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MACON, GA n AUGUST 2 1370.
Th* Growth or This —'The Galveston
New* estimates the population of Taxis at
Bbant 2.000,000, and think) th»t the next
census will give the State fifteen Oongrers-
men. The calculation Is based on the 219.-
812 votes out at the last election, eight in-
habitants being allowed for each rater, as
man; of the imm'granta have not Iirad long
enough in the State to rote.
Tbs Coisr Stosjt.—The storm on Monday
•morning last was very severe at Wilmington
N.a At la. sr. the Telocity of wind had
reached 68 miles per hour. A large number
•ef shade treeewero prostrated and several
houses and sheds were nnioofed. Two
harks, German and British, are ashore. It
is feared eorious damage has been done to
crops.
—The Archduchess Christine of Austria
who is to become Queen of Spain, is just
twenty-one yearn old—a year younger than
Sing Alphonao. She is said to be extremely
unwilling to part from her relations and
friends; and she wi'!, indeed, see very littlo
of them hereafter, as the etiqaetto of the
Spanish Court aDI not nermit hertochooee
even her ladies of honor from among her
own country woman. _
A Carlz AOBoas the Cash m.—Tho Bus -
sian government is about to lay a submarine
cable across the Caspian Sea. The cable,
whioli is completed, has just arrived at St.
Petersburg, stowed in five boats, and atten
ded by a sixth ono containing hotel aooom-
modations for the forty-five parsons whose
services will be required inlaying It. Ths
six boats will proceed to Astrakhan byway
of the NeVa, the Mary canal and the Volga.
Tk* Illisois Whist Crop.—Tub wheat
crop of Illinois, this year, according to figures
recrivod by tho State Board of Agrionlture,
amounts to a total of 12,011,251 baahels, an
average of 10 2-3 bushels per aero, and is
valued at 837,166.757, or an avsrage of 83
cents per bnshcl in the producer’s hands. It
Is considered tho largest and most valuable;
wheat crop over raised in the State. The
total land sown to wheat was 2,137,063 acres.
—A useful device for preventing a class
or accidents by which so many ^people have
been killed or crippled for life, has been in
troduced on the Delaware and Hudson Canal
Company's railway cars. It consists of
movable steps, which at the station are let
down within one foot of tho ground. When
the cars are in motion the stops are lifted
high, so that It is imposible to Jamp either
on or off.
—Groves and Goodnight, Presbyterian
clergymen, announced in Texas that they
had received a special divine revelation, in
which the end of the world within tea years
was foretold. Tneir presbytery expelled them,
but they are. making many converts, and
have started a sect called the Tabernacle of
the Ooming Lord. They preach that Grant,
roolacted In 1839, will invade andenbdno
Europe, overthrow Bomanlsm, and finally
meet a downfall—after which tho millenlnm.
—It is now considered certain that the
King of Spain will arrive in Vienna this
month, to make th3 personal acquaintance
of the Archdnobess Christina. The year of
mourning for his late wife, which tho King
has passed in as mush retirement as possible,
having exptrod, his Ministers insilt etrongly
upon the necessity of his marrying again as
soon as pcssib.e. The Archduchess Chris
tine was borne in 1853, and is, therefore, one
yearycranger than King Alphonao.. Bhe is
said to be extremely unwilling to part from
her relations and friends.
A Bear Potmens.—A gentleman Just
from Maine says Senator Blaine nevor work
ed so hard as now; that he is throwing Ins
whole energy Into the campaign, and that
when he Is not on the stump he is writing
letterland editorials for newspapers. He
has a telegraph instrument and an operator
in his house and a short-hand writer at his
RuMas. he is printing a campaign
paper that he calls the nouo» ■*»
is represented as claiming a Bepnblican ma
jority of 5,000 at the approaching election,
which is rathor close figuring, when It is re
membered that 139,009 votes mil perhaps be
A Nova Ditloratio Augment.—Tho
German Gazette gives some curious intimate
details cf the efforts made by Ismail Pasha
to save his throne. Two days before his
deposition, while theBritish consul was pres
sing him to abdicate, be offered him heaps
of gold and engaged to aaaumo tho entiie
debt and discharge It from his own resource
If ho were allowed to remain. Then seeing
that his appeals were in vain he sent to his
harem for fifteen of his moit beautiful slaves,
and when they arrived, decked with dia
monds, ho said, ‘There are <ny favontee;
the jewels they wear ate worth 83.000,000;
they are all years if yon will only leave me
a little longer In peae*.’
—The Troy, Alabama, Enquirer reports
that caterpillars have made their apperance
hi many farms In Pike connty, bnt notin
sufficient numbers as yet for their depred *
tlons to bo damaging. The hoporul say that
it will require throe weeks for them to bo in
sufficient numbers to d6vonr the crop, and
by that time tho crop will bavo made about
all that will mature, while tho despairing
expect to awake every morning and see
their cotton fields stripped of the foliage,
the forms eaten up and a part of the bark
on overy stalk skinned off. The cotton Ex
change organ had reports of caterpillars In
most parts of middle Alabama the 2i of
August.
—Gen. Grant is reported, in his speech in
reply to the address of welcome made to
him by Li-Hnng-Ohang, to have expressly
disci»imed any part in the third-torn ‘boom.’
The Viceroy had ref erred to the time when
Grant wonld again be the President of the
United States, and ths General axil in reply
there could be no wish more distasteful to
me than what yon express. I have held the
offieeot President as long as it has over
been held by any man. I have no claims to
the office. I have had my share of it—have
had all the honors that can be or should bo
given to any citizen.’ As the New York
Herald says,'this is a downright declaration
—as far aa it goes.’
Aset at in DroovxntM —Tho mound at
Nineveh, known as the Tomb of Jones, was
recently explored by Mr. Harmnzd Haisam,
who is now in London. Ho was able to re
cover a number of iusoilbed fragments
bearing inscriptions of the reign of Esar-
baddon and Sonnaohorib, as wall as some
atsiaatts in torra-cotta, which exhibit a
higher art than any before recovered. Ex
plorations in the palaces of those monarchs
have brongnt to light many hundreds of in-
scribed tablets, and on ths mounds of Nim-
roud a number of fragments of tiles and
nvaml Inscriptions have boon recovered
from ths ait* of the tompla. In a mound
allied Jabjsba Mr. Harssm discovered tho
remains of a large ball of vary rich oonstruo-
fcon. Painted bricks, Ind'an woods, and
enamelled tiles indicated the former richness
•f ths odifioe. Mr. Hanes’* excavation in
tho Sirs Nimronud have brought to light the
remains or bnlldlngi and a number of in
scriptions. An interesting disoovery in con
nection with this minis said to have resul
ted from ths examination ef the site, namely,
that its destination was doe, not to fire or
the vengeance of an enemy, bnt to a volcanio
eruption, which has split the whole edifloe
in twain, and vitrified all the brickwork with
which the Ur* and flame name in oontay.
Washington Special to DdttJnore Eun.)
jQj e of the friends of the Teas* and Pacific
IXKaroad Company to here an hie way West,
itmog jmt rearmed Arose the annuel meet
ing of too company In FhEefltiphSa. He
rays that the company htvc given np all
i.ut ef asking sad from Gaegrees, and pro-
I'jse to try to btald the road £/c® private
Mpilel. As bee already bo<*i stated tne ne
gotiation ef a loan Las bpco authorised,
and it;a n-.id the ctmpany 11*3 a fair pros-
ptet of rsWng ail the money they desire. Aa
agent of the rood to to be soot abroad im
mediately to m.ot Cel, dtyi; tad try to place
Oil loan,
Senator Hill’s Hotter.
THB POLITICAL FUTURE.
In his letter, published yesterday, de
clining to make a politioal epeeoh before
the Legislature, Senator Hill has, with
aiognUr force and felieity, pointed out
the great fundamental questions of free
government which will inevitably press
themselves upon tho American people in
the next and future general elections. It
will be observed that although in a mnoh
sharper and more menacing form, they
are the same ideas whloh for a oentmy
have-underlain all Amerioan politics—
free government against centralism and
foros.
A large portion of tho American peo
ple have never been satisfied with that
patient toleration and personal freedom
which belong to a popular representative
government. There are so many things,
in thoir jadgment, whloh require to be
amended, reformed and redressed by tho
etern, strong arm o! irresponsible power—
the people are so wicked and ignorant
and the operation oE moral causes so
slow and uncertain that their impatience
overleaps all bounds, and nothing pleases
them so much as an approaoh to absolu
tism and force.
These men were never so happy aa when
slavery was swept away with cannon and
grape-shot, and for many years the law
of foroe was rampant They would like
to see all that they oonsider abuses re
formed in an equally summary manner.
They cannot bear the prospeot of a giad-
ml restoration to the slow methods of
law sustained by pnblio opinion. They
want to knock all men and parties
in the head who dare to differ from them
and so oonform tho country to their wiU
and pattern immediately. The exist
ence of this strong element in American
politlos is illustrated by the passion for
pressing all questions of manners and
morals into tho politioal forum, and the
effect was illustrated in the late civil war.
That war and its results fed and inflamed
the passion which led to it, and now
when the question of a return to the slow
and quiet methods of constitutional law is
in sg t itioo, no wonder that the trumpet
Bounds for ah array of all the legions of
an irresponsible centralism.
Added to their traditional dislike of
popular rule, these people of late have
foond new arguments for “the man on
horseback 1 ’ in the strikes and communis
tic movements, and force and gnn pow
. der have become with them the only sal
vation against anarchy and universal dis
order.
There is no reasonable question,
therefore, that Mr. Hill haB fall warrant
for the assertion that the question of
free government is the practical issue at
the polls ; but it will not .be determined
by any one canvas. Should the fnends
of free government triumph, the other
side will not give np, for they have been
straggling for centralism a hundred
years. Nor will the other side yield the
point on a single dafeat—for defeat will
only postpone victory.
If there be anything certain in the
drift of human events, it is the general
progress of liberty, and though Ameri
ca, owing to the exceptional influence
of the civil War, may temporarily retro
grade, yet she is not going do show her
self an isolated foe to popular self-gov
ernment. _ .
Ball-
Competition Between
roads.
mKo mammoth railway Interests in
England and the United States have been
the tapid growth of the past forty-five
or fifty years. At the beginning there
wa3 probably little conception of the
magnitude they wonld assume, the* won
derful rapidity of their development, and
how extensively and minutely their man
agement would enter into all private bus
iness interests. Such forecast as was
exercised seems to have been based on
the confident assumption that the com
mon laws of trade and competition wonld
govern them as they govern all other
business Interests, and hence there was
no neoes3ity of Special legislative inter
position in their case or of any particular
provision In their charters for the intro
duction of government controL
This was the case in Groat Britain and
the United States, which were the pioneers
in the railway system; but in various
States of the continent, the grant of right
of way was coupled with stringent condi
tions, holding the grantees to a special
responsibility and authorizing direct in
terference in the details of business; bnt,
at the same time, offsetting these limita
tions by guarantees against competing
routes.
But even tfiis foresight has failed of
fully satisfactory results, and the ques
tion of how to deal with this great in
terest is this day a world-wide one.
France is now pursuing tho very debate-
able polioy of buying np tho railways
and running them by Government. The
same proposition has been agitated in
England for years, but there is no prob
ability that it will be adopted.' In Amer
ica, the enbjsct has been approached
through a wilderness of State statutes,
scarcely one ot which has displayed an;
practical wisdom, and neary all have ad
ded to the troubles complained of.
The troth is, the law of competition is,
as a rale, foond to be totally inactive in
the osee of railways. The interests ere
too vast and in too consenirated a shape
to permit destructive competition, like
that whloh used to be so frequent among
oommon carriers of more humble preten-
Henoe, the railways oombine and
consolidate, instead of competing.
Nor would a destructive competition be
desirable at such enormous sacrifice of
property as wonld result from it, together
with the inevitable monopoly whioh must
follow. No wise government will encour
age dlreotly competing routes, through
closely oonrigaous territory, which will
not only stimulate bad investments of
money, but ruin investments already
made. It wonld pretsot the interests of
the people, and not ruia them. Bank-
rapt railways are a great curse, and
throw sn odor cf in-olvenoy on all
around them.
We make these remarks in part ref
erence to the silly idea sdvanced by
some that the duplicate railroad to At
lanta will benefit the people by cheapen
ing freights throngh competition. Thus
is an exploded idea. Judging from ail
present experience, they wonld combine
and so perhaps b a able to maintain a
lingering and inefficient existenco. If
they competed, tho weaker would go to
the wall and the survivor pick its bones.
But how to legislate to as to secure the
railways and at the same time,protect the
people is a science yet unknown. It
ought to be done in a spirit of wise benefl-
cents. To legislate for these purposes
either in a spirit of sycophancy and cor- ;
rapt partisanship or of hostility to the
railways, is the last thing an honsst,
intelligent and patriotic; regulator would
do.
Chicago Times.]
The San at or from New York, who h isn’t
any Southern " chivalry” about him, but
claims to bo a type of the superior civiiiax-
lion of the North, deprecates this exhibition
cf “plantation manners” ia Bhode Island.
It is quite out of place—quite. Tho intru
sion cf a.ehot gua in his pleasures was a
downright impe-rtinenos, unworthy Northern
gsiiizatiQZb
state Sams State.
The NeWTork Commercial and Fin an-
rffl] Chronicle discusses at length the in
teresting questions suggested by the pas
sage of the New Hampshire aot for bring
ing suit against States, as agent or rep
resentative of parties holding their dis
honored bonds. After considering the
law in the case, which is held to sustain
the act, the Chronicle proceeds to treat of
the practical difficulties in the way of re
covery, aa follow,:
Suppose New Hampshire sues, the first
step in resistance may be to plead, what
is notoriously true, that the Btate is not
the real party in interest, and that the
form of the suit is an attempt to evade
the amendment. This plea substantially
has been once made already, in the Ohio
case of Osborn va. United States Bank,
[0 Wheaton, 733,] 1821. Parsuant to
State law the Auditor, Osborn, had
ssized 2100,000 belonging to the branch
of the bank ia Chillicothe, in lieu for un
paid taxes. The Circuit Court or dared
restitution; the Auditor appealed, plead
ing the amendment as a bar tc all pro
ceedings. The Auditor urged that he
was really the State, and hence the Court
had no jurisdiction. The bank contend
ed that it was sning Osborn, not the
State, and that “in all cases where juris
diction depends on the character of the
party, reference is made to the party on
record, not to the one who may be
interested but is not shown by the
reoord to be a party.” To this Chief
Justice Marshall said: "In cases where
a State ia a party on the record, the
question of jurisdiction is decided by in
spection. If jurisdiction depend, not on
this plain fact, but on the interest of the
state, what rule has the Constitution giv
en by which the interest iB to te meas
ured? If no tale is given, is it to be set
tied by the cou-t ? If so, the curious an
omaly is presented of a court examining
the whole testimony of a case, inquiring
into, and deciding on, the extent of a
State’s interest, without having the right
to exercise any jurisdiction in the
case. Can this inquiry be made without
the exeroise of jatisdiotion? If the plea
of no juaisdiotion is made, in the possible
New Hampshire case, it will be on the
reverse side. In the Ohio case, the ap
pellant, Osborne, urged that the Cirouit
Coart had no jurisdiction against the
State, sued through him; hete the de
fendant would plead that the appearsne
ot the State as plaintiff was fictitious,
henoe, that there was no jurisdiction.
Evidently the plea would be stronger
than the Ohio case, beoause the casus
there was the act ot a State offioer, while
here the evasion and intent would be pal
pable. The Ohio owe was decided for
the bank, the jurisdiction plea being
overrated, but the inference that a like
coarse would be taken in the New Hamp
shire case is not qaite clear. Of one
thing, however, we may be sore, that the
Judges would be well aware of the pecu
liar disagreeableness of the 0R39, and
wonld dismiss it if any tolerable grounds
could be found, technical or otherwise.
But suppose the action is tried, and
jadgment obtained? In some States it is
held that municipal private property—
that is. such as is held for prefit and
oharged with no pnblio tra9ta or uses—
may be sold on execution; in other
StstOB, it is held that there can be no en
forcement byj exeention. The {former
seems to be the more reasonable rale.
As to taxes and revenues, either in the
treasury or in transit to it, they mu3t be
deemed exempt, beoanse essential to the
existenoe and purposes of the municipal
ity. It wonld be absurd to say that a
less liberal rule of exemption applies to
the State itself than to municipal corpo
rations which it creates; hence only pri
vate property of a State, as above de
fined, oan be tn any event liable to execu
tion. Sash property, if portable, like
bonds in oinking funds, might not be
fonnd when wanted, or there might not
beany. Suppose public buildings are
snbjeot to levy, they could be of little use
to a purchaser, nor couid he feel sure of
getting a title which would not be dis
puted subsequently, or of being allowed
to take possession undisturbed. Nobody
wonld want to bid on a lawsuit or to face
an outraged community, and this consid
eration would apply particularly to State
landf, which must bo personally uouupicd
to be worth anything. Practically, there
fore, the prospects of realizing anything
by levying on State property must be
deemed very uncertain.
There wonld be nothing left bnt the
writ ot mandamus directing the Legisla
tare to levy a tax. The Legislature
might disobey, or the tax officers might
do what has often been done—resort to
any of several methods of evading the
duty, there being a general agreement
against any collection. It has been sug
gested that in this event, Congress
might authorize the Court to appoint tax
officers, who should apportion each man’s
share, which wonld then b3 a separate
debt due from him individually. To
suppose Congress would do this is going
a great wayf; but suppose it done—or
that the coutrt should take this step on
its own responsibility—the case would
then be that the tax-officera would be
perfectly willing to collect, but the peo
pie none the more to pay. Already, how
ever, in two cases [Bess vs. Watertownend
Heine va. Leola Commissioners, 19 Wall.,
107, 655,1873 3 the court has refused to
undertake the delicate functions of taxa*
«»*0. In one of theae cassa, after manda-
•I. is had been trl< d repeatedly without
iffeot, the plaintiff boldly took the ground
the oity authorities were virtually trus
tees, and all property a trust fund, for
the purpose of paying public debit; hence
aaked that the federal marshal be order
ed to seize and sell any private property,
leaving the owner to seek redress from the
reBt. The coart positively rejected this
view and refused to do more than renew
the ineffectual wrH;in a later case, where
thirty tax-payers were sued individually,
the same grounds were taken. The doc
trine urged in the Watertown case.it will
be observed, ia that of nnlimited liability
of all private prcpsrty for all pnblio debts
—in effect, that all tax-payers are mem
bers of a general co-partnership for the
pnrposes of carrying on pnblio business.
Obviously, this would be .monstrous, and
only in Now England—there by usage
and practice—is private propsrty liable at
all on a pnblio judgment. These coses
are all of municipality suite; but, of
course, it must bo supposed that what
may not be applied against the less may
not be against the greater.
Tho procedure contemplated by thi
New Hampshire law seems thus beee
with difficulties and dilemmas at every
step, both legal and praoticaL We can
see'no likelihood of actually getting any
money by it. Nor should it be forgotten
that this course most necessarily raise,
in the most pronounced and irritating
way, the question of State rights, for it
will be a direct attempt to have the
general government compel a State to
pay. What State sovereignty iB—that
is, a Stato being supreme, with few ex
ception!; within its own boundaries,
what are the relations and the limita
tions of power between tho States and
the Union of States—13 still a snbjeot
aV. unsettled. The organic law of this
Union forbids States to do certain things,
for example to impair contracts and make
anything except gold and silver legal
tender; an attempt to proceed under this
New Hampshire law will be an attempt
to revive the situation of 1793, and force
an analysis of the nature of the govern
ment. It will be an interesting inqoirj*
but will it be profitable ?
. Qua Strut Hah road a Prbminknt
INSTITUTION, THI ATLANTA BUKOB Not
withstanding.—Sams days ago a report
was circulated generally, throughout the
community, that Mr. Hill, in passing
through Atlanta to the West, bad sold
the iron of the street railroad to B. Pe
ters, Eiq., of-that plaoe,. who would
shortly proosed to take it np preparatory
to being re-rolled and laid down in that
city. As the proprietor of the road was
absent and -could not be oommnnieated
with, it was impossible authoritatively
to deny this damaging statement. But
now we are requested by Mr. Hill
himself to sav that there never has been
the least shadow of foundation for anoh a
report. He not only intends to continue
to operate the road, but if properly pat
ronized and supported by his fellow citi
zens, will make all the needed repairs and
keep it hereafter in excellent condition.
Macon ia built upon a series of hillB, and
the residences of her merchants and cit
izens generally, are widely scattered over
miles of area, so that that ti^e necessary
compactness of population is to a osrtain
extent wanting, which is .a condition
preoedent to the perfect success of a stree
railroad.
Mr. Hill has only to stand his ground,
however, and keep his oars in motion, to
reap a fair percentage npon the invest
ment he has made by the purchase of
this line. No one oan doubt this after
reading the long snl imposing liat of
bnildings in prooess of ereotion,. which
was reoently published in the Telegraph
AND MESSENGER.
It is generally believed that if certain
changes and extensions were made in
the street oar routes they would prove
highly remunerative, besides greatly ad
ding to the convenience of the public.
The shortest way to obtain the desired
improvements, is to patronize liberally
the line as at present constructed. What
wonld College Hill and Tatnall Square
do without it?
An Odious Gjmpabison.—In printing
an article in Wednesday’s Issue on Com
petition between Railroads, the fypeB
made us say "ths (railway) Interests are
too vast and in too oocoentrated a shape
to permit destructive competition like
that whioh nc.-d to be ci?reqaent among
common carriers of Ikncrdble preten
sion..” The printer substituted the
word honorable for "more humble.”
There were also other eriora, which,
However, did not commit us to offensive
expressions.
The Jasper Centennial.—Wo learn
that arrangements have been made by
the managers of the Macon and Brun
swick Railroad for a mammoth excursion
in October next to Savannah, so that all
who desire may participate in the cere
monies of laying the oomer stone of the
monument to Sergeant Jasper.!
It will be the grandest pageant ever be
held in Georgia, and wejfrust our people,
from the sea board to the mountains, will
turn out en masse to do honor to Erin’s
gallant son, whose blood watered the tree
of Liberty when Brat planted in Ameri
can soil.
The price of a ticket to go and return*
for a peried of fifteen days, will be put at
the merely nominal sum of four dollars.
Hundreds will doubtless avail them
selves of the opportunity, ou such cheap
terms, of visiting our noble seaport and
its lions, to say nothing of the majestic
Atlantic and the great ships and ocean
steamers which navigate it3 boundless
expanse of water.
Fall particulars of the proposed excur
sion will be given in a subsequent issue.
It is enough to say that Capt. A. A
Sharpe will engineer the whole matter,
under the direction of Superintendent
Adams.
A Boland fjb-an Oliver.—Tne crook-
ery dealers of Newport are eo mnoh in
censed with the tea sellers who msko
presents of glass and earthenware to
those customers who buy liberally, that
in turn they have purchased large quan
tities of tea whioh they retail to their
<raatom«ia at actual ooat. It seems that
the tea men made snoh extravagant prof
its on their wares that they could well
afford to give crockery presents, to the
great detriment of the sellers of these
goods. Henoo their retaliation. Bat
it is remarked that between the two the
people get both tea and tea oops at rea
sonable piiaes.
Gold and Silver Flowing is From
Abroad.—Last week’s importations of
speole at the port of New York wero
8719.430 of gold and $106,276 in silver.
This is a singular and sudden change in
the tide. Previous to August 6:h and
dating back to January 1st, only 8096,693
in gold, and $5,635,338 in silver bad
been received. This looks as though car
European creditors and capitalists were
now not only satisfied with their invest
ments in American securities, but are
sending over funds to make additional
purchases.
Correspondence Telegraph and Messenger.
From the Honnlalns.
Editors Telegraph and Messenger: After
two weeks’ wandering in New Eagland,
I returned to the mountains of Virginia.
I spent several days at the pleasant vil
lage of Cbristiansburg. Here I met sev
eral old friendj; among them Mr. Tom
Noel and brother, who used to be con
nected with the Southern Express office
in Msood; also with the estimable lady
of Captain Fletcher Sneed, of Oglethorpe,
Georgia, and your correspondent J. B.
W., Jr., with his brother Albert and sis
ter, Miss Osie Wardlat*. They are sum
mering there with their aunt, Mrs. O. S.
Pollock. I shared their kindness and
hospitality. Their surroundings are
most delightful.
ChnstianBburg is the county seat of
Montgomery oounty, about one mile dis
tant from the A. O. & M. Railroad. It
has about 1,200 inhabitants. There are
two churches, Presbyterian and Metho
dist. The business done here is consid
erable, drawing a large trade from the
edge of North Carolina as well aa from
the Virginia mountains. The people are
generally cultivated, and old Virginia
hospitality prevails, rendering a visit
here at any season of the year extreme
ly pleasant. It is remarkably so in tne
summer season, the remarkable purity of
the atmosphere, the elevation being 2,100
above the level of the sea, makes this
point desirable aa a summer resort, and
many are testing its virtues this year.
Several of the prominent watering plaoes
are in easy distance— the Yellow Sul
phur, Montgomery, White and Aieghany
Springs.
The most charming spot in the town
is that chosen by your friends, the Fe
male College building. It is located on
the highest point and is most command
ing and beautifni, with an extensive
flower garden in front, the product of the
energy and taste of Mrs, O. S. Pollock,
who owns the premises, and with a large
garden and meadow ia the rear. The
whole aa a picture would be hard to ex
cel. If the mountain breeze, so pure and
constant, which play over these hills,
fail to restore wasted strength and re-iu-
vigorate the depressed mind, it will be
nseless to go farther in qcest of health.
Bscuperation is rapid in moat cases, and
I hope that onr esteemed friend, J. B. W.
will return to ns this fall as strong in
body as he is in mind.
I found Mrs. O. S. Pollook one of the
moat entertaining, h3 well a3 one of the
most cultured Christian ladies that I have
ever met. She is eminently fitted for the
position she occupies aa Principal of the
Montgomery Female College. She has an
experience of over twenty years in the
instruction and training of young ladies.
She seeks to aot toward them a mother’s
part, as well as that of teaoher, and if
Georgians sOiU send their daughters 10
Virginia to eduoate them, they cannot do
better for their daughters than Bend
them to this bracing climate and place
them nnder the oharge of this exosllent
ohristian woman. She has associated
with her an accomplished apd competent
faculty.
At the railroad station, which is now
called "Bangs,” quite a village has
sprang np, whera there are two good ho
tels, whioh are full nearly all tho while
with summer tourists. There ia slso ah
excellent Baptist ohuroh at this point.
This is the railroad station for Yellow
Salphnr Springs, whioh is three miles dis
tant northward. .Informerdays this used
to be tho most celebrated resort in this
section. Tho burning of the large botel
sometime ago limits its oapaolty now, bnt
it has had a very good run daring the
season. The; virtues of Ihe waters are
well kuown all over the South. These
waters are peculiarly adapted to children
and children's diseases. Among the Ma-
oon visiters arc Dr. F. M. Kennedy and
family and Miss Etta Ciisby and brother,
all ot whom are doing well, and enjoying
the health-giving breezes and generous
diet of the mountains.
Bangs is also the starting point for tho
greatest cf natural Wonders—Mountain
Lake in Giles connty. It is twenty-seven
miles distant and is reaofaed by stage
coaches. Handreds of people visit it ev
ery year. A lake 4,000 feet above the
sea is a sight not often indulged in. The
magnificent mountain scenery of this sec
tion have attractions for every lover of
the beautiful and the grand. The stream
or summer travel increases* eaoa suc
ceeding season, end no one wearies in
their enjoyment of the uplifted
peaks, ragged and weather-worn,
the smiling vallies, the winding
stream?, the glassy lakes and the dashing
oisoadeB with whioh tho mountains of
Virginia abound?.
In this region tho visitors are all
Southerners with but few exceptions.
At Mountain Like there are a few la
dles from Cambridge, Mss?., snd one or
two gentlemen from the North. The
transition from New Hampshire to Vir
ginia is very marked, and in nothing
more than in the faces and the manners
of the people with whom you meet. I
feel at home htre. Yond.r I was a
stranger.
I go henoo to Tennessee, and after a
short sojourn with friends, my summer
wanderings will have an end.
Jack Plank.
Cum tianburg, August 9, 1879.
Charlotte (N. O.) Observer.)
About three years ago the;Obaerver report
ed the owe of jt citizen of this oounty who,
having married ia 1843, lighted a fire on his
hearth-stone as soon as he csriiad bis bride
to his new home, and had kept it horning
ever since. The citizen ww in town yester
day, and being questioned about the matter,
stated that the fire ww still burnirg, and
that throughout all these thirty-six years it
had never been allowed to go oat. Ques
tioned m to whether ox cot It made.the
house uncomfortably hot la torrid weather,
be said the extra heat thus generated ww
not peroeptible. In reply to another ques
tion, he said that in summer weather, when
it ww necessary for comfort’d sake to keep
tho fire burning very low, he had to get up
frequently at night to replenish it slightly,
bnt that he counted this as nothing when he
contemplated the idea of that fire going out.
He has evidently formed for it a strong at
tachment, and yet odc wou’d not take him
for a sentimental min. Bnt this fire is to
him a constant reminder of the d»y when
he first brought home his bride. Around it
his children have grown up into manhood
and womanhood, and the.r children have
gczed into its light. It was the lwt light
that fell npon the eyes of his wife, and he
hopes that it will be the list that will fall
np:n his. Viewed thus, his sentiment in ths
matter can be understood, and so strong is
this sentiment that with the old man it
amounts to a passion.
Uiica Telegram.)
Senator Cockling returned home from
Naragaiuett Pier to-night. He rode home
as usual with the driver of the city baggige
wagon. No one outside his family has seen
him yet, and he will not be interviewed His
politioal workers are nearly all out of town,
and the few who are here make no attempt
to decy any of the stories .connected with
the B^rague iffair. The best informed Re
publicans express the opinion that this scan
dal has entirely demoralized and bnriei the
ebances of Oonklmg faction in the fall cam
paign. Cornell has not ten friends in cen
tral New York, and the pipe-layers for Oonk-
ling in the past seem to be stnpefied and
dumbfounded. Commodore John H. htarln’s
stock is going np fast. Gossip on the
Bpngue affair continues very lively, and all
tha various stories from the press of other
cities are republished in the Utica papers.
The relatives of air. C’onkling make no men
tion ot tho oAte in any way. Atl the old sto
ries whioh former indi-cretiom occasioned
are now revived and repeated with relish.
The ladies blame Mr. tprague for the whole
affair, of course, bnt, as Senator Conkling
has never been particularly (gallant to the
fair sex at home, they waste no sympathy
on him. The Bonator’s wife has the sincere
sympathy of every one, as she is generally
beloved and respected. No matter what
comes out, there will not be any divorce pro
ceedings, as it is not possible that the lady
will be a party to anything which might drag
her farther into pnblia notioe.
Medical men often puzzle themselves
over the large sale that Dr. Bull’s Baby
Syrup enjoys. Its great popularity
due only to the excellent qualities pos
sessed by this household medicine. 25
cents.
—The Eufanla Times and News says; TVs
are having the loveliest and most charming
cotton worm weather in this eection we have
had in years, and if an abnnd«nt crop of the
vermin is not speedily developed under it, it
will be on account of the soarcity and in
feriority of the seeds, and the same paper
- — * »i* - —
adds the following: 'How aro yon? Got any
caterpillar* in your cotton?' i* the way the
planters now salute each other on our side
walks. ‘You bet I have,’ is the usual res
ponse.
Philadelphia Tunes )
The New England girl certainly carries off
the palm for originality. A young woman
ef Wallingford, Gonn., was macried the other
evening, and while the festivities that fol
lowed the ceremony were at their height the
bride eloped with one of h6r old admirers
who was amoDg the guests.
The Ohio Campaign. — Socrolary
Sherman is booming in Ohio this week,
and it is stated that a close listener can
hear tho thunder of his artillery—tho
groans of the wounded and the shouts of
the victors. Tho friend* of Fostor writo
the TriStins that all is more than safe
and happy, and the other tide write to the
same effcot.
Detroit Frte Press.)
A day or two ago a motherly-Iaokirg wo
man of forty-fiv* entered a Woodward ave-
nuc clothing store having a man’* liton dus
ter on her arm, and when approsaliei by a
salesman, she said:
“ Some one in here sold this duster to my
son yesterday.”
“ YoS, ma’am, I sold it myself,” replied
tho clerk, as he looked at the gatment.
" Did you tell my son that this duster
could be worn either to a picnic, funeral,
liriflxl ntrhr or msrfnrln bum*iiis ?’»
»*>
bridal party or quarterly meeting T
" I did. madam, and so it can.”
"Did you tell him it made a good ny-blan-
kot when not otherwise needed ?”
"I did.”
“ That it could be used as a boat sail,
stretcher, a straw-hoi and a bed-spread ?'
" Yes, ma’am, I d d ”
And that many .people used thorn as
table covers ?'*
I did.”
And that they wonld last for years and
thon make exeelient staff for a rag carpet ?”
“I did"
“ And you only charged a dollar ? ’
“ Only a dollar, ma’am.”
“ Weil, when John came home (last night
and brought the Custer, and told me all yon
said, I made np my miad that he mast have
been drunk, and I was a little afraid he stole
the garment. I am glad it’s all right.’’
“It cortaily Is all right, ma’am, and since
he wae here yesterday, we have discovered
that the duster is a great conduoior of sound,
a preventive of enoatroke, and that no man
with ono on bis back ever dropped dead of
heart disease.”
Land eave ns!” ahogujpsd, as she wait
ed for the handle; “bat who know* that
they won’t fix ’em so ’fere loDg that they’ll
raise a mortgage eff the faim ?”
Washington Special to Baltimore bun.)
The advocates of a third term hero say
that the bsst evidence of the fact that the
Grant “boom” is not dead is in tbo recent
utterances of ex-Gov. Warmotii, of Louisi
ana, who, in an interview, say* that the Re
publican of the South are about solid for
Grant; that in reality he is the only man
whoso nomination would bring them out of
their retirement into an active campaign.
When asked if ho wonld support Grant if
nominated, he roplied that he would. Thi-,
the third teim people say. Is an important
acoosslon to their ranks, far the reason that
Wumeth was not only a Greeley man in
1872, bnt is and alway* has been personally
on unfriendly terms with Grant. This dislike
of each other began when Warmoth was with
Gen. NoOlcrnann in the army, and was con
tinued In Louisiana, Warmoth always being
the antagonist of Collector Oaaoy and Pack
ard while Governor of that State. Warmoth
ltd the Republican minority in tho late con-
fiUtution&l convention in Louisiiua, and
made some reputation by keeping hi* party
together in advoraoy of the p ayment of the
pablio debt of ths State. War moih gives it
aa hta opinion that the ntxt Republican
nominee for the presidency has not the
slightest show of carrying any of the 8 rath-
era States, txcepticg possibly Louisians,
and a very poor cnance there.
N. Y. Graphic.)
A small hoy was sent to the country to
board a short time ago. He promised his
mother that ho wonld write a good long let
ter, describing his trip and boa.ding place,
etc. A week went by, and hie poor mother
wts nearly distracted when she got the fol
lowing interesting letter from him : “ I am
here, and I swappsd my watch for a pnp,
and ho i3 the boss pnp, and I went in a
swimmin’ fourteen times yesterday, and a
fellow stole my pooketbook, and I want
some money; and I shall bring the pnp
home.'*
Cincinnati Gazette.]
Senator Conkling is net so much of a Pres
idential candidate as he was this time last
week. But he takes a lively interest in the
shot gun policy the same as ever.
Grand Excursion te Savanna n.
On the 9th of October next there will
be in Savannah a centennial celebration
of the death of Sergeant Jasper, who fell
so gallantly in defense o! that oity in
1779. A monument will bs erected in
his honor, and the ceremonies attending
the laying of the oomer stone will make
the oocasion the greatest that has taken
place in twenty years in Savannah,
People are expected from nil partB of
Georgia and the eastern part of Florida
and South Carolina. The Macon and
Brunswick road will, on that occasion,
get np a grand excursion to Savannah to
give our people an opportunity to go
down and witno3B the ceremonies and
join In the celebration and oommemora
tion of an event in hiBtory in which eveey
Georgian has a deep interest. Captain
Sharp is working np the excursion.
Ample through sleeping car arrange
ments will be made and an extremely low
rate be given. The weather at that time
of the year will be delightful for visiting
the coast and the occasion will itsrIE, be
full of attractive interest
An Important Geological Fact'
Tonawanda (N. X ) Herald.)
Last spring General Seiden E. Marvin,
representing Mr. Eraatus Corning, of Alba
ny, visited Tonawanda, Buffalo and Cleve
land with a view of deciding npon a location
and system for handling the products of his
large and valuable tract of pine timber on
the weitem shore of Michigan. Mr. Corn
ing has now formed a oonnestion with the
fitmof Wm. H. Gratwick tc Co., of Tona
wanda and Albany, N. X., and Otsego Lake
and Oscoda, Mioh, for the handling ot his
entire slock of lumber, embracing 200,0C0,-
000 feet. This ia undoubtedly the largest
single lumber operation ever negotiated in
this ootmtry. We uuderetand that Gratwick
<t Co., who themstbrea own 29,090 acres of
the best timber land in Michigan, will cur
tail the culling from tlr.ir cwu land* about
one-half white tho Corning tract ia being
o^fcia'.ed. r j h s now entorpr.ee c. reprehend*
Geology has shown ns that natuio accom
plishes her greatest revolutions in tho
earth’* 3urfaco cot formation elowly. Every
year the river mikes its ckumel deeper, the
glacier wears a deeper gorge In the Alplno
rock, and the ocean tide deposits the sand it
kis crumbled from the rocks which it breaks.
We note the oarthqu&ke and the devastating
hurricano; bnt theio changes are so gradnal
man seldom obaeives them nntil the chan
nel has become overhanging cltffs, or a moun
tain has disappeared before the icy stream,
or tho ocean nas given ns a Florida. Thus
it is in disease. On; attention is attracted
by aento disease, as fevers, cholera, etc,
while chronic diseases (often the moat dan-
getoos in reenlt,) b. ing slow in their develop
ment, are seldom no iccd until they have
made an almost ineffaceable impreeeionnpon
ths system. Persons believing themselves
comparatively healthful are ofttimes the vic
tims cf thtse disoa*es, and only become
aware of their presence when relief is almost
impossible. Diseases of the Hver and stom
ach aro tho commonest ot these chronic af?
feotiens. Dr. Bierce’s Golden Medioal Dis
covery and Pleasant Purgative Pel'ets are
never failing remedies for these diseases.
Thiy .produce a healthful secretion efi the
bile, prevent indigestion by regulatitg vhs
bowels, and impart a vigorous tone tu the
whole ayatem.
—Send for the Weekly Financial Report of
Oa, ~
Alex.' Frotbingham & Co., brokers, 12 WaH
Street. New York, which i* sent free and
contains information how, by investing $50
to $100 in stock operations, $1,000 is fre
quently made.
tion of being quite fist. Bho went to school
at Oxford at a time whan many of our Ten-;
nessee beys went there, and ev.ry one of
them fell in love with her and was in turn
’engagod to her.- Pus there was nothing
more thought about her than she was a co-
quotte, whom men all like, and eho seems
about $1,009,000 la valuo whoa the lumber k not to have gained any sense with her ex-
4 i. cvjoJte.
A NAKBOW ESCAPE,
A Policeman Baaots mt a Han and
as SHaots at t
cats liu cent.
Yesterday morning about three o’clock
a singular caee occurred,'hr^ which a well
known young man of this city came near
losing his life.
It seems Officer Wrye was on dnty in
the lower part of the city, and as he was
walking his beat he saw a man passing
along on Poplar street, near 4th, quite raj .
Idly, and on approaching him he appear
ed te have hts coat thrown np around hie
head and his hat drawn far down over bis
face. He looked to the officer like a aus
picious character, and h.e ordered the
man to halt.
No attention was paid and he was again
ordered without effect to stop and give
some account of himself. At the third
call, the . response oame "what do you
want to know.” Mr. Wrye made a flank
movement, coming very nearly in front of
the receding figure. The man' then
stopped, wheeled; and Jthrew his right
hand behind him as though he was pre
paring to draw a pistol, and fearing leBt he
should be shot, he fired on the then un
known man. As goon as ths shot was
fired he cried out not to Bhoot him as he
was unarmed, and he saw that it was Mr.
Anthony VannuckL This is Mr. Wrye’s
side of the affair. Mr. Vannnoki gives
an aoocunt somewhat different. He says
that he was passing down Poplar treat,
having just left a friend who had been
drinking and whom he had been taking
care of all night. He was crossing
Fourth street near what is known as
Stinson’s corner, when he was ordored
to halt. That he knew he had done noth-
ing and thought he had better harry on
without stopping or heeding. He had
no arms. At the third call he
stopped and turned and eaw
that it was Mr. Wrye, and
he had a pistol pointed toward him. He
asked him not to shoot, throwing np his
left hand, but making no demonstration
with his right. At that instant the shot
was fired, and he again asked him not to
shoot. Offioer MoCafferty came np very
shortly and Yannncki insisted that he
should search him, whioh was done,
but no arms were fonnd on his person.
There was no difficulty between Mr. Van-
nncki and the officer, and when asked by
Mr. V. why he ehot at him, Mr. Wrye
replied that he did not know who it was.
The bullet struck, very slightly injur
ing the fore finger of Mr. Vannucki’s
left hand, and passing onward, cut a
small place in his coat about three-quar
ters of an inch in length npon his
right breast, making a blask and blue
spot. The ehot was fired as if at Mr.
Vs side aid as it is, he made a very nar
row escape. Offioer MoCafferty subse
quently arrested officer Wrye and yester
day a warrant for an assault with intent
to murder waB taken out before Justice
M.B. Freeman, Mr. Wrye waived pre
liminary trial and gave bond in the sum
of 2500 for hi3 appearance at the next
Superior Court.
borne years sinoe when Mr. Wry9 was
on the police foroe, he was shot by a per
son he was endeavoring to arrest tinder
precisely similar circumstances, lost an
oyo and came near losing his life. This
will in some degree aooonnt for the
promptness with which he shot.
(uticura
Blood and SMn Humor*
“OTHffissssR'&asS:
BBMKDIE3. WHKN ALL OThJ£ a
anows mbdioinkr
METHODS ’O P Tai?.m J ' D
MENT PAIL
Scrofulous Uloara and Sores. ....
Lfg.Perar Sores, BrysijelMSore,
Discharging Wound!, Boilj.
Blood impurities, which manifest th™ *?’ an4
through (he akin and ZSSi**"*/
foo fleah, when treated internally !l p '5 10
ticura Resolvent ant eiternallj wdh t^ Ca *
enr* and Cuticura 8o»p. rapidly
S&JftSE3pK&S§te
irasa.'a;®
thin and lifeless and remit in premature»,{?’
j£medi*£ r “ &UeaUy cuied bj the
Skin Diseases;
A REMARKABLE
TUOKBR.-
JOKER. BSQ.MANj^AUTtmBRO? 4
B Af bTATB 8UPE*HO
Wsbxs * Potter — Gentlemen- i
£; k *wd far medicine* and
jmlwiiMSdwfag the last twenty years all o!
SSfiBSJf* -»5ES
the name of Wm Corbett induced me to alio*
atarstsgaaayejag
for a certain consideration he would cure™,
within thirty days from the time he commenced
In case he failed to do ao I was to pay him noth,
ing. I oortented and he applied it nearly era-?
day lor five weeks when tho disease entire??
disappeared. I very cheerfully paid him th»
amount agreed up;n. and then ukedhimwW
the remedy was, and he replied that it was no-»
other than Cutacura.
Sinoe that lima 1 hare had no trouble from
this disease, and hive not had such good health
in tweDty year* as I hare had during the lut
cix months.
1 have since my recovery bought Cuticura »nd
given it to friends suffering with ikindisetiei.
and in every instance it has cured them. I be
lieve it to be the greatest remedy of the present
century.
J ATUua.Hk.
IS Deans street, Boston, Dec 20,1873.
Note—Ur Tucker ia a well known citizen and
has served the city in many impoitant capaci
ties. He is at present a member of the Boirdol
Aldermen. He is also well known to agricnltn.
ruts and farmers as the manufacturer ot tbo
celebrated Bay State Superpaosphate.
Cuticura Remedies
Have done for me what hundreds of dollars
spent on other remedies have faded to do. anil
do not hesitate to recommend them&sfirst dan
articles. Yours truly,
MARS BRANNAN.
Casroxdxls, Pa, Dec 20.1878.
ip B
externally with Cuticura, assists! by theCuti-
cure Soap, and Resolvent taken internally, nntil
cured and for some time afterward. Where the
Humors are confined to the Bicod, and do not
show themselves on the surface, the Resolvent
alone will speedily drive them rom the sntem.
Tne Cuticura Remedies infallibly cure the most
loathsome cases of Scrofulous and 8kin and
Scalp Humors, as is attested by hundreds of
unsolicited testimonials in our possession.
Prepared by Weeks and Potter. Ci. m;stssnd
Druggists. S€0 Washington SUeet. Boston, Mh-«.
and for sale by all Druig sts and Dealers. Price
of Cuticura,am»U boxes, ED cents; large boxes,
containing two and one half times the quantity
of small,|1. Resolvent 81 per bottle. Cuticura
Soap 25 cents per cake; by mail 30 cents; 3 cakes
75 cents.
Knights et Pythias.
The Grand Lodge of tho Haight* of
Pythias met yesterday in Augusta. Quits
a delegation of Knights went over from
the Lodge in this city, among them Mr.
James Bailey, Mr. George B. Barker, ( e mb" a r.
and Mr. Felix Corpat. ■ Mr. D. B. Wood
ruff, Grand Chancellor of tho world of
the order, is also in attendance on tk*
Augusta meeting. The Vigilant Lodg«,
of,Augcsta, is taking care of the yiijiixg
Knight* in fine style.
Tho welcoming address was to have
been delivered by Mr. Henry C. Cohen
of Augusta, and response made by Mr. P.
W. Meldrin, of Savannah.
FootilKbt Flashes.
Carlotta Patti is 42 years old. Ad. lina
is 5 years younger.
Mary Anderson has just celebrated her
20th birthday.
Clara Morris will bo the opening at
traction at Haverly’s Brooklyn Theatre.
Sara Bernhardt, the French aotress, is
said to have done the following in a few
nights: Painted Beaconsfield’s portrait,
sonlpted a bust of Queen Victoria, gave
Gladstone six lessons in dancing, pre
pared the working plans for a tunnel be-
tween England and France, designed a
sssrf pin for the Prlnoe of Wales, and
wrote an editorial in the London Tunes.
Tony Denier’s Hnmpty Dnmpty Troupe
will have inree downs next son, head
ed by the ’famous Grimaldi Adams.
Madame Christine Nilsson is in Paris.
Mr. Thomas Byan, the clarionette
player, is at his summer home at Mar
blehead, Massachusetts.
The original autograph will of Handel,
was recently sold at auction for §2G5.
Arthur Sullivan has stopped writing.
Mdme. Adelina Patti is to receive $500
per concert at St. Petersburg.
The prevalence of yellow fever in Mem
phis, has caused many of the theatrical
and concert engagements to be cancell
ed.
Miss Anna Berger, tho corhetiBt, has
married Leigh Lynch, the well known
ooncert manager.
The Joe Jefferson Dramatic Company,
nnder the management of John T. Ford,
Esq., will start Sonth on the 1st of Ssp-
NEBCBE't WINUVaLL.
Tbe Gray Legacy.
It will be remembered that several
years ago Mr. James M. Gray, ot Jones
couniy, gave by will almost his entiie
estate to Meroer University, to be an en
dowment land for educating worthy
young men from that county.
The heirs at law of Mr. Gray contest
ed the will on various grounds, and the
matter went into the courts. After a
long suit the will was sustained, and the
executor of the estate, Mr. B. T. Bess,
who is also Ordinary of Jones oounty, hag
passed over to the authorities of the
University tho sum of ten thousand dol
lars of the estate. There is still remain*
ing to be paid at least ten thousand dol
lars, which is now in notes and other val
uable assets, whioh will be collected in
time, and whioh may run over ten thou*
sand dollars. This ia quite a valuable
addition to the endowment fund of the
Institution, and already have some of the
young men of Jones county become the
beneficiaries of the liberality of Mr.
Gray.
Mr. Boss has just had a handsome
monument erected over the grave of Mrt
Gray in the Clinton cemetery, to be a
perpetual memorial of him. Tbe work
was executed by Mr. T. B. Artop?, of
Macon.
The first attraction at Balston Hall
this season will be a minstrel show.
Tbe Aquatic Monthly.
The August number ot the Agnatic
Monthly and S 4 porting Gaselteer has been
xeoelved from the publishers. It ia
pamphlet of a hundred pages, and is filled
to the brim with reading matter of great
Interest to every one who has any taste
for ihe sports of the "flood and field.”
A fall length portrait of "Weston, the pe
destrian, appears opposite ths title page,
In the subsequent pages are aitioles on
yaohting, rowing, arohery, fishing,
target shooting, athletic sporte, eto.
The subscription price has been re-
dnoed from font to three dollars per an
num. It is published by Brentano’o Lit
erary Emporium of New York.
Nashville Banner.)
We well remember gay, lively, epiishtly
K*te Chase. Bhe was then as tboughtlees
and gay as she is now. She eaid what she .among the conjeitahia, and the struggle
pleased to every one, and gained the reputa- frr nn -_. -n j,.
nnit.f..) uh. tor me w.Io wm do sp.ri.ou.. 3L- . ^
Naval cadetship Examination.
Tho examination for the cadetship at
the United States Naval Academy at
AunapoIl3 will take place this morning
and will bo conducted at the Academy for
the Blind. Applicants will assemble at *
quarter before niao o’clock. The exami
nation will be rigid and impartial. A
plan baa been adopted by which the ex
aminers will not know whose paper* they
are examining, and the award will conse
quently be made striotly on the merit of Hie
papers pveesxtod. There is great rivalry
—A gsnfterasa from (be provinces went
into tbo shop cf a Parisian taiioc to or!er
eoffio clothes. While his maaeuro was br ing
takes he said to the autoria! Aristarchus:
You mnst find that I aa very badly dressed.’
'OU, no,’ replied the artist, ‘you are not dres
sed at alb yen ere simply *ov«H.’
Brevities;
Judging from tho number of peace
warrants being issued, it might be inferr
ed that the white-winged messenger was
becoming popular. The unpleasantness
ia mostly between colored females, and a
pesos warrant allays all differences.
Tho caee before the Connty Court,
which seems to attract a good deal of
notice, ia M. Greenberg vs. James Lands-
bergj'nct William Lansberg, as stated.
The crops in Jones connty will not, we
understand, compare very favorably with
last year’s, except in the southern por
tion, where they aro very flue. There
are, however, many spots about the
county where no damage has been sus
tained and the yield will be fine.
An unknown party last night drove by
the office tendering a brief vocal serenade,
in which "Nancy Lee” played a promi
nent part.
In the post-office a case of Bampla gov
ernment onvelopes has icai been put np.
AU tho varieties and qualities with prices
marked thereon are shown.
A beautiful rainbow was much admired
yesterday afternoon, painted on the
eastern sky.
Captain Frank Barnett, of Sparta, was
in the city jesterd.
Bale.
A shower of rain visited Macon yester
day afternoon, whioh oooled the. atmos
phere very considerably. In Vinevilie
and north of the oity the fall of rein was
much heavier and was attended with con
siderable wind.
Monument street llrldze.
Tho project of tbs change oi nams
flw Second streot and tho building of an
iron bridge at the foot of the 6treet over
tho Oamulgeo has not fallen throngh.
We hope the influences now at work will j with a great deal oi sucoes* ia his osw
bo rewarded with anticipated success. « ome.
Marriage in Oman.
Yesterday quite an important social
event occurred in Dawson, on the South
western Boad, in the marriage of Mr.
John B. Mercer, of Leary, and Mies Ella
Perry, of the former city. They wero
quietly married about twelve o’clock
and after dinner took Ihe train far Macro,
arriving last evening. The happy conple
spent loot night &t the Brown Honse,
and will leave this evening for the north;
era portion of the State.
Miss Ferry is the daughter of Mr. John
B. Perry, tho leading banker of Dawson,
and a gentleman of large means, and
the highest standing in the community.
She i* a very pretty brunette, and has
been for tho past two seasons a reigning
belle iri Southwost Georgia.
She ha3 viaited Macon several times,
and has many friends in the city, who
will extend to her their warmest con
gratulations. Mr. Mercer has been for
sometime connected with th9"establUh-
ment cf P. E, Boyd, Esq, and is alio
Express agent at Leary. He is a young
man of sterling business qualities, and
ha3 the best wishes of all who know him
for hi* fulcra happiness.
Brown’*' Hotel.
Brown’* Hotel has bsea filled to reple
tion every day this week, and tho list of
arrivals attest the populirity of the house.
It is kept np to a very high standard of
excellence. The guests are sure of the 1
greatest attention from an ample corps
of waiters, ard everything is served in
first-class style.
New acenes.
Mr. Pine,of the firm of Tripe d & Pine r
of Atlanta, the Scenic Artists engaged to
paint new soeries for Biiston Hall ; is
very busy producing new scenes andrer-
ovating and retouching the old canvas*
Some very pretty scenes will be added to
the stock now in the hall, and a part cf
that now UBed will be destroyed to make
room for the new.
Thar car Iron Net Sold.
Mr. J. A. Hill has returned from an ex*
tended trip to the "West, and fr bio
wa learn that tho report that ihe streit
railroad Iron has been sold to Mr. E:ch
ard Peters, of Atlanta, is untrue. He
does not know how the report oould haT6
originated, as he intend* to eontisue to
ran the road, and if the patronage of ttu
pnblio will warrant plaoe on it some
needed and substantial improvement*.
To Mewksssvllie.
Mr. Mose Lsvy, who has been engaged
ia business for a number of years, but
who was bo unfortunate a* to be boxned
out a month or two since, on FVou?®
street, has removed to Hawkinsvilie, end
gone iota business in teat place-
Levy is one ot the very cicvsreat of men,
«Ld an energetic and industrious busi
ness man, and we hope he wii! m9et