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•rz Professional Cards.
Hawkins & Hawkins,
attorneys at law.
COOK «*3 ORZSF.
ITTONEY AT LAW.
-VMEHICUS. GEORGIA,
itII,!. practice in the Counties of Mao<>D.
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of Georgia au<l tlio U. N
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B. P. HOLLIS,
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'. A.N 1'OKT. J. H. MCCLKSKKY.
Fort & McCleskey,
' ttonni/* <il Late mill Solicitor* in Equity
A>18IUCUS, GEORGIA.
W ILL practice in tlie counties of the Sooth
A’mtrni Circuit in the 8m*rem«* Court 01
,,, St.tr. .11.1 in the District ami Circuit Court*
.f the l'iiste.1 States.
at tuition given to cases in Bank*
»%. Office in Sehumpr-rt rieiitt an.l King'i
' niU’ine, lie-ail ef C<tt« ii Avenue,
janlotf.
N A. SMITH.
\.u-> T 'ri3 7' n,t Iiaw
\MEUICUS, GEORGIA
T ILL practice in th? Courts of Sumter am
.•i->iiiine Counties, and in Circuit Court o
'air office on GoibytB *trr*t. next to Item* I s -
MISCELLANEOUS.
SPELUIOUND.
Aad How a Bad EpeU of W.*ithsr Affcoted the
Bp-River Potato U-rket.
JOHN HAPPY IS THE NASIIYILLE BANNER
Odo of my favorite Upper Cumber
land towns reared back on her intellec
tuality » few nights since and “orthog-
raplied” a few rounds. It came about
from bearing of those Cincinnati, Louis
ville and Nashville Websterian tilts
which occurred in the recent past. At
an early hour a room suitably furnished
with seats and lights, was filled with cit
izens of all ages from the town and
vicinity. It w*s not long after the elite
had assembled before Bro Joshaw came
galloping in on an unabridged, and the
Spell came iff Bro Joahaw was, by
universal request to art as Judge and
give out the words. The school was or
ganized by selecting three classes of ten
each, first, second and third, separated
by the two church aisles. Bro. Joshaw
explained the conditions of the spell A
VVobster’s unabridged was the premium,
and those who missed must pay a peck
of potatoes fur each after trial, and they
could have as many trials as they wished
by coming down with the “taters.” The
conditions were accepted unanimously.
Dr. liirerbonc, however, thought the
rule rather uufair upon the town-people,
for he, himself, didn't raise hut three
hundred bushels of potatoes. All he
asked was a fair showing.
Farmer High remarked that he would
rapport the Doctor with his whole crop
Dr. Kivcrbonc simmered.
Major Quad, of the “Weekly Bah-
zoo,” requested time to order an extra
supply of two hundred barrels from Cin
cinnati.
- Mr. Diction, druggist, wished to know
if pills could be substituted it- his case.
W inncTomston said the gentleman from
Goose Creek was out of order.
Mr. Diction denied that he was out
of order, hut admitted that he was out
of potatoes, and said that if “pills" were
not acceptah'e, he stood no earthly show
for the premium. The audience gener
ously offered to absolve Mr. Diction from
all forfeits—he hadn't spelled a word
correctly in thirty years—but Mr. Dic
tion threw himself upon his intellectual
muscle and frowned upon the kindness.
He could buy as many trials as the next
MERREL CALLAWAY,
•V tl o r v\ ey at Law,
amf.kicus, <u.
, r or, ot.t Kttndrlfk A Wheatley's Store.
(ruerry & Son,
Attorneys at Law
Oi.IClTORS IN EQUITY
Amrrlm«. Grorgla,
tTT'f.E practice in the Superior Court* of
m Sumter, Schley. Macon. Dooly, Lee. Ter-
>11. Wulwter ami Marion counties; in the
i Supreme t'<>nrt * f Georgia and in the United
sum* courts »t Havannah.
OtlW over C. W. Felder and Son comer
Dr. W. A. GREENE,
•eral patron
It the past ,
hose doairing his P.t>-
kional Services as hireto'orc, and aoliciia a
>tinnanee of their patronage.
Dr. W. J. REESE,
EN DRIES Lis Professional Services to
people of Americas and vicinity.
U«" off- re v good STOCK of DRUGS, togeth-
vith OMtDE> HEEDS, Ao.. Ac. Next door *
IV. Sheffield \ Co He would like to eee 1
I fronds at ids 8tore.
Dr. G. F. COOPER,
' *•’ "WsiL hh-* 1
KNTIKK TIME
Dr. J. B. HINKLE.
Phyxioiiin and Sargeon.
C v'.M left at the Drug Store of Dr. E. J. El
Ind *e or at his residence (in front of Col
• A. M\swells), will receive prompt^miljafth
Dr. S. B. HAWKINS,
HffY OFFICE at Dr. Eldridoe’a Drug Stere.
**A lu-idt-nre neir tbo Methodic Church.
• Iv se-vices I again tender the good people of
Americas and country gtnerelly.
Or. W. M. HARDWICK
H AVING resumed the Practice of Medicine.
offers his services to hie old friends and
l*Tocs *nu to the paying pnbltc gen«*rally.
» s I*.'ial aUenti in will he given to all Chronic
',T'-,P* rtiaa '* r ‘y those ef Female*. He will
P^vrrib* for and treat ordinary waae* at hi/
' S v: Office at the Drug Store of Davenport A
■i » f
Bro. Joshaw thought too much time
was being spent foolishly. lie then
further explained that the potatoes were
to be sent to Madagascar for the benefit
of the heathen, aud at once opened the
crucible in which many “unabridged"
anticipations were to he melted down.
Two clerks, with two reams of paper,
bent over two tables, ready for business.
Bro. Joshaw called :
“First speller in first class stand up ”
It happened to be Mollie Rickety. The
judge, in a little louder key than he
deiitly intended, sang out.
‘•Scat."
Mollie, poor girl, is one of the few
persons that cannot hear the sight of a
She began looking toward the door
clutching her dress.
Seat.” Bro Joshaw repeated, “Mollie.
scat ” In her terror she forgot r.ll about
polling. In vain did the judge call out
hat it was simply a word she was expect
ed to spell.
“Next.” *•
Benjamin Kane stood up boldly.
“Snuff,” gave out Bro. Joshaw.
“S-n-o u g-h, snuff," in a voice like a
fog whistle.
Try it again,” said the judge, hut re.
member that the next time calls for vege
tables.”
Benjamin nodded confidently, and the
elerks chalked him for another peck. Ben
took another dip.
S-n-e-w-f, snuff.” Bro. J.’s head
flew cast aud west violently, and the
class giggled. Ben’s potato crop having
been cut short by the drouth,he sat down
under a vague impression that he wasn’t
•up to snuff," nohow.
“Next.”
Young Skipwell stood up and pulled
his chin. He was a formidable couipe
\ for his father had housed nine hun
dred bushels of the boarding-house staple
and was known to take great prido
his children.
The scion of the Skipwcli house be
haved manfully under words of one syl
lable, losing only a peck
“reads,” getting a couple barrels butted
out of him ou “gote,” aud shedding a
few moreover “bier." It was remarkable
that bis mind ran top much on lager
discriminate. Iu words of that length
he would hit oftener than miss. • But
suddenly Bro. Joshaw'* heart yearned
for the heathen and he popped him with,
••Cicatrize.” The old man trembled for
esculent wealth, but he whispered to his
son to “tackle her” anyhow. John
struck out feebly—
“Si-c-k”— -
“No, sir.” .- i- ;
“S-y-o-i”—
' **N*>S air.”
C-i*c*k”—
•No, sir.”
Joshaw called “time^ on the audience,
and Dr. Kiverbone, the head of the sec
ond class measured his memory with the
great Webster. Somehow or other
Webster and Dr. Riverbone didn't agree
from the very beginning. The first word
left a debit to the Madagascariaus of
thirty pecka, and the tenth reduced his
potato-cellar to a marble-sized seed. On
the I8th word, “erasable" Farmer High
flew the tmek, and left the plucky doc
tor unabridged in spank, bat very much
in potato.
Jounart next came to a perpendicular.
Bro. Joshaw gave out “Hermeneutic*."
Jonnart opened his jaw and got his
month ready, but it wouldn't go off.
“What did you say the word is, Bro.
Joshaw ?”
“Hermeneutics/'
Jonnart scratched around a little and
preset tly said :
Well, ah! that's a new ‘tick' in this
country* “Hear-nie-uew-licks,” pro
nouncing the word slowly. “Well, yes,
uh! Mr. Clerk, here's au order fur my
crop. I don't want any ticks in mine.”
'i’h-u Jonnart sat down like “a thou
sand o' bricks,' for Billy Summers' feet
lird congregated between him and his
seat.
Billy Summers was admitted as a mem
ber of the class more upon his capabili
ties as a gardner than an orthographer.
His recollection pumped up the “a-b
abs, i-f ifs, D.b ob»" pretty freely, and he
even held a full hand with the “bakers."
It was when Bro. Joshaw let him have
the word “Dictator," in a full, clear
oice, that he commenced trying to find
it somewhere on the ceiling. Billy's
conceptions were of the phonetic order.
He was completely swallowed up in the
sea of nice distinctions that make Eng
lish so difficult to roaster, and therefore
it is not astonishing that when his lips
delivered the workings of his brain they
should have rattled off“D-i-c-k-t-a-t e-r.”
The hurst of laughter that followed this
had spell, sufficiently assured Billy that
he was laboring faithfully for the lust.
Bro. Joshaw, with the hope of direct
ing young Summers' mind into a more
profitable channel, kindly suggested that
it was not that kind of “tater." But
Billy was duuc, his wit had taken wing
with last effort. His closing remark, as
he “flopped" into his seat, was that be
could “raise taters, dig taters, and eat
taters, if he couldn’t spell taters."
Seven young ladies retired into the
audience with Billy Summers, thus com
pletely decimating the second class.
When asked why they refused to remain
and spell, all with one accord said “be
cause." It is astonishing how much that
word can he made to signify.
About all the brag “spellers'' of the
neighborhood had now wrestled with
Noah unavailingly. Bro Josliaw's ma
jestic pronunciation had largely to do
with demolishing the first seven of the
remaining class. Most of these Barren
dcred the major part of their agricnltu
ral resources upon the word “separate,"
and are busy to-day barreling them for
the great shipment.
Leigh Burus.ayouug lawyer, executed
deed for all the tubers his ancle died
seized of, and fell back to his seat on his
insurance." lie had too many “s’s.”
This left but two little girls—twins.
At fiol nobody thought tlxry could spell
—“Oh no, they couldn't spell." With
the opening of their mouth began the
most remarkable performance of the
kind on record. After two hours' appli
cation of Webster's hardest, Brother
Joshaw closed the book, astonished be
yond degree, and with tears behind his
spectacles, came down and handed one
of them the prize. The little girls waiv
ed him aside and stepped upon the stage.
They laid the grand old book on the
table, and folded their little white hands
upon the closed volume, gave a modest
little cough and broke loose. After the
manner of peas falling upon a dry cow
hide so fell the oisjointed American
English npon the cars of the audience.
That audience was spell bound. The
twins were bound to spell. Some
had said “they couldn't spell/' On their
jaws flew through thirty-eight columns
with never a flaw in a word. Then they
stopped a single moment, took a little
water, and in concert spelled every word
of it backward .clear up to the “preface,"
dotting all the “i's" as they went. Then
without catching even a breath, they
warbled off that interesting article in
“G" flat, and skipped down into the
arms of their dear papa. They
said to be daughter of Col. Spellei
Spellersvillo, Tenn.
TREASURY GIRLS.
Incident! ai d Anecdotes A~out Them
Interesting and Otherwise.
The reformed system of civil-service,
says a Washington correspondent of the
Chicago Inter Ocean, writing about the
Treasury Department, is dead; and now,
■** ever, iiiflueuce is first au>l fitness sec
ond, expediency first and justice after
ward. Hence all the incumbents, ladies
uot excepted, are ardently interested in
politics, and are devoted to the party in
power. I myself have seen the sad sight
ot a gentle girl, who one abort year ago
did not know that her oonnlry was in
fluenced by any legislation other than
Mocea and the ten commandment!—I
have seen tbe poetry of this aweet chi Id’s
young life all goue, and have heard her
read a President's proclamation at break
fast and discuss tbe Louisiana question
at length at dinner. Tbe revolution
ran a /ad one, but with tbe loss of some
f the tender graces comes the gain of
strength of character, courage, and a
••ertain knowledge of tbe world which
makes this class of women equal to the
**et anywhere.
THE TREASURY GIRL IS ROT BEAUTIFUL,
except wilt that old-fashioned style of
beanty vogoe when tbe daughters of
tbe house esteemed it a duty to be self-
supporting institutions. She has not
leisure for tbe mid-day siesta in shaded
parlor aDd the prolonged devotion at
the toilet-lath, which produced the lan
guid demeanor and peachy complexion
of thut fancy article of women which
our rich men marry to put on exhibition
with their stately houses and brilliant
equipages. Mark them as they assemble
iu the morning,each with a scarlet napkin
of luncheon aud perhaps a novel from the
library of the treasury, oo whose hero,
if she be more seutimeutal tban consci
entious, she may allow her thoughts to
dwell when they ought to be occupied
in her country’s seivice. Her overdress
is perhaps a little worn amt faded, her
headgear is more hurried than studied,
and an expression of anxiety may be late.
About 9 o’clock in the morning they
come out one by ono trod straggling iu
by detachments, at 8 o’clock in the
afternoon they depart altogether, and the
□amber of them is overwhelming to con-
emplate. They go home with a slower
•tep, weariness on tbe brow and ink on
tbe fingers. Living this manner of life
the treasury girl has neither time nor en
ergy to devote to making herself brilliant,
vivacious and fascinating, which is one
of the most laborious exertions of a
woman’s experience. Yet there are those
who are
H-
‘iV«,
Dr. R J. HEAD,
YIAYIX& again located In Americas, offers Id*
1 rofi-Bdonsl M-rriceN to the dnzena of tbe
, l, . v *B t Nurround nc cauntiy. Ttunkfal for past
U'urn L* win give bis entire attention to tbe
«-uiw* of hi« proft-ss-on, aud therefore feels as-
“ lr “» *>t civing satisfaction. He haa for many
v Mb tnadu the study and treatment of chrome
^»e»ac* a spedattv, particularly those Uineaaea
to females, and dain to hate dlacov-
^*lrsme<ae. and treatment peculiarly adapt-
*1 to the cure of this claae of disease.
Office at the Drag store of Dr. W. J. Bee
fwlence on tbe East side of public square, in
f fee formerly occupied by Mrs. McCrco.
W. P. BURT, * *
D ENTI ST,
Again and again young Skipwell dug
down into his fekull for the proper orth
ography of the word, but every time ht
opened his mouth out dropped a peck of
potatoes for the heathen. The elder
ckipweii's spunk arose above proper pro
vision for his (anally, and he commanded
John to try again.
“Oh, Lord, dad, I'm sick a tryin'/
The more l tries the sicker I gits. Lem
out, I want to go home T
•Dad" winked at tho clerks and they
forthwith presented a request for eight
bushels. Bro. Joshaw called—
“Next. v
Major Quad arose, and in beautiful
style rattled dff several columns of tri
syllables with the facility of Webster
himself. All among tha -dangerous
A Litt'e Fun.
“Can't you make any allowance for
in's being drank ?" “Certainly." said
the Judge, “I'll allow you thirty days io
the guard-house."
mau who has no hills against him,
belongs to the order of no-i»7/.-iVy in
>re than on* sense.
Why was Sampson the greatest actor
that ever appeared on any stage ? Be
cause he “brought down the house" when
the audience was composed entirely of
Ids enemies.
A fellow named Willis was hauled up
Albany the other day for striking a
man named Joke, and fined ?5. He
plead, in extenuation, that he thought
it no offenee to “crack a joke."
“O you be darned," as a bachelor said
while poking his toes through his stock
Sonic two Years sgo, Mrs. Mor
gan, who lives on Wolf Credc, in Giles
county, Va., gave birth to fivo male chil
dren at one time, They are still living,
are not deformed, are of good constitu
tion, and aa sprightly as well-fed kittens.
I'Iqua:
' IEXCEPTIONS,
and who can come and copy by day and
talk persiflage, and tread the Boston by
night ail the gay and giddy season
through, and then say. “Oh, dear!”
when Lent comes ulong and frowns their
dissipation down. Bometimen one of
these handmaids of the government
takes a notion to get married, os all girls
will; but more than ordinary inducements,
>uch as love, for instance, roust be offered
n in return f«»r themselves. Most of
women marry for the sake of a home
•nd the certainty of a livelihood, but
these, the girls of the departments, hav
ing tho.se conditions assured them by
their ability to work, are enabled to in
dulge in the luxury of marrying for love
or not at nil. Htill, not to bo too compli
mentary, I will Imzird the opinion that
‘lore are one or two of my arqnaiutanco
ho, for the sake of procuring a ft\v
extra comforts for their aged mothers or
s for the education of their younger
brothers, wanld not refuse to enter the
lists with a diplomatic count ora Henator
from Nevada.
hands sad idleness, deny themselves the
luxury of afternoon receptions, and meet
their old friends and associates only in
the evening when work is done. These
many representatives of tho good fami
lies lift the whole system into a eucm.
standing equal to any, and it is no un
common thing for a government elerk,
gentlemen to dance with the President’s
daughter, or, lady, to infatuate a whole
diplomatic corps. Altogether Washing
ton society is very sociable and oonfidtng.
In other cities in general, not referring
especially to Philadelphia and Boston, if
a young stranger, well dressed, and bear
ing that oertein stamp of reepectabilitv
worn by every gentleman, presents him
self at the table of a boarding house or
in the parforof a soiree, the presumption
obtain* that he is a dispenser of dry
goods until he shows credentials of more
high-toned occupation, while here snch a
character is accepted as a civil-service
clerk, and is treated with the considera
tion doe to snch: “Presumably he is one
of tbe departments; or peradventure, he
is somebody’s private secretary, and io
either case lie is an eligible youth.” The
gfris say: “That fellow is a government
clerk, and I guess we can afford to take
him in. that is, provided be dances well
and don’t know too much.” In these
latter qualifications the yonng ladies are
very seldom disappointed. Most of their
dear ones waits like dancing masters, and
know bat little more than they. Tbe
head of one of tbe bureaus, who has a
love for reducing all things to a system,
has classified his employes as
IE WORKING MEN, THE SOCIETY MEN, AND
THE MEN WHO DRAW THEIR SALARIES.
The first of these species are sadly in
the minority; the second and third pre
dominate. The most renowned leaders ol
the german are drawn from their ranks,
and never did any author of military
tactics, devising new evolutions and com
'plex manoeuvres, ever distort his brain as
these young men do in the invention ol
sw figures for tbe next ball.
Many of tbe gentlemen of this class
e talented bnt lazy; many of the ladies
e gifted and energetic, this daily con
tact with the cold and practical world
seeming to whet their ambtion to lift
their talents from ililettanteinm to useful
In mnsic, literature, art, song and
the drama, some of the ludies are not
only accomplished, but renowned. Some
are versatile in linguistio acquirements,
ire especially useful in the depart
of diplomacy aud foreign corres
pondence. One of your best Washington
correspondents was formerly a treasury
girl; another young lady of tbe same de
partment has delighted aud charmed se
lect coteries with her excellent elocution
ary and dramatic powers, and in a recent
public entertainment was received with
marked favor by a Urge and cultured au
dience. Her name is a historical one, bat
I hesitate to give it, as 6hc haa not yet
emerged sufficiently from private life to
justify that correct comment, cither fox
praise or abuse, which surely comes to
all who throw themselves upon tbe mer-
of a fickle aud capricious public and
reproedtatives of the press. This
lady has been urged and solicited by good
critics to abandon the desk for the stage;
but she seems to be deliberate, perhaps
judiciously, upon the wisdom of relin
quishing the retirement and security ot
tbe present for the mimic world of pain,
pleasures and jealousy which the foot
lights shine upon. For her own sake,
perhaps, were better that she should not
adopt tbe mask aud mantle; but by her
rennneiation of them the world will cer
t iiuly be deprived of a very good actress
and )>ercbance a genius and queen of
tragedy, to whose credit it may be said
that what mediocrity sho displays is in
the tame and lifeless passages, from which
‘ * not able to banish the embarrass
and newness of her position, an
imperfection readily cured by training
aud practice, while in the lofty and etir
ring and difficult portrayals she is one
with her subject. Harley Quinn.
they are a sort of indolent, worthies;,
good-for-nothing, well dressed set of
youbg men, whose prospects for the
future would be infinitely better were
they teachers of common schools or ap
prentices at law in the most obscure dis
tricts of our realm. Ambition is totally
dead in their souls, and when a man’s
ambition is gone bo is only worth so much
a pound. The details of their work is
learned in a day, and henceforward for
years they are denied that glorions priv
ilege of encountering and overcoming
difficulty which alone can make strong
men of them*. They come here for one
season only. As a means to an end, they
will fill a clerkship while learning their
elected profession, law, medicine or the
ology. and piously they resolve not to be
beguiled by tbe* sinister inflneuce of
Washington. But they are beguiled,
every one of them, and they grow lazy,
get up late in the morning, drift into
society in the evening; get into tbe id a
that their flirtation with the foreign
minister’s wife is a very high-toned
affair; and dually they go to the devil *
u respectable kind oi a way, which
sorrowfnl to see The government clerk
never resigns, but in the mutations of
political opiniou, or with the develop
ment of his own iueapaeity, he is fre
qoently turned out, and then he is the
most helpless aud dependent of creatures.
Starvation confronts him, and behind
starvation is death. This slothful life
having loosened his confidence in liini-
^elf aud in his own powerx, he feels that
i is only to fill
A CLERKSHIP OB A COFFIN.
What wonder then that a discharged
clerk should become a furious maniac '
consequence, as was the case here in one
instance last trammer, thus affording a
vivid illustration of the demoralizing in
fluence of our civil sexvioe on our able-
bodied young men. In abort, these light
labors are woman’s work, not man’s, and
while they elevate the former with en
conragement and pride, they enervate
tbe latter and do him harm. The grow
ing popularity of the lady clerks, from a
purely business point of view, is a mat
ter of pride for their sex, and every
member of congress, whether a m.m of
family or, misogynist, should bear this
Probabilities.
Do not dictate to an editor how to ran
his paper; should you do so. however, the
probabilities are you will be told to at
tend to your own business.
Read the advertisements in your paper,
and the probability is yon will find the
place you want in order to pnrebase
something that yon have lung been in
need of.
To ask an editor to insert a pnff in his
paper without pay, is like a man asking
another to work for him for nothing, and
tbe probability is you will get an indig
nant “No,” to your appeal.
If you have a. friend in a printing office,
*ver call to see him in the hours of com
position, for he is earning his bread and
butter. Should you do so, the proba
bility is he will wi>h you were-—well no
matter.
If you enter a printing office, tinder uo
circumstances whatever, meddle with the
types, for yon may make “pi;” should
you evade the waruing however, th**
probability is yon wonld get more inward
curses than prayets.
Never borrow newspapers from your
neighbors. If you are in the habit of
doiug so, the probability is, that your
lost years of life will be full of remorse,
feur and death.
Never allow yourself to become a de
linquent sub/criber; should you do so ttn<1
die, the probability is that the proprietor
will inform youi friends of your short
comings. And again, your chances t<
become a citizen of heaven would be
alim, as it is the unpardonable sin.
If an agent for a newspaper calls
yon, and asks “How do you feel’* about
subscribing for tbe periodica), tell him
you fed “so so,” and will do so, accom
panying tbe remark with the cash. The
probability is he will leave you his thanks
and retire in a cheerful frame of mind.
R**.V. BENJAMIN JOHNSON.
OF MACON, LEAVES THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH
—HIS REASONS FOB JOIN1NO BISHOP
CUMMINS.
The withdrawal of Rev. Beniamin
Johnson is announced to Bishop Be.k-
with as follows:
To Bithop J. IF. Beckaith, D.D., of the
Diocese of Georgia:
Macon, March 1st, 1875
Rt. Rev. and Dear Sib : Having re
signed the rectorship of Christ Cbnrcb,
Macon, with the view oi transferring my
services to the Reformed Episcopal
chnrch, it only remains for me to inform
you that I shall no louger officiate as a
minister of the Protestant Episcopal
chnrch.
The movement of Bishop Cummins,
when it occurred, took me entirely by
surprise. Never for a moment doubting
the parity of his convictions, I neverthe
less felt and expreased sincere regret that
he bad not remained to represent his
Protestant principles within the Episco-
church. Time and ecclesiastical
events have fully vindicated the wisdom
and providence of his movement Per
suaded that God is indeed with him, and
convinced and guided, I humbly trnst,
by the Holy Spirit, I have solemnly de
cided to “go with him.”
It haa become my constant belief, that
to save itself and accomplish its true his
toric mission, Episcopacy must have a
strong Protestant presentation. This it
cannot have or hold as long as the Rom
ish compromises of Queen Elizabeth re
main in the prayer-book—thoae compro
mises which Pope Pius IV so fully ap
proved, offering to legalize the book if
only his supremacy were acknowledged.
It is the judicial opinion of lord chief
justice Coleridge, given in a late speech
before tbe missionary societies of Great
Britain, that so long as sacerdotalism is
so clearly recoguized in the prayer-book,
ritualism cannot be legally condemned
It strongly confirms this high testimony,
that Pusey and DeKoven are abundantly
satisfied with the book os it is. Easily
can they find support therein for their
theories of baptismal regeneration and
encharistie adoration.
Revision is the vital necessity. Con
vinced that the last general convention
lost a grand opportunity and despairing
of this result from the church as now
dominated by sacramentarianism, my
conscience impels me to seek relief in
the Reformed Episcopal church. Here I
have the prayer book aa the Reformers
themselves left it; all preserved that is
dear and precious in order, discipline
and devotion; those errors eliminated
which have wrought such endless contu
sion and obstruction to the church, nod
which have rendered my ministry a per
petual protest. With many others, I
prayerfully looked to the last general con
vention to do this work, bnt in vain. And
how many, who loved the Episcopal
church as their very lives, must seek else
where that gospel liberty and those pro-
testant affiliations denied by our own
mother church.
The orders of Bishop Cummins are, of
course, as valid as those given by and
carried out of Rome by the Epglish re
formers. and from which all our English
and American Episcopacy is derived. As
valid, surely, as those of Bishop Rein-
kens, received from the (alone) archbish
op of Utrecht, aud so conspicuously ac
knowledged by the churches of Englaud
and the United Stutes. Moreover, if
episcopacy be of divine right, as you be
lieve, then it must be iudeatrnctible by
humnn anathema. God-given, it must
also be. God-taken to be lost. But it can-
be that the essence of a spiritual re
ligion resides in external administration.
Therefore this ministry contents me,
chiefly concerned am I for the greater
practical issues held and solved by this
reformed movement. Justification by
faith only, aud uncontradicted by baptis
mal justification. Regeneration by the
word of God, instead of invariable bap
tismal regeneration. Sanctification, not
by encharistie repetitions, but “through
the truth, by the spirit of God.” These
great practical questions, happily solved
upon most clear warrant of scripture,
give a sublime unity and force to tho re
formed prayer-book as a spiritual educa
tor and guide. I miss nothing that I ever
loved in the old prayer book, only those
doctrines the distinctive property of the
papacy, and which so long have been be
traying the church into Romanism, and
its imitation. This, IU. Rev. sir, is a
brief summary of tbe convictions which
induce my present step. Great will be
the gain, iu the unmixed simplicity of
gospel teachings, in the extended area of
Christian charity, that charity which is
the very soul of tbe truth.
Many memories of profound and glo
rious interest crowd my miud as I write
this; memories that I trust will meet
on tbe eternal shore, and help on my
heavenly joy. But duty is clear before
me, and the God of light and truth mast
be obeyed.
In Christian sincerity. I am yours trnly
and respectfully,
Benjamin Johnson.
j breakers of words similar io proooncia-
tion, bnt of different orthography, he
skimmed along like a sea-swallow, but
Brother Joehsw •trended him at Inst-
AMcaictj*, oa^ * - ’ • He has ^mortgaged the “Bak-toor office
pERP'iiuy /kiiifuliT wit D*nt*i onmiimui BBeet t,J ® drafts of a Cincinnatii vege-
urim. -'ChtaqnipiaV is tho word that
totoT&'gS^Ig'A°??yrL*T. lt *T[threw him outnf a pwjiojr bo«ae» Tho
Major wa* londlj applauded, but Brother
gST An Eastern paper says that it
cost them 82 to get a blacksmith to pry
open a Philadelphia charity box, ana
when he got io it and emptied ont four
cents tho charity ladies, who had been
engineering tbat box for a year, looked
an awful look at each other.
Ecg- Tbia is the season of the year
when the farmer tells his son J'din that
if he will sort over ten bushels of pota
toes, feed the stock, repair the fence on
re-shingle the corn-crib he may hare tho
rest of the day to go rabbit hunting.
fact in mind when ha has a situation at
bis disposal. I can imagine no better
use to wnicb the modem politician can
adapt himself than to stand aa a patron
and a shield to some homeless girl, who
in return will loVehimas a father, glory
ing in his triampbv and sympathizing
in his defeats.
These clerical officers are sought ont
with eageroeea,even to tbe publication of
advertisements offering premi am* of hun
dreds of dollars for them. And not with
out reason, for the remuneration is fair,
reaching from 8900 to 82.000 a year,with
liberal allowance of vacation, and the re-
apeemWility and eaoleef tbe employment
it above all reproach. These departments
are to a mixed degree
THE REFUGE OF GENTILE PEOPLE,
whose fortunes have failed them or whose
supporters are dead, and the orphaned
daughters of admirals in the navy and
generals in the army, nobly preferring 1
inky fingers and independence to fair aix
The Lockett-B. <fc A. Suit —On Tues
day Judge Wright heard the complaint
of the owners of the B. k A. R tilfoad,
(the German bondholders) on the insufii
cieney of the bond given by Col. R. G.
Lockett, in his attachment suit for $750,-
000 damages.
The bondholders were rep resented bj
Mr. Joseph Ganahl of Augusta, and Co!
Lockett by Hon. B. H. Hill.
bis Honor that the bond was sufficient to
sustain the action of the plaintiff, and
order was passed to amend and ineiesso
it. It was found to be short at least
8300.000, and Col. Lockett was given
twenty days to make up tbe deficiency or
dismiss his action. We presume he will
readily cure the defect—Albany Nexes,
let hut.
Small Pox.—The Cave Spring Enter
prise says.
The wife of Conductor White, the man
rho first had the small-pox at Dalton, is
now attacked with that disease. There
have been four or five fatal cases near
Dalton—ao wo learn from a private letter
to Mr. Quiltipn from bis brother at Dal
ton. Fifteen new cases are reported at
Oxford and six or eight at Tecttmsoh.
All the cases at Talladega have died.
The Borne Commercial aaya there are
at Cava Spring.
(From Um Atlanta Herald, 1st mat ]
ANOTHER 850,000 FIRE
At half-post threo o’clock this morning
an alarm of fire was heard, and, npon
search, Knox’s millinery variety store
was fonnd to be completely enveloped in
flames.
Cohen k Selig’s dry goods store was
next consumed. In a few moments “The
Dollar Store” was in the same condition,
also Bean Berry's drug store, and, at the
latest moments before going to press,
Ferree’s Restaurant bad caught,
LATER.
At this hour, 4 a. m., Berry’s drag
store is in fall blaze, hopelessly beyond
tho reach of tho firemen. Ferree’s res
taurant has gone. There seems to be no
checking of the flames this side of the
National Bank.
One of the engines. No. 3, is disabled
for the present and the flames get addi
tion? 1 force. The firemen are working
with a desperation, bnt seem unable to do
anything towards conquering the flames.
5 a. m.
At this writing the fire is under con
trol, except that in the cellar of Berry's
drug store there seems to be a lot of oil
on fire; and the whisky is burning fiercely
in Ferree’s restaurant, and banting ont
«>u the Whitehall street sidewalk. The
dremen have worked with a superhuman
energy, and deserve all the credit that
can bo given them. The stores destroyed
are Cohen & Selig, (dry goods). Mrs. W.
G. Knox (millinery), tbe Dollar Store
(notions). Bean Berry (drags), W. T.
Ferree (restaurant).
THE INSURANCE.
Mr. Knox had $4200 insurance with
Mr. Hancock, in the Underwriters Agen
cy.
Cohen A Selig had $9,000 insurance on
stock. Their stock is just laid iu, and
amounts to upwards of $18,000 in value.
Their loss will not fall far short of $10,-
000. They saved very little. They were
insured with Hancock for $3 000; Putilto
and Wbitrer bad the remainder.
Mr. Purly, of the Dollar Store, was in
sured for $2.0l)0, with Bridges and God
frey.
Beau Berry had $7,000 insurance on
his stock.
Mr. Berry’s stock was worth about
$11,000 or $12,000. His loss is about
$4,000; he saved very little. His insur
ance is with Whitner $5,000, and Bridges
and Patillo had the rest. His stock is
near!? totally destroyed and very little
rree had $2,000 on his stock with
Godfrey.
The buildings were owned by Mr. Con-
nally, and they * t re insured through Mr.
Whitner.
It is said (Mr. Selig, one of tbe tenants,
beiDg the authority for it) that he is in
sured for $10,000; having $2,500 on each
building.
NOTES.
Mr. Jack’s books, which were stored in
Mr. Berry’s drag store, were saved. It
seems as if the fire w«s pressing him re
lentlessly.
Messrs. Cohen k Selig will commence'
business at once. They had just laid in
their stock. Thu net loss will not be
much less than $28,000; Messrs. Cohen
k Selig being the largest single loosers.
ANOTHER INCENDIARY FIRE
AT CAMILLA.
THE HOTEL AND LIVERY STABLE
BURNED.
Kerosene and the Match Used for the
Fiendish Work.
A Clairvoyant Dream.
A recent writer nsrrate* • ho following
significant dream relative to i lie Dr. Park-
roan murder, and which in all its un
pleasant details was dreamed twice over:
Dr. Webater, professor of chemistry in
Harvard Collet, was convicted of the
murder of an acquaintance— we can
hardly say his friend—Dr. Turkman. A
lady well known in tho literary world,
and then residing in London, had some
years previously paid a long visit to tbe
United State*, during which she became
intimately acquainted with Dr. Webster,
who showed her much kindness and at
tention. After tho return to England she
continued to correspond with his family,
and ono day in the early autumn of 1848,
a gentleman, related to Dr. Parkman,
called upon her with au introduction
from Prof. Webster. On that night she
went to bed as nsoal, bnt soon experi
enced a horrible dream. 8he fancied she
was being urged by Dr. Webster, to as
sist him in concealing a set of human
bones in a wooden box, and she distinctly
recollected that there was a thigh bone,
which, after failing to break it into pieces,
they vainly attempted to iusert, bnt it was
too long.
While they were trying to hide the
box, os she fancied, under her bed, she
awoke iu a state of horror and cold per
spiration. She instantly atrack a light,
and tried to dispel the recollection of her
horrible vision by reading. After a lapse
of two hoora, during which she deter
minedly fixed her attention on the book,
ho put ont the lights and soon fell
asleep. The same literal dream recurred,
alter which she did not dare—although a
woman of singular moral and physical
courage—to attempt to sleep any more
that night. Nothing more at the time
was thought of these dreams^ but shortly
afterward the news reached England that
Dr. Parkman was missing; that the last
time he was seen alive bo was entering
college gates; and that the janitor
suspected of having murdered him.
On tho writer mentioning this to the
lady, she at once exclaimed, “Ob, my
dreams! Dr. Webster moat be the mnr
derer !” The next mail bnt one brought
the news that the true murderer had been
detected; and at tbe very time when the
lady’s dream occurred, Dr. Webater must
have been actnally straggling to get the
bonee—the flesh having been previously
From Conductor Lake, who come np
yesterday morning, we learn that an
other incendiary fire occurred at Camilla,
a little after twelve the night before,
which destroyed the Crumb Hotel, and
the Livery Stable on tbe opposite side of
the street
These particulars are related: Mr.
Mannerlyu, tbo Ruilroad Agent, walked
np from the depot a little after midnight,
and seeing the watchman standing at the
corner of the bote), stopped to converse
with him or light a cigar. While the
were talking the watchman saw a flat
of light produced by the striking of _
match, at the other end of the building.
He instantly called Mr. Monoerlyn’s at
tention to tbe circumstance, and before
they bod time to exchange a word the
front of the building was in a sheet of
flame. As soon a* the fiend touched tho
match to the floor the blaze ran along the
puza and np the wall of tbe building,
by the light of whieh the diabolical
wretch made good his eeoape. The
whole building was enveloped in a short
•pace of time, and the flames defied all
efforts to arrest them. The wind was
blowing from the Sonth, and the fire
leaped acroea a broad street and swal
lowed op tbe livery stable just opposite.
Wo have no farther particular*. We
refer to the proceedings of an Indigna
tion meeting, in another eolomn; for the
provocation to this monstrona and most
fiendish outrage.—Albany JVrirs.
burned—into a wooden box aneb aa she
had seen; and that after attempting in
to break the thigh bones, he had
hidden them elsewhere.
Wheat Crop Prospects.
A gentleman who haa travelled exten
sively through Tennessee, Kentucky,
Wee*. Virginia, Maryland, Indiana, Ohio,
and Southern Illinois, inform tbe St.
Louis Democrat that the winter wheat
crop now in the gronnd in all that region
is in excellent condition. Soma farmers
ippoeed the broadcast towing would
d in each Statue as Tennessee, Ken
tucky, Virginia and Maryland, where the
snow did not lay long on the ground ;
but examination of the plant proves the
reverse. Not only is tbe growing wheat
in excellent condition in these Steles,bnt
the area put in is large. In the mote
northerly portion of tbe winter wheat
belt the earth haa been very steadily coh
ered with snow, and there can be no
doubt that when a thaw cornea it will be
sqdden. Spying will be skipped, and
snmmpr will begin. The weather will be
hot and forcing, and the growth of the
wheat plant will be rapid. Anc“
thing teems to be pretty certain,
that is, that there will be a big corn
crop in 1875. Corn is how bringing a
price that will iosture a large profit to the
fanner, and hogs are high also. Thus
there are two incentives to produce com
.largely. If the crop should be ao large
as to foroe prices dqwn, it can be fed
Washington Notes.
Washington, March- 3L~-Tua follow
ing telegram from the Governor of Tex-
was received here to-day ;
Austin, Texas, March '40, 1875.
His Excellency, L. S. Grant, President of
the United States. Washington, D. C.z
Sib—The depredations of organized
bands of robbers from the Bepnblio of
Mexico have of lateincreaaed iu frequen
cy and atrocity to an extent which threat
ens the depopulation of the lower Rio
Grande country. The alarm in the
country between the Nueoes and Rio
Grande consequent upon these raids, in
whieh our people are ruthlessly mnr- .
dered and their property forcibly taken
by these foreign desperadoes, is wide
spread, and unless relieved by aotno as
surance of protection, most result in a
general breaking up of tbe settlements.
On the 20ih of this month a large party
penetrated the interior aa far aa within
eighteen miles of Corpus Christi, rob
bing stores and ranches, and murdering
and capturing citizens, and destroying
United States Mails, I appeal to yoor Ex
cellency for protection for the people of
that country against these invasions of
outlaws from Mexico, ainoe they have
been of almost weekly occurrence for
several months past, and are increasing
in force and holiness. The eitixens
of that country have been compelled for
the moat part to move to the towns for
protection, and no security exists outside
of these corporations for life or property*
and the people in the towns even hold
themselves in constant readiness for de
fence. I trust that yonr excellency will
deem it proper to give security to the
people on tho Rio Grande border in view
of the assurance I now give yon that an
extreme necessity exists for it.
(Signed:) Very respectfully,
Richard Coke,
■Governor of Texas.
To whieh the Secretary of War sent
the following reply:
War Department, 1
Washington, March 31, 1875. j
7o the Governor ot Texas, Austin, Texas:
The President being absent, yonr tele
gram was sent to me. Orders will be
given to the military authorities to take
immediate steps towards the protection
of the people of Texas on the Mexican
frontier. Wm. W. Belknap,
Secretary ot War.
Theory and Practice.
The Rev. T. DeWitt Talmoge, the
Boanerges of the Brooklyn pulpit, is tre
mendously disgusted with the newspa
pers for printing the details of the
Beecher-Tilton trial. He preached a ser
mon last Sunday, from which we extract
the following:
“Brooklyn to-day eats seamin', drinks
scandal, talks ecandal, swears scandal,
lies scandal, sleeps scandal, and from
Fulton Ferry to Baahwiek, and from
Gowanus to Hunter’a Point, the city is
paved with scandal and reeks with scan
dal, until ono is tempted to go over to
the Fivo Points to get a breath of pure
air. [Sensation.] There are fivo thou
sand carrion crows which alight every
morning at 11 o'clock, on the top of the
Conrt house, and stay there until four
o'clock in tho afternoon, and theso car-
crows fly North, South, East. West,
with an exultant ‘caw, caw, caw.* [Ap
plause.] Eternal God, when will this
surging, groaning, stupendous, over
whelming nastiness come to an end?
The city needs a thorough fumigation.
Will somebody burn a rag, [laughter,] or
carry about a shovel aud lighted charcoal
for the stockholders of newspapers,
which build themselves up on auob nell-
broth? I prophesy eventual bankruptcy
or domestic ruin or discomfiture in the
world to come, or all three. God will bo
even with you iu some way. Money
made by the publication of these perpet
ual, pestiferous indecencies will, in tbe
end, be not only death to thoae who
read them, but death to those who prink
them. God will get it away from yon if
be has to chase you into hell for it—
Waiting for no other man to do his doty,
let ns do oars. Kick this infernal atnff
out of your house.” [Applause.]
N. II.—This is all very proper, of
course, bnt the correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Commercial, who telegraphs the
extract, say* brother Talmage has repeat
edly taken a hand in this “overwhelming
nastiness,” and that on one occasion he
(T.) got into the correspondent’s aeak
4 and nearly crowded him ont in hit anx
iety to get a prominent position.” Tal-
mnge ought to be on the Atlanta press.—
Macon Telegraph.
A Narrow Escape—A Train Upon
the Air-Line Swoops Down on a Wag
on and Team.—A few days since Mrs
Doss, an old lady, in company with her
son in-law, who was driving a two-horse
wagon, was about crossing the Air-Line
road, near Bnford, As they neared the
crossing they stopped a moment to listen
for tho train, but failing to hear ite ap
proach on a:connt of a high wind which
was then prevailing, they drove upon the
crossing. Just aa they reached the track
a train at fall speed was aeen bearing
down npon them. Tbe young man in
charge of the teamjnmped out and tried
to urge tho males across before the train
coaid resoh them, bat tbe males haring
discovered tbe approaching engine was
unmanageable, and instead of crowing
started down tbe track ahead of the en-
S 'ne. Tho engineer was unable to slack
a speed in time to prevent striking tho
wagon. Seeing that a collision was in
evitable, some person hallooed to Mrs.
Doss, who was still in tbe wagon, to jump
out. This aha attempted to do, and per*
haps thereby saved her life. As sho
made a spring the engine struck^tho wag
on tearing it to pieces, seriously injuring
one of the males, while the old lady es
caped with a few alight bruises. II is
believed that if she had failed to jump
just at the time she did she could not
have escaped being killed.—At Herald.
Unparalleled Fixxdishxxw in Utah.
—Tbe Rocky Mountain Hews of a recent
date gives the following particulars of
an atrocious tragedy committed at
Toqneville, Utah, on the 16th insi:
Richard Fryer, who lias lately labored
under the hallucination that he was a .
second Jesus Christ entered his boose iw
the evening and found Thos. Batty, a
friend of the family, lighting a fire in the
grate. Believingtoat Batty was an emis
sary of tbe devil, who was trying to born
bis premises, the lunatic rushed for a pis
tol and shot him through the bead. Mrs.
Fryer, paralyzed with fear, crouched in a
corner, and was shot through the heart
by her demoniac lraaband. The next
thing ho did was to go to a cradle where
hie infant child was lying asleep, and de
liberately blow ite brains out. This was
theerowningaot of the almost nnparallel
ed tragedy. Fryer then sallied forth
into the village, armed with n revolver
and a gun, proclaiming himself the Lord,
and saying that he bad slain the devil
and several.of his imps. The Sheriff, be
ing nnable to arrest Fryer, and fearing
that still other lives might be sacrificed,
killed him with s shot from a navy re
volver. Batty, Mrs. Fryer, the babe and
to hogs and made to pay a good profit the slayer of them, all were buried on St
that way. Patrick’s day from the same '
> house.