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I.AGRiNGK, tiKtrUGIA,..
Tii* hot vrentharriooH not rcpresa tho ardor ol
tho haul-lino man of the Constitution.
Somr of tho Mnoon poople waul water-works,
but alas! Macon ia too deoply in debt now.
It ia aaid that Now York eats a million bush
els of "fjoobora” per annum. Who luakoa tho
eatinmto?
Mr. J. U. Cavtfu, a book-keeper in tho At
lanta Couatitut on o'.loo, had a alight attack of
HUnHtroke Tuesday.
Tuf. outiro Freshman class of Prinocton Col
lege, has boon suspondod . r jr had conduct. The
class uumbcrs eighty.
Henry W. Grady delivered a lecture in Ma
con last night, for tho benefit of the family of
the late Mr. A. It. Watson.
Tiieri have been tweuty-niuo hauginga in tho
Uuited States, thus far in June. This looks
like crimo ia getting its deserts.
It is estimated, says tho Constitution, that
one thousand girls in Atlanta oarn an honest
living by labor of various kinds.
Governor Hampton assured Governor Robin-
sou, of New York, that South Caroliua would
repudiate none of her indebtedness.
The liliiegmss (Ky.) Clipper says: “Ninety -
nino out of a hundred people make a great mis
take when thoy cut of! a dog’s tail, in throwing
away tho wrong cud
We are glad to note tho fact that tho business
of shipping fruit to tho North is growing in
Georgia. Tho day is not very far distant, we
hope, when tho fruit crop of Georgia willbriug
rnoro than its cotton.
ADDafeB8 OF HON, A. H. 001.
Gov. Colquitt has appointed Mr. C. F. Crisp,
of Americus. Judge ot the Southwestern circuit,
in plaoo of Judge John M. Clarke, recently de
ceased. Judge Crisp is perhaps tho youngest
man on the bench iu Georgia.
The Augusta Chronicle says: “Several North
ern papers assert that Bullock and Blodgett
carry tin boxos into the court room, and the
very sight of them is sickening to some of the
Detnecraoy. Can this bo so ?”
Mile is selling in Augusta at eighty cents a
gallon. Cotton is selling at ten cents a pound.
One gallon of milk is worth eight pounds of cot
ton. Yet many of the farmers near Augusta
think there is uo money iu milk and a great
deal in ootton.
“Sweet Forqet-me-not.”—This is the name
of a new song by Bobby Newcomb, just issued
by F. W. Helmick, Cincinnati. Wo acknowl
edge the receipt of a copy. We haven’t heard
the music tested yet, aud hence enu not speak
of its merits.
The Atlanta Constitution pertinently says:
“Harper’s Weekly, edited by Tom Nast and
Eugouo Lawrence, is opposed to Ben Butler.
This is quite a card for Butler. There must be
some good in any man who can antagonize this
mendacious shoet.”
An Atlanta mechanic, named Bliley, has
vented a machine horso; that is a horse built on
the velocipede plan, so that the rider can travel
on a smooth road faster thuu a real horse. If it
will run over rough roads, and the motive power
required is not too great, tho horse will bo a suc-
The Governor’s proclamation, calling the con
vention to assemble in Atlanta on the 11th of
July has been published. He states the total
vote for convention to have been 48,181, and
the total voto against convention to have been
89,057, being a majority of 9,124 votes in favor
ot convention with Wilcox and Echols counties
not heard from.
The New York Times is authority for the
statement that in his late Atlanta speech Mr.
Hill thus spoke of Jim Blaine: “I think I know
the old fellow. He has a tongue that never
tires, an ambition that never sleeps, a face that
never blushes, aud a conscience that never hesi
tates. ”
Whether or not he said it in Atlanta, he said
it in substance in his recent speech in LaGrange,
and it “brought down the house."
The Baltimore Sun urges the establishment
ot State boards of health which shall have power
to organize local boards. It attributes tho death
of 5,665 people in Charleston by yellow fever to
“the neglect of the authorities to enforce proper
regulations to protect the public health."
Somo of the Soh mcns of the Georgia press
clamor for the abo’ition of our State Board of
Heelth, whenever whey get a chance.
Rev. W. P. Harrison, T>. l>., of the First
Methodist church of Atlanta, has received a call
from Mt. Vernon church in Washington. As Meth
odist preachers cannot accept cads and transfer
themselves, the matter was referred to the
Bishops, at their annual meeting iu Nashville,
last May. The bishops decided to leave the
matter to Bishop Pierce, and it is understood
that he is in favor of tho transfer. It will not
take place till fall, if it is made.
Manual on the Hoo.—This is the title of a
pamphlet issued by Dr. Janes, State Commis
sioner o£ Agtii uJtnre, a copy of which he has
furnished us. It is an admirable work, aud we
shall show our appreciation of it by publishing
nearly all of it. There is no work to which our
people can mura properly be exhorted than that
ef raising hogs; this book is compiled and pub
lished to promote that work, and it is woll cal
culated to do so. We presume any farmer can
obtain a copy of it gratis, by writing to Dr.
Janes. Wo publish the first instalment this
week on the fourth page, and shall continue till
we go through tho book.
Portraits of Senators Gordon and Hill.—
We are in recoipt of two magnificent and accu
rate Line Engravings of tbo statesmen whose
names head this article. They form part of a
series, embracing tho portraits of tho distin
guished Living Southern Statesmen, which is
being published by a leading Southern House.
They are both splendid works of art, and des
tined to take their places in the homes of our
people, beside Stuart’s Washington and other
masterpieces. We can commend to our readers
these pictures, and the enterprise, native
home-born, which gives them to us. Mr. James
T. Gray, Atlanta Ga., is the General Agont, and
ifesires an agent in every town and county of
the Slate, to place the portraits before the peo
ple. Apply to him for agencies or for the por
traits. Price, $2.00 each.
At (he t/unior Exhibition qf the Southern Finale
College, Iai Orange, Ga., June Viih, 1877.
Ladies and Gentlemen: It has boen somo
time since I’ve been “a Maying," or gone a
Juning into the flower fields of language). 1
wish that l could gather a bouquet of tributes to
ttiug ut tho feet of theso fair girls to-day; but as
tho spriug passes iuto summer, tho blossoms
tall from the troe. Very few fiowers grow iu tho
saw-dust of tho court house; aud it is not atleo-
tation which causes me to admit to fooling inad
equate to an occasion that, like a vase, should
hold only tho beautiful or tho graceful.
But there is ouo subject tho soil of which,
whenever I viow it, has bloomed somo flower
that I never saw boforo: it is woman’s influence
in refining mankind—her touches on the heart.
Many an artist has toiled with brush and braiu
to copy the portraits of tho old masters. They
sometimes catch tho face—sometimes delineate
tho form—but tho deft drapery, the iudcfiuable
Bhndowing8-lortli ol their modols, they each aud
all ever fail to reach. And so tho artist iu lau-
guago may paint a violet eyo, or rosy oheok or
coral lip, or Grecian-graceful form; tut thero is
something iu woman beyond tho taco or form —
boyond tho colorings of language to portray—a
subtle influence woven of the finest threads of
her own fluo nature, which sho haugs like a del
icate embroidery upon tbo rougher heart of man.
Tbo fruit of this influence is broadest and
deepest iu sentiment aud therefore sontiuient is
the subject upou which I propose
“To go on refilling
Ami think of convincing while you tliluk of iliulng."
Imngino not for an iustant that it is a trivial
thetue! You have heard to-day of a rock of
ages. W hen the billows of the world's great sea
roll high against a man, true and honorable scu-
timents alone can resist them as Gibraltar “un
moved by the summer ripples of its Southern
or unshaken by tho fury of its tropical
storms. You have heard to-day that a thing of
beauty is a joy forever,” and this is true, wheth
er the beauty bo found in Toccoa, falling softly
aud whitely, like somo beautiful ballad from the
singing lips of nature, or whether found iu Tal
lulah, bursting forth like somo heroic epio from
tho heart of nature. But at last the beautiful iu
these only shall live in the beautiful sentiments
they create. You have heard of every-day
sculpture. The marble of Praxiteles is at last
but marble dust. Tho statuary of time will fail
aud fall. But tho statues of white sentiments
chiseled in the heart—these shall endure—these
shall be fitted iuto niches iu tho skies.
In truth, sentiments aud not yard-sticks
measure men. There's many a man tall aud
graudly tall to the common standard of stature,
who will walk through the etherial realms a very
duck-legged soul. Sentiments aud not beauty
measure women. On tho fair face of a white
heart, neither time nor eternity can write a
wrinkle.
Sentiments and not actions measure men.
Who can road the hieroglyphics of the human
heart? There's many a bright blade drawn with
a dark design. There’s many a true note, true
to our erriug ear,struck by a false hand. There’s
many a silver veil that shimmers over the face
of a hideous Mokaunali!
Sentimeuts and not intellect measure men.
There’s many a man whoso genius has coruscated
iu his own consciousness and has lit up a conti
nent of firesides, who has been the terror and
traitor of his own—coiling tho adder of a pois
oned nature on the white breasts of suffering
purity aud dying love.
It is orlhodox (it is in the catechism) to say
that God created man for His glory. It would
seem that there was a blunder either in the cre
ation or the catechism. But certain it is that
amongst tbo brush and briar and bramble ot
man’s fallen nature, there grow, tiniidlj’, and
feebly and thinly, some grafts of God. Ot these
are noble sentiments—tho sense of honor, gen
erosity, affection, charity, patriotism, justice—
these touches of truo nature “make the whole
world kin."
And true seutimeuts are the soprano of soci
ety, without which all else is discord. Cicero
said that the arts were bound together by a
chain. And so are people, so are societies. In
dividual societies and nations “march to fate
abreast.” But societies are at last what senti
ments, gathered together iu that great power
called public opiuion, make them. Public sen-
timeut coerces legislation, tinctures the decis
ions of courts, paralyzes tho power of sceptres,
and fixes the style of bonnetH. Public sentiment
prescribes the height of a gentleman’s soul and
tho height of a gentleman’s collar. There iB no
such safeguard to a people as a sound public
soutimeut. Government, like a chamelion,
takes its hue from the governed. A noble peo
pie will be generally well governed. True, ephe
meral oppressions and disasters may overtake
them—but a truo and noblo people will force
government up to tho level of truth aud nobility.
This is true of all governments, but especially
true is it of a nation where every ballot is a bil
low that washes against the ship of State.
And these many sentimeuts gathered together
into publio opinion, fix the taste of a people.
And this public taste goes far toward fixing the
standard of literature. For brain-workers toil
for mnrket; books are made to sell. What a
corrective power might not a sound public taste
iu America exercise! Our literature is a vast
confectionery. Books are sent out, like Mrs
Winslow’s sweet soothing-syrup —put up for a
known sickness—prescribed for the baby brain
of a Lilliputian age. The butterflies of tho brain
shimmer in the sunshine of popular purchase
but tho silk worms of the intellect toil on un
noticed and unknown to tho many, rotiuing the
fibres from which are to be woven tho silken
garments of truth aud philosophy.
Oh, for a book born in my own clime—a book
in which tho generous Southern heart, and the
noble Southern soul and tho brilliant Southern
mind were compressed—that it might go down
to the futuro—itself a history to our honor!
What a power then do you scepter who mould
and rule theso sentiments upon which so much
depends? To demonstrate a power demonstrates
a duty to rightly use it—a duty just as sacred as
fche power is extensive. Go then, noblewomen
of our clime, and while you shino on the iee of
sorrow and melt it away; while you shine on
life’s shadows and “shine the shadows out;”
while you shiuo on the graves of earth and
bloom the violets there, also shine on the senti
ments of your people, that they may
“like the stained web which whitens in the sun,
Grow pure by being purely hboue upon."
OUR BOOK TABLE.
Blackwood, tho oW favorite, is issued in Iho
latter part of the month, instead of in advauoe;
honoe the number tor June is just out. "A
Woman-hater" iu oonoludod; four good poemR
by J. U. 8., A Feather, So is the story told,
Thisbo aud Throe Houses; Twenty Yours of
Africau Travel; l'auliuo, part X; How 1 caught
my first Salmon; Lord Derby's Dispatch aud
tho Debate; Tho Storm in tho East, aud au iu-
dex to Vol. CXXI make up tho contouts. Leon
ard Scott Pub. Co. N. Y.
The Galaxy for July opens with an articlo on
•Tho Gospel of Culture." Miss Misanthrope is
continued. This is followed by two articlos on
two celebrated writers, Charlotte Pronto and
George Sand. Then como Zizi, the littlo De
tective; the Embroidery of History; Tho De
pression in Business; A day at a Country Homo
on tho Hudson; About Dreams; Our Ice-Man;
Tho Heart of England,by Richard Grant White;
Driftwood, Scientific Misoellany; Current Liter
ature; Nebula), and two poems—“Thou aud I,"
aud Arabosque. Sheldon A Co., publishers, N.Y.
Scrirner's for July is gorgeous with illustra
tions. The illustrated artioles are Bow-shooting;
Nicholas Minturn; Richmond since tho War
(capital articlo); Tho Noblemau of tho Steppe;
The Last Indian Council on tho Gencsco; Tho
Battlo of Buukuloo; Tho Depths of tho Sen;
aud Bric-a-Brno. Tho other articles are: Irrevo
cable; Measures; Forest Quiet; Plate Locks and
Paisley Shawls; Anecdotes of Gilbert Stuart;
The Nether Side of Life Insurance; Life; Tho
Brattloboro Method; Tho Mormon Theocracy
and the usual plethoric editorial departments.
Scribner & Co., publishers, N. Y.
A Singular Case.—A very singular lawsuit
on mo up in tho circuit court of Goshen, N. Y.,
recently. Last fall, several days nfter tho Pres
idential election, Isaac Ayers, of Elkhart, offered
to bet $100 that Tilden and Hendricks had re
ceived a majority of tho electoral votes cast.
Several Republican politicians accepted the offer
of Ayeic, aud James F. Hunt, a dry-goods mer
chant, was appointed the stake-holder. When
the result of the election was declared by Con
gress, Hunt turned ovor tho money to the Re
publicans urnlcr protest, Ayers at the time
declaring that he would sue him lor the money.
Ayers sued Hunt in Elkhart and was beaten,
but appealed the caso to tho circuit court, which
tame up before Judge Woods and a jury. The
jury, after hearing tho testimony, returned a
verdict in favor K)t Ayers for $100. This is the
third caeo of the kind that has occurred iu the
United States, each oue resulting the same us
ihifl pH* did.
THE STATE UNIVERSITY.
The papors of Georgia—many of them at least
—are earnestly discussing the condition of the
State University. That it is in a bud condi
tion all of thorn admit; and they oil agree,
with the same unanimity, that the unwise
course of tho Trustees in* allowing, or encourag
ing the resignation of certain professors, is the
principal cause of tho lack of prosperity. Tho
making of a term of office last only four years,
was an inexcusable mistake; and the Washing
ton Gazetto of last week, makes a charge of a
graver blunder still. It says: “Is it not prepos
terous to make tho gift oi a collego professor
ship dopend upon the religious sontiments of a
man, aud to apportion tho several chairs out in
proportiou to tho number of the various relig
ious sects in the State."
We agree with the Gazette, that such action is
preposterous, and yet wo believe, with our co
temporary, that this very thing has been done.
The course of the Trustees has been aotunted
by what appears to us small motives; and it is a
great pity that tho people of Georgia, whoso
property the University is, huvo no menus of
holding tho Trustees responsible.
St. Nicholas, tbo Boys and Gills’ Magazine,
opens with a thrilliug story of a little girl iu a
light-house ou tho North Carolina Coast. This
is followed by a highly interesting article on
gnnpowder. Then come: Aud the suu smiled;
Hevi; His own Master; Wild Mice aud their
Ways; the Feterkius’ Fourth of July; About
Swimming; tho Stars iu July, by Richard A.
Proctor; A Boy’s life on a Man-of-War; What
made Mr. Tompkius laugh; Going a-gypsyiug;
George the Third; The Giant Planet Jupiter;
Jamie’s Rabbits; and a number of minor artioles.
It is just the book to make the boys and girls
caper with delight when they see it enter the
house. Published by Scribner A Co., N. Y.
Lippincott’b for July opens with two admira
bly illustrated articles, Down the Rhine and
Edinburgh Jottings. After these come: A Law
Unto Herself; The Sweetener; An English Eas
ter; Tho Elixir; Leonie Regnault; Primary and
Secondary Education iu France; The Marquis of
Lossie; Somo Last Words from Saiute-Beuve; A
Few Letters; A Day’s March Through Finland;
Our Monthly Gossip; Literature of the Day.
Thero is also a pretty little poem, “From the
Flats,” by Sidney Lanier. Lippiucott & Co.,
Philadelphia.
Electic Magazine.—The July Eclectic, be
ginning a new volume, is a convenient number
with which to begin a subscription, aud its con
tents offer a good specimen of the sterling qual
ities of this excellent magazine. The leading
article is a statesman-like essay by Goldwin
Smith, entitled “The Political Destiny of Cana
da," aud this is followed by a curious article on
“The Religion of tho Great Pyramid," by Rich
ard A. Proctor; The Kitchen and the Cellar; A
Sonnet on Montenegro, by Allred Teunj’son; A
Sketch of Montenegro and the Montenegrins;
Other articles are Barry Cornwall; The Leveling
Power of Rain; Translations from Heiue; The
Hopes of Theology; My Neighbor’s Wife; Evi
dences of tho Age of Ice; Slavery in Egypt; Cu
rious Discoveries concerning Vision; A Mother’s
Heart; Young Musgrave, and some ten pages of
valuable editorial notes. Published by E. R.
Pelton, New York.
THE "MOLLY MAGUIRES."
Ou last Friday at Wilkesbarre, Penn., a “Mol
ly Maguire" was hung; at Pottsville two were
hung, and at Mauch Chunk, four. This is vir
tually the breaking up of an extensive organi
zation of desperate men, who have caused for
yeurs past a genuine reign ot terror in the an
thracite coal region of Pennsylvania.
It is difficult to tell what was the prime ob
ject of the organization. Most probably it be
gan simply as a labor-union among tho miners;
intended as a preventive of real or imaginary
wrongs, and was gradually manipulated by de
signing, desperate men until it became littlo
less than an organized band of murderers. Its
presence was first made known about ten years
ago by tho murder of a mining “boss," who
thwarted somo arbitrary rules which they had
set up to work by. Threats, assaults, arson,
and even murder bad before been iudulged iu,
evidently by premeditated plan aud concerted
action, but it was not tully ascertained that un
organization existed, having these crimes for its
secret purpose, aud having branches and a
large membership at every group of collieries in
the entire district. When this fact became
known, publio indignation was aroused to such
a state punishment without judge or jury would
have been administered could the criminals have
been pointed out to a certainty. But the gang
kept its secret well, observing but one measure
ot chance for its victims when they had been
selected for execution. This measure was
written warning, bearing the drawn character of
a coffin, skull aud cross-bones, or pistol sent by
mail to the victim in view, or fastened upon the
front door of bis residence. In almost every
oase where parties so threatened did not abandon
their position and leave the country, tho pistol
or knife of the assassin removed him.
A close watch was kept for years, and some
men were scrougly suspected, but no proof of
their guilt could be produced. Finally a young
Irishman named McFarlane was induced,
through Pinkerton’s detective agency, to attempt
to gain admission iuto their ranks. He suc
ceeded; took a laborer's position at mining
work, drank and caroused with the miners, at
tended the meetings of the assassins’ order and
participated in thoir plans for murder. He re
ported his progress regularly to the detective,
although the two were never seen together, and
nfter spending a whole year in this manner ob
tained enough information concerning past
murders and those which were committed dur
ing this time to juftify the authorities in bring
ing proceedings against the actual perpetrators.
Great consternation seized the Mollies when
some of them were arrested and charged di
rectly with the murder of their victims. Con
tributions were levied on the ranks to pay the
cost of a defense, and thus they have for two
years vainly fought the law and the evidence.
Many of them fled tho country, some to be
captured and brought back, aud others to lead
the detectives into unsuccessful chase. In the
ranks were found politicians, office holders and
professional mon, and all who bore a prominent
part iu the murders were “spotted." Those
who have not been arrested yet most likely will
be captured.
Without going too muoh into details, suffice
it to say that the prolonged trials resulted in
the hanging of seven of the Mollies last Friday,
and the most desperate band of outlaws ever
known in American history is considered to be
broken up.
Hartranft, as Commander-in-Cbicf of the
Grand Army of tho Republic, sent a dispatch of
cougratulatious to Grant, aud of thanks to Eng
land for his reception. Tho dispatoh was di
rected: “Gen. U. p. Grant, iu care of her Mnjef-
ty, Queen Victoria, Buckingham Palace, Lon
don." The plain iuferenco iu that Yictoria keeps
a hotel, the Buckingham, and that Grant is
boarding with her, uud orders his letters direct
ed to hor care.
NEW8 Or THB WEEK.
Wade Hampton diuod with Governor Robin
son in Albany, N. Y.j last Thursday.
Col. Goorgu P. Kano, who has boen nominated
by the Domoorats for Mayor of Baltimore, was
Marshal of that city during tho early part of
tbo war aud Bervod his time at Forts LaFuyotto
and Warren.
Tho body of Mary Ella Harrington, abduoted
from BUst Boston nearly a year ago, was dis
covered Wednesday night in the Morrimao river,
about six miles from Lowell, Mnss. The body
was bound with ropes iuto tho smalloet possible
compass, and sowed in a sack and weighted
down. It afterwards transpired that she bad
died under attempted abortion, and tho parties
supposed to bo implicated have boon arrested.
At areceut skirmish ou Salmon river, Oregon,
tho Uuited States troops under Col. Poiry, wero
badly routed with a heavy loss—over sixty in
killed and wounded.
Austria is doubtful wliother she should per
sist in maiutaiuiug her neutrality.
At Zoidikun, or Saidachun, tho Turks woro
defeated by tho Russians under Gou. Tergukas-
saff, aud tho Turkish commander Mohiuct was
killed. The Turks wero largely outnumbered,
aud thoir detent amounted to a rout.
A wide-spread aud devastating conflagration
raged last Thursday iu St. Johus, New Bruns
wick, reducing fully half of the entire city to
ashes. Several vossels were burned to tho wa
ter’s edge. Five mon aud two in nuts nro known
to be lo-t, while many nro missing. Tho loss is
estimated at ton or fifteen millions. A famine
is threatened. Tho area burned is nearly two
hundred acres. A dispatch says: Every street,
square uud alley is filled with furniture. Thous
ands of people aro without either food or shelter,
Tho International Company’s steamer New York
sheltered and fed one thousand persons last
night, and the vessols iu tbo stream have largo
numbers of peoplo on board. Thousands had
to get away from the lower part of the city by
boats. Fifteen tbousaud people were made
homeless; uud womeu and children wandered
about tho streets crying for bread. Telegrams
from all quarters indicated tho next day, that
supplies were being rapidly sent forward for tho
relief of the sufferers.
Clerk Adams has made out the list, and
nounces that the next House of Representatives
will have eight Democratic majority.
The Freedman’s Bank commissioners say they
will ultimately pay fifty cents on the dollar.
Hayes has issued a circular to office-holders
in whioh he calls attention to this rule of the
Treasury Department, which, ho says, must
apply to all departments: “No officer should
bo required or permitted to take part in the
management of political organizations,caucuses,
conventions or election campaigns. Their right
to vote and to express their views on publio
questions, either orally or through the press
is not denied, provided it does not interfere with
tho discharge of their official duties. No assess
ment for political purposes on officers or subor
dinates should bo allowed." This ruling is tho
act of a patriot, nnd not of a partisan.
Tho Canadian Government is moving for Sit
ting Bull's expulsiou from Canada. S. B. is
destired to have a hard time.
Thero was a slight frost in the vicinity of To
ledo, Ohio, last Saturday night.
Four robbers wero detected in a Lake Shore
Express car, overpowered, arrested and impris
oned, Saturday.
Several reckless ship-laborers in Montreal,
tried last Saturday to buy gunpowder and dyna
mite with which to blow up the slips whose
agents hud refused to pay their commands.
Considerable excitement prevailed.
The Egyptian Government is seriously alarm
ed over tho discovery of a conspiracy to destroy
tho passage of Suez Canal by blowing in the
bank with nitro-glycerine at a point between Is-
maila and Port Said. Most stringent measures
of precaution huvo been adopted to foil the"
conspirators.
Chief-Justice Waite writes a card iu which he
says he never made any complaint about being
snubbed in Charleston, aud that he and liis
daughter are much annoyed at the newspaper
paragraphs to that effect.
Mukhtar Pasha claims to have walloped the
Russians at Hiliatz, on the 20th.
Hayes has made at least one sweet appoint
ment—that of Miss Ada Sweet, pension agent
for Illinois.
The steamer Palestine fiom Boston exploded,
killing eighteen and wouuding others.
Governor Hampton was among the bulls and
bears of Wall Street, Saturday.
The Attorney-General expresses himself satis
fied with tho explanation of Marshal Srnythe, of
Georgia. He is ovidently easily satisfied.
Tho revenue officers are raidiug around iu
Teuuessee. Occasionally a distiller is killed.
Tho Now York Sun has a sensation about
slicing six or seven Slntes from Mexico. Mr.
Evarts on reading it laughed at the oaption, but
looked grave after he had partly read tho para
graph, and became indignant towurd tbo close.
He fiually said, with a sneer, which brought his
nose and chin very olose together, that the
newspapers must amuse the people. This is
au example of what an effect a newspaper arti
cle can have on a great man’s physiognomy.
Marblehead, Muss., has been devastated by
fire. Seventy-two buildings have been burned,
and hundreds of men and women in the shoe
manufactories were thrown out of employment.
The loss was $500,000.
A stunning banquet was given to Grant, Sat
urday night, by the corporation of Trinity
House. The Prince of Wales presided and the
dignitaries were numerous. There was any
quantity of giiBh, and you may rest assured that
Ulysses put a full share of the liquids inside of
his vest. So much for “the drunken tanner
whom the Democrats of Galena picked up out
of the gutter and placed in command of a regi
ment," sixteen years ago.
MacMahon has pardonod 844 more commun
ists.
Fannie Brown, arrested at St. Louis and
brought to Philadelphia on tho charge of ab
ducting Mary Mnsterson, aged ten years, plead
guilty and was sentenced to five years imprison
ment in the Eastern penitentiary.
G. Wiley Wells, ex-Congressman from Missis
sippi, has been appointed consul-general to
China.
A storm last Sunday did immense damage in
Pennsylvania, Ohio, Illinois, Iowa, Missouri and
Kansas. Five hundred trees in Douglas Park,
Chicago, were blown down. The damage to
wheat in one oounty in Illinois amounts to
$100,000. A telegram from Cincinnati says the
damage to orops is incalculable. The storm
came from the west. No lives were lost.
The Indians who are making things lively in
Idaho, are the Nez Perces, commanded by one
Joseph. Up to this time they seem to have
killed every white man they could got a glimpse
of. If Sam Bard could only be made Governor
of Idaho now l
At tho capture of Ardahan soveral Russian
soldiers wore guilty of ntronitiHi upon the in
habitants, aud houses were in few Instances en
tered, men killed uud womou outraged. No
soouur had these nets ot lawlessness reached tho
ears ot tho Russian com in under than he ordered
a most vigilant investigation lo be miulo. The
consequence was that tho whole battalion to
which they bulouged was ordered out and shot.
So says a telegram. This is a considerable
improvement on tho discipline of tbo Uuited
StatcB army in tho Into war. Shevmnn's bum
mers made such atrocities common, during his
march to tho son, but no perpetrator was evor
punished, ho fat) as hoard from, exoept thoso
that fell into the lmuds of Wheeler's cavalry.
The wheat crops of Ohio, Indiana, Missouri
and Michigan arc represented ns about ten per
oent nbovo an average. This is good nows. It
iudientes that ns soon as thoso crops oan bo har
vested and put on tho mnrket,flour will go down,
down, down. Wo do not nrguo from this, how
ever, rb tho Atlanta Constitution does, that
Georgia farmers should rush their whent on the
matkot, while tho prico is high, unless thoy liavo
a surplus. A farinor is doing an unwise thing if
ho sells provisions which lio has made, and
which he needs for liis own consumption, with
tho hope of buying more in tho futuro at a re
duced price.
Mil. C. II. Williams, of Columbus, will bo a
candidate for secretary of thb Constitutional
Convention. Wo never saw Mr. Williams iu the
role of Secretary, but wo do know that ho was
oue of the most industrious uud enterprising
newspaper men wo ever knew, during the time
ho was in charge of tho Colnmbns Times,
displayed all the qualities of a thorough-going
business mau in that capacity, and we doubt uot
ho would bring tho same characteristics into
play if ho were elected Secretary of the Conven
tion. Ho will certainly prove a hard man to
beat.
Antony Goble expiated the crime of murder
by hanging at Eliijay Friday. The murder was
committed in Gilmer county in November last,
and though a strong appcul was made to tho
Governor for executivo clouiency, he refused to
interfere with tho first suntenco of the law. The
sheriff of Gilmer couuty rosigned his place rather
than hang the condemned man.
Mb. Cox’s Speech. —At our request IIon.A.H.
Cox has luruished us with a copy of the beauti
ful address made at tho recent Junior Exhibition
of the Southern Female College, and it will be
fouud published in this paper.
Among tho graduates last week at the Naval
Academy at Auuupolis, wero Thomas M. Brum
by aud James M. Oliver,of Georgia. The former
stood thirteenth, nud the latter twenty-first, in
a class of forty-five.
About ouo hundred negroes voted in Mitchell
county ou the 12th, after being informed by tho
sheriff that ho had executions against them for
taxes. Thoy will be indicted at the November
court.
They lave invented an umbrella in England
.which iB folded up and confined in a staff about
the size of a large walking-cane. Taking hold
of it and pressing a spriug, you make it come
out at the other end and open itself. Thoy call
it the rhabdoskidopherous. If you want to bor
row one during an April shower, the rain would
bo over before you could got through asking
for it.
Notice to druggists and storekeepers: I guar
antee Shriuer’s Indian Vermifuge to destroy and
expel worms from the human body, where they
exist, if used according to directions. You aro
authorized to soli it on the abovo conditions.
David E. Foutz, proprietor, Baltimore, Md. For
sale by Callaway & Waterman, LaGrango, Ga.
DIED,
After a very short illness of inflammation of tho bruin,
sweet little Ernr.L, infant daughter of Wiley W. and
Mary Arnold, at their home ucur Long Cane, Juno 2.1,
1877; aged 7 months uud 15 days.
It is well” with the child. And whllo you weep, fond
parents, over the death of your flrst-boru, bo suddenly
•aught away from your loving embrace, remember tho
wordB of Jesus: “What I do thou knowest uot now; but
thou Shalt know hereafter.” It is your comfort to say
from tho heart, “Thy will be dono.”
“Ill that God blesses, is our good,
Aud unblest good is ill;
Aud ull is right that seems most wrong,
If it bo His dear will.”
June 27, 1877.
Christian Index aud State Lino Press pleaso copy.
OBITUARY.
MATTIE WARE.
“Death lies on her like an untimely frost
Upou tho sweetcHt flower of ull the field.”
* 'Death can not como
To her untimely who is fit to die;
Tho lesB of this cold world, tho more of heaven
The briefer life, the earlier immortality.”
On the Cth of May, Mattie, tho beloved daughter of
Daniel aud Mary A. Ware, closed hor bountiful eye
ovor upon tho world. Aye l Mattie “sloopeth.” But
“if she sleep she shi.ll do well.” Why then mourn as if she
wero extinct—annihilated—lof-t? Know ye Hint they
which "sleep in Jesus will God bring with him? ” Dut
alas! sho is lost to us for all time—lost from a lather’s fond
devotion, from a mother’s tender love, from tho magic
circle of brothers and sisters, from the sweet companion
ship of loving iriends. Lost from her sphere of useful
ness, from her holy uud- refining influence* iu-sc
from the assembly of devout worshippers iu the houso of
God. For seven long weeks she was u prey to torturing
disease. How painful the task to watch tho gradual
•vanesconcu 11 her matchless beauty—the roseate hue of
health fade from her cheek—the beaming eyo grow dim
and lustreless—tho mind, with its rich stores of int-llcct,
succumb to tho mighty destroyer; and abovo all, tho
heart, gushing with noble aud genorous emotions, rod'
lent with kindly affections aud pious aspirations, gradu
ally ccuso to pulsate, and at last stilled forever iu tho icy
grasp of Death. O! the wail of anguish wrung from tho
hearts ol the loving, slocplSls, watchers in that dark and
doleful hour. How heavily then, fell tho burden of her
loss upou tho heart of tho clinging,idolizing mother. Tho
briglicst ray o. suushiue had gouo out from the old home.
The fairest flower had been shattered in all its wealth of
incense and beauty. Tho sweetest note of melody bad
ceased its vibratious upon tho ear of love—for tho darling
of tho household was gone, aud there is nouo other like
her. She was all that a daughter aud sister should be—all
that a modest, refined, cultivated Christian woman could
be. Tho whole moral beauty of hor character may be
summed up, iu au apt quotation from tho wise
comprehouslvo summary of womanly excellence: “Many
daughters have dono virtuously, but thou," Mattio,
cellest them all.”
Several days previous to her final one, sho felt a pun
gent conviction of sin, nnd was deeply impressed with
the necessity of a change of heart At her earnest request
the Rev. M. D. Hardin visited, and conversed freely with
her. During prayer ut her bedside, tho "Dove of Peace’
descended into her heart, filling it with happiness unut
terable. Her wholo faco became radiant with holy joy,
as if she had had a vision of tho heavens opened and tho
reconciled countenance of hor Savior welcoming her to
his arms of love; aud Uiub she sweetly fell asleep in Jesus.
A Friend.
New Advertisements.
WHEAT WANTED.
W E want to barter for 1000 bushels of whont. Would
pay a little Cosh on a hard press. Don’t want
smutty wheat.
Troup Factory, Juno 20,1877.
TROUP FACTORY FLOURING MILL8
O UIt Mills are now in fine order. Lately bought
bolting cloth, nice and flno. Sun your wheat L.
sending. Damp and smutty wheat nover does woll. Send
in nice, cleau bags. No guano or com sacks.
LESLIE, Agent.
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THE NEW YORK 8TORE.
W E toko pleasure in announcing to tho people of La-
Graugo and its vicinity that wo have Just opeuod at
our new stand on tho north Bide of the Publio Square in
the well known house of J. M. Beall A Sou, one of the
largest aud boat aolocted stocks of Goods evor brought to
LuGraugo. Consisting in
LADIES’ DRESS GOODS,
PIQUES, LINENS, LAWNS,
JACONETS, 8WIS8,
NAINSOOKS, MUSLINS,
ALPACAS, he,
Togethor with tho prettiest lot of
CALICOES
ever offered for salo in LaGrango,
NOTIONS! NOTIONS!
Great bargains iu Ladies’ Silk Handkerchiefs, Ladies'
Ties, Dows, .'iclius, Ribbons, Portmouius, Dolts,Gloves,
Ladies’ aud Children's Hosiery, and other articles too
numerous to mention. So call and see for yourself and
DOMESTICS!
Wo carry a largo lot of Dloachod Domestics, Osnaburgs,
Drills, Checks fur ladies Dresses, Striped and Checked
Ojutburga, D jd-ticking.
CLOTHING.
Our stock of clothing has boen bought under tho tight
money pressure aud wo guarantee you a larger stock to
select from and lower prices than you huvo ever had of
fered. Our stock of Pieco Goods is largo uu l will bo sold
HATS! HATS!
FOUTZ'S
NORSK AND CATTLE POWDER!,
£1;
no iionsa win uio oi tOLIO, UOTT8 or LUXd F|>
Y*m if Foutz'a Powders arc used in time.
Koutzl Powders will euro and prevent Iloo Citoltoa.
JarwBsSE ,w,u , ' rovo “ {
pcolalljr Turkoya. ^
Koutz’a Powder* will, increase the quantity of milk
and cream twenty per coal, aud tuake the buttoVflrtn
and sweet.
Fontz’s Powders will cure or prevent almost stmt
Disbars that Horses and Cattlo aro heir to.
Foute'h Powders will oiys Batibeactioy.
Bold everywhere.
DAVID M. FOUTZ, Proprietor,
BALTXXOBJB, Md.
GROCERIES! GROCERIES!
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J. O. FORBES. T. J k HARWELL.- In
•T. C. FORBES Jfc GO.
WHOLESALE AND RETAIL-
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LaGrange, Georgia.
Soutli-woat Phlo Public Square.
ON HAND
S U C* A. It,
C O F F ffi K ,
MOL.-A.HHH1H,
MID F. MEAT,
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OUl
O . K . II AMS,
8YKUP,
SHOULDERS,
FLOUU,
TOBACCO,
SMOKING TOBACCO,
STAPLE HitY GOODS,
HARDWARE,
BOOTS,
N H O E W ,
CROCKERY,.
HATS,
TABLE CUTLERY,
Y A It N H ,
JEANS,
STRIKES,
CHECKS,
OSNABURGS.
AGENTS FOR
ZELL’S
CELEBRATED
GUANO.
COTTON OPTION 15 CTS l’KU POUND.
suro to have i
SHOES! SHOES!
HARDWARE! HARDWARE!
Table Cutlory, Pocket Cutlery, Bolts, Bita, Augers,
Chisels, Files Saws, aud in fact everything else kept in a
first cUbb hardware storo.
CROCKERY! CROCKERY!
FANCY GROCERIES!
All tho abovo goods have been bought at tho lowest
possible prices, aud wo are determined to sell, and will
not bo undersold by any fair competition. So call soon
and buy your goods at bottom figures.
June 20, 1877.
COMMISSIONERS’ 8ALE.
GEORGIA, TROUP COUNTY.
B V virtue of acommlBKlou to us directed by authority
of Troup Superior Court, to distribute o trust cBtotn
created by Dr. A. C. Waro, wo will ecU to tho highuat
bidder before tho court bouse door lo LaGrange, within
- - - In
tbo lawful hours of salo, on tbo flret Tuesday in August
uext, the bourn and a two aero lot ae described In the
trust deed, commonly known aa Dr. A. C. Ware's late res
idence aud lot, and at present occupied by Dr. J. A.Cban-
plo and family. Sold for distribution. TermB of Balo
Jur- -°"”
eaab. This Juno 18, 1877.
LaGrango, Ga. 26-7
JOHN F. MORELAND,
T. 8. BUADF1ELD,
A. D. ABRAHAM,
Commissioners.
WHERE TO SPEND THE SUMMER
I F you are thinking of spending tho summer In a pleas-
ant hoalthy locality, amidst beautiful Bconery, with
daily mail communications, with a kind aud hospitable
peoplo, anil in a climate whero you can sleep pleasantly
every night, como to the
NATIONAL HOTEL, DALTON, GA.,
100 miles north of Atlanta. A delightful mountain rogion
good water, uo debilitating weather nor mosquitoos.
Charges modorato and satisfaction guaranteed. Corre
spondence solicited. Address,
20t NATIONAL HOTEL, Dalton, Ga.
cheap as good printing can to done anywhere.
SATISFACTION GUARANTIED.
Send ui your orders.
and customers.
BOYD & LINCH.
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BOYD & LINCH.
***£. croc***'*’
OUR TERMS ARE CASH,
J. C. FOUIIF8 & CO.
DRY COOODS! DRY GOODS!
IWT-Kim* MVOCK.
EVERYTHING
THAT THE TRADE
DEMANDS IN THIS LINE 18 KEPT.
A SPECIALTY MADE OF
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SOUTHERN MADE GOODS.
ONE OF THE
BEST ASSORTMENTS OF
MM. O MU m
TO BE FOUND IN THE CITY.
D ALLIS & GRAY.
LIVERY, FEED AND SALE STABLE
H. I*. SMITH,
FRANKLIN STREET, OPPOSITE FLOURING MILLS,
LaGrange, Geor«ia.
NEW AND GOOD TURNOUTS,
DRAYS, &o .
a can be had anywhere.
Wapfon Yard.
People lu Troup, Meriwether and Hoard countie* are
notified that I have a good wagon yard and can accommo
date wagouerB and teams with whatever thoy want. Givo
mo a call whuu you como to LaGrange.
S. I*. SMITH,