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MACON, GA, JULY 19. 1879.
UEUKUtii PEK88.
H. I. Kimball gave a banquet on the
foarth to the operatives of the new fac
tory.
Wobk upon the new government boild*
ins in Atlanta, says the Constitulion. is
being pushed forward with great rapidity,
baring the past montn all the heating
apparatus bas been put in. This spps-
ratus U 1 seated in the basement. The
heating of the bnilding will be accom.
plisbed by forcing hot water threugh the
pipes wbioh pass through all the rooms
of the building. This water will be fcept
constantly going and a eontinnoas vol
ume of heat will bs kept distributed
throughout the budding by means of this
process.
An exenrsion train on the Georgia
fioad rnn off the track near Atlanta, cn
Several of the passengers
Saturday.
were slightly injured,
AocjHDtNO to the Constitution several
portions of Atlanta are in a filthy condi
tion.
Atlanta has two glas3 ball clubs.
Tei Foarth was celebrated in Colam-
bm for the first time in nineteen years,
Th* Fourth.—Augusta Constitution
alist: The Fourth passed off very quietly
in Augusta. With the exception of the
velocipede tournament there was no ex-
citemeat of any kind. The nsoal salute
of thirty-eight gnus was fired at the Ar
senal at 12 o’clock.
Da, J. R. SiMitoNi, aa old oitizsn of
Amerions, died suddenly on Thnrsd»y of
congestion^
Cctubbbt Appeal says: There are
parts 01 Quitman oounty that haven’t bad
rain in fifty days. One man Bays he has
had none sinee May the G:h. Tne mills
have almost ceased to grind.
Killing — Mr. Bryan Slaughter and
Ur. Jurats Mathews, both oit.zans of
Worth eonoty, had en altercation on tbs
evening of the 31 Inst., in which Math
ews drew his pistol and ehot Slaughter
through the heart with a small pistol,
killing him instantly. Mathew* had been
working on tbe farm of Slaughter, and
they quarreled in Warwick over some
misunderstanding. Leaving the place to
gether in,a cart, a fight ensued on reach
log Slaughter’s home. Mathews has ran
away, while Slaughter leaves a heart-bro
ken' widow with little children. Both
were yonog men. Wnisky and pistols as
nraal.
Upson Enterprise.—Mre. John Janes,
a lady who lives near Blaskville, in this
county, was bitten on the thumb by 1
large rattle snake, last week, whilo pat
ting eggs under a setting hen. Tne
snake was coiled in the nest and the hen
was setting on it.
Tux Upson Enterprise says:
We had a dellghttai rain last Sabbath,
It was much needed. Sorry to learn
that it was not a general rain. Some
portions of tbe oounty are suffering Very
much for rain. A drought at this time
wonld be a serious injury. Corn is jast
tasseling oat and silking and rain is more
needed than at any other stage of thb
crop season. Farmers generally are
complaining that the cool nights are in
juring their cotton and the crop is not at
all promising—the etslks are small, ronnd
and bard. Why are not ronnd stalk3 as
favorable for a good yield as flit ose*?
We ask for information.
Th* Drouth.—Lumpkin Independent
Nine weeks have elapsed since a season
of rain has fallen in this section and
the prospect is moat alarming. The
farmers are vary much disheartened and
the end is not yet. The corn crop is
believed to have been cut off at least 59
per oent, already, and unless a rain comes
soon it will not even make fodder. Cot
ton can stand dry weather better, hut
still it is making a very poor showing.
Some planters who dreaded getting in
the grass a few weeks ago believe now
that they had better risk rain and grass
than to be burned up.
The £ lijay Courier again breathes the
breath of life.
Dabirn Gazette: It is rumored in this
section that the Georgia Central Railroad
intends patting a conple of splendid
steamers on the Savannah, Darien and
Florida route, in the fall. We sinoerely
hope the rnmor will prove trne.
Th* Biinbridgs Democrat is in favor of
the Moffett bell punch.
Tbs Factobt Closed. — Bainbridge
Democrat: Last week tbe cotton factory
at this plaoe sneenmbed to the inevitable
and oeased operations, for the present at
least. Jadge Black, tbe superintendent
and manager, left the day before for Ala-
bums, telling some of the operatives that
be wonld not be baok before fall unless
be made arrangements to procure cotton
prior to that time. The operatives not
having been paid in some time attached
tbe fiteck and qnit work.
The reason or this suspension was from
the total lack of means on the part of
Judge Black to run tbe mill; and from
what wo can learn the parties in New
York who own the oonoern and at whose
solicitation bo came to Bainbridge, “went
back on him,’’ to cea a slang expression,
and allowed his drafts to go to protest.
Mr. Black made sereral accounts about
town amounting in all to something over
a thousand dollars, bnt we understand
that he has written to the parties con
cerned, assuring them that be will see
that every dollar is paid.
We are sorry of this suspension for
many reasons, chief of which is the
moral effect it will have abroad, as it
will be held by our rivals that it is a
Bainbridge failure, while the truth is
oar people had no interest in it, save
to give it their good will and encourage
ment. Mr. Black came Jjere a stranger,
and the parties to whom the factory be
longs are strangers. They aeked no aid
of Bainbridge, and we thought them
nbnndantiy able to take care of them
selves.
We hope, however, satisfactory ar
rangements will be made and the mill
set to work again soon.
Tboxaetills Times: The continued
dry spell, and which hud commenced
telling pretty severely on corn,wc3 broken
the first of the week by copious showers.
True, more is needed, but: it is probable
that It will come in good time to make
growing crops.
From tbe same: Asa Cartxe.—It will
be remembered that we noticed tbe es.
cape of Mr. Cuter last week from Madi
son (Fla ) jail. Sheriff Coyle and Mr.
Blanton, armed with a requisition for
him, arrived just in time to find that tbe
bird had Sown. It seems that through
r.ie attorney be fc-.d seed cut a writ :£
habeas corpus, sad, in passing back to the
jail from a bearing before Judge Van, he
gave Sheriff 'VyiUard the dodge and took
leg bail. Mr. Willard fired several shots
at him, but failed to wing his game. Af
ter all the precantionary letters and tele
graphic messages which were sent by
Sheriff Coyle it was hoped that the
criminal wonld be held in that land of
escapee. Bat the eeqnel bas dispelled
illusion. Carter is free, and will proba
bly remain BO.
Eatonton has a Reading Clnb.
Fobxst News: A terribly deformed
young man wa3 on exhibition in onr town
last Saturday. Amongst other deformi
ties, he bas four ribs on one Bide and fif
teen upon tbe other, with his heart upon
his rig lit side.
SwAJNS-Boao had an afarm of fire last
week.
Tnziis ia
Griffin.
Millxdgivillb had a flee rain
at a store home for rent in
Monday.
; Numerous residences are going np in
Culumbas.
Thb Stewart county public schools
open next Monday.
Tbs country editors are all hunting
Oil fishing this week.
A telegraph office ha9 been re-e»tab-
lished in Montezuma.
General Alphxuj Bakes will lecture
in Columbus on the 18th.
Jonesbobo intends to rnn a wegtn
train to Atlanta this fall.
Gen. Bsv. C. A. Evans preached at
the Rome encampment on Sunday.
Senatob Morgan’s speech, on the
Fourth, In Rome, was long and conserva
tive.
A tbaiip, claiming to be a nephew of
George Washington, was furnished lodg
ings in the Griffin lock-up on Saturday.
Eighteen thousand bushels of wheat
have been shipped from Cartersville
already this season, and there will ba
much more to spare from that locality.
W. E. Arnett, a clerk in the Augusta
post-office, who was arrested in 1877,
charged with embezzlement and opening
letters, ha9 been acquitted
M133 Mart E. Thomas died suddenly
in Atlanta on Sunday. The cause of her
death was supposed to have been mearn-
gelus.
On Saturday last the operatives and
employees of the Milledgeville cotton
factory had a dinner and holiday fes
tival.
The citizens of Angnsta tendered
Mr. James E. Randall,tbe post andjonr
mlist, a complimentary banquet last
Monday.
The Columbus Sunday Enquirer's first
page is adorned with a largo and pplen-
didly executed engraving of the Confed
erate monument recently erected in that
city.
Mr. John Hightower, of Griffin, is at
E'mira, N. Y., with his celebrated trotter
Spider,” and we are expecting to have
a good acoount of this favorite Georgia
horse.
Rev. George T. Goetchius delivered
his first sermon Sunday, as pastor of the
Second Presbyterian Church of Angnsta.
Tbe eervioes were largely attended, and
proved to be very interesting.
The Fourth in Douglass County.—
A large crowd was assembled at Fergu
son's mill, and was addressed by Messrs.
J. M. EJge, W. A. James, Joseph James
and B. R. Rogsss. Patriotism was at
high ebb.
Colonel Nelsm eent to the penitentia
ry Monday a negro named Alpheu3 Har
din, who was sentenced three years ago
ia Walton county to the penitentiary for
ten years, bnt escaped after he was there
two months. Burglary was hia crime,
The OJchookee creek, in Stewart coun
ty, whioh is generally a bold etxeam, and
upon which several mills are located, was
never known eo low before. .If a miller
can catch a bead of five inches of water
daring the night, he considers himself
fortunate, and can grind several hours
next morning.
The Griffin Kcws'eays that Mr. Robert
Dorton committed suicide last week near
McDonongb, in Henry conoty. He was
a nnn of forty-five or fifty years of age
he had relied a family of ohildren, all of
whom 0:0 married. He was forced to go
into bankrnptoy a few years ago, and has
been very much depressed ever since, ana
on the morning he committed the act he
said to bis son, when they started to the
field to go to plowing, that he had rather
die than go to plowing. After he plowed
two or three hours, he left his horse in
the corner of the fence and went to tbe
woods near by and remained away so long
that his son went in ssarob of him bnt
oould not find him. He retained and
found that one of his plow lines was gone.
Ho then gave tbe alarm, and some of the
neighbors came in and made a search and
found hia body hanging to a willow tree
in a a very thick part of a swamp, witn
life extinot. The oanse of the rash aot is
supposed to ba financial trouble.
Blub Ridge Echo: We have in onr
midet a curious being. The person we
refer to is the old negro woman calling
herself Sarah Fields. Weil, not long
ago, this old negro conceived an idea
that shejmust die, cr at least be put to
death, as was Jeans Christ, and
bncied, so that on the third day after her
death she might rise again—not as con
qneror of the world, but as conqueror of
her race. And so thoroughly was she
convinced of the fact that she accord
ingly pnrohaeed her coffin, and was going
to extents her intentions, when some one
interfered, bnt she still insisted that she
mast die before the negroes conld be
saved or rise to any prominence in tbe
scale of humanity. So one night th8
boys got her in her coffin, and carried
her, by torch-light, to the “silent city,”
and left her to stay all night. She is a
queer piece of humanity, and talks ra
tional on almost any subject; can lead
and write. She says she never visited a
negro’s house, nor never expects to. She
is abont 85 years old, and lives all slone.
The question, therefore, 13 she a second
adventist?
Quitman Free Press: A young man
named Yates was arrested by sheriff
Thrasher in tbe upper part of this county
last Wednesday, on a charge of seduc-
tion. The warrant was taken out by a
Miss Hammock, who lives with her
mother on the Baker place. Yates gave
bail to Jnstice Jones in the tremendons
(?) snm of two hundred and fifty dollars,
and demanded aa indictment by the
grand jury. He was immediately re-ar
rested, however, on another warrant,
charging him with bastardy, and gave
bond in this case in the further tremend
ous snm of two hundred dollars. As a
counter move the girl was then arrested
on a warrant sworn ont by the yonng
maD, charging her with fornication, and
compelled her to give bond. The girl
etates that her principal object in having
Yates arrested was to compel him to
marry her, us he had promised. Yates
belongs to a good family, and has there
fore been under the tongue of good re
pute. The girl’s family, though poor,
have been noted for industry and honesty,
and the mother has had a hard struggle
in life since the death of her husband,
which oocurred same eight years since,
to maintain her fonr children. The law
ehonld bo vindicated in suoh cases. The
poor, nnfnended victim should receive
the same protection &b oca possessed of
thousands of this world’s goods. Our
sympathies should bo aroused in a greater
degree for one who has neither relatives
nor money to protect her, and it is the
duty of every good man, eo far as pos
sible, to see that tbe law Is enforced.
Swaine biro Herald: Several of the
water mills in this connty have stopped
running for want of sufficient water to
propel them, and others will be compell
ed to follow suit unless we have ruin
soon.
Election cf City Officers.—Atlanta
Port: The election of tbe city officialls
which occurred last night at the city hall,
once more restores quietude, and to day
tbe mnnioipal affairs move along smooth
ly again. <
Tae session wa3 held in the city coart
house and attended by members of the
council only. Membra of the press were
in common with the rest of the multi-
tnde, denied admission.
As far aB we have heard an expression
of opinion the council made good U3e of
their votes, though some good men were
left ont. The following is a list of the
successful candidate?:
Clerk, W. R. Biggerc: Attorney, W. T.
Newman; Recorder, John MUlcdgc; Ea-
gineer, Robert C. Clay tor; Marshal), H.
C. Holcombe; Treasurer, J. W. Gold
smith; Hall Keeper, W. B. Bunnell: Tax
Rsoeirer, 0. E. Eobineoz; Sexton, L. Q.
Holland; Assessors, John C. Rogers, R.
J. Griffin and E. M. Roberts; Magazine
Keeper, H. S. Harris; City Physicians^
First ward, A. J. Pinson; Second ward,
. B. Lee; Third ward, Morris 8amr ;
Fourth ward G. G. Boy; Fifth ward, A:
. AII07. _ .
Montezuma Weekly: The crops of corn
are suffering very much for rain. While
the cotton, too. needing rain yet does not
lock eo bad. In fact, the cotton crop, so
far as 18a w, was fine, save the want of
rain.
The big safe of Dooly connty, whioh
has created such a sensation, .has been
brought and deposited where it belongs.
We hope now that we will hear no more
of the big safe.
H-MICIDE—Union and Recorder: On
Saturday night about ten o’clock, at a
house of ill fams in this city, Jesse Davis
cut Kelsey Tattle across the abdomeD,
literally disembowelling him. Tuttle
died ye3teiday morning at two o'clock.
Davi3 is a young man unmarried. Tattle
leaves a wife and three childrep. Davis
surrendered to the authorities and is no v
in jail. We understand Davis olaims to
have acted in self defense.
The verdict of the coroner’s jury in the
case wa3 that Tuttle came to his death
from wounds inflicted by Je83e Davis,
and that the killing was done in self de
fense.
We hope the Georgia railroad will fol
low the' example of the Oentral, and
erect a decent depot building in this city.
We ate entitled to at least this much, to
show for our §60.000 of stock which has
recently been gobbled up. Milledgeville,
the most important way statiun on the
M. & A Riilroad has probably the mo3t
unsightly depot along the line. We call
the attention of the Georgia railroad to
this matter, and ask a favorable consid
eration of this suggestion.
The Atlanta Phonograph says: “Lient.
McCawley, who committed emcide a few
days since, lost §100 at the Big Bonanza
faro bank. Taesday the money was en
closed in an envelops and returned to
Mrs. McCawley.”
The Darien Gazette defends Governor
Colquitt and says if the opponents of
Governor Colquitt continue to heap their
abuse upon him they will succeed, be
fore long, in making the Governor
the moat popular man in the whole
South.
Last week a ead {tccident occurred in
Brewington, Clarendon connty, which
resulted in the death of Captain Eiger
Plowden’s con Elwin, caused by the ac
cidental discharge of a shot gun in tbe
hands of his older brother, with whom be
was porsuiog a bear in a thicket.
Died, near Ratledge, recently, Mr°,
Lnoy P. Cheney, wife of Thomas B
Cneney, deceased. She was born in 1779,
August 19:h; had resided in the old
homestead, near there, 66 years, was
zealous member of the Baptist clutch 45
years. She was tbe mother of thirteen
children, 86 grandchildren, 82 great-
grand children, and 12 great-great-grand
oh'ldren. Many were the monrners
around her grave.
Good Templars.—Angnsta ConStitu
lionalist: A Ledge of Gocd Templars
was organized at Odd Fellows’ Hall last
evening, with the following officers: W.
B. Keener,W. C. T.; Mre. Mary Fletcher,
W. V. T.; L. F. Padgett, Secretary; J. E.
Radford, W. F. S.; H. T. Peay, Treas
urer; W. H. Prescott, Obsplaicj N Dear,
Marshal; James Gainey, Iaside Guardiat
D. W. Thompson, Sentinel.
The Gainesville Eagle: From a pri
vate letter from a gentleman at Buford
we learn that two or three weeks since a
party of masked men went to the house
of Mr. James Callaway, an aged, harm
less and quiet citizen, broke down the
door of the dwelling, dragged him from
bis bed and beat him unmercifully. His
wife tried to get out of the house to go
to his assistance, but wa3 threatened with
tbe like treatment if she did not keep
quiet. Mr. Callaway says he can safely
swear aa to all the patties. Taere has
been no proceedings in the case as yet.
If the statements are true the authorities
should give the matter immediate atten
tion. Our informant states that Mr.
Callaway lived in this county.
The Savannah Hews says: On Sstur.
day night last whilst Mr. Patrick Robe
son, Chief fireman of the Central railroad
ehops, was returning home from his work
he was attacked by three negro men on
the corner of Parse and Jones streets,
two of whom held him tightly, while the
other jerked his watch from his pocket,
breaking it from tho ring that held it to
the chain. His neck shows the marks of
the straggle. Tbe villains threatened to
kill him ifhe made any outory, and he
felt assured they would, Tbe footsteps of
some ene coming np Parse street at the
time frightened them before they conld
take his money. They then threw him
violently against tbe fence and flsd. Mr.
Ribeson at once hastened to the store of
Mr. Rocker, across the street, procured
pietol and assistance, and followed the
parties toFrogtown, where trace of them
was lost. The watch was valued at forty
dollars.
The Columbus Enquirer-Sun has this
item:
Abont the only event 0! an exciting
nature in the social world yesterday was
the marriage of Mr. Jasper Griffeth and
Miss Helen Bostick, which occurred at
the residence of Mr. A. N. Hays, Rev.
W. C. Hunter performing the oeremony.
This is one among the numerous instances
in which the course of true love
did not rnn smooth. Several at
tempts had been previously made to con-
sumate the nuptials without success.
Family objections were seemingly insur
mountable. On Sunday, the groom went
to claim bis own, bnt was repulsed by a
little brother with a furious looking pis
tol. He retired gracefully, bnt renewed
the onslaught yesterday with batter
lack, the mother at last reluctantly yield
ing. The bride is a niece of Mr. A. B.
Bostick, the popular railroad man, and
is as pretty a3 a pink. We trust all an
gry passions may snbsido and that the
fmure may hold in store mnch happiness
for the loTing conple.
Atlanta,’July 7, 1879.
THE SENATE
met at 10 a. m.. President Lsster in the
air.
Prayer by Senator Clarke, of the
Eleventh.
The journal was read and approved.
COMMITTEE REPORTS.
Senator McDaniel, Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee made a report.
Senator Russell, Chairman of the Wild
Latd Committee, submitted a report,
which was read, and one hundred copies
of the report and evidence ordered
to be printt d for the use of the Senate.
Senator Candler made a minority re
port.
A MESSAGE FROM THE HOUSE
was received announcing tbe passage of a
bill enforcing paragraph 2, section 7,
article 6 of the new Constitution, to fix
the time and places of holding justice
courts.
Aleo, a bill prescribing the manner of
allowing insolvent lists of tax collectors.
NEW BILLS.
S. B., by Senator Bower—To amend
paragraph 6, section 2004 of the code.
Judiciary Committee.
Also, a bill to amend section 2443 o!
the code. Judiciary Committee.
Senator Camming—A bill to prevent
cruelty to animals. Judiciary Commit-
tee.
Senator Lumpkin—A bill to amend
sectics 2573 of tbe code.
Also, a bill to amend section 4161 of
the coda.
Also, a bill to amend section 2042 of
code and 2033 of cede. Also, a bill to
amend section 4323 of the, code. All of
whioh wexe referred to the Judiciary
Commit' *.
Senate. Pre3ton—A bill to declare in
whet manner a judgment lien may be
lest. Referred to the Judiolary Commit-
tee.
Senator Russell—A bill to amend an
act allowing Jadges to appoint stenogra
pher?.
Senator Wilborn—A bill to amend sec
tion 45 of the code
RESOLUTIONS.
That tbe Senate meet at nine and ed-
jr-nm at one o’clock. Tabled t il to mor
row.
That the Librarian furnish copies of
ihe journal of last session to each mem
ber ; adopted.
To amend section 3964 of code; passed,
A number of bills were read the seoond
time, and referred to the appropriate
committees.
A resolution from the Honse that the
Committee on tbe Lupatio Asylum
joint commute ascertain and repoit that
certain members of tbe insane &Bylum
-hoald not be disoharged and room made
for others; adopted.
•HOUSE BILLS.
A bill to give jurisdiction to jtr-Uoa
courts in all mutters ex contractu less ih-n
one hundred dollars.
AIeo a bill to enforoe tbe law against
wife whipping. Bead the first time.
Tbe House message asking for a Com
mittee of Conference in regard to a bill
regulating fees of tax collectors. Sen
ate adjourned till 10 a. m. to-morrow.
the repoit was disagreed to and (he bill
read the second time.
Senator Batssll, chairman of ths C-m-
mittee on Earollment, reported several
bills ready for the signature of tho Pres
ident of the Senate.
The Senate adjourned till ten a. m. to
morrow.
Texan Amenities.
The Virginia (Nev.) Enterprise thus
describes the meeting of two Texans in
that State recently: “Two men hailed
each other from the opposite banks of a
stream and exohanging greetings many
questions were pnt and answered. The
men were evidently delighted to meet
each other, and their only regret appear
ed to be that they enconntered each
other in a place where it was impossible
for them to clasp and shake hands, tbe
river not being fordable on acoonnt of its
swiftness and the rocky and treaoherous
nature of its channel, while the nearest
bridge was five miles above. Both men
lamented these unfortunate circumstances
very mneb, bnt at length a way of get
ting over suggested itself to one of them
whoso pet name was “Broncho Bill.”
“ T say, Sam,’ oried Bronoho, ‘it’s a
little rough for old friends and neighbors
to meet away ont here thousands of miles
from home, and then have to part in this
way. Got yer pistol with yer ?"
“ ‘I bev,’ cried Sam, ‘alters carry her.’
“ 'Good ! That’s some comfort. Ef
we oan’t get aoroes this stream to .shake
hands, why, there's nothin’ to prevent ns
takin’ a shot at esoh other. Jist ri.de np
to yer left tbar a rod or two. Thar, now,
just one good old neighborly borne shot.’
“Tbe men rode BBide, and bang! bang!
went their pistols.
“ ‘Yer smashed the pummel of my sad
dle,’ cried Broncho ; ‘yer see, the hoes
shied a little jist as yer turned loose, or
yer might have plumped me good.’
“You done better, Bill, yon got into
the flesh of my left arm ’boat bait an
inch. Good morning to yon, a safe jour
ney to yer, and tell the folks at borne we
met and had a good sociable shoot to
gether
“Thank yer, and the same to you,
bat FU givo ’em a goM account of
you.
“Sam then turned to our friend and,
with tears in his eyes, said: “God bless
him 1 It is a great comfort to meet an
old friend and neighbor like him away
here ir. the wilderness place. A
kinder, mr.ro a eommodative and agree
able gentlemen never lived, I wouldn’t
••missed see in’ him for $501”
—U. S. Grant, Jr , speaking of his father
remarked: *Woli. if his friends urge him
to run agtin he will most likely let matters
take their natural coarse.’
Atlanta, July 8:h, 1879.
THE HOUSE
met at 9 a. ta. Speaker Bacon in tbe
ohsir. Prayer by tbe chaplain, Rsv,
John Jones. Tbe roll was called and
tbe journal read and approved.
Mr. Milner, of Bartow, moved a recon
sideration of eo much ot the journal as
reLted to the aotion of the House in
adopting the minority report of the Com
mittee on Local and Special Bilis in lieu
of the majority recoil.
Mr. Riden moved to table the motion.
Agreed to.
Mr. Strickland, of Olinob, offered
resolution appending tne fee bill of ex
penses to the report of the Committee on
Wild Land. Agreed to.
THE SPECIAL ORDER OF THE DAY
was a “bill to amend an aot to ro&ulate
the leasing ont of penitentiary convicts
by the Governor,” approved February 26,
1876, was postponed on motion of Mr.
Davis, and made the Bpooial order for
July 15, at 10 o’clook a. m.
THE REOULAR ORDER
was taken np, which was the reading of
bills the third time.
H. B. No. 6, by Mr. Tatum, of Dide,
“to repeal an act establishing a Depart
ment of Agriculture for the State of
Georgia,” approved July 24,1874.
A message from the Governor was re
ceived.
Mr. King, of Floyd, moved to post
pone the consideration of this bill till
the 16 th of July, as the special order of
that day, at ten p. m.
Mr. McCnrry, of Hart, called for the
previous question, the call was sustained
and the main question ordered.
The motion to postpone was lost by
vote of 57 to 81, acd tbe bill came np to
bo discussed on its merits. A very
lengthy debate followed in which Messrs
King, of Floyd; Mr. Northern, Mr. Sykes,
Mr. Livingston, (chairman of tho com
mittee) favoring the hurean,
Mr. Livingston delivered a full and
eloquent history of the Agricultural De
partment, tracing its history from its in
oeption to the present time, snpporting
the sustaining of tbe department as an
Institution ot the State. Mr. Living
ston then set forth in forcible language
all the advantages resulting to the State
from the establishment of this depart
ment. fending the oouclnsion of Mr.
Livingston’s speech, the House ad jonrned
till 9 a. m. to-morrow. . Carolynn.
\ Atlanta, July 8th, 1879.
THE SENATE
met at the usual hour, the President in
tbe chair.
Prayer by Bsv.- Mr. Martin, of this
city.
Roll called, qnornm declared, and the
journal read and approved.
Lsave of absence was granted to Mr.
Hamilton, on account of deoeaae of his
brother.
Senator McDaniel, Chairman of the
Judiciary Committee, made a report. Re
ceived acd read.
A message from the Governor was re
ceived.
RESOLUTIONS.
By Senator Hassell—To add to the re
port of the Committee on Wild Lands, t
bill of the fees and costs charged for is
suing the tax fi fas. Agreed to.
By Senator Hodges, “that the report
of the Joint Committee on the endorse
ment of the Northeaatern’railroad bonds
made last Deoember, be taken np to-mor
row.” Lost.
By Senator Grantling, “that the Com
mittee on Rules revise the Rales, and
that one hundred copies ba printed.”
Adopted.
HOUSE BILLS THIRD BEADING.
To allow defendants to replevy prop
erty. by forma pauperis. Passed.
To compal Constables and Bailiffs to
sell at regular day and hours, uDisss
property would be damaged thoreby.
Passed.
To amend section 4,411 of ths code,
prescribing penalty in cases of larceny
from tbe person. Passed.
To fix the compensation of ordinaries
in cases of lunacy. Passed.
BILLS OF THE SECOND BEADING.
To amend seotion 4324 of tbs oode, re
ferring to the punishment for murder.
TSh Judiciary Committee reported Re
versely.
Senator Howell moved to rooammit the
bill, which, after considerable debate over
a resolution to make it tbe regular order,
for a future day, was done.
To require judges of tbe Superior
Courts to report to the'judges of the Su
preme Court, and the jadges of the Su
preme Conrt to the Legislature, defects,
modifications and changes in fhe consti
tution and statute law of tbe State. Ta.
bled for the present, wiihaut reading a
seoond time.
To define and deolare tbs different
grades of murder, sed to provide suitable
penalties tberefor. Tabled, wiihont a
seoond reading.
To provide for tbe cancellation of
mortgages, deeds, liens, etc. The com
mittee reported adversely to lha passage
of tbs bill- A motion to recommit was
lost, tut on' motion of Senator Preston
THE HOUSE.
Atlanta, July 9,1879.
Tbe Honse met at the nsual hoar. Tbe
Speaker in the ebair. Prayer by the
Chaplain. Roll caltid and the jonrnsl
read and approved.
A seat on the floor was extended to
Hon. P. W. Edgar.
Mr. Rankin, of Gordon, offered a reso
lution that five hundred copies of the evi
dence taken in the investigation of the
Wild Land Committee be printed.
Agreed.
The regular order was taken np, which
is the exit of counties for the introduction
of new matter.
The Speaker stated that he would rule
that under the resolution offered by the
Judiciary Committee on the subject of
local and special bills and adopted by the
House, reported day before yesterday,
that caoh special bill must be recom
mended by a resolution referring the bill
to the Committee on Local and Special
Legislation, and that the yeas and nays
wonld be required on each each bill and
resolution. ;
BILLS OF THE SECOND BEADING,
Mr. Chambers, of Wilkerson-r-A bill
to prohibit tbe sale of spirituous liquors
within two miles of Bethel ohnrch, Wil-
korson county, accompanied a resolution
to the effect that the bill ba read onoe
and referred to the Commutes on Looal
and Special Bills.
The yeas and nays were oalled snd re
sulted in yeas 144, nays 3, and the bill
referred.
Mr. Jordan, of Wilkes—A bill to pro
vide for the examination of justices of
tbe peaoa by a board of examining law
yers before they are admitted to office.
Read and referred to tbe Judiciary Com
mittee.
Mr. Hanks, of Whitfield—A bill to
amend seotion 2970 of tbe oode, increas
ing the liability of railroads andother cam
mon carriers in regard to torts amounting
to felonies. Jadiciary committee.
Mr. Turner, of Brooke, chairman of
tbe Jadiciary Committee, submitted a re
port adverse to several bills.
Mr. Paine, Chairman of the Committee
on Earollment, submitted a report.
Mr. Hammond, of Thomas, offered
the following resolution;
Resolved, That it is not made necessary
by viitue of any provision of the Constitu
tion of this State nor by any rnla of this
House that the yeas and nays bs taken
on tho introduction of any local
o r special bill within the view of having
the same referred to some one of the
standing committees of the Honse.
A message from the Senate announc
ing the passage of certain bills.
A very extensive debate arose under
tbe resolution above, in whioh Messrs.
Yancey, Mynatt, Harrison, Roney, Math
ews, Turner of Books, and Speaker Bacon
(Davis of Houston in the chair) Cox of
Troupe, and Hammond of Thomas in con-
elision.
Tne previous question was called, and
on motion of Mr. Adams, of Chatham,
the yeas and nays were ordered and taken,
the vote was 102 yeas to 49 nays, and tbe
resolution of Mr. Hammond was agreed
to.
Tho House then, under this resolution,
resumed tho regulir order of business,
t iking a rising vote on all local bills in
lien of ths yeas snd nays as raled by the
Speaker.
Mr. Hank’s bills were then voted cn by
a rising vote and were referred to the
committee on Local and Speoisl bills.
Mr. Poppil of Wayne.—A bill to reduoe
the bond of the sheriff of Wayne oounty,
Committee on Looal and Special bills,
Also, a bill to perfect the taxation of
spirituous or malt liquors in Wayne,
Same direction.
Also, a bilil to oomponpato the ordinary
of Wayne county. Committeo on Local
and Special bills.
Mr. Biantly, of Washington—A bill to
abolish the criminal conrt of the county
of Washington. Referred to the Com
mittee on Looal and Special Bills.
Mr. Barksdale, of Warren—A bill to
incorporate Johnson’s Chnrcb, and pro
hibit the sale of liquor within two miles.
Referred to the Committee. Vote, 102 to
0. Also, a bill to prohibit tbe sale of
liqnor within the corporate limits of War-
renton. Referred by a vote of 101 lo 0
to tbe Committee on Local and Special
Legislation.
Mr. Butt, of Union—A bill to enforce
the provisions of the Constitution relat
ing to the selection of jutors. Referred
to the Judiciary Committee.
Mr. Cox, of Troup—A bill to authorize
the city of West Point to establish a sys
tem of public schools independent of the
State system. Referred to the Commit
tee on Local and Special Bills.
Mr. Awtry, cf Troup—A bill to amend
the municipal laws of West Point. Re
ferred to the Committee on Local and
Special Bills. Vote, 98 to 0.
Al-.o, a memorial against the sale of
liqnor.
Mr. Cox moved a suspension of the
rules to enable him to move a re-commit
tal of the report of tbe committee on the
investigation into the Governor’s indorse
ment of the Northeastern railroad bond?
agreed to.
Mr. Wilcox, of Telfair—A bill to pro
hibit fishing on the lauds of Simael C.
Nicholson; also a bill to ptohiblt fishing
in Little Ocmulgee River, also a bill to
organize a board of toads and revenues in
Telfair connty; all were referred to Com
mittee on Lscal and Speoisl Buis.
Mr. Chapman of Talliaferro—A bill to
amend the charter of the town of Craw
fordeville; also to prohibitthe sale of li
quors in said town; referred to Commit
tee on Looal and Special Bills.
Mr-Matthews of Talbot—A bill to re
lieve Richard L. Leonard from certain
disabilities ; also a bill to amend the act
incorporating tbe town of Talbott or; re
ferred to the Committee on Speoisl and
LsoalBillf.
Mr. Davidson of Sumter—A bill to pro
vide for the foreclosure of chattel mort
gages ; referred to' tho Judioiary Com
mittee.
Mr. Harrison, under a suspension of
the xnles, moved to refer the bill, which
has been before the Jadiciary Committee,
to form judicial divisions and equalize
the labors of the Superior Court jadges
to the special committee on that subject.
Agreed to.
Mr. Fort, of Sumter, a bill to author
ize the Governor to transmit to the may
or of the city of Chattanooga a certain
plot of land for fire purposes. Referred
to the Jadiciary Committee.
Also a bill to regulate the law of claims,
whioh was referred to the same commit-
tee.
Also, a bill to prohibit tho la>v of limit
ations ns against minors. Referred to
tho Judiciary committee.
Also, a bill to regulxte the tim9 of tbe
meeting of the Supreme Oourt, which
was referred to the Judiciary Committee.
Lmve of absence was granted to a
number of members.
Caxolynn.
Georgia, Norm Cardins, South
Caroline, and Tennessee,
Bleet at Hendersonville, North
Carolina, July 4ili, to Shake
Hands, talk Spartanburg and
Asheville datlroad—The Lar
gest Gathering Ever Held in
ttesiern North Carolna.
Hbsdeibonville, N. 0,
July 4,1879
Messrs Editors: We left AsUsyi le this
a. m. at 4:10 and rodo here, 22 miles, in S
henia »nd 25 minutes, via Wcedin & Bailey s
stsgs line.
Found here about 5.070 people frem &u
over the country, about 1 6u0 of them hzd
never seen a railroad. Tne Gov-mors of
North and South Carolina were present, and
hundreds of lead.ng business man from
North and South Cirolina. Georgia and Ten
nessee. Soms of the most prominent men
in each State were present. Ihe New York
Sun, I hoar, was represented. The Tele-
gbuh and Messenger, Atlanta Constitu
tion, Augusta Evening News, Columbia Reg
ister, Charlotte Observer, Charlotte Demo
crat, Raleigh Observer, Wilmington Biar,
Bi limond iVa.), Dispstch, Knoxville pspeis
and m»ny weeklies were repree ented.
After ths procession an immense dinner
was served Ths speakers then took their
geats on tho stand over which floated the
United States flig, and one seldom heard
more eloquence and earnestness and good
S rxcticil sense thin was delivered on that
ay by the speakers I give their name3—
space prevents anything more:
General E. L Clmgman. ex-United States
8enator and Congressman, N. O.; Governors
Jarvis and Simpson. N and S. O; ex Gov.
Senter, Tenn ; Jnf gs O. F. Hoses, 8upt M.
and O. B. R . Tenn.; Judge D G Fowle, N
O; Ospt. A. Y Tapper, President Chamber
cf Commerce, Cliwlo’ton, S. 0.; Major D.
A. A. Dnncan, of Spartanburg, 8 u., ex-
Prea dent Bpartanburg and Asheville rail
road; Juoge H H. lugeisoli, Tenn ; Gen.
J. M. Leach, N. C.; CoL L. F. Youmans, S
O., Attorney General of the State; Ex-Gov-
emor Bonh*m, 8. C ; R Y. Me Aden Etq ,
President National Bank, Charlotte, and one
of tho owners of tho line: Fab H. Bu;hee,
Esq., N. G . and J. W. A. Pope, Columbia,
(8 U ), Register, on part of tbe press
There were mariy tributes paid to the
ze»l and enterprise of the road, and for the
occasion several patriotic sentiments were
reseed by all.
A Brilliant Scene In New Orleans
On the 17th of June last, in the city
of New Orleans, there was gathered
many of the principal citizens of the
Crescent City, in company with a large
number of strangers from different parts
of the country there, who as visitors felt
interested in the witnessing of the grand
extraordinary drawing of the Louisians
State Lottery by Generals Jubal A Early
and G. T. Beauregard, The warriors
went at it sb squarely as ever they led a
panoplied host into battle, and by the
turn of the wheel-scattered fortunes
ri L -afc and left. Space would be too great
to enumerate, bat the next drawing
takes place on August 12 h, (tbe invari
able Beoond Tuesday) and all other infor
mation will be promptly given on appli
cation to M. A. Dauphin, P. 0. Box 692,
New Orleene, Ll, or tbe same at No.
319 Broadway, New York city.
ju)9 lw
The Tennessee delegation pledged the
State to most North Carolina at the line at
Paint Bock. N. O. At thiB place Tennessee
will cany it to BncxviUo, vi* Morristown,
Tennesseo. Judge Moses read letters from
the loading railro d m-n in Louisville and
Knoxville, saying ih it the Lebanon branch
of the L. anoN. B. B-, wonld ro on ta
Knoxville, and thus make a line from the
lakes to tho sea North Carolina and South
Carolina said they wonld build the road to
Point Bock and moet Tennessee, So the
line will becomploto.
1 hia is by far tho most important road
now before the country. It saves from ths
NorihandWeetbetw «ntwo and three hun
dred mites of travel, via Augusts. It will
save one day in freights to and from the
West to Macon and Augusta It will build
up Augusta and Bavannali as well as Charles
ton. About S 130,000 is needed to carry the
road to Print Bock, N O , from its present
terminus, Hendersonville, N. O.
It Kill ba a good paying road, and wiil be
completed by January, 1881, so it is be
lieved. W. O. O.
imory college.
Bffaol
Who Is the aweetestlbaby
Teat ever said “A-goo ?”
Who is the dearest baby,
With eyes so eo soft and blue ?
Whs is the prettiest baby ?
I think I know. Do yon ?
Who has the softest golden
Little liegs of hair ?
Who has the rosie’t cheeks and
The smoothest forehead fair ?
Who has tho sweetest kieses,
Enough of them and to spare ?
The aloes groi upon the «ini.
The aloe* thirst wjih j archinghrat
Year after jr ar the} »ait snd ,i sn .
Loneb and calm, and front tho bnt
Of desert winds, and still aswett *
And sobtle voice thrills all their
"Great; atienoe wins: it still rem-n.
After a century cf piinj.
For you to bloom acd be compute “
Who has the cunnicgest flegere.
And who the p'cheet cf toeB ?
Who has a month like a rcse- ud,
And who the dain teat nose ?
And wbe is sweet altogether
As the veiy swaeteat rose ?
Who has Uie prettiest dimples.
Dancing in chin and cheek ?
And who is learning the dearest
Of allname3 to speak?
And whose blue eyes are learning
Mamma’s dear eyes to seek 1
Ah! surely, there’s only one answor
To the questions a-ked you here ;
Only one true, glad answer,
Awaiting the motbet’s ear.
Who is the prince of babies ?
Why, of coarse, my baby dear 1
A SPIRITUAL WEDDING.
Oxfoed, Ga , Jaly7,18 9
Messrs. Editors; The exorcises of the
Commencement of this institution began on
Sunday last. Ths beautiful town of Oxford
was fait of Visitors from various parts of >be
Sta;e, who came up to attend the annual fes
tival of theMotho.itet Mole College of Geor-
gl'--
Bishop McTydro was set down for the ser
mon, bnt on account of sickness he d d not
pnt in bis appearance. Hii p aos was ad
mirably filled by Bsv. Dr. Haygood, who
came to the emergency in hit usual earnest,
forcible rtyle He preached what was ad
mitted on all hand: to be a fine sermon on
“Self Conquest.”
At fonr p. m. Bov. J. O. Branch proached
a good sormoa in his best Btyle. At night
we had* cannon from Be'. E. O. Domain
to the young prosca^rs of the college. It
was a masterlv effort Mr. Den •an is a
graduate of this college, and is now pastor
of tho Methodist Church in Jacksonville,
Florida, and is a yonng man of fine promise.
To-day the Sophomore pr.zs d'.clamation
came off, as follows;
B. r. AUc, Oxford, Ga.—Retributive
Ju-tice, Thomas Gorwin.
B. Y. Garrett, Columbus, Ga, Miesissip-
pi’s Contested Election. S. S. Prentiss.
VT T» D.m'.n Uenrlrirauil’ri T?
N. R Haines, bandcrsville, Go., Exile’s
Hope. Victor Hugo
R. S. Hyer, Oxford, Ga , Regains to the
Oarthoginiatie, E, Kellogg.
L. G. Johnson, Twiggs oounty, Ga , Pros
pects of the French invasion of England,
Boter r Hall.
O. L King, Sandoisvillo, Ga., Georgia,
Gen. H. B. Jack-on.
P. H. Lovett, Burke county, Ga , America,
0. Philips.
O. G. Minglcdoiff, Springfield, Go., Web
ster, Burns Choate.
O. H. Smith, Oxford, Ga., Universal Suf
frage, Victor Hugo.
W. P. Woeley, Atlanta, Ga., The South
faithful to her Duties, M W. Ransom.
The manic was fine, bring presented by
Burns’ Silver oorh'et Band of Athens.
To nignt the champion debato comes off,
and will be interesting.
The following are the debaters and iho
question
Beso.vsd, That every man in the Unites
States be entitled to vote.
The affirms ive is represented by W. C4 never before saw * steamboat, not e
Wright, H. B. DeJamette, A. G. Watdlaw,
Georgia.
The negative is represented by M W.
Monroe, W. T. Tnmell, Florida, and W. B.
Hoyt, Geo gio.
The debate will be fcl’owed hy the presen
tation of tbe Hoyt, Aden, Boynton and
Biughsro pr ze medals.
Bev. W. Smith, who has bsen in charge of
tbe academic department, resigned. The
department was abolished and a sub Fresh
man Class was O'ganizsd Our young >riend
and townsman, Lundy H Harris, Esq, was
elected adjunct professor to take the place.
We shall Date to give him up in Macon.
Tuesday morning, July 8. —The debatelut
night was veiy interesting, and the young
men acquitted themselves handsomely. Dry
Po-ter presided, and gave the decision to the
negative.
The Boynton prize mt dri was given to J.
E. Woo en, 0. P , McVitle, Ga.; the Allen
medal to Albert G. Waidlaw, O P , Ogle
thorpe, Ga; higham medal and Methuen
medal to H O. Carney, P. D T-. Cork, Fla.
and the rophomoro B ghim medal to^ J_ B
WTO, " ~
Wright, Ci
Self Destruction ol
Ga. More anon. J. W. B.
an Ambi
tions but Disuppolnted Wo
man.
A romsntio suioide occurred in St. Lou
is, Thursday afternoon. The victim was
a married lady, Mrs. Mints Barnard Hoff
man, thirty years of age, the wife of Au
gust Hoffman, an old genllsman of sixty-
two, who keeps a grocery on the corner
ot Gamble avenue and Twenty-first
street. Tka act wts caused by disap
pointed ambition, the lady being, besides
tho possessor of rare bsauty, quite olever
in the literary line. A volume of poemB
she published in 1877 met with very fa
vorable comment from tho looal press.
Her model was Ali09 Carey, and her
friends say that she labored under great
despondenoy cf late, and acknowledged bb
tbe oanse her lack ot power to reach tbe
position ia the literary world for which
she louged and worked in vain.
Her husband’s health failing of late
she was compelled to pass most of her
time attendieg to the oorner groeery, and
this uogenial employment drove her to
commit the fatal aot. Beside her body
was a letter, in wbioh she B>iJ she had
committed suicide with morphine, and in
which she gave minute instructions as to
the disposition of hsr effeots and person.
From tbe Epeoimeu of her literary woik
dispLyed at the ooronez’s inquest it was
Feen that the dooeased was a woman of
fine imagination and considerable onl-
•ure, acd that under more favorable cir
cumstances sha might have accomplished
good literary work.
Talkaok in London.—A London dis
patch of the 6th to the New York Herald
■aye:
Ths R-.v. Dr. T. Da Witt Talmage
preached at Agricultural Hall this after
noon to two congregations of twenty
thousand people each. Thousands upon
thousands of persons thronged the streets
leading to the hall for miles, almost
blockading the passage of vehicles and
pedestrians. Many people were crushed
and Dr. Talraage’s carriage was almost
demolished by the crush of the great
crowd, evesy individual in which was
a&xicus to see the distinguished Ameri
can preao‘>er. His presence here is cre
ating a furor through Great Britain.
The press comments deal with him daily
from various points of view as preach-r
or lecturer, but sll admit bis pgwer and
originality.
Tbe Tougb Yarn They Tell at
LeaTenworih, Kansas*
The Leavenworth (Kansas) correspondent
of the St. Louis Bepublican sends the fol
lowing : “It is a well known fact that Col.
Isaac Eaten, membsr of the Demccratic
National Committee and formerly Land
Gommtesioner of the Harnibri & St. Joseph
railroad, is a spiritualist; in faot. it has now
become a mania w.th him. and all Uis luck,
gcod or bad, comes from tha departed dead.
51rs. Eaton, his wife, is also a strong be
liever, and they have made frequent trips to
Memphis, Mo., to interview the famous
Prof. Mott, to try and further their resear
ches. Gol. Eaton is as firm in his belief of
having received massageB from the depart
ed, and hating seen and converted with
them, as he is sure that tbe tun rises and
sets. In several of hia visits to Mott he has
seen and conversed with b.s daughter Katie,
whoriied at the sga of three weeks, and who
has been a member ‘ of the angel band’ for
thirty years. During his last visit she told
him thit she was toon to be married and
that Benjamin Pieice, a son of tx President
Pierce, was to be her husband. She said
that the welding would take p’aco on the
23ih of June, in the spirit-land, and ask
that ha make the necessary arrangements
for a weddirg supper, and she and her hus
band would vieit them during the evening
The Go:onel was only too glad to ep-.ro nei
ther pains nor expense to farther tho wed-
ding arra-gements, and so a closet ia the
house was transforms! into the cabinet for
the atcommo ation of the medium. Prof
Mott and wife, of Blemphis. Dr Dooly, of
Kansas City, Col H. D McKiy, late Presi
dent of the Abiance Life Insurance Com
pany, and Mrs. McKay, of this city, and the
immediate members of Mr. Eaton’s family,
were the gneets at this wedding cupper.
Pi of. Mott took hie nlace in the cabinet; tho
table was spread two cavers being laid for
the bride and groom, an elegant bouquet be
ing placed beside their plates. Alter the
guests were seated the medium announced
that the bridil party had arrived. The
g*ests, one after another, arose from the
table ana went to tbe cabinet, thelidy and
her husband there b ing presented to them.
Th y bath appeared very distinct and life
like. and both entered heartily into tbe
general conversation. After this ceremony
wa* over, the bride and groom walked ont
of the cabinet. The bride wore a heavy
white tatin dress, with flawing veil ana
orange b'.os'oma. The groom was attire!
in the customary black, with a bntton-h-.le
boqaet. Af.er receiving congratulation e,
the bridal party bare their friends good bye
and departed, so 10 epeak, for their celeS'
rial home, saying that they wonld call often
“This matter his been obtained from
parties present, and is a vtrbarim account f
the proceedings. All parties concerned
moved in the highest society circles, and
hones the furore this wedding has erased ”
CcLuatnus, Ga., July 4th, 1879.
Editors Telegraph Jc Messenger—Leaving
Macon yesterday morning, I reached Colum
bus at half cast one o’oiock e. n. The first
question asked ms by each and every one,
alter meeting, was this ‘ I suppose yon
have come to Columbus to Bp end the 4 b,”
which pretty soon indused me to conc.nce
that to-day was to be * big day in this city.
And so it is; it is now 10 o'clock and tbs
city is literally j rmmed with people from all
parts of ths surrounding country. Excur
sion trains are coming in on all the roads
loaded down with visitors coming in to cele
brate the g’oii ms old 4th. The good peo
pie of Oolnmbus. with their usnal generous
and hospitable way of doing things, have
not only been awake as to their own interests,
bnt have also considered the good pleasure
of every one within mites of their city axd
for more than a week past invitations have
been sent ont all through the oountry invit
ing - every body to attend the “Picnio and
Barbecue” giTen by the citizens of this city
to-day. and at the present writing one has
only to taka a look do *n Broad street, which
ia so densey crowded with—what shall I
oali it ? The crowd is so large and varied
I know no name by which to term it la
order to b3 fully convinced that tho above
mentioned invitations have not only b:en
received and appreciated, but responded to
by thousands. Aside from the picnic and
barbecue, excursion basts are being run up
• nd Anwn -Via viuev tn and frftTH *• fln, 1 fl m
and down the river to ahd from *’ Jennie’s
Island," thus allowing many who, pe haps.
Jyiht
pleasure of seeing to pleasant a sight, but
also the privilege rf taking a ride.
The ciiy of Co'nmbu* wears the appear
ance of a placs where there may be found
peace, plenty and prosperity. That is if one
must jadge from the smiling countenances
of her merchants, the great number of hand
some new tuldings now being erected in all
parts of ihe city. 1 here :s scarcely a street
from the centre to the incorporate limits bnt
what has a new bnilding of seme kind going
UP
As it is near the tims for the closing cf
mail, I will make only one more remark:
the weather here; is as 1 left it in Macon,
dry and hot, the streets, though wider and
better shaded than those of Macon, appear
to be none tbe teas free from dnat.
Veiy respectfully,
H B M.
Tbe Eutso Tunnii. —A Eutro, Nevada,
despatch of the 30th nit Bays:
To-night the mountain tops overlooking
ths Waunoe silver region and the Carson
valley are ablaze with bonfires, and the
echoes of oatmon and ths discharge of giant
powder arc heard in every direction. The
event which is being celebrated is the final
completion ot the Butro tunnel for tbe re
ception of the water from the Comstock
mines. After ten years of eeae9lees labor,
day and night, and the expenditure of tG,~
COO,000, the powerful engine of the combi
nation shaft of ths Hate A Norcroaa and
Savage mines was started np this morning
at precisely 6 o’clook, discharging the water
into the eutro tunnel, at tbe mouth of which
it made its appearance in one honr and
twenty minutes, showing a temperature at
first of 101 degrees, which gradually increas
ed to 118 degrees in eight hour*. Tbs wa
ter in the long drowued-ont mines was low
ered one hundred feet. Everything worked
weii. Tbe wooden boxes, constructed of
three inch tongue and grooved Sierra Neva
da pine, did not thaw aleak. No steam es
caped from them, so that the tunnel showed
barely an increase of temperature after the
hot water was turned on. The water from
the Bierra Nevada, Union, Ophir, the Bonan
za mines, Best A Belch sr and Could A Carry
will not be turned on fer a couple of weeks,
and after all finds ite way into tbe tnnnel, it
ia expeoted that one of the double line of
base* will htve ample capacity tc o«ry eff
all ths water. The success of this great en
gineering work Eurpa’ses all expeotatione,
Ose of the English Judges, says Truth
has received a handsome ring from the
United Stales, accompanied by a letter
in which the denor, while concealing his
name, expresses bis gratitude to the
gentleman in question. It seems that
some years ago the man, who had been
rightly charged with having committed
a forgery, was acquitted, owing entirely
to the favorable summing np at bis tri
al. Since that time he has lived honest
ly, and is now honored and respected by
tbose who know him. Comparing his
present position with what he might
have been bad things gone differently, he
rightly gives the credit of hie good for
tune to the Judge who presided, and in
closes the souvenir in ccnsrqussco.
Why is a baby like wheat? Because
it is first cradled, then thrashed and fintl-
ly becomes the flower ot the family.
AcJ, we would add, aoathe it with Dr.
Bull’s Baby Syrup. It contains to
opute?.
—A Gra; d Joiy at Bputanbmg, 8. O ,
has reported that the hanging of a murderer
by lynchers was ‘an on; bum of popular in
dignation whi b merely anticipated the asu
1.fence of the law of the land,’ and refuted to
indict anybody concerned in the outrage.
I trow upon a thorny waste,
Hot noontide lir* on *11 the wiv
AM withits scorching brea:h mikes hi»l»
Each freshening dawn to burn and *H*
Yet patiently I bide and fet.y.
Knowing the secret of arhij.
The honr of bloom, dear Lord, 1 wait
Come when it will, or soon crlato. *
A hundred yean is bnt a day.
—Mre. Langtry, the London beanhr t.
coming to the United Stats* soon 7,11
—There are 54,437 persons emnlnral h
the postal service of the Uni ed uta-ea 413
-A nephew of Silting Bull wie one of tha
defeated contestants in a walking m.i.i,.;
Winnipeg. s *•
—Ths sale of a two-headed cilf for #5 a
St Johns, indicates stagnation in tha .idA
show business.
—The theft of apiece of paper valued at
a few cents sent a London man to mteinn
for sc van years. t a
—One of Bamcm'e elephants died at
Bang ir the other day, and it will be sluffS
and tbe skeleton preserved.
—A swallow nas built its neat under tha
guard of tha Hudson river steamer Viry
Bo well,and rides daily to and horn New Jork
—The camp at Aldershot gave the Queen’s
military son, the Duke of Connaught and
his bride, a magnificent and highly pictures,
qae reception last month.
—A curious order has recently been ieeaed
by the Governor-General of 8t Petersburg.
It requires every min. before entering the
army, to procure a police certificate of good
conduct.
_ —A Boston woman has kept a full-grown
lien ard lioness aB pets in I13? bones for
some tims, bnt now the police commit sionera
propose to remove them from tho city as
too dangerous to be st laigs.
—Kankakee, Inch, has a jaetioo who beats
them all in the way of doing up a job cf
matrimoniols splicing wilh neatness and dis
patch. This is his formula: ‘Have ’or?’
‘Yes.’ ‘Have ’im?’ ‘Yes.’ ‘Married; $2.’
—A young min, says the Hawkeye, who
went from Burlington to Leadviile about six
wesks ago, write* back cheerfully to bis
friends: T have gained three ponnds since
I came hero, and gained it ril in ha'f ounce
installments. Haven't been ehot in tie head
yet.’
—Dr. Nebinrer of Phils? el phis maintains
(hat ehoit-sightednese is on the aureate
among school children. He attnbntes this
to the positions in which children are kept
wnilo studying, to insufficient light, snd
other unwholesome conditions of life in ths
schools.
—At Napa, Cal, ths o'.hsr day, a French
man earned Petit appeared in the street
fljurUhing a pistol in on excited manner.
A man driving by called out to him, ‘Don’t
shoot, you’ll scare my horee.’ The French
man bowed, and arid, ‘Excuse me, tir,’ waited
until the horse tad r> ached a safe distance,
and then deliberately blew ont his trains.
—Common black house flies greatly tor.
ment the Buesian army near the Caspian
sea. The commander of the cavalry told a
coireapcndent (who wrote the trie in a tout
vf gauzo, within which there was but little
light owing to the countless fl.ot clinging to
its exterior) that he had known horses to
fall dead, exhausted by the incessant perte-
cntiona of these diminutive tormentors.
—Tho widow Berg ot Evansville. Iod, had
a suitor in the person of Matthew Bcheantz,
an! they hod made a marriage engagement.
Although she was 31 years old the ha! a
daughter of 16. arid when 8chnau'z saw ths
girl, on her return from boarding school, ha
transferred his love to her. Tee mothtr
then committed suic'de.
—A man criliDg b’mself G. H. Carter,
last March came to Hendersonville, N. 0.,
from New Soiir, to live, and married a beau
tiful yonng girl of the former place He
died recently, and an aristocra'io lady, a
stronger, attended hi* fnnerri It tuinsd
out Carter was a Brooklyn millionaire,
named Wbiily, and had another wife
—Philip Treaedrie, cashier of a St Louis
mercantile firm, dreamed that he figures
■t 2-2 wonld win in the Chicago races of the
following day. Ho accordingly bought pool
tickots on the throe horses that were No. 2
in tne entries as fignrc.d on the pool room
blackboard. They won laces On the fol
lowing d»y he repsatfed the operation. Alto
gether he made $:,$4l ona» irvsatmsntof
v —At tho burial of Mrs. Howard Pant, in
London, a Etrange elderly woman stepped
out cf the crowd, flung arose into .the grave,
and walkod rapidly away. Bhowis ‘apainted
‘ —* ‘ h’oboi
female of about 69 years of age.’ Nobody
had previously noticed her, aud she disap
peared as mysterio^y as she had presented
herself. ‘She locked like an actress mads
up for the stage, and as if sha were playing
a part,’ Bays one account.
—The question of Magyar nationality ia
not settled in Hungary y t. The Hungarian
Parliament recent y adopted a bill to moke
iuctruction in the Hungarian iangatge com-
pate'. ry in ill the public schools, notwithstan
ding vigorous opposition cn the cart of Ser
bian. Croatian, German, and even Magyar
delegatee, who protested earnestly against
d sturbing the present peaceful condition of
affairs The old patriotic spirt ot the Mag.
yar empire and the aspiration for a separate
natienri existence are not ext ngnuhed yst.
—William J- Marehal wrote as rollows be
fore oemmittieg suicide at Grand Bapida:
*1 mode up my mind several weeks ago to
en j oy life as beat I conld for a while, and I
have done so, you bell I o»me here, having
made up my mind to have one ol! rouser
and then ehoffis off this mortal cofi. My
passions are simply unoontrollable, and it is
nonsense for me to jog on longer. If there
is * future state I will do my boat, if it is In my
power, to let you know it; but my impression
is when a man leaves this world bis goose is
cooked.’
Waehtso the Smoke of Pi tsbu^o —Pitts
burg is one of the blackest of cities by rea
son of the smoke from its manufactories;
but a plan is being tested that promises to
make it clean Tne proposition is to wash
the smoke, and the way of doing it is thus
described: ‘The washing is dons by passing
ihs smoke threugh the spray caused by
paddle-wheels revolving in a tank of water
holdiog soda ash in solution. Tbe tank and
wheels are placed in the flue b'tween the
furnace and the chimney and the wheels
being made to revolve in tbe direction of
tbe chimney, the draught is increased.’ The
smoke after beii g thus tr.atod will cot soil
a white handkerchief
—Tho death ia announced cf Major-Gen.
the Right Hon. Sir Larcom. Bart, vtho for
merly held the post of Under Secretory far
Ireland: So important is the poet that Sir
Robert Peel onoe doolared in the House of
O anmons that Ireland was governed by ‘Lsr-
com an! the police.’ Tha under secretary is
a permanent ofCcsr, who always resides is
the pleasant effiairi residence in the Ptffiuix
Park, Dublin, where also the Viceroy and
the Chief Secretary have their abodes. Ha
his a great voice in the Executive, bring
always on the spot and thoroughly posted.
Hia emoluments are worth, altogether, some
$15,000 a year, and ha bos a handsome pen
sion, but the position is onerous and respon
sible.
—The first kindergarten in St Louis wu
established in 1873. Now there ore in tha
city over fifty public kindergartens, in which
h st ween four and five thousand children are
to be found. The kindergarten is c impuiso -
ry (and no charge for echool material en
forced) in so far that children under stvtn
and a half, if sent to a primary EChoal, must
spend half the school day in a kindergarten,
unless they have previoutly baen m one for
two years. A’ready the kindergarten tongs
have, to a large extent, replaced the 8U*y
rigmaroles that the children used to ring
when together. There are mon who claim
that the kindergarten will make a model
city of St Louis in the next b eaeration.
YrnUi in nighty.
As ihe little leaven hid in the measure of
maii, made all leaven, ei truih gradual
over cornea all donbt and disbelief. When
Dr. Pieroe, of Buffalo. N. Y., snnourced
that his Favorite Prescription wonld posi
tively cure tie many dueaeea an! weak
ness pesul ar to women, Homo doubted, ana
continued to employ tbe harsh and caui.io
local treatment. But the mighty truth
nrily berime acknowledged Tuoaaancts c,
ladies who had uselessly undrrgcue untom
tor uris at the hands of different physic.onr,
employed the Favorite Preccription, ona
were speedily cured. Many phjemians
prescribe it in thtir prretioe. 80 sap-, ?;,
is Dr. Pierce of its power to cure, thri n
now sel’s it through druggists under a
live guarantee.
CONSUMPTION CURED.
Aa old physician, retire 1 from
n* had placed in hia hanua hy an ffOJtlnjg
missionary the formula of a simple jegrt*
remedy for the »peedr and permanent care
Consumption, Broncbita\Catarrh.
all Threat and Lun? Affect—.*•» apwitlrt
snd radical cure for Nftrveui DehihtJ *= a
Nervous Complaints, after havinc ***“^ L,
wonderful curative powers iu ffi<ui»udaofc«
has felt It his duty to msto rt
suffering fellow*. Actuated by Uil* motive d
a desire to relievo human AjJ ,Jip*.
tbt* 6ra —
Lujan DM*. tM aK*9«£
shot her" friend Mtes Hetre, ^
a live story for the f hii«te!pM‘