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MACON JULY SO, V878
g"X “heated and bitter political canvass'
in this stage of the thermometer must be
a fine thbiff'
Mus Jeanette Bennttt, slater of James
Gordon Bennett, is soon to marry Isaac
Bell, jr., of New York city.
Thx tramp nuisance has become so
B eriooa in Wisconsin that the Governor
Tub decided upon prompt and severe
measures for its sappressiaD.
Ds. Carver, the unrivalled cracker of
glue balls, now rolls abont in his bed
and groans. He used up his eyes as well
as the 5,500 other balls.
Ovns 53,000,(500 gallons of water from
Artesian wells are daily used in irrigating
lands in Iroquois County, IU. There are
200 wells in a radius of twenty miles,
none of them over 75 feet deep.
Ftttt. T.tvtt.t.—Heat ocst nothing
yesterday. The snn supplied it gratis.
It was 96 in the shade, though by reason
of a breezy condition of (he atmosphere
the day was not oppressive.
CHZSBTUX.NE9S UnDZB DlSCGUEiOK-
jbnt.-—A. Detroiter in St. Louis writes to
the Post and Tribune expressing his as
tonishment at the cheerfulness with
which the St. Louis people pay a city tar
of $2.66 on every hundred dollars vain*
ation.
Dxatb* vbox Hut.—A St. Louis dis
patch says the total number of deaths in
this city, from July 12 to July 18 laBt
year, were 122, and far the corresponding
week just closed 376. The difference of
254 deaths may fairly, perhaps, be at
tributed to excessive heat.
Gaoaor H. Butler was arraigned in the
Police Court, at Washinton, Friday, for
larceny of a suit of clothes, found guilty,
and sentenced to a fine of $25, or in de
fault, of a short term in jail. Upon
appeal, bail could not be raised, and But*
ler was oommitted. The whole affair is
the result of a spree. Butler is a nephew
of Gen. Bens.
Is Summit, Pa., there is a cavern 300
feet below the surface of the ground
where ice forms summer and winter. At
the bottom is a spring of clear cold water
entirely surrounded by ice. The ceiling
and sides of tbe cava are solid ice, and
by the continual dropping of water an
ice monument from floor to roof ha a
formed. *
Thx Total Eclipse of the Sun en the
29th of this month is the last eclipse that
will be available for observation in the
United States in this centnry. It will
be total in parts of Montana, Idaho,
Wyoming, Colorado, Indian Territory
and Texas. Tbe government expedition
for the taking of observations will in
clude not only tbe astronomers of the
naval observatory, but directors of many
of tbe leading observatories of the United
States. The average duration of the
total eclipse at the stations selected will
be two minutes and fifty seconds.
Noethzbn Wbathxb. — Telegrams in
the Boston Herald, of tbe 20tb, state that
the temperature there on Friday, as re
ported by the signal office, was 96. It
was 149 in the sun at Nantasket Beacb.
It was 102 in the shade at Dorchester-
102 at Marlboro’—97 to 103 at Ashland—
95 to 108 at North Adams—102 at Ports
mouth, New Hampshire—98 at New
Haven, It was 104 in Terre Haute, In
diana, and the same in Lancaster, Penn
sylvania. Thus we see there has been a
very general and satisfactory distribution
of caloric all round, and no eection has a
right to complain of neglect. All had a
fine opportunity to roast eggs in the eand.
A Tovchixo incident of the Biege of
Paris is told by a correspondent of the
Contemporary Review. A group of men,
women and boys were drawn . up to be
shot by the soldiers from Versailles. One
of them, a lad of fourteen, pleaded with
the commander of the shooting squad,
“My mother will not know what has
become of me. Let me go into that por
ter’s lodge and send her my watch. I
give you my word of honor I will come
back.” Tbe officer granted the request
—probably intending and expecting that
tbe lad would escape. But, in a moment,
he was back and declared himself ready.
The officer hustled him out of the con
demned rank with an exclamation in
Frenoh equivalent to “be off with you.”
The lad escaped, while his comrades fell.
Russian Financzs. — The terrible
collapse of tbe Busaian financial system,
Bays the Globe-Democrat, is clearly indi
cated in the latest news from St. Peters
burg. There Is a deficiency in the rev
enue of abont $75,000,000, which must
be met at once. Becent attempts to
negotiate a loan at Paris, Berlin and Am
sterdam having failed; it was lately pro
posed to make an attempt to reuse a
domestic loan of $60,000,000, partially to
meet the emergency. M. Grebe, the
nance Minister, however, thinks that
the people generally are too poor to spare
it, and that the few who have large
spare funds are unwilling to trust the
security of the Government. Something,
however, must be done, and an income
tax is under consideration, the objection,
in H. Grebe’s opinion, being that through
dishonesty and collusion not half the
smonnt that should be realised would ever
find iti way into tbe hands of the Govern
ment. Some of the chief sources of re
venue at present are poll-taxee and taxes
upon land, ofwhichith&s been calcula
ted that tee peasantry pay nine-tenths.
Air Admibablx Appoint* *nt.—We
have seen an official letter from Mr. Le
Due, who ia at the head of the United
mates Agricultural Bureau, appointing
our talented and learned fellow citizen,
prefeesor J. K. Willet, to travel through
5*wer and Southwestern Georgia with a
'new to study the origin, character and
habits of the cotton caterpillar, and as
certain if any remedy can bedeviBedto
abate the ravages of this destructive pest.
Mr. Willet will receive his inBtrnctionB
and act nnder the direction of Professor
N. Biley, the entomologist of the depart
ment.
This is a new and interesting field of
inquiry, and no gentleman in Georgia
could have been selected who possesses
gore thoroughly the respect and confi
dence of the people. The Professor will
leave for the discharge of the duty as
signed him as soon as be receives his in
structions from Washington.
A High Herat Spectacle.
Philadelphia Times.J
Mr. Alexander H. Stephens has created
so much excitement in his district with
his yellow coach and feur horses that
some Democrats down there have con
cluded there is enough enthusiasm to
make an independent party. Postmaster
General Key has been written to on the
subject, and tbe anxious inquiry is made
to know what aid the Administration
will give the proposed organization. An
independent party leaning upon the Ad
ministration for support would be a high
moral spectacle—something that would
rise to the height of grandeur.
A Strong Discourse.
Bev. A. W. Clisby preached an able
discourse in the Presbyterian Church on
Sabbath, upon the novel subject that
even the case of those who are not called
to salvation glorifies God.
It was the conclusion of a sermon de
livered the week previous from the por
tion of scripture contained in the 1st
chapter of Corinthians, commencing at
the 10th Terse.
Many of the views of the speaker were
original and striking. His aim was to
show that the doctrine of predestination,
among other things proved not only the
mercy but the jftstice of the moat High
God. All mankind lay under the bond
age of sin,and all had forfeited tbe divine
forgivenes3 and favor. Henoe those that
are spared have abundant cause to glo
rify and adore the mercy and loving
kindness of the Lord, and those who
Buffer the penalty of their transgressions
have no right to complam of the justice
of their Creator, which is vindicated in
their punishment.
The case may be illustrated by tbe fol
lowing parallel: The sentence of decima
tion i3 pronounced upon a band of con
spirators and traitors captured with armB
in their hands. One in every ten, chosen
by lot, is led forth to execution. They
die, but can not call in question the jus
tice of their punishment. Those who
are pardoned acknowledge with grati
tude and joy the clemenoy of the offended
prince or ruler. So, in the salvation of
the elect, and the destruction of the
“non^called,” the mercy, and justice,
and glory of God are alike manifested and
signally displayed.
Still the speaker did not fail to declare
that Jehovah has emphatically announced
in more than one place that all who seek
salvation shall find it. “Turn ye, turn ye,
O House of Israel, for why will ye die.”
We suppose that they who are not
called to salvation never repent of their
sins, and have no desires after holiness.
This doctrine of free grace and predes
tination is one of the moet difficult of
demonstration in the Holy Scriptures,
and the finite mind can not folly compre
hend and reconcile the one with the
other.
Those denominations who embrace it
are content to v-U back upon what they
hold ia dear’* t.vealed in the Word of
God, and x. v rcntly accept even what
they oar: net explain. They argue that
much relating to their own physical ex
istence, and "the arcana of nature is a
sealed book to the most learned scientist.
Yet all are forced to believe even what
they cannot understand.
The sermon of Mr. Clisby was forcible,
and Very nearly exhaustive of the great
and mysterious doctrine under review.
He, and they who think with him, be
lieve it to betbeir duty to accept the
Bible in its entirety, just as it was re
ceived from tbe inspired writers, and
wait patiently until tbe latter day when
those passages and prophecies that seem
so difficult of elucidation shall all be re
vealed and made clear.
A Candidate From tbe West-
“The West must Ave tbe candidate
this time," says a leading Ohio paper—al
luding to the supposed antagonism of Til-
den and Hendricks. Yes! everybody
recognizes the olaims of the slighted Wes!!
She is naturally hungry for the Presi
dency, it is so long sinae she has had it.
The fact is, it is now eighteen years in
succession that the West has had the Ptee-
ideasy, so that her stomach, nnaoonstom-
ed to plainer diet, can no longer do without
it. It is on this ground (bat we would
press the claims of the West strongly on a
sympathizing country.
There is no stronger case for charity
than that of a man who has held public
office so long as to be unfit to take care
of himBelf. Habit has made it indiepen
sable, and the question of reappointment,
which to other men would be one of
mere gratification, i3 to him an issue of
life and death. It ia so about some towns
and eectlons. The social fabric hangs
by tbe eyelids on tbe perpetuity of office
holding; and if they loose their hold, the
victims may well eay, “Ye have taken
away our gods, and what have we more!”
The West, and particularly Ohio, is fast
getting in tins way, as will be seen by
the fact that, after five successive terms
of Western Presidency, she gravely in
sists that “the West most have the ean
didate thi3 time” also!
A ’Well-Merited. Honor.
The degree of LL. D. recently con
ferred upon State School Commissioner
GuBtavus J. Orr, by Emory College, was
richly deserved, and if extraordinary at
tainments, rare ability and patient and
long-continned study are tbe tests in a
preferment so exalted, no son of Georgia
ever filled the bill more completely.
The writer wa3 a classmate of Mr.
Orr, Senator Hill, Oliver Fanning, P. W.
Alexander, Beloved Love, George Bart
lett, Chandler Holt and other bright,
“particular stars,” but Orr eclipsed them
all.
There was not & man of them who even
approached him in scholarship, while his
modesty and sterling worth commanded
the admiration and respect alike of fac
ulty and student.
It is not too much to say that it is
doubtful if in all the broad limitB of the
commonwealth, any one could be found
so well qualified to fill tbe exalted but la
borious position of State School Commis
sioner, to which ovary energy and all
the powers of Mr. Orr have been direct
ed for years.
With him popular education is a hobby,
and it is fortunate that Georgia possesses
so able an advocate of her best and tiuest
interests.
With what can we compare the price
less value of intellectual culture?
BouKiirux. Habtxsts—Bbxad and
to Sfabb Both in Eobofjc and Amxbica.
—The news from all the wheat growing
countries of Europe ia of the most flatter
ing description. Everywhere fine weath
er is reported, and the prospect of a heavy
yield can only be thwarted by storms and
disasters during the harvest and thresh-
ingjseason. It is estimated that so many
restrictions to commerce have been re
moved under tbe recent treaty of Berlins
that a vastly increased quantity of grain
will be poured into Great Britain from
the shores of the Black Sea and Adjoin
ing districts (the finest wheat region in
the world) the present summer. Pricea
have accordingly already began to weak
en, and a considerable decline is looked
tot.
A DlfflcnU Thing.
From the Philadelphia Times. J
The facility with which the newspapers
are now nominating candidates for tbe
Presidency is quite remarkable. Ic ia a
very difficult thing, however, to keep any
candidate for more than a few hours
without spoiling in this weather.
gHOBT Hobnb.—A shipment of twenty
imported shorthorn heifen(Jeraeys)were
sold in Cincinnati last week at an average
of $2Cleach.
Hr* Janes’ Agricultural Report
for Jane.
We have not had time sooner to exam
ine and analyze this most enoonraging ex
hibit of Georgia husbandry.
The Doctor announces that in a large
portion of the State the com crop Is al
ready “made” and a full yield la assured,
perhaps the largest sinoe the war. It is
trne that sinoe the date of the report
partial droughts have greatly injnred late
oom in some sections, and even the for
ward planting in extreme North Georgia.
Bnt no catastrophe happening now can
seriously affeot the average prodnotion of
the State, which will ba very fine. Some
of the river farms near Maoon will aver
age as high as seventy-five bushels per
acre.
On the 1st Of July, from the various
county reports, the average for the com
crop in North Georgia was 103; in Middle
Georgia 107; Southwest Georgia 111; East
Georgia 103; Southeast Georgia 105, and
the average for the State 107. This cer
tainly gives promise of an abundance of
corn dodgers for a year to come.
The cotton prospect is almost as flat
tering:
In North Georgia the average is 103;
Middle Georgia 107; Southwest Georgia
106; Bast Georgia 103; Southeast Georgia
109; average of the State 105.
The crop is about two weeks earlier
than usual. The average first bloom in
all the counties reported is about May
29. This is early almost without prece
dent.
The average breadth of the oat crop in
the State, as compared with last year,
was 104. The yield, both of the fall and
spring sowingB, was very satisfactory,and
is considered a full average.
Dr. Janes thinks fall sown oats, from
the returns made, will at least double
those seeded in the spring. Quite a num
ber of farmers harvested seventy-five
bushels of oate per acre.
Of wheat, the Commissioner estimates
the total average of the State at ten per
cent, less than last year. But the in
crease in acreage amounted to 18 per
cent., and was largely confined to South
west and East Georgia. In the former the
increase was 46 per cent. The yield for
North Georgia was 64 per cent., Middle
Georgia 84, Southwest Georgia 148, East
Georgia 9S.
This is a prond showing for Southwest
Georgia, and will go far to cause her
lands to appreciate.
With a climate and variety of produc
tions unequaled in the Union, this region
must and will became in time the garden
spot of the Sooth.
Dr. JaneR gives an interesting table
showing tbe cash and credit price of
corn and bacon, tbe per sent, charged
for four months, and the per oent. per
annum on these staples in each of the
divisions of the State.
Let ns Instance Southwest Georgia.
There the present year the cash price of
corn has ruled at 79 cents per bushel,
and on time $1.16 This wonld give an
interest for fonr months oily, when pay
ment must be made, amounting to the
astonishing figure of 47 per cent. By
the same calculation the rate per month
would be 11.7 per oent., and .for a year
141 per cent.
For bacon the average oask price in
Southwest Georgia has been 7.4 cents
per pound, on time 10.7 cents. At this
rate the farmer must pay 44 per oent.
for the four months intervening before
be is required to^meet bis paper, wbioh
is equivalent (o 11 per oent. per month
on 133 per oent. per annum.
Now, we ask in all candor, what busl
ness on the face of the earth will justify
the payment ef such extortionate rates of
interest.
We hazard nothing in asserting that
there is not a gold mine in California or
any enterprise extant that could survive
under such an ordeal.
But the poor farmer is a bad calcula
tor, and impressed with the wholesome
dread that without bread and meat his
operations must come to a stand still and
starvation ensue, blindly consents to
such so-called "help ” which, if contin
uedlong enough, will find him bereft of
his broad paternal acres and a beggar.
Dr. Janes is entitled to the gratitude
and thanks of the entire agricultural com-
mnnity for this expose of what it oasts
the man who !b fool enough to attempt to
farm on the basis of purchasing his bread
and meat at ruling credit prioes. It
wonld land a Vanderbilt or Astor In
“K r n dom come” or its equivalent,bank-
rnp cy. What an argument for raising
one’s own corn, wheat, potatoes, rioe, su
gar, butter, lard, meat, poultry, honey
and fruit ? And all this can be done with
but little trouble and expense if tbs ignis
fatuus, cotton, did not allure so many to
destruction.
And yet, it is a notable fact that only
they who are independent by reason of
raising their own supplies, really get any
income from their cotton. Otherwise,
every dollar in a majority of cases is ab
sorbed for guano bills, meat and corn ad
vances, lard, butter, etc., etc. And hap
py is that man who, punning this suici
dal policy, does not also, after exhaust
ing his income, find a ruinous balance to
debit account at tbe end of the year.
Dr. Janes’ report contains interesting
tables also, showing the rainfall and tem
perature for the month of Jane, in the
various sections of the State, and affords
much valuable information concerning
the judicious use of fertilizars, tbe selec
tion of seeds, tbe drying of fruit, the
rearing of hogs, etc., etc. It shonld be
in the hands of every agriculturist in
Georgia.
Ever since Eve’s incautioua experience
in the Garden of Eden, Babies bare been
tbe institution. Petted by men and lov
ed by men, their baby life would be an
absolutely bappy existence, bnt for those
evidences of mortality exhibited in Colic,
Flatulency, etc.—all happily relieved at
once, however, by the prompt rse of Dr.
Bulla Baby Syrup.
Planters, Don’t Pack m Flax
Tow Bagging.
The Macon cotton buyers yesterday
addressed the warehousemen a commu
nication, in which they say they will be
compelled to decline any bales of cotton
covered in whole or in part with flax
tow bagging. They call attention to the
following from Buie No. 13, passed by
the New York Cotton Exchange, June
6th, 1878:
“On and after Monday, September
2nd, 1878, cotton covered with flax tow
bagging, containing shivos (or small
pieces of straw) or manufactured from
unrotted or imperfectly rotted flax, shall
be deemed unmerchantable and shall not
be good delivery in this market.”
The cotton buyers in their letter to the
Macon warehousemen say:
A very serious objection to this kind of
covering is that nearly all the bales ar
rive at mills or foreign ports in unusually
bad order. The bagging being rotten
and weak tears easily, and exposes the
cotton, subjecting the buyer to serious
loss in weight, etc. It is snppo3ed that
a large quantity of this cloth is how in
the hands of manufacturers and dealers,
and will be offered at such prices as will
tempt the planter to use it. And we
consider it very important to let it be
generally known that all cotton so cover
ed will be rejected, and thus save onr
planters tbe expense of having tbe same
re-covered.
Tbe “Grant Wave.”
The tidal wave which is to bring Grant
on its crest as a third term candidate in
1880, is dashing along noisily in the
West. That class of politicians who
made great gains in the eight years of
Grant’s incumbency, fill the papers with
tbeir plaudits of tbe scheme and exultant
predictions of its entire success Grant,
they aay, is a necessity for the preserva
tion of social order against striking mob3
and communists, and nobody else can
“save the country."
Grant has had a talk wi Bismarck in
Berlin, principally on Communism, and
has told the P how snsh people mnst
be dealt wltb. No blank cartridges must
be need. “All yon can do with snoh
people is to kill them. There is only one
way to deal with them and that is by the
severest methods.” Yes, indeed, give
Grant an illimitable foroe and unques
tioned control of it, and there is no donbt
he oan make as mnoh bloodshed and fuss
as most any other man of his mental
stature; baton all those vital and real
questions, whioh must make up the suc
cessful maintenance of free government,
a mole wonld do almost as well as Grant,
He has no other idea of public admin
istration than that of force, whioh is the
bane of all free government; an 1 must
eventually work itB death. He kept the
ten Southern States in a condition ap
proaching anarchy for years, with his
forcible interference, when everything
needed for peace and order was'to leave
them alone—to permit law and enlight
ened public opinion to assert themselves.
The South knew him after the war as the
genius of disorder—the man who, at in
finite cost to the country, for a long time,
successfully combattsd every influence
tending to public order, integrity and
tranquillity.
Pat Grant in as President at tbe head
of a standing army and ho would doubt
less kill the Commune and the strikers if
they showed themselves; but he would
have to be provided with a standing
army, and supported in all those methods
which in the end are fatal to the moral
forces in which lie the true security and
vitality of free government. He is the
most unsafe and ignorant of al! politicians
who ever held his prorninenco in Amcri-
*can history.
Bnt while the so-called Western “Re-
pnblioana” pushing Grant’s renomi
nation, many of the Middle and Eastern
men and newspapers are denouncing it.
Halier’s Weekly opposes it very earnestly
and the New York Sun, reviewing the
condition of the movement, says:
A few weeks ago we regarded General
Grant as the leading Republican candi
date for the nomination in 1880. It was
right to state this, whatever might come
of it. Had it helped to make Grant the
Nominee, that would have been a result
from which we should have felt no dis
position to shrink. On the contrary, we
felt rather inclined to court it. In the
event of Grant's nomination we believed
the time honored traditions, now pos
sessing almost the force ef constitu
tional provisions, would insure his
defeat. We still hold to the same
belief. But as we look upon the matter
onr articles, in calling universal attention
to the subject, have greatly weakened
Grant, and impaired, perhaps fatally, his
chances for a renomination. The ablest
and most influential of our Republican
contemporaries have come out strimgly
in opposition to him. They will have no
more of him. The man on horseback is
not for this country.
Grant is weaker to-day than he was one
month ago.
If nominated he is slmoBt certain to be
defeated; bnt his ebanoes of even a nom
ination aro greatly diminished.
No more of Grant as President; no
moro of Grant as candidate; ia wbat
Political Probabilities say to-
For onr own part, we sball not be sorry
to see the snbjeot of Grant’d administra
tion in all ilsactB, character and tendon
ties, brongbt before the country on a ques
tion of a new lease of power.
‘Native Georgian's” Review ot
tne University Board of Vis
itors’ Report.
Bat for the exalted worth of the
thor of the abovo paper, which the
reader will find elsewhere, and the wri
ter’s warm personal regard for him, we
should bo constrained to withhold its
publication. We wish, also, that all
sides of the question should be freely
and fairly discussed.
But it is precisely such unsmtained
and ill-jndged talk, coupled with other
things, that has reduced our noble Uni
versity to its present straights.
There may be, and doubtless is, some
modicum of truth in what the writer
urges. But some of his remarks apply
equally to Princeton, Tale, Emory and
Mercer Colleges. Thus his atriotnres
upon the discipline of the University,
the quality of the education «nd the
character and bearing of tbe graduates
since the war, are wholly unjoat and un
founded.
There is less dissipation and as goed
order maintained as at any period in the
hietory of the institution. Moreover,
the young men have infinitely less money
at command than in thepalmy ante hel
ium days, and dress much plainer than
then. Not a few ot them too are the
rugged sons ot farmers who are manfully
struggling for an education against the
greatest difficulties. Some even over
task themselves under the university
system to complete their labors in the
shortest possible time, that they may at
once engage in the great battle of life,
and among them are men of family who
are resolved at every sacrifice to obtain
that education which is so essential to
success in every vocation.
That instances of idleness and profli
gacy oocur, no one will deny. But what
alnmnns of this or any other imtitntion
does not know that the same is trne in
every college? Too graduates of the
University will oomparo favorably with
those of any institution in the Union.
Our friend does injustice also to the
people of Athens, who so far from think
ing that “the great State o£ Georgia mast,
at all cost and at any sacrifice, main-
tain a great central school at that city,”
have, at their own charges, since the war,
ereoted and donated ’to the State, Moore
College, by far the most elegant struc
ture belonging to the University, and at
a cost of $25,000. To show that the stu
dents are not gouged, good board can be
had in private families at from thirteen
to eighteen dollars per month.
The remarks of “Native Georgian,*’
too, upon the “easy indolence of the fac
ulty,” axe singularly incorrect. He says
“They eat, sleep, read, smoke and ride.
They draw their salaries, and live upon
them, and as the years roll on they think
more and more of the money and its uses
than ot the future of the noble boys con
fided to them.” After utterances like
these, it was unnecessary for onr fault*
finder to have stated that he had never
visited Athens but once, and personally
knew nothing of tbe people, or the oper
ations of the University.
The troth Is the net salaries paid to
the professors,after deducting house rent,
whioh the trasteeo insist upon charging,
do not exceed $1,700. Upon this small
sum several of the fhoulty with large fami
lies are foroed to attempt to subsist. Bnt
as that Is impossible, some take boarders,
and one, ox-vioeohanoellorMell, preaches
every Sabbath to one or two congrega
tions in the country. No body of men
were ever more diligent in tbe discharge
of their dntles.
Granted that just now, owing to the
pauolty of the students their labors are
not very arduous, and with no farther in
crease In patronage several of the oorps of
InBtrnotors might be dispensed with.
But the same faonlty has successfully
taught three hundred young men, and
stand ready to do it again.
Our correspondent’s deliverances re
specting the lack of experience and ina.
bility of the University graduates, at
first, to make money and pay their cur
rent expanses, apply to all college-raised
men without exception. They must, of
course, learn a profession or enter upon
active business pursuits before the work
of accnmulation can begin. But we sub
mit that a good education furnishes the
best ground-work for success in all tbe
walks of life—is the surest passport
in society, and tho only heritage which
all the mishaps and vicissitudes of this
unfriendly world can never take away.
It is easy to see from the lack of sym
pathy manifested by “Native Georgian”
for college-bred youths, and the almost
contemptuous manner in which he al
ludes to them, that he is a self-made man,
and never knew the practical experiences
of a student’s career. He is, withal, a
learned and distinguished gentleman,
and we honor him for his unassisted
achievements in literature. Bat that
aheuld not cause him to despise the regu
larly taught scientists of the schools.
Gf tho squabbles he describes in the
Board of Trustees, tbe “electors” and
'eleationeerore,’ etc.,etc., wehavenaught
to say, as nothing definite upon the sub
ject ha3 ever transpired.
Nor do we offer the slightest apology
for euch conduct, or appear as the cham
pion of trustees, chancellor, faculty or
any one else.
We are satisfied that some cause exists
for the present decadence of the State
University, and wish the matter probed
to its lowest depths and the truth elicit
ed. The Board of Visitors diligently
sought to throw all the light upon the
subject that could be obtained from ev
ery source, without being prepared to en
dorse many of the allegations, and then
left the remedies to be applied by tbe
properly constituted authorities. It was
all they could legitimately do m the
premise?.
In conclusion, we beg leave to say to
our good friend, “Native Georgian,” that
albeit she people of Athens are noted for
tbeir hospitality, the writer was for too
much occupied with the duties imposed
upon him to enjoy "any flowery bod3 of
ease” at their hands, and in point of fact
did not break bread or sip a solitary
glass of wine with any of her citizens.
We trust, ere long, to be able to chron
icle that our grand old University has
taken a new daparture in the rAce for
glory and renown.
Swzdzs have purchased a largo traot
of land on the Blue Mountain, • Pa., ex
tending from Delaware Water Gap down
to Wind Gap, on whioh they propose to
graze goats and make cheese.
Tax Stockton, Cal., Independent
claims that there is no need of lockjaw
from wounds in the feet or any other
part of the body from rusty nails. Any
bruise that is inflamed may be healed
by simply smoking it with burning
woollen clotb. Twenty minutes is suffi
cient to take the pain from tbe worst
case.
AMisoovunzd Citt.—In tbe course
of an argument in a Chicago court recent’
ly a lawyer declared he owned lands in
the connty which he wonld willingly con
vey to any person who would undertake
to pay the taxes on them. Small wonder
that the Times says: “Probably nowhere
in America has robbery nnder the name
of taxation been carried so near the point
of actual confiscation as in the city of
Chicago and the county of which it is a
part.
Tbs Washington Monument, after be
ing neglected for twenty-five years, is
now in a fair way toward completion, not
indeed according to the original design,
bnt in a manner worthy of the subject
The monument was decided upon in 1783
by a resolution of Congress, In 1848
th9 corner-stone was laid and tbo build
ing in a few yean reached tbe height ot
174 feet. There the work stopped, after
an expediture of $230,000. In 1676 Con
gress appropriated $260,000 to continue
the work, and the obelisk will now be
pushed upward. It has not been decided
whether the height shall be 485 feet or
550 feet. The latter height would make
it the tallest structure in the world, not
excepting the Pyramid of Cheops or the
Cathedral of Cologne.
A Bbioht Pbospxct tob Mzbceb Uni-
viBsrrr.—We are pleased to learn that
the indications aro very favorable for a
fall opening of tbe next collegiate year
ef this excellent institution. AU the
rooms and dormitories attached to the
University have already been bespoken'
and the outlook is exceedingly cheerful.
Wo learn that very shortly the popular
and energetic President of the Univer
sity, Dr. Battle, will make a tour
through those counties and sections of
country which are naturally tributary. to
Mercer, and appeal to the people to send
in their sons that they may be properly
educated and qualified for future useful
ness.
The catalogue of the University shows
a curriculum of study equal in character
How They Keep cool f n France.
Loidon Standard.]
The troth is that the best way of
fighting (he heat is by avoiding it. If
we wish to escape sunstroke, even in ite
mitigated form of languor, lassitude and
.drowsiness, we must keep ourselves cool;
and to do this as it ought to be done we
must take precautions against the heat
before it bursts upon us. Those who
wish to know how this oan beat be effected
have only to pay a short visit to Fans
daring thesultxieBt weeks in Augnst.
As soon as the weather demands the
change, a Frenchman apparels himself
in low shoes and trousers ot “duck,” or
nankeen; his ehirt-collar expands; his
necktie dwindles into an apology; waist
coat he altogether discards; his coat is
of thin alpaca ortho lightest Tussore
silk; his hat !b of white felt or ot Btraw;
nor is he ashamed to boldly carry an
umbrella:
His house, especially if it is on the
sonny side of the street, is regulated with
equal care and forethought. The carpets
are taken up, the heavy jealousieB are
shut before snnrise, and kept dosed
throughout the day; the court-yard is
kept hourly watered; and in households
where small expenses are a matter of
little moment, a largo bowl of ice and
water, or a pyramid of solid ice, sur
rounded with flowers, forms the centre
ornament of the table. Wbat the in
dividual citizen does for himBelf, that
the municipality of Paris doeB for
tbe entire city. Long before the Paris
ians are astir the streets have been well
watered with a base, and the trotkir
thoroughly washed down. Along the
bonlevards and ]n most of the principal
avenuea large treeB gratefully cool tbe at
mosphere, and suggest a pleasant sort of
lotos-eating dream of wood and field.
Each thoroughfare has its shady
Bide, and instead of the repulsive London
“pnblio,” one Boars at evesy few hundred
yards aoross some little cafe, with itB
awning drawn over the pavement, and
with chairs and marble tables, where (he
thirsty eonl who demands of the garcon
even a eup of cold water and tenders for
it fats three half penoe, will reoeive i
courteous welcome.
As for the French “drink”—cups that,
unlike the English “peg” of “soda and
brandy,” “cool but not inebriate”—their
praises cannot be too londly sang or too
widely spread. In but few English house
holds is tbe nature of “orgoat” known, or
the true use of raspberry vinegar under
stood; in bnt few English hotels is the
earafe put upon the table, its contents a
solidly frozen mass of crystal.
Indeed, ot life in hot weather, as of
life at the sea side and of divers other
matters in which personal comfort is the
chief consideration, we cannot bnt admit,
however reluctantly, that “they manage
these things better in France.” The rea
son, perhaps, is not bo much that we are
lesB careful tor comfort than our neigh
bors, as that we are more governed by
commercial inetinct. Serious provision
against summer involves considerable
.outlay, a climate where we know not
what a day may bring forth, people do
not believe m a summer till they see it,
and by the time they bate taken two or
three daya to make sure of it, it may
very possibly have come to an end.
Democratic Executive committee
Heetinr.
Yesterday, soon after twelve o’cloek,
the Uemooratio Executive Committee of
Bibb county, held a meeting at the Court
House, in pursuance to a call from the
chairman.
The meeting was called to Older by
Colonel H. H. Jones, Chairman, and the
following are the official minutes:
Goubt Honau, Macon, Ga.,
July 24,1878.
Meeting Democratic Executive Com
mittee: The following members of the
committee were present: H. H. Jones,
Chairman; TV. Dessau, Siaeetarj; A. 77.
Gibson, R. A. Nisbet, C. Mastereon, J.
A. McManus, and J. L. Kennedy.
The following resolutions were intro,
duced and unanimously passed:
- Resolved, That inasmuch as there is in
the County of Bibb no division of senti
ment or opposition in regard to the elec
tion of Congressman from this district, a
meeting of the Demaoraoy be called on
Saturday, the Sd day of August, 1878, at
the Court House, at 12 m., for the pur
pose of selecting delegates to the ap-
proaohing Distinct Convention, and for,
the {farther purpose of the appointment
of a new Executive Committee for the
County of Bibb, and for such other busi
ness as the meeting may then and there
determine.
Resolved, That the above resolution be
published till day of meeting in the
Datlx and Wzxklt Tzlxoraph and
Missxnqkb.
There being no farther business, the
meeting adjourned.
H. H. Jonzs, Chairman.
W. DzssAtr, Secretary.
There will be no primary election for
Representative, as there is no opposition,
this being the rule adopted by tbe com
mittee in such cases.
City Honey.
The feeling in the city yesterday in re
gard to the city money was very much
more favorable than it has been for many
daya past.
Tho strong and decided action taken
the evening previous by the City .Coun
cil tended to restore confidence in the
much abused city currency.
The rate at which it was disposed of yes
terday was 80 and 85 cents on the dollar,
which is a decided recovery o ter the fig-
ares of a few days since.
The plan adopted by the Mayor and
Connell of Beating up as much as possi
ble, "and thus temporarily retiring it
from circulation, is also working well,
and by this means neatly twenty-five
thousarifl dollars have been gotten rid
of, and the work of sealing up still goes
on*
Tho money was hard to find yester
day afternoon,and it becomes a more and
more difficult matter everyday to obtain
it.
The smallest package yet disposed of
in this way, was one of twenty-three
dollars.
•-♦-*
inspected of Horse atcnllng.
Yesterday afternoon abont 4 o’clock, a
naan came to tbe livery stables of Messrs.
Chapman A Davis, and proposed to dis
pose of or exchange a hone and boggy
which he was driving. His latter proposi
tion was taken up by a Mr. Tharpe, giving
six dollars In addition to bis team.
Mr. Tharpe anpposed that the hone and
buggy belonged to the oolored man.
The manner of the negro, however*
was such as to exoito suspicion, and the
police were notified to be on the alert tor
him.
Officers Fennell and Grace began to in
vestigate. They went to the stablea and
found the negro had left. He was dis
covered making down an alley near
Cherry and Third streets.
Offioer Fennell went after the buggy
and officer Graoe gave chase to the darkey,
He was again seen near Fifth street with
a satchel in hand making for the swamp.
Offioer Grace pursued him some dis
tance beyond the Macon and Augusta
depot but could not overtake the fugi
tire.
.The horse and buggy have been taken
in custody and will be held for identifi
cation, The buggy ia quite a good one,
Foreign Hews.
London, July 24.—A dispatoh from
Rome reports that the Vatican is elabo
rating a project with relation to the
Church in the United States, limit™- to
that in regard to the Churches in the
British Isles—placing it nnder the im
mediate authority of the Pope.
Pabis, July 24.—The international
chew tournament waa concluded to-day.
H. Zukertorfc, of Berlin and London re
ceives the first prize, having gained six
teen games, with one drawn. Mackenzie,
of New York, takes the fifth prise, being
the winner of twelve games, with one
drawn.
Yixnna, July 24—The Italian Gov- aion was held with closed doors
nent has expressed regret at the “ - .
and (he horse fair. The negro came in.
and completeness to any in $he South* ~ to the city from the Houston road.
ernment has expressed regret __
demonstration againBt the Austrian Em
bassy.
London, July 24.—The Queen has con
ferred the order of the Garter on Earl
Salisbury.
A Reuter from Constantinople declares
that numerous petitions have been re
ceived from Bosnia, asking proteotion
against Austrian occupation. The Porte
demands to be permitted to retain the
civil administrations of the provinces,
and negotiations with Austria are at a
stand still. The Porte intends to main
tain its objections.
In the House of Commons last night
Mr. Gladstone moved that the aotion of
the Indian authorities, in regard to the
vernacular press of India, be plaoed un
der Parliamentary control. A long de
bate followed, and closed with a division
in whioh tbe motion was rejeoted by 208
to 152, Edward Stanhope, Under-Sec
retary for India, declaring that the law
concerning the vernaenlar press wonld
be applied only in urgent oases.
London, July 24.—The amendment to
be submitted by Sir Charles Dilke in the
House of Commons, on Thursday, to the
motion of Sir Stafford Northoote, Chan
cellor of tbe Exoheqner, for a grant to
the Duke of Connaught, whose betrothal
to Prinoesa Marie Lonlse, of Prussia,
was annonnoed yesterday, does not Im
pugn the constitutionality of the applica
tion, bnt proposes to postpone the con
sideration of the snbjeot nntil the Gov
ernment lays before tbe House a return,
showing the number of prinoes and prin
cesses thus endowed, and other informa
tion on the snbjeot sinoe the accession of
William III.
Athjsns, July 24,—Great fires in Thes
saly, supposed to be of incendiary origin,
continue to devastate the country.
Three French ironclads hare arrived
at Piraeus. A division of the Italian
fleet is also expected there.
London, July 24.—A Constantinople
dispatch to Reuters says the Greek min
ister has not communicated the views of
Greece about the rectification of the
frontier. It is believed Greece will ask
the mediation of the Powers, and that
the latter will submit the question to
arbitration.
A Constantinople dispatch to the Man
chester Guardian says the evacuation of
Shnmla has commenced. Nearly all the
Turkish officials formerly stationed there
are now at Varna. Several Russian bat
talions have already entered Shumla.
The London correspondent of the Man
chester Guardian says it is expected that
the government’s majority on Mr. Plan
kett’s amendment expressing confidence
in the ministry will be between 120 and
130. It is prcbable Parliament will not
adjourn before the middle of August.
Pabis, July 24.—Winawer, of Bnesis,
takes the second prize of the Internation
al chess tournament, won by Bixteen
games. Blsokburu, of London, takes (he
third for fourteen games. Bird, of Lon
don, the fourth for thirteen games.
The Defence (a clerical journal) pub
lishes a speolal from Rome annonuoing
that the Papal Nnnoio at Munich will go
to Beilin to conclude arrangements,
which will restore religious peace to Ger-
many.
London, Joly 24.—The Times Paris
correspondent gives the account of an in
terview with Gambetta on the treaty of
Beilin. Gambetta, os being asked If he
was an adversary ot the treaty and disap
proved of the work of Congress, said ha
oould not be an absolute adversary of the
treaty, seeing that whatever may be its
defecit it proonred for Europe in
general and France in paiticuiar
the greatest boon to wbioh we
oan aspire—peace. He and others may
have thought ill of certain concessions of
prinoipls whioh appeared contrary to tbe
roles on which the international law of
Europe reposes, but from the first he saw
too otearly the dificulties of the undertak
ing to imagine that it wonld be accom
plished In a perfectly blameless manner.
Gambetta ccntinued: “I think at the
same time, European pnblio law received
a great mark of jhomeg. when Russia, not
withstanding the disunited state, in which
Europe then was, and notwithstanding
her own victorious position, submitted
the entire Treity of San Stefanoto the
judgment of the powers. I will not now
examine (he triple alliance established in
1873.
I will not say that it was exclusively
directed against Franoe, but I think that
when three Governments come to suoh an
understanding, those who have been left
oat of it, are entitled to assert that not
in favor of their interests, has the agree
ment been made. Franoe, therefore, is
entitled to ask whether the Congress at
Berlin has left intaot the triple agree
ments, and 1 think it wonld be difficult to
reply In the affirmative.”
Gambetta oontinued: The position at
tained by Austria with her preponderat-
News Items.
Galveston, July 24.—Judge O. M
Roberts wss yesterday nominated far
Governor by acclamation, Joseph T)
Sayres for Lieutenant Governor and Q« n *
MoCormiok for Attorney Genets],
St. Paul, Minn., July 24.—A renott
was reoeived here last night that a ter
®f, r “ ear Faribault shot and iMuiuJ
killed two tramps whom he caught in ihi
of “ e ^! n Sfir« toths harvesting ma
chine In tus wheat field. He gave him-
88 jt WM in8t »nUy released.
Bvwino?, Pbnn., July 24
The National Greenback Labor S
Central Committee met here. The seg-
President Grant, by a telegram in term a
tarnep oyAustnawitu uerpiepouueraj.- ROmettin{ . following: “I would
ba gratified if you would go to New Or-
States, of whioh Bosnia and Herzegovina
have been called to form the centre, make
of that power something entirely differ
ent from an ally of Russia. Austria is
placed as a sentinel at one end of the
eastern area, while at the other end Eng
land has been called upon to mount
guard. And this parallel situation es
tablishes between the interests of Austria
and England a connection which impels
the former towards her natural and log-
isal policy, and which to-day or to-mor
row wifi inevitably deprive tbe triple
alliance of its bond of union and one of
its most important elements. In my
opinion, therefore, it may be affirmed
that the Congress at Beilin has modified
in a very essential way, the basis of the
understanding of 1872,-and I think
France has every reason to approve a
change which modifies a combination
formed apart from her, if not against her.
The change brought about in tho Eng
lish polioy is another consequence of not
Ubs importance, resulting from the Con
gress, on which France cannot bnt con
gratulate herself. In establishing her
self at Cyprus as an advanced guard, and
constituting herself protectress of the
Asiatic interest of Turkey, England has
abandoned that polioy which I shall call
ffisular, to reanme her polioy of watchful*
ness in the continent. She ceases to be a
merg spectator of continental events. Ske
no longer remains as for so long un
happily she has done, apart from tho po
litical oombinations of Europe, that I
think it is a very fortunate circumstance
for England herself. Europe was be
ginning to regard her as a stranger to
its political transformations, but now,
England, ina brilliant fashion, has re
turned within the Earopean circle.
Whatever occurs in Europe directly af
fects her, and her interests exist
wherever the political equilibrium and
civilization are at stake. In concluding,
Gambetta said he could be classed with
those who are adversaries of tho work of
the Berlin Congress.
Bohb, July 84 —The Badioal journal,
£<* Capitals, protests warmly against the
demonstration against Austria, and in fa
vor of annexations, and says that the
promoters of the agitation are known to
be enemies of Italy, and of the present
Government.
The Potters.
Atlantic Citt, N. J., July 24.—In the
Potter Committee, Representative Kelly
on (he stand, testified that he waa re
quested by President Grant to go to New
Orleans to witness the count. He was
merely to go aa a looker-on—to see that
nothing improper occurred. He started
entirely alone, but on the way found him
self in company with Secretary Sherman,
and on arriving at New Orleans found
there % number of the visiting gentler,
men, Republican in politic*.
Cincinnati, July 34.-A dispstch from
Batavia esys J. H. Sharp, Treasurer 5
the Williamsburg Township, h M bL*
detected in forging, and has dieapcesrSi
Itu stated also that he la shofufffi
treasury accounts. 011
NxwObmans, Joly 21.—A Galveston
News special from Austin says the Con
vention at one o’clock this morning, nom-
mated Ex-Treasurer P. K. Labbfot rrtr
State Treasnier. This morning was
InbafiotingforLand CommisriouM.^ 1
Nxw Yobk, July 24,—The Pacific mail
steamship companies, officially etate that
there Is no troth in the report that the
City of ToMo” is overdue.
Fall Rivsb, July 24.—Minnie War.
ren, the well known dwarf, died here ve?
terday in child-birth. 7
Galvsston, July 24.—A special to the
News, dated at Austin, says 8Uphen H
Darden, present Comptroller, has been
renominated. The Convention is still in
session.
Other ’Witnesses Before the Com
mittee.
Atlantic Citt, N. J., July 24.—The
witness stigmatized as false the state
ment of E. L. Weber that the visiting
statesmen advised the Returning Bo&td
to stretch their powers, and that the
Board did so and elected Packard and a
majority of the Legislature. Iareply U
the question, “Do you know of Secretary
Sherman having had a conversation with
Weber and Anderson in New Orleans f’
witness replied that he had no conscious
ness of ever having seen Weber. While
the visiting delegation occupied the pub
lic parlor at the hotel, Anderson and
Weber may hare come into it among
others. Senator Sherman spent very
little time there; he was either ia his
own room or in Mr. Stoughton’s room,
attending to his private business. Sena
tor Sherman sever came to the Custom
House.
In the couise of the farther examina
tion witness alluded to Eliza Pinkston.
He believed her statement at the time It
was made, and believes it to-day. He
also spoke ot the affairs in the Ware
house Parish as so desperate that the
planters themselves organized a guard of
their oolored laborers from the attacks of
the regulators, On being interrogated by
Chairman Potter, witness said that soma
of the affidavits had been redrafted, fie
thought that General Harry White re
drafted ono or two. Witness had not
read auy evidence concerning the Ware
house Parish, exoept (hat famished by
the Repnblican counsel
Courtlandt Parker also testified that he
went to New Orleans at the request of
President Grant, to witness the count of
the vote, and he knew of no act on the
part of the visitors to i&fiuence the Re
turning Board.
Representative Hale testified that he
went to New Orleans solely at the request
of Grant, not at the instance of Hayes or
any person for him. He and Senator
Sherman were intimate, and they ex
pressed their views with freedom. All
the Republican visitors maintained tbe
position that they should be careful ts
abstain from any attempt to influence the
Returning Board. Sofaras he knew this
principle was strictly earned out. Wit
ness had no recolleotion of hearing of Jas.
E. Anderson while he waa in Louisiana,
nor did ho remember having seen or
heard of Weber. He did not know of
Senator Sherman being iu any secret
consultation outside of his own immedi
ate associates. Witness and Senator
Sherman were together every day. Be
had not seen the letter purporting to
have been written by Weber and Ander
son, dated November 19th, 1876, and the
alleged reply of Sherman. If such let
ters were written, he thought from his
intimacy with Sherman that he would bavo
heard of the fact,
The witness testified to the part he
took in the examination of the returns
from East Baton Rouge, and, like the
witness who preceded him, he character
ized as false the testimony of Weber
about the visiting Republicans influ
encing the action of the Returning
J. Hale Sypher, an ex-member of Con
gress from Louisiana, testified that D.
A. Weber showed him a letter that pur
ported to be signed by John Sherman.
He would not testify that it wa3 in Sher
man’s handwriting, but there was noth
ing to make him think it was not. Ho
could not give the purport of the letter,
but the published copy, the original of
which be had hastily read, seemed
to be substantially correct.
Secretary Sherman made a statement
that he is now Secretary of the Treasury,
hut in November, 1876, was a Senator of
the United States, and was invited by
leans to witness the count.” At first he
declined, but a second telegram was re
ceived from President Grant, saying: “I
think it is important for yon to go.” Bat
he did not go till the Wednesday after.
On his way to Cincinnati he stopped at
Columbus, where he saw Gorernor
Hayes. In reply to interrogatories by
Mr. His cock, he said his conversation
with Hr. Hayes, was general abont tbe
election, ell then being in the dark. S)
took with him, a copy ot the eleotipn
laws of Louisiana. He reached New Or
leans on the 15th ot November, and ou
the next day, met in consultation, three
gentlemen appointed by the President.
Secretary Sherman then substantial
ly stated from a printed report, the prop*
osition made to them by tne DemocraUO
visitors with reference to the count. The
response of the Republicans being that
they eoold not interfere with the election
ofoffioers, as they were there at the re
quest of the President, almply to wit
ness, and that their position
Was rather as citizsns to repoit
actual facts transpiring iu their presence.
The forthur examination was poatpon^
till to-morrow morning at 10 o’elooz, tne
committee having been in session froo
16:30 o’olook this morning till 7:30 Una
evening, with the exoeption of an now
and a half reoess. The chairman Btitea
that Governor Cox had notified h®
some time ego, that he oonli not remain
In New Orleans beyond this month, ano.
accordingly, the chairman had apphtj 1 “
other members of the minority to ta* 8
Cox’s plaoe on the eub-oommittee theK-
None of the gentlemen, however, felt»|
liberty to go to New Orleans cow.
the timo of this application it v* 1
expected that the testimony id r ‘‘
gard to intimidations would be iw
which would ocoupy some time, vies,
however, Mr. Sherman’s oounsel fle*""
not to Introduce that testimony, it *>=
hoped that the most of tho evidence 1 "
Louisiana could be completed by the o®
of the month, bat the breaking out of tf
yellow fever there, which had taken
within the past few days, has been tot-
lowed by Governor Cox’s withdrawal,«
that it wonld not .be practicable to
continue a committee there at*
tc-day, on whioh the mniaritj
were not represented, and thereto**
unless the committee thought otbwwi
be should instruct the aub-commitwe^
suspend their sittings In New Oriean**
But ss this withdrawal of Governor w
would prevent the committee from Ujnw
gome ofthe evidenoe which General
ler requested should be taken, he
fore fold the matter before the oomuuw^
General Butler said that some of
denoe he wished was *9 be
should now have to ask that w»aes»«
summoned here. It wss sgreed
subcommittee should suspend i« N
tings.