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Stand by Congress.
If one were to judge, from the denuncia
tions heaped upon Congress, of the charac
ters and qualifications of the members of
that body, and of their public duties, he
would set them down as not only a very in
ferior set of men, but wholly actuated by
bad and criminal instincts. That portion
of the press which calls itself “independent"
and “liberal," but which never fails to de
monstrate its independence and liberality
by exhibitions of narrow, carping criticism'
base personal selfishness, and sensational
denunciations of all who stand in its way;
which arrogates to itself the possession of
all the culture and brains in the country,
has taken upon itself the work of holding
up the present, Congress, individually and
collectively, to public ridicule and con
tempt By turns its members are denounc
ed as corrupt and imbecile; while scarcely
a measure has been proposed or introduced
which has not been reflected to the public
through the same jaundiced vision. Now,
what are the facts to offset this “liberal”
view of our law-makers ? Manifestly they
are of a nature to justify entirely opposite
opinions and conclusions. Aside from
those Congresses which had to meet the
issues of our great civil war, and the sub
sequent reconstruction of the Southern
States, few, if any, of its predecessors have
been compelled to grapple with as momen
tous and perplexing questions. None has
ever addressed itself to the work which it
found upon its hands with more real ear
nestness, and judgnig from the results
achieved, and those which may with confi
dence be predicted, with more of genuine
ability and statesmanship. It has taken
time and much discussion to arrive at a
settlement of these great questions of the
day, but progress has been continually evi
dent to every one who had a wish or care
to see it. 'Hie statement of a few points
will afford the reader who has a desire to
judge correctly with some data for pepper"
ly estimating the Forty-third Congress:
1. It has been freer from the manipula
tion of the lobby than any of its predeces
sors for the past thirty years. Nothing in
the nature of special privileges'to any'class
has found favor with it, or is likely to, dur
ing its continuance. This is a great point
gained—an isolated fact in the history of
recent Congressional legislation.
2. It has, by Urge majorities in each
branch, distinctly avowed its determination
to adopt measures which will give financial
ease and business security to the country
While its action, through the passage of a
distinct measure, has not yet crystallized
into permanent form, this emphatic indica
tion of its probable course in the near fu
ture has already afforded a vast and most
visible relief to every branch of business
throughout the nation. Confidence is fast
resuming- its sway, and business will resume
its accustomed courses the present spring
with more of life and vitality than it has
felt during the past two years.
3. The House, after a long discussion t
and the most thorough examination and
scrutiny, has passed a bill looking to an
eventual settlement of the transportation
problem, which has so vitally affected every
interest of the contry, but more especially
of the West. It has taken this action not
inconsiderately, as if impelled to “do some
thing.” by a popular and unreasoning
clamor, but in a broad, comprehensive, and
statesmanlike spirit, which looks judicially
upon every interest as entitled to its equal
measure of justice.
4. It has done noble work in reducing
the appropriations. Those reductions
promise to amount to at least 815.000,000
to 820,000,000. Expenditures for the ar
my and navy have been especially reduced,
while it is in contemplation to diminish the
military forces, so that still further reduc
tions can be made in the future. The pub
lic expenditures have never undergone such
thorough care and scrutiny. This fact*
viewed in connection with that other fact
that the country is growing with such un
exampled rapidity, whereby new duties are
constantly devolved upon the public admin-*
istration, show a record in favor of govern
mental economy which has never been sur
passed. It is well to consider it fully.
5. It has repealed the injudicious sala
ry act of the last session, and, in obedience
to the popular judgement, refused to restore
the fraukiug privilege in any shape or form
More than this: it has rigidly and jealously
guarded its own current expenses, and has
largely reduced them in many directions-
Other facts might be adduced to show
that the present Congress is doing a good
work for the country, and making a most
excellent record for itself, but these are the
principal topics which have enlisted its at
tention thus far. They all show that the
BAINBRIDGE, GEORGIA, APRIL 16, L 874.
An Albanian Among 1 the Mor
mons.
Salt Lake City, Utah, March 15th, ’74.
Col. Cary W. Styles:
Dear Sir —As I sit alone and tired in
my room to-night, (I say alone for my
companion is snoring away at a rate to
make up lost sleep) my thoughts naturally
turn backward, and very soon I find my
self in the very midst of old Albany asso
ciations, and in this connection I gather
my pen and start to write this letter, —
whether it is ever finished or not remains
yet to be seen. I will first tell you of my
visit in the Mormon village, or the re
nowned and redoubtable city of Salt Lake
City is situated off the main line of road
from Omaha to San Francisco, about thir
ty r ix miles. A branch road connects
this place with Ogden, where we leave the
main road. 'Leaving Ogden, we pass
through a beautiiul valley down the side
of the broad lake, whose waters, calm and
majestic, greet the eye as far as vision
reaches. On the other side of the road
lies a range of low and broken mountains.
1 reached the city about 9 o’clock, r. m..
and being considerably fatigued with much
taavel, 1 soon put myself “in my little
bed," and sought sweet Morpheus’ com
forting’ embrace, in a short nap of about
twelve hours.
Salt Lake City, ten miles from the great
Lake, is situated under the verge of a high
range of hills, whose summit is hidden by
the lowering clouds, and perpetually cov
covered with the beautiiul flakes of spot
less snow, and her streets, every one, are
watered by the crystal drops that wind
down the mountain side. When a
visitor so bold and dauntless, stems diffi
culty, and reaches the summit of one of
these peakes, at the first reflection he un
conciously compares his energy to that
magnanimous kind which Wirt says “like
the Conder of South America pitches
from the summit of Chimborazo and holds
itself above the lowering things of life."
Upon this elevation, not abstract but real
—when it is reached the unthoughtedly
sits himself down to rest, and if it be even
ing, with longing wistful hopes at the de
parting oi‘ the orb of day, as behind the
western slope he disappears, leaving ling
ering kisses upon the “azure vault of heav
en,'’ more enchanting, and soul-stirring
than any fiction ever painted under Italian
skies, and time unheededly passes till dark
ness “creeps on apace” and perchance
warns you “tis time to hie ye hence.” The
murmuring of the gurgling brook only adds
“fuel to flame," to keep one in such an ely
siau plain, more graphic than real to my
mind—because I never saw it—than the
“enchanted valley.”
To my sad disappointment I found Brig
ham out of the city; “in winter quarters
with his young wife,” was the answer to
my inquiries respecting the Nage, which
place of rendezvous is about three hund
red miles below here. 7 7 his young wife is
about twenty-six years of age, and is said
to have unlimited control of ilrigham’s af
fections and hence of his pocket too, for he
is now having built for her a residence, the
cost of which is estimated at thirty thou
sand dollars. lam told he has fifteen
wives in all, and seventy children. I had
the pleasure of seeing some of his daugh
ters, who I thought were real pretty; nine
of them are grown and are in the city now
well educated, highly accomplished and
very attractive. I visited the Tabernacle
and Temple. The Tabernacle is built in
the shape of an elise, eighty by one hund
red and sixty-five feet—handsomely furn
ished, with an organ that weighs twenty
ty-five ton3, and is thirty feet high, the
next largest in the United States. This
master piece of art, the Thbernacle, was
completed in this city. Tffie seats are ar
ranged in the style of amphitheatre. Brigh
am’s seat is to himself in front, next to him
comes the Apostles and so on in order,
according to their standing of office. The
arrangement is such that in the lowest tone,
you can hear a conversation from one end
of the hall to the other. With the gallery,
the whole house is said to seat fourteen
thousand people. It is never filled only in
summer. During winter months they hold
services in different wards in the city. They
are very kind in showing visitors through
the building in the week.
While in the city I have had the pleas
ure of hearing Ossian Pratte. He deliver
ed a fine discourse on the striking event
of human nature, the future habitation of
the soul, the necessity of a savior to meet
these events in nature, etc. He based his
remarks for a future habitation of the
wicked on the earth, from the revelation
through St. John, aud claimed that this
earth was to be their future and eternal
|e. He made a noble effort , and I was
• well entertained with the oratory and
e. He is rather commanding in figure.
>n eye and high forehead, and is con
red the most talented of the whole
iber of mormons. They seem to ac
-1 with .Baptist view in respect to im
sipn and close communion,
is far as polygamy is concerned in the
'mon religion, that is dying out very
The intelligent class of ladies will
>marry a man who is already married,
v are not compelled to marry a man
j merely fancies them, as is usually sup-
TEE CONSTITUTION AS AMENDED—THE UNION AS Tnafiipm>.tm
posed. They are not compelled to do any
thing contrary to their choice and inclina
tion. They can bannish the faith of mor
monism “ad libitum.”—All are conpelled to
give one tenth of their income to the church
as tethino to help to support the sick and
destitute.
I spent a pleasant time while there, and
I do think it would be a delightful summer
resort. We leave to-morrow night for our
Western journey. I hear the snow is
thirty feet on a level. I fear we will be
detained.
*
More in the future.
J. D. Curves.
■ » i—.
Interesting i [Report of the
''Agricultural Department.
Washington, April 2. —Among the
statistical investigations reported in the
current monthly report of the Department
of Agriculture are the following:
An inquire concerning the most profit
able crop in each State and section of a
State, and its relative cost and profit in
comparison with other crops, showing the
effect of soil, climate and other circum
stances in popularizing the encouragement
of local specialties—the tendency of agri
cultural improvement indicating progress
ive localities, and illustrating the prevalent
activity of the rural mind. The main
points in the progress relate to the econo
my and efficiency of labor, systematic and
rational process for its employment, and
advanced skill in its direction.
Another series of returns from about
three hundred cotton growing counties re
late to the quality of the present cotton
crop, local causes of injury and the com
parative prominence of each, especially
those due to insect ravages; showing the
rate of progress of the caterpillars, acres
visited and character of injury, with other
collections of facts baring upon the crop.
Another investigation may be considered
a virtual census of a large portion of the
tobacco area, being a direct estimate with
the aid of the county assessors of the
number of pounds, number of acres value
planter's hands, in one hundred and forty
counties which aggregated a production of
two hundred and forty-eight million pounds
on three hundred and twenty-six thousand
acres.
The same counties in 18G9 returned
through the census one hundred and seven
ty six millions. The same for unreported
area would make the total production three
hundred and seventy millions. The ap
parent increase is lbrty-one per cent. The
real difference is very little, the census not
returning the full amount.
AK.2IS3T OP TH3 V 23. GI
NZA STATS
Charges of Embezzlement, his In sanity
Etc,
Shortly afier the arrest of W. D. Cole
man, clerk of the board of Public Works
at Richmond, for forgery arid embezzle*
meat, Col. Jos. Mayo,the State Treasurer
absented himself without notice, remaining,
absent, latterly, it is said in Baltimore, un
til Saturday morning, when he returned to
Richmond and was arrested by the Sheriff
on his arrival at the Northern Depot, on a
bench warrant issued by Judge Guigon,
charging him with the embezzlement of
53,000 of State funds on the 31st of De
cember last. It was evident that Mayo’s
mind was unsettled and he was taken to
the second police station, where he con
tinued laboring under strong mental ex
citement, and was entirely incoherent in
his conversation. He was brought before
the police justice upon application for bail.
Several witnesses were examined as to the
condition of the accused, and their evidence
not only showed that he was now insane,
but that his mind has been seriously affect
ed for months past, and that if confined in
prison now, it might result in permanent
insanity or death. Police Justice White
therefore admitted the accused to bail in
the sum of SIO,OOO for his appearance on
the 15th of April. After being bailed, he
was taken to his residence, where he is re
ceiving every attention from friends and
physicians.
O-entry Por Congress.
Gallagher's Independent announces that,
Colonel It. L. Gentry is going to stand for
Congress iu this district. —Sav Ad-Rep.
We wanted the Colonel to stand the last
time, but lie would not because a country
friend of his suddenly dampened his arder,
and dispelled his aspirations for political
preferment. Gentry was elating some
Northern Gentlemen with his prospect for
Congress or soui* other place. This was
on the cars, when suddenly they came to a
little place on the A & G Road, called
Boston, and as soon as tne crowd espied
the Colonel an old countrymen squalled
out: “Hallo, Gentry, we are talking of
our running you for Governor, down this
way.*’ Gentry said that it was too much
for him. The idea of Bostonians wanting
him to be Governor of Georgia blighted his
prospects,at once,and he returned without
much ceremony. If Gentry was to go to
Congress he would, with ridicule and bur
lesque, turn Ben Butler aDd others of his
stamp. Rut leaving jesting out of the
question, we would certainly be pleased of
an opportunity to vote for the Colonel. —
Appeal.
BIXOieT TRADE UXVXOItf;
The Patrons of Husbandry in
Council—Fully Organised
—Direct Trade Union,
A, Etc.
Several thousand dollars in excess of the
amount required by the charter ($25,00) of
the “Direct TVade Union of the Patrons
of Husbandry” having been subscribed,the
stockholders of the company met pursuant
to the call of the Secretary of the commis
sioners in the hall of the House of Repre
sentatives at half past nine a. m. yesterday.
On motion L. F. Livingston was called to
chair and J. J. Toon, requested to act as
Secretary. There were about two hundred
delegates present. All parts of the State
were represented. It was a fine body of
Representative men.
After disposing of preliminary business,
the charter was read and accepted. The
meeting then proceeded to perfect an or
ganization under the charter by the elec
tion of the following officers, for the term
of one year:
President—A. H. Colquitt.
Directors—J. 11. Echols, of Lexington ;
T. J. Smith, Oconee;I). E. Lutler,Madison;
R. 0. Humber, Eatonton; G. A. Nunually.
Monroe; J. S. Lavender, Barnesville, L. F.
Livingston, Covington ; R. A. Alston,De
catur; J. B. Jones, Herndon; E. T. Paine,
Marietta; G. M. T. Fagin, Perry; T. G.
Holt, Macon.
Colonel J. B.Jones offered the following
resolution, which was, after aiscussion>
unanimously adopted:
Resolved, That we look with special
favor and gratification upon the efforts
which are being made to establish the
Liverpool, Savannah and Great Western
Transportation Line and all other efforts
for the establishmt of direct trade between
Southern ports and foreign consumers of
our products, and will give to them our
hearty moral and business support.
Thanks were returned to Governor Smith
for the use of the Hall of the House of
Representatives; to the various railroad
companies for courtesies extended, and to
the officers of the meeting.
The meeting of the Board of Directors
was marked by harmony.' E. T. Paine wa
elected temporary secretary. The Board
will move cautiously and with calm dulibe
ration. While all their efforts will be di
rect they intend to commit no blunders, if
it be possible to avoid them. —Atlanta
Constitution , 2 6th.
Interesting Statistics.
The last universal statistics published
in a late French paper, and kindly furnish
ed us by a friend, discloses some very in
teresting facts which we take pleasure in
laying before our readers.
'Die population of the planet upon
which the race of Adam lives is one niilard
two hundred and twenty-eight millions, de
vided among the different races as follows:
369,000,000 belong to the Caucassian race;
552,000,000 to the Mongolian race; 190,-
000,000 to the .Ethiopian race; 1,000,000
to the Indian race. These different races
speak 3,642 different languages, and prac
tice 1,000 different kinds of religion or
creeds. The number of deaths in one year
is over 33.000,000, or 90,000 per deirn, 3,-
GSO per hour, 60 per minute, one every
second, So that it will be seen that every
pulsation of the heart maiks the death of
a human being.
The dissolution of the human race, as
set forth in the above rate or estimate, is
overbalanced by the births which average
a little more than those given by these fig
ures. So that the population of the earth
is constantly increasing. The average of
a man’s life all over the world is 33 years.
One fourth of the population of the earth
die before they reach the age of seven
years, and one half before the seventeenth
year of age. Os every 100,000 persons on
ly one lives to be 100 years old; of every
5,000 only one reaches the age of 90, and
only one in every 1,0000 reaches the age of
70 years. Married men live longer than
bachelors, and a tall man has a better
chance of longevity than a short man. Os
each 1,000 persons only 65 get married,
and by far the greater number marry in
June and December than in any other
months during the year. Births aid
deaths occur most generally at night, as
almost everyone has observed. Only
about one-eighth of the population of the
world are fit for military service. The
different professions have a greet influence
upon the life of a man.
Wonders of Newspaper Print
ing.
The New York Herald claims that a re
cent Sunday edition consisted of one hun
dred and fifty thousand copies. Each num
ber consisted of twenty pages, that is one
hundred and twenty columns, of which sev
enty-eight were advertisements and forty
two reading matter. The Herald says:
“A detail, which will be perfectly new
to non-professionals, is that to produce one
hundred and fifty thousand full copies, it is
necessary to take nine hundred thousand
impressions. To accomplish this in the
short time allowed dive rotary Hoe presses,
of eight and ten cylinders each, and two
Bullock perfecting presses, were kept roll-
ing off at the rate of orie thousand A minute.
To drive these huge presses, two large en
gines of eighty horse power were kept in
motion by burning six tons of coal in the
furnaces. To form the stereotype plates
for the cylinders, eight tons of type metal
were used to cast one hundred and forty
eight plates, weighing, when finished and
dressed,thirty-eight pounds each. sFhe ink
on a single copy would not be taken into ob
servation by the average observer, but it
required seven hundred tind twenty fi\‘e
pound s to keep the rollers prepared to leave
the imprint of their kisses on the eighteen
million virgin pages that were to glow at
daylight with the news. And these rollers
were composed of five hundred pounds of
glue mingled with one thousand pounds of
honey. Then the virgin pages—the paper
on which all this is printed. There are
eighty men and boys about the presses,
handling. Sheet by sheet it is passed
through the press, until seventeen tons, or
thirty-four thousand pounds, are printed
on both sides. If you were to pile those
sheets one upon another, they would make
a monument one hundred and twenty feet
high.”
Farming 1 in Georgia*
There are some cheering signs for the
agriculturalists of Georgia. The papers
from every part of the State, and private
letters, indicate that the cotton mania is
subsiding, and planters have concluded here
after to till the earth by the lights of expe
rience and common sense. We at onetime
feared they were impervious to the truth,
but the sheriff" and starvation have at last
driven them into the paths of wisdom.
The Grangers have also contributed
much toward this result, aud all honor is
due them for their patriotic agency in bring
ing it about. They have preached until it
has at last come to be heeded, the grand
economic maxim that no agricultuaal people
ever yet prospered who failed to raise their
own food. Reports generally represent that
two acres of corn and one of cotton is the
rule of our planters for 1874. They will
find it to work well, and have only to stick
to it to work out their complete redemption.
When Georgia comes to produce her own
bread and meat, she will be the richest
State in the Union. To say nothing of
other articles of export, only think of her
keeping at home annually the many mil
lions brought into the State by the cotton
crop! What would this money not do for
her ? Instead of being a community of
debtors, nearly everybody would be owing
us, while that portion of our surplus invest
ed at home would cause the old State to
blossom like the aose, and her people to
be among the most independent of the
ear th . —A flan ta Herald.
A RTost Terrible Tragedy.
A dispatch from Austin, Nevada, to
San Francisco, under date of the 2d inst.
gives the particulars of a terrible tragedy
in Smoky Valley in that State.
It appears that Christopher Reckstein
had been for a long time jealous of his wife
in consequence of attentions paid to her
by a young man named Nathan, and they
had frequent quarrels about him. On
Thursday a man named Osterhaus went to
Reckstein’s house, and receiving no res
ponse to his demands for admission, he
broke open the door. On the floor lay the
naked body of Mrs. Reckstein, cut into
pieces, and her head split open. At her
feet were the bodies of their two little girb,
with their heads nearly severed from their
bodies, and near by were the dead bodies
of Reckstein and young Nathan grappling
as in death struggle. Reckstein grasped
in his hand a large bowie-knife covered
with blood, and in Nathan’s hand was a
dragoon pistol two chambers of which was
discharged. There is no living witness to
the affair,
Strange Scene at a Funeral. —The
New York World describes a strange scene
that was recently witnessed over an open
grave in Greenwood Cemetery. Nathan
iel Bishop one of the parties to the famous
Bishop divorce suit that has figured before
courts and juries for many years, died on
Monday last, before dying Mr. Bishop
had expressed a wish that his wife should
not be permitted to look at his remains or
to participate in the funeral ceremonies.
After his death, how-ever, Mrs. Bishop de
termined to exercise excl usivecontrol over
the arrangements, and despite the opposi
tion of the other relatives ol the
deceased Mrs. Z?ishop managed, after en
countering much opposition, to have the
funeral held at the time and place
directed by her. When the funeral
brought up at Greenwood the wife or
dered that the body be deposited in the re
ceiving-vault. But Mr. Bishop owned a
family plot in which his first wife was buried,
and the grave had been already dug for the
reception of the remains. But Mrs. Bish
op was obstinate, and positively refused to
have the under taker bury it. And when
at last the undertaker tried to force a buri
al Mrs. Bishop declared that she would
jump iu to the grave and oblige them to
put Mr. Bishop's body on top of her. The
spectators were terrified at her vehemence,
but were not prepared to see her suit the
action to the word. Nevertheless, she
jumped into the grave forthwith. Mean-
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The physicians of Hons ten county desire
to unite with the physicians of the adjoining
counties in forming a medical association.
The hanging which comes off in Thoinas
villo to-morrow, is to be private.
Americus Republican : A young man io
this city went sparking the other night, and
in order to make a good impression, drew
from his pocket a piece of poetry prepared for
the occasion. But unfortunately he let two
or three small red cards fall on the floor at the
same time, jjid before he could recover them,
the young lady picked up one, and to his
great mortification read aloud “Good for One
Drink.”
We impose upon Harris for the following
items :
The hilarious chirp of the agricultural
grass-hopper is heard in the land.
Col. Jean Lamorne, of Macon, is the corres
pondent of tlio Augusta Chronicle. Wo men
tion this tho more cheerfully, as the Colonel
has recently accused Mr. Stephens of writing
Latin poetry.
A Macon chill has got Watson, of the Tele
graph, in its cold embrace.
Wash Georgeington Whidby, Esq., of the
Atlanta Constitution, has transformed him
self into a missionary for curing the opium
habit.
The Macon correspondent of the Augusta
Chronicle says that the Central Railroad has
discharged forty or fifty of its conductors,
engineers, baggagemasters. wood passers and
train hands, iu that city, anti it is expected
that more will be tur ed off before the lapa*
of many weeks. Freight and passenger traf
fic upon all the lines leading to Macon do not
justify the hope that two-thirds of the men
engaged last summer will be able to retain
their situations during this. The country
has no money with which to buy provision*
and none to pay pasaage from point to pc in*
except in oases of actual necesaity.
i Terms, Two Dollars a Year.j
while the son had been endeavoring - to per*
suade the superintendent to grant him a
day's time to obtain funds by which the
fee for a receiving vault could be obtained.
The scene at the grave of Mr. 2?idhop
brought the superintendent to a reluctant
consent to the agreement, and the body
was placed in the receiving vault, much to
the relief of the spectators, It was only
then that the lady jumped out of the grave-
Georgia Matters.
The editor of the Forsyth Advertiser says
the Macon racos were cut and dried to suit
a firm which owned all the stock.
A Greensboro man drew $3,500 in the Zouia
ville lottery.
Mr. Charles Roundtree, a prominent plan*
ter of Houston county, has failed. His liabil
ities amount to $60,000.
The two Thoniasville papers are in a quar*
rel. The question seems to be, which .paper
first began to advocate improvements in that
city,
Quitman is to have a public dinner on th 0
sth prox., given by the ladies of the Memorial
Association.
Gorman has been seen lately in Thomas*
ville. Ho has again escaped, but Triplett pre*
diets his capture yet.
The livery stable keepers have called on
the City government of Savannah to refund
3,740 of tax paid by them, it is claimed, illy*
gaily.
Sumpter county crows over the fact that
she is out of debt.
A young snipe who onoed lived in Bain
bridge, but who now resides in Araericus,
lias succeeded in writing 1840 plain words on
a postal card.
Mrs. Michael Monahan died suddenly In
Americus on Tuesday night.
In the course of a sermon in Albany, nn
Monday night, Bishop Pierce spoke as fol
lows : “You will pardon me, my friends,
when I tell you J,hat this community has a
reputation of being the most immoral
people of any town in the State.” This the
News characterizes ns the “repetition of a
gross and unmitigated slander.”
Mr. H. E. Humphries, of Camilla, though I
he would whip out Mr. Hunt, the town mar
shal. The latter, shot and killed 7/umphries,
and has been acquitted.
The Columbus Sun says : To last night tho
Columbus cotton receipts amounted to 57,5811
bales, against 53,340. Our factories have
taken of this amount 6,442, against 4,703
1,752 more than last season.”
Ex-Governor Yancc, of North Carolina, and *»
livered a lecture, at DeGive’s Opera House iu
Atlanta on Wednesday night. Atlanta U
becoming famous for Lectures.
It is rumored that Gaines Chisholm, tho
man who shot Penn Bedell, is threatened with
delirium. Hon. B. H. Hill has boon engaged
in liis defense.
Thus, the Americne Republican : "Wo have
in our employ a young man, who served hi©
apprenticeship in this office, that yesterday
set 2,100 ems of solid bourgeois type in sixty
minutes, and 4,500 ems, same typo, in three
hours. This is what we consider fast type
setting, so much so that we will wager a sil
ver “stick and rule” that ho will put to grief
the swiftest “comp.” in Georgia.
Thomasville Times : Wo measured a straw*
berry on yesterday, grown by Capt, Hammond
which measured three and three-quarter
inches in circumference. It was of the Ncw
nan variety, and we believe the only ones iu
this section of the country. IVho can boat it 7
Several young men from Athens have go no
to California.
A young Atlanta clerk, named Bud Skipper,
robbed liis employer the other day, and is
now in jail.
Tho Albany Noes intimates that the oal
crop in that section is unusually fine.
The Americus Republican reports a greater
acreage of small grain in that section than
for ten years past.
They arc revising their police force in At
lanta. The chieiV has been suspended, and
several of the men have been discharged,
for seduction and other little irregulari
ties.