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Eastman Times.
HI. f j. in uni ... . Editor*
THURSDAY FEBUUARI U.
THE WAR IN TIIE, EAST.
The dispatches- from the neighbor
hood of Constantinople for the last
few days, bear a more conciliatory
tone. The Prussian king has coun
seled his Muscovite neighbor to take
itcooly, and the government of France
has recommended the English to pur
sue a similar course. The English
fleet is anchored near Constantinople,
and the Russian army is in striking
distance of the same place. Mean
while it is proposed to have a Con
gress of the neighboring powers, and
try t e power of diplomacy in settling
the lines of the map, ere resort is had
to ironclads and Krupp guns.
It is suggested that the most ordi
nary national courtesy requires that
our government be invited to be pres
ent, The Telegraph and Messenger
thinks it is no business of ours, and
that our ambassadors had better re
main at home, and let them divide the
spoils and settle their own quarrels.
Well, we will take the Telegraph and
Messenger'* word for that and say no
piore about it.
there is a feature, though, in this
European quarrel that concerns us
very much as a people altogether, and
especially the Southern people strug
gling to make headway against the tide
of and we may well say the
t.dal wave of general adversity. In
case this stupendous conflict is entered
what will be the effect upon us.
The East will revel in contracts for
arms and other equipments. As far
as the manufacture of cotton is needed
they will be able to carry it on at a
great advantage.
J be West will find a rising market
for beef, bacon, corn and oats, and
the inevitable middle-men will find
employment for all their capital in the
oscillations of supply and demand.
How will it effect the South? When
the factory operations of England go
forth to recruit the army, down, down
will go the price of cotton. Our peo
ple will make nothing but cotton to
sell, and while the price goes dowD,
the little money that it brings passes
into a western market in competition
with English army contractors for ba
con and flour. We present the pit a
ble spectacle of a great people who
cannot be benefitted by a war on any
part of the
It is said that l ' it is an ill wind
that blow’s good to nobody"; yet we
represent in case of war every time
the identical unhenejited. Now, is it
not passing strange that a newspaper
reading people as we are should go
right along in face of all these things
and buy mountains of guano and in*
crease our acreage m cotton, when the
market for it is well nigh threatened
with a temporary extinction? We
make no war upon guano buying or
selling, but it is the guage of opera
tions in cotton among us, and as such
we allude to it.
Then, it is not the amount of cot
ton we make that afflicts the country,
but the exclusiveness with which
farmers pursue this special industry.
Day after day lung lines of box cars
stand here at our full of the
good stuff, and many carts and wag
ons come from the regions roundabout
for it. Not a single bunch of grafted
apple, peach, or pear trees from the
nursery is seen at the depot. No car
load of imported stock ; no coop of
improved chickens. There are no
movements indicating a resort to new
plans, new ideas and that diversify
ing of industries upon which our go
ing up or sinking lower certainly de
pends.
We love a people who stand by
their traditions when they are good,
but while our people have forgotten
many of the ways of the fathers dear
to our memory, they cannot, it seems,
forget the habit of planting nothing
but cotton to sell.
LAW AND LIQUOR.
Singular enough the present re
markable tendency to legislate upon
the sale an 4 use of a**4ent spirits
seems to have received its great *in
spiral ion from an invention. Since
Richmond, Va., set the Moffett Regis
ter to work, there has been a decided
penchant in many other cities and
States to adopt this plan, or some
other, tomake drams costly.
As we understand it, the Moffett
bar room counter. The bar kpeper is
required under or.th to place every
drink handed forth upon the machine.
Toe weight of the glass and contents
sets in motion certain machinery which
scores one. Once each day, or at
stated jieriods, a police officer comes
aloßg, takes the number down and
draws a sight draft on the bar keeper
for so many cents for each drink.
Judging from the present indica
tions, it is not a bad prophecy to say
that very likely the imbibing public
will soon know much mure about its
practical working than they do at the
present time, or can possibly find out
from our hearsay account of it.
Excitement on the liquor question
is a tiling peculiarly indigenous to the
United States, and, like bog cholera,
the epizootic, and typhoid fever, will
ever and anon sweep over the coun
try. Every lover of his race and his
country is now and then compelled by
outside pressure, somewhat as a sinner
begins to think of religion in the vi
cinity ot a Moody and Sanky meeting,
to cogitate seriously upon this mo
mentous evil. The situation of such
a man is most perplexing. Join the
“Sous;” the boss ot the “Division'’
will be drunk in a month; buckle on
your armor aod go to preaching cold
water with the Templars; men who
never dreamed of taking a drink be
gin to feel sorely tempted in a week
after uniting with that valiant body;
the Maine liquor law pops into your
head; visions of long rows of Schie
dam Schnapps and other artful dodges
come trooping np in answer.
Last, newest and hardest on the
consumer comes the Moffett Register.
The bar keeper merely doubles the
price ot his drinks, to say nothing of
the possible dilutions and adultera
tions.
A benevolent merchant of one of the
large northern cities adopted tin's, to
our mind, most sensible plan to reduce
the drinking habit in his city. He
set in operation an enormous restau
rant, reducing expenses to a minimum
and aiming merely to clear actual ex
penses in the management. He found
it practicable to furnish a pretty good
lunch, consisting of a cup of coffee, a
roll and butter to go with it, for one
cent. He operated upon the idea that
a poor, hungry man would prefer a
cheap lunch and feel better for eating
it, if he could get it for the same mon
ey or less, to taking the same value in
whisky to gnaw upon the coats of his
empty stomach. Certainly, a cup o:
coffee and et ceteras,, destroy to a
gieat extent the inclination or capaci
ty lor drinking spirits. In consonance
with this idea, we would glory in an
epidemic of cafes, lunch stands and
cheap eating houses, as the most prac
tical solution of this vexed question.
THE NEW POPE LEO XIII.
Dispatches from Rome, dated Feb
ruary 20th, declare the election of
Cardinal Gioachino Pecci, Pontifical
Camerlingo, to the Papal Chair. More
extended particulars in our next.
THE BLAND SILVER BILL.
At five o'clock on the morning of
the 16th February, the Silver Bill
passed the Senate of the United
States, as amended by the Senate Fi
nance Committee, by a vote of 48 to
21. It will now go to the house for
concurrence.
TEXT OF THE SILVER BILL.
The following is the text of the Sil
ver Bill as passed by the Senate:
An act to authorize the coinage of
the standard silver dollar and to re
store its legal tender character. Be
it enacted, that there shall be coined
at the several mints of the United
States silver dollars of the weight of
412| grains troy of standard silver as
provided in the act of January 18,
1837, on which shall Tie the devices
and superscriptions provided by said
act, which coins, together with all sil
ver dollars heretofore coined by the
Uuited States of like weight and fine
ness, shall be a legal teuder at their
nominal value for all debts and dues,
public and private, except where oth
erwise expressly stipulated in the con
tract, and he secretary of the treasu
ry is authorized and directed to pur
chase from time to time silver bullion
at the market price thereof, not less
than two million dollars' worth per
month nor more than $4,000,000 worth
per month, and cause the same to be
coined monthly as fast as so purchased
into such dollar's, and a sum sufficient
tp carry out the foregoing provision is
hereby appropriated out of any mon
ey ir the treasury not otherwise up
propriated, and any gain or seignorage
arising from this coinage shall be ac
counted for and paid into the treasury,
un ler existing laws relative to the
subsidiary coinage; provided that the
amount of money at any one time in*
vested in such silver bullion, exclusive
of such resulting coin, shall not ex
ceed $5,000,000; and provided further
that nothing in this act shall be con
strued to authorize the payment in
coin or certificates of deposit issued
under the provisions of section 254 of
the revised statute.
Sec. 2. That immediately after the
passage of this act, the President
shall invite the governments of the
countries composing the Latin union,
so-called, and of such other Europeans
nations as he may deem advisable to
join the Uuited States, in a conference
to adopt a common ratio as between
gold and silver for the purposes of
establishing internationally, the use of
bi-metallic money, and securing fixity
of relative value between those met
als, such conference to be held at such
place in Eur >pe, or in the United
States, at such a time within six
months as may be mutually agreed on
by the executive of the government
to joining in the same. Whenever
the governments so invited, or any
three of them, shall have signified
their willingness to unite in the same,
the President shall, by and with the
advice and consent of the Senate, ap
point three commissioners who shall
attend such conference on behalf ot
the Unitrd States, and shall report the
doings thereof to the President, who
shall transmit the same to Congress.
Said commissioners shall each receive
the sum of $2,500 and their reasona
ble expenses, to be approved by the
Secretary of State; and the amount
necessary to pay such compensation
and expenses is hereby appropriated
out of any money in the treasury not
otherwise appropriated.
Sec. 3. That any holder of the coin
authorized by this act, may deposit
the same with the treasurer or any as
sistant treasurer ol the United States,
in sums not less than ten dollars, and
receive therefor certificates of not less
than ten dollars each, corresponding
with the denominations of the United
States notes. The coi i deposited for
or representing the certificate, shall be
retained in the treasury for the pay
ment of the s;ime on demand. Said
certificates shall be receivable for cus
toms, taxes and public dues, and when
so received may be reissued.
Sec. 4. All acts and parts of acts
inconsistent with the provisions, of this
act are hereby repealed.
THE GUANO TRADE.
Up to this writing about 500 tons
of fertilizers have been carted away
from our stations to the adjoining
farms. This in the county of Dodge,
hitherto not much given to cotton and
commercial manures, is a very unusu
al doubling, and the inquiry most per
tinently what will be the har
vest. As most of it is sold “Cotton
option/' if the crop is lucky nobody
can be hurt much. A few items for
comment arise just here. First, is the
fertilizer all right? We unhesitating
ly say that we believe the articles that
have been sold by our agents here are
all nearly or quite standard. The
analysis, the appearance, and the rec
ord, all indicate a good fertilizer. The
preparation, compounding of manures
has been greatly simplified. Expeii
enee in the use of them lias increased,
and as yet the margin for speculation
is so large and the certainty of collec
tions so good, that the manufacturer
is left without excuse if he palms off
a trifling mixture.
Next item, and perhaps the most
indispensable help in making the i.l*
vestment profitable, is the seasons.
From considerable observation, we
strongly suspect that • very wet spring
has much more to do with guano fail
ures than most farmers are inclined to
believe. An excess of the early ram
proves quite as a dearth of the latter
rain,-simply by dissolving, diluting
and leaching away a great many of
the most active chemical elements
contained in the manures. In refer
ence to this possible calamity, we can
only take the chances. Consequently
with such a possibility staring him in
the face that farmer becomes a reek
gambler who risks his all on a guano
purchase. Well, then, granted a good
spring seasons, and the promise of
gentle summer showers^—and upon
this issue we believe men ought to
pray devoutly, pray for the rain to
come and for it to quit—the cultiva
tion of the plant ranks next in impor
tance. He is a very improvident far
mer who puts ammonia beneath his
cotton and has failed to look out for a
competent force to plow and chop
with a vim and will, when that power
ful stimulus is intensified ten fold by
the genial glow of May sunshine. A
heavy coat of grass, even if it is mas
tered and killed, has wasted a great
deal (of strength, and for every day
over the proper time the plant goes
without plowing, ig another subtrac
tion from the foroe of the manure. So
with a good fertilizer, good rains and
sorry cultivation, a disappointed far
mer may seek solace as a last resort
in a repudiation meeting.
All things having worked well and
the cotton made, the last, most inter
esting and almost laborious step comes
the picking it. This, when guano is
used, and the cotton begins to open
while yet the sun’s rays come down
quite vertical, is not always readily
accomplished. But if the farmer lags
in his picking till the sun’s rays slant
into cool December, and trie sound of
Christmas begins to reverberate in the
air, tie is iu a worse fix than ever.
MORAL.
The man who buys guano and ex
pects to pay for it, and expects it to
pay, must stir early and late.
STATE AGRICULTURAL CON
VENTION.
At the request of W. E. Lowrey,
who was elected a delegate by the
Dodge County Club to the State Ag
ricultural Convention, we consented
to go in his stead,, and in company
with Maj. C. R. Armstrong, the other
delegate, we took the train at this
place on Monday evening, the 11th
inst. After a few boms run we were
landed at Macon, turned our baggage
over to a porter ot the National Hotel
and wended our way thitherward,
where we found the popular proprie
tor busy arranging for the comfort
and entertainment of the guests of his
well-filled Louse. Here we met with
several old friends, also delegates to
to convention; among the number,
Judge J. T. Duncan of Laurens.
Tiie next morning w found the
train greatly crowded, but thanks to
Rev, S. S. Sweet, (Jack Plane) of the
Morning News, for a which, how
ever, we soon vacated. At 11:45 we
arrived at Americas and were met at
the depot by a committee to notify
delegates of the homes assigned them.
The city hall was the place chiefly
sought as all were anxious to hear the
address of welcome by the Mayor, the
response by the Secretary, and
but not least, the opening address by
the President. The two former were
well delivered; the latter we pubi sh
in full and invite for it the careful pe
rusal of our readers- We were the
guest of Dr. A. W. Smith of the firm
of Davenport & Smith and were cor
dially received and entertained l>y
him and his accomplished wife. The
hospitalities of this comfortable home
were also extended to and enjoyed
by other members of the convention.
Dr. Smith is a Virginian, Ins wife, a
Georgian.
In the afternoon Gov. Colquitt de
livered an address which we publish
in full on our fourth page.
Quite a number of interesting papers
were read ? but Professor Sanford’s
address upon the importance of good
common roads, commanded more at
tention and approbation than perhaps
any other. We would be glad that
every Georgian would read this ad
dress it is to bo published with the
proceedings of the convention.
The August meeting will be held at
Athens.
MESSRS. HILL AND LAMAR.
These worthy gentlemen have ta
ken a position before the country on
the financial question that will subject
them to an endless opposition during
the rest of their political life. They as
sumed a grave responsibility in over
riding the expressed wish of their con
stituencies. It is egotism on their
part, or it is a statesmanship that the
people will have to be educated in,
before they will accord the credit this
class of statesmen think they are entU
tied to. We cannot but admire the
boldness which characterized their ut
turances and their votes ditrins: the
exciting career of the “Bland S lver
Bill.** A great deal has been 6aid of
Mr. Hill’s inconsistency in other mat
ters, in other days; but as far as we
have observed his course during the
great we have been astonished
at the apparent consistent iutripidity
of the mau. We believe he is honest,
but we beg leave to say that before
we would prove disloyal to the people
we represented,, we would remit the
authority delegated to us :o the Crea
tor. For the sake of Mr. Hill’s fame,
for his usefulness as a public man, we
hope, not the evils he lias painted, but
in some phase of the results, a feature
wi 1 show itself that will satisfy his
countrymen of his conscientiousness.
THE GOPHER.
The gopher of the Western prairies
is a diminutive squirrel while the go
pher of the South is a land toitoise and
is thus deset ibed by the Journal of
Progress:
The Southern gopher is a native of
the dry sandy regions throughout Flor
ida and of similar situations in the
other lower States lying along the
sea coast. In Alabama its Northern
limit is about forty miles above Mo
bile. It digs for itself a deep burrow
running into the sandy s nl downward
at al*>ut forty-five degrees, where it
lives its time out unless driven from
its home by son e superior force.
During the whiter season it never
comes out of its hole, ami we do not
think it comes out in the summer sea
son oftener than about once a week,
and then it rambles but a short dis
tance, returning so soon as it lias found
something with which to satisfy its
appetite. And no living creature
seems less particular about what it
eats. The first herb or grass in its
way, no matter what the character,
makes it a meal, and if these do not
happen to be convenient it can make
out very v\ ell on dry pine bark, or on
the gum or rosin that runs out and
falls from the pine trees. It is a true
vegetarian, never partaking of animal
food of any kiud whatever. How it
makes out for water in the dry season
we cannot tell. Its den is often a mile
or so from the nearest stream, and a
mile and return would be several day's
journey for so slow and clumsy a pe
destrian as the Southern G< pher.
The Northern land tortoise goes at
fully four times its speed. It is noc
turnal in its habits, seldom corning
from its hole willingly during the day
—never unless on ad irk wet day.
No living thing could be more harm
less than the Southern gopher. It
cannot be made to bite under any con
dition. Our little children play with
gophers calling them their horses, and
actually riding on the backs of some
of the large specimens. It would
bring the ‘■‘cold chills” up the back of
a Northern mother who knows only
the snapping or mud turtle of the up
per rivets, to see her little two-year
old thrust its fingers between the great
rough shells of an old scaly gopher,
and seizing his snake-looking head,
pull it out by mam force to ‘‘make
him walk *' But such a thing is not
noticed here—it is common and en
tirely safe. The gopher seems to
have no idea whatever of self-defence.
When assailed he draws himself into
his shell as well as be can and meekly
submits to what may choose to come—
unlike the Northern land tortoise he
cannot draw himself entirely into his
shell ond close the door; do his very
best, and the end *f his nose, his feet
and his tail remain exposed.
This species of tortoise is highly
prized for especially by the coL
ored people of the regions where it is
native. It is said to have the flavor
and many of the peculiarities of the
famous green turtle. Our gopher
catchers take it by means of pits A
pit just large enough to admit the
gopher, is dug immediately outside the
mouth of his hole, to the depth of a
toot or eighteen inches. The inside
of the pit is lined with small boards
driven around the edges and down to
a level with the surface of t ie ground.
Over this a little dry grass is spread,
which prevents the dull creature,
when he sallies forth for an evening's
walk, from suspecting any trick. So
on he drags over grass, which gives
way, of course letting him tumble in
to the pit, where he remains unable to
get out until Sambo lias come to his
rel : ef and gleefully carried him off in
an old coffee sack.
Circulation still increasing.
STATE OF GEORGIA—Dodge County.
Whereas, L. L. Hargroves, Administrator
of Wm Hamilton, deceased, represents to the
Court, in his petition duly filed and entered
on record, thal he iias fully administered Win
Hamilton’s estate. This is tbeiefore to cite
all persons concerned, kindred and creditors,
to show cause, if any they can, why said ad
ministration should not be discharged from
his trust a* administrator and receive letters
of dismission on the first Monday in April,
1878. • J J KOZAK, Ordinary.
DAILY g FLORIDaiI
MACON & BRUNSWICK R 4
EASTMAN SCHEDULE. ’ I
Down Passenger trrin leaves Marrm r I
A. M., arrives at Eastman 12.34. {.
Eastman 12.35, aiming at Brunswick
P. M. Up Passenger train leaves Brunei
4.30 A. M., arriving ui Eastman 12 34 p *1
Leaves Eastman IP. M., arriving v* B
4. 25 P. M.
SUPERINTENDENTS OFFICE
Macon, Ga., Nov. 13, ly;- jj
On and after Tuesday, Nov. 131877.
ger trains on this road will run as follow.
DAY PASSENGER, Daiy.
Leave Macon, 9:15 1 I
Arrive at Cochran U :32 * 1
Arrive at Jesup
Leave Jesup 6:3G f M
Arrive at Brunswick.. 9:10 ; ■
Leave Rrnuswek .. * v 4f "I
Arrive at Jesup 6;55 ( j
Leave Jesup 7:25 * ,1
Arrive at Cochran 1.59 . 1 ■
Arrive at Macon „ 42i J
Going down connects with A. & G. R, j; 9
Jesup for Jacksonville, and all points in p 1
rida. Up train connects at Jesup for i
nah.
TRI-WEEKLY NIGHT PASSENGER uj
FREIGHT. ‘I
Down Monday Wednesdayand Friday nip.-,I
Leave Mac0n....... 7:40 p s I
Arrive at Cos bran....... 10:17 p I
Arrive Eastman 11 -*26 rv I
Arrive Jesup 5-00 k \\
Up Tuesdays, Thursday and Saturday nights.]
Leave Jesup 10.20
Arrive Eastman 4.66 a ¥
Arrive at Cochran 5:11 a v
Arrive Macon— 7.45 a m
Coduecta at Jesup with Atlantic and Gull
Railroad to and liow Savaunah.
HAWEINSVILUS BRANCH, V
Tuesdays, Thursdays, and Saturdays. J
Leave Hawkinsville... 10.00 ar and 1.00 r>■
Arrive Coeeran 10.45 a iu, and i.45p. j I
Leave Cochran n.0() am and2.4sp.p l
GEO. W. ADAMS, Supt
W. J. Jarvis, Master Trains,
ATLANTIC&GULFRAILROAD.
General Superintendent a Office, ]
Atlantic and Gulf Raiirdad, *
Savannah,. Jan. 5, 1878)
ON and after SUNDAY, January Gtli, 1878, I
Passenger Trains on this Road will run I
as follows :
NIGHT EXPRESS.
Leave Savannah daily at 4.15 p.m. ]
Arrive at Jessup daily at. . 7.10 p.m. I
Arrive at Thon.asville drily at 6.20 a.m. I
Arrive at Bainbridge daily at B.lon.ni
Arrive at Albany daily at 9.50 a.m.
Arrive at Live Oak daily at. 3.30 a.in.
Arrive at Jacksonville daily at 9.25 a.m. !
Arrive at Tallahassee daily at 9.30 a.m.
Leave Tallahassee daily at 3.50 p.m.
Leave Jacksonville daily at 3.45 pm.
Leave Live Oak daily at 9.40 p.m.
Leave Albany daily at 2.30 p.m.
Leave Bainbridge daily at 3.15 p.m.
Leave Thonmsvilie daily at 7.00 p.m.
Leave Jesup daily at 5.45 a.^i.
Arrive at Savannah daily at 8.40 a iu.
No change of cars between Savannah and
Jacksonville, and Savaunah and Albany.
Passengers from Savannah tor Tallahassee
and Jacksonville take this train.
Passengers from Savannah for Brunswick
and Darien take this tiain, arriving at Bruns
wick 10.10 p.m. daily.
Passengers leaving Macon at 7.35 a.m. daily
connect at Jesup with this train for Florida.
Passengers from Florida by this train con
nect at Jesup with train arriving in Macon at
5.10 p.m., daily.
No change ot cars between Montgomery
and Jacksonville.
Pullman Palace sleeping cars run through
to and from Savannah and Jacksonville; aho.
through sleepers from Atlanta, Ga , and Mont
gomery, Ala., to Jacksonville, Fla.
No change of cars between Atlanta and
Jacksonville.
Connect at Albany with passenger trains
both ways on Southwestern Railroad to and
from Macon, Eufaula, Montgomery, Mobile,
New Orleans, etc.
Mail steamer leaves Bainbridge for Apa
lachicola every Sunday afternoon ; for Colum
bus every Wednesday morning.
Close connection at Jacksonville daily (Sun
days excepted) for Green Cove Springs, St.
Augustine, Palatka, Enterprise, and all land
ings on St John’s river.
Trains on the B. and A. R. R leave junc
tion, going west, Mouday, Wednesday, and
Friday, at 1114 a.m., and tor Brunswick,
Tuesday, Thursday, and Saturday, at 4.40
p.m.
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS
EASTERN DIVISION.
Leave Savannah, Sundays ex’d at 7.00 a.m.
Arrive at Mclntosh,. “ *- 4 9-50 a.m.
“ Jesup, “ 44 12.15 pan.
“ Blackshear, “ “ 3.30 pm.
“ Dupont, “ “ 7.10 pm.
Leave Dupont, 44 “ 5.00 a.m.
“ Blackshear, “ “ 9.15 a.m.
“ JeSup, “ •* 12.35 p.m.
“ Mclntosh, 44 44 2.47 p.m.
Arrive at Savannah, 44 44 5.30 p.m.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Leave Dupont, Suudays excepted, at 5.30 a.m
Arrive at Valdosta, “ “ 8.20 a.m
44 Quitman, 44 44 10.28 a.m
44 Thomasville, 44 1.10 p.m
44 Albany, 44 44 * 6.40 p.m
Leave Albany, 44 4 4 5.00 a.in
44 Thomasville, 44 44 11.00 a.w
44 Quitman, 44 *• 1.36 p.m
44 Valdosta, 44 “ 3.22 p.m
Arrive at Dupont, 44 *• 6Tsp.m
J. S. Tyson, Master of Transportation.
H. S. HAINES,
4tf General Superintendent.
NATIONAL HOTEL,
(Nearly opposite Passenger Depot,)
MACON, GLOKUIA*
RATES, PER DAY, $1.50.
SINGLE MEALS, 50 Cts.
E. C. CORBETT. Proprietor.
Accommodations good, servants atten
tive. 4ti
GEORGIA—Dodge county.
Maky Jane Dean versus Daaid Dean.
It appearing to the Court by the return of
the Sheriff that the defendant does not reside
in the county, and it further appearing that be
does not reside in this State, it is on motion
ordered that said defendant appear and an
swere at the next term of this Court, or that
the ease be considered iu default, and the
plaintiff allowed to proceed. G Nov., 1877.
4m HENRY B. TOMPKINS,
Judge S. (\. E. C., Presiding,