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MBttIA J0UB& CL1SBY, JONES & EEESE, Proprietors. Th* Family Journal.—News—Politics—Literature—Agriculture—Domestie GEOEGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING Established 1826. MACOft, TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 2, 1879. Volume LIY—no 35 STATE LEGISLATIVE. Atlanta, August 25, 1879. THE SENATE. mot at 10 o’olock and was called to order by the President. Prayer by Rav. John P. Duncan, the Chaplain. The journal was read and approved. Ur. Hudson moved to reoeneider the adverse action of the Senate on a bill to prohibit the killing of wild deer between the first of March and the first of October. The motion prcvaled. The roll was tailed for the introduction of bills, but none were offered. A bill to incorporate the city of Etton- ion was read the third time. Ur, Preston exhibited the evidence of the advertisement which was satisfactory. A bill to amend the act of incorpora ting the Georgia Banking and Trust Company so as to reduce the capital stock. On the pss3age of the bill the yeas were 24, and the nays 0. Bo the bill passed. A bill to amend an act to establish a new charter of Atlanta, so far as to pro* vide for three instead of five water com missioners and to provide for the compensation of tho same &o. Passed. Yeas 24, nays 0. To amend section 4373 relative to bail of prisoners. Passed. Yeas 23* nays 0. A bill to amend the oharter of the Cheroheo Iron Works. Passed, as amended by yeas 26, to nays 0. A mesiage from the Honse of Bepre. sectatives announcing its cononrrenoe in certain Senate amendments was here ro- -oeived. A bill to amend an aot io establish a new charter for the city of Atlanta so as to authorize tho council to levy a busi ness tax. Mr. Howell offered an amendment that nothing in the aot should be construed to authorize a tax on any profession not taxable under the general tax act. The bill passed. Yeas 25, nays 0. A bill to authonzo the formation of chain gangs for misdemeanor convicts. Passed. Yeas 23, nays 0. A bill to amend tho charter of Craw- fordville, so as to levy a special tax on Bale of spiritous liquors, &o. Passed. Yeas 23, nays 0. A bill to amend section 4.370 of the code, defining the offense of shooting at another. Tabled. To incorporate the Brunswick ani St. Simon’s Telephone Company. Tabled. To incorporate the Georgia Branch of the National Bell Telephone Company. Passed. The Btand'ng Committees made re ports. The Committee of Conference on the differences of the House and Ssnate, on a bill to prescribe the punishment of burglary, reported that the House rece ded from its amendments. Mr. Holton announced the death of Mr. Clements, of the 15 .h, which occurr ed in thia ritjr s ester Jsy morning, at 6 o'clock. Mr. Holton offered a resolution that the President appoint a committee of five to prepare suitable resolutions on the death of Hon. J. C. Clements, of the Fifteenth, and that the Senate adjourn in honor of his memory. The resolution agreed to, and the Senate adjourned to 10 o’clock to-morrow. The President appointed S3 tho Memorial Committee, Messrs. Hot- ton, Wellborn, Hudson, Harrison and Camming. Atlanta, Aagnst 25,1879. THE HOUSE met at 9 o’clock a. ra., pursuant to ad journment, the Speaker in the chair. Prayer by Rev. J. A. Hanks, of Whit field, in absence of che Chaplain. Bill was called, and the journal read and approved. The Speaker announced that Messrs. DeLoacb, Farnell and Miller, of Liberty, had been appointed and sent to escort as a guard of honor the remains of Senator Clements, of the 15th District, to his home. On motion of Mr. Adams, of Chatham, the rules were suspended, and thobill to carry into effect paragraph 2, section 18, article 6. of tho Constitution of 1877, was read the seoond time. On motion of Mr. Hanks, of Whitfield, a communication from the Attorney- General on tho railroad cases was read, and 300 copies ordered to ba printed, and the communication was referred to the committee on finance. OTHER MOTIONS. difficult and vexed question of railroad legislation. Pending his speech, and on motion of Mr. Hanks, the House ad journed till 3:30 r. x, to oontinnethe disonsBion of thia bill. Tho Senate has concurred in the Honse mendments to the bill to sell or lease the Macon & Brunswick railroad. No bill passed this session is more im portant than this, and its passage was met with great applause by business men from all parts of the Slate. It is reported that the Central Bail- road atook has already depreciated by reason of tho passage of the bill, but it is also said that che depreciation is not real but only an effort by certain Wall street brokers to make a corner on the stock of the road. It is with mnoh regret that I record the death of Senator Clements of the 15th, who died yesterday after an illness of several weeks. A special escort of honor from the Senate and House have been appointed to transfer the remains of the dead Senator from tne capital to his homo. The remains and their escort left the city yesterday. The weather here is clear, lovely and windy. Pall is upon ns, thongh.he has not yet assumed his varigated mantlel Carolyn**, The following bills were taken u/: Senate amendments concurred in, and the action of the House transmitted to the bw<ate. A bill to amend the act incorporating the town of Talbotton, etc. To amend section 1676 of the code re" l&ting to the granting of charters to pri- vato corporations by the courts of the State. To altar and amicd section six of an act to oreat a board of commissioners for Gwinnett county. To prohibit the catching of fish for ship ment out of the Little Ocmulgee river. Mr. Butler, of Camden, asked leave to withdraw bills No. 824 and 825. Leave allowed, THE RAILROAD BILL, which iB now tho special order till dis posed of, was takeD np. Mr. Port, of Simtec, addressed tho Honse on tho subject of the bill. Mr. Port epoke for two hours, reading many omhoritiesfrom the books, spe cially from the report of the railroad commissioners of the State of I.llnois. A MESSAGE from the Governor was received, and A MESSAGE from the Ssnate was also received and reed. Mr. Colley, of Wilkes, also spoke cn the bill. He was opposed to the'i imposi tion of tho railroads, and also did not think they should be oppressed by the people. The remarks of Mr. Colley were brief and to the point, and constituted one of the best speeches of the session. Mr. Yanoey, of Clark, also spoke on the bill. Mr. Hanks, of Wnltfield, offered a sub Btitnte for the first section of the bill. Mr. Hanks spoke to bis substitute. Quite a sharp passage of arms took plsoe between Mr. Hanks and Mr. Phil" tips of Cobb, in whieh mnoh good hu mored bat sharp wit was displayed on bGth sides. Mr. Harris, of Bibb, offered an amend meat to the substitute prohibiting any one becoming a commissioner who was interested in the stock of any road, either for himself, his wife or ohildren. Agreed to. Mr. Westbrook, of Dougherty, also of feted a substitute that one commissioner be elected by the Legislature, one by the people, and one appointed by the Govern or. The substitute of Mr. Hanks was put and lost. Tho snbstltute of Mr. Hanks was put and lost, with its amendment. Mr. Cox, of Troup, moved to strike ont the first seotion of the substitute offered by the committee. Mr. Port said he almost favored this section. Mr. Hall, of Spalding, thea took the San Francisco, August 24.—Dennis Kearney, upon his arrival from the Yal leys laBt night, addressed a crowd of twenty thousand people in the sand lots. Tne vindictive feeling whioh prevailed during the day had apparently in no wise diminished, and at a word from Kearney, the whole body wonld have poured down to wo, without hesitation, to wreak ven- geanoa on the do Youngs.' Kearney realized the sitnatlon folly and addressed himself to the task of quieting the passions of his followers. He remind ed them that in ten days the election would pnt tho whole machinery of the oity government in their bands, and that the proprietors of the Chronicle would unfailingly get their deserts. Thst, at present, any attempt at violenoa would be met by the revolvers of the police, and rifles and Gatling gnus of the milita ry, and that the gamo was not worth the shedding of the blood of one honest man. He adjared them by their regard for their reputation throughout the oountry to do no violonos, bat disperse quietly to their homes. He aanoanoed that to-mor row afternoon he would meet them in the sand lots, and that meantime he would inquire more folly into tho state of af fairs, and wonld then, ho believed, be able to show them how to dispose of the matter with credit to themselves. Never was Kearney’s boundless influ ence over his followers exhibited to better advantage. Althongb a vast crowd was fairly howling for the blood of the DeYoungs, it yielded implicitly to his advice, and r/aeu he dismissed them surged away in various directions, evi dently prepared to {follow his advice tc the letter. San Francisco, August 24.—Shortly after midnight Ia3t night half of th» po lice force were relieved from duty. Tuo remainder are staying at the station, except about thirty, who were detailed to a «,uo ohivnicfo office and some other points. Tne military also disbanded, with the exception of a detail at each armory. The streets were quiet throughout the night, and the crowd went home, except two or three hundred men, who remained in front of the station. It was rumored at ton a. m., that Mr. E&llock was sinking, and wonld not per haps Jive till morning. San Francisco, August 24.—Mr. H. DeYoung, in an interview with the re porter cf the “Alfa Californian” last night, said the offensive statement in the Chronicle, with regard to Kalloch’a family bl-tory,-which provoked Kallcch to re taliation, came to them by telegraph from Bjston, at one thirty in the morn- ing, daring the absenoe of both himself and his brother, and was published with out their knowledge. Having made it, however, they deter mined to stand to it. He said, further more, Kalloch might have known ho could not go npon a public platform and traduce our mother and family without stern and bitter retribution. Ho knew he took his life is his hands when he spoke as he did. My brother simply aoted as any man would have aoted who had any spark of manhood abont him. The morning papers comment severely upon the general esuso and management of DeYoung’s journal., The Call say" the Chronicle has long had a private detec tive agency whioh has filled the pigeon holes of its office with materialto be nsed to extort money or pnll down mon who would not be blackmailed. It has boas ted of its ability to kill any man it did not like. No other community in Amer ica probably has been so disgraced and despoiled by a public journal as tnis. The Alta Californian says the Chroni cle has been assaulting the characters and reputations of men, women and girls in this oity for years, atd charges the. responsibility therefor upon tho public which has given such paper patronage. “The coarse of tho Chronicle has been demoralizing, indeoent and infamous.” Havana, August 24.—Sugar exceed ingly dull, and almost nothing done. Sellers, however, firmly uphold prices, expecting a reaction. Quotations are nominally unchanged. Stock in ware houses at Havana and Matanzis 76.800 boxes, 66,000 bigs, 53.400 hogsheads. Beceipts for the week, 2,600 boxes, l,0o0 bags and 100 hogsheads. Exports, 900 boxes and 659 hogsheads, including fifty boxe,and all the hogsheads to Ihe United States. Tobacco unchanged. Spanish gold, 215 to 2251. Exchange, quief; firm on U. S. sixty days’. Gold. 10 to 101. Premium, short sight, 10J to 11. On London, 20i to 21 premium. On Paris, GI to 7, premium. Henry, N. C, August 24.—Last night the mail and passenger train on the Wes tern North Carolina Bailroad, with an ex cursion train attached, was wrecked at Mad Cat, by a land slide. The coach containing tho excursionists was^ com pletely bnried, but no one was seriously injured. The Cleveland paper company’s estab lishment was partly destroyed by fire last night. Loss thirty thousand dollars. Milwaukee,* August 24.—'The morn ing papers here publish details of a case of wholesale poisoning at a harvest pic nic at Nucwawango last Friday. Inves tigation showed that by mistake six ounces of tartar emetic, instead of tartar acid, had been put into some water to make a substitute for lemonade.' All those who drank of tho mixturo were taken sick and at last acoonnts several persons were reported in a ds- gcrou3 condition, among them Hon. A. E. Per kins. ■ _ , Baltimore. August 21.—Tne Grand Lodge of the Hebrew Order of K. S. B. or Iron Knob, assembled in this city to day. Simon Wolff, Grand Master, of Washington, presiding. The District comprises th3 States of Pennsylvania Maryland, District of Columbia, South Circling Georgia and Louisiana, "* Jtoor, and spoke for seme time on this which all sre represented. There are present notables from 33 Lodges. The Order is eeoret, and its proceedings also. To-night delegates are attending an entertainment given by the Baltimore Lodges. The Grand Lodge will be In session again to-morrow. New York, August 24.—A meeting of Cabsns was held here to-day, and steps were taken to extend aid and enoourage- ment to the revolutionary committee of Cuba. A meeting of the National Working Men’s Party, at whioh arrangements were made for a large mass meeting, and a resolution was adopted denonnomg the shooting of Kal’ooh in Ban Franoisoo, as the work of a cowardly assassin hired by capita!, and working in tho interest of capital, and demanding an instant trial of the murderer. . A similar -meeting was also held to night, and similar resolutions were passed by the English Bpeaking branch of the Socialistic Labor Party. TTivais Ox it, August zi.—James Bob bins and Michael Barnes, farmers, living six miles west of here in Kansas, bad a dispute and encounter on Saturday, grow- ing ont of money matters. Several shots were exchanged and both men fatally wounded, bnt they clinched and fonght it cat with the batts of their revolvers nntil both men were in a dying condition. Dobbins expired on the spot and Burns early next morning. New Orleans, Augast 24.—Steamship Hudson, from New York, reports that on the 19;h she encountered a hurricane and on the 20th fell in with schooner Gothic C. Berry, dismasted and waterlogged. Hudson supplied her with provisions and water. The Berry was from Brunawiok for Boston, laden with lumber. St. Louis, August 24.—A fire at Parm er City, Illinois, early yesterday morn ing, destroyed 24 buiidingB and burned out 22 firms. The main part of the bus iness portion of the city is in ruins. It is believed to be the work of an incendi ary. The total loss is about a hundred thousand dollars. Ocean Gbove, N. J., Augast 24.— Twenty thousand persons attended ser vices at the Methodist camp meeting to day. New Yobk, August 24.—The Gate City Gaards of Atlanta, the leading mili tary organization of Georgia, has, for some time, had a trip to the North nnder consideration, and reoently decided to come. Captain J. P. Bntke, commander of the corps, arrived here Friday to make arrangements for its reoeption. He in formed a reporter yesterday that his command proposes to visit Washington abont tbs middle of next month, where they expeofc to be received by President Hayes, after whioh they will tender a re view to General Sherman and prominent pnblio officers. They will next visit Bal timore, where the 5ih Maryland regi ment will probably receive them, and then Philadelphia. After remaining in the Qoaker City a day or two they will come to thi3 city, where they will be re ceived by the 7th regiment, while other organizations, as well as the munioipal authorities, will extend hospitalities to tho Georgians. Prom this oity the Guards win go t o Boston, and all the cnoient and honora ble artillery w’U ex'.end thorn a welcome vaaeution. • Tho command recently reoeived a handsome flig whioh will bo carried for tho first timn o» this trip by the color guard, in addition to State and national oolors. The principal objeot of this trip to ths North is a study of noithorn States mili tary organizations. A hundred and fifty-five dollars has been deposited in the poat-cffica boxes in the past five days for relief of or phans of the yellow fever viotims at Mem phis. Constantinople, August 24.—Tho Minister of Finance has informed the Porte that five hundred thousand Mus sulman refugees are being maintained, in' addition to the Tarkish army, and that he declines all responsibility for a financial catastrophe. This, the state of affairs render inevitable. An imperial Irade ha?, consequently, been issued, disbanding the first class of reserves, and annonneing that the third, fourth and fifth classes will be disban ded when the Greek question is settled. This measure involves a reduction of the army to 109,003 men. A commission will be held on Thurs day, when tho Turks will reply to the declaration made by Greek Commission ers, relative to the protocol of the Berlin treaty. Tne plague has appeared at Nermin- shab.on the Turco-Poraian frontier. London, Augast 24.— Bcme dispatch toBsuter’a Telegram Company, reports that foar Cardinals will ba created at the Consistory, to be held next month. Mazslla is expected at the Vatican oa Monday with an autograph letter from the King of Bavaria and important docu ments, concerning the relations between Germany and the Vatican, and the posi tion of tho old Catholics. The Vatican ha3 taken special step3 with several governments to prevent any judicial rec ognition of the old Ca'.holios. It is un derstood that its representations in this respect have been favorably entertained. Bucharest, Aug. 24.—Prince Charles in his message, farther proroguing the Senate and Chamber o! deputies until the 2 of September, says the government will then submit measures relative to the revi sion of article of the constitution affecting the etatus of the Jews, necessitated by the treaty of Berlin, which treaty has been acoepted by the legislature with all the sacrifices it impeses on Roumania. The Prince expresses the conviction that the legislature will arrive at a solution of the matter which will .reconcile princi ples of religions liberty and politioal equality with the national and economical necessities of Bonmanta. Memphis, August 24.—N.neteen new cass3 were reported to-day—seven white and twelve colored. AmoDg the number are Jas. Baker, W. H. West and Dennis Noiton. Eight deaths havo occurred—0. H. Htlscher, Dongheity, Cordelia Atwood, Michael Wilson, and four colored. Dr. Boboit E Biohardson, John Walsh, oonnty undertaker, G. H. Dennison and W. J. Oilman, are sick, bnt their names have not yet been reported. Miss Birdil Goff died of yellow fever last evening, at White HaveD, Tenn. The weather ha3 been stormy all day and remains threatening. . Gen. J. S. Skeffiogton is very low and will hardly survive the night. The Howard Association sent nurses to White Station, Tenn., ten utiles east of the city, on the Charleston Bailroad, where a negro lies sick with fever. Daring the storm last night a frame building occupied by Mrs. Hollis and two children, in south Memphis, all sick with fever, was blown down. Mrs. Hot lis will probably die from exposure. Miss Lizzie Bhodes died of fever this morning, three miles out oa the Baleigh railroad. Sam Fbancieco, August 25.—Every thing perfectly quiet. Kalloch is reported in a favorable condition. Every thing still remains qaiet. Ksl loon passed a comfortable night, and this morning his condition is much improved. London, August 25.—The builders’ strike in Bristol, which commenoed in November, 1878, has at last ended with the submission of the wort mm in the joiners* and carpenters’ departments, to themasters’ terms. Panama, August 16.—West India Pa- ciflo Steamship Company’s steamer, American, whioh sailed from AspiowaU on the 9th for Liverpool, enoonntered heavy weather between Savonilla »nd Carthagenia. The ship was struck by lightning and her mast shivered. No loss of life nor sezioui damage done. Disturbances occurred at Panama on the 10rh daring the polling for members of the Legislature. The party in oppoai tion to the present administration, all national, complained of the Btealing of the ballot-box at the central precinct of the oity. Some began a fight, others, being Instrnoted, scoured the ballot-box in the confusion, bnt the plana were frus trated by the officers, who used their re- volvers freely. In a few minutes a strong guard of polioe, armed with rifles, sur rounded the polling booth and preserved orior to tho close. Memphis, August 25.—Ten new crsia were reported by the Board of Health this morning—two colored. Among the the whites, were Mrs. E. C. BrookE, Minnie Look word, Dr. E. P. Biohardson, Geo. E. Taylor. Eight deaths has oc curred since last night: J. B. Hierkanf, John McDsrlott, Jeff D. Poster, James E. Burke, Peter Cattano, Mioheal Taylor, Henry Bsrtham, John McHian, col’d, A telegram received from the Mayo; and President of the the board of health con tradicts a report of yellow fever at Stark- ville, Mississippi. The weather has cleared off. The thermometer at day light this morning indicated 64. London, August 25 —Mr. Scott, well known agriculturist, in his annnal letter referring to the crops, says the crop3 will be les3 than an average. Ho also estimates that the deficiency in the po tato crop will cause the less of fifteen million' pounds, and the deficiency in beans, peas and rye, a loss of three mil lion pounds. Vebsailes, August 25—Tho great shooting contest was concluded here yes terday, in which Milton ’’Farrow, the American marksman, gained the first three priz;s. Mount Holly, N. J., Angus*. 25.— Hon. John Teneyok. cx-Senator of the United States, died last night at bis resi dence in this place. Aged sixty-five years. > San Pbanciso, Augast 25.—Colonel John C. Cremony, a well known journal ist and author, and an officer of tho Cali fornia Volunteers in the late war, died last night pf consumption. Aged sixty- two years. Fottstown, Pa., August 25.—Samuel Willaner, a member of the town connoil, and John Hoffman, Prioa Willaner, Wharton Ball aod a man named Boyer were fatally injured this evening by fall ing off an aroh in tho blast furnace of tho Pottsville Iron Company. London, August 25.—A Vienna dis patch to tho Standard and Telegraph re port that the deplomatic relations between Bussia and Austria are less cordial than for many years, and that the differences between Bussia and Germany are on the eve of passing from the stage of newspa per controversy to that of diplomatic precaution. The Exeoative press asserts that the friendship between Austria and Germany will be proved if nec-EBary. The Italian Bark Mia from Baltimore for Hull has gone ashore on Good Roads. Six hundred mine oolliers have struck in North Stafforshire. London, August 25.—Much suffering in Persia is threatened by the long con* ’Vuued drought. A dispatch from Bar *he Times, says should a second shin i dry winter occu. — x\, r ai a there would bo famine, great as tuatui im«. Belgrade, August 25.— The Cadi of Messova has notified Servia that he is powerless to prevent the invasion of the latter country by a largo force of Alba nians, now assembled cn the frontier. The Servian authorities have, therefore, taken measures for safe defense. San Francuco, Augast 25.—-Lauding clergymen of the city in their sermons yesterdy gave considerable prominenoe to tho Da Youngs, condemning the assault on Kalloch as cruel and cowardly, and citing at is an evidence of the social demoralization and low state of civiliza tion. From various points of the interior, come expressions of private and . public opinicnj condemning the Da Youngs for the course pursued by the Chronicle and subsequent attack npon Kalloch. Tho leaders of gtho irorkiogmens’ party held a conference with Kalloch’e medical at tendants to day to consider tho expedien cy of patting up somo other man for meyor. Physicians informed them that at present they saw nothing in the condi tion of Kalloch to render such a course necessary and intimated the probability of nia early recovery. Charles De Young was brought before tho police court to day and waiving examination was held to answer the charge of assault with intent to kill without bail. Memphis, August 25.—Thirty-four cases were reported to-day, twenty whites and fourteen blacks. Among the names reported this alterooon were Mrs. S. H. Colliers, Wm. Bhenest, O. B. Wilkie and A. C. Hepburn. The fever has appa rently taken a fresh start, especially in the northern portion of the city and in Chelsea. No additional death has been reported since noon. Esquiro Hoegle and family are down with the fever a mile south of Camp Marks. Dave Coobian Is also prostrated with tho dis' ease, five miles east of the oity on Pop lar street boulevard. Dr. D. M. Bradford has been sent to White’s Station,. Ten nessee, to isolate a obeo of a negro sick with tne fever there. The themom etor to-day ranged from 63 to 63. TheTentonic Bsliet AssooiatioD, rep resenting the German Societies of Mem phis, has appealed to their countrymen for help. Bsmittanoes should' be sent to A. Goldsohmidt, President. Philadelphia, August 25.—Justice Cassady to-day committed Assistant Su perintendent Vaito and three other em ployes of tho Atlantio City Narrow Gauge Bailroad, for trial at the October term of Camden Court, npon the charge of man- claughter, in bringing about a fatal col lision on that railroad on the fourteenth instant. New Orleans, August 25 —Anna Marcheinen, wife of General J. B. Hood, died at their residence on Third street, near Constance, of yellow fever. The character of the disease developing only a short time before her deatn. PirraBUBG, August 25—Great damage has been done in the vicinity of this city by the heavy rain-fall of the past two days. At Milliade, thirty houses were flooded; stables and ont-bnlldings were carried away and bridges and cul verts destroyed. The Evergreen Nar row Gnage Bailroad lost seven bridges near that point and hundreds of feet of track. No loss of life has been reported. San Francisco, August 25.—The phy sicians now express strong hopes of Mr. Kallooh’a recovery. There 1b talk among the rank and file of the workingmen of nominating Kearney for Mayor, should Kallock die, bnt this is cot desired by either Kearney or his friends. At the polios station vigilance has been relaxed daring the day, and only a few offices are on dnty. There are no crowds In the streets, except aronnd the Metro politan Temple and in the vicinity of tho bulletin boards. For the Telegraph and Messenger. 227 THE TWILIGHT. When violets peep up from the meadows, The far off little stars to see, And they in bright, happy beauty, Smile back to the bud* of the lea; When birds havehid in the gloaming, And dewdrops fall soft in the sea. In thebeautiful evening twilight, My love is coming to me. Soft hands will be clasped in the evening, And the story that nevor is old. With starlight laughing above ur. In sweet, tender accents be told. I’ll be happy, so happy that evening. When only the stars will us see, For faithfully down by the gateway. My love’ll be waiting with me. He’ll tell me so oft that he loves me, And swear it with bright eyes to bine, That through all years of the future. He’ll ever be tender and true. And wflen life’s sweat dreams are over. And I stand on the golden lea, I know my lore will be waiting And watching there then with mo. Macon, August 25th. 1879. H Y S. THE GEOBU1A PBE88. Columbus had a small mad dog sensa tion Saturday. The cow thief wanders around Colum bus. Conyers has one of the beBt brass bauds in the State. The heaviest rain of tho season fell in Conyers on Friday. The Quitman Free Press Bays the crops in Brooks county were not injmed half as much as it was at first thought they were, and a fair average crop will be made. The Americas Recorder’s crop man, in alripoTer Sumter and Dooly counties, sees much reason for congratulation on the prospsets agriculturally. Thomasvillb Times: You can hear almost any kind of a report on the streets about the cotton crop. One planter will tell yon that he is rained; another will say that tho cater pillar is going to swoep tho country; another tbat the ru3t has ruined the crop; and then you’ll meat with another who will tell ycu that ho has a better crop than ho had last y«ar. Ths thing is mixed. The same paper sayE: The air is thick in Atlanta with re ports of rings. There .is some talk of them in Thomasville—they are engage ment rings. And now the question arises, has Cap. tain Triplett surrendered at last. There have been bnt fonr deaths in Thomasville during the summed and no death from fever has ccenrred there. South Georgia Agricultural Col- lege.—Thomasville Times: This institu tion is now fully equippei with a corps of compentent instructors, and it is un deratood that the college will be put in operation at a very e»rly day. The currioulnm of study will be com prehensive and thorough, and the stand ard high. Professor Scott, tLo -.-sit- WrnoiilAnt. and Professor MacSwaiD, the accomplish ed scholar and popular instruotor, are too well known all over Southern Geor gia and Florida, to need a word of com mendation from any source, but we can not refrain from offering our feeble tes timonial to their distinguished merit. And for Prof. Parker, we can say, that he is yonng man without a superior, on tho ecore of morality and integrity, tho equal of any in mental qaalifications and educational advantages and acquire ments. The Augusta Evening News says that a boautiful marble tablet has been finished to be erected over the tomb of Bev. H. Clarke,of that place,ift 1 * 1 ”' “ Te uA?Af4iH Recorder: There were only eighteen dsatbs this weak. Three whites and fifteen colored. This speaks well for Savannah’s healthy condition. Pinafore will bo one of the attractions of the next Sandersvitle fair. Eatckton’s first bale of cotton waB brough tin by Mr. J. T. Dennis. Broadaxe and Itemiter: Daring the storm of Wednesday evening, while Lum Boswell, colored, was riding home on horseback, lightning, striking a tree near by, glanoed off end struck both rider and horse, from tho tffeot of whioh the horse lost its eyesight and the negro was soorohed to some extent. Fire.—Washington Gazette: On Tnes- day night abont one o’olock the town was alarmed by the ory of fire, whioh proved to ba in the honse of Jim Toombs, color ed. This was an oathonse on General Toombs’ pleoa and immediately behind the 'Presbyterian ohnrch. It had two rooms, and was oooapied at the time by ihe above named negro. It was vary well farniahed and contained one hundred and fifteen bushels of wheat, a large amount of meat and other provisions, whioh were all lost. The burning building was near Judge Reese's stables, and for a while they were in considerable danger. The origin of the fire is a matter whioh can not ba accounted for, as it first broke ont in the opposite end from the one occu pied. The burned house wa3 one of the old land marks of Washington, it having been used as a school honse a good many years, Jim was off at ohuroh when the fire first began. He was married the night after tbe fire. Kerosene Onos More.—Upson Eider- prise: On Friday evening of last week three little negro girls were fatally bnra- ed, by the explosion of a kerosene oil oan. Their mother was sick and Bent them to make np a fire in the yard to get sapper, the oldest girl being eleven or twelve years old and the youngest five or six. They used oil for pine to start the fire with. One of them poured on tho oil, ths fire blazed and oanght the oil in the can, exploding the oan and throw ing the burning oil on eaob, saturating their clothing and enveloping them in fisme3 before effectual assistance oonld be rendered. Two of the ohildren have sinoe died and the oldest one, the physi cian sayB, can’t live. The Albany Advertiser says it is proba ble a oolony of Northern people will soon be established in Worth oonnty by Mrs. Elizabeth Worker. It is understood that the oolony will number five or eix hundred families, and that they will en gage in agricultural pursuits. BuoT in Cotton on Bed Lands.—Al bany Advertiser: Mr. 7. H. Hines, of Lee oonnty, who was in onr office yesterday, gives rather an nnfavorable account of the cotton crop of this section. His plaoe is on the Lee oonnty side of the river, abont two miles from Warwick, Worth oonnty, and h9 says that the mat has taken hold of his ootton on red land where it was never known before. The complaint is general in his neighberhood. The drought and rust together, Mr. Hines thinks, will ont the crop short at leaat oae-third. The store of J. W. Harrell, In Lamp kin, eeys the Independent, was burglar" ized a few nights sinoe. B. B. Blooker, Esq., has been doing Tybee Island for the Early County News. The Cathbert Southron gives an ao> count of a remarkable cave in Bandolph oonnty, on the plantation of Mr. Sam Grier. It is entered by a round perpen dicular bole in tbe ground about ten feet deep, and abut the size of a well in cir- cumference. In'this cave are several large chambers filled with beautiful ets- laotities, which have assumed every shape which can be pictured by the im> agination, while through it flows a stream ot crystally clear water, filled with little fish, “as bright and frolicsome as sun beams.” Oa account of noxious gases the cariosity has never been fully ex plored; bnt by candle-light the resemb- lanoe of its vast obamners, with their hundreds of large, solid stalactites, to a gigantic forest of oak and cedar trees* interspersed with hundreds of labyrin, thian walks, renders the place at onoo hsautif aland dazzling to behold. The Oglethorpe Echo learns that James Bollock, living in Walton county, while hoeing in a cotton field, found conceal ed in a stamp $10,009 in gold and silver, and a pile of greenbacks. The paper money had rotted. There seems to be one sentiment by all who heard Mr. F. H. Bioharden's polished oration before the Atla nta Pb- lio Library, that it was one of he brightest, most beautiful addresses aver delivered in that oity. Mr. Biohardson is a brilliant yonng journalist, rising in reputation and steadily advancing to the foremost rank. Singular Accident.—Enguircr Stin: A train with colored excursionists left West Point yesterday morning for At lanta, and when near Fairbnrn, Georgia, one of tho party, a negro man, met with a serious, it not fetal, accident. He was standing on the bottom step of one of the cars swinging his leg out, which was caught by a wire fence at a stock gap, jerking him df, larcerating his left leg, breaking the bone in three or four pla* ces, and severely catting bis right foot and head. Passengers report it was a terrible sight, and that it it impossible for him to recover. Mbs. Bridget Norton died in Augns' ta at the Convent of the Sacred Heart on Saturday. She wa3 a native of Ireland. Atlanta is preparing for a grand Bex procession. A singular robbery occurred in Savan nah on Friday night list. A barrel of whisky was left ou the sidewalk in front of a prominent store in tho city and waB robbed dur ng tho* night of its contents. Tha whisky must have been carried off in buokets and must have consumed sev eral hoars. Tuns $135 evaporated from the posssession of the owners, and the gallant police of the city were none the wiser na to the direction in whioh.it went. The ribbon of bine should be given to the Savannah police, for the officer that can sleep the longest and the strongest againBt a lamp post or dry goods bor. Mb. Walter E. Lumbebt mate of the schooner Era Adell, jumped overboard while in a delirium of fever ana was drowned, while on the way to New York. The circumstance was related by the Captain to a Savannah News reporter. Me. Warren P. Lovett has been bound over in the sum of $3,009 for his appear- rnnrfc“fn^ftl’«£. r . aar 7 term of Meriwether refined Coprt for the Killing or Meyaolds. South, Chronicle and Conshiutionu,.... The order for the printing of the new issue of 6 per cent. City of Augusta bonds, one hundred and twelve thousand dollars in amount, has been forwarded. Mb..Frederick William Memlee, of Cartersville, ia having a rough time. It eeems that he is a man of polygaruso tendencies, and while one case for biga my was pending against him in the oourts, the Baptist Cnurch there on J>u|£ day last brought him_up rf ~ m m ^bsr- charge,.thinks that he is §o ^eset by Churoh and State that the best thing he can do is to skip the coun try. Salt Lake City is the place for Ijtin, A phenomenon in the shape of a huge gas well has been discovered in Honston oonnty. The Perry Home Journal says: *‘A few days ago the City Connoil of By ron employed Messrs. Cook & Matthews to bore a pat-lie well for the benefit of the oilizsns. They began work promptly and pushed it forward with diligence. The ordinary wells are only twenty .five or thirty feet deep, bnt this bored well was pushed down forty—fifty—sixty— seventy—eighty—ninety—nntil it roaoh- ed the depth of ninety-seven feet, and yet no sufficient supply of water was reached. A most remarkable circum stance is tbat the well emits a continuous blast of air or gas, and each is its foroe that two mills, of the flatter variety, have been erected over it, and are now in oonstant operation. It U now ac knowledged by tha most sensitive Byron- ites that there is an enormous substratum of gas underlying that oity, and we may at once look for inflammation in thst part of the county in its most exaggerated form. It may be considered peculiarly fortunate that this safety valve is opened. We may now hope that an impending ex plosion has been averted. We hope onr friends will keep ns posted on this phe nomenon, as we want to know whether we are likely to be blown np when we go np there, whioh will b8 in a week or two. The editor of the Warronton Clipper, wno b&3 been on a recent trip through Warren oonnty, has gathered Ihe partic ulars of a remarkable case of death from a lightning stroke. He says that a honse was pointed ont to him as a negro cabin in which a woman was killed nnder the following ciroumstanoeB: “She was sit> ting in a ohair that was leaning against the wall in ono oorner,and holding an infant in her arms, with five or six ehil- dren lying on the floor at her feet. There were no signs of the track of the light ning bolt about tbe honse at all. The right or left temple of the woman had re oeived the electrio blow, and was pressed in as if by a terrible stroke from a stamp usually used by Postmasters in mailing letters. The woman was instantly killed without moving or giving any evidenoe of death- The infant was bnt slightly injured. The dead mother sat there for nearly three-qnarters of an hoar with her little infant still quietly folded in her lifeless arms. The others at her feet were mere or less hurt. One or two were set on fire and seriously damaged. The woman, however, was the only one that was fatally lnjnrsd. This was certainly a most remarkable ooourrenoe.” is on ths side of the mountain, and from the oar window oan be seen the valley be low for many miles. - Upon arriving at the hotel, having oanght a glimpse of the beauties of the Sylvan village, not much time was last in preparing to “explore.” The University buildings were the first npon the programme. Enclosed in a long white line of fencing, we came first to the Vice Chancellor’s apartments and the rooms of the Hebdomadal Board, Next is tho Grammar Sohool. St. A n gustine’s Chapel is the next building, around it the Lecture Booms. Forensic Hall is near by. The above are in the ‘Chapel yard,” and although of tem porary structure, they are neat and attractive. Passing the residences of Bishop Qaintard and Prof. McCrady, we come immediately in sight of ST. XiUKB’s mi mortal hall, or Theological Hall—the hacdsomest building of its kind in the United States. It is bnilt of sand stone, trimmed with Bowling Green white stone, upon the early English plan of architecture. It is 140 feet in length, contains three large ledtnre rooms, a chapel, the Theological Library room, forty-two bed rooms and twenty-one studies. The Dean’s apart ments in this building surpass any in America, being arranged nnder the di rection and principally paid for from the parse of the Dean, tha Bev. Telfair Hodgson, D. D. The furniture and np- holstery, in general, is elaborate, and magaifleent throughout the building. The greatest care has evidently been ta ken, to promote the oomfort of the stu dents and inspire them. The grounds, when completed, will add perfection to the appearanoe of this remarkably hand some structure. This building was donated to the Uni versity by Mrs. Henry Haywood Hani- gault, widow of Colonel Manigault, of South Carolina, at a cost of $35,000. She also gave $5,000 to endow a scholar ship in connection with the school. THE HODGSON LIBRARY. Looking from University Place west, over a dale, amid which, the rhododen dron, the wild azaha, and other primitive flowers bloom in much luxuriance, we have a full view of thia splendid edifice. Gothio in architecture, decidedly of the Queen Anne style, it is built of the same material as is used in St. Luke’s Hall- sandstone from the UDiversity quarries. The grounds are tastefully arranged; the interior is replete with handsome paint ings and a valuable library. This build ing and much, of its contents was dona ted by Bev. Telfair Hodgson,D.D., Vice Chancellor and Dean, at a cost of over ten thousand dollars. AN ARBISTOCBATIC RENDEZVOUS. Thera are between seventy-five and one hundred cottages on the moun tain, tho homes of the Chancellor, the faculty, and also the summer home of the Bishop of Tennessee and of Texas. Here, also, live many of the most and cultivated people of the Msny families have their homes tfiSfVA'ife?. near their sons attending the NOTES. Sinoe arriving here I have witnessed the Commencement exercises of the Uni versity, with much pleasure. Tne Board of Trustees held their sn’’“'r meeting, and I learn that thev & result, jj 0 p ^. fta a brilliant _ T . r e , RPuiicfin attendance a Bhare of ?Ub crenia de la creme ot Southern society. The week has been a happy cue for many. There are many attractive fea tures about Sewanee. The place is so cial, hardly a day passes that visits are not exchanged among the families. The young men have built three churches in and about it. The cadet gray, worn by the Junior,students and the gowns and caps of GownsmeD, give one a pleasant idea of the classical surround ings. Much of the success of the Uni versity is due to tbe liberality of its worthy Yioe Chancellor, Bsv. Telfair Hcdgecs, D. D., who?o wife was formerly Miss Potter, of Macon. Ia my next I will say something in re gard tc Sswance itself, its scenery and society. Wm. O. Chase Chronicle & Constitutionalist] Senator H ll, of Georgia, has got control of his month. Tnat’B .ono of tha greatest feats since the diys of Bameon—ti. Y. Trib une. It Is a pity yon have not got control of yonr’s That wonld be the greatest feat since the days of Balaam’s ani mil. Thomasville Times.] Mrs. Sprague and Mrs. Hill are both ont in an explanatory statement. Both make a gwzy affair of it, in fset we might eiy that both statements are decidedly thin. Sim mons paid the penalty with bis life—Conk- ling still iives. South Georgia Exchange] Beecher and Oonkllng ought to go on a lecturing tour together. ThomasviUe Times.] It occurs to' us that much valuable time ought be savtd by our legislators by careful ly considering, instead of so much re-con sidering. Western Exchange.] A man ont West has killed his physician, and the oocnrrancs is so unusual a one that the pipers can’t find type enough to express their astonishment. The “woman’s friend,” is what Dr. Boll's Baltimore Pills may well be termed, for ev ery woman that bas onee used them will not be withont them. SEWANEE. Tbe Effllkerlud ot America- Art Vicing with Nature-Uni yersily ot tbe Ssntb ana its many Charms, Stuart House, Bxwahee, Tenn., August 24, 1879. T&e writer had often beard of the ‘‘Switzerland of Amerioa,” and of the noble institution—the “University of tbe South”—and thought he could form Borne estimate of the oountry, bnt he is pre pared to eay tbat it i.t neoessary to visit here in order to realize its grandner. Leaving Chattanooga at about II a. ! I arrived at Cowan station, on theN. and 0. B. B. at abont 1:30 p. m. There I boarded the train on the “Tennessee Coal and Bailroad Company’s” railroad, and begun to ascend the monntain. The distance ia ten miles and the difference in altitade between the two plaoes is something over 1,200 feet. The railroad Bill Moore in Evening News.] Only ten foreigners aie honored by tombs in Westminister Abney. Tney are awful purticnUr abont who is laid at rest there. Bat let them keep their old tombs. If they’d offer to let ns be ba:ied there to morrow, we would’t aooept. Onr personal appearance is a matter in which onr friends and acquaintance* have a right to a choice whether we shall initio’, np on them an exterior unoared for and unat tractive, a countenance marred by a neglect ed grizzled beard, or a crown guiltless of oovering, hilt covered, or thatched with white hairs, or whether we shall in deference to onr fellow*, pay dne regard to onr own persons, and make them presentable and ao- oeptable in society. There are many helps for those who deeire to do this, and there are none among them more acceptable than Hall’s Hair Benewer and Buehingbam'a Dye for tbe whiskers. Both these preparations are kept for sale at all onr drag stores, and if any of onr friends are looking a little the worse for wear, we advise them to make a note of it.—North Star, Danville, Yt Final notica is called to the next Drawing the above popular Company on August 80th. The same splendid schema and the same unexceptional manor of drawing. $112," 400 in ossh prizsa. Tickets $2. Orders are pouring in, and will be filled np to the eve- nirg of 29th inat. Baud at onoe to T. J. GOMKEBFOBD, Seo’y, Contier-Jonmal Building, Louisville, Ky., or same at 16) Broid way. New York. —A phase of fashionable life in Newport is shewn by the following advertisement in a local paper: *MUs Thompson, from New York, shapes and polishes ladies finger nails at their reaidenoe. Bate per visit $i,’ —When the lad Louie Napoleon went to Sonth Africa a committee of Parisians was formed to coileot money for the purchase of a satiable souvenir for him on bis return. Tbe sum obtained was $689. It will be de voted to baling a commemorative tablet to St. Mary’s Chapel, at Ohieelbnrat. —Tbe aoa’e on which expenditure is pitoti ed in England is fairly illustrated by the fact that tho late Countee* of Waldegrave is spoken of as hiving had a small income Xnrd Lyjton as too poor to bee: m) an ear Cheuneford aa tne poorest peer of flr ? 1 ^ an annnal inoome of $80.COO, the next has one of $33,000 and the last $10,000. ' — A Bmwtau. Socialist, condemned to the mines of Siberia, desired to commit suicide but the ceil In whioh he was confined, at Odessa, contained nothing thatoould be uiod m any ordinary way against hla life. Bo he tbe top of his lamp, lighted the petroleum oil in it, and sat over it in such a way as slowly to bum to death. ‘Bach was ^f^fK/T eter i nia m tioa ’’ r *ys * correspon dent of the London Times, ‘diat neither dm- ing the act nor at the hospital whither he was ri moved only to liagerand die did ha utter a word or givs any sign indicative of suffer ing, and no one appears to be able to ac count for the strange deed.’ —They are lighting up Niagara Falls now at night with ths electric light, and tha tffeot is said to bs beautiful. Bed leases are frequently used on tbe lights at the base of the falls, and the effeot is to make tbe water of . t i ; eKtaat oataract look like blood. The red light permeates the mug of water fiow- wg over the brow of the predpioe to a won- derfal degree. It ia ah one intense red. Thei electno lights are also uted to areata another phenomenon of nature, namelr a lunar rainbow above thefalla. By arrang- iag the lights m a peculiar xn&naer tho oprasr that ever hovers above the falls U so illumi nated that a rainbow appears with many of the oolors common to rainbows. Gov Spbague Saves a Man most Dbown- Tsg — Nabhiganssti Tier, Aug. 22 —Yes terday morning while Gov. Sprague of Oan- onchet was walking on ths beech, his atten- tion was arrested by the movements of soma mmiwho were getting ayacht into the water, which came ashore in Monday night’s storm. J net then a sailboat contain ing two men ran two near in shore and got oanght in the breakers. Finally overturning, one man was oanght in the ropes and was under the boat. Gov. Sprague saw tha accident, and jumping into the water suooeededin righting ne boat and rescuing the man from drown ing. He was wet throng?-. Not Apparent nr Georgia.—The Knoxville Tribue says: Notwithstanding the unfavor able accnnnts from Kansas brought by dis appointed darkies from that prairie country, the Kansas fever is raging all over Geoigia. Qol ? red P e opla own over $5,000.00° of property and are otherwise well off and comfortable, bat they have oanght the Kansas itch and wiU go there or die. Well, it is Still true, ns it was four thousand years ago, that ‘you may bray n fool m a mortar with n pestle, still will not his foolishness depart from him.’ .i. - ? ST ’ ® r * Huokloy, inn sermon at the Chautauqua camp meeting on ths Pro-.' verent mixing of religion tnd business, rela ted the fallowing story: ‘A man. told me that ho had bought an o:tate; that he divi ded it into sections, and he was sore that it w« going to pay tremendously, and he had made it a matter of prayer for four days as to who should have tbe last shire. And he told me—I b'rash to eay it—that the Ht.lv Ghost had revealed to him that I was the man that was to have the last share. Said I: •If there were no other Holy Ghost than the Holy Ghost that taught ycu that, by my honor as n man, I would stand np by tne side of Robert Ingeraoli and preaoh until I died.’ And every man that took n share in that speculation that he referred to came to grief except that man, and somehow or other ho got out of it wi;h considerable money.’ —Tne Bev. Edward Everett Hale tells, in the Independent, of n Judge who wia pre paring a law lecture, and had evarv ohair and table in his study covered with open books, from which he was collating material. PjS. B i a i£L—jfliiapfla—jviJ witor,'" sagenutnr — of use, shut up all tbe bocks and put them on the shelves. Miranda returned to the room in horror and oried ‘We shall both bo killed when he comes borne!’ ‘Niver ye fear, mum,’ said Biddey. ‘I'll make it all right.’ And sure enough, when the Jaiga saw the room, Biddy had produce 1 thirty law books from the shelves, had opened them in imita tion of the aspect she had found them in, and he was left to go on with his lecture as beat he might with ths aid of precedents of Biddy’s seieoiion.’ —The Chattanorga Times lets itself loose on the Ban Francisco emeute as follows: The shooting ot tha Bev. Kallacb, the leader aad candidate of the Ban Francisco Hood lums, is a specimen of Western justice. KaUaoh has boon well known years ago in Boston and New York, as a rake who devi- ded his time between gallantry and preaoh- ing. He ia a coarse blackguard, aa the lan guage he applied to the min who shot him shows. His attack on tha Mee srs. De Yonng, was false and brutal ia the extreme, and the oountry generally, at least the moat refined, dignified, and intelligent portion of it, will esy—served him right. Tho Messrs. De Young are proprietors of the Ban Francisco Chronicle, and one of the bast and wealth iest newspapers in ths golden State. Ger man birth and education, entirely self-made, aud were, ia their young days, well known to tho father ot the publisher of the Times. They may have been severe on Killach, bnt how aDy journal could bo other than severe ou a pubuc-enemy of hla strips, and do its duty, we cannot conoeive. The Railways la New York. A Committee of the New York Legis lature is now sitting in Albany ns a Coart ot investigation into alleged abuses by the railways of that State. Wm. H. Vanderbilt was before them as a witness last week, and if ever a man was entirely ignorant of his own business and indifferent to it, that gentleman, on his own testimony, was W. H. V. There is also a wonderful movement among the farmers of tbat State on tho subject of freight discriminations, fluctu ations and uncertaniiee, and the first neseicn of an organ’zation known as the F&rmeiB’ Alliance has just closed a two dayb’ meeting at Syracuse. In their address they contend that the grant of right of way imposes the obligation on railways to manage their business so as not to operate unjustly, partially or oppressively on any part of tna citizens of a State, and it is the right aad dnty of the Legislature to deprive them q£ power to oommitt such wrongs. They charge teat diioriminationH against looal freights in tho State of New York, oause the yearly loss of millions of dollars. Tbat they have depreciated the value of lends immensely aud destroyed or driven Westward many important manufacturing industries. They allege, however, that the railway interests havo grown to snoh gigautio dimensions in New York, as to defy pnblio opinion— oontrol parties and ’ candidates for office, and corrupt Legislature?. No doubt, how to deal with the railway interest 1b and haB been for years one of the great legislative problems of the age. How to deal with it wisely and justly and effectively for public protection. How to deal with it so as not to trespass on property rights whioh wonld be a fata blander in any government, and yet, on tbe one hand, to secure equity to the peo ple and not to embarrass the legitimate business operations of the roads, or to jeopardize great looal interests as well as the domestic and foieign trade of the oountry. The subject is hedged in with difficul ties and embarrassments. The troubles began with the arrangement of great through rontes looking to the trade eon- oerns of the continent. On these for a time, competition reduced freights to a nominal prioe. Then combination be came neoessary to self-protection. Then the great rival trade centres of the coun try found their fate seriously involved is the snbjeot. Vast looal interests became engaged in the question. Low through rates became public questions involving immense looal interests; and these through rates, with • ge.ee al unsteadU cess, have become, for ihe moat part toe low to be remunerative. Looal rates looking to a reasonable return became exhorbitant by comparison. The whole snbjeot naeda a revision and a new ati x|, bat in general it o&n not he dented that Ameiloan freights have been low.