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STATE LEGISLATURE.
Atllsta, August 21, 1879.
THE SENATE.
The Senate met at 10 o’olock and was
iSsllel to order by President Lester.
v prayer by Sir. John P. Danoin, the
Chaplain.
Toe roll was called and the journal
was read.
A message from the House announcing
that the hour of 11 o’clock on Friday had
been set aa the time of the reception of
the portrait of Dr. Crawford W. Long.
Mr. Russell, ia behalf of himself and
Mr. Candler, rose to a question of priri.
lege. He sent to the Seoretary a paper
which was read. It etated that Messrs.
Hassell and Candler had been on the in
vestigating committee which had really
had a great deal to do with bringing on
the impeachment, and they asked to bo
czonsed from sitting as members of the
coart.
Messrs. Clarko and Preston thought
that the question was proper for the
Senate aa a oourt and not as a legislative
body. The paper was laid on the table.
Mr. Cibaniss moved to reconsider the
action of the Senate on the military bill
lost the day before. The motion pre
vailed.
Mr. Head mo/ed to reconsider a bill to
rsguhto legal advertising, which was
passed the day b store.
Mr. Lumpkin moved to lay the motion
to reconsider on the table. On this the
yeas and nsya vrero called. The yeas
were 18, and the nays 23, ao the motion
to table was lost.
The motion to reconsider then pre
vailed.
IDS lllPSACUMBST.
The hour tor organising the Senate as
a Court of Impeachment arrived.
Messrs. Howell, Stephens and Clarke,
a special committee for the purpose, es
corted the Chief Justice to the Chair.
Judge Warner took the oath prescribed
by law, which was administered by
Justios Jackson. Judge Warner then
took the ebair, and announced that the
first business would, be the qualifying of
the Senators.
Mr. McDaniel rose to a question of
privilege, and said there was a relation
ship between him and Mrs. Goldsmith.
His mother’s grandmother was a half
sister to Mrs. Goldsmith’s grandmother.
Chief Juslioe Warner—When the Sen
ate is organised as a court of impeach*
Bient the question will be in order.
The qualifying of the Senators then
proceed 'd. Their names were called by
the Seoretary, and they came forward,
four at a time, and qualified by taking
the oath prctcribed by law. Mr. C&udler
asked to be allowed not to qualify until
the Senate bad passed on a question of
the propriety of bia sitting on the trial.
Tho Chief Justice said that question
could bo settled when the Coart was
organized. Mr. Candler was sworn.
After all the Senators had qualified, the
Chief Justice said he would hear Mr.
McDaniel. Mr. McDaniel then stated
the distant relationship between himself
and Mr. Goldsmith. Tho Chief Justice
said this was not a legal esense, but he
would submit it to the Senate.
Mr. Clarke argued that there was no
reason fer excusing Mr. McDaniel. The
roll was celled cn tho question as to
whether Mr. MeDasie! should sit in the
Court.
Mr. Candler wls excused from voting
on the question. Tho Senate also ex
cused Mr. Bussell. Mr. Turner was also
excused from voting cn the question. The
Senate unanimously decided that Mr.
McDaniel was qualified to eit.
Mr. Bussell then asked chat the Court
excuse himself and Mr. Candler, as they
bad been on the Committee which had ad
duced the evidence on which the im
peachment was based.
Tho Chief Justice said he did cot deem
tho excuse suffi.'itut to fxsmpl; tb>-m
from ttcir duty as trios in this c-aso. Ho
submitted ths question to the Soaato.
and there were 8 yeas to £9 nays. So
tho Senators wero not excused.
Mr. Speer said he bad been exposed
by the Senate fiom regular attendance,
ar.d as be would be unable to attend reg
ularly ou the Court, as his health was
bad. lie v.aa ther. iore excused.
To.e vote was taken by the sound,
Mr. Lester raised tho point of order that
all votes on such questions wero to ba ta
ken by the yeas and nays. The ch&ir
ruled the point well taken. Mr. Cum-
ming and Mr. Clarke said they .would
opposed tho motion to excuse Mr.
Speer,
Hr. Preston submitted to the chair
the question as to whether a Senator ab-
seut part of the time could vote on the
fiaal iaeue.
The Chief Justice said that he thonght
partial absence would not excuse a
Senator from voting, bat be would sub
mit this question to the Senate.
Mr. Clarke said this question would,
he thought; properly oome at the final
vole.
Mr. Preston argued that the question
ought to be settled now, so that Senators
might know whether they were compell
ed to bear every word of tho evi
dence.
Mr. Howell said it was impossible to
lay down any arbitrary rule on this ques
tion now. The proper time would bo on
the final issue, and in view of the full
light of each case.
Hr. Hudson argued that any Senator
could vote on any ebarge on wbich he
had heard the evidence.
Mr. Clarke’s point of order wus ruled
well token by tfce chair. The queetion
cn excasing Mr. Speer was then taken.
The yeas were 3 acd the neys 34. So
the Senator was not excused.
Mr. Turner said bo had certain con
nection with wild land transfers ana
he aubmitled a foil statement of the facts
in the case which the Seoretary read.
Mr. Bussell opposed creasing Mr.
Tarner. The Chief Jasliao said the ex
cuse was not sufficient in law. Ha,
however, submitted it to tbe t o rate. On
the motion of excusing Mr. Tarner the
yeas were 1, &nd tho nays 39. So he was
net excused. .
Tbe Chief Justice made announce
ment that the High Court of Impeach
ment was organized and was ready for
business.
Mr. Wellborn offered an order that the
House bo informed that the Oourt was
organized and ready to proceed with the
impeachment trial of W. L. Goldamiib,
Comptroller General. This wo3 adopted
and the House was informed by the Seo
retary.
In a few moments Messrs. Tarner of
Brooks, Pike of Jsokson, Hammond of
Thomas, Davis of Houston, Polbill of
Jefferson, and Adams of Chatham came
into the Senate and approached tire bar
thereof. They occupied seats on the
right of tho bar.
Chief Jostles Warner—Are the mana
gers of the House ready to prooeed with
the impeachment trial?
Mr. Tarner—With the usual reserva
tions we are ready.
Chief Jostioe—Will the respondent be
represented personally or by oooruel, or
by both.
Judge Hopkins—The respondent,
Washington L. Goldsmith, will be repre,
•anted personally and by osnnsel.Candler-
Thompaon, Henry Jackson, Hopkins and
Glenn.
The Secretary—Washington L. Gold
smith attend to thejarticles of impeach
ment which the House of Representatives
hsve preferred against yon and say
whether or not you are “guilty.” He
then proceeded to read the long articles
of impeachment.
Judge Hopkins for the .’respondent
waived reading of tho articles and the
House manager accepted the waivert A
final waiver was then tendered.
Judge HopklnB—aha defendant is not
now ready to make defense, and he asks
that ten days time be given him to pre
pare his defense. He then went on to
say that his counsel had been busy since
the articles bad been served. The time
asked for was time to make defense, and
for that only.
The Chief Justice—Is there any objec
tions on tho part of the State ?
Mr. Tarner—While we have no desire to
push tbe respondent to a preoipitate trial
fendBnt ten days to prepare his defense
The managers would be greatly gratified
if a shorter period would be set.
Mr. Cnmming offered an order allowi
ing the defendant until Monday, tbe 1>,
of September, to prepare his defc&ss-
bnt withdrew it.
Mr. Clarks offered an order to allow
the defendant until next Wednesday at 11
o’clock, and argued for the appointment
of that time.
Mr. Camming then offered an amend
ment that Monday, September 1st, be
fixed S3 the day for beginning the trial.
Mr. Harrison, favored the amendment
of Mr. Camming.
The question was put on the amend-,
meat of Mr. Camming, and the yeas
were 35; nays 7. So the amendment
was adopted.
The resolution of Mr. Clarke, as amend-
ed, was then put, and received 40 nays
to 1 cay.
Mr. Hawkins moved that tho oourt
adjourn to tbe fir.t Monday in Septem
ber. Agreed to. The Chief Justice gave
up the choir. '
The President—The Senate is now in
session for legislative purposes.
Mr. Bussell submitted a Report from
the Committee on Eirollment, which was
read.
The time of the session wa3 extecdod
indefinitely.
Mr. Clarks moved to taka np a bill to
amond the law on incorporations so as to
allow churches to be incorporated without
stating bow much capital stock they mty
have. The bill was read the second
time.
A resolution to authorize tho employ
ment of a stenographer' for tho coat at
impeachment was adopted.
we ask if it u noot*»ary to aiLw the d.- Ag.cvd —
Atlanta, August 21.
THE HOUSE
met at nine a. m., pursuant to adjourn
ment, tho Speaker in the chair. Prayer
by Bs v. J. Jones, the chaplain. The roll
was called, and the Journal read and ap-
roved.
Upon motion of Mr. Hanks of Whit
field, tbe House took ao and concurred in
thermeudmenta propoied by the Senate
to a vtli to amend section 2970 of the
oodo.
The unfinished business of yesterday
was taken up, which was a continuation
of the discussion upon the bill to lease
or Billtha Macon and Brunswick rail*
road.
The point where business was enspan-
ded yesterday was the amendment pro
posed by Mr, Polhill of Jefferson, which
was to this effeot to exclude anyone
having any interest in any road, fdpm
any oontrolover the lease of said road or
its freights on pain of forfeiture of said
lease.
Mr. Cox opposed the amendment.
Mr. Polhill spoke in its favor.
Mr. Paine of Chatham addressed tho
House also in favor of the amendmaat.
Mr. Cox proposed two verbal amend
ments to Section X. which were adopted.
The amendment proposed by Mr.
Polhiil was lost.
Mr. Rankin also proposed to amend by
icsarting“or monagomenV’af ier "tariff*.”
Adopted.
Thellih section wasroad and adopted
without amendment.
The 12th eestion was rood.
Mr. Strotbier moved to amend by pro
viding for a branch road to be built by
said lessees within two years from Augusta
to E-berton. Lost. Tho section was
adopted.
Section 13.a was read. Mr. Niabet
proposed to amend by inserting after
“to be paid in the recognized bonds of
the State of Georgia;” insert "or legal
money of the United States.” The
amendment was lost.
Mr. Livingston, of Newton, to aireud
by fixing tbo price of tbe road at $1,259,.
000 instead of $1,125,090. Withdrawn.
Mr. McWhorter moved, to amend by
striking out the latte; portion of the sec
tion. Lost.
Section thirteenth was adopted.
Section fourteenth was road, and on
motion of Mr. Miller, of Houston, the
House went into tbe committee or the
whole to consider tho section as it in*
volved the question of money.
Mr. Phillips, of Cobb, thought the sec
tion ought to bo stricken out and so
moved.
Mr. Harris, of Bibb, also made the
same motion.
Mr. Miller proposed a substitute for
the entiro section as follows: "That caid
company, who shall become tbe lessees
of said road, shall bs the agent ef the
State for the settlement of all the balances
doe from connecting roads to said Macon
and Brunswick Railroad, and all balances
dne by said Maccn and Brunswick Rail
road to other connecting roads. And in
case thero is any balance in favor of
said Macon and Brunswick Railroad, it
shall bs collected and paid in;o the State
Tf-t aw by *uoh agent, who shall report
to the G viwnor utl the facta attending
such colteo .oj, A ad in case there shall
bs any balance due connecting roads by
said Macon and Brunswick Railroad, such
agcntshall report to the Governor the
amount dne and all facts relative thereto,
and should the Governor, on examination
thereof, approve said claim, such agent
shall pay the same to . the connecting
road to which it is duo out of the rent
due tbe State from suoh agent, lessee of
said Macon and Brunswick Rail
road. And all other oatstanding or
floating debts and liabilities of said
Macon and Branswick Railroad con
tracted or made between the time
the said road becomes tbe property of
the State, and tho time the eaid lease is
made shall be presented to the Governor
in writing, by or before the next meet
ing of the General Assembly, before
which said claim shall bs laid by the
Governor for appropriate action thereon.
An! shall any causo be pending in the
courts of tbis State in which said Macon
and Brunswick Railroad is a party, it
shall proceed to a legal termination, just
as though said lease bad not been made.”-
Tee committee adopted too substitute
a d reported progress.
The House refused to agree to tue re
port of the committee, and on tbe mo
tion to strike out the entire section being
received, the entire aaotion waa s’ricken
out.
Mr. Anderson, ef Pulaski, moved to
amend section 11 as follows: "It shall
not be competent for the Governor to ap
point any perecn each commissioner,
who is the owner of any stock or toad
in any line of rail road in Georgia, com
peting' wish the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad, or who may bj directly or in
directly in the employment of suoh com
peting line.” Adopted.
Mr. Adams, of Oiatbam, proposed an
additional section providing for the sale
of tbo road at $1,250,009, if the uovern-
or can get it for tbe road.
On this question the yeas and nays
were ordered, and on Bumming np the
vote stood: yeas 30, nays 103. So tbe
proposed section was lost.
The question then recurred on a call
for the previous question.
The call was sustained, and the report
of the committee, whioh was favorable to
the passage of the bill, was agreed to.
The anestioa of the passage of the bill
was then put, and the yeas and nays
were o: dared, and the result of tho vote
showed that the yeas were 117 and tho
nays 26. Bo the bill passed.
A resolution by Mr. Yaney, of Clark,
to tender seats to the medical professors
during the ceremonies attendant upon
the reception of the portrait of Dr.
Crawford W. Long. Agreed to.
A MESSAGE FItOK THE SBNATX,
announcing that the Senate had resolved
itself ia s high oourt of Impesohment to
try Washington L. Goldsmith, Comptroll
er General of the State, for high crimes
and misdemeanors, and was ready to re
ceive the managers of said trial sppoint-
ed by t&e House to oouduot the same ox
tbe part of the State, and the managers
retired from the hall to the Sac ate clam
ber.
Mr. Wrigbt.of Riobraoad,moved to take
np the bill providing for a Board of Po
lice Commissioners in.Augusts, and con
sider the amendments proposed thereto
by the Senate. Concnrred in.
Mr. Dnbose moved that the Honrs ad*
journ itill this evening ct 3 p. m.
BY TELEGRAPH
London, August 20.—The health of Sir
Rowland Hill, cx-Seoretary of the General
Post-offioe, and originator of the plan for
a uniform penny postage system, has
been falling for come months. Last night
his condition became critical, and he now
lies at the point of death. Sir Rowland
is in his 85:h year.
London, August 21.—A dispatch from
Yiennatothe Daily Telegraph says the
Russian and English Commissioners have
seriously differed relative to tho deter
mination of tho Baeso-Totkiab frontier
in Asia, each disputing the accuracy of
the other’s map; Lord Dofferin, tho
British Ambassador at St. Petersburg,
has suspended, for a moment, the nego
tiations which were* procasding at St.
Petersburg, on this Eubject.
A Berlin dispatch to the Daily Kcwseays
some persona pnt the nnmber of cruis
ers for construction of which, in Ameri
ca, Russia is negotiating as high as
twenty-two; bntfiva or less seems the
more probable number.
A correspondent of the Times writes
that John Baldwin Bl&oksfone, the fa
mous oomediau and dramatic author, for
many years lease and manager of tbo
Haymarket Theater, suffered a second
paralytic seizure a few days ago, and is
now probably on his death bad, and that
ha is in destitute circumstances.
Sr. Cathzoisss, O.nt., August 21.—A
sharp shook of earthquake was felt here,
at 2 53 this morning.
Niagara, New York, August 20.—
There was a severe shock of earthquake
here at 3 this morning.
Washington, August 21.—Dispatches
from Port Dalbooy, Dolphonsie, Theoral,
Welland, Alansbury, Beansvillo and Port
Rohinson, Canada, report severe shocks of
earthquake abont 3, tbis a. m.
Memphis, August 21.—Two new cases
were reported to the Board of Health
this morning—Mrs. F. Millbrandon and
A. E. Speers. Four deaths occurred—J,
W. Haven. Frank Lundsday, Camille
Jemmie and Richard Major, colored.
At a meeting of citizens residing in
the southern portion of the city, held
last night, strong resolutions were adopt
ed protesting against the enforcement of
the law reosntly passed by tho State
Board of Health at Nashville, prohibit
ing citizens from venturing beyond their
premises between thS bcurs of six?.at.
and four p. si.
A telegram from Rcgersville, Erst
Tennessee, announces the death yester
day of Captain Sim. R. Gammon, a
prominent criminal lawyer, who was re
cently Assistant Attorney General of the
Criminal Court.
Washington, August 20.—Tho coa-
traot for the delivery of mail matter be
tween the post-office and departments in
New Orleans was awarded to Y/. J.
Jamss for $4,878. The same oontraot for
Richmond was awarded to James Syoa-
ney for $1,176.
Mxhphx*, August 21 —At noon to
day the guards whioh hod bean stationed
n the streets between here and Chelsea,
for the purpose of isolating that eubnrb,
so that it should net become infected
with the fever, were withdrawn by the
city authorities. Toe citizens of Choisaa
threw so many obstacles in the way of
attempted quarantine restriction?, and
objected ao strenuously to its farther con
tinuance that the authorities wore forced
to abandon thoir effort?.
Twenty-six cases in ail wore reported
to-day, seven white and nineteen color
ed. Two additional deaths have occurred,
Am sad i Yates, colored, and E‘!a Poach.
Toe last named rosided beyond the oity
limits. At tho meeting of th9 Executive
Committee of Safety this morning, Rev.
Dr. Beggs, John Joaslon, General W.
G. Smith, D. F. Goodyear acd W. ’W.
Tnatoher, were appointed a committee
to estimate the expenses neosssary for
the maintenance of the people cow in
the camps, until it is safe for them to re
turn to the city. The expenses of the
Safely Committee to date are $9,615.
All money deposited with the National
Park Bank of New York, for the credit
of the First National Bink of Memphis,
will be paid in Memphis free of charge.
The Old Fellows home appealed to ab
sent members for lands to enable them
to nurse sick members of their order.
This is dona to avoid tho necessity of the
Grand Master’s calling for assistance
from the order at larg£. The "Shoul
der to Shoulder” Club of St, Andrew’s
Seoiety of Memphis, calls on their sister
societies for assistance. AU communica
tions should bs addressed to R. W.
Lamb.
The thermometer ha3 ranged from 67
to 91 degrees.
Baltimore, August 21.—The tug An
nie B-ll, from the Litre: Chesapeake,
arrived to-day, and brought up Captain
William Donelly and two of the crew of
the schooner John C. Henry, of Phila
delphia, wrecked in the gala of Monday
last. They were rescued by the German
ship Agra, after having clang to tjie top
mast all night. Mrs. Donolly died eu
the rigging where she was lashed, end
from which her body was recovered end
buried on Gynnn’s Island.
Among the wrecks by the galo of Mon
day in the Chesapeake Bay was ti a three-
masted schooner Jennie A. Sheppard,
honoe with coal for New H&ven. Jacob
A. Eigell, brother of tbs enptain, wa3
washed overboard and drowned. John
R. Harrington, first mate, was washed
overboard, but was rescued.
Washington, August 21 —Ths Missis
sippi River Improvement Commission
met sgsin to-day, and beard the report of
tho committees appointed yesterday
The committee on statistics and informa
tion, submitted a plan providing for a
full report by competent effioers upon
the trade and oommeroe of the Missis
sippi Valley to bs in readiness by the
time the Commission is prepared to bo-
gin work.
The committee to which wa3 entrusted
the preparation of operations for the en
suing year, submitted a report providing
for the filling up of gap3 in existing sur
veys between Cairo and tho head of
the passes, so as to complete the official
survey of the whole river; also for making
bsaringa and sediment observations at
neoessary points for gnsging shallow.
Tho reports of both committees, after
a fall consideration and discussion, were
adopted. It is expected that Lieutenant
Smith S. Leach, of the Engineer Corps,
will be designated by the Secretary of
War, as permanent Secretary of the Com*
mission. He will be its executive
officer with headquarters at St. Louis,
and will be under tbo immediate notion
of tbe ioosl committee) ohosen from the
Western members, and will be entrusted
with the disbursement ef funds appropri
ated for tbe use of the commission. No
selections have been made for any subor
dinate positions. The commission ad-
j turned this afternoon to meet at St.
Lonis, in tbe month of November next?
There will, however, ba a meeting of a
part of ite members, inolnding Generals
Gilmore and Comstock, Professor
Mitchell, Major Howard and Major Sat-
ten, at St. Lcnis on tbo 1st of October,
for the pnropose of arranging for the or
ganization of the parties to take the field.
Mississippi City, August 21.—B. B.
Pearson, Superintendent Public Educa
tion of Harrison county, killed John D.
Henkerton of New Orleans,between three
and four o’clock this evening.
The difficulty grew out of a quarrel
about a ’.drink that Henkerton claimed
that Pearson had not paid for. Pearson
remarked that any one that wanted to
fight him should come out of the bar
room, Henkerton advanced on Pearson.
Peat son drew his pistol and fired. Henker-
toa started to run and Pearson fired
again. Ono shot passed through Henker-
ton's aria and flattened against his skull
above the eye. The other shot entered
his left aide and lodged in his right side.
OMcagoTimes.] .... . .
Ab the Senator, stood on the sea-beat
shore, poking the pebbles with his urn-
broils, his Hyperion lock damp with tho
brine, and his msgnifioent torso heaving
with unwonted emotion, he must have
asked with little Dombey—he oould not
but have asked, "What is the wild
Sprcgu: 333ISZ
WHY THE ROBIN'S BREAST IS RED
The Saviour bowed beneath his cross,
G!omb up the dreary bin.
While from his aionizinx brow
Baa many a crimson rill.
The brawny Roman threat him on,
With unrelenting hand.
Till st»B?erins slowly mid the crowd.
He feu upon ths sand.
A little bird who warbled near,
That immemorial day.
Fluttered around and gently strove
To pluck one thorn away.
Ths croc! spike impaled his breast.
And thus 'tis sweetly said.
Ths robin has his silver vest
Incarnadined with red.
Ah. Jesa I Jesu!! Prince of Peace,
My dol or and my sighs.
Be veal the lesson taught by this
Wingei Ishmael of the skies.
L in thepalaoa of delight.
Or caverns ot despair.
Have plucked no thorn from thy dear brow.
But plantel thousands there.
Janes R Band all.
If yon have been drinking too much,
which, however, you should never do,
dose of Dr. Bali’s Baltimore pills will
plaoe yon in good condition again.
How Sbe Bleached Out.
Philadelphia Times.]
The story which came all the way from Ar
kansas ths other day abont a negro whoso
black body was gradually but perceptibly
besoming white, thus making a long-delayed
but affirmative answer to the scriptural ques
tion of tbo prophet Jeremiah, seems to litve
found a fellow in this end of tbe world—
New Jersey. The Western story styled the
phenomenon as "the greatest wonder of the
age.” Egg Harbor, noted for grapes and
watermelons, has just another such a freak
of nature as that of an " Ethiopian who can
change bia skin.” She was in her early yonth
very black, bat is now almost as white as a
Oancasaian. This Mrs. Emeretta Bowling,
abont 28 years old, is living with her husband
in that wine-growing community of Germans
that have made the sandy soil of the Jersey
blossom as a zose. Bowling was of negro
parentage, bom black—a color which she re
tained until the ago ot fourteen years. This
phenomenon of nature then made its appear
ance on the back of her nock in perfectly
whito spots; thence it extended to the back
of her hand, whence for nearly a dozen
years it gradually continued to overspread
her entire poison in every direction, each
spot being about (he s.’zs of a copper penny
and so eloso together as to almost entirely
eradicate the blackness which once distin
guished her. There is now on her body but
ono narrow black strips about the lower lip
and ono also about tho neck, both covering
not two eqnare inches. These stripes are in
each striking contrast with the common
whiteness as to look like sores, for which
they are almost always taken.
THIS 43EOHUIA I'lUiSS.
Gborgz Williams, the negro who was
arrested in Alabama charged with the
DeLor murder and carried to Atlanta,
had a hearing cn Wfdacsdiy, and ws3
acquitted. Then he was turned loose
upon the streets, without a cent, Co beg
his way home. The Atlanta police, or
those of them who found tbis mare’s nest,
cu;hi to bo made to pay his expenses
homo and give him something besides*
Hia arr.sl was one oi the stupidest
blandera we ever knew, acd a blander of
this sort is worse tb&n a crime.
Ths resolution muring Dr. Crawford
W. Long and General James Oglethorpe
as the chosen representatives of tho State
of Georgia, to be placed in the National
Gallery cf Statues, at the National Capi
tol in Washington, having passed both
branches of the Legislature unanimously,
was yesterday signed by Governor Col
quitt, and a copy of it is being prepared
to be sent to President Hayes, in accord,
ance with the resolution offered by Mr:
Yanoey.
. Georgia Normal School Pupils.—
State School C immiosionor Orr writes
tbe following letter to tho Atlanta Con
tiitution:
Georgia nowhas ct ths Normal College
at Nashville, Tonn., seven pupils on tho
Peabody scholarship Two of these are
mates and five females. I am author-
izsd by Dr. Sears, the general egect, to
increase lbs nnmber to twenty. This
wiii involve the appointment of thirteen
to tho aditioaal scholarship. I have de
termined that seven of the new appoin
tees shall be males and six femalee. pro-
vided the merits of the examination shall
jastify that apportionment of ths places
between tbe sexes. Tbis will moke the
whole numbor of males niuo and the
number of females eleven. I make (his
dieorimi&alion in favor of the females,
because fewer avenues to honorable eelf-
suppoit are open to that sex.
Each appointee will be entitled to free
tuition, oed will reoeive $200 per annum
in monthly installments of $25.
The epplioant for a scholarship must be
at losst seventeen years of age, mast
produce a certificate of irreproachable
moral character and gentlemanly or lady
like habits, must give a pledge to remain!
at tue college two years, if the scholar
ship he continued so long, promise to
submit cheerfully to its requirements in
stady, discipline, etc., and to teach in the
pnblio schools at least two years, if there
is oppertnnity.
Candidates will be examined in spell-
ing, reading, penmanship, grammar and
analysis, geography, civil and physical,
ClemeLts ct geoioetrv, dements of obem-
istiy, physiology, U sited States history
and LlecDtrnts of geology.
The last two paragraphs are quoted, al
most word for word, from a circular is
sued by Dr. Stearns, the president.
I have decided to make choice from
among applicants cn the merits of a com-
putition examination. The examination
will be conducted in writing. Examination
papers will ba prepared for distribution.
A copy of these papers will bs sent to
some friend cf mine resident in the county
of the applicant, who will represent me
hi the examination.
In addition to the subjects of examina
tion mentioned above, I will add* a few
questions on Latin and physics, as a sat
isfactory examination on tbem might be
aocepted in lien of eome ot the prescribed
studies.
As the whole object contemplated in
the bestowal of the scholarship is to in
crease the supply of well trained teach
ers, I will require an expression of opin
ion from the last teacher of the applicant
as to whethor, judging from the mental
trails, habits of study and general char
acter of said applicant, he believes the
applicant capable of becoming a first-class
teacher.
This opinion will bs considered, aa well
68 the charaoter of examination, in choos
ing from among the applicants.
’ Fortner instructions will be sent out
with tbe examination papers.
Tbo written exeroisss of tho applicants
must be returned to tbis office by the 20th
of September proximo. No exercises com
ing after tbat date will be considered.
Tne college term begins the first Wednes
day in October. Hence no more time
than tbat above stated can be given.
GuaTAVua J. Obh,
State School Commissioner.
The office of the Atlanta Good Templar
is advertised for sale by the sheriff. Why
didn’t the editor appeal to the Legisla
ture for aid? No Atlanta institution
should bo allowed to go to pot after this
faahicn without exhausting all remedies.
Ed Williams, a merchant of Nacooohee
Valley, shot and dangerously wounded
William Faller last Tuesday. William
got the drop bat missed.
A Radical View of Georgia Politics—
Tbe Atlanta Dispatch, under the above
head, has the following in its edition of
Wednesday afternoon:
The Washington National Republican,
ot Monday, prints an interview with Hon.
Madison Bell, of this oity, on tbe aab-
j sot of Georgia politics. Mr, Bell, of
oonrse, gave prominence to tbe investiga
tion or Damooratio offioials and the im
peachment proceedings now going on.
Ha repiesentsd that they all “grew out ef
sn >cxiety to bring Governor Col*
quitt’a admlsistratiofl into disrepute,”
and intimated that they would be as
fruitless as “tbe investigation of Repub
lican offioials a few years ago.” He
names the following as “organized” Dem
ocrats who are regarded as candidates for
Governor: “Colonel Thomas Hardeman,
Jr., of Bibb connty; Hon. James B.
Brown, of Cherokee ooanty; Hon. A. O.
Booon, present Speaker of tbe House of
Representatives; General A. R. Lawton,
of Savannah; General L. J. Gartrell, of
Atlanta, and Jndge Hiram Warner, now
Chief Justice of the Supreme Coart of
the State. Governor Colqnitt, it is
thonght, also desires the nomination,
partly to vindicate his administration
from the severe oritioisms that have been
msda against it.”
He announces that the Independents
will also run a candidate with a strong
probability of success, as there is a grow
ing feeling among Democrats against
“caucusses, rings and nominating con*
ventions.”
So mnch for what Mr. Bell ba3 to say
abont the Democrats. Ho can speak
more knowingly and authoritatively of the
ccnrso which his own party, the Repub
licans, will pursue, and this we consider
the most noteworthy and reliable part of
the interview. He says that “the Repub
licans are not likely to ran a candidate,”
and adds:
"The vote of the Republicans may be
thrown for the Democratic candidate who
treats them most kindly, and who is most?
fair-minded and just toward them and
their views in the fostering cf public
schools, the establish moat of manufac
turing enterprises, and tho general agri
cultural interests of the State.
“The Republicans will, however, run
cn electoral ticket, and with the divis
ions among the Democrats for State po
sitions, will bs enabled to throw more
votes for the Republican nominee than
if they had a fail State ticket m tho
field.
"Tbe Republicans of the State are not
fally agreed as to who shall be the
Presidential candidate of the party.
General Grant, Secretary Sherman and
Senator Blaine each have warm friends.
Mr. ShermaD, however, seems in the
lead, and by tho time the National Con
vention meets, may gain a majority of
the delegation.”
QTna Primitive Baptist brethren of
Enon Chuich, Meriwether county, are in
a bad way. '{hey heve quarrelled al
most to the point of fighting, over tho
qaestion whether a member can join the
Masons or Old Fellows and remain in
church'fellowship, and ths result ia like
ly to be a divided church.
Cheap.—The Columbus Enquirer Sun,
casually remarks under the above hoad,
that the Senate, on Tuesday, “talked
ecoaomy to death on a public printing
bill. Their pay par hour amounts to a
heavy sum. They want the printing
done cheapest. Why do they not reduce
their own pay to tho lowest possiblo lim
it, beard at a cheap bashory and charge
tbe State only for the actnal necessities of
life? Tbat would be the rigid economy
they prate about. This would be in ac
cordance with professions. We are real
ly pleased that they do not act that way.
It would be gratifying if there was leea
talk abont economy in little matters.”
A State Road brakeman named Ter
rell, fell eff the top of a car near Marieb
ta the other night, and only had one leg
broken, although the Marietta Journal
says “four oar btxss passed over him.’ 1
Terrell must be a decidedly tough cuato
cent-” Hs does not have eTen the
self-possession or the oourage to make a
diversion upon Sprague and to say
to him, “Sir, yon are a scoundrel who
have attacked your own wife through
me, and I will hold yon responsible.” He
does nothing of the Boit. His greatness
restrains him. He flies back to Ulioa,
to the wife he has deserted, to the daugh
ter he tried to bnmiliate, and, oowering
behind these good women, hs asks the
coantry to believe him guiltless, while it,
in company with Spragae, punishes the
daughter of the great Chief Jostioe.
Iwishlmay.be harpooned—and I am
sure I don’t want to be harpooned—if
ever I heard of anything like it iu all my
perusal of wicked history from Claudius
down to Henry Ward Beecher. I oan
find nothing at all akin to it anywhere,
not even in “plantation manners.”
Why, do yon know tbat I am credibly
informed that Mr. Can si ing was assured
by the Now York papsra that ir he would
authorize a ds&ial of ths whole thing, on
his honor as a man and a Senator, they
would not only suppress the details, but
unite in an indorsement, and, if needed,
a defense, and that Mr. Conkling re
fused. God of the universe! where' are
the Bibios, where are the stacks of. Bibles,
so high that the meanest wretoh would
not mount them, as npon nn altar, and
light the pile with his own hands, and
amid the fismes beneath, swear to tbe
honor of the woman who had trn3ted
him,’and who Btood compromised by his
aot, until hia secses left him?
Baltimore Sund
Dr. R. W. Mitchell, the intrepid yel
low fever physician of Memphis, describes
the oity as wholly cat off from the world.
Thero are no trains rnnning into or out
of tbe town, and nobody leaves the plaoe
without the authorities knowing it. No
steamboats lend there at all. The sup
plies are all brought down on barge 3,
whioh are dropped by the steamboats a
flash. We will now return to a specie
basis. When yon want money oome to
me and I will give yon a nickel, and yon
will tell me what yon intend to bay with
it, or I’ll warm yon. Yon hear me.’’
And now that man stands around from
the effects of the encounter with the yel
low dog, and asks every man where a let
ter will reach Bob Ingersoll. He says he
will kill kill Ingersoll, it u the last noble
aot he ever accomplishes
If 5on want your baby to look bright
do not pnt it to sleep with laudanum
when restless, bat use Dr, Ball’s Baby
Syrup. 25 centa a bottle.
Tbe i>lmnssion in tbe House on
(Hs Macon and Hrooswltk
Hntlroad Extension,
Tho intense haired of Mr. Wadley and
the Central Railroad developed thus far
in the debate upon the lease, and compul
sory extension of the Macon and Brans
wick Railroad to Atlanta, bids fair to
culminate at this writing, in the passage
of the bill by a considerable majority.
A friend just returned from Atlanta
says quite a large number of members
who will voto for the measure
are in reality opposed • to it,
and do so, confident that the
terms imposed npon tho lessees will ren
der the act a virtual nullity. Bat they
cannot forego tho delicious opportunity
of venting their spleen upon the heed
of the President 0! the Central Railroad.
This, however, is at best a sorry revenge.
We are informed also that those opposed
to either lease or sale are alike indifferent
whether ths bill fails or goes through..
Many consider its success tantamount to
defeat, from tho fact that no sane com
pany or capitalist would be willing to
tackle such an elephant.
Think of the cost of the privilege
of getting into position to fight the Cen-
ooupleof milesabove the oity and allow- 7- ?-;r? , -. . . „ ,, —,
ed to float down. When they arrive at I ^ w already m the field, and
the city men in skiffs or tugs secure them able to a ° t9n tlm9a freightage
Still at It.—The Journal has the fol
lowing under this head:
Gevernor-making is still going on os
if it was a matter ot iife and death. The
letest racers entered for the heat are as
follows s The Ogiethorpo Echo suggests
Joseph E. Brown; the Rome Tribune
advocates Daniel S. Priutnpl; the Quit-
man Free Press champions Mr, Turner,
Chairman of tho Judiciary Committee;
the Newnan Leader leads off for
Judge Hiram Warner; and the Athens
Banner battles for Colquitt. Messrs.
Gartrell, Lawton, Lester, Stephens, But
ler, Bacon, Hardeman, Blount, Tete
Smith, Blackley, Wofford, Reese, Jim
Brbwn, Toombs, and a host of others,
have bad their names tossed before the
public for some time, to say nothing of
the ominous black hors a and whickering
gray mule. It is gratifying indeed to
have each a brilliant array of good
names from which to select the next
Governor of this grand old common
wealth; but one thing ia certain, only
ono ot them can win the blue ribbon,
the rest will have to choke down their
disappointment, ba sponged off and blan
keted for some race thereafter.
The Liwrenoeville Herald, grows some
what indignant over the failure of the
law for the inspection of fertilizers to an
swer public expectation, and adds: “Oar
observation and experience, and we doabt
not that of half the planters of Georgia,
is that this analysis has not elevated the
standard, and that thero are ps many
worthless brands of guano pnt on the
market a3 has ever been dono before. If
this ba true, then we are not benefited.
But this is not all. Under the form of
contracts drawn and exeonted, and the
decision of tho courts construing these
oontracts, this imposition is frequently a
curse to the buyer who purchases on its
faith. He is compelled totake it on the
inspector’s certificate or not at all, and
then this certificate or brand is need ia
the coarts as an estoppel to close his
mouth when he appeals to that coart to
iroteot him from an infamous swindle.
Why should guano bo peculiarly pro
tested by the law above any other come
modity ? What peculiar claims have th»
manufacturers of fertilizers over ether le«
gitimate business that they should re
ceive the protection of courts alone over
other interests ? Oar deliberate jadg-
ment is that it would be better for tho
State to repeal all inspection laws, and
let fertilizers stand like other manufac
tured articles, npon its merits. The man
who sells floor, meat, meal, w3gons, ma
chinery, tools, stock—in fact everything,
takes the risk of its being wbat it is rep
resented. In every sale the seller war
rants that tho thing sold is reasonably
suited for the ass intended, and if ho mis
represents its n38 or value tho penalty
falls on him. He can’t collect his debt.
Why not let gnano stand on the same
footing ? Let tho manufacturer under
stand that the law gives him no extra
protection, and if ho makes a worthless
article and manages to palm it off on the
public that he will be canghtand exposed
and oannot collect his pric.e. Yon there
by transfer the responsibility to where it
legitimately belongs. If he oannot sus
tain the charaoter and usefulness of his
fertilizer before the courts, let him re
tire from the business. In onr judgment
the repeal of all inspection laws and the
opening of the door to all manufactures
is onr aafeBt protection.
Watterson on tbe Big Scandal.
Bbck Island letter to Courier Journal.]
For my part I don’t believe it. I be
lieve her to be a vain, and to have always
been a daring, imprudent woman, not a
wanton, and I must say that the provoca
tion she has had from her husband, and
the oonrse which Mr. Conkling has pur
sued, together with the wretched plight
in whioh I know her now to be, fill me
with a sympathy I never expeoted to feel
for ber. She is the daughter of one of
the greatest men this country ever pro
duced, a woman in dlatreas, abused and
brow-bsaten by her hnBband, betrayed
and deserted by her lover, and that ia
enough for me.
Mr. • Conkling, with characteristic
avoidance of contamination to hia gentle-
manhood, haa fled the field. He de
clines to appear in his own person. He
first invents a most absurd statement to
the press. Hs next prepares, not for
himself, but for Mrs. Sprague, to sign
an inconsistent, illogical statement to the
la the first person singular he
pnblio.
has never a word to ntter. He does not
say, “I let my charaoter go—do what contribution box, and said:
you will with it—but the woman is inuo- 4 ‘ 1 “ “—
■ tugs !
and bring them to the landing. If there
ia any fever cirtiod abroad, it is done by
some daring pedler, who runs his wagon
of supplies into tbe town on a venture,
sella out, cud then dears out.
Philadelphia Times.l
Mr. Cassanave, the only membsrofthe
Louisiana Returning Board who hasn’t
a comfortable position under the Federal
government, is In Washington to see
abont it. He is a colored man, as nearly
everybody will remember, and he
wouldn’t feel so bad abont ths situation,
if it wasn’t for the faot that, while he
has been left, something more than
twenty of the relatives of Anderson and
Weils have been bandsomely taken care
of. Mr. Cassanavo might as well do the
best be can with this administration, as it
may be the last one authorized to provide
for the Rstnrning Board and its relatives.
N-. T. Special of 19th to Phil, Times.]
Ex-Governor Hendricks in conversa
tion to-day said that be wrote the
letter refusing to take second place on
tiie ticket of 1880 with deliberation,
having been forced to do so by tho mis
representations to whioh he was subject
ed. He said: "It was openly announced
in the Pennsylvania newspapers that I
had written to Democratic friends in
that State and elsewhere, saying that I
was in favor of the old ticket. They
even pretended to quote m7 words and
represented me &s saying that the re-
nomination of the St. Lonis candi
date was a thing to bo commend
ed. I never made each an avow
al and never said anything which
oould be tortured into it. I desire the
SUCC3SS of the Democracy as heartily as
any one and am as ready to sink personal
preferences as any one, but I can see no
reason why I should be forced to take the
nomination for an office which I never
sought and do not desire. I accepted in
1876 because the circumstances attending
it rendered snch a coarse imperative.
The nomination waa tendered unanimous
ly and in suoh a way that I could not
have retired without doing serious injury
to the ticket and Bppearing ungtacioua
not only to the convention, but to the
friends who had worked 00 hard for me.
Now the case is different. They know and
the public know that I do not want the
place, and never wished it.’’ Mr. Hen
dricks reiterated that he coaid not bo in
duced to accept the nomination for second
plaoe. _
Fever and Ague, Indigestion, etc., to use
Dr. Bull's Baltimore Pills, whose curative
power over these diseases is gratef ally ap
preciated by thousands. Price only 25
cents. _
How He Tested Ingersoll’3 The
ory. -
Detroit Free Press,]
Colonel Ingersoll says he keeps a pock
et book in an open drawer, and bis chil
dren go and help themselves to money
whenever they want it. “They eat when
they want tc; they may sleep all day if
they choose, and sit up ail night if they
desire. I don’t try to coerce them. I
never panisb; never ecold. They buy
their own clothes, and are masters of
themselves.”
A gentleman living on Marshall street,
who has a boy that is as full of kitteay
os bis father, read the article and pon
dered deeply. He knew that Colonel In-
gersoll was a snooess at raising children
in the way they sSould go, and he thonght
ho would try it. The boy had caused
him considerable annoyance, and he made
up his mind he had not treated the boy
right, so he salted the boy in from the
street, where he was putting soft soap
on a lamp post in order to see the lamp
lighter climb it, and eaid to him:
“My son, I have decided to adopt o
different coarse with yon. Heretofore I
have been careful about giving you
money, and have wanted to know where
every cent went to, and my supervision
ha3 no doubt been annoying to yon. Now,
I am going to leave my pocket-book in
tho bureau drawer, with plenty of money
in it, and you are at liberty to use sll
Soggestion is a privilege all can make
use of, and we would suggest to the my
riads of sufferers from Billions Fever, approach ta the oity, next to tho M. & W.
that offers.
First, $60,030 par annum must be
guaranteed to the State for three years
with ample security'
Second, Two hundred thousand dollars
more must bo expended forthwith in
rolling stock and improvements under
penalty of the forfeiture of the lease.
Third, nolens volens, on and before the
expiration of three years tbat inevitable
extension to Atlanta must ba completed,
let it cost wbat it may, whether one and
a half or two millions of doller3. Fail
ing to do thte, tho lessees I030 all their
work and investments, and tho whole
property reverts squarely back to the
State. Now who in the nam9 ef eommon
senEe would accept suoh a one-sided props
oaiiion, with the Herculean task in tho
bargain afterwards also of whipping out
Mr. Wadley ? AU the time and money
expended upon the consideration of the
lease, therefore, in its present shape, is
tbe merest Buncombe, and very costly
Buncombe st tbat to onr depleted tax
payers. Acd to it has proved, and will
prove at least in soma of th9 oostly in
vestigations instituted by onr economical
law-givets. All we ask, however, is that
tho gnilty may not be whitewashed and
allowed to esoape.
Since pscoiUing the above, the night
letter ot onr special Atlanta correspon
dent “Carolynn” announces the passage
of the lease, coupled with the forced ex
tension, by an overwhelming majority.
This was just whst wo expeoted, bat tho
best informed railroad men think that,
aside from the pronounced antagonism
with the Central railroad, no practical
conclusion has been reached. It may
now bs safely asserted that the State wilt
contnue to operate the road as hereto'
fore.
—Says the New Xoric Kan: Look at tho
runaway boys in there days of Indian-killing
literature. Last werk two Boston boys,
loaded with revolvers and scalping knives,
were overhauled in Jersey City, eu rente to
tho lava beds of the West, and yesterday
two Brooklyn yonths, eiruUarly equipped,
were cruelly led back to their farthers and
mothers.
—OoL Wellesley, a son of Lord Charles
Wellesly, hte msdo a sooial uproar in Lon
don by eloping with an actress of that oily.
Miss YaughWL
Are Toby “Pre historic,” Ahtsdi-
luvian, ob What?—For several years
past tbo waters of tha 7ineville Branch
have been gradually onttino that* —x,
lower and lower, into the yielding soil
whioh succumbs to every freshet. The
Railroad, in.oonseqnsnce, owing to the
extraordinary rainfall of the
last month, has been ren
dered almost impassable by tbe un
earthing of several immense cypress
stumps, whioh have been completely cov
ered as long es th9 "oldest inhabitant”
can remember. Taey rise in the midst
of the ford, and quite effectually block
tha passage of pleasure vehicles. The
writer, to make care of the identity of these
exhumed remains of a far distant period,
employed an axaman to cat into them,
and the chips proved to t>9 ot heart
cypress. Now comes the qaestion, how
Jong has it beon since these gigantic
denizens of the swamp reared their lofty
crests in the immediate vicinity of Ma
con’s most salubrious, beautiful and elo 5 *
vated eubnrb, Yineville?
We leave tho question to be decided
by the quidnuncs and antiquarian "inves
tigators.”
In the meantime, however, will oar
City Fathers proceed tS grub up the
monsters and open the way to travel once
more, or, bettor etill, bridge this oft-
times angry and swollen stream ?
Thera ia rock enough on the spot to
erect tho necessary oulvert, and action in
the premisss should not bs delayed.
PuioiS in 1863 and To-d iy —As indie stive
^ ) “ iw t ™. of the remarkable general decline inprioes
yon want without asking me. I want eating the past decade, the following ieoi-
yon to buy anything you desire, buy ,jent 1B related by tho Boston Commercial
your own clothes, and to feel as though
tho monoy was yours, and that you had
not got to aocoant for it. Just make
yourself at home now, anl try and have
a good time.”
The boy looked at tbe old gentleman,
put his hand on his head, as though ho
had "got ’em sure,” and went ont to see
the lamp-lig&ter climb that soft seap.
The next day the stern parent went out
into the country, shooting, and returned
on the midnight train three days later. He
oponed the door with a latch-key, and a
strange yellow dog grabbed him by the
elbow of his pants, and took him, he said,
"like the agur.”
The dog narked and chewed until the
son oame down in his night shirt and
called him off. Hs told his father he
had bonght that dog of a fireman fer $11,
and it was probably the best dog bar
gain that had' been made this season.
He said the fireman told him he coaid
find a man that wanted that kind of a
dog.
The parent took off bis pants, whst
the dog had not removed, and in the hall
ho stumbled over a biroh-buk eanoe tbe
boy bought of an Indian 'for $9, and an
army musket with an Iron ramrod fell
down from the oorner. The boy had
paid $6 for that. He had also bonght
himself an overcoat with a seal-skin ool-
lar and oaffs, and a oomplete outfit of
calico shirts and silk stockings.
In h'S room the parents found the mar
ble top of a soda fountain, z wheelbar
row and shelf filled with all kinds of
canned meat, preserves and crackers,
and a barrel of apples* A wall tent and
six pairs of blankets were rolled up ready
for camping out, and a bucksbin shirt and
a pair of corduroy pants lay on the bed
ready for pulling on. Six fishing-poles
and a basketful of fieh lines were ready
for business, and an oyster oan fall of
grab-worms for bait were squirming on
the washsland. Ths old gentleman look
ed tbe lay-out over, looked at his pocket-
book in the bureau drawer, as empty as a
“Young man, the times have bseij too
Bulletin: 'A prominent drag and paint firm
of this oity were reoentiy called upon to
duplicate an order for white lead and linseed
oil, filled in 1863, and npon examination of
their old aoooonts found that the charge for
the foimer article was $14 25 per hundred
and for the latter $120 per gallon. lo-dsy
they are selling at $9 59 and 65 ceats respec
tively. At tbe time above referred to, aloo-
bol sold at $3 per gallon; to-day it is quoted
at $3 C2. Spirits turpentine brought 75
oents per gallon; to-day it sells at 27% cents.
Naptha was held at 43 ceats; to-day it is
7 cents.
—Gov. Talbot of Massachusetts declines a
seoond rsoa with the following remarks in
writing to the ohairmut of tbe Republican
Stats Commutes: 'Early in ths year, after
careful deliberation, I determined to with
draw from official position at the first oppor
tunity. The reasons for this decision are
entirely disconnected from matters of either
State or political consideration. They are
personal to myself and satisfy my judgment
andBenseof duty. They are impirtiiland
conclusive. My aotion is final, as my ambi
tion doos not reach ont to a oontinnanoe of
public honors, and I shall pua with the
follnese of content from ths Chief Magis
tracy of this Commonwealth to tha walks of
private li'e, convinced tho dignity »nd in
dependence of the citizen axe more to be
prized than plaoe and power.’
The Aluu.ua Cotton Crop.—We clip the
following from the Mobile Advertiser of the
20th: A citizen of Bailer county who has
Just traveled through that connty and Lown
des, informs ns that the nut is doing con
siderable damage in ths latter connty.
Mr. Mat Davis, of Bntler oonnty, oanied
three bales of ootton, ot the new crop, into
Greenville, on Friday, and Mr. Archie Lnokle
oanied one bale on Saturday. Mr. Daria*
ootton sold for 9 3-1 oents per pound, and
Mr. Dickie’* sold for 10 oents.
A correspondent from Hale oonnty to
the Be’ma Times Bays: Tbe ootton crop has
gone back on tbe planter since that time at
tout one-third, and in some places one-half.
Upon the whe’o the ootton crop will not be
more than 60 per oent, owing to the exoea*
sive wst weather, whioh has produced cater
pillars, boll worms, and rust; besides tbe
boil worm is very numerous and destructive,
more so than I have seen them since 1868.
Oar bog and hominy oropa bold good as yet,
though I notioe some Utils sign of the com
rotting on tin stalk, bat noihirg serious
yet’
—Tbe Democrats of Washington Oonnty,
Miss., have nominated a colored nun for
tne Slate Legislature.
The Dabisn Canal—The World of Use
19lh says it will not surprise readers to
learn to-day that M. de Leseeps has formal
ly ensDended his attempt to organize a com
pany for the oonstraction of his Darien
oaD&l.
—The suicide of Pennet, at Atlantic, N-
0., was accomplished by laying himself at
fall length on a high bridge, with his bead
protrading over the edge, tying one end of a
Jong rope aroard his neck and the other to
a heavy stone, and then dropping the etene,
so that its j ark broke ids neck.
—Mrs. Oooley astounded her neighbors,
st Manchester, O., after ebe bad for ten
years lain abed with a spinal disease, by cal
ling oa them early one moruieg, shouting
’Glory,’ and explaining that, in answer to an
entire night of prayer, sbe had been mIracB*«
lously cured.
Galcsha Gsow roa ins Hues rut Mission.
A Washington dispatch to the Pittsburg
Commercial says, before leaving Secretary
Evarts had a conference with the President,
in which Hon. Galetraa A. Grow was praoti*
call7 agreed Upon for oce of the vacant
missions, preferably the Bnssian,
— Tha bed of tho river along tha front of
New Orleans U bring covered with thick mats
cf cane, strongly wired together, and weigh
ted with hags ot sand. Tho object is to
protect tho ehoro from being washed ont by
varying c arrests.
—Ex-Governor Seymour has been doing a
very kindly dard. Ho invited to hie farm at
Utica the aider* of Chatity from tha aaytnm,
with tbs orphans nude; their charge, and,
wi:h hia family, gpont the wbo'.e day tnoor-
nlaUy entertaming the good woman and the
Uttle ones, who enjoyed themselves greatly.
At parting tho children tang a good-night
song, tho king-berried ex-Goveraor stand
ing on his verandah and merrily waring bis
hat until the last wagon pseeed out of sight
in the dutk.
The Bush to The West.—Ths Washing
ton Pest says: Tne figures tbat show the
movement of population to the new fanning
lands in lha West vo almost startling.
Daring the year that closed with last monta
not lece thin sixteen milhons acres of Gov
ernment Is-nda wero tiken up by homestead
entries alone, and folly fourteen million
acres of new lands were sold to settlers. It
is estimated that half a million people set*
t:ed npon the new lands in 1873, and ths
nnmber for tha present year promises to bs
even greater.
The Exodus—A New Orleans dispatch
says that it is ascertained from unquestioned
sources that nearly every negro residing
along the lino of tho railroad between
HcnncrviUe and Amite City is preparing
to leave for Kansas as scon as the crops
arc gathered. Deports from the country
are to the effect that in Avoyelles, Naoht*
tochis, Grant’s, Bed Liver, Brashear’s and
Cad do parishes, extensive preparations are
being made for iheexoduain the early spring,
and it is reported by loading negroes in that
neighborhood tbat theeo parishes wilt be
depopulated of oalored labor when the signal
is given
Mr. Wardlx’s Pat Boy Eclipsed. — A
gentleman of this county, says tha Mont
gomery Advertiser, is abont to conclude sn
arrangmant to exhibit at ths coming Slate
Piir a boy twelvo years of age who palls
down tho series at three hundred and seven
ty-fire pounds, when last weighed. Latter
ly he has beon increasing in weight at tbe
rate of five pounds per month. If he con
tinues to enlarge his proportions he * will
weigh near four hundred. This boy h»s a
sister fifteen years old who weighs two hun
dred. The psroats of these children live,
we bsfieve, in Pike ooanty.
Mr Bllist’s Dohest o Live.—An agreea
ble picture of Senator Blame’s do memo life
at Augusta is given by a correspondent of
tha Inter-Ocean of Ghioago: *Xn9 Blaine
house is always fall,’ sajs tne writer. ‘It is
elaetio in its oapacitv, but is neve: loneaoma.
Young people predominate, and they like to
S thoro. The family in itself it large, and
9 children bring their eohoolmates horns
with them. Mrs. Blime is not a pnblio
‘man,’ bnt I may bo allowed to elate that
whother in ber nursery or at ihs head of her
husband’s table the ia a lady to admire and
love; and I think cf all the people who lovo
and admire her Mr. Blaine loves and admires
her the most.’
—Thirty-two trunps lock posssssionof
Humboldt Wells, a mining town in Nevada,
stripped themeotves of o.otbing, held a war
danos in tha principal street, and deolarei
their intention to saok the place: bat a party
of mounted men drova them naked into th9
bills and whipped them soundly.
—No child can steap soundly while suffer
ing with Colio or- from Teeming. Remove
tha cause by using Dr, Bali’s Baby Syrup.
Only 25 esnts a bottle.
CONSUMPTION CUBED.
An old physician, retire 1 from practice, bar*
eg hid placed in his hands by an Hast India
missionary the formula of a simple vegetable
remedy far the speedy and permanent cure for
Consumption, Bronchitis Catarrh. Asthma, and
all Threat and Lung Affections, also a positive
and radical cure for Nervous Debility ana all
7' ?4 I j?5wers m thousands of cases*
has felt it his duty to moke it known to his
suffering fellows. Actuated by this raotivo and
a desire to relieve human suffering, I will send
free of charge to all who desire it, this recipe,
with full direct ons for preparing and using, in
German. French or English. Sent by mail by
addrcising with stamp, naming this paper, W W
Bharab. 149 Powers’ Block, Rochester, N Y.
eblA Bm
45 Years Befct^ ths Public,
THE GENUINE
DK. O. MoLANZTS
CELEBRATED
LIVER PILLS
FOR THE CURE OF
Hepatitis, or Liver Complaint,
DYSPEPSIA AND SICK HEADACHE.
Symptoms of a Diseased Liver.
TJAIN in the right side, under the
I edge of the ribs, increases on pres
sure ; sometimes the pain is in the left
side; the patient is rarely able to lie
on the left side; sometimes the pain
is felt under the shoulder blade, and
it frequently extends to the top of the
shoulder, and is sometimes mistaken
for rheumatism in the arm. The stom
ach is affected with loss of appetite
and sickness; the bowels in general
are costive, sometimes alternative with
lax; the head is troubled with pain,
accompanied with a dull, heavy sen
sation in the back part. There is gen
erally a considerable loss of memory,
accompanied with a painful sensation
of having left undone something which
ought to have been done. -A slight,
dry cough is sometimes an attendant.
The patient complains of weariness
and debility; he is easily startled, his
feet are cold or burning, and he com
plains of a prickly sensation of the
skin; his spirits are low; and although
he is satisfied that exercise would be
beneficial to him, yet he can scarcely
summon up fortitude enough to try it.
In fact, he distrusts every remedy.
Several of the above symptoms attend
the disease,, but cases have occurred
where few o’f them existed, yet exam
ination of the body, after death, has
shown the liver to have been exten
sively deranged- *
AGUE AND FEVER.
Dr. C. McLane’s Liver Pills, m
cases of Ague and Fever, when
taken with Quinine, are productive of
the most happy results. No better
cathartic can be used, preparatory to,
or after taking Quinine. We would
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disease to give them a fair trial.
For all bilious derangements, and
as a simple purgative, they are un
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BEWARE OF IMITATIONS.
The genuine are never sugar coated.
Every box has a red wax seal on the
lid, with the impression Dx. McLanx’s
Liver Pills.
The genuine McLane’s Liver Pills
bear the signatures of C. McLane and
Fleming Bros, on the wrappers.
* Insist upon having the genuine Dr.
C. McLane’s Liver Pills, prepared by
Fleming Bros., of Pittsburgh, Pa., the
market being full of imitations of the
name JHcJjane, spelled differently bat
same pronunciation. ^ ’