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THE ATLANTA WEEKLY SUN.
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London, October 13.—The aid for
„*r!Zn is lavish throughout the Empire
^continent The Lord Major re-
,1 contributions yesterday from
•ate judividuals to the amount of
P”Intv thousand pounds sterling.
£C luring & Morgan, Rothschild, Brown,
oiiiiilcv* Co., the Great Western Rail*
Canada, and the Grand Trunk
rv!:h-nad. have subscribed £1,000 each.
%,v Obueams, October 13.—Mayor
rlnnffin has telegraphed to the Mayor
-t Chicago to draw at sight for ten
Subscriptions are still
J.
thousand dollars.
fc^jj^jjjj-oBD, October 13.—The latest
statement of the Hartford Insurance
rnirmfuiv’s capital shows it to be intact,
S a million and a half eicess.
' OvedsO, October 13.—The military
have hoen ordered by the home govern
ment tender all the blankets in the
Domisi° n to Chicago.
jfrw Yobk, October 13.—The Stuy-
vessnt Bank has suspended. The cause
js attributed to the Chicago fire.
It is stated on Change that a lady
height the entire store of ladies’ cloth*
j E -» shipped to Chicago.
Chicago, October 13.—The Erie re
lief train has arrived.
Chicago, October 13.—The Liverpool,
London and Globe Insurance Compa
ny has ordered the immediate payment
of its losses, aggregating $5,000,000.
That the Commerce Company, Albany,
Tvith a loss of $450,000, has been placed
in the hands of a receiver, is not the
fact. It is in an almost perfect condition.
The Nicholson pavement for miles on
the North side, is uninjured. Evidence
accumulates that the Loss of life was
greater than has been estimated.
° London, October 13.—The losses of
the Liverpool companies by the Chicago
fire ere 420,000 poundssterling.
New Yobk, October IB.—Adams Ex
press Oimpany gives $10,000 to the Chi
cago sufferers.
Chicago, October 13.—It is rumored
and believed by some that that the bank
er Ullman was murdered.
An unpleasantness exists between the
Mayor and Common Council regarding
the management of affairs.
Hartford, October 13.—Tl>e Connec
ticut Fire Insurance Company’s circulars
says the Chicago losses arc so high that it
is obliged to suspend business until reor
ganization is settled.
Chicago, October 13.—Eight elevators
were saved. Tbe loss of grain foots up
two million bushels.
Chicago, October 113.—Adispatclifrom
Green Bay, Wisconsin, states that a,
steamer lias just arrived from the burn
ing, and reports that 325 bodies were
burned at Bishtego -last night, and as
many more are still missing. Seventy-'
five persons were burned to death at
Littlo Sturgeon Bay. The suffering
throughout the Stbrth is terrible.
The fire in Manister ilestroyed 'twenty-
five buildings, mx of which were mills,
together with all the shipping at the
docks—loss $1,300,000. s
Further advices from Green Bay state-
that 150 men were burned to death in a
large barn where they Iliad sought refuge.!
Hundreds of people Jiave been driven,
into, the rivers .and drowned. •
Chicago, October 13.—Organization
lias been affected for the management of[
relief. It consists of the Chicago Relief:
and Aid-Society, an-old established insti-.
tution, assisted by prominent citizens.
Bills will be audited by the Committee.
Funds collected should be remitted, as.
directed, or held subject to :the order of,
the Chicago Relief and .Aid Committee,
signed by R. 03. Mason.
HLASuroBS), October A3.—Ered Kently
was kung to-day. He attempted suicide
this morning by puncturing his breast
with a needle.
Augusta, (October 18.—There has been
fifteen horn’s continued rain. Seven
regular trains were rcaught between
washed culverts. The total amount of
rain which fell was nearly 4;i inches.
Portland, .October 13.—Two mills,
belonging to the (Oriental JBowder Com
pany exploded, killing, one.
Qjt.-r.TVNawt, .October 13.—Later counts
give the Democrats in Hamilton county
another Senator and Representative, re
ducing the estimated majority on joint
ballot to six.
Columbia, October 13,—The Senate is
a tie. House, ,59 Republicans, ^Demo
crats, independent 1. Noyes majority,
2,200. r,
Daniel Torcenoe has been elected
President, and A. N. Christy -Vice Presi
dent of the Ohio and. Mississippi Rail
road.
Rome, October 13.—The Fair Grounds
were perfectly-crowded all day, and the
display was magnificent. ’The racing
was fine.
Charleston, October IS.—Two fever
deaths have been reported in. dhe last
twenty-four hours.
Philadelphia^ October 18.—After hav
ing an arm broken by two ruffians, a sa
loon keeper killed one and fatally wound
ed the other with, a revolver.
Montgomery, October 13.—There was
a heavy frost yesterday morning, the
first this season.
London, October IS.—The strike at
Newcastle continues. Several were hurt
in a riot, which the colice easily
pressed. ' . .
Engenie will shortly return to Chisel-
liurst.
The health of Queen Victoria is im
proving.
Madrid, October 13.—Tbe rupture of
.the adherents of Sagosta and Sorell is
.complete.
The Republicans are said to be ripe
for an offensive movement against the
government.
Washington, October 14. — Judge
Chase is here. He gained twenty pounds
during his absence.
Five boys were dismissed from the Na-;
val School foripersistent “hazing. ”
Mss. Geo. W. Riggs died in London.
Lojspon, Oct. 14.—Nearly all the ex
press steamers carry supplies for Chicago,
free.
Galveston, Oct. 14.—One hundred
and twenty-five colored militia have ar
rived at Groesbeck. Business has been
suspended there, and all the roads lead
ing to the place are guarded, and none
are allowed to pass out or in. Twenty-
five citizens have been arrested and placed
under bonds for their appearance before
Judge Oliver.
Much indignation is felt in regard to
the additional returns from the 2d Di
vision, which give on increase to Con
nor’s majority.
The Democrats have, doubtless, elected
all four of the Congressmen.
The aggregate majority of the State
is estimated at 40,000,
Austin, October 14.—The Governor’s the
proclamation of martial law - was frlffn
up in the House. A resolution to sus
tain the Governor was opposed by many
leading Republicans. Plainly, « Radi
cal from Galveston oounty, bitterly op
posed it, and said: “I shall vote against
the Governor’s proclamation of martial
law, because I thing it illegal I will not
be deterred from expressing my opinion
against the proclamation by the cry of
having gone oyer to the Democracy. I
shall vote against it because I am a Re
publican, and regard the proclamation as
destructive to the party, and subversive
of the Constitution and liberties of
the people. The Governor has made a
mistake. I will not be compelled, under
a party lash, to indorse and ratify the
error. My county has increased its
Democratic majority from 100, two years
ago, to 2,000 now. The increase is caused
by enforcing just such illegal and irregu
lar declarations of martial law as we are
now con sideling.”
Huntsville, October 14—The Senate
Ku-Klux Committee, Senator Pratt,
Chairman, after sitting eight days in this
place, adjourned this evening and go to
Montgomery, where they will remain
two or three days, then go to Demopolis,
MareDgo county, where they will remain
a week, perhaps. Theyj-exauiined forty-
two witnesses at Huntsville, including
several of the principal public men on
the Democratic side, who regarded the
country as peaceful. On the other side
many persons, including negroes, were
examined, who testified to acts of vio
lence.
Janesville, October 14.—Gov. Fair-
child telegraphs that the appalling cala
mity has not been exaggerated. Over
three thousand men, women and children
are now destitute. The loss of life has
been very great. Not less than five
hundred persons have been burned at
Peshtigo and vicinity, and three hundred
on the eastern shore. The men, women,
utate in Dakgrh or bank
ruptcy.
n»« BlRRMt l«kem« of All.
The last Legislature granted charters
to a large number of Railroads, which
were intended to traverse almost every
section of Georgia; and in these char
ters obligated the State to indorse their
bonds.
The granting of these charters, and
this State aid, is only a part of the gene
ral system of plundering the people
and bankrupting the State, in which
that peculating body indulged so exten
sively; and, unless the masses of our peo
ple, and their representatives, wake up
to the importance of this subject, and
apply a corrective, we, and our children,
and children’s children, for fifty, or per
haps a hundred years, will not reach the
end of the burden of debt and taxation
which this measure will entail, if it is
consummated. The oonsequences are
absolutely appalling to one who looks at
them in all their magnitude.
It is too often the case that those who
indorse have the bill to pay. Generally,
those who desire indorsements are not as
able to pay promptly as those who in
dorse. • It is sometimes the case that
those who get others to indorse for them,
do not make the effort to pay which they
should, and are not as sure of their abil
ity to meet the engagement as they
the coet of constructing a single mile—and
the people of Tennessee are left to pay
the last dollar of the bonds. Here is the
summing np of the whole matter, after a
result has been reached, taken from a
Tennessee paper:
The State's interest or property in the delinquent
and children, who were maimed and
burned, are now in temporary hospi
tals.
Bangok, October 14.—There is an un
precedented freshet in the Penobscot
river, causing an immense loss of lumber.
Many bridges have gone.
There have been no trains over the
Maine Road since Thursday.
New York, October 14.—Judge Me
-Kinney, United States Judge of the
Southern District of Florida, died Tues
day on the Steamer City Houston, en
route from Key We§t for home. He was
buried at Sequin’s Point. Judge Mc-
Kiuuey abandoned his summer trip
North to give speedy adjudication to the
wrecked steamers by the recent cyclone,
and sacrificed liis life to duty.
The following is the bank statement
for the week:
Loans decreased, $4,645,200. Specie
decrease; $998,600. Legal tender de
crease, $3,754,200. Deposits decrease,
$7,401,000. Circulation increase, 73,-
-90L i T sni'd IM }
* A'special to the Tribune, from the city
of Mexico, dated October 1st, says:
This afternoon four hundred gens d’-
arme and cavalrymen became violent,
and attempted to take possession of the
city. The garrison rallied under the
command of General Racha and others,
and attacked and defeated the insurgents.
Two of the latter were killed in the fight.
•Their leader is said to be Negrete. De-
Rivero and Chevarria effected their es
cape, but several officers, with two hnn
dred and fifty men, wero’token prisoners
and shot next morning.
Chicago, October 14.—Some of the
laborers are taking advantage of the pro
fusion of provisions and refuse to work
for less than one dollar an hour. There
are hundreds of shanties going up.
The Tribune says there can be no donbt
as to.the course to be pursued with in
cendiaries caught in the act. The fate
of -such miscreants should be certain and
sure.
On opening of the safes and vaults
their, contents are found, in most instan
ces, more or l ess preserved, and in some
cases,.heaps of charred leaves and melted
tin boxes are found together.
Thexain which commenced at midnight,
still continues. It has extinguished the
remains, of the fires, saving many thou
sand tons, of coal, and quelling all appre
hensions of further fires.
The gold in the Custom House was
melted, and the greenbacks destroyed.
This.morning the atmosphere is clear
ing of dust and smoke.
Springfield, October 14.—The Legis
lature has adjourned to visit Chicago, and
on their return will remit the quarter of
a million due the State from Chicago for
improvements on tlie^Hlinois and Chicago
Canal.
Washington, October 15.—The Secre
tary of the Treasury has issued an order
to re-issae.a:million and a half of notes
to replace those destroyed at Chicago.
Charleston, ' October 15.—One death
from yellow fever was reported yesterday
and one to-day.
New York,' October 15.—The steamer
Portsmouth has. arrived from Rio Ja
neiro, with 28 emigrants, who are re
turning from Brazil.
A dispatch from Halifax states that
the heaviest hurricane known in twenty
years, occurred there last evening. The
tide rose two feet .over the wharves.—
Many vessels were injured and several
lives were lost
The Manhattan Insurance Company
has resolved to suspend. Its losses are
stated to be $1,250,000. The company'
possess a large surplus .besides its capi
tal It is not expected That any loss will
.accrue to the assured.
The Council of Political Reform last
evening elected Wm. M. Evarts, Presi
dent, and Eugene Kelley, Wm. H. Aspin-
wall, James W. Beekruan and Oscar
Zollieoffer, Vice-Presidents.
Dispatches from Vienna, Paris, Brus
sels, Berlin and London represent active
subscription going on in aid of Chicago.
The President of the Empire City
Company, which was reported yesterday
to have lost a quarter of a million, states
that it sustained no loss. It is reported
that, the Western Union Telegraph has
effected a loan in Europe, and will cancel
four millions of stock. Douglass, of the
Sappho, has challenged Samuels, of
Dreadnaught, to race twenty-five miles
to the windward and back in a ten knot
brige.
Bennett’s Dauntless offers the Dread-
naught a similar match.
New York, October 15.—Cotton was
heavy and lower early in the week, but
improved at the close. The sales for
the week reached 80,000 bales, of which
75,000 bales were for future delivery,
and 11,000 on the spot and to arrive.
Of the spot cotton, exporters took about
6,850 bales ; spinners 4,725, and specu-
I lators 225 bales.
ought to be. If such be the case with
individual indorsement, what right have
wedo expect good things of those who
seek State indorsements—especially of
corporations, which are generally consid
ered soulless, and which, by corruption or
other improper means, induce a peculat
ing Legislature to give the State’s in
dorsement to the wildest schemes ?
Such indorsement is too often sought
for,and obtained,to aid schemes in which
capitalists and men of common sense will
not risk their money. They are not le
gitimate enterprises; and too often the
men who go into them never expect to
benefit the country, or build a road out
of whose earnings they con hope t<? reap
a profit; but only to gobble up what they
can while the money raised on the in
dorsed bonds of the State and contribu
ted by stockholders, is passing through
their hands; and save something in .the
wreck, when the crash comes. Such men
are not to be expected to try,in good faith,
to save the State harmless, or to do any
thing else but fill their own pockets by
any safe means.
We do not hesitate to tell the people
railroads, which have been sold, nu been done »t
figures, which for all practicable results, will reduce
the debt of the State so little, that this part of tho
financial policy of the last Legislature, may be Mil
to be a failure. Tbe fact that the sale of the various
delinquent roads, will not retire more than one-tenth
of the minimum amount fixed by the Comptroller,
is an unanswerable argument against the policy as at
present carried out."
We ask the people of Georgia, and
especially the incoming Legislature, to
carefally contemplate this picture.
And we specially ask those who
live near the line of snch pro
posed roads, and who are expected,
naturally, to favor their construction,
to consider whether they are willing to
fasten such a load of debt upon the whole
people for a very doubtful benefit!
We would be glad to see a Railroad
running by tbe door of every man in the
State, who desires it, if the State would
not be damaged thereby. We do not
object to the building of Roads wherever
they are wanted, but would rather en
courage it We desire them to be built
without State aid—to be built solely by
private enterprise. When such measures
are undertaken by the people, and car
ried on with their own money, or what
they can raise with their own means,
they are apt to be conducted honestly
and economically, and managed success
fully.
We shall hereafter have more to Bay
on this subject.
MAYOR’S COURT.
Pleading and Being Plead.
plainly, that they will have either to pay
these indorsed bonds out of their own
pockets, very nearly to the uttermost far
thing, or repudiate them, if they are. ever
issued and used for the purposes for
which they were granted by the Legisla
ture aad in the way contemplated. We
tell them plainly that a stop must be put
to this whole proceeding. If it is not
done, we will either be disgraced, or
bankrupted, or loaded down for genera
tions to come with a burden of debt and
taxation, too intolerable to be borne.
And, just here, we again lay down the
proposition, that railroads which will pay
for running expenses, and a profit on the
investment, after they are built, can be
built by private capital and enterprise,
without any assistance in the shape of
indorsement by the State, or any one
else; and that roads which cannot be
built without such indorsement, will not
“pay” when completed, and must in
evitably go down, and the loss fall oh the
indorser.
Tho men who have gotten up these
schemes, expect to sell the bonds which
the State may indorse, handle the money
which they bring, and which is other
wise raised, and make a good thing out of
it while it is going on. This is the mo
tive which prompts most of the principal
leaders and prime actors in all such en
terprises.
The people along the line of such pro
posed roads, will, of course, desire them
to be built. This is but natural They
will be called upon to subscribe liberally,
and most of them will do bo. Those who
do not comprehend the whole scheme, in
its financial bearing, and almost certain
results,willbeduped. Those who do under
stand it, will either refuse to subscribe,
or will do so with the expectation of
selling their property at an advanced
price before the Roads break down.
If all these Roads were fully completed,
and in operation to-day, it would not be
a great while before they would be una
ble to pay the interest on tbeir indorsed
bonds. Then the Governor would have
to pay the interest out of the State]
Treasury, and proceed to seize and sell
the Roads; and, when that would be
done, they would not, upon an average,
bring one-fourth—perhaps not a tithe—
of the amount of the indorsed bonds.
Most of what they would bring, would
be absorbed in attendant expenses, and
then the burden of payment would fall
upon the whole people of (he Slate, who
will be taxed for generations to come, to
pay these bonds—principal as well as in
terest.
If the general system is carried out,
according to the present programme,
this will be the inevitable result, in al
most every single case. Mark the pre
diction !
The State of Tennessee has gone
through the same experience that we
will, if we do not apply a corrective to
what has been done. She indorsed
largely for Railroads, and lately a num
ber of them, were sold. Some whole
The wheels of the municipal car of
Justice were at a dead lock for some
time on. Friday morning because the
Mayor was upstairs delivering himself of
a big speech before Judge Hopkins, in
the Superior Court, where he was ex
pounding the law in the most approved
style. Of course, out of pure politeness,
Jonsen held up for about a half hour,
and when the Mayor was safely delivered
he descended to the “courts below” and
mounted the wool-sack to hear from the
mourners who had come forward.
a gentleman from the interior
came to Andrew Ford’s store drunk, and
get to pirootin around in such away that
Ford invited him to depart. He did so,
but soon returned in company with two
of his friends and "proposed to An
drew to meet [him anywhere outside
the incorporation. At the same
time his chums .pulled out their
knives and began flourishing
them around. A F. [surveyed the situation
with the eye of an experienced general,
and then very calmly and unostentatious
ly proceeded to kick the countryman’s
posterior, to that gentleman's infinite
disgust. For using his boot in advance
of actual hostilities, the Court took from
him a five dollar emancipation contribu
tion.
FOR BEING DRUNK AND A FOOL
J. D. Stewart paid five dollars. He
was the man whom Ford kicked, and as
he was too unwell to appear, Jonsen
made a speech for him,, and got him off
with the above remark from the Court.
T. H. WOOD
would get drunk in spite of all he could
do on Thursday, and when the arresting
officer was catechised as to how the thing
stood about Wood, he replied that he
thought he was about as drunk a man as
he ever saw, and was running against
barrels and boxes on Peachtree, in the
most promiscuous manner imaginable.
He just cleaned them all off the sidewalks.
To this testimpny Wood offered no re
buttal It was all one way, till Jonsen
came to his relief, and remarked to the
Court
SUN-STROKES.
The latest Courier-Journal song is
after the following style:
Tell me, ye winged winds,
That round my pathway roar,
Do ye Mot know acme «pot
WtterarBoorbona teaae'no more;
8ome lone and pleaaant dell.
Some valley "fen the West,
Where I can,—freed from stings—
•• Depart" aad be at rest;
The loud wind bellowed hoarsely in ray face;
I shuddered as it whispered “ nary place 1 ’’
Tell me, thou silent moon.
Whose meUow light is shed,
Is there, in all the ground,
No hole to hide my head.
Where Bourbons cannot come?
Where Democrats are shy ?.
Where disappointed men
Can hide, *• depart,” or die?
The aly moon “ sniggled" as it gave a “roll,”
And smiled,and blinked,and simpered, “nary hole."
Sot* Memphis contributed $20,000 to
the Chicago sufferers.
BgU The yellow fever is tampering
with Tampa, Florida.
A lad of ten years, at Elkton,
Maryland, used coal oil to kindle a fire.
Result as usual.
A colored policeman, at Waco,
Texas, proved himself a good shot by
shooting himself.
There are four candidates for
Governor of Massachussetts, * and no
Butler in the lot, and he wanted to be
a candidate so bad.
“Withdrawn from the Radical
ticket,” is what the Virginia papers are
writing after the names of men who have
been prominent in th9 Radical party
since the war. , :ji n r*Wl
JBQT’General Wade Hampton delivered
an address in Baltimore last Thursday
night, on the life and character of Gene
ral Lee. The address was delivered to
a crowded house.
A dispatch from Chicago says
that, to give the names of the cities and
towns that have forwarded relief, would
require a new Gazetteer of the United
States.
‘ Tho Harrisburg Journal says
“Maeon, Georgia, has a haunted house.”
It is hinted that the ghost of the “De
parted” wanders restlessly through the
office of the Telegraph and Messenger.
jggy* The Washington Chronicle says:
“The bottom has fallen out of the Dem
ocratic party.” The people are crowd
ing into the party so fast that the wonder
is that the bottom, or something else,
has not given way long ago.
The New York Times asks: “Shall
we surrender all we have gained?” If the
Times' party will surrender all it has
gained by stealing from the public crib,
the amount reimbursed will go a long
way toward paying the national debt.
BgL, That charity is a virtue which still
survives, is abundantly proven by the
manner in which nearly all the cities of
the United States, and many of the cities
of Europe, have contributed to the relief
of Chicago. ~ lu some instances the con
tributions have amounted to almost a mil
lion of dollars; while, in many, they are
estimated by the hundreds of thousands.
Preachers and laymen have become so
accustomed to abusing the world, or the
people which composes it, that an outsider
would have fancied that such a thing as
Christian charity was a stranger to our
day and generation. Bnt occasion has
furnished most excellent proof that one-
half the world does not willingly let the
other half suffer. Chicago has great need
to be grateful that charity is not yet dead.
S^,The following lines on the death of
General Clanton, are from the Montgom
ery Advertiser of last Saturday :
CLANTON.
It’* a very good rule in all things of life.
Nilien judging a friend or brother.
Not to look at the question alone on cue side,
But always to turn to tho other.
We are apt to be selfish in all our views,
In the joBtling, headlong race;
And so to he right, ere you censure a man,
Just "put yourself in his place."
The Court was struck by that last line,
.and he drew a mental picture of himself
lyingin the worm of a rail fence up Peach
tree .street, and then being marched off
to the lock up. He revolved the subject
in liis mind, and seemed in a doubt what
to do. At last he said,.
“It is very hard to be just, I know.
The reason another xuay give—
How much he has struggled and fought, and striven
How honestly tried to live;
How much been cheated, how sorely tried,
Ere the wrong he was forced to embrace;
And if I would learn these things, you say,
I must-“lint myself in his place
Jonsen iold him it was tbe best way he
ever saw tried, and put tbe beer on tbe
Mayor by moralizing as follows,
There’s many a man crushed down by shame,
Who blameless stands before God,
Bnt whom his fellows have utterly scorned
And made to 1 pass under the rod;’
Whose soul is unstained by the thought of sin,
■ Who wiU yet find saving grace,
And who would be praised where you now condemn.
If you would “put yourself in his place.”
That all sounded very well, but it did
not save tbe accused a five dollarjnote be
held in bis band.
And here, as tbe list ended, we may
remark, that this court never allows its
dignity to be encroached on, like tbe one
horse court in the upper story, and does
everything right np to tbe handle, get
ting through with business promptly and
setting an example to all other institu
tions. I rinks.
Tbe New York Tribune proved
that Collector Murphy is dishonest, and
Grant refused to remove him. The
Herald is now endeavoring to prove that
Murphy is honest. If it succeeds, his
And was our laud so full of chivalry,
That he, the very flower of it all—
Before the earliest frosts of manhood fall—
Smit to the death, must perish hopelessly ?
Oh, knightliest of a land, whose knightly deeds
Blushed a new heraldry upon the world
And crowded th’ old legends; he ne’er unfurled
An ensign other than which honor leads
Into the throat of war, afront the right!
That he should perish utter from our sight
Were seemly and most proper, had his fall
Channeled a way for some great deed to grow.
If thus, we’d bear the burden of the blow,
Nor curse the hand that dealt it on ns alL
Weep him, oh men! who perished in his bloom!
The sum of what was worthiest in our race—
The type of what was truest! No disgrace
A deed of his e’er tarnished. Here's his tomb!
Here lies your strength, oh weakness i .in the dust!
And, Truth, here lies your hero, very weak 1
Justice, here lies who for you cause did spea k
And Honor, here’s, at peace, your bravest trust!
Truth, Honor, Justice, Weakness—all draw near
His grave, henceforth! your {Mecca! You may
weep I
Not woman-eyes alone may shed the tear
For him who lies beneath the mound, asleep;
But war-browned men, who never knew a fear,
Are honored now in weeping. Let them weep!
Col. T. C. Howard.
Col. Howard has been employed by
the Managers of the Atlanta Fair, to
travel over a portion of the State, and
deliver addresses upon the subject of
Agri«ulture, <fec., and right worthily and
efficiently has he discharged his duty.—
He closed his engagements at Madison,
on Saturday last, addressing a fine au
dience, with happy effect. He was con
gratulated by the first men of the place,
in a manner similar to the high encomium
of Dr. Stephenson, of Gainesville, which
the readers of The Sun all recollect.
His address at Madison was eminentlv
practical. He told the farmers—the men
who toil with their own hands—more
about the way to make good crops, on
any kind of land, and with whatever
seasons may come; and how to make
money by raising fruits and sheep, than
they ever learned from reading and ob
servation.
The State Agricultural Society ought
to employ CoL H. by the year, and turn
him loose to lecture to those who labor on
farms.
GEORGIA MATTERS.
Col. Henry M. Law is announced-To
deliver a leeture in Augusta.
Alpha! ct Bonlly has bought the West
Point Shield, and changed its namo to
the News. This is the severalth paper
that has had Bonlly’s autograph printed 7
at its mast head.
Rockdale county is about to erect a
Court House at the expense of $9,200.
Tirack-laying still progresses on the
Brunswick and Albany Railroad.
A thief entered the Albany colored
Baptist Church last Wednesday night,
and stole one lamp, and all the oil con
tained in the others. Doubtless the thief
had been to Church, and heard the preach
er say something about having “lamps
trimmed and burning.”
Augusta insists that she is going to
have a good Fair this year, and there is
no reason to donbt that she will. She
can do anything well when she wishes.
The young Demostheneses and Ciceros
of Elberton have organized a Debating
Society.
The Chronicle and Sentinel has discov
ered that some of the meanest thieves in
the world are in Augusta. This remark
is elicited by the fact that they have com
menced stealing street lamps.
Up to Friday night 511 voters had reg
istered in Augusta.
The Rome Courier of the 14th announ
ces the death of Edward H., son of Rev.
R. H. Stillwell, under tho following cir
cumstances'. “Edward, who was but a lad
of fourteen years of age, left home to go
on a chestnut-hunting. He did not re
turn at dinner, but still his absence crea
ted no uneasiness until late in the after
noon, when the family had gathered for
the evening, when a search was instituted
and inquiries made, without any satisfac
tory results. During the night the search
was continued, and up to yesterday at a
11 p. m., when his dead body was found
suspended by a small cord around his
neck, and his knees resting upon the
ground. He evidently did it himself, but
hardly with any intention of destroying
his life, as the cord would have not been
considered of sufficient strength to have
borne him.
The Dawson “previous conditions”
have accepted “Shoo Fly” as a revival
tune, and they shoo fly away at an awful
rate.
The Dawson car works are building
narrow gauge cars.
A colored divine in Terrell county told
his audience last Sunday, that when the
Savior was about to como to tho earth he
was opposed by three powers, one of
which was “the devil and fifteen French
men.”
Dawson has a citizen named Drink-
water. He is the original Good Templar.
CoL J. H. Logan has retired from the
Griffin Middle Georgian—having sold his
interest to Messrs. Maugham & Hunt.
The kerosene lamp explosion has
reached Americus. Negro woman badly
burned.
Madison county has had a hurricane.
Athens has had a killing frost.
The Athens Banner regrets to learn of
the death of M. D.Looney,of Camesville,
while on a visit’North to secure surgical
attention for the removal of a tumor.
A.literary society continues to delight
Thomaston. It gives the young geniuses
a chance to speak at a mark once a week.
Mr. J. D. Andrews, of Upson county,
while engaged in building a mill dam,
had his foot crushed by a falling rock.-r-
Those that followed were not mill dams.
Railroads brought only $10,000—less than • bead will go off quicker than winking.
Sheep Raising for Profit. 1 ' 3 -5»
Col. T. C. Howard, in his address at
Madison, on Saturday, dwelt specially
upon the value of sheep raising as a
means of fertilizing the land, even
though not a lock of wool should be
clipped nor a pound of mutton saved,
:Erom one year’s end to another. One of
his grand themes has been the manufac
ture of guano at home, and enricliiug
the land without buying guano or other
commercial fertilizers, lie mentioned
the fact; that France, with her small area
of territory, has some thirty millions of
sheep, while Georgia has about a half
million.
Sheep husbandry is one of the most
profitable, least troublesome aud least
expensive callings that any one can pur
sue.
—
Mr. G. W. Hinkle, of this city, de
livered an address on agricultural topics,
at Stone Mountain, last Saturday. "We
have been permitted to see the address,
in proof, and find it to be full of sound
practical intelligence upon the questions
discussed. We would be glad to publish
it had we the space to devote thereto;
but, owing to the crowded condition of
our columns, we are forced to desist.
►OH
Saturday, some little white boys and
negroes were playing around a huge ex
cavation in the junction of Walker and
Nelson streets, which is intended for a
cistern, when a little white boy stood too
near the edge, and the ground giving
away under him, he fell to the bottom, a
distance of twenty feet, severely bruising
himself. It was a narrow escape.
A young Cherokee Indian, who was on
a visit to Athens, died in that village last
Wednesday, of fever,
The flattering reception given the Rev.
F. M. Daniel by iiis congregation in this
city is highly gratifying to his old friends
in and around Newnan. The Her ddaays
he is worthy of snch ;i dock, and his
Church deserves such a pood, work
ing 88 he is known to be.
