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ATTORNEYS AT LAW,
ALBANY, GEORGIA
DOCTORS*
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toe tkLnnd wank, dear deceutd oata, Irtta
miwm Irtrt tnlrndaced lo thUcountry. toe tbe
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liberty wf laferriaeta Dr w W Faraom, DrJ Jane*
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aad wlU ralbty tkaaa auklae a bmuliful mnrk rt
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JWEEP GQQX*!
At usual in put jean, we again offer
onr services to tbe citizens of Southwest
Georgia in tlie ICE and LKMON line.
We propoae to rite satisfaction in all oar
dealings, whether in receiving orders Bom
borne or at a distance.
100 pound tickets, : : ; : $2-85
SO - “ 1.15
Those who do not purchase tickets will
pleaaeeoptl tbe money, u we will not
charge email quantities of ice. Sunday
boars9 to II A. M , 3 to5 P. SI.
W. E. & K. J. CUTLIFF.
OlN REPAIRING!
h. h. McAlister
Herafcy artfsa lha public that ha la prepared Is
Repair all kinds of Cotton
Gins,
mmi wyartflilly aolirits patron 12**. FatMactlon
COBfMrtMi. Write, or call Bt my headquarter* next
to Lckou'iibop, Jackson street. Albany, Ga.
Lower Price than Ever!
THE ALBANY NEWS
By WESTON, EVANS & WASBEN.}
Devoted to the Interests of Albany and Southwest Georgia.
{$2.00 Per Annum
VOLUME 13.
ALBANY. GEORGIA, T H U It S D AY, AUGUST 28. 1879.
NUMBER 35
Glimpses of the Lone Star State.
Limritro, Ga., Aug. 20,1879.
Editors Albany -Veter.-
My last closed with saying, “A
Texas tank Is a ravine dammed up so
as to hold water.” They have public
and private tanks, and often water
hat to be hauled from them five or
aix miles. Fire wood, post wood,
etc., in numbers of cases are brought
ten or twelve miles. Improved land
selling at ten to twenty-five dollars
per acre; unimproved at from five to
ten dollars per acre. This land, when
the seasons are propitious, will bring
from 25 to 40 bushels of corn per
acre, and three-quarters of a bale of
cotton. It also brings very good
wheat, oats, etc. Very little iruit is
raised. Trees planted on lids black
land soon die, and vegetables will
not thrive nor make anything of val
ue. If a man had this land given him
he could not live on it for less thau
1500 or $1,000 per year. Everything,
literally everything has to be bought.
You have to pay $30 per. acre for
timber, and when you get it you
have nothing bat scrub cedar or post
oak. The barbed wire, for fencing
purposes, costs 12'„ cents per pound,
anil lumber $18 to $24 per thousand
feet.
The section of country I have been
describing is, by far, 1 think, the
BEST PORTION
of Texas. It consists of the counties
of Kaufman, Collin, Grason, Denton,
Farrant, Dallas, Ellis, Xcvarro, Lime
stone, Hill anil Johnson. Pretty
much all of the vacant land is own
ed by Northern capitalists anil the
railroad companies. Fanning is done
mostly by white labor, wages hv the
month being from $14 to $20 and
feed. A good many rent either for
money or part of the crop. When
for money, $5 per acre;" crop, third
of corn and fourth of cotton. The
landlord, if he rents 40 acres of laud
furnishes a shanty for the tenant to
live in, and a poor, miserable shanty
is, too. This eountry when wet is
the “wettest” and muddiest in the
world, and when dry the drvest. You
never leave a track in Texas. You
either carry it with you or the ground
too hard to make an impressiou.
The renters anil laborers here are
ople from the old Slates, who came
to Texas to “better their condition.”
They came with just money enough
to reach here. All would be glad to
get back to their old homes, realizing
that there is truth indeed in the lines,
‘there is more in the man than there
in the land.” I talked with hut
two men who would not sell out. I
found nothing in this part of Texas
to induce immigration.
In my next I will speak of the Bra
zos and Southern sections of the Lone
Star State. Very respectfully,
Wm. C. Gill.
$1.50 Per Barrel!
Use
it as a Disinfectant
Brkkltfm, Pbutema, Wblt*wm*b«n, etc., a boa Id
cell or rm for tbe very beat article, either by letter
ertofCOM. j j BRIXSOX,
jtiljlS Alton*. Ga.
WESLEYAN
FEMALE COLLEGE,
asAOoxr. a a.
HyilX BEGIN JT?4 42l> ANNUAL HEHHION ON
"Wednesday, September 17th
The Beat Advantages in the South at
Moderate Rates.
JOrHend for eatalofoe and terms to
JUv. W. G\ BASS, I>. !>.,
joJjSlAe Prmldent.
A MONTH gusnuitend.
da* at borne made by the Indus
trious. Capital not required;
will start too. Men, wm
v and pleasant, and sueb m an*-
om can fo right aL Tbow who are wise who an*
this net lee will send ns tbHr addressee at owes and
asc far them dvrs. CesU* Outfit and terms free.
New Is tbe time. Those already at work are Is*In*
up tores sums of moos*. Addrrm T * —*
Augusta, Maine.
Atlanta Medical College
TbeTweat*4*reo$*d Annual Gour»* of licturr*
win commence October 16th, 16''J, and close Marrb
^iccWT-JO Westmoreland, W F WVmioor*
Iaod.1V A Lore. V If TaHsfom* JnoThad Jobnw.t*.
A WMhSss, J H Logs*. J T Banks; Demonstrator.
'Mafias Id rrtkipt effort* opportuolty
to. . IWrt mAjtcml .duration.
HMla arallallow wltb.ood II* ticket* *od diplo-
uu rmaiad by, overy Iradiof medical I oil,,, lu
tka country.
KiquIttwbU tor graduation u heretofore.
Hem* tor Aaoowoeeoraat,f1elDf toll tofonnalian
no. TUS JOHNSON, M. D, Drt.
tutilm AUaou,Ga.
FROM BIKER.
Crops—Snakes—Wild Cat—Faxes—Decr-Aid
Bob Tall Doss.
Hogg inn's Mill, Ga., August 15.
Editors News : An attempt is all I
can make in regard to giving you a
correct statement of the crops in tjjp
12th district. In my opinion the cat
erpillar alarm is somewhat subsid
ing ; though where there is so much
smoke there is some fire. My figures
on the corn crop are 50 per cent; and
provided the caterpillar does not ap
per in sufficient force to eat the cot
ton up in 30 days from date I think
the crop will be about tJO per cent,
but if Ihey come now the crop will be
almost nothing.
In the past few days wc have been
playing havoc with the rattlesnakes.
No. 1. killed by Jordan and Mathis,
on Lyon farm, with 8 rattles and u
button. Xo. 2, killed by Jordan, on
same place, with 9 rattles and a but
ton, anil an ineision of about 6 inches
in the body disclosed 30 young ones,
8 to 10inches in length. Xo. 33,killed
on my place, with 10 rattles and a
button. Xo. 31, killed on Lyon farm,
by Mathis & Co., 8 rattles. If it hail
been a good week for snakes I don’t
know bow many we would have
killed. lint it being a poor week for
snakes, we turned our attention to
cat hunting. Though it being the
same as for snakes, u had week for
eats, we only caught 4 cats, 2 fox and
4 deer, one of the latter being caught
without shooting, and 2 killed at one
shot. Hut there is nothing like haV'
ing good dogs; hut as I have told you
before, d—il if a hob-tailed dog can
run with one with a long tail, anil es
pcciallv on a log. Yours, etc.,
* L. J. M.
The Moat Beautiful Woman in
America.
An English artist by the name of
Morgan was engaged to engrave the
image, for the new standard dollar.
He desired for the purpose lo get the
fare of a representative American
woman. With this object in view, he
sought for her at the resorts ami in
all prominent plneen, hut failed to
find his ideal. At length, while
walking in the streets of 1‘hiladel
phia, he saw a (are that at once satis
tied him, and upon inquiry ns to who
the Imly was, found her to he Miss
Annie W. Williams, a teacher in
House of ICefuge school in IMiiladcl
phia. It is her face whose imagi
adorns our National dollar, ami
which thousands of her countrymen
daily look at anil admire. .Mr. Mor.
gan pronounced her profile the finest
lie had ever seen.
When you see a man with a wild
haggard look negotiating fur a rock
ing chair and a soap dish, you can
know that his landlady iusists ou his
replacing the furniture he threw out
of the window at the cats the previ
ous night
Neighboring Notes.
PENCIL POINTS OF PEOPLE AND FLACKS.
Dr. B. C. Mitchell and family, of
Calhoun county, are summering the
balance of the heated term in Talbot
county.
Mr. Sidney Cook, formerly of Mil
ford, but now of Atlanta, is at home
visiting friends. He is doing well in
the Gate City. Such an enterprising
young man deserves success.
It is with groat sorrow Bnd tribu
lation that we learn of Dawson’s in
capacity (?) for the storage of cotton.
Only seven warehouses there. Where
are tho men to build tho eight one 7
The Bainbriilge Democrat, in speak
ing of trade prospects, says that “Ba
ker guarantees us five thousand hales
of cotton this year that havo never
been brought here before.” Is our
contemporary certain that Baker has
guaranteed it ?
Joe Johnson, of Smithville, is not a
pugilist, no, not he. To express it in
his own words, “Eyes a base ballist.”
But those dear littlo oplics of thine
are almost well, Joey,so you can shed
briny rivers without danger of in
flaming them more.
The Cuthliert Appeal refuses to
publish an obituary exhibiting tbe
virtues of an old subscriber, because
he died several years in arrears lo
that paper. It says it has firmly re
solved to eeaso publishing the noble
qualities of any one who dies in its
debt.
A young lady living near Summer
ville found a. dog the other day kill
ing one of her father's sheep, and in
stead of fainting before his canine
prowess, she tied a rope around his
neck, aud forced tho dog to accom
pany her one mile to a neighbor’s
house, where she had the sheep cater
killed.
Mr. A. J. Alford, of Worth, is
live man—a man of practical ideas,
and one who is fast developing the
resources of his section. We want a
few dozen Alforils down here.—Ber
rien County News. Tho above
strictly true of Mr. Alford. Coming
from the old North State to our sec
tion he “rolled up his sleeves” aud
fairly set himself to work. Our peo
ple know how well lie has succeeded.
His example should be imitated br
others.
Girls are very patient creatures, ns
general thing. They are patiently
watching the dissolution of that noble
band of bachelors at Leary. We do
not mean an “earthly dissolution,”
bat a dissolving of the bands of celi
bacy that seem to fence them in.—
One of tbe boys has “broke loose,” to
use a Texas cattle phrase, and it won’t
be long before some of the “Inno
cents” will be following suit. The
Great Mogul of them all, Capt. Boyd,
still wears I1I9 button hole bouquet to
perfection. He is patiently waiting
for a dart from Cnpid. Sling him
one, not one, but many, girl9.
The Cnthbert Southern says but
few know to-day the extent of grape
culture and wine manufacture in
Randolph county. Some years ago
a few pioneers in this branch of in
dustry tested the matter, and found
that there was a handsome margin
for profit in the production of wine,
and numbers of vineyards have
sprung up in every part of the coun
ty, which arc now flourishing and
vigorous, turning out thousands of
gallons of wine annually. These lands
seem to be the home of the grape, es
pecially the scuppernong variety, and
a good vineyard there is a fortune to
its possessor.
Our faithful Leesburg correspon
dent, Judge K. J. Warren, is slowing
tending his salivigant steps home
wards. He has had a pleasant time
in the up country, and contributed
much pleasure to our readers by his
letters of description of what lie has
seeu. The Judge, though in middle
age, has an imagination that is as red
olent of flowers and tho sweet things
of life as when he was a flushing
youngster of eighteen years. Ho
loves the girls with all his soul and
heart, but from some inexplicable
mystery that even a god of riddles
could not solve, he has never married,
But, “man is ever blessed with hope,”
etc., and wc will not be at all surpris
ed to hear of his nuptial at any time,
We know he is a great deal handsom
er than John Gorman and Capt.
Triplett, and they say there is a chance
for them. They arc all three in the
same boat. Who will jump out first ?
The Baltimore Gazette states the
question in very few words. Here
they are: “The Republican party,
through its platform and pressevery-
wlicre, is committed to the doctrine
that the war obliterated State lines
Tmd made this u centralized nalion,
with powers similar to those posses
sed liy an empire. The Democratic
parly continues to maintain the doc
trine Hint we arc a nation so far as
the powers delegated to the Federal
agents extend, and that for all other
purposes wo are a republic of sover
eign States. In oilier words, the
Democratic party is the Constitution
al party of the land now, as it always
was. The issue is plainly one be
tween the republic and centralization,
and we couldn’t say more if we made
a two hours’ speech.”
Men whose business drives them to
the wall—Billposters.
News Items.
Beer drinking has invaded Jerusa
lem, nnil the beverage is now drank
on Mount Olivet.
California is tho State which next
holds an election, the date being Sep
tember 3. Maine follows on the 8th
inst.
Sain Tildcn is said to lie happy.—
As happy as n mellow autumn apple
looks. We arc glad of it. Is Hayes
happy? Can fraud give out such?
No.
Carpenter's portrait of Dr. Craw
ford W. Long, lale of Athens, (in., the
discoverer of surgical anesthesia,
which is designed for the Capitol at
Atlanta, has been placed in position.
Anesthesia is the medium by which
pain is entirely destroyed.
All but one member of the staff of
the Memphis Avalanche have left the
city for healthier localities, anil the
paper is now gotten out by Major
Fred. Nicholls, the “Old Man,” who
edited, set type and printed the puper
during all last year's epidemic.
The Augusta Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist hits the unil squarely on
Ihc head when it says, “Some of the
Georgia papers think Judge Hall's
railroad bill must be a gooil one, be
cause it is of Massachusetts origin.—
What is sauce tor the Massachusetts
goose is not always sauce for the
Georgia gander.”
Mr. Weston of the Albany News in
his notes on “Indian Springs,” locales
Hon. J. H. Blount in the Fifth Con
gressional district. That won’t do.—
We have no independents in the Sixth
district.—Millcdgcville Recorder.
Thank you for correcting us. May
the old Sixth ever be solid. Xo
usurpers uuder an “independent”
guise arc wanted there. Ditto second
district.
General Ewing says he is confident
he will be elected Governor of Ohio.
He says the people mean business,
and meaning it they will go tlicir
wliolc soul into the work. He be
lieves lie will get the entire green
back vote. Wc do not count much
on the latter; but on the “business”
part of the campaign we put our re
liance.
Col. Willingham of the Cnrtorsvillc
Free Press predicts that the “Inde
pendents” will capture next year six
of the nine congressional districts,
and the governor by forty thousand
majority. Col. Willingham, by the
wav, is a Mother Shipton in political
matters. He’s always saying some
thing’s going to happen. And that
something always forgets itself so far
as not to happen. Cruel treatment to
the Colonel, sure.
And now it comes to pass that Mrs.
Nellie Grant Sartoris is uot dead, the
newspaper and telegraphic accounts
to the contrary notwithstanding.—
Her fattier, Gen. Grant, was sent a
cable telegram to China. A second
dispatch was forwarded, but on ac
count of tlie wires not working, it was
several days before he heard the good
news, viz., of her still being in the
land of the living.
Mr. Owen ticisc, formerly of Ter
rell county, but now of Atlanta, is
one of tlie rising young business men
of our State. The writer had the
pleasure of meeting him recently,
anil learning of his good prospects in
.the Gate City. He is zealous anil
faithful in all business nflairs, perse
vering and industrious, and someday
will he among the foremost men of
Atlanta. Wc confidently believe this
will come to pass.
Gen. James Longstrcct knows how
to marshal men around a fine hotel
table as well a*to advance them on
the field of bnttlc. He is now pro
prietor of the Piedmont House,
Gainesville, anil hns enjoyed a fine
pntronage this summer. A good
many of our people have sojourned
in his holstelrie lately, anil they all
join in saying Hint as a landlord even
our friend Merrick Riirucs can’t beat
him. Kindly courteous, knightly
chivalrous, watchful mid careful of
his guests, lie is as great a hero
among them all us in days of war
ainong his soldiers.
Dr. Jnnes, our Commissioner of
Agriculture, should send his latest
pamphlet, “Georgia, from tlie Immi
grant’s Standpoint,” to n thousand or
morn of our brethren of (he press in
the North. How surprised they will
he to know that Northern settlers can
live in peace nml tranquility ill Geor
gia. Yes, Doctor, don’t wnste your
hooks by distributing them over the
State. Ship ’em “up yonder” where
they arc needed. Remember Hie Bur
lington Ilnwknyc man, the Surnto-
gian, the Tribune, tlie National Re
publican, anil oh, let us whisper qui
ctly in your left ear driimh, don’t
fail to forward one to that delightful
rural journal, the Schuylcrvillo, N
Y., Standard. The woopsy-toopsy
editor of this lichdoiiutdal inilk-nnd-
waler thing will peruse it, and while
lie is turning (lie pages doubtless
“something that feels like a tear” will
flow from his oplics.
Irreligious London.
A MILLION OP PKOPI.B WHO HAVE NO
I'llllltCTI AND WANT NONE.
Tlie working classes of East Lon
don do not go to church orcarenhout
religion iu any way. But no one ex
plains, or even mentions, the most
striking fact of all, Hint no movement,
or cry, or prayer comos from the oth
er side; Hint these vast mnssos of
English folks, mnle and female, no
more ask for clergymen, or churches,
or religious teachings of any kind
than fishes ask for fishermen. We
should all hear it fast enough if they
did ; indeed, it is difficult to imagine,
if all these myriads wanted the tui
tion they are so eagerly asked to
want, what the volume of the conse
quent roar would be. Supposo they
only resented the absence of religious
teaching as they would the absence
of work, or called for clergymen as
they would call, if they wero inade
quately supplied, for publicans. The
sound would never cense from tho
cars of West London until the de-
miuui were granted and Government
would he distracted by its own eager
ness to comply with the request. The
multitudes, however, remain quies
cent. No crowds march through Pall
Mall demanding ministers of religion
and carrying banners with “Pity the
Churchless;” no meetings are held iu
Victoria Park to denounce the “vil
lainous monopolist of tho means of
grace,” nor arc public meetings hold
to see if the want can not be supplied
hv any infinite collection of pence.—
You never even meet men calling in
lliu street, “We’ve got no clergy to
teach us!” Here are more than a mil
lion of people, upon whom circum
stances have laid whnt used to bo
called in Catholic countries an Inter
dict, silencing all bells, withdrawing
all priests, shutting all sacred build
ings, and not oue in a hundred cares,
nor is one in ten so milch as fully
aware of the difference between the
religion he lives in ami the rest of the
world. It is this which strikes us a9
so wonderful and so little noticed.—
How does it happen that here in Lon
don, in the richest and most civilized
of capitals, peopled by a race per
haps as good and certainly n9 respec
table as any other, tlie want which
sociologists say is the most instinctive
of humanity, is so little felt—or, for
we must not forget that conceivable
reply, appears to bo so little felt.—•
Here arc a million of people, Airly
fed, fairly intelligent, fairly orderly,
who seem to care as little about the
great problem of the “whence and
whether” as the animals do, or the
fishes; to havo no feeling at a|l about
it, no desire for any special form of
worship or inode of expressing reli
gious feeling, no fear that if they
neglect it utterly anything will hap
pen to them. No other people except
ihc Chinsc seem to he in that frame
of mind. If East London were ad
dicted to odd heresies or strange
forms of worship, or were skeptical
or superstitious, or given to indoor
religion or to tlio worship of good
ness which prevails in some parts of
Germany, it would be intelligible;
but the continual apathy of millions
on the subject, lasting for genera
tions, and never disturbed except by
efforts from without, is surely very
strange. There are skeptics in East
Loudon, and tierce skeptics, but the
body of the people are not skeptics,
have none of the sort of irritable dis
like of religion and the clerical order
shown in Paris and Berlin. A very
small proportion would declare them
selves infidels, perhaps as small as the
propoition among the private sol
diers, among whom such an announce
ment is the rarest of events. They
have to decinir that faith on joining,
and in Hie great garrison of Malta a
chaplain who cared about the matter
found that iu four years only one
man asked to be recorded ns an infi
del. Tho officer presiding, greatly
surprised, asked tlie man twice, and
twice received the same reply, enter
ed him ns “Member of tlie Church of
England.” “What else could I do?”
lie asked, in answer to a subsequent
rcmonstranco; “there’s no congrega
tion of them.”
Five-sixths of nil people in the East
End, if forced to listen to ordinary
religious or moral teaching, raise no
objection, feel no objection and go
away neither assenting nor dissent
ing nor moved—entirely without ir
ritation, hut wanting no more of it
aud not disposed to give even pence
for its purchase. They do not care.
Nor do wc hear of much superstition.
There is often a good deal of down
right superstition among the‘Pagans’
of country places, a great deal of fear
of the unknown, a great reliance on
old practices in defense against evil
powers, but ill East London supersti
tion seems as dead almost as religion.
You would no more see a horseshoe
on a door than an oratory In a house.
A sweet little girl ofOqiinwkn,
Was an in-ilc-fa-tig-a-hle (alkali;
Her muscular lung
And hor versatile tongue
Were the wonder aud pride of Oqnit-
kwa.
A clergyman won tlie canoe race at
Lake George the other day. The rest
of tho cloth will please observe Hint
it was practice, no preaching, that en
abled him to come off victor.
Tlie New York Democracy
The New York World claims that
at the recent meeting of the New
York State Democratic State Execu
tive Committee at Niagara Falls, tlie
friends of Mr. Tilden hail a majority
of three, and Hint the enll for tho con
vention, which is worded so as to be
an endorsement oi Gov. Robinson’s
administration, is a decided triumph
for that gentleman over Mr. John
Kelly and his Tammany followers.-
On the other linml. Hie Now York
Express claims Hint the selection of
Syracuse instead of Saratoga as the
place for holding the State conven
tion was n defeat of the Tililcn-Rob-
inson wing, and predicts the nomina
tion of Judge Sanford E. Church for
Hie Gorcrnship by Ihc coming Dem
ocratic convention, which will he
held on tlie 10th of September.
Washington Post: Powers &
Wcighlnmu, the Philadelphia quinine
mniiufiicliirers, have been in the hab
it of making anil putting on the mar
ket 700,OIK) vials of quinine a year.—
Their profit on tills was sixty cents an
ounce, or $-120,000. Mr. Powers Ims
gone where they have no use for qui
nine and couldn't gel it if they did,
hut it is not at all surprising I bait wo
men are required to watch his grave,
aud see thill his remains are not sto
len.
Man is a gudgeon ; woman is Hie
line; her smile the float; her kiss the
bail. Love is the hook, unil mar
riage is the frying pan.
Anna Berger Married -No Bells
hut Wedding Bella for Her.
Dramatic News.]
Miss Anna Teresa Berger has for
several years past been the principal
attraction of the Berger Family, one
of the most successful combinations
which travel. She is a comely little
lady, well informed, very clever, and
a general favorite among those who
know her. Mr. Leandcr 8. Lynch,
better known as lAsIgh Lynch, Is on
the other hand, a well known agent,
and a man of indefatigable industry.
For two years and a half Mr. Lvuch
sincerely loved Miss Berger, and for
same time Miss Berger lias returned
tlie affection. As this affection rip
ened and grew the olher members of
tho Berger Family became alarmed.
They did not want to see Anna Tere
sa married, for if she left the com
pany it would mean tho loss of their
prestige. They therefore set about
investigating Mr. Lynch’s character,
and Uiey found thnt in some places
and to some people he owed money.
This fact was exaggerated into a
crime, and everything that could be
detrimental to Mr. Lynch was car
ried to Miss Berger’s cars. The course
of true love in this instance ran
smooth, and the brave little woman,
instcnil of lending an car to the sto
ries against tbe man she loved, turn
ed a deaf car, and proclaimed her af
fection for him. This, of course,
made poor Leigh Lynch tabooed in
the family, and. ho had a hard time of
it, for even his visits and his letters
were intercepted. But love is mirac
ulously ingenious, and in spite of all
he succeeded in occasionally seeing
her and writing her as well. After a
long tour Fred Berger and his sister,
Anna Teresa, arrived iii this citr a
little over a week ago. Lrnch was
iu Chicago. He saw her. He wooed
and finally won. On Tuesday after
noon Anna Berger left the hotel in a
carriage, At Dean’s, on Broadway,
she met Mr. Lynch. A mutual friend
was sought, and the three got into
tho carriago aud drove down Seven
teenth street to Second avenue, alight
ing at the house of the Rev. Mr.
Goadsell. In ten minutes he made
them one. In her little jacket anil
{ •lain summer-dress few brides can
ook prettier than did Miss Berger,
and few brides went' more bravely
through an ordeal which, in this case,
required an extra amountof courage.
The parties then drove to their new
residence, on Twenty-ninth street—
Mrs. Lynch leaves the stage hence
forth, and she not only leaves the
stage, but she makes no demaud
whatever on her family for the
amount she has earned as a member
of the Bergers. This course was the
advice of her husband, who said that
otherwise people might say ho mar
ried her for money.
Tlie Macon and Brunswick
Railroad Lease.
The bill which has passed the Sen
ate and is now before the House of
Representatives proposes to lease the
Macon and Brunswick Railroad for a
term of twenty years for a sum not
less than sixty thousand dollars per
annum, with the condition that the
lessees are to extend the road to At
lanta within five years, and “shall ex
pend within two years from the date
of the lease not less than two hun
dred thousand dollars for permanent
improvements in the erection of shops,
depots, wharves, purchase of machin
ery, rolling stock and improvements
of track, including a change of line at
Macon,” etc. The lessees arc also to
have the power aud authority to con
struct a railroad from the city of
Hawkinsville or Eastman to the city
of Americns, and a railroad from the
city of Brunswick, or from near Ster
ling, on the Macon anil Brunswick
{oad, to the Florida line. Another
)rovi9ion of the bill is that “no rail
road or express company within the
State of Georgia shall in any event
become lessees of said Macon and
Brunswick road, directly or indirect
ly, and should any company running
or owning a competing line of rail
road within the State of Georgia, ’ or
any individual or individuals having
an interest iu such company raiding
to or from the Atlantic coast at any
other point than tho city of Bruns
wick, become at any time interested
in the lease, or the running: of 6aid
Macon and Brunswick railroad, or
in any way control its freights or pas
senger tariffs, then the leaso under
this act shall be forfeited, etc.”
Doles* Brigade.
We copy the following from the
Montezuma Weekly:
The article in the last issue of the
Weekly, suggesting a rc-uniou of the
survivors of Doles’^ Brigade of Geor
gia volunteers, during the State Fair,
is meeting witli much favor from ail
directions. It has been suggested to
us, by a prominent survivor of the
Brigade, that the members of every
company forming the Brigade hold
meetings in theireountics and appoint
a committee whose duty it shall be
to make out a muster-roll of their
original organization and its recruits,
those discharged by death, killed in
battle, died of wounds, and tho dis
abled ; the number and names of bat
tles and skirmishes in which it was
engaged. Wheu these reports have
been made, wc would suggest that
they bo forwarded to Capt. F, T.
Snead, Oglethorpe, Macon county,
Georgia, who was Adjutant-General
of the Brigade, and that from this
data Capt. Snead and others associat
ed with him will arrange a history of
each regimont of the Brigade. Every
member of the Brigade would be
proud to get hold of one of these
books, and we arc assurod that if the
data is furnished by the companies ns
requested, the history of the Brigade
will be put into book form at once.—
Our exchanges arc requested to give
tins matter the benefit of a notice,
anil thereby assist us in placing on
record n history of as gallant a Brig
ade as ever faced an enemv.
GEORGIA LEGISLATURE.
Proceedings Condensed.
August SOlb, 1879.
THE SENATE.
lu tho Senate Rev. John P. Dun
can was elected chaplain. The Sen
ate passed the bill regulating legal
advertising. Also a bill to prevent
driving and grazing of diseased cat
tle in places where the cattle are not
diseased. The military bill was lost,
THE HOUSE.
Tn the House Mr. King, of Floyd,
ofiered a resolution providing that
the question as to whether the De
partment of Agriculture be continued
shall be submitted to the vote of the
people at the next gubernatorial elec
tion. Referred to the Committee ou
Agriculture.
Mr. Clegg, of Lee, to repeal the act
creating county commissioners for
said county. Local and special. »
The Macon and Brunswick railroad
hill was discussed at length, but not
disposed of.
August Sltt, 1870.
THE SENATE.
The military bill was allowed re
consideration, also the bill regulating
legal advertising. The impeachment
trial of W. L. Goldsmith, Comptroll
er-Guneral, was opened. Chief Justice
Warner presiding. After the Sena
tors were qualified as triors, a mo
tion was made to postpone the trial
till the first Monday in September,
which motion prevailed.
HOUSE.
The Macon and Brunswick Rail
road bill was discussed at length, and
finally passed. No other business of
importance.
Auguit 33d, 1870.'
THE SENATE.
The military bill was reconsidered,
amended and passed. The Senate re
paired to the hall of tho house of rep-
rescntaHves to attend the ceremonies
of the reception of the portrait of Dr.
Crawford W. Long. After Us return
Mr. Folks offered a resolution look
ing to the encouragement by the State
of the plan to construct a great barge
line from the St Mary’s river in Geor
gia, to the Mississippi river. The
louse bill to allow each and every
county to establish and maintain a
system of drainage passed. Also the
bill to change the time of holding
Mitchell Superior Court A bill to
establish a flag for the State was ta
ken up and read. The flag Is to be
composed of a vertical band of blue
and three horizontal bands, the upper
and lower red, and the middle band
white: Passed; yeas 30, nays 0.
THE HOUSE.
Mr. Westbrook, of Dougherty—To
require judges of the superior courts
to give in chargo to grand juries cer
tain laws with relation (o inspection
aud management of convict camps.
August «3d. 1870.
THE SENATE.
The bill to lease the M. & B. R. R.
was taken up. The bill was amend
ed and passed.
HOUSE.
The special order of the day was
the consideration of the bill regulat
ing railroad tariffs, etc.
Mr. Westbrook, of Dougherty, of
fered a resolution that further con
sideration of tho quesUon be post
poned until Monday morning after
the reading of the journal, and that
when it i9 resumed at' that time it
shall be contiuued until Anally dis
posed of with a recess of an hour and
a half for dinner, which was amend
ed somewhat and passed.
A Smart Mule.
Mules are said to be very dull of
comprehension), and only ‘pert in a
very perverted sense of the term.—
Why, even the word “mulish’’ to con
sidered a synonym for absurd obsti
nacy. There is one mule in this town,
however, who has conclusively' pro
ven that he is a good, smart mule.—
A fow days ago this bright specimen
trotted up in a limping t way to Jeff-
Holbrook’s blacksmith shop and de
liberately walked Into the shop. ’ He
9ccmed to be very uneasy and rettless,
exhibiting unmistakable signs of pain,
The men in the shop were rather ta
ken aback by the mule who thus came
to the shop unbridled and loose. At
last the mule lifted np one of Ms legs,
and with a gesture of his head, di
rected the attenHon of one of the men
to his foot. It was then discovered
that a uaii had worked its way into
the flesh, evidently causing the appa
rent pain. The nail was drawn out
and his muleship, much relieved, gave
a snort of thanks. A few minutes af
ter he trotted off much pleased, and
has not been seen since.—Columbus
Times.
Your Uncle Joseph.
Oglethorpe Kcho.]
Wc have never been an enthusias
tic admirer of ex-Governor Joseph
E. Brown, hut think wo need u man
of Ids ability, foresight and deter
mined wisdom. * * * * If Gov.
Brown would accept the nomination
lie could carry Oglethorpe, and we
believe the state. Tho people are
agniu beginning to recognizo his
worth and great abilities as a ruler.
ra . ra
A trance-action—Walking in yoar
sleep.
An Arkansas Blasphemer Comes
to Grief.
Little Rock, Ark., August 12.—
Intelligence from Smithville, Law
rence county, states that a farmer
there, whose crops had been suffering
from drouth, prayed fervently for
rain. Dry weather contiuued, how
ever, and he changed his prayer into
curses, blaspheming everything sa
cred. . Suddenly the family observed
smoke, then sparks issuing from his
mouth, cars and nose, succeeded pres
ently by sulphurous blue flames. He
is now at home, where he paces the
floor constantly, unable to eat or
drink, while fire and smoke of an
uucarthly hue escapes from him day
and night. His sufferings are terri
ble to contemplate.
There have been serious riots in
Quebec, Canada, among tho ship la
borers. About three hundred French
laborers went attacked by about the
same number of Irishmen, and the
city lias been a scene of confusion for
several days. Several have been kill
ed and a number wounded in the
riots, which, up to the present wri
ting, arc quiet but not settled.
The Legislature has passed a law
appropriating $25,000 anil tho old
lVnitcntiary lot and buildings tor an
additional Lunatic Asylum.
Tlio proprietor of a bone factory
annoiinrcs that persons leaving their
bones with him can have them ground
at short notice.—Now Orleans«Pica-
yunc.
* « nTY~7.TL V?
The seal’s kin to numerous!
A single instance—A bachelor.
“-Puck.
„“What, never?” Well—$1 fine,—
Herald P. L
111 manners—Sickly politeness——
Toledo Commercial. '
A burr in lha .-hand’s worse than -
two in the bush!—Puck. “
France doesn’t need any Rhine, be-
cause she has her Rhone.
A West India hurricane is‘ the ill
wind that blows nobody good.
If yon want to find oat abonl the ri
peculiaritics of geese, consult the best
uatural hiss stories.
A joke is not so durable asa church
•**11. After it has been tolled a few
times it to worn out
- Why are riflemen the best expoun
ders of Shakspeare? Because they
know what’s in an aim <a name).
What to the difference between the
license law and an orange ? One can
be repealed; tho oUier cannot.
What order of merit would the
Queen remind you of if she were in
bad humor? Victoria cross.
A Sunday School boy, on being
asked what made tlie tower of Pisa
lean, replied, “Because of the famine
in the land.”
Oh, but this English is a peculiar
language. We use dusters to catch
the dust, and dusters to brush the
duit away.—Puck.
No man can ever tell ju9t how much
money a widow is worth until he
marries her for it. It to one of those
cases where you have to take chances.
When Katharine’s husband was
arrested for correcting that lady with
a strap, he .said it was a pity that a
man should be pulled for strapping
his skate.
A henpecked husband got the best
of his wife at his death by leaving for
her his best regards, and the balance
of his estate to his more congenial
relatives.
“All,” said the fly as it crawled
around the bottle. “I have passed
through the hatching age, the creep
ing age, and now I am in the mucil
age, aud—” there it stuck.
Its a wonder that no politician has
thought of feigning death in order to
get. eulogistic obituaries, parts of
which he could U9C for campaign lit
erature.—Wheeling Leader.
A boy, at a recent examination in
an English school, was asked whodis-
covered America. “I wish I may die,”
says a Briti.h editor, “if he didn’t an
swer—‘Yankee Doodle!’”
Love is a game of pitch and catch.
He “throws” his affections, and she
Generally catches them on the first
lounce. In the end both fetch ap at
the “home base.”—Andrews Bazar.
“Oh, yes,” she said, “I’m very fond
of litUe boys;” and, as she tripped ou
a string stretched across the pave
ment, she added: “I feel as if I could
eat a couple of ’em this minute, raw.”
Female compositors are continual
ly setting their CAPS for the editor.
—Cincinnati Saturday Night. And
picking up old sticks. In which case
they do not remain gal-ley slaves.—
New Haven Register.
A busy father was annoyed with,
the ceaseless prattle of his little six-
year old, and looking meaningly at
the child and then at his wife, impa
tiently remarked, “Mother will out!”
Keokuk Constitution.
Lord bless the girls whose golden
curls
Are not what tliev do seem,
But at the close of day on the bureau
lay
While the owners sweetly dream.
They were out riding. Said Theo
dore, “What tree, Angelina, bears the
most precious fruit?” Angelina—
“Oh, Dory! I can’t tell unless it to a
cherry tree.” Theodore looks unut
terable sweetness as he gazes into
Angelina’s eyes and says, “The axle-
tree, darling.”
Tlie clergyman iu a certain town,
as the custom to, having published
the banns of matrimony between two
persons, was followed by the clerk’s
reading the hymn beginning with
these words: “Deluded souls, that
dream of heaven.”
What He Made.—“Did you make
auything out in'Leadville ?” asked au
anxious friend of a recently returned
candidate from the land of carbo
nates. “Make anything? Yon bet I
did. I made an assignment, and
then made for home.”
“Walter, do you think the stars are
iuhaMted ?” she said, glancing at Mm
with an expression that showed what
confidence she had iu his superior
wisdom. “Clara,"” he replied, “your
father only allows me ten dollars a
week, and you can’t expect any but a
high-priced clerk to answer that
question.”
Conundrums.—It to very extraor
dinary, but it is nevertheless quite
true, that it was tlie first pair that ate
the first apple. Why, and this now,
to a first class A1 conundrum: Why
are Cashmere shawls tike deaf peo-
nle ? Don’t you see ? Because you
can't make them here. Gel out your
self?
Better Acquainted Now. —
“George,” said a school-mistress to
oue of her unruly scholars, “why to it
you behave so badly ? Wheu you
first came to school you were obe
dient, submissive and willing to
learn; now you arc just the contra
ry.” Well, to tell the truth, marm,”
said George, “I was not much ac
quainted then.”
If a body fhkes a tody
Largely made of rvc,
If that tody ‘•knocks’’a body,
Need a body sigh?
Anybody that drinks tody
(Weather fit to fry),
Then that body takes big chances
OUier worlds to try.
The Springfield Republican says:
“The Republican party has left the
South to itself.” For which the South
to duly grateful, and would be even
more gratified if it had left behind it
some of the money it stole from the
South. If wc remember rightly,
though, the Republican party did not
have much choice iu leaving the
South to itself. It was “sorter kicked
out” as it were.
A young man near Cellar Grove,
Ga., was recently swindled out of
$500 by parties in New York who
wrote hint that for a few dollars in
good money they would send him a
large amount iu counterfeit notes, so
well executed as to prevent detection.
The young man sent his money on,
anil in return received a box filled
with saw dust and old scraps of pa
per. A ju»t reward for his desire to -
swindle the government and people.