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SUN-STROKES. ' j OHIo. | WASHINGTON.
woman question—What’s he I Ji ^i raor ‘llHnry .nanirestectionsat GermaHttM^ I,, 'twlmnt Revenue Decision .Vo Bfort to
,, 0 * tti£TZ‘r*t Stnxation of the Season— Cuba—Government Finance*—-The
worth, I \ .1 Ghost Story .titrated Under Oath.
Cincinnati, July 28.—They have a first-
class sensation near Germantown, Ohio,
Tho Cincinnati Times and Chronicle
speaks of Governor Bullock as having in the shape of manifestations of spirits
“ gravitated in the Democratic ranks.” “* 4 1 '
BSu Hon. Mrs. Tel version is going to
Weather Report.
Washington, July 30.—Commissioner
Pleasanton decides that borrowed capital,
- . employed by bankers, is no longer sub-
at the house of Benj. Stiver. Thefurni- j ject to taxation. It is estimated that this
ture is removed, milk crocks upset, eata-1 decision will reduce the revenue receipts
bles disturbed, and the whole household j $10,000,000 and will, doubtless lead to
An Address to the Baptists of j
Georgia.
It will be remembered by all, that dur
ing the la3t convention of our denom
ination at Cartereville, it was resolved to
inaugurate a movement looking to the
foundation and endowment of a Georgia
Baptist Orphans’ Home, at some suitable
place, and with sufficient means to pro-
BOARD OF TRADE.
Enthusiastic Meeting—Speeches, Etc.
Our Motto—'“Forward!’’
On Saturday evening, pursuant to pre
vious call, a large and enthusiastic meet-
Japan and China if nothing happens, and < ^ sarran 8 e< * * n most extraordinary j innumerable suits for reclamation. De- j Tide for the well-being, education and ing of business men was held in the Kink
- - rnrncstlv hnnoJ ?. lann ? r - Eight members.of the family, posits heretofore thus employed were j setting forward for the business life, of I Building, for the purpose of organizing
v u r a tiionmi not all maiding tnfyp.flipr. nnDpnr! fivAnor I fulfill Tinmlifir fnAitMmfc nmfliAB o.Tiil-1 -
the Louisville Ledger
‘nothing will happeD.”
The New Brunswick Times asks
“shall Mr. Snedelcer be elected?” That
is precisely the question that is bearring
upon the mind of Mr. S.
E*§=> A Connecticut man ardently wants
to “represent the mechandick and labor-
ingo men in the state assembly irrespec-
tivof polytics, relijin, or or eddicashun.”
B@- Greeley is satisfied with Republi-
can affairs in Mississippi. As the party
in that State is hopelessly split, Greeley
must be very easily satisfied.
JBST’The New York Globe intimates
that “we have more gospel than we know
what to do with.” That is true when we
consider the land that most prevails in
some localities.
J8@“* There is Dothing like getting into
the papers correctly. The New York
Herald of the 27th says: “H. J. Kimball,
of Savannah, Georgia, is stopping at the
Fifth Avenue Hotel.”
B@t» “HI fares the land,” quotes the
New York Tribune. One would judge so,
particularly if the famous farmer of Cha-
paqua gets hold of it, to show what he
knows abont farming.
Butler has so far encountered only
twenty-six other Radicals who want to
be Governor of Massachusetts. He
thinks, however, that he squints toward
the nomination more decidedly than any
of them.
B@u>Tke Louisville Courier-Journal says
it is firing into the “Bourbons”rather than
the radicals, because the former “will
get in the*way.” The Bourbons “get in
tho way” because they know too much to
be afraid of blank cartridges.
B@=. Some of the Eastern papers have
had the report that Ben Butler ■
drowned. The story was a most improb
able one, for Butler is so gassy that if all
tho spoons he took away from New Or
leans were crammed into his pockets he
would still float. >'
£§S“The Philadelphia Age says: “When
the cholera is raging in one part of the
world, the yellow fever in another and
the small-pox in a third, it is important
that our quarantine laws should be rigid
ly enforced.” The Age appears to forget
that the fourth quarter has its peculiar
affliction in the official person of Grant.
BfS^. It is announced that General But
ler has “promised, if he should be nom
inated and elected, and if Boston should
cast its vote against him, to make that
city as hot for rumsellers as he made
New Orleans for Rebels.” He evidently
means to leave not a spoon for the “rtun-
Bellers” to stir their toddies with.
though not all residing together, appear j taxed five per cent,
in an article in the Commercial this ’ ’
morning, under oath, reciting the circum
stances with singular particularity. The
affiants are old citizens, and have the
general respect of the people of that
county.
The following is a specimen of the
sworn testimony of one of the witnesses,
Benjamin F. Stiver: “The family Bible,
which was on the bureau, fell on the floor,
no one being within its reach at the time.
Mother picked it up and laid it back, and
it fell again immediately after she had re
moved her hand from it. The balance of
the chairs, six or seven, commenced turn
ing sommersaults in the room, and the
cradle turned over and father replaced it,
when it turned upside down again with
out further notice. I went into tho bed
room and got my rifle and shot gnu, and
took them out and fired them off, so as to
avoid danger, and when I got back I took
out the clock from the bed-room, and
while on the porch heard the nicknacks,
toys, etc., about fifty in number, swept
from the mantel-piece to the floor, a num
ber of which were .broken.
No one was in tbe room at the time.
When I was taking the nick-nacks out,
the light, which was on the -dough-tray
in the bed room, was thrown off to the
floor and put out. I took out the tray,
and while gone the bench on which the
tray was'standing was turned npside down
in its place.
“While we were carrying the bureau
and cupboard from tho sitting-room to
the yard, we heard a noise in the bed
room; father went there, followed by
mother and the boy, and father saw the
guns, which had been placed by me un
der a chest after they were discharged,
moving away father under the chest.-
He saw them move eight or ten inches.
The shovel, which probably produced
the noise, was moved a distance”of three
or four feet, and a crock, which contain
ed nails, was upset.
As father and mother and the little boy
were starting out of the bed-room, the
boy remarked “that the feather-bed was
moving, angling across the bed. Mother
shoved it against the wall again, and as
they turned to go out of the room the
feather-bed was hoisted away off the bed
to the middle of the floor, striking their
heels and falling npside down, with the
quilt accompanying. They then started
up stairs, the little boy behind, and as
he passed a large bag of flour standing at
the floot of the strirway in the hall, he
remarked, touching it: “I guess this will
go next,” and before he got up stairs he
heard the bag fall off the stool on which
it had been standing, no one being near
at the time. When we got down stairs
again into the sitting-room the stool in
the hall where the flour was, tumbled
into the sitting-room from the hall, a
distance of four or five feet.
We then heard some noise in the sleep
ing room again, and father and mother
found a stand turned over, and then,
when in the kitchen, the dining room
table turned over in its tracks, before
father’s and mother’s eyes, as quick as
lightning. On the porch the flower pots
were also tumbled over.”
such number of indigent orphan chil-
It is known that since 1869, no propo-1 dren of the State, as our means should j
sition, direct or indirect, has been made justify onr giving home, and the oppor-
by the United States for the purchase of tunities of religion, physical and intel-
Cuba. I lectual training to. The undersigned
HE. COOPER
a Board of Trade. The meeting
opened by the calling of Col. Lowry to
the chair, and Mr. J. M. Burroughs to
BMP . .. , act as Secretary. The* Chair called
. Up to the latest hour the financial pol- were charged with initiating and giving m Cooper to state the object of the
leies of the Government was announced, form to this generous chanty, sought to r
The Government will purchase a mil- be pnt in motion by the Baptists 6t I meeting,
lion of Bonds each Wednesday and will I Georgia. . ' -
ontoe first, third Pursuant to the charge thus imposed,! 0 $ e ^ m a ^ e a
And nftli and two millions on tliG second. I liave met and completed for present merely for amusement, but for important business,
and fourth Thursday of August—making purposes, an organization with which you An effort has been made before to accomplish tbe
-- -’I £ - 1 have been made acmm'nfprl tlirnncrb thA purpose we have to-night, but they have failed.
nave ueen rnaae acquainted tnrougn tne Succe88 depends on continued and persevering
columns of the Index and Baptist, efforts. •
We have added to the number of We have in view looking to organization of
n,. T>„„ •, . _ Hoard of Trade or Chamber of Commerce. It may
the original Board of Manager, ns I not be best to organise to-night. Wears all agreed
W6 have thought it within the scope that a Board of Trade ought to he established. I
of onr nowpre to do Ttrothron H.o.v 0411 y our attention to the beneficial effects of such
oi our powers to do, xsreinren nev. Boarcls ^ other citieB . Louisville, Cincinnati, or
byivanus Laundrum, of Savannah, I even Savannah. Look at St. Louis. We are daily
LETTER PROM OG.LE-
TI1QRPE.
School Boohs—-The Gold Room.
The Grand Central Hotel.
in all five millions of Bonds and seven | have been made acquainted through the
millions of gold. * ' " ” *
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NEW YORK.
X^corfut Steamboat JBxplonion—Vast J\ timber
Killed and Wounded*
New York, July 30.—The Staten Is-1 J. J. Slade, Esq., of Columbus, and Mor-1 beset with trouble with Railroad Companies, in de-
kid ferry boat Westfield, exploded her deoai Edwards,’of Oglethorpe cormty,
OOller at twenty minutes past one O clock I and have located the principal office for I man goes, he is frequently treated with indifference,
at the foot of White- the discharge of the business of our hoard SSSTSElKSi^ KHwSfS.'KtSf
llftU street Tile concussion W&S terrific, I in tile City of A-tliintl. I quality betweon wholesale and retail sales, besides a
shattering the forward part of the boat We have little doubt that looking to I variety of other matters. Let us organise, organize,
and killing a great number of people, the healthfulness of a desired location, |Suothe'^to'lSSesTthefrviews:’ aftorwhich 1
lne hurricane deck was cleared over- and its easy accessibility, this city is the whereas, it is the belief of those present that the
jXn.rlSg* P“£t 5°uld bo selected for
into the water and were drowned. The the central operations of the purpose in- monions organization; au who come under the orig-
entire number lost IS supposed to be one tended to be served We have adonted i°»l call, he and are hereby declared members of the
hundred and fiftv ZrrT Atlanta Chamber of Commerce; aU the merchants,
mu t> 1 * * • , • , p tttm j a COnstltUu.on for tuG government Of OUT manufacturers, bankers, and other business men of
lne xtegnlation ]USt arrived from Wll- I board and business, with a view to a Atlanta be declared members of the Atlanta Chamber
steamer Catherine Whiting, bearing in the Baptists of Georgia. ~ ", I pointed to-night,
tow the Huntsville, Which was disabled. The Georgia Baptist Orphans’ Home is Mb. norcross
Both were from Savannah for New intended to be, in very truth, what its advocated the prompt establishment of
York. The same steamers were spoken I name imports, a home where the indi-1 T ...
next day at 6 a. m., by the Herman Liv- Lent orphan, without reference to sec- ^Chamber °f Commerce. I agree with
mgston. twenty-five 4 miles north of Cape tarian limits, shall receive a welcome, Mr. Cooper. The great matter of 1m-
Henry. find a home, be cared for, be given re- portance now is the question of freights,
v hater from the Westfield muosier. ligious, physical and intellectual culture Atlanta has grown up in spite of discrim-
The Westfield was leaving her slip at ®£ lted to the wants,of practical life,, and inat i OI1 against her, which proves that
the foot of Whitehall street when the ex- those more exalted aims which look be- . . . . . ■
plosion occurred. About three hundred y° nd 4116 cares of to-day, to that better Atlanta is in the right place , there is a
of the usual Sunday excursionists were I purer world where want and suffer- strong influence against her which it is ne-
aboard. The yawning abyss extended are unknown; where there are no cessary to counteract. Atlanta is large
from abaft the engine room to the stern, houseless, friendless little ones, and enoug i 1 sP eak with effect to the
The deck seemed to have opened. The where the orphan s cry is not heard. rfl ;i roa dR and other nor ties and when
dead ana dying were lying everywhere I Our organization consists of C. Peeples, I railroads and otber ana n nen
among the timbers, splinters and heavy President; Louis G. Crawford, Secretary; properly expressed it will be heard, when
machinery. The whole upper works were I J 0 - 0 - H. James, Treasurer. Prudential jg expressed through a Chamber of
shivered to a thousand pieces. Many Committee: C. Peeples, Rev. W. T. o ommeree which will be effective. Let
were blown into the water and hauled out I Brantly, Rev. E. W. Warren, J. H. I^
by boatmen with hooks. Parties drag-1J ames ) A. K. Seago—all of Atlanta. I .
ging the bottom of the river are constant- . It is our purpose to secure, by dona- must be heard one way or another; we
ly bringing up the bodies of men, women tion or purchase, a considerable body of can be heard through the press ; we can
and children. Many are brought in on or P ea ^ to one of the _ railroad S p ea £ railroads. A late movement, I
scorched, bruised and mutilated. mean the lfiasA of the Macon and West
Murche, formerly a partner of Garibaldi, I neai iL we aro inclined to think the best I
was badly scalded. It is estimated that location for the Home could be had.— ern Railroad, which I lam sorry to say is
forty were killed outright. Some offers of land and improvements almost fatal to Macon, which I sympa-
Granthas postponed his western trip I have been already made to us as a dona- wifL. We must be awake and watch
until next spring. ' | tion; and we are satisfied that the gene
ALABAMA.
It is said that Phil Sheridau was
made a LL. D. on account of his know
ledge of cannon law.” Pogue says he
thought it was on account of his know
ledge of the nso of friction matches, to
gether with the dexterity with which he
lrills old Indian men and women and
little Indian babies.
A correspondent says: “Though
Quakers do notdesire for themselves music
and singing of hymns in their worship,
yet Dr. Painter’s family, because they
find music attractive to the Indians, play
and sing with them with much spirit.”—
Which goes to prove that the poet was
correct when he said, ‘ ‘Music hath charms
to soothe the savage breast.”
To show what sort of material the
American people will shortly be lionizing
in the person of the young Duke Alexis,
of Russia, it is necessary to state only
that he speaks six languages fluently;
smokes excessively; is a connoisseur in
meercliamns "and champagne; can swear
in twelve tongues besides his native Rus
sian, and play billiards like a professional.
The New York Tribune says: “Mr.
William Dngan, once a Democratic mem
ber of the Board of Education in Cleve
land, Ohio, has been sent to the House
of Correction for confirmed drunkenness
and incurable vagrancy.” The Tribune
neglects to mention that Dugan joined
the Radicals some years since, which was
his first step down, and his course has
been steadily downward over since.
The Louisville Courier-Journal
says,' “All of the editorial articles of Mr.
Stephens in The Atlanta Sun are signed
*A. H. S.’ This is unusal, but as the
other editors of The Sun are unwilling
~ to be regarded as political lunatics, it is
well enough.” It needs no distinction
marks of this kind to designate the “po
litical lunatics” of Courier-Journal, as
they can be traced in every editorial and
para graph in the paper.
blwU. • d I1U. WO Clio bavlbiioU I'llcliU bliO tiOUO" I • 1 • ^_ «■» _» L - „ _ J .
rosity of the kind-hearted will leave ns vanoa3 combinations that may be made,
nothing to do in the way of a location us havo an organizatiQU to speak
upon a body of land large enough for the authoritatively for us. Let us prove to
Jitahama claim. Commissioners. I wants of the home, but the duty of de- the world tbafc Atlanta is, and must be, a
Washington, July 29.—The British cidmg between offers. ... xU
Government has appointed Mr. Gurney, Feeling confident of success in the l ftr £ e internal commeicial city. We
the recorder of London, one of the com-1 good purpose thus inaugurated, from the j ought to have a regular daily meeting,
Usew York, July 25, 187^
Editors Sun: Most heartily in
terested in all that relates to the ed
ucation of our people, I have visited
and examined the publishing house
of the University Publishing Com
pany, with which our distinguished
townsman, Gen. Gordon, is so prom
inently connected. Its wardrooms
are spacious aud convenient—well
selected and arranged for business.
They are publishing text hooks for
schools and Colleges by such men as
Commodore Maury—now President
elect of the University of an adja
cent sister State, and Professor
Holmes Venable, Gildersleeve De
Vere, Carter, Le Conte Johnston,
&c., &c.
These books are intended for use
in the South—not because they con
tain Southern ideas—which they do
not; hut because they are free from
the sectional views which have, aud
do abound in the school books here
tofore used in the South.
THE GREAT GOLD HART.
The business of the Gold Exchange
consists of buying and selling gold.
These purchases and sales spring di
rectly from the foreign trade of the
country. Every transaction between
this country and any other termi
nates in the Gold Room.
When goods are imported, the mer
chants come here to buy gold, with
which to pay duties, or to transmit to
their foreign creditors. Every bale
of cotton and every bond, shipped
abroad, are represented here by a cor
responding sale of gold. It is the
great mart where gold and currency
are continually interchanged; all the
imports being represented by the con
version of currency into gold, and all
the exports by tbe conversion of gold
into currency.
It is of the utmost importance to the
commerce of the country that there
should be a place where this can be
done instantly and publicly.
Of course there is, in addition to
these mercantile demands, a large
speculation in gold, but this specula
tion is not so great as that in cotton
or railroad shares, or Hinted State§
bonds, or real estate. Wherever there
is trade, there is speculation. It arises
from the nature of men. When one
in the way of trade buys any proper-
NORTH CAROLINA.
Bloody JYegro Biol at Goldsboro,
Wilmington, July 29.—John F. Pick
erel!, a New York broker, brought here
on a charge of fraud, by the officers of
the Wilmington, Charlotte and Ruther
ford Railroad Company to-day, was Com
mitted to jail in default of three hundred
thousand dollars bail,
A bloody riot occurred at GrOldsboro
to-day. About five thousand negroes
arrived from Newberne and the lower
counties, on an excursion train chartered
by the Republican Executive State Com
mittee, to attend a mass meeting at which
Congressman Thomas, ex-Senator Ab
bott, Marcus Erwin, and R. C. Badger
were to be the speakers. There were
very few white people in town, and many
of the negroes came into town. The
police arrested one turbulent negro, and
while on the way to the guard house with
this prisoner, the negroes rallied, and
rescued him. The colored police fired
at the prisoner, who was recaptured, and
taken by the police to the Exchange Ho
tel. About one thousand of the negro
mob, with clubs and pistols, rallied to
the hotel, attempting another rescue.
Tho riot commenced by the negroes
throwing brick bats at the police, and
using clubs, when a cross-firing began
between the police and the mob. The
white citizens forbear, but are now armed
for the emergency. There is great ex
citement. About thirty or more shots
were fired. Three or more whites were
hurt, one negro killed, and one colored
policeman killed and two wounded.
A committee of citizens, appointed
by Mayor Robinson, waited upon the
Republican leaders, and Mr. Stanley,
President of the A. & N. O. Railroad,
aud requested that the trains and negroes
be carried away. To this, Stanley re
plied, “that he would not carry them
away until he was ready.” When told
that he and Thomas would be held re
sponsible for the disturbances he replied,
“hold ns responsible and be d—d.”
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ENGLAND.
Meath cf Hon. holm Slidell—The British Com
mission Coming—h Mining.
London, July 30.—Hon. John Slidell
is dead.
Russell Guerney, the British Commis
sion under the Alabama Treaty, will
shortly leave for America.
The French Ambassador, the Duke
de Broglie, gives a dinner this evening
to the Count de Paris. Royal honors
will be done the Prince, apparently by
orders.
missioners authorized by the treaty of prospects we _ have so far encouraged Let it be free fora while, and when once
Washington, to whom Haims therain pro- onr labors, which have ventured to select, established then a fee may be required
vided for shall be presented, and the as onr general agent and active canvasser ^ _ *
United States have appointed as commis- for an endowment, Rev. R. W. .Fuller, I ^re a re other important matters, may
sioner on their part Judge Frazer, of In- "who will soon enter upon the active dn- be attended to, arbitrations, etc., thus
diana. The remaining commissioner is ties of the agency. Of brother Fuller, avoiding law suits. The Western trade
to be appointed jointly by Great Britain who is well Jinown to Georgia Bap- j g BP w, and must continue to be so; we
and the United States, and in case he be tists, as well as to the general public, lit- musfc attend tQ Qur interests in tHg mat _
not appointed within three months, he tie need be said. He will enter upon the
shall be named by the Spanish Minister work with all the zeal and with all the ^ er -
at Washington. The British Govern- ardor of a heart deeply impressed with Mr. Seago moved the adoption of the
ment has already appointed as its agent the sacred burden of the charge commit- resolution, which was carried.
Henry Howard. The United States has ted to Lis Lands, and with an humble A committe6 o£ 8ev en, as follows :-
appointed as its agent Hon. R. S. Hale, ? trust tnat the orphans God will sustain _ r ,
of New York. The arbitrators are to him and-the Board in this good work, j Messrs, M. E, Cooper, R, M. Rose, A.
meet at Geneva, and have not yet been and raise.np friends to this noble charity, K. Seago, S. S. Langston, J. S. Oliver,
appointed. The commissioners above throughout the length and breadth of the
named will meet in Washington and set- land.
tie all questions under the roles estab- j And now, brethren, we send him forth
lished by the arbitrators at Geneva. accredited with the purest of purposes
Cotton Tax Refunded- J upon a most exalted mission, to plead the
The Commissioner of Internal Revenue! cause of God’s poor in the house and
is haying refunded the cotton tax, col- , God s people. Who can, who
lected on rope and bagging and known as S. feel justified m refusing our call!
the tare, which amounts to from fifteen I ^ can deny our plea or reject our mes-
to twenty pounds on each bale. The I senger . We have but little funds now
amount of cotton tax collected by the hand, and want the means for build-
government was about eighty million dol- ”?o and setting in order a home for onr
■ - - - —- — - • charge before the chilling winds of win
ter come, to make lone the field and for
est, and pinch the luckless child of want.
Let all who can do so, forward at once
4®* Speaking of Akerman’s mission
to North Carolina, the New York Sun
(Radical) says: “He has no more right to
interfere with the question of remodel
ling the Constitution of North Carolina
than he has to dictate who shall be Pre
mier of England.” The Sun apparently
loses sight of the fact that Grant, Aker-
man, el al, have adopted the following
couplet as their motto:
“No pent up Utica contracts our powers,
But the whole boundless continent is ours.”
lars, and about three millions of this is
the rope and bagging or tare tax. This
refunding is under the 44th section of an
act approved June 30,1864. In all claims
A. Leyden and Col. Pits, was appointed
to prepare constitution and by-laws.
The Chairman was added by a vote.
A vote of thanks, for use of Hall, was
tendered Mr. Carr.
The meeting adjourned, pursuant to
the following resolution:
Resolved, That when the meeting ad-
jours, it adjourns to meet again, next
Monday night week, at the City Hall
A Monster of the Deep Caught
hy a Fishing Party.
of this kind the certificate of the Collec- wt . at can afford to our treasurer,
tor of Internal Revenue is necessary. | J°ku H. James, Atlanta. Ga,
We have appointed brethren C. Peeples
The Snb Ku-Klux Committee have re-1 and J * 5* Ja “ es to adve J I tise v , aad r | aei J®
turned from South Carolina. The Gen- P r °P. oslfclons for a suitable body of land
eral Committee adjourns on Monday]*•*'■ improV6me ?, ts p f °L tll w e ^ h ° me ‘-. ,
morning, leaving the Sub Committee lier£ I ^ Peeples, President,
to examine other witnesses. An semi
official report of the Committee, publish
ed in the Star, gives a terrible condition
of affairs in South Carolina. The gener
al tenor of the evidence shows inefficien
cy and rascality on the part of the State
Government, and the inability of*the
W. T. Bbantlx,
E. W. Walken,
A. K. Seago,
J. H. James,
J. H. Calloway,
Atlanta, Ga., July 28, 1871.
At a meeting of the Board of Managers
more staid citizens to control the young the Georgia Baptist Orphans’ Home,
men who do the Ku-Kluxing of black and held tins day, the following resolution
Republicans. | was aCl °pted:
Resolved, That the Address to the Baptists of
Georgia be published in the Index and Baptist, and
that ail other papers in the State, friendly to the In-
1 stitution, be requested to copy tho same.
C. Peeples, President.
L. G. Crawford, Secretary.
IVew Orleans Going Ahead.
BgDb. Bowen can subside. An Indiana
clergyman has been found who had seven
wives and there are iwenty-seven States
to hear from.
BgA,, As sook as Bntler gets sober
enough “he trill publish a manifesto,
planting himself squarely on the prohib
itory platform.”
Augusta counts up her $15,651,470
worth of property and is happy.
LOUISIANA.
fatal Railroad Accident—five Killed
Jinny Injured.
New Orleans, Jnly 29.—A dispatch
from Navesota, Texas, to-day, says: A
construction train bound north this even
ing, with nine cars and eighteen laborers, .
was precipitated into the Navesota river. We are pleased to note that the
The accident was caused by the derrick great Southern emporium, Hew Or-
of the wrecking car striking the lateral leans, has bridged the disasters by war
braces and rods of the bridge. The su- and the elements, and is a^ain on the
perstructure of the first span was earned Ligll road to prosperity. The adver-
away, and the second, third and fourth 1 J .,
spans went to the bottom with the cars s 43 lrn , 1 ? ;3 ^ < r r daily newspa-
and engine—a mass of rains. Five were show that such is her conva-
instantly killed, two fatally injured and lescence, if nothing else bore testimo-
twelvemore or less'injured. One man ny to the pleasing fact. But we learn
was thrown twenty feet into the air and, through the Times of that city that
falling, was instantly killed. the improvements—public buildings
A Pike county correspondent of the I nrn"
Macon Telegraph and Messenger says: Our ° less are estimated to cost $2,38o,000.
crops look well considering tbe disad- tliem. are, a masonic temple
vantages they have been subjected to in j to cost $250,000; a Hebrew temple,
the shape of rain and grass. The farm-1 $125,000; Hibernia Hall, $200,000;
ersare generally rid of the grass, and Varieties Theater,$125,000; the Or-
coiton seems to be doing as well now as ] eans D rama ti e Relief Association
it can. The corn in this section is need- TheaU $ 60 000 St Louig Hote l
mg ram, and should it visit us this week ! nnn 7 ,, 5 ’ , ,
there witl be an abundance of the cereal j « 5 ’ lee ^j
made. Clover culture is becoming a sul>-1 churches, 5?22o,000 : twenty-
ject of earnest consideration with our | seven stores, $347,000, and fifty-five
farmers; many are raising ft successfully, | dwellings, $458,000.
and many more will commence it another ».
season. The writer cut a fine crop of j The Athens Banner expects a large
hay from some sown the 22d of February j crowd of negroes to visit Athens this
last on his wheat, and the after-moth bids week. They have heard that the Alumni
fair for another good cutting before are coining, and are saving their cash in
winter. order “to seedat show.”
Tuesday afternoon, a fishing party,
consisting of Dr. Postley, Messrs. Wm.
Areston, G. Buckingham and Madson
Williams, accompanied by several ladies,
while amusing themselves near Wilming
ton Island, taking such specimens of the
finny tribe as accommodated them with
a nibble, were suddenly surprised by a
very large inhabitant of the briny deep,
that seized upon the bait, and was actu
ally hooked on the small tackle they
were using at the time for catching small
fish. Finding they had a whale,.or some
thing else of huge proportions and pro
digious strength and activity, they dis
continued their efforts to take any more,
devoting their sMll and attention to the
unknown monster.
They “played” him for a long time.—
Finding it impossible to adopt harsh
measures, they humored him for the pur
pose of getting him into shallow water,
which they at last succeeded in doing,
when they found that they had caught a
huge saw-fish. The anchor-rope was
thrown over his head and caught be
tween the saws, or teeth, which, being
exceedingly large and stout, enabled his
captors to drag him to the shore on the
beach of the Wilmington Island. The
fish was found to be twelve feet in length.
The head and saw measured four feet,
wMch were cat off by the party and
brought to the city. The saw has
24. teeth on each side, varying from
one to two inches in length, and from
half to two inches apart. The saw was
taken to the office of Dr. Postley, on
Congress street, where the Doctor has
them on exhibition for his friends aud
others who are disposed to think • this a
fishy story.
The saw fish is not generally so large
as this one was; their ordinary size is
under ten feet, and a fish of from twelve
to fifteen feet is considered a very large
one. They resemble the shark in appear
ance, the saw is a large cartilaginous con
tinuance of the upper jaw. They, like
the sword dsb, are said to be very de
structive to whales.—Savannah JS r eics.
£s2jr*-“ There is much waste in life,” says
a writer, but he had no reference to the
waists of some of our belles.
tv, lie does so with the hope of profit;
the larger and quicker the profit the
greater the inducement to buy. This
is speculation, aud is only a holder
aud more rapid method of trading.
Speculation is -confounded in the
public mind with gambling, but it
differs from it. essentially. Specu
lation deals in values; gambling does
hot. Speculation is based upon legal
contract; gambling is not.
The Rev. Thos. A. Hoyt, who is
the presiding officer of the Gold
Board, is a Georgian and has an es
tablished reputation for learning, tal
ent, patriotism and piety. He is ah
exceedingly commanding and popu
lar officer and enjoys the fullest con
fidence of all classes. He was drifted
into this position by the cross-cur
rents of the war, and it is his purpose
to relinquish his present position and
resume his appropriate work so soon,
as the proper arrangements can he
made.. He is a subscriber to The
Atlanta Sun and regards it as the
ablest Democratic paper in the Union,
under the leadership of that distin
guished patriot and statesman, Hon-
A. H. Stephens. His favorable rep
resentation of the paper is inducing
other members of the Board Jo sub
scribe for it. Copies of it are every
morning found on the President's
desk.
THE GEAND CENTBAL,
for Southerners, is the hotel par ex
cellence of Hew York city. Its mag
nitude, the perfection of its appoint
ments, its central location, the supe
riority of its cuisine and many home
comforts are appreciated hy traveling
Southrons.
The property was purchased by a
wealthy merchant of the city at abont
$850,000, and the present edifice
erected in the course of two years,
being coirqfleted and opened -last year.
It has about 800 rooms and can ac
commodate 1,500 guescs. It has a
total floor space of 350,000 square
feet, far exceeding the area of any
other hotel in existence. It is eight
stories in height, exclusive of base
ment and sub-basement. The car
petings alone are said to cover the
space of seven acres. The front of
the building is of murbU surmounted
by a handsome Mansard r ;.>f crowned
with three domes. Altogether it is,
doubtless, the largest hotel in the
world, and its genial' proprietor, Mr.
H. L. Powers, is making it a great
success. Oglethorpe.
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