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t qE CONGRESSIONAL COSIEST
IS THE FIFTH DISTRICT,
Special to the Telegraph and Messenger.!
Babnesville.Ga., September 12.—The
nominating convention of tho Fifch Con
gressional District was called to order by
Csptain W. T. Newman, of Atlanta,
Chairman of the Executive Committee of
the District.
Mr. R. D. Smith, of Crawford county,
was made Chairman of the Convention,
and Colonel H. H. Cabamss, of Monroe
county, and J. C. MoMiehael, of Upson
county, were made Secretaries.
The Fulton county tie vote was settled
by letting five delegates cast the vote of
the oounty instead of six,
Up to six o’dook seventy-five ballots
rreie cast. Hon. N. J. Hammond re-
ceived twenty on one ballot. On the last
billot the vote ttaofl 17 for Candler and
17 for Stewart. Tho Convention, efter
tho seventy-fifth ballot, adjourned until
eight o’clock to-night.
SECOND TELEQBAM.
On the twenty-fourth ballot Candler’s
name was withdrawn. On the one hun
dred and twenty-sixth ballot a motion
was mado to adjourn, but was voted
down. Tho balloting then continaed.
AU of this time the average vote war,
Hammond, of Fulton, 16; Stewart, of
Spalding, 10; and Duncan, of Houston,
8. This wa9 continued to the one hun
dred and thirty-third ballot, when the
Convention adjonred to nine o’clock to
morrow.
Bator Honor, September 11.—Some
thirty deaths have occurred from yellow
fever to date. Eighty-eight cases are re-
S rted for the three days ending yes ter-
y. At least forty more will be added
this mornicg.
New Oblxahs, September 12.—Dr.
- Isadora Lehmen,•Benjamin A. Ray, son
of Hon. J. H. Ray, and R. D. Mitchell,
formerly a captain of the Second New
Jersey Cavalry, are among the deaths
to-day. The Howards report two hun
dred and seventy-seven new cases.
Since Sunday there have been several
new cases, among them Dr. Jones and
eon, Mrs. Ellis and Dr. Thompson’s wife.
The Young Men’s Christian Association
reported ninety-four new cases yesterday.
Among the deaths is George McCIcskey.
Dr. O. C. Thompson, of 03yba, Missis
sippi, reports that be has had several
cases of fever there, bnt of a mild type.
Grenada, September 12.—Since yes
terday there have been four deaths and
five new cases.
London, September 12.—The Standard
etyB it is probable that a portion of the
Sooloo Islands, in the Indian Ocean, have
been or are about to be ceded to Spain.
The British Consul General at Labuan
hi3 been ordered to proceed to the Soo
loo Islands in a man-of-war.
A Berlin dispatch reports that the in
fluence of Gortschakofi is paramount at
St. Petersburg, and Count Schouvaloff
has been relieved from ofHco at bis own
request.
London, September 12—The full ex
tent of the terrible disaster in the coal
mine at Aberoaro, is now known. At h8if
past 2 o’clock this morning the flooding of
the pit oommenoed. At that boor the fire
was within a short diatanos of the boitom
of the shaft. AU hope of farther rosoaes
had to be abandoned. When this decis
ion was announced to the relatives of the
751 men still in the pit, the scene was
terrible beyond description. Thirteen
additional bodies were recovered before
the flooding began.
CrNCTNNATr, September 12.—IL W.
Iileitz, of Memphis, died of yellow fever
last evening.
ft is stated that a very malignant type
of fever has broken ont at New Richmond,
Ohio, a small place 20 miles from this
city, up the river. Of six or seven per
sons attacked up to this time five have
died. The wife* of Rev. Dr. Lewis and a
servant girl, their next door neighbor,
died on Tuesday, and shortly after toe
wife and sister of Mike McGlane, where
the servant died, were attacked and died.
The daughter of Dr. Kincaid was attack
ed, bnt recovered. The patients tnrn
yellow and before death present the pe
culiar symptoms of black vomit. Phy
sicians, however, prenonnee the disease
bilious fever.
Boston, September 12.—At a meeting
of the executive committee of the Demo
crats State Committee yesterday, it was
voted that under a call for a State Con
vention no person known be in favor of
nominating, through the Democratic
Convention, as a candidate for Governor
or for any State office, a person who is
not a rcoognizsd member of tho Demo
cratic party, sbonld be entitled to Bit or
vote in the Democratic State Convention*
Republican caucuses were held in this
city and Burronnding cities and towns
last evening for the cboioe of delegates to
the State and other conventions. State
delegates generally favored the nomina
tion of Talbot for Governor.
Concobd, N. H., September 12.—The
Damooratio State Convention nominated
Frank MoEin for Governor.
London, September 12.—The Egyptian
Obelisk was brought into an upright po
sition and lowered on tbo pedestal this
afternoon, on the Thames embankment.
Oodin&bubo, September 12.—Senator
Blaine spoke at the fair here to-day. He
devoted himrelf largely to financial mat
ters, and mado no referenoe to the resalt
in Maine.
Philadelphia, Septsmber 12.—The
republican County Convention made the
following nominations: Judges of the
Common Pleas, J. F. Clark Hare and
Mr. Kuseefi Thayer; Judges of the Or
phans' Oomt, Wm. N. Ashman and
Clements B. Penroee.
New Yobx, September 12.—At a meet
ing of the United States Board of Trade
held yesterday, It was resolved to hold the
next meeting in New York on Wednes
day, November C.h, when the presidents
and delegates from all the Chambers of
Commerop, Boards of Trado and Mari
time Produce and Commercial Exchanges
in the United States will be invited to
attend. A number of important subjects
will then be dismissed. V
Bueehan, Montana, September 10th,
via Helena, Montana, September 12.—
By an extra courier from Captain Brown
ing, wo learn that on Sunday last General
Udes had a battle with the Bannocks in
8oda Butt Creek, near Clark’s Ford.
Thirteen Indians were killed, and tho
«st of the party, thirty-seven in all, were
captured. Miles’ loss was Captain Drew
S. Bennett, killed, and one soldier mor-
fnliy wounded.
Washington, September 12.—The
acting commissioner of the internal rev
enue telegraphed to the United States
Marshal for Georgia to-day that if he
needed assistance to make the arrest of
the three Ennis illicit distillers of Bald
win county, he wonld authorize the col
lector to employ a strong force to aid
bun. The marshal replied that, if nec
essary, he would accept the offer.
Subscriptions to the yellow fever fund
continue to increase, and fifteen thou
sand dollars have thus far been sub
scribed here.
The Metropolitan Hotel, which had
been closed for three monthp, was rc-
cned to-day ueder the proprietorship
Bon*, Septembe 12.—Verdi has com
pleted his new five act opera entitled
Montezuma,” which will be first pro
duced in Milan.
Bbbne, September 12—The Grand
'•ouncil of Switzerland has granted am
nesty to ninety-three Catholic priests
J2® were deprived of their livings'in
*8/3 for refusing to comply with the re
quirements of the State.
Vicksburg, September 11—Via New
teleau?.—Tho weather is cloudy and
jerj'cool. Amcng tho deaths to-day are
h ~;, Ca "6y» merchant, Dr. Potts and
r”- Blicbfeldt.of Chattanooga, volunteer
- The two doctors, Bliehteldt and
nurses are sick. It is beet for physicians
and nurses that have not had the fever
to keep away from Vicksburg. Deaths
yesterday, 42; to-day, SI.
New oases are unknown but it is gen
erally thought by druggists that the fever
Is decreasing in new oases for the want of
material. The fever is spreading through
out Warren oounty. TheHawardAssooia-
tlon estimates 3,000 cases and oOO deaths
since the fever first appeared.
Canton, Miss., September 12.—There
is no abatement of the scourge. New cases
twenty*
New Orleans- September 12.—Two
hundred and twelve new oases and fifty-
seven deaths.
Concobd, September 12.—Hosea Par
ker was elected President of the Demo
cratic State Convention. Among the
resolutions passed is the declaration that
greenbacks should be made full legal ten
der for all debts, public or private, and
the words gold, silTer or coin should not
remain in the contract to pay those
bonds.
Memphis, September 12.—Tho ther
mometer last night marked 60i degrees,
bat a stiff breeze dissipated all hopes of
frost.
From 6 p. m. yesterday to noon to-day
there were 62 deaths, among whom are
several of the most prominent citizens,
including Dr. B. W. Avent, Judge Rob
ert Hutchinson, Captain A. T. Lacy,
Prof. E. S. Francis and Captain William
Elliott. Sister Vinoentia is also dead.
Rev. S. Landrum, pastor of the Central
Baptist Church, wa3 taken sick while
watching by the bedside of his dying
son. Herbert S. Landrum, city editor
of tho Avalanche, died at 2 o’clock this
morning.
Nurses from Southern cities oontinue
to arrive, and are mnch needed. Dr. J.
W. Woodard, a resident physician, is
down with the fever. Casey Young, M.
C., is sick, but not with tho fever. A
cool breeze is blowing, and hopes are en
tertained that at least there will be a fall
ing off in the number of new cases,
Mayor Flipper is convalescing.
Atlanta, September 12 —The Demo
cratic Convention of tho Fifth District
met to-day. Seventy-five ballots were
cast, bnt no nomination has yet been
made.
Concobd, September 12.—The Demo
crats of the Second District renominated
Alvah W. Sulloway,
Baltimobb, September 12.—Judge
Bond has partially recovered from his re
cent sickness and held court to-day.
The bearing in the South Carolina rail
road case was resumed. General James
Conner, of the counsel for the road, com.
menced the argument on the pare ot the
defendants.
New Yobk, September 12.—The relief
committee of the Chamber of Commerce
tc-day rereived $1,417-47, making total
subscriptions $87,682.03. Mayor Ely
to-day received subscriptions to tho
amount of $986.81.
Washington, September 12.—Reports
from all quarters show to cessation in
contributions for the fever sufferers.
Knoxville, Tenn., September 12.—
P. Staub, proprietor of- the Knoxville
Opera House, and a large real estate
owner, made an assignment this evening,
in consequence of which the Knoxville
bank has closed its doors. The bank’s
liabilities are $71,000, available assets
$8,000.
New Yobk, September 12.—The fall
meeting of the National Rifle Association
begins at Creedmore on Tuesday, Septem
ber 17tb, and continues throughout the
week. The presentation of prizes will
take place on Saturday, the 21st, in this
city. Major General Hancock will pro-'
sent the prizes in the international mili
tary match.
Pittsburg, September 12.—A special
from Parker City, Pennsylvania, says
Signor Palo Tragone donated one pint of
poannts to the Parker City Oil Exchange
to be sold at auction for the benefit of
the Howard Association of New Orleans.
The total proceeds of the sale amounted
to two hundred and thirty-two dollars
and eighty cents. The prices paid
ranged from one do Hr to fifteen dollars
per nut.
Pobtland, Me., September 12.—At a
hearing of the alleged election frauds to
day, Alderman certified to returns as
they were and ordered them to be for
warded to Augusta.
Norfolk, Va., September 12.—A
whits man named Osceola Cook this even
ing was strcck with a stone by a colored
wcod sawyer, Frank Cormiob, killing him
instantly.
Springfield, III., September 12 —
The Republicans of this Congressional
Distriot have nominated General John
Cook.
Poughkeepsie, September 12—Prof.
Samnel L. Caldwell, of Newton Theolog
ical Seminary, was eleoted President of
Vassar College. He snooeeds the late
Dr. Raymond.
Baltimore, September 12.—Kearney
made one of his usual speeches here this
afternoon, at a small socialist picnic. He
said: “ There is an army of tramps hero
who will capture this Government as the
tramps captured France, when they made
the streets of her cities inn red with the
blood of aristocrats and capitalists.” He
denounced the resnmptionists; advocated
the issuing of more greenbacks, and said
that John Sherman is a fool and a thief,
who ought, on general principles, to be
hung.
Altoona, S-nb.-r 12. — While a
party of railroau _ien were testing the
track this afternoon, their engine ran in
to a number of cars, and caused a com
plete wreck. Joseph Johnson, a brake-
man, was killed, Superintendent of the
yard, Charles McCulley, had bsth feet
cat off, chief dispatcher, Joseph Sandeck,
arm broken, Conductor James Boyd, en
gineer Jackson and two brakemen and
the fireman were also injured.
New Yobk, September 12.—A letter
from Havana dated, September 7th, says:
The Cuban journals which formerly hard
ly dared to call slavery by its real name
are now discussing means for its aboli
tion. It appears that all parties are
gradually coming to the conviction that
pecuniary compensation to the owners of
slaves is quite ont of the question, for
the amount would be very large and the
treasury of the Island conld not raise it.
The eolation of the slavery question will
ultimately be with the Spanish Cortes
and it is therefore of the utmost im
portance that men should be elected on
this Island who are free from party spirit
and with a fall knowledge of this coun
try’s peculiarities and necessities, and
who wonld be abio to impress the Cortes
with what was really needed.
Cairo, September 12.—Thomas Nally,
editor of the Bulletin, died to-day of
wbat tho physicians proncuuoed at the
last moment to be yellow fover. Isaao
Mulkey, an employee of the Bulletin, Is
very low with the same complaint. The
Bulletin this morniDg repotted Nally re
covering from billons lever and until
noon this was believed to be the foot.
Great excitement exists and many, are
leaving the oity to-night. The publica
tion ot the Bulletin Is temporarily ex
pended.
New Orleans, September 12.—The
death list contains the names of fourteen
children under seven years. Dr. Hern
don died to-day. Among the now cases
are C. H. Cottrell, telegrapher, and
Thomas E. Graham, a clerk of the West
ern Union Telegraph office.
Ocean Springs, Miss., September 12.
There are ten cases here. AH are doing
welL
Baton Boras, September 12.—New
cases for the past twenty-four hours, 35.
No deaths. r .
Savannas, September 12.—The rice
plantations around the city have been
damaged by the gale and rain to the ex
tent of three hundred and fifty thousind
dollars.
New Yobk, September 12.—A letter
from Kingston, Jamaioa, says: "In con
sequence of the treacherous treatment by
the Spanish authorities in Gabs, many of
the Spanish families, who were induced
by fair promises to return to CabB, have
been obliged to return to Jamaioa as their
lives ere imperilled.”
Paris, September 12.—Minister Noyes
bss opened a pnblio subscription in aid
t» ' , uwwn/«»i«BiwM ana assopezzea a pumio euoscnptlon in aid
ton '* wbo came * rom Chattanooga with I of tho fever sufferers. The United Stales
D curate, are bath dead, and nine 1 Aaitrioan Legrtion has published a stale- *
ment reoonntiDg the sitnatton and pray
ing for aid/ Subscriptions will be re
ceived by Minister Noyes, Consul Gen
eral Fairchild, and Commissioner Mc
Cormick.
Memphis, September 12.—The weather
is cool enough to-night to make an over-
coat feel comfortable. The deaths for
the past twenty-four hoars are 68.
Among them are F. Neadig, Sister Stan,
islas, at the Franciscan Convent, and B.
N. Catting of the Appeal force. Twenty-
six new cases ore reported to the Board
of Health, but the following, treated by
resident physicians, are known not to be
reported: J. W, Simmons, H. H. Briggs,
E. Whitemore, publisher of theiedyer; R.
E. Severnes, Mrs. H. Maltiers, A. D.
Langstaff, President of Howard Associa
tion, H. C. Bigelow, Mrs. J. B. Cook, E.
Marshall, of the citizen’s relief committee,
John Erb, W. E. Matthews and Lonis S.
Frierson, and W. D. McCollum, of the
Howards. Hundreds of lives are being
saved at Father Matthew’s Camp. Father
William Walsh appeals to his friends of
the Catholic Unions to send immediately
blanket?, stockings and underclothing.
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
The Savannah Nines says the funeral
of Mr. H. H. Wcodbridge, a prominent
young eentleman of that city, took place
last Tuesday afternoon, but gives no par
ticulars of hiB death. A private letter
received in this city says Mr. W. com
mitted suicide Monday night, by cutting
his throat with a razor.
The Confederate Survivors Association
of AuguBta,has forwarded $231.73 for the
relief of the yellow fArer sufferers in
Memphis, and other cities.
Mb. Stephens has written a letter to
somebody in the Seventh District favor-
isg Dr. Felton’s election. Strange to
say, however, he announces that "he be
lieves in party organization,” while the
man he supports spits upon and defies
the very same thing.
The Cartersville Free Press, having an
nounced that T. W. Milner, member
elect of the Legislature from that county,
"is said to be pledged to support Dr. Fel
ton for United States Senator,” the
Rome Courier jumps Willingham after
tnis fashion:
Ah, ha, that was the game, was it?
Dr. Felton was aspiring to the United
States Senatorship. He was expecting
to supplant Gordon. Wonder if he he
would not have yielded the race for Rep
resentative to some of his ‘'friends” who
are so patiently waiting for him to get
out of tne way, if the legislature had
been to his liking? Wonder if he would
have gone before his Georgia represen
tatives and have sneered at the wounds
taat mark—not mar—and illuminate the
taco of .Georgia’s soldler-Senator? Would
he have asked the representatives of
freemen to refuse to honor a soldier
whose record is not less-bright than that
of the bravest soldier of the late war, abd
honor him who, after advocating seces
sion, sought safety in a hospital or pro
tection under the "thirty negro law?”
Da. Felton's organ at Marietta in its
last issue makes this fierce attaok npon
the Democratic part}:
Trap, the organised Democracy, re
cognized by the country in 1850—53 and
'60, and ’78 is "the Southern organized
democracy” and upon that organization
rested then and rests now all the odinm
justly merited by a party whioh brought
such ruin upon the country. We hope
that Dr. Felton is fighting the organiza
tion, not only becanse of itB "ringe,” bnt
beoause of its mad ambition and insane
blunders illustrated by font years of fruit
less and needless sacrifices, and by its in
capacity, sinoe the war, to administer a
government for the benefit of the people.
It is an organization that learns nothing
and forgbts nothing. It is essentially
BonrboD. Disastrous defeat bronght it
no wisdom, audit eiiU gloats over visions
of snooess confined to the few who lead
it.
We suppose the organ plays this tune
for the delectation of the Radical wing ot
the Felton forces. But didn’t the Dr.
train with three Bourbons for many
yeart?
Ex-Senator Nobwood made a strong
speech at Savannah last Tuesday night
in favor of the completion of the South
ern Pacific Railway from Fort Yuma,
Arizona Territory, to Fort Worth, Texas.
We quote from the News the resolu
tions adopted at tho close of his remarks:
Whereas, Congress, in 1871, granted
certain rights and property in the Terri
tories of Arizona and New Mexico to the
Texas and Pacific Railway Company of
Texas, and to the Southern Pacific Rail
way Company of California, to enable
them to bnild a main trunk railroad be
tween Marshall, Texas, and tho Pacifio
Ocean, the said Texas and Pacific having
the right to build west to the Colorado
river, and being required to construct not
less than one hundred miles per annum;
and the said Southern Pacific having the
right to bnild east to the Colorado river,
and thsn connect with the Texas and
Pacific Company; and,
Whereas, the said Texes and Pacifio
has, within seven years, constructed bnt
one hundred and eighty-five miles of
said trank line, and, for two years past,
bss acknowledged its inability to proceed
with said work witbont a subsidy of near
ly $30,000 per mile; and,
Whereas, the said Southern Paoifio
Company has long sinoa completed its
work to Fort Ynma on the Colorado river,
and offers without any subsidy, either by
loan or endorsement or by grants of land,
to continne said trunk line to El Paso,
Texas, six hundred miles east of Fort Ya
ms, on the 32d parallel, withont delay,
and to complete the line between those
points, within six years If Congress will
grant the right of way over the territo
ries of Arizona and New Mexioo, which
was granted to the said Texas and Paci-
flo Railway Company, in and by said act
of 1871 j and,
Whereas, ltjis of great interest to ihs
citizens of the United States generally,
and of the Southern States more especi
ally, that said main trnnk sbonld be con
structed witbont farther delay; therefore
be it
Beiolved, 1. That the offer of the
Southern Pacific Railway Company of
California reoeive the hearty approval of
this meeting, and, in its jndgment, should
be aooepied by Congress.
Resolved, 2. That this meeting hereby
respectfully request the Senators and
Representatives in Congress from Geor
gia to use their best efforts and exert
their iDflieDoa to secure the passage of a
bill whioh will enable said Southern Pa
cifio Railway Company to prooeed at once
with said trank line from Fort Yams to
El Paso, Texas.
Resolved, 3. That this preamble and
these resolutions be pnbliehed in the
Morning Neics, ot Savannah, and that a
oopy ot them be sent to each of the Sena*
tors and Representatives in Congress
from Georgia, with the reqaest to present
them to the Senate and House respec
tively.
The resolutions wore seconded, and, on
motion, unanimously adopted.
The News says a boat belonging to the
bark "Trasko,” lying in Tybee road?,
wsb driven into the breakers last Tues
day morning, and the seccnd mate and
two seamen drowned. The bodies of tee
latter wererecovered.
At a meeting in Rome last Saturday
the Tribune says:
J. E. Bryant announced that by virtue
of orders from the central Republican
committee at Washington and the State
committee and several committees of the
district be was authorized to nominate
Mr. Jesse A. Holtzclaw, of Whitfield, as
tho Republican erndidate for Congress
from this district. Holtzclaw then an
nounced his purpose of running the race,
planting himself strictly and Equarely on
the Republican platform, stating that
there were eight or nine thousand Re
publican voters In this district, and that,
owing to the split in the Democratic
party ho thought he conld be elected.
The same paper states that on Wednea
daylast,inthatplace,"Col. Towers sold at
public outcry franchise the Memphis
Branch Railroad Company, the road bed
extending a distance of eighteen miles
to the Alabama line, the right of way
grading, etc., etc., as advertised. The
road was bid in by Mr. John Noble, rep
resenting Mr. Blanchard, of New York,
for one hundred and twenty-five dollars,
Mr. Blanchard states that is the purpose
to rnn the road on to Ohattancoga via
Trion Factory, connecting with the
North and South road at Rome, and
making one road through from Chatta
nooga to Columbus.”
Thh State and county tax of Floyd
oounty for this year is $12.25 on the
$1,000.
Dk. James L. Jones, member elect to
the Legislature from McDuffie county,
has resigned, on account "ot ill-health
and other untoward circumstances.”
Of the outlook of the Congressional
race in the Ninth District, the Harmony
Grove Progress, of Wednesday, says s
From all we can hear, from aU we can
read, the conviction forces itself npon onr
mind that the prospect at this time is
flattering indeed. The skies are bright,
and, m all honesty and candor, we say to
the Democracy, "Be of good cheer.”
The. calm, quiet, unprejudiced and re
flecting men of the District have this
matter in their bands. We believe the
handwriting is already on the waU.
The Griffin News complains ot having
to pay sixty cents on a fifty-pound pack,
age of stationery from Atlanta—a dis
tance of forty-two miles.
The Thomisville papers report one of
the heaviest rains cf the season last Fri
day. It lasted several hours, and did
considerable damage.
The same paper tells how Mr. E. O.
Thompson sneezed his teeth into the
river, and, after diving for them some
time, was finally forced to invest in a new
set.
The concert given last Tuesday night,
by tho Columbus amateurs, in aid of the
yellow fever sufferers, netted two hun
dred and forty dollars.
A family from Pennsylvania passe 1
through Hine3viHe, Liberty county, last
week, on their way to Tampa, Florida.
They traveled in a wagon, and had been
on the road eight week?.
The Culhbert Southron, referring to
the renominaticn of the Hod. W. E.
Smith for Congress, well says:
So the contest for the standard-bearer
is over, ana we mu3t all unite and mar
shal our forces for the coming contest,
and give Radicalism the heartiest tussle
of our lives, should a candidate appear
on that line. There is some disposition
manifesting itself to fly off from the nom
inee and join the Greenbackers, Inde
pendents, etc., but we earnestly hope
that all this will subside. We can not
afford to divide np on a Congressional
issne now. If the Democrats lose the
lower house of Congress this year, all is
lost to the South, to the working class,
and to the National Greenback party, if
cot to a republicnn form of government
itself. We now have the Senate in the
next Congress, and let us not fool away
our ckauces to secure the House also.
Let it not be said that the Second Geor
gia District was wanting in tine valor
and patnotiem in the hour of need.
now (be News From aialne was
Received at Washington.
Washington Star.J
To sum up, the Democrats are jubilant
and the Republicans despondent. The
former say that tho result in Maine is
the starting of a tidal wave that com
menced in Vermont, and i3 going to
sweep the country. The latter are reti
cent, and say they will wait for fuller re
turns before making up .their minds
about r*. Both parties are certainly
surprised. The Democrats did not an
ticipate, by any mean?, the success which
has attended the greenbackers, who,
they claim to be, practically Democrats.
The Republicans evidently did cot antici
pate anything of the kind. The Demo
crats sum up the result by saying they
have two members of the House who are
Democratic, although endorsed as green-
backer?, and that combined with the
greenbackers, they expect a majority in
the Legislature, where the election for
Governor and State officers will be
thrown, and that by fusion with the
greenbackers they will get control of
these officers, and consequently the State
government.
The prediction is freely made on all
sides that the result in Maine means the
election of Ben Bntler as Governor of
Massachusetts.
Representative White, Republican
member of the Honse from Indiana, said
this morning he was greatly discouraged.
Ho did not care so mnoh for Maine, but
the moral result in other parts of the
country could not help but be very ad
vantageous to the Democratic and detri
mental to the Republican party. "It
will play the dence,” he said, "with oar
party in Indiana.”
Rome, Georgia.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: Know
ing yonr excellent journal to be Georgian
to the core, I am sure any communica
tion, touching the interests of any sec
tion of this grand old commonwealth, wiU
be cheerfully admitted to its columns.
It has been my fortune to sojourn a few
days in this beautiful city of Northwest
ern Georgia, and it may interest some ot
your readers to know something of a por
tion of the State not in very close commu
nication with ours.
There are few towns of its population
that combine so many interesting and at*
tractive features as Rome. A stranger is
liable to become enthusiastic, especially
if he hails from the more level portions
of the State.
The situation of the city is picturesque
and beautiful, lying at the confluence
of two rivers bearing the romantic names
of Et-o-wab and Oos-te-nau-la, by whose
junction the noble Coosa is formed, and
diversified in snrfaoe by a cumber
of bold eminences, from which
the prcspect of smiling vales and
majestic mountains is magnificent
beyond conception. It impresses the
dullest imagination as "a thing of beauty
and a joy.” Ido cot know how many
of these, told elevations there are. bnt
doubtless these features suggested the
naming of the place after the seven-
billed city of the Croiars. The tempta
tion is irresistible to designate such a
hill a3 the Capitoline, another the Jane-
calnm, etc., and then across the Et-o-wah
is Mount Aventine, the great relief fea
ture of the Trastavere of Italian Rsme
On one of tho tallest of these hills is
the great water-tower, ‘eighty feet high,
surmounted by the city clock and an ob
servatory. In this tower is an immense
reservoir thirty feet in diameter and sixty-
five feet in depth, from which clear and
excellent water is distributed through
pipes to every part of the city. The
tank is supplied from a well, at the base
of the hill, near the river back, the wa
ter being raised one hundred and fifty
feet by a sowerful steam engine, which
throws four hundred gallons per minute
into the tower. The height of the reser
voir and its inexhaustible contents, render
fire engines almost a superfluity, and sup
ply every part of the city, even to the tops
of the highest building?, with water,
while fountains play all over the place,
even on the summit of the hills.
On the hill across the Etowah is the
city cemetery. Tho little monntain rises
abruptly from the western bank; bnt on
the farther side it slopes so gradually
that vehicles easily ascend it. A foot
path winds romantically up the ab-
lupt ascent in front, and Iujab yon,
ere yon know it, on the summit^
which has been made level for a
Confederate monument, soon to be
erected. No more beautiful spot could
be found for a cemetery, and the view
from the top of the hill is enchanting.
The principal eminence within the city
is crowned with the magnificent edifices
of
shorter college,
"the Yassar of the South,” named in
honor of the munificent founder. Colonel
Alfred Shorter, of this city. Colonel S.
has conceived the grand idea of bnilding
and endowing a college for young women,
of the highest grade, famishing the bast
advantages at the lowest rates. His vast
revenues enable him to execute his ncble
ideal.
He has already expended about sixty
thousand dollars in buildings, of whioh
two are nearly completed. The grand
edifices with their lofty towers aro the
first objects noticed in approaching the
city on the railroads, and invariably, by
their beantifnl architectural design, ex
cite the admiration of the beholder. As
this coUege is destined to achieve great
results for the girls and young women of
our State, a brief description may be in
place. •
The college building, three and a half
stories in height, contains ample rooms
for the purposes of instruction. A beau
tiful chapel, or auditorium, 70x40 feet,
frescoed m the highest style of art, with
ample rostrum and comfortable settees,
occupies theeaBtend; A handsome me
morial window of stained glass, with
symbolical designs, commemorative of
the life and character of the late Mrs.
Shorter, embellishes this elegant hall.
A dozen or more recitation and session
rooms, with school furniture and appara
tus of the most approved style, make up
the larger pars of the building, while
broad corridors, stairways and vestibules
add to its convenience, comfort and
beanty.
A handsome slab ot native marble, of
the darker variety, at the corner stone,
bears this inscription:
A GIFT TO OUR DAUGHTERS.
From
' ALFBED SHOBTEB, '
1877.
The Dormitory bnilding is of fonr sto
ries, 114 feet by fifty feet, of a similar
style of aro'hitectnre, containing thirty-
six rooms, including twenty-nine bed
rooms, eighteen feet square, parlor thirty-
seven feet by twenty feet; dining room,
hitcher, laundry, bath rooms, closets,
etc., ell finished In tho best manner,
famished elegantly, and supplied with
gas, water and stesm pipes. Each bed
room has a steam register for warming
the rooms, and a grate, for ventilation
and speoial uses. The water pipes are
supplied from the oity reservoir, the beat
ing pipes and registers from a steam boil
er in an adjoining house. The arrange-
ments of thekitohen are complete, with
a beautiful and extensive -range, and oth
er implements and accessories of the
cuisine. The buildings are thorough
ly ventilated throughout, and the cir
culation under the ground floors
free and unobstructed. The surplus
water from the roofs and gutters,
and the waste water from the sinks and
closets are carried off by underground
pipes to the river. The eminence on
which the college is built is one hundred
feet above Broad street, rising abruptly
from the general level, and the grounds,
enclosed with a light but strong wrought
iron fence, are already beautifully ter
raced and laid out in walks and carriage
driveB, and are to be aodded with blue
grass and white clover, while shrubbery,
flowers and foantains will add their
charms to the 8cene.
The'architect who designed this unique
edifice is Mr. A. C. Bruce, the contractor
and builder is Mr. J. A. Cooley, and. the
enthusiastic, efficient and indefatigable
supervisor is the jolly Major C. M. Ben
nington, of Rome beyond the Tiber.
The collego is already in operation,
under the charge of that experienced and
successful educator, President Rollin D.
Mallory and his accomplished wife, whose
names are household words in Southwes
tern Georgia. In the list of able Profes
sors and teaohers is Rev. G. A, Nun-
nalljr, the elcquent pastor of the Rome
Baptist churcb, and the attractions of
the college are to be greatly enhanced by
the accession ot that distinguished
scholar and teacher, ex-Chancellor H. II.
Tucker, to tne corps of instruction. My
letter Las already run out to such a
length thatl fear its doom istothelimbo
of excluded matter; but a few lines, as to
the present status and prospects of Romo,
and I cease to cumber your valuable
space.
The city has a population of 6,000; i3
quite well built, boasting several public
buildings, notably, the new Masonic
Temple, of a superior order, and enjoys
a prosperous trade. Not less than 50,-
000 biles of cotton were received and
shipped from this place last season, and
the coming year promises even a larger
influx of the staple. There are three
steam cotton compresses here, one of them
being the largest in the South, outside ot
New Orleans and Galveston. This is
certainly a giant, in the way of a press,
the entire machine being, apparently, 50
feet in height, weighs 60 tons and cost
$30,000. It reduces a bale of 500 ponnds
to a thickness of eight inches at one
stroke. The toll on each bale, amounting
to fifty cents, is paid by the railroad
companies, as, by this redaction in size,
they can carry three times as many
baleB on each car.
The soil in the violnity of .Rome is
highly prodaotive. The best lands yield
from thirty-five to one hnndred bnshels
of corn per acre, and from one to three
bales cf cotton. The cereals are also
heavy and remunerative crops. The
Coosa, navigable for one hundred and
eighty miles, lends its tribute to the pros
perity of the city at its bead, and when
all the obstructions shall have been re
moved and the river opened to Wetamp-
ka, Alabama, direct water oommunioation
will be established with Mobile Jon the
Gnlf, and its rolling tide will be the high
way of a largely increased commeroe.
From the towers ot Shorter College the
prospect extends from ten to forty and
fifty miles—the distant spurs of the Apa-
Iaobian ohain limiting the view on the
North and West, while the intervening
spaoe, diversified with smiling valleys
teeming with growing crops, green mead
ows, luxuriant copses, the three riven
esoh spanned by a noble bridge, nnmer-.
ons bold oonioal hills dotting the scene,
affords a landscape so fascinating that.one
lingers, never wearied with the Bight.
Yonr correspondent has been the fortu
nate guest daring his brief stay of Dr. E.
Hillyer, President of the Rome rallrosd,
a gentleman of rare soientifio tastes, who,
together with bis excellent wife and bean-
tif nl and charming daughters, contributed
especially to the enjoyment of his visit.
He la also indebted to Mr. and Mrs, Ham
ilton Yancey, with whom a portion of his
sojourn was delightfully spent.
The mission of the writer has met with
encouraging snocess, and Meroei’s out
look le flattering. A. J. Battle.
Rome, Qa., September 10.
"Daddy” Dollars Wasted Down
South.
Washington Star.]
The following dispatch was sent to pa
pers in the Southern Associated Press on
the 31 inst.:
‘The Secretary of the Treasury has
just issued a circular giving notice that
the staadard silver dollar will be sent to
parties desiring, at the expense of the
government, in sums not exceeding $10,-
000.”
The dispatch left out the important
fact that a certificate of dopost ot legal
tenders for the amount of silver desired
by any one would first have to be secured.
Secretary Sherman to-day received & let
ter from Griffin, Georgia, enclosing the
dispatch to the Southern Associated
Pres?, and saying: ' 'This looks like the
wind has got in the right direction
at last. Have bad an abiding faith that
our tarn would come, and so it bo?—and
have been satisfied' that all wonld be
right in the end. Have no place to put
it all at present; so please send to each of
us $6,000 per express, and place remain
ing $4,000 to cur credit in bank. Yours,
ote.—[Signed.]—E. W. Hammond, S. O.
L ! ttle,R. J. Andrews.”
inland Quarantines.
The question ot the necessity and effi
ciency of inland quarantines is engaging
the attention ot the press. The Mont
gomery Advertiser publishes the following
official account ot the action of the Med
ical Society of South Carolina npon the
matter:
At the regular monthly meeting of tho
Medical Society of South Carolina, held
on the 21 mst., tho following resolutions,
offered by Dr. £. A. Kinlocb, were
adopted, and ordered to be published:
Resolved, 1. That we witness with sur
prise and mortification the attempt on
the part of the citizens of many sections
of our country to institute a futile and
oppressive system of land quarantine
against yellow fever.
2. That this system, originating, as we
believe, with a panic-stricken people, and
supported by the teachings of theorists,
is inconsistent with the most generally
received views a3 to the origin and prop
sgation of tho disease in question, are
opposed to the humanity of a civilized
3. That we respectfully urge npon the
profession throughout the length and
breadth of onr land, the necessity of op
posing this false and inhuman system by
every rneanB in their power, even if nec
essary, by an earnest appeal for legisla
tive enactments on the subject.
4. That we respectfully, but most ur
gently advise our fellow oitizens of those
localities where the Invasion of the dis
ease may seem imminent, to expend all
their efforts rather in the removal of those
causes whioh, in accordance with the well
established facts of modern science, are
known to be potent in localizing epidem
io disease.
5. That we extend the most heartfelt
sympathy to onr fellow-citizens who are
cow feeling the dire e&eots of the illegal
and inhuman enactments referred to, and
pledge onrselvss to do what we can in
onr own State to aid in their present de
liverance and to provide for their future
security. - W. H. Bailey, M. D.,
Secretary Medical Society,' S. 0.
Upon this action the Advertiser says,
"the Medical Faculty of South Carolina
may bo Yery wise meD, bat a little expe
rience knocks all their resolutions to
pieces. Lake Station, between Jackson
and Meridian, 1b the only place that re'
fused to quarantine. The yellow fever
is raging there terribly, while Jackson,
which is in direct rail communication with
Vicksburg, New Orleans and Grenada, by
rigid quarantine, has escaped the disease
so far. It may do very well for Charles
ton doctors to theorize, but facts and
common sense are against them.”
Health of Mobile.—The Montgomery
Advertiser of Wednesday says: Mayor
Moses telegraphed to Mayor Duffee, of
Mobile, yesterday, as follows:
Montgomery, Ala, September 10.
Hon. Geo. G. Duffee,Mayor Mobile, Ala.:
It is reported that Doctor Heustis has
a patient with yellow fever. Telegraph
condition of health of Mobile.
M. L. Moses,
. Mayor.
To this Mayor Duffee sent the follow
ing reply:
Mobile, Ala., Sept. 10, 1878.
Hon. M. L. Moses, Mayor, Montgomery,
Ala:
I learn that Doctor Heustis reports one
case. The patient died last evening, no
other suBpioious case. The city is very
healthy. Gxo. G. Duffee,
Mayor.
Our dispatches this morning refer to
this case. The woman who died, we are
informed has been for some time at Grand
Bay, twenty-five miles from Mobile and
near the quarantine station. She return,
ed to Mobile a few days since and her
sickness arose outside of the city.
Fewer on the Ohio River.
THE LAWS OF INFECTION.
The telegrams report the outbreak of a
very malignant and fatal fever at Rich
mond, about twenty miles above Cincin
nati, on the Ohio river. The name of
yellow fever is denied to it, though per
haps it deserves q worse one. Bat “a
malignant bilions fever” is about all that
can be said of Yellow Jack himself. In
the later dispatohes of Wednesday night
some fifteen or twenty caa?B of yellow
fever were reported in the region of Gal
lipoli?, on the same river, about a hun
dred and thirty mfl93 or more above, fol
lowing the course of the river.
The outbreak of this disease in the
populous valley of the Ohio—a region
above ordinary yellow fever latitude, will
arrest the attention of the country, and
shonid the fever spread and become epi
demic, is an event which will go far to
settle pnblio uesge in regard to co-oalled
inland quarantines. It will be assumed,
in the absence ot all facts to the contrary,
that yellow fever can be disseminated all
over the country by fugitives from infec
ted centres, and that self-defence will
demand an impassable cordon aronnd
them.
The whole question demands and, we
hope, will receive a most careful scien
tific and practical investigation. It
onght to be thoroughly sifted and some
plan of proceeding digested in pursuance
of settled principles and well ascertained
facts, to be followed hereafter, m case of
the recurrence of snch emergencies.
There is reason to think that New Or
leans and other Gnlf ports will always be
liable to yellow fever. When to "the
malignant bilious fever” of onr Southern
latitudes in swamps, all avia], or other
wise miasmatic localitie?, the infection ot
genuine West Indian yellow fever or
East Indian jangle fever be added, they
haraonizo and assimilate at once and
whatever distinctive types each may
possess are soon lost.
Henoe the commonly reoeived idea
amongjobservera has been that yellow fe
ver oases ean be safely introduced into
any looality where no predisposing oanses
to malarial fevers exist, bat there ii great
danger where malarial fevers already ex
ist. In this way we, and many others,
have seen the common billons fever sud
denly ohanged to yellow in a considers;
ble seolion ef oountry.
This year yellow fever cases from New
Orleans, Memphis and other infected
points hareaotuallybeen introduced into
St. Louis, Little Rock, Louisville, Cin
cinnati, Washington, Philadelphia, New
York and many other points, without
apparent looal infection, though great
care has doubtless been exercised in each
plaoe. But at other points the introduc
tion of a single case seem3 to h’avo been
like the application of firo to tow, and the
whole place at once burst into a fury of
the disease.
There can be no more important sub
ject before the American paople than this
inquiry, as to what onght to be done in
case of yellow fever infection. The great
river system of the West already teemB
with its millions of people, and they are
feat multiplying. The natural debouch
ment of the trade of this whole aystem is
the Gulf of Mexico, and that Gulf is
margined all around with yellow fever
points, from some o! which the yellow
fever is rarely absent. These million!
should not be exposed to danger. But
does safety demand, that our Gnlf
and Southern Atlantic ports should be
walled out, in times of infection, from aU
refuge and escape into the interior ? It
seems to us Congress should raise a com
mission for the most intelligent inquiry
into this subject, and that a plan of pro
ceeding onght to be intelligently digested
in advance of suoh dread infections as
those which now exist.
A. Terrible Scene.
There appears to have been an appall
ing coal mine accident at Abercorn, Scot
land; probably (for we are without in
formation) a fire-damp explosion, in
which the mine immediately took fire;
and, after recovering the bodies of a part
of the victims, it became necessary to
flood the mine, leaving two hundred and
fifty-one miners still to be accounted
for. When the flooding began, in the
presence ot the wives and families of the
unfortunate miners whose bodies were
bslow—precluding, as it did, all hope
that any of them would ever be seen alive
again—an outburst of woe and lamenta
tion followed, which the London dispatch
characterizes as terrible beyond descrip,
tion.
Coil mining is one of the moat hazard
ous of all human employments; and, at
the same time, one of the most ill paid.
To labor in blaok darkness aU day under
constant jeopardy of explosion and death
by fire or by a living entombment thons-
ands'of feet under ground, is a hard fate
It seems to us the daily press chronicles
some catastophe of this kind at least once
a month, if not more frequently.
Reatlng Round tbe JBusb.
On and after next Monday, according
to advioes from the Secretary of the
Treasury, the Treasurer and the sub-
treasurers of the United States will ex
change standard silver dollars for United
States Treasury notes, at par, and as the
standard silver dollars are, eqoally with
gold, applicable to the liquidation of aU
government dueB, tho resumption of spe
cie payments by the United States will
have been practically effected, though in
pa indirect and roundabout manner.
Tho holder of government paper muct
first convert hia paper into silver dollars
and then pay the silver. In the snb-
treasury centres, they will draw the silver
from one counter and pay it in at
another.
This does away with all neoeasity for
gold for domestic purposes, and as the
balanoe is in favor of this oonntry, there
Is no probability of any immediate for
eign demand for gold. Henoe it is com
plained that, thongh silver is daily falling
in bnllion value, yet gold is down to only
an eighth to a quarter of a cent premi
um, and will praotioally hold little or no
advantage over silver. It is hard, breth
ren! Bnt as silver is down Bimply be
cause Germany and Great Britaininsist on
demonetizing it, we reokon the aooount
is abont square. If, as experts say, the
annual prodnot of gold is twenty-five per
cent.|more than that of silver, let ns trust
that time will equalze the value of met
al8 everywhere.
Speaker bam s Figures.
Baltimore Sun.]
Speaker Randall told a reporter last
week that he looked for a Demooratio ma
jority of thirty votes in the next Honse,
and the ohances were that the majority
wonld be large. H9 thought the Demo
crats wonld carry Pennsylvania this year.
And So Are We,
Nashville American.1
A men named Appls John died in New
York, yesterday. We have known this
man Apple John for many years. He was
a good fellow, and was always familiarly
known as apple-jack. We’re bohj he’s
dead.
H1UORO AND HARMONY.
—
The End of the Struggle la the Fifth
District—Hon. R. J. Hammond, the
Leader of the Democracy.
Special to the Telegraph and Meosenger.l
Bashes villi, September 13.
On Thursday night, when Mr. Can-
diet’s name was withdrawn, the eleven
votes which had stbad by him were divi
ded between the other three candidates
who were left in the field. This gave no
candidate any decided advantage and the
deadlock continued. Mr. Candler was
withdrawn by Hr. Robert Barry of De-
Kalb, who; it will be remembered, car
ried the convention for him when he was
first nominated in Griffin, in a short
speech, in which he said that though
they were for Candler, they were more
for Democracy and harmony. S, W.
Small, Esq., of Atlanta, and R. A. Alston,
of DeKalb, addressed the Convention.
Tho balloting went on, Duncan at one
time receiving twenty vote?.
FRIDAY MORNING.
' The balloting this morning was con
tinued, and after thirty-three ballots hod
been fruitlessly cast, on the one hnndred
and Bixty-seventh ballot Jndge R. P.
Trippe, of Atlanta, was nominated by
Captain Barry, and received four votes,
and his name was withdrawn.
After the one hnndred and sixty-eighth
ballot a proposition for a committee ot
conference to consist of one from each
county, was made. The motion- was
amended, a substitute proposed and the
whole voted down.
• Finally a committee of one from eaoh
oounty was appointed to report business
and a platform for the Convention. The
committee, after three hoars’ delibera
tion, reported that it failed to adopt the
majority rule, to put in a new candidate
on whom they could oonoentrate, or to
agree upon any of the candidates before
the Convention.
The* balloting was then resumed. Stew
art’s name was withdrawn, and the vote
stood Hammond twenty; Duncan four
teen to the 190th ballot.
GREENBACK PLATFOBU ADOPTED.
The Greenback platform was intro
duced by Judge A. M. Speer, of Spald
ing. Toe National Democratic platform
of 1876 was offered by Colonel Alston, of
DeKalb, as a substitute.
A motion was made, by Captain Barry,
of DeKalb, to lay both of them on the
table, which wbb lost.
The substitute was next voted on, and
was also lost.
The Greenback platform was then
adopted.
The name of Colonel C. C. Duncan, of
Houston, was withdrawn, on motion of
Mr. Boynton, of Spalding.
Hon. N. J. Hammond, of Fulton, was
nominated by acclamation, amid enthu
siastic cheers. Harmony and good feel
ing pervaded the Conventicn, and pre
vailed to the end.
Raking Up tire Dozen.
Spring field (Mass.) Republican.]
It has struck twelve in the happy fam
ily of Murat Halstead. As Paris is next
to heaven, the energetio Mrs. Halstead
went there to meet the lateBt arrival from
the angels. *
Tire Two tireatesl Ren.
Chicago Inter-Oceac.I
The greatest man in the United States
is General LeDno. His son-in-law stands
second. Both are at present traveling
with the President, and are supposed to
represent agriculture. Upon a close in
spection ot these dignitaries it is the
unanimous opinion that they are "fear
fully and wonderfully made.”
Tbe Place for Ambitions Young
Ren.
Chicago Tribuno.l
The young men who graduated last
June and July, and who have been seek
ing places as "journalists” ever sinoe,
can find numerous vacancies in all branch
es of the profession in Memphis, Vicks
burg New Orleans, Grenada and other
large cities and towns at the South.
Go from Home to Get tbe News
New York 8unJ
James Lastinger, while walking through
aamall branohin Bullock county, Geor
gia, the other day, came across quite a
lost of aligaters, which he commenced
killing with his gun. After completing
the work of death he coanted the slain,
which footed np 117. The largest was
ten feet and a half long.
An Oblo Greenback**’* Crow-
Cincinnati Enquirer.]
"Maine went h—1 bent” yesterday.
The news from the far down EaBt comes
in satisfactory. The Rig Baby has won
the day, and the solid front of Repnbli-
oaniem that has been massed in the State
for thirty years has been broken at last
—broken by tbe combined efforts of the
Democrats and GreenbatAers in support
of the Ohio Idea.
Give Her a Best.
Courier Journal.!
An exchange tells ua that "Mrs. Sarah
Thompson, of Clover Grove, N. C., has
borne her bnsband—a delioate man of
120 ponnds’ weight—twenty consecutive
children in twenty oonseoutlve yean.”
The Stats of North Carolina ought to
award Mrs. Thompson a pension, and
let her stop and rest awhile now.
What the Country has Paid Gen-
Grant.
From the Syracuse Courier 1
Daring the eight years Grant was
President he was paid $800,000 in sala
ries, besides probably as much more to
oover incidental?. As General of the
Army for five or eix yean previous there
to be reoeived probably f100,000 mote.
Why should he be poor ?
Onee Major General* bow a Fri*
vale.
From tha Hartford Timu.l
Of the 158 men who have lately enlist
ed in Washington Oity only twenty-seven
were formerly soldier?. Thera are one
lawyer, one merchant, three engineers,
and one telegraph operator. Besides
these there were draughtsmen, plumbers,
fonr printers, oarpenters, shoemakers,
bookkeepers, briokmakers, cooks, batch
ers, machinists, and twenty-seven labor
ers. One of the number was a graduate
from West Point. He was a Captain in
the regular army before the war. At the
beginning of the war he oast his fortunes
with the other side, and before it oloaed
he had risen to the rank of Major-Gen
eral in the Confederate asrvioe. He is
now a private soldier, though he is oalled
General by all who know him.
Ax acoustic experiment was made the
other day with the captive balloon at the
Paris Exhibition. Twenty musicians
went up in it and played Bilse’s "Storm,”
while the other half of the band respon
ded from below. The rains of the Tail*
eries gave back a decided echo. The ex
periment is to be repeated under more
favorable atmospheric conditions.
If you want your* Baby to look bright
do not put it to sleep with laudanum
when restkfs, hut ubs Dr. Bull’s Baby
Syrup. 25 cents a bottle.
Situation in tlie Faitrin.
The Columbus Times, of yesterday,
prints a speoial from LaGrange, saying
that Mr. Harris carried the primary elec
tion in Carroll county, on Wednesday, by
500 majority, and adds:
The vote in convention will stand as
follows, provided the minority retrain
unchanged from their position in the cion
vention when here: For Harris, 21§;
against him, 16]. At tho close of the
balloting here the vote stood 17i for Har
ris, 16] against. The Carroll delegates
bad been excluded. Their admirsion
will make a total of thirty-eight votes,
and, under tbe two-lhirds rule, 25] votes
will be necessary to a choice. Mr. Har
ris will, therefore, have 3] votes to gain
before he can be nominated. The Car
roll delegates go instructed to vote fer
Mr. Harris as first choice, and if he can’t
be nominated to drop to the second
choice of the county, and not to fail to
nominate. The gaining of Carroll by
Mr. Harris changes the situation of af
fairs very little, and it is as uncertain as
ever what will be the issue of the con
vention.
A Reek and Lowly shepherd.
Washington Star.l
The Rev. W. T. Elis is pastor of the
Congregational Church, in Woodstock,
Connecticut. He habitually U3es violent
language in hia sermons. This is only a
sample: "Yon low, mealy-monthed look
ing wretcheB of the d*vil, you look as
though you had but now hopped up out
of hell, and the devil haa stuck you up
against the fence to ary. It would make
heaven’s stomach sick to look at yon.”
A part of the congregation united in re-
qnesting him to resign, bnt he refused
to go. A committee and a policeman
went to take possession of tbe church.
Ellis and a few adherents locked the
doors. A whole night wsb spent in quar
reling and aotnal fighting, but in the
morning the pastor retreated.
Fashions—The fashion man of the Lon
don Truth thus writes in his recent Paris
letter abcut a change in costume, which
gentlemen will regret shonid tbe prophecy
come true:
I believe there will very soon bs quite
a change in the shape of dresses. I see
a great inclination to quit the oIo3e-fitting
fourreaux costumes, and quite expect
this autumn to see either crinoline
again in fall glory or some new oak-
ptitute, as I am convinced a com
plete revolution in costume is com
ing. Fashion often jumps from cne
extreme to the other. It is certainly al
most an impossibility to go much further
in the present style ot tight-fitting cos
tume?; then, again, tho short round
skirts are most unbecoming if made close-
fitting; so I am deoidedly ot the opinion
that dresses will be made very full-
skirted and puffed ont. Empire style.
Ladies that are, as we see, bien/aites, will
be grieved and dismayed at my predic
tion, bnt, as compenaion, thin or rather
"slender” ladies will be delighted at the
idea ot the artifioial appendages, et cetera,
whioh the next fashion will bring in.
At last good news comes from the
famine district m China. Run has fallen
in sufficient quantities to hold ont a
promise of fair autumnal crops. All
that is now immediately required, there
fore, is to find support for the sufferers
until the grain is ones more gathered in.
Mexico, a colony of Hijas.
Sabas Bienhabdt, the eminent
French actress, has made tho discovery
of a new cure for delicate inngs and
health. She passes hoars now daily m
successive ascensions in tbs captive bal
loon ot the Tuilerie8 gardens, finding
more and more healing for her shattered
health and delicate lungs, as well as
general reinvigoration, the higher she
rise?.
Health of Eufaula.—We are glad,
says the Eafaula Times, to annonnoe that
the health ot Eufanla is so good. There
is little or no sickness here, and we feel
as safe as if on the top of White moun
tain, New Hampshire. The city is dean
and most careful attention is being given
to its sanitary condition. Yellow jack
wonld be stifled here with pure breezes
and want of poisonous vapors.
Fob some time back the attention of
French capitalists haa been directed to
Algeria as a source of undeveloped
revenue. The latest enterprise under*
taken is the working of the great salt
lake of Axzew, which coven an area of
4,000 superficial hectares. This great
inland ceais fed by sources rising in the
mountains, and, under the blazing Afri
can sun. Its.bed is Ileft dry in summer-
whoa about three million tone ot salt can
be extracted without much lrbcr or cost.
Under the direction of tbe presset en
ergetic Governor of the coluny other in
dustries are being promoted in Algeria
wi‘b excellent prospects of success.