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MACON. JULY 21. 1874.
The experience o£ Western Massachu
setts in flnma and reservoirs this year has
been valuable, but then it cost a great
deal in life and money.
The Copiah (Miss.) Herald says that a
cotton field surrounded by a few jute
plants is safo from the worm. If that be
so, it is equally true that the jute trans
ferred into bagging will hold the cotton
after it has been saved.
Bibb County.—Tho Democratic Ex
ecutive Committee of Bibb county agreed
yesterday to elect delegates to the dis
trict Congressional convention by ballot
on tho Sih proximo, and send them to
the convention without instructions.
0$kosh. in Michigan, on Winnebago
late, to the extent of her inches lays
Chicago in the shade. It i3 a small town
of a few thousand people and claims to
havo lost six hundred houses and a mil
lion dollars value in tho fire of la3t Mon
day. '
Chicago Again in Flamrs.—The fire
of tho 14th had scarce been extinguished
before another brote out in the after
noon of the same day in a different quar
ter of tho city, which consumed 1,520
buildings in the course of four or five
hours. Is it possiblo that Chicago likc3
the excitement?
French Apfaibs.—The Committee of
Thirty Deputies in tho National Assem
bly reported yesterday a scheme of reor
ganization which will attract the notice
of tho reader. It looks like a good one
to us,—the status taken into account;
but all the factions combine against it,
and it is doomed to defeat next week.
The French Assembly is, for the most
part, a collection of mere party discords.
Cobk in Central Alabama.—The
Montgomery Advertiser says there is
one universal verdict that the com crop
is the best ever known. The largest
ear of com of the season, says that pa
per, was on exhibition in the city yester
day. It was ten inches in length, ten
inches in circumference, weighed three
and a half pounds and contained 1,326
grains, disposed in 26 rows containing an
average of 51 grains each.
Montpelier School.—Mr. Polhill’s
school, at Montpelier, begins its second
session next Monday, 20th instant. This
is a good, downright school. As an in
structor Mr. Polhill has established a
reputation by a long career in Macon,
which could not well be increased. His
present locality was selected long ago by
the venerable Bishop Elliott as tho site
of a summer boarding school for young
ladies on account of its coolness, health
fulness and beauty, and is really a sana-
tarium as well as a place of instruction.
The boys can develops mentally and
physically in equal pace.
The Dark and Bloody Ground.”—
Elder B. B. Tyler, of Frankfort, Ky.,
preached last Sunday, a solemn remon
strance on the prevalence of violence and
murder in the State of Kentucky. That
he did not make his protest too strong is
certain. Wo hate to say it, but Kentucky
is winning for herself a very bad pre-em
inence, and it is high time for the man
hood and moral worth of that State to
rouse up for a lustration. The Kentuck
ians have a State of almost unrivaled
natural value. Let them show them
selves worthy of their glorious heritage
by redeeming it from violence and law
lessness.
Montgomery Matters.—The Adver
tiser says the merchants of Montgomery
are anticipating a heavy trade this Fall.
Tho ice factory of Montgomery is sup
plying every town, village and eity in
the State accessible by rail.
A great many early vegetables, water
melons, canteloupcs and peaches have
been shipped from Montgomery to Nash
ville, Louisville and Chicago this season.
Tho profit is considerable.
Newcastle coal is sold in Montgomery
at $3.75 per ton, and it will be sold at
that price until the railroad freight is
advanced. What should be the freight
cost to Macon ?
Old Father Truman.
The civil rights bill has brought to
the surface a gentleman we supposed
permanently beneath it long ago. That
is the Hon. Truman Smith, long a
member of Congress from Connecticut,
whom tho Whigs of thirty years ago
used even then to stylo "Old Father
Truman.” Truman was a politician of
the Seward pattern—a wily party tacti
cian, who was considered tho shrewdest
man in the Whig ranks for organizing a
campaign.
Truman Smith has written and printed
an open letter to Brownlow, suggested
by the latter’s attitude on the civil
rights bill, and thi3 letter proves that,
old as Smith may be, ho has l03t nono of
his political cunning and sagacity. Ho
says to Brownlow:
I fully concur with you in the opinion
that this measure is not only uncalled for
at this time, but would ho fraught with
serious evil3 to both races, and particu
larly the colored race. Having in view
only the true interest and highest welfare
of the latter, this measure, without a
shadow of practicability in it, should
not, in my judgment, have passed the
Senate, and should be unhesitatingly re
jected by tho House when it comes before
it at the next session. Tho evil at which
it strikes, to-wit, tho prejudice of color,
should be left for extirpation by means
and causes which emancipation is certain
ere long to bring into activity.
He then proceeds to say that the hill
will break up the public schools and unite
tho great body of tho white race in tho
South against the blacks. With the
qualification that tho Union will he
against the colored politicians, every man
will admit that old Truman’s head is
level and he speaks like a Truman.
But Truman comes to tho marrow of
the bone when he goes on, at length, to
show how the bill will give the govern
ment of tho country into tho hands of a
desperate and hungry faction of Northern
Democrats and "unrepentant rebels'.”
This is what agonizes old Truman, and
bedims hi3 spectacles with briny tears.
We shall not say that Truman’s head i3
not level here also.
Tlie Last Reservoir Collapse.
A New York dispatch of the 14th gives
the following report of the last collapse
of a reservoir, in Massachusetts, near
Chester:
At four o’clock last Sunday afternoon,
Deacon Harry Mcacham, who lives one
quarter of a mile from the upper dam,
visited it, feeling anxious lest the long
continued and heavy rains had weakened
its walls. The dam appeared to him all
right, hut ho bethought him that possi
bly the dam of Little Goose pond had
given way, and he went np there to in
vestigate. Cooling back after finding
that all right and again surveying the
dam, he was about to turn away satisfied,
when he was horrified to sec a heavy land
slide on the lower slope. Knowing at
once what that meant, he got out his
horse, mounted him in haste, and dashed
down to Blush Hollow, carrying.
the alarm op the coming waters.
The warning was swift enough, giving
quite ten minutes for the escape of the
men, women and children to a hillside
situated in Skinnersville, but further off.
At the end of about ten minutes the
flume gave way and a wall of water sixty
feet wide, covered with a cap of snowy
foam, rushed through it with a roar and
descended the main street with more
than the force of an Alpine avalanche.
The terrified people stood on the hillsides
in safety and watched the destroying
wave. Leaving the main street, it
branched eastward, rolled down in the
rear of the houses and into Blush Hollow,
an adjoining village. Houses
WENT DOWN LIKE TEN PINS.
Trees were tom up by the roots and
carried along by the wave, and even the
earth wa3 torn and furrowed as though
with a mammoth plow. For half an
hour the flood maintained its mighty
force. At 4:30 p. m. it reached the lower
dam. This influx broke the second dam
whose waters poured forth to add to the
power of tho wave. Beaching Chester
the waters carried away a wooden bridge,
more or less damaged tho foundations,
fining and stocks of several manufactur
ing establishments and quite ruined
many fields and gardens. Below thi3
village the flood gradually lost it3 force
and rower of mischief.
Eufaula Matters.—Tho Times says
there was not a pound of "meat,” that is
to say, cured swine’s flesh, on sale in Eu-
faula last Monday and Tuesday. What
a blessing! Tho people were driven to
eat fat mutton and poultry.
Tho rain of Saturday and Sunday lifted
the Chattahoochee fifteen feet. White
Oak creek was higher than ever before
known. Mosquitoes were numerous, fat
and lively, biting the prettiest girls of
Barbour just as freely xt3 tho toughest
old African. Tho wretches show no dis
tinction of age, sex, race, or previous con
dition.
Wo are pained to seo from tho Times
that a young minister who recently went
to Eufaula to preach on probation for tho
office of pastor of tho large and influen
tial Baptist charcli of that city, discred
ited his sacred office and himself, by go
ing on a drunken frolic daring which he
loft the city last Sunday morning.
Mr. Wesley Stone, a well-known plan
ter of Barbour county, died on Sunday
last.
The Times says that nothing liko the
present corn crop of Barbour has been
seen there for tho post twenty years. It
is safe and really magnificent. The cot
ton crop is endangered by much rain*
Sickness is complained of in the lower
port of th§ county.
“The Friend of the South.”—The
Chicago Tribune also notes the point
that all accounts from the South indicate
.that tho President at this time is looked
upon in that section as the future friend
of the white people in their struggle
with the colored race for political su
premacy, though procioug little evidence
has lie given as yet of any special inter
est in their behoof.—New York Herald.
The President is a particular friend of
General Grant, and his devotion to that
gentleman is too* engrossing to admit of
any strong outside attachment. What
ever else may be said of the President,
iio man will cliargehim of unfaithfulness to
his own interests, and wherever these lead
him there he is sure to be. Color makes
no difference to the President on this
question. He goes in for himself, on the
principles of the civil rights bill—with-
out destruction of race, color or previous
condition.
• * • • • '
Thb only colored graduate from Yale
this year, Mr. Bouchet, comes out sixth
in a class of one hundred and twenty-five.
Totbe Surviving Members of tho Third
Regiment of Georgia Yolunteors.
Augusta, Ga., July 14, 1874.
Friends and Countrymen: As tho last
commanding officer of the old Third
Georgia, I take pleasure and pride in en
dorsing and uniting in tho movement
among our comrades to celebrate the first
reunion of tho surviving members of the
regiment, at Union Point, on the 30th
and 31st instant.
Such a reunion in these times of peace
of those who have stood side by side and
unflinching amidst the din and dangers
of many a hard fought battle, cannot but
prove gratifying in its features and hap
py in its results.
Every arrangement has been made for
the succe33 of the occasion, and some e£
fort will doubtless be inaugurated to per
petuate in enduring form the glorious
history of the war-worn organization.
Be assured your presence in full num
bers is earnestly requested. Over the
line of the Georgia railroad and connec
tions members of the regiment will be
transported for one fare and return freo.
Hoping to meet you all on the days of
the reunion, I have the honor to be,
comrades,
Very respectfully yours,
Claiborne Snead,
Surviving Colonel of 3d Go. Reg’t.
The Abuse of the Pardoning Power
by Moses, so-called Governor of Sonth
Carolina, was illustrated the other day
by Mackey, a circuit judge of his own
kidney, who, in sentencing Calvin Black,
a notorious rascal, convicted of .arson,
thought it necessary to protest in ad
vance, in open court, against on antic!
pated pardon. Says Mackey:
The verdict was rendered by an im
partial jury of singular intelligence,
composed of five white and seven colored
citizens, selected by the prisoner, who
had forty challenges. The evidence de.
vcloped the fact that a child abont seven
years of age was consumed in the bum
ing dwelling-house.
I do, therefore, in the name of violated
law, protest pgainst Executive clemency
being extended in this case by'tlio Chief
Magistrate, F. J. Mo3e3, Jr., who has so
prostituted tho pardoning power as to
make the administration of the criminal
law a mockery of justice, and convert
the broad seal of the State into the sym
bol of approved crime.
The dog war has broken out violently
in Nashville, the city authorities paying
fifty cents per head for victims.
"Sam, why don’t yon talk, to your
master, and tell him to lay np treasures
in heaven ?” "What’s de use of him lay
ing up treasures up dar ? He never ‘ see
um again.”
We learn from a Western newspaper
that of four millions of trees planted
along the line of a certain railway oom-
p&ny, less than three per cent, have failed,
and the rest are doing well. This is good
news from a prairie country, and goes
far toward solving the problem of tree
planting on the open, wild and endless
reaches of prairie land in the West.—New
Tork Herald.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Atlanta News of the 15th an
nounces the death, at Senoia, of CoL C.
M. Heard, formerly a prominent citizen
of Troup county.
A little son of Mr. J. S. Bettis, a mer
chant doing business in Atlanta, was se
riously, if not fatally injured, on Tues
day, by the passage of a loaded dray over
his body.
H. L. McCub, who was lately fined
$600 by Judge Hopkins, for complicity in
tho Spencer robbery, has been paid out
out by his friends.
The case of violation of the enforce
ment act, from Newton county, mentioned
several days ago, says tho Atlanta News
of tho 15th, camo up for investigation be
fore Commissioner Smyth yesterday, on
the following count: The United States
vs. H. P. Stanton, Elisha Elliott, Isaac
Stanton, Clem Wright, George Brooks,
W. P. Patrick, et. al. • "Violation of tho
enforcement act.” The circumstances of
the caso were as follows: On the 13thof
June last Henry Stanton, a citizen of
Newton county, had stolen from him
$1,000 in gold. Suspicion attached from
some cause to Simon Hardeman, (colored,)
an employe on the farm of Capt. J. Mc
Connell, who lived about three miles from
Stanton. A few days afterward Stanton
procured a warrant for the arrest of
Simon Hardeman. Thomas Patrick, the
bailiff, accompanied by Stanton and
others, proceeded to arrest Hardeman,
and started with him in the night time
to the offices of "justice Dobbins. While
en route for that place they were met by a
company of men who demanded the pris
oner. ‘Upon getting possession of him
they carried him to a thicket near by, and
beat him severely in order to make him
confess the theft; the negro did so and
wa3 released. Tho bailiff then took pos
session of him, carried him to the Justice
of the Peace, who committed him to jail
to await a trial before tho Superior Court
at the next term. A few days afterwards
Capt. McConnell procured a writ of ha
beas corpus and hod Hardeman brought
beforo the County Court. After an in
vestigation he was released on a bond of
$250. After his release Hardeman re
ported the case to the United States au
thorities, who had parties arrested and
brought np for trial. Upon the case be
ing called yesterday Col. Hillyer, counsel
for the defense, waived an examination
before tho Commissioner. The parties
were then admitted to bond for their ap
pearance before the United States Circuit
Court at its next term. H. P. Stanton’s
bond was placed at $500, and tho balance
at $300.
Col. R. A. Alston announces himself
os a candidate for nomination in tho 5th
congressional district.
Atlanta has a cock fight on Satur
day.
James Miller, the ex-Howe Sewing
Machine agent in Atlanta, has been-tried
and found not guilty upon a charge of
larceny after trust.
The Constitution of yesterday morn
ing ha3 the following in regard to the
Air-Line railroad accident.
Yesterday morning about four o’clock
the lumber train on the Air-Line met
with a serious accident at Peachtree
creek bridge. A broken bumper head
dragging caused the crossties to pile up
and caused seven loaded lumber cars to
go over, taking with them four bents of
tho bridge. Tho cars were wrecked.
The engine and five cars escaped, and
had gone two or three miles before it
discovered the loss of the other part of
the train.
There were sixteen hands on the train,
all colored. Being at an early hour the
most of them were asleep when the cars
went over. One jumped off and sus
tained a fracture of his shoulder. Henry
Whitfield was instantly killed a scant
ling mashing his brains out. Ten were
wounded.
The Air Line railroad ha3 built a pas
senger coach at its Atlanta shops.
The stock of the Atlanta Street rail'
road is $166,000. Of this amount $154,-
000 is owned by E. Peters and G. W.
Adair, the remaining $12,000 by other
parties.
A Gainesville letter to the Atlanta
Herald says:
A house builder named Frost, a very
worthy citizen, was at work on a house,
in the town, that he was putting up. He
was standing on a plank working on a
window but a few feet off the ground.
The plank slipped and he was thrown to
tho ground, striking his kneo against a
brick, hurting him considerably for a
short while, but not preventing him from
continuing work tho rest of the afternoon.
On Sunday evening he died from the
seemingly trivial injury.
Sixty pounds i3 the weight of the big
gest watermelon Savannah ha3 had this
season.
Savannah has had twenty-one inter
ments during the week ending the 13th.
DEMOCRATIC EXECUTIVE COM
MITTEE.
The Rail Put in Motion.
Important Recommendations.
Pursuant to the coll of tho Chairman,
the Executive Committee of tho Demo-
cratie party of Bibb county met yester
day and adopted the following resolu
tions :
1. Eesolved, That a convention of tho
Democratic party of Bibb county is here
by callled to meet at the Court-house, in
Macon on Saturday, the 8th day of Au
gust next to select delegates to represent
the county in the Cougressional conven
tion.
2. Eesolved, That we recommend that
polls he opened at said Court-house at
the usual place of voting, from 7 o’clock
a. m. to 5 o’clock T-ir; of said day; and
that upon said day six delegates shall be
elected to represent tho county in said
Congressional Convention—tho six per
sons receiving tho highest, number of
votes shall be declared to ho said dele
gates.
3. Eesolved, That said election be held
in tho usual manner, except it shall not
bo necessary to keep but one list of vot
er? and make out but one tally sheet.
4. Eesolved, That tho managers of
said election report tho result thereof to
a meeting of the party, which is hereby
called to meet at 8}- o’clock of the same
day at the City Hall, and that the chair
man of said meeting furnish the delegates
elect with their credentials, and appoint
a new Executive Committee for the
county.
5. Eesolved, That we recommend that
the delegates thus elected shall so cast
their vote3 os to best subserve tho inter
ests of the party.
On motion, the following preamble and
resolutions were adopted:
Whereas, There is dissatisfaction in
some of the counties of this Congression
al district at the call of tho chairman of
tho Congressional Execntive Committee;
and, whereas, it is alleged that said call
is illegal, because said call was made by
the chairman without consulting the
committed; and, whereas, it is desirable
to preserve harmony in the party and to
secure a full delegation in the conven
tion to nominate a candidate for Con-
gross. '
Be it therefore resolved by the Execu
tive Committee of the Democratic party
of Bibb county, That the Hon. B. F.
Ward, the Chairman of the Execntive
Committee of this Congressional District,
is respectfully requested to call a meet
ing of said Executive Committee, and af
ter a full consultation, call a convention
to meet at such time and place as they
may agree upon.
T. Hardeman, Chairman.
T. J. Simmons, Secretary.
BY TELEGRAPH.
Important from France—Defeat of
the Ministry—Report of the Com
mittee of Thirty.
Paris, July 15.—The debate on Maguo’s
tax proposals was continued in the As
sembly to-day. The Minister, referring
to the vote on the salt tax, accused the
Bepublican deputies of subordinating the
financial interests of the country to polit
ical considerations.
This was followed by a scene of tumult
and disorder, -which compelled President
Buffcl temporarily to suspend the sitting.
Subsequently the Minister’s proposi
tion to increase certain taxes wa3 reject
ed—335 to 256.
This result involves the defeat of
Mague’s entiro financial plans.
Ventavan from the Committee of
Thirty read their report on the various
constitutional propositions referred to the
committee and recognizes the irrevoca
bility of President’s MacMabon’s power,-
but declares the septenate merely a truce
to party for seven years.
Tho committe decides to set aside Pe-
riero’s hill and substitute their own,
which consists of six clauses:
First—The maintenance of tho title
of President of the Bepublic.
Second—Tho establishment of ministe
rial responsibility.
Third—Confers legislative powers upon
two Chambers—the appointment of the
members of the Upper House or Senate
to be tbe subject of a future bill.
Fourth—Provides that the President
alone is authorized to dissolve the Lower
House or Chamber of Deputies.
Fifth—Prescribes that a Congress of
both Chambers shall provide for the con
tinuance of the government in caso Mar
shal MacMahon dies, resigns or reaches
the end of his term of office.
Sixth—Declares that no modification
of these constitutional laws is to he al
lowed unless first proposed by the Presi
dent.
The Assembly appointed Monday next
for debate on the report.
All Parliamentary parties are disap
pointed. Tho Left considers that the
committee’s bill aims at a dictatorship,
without putting an end to party agita
tion. The Legitimists and Imperialists
are also against it, and its rejection is
considered certain.
The Assault on Bismarck.
London, July 16, 8:30 a. m.—Tho
Standard says later accounts from Kis-
singen represent that Bismarck’s condi
tion is not as favorable as was at first
reported. Ho has feverish symptoms,
and slept little on Tuesday night.
Bismarck has had another interview
with Kuhlmann, and tho latter now as
serts ho planned tho shooting himself;
that he was instigated to tho deed by
nobody and lias no accomplice.
The Spanish War.
Madrid, July 15.—General Morionez
reports Bilbao in no immediate danger.
In caso General Zabala resigns, General
Morionez will probably he appointed his
successor in command of the army of the
North.
Santander, July 15.—Tho command
ant of Bibao has asked for reinforcements,
which were sent hence to-day. Tho
blockade of Bilbao by land is completo-
and stringently maintained by tho Car,
lists.
Spanish Ministerial Crisis.
Madrid, July 15.—A crisis in tho min
istry is reported to be impending. Gen
eral Zabala and Comocho, Minister of Fi
nance, will probably retire.
Indiana State Convention.
Indianapolis, July 16.—Tho following
is the complete ticket nominated by the
Democratic convention: Secretary of
State, J. E. Neff, of Eandolph county;
Auditor, C. Henderson, of Morgan
county; Treasurer, B. C. Shaw, of Ma
rion county; Superintendent of Public
Instruction, J. H. Smart, of Allen county;
Attorney General, C. A. Buskisk, of Gib
son county; Judgo of Supremo Court,
Horace P. Biddle, of Cass county.
Messrs. Henderson and Biddle were also
nominated on the Farmers’ ticket.
Go North for Cool.
New York, July 16.—The highest
point of tho thermometer yesterday was
06. There were six sun strokes.
The French Steamships.
News havo been received hero that tho
French Steamship Company ha3 dismiss-
ed from its service Capt. Lemairc, who
commanded tho Europe. The reason for
the dismissal was Lemaire’s abandoning
his vessel when the probability existec
o’ saving her. Capt. Eossen, who com
manded L’Ainerique when abandoned off
the French coast, was also dismissed.
A Suicide.
Otto Soyser, of Tallahassee, Fla., shot
himself through the brain on the pier of
the Bremen steamers at Hoboken yester
day. A hundred dollars in greenbacks
and a fino gold watch wa3 found in hi3
pockets. He wa3 hooked for a first cabin
passage in tho Wesser.
Great Osbkosh Fire.
Milwaukie, July 16.—The boundaries
of the burnt district in Oshkosh extend
from the Beckwith House to ifcs rear on
Division street—thence north on Division
to Covin, northeast beyond the city limits
and then almost to the Lake Winebago.
Six hundred buildings were burned
andjthroe thousand people renderedhome-
less. The loss is about a million dollars,
and the insurance a hundred and sixty
thousand dollars.
Further from the Chicago FIro.
Chicago, July 16.—The hotels do
stroyed by tho fire are the Atlantic,
southwest comer of Van Buren and Sher
man streets; Berg House, on State and
Harrison streets; Michigan Avcnno
House, corner of Congress and Wabash
avenue, and St. James Hotel, corner of
State and Van Buren streets.
Tho churches destroyed are Keheloth
B’Nai Sholom Synagogue, No. 392 Wa
bash avenue; First Baptist Church, 429
to 439 Wabash avenue; Keheloth Ansho
Woorale, a Jewish Synagogue, and the
Olivet Baptist Church, (colored.)
Among the residences burned were
those of Horace White, editor of the
Tribune, Hon. J. Y. Scammen, J. K.
Forrest, City Clerk, E. G. Hall, comer of
Peck Court and Wabash avenue. Mr.
White saved his library.
Saratoga Regatta — Princeton and
Tale Victors.
Saratoga, July 16.—The Freshmen’s
single scull championship race took place
yesterday. The six-oared race was first.
Yalo took the lead, Brown next and
Princeton in the rear. The contest was
very vigorous and exciting. The race
was won by Princeton. Distance three
miles—time 18 minutes and 12} seconds.
In the single scull race, the boats Cor
nell, Yale and Harvard started. Yalo
took the lead—Harvard closely pressing
upon her and Cornell pulling off every
stroke. Yalo was in the middle, but in
a straight lino for the signal boat. Har
vard was on the west, hut huggod close
to her opponent. On reaching the sec
ond mile and home stretch, it was evi-
-dent that Wilcox, of the Yale, had the
race, and he came in handsomely one
host length ahead. Time for two mile3
was 14.12}.
Arkansas,
Little Rock, July 15.—The Constitu
tional Convention to-day completed its
organization.
Insnrance Losses.
Hartford, July 16.—Eisks of the
Hartford insurance companies on prop
erty in the Chicago burnt district amount
to $173,000, 03 follows: .(Etna $75,000,
Hartford $47,000, National $25,000, Phe-
nix $17,000, Connecticut $5,000, Orient
$25,000, and Atlas $10,000.
Providence, R. I., July 16.—The Prov
idence insurance companies represented
in Chicago lose less than $10,<XX) each.
English Turf.
London, July 16.—The race for tho
Liverpool cup was won to-day by Blan-
tine. Silesia Bell was second and Best
less third.
Washington Personal
Washington, July 16.—Bristow and
Belknap have returned to Washington.
Fish is expected to-morrow.
Waiter Lenox, ex-Mayorof this city,
died to-day—aged 572. [Note—There is
probably a mistake of a year or two in
the age of the deceased; hut, having no
means of arriving at the exact age of the
deceased, wo give it precisely as it come3
to us over the wires. We think, however,
the reporter might come down at least a
quarter of a century and be a little nearer
the truth-]
Counterfeit $500.
Washington, July 16.—The 500 dollar
counterfeit recently discovered at the
Treasurer’s office was a counterfeit of the
United States note of that denomination
and not of any national bank. Only two
such notes have thus far been discovered,
the first a year ago, when a full descrip
tion of it was given. There are no coun
terfeits on national bank notes of that
denomination, only three-and-a-half mill,
ion of which aro in circulation.
Spinner ts. The Treasury Depart
ment,
Concerning the rumored complications
between General Spinner and tho Treas
ury Department it can bo stated that he
has written a letter to the President con
taining his views relative to the manage
ment of his bureau. It is known that
tho General has uniformly taken the
ground that a3 he is peculiarly responsi
ble for its transactions, and has given a
heavy bond, the appointment of his sub
ordinates should be controlled by himself,
irrespective of the application of the civil
service rules to his bureau.
The Great Oshko9h Conflagration.
Oshkosh, Wis., July 16.—Tho follow
ing are tho amounts of the insurance on
the property destroyed in the great fire
here, as given by the different agencies:
In Wisconsin companies, $30,000; in
other companies, mostly Eastern, §732,-
960. Tho aggregate loss is now given
as $800,000 in round numbers. The
number of business houses destroyed is
about 100, and the number of residences
500.
Tho Saratoga Regatta^
New York, July 16.—A Saratoga dis
patch says: The morning dawned cloudy
and cooler, with every prospect of rain,
and it was generally believed that the
race would be postponed till a late hour;
but at 11 o’clock tho sun was out and the
air was quiet. The referee thinks that
thee wiU be no delay. The crush this
morning was enormous, and it was almost
impossible to move on tho main piazzas
of the hotels.
A meeting was called at Congress
Hall this morning to discuss tho propo
sition of sending a four-oared crew,
picked from all the colleges, to row
against Oxford and Cambridge; but the
excitement was so great that no one at
tended.
Saratoga, July 16.—The Inter Colle
giate regatta has been postponed until
to-morrow.
Monmouth Park Races.
The first race to-day was for the Thes
pian stakes—distance three-quarters of a
mile. Eight started. Won by Eclipse.
Aristides was second, Antillathird. Time,
1:18.
The second race was for tho West End
Hotel stakes—a mile and three-quarters.
Three started, Bonaventure winning the
Bonnavette and Regardless running a
dead heat for tho second place. Time,
3:13}.
The third race was for $300 for all
ages, two mile heats. The starters were
Fellow Craft, Donnybrook, Vandalite and
H. Stockwood. Tho first heat wa3 won
by Vandalite, Fellow Craft second, Don
nybrook third; time 3:49. The second
heat and race was won by Vandalite, by
a neck. Fellow Craft second, Stockwood
third, Donnybrook 4th; time 3.37.
Tho Cable Ships;
Portsmouth, N. H., July 16.—The
telegraph cable vessels Faraday and Am
bassador finished their work off this har
bor last night, and returned to Eye
Beach this morning with a visiting party
on both ships; then sailed for Nova
Scotia.
Loss and Insnrance by the Chicago
Fire.
Chicago, July 16.—Tho total insurace
on the losses by tho fire is $2,727,290.
The estimated total salvage is $482,320.
The net los3 is $2,244,970.
Transfer of a Bank.
Baltimore, July 16.—The stockhold
ers of tho Central National Bank of Bal
timore give official notico thi3 morning
that tho bank will retire from business
in this city, and application will be made
fora change of title audits transfer to
New York, in tho pfovisions of tho na
tional banking act.
Burned Bodies Discovered.
Chicago, July 16.—Tho bodies of two
men and a child were discovered under the
ruins of a house at 461 South Clark
street last evening and taken to the
Morgue. They were victims of Tues
day’s fire.
Farther from tho Firo.
Among the losses by tho firo yesterday
aro Dugan’s, packing house and out
buildings, worth about $6,000, uninsured,
and stock, valued at $12,000, partially
insured. Katz & Miller’s (planing mills)
loss is probably $15,000. Breeze’s (sash,
door and blind factory) $3,500. Three
attempts at incendiarism were discovered
during the progress of the fire, Insur
ance on all tho buildings burned is small.
More Forged Notes.
New York, July 16—Brown Bro3. &
Co. havo received a telegram from tho
National Bank of Scotland in London,
saying forged circular notes purporting
to be issued from this office aro afloat,
and that caution in cashing and identi
fication is necessary.
Arrested on Suspicion.
Philadelphia, July 16.—A private de
tective here arrested a man named Chris
topher Woo3ter, suspected of being one of
tho parties implicated in the Koss child
stealing case. He is in jail awaiting
further investigation.
Hale Accepts.
Auousta, Me., July 16.—Eugeno Hale
has accepted the Congressional nomina
tion tendered him by tho Eepnblieans
for the Fifth district.
Carllst Retaliation.
Madrid, July 16.—The Carlists have
ordered one Bepublican prisoner to be shot
for every shell fired by the government
fleet off Bilbao.
Hague Resigns.
Paris, July 16.—As -was expected,
after tho defeat of his plans, by the
Assembly, Mague, tho Minister of Fi
nance, has tendered his resignation. Ho
will continuo in office till his successor is
appointed.
Roast Turkey*
Constantinople, July 16.—An exten
sive conflagration is raging in Galila, one
of tho suburhs of the city. Many build
ings have been burned.
An Ex-KIog Sick.
Vienna, July 16.—Tho ex-King of
Hanover i3 lying dangerously ill here.
Amendment to tbe Committee of Thir
ty’s Rill.
London, July 16.—The Times’ special
dispatch from PAris, says M. Pages Du
pont has given notice of an amendment to
the bill reported from the Committee of
Thirty, by Ventoin yesterday, providing
that tho Senate shall eonsistof 100 mem
bers, to be nominated by MacMahon, and
130 members of the Assembly, to be eleot-
ed by deputies horn the separate depart
ments. ' That Cardinals, Marshals and
Admirals, shall he Senators, cx officio;
that the first Senate shall set three years
and the next tix or more, according to
the decision of the Assembly; that the
President of the Senate shall become
provisional President of the Republic in
tho event of a vacancy occurring between
the adjournment of the present Assembly
and the meeting of tho next one, and that
the President of the Bepublic shall be
empowered to dissolve the Assembly with
the approval of the Senate.
The Attack oh Bismarck.
The various accounts of the attempt to
assassinate Bismarck agree that his es
cape with so slight an injnry was mirac
ulous, as his hand was touching hie hat
when he was wounded. His coachman,
fearing a second shot, struck Kuhlmann
across the face. Police have been sent
to Kiisengen to protect Bismarck from a
repetition of the attack, evidence having
been discovered of a conspiracy to take
his life.
The Spanish War.
Madrid, July 16.—The Carlist3 aban
doned siege of Puicerda, after suffering a
repulse in the second assault.
The Carlists besieging Cuenca have
occupied houses in the suburbs of the
city. Reinforcements for the besieged
Republicans have arrived from Madrid,
and tho city is being energetically de
fended.
Marshal Serrano has deferred his trip
to Lagronga until the Carlists have been
driven from Cuenca.
Vomlto and SmaR.Fox.
Havana, July 16.—Many fatal cases of
vomito have occurred in shipping and
some in the city. Small-pox i3 also prev
alent.
A Commoner Unseated.
London, July 16.—Mr. Albert Grant,
Liberal Conservative member of the
House of Commons for Kidderminster, has
been unseated for corrupt practices in his
electoral canvass.
The Brussells Congress.
It i3 said that the Brussells Congress
on international law, after formal opening
and organization, still appoint commit
tees and suspend general sittings.
Ronmanlan Independence.
The governments of Austria and Prus
sia have agreed to open negotiations with
the Sublime Porte, looking to a recogni
tion of tho independence of Roumania
by Turkey.
Latest from the Chicago Fire.
Chicago, July 16.—The following is a
complete official list of insurance by com.
panics on the property destroyed by yes
terday’s fire: The Adriatic, New York,
$28,00(5; JEtna, New York, $25,000; ./Et
na, Hartford, $95,000; Allemania, Cincin
nati, $50,000; Allemania, Pittsburg, §20,-
000; Amazon, Cincinnati, $25,000; Amer
ican Central, St. Louis, $20,000; Ameri
can Fire, Philadelphia, $25,000; Ameri
can Mutual, Newark, N. J., $75,000;
American Underwriter, Phila., $500; Arc
tic, $15,000; Armenia, Pittsburg, $15,000;
Atlantic and Pacific, Chicago, $47,000;
Atlantic, New York, $5,500; Atlas, Hart
ford, $1,500; Orange of Bangor, Me.,
$1,000; Ben Franklin, Alleghany City,
$3,500; Black River, Watertown, N. Y.,
$40,000; Royal, Liverpool, $100,000; Roy
al Canadian, $25,000; Safeguard, Phila
delphia, $6,000; St. Joseph Fire and
Marine, $8,250; St. Nicholas, New York,
$1,000; St. Paul Firo and Marine, $8,-
000; St. Loui3 Mutual, $5,000; Scotch
Commercial, Glasgow, Scotland, $30,000;
Leather, Boston, $2,000; Springfield,
Massachusetts, Firo and Marine, $35,000 ;
Standard, New York, $25,000; Star, New
York, $5,500; Sun, Cleveland, $500;
Traders’, Chicago, $60,000; Tradesman,
New York, $9,000; Underwriters’Agency,
New York, old, $29,000; Union Mutual,
Philadelphia, $2,000; Western, Toronto,
$35,000; Westchester, New Rochelle,
$17,000; Williamsburg City, Brooklyn,
$55,250; Hamburg and Bremen, Ham
burg, $52,000; Hartford, of Hartford,
$52,700; Hoffman, New York, $15,000;
Home, Columbus, Ohio, $10,000 ; Home,
Galveston, $7,500; Home, New York,
$157,250; Howard, New York, $27,500;
Imperial, London, $47,000; Humboldt,
Newark, N. J., $11,000; Irving, New
York, $7,500; Kansas, Leavenworth,
$175,000; Lancashire, Manchester, Eng
land, $16,000; Lancaster, Lancaster, Pa.‘
$21,400; Lamar, New York, $2,500; Liv
erpool, London and Globe, of Liverpool and
London, $75,000; London Assurance Cor
poration, $50,000; Lorillard, New York,
$7,800; Lycoming, Muncy, Pa., $60,000;
Manhattan, New York, $3,000; Manu
facturers’ Fire and Marine, Boston, $15,-
000; Mercantile, Chicago, $550; Mercan
tile, Cleveland, $SOO; Merchants, New
ark, N. J., $20,000; Mutual Fire, Meri
den, Connecticut, $2,000; Michigan
State, Adrian, Michigan, §12,000;
Melville Mutual, Melvillo, Now Jer
sey, $26,000; Milwaukee Mechanics’
Mutual, $15,000; Mississippi Valley Fire
and Marine, Memphis, $3,000; Narra-
gansott, Providence, $3,500; National,
Hartford, $21,800; National, Philadel
phia, $47,000; New Hampshire, Man
chester, $4,000; New York and Yonkers,
New York, $25,000; New Jersey Fire and
Marine, $25,000; New Orleans Mutual
Association, $5,000; New York Under
writers’ Agency, $25,000; Niagara, New
York, $9,000; Northwest National, Mil
waukee, $63,500; North British and Mer
cantile, Boston, $18,000; Old Dominion,
Richmond, $5,500; Orient, Hartford, §2,-
500; Pennsylvania Fire, Philadelphia,
$15,000; People’s, Philadelphia, $10,000;
People’s, Newark, N. J., $6,500; Peo*
plo’s, Memphis, $6,500.
A Generous Donation.
St. Paul, Minn., July 16.—Governor
Davis to-day received a draft of $1,000
from Gerrit Smith for the sufferers; half
to go to the Iowa sufferers. A grateful
letter of thanks wa3 returned for the
generous donation.
Marine.
London, July 16.—The National-lino
steamship Denmark, from New York,
July 3d, for London, passed Lizard at 3
v. si. to-day.
The Art Display of Wesleyan Fe
male College.
We inadvertently omitted to mention
ono very beautiful and important, feature
connected with the tommencement exer
cises of Wesleyan Female College, and
that was the works of art which so beau
tifully decorated the walls of tho college
chapel, where the exercises took place.
These consisted of paintings, drawings,
crayon sketches, etc., all of which were ex
ecuted by pupils of the college during the
past year. Among these were many very
excellent pictures, and the entire collec
tion—numbering about Sixty pieces—
would have done credit to the finest
school on the continent. The paintings
comprised figure pieces, landscapes and
water pieces, all of which are distin
guished for their excellence of drawing
and fine taste in the use of color.
This department of the college is un
der the charge of Mrs. E. T. Crowe. Tina
excellent lady possesses talents which
ought to distinguish her outside of the
alumni and friends of a single institution.
She possesses a high degree of merit as
an artist, and is a most successful in
structress inthia department. We have
seen some of her 1 pictures which are
worthy to be hung in any collection on
the continent. They possess all the ele
ments of meritorious productions and are
the best testimonials of the fitness of Mrs.
Crowe for the position which she occu
pies.
This notice appears at a late day; but
we make it, asking pardon for not having
made it sooner, seeing that it was so emi
nently deserved. But the silent tongue
of art, in contrast with the beautiful lips
of nature which spoke so eloquently from
the 8tags, was obscured for the time;
but could not remain so always, as the
paintings were bound to be noticed by
those whose eyes love to linger upon the
beautiful and admire it because it is
good.
A mew style of postal cards will be is
sued in the course of five or six weeks.
It will be of neat design, better finish,
and presents a more tasteful appearance.
Price one cent.
Por tho Telegraph and Messenger.]
Tlie Storm.
BY RET. B. JOHNSON.
All day the pitiless heat came down,
O’er drooping fields and panting town,
And, charged with Same, tho fervent air
Pressed Wilting; withering everywhere.
All nature, tossed with re^Iess pain.
Cried out in fiery thirst for rain.
Long had I watched that western cloud.
Slow-rising from tho horizon’s rim.
At last the sun’s fierce eye grew dim;
Eclipsed the torture of his beam.
It comes—the storm 1
With pomp of darkness—lightning flash
So wild and warm 1
With gust and quickening thunders loud.
Hark! ’tls tho tempest’s battle hymn.
It’s giant masses onward dash!
They break I I hear the huge drops splash 1
Tho very heavens are bowed!
The shadow falls—a moving death.
The lake, that held tho sky beneath
Its glassy glory smitten, gone.
Darkness, that may bo felt, comes down—
Shadow of God!
The lily whitens, blanched with fearl
The roso leaves, scattering, fill the air.
Th’ strong oak bends—fast dings the vine.
’Tis trained to trust I Yon lofty pino
Sighs that it first must feel the blow,
Por pride is pain. Happy the low!
The gentle daisy’s brightening eyo
Looks calmly toward the troubled sky.
O, sweet revenge! yon violets kind
Have perfumed all the raging wind:
While odorous shrub and tender grass
Bow—till the fury overpass.
I love the storm!
There’s healing in the tempest’s breath.
Storms break the gathering spell of death;
Th’ rising pestilence disarm!
Tho winds of God aro rough, but kind;
They heal the sickness of the mind 1
They shske the earth and rend the mountains.
But fill tho heart’s exhausted fountains!
They break the spirit’s stagnancy.
They blow the dust of care away;
And languid nature and the soul
Uprise, redeemed to hope’s control.
As when of old, on Horeb’s rock,
’Mid blazing lightnings, earthquake shock.
His soul reflected on the sky.
Strong whirlwinds passed the Prophet by.
By that wild tempest-joy outblown.
His dark, desponding doubts were gono!
O, grand accord of man and heaven!
Tbe storm—it healed what storms had riven
O, clouds! where God is charioted!
O, mercy-burdened clouds! that speed,
Biding tho heavens to save the earth!
What blessed purities have birth
From yonder travail of the sky 1
Yon struggling elements on high,
Where tumult, rack and wrath have been.
Infinite azure depths aro seen.
Where yon proud forest monarch fell,
Glad birds are singing through the dell.
Where yonder broken lily lies
A thousand glittering cups arise.
Pearl-crowned and filled with neciared dew;
For storms—liko God—make all things new.
I love the storm.
Better the virtuous peril bomo
Where cyclones sweep,
Than midst the rotting calms go down
In tropic deep.
O, soul! which God hath built and freighted
To brave emprise predestinated
And storm-tried glory 1 Best is harm!
O, soul of man 1 “What dost thou hero?”
Put off thy fear, put on thy trust!
Life’s billowy dangers crested are.
All clouds a heavenward splendor wear.
Thus nature triumphs—truth, it must.
Who Is He?
"We published "Wednesday morning a
communication asking for thenamo of
the unfortunate girl whose ruin and death
we recently noticed. To-day we publish
another, calling for the name of the man,
which appears to come with a better
grace than the other demand':
Macon, Ga., July 15,1874.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In
to-day’s issue of your paper is found a
communication from "An Old Editor and
Citizen,” in reference to your two no
tices about that "one more unfortunate.”
He commends you for your prompt and
scathing rebuke of the bad man who
brought about the disgrace and death of
tho unfortunate woman, but claims that
03 you charge the crime on a married
man of respectable standing in Milledge-
ville, all such married men aro "involved
in tho sweeping charge,” and he demands,
"in the name of justice,” that you "fur
nish us with the name of tho unfortunate
girl.”
Do you not think that “in the name of
justice” it would be quite as appropriate
to give the namo of the man who brought
about this woman’s death? No matter
what her nime or rank or station, no
matter whether she he virtuous and re
spectable or not, his infamy is fixed.
That he, a married man, tho head of
a family, and of acknowledged respecta
bility (?), should have been tho cause of
this woman’s ruin and death i3 enough
to damn him in society, and he should be
known.
There is too much of this married re
spectability taking advantage of its op
portunities to bring disgrace on tho
homes of others, and when the party is
known, as in this case, he should be ex
posed.
Your correspondent coolly calls for the
name of the girl, and those of her father,
mother, sister and brother, so that (he
says) "we can all of us see whether a poor,
virtuous girl has been ruined by a re
spectable and worthy citizen of MUledge-
ville, or, whether some already mined
character ha3 fallen worse than ever.”
This looks, to an impartial mind, very
much like an attempt to throw doubt on
the girl’s character to shield the man
from the weight of blame. But what
good will it do to give the names he calls
for? The poor woman has gone to where
no earthly opinions can effect her. Must
her family now be forced publicly to
share her disgrace, while the principal
offender in the crime i3 screened by his
respectability (?)
Perhaps “An old Elitor and Citizen,”
knows more, of the parties than ho would
have the public believe from his letter.
I know nothing of either the man or the
woman concerned, but I fail to seo that
any facts your correspondent apparently
hopes to bring out against the girl would
help that very respectablo (?) married
citizen of Milledgeville.
If you are to give name?, give us the
name of the unprincipled sccnmdrcl (that’s
the way I spell his respectibility,) who
brought about this woman’s death.
Justice.
How to Do Ur Shirt Bosoms.—We
have often been requested by lady cor
respondents to state by what process the
gloss on new linens, shirt bosoms, etc., is
produced, and in order to gratify them,
we subjoin the following recipe : Take
two ounces of fine white gum arabic pow
der; put it in a pitcher and pour on a
pint or more of boiling water, according
to the degree of strength you desire, and
then, having covered it, let it stand all
night. In the morning pour it carefully
from the drega into a clean bottle, cork,
and keep it for nse. A table spoonful of
gum water stirred iu a pint of starch,
made in the usual manner, will give to
lawn, either white or printed, a look of
newness, when nothing else can restore
them after they have Men washed.
Hue Vegetables.
Mr. S. 8. Hannan, who is steward at
the county hospital, sends us a basket of
magnificent tomatoes and egg plants.
Both are* very large and fine. Tho to
matoes, especially, are superior, being
immense in size, smooth, fully ripe and
perfectly sound. Mr. H. has a fine gar
den in connection with the hospital, and
raises all kinds of vegetables with great
success. Wo have seen no finer than
those ho sends us.
_ , Cnlorleal.
The heat of the past few days has been
intense. It is estimated that enough
perspiration has been exuded by the Ma
con peach) to run a first-class cotton mill
EDITORIAL COEBEBmSiJr-
me hack this, and so far I g-.
to regret in the decision. itg^ notida J
not only as a sanitarium, hut J^^ 63 ’
most unconventional, free and 088 of
restful watering places in the So^
never been morn . “'tore
me . Midi
never been more apparent to
have almost concluded to pnu’*® 11
annual visit hereafter as amtag ^
tain events of my life, so lo " A e **
stances shall permit. Last s -
was here as that forlorn creatur^ 1
Benedict, the better’fractions of v T
in one place, and he in another ft?
this condition has occasionally son, j
vantages to gentlemen of a "cav”!**
of mind who hanker after the flip
and sweet discourse that make
flesh pots of bachelorhood, hut it ha- i
quite as decided and many moredS
vantages If tho "stray” has
mty for whispering soft notliingfL
ears that care little who tho whisperer;?
provided his verbal confectionery is
cately compounded and of the requK
flavor, and of fighting o’er again the seT
timental battle of his youth, he « J *.
other hand, a much less important^
sonage than paterfamilias, with Jl^‘
appendages and belongings. hT-Z
leas comfortable quartern; a less a
hie seat at table, and lesscomid^
evety way. In fact, he is regard^
dethroned monarch, whose elonrt,,,
parted with his crown, and Whohty
one whit better than anybody else 9
pend upon it that a family mania Jin
fig has much tho advantage atwatyi?
places of the common herd of "sW i
and “strays.” I have tried both estate,
and affirm whereof I do knov. w
dially congratulate myself on the differ*
ence every day.
WHO ARE HERE, AND WHAT THEr do
The guests at tho “McIntosh," thonk
not so numerous 03 they will he a littS
later, are exceptionally pleasant. A mow
harmonious, genial, and sunshiny «a
ering I have never seen. Bothmeam,]
women seem to have left all their vo-.
ries and little tempers shut np at hone
and to havo determined to "pluck fL
day” with genuine but rather un-Ameri.
can philosophy. If finance, or the oom,
or dull trade, or Harry’s dissipation a
Maud Matilda’s foolish love affair tte
disturbing any souls here, they aasa«
to conceal the fact bravely. The ladies
have put fashion and form in a corner
dress a3 they please, go and come and
dp pretty much a3 their sweet wills more
them. They put on calico dresses for
breakfast and wear them all day, if so
disposed. They walk to the spring nj.
accompanied by gentlemen, and peri
themselves on the rocks by the creekani
chatter as melodiously and freely as if
there was not a malo biped in the county.
The men enjoy the same delightful free
dom from conventional restraints, I
have not seen a “claw-hammer” coit
since my arrival, and sack and linen suits
are en regie from breakfast to the last
valse or quadrille. In short, every body
is taking life after a most delightful!;
natural and sensible fashion, and the is-
suit is a jolly good time.
Among the visitors I find Macon repre
sented by General William S. Holt, Ma
and Miss Holt, Captain and Mrs. IV.
H. Ross, and Mis3 Mattie Boss,
Miss Helen O’oear, Mr. and Mrs. Ham
Ellis and child, Mr3. Clifford Anderson
and child, Mrs. R. M. Bazemore and
child, Mrs. G. B. Turpin, Miss Asm;
Turpin, Master 'Willie Turpin, and
Messrs. I. B. English, J. F. Eogers, TV.
D. Palmer, A. P. Whittle, J. A. Ralston,
Henry Shrahecker, James Greene, J. TV.
Aderhold, J. Truesdale, J. Heck and B. S.
Wynn. Many others from Macon are
expected this afternoon and durng the
next week.
Augusta is represented by Mr. 6eo.E.
Sibley and family, and from TVayns-
horo and Burke county we have hlr.E.
F. Lawson and wife, Mr. S. A. Gray and
the Misses Alice and Emma Gray, Mrs.
McElmunay and Mr. McElmurray and
children; Savannah by Messrs. J. TV.Is-
throp, Jr., and Chas. J. MiUer; LaGrsnje
by Dr. H. Wimbish.and Griffin by Jlsrs.
Walter Beeks and Mayor Nnnnally.,
Hon. E. W. Beck and CoL W. D. Alex
ander, of the latter place, were here list
week, hut left a day or two since. Judge
W. D. Kiddoo, of the Pataula Circuit,’-'
also here. There are quite a number i
persons at the Elder and Varner Hows,
the whole aggregating a consider^’-'
crowd. If present indications and infor
mation is not deceptive, there will be be
tween two and three hundred pen®
here beforo tho first of August,
WEATHER AND CE#PS.
Up to last Saturday, rain was greet-'
needed in this section, and considered
apprehension was beginning to. be ®
for the corn crop, especially, which, at j
most critical stage, was suffering
from drouth. Since that date, hoveta
copious showers havo been the nme»*
almost daily delight, only ceasing vested
day. To-day is bright and wars, bu.
the heat is not at all oppressive,.
cover at night has been my. rule, at least
ever since I came. There i3 not a rea*
quito to be found with a search wires--
—a fact the average Atlanta man wo.
worry over no little, as the music of 3-
sweet singer is a lullaby to repose m -
out which he could never ehtet drwf
land. Given the above condition*
comfort, and what more could be <*»x»
as to climate and local surrounding* •
THE “nutting” TUENPIKZ.
I had tho pleasure of riding over m
four or five miles of this mue-i n**-
work on my way hither—that I
nearest the Spring. It was quite » .
fortable change from the °U , a,
bump and jolt of the remauiacr o
route, although rather muddy xm |
rain that wa3 pouring down as ^
over it. I did not see the work ,
Forsyth end, as the old route here
altogether by the coaches. 11 1^*
sure this Dike would have ^. s ' w j
boon to Butts and other
also a good piece of work, am* ^
regret the' failure to comp-- 13 ’ ^
whatever cause. The iinpres:’- j
to be that the project will no:
rected, though I hope to the Co- ■ j
THE Jl’lNTOSU Horsr ^ I
is even better kept than In- 1 Yo ;T ”
which is high praise. "Coiner a ^
have been busy all the j-jjj]
in adding to and repairing i ' i
building, and can ncic make c ° ‘ ^
a much larger number of R •
ever. All the resources of this ^
mutton, beef and egg country ^
laid under contribution by the >
result i3 a table that only ^ is
critical could cavil at. The a
particularly good—could not
Among other attractions ^ ere?
of musio and ice cream for ^ tb*
day—two things that I j.-wUrg*
special affinities of an amazing
number of persons. , xfiUelS*’
The "Baldwin Blue?,’’ fro ®,^ o! ^
villo, will be here as the gu®= j 5 ap
"McIntosh” on the 27th,
pose, "brass buttons” will M j fie
trumps that all the civilian ^
throw up their hands andpA 3 ®. ^
some of the Macon militasTCS , >
help them capture ye female g,
A HorsEHOLD BBNEcr.-lio 4
without some efficacious remedy ». y ^
affections so universally
colds, »oro throat, whoopuw WP: ,
gome remody. too, which can bo d ffW
sure and certain. Dr. Wi*t»r t
Cherry combines the desideratum- ^ ^
About Bitters.—At certain P^j^jaos**
tonic is a necessity: buttbereu ^
stimulants that injure the orff #w j # n
while giving tamperary rebel- ^
and pre*ent to the public »
holic poiion. Dr. Grsepe ^ utf*
Bitte^a^^lotW* ?