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MACON, GA.. MAY -20 I879.|
-Senator Matt Carpenter, who bat been
of late troubled with the iheumaUem, h&a
gone to Florida, where he will remain a fort;
night for the benefit of hi* health.
—Wintns, the American millionaire, U
fcuilding in the Cljdo a monster cigar ship,
at a cost of about $200,000. She will be of
between 4.000 and 6,000 tens burthen, and it
is balieved by her owner that she will be able
to cross the Atlantic In five days.
—Of Senator B» srd, of Delaware, a
Washington correspondent has Ibis to say:
“UnastTBsfing in dresa as a <Jiaker, frink,
manly, mild aud courteous, be is the beet
looking and moat social Senator in
Congress. He captivates all who meet
him.”
—Gen. Jobal A. Early writes to the Lynch-
burg News in vindication of the character of
General John O. Pemberton, who surrender,
od Vicksburg to Grant Early says of Pem
berton : “Xbose who know him best know
him only lo love and honor him ”
- The Nashville Ameriran says: Since the
report of the committoe to settle the State
debt, Controller Gaines and Governor Marks
bavo received letters from porsons xepre-
senting 1 360.000 dollars, saying th*y would
accept the fifty cents four per cent proposi
tion.
—Snbsciiptions to tho four per cent, re
funding certificates In Washington on the
14!b amounted to $596,610; total to date,
13,613,930 dollars. The deliveries from the
bureau of engraving and printing to the
treasurer were 840,0C0 dollars. This is not
equal to the demand.
The London Athenanm announces as ono
of the even's of the present month the pub
lication of a new work by Georg* Elliot,
etjled “Impressions of Theophrastus Sash.”
Tho nanus crip t was placed in the hands of
Blackwood & Sons before the end of last
year, but ths appearanoe of the volume has
been delayed by domoatio s diction
Oonkling, B'aino. Losan and f!h»«Slex,
»aj« thn Courier-Journal, have done their
leval beet, daring the present session of
Oongresr, to provoko Southern '.Senators in
to the utterance of eentiments out of which
they hoped to mako pirty capital at tho
North. Their disgraceful efforts have not
been succeaefah They have dene one thing
however, which was not in their programme.
They have drawn ont of Senator Hill a calm,
tmthfol and etateemanlike reply and refuta
tion to all their slanders and insults. The
facts set forth by him with so much abi’ity
are obliged to bear fruit in the patriotic
mind of the North. If they don’t, God help
tho country.
VamoxBUtt/r os she Exsdlb —Tho opinion
of so practical a man as Mr. Wm. H. Van
derbilt with referenoo to the negro oxodos
to Kansas is worth somethiog. On his re
turn from his recent trip to the West and
Southwest; being interrogated on the sub
net, ha is reportod ss saying: “This is not
tno xua or immigration that me West
needs. Those men who go West to squat
and refrain from woik, or work two or three
days and sun themselves the reet of the
week, are not wanted, Tho West requires
immigrants who will he ready to work, and
who will be thrifty and eating of their mom
cy. Such men enoceed there, and are ro-
spected.” He might have added that snob
men will succeed and be respected not in the
West alone, but everywhere.
—Tho New York Graphic publishes the
following llet of wealthy New Yorkers who
pay no prreonil tsxee • August Belmont, Gy
rus W. Field, Charles E. Loew, Frederick
W. Loew, John Bosch, O. Godfrey Gunther,
Jenk'ns Van Schaick, B. T. Babbit, A. S.
Hatch, J, L. James, W A Booth, B. F. Dun
ning, William Dowd, John H06y, S. F. Nich
ols, George Low, - Fierro Lorillard, Jacob
Lorillard, George Lorillard, cx-Major Wiek-
Ciausen, George Ehret, Levi F. Morton, W.
A. Darling, Elliot O. Cowden, J. B. Erhardt.
The greatest Joke is that the members of
the board of aldermen, who disburse the
taxes after they are collected, ere also non-
payers of personal taxes, with the single ex
ceptionof Jordan!. Molt. Samuel. J. Til-
den pays taxes on $93,000, William H. Van
derbilt on $590,003 and J. Gordon Bennett
OQ $25,000.
—An interesting decision of the civil rights
question has just been rendered by Jndge
Krtkins, of the United States Court, at Sa
vannah, Ga. A colored woman, who took
passage on a steamer, Insisted upon staying
on the “white” deck instead of going below,
where qaarterswere provided for the ne
groes, and the captain, therefore, pnt her
off the boat at the first landing. She
brought suit for damages, on the ground
that the captain had no right to enforce such
a discrimination, bnt tho Judge decided that
common carriers are Justified in providing
different accommodations for different class
es of passengers and restricting each class
How It is On Capa Cod.
The Charleston News and Courier, com
piling frem other papers, say a the reoent
outbreak of fanaticism cn Ospe God hss
called attention to the general condition
of eoolely in that corner of Massachusetts,
and the prooeedings at the session of the
Snpreme Court, which has just been
held In the same (own where the Adven
tist murderer is imprisoned, throw consid
erable light upon (he question.
There is hardly any section of the coun
try where the old Pariten stock has been
kept so free from foreign admixture as
Cape Cod, and yet there is hardly another
s’ction where the proportion of divoroes
to the population is larger. The Sapreme
Court was in session at Barnstable ten
days, and with the exoeption of two olvil
oases that were soon disposed of, the en
tire time was taken np in the hearing of
divorce anils. No less than thirty appli
cations for divorce were presented, and,
exoept two cases of adultery, all were
based npon the charge that the offending
party had been gnilty of desertion for
three years, which is sufficient ground
for divorce in MassacnusettH.
Of the thirty armriage3 sought to be
annulled only two had been contracted be
fore 1870, and the complainants in iuo3t
cases were very young women, many of
them girls still in their teens, whose
youthful husbands had lived with them a
few months and then left them. The
old-fashioned Jndge before whom these
cases were brought could not repress bis
indignation at this state of things, under
which a young man and woman agree to
get married and live together if they feel
like it, hut if not to dissolve partnership
and allow one to bring a suit for divorce
on the ground of desertion, the other to
make no opposition. A state of society
where divorce is redneed to a science is
in a bad way, and the old Bay State evi
dently has considerable home missionary
work on its hands.
Now, ifc seems Very extraordinary, if
not irreverent and intolerable, to be as
sailing the intellectual and moral centre
of the universe in this fashion. It cer
tainly is contrary to usage, whioh is con
fined Strictly to the moral delinquencies
of this latitude and “what the South
needs.” Bnt the truth is, disorders are
»fo nut alone on the Northern coast bnt
far into the interior. The Courier-Journal
has got to calling Ohio "the wickedest
State in the Union,” and starting out last
Monday with a column of Ohio crimes in
forty-eight honrs, amounting in number to
forty or fifty, has kept up the baleful
catalogue in nndiminished volume ever
since. The Cincinnati Enquirer—a still
more indasirKti- chronicler of Western
disorders—ncak-s a shocking exhibit
every day.
There is abundant room for moral im
provement Nor h and South—bnt, in
sober fact, these Southern States, so con
stantly held np as exceptionally crimi
nal and vicions, are hy far the most or
derly and moral section of the Union, and
are bound to be acknowledged as such.
Not so Bad Atteb All.—Tho Wash
ington Star says a gentleman who has
Just returned from Russia, soya that the
effects of the policy of repression are
hardly noticeable in Si. Petersburg. He
traversed a large part of the city late at
night without interference or question.
Sunday, the 4th instant, being a bright
day, tho streets were thronged with
promsnadera as happy and light hearted,
apparently, as those in any other conti
nental city. He saw the Princess Dag-
mar driving through the streets alone in
her carriage.
More Silver Talk.
It seems probable that another move
ment will shorJy be made for an inter,
national talk on bimelalitm, eo called,
against the ill-considered policy of a
single metalio basis consisting of gold.
The Washington Cabinet this week has
been discussing the subject of inviting
another conference with the European
powers on tho matter,, and an appropria-
EDITOBIAL CORRESPONDENCE.
St. James’ Horn,, Caktrbsvilln,
May 16,1879.
In the hnrry of closing for the mail
yesterday and writing on the %)or of the
Convention, through inadvertence, the
brief, but very appropriate speech of
Col. Peeples, who responded in behalf of
the "press” to Bill Arp’a address of wel
come, was omitted As the history of
out it, we append that gentleman’s re
marks as follows:
Partisan Crait.
The "Republican” leaders are repre
sented to Be jubilant over the conviction
that they have badly outmaneuvered the
Democrats in Congress and are now in a
very promising position to win the gov
ernment for four years longer, if not for
an indefinite period. Not a few of them
are so much enamored of a “strong gov.
emment'’ and so disgusted with local self-
- -—l —.L,ujr
to strike for an autocracy if any fair
chance of enccess offers.
They are impatient of Opposition and
dismission, when for so many yesrs they
were able to suppress it by force. Tboy
don’t like to divide power and patronage,
when for many years the whole of it has
proved insufficient for their demands,
and they see goblins and chimoras dire
ahead in the commune and strikes and
insubordination of the so-oilled working-
classes. Therefore, Grant on horse
back, with a drawn sword, cocked pistole
and cavalry boote, trampling down and
tearing aronnd generally is a lovely ap
parition to their sonls. They say it
means peace and they feel snro it means
plenty of money to them.
It is no great achievement, in the mat
ter of strategic ability for the Radical
leaders to ont maneuver l£e Democrats.
The latter, in the race for power, are so
mnchoTor-weighted by popular distrust
and odinm that they have small chance
at best. When the war was over we did
not suppose a man prominent in that un
happy controversy would ever have i
__ breath of Federal public life In him; and
to the qaarters assigned it. Judge Woods, probably that would have been the case
tion of $20,000 to meet the expeasee of our proceedings would be incomplete with
an American commiESioa is already be
fore Congress.
It will be remembered that a few weeks
ago a conference of leading British manu
facturers was asked and obtained of their
government on the subject of the restora
tion of silver to its old monetary position.
They asserted that the demonetisation of
silver had proved a very damaging blow
to the commerce and xnannfaclares of
the United Kingdom, and had substanti
ally imposed a new standard of valne, in
whioh all property valnes bad suffered
greatly by an abnormal enhanosment of
the valne of the gold.
On this side of the water, Mr. B. F.
Nourae, a financial adept, who long ago
traced the trade and financial disorders
in Great Britain almoat entirely to this
grand error of monometalism and the
demonetization of silver, sounds the
alarm of disorders in America likely to
arise from the practical demonetization
of gold in the United States if some basis
for the restoration of silver as a currency
of the commercial world cannot be agreed
upon by Christendom.
Gold still continning the sole metalio
basis of the most important oommeroial
nations of Europe, as well as a standard
of value in all others, will still continne
to rise in value es measured by silver or
other property. Silver, on the other
hand, being held to sll its nnoient status
aud aiguiiy bj tha United States alone,
and its coinage unlimited an it is propo
sed, will shortly become the only coin to
be fonnd in this country, or which it is
possible to retain here. Thus working at
oroBB purposes, the two continents will,
withont intending it, be virtually doing
their best to r.bstruot and embarrass
trade interchanges and confnse and de
range vairfes universally.
What the world imperatively needs is a
speedy retain to the donble standard on
EOmeJequitable.beeis. That will bedifficnlt
to fix just now on principles likely .to per
ils with permanent equity. Gold has
been poshed np and silver pnt down tern-
porarilj by this ill-advised demonetiza
tion of silver. With the restoration of
silver a converse operation weuld follow
to some extent, as a matter of coarse.
Thuj, a re adjustment of coin weights or
valaeB on tho existing bullion standard
might be mischievions and lead to specu
lative movements in coin. A wise fore
cast 03 to the probable resalt of remone
tization on bullion valnes wonld there
fore have to be exercised.
On the other hand a settled and in
creasing conviction is established and
growing in tne whole commercial world
that the single metalio standard of gold
is insufficient for trade purposes, and ia
bound seriously to cripple the nations
who insist upon it. The back track on
monometalism is inevitable.
of ths United States Circuit Court, bad al
ready rendered a dechion in the same line,
holding that equality does not mean identi
ty and that the State is Justified In maintain
ing separata eohools for the two races and
restricting each race to its own.
A Marvelous Escape.—At Cincinnati Iut
Sunday a four year old boy, who was leaning
ont of the fourth story of a tenement house,
oat his balance and started whirling down
to* ord the brick pavement, fifty feet below.
On the porch of the third story, immediately
ly below him, stood a little girl ten years old,
the daughter of one of the reeident* of that
floor. She saw the boy coming, and by an
instinot or purpose which amounted to hero
ism, put out her aim to try to save the boy.
She did catch him at the risk of being drag
ged over herself and of falling with him.
Of oourse the could not hold such a weight
brikher arm woe Just strong enough to tarn
the coarse of his fall, so that he landed at
he; feet on the fleor of the third porch
His head strnck the bolostefrand he hod on
ugly ont on his forehead and one eye was
considerably injured, but his life was saved.
The little girl’s arm was lamed, bat not bro
ken. She said she saw him ooming, and Just
thought she might save him if the would pnt
out her arm, end she did It
A CARD.
To all » ho are sutTenng from the errors and
indiscretions of youth, nervous weakness, early
decay, 1 ass of manhood, eta I will send si recipe
that will cure you, FEBE OF C HALOS. This
gnat remedy was discovered by a missionary in
Booth America. Send a self-addressed envelope
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The Wilmington, N. C. He view an
nounces that the crop of huckleberries
will be abundant this year. That is en
couraging. With plenty of huckleberriea
and herrings, the old North State is se
cure, notwithstanding bayonet elections.
Indiana, Instead or Kansas.—The
colored citizens of Indianapolis, met last
Tuesday to raise funds for tha suffering
emigrants to Kansas; bnt afttr a talk
the supplies were withheld. The meet
ing thought the Louisiana negroes ahonld
bars gone to Indians, where their votes
are needed, end not to Kansas where
there ara plenty of Ridioali already.
For upwards oi thirty years Mrs Winslows
Soothing Byrup has been used for children. It
prevent acidity of the stotiach, relievo* wind
oolio, res elates the bowels, cures dysentery and
Diarrhea*, whether arising bona teething or oth
er onuses. An old sol well-trie! remedy .
cents bottle
had the Republicans displayed any sense,
moderation or patriotism in their coarse.
Bat they sold oat the public welfare and
reputation, and to, in a measure, lifted
the cloud of indignation resting on the
South.
Bnt to what extent the South is still
morally disabled is easily seen in the
fact that the candidate they helped to
elect President was quietly shelved, their
Slates disfranchised, and the most anti-
Republican and unconstitutional laws
are gravely upheld by the veto, without
a fear of popular consequences. It is
easy to ontgeneral a crippled foe, and it
is not easy to comprehend and success
fully meet the exigencies of such a post
lion.
Bnt it is by no means certain that the
Radicals hold the vantage they beast.
That is vet to be proved. However
mnch they may be in love with bayonets
and force, the masses throughout the
world are not drifting in that direction.
The tendency is strongly towards liberty
and local and individual freedom. The
best rule the Democrats can lay down
for themeelve8 is to do juBt as near right
as they know how. To act the part
of enlightened and sincere patriots
and take no connsel from resent
ment, passion or mere selfish party inter
est. These tactics, it well fallowed, will
win after a while, while a despotic, reck
less and selfish paity policy is bound to
end in ruin at last.
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Senator David Davis, says the Wash
ington correspondent of the Cincinnati
Times, “pronounces the message a sophis-
tiosl specimen of speoial pleading, and a
very weak emanation from a weak but
amiable person, who is led by Ihe nose by
stronger and more nnsornpoloas men.
He says the veto will benefit the Demo
crats, and render their position impregna
ble before the people.
DBS J. P.kff.B. HOLMES.
DENTISTS,
No 84 Mulberry Street, Macon, Ga
Teeth extracted without wain, beautiful sets Ot
Teeth inserted. Abscessed Teeth aud Diseased
Gums cured.
Dealer* in *11 kinds of Dental Materials and
Instruments. Constantly on hand a large and
full assortment of Teeth of all kinds. Gold of all
kinds, Amalgams et all kinds, Robbers of all
kinds. moredAwly I
Antiquarian Puzzin in Virginia.
Halifax county, Virginia, is sow in a
puzzle over the discovery of an ancient
stone wall in that county, the origin of
which confounds the “curious antiquite.
A correspondent of the Richmond Dis
patch Bays:
“The wall is composed of white flint
rock, cemented with n whitish enbetance
very soft and patty-like, but when ex
posed to the air, becomes hard. Tho
wall issixty-two feet six inches long and
seventeen feet high, the top reaching to
within two feet of the surface of the
earth. At its base, from one end to the
other, thero is a uniform thickness of
about three feel, graudually tapering np-
-—, —
about eighteen inches.
The ends arc vertical, and eo far there
is no evidence that there was farther
connection, either by direct line or angle.
This walldoubtless was perfectly straight,
bnt now in the centre there is a slight
bend, causedjpc S3ibly by an unequal press,
ure of earth—it being just below the
brow of a high bill. There appears to be
not even a shadow of a doubt that this is
the labor of man. When ? At what
age? And by whom ? These are ques
tions to which answers are earnestly de
sired. A solitary stone wall, its huge
form and lofty pinnacle, secreted beneath
mother earth! What mighty convulsion
or upheaval of nature forced this proud
monument of antiquity to hide its huge
form from tho inquiring gaze of man for
ages past? Who can unfold the dark
mystery that envelopes this hnge sub
stance and fathom the secret of ages ?
I learn that the work of farther exca
vation will be continued, and await the
result with great anxiety.
The wall is closely guarded day and
night to prevent visitors from mutilating
it m carrying away specimens of the
rook and cement.
THE FIFTH AVENUE DAfilE-
DBAIi.
Prepiuuilon for Its Dedication.
A leading topio of conversation in New
York is the dedication of St Patrick's
Cathedral, on Fifth avenue, in that city,
and whioh is to take place on Sunday,
May 25lb. Bishops from all parts of the
United States and the Canadas, and some
300 or more priests will participate in the
ceremonies. It is expeoted that at least
fifty bishops and arohbishops will be
present. Six thousand tickets have been
issued. Five dollars, aro asked for the
front seat?, and $3 for the rear and $1 for
general admission. Protestants as well
asCatholios have sought anxiously for
admiEsion, and tickets are readily dispo
sed of. Cardinal MoClosky will perform
the ceremony of dedication, assisted by
the bishops and clergy. A grand pon
tifical high m&SB, of whioh bubs the cardi
nal will be the celebrant, will follow Im
mediately after the oeremony of dedica
tion. The psalms will baacogby the cler
gy, assisted by the choir, nnder the lead
ership of Father Young, of the Church of
the ApostleB. Ihe choir consists of one
hundred and twenty, besides the olergy,
and in the grand choir, or xegnlc-r Cathe
dral choir, there will be one hundred and
fifty singers. The musical programme
will be a highly interesting feature. Be
sides the large organ now in the Cathe
dral, another will be plaoed in the aanot-
uary, both being played at the same time
during a portion of the dedicatory serv-
ioe. In the evening, at vespers, the mu
sical programme will be on a grand aoale.
Bishop Kaic, of Wheeling.West Virginia,
has aocepted an invitation to preaoh on
the oooasion. One dollar will be charged
for admission. The wealthy Catholics of
New York will entertain ihe visiting
bishops and clergy while in the oity.
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ale by Boland B Hall. Druggist. may IS
Kjcniucht, at last accounts, was oom»
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raining wheat and corn. It is probable
they have had rain within the past few
days.
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Circulars mailed tree. Address 7KIUYM
54 Chatham Bt, NY, iebll dOOdAvIaz
CSL. PEEPLES’ EESPONSE.
Ladies and Gentlemen of Cartersville:
The pleasant duty has been assigned me
of acknowledging the kindness and hospi
tality with which the Press Association
has been received by you. This duty,
while a pleasant one, wa3 unexpected,
oould not imagine why our worthy presi
dent selected me for this purpose, unless
it was that I was a fair specimen of the
wholesome influence of free hash, and
upon that line other gontlemen of the
Association are more gifted than I am.
(.Laughter and applause.]
We appreciate your kindness, although
we have heard to day that this is the
nearest station to the Plutonian regions.
We have no desire to be welcomed there.
It has been said than the “pen is migh.
tier then the sword;” bnt our Association
puts it that the “pan is mightier than the
tongne,” especially the married members,
and you can see from their appearance
that they are largely ia the majority
here.
The Press Association of Georgia waB
organized to advance the interests and
elevate the tone of journalism in Gaor
gia, as well ss for sooial reunions of its
members. We meet annually in differ
ent seotions of the State for the purpose
of familiarizing ourselves with the varied
resources of oar grand old oommon-
wealtb. Two years ago wo met at tho
charming oity of Thomasvills in South
west Georgia; last year In Gainesville,
the mountain oity of the Bine Bridge
this year we come at your invitatiou to
see the fertile valleys, fields of waving
graiD, and breathe the pare atmosphere
of Cherokee Georgia.
Weocme among you to see the reonper-
atlve energies of a free people, whose
homes have been destroyed, and whose
fields were laid waste but a few year3 ago
by the oonfliot of contending armies.
And wo congratulate you oa your rapid
advancement and development in all that
makes a people great and independent.
[Applause.]
As I came np this morning and looked
again over the scenes that will always be
historio in Georgia—will live in tong and
story, when the others have passed away,
I was struck with the nearly complete ob
literation of the soars of war. Here and
there are ruins that remind yon of the he.
roism, daring and eodnranoe of our
Southern men. Let these stand. Geor
gia’s aweeiest poet has said:
“A land withont ruins
Is a land without memories;
And a laud without memories
Is a land without patriotism.”
We come among you as Georgians
from ail sections of the State, and we
gratsfally accept a Georgia welcome.
No matter what may tho. difference be
tween us for the hour, political, religions
or personal, where the interest of the
old State is at stake, we stand united as
one man. We are proud ot th9 memo
Ties of ber past, and we rejoice alike in
the grand prospects which tho future
spreads out before us.
Ladies and gentlemen, in behalf of the
Frees Association of Georgia, I tender
our thanks for your hospitality. [Ap
plause.]
Before the adjournment, a letter from
Mrs. Felton from Washington to the
Convention was read, acoompanied with
the gift of a beautiful wreath or flowers.
A BIDE ON THE CHEROKEE BAILBOAD.
Thanks to tne oonrtesy of the goad
people of Cartersville, whose attentions
were innumerable and unremitting, tbe
entire Convention enjoyed a trip through
the lovely valley of the Etowah river over
the broad gange road, a distance of
twelve miles, and still beyond upon the
narrow gauge, whioh extends as' far
Cedartown. The track lav through one
of the mn>‘ "tula and oharming valley*
iu ue tonnd on tbe continent. On one
aide meandered tbe beautifal Etowah, its
swift waters breaking and bubbling o’er
nnmerous reefs of rooks, and fringed with
a pretty growth of trees and shrubbery,
arrayed in living green.
The land on tbe other side spread out
for a mile or more iu width into a rioh
valley, level as a billiard table, and in-
clnding many thousands of aores, all un
der the highest Btate of cultivation. A
very large peroentage was devoted to
wheat, wnfoh stood in an Lied renk, dense
as a jangle, and rapidly ripening for tho
siokle. Under a proper system of rota
tion of crop?, good onlture and the timely
application of fertilizers, this valley, with
its limestone formation aid deep soil,
mightbe converted into a
PERPETUAL GARDEN EP3T
which wonld ever delight the eye of tbe
beholder. The surroundings of the val
ley in every direction are highly pictur
esque and beautiful. Lofty hills and
mountains clothed with verdnre to their
summits form a m03b ogreeablo setting
to the emerald picture beneath.
These mountains . abound with iron,
manganese and other minerals. At one
point we conld discern the quarries where
the famous * -
LADD LIME
is manufactured, and fhe finest alabaster
may be procured. The manganese, so
essential in the production of steel, and
yet a very rare mineral abounds in the
mountains of Bartow and Polk counties.
It is a deep blue, rocky substance, heavier
than iron, which, when taken from the
quarry is first thoroughly washed, then
hauled to the
STAMPING MILL,
broken into small pieces, ground, and ex
ported in barrels. Tho price of the arti
cle at the mill, we believe, is about eight
dollars per ton. .
Carteasville contains several of these
mills, and hundreds of barrels of the pre
pared manganese were awaiting ship
ment at the railroad depot.
Oar trip extended over the narrow
guageinto Polk county, where the most
extensive
DEPOSITS OF SLATX
are to be fonnd, which is of the pnreet
and finest quality, and oan be split with
facility into the most attenuated thick
nesses. With proper railroad arrange
ments this valuable material for roof
covers could be made to supersede in all
our crowded towns and cities the com
bustible and perishable wooden shingle.
It will endure forever, and at present the
transportation constitutes its principal
cost.
Bartow boasts also a cement quarry,
near Kingston, on the place formerly
owned by Rev. Wallace Howard. Here
an article, of cement for cisterns, wells,
and all masonry under water, is prepared,
which experience, and the testimony of
tbe most competent builders unite In
pronouncing to be equal to tbe best in
America. It has been tried in Macon,
and afforded perfect satisfaction.
• - THE HARROW QUAGS.
An examination of this curious little high
way (the first the writer had ever seen),
satisfied him that where the centre of
gravity is made low to prevent capsizing,
this modo of transportation !b as safe aa
any other. The difference in ooBt be
tween the broad and narrow guage roads,
including equipments, eto., is said to be
one-third in favor of the latter, and the
carrying capacity of the two ia aboet in
the same ratio. We Buppose they will
always be confined to short routes for
specific purposes, and when the freights
and transportion are. not likely to be
very heavy.
About nightfall the whole party re
turned in safety to Cartersville, delight
ed with what they had-seen, and deeply
impressed with the agrienltural and
mineral resources of this favored re*
gion.
THE BALL AT TaB AT. JAMES KOTIL
that followed on the tame evening, was
one of the most brilliant affairs that ever
ccnrred in the State. The spaoloas
dining room of the hotel had been cleared
of ita furniture and gorgeously decorated
with wreaths, festoons and vases of lovely
flowers, end n fine bend ot music was in
attendance, v
About nine o’clock, the company began
to aomve, and soon the apartment was
thronged with tho youth, and beauty and
fashion of the town who had turned out
to greet their visiting guests. It ia safe
to affirm that a brighter galaxy ot beauty
was never seen at - any similar enter
tainment in Georgia.
The toilets of many of the ladies were
exquisite, and the patty seemed to
enjoy themselves immensely. The
knights of the fourth estate pitched in,
too, with might and main, and showed
that they were’quite as nimble with,
their heels as they, are with their
pens. We wonld ba tempted to
particularize a little but for the
faot of bringing a nest of hor
nets about our ears. Suffice it to say
the twinkling feet never ceased to move
nntil the faint blush ot advancing morn
told of the advent of another day.
CARTERSVILLE
ia literally cradled among the adjacent
mountains, and as Bill Arp says, the good
old county seat of CosaviUe died m giving
birth to her. Bnt the bantling has far
eclipsed its mother, and now stands forth
a rising, beautifal littis city of 3,500 in
habitants, with two excellent hotels, the
St. James and Bartow houses, four neat
churches, tall blocks of brick stores, the
neatest opera house outside of the large
cities to be found in the State, a stately
court house, a railroad branching out in
to the rich mineral region only just be
ginning to be developed, and two live
and well conducted newspapers.
With euoh a start, her future prosperity
wonld seem to ba an assured conculsiou.
As a summer resort too, few places pos
sesa greater attractions. Health, con
venience of access to the mineral springs
of theoonntry, beautiful drives, cheap
board, an abundance of table comforts
produced at home, lovely scenery and
commodious hotels, offer every induce
ment to the seaboard wayfarer to pause
and tarry.
THE ST. JAMES HOTEL.
This imposing establishment has re
cently changed hands, and is now con
ducted by Major L. C. Hose, assisted by
his son, Mr. J. M. Hoss. Without the
least disparagement to hia rivals at home
or in any of the towns of Cherokee,
Georgia, we are constrained to say that
the St. James ia the equal of any of them,
and will compare favorably with the most
pretentious city hotels of the South
The rooms are neatly finished, painted
and carpeted, the ventilation is ail that
conld be deBired, long interior halls and
extensive corridors afford every facility
for air and exercise, the views from the
upper stories cannot be surpassed any
where in the country, the servants are
attentive, the beds clean and comfortable,
the host and his family kind and ctourte
ous, and the fare bonntiful and well
cooked. It will not b9 the fault of Major
Hoss if the St. James is not crowded to
overflowing tho ensuing summer.
The citizens of Cartersville showed
themselves in hn rrenernua and ho2pita
bio entertainers. Every door,and all t
hotels of the town were thrown open to
the members of the Press Association,
withont money and withont price. The
editors anil proprietors of tho ?r» P«,s
and Cartersville Express, were notably
foremost in their efforts to anticipate
every want of their brethren. There was
not a trace of independentism in the
veteran Willingham in his treatment of
the “organized,” for he fairly boiled over
in tbe exuberance of his welcome to them
and hardly ate or slept in bis desire to
serve his Democratic guests in every way
poBBible. Reduced to its “last analysis/'
we are glad to know that the bolters of
the Seventh District are still Demc
crats, heart and soul, tho only
question with them being wholly
personal one between the Democrats. In
18SO, ire veufare the prediction that
THET WILL STAND SHOULDER TO SH3ULDSB
with their Democratio friends all over
the State and nation m defence of the
principles of our great organization, and
prove zealous supporters of its nominee.
-In taking leave of Cartersville, we lift our
bat to its whole souled citizens, one and
all, and wish them God speed.
THE LAST HOURS OF THE FEE.3 LSSr.cIA-
TIOW
were devoted to the disoussion of sundry
matters whioh would be of no interest to
tho public. Those worthy of mention are
as follows: Fifty dollars was voted to
tbe widow.aud orphans of the late Mr.
Carnes a member of the Association,
Twenty-five dollars were appropriated to
the L3diea’ Memorial Association of
Americas, to aid in removing thither the
bodies of the Confederate dead who lie
neglected a: Andersonville, a resolution
of thanks to the venerable Mark A. Coop
er was adopted for bis excellent addrees;
complimentary resolutions were also
passed, thanking tha citizens of Carters-
ville, for their unmeasured ho3pitsIity,
and tbe severnl railroads for continued
oourtesies; tee thanks of the Aesooiation
were also nnsnimonely voted to the citi
zens of Canton, who, through Colonel
Styles extended a free invitation to visit
their thriving towD, and also to the Oar-
tarsville and Marietta bands for the sweet
musio they had contributed.
Mr. Dwinell moved that Rome should
be the next place of meeting. Mr. Mum-
ford nominated Chalybeate Springs Mer
iwether oonnty, and Mr. TaokerCnth-
beit. Catbbert was chosen. The Presi
dent, Mr. Estili, then announced that on
the 9th of Ootober next, the
CENTENNIAL OF THE DEATH OF THE GAL
LANWJAfiFXB -
would be celebrated with proffer ceremo
nies and a grand military display at Sav
annah. The corner Btone of a monament
to the memory of the immortal Sergeant
would also be laid on that occasion. By
virtae of his authority as President of the
Association (all the officers of that body
had been re-elected,) he wonld therefore
call a meeting of the Association at that
timo and place. The Convention after
listening to a moving temperance ad
dress by Mr. Y. Davis, of tbe Sandersville
Courier, adjourned sine die, having enjoy
ed a pleasant and harmonious session.
Atlanta, May 16 ;b, 1879.
WX3TEBN AND ATLANTIC BAILBOAD.
The lessees of this great highway, be
sides promptly meeting their annual ren
tal, have added vast improvements, and
the road nnderits present able manage
ment is seoend to no other, North or
Sontb. Heavy eteel rails have been laid
from Atlanta to Kingston, much cf the
bed is ballasted, and the rolling (stock has
been largely augmented, and is in excel
lent condition. Unmindful of the faot
that a considerable portion of their lease
has expired,the company continue to make
the most substantial and permanent Im
provements, when it is manifestly to their
interest to expend ae little as possible In
keeping np the road. Thus the writer
was intoraed by Governor Brown that
the lessees contemplate replacing very
shortly the present wooden bridges over
the Chattahoochee and Etowah rlvors,
with permanent iron atrootares. Indeed,
they hare left nothing undone to protect
and preserve the property of the State,
and, moreover, have vastly reduced old
freight and passenger tariffs. When tbe
lease terminates, the commonwealth, af
ter receiving in caeh
1 SIX MILLI0N3 OF D0LLAR7,
the full value of the road, from the
leasees, will have it tamed over in Infi
nitely better condition tnan when oper
ated by the State, and surely no one will
accuse them of ever having pursued an
illiberal policy towards the public. The
very opposite is the fact. For one, the
writer would be glad to see tbe oontract
extended for another term of twenty
years.
THE DADS C0UJJTT OPAL MINES AND THE
STATE CONVICTS.
The extent and magnitude of the coal
mines operated by Governor Brown in
Dade county are known to but few. They
are situated near the line of the Nash
ville and Chattanooga railroad and on
the very confines of the State. A private
railway connecting with the above road
famishes every facility for transporta
tion.
THE VEIN OF COAL .
averages four and a half feet ia thiokness,
and extends for an indefinite space under
the mountain. The company own ten
thousand aores underlaid by this preeious
deposit, and their operations are conduet.
ed upon the most expensive scale. Fcbr
hundred tons of coal are excavated daily
and delivered, besides five thousand bush
els of coke, which is indispensable in the
smelting process. The Rising Fawn iron
works consume almost the whole of this
amount, and are enabled to keep afloat
mainly through the cheap rates they pay
for their coke. From ten oents per bush
el formerly, they aro now chargod only
three or four cents.
This stratum of coal, uolike most de
posits, doe3 not require to be worked by
sinking shafts to a great depth beneath
the surface, thereby incurring frequent
risk from mephitic air, water and caving,
bub
CR0F3 OUT
from the side of the mountain, and is per
forated laterally. A tram way Las been
constrncted into the heart of the moun
tain, and the cars are drawn by males,
with lanterns suspended npon their fore
heads, and the creatures are trained to
work like automatons. The rock that
overlies the coal is supported by uncut
sections of coal, supplemented when
necessary by strong upright timbers.
The operatives are in no danger what
ever, and not the slightest accident has
ever occurred.
* Tho mine is worked by
THBXX HUNDRED PENITENTIARY CONVICTS,
who are composed by law,of those sentenc
ed for long terms. When Governor Brown
assumed the control of these prisoners,
though provided with an abundance of
bacon and meal, he found them suffering
from senrvy, caused by the lack of fresh
vegetables, which could not be prooured
in that vicinity. To remedy this, he im
mediately ordered large quantities of
potatoes, pickles and onions, which soon
restored the health of the convicts. Then
a force was detailed to cat down and
bring into cultivation a large area of land
npon which there la now produced
IMMENSE QUANTITIES
of Irish potatoes, salads, turnips, cab
bage, tomatoes, onenmbers, belts, and
other vegetables. These are piokled in
barrels for winter consumption and a
heartier, better fed or more comfortable
set of laborers oannot be found anywhere.
To ehow how contented they are, the
principal keeper of the penitentiary, Mr.
Nelms says, on a late oooasion, when
some of the conviois had to bo removed
to other oamps to make room for a batch
of prisoner^ recently sentenced for life,
the poor creatures with tears in their
eyes implored to be allowed to remain in
the mines, saying they woro well oared
for and contented.
The Governor very ju3tly remarked
that tbe prisoners had bean condemned
to hard work as a
PUNISHMENT FOR THEIR CRIMES
ani it was his duty to see that the sen
tence was executed.
The conviots were required to labor
faithfully, but their physical aud moral
condition were also Eedulously looked
after. We have neyer heard of any com
plaint of their treatment in the mines.
It is unfortunate that the State should
bo reduced to the neceesity of farming
out her convicte; but the great increase
in crime, owing to the premature emanci
pation of so many ignorant negroes, make
ifc impAaqihb tn pnro»« •***•» o|>efom
To do otherwise would bankrupt
tho State Treasury. But we do
hold that the most stringent safe
guards ought to be thrown aronnd these
unfortunate criminals, and those having
them in charge should be brought to
condign punishment for any cruellies or
harsh treatment inflicted upon the help
less convicts. We favor the system
which is obnoxious to a hundred objec
tions, only fromneceBBity, and wisheome
better disposition of those who are sen
tenced to pay the penalty of violated laws
could be devised.
THE TRIAL OF XX TREASURER JOHN JONES
ia nonr progressing. .A powerful array
of counsel is employed on both sides,
General Toombs leading for tbe State
and Hon. B. H. Hill for the defendant.
A number of witnesses for the pro3ecn
tion have been examined, and many in
telligent men think that the ontlook is
very damaging to the cause of Treasurer
Jones. It wonld be manifestly wrong,
however, upon ex parte evidence to pro
nounce any opinion as to the final result,
and we can only hope that evenhanded
justice will be rendered in the premises.
A NEW DAILY.
At length the long talked of rival to
the Constitution seems about to take shape
in the publication of a morning paper.,
about the first of June. We are informed
by the editor-in-chief to be, of the new
enterprise, that $25,000 have actually
been paid into bank, and arrangements
perfected for Western'dispatches, which
the Western Union Telegraph Company
have contracted to pass over their line
from Nashville to Atlanta at about a ball
cent per word. The whole estimated
cost of the dispatches is $75 per week.
The material is all on the epot, and Col.
Martin ot the Columbns Times will be the
political editor, assisted by Mr. Williams,
who recently retired from Atlanta jour
nalism. The local and reportorial staff
has not yet been designated. It is un
derstood that the backing of the concern
is very strong.
Whether Atlanta oan snpport two daily
papers or not, is a problem yet to bo solv
ed. We shall see.
Here endeth this epistle, and donbtlesB
the wearied reader is greatly rejoiced
Tha writer (oo, is not sorry. H. H. J.
Wat Weather and Grass.
The showery weather of the past week
will make busy work for the cotton planter,
by stimulating the growth ot grass in the
eld. Doubtless, as the crop is behind
hand and the soil was badly beaten down
by the first heavy rain storm, tho later
rains, if the fields can be kept clean will
be advantageous, if not excessive. But
there is as old time prepossession against
a rainy Bay, which is held to portend a
ehoct cotton crop. So far, there is cer
tainly no general excess ot rain. Oa the
contrary, dating back from 1st Jan
uary last thero mast be a considerable
arrearage of rain still due, and even now
the duBt will be flying again after a few
days of dry weather.
Fxom.Db 8 W Hunter. Baltimore, Hd.—
* Having become familiar with Uolden’a Lie
big’s Liquid Extract of Beet and Tonic fn vigor-
ator, 1 taie pleasure in recommending it os an
excellent preparation, combing aa it does load
duutonleiu a remarkable way, producing good
blood, health and strength. Sold by Jno In-
gall], Macon: may 18 Xw
Littell’s Living Age.—The numbers
of the Living Age tor the weeks ending
May 10 and 17, respectively, contain the
following aitioles: Memoirs and Charters
of the Lennox, Edinburg Review; Cobbett,
CornhiU-, Biography, Travel and Sport,
Blackwood; Residual Phenomena, Eraser;
Count Leo Tolstoy’s Novels, nineteenth
Century; Burma, Fortnightly, The Um
brella Bird, Hatter’s Gazette; Science and
Faith, Sir A. Fanizzi, Henry James, Jr.’s
Ideal of American Character and Earth-
born Meteorites, Spectator; Uphill Work
and Historical Casuistry, Saturday Re-
mew; with farther chapters of Jean luge-
low’s “Sarah de Berenger;” Jerome Bon-
grand’s'Heresy, a Tale about Priests;
and, among other poetry, Tennyson’s
“Defence of Lucknow.”
For fifty-two snch numbers of sixty-
four large pages each (or more than three
thousand pages a year), the subscription
price (|8) is low; while for $10.50 the
publishers offer to send any one of the
American $4 monthlies or weeklies with
the Living Age for a year, both postpaid.
Littell & Co., publishers.
Mrs. L. J. Brown, Misses Laura Brown,
Jennie Flemiater and Clifford Fntnam
went down to Maoon to attend' Belshas
sar.—Griffin Hew*.
THE IDHIIQK COUttT.
cicsriis the Dockets.
Yesterday in the Superior Oourt the
following business was transacted :
J. R. Schofield, receiver, vs. William
H. Yissage and W. W Heath, adminis
trators otW. B. Heath, deceased, com
plaint and appeal; verdict for plain
tiff for $125, with interest.
J. R. Bobofield, receiver, vs. W. H.
Vissage, principal, and W. W. Heath, ad
ministrator ofW. B. Heath, security;
dismissed, and W. H. Vissage discharged
and directed to collect the costs paid ont
from the plaintiff.
J. A. Hill vs. the Macon and Angnata
Railroad, dismissed.
A. Lichtenstein vs. J. A. Adair, ap
peal; verdict for plaintiff.
Julia E. Black va. Alex R. T. Black,
libel for divorce; verdiot for a total di
vorce and the care of the three minor
children, Daisy, Rebecca and Abner,
was granted to the mother.
J. J. Wood vs. the State and Judge T.
G. Holt, certiorari; new trial granted.
Judge Simmons has made, since he as
sumed the Jugdship, very great progress
toward clearing the crowded dockets of
the court. He haB developed an execu
tive ability,which has been extraordinary
in ita effects, and the many cases whioh
have been burdening the dockets of the
Superior Conrt of Bibb county for many
ycare past, have been rapidly disposed of
until the business of the Court has been
brought very nearly up to date. All of
ths dockets have now been cleared, ex
cept the equity docket, and that will
soon receive the attention of tho conrt.
As many as twelve cases have been dis
posed of in one day by trial, seven of
them being by jury, and in every instance
tho business of the conrt pushed as rap
idly ae the ends of jostioe would allow.
Such clean dooketB have not been known
in the past fifteen years of the court.
Judge Simmons deserves the unquali-
fled thanks of the citizens of this county
for his action in this matter, and by it
some of the objections recently urged
against the eonduct of the court will be
done away with, and the court placed in
a position in which more speedy trials
can be had than during a number of
years past.
Reports from the other counties of
this circuit speak in high terms of Jndge
Simmons’ expedition? methods of con
ducting their courts.
Iu stock speculation a thousand dollars
are eometimes made from an investment
of one hundred. Send to Alex. Froth-
ingbam & Co., brokers. 12 Wall Street,
New York, for their Weekly Financial
Report, eent tree.
Forlnne’s Wheel.
“Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, and lower the
proud:
Turn tbv wild wheel through sunshine, storm
and cloud—
Thy wheel we neither love nor hate.
Turn, Fortune, turn thy wheel, with smile or
frown;
With that wild wheel we vo not up or down;
Our hoard is little, but our hearts are (treat.
Smile, and wesmila, the lords of many lands;
i Frown, and we smile, the lords of our own
bauds,
For man i* man, and master of hit fate.”
—Alfred Tennyson.
BURGLARY.
JAn JSmme Mmcmm Sure JBnccrciL
Another bnrglary has been added to
the catalogue of East Macon burglaries.
Yesterday morning, on his arrival at his
store, Mr. Henry Jones, of East Macon,
discovered tbat the burglars had been
agatn at work on his store.
It will be .remembered tbat a few
weeks since a bnrglary was committed in
this same etore, an entrance being effec
ted by catting through the reur brick
wall of the 6tore, This time the en
traces was made by tearing np the cellar
door in front of the store.
The thieves, after getting into the
basement, found it an easy task to walk
to the stairway leading above and taking
poE8ession.
Mr. Jones finds it impossible to esti
mate what his loss iB, aa no money was
obtained, and whatever goods were taken
were from the stock and have not been
missed as yet. The bnrglary was evi
dently committed in the hours of the early
morning.
This is tho third time Mr. Jones’ store
has been entered, and the establishment
ot Mr. Reddy, his next door neighbor,
has been broken into four times in the
past two years. No cine to the gnilty
party had been discovered late laet evem
iog.
Tbe Boat Bscs.
In conversation with Professor Butter
field while Jn the city, he informed ns
that he now has in preparation a comic
opera entitled “The Boat Race,” which
he intends completing by fall, when it
wiir be brought out. The libretto haB
been copy-righted already. The scene
will be laid in the “Island of Shoals,” the
hero be a student of Princeton, and many
amusing situations will occur in the
opera. In this he will enter a new field,
as he ha3 written no comic music of any
length, and it will test his versatility.
Pref. Butterfield admires the comie
opera Pinafore very mnob, and complin
mented its musio highly.
He speaks in glowing terms of
his visit to Macon and the treatment re
ceived while here. This is his first visit
to the Sonth and he leaves with very fa
vorable impressions.
In speaking of the presentation of hia
opera in Macon he complimented the
performers very highly and remarked
that with one exception, and he a pro
fessional gentleman living in Albany,
New York, he had never in three hun
dred psrformances seen a better imper*
Bonationof. the character of Belshazzar
than that of Mr. Jnlian Price. Of alj
the other principal characters he spoke
in terms of strong praise. We hope at
some future day Macon may be favored
again with another performance nnder
the direction of Professor Butterfield.
Local Legislative Bills by tbe Conn
if commissioners.
The Connty Commissioners ue per
fecting several bills which they Intend
to have introduced at the next session of
the Legislature whioh ue local in effeet
and will tend to lessen the expenses of
the ooonly., The first will be a bill to au
thorize the ooftnty to bid ou property
sold for oonnty taxes. The city can now
bid on property sold for oity taxes bnt
tho connty is debarred the privilege.
Another bill will be to reduce the oosta
in suits before tbe County Conrt; anoth
er to fix a fee bill in the Superior Court.
Eaeh one of these bills if they beoose
law, will it Is thought result in a consid
erable saving to the connty.
—Mite Mildred Lee, daughter of Gen. B.
E. Lee, ie traveling in 8jria
—The Duchess of Edinbu'gh la visit inc at
the London theaters, and ms king hsrse'f
very gay and gracious in society, evident v
trying to refute tho charge that she is proud
and “poky,” ■ -v
—One of tha crick restaurants at Berlin
the proprietor of which hts failed, reveals a
ereditor who has created a sensation bv
aendiog in bis bill or 2,300 francs for ••horse
flash” tupplied.
—Tyndall says that g-eat improve-
meats m the eleo'riq l ; ght mutt bo regard
ed as inevitable, buf be does rot believe css
will be beaten ont of the field by It; there la
too much use for gas.
—SKiioiTios From Eads—Capt E&dg
has made spplioxtion for an additional
amount of $500,000, claiming he has obtain
ed a channel at tbe month or the Missigslnni
25 feet deep and 2C0 feet wide. PP
—Her beautifal Majesty of Austria is said
to have looked dodbly beautifal at her silver
wedding, clothed in a gown of light dove
colored satin with magnificent ruby orna
ments—the finest rabies in Europe. The
Emperor looked extremely happy and proud
of his wife.
The Coco Crsxx Gold Mines—The
Sweetwater Democrat speaks flatteringly of
the success attending the coco creek gold
miners of Monroe connty. Last week they
fook ont one lump weighing ISO odd penny
weights, which was sold for $80 cash, oth
er lumps have been recently found worth
$80 and $10 enh Sovaral oqmDanies are
operating in the auriferous secnon, with ap
parently satisfactory results.
Afpeopbiition Engs Fuse and Fixfie
The Washington Star of the 14th says *t the
meeting of the House committee on appro
priations this morning, the matter of politi
cal riders on appropriation bills beiDg nnflsr
consideration, Mr. Felton stated that for his
part he hsd gone far enough in that direc
tion, and that in fatnra he is in favor of vo
ting appropriation bills pure and simple.
He added, “And Mr. Bpeer and Mr. 8te>
phene, frommy own State, are of the same
opinion.” .
—Canada is suffering severely from the
hard times, and emigration into the States
is going on at on unprecedented nte. For
sonre years there has been a movement of
m! 14 ?*' chiefly those of French descent
5? l0 ™ r classes, to the manufacturing
districts of New England, though a coneid-
pable proportion of these peopla have been
in the habit of returning to their old homes
after accumulating a little cash Bnt tbis
spnng the tide of emigrating factory hands
Is drily swelled bv Uttle oolonies of farming
People, who are bound for Illinois and other
—Calais is to become again an important
place of arms and a fortrees cf the first
oiass. Tho ramparts now earrounding the
town, which ore of an antiquated type, are
to be leveled, and anew eneeinto, with a
girdle o' detached forte in advance of it. Is
to be constructed, resting on the citadel, and
enclosing the towns of Osiris and St Fierro.
By a law signed by the President of the re-
pnbUo ths construction of the new enceinte
and detached forts ronnd Calais is declared
to be a work of pnblio urgency, and a snm
of $2 830,000 is set aride to ‘dofraythe ex
penses incurred during the next four years
in building tbe new fortifications.*
A Supposed Yellow Fevxr Gebm.—Dr.
Walter Bailey, of New Orleans, a delegate
to the reoent homeopathio convention at Bt.
Lonis, has in his possession what he be
lieves to be a real yellow fever germ. It is
a fungus growth which formed in the object
glass of a microscope doting the epidemic.
The doctor’s theory as to the origin of yel
low fever is that the small dote or spores in
this invisible fungus contain a fine powder,
which is cost into the air by the bursting of
the small hag which contains it. This pow
der, being inhaled, causes a fermentation of
the blood which produces the fover. Tho
instrument has never been opened since tho
particles formed within it.
A Cabinet Meeting Decision.:—A speoial
Washington dispatch to tho World cn the
14th says the Cabinet meeting to-day con
sidered tbe question of bl-metoiism in view
of the recent agitation of that question in
England and other European countries.
This is not tbe first time the inbject has
been before the Cabinet, and cow it was fi
nally determined that Secretory Everts shall
open negotiations with foreign governments
to secure united action in restoring silver u
part of the coin of Ihe world. 8enator Bay
ard is t e anthor of on amendment to the
Legislative bill appropriating $20,000 for
contingent expenses of the flute Depart
ment, and it is suppoied that this fund is
largely to bo used fer tho purpose of carry
ing into effect the determination of to-day’s
Cabinet meeting.
About the Six —Says & Washington cor
respondent. I saw Dr. Mary Walker to-day.
She was attired, so far as I conld eee, just
like any other man. A nicely fitting black
cloth frock coat & strictly masculine pat
tern made np ths enter woman His hat
was of brown straw, and she had on ft Bund
ing collar and black oravat Her shirt front
(I suppose it is a shirt) was pleated and neat
and snowy I don’t think upon reflection
that he c void have had on a corset Didn't
look so at any rate. Bhs carried ft cane in
ono hand and a parasol in the other. His
coat came down below her knees, and his
hair was cat eo as to just about hide his ooat
collar. She excited ft good deal of attention
fts he always does, I am informed, bnt took
it very qnietiy and behaved very properly.
He was clean shaved, by nature, and wore a
pair of close fitting black kid gloves. She
was talking with one or two other women,
and I mnet confess that her seber attire
cosapa ed very favorably, in the eye of un
prejudiced reason, with their flounces and
feathers and fatbelows and ribbons.
Coupons Found.
A lot of city coupons were picked up
on Fourth street, near tho National Hotel,
yesterday. They amount to nearly
$125.00. and can be obtained of Mr. J.
D Bowles, of the Southern Express Com
pany.
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