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J. EL EST1LL,
Savannah. Ga.
Affairs iu Georgia,
nail Blodgett, Bryant and Conley,
ditie al marplots of Georgia, are mak-
, V'-iita lively during the present heated
l term.
X) sooner was it announced that the
.., x-G jvernor had returned to stand
than there comes a flood of circa-
Jent throngbout the whole State of
... m Conley and Bryant, the rival
G€°’= ia B
tbeco.
Brvai
arres 1
the Republican party, calling on
or i people of the State to solidly
iraia t the convention. Upon the
f tlis state of facts, the innocent
has hid the immaculate Blodgett
d fur an alleged slander published in
,,a Atlanta Republican. This state of
things shuws that Blodgett is running the
ftpuftic direct ODposition to Mr.
Hiyes’ or-in, the Independent, whioh is
j v r by Blodgett’s former friend,
^ qaoedara Postmaster of Savannah,
inotvu a? A. L. Harris.
Harrv Wilborne, who made his escape from
jj, e peuiteutiary nine years ago, has re-
«• ; r be n captured at Chattanooga. He
?ll pp3se<l to have died, as on the peni
le ary b opDosite his name appears
; v ng eudorsement: “Casualty un-
h ,ffn—die d—date unknown.”
G ver> r Colquitt has appointed Hon.
: g t - Hillyer to the vacant Judgeship,
wa a t d by the decease of the ’ate Judge
Peeples.
Sumter coantv has determined io hold a
CjQuty lair in which the adjoining counties
jj ;;:v;*e l to take a part.
I Q Gwinnett county the farmers entertain
ic^ of ravages lr >m grasshoppers.
Tbt f o.vii g gentlemen have been ap
pointed a board of visitors to attend the ex-
uuina'.ion of the State University at Athens
n the 3d of July, and at the Atlanta Colored
Cd.v r-;ty oq the 18ih of June : R. V. Fer
re- r, Whitfield county; J. M. Richardson,
u:: count}; Heury C. Mitchell, Fulton
Henry H. Jones, Bibb county; Chas.
31. >, DiKaJb county; J. W. Glenn, Jack-
an ou'; y; George M. Dews, Muscogee
,‘uim .; Mark W. Johns )n, Fulton county;
hm e Dunham, Marion county; John B.
Jlnilard, Liberty connty.
Xue Gaiucevisle Southron says it is four
fi-kks "•.nee unin fell iu that section, and in
vari- as other places in Northern Georgia
complaints are made of the continued
A farmer in Hall county engaged corn at
■w . few weeks age and is now delivering
i:.
Ex-Governor Smith made a speech on the
29 i: lit., at Thomaston, strongly urging
tli'. Upauii county people to vote for a oon-
: Teatup.
" jsand three hundred and eighty-
of cotton have been shipp'd fr^m
Milledgovillo over the Central Railroad from
th W. f September, 1876, to the 1st of
June, 1877.
The following gentlemen are the nomi-
L-.-s to the Constitutional Convention from
i! Thirty Ath Sena orial district: John
F. Glover, uf Douglas; J. T. Longiuo, of
Campbell; Hugh Buchanan and L. H.
Leathers ton, of Coweta ; W. A. J. Phlliippa
an . II. D. Render, of Meriwether.
Ac irroispoudeut writes from Gardi, Wayne
county, that the farmers are having a splen
did time for housing their oat crop, but
crops in general are needing rain very much.
The cr< p prospects are very bright in that
gectiun.
The Radicals are active in their opposi
te u t the Constitutional Convention. They
art H - ding the State with their pronuncia-
I :ros, urging their party to rally to the
Polls aud secure the defeat of the conven-
The cost of running the public schools of
Columbus is estimated at nine thousand
dollars. The high schools are to be self-
scv.-ining, and no appropriation will be
»}r' : from the City Council.
’ \Y. C.in, who was captured in Early
ft ..y tome months ago and carried to
irt county on a charge of murdering
Hr. Gberry, at Lumpkin, in 1875, was re-
centiy admitted to bail by Judge Crawford
io the sum of $2,500.
Bui f ck reached Atlanta on Friday, and as
* .-urn from the Constitution has come to
Man! his tiiai in the cases the State has
J e him. General Gartrell is his lead-
lQ »c i-cl. and Messrs. Willis Hawkins and
B. P. llill will assist the Solicitor in the
Prosecution.
Id Rutherford house in Macon was
: y?d by fire on Tuesday morning. The
-lilding for a number of months past has
d by the Bibb county Board of
Commissioners for the use of some
polored schools. It was an admira-
diug for that purpose, as the rooms
a 1 large and well ventilated. It is
probab’e hat the fire was the work of an
poccLdiary.
L’.dg j Wiley G. Barks, former Ordinary
Ten til county, and well kocfwn as a
prom incut aud leading member ot the legal
Profession in Southwest Georgia, died at
hjine. in Dawson, Tuesday morning.
ting of the directors, on Tuesday,
W. Adams, who for so many years
Been a promiueut official on the South-
* ■ ora, a::d subsequently the Contra! Rail-
r a '-l, was elected Superintendent of the
J u und Brunswick Railroad.
phomasville Enterprise says: “On
M*’l ist, about four o’clock in the
, the residence of E. L. James,
C r , >n the Eighteenth district, was
? tp!n, }ed by fire. The husband was away
roni,b m;- and the wife had just gone to
: l 1-uviug four little childreu iu the
Clue of ikes'*, a litile boy about two
i, lit a few splinters aud held the
>of Lis father’s clothing hang-
the wall. From these the fire
t.) oiher clothing, and soon the
'-Lung was in dames.”
^Ucon Tetegraph says: “One day
two }ouug gentlemen from the
of g' 1 '*' 1 atrie into towu with a wagon load
u s C i some fi teen or eighteen
' ufciri - The frnit was disposed of at three
'■ \ rs ,i Jer bushel in less than half an hour,
i*e they had made more than half
^Hance around one square.”
^ ‘ineBvi'le Southron says : “ All the
iri '- 81D aud upper end of Hall
5^7. ln full blast, and most of them paying
i T 1 i!1I !p evt ; r before. The Findley is out-
I
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
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Of lb
bid l
At a
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fitdn
afteri
div
IJ.:' J altogether over its palmiest
c^; .^ no big sand vein is very rich in-
te * ^ ber»* are al* > many new discoveries
1 '1 about Aurana that are ciosiQ^
:< t° stir about devising means of
:;, JD Wa ’er upon the mines of that stc-
bsl' 1 ?' 1 Gngtavus DeLauncy, one of Colum-
lav j . c/tizens, died of gastritis on Mon-
i. IUj r" 4 - The Columbus Enquirer says of
Hi a / ae was born in Norfolk, Virginia,
i.'jij ‘ Uir a refugee from 8<m Domingo,
eh-r.j, ; m ^ved to Jones county during the
M m J'be deceased. When he had
led;
,ut reached
matnrity he moved to Mil-
“‘“J 1U|I »CU iu uaji
Lim., ’ 4ud ln 1833 or 1836 he »»
kct.j ’"‘"'v '’' e,[ art county, where he prac-
1 -ditr i if* u 11 “Iter of years. He was a
* ' , . 1 'he Indian war, and was severely
' ' j 1- It was perhaps in 1856 that he
si .,,,, this C'lirmunitv, where he has re-
■ onto death.”
G|Ck Cco ^'® fr<! >d says : “We were Bhown
Sea, i,'•' u °f.E°Id the other day collected
-V twdt-nce of Mrs. M. A. Davis, at
1 i> i’Ptlngs. The ore is beyond all
jin:> UUiue ' and justifies a more careful
*** tikCn n iu t3e locality from which it
filhtw.li. A ' ic h Bold mine would go
• 1 well near Toccoa Just now."
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, JUNE 7, 1877.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Th® Rome Tribune has the following:
As the down passenger train on the Selma,
Hr :1 j U: Dalton Kailroad was running
Wednesday night between Ladiga and
Gross Plains it ran over a man sleeping on
the track, cutting his head off and other
wise mutilating his body. The man was a
stranger in the neighborhood, working for
a day or two at a tannery, and had been in
Cross Plains duriog the day drinking to
excess. It is supposed that he had started
to his place, and being too drunk to pro
ceed, laid down on the track and fell asleep.
His name was Wm. Smith. No blame can
attach to the engineer, as the unfortunate
victim was not discovered in time to stop
the train.”
The Cartersville Express says : “Mr. W.
A. Deweeee lost his child, about fifteen
months old, by drowniog, on the 18th ult.
Mr. Deweese owns the old ferry kuown as
Pucketi’s, across the Etowah river about
two miles from town, and his residence is
about fifty yards therefrom. 3orae one had
left the gate open, aud the child passed out,
made its way to the river and it is supposed
got on the flat and fell overboard and
drowned.”
The Early County Hews says: “Mr. W. E.
Harris, who has been teaching school in
this county for the last few months, was
arrestedton Tuesday last by Sheriff Williams
on a requisition from the Governor of Ala
bama on the Governor of Georgia. Mr.
Harris is charged with the crime cf
‘raising- the figures on cotton receipts,
and selling the cotton on the raised receipts
to a merchant in Columbia, Ala.”
Florida Affairs.
Mr. S. S. Craig, recently from St. Joe,
Mo., was drowned near Sanford, Orange
county, last week.
Sumter county, it is stated, will make a
surplus of corn this season.
The Marianna Courier gives a gloomy ac
count of the condition of the crops in Jack-
son county. Rain is greatly needed.
A new steamer, the G. Gunby Jordan,
intended for the Chattahoochee aud Apa
lachicola rivers, has been launched.
Matthew Bozeman, of Lafayette county,
was found murdered in his boat on the
Suwannee river.
A large amount of fraudulent county scrip
is said to be in circulation in Levy county.
A severe storm was experienced at St. Au
gustine on the 28th ult. A portion of the
track of the railroad was washed up, but
was immediately repaired.
The Collector of Cedar Keys has been ad
vertising three bottles of smuggled rum for
a mouth.
The Pensacola post office, which doe3 an
average monthly money order business of
twelve thousand dollars, is managed at an
expense of one thousand eight hundred
dollars annually. The postmaster, Zub
Elijah, is a colored man, who discharges
his duty with remarkable fidelity and
honesty.
The list of the Episcopal clergy of Florida
shows ono bishop, sixteen priests and three
deacons.
Seventy-seven persons were arrested by
the police of Jacksonville duriog the mouth
just passed, for the following offences:
Drunkenness, 18; inmates of houses of ill-
fame, 1G; disorderly conduct, 12; fighting, 9;
vagrancy, 6; larceny, 5; gambling, 4; re
sisting police,3; carrying concealed weapons,
1; indecent conauct, 1; committing nui
sance, 1.
Wm. H. Walker, Sheriff of Wakulla
county, on Thursday last made a seizure of
/our hundred aod sixty sticks of red cedar,
which had been cut upon tbe public lands
in Jefferson county aud removed to the
Spanish Hole for the purpose of being con
veyed to New Orleans.
The Key West Dispatch says : “Captain
Baker shipped on the steamer City of Hous
ton last Sunday morning fifteen crates of
fine pineapples, the first of the season,
vykick were grown at his field on Key
Largo.”
Seventeen persons (fifteen colored and
two white), who had been convicted of
various offences, were arraigned before
Judge Dawkins, oi Duval Superior Court,
last Friday, aud received the iollowing sen
tences : Aaron Sargent, two cases, larceny,
penitentiary, ten years. E. FreemaD, forg
ery, penitentiary, five years. Charles Wil
son, larceny, penitentiary, three years.
Shepard Adams, larceny, penitentiary, one
year. W. Shafer, larceny, county jail, two
years. J. Bailey, J- Saunders, Jenkins and
Tillman, larceny, county jail, one year. P.
Redding, P. Brown, T. Murphy and C. Rob
inson, larceny, county jail, six months.
Prue Middleton and W. Williams, larceny,
fine. Two little negro boys were sentenced
to the county jail for one day for larceny.
The Tallahassee Floridian says: “LeRoy
D. Ball, United States Surveyor General of
Florida, has received instructions to prepare
and submit for approval at Washington,
contract and instructions for a survey of the
lands granted by the State of Georgia to
private citizens south of the present boun
dary line. By act of Congress of April 9,
1872, the titles to these lands was confirmed
to the present owners deriving title from the
State of Georgia, and it is intended to re
trace and remark the lines of the surveys
made by tbe State of Georgia in order to
ascertain what lauds so granted lie within
the State of Florida, and enter the tract*-,
with names of present owners, on the plats
in the Surveyor General’s office. It is not
intended to disturb the present owners, but
raGier to ascertain their claims, in order
that the act of Congress confirming these
claims may take effect. The Surveyor Gen
eral wi uld be glad to confer personally or
by letter with parties owting these lands
before preparing instructions for the sur
vey.”
The negroes of Florida are about to or
ganize a convention to meet at Tallahassee
on the 4th of July, as will bo seen by the
following, which we find in the Jacksonville
‘‘Jacksonville, Fla., May 30, 1877.
“At a meeting held this day the following
was adopted:
“We recognize the fact that no body of
men have ever been elevated under the in
fluences of education, civilization aud Chris
tianity, that did not put forth some exer
tion on the part of themselves. And, it is
no less evident that the colored man is yet
a power in the body politic, and that this
land, builded up and made what it is by his
muscle and toil, is destined as much for his
home as for the home of others, with whose
interests his is identical.
“And believing that we can arrive at the
end sought to be reached—to wit: An under
standing a3 to our present position, and
whither we are drifting—better by concert
of action on the part of the colored men of
this State, therefore, t . .
“It is suggested and we who hereto at
tach our names invite the colored meu of
the State, by their delegates, to assemble
in council at Tallahassee on the fourth da}
of July, A. D. 1877, at ten o’clock a. m.
Each connty will bt> entitled to the same
number of delegates and alternates aB have
been usually allowed in State conventions
held in this State.
“It is also suggested that a mass meeting
be held in each county in this State, on
Saturday, the 23d day of June, A. D. 1877,
and st snch meetings delegates and
alternates be elected to assemble iu council
at Tallahassee as aforesaid.
“John B. Scott, W. W. Sampson, A. Lof
ton F Carolina, J. W. Bowen, M.J. John
son’ Alfred Grant, C. B. Simmons, Thomas
Lancaster, T. C. Claiborne, M. P. Chappell,
Joseph E. Lee, Emannel Fortune, May
Green, Ellis Moon, Richard Jones, Daniel
M. Mclunis, W. T. Garvin, Samuel Craft,
John H. Brown, T. Willi ams, James John-
son, J. J. Forb ®j' OBEPH e. Lee, Secretary.
“Jons R. Scott, Chairman.
“N B —Delegates that live east of Talla
hassee are informed that an excursion will
leave Jacksonville on the morning of the
r u iv at ten oclock, and return on
tho 5th, and that they can obtain tickets at
reduced rates.”
The following appointments and removals
have been made bv His Excellency the Gov-
rMSSSfeSM! Snowden and George
w. Martin to be Justices of ,b t, I '‘ a ® e u h
Duval—Wm. S. KawsonaudE. J. Aurphev
to be constables until next election to fill
v Escambia-A. H. Wtlson Edmund Whit
mire aDd Kirabrongh J. Whitmire to be
BP H°arnando—W. be j. Baker to be Connty
Commisasioner, vice J. B. Law, term ex-
'''\Iouroe—j. p. Williams to be Auctioneer.
Santa Rosa—Enoch Chadwick reappointed
C T j y oSnv 6 ri° D j e Wa,kins to he Justice
of the Peace; David L. Dunham to be No
tary Public for the State at large.
Walton—F. J- White to be Inspector of
Lumber.
in exchange has this to say respecting:
Middle Floriua: “ This magnificent belt ot
i T i ne contiguous to Georgia, al-
couat,y, y P t e(i i)y » railroad from east
lo°w!st P jet has no access to the outside
‘ n-M sTCRDt by dirt roads, when a abort
n’f only tweDtv miles wonld connect the
link of only twenty Une from Athntll
‘- rm M D .non Albany aud Thomasrille, with
vta Macon, A J This beautiful country
Kost i 'erra incognita, simply because
of the short-sighted policy of not connect
ing it with the splendid railroad system of
Georgia at Thomasville. The finest upland
soil between Kentucky and tbe Gnlf lies
on the beautiful lakes and rivers in Mid
dle Florida, aDd sells for one-fonrth of
its real value. The country is high,
dry, fertile and healthy, and pro
duces almost anv_ thing' that grows
on laud, except wheat and clover. Negro
labor is abundant, effective and cheap. For
ty acres can easily be cultivated with one
mule, and will make five hundred bushels
of corn and ten bales of cotton, without
manure. Lands can be booght at four to
ten dollars per acre, when they are really
worth from twenty to forty if properly ad
vertised. While East Florida—which the
tourist and land hunter sees between Live
Oak and Jacksonville and np the St. John’s
river—is a thin, sandy pine land, nninviting
and unproductive, with the exception of
isolated spots of hammock on the lakes,
which are now principally in the hands of
capitalists, aud devoted to orange and tropi
cal fruits, and are not for sale, except at
fabulous prices, and which are not as pro
ductive or valuable as the lands in Middle
Florida.”
THE DEMOCRACY OF BULLOCH.
The Banner County—Presentation of
the Flat.
I i pursuance of a call of the Chairman
of the Executive Committee of the
Democratic party, a publio meeting was
held at Statesboro on the 4th day of Jane.
Dr. John I. Lane being called to the
chair, the following business was trans
acted : .
Resolved, 1. That on Wednesday, the
27th instant, the people of Bulloch coun
ty meet at Statesboro to receive the ban
ner to be presented to the county by the
Hon. Juiian Hartridge iu appreciation of
the fact of their haring oast a solid Dem
ocratic vote for him in the last Congres
sional election.
Resolved, 2. That all citizens ot the
county are earnestly solicited to come
out on the above stated day, and bring
well fi led haskets.
Resolved, 3. That D. R. Groover, Esq ,
as Chairman of the Democratic Execu
tive Committee of the county, be request
ed to receive the banner in the name of
the people.
Resolved, 4. That the colored people of
the county are also cordially invited to
be present.
Resolved, 5. That a committee be ap
pointed to request the barkeepers to
neither sell or give away intoxicating
liquors on that day.
Resolved, 6. That the following citi
zens act as a committee of arrangements:
A. B. Miller, Solomon Akins, Joshua
Brannen, John Ohff, Wm. Lee, Jr., John
Bvaunen, Josiah Zitterrower, A. B. Riggs,
W. B. Griner, Thomas Mikell, W. W.
Oliff. M. B. Hendricks, W. E. Parrish,
Neel Buie, Benjamin Atwood, Clem Mer
cer, E. Edenfield, Benjamin Ellis, I. Par-
rish, A. Trapnell, W. A. SummerJing. E.
B. Kennedy, Robert Turner, John De
loach, Sr., M. J. Green, I. L. Rimes, W.
C. Anderson, Edmund Kennedy, Eli Ken
nedy, A. C. Williams, James Younge, Sr.,
Dr. J. F. Brown, William Donaldson, A.
Scarber, Jasper Franklin, R W. Deloach,
M. C. Jones, Oliver Finch, James Hend
ricks, Sr., Z. D. Deloach, David Beasley,
R. B. Slater, J. E. C. Tillman, Solomon
Hogins, Dr. G. W. Lease, W. A. Hodges,
G. R. Hagins, R. N. J. Williams, Asberry
Hodges, Joel Newsom, W. D. BranneD,
J. C. Cromley, B. E. Grimes, S. E.
Groover, J. F. Brannen, J. G. Slater,
Wm. Lee, Sr., S. L Moore, F. S. Wil
liams, James Denmark, Sr.
Resolved, 7. That the above committee
are requested to meet at Statesboro, on
Tuesday, 26th instant, for making the
necessary arrangements.
Resolved, S. That D. R. Groover, Dr. M.
L. Boyd and W. B. Griner be appointed
as a committee to notify Mr. Hartridge
of the arrangements.
Da. John I. Lane, Chairman.
W. N. Hall, Sec’y.
The Convention—Mass Meeting of the
Citizens or Clinch County.
A mass meeting of the citizens of
Clinch connty having assembled at Stock-
ton, the meeting being called to order by
G. G. Foreman, on motion of Henry
Daughtery, Mr. C. W. Curry was made
Chairman and W. B. N. Crews requested
to act as Secretary. The object of tbe
meeting being explained, and the subject
of the Constitutional Convention being
discussed, the following resolution was
read and unanimously adopted :
Resolved, That after fully- discussing
tbe question of a Constitutional Conven
tion, and the claims of the different can
didates and aspirants for delegates to the
convention, should one be called, this
meeting do nominate as candidates to said
convention, the following named gentle
men: Hon. Wm. S. Tomlinson, of Clinch;
Dr. Daniel Lott, of Ware.
Resolved farther. That we cordially so
licit all voters of the Fifth Senatorial Dis
trict to the support of this ticket, irre
spective of their views, whether for o r
against a convention.
C. W. Ctjeey, Chairman.
W. B. N. Chews, Secretary.
Southern Education.—The Spring-
field (Mass.) Republican, after describing
the elective system of education pursued
in tbe University of Virginia, according
to the principle laid down by its founder,
Mr. Jefferson, says that however much
the common school may have been
neglected at the South the collegiate
education never has been. This, it adds,
is strongly illustrated by the fact that in
the last Congress the chief Southern States
had a mnoh larger proportion of college
graduates than the Northern.
As regards common schools, it ought to
be remembered that Mr. Jefferson con-
tsmplated a State system of education, of
which the primary Ecbools were to be tbe
base and the Virginia University was to
be the apex. Its free pupils were to be
seleoted from a secondary class of schools,
and the free pupils of this secondary
class from the primary schools, all mainly
supported by public funds taken from
the Treasury or raised by taxation on the
people. It was a part of the avowed plan
and design of the founder of the Uni
versity of Virginia that it, and it alone,
should complete the education of the free
pupils supported by the public funds.
Iu consequence of recent legislation in
Virginia it is probable that there never
was a time when *he comprehensive in
tentions of Mr. J-fferson in this regard
were as fully carried out as at present.—
Baltimore Sun.
A Fleet, Flying Serpent. -Yester
day noon the residents of the eastern
portion of the city were surprised, and
not a little terrified at first, by the ap
pearance in the heavens, and apparently
hovering over them, of a fiery, flying
serpent of immense dimensions. Its
head appeared a lurid flame, while its
eyes rolled as if in search of victims. Its
motions through the air, as it billowed
here and there, were like the contortions
of a huge snake. This monster was sub
sequently ascertained to be a Chinese
kite. Its head was red paper, with eyes
half red and half white, which rolled as
the wind found its way through the
apertures representing the sockets. This
head kite was followed by eighteen
others, about eighteen inches apart,
made of timed paper, oblong in shape,
through the centre of whioh passed
slender rattans, the tips extending^ some
distance on each side and trimmed with
fire-red paper tassels. Similar tassels
along the tail and pendant from the head
gave the whole a flying and fiery ap
pearance truly startling.— Virginia(Ifev.)
Enterprise.
A goat got taDgled among the legs of a
neck tie peddler the other day, and for a
time it seemed as though the wrongs of
an outraged community were about to be
avenged; but the peddler escaped alive.
—Rome Sentinel-
An army and navy b :wl will be given
when the next pay day comes round, and
nothing is found in the chests of the
Pay masters.—Picayune.
FROM THE CAPITAL CITY.
Pernonal and City Items—Goaip About
the C onvention Question—Jadce (>eorf?e
Hlllyer—He Mncceeda the l^ate Judge
Peeples - Romance versus Truth — A
GuDhing Sensational Keporter—Show
ing the Depravity ot Degraded Femnlea—
P i mi I Paragraphs of a Local Charac
ter.
[Special Correspondence Morning News.]
THE CONNECTICUT BORGIA.
I
The Woman Who Jlurdrrtd Ten Persons.
Atlanta, June 5.—No rain yet, al
though there were signs of it last night,
which were hailed with joy, but this
morning finds the earth still dry and
parched.
The “Gate City” is alive with amuse
ments of all kinds, including chnrch fes
tivals, concerts and mixed entertain
ments. And yet merchants complain
that they can’t collect any money.
Rev. J. T. Lsftwich, D. D., pastor of
the Central Presbyterian Church of this
city, is to deliver the Baccalaureate ser
mon at Emory College, Oxford, at the
approaching commencement. Rev. Dr.
L. is a learned and eloquent divine, and
his selection by a Methodist college is
quite a pleasing compliment.
Miss Louise W. King, of Augusta, and
other officials of the “Georgia Society for
the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals,”
are at the Kimball House. They will
hold a meeting of the Atlanta Branch
Society to night at the hall of the Young
Men’s Library. Our people are giving a
hearty support to the movement.
about the convention question.
“Many Democrats” announce to-day
their “Anti-Convention Ticket,” headed
by the name of ex Governor Joseph E.
Brown.
As that gentleman is absent from the
city, it is safe to presume that his name
is used without his authority, and in op
position to his present views.
Gen. L. J. Gartrell is the second name
on the ticket. This is rather unfortunate,
as that gentleman assured me yesterday
that he was in favor of a convention.
Weeks ago, when the matter was in a
“muddle,” he did not favor the move
ment. His views have changed as the
subject has become more clearly defined.
Xne letters of ex-Attorney General
Akerman and Conley and Bryant have
had the effect to change the views of
hundreds of Democrats and some Repub
licans who were opposed to a convention.
I never saw such a radical (taken both
ways) change in public sentiment upon
an important question.
Some of the most violent opponents of
the movement have simply withdrawn
all opposition, whilst others have entered
as zealously into an earnest advocacy of
the measure. The last Legislature ut
terly failed to secure any relief from taxa
tion in providing a less expensive system
for conducting public affairs, and despite
the fear of a removal of the capital, Ful
ton county will vote for a convention.
JUDGE GEORGE HILLYEB.
Yielding to the pressure of the Fnlton
bar, Gov. Colquitt yesterday appointed
Major George Hillyer to fill the vacancy
occasioned by the death of Judge Peeples,
until the Legislature meets.
Although enjoying a large practice,
and burdened with important business
engagements, Major Hillyer has accepted
the appointment, and will open court on
Monday next. As the business of the
term has been delayed and increased by
the ill health of'his predecessor, Judge
Hillyer will find ample scope for the
display of his quick, clear-sighted and
laborious legal qualities.
Our new Judge comes of good stock,
his father, ex-Judge Junius Hillyer (who
was an intimate friend of the late Judge
Peeples), is one of the most active and
honored citizens of this section of the
State, and his brother and law partner,
Hon. Henry Hillyer, who now represents
Fulton county in the Legislature, has
already attained an enviable reputation at
the bar and in the forum..
It is a singular fact that the first cases
to come before Judge Hillyer are those of
ex-Gov. Rufus B. Bullock, followed by
those of Foster Blodgett. And when I
state that there will be no convictions, I
do not mean to say that Bullock and
Blodgett are innocent. I simply record
afoot—that it is now impossible to pro
cure the testimony with which to secure
a verdict of guilty. Because of this, and
for no other reason that I can discover,
the cases will be dismissed or con-
tinned.
ROMANCE VERSUS TRUTH.
Judge Richard H. Clark, of the City
Court, publishes a very sensible and
timely letter in the Constitution of this
morning, in which he knocks the romance
out of the Sallie Ellers case, which has
occupied about eight or ten oolumns of
that paper during the past ten days.
As yonr Georgia news column recently
contained a paragraph in regard to her,
it may be well to inform your readers that
rhe was no “ mere chili,” and that her
only offense was not that “ she had no
home." Facts show that she was over
eighteen years old, and one of the most
depraved aDd abandoned of her sex, hav
ing fallen sc low as to cohabit with no
gro men.
Judge Clark shows that every effort
was made to reclaim her months ago, but
in vain. He also states that there are
other cases of a similar character, and
that there is no course open to
him but that which the law marks out—
to commit them to the chain gang. They
are nuisances of the vile-.t sort, and tLe
public peace and good morals demand
that they shall be properly dealt with.
While he approves the proposed move
ment to reform such degraded females,
he most emphatically demands that
romantic and sensational journalists Bball
not represent such old and hardened
criminals as “mere children,” and oharge
that they are on the chain gang simply
because they “have no home.” Truth
and justice cry out against such slanders
upon the courts and a Christian com
munity.
FINAL PARAGRAPHS.
Jesse Jackson, of this city, is one of
President Hayes’ civil service reform (.*)
appointments, and is on a par with the
appointments of Butler, McLir, and
Stearns. The next.
The Bank of the State of Georgia, of
this city, is now erecting the most elegant
bankiDg house in the State, on the corner
of Marietta and Peachtree streets. Who
says times are hard?
Lieutenant Addiso* F. Barnett, son of
Colonel N. C. Barnett, Secretary of State,
has been appointed Adjutant of the At
lanta Battalion by its newly elected Ma
jor, Captain C. W. Henderson. Lieut.
Barnett is “every inch a soldier,” and was
the unanimous choice of his comrades.
Atlanta is unlike any other plaoe in the
world in more than one respect, The
city fathers, in view of the hard times,
have adopted the cheapest plan to settle
the poison water question In the Gen
eral Council, as the record shows, “Al
derman McMillan offered a resolution de
claring tbe water in the city weils pure
and unadulterated, which was passed.”
Of course, “that do settle it.”
And now a prominent physician calls
npon them to pass a resolution that gir-
bage from the gutters and filth from oth
er localities, when damped in the streets for
fills, or into sinks, and covered withafew
inches of earth, or left to the hot rays of
the sun, will not affect the health of the
city unpleasantly. Of such is the city of
Atlanta 1 Chatham.
“A gentleman surnamed tbe American
Flag,” says the San Fiancisco News Letter,
who is stopping at the Falace Hotel, was
the other day the victim of a fearful out
rage. It seems this gentleman, who is
tall, commenly wears the highest collars
ever seen in ’Frisco. He received a note
from a firm of bill-stickers, asking if he
did not wish to let out the backs of those
art idee for advertising.”
We have already published a brief ac
count of the escape of Mrs. Lydia Sher-
1 man from the Connecticut State prison,
, to which for her numerous murders she
j had been sentenced for life. The follow
ing is a resume of the main points of her
horrible confession, made January 10,
1873, after she had been sentenced to im
prisonment for life for the murder of her
third husband, Mr. Sherman :
HER CONFESSION.
I was bora near the town of Burling
ton, New Jersey, December 24, 1824.
My mother died when I was nine years
old, and I was sent to live with my uncle,
Mr. John Clay gay. I never attended
school much, being unable to go only
about three months in the year. At six
teen years of age I went to New Bruns
wick with my two brothers, and afterward
went to live with the Rev. Mr. Van Am-
burg, in Jacksonville, twenty-five miles
from New Brunswick. I lived there for
three years, then returned to New Bruns
wick and learned to be a tailoress. I
worked three months without pay, and
was then employed by a Mr. Owen. He
was a class leaderin the Methodist Church,
of which I became a member. It’ was
there that I met Mr. Edward Struck, who
was a devoted Christian up to a few
months before his death. I was his wife
eighteen years; he has been dead about
eight years. Oar first child we called
Lydia, and after her birth we went to
New York, and resided near Elizabeth
and Houston streets. In New York we
had two boys. Afterward we moved to
Carmansville, where we had four children
born. At the end of that time Mr.
Struck cbtained an appointment on the
Metropolitan Police force. Six months
later we lost a daughter, aged twenty,
two months, by the measles. About this
time my husband was transferred to
Manhattanville, and we moved to 125th
street. Then occurred our first trouble,
which came about in this way :
THE FIRST TROUBLE.
A man came up to Stratton's Hotel, on
the Bloomingdale road, and made a dis
turbance in the bar-room. He attacked
the bar-tender with a knife, and imme
diately the cry of murder was sounded.
Just at this time the Manhattanville stage
came along, and on it was a detective,
who heard the cry. He rushed into the
hotel, but finding he was powerless to do
anything, he asked for the assistance of a
policemiD. There was none near, and
he endeavored to quiet the man by talk
ing to him, bat he could not succeed.
The man appeared deranged. The de
tective struck him with a cane, but the
man wonld not desist. He struck the
•officer with a knife, when the latter drew
a pistol and shot the man dead.
The stage drove on, and soon met Mr.
Struck, aDd as he was a policeman, the
driver told him the circumstances about
the kfiling of the man at the hotel. Mr.
Struck started immediately for the hotel,
and when he reached there he found that
the man was dead. Word was sent to the
Manhattanville police station, and the
doctors gave it as their opinion that the
man was deranged. My husband reported
at headquarters, and soon after a rumor
prevailed that he would not arrest the
man because he had a pistol. This was
incorrect, but the employees of the hotel
testified that Mr. Struck was at the place,
and was afraid to go in. The result was
that he was discharged from the police
force.
Then my husband became downhearted
and discouraged. Captain Harft tried to
get him back on the force, but failed, and
then Struck, who had always been a good
workman, did nothing but fret all the
time. Sometimes he would lie in bed
for seven or eight weeks, without allow
ing me to S8nd for a doctor. One day he
said he wanted to see his daughter Ger
trude, who was married to a Mr. William
Thompson; so I went to New York and
took her up to see him, but he said very
little to her. Gertrude sent a doctor to
see her faiher, but the latter said he was
not sick. Once he pat a pistol in his
mouth, and threatened to blow his head
off. On another day he tried to get a
razor to cut his throat, but I took it away
from him. Then I sent for Capt. Hartt,
but wheD he came my husband wculd
neither look, speak, nor have anything
to do with him. The Captain said he
was out of his mind, and advised me to
have him sent to an asylum.
MEETING THE TEMPTER.
One night after this he was acting very
badly, and I called in Police Sergeant
Me , who lived in the lower part of
our house. The Sergeant advised me to
pat him oat of the way, as he would
never be any good to me or himself again.
I asked him what he meant, and he told
me to get a certain quantity of arsenic
and give him some of it. I paid ten
cents for it, put it in some oatmeal gruel,
and gave him some of it during the after
noon. That night he was very ill, and at
eight o’clock the next morning be died.
The following July I made up my miud
that my two little children, Mary Ann,
six years old, and Edward, two years
younger, would be better off if they were
out of the way, so, after thinking the
matter over for several days, I made them
some of the same kind of gruel their
father had eateD. They only survived a
short time. The doctors said that the
children died of gastric fever. They had
not the least suspicion of the truth.
I continued to keep house, and had
four children with me at. the time. My
son, George Whitfield, who was then
fourteen years of age, was living wilh
me. In tne latter part of August he was
taken sick, and I sent for Dr. Oviatt.
He said the boy had painter’s colic, and
as he did not improve I became discour
aged, and mixed some arsenic in his tea.
He died the next day, and the doctor
said it was painter's colic.
Then my little daughter, Ann Eliza,
took the chills and fever, and was con
tinually sick. This made me down
hearted and discouraged again. I had
some arsenic in the house, which I pur-
chased in Harlem, and I pnt it in the
medicine I bought for her to cure the
chills. I gave it to her twice; then she
was taken sick, as the others were, and
died about noon four days afterward.
She was tbe happiest child I ever saw.
I then kept house until the following
May, going out as usual to do nursing.
About that time Lydia, my eldest daugh
ter, weDt to New York with work, was
taken sick, and after an illness of twenty-
one days she died a natural death. I
never gave her anything the doctor did
not order. Then I went to Sailorsville,
Pa., with a family named Maxom. It was
not a profitable venture, so I returned to
New York and went to live with my step
daughter, Mrs. Thompson. Then I took
a situation with Mr. Cochran, who kept
a sewing machine establishment in Canal
street. There I became acquainted with
Mr. James Curtiss. He asked me to take
care of his aged mother and keep house
for them. I consented to go for eight
dollars per month. I lived there eight
months. One day Mr. John Fairchild, at
whose store I bought groceries, asked me
if I would like to keep house for a man
who had just lost his wife. Iu this way
I became acquainted with Mr. Hurlburt,
who lived in Coram, HuntingtoD, After
I had been a few days with him he asked
me to marry him, which I did November
22, 1868. The ceremony was performed
by the Rev. Mr. Morton in his own hense.
We lived happily for fourteen months.
About three months after we were
married Mr. Hurlburt made his will. He
was subject to fits of dizziness.
One day he was unwell and he eat clams
and drank cider with saleratns init. Then
he became worse. On one oocasion he
made me drink cider and saleratns, after
tyhich I became very sick i^nd dizzy, and
took to vomiting. Finally: Mr- Hur.burt
became worse, and about five o'clock one
morning the old man died. Now, I wish
to say that I anti gave Mr. Bsdburt
anything that would cause siokuess,
though there may have beenaniniesuxed
with the saleratns which he put into the
cider.
About two months after Hurlburt died
I heard that Horatio N. Sherman, of Bir
mingham, wanted me to take a little baby
to board. I met Mr. Sherman one Sunday
morning. He introduced himself to me,
and said that he had auuther object in
calling besides getting me to take care of
his baby. He wanted me as his house
keeper, because his muther-in-law and
his daughter could not get along well
together. I said I wonld think about it.
Two weeks later he came again and offer
ed to marry me. I told him we ought to
be better acquainted. He said that he
was compelled to get some one, as he
conld not have the old woman in the
house, as she was creating a constant dis
turbance. He then weDt away, and I did
not see him again for three or four weeks;
but at the end of that time he fonnd me
a tenant for my farm, which ended in my
lending him $300.
THE THIRD HUSBAND.
In July, 1870, I lent him three hundred
dollars more, and on the 2d of Septem.
ber, 1870, we went to Mr. Sherman’s
sister’s house in Bridgewater; Mass.. and
were married.
After we had been married about two
mouths Mr. Sherman said one day that
he wished his babe (Frank) would die, as
then the old womau should not stay an
other day in the house. I was full of
trouble, and not knowing wbat to do, I
was tempted to give him (Frank) some
thing to get him out ot the way, for I
thought he woul 1 be better off. They
had arsenic in the house. The old lady
had used it before to poison rats. I put
some of it in some milk, and only gave
it to him once. Being quite feeble, lie
began to be sick and to vomit I sent
for a doctor, but he said tbe child was
not ont of danger, though he was better.
This was in tbe forenoon. That night
the child died at eleven o’clock. This
was November 15, 1870.
1 Instead of making matters better, every
thing grew worse. Mr. Sherman and his
mother in-law kept constantly quarreling
about a piano, for which she claimed Mr.
Sherman owed her $70. I sold my farm
for $1,100, of which I received $300 cash;
so I gave Mr. Sherman $100, told him to
pay her, which he did, and then the old
woman left us.
Mr. Sherman then took to drink, and I
supported, the family for about six
months. During this time I found that
he had dissipated the money I gave him,
instead of paying his bills with it, so I had
to pay out about $300 more for him. Then
came Christmas, and Ada devoted a great
deal of time in decorating the church. I
furnished her with all her clothes and paid
her dressmaking bills. On Christmas eve
Ada was taken sick, and Dr. Beardsley
was egain sent for. He prescribed a
brandy sling for her, bat Mr. Sherman
drank all the liquor I bought. I could
not keep a drop for Ada. The next morn
ing she was no better, and we sent for
Dr. Dutton, of Milford. When the doc
tor came Mr. Sherman was so drunk that
he could not walk straight. Mr. Sherman
asked me for $10 to pay ihe doctor. I
refused to give it to him, saying that I
would pay the doctor myself. Then he
got mad and went ont.
STILL ANOTHER MURDER.
That made me feel so bad that I was
tempted to do as I bad done before. I
had some arsenic in the house, which I
mixed in her tea and gave it to her twice.
She died the next morning.
Then Mr. Sherman began drinking
more than ever. He did very little for
the family, leaving me to pay for every
thing. He went on in that way until
quite late in the winter. His brother An
drew and wife, and his brother George,
came to visit U9, bnt that only made mat
ters worse. I tried to get Mr. Sherman
to join the temperance society, but he
kept on drinking. At last I joined
a temperance society, and then
George Sherman and my husband joined
it together. My husband kept sober only
a few weeks, and then went to drinkin:
harder than ever. He next sold my piano
for three hundred and twenty-five dollais,
and put three hundred dollars in the bank
in my name. Two weeks after he drew it
out and went to New Haven, where he
spent every cent of it. I sent my step
son, Nelson Sherman, to find his father,
and one evening about 8 o’clock he ar
rived. I met him at the door and said,
“I’m glad to see you alive.” The next
day being Saturday he remained at home
all day. Sunday he went out and came
home very drunk. Monday he went cut
again, and returned in the evening. He
drank a enp of chocolate and then went
out to get some greens for dinner.
THE LAST MURDER.
While he was gone he was taken sick,
and came home immediately. I had
about a pint of brandy in the house,
and I pnt some arsenic in it. Tnat night
he drank it, and the next morning he was
very sick. I did not mean to kill him; I
only wanted to make him sick of liquor.
Tbe next day he drank more of the brandy
and was worse, I sent for Dr. Beardsley,
and told him that Mr. Sherman had one
cf his old spells. He continued to grow
worse; other doctors were called in, but
he died at eight o’clock the followii g
morning.
The electric light, which promisessome
day to be generally employed in work
shops, large halls, depots, etc., if not in
dwelling houses, has been greatly im
proved within the last few years, France
alone furnishing several important in
ventions cheapening and simplifying the
means of generating electricity and of
converting it into light. It will be
remembered that the chief difficulty with
the ordinary electric light used by lec
turers is that of maintaining the carbon
points at exactly the right distance from
each other daring combustion. This has
bsen done by means of clockwork, cr
through the agency of electro-magnetic
devices; but both methods are objection
able on account of the cost and delicacy
of the mechanism employed. The latest
invention in Frunce is a con
trivance called a “candle,” made
of two carbon rods, separated
by kaolin (of which porcelain is made)
or other refractory substances. This in
sulating material does not extend to tbe
end of the rode, and when the current
passes the arc or curve through which tfca
spark passes is produced between the ex
tremities of the carbon. As these be
come consumed tbe refractory substance
is vaporized by the great heat, so that the
protruding ends of carhon are always left
in ihe right proportion to give the bett
light. In the best apparatus the curren’
is alternately reversed, securing an equal
consumption of the two carbon points.
The Comptes Rendus reports that
this apparatus emits a light as
soft and steady as any that is
known, and varying in intensity accord
ing to the dimensions of the coil and
strength of the primary current from the
brightness of a single candle to the
briliance of a chandelier of fifteen or
twenty burners. Several sets of these
carbon points can be put on the same cir
cuit, aud the apparatus is now in nse for
the illumination of some large stores in
Paris. The “candle” can be extinguished
by tbe breaking of tbe circuit, aod then
reignited if the interval is not longer
than a couple of seconds, and it is pro
posed to use the apparatus for transmit
ting signals by flashes, according to the
Morse telegraphic alphabet. Russia is
about to try the new invention, and it is
eaid that experiments with it will soon be
made at the headquarters of the army
now in the field.
MAHOMET’S FAITH.
1 rigid. Grawth aud Spread of BlafaaB-
otedaoiuai.
As a train from New Haven was ap
proaching Stamford, Conn., on Friday
morning, three heavy stones, thrown in
quick sneession, struck it with great
force. One of these passed through a
window and inflioted a painful wonnd
upon the shoulder of ex-Lientenant Gov
emor Averill, who was on his way to
New York. The train was stopped, and
the man who threw the ipissiles was cap
tured and taken to Stamford before a
Justice of the Peace. He said he was a
tramp, and acknowledged having stoned
four trains. He wm oommitted in de
fault of $1,000 bail to appear before the
Superior Court. A week or two ago a
young man was strack on one eye by a
stone coming through a windo v in this
way, and will probably lose his sight in
consequence.
(From the Chicago Inter-Ocean.]
The probability that Mohammedan
nations will come to the support of
Turkey in case the Sultan makes the ap
peal by unfurling the flag of the Prophet,
makes the relations that these nations
sustain to Christian nations, and the
characteristic or special features of the
Mohammedan religion, questions of pre
sent and vital interest. The people at
large have always held vague notions as
to the real character of Mohammed, the
founder of Islamism, aud have hesitated
to admit that the religion was anything
more than idolatry, or that tbe Moslems
were ever more than an ignorant and
superstitions people. In both cases the
opposite is tru». Mohammedanism has
always been the inveterate foe of idolatry,
and Moslem learning and art had at one
time great influence in Europe.
Mohammed, Mahomet, the founder of
the Mussulman religion, was born in
Mecca, Arabia, November 10, 570, and
died at Medina, June 3, 632. His family
belonged to the distinguished tribe of
Koreish, who claimed to be directly de
scended from Abrabam by bis son Ish
mael. Before he was twelve years old
the boy Mohammea made journeys
through Syria and other countries, and
became acquainted with Christian monks,
He also traveled extensively in Arabia.
At the age of twenty-five he married,
and for ten years lived a quiet, common
place life.
When thirty-five or forty years of age,
Mohammed gave himself up to religious
contemplation. He was in the habit of
retiring to a cave of Mt. Hara, aDd there
amid spasmodic convulsions he had, ac
cording to the Mohammedan story, his
first vision. The at: gel Gabriel appeared
and commanded him to recite what he
(the angel) said. He was much
troubled about this, and on consultation
with an old Arab, who knew the scrip
tures of the Jews and Christians, he was
informed that “God has chosen him to
be the prophet of his people.” The
revelations continued from that time to
the end of his life, were committed to
memory by his adherents, and after his
death collected and written down.
His first convert was his wife. At the
end of three years his adherents num
bered only forty. When he declared his
mission as the Prophet of God his own
tribe outlawed him, aDd for some years
he was persecuted. He fled from Mecca
in 662 (the date of the Hegira, the be
ginning of the Moslem era,) to Medina,
and established his religion.
In the succeeding years he returned to
Mecca, overcame the Koreishites, and was
acknowledged as sovereign and Prophet,
and in a few years subjected Arabia to
his rale. Iu the ninth year of the Hegira
he proclaimed his first holy war against
the Byzantine or Greek empire. This
was a complete failure. The next year
he made his celebrated pilgrimage to
Mecca, at the head of forty thousand
pilgrims. Three months after his return
to Medina be was taken seriously ill.
He announced his own death in the
mosque, and prayed that God might sup
port him in the agony of death. He left
only one child, Fatima, who became the
wife of Alt.
Students of Moslem literature concede
that Mohammed was a man of great
power. He was acquainted with the
doctrines of both Jews and Christians,
but in his lectures to his followers misre
presented both. His visions were re
ceived in a state similar to that made so
familiar by clairvoyants and spiritualists.
The spasmodic convulsions which attend
ed every manifestation of revelation, as
described in the records, were very aim
ilar to the phenomena connected with
clairvoyant speaking, eto. He announced
himself as the restorer of the pure re
ligion revealed by God to Abraham. He
required Pagans to leave their idols and
worship the one true God; required Jews
to exchange the law ot Moses tor what he
claimed was the new and final revelation
given to him, and required Christiana to
cease worshipping Christ as God, claim
ing that this was inconsistent with tbe
doctrine taught by Christ himself. Many
trace the religion of Mohain ied to the
forms of Judaism aud Christianity exist
ing in Arabia at the time, whioa he in
terminglcd with the traditions aod alle
gories of his race.
Tbe fundamental doctrine of the Ko
ran, or of Mohammedanism, is this
“There is but one God, and Mohammed
is his Prophet.” Tho idea of God does
not differ in material points from that
held by Christians, except that they re-
ject entirely the dootrine of the Trinity.
The Mohammedans believo that Adam,
Noah, Abraham, Moses, Jesus and Mo
hammed were divinely commissioned to
proclaim new laws and dispensations j
that to the prophets were revealed certain
scriptures inspired by God; that all those
have perished except the Pentateuch, the
Psalms, the Gospel and the Koran ; that
the first tar e have been falsified and mu
tilated, and that the Koran supersedes
them all. They regard Christ as next to
Mohammed, bet deny that he was the
Son of God, and that he was crucified,
believing that some other person suffered
in his place, while he was taken up to
God. They believe in the second coming
of Christ, as heralding tbe approach of
the last j udgment. As to future life, they
believe that God will judge men by their
acts in this life; that the time of resur
rection is known only to God; that after
judgment all men must pass over a bridge
finer than a hair and sharper than a
sword,” the good passing over easily, the
wicked falling headloDg to hell; that all
who believe in the unity of God will final
ly be released from punishment and enter
paradise, while idolaters and hypocrites
suffer eternally.
The Mohammedans observe atriotly the
outward forms of their religion, regard
ing the Koran as the rule of their re
ligious, oivil and social life. The Koran
forbids gambling, intemperance and
usury; urges charity, and provides for the
punishment of crimes; condemns pride,
avarice, debauchery, and insists on sub
mission to the will of God, on forbear
ance, love of peace, sincerity, truthful
ness and benevoh nee. It restricts, but
does not prohibit polygamy, and presents
a sensual idea of heaven.
After the death of Mohammed the pro-
mnlgation of his doctrines spread with
amazing rapidity. Tbe Moslems con
quered Syria (making Jerusalem ODe of
their holy cities), Persia, Assyria and all
of Northern Africa before the beginning
of the eighth century. Then they crossed
into Spain, conquered province after
province: then into Gaul, where they
met their first great defeat i ear Tours,
in 732. They advanced into China, swe.pt
over Judea, establishing great empires,
and mastered a portion of the Greek em
pire. Then they were in tnm overran
by the Tartar tribes, led by the Turks,
bnt these adopted the religion of the
people they conquered and became its
champions, and in 1543 they captured
Constantinople. This was the golden
age of Mohammedanism, and the Otto
man empire was at the zenith of its
power. Forty years afterward the Mo
hammedans were forced out of Western
Europe, and there has been a gradual de
cline ever since. There come dissensions
in their own ranks, aod they divided into
two great sects, the Sunnites and Shi^ht
Instead of tbe wonderful unity and en
thusiasm that had prevailed, a hostility
on the part of one oeot for tbe other was
developed. The Mohammedans of the
Ottoman Empire, of Arabia, Turkestan
and Africa, are Sunnites, and the Per
sians and the Mohammedans of India,
Shiahs. It is estimated that of both
sects there are now one hundred and fifty
millions in Europe, Asia and Afrioa, fully
one hundred millions being in Asia.
Mohammedanism was well oaloulated
to influence idolatrous and superstitious
nations. Its promulgation and rapid rise
in power were at a time when the Chris
tian religion was beset by enemies on all
sides. It is. noticeable that in no caaa
did a Christian r ation conquered by a
Mohammedan nation soponaa tbe Mo
hammedan religion. Mohammedan jam
t a lower typo of cirib-
the Roman empire of the Rant,
bnt the Christiana remain Christiana to
this day.
As the Koran, written twelve hundred
years ago,with Arabic life in mind,tarnish
es the political system for Mohammedan
nations, they have made little progress.
Arabia has gone backward instead of for
ward , Persia has lost her ancient glory,
and Turkey made no progress until forced
to acoept Western political philosophy.
Mohammedan nations have stood stub
bornly at the line drawn in 1632, and
have refused to advance, asking nothing
and desiring nothing beyond what ia out
lined in the Koran. In the meantime tbe
Chriatian nations that cowered at one
time at the feet of the Moslem conquer
ors have, with few exceptions, been mov
ing forward. Wbat is known as tbe
civilized world is near!y|all Christian, and
the nations are atrODg and wealthy. Mo
hammedanism is strong among the tribes
of Africa and tbe nomadic nations of
Asia. With these facts in mind we
come to the consideration of the prob
able results in case tbe Sultan should
unfurl the flag of the Prophet and call
upon all Mohammedans to join in a holy
war. He would forfeit all claim to sup
port from those nations which now sup
port Turkey, not because she is Moham
medan, but because she is European. In
the old days of holy wars it was easy to
arm and clothe a mass of adventurous
soldiers ; bnt, suppose the Mohammedans
of Africa and Asia poured into Russia,
they would come as a barbarous horde
indifferently armed and without discip
line, and against the discipline and arma
ments of modern warfare they would have
little chance of success. Such a movement
would be the signal for new combinations
in Enrope. Tbe Christian nations wonld
soon be a unit in driving back the hordes
animated by an anti-Christian fanaticism,
and the result would be the end of the
Ottoman empire.
The Sultan will not take such a course
unless he is prepared to cut loose from
all European alliances, or unless he des
pairs of help from European nations. If
he does take it he plays into the hands of
Russia and hastens his own downfall. It
is questionable whether such an appeal
would rouse the rival sect-i of Moham
medans to the old war spirit of en
thusiasm, but even if the response was
no: general Russia wonld suffer. The
importance of the event cannot be over
rated, as it would make a new era in
European politics. The unfurling of the
flag of the Prophet would arouse the old
spirit of warfare; it would be bad for
Europe, bad for Mohammedanism and
fatal to Turkey.
READ, TAXPAYERS.
Ninety Thouwnml Dollar* Appropriated
from 1872 to 1876 for KepalrM, etc., on
Public Buildin*n— Nearly all In and
Aboot Atlanta—A Litile in .llllledseTille
—We, the People, Call for an Itemized
Statement—How ~)luch Spent on tbe
Opera House f
[From the MllJedgeville Recorder.]
Editors Union and Recorder: I have
read with interest the communications
you published in your paper from “North
Georgia,” “Cobb, ” and other correspon
dents. I am glad that yon found the
Comptroller Generals reports which I
desired to see. I give you the result of
my research and investigation in the
matter. What will the taxpayers have
to say about the appropriation ? What
will the Constitutional Convention have
to say when the question of removal is
debated, as it ought and surely will be ?
A three hundred thousand dollar Opera
House capitol and one huudred thousand
dollar Executive Mansion needing so great
repairs, and in so few years ! But to the
Comptroller General's report.
I see from the report submitted Janu
ary 1, 1873, bnt covering the year 1872,
amount appropriated for public buildings,
etc., $20,000. You will find on page 114
how the money was spent. It wtiuld be
a good idea for you to publish it, and
give the people an idea what it oost to
run the Opera Honse os a capitol build
ing.
In report submitted in 1874, but cover
ing the year 1873, I see amount appro-
pri.ted $20,000. E. A. Flewellen, Super
intendent.
Report covering the year 1874, sub
mitted January, 1875, amount appropria
ted $20,000.
Report covering the year 1875, sub
mitted in 1876, amount appropriated
$20,000.
Report for 1876, submitted January 1,
1877, amount appropriated, $10,000
Balance undrawn, January 1, 1877,
$505 69! That is gone by this time.
The Atlanta Constitution may treat
with ill assumed indifference the call
made upon it to interview Messrs.
Flewellen, Murphy and Van Estes,
Superintendents, and ask them to give
to the public an itemised statement.
Whether the Atlanta Constitution thinks
the matter worth its attention or not,
the taxpayers of Georgia intend to
make the issue, and it will remain to be
seen if Atlanta, with her boasted in
fluence, can buy up the convention, or
bush the demand for a vote on the capi
tal question.
Ninety thousand dollars ! frem 1872 to
1876, with the promise that if Atlanta
was made the capital, a capitol building
would be furnished for ten years free of
all cost to the State. Yet. we have been
taxed to pay for an Opera House costing
tbe State $300,000 and an Executive
Mansion $100,000, and the little item of
$00,000, for repairs, pay of Superintend
ents, eto. Never in my recollection was
such extraordinary repairs needed on the
old capitol building in Milledgeville, ncr
did the State need any Superintendent of
Public Buildings. It is a fungus whioh
has grown to an enormous size in Atlanta,
and Bhould be cat off as soon as possible
from the body politic of the State. Call
the people’s attention to the above appro
priation, Messrs. Editors.
Baldwin.
Let the delegates from Baldwin go fully
prepared to discuss the matter. Would
it not be a good idea for the citizens of
Baldwin to raise a purse, so as to aid you
ia getting up a sheet relative to the re
moval of the capital, the promise made
by the corporation and citizens of At
lanta, and what it has cost the State so
far. I hate duplicity in a city, as well as
in tbe individual man—neither can be
j ustified.
The Methodists have had a long and
weary time with their new hymn book,
and the work is now said to be ready for
tbe printer. About four hundred and
fifty of the hymns contained in the old
book have been omitted from the new
one. This is well; for althougn many of
these hymns contained pious sentiment,
it was so clumsily expressed as to make
the hymns almost unfit for use. Here ia
one, for instance, so seldom sung that
few people know of its existence :
“ Ah 1 Lord, with trembling I confess
A gracious soul may fall irom graeev
The salt may lose its seasoning power,
And never, never find it more.'’
It is difficult to see how a congregation
could get up much enthusiasm over such
a hymn as this. The power of Methodist
singing consists largely in the fact that
hymns of this class are bat little used.
The book now in use was prepared in
1843, since which great advances have
been made in bymnology.
Ex-Mayor Lambert's Public Confes
sion.—At the close of his sermon in the
Lafayette avenne Presbyterian Chnrch,
Brooklyn, yesterday morning, Dr. Cnyler
said that it was no more than right that
a recent member of the ohnrch should
have a hearing. Ex Mayor Edward A.
Lambert, who was dropped from the roll
of membership until he bad made publio
acknowledgment of his offense, walked
unsteadily up tbe main aisle and then
faoed the congregation. He read from
manuscript and referred to the newspaper
accounts of his defalcation of trust funds
to the amount of over $50,000, and ex
pressed sorrow for his betrayal. He fait
that he had obtained the pardoning mercy
or he would not have dared to address
tfieu. Mr. Lambert frequently paused
to choke down a sob, and there was hard-
a dry eye after he had finished.—N.
Sun, 28 th ult.
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Drowning of a Minister at Harper’s
Ferry.—The body of Rev. John M. Fri
day, pastor of the Lutheran Chnrch at
Harper’s Ferry, W. Va., was fonnd
drowned in the canal near that point oq
Thursday last. He crossed over from the>
Ferry to the Maiyland side Thursday
evening to perform a marriage ceremony,
and not returning daring the night
anxious friends institated search with tbe
above result. It is the impression of
many that he was foully dealt with. Mr.
Friday was a married man, aged about
thirty yean. He graduated at the Penn-
aylvania College, at Gettysburg, and
ad the ministry in 1872. He had
abffitiaa end stood wall in the
his
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