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GORDON'S DIARIES.
Suffering and Distress Endured by the
Garrison at Khartoum.
Boston Special.
Tlie following are extracts from
General Gordon s diary:
It it is right to send up an expedi
tion now, why was it not right to
send it up before V It is all very well
to say one ought to consider the
difficulties of the government, but it
is not easy to get over a feeling that
“a hope existed of no expedition
being necessary, owing to our having
fallen.”
As for myself personally, I feel no
particular rancor on the subject; but
1 own I do not care to show that I
like men, whoever they may be,
who act in such a calculating way,
and I do not think one is bound to
act the hypocrite’s part and pretend
to be friendly toward them. I do
not judge the question of abandoning
the garrisons or not, What 1 judge
is tlie indecision of the government.
They did not dare to say “abandon
the garrisions,” so they prevent me
leaving for the equator, with the de
termination not to relieve me and
tli<‘ hope—(well, 1 will not say what
their hope was).
“March, April? August-—Why, we
ought to have surrendered ; he said
six months.” There is my point of
complaint.
A heavy, lumbering column, how
ever strong, is nowhere in this land.
Parties of forty or sixty, moving
swiftly about, will do more than any
column. It yon loose two or three,
what of it ? It is the ehaf.ee of war.
Native allies, above all tilings, a f
whatever cost. It is the country of
irregular, not of the regular. 1 can
sav 1 owe the defeats in this country
to having artillery with me, which
delayed me much', and it was the
artillery with Hicks which, in my
opinion, did for him.
TITK TWO EXPEDITIONS.
I altogether decline the imputa
tion that the projected expedition
has come to relieve me. It has
come to save our national honor in
extricating the garrison, etc., from
a position in which our action in
Egypt has placed these garrisons. I
was relief expedition No. 1. They
are relief expedition No. 2. As for
myself, I could make good any
retreat at any moment if desired.
Now realise what would happen if
tins first relief expedition was to bolt
and the steamers fell into the hands
of the Muhdi. . This second relief
expedition (for the honor of England
engaged in extricating garrisons)
w.oild be somewhat hampered. We,
the first and second expe litions, are
equally engaged for the honor ot
England. This is fair logic, 1 came
up to extricate the garrisons and
failed. Earle comes up to extricate
the garrisons and (f hope) succeeds.
Earle does not come to extricate
me. The extrication of tlie garri
sons was supposed to affect our
“national honor.” If Earle succeeds,
the “national honor” thanks him,
and, hope, rewards him ; but it is
altogether independent of me, who.
for failing, incurs the blame. I am
not the rescued lamb, and I- will not
be.
TURKISH GARRISON’S FOR TIIE SOUDAN.
As for her Majesty’s government
keeping the Soudan itself, it is out of
the question, for you could not get
men to serve here, except under
great salaries and supported with
large forces. And as for giving it
back to Egypt, in a couple of years
we would have another Mahdi.
Therefore our choice lies between
Zuabair and the Turks. Therefore,
give the country to the Turks.
When once you have come to Khar
toum with one or two million ster
ling (which you will spend in three
months’ occupation up here, if you
delay), make arrangements at once
with the Porte for its Soudan ces
sion ; let (>,OOO Turks land at Sua
kim and march up to Berber, thence
to Khartoum. You can then retire
at once, before the hot Aveather
comes on.
As for “evacuation.” it is one
tiling ; as for “ratting out.” it is an
other. lam quiet of advice as to
No. 1. as we have not the decision to
keep the country ; but I will be uo
party to No. 2—this “rat” business.
First, because it is dishonorable;
second, because it is not possible,
which will have more weight.
Therefore, if it i> going to be No. 2
the troops had not better come be
yond Berber till the question of what
will be none is settled. My idea is
to induce Majesty’s government to
undertake the extrication of all the
people of the garrisons now hemmed
in or captive, and if this is not their
programme, then to resign my com
mission and ilo what I can to attain
it—the object. As long as a man
remains in her Majesty's service he
is found to obey the orders of his
superiors : but if he resigns he can
not be held as insubordinate if he
disobeys. 1 say this because I should
be sorry for Lord Woisely to ad
vance from Dongola without fully
knowing my views. If her Majesty’s
government is going to abandon the
garrisons, then do not advance. It
is a miserable country, but it is
joined, to Egypt, and to my idea it
would be difficult to divorce the two.
THE GOVERNMENT DENOUNCED.
AY hen one thinks of the enormous
loss ot life which has taken place in
the Soudan >iiu-e 1850, and the
general upset of alb government, one
cannot help feeling vicious against
Sir Auckland Calvin, Sir Edward
Mallet and Sir Charles Dilke, for it
is on account of these three men.
whose advice was taken by her
Majesty’s government, that all these
sorrows are due We are an honest
; nation, but our diplomats are cronies
and not officially honest. I declare
solemnly that it ii* were not for the
[ honor's sake of m>r nation, 1 would
let these people slide. They arc oi
!I he very leeulest nature, and the
FORSYTH, MONROE COUNTY. GEoliffU. TUESDAY MORNING, JULY 7. 1885.
Arabs are ten times better. bw|
because they are weak there is i. u
much more the reason to try a!J
help them, for I think it was because*
we were such worthless creature-,
that our Lord came to deliver us. f
think it was a great shame, m *
giving me Zubar Pasha, for hV
would know how to deal with thode
people. They are the weariness < :
my life J fibroin February until no\V
they have been one continued w<>rrt
to me, and I expect they worried
the Arabs as much.* As for thc-t
wretched Sepoys, they are useless'
I have the greatest contempt for t
pure Indian Sepoy. I hate thes*
snake-like creatures. All3* m...
accustomed to judge 1.3* faces see,;
that the}' hate us. 1 would hack tin
Mussulmans of India against tlie lof
of those snakes. India, to me, n
notjin advantage. It is the
of all part}- intrigue, while it on *
energies were devoted elsewhere i ,
would produce ten-fold. Indig
sways of all our policy to our de
triment. I think Colonel Stewart i
hard on our men as to their coward.
ice. The} r are not heroes, I grant,
but they are not, to my mind, entire
cowards.
POLITICAL PRISONERS.
I must say 1 am against the ' doc-j
tors. If a man is suffering intense;
pain and is in a more or less des-f
perate condition, I would give as - '
much morphine as would still the."
pain. There is nothing like a civil
way to show what skunks men are.;'
One of my greatest worries are the
Siiaggyeh, who are continually
feathering towards me or towards
the Malidi. I expect both sides de-j
spi.se them equally. It in two days j
I find the news correct that, tliej
Malidi is still in KordofiirqTshall let ;
out all the political prisoners, which 1
will shock the towns-people, but will \
lie a true joy and delight to me, for
it has been a work utterly repng- 1
mint to me. I like free will. We
kft God with our own free will, we
di\jst return with our own free will.
1 hate a forced subjection, and 1 feel
Aire that to let these people out with
free will to go to the Arabs or not !
will be good policy. I must say that
I feel it a great compliment when
my counselors say to me: “Do what
you think irrespective of our advice.”
when they know that 1 am igno
rant of all that goes on ; ignorant of
the Arabic language, except, in my
style; ignorant of the Arab customs,
etc.
“You will do better than we do,”
is what they say, and I, poor devil,
do not know whore to turn. Oh,
our government, our government,
what has it not to answer for? Not
; > nio, Lot to these po.n - peo pie. f
declare, if J thought the town’wished
tlie Maluli, I would give it Up7*r.,
much do I respect free will.
DESERT LIFE.
Mr. Gladstone has a rival up here
in shirt collars. Mohammed Bay
Ibrahim appeared to-day with regu
lar wings, rather ragged, his collar
up to bis ears, regular orthodox pat
terns. I must say I hate our diplo
mats.- 1 dwell on the joy of never
seeing Great Britian again, with its
horrid, wearisome dinner parties and
miseries. How we can put up with
those things passes my imagina
tion. It is a perfect bondage. At
those dinner parties we are all in
masks saying what we do not be
lieve, eating and drinking things we
do not want, and then abusing one
another. I would sooner live like a
dervish with the Malidi than to go
out to dinner every night in London.
I hope if any English General comes
to Khartoum he will not ask me to
dinner. Why men cannot be friends
without filling their wretched stom
achs is astonishing. It is certainly
a curious exemplification of how
very lightly religions set on men
and to note the fearful apostaev of
both Mussulmans and Christians
when their lives and property are
menaced. There is scarcely one
great family of the Soudan families
who can trace their pedigree f0r.500
years who have not accepted Ma
homet Achmet as Mahdi to save
their property, though they laugh
at the numbers have been killed
through this present policy. Cer
tainly some eighty thousand, and it
is not yet over. For my part I
hope they (the Arabs) will all run
away. We have in a most effectual
way restored the slave trade and
slave hunting, for her Majesty s'
government cannot keep the
and never will Egypt he able to:
govern it. The only thing to boj
done is to' give it to the Sultan.!
What an end of the diplomacy of her
Majesty’s government ! And it w i.-l
so easy when I left in January, 188"',,
to have settled it quietly, giving up;
Kordoian, Darfur and Bahr Gazelie,
and the equator with decency and
quiet. I want to get out of the
affair, but with decency. Put your-,
self in my position. If you sap
“rapid retreat, and leave Sennaar u
its fate,” I will say, “No, I wouhl
sooner die first,” and will resign my
commission, for I could not do it. 1
vou say “then you sire no 1 origin,
governor-general,” then I am afe
right and the responsibility is off:
you. It may be that all this writing
unnecessary, and that yoii havx
other views, but it is as well as voir
know my opinions. I am sec an:
against any ioss by the King of th|
Belgians. It I leave her Majesty’!
service, therefore, I am, so to say
free of her Majesty’s serve e. 11 y|
turn me out of
am relieved from all responsibiliC,
as t-> vein* action ill the S nidan tf
ward tlie people. Ido not think*
am insubordinate in this matter, nJ|
unreasonable. Il l was Lord Wolfe
ley I would make her MajestfE
government send the Turks her j
There are 2,110 ardebs in the mag -
ziue tu day—six weeks eonsumptKl
—and tnen the sponge must JH
thrown up.
WRITTEN is THE BOOK OF FAT 4 J
I cou.d write volumes oi peuisl
wrath on this subject if I did not
believe those tilings are ordained
and all work for the best. There
was a slight laugh when Khartoum
heard Baring was bumping his way
up here, so we read Trowfik’s tele
gram, a regular Nemesis. I am
sure we are deprived of a treat
in not being able to decipher the
long telegram on the preceding
page. It also is delicious to find not
a civil word from any official per
sonage except Ketchener; it re
lieves me immensely (also, I must
- xcept Tewfik, who in his dispatch
was civil and polite). Evidently I
am in disgrace. How fearful !• If
Baring does bump his way up here
as British commissioner, I shall
consider he has expiated his faults
and shall forgive him. We seldom
realize our position. In ten or
twelve years’ time Baring, Lord
Woisely, myself, Evelyn Wood, etc.,
will have no teeth and I will be
deaf —some of us will be quite passe.
No one will come and court us.
New Barings, new Lord WoLeleys
will have arisen, who will call us
“bloaks” a”d “twaddlers.” “Oh, for
goodness sake, conic away, there is
that dreadful bore coming. If once
iic gets alongside you, you arc in for
half an hour,” will be the remark of
some of the young captains of the
present time on seeing } _ ou enter the
club.
I have done what I can, and one
can do no more than the rest now.
What has been the painful position
for me is that there is not one person
on whom I can rely; also, there is
not one person who considers that
he ought to do anything except his
routine duty. We have now been
months blockaded, and things are
critical, yet not one of my subordi
nates appears to -day. I had to send
for them and wait till they came,
perhaps an hour. Patience is al
most exhausted with this continuous,
apparently never ending trial. There
is not one department which I have
not to superintend as closely as if I
were its direct head. Nearly every
order, except when it is for their
interest, has to be repeated two and
seven three times. 1 may truly say
J am weary of my life. Day and
night, night and day, it is one con
tinual worry.
Sam Jones on Depravity.
The Waco Day continues to ex
,! 11bi■ the uncut diamonds from the
iSavn Jonc’s diggings. Here are
-nine of the last:
/ i never go digging about Adam
•ith a little “hoe” and a big “I.”
' bgj'infir auound is_ not part of my
•n h. Poor old Adam ! Let him
in common sense. There are
>i years between him and you.
[L t him alone. You have got about
is much as 3*oll can do to tote your
[own skillet. As to whether de
pravity is total or partial, I just want
to say this: Every man of us lias
got enough meanness in us to damn
us; and what a fellow wants with
fnore than that is more than I know.
I tell you the biggest rascals in
Waco ain't in jail by a good deal.
For I declare to 3*ou that but for the
bpst influences on oath. 1 might
have been incarcerated in jail or the
penitentiary. I reckon there are
live hundred men can stand up now
an 1 say amen to that. The Episco
pal church has no funeral sermons
and i think we had better do away
with them, too. We had better
have none in this town than to have
one preacher that will stand up and
preach a man to Heaven who is in
hell. Heaven is the center of gravi
ty of all that is good, and hell is the
center of gravity of all that is bad.
There are not enough devils in hell
to drag a good man down to hell;
there are not enough angels in heaven
to lift a bad man to paradise when
he dies. God don’t bind a man
hand and foot and cast him into
hell ; God can’t keep sinners out of
hell ; the devil can not keep good
men out of Heaven. When a bad man
dies, he not onb' goes to hell, drawn
thither by the natural forces of
spiritual gravity; not on!}* by the
approval of God and the angels, but
he goes to hell with the common
consent of ever}* other man living
on the face of the earth. I don’t
care who } 7 ou are ; what’s your age ;
where }*ou live ; what’s your color—
if you are outside of the atoning
mercies of Jesus Christ through
'faith and good works, you have got
enough meanness in }*ou to dam n you;
and its onlj 7 a question of time when
you will be damned—and damned
Tbrever. When the devil went at
■Adam, he fell the first lick he made;
when he went for Job, .Job stood
like a rock until the devil had fired
his last gun at him.
—
Tilt. NEW SILVER DOLLAR.
Colonel Snowden’s Invention to ChecK
Counterfeiting.
Philadelphia Herald.
For some }* ears’ past Colonel
Snowden, the superintendent of the
mint, has been at work at a plan to
circumvent the counterfeiting of sil
ver coin. To-day there was struck
at tiie mint two dozen silver dollars,
whose edges instead of being milled
hear the words “E Piuribus Unutn”
in raised letters, and also thirteen
stars. The process of striking these
coins, while apparently simple, is so
difficult that but few counterfeiters
■will ever be able to get the necessa
ry machinery to imitate the new
dollar. At the same time the coin
is stamped on the die it is caught be
tween two circular clamps and the
stars and motto squeezed around the
edge. All the coin machines in the
mini can be furnished with similar
clamps, and even ihe pennies can be
turned out with raised letters on the
edges. Colonel Snowden feels very
proud of having gotten his plan in
perfect operation before his retire
ment from the position lie has occu
pied so man} 7 years.
THE PRESIDENT’S ADVISER.
A Look at the Cabinet as it Appears
When in Session.
AY e&hinton Cor. N. Y. Sun.
President Cleveland has changed
one of the cabinet days from Friday
to Thursday, and now meets his con
stitutional advisors on Tuesday and
Thursday of each week. This is the
only change that has been made. The
forms that have been observed for
half a century and more on cabinet
days are still undisturbed. The
hour of meeting is 12 o’clock noon,
and the room is the same that has
been used for the meetings since
Lincoln’s time. It is the room im
mediately at the head of the stairs
leading to the liberty, where the
President receives his visitors, and
on the lefl is the private secretary’s
office, to reach which you have to
climb two or three steps.
The cabinet rooiji is open to visi
tors at all times when the cabinet is
not in session. It is a plain room
with no striking feature about it.
Its two large windows, extending
from ceiling to floor, command a
lovely view of the sweeping lawns,
the monument, and the shining Po
tomac beyond. The interior is sim
plicity itself. The walls are painted
in a drab tint, the ceiling is frescoed
with flowers and cherubs, and a
mantel of cinnamon-colored marble
surrounds a capacious fireplace,
where hickory logs are usually blaz
ing cheerily. A flowered brussels
carpet with a black and red back
ground covers the floor, and gray
silk rep curtains hang at the win
dows. Between the windows hangs
an oil portrait of John Hampden, a
label on which informs us that it is
reputed to be a Vandyck. On the
opposite wall is a portrait of Wash
ington, by Cadena, the South Ameri
can artist, which was presented to
the government irr Hayes’s time. A
large bird’s-eye view photograph of
the city is over the door leading to
the president’s room. Maps of the
United States and of South America
and AA’ashington hang on the re
maining walls. In one corner stands
a large school globe, and in another
is a revolving bookcase of modern
invention, which is‘filled with revis
ed statutes, dictionaries and various
public documents. Near the door to
the president’s room stands a small
walnut secretary, and near the win
dows a small walnut table to match.
The lounge near the door leading to
the hall and the dozen chairs dis
tributed about the room are of wal
nut upholstered Avith flowered raw
silk to match the carpet.
The table around which
is seated is an octagonal anair of
black and • French walnut in the
fashion of 20 years ago. It lias a
profusely carved central leg and
legs atf the corners. It is covered
with billiard cloth. The eight arm
chairs that surround it are all alike,
of walnut, with red upholtering.
The president sits at the head of the
table with Secretaries Bayard and
Endieot and Postmaster-General
Vilas on his right: Secretaries Mann
ing and Whitney and Attorney-
General Garland on his left, and
Secretary Lamar at the foot.
Very little formality attends the
meetings. Under Mr. Cleveland’s
administration, at least, the mem
bers are very promptly on time. Air.
Garland is usually the first to ar
rive. He is a 1 wavs a few minutes
ahead of time, and if tlie President
is not engaged he frequently goes
into the library to see him. Some
times Mr. Bayard is first and some
times Air. Lamar. The members
generally come singly, rarely in pairs.
Each always carries under his arm
a portfolio such as lawyers use for
papers, only the cabinet portfolios arc
more antequated than those affected
by lawyers —as old, probably', as
Senator Evart’s hat. The cabinet
portfolio is a tiling of calfskin, about
24x20 inches. It has a single pocket,
covered by a flap. It has no lock,
but is fastened by two straps and
buckles. Some of these portfolios
are probably 100 years old, and the
greater number have seen from a
quarter to half a century. The new
est is exactly like the oldest in pat
tern, and each is lettered with a
stencil to indicate to what depart
ment it belongs.
Each member of the cabinet shakes
hands with all trie others when lie
arrives. The President usually
comes in after nearly all his coun
sellors have arrived. He shakes
hands with them all around arid
chats with them for a moment, and
then takes his seat at the head of
the table, his advisers taking their
places in the order indicated above.
The session begins at 12 o’clock ex
actly, whether the members have all
arrived or not. The President Goes
not rap the meeting to order, and it
is wholly informal throughout.
No vote is taken on any question.
If the president want the individual
opinion of his advisers on any sub
ject, he asks for it, but he decides
the question in his own way, with
out regard to whether a majority of
his advisers is for or against his
views. No minutes are kept of cabi
net meetings, and, as no reporters
are present, the proceedings are
never given in detail. An ex-cabi
net official says the public loses
little by observance of sec rosy, for
the talk is discursive and fragmen
tary and would not be read if pub
lished.
Nevertheless, all necessary pre
cautions are taken to prevent the
proceeding of cabinet meetings from
being overheard, and a full report 01
one has not been published since the
days when Webster was secretary ot
state. An enterprising correspon
dent ot that day in some way con
trived to get into an adjinoing room,
where he could overhear every word.
Imagine what eight bank direc
tors or an equal number of asylum
trustees on pretty good terms with
one another would do if shut up in a
NUMBER 24.
back room sway from public gaze,
and some notion prohabtv can be
formed of what a cabinet meeting is
like. All the pictures that are made
of cabinet groups are absurdities.
The secrataries do not sjand in trag
ic attitudes, with hands thrust in
the breasts of close-buttoned coats,
nor do they stand with an elbow
resting on the mantel, nor sit with
folded arms and knitted brows.
They just sit carelessly and easily at
a table like other folks, toying pen
holders, tearing scraps of paper, or
thrumming on their portfolios.
Abraham Lincoln, it is said, walk
ed into the cabinet meeting that was
to consider the emancipation proc
lamation with n copy ot Artemus
Ward's book in his hand, and read a
passage from it aloud before passing
to more serious business. Many a
session, too, he enlivened with quaint
stories, if reports be true. In fact
some of the best stories repeated in
after-dinner circles during every
administration are commonly re
ported to have been first told at cabi
net meetings.
spelling.
We clip the following timely
criticism from the Alpha Zcta Tab
let, Mercer University, Macon:
This subject may appear out of
place in a college paper. College
boys, Seniors, who have visited with
Eschylus the suffering Prometheus,
who have followed Xenophon in his
famous march, who have philoso
phized with the wise Horace, who
have visited the Gods with Virgil,
wandered with Cicero in the cool
shades of the Tusculan Villa, may
smile at the idea of “spelling,” as a
subject of discussion. “Smile on, mv
lords,” but it is astonishing how lit
tle some Latin and Greek scholars
know about the use and arrange
ment of letters winch make up some
of our most common English words.
Last year the committee appointed
to report on the State University
created a great sensation by saying
that some of the students of that seat
of profound learning, were ignorant,
or at least did not practice their
knowledge of the plainest rules of
grammar and spelling. Now this
was not the fault of the accomplished
faculty ot that University. No
doubt, they observe the .rules of
spelling and grammar, and it was
not their special business to enlight
en their pupils on these matters.
This defect is not confined to that
institution, it is common to most col
leges. No doubt, Many of the young
ladies of Wesleyan and Macon, who
a-f-3-so unfortunate as to rooniv•
from the learned young men of Mer
cer University can abundantly tes
tily to their wonderful feats of spell
ing, grammar, punctuation, and
handwriting. There is no excuse
for this state of affairs, and hoys
should not be allowed to have ac
cess to the higher branches till they
have attained a degree of decency in
the first elements. No one will ever
believe that a boy has any knowl
edge or culture, or lias ever gradua
ated at a University, who cannot
spell correctly the most common
words in his language aid violates
the simplest rules of grammar.
Neither is this fault a small matter.
It is a burning shame and disgrace
for a hoy to be allowed to graduate,
who for four years has tested the
patience of his preceptors and the
purse of his father, and at the end of
that time cannot send his comple
ments to a friend without spelling
the word wrong. Spelling and
Grammar are things to he studied,
though most hoys scorn the idea ot
studying such things after they are
old enough to understand them. They
feel the shame of their ignorance,
hut disdain to enlighten themselves,
and there should be rules on the sub
ject that would destroy that false
pride, and bring about a happy
change. Latin, Greek, Higher
Mathematics, Metaphysics, and The
ology are good things, but bad spell
ing and bad grammar by one in us
ing his own language, will destroy
all his claims to scholarship in the
opinion of every man of taste and
culture.
Tins is a fault to he corrected
largely by the student himself. A
little daily practice will give any
one a sufficient degree of perfection.
Absolute perfection cannot be ex
pected.
But whether the fault he in the
college, or in the hoy, its disgrace
and positive absurdity is not dimin
ished, and no institution can hope to
turn out graduates with that fault,
without bringing upon itself the rid
icule of polite society. It is bad
enough if a boy does not learn some
thing of spelling and grammar be
fore he starts to college, and it he is
then allowed to go there four years
without knowing anything about
them—what can we say? Let us not
give up Latin and Greek, the pure
sources of much ot the English lan
guage, but after the boy has been
lead to the fountain and its beauties
pointed out to him, let him not be
left to make the subsequent course
of the limpid stream conform to the
whims of his own eccentric fancy.
It is stated that work will be
commenced on the Athens and Col
umbus Railroad as soon as the char
ter can be obtained from the Legis
lature. By reference to the map of
Georgia you will see that placing a
rule on Athens and Columbus, and
drawing a line from one city to the
other, this line will pass over the
dot that marks Zebulon on the map.
Our comity site, therefore, is on an
air line between Athens and Colum
bus.—Barnesville Gazette.
Give Zebulon the road by aH
means. The good people of that
seeton have been cut off long
enough.
The national debt of Great Britain
is only £760,000,600.
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NEWS ITEMS.
A revolution seems to he impend
ing in Spain.
The cholera in Spain seems to ho
increasing.
North Ivissimnie, Florida is to
have a 830,000 hotel.
United States Senator Sabin, of
Minnessota, died June 23.
It is officially announced that tho
French forces have evacuated For
mosa.
The Marquis of Salisbury and his
cabinet officers have settled down to
work.
Nearly five thousand workmen
are on a labor strike in'Toronto,
Canada.
Gcji. S. P. Mtrick, died at Mid
way, Ga., June 20, after a short ill
ness, aged 70.
It is estimated that the wheat crop
tiiis year will be 173,000,000 bushels
less than last year.
Between 15,000 and 20,000 pounds
of wool were bought at Cliipley,
Florida, last week.
There were 184 failures in the
Unithed States, reported by Brad
street, during the past week.
Mrs. Rooks, ot Walton county,
Georgia, I*~7 . T- ~T, .** *
BiT'Ai. winch is still m use.
Dr. Win. G. Bullock.
oldest
in tllg-t Tity Junc 23, aged 71.
Tn the past two weeks 25,000
pounds of wool have been shipped
from Lake do Furniak, Florida.
The Southward Mills, Philadel
phia, shut down June 27, throwing
1,000 hands out of employment.
Gainesville, Florida, ha t a popula
tion of over 4,000, and is said to bo
increasing at the rate of 1,000 a year."
Ex-United State, Minister Phelps,
to Peru, died at Lima of fever, con
tracted 011a pleasure trip, June 25.
Mildred, a daughter of Lord Chief
Justice Coleridge, ot England, was
married June 24, to diaries Warren
Adams.
General Grant, according to the
telegrams during the past week, has
been sometimes better and some
times worse.
The Legislature of Pennsylvania
has passed a law prohibiting tho
manufacture and sale in the state of
oleomargarine.
Dispatches received at the War
Department, state that the small
pox in a violent form has broken
out at Fort Davis, Texas,
A violent type of measles, which
is followed by flux, and generally
proves fatal, is prevalent in some
sections of Georgia.
During the month of May about
78,000 persons arrived in this coun
try from abroad. Of this number
67,000 were immigrants.
The Irish Artizans Exposition,
which embraces every branch of
Irish industry and of manufactures
was opened in Dublin, June 24.
The public whipping law of Mary
land seems to make tiie wife-bealing
husband of that State careful, it
would he a good law lor Georgia.
John D. Fish, late President of
the Marine National Bank, has been
sentenced to ten years imprisonment
in the Auburn, N. Y., penitentiary.
The President has appointed Ed
ward L. Hodden, Collector, Silas W.
Burt, Marine Officer, an i Haas S.
Beattie, Surveyor, of the Port of New
York.
Nearly 500,000 lire ivas poured
into the Papal coffers during the re
cent visit of the Irish bishops to
Rome, as Peter's pence. Bishop
Nulty of Meath presented 86,500.
Hon. R. T Merrick, a distinguish
ed lawyer of Washington City, and
one of’the principal council before
the electoral commission of 1876,
died of congestion of the brain, J une
23, aged 59.
A terrible rain storm passed over
Baltimore, June 28, continuing for
two hours, during which time the
rain fell in torrents, doing immense
damage to property and much injury
to railroads.
The whole number of vis’t >rs to
the New Orleans exposition ivas 1 -
158,840. The show was open nearly
as long as the Centennial exposition
at Philadelphia, which was visitdd
by 9,910,966 persons.
Mr. J. 11. Estill, proprietor of tho
Savannah Morning News, has erect
ed in Laurel Grove Cemetery, Sa
vannah, Georgia, a handsome monu
ment to the late Wm. M. Thompson,
who founded that journal and con
ducted it lor thirty-two years. ,