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Weekly Constitution.
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TUESDAY, JUYL 7, 1874
BREVITIES.
Sumner's death cost Massachusetts
$40,000
The New Yok Times says tlial two
sparrows will cat four thousand cater-
jnOara a week.
—Hie Librarian of Congress proposes
to an index of all pubic documents
from the foundation of the government
to the present time.
Canada has just succeeded in effect
ing a loan of four million pounds ster
ling in London, at the low rate of four
percent
A St. Louis paper speaks of “the
iKHJt of public indignation.” On a St.
Louis foot such a boot would be capable
of kicking the stuffing out of a range of
montains.
—Application for national bank circu
lation come in every day in small num
bers. The banks intended to be organ
ized ase principally those of little capital
in small towns.
—An Indianapolis editor says graceful-
.lyof a retiring brother: “His blunders
never annoyed him, and he was cheerful
and chirrupy under a mountain of mis
takes.”
—George Francis Train has promised
never again to speak in public, never to
publish another book, and never to write
another letter to a newspaper, if the pa
per will only let liim alone. Let’s drop
him.
—There has been not a little specula
. lion as to who was the author of Grant’s
recent “Memorandum.” Ii is difficult
. to tell who was, but it is pretty generally
understood at Washington that it was
Tom Collins.
—The decrease of the national debt in
the year ending June 30 was only $4,730,
472. The decrease in 1872 was $100,-
-004,000, and in 1871 it was $127,000,000.
But there was no President to elect this
year.
—It was very distressing at Wallack’s
last week to see the audience weep over
the drama of “East Lynn." Perspiration
and tears formed a joint stock company,
rippled down the face and neck to
become saturated in a handkerchief while
the thermometer in the lobby danced at
•*5. At the conclusion of the perform
ance a more demoralized collection of
people were never seen.—N. T. Hail.
—The largest room in the world under
ft Single roof, unbroken by pillars or other
obstructions, is at 8t. Petersburg, in
Russia; and is 650 feet long and 150 feet
Wide. It is used for military displays in
rough weather, and can be converted into
a ballroom at night.
—Newly ordained deacon: “I suppose
you generally make longer coats for men
who hold extreme views?” Clerical
tailor: “Well, sir, they do generally pre
fer a long coat; but with that coatlas-
sure Vou, you mav hold anv view vou
like!*'
—It is proposed to plaut the San
Joaquin Valley, California, with the euca
lyptus or blue gum trees. For a length
of two hundred miles, and w ith a width
varying from forty to fifty miles, the bot
tom is level ana almost treeless. The
blue gum trees would make excellent
fences.
—In only nineteen of the thirty-two
counties in South Carolina, 146 square
miles of Jand have been sold for the
State and county taxes, and 537 square
miles of land have been forfeited to the
State ut tax sales during the current year.
—Sir John Astley, un English M. P.,
attended a meeting of liis constituents
• recently, when a man in the crowd
called out: “What about the liquor bill?”
“Well,” said Sir John, “mine was un
commonly high last year, how was
yours?”
—Two young Princes of Austria en
tered into* a violent quarrel, when one
mid to the other: “Ycuarc the greatest
ass in Vienna.” Just then the Emperor,
their father, entered and said, indignant
ly: “Come, come, young gentlemen, you
forget that l am present.”
—Tlic women of Salt Lake City have
petitioned tor a prohibitory law. If a
wife and six children may be made
•wretched by a' drunken husband, how
much greater must be the aggregate suf
fering of six wives and sixty children,
all befouling to one reckless reveler?
.’Rewards for Criminals.
How to Take a Snmmer Holiday-
Some Pleasant Ways ot Spending
the Season in the City—Toil
ettes at the Jerome Park
Races. Etc.
* We notice from our exchanges that the
• Governor has offered but few rewards
within tin: lost three or four months for
the apprehension of fugitive criminals.
, Upon .inquiry, we learn, that rewards
will bo-offered hereafter even more spar-
vingly than heretofore. Indeed, the prac
tice of applying to the Governor imme-
< diatcly upon the commission of the crime
.and the fight of the criminal, to offer
reward for his apprehension, has been
pushed to a vicious extent.
In ante-bellum days, when a man com
i mitted a murder, not only the officers of
the law, but the people generally, rose as
• use man and went in hot pursuit of him,
and it never occurred to them to sit still
until a reward should be offered by the
Governor of the State. But now, it is said,
that officers, and even the friends of the
murderer’s victim, frequently make ap
plication for rewards before maknig any
serious attempt to arrest the criminal.
. Of course this is nil wrong.
Themere fact that a crime has been
. committed, and that the perpetrator
thereof has fled, does not justify
the Executive in offering a
ward. It should he shown that
every proper effort has been made
Co arrest the fugitive without success.
In other words, it should he made to ap
pear that there are special and exception
al reasons why -the State should offer its
own officers and citizens a pecuniary re'
> ward to induce them to discharge so plain
a duty as the apprehension of a flying
murderer.
The machinery provided by the law
simple and/efficacious when promptly ajv
• plied, .for the detection and punishment
of criminals. Of course, however, where
is made reasonably to\appear that the
. fugitive cannot otherwise «be brought to
_ justice, the Governor will .not hesitate to
• offer such reward for his apprehension
the law permits.
[Correspondence of the Constitution.]
New Yoke, June 28.—How good it is
that our lives arc mostly ordered for us,
that we are obliged to do things because
is best to do them, and there is hardly,
therefore, an alternative, else we should
forever drifting about in unknown
seas without rudder or compass.
How to take a summer holiday? is one
of those questions which annually tor
ment thousands of ptyple, and to which
few of them find a satisfactory answer.
Those who are forced to study economy
think that that saves trouble, and if they
could only spend money enough there
would be no difficulty in making a choice.
But people who have plenty of money
find it just as hard to make up their minds
wliat it is they “vfont to do. They are as
tired of the monotony and sameness of
their struggles to preserve the average
show of respectability.
Probably the real reason of this uni
versal feeling of indecision and discon
tent is in opr habit of looking for change
in novelty and excitement, conditions
which cannot in their very nature be
permanent or satisfying. A healthful
ife is a regular life, and necessarily
somewhat “slow,” and a healthful change
is that which supplies something of
which we do not get enough, and thus
assists in restoring an equilibrium of
forces.
FASHIONABLE COUNTRY LIFE.
Grand old countiy homes, in which
something of the 6tatc was preserved
which dikinguishes the old manorial
houses of England, arc dying out, and
fashionable lue in the countiy clusters
around monster hotels. This is necessa
rily the case, because of our laws of
equal division of property no one mem
ber of the family is able to support the
honor, dignity and state of the family,
and so after a few years of possession,
and before the gloss of newness has worn
off; before the oak of the dining-room
has taken on a darker tint, or the trees
have fully grown, it passes out of the
possession of the first occupants, and
those who knew it, know it no more.
Nearly all the fine countiy residences
of a quarter of a century ago or more
have fallen into decay, or have been di
vided np into lots to suit purchasers, so
that country visiting life upon a grand
and hospitable scale is almost unknown.
Our villas are crowded and uncomfort
able and ginger-bready, and the style of
living so comparatively restricted that
the visitor always has an uncomfortable
feeling of interfering with the family
washing, or some other regular and not-
to-be-set-aside proceeding.
It is this restriction—this subordina
tion of freedom and comfort to certain
kitchen rules and despotism—which adds
another attraction to hotel life. There,
at least, one knows nothing of the ex
actions of Biddy, the cook, or Katie, the
chambermaid. The army of white-
capped officials in the back offices are
under miiitaiy law, and confidence in the
fact that hot rolls, broiled steak, omlette,
combread and good coffee will always be
forthcoming is therefore complete and
profound.
Co-operative life of this description is
already an enormous fact in this countiy,
and promises to increase until it absorbs
a much larcer population than it does at
present. Old-fashioned ideas abont chil
dren have interfered to some extent with
realization, to many, of this earthly
paradise; but, when they have learned to
manage the matter of increasing popula
tion as well as they do in France, chil
dren will be no longer an obstacle to life
in a first-class hotel.
CITY ATTRACTIONS IN JUNE.
It is onty now, and barely in time to
escape the noise and confusion of the
Fourth of July, that some of the best
known families—leaders in the world of
fashion—have left the city and betaken
themsolves to the quiet of rural homes,
or the gayeties of the sea-side or inland
summer resorts. New York is not with
out attractions of its own in June, and
this year the brief reappearance of Sal-
vini has been added to the increasing eclat
of the Jerome Park races, to the green
ness and freshness of the Central Park,
and to the profusion of delicious Jersey
strawberries.
After June, everything in the Empire
City has a limp and dirty look. People
who are obliged to remain, saunteT along
the shady side of the street with an aim
less look, as if they had been lost and no
one had found them. But through June
the nights are cool, starch retains its
natural properties, and respectable fathers
of famines still present a staid and digni
fied aspect, as if life had not lost all its
value to them.
THE JERQUE PARKBACE3
ensemble. A fan suspended from the
belt by ribbon or a chatelaine is now part
of the regular equipment, and the richlv-
colored India fans are preferred to a*ll
others, though many of the delicately-
painted watteau styles are to be seen.
Two rather noticeable toillettes were of
pale ecru silk canvas over very llsrht bine
silk skirts covered with narrow flounces,
Leghorn hats trimmed with black velvet,
long white plumes and turned up on the
side with a mass of blue forget-me-nots
were worn with them.
Of course English embroideiy in the
form of open 'worked polonaises was to
be seen, and a verv handsome one was
worn over a straw-colored silk nicked out
with chocolate-colored velvet most ef
fectively. Another showed vest, skirt,
broad sash, cuffs and English collar of
black velvet, and was accompanied by a
hat of English straw, trimmed with yel
lowish lace, old and precious, black vel
vet, and a wreath of blue ragged-rib
bons.
A HORTICULTURAL EXHIBITION.
The quantity of flowers worn upon
ladies’ hats and bonnets at the present
time is something marvelous. There is
a flower rage—a rose and lily epidemic—
and every one has caught it. Snmmer
capotes consist of a cap crown of silk and
lace, or lace and crepe, encircled by a
broad band of flowers and leaves. The
trinity of roses has given place to wild-
wood sprays and clustering grasses, to
Tranches of field flowers or masses of bri
dal wreath or trailing myrtle. The small
fruits are also largely represented. Very
iretty hats of white chip, with drooping,
ndented brim, are bound with black
velvet, encircled by a scarf of white
gauze and ornamented at the back with
great bunches of cherries or red and white
currants.
WHITE ORGANDY DRESSES.
The’races at an end and Salvini depart
ed, the flitting becomes marked and rap
id. Evexy carriage that rattles along the
streets has a big trunk strapped on behind,
and each of those trunks contains at least
one white organdy dress, which, with its
ribbons and lace, is this season|considered
' most important item to the outfit.
White toilettes, it is some satisfaction
to know, have at last been remanded back
to the region where they belong—indoor
and evening or country wear for young
iris. White dresses in the glare of sun-
ght upon a grown woman are always
out of place, and as the exigencies of
dirty streets and an uncertain climate
rarely admit of proper accessories, the
effect is never good; but for evening or
indoor wear in the midst of flowers and
scenery, it is a different thing—then white,
particularly clear white, becomes soft
and inspirational, quite in harmony with
the poetic beauty of the scene.
The new white organdy dresses arc of
very clear, fine muslin, and are made
with two skirts and jacket, or cuirass
boddice. The underskirt has a flounce
headed with a wide Valenciennes
insertion, and a wide Valenciennes
not unfrequently fallsj below the
flounce. The upper skirt is bordered
with a wide insertion and lace. If the
body forms a jacket, the vest, cuffs,
small pockets, and inner standing collar
are of pale pink, blue, green, or tea-rose
silk covered with lace, as is the sash also;
but if the cuirass boddiee (which is simply
a plain, close-fitting sleeveless basque) is
employed, it is made of alternate stripes
of gathered muslin and silk or ribbon
covered withlace insertion, and the sash
is made three yards to match, the
rounded ends having deep ruffles of
lace.
have been distinguished by the presence
of more than the usual number of En
glish drags and four-in-hands; also by
the attendance of several parties of trav
eling English gentlemen and ladies, who
made free comments, and attracted
much attention by a not exactly eccen
tric. but still peculiar and insular style
of dress. The skirts of the dresses were
longer than are usually worn upon such
occasions by American ladies; the out
side garments were large and loose; the
colors had less relation to each other, and
the different parts of the costume had an
appearance of having been purchased at
different periods in the world’s history.
There were not many note-worthy
toilettes that I observed, though there
were some very handsome ones. The
newest were black, with cuirass boddices
striped in velvet and beaded lace, or
beaded lace and puffed grenadine, or
beaded lace lined with silk, and alterna
ted with bands of black silk.
A favorite costume, of which there
were many representatives more or less
distinguished, consisted of polonaises of
the new, yellowish-white summer camel’s
hair cloth, trimmed with guipure lace in
sertion and bordering to match, and
mounted with broad velvet loops and
bows. These elegant garments are worn
;cr black silk skirts more or less trim-
or over voilet or gray, but in that
the bonnet, gloves and parasol must
harmonize with the silk tint. It should
be understood, however, that when a
color is used for the skirt, the gloves
should be several shades paler in older to
preserve the appearance of delicacy and
refinement, and that a lighter tint for
gloves should always be preferred to a
darker one. This rule is not uniformly
observed in the drabs and grays now so
much used, and the neglect detracts from
the appearance of an otherwise complete
THE FASHION OF THE HOUR.
Dress may now be considered to be di
vided in an arbitrary manner into dress-
costumes for the street, full dress toilettes
for the drawing-room, and neglige for
the' house.
The neglige costumes—for a neglige is
now, heaven save the the mark!, a cos
tume-consists of combinations of
all styles, and made up of every discov
erable fabric. Two different colors, the
darkest being used for trimming, the
nay makes an exceedingly pretty travel
hg suit when disposed as follows: The
skirt is round and short enough to clear
the ground without any possibility of an
inconvenient sweep. The tablier is gar
nished by flat folds alternately light and
dark. The end of each fold is cut into a
triangle in« which a long buttonhole is
worked withoutjbeing cut, with dark silk
on the light ano light on the dark mate
rial. On each of these a large mother-
of-pearl button is sewed. The other
breadths are trimmed with flounces that
are alternately light or dark. These
flounces are' intersected by a simulated
overskirt, formed by a light flounce that
is headed by a dark bias fold; a light
waist opens over a dark vest, a small
rounded shawl with very long ends, scal
loped on tlic edge with dark gray
wool, is thrown over the shoul
ders and tied once in front, the
ends being thrown backwards over
the back. Gray of two shades is the only
color, except beize, that is admissable for
traveling costumes. In that peculiar
color they are to be seen already very
stylishly “built.” Some, very elegant,
are embroidered, but it is a question of
taste whether it be suitable to embroider
traveling suits, or whether it be not
best to dispense with embroidery on such
dresses.
For traveling lingerie gray, bluish gray,
B ale pink, blue and lilac-striped Oxford
nen are worn. These have yoked col
lars, under-sleeves, with deep cuffs, and
bosoms like those of gentlemen’s shirts;
the bosoms have pink or red coral but
tons to close them, and blue or gray
steel. These bosoms are worn under
open waists, like a vest, in sultry
weather.
A wrapping which should accompany
all traveling costumes is the new gossa
mer water-proof.
BATHING DRESSES
arc very sensible, modest and convenient,
and so low in price that there is no ex
cuse for a lady who spends ever so short
a peripd at the sea side not having one
of her own. The suit consists, as usual,
of trowsers and blouse, but the blouse is
cut long, belted m broad and firmly at
the waist , and tcigether with the trowsers
form a neat and perfectly protective cos
tume. Gray flannel or dark blue mor-
reen—which latter sheds water—are the
materials in demand, trimmed with white,
black or black and white braid. The
cost is from $4 50 to $9. A very nice
suit of gray, amply trimmed and finished,
can be purchased for $j. The shoes
cost $1 more, the white cocoa hat 25
cents.
ITEMS OF FASHION.
English embroidery, which, it was said,
would be greatly worn, has indeed proved
a success. It is used this season upon all
fabrics except thick silk, which is, of
course, little worn during the heated
term, and is a favorite on plain foulard
and on faille. On silk and on wool it is
worked in silk—as on thick silk during
the winter—and on cotton it is worked in
cotton. It must be of the same shade as
the ornamentation of the trimming.
It is predicted by leaders of fashion
that overskirts of the lightest kind of
crepe de chine—and there is a newer and
lighter style of even so light a material—
will be worn over black velvet skirts.
The handsomest glove is of Swedish or
Saxony kid, white, and made very long.
In the day-time these will be worn with
all light dresses. They soil very easily,
and require to be changed very often.
White thread gloves are used for countiy
wear.
Very wide scarfs of China crepe and
of silk gauze, as well as of various other
transparent materials, take the place of
overskirts by being draped in a similar
maimer and tied at the back or sides.
'■I . BARGAINS.
It is a season for the gratification of
Mrs. Toodle’s ruling passion to anunl un
ited extent. Materials and made up gar
ments have never been offered at anything
like their present prices since the war.
Polonaise, [plain and embroidered, of
linen, batiste, goat’s hair and croise cloth,
than half the price asked for them
six weeks ago. This shows a depression
has borne heavily upon business men
since'the panic of last fall, and which it
is to be sincerely hoped a season of good
crops and co-operative circumstances
will remove. Jennie June.
Save These Bonds.
material being more profusely used than
the striped. The dark stripe in that
goods furnishes, as during the winter,
the trimming of the trimmings, the lining
of the headings of the flounces, basques,
etc.
Take for instance a navy-blue foulard.
and bind them with striped navy-blue and
white foulard. At the head of each flounce
is a striped lining, turned back and laid
over like a fan, at intervals and confined
by a medium-sized button covered with
the plain material. Your overskirt must
be of the striped foulard. Your' fronts
are separate from the back breadths,
which are very long and draped in a
double pouff. The basque waist of
oulard opens over a long, square
vest of the plain foulard, closed with
large buttons covered with the plain
foulard. It is optional with the wearer
to use large, white mother-of-pearl but
tons. In front the basque is very long.
The sleeves are of plain foulard, with
cuffs of the striped, while the basque at.
the back is short and laid in large plaits
lined with the plain material.
Silk and silk gauze are preferred this
season for the drawing-room. Some
combinations of this kind give singular
effects; such, for instance, as bronze
faille with white silk gauze, the faille ap
pearing in the skirt while the gauze com
poses the overskirt and the trimmings of
the skirt itself. White silk gauze and all
kinds of transparent goods, including the
“canvas” and “silk canvas”—a very ele
gant new goods eminently suited for
beading and embroidering, and, in point in the cause of education by sending the
of fact, fabricated with that aim—will hoys to Mercer and the girls to the Wes-
[Macon Star,]
The Alumni Banquet on Tuesday was
an occasion of enjoyment, and is much
talked of.
Among the incidents we have heard
noted was the arraignment of the bene
dicts by the bachelor editor of The At
lanta Constitution, Colonel E. Y.
Clarke. He stirred them up, after this
somewhat lively fashion. To his great
astonishment the married men present
had advised the young graduates very ex
tensively, but had omitted to uige upon
them a duty more important than any
other to the present and future interests
of the countiy, namely: that of getting
married, and right speedily. This grave
omission on the part of both the younj
and venerable benedicts present justifies
the inference that, though feeling good
over the sumptuous repast, they also felt
somewhat like Paul when he said to
Agrippa: “I would thou wert altogether
such as I am, sate these bonds." His fealty
to woman rose in arms against such con
duct, and he urged upon the young men
the vital importance of matrimony, beg
ging them to recognize the princely mu
nificence and splendid liberality of Macon
reign predominant. Faille and foulard
of neutral shades, notably ash gray, green
ish, yellowish and bluish gray with “ashes
of roses” and smoked pearl tints, are also
leyan Female College.
After alluding to the gratifyjng speech
es that had been made, setting forth the
present prosperity and bright future of
in high favor, as well as a new color Mercer, and the expressed determination
which resembles the shade of rasberry of her alumni and friends to cherish and
juice that has mingled with a cream in a
saucer, and which is called fruit fane.
A great many new fabrics have been
issued, the distinguishing feature of
which is that the^are composed of two
sections, plain material being intended
for the skirt and striped of identical
color for the overskirt and sleeveless
basque waist, or for a polonaise if pre
ferred, the coat sleeves being of the plain
fabric. All goods that are decidedly
new, for street costume, from alpaca to
the richest silk—except, of course, black
silk—offer this new feature, and, even in
black combined with white, this novel
effect is to befound.
TRAVELING COSTUMES.
Traveling costumes are made without
any overskirts, both because of their
bring cooler and less cumbersome when
so made, and because it is just as well
for a costume of that sort to simulate
the overskirt in the trimming, as it is
less expensive to get up, or, as the phrase
now is, to build such a dress without an
overskirt than with one.
Light batiste delaine of two shades of
support her, he paid a glowing tribute to
the press as a grand co-operative agency
in the building of educational institu
tions as well as a grand educator itself.
Some day, in after years, when their
heads were silvered and the eye was dim,
some newspaper clipping recounting this
pleasant reunion or other fond associa
tions, might enable them to live o’er
again for a brief sweet hour these joyous
experiences, and then they shall feel the
softening, purifying, magic power of the
press as they never felt it before. He
closed with a toast to the prosperity of
Mercer, hoping that her sons might never
drink to her, or woman, or aught else
with any other champagne in the glass
save that of nature before them, the
pure, pearly water that descends from
the sky in the dew drop or gushes in
crystal streams from the bosom of tbe
earth.
Uddersook.
Washington, July 2.—The Supreme
Court to-day affirmed the judgment of
death in Udaersook’s case.
SUMMARY OF STATE NEWS.
Marietta.—Mr. Amos Mary owned
the house that achieved the usual weekly
buggy smashing in Marietta last Tuesday
The adjourned term of Cobb Supe
rior Court meets the third Monday in
July——Frcyer’s orchestra have postpon
ed their Marietta concert until the 4th
week in July An election for Ordina
ry of Cherokee county will he held on
the loth inst C. M. McClure and O.
M. Putnam are announced as candidates.
Journal.
Savannah.—General Joseph E. John
ston and lady have gone to the Virginia
springs to spend the summer. Hon.
Philip M. Russell, Sr., is warmly spoken
of for coming Senator in the State Legis
lature from the First District Mr.
Barnard Bee was thrown from his buggy
on Thursday by his horse taking flight at
a broom. He was badly bruised, but no
bones were broken.——John Johnson
twisted all the wool out of his wife’s head
with a cork-screw last Thursday, and is
now in jail, ruminating upon what jeal
ousy will bring a nigger to. Mrs. John
son will have to get a wig. The
steamer Clyde, which plied between Sa
vannah and Darien, was wrecked in Sa-
pelo Sound on Wednesday. She was
upset in a squall, and sank in thirteen
feet of water. The crew escaped.—Ad
vertiser and Republican.
Sandersville.—Mr. George \V. Pea
cock, assisted by Mr. Samuel Pritchard,
?ave a public exhibition of the famous
inife act last Wednesday. Mr. Peacock
had a good' deal of bad blood let out of
bis side and left arm, and will spend tbe
balance of the summer in bed. Mr.
Peacock followed up his knife with an
exhibition of leg power, which basso far
defied arrest. The annual examination
of the Sandersville High School com
menced on Thursday. Gov. H. V. John
son spoke Friday night. McJemigan’s
big clock blew over last Saturday, and
now Sandersville is without time.—Her
ald.
Augusta.—Augusta is yearning after a
public park. It is suggested that the
parade grounds might De transformed
htoone with little expense. Nearly
five thousand people have been vac
cinated in Augusta since the promulga
tion of the order by the Board of
Health. Highland mocassins three
feet long occasionally promenade on
Broad street—Chronicle and Sentinel
Elberton.—The Board of Directors
of the E. A. and L. Railroad Company
held a meeting on Monday last, which
was well attended. Gratifying reports
from the President, Engineer and
Treasurer were received. The grading
force will not be enlarged until fait
Efforts will be made to iron and equip the
first twenty miles of the road as soon as
the grading is completed, which will be
about October. The heavy man of
Elberton is so large that when he wants
to turn over at night he has to get up
and go out into the street. Last Mon
day morning, the building occupied by
Dr. George Eberkart, at Hartwell, was
destroyed by fire. Very little furniture
was saved. Mr. Geoige Thornton, of
Hartwell, was killed by a pair of runa
way mules on the 20th. They threw
him against a tree.—Gazette.
Griffin.—The lady who put salt in her
husband’s coffee night before last instead
of sugar, will not attend church on Sun
day. That little joke cost her just one
set of false teeth and two braids. The
gentlemen of Griffin have been holding;
ivdignation meetings on the subject oi:
clothes washing ana will hereafter attend
to that duty themselves. A laundry com
pany is already organized. The young
men formed a Democratic Club last
Wednesday night, and are preparing to
make things lively for the Rads when the
campaign opens.—Messenger.
LaGbangb.—A West Point jeweler
named Herzburg shut up a dog in his
store last week and went out to take a
walk. When begot back the dog was
S ne, and so ,was the front window of
3 store. That dog’s nose now looks as
if had been sand-papered fora month.
The young people of LaGrange are
wrestling with the whooping cough and
watermelon diarrhoea. Americus Mc
Donald and another darkey celebrated
the 2d with a match in which a knife and
a billiard.cue were plied with consider
able effect Several square inches of
shin and several pounds of wool were
adorning the battle: field before the mar
shal arrived. The fun cost them just
$12 50 apiece.—Reporter.
Newnan.—As the passenger train
came down Thursday night, it ran over a
man near Fairbum, severing his body
and killing him almost instantly within a
half mile, of his house. His name was
Simpson, and he leaves a wife and several
children. He is supposed to have been
drunk.
Tom Hill, who is a Newnan darkey,
laid his pistol down on a chair Tuesday
night and undertook to perform the In
dian hornpipe around it Suddenly there
was an explosion. Tom cleared the window
with a single stride, and for the next half
hour might have been seen bunting for
the nigger who bad shot him. He didn’t
find any nigger but be did find bis pistol
with one chamber empty. His left leg
has suspended for the balance of the sum
mer, and Tom has quit dancihg indefin
itely. An heiress reached Newnan on
Wednesday, and the agitation among the
young clerks and attorneys is said jo lx?
tremenduous. Another colored nurse
of “The Father of his Countiy,” died
near Newnan on the 27th instant. She
remembered George Washington pei
ly, and was named Betsey Calhoun. She
makes the twenty-fifth nurse the General
has lost since the beginning of this year.
How fortunate it is that he died first.
Herald.
Bainbredge.—A locomotive exploded
at Telanville on the Atlantic and Gulf
railroad last week, instantly killing three
men and scalding several others The
house of Judge T. F. Hampton was
struck by lighting last Friday. The en
tire family, including two calves and
mule, were badly demoralized, and were
unconscious for some time afterwards
-The cotton caterpillar has appeared
npon the plantation of Mr. George Dick
inson just across Flint river.—Democrat.
Cartersville.—A. T. Hackctt, chair
man of the Democratic Executive Com
mittee of the 7th Congressional District
has called a meeting of the Committee in
Cartersville, on Monday, the 15th day of
July next——Quite a number of mutes
passed through Cartersville on Thursday
last en route for their respective homes
in various parts of the State. They
hailed from the schools at Cave Spring
and Talladega. The closing exercises
of the Stilesboro Institute began on
Wednesday. The Cartersville pro
fessionals gamble in tbe huckleberry
bushes near the city. The marshal raidec
upon a party last week and capture!
several packs of greasy cards, but no
prisoners. The story of the bad hoy
and the old man’s apple tree received -
practical illustration near Cartersville last
Sunday. This old gentleman did not
content himself with throwing rocks
only, but producing a birch rod. and
carefully rolling buck his sleeves, he
taught that bad boy some new steps on
* K “ grass which he will not forget in a
— tune, besides effectively taking cvcrv
atom of dust out of his pants. The
Aetna Iron Works, eight miles from
Cedar Town, are in full blast again with
eight months’ supply of all sorts of ma
terial.—Standard and Express.
A Cassville man fondled the wrong
end of his mule last week and was picked
some ten feet off under the impression
had been struck by lightning. The
mule wasn’t hurt, but the Cassville man
wears his front teeth in his vest pocket
and a two foot plaster on his chin.
Athens.—Mrs. Maria J. Westmore
land, by special request, will lecture in
Athens on Friday night on “Kisses.”
A water spout was seen on the place
of Mr. A. S. Dorsey, some five miles be
low Athens, last Sunday. The ground
was plowed up for some distance, and
the negroes were much- terrified by the
roar and noise. The commencement
exercises of the Lucy Cobb Institute
opened on Sunday, the sermon being
preached by Rev. James Dixon, DD., of
Augusta A, large crowd of citizens are
in attendance. The colored Good
Templars of Athens have a grand picnic
to-day.—Northeast Georgian.
Savannah.—'The Grand Juiy of
Chatham county have recommended tliat
the court-house be enlarged, and extended
to Drayton street. As a specimen of
the adroitness of Savannah darkies it
may be stated that in an auction house in
that city last Tuesday no less than seven
teen old hats were found. The
wearers had exchanged them for new
ones during the sale the night
before, and failed to make any mention
of the matter to tbe auctioneers. The
Southern Bank of the State of Georgia,
on Tuesday, declared a semi-annual divi
dend of five per cent, on the capital
stock, payable on demand. The Cle
burne Base Ball Club, of Savannah,
has arranged a match game with the
Cosmopolitan Base Ball Club, of Beau
fort, S. C.-—Jones Collins has turned
np in Savannah,and got into trouble. He
was sentenced to three vears’ bard labor
in the penitentiaiy, on Tuesday, and his
manv friends will find liim at present in
the Chatham county jaiL Ho is sup
posed to be the author of Tom Collins.
—Advertiser and Republican.
Fort Valley.—Two ladies, of Afri
can propensities, had a regular wool-
railing on the main street of Fort Valley
ast Tuesday. They were promptly es
corted to the lock-up by the gallant mar
shals. ——Dog-fennel and Dlue-bottie-
flies have taken complete possession of
Fort Valley. A Fort Valley man went
to supper last Friday night in the bosom
of his family and left his stable door
open. He spent the balance of the night
in an unsuccessful scorch after liis grey
horse and the thieves. The predom
inating voice in Fort Valley this season
is made by musquitocs. The closing
exercises of Spring session of the Female
Seminaiy took place Friday night. All
last week was devoted to the examination
of the classes. All the exercises have been
very interesting and well attended.
Dalton.—The China berry season is
upon us, and the soniferous pop-gun is
heard on every side. The examination
exercises are now in progress at the fe
male college. It is reported upon relia
ble authority that a panther attacked and
killed a little girl in McLemore’s Cove.
Catoosa county, last week. The citizens
are making diligent search for the mon
ster.—Citizen.
Columbus.—Mr. Robert A. Wood, -sf
Columbus, attempted suicide on Tuesday
morning by swallowing an ounce of laud
anum. He became unconscious and was
brought to with great difficulty. No
cause is known for the act At last ac
counts his physicians considered him out
of danger.—Enquirer.
Htmenial.—In Adairsville, at the resi
dence of the bride’s mother, on the 28th
ult.,* Mr. Robert Fortenburg to Miss
Sarah Coalston.
In Athens, on the 26th of .Tuna Mr.
Henry McElroy to Miss Cally Beny.
In Murray county, last week, Mr. John
G. Hammock to the widow Willis, of
Cohutah Factory.
Hymeneal.—On Wednesday, the 1st
instant, Mr. J. A. Gramling, of Atlanta,
to Miss Louella Baker, of Powder
Springs, Ga.
Deaths.—-Mr. L. F. Young, an old and
respected citizen of Habersham county,
died very suddenly on the morning of the
29th of June.
Mr. M. S. Verdery, the suicider, died
in Savannah at half past two o’clock
Tuesday morning.
Mr. Nichols, one of the oldest mer
chants of Dalton, died Monday night.
Mr. W. C. Carlos, a respected citizen
of Bibb county, died suddenly Monday
morning.
Carrie d., second daughter of John A.
and Louisa Headen, aged 16 years, died*
in Milledgeville Monday night last.
diDEATHS.—Colonel W. R. D. Moss, Or-
h nary of Cherokee county, died at his
ome in Canton, on last Saturday.
Dempsey Riggs, an aged citizen of
Bulloch county, died on Fridayjast.
A Baltimore Exclusion.
Baltimore, July 2.—The Mayor,
Common Council, city officials, Board of
Trade, Corn and Flour Exchange cele
brated to-day by an excursion down the
Patapsco river on the completion of tin-
deepening and widening of the ship
channels between the Chesapeake Bay
and this city. Craigill channel has been
improved to a width of 400 feet, and
Brewerton channel to 250 feet, and each
to a uniform depth of 24 feet at mean
low water. The work lias been in
progress several years, the general gov
ernment having appropriated $528,000
and the city $625,000 for improving the
channel.
The Freedman’s Bank.
Memphis, July 2.—The suspension of
the Freedman’s Savings Bank here causes
some excitement among the colored peo
ple, though its business has been small
since the panic last fall.
Triumph of the Press.
Paris, July 2.—M. Paul de Chssagnac
and his co-editors of Le Pays have been
acquitted of the charge of inciting citi
zens to mutual hatred.
The Faraday.
New York, July 2.—The Merchants’
Exchange has a report from Picton.
There is no foundation for the reported
loss of the Faraday.