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The ref, Present, »d Prebnbl. P«.. nmeHcnn History tor Scltoo*., “*
Continuation of tlie Fair.
Oar people will be delighted to learn
ma my bo seen in another column, that
mn opportunity will be afforded to all for
several days longer to visit this greatest
industrial exposition that has ever been
held at tho South. Indeed, i o multifa
rious are the objects to be passed upon,
that more time is in lispansable in the
premises. With commendable liberality,
also, all the schools of the State aro in
vited to visit the Fair free of charge next
fresh, and doubtless ' hundreds will avail
themselves of the privilege. The at
tendance and cash receipts np to the
present time have exceeded the most
aanguino expectations of the managers,
and yet it is believed that the crowd will
continue to increase for several days to
aome. Truly our people and city have
cause to be proud of this grand display of*
the product* of the Empire State.
The Brooklyn Argus is happy. Though
#nly four weeks old, it announces that it
has already had two supplements and one
libel suit, and it therefore feels that it has
not lived in vain.
"The Dxjtv of
suggested to
the Hour.”-It
. ./ug editorials
acribers, these essays aro out of date
before they come to hand.
In Iowa they have what they call
•> ironclad ” notes—that is, an ordinary
note with a statement of the maker’s
property added. The law in that State
makes such a note equivalent to a mort
gage. _
Beverly R. Johnston, Esq., one of the
eldest and most prominent lawyers of
Southwestern Virginia, died last Thurs
day night of heart disease; aged seventy
years. He was an elder orother of Gen
eral Joseph E. Johnston, and uncle of
Senator J. W. Johnston, of Virginia.
The Democrats cackle over their suc
cess like a pullet over its first egg. They
have been sitting on the nest so long
without producing anything that the re
sult is a sweet surprise, over which they
are making a good deal of noise.
Good *» setters.’ Let the Commercial
persuade the Liberals to “set” as long
for a single egg, and not'to abandon their
aeets at the first failure.
Wilkie Collins has for many years
been an opium eater, whereby his health
has been injured, and the literary style
of his novels seriously affected. Tne
nature of some of his plots, and the work
ing of his imagination at certain times,
can be accounted for by the fact men
tioned. It is understood that he has given
up the habit during his I rerican tour.
A clergyman in Columbia, Penn., re,
cently tested the efficacy of prayer by in
troducing the following petition: “O
Lord, bless and enlighten the young man
in the pink neck-tie and the maiden in
the blue bonnet and gray shawl, who are
profaning the sanctuary by kissing one
another in pew No. 63.” The prayer was
promptly answered, for it is asserted on
the best authority that the kissing imme
diately ceased.
* At the late ministers’ meeting in Bos
ton, Rev. Mr. Richardson read a state
ment explanatory of his views respecting
probation after death. His position is
that every human being will have a fair
chance to accept salvation in Christ, and
as vast multitudes die without the op
portunity of making the election, it is
reasonable to suppose that the opportu
nity will be afforded them in the life to
Come. His theory does not include those
who have enjoyed such privileges in this
world.
The Mobile Register says a jury in
finmter county, Ala., recently tried
civil suit, and rendered a verdict of man
slaughter in the first degree. Not
memoer of it knew a letter of the alpha-
let. Upon delivering the verdict, the
foreman remarked that inasmuch as no
cnewas killed they decided to render a
verdict of manslaughter and not of mur
der, as was originally intended. The
•uit was a claim for $500, founded upon
•one cotton transaction, and had noth
ing criminal about it. The jury was
composed of eight whites and four blacks.
The Chinese are taking sweet revenge
upon those “foreign barbarians,” the
English, who forced opium upon them.
In return, the Chinese dispense a deadly
liquid to all the “pale faces” within
their reach, that strikes with worse than
Jersey lightning power, English and
Americans indiscriminately. It is com
posed of the native samshu, kerosene,
tobacco, bang, and sulphuric acid, and
one bottle is sufficiently strong to make a
ship’s company drunk. Its price is only
a shilling, and it con be bought wholesale
for about nine shilliogs a dozen. It is
said to be a cheap and effective blister
tor horses.
Col. R. B. Rhett has resigned his
position as editor of the New Orleans
Picayune, in accordance with a request
from the Board of Managers of the Pica
yune Publishing Company. Mr. Rhett
is an able writer, and went to New Or
leans at the solicitation of the proprie
tors of the Picayune to assume its edito
rial management. Since the duel with
Judge Cooley, whose tragic results
sreated so profound a sensation a few
months ago, it has been evident that Mr.
Bhett would be forced to retire.
We are glad for CoL R.’s sake that he
has severed his connection with a paper
whose managers show such a plentiful
lack of backbone.
“The Pen and Plow.”—-We have
received from New York a thrilling pe
riodical with the above title, which is
published in the interests of us farmers.
The head is a sweet .vignette of a charm
ing landscape, with swimming and fish
ing conveniences in the distance. In
'the foregi ound lovingly recline a male
and female granger, who evidently sym-
"jtathize with the movements -of a plow-
*vnan in the centre, while they converse
• and read and—well, carry on the ac
quaintance business in the moat attrac
tive manner imaginable. We should
•ertoinly subscribe for “ The Pen and
Plow” if that farm and its accompani
ments were, offered as a premium. The
face of the female granger is turned
from the spectator, but if wo may judge
by the set of her back hair she must be
•xa tly the style we most admire.
ne ^ ‘kkt of the new city of Boston
will be about $30,000,000 when consolida
te* takes places
tare of the Fever at Memphis.
The Memphis Avalanche, of Sunday,
has some information coming under tho
above head that is interesting. The Av
alanche dates the existence of the fever
from August 10th, and says that from
that time to last Sunday no less than
1,200 persons have died. By September
13th the disease was under good head,
way, the week ending Saturday, Septem
ber 21st, showing a fever mortality of
128. The next week it dropped to 98,
but the week after—ending October 4th—
the mortality was 146. Tho first frosts
came on the 6th and 7th instants, and
the mortality reached its climax that
week, there being 340 deaths for the
seven days closing October 11th. These
frosts seemed to have checked the dis
ease slightly, for the week’s report end
ing Saturday, October 18th, showed 252
deaths—a decrease of 88 deaths compared
with the week _ before. On Monday,
Tuesday and Friday of last week, there
were black frosts, and on the two last
days ice.» These frosts at first increased
the death rate owing to the sudden
change to cool weather, but the report
for the week ending October 25th showed
a marked decrease as compared with the
previous week, the™ i/eing only 162
deaths—° of 90.
The Avalanche upon these facts states
that the fever is rapidly abating, and is
decidedly of the opinion that the disease
will hereafter develop only in those whoso
systems were filled with poison a week
ago, and thinks few new cases will be
heard of hereafter. Just now the daily
deaths offset the new cases, leaving the
convalescents to show the progress of the
abatement. During the three days of last
week, including Saturday, the conva
lescents discharged were 117,160,107—
making a total of 384, or a daily average
of 128.
Tlie Western Corn and Pork
Crop.
The Chicago Commercial Review, of
Friday, publishes a table of replies re
ceived by a provision house of that city
from correspondents in Illinois, Iowa,
Missouri, Kansas, Ohio, and Indiana, to
inquiries in regard to the number of hogs
likely to be sent to market from their
sections, their present condition, proba
ble time of marketing, and the condition
of the corn crop. Of 97 points in Illinois
58 report a less number of bogs than last-
year, 27 about the same number, and 12
more. The corn crop is universally re
ported short in Illinois from one-third to
one-half. Of 58 places in Iowa 27 report
fewer hogs than last year, 20 about the
same, and eleven more. The condition
of the corn crop they report about the
same as in Illinois. Of 21 points in In
diana, 11 report fewer hogs, ^ about the
same number, and 3 more. The com
crop they report better in several places,
but generally short. In Missouri 12
points report fewer hogs, 8 about the
same number, and three more. The com
crop they report short one-third to one-
half. Ohio makes the best showing, 4
points reporting an increase in the num
ber of hogs, 15 about the same number
and 8 a decrease. The report of the com
crop shows it equal to that of last year.
Except in Blinois the condition of the
hogs appears to be about the same as at
the same time last year, but many points
in Illinois report them not so far ad
vanced.
Silver Change.
The administration is about to proceed
to make silver plenty. Next week it is
to be paid out and received in all Gov
ernment transactions on a footing with
paper currency. Get out the old stock
ings.
So says the Cincinnati Commercial,
and that was our conclusion days ago.
Silver will not circulate so long as shin-
plasters remain in abundance to perform
the office of small change. It is not
within the capacity of the human mind
to attach much value to a shinplaster.
It does not wear an appearance of value,
and history and tradition are against
them. They are ever the inseparable
concomitants of bad times—broken banks
—disordered currency and a diseased
state of finances generally. People,
therefore, -will pass off sbinplastcrs with
out many sighs so long as any of them
remain and hold on to the silver.
But the President is right in the idea
that the substitution of silver for change
bills will help the other paper currency.
When the people see it practically dem
onstrated that a paper dollar is worth
two silver halves, their respect for the
paper dollar will increase. It will seem"*
a great deal more like money, and the
passion for hiding gold will abate.
Fight Years Without Fating.
The New York Herald, of Friday, says
there is a young woman named Mary
Fancher, residing at the comer of Gates
avenue and Downing street, B-ooklyn,
who has, it is asserted by her physician,
Dr. S. F. Speir, taken no food for eight
years. She is twenly-five years of age,
bright and intelligent. As a girl she
was a close applicant to her studies, and
was wont to abandon her meals to ponder
oyer her books until the strain upon her
intellectual and physical strength over
came her. She also sustained injuries by
being thrown from a horse. Subsequently
she fell off a Fulton avenue car, and was
dragged along the street for a distance
of forty feet by her crinoline catching in
the car. She was then afflicted by abso
lute nervous prostration, and has since
been confined to her bed. Her legs are
twisted and her hands are drawn up be
hind her head. She sleeps but little, and
is said to he endowed with clairvoyant
faculties. She works embroidery in col
ors with great facility, and has made
slippers and smoking caps with initials
worked in them. The doctor is positive
that there is no deception in the case, and
has used every effort possible to detect
any sign of imposition, but to no purpose.
The case has baffled the skill of hundreds
of physicians who have examined it.
Goldwin Smith doubts “whether a more
active or a more virqjent poison was (fver
mit tee to the Southern States*.
The following gentlemen composing
caped without any injuries except a few
trivial bruises. No bones were broken,
The gin-house of Mr. Th03. L. Mar- ; which, taking into consideration the per
infused into the veins of a nation _ than above committee arrived yesterday
that which is infused into the veins of 1
The Cotton Situation.
The New York Bulletin concedes that
cotton is victimized to the financial situ*.
tion,andnot to any normal considerations
influencing prices. The crop is late—
stocks and receipts reduced, and there is
a large decline in the visible supply as
compared with last year. Notwithstand
ing these facts the market shows a de
cline of 101 per cent, within a month,
with no prospect of reaction. The Bu
reau report for October, showing a reduc
tion in the average condition of the in
coming crop of lO^c. since September,
however,|is not in accordance with private
advices in cotton circles, and is without
affect in American markets.
the American nation by such school his
tories as are used in the United States,”
and wants to know “what can be ex
pected if people are fed through their
childhood on such stimulants of national
vanity and malignity.”
This member of the Smith family is a
trooly loyl Englishman, who was import
ed to this country during the late rivil
war, to teach the youths at Cornell Uni
versity at Ithaca, New York, the beanfy
of hating the South and loving the “best
government.” He had been such
blatant, furious abolitionist and reviler
of the South, that the Cornell folks, in a
gosh of patriotism, imported and install
ed him, at a fat salary, in the chair of
history.
Tho school histories to which he refers
are those that tell of the wars between
England and the United States, and of
course hold up his brother Britishers as
a scurvy set, making due mention, of
course, of Pakenham’s “ Beauty and
Booty” proclamation, tho burning of
Washington City, and other little inci
clouts that characterized the war of 1812.
These things make Smith’s true blue
John Bull gorge rise, and so he calls
them “ active and virulent poisons.” But
Smith 'has not a word to say against
those histories, so-called, that exalt tho
North and cover with an avalanche of
Tcrba.1 filth and falsehood the South and
ita people—which teach that old Abe Lin
coln was not only a great statesman, but
also a saint and a martyr, and denounce
Stonewall Jackson and Lee as traitors
Are these, too, not “ stimulants of vanity
and malignity ?” Could there be “a more
active or more virulent poison” infused
into the veins of the nation than is found
in the New England books of history
which ate sought to-be thrust into the
hands of ovr Children ?
We rejoice to know that the attempt
has generally ended in signal failure. No
Southern parent should teach his her
child from their polluted pages. Better
they should grow up in relative ignorance
of Lexington and Banker Hill, or even of
their own Yorktown. and Eutaw, and
King’s Mountain, than be taught, as New
England teaches, that ancient slave-own
ing was a crime, rebellion against injus
tice a deadly sin, and that Robert E. Lee
and Stonewall Jackson, were infamous
traitors. .
Fast Week's Cotton Figures.
According to the New York Chronicle’s
statement the cotton receipts up to last
Friday night were 100,452 bales against
78,756 bales last week, 45,746 bales the
previous week and 52,676 bales three
weeks since, making the total receipts
since the first of September, 1873, 361,751
bales against 526,214 bales for the same
period of 1872, showing a decrease since
September 1, 1873, of 164,4^3 bales.
The receipts for the Bame days at the
interior ports, were 28,455 bales against
36,334 last year; shipments 21,869
against 33,211 and stocks 48,991 against
33,784 last year.
The Chronicle’s visible supply table
foots up 1,661,160 bales against 1,981,092
last year, and 1,829,570 the year before—
showing a falling off of 319,932 and 168,-
410 bales respectively.
The Chronicle’s weather reports show
a week favorable to picking. It rained
on three days at Galveston and two days
at New Orleans. There were two days
of severe rain at Vicksburg. At Nash
ville it rained two days; Mobile three
days; one day at Montgomery ; two days
at Selma, and one day each in Columbus,
Savannah, Macon and Augusta. [It is a
mistake about Macon—for with the ex
ception of last Monday—not' included in
the week—there has not been a drop of
ram for a month.]] Killing frosts are re
ported for last week, which the Chronicle
does not credit s but, in truth, it would
not have made a bawbee’s difference with
the crop for the last three weeks, whether
there hod been a killing frost or not.
The mercury average is reported 62 at
Savannah, 65 at Macon, 62 at Columbus,
64 at Mobile, 70 at Montgomery, 66 at
Selma and 67 at Galveston.
The Chronicle reads the Bureau men
a lecture on their October report, but we
are of the opinion that the Chronicle has
missed it this time. The following are
the Chronicle’s general remarks on the
New York cotton market for tho week
ending last Friday night:
The shrinkage in values resulting from
the late panic has made thorough and
very decided progress, so far as cotton is
concerned, during the past week. There
appears to be a general disorganization of
all monetary affairs, and although at
this centre an improvement is evident
week by week, and there has been a de
cided advance during the past seven days,
yet vfery much ground remains to be re
covered before business will begin to ap
proach its normal condition. This dis
organization is showing itself in the con
tinued derangement of the foreign ex
change market crippling shippers in their
movements; in tho derangement of our
domestic exchanges, and in the hoarding
of currency, and the consequent pressure
to sell cotton to acquire currency while
spinners for these and similar reasons
are being forced to dose their mills ;' and
finally, in the . entire 'wiping out of all
spirit or disposition for speculation. Ship
pers have also had to contend the past
week against higher rates for freight.
The natural result of all this is seen in
the steadiness, not to say recklessness,
with wMch cotton has been pressed for sale
at the wharves and in the material de
cline in prices which has taken place in
our market, and the more rapid decline
in the Southern markets.
Middling uplands were quoted in Liver
pool last Friday night at 9 to 9id; at the
same date, in 1862, 91 to 9|; in 1871 91.
The Chronicle translates M. Ott-Trfim-
pler’s annual cotton review dated at'
Zurich, October 9,1873,- which is gener
ally unfavorable to any advance in prices.
Ho infers, however, that with an Ameri
can crop, equal to that last year (3,930.-
000 bales,) there would be a general de
crease of stocks. But, unless some extra
ordinary drawbacks arose, he was count
ing upon a full four million bale crop, with
some hopes of its being exceeded.
Sr. Nicholas.—This is the name of the
illustrated Magazine just issued by Scrib
ner & Co., for the little folks of America,
and edited by Mrs. Mary Mapes Dodge,
formerly of Harper’s Bazar, and Hearth
and Home. “We have received the first
number and pronounce it, without excep
tion, the most admirable periodical of the
kind ever Seen in this country. From
the first page of the beautifully tinted'
cover to the last page thereof, there is
nothing either as to quality of paper,
printing, illustrations and reading matter
that the most dyspeptic critic can cavil
at. It is absolutely perfect, in*our hum
ble judgment. The subscription price is
f 3 per annum.
morning:
Hon Daniel M. Fox, Ex-Mayor of Phil
adelphia, Chairman; Hon. James M. Pat
ton, Ex-Governor of Alabama; Hon. Jas.
H. Campbell, lato United States Minister
to Sweden; Horace J. Smith, Esq.; J.
H. Zeilin, Esq.; Wm. R. Fox, Esq.; Gen.
C. B. Norton, Secretary of Committee.
A special committee of our mo3t prom
inent citizens received these gentlemen
and escorted them to Brown’s Hotel. Af
ter breakfast carriages were provided and
a visit made to the Fair Grounds, whore
the committee were received by Mayor
Huff, and made a most careful examina-
ion of all tbe articles on exhibition.
At 2 p. m. an invitation was extended
to dinner in the large hall in the Fair
Ground, where the party sat down to a
bountifully furnished board; after proper
attention to their duties in this direction,
his honor, the Mayor, arose,and calling at
tention to the presence of the gentlemen
from Philadelphia, proposed the health
of ex-Mayor Fox of that city. To this
Mr. Fox responded in a most felicitous
manner, expressing the great obligations
of oimself and friends for tbe hearty wel
come extended, their surprise and ad
miration at the resources of the State so
perfectly presented at the Fair and, spe
cially at the energy and perseverence re
quired to carry out that enterprise. He
referred to this 03 his first visit to the
South, and expressed the great interest
hefeltin the futureof Georgia, proposing
the health of her Governor, and long con
tinuance of his administration.
Governor Smith, in rising to reply, ex
tended a hearty welcome from the State
of Georgia to the Centennial Committee,
and spoke at length on the resources of
the State, the evening for capital and
labor to be invested, and tbe advantages
of a proper representation of our re
sources. The Governor specially re
ferred to intercommunication between
tbe Northwest and the South to the At
lantic, and the great advantages to be
derived therefrom. He called atten
tion also to the special interest taken by
Mayor Fox in all the products exhibited
by the ladies of Georgia, and assured
him that that section of the Centennial
Exhibition would be equally well repre
sented.
In closing, the Governor presented ex-
Govemor Patton, of Alabama, who
claimed that as his State was a daugh
ter of Georgia, ho could with propriety,
speak for both. Governor Patton ex
pressed his great interest in the Centen
nial enterprise, his confidence in its suc
cess, and his belief that it presented a
most capital opportunity for Georgia to
represent all of her great resources at
one glance, to the millions of visitors
then present.
The Governor closed with a glowing
tribute to the energy and determination
of Mayor Huff, wnich brought this gen
tleman to his feet with a few well chosen
remarks, specially calling attention to
the presence of Mr. Campbell, our late
Minister to Sweden and Norway. The
eloquence of Mr. Campbell completely
aroused the feelings of all present, and
he was interrupted with continued ap
plause. His remarks were most wel
come, and the closing words were a state
ment that all Georgia would be welcomed
by her Bister State, one of the old thir
teen, and that the latchstring of every
Philadelphian would be found on the out
side.
We regret our inability to give Mr.
Campbell’s remarks in full. He was fol
lowed by Judge Anderson, who extended
tho hand of good fellowship to the com
mittee, and united with the Governor in a
desire to see good result frem this visit.
Hon. James H. Blount followed in some
excellent remarks, and short addresses
were delivered by Horace J. Smith, Gen,
Norton, C. W. Styles and others. The
whole affair passed off most satisfactorily,
an-1 every one present was of the impres
sion that it was one of the most nationally
patriotic meetings that had taken place
among us for many years. *
MORE CENTENNIAL ACTION.
A private meeting of citizens was held
at the City Bank at 5 P. k. yesterday, for
the purpose of discussion upon the sub
ject of the Centcntial Exhibition there,
were present, Gov. Smith, CoL Harde
man, C. A. Nutting, Clifford Anderson,
J. H Blount, Hon. A. O. Bacon,
Mayor Huff, Mr. F. J. Champion, Geo. W.
Gustin, Mr. Peters, of Atlanta, B. B.
Lewis,-H. H. Jones and others. All the
members of the Centennial Committee
were present. On motion. Col. Tho3.
Hardeman was called to the chair. Ex-
Mayor Fox presented the subject in a
very clear and forcible manner, giving a
sketch of the organization of the commis
sion by act of Congress. The work of the
commissions during the past »two years,
ami t iie fact that the plaus of the build
ings were now under consideration. He
referred to the charter of the National
Board of Finance, its plan of action, and
the success already attained in the city
of Philadelphia,and the State of Pennsyl
vania. Mr. Fox concluded by expressing
a desire that some action should be taken
which would identify Georgia with this
Great National Enterprise. These re
marks were listened to with tho greatest
interest by all present.
Ex-Governor Patton then addressed
the audience, giving an explanation of
his connection with tne Centennial move
ment, and his perfect'faith'in its success
and proper management, under the con
trol of its present Board. Governor Pat
ton referred to the exhibition of the Pro
ducts of Alabama at tho Paris Exposition,
and the profitable results derived there
from.
The Hon. Mr. Campbell next addressed
those present in a most stirring appeal,
that every citizen of Georgia should be
personally interested in this great enter
prise; that the future of the State was
indelibly connected with its success; that
now was offered the opportunity to pre
sent the resources of the State in a
proper manner; that committees should
be appointed in' every county to select
the minerals, cereals and all vegetable
products—both tropical and from North
ern latitudes—that the world could see
at one glance the great power of this one
of the States of the Union. He
suggested the preparation of maps
illustrating the geology and mineralogy
of the State, and the adoption of snch
other plans as would facilitate the great
object in view. ''
Mr. Horace J. Smith presented the
city of Macon with a fac simile of the de
claration of independence, which was ac
knowledged by Mayor Huff in some very
happy remarks in which he alluded to
the gift as a testimony of friendship from
the city of Philadelphia to the city of Ma
con.
On motion of B. B. Lewis, Esq, sec
onded by Governor Smith, with a few
remarks, a committee of five were
appointed by the chair to adopt proper
resolutions. The following gentle men were
named: Governor Smith, Chairman ; Col.
B. B. Lewis, Gen. Colquitt, Mayor Huff
and H. H. Jones. This committee will
report at 12 m. to-day. •/
shall, about three mile3 from Forsyth,
was burned last Monday morning. Loss
about $500, and no insurances.
feet destruction of their car, is almost
miraculous. The only hurt man is the
i engineer of tlie gravel train. John Grow,
I who had his head badly injured, but he
A lad named Colquitt, living in Ogle- j is not in any serious danger. The au
thorities of tho road have had the track
thorpe county, and aged only thirteen
years, picked four hundred and fifty-six
pounds of cotton one day last week.
Mr. A. G. Townsend, an old citizen of
Johnson county, wa3 b'tten by a rattle
snake One day last week and died in thir
ty-six hours.
cleaned, and the trains are now running
regularly.
Letters for Thomas Troud and Katie
Buckton, Macon, are held for postage in
the Macon office.
The house of Mr. C. W. Gruber, of
Graysville, Catoosa county, was burned
They Look and
They Behave j Early last summer, (TO. y r^ lda, *l
We have seen many “gatherings” of the Beecher scandal VaJJj
Georgians, both before and since the war, nouncement was mad’ tl
but never one that “panned out” more j ties of Plymouth Church ’ M
satisfactorily in appearance and demean- matter in hand with a
or than the one now here. We have seen
finer birds with finer feathers, but none
with a steadier air of individuality and
independence, with heartier, more whole
some faces and general air of the typi
cal Southerner with his easy bearing, bis
frank, hearty manner and cheerful voice.
There are no signs of despondency, or
About the twenty-fifth gin-house that ^ Thursday night while he and his I downheartedness, or giving up to adverse
has been burned this season was that of
Mr. Rufus McConnell, of Decatur county,
which was destroyed last week, together
with five bales of cotton.
'Mr. Bas Dickinson, of Bainbridge, had
his right hand terribly lacerated by a gin
saw last Saturday. We have stopped
counting tbe number of hands and fingers
that have uone this way since the ginning
season set in.
We find this item in the Columbus Sun
of Sunday:
Attempt to Throw a Train from the
Track.—Mr. J. W Barber, who was
passenger on the train from Macon to
Columbus Friday night, reports that on an
an up-grade between Butlor and Geneva
the engine enconntercd a log which had
been laid across the track by some scoun
drels. The train wa3 going very slow at
the time and hence no cars were thrown
off. The cow catcher to the engine was
badly twisted, and some detention occur
red. Mr. Barber was also on the train
which collided with the Albany . freight
the other night. He was slightly injured
by being thrown against a seat.”
From the Enquirer, same date, we
quote as follows:
Death of a Prominent Planter and
Good Man.—We are pained to have to
record the death of Mr. John B. Dozier,
which occurred at his residence in thi3
county at five o'clock on Friday after
noon. He was in the city on Tuesday in
apparently excellent health, attending to
Ms usual business. On Wednesday he
was taken sick, but Ms symptoms were
not considered dangerous until Friday
afternoon, when he died almost suddenly
and unexpectedly. Mr. Doz-'er was one
of the most prominent and successful
farmers of this county; was a man of
sound practical views and sterling quali
ties—combining as much of manly inde
pendence and social excellence as gener
ally falls to the lot of man in any walk of
life- He had resided in Harris and Mus
cogee counties for upwards of forty years.
By reference to our old reminiscences we
learn that he was first married on tho
16th of December, 1834 (then residing in
Harris county), to Miss Eliza Butt, of
Muscogee county. He lived to raise a
number of excellent sons and daughters
—Hon. J. F. Pou and Solicitor W.
Little having married into Ms family.
TheFever at Bainbridge.—The Dem
ocrat says the disease now prevailing
there lias“visited this county to a great
er or less extent since 1867. It differs
from genuine yellow jack, attacking al
most exclusively natives, and those who
have been broken down in health by mi
asmatic fevers. In this disease they suf
fer but little pain in the bead, back or
lower extremities, with little or no delir
ium, but continued nausea and vomiting.
In^our opinion it has ita origin in the in
dividual attacked, and is merely the se
quence of chronic chills-and fevers,'-being
neither infectious or contagions, but the
result of malarial poison in the blood,
which destroys its vitality, thereby de
ranging all the functions of the body.”
The Athens Georgian has a paragraph
headed “An Honest Tax Reciever,” from
wMch we infer that in its opinion such
officials are scarce. It says the honest
Tax Receiver is Mr. D. E. Sims, of that
county, who “called upon a very near con
nection of his, in whose property he Mm-
self will some day be interested, and
asked tbe party to return his land. The
gentleman returned it at what he had
always done, and what, no doubt, he con
scientiously believed to be right, bu
greatly to Ms surprise, Sims refused to
receive it at that price, contending that
he know the land by heart, and insisted
that it was worth at least jive hundred dol
lars more. Ho carried his point, and so
-added a cool five hundred in that one in
stance to the taxable property of the
State.” '
The Savannah New3, of Monday, says
Large Arrivals of Poultry, etc.—
Tho steamship General Barnes, which
arrived at tMs port from New York yes
terday, brought as part of her freight
one of the finest lots of the feathery
tribe that we have ever seen. They are
on their way to the State Fair at Macon,
and are sent as follows: ninety-three
head by P. Williams, of Taunton.*Mass.;
eighty by E. A. Wendells, from Ms Ex
celsior Poultry-yard, Hudson avenue,
New York; twenty-four by E. F. Bailey,
of Mount Kisco, New York. -
The specimens include almost every
variety of; poultry known, and are in size
from the smallest pullet to the largest
known cock. The variety consists of
blue-breasted red game, red and blue
pylo game, shanghaes, bantams, silver
penciled and golden shanghaes. There
are also numerous varieties of turkeys,
ducks and geese, and a number of pigeons
of the white fan, blue slate fan and clio-
gay varieties.
The case of the State vs. Henry John
son, the engineer on the up train of t ie
Macon and Western Railway last Janu
ary’when the collision occurred near
Bear Creek Station, was tried in Henry
Superior Court last week and resulted in
a verdict of “not guilty. 1
The primary vote to nominate Demo
cratic candidates for Mayor and Aider-
men of Atlanta was taken last Monday,
and resulted in the choice of the follow
ing ticket: For Mayor, S. B. Spencer,
who beat' Ms antagonist^ Judge Collier,
twenty-four votes. For Aldermen:
First Ward, A. Haas, J. B. Goodwya;
Second Ward, John Keely, W. D. Ellis ;
Third Ward, R. C. Young, J. G. Kelly.;
Fourth Ward, John EL Flynn, J. G. Wat
kins; Fifth Ward, J. H. Goldsmith, M,
T. SimmonB; Sixth Ward, D. A. Mc
Duffie, A. L. Fowler; Seventh Ward, J.
N. Langston, J C. McMillan.'
The Atlanta Constitution, of yester
day, says:
Yesterday morning, shortly after seven
o’clock, an accident occurred on the Air-
Line road, near Norcross, which resulted
in a badly wrecked engine and a demol
ished passenger car. Fortunately no one
was badly injured. The accommodation
train wMch left Atlanta early yesterday
morning, passed the gravel train on the
road, and proceeded onward with the lat
ter following. About two and a half
miles above Norcross the accommodation
train, wMch, we should state, carried one
passenger coach in the roar, stopped to
take in wood and'water. It was yet early
in the morning, and there was a deep fog
covering everything, making it very diffi
cult to see even a short distance ahead,
moreover the road station was round
quite a short curve. The gravel train
had been following about three miles be
hind, and when the accommodation train
stopped, as above stated, it seeems that the
conductor failed to send back a flag-man or
use any means to notify the engineer of the
gravel train that he had stopped, conse
quently the latter came on at its usual
speed, and the engineer did not see the
train ahead untilright upon it- Although
he used every means to stop it was too
lato to prevent a collision. The engine
went through the passenger coach in the
rear as if it had been paper. The car
was literally torn to pieces, and strewn
along the road. The freight box ahead
was split open. The other cars were not
injured. The engine of the gravel train
was badly wrecked. Although there
were a number of passengers in the coach
at the time they were run into, they es-
family were attending a meeting of the
Good Templars. NotMng at all was
saved - not even a change of clothing.
Moral: Don’t all hands go to night meet
ings at the same time.
Says the Fort Talley Mirror:
.Lively Shooting.— One night last
week, Captain Peter Belvin, a gentleman
living a few miles from Marshallville, had
b-en missing cotton out of Ms gin house.
He armed and equipped Mms'elf with all
the munitions of war available, and took
a good position in the gin house and pa
tiently awaited the arrival of the tMevish
mokes. After a little time three darkeys
put in an appearance, making entrance
through the hole where the gin band
works. As soon as tbey all got in Peter
fired on one, the ball taking effect in the
shoulder. The next shot took effect on
another one of the gang in the hand, and
the third one yelled out, “Oh. Mas Peter,
we’ll all gin up 1” Peter carried Ms cap
tured game to Marshall ville and turned
them over to the officers of the law. We
say “hurrah” for Peter.
Mr. ,W. A. Williams, a section mas
ter on the Macon and Augusta Railroad,
died suddenly of congestive chill in Mil-
ledge ville last Thursday.
The Union and Recorder says j
Another Big Rattlesnake Killed.—
Mr. B. I. Johnson, living in tins-county
near the line of Washington, on Town
creek, killed a rattlesnake on the 15th
instant wMch had fifteen rattles and a
button and measured five and a half feet.
Mr. J. shot the snake, tearing Ms head
pretty well into pieces, and when he
thought he was good dead, palled his tail
fortunes and money stringency. Every Examining Committee of ** |
man’s face has a look of conquering investigation. Thi» ™ Ur< i |
fate, and coming to the top despite all
obstacles.
And their behavior is quite in keeping
| with their looks. There is ho rowdyism,
no drunkenness, no throwing aside of
those social and moral restraints that
the congregation of men in large masses
too often produces. We were on the
ground several hours yesterday, and min
gled pretty freely with the people, but we
didn’t see one man who was visibly under
the infinence of the ardent in the slight
est degree. There was no profane lan
guage, no boisterousness,—nothing, in
short, to make the judicious grieve. These
things reflect great credit npon our State
and people, and it gives us the heartiest
satisfaction to pnt them on record.
A Charming Congress.
The picturesque and charming scenes
presented by the Woman’s Congress in
New York last week’ were well calculated
to disarm all criticism. The hall was
crowded to its utmost capacity with rich
ly dressed and handsome women, and the
stage was filled with ladies, who had
assumed, as it were, involuntary, grace
ful groups, such as axe never seen among
men in a public assemblage. Prominent
among the rest was'Lillian Edgerton, a
tail and beautiful woman, with a wealth
w of brown hair, a lofty brow, and wearing
across a pole to”cut off his rattles as a I a rich silk, while Mrs. Corbin from out
trophy, when to the surprise and horror
of Johnson, the snake gave a wiggle and
flung Ms bloody head about j.’s legs.
There was some tall jumping, you bet.
The Mechanics' Hook and Ladder
Company of Savannah have withdrawn
from the fire department of that city.
We find the following items in the Co
lumbus Sun, of Tuesday: „ . -
Heavy Damages.—We hear that the
West sat back on the stage netCr Maria
Mitchell. Her black silk dress, with great
black buttons and great velvet bands,
called forth tne admiration of all present.
She was declared by unanimous consent
to be tbe best dressed woman in Congress
Phoebe Cousins, of St. Louis, the young
lady lawyer, dressed in the height of
fasMon, and who was said to be the best
: legal and'Mstorical scholar of the Con
gress, was on hand, her deep qnd scLntii-
family of Sir. Miller, the mail agent on I toti % bhM * T,l , f eat
the Soil Hi western railroad, who wm killed ra P ldll 7 over 1111 theseaof upturned laces.
the Southwestern railroad, who was killed
in the collision at Seago station, has in
stituted suit, or intends doing so, for
$10,000 damages.
River—The Rain and Boats.—A
good rain fell yesterday morning. We
hope to have more, though in the after
noon the clouds cleared away. Captain
Johnson, the agent of the Central Line of
Boats, tells us the river to 2 o’clock in
the afternoon had risen four inches. TMs
shows that good rains have fallen in the
up country. He would not telegraph for
a boat to come up unless there was three
feet of water on the bar. The boats now
come no higher than Fort Gaines, and
have as much a* they can do in carrying
cotton to Bainbridge.
Bril i j ant Marriage in Wynnton.—
Yesto.day morning at the residence of
Mr. Thomas F. Threewits, in Wynnton,
Wm. L. Chambers, Esq., and Miss Laura
L. Clopton, were married. The ceremony
was performed by the remarkable Dr.
L. Pierce, who had officiated at the mar
riage of the grandfather, and the father
of the groom. The bride was beautifully
in blue silk, and with the chaste
blush of youth and love upon her cheek,
was a fair picture of grace and loveliness.
The attendants were Clias. J. Swift and
Miss Susie Threewits, Flewellen Cham
bers and Miss Lila Emil. T-m w.Ilod
pair left on the aft-moon tra : nfor Macon,
A dispatch from Cape May City, Octo
ber 23, says: About twenty years ago,
Captain Baymore, lying with his vessel
in the port of New Orleans, had with Mm
his little son, three years of age, who,
while playing around the docks, was sud
denly missed. Every effort was used
to find Mm, even to searching in the
river, but all was unavailing, and he was
given np as drowned. A day or two ago
a stranger, with heavy black beard and
language of strong German accent, made
Ms appearance, and claimed to be the
long-lost son. From Ms stoiy it seems
that He was stolen by a Dutch captain,
who cared for him and educated him as
Ms own.
The fcoy always supposed that he was
his father until otherwise informed by
the Dutch skipper on Ma death-bed, who
gave him Ms real father’s name, ani told
him he used to live somewhere in Cape
May, county, N. J. His search there was
rewarded by finding his father still alive
and a resident of his former home; but,
strange to say, his father refused to own
Mm, his belief being so firm that Ms boy
was drowned. The son had with him the
newspaper containing the advertisement
for his body, which the Dutchman had
preserved. It is said that the young
land with a view to-1
investigation. This ' 1
proposed to secure undercover
preferred against Mr, H b!1 _ ‘ *
and Mr. Theodore Tilton, '
of Plymouth Church, who w J ,
accused of publishing andcin ’
ders against their pastor.
Formal barges were j
Deacon West and were refe^.
man i3 in good circumstances, and he
to witness the fair; thence to Nashville | started on hi? ret—n to Ms present home,
to visit relations. The bride is a dangh- I wMch is in Mexico.
ter of Hon. David Clopton, of Montgom
ery, and the groom, the second son of
Judge Wm. H. Chambers, of Russell
county, Alabama. He is a young lawyer
recently admitted to the bar, and will bo
the junior partner of the celebrated legal
firm, Stone & Clopton, of Montgomery.
The lust Greensboro Herald has a long
account of the hanging of George Cope-
lan, negro, last Friday, for the murder of
Miss S. A. Richards in May, 1871, from
wMch we quote as follows:
When the rope was placed around Ms
neck, Sheriff English told him that- he
had half an hour in wMch he could say
whatever he desired. Tho statement
that follows was made partly in reply to
questions that were asked: “ I am in a
bad condition and hope it will be a warn
ing to all; but God bas forgiven me. I
know that I must die; have no hope of
anytMng else but death right now, and I
must prepare to meet it—must make
peace below; there is no repentance be
yond the grave. It was a bad affair—
there was nobody with me—I went into
it myself, all by myself. The devil led
me theteq went to get money; pretty
much intended to MIL I went in the
house, stood by the fireplace and talked
to her a few minutes, then struck her on
Tlie Resumption Talk.
The talk about early resumption of
specie payments .is handsomely riddled in
the following - from Mr. Edwards, Presi
dent of the New York Gold Exchange:
To talk about probable early resump
tion, says Mrs. Edwards, when the gold
in our possession represents only twelve
per cent, of our indebtedness, is simply
absurd, and the decline in the price of
gold he attributes to two causes, the large
shipment of specie to this country from
England, and the fact that business hav
ing been temporarily depressed, there is
not so active a demand for the precious
metal as when trade is brisk and mer
chants have to obtain specie to meet their
obligations to the Government. As soon
as business revives gold is certain to ad
vance in. price. He does not, however,
anticipate snch an advance in the rate of
discount by the Bank of-England that
the flow- of gold to thi3 country must
cease, for as long as the produce on this
side of the water is so urgently needed
on the other, gold will continue to come.
TMs year the balance of trade is $60,000,-
OOO.in our favor, while last year it was
$100,000,000 against us; and Mr.
- ■■P . M-
yrards believes that as soon as confidence
the hack of the head with a stick; she * again restored we shall enter upon an
fell by the fire; I dragged her out on the
floor and raped her; she said, go away;
I then took a case knife and cut her
throat; she did not speak when I done
this; I took money out of her pocket;
got the meat, took her watch out of
the sideboard; took sugar, flour and
butter; I took some clothes and
spool thread, but burnt them up;
I then put fire on the floor, and while the
house was burning went home. There
was nobody else there. At precisely 12
o'clock, the sheriff cut the com that held
the trap-door; the rope broke and he fell
with a crash down the stairway, caught
in a Sitting posture, and remained silent
and motionless; not a tremor shook Ms
frame; Ms countenance was placid, and
indicated no pain whatever. . He seemed
in a perfect sleep.. At fifteen minutes
past twelve, he was again drawn up, mak
ing a gutteral sound and struggling con
siderably. In four minutes he ceased to
struggle, at the expiration of the fifth
minute a slight tremor struck Mm and
he drew one breath. In. fifteen minutes
his pulse, ceased, but his heart still beat
feebly. At thirty minutes it was doubt
ful whether there wits any pulsation, at
thirty-five minutes Mr. Walker again de
tected pulsation at the heart, at ten min
utes past one life was pronounced extinct.
No blame attaches to the sheriff for the
accident to the rope. It was large and
deemed strong enough by all who saw it.
The last Griffin Star baa these para
graphs:
§. The Dupree will case was settled by
compromise last week, by wMcb Mr.
Charles Dupree, of Bear Creek, got
$4,000; Fleming Dupree, of this'county,
got $4,000. These were brothers of the
deceased. Their lawyers seem also to be
old Dupree heirs, as they get the lion’s
share, being $12,000. Messrs. Peeple3
and Stewart got $3,800. On the other
side Bob Toombs got about $20,000.
Linton Stephens’ estate got a big share,
and Alexander Stephens also. After the
lawyers all got through there was still
a big pile left for old man Dupree’s chil
dren.
era of solid prosperity, in healthy con
trast to the speculative tendency in busi
ness which recently obtained.
investigation. Tim committee teT j
era! sessions to consider the , *
finally accepted tbe chares
tlon brought the matter rtSi Ml
them. But there the ma&^
since, and much curiosity hi, i
ifested to know why theifaJS? 1 »
was not proceeded with It r
pires that the reason for
an intimation from Mr 11
committee that it would 1
him if they would let tte SMI
until the end of Ms usual
cation. It is also urged as an
reason for delay teat the iufluajM
accused parties has been exerSt “
pone action as long as posadaT” 11
ever tins may be, the commits
lhursday evning of last weekwM*
subject was brought upandthe ™ 11
of proceeding fully discus**! *
protracted debate it was re-kT 51
tne matter should be disposed of til.
little further delay as possible-I
was also decided that but one tall Si,*
be taken up at a time. It w*s u C -
cided to take up the charges
Theodore Tilton first, and theda
instructed to issue the proper Jute 3
geiiwACicuui to appear before
mittee and make his ausver^
charges. This will bring the ciseavl
him directly to issue, when the i-Vd
gation can proceed without the
more time. ,
The tribunal selected for the trial oftl
charges, tiieExamin ng Committ,-. i,
of the standing committees of tbe cb*
whose duty it is to act upon quest oT 1
caurch discipline and the adnuste °
members. It is composed of the n—
co A and deaconesses, with some of ^
more devout and prominent coihe-j
cants of the church, and numbers i
twenty members. Its autuoritr t
that of the session of a PrjL
church, is merely alvhory. pij
Caurch being a congregational orL
tion every member in good and re-
standing has a right to participate at
administration of its dLcipline.
oommittoe’s duty will end when it t
have heard all tlie evidence in the u*.
and submitted it, with its reeommethl
tion, to the assembled church for Snalxl
tion. .The proceedings before the cJ
mittee are, however, strictly T-rivate.-T
Sun. v h _ '
The Khedive of Egypt is described si
person of culture, speaking frar''
with ease, and English a little; Mbejl
ucated at the Polytechnic School *
Paris, and wearing the dress of Ciristai,
people. He is a shrewd and rich aeJ
chant, and not a soldier by propenjrrJ
and Ms income and the luiury of 'i : 3
court exceed the tales of Haroud alMJ
chid’s splendor, He has an income oS
$110,000,000 per annum, or above {305,-1
000 a day. He has twenty-seven pal
all the corporate property—or that*
with us would he controlled by corjanl
tions—in the country, and no laws win-J
ever hut what he can think of fromdsjl
today. He has four wives and avail I
harem, and, being an unwise hiuUniJ
does not know all his own ehfl-lren; jell
he is temperate and prudent, “andstiEJ
he is not happy.” He wants to teal
King, but the domination of Turhej sis 1
upon his dreams like the gobbler on tit]
full boy after a Christmas dinner.
As the passenger train of the Ore®
and California railroad was recentlf n J
ning south below Comstock’s statku
Douglass county, the engineer saw jm-t I
ahead some animals on the track. The!
customary whistles were sounded, but th*l
animals budged not. Before the to I
could be stopped the cowcatcher of til I
locomotive hit one of them and broke :*j S
leg. Then they were for the first tin I
distinctly seen—and they proved to hi
five deer. They stood stock still, focifl
the bright blazing headlight, a little of I
the track, all except the one that was tit, I
wMch stood with one leg over the rai I
When the train stopped the four that wet I
unhurt bounded off at high speed, and fit I
wounded buck limped away out of sight-1
Had any one on the train been arsed j
with a pistol or gun the deer might hare j
been easily killed.
Among the first who hastene! tout I
relief of the Shreveport sufferers was 11
beautiful young lady of Philadelphia- w:o I
was willing to brave even the terror of I
death to give aid and comfort to tit P
helpless victims of a terrible scourge-
She was Agnes, the daughter of a UmU-i
States naval officer, deceased, aui j
adopted by S. and Agnes Arnold, oi P™* I
adelphia, when scarcely three years °;- f
At Shreveport her noble bravery ana
votion gained for her the titlo of An.’=- !
Agnes. One night, while walking r -t-
a sick cMld in her arms, she fell down:
stairway and fractured her spine, aw
died in great ageny. Only a few
previous her intended husband, who
followed her to Shreveport, died with ** |
fever.
In view of a large increase of L
tion from Europe the coming y^r- *5 I
authorities are making effortsr
course toward the Dominion. .■*neg 11 I
in- Wash- eminent offers to agricultural kbwff,. I
passage from Liverpool to ^ j], f
$1-1 for all over eight years. '
rio government grants to the em’rtf-'L
or person or associations aiding, ?>]>-]■ I
so that the actual cost of the J***S\, f
Society Short.—“Society’
ington is short of funds, and is going to
be rery quiet this winter—-content itself
with crackera and sardines. Jenkins says
letters have been received ■ from a num
ber of Congressmen who have heretofore reduced^ to '*$5^ Other emigw?t=>M
been accompanied by their families to comincr under the head of
the effect that they will come on alone.
Gen. Butler and a number of others, who
have always kept house, have determined
to live In lodgings. If the President’s
idea of providing houses for cabinet min
isters and senators could be earned into
effect it would please a good many, but it
is not to be supposed that the representa
tives will consent to anything like this
unless they are to be included in this
nice little' arrangement.
The State Lunatic Asylum.—We had
a call yesterday from Dr. T. F. Green,
the efficient superintendent of the State
Lunatic Asylum. The doctor reports
that the general health of the establish
ment has been very good during the sum
mer and fall. The asylum is full and,
except as vacancies occur, he will soon
have to give notice that no more patients
can be received. There are now about
780, and besides these, there are 670 ap
plicants for admission on file.
A Number of New England manufac
turers have sent representatives to Wash
ington to see the President, and to rep
resent to him that unless he, asserting
(as he does) the right of the secretary of
the treasury to inflate the currency, shall
inflate it so as to put more money in cir
culation, they will be obliged to stop
work, and this, they say, will cause an all
coming under the head of aghc . .
laborers, pay $23 for the voyage, o,
the government remits $5, making
cost $18.
Professor Silliman has recently j
attention to the probable oecuntte ^
small diamonds in the sands kw "L
sluices of hydraulic washings mj- I
nia. A microscopic examination ,
ole of these sands from Cbere* » .
Butte county, revealed the
numerous crystals of hyacinth or - ,
associated with crystals of *
ments of quartz, black grains of e- 1 ^
and titanic iron ore, and a
masses of a highly refracting sul; ;
wMch, from its physical and o__,
characters, is believed to be true dia 1 "
French anecdote: “Said a
‘Justine, you must present every'^te.
me on a waiter.’ The next day
tress heard the servant talking ^
ante-chamber with some one 1"^
asked her whom she was talkm,, . T
'With my sister, madame; rim? 8 ,
a place.’ *1 will help her to get o ” -i.
the mistress; ‘but why don t JJriF'tej
her to me ?’ *It can’t be done, an= ^
Justine. ‘She must he very ^ is
sister.’ ‘Ah, mon Dieu, maoH® 1 » ^
not toat; it’s because I can t g et
to the waiter.’ ”
It so hapuens that Mr. Castro si»* ^
' machine is to be tried pretty
vs up ships and things at any =
nal
blows
distance from shore.
Now couldn't^
A mournful story is told by a Maine
editor: “The winds of autilmn will soon winter’s run on the savings bonks of New
wMstle shrilly; the noose flies south- I England.' This appeal may explain some
late dispatches from Washington inti
mating intended drafts on the so-called
“$44,000,000 reserve.”
shrilly; the goose flies south
ward; the air speaks of snow and ice;
everything betokens that in a few weeks
more the fall season will have ended, and
circuses and snake shows will be no
more!”
In a letter to a friend a young lady of
A couple living in Womelsdorf, Berke
unty. Pa., have been married over sev
Tn;_.- . , 7 * —a / rwuuby, jra., nave Deen married over sev«
Si They have fifty-five great-
but she sees a cloud above the horizon
about as large as a man’s hand.
grandchildren and four great-great-grand-
-
umuuiuu inmi auuic. - Tt ,f.bce-
the poets be put aboard the
and Mr. Castro engaged, a* jj hr
salary, to practice ou that boat ^y
struck it with his little joker. * v
he lifts an ordinary steam-hip^
ninety feet out of the water, ano ' ^
body ever bears of the pieces a.
—Neio Orleans Times.
A Sunday-school teacher.
the first chapter of Genesis.
“Why did God oommand them w ^
- the fruit of one tree untouched • c s p
silence. At last a little girl K i it
I and said: "Please, marm, I
j wanted to leave some for maniww*