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'jwsfcgm SattSfisl 4 -I ^ 1V\\ Sr-j»/<lfei5 ' l ■ ,- „ „ —ft—>' .t 8 I 1 f W J* •*> —?■'■■ ' ""V: #y v—yjf ■■ ■—.v +'w -—r ^Bltgraplj auii Jfitsstngtr MACON, FEBRUARY 24 ;880. * Railroad people look for a large amount of pleasure travel this summer. —The railway time between New York and Philadelphia is to be reduced to one hour and forty-fire minutes. —Americans are said to be par excel lence the champagne drinkers of the world, consuming half the vintage and a vast deal of frothing imitations. —A grand banquet was given at the St. Charles Hotel, New Orleans, last Thurs day evening, in honor of Chief Justice Waite, of the Supreme Court. —The Supreme Court of Ohio has de cided that it is illegal to duu a debtor on a postal card, as such is liable to injure the credit or reputation of the debtor else where. —A prominent New York musician, who advertised to | receive applications for tenors, recently bad a note from a dark in Wall street who wanted to know whether he would judge of his voice by telephone. —A movement is on foot to erect a Ro man Catholic Cathedral on the Thames embankment at a cost of a quarter of a million of pounds. Cardinal Manning is chairman of the committee, the Duke of Norfolk, vice-chairman, and the Marquises of Bute and Ripon,' secretaries. —The United States nickel five cent piece furnishes a key to metric measures and weights. This coin is two centimetres in diameter and its weight is five grammes. Five of them placed in a row will give the length of the decimetre, and two of them will weigh a decagramme. New York, February 18—Rev. Ed ward Cowley, manager of the Shepherd’s Fold, who has been on trial for the pas eight days, on the charge of starviag and ill-treating children, wasto-dav convicted. Crowley wept bitterly upon the announce ment of the verdict of the jury. He was remanded to the Tombs, and will be sen tenced Saturday. —The business of lending money to farmers, so far as Illinois is concerned, seems to have come to an end. In fact there is no demand for money at all. The farmers have been meeting their January interest promptly, also paying off their mortgages that have become due. Very few farms are being sold under forfeitures. —The growing popularity of the postal card as a means of correspondence is some thing wonderful. The entire number manufactured and used during the first year of their introduction was 100,000,500, and during the year which has just closed the aggregate number sent out was 240, 003,000. This latter number is an increase over the number issued in 1878 of 30, 879,060. —The London Advertiser says that out of every five loaves of bread eaten in Eng land in 1SS0, three must come from the United States and Russia ;*and the Pall Mall Gazette, in view of the armed con dition of Europe and the event of a war, asks: “ With millions of men dependent upon countries thousands of miles distant from their daily bread, what would be the result of a fortnight’s short supply ? Cars fob Japan.—The Billmyer & Small Company, of York, Pennsylvania, have succeeded in obtaining a contract for furnishing cars for a railroad in Japan It is said this will be the first railroad in in that far-off eastern country ever equip ped with American rolling stock. The cars are to be delivered next May. —Captain Hemphill and his bride are sailing down the Ohio and Mississippi rivers, on their lioncy-moon tour, in boat built expressly for the purpose. No others soul is aboard of the craft, which is gayly bedecked with flags and evergreens, and is greeted on the way with steam whistle and cannon, the bridegroom being a popular man, and known to all steam- boatmen. Trouble at Princeton.—There is said to be trouble at Princeton College. The class ol 1880 feels that it has been too severely treated by the faculty, and the faculty on the other hand, claim that the class of 1880 is the 'most turbulent that has ever entered the college of New Jersey. Out of a class of one hundred and thirty students, only eighty remain. —Leadville is a place of strong con trasts. the characteristics of a new min ing town are seen there yet; gambling hells and bar-rooms are more numerous than any other places of business, the pis- toi and. the knife are in common use, high waymen rob the stages close by, and des perate adventurers abound; but opposed to these things is a strong desire for law End order, schools and churches- are being established, and it is thought that the Civilization of Leadville will soon he ac complished. . Split Among tiie Utica Republi cans.—Utica, N. Y., February 17.—At the First Assembly District, Oneida coun ty, Republican Convention, at Utica, to day, two conventions were held,, each claiming a majority of the- duly elected delegates. One elected Honorable Ros- coe Conkling and Messrs. Cordon, Hackett and J. P. Richardson, to the Utica Con vention ; the .-other elected Messrs. Samuel S. Lowry, S.'A. Hillard and N. A Pierson delegates. The latter adopted il}e follow ing resolution: u That we repeat earnestly the declaration.of the-NeW York Repub lican Convention of 1875, of ‘unalterable opposition to the election of any Presi dent for a third tern,’ and instruct our delegates to the convention to be held on the 25th instant to enforce this principle in every honorable way.” No resolutions of any kind were adopted by the conven tion which elected the CMnkling delega tion.'" ’ '* i _ , ' j " f Preparing to Receive M. de Les- SEPS-V-Amceting of merchants arid ship pers interested in the Central arid South American tfade was held in the rooms of the Down-town Club, New York, Tuesday,' to arrange the preliminaries to a reception arid banquet to M. de Lesseps upon liis arrival in this city. Royal Phelps presided. The opinions expressed were in favor of an Isthmus Canal at the tide level. Resolutions complimentriiy to, M. de Lesseps were adopted, and a com mittee was appointed to receive him upon his arrival on the Pacific mail steamer Colon, due on Monday next. The Com mittee is as follows: J. M. Hjirtado. J. M. Munoz, D. de Castro, Thomas Relley and R. H. Hoadley. g ..Three . Yards of Mustard Plas ter.—Dr. Chapman, of Philadelphia, as-' tounded a druggist by ordering ,a mus tard plaster three yards long for an at tack of bronchitis. He was obliged to explain that the plaster was for a giraffe at the Zoo, whose throat was inflamed throughout its entire length. , Russian Nihilism. « Uneasy Lies the Head Which Wears a Crown,’* saith the poet. But In Russia the uneasiness is by no means confined to the royal head. The assassin besets the Czar,not only in his bed cham ber, but by the way side—on the railway and in the dining room. Murder lurks everywhere, and makes its" approaches through every avenue. Its agents beset him in every guise, and are as stealthy and in visible as the winds. It employs eveiy agent of every other service, and no man can tell who to trust. The fact that the royal palace itself was ‘mined with dyna mite and exploded with such fatal effect at the precise moment of the assembling of guests, tells in startling tones of the en tire unreliability of all precautions against such plots. The workers are omnicient and surround the court. They exist among its most confidential servants. The difficulty is to say where they are not. Surely no great autocracy was ever be fore in such a situation. It is nolhing new for murder to lnrk around thrones, but it is new to find it so all-pervading,insidious, uncontrollable and inexorable. To find it in- a pseudo normal force which defies all the powers and influences of govem- meht, and is able to work unhindered even in the presence of its destined vic- times. The question ls_whether Nihilism will wear out the Russian autocracy, or vice versa. It is a question of endurance and fortitude. For the present it seems probable that the Russian court must con tent itself to walk daily in the shadow of; death. A Story of the Servo-Turkiah War The distinguished correspondent of the London Times at Bucharest, sends us-a reminiscence of the Servo-Turkish War, mainly, as we suppose, in the way of a personal reminder to his numerous friends in this region, who will remember him in. the capacity of a Civil Engineer. Since then Mr. Grant has won fame and an elevated literary and social position at] the head of the Bucharest Bureau of the' London Times, and many of his letters have passed the rounds of the newspaper, press of the world. As one of the most responsible and trusted correspondents of the Times, lie has been, through'two. great wars, and if the aspects <lo riot improve’ may very possibly find himself the busy chronicler of another before.|ong. nnit ■ ■ - u . The Kiddle Georgia Military and Agricultural College. At the late convention of the State Ag ricultural Society in Cuthhert, Mr. M. S. Whitaker,‘of Baldwin county, read the! following paper: “In behalf of the Local Board of Trust ees of Middle Georgia Military and Agri cultural College, I respectfully invite you to appoint a committee of three to visit said college and report to the next session of your body.” On motion this communication was re ceived and • unanimously adopted. The President then appointed Colonel George R. Black, of Screven, Colonel L. F. Liv ingston, of Newton, and T. O. Wicker, Esq., of Washington county, as the visit ing committee. From Mr. Whitaker, we learn that the success of the Milledgeville branch of the University has been almost unexampled. The school opened on the 19th of January with 219 pupils, and within the brief space of three weeks, had increased to 300. The institution is modelled after the plan of the Dahloncga college. It is a graded school, and pupils of both sexes are ad mitted. The professors and instructors are seven in number, and the old Capitol is fairly alive once more. How pleasant to know that those vener able halls have not been surrendered to bats and owls, and that they will serve the good purpose again of training not only inchoate statesmen, hut lawyers, physi cians, divines, merchants, fanners and ar tisans for future usefulness and service to the State. Verily Milledgeville, by the inauguration of this school, is infinitely better off morally, and many think in financial point of view, than if she had se cured the glittering prize of the Capital with its periodical inflations, succeeded by corresponding reactions, its formidable influx of bad characters, so difficult to get rid of, and its fearful multiplication off gambling hells and other sinks of iniquity. Not that we wish to charge special immor ality upon our lawgivers. Far from it. But every one knows that the assembling of a Legislature brings in its train a vast army of office seekers, lobbyists, gamblers, and other doubtful characters, many of whom are a curse to any community. From all such visitations Milledgeville is now happily exempt, and in lieu thereof hundreds of bright youths and gentle girls TPTalk her streets and imbibe from the Sparkling fount which our common moth er, Georgia, has opened up in that hon ored spot, deep draughts of knowledge for the future healing of the nations. We are glad to chronicle the success of the Branch of the Univeisity located at Milledgeville, and learn that special at tention Is paid to the physical sciences, with a view to preparing tho students for agricultural pursuits hereafter. The military feature in the school also com mends itself to the public, and many a trained soldier will be sent forth from the old Capitol to lead the armies of the State if the raven wing Of war should ever again overshadow us. Good New*—The Sale of the Macon and Brunswick Railroad Concluded to the Original Bidder*. Private dispatches from New York and the following Special to the Constitution will cause great rejoicing to the people of Middle and Southern Georgia: New "York, February 19.—The term*, of the contract for the sale -of the Macon aad Brunswick Railroad have to-day been agreed upon between R. T. Wilson and his associates arid Governor Colquitt. Governor Colquitt left for his home this evening, and will reach Atlanta on Satur day. Formalities to be closed when he readies there. Representatives of Wilson’s company will be on hand to pay over- tho sum required by the act, and to comply with all the requirements of the act. This time, at lea^t, we trust there will be no “slip ’twixt cup and lip.” Gov ernor Colquitt has verified the sincerity of his intentions, throughout every phase of the recent transactions. He has ever been the pronounced friend of the lease and sale, and only refused iu the first in stance to sign the warranty deed, because convinced that such was his duty under a careful construction of the Act, and the opinion not only of the Attorney General of the State, but of that able and incorrup tible jurist and ex-member of the Supreme Court, Justice Bleckley. Can there be more satisfactory proof of this than the great personal effort he has made to over come every existing obstacle, and re-in state the trade which had so suddenly been broken off? What modifications or changes, if any, in the original contract have been agreed upon have not yet trans pired. Perhaps the Governor was able to impress the patent fact upon Mr. Wilson; and his associates that unless a first mortgage on any property - is satisfied by its foreclosure and sale, in terms of the law, there is no remnant left for the holder of any second mortgage up- Weatera Blinards. It is only £f recent date that the public ear has become familiarized with the term Blizzard. The habitat of a blizzard is the far Northwest, and it is a terrible thing. Web and fibre are powerless to protect the human frame against a bliz zard. The thickest of woolen clothing is no defense against it. ’ Nothing but an Esquimaux outfit—bearskins dressed with the hair on and proof against the escape of animal heat, can preserve life. - And even this has to-be doubled to save life in periods of inaction-^such as a sleep out doors cluriig a biizzard. Dr. Kane in his interesting_ narrative, it will be re; membered, describes the modus operand! of passing a night in safety exposed toi* | thexing, and are determined to purchase furious hurricane, at a temperature, of* forty degrees and upwards below Upon a substitution of heavy flannels,each bea'rskin'rintocape and hood—the hood fastenirig~ r firmlj > over head anif ISce and only a few narrow slips left to see and breathe through. This outfit would do ordinarily for the march, but when the thermometer began to hover about sixty below zero and the wind blowing at the same time at a speed of sixty to eighty miles an hour, no bodily activity could supply the waste of animal heat. Then they were forced to call a halt, and each man brought out his bear skin bag—a sack of ample dimensions, provided with a contrivance for drawing the mouth together with a thong of raw hide. Into this he stowed himself and pulling the mouth together as closely as possible threw himself upon the snow, if possible under the lee of some rock or ice clump or snow drift, and there slept per fectly secure against freezing. Those were arctic blizzards, though not called by that name. But, during the Stock Fluctuations, Central railroad stock was booming in Savannah on Friday, as many as 1,100 shares having changed hands at figures ranging from 05 to 00*. The Georgia railroad stock is also now selling at 102. Many think the Central will reach par before many days. But nobody knows. Since writing the above, Central, Rail road stock has mounted up .to 100, and stiff at- that. We heard a prominent bank er make the prediction that it would reach 105-on Monday. Various tlieoricsaro ad- t j iey behaved most sweetly and deeorous- vanced to account for this unexpected and sudden rise. One of them is that the Louisville and Nashville railroad, with Standiford in the van, has again entered a .controlling interest in the stock of -the p riety ^ t0 do so< Central. W. nlaea nr» faith, however, mM A11 ttat was d o ne or said , however, re- ou the same premises. This, it appears,, nt winter the b i izzards in Dakotah, was the real hitch in the case, but we nev-! „ . „ , . er could make anything out of it. There Blaine and Grant.—The New York Tribune has been busy the past week in circularizing the Republican county and township committee men of Pennsylvania, upon their Presidential preferences. In five days, ending the 17th, that paper had received 1,081 responses, cf .which.812 were for Blaine and only 188 for Grants This showing would make Grant’s Penni sylvania strength lie principally In Don Cameron and the machine; but still Penn sylvania will go as a unit for Grafat—so they say. _ What a screamer 1 - is a tribute often laid to a’diying baby,but Dr. BulBs Baby iiyrup by alleviating the pains of the little one soon stops the crying. - I , ■ . . ■ S^»^l ■ i 1 if Design on Central America.—The Washington correspondent of the Nqw York Sun telegraphs: “ There is gooff rea son to believe that the Hayes administra tion has engaged to buy or has already bought a pair of naval and coaling sta tions in Central An»erica,and is negotiating for the entire region known as the ChirK qrn tract, .with the view of holding a belt across the Isthmus. It is also believed that a naval .expedition has rendezvoused already at the' pointlndicated, to take possession of the land and establish the stations.”; , CnuRNiNG butter is not difficult when are some enemies to the lease and sale Who predict that Mr. Paine will be able- to head off the purchasers of the road, on the ground that the property was really , sold to him the first time it was put upon the imarket. But so r did not Governor, Colquitt think and believe, and he was the vice-gerent of the State, and repre sented it in his person on that occasion. His refusal to confirm the transaction at; once settled the matter, the more espe-* cially as no one was adjudged to be the purchaser within the time prescribed for the termination of the Sale. The road, therefore, was re-advertised, and fair no-; tice given to all, so Mr. Paine had anoth er opportunity to become its purchaser if he so desired. , ; ; ... We are quite sure that in the hands of Messrs. Hazlehurst and Lane, as the ac tive managers of the new enterprise, .Ma con, Brunswick, and all Middle and. Southern Georgia, will need no other guaranty for its successful prosecution and proper management. We shall have more to say hereafter on this subject. Unfurling the Old Bias:. From the highest pinnacle of King’s, Mountain, North Carolina, will to-day be unfurled to the breeze an immense; and beautiful “Star Spangled Banner,” the gift of the Atlanta and Charlotte Air- Line Railway Company to the committee in charge of the arrangements for cele brating in due form the approaching cen-i tennial of the famous battle of King’s Mountain, which occurred October 7, 1780, and resulted in a victory for the American troops over the British forces, commanded by Colonel Ferguson; who was killed in the fight and buried on- the battlefield. - j Major W. J. Houston, the General Pas senger Agent of the Company, will pre sent the nag in a few appropriate remarks, after which Colonel Thomas Hardeman, Jr., of Macon, will deliver an oration, no small part of which will be devoted to a history of the National flag. Following these addresses, and amid the booming of, a salute of ono hundred guns, • and the cheers of the assembled military, the Governors of North Carolina and South Carolina, will unfurl the banner of stars and stripes from its dizzy • height among the clouds, there to float, day and night, through sunshine and storm, until the centennial celebration is reached. In the poetic words of Drake, this “majestic monarch of the cloud,” will “rear aloft its regal form,” and remind passers by in the valley far below, of the time “When Freedom from her mountain’s height, : •' Unfurl’d her standard to the air, To hear the tempest trumpings’blare, And see the lightning flashing bright. 5 The orator of the day will find his his torical notes rather meager, for but little has been put on record as to the origin of the American flag. Some early authori ties tell us that it is a modification of the “great Union flag” raised ' by Washing ton’s troops on the 2d of January, 1776, in honor of the United colonies. If this be true, it is well to have the King’s Moun tain flag raising on Washington’s birth day. It is also recorded that Washington was a member of the Congressional com mittee that, arranged for the manufacture of the first flag adopted for official pur poses. ;/ There is still standing in Philadelphia, on Arch street, a venerable and humble building, somewhat: modernized, in which this flag was discussed by the committee and Mrs. Elizabeth Ross,, who was finally engaged to make ft- The committee wanted a star, with, six points, but Mrs, Ross suggested a five ipouit star as more appropriate, and it was adopted. ;- This was about-4he first of June, 1776, and og., ,/hjdy 8th, at the summer house of Dr. Enoch Edwards, on Frankfort avenue, it was unfurled at the first celebration of Independence, w hich was held by Thomas Jefferson and other members of Congress, in a rather social manner. It was not Until a year later, June 14, 1777, that Congress adopted this flag in a formal and authoritative enactment. On that'day it was - “Resolved, That the flag of the thir teen United States be thirteen stripes, al ternate red and white; that the.Union be thirteett stars in s blue field, representing a new constitution.” It was of this flag that Francis. S. Key, iu 1814, when the iBritsh fleet attempted to start up. the Potomac river, to : -ffestqoy Washington city, wrote his immortal and stirring song of “The SjRftPglfff .Ban ner,”— ’“ ’ “Whose broad stripes and bright stars, Through the perilous fight, O’er the ramparts we watcfiM,” r *'' Were so gallantly streaming.**'* '< • •>« Sidney Herbert. National Hotel, Feb. 21, 1880. ;*» * , ,1 i Wyoming, Montana, Colorado, and sever al of those amiable countries, have been frequent and fatal , for want of the proper defenses. A great many. have-lost their lives by being caught out in an tactic hurricane, onaiuM or journey,jyitk’orily heavy clothing and blankets for protec- tiqp. _ That RoreaUc highway, the North-, spatefirifiast 1 "Wednesdayr tt sealed by a succession of blizzards, in \vhich travel is impossible. I Ok dozen teams .were struggling to get; along oneway or the other, between Bis marck and Fargo, but such was the ve locity of the wind—the depth and drifting power of the snow, and the terrible depression of _ the mercury, that littl§ pf' aff progress! was made. It would cost the road a hun dred dollars apiece to get .-their passen gers safely from one point to ffie other, if they were able to effect’'It at all. That people should voluntarily affect latitudes of this character is ono . of the ? marvels which are incomprehensible. f Grant in New York. ^Che.realipopular strength of the third tenffitjthe State of NeW Yrirkis, 'according to thejAlhany correspondence,of the New York Sun, quite as feeble as it is iu Penn sylvania. The masses arc against the third term, and it is forded through tho primaries by the sheer force of the ma chine. Says that correspondent: In Cayuga, on Saturday, after the dele gates were elected, it was decided to cast a vote in the primary just to gauge the sentiment of the people. It was under stood that the vote, whatever it was, was not to affect the action of the delegates, and, out ol 130 votes, Grant received only one, Blaine earn ing the majority. A worker in Utica, upon whom Senator Conkling relies for the home work, was asked on Saturday Evening about his district primary. “Well," we managed"to elect a Grant delegation by a very small majority, but I really wisli we had been ition to this third my slight matter, serious, honest oh- n principle, and is held by many men who have been and are Grant’s warmest admirers. I think it will he'VeiVTjSkV'tblbrce hiAnqihinatiori if tlKrtrfeelfng exists' elsewHere’as-it does' here.” A member of tha, Leffislaturo-froinjt Oneida district .svijtfiv : -ur~J the machinery the Grant men succeeded in canylng the delegation only after a great pressure and by a .Very narrow ma- Senator-Woodin is reported as having said to friends here that the opposition to the Hurd term in his district, as sliown by the recent primaries, is very much greater than gny one bad’supposed,*ahdl it is ftOt '•fenee there as to a mere question of p candidates, hut df.eamesfc oppqgition to tliirff term. 8enator Robertson is said to regard the situation as< serious. He I will gq to the Convention as a Blaine man. He has been told that the great opportunity of his life may occur in that convention. He knows that the sentiment of his own coun ty, Westchester, is very strong against a third term,**" •— ’— first, honesl gates»’to?fh _ There wuiDeoppoSuon, strong opposi tion, in the convention to the third term, and under the lead of a Skillful and strong man, the opposition is believed to be strorig enough to be lnade.efTcctire. Along the line of the St/; Law River the machineUs less powerful elsewhere. Here the primaries showed convincing proofs of an opposition that is based upon principle, the managers do not waver. With the great patronage at command, they feel perfectly sure of winning, and rely upon the papty submission and fealty tb overcome this opposition after the pre liminary work in caucus and convention is done! . “ * IT HT > i The Tax or PaBer-rEieht 1 Tne Milledgeville Recorder says 'Con gress. ought to. remove the .duty on - paper. Will'our ifntnbdiate reifresdntatiTe, Hon. J. H. Blount, come toi the relief of the oppressed industries, that are now at the mercy of a set of Shylocks, who are bleed ing the intelligence, as well as the hard- all our Congressmen, tohelp in this work. WeLhavenoRoubtthat Colonel Blount ifljlftyril alffcje influent to procure the repeal of this direct tax of the nation! fine opportunity now of wit- A lady in.our neighborhood who has suffered for over three months the most’ extreme torture by a violent Cough, has become completely cored by lJF.' BulTn Cough Syrup. For sale in every drug store. WHY.ri-Things VboeTSh are Green.—The uniform green color of, Jhe vegetable world is - due to, chlorophyll. This substance, however, ei^sts -pply -in minute quantity in plants, the .Iftaves'pf.fr large tree containing perhaps not more than 100 grains. It appears to be a direct product of tb* action of the sunlight upon vegetation, as it does not exist replants kapt in darkness. The changes in the color of leaves in autumn ire suppowwtto/ be due to the oxidation of . their chloro-, phyll. The hand that rocia the cradle, Js thd hand that moves the earth. , Dr. Bull's Baby Syrup is the best remedy for all com- nessing what e] press can havi then there inky men, who, hfivin] almost united legislation. But , erring * Congress- een shown up*in time cows are in a healthy condition. Foutz’s • plaints chi drcn are subject to. s ich as Celebrated Horse and Cattle Powders dysentery, diarhcea. summer complaints, i will correct any disorder in the system. ’ wind colic, etc. Prioe 25 cents. past by the knights^ of the quill may now seefc/their revenge by refusing to vote ‘ for there^ihoftooudly. We trust the matter maybe pressed to a decision in GcjjpSUJtbJjj least "delay practicable. a ▼ _ Philom&thean Big Night.; ’'‘Eespitetlie inclemency of the weather, quiic a goodly per ccntage of the favored few who are priyileged to attend the charming society exhibitions of Wesleyan College, were present at the Philomathean “big night” on Friday evening. The young ladies MVer'lookedrprettier, and no con fidence is violated by tbs assertion that a more charming coterie of girls never graced an assembly in this or any other city. We will go so far also os to affirm that ■3*—r—r ly. But just here, a padlock upon our lips estops all further revelations. We may not betray the society secrete of the dear girls, and should be mercilessly dealt .with, perhaps scalped, if so lost to all pro- ;ral. We place no faith,, however, aj this suggestion. To Colonel Cole, who firpfc.galvanized Ibe securities of;the co; pany, and, by his wonderful combination sent them soaring upward, is in part due this gratifying appreciation. Then, too, people are beginning to find out that tho road itself is in a healthy and flourishing condition, and able to pay fair dividends. We congratulate tho stockholders of the company, and advise the weak-kneed to “unload” at once. ... - ^ The Savannah News on the Macon and Brunswick Warranty. The Savannah News concludes an edi torial strongly endorsing the Governor’s refusal at first to sign tiie warranty title to the lessees in these words: “It follows, therefore, that it is exceed ingly unjust to ask the Governor to grant the warranty demanded by the purchasers of the Macon and Brunswick railroad lease, and it is simple folly to threaten him with defeat at the ballot box here after because of his refusal to assume se rious responsibilities which he has no le gal right to assume. At last accounts it seemed as if an arrangement was about to be effected by whicli the road will be leased, and we hope the result will be sat isfactory to the friends of the lease. As matters now stand, tiie road; when com pleted, can work no injury to the Central, while it will probably add materially to the tutrire trade of Savannah and to the entire section of countty through which it passes. Iu the meantime, we trust all parties interested will restrain their un righteous arid unreasonable indignation against our wise and prudent Chief Ex ecutive.” — The above is in the -right spirit. Cer tainly Savannah, With her broad and nav igible river, arid vast jrtiirriad . system, should not he jealous of another sister seaport still comparatively iri ito infancy. Why should not Brunswick have a trunk line also permeating the teeming West and adding to the wealth and resources 'of our Commonwealth?' See -wliat she has done already for the development of the recently neglected timber and turpen tine - lands of the State ? Smiling villa ges grace her thoroughfare from the sea, arid Jt is lined with saw mills and turpen tine farms and distilleries. Thssoil, too, under the stimulus of fertilizers and care ful tillage, has been shown to be well adapted to both com and cotton, while sugar cane, oats and rice are sure and profitable crops, Now, let this useful artery, say we, be extended with all possible speed to At lanta, Knoxville and Cincinnati. There is abundance of commerce and business for all the existing and projected routes. One of the parties to tire late sale told the writer a few days ago, that so power ful was the new Company, that leaving out the Georgia members, any one of the othera-was able to build the extension singly, and without assistance. There should be no jealousy between our Geor gia roads, where they do not cross or con flict directly wiili each other. The great back country can support them all. —The Savannah News says an appro priation has been made by Congress for changing the position of the present light on Fig Island, Savannah river, to the Ex change building, provided that the gov- Tho Theological Seminary at Colom* oroment ia at no expefise for rent. In ac-i bia. South Carolina. We have been pained to learn from time to time, during the past year, that for lack of adequate pecuniary support, there was danger that the exercises of that.yenerable school ,of the prophets, tjie •Presbyterian Theological ‘Seminary -rit Columbia would he suspended. Jt is with real pleasure/ then, that we are informed that the churches are com ing’nobly up to their duty, and there’ no longer exists the slightest apprehension that a foundation so useful and so venera- .ted will be allowed to collapse Fora half century this Seminaiy lias flourished, and many of the ablest, wor thiest and most noted divines of the South ^received their religious training in its lialls. But the war robbed the institution Of a large portion of its endowment and since then there has been a constant strug gle to meet current expenses even upon ‘•the most economical basis. At length, however, the alumni have taken the matter in hand, and' are doing yeoman’s work for their cherished alma mater. An appeal to the churches, too, is meeting with an unexpectedly liberal re sponse. We trust the seminaiy, which is graced by such instructors as Rev. Dr. Plummer, Dr. George Howe, Rev. Dr. Gi- rifrdeku, and the gifted’ editor of the Southern Presbyterian Reekie, Dr. Woodrow, will soon be relieved of all of its difficulties and' enter upon a new ca reer of usefulness and honor. In this con nection we are pained to see it stated that the Theological Seminaries of both the Baptist and Methodist denominations South, are also in straightened circum stances and calling for help. Surely these Religious fountains should never be al lowed to run dry when it is ! from them diiefly that the whole,of God’s Zion is watered. Divorces in Massachusetts.—A Massachusetts statiscian has been looking up the number of divsrees granted in that State. From 1860 to 1878, inclusive, 7,233 decrees separation were passed in MassachusettsjK,400.Ion the petition of injuredtflBlinas and?,833 on the petition ofiinl&d Wms. Under the laws of !d9^fee*nu%hero are nine. speci«e j for which the courts may decree a dissolution of the bonds of matrimony, and the particularly virtuous people up there appear to indulge- the “specific causes” very freely. ^ —The MilledgeviTfe*”Recorder says Dr. Felton should be known hereafter as Sim- was over 48 pounds, and in the United mons’ Regulator. * States it was nearly 60 pounds. The Republican National Convention will consist of 750 delegates, • and a majority only is required to 'nobiinate. Two delegates are allowed to each Rep resentative in Congress, and two from each Territory ahd tl«S District' of .Colum bia. 'There arl'293'-Representatives, Kfi i, 8 Territories anff Jthe District, uunilteriddubled makes 750. The Democratic Convention consists only of 738 delegates who are entitled to vote. The District of Columbia delegates and those from the Territories are merely honorary; they are not permitted to vote. The rule now in force in holding Demo cratic Conventions requires a two-thirds vote to nominate.candidates fpr President and Vice Presiden^ but it will be within the power of the" coming Convention to abolish it aniLsubstitutetlie mojority rule if it secs fit. la the Republican Conven- ^tfoh itrwill require 879 to noriiinate, while iu the Democratic—unless the rule shall be changed—it will require 492. r, 4 - r . ■ ■ ■ V Ls d-. • J. J —Out of 64 stocks quoted at the New York Exchange 11 were at par or above at the opening of 1879 and 21 at its close. —It is said that Colonel’ Ingersoll’s in fidel proclivities was all that prevented him fFom being chosen to represent tho United States at the Court of Berlin. —-According to the Manchester Exam iner, the consumption of cotton per spin dle in Great Britain in 1879 was a little over 26 pounds, while on the continent it dounded to the credit of the dramatis per- sufficiently attested by the ;en-opinions of the guests. , Tiie Pliilomatheari and Adelphian Soci eties of Wesleyan College achieve much for the culture and improvement of the young ladies of the institution, and are an ornament to it. We are pleased to stale that the College is in a most flourishing condition, and the late visit to Columbus of three of the accomplished musical instructors, all of whom sustained conspicuous parts in the rendition of Belshazzar, has added no little prestige to that noble founda tion. It may safely be asserted that in no in stitution at the South is the curriculum of study more elevated, or the instruc tion imparted more thorough. The fac ulty are fully up to every modem improve ment of the schools, and are both able and faithful in the discharge of their duties. President Bass deserves great credit for the skill and devotion he has ever dis played in the management and advance ment of old Wesleyan College, which is fairly entrenched in the hearts of our peo ple. 9* . >.■ Jk' \ ; h ; j? ‘j Army Experience. The efficiency of Warner’s Safe Pills was first rendered unquestionable by their use in the English army in malarial re gions, where the stomach and bowels, were peculiarly subject to derangement. They. were found to be the best of army medi cines iu such regions. H. J. Foster, ot Toronto, writes that they recently cured him completely of sleeplessness, caused by biliousness. See other testimonials, j feblS-2w . “—During the past year Massachusetts has instruccd 311,528 pupils, in 5,55S pub lic schools. The teachers numbered 8,- 749. There were 216 high schools, hav ing 595 teachers and 19,311 pupils. In tho State there are also 37S private, or parochial schools, with 15,ICS pupils, and 66 academies,, with 8,6G2 pupils. Alto gether, there were 835,35S children in the schools duririg the year. The average length of the public school service was. eight and three quarter months. The to tal cost of the schools was $1,994,S24.4J The average monthly salary of the male teacher was $67.44; of the female teacher, $35.50. A" Tragedy of the Servo-Turkish War. Editors Telegraph and Messenger:— The following incident, which came under my personal observation during the Servo-Turkish campaign of 1876, has THE UNHAPPY CZAR. A Pen-and-ink Sketch of Alexander of Russia. The feeling which comes uppermost in . . . . the mind of any one who sees the Czar never been published, and, as it corrobo- f or the first time is one of sincere nU? rates the oft-repeated assertion to the ef- He is a large, ox-eyed man, evidentlyEf fect that “truth is stranger than fiction,” good intentions, but with a look of it may prove of interest to your readers: ness and perplexity in him. His voiced While Tchemaieff, tiie Russian comman- ^ barsli as the grinding of a coffee-mill der-in-chief of the Servian Army, had his 0 ut of order, for an affection of the tlim,r headquarters at Alexinatz, m -the beauti- under which he-has long suffered make* ful Morava river valley, which has seen speech painful; to him. He would haw in ancient days so many bloody conflicts made a very amiable private gentleman between the Cross and the Crescent, an { alld cou i d have got far more ease an,i affaire du eacur was being developed in a amusement out of life if he had handeC far-away Russian village on the estate of j\ a n : t he botheration of government own- one of the proudest families of the Musco- 1 -- 1 —*■— ”—.—. er vite nobility. The only-son of the wid owed consort of the late Prince K—ff had just arrived at his nu^ority and succeeded to the estates of his deceased father;.* lie was betrothed to a lovely girl, the daugh ter of a neighboring noble, and only awaited his coming to man’s es tate to consummate the "union upon which his earthly, happiness was staked; buttne fair one, with the proverb- ialjfickleness’of her sex,for some as yet un known reason or whim, suddenly married a rival suitor only three weeks before the day appointed for her union with young Prince K—fi. I never learned any more than the simple outline given above of the circumstances connected with the young Prince’s disappointment;-we heard after wards that, inconsolable under his loss, the young fellow wandered restlessly about the neighborhood of the family chatteau until he grew to hate the very sight of every familiar object that recall ed his previous life and its purposes. His fond mother, although loth to part even temporarily with her only child, finally l e- sought him to leave his home and country for a time, and visit Paris, where she hoped he would find distractions which would banish the recollections of past sor rows, and Bare him from the helpless state of listless despondency into which he appeared to be sinking at home. After a hasty preparation, and sorrowful leave- taking, the young Prince set out for Paris, but, on reaching the Russian frontier at Ungheni, he suddenly changed his route and came to Belgrade, where I made his acquaintance upon his arrival. His trieste demeanor and evident restlessness turn’s, as beef is driven to market for those who wish to, roast it. They must often have had a difficult task, for lus pon derous Mqjesty (good, easy man) is sloth- fill and heavy witted by nature. He must have been frequently unable to un derstand even what was wanted for him. He is subject to melancholy periods of hy pochondriasis, during which existence seems hut a dreary blank to him. He is haunted by fears of sudden death and by the dread of assassination. At these times lie moons about on apparently solitary walks with a large dog,but there is always a policeman handy to keep the sacreligious from approaching him. When well he devotes much of his time to tailoring, changing his costume with much stolid perseverence.atuljiie likes to be attendediby hump-backed Privy councillor, who acts as foil to his tine figurre and sets it off, for he is a well built man, tall and straight, though rather too German in the rotun dity of certain of his curves. His father Nicolas, who was in many respects a notable sovereign, had him very carefully brought up, and foreseeing that he would want support, perhaps devotion, in after life, to counteract his apathy, sur- rourided with some select young men whs could be relied upon. This little band of cronies have hung together ever since. They have lived with and on the Emperor The Doctors’ Yielding-. Ever since Prof. Green wrote to the Medical Record advising physicians every where to use the Safe Kidney and Liver Cure in their practice, it has been gaining in favor with the profession. They can find nothing which is a substitute for it. R.’Caulkins, M. D., of Rochester, N. Y.y says he would now prescribe it to all who are afflicted with serious kidney and liver diseases. j - •* febl8-2w h cordanie/vfith this jtetion, Peter C. Hains, Major of Engineers of‘the Eight House Board, addressed a communication to the Major on the subject, which was read at. the meeting ‘of Council' on Wednesday' night, stating that the purpose is to estab lish range lights to guide vessels through the “wrecks channel” leading to the city. The ordinance passed gives the desired right, upon certain conditions, and we un-; derstaud the work will J>e commenced ah once. Commonwealth Distribution Co. Buy tickets for the drawing .on 24th inst, and have a chance at the! $80,000— it only costs $2 to try for all, -or $1 for half of it, and if this small amount is lost, it is lost in a “square lottery,” where ev^-i ry ticket has an equal chance, and all the prizes are drawn and paid. Address R.i M. Boardman, Courier-foumal building, Louisville Ky., or at No. 163 Broadway, New York. It. —Lord Beaconsfield’s" ministry is likely to have the good fortune of a favorable! Indian budget to-lay*before Parliament in. the next three, months. For several years* past a : decreasing revenue and a growing deficit marked each annual statement in Indian flnkndHBt tie'returns.for three- fourths of the. Anglo-Indian^ fiscal '-year closing next March show an increase in tiie revenue amounting to $12,500,000. The commercial improvement visible mi the rest of the world lias appeared in In dia, and taexs, like the iniqnitons excise! salt,.on v^hich best mark the general expen diture of the people, show the largest im provement. In spito of a reduction in tiie fcnrrent expenditures the outlay in the Afghan war and the sums spent on rail ways to reach the Afghan frontier 'trill use up the surplus, so that the unfortunate ryot is no‘better off for the improving con dition off Indian finances, and at least half of the 1 saving in ordinary outlay effected by Lord Lytton’s. administration ia on public works needed to prevent fu ture famine. > I i - « / ]| ■I [;Jt ii-The Speaker- ' sentatives in Ie& ™ lus pistol-.fen - from ' liis urlng '-a '- session -''uH^hat discharged , The “Yocb Simmons’ Liver Regulator has been in usq in my family. for some'tiiffe, ahaJ am persuaded it i&.& valuable addi tion to the medical science. “It has proved a good and efficacious nfedicine. r f 11 i T S f«bl8-lw || C.jl. Nutting.” ;~iTi—^— lr of the House of Repre- Louisiana accidentally pocket body. ^Lpck discharged _the weapon, and rio\v/ the 4tton^Pw|WtrS State has filed an infomalion against the Speaken^ar garping cpncealed weajyms. —A locomotive " on the "Pennsylvania railroad made the fastest run on record a few eveuing8 ago? It was ordered from the roundhouse to the scene of an 'acci dent, and ran 60 miles in 45 minutes and 8 seconds. The engineer, speaking of the run to a division superintendent, said: “I was a little skeered once, when I thought I see a freight ‘cbmin’ down agin me; but it was only a skeer. I tell you it was a mighty purty run, blit sometimes her wheels didn’t seem to tech the rails for a whole minute.” fering from recent affliction, but no one attempted to learn the secret of his sad ness. After an interview with the Servian War Minister, Colonel Nikoljch, he left for Alexinatz with a commission as cap tain in the Servian service under an as sumed name. Upon presenting himself at TclieraniefPs headquarters, lie was recognized by an officer, of whose presence in Sevia he had been ignorant; hastily re questing his acquaintance to keep silence, he demanded to be assigned to. duty in the most exposed position of the outpost line. The keen eye of the Gcneral-in- chief had noted the little by-play between the new comer and the officer, who had evidently recognized him, and, .coupling this with liis extreme youth, distingue appearance, and clearly to be appre ciated recklessness, he made a shrewd surmise that there was a hidden romance in the affair, and urgedtlie young man to reconsider his rash resolution and return to his friends; but all his endeavors were in vain, and finally the Prince whispered a sentenee inTcher- naiefl’s ear at which the General started visibly, and with a shrug of the shoulders said: “Well, if you are so determined, I will assign you to duty with a battalion of Russian Volunteers stationed on the other side of the valley. Goto your camp and introduce yourself to the future comrades with whom you will associate, and then return here and dine with me this even ing.” The Volunteer battalion was lying on the Djunis road within long rifle shot of the Turkish outpost line, and the Moslem artillery threw occasional shells into it by way of reminding the occupants of the huts that they had not abandoned their position. The young captain set out for the camp, accompanied by his valet and luggage, He found his brother officers ready to welcome him with that hearty "hos pitality which is: so eminently char acteristic of tiie Russian race from the Imperial Grand Duke to the simple moujik or peasant. As the setting sun was disappearing behind the Balkans, the lately commissioned Captain saying au recoir to his newly made friends, sat out alone to return to the headquarters to to his brother Constantine, who has a taste for that soil of nonsense. He him self could hardly have wanted to reim TtVas the TSchouvaifrfb, the Lamberts! IKe'BariatinsSys, the Adlerbergs, the Dot godroukys, and someothers who destte<n& would be a firm ruler of men. They were forever goading and coaxing l,i m by fmm's no luroP ic ntimn (a «" caused^usjall^to conclude that he^ was suf- -without interruption from the time of his ** accession until now. He provides for their wants; they dip their lingers into his puise whenever they are so minded. He is a loosely hung Emperor, more like the good fellow of a free-and-easy than the despotic master of millions, when in the midst of these his famii liars. He has been known to sit in his shirt sleeves, astraddle on a chair, hob-a-nobbing with them. The late Count Strogonoff, who was a prettx chevalier and a very high-pacing person generally, once broke in upon the party thus employed; The Emperor look ed at him with those unutterably mourn ful eyes of his and held out a champagne glass to be filled from a bottle which stood by. The old soldier drew himself up and answered sternly, “Let those who love yon less than I do perform that service.” The Czar showed no sign of displeasure, hut within a few months Stogonotf was deprived of his office, though he was nearly connected with the imperial family, his son having married the Grand Duch ess Marie. When His Majesty is in the humor he plays a good deal at cards with his own chums, aud it is rather a good thing for these gentlemen, for when ever any one of them is in want the Czar will lose to liim the sum of which he stands in need, as a delicate way of giving it, and this method of bestowing substantial favors is perfectly well understood among them. The Czar is a good shot, and has done some grand things on bears. He some times wears a peiisse which once covered a fine bear he brought low with his own hands, and it has . been so exquisitely dressed that it is valued at about £2,000, whicli is even more than is ever paid ei ther for the sable or the- black fox. Ho can ride, too, though not in the English fashion, and he would be puzzed by a sharp burst across the country. Lately his physicians have recommended him to walk. His personal deportment is excellent. He stands and marches well. He shows to advantage in uniform, though for sev eral years he has willingly clothed him self in mufti. His manners are those of a gentleman, and there is something ex- — , . —“ a genuem.au, ana mere is someumn dme. The General-in-Chief and his nu- £ emely sympathetic aboutriiim. He merous staff had assembled around the long table, but as enough had been ex tracted from the officer before alluded to as having recognized the new comer, to satisfy them all that they had a recruit of high social rank to deal with, the whole party awaited liis arrival before commenc ing their attack upon ihe good cheer spread before them. Minutes lengthened to a quarter of an hour, and still nothing was seen of the expected guest. An or derly was started off at full gallop to the camp to make inquiries as to the where abouts of the* tardy Captain. The twilight had settled into darkness as he returned with the news that the young officer bad left the battalion before sunset, stating that he was going to dine at the headquar ters’ mess; every one became thoroughly alarmed at. this intelligence, and lights having been procured, and a patrol of soldiersordered out to accompany the par ty, they set out to follow the path leading between the Russian camp and tiie quar ters of the General’s stall; about midway they found a huge gap in the earth at the edge of the pathway, where the only Turkish camion shot," fired tliat day, had fallen, and after a careful search the man gled body of the young Prince was found nearly covered with the earth thrown up by the shell.That single shot, fired utterly- at random, when the shades of night had covered the valley with a pall impervious to the sight of the Moslem gunner, had ended the heartache in that youthful bo som, and the weary soul fouud the rest it had so ardently sought for. , , They gathered up his gory cap, and sword, and the patrol silently covqredthQ mangled corse with the earth thrown up by the iron messenger of death, while the staff followed their General back to head quarters iii mournful silence. There was no longer need for concealment, and the officer revealed the name and rank of their late comrade, and Tichcriiaieff sta ted that when he had whispered in his ear, as before mentioned, he had sworn to kill himself before his very face unless he was accepted as a volunteer, and assigned to duty at once. The next day the friend of the young Prince K—off received a let ter from Russia, detailing the * incidents related at the commencement of this article, with regard to the disappointment he had suffered, and stating that Prince "K—off was then in Paris seeking to drown hi3 sorrows in the dissipations of *that gay capital. Little did the fond mother know that her son, whom she supposed to be in Paris, was lying a mangled corpse in a soldier’s grave in the Morava Valley. No one at Alexinatz had the heart to write to the mother; the Prince’s valet refused to be the first to carry home the news of his master’s singular death, anil I have never known to this day when and how the dot ing mother first heard of tiie sad end of her only child, the victim of that solitary, mysteriously directed shot, fired at ran dom by a follower of the Crescent in the Sermian hills at Alexinatz. Edward Maxwell Grant. Bucharest, January-21, 1880. —Mr. Blaine says to a correspondent of fliei Graphic: “I am not going to get ex cited tilts tithe. 1 am hot going to allow single pulse heat to be quickened by what shall occur in this canvass, and I shall hold myself in 1 such a position that, shilild the nomination he given me; I will not be surprised, and if I fail to get it I will not be disappointed.” —An Illinois schoolmistress was unable to chastise the biggest girl pupil, and call ed in a young school trustee to assist her. The trustee found that the offender was his own sweetheart, but his sense of duty triumphed over his love, and he whipped the girl. Not only did this result in k*. '^ch^ * ing him o sweetheart, but her father sued j p a5SCS t ] ie thirdpfid lowest arch becomes him for damages, and got a verdict for: incandescent. There is a saving of 20 per $500, j tent, of the fuel. duces the impression that one would like to know him better, if only he were not an Emperor. It is this unfortunate cir cumstance which takes the amiability out of him, sets him upon his dignity, and gives a certain funniness to his aspect. His father really could be dignified, but he can’t. There is a chubbiness and ner vousness in his proceedings upon great occasions, which reminds one more of a drum-major or fugleman of Laudwehr than an autocrat. Formerly the Emperor, as might have been expected from one of his lethaigic- temperament, was averse from moving about; latterly he has been troubled by a. perpetual restlessness* He lives very plainly and his table i3 sparsely served. A beefsteak for breakfast, a roast gelinotte and salad for his dinner, form the staple of his fare. His appetite is not robust and he sleeps badly. The first fault of liis reign was the com mon blunder of heirs apparent when they come into power.’ He had been much courted by the discontented, and he made far too much haste to undo all the work of Ins father. He was emotional, pitiful, generous, all in a headlong, precipitate way. When he resolved suddenly to abolish serfdom, several of his gen erals and nobles threw themselves bod ily at his feet and besought him to man age so great a change very gingerly. It was no use; he gave everything he had to give, knocked down the great farmers-general or taxes like so many nine-pins, upset mo nopolies for the discreet sale of vodki, closed the free port of the Black Sea ac cording to the latest principles of political economy, dashed off the shackles from the press and laughed at comic newspa pers. There was a caricature published in St. Petersburg shortly after his acces sion which represented-him as a droschky driver in the state that droschky drivers usually are after dinner. His hat was pull ed over his eyes and his horses were gal loping wildly on the road to “Reform.” Behind him was the Grand. Duke Con stantine, saying: “Gently, brother; I am the fare.”. Still tho Emperor laughed; he laughed too when a piece was played in the Court theatre exposing the corruption of his officials, and a very fine piece it was. Then somebody shot at him and shattered his nerves forever.. He fell into a sort of panic, trying hastily to undo all he had done,. He had now gyves put on writers; he ordered some awful cruelties in Poland. He tried to win back his sulky nobles. It was all in vain, and now he is thoroughly flustered and frightened right out of his senses; His only chance of peace and happiness would be abdication and a year’s yacht ing without newspapers. At present he is worried irito'a fever every morning by a summary of all the unpleasant. things which havebepn printed about him for thfe last twenty-four hours throughout Eu rope. It is prepared by a special preeis writer, appointed for the purpose, andhis Majesty takes care that it shall spare hun no pang of this self-inflicted torture, for he will not trust a professional diplomat ist to do it lest he should gloss over the truth and endeavor to make things peas ant for promotion’s sake. A Baron Her der, a connection of Stleglitz, the banner, not long agoiperformed this delicate ser vice, and perhaps does so still. The Eng of Yvetot was.* happy monarch; the tm- pCror of Ruasia is not. Surely, times must he strangely altered. —The Floridian says there are 105 dif ferent varieties of fruit growing on tne place of Mr. R. W. Stnrdevant at Orange City. Where this town now stands, tbree years ago, not a stick of timber had been cut from the land. It has has now 400 Inhabitants. —“A smoke-consuming device” has been made successful by David Sinton, of Cin cinnati. Three arches placed undertne