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§?£ <®£*ssrgi8 HfefcMfi sttt&t Sfmmral $e M«j&S£rtgje*r,
ioa<l is small, but like all young practi
tioners of law and medicine
Last week Mr. A. B. Weslow
bought in Albany 250,000 pounds of cot
ton lor a Liverpool firm at an avenue of
11J cents.
Mr. Josh Jones, of the Arlington M-
tancc, was married to Miss Mamie Ad
ams, of Camilla, last week.
PF.ERy had a slight visitation of beauti
ful snow last week.
"Tom Arteb,” (Bridges Smith,) was
in TI awkinsville last week. There is
g ■! difficulty in keeping sight of the
»*■ juiloui Arter. One day heishang-
. inngingly to an orange tree in Flori-
1 the nest he is in hot pursuit of
\! gopher of the wire grass regions
■aia-
. '\d organ struck Hawkinsville
ek. Witli careful nursing the
jy recover, but the organ and no-
attachment never.
S. T. Young, an old highly es-
. citizen of Dooly county, is dead.
.. envelope which enclosed the
xpress package stolen between
• < and Hawkinsville, has been
t the woods in a hollow log. The
is still conspicuously out of the
■ Uvr Warren, an old and highly
d citizen of Johnson county, died
!y of paralysis during the past
K.
..." luusL. Felder, who removed
f " inilolph county to Arkansas two
it... • igo, has made his mark there as a
vaii'iited member of the legal profession
»">’ 1 zealum and eloquent teperance ad-
Vucr.le.
The Milledgcville Union and Recorder
is (•''•"•iuced that a cotton factory on the
O. falls, near that city, would be a
spl. :idid investment. It says that the
man who first utilizes the water power
afforded by these falls will be fortunate,
n • they offer advantages for manufactur
ing that are not excelled anywhere in the
bomb
Mrs. E. II. Rogers, residing about six
niih.o from Augusta, died suddenly at her
residence at six o’clock Monday evening.
She was apparently in good health, when
suddenly she fell senseless. After a while
slu. rev Ived, but only for a moment, and
then expired. Apoplexy is the supposed
cause of her death.
Thu Dupont Okefenokean hoists its
banner for “Bayard tor President, Han
cock for Vice President and Cojquitt for
Gove. nor.
heavy timber, when, by some inexplaina-
ble means, the end at which the deceased
was lifting slipped from the wheel of the
wagon, upon which it partly rested, and,
in falling, carried Williams down with it.
In falling his breast struck a log lying
nearby, when the timber under which
had lieen 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.
The 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, basing 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-
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Fruit trees are blooming about Daw-
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.
Mr. 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. 1
And the Enterprise now stands up and
claims for Covington a larger number
of pretty young ladies than any other
town in Georgia. jj e s ; m p]y did his duty to his Dfe-
The wheat crop along the Muscogee trict Mr- Blount is a progressive and
practical statesman. The interests of the
the South would be wall 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 Ragin place, abeut five miles from
town. It was quite a large train, having
several freight cars laden with guano,
com, 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
lies, and suffered a terrible jolting for
a>out one hundred yards, doing consider-
alle damage, bursting up the freight cars,
wncking the running gear and spilling a
car’oad of com. The passenger coach
sustiined considerable shocks, although
it was the last car on the train. We are
glad t* state that no personal injury was
done t» any employe or passenger. The
spreaditg of the track is attributed to rot
ten cross ties. The damage is estimated
at fifteen hundred dollars. The track
from hereto Fort Valley is very inferior,
and it is stiange that similar accidents
have not fallen place before this time.
The road was repaired and the train
got on by U o’clock that night, through
the eneigy of ihe excellent section master,
Mr. B. R. Herst, conductor Skellie and
others. The triin 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 ofl at the-
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 about 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.
Covington Enterprise: A cow belong
ing io Lige Graves, of Rocky Plains, is
the mother of three fine calves all the
same age and bom last Sunday night.
The grain crop of Jefferson county is
looking well and the present prospects in
dicate a good harvest. As yet there are
iu* signs of rust on the wheat, which is
complained of in other sections of the
Slat
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 a- erages one pound each.
Hawkinsville Dispatch : But very
litiic cotton is now being shipped from
liawl insville. Messrs. McBumey &
Hollingsworth, of the Pulaski Factory,
will 1 e able to use during the year evciy
bale >w stored in the three warehouses
here For several weeks they have been
the b . gest cotton buyers in this market.
Sandebsville Herald : A light snow
fell ?t intervals during the day on Thurs
day, with considerable rain in the after
noon. At niglit snow fell to the depth of
one or two inches, which continued on
the ground till nearly noon on Friday.
Notwithstanding this is one of the mildest
winters known to this climate, and snow,
even iu our hardest winters, is of very
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 Ncics: Night before last, as
the south bound freight train on the Char-
Jotte, Columbus and Augusta road
reached the Sugar creek bridge, thirteen
miles south of Charlotte, a negro brake-
man named Henry Young, who was on
top of a car, was knocked off by coming
in contact with the top of the bridge and
killed. His body was found near the edge
of the creek, badly mutilated.
Home Toumal: Houston Factory.
— A portion of the western wasteway of
the Houston factory dam gave way week
before last, letting off the water In the
pond. The factory and mills had to stop
for several days. Mr. Potter, however,
put in a false dam above,and has resumed
work again on full time. A new Waste
way will be put In at once. We are In
formed that Mr. Potter ha^orders ahead
for all the cloth lie can make during the
next six montlis—over 300,000 yards.
The Waynesboro Expositor: It is re
ported that Mr. William Wadley will soon
build a free bridge across the Ogeechec
river near the eighty-six mile post on the
Central railroad, and that the Central
railroad will very soon make the long
contemplated shortening of its road be
tween No. II and Millen. If these ru
mors are true, Millen and Midville are in
danger of loosing a considerable portion
of their trade, and that a town will soon
be.. jilt up at the eighty-six mile post.
An exchange says the penalties for ob
structing the census takers who begin
their labors on the first Monday in June,
are severe. The law says:
All persons above the age of twenty-
one years who shall refuse to furnish the
information required by the supervisor or
enumerator, shall forfeit and pay a sum
not exceeding one hundred dollars, to be
recovei ed in an action of debt. Presi
dents, directors and other officials ofpri-
va< e corporations who refuse to furnish
information required of them are made
liable to a penalty not to exceed ten thou
sand dollars.
Bar.vksville Gazette: Last Friday
Elbeeton 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.
The State exchanges are calling for an
enlargement of the accommodations ofthe
Lunatic Asylum.
Two tramps were released after a fifteen
hours ride in an empty fertilizer car at
Uogansville a day er two since, more
dead than alive.
The Park dramatic company is playing
in Southern Georgia.
Dr. W. H. Hollinshsad, ofFort 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 lias daily mails.
The 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 $1,000.
Miss Jessie McWhobtee and Dr. J.
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
Teleobapii 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 Ills left thumb, while making a
wedge. He did not suffer any pain of
consequence and is getting along very
well.
Mbs. Hillyeb, 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 bare
known that latitude was too high for liis
specie,
It is currently reported thatJTommy
Blodgett has severed liis 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 ail
breakers of the Sunday law.
The same paper says: We are sorry
to state that Captain A. S. Barnwell
lias lost all of his convicts. Captain Ches.
B. Howard came down to the camp on
Champney’s Island, on Friday, and left
the same day having all the convicts in
charge.
And also announces 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 wlialcship was captured by
the fleet that left here recently, and, after
taking off his jacket, his carcass was turn
ed adrift.
Athens Danner: Of the Stovall fami
Deputy Sheriff Mieajali Key, of Jasper ly, of Morgan county, there are nine liv-
couuty, arrested a man charged with kill-
ing another in South Carolina. It seems
that the party had been in Jasper county
some time, and since his stay there had
married a daughter of Mr. Tbaddeits Pye,
though he had a wife where he formerly
liven. Two brothers of the murdered
man had been in the county several days,
seeking an opportunity to arrest the mur
derer. Finding that there was money in
foe post office for him, they posted the of
ficers, anil when lie came last Friday to
get tiie money, he was taken In charge by
the Deputy Sheriff. A reward of $150,
we learn, was offered for his arrest.
Warkkxton Clipper: On Monday af
ternoon last, about 3 o’clock, a_ mulatto
iruui iu the employ of Mr. Levi Fowler,
'J'-'m Williams by name, came to bis
death quite suddenly. It seems that Wil-
in company with several other men,
-’.gaged in unloading a wagon of
ing children; the youngest slxty-two or
sixty-three years old—the eldest about
eighty-six. Their parents lived to quite
an old age. The nine cbihlrcn are all in
Georgia. Mr. John Stovall, of Morgan,
is tlie eldest, and Mrs. Isaac Powell, of
High Shoals, the youngest.
Quitman Reporter: Tl*. prospects for
a railroad to Monticello, Florida, from
this point grows brighter every day. Of
course, nothing will be done until the road
from Waycross to Jacksonville will have
been completed, and perhaps not before
the first 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
handling a pistol in the house, his little
brother being near him. The pistol acci
dently fired off, the ball went through liis
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
hole. It lingered for some time, hut final
ly recovered and is now running and play
ing about the yard with the other chil
dren as if nothing had 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 lour or five years old, very nar
rowly escaped death on Monday last, by
the accidental dischaige of a gun in the
hands 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 Fenfield, 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 loDger; 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 $700. It was fine timber
and large 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
is a little easier now, hut that fact does
not change the prides but very little. This
should encourage the cutter.
Mr. James Hunter cleared on Tuesday
the Norwegian .bark Mars, Car! in Kro
ger, for Dublin, Ireland, with cargo of
204,516 feet of hewn timbe- valued at
$2,969.67; 128,879 feet of sa' a, valued at
$1,546.48; and 11,174 feet cf ueals, valued
at $134.08.
The Irwinton Southerner says: During
last week the amount of timber in the
Darien market was not equal to the de
mand. As a lumber port Darien is on the
rise, and in the near future will become
one ofthe most important in the South.”
Correct.
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 last Thursday, in Spring
Place. The cause of the difficulty was a
woman.
At a meeting ofthe stockholders of the
North Georgia and Alabama. Stea^nboat
Company, held yesterday, ibwas deter
mined to at once build and place on tlio
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 Georgia. 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.”
Ameihcus Recorder:—A Son Shoots
His Mother.—From Mr. Jasper Murray
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 his son James,
borrowing tlie 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
son to desist, cutting him first in the hand
and arm. The pistol shot was not fatal,
tlie ball ranging over the scalp. Mr. and
Mrs. Meeks, both badly injured, were en
abled to get to a neighbor’s, not a balf
mile distant, when tlie wounds were
dressed. The perpetrator of the diabolical
act is at large. His father now says that
liis eon came to his house some weeks
ago, a runaway from Texas, where he
killed two men, and that the Governor of
that State offers a reward of $500 for liis
arrest. We sympathize with the good
people of Macon county, whose character
sutlers at the record of 6uch a deed, rare
as the occurrence may be.
EDITORIAL CORRESPONDENCE
Cuthbebt, February 11th, 18S0.
state agricultural convention.
Yesterday afternoon, after the conclu
sion of the very 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
and lucid essay upon “Root Crops,” by
B. D. Lnmsden, Esq., of Bibb county
Tlie tollowing 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,
from LaGrange, has been received. I am
sorry my engagements here have preven
ted me from attending the session of your
important body. It has given me 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, and worthy of their
confidence, or, at least, anxious to secure
their confidence.
State scholarships are granted to as
many students, residents of the State, as
there are members ot the House of Rep
resentatives and Senators in the General
Assembly. Please say to the members
of your body that 1 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.
Tbankiug you for your thoughtfulness
and kindness in furnishing me this oppor
tunity, I subscribe myself,
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 ofthe branch of the State Agricul
tural College, located at this place. They
formed an imposing array of intelligent
looking youths.
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, aud investigate its
condition and operations. Thither, there
fore, a large number of the delegates, to
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 hundbed and fifty-one,
were all present, and formed a small army
of knowledge seekers. Prof. Sanford in
vited President Hardeman to talk to the
hoys, 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-
This is designed for both sexes, and the
students of the Agricultural College may
receive lessons in boob* 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 ofthe 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, hut
for fear of raising a breeze when they
reach home again. Old bachelors and
ex-Judges too, took part with amazing
agility in the programme, aud 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 DAT, 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 or
ganize new county agricultural associa
tions.
CONGRESS TO BE MEMORIALIZED.
Colonel T. J. Smith offered the follow
ing, which was adopted:
Resolved, That a committee he 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, he 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
ted to take the stand, aud made one of the overwhelmedby a majority of two to one,
most humorous and effective addresses an( j Hartwell designated as the place of
that ever emanated from that witty speak
er. Some playful allusions to the Presi
dent ofthe Convention were promptly re
sponded to by that functionary, and resul
ted in a most amusing and sparkling joust
between them, which was a drawn battle, j
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 beard. It at
once stamped him as a man of no
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 Bit-b county, were
unanimonsly adopted, but escaped the at
tention of the writer, who was absent 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 ana 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 ofthe pupils is not inferior
to that of the oldest and most favored col
leges in the land, we noted with special
pleasure and commendation the various
ingenious contrivances (several of them
original) 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 ofthe
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 meet in:
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.doubtless
predicated upon the generally received
opinion that as the parties to whom the
road was hid off did come squarely up to
every requirement of the 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 batgain and sale
that had been agreed upon. It is not sur
prising that Brunswick ’-ould he greatly
disappointed. The s... 3«s of the project
which was so nearly inaugurated, was of
the last importance in her future welfare,
and would have redounded greatly also to
the benefit of our own city, and Middle
and Southern Georgia.
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
by resorting to Simmons’s Liver Regula
tor the mind will often find relief with
the body. feblO-lw
—There arrived in New York during
January 5,839 immigrants.
—President Grcvy pays $1400 twice a
month for a State dinner to sixty-five per* ft
sons. ship, etc.
ordinary ability, and tlio youtlis 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 iaige 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 bad
completed their studies here, they would
climb still higher, and not be content un
til toey 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
eo 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
ciences. Shame on such a niggardly pol-
.cy to her own children by the Empire
State of the South I It is true that the
Trustees of the University could afford to
vote no laiger 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 boys school, the company at
the urgent invitation of President Hamil
ton, repaired to that time-honored institu
tion for young ladies which, more than
iy other single object, has contributed to
the fame of Cuthbert. They were 1
ceivcd with great impressment by Dr.
Hamilton, who is undoubtedly one of tlie
ablest, most accomplished and skillful fe
male educators in tbe South. Possessing
an energy which acknowledges no failure,
his whole soul enthused with tbe value
and importance of the college to which
he has devoted so large a portion of his
life, it is not wonderful that in the brief
space of two years since his re-election to
the presidency, tho institution has fully
recovered from its partial paralysis, and
now numbers about one hundred and forty
young ladies, who are tlie 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, lameuess,
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 w J10 were confirmed
cnpplesbutare now almost entirely cured.
This feature alone in tbe institution is
worth very much to tho country, and
should, of itself, crowd its halls with pu
pils.
These inventions were all exhibited at
different timas 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 but inflexible. On the
present occasion,
HON. THOMAS HARDEMAN AND DR.
BUTLER
were again called upon for addresses, and
responded to tlie delight aud edification
of the young ladies ana all present.
Cuthbert lroasts also of a
COMMERCIAL COLLEGE,
recently established by Mr. B. C. Adams,
for instruction in book keeping, ]
penman-
assembly for the summer session of the
Convention.
THE NEXT FAIR,
Tlie Executive Committee reported that
the propriety of holding a State Fair the
present year, and where, if determined
upon, it should be located, bad 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 COMPANY.”
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 b# a signal suceess. The company
has been regularly incorporated with
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,
meeting for regular organization will be
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 in South
west Georgia. They expect to turn out at
least 10,000 gallons tbe first year from
grapes grown in tbe immediate vicinity.
I11 view of this enterprise, already large
areas have been planted in bunch vines,
anil the rearing of the scuppemong 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 tone
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. Vine-
clad France has been enriched by tbe cul
tivation of the grape, but lias 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 other
nurserymen of tliis 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,
A DELEGATE CAPTURES ONE OF THE
BELLES OF CUTIIBEBT.
A pleasant episode occurred this morn
ing at the residence of Colonel Herbert
Fielder, which stirred with envy tlie nu
merous 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 modest worth. His
bride, for intellectual gifts, genuine 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 » 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 for
the present. Suffice it to say Cuthbert by
her magnificent entertainment of the Ag
ricultural Convention covered herself
with glory, and hundreds ofthe citizens of
Upper Georgia will go home charmed and
astonished with the people and country of
Southwest Georgia. H. H. J.
Talbotton Register: The colored fair
recently held on tho plantat ion of Mr.
John K. Baisden, near Prattsburg, did
not seem to prosper well. Several negroes
retired to a piece of woods apart to gam
ble. One of the number wan all the
money ofthe 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 skull was found to be badly frac
tured, from the effects of which he died
soon after. The guilty parties have not
yet been caught.
Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup is particularly
recommended for children. It cures
coughs, colds, croup, sore throat and
whooping cough. It is pleasant to the
taste and acts like a charm. Price 25
cents.
IBELAMD’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 alanniag extent in
some places, and barrowing descriptions
are given of tbe distress.
There are four parishes in Connemara
lyirfg along the Southern Coast, Galeway
county, and not one of the three Com
missioners deputed by the Government to
inquire into tbe state of things in 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
thoir 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, ha3 visited these wilds.
These four parishes cover an area of
about forty square miles, aud there is not
in the whole island a more stricken or
woebegone region. The following is .a re
port about the condition of the parishes
named: Camagh, 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 one-third of them already.
Those who have anything to eat are
living on the seed potatoes. Every day
some family is eating its last meal of
them. Numbers of 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
bare 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 utiles like beasts of burden. Starva-
tir ji' ■''tag on far and wide. The weath
er * and the people are half naked
There are no beds even for foe sick, and
they lie in their daily clothes, with their
old tattered rags around them.
FASHIONS OF THE STERNER SEX.
Nationality Betrayed by Peculiari
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 he 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. You 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, but be will put
his expansive nature into it, and make it
blossom with brandebourgs and border-
iugs of silk and velvet; be will rebel
against uniformity, in spite of tbe 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 tlie coat, which fits
more tightly and correctly than the French
coat. 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 bis 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
front; long black overcoat, coining
down half way between the knee and the
ankle, with fur collar and culls; trousers
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 tine English patent leather, very open
at the instep; ornamental with a bow 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.
A Celebrated Hard Case.
From the Virginia City (Nev..) uhron clr.j Ireland, and Empress of India eives
“It’s astonishin’,” remarked the old for- koo *L , ’ glTes $2 >‘
—‘Victoria, Queen of Great Britain and
A Historical Anchor and CuriotiB
Belie.
The Moniteur of Martinique, prints an
interesting story about the finding of an
anchor belonging to the ship upon which
Christopher Columbus sailed on his third
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
gator had given the name of Arenas Point.
Washington 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;
but 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 Ferdinan-
do, Columbus’s son. 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. This garden,
upon careful measurement, appears to oc
cupy the precise spot where rode the
ships of the great mariuer in 1498. The
finder at first took bis treasure tiove for a
Phoenician anchor, but upon attentive ex
amination he found the date of 1497 on
the stock.
How to Beach 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, and keep on until it reach
es the blazing suns of the equator? The
commander must first rig a rudder, and
take on a portable steam engine, so that
he can give tbe proper headway to the
mrial machine.
There is this advantage, however, about
this projected movement, (that if the Com-
o Mt-uuuum, ivuuukcu uie oiu ior-
ty-niner, as he nodded over his glass, “it’s
astonishin’ what a coward a man is at
home—a reg’lar crawlin’ sneak, by Jove!
I’ve traveled a good bit and held up my
end in most o’ toe camps on the coast
since ’49. I’ve got three bullets inside o’
me. I’ve shot an’ been shot at, an’ naver
heard nobody say I hadn’t as good grit as
most fellers that’s goto’. But at home I’m
a cayote. Afore I’d let toe old woman
know that her hot bisquit wasn’t A 1
when it’s like stiff amalgam, I’d fill my-
self as full as a retort. I’ve done it lots o’
times. Most of my teeth is gone from
tuggto’ on beefsteak that the old woman
fried. D’ye think I roar out when I
go over a chair to the dark? No, sir.
While I’m rubbto’ my shins and keepto’
back the tears, I’m likewise sweatin’ fur
tear the old woman has been woke up by
the upset. I didn’t use to he so,” sighed
the poor fellow, thoughtfully rubbing his
shining scalp. “ When we first hitched
I thought I was the superintendent, but
after a year Qr two of argyto’ 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 ola gentleman, hanging
the saloon table with his wrinkled fist;
“I’ll shoot, stand up or rough-and-tumble
for coin, but when I hang my hat on
the peg to toe hall an’ take off my muddy
boots, an’hear toe old woman ask If
that’s me, I tell you the starch comes
right out o’ me.”
THE BING THAT WAS LOST.
The Singular Manner in Which it
Disappeared at a Dinner Party.
From tho New York Tribune.)
A very singular case of thieving to
high circles has been under investigation
by the police for a week. 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 toe police to work with
extreme caution, and has hampered them
to 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 to a cluster of diamonds, handed it te
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 ou 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 toe conclusion that either
one of theta 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, to 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 he quite ill the next day.
Neither he nor any one else is yet known
to have found any clue to the mystery.
Canal or Bailway.
CaptainEads’bill for the construction of
a ship railway across the American Isth
mus is favorably received in the Missis
sippi Yalley, where his engineering skill
is fully appreciated. Tlie St. Louis Globe-
Democrat confesses that it was staggared
at first by the proposition to transport toe
largest ships that cross the Atlantic over
the Isthmus, but inasmuch as Captain
Eads has explained that several passes
through toe 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 he 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 3,000 wheels of two feet diameter,
resting on twelve rails laid on a solid
road bed about fifty feet wide. A loaded
ship and car, weighing together about 10,-
000 tons, w ould impose a pressure of but
five tons on each wheel. This would be
less than the pressure put upon toe rails
of ordinary railroads by the wheels
of their locomotives. Six or seven
tom 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 to 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 m
SSS&SK.SS’dTSSiE —
If ships can be transported by a railway the resolution by moving that it be con-
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
tlie 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 Alvis,
brother-in-law of Miss Cottrell, Mr. John
E. Poindexter was inarrried to Miss Isa
bel Cottrell, rector of the Monumental
Church. Mr. Poindexter was carried out
to Mr. Airis’s house by Sergeant Lee, to
whose custody he is until he shall be
turned over to the authorities of toe peni
tentiary. There were present a few ot toe
lady friends of Miss Cottrell, and a few of
Mr. Poindexter’s friends, includin'* 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
years.
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
tbe money—across 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
impart considerable value, ought to pro
vide the capital for it, aud not saddle
it upon tlie 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 withhold 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.
500 to toe relief of her starving subjects
and one American citizen gives $100,000.
Ice Fob Philadelphia.—-A large
crop of ice is being gathered to - Milford,
Pa. It is taken from the Delaware and fc
about twelve inches thick. It will be
placed on rafts during the early spring
and floated to Philadelphia to'case the ice
crop to that city is small.
Another Millionaire Candidate.
It is announeed that Mr. James G. Fair,
who is also a millionare resident of San
Francisco, will contest Mr. Sharon’s re
turn from Nevada to the United States
Senate. The only interest they have to
Nevada is the mining property they own
there. Mr. Fair is to be run by the Dem
ocrats.
Hayden to be Tbied Again Nor
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 MaryE.Stan-
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 Grave.—A
German named George Beck, committed
suicide on his wife’s grave to a cem
etery on Long Island, N. Y., Mon
day, by shooting himself through the head
with a pistol. A will was found to his
pocket leaving $2,000 to various persons.
Beck’s wife was buried on the 29th -of
January. A letter was found on his par
son to which he claimed he was not in
sane, and saying that since his wife was
dead he had nothing of value for him jp
live for.
—The Nicholson pavement is to he
banised from Memphis, Tennessee, an or
der having been issued for its destruction
by tlie legislative council of toe taxing
district. It is to he replaced with broken
stone and Paducah gravel, and the work
is to be completed by toe 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 to Memphis.
—In the United States Senate yester
day, House hill was passed appropriating
$20,000 for representing the United States
at the international fishery exhibition at
Berlin to April next. Mr. Groome intro
duced a bill to provide for the erection of
a monument to the memory of the Baron
deKalb. Mr. Gordon spoke to favor of
his resolution for the appointment of a
committee to take info consideration the
subject of an inter-oceanic canal. Mr.
Burnside submitted a minority report on
the bill for toe relief of Fitz-John Porter,
with an amendment granttog 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 tho late election to re
cover $200 for services as a campaign
speaker, the defense moved, at West Troy
on Friday, that a nonsuit he granted, on
toe 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 motion
was allowed.
■A grandson and namesake of the
statesman John C. Calhoun, is keeping a
saloon to St. Louis. He tends his own
bar. A brother of his has a law office op
posite to Ben Hill’s office to Atlanta,
Georgia. The St. Louis saloon keeper
has a watch which belonged to the great
statesman. It is of the old fashioned,
open face kind, in gold cases, made to
Liverpool and weighing six ounces. On
one side of the case3 is an engraving of a
dog chasing a rabbit, and on the Inside are
the words “John C. Calhoun, bora (S. C.)
March 13,1782. Died, Washington city,
D. C., March 31,1850.
Inte-Oceanic Canal.—Washing
ton, February 10.—No affirmative action
on the subject of the construction of the In
ter-oceanic canal will be taken by Congress
at the present session. The House is
willing but the Senate is not willing.
General Gordon made an attempt to-day
to pass the resolution offered by him for
the appointment of a special committee to
consider toe Oceanic canal subject over
Senator Davis’ motion to reconsider. Sen-
Children cry for it, but they stop crying
— ,, — >•—- -—, — .at once,after they have taken a single
mander fails to discover the >ortli pole, dose, .as Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup cures all the
he may stumble upon tlie Southern pin
nacle of this mundane sphere.
—A Jacksonville, Florida, firm shipped
to New York 335 quarts of strawberries.
In New York they are worth seventy-five
cents a quart.
pain sour little ones are subject to. Price
25 cents a bottle.
—Cholera swept away over 100,000 Ja
panese last year, yet to 1878 the United
States were horrified at a yellow fever
i mortality of only 14,000.
sidered in executive session. It is the
| general impression that the Senate will
refuse to create the special committee.
This refusal will prevent any united af
firmative action between the two Houses.
National Democratic Convention.
The National Democratic Committee
will shortly meet here, to select toe place
and time for holding the National Con
vention. Among the places spoken of are
both Washington and Baltiomore, but toe
chances are very mucli in favor of Cincin
nati. Cincinnati has bad a committee at
work to the matter for quite a while, and
it is known that a goodly number of mem
bers ofthe committee have already pledg
ed themselves to vote for that city.
Washington, although spoken of, is not
.likely to get more than a scattering vote
in any event, for various reasons. Balti
more, which has always been a favorite
place for national conventions, has put
forth no effort, and in this shows much
less enterprise than the large Western
cities. Perhaps her people think her
natural and social advantages are suf
ficient, and do not need to be supple
mented by toe aid of lobbies _and other
material appliances.
Another Atlanta Bogus Sensation.
We were shown a letter yesterday from
a prominent source in Atlanta, to a large
Central railroad stockholder in this city,
asking if toe report was really true that
Mr. Wadley had soldjiis ocean steamships
to the Louisville and Nashville railroad,
to be put on the Pensacola route.
It is needless to say that the directors
of toe Central residing here, affirmed that
the story was not only false, but nothing
of the kind had ever even been mooted.
It is easy to see that toe putpose of this
statement was simply to check toe ad
vance to Central railroad stock, and thus
play into toe hands of certain specula
tors.
These steamships are the right bowers of
the Central railroad, without which no
tlireu^li freight or passenger connections
could be made with New York. They
may he forced to add to their number, but
most certainly will not part with any
of toe noble vessels which have done so
much to give prestige and popularity to
the line. What next?
“Will it do no harm? - ’ This is the
question often asked, aud the answer is,
“it cannot,” for Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup is
an innocent remedy, warranted to con
tain neither Opium, Morphia, or anything
Injurious. Price 25 cents a bottle.