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! r THE ATLA NT A WEEKLY SUN. GEORGIA LEGISLATURE. FIFTEENTH DAY’S PROCEEDINGS. SENATE. Friday, November 17th. The Senate met, President Trammell in the chair. Prayer by Rev. Armxxics Wright. The roll called, and the Jour nal approved. . , , A message was received from the House, stating that the House had disa greed to the Senate resolution of yester day in relation to Public Printing. On motion of Mr. Nicholes the House resolution tabled on yesterday, instruct ing the Committee on Public Printing, to inquire into, and report upon the laws in lelation thereto, and that the General Assembly should go into the election of Public Printer at 12 o’clock m., on yesterday, was taken up. Mr. Nicholes moved to strike out the latter part relating to the election of Public Printer, and to concur in the resolution so amended; carried. Bills on third reading: , To execute 15th Section, Article 1st, of the Constitution of Georgia, making pe nal the transfer of property subject to a lien. Mr. Kibbee moved to make this bill the special order for Monday next; car ried. To repeal an act to extend the lien of set off and recoupment, and to forbid the collection of Ml debts contracted be fore June 1st, 1865, until all legal taxe3 due thereon shall have been paid, &c.— The Judiciary Committee reported ad versely. The report was, on motion, ta bled. To make it penal for any person retail ing spirituous liquors to furnish the same to any minor without the written consent of the parent or guardian of said minor passed. To repeal so much of an act to create a new Judicial Circuit, to be called the Alapaba Circuit, as relates to the conn ties of Lowndes, Echols, Clinch, Coffee and Ware; passed. To regulate the mode of conducting trials in case of felony in this State tabled and fifty .copies ordered printed, To relieve parties plaintiff from the operation of an act to extend the lien of set off and recoupment to all debts con tracted before June 1, 1865, &c., in cer tain cases. On motion of Mr. Nunnally mode the special order on Tuesday next. To enforce Section 6th, Article 12th of the Constitution, relating to the provid ing of juries: passed. To merge thejurisdiction of the courts of law and equity in this State—making a mistaken form of action amendable on notice. The Judiciary Committee re ported favorably. Mr. Simmons moved to disagree to the report. He thought the bill could only benefit inefficient lawyers, and would re tard litigation. Mr. Reese supported the bill. Mr. Brown understood the bill not as changing the forms of action, but to ex tend the privileges of amendment, and hoped the bill would pass. Mr. Billyeb favored the bill. He thought it removed from the laws one of the most fruitful sources of error, and one of the principal causes of popular prejudice against the laws; that the pres ent system trammeled the Courts with useless forms. Mr. Lester opposed the bill. The mode of obtaining remedies is already too loose and tended only to make ineffi cient lawyers and inattentive Judges. Mr. Kibbee considered that the bill was for the relief of lawyers and plaintiffs, to the prejudice of defendants; that it would enable the plaintiff to bring de lating to the competency Of parties to testify in their own cases; lost. For the relief of Zeba King, and to le galize his marriage; passed. The Senate then adjourned until to morrow. 5 fendaut into Conrt and then shift his form of action to meet it, whatever de fense may be made, and would tend to complicate proceedings, instead of sim plifying them. Mr. Reese contended that the priv ilege of amendment was extehded equally to defendants. The motion was lost and the bill passed. To make certified extracts from the books of Railroad companies and char tered banks evidence in certain cases ; passed. To repeal Sections 1875 and 1876 of the Revised Code, which Sections limit the hours of labor for minors from sun rise to sunset, and forbids corporal pun ishment by employers; tabled. To repeal Seotion 3489 of the Code so as to give the moving creditor in garnish ment priority over all others; lost. To provido for taking the bonds of pnblio officers, ana qualifying the same; passed. To compensate Ordinaries, Sheriffs, and Clerks of the Superior Courts; passed. To secure the several counties of the State of Georgia from the costs in crimi nal coses; recommitted to Judiciary Committee. To regulate the trial before juries in certain cases, providing that a rejected charge shall not be read to the jury; passed. To provide the (manner of incorpora ting documentary evidence in bills of executions, and for other purposes; passed. Mr. Candler opposed the bill on the ground that it gives the party suing out the bill of exceptions an undue advan tage, by requiring him to incorporate only so much of the documentary evi dence as he may consider material and necessary. Mr. Reese contended that the object of the bill was to exclude from the bill such evidence as is necessary to be in troduced but is not material or contested. Mr. Hillyeb offered an amendment provided that upon a, suggestion of diminution of the record, the Supreme Conrt may order the omission to he sup plied ns is practiced in similar cases; lost. Mr. Lester offered an amendment where no objection by either party is made to such evidence in the conrt be low; adopted. The bill was passed. To amend Section 3525 of the Code, making personal property purchased bona fide, and held for two years, to be discharged from all liens; lost. A bill to amend an act to authorize the Ordinary of Liumpkm county to issue bonds for «.he purpose of building a jail; passed. . .To incorporate the Oglethorpe Fertil- izing Company; referred to Judiciary Committee. To require clerks of the Superior Courts to keep on hand printed instruc tions for taking interrogatories; passed To alter and amend the fee bill and to prescribe the fees of sheriffs and clerks of the Superior Courts in certain case* HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. House met—Hon. J. B. Ccmmtsg, Speaker pro tem, in the chair. Prayer by Hon. Mr. Heidt. Journal of yester day approved. On motion of Mr. Pierce, the rules were suspended and the Senate bill to change the county site of Clark county from Watkinsville to Athens was read a second time. Mr. Johnson, of Clay, moved to fur ther suspend the rules to have a hill for the relief of O. P. Anthony, the tax col lector of Clay county, read the second time. This motion prevailed and the kill was read. Mr. Hoge moved to postpone the consideration of the Spalding county contested election case, which bad been set down as the special order for to-day, until Tuesday next, because the Judicia ry Committee had not had time enough to consider some law points touching the case which had been, referred to said committee. This motion prevailed. On motion of Mr. Payne the rules were suspeaded, and a large number of bills were read the second time. Leave of absence was granted to Speaker Smith for tlie day on account of indisposition. Mr. W. D. Anderson offered a resolu tion providing for printing 200 copies of the report of the State School Commis sioner; adopted. Mr. McMillan moved to take pp the resolution passed by the House on yes terday in relation.to the State Printer, which came back from the Senate this morning with an amendment striking out that Section of the resolution which set down the time for holding an election for State Printer. The motion prevailed, and the Senate amendment was concurred in. A message from the Governor was re ceived, saying that the resolution requir ing officers and agents of the State Road to pay into the State Treasury sums of money in their hands has been approved and signed. Also, a resolution to con solidate the Committee* of Agriculture and Manufactures of each House. Mr. Phillips, chairman of the Com mittee on Privileges and Elections, re ported that said Committee had carefully investigated the claims of Mr. W. G. Feircefor a seat as member from Calhoun county, and the Committee find that the ballot .box was stolen; that two hundred and seventy-five votes were counted out before the box was stolen, and that ont of that number Mr. Pierce received 206 votes, and that 999 votes were cast. The Committee therefore recommend that a new election be ordered. , Joiner, of Dougherty, was in favor of seating Mr. Pierce, and said that he ought not to be kept out of his seat be cause he is a Republican. Mr. Russell said that a fair and full investigation had been made, and that any statement to the effect that said re port was made because Mr. Pierce was Republican was false. Mr. Bush remarked that he was au thorized by Mr. Pierce to state that he (Mr. Pierce) was not a Republican, and that a majority of the voters of said county have certified that they voted for him, and, farther, that the Executive this State has commissioned county offi cers said to have been elected at said election, and that the vote of that county was counted in the Congressional elec tion in favor of Mr. Wliitely. Mr. Crittenden stated the facts in re lation to the election in Calhoun county, and the stealing of the ballot box, and said that the best evidence which coaid be produced has come up in the shape of a memorial from the majority of voters in said county, stating that they had the Code, in relation to the Public Print ing, which was read the first time. Bills were read the second time. Bills on first reading: By Mr. Brown—To authorize the Or dinary of Cherokee county to issue bonds to build a conrt house. . ■A* By Mr. Smith—To incorporate the At lanta and Jacksonville Narrow-Gnage Railroad Company, and for other pur poses. By Mr. Hillyeb—To amend an act to incorporate the Gate City Insurance Company of Atlanta; also, to extend the provisions of an act, approved in 1850, relating to Tax Collectors; also, to amend the charter of Atlanta. Mr. Black—For the relief of J. A. Crowell. By Mr. Richardson—To relieve wid ows of wounded and disabled persons from taxation. Mr. Estes offered a resolution instruct ing the Joint Finance Committee to re port a billon Tuesday regulating the per diem of officers and members of the General Assembly; adopted. Mr. Anderson introduced a resolution that the former Treasurer, Mr. John Jones, had not settled with the present Treasurer and Comptroller, and that he should make such settlement at once, without giving the ten days’ notice re quired bylaw; referred to finance Com mittee. Bills on third reading To incorporate the Van Wert Slate Mining Company; passed. To incorporate the Excelsior Slate Mining Company of Polk county; passed. To regulate the time of holding Supe rior Courts in Columbia and McDuffie counties; passed To require the Judges of the Superior Courts to give specially in charge Section 1436 of the Code; passed. To relieve joint debtors by judgment passed. To authorize the appointment of an auditor in cases at law, or in equity in volving accounts; passed. To amend an act to incorporate the Albany and Coiambus Railroad Compa ny, and to extend State aid to the same, to correct a clerical error by which State aid was granted only for the construction of the first section. Mr. Bruton offered an amendment that aid of the State be granted to the Great Western Railroad Company, on the same terms and conditions as to the Al bany and Columbus Railroad Company loflt. The bill was passed by Ayes—Messrs. Black, Brock, Brown. Cameron, Campbell, Clark,. Coleman. Estes, Erwin, Hoyle, Jervis, Jones, Kirkland, Kibbee, Nunnally, Reese, Richardson, Smith, Wellborn, ' and Welch—20. Nays—Messrs. Bruton, Candler, Cone, Deveaux, Hillyer, Lester, Matthews, Nicholls, Peddy, Simmons and Wallace— To prevent railroad and other compa nies from performing work on Sunday. The Judiciary Committee reported ad Mr.'Smith moved to lay on the table lost. Mr. Smith advocated the bill on the ground that the immorality of the present license ought to he restrained by law. The bill was recommitted To amend an act to provide for the setting apart of a homestead of realty, and exemption of personalty, so as to require the Ordinary to publish notices in the gazette where he usually publish es official notices; passed. To prevent hunting with fire arms on the lands of another, in the Thirteenth District; To legalize the subscription of the city of Madison to the Griffin, Madison an‘d Monticello Railroad Company; passed. To assist the Georgia Infirmary passed. To amend an act to incorporate the WilmiDgton Railroad Company; passed To legalize subscription of Indian , , „ Springs to the Griffin, Madison and Mon voted for Mr. Pierce and that he is the 'ticello Railroad Company; passed, choice of the people of said county. * Mr. Fierce, of Hancock, stated that in the consideration of this case, the Com mittee had avoided any consideration of the politics of the applicant, that the ma jority of the Committee held that they could not recommend seating a candidate from partial returns, but that he was in favor of seating Mr. Pierce, for there was enough evidence to warrant the convic tion that Mr. Pierce was the choice of the majority of the people of Calhoun county. ' Mr. JacRson favored seating Mr. Pierce, urging that this House is the judge of the election returns and qualifi cations of its own members, and as the ballot-box has been stolen and inaccessi ble, the certificates of the people that they voted for Mr. Pierce is the highest evidence which can be obtained, and ought to control the action of this House. Mr. Bacon agreed that Mr. Pierce is entitled to his seat, and thought that this case is very different from a case of con tested election; that the manner of get ting at the evidence is very different, for in the former case evidence must be taken before a judicial officer after proper no tice to the other party; bu\ in this case, the House can take the best evidence af forded. Mr. Hoge stated that the memorial was not sworn to. Mr. Bacon said that ho had been un der the impression that the evidence was under oath, and if it was not, it was not sufficient to seat Mr. Pierce. To amend Section 3432 so as to im pose certain restrictions on the privilege of amending pleadings; lost. To alter and amend Section 3798, re An amendment to a Senate resolution to appoint a joint committee of five to provide for the apportionment of members of the General Assembly, instructing the same committee to consider the present division of counties into Senatorial Dis tricts, was concurred in. The more effectually to punish certain unlawful acts of violence; passed. The Senate then adjourned. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES House met; Hon. J. B. Cumming* Speaker pro tem., in the Chair. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Cox. Journal was read and approved. On motion of Mr. Hall of Meriwether, the rules were suspended and the Senate bill to repeal the usury law was read the second time. On motion of Mr. Richards the rules were further suspended, and the Senate amendments to the bill to revise the jury box of Cherokee county were concurred in—one of the amendments to this bill provides for the revision of the jury lists of Fulton county. The unfinished business of yesterday, to-wit: the report of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, on the election for Representative in Calhoun county, was resumed. Mr. Simmons; of Gwinnett, thought that under the law and evidence Mr. Pierce is entitled to a seat as member from Calhoun county, for the election was regularly held, and enough votes were counted before the ballot box was Mr. W. D. Ajmmsos thought th >t the st0 K n *° indi . ca '? a “ t tteapplumnt for a evidence Sid not come through the legal ^ tad received a majority of the votes channel, and said that he could not, un der the law, vote to seat any man who has not been declared elected by count ing ballots deposited in the regular way, that he desires that each county shall be represented by the man of its choice, but that choice must be expressed in the us ualand regular way. Leave of absence for a short time was granted to Messrs Smith of Coweta, Hudson, Glover, Hancock, Rawls, Jack- son, Hull of Upson, Bell and Mc Whorter. Pending the discussion on the report of the Committee on Priv ileges and Elections, in relation to Calhoun county, the hoar of adjourn ment arrived, and the House was de clared adjourned until 9 a. m., to-mor- sixteenth day’s frocehdings. SENATE. Saturday, November 18th, 1871. The Senate met—President Trammell in the chair. Prayer by Rev. Mr. Wright. The journal was approved. The Committee on Printing reported a bill to amend Sections 1035 and 1038 of cast Mr. Hoge said it was purely a question of law and evidence, and was clearly of opinion that there had been no election in the county of Calhoun; for 999 votes were cast, and the managers do not cer tify that any person received a majority of them, hut they do say that after count ing out two hundred and seventy votes the box was stolen, and out of that number Mr. Pierce received about two hnndred and six; but that there can be no election until the votes are counted. Suppose, in Fulton county, where 5000 votes are cast, tan votes had been counted, and these ten had been for any person, and the ballot-box was then stolen, could that person claim to be elected when there are 4990 voters still uncounted ? This House has the right to seat Mr. Pierce, or Mr. Boynton, who was, afto, voted for, but that right ought not to be acted on where it is clear that there has been no election and no returns. Mr. Bryan thought that the committee is composed of as intelligent men as are in this body, and they were careful in taking the evidence concerning this elec tion; that there is no showing in the re turn that the Superintendent of the elec tion in Calhoun took the required oaih, and if no such oath was taken, their re port could not be considered. Mr. Pou was in favor of the report made by the committee, and thought there had been no election in Calhoun; that it was an unsafe precedent to estab lish if parties are seated upon the faith of one-fourth of the votes having been counted. Ballot-boxes must be token care of and the will of the people ex pressed through them must be preserved and respected. Mr. .Phillips, chairman of this com mittee, expltdned its action, and the evi dence that was submitted. Mr. Bacon moved to refer the matter back to the committee and to give Mr. Pierce two weeks to get up farther proof of his election-. Mr. Griffin of Houston was opposed to seating, Mr. Pierce, although he may have been elected by Republican votes. The stealing of ballot boxes must be put down by this General Assembly. He did not think that the evidence was suf ficient to seat the applicant. Mr. Richards called the previous ques tion on the motion of Mr. Bacon to refer; the call was sustained, and the motion did not prevail. The report of the Committee declar ing that there was no election was then adopted. The report of the Finance Committee recommending t(ie appointment of four pages, at two dollars per day, a keeper of the gallery at five dollars per day, &c., was adopted. Bills on third reading: To change the line between Lee and Terrell counties; lost. A Senate resolution providing for the appointment of a committee to consider the re-apportionment of Representatives to the General Assembly, was read. Mr. Hunter moved to amend by in structing said committee to inquire into the expediency of a rearrangement of Senatorial Districts. Amendment agreed to, resolution adopted. To require defendants in actions for the recovery of real estate, to annex ab stract of title to pleas, was lost. The bill to amend the road law of this State, was read. Mr. Rawls moved to disagree with the report of the committee, which was ad verse to the passage of the bill. He was in favor of making every man contribute his share to keeping up public roads. Messrs. Battle, O’Neal and Dukes fa vored report of committee, and could see no use in using compulsory means to make people work the roads. On the motion to adopt the report of the Committee, the yeas were 72, and nays 49. To exempt firemen from Jury duty; passed. Also, to amend the act to au thorize the Mayor and Council of Atlan ta to provide for the introduction of water-works. On motion of Mr. Hoge the Senate hill to repeal the 20th Section of the Ap propriation Act for 1870 was read the second time. The bill to change the county of Glas cock from the Northern into the Middle Circuit was laid on the table. s The bill to allow the State tax for 1871 irom Gwinnett county to be used in re building a Court House was read the 3rd time. Mr. Simmons moved to disagree to the report of the Committee, which was ad verse to the passage of the bill. On mo tion the bill and numerous proposed amendments were laid on the table. The bill to authorize the payment of 10 per cent, interest on 100 bonds of the Scofield Rolling Mill Company, was passed. The hill to authorize the payment out of the county funds, of the fees of phy sicians for attention to paupers, was read. Mr. Etheridge opposed the report of the committee, and urged the justice of paying physicians for services rendered to the poor. Mr. Rawls stated the reasons prompt ing the committee to make the report* Mr. Wofford, of Bartow, thought the law now recognizes the right of the Ordi nary to pay such fees, if meritorious, and could see no reasons why the Doctors should be favored more than other pro fessional men, who serve papers without compensation. Mr. Goodman thought a general law of this nature would be detrimental to the general good, but if the Ordinaries are authorized to make such payment he was satisfied. The bill was amended so as to apply only to the counties of Lincoln, Putnam, Harris, Cowetta, Hall, DeKalb, Troup and McDuffie, and then passed. On motion of Mr. Simmons of Hall the rules were suspended and the bill to incorporate the Georgia Mining Com pany was read the first time. The bill to authorize Judges, in their discretion, to allow a counter showing to a motion for a continuance, was passed. The bill to authorize the corporate au thorities of the town of Cutlibert to is sue bonds for educational purposes, was passed; also, a bill to fix the pay of ju rors in Randolph county; also, a bill to amend the act to fix the time of holding Chatham Superior Court. Messrs. Nutting, Bowie and Sargeant were added to the Committee on Agri culture and Manufactures. Leave of absence was granted to the Speaker and Messrs. Leland, Dukes, Joiner, Guerry and Baker, of Bryan. The House adjourned until 10 a. m., Monday. TELEGRAMS. Washington, Nov. 18.—The monthly statement from the Agricultural Depart ment is expected this evening. The figures are more favorable than last month. The majority of Beveridge, Congress man at large in Illinois, was only 1,900. The disguised men who hung three negroes for the murder of the Park fam ily, met no serious resistance. The as sailants beat down two doors of the Charleston, Indiana, jail. The Sheriff gave them the key to the third. It is understood the negroes made additional confessions before execution. Three counties contributed the men who en gaged in the execution. The November reports of the Depart ment of Agriculture, relative to the con dition and yield of the cotton crop, indi cates a larger product than was expected in October, and promises to fully make good the moderate expectations of July and August. There have been no killing frosts up to the date of these reports. In the rich and well cultivated soils in the lower tier of States, the plants are green as they ever grow in snmmer. In some places the top crop was maturing,, though complaints of the immaturity or loss of the later growth are quite general in the latitude of Middle Georgia. The squares formed between August 25th and September 25th, under favorable circum stances, promises to make good cotton. The principal causes of the reduction of yield are: In Texas, drouth; in Lou isiana, drouth, insects and black rot; in Mississippi, wet weather in the spring, drouth in summer, and, in isolated sec tions, the caterpillar or boll worm; in Florida, driving winds and floods, which occasioned nearly the total destruction of considerable areas. Drouths have wronght mote or less injury in Alabama, Georgia and South Carolina. The yield per acre, as indicated by county estimates, is largest in Arkansas, decreasing in the following order: Texas. Tennessee, Mississippi, Louisiana, North Carolina, Alabama, Georgia, South Coro- linau and Florida. The more northern belt of the cotton States shows the least deviation from the usual average. In the tabulation for November esti mates, for each county, of the total pro duct of the year, are expressed as per centages of the actual crop of last year. These averages, adjusted with regard to the relative pioduction of the counties repotted, give the following result for each State: North Carolina, 68; Georgia, 67;' Florida, 58; Alabama, 73; Missis- Washington rejoices over tlie first frost of the season. The Washington Gazette editor has been “shown a stalk of oats 33 inches in height, and which has been planted only five weeks.” ’ SUN-STItOKES. 9 “Let’s bum out,” is a Chicago eupkonism for “let’s drink!” He spells his name O’Conor, and not O’Connor, nor O’Conner. Prince Fred Grant sailed with General Sherman on the Wabash. Delrnar is to furnish Brooklyn with penny paper. Certainly journalism .is marred enough without Delrnar. \ 1 ■ ■■■ ► % "" 1 1 jggg^AWestem'man proposes Medillfor President. That is Medill-ing with national affairs with a vengeance. sippi, 72; Louisiana, 65; Texas, 68; Ar kansas, 85, and Tennersee, 90. A few counties in Virginia, Kentucky and Mis souri, make reports ol much the same tenor as the returns from North Carolina and Tennessee. The quality of the fibre is reported to be good in all sections. Up to the pres ent date a very small proportion of dis colored or trash cotton has been picked. Some attention lias been paid to im provement in quality by the introduction of the Peeler and other improved varie ties. Many correspondents note the su periority of the yield and comparative exemption from disease under careful culture and judicious fertilization. The November and December num ber of the Monthly will be issued to gether and will contain the substance of all the cotton reports up to the first of Drcember. The President saw no visitors to-day. The Washington Treaty Commission has adjourned until the 6th of December. Horace H. Harrison has been appointed United States District Attorney for the Middle District of Tennessee New Berne, Nov. 18.—The steamer Mary Sanford, on her voyage from Wil mington to Philadelphia, sprung a leak and was beached at Hatteras, with six feet of water in her hold. She took fire immediately afterward and burned to the water’s edge. The vessel is a total loss A small part of the cargo was saved. No lives were lost. Frankfort, November 18.—An explo sion at the Fortress oj Ehrenbrechtstein opposite Coblentz, lulled three soldiers, and wounded many. A supply of pow der for a ten years seige escaped. The laboratory buildings were badly shat tered. Paris, November 18.—The publication of L’Avenir has been suspended for printing articles insulting to the Govern ment Several additional courts-martial have been established in order the more speed ily to dispose of the Communists. Gambetta made a speech at St. Quern tine, which was moderate in tone. He assured his hearers that there is no pres ent danger to the Republic; but that re forms are necessary to confirm it, London, November 18.—The first Ro man Catholic mission ever sent from England to America sailed to-day. The party consists of four Priests, whose duty it will be to labor exclusively among the colored people of the United States. After the celebration of mass, previous to their departure, Archbishop Manring addressed the missionaries. He said this mission had been established by the Church of England because this country had imposed slavery upon America, and it was fitting that Englishmen should be the first to move for the amelioration of the emancipated race. The Catholics at Hunter’s Point are threatening violence against the public school, in the First Ward, of that place, because the Bible is being read there, Police were detailed yesterday to protect the building. jggy** The Governor of Alabama has issued a proclamation for thanksgiving on the 30th. “Exit Bullock. No bleeding martyr, but a spavined rogue,” exclaims the New York World. The bayonet was put into South Carolina to conceal the Soott swindle, and Georgia is threatened with it on Bul lock’s behalf.—Boston Post. GEORGIA MATTERS. The Covington Methodist ladies • have suit-ed their preacher. William O. Murphy pines in the Rock dale jail for the offense of having stolen a “creetur.” “Let us be more sociable,” ejaculates the Covington Enterprise. All right our latch-string is where it used to be, Beebe. Harris, the Savannah News boy, says It has cropped out that J. Clarke Swayze is proprietor of the Macon Citi zen.* This fact alone is enough to kill it, and Major Shropshire done a wise thing when he got out of it.” That is all true, Harris; but do, dear boy, be as nearly grammatical as you can. Don’t sacrifice Peter Bullions on the altar of Swayze, The Jonesboro Times announces the death of Jas. F. Johnson. Mr. Johnson has been State Senator, and has tilled quite a number of other important posi tions. CoL Sam. Barnett preached a sermon on farming at Jonesboro last Saturday, A five-pound turnip generates a smile upon the visage of the Jonesboro Times, A Jonesboro store has been burglarised to the value of $75 in change bills. A giantess is on exhibition in Augusta, who weighs 675 pounds, and measures seven feet around the girth. Madison rejoices in her first crop of frost and ice. “All’sFair” in the Savannah papers. Died—Thursday morning, Benjamin L. Cole, of Savannah. The Worrell Sisters will play in Savan nah next week, and Harris is in a whirl about it. The people are already reaching Sa vannah, to be in time for the Fair. Savannah hrd its third frost Sunday morning. . Savannah shut up shop aud gave thanks on Thursday. It was done in true Puritan style. The' Albany News, of Friday’ say-s: “Sac ladies a*ill give a supper to-night,’ <fcc. Wliiit other kind of ladies have il-cy down ::: Al .hit ? £2?°* Chicago, so far, has been able to ebuild only 300 of her bar rooms. Punch advises the benevolent to hasten their subscriptions, or Chicago will bo rebuilt before English cliai tycan reach that city, jggy** Speaking of .the relative merits of Tom Scott and Grant, the Nashville Union and American says: “perhaps bet ter neither than either.” Have we a Democratic ring in Georgia?” asks the Savannah News.— What if we have, if it is only the “ring of the right metal ? ” Boston professes to have found the murderer of Kate Leehan in the per son of Michael Cusick, who has been committed to jail for trial. ► Alexis is said to be a splendid performer on the piano. He will be pre pared to render “A life on the Ocean Wave” by the time be arrives, though he is supposed to be not in love with the ‘variations.” ► »-< Speaking of Sambard, the Mem phis Avalanche says the Georgia Demo crats “froze him out.” No so; he only 'departed” in the same ship with the Avalanche; but he says he will no more have a launch of the same kind. The New York World convulses the laughing qualities of the world by saying: “The little error in the Presi dent’s South Carolina Ku-klux proclama tion arose from his thinking that mar- ryin’meant union. His long residence in Illinois ought to have taught him. better.” £0^, The Washington Chronicle says: A ‘good Republican’ should give his name in connection with the article he sends ns.” Of course he should. Such a rara avis should be known and herald ed throughout the country. It has, here tofore, been believed that such a genius did not exist. The New York Tribune appears sometimes to suffer from what appears to closely approximate compunctions of conscience. In a late issue it says: “For months the developments of rascality .in the management of the reconstructed Governments of the several ; Southern States have been growing more and more conclusive. No intelligent man longer doubts that these Governments have been flagrantly expensive and corrupt, that they have increased taxation, incurred debt and issued bonds to an enormous extent. The facts are in part concealed or obscured, but cannot long remain so ; enough is already known to justify the very gravest apprehensions.” The Radi cal remedy for all the evils, thus enumer ated by the Tribune, ismaitial law. Does the Tribune think the remedy adapted to the disease ? The Southern public would like to hear what Dr. Greeley has to say upon the subject. Of' Rising Importance.—Rufus B Bullock once gave “Fitch of the Star,” as he is popularly called, a fee of $500, as an attorney in some case where Rufus, no doubt, thought he could make politi cal capital by squandering tho peoples’ money—since which time we observe that his opinion is considered important and sound on a matter affecting the interest of some Democrats. The State Printing.—We wonder if all the newspapers in the State, which are publishing articles decrying, and try ing to stop the effort, to reduce ’the un reasonable compensation now allowed by law to the Public Printer; also those out side persons, whether winters or not, who are -writing sach articles for publication, are interested. Are all of them members of thi combination, whose dividends or share of profits will be small, if the same ■<e fixed at rates which are fair and just ? Some persons are opposed to long division, and do not anticipate much satisfaction in having a finger in a pie which is about large enough, aud just about well enough tuff -d for one person to feast cleverly ajwii.