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MACON, FEBUUARY 20,1880
THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Savannah liad a lage mass meeting to
consider the taking of steps for the relief
of the Irish sufferers. Eloquent speeches
■were made by prominent Savannahians,
and committees to canvass the city appoint
ed.
Curbing wants a railroad. The Clar
ion of that place calls aloud for it.
The darkies select the time when a
family is at prayer to rob the roosts in
that place.
The Griffin military fair had a decided
boom last week.
The North Georgia Stock and Fair As
sociation held an election last week, re
electing Mr. W. B. Cox, President, and
all the directors whose terms had expired.
Tire American Legion of Honor has
been organized in Milledgeville. The or
der will soon extend to Eatonton.
Bridle cutting annoyed sctne of the
good people of Eatonton last week.
Bainmudge thinks of lighting her
streets with gas.
Louise Pomeroy will visit Bairibridge
shortly.
The youth of Lumpkin are said to
handle their guns very carelessly.
A train of wagons passed through
Lumpkin last week loaded with calendar
clocks, which are intended to supply the
citizens of Eastern Alabama with correct
time.
The old Eatonton factory was a paying
investment, and could again be made so.
This is a chance for some enterprising
capitalist.
Says the Bellton North Georgian: “A
gentleman came into our office the other
day and suggested the idea of starting a
temperance boom. We are in favor of
starting anything—from a shoe shop to
cotton factory, a railroad, or a bank—pro
vided our friends will do the writing and
furnish the money.”
Bainbridoe Democrat: Monday even
ing Master Geoige Gurley, son of Captain
O. G. Gurley, Nedom Powell and Eddie
Cummings, three juveniles, took French
leave of their parents and left on a cruise
down the river, and have not been heard
from since.* If caught, one of them at
least, will not runaway again soon. His
father will take all romance out of the
little adventurer for him.
The Nashville Banner speaks as fol
lows of an old resident of Macon: John
H. Griffin, Passenger Agent of the Savan
nah, Florida, and Western railway, with
headquarters at Savannah, arrived in the
city yesterday, and left this morning for
Louisville. The company which Mr.
Griffin represents has recently issued for
gratu- nus distribution a beautifully print
ed and perfect guide to Southern Georgia
and Florida, containing a brief descrip
tion of nil points of interest in those and
other Southern States. Mr. Griffin will
visit all the railroad centres in the North
before returning home.
A writer from Terrell county to the
Dawson Journal says that in that county
lives a Mr. Nathan Cook, who is one hun
dred ami two years old, and has brought
up ten children, the youngest of whom is
over forty years of age. He has lived in
the same yard that now encloses his home
ever since the Indian war. Notwith
standing a severe spell of sickness last
summer, hq now, as he always has, earns
his daily bread. He is a right saucy old
widower, and not long ago said that he
would marry again if he could find
woman to suit him.
In an item headed “Old Tom Branch,”
the Elbcrton Gazette says : “Nearly every
one knows the old negro whose name
heads this squib, and were acquainted
with his idiosyncracies. Though crazed
in some particulars, his soundness of in
tellect exhibited itself in his strict and
strong adherence to Democratic principles.
He was happy when proclaiming bis poli
tics from the court house door or in the
streets, but the old man happened with a
fearful accident the other day that will
end his life probably. He had a fit while
sitting near a fire last week, and in the
r m his feet got into the fire, and nearly
the llesli was burnt from them, and
the Imnes were left bare. In telling the
doctor about it, he smiled and said that
he bad gone to sleep aud the fire broke
out and burnt his feet off. The old man
has apparently experienced no pain from
the burn, but he will doubtless never re
cover.”
The Mountain Signal contains the fol
lowing suggestions to a light-fingered
youth of Dahloncga:
Mr. G. McGuire, salesman at the store
of A. G. Wimpy, requests us to say that if
the young man who was seen to pick up
and carry away from the store last Tues
day night, the following articles: Four
stereoscopic views and one cocoanut, will
return them, no questions will be asked.
Mr. McGuire knows the young man, and
seen him carry off the articles. Unless
they are promptly returned, legal steps
will be taken for their recovery.
Mountain Signal: Mr. Josiah Stargel,
net very long since, killed a turkey gob
bler, the beard of which measured 11J
inches, aud was said at the tune, to be
next to the longest turkey beard ever
known in this country. Joe Brown now
comes to the front and says that a few
days ago he killed a gobbler with a beard
11, inches long. So Joe has our permis
sion to go up head, while at the same
wc would advise him to try his luck
again.
Conyers Examiner: A veiy strange
freak of a queer old gentleman by the
name of William Wilson, who died in
Newton county last year, and willed his
entire wealth to the colored people. We
le tin he was an old batchelor and pos
sessed about $10,000 worth of property, all
of which he willed to a few of his favorite
colored people. Charity Hendrick, of
Covington, being one of the favored of
her color, received $150, which was in
vested in a homestead about four miles
from this place by the administrator, Col
onel A. B. Sims, in accordance with the
requirements of the will; the property to
be hers during her life, and at her death
to be divided among her children.
Madison Madisonian: Morgan county
has more energetic andenterprisingplant-
ers than any county in the State. She is
now inaugurating a system that will im
port among us youths inured to labor.
This scheme, if successful, will furnish
our people with- reliable labor, instead of
negroes who are so easily duped by mer
cenary agents to violate their contracts.
Reliable men have taken hold of this
movement, which augurs its complete
success. We have many reliable North
ern farmers, who have come here since
the war, purchased farms, identified them
selves with our people, and doing all in
their power to promote the common weal.
Such men are valuable additions to any
society, and are always greeted heartily
by our people.
Albany Advertiser: It is with genu
ine regret that we chronicle the death of
Howard Bunts, Sr., an old and respected
colored citizen, who died at his home in
this city this morning. He was for a
number of years the cook at the Barnes
House, where he served faithfully until
the -.lfirmitics of age compelled him to
givo up that position, some two or three
years ago. The deceased was a slave of
Mrs. Sarah Weed, of Macon, and came to
Albany about the close of the late war,
just in advance of the Federal raiders,
when he became the confidential custo
dian of all the property of the late Cap-
taiu It. K. Hines. During all the dark
days of reconstruction, this go. A old man
remained faithful to liis trust, and, as
soon as it was safe for him to do, he de
livered everything entrusted to his keep
ing back to the owner. He was trusted
anil respected by all who knew him, and
his fidelity to all made many friends for
with hearts made sad by his passing away,
and will say of him, “Well done, thou
good and faithful servant.”
° Dalton Headlight; Last Tt
evening the wife of Deputy Marshal
Thraikill who had gone to the cemetery
to care for a family grave, was shocked
to see a skeleton hanging to a picket of
the fence, the skull being placed over the
picket. She reported to her husband,
who reported to Alderman Kirkpatrick,
who had a grave dug and the skeleton
reburied. We are told that all of the
bones were on the spot, most of them
being held together by flesh or muscle
ligaments. The top scalp had not entirely
decayed, and short, apparently shingled
shingled hair still clung thereto. The
skeleton indicated a fine shape, the teeth
of pearly whiteness and beautiful in shape.
To the uninitiated in anatomy who ob
served the remains, it was concluded
that they were of a half-grown man, or
full-grown female. The bones were as
yet unbleached. We think the mystery
of the case calls for investigation.
Accident. — Borne Tribune: Last
Thursday evening Mr. D. W. Gowan, on
his return home met with a painful acci
dent. His residence is about two miles
from the city, and on the evening in ques
tion he arrived at his gate at about eleven
o’clock, and rode in without thinking to
call a large bull dog he has on the planta
tion, when this animal made a dash for
the supposed intruder, jumping and catch
ing the mule by the nose, and causing
him to throw Mr. Gowan, bruising him
considerably, and breaking one of the
smaller bones next the elbow in his
right arm. Dr. Lovelace was called and
dressed the injuries, and Mr. Gowan is
now doing well.
Chaplain David Wills, on tempora
ry duty at McPherson Barracks, near At
lanta, has been granted permission to ie-
move his quarters into the city.
A portrait of Mr. H. I. Kimball, a
fine steel engraving, lias been hung in the
Kimball House.
Butterflies, March flowers, mosqui
toes and spoiled pork are the order of the
da? in Walker county.
Henry Grady has sold his interest in
the Atlanta Sunday Gazette to Mr. John
H. Martin, of Columbus. Mr. Grady,
however, will continue to write for the
paper.
Up to date Borne* has received nearly
75,000 hales of cotton this season.
It costs a colored man fifteen dollars to
be clubbed by the Atlanta police.
The dwelling house of Mr. J. D. Long,
of Jefferson, was destroyed by fire last
Wednesday.
The people of Decatur county have de
cided to issue bonds for the building of
a bridge over the Flint.
The National Gas Company, of New
York, propose to erect works in Bain-
bridge. The live oak city is coming out.
The Berrien County News is now pub
lished by Hanlon & Lastinger. The News
is one of the best weekly papers in the
State.
Colonel J. E. Bryant has called a
meeting for the Bepublican Executive
Committee at his office, next Tuesday, in
Atlanta.
Seventeen thousand Valentines passed
through the Atlanta post-office on Satur
day. One young gentleman received 27,
and a young lady 23.
Dr. W. H. Hollingshead, an old and
highly esteemed citizen of Fort Valley,
died in that place last Wednesday.
Four Years Ago.—Augusta News :
Four years from yesterday Kev. W. W.
Landrum preached his first sermon as
pastor of the First Baptist Church in Au
gusta. Each year he has grown in popu
larity with his people, and he is now rec
ognized as one of our leading ministers
and citizens. May eacli successive year
increase with him’ the respect, temporal
blessings and the grace of the master he
has served so well.
A most wonderful circumstance is plac
ed on record to-day. After smouldering
exactly one month, the fire broke out
about 1 o’clock to-day in a packed away
remnant of the waste cotton from the
warehouse of the Augusta Factory, which
was burned on the 13th of last month.
The fire broke out in a part of the cot
ton that had been lying exposed to the
continuous stream of the fire engines for
nearly two weeks and to the heavy rains
consequent. It has been stowed away
for the past five or six days in a wooden
shed at McCoy’s Waste Factory, where it
was transferred from the scene of the fire.
A little after noon to-day the fire was de
tected, and as it was just breaking out
was soon controlled by the force at hand,
without any alarm being sounded.
Accidentally Shot.—Dublin Ga
zette: Last Tuesday evening a party of
young men went out bird hunting, and
were returning home, when Mr. George
M. Howard, the marshal of the town, was
badly shot. Mr. Jordan Joiner was walk
ing in front of Howard, and must have
been fingering the triggers when his gun
was discharged, lodging the whole load
in Mr. Howard’s left, hand wrist, and
thence into his breast about an inch above
the locality of the heart. In the excite
ment of shooting on the wing, Mr. Joiner
must have forgotten to let down the cock
of his gun. Mr. H. had his hand at the
time on his own gun, tbps putting it in
the right position to receive a shot that
rather hit his arm lengthwise. We saw
Mr. Howard soon after the shooting, aud
he seemed suffering intense pain, but is
now doing very well.
Tiie Borne Courier states that the ne
gotiations which have been under consid
eration for the last few days in that city
between Mr. W. Scott Fitz and Mr. H.
Blanchard, in regard to the Borne and
Chattanooga railroad, were happily ter
minated Thursday evening. All parties
now seem satisfied, and the Courier trusts
that nothing will occur hereafter to retard
the early completion of this line.
Says the Albany Advertiser: This sec
tion lias not yet, so far as we have heard,
been favored with a single visit from the
emigrant agent, and no move looking to
an exodus has been started among our
colored population in any quarter. We
believe that Southwestern Georgia is as
near an earthly Paradise for the colored
race as could be found on the planet, and
those who are here appear to recognize
and appreciate the fact. While’a large
number could be spared without detri
ment, we would dislike to see any of them
tolled off to bleak and inhospitable homes
in the Northwest by designing and specu
lative men, to whom their "future weal
and welfare is a matter of no moment or
concern whatever. We are satisfied, how
ever, that our colored people in this sec
tion are possessed of shrewder instincts,
and are guided by far more disinterested
counsels from the prominent ones of their
own color than those living in other sec
tions of the State.”
Talbotton is to have a new hotel.
Farm work has commenced about Pres-
Henry Taylor, colored, janitor of the Death of Rev. F. M. Kennedy, D. D.
court-house at Columbus, is dead. J Our community was startled on Sunday
Mr. James Cook and Miss Mary E. ! morning last by the intelligence spreading
Surlcs were married in Chattahoochee
county, on last Sunday.
According to the count of the Colum
bus Enquirer, fifty-nine gin houses in
Geoigia have been destroyed by fire since
the 31st of August.
Judge Eve, of the Bichmond County
Court, is enforcing the law against carry
ing concealed weapons. On Monday he
fined W. W. Glover one hundred dollars
for that offense.
We learn that Mr. William Davis, of
over the city that Dr. F. M. Kennedy had
died duiing the night. And when the
news was confirmed by inquiry, a feeling
of sadness seemed to take possession of
every heart, and to be expressed from
every countenance. Crowds of his per
sonal friends hastened to his late res
idence on New street, to gaze once
more upon the face of their friend, al
though cold in death, and to mingle their
tears with the bereaved and distressed,
Few men in Macon were more beloved
Harris county, died very suddenly at his than this eminently Christian gentleman,
residence near Hamilton, last Friday
night. He was as well as usual the day
ton.
A new Baptist church is being erected
at Geneva.
And now Forsyth is to have a leap
year party.
Frederick Paulding and the Midgets
are in Columbus.
Mr. Simeon Walker, an old citizen
of Columbus, is dead.
Savannah Las a well developed case
of infanticide, colored.
Talbotton didn’t Valentine much last
Saturday, the 14th.
Americus is still inq firing for the Bail-
road Commission.
Cataula has ha’ five marriages in
one family recently.
Savannah is preparing to celebrate
Washington’s birthday.
The Newnan Herald offers a premium
for the best snake story.
Mrs. Joiner died in Americus on Mon-
previous, and his death was not at all
looked for.
Cotton, much stained by the weather,
is still coining in to the Washington mar
ket. Though in such poor condition, it
brings four or five cents per pound more
than did the best classes last winter.
The Clement Attachment will soon
be in successful operation in Morgan coun
ty.
Mbs. Sarah Stephens, of Wilkes
county, died at her home last Tuesday
night of typhoid pneumonia. She was a
most estimable lady, and bad spent a use
ful life. She was a sister of Mr. H. F
Slaton, and her husband was a brother of
Hon. A. H. Stephens.
The Conyers Examiner is informed
that a prominent citizen of that county
was arrested on Wednesday last on the
charge of an attempt to commit a crimi
nal assault on the person of his step
daughter. The names of the parties arc
suppressed for the present, as the case will
probably undergo judicial investigation
at the next term of the Superior Court,
when the whole affair will be made pub
lic.
A New Hand at It.—Columbus
Times: There was no imperfection last
evening in the play of Belshazzar that we
could notice, aud this might be wondered
at in one particular, when it is known
that Mr. John T. Boifeuillet, Jr., was re
quested late yesterday afternoon to fill the
position of Arbacas, tlie Captain of the
Babylonian Guards, that was to have
been enacted by Mr. J. H. Jones, who
was unavoidably detained at Macon. We
are surprised he should have consented,
for no opportunity had been given him of
a single rehearsal and he had never ap
peared in Belshazzar. Yet, despite these
obstacles he succeeded to the satisfaction
of all, and did himself credit.
We clip the two following from the
Monroe Advertiser:
Incendiarism.—One night last week
one of the out-buildings and several pan
els of costly fencing on the campus of
Monroe Female College were burned by
incendiaries. This loss will cost the trus
tees at least one hundred dollars. There
can be no excuse for such downright
meanness. It is thought the fire was
started by some boys just for the fun of
having a fire. But if they are found out
there will not be much fun for them.
The trustees and the city council have of
fered a reward of fifty dollars for the ap
prehension of the parties, with proof to
convict, and if the grand jury of our Su
perior Court next week does its duty, a
determined effort will be made to find out
the guilty parties.
Mb. Thomas Battle, who is ninety-
four years old and the oldest citizen of
Monroe county, was inForsyth last week,
and sold twenty-seven bales of cotton.
He is vigorous and energetic still, and
says he can how excel most of the young
men in managing a farm and making
crops. Notwithstanding his advanced
age, he attends to his business matters
carefully and with precision, and bids fair
to live many years more..
Accidentally Killed. — Montezu
ma Weekly: A little colored girl, aged
five years, daughter of Sallie Gibson, was
accidentally killed in this place on last
Tuesday afternoon. Sam Johnson, color
ed, went into Sallie Gibson’s house to get
a gun which he had left there. The child
was sitting on the floor eating. The gun
was half cocked. Johnson attempted to
let one of the hammers down on the nip
ple. The hammer slipped from his fin
gers. The gun fired and the whole load
of shot entered the temple of the child on
the floor. The child was mstaDtly killed.
Purely accidental. No inquest,
Death of Malachi Jossey.—Amer
icus Recorder: Some time ago we an
nounced the serious illness of this old and
estimable citizen of Marion county, with
dropsy of the heart. He died on Saturday
last at noon, aged about sixty-eight years,
and was buried at Friendship church on
Sunday at three o’clock, bis pastor, Bev.
J. H. Cawood, officiating.
Mr. Jossey leaves a wife and several
children, among whom are Messrs. Frank
and James Jossey, as was also the late Mr.
Thomas Jossey, of Macon. Mr. Jossey was
one of the representative men of his sec
tion, widely known and loved by all. For
many years he had been an exemplary
member of the Baptist church, and the
precious truth of the religion which had
sustained his Godly walks in life were
sufficient, in the supreme hour, to carry
him in confident triumph across the shad
owy vale.
The Dead not Dead.—Enquirer-
Sun: Old “Barefoot” Walker is a well
known character in this City and vicinity;
we do not know why he is called “Bare
foot,” except (it is said) he has not worn
a pair of shoes in forty years. “Barefoot”
Walker is a white man, aged ninety-five
years and three months, and is employed
by Mr. A. Gammcl on bis farm about
three miles east of the city. Sunday af
ternoon he apparently died, probably
from sheer exhaustion and old age. He
was dressed, laid in his coffin, and his
friends from the neighborhood gathered
to pay their tribute to the departed.
When the assembled multitude were
bending in their sympathy, amid the se
renity which overshadowed the surround
ing, the defunct arose from his strange po
sition, and demanded of the astonished
assembly, “what they meant by such
treatment.” The party turned away,
leaving the old man master of the situa
tion.
day, of heart disease.
him among the best people of the com- I Cit * Coundl of Forsyth has pur-
n.: ity, who will follow him to his grave J chased chemical fire engine.
Says the Rome Tribune: On Thursday
morning our friend, Mr. James Duke, left
his home, some four miles from the city,
aud went on a visit down in Alabama.
On Thursday night a colored man, twen
ty years old, in the employ, for the past
month, of Mr. Duke, gave tlie ladies of the
house a terrible scare. It seems that at
11 o’clock, Thursday night, one of the
three ladies screamed out that some one
was in the room. Her sister sprang up
and lighted -a candle, and, as she did so,
there was Profit Wade behind the door of
the room. One of the ladies then said she
would 3hoot him, and started for the gun,
when he ran from the house. He said
that he went in there to kindle the fire,
but it seems to us he was rather thinly
clad for that to have been the truth. The
negro is of a very bad stock, his father
having been in the penitentiary. He has
been arrested, but swears that he is inno
cent of any evil intent.
Cumming Clarion: “The subject ef
building a narrow-gauge railroad from
this place to Suwanne to connect with
the Lawrenceville branch road is agitat
ing the public mind just now, and should
to a greater degree than it does, for the
inevitable consequence of neglecfln; to
build it will be the cause of other .< ail
road towns drawing the trade away from
our county, and thus reaping tlie benefits
t v ‘.shouldbe enjoyed by our people.
* is such a thing as economy that
be used in any enterprise; why not in
instruction of rail roads as well as
uer enterprizes ? Why not, then,
^st for the present, adopt the plan
used in building railroads in early days,
using wooden stringers and flat-iron bars?
Should this plan be adopted it would
answGr until the net earnings of the road
would supply the means to change it to
the modern plan of building roads.”
—A Jacksonville, Florida, firm shipped
to New York 335 quarts of stra“’berries.
In New York they are worth seventy-five
ents a quart.
The shock was more stunning from the
fact that on Saturday afternoon he was
upon the streets in his usual health, and
met many of his friends with that ge
nial flow of spirits and good hu
mor which made him one of the
most companionable of men, and as late
as five o’clock was seen in company with
some of his ministerial brethren wending
his way homeward. In front of the Stub
blefield House he was met by his excel
lent wife with the carriage, and they
drove out to Vineville to her father’s, Co
lonel Clisby, the senior editor of this
paper. The visit was unusually pleasant
and they retured home at night-fall,where
the evening was spent with the family.
The Doctor seemed to enter into the spirit
of the children, it being Valentine’s Day,
with more than his wanted fervor. At
nine o’clock he suggested that it was time
the children were retiring, and remarked
that he would get a drink of water before
going to his room, and in the attempt he
staggered somewhat, arousing the fears of
his wife who immediately sent for
physician. She asked him what was the
matter, and he replied “Oh, nothing,
will soon be over it.” These were his
last words, as be sank back in his chair.
Captain W. W. Carnes was passing at the
moment, and hurried in to render as
sistance, but it was too late. Other
friends came and did all that affection
and medical skill could do; but the ene
my had stormed the citadel, and every
effort to dislodge him was futile. He lin
gered in a state of unconsciousness until
about fifteen minutes after five o’clock on
Sunday morning, when the spirit took its
upward flight.
Dr. F. M. Kennedy was bom in Co
lumbia, South Carolina, during the month
of February, 1834, and bad but a few days
ago celebrated liis forty-sixth birthday.
He was the son of Rev. W. M: Kennedy,
who for a long time was a prominent
member of the South Carolina Confer
ence of the Methodist church. At tlie
age of twenty, the son was licensed to
preach, and entered the South Carolina
Conference at the session held in Colum
bia, November 15, 1854. He traveled
one circuit, and then spent seven years in
filling some of the most important sta
tions in bis conference, a number of these
years having been in the city of Charles
ton. And there, for five years, he held
the responsible position of Presiding El
der in his denomination, and rose rapidly
to distinction among his brethren.
He represented that intelligent body in
the general conference of 1870, 1874 and
1878, and with marked ability. During
the late war, he donned the grey, and
with his comrades shared the fortunes of
the battle field as Chaplain. Atjhe death of
the lamented doctor Bonnel in October,
1871, Dr. E. H. Myers, who was then cd
itor of the Southern Christian Advocate,
was elected to the presidency of tlie Wes
leyan Female College, and Dr. F. M,
Kennedy wascalled to take charge of that
excellent Christian journal, and took up
his residence in Macon. At the General
Conference held in Louisville, Kentucky,
in 1874, he was re-elected editor, and
filled that position witli credit and distin
guished ability. At the General Confer
ence held in Atlanta in 1878, the Southern
Christian Advocate was removed to
Charleston, South Carolina, and Dr.
Kennedy re-elected to editorship. He
had served his own Conference for four
years as Secretary, and was one of the as
sistant secretaries of the General Confer
ence in 1874. During the General Con
ference at Atlanta, he was Secretary of
the Committee on Revivals. The docu-
meats before this committee were so volu
minous, that it required almost constant
labor day and night to keep tlie business
up. Dr. Kennedy never flagged in the
performance of any duty assigned him.
The Conference adjourned the last of
May, and he returned to his home and
made a final disposition of the papers in
his hand as Secretary, preparatory to rest,
before he would assume editorial charge
of his paper at Charleston. The incessant
labor of the past month was too great a
strain upon liis- nervous system, and just
as he had finished his work he was strick
en down with paralysis of his right side.
Since then he has been an invalid, al
though sufficiently recovered to attend
to business, until this fatal disease
terminated his useful life on Sunday
morning last.
Dr. Kennedy was a man of ability. A
man -whose convictions of right were deep
and firm—nothing could induce him to
swerve therefrom. He was sometimes
called obstinate, because he was so inflex
ible in following out what he deemed to be
right. He had a high estimate of honor,
and felt a contempt for anything that was
little and mean. His convictions of the
truths of Christianity were so well fixed
and steady that nothing could shako his
faith in them.
He was at all times and; everywhere
the same conscientious Christian gentle
man. His friendship was strong and en
during, and his benevolence was generous
and unstinted.
In the social circle he was at once the
center and the charm. Cultivated and
learned, he was ready to converse upon
any subject introduced. He was full of
anecdotes and humor, which were of an
elevated character, and few men ever ex
celled him in narration of the humorous
and the ludicrous. He was ever careful
of the feelings of others and avoided what
he thought would cause the slightest
wound. In short, he was a high-toned,
honorable, Christian gentleman, as well
as a faithful and honored servant of the
Most High.
His bereaved family have the sympa
thies of the entire community. His fun
eral will take place at the Mulberry
Street Methodist Church this morning at
ten o’clock.
A pleasant and cheerful room is essen
tial to the health of the baby, and the
usual pains and ills of the young ones
soop vanish after the use of Dr. Bull’s
Baby Syrup. Price 25 cents.
Every mother in the laud should
know the value of Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup
and never he without it. It is free from
opiates. Price 25 cents a bottle.
New Orleans, February 15.—Advices
from the city of Mexico, under date of
February 4, says Senor Leamanconas’
presidential chances are improving. The
Monitor and Siglo, two leading journals
of the Republic, favor him. A large num
ber of people still hope the political com
plications will compel president Diaz to
bold over, preferring this course to
anarchy. A sensational accusation has
been put in circulation against General
Gondalez, a leading candidate for tlie
presidency, and at present the commander
of the largest force of government troops
in the Republic. He is charged with the
intention to separate Sinalora, Sonora
and Seiral and other States from the Mex
ican Union and erect a Confederacy to be
called the Republic of Sierra Madre.
New York, February 15.—A special
from Louisville says a combination has
been formed between the Louisville and
Nashville and Georgia Central Rail Road,
to last for five years. This will give the
Louisville and Nashville company control
of every port on the south Atlantic coast,
except Brunswick, Ga. At Savannah the
rail road will connect with a line ot stea
mers to New York aud Liverpool, and it
is intended to compete with northern
trunk lines in carrying people from north
ern cities to New York. Through bills of
lading will be issued to all points. Sever
al thousand men are at work in the Louis
ville and Nashville shops on rolling stock
and Mr. Wadley of the Georgia Central
is now in New ’York purchasing steam
ships for his lines.
Chicago, February 15.—A destructive
fire occurred last night in the Empire
warehouse building, used as a storehouse
for dry goods, liquors and bonded goods.
The losses are as follows: Wallace &
Kingman, seedsmen, $150,000 Chapin &
Gore, liquors, $150,000: Field, Licder &
Co., dry goods, $200,000; J. R. Farwell
& Co., dry goods, $75,000; Wilson Bros.
$15,000, and a number of smaller losses,
Insurance on the goods is not known, but
is thought to cover the loss for the most
part.
Denver, Colorado, February 15.—
The city is at present undergoing the first
labor agitation of its history. A general
feeling of discontent is manifested among
the laboring men and others. For several
months past tlie workiug classes have
been gradually forming unions until
twenty-one organizations have been per
fected. They comprise printers, carpen
ters, plumbers, brick and stone masons,
plasterers, cigar makers, barbers, cooks,
locomotive engineers and firemen, black
smiths, etc. The different unions held a
mass convention Saturday night, and took
steps to organize a tratles assembly, which
it is claimed will constitute a voting
strength of nineteen ' mndred. The meet
ing was enthusiastic and orderly. Ad
dresses were made by Brick Pomeroy and
others. Among other schemes the work
ing men have on foot is that of starting
an afternoon paper.
New York, February 16.—A lire
broke out yesterday in first floor No. 115
Maiden Lane, occupied by C. N. Finch
and Co., dealers in heavy oils and chemi
cals. Owing to the combustible nature
of tlie contents, the fire quickly made its
way throughout the building and extend
ed its way into 117, adjoining, occupied
by Lichtenstein Brothers, dealers in leaf
tobacco, which it also burned. The losses
are large. In 117 was J. T. Walls, whose
eccentricities as a dealer in Panama hats
gained him notoriety, who said he had 60
casespanama hats worth $17,000 stored in
the building and destroyed. Total loss
about ninety-one thousand.
London, February 16.—The Daily
News owns that the Southwark election
was an unmistakable Liberal defeat. Tlie
Times says the return of the Conservatives
from Southwark is a heavy blow for the
opposition.
The government is justified in regard
ing the battle so keenly fought as a vote
of confidence more decided and incontest
able than that at Liverpool.
A Dublin dispatch reports the general
condition of Ireland improving, although
severe distress is still felt in many
places.
Ottawa, February 16.—A covered
sleigh in which Her Royal and His Excel
lency, attended by Colonel M. C. Neill
and Hon. Mrs. Laugban, when going to
the Senate Chamber Saturday night, was
upset and dragged about 400 yards. The
Princess received a severe contusion on her
head, and had tlie lobe of her right ear
cut. Mrs. Laugban was much bruised on
her arm. His Excellency was slightly
hurt ou the forehead.
San Francisco, February 16.—A
Tucson dispatch says on tlie 10th Cap
tain Rucker, of the Ninth Cavalry, after
following tlie Indians two days with liis
entire command in tlie direction of San
Andreas, came suddenly upon them
strongly fortified in a narrow, rough can
yon. The troops were received with a
heavy fire. Several men and horses fell.
The Indians charged the troops who gave
way and retreated pell mell. Tlie In
dians drove than across the river, aban
doning tlieir rations and bedding which
was secured by the Indians.
Baltimore, February 14.—Sydney
Shores, a well-to-do farmer of Somerset
county, who recently married his twelve
year old stepdaughter, has been arrested,
and also the officiating clergyman, Rev.
Zachariah Brown, on the charge of violating
the State law, which prohibits a man from
marrying his stepdaughter, or a woman
her stepfather, under the penalty of $500.
The clergyman is also made amenable to
tlie same law. He has furnished bail in
the sum of $3,000 for each of tlie accused
to await tlie action of the grand jury of
the county. The case has excited extra
ordinary interest and much indignation
among the neighbors.
London, February 16th.—Charles
Spuigeon, eminent Baptist divine, preach
ing at metropolitan tabernacle yesterday
for first time since his return from
Mentone, Italy, said that England’s rulers
were making bloodily wars and oppres
ing the nations. That they encouraged
and consoled themselves with the reflec
tion “we are a great people and by Jingo
do what we like. It will all come right
in the end.” But they should remember
that pride went before a fall. The proud
est aud haughtiest men and nations would
yet be brought low. God’s chastisements
when they did come, would be terrible
even unto destruction.
Washington, February 16.—-The
House Committee on Naval Affairs to-day
agreed to ask a suspension of the rules for
the passage of a resolution permitting the
Secretary of State to employ a Govern
ment vessel for the transportation of
contributions to relieve the suffering poor
of Ireland. .
In the House among the bills intro
duced were the following:
By Mr. Persons, of Georgia—Admitting
free of duty machinery for the manufac
ture of cotton fabrics.
By Mr. Richardson, of South Carolina—
to return to the producers of cotton, tax
collected by the Government which has
been declared by the Supreme Court to
have been illegally collected.
By Mr. House, of Tennessee, requesting
the President to open negotiations with
certain foreign governments relative to
the importation of tobacco into their do
minions.
Washington, February 16.—The
Vice President laid before the Senate va
rious communications from the Secretary
of War, and there were presented sundry
letitions and memorials, relating to the
Pending further debate, the Senate went
into executive session,and when the doors
were re-opened, adjourned.
In the House, under the call of States,
the following bills were introduced and
referred (in addition to those noticed in
the noon report):
By Mr. Johnston, of Virginia, to regu
late the mode of purchasing tobacco for
the navy.
By Hnnton, of Virginia, to settle un
paid claims of live officers of the Revolu
tionary army, who served to the close of
the war.
By Baker, of Indiana, amending the
Statutes prohibiting the employment of
convicts in certain manufactories.
By Frost, of Maryland, to repeal certain
sections of acts of 1S71 and 1877, relative
to the use of marshals and supervisors at
tlie polls.
By Mr. Davidson, of Florida, to settle
accounts between the United States and
Florida.
At the expiration of the morning hour,
the House took up and passed the Senate
bill appropriating one thousand dollars to
defray the expenses of removal of the
body of the late Major-General Geoige
Sykes from Fort Brown, Texas, to West
Point.
A number of bills were then reported
from the Committee on the District of
Columbia, among them a bill for the pro
tection of the Potomac river fisheries,
which was passed, and a bill prohibiting
the publication of lottery schemes in the
District of Columbia, wliicb, after some
opposition, was, by a vote of ninty-nine to
eiglity-four, ordered engrossed and read
the third time. The House then ad
journed.
By Mr. O’Connor, of South Carolina—
Authorizing a government survey for and
estimate of the cost of the construction of
a canal across Charleston Neck to connect
Cooper and Ashley rivers.
By Mr. Nicholls, of Georgia—Appropri
ating $5,000 for a survey of Canoochee
river, with a view to its improvement.
By Mr. House, of Tennessee—A reso
lution requesting the President to open
negotiations with France, Spain, Austria
and Italy for the removal of the present
restrictions on the importation of tobacco
into those countries.
The following dispatehhas been sent by
the chief signal officer to observers at river
stations south of Louisville: “The river
at Cincinnati i3 fifty two and a half feet
above low water mark and still rising. At
Louisville, twenty-seven and still rising
and at Nashville, forty-three feet four
inches above, but falling.
Under the call of the States in the house
to-day, 130 bills and resolutions were in
troduced, mostly of a private nature.
Among those of public interest were the
following by Richardson of South Caroli
na—directing the refunding of the several
States of the amount of the cotton tax
paid by them in 1866,1S67, and 1S68, the
Supreme Court having decided it was ille
gally collected;—said States to givd guar
antee that the money be refunded to tlie
producers of the cotton or their heirs, or
in case they cannot be found, be devoted
to the education of the most indigent
citizens, irrespective of color. By John
son, of Virginia, requiring tobacco
purchased for use of the Navy to be
manufactured during June, July, August,
and September, and, passed upon by
three experts appointed by the
Secretary of the Navy.
teagan inter-state commerce bill. Bills ' possession.”
Speaker A. 0. Bacon on the Failure
of the Macon and Brunswick Sale
Our distinguished fellow townsman,
Hon. A. O. Bacon, now attending the Su
preme Court in Atlanta, has been suc
cessfully interviewed by a Constitution
reporter with the following results:
What was thought in Macon of the
failure of the sale?”
He replied: “Why, sir, it was like a
thunder clap out of a clear sky. The
day before, we had learned that the re
quirements of the act bad all been com
plied with by the purchasers and that
nothing remained to be executed but a
few formalities about which there was no
doubt or difficulty. There was a consid
erable amount of plain swearing the next
morning when the Constitution told the
result of the matter.”
“Well, what do you think of the refusal
of the Governor to sign the deed which
was demanded ?”
“I don’t know what may have been the
terms of that particular deed, but I think
it would have been right for the Gover
nor to have given the purchasers a proper
warranty deed to the property. The
Governor is supported in his construction
of his powers under the act by .very high
legal authority, but I think it veiy un
fortunate that he should have held to
such a view of it. It is impossible to frame
a statute m words which is not liable to
more than one construction, aud there
fore I think a plain, reasonable, commoii-
sense construction should have controller
rather than one which is technical. Th|
fundamental principle in the constructioi
of a statute is to ascertain the will of till
law-makers. "What they intended, that ii
the law. Now, I don’t believe there was
a single member of the Legislature who
intended when he voted for this act that
the purchaser should only receive a quit
claim deed to the property. I certainly
had no such intention, and I have yet to
see a Senator or representative who had.”
If the recollection of other legislators
is to the same effect it would then seem
to be conclusive as to the proper construc-
ton of the act?”
“No, that cannot be said; because the
proper construction of a statute cannot txj:
determined by taking the testimony of
the legislators as to their intention. But
there are several rules recognized by the
courts by which such intention can be as
certained. One of the most common of
these is that the law makers intended
that which was reasonable. The reason
able construction of tliq statute is that it
was intended that the purchasers should
have a warranty deed. It would have
been unreasonable In the extreme for the
Legislature to have Intended and expect
ed that the purchasers would pay over a
million of dollars for a quit claim deed to
the road. Every one must know that if
such an intention had been expressed in
the act, it would have effectually drived
off every bidder from the sale; and I don’t
think there is anything in the act which
under a proper construction indicates di
rectly or by implication any suchiuten-
tion. Such an idea never entered the
minds of the Legislature or of the people,
and the best evidence of it is fonnd in the;
fact that the raising of the point has taken
eveiybody completely by surprise. The
State claims to have a perfect title to the
property, and it was intended to convey a
perfect title to the purchaser. It seems
to me that a refusal to give a warranty
title implies a want of confidence in the
title of the State which is not warranted
by the facts in the case.”
“What do you say as to the $600,000
second mortgage bonds? Don’t you rec
ognize any danger there?”
“No I do not—the road was sold under
the first mortgage some years ago, and
failed at tlie sale to bring half what was
due on the mortgage. I am unable to see
bow any lien can still remain In favor of
the second mortgage, even if that were
otherwise. I doubt if the second mortgage
bonds would be binding on the road.
They were not all issued to third parties,
but the fonner owners of the road had
the bonds executed and divided between
themselves. It can be easily shown that
at the time of the sale of the road, over
$500,000 of these bonds were still in their
were introduced and referred as follows:
By Jones, Florida—The settlement of ac
counts between the United States and
State of Florida. By Teller—To enable
Indians to become citizens of
the United States. By Kirkwood—Pro
viding for the compensation of collec
tors of customs acting as superin
tendents of Light Houses.
Mr. McDonald submitted a resolution
providing for a committee of nine Senators
to consider bills, etc., relating to woman
suffrage. Laid on the table.
Mr. Rollins submitted a resolution ask
ing the Secretary of War for information
relative to army officers retired from ac
tive service. Adopted.
At the expiration of the morning hour,
the Senate resumed consideration of the
bill providing for the payment to the States
“Under all the circumstances, then,
what would you say is the best thing to
be done ?”
“That is a delicate question to answer
where the responsibility rests with the
Governor; hut as a matter ot opinion,
holding the views I do as to the propriety
of giving a warranty deed, I should say
the best thing still would be to sign such
a deed. The limitation of thirty days was
upon the purchasers that they should do
certain things within that time. I see
nothing in the act which prevents the
Governor from executing the deed after
the expiration of that time, if he is satis
fied the purchasers have made proper
compliance within the specified time. „
“What do you think of the proposition * which will be difficult fully to repay,
to call au extra session of the Legisla- * j»t«*n tins nftem
ture?”
“If it was necessary I should say call it,
to an extra expense of twelve or fifteen j
thousand dollars to accomplish what can f
be done by tlie simple signature of the
Governor, a signature which I think he
now has authority to make. The failure
in this matter is a great public calamity.
The Brunswick road, with the extensions
authorized by the act, furnish the only
means now in sight of releasing the whole
State from the grip of the most gigantic
and growing monopoly. Our people are
dazzled with the ideas of the great traffic
to flow through the channels of these
far reaching combinations. They do not
reflect that they are in violation of law,
nor do they realize the evils which they
threaten. Capital properly employed is a
great blessing to the country; but these
great combinations of capital reaching up
into the thirty millions, will make a des
potism which cannot be easily overthrown,
for it will control the politics and the
courts of the State. This seems to be
already much the case in Pennsylvania.
I read some time since that a member of
the Pennsylvania House of Representa
tives rose and said, “If the Pennsylva
nia Central Railroad had no further bus
iness to bring before the House, he would
move au adjournment.”
Germain to the same question we print
the following card, also from the Georgia
members of the Macon and Brunswick
lessees:
Editors Constitution: Permit us the
privilege of correcting through your col
umns an error which appeared in the is
sue of 13th inst., in the report of the sale
of the Macon and Brunswick road.
This error occurs in the paragraph
wherein you say: “ It is proper to state
that the Georgia members of the compa
ny acquiesced in the course that the Gov
ernor now pursued, and recognized that
he could make no warrantee and that the
deed would he safe without it,” etc.
So far from this being correct, we af
firm that whilst, through our eagerness to
close the transaction, we consented to the
amendment of the deed suggested by the
Governor; and having previously com
plied in every particular with all require
ments of the act as regards securities aud
payments in money, never hav
ing admitted, nor intimated,
nor “recognized” that the Gov
ernor “could make no warrantee,” on the
contrary urging him by every argument
in our power to give us such warrantee
title, stating to him furthermore that in
our negotiations with the New York par
ties we had assured them that the Gov
ernor would warrant and defend tlie title
to the road, and that without such assu
rances to them by us on our part, we
could never have obtained their co-opper-
ation.
We believerthat we were fully justified
in so assuring"them, from representations
made at the lease and sale of the road in
Macon, and from tlie recital act itself
wherein it is stated that the road is
“owned” by the State of Geoigia, and
never doubted for a moment but that a
warranty deed was meant, and so gave
our assurances, this being the usual form
in business where the owner is fully sat
isfied as to his title.
The magnitude of the transaction,
measured not only by the purchase of the
Macon and Brunswick railroad, but by
the immense further outlay of money re
quired to make the necessaiy extensions
of line contemplated by the act, would
seem a good reason on the part of our
Northern friends for caution, and the ne
cessity for a clear title.
Respectfully,
George H. Hazlehubst,
A. J. Lane,
J. M. Couper,
Georgia Members of the Committee.
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BELSHAZZAR IN COLUMBUS.
ADellshtrnl Visit- Hospitality of the
City of Spindles.
Columbus, Georgia^
February 17th, 1880.
The Belshazzar party arrived salely
here yesterday at 3 o’clock, and last eve
ning gave an entertainment which has
just carried this city by storm. Every
thing has passed bff charmingly so far.
The house was ablaze with the beauty of
Columbus, and the city turned out en
masse to do honor to their Macon friends.
A more generous and hospitable ovation
could hardly have been tendered. The
parts last evening, if we may take the
word of the press of this city, were filled
in a manner which gave entire satisfac
tion.
Professor Butterfield, in the absence of
Mr. A. L. Wood, enacted the character of
Cyrus, assisted by Mr. L. A. C. Everett,
Jr. In the absence of the Captain of the
Guard, Mr. John T. Boifeuillet played
that role, acquitting himself with remark
able credit, considering that it was his
first appearance,and with slight rehearsal,
having been assigned the part a few mo
ments before tlie curtain rose on the first
act. It is said that the swords flashed fire
and the bloodless fight passed off in a man
ner which betokened the most sanguinary
intentions with the most slender results in
that line. Only one or two incidents oc
curred which in any way tended to give
the audience an opportunity to
see the comic side o r tilings.
The scenery became bewildered at the
splendor of Babylon’s Court and refused
to perform its functions in one or two in
stances, heedless of the shrill whistle of
the stage manager, and regardless of the
maledictions of the talented scene-shifter.
Otherwise everything passed off like a
dream, and this morning, when the wak
ing time has come, the recollections are
as pleasant as the golden glow which
brings the sables of niglit, when the
thoughts of the silent watches have been
pleasant.
Columbus is crowded with Ma-
conites. Just two hundred and five
have answered to roll call so far, with sev
eral precincts to hear from. Every avail
able inch of boardinghouse and hotel are
engaged, and the weary and belated trav
eler who now arrives hangeth himself on
the wall until the matin hour, or re-
clineth in chairs around the now popular
hotel stove. The good people here_, how
ever, are meeting every call on their hos
pitality, and all are enjoying themselves
to the fullest extent.
As I write, the weather is somewhat
foggy and threatening, but carriages filled
withMacon sigbt-seeisare rolling through
the streets. Last evening, after the en
tertainment at the theatre, several gath
erings of young gentlemen took place,
and the proverbial hospitality of the
young gentlemen of this city found a new
exemplification.
Among those hero besides the troupe,
wc have only time to note the names of
Dr. Battle, Mr. C. A. Sindall, Hon. G. S.
Obear and daughter, Captain A. G. Butts,
Mr. J. A. Pugh, Mrs. Lee Ellis, Miss R.
H. Flanders, Miss Lizzie Willingham,
Miss Hennion Obear, Mrs. Holmes John
son, Mr. R. W. Jaques, Mrs. W. E. Dun-
wody, Mr. E. Isaacs, Mr. L. Merkel, Mr.
Walter Adams, Mrs. Charles Taylor, Mrs.
Thomas Hardeman, jr., Mr. Goode Price,
Sir. Whit Collier, Messrs. A. R. Wood-
sod, J. R. Saulsbury, J. C. Van Syckel, J.
F. Rogers, T. B. Blackshear, L. B. Logan
hurst, J. Emanuel, Dottenheimer, O. D-
na, Miss Julia Rogers, Miss Holmes, Mr.
Mettie Freeman, and about one hunderd
and fifty others whose names it was im
possible to learn.
One of the local points of interest here
yesterday was tlie arrival in the city of
one of the Hood oiphans, who has -been
adopted by. Mr. and Mrs. M. Joseph, one
of the leading dry goods merchants of
this city. The little Creole stranger has
fallen into good hands. Mr. Joseph is a
gentleman of large means and his wife
one of the loveliest of ladies. The child
adopted is the infant girl and her name
will hereafter be Annie Hood Joseph.
To the press of this city is the success
and pleasure of the visit of the Maeonites
largely due. They have from the very
first extended a warm welcome, and la
bored without ceasing for the enterprise.
Their success in making the visit of all
here one of such signal pleasure, is grati
fying indeed, and places our city under
obligations of a truly pleasant nature, but
of five per cent, of the value of lands loca-
ted on military land warrants. | as great public interests are at stake. But
Mr. Allison spoke in support of the bill. ‘ I do not think it necessary to put the State
A matinee will be given tbis afternoon,
and a performance this evening, after
which the troupe will leave for your city,
arriving Wednesday morning. ^
Tlie Funeral of Dr. F. Jf. Kennedy.
Yesterday morning, there occurred at
the Methodist church, on Mulberry street,
one of the most touching scenes ever wit
nessed in Macon. The occasion was the
funeral services of the eminent Christian
journalist and scholar, Dr. F. M. Kenne-
6y,"whose sudden and'untimely death has
cast such a deep gloom over our city.
A vast concourse of friends, relatives,
and sympathizers, had assembled to pay
the poor tribute of a parting tear to the
memory of one whose gentle presence and
kindly smile had passed out of being for
ever.
Amid the low cadence of a dirge, the
pall-bearers, carrying the remains, and
proceeded by the minister repeating the
solemn service for the dead, entered the
central aisle, and deposited their burden
at the foot of the altar. The music ceas
ed, and the footsteps of the followers
were lost in silence. It was an impres
sive scene, and one not soon to be foigot-
ten. Before the congregation lay the
form of one, the manly friend of every
citizen of the community, the tender
companion and teacher of the little flock
of children gathered to add their voices in
one last hymn above him. Suddenly from
out the silence arose upon the wings of
music two voices, bearing upward the
words of that hymn of hope, “Beyond the
waking and the sleeping;” slowly, softly,
sweetly they grew in power, and when
other voices uniting swelled the volume
of tenderness fnto a grand anthem of
peace, every eye gazed out upon the
flower-crowned casket through a mist of
tears.
The hymn was followed by an earnest
prayer from Dr. Bass, when Dr. Key
arose and delivered a touching address
from the words, “For we know if this
house of our tabernacle were dissolved,
we have a building of Cob not made by
hands, eternal in the Lea.e-is.” During
this address the speaker delivered a glow
ing memorial upon the life and character
of the deceased.
The exercises were concluded by the
hymn “One by one,” the duett sung by
Macon’s twin sistere of song, the chorus
by the Sunday school children; the ef
fect of which was grand beyond descrip
tion. Words cannot convey even a par
tial knowledge of the intense feeling and
deep emotion awakened by this mel
ody; the scene, the circumstances and
the solemnity of the occasion united
to fill every listener with awe. Never be
fore was a congregation so deeply moved;
and when the sad procession passed slowly
from their midst towards the city of the
dead by the river's side, to those who
were left to turn back into the busy world
of the living, there came a fuller realiza
tion of the loss that had befallen them.
So passes away a Christian nobleman; a
man whose life no needs written record,his
grave no monumental stone. In the
hearts of all who knew him, memory will
draw aside the curtain that has fallen
about him, and crown with an undying
beauty the graces he wore so well.
To the stricken family we can offer
only our heartfelt sympathy. The blow
that has fallen upon them is indeed irre
parable.' In the quiet of evening, when
the homo circles were being completed
about the cheerful firesides, a shadow fell
across the city, and Azritel with silent
wings poised over the happiest of them
all. A golden link broke in the night,
and when the death-angel bore aloft the
unfettered spirit of our friend, only Sor
row was left to sit beside the hearth, and
brood with bended brow above the whit
ened ashes at her feet.
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all Throat and Lena; Affection''. al3oa pcstUre
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ha* Ut it his duty to mrke it known to »“
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* desire ttf relieve humnu suffering, I will
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addressing with stamp, naming this paper, W.w.
Kmuiu 149 Pow-•* It'iiric. Rorh»ier. N. Y.
-Freemasonry would seem to flourish
even at the cannon’s mouth. Shortly af
ter the occupation of f ' il a warrant was
granted for the openii.. he lodge Sea-
>rth, Captain Stew isckenzle of the
Ninth Lancers l ailed as first
Master. The title . . ,odge is given
because the Earl of Seaforth is bead of
the clan Mackensie, to which tlie Captain
belongs. Colonel Noel Money of the
Third Sikhs, who was present at the open*
ing, is one of the most conspicuous Ma
sons in India, having taken his S3d de-