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STATE LEGISLATURE.
Atlanta, August 14, 1879.
THE SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o'clock, and was
nailed to order by President Lester.
Prayer by Senator Clarke. The roll was
called and a quorum found to be present.
The Journal wa3 read and approved.
Xhe standing committees made reports.
JlIW BILLS.
By Mr. Holton—To make it nnlawfal
to kill any deer between March and Oo«
tober. Rjferred to the Judiciary Com
mittee. _
By Mr. Simmons—To amend section
661 of the revised Code relative to the
amount of fine to be imposed on Road
Commissioners. Bsferred to Judiciary
Committee.
Hon. John McBie was invited to a seat
on the floor. Hon. Wm. D. Mitchell,
aul several other gentlemen were also in
vited to eoats on the floor.
Lsave of absence wa3 granted to Mr.
Crimea, on account of sickness.
By Mr Holton—To change tha hours
of meeting. Laid over one day under
the rnlea. *
bills ox second reading.
A nurnbir ot Home and Senate bills
were read the second time.
Tha following House bill wa3 lost by
the adoption ol an adverse report s To
amend the 1aw as to probate of rnort-
PfiC[C3«
BILLS ON THIRD BEADING.
Senate bills—To fir the time of hold-
loir tuperiwt courts in Chatham and
eoveral other coondfls. Passed5 Yea3
'To^chacge ihe tiroo of holding the
oaperior court of Douglass osunty.
Passed.
To amend tho voluateer military laws
of the State. Oa motion of Mr. Perry
this bill was made tho special order for
next Tuesday and 100 copies ordered
PI Hou30 bills—To confer additional
powers on tar collectors and make them
cx-offlcio sheriffs for tho purpose of levy,
etc.
Mr. Holton opposed the bill.
Mr. Cabanisa spoke in favor of the bill
and gave tie reasons why the committee
reported in favor of it.
Mr. McDaniel offered an amendment
to tbo bill, in favor of which he briefly
gpoko.
Tbis amendment and an amendment
offered by the Judiciary Committee were
adopted. The report of the committee
was agreed to.
On the passage of the bill the yeas and
nays were ordered. The yeas were 24
and tho nays 13.
Mr. Boyd gave notioo of a motion to
reconsider this bill.
To regulate the manner of legal adver
tising in this State. Mr. Lumpkin of
fered an amendment
Mr. Bower—To recommit the bill and
amendments to tho Jadiciary Committee.
Agreed to.
THE SPECIAL ODDER.
of the day was a bill to define the crime
of bring a tramp and to presoribe tie pun
ishment for the same.
Toe Judiciary Committee reported tn
favor of it3 pwsage by a substitute
amending tho present vagrant law.
The amendments proposed by the
committee were adopted.
Mr. Bnasell opposed tho substitute and
opoke in favor of the original bill of
which ho ie the author.
Mr. Preston spoke briefly in favor of the
MU in preference to the subitituto and
made a distinction between vagrants
and tramps. „
Mr. Bower offored an amendment
which made the r lading of the bill nni-
form. ■
Mr. Clements, ot the Forty-Fourtu,
raid there was danger of too moch legis
lation and unless this bill would surely
prevent the end he wcnld oppose it.
Mr. Bowers’ amendment was agreed
to.
Mr. Bussell spoke again. He has been
very zealous in his support of tbis bill
and be earnestly ej pealed to the Senate
to pass it.
Tbe amendment offered by Mr. Kar*
rison was agreed to.
Mr. McDaniel spore in favor of tho sub
stitute.
Mr. Bower agreed with Mr. McDan
iel.
Ho favoied as mild legislali m aa possi
ble.
ilr. Speer tboogbt legislation was nec
essary.
Mr. Hudson said he opposed the bill
fi&d substitute.
Mr. Bussell again spoke in favor of bis
bill argu ng the neoessity of its passage
as a remedy to a orying evil of the day.
Mr. Wilbom opposed the bill and spoke
tn fetor of the snbstitute as the best mess-
ore on this subject.
Mr. Fain called the previous question.
The question was ordered and the main
question put. The substitute and amend
ments were read. On the passage of the
sabsUtate, the yeas and nays were called.
The yeas were 18 and the nays 19; so the
substitute w&9 lost*
On the passage of the bill, the yeas
were 21 and the nsja 16. The bill failing
of a Constitutional majority, was lost.
A bill to exempt ministers, firemen,
telegraph operators, certain railroad em
pty ew, and pera-ma over sixty year3 of
age and several other desses. The bill
passed 24 yeas to 13 nays.
Mr. Bussell gave noth e of a motion to
reonusider the bill oa tramps.
The Senate adjourned to 10 o’clock,
Friday.
Atlanta, August 14 1879.
THE HOUSE
met at nine as usuil, and was called to
order by the Sp ether.
The roll was called, the j.-urnal read
and approved.
THE COMMITTEE
to investigate the office of thi principal
keeper of the penitentiary asked and re
ceived leave of absence for committee
business. On motion of Mr. Bcdwine
of Hall, Stnito bill to define and fix tbe
line between North Carolina and Geor
gia, was taken np and read the second
time,
A communication from the State Agri
cultural Society, protesting against the
abolition of tbe law authorizing inspec
tion of commercial fertilizers was read.
THE E FECIAL OBDZB
was the bill to repeal the law, authori
zing the inspection of commercial ferti
lizers.
The Agricultural Committee submitted
a substitute for the bill.
Mr. Livingston of Newton, moved to
ttke up tbe original bill, in order to per
fect it.
The bill was taken up and amended.
The substitute was next considered.
Mr. M(.Curry of Hart, moved to re
commit tbe bill to tbe Agricultural Com-
oittee. Rejected.
Mr. Jordan of Wilkes, oalled for tha
previons question. The call was sustained.
Mr. Cox of Troup, moved to recon
sider the call for the previous question.
The motton prevailed.
Mr. Smith of Oglethorpe, effered an
amendment, which he subsequently with
drew.
Mr. Bing of Floyd, offered an amend-
“ent, which was lost.
The question then reonrred on the
adoption of the substitute.
The substitute was rtjeotod.
Mr. Cox of Tronp, offered a substitute
for the original bill repealing all laws on
Ihe inspection of commercial fertilizers.
(This is an attack on the Agricultural
Bureau from another quarter.)
Mr. Jordan oalled for tbe previons
question. Tbe call was susleioed.
Mr. Cox spoke in favor of his snbf.ti-
luto.
Mr. Lfvlagston opposed tbe substitute,
' Tae yeas and cays were ordered.
■The question was first pat on tbe sub
tle proposed by Mr. Cox of Tronp.
to 70 < >abitltate was lost by a vote of 70
substitute s P« ftk9r voUng against the
The passit *
Put to tho R r ,$f the original bill was then
The bill as aa5.
Mr. Smith oa! V? ed was re * d -
The call was ei. yo* the yeas and aayr.
•tays ordered. * aed , and the yeas and
Upon oonntlng np the vote, It stood 40
yeas and 88 nays. Bo the bill was lost.
Several standing oommitteea reported.
Tha rules were suspended, and, on mo
tion of Mr. Fort of Sumter, the Senate
bili providing for tbe sale or lease of the
Macon and Branswiok railroad was taken
np, read the second time ani made the
speatal order for next Taesday, and three
hundred copies ordered printed.
HODS* BILLS—THIRD BEADING!
A bill to amend the law against shoot'
ing at another. Passed 99 to 0.
A bill to provide for the settlement of
the claims of Thos. L. Land for legal
servioes rendered the State in the Hsnry
Clews matter.
Balng a bill to appropriate money, the
Konse went into the oommlttee of the
whole to oonslder tha bill, Mr. Folhil), of
Jefferson, in the chair.
Mr. Wright, ot Richmond, moved that
the committee report the bill back to the
Honse and reoommend that the bill do
pass. The motion did not prevail.
Mr. McWhorter, of Greene, that the
bill ba returnsd without any recommenda
tion.
Mr. Smith, of Oglethorpe, moved'that
the bill bs reported baok with tbe reoom
mendalion that it do not pass.;
The Finance Committee, which had the
bill in charge, reported favorably on the
passsgo of tho bill.
The Committee, after some little dis
ensaion, rose, reported progress and asked
leave to sit aga’a.
Mr. Awtre, o: Troup, efforsi tho fol
lowing:
Resolved, That hia Excellency th* G »v-
ernor bo respectfully requested to furnish
to tho General Assembly all tbe facts in
connection with the appjin’msnt oE W.
O. Toggle as agent of the State of Geor
gia for tho collection of claims against
the United States Government, and all
facts in bis possession teaching the snb
ject matter of tha memorial of Hon.
James A. Green, and that a copy of his
said memorial be transmitted with this
resolution for the information of the
Governor. Adopted,
The Honse adjourned.
The Impeachment Committee have
postponed iheir report, which it was ru
rnored wonld be submitted to day. Why,
no ono can tell—probably to add new
grounds of indictment.
The general impression in the town is
that the Comptroller will be convicted,
though at -this day it is impossible to
tell. Carolyn*.
BY TELEUKA.PH
Philadelphia, August 14.—A large
meeting of representative colored citizens
wa3 held last night, and a committee of
seventy-five appointed to make arrange
ments for the reception of colored milita
ry companies from Portsmouth, Vo.
New York, Baltimore and Boston which
are expected hero on the 2G.h inst.
A committee of Colored citizens has
also been appointed at Cape May to re
ceive them there.
New York, August 14—A plan for
the reorganization of the Missouri, Kan
sas & Texts railway is represented as be
ing actively pushed, both here and in
Europe, by a purchasing committer, who
have the business in band. It is an-
nonneed that the stock of the now corpo
ration will be issued in exchange for tbe
present stock, and the priocipal of the
debt will remain unchanged—dollar for
dollar. The conditions of tbe reorgani
zation reqaire an extension of the road
within two years fifty miles from Deni
son or Sherman, and within three years
fifty miles from other points, and also
within three years tbe extension of one
of these new lines fifty miles further into
Texas.
London, August 14 —Several thunder
storms occurred in Eagland yesterday,
causing damage to crops in tbe Midland
counties.
London, August 14 —The Hjujo of
Lords last night adopted amendments to
the Irish University bill, as pa eed by
theHouseot Commons, making provis
ion for fellowships, scholarships and oth
er ordinary endowments, similar to those
of the London University.
The Honso of Commons last night fi
nally passed a bill enabling banks of un
limited liability to become banks of Hal
ted liability, and authorizing such banks
to increase the nominal value of their
shares.
A special to the Daily News of tbis eve
ning says Henry M. Stanley, the African
explorer, arrived at Sierre Leone, Africa,
on the 24th July, and started for the
river Congo.
Panama, August 6.—The Peruvians
appear disposed to take the initiative in
tha struggle going on, once having satiB-
fi t »retn >elves of tho greater speed. of
: f.-w ships, though insignifioant in
and strength, as compared with
ibeL eunxiiee’. The last raid of the Hu»
asoar stirred np the Chilian admiral and
he returned to Iqniqne, bombarding it
for halt aa boar or so, on tbe evening of
July 16.
Les3 than fifty projectiles were thrown
into the city, bnt the centres of popula
tion—even tbe faartera of the Peruvians
forces were untonohed. Admiral Rjbol-
lebo’s statement was therefore borne ont,
that he wonld not sacrifice the property
and lives of non-oembatants. Had [the
bombardment,brief as it wav,been.directed
against the inhabited part of the bity, tho
slaughter would have been fearful.
The moment the news of the affair at
Iqniqne reached the ears of Presidents
Prado and Daze, at Arica, orders were
given to .tho Hnasoar, Union and P.lco-
mayo to go soath and retaliate as far a3
possible oa tbe undefended ports of Chili.
This they did, cleverly avoiding the whole
Cniiian fljet whioh was foolishly oonoaa-
trated at Iquiquc.
They visited Tooopilla, Antofagasta,
Caldeia, Cbaneral and various other inte
rior ports, and destroyed all the launches
in e,ch. They ore said to have encoun
tered no resistance whatever, besides tbe
Chilian transport Rimac, and a battalion
of 400 troops.
Thrao Boding vessels 1 den with coal
and copper, were also made prizes and
sent to Callao. The loss to Coiii will be
over a million of dollars, in addition to
which the maoral eff ot in Chili will be
immense.
Saratoga, N. Y., August 14 —In the
first race for CoD£r. ss Hall stakes, for all
ogee, $ mile heats. Bramble was given a
start of three open Ipngtus, but Lady
Middleton caught him in the first quar
ter^ She then dropped back, and Beam*
ble won the heat in 1.19. Lady Middle-
ton wa» 21, and Ssy!aik31« There is
mnch adverse comment at the st»rt giveo
Bramble, bein' so muo i in tbe lead.
New York, August 14 —The second
day’s session of the fourth annual con
vention of the National Cotton Exchange,
was commenced at ten o’clock this morn
ing, in the directors room of the Equita
ble Insurance Company's building. Mr
chair by Messrs. Campbell and Tren«
holm, amid applause. He thanked the
conveB-ion for the honor conferred on
him, ani said he wonld do all in his
power to promote the interests of the
National Cotton Exchange and advance
the cotton trade generally. The election
for Vice-President then took place. Mr.
Wm. P. Campbell, of New York, Mr. W.
W. Gordon, of Savannah, and Mr. Gard
ner, of Mobile, were nominated, bnt Mr.
Gardner withdrew from the contest. The
ballot was taken, and thirty votes were
cast for Mr. Campbell, and fonrtene
votes for Mr. Gordon.
Oa motion, the election of Mr. Camp
bell was made onanlmona. Next in orden.
was tbe eleotion of nine members of the
Executive Counoil. The following were
put in nomination: W. W. Gordon, of Sa
vannah; * W. M. Gwathneo, of Norfolk;
W. H. Gardner, of Mobile; W, H. Senter,
of St. Louis; W. M. Moody, of G lives too;
S. L. Taylor, of*Oin3innati;|Theo. G. Jer-
vey, of Charleston; E. D. Denis, of Hons*
ton; and L. E. Campbell, of Vicksburg,
They were all .elected unanimously. An
adjourhment was then taken until 3
o’clock tbis afternoon.
The a'tnrnoon session of the National
Colton Exchange Convention, the execu
tive council reported that tho expenses for
the ensuing two years wonld Da 1,325
dollars, and reeonrnended an assosment
of 20 dollars up.n each member. The
report was adopted. Committee No. 1
reported in favor of retaining the pres me
system of compiling the monthly crop
&nl acreage reports except in a few mi
nor particulars. They recommandod that
tho Memphis district bo placed in charge
if tbe committee on information and
statistics for tha present. They are of
the opinion that any change in tha crop
district?, except in tbe case of Memphis,
would be nnexpected this season. They
recommended that the local committee
be requested to file their reports with
the agents of the Associated Press in
their respective cities on the 9th of each
month. They recommend that the au
thorities at Washington be petitioned to
include in their report the area of cotton
under cultivation in each county and
State, as well as the number of bates
produced, urging on them the importance
of the measure. Adopted.
Committeo No 3, to whom was refer
red the recommendation in favor of tho
appointment of the central committee
of arbitration for the cotton trade, re-
•ported that the plan was impracticable.
The report was agreed to.
As Mr. Plant, of the Southern Express
Company, was out of town, the question
of express charges on cotton samples was
referred to the executive committee.
Committee No. 4 reported that aftor a
caroful examination, they were of the
opinion that no compensating advanta
ges are to bs gained by either buyer or
seller through the adoption of tare on
cotton, and they recommend that all far
ther discussion of the matter of tire or
allowance of any description on account
cf bogging or tits on cotton, ba indefi
nitely postponed. Oa tbe question of
bagging, they reoommend that all bag
ging, which when wet stains, cotton and
all flaT baggings filled with wrotted or
green chives or straw shall bo consider
ed unmerchantable. Committee No. 4’s
rapott was laid over until to-morrow,
and made tho second order of business.
The Convention then adjourned until
10.30 a. m. to morrow.
Memphis, August 14.—Twenty-six new
cases of fever were reported np to noon
to day, 14 of whom were colored. Among
the whites nra ex-Alderman Thos. Mof
fett, Christian Riser and Mrs. Kennedy.
Nino interments have been reported by
the undertakers—D?. Oscar Berty, Liz
zie Hammers, Jacob Clements, Mrs.
Anna Dowd, Thomas Dudley, J. M.
Tighe, Lizzie McElroy, John Gillighan
(colored), Meade Rio (colored). Two of
these parties died beyoad tho city limits.
Major Gay is considered out of danger.
Ed Moon shows a slight improvement.-
E3. Set, loss is not so well to-day. The
weather Is warm.
One case of yellow fever vrai reported
among the orphans of tho Carfield Color
ed Asylum on Danko street. There are
about 40 children in the institution, but
this case has been isolated and a further
spreading of the disease is not anticipa
ted.
Savannah, August 14.—Tao Beard of
Commissioners have submitted a report to
tbe City Council wh<oh was unanimously
adopted, emphatically relating such rep
resentations imputed to Dr. A. N. Beil,
Sanitary Iospeotor of the National Board
of Health of tbis district, published in
New York papers on the 29th nit. The
Board pronounce them withont foundation
and misrepresentation lot their views and
the views of a large nnmber of the prac
ticing pbyiioianB of this city. Too as
sumption of Dr. Ball is that the people do
not realize their danger and do not be
lieve that they can have the yellow fever
unless it is bronght to them from some
where else and that the duossa never
reaohes seaport towns except by ship.
The implication Riven by thie assertion,
that the city council and board have con
fined their efforts to any theories, is on
nnjnst reflection, since the exercise of a
rigid system of quarantine has been com
bined with vigorous lcoal sanitation.
The statement in reference to the filthy
condition of Biebo Canal is al*o pro
nounced withont foundation and the
board challenges Dr. Bell or anyone else
to prove the origin of a single case of
veliow fever occurring on hoard ot any
ship which has left this port which was
due to the impurity of the rtver water
taken from a point adjacent thereto. The
board condemns tbo publication of
article?, such as the one under considera
tion, whioh can only affect tbe public
mind injuriously without accomplishing
the least sanitary benefit, and request
that the National Beard of Health adopt
such measures as will hereafter prevent
the publication by their official represen
tatives of hastily formed opinion, wbion
are prejudicial to the public welfare and
which have not been substituted by suf
ficient evidence.
Augusta, August 14.—The first b»le erf
Q6W cotton at Augusts was received lo-
day from Barke county. It was alaesed
striotly low middling, and weighed 422
poneds. It was sold at the Augusta Ex
change at 12 cents per pound, and was
shipped to Havre. Tbe first bale last
year was received eleven days earlier.
Tha fanerul of James Saowdep, a col
ored mar, took plaoe to- J aj from St.
Pant’s Church, thu principal whits Epia
oopalian Gfcuroh in this city. Tbe churoh
was filled with osloied people. The reo-
tor of tbe ohr.rchofficiated, and a white
oboir sing Tnere wns bIeo a large i n li
ber of white citizens in the church during
tte a a vices .
Lskdjn, August 14 —The Times in its
8loocd edition this evening publishes a
dispatch from South Africa dated Port
Dornford, July 221, which eays King
Ceity wayo made another effort to-day to
ascertain whether hts liberty would be
granted bim if be submitted. He said
be had been completely deserted by his
warriors.
Madrid, August 14 —Many fire?, some
of them of incendiary origin, are reported
in the Spanish provinces. Ia ons esse
thirty houses were distroyed and thirty-
four parsons perished In the fiimoe.
London, August 14.—Tha reduction in
wages of Burnby cotton operatives,
camo in force at many of the mills yes
terday. Tho weavers hive called a meet
ing for Taesday, to protest against the
several reductions. Two ot the print
works of the Dale district?, Glasgow, em
ploying between them fonr thousand
hands, have given notice of five per cent,
redaction, making a deoreaee of 20 pet
cent, since the ora of depression. Tinw
are the only mills which have been run
ning on fall time. It is feared tha* the
rest of the mills, whioh are runnin j only
4 days per week, will follow.
Vienna, August 14—The Imperial
decree is published to-day, constituting
tho Austrian ministry formed by .Count
Taafe, to be President of the council and
Minister, of the interior; Dr. Stremayr,
Mr
John Puelpa, of Now Orleans, President,
called the convention to order. An effort
will bs made to finish up the business of
the Convention to-day and adjourn fi
nally, but it is doubtful if tha volume of
business, can be gone through with.
Tnere are several committee’s to report,
and the topics reported by thsm will
then be open for discussion. Tha ques
tion of an* equitable tare will probably
occupy some time in discussion, and the
ebotlon of officers will take some time.
As tho directors of the Eqnltable In
surance Company require the room for a
meetiog of the Board to-day an adjourn
ment will be taken from 11 to 3 o’clook by
the Convention. The chairman au-
nonnood that the first baeiness in order
was to elect officer*. Tha roll was called
and nearly all the delegates responded.
On motion Messrs. Parramore, Indus and
•Ryan were appointed tellers. Mr. Wm.
P. Campbell, of New York, said he un
daratood the chairman had declined to be
s candidate for re-eleotion. He therefore
nominated Mr. J B. L.fitte, as Presi
dent of the National Cotton Erohange „ ... m .
for the next twoy .a.o. lhc motion was j Minister of Justiea and Pubho Worship;
M-onded bv ilr. G.rJoer, of tha Mobile Baron JuliusWen Horst, Minister Nation-
delegation. I nl Defense; Herrjfc’allkenhay_n,_ Minister
Or motion tho chairman was instructed
to cast tbe entire vote of the Convention
for Mr. L.flUta. Tho motion was carried,
and Mr. Lafitto was oonduc:e-l to the
of Agriculture; Herr Weidenheim, Min
ister of Commerce; Herr Ziomsalkowskl
and Herr Phrake Ministers withont port
folio.
Londoh; August 14.—A Vienna dis
patch to tha Standard eays the resigna
tion of Count Andraeay as Austro-Hun
garian Premier, may remain in suspense
some months, aa there ia a possibility
that be might remain in office if the
ministry to be formed by Count Taafe
(Cisleithan) should be succesafnl,
Constantinople, August 14—The
Porte having made certain concessions,
the Servian boundary question basrbeen
settled. Advices from Janira state that
slight encounters have already taken
place near the Greek frontier. Th& tone
of tha newspapers ia Athens is becoming
warlike.
Livx&pool, August 14.—The London
correspondent of the Courier say?: Of
800.000 shares of the_ Panama Canal
8took pat off tbe market, about 20,000
shares have been applied for and these
chiefly through the syndicates supporting
tbe scheme. Despite this undoubted fail
ure, it la known in finaneial oiroles here
that M. deLesseps, backed by members
of tbe French syndicate, is determined to
porsevera with tbe project.
New York, August 15.—Commissioner
Albert Fink, Chairman of the Joint Ex
ecutive Committee, has issued a*circular
to-day setting forth that the committee
have voted in favor of the advance in
the east bound rates to the basis of 20
cents for grain, 35 cents for fonrth class
and 45 cents for live hogs from Chicago
to New York, to take effect August 25tb.
Burlington, N. J., August 15—Bishop
Odenheimer died of Brights disease at
two o’clock to-day.
—S«w OBLTAX3, August 15.—Acting
Governor Wilts to-kay telegraphed Gov
ernor Roberts, of Texas, stating that no
yellow fever has occurred here since July
29th, and requesting a discontinuance of
tha quarantine against New Orleans.
Colonel D. B. Robinson, Superintend
ent; of the Mobile Road, says a discon
tinuance of tte quarantine at Mobile to
night removes all impediment to travel
by that route.
Nashville, August 14.—Tbe following
dlspatoh was reoeived to-day:
Dr. J. D. Plunkett, President State Board
of Health, Nashville, Tenn s—I am en
countering difficulties in supplying ra
tions on terms which will enable ns to
keep np tbe supply as long as will bs ne-
cets'ary! After oonsnltation with Colonel
Casey Young, I respectfully suggest that
yon arrango for the purchase of a con
troller's Interest in the Chiosgo and Gan
a la Sontbern Railroad at a oust net ex-
oseding $7,500,000.
Boston, August 14.—Commissioner
Hallolttes'.ified before the Wallace Com
mitteo to day that of 216 special mar
shals selected in Boston in 1878, 130
were Republicans, 58 Democrats and tho
remainder called themselves Independ
ents. Ia Lowell 7 were Republicans and
6 Democrats. Ia 1876 there were 117
supervisors in Boston end 16 m Worces
tar.
Ex-Mayor Jas-.p s M: Wightman, for
two ye M3 chairman of the registry of vo
ters in Boston, testified that the nnmber
of cases of alleged fraudulent voting at
the last election was 889. Of these, 833
were abandoned for removal;; 334 charg
ed with not being able to read and write
proved that they cou’d do sc; 69 died,
and 103 showed they were legally cill-
zan?. There were thus left only 37 oases
to be proceeded with, and of these only
two were convicted. Witness thought
that this showiog, with 54.000 names on
the registry list subject to the scrutiny
of tbe supervisors, proved that the lists
were free from exroiB.
St. Louis, Augnit 14 — It appears that
party of colored men who passed
througa East St. Louis last night, was
gotten np by the merchants and planters
in the Mississippi Valley, with the view
of giving such negroes as wish tbs oppor
tunity to go West to judge of the country
for themselves, and if they tike it, to re
main—the expense of the trip being nom
inal. Many planters apprehend, after
the second cotton crop is picked, that
there will be an extensivo exodus of the
negroes from the South. Some of them,
therefore, got up this excursion, believing
that either the representative colored
man, who might gc, would bo disap
pointed ai’.h Kansas and return, or that
their unfavorable accounts would have a
strong influence with the negroes gener
ally, and prevent any extensive migrato
ry movement. Qaite a large nnmber of
whites, who took advantsgs of the cheap
rale, also joined the party and ha.va gone
to Kaneas
Memphis, August 13.—Forty cases in
all were reported to ttie Bos;d of Health
to day, thirty of whom were colored.
But one additional inteiment was repor
ted, Miss Johanna Oilman. The Shelly
Comedian Society met la3t night and
passed resolutions approving the propo
sition of Dr. Jerome Cochrane, aad urg
ing the National Board of Health to
make such appropriations as will, to the
fullest extent enable the authorities to
cirry out the plan?. The Local Board of
Health also met end expressed an earn
est desire to the Goverdor to call a meet
ing of the Legislature to provide for the
emergency. In the interval I will advo-
cace each action cn the part of the Na
tional Board ns will euffico for the pres
ent crisis. The Governor has been tele
graphed.
You had better see him.
(3 : gmd) Capzll.
Memphis, August 14 —Tha dispatoh
to the Governor was of similar import.
He said he would i.sirve bis decision re
garding tbe ni,tti-r until Dt. Plunkett
shall return from Cairo, whither he went
this morning to hold a conference with
the Executive Committee of the Sanitary
Counoil of the Mississippi Valley and
members of the National Executive Dom-
mutte relative to the prevention of a
further spread of the yellow fever at
Memphis, to co-operate with the State
and National Boards in every measnre
calculated to arrest a spread of the tever,
and the physicians and others were re
quested to enforce his suggestions as far
as possible.
In cases where isolation cannot be
made effective, a guard will be supplied
by tbo Board of Health to enforce in
struct ions in conformity with Dr. Coch
rane’s plans. A foroe of special sanitary
officers was engaged to-day in putting
fiigs oa all houses where yellow fever haB
appeared. Tho work of cieinfection will
b (gin immediately.
Mies Grace Prestidee, daughter of
Colonel J. S. Prestidee, a prominent
member of the present oimmittee of safe
ty, is prostrated with the fever. Ei
Scaloss is in a oritical condition.
nmrr.
The drowsy summer in the flowering times
Had laid her down at ease,
Lulled by soft, sportive winds, whose tinkling
chime*
Summoned the wandering bee*
To fesst. and dsnee, and hold h igh carnival
Within that vast and fragrant banquet hall.
She stood, my Mary, on the wall below,
Poised cn light, arching feet.
And drew tbr long, green branches down to show
Where hung, mid odors sweet—
A tiny miracle to touch and view—
The humming-bird’s ■rnmii nest and pearls o’
blue.(
Fair as the summer’s self she stood, and smiled.
With eyes like summer sky,
Wistfnl and glad, half-matron and half-child.
Gentle and fond and shy.
Her sweet head framed against the blossoming
bough.
She stood a moment—and she stands there nowl
'Its sixteen years since, trustful, unafraid.
In her lull noon ot light,
She p&ised beneath the grass curtaining shade,
Out of our mortal sight;
And springs and summers, bearing gifts to men.
And long, long winter# have gone by since then.
And each some little gift has brought to dress
That unforgotten bed—
Violet, anemone, or Iady’s-tress,
Or spray of berries red.
Or purpling leaf, or mantle, pure and cold.
Of winnowed snow, wrapped round it> fold op
fold.
Yet still she stand*, a glad and radiant shape,
Setin the morning fair—
That vanished morn which had so swift escape—
I turn and aee her there—
The aroh, sweet smile, the bending, graceful
bead:
And, seeing thus, why do I call her dead P
love’s Fromltie.
“I will come back,’ Love cried, 'I will come
bick,»
And there where he had’passed lay one bright
track
Dreamlike and golden, as the moonlit sea.
Between the pine-wood’s shadow tall and black.
' I will come back.’ Love cried—Ah me 1
Love will come back.
He will come back. Yet, love, I wait, I wait;
Though it is evening now. and cold and late.
And 1 am weary, watching here so long, i
A pale, sad watcher at a silent gate.
For Love who is so fair and swift and strong.
I wait, I wait.
He will come back—come hack, though he de-
lajs;
He will comeback—for In old years and days
He was my playmate—He will not forget.
Though he may linger long amid new ways.
He will bring bask, with barren sweet regret.
Old years and days.
Hush! cn the lonely hills Love comes again ;
But his young feet are marked with many a
stain.
The golden haze has passed from his fair brow.
And 'round him clings tha blood-rod robe of
pain;
And it is night! O, Love—Love, enter now;
Bemain, remain.
—Macmillan’* Magazine
Petersburg (Ya.) Index-Appeal.)
Oposicmt are eo numerous ia cur city
that it ie no oommon thing to pick one of
them up on the street at night. A grntle-
man walked into oar oloa about 12 o’clock
night before last with one hanging by the
tail from hie flogers, which he had caught
on tho street. Rabbits and partridges are
aleo t.i be seen in the city—some of the for
mer in almost every yard which affords them
food.
Philadelphia Times.]
Last year Mr. John Kelly seemed the or
ganization of the Demooratio k 8tate commit
tee of New York against tx-Govemor Ti’den,
bnt Mr. Nelly has last learned that this same
committee is cow a Titden affair by a major
ity of eight. Tho bai’l is rolling around the
State in a way which Tammany must de
spise,
Boston Herald.)
The great western journals teem with de-.
tails ot iooal crimes. The horrible list of
villanies dally chronicled ought to bring a
blush incarnadine to the cheeks of those
etalwait western editors who daily plnok tho
mote out of the Southern eye. At^ gentle
men editors, North or South, East or West,
the greatest of virtues is charily 1
CONSUMPTION CURED.
An old physician, retire 1 from practice, hav*
ng had placed in bis hands by an Bast India
missionary tbe formula of a simple vegetable
remedy for the speedy and permanent cure for
Consumption, Bronchita*. Catarrh, Asthma, and
all Throat and Lung Affections, also a positive
and radical cure for Nervous Debility ana all
Nervous Complaints, after having tested its
wonderful curative powers In thousands of cases,
has felt It his duty to make it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuatod by this motive and
a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send
free of charge to all who desire it, thisreoipe,
with full directions for preparing and using, in
German, French or English. Bent by mail by
addressing with stsmp, naming this paper, W W
Bn ARAB, 149 Powers’ Block, Rochester, N Y,
tbl* 6m
[Communicated.]
E MlCOM AMD BRUNSWICK
EXTENSION.
iOZDTIOX 07 TUB RAILROAD SENSATION IN THE
OSOEGIA LEGISLATURE, Bt THE "7AT BOX.”
Come all ye valiant farmers
That live by honest toil,
I’ll tell you of a new Uia scheme—
A politician’s coil.
Ats name is called “extension,”
As you do all woll know,
For there has been no mention
Of that other name, 1 trow.
Th> "scheme,” of course, is hidden.
The object, though, is clear;
It is to have a “State line”
From sea to mountain air.
Ah I yes, the plan’s* grand one—
Juat listen hoar it sounds:
“A trunk line through from Dalton
To Brunswick’s ocean bounds.”
Whit though tha Constitution
In solemn words declare
The State shall have no portion
In railroad projects fair,
Is it to be expected
That statesmen such as ours
Would hang their heads d ejected.
Or fear these Toombsful powers ?
Alas! alasl bowshsineful
That men so wi<e as these
Who framed our Constitution
Should such poor sense disclose t
Did they not know, as we do.
That there was no such thing
A* tying legislators
With State-aid apron strings?
Sea now how soon they vanish—
How "rebates” ani •’reserves"
Can harmful thoughts all banish
And quiet member’s nerves 1
Behold this “dUte-aid’’ project—
How harmless it appears
When dre3sed up by our statesmen
And christened with their tear;.
But let me not detain you,
Noryet the "scheme” forget.
This grand extension project
Dees but tbe "scheme” beget;
Tho trick, mi seenfrom inside,
do a few is known by rote—
It i», they say. a well laid plan
To get old Jasper’s vote
Fob Congress,
Mothers will grow weary and sigh over
the baby’s troubles when Dr. Bnll’a
Baby Syrup would relieve the ohild and
thereby give the mother rest.
Wanderings in Jones.
rditors Telegraph and Messenger: Your
correspondent ha* just returned from an
extensive jaunt among the old red bills of
Jonoa. Io my travels, after the “timo o’
day” had been exchanged, “How ere
crops in yonr parts?” was always tbe first
question asked, and “How did yon find
tne orops?'* was the first sonnd that
greeted my ear after my return. The
orops seem to he an all absorbing theme
just now.
Corn upon nplandis.aa a general thing,
* failure; tbit ia the bottoms, however, 1b
good.
We psesed some fine fields of cotton,
bat owing to the late spring frosts, and
tbe parching drouth that followed, it is
very backward.
It ’anything liko an average yield is
made “j >ok frost” will have to postpone
h a advert maoh beyond his usual time of
coming.
Turnips are boing liberally sown, and
this fall an increased aoreage will be
eeeded in oats to supplement a short corn
on.
In my wanderings through Jones, 1
passed the historic spot where the battle
of “ Sunshine Churoh” wsb fought and
General Stoneman and bis raiders cap
tured. This ooQnrred daring the summer
of 1864. Stonemar, it will he remem
bered, oims to tho very gates of Haoon
and shelled tha oity. Finding a conside
rable force to oppose him at that point and
the bridge over the Oomnlgee being gone
he was prevented from crossing and
asking for Andersonville as was hia in
tention. He then retreated and at the
place named above, met a detachment Of
Confederate oavalry, to whlefa, after a
short but spirited fight, he surrendered.
Colonel Burt Hutchins, at whoBS houee
I tarried for a while and wbb most hospit
ably entertained, gave the writer a very
interesting account of the engagement,
of which he was an eye witness. He
calls it “hia battle.”
Tho fight, as many remembsr, was on
Sunday. About 9 o’clook ia the morning
a detachment of Confederate scoute, some
twelve or fifteen in number, dashed up
to Colonel Hutchins’ gate, and told him
that they were cut off from their com
mand, and asked him to direct them so
that they could rejoin it. Jnst then
they heard the firing, which had
commenced in dead earnest, and waa not
many miles distant. The Colonel mount
ed bis horse and told the Bconta to follow
him, that he would lead them to their
army. The first thing the party knew
they were right npon the rear of Stone-
man’s forces. The commander cf the
squid ordered hia men to charge through
the enemies’ lines, and fire as rapidly aa
possible. This they did. Stoneman,
thinking that a foroe from Macon had
pursued and overtaken him, surrendered
without farther -resistance to a foroe
greatly inferior in numbers to hia. Tho
result of the battle waa that Stoneman
and kia forces soon fonnd their way to
Andersonville, not as conquerors, bnt
prisoners.
Old Sunshine Church has been moved
away, and nothing but the cannon-scarred
trees in the grove where the ehnrch was
located, now remains. Sunshine Chnrch
was situated a few miles from Clinton, on
the public road to Hillsboro and Montl-
eello. Wilkes.
August I4tb, 1879.
Too mnch regard cannot ba given to
tbe fact that Dr. Boll’s Baltimore Pills
have no superior *e a family mediciue.
For Headache, Flatulency, Dyspepsia,
Liver and Blood disea Bee, Nervousness,
etc., they stand unexcelled. Pnoe twenty,
five oents.
Tbe Telegraph, and Macon &
Brunswick Kail road Exten
sion.
Some splenetic writer in the Atlanta
Dispatch who arrogates to himself tbe
founding and multitudinous cognomen of
“Many Citizens,” commences an article
of near two columns lecg.h mainly de
voted to a futile attempt to show inoon-
eiatenoea in the past action of this paper,
upon the extension of the Maoou & Brun
swick Railroad, as follows:
Why this Change cr Front"l—Editors
Dispatch: Tbe exiraordinary articlejon the
Maoon and Branswiok extension aud tbe
double-distilled foolishness in whioh lbs
Tsleobafh and Messenger embodied its
views in Sunday’s issue, h&veoaused wide
spread astonishment on the one hand and
indignation at its bold deflicos of public
opinioo, its attempt ti destroy the grow
ing prosperity of oar oity, to adyanoe the
interest and enlarge the inoome of a pri
vate corporation at tbe oxpenae and to
tha injury of onr whole people on the
other.
To show that Boma powerful i motive
mast be at the bottom of this sudden op-
position to tbe extension, extracts from a
few of the old oopics of the Telegraph
and Messenger, defining its position on
the same snbjeot, in 1874, are reproduced.
Now, the bare assertion of this anony
mous writer that an honeat effort to pro
cure the extension of the road now owned
by the State, not to Atlanta direct, but on
a line to Knoxville, w&3 an nttsmpt to
“dealroy the growing prosperity of onr
oity,” ia.not only absurd, bnt positively
amusing.
Tne entire past history cf tho move
ment proves most conclusively,that it waa
to develop some of onr best counties on
tl.„ 1'iujt'UBeu HUB vi —H nrcouri
another outlet to the Northwest, that nu
enterprise commended itself so nnanl
monsly to the Maoon pnblio. That Mr.
Wadley did not regard it aa a rival to the
Central, is best shown by the fact that
the surveys were made at the expense ot
that road, and conducted by its ablest
engineer, Mr. Virgil Powers.
But before proceeding any farther, we
beg leave to asBure the inimical and irate
correspondent of the Dispatch, that its
gratuitous and unworthy insinuations re
specting the motives of the Txlegrafh
in opposing another direct road to Atlanta,
and continuing its support of the Knox
ville extension, are utterly false, and the
merest balderdash. Will this person
ilease ask Mr. Wadley whether he has
lad one minute’s conversation with any
editor of the Telegraph upon any sub
ject whatever within the last three years?
Will he ask him if any letters have pass
ed between them? Will he ascertain
whether any agent or editor ot this pa
per ia provided with a free pass over the
Central Railroad or any of its branch et?
Moreover, will he continue to prosecute
his inquiries and ask the President of
the Central if he did not in his very
last conversation with one of onr editors,
oomplain bitterly, and we thought un
justly,ot the opposition of tho Telegraph
to him and the interests he represented?
We know of no better defense to set np
against the coarss and unfounded suspi
cions of this “correspondent,” and scorn
to plead to his wicked insinuations.
Moreover, we defy that individual or any
one else to show one lino or syllable em
anating from-the Telegraph or its edi
torial correspondence whioh advocated a
direct extension of the M. & B. R. B.,
through to Atlanta. The nearest that
he could come to it was in the two fol
lowing fragmentary extracts from onr
Atlanta correspondence, whioh merely
gave the then status of tbe matter before
the Legislature, and intimated that At
lanta was among the places spoken of as
a terminus.
There waa no expression of opinion, on
our part in favor of such a connection,
but, per contra, every article and para*
graph ever printed on the editorial side
of this paper bearing directly upon the
subject, charged pointedly in favor, as .we
do now, of an extension, with Knoxville
as its objective point.
These are the paragraphs allnded to,
extracted from two letters:
After the arrival of the Macon com.
mittee at Atlanta H. H. J. writes to his
paper under date of February 3d, exten
sively on the proposed extension, and
taye: “Nor is it demanded as a condi
tion precedent that the 700 penitentiary
AAnwiAtn nil —1) Kft /Irt rV **
convicts shall be detailed to do the work,'
eto. * * Thus, ia any event, the
owners of the M. and B. railroad stand
ready to bnild the propoeed extension to
Covington, or even to Atlanta, if the
State will guarantee tho bonds already
issued npon, the completion °f the work.
There is another view of this snbjeot
possessing peculiar force, which we have
not yet presented. In the passage of the
act authorizing the lease of the Macon
and Western railroad to the Central, the
principal feeder of the Macon end Bruns
wick read was effectually cut off and iis
resources dried up. From that time it
ceaaed to be more than a mere local
channel of commerce,” eto.
In a letter on the 4‘.h of Febraary,
from Atlanta, the same editorial corres
pondent of the extension bill, Bays: “No
essential change has been made in its
original provisions further than to de
clare that the points of connection with
the Georgia may be at Covington, Atlan
ta, or any other place which shall be
subsequently determined upon, eto.”
The beBt answer to the charge that
the above was intended to recommend
Atlanta aa the terminal point, is contain
ed in the concluding portion of subse
quent more elaborate extracts from our
“Editorial Correspondence,” published
by “Many Citizens” himself. They read
as follows t
On tho 6th of February H. H. J.
writes from Atlanta: “The bill for the
Covington extension of the M. & B. Rail
road has been at length amended and
perfected,” eto. * '* “It aeema to
meet with very general favor, and we
trnst will pass both houses by a large
majority.”
An editorial on the 8th again refers to
the bill and says:. “The edvantagea of
the extension in opening up a new route
to the North and West probably at an
early day, including healthy competition
between existing lines, developing the
rioh counties through which it will pass,
and saving the State from heavy loss
which seems imminent from the collapse
of the old portion of the road to Bruns
wick, can hardly be overestimated. But
we need not repeat the argument, or
dwell longer on a question npon which
this whole region ia almost a unit. We
trust our members in the Legislature
will spare no effort to uphold the move
ment and secure the passage of the bill
by an overwhelming majority.
An editorial in the same paper, Febiu.
ary 10th, announces: “Thr Hour nor
Action Arrived—The bill for the exten
sion of tbe Maoon and Brunswick Rail,
road, is set for U a. x. to-day. It ia the
very general desire of our citizens that
Speaker Bacon should vacate hia chair
temporarily and lend tbe powerful aid of
his- eloquence to the measuro. Colonel
Simmons, too, it ia hoped, will be heard
from in emphatio tones, and every other
representative of Bibb, also. The ques
tion at issue ia of vital importance to
our oity, and commands the almost undi
vided support of the people of this con
gressional district, and Southwestern
Georgia likewise.
Indeed, it may be said to be MsoonV
opportunity. For long years has she
struggled for the consummation now
sought, even voting a large snm, upon
certain conditions, for its advancement.
No lees than two charters have been
granted for nearly the same purpose, and
nothing save the prostrate oonditien of
the country financially, and the bicker
ings of interested parties, have prevented
tbe completion of .the Knoxville enter
prise, at leeat to where it should connect
with the Georgia road. Moreover, it will
impart new life and vigor to that highway
to the ee*. whioh now languishes be
cause of the partial legislation whleh
prmotieally out it off from any outlet north
of thia oity, and confined its operations to
looai badness only. Again, the exten
sion, as has been previously stated, will
prove a great blessing to a rioh and un
developed seotlon of the State ; and last,
but not least, be the flret step towards the
completion of another channel of oom
muni cation with the groat West and
North.”
Tho oorrespodent of the Dispatch then
quotes the “exultation” ot the Tele
graph upon the passage ot the bill
these words: “It will exert a salutary in
finance upon every department of busi
nerein the state,” etc., etc. And true, we
did rejoice, not that it had been decided
that the road ahould be built to Atlanta,
bnt from the fact that, on the contrary,
provision was mads to extend it as far aa
Gainesville in the opposite direction, and
on the direct road to Knoxville. The
bill as passed (we have the official docu
ment before ns) reads than
Sec. 1. The General Assembly of the
State of Georgia do enact, That the ohar
ter of the Macon and Brunswick railroad
be so amended as to authorize tbe exten
sion of said railroad northward from the
city of Maoon to the- Georgia railroad, at
some point to be selected by the present
board of directors of the Macon and
Brnnswick railroad company, and It raid
company shall at a future time determine
to extend said road north of said point
on tbe Georgia railroad, the same shall
be extended to the oity of Gainesville.
Now, if we had beien advocates of as
Atlanta extension, how still-born would
have fallen this note of exultation.
But having quoted what onr adversary
has vainly sought to marshal against
the editors so unmistakably hinted at as
the mercenary employes of Mr. Wadley.
we ask the reader to lieten to the fol
lowing extrect from an editorial written
on the reception of the tidings that the
bill had passed the House by & vote of
116 to 37 nayB. It is dated Feb’yll,
1874:
“The overwhelming majority whioh
show^tfiafl&r {feio£ a 2?M. a _? f . thia , b »J
presented to our legislators which is eio
just and fair aud universally beneficial
in all its details, that the people are al
most r unit in its favor. The email ad
verse vote which was cast may be ac
counted for by the conflicting interests
of another railroad organization. But it
should bs remembered tbat tbis enter
prise is aot the outgrowth of any ring or
clique, nor is it the result ot hostility to
the Central Railroad, or any other Inter
est in Georgia. The proposed extension
culminating in another grand artery of
trade with the North and West, will ex-
ert a salutary influence npon every de
partment of business in the State. Mo
nopolies in transportation will ba impos.
sible, freights must acme down to reason
able figures, our people will oontinue to
havo the Macon aud Brunswick Railroad
as an outlet to tide water, and better still,
tho State will bo relieved from the heavy
loss consequent upon the sale of that
thoroughfare at a period so inauspicious
as tho present.”
The above views are identical with those
entertained by the Telegraph and Mss
seng sr cf to-day. We favor an extension
to Covington or any other plane on the
Georgia Road, whish would be the first
step in the direotion of Knoxville.
That city Is the objective print of our
oboioe. Of oourse another connection
would be established with Atlanta, when
the Georgia road is reaohedor crossed and
tbat might be a convenience to both cit
ies. No one could, if they would, objeot
to that. Let the road be leased or sold if
possible, bnt not oonpled with tha absurd
condition that a direot oonseotion shall
ba made with Atlanta at the charges of
the lessee or parohaser.
N. Y. Worli) ’
The sort of muddle which it pleases eome
people to oall a ‘ mystery” envelops most or
the accounts thus far published of a collision
which yesterday occurred between Senator
Conkling ot Hew Yerk, who ahjurdly mas
queraded in the first reports as a “German
teacher,” and ex«Senator and ex-Governor
Sprague, of Rhode Island, who appears as
having been unduly excited about a railway
matter. What is qaito clear is that there
was such a oolite ion, and that the ex-Senatrr
from Rhode Island walked into hie own home
and fiading there an unwelcome guest in the
person of the aotual Senator In m N»w York,
applied to him a series of opprobrious epi
thets and threatened to kill him. We ore
not informed whether tho proprieties of
private dwelling restrained the Senator from
Sow York, as hs not long ago announoed
that the proprietors of the Senate alone re
strained him, “branding” his interlocutor as
“a coward and a liar.” It may be no public
importance to know any more either as to
what waa arid or what was done than we
know already. It cannot fail to be nsefnl,
however, to reflect what wonld have been
eaid by oar Republican contemporaries had
thia incident of watering-place life occurred
at Biloxi or at the White Bulpbnr Springs in
stead of at Nairagansett Pier, and had the
parties to it bsen a Senator from Miesissippi
and an tx-Governor of Louisiana, let os Bay,
instead of a Senator from New York and on
ex-Governor of Rhode Island. It the Louis
ianian had ordered the Mississippian out of
his house and threatened to kiU him if he
found him there again, how many of
our esteemed contemporaries won'd have
soen ia this action only the inevitable out-
ipping of the “plantation manners” en«
idered by slavery, and heard in the indig
nant accents of tbe excited ex-Governor
the old rebel yell?” We should certainly
have heard that such a eoondsl could not
possibly have come to a head between any
two publio men of the North. Now that it
has coma to ahead between two such public
men it may be well to consider whether it is
not qaite time for us to drop the practice ot
keeping one sit of moral weights and social
measures for application to the “chivalry”
of the South and another set for application
io the “statesmen” of the North. If encha
scene as tbat whioh our dispatches relate hod
occurred in the houee of a Southern ex-
Btateemen it would have been at once de
scribed aa an indecent and boibtroui per-
formados. It is aot less indecent or lees
barbarous, is it, besause it oocaired in tho
house of a Northern ex-statesman, unless,
indeed, we are to admit that the standard of
decency and civilization at the Soath I* high
er than it is at North and that Southerns sin
against clearer light ?
Historical Sketch ot Howard
District and the Ocmulgee
Farmers’ Clnb.
Read by 3. W. Lundy, Bsq- before the Club
August 1st, 1879.1
(o INCLUDED )
THE OCATULGEX FARMERS’ CLUB.
Ia the year 1863, three years after the
termination of au unsuccessful aud de
structive oivil war, which hadrevolutioa-
ized the labor system of the. South, and at
a time when the farming interestjof the
country presented a gloitny aspect, a
Southern Agricultural Convention was
held in the city of Macon.
The great, the momentous question cf
tho day was: What sboutd be done to
bring renewed prosperity to tbe tillers of
the sril, and through them, to all the
industries of the country. Whatever
was beat to be done would be soonest ac
complished by organised effort. Soon
the Georgia State Agricultural Society
waa orgauizsd, having reoeived a char
ter from the Legislature.
Immediately thereafter, county socie
ties, branches of the State society, be
gun to ba formid, and now almost every
county in Georgia has one or more agri
cultural organizations.
On the 31 day of Jnly, 1869, a prelimi
nary meeting for the purpose of organiz
ing an agricultural society for Howard’s
district, was held at Windsor Chapel. A
committee was appointed to draft a con
stitution and by laws for the government
of the society. About the first of the
following August there was another meet
ing held at the Cocniy Line Aeademy,
at whioh the organization was completed,
and the “Oomnlgee Farmers* Club”
again had an existanoe.
Robert Bowman, one of the oldest and
most respected citizens of the community,
was elected President and Jamee D. Holt
Secretary.
The club enjoyed only for a brief
period the benefits of the infiuenci and
counsel of ita first president. He died
suddenly a few months after its organi
sation. He was one of Nature’s truest
noblemen. Dignified and manly in hie
bearing, f. ank and sincere in hia inter
course with his fellow men, he was
reooguiZ3d wherever known- os of the
rarest woith aud most exalted character.
Sound is judgment and cautious in hie
conclusions, he seldom made mistakes in
opinions, and wai a sate friend and pru
dent ooonsellor. Unobtrusive and modest,
he preferred the quiet circle of his family
ani ce ghborhood to any position of honor
and trnst to whioh his talents entitled
him and the confidence of his friends
might have called him.
A man of few words end sorapaloni iff
regard for trnth, he never uttered a care
less or trivial sentiment. Ardent in hie
attachments, he made no professions that
his heart did not feel, but preferred to
■how hia esteem for hie friends by solid
deeds, rather than empty words. It re
quired an intimate knowled of hia char
acter to rightly appreciate the man, and
those who knew him beat loved him moat.
“Like Enoob, ho walked with God,
and waa not, for God took him.”
“His spirit with a bound
Left ita eacumb’ring clay;
His tent at midnight on the ground
A darkened ruin lay.”
Subsequent to bis death, nod owing
partly to the discouragement and depres
sion of the times there was an interval of
about two years in which all interest in
the o’.ab seemed to have been dormant.
Afier that period an ambulatory sys
tem was adopted, and the club had sev
ers! well attended meetings at the bouses
of its members, which brought new Ufa
into it.
The club, now no longer content to re
main a peripatetic seot, resolved .at
its April meeting, 1872, to prooare a lot
and build a house of its own.
A number of building lots were offered
by tbo members, who seemed to vie with
eaoh other for the privilege of furnishing
the site.
Those offered by James D. Holt and
William Johnson, two lota that adjoined,
were selected. The neoessary building
fuad waa readily raised within the or
ganization and tire work of erecting tha
house done almost entirely by members
of the Clnb.
Work on the Club room was commeno.
ed on Saturday, August 33,1872.
uu Qa.the 21st of September following, the
session*waS’fhtil&’kftsiahed, formal pos-
barbecus given in honor of the event.
At the fonrth annual election, the
present efficient officers of the Club were
called into service, and under the able
administration of President Lockett and
Secretary Johnson the Club has continued
to prosper.
JAMES D. HCLT.
Oar first Secretary, James Dean Holt,'
baa passed away, and he, too, now sleeps
the sleep that knows no waking.
Many of as knew him in tbe golden long
ago, were with him in sohool-boy play?,
enjoyed together the sportive tricks ot
childhood and of youth. ’Tia not strange
then that old recollections should well np
fresh (’as tbe morning dews—pleasant
memories never to be forgotten—redolent
of the sweet perfume of life’s spring flow*
its, should awaken in us lively emotions.
He, though very young, was in the oav-
slry>ervloa during the last year of the war
and was ready to appreciate the privilege
of laying aside the implements of war for
those of peace.
With talents that might have won
diatinotiou in almost any profession or
department of soienos, be preferred the
quiet and seclusion of country life—the
otium cum dignitafe—ot a rural home,
and centered with energy upon the taek
of cultivating and improving the V old
plantation.”
He was a useful member aud faithful
officer of this club, punctual in attend
ance npon its meeting?, he always took a
lively interest in ita pro?parity and de
liberation?.
During our celebrations and gala days
he never failed to throw wide open the
doors of his elegant mansion near by, for
the acoommodatiou of the members and
guests of this club.
When our club-room.—perhaps tha
first building ever erocted in the State
devoted solely to agriculture—was baing
built, our secretary, the grand-son of
Major Tarpley Holt, who fifty years bo-
fore bmlt the first log cabin iu the neigh
borhood, a few rods’ distance, cheerfully
rendered diligent and efficient service un
til tha work was finished, and Oomnlgee
Club hod a local habitation as well as a
name. His achoo'-mates and the mem
bers of this society that knew him, will
ever keep a tablet in their hearts sacred
to tbo memory of onr departed friend,
James Dean Holt.
Cincinnati Gazette.)
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