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rpjTP nvnvnTA PHTSS { heavy timber, when, by some inexplaina- THE GEORGIA RRJSNJ. t ble n J ieanS) tbe end at which the deceased (was lifting slipped from the wheel of the Fruit trees arc blooming about Daw- * wagon, upon which it partly rested, and, | in tailing, carried Williams down with it. In falling his breast struck a log lying sonville. Five Cherokee Indians were in Daw- sonville the other day—two men and three women. The two men advanced their financial status somewhat by shooting for nickels, with bow and arrow. Mb. James J. Stevenson, of Coving ton, is dead. The Enterprise of that place appears in mourning in respect to the de ceased. Farmers in Newton county experience but little difficulty in getting all the labor they want. And the Enterprise now stands up and claims for Covington a larger number or pretty young ladies than any other town in Georgia. Tee wheat crop along the Muscogee road is small, but like all yeung practi tioners of law and medicine Last week Mr. A. B. Weslow bought in Albany 250,000 pounds of cot ton for a Liverpool firm at an average of 11| cents. Mb. Jose Jones, of the Arlington Ad vance, was married to Miss Mamie Ad ams, of Camilla, last week. PERRy had a slight visitation of beauti ful snow last week. “Tom Arter,” (Bridges Smith,) was in Hawkinsville last .week. There is great difficulty in keeping sight of the ubiquitous Arter. One day he is hang ing longingly to an orange tree in Flori da and the next he is in hot pursuit of the wild gopher of the Wire grass regions of Geoigia. A hand organ struck Hawkinsville last week. With careful nursing the place may recover, but the organ and no bleman attachment never. Dr. S. T. Young, an old highly esr teemed citizen of Dooly county, is dead. Tee envelope which enclosed the $3,000 express package stolen between Cochran and Hawkinsville, has been found in the woods in a hollow log. The money is still conspicuously out of the way. Mr. Lot Warren, an old and highly esteemed citizen of Johnson county, died suddenly of paralysis during the past week. Mb. Inus L. Felder, who removed from Randolph county to Arkansas two years ago, has made his mark there as a talented member of the legal profession and a zealous and eloquent teperance ad vocate. Tee Milledgeville Union and Recorder is convinced that a cotton factory on the Oconee falls, near that city, would be a splendid investment. It says that the man who first utilizes the water power afforded by these falls will be fortunate, as they offer advantages for manufactur ing that are not excelled anywhere in the South. Mrs. E. II. Rogers, residing about six miles from Augusta, died suddenly at her residence at six o’clock Monday evening. She was apparently in good health, when suddenly she fel 1 senseless. After a while she revived, but only for a moment, and then expired. Apoplexy is the supposed cause of her death. Tee Dupont Okefenokean hoists its banner for “Bayard for President, Han cock for Vice President and Colquitt for Governor. Covington Enterprise: Acowbelonj ing to Lige Graves, of Rocky Plains, ' the mother of three fine calves all the same age and bom last Sunday night. i'us grain crop of Jefferson county hiking well and the present prospects in dicate a good harvest. As yet there are no signs of rust on the wheat, which is complained of in other sections of the State. A Newton factory man has established a goose ranch, and expects to make a liv ing by selling the feathers off of 300 geese. He picks them every two montlis and averages one pound each. Hawkinsville Dispatch: But very litt le cotton is now being shipped from Hawkinsville. Messrs.- McBumey & Hollingsworth, of the Pulaski Factory, will he able to use during the year every hale now stored in the three warehouses here. For several weeks they have been the largest cotton buyers in this market, S .\ vdkbsville Herald : A light snow fell nr Intervals daring the day on Thurs day, with considerable rain in the after noon. At night snow fell to the depth of one or two inches, which continued on the < round till nearly noon on Friday. Mot w itlistanding this is one of the mildest winters known to this climate, and snow, even in our hardest winters, is of veiy rare occurrence, yet we have had two quiet heavy storms in this unusually mild witer. How is this? Is it owing to the transit of a polar wave ? Augusta News: Night before last, as the south bound freight train on the Char- !<- -, Columbus and Augusta road .-ached the Sugar creek bridge, thirteen J tail-- south of Charlotte, a’negro brake- -v t.i i i .anted Henry Young, who was on lop of a car, was knocked offbycoinin: i. i. .tact with the top of the bridge am kill-i. His body was found near the edge of: ,<• creek, badly mutilated. H .me Journal: Houston Factory, —a ;-onion of the western wasteway of t i • Houston factory dam gave way week i>.-f ,. ,5 last, letting off the water in the ni. The factory and mills had to stop for .several days. Mr. Potter, however, a false dam above,and has resumed w... k again on full time. A new waste '• ay 7ul be put in at once. We arc in fo, ni that Mr. Potter has orders ahead ft.- all the cloth he can make during the m-xi -ix montlis—over 300,000 yards. The Waynesboro Expositor: It is re in I that Mr. William Wadley will soon n. . M a free bridge across the Ogecchee , v **.- lear the eighty-six mile post on the • it al railroad, and that the Central la.l.t-ad will veiy soon make the long •« f.i iiplated shortening of its roadbe- i u-i-1 No. 11 and Millen. If these ru- liutiM are true, Millen and Midrille are ip ■ ta . ,-r of loosing a considerable portion •f •!.cir trade, and that a town will soon in-li-iilt up at the eighty-six mile post. . ..\ exchange says the penalties for ob- •ji.iK-iing the census takers who begin 1 nt-ir labors on the first Monday in June, a..- cvefe. The law says: .vll persons above the age of twenty- o. ii* years who shall refuse to furnish the ...f"i‘ination required by the supervisor or - i i monitor, shall forfeit and pay a sum .cneding one hundred dollars, to be . j snared In an action of debt. Presi- . .. . directors and other officials of pri- - i corporations who refuse to famish i > motion required of them are made . • to a penalty not to exceed tenthou- : dollars. aknesville Gazette: Last Friday .ay Sheriff Micajah Key, of Jasper y, a.rested a man charged with kill- lother In South Carolina. It seems lie party had been in Jasper county time, and since his stay there had od a daughter of Mr. Thaddeus Fye, ,h he had a wife where he formerly Two brothers of the murdered ■ad been in the county several days, ig an opportunity to arrest tho mur- . Finding that there was money in v -st office for him, they posted the of- , aud when he came last Friday to o money, he was taken in charge by puty Sheriff. A reward of $150, . uti, was offered for his arrest. \i:renton Clipper: On Monday af- iu last, about 3 o’clock, a mulatto iu the employ of Mr. Levi Fowler, Williams by name, came to his quite suddenly. It seems that Wil- . in company with several other men, 'in —mm near by, when the timber under which hacTheen standing fell with its full weight upon his neck, instantly breaking it. His breast and face were terribly mashed. The jury of inquisition returned a verdict in accordance with the above facts. Tee Augusta Chronicle makes the fol lowing amende honorable to Mr. Blount: The Chronicle, a few days since, in re ferring to the bill locating the United States Courts at Macon, Lasing its com ments upon the letter of Hon. A. H. Stephens, conditionally accused Hon. James H. Blount of sharp practice in se curing the passage of the bill. We are now satisfied that it was an injustice to Mr. Blount, and cheerfully acquit him of any charge of sharp practice. His conduct In the matter was entirely prop er. He simply did his duty to his Dis trict. Mr. Blount is a progressive and practical statesman. The interests of the the South would be well cared for if she had more men like Mr. Blount in Con gress. Railroad Burst Up.—Houston Home Journal: Monday the train from Fort Valley met quite an exciting accident at the Ilagin place, about five miles from town. It was quite a large train, having several freight cars laden with guano, corn, etc., and one coach. The fifth car from the engine spread the track, and the rear part of the train was let down on the ties, and suffered a terrible jolting for about one hundred yards, doing consider able damage, bursting up the freight cars, wrecking the running gear and spilling a car load of corn. The passenger coach sustained considerable shocks, although it was the last car on tho train. We arc § lad to state that no personal injury was one to any employe or passenger. The spreading of the track is attributed to rot ten cross ties. The damage is estimated at fifteen hundred dollars. The track from here to Fort Valley is very inferior, and it is strange that similar accidents have not taken place before this time. The road was repaired and the train got on by 11 o’clock that night, through the energy of the excellent section master, Mr. R. H. Hurst, conductor Skellie and others. The train was met in the after noon by the construction train and the mail and passengers made due connection at Fort Valley. That night one of the driving wheels of the engine ran oil at tho same spot, but was soon gotten on again. The road was tom up for about a hundred yards, and they say the jolting of the pas senger coach beat forty earthquakes. Sometimes it jumped aboat two feet high, especially when it struck a cow pit after a jerk of about five feet. Fortunately the accident happened where there was no embankment. Elberton is having a boom of its own. It is one of the most progessive places in the State. Caterpillars are exterminating the persimmon trees in Oglethorpe county. Tee State exchanges are calling for an enlargement of the accommodations of the Lunatic Asylum. Two tramps were released after a fifteen hours ride in an empty fertilizer carat Hogansville a day or two since, more dead than alive. Tee Park dramatic company is playing in Southern Geoigia. D b. W. H. Hollxnshead, of Fort Val ley, is dead. A memorial service of Mr. G. W. Sturges, a late prominent citizen of Fort Valley, will be held by Rev. W. McKay, of Macon, in that place to-day. The Oconee river at Mt. Vernon has been so swollen recently, as to make crossing impossible. Mt. Vernon now has daily mails. Tee com cribs of Montgomery county are being burglarized. The darkies of the county think this the cheapest and quickest way of raising the cereal. John Thomas, the negro who was in jured by the caving in of a well at the wa ter-works of the Central Railroad, at Sunnyside, near Griffin, last year, has recovered damages to the amount of$l,000. Miss Jessie McWhorter and Dr. L. Durham, of Greene county, are mar ried. A desperate darkey named Richard Wade, was after considerable difficulty, recaptured near Quitman a day or two since. He had escaped from the peniten tiary. Fort Valley Mirror: The Macon Telegraph says: “Thornton is in the city on a flying visit.” Will the boys never cease referring to Thornton’s predi lection for birds ? Thirty birds continu ously is enough, without being afterwards accused of flying. A Regular Bull.—Says the Fort Valley Mirror: Painful Accident.—Last week Mr. Henry P. Everett was unfortunate enough to cut off Iris left thumb, while making a wedge. He did not suffer any pain of consequence and is getting along very well. Mrs. Hillyer, the esteemed wife of Hon. Junius Hillyer, of Decatur, died at her residence on Tuesday last, after quite a serious illness. An old darkey, Reuben Parrott, was fro zen to death near Rome. He should have known that latitude was too high for his specie. It is currently reported tbat.Tommy Blodgett has severed his connection with the John Sherman boom and will not con tinue business at the old stand. General Robert Toombs has been selected to deliver the annual oration be fore the literary societies of the Uni versity of Mississippi, in June next, by the unanimous vote of the students. Timber Gazette: A merchant of Darien was hauled up before the mayor on Mon day and fined fifty dollars and costs for selling goods on Sunday. The officers have positive instructions to haul up all breakers of the Sunday law. The same paper says: We are sorry to state that Captain.A. S. Barnwell has lost all of his convicts. Captain Cites. B. Howard came down to the camp on Champaey’s Island, on Friday, and left the same day having all the convicts in chaige. And also annonnccs as follows Married at St. Andrews’ Episcopal church, in Darien, Ga., on the evening of Tuesday,February 10th, 1880, by the Rev. Henry E. Lucas, of Brunswick, Ga., D. Wyatt Aiken, Jr., of McIntosh county, and Sarah Carolina, youngest daughter of Captain Edward Barnwell, late of Beu- fort, South Carolina. Brunswick Advertiser: The carcass of a dead whale about forty feet in length was seen in the sound the past week. Presume his whaleship was captured by the fleet that left here recently, aud, after taking off his jacket, his carcass was turn ed adrift. Athens Banner: Of the Stovall fami ly, of Morgan county, there are nine liv ing children; the youngest sixty-two or sixty-three years old—the eldest about eighty-six. Their parents lived to quite an old age. The nine children are all in Georgia. Mr. Jehn Stovall, of Morgan, is tho eldest, and Mrs. Isaac Powell, of High Shoals, the y-.ungest. Quitman Repori c r: The prospects for railroad to Montlcello, Florida, from this point grows brighter every day. Of course, nothing will be done until tlie road from Waycross to Jacksonville will liave been completed, aud perhaps not before the firet part of next year, though we un derstand that the S. F. and W. railroad company expect to complete the road to Jacksonville by the first of next Novem ber. The same paper says: Last fall, about fifteen miles below here, John Cook was ban- aged In unloading a wagon of brother dling a pistol iu the house, his little ther being near him. The pistol acci dently fired off, the ball went through his hand and entered his little brother’s head on the left side, in a few hours its right eye became very much swollen. About a spoonful of brains oozed out of the shot bole. It lingered for some time, but final ly recovered and is now running and play ing abont the yard with the other chil dren as if nothing bad happened. The attending"physicians say it is the most wonderful recovery known. Greensboro Journal: An interesting daughter of Mrs. V. S. Roberts, of this city, aged four or five years old, very nar rowly escaped death on Monday last, by the accidental discharge of a gun in the bands of a son of Dr. Harris, aged about eight years, who was bird shooting. The whole charge entered her right breast, near vital organs, and has not yet been extracted. The little girl is still alive, and faint hopes are entertained of her re covery. On Tuesday last there appeared on our streets a crazy negro, by the name of Tal- leyran, whose conduct created quite a sen sation. He lives near Penfield, where he had been closely watched for some time, until he succeeded in making his escape. Yesterday morning he was brandishing his knife on the streets here, and making threats against divers persons. It was considered dangerous to let him remain at large longer; so our Sheriff summoned a posse, and after some trouble succeeded in overpowering him and lodging him in jail. Timber Gazette: A raft of forty-eight pieces of square timber was sold on Wednesday for $100. It was fine timber and latge average, and was eagerly sought after. Such prices as these will bring us a world of timber after awhile. Since the first of the month there has been over 8,000,000 feet of timber down, still the prices continue high. The market i3 a little easier now, but that fact does not i-hange the prices but very little. This s’; id encourage the cutter. . James Hunter cleared on Tuesday th> Twcgian bark Mars, Captain Kro- g- r Dublin, Ireland, with a cargo of 2tf .6 feet of hewn timber, valued at $2,., >.07; 128,879 feet of sawn, valued at $l,5-i'l.48; and 11,174 feet of deals, valued at $1 4.08. Th. Irwinton Southerner says: During last week tho amount of timber in the Darien market was not equal to the de mand. Asa lumber port Darien is on the rise, arid in the near future will become one of the most important in the South.” Correct. T The Rome Tribune affords us the fol lowing trio of items: Fatal Shooting Affray.—We were informed yesterday that Ed. Rembert, the sheriff of Murray county, fatally shot Squire Carter on iast Thursday, in Spring Place. The cause of the difficulty was a woman* At a meeting of the stockholders of the North Georgia and Alabama Stepmboat Company, held yesterday, it was deter mined to at once build aud place on the river another steamer to accommodate the great increase of business. This is a good showing for both Rome and the steamboat company. We are pleased to learn that Colonel B. F. Sawyer’s invention of a paper bag machine is a pefect success, and that $15,000 has been tendered him for his rights in the State of Geoigia. Colonel Sawyer is a hard working and deserving man, and no one wishes him greater suc cess than the writer. May he find “mil lions in It.” Ameiecus Recorder:—A Son Shoots His Mother.—From Mr. Jasper Merray of Macon county, we learn of a shocking occurrence which happened a few days ago in his neighborhood, about eight miles from Oglethorpe. Allen Meeks had pur chased some tobacco for liis son James, borrowing the money for the purpose. He told bis son that he must make the amount good to him, with interest. James became strangely infuriated at the demand, and that night attempted to break through the door. Mrs. Meeks, his mother, resisted but her sou effected an entrance, when raising his pistol, he shot her in the head. The frenzied young man then ran and procured a gun, dis charged it, and commenced beating his father therewith. In the ensuing scuffle the old man succeeded in reaching a scythe blade, with which he caused his sou to desist, cutting him first in the hand aud arm. The pistol shot was not fatal, the ball ranging over the scalp. Mr. and Mrs. Meeks, both badly injured, were en abled to get to a neighbor’s, not a half mile distant, when the wounds were dressed. The perpetrator of the diabolical act is at large. His father now says that his son came to his house some weeks ago, a ranaway from Texas, where he killed two men, and that the Governor of that State offers a reward of $500 for his arrest. We sympathize with the good people of Macon county, whose character sufieis at the record of such a deed, rare as the occurrence may be. EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE. Cuthbebt, February 11th, 1880. state agricultural convention. Yesterday afternoon, after the conclu sion of the veiy able and instructive lec ture of Dr. J. P. Stevens, and the transac tion of certain routine business, the Con vention was entertained with a practical an5 lucid essay upon “Root Crops,” by B. D. Lumsden, Esq., of Bibb county The following letter from Chancellor P. H. Mell, of the University of Georgia, ad dressed to Colonel James H. Fannin was also read and received: Dear Sib: Yours, of the 7th instant, fromLaGrange, has been received. Iam sorry my engagements here have preven ted me from attending the session of your important body. It has given mo real satisfaction that the influential agricul tural convention has entered as a factor into our University problem. 1 antici pate great and useful results from it. Please impress upon the individual mem bers that, in an important sense, the State College of Agriculture and the mechanic arts here, is their institution entitted to their fostering care, aud worthy of their confidence, or, at least, anxious to secure their confidence. State scholarships are granted ter as many students, residents of the State, as there are members of the House of Rep resentatives and Senators in the General Assembly. Please say to the members of your body that I will confer such schol arships on any young man recommended individually by them. When any one writes me recommending a young man, please let him state he is a member of the Agricultural Convention. Thanking you for your thoughtfulness and kindness in furnishing me this oppor tunity, I subscribe mysalf, Yours, with the highest esteem, P. H. Mell, Chancellor University ofGa. On motion, the chair was instructed to appoint two members from each Congres sional District to attend the annual Pom- ological Exposition, to be held in Atlanta next summer. During the day an epi sode in the proceedings of the Convention took place, by the entrance, accompanied by their instructors, of the students and pupils of the branch of the State Agricul tural College, located at this place. They formed an imposing array of intelligent looking youtli3. No further matters of importance com ing up for consideration, a resolution was offered and adopted, accepting an invita tion to proceed forthwith to the State Ag ricultural College, and investigate its condition and operations. Thither, there fore, a large number of the delegates, to ‘ with ‘ ‘ " gether with their President and other offi cials, proceeded, and were cordially re ceived by the President of the institution, Prof. Sanford, and his associates. The pupils, numbering no less than ONE HUNDRED AND FIFTY-ONE, were all present, and formed a Small army of knowledge seekers. Prof. Sanford in vited President Hardeman to talk to the boys, and so he did, in his own peculiar style, and with a vim which could not be excelled by any other orator in the Com monwealth. After him Dr. Butler was invi ted to take the stand, and made one of the most humorous and effective addresses that ever emanated from that witty speak er. Some playful allusions to the Presi dent of the Convention were promptly re sponded to by that functionary, aud resul ted in a most amusing and sparkling joust between them, which was a drawn battle, but" afforded infinite entertainment to the audience. Judge Clarke next introduced COLONEL LIVINGSTONE, who he said was mainly instrumental in procuring the passage of the bill establish ing the branch Agricultural College at Cuthbert. The Colonel came to time with one of the best and most appropriate addresses we ever remember to have heard. It at once stamped him as a man of no This is designed for both sexes, and the students of the Agricultural College may receive Iesspns in book keeping one hour each day during the scholastic year, for the sum of twenty dollars. . The day was closed by another interes ting experience meeting in the Conven tion Hall, Colonel Livingstone again pre siding, and a SOCIAL ENTERTAINMENT at the residence of Colonel James T. Flewellen. It was a brilliant assemblage, and the toilets of many of the ladies exquisitely elegant. One notable feature also, in ad dition to the handsome and gallant beaux of Cuthbert, was the presence in the dance of numerous veteran farmers, who showed that they knew how to caper as well as plow. We would give their names, but for iear of raising a breeze when they reach home again. Old bachelors and ex-Judges too, took part with amazing agility in the programme, and we doubt not many a gay old fellow woke up with a stiff knee or the “rheumatics” the next day. The host and hostess spared no pains for the entertainment of their num erous guests, and the band discoursed most excellent music. Thursday, February 12th. LAST DAY, AND ADJOURNMENT OF THE CONVENTION. * This morning after the assembling of the Convention appropriate and graceful resolutions of thanks were offered and unanimously adopted to the several rail roads, for favors extended; to the citizens of Cuthbert for their abounding and princely hospitality bestowed without money and without price; to the Presi dents and other officers of the several col leges and seminaries of the city for kind invitations to visit them; to the fair ladies of Cuthbert, for unnumbered courte sies received at their hands, and to the gentle donors of the magnificent bouquet presented to the Convention at is first as sembling. A resolution offered by Colonel Living stone was passed, to appoint one discreet person in each Senatorial district to ganize new county agricultural associa tions. CONGRESS TO BE MEMORIALIZED. An Inadvertence. In our mention of the proceedings of the Agricultural Convention, recently held at Cuthbert, the following resolutions, intro duced by Mr. Lundy of Bilb county, were unanimously adopted, hut escaped the at tention of the writer, who was abseD t at the time. We cheerfully give place to them: Resolved, That the thanks of this Con vention are due and are hereby tendered to Dr. Hamilton, of Andrew Female Col lege, for many courtesies extended to mem bers of this body. Resolved further, That the faultless neatness and system displayed in the va rious rooms and halls of the college commands our admiration, and while we are assured that the moral and intellec tual training of the pupils is not inferior to that of the oldest and most favored col leges in the land, we noted with special Measure and commendation the various ngenious contrivances (several of them onginal) employed by the authorities of the college to promote among the pupils a healthy and beautiful physical develop ment. Brunswick Aroused. A telegram received at this office from Brunswick, states that the people are greatly exercised over the failure of the Macon and Brunswick railroad sale. Its mayor and council have addressed a tele gram to the Governor urging him to re consider his late action and sign the re quired warrantee deed to the road. A large and enthusiastic mass meeting also has been held, and a special commit tee of citizens appointed to proceed to At lanta and confer with Governor Colquitt upon the subject. This action is^doubtles* predicated upon the generally received opinion that as the parties to whom the road was bid off did come squarely np to every requirement of tho law, within the prescribed thirty days, and it was the State that frustrated the final consumma tion of the sale, therefore it is competent for the latter, to renew negotiations and if she sees fit the bargain and sale that had been agreed upon. It is not sur prising that Brunswick should be greatly disappointed. Tbe success of the project which was so nearly inaugurated, was of the last importance to her future welfare, and would have redounded greatly also to the benefit of our own city, and Middle and Southern Geoigia. Despondency, if allowed to go unchecked, will often produce an unsound condition, so that the least unsatisfactory affair that happens will swell into terrifying propor tions. The mind being warped often im parts torpidity to the body, all of which more frequently is the effect of inaction of the liver than from any other cause, and byresorting to Simmons’s Liver Regula tor the mind will often find relief with the body. febl0-lw —There arrived in New York during January 5,839 immigrants. —President Grevy pays $1400 twice a month for a State dinner to sixty-five per- ordinary ability, and the youths present would do well to heed his counsels. General Browne, the Professor of Agri culture in the University of Georgia, was then called out by President Sanford, and responded very happily. He express ed great satisfaction that so large a num ber of the youth of the country had avail ed themselves of the opportunity of seek ing the advantages afforded by the open ing of this branch of the parent school at Athens, and hoped that when they had completed their studies here, they would climb still higher, and not bo content un til they had received the full benefit of a University education. It is but proper to remark, in passing, that the stipend doled out by the State of Georgia for the suport of this institution, is a MISERABLE TRAVESTY upon the dignity and resources of the Commonwealth. Unless speedily supple mented by larger appropriations, we see no hope for the permanent success of the undertaking. Think of expecting a comj petent instructor, with a family to provide for, to live upon the pitiful sum of $500 per annum. And yet that is the amount which Prof. McNulty receives, while a faithful female teacher for the primary department gets but $250 for her year’s services, and the excellent President him self only $1,250. This treatment is that of a STEP-MOTHER, not a genuine parent aud patron of the sciences. Shame on such a niggardly pol icy to her own children by the Empire State of the South! It is true that the Trustees of the University could afford to vote no larger sum, but under the consti tution the means could have been placed in their hands by the Ligislature to pro vide for these auxiliary schools which are part and parcel of the present founda tion at Athens. ANDREW FEMALE COLLEGE. From the hoys school, the. company at the urgent invitation of President Hamil ton, repaired to that time-honored institu tion for young ladies which, more than any other single object, has contributed to the fame of Cuthbert. They were re ceived with great impressment by Dr. Hamilton, who is undoubtedly one of the ablest, most accomplished and slcilllul fe male educators in the South. Possessing an energy which acknowledges no failure, his whole soul enthused with the value and importance of the college to which he has devoted so large a portion of liis life, it is not wonderful that in the brief space of two years since his re-election to the presidency, the institution has fully recovered from its partial paralysis, and now numbers about one hundred and forty young ladies, who arc the peers in beauty and intelligence of any school in the land. The Doctor is always inventing some thing and doing Something for the im provement physically and mentally of his girls. PHYSICAL TRAINING has a prominent place in the curriculum of the college. And by this we do not mean merely the ordinary calisthenic exercises of the schools. In addition to these, Dr. Hamilton has originated several ingenious contrivances by which any pupil afflicted with spinal curvature, lameness, chest diseases and other infirmities, may obtain great benefit if not absolute relief. Indeed, there are several girls In the col lege at this time who were confirmed cripples hut are now almost entirely cured. This feature alone in the institution is worth very much to the country, and should, of itself, crowd its halls with pu pils. These inventions were all exhibited at different times to the delegates, and their operation exemplified in practice. We do not hesitate, from direct personal obser vation, both past and present, to com mend Andrew Female College to the peo ple of Southwest Geoigia and Florida, as well worthy of their patronage. The corps of instructors is excellent and the discipline kind bat inflexible. On the present occasion, HON. THOMAS HARDEMAN AND DR. BUTLER were again called upon for addresses, and responded to the delight and edification of the young ladies and all present. Cuthbert boasts also of a COMMERCIAL COLLEGE, recently established by Mr. B. (!. Adams, for instruction iu book keeping, penman ship, etc. Colonel T. J. Smith offered the follow ing, which was adopted: Resolved, That a committee be appoint ed to petition Congress to append an amendment to the patent office laws for the protection of innocent purchasers of patent goods. On motion of General O. C. Home: Resolved, That the Vice President and the three resident members of the Execu tive Committee in each congressional dis trict, be requested and instructed to visit the several counties of their district, to aid in the organization, where none exist, of county associations, and strengthen those in a languishing condition. Adopted. Rev. Dr. A. L. Hamilton, of Andrew Female College, sent a communication to the Convention offering to receive, board and instruct any or all the daughters of the delegates to the Convention at a dis count of 20 per cent, on regular charges, if sent to the institution within one year from date. PLACE OF MEETING. Hartwell and Atlanta were nominated respectively as the next place of meeting for the Convention, and a sharp discus sion ensued upon the merits of each, When the vote was taken Atlanta was overwhelmedby a majority of two to one, and Hartwell designated a3 the place of assembly for the summer session of the Convention. THE NEXT FAIR. The Executive Committee reported that the propriety of holding a State Fair the present year, and where, if determined upon, it should be located, had been con fided to a special committee with power to act-in the premises. ADJOURNMENT. A motion to adjourn was made, and af ter a brief and pertinent farewell address from the President, the Convention was adjourned sine die. “THE GEORGIA WINE COMPANT.’ Cuthbert enjoys the honor of having originated the first wine making organiza tion ever established in the State. It is modeled after those which have existed for several years in the West, and promi ses to be a signal suceess. The company has been regularly incorporated with a capital of $10,000, which may be increas ed at will to $50,000. The entire $10,000 has already been taken up by the princi pal grape growers of this section. A meeting for regular organization will he held in May, at which time one-tenth of each subscription will be collected, and assessments to the same amount are to be called for every three months thereafter until the whole has been paid. The company will be ready by the first of September to purchase and convert into wine every grape that is raised iu South west Geoigia. They expect to turn out at least 10,000 gallons the first year from grapes grown in the immediate vicinity. ~ Iu view of this enterprise, already largo areas have been planted in bunch vines, and the rearing of the scuppernong also is rapidly increasing. Mr. J. C. Martin, the pioneer and leader of this movement estimates in the very near future that the vintage will amount to no less than fifty thousand gallons per an num. Within one year a commodious building will be erected in which all the operations of the concern will be carried on. The company is composed of ten of the most substantial citizens of the com munity. , We can but hope that this is but the en tering wedge to a new and most profitable industry in Southwest Georgia. Yine- clad France has been enriched by the cul tivation of the grape, but has suffered greatly from certain insects and diseases of late years which have damaged, and in some instances, destroyed her vineyards. None of these have affected the vines of America, and Mr. Berckmans and otlicr nurserymen of this country have shipped whole cargoes of grape cuttings to France, where it seems the American stocks so far have escaped all injury from the prevailing maladies. DELEGATE CAPTURES ONE OF TTIE BELLES OF CUTHBERT. A pleasant episode occurred this morn ing at the residence of Colonel Herbert Fielder, which stirred with envy the nu- inerous bachelors and widowers of the Convention, and created any amount of sensation. This was the nuptials at the residence of her parents, of Miss Kalura Fielder and Abner Hogg, Esq., of Cedar- town, a delegate from Folk county. The happy couple, after a protracted engage ment, were made one in the presence of a goodly company of the elite of Cuthbert, Rev. M. McGehee, the Methodist pastor, officiating. Mr. Hogg is a prominent merchant and planter in his section, and a gentleman of pleasing manners and ifltdHpTBOift’JlK bride, ibr intellectual gifts, gMMine piety)! and every quality that adorns.'her sex, is the peer of any lady in the State. Elegant refreshments were served after the ceremony, and amid the tears and smiles of a host of friends, the handsome pair left for their home in North Georgia. We have a few undigested notes still on hand, which, however, must lie perdu far the present. Suffice it to say Cuthbert by her magnificent entertainment of the Ag ricultural Convention covered herself with glory, and hundreds ofthe citizensof Upper Georgia will go homo charmed and astonished with the people and country of ~ T.J. Southwest Georgia. H.H. Talbotton Register: The colored fair recently held on the plantation of Mr. John It. Baisden, near Prattsbnrg, did not seem to prosper well. Several negroes retired to a piece of woods apart to gam ble. One of the number weyn all the money of tho crowd, and a coat from a colored brother. The one minus a coat went off to borrow money with which to redeem it; returning, he rejoined his com panions, who allied against the successful card player and clubbed him nearly to death, leaving him on the roadside for dead. On being found next morning, the negro’s sRull was found to be badly frac tured, from the effects of which he died j soon after. The guilty parties have not yet been caught. IRELAND’S EXTREMITY. The Fearful Photograph of Connema ra—Five Thousand Persons in the Clutches of Gaunt Famine. A Dublin letter to a New York paper gives a terrible picture of destitution in some parts of Ireland. The famine fever prevails to an alarming extent in some places, and harrowing descriptions are given of the distress. There are four parishes in Connemara lying along the Southern Coast, Galeway county, and not one of the three Com missioners deputed by the Government to inquire into the state of things iu Con naught, has visited these parishes. Sim ilarly, two gentlemen who traveled through the reported distressed districts on behalf of the Duchess of Marlborough, are said to have left these parishes out of their inspection. They lie far away from all regular routes, and the workhouse, legal refuge for the destitute, is twenty- six miles away. The process server, how ever, has visited these wilds. These four parishes cover an area of about forty square miles, and there is not in the whole island a more stricken or woebegone region. The following is are- port about the condition of the parishes named: Carnagh, with perhaps a couple dozen exceptions, the whole population of 5,000 are on the high road to death by starvation. Hunger has overtaken more than onc-third of them already. Those who have anything to cat arc living on the seed potatoes. Every day some family is eating its last meal of them. Numbers ®f families squat in their hideous cabins around the morsel of live turf all day long, m order not to awaken the pangs of hunger by active exercise. Wretched peasant mothers stumble over miles of sharp-pointed rocks with their hare feet to implore Indian meal for their whining children. They also carry layers of turf or drip ping sea-weed on their backs for ten »r fifteen miles like beasts of burden. Starva tion is going on far and wide. The weath er is cold, and the people are half naked. There are no beds even for the sick, and they lie in their daily clothes, with their old tattered rags around them. A Celebrated Hard Case. I —Victoria, Queen of Great Rriio- From theVirghiia city (Nev.,) chron clr.J Ireland, and Empress ” “It s astonishin’,” remarked the old for- • 5 00 to the relief f d - ’ filTes &>• ty-mner, as he nodded over his glass, “it’s *° , rel ‘ efof her starving subject, astonishin’what a coward a man is at. and one American citizen gives $ioo rr/ home—a reg’lar crawlin’sneak, by Jove! Ice Fob Philadelphi \ t know that her hot bisquit wasn’t A when it’3 like stiff amalgam, I’d fill my self a3 full as a retort. I’ve done it lots o' times. Most of my teeth is gone from tuggin’ on beefsteak that the old woman fried. D’ye think I roar out when go over a chair in tho dark? No, sir. While I’m rubbin’ my shins and keepin' back the tears, Ihn likewise sweatin’ fur fear the old woman has been woke up by the upset. I didn’t use to be so,” sighed the poor fellow, thoughtfully rubbing his sliiningscalp. “When we first hitched I thought I was the superintendent, but after a year or two of argyin’ the pint I settled down to shovin’ the car at low wa ges. I kin lick any man o’ my age an’ size,” cried the olu gentleman, banging the saloon table with his wrinkled fist; “I’ll shoot, stand up or rough-and-tumble for coin, but when I ban" my hat on the peg in the hall an’ take off my muddy hoots, an’ hear the old woman ask that’s me, I tell you the starch comes right out o’ me.” THE RING THAT WAS LOST. FASHIONS OF THE STERNER SEX. Nationality Betrayed by Feculiari- ty of Dress—The Ideal Frenchman of 1880. Much is written every day about ladies’ fashions, very little about the dress of men or gentlemen. It will be objected that, from China to Peru, the stove-pipe hat and the tail coat or jacket reign su preme. True; but each nation stamps its individuality on this common form. An Englishman looks entirely different from a Frenchman, and a Frenchman from an Italian. The Englishman is not more expansive in his dress any more than he is in his habits and conversation; he readily adopts a rule and fellows it. If the summer fashion be light gray frock coat and trousers and a black silk hat, every man in London, who pays attention to his dress will wear a light gray frock coat and a black silk hat. iTou might form a perfectly uniform regiment of the beaux who promenade on the shady side of Piccadily and ogle the belies of the Burlington Arcade. The Frenchman will wear the same costume, hut he will put his expansive nature into it, and make it blossom with brandebourgs and border- ings of silk and velvet; he jvill rebel against uniformity, in spite of the tempt ing offers of enterprising tailors who make a costume complete for thirty-five francs, It will be observed that English coats but ton higher than French; the collars, the trimmings, if trimmings there be, are of the same material as the coat, which fits tightly and correctly than the French The shirt collar is lower and closer, and the wristbands are smaller. The English show less linen than the French, and they affect suits • of the same material. When once a fash ion has been adopted, it becomes an affair of caste; in France it is an affair of indiv iduals. The French masculine costume has a tendency to greater freedom; every thing becomes larger, especially the wrist bands, and the further south you go the more this tendency becomes confirmed. Men of Latin origin may be recognized by the ampleness of the bow of their cra vat, if by nothing else. An Anglo-Saxon would blush to wear a cravat emerging luxuriously over his dress. The jacket, too, in France, tends to lose its buttons; it is capricious as a woman, and may have two, three or one button. The following is about the appearance of an elegant Frenchman in the present year of grace, 1880: Silk hat, rather low in the crown and with a narrow brim; shirt col lar upright and almost meeting in front; long black overcoat, coming down half way between the knee and the ankle, with fur collar and cufis; troasers of cheviot tweed; yellow gaiters, over very pointed shoes; chamois gloves stitched with blue; woollen gauntlets, and a cane with a steel or nickel knob. Men who respect themselves do not wear flowers in their button hole, waistcoats button rath er high, so as to leave visible only one stud, which should be a black pearl. For evening dress, the bow of the cravat should be perfectly horizontal; the trou sers a little wide at the bottom; the shoes of fine English patent leather, very open at the instep; ornamental with a how of ribbon or a very small silver buckle. The wearer should endeavor, from time to time, to show his silk stocking of som; bre colors, brown, maroon, dark blue, or black, with very small colored spots. Historical Anchor and Carious Relic. The Moniteur of Martinique, prints an interesting ....... anchor be' Christopher voyage of discovery to the New World. On the night of August 1,1498, says the Moniteur, the small fleet had come to an anchor at the southwestern extremity of the island of Trinidad, to which the navi- ator had given the name of Arenas Point. Vashington Irving relates that Columbus, who was a very poor sleeper, suddenly heard a frightful noise, apparently com ing from the south. Rushing on deck, he saw rolling toward him a wave as huge as a mountain, which threatened to submerge the fleet. All hands thought their last hour had come; hut the only damage sustained was the loss on one of the anchors of the Admiral’s ship. The big wave was caused by the sudden swelling of one of the rivers that empty their waters into the Gulf of Parlia, the existence of which was unknown to the discoverer. The in cident is mentioned in the narrative of the voyage bequeathed to us by FdRliuan- do, Columbus's sou. This historical an chor has been found after all these cen turies by Senor Agostino, the owner of Arenas Point. It weighs 1,100 pounds, and is of decidedly primitive form. Senor Agostino found it while making some ex cavations in his garden. Tins garden, upon careful measurement, appears to oc cupy the precise spot where rode the ships ofthe great mariner in 1498. The finder at first took his treasure trove for a Phoenician anchor, but upon attentive ex amination he fonnd the date of 1497 on the stock. How to Reach the North Foie. Commander Cheyne, who will have charge of the proposed British arctic ex pedition, which will start next summer, is agitating the propriety of prosecuting his explorations,'when navigation, sledges, and every other forward movement fails» by means of balloons. But the trouble is, may not the stubborn air ship take a Southern tack, aud keep on until it reach- the blazing suns ofthe equator? The commander must first rig a rudder, and take on a portable steam engine, so that ho can give the proper headway to the terial machine. There is this advantage, however, about this projected movement, jthat ifthe Com mander fails to discover the North pole, ho may stumble upon the Southern pin nacle of this mundane sphere. The Singular Manner in Which it Disappeared at a Dinner Farty. Prom tbe New York Tribune.) A very singular case of thieving in high circles has been under investigation by the police for a w c eek. The story has been whispered about in fashionable cir cles, but the social position of the persons concerned has prevented publicity, while it has compelled the police to work with extreme caution, and has hampered them in thir efforts. A dinner party was given recently at the house or a family well known in the wealthiest and most fash ionable circles and occupying a handsome mansion in one of the uptown side streets near Filth avenue. Eighteen or twenty ladies and gentlemen were at the table. The conversation turned on diamonds and precious stones, and the hostess, tak ing from her finger a beautiful emerald set in a cluster of diamonds, handed it to her neighbor, calling his atten tion to its lustre. The ring passed from hand to hand around the ta ble, admired by all, and gradually, the conversation turning on other topics, was lost sight of. The owner never saw it again. It did not complete the circuit of the table, and in whose hands it had last been could not be determined. A num ber of servants were in the room and near ! the table, but no reason for suspeeting them could be found. Nothing was left, however, but the conclusion that either one of them or one of the guests had taken the ring. It had been bought a short time before for $8,000. When the guests were separating one of the gentlemen found the ring, minus the gems, in his overcoat pocket. He rushed at once into the drawing-room again, exhibited the ring, told how he had found it, and de manded that whoever had put it there should now produce the jewels that had been forced out of the setting. Every body seemed amazed, but no one helped the poor gentleman, whose embarrassing situation may be imagined. He is of an old family and bears an honored historic name. He was so much affected by the occurrence as to be quite ill the next day. Neither he nor any one else is yet known to have found any clue to the mystery. Canal or Railway. Captain Eads’bill for the construction of a ship railway across the American Isth mus is favorably received in the Missis sippi Valley, where his engineering skill is fully appreciated. The St. Louis Globe- Democrat confesses that it was staggared at first by the proposition to transport the largest ships that cross the Atlantic over the Isthmus, but inasmuch as Captain Eads has explained that several passes through the Cordilleras have been survey ed over which grades of only one foot in 100 are entirely practicable, the feasibility of the proposal is regarded as much more apparent. Such a grade would need to be ex tended only 3,000 feet from the shore line of a harbor down into the water to put the end of the railway thirty feet deep, and to enable the largest ships to float over on a car or cradle^ designed to sup port them during their transit. This car or cradle, would itself be supported on about 8,o0o wheels of two feet diameter, resting on twelve rails laid on a solid roadbed about fifty feet wide. A loaded but be less than the pressure put upon the rails of ordinary railroads by the wheels of their locomotives. Six or seven tons to the wheel is the ordinary weight imposed by the four driv ing wheels when at rest, and this is large ly increased by the irregularities in the road, when these wheels are moving at high velocities. The weight of the car and the ship would be distributed over about 22,000 square feet of road bed, thus giving a pressure on the earth of less than one half a ton per square foot. This would be only equal to the pressure per square foot of a stone wall six feet high. If ships can be transported by a railway across the Isthmus within the next four or five yeare, it will be probably-ten years sooner than a canal can be made ready, and it will cost not more'than one third the money. Marriage of Mr.' Poindexter and Miss Cottrell.—The Richmond Com monwealth says that on Tuesday evening at nine o’clock, at the house of Miss Airis, brother-in-law of Miss Cottrell, Mr. John E. Poindexter was inarmed to Miss Isa bel Cottrell, rector of the Monumental Church. Mr. Poindexter was carried out to Mr. Alvis’s house by Sergeant Lee, in whose custody he is until he shall be turned over to the authorities of the peni tentiary. There were present a few oi the lady friends of Miss Cottrell, and a few of Mr. Poindexter’s friends, including his brothers, Mr. Childrey, Mr. Lyon, Judge Minor, and Mr. Royall. It is understood that Sergeant Lee will cany Mr. Poindex ter to the penitentiary to-day or to-mor row, to serve out his sentence of two yean. Sound Talk.—The Bulletin says the Harlem River Ship Canal enterprise, we observe, is to be supplemented now with a ship canal—if Congress will vote the money—acroea Bergen Neck, to con nect Newark with New York. The esti mated cost is about-three million and a half. The owner of the eight or nine miles of unoccupied lands, to which a work of this character would doubtless apart considerable value, ought to pro- de the capital for it, and not saddle upon the tax payers. If the canal can be made a paying enterprise its own merits, the necessary private capital for its con struction doubtless will be forthcoming. If it is not likely to pay, the fact may be accepted as prima facie evidence that it is not necessary for any legitimate require ment of commerce, and that Congress therefore had better let it alone. Besides if New York demands $3,500,000 fora canal to Newark, with what consistency could our representatives witlihold appro priations for the canal across the Dela ware peninsula, the Florida ship canal,the Niagara ship canal, and the various other extravagant jobs of the kind that, on some plausible plea or another, are con stantly menacing the Federal treasury. Physicians recommend Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup when all other medicines fail, as a certain cure for Bronchitis, Sore Throat, Coughs and Colds of long stand ing. For sale by all druggists. Children cry for it, but they stop crying .at once, after they have taken a single dose,[as Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup cures all the pain sour little ones are subject to. Price- 25 cents a bottle. Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup is particularly recommended for children. It cures —A Jacksonville, Florida, firm shipped —Cholera swept away over 100,000 Ja- cougbs, colds, croup, sore threat and ^ York 335 quarts of strawberries, panesc last year, yet in 1878 the United afrgCS s«™.—.... y .i.„„ ( ».r cents. cents a quart. I mortality of only 14,000. crop in that city is small. Another Millionaire Candidate It is aimouneed that Mr. James G, Fair who is also a millionare resident of sf’ Francisco, will contest Mr. Sharon’s m! tom from Nevada to the United State, Senate. The only interest they have in Nevada is the mining property they own there. Mr. Fair is to be run by the Dem ocrats. Hayden to be Tried Again.—w wich, Conn., February 18.—From an authentic source, which the Herald cor. respondent is not permitted to divulge, it is gathered that the Rev H. H. Hayden the alleged murderer of Mary E. Siat nard, will be soon rearrested and tried again. The trial, it is expected, will be a ~ short one, not occupying over ten days or two weeks. Little, if any, scientific tes timony will be used. Dying on His "Wife’s Graye—a German named George Beck, committed suicide on his wife’s grave in a cem etery on Long Island, N. Y., Mon. day, by shooting himself through the head with a pistol. A will was found in hh pocket leaving $2,000 to various persons. Beck’s wife wasbuned on the 29th ot January. A letter wa« nd on his per. sonin which he dab .vis not in. sane, and saying tha: his wife wjj dead he had nothing lueforhim to live for. —The Nicholson pa\ ment is to be banised from Memphis, ennessee, an on der having been issued t<_ r its destruction by the legislative council ofthe taxing district. It is to be replaced with broken stone and Paducah gravel and the work is to be completed by the first of April Eminent physicians have given their opin ion that this Nicholson pavement, for years in a wretched condition, has been one of the chief promoters of the yellow fever in Memphis. —In the United States Senate yester day, House bill was passed q propriatisg S20.000 for representing ft:•;.uteri States at the international fishery exhibition at Berlin in April next. Mr. Groouie intro duced a bill to provide for the erection of a monument to the memory of the Baron deKalb. Mr. Gordon spoke in favor d his resolution for the appointment of a committee to take inn consideration tbe subject of an inter-oceanic canal. Mr. Burnside submitted a minority report on the bill for the relief of Fitz-John Porter, with an amendment granting him a new court-martial. A Lady Campaigner Nonsuited. In the suit of Mrs. Emma R. Still against certain candidates of the Greenback party in New York at the late election to re cover $200 for, services as a campaign speaker, the defense moved, at West Troy on Friday, that a nonsuit be granted, on the ground that payment was debarred by a statute which provides that no money shall be used to secure the election of any | person to any office except what is used for .printing, distributing tickets or con veying persons to the polls. The morion | was allowed. —A grandson and namesake of tbe I statesman John C. Calhoun, is keeping 11 saloon in St. Louis. He tends bis on bar. A brother of his has a law office op posite to Ben Hill’s office in Atlanta Geoigia. The St. Louis saloon keeper has a watch which belonged to the grei j statesman. It is of the old fashioned ] open face kind, in gold cases, made ii Liverpool and weighing six ounces. Oi one side of the cases is an engraving of i dog chasing a rabbit, and on the inside ae the words “John C. Calhoun, bom (S. C.) | March 13,1782. Died, Washington city, D. C., March 31,i850. Inte-Oceanic Canal.—Washd'5- I ton, February 10.—No affirmative action on the subject of the construction of the In ter-oceanic canal will be taken by Coagtes at the present session. The House it I willing but the Senate is not willing General Gordon made an attempt today to pass the resolution offered by him the appointment of a special committee»I consider the Oceanic canal subject ore I Senator Davis’ motion to reconsider. So-1 ator Edmunds prevented final action <* I the resolution by moving that it be a®-1 sidered in executive session. It is the 1 general impression that the Senate will refuse to create tlje special committee] This refusal will prevent any united ®! finnative action between the two House I National Democratic Conventm*! The National Democratic Commit? will shortly meet here, to select the pit*' and time for holding the National Co vention. Among the places spoken of both Washington and Baltiomore, hut tK| chances are very much in favor of Cinto j nati. Cincinnati has had a committee*1 work in the matter for quite a while, it is known that a goodly number of m^E bers ofthe committee have already ple^l ed themselves to vote for that of I Washington, although spoken of, is ^jj likely to get more than a scattering J® I in any event, for various reasons. W" I more, which has always been a favor- i place for national conventions, has PI forth no effort, and in this shows 3 less enterprise than the large cities. Perhaps her people think gl natural and social advantages are j fident, and do not need to be su?r t mentedbythe aid of lobbies ^andi-'i material appliances. Another Atlanta Bogus Sensa^'J We were shown a letter yesterday if's a prominent source in Atlanta, to a ^ | Central railroad stockholder in this ; asking if the report was really tnio^j Mr. Wadley had sold,his ocean • j to the Louisville and Nashville to be put on the Pensacola route. It is needless to say that the dirN- j ofthe Central residing here, ailirna’-;; j the story was not only false, hut » ’ I ofthe kind had ever even been moo! ^L It is easy to see that the puipose c ‘ statement wa3 simply to ch^ ’^^1 vancc in Central railroad stock, a Vwl play into the hands of certain ?oCl ” ■ tors. s .,| These steamships are the right bei j the Central railroad, without riirough freight or passenger eonU °'l J could be made with New York. ^ I may be forced to add to their nuffl ’J most certainly will not part t'd .1 of the noble vessels which have ^ . | much to give prestige and pop" x ' the line. What next? “Will it do no harm?” question often asked, and tlie 31 -’.; “it cannot,” for Dr. Bull's Baby ■ >”- tki innocent remedy, w arrautea ^ tain neither Opium, Morphia,^ • injurious. Price 25 cents a bottw-