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MARCH 80 >580.
—The memorial which is being ad
dressed to Queen Victoria in support of
the legalization of marriage with a de
ceased wife’s sister, by the Mayors and
ex-mayors of boroughs, has just been
signed by the Lord Mayor of London.
—David Davis is a great reader, and as
a circuit Judge in his early days used to
cany his saddlebags full of historical and
biographical works. His favorite novel is
“David Copperficld,” though he -has a
fondness for Thackeray and Waller Scott.
—Earl Beaconsfield was never better
than at the present moment. Health and
spirits are both excellent, and he is so
good a walker that he tires out any lady
friends who venture pedestrian exercise
with him.
—The New York Herald finds in the
Massachusetts Legislature 41 Republicans
for Grant, 37 for Blaine, 3G for Edmunds,
and 75 for all other candidates, leaving
Grant and Blaine badly in the minority.
Of the Democrats, 21 are for Bayard, 10
each for Tilden and Thurman, and 11 for
others.
—The Duke of Newcastle, the Marquis
of Anglesey and the Earl of Fife, who
died within the year, were the three most
heavily insured men in England, the com-*
panies being hit for $6,250,000, while two
other noblemen, who have just died, had
between them $1,250,000 in the same
companies.
Still Growing.—'The New York
Herald's Irish relief fund is gradually
growing, and on Monday evening aggre
gated $311,347.84. In addition the Herald
has been notified that the oil producers at
Bradford Pa., have subscribed 4,140 bar
rels of oil, to be used for the benefit Of the
relief fund.
—The Maine Legislature—the expurga
ted one—has just declared cider to - be
an intoxicating beverage, and placed
upon the list of official interdictions,
they will next prononnee chewing gum to
be injurious to the public morals, there
will be nothing further for them to do in
that line. I' »•- •
—As a lazy tramp came down the street
With free and easy gait,
This welcome sign his eyes did greet: ; •
“Free chop to those who wait.”
“Now here,” he said, “I’ll get some food
Without the slightest tax;” ’’
But they led him to a pilo of wood,
And handed him an axe. ■'
—The price of ice to housekeepers and
small purchasers in New York, has been
advanced from forty cents to one dollar
per one hundred pounds, whilst in Phila
delphia consumers have already been no
tified of an advance of forty per cent.
Fifty cents per week foreight pounds daily
Will be charged in Philadelphia during
the coming summer, whereas the same
quantity was furnished for thirty-five
cents last year.
—There is no place like San Francisco
for enterprise, after all. Last week the
wife of a well-known business man, re
siding on Ellis street, eloped. The depar
ture was discovered about 10 o’clock in
the evening, and at the same hour the
next morning the husband had the furni
ture sold at auction and delivered up the
key of his house to his landlord the after
noon of the same day. He was terribly
afraid she would change her mind and re
tain.
—The attendance on the schools in Ire
land has fallen ofi forty thousand on ac
count of the famine and destitution. One
kind-hearted woman has already taken
measures to provide about one thousand
With substantial soup and bread, which is
served out at school. The children who
are stinted in food of course wax weak,
wan and dull in their mental faculties,
while many of them are destitute of
clothing.
—Of the 4,700 graduates of Princeton
College it has been ascertained that more
than 1,000 have been or are clergymen,
abont 500 have been physicians, 200 law
yers, 27 governors, ICO representatives in
Congress, 7 State officers, ISO judges, 135
professors, 42 college presidents, 13cabi
net ministers, 1 President and 2 Vice-
Presidents of the United States. At pres
ent about four-fifths of every Senior Class
study law.
—A Bridgeport attorney recently took
strong exception to. a ruling of the Court
that certain evidence was inadmissible,
,{ l know, Your Honor,” said he warmly,
“that it is proper evidence. Here I have
been practising at the bar for forty years,
and now I want to know if I am a fool?”
“That,” replied the Court, “is a question
of fact and not of law, and so I shall not
pass upon it, but let the jury decide.”
—The choice some people make of mat
rimonial partners is hard to understand
A young Maine farmer married a highly
cnltured Boston girl who didn’t know the
first thing about house-keeping, bnt had
devoted her youth to the study of geology
and mineralogy, and when he took her
home, instead of attending to household
duties, she went roaming about the farm
and soon discoved on her husband’s land
a gold mine worth $40,000. You can’t al
ways tell how a match will turn out.
—The value of good riding horses has
increased immensely in Ireland since the
Empress Austria has patronized the chase
there. Several ladies have been lucky
enough to sell their horses for her use or
that of her suite for a very large figure,
varying from three to four, five, and even
six hundred pounds. One lady, whose
horse was fancied for the Empress, asked
.£300, and got it, having purchased the
animal from a dealer last year for £50; so
much can be done to improve an animal
by a light band and firm riding.
General Sherman’s Indian View.
—On the communication from the Inte
rior Department, conveying the wish of
the families of Victoria’s hand to remain
at San Carlos, instead of going to the Hot
Springs, General Sherman endorsed as
follows:
“Respectfully returned to the Secretary
of TVar, inviting attention to the principle
involved in the case. The Indian Bureau
is feeding, at heavy cost, the families of
Victoria and his band of Apaches, while
the War Department is fighting, at an aw
ful cost in money and life, the warriors or
bucks. Does not thi3 magnanimity veige
on the borders of folly?”
—The mysterious box of jewels, which
has been in the vault of the Government
Treasury at Washington for over thirty
years, has just had its annual dusting and
examination. Nobody knows bow it came
there though Secretary McCulloch express
ed the opinion, in a report to Congress,
that it was part of the proceeds of a rob
bery at the Patent Office. The contents
include several small pearls and diamonds
and two lumps of gold, all worth about
$3,000.
“No News the Best of News.”
The absence of all Stirling and interest
ing events just now in the United States,
is but another name for peace and plenty,
“ Bed Tape" Triumphs Over the
Voice of the People.
The Grain Crops.
We have bad news from the growing
Will the Georgia Western he Built?.
THE MACON AND BRUNSWICK EXTEN- !
EASTER IS COMING.
DISSOLUTION OF PARLIAMENT.
. _ , . tt ' crops of wheat, oats and rye in Middle
After a long contest in the House, and ; _ r . . . . .
6 - Georgia. A very extensive wheat raiser
t . . ,, , ... • M T „ some liv< f filibustering, our telegrams in WilIdnson county inforlned tll0 writer
though it makes a dull news sjce t . in announced yesterday that the Townshend . t d ,, . , ] d
ilia nmrMonpo n rcniiy nn onUmitv : j... , yesieruay ina;; ms \\ noie w neat crop iiau
been so utterly ruined by rust that it
the good providence of God/ no calamity mi, referring the duty on paper, cliemi-
or threat of woe beclouds our horizon. cn\ 3i e tc., to the Committee on Revision
There is.no sickness or unusual mortality 0 f the Laws, by a vote of 142 to S9, was
among man or beast. The dreary finan- remanded back to the custody of the Com-
cial lapses and breaches of faith wliich use mittee on Ways and Means. As it is
to burden every day’s tidings, more or known that under Speaker Randall’s ma-
less, have ceased. The current of failures nipulation the majority of that body are
and bankruptcies has stopped its flow, j opposed, now and in future, to any change
The statistics of declining trade show no j n the present tariff, this settles tfie mat-
figures. The granaries of the country are ter until the advent of another Congress.
full to overflowing, and arc imminently
threatened already with new and over
whelming burdens. It is a fact that if tlic
promise of the winter wheat crop is veri
fied; the country, in respect to its stores of
food, will be much like the neb man iu
the gospel—“it will have no room to be
stow all its fruits and goods.”
Arid unmistakably the general prosper
ity of the situation is inspiring a better
humor among the people. There is much
less sectional malediction in progress.
Probably “the ensanguined under gar
ment” is only temporarily laid by to be
brought forward with greater effect after
the June nomination; but the fact that
the Republican brethren are willing to in
termit the bloody shirt for'a mometit
shows an improvement In their style and
temper. They feel belter-natured than
common. They are willing to allow Sa
tan to be chained for a little season.
Candor compels one to see, also, there
is on both sides an increasing regard for
the useful in legislation, and a growing
repugnance to mere partisanship on the
part of the people at large, a greater im
patience of demagoguery, and a loud de
mand for an cnlightenod and candid
statesmanship. Many signs will be noted
indicating a weariness of party blather as
a means of preferment. It may be that
the stalwarts and the machine will still
display their wonted vigor when set regu
larly in motion, bnt the people, in their
present condition, arc unmistakably more
averse to tlie machine than they used to
be. Left alone they will prefer common
sense and patriotism to party rancor.
In short, we are having, perhaps, a
mere “lucid interval.’* We are perhaps
allowed to take a little breath and case
before they set the rack in motion again,
and a kind providence permits a general
condition of prosperity, so that the people
may enjoy it. Hence there is no news in
America. There is nothing on the lapis
seriously at war with public tranquillity.
With a country of such resources as ours,
with Such a population and soil, with such
mining wealth, such transportation, such
wealth of forest, seas and waters, we shall
only be too rich and comfortable to be
have as we ought to. Hence it is that
Satan stirs up the tormentors, ne rouses
the emissaries and instruments of evil of
all kindsjeven themselves,for when one has
little or nothing to trouble him, be is of
ten set to work to furnish the raw material
at his own labor and expense.
Daily Press Convention.
A call issues from the office of the At
lanta Constitution for a Convention of
the Southern Daily Press, to meet in At
lanta on the 15th day of April next, “for
the purpose of taking into consideration
such means as may secure a complete and
more systematic service of the news, and al
so to consult as to the best means of secur
ing prompt, intelligent, and cordial co-op
eration in those interests which the Daily
Press of the South have in common.
During their stay in Atlanta the members
of the Convention will be the guests of
the Constitution, and ample arrangements
will be made for their comfort and enjoy
ment.”
Shortly after the close cf the civil war,
the Southern Daily Press held a Conven
tion in Savannah, and afterwards in Mo
bile, Alabama, and there tlie project was
agitated of reorganizing the Southern
Press Association, which had, by necessi
ty, been called into existence by the state
of non-intercourse between the great sec
tions of the country, and terminated with
the war.
It was proposed to revive that organi
zation, so far as to combine the Southern
daily press as a unit in arranging for the
supply of their common daily telegraphic
correspondence, hut the proposition failed
and each press was left to accept such ar
rangements, rules and discipline as
could obtain by separate negotiation.
The effect of this non-action is now ap
parent to all, whether for good or bad,and
the necessity or non-necessity of united
action is equally apparent. The question
whether such action would be likely to
conduce to better or more economical
service, seems to us to embrace the main
In the meantime, these protectionists hope
that the results of the coming general
election will fasten the iniquitous system
upon the country for a -further term.-of
years. It is true that custom and prece
dent bestow the right upon a standing
jcommittee; to- report, or not to report, for
almost an indefinite period upon the
measures referred to tbeir consideration.
But where, as in-the present instance,
. their action is so manifestly - unjust arid
oppressive to the industrial interests of
the country, there ought to be some rem
edy in the premises. It is simply an out
rage that a half-dozen members of the
House should have it in their power to
defeat the expressed will of the people all
over the Union, for a modification in the
duty upon certain leading necessaries,
such as paper and salt. The action of
these protectionists on the Committee of
Ways and Means, we trust, will be thor
oughly ventilated on the hustings during
the ensuing Presidential canvass.
would not yield over a peck per acre.
The same was true also all over that
large wheat producing county, and what,
if possible, is still more to be regretted,
SION."
The live railroad question of the hour
is, whether the reported alliance between
Messrs. Newcomb, of tlie L. & N., and
Wilson, McGhee & Co., representing the
M. & B. Railroad, has been effected, and
will amount to anything. We find quite
a variety of opinions exist on the subject.
Thus the Atlanta correspondent of the Sa-
therc^ considerable complaint of rust in vannab News says:
the oat crop. The fact has not been es- Sensational telegrams still seek to keep
mIh. non-rusting
varieties have been infected with the dis- stood hero that the whole thing is being
it
subject for consideration by the Conven
tion. We trust whatever (if anything) is
done,the whole dally press of the Southern
States will act as a unit.
The German Vote.
The New York Tribune of Wednesday
says it is the unanimous opinion of promi
nent Germans of all parts of the country
that the Republican party would lose
nine-tenths of the German vote by nomi
nating Grant. The Herald publishes in
terviews with the leading Germans of this
city, including Oswald Ottendorfer, of the
Stoats Zeilung, Sigismund Kanffinann
ex-Governor Salomon and Dr. Jacobi, and
they all agree that with Grant as a candi
date the Republicans would run a risk of
losing five States, Wisconsin, Ohio, Iowa,
Illinois, and Minnesota. When, says the
Tribune, it is remembered that the loss of
any one of these States would make the
election of a Republican President impos
sible, the size of the risk which the Third-
Termers wish to thrust upon the'party be
comes apparent.
Nevertheless and notwithstanding Grant
mil be nominated, and it behooves the
Tribune • to be a little more chary in its
speech unless they can satisfy Grant and
his friends that the ex-President will be
defoated in the race and so get them to
withdraw before the nomination. Grant
is as certain to be the nominee as sum-
mercomes.
General Gordon Vindicated.
The Washington Star says:
Senator Ben Hill, of Georgia, and his
friends pronounce the statement that they
had attributed to Senator Gordon some
band in bringing about the Raymond
scandal a fabrication entire. That no
thought of Senator Gordon in any such
connection was ever entertained; that, on
the contrary, Senator Gordon’s sympathy
has been active in behalf of Senator Hill
in this matter, and he has been willing
and anxious to aid the latter in any way
he could.
No one acquainted with the chivalric
Gordon could believe for an instant that
he would lend his influence to defame the
private character of a brother colleague.
His grand record as
Tlie Commissioners’ Schedule.
An Atlanta special to ■ the Augusta
Evening News says “the railroad commis
sioners express satisfaction with the read
iness of the railroads to accept their rates
■of tariff.” b i
This is not in accordance- with the ru
mors that obtain here from all parts
of the Slate. It is said that unless mate
rial changes are made, several short lines
will suspend operations or be forced to re-
■duce their service to about one train per
week. Also, that all the roads are dissat-
isiicdf and declare that the loss of income
under the new tariff will make their re
spective enterprises non-remunerative.. It
is feared by many merchants, too, that the
effect in practice will be’'to reduce-
the receipts of cotton at all our prin
cipal interior cities and take the staple di
rectly out of the State. We give the above
simply as the current talk of the day. Tlie
situation is doubtless exaggerated, but
still it is evident that the railroads are not
satisfied with the new schedule. The
people seem better pleased. We trust
that just and equitable modifications will
be made whenever needed, by the com
missioners, so that the system may inure
alike to the good of those who own the
roads and those who patronize them.
Neither interest’ should be overloo e d.
as both are essential to the well being and
prosperity of the Commonwealth.
SVe again repeat our firm conviction,
however, that such wise heads as Govern
or Smith, Colonel Wallace and Mr. Bar-
i nett will devise some method for har
monizing all differences on the basis of
right aud justice, if it be within the scope
of possibility to do so.
The National Board of Health.
A bill now pending' “to increase the ef
ficiency of the National Board of Health,”
which, among other provisions, contains
the following: “That the National Board
of Health, or, in the interval of its session,
its Executive Committee, shall make re
port to tlie President of the United Slates,
whenever any place in the United States
is considered by it to be dangerously in
fected with contagious or infectious dis
eases, and that, upon official publication
by the President of such report, the trans
portation of goods and persons from such
a place into the State, other than that
within which such place is, shall be un
lawful,” etc.
No such extraordinary powers as above
recited should be accorded to the Presi
dent. Suppose in these days of defalca
tions and easy morals the national health
commission, yielding to the pressure of
pecuniary inducements, should see fit to
declare that this or that port, the rival of
another perhaps, was infected with a con
tagious disease, aud all commercial inter
course with the same should be discontin
ued? What an immensity of wrong would
be inflicted' upon an innocent community.
And yet it is possible that this contingency
may arise either by design or through in
advertency. While we are strong advo
cates ot a rigid quarantine system in times
oi dauger, yet the whole matter should be
confided to the local authorities and med
ical faculty of the city or port where con
tagion frOm any given disease is appre
hended. They are the parties most inter
ested, au£ to them- should be confided the
power to take the necessary precautions in
the premises.
Negroes upon Juries.
Our readers are advised of the acquittal
of Judge Hill, of Virginia, in the United
States Circuit Court, for refusing to place
negroes upon juries. This was done not
because they were negroes, hut on account
of their lack of the necessary qualifica
tion of a juror under the laws of the com
monwealth. The same action would
have been taken if the parties had been
white men. In an editorial upon the
verdict of the court the Constitution
makes these just remarks:
Wherever there is discretion there must
also be discrimination, and the discretion
given to those who draw juries must be
discriminating—not against whites, nor
against negroes, because they are negroes,
nor against classes, but against individu
als. The right to sit on juries is an indi
vidual and not a race or a class right, and
the inevitable discrimination that must be
exercised in drawing jurors is against in
dividuals. This being the case, no individ
ual, black or white, has the right to com
plain of the discrimination that excludes
aim from the jury box, and ordinarily, in
dividuals do not complain at snch exclu
sion unless they aspire to the unsavory
distinction of professional jurymen.
Religions Persecution.
A Paris dispatch of March 23d states
that decrees “dealing with unauthorized
religious bodies were signed at a cabinet
council held to-day, but will not appear,
in tlie official journal until after Easter,
They will be - preceded by a report drawn
np by M. Le Pere, Minister of the .Inte
rior and Worship, which was unanimous
ly approved by the ministers.”
It is stated that these decrees order the
expulsion ofthe Jesuits and several other
monastic orders, for alleged political of
fenses. This is a sad comment upon the
boasted freedom of the French Republic.
We had hoped the day forever past, when
even a despotic government would dare
fly in the face of all Christendom, by re
peating, as in the times of old, the whole
sale persecution of entire sects for opin
ion’s sake. This is very far from evinc
ing the spirit of true liberty.
and Christian, gives tlie lie to such
statement.
Dr. Bull’s Couglf Syrup has been be-
—. fore the public for years, and is pronounc-
"‘“■7* ! edby thousands superior to all other ar-
soldier, statesman , t j C j es p or die cure 0 f Coughs, Colds, Influ
enza and other Pulmouary Complaints,
t It costs only 25 cents per bottle.
ease, and a%the cases are exceptional and
rare when approved seed_ of that discrip-
tion has been known to succumb to rust,
we are dispdseiVtOjhope arfil believe they
will pass safely through the ordeal. Our
informant and a friend-ofi-his state that
eren the rye is badly rusted..
A farmer yesterday also brought to this
office a hunch of oats from the Warrior
District ulterly : ruined by rust. The
warm winter and abnormal season have
•doubtless produced this result. How far
the calamity extends through the State,
we are not prepared to say, though dis
couraging rumors continue .to reach us.
The oat crop of Georgia is only inferior
in value and importance to the two great
staples, cpni ; and cotton. If it fails the
present season aftertho scant yieldof com”
jin 1879, great distress and; pecuniary loss
to ,’the agricultural, .community must lie
the inevitable result. . ’ ...i7 ;. ' rr
. But there is time even now to retrieve
•the situatioh, if bur farmers wfll diminish
jtiibir. .cotton crops aqd^cri^eTjhe.acreage
in corn*; A I ist ' '
Let them so# every Spare rod- - of land
also in the whipporwill of speckled pea,
! and,by the firat of Ju]y thpy \ ■yHi.hgve
both grain and forage for their stock, anil
can be independent of tlie com crib. Mil
let for forage likewise would prpVe profi
table; if sowed upo$ jich.soil. In short,
there is no thrifty: farmer in the : country
who cannot, by*£los? ! attention to these
secondary; or s&qlf cropsfj-'.stfpplement an
inferior com amj'-oat, harvest, • and' man
age to keep aloof from the grip of our old
■Western masters. The wise- ones will
certainlymake tiro, effort!, V •
< Interesting Religions Meetings.
: For near two weeks, daily religious
services have been, held twice a day,
respectively, in the Fltist Baptist and Mul
berry Street Methodist Churches. During
this, entire period the 'Attendance has been
good—sometimes la'ge; and the members
of both congregations have been greatly
cheered and revived. It cannot be said
that any decided outpouring of the Holy
Spirit has been manifested, albeit there
have been a few hopeful conversions in
both churches. But in the language
of the excellent Dr. WaiiCn, the
huge iceberg that enfolded the peo
ple of God in its frigid embrace,
has gradually been loossened.and drop by
drop the thaw progresses until there is
hope that it will dissolve in a plenteous
stream of grace and mercy from the Mag-
esty on High, Both ministers say the hearts
of the people are tender, and there is every
indication that by God’s help and a faith
ful preached gospel, that great results for
good may yet be accomplished.
The meetings will be continued through
next week, and all who love the Savior,of
every faith and creed, and those who know
him not, are alike invited to a'ttend. 1 ,
To-day, Dr. Rivers, an able and zeal
ous divine from Eufaula, Alabama, will
preach at 11 a. m. in the Mulberry street
Methodist church, and has consented to
assist Dr. Key also in his labors during the
ensuing week.
We trust these meetings will result in
a precious ingathering of souls into the
Kingdom of the most High God.
Our State Immigration Agent, Mr.
Fontaine, Should Make a Note
oflt
The New York Bulletin says:
The tide of immigration has set in very
strong, all the incoming steamers from
Great Britain aud the Continent bringing
full loads of passengers. Compared with
last year there is a marked increase in the
number of arrivals. The seven'ocean
steamers which arrived here Sunday and
Monday landed at Castle Garden a total
of 1,911 immigrants. This makes, in all
for the month of March to date, 12,720,
against 6.051 for . tiro entire' month of
March last year. .... .
What a capital- chance to introduce
some of those stalwart Celts, Scots and
Teutons into the genial South to fill the
gap caused by the present African exodus.
After a while they will learn the ropes
and come.' And tlien it will be too late
for Sambo to return.
Yankee Liberality.
The Thomasville correspondent, of the
Savannah News relates the following:
We have many vis:tors here you know.
The other day a fashionably attired lady
from- a fashionable hotel, with stately
sweep,, entered the flower .garden of a
Thomasville lady aud desired to pur chose
some choice flowers. The rarest beauties
of the garden were gathered in profusion,
and the fair customer, greatly pleased
with the array of petal splendor, generous
ly forebore to ask the: price, but as she
turned to move away, with great dignity
and condescension, handed over to the
humble proprietess the munificent sum of
nickel. The Thomasville Jady was
speechless.
Any ohe who has visited Thomasville is
familiar with the ‘wealth of gorgeous flow
ers which adorn the court yards, of that
refined people, and how much pains and
care are bestowed upon them by the la
dles. The littleness of this Northern
“fashionable” can only find a parallel in
ler own New England.
How they Monopolized the Country.
The Mormons are shrewd fellows. It
has lately transpired that taking advantage
of the laws which prevent settlers from
running up and occupying lands within
the limits of any incorporated town, they
liave, by means of' thirty-seven different
:ity charters in the Territory of Utah,
nanaged to include nearly all of the ara-
ile land of the country; The desert por-
ions, of course, they had no use for. A
;nemorial complaining of this sharp prac-
;ice has been Introduced into Congress by
Senator Edmunds.
Why Should He not be the Almoner
' of His Own Bounty?
We'are surprised to note that a contem
porary takes Governor Brown to task be
cause his princely donation of $50,000 was
not bestowed upon our State University.
Certainly the Governor lias a perfect right
to do what he will with liis own, and his
i tmnlficence to an institution which may
1 ie the means of carrying the gospel to the
I arthest ends ofthe earth through an edu
cated ministry, is deserving of all praise.
The State University, however, has no
stronger friend than he. The most appo
site question to be propounded is, how
many Georgians can be found willing to
donate $50,000 to any olemosynaiy object.
worked up for a purpose, aud when the
Legislature meets that purpose will be
made plain. There is no intention of
building the road to Blount Springs, anil
it cannot be built to Birmingham or De
catur in less than eighteen months. It is
hoped that special telegrams and surveys
and other cheap demonstrations will
frighten Governor Brown, but, as be once
remarked to me, “he lias a way generally
of taking care of himself.” He don’tscare
worth a cent, as he is too old a bird to be
caught with chaff
It is bruited about on the streets of Ma
con also, that so far- from any such alli
ance having been formed, it is very doubt-
'ful whether the extension to Atlanta,:if
made at all, will be even started for sev-
:eral years to come. Some assert the pur
chasers of the Macon and Brunswick in
tend to appeal to eveiy Legislature during
the five years of grace ' granted them, for
relief from compulsory extension.
• -driiese rumors, it is alleged, however,
may be traced to hostile Central railroad
influences and have nofoundation in fact.
, On the other hand, the Constitution of
yesterday contains a speqjal from Louis
ville, Kentucky, wliich states that at the
meeting of the stockholders of his road
on the 20tli instant, when the purchase of
‘the Western road franchises came up,
“President Newcomb, after' staling tbe
price paid for tbe road, and bow the pur
chase w-as made, said it is'the belief of
the management that contingencies may
■arise when an independent line into Atlan
ta will be a necessity. Parties in New York
offer to aid us in building the road,
hut the acceptance of such aid is of course
optional. The management regards the
price paid for the franchise, as A mere bag
atelle compared with tlie advantages, aud
while we caa to-day get for the property a
iaige advanco on what it cost us, we will
not sell it at any price. The road, he
said, could be extended from' Atlanta to
Blount Springs, in Alabama, at a cost of
two and a half millions. The stocjjhold-
lers unanimously endorsed the action of
the management iu making the purchase,
and they now have power'to take such
steps to cany out the suggestions of
President Newcomb as they dsem neces
sary.”
We have it, too, from tlie lips of a re
turned delegate to Cincinnati just from
Louisville, that he heard Captain McDan
iel, one ofthe engineers; who, with Cap
tain Glostdi, is about to commence the
surrey of the Western at both ends, state
distinctly that a positive contract had been
made and signed between Messrs. New
comb, and Wilson and McGhee, to jointly
build, dt the earliest day, both roads, to-
wit: the Macon and Brunswick extension
and the Western to Blount Springs, in Al
abama. We are of the opinion that this
information is premature, however,
though so far as the Western is concerned,
masters do really seem to be coming to a
bead, and the road may be built in. the
near future. Tbe citizens of Macon and
Brunswick are deeply interested in this
combination, and so likewise are the peo
ple ofthe Whole State., It would give us
another grand and independent through
line from the West to tbe Atlantic, and
furnish that healthy competition which is
the best guaranty for low passenger fares
and cheap freights.
In regard to the proposed extension to
Atlanta, it .is unreasonable to suppose
that such a work can he undertaken in-
starUer.. As yet the new company has
not even perfected its organization, and
are hardly posted as to the precise status
of its own affairs. The construction of a
railroad involves time, and much prepa
ration and expense, before tlie first shovel-
full of earth can be moved.
We canuot permit ourselves to doubt
that the new company will carry out in
good faith every obligation they have as
sumed, and build the extension at the
earliest period practicable. This was a
condition precedent to the sale of the
road, and cannot be legally avoided in
any event. It would be well, however,
if they would reassure public confidence
by some authoritative declaration on tbe
subject. Tbe company could not better
consult the wishes of our people, also,
than by confiding the construction of the
Atlanta extension to their Gecigia associ
ates, Messrs. Hazelliurst, Lane and Coup-
“Easter is coming,” the flower king said,
As through his dominion he passed,
Where the haughty and gay,
With the humble and sweet,
Weie cunningly mingled aud massed.
And each tender plant was thrilled to the
heart,
As tlie spring life went joyfully through.
While they made themselves ready,
To give ofthe bloom,
For the mom that was coming anew.
“Easter is coming,” the maiden said,
As she counted the long lenten days;
She had hidden her charms
And afflicted her soul;
And by the Church ordered her ways.
“Easter is coming,” the bowed soul felt.
As in dust aud in ashes it lay,
The passion is deep, and the way is
so dark;
But yonder the morning tints faintly
—--- I see, . — — - 1
Which presage the dawning of day_.
“O, Easter is comingl” sweet flowers^
heavy souls,
Your buds will be lost in your bloom,
And the one who like Christ,
Has gone down to the grave,
Like him shall arise from the tomb.
Watering the “Father of Waters.”
Some gentlemen from Wisconsin are
urging before the House Committee on
Commerce, a plan to make the upper
Missisippi navigable all the year round,
by a series of mighty reservoirs to be fill
ed by interior streams and the winter
rains, and utilized to eke out the water of
the river in seasons of drought. The cost
is estimated at $2,000,000. At a casual
glance, this looks like another mighty
Utopian scheme to bleed Uncle Sam, and
feather the nest of 1 an army of contractors.
What next? .
A Fact hot Generally Known.
It is a fact not generally known that
silver coins with holes bored or punched
in them will not be received at the Treas
ury. By punching a large hole in'' a' sil
ver dollar from five to thirteen cents
worth of silver is taken out. Individuals
rprely refuse to accept these mutilated
coins, as they pass readily. Manufactur
ers who obtain large quantities of silver
suffer the most by the mutilation of coin,
as the defective piece's cannot be ex
changed for certificates, or greenbacks at
tbe Treasury or Sub-Treasuiy. Tbe pen
alty for fraudulently mutilating coins is a
fine of not more than two thousand dol
lars and imprisonment of not more than
two years.
Jealousy.
In Ohio it is now called “the Feast on
Crow” instead of “the late Cincinnati
Southern Banquet.” The merchants of
Cincinnati ate the larger part of the ani
mal with seeming delight.
This splenetic paragraph emanates from
the Courier-Journal and does that paper
no credit. The people of Cincinnati re
ceived their Southern brethren with royal
hospitality and made hosts of friends and
patrons in our midst.
This is the first gun against the Cincin
nati Southern from Louisville, but the re
coil is more damaging to the artillerists
themselves than its shot will be to their
sister city.
—Gilbert Budd of Clarenden in,
died at the close of morning f ami J y
ers, before he had risen from his
He was 00 years old. “ ees -
The Queen’s Speech to the Lord3—
Writs Issued for a New Election.
Xosixxx, March 24. — The Queen's j ,, 7
speech, announcing the dissolution of Par- ! . ‘ r .‘ ° a oac * 1 ^ at5 *tecided to with
liament, was read In the Home of li:s Iil ° Jamiro steamers after M,'
Lords to-day, by Lord Cairns, the Lord ! ’ AS . °^ m S *° .-English competition tfco
High Chancellor. There were present ] lme at at a Ioss '
only twenty-five members of the House cf! T> 1 ’ 1D S t0 ^ ' ias passed away.
Commons, fourteen peers anil eleven la- j ” 0 la( l j^ lead the notice ofM,
dies. The following is the full text of , Baid: “What a
The English Elections.
The cost of a general election in Great
Britain is always something enormous,
but dependent in its extent on the num
ber of seats actively contested. There are
in all 652 seats, and from these, in tbe
last general election 1,0S1 candidates were
run. The average sum expended by the
conservative candidates for England and
Wales was £1,520 and for the liberal can
didates £2,100. The large t sum spent
on any one county election was in tbe
case of North Durham, where four candi
dates returned an aggregate expenditure
of £28,202. The English and Webb
boroughs in that election spent an aggre
gate of £423,900—those of Scotland £119,-
4S0, and £S0,6S0 were spent on the Irish
elections.
All these figures we glean from a
Herald telegram. And let It be remem
bered that these candidates are all seek
ing a gratuitous service. No mileage or
per diem supplements the private re
sources of the member of "Parliament.
He serves for glory.
Circular No. 2 of the Railroad Com
mission.
We call attention to sundry changes
published elsewhere in the Commission
ers’ schedule of freights contained in Cir
cular No. 2, so far as relates to several
of our State roads.
It will be seen that the Commission is
er. These gentlemen are old railroad * redeeming its promise to remedy any in
men, and deservedly enjoy the confidence jnstice which their tariff unwittingly in-
ofthe community.
An Important Announcement.
We have made arrangements with Mr.
J. H. Estill, publisher of the Southern
Farmer's Monthly, whereby we can fur
nish the Weekly Telegraph and
Messenger, one of the laigest weekly
newspapers in the South, containing eight
pages, of sixty-four columns, and brim
fall of the best reading, with this excel
lent Farmer's Monthly, for $3.50 per an
num, in advance.
The Southern Farmer's Monthly is the
best farmer’s paper published.
1. Because' it is gotten up with special
reference to the agricultural wants of
Southern and Southwestern Georgia.
2. Because it is the only agricultural
paper published that has complete de
partments for the whole household.
3. Because it is more handsomely print
ed, and moro attractive in its make-up,
than any other paper published in the
South.
4. Because it contains more reading
matter than any other agricultural paper
published in the State.
Send forward your subscriptions at
once. Clisby & Jones,
Macon, March 27, 1889.
flicts. On this subject, the Atlanta cor
respondent of the Savannah News says:
The Kimball and Markham House arc
crowded with prominent railroad officials,
gathered to fix the new schedule of rates.
They have been here several days, and
expect to remain one or two days longer.
The work is slow, complicated and not
always smooth in its details.
Under tlie operations of the Georgia
Railroad Commission everything is disor
dered in the eld schedule of rates, and as
the Commissioners’ tariff is not yet perma
nent, great difficulty attends the labors of
the oihcials.
General Alexander, Colonel Rogers,
Colonel Bowers, Captain Raoul and
others are hard at work, but none of them
speak hopefully of the future operations
of railroads in Georgia under the Com
mission’s present tariff It will be im
possible for the railroads to afford the
public one-half the benefits now received
by them under tbe old tariffs
Not Our Agent.
A letter from Eatonton states “that a
book peddler named James A. Baugh has
been going through Putnam county 1 solic
iting and receiving subscriptions for the
Telegraph and Messenger. He is
said, also, to charge a commission in ad
dition to the regular subscription. We
have no recollection of giving any such
authority to Mr. Baugh, and hereby an
nounce that he is not authorized to act in
any capacity whatever for this paper.
Said an aged mininister, “When I wish
to speak with ease I take a teaspoonful of
Coussens’ Honey of Tar, the best cough
medicine in the world. It will clear the
throat and voice better than anything I
ever used.” Price 50 cents.
For sale by A. A. Menard, John In
galls; Rankin, Masscnburg & Co.; Hunt,
Rankin & Lamar, wholesale and retail.
feblO-lw
The Civil Record of General Win
field S. Hancock is a pamphlet of forty
pages, designed by bis friends to inaugu
rate a boom for tbe gallaut veteran.
the speech:
My Lords and Gentlemen: As tlie time
assigned by law for tlie termination of tbe
present pailiitrieut is liear at band, F am
induced by considerations of public poli
cy and convenience, to. select this period
ofthe session for releasing you from your
legislative duties, with a view to immedi
ate dissolution aud the issue of writs for
a general election. I cannot part from
you without expressing my deep sense of
tbe zeal and ability which during more
than six years you have constantly dis
played in exercising your important func
tions, nor without ’tendering my warm
acknowledgments for the useful measures
you have submitted for my acceptance,
aind especially for the manner in which
you have upheld a policy the object of
wkich'Wes at once to defend my empire
and secure the general peace. My rela
tions with foreign powers are friendly and
favorable to ' the maintenance of tran
quillity in Europe. I entertain a con
fident hope that the measures adopt
ed in Afghanistan will lead to
the speedy settlement of the troubles
in that country. I have had much satis
faction in assenting to the acts you have
passed for the relief ofthe distress unhap
pily prevalent in pavts of Ireland, and,
trusting that these measures will be accep
ted by my Irish subjects as proof ofthe
ready sympathy of the imperial FarlMi-
ment, I lopk forward with confidence to
tbe restored prosperity of their country. I
rejoice to observe the indications of a gen
eral improvement- in trade, and that the
commercial depression which I have had
to lament, appears to be passing away. I
have witnessed with the greatest sympa
thy tlie heavy losses sustained by the va
rious classes connected with tbe cultiva
tion ofthe soil, and have viewed with ad
miration tbe patience and high spirit with
which they have contended against an al
most unprecedented series of disastrous
seasons. I trust that, with the blessing
of Providence, a more favorable harvest
may be looked for, and that from the com
mission I issued to inquire into the causes
of the agricultural depression, sugges
tions may come wliich will lead to a more
profitable nse ofthe agricultural land, and
a higher development of this branch of
national industry. The electors of the
United Kingdom will be called upon
forthwith to choose their representatives
in Parliament, and I fervently pray that
tiro blessing of Almighty God may guide
them to promote tlie object of my con
stant solicitude—the happiness of my
people.” !'i' ■ • ••--'*•
| Jit is formally announced that, zs pre
viously arranged, the writs for. the new
election were issued to-day.'
The Times this morning, in a leading
editorial article on the general election,
says: “It is tolerably clear that the
strength of the Ministry will be reduced.”
A Movement in Georgia Politics.
The people of Richmond county are be
ginning already to agitate the question as
to who shall be their next representatives
in the State Legislature, and unless good
counsel prevails there is every prospect of
division and perhaps disaster to the Demo
cratic party. Numerous candidates are
announcing themselves or being brought
forward by their' friends, aud many and
bitter are the feuds and local questions
that will bo lugged into the canvass. In
view of this deplorable aspect of affair-,
our contemporary the Chronicle and Con
stitutionalist makes the following timely
remarks:
The Dissatisfied Germans.
The Cincinnati Commercial prints the
following telegraphic statement from
Cleveland, Ohio:
The Hon. Jacob Mueller, ex-Lieuten-
ant Governor of Ohio, and now the con
trolling spirit around the Waechter am
Erie office of this city, the leading Ger
man daily paper of Northern Ohio, says
that he is satisfied that nothing can take
place which would reconcile the feelings
of the Germans to General Grant. They
are dead set against him, and under no
circumstances would vote for him. If he
be the Chicago nominee Ohio will surely
give the Democratic candidate from 25,-
000 to 50,000 majority, and the chances
would be good for the majority to reach
even 75,000.
“Why, sir,” said the ex-Lieutenant
Governor, “I candidly believe that Grant
would not get fifty votes among all the
Germans of Cleveland. In fact, I have
not seen oue who has said that he would
vote for him. Personally, I am as much
opposed to General Grant’s nomination as
any one can be, because I tinuk his re-
election would be a very bad precedent.
I should like to see Wasbburne nomi
nated.” i
Mr. Muellersays, also, that tbe Waechter
will support the best Presidential platform
adopted and ticket nominated, always ex
cepting General Grant.
It is to be feared that if tbe organs contin
ue to print these statements about Grant,
they will make it very bard for themselves
to fall into line and support the General
hereafter, as they will have to do. The
movements ofthe ex-President, so soon as
he strikes American soil, leave little doubt
that he will be as persistent and eager a
candidate as any of them. !
It shall not be our purpose to dictate
any choice to them by advocating the
claims of any particular man or set of
men; the affair is one for the people to de
termine. But the Chronicle would be
recreant to its trusts and unfaithful to its
record, did it not point out the dangers of
a “scrub race,” as indiscriminate cam
paigning is called. The idea that elec
tions conducted without regard for princi
ple or party can be made to conform "to
fairness and decency,is one which past ex
perience in this city holds in emphatic de
nial. Under the guise of perfect freedom
and without the hamper of restraint, men
are announced for office, party barriers
beaten down, “a free race” proclaimed
and a free fight ensues. Regardless of af
filiations, propriety or law, men are coz
ened, bribed and borne to the polls, liquor
is used, money spent, and free elections
bear in tbeir open practices satire upon
their names. Men are disgusted with the
course of such elections, and each year
Augusta has tolerated methods more ques
tionable and witness 'd scenes more revolt
ing than in the dark days of 1867 and
1868, when party strife ran .high and cor
ruption was abroad In the land. It is for
tlie candidates wlio may enter for the
next election to declare whether they will
again be forced to engage in such con
tests, and it is for the people of Richmond
county to say whether organization is to
be ignored for a fictitious freedom, and
nominations abandoned, for a disgusting
disenthrallment from party precepts - and
party practices. If tbe candidates and
their friends prefer primary elections to
nominating conventions, let them be held
and conducted upon the usages of the
party—assuredly nothing can be fairer;
but anything will be more accept
able than a repetition of scrub races. The
rumors that prominent and influential
Republicans are preparing for the contest
are neither vague nor unreasonable.
They have been organized for nearly two
months, steadily planning the national
canvass, and will he no unimportant fac
tion in the next election. To their party
caucuses prominent citizens have been
invited, and from their ranks heavy sup
port toward independent candidates, if
not some of the candidates themselves,
will he fumishedj
Lixtell’s Living Age.—The num
bers oi The Living Age for the weeks end
ing March 20th and 27th respectively,
contain the following articles: Bishop
Wilberforce, and The Romance of Mod
em Travel, Quarterly; British Light
houses, Edinburgh’, The Halcyon’s Nest,
Macmillan; A Wild Irish Girl, Temple
Bar; The History of Writing, Something
about Milk, and-Artificial Production of
Diamonds, Nature; Street Discords, Sat
urday Beview; Quarrels in a Library, and
Mr. Bright as a Churchman, Spectator;
with instalments of “He that will not
when he may,” by Mrs. Olipbant, and
“Adam and Eve,” by the authorj of “Do
rothy Fox.”
As a new volume begins with the num
ber for April 3rd, it is a good time to sub
scribe.
For fifty-two numbers of sixty-four
large pages each (or more than 3,300 pa
ges a year), the subscription price ($8) is
low; while for $10.50 the publishers offer
to send any one of the American $4
monthlies or weeklies with The Living
Age for a year, including the extra num
bers of the latter, both postpaid. Littell
& Co., Boston, are the publishers.
pity John couldn’t read this! He Woulr ,
be so pleased to see his name in prin ts
—Elderly gentleman to a Frenchman
on the train: “You don’t have any ticket?"
“No, I travel on my good looks.” “Then.”
after looking him over, “probably w -
ain’t goin’ very far.” *
—Masonville. Yt., is excited over
small nugget of gold that was found in *
lien’s crop, and a gravel bed near her owq.
cr’s house is an object of great interest to
himself and his neighbors.
—According to tbe Times, some fastid
ious members of the best society of Aj
bany are not altogether satisfied with
Governor Cornell’s ways. They do not
take kindly to such innovations as negro
banjo players and candv-pulls at theEj.
ecutive Mansion.
—William>Snioak of Orangeburg conn,
ty, S. C., has 10 living children, 104granj.
children, 391 great-grand-cbildren, and ft
great-great-grand-children, making in all
575 living descendants, besides 116 dead
He boasts that there is not a drunkard
among them.
—A woman has been surprising Pari,
sians by the performance of four birds
.rained to such a degree that they select
from a series of cards replies to almost
any question from the audience. “Fiv(
crowned heads” have been pleased to lx
pleased with the feathered performers.
Six Feet Deep at Stf. John’s.—The
severest snow sterm ofthe winter was rag
ing in St. Johns, N1B., on Thursday, i
began yesterday. There are many hug
drifts and trains and steamers are delayed
The snow in some places is five or sh
feet deep.
—California Crop Phospects.-
Crop prospects of the 25th indicate tha
wheat throughout the State promise
at least an average harvest, although moi
rain is needed. Since tlie date of thes
repoits a general rain has visited the Stat
and still prevails. Later dispatches she
a feeling of. increased confidence on tl
part of the fanners.
—The rush of immigration at Nei
York is somewhat remarkable. The seve
ocean steamers which anived there Sm
day and Monday landed 2,911 immigrant
making the total for the month np to dat
12,720, against 0,051 for the eutire mont
of March of last year, aud as the seaso
advances the numbers are expected to h
crease.
—Two hundred years ago tbe shaft c
the turquoise miue in Cbalchuti Mountaii
New Mexico, caved in and a hundred Ii
dians below at work were killed. Tl
Spaniards tried to force the Indians t
work the mine, and the result was a n
hellion and the expulsion of the Spanisl
Now some American capitalists are aboi
to reopen the mine, which is the only on
of its kind on the continent.
—There is-an apprehension that tl
fashionable luncheon parties in Londc
prove entirely too much for some of tl
ladies who attend them. A brouglia
was lately seen to drive up to a mansii
in a fashionable street, bnt no one emer
ed from it. At length the coachman d
scended, and with considereble difficnii
aroused tbe slumbering occupant. SI
bad come from a luncheon party.
—The Philadelphia people are trying!
find out the exact date of the landing i
the alleged honest ‘William Penn at thi
point. TheNumismatic andAutiquarian S
ciety of the city, composed of very wt
men, has recently decided that Willis:
landed on November 18,1SGS. The Phi
adelpbians generally accept this result <
a long and agonizing controversy, ai
they will have a rattling celebration oftl
two hundredth anniversary of the evei
November 18,1882.
—The European life insurance comp:
nies charge ten per cent, extra premia:
on crowned heads, to cover the risk of a
sassination, and M. Rouher, who acts :
agent of the ex-Emprcss Eugenie, has a;
plied to the French companies who can
heavy risks on her life, for the remission
this extra charge, on the ground that si
is now out of the range of king killers.
—Of the 25,000 blacks who have a
grated from the South to Kansas, there
not the slightest doubt that fully 20,(X
would return to their homes if they ht
the means. While there is a wide fie.'
for their labor in the South, it cannot 1
considered a wise measure for the Souti
In regions where liver complaint and
bilious diseases prevail there has long
been felt the need of a medicine that
would act specifically on the liver, be safe
from after effects, aud yet so simple that
ir might be used by any one. Dr. Tutt’s
Liver Pills supply this want. They are
prescribed by the most eminent pliysi-
sicians. 1 w
The Pestiferous Bucket Writer,
who has so long annoyed Rev. Dr. Dix
and others, was arrested in Baltimore
last Wednesday and taken to New York.
His name is Eugene Fairfax Williamson,
and he coufesees his offenses.
era people to send the exodusters mom
to pay their way back home. If they a:
compelled to stay in Kansas until the
earn sufficient to pay their return railroa
and steamboat fare, they will have gaine
a stock of experience which will prove t
great value to them hereafter.
It has been estimated that the black
are now going north at the rate of 300p<
week. There is already a return fid:
which will grow larger.
—The German colony of Haifa, fount
ed about ten years ago, occupies a strip <
land between Mount Caimel and tl
Mediterranean Sea, about a mile from tl
town of Caifl'a. The houses are substai
tially built’ of limestone, and the streel
are regularly laid out, adorned with
double row of shade trees. The moth
for founding this colony, as well as I
three sister colonies, gt Jaffa, Sharon, an
Jerusalem, reals upon faith in the wore
ot prophecy. The society which unde;
took the work is denominated tiro “Ten
pie,” and the centre of the organization.
In Wurtenburg. It has branches inti
United States, in Russia, and in Switztt
land. The immediate aim is to g‘V?
good example to the natives by founds
Christian communities, working for “
elevation of the people and country. Jbj
colony of Haifa numbers about 330 inhat
itants, mostly Germans, with some
man-Americans and Russians, and a fc 5
Swiss. It is provided with good schosc
The colonists carry on various trades; an
industries, but the greatest part of j®
people occupy themselves withagricultur
and vintage,’ having about 650 acres o
land.
It doesn't do a bit of good to tak6_
twelve mile promenade in a fourteen we
room with the baby, and sing or declaim,
“Hootchie, pootcliie, pudden ami pm-
Use Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup and be don*
with it.
The Divorce Committee in France J®
pronounced in favor of divorce for no
years’ desertion, divorce by mutual wn
sent when the wife is turned forty*"'
and has been married above twenty ye*”
and also for gMng tribunals tbe optic
of appending divorce to a condemnatio-
for fraud, indecency or other cn®°
against morality.
This virtually makes the marriage rt
lation the merest matter of convenience
suffei
Why will men, ana womentoo,
with warts, corns, bunions, frosted ■
sore throat rheumatism, neuralgia, s P“rr
and bruises, when they can get re lie ..
using Coussens’ Lightning Linime -
For sale by A. A. Menard; John!
galls; Kankin, Masscnburg & Co-5 “.
Rankin & Lamar, wholesale and rew-
feblO-lw