidates to be about even. »v.e First BalU’Ctar a. NoukiaM >. The ballot was not completed until 1.30 o’clock and resulted ns follows: Hcadly, 290 f Ward, 206; Geddes, 77, and Deaver, 4. The second ballot proceeded untii But ler owr.nty was reaeteC, when the-3ame trouble again ensued. After the eaK> had been concluded some -changes begin. • for Hom 9 v and the greatest excitement pre vailed, the delegatee oLmbing over -each other and storming the platform. Before the result could be announced,a moticn to nominate Hoadly by aeclammation wae car ried. He had in the neighborhood of -SSO votes—3l9 being necessary to a choice. Hoadly Accepting tfe<’ NomAnallen Judge Hoadly soon appeared and ac cepted the nomination in a b ief address, during which be reviewed his connection with-the party, and said that, although be had wandered at one time with-the Ee publicans to fight the battles of the colored race, the-Democracy was broad enough to receive him again. He ecteemed it a great, compliment to be nominated over store worthy candidates, and believed that that, convention would place men on the plat form whose leading principles were per sonal liberty, self-control in temperance matters and license system. The-convention then proceeded to the nomination of a Lieutenant-Governor and John G. Warwicj, of Stark county, was selected by acclamation. Before the baito) was concluded Dewitt Coalman, of Port age county, the other candidate, was with drawu. Gen.'Ward was brought i® and made a speech, in-which he severely rebuked the party for failing to recognise his thirty years’ service. Not to be daunted, he an nounced himself publicly asa candidate for United -States Senator. A-epoech by Judge Geddes was in somewhat a different strain, though both pledged fealty to the party. The PlaCtTowm -Submitted and Adopted. Before the other nominations were made, the Committee on Resolutions sub mitted a platform which was adopted. Fi ret.it affirms the principles of the party as expressed in the primaries and State and national platform in regard to personal lib erty, and the true (unction of good govern ment by the great founder of the Demo cratic pa*, ty - Thomas Jefferson the ap plication of these principles to our present condition demands the pu rification of the (public sources, the punishment of robbers of the pnblic treasury, the finalisation of all pnblic burdens, the arrest of the profligacy and extravagance tbat corrupts the administra tion of pnblic affaire, and a total change in 'the policy that baa so Jong been pursued by the Republican party of favoring indi vidual and class interest at the expense of the laboring and wealth producing people of the country; it repeals a previous de claration for stable money, a gradual ex tinction of the public debt, and the pay ment of pensions to disabled soldiers, their wives and orphans. Secondly—lt favors a tariff for revenue limited to the necessities of the govern ment. economically admisistered and so adjusted in its application as to prevent unequal burdens, encourage productive interests at home and afford just compensa tion to labor, but not to create or foster monopolies. Thirdly—lt condemns the action of the last session of Congress in reducing the tariff on wool. The fourth section is as follows: "The De'cooratic party is, as it always has been, opposed to sumptuary legislation and un equal taxation in any form and is in favor of the largest liberty of private conduct consistent with the public welfare and the rights of others, and of regulating the liquor traffic and providing against the evils resulting therefrom by a judicious and properly graded license system.” Fifthly —The platform condemns the prison contract labor system. Sixthly. It maintains that the protec tion of the government is due to ail Ameri can oitixens, native and foreign born, abroad as well as at home. Seventhly—lt re-affirms the resolutions of the State conventions of Ohio in 1880, 1881 and 1882. and of the Democratic Notional Convention of 1872, 1876 and 1880, demanding a thorough reform and purification of the civil ser vice and charges tbat the Republi can party has violated every pledge it has heretofore given for the re form thereof and has failed during its long administration of the government to ■correcteven the meet crying abusesand -demands; therefore a change in the execu tive administration «f the government itself is a reform first of all necessary, as made more manifest by the recent Star Route trials, thereby ousting corrupt rings confederated to protect crime and prevent tha punishment of criminals, and by sc doing to make it possible to again punish fraud and theft in the public service. Where They Wait * U. «. Senator. Concobd, N. H., June 21.—The Legisla ture, in joint convention, at noon, to-day, balloted for U. 8. Senator as follows: Whole number of votes, 324: necessary to * ehotoe, 163; Rollins, 113: Bingham, 119; Stevens, 17; Patterson, 29; Briggs, 29; Marston, 11; Prescott, 2; Scattering, 4. Two pairs were announced. Mr. Rollins sustained a net lose of 10 from yesterday. Patterson gained 5. Briggs gained 3 and Prescott 2. No ballot will be taken until Tuesday next. WHAT<OTHER« SAT OF US. Shattering *Oplnton Fwfreged by Ow •Contemporerj-. t Jacktr nville Everrtrrg Herat! ) We publish elsewhere, with much pleasure, e prospectus of the enlarged • and improved Chbwkle and Constftu ' honalist, of Augusta, Ga., one of the most esteemed, and certainly the most olas-'c of our South arn contcanroraries. This splen did paper is the oldest of t-outhern jour nals. It is the result of a consolidation effected some five years ago between the Chronicle and Srrtrisix, established in 1785, and the Ooxe nrrmoK ali-t, established in 17(Y>. The two papers were each nearly one hundred years old when they were united into one, and the ancient and honored name of e»eh was properly retained. The present journal is the joint r roperty of Hen. Patrick Wciah and the children of 1 SSI/jyS jSMfclf'Lt Ttlllinii hfn up fimm the n 1 and influence. Tie has also worked his way into the inspect astd cocif dence of Georgians, wad rias one of the tn«st promi nent pubfce man in our -sister 'State, fre queutly mentioned for Governor, and cer tain to wia the prize some day. Gregg Weight, now dead, was reckoned at h\s death the. tersest end abk3t political writer in the State. A brilEaut journal istic career wae cut short by fals early de mise. At presecat Jactes R. Eindaik the incom parable correspondent, and one cf the most eeholerly es-writers and poets, is editor of the Chsvwioi® and CoNscttutionaijst. His editorials are brilliant and eloquent, and are widely* quoted all over Che country. Pleasant A. Etovall, the next in rank on the editorial staff, is the most promising young writer ic Georgia Nev ar aiming at the sensatfoDcl, always conscientious and accurate and full of noble purpose, his pen is at once the purest and caost classic among the younger journalisto of Georgia. Randall himself is not a better master of pure and elopaent English -than Stovall. If bis health is spared we look to see him at the very top of tbe profession in Geor gia. Hon. Martin V. Calvin is another member of the’CHßONicEE’sstttT, and there are few clearer thinkers and-vzrite.rs in the State. The consoliSoted papers here each had a long and honorable career, interwoven with the growth and development of Au gusta and tbe State. They- have alw tys maintained a high standard of journalism, and both in attiquity and in purity and power of record the consolidated sheet de serves to rank first in the aristocracy of Southern journalism. There is no brighter and abler paper in tbe South. TELEGRAPHIC SPARKS. (By Telegraph to the Chronicle.) Sir Spencer St. John, the British en voy to Mexico, has-sailed for his new post. Governor Butler has ordered out the National Lancers ito escort hiea to and from Harvard College on commencement day. - Mrs. Scoville, sister of Chas. Quiteau, the divorced wife of -Scoville, who defend ed Guiteau, was. yesterday, authorized to change her name to Howe. —James Tice, acleak in CampbeH’sulore, at Prospect, Tenn., was killed with an axe last night and the stove robbed. Three ne groes were arrested. While the inquest was in progress a mob took-one of the negroes, Wesley Warren, out «of jail and hung him. The others wete —E. L. StewMlT Wronaut inted e an ascension at Fayette, Mo., ’on Monday, in an old hot air balloon, whicih bnvet when it had attained a height of about ‘2OO feet, the balloon and aeronaut came down with a rush and both plunged : into Borne Femme creek. Stewards body j was recovered. - A Pittsburg dispatch says: Eighty five per cent of the creditors of Graff, Benaett & Co, held a meeting this afternoon and decided to grant the firm an extension of three years, forty per cent to be paid, within 16 months. Work will be contin ued in the company’s mills as usual. —A Havana dispatch says: "The total stocks of °ugar at the principal ports of the island, on May 31st, were as follows: 69,- 286 boxes, 181,242 hogsheads and 149,- 405 bags The exportsfiom and consump tion on the is’and. from January to May 31st, weie 49,783 boxes, 368,907 hogs heads and 98,496 bags. The above shows a total of 410,614 tons of %ugar made on tbe island up to May 31st, against 516,- 959 tons for tbe same period in 1882. Mrs. Nickerson, who recently had a de cree of divorce from her obtained by her husband, M> jor Nickerson, in Philadel phia, set aside on the ground that it was procured by fraud, has begun suit for the custody of their children. She has also begun proceedings to have set aside the conveyance of her former residence to Nickerson’s second wife, whom he married the day after his fraudulent divorce was obtained. —The Williamson & Stewart paper com pany, of St. Louis, has made an assign ment to J. P. White. The assets are SI 52,- 090 and are subject to a deed of trust foi nearly SIOO,OOO. The company which had a capital stock of $50,000 comprised Charles Stewart, Joseph E. Lawton, Geo. Lane and Frederick Williamson. Wil liamson says the immediate cause of the failure was the threat on the part of Lawton to apply tor the appointment of a receiver. Fsr five years the firm had sus tained heavy losses. He says the liabilities can be placed at $219,500,0f which SIOO,- 000 is preferred. The assets are placed at $202,385, including open account’, $96,000; stock, $96,000, and bills receiv able, SIO,OOO. MISS JULIA FLISCH. Quite a Compliment te An Augusta Young Lady. [Special to the Chronicle.] Arums, June 20.—Miss Julia Flisch was elected essayist for the alumnae re union of the Lucy Cobb Institute next year. John Gibson’s Sons Sustain a Loss. Ptttsbubg. June 21.—The Post’s Belle Vernon, Penn., special says ware house number two and three, attached to John Gibson’s Son’s, distillery, at Gibson ten, Penn., together with ten thousand barrels of whiskey, were totally burned this afternoon. The fire started in ware house No. 2 from a lamp exploding in the hands of an employe and before the flames eould be controlled they had spread to No. 3, and both were entirely consumed. The loss is $500,000, on which there is large insu rance. At about 5 o'clock a second explo sion occurred and fifteen persons who per sisted in getting close to the burning building were more or less injured, but □one were killed. The Trial and What Was Elicited. Mansfield, La., June 21.—The prelimi nary examination of the Jenkins brothers for the murder of J. Line Borden i- in progress to-day. The testimony shows after Borden hid been shot down and was appealing to Jenkins not to shoot him again, Jenkins walked up to Borden’s feet *as he laid on the sidewalk and deliberately fired the fatal shot into Borden’s forehead. The evidence was not concluded when the court adjourned until to-morrow, TECHNOLOGY. visrrrwG the schools w htoes- TttY AND OF ARr, A Trfp Through Cooper Institute—-Its History and Its Work- '~et <l For SnCti Training In the South* The Conclusion of the Committees .[Gor/eepcndence of the CJaronicle. I New’Tork, June 13 —W'hen Gov. But ler bad concluded his remarks on the early policy of Massachusetts as to higher' ednactlon, wbieh ‘policy Tits Excellency •wroeeily declared was founded in unwis dom—Judge Wilsor, of the committee, submitted thia interesting fact, to wit:: That a similar policy was engrafted upon Georgia when Emory College, Mercer Uni-■ varsity and Oglethocpe College were • Pnor to itxrt time the State lege, langui hed. Tbe inauguration of the colleges named gwve a new impetus tcKpgher educatK/E. lightof the re sults, which were tb« out some of that ■pelicy, Jndse Wtteou-submitted that the plan of educating from tke top downwards •seemed to have been coeoeivediu wisdom. Ba that as it may, it is nedeniabk. that the •ojatem of independent schools, which - were feeders to ‘theßtale College and the other colleges a>3ntioced, were of the highest order aed productive of the •noblest results. Those schoOiJ were adapted to' the times. The policy itself Somonatrated the wondrous power of edu cation -education erf 'themoralsa-3 well as -cf the intellect. The foregoing tflaaheL -through the writer’s mind, this worni&g, as tke com mittee wended its way to *the Cooper In stitute The rounds -were being made under the leadership-of the accommodat ing and learned curator, Di. J. C. Zschos, when Hon. Abram 8. Hewitt appeared uuon the scene, conducting Mr. M ther, rrf Manchester, Eng., who, a Slovbl Commission, is engaged in a mis sion similar to that with which tbA>com mittee from the Georgia Horse of Repre sentatives is charged. »au 1859 Mr. P-ter Cooper gave the property known as Deeper Institute, con ditioned thatit should foe "fonuver devoted to the instruction and improvement of the inhabitants of the United States in practi cal science and art.” Ee was himself o&a of the six trustees of the institution. Mr. Cooper’s death made somewhat remark able a provision in tbetwust dee& that first-vacancy in tbe Boacd should not be t filled. Peter Cooper was <a philanthropist. , He generally acted under his promptings and when left to himself invariably per formed a timely service - tfoe chief objects of which was the betterment of the con dition of that great middle class which is conservatively ambitious, eating its own bread, working with its ows hands—the best cf -eitizers and the truest of patriots. The writer will not soon forget with what delight he received’inforajation seven or eight years ago, to the effect that Mr. Cooper contemplated purchasing the Lime stone Springs property in Spartanburg county, S. C , with a view # to establishing at tbat point a branch, or a fae simile on a modified scale, of Cooper Institute. Nor will he forget how sadly he waa when it .lyas tained .that tent ion, which had tPmost ripened into a purpose, had been abandoned'' Your cor respondent gave the readers of the Chron icle the facts at the time and he always believed that Mr. Cooper had been dis suaded from hie first resolve. The subject was mentioned to Mr. Hew itt to-d»y and the expressions of regret re peated. Mr. Hewitt said tbat Mr. Cooper felt that some’ ody ought to do something for the South and he bad set about doing it himself. Mr. Cooper was too eld, it was said, to embark in new enterprises of tbe character mentioned and he was persuaded to dismiss the subject from his mind. The writer believes that every good thought, every holy ambition, every high and pa triotic resolve, every prompting to philan thropic deeds, is inspired of God, and that one falls short of his duty when one fails to cherish and put the same into execu tion if possible of Accomplishment;contra riwise, that be who, by persuasion of other means, contravenes the purposes of the philanthropically disposed becomes himself responsible for the failure. Would that this big-hearted, true man had been left to his original purpose ! How timely the thought which filled his mind ! How wise of him that he should have re solved to inaugurate in the Booth an insti tution of learning more nearly allied to the wants of the people than any class of schools, next to the public schoo's. And yet the proposed departure was so new tbat the failure of the scheme did not ex cite public attention to any perceptible extent, if, indeed, at all. With these ficts and reflections in his mind, your corre spondent found especial plea‘ure in keep ing abreast the committee in its observa tions and inquiries as. with eyes and ears wide open, it passed leisurely from one department to another of Cooper Institute. One reads on every hand the first great thought, which constitutes the foundation stone of the institution, namely, to ca er to the intellectual wants and-to facilitate the improvement of the working classes. This .'•chenae includes both sexes. Here the eyp, the ear, the hand, the imagination is instructed. Here we have an evening school of science and art; an English de partment, which embraces rhetoric and elocution, oratory and debate; an art school for women, wherein drawing, paint ing, photography, wood-engraving and normal teaching is taught; an amateur class; and a school of telegraphy. This fall a school of phonography will be or ganized and operated. In this latter school instruction in the nee of the type-writer will be imparted. The art school and the schools for telegraphy and phonography are for women exclusively. Applicants must be at least sixteen, and positively not over tweaty-fou* years of age. The number of pupils who attended the various classes of tbe scholastic year just closed was 3,917. Os these, 1,169 entered the evening scientific classes; 1,797 the evening art classes; 496 were admitted to tbe woman’s art school, and about the same number declined for want of room; 200 were admitted to the men’s literary class and an equal number to the class in elocution; 55 were admitted to the class in telegraphy. Throughout this institution, one finds instruction and construction combined. * The young men who come within the walls and under the instruction of Cooper Insti tute go out into the world full panoplied. That is proper but your correspondent ' has enjoyed the duty of inspecting this in- • stitution, because its distinctive work seems to be to "give the girls a cnance.” Here girls— youtg ladies, if you please— may perfect themselves in telegraphy, phonography, the use of the type-writer, the art of decoration, drawing, designing, engraving in wood, etc. The graduates of the Woman’s Art Schoo’, (spring of 1882) and the present members of the free school returned $27,- 247 94 as earned by them. One young woman, who left the art school last winter, teaches drawing twenty-five hours a week in eijht New York public schools, at two dollars an hour ! The accomplished prin cipal of the art school, Mrs. Susan N. Car ter, reports that, in looking over the ac- AUGUSTA, .GA., WEDNESDAY, JUNE 27, 18&3. counts, she finds a large number of young ladies who (whilst pupib) earn enough to pay for their clothes and incidental ex penses. Many of the graduates have positions that are both lucrative and influential One at tbe bead of the Decorative Art Society of New Orleans has a salary of $l5O per month, and earns nearly as much more by entra work. The aiternoon pay-class (amateur) itself earned about $3,600. Ihe registry for new candidates for tbe Woman’s Art School is opened March 14 5f eat h year; applications for admission into the other echoed should be filed in September of year. No expense whatever is incuwl by the pupils except for the purchase of textbooks and drawing materials. The amateur class was organ ized in consequents of the great pressure for admission to the instruction 'of the Institute and tbe Offer of. many to pay for their instruction. Th.s class meets in the afternoon, out of jegnlar hours, and each pupil pays a ema’l|*te&a» compensation to the tethers for -xtr’' work* uted $200,000. *hi!e y« in iffe, towards an endowment fund, will he left SIOO,OOO additional, and his children, in accordance with szhat was understood to be his last wishes, will contribute SIOO,- 000 during 1884. ■, The sum of $1,603,61417 has been expended on tbefonilding and on educa tion by the Trustees during the past 1 twenty-three years. i” This afternoon ’Messrs. Barris, ’Wilson, •’ Eason and Calvin of the committee called lon Gen. John B. Gordotft-a man sans ' peur et sans repnsins —at hia office on Nas -1 sau street. The gentlemen, were warmly * welcomed by„ the General Ind by his * scholarly son, 4 Mr. Frank Gordon, whose admirable letters from to tbe Atlanta were so highly ■prized bv those who had the good fortune to read them.' In fee centre ot this busy city our distinguished fellow-citiz a n and Isis promising sons are among the basiest and the most energetic. The call, of course, was made in a private capacitv, though the committee might properly enough have honorari itself by Jcslling officially oq one whose sword fiwhed brightest whefre the foaitle raged fiercest in tb« dark days of war and who has n<ever had a thought that was net in svmpatby with the progress and >welfare of our peo ple. Gen. Gordon regards the mission of the eommitteo as one of the most import ant hi which the State ‘has ever charged her citizens to engage. A-achool of Tech nology is, in his opinion, one of thp things most needed, ,if not absolutely the ont, thing needfnl for ’Georgia to-day, and for<eech of tbe Southern States. The Generali literally lull to utterance. He has no fiesire to make speeches any- ? where, osl any but he would es- i teem it a 4uty— an exalted privilege-to speak on tsje necessity which exists in Georgia anfi the South for eehoets of the class alluded to. His attention was first drawn to the matter during his stay in Boston, some years ago, as the guest of the Commercial Club of that city, and his heart and min 4 has been full of tbesubject from that qay to the present; The Gen eral takes wo sn advanced, position in favor of opening new spheres sos usefulness to women throughout the Bouo|l So be it The conclusion of the whole matter is left to the committee. The subject is fruitful and ins- iriog. Wp stall see whether the committee presents a report at once practical and exhaustible. 1 M V. O. The P wer of tlie “ Chronicle ” Acrosa I the River. [Special to the Chronicle ] Columbia, 8. C., June 21.—1 n my letter of the 19:h instant, I furnished you a short sketch of Col. D. P. Duncan, of Union, and nominated him for Railroad Commis sioner. To-day Gov. Thompson appoint ed him to that position, and the Chroni cle is entitled to the credit of having first named the successful candidate. Richland. THE LION A>D « HE LAMB LIE DOWN TOGETHER. The Blue and the Grey Drinking and Making Merry—Speaking, Banquet ing, Marching, Frolicking and Sight-Seeing. (By Telegraph to the Chronicle.) Hartford, Conn., June 21.—The Wash ington Light Infantry, of Charleston, S. C., arrived here from New Haven, this af ternoon. A salute of thirteen guns was fired in their honor. They were received by the First Regiment of the Connecticut National Guard, and escorted to the regi mental armory, where addresses of wel come were made by Mayor Bulkley, Col. Barbour, of the First Regiment, and Gov. Waller. Mayor Courteney, cf Charleston, and ex-Attorney General Youmans, of South Carolina, respond ed. Another address was made by Joseph L. Barlow, of this city, on behalf of the visitors to Charleston in 188’, to which State Senator Buist, replied. The city was handsomely decorated along tbe line of march. The Charleston flag flies from tbe City Halt staff and the citadel fUg (ri Charleston from on of the staffs of the State Capital. The Palmetto flig is twined with the Connecticut fhg at the armory and elsewhere. The visitors were warmly applauded along the route of the proces sion. To night receptions were given by Col. Barbour, Mayor Bulkley and ex-Lien tenant-Governor Bulkley. The city offi cials, prominent citizens and many officers of the military organizations of the city were present. To-morrow morning the guests will visit the Cheney silk factory, at Manchester, and io the afternoon they will be shown around the city. In the evening there will be a general reception at the First Regiment’s armory and later the Governor’s Foot Guards and the Put nam Phalar x will keep an op n I on e un til the time of departure 2:3J o’clock Saturday morning. New Haven, June 21. The Washington Light Infantry cf Charleston, 8. C., to-day visited Yale College, being received by President Porter, who made a short ad dress. The principal industries of the city were also visited. The visitors left for Hartford at 1 o’clock, accompanied by the members of the reception oommi . tee from that city. Providence, Jure 21. - The Continental Guards, of New Orleans, paraded this af ternoon under the escort of the First Light Infantry and at a subsequent banquet Governor Bourn made an address of wel come. A banner was presented to tbe Continentals on behalf of the Infantry Reg iment, in receiving which Senator Mars ton, of New Orleans responded. To-night the Continentals gave an exhibition at Providence Opera House. Hog Meat on ’Change. Chkiaqo, June 21.—The excitement of the past few days on ’Change was followed, to-day, by a season of comparative qniet. Trading in all commodities is again nnr sually heavy, but the market is steadier, with the exception es pork, which fluctu ated wildly during the greater part of the session, but closed at about the closing figures of yesterday. No additional fail ures have been reported. “RICHMOND ROVING. GOV. JEXKIWS AND THE STATE ROAD QUESTION. How He aß| l Major Wallace Fulled the. Road Out of the Mire—Cobb County—lnteresting Fac'a and Figures, Concerning the Do main—Dots, Deings. and Sayings. [Special to the Chronicle ] Marietta, Ga , June 20.—Major Camp bell Wallace, one of our Railroad Commis sioners, gave me, yesterday, a very inter esting and characteristic incident of the late Charles J. Jenkins, which strikingly exemplifies the man, and is a good con tribution to the narrative of an uncom mon career and an unusually noble char acter. Mr. Jenkins became Governor, in 1866. the State Road was the most per plexing difficulty of his administration. It had been wrecked m fee wiiri. It was patched up by the Federal authorities and had been run by them. Everything about it wav incomplete and defective—the road bed insecure, the iron wbrn out The bridges were makeshifts ready to tum ble down, the rolling stock worn out and inadequate and the en gines cheap, worthless concerns. Belong ing to the State, the road as a polit ical machine, was the refuge of politi cians and the nursery for young political sprawn. There was always a remarkable demand for places on the road in good times, but the war leaving everybody im poverished, about half of tbe people were applicants for positions. Gov. Jenkins had a large trunk full of applications for theoffices of the railway. It can well be im agined that with as conscientious a man as Gov. Jenkins this troublesome piece of State property, in good times a hard pro blem to handle, should at the unfavorable period of wbieh we write, have been infi nitely embarrassing. Gov. Jenkins applied to Col. Win. M. Wadley and Col. John P. King—Mr. Wadley then controlling the Central Railroad, and Mr. King the Geor gia Railroad- to recommend a suitable superintendent to take the heavy respon sibility. These gentlemen recommended Major Campbell Wallace. Major Wallace was a sort of a refugee from Tennessee, then farming on the line of the State road. He had valuable experience as a railroad manager connecting with our Georgia sys tems. He had handled the East Tennes see, Virginia and Georgia Railroad with marked ability and decision during the war, showing a wonderful skill in moving large bodies of troeps, and demonstrating (especially that he had a will of bis own, and absolute fearlessness in doing what he conceived to be his duty. Major Wallace felt keenly the reverses of the war, and had settled down on his farm to recuper ate his fortunes and get the quiet he needled. The offer of the superintendency of this important road to him, a stranger, as it were, and a new comer in Georgia, was a Surprise, and he deliberated carefully before taking it. The conference between Gov. Jenkins and Major Wallace over the matter was a characteristic one on both sides, and finely displayed the peculiar traits of the two men. Gov. Jenkins ex plained the matter fully and stated that it was giving him more trouble of inind than any other subject connected with his gu bernatorial duty. He told Major Wallace of his applying to Cols. Wadley and King to suggest a proper railbJiJ man, and oi theif* choosing him, and he asked him to take tbe place. Major Wallace asked him if he was aware that several Rraries of citizens if Georgia desired to run this railroad, who knew nothing whatever of the busi ness, and who would curse the administra tion of Gov. Jenkius, fore and aft, if he failed to put them on the road. The Governor pointed to his big trunk packed with applications and significantly replied tbat he was fully posted on that point, but asked Maj Wallace if he specially cared whether his administration would be abused on this account. The Major frankly replied that he should be pro foundly indifferent to it. The Governor laconically responded, "So am I.” Maj. Wallace then stated that neither be nor any other railroad manager could af ford to take hold of this road, and could succeed in putting it on its feet unless he could select his own corps of skilfall and experienced railroad subordinates, and cease running the road as a school for po litical graduates. Tbe Governor warmly assented to this policy, and, with earnest emphasis and stronger language than he was generally accustomed to use, he blurt ed out a strong reply, the purport of which was: "Mpj. Wallace, take the road and do your duty, and let my administration take care of itself.” He took the management of the road and was sustained to the letter by Governor Jenkins. Tbe Governor recommended one prominent gentleman to Maj. Wallace for a certain place, but the Major frankly told tbat gentleman he was not qualified for it, and his appointment to its duties would not be in the line of his policy. The gentleman then said he did not des’re the place under such circuits ances and commended the refusal, and from that day to this a warm f iendship has existed be tween the two. Major Wallace, with the sharp humor natural to him, had a caird placed cn bis door stating that for tbe present the State Road would close opera tions as a nursery for educating joung railroaders. This whole matter illustrates Governor Jenkins’ absolute conscientiousness and courage in guarding tbe public interest. Tbe good 'feeling between Gov. Jenkins and Major Wallace has remained strong and increasing, and the latter had ar ranged to visit the ex-Governor in his ill ness, when his death prevented. I am writing this letter in a cool ve randah of the Marietta Hotel, kept by my long time friend, Mr. A. F. Fletcher, than whom there is no better hotel keeper in the South. Marietta is both a delightful summer and winter resort, and this hotel with its comfortable rooms and always ad mirable fare is. a leading factor in the attractiveness of the place. Marietta is beautiful and healthy. It has handsome residences and a social people. Five pas eeng*r trains pass here to and from At lanta at different and most convenient hours under the enterprising State Road management, so that practically Marietta and Atlanta ate one place, so closely are they connected by the useful iron track. Cobb county, of which Marietta is the county site, is one of the best counties of the State. It was created and laid out in 1832, when the Cherokee country was first organized into some ten counties. It was named after Judge Thomas W. Cobb, of Columbia county, a most eminent law yer, a Congressman in 1818, State Sen atorin 1823 and 1824, and Judge of the Superior Court. The census of 1880 showed that Cobb county had a population of 20,748 people and in 1870 only 13,814, an increase in the 10 years oi 6,934. Strange to say there was a decrease in 1870 from 1860 from 14,242 to 13,814. The males in 1880 were 10,202, females 10 546/ males from sto 17 years of age 3.416, and fe males 3,243; males 18 to 44 years 3,469. The whole property of Cobb in 1880 was $3,338,479; real estate $2,042,647; personal property, $1,295,838; farms, 1,- 896; improved land, 91,261 acres valued at $1,932,192; farm implements, $104,- 851; live stock, $315,532; repairs, $lB,- 314; Fertilizers used, 89,912 tons; farm productions, $1,088,879; horses, 1,263; mules, 1,861; oxen, 242; cows. 2,537; oiher cattle, 3,485; sheep, 2,544; bogs, 12,304; pounds of wool, 4,973; milk, 682; pounds of butter, 216,307; manufacturing establishments, 93; manu facturing capita), $537,133; bands, 597; wages, $120,778; materinl used, $999,- 253; products made, $1,353,322, The farm productions were 406,730 bushels of corn; 57,621 oats; 80,617 wheat; 13,092 bales of cotton; orchard truck, $26,114; Irish potatoes, 1,385 bushels; sweet potatoes, 15,613 bushels. Only 58 bales oi hay are reported in this grass country, against 13,092 bales of cot ton. This does not look right. Os the 20,948 people, 14,734 were white and 6,012 colored, an increase from 10,- 593 white in 1870 and 3,217 colored. The home born people were 18 444; South Carolina settlers, 1,196; Norih Carolina, 298; Alabama, 234; Virginia, 139; Ten nessee, 118, and foreigners, 64. The State tax was $14,352, and county tax, $15,023; town tax, $3,877; whole tax,. $33,252; conntv debt. $9,035; bonded, $6,000; floating, $3 035. Cobb county has 13 mi .ilia districts, No. Coxes*i 042* 807 Merritts 1 354 * 898 Marietta, 5,461; 911 Gritter, 1,200: 991 Big Shanty, 1,463: 992 Lemons, 1,011; 1,017 Oregon, 1,241; 1,202 Smyrna. 1> CB7; 1318 Red Rock, 660; 1,319 Post Oak, 650. The Comptroller-General’s report of 1882, the best published, shows that Cobb in tbat year had 2,105 white and 586 col ored polls, 2,691 altogether; 201,750 acres of improved land worth $1,612,025; town property worth $636,055; money, $367,746; merchandize, $182,875; cotton factories, $230,000; cattle of all sorts $246, - 474; aggregate property $3,785,774 sn increase from 1880 from $3,338,479, or $44«,295, a handsome enhancement for two years. The real estate in 1882 was $2,258,291, an increase of $205,644 in two years. Personal property u as in 1882 $1,527,483, an increase es $231,645. The colored people in Cobb own 4,574 acres of land, worth $28,425, and other property, the whole running te SSB 961. The Chattahoochee river runs through Cobb, and there are many fine creeks. The river and creek bottoms are fertile. The uplands are mulatto and gray. Gold has been found in several localities, and iron, lead, copper, talc, soapstone, plum>- bago and quartz abound. The healtb fulness of this county is fine, and there are numerous instances of longev ty. Among the leading early settlers were Taliaferro McAfee, Oaborn Mulline, Daniel Reid, Isaac Grey.Thomaa Hairston, Daniel R Turner, L. Simpson, Mathias Bates, John L. Moore, James Anderson, Josiah Massey, William C Greene, Simon Strick land, Reuben Benson, Allen A. Winn, Archibald Howell, S. M. Maloney, J. D. ohewmake, S. Young, William Mayes, Robert Lemon, William Guess, Martin Adams, Bradley Smith, Jackson Gregory, William W. Duncan, Lerna Kirkley, John Rjwe, G. W. Winter, Thomas Pritchard, Al fred Edwards, Wiley Roberts, James Foot, George W. Gober. William B. t’rane, John B. Brookman, T. H. McClusky, P. M. Oli ver, Thomas Whitehead, Robert Groves and D. Moore. There is quite an interesting Indian tra dition that at a ball play, when the Creek and Cherokee Indians were engaged against each other, the territory covering the coun ties of Cobb, Paulding and Polk was wagered on tbe game, and was won by the Cherokees. THE “SHORT CUI” AND PROBABIL ITY OF ITS BUILDING. What the Wilmington and Weldon Stockholder* Did Concerning it— The Directors Empowered to Act in the Mat ter— Dividends Declared by the W. and W., ana the W., C. and A. (By Telegraph to tbe Chronicle • Wilmington, N. C , June 21.—A special meeting of the stockholders of the Wil miogton and Weldon Rtilroad was held here, to-day, to consider the ques’ion of a new railroad from a point near Wilson, on the Wilmington and Weldon Road, to Florence, on the Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta Road. After much discus sion, the matter was unanimously referred to the Board of Directors, with full author ity to act. The proposed road is what is known as the short cut, as its construction would shorten the time be tween the poitts named about two hours. The whole of the line has already been surveyed and the right of way purchased, and the opinion is general here that the road will be built. The directors of the Wilmington and Weldon Road have declared a semi-annual dividend of three per cent., payable July 16th. * The directors of the Wilmington, Co lumbia and Augusta .Railroad have also de clared a semi annual dividend of three per cent., payable July 10th. IRISH AFFAIRS AND INCIDENTS. (By Cable to the Chronicle.) Most of the Irish bishops have given thorough adherence to the Pope’s recent manifesto. The Irish Times says the government has given James Carey the informer, the op tion of proceeding to one of the British colonies or of being released and allowed to remain in Dublin without police pro tection. Io the inquiry which is now in progress at Mulligan, in connection with the mur der of Mrs. Smythe, in April, 1882, an informer testified tbat an assassination so ciety had been started by Michael and John Fagan, with the object of removing tyrants and bad landlord’s. Among those who had been named by the society for removal were two gentlemen named Smythe and the Earl of Longford, and two of the prisoners were deputed to execute the sentence. The eight prisoners, charg ed with complicity in the murder of Mrs. Smythe, were present at a meeting held in March, 1882. outside the house of the mother of the Fagans. Big Burning and Enormoa, Explosion- Salt Lake, City, Jane 21.—A ffre, this morning, consumed Clawson,s wagon depot, the old council house and Sav ages art gallery. The loss is estimated at $109,000. During the fire a heavy explo sion of powder occurred, demolishing plate, ftiaos. window, sashes and doors. and causing further damage to the amount of S2O 000. Bad on the Watermelon*. (Albany News.) The excessive and continued rains tbat fell throughout southwest Georgia during the first two weeks in this month, have proven very damaging to the melon crop. Many of the young melons fell off the vines and rotted during this rainy spell, and the early crop was thus cut off con siderably. The injury to the crop seems to be gen eral throughout southern and southwest Georgia. A postal card received, yester day, from a prominent truck farmer at Dixie, Brooks county, says: "The rains have hurt the melon crop all through here. We will hardly get ene car load from six acres unless there is a change for the bet ter.” TERMS—S2.OO A I EAR. DRIVEN MAD BY A GHOST. A WOMAN’S LKAP THROUGH A WIN DOW. Ton ng Moore and His Mother See Tito Face of the Dead Father and Hai band—Three Persons Made Mad ,4 by One Night's Experience. j Snydertown, -June 19. —Last night Mrs. Moore, a widow, who lives with her young son in an old dilapidated house at B ush Valley, near here, was startled by hearing a shriek, followed by agonizing yellu, in the room next to hers, occupied by her son, a youth about sixteen years of age. In a fright she ran into the room and found the boy almost dead with fear and trembling in every limb. She quieted his fears and questioned him, and after considerable delay he told her > that about twelve o clock, while listening to the furiously raging storm, he was startled by seeing through the dim bght of a lamp which burned in the room a . window. Almost pt. tab “ l”htning li h O by 4reeive'i • the man to be thoae of Us,father, who was killed in the mines ' the shriek that had so startled his mothffWj he sank on the bed and the intruder fled hastily. .» **• gThe Mother Sees the Face. When the mother bad beard his story she turned her gaze toward the window and beheld the identical face pressed against the pane. With a terrific yell she sprang to the window, and raising the sash jumped through, striking the ground, twenty-five feet below, with terrific force and injuring herself fatally. The shrieks and moans of the young Moore brought a few neighbors to the spot, and they carried the limp body of the woman into the house and after a few hours’ labor succeeded in bringing her to sensibility. As soon as she fixed her eyes on her son she burst into a vio lent fit of laughter, in which the son t joined and which lasted until both fell to the floor exhausted. On the part of young Moore the fit of laughter was then followed by violent spasmodic attacks. He foamed at the mouth, barked like a dog and made vicious snaps at those who attempted to quiet him. Madness Epidemic. A young farmer named Herrick went up to him and, while attempting to quiet him, caught hold of his hand. No sooner had he done so than he too was ijized with fearful spasms and wriihed on the floor in intense agony, exhibiting the peculiar symptoms manifested by the others. The few other neighbors who had come to the scene were so badly scared as to be of little assistance, and they fled precipitately, leaving the three maniacs alone in she rooms. Mrs. Moore was stark raving mad and rood the two young men were busy at work demolishing the fur niture and striking one another. One of the women who had at first rushed to the scene ran home and returned with her father, an old army sergeant qamed Bill heimer, who ran into the room and, grasping Herrick, threw him to the floor and, putting his foot upon his breast, bound him with the bed ropes. He then secured young Moore in a like manner. Mrs. Moore was bleeding from the wound i d received from falling otjt of the window and lay on the floor inseusfbje. Lifting . her tn his arms Billheimcr carried the wo- * man to the open air, the storiM having ceased. A Physician In Attendance. One of the neighbors had mounted a horse about one hour before and ridden at full speed across the rough country road in search of a doctor. After a long search he found one and brought him to the stricken family. The young man Her rick was taken home by his father in the morning and another physician attended him. No hope is en tertained of Mrs. Moore’s recovery. Her son was unusually violent this morning and could scarcely be held by four men. The case has occasioned much excitement among the farmers through out the neighborhood. Mrs. Moore’s hus band was killed in the mining region five years ago. She and her son are practical, steady people. Young Herrick is not so violent, but arrangements are being made for his removal to an asylum. Mrs. Moore was in a sinking condition this evening, and she will hardly live until morning. Old Tilings Art Beat. (Carolina Spartan.; The people of Georgia are trying to adopt the word "cuke” for cucumber.— Now this may be shorter to write and save a little ink, but it does not give fall expression to the thing like the old South Carolina word cowcumber. When our peo nle cease to say " inguns and cowcum bers,” life will not be what it was. A Source of Danger. (New York Herald.) We are extremely sorry that the World has been represented as in sympathy with Mahone and the Virginia Readjusters because we have laid down what we un derstand to be the broad, catholic, essen tial principle of Democracy. We detest Mahone and all that he represents in pol itics, but the fact that be has arrayed the negroes of Virginia under his banner does not justify the Democratic party there or elsewhere in inscribing on its banner, * Cursed be Canaan.” The spirit which A Flood of Lard Oil Light. (New York Tribune.) The speculator replies that gambling in grain, provisions, cotton and other pro ducts is not contrary to the public welfare. It makes "a larger market, and thus con " duces to steadiness of prices, so that " c nsumers lose at one time, and produ " cers less at another, than they would " otherwise lose.” A performance like that of McGeoch’s casts a flood of light upon this reasoning. The prolonged hold ing of prices at a fictitious level, and the violent fall of 20 per cent, in an hour, were equally harmful to every legitimate public interest. From first to last the public suffered, and only a few speculators bad any chance to gain. Yet public opin ion does not seem ripe for the application of any effective remedy. Beware of the Poker Player*. (National Republican.) Paymaster Wasson’s explanation to the court martial shows simply that he was a very poor but sanguine poker player. He nearly always lost, but he hoped “his luck would turn,” but it didn’t, and having once started down hill, "everything seemed to be greased for the occasion.” The de ficit in hi? accounts, at first about $2,000, grew to $5,000, and no doubt would have kept increasing had he succeeded in con cealing it for a time longer. Maj. Wasson’s experience is not a new one, and it only goes to confirm an impression, already quite general, that a poker player is not a safe person to handle other people’s money, ostracizes a man on account of his color regardless of intellectual and moral qual ifications may very easily extend its enmity to the Teutonic, the Celtic and the Latin races. We do not battle for that kind of "Democracy.”