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The Grangers.
SYNOPSIS OF THE BEMABK3 OF QOVEBNOB
SMITH AND COLONEL T. C. HOWABD AT
THE MEETINO OF THE OBEENE COUNTY
ORANGES?.
We p:om:sei tD give the substance of the j
great speeches of Governor §mith andColonel
Howard in last Sunday’s Hebald, but circum
stance prevented it in that issue. But as it
is “matter which will keep,” wc give a synop
sis to-day. We commend the ideas aud lan
guage to every friend of huslandryin the
land:
GOVERNOR smith’s REMARKS.
Governor Smith, upon being introduced to
the very large assemblage (many of those
present being ladies), was received in the most
liatteriug manner, and after a few well con
ceived compliments to old Greene, to her il-
lastrious dead as well as to the living, pro
ceeded directly to the discussion of the great
questions affecting the material prosperity of
the State and generally of the Southern States.
First, he said he would take notice of the rath
er pungent criticisms with which certain gen
tlemen and certain newspapers had visited
previous comments and statistics which he
had felt constrained to bring to the public
notice. The objection brought against him
excepted from this rule. The lien laws were
scrupulously insisted on, giving direct aud
partial protection to every other interest than
the farmer's interest. What lien had he?
What lien did the legislature give him of
partiality and favoritism? No lienB for him,
but everything and everybody, it seemed,
were resolved to lean on him. In saying
this he favored no class legislation—was
making war on no man, or set of men, but
was simply asking for “an open field and a
fair fight” lor any and all industries. But,
said the speaker, there should be discussions
of our great material interests of all sorts
among ourselves, and faithful and able rep
resentatives of them in our General Assem
bly. We want at home our ablest and best
men; for here, at last, was the theatre in
which our truest statesmanship was most
needed, and would effect the most
good. Besides this, ns agriculture
was our greatest interest, sustaining and en
ergizing all others, he felt bound to say after
much reflection, that the Legislature should
organize effectively and at once, a “Bureau of
Statistics and Agriculture” for the State of
Georgia. It will be difficult for the friend of
reform and improvement, to show how this
agency can longer be dispensed with. The
best informed man in our State has at his
command only very partial and unsatisfactory
details of our wealth, soil or geological char
acteristics aud resources. Intelligent men
who contemplate immigration or investment
do not generally act blindfold. They insist
ia the comments alluded to was that the and most naturally, that particulars and data
Speaker had deilt harshly, if not unfairly, with
the condition of affairs in Georgia, when
he compared our condition in 1870 with
that ot 1860 or 1850. While the speaker
could not see how arguments of apology, of
extenuation or explanation made the material
reliable and full, sball be afforded them, be
fore they desert their old residences or ebango
investments, aDd adopt our State as their new
home. Have we done anything as a S’ate to
lencourage this prudent and valuable class to
come among us and decide to cast their lot
condition of the country either better or ; with ns?
worse, he accepted the challenge offered by j It is notoriously true that tlure does not
his critics, and could show and would thus j exist of record in our archives a description
satisfy all who took exception to his statistics j of any county in Georgia which would be sat-
that not only has Georgia retrograded in her | isfactory to the mind of a careful man con-
agriculture in the last two decades, bufre-1 templating removal to it. A bureau of sta-
gretfnlly as he made the statement, truth and , tisties having charge of this vital subject
figures forced him to repeat that the decline could, in a few years, by simply adding a few
continued to the presont day. The returns i columns to our “lteceivers’ Digests,” and
in the Comptroller General s office clearly propounding certain questions to the tax-pay-
proved that in livestock, in grain production, i ers, evoke the best census of our resources
in sheep, even in cotton, our decline was and capabilities as a State that is possessed
steady and progressive. With the exception , by any Commonwealth in the world. Time
of dogs, be hardly knew of any other staple ' would fail in the attempt to prove to his aa-
product of the State that had increased, ! ditory the numberless advantages of such a
while our population, our nominal labor pow ! department to our S’ate Government, but all
er had increased, in spite of our losses by re j reflecting minds must admit the benefit of its
movals, at least 12 per cent. | establishment.
We have not positive, but only comparative We regret that we have not the full text of
data in extenuating the yield in oar leading j this great speech of Gov. Smith, and that the
staples for 1873. But let us see how the j country cannot have now the lull benefit of
casa stands for the three last yeirs. In 1870, i his argument and counsels ; but it is prom-
we made in Georgia 473,934 Dales of cotton, j i S ed us at an early day, when it shall be pub-
Will we make this year one bale for every four ; fished in the Herald.
acres planted ? This, said the Governor, is a 1
libera], if not an excessive allowance. But i col. Howard’s remarks.
say four acres to the bale, and this will give 1# _ _ „ , ,
for this crop, calculated on the acreage plant-1 After dinner, Col. Tom. Howard was called
ed, a return of 465,139 bales. This may be j ant ) 8 *} 1 d m substance;
better than we will do, or it may not be as I or all this backwardness, sluggishness and
well. I am aware of the doubts and uncer-1 decline, there must be a reason. Pis strange
tainties involved; but doubtless it is not far j that when results and consequences are so
from the mark. So by this calculation the I tremendous, that meu should be at sea when
cotton crop of the State will be less tins year t the causes of them are in discussion. Ihese
than it was in 1870 by 8,795 bales. In 1870, I results stand out in bold relief; all eyes —*
we made of wheat 2.127,017. This
crop is 2,102,394,showing a decrease of 24,623,
if the allowance of seven bushels to the acre
is not greatly over the maik, which it must l e.
Now we come to the great stand-by, the
farmer’s right arm—Indian corn. What say
the figures here ? Why, that in 1870 we made
17,646,459 bushels, and this year, allowing
eight bushels to the acre returned as planted,
we will have 15,421,168 bushels. This is a
falling off on the present year’s jield of 2,-
225,291 bushels. Every man can make his
own calculation as to the per cent, of de
crease. But let that be great or small, there
stands the fact, gloomy, stunning, wonder
ful, that in our bread we are every year draw
ing nearer and nearer to the time when we
must come to want. Can the apologist for
our shortcomings,—can the most infatuated
self-love see anything in the figures and cal
culations we have just submitted which
leaves the slightest grounds for self-gratula-
tion. So, while our own State returns show
this decline in the three leading
staples of our State, the United
States returns by decades make
the frightful exhibit of a decrease in some
particulars in our tables of 60 and 70 per
cent., and in all, of an average of about 42
per cent. Surely, said the speaker with much
emotion, men cannot suspect me of making a
parade cf these melancholy facts. It would
be a cruel injustice for any one to any or sup
pose that he did not admit the truth of the
figures with profoundest pain and solicitude.
These evidences of decay and waning power
in all States and at all times, were themes
full of painful rt flection to the student ol
history. But when the case comes home to
your heart, as the case of your own Shite,
vour own people, in fact comes home to you
as your owu great personal concern, how else
could a light minded min feel than pro
foundly and painfully. He stood thero to
day for the purpose of invoking
the brilliant assemblage before him,
and thfough them to gaddresa every
community in Georgia,and arouse, if possible,
a spirit ot enquiry into the causes of this
d-eiine, and the means of restoration. Far
be it from him to think lightly or to speak
ex ltantly of any retrogradation in the status
of 'ue State he loved as he did Georgia, but
sti. faither be a careless or an indifferent
spi. it which could allow him to know these
aud see the impending fate of his peo
pie, and make no effort in behalf of their
lailii ;' fortunes. The question of the day
v a», **What can be done, aud bow quickly
can bo accomplished.” He repeated firstl
ness them; all patriotic hearts deplore them,
and yet we go staggering about in the dark,
asking in bated breath ot each other, what
can be ibe matter. Well, let tbe enquiry
pass around—let each anxious aDd resolved
heart keep pressing it—for the solution will
then come. All things lawful and good are
possible to human beings who seek the truth
in love of it, and whose moral sense and
common sense are not overruled and judi
cially blinded by the sins and sinfulness of
our nature. Among these things—yea, let us
call them by their name—among these sins,
is that selfishness of our leading men, su
preme, callous, short-sighted aud ruinous to
the common weal, that has devoted powers
of intellect and grand opportunities to the
paltry work of individual advancement, and
in utter contempt of the claims and sacrifices
which society had such a ju3t right to en
force.
When the histories of these men as public
servants are calmly surveyed, a just criticism
must declare that nothing could be more
barren, more frivolous, more utterly without
purpose. Let a young man of fine endow
ment appear among us, and straightway his
doating parents and elated kins people begin
to devise plans which, in the long run, as
effectually render nugatory and unavailable
that j*oung mao’s gifts as if he were banished
bodily from the State. Of course be must be
a lawyer, and nothing else, or how should he
have the right sort of opportunity to attract
the admiration and plaudits of tho multitude?
Atter a brief term as Solicitor-General, he
must represent his county, or at least pretend
to do so, but only to satisfy his backers that
he really possesses tho parts they ascribed to
him in their bonndle>s admiration. Theu
begins the old strife and struggle that for
fifty years has raged throughout the
hosts of our talented aud promising
men. A struggle to reach Washington,]
to force a way to the front rankr
of the gladiators, who contend with tho selfish
and aimless purpose of the true athlete on
that arena, woars aud wastes tho lives of
eight-tenths of the precious talent of tliel
State and the Southern Stales. W r bat im
pression has this woeful-melancholy ambition
ever made on our own fortunes. What good
thing has it secured—what evil thing averted'
IIow blind in these men was it not to see that
the only evils that ever bcfel the States came
from the General Government, and the onlyj
I blessings we enjoyed were the sole fruits of|
IIow
have been made to restore our honor and our
State. It may be that when you shall unite
your suffrage and attestation to that of thous
ands of other Georgians, who believe that a
citizen ot the State has done wisely and well,
who has devoted his time and talents to our
people, that we shall call into the State’s ser
vice men who seem to think now that such
small business is only cutting blocks with a
razor. But let that be os it may, we, the
people, are on our feet at last, aud intend
to assert ourselves. These great
men and boru geniuses must make
up their minds, aud at once to take service
with ns, or to behold in amazement and dis
gust, how little sense it really requires to run
the government. We the people will ruu it
We will not be left more helpless nor more
benighted in our effort at material reconstruc
tion now than we were left in 1866, when we
groped our way towards civil and political re
construction—with all or nearly all the gen
iuses, like “fiddlers,” safe in their holes above
high water mark. Yes, the farmers of this
State are resolved that this sham of pupilage
and guardianship for us must stop. We cre
ate tbe wealth, what little there is of it, and
its distributiou, we have made up our mind,
shall be a little less partial. No more muz
zies if you please for we oxen who are tread
ing out the corn. If we must find capital for
middle men, and then after overseeing it
and find, besides, insurance at even over cost
we mnst have a better division. We have for
years taken the cobb and giveu our helpmates
the corn, and our attenuated frames are hold
ing high controversy with this sort of a
partnership. Our legislative wisdom must
come down from its pride of place. Oar
proud professional and do-nothing factors
must condescend to affect the practical, and
must at least profess to feel an interest in the
productive energy and effort ot au empire.
We have now a department of State Govern
ment lounded for the express purpose of
caring for our wild lands—we have now
bureau for the marshalling and oversi *bt of
our taxes—we have a popular aud venerated
Treasury for bolding and disbursing the
moneys that arise trom our yearly income, but
the great source of all this strength is ignored
by all the powers that be or that ever was,
and agriculture, in the opinion of our states
men, may live if it can or die if it must. It
is a sad truth that we cannot survive as a
people unless the attachment laws shall
be perfected and the statutes affecting
the rates of interest must be looked
into with great solemnity that no “harm
should come to the Ilepublic.” We have seen
days given to angry and soul-absorbing dis
cussions of an executive nomination to office,
but the oldest mau in Georgia has hardly ever
seen the half of this time given by our Legis
lature to the question, “have we coal and
iron mines, and what sba’l we do with them?”
have we fisheries undeveloped ” or
“which is the more valuable animal.a sheep or
a negroe’s cur?” or “are manurial agents of
value to an agri nltural people?” or “is the
Stats of Georgia a finished society aud in
need ot any other and further material help
or development?” We prate and scold about
our hapless condition, talk about diversifying
our indnsry and encouraging manufactories,
and teu to one compare Georgia with Massa
chusetts, and all this time wc see at our feet
the great spring of hope nnd wealth drying
up, aud that industry that teeds all and sus
tains all, dwindling to death. In
ain may fault finders aud builders,
who begin at the roof, berate
for not diversifying our industry,
establishing manufactures in our Stato when
we go to strangers hundreds of miles off to
buy our bread aud meat, and find out selves
at Christmas, though e-sentially and out of
all proportion an agricultural people, as poor
Lazarus. Let us quit building at tbe top
till we look to the foundation, which, in the
nature of things, must be laid in the soil.
Shorten the cotton crop of the South onc-balf,
and double our provision crops, and in an in
stant we are redeemed and become the richest
people upon the face of the earth. With twice
our mouey income, and double the amount of
sustenance, we stop drains and leaks—wo will
have self-sustaining farms which wo do not.
now* have—we will have a cash surplus for
manufactories, and colleges and high schools,
churches will be erected, conveniences of life
will become common, which are now forbid
den fruit to thousands, aud the Georgian who
would be willing to leave his native State for
any other spot of earth will bo looked upon
as a sort of harmless lunatic who might as
well be let to roam at will. Is it to
be said that the task of restoration is hope
less when it lies in so narrow' a compass ?
What insuperable obstacle blocks the way to
ourhallsot legislation, if we desire to send
earnest-minded and practical men to them?
Having neither part nor responsibility in
national politics, is there not patriotic fervor
enough left among us to feel for the declining
honor and strength of our beloved Georgia?
Now that a bond of brotherhood is binding
tho farmers of the land, a bond strong and
bright as a cable of gold, can we not reach
that solution so long evading us, of how to
control the cotton crop, and that twin prob
lem ot how to double the provision crop?
Behold the secret of success and empire dis
closed. With a properly directed wisdom ki
aud concern in our general assembly, to point j
out and then to foster what are our lrnestjj
and greatest interests,
meut on tbe part ot the agricultural popula-
tion towards reform and home economy, our
success is sure. I may be hopeful beyond
measure; I may have misconceived our re
sources and exaggerated our natural advanta
ges, and if I have, the blunder is an egregious j
GEORGIA
State Lottery
FOR SEPTEMBER.
FOK THE BENEFIT OF THE
Orsbans’ loie & Free Sctool.
DK.rWINGS DAILY. AT 5 P. M.
MACON ADVERTISEMENTS.
L. W. RASDAL.
WHOLESALE LIQUOR HEALER,
Third Street
Macon, Georgia.
Capital Prize $7,000.00
30,310 Frizes, Amounting to $53,253.20,
Tickets $1.00, Shares in Proportion
76,076 tickets and the drawing of la ballota. there wiU
be 220 prize*, .-ach having three of the drawn num
bers on it; 4,356, each having two of them on;
25,740, e*ch having one only of them on; and also
46,760 ticket*, with neither of the drawn numbers on
them, being blanks.
To determine the fate of these prize* and blanks, 78
numbers, from 1 to 78 inclusive, will be severally
placed in a wheel on the day of the drawing, and 12 of
them drawn out at random: and that ticket having for
it* combination the 1st, 2nd. and 3rd drawn numbers.
will be entitled to the capital prize of $7,000 00
That ticket having on it the 4th, 3th. aud 6tn
drawn number*, to 650 00
That ticket having on it the 7th, 8th, and 9th
drawn number*, to L... 850 00
That ticket having on it the 10th, 11th. and
12th drawn numbers, to 650 0C
That ticket having on it tho 2nd, 3rd, and 4th
drawn number*, to 850 00
That ticket having on it the 3d, 4tb and 5th
drawn number*, to 650 00
That ticket having on it the 5th, 6th, aud 7th
drawn numbers, to 660 00
That ticket having on it the 6th, 7th, and 8th
drawn numbers, to 650 00
That ticket having on it the 8th, 9th, and 10th
drawn numbers, to 650 00
That ticket having on it the 9th,. 10th, and
11th drawn number*, to 650 00
That ticket haviug on it tbe 1st, 2nd, aud t\h
drawn numbers, to 650 00
That ticket having on it the 1st, 2nd, and 5th
drawn numbers, to 217 60
That ticket having on it the lut, 2d, and 6th
drawn number*, to 217 60
All other tickets (being 207, with three of the
drawn number* on, each 20 00
Those 66 ticket* having on them the 1st and
2nd drawn number*, each 10 90
Those 66 tickets having on them the 3rd aud
4th drawn humbers, each 6 GO
All other tickets (being 4,224) with two of the
drawn numbers on, each 2 00
And all those ticket* (being 25,740) with one
only of the drawn number*, each 1 0
CAPITAL PRIZE
On Monday* capital will be $7,000 00
On Tuesdays aud Fridays capital will be 4,500 00
On Wednesdays capital will be 6.«X'0 00
On Thursdays aud Saturdays 5,000 00
For further particulars rend for schemes.
No ticket which shall have drawn a prize of a supe
rior denomination can be entitled to au inferior prize.
Prizes payable forty (40) days after the drawing, and
subject to*the usual deduction of 15 per cent.
All prizes of $20.00 and under will be pai l immedi
ately after tho drawing.
Prizes cashed at this office
HOWARU & CO.. Managers,
D 9p-fet)21 ATLANTA. OA.
Has now on hand
The Largest Stock of
Wines,
Liquors, and
Liquor Cordials.
Of any House in tlxo Stnto of Georgia
Septl4 dlw
BERND BROTHERS
Manufacturers of and Who’esale and Retail Dealers in
| HARNESS, SADDLES COLLARS
| BRIDLES, LEATHER, HARDWARE, Arc.. &e..
Nos. 44 and 40 Third Street. Macon, Georgia.
RICHLAND BOARDING AND DAY
SCHOOL FOR BOYS,
145 Lanvalc street, near Park Avenue, Baltimore, Md. j
luatea of the University of Virginia. French
and Gorman taught by experienced native maaters.
Scssiou commences September 15th. Catalogues with
full particulars seat t<> any addresa. Refers to Rev. R.
B. Elliott, Gen. A. R. Lawton, R. J. Havant, Savannah;
Samuel Lawrence, Marietta; John Martin, Augusta.
jy29-2m
EMPIRE STONE WORKS
MACON, C A..
SOUTHERN NURSERY.
W 1
IRWIN & THURMOND.
are offering to the public a selection of Fruit I
adap'ed to tbe Southern climate, consisting of !
Apples, Peaches, Pears. Plum*, Cherries. Quinces,
Grapes, etc. Our Floral and Ornamental Shrubbery !
Department is complete. We have everything usually
found in a well conducted Nursery, and of varieties
wo have tested and know to be suited to the Southern 1
climate. We are determined to make good stock and
sell at reasonable price*. All orders by mail attended
to with promptness and care. We have reliable agents,
either local or traveling, in many localities in this aud
other States South, and we prefer, where convenient
to our customers, to do our business through them.
We will, upon application, furnish gratis our catalogue
aud price liat, Addrees P. O. Box 565, Atlanta, Ga.
jnly24-dly IRWIN & THURMOND.
ON TIME
i left at Ward
P. H. WARD, Proprietor.
’ Cherry street, will receive prompt attention.
McDaniel,
nr I T H—
GEO. W. PA/JAtxoTT & BRO.,
COTTON WAREHOUSE & COMMISSION MERCHANTS, Cor. Pryor A Hunter^
sep2-lra ATLANTA, t»*.
Fireman’s Fund Insurance Company of California.
THE GIRL OF THE PERIOD!
CASH CAPITA I. $300,000 Co
LEE SMITH
ttiug aud brushing tip
The Girl of the Period,
I at last his < flbrta have been crowned with i
present to his old friends :
CASH ASSETS
010.-221 OO
He is ab.<
id the
M - *
itil concerted move- \ public generally one of the neatest and coziest resorts
to be found anywhere, lie lias opened the season
with a fresh stock of pure old Brandies, Whiskies,
Wine*. Gin*, Ac., and a stock of real Havana Cigars,
as well those of domestic manufacture.
Call ou him on Marietta street.
JNO. C. WHITNER, Agent,
38 Broad Street, Atlanta, G
*ep7-tt
one. Yet, after much reflection, I here
State euterpri.se aud State action. uu» uuuu , , ™,, . ™-t-. . T , t
' them not to see that this absorption : l 1 *,' i° -°“ that, with vvlnt I osL- a Legi.4
- - L 1 lature of practical statesmen, devoted to th
> it in 1
by the General Government of the best talents
„ had before insisted on, that our j ot the States-this stealthy transposition of i ( \ J 0 f action
trouble sprang directly out of the | affection and sense of ^local obligation was J ristg - ~
rathk a and niad‘snbverson of an entire in-! the very surest means of centralizing power, j
dastr: .1 system that for its suddenness and | and obliterating all idea and recognition
completeness bad not, perhaps, a parallel in of State Rights. It was the case that la go
history. The negro laborers of the country j made cn the mau who stole his reputation
| improvement of our acknowledged resources, I
among the ngricultu- i
REMOVAL.
A. ANSLEY
could n
hundreds
speaker, aud
be depended on. (There were while the General Government could get
.f negroes standing before the! on well enengh without these jewels
* ex- | their loss to Georgia made us “poor indeed.”
;ted—many more deeply interested, and j The loss was multiform as well as disastrous.
lot a lew giving audible assent to al! the j Besides, the damage done us directly by the j
peaker uttered. It was notorious, and ho > withdrawal of our best talents from the coun-
of Georgia, w e may be able in eight eroj
| to obliterate every scar which the war has left
I —except ala*! God help ns, the scars upon
j our hearts. It is for us to determine. Will
I we assume the reins? or assume at least an
j important part in the management of affairs,
and rise from a subordination that has dwarfed j
:..a —reduced it almost to in: ’ "
M, c
our inflnez
appealed to the colored people present if it! sets of the State, the moral influence of the ; _ _ ... „ ,, ,,
were not r.she stated, that while some few ol : thing was bitter bad. It made tne young man : The UUShOTll 01 lolling 13ellS.
the blacks were laboring—and faithfully—a | of lofty ambition too Rood for tbe uses of liir
very large pa: tion of them were not making i State
m re than lour hours a d *y. While the
men were nearly all withdrawn from the fields,
the yoangstets who were coming on were snl- : to in seventy years.
t a dosparagement to a true man I The Harrishnrg Suite Journal is ditching
wo-1 of genius to wear the State badge of service, attention, editorially, to the custom of toll- sept-t
Ids, | aud we see what it has brought the country ! ing bells at I. hanon when a person dies, M
lilt) Bales Standard India Bagging.
•2 Car Loads Kentucky Hemp Do.
20 Bids, choice New Orleans Molasses.
£<» Bills. Crime Card.
‘ ! ;ioo Boxes Tobacco, common and medium
grades.
20 Cases double Anchor Durham Smoking,
amt .Ull'try oth-r floo.19. Iti'pri'fientiliR Borne of the
most reliable busmen* bouses in S». Louis, Louisville.
Baltimore and Havanuxli, will buy for * brokeiajo such
^otnlrt as ma> b«» needed by the im ich a its of this city.
Cotton bought md sold ou commission.
The day was when this
i-i-e i by their parents, if not encouraged, to thing was very different. It used to be that
live lives of idleness and vagabondage, while I the proudest names we had among us thought
ftii or nearly all that was done in our fields by j a State Legislature allowed verge and scope
colored laborers, was done by the old men of ; enough for the exercise, and if you will have
their jace. Look, said the speaker, at the | it, for tbe display of the most magnificent
crops all over the country. Hardly an ex- j powers. Tbe well-being, the household in-
' .w~ a—* terests of a whole State, were not looked down
upon with disdain by the primesl minds of
the South. Tho best men of tbe South
felt that their first duty was to their
own mother State, and the consequence
to this logical and noble impulse was that the
States were aggrandized at the expense of the
ception to grass and weeds, wo find the finest
instances, even where crops have not been
thrown out and abandoned, in which the ap
pearance of our fields give the least evidence
of thrift and care. By this neglect, the
speaker said, he had no doubt tbe yield in
corn would not exceed eight bushels per acre.
All this must {change cr we are a doomed central government. That was the day when
people—black and white, involved in a com- Congress stood in awe ofthe grand inquest of
inon rum. The remedy is for the black man j Legislative' review, and was made to tremble
to come to bis senses—take his trust from bad j at the thunder of the resolutions of ’98 and
men who, for tho basest of all purposes,
though it does not commend or deprecate the
practice. The editor says:
While in a borough of Lebanon, a day or
two since, we heard a bell tolling, and in
quired of a friend, “Who is to be buried?”
The reply was that the tolling was not for a
funeral, but to announce that a death bad oc
curred that day. We are further informed,
that the regulation is, when a child under
five years old dies, a certain church bell is
tolled five times, and for all deaths ot per
sons over five years, a bell is tolled a num
ber of times equal to the years in the age
of tbe deceased. The custom is very old,
and is of German origiu, having been prac
ticed very generally heretofore among the
German population of the Lebanon Valley,
and other parts of Pennsylvania. Formerly
it was also adhered to in Harrisburg; but
during the prevalence ot a malignant and fatal
DAVID McBRIDE,
Tie Great Mien Freipt Passeier
ROUTE TO AND FROM NEW YORK.
Via Savannah, Georgia.
o
riTHK FIRST-CLASS SIDE-WHEEL STEAMSHIPS OF THIS LINE SAIL FROM SAVANNAH AND NEW
S YORK, in connection with the CENTRAL RAILROAD OF GEORGIA, EVERY TUESDAY. THURSDAYai A
SATURDAY. Make as quick time ami have anperfor accommodations to any Steamship* on the Southern coatt*
Hi*THROUGH FREIGHT carried at ae LOW RATES as any oilier route. All claim* for to**, damage or
overcharge tettlod promptly.
PASSAGE FROM ATLANTA TO NEW YORK, $27 50.
MEAL* AND STATE ROOMS INCLUDED.
SUMPTUOUS SLEEPING CARS on all Ni*M Train* to 8* vane nil. Tussencor* l\v this route should
leave Atlanta on 2:30 r. >i. train for Macon, the day before the Str-aiuer* sail irorn Savauuah.
EXCURSION TICKETS
To New York and Return. Good to 1st October. $45.00.
MEALS AND STATE BOOMS INCLUDED.
t _ The resolutions of ’98 and ’99 alas
BoughtTodeludehim—seek his living by the j These noware the butts of wittings and the
sweat of bis brow like all honest men do—j quany upon which every little obscene bird J fever, years ago, the pbysicinns insisted that
live in peace os far as possible with those with i of anarchy and Ca^arism delights to pounco. j it be omitted as a death signal, for tbe reason
whom God tad cast his lot, and providently j Thank God for the one good thing that comes that it had au evil effect on the sick, tending
lay up something for the time when age and
decrepitude would force liiin from the field.
While ho said this to the colored mau, lie de
manded of the while that he should be just
a id considerate, and that he too should not
underrate his business as a farmer, by with
holding his children from their father’s voca
tion aud teachiug them that it was not as
honorable as any*calliug on earth. Tho Gov
ernor thfn proceeded to comment on the
want among farmers of intercommunication
and concert of action. All trades had their
guilds ; all classes had a representation,
responsible and faithful, but it really
seemed that the farmer mud be
ot our ostracism and rejection from public af
fairs. Tho stones which the builders of these
days are rejecting with scorn and insult are
forced to go into the second temple more glo
rious, all hearts pray and hope, than the first.
Our talented men must work now in onr own
domain or nowhere. Sad as it must
sound to many of their lofty
souls, they must descend and condescend
to serve this grand old Commonwealth, or bo
seen like mad Achilles to loll sulking in tbeir
tents. Let this multitude hero to-day offer
theso aspiring hearts the sol ice which the
plaudit “well done thou good and faithful
servant” affords, after an honest effort shall
greatly to excite their nervous system. Heuce
the solemn tolling b-Uh lor the death and the
funeral of a person is now omitted. It is al
ways interesting to not3 these old customs,
alike when they are practiced and when they
have ceased to be observed. In Beading the
custom is still kept up of tolling for funerals —
the other, of announcing that a death has oc-
curied, having long since been abandoned.
Vance, the London comic hid rer i nd char
acter actor, now personates M*. t-haw of
Persia, and makes hi n warble a n absurd
ong.
SUCCESSOR TO
All oth^r information furnished by application to she undersigned.
GEORGE A. M’CLESKEY, Tmv,
McBRIDE & SMITH.
MANUFACTURER OF
Fine Carriages,
PHAETONS,
ROGKAWAYS AND BUGGIES.
Repairing Promptly and Neatly
Executed.
ling Agmt, Steamship Co.’s
Office, No. 4 Kimball House.
INCORPORATED 1050.
GEORGIA HOME
SEED RYE AND OATS.
•200
BUSHELS Pure Red rust proof OATi.
1 hn«li'‘l* extra cl»?i
Bound, Georgia r&iacd
e.l *tid c’.ezujl rxpr«**ly for SEED, at
SOI L. A. KCIIOL8,
Commission Merchant.
Marietta etreeL
FIR.E
of Columbus, Ga.
CASH CAPITAL AND ASSETS $510,000.
Losses paid in Atlanta since 1M>5. over $5u,000!
NO TllOCBLE IN ADJCSl’INO LOSSES—OBLIGATIONS PBOMI’TL ME T
Among tho muiiy, ri-fors to (ho following persons, to whom losses have been pul I lim a
J. Hlfjh'ower, Samuel M. Inman, Dr. F. I). Tlmrman. M. .V J. Hirseh, Willin'! Kiel,. W u
Power* A Son. John A. Stephens, Amos Fox, George \V. Collier, J. C. Fincher, A Alarm 1
J. s. Bojil, Dr. A. J. Bell, B. B. Crew, ami l ily of Atlanta.
J. B. BRIDGES, Agent,
., • v No. 4 Jin e* B*i k Block, Mayor s Office, Whitehall Street, ATLANTA. GA