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The material prosperity of Geor
gia for ns a subject which should in
terest every intelligent mind in the
State. Having, as we do, all the ele
ments of the most complete material
success, this snhject should engage
the most serious attention of our
statesmen and legislators, and also of
the thinking masses. tth a climate
not too severe in winter nor too op
pressive in summer, the health of
Georgia compares most favorably
with any portion of the world. With
a productive soil, if properly im
proved and prepared for cultivation,
that produces nearly all kinds of ag
ricultural products — cotton, corn,
wheat, rye, barley, oats, potatoes, rice,
and all kinds of fruits, except those
of the tropics, we possess advantages
no people on earth enjoy except the
other Southern States.
What we need mostly is well dis- ,, , , Tli . ...
, . J xhe tigle and Phemx Manufacturing
tributed enterprise and a diversity of ] Company of this city last year sol,] to
PROF. WM. HENRY rECK.
Prof. Peck, a native Georgian,
and well known in Western Georgia
as a school teacher during the war,
and one of the most prolific and
brilliant writers in American litera
ture, has been engaged by the Phila
delphia Saturday Night His stories
are in the style of Wilkie Collins, to
whom he is not considered inferior
in the elements that constitute a
novelist
We were well acquainted with the
subject of this notice, at the time he
was President of the Greenville
(Ga.) Masonic Female College, and at
the same time publishing the Geor
gia Weekly in the same town.
We are glad to make mention of a
friend doing so well, aud especially
as we had lost sight of the where
abouts of Prof. Peck.
MAR ROTH SALES OF GEORGIA RAGE GOODS.
The Columbus Enquirer of Friday,
contained this paragraph:
SPIRIT OF THE GEORGIA I RES 3.
Alluding to the discussion of the
social equality bill in the Alabama
Legislature, which wa3 defeated, not
withstanding the Republican major
ity in both branches of the General
Assembly, the Savannah Advertiser
savs:
capital and labor to developo the)
great wealth that lie hidden in our
fields of cotton and grain, to say
nothing at all of the immense uude-
vclojK-d mineral resources which lie
dormant, except to a very limited ex
tent, in the bosom of the mountains
of the State. With all these riches
developed, we could, iu a few years,
live within our own resources.
One of the first steps to be taken is
the reduction of our taxes, and the
protection of capital by wholesome
laws. This done, money and enter
prise will seek to come among us.
Let public credit be re-established
on a firm basis, so that values may
not be deceptive and uncertain.
Relieve us of the fictitious value of
money and commodities, aud we
shall soon see that Georgia will step
forward to progress and wealth.
In the mean time, turning our at
tention to the manufacturing indus
tries—establishing factories and foun
dries of all kinds—becoming at once
a manufacturing as well as an agri
cultural people—we should thus re
lieve the country of pauperism by
giving all employment and the means
of comfortable living. Every factory
or shop put into operation is so much
added to the material wealth and in
dustry of the country, and augments
the productive labor and reduces the
number of those who consume with
out producing.
Light taxation aud security for
capital when invested in diversified
labor will gradually and surely bring
about rapid progress iu our material
prosperity. To effect so desirable a
result should command the attention
of our legislators and politicians more
than the mere distribution of offices
to partisans. The people should
take the matter in liapd, see to it
fhat their representatives in the Gen
eral Assembly should give more at
tention to the material interests of
the State.
COUNTING INTEREST.
Almost every person knows how
to calculate interest, but it requires
more time than can well be spared by
those who have much of such work
to perform; even all “short methods”
have failed to make it sufficiently
short for those who have their hands
full of work.
We have seen many “Interest - Ta
bles,” which were intended to save
Lbor and time, but all these were
lacking simplicity and facility of
calculation, or were too cumbrous
and expensive. Interest Table mak
ers have long tried to solve the
problem, and a small book just pub
lished by R. C. Haines, 723 Sansom
street, Philadelphia, is the most
nearly perfect we have ever seen, and
certainly far ahead of anything ever
before attempted.
It is a very neat pocket volume of
“Interliuear Interest Tables,” by the
use of which, after five minutes of
study, the interest on any sum
of money, at any rate and
for any number of days less than two
years, can be quickly, very quickly,
found; also, the number of days from
a given day in any month to a given
day in anp other month, for any time
less than two years, is found almost
in a moment
By the use of this little volume re
sults are reached with a rapidity and
accuracy not heretofore attained by
any tables we ever saw; and every
figure of the principal is made the
index of its own interest, thus greatly
reducing the possibility of any error,
The arrangement and the types are
very simple, very plain, and have
none of tne intricacies, or th(
tiguing, forbidding appearance, 1
all other tables we ever saw present.
Price, $1 50. Published by IL C,
Haines, 723 Tansom street, Philadel
phia.
two Macon houses 8110,(XK) wortu of
thi ir goods; two Montgomery homes
took $82,000 wort ■; three New Orleans
houses, SlGO.000. Eight thousand dol
lars worth ot cottonades were sold to
New Orleans homes one day last week.
ery heavy sales were also made last
year to New Yoik, Cincinnati, Louisville,
8t. Louis, Galveston, Mobile. Atlanta,
Savannah, to eav nothing of smaller
towns aud country stores. Something
less than $300,000 worth of these goods
were sold to Colamons merchants.
These figures are enormous, but they
show what our factories are doing, aud
speak potently for more factories. This
year the sales are expected to be much
larger, provided our companies can turn
out the goods. Three cheers for our
manufacturing interests!
Cotton manufacturing in the South
is a most lucrative business. It is a
matter of regret that our capitalists
do not invest more of their surplus
funds in factories. We saw it stated
few days ago that a Massachusetts
spinner was in Columbus, Ga., with
view to changing his manufactur
ing investments to that city.
The South ought within the
next fourth of a century, to success
fully compete with the world in the
manufacture of her own great staple
Let our people arouse and realize the
importance of the diversity of labor
and capital.
B-, C. <t C. RAILROAD TO BE RESOLD.
We learn from the Bainbridge
Democrat, of the 13th instant, that
the Bainbridge, Cuthbert and Col
umbus Railroad was sold on the 1st
Tuesday in February last to Colonel
Gibbs, of Florida, ior $30,000, and
according to the terms of sale he
paid $1,500 down, 5 per cent, of the
amount, and was to pay the balance
at the expiration of thirty days,
which he failed to do, consequently
the road will be sold again on the
first Tuesday in May next.
It will be remembered that the
road is a link in a chain of railroads
that are to connect the Northwest
with Southwestern Georgia and Flor
ida, connecting with the North and
South at Columbus. This is a very
important road.
UP THE NILE BY STEAM.
We have received irom Messrs.
Cook, & Son, No. 262 Broad
way, New York, a neat little volume
entitled, “Up the Nile by Steam,” by
R. Etzensberger, with Tourist Pro
grammes for the East, by Thomas
Cook & Son, and specially designed
maps by Keith Johnston. Persons
contemplating a tour as indicated by
the title of this little volume will do
well to send for it
It is stated that when Gen.
John B. Gordon wa3 sworn in as
Senator from Georgia, some amuse
ment was created by Vice President
Wilson at first inadvertently putting
to him the iron-clad oath prescribed
for ex-Confederates. When Mr. Wil
son read “you solemnly swear that
you have never voluntarily borne
arms against the United States” a
very perceptible smile was visible on
the faces of many, both on the floor
and in the galleries.
• -i
Grecian women counted their
ages from the date of marriage instead
of their birth. It is a notable fact
that a great mauy women grow old
very rapidly after marriage unless
they are relieved of their oontract by
death or otherwise.
Congressman Wm. R. Rob
erts, of the Fifth New York District,
refuses to accept the back pay voted
the members of the late Congress,
and direct that his share of it be
turned into the United States treas
ury.
UKTSWestenC papers state that
members of Congress from that sec
tion found, on returning home, that
their salary grab was so unpopular
that they devoted large portions of it
to charity, hoping thus to appease
public wrath.
By pandering to the negroes and
making them promises, tie carpet-bag
gers and scalawags have been enabled to
get and hold control of the 8* ate gov
ernment ot Alabama, while tDev plun
dered the people. The negroes have at
length forced them to show their bands
Tbe result will be beneficial. Tbe two
white wings of the party neing antagon
ize, and the colored wing utterly de
moralized, if the Democrats behave in
♦lie future with energy and discretion
they can redeem ti e State.
The Savannah News thinks that
the greater the knave a Radical poli
tician proves himself to be, the
higher he rises in the estimation of
his party, and the more he becomes
the object of their sympathy and ad
miration. It says:
Such notorious characters as Bullock,
Kimnall, Blodgett, Swepson, Littlefield,
Scott, Holden, and hundreds of others,
a few years ago filled humble petitions
life. The crimes which they have
since committed would hay sent them
to the penitentiary. Bat they are loyal
Radicals, and find protection and sympa
thy and honors in the embrace cf the
Radical party, which, as honest men,
they could never have a tained. The
most recent, as well as the most striking
llustiation of the devotion and sympa
thy wnich binds together the paity of
’noral ideas,” is afforded by the shame
less whitewashing given by Congress to
the Radical Credit Mobilier corruption
ists, and the reception given to Colfax
and Ames by their respective constitu
encies.
The Columbus Sun classes Con
gressional swindling as “Congres
sional Kleptomania,” and asserts
that—
If a member of the British Parlia
ment, French Assembly, or Spanish
Cortes would kleptomania a dollar, the
people have no more sense than to fuss
about it, but an American Congressman
is a poor fool if ne is not able to become
famous and rich by his stealings—ac
cording to statute in snch cases made and
provided, and in support of the peace
and dignity of the United States.
The Augusta Constitutionalist says
the abolition of the usury laws in
Georgia is of too recent date for the
practical wisdom of the step to be
tested. Referring to the step taken
by the Georgia Legislature last year
in the direction of free trade in money
by making all contracts legal which
did not specify a higher rate than ten
per cent That paper says;
But as money all bust year was worth
more than ten deroent., both before and
after the passage of tbe law, it proved
nothing. It did not seem to affect the
question either way. It did not bring
money down to the va ! ue of ten per cent,
for its use. It dia not apparently in
crease the number of lenders, or the
amount to be loaned. The money was
not in the State, and ten per oenh was
not a sufficient inducement to bring it in
from other States.
The Macon Telegraph, referring to
the fact that the Legislature of the
North seem to be incensed over the
vote of the members of Congress to
increase their own pay, and to
another fact that the members of
Congress have been trampling on the
Constitution—or, as the phase is,
“running the Government outside of
the Constitution”—for nearly a de
cade, but the “Republican” Legisla
ture has ever uttered a solitary re
monstrance, protest or censure, says:
A very small money question, how
ever, threatens to put the whole of them
in a flame. True, it is right to condemn
the improper appropriation of the public
money; bat a few thousands of tbe
national revenue are a small matter when
compared with the preservation of a pure
and free government on which the wnole
financial and moral strength of the peo
ple depends.
Discussing the repeal of usury
laws by the Legislature of Georgia,
the Chronicle and Sentinel says:
The repeal of the usury laws bv the
General Assembly was, therefore, an act
which made law to conform to public
sentiment, obliterating laws which ware
condemned by pablio sentiment and by
the public conscience, and universally
disregarded by practice by the citizen.
r*OM NT. JMJM1TH, (U.
Tnilh will Triumph In the End.
St. Mam’*. Ga., Maacb 11. 1873.
Editors rf the Sun: I am glad to see
Mr. Stephens in h:s serenade speech at
Liberty Hali, has “ earnest hopes of a
grand triumph” in 1876. Seventy-six is
a lacky number for & people whose
rights Lave bean trampled upon by
those who land the physical power to do
so. The doctrine of true Democracy
are founded upen infallible principles
of truth. The spirit of true Democracy
is gaining ground wherever civilization
has maue it> footprints, and as certainly
is it Serves the best interests of mankind
tb*-re will he a powerful re ctiou in its
favor in this country. Truth is truth,
whether ploclmined from the portals of
Heaven, the confined powers of darkness
or upon the land or 6ea. It sprang forth
with the first creative stroke of the Al
mighty, ia co-exieDsivo with its power,
eternal and everlasting. Tint wuv. s of
the ocean as tuey dash iu fury against
the shores of Georgia, echo and re echo
it. The drooping rose-bnd as it bows
its head and dies proclaims it. Th°
peaked mountain, crowned with tbe
snows of Heaven and glistening in the
sunshine, shows forth its beauty. Yet
tuan, poor, trail, vain mortality, hang
ing upon a single thread, denies it bat
to how and own it in the eud. Troth,
beautiful truth, is a terror to tyrants as
certainly as it is the weapon of the gen
erous, tiie good and the brave. It will
prevail over the errors of all parties, all
meu nd all things iu opposition to it.
The Democratic parly is far, very far, i
from being dead.
I've seen the oak beneath the storm
Bow down upon the shore;
I’ve seen it rise Its Btately form,
And flourish as before.
If stortiis assail our earthly bark,
We’ilbrace the shattered sail;
Tho’ friends be lew and prospects dark,
Ther’s no such word as f»;L”
We have passed tnrough the fiery fur
nace, and from such experience we ought
to have learned some wisdom. We have
been tossed upon every inconstant wind,
but although overpowered, the love of
liberty, the spirit which animates our
pathos to cherish true Democracy, is
still alive. Persecution may crush the
weak and the timid; but it strengthens
the determination, developes the talents,
inspires the zeal, enlivens the energy and
finally elevateB the noble and the brave.
Christianity has passed safely throng b
the fiery .urnace, Masonry stands trium
phant, and each are to-day stronger,
greater and more influential than they
would have been but for the lashings of
persecution. If we bear the cross nobly
we will win the prize and wear the crown.
I am of the opinion that tbe Radical
party will serve its purposes and will
run its coarse with the present adminis
tration. All of its revolutionary objects
will be accomplished, and then will oome
the reaction in tbe minds of the Ameri
can people, like the rushing of a mighty
wind—a furious tornado, that will sweep
away the last vestige of radicalism and
make way for the resurrection of the
great Democratic party, which has been
buried, but not dead.
" Tls when the fuming muses meet
lord. Dr. Bedell, and his retimab'.e lady !
and <1 might* rs. The attendance was
sufficiently large to make the occasion
one of genuine pleasure; many of
the fair yonDg ladies were present to
add their charms *o the pleasant oc-
'arion. Cupid s‘ ot his darts during tne
whole evening. The supper was a most
excellent one; the tables literally groaned
under the weight of all the most choice
luxuries imaginable. The vocal and in-
9trmnen*nl music, as rendered bv Misses
Bedt ll, Dougins and Jonnsou was charm-
lug, “ all went a-j mrrry as s marriage
b lie.’ J. C- S.
The essayer’i furnace glows,
And higher as we raise the heat
A purer metal flows.
If Providence should thus award
Our efforts to prevail,
Then will we ehout with one accord.
There’* no each word as fall.”
Letter from Hamilton.
Ti»e Locomotive as a Fool-Ktlter.
When a custom once becomes firmly
established, it is nearly impossible to
suddenly break it up. Sc it it with the
custom which has long prevailed among
pedestrians, of walking on a railway
track, and stepping out of the way of a
train approaching on one track, directly
iu the way of another train on the other
track. This feat ia one which is ex
tremely easy of performance, but except
to those wishing to commit suicide it is
nearly always a very unsatisfactory one.
Two men tried it the other day, on the
Baltimore and Ohio Railroad, and most
have been disagreeably astonished by
the suddenness with which an unexpect
ed train proceeded to dissect them. So
the aame way, tnat every one knows the
danger of stepping oj to a railway track
withoat looking to see i! a tram is ap
proaching. The practice has attained
the dignity of a custom in some parts of
the country, and warning and remon
strance Kcem to be of uo avail against it.
—New York Times. _
53F* Delegations from Chatta
nooga are in Washington City looking
idler the postmastership of their
town. Dr. Bard ia also on hand
there, for what purpose is not stated.
Rev. Dr. Huston, whose case
has excited so mnch interest, was
yesterday expelled from the M. E.
Church, South, at Baltimore, Md.
Editors Sun:— We must not fail to give
your readers some dots from old Harris.
The county seat, whioh is snugly settled
between two mountains, is one of the
moet delightful and pleasant little towns
in Georgia your correspondent has visi
ted for many months. The people are
energetic, industrious, honest and up
right; business of all kind seem to be
pushed forward with great zeal. Many
new buildings are now being erected.
Mr. Hood has built a new and handsome
residence, and has now in course of ereo-
tion one of the best grist mills in the
country, situated on the banks of the
Palmetto creek near town. Captain Sim
Murphy is also having a new and beauti
ful residence erected near the Public
Square. When finished it will present
an attractive appearance, and will be an
ornament to that portion of the town
A few other buildings are going up, some
very near completion.
If Hamilton is lacking in connection
with the outside world at present, it is not
lacking in building and industrial pro
pensities of its thorough going people.
AU are anxiously looking forward to the
day when the North & South Railroad
will be finished to that place. The Pine
mountain on the north side has been for
a long time a great barrier to its
completion; but it has at last been sur-
monnted by the skillful tact of the engi
neer. It seems as if tbe summit was not
high enough, as they had to throw up
an embankment of several feet in height.
The female college, the exercises of
which it will be remembered, are now
suspended, with the exoeption of a small
portion of the pupils, who are now be
ing taught by that excellent teacher Miss
King, in the Baptist Church.
Workmen are now busily engaged on
the construction of the new college,
which is being built immediately on the
site of the former one. It will be some
what larger. Mr. Hoge, the architect,
thinks it will be finished sometime during
the fall. This school, under the auspices
of Col. Lovelace, has ranked among the
first. The thorough training and strict
discipline, together with the healthy cli
mate and beautiful scenery, which meets
the eye on every side, has attracted many
students from various parts of the State.
The Good Templars Lodge is now in
a most flourishing condition. Many new
accessions have been made recently.
Nearly all the yenng ladies and young men
are members of thisgreat and good organ
ization. May tuey continue to flourish in
the noble cause of temperance. Their
last election for Chief Templar resulted
in favor of CoL James M. Mobley, whose
influence for good is greatly felt. The
Sabbath School scholars of both de
nominations, Baptist and Methodist, and
members ot the Lodge, intend having a
picnic excursion to the mountain about
the first of May. There are always
largely attended.
The spicy paper, the “Hamilton Via-
“ Clifford Troup.”
BY MARIA JOUBDAX WESTMORELAND.
Some yeats ago the writer of this ar
ticle waa visiting relatives near the city
of L , iu this State, and taere met a
tall, delicate brown-eyed girl with great
masers ot dark hair, clustering in pro
lusion about her classic head. She was
fresh from school, somewhat imperious
and thoughtful for one so young—but
remarkable for unusual beauty, graces
and attainments. I he residence at which
we were guests, was surrounded by the
most exquisite grounds in the South—
first, the large park with Its forest trees
m all their wild, barbaric pride, then
the extensive gardeur, cultivated to the
highest perfection, rising terrace upon
t rrace, each eminence, crowned with
lines of the O^age Orange, Oonimuna,
stately cedars of Lebauon and other ev
ergreens, until the paradise proper was
reached, with its bidden nooks, lover’s
retreats, and vine clad bowers, the whole
embellished by all that nature and art
can do to adorn.
In this central Eden, half conceded,
was tho dwelling, a villa, in the Italian
style, with conservatories. Such was,
and is, “The Terraces,” male beautiful
by God and woman, and famous by
“Clifford Troup.” Here it was that we
learned to know and appreciate her—
now the successful authoress, magnifi
cent and queenly as Juno—an acknowl
edged leader of society and letiers in
this State.
Amongst the thousand gems of this
book is the description of “The Terra
ces,” “Mossy Creek” and “Pleasant Re
treat,” the latter evidently being a
sketch of the home of Georgia's hon
ored and best loved son, Alexander H.
Stephens, whose greatness and virtues
are dwelt upon with all the fondness of a
devoted admirer; while the chapter
headed “A Charming Pupil” will prove
particularly delicioua to those who en
joy an exquisitively delineated flirtation
scene.
Our hearts warm towards |“Clifford
Troup.” It is essentially a Georgia sto
ry, true to nature, rich in description and
brimful of the good old times—for the
lot is laid thirty years ago—when the
>outh presented a peculiar civilization,
patriarchal and lovely to contemplate;
and for these considerations the book
should be cherished at every fireside to
keep alive in our memories the dear,
dead, poetio past, and to preserve for our
children a faithful pioture of Southern
life before the evil days.
Mrs. Westmoreland failed to do her-
aelf justice in her first book—which, how
ever, deserved a better name than the
one bestowed; but “Clifford Troup'
comes to us a genial, earnest, welcome
visitor, to teach, in winning prose, grave
lessons on the social evils and examples
of this Veneering age. Lectures upon
temperance, morals, constancy, truth,
from a mouth masculine,are unheeded or
only annoy, but when these lessons fall
irom the living lips of a beautiful wo
man, who is there with heart so cold that
does not eagerly linger to catch the mu
aic of her eloqueuoe.
Living near “ The Terraces,” with its
mooa-lit groves, flashing fountains,
flower-gemmed pwUerres,(grand old oaks,
ivy elasped, the home of wealth, refine
ment and cultivation, crowned by reli
gion—is it to be wondered at that the
dreamy-eyed girl has developed into the
superb woman who stands before ns like
au improvisatrice of a past age, reciting
to her enrapt listener the story of a
woman’s trials and triumph; of how a
maid, the honored guest, became in
courtly halls.
Were Madame, the fair authoress, to
embellish her next novel with an engrav
ing of her peerless self, the sale, large as
her works always command, would be
increased an hundred fold. Literary
merit has its admirers; bat beauty,
devotees.—Savannah Republican. L.
TWO MILLION BOND BILL VOID.
Montg >m**uy, Marc i 15.—Dnr ug the
progress of the debate in the House of
Representatives I . E. Parson*, who wag
Speaker oi the Court room House, said
that the two million bond bill passed by
that body was void, because it had nev
er received the constitutional vote.
Mr. Hunter, another member of that
body, said that the bill was passed by a
House that had no quorum, and that tha
Senate was not in session when it pM»
tended to have passed that measure.
The Legislature has been in session
four months, and there is no prospect of
adjournment before April.
The civil rights bill, is in snbstanoe,
the same as Sumner's bill, which vM
killed in the Honse by 19 majority. E.
Solomon is special agent ft r mis State,
and it has been kept a profound secret
here, bat bis, representations as to the
intentions of all A abamians ai to the
payments of all just debts are unnecessa
rily correct.
New Yoke, March 15.—A special dis
patch from Lou* on t* th-s Herald says
that Gladstone is visitiug the Marquis of
Westminister at Divedea. The Gueen
left London this eveniug for Windsor.
She will probab’y see Gladstone. Mr.
Gladstone’s Government is expected to
r* sume office and go through the pro
gramme of session and siu ii without
speedy disso'ntion.
New York, Mar?h 15.—The TUnlr
books of Henry Men ger, the sawdust
swindler, arrested yesterday, show that
he has done business amounting to one
thousand dollars per week since January
1st.
The widows and orphans of the fire
men killed by the Hanover street catas
trophe have been provided for by tttt
trustees of the firemen’s fund.
itor,” is daily gaining popularity. Mr.
D. W. D. Boolly, its sole editor and pro
prietor, is a live and wide-awake news
paper man. We always hail hia paper
aa a moet tcekome visitor.
On last Monday evening aa elegant
entertainment was given at the Hamilton
Hotel to the young people by the toad-
TELEGRAPH TO THE DAILY SM
Washington, March 15.—The fight ut
renewed with fierceness over the Chatta
nooga postmastership. Caph A. G.
Sharp, was Thursday confirmed by the
Senate in place of Kendrick, the present
incumbent, whose friends, in force, are
now here to prevent Sharp from entering
upon the office, and to effect this they
will endeavor to indooe the Senate to re
consider the vote by which Sharp was
confirmed, and if they fail in this they
will prefer charges against him to the
President.
Governor Bam Bard is on the ground,
bat taking no part in the fight
Senator Brownlow left to-night for
home.
VALSS BXFOBX.
London, March 15.—The report that
Disraeli refused the Premiership is un
true. He simply presented the difficul
ties he would have to confront,
oommci.
Lord Derby has arrived from Paris
and has had a long conference with Dis
raeli It is probable that Disraeli will
aocept the office, finish the business of
session by June and dissolve Parliament
The Conservatives all over the country
are oonfideut of the result of the election.
KIWSPAPKB BUMOBS.
London, March 15.—The Weekly
Economist says it k rumored that Derby
yields to the request of the Conservatives
to undertake tbe formation of the Cabi
net
The Spectator gives currency to the
■me report, but says that Derby has
determined to appeal to tha oountry.
DmUANLI DKUnB.
Disraeli waited <m the Queen, giving
hia reaaons for deetming the oOea.
Derby concurs with Disraeli that the
Conservatives eannot aeoeptytoe respon
sibility of forming s government st this
CHAT WITH STATS PAPERS.
—The Gilbert sisters are in Albany.
—Mr. T. H. Peavy, of Senoia, is dead.
—Talbot farmers are investing largely
in fertilizers.
Morgan Superior Court was ad
journed to 2nd Monday in Jnly.
—James P. Sims, of Macon died on
Thursday morning.
—The farmers of Spalding county are
preparing for a large ootton crop.
—Another young man died in Maoon
on Wednesday night from meningitis.
—A negro child perished in a burning
house on Thursday.
—Mr. W. C. Jones has retired from
the Bainbridge Democrat.
—The cat crop in Dougheity k very
poor.
—Andrew Female College will begin
its seoond term on the 1st of April.
—“ J. N.” the immortal, has visited
Albany three times within the past week.
—A negro killed another negro in
Colombia county on Tuesday.
—Geo. W. Poliard, engineer on the
Albany Branch of the Southwestern Rail
road has teeigned.,
—Moses Denton, of Terrell county,
was found dead in his bed on tbe morn
ing of tne 3d iust. Too mnch benzine.
—No new capes of small pox in Daw
son, and the patients suffering with it
doing well.
—The mule trade nearly closed in Al
bany, bat the cotton trade has been un
usually brisk,
—Tbe Albany people who planted Irish
potatoes before the recent cold “snap,”
are replanting.
—The morals of Griffin have beooma
so good there is soarely need of a police.
We now have great hopea for Fitch.
—The quantity of fertilisers ordered
by the farmers of Thomas county, this
season.
—The Gazette has heard, upon tha
sly, of a fight between two preachers
near Elberton.
—A fine horse was killed in Columbus,
on Thursday, by the kiek of another
horse.
—The Catholics and Episcopalians of
Columbns, are observing Lent with more
than usual attention.
—Large wholesale dry-goods and gro
cery pablio booses are now considered to
be the gread need of Oolnmbns.
—The Superior Court of Elbert
county is in session this week, Judge
Andrews presiding.
—Green county Superior Court now
in Beesion. there being a heavy docket,
an adjourned term is expected.
—“Granny Sawyers” was found dead
in her bed last week. She lived at Ring-
gold.
—Mr. W. F. Williak, Sr., aa old
respectable citizen of Savannah, died ott
Thursday. Aged, eighty-eight.
—The Thomasvilie hotel enterprise
has not been abandoned, bat aa the de
mand increases, certain gentlemen grow
more and more favorable to the project,
Messrs. J. H. Graybill A Co. cleared
on Thnrsday for Savannah, 14,717
pieces of lumber, valued at $7,400 for
South America.
Joseph Vinoent, of Decatur oonnty,
made last year, by his individual labor,
six bales of cotton, 350 bushels of cont
and cac«t potatoes, etc., in abundance
—The Floyd oonnty farmers are hope
ful. The damage to wheat has not dk>
heartened them. The fine weather la*
spires them.
—A strange woman left a bouncing
boy with a Mrs. Connor, living at one <3
the Columbus factories, while she oonld
visit the factory to apply for work. She
has not returned.
—J. L. Birge, of Marietta, was robbed
near Rome last Wednesday while travel
ling on foot in the direction of Tryou
Factory. Thirty-seven dollars was the
amount.
—At the chicken peck, in Maoon, oa
Wedneaday, it k estimated that three
thousand dollars changed hands upon
tbe iasne of a single fight The main of
oocks fonght on Thursday to decide the
fight, resulted in favor of Atlanta.
—The first shipment of ootton from
ootton from Augusta over the Port
Royal Railroad, consisting of one hun
dred bales to Savannah, loaded in oars of
the Georgia Railroad, wm nude on
Thursday.