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GEORGIA JOERSAE. &
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CL1SBT k JONES, Proprietors.
The Ka. milt Jon ska l.—N «ws—Politics—Litcraturs—Askicultur*DoSisti:
GEORGIA TELEGRAPH BUILDING
ESTABLISHED 1826.
MACON, FKIDAY. APRIL2, 1880.
Volume LV—NO 15
ATEH-P.RIV IN A WORKHOUSE
A five-o’clock tea-party on Easter Mon
day, preparations made for fifty people,
entertainers sixteen in number, with this
reversal of the usual order, that they
went to the guests, instead of the guests
going to them. What style of party could
it be? Instead of making conundrums
about it, we will say at once that it was a
feast given in a London workhouse by
some young ladies, and the guests were
helpless, incurable old women—the halt,
the maimed and the blind of three wards.
And since we hear so much ot the wretch
edness of woikhouses, perhaps it may be
a relief to know of pleasure sometimes
given to the inmates, and it may stimu
late others to do likewise.
A friend of ours lias for many years had
the habit of visiting and reading once a
week to some old women in a workhouse,
and at Christmas giving them a tea-party,
at which it has been our privilege to as
sist in pouring out the tea and banding
the cups. We look forward to these oc
casions with real enjoyment, partly for
the happiness given, and partly for the
amusement derived from studies of char
acter. Early in January we were rela
ting some of the deliciously odd speeches
made by the “old ladies,” and saying how
intensely they relished their cup of strong
tea once a year, when one of the young
girls who were listening, exclaimed:
“How very nice to make those old crea
tures so happy! Why can’t we give a
treat, too ?”
The idea was received with enthusi
asm, and it was decided on the spot that
a tea-party should be given at Easter,
the money being gradually raised
in small sums. Young people with strict
guardians are not apt to have large
amounts of ready money. Somebody sug
gested that the appropriate receptacle for
the .collections would be a tea pot, so a
shilling was at once solemnly deposited in
a little Dresden etagerc thing, that had
never served a useful puipose before, and
then,from time to time, sixpences dropped
in, and even pennies, till the moment
drew near for it to he spent.
In the meantime we had gone to the
matron of the house, and consulted her as
to the recipients of the small bounty. Of
course her permission was necessary be
fore anything could be done, but we knew
beforehand that we were secure of that.
We knew, too, that she is so kind and ju
dicious, that wc" could put ourselves un
reservedly into her bands, trusting to her
to do the very best thing.
“You spoke last Christmas,” we said,
“of some helpless old people who have no
friends at all. Would it not be a good
thing to give this treat to them?”
“Yes,” she answered rather doubtfully,
“it would indeed be a good thing, but
some are paralyzed, some are blind, and
perhaps your young ladies might like more
interesting ones.”
“Oil, no; their aim is to give an unex
pected pleasure, and bring a little extra
brightness into their lives.”
“Well, will you come tip stairs, and
then you can judge for yourself. That’s
the best plan.”
So up stairs we went, into a ward with
nineteen or twenty inmates, uwiy *u «T
whom were permanently bedridden, while
a few old women sat in arm chairs by the
fireside. It was quite touching to see the
atTcction manifested for the matron; she
had been very ill, aim was just able to
resume her duties, and those poor old fa
ces brightened up wonderfully aft the
sight of her. The entrance of a stranger
was of itself an event, and the interest be
came almost sensational when the mat
ron said : “This lady has come not only
to make you a visit, but also to arrange
about giving you a tea party in the Easter
week.” Needless to say there was not a
dissenting voice—everybody approved the
project.
Wc said a few words to each one.
Seme were very old—eighty-nine, ninety,
and upwards, and one woman said she
was a hundred years old. She was en
tered on the books as eighty-six, but her
brother had visited her last November,
and shown that she must be far beyond
that age. He was the youngest of twen
ty children, of whom she was the oldest,
and he was seventy. So the old woman
could scarcely he short of ninety. She
was large-framed, and, though bedridden,
looked good for ten years more. Some
were paralyzed, and could not speak dis
tinctly; some had outlived theii intellects,
and chattered vaguely, making me think
of the old grandmother in one ot Dicken’s
books.
After that we went into a second smal
ler ward, and then into a third, of the
same general character. All these were
clean, airy, and cheerful-looking, and the
attendants seemed kind and gentle in
their manners. The matron told us that
in the larger ward she had five able-bod
ied nurses to wait on the helpless old wo
men, and that neither care nor expense
was spared to make them comforta
ble. Many of them probably have never
been so comfortable before in their whole
lives.
When we had gone through tli-'se wards
the matron said: “There are forty-one
people there, and the nurses will make
the number up to fitly. Is that too many
for you? And do you find the old people
disagreeable?”
Wc assured her we were satisfied with
the quality and quantity of the guests,
and would now proceed to discuss with
her and the master what supplies we
should send in. Counting for fifty, here
is our menu, with the prices:
£, s. d.
Tea, two pounds and a half at
3s. the pound 0
Cake,twenty-five pounds at 7d.
the pound 0
Biscuits, seven pounds at 7d.
the pound 0
Bread, six loaves 0
Sugar, eight pounds at 5§d. the
pound •' 0
Jam, six pots at 7d. each . . 0
Butter 0
Oranges, fifty at Is. the dozen 0
7 6
14 7
£2 1 11
So that the cost of our tea party was as
nearly as possible two guineas. It cer
tainly was not an extravagant entertain
ment.
The question of supplies being settled,
we said good morning to Mrs. Douglas,
bearing away her assurance that the old
ladies would talk of nothing else till the
grand day should arrive.
The day came at last. All the things
had been bought, and the cake had been
baked on the " previous Saturday, to pre
vent any untoward accident; therefore,
when we went to the workhouse at half
past four on Easter Monday, the tables
were laid, the cake cut, the jam spread
on slices of bread, and the old ladies sit
ting tip in bed waiting for their tea-party.
We were- sixteen in number, grown
people, boys and girls; so we divided the
ibrecs as equally as possible, taking espe
cial care to allot to each room one hoy,
having found, from experience .at the
Christmas treat, that the “unfair sex”was
the most preferred. “If ydu don’t mind,
ma’am,” they would say, “we shonld like
a yonng gentleman to wait tipdn us down
here.”
• The 'ordinary workhouse tea Is made
very, weak, and boiled with the milk and
sugar, consequently one operation suffi
ces for “pouring out;” bnt this, of course,
was not our plan. We had the best tea,
made very strong, and milk add sugar
was to l>c added as each one should dic
tate.
Poor old things, how they did enjoy it!
“This is beautiful, ma’am,” they kept
saying. Some could not hold the cup to
their lips, but they sipped away while
somebody supported them; and as soon as
one cup was empty they were ready for
another. The bread and jam were even
more popular than the cake—a greater
rarity, perhaps; but full justice wa^done
to each, and. slices of cake were put away
for the next day. They did not forget
their manners, either, and would refuse
the dainties with “No, ma’am, I thank
you,” till we urged them to take more,
and then they would help themselves,
saying, “I don’t wish to seem greedy,”
or, “I’m afraid ot seeming covetiout.”
At last their capacities were exhausted.
There is a point at which even an old wor
man can drink no more tea. The nurses
had a fresh spread; and we went from
one to another, to chat, and to find if they
had been satisfied. The doctor had said
it was a pity to give a party in the large
room because the poor old things were
past enjoying it, hut he was mistaken;
every single one declared she had enjoyed
it greatly. One woman, on being asked,
“Have you liked your tea?” replied, “Yes,
I likr-1 my tea; and I liked being waited
upon by the gentles.” Another said,
“I’ve been five years in the house, and
this i3 the firet time I’ve seen a party.
Some kind ladies come and read the Bi
ble to us, and the nuns come to the Cath
olics, but that’s duty. This is the first
time anybody has come for fun.”
Surely none of them were the worse for
that fun. All the attendants are kind;
the women said they were as good as pos
sible to them, and they had all they could
wish. But think what it must be at its
best! Think of being always in the room
with several people, never alone, a bed
close to youre on each side, and never
seeing any beyond that set of people,
whether you like them or not;
the endless monotony, with the
despairing ieeling that nothing can
change it; that one day must be like
another, except in getting worse till the
end. And so few of them have any re
sources in their own minds; some are too '■
ill or too feeble to read, too weary to sew. ■
Think of this, and them imagine what an
occasional tea-party must be, with its un- •
accustomed viands, its service of “gen- •
ties,” and the flood of new I
thoughts brought in by the new *
events. If it were only to criticise our
toilettes, we left them ample subjects of
conversation. N. B—We made a point
of dressing very prettily and smartly. The
idea of putting on “anything for poor peo
ple” is a great mistake. None are so crit
ical, or so acute, or pronounce mdre posi
tively on “real gentlefolk.”
One old creature of ninety was very
funny, talking all the time, saying all
sorts of odd things, and raising peals of
laughter from the younger ladies.
“She must amuse you very much,” said .
one of them to a bedridden woman in the
same ward. -
She turned her head wearily on the pil
low and replied: “Perhaps it seems
to you, miss, for a little)
while; but when its clack, clack, clack, all j
day long, it’s tiresome. She’s terrible
noisy.”
The only young otbimiu —
naa - -.at interesting face, and at once
attracted our attention by the difference
between her expression and* that of the
rest. The matron said it was a very hard
case. She had been a governess, respect
ably connected, but sJl her friends were
dead. She was slowly dying of a painful I
and incurable disease, and nothing was j
left but the workhouse. On talking with |
her, we found her very grateful that it
had fallen to her lot to belong to this
workhouse. She said nothing could ex
ceed the kindness of the people employed
in the different grades—as for the matron,
they all loved her dearly—and the nurses
were very good. She seemed cheerful and j
really satisfied. We were told by an at
tendant that she was generally very nice; j
but she sometimes got into such rages of
temper that they were fairly afraid of her
while they last|d. Still, they knew it was
disease, arid took as little notice of it as
possible.
One old woman was very poetic in her
language.
“I feel as if you were angels wandering
ont of your proper sphere.”
“Oh, no,” said the lady to whom she
addressed this flower of speech, “I don’t
know about our being angels; but since
we give you so much pleasure, we must
he just in our right sphere.”
On the shelf above her bed we saw a
well-thumbed copy of “The Pilgrims of
the Rhine,” and found that she often read
“that lovely book,” and this accounted for
the wandering angels. I fancy an author
ought to consider it a high triumph not
only to be read by the refined and culti
vated, but also to give pleasure to a dying
AGRICULTURAL.
Farm Work for April.—With the
Last Week’s Cotton Figures.
The New York Chronicle, reports the
receipts of the seven days ending Friday
exception of the first half of March, the
spring has been so favorable for farm op- ’ ni ° bt ’ “ Ctl1 inslant > at o3 > 410 bales, a-,ains u
erations, that we presume most farmers . CO,60S bales for the corresponding week of
are well up with their work. A spri.ig, : last year—showing a decrease on the
however favorable for early planting of wee »- of 7079 bales. Total since 1st of
com, may not be favorable for cotton, .
and it is well not to be in too great haste J SeP^er 4,447,66?, against 4,119^20 for
about planting the latter. We think it is , the corresponding period of the previous
a good plan to plow, or at least run rouncotton year, showing an increase of828,-
the early planted corn, then plant a part of" .yobalgs
the cotton crop, return to the corn .and j ' . ,, " , . , . .
plow thoroughly, and finally finish plant- j Chronicle s table of interi«r port
ing cotton. In the upper portion of the : business for the week shows receipts 17,-
cotton belt, most farmers are still engaged 329, against 34,6S6 for the corresponding
in planting com or in preparing land for
cotton, ana but little of the last will be
planted until the latter half of the month.
There Isa very general complaint of
scarcity of good seed for planting, and on
this account early planting involves risk
of greater loss than usual.— Christian In
dex.
week of last year. Shipments, :j2,256,
against 44,385. Stocks 266,120, Against
131,463 at same dale last year.
The Chronicle's visible supply table
showed on Friday night last 2,510,808
j bales of cotton in sight, against 2,447,259
— -o •>—
Ground Peas.—April is the proper at same date in 1879, 2,780,515 in 187S,
time for planting ground peas. The Ten- ! an< i 2,0S9,917 in 1877, at corresponding
more prolific and certain of a good crop, &>*249 bales, over the supply of last jear
Ground peas will not fill well cn soils de- at this date, and a decrease of 270,007
ficient in lime; hence an application of ba les on the supply of 1878, and 479,409
>»'<* «»■'>« s“PPly of 1817 at same date,.
not desirable, but rather a shallow soil
with clay near the surface.
The analysis of the chufa shows that it
Middling upland in Liverpool last Fri
day stood at 7|. Last year, at the same
date, the quotations was 5|—in 1878 it
contains the elements of nutrition in such was the same, and in 1877 the quotation
quantity and proportions as to make a , was 61.
very excellent article ot food. The fol- j *’
lowing are the constituents of the chufa, I The Chronicle's weather telegrams of
according to Dr. Jackson’s analysis: Wa- Friday for the week ending that day, re-
bbrous matter, 12.45; starch, port the Southern rivers subsiding rapidly
27.00; sugar, 12.25; wax, .40; fat oil, 16.05; . . , . ‘
mucilage” or gpm and albumen, 6.5. and plantation work resumed. Texas
had some splendid rains. In Galveston
Fertilizers for Cabbage—“lam , , T „, ..
convinced, after several years’ trial, that f° ur da J TS and °'“ b > Indianola five
cabbage require rich manure, and it pays, days and 1.09; Corsicana one shower of
when stable or barnyard manure is not 0.34; Dallas had a frost. Wheat and
r a i Ch bone i Xst t0 or ad s d uSos S ^ate m tesei oats we “ ^injured by the previous cold
more nitrogen and phosphoric acid. Early sna P- Brenham had no rain and had not
kinds of cabbage, I also think, require suffered so much from the cold spell as
richer soil than late sorts.”—B. Smith, feared. The lowest point in Texas dur-
Rome, New York. ing the wee k was 43.
Management of Peanuts.—The! . • . . ... „ ,
most tedious part of the work is the pick- j •“ s t° Louisiana, there had been 1.48 oi
ing. Unless the management in the barn rainfall in New Orleans, but none in
is carefully conduced there is danger, Shreveport. In Mississippi no rainfall,
willbecome heated and mouldy!’* 5 Until but 5-52 thc k bef “ re ; ^ Arkansas
the pods are thoroughly seasoned, the fair weather. In Nashville but two light
bulk should be frequently stirred and showers. In Memphis but one. The
turned over.—D. N. Kern, Lehigh county, ; river was at a stand, and farmers plowing
^* a ' _ , _ _ on uplands and high bottoms. Mobile re-
though notn^^S^alty o^SS ceiTed 105 , of rain during the week. Mont-
lias demonstrated that that part of the S om cry only 0.40, SB0 Selma no rain. No
State is well adapted to their growth, j serious damage from late overflows in Al-
wliile Mr. D. C. Schultze, near West
Point, on the Western border of the State,
has illustrated successful grape-growing
there.
Railroad Matters—Latest News.
The survey of the Georgja Western has
ien the tables liad all been cleared
away, a suggestion,, was made that we
should sing the Easter Hymn. Some of the
old people liad said sadly they could
neither get to church nor chapel, and Eas
ter scarcely seemed Easter without it. So
after hunting out- hymn-books, we all
gathered in the largest room and sang for
them. As a musical performance the
singing was beneath criticism; but the fa
miliar strains were precious, and unlocked
the hearts of the listeners. “Ah, look at
the old things,” whispered one younggirl,
“see liow they are enjoyiug it. They’re
crying as hard as they can cry.”
Blessed tears! and happy those who
caused them to flow!
Then we said good-bye all round, and
came away.
“How lias it affected you ? ” was asked
that same evening of a very serious, girl
who had been very active in her ministra
tions.
“I don’t quite know yet,” she answered.
“I must disentangle my impressions. At
first, the sight of those poor creatures,
crumpled up helpless in their beds, comme
des tieux chiffons, was profoundedly de
pressing—it was dreadful, and took away
my courage. But afterwards, in going
from bed to bed, and talking quietly, get
ting into individual personal relations,
each one had something nice or. Interest
ing about her, and the first feeling wore
away. Then, again, came the thought of
all this pleasure given for two guineas,
and how many guineas are wasted! It
seems to open up so many questions that
I am rather bewildered.”
Yes, the questions are endless and per
plexing, bnt in doing as much good as we
can, and in establishing individual per
sonal relations with our poorer brother or
sister, wc stand a pretty good chance of
arriving at a satisfactory solution of many
of them.
The Charleston Jetty.—-General
Gilimore, according to the Charleston
Nieica and Courier, has been recently ex
amining the progress of the jetties now
being built to deepen the channels of
■Charleston Haibor. He has made no
measurements, and the work is, in fact,
too incipient a stage to institute any
surveys. But- General Gilimore is confi
dent that the final result will give Charles-
1 twenty-one feet of water on Her bar at
__ r tide, which would be an average of
twenty-seven at the flood. If there is no
failure in regular appropriations, the work
will be completed in about two years.
The stone used in the jetties is still brought
from the North—owing to some hitch in
negotiations about a supply from ti e
quarries near Columbia.
liis associates, who have gono into <am r
about three miles from Atlanta. The
survey will begin from this end of the
line, near the depot grounds. Captain
Glostcr says, (we quote from the Consti
tution :)
He has ridden on horseback over the
entire line ot the read. He says the pro
jected line does not run through a very
difficult country. The hardest work will
be found at this end of the line. Gener
ally the country through which the Geor
gia’ Western will pass is not so rough as
that penetrated by the Western and At
lantic . railroad. The survey will he
pushed with great energy, and though it
cannot be said when it will be finished, it
is certain that there will be no delay in
the operations.
It begins to look as if the long deferred
hope of the Georgia Western would be
fulfilled very soon.
An Atlanta special from Nashville as
serts that it is an assured fact that Messrs.
Wilson and McGhee will unite with Mr.
Newcomb in building the Georgia Wes
tern. It says :■
All the parties confessed that they had
discussed the project. They made esti
mates of the cost by the various routes,
and described the terms on which they
would build, the policy of a joint bond
and the feasibility of including the Macon
and Brunswick extension in the scheme
at last. It was determined and agreed
that whenever Newcomb was ready to
build the Georgia Western, Wilson and
McGhee would join him in the work.
This I know to he true, and none of the
principals will deny it. It is evident that
Wilson and McGhee would have reasons
for disavowing a connection that might
break the present alliances till they were
certain that the new connection would be
permanent, hut they nevertheless quietly
agreed with Newcomb that they were
ready when he was.
Per contra, many declare there is no
truth whatever in the alleged combina
tion. Nor do we believe that the matter
has taken any definite shape up to the
present time.
It seems, after all, there was a confer
ence of railroad magnates on Tuesday, at
the Pulaski House in Savannah. The
parties were General William McRae,
General E. P. Alexander, ex-Govemor
Brown, C. I. Brown, Esq., of Atlanta, W.
G. Raoul, Esq., Colonel Wadley and Su
perintendent W. Rogers. We glean from
the News that the object of the meeting,
however, was simply to consider the tariff
of the Railroad Commissioners. That
paper says:
We hear, however, that Colonel Rogers
will at once prepare a statement bearing
upon thc subject, giving the rates of
freights now charged, which will be pre
sented for thc consideration of the Com
missioners. The Central, Western and
Atlantic and Georgia Railroad Companies
are in accord in this matter, and the priv
ileges conferred by the charters of the
Central and Georgia Roads will he avail
ed of to the fullest extent. The meeting
lasted about two hours. The visiting
magnates returned home last evening.
On the subject as to when the rates of
the Commission will go into effect, Gov
ernor Smith is reported as saying that the
law required that the rates should be ad
vertised once a week for four weeks.
Since thc first advertisement there have
been several revisions, and after each a
new publication was necessary. There
fore, the rates cannot go into effect until
about four weeks from the present time.
It lias seo'med to some that the Commis
sion was going rather slow, hut they have
endeavored to perfect their schedules so
they may operate in justice to all parties
concerned. * The rates have been very
carefully considered in every particular.
The Gate City Flour and “Geor
gia Flour” are two new brands of fan
cy flour, by patent process, which are now
being actively introduceu by R. A.' Hemp
hill, 102 reaelitrec street, Atlanta.
abama. In Macon, Columbus and Au
gusta there was no rain, and in Savannah
only 0.22. The week throughout was fa
vorable, but the temperature was gener
ally cool.
The Chronicle appends the following to
**- tohi.1 nf rocchits from plantations:
1. That the total receipts from the plan
tations since September 1 in 1879-80 were
4,700,4SS bales; in 1878-79 were 4,245,031
hales; in 1877-78 were 4,008,771 hales.
2. That although the receipts at the
out ports the past week were 53,419 bales
the actual movement from plantations
was only 38,492 hales, the balance being
drawn from stocks at the interior ports.
Last year the receipts from the planta
tions for the same week were 50,549 bales;
and for 1878 they were 50,612 hales.
Ellison & Co.’s report of March 10th
from Liverpool lias the following about
PROSPECTS.
Nothing lias transpired during the past
month to cause us to make any change in
the opinions expressed by us in our last,
report as to the prospects of supply and
demand. We stated in our annual report
that the Stock ofeettonin Europe at the
close of the season would probably be
about 200,000 bales larger than at the end
of the last season, and we see no reason
for thinking differently now. With re
gard to supply, we expect that the out
turn of the American crop will he fully
up to, if not over, our estimate of 5,560,000
bales. We think, too, that our estimated
import of Egyptian will he exceeded by
20,000 to 30.000 bales. It may he that In
dia will thrnish a little less than our
computation, but there is no cer
tainty on this point. We do not
think that the rate of consumption will
materially, if at all, exceed our estimate of
115,000 bales of 400 pounds per week for
all Europe. No doubt, the stocks in Liv
erpool and the principal Continental ports
will be very moderate in compass through
out the season; but this need not trouble
consumers, as with judicious buying, there
will he quite sufficient cotton to meet all
probable requirements at the present scale
of values. The enormous business done
during the past three or four months, lias
taken the rough edge off the world’s appe
tite for cotton"goods; and it is not unlike
ly that the future, ts in the past, buyers
will act very conservatively when mid
dling American is at 7£d. At that figure
the tendency will be to fall back upon re
served stocks, unless some disaster should
happen to the new American crop, in
which case the outlook would have to be
regarded from an altered standpoint.
Reversing a Boom.
The Boston Daily Advertiser, of Friday,
appeared with the following statement
which we append:
“A dispatch was-received in this city
last evening, from Washington, stating
that positive information had been receiv
ed there that the ex-Presidcnt will with
draw as a candidate before the Chicago
Convention. It Is further stated that
friends of Secretary Sherman have been*
expecting the withdrawal of the ex-Prcsi-
dent, and have been forming a skeleton
organization throughout the country, with
a hope of bringing to the support of their
candidate the ex-President’s strength in
the event of his retirement. Mr. Parker
C. Chandler, the representative of Massa
chusetts on the Sherman National Com
mittee, states that a Massachusetts Sher
man club is just about to be oiganized
here, and is to put in active work all
over the State;”
The Advertiser is a Republican paper,
but anti-Grant and anti-stalwart. It may
well be doubted whether it had any other
authority for the statement that General
Grant will withdraw than the “wish which
is father to the thought.” .The Advertiser
is not a paper which either General Grant
or the stalwarts would select a3 their or
gan of communication with the people or
which would be likely to come into pos
session of their private views and purposes.
It will also he noticed that this telegram
commits nobody to anything, Without rea
sonable doubt, the statement will find its
solution in some scheme to push a rival.
As things dtand, Grant is fee candidate,"
unless he voluntarily withdraws. He may
withdraw, if he sees there is serious dan
ger of defeat before the people. But he
will need strong evidence to satisfy him
of that fact. Honest John need be in no
hurry to bring out his slide (on.
Another Startling Announcement—
The Louisville and Nashville have
no Title to the Georgia Western-
The Franchises of that Road to he
Sold—A Big Bone of Contention.
The Augusta Evening News prints the
following special; v.
Atlanta, March 27.—-It has recently
come to light that the Louisville and
Nashville railway has acquired no legal
and valid title to the Georgia Western
railroad—as there are minors owning an
interest in the road. Before a proper
transfer can he made there must be a pub
lic sale of the Georgia Western at the
Court House.
The advertisement has been according
ly made, and the road, together with all
interest in the same, will be sold in At
lanta, at public outcry, on April 6th. • •
It is currently rumored that friends of
the Georgia and Central railroads will
take advantage of the foregointr facts and
will be in a position to bid at the ap
proaching sale. It will be remembered
that the Georgia Railroad subscribed
8250,000 towards the building of the
Georgia Western, and. it is apprehended
that should the road fall into the hands
of the Louisville and Nashville, it will
bring suit against the Georgia Road for
the recovery of the said amount. The
Georgia is determined to protect its in
terests, and the friends of the road think
it would he cheaper to buy the Georgia
Western than pay the subscription.
The friends of the Central and Georgia
roads are working in perfect harmony,
and it is understood that, should they
purchase the road, it will be built to the
Alabama State line, and operated as a
local road.
Railroad officials are very reticent, and
no information can be obtained from
them.
President Alexander of the Georgia
road,-Las been in the city for several
days. —
Should the Geoigiay Western be pur
chased by the Central and Georgia inter
ests, the cot .on that formerly went to
Rome will be turned toward Atlanta, and
thence go to Savannah and Augusta.
President Newcomb will be here next
week, and unless he can manage to har
monize matters between the Louisville
and Nashville, Central and Georgia roads,
we look for lively times at the sale.
We have no intimation at this writing
from the Atlanta papers in confirmation
of the news contained in the above tele
gram. Should the facts be substantiated,
the competition at the sale for the posses
sion of the charter to the Georgia West
ern will probably he very active. Doubt
less, President Newcomb, who is said to
regard that highway when completed as
the future key of his system of roads to
the seaports of Georgia, will bo on hand
with his moneybags, and Mr. Wadley
and General Alexander, acting possibly in
concert, may also enter the arena as pur
chasers. Should they succeed in getting
possession of the Georgia Western its fu-
whether It would be more pcofifSbfti''lb
tlieir respective organizations to build, or
not to build the new road. We confess
to a strong desire to see this link in the
new thoroughfare, from the West to. the
sea, constructed, the more especially-as it
lias been announced that it would be run
in connection with the Brunswick road,
when the extension to Atlanta is finished.
Nothing tangible is known, however, as
to the reported railway combinations in
Georgia, despite the numberless printed
interviews with Newcomb, Brown, Wad
ley, Alexander, Standiford, Cole and- les
ser lights, or the stream of telegrams re
ceived almost daily from the North and
West. A heavy fog still envelops tho
railway situation. • " ‘ • >'
Continued Reports of the Failure of
the Oat Crop.
The Berrien County News, which by the
way is an excellent weekly, and as true to
the Democracy as the needle" to the pole,
says:
From Mr. Loldy Paulk we learn that
the oat crop in Irwin willbe a bad fail
ure. He says most of the people planted
their oats last October, and that the rust
orsomething similarto.it has almost en
tirely destroyed the crop. He stated that
one farmer had plowed up a field of oats,
and will plant the ground in corn. Oats
planted later are not suffering so much,
but the season has not been a good one
for the crop, and it will be short—very
short. f "'
‘ Through our traveling agent, Mr. E.Mt
Davis, we have almost as discouraging re
ports from nearly all of southwest Geor
gia;. Where the rust is so injurious as to
not make the crop worth harvesting, the
very best course that could he pursued,
would be to" follow the example of our
Irwin farmer, and plow under forthwith
and then plant corn, or the. Whippoorwill
speckled pea. There 13 abundance of time
make a heavy crop of either or both com
bined. For early provisions, however,
plant the pea to itself.
The failure of the oat crop is a
sad misfortune to southern Georgia, and
no time shpuld be lost in supplementing
the loss with upland rice, more corn,
millet, peas, cliufas and sweet potatoes—
anything, in short, that will feed man 6r
beast.
WASHINGTON LETTER.
An Accomplished Lady.
Mrs. Senator Pendleton is a daughter
of Francis Scott Key, the famous author
of the “Star Spangled Banner,” and a
neice also of Ro^er B. Taney, formerly
Chief Justice of the United States Supreme
Court. She is represented .to be a woman
of rare accomplishments,and after the re
tirement of her husband from Congress
spent several years in Europe for the edu
cation of her two daughters.
The Senator has taken a home in
Washington where his family now reside
and add lustre to the society of the Capi
tal. It would not be in the least surpris
ing if Mr. Pendleton is brought forward
again in the Presidential arena. No man
in the country, should, he be nominated
and elected, would make a better or purer
Chief Magistrate, and his wife, too, would
adorn the White House.
■■
Sharp Diplomat*. J
It is said that the Chinese government
has intimated to our ambassador its read
iness to cquiesce in the demand for the
withdrawal of their people from this
countiy, provided that in like manner
every citizen of the United States is made
to leave China. Commenting upon this
proposition, the Herald says:
But, little as an ignoramus like Dennis
Kearney may suspect it, the people of the
United States, and , : qven the people of
California, have interests in China of such
importance that such a proposition of non
intercourse, pleasing as it might be to
Kearney, is entirely inadmissible. The
interests of commerce and . our own man
ufacturers, which involve the well-being
of tens of thousands of laboring people in
this countiy, are too great to be rashly
ruined by a. Kearney policy, simple as
that may appear.
But there are interests which affect
more closely and directly the people of
California alone,which the Kearney poli
cy of mutual exclusion would ruinously
affect. The greatest and most important
industry of California is no longer gold
mining; it is wheat growing. Now it
does not need a head much wiser than
eyen Kearney’s to see that, with the vast
and rapidly increasing extent of wheat
culture, not alone- on this side .of the
Rocky Mountains, hut-on other continents
the time is sure to arrive whep the
wheat crop of California will not bear the
cost of transportation around Cape
Horn and leave a margin of profii to the
California farmers. They will need a new
market, and if they do not get it they will
lose money. Now China has four hun
dred and fifty millions of people who live
on rice; hut no Chinaman ever remained
even a year in this country without con
tracting a fixed taste for wlieaten bread.
California already exports flour to China;
but the day is not far distant, with proper
management, when a great part of the
California crop can be sold in China, and
when, at the same time, it will be impos
sible to sell it anywhere else at a price re
munerative to the fanners of the Golden
State.' - • - . ,• ; -
The President" has.appointed three com
missioners, Me&rs. Angeil, Swift and
Trescott, to proceed to China, and in con
junction with our diplomatic representa
tive at Pekin, proceed, if possible, to ne-"
gotiate a new treaty which shall be satis
factory to both nations. If the Sand lot
fanatics of California persist in persecut
ing the helpless Asiatics, and are guilty of
any positive act of violence against them,
a war costing hundreds of millions inaybe
thc result. They should be protected by
the government at all hazards.
The Ex-President will not With
draw.—A Herald Washington Social of
the 27th says there' has been a general
laugh to-day among the third-term men
over the ' alleged dispatch from this city
last night to the Boston Advertiser saying
that it was now known that the ex-Presi-
dent will withdraw as a candidate for
nomination at Chicago. The only thing
that the third-termers now seem to be en
tirely certain of is that tho ex-President
can he safely depended upon not to with-
Solemn Religious Services,
Rev. R. H. Rivers, D.D., of Eufaula,
who is assisting the faithful pastor, Joseph
S. Key, D.D., in the interesting series of
meetings which are conducted from day
ChaTcS, preadieif'A searohlhg angV?^
ing sermon on Sabbath morning from the
text: “Behold the Lamb of Godjrhich
taketli away the sin of the world.”
The speaker, a man of benignant coun
tenance and fine personal presence, at
once commanded the undivided attention
of his large auditory. And seldom has it
ever been our privilege to hear a more
logical, earnest and tenderly persuasive
discourse.
He began by painting the contrast be
tween the Savior and his forerunner,
John the Baptist, which'was most graph
ically drawn; then, wanning with his
theme, proceeded to hold up the incarnate
son of God as our mediator, Redeemer and
crucified Lord. At times, the" doctor was
really eloquent, while always most im
pressive and earnest in his deliverances.
The delineation of the resurrection scene
was thrillingly like life, and many were
the tears that flowed at the recital of that
momentous passage in the earthly career
of the Savior of mankind. The Doctor
spoke with all thc emphasis and unction of
“a dying man to dying men.” The effect
was evidenced by the numbers, who, at
the conclusion of the discourse, rose up
when invited, and sought the prayers of
the church.
Dr. Rivers will continue to preach every
night this week for Rev. Mr. Key, and we
learn that the meetings are to be protrac
ted also In the First Baptist—Dr. War
ren’s church. A deep feeling of solemni
ty pervades both congregations,and it is to
be hoped that the interest, under God’s
blessing, will culminate in a powerful
and precious revival of pure and unde
filed religion.
Filling up Harbors and Canals.
The New York city press have been much
afflicted for a long time with the persist
ent efforts of the people to fill up. their
splendid harbor with street refuse and
coal ashes, which have so far been success
ful that recently a foreign steamer ground
ed in the main channel at Sandy Hook.
And now Mr. Seymour, the State Engin
eer, reveals the unpleasant fact that; along
the line of the Erie Canal, the people are
filling up that great avenue of traffic in the
same way. When they have bottled up
New York at both ends they will have
provided for a longTioliday.
The Quarterly Review of the
Methodist Episcopal Chubch South,
for April, appeared in Macon yesterday.
Its contents'are as follows: One of the
Grande Old Fathers—Nicholas Sucthen;
Development of Monotheism antdng the
Greeks; Lovic Pierce; Beyond the Grave;
The Light of Asia; Conformity to Law in
the Divine Economy; Yan Oosterzee’s
Practical Theology; The Three Creeds;
Terminism; Literary Notices; Notes and
Queries. This rich table cfl'ers for Geor
gia readers a strong personal, as" well as
literary and theological attraction. Terms
$3 per annum. B. A. Young, publisher,
Nashville, Tennessee. The learned and
venerable Dr. Thomas O. Summers, has
now editorial control of the Quarterly.-
At the town election in Spring
Valley, N. Y., last week, there was a sep
arate box’ for the- presidential candidate
preferences. Of the 275 Republicans 235
expressed their choice,'and 244 of-the 202
Democrats. The vote stood: Republi
cans, Grant 170, Blaine 42, Sherman 18,
Washington City, March 26,1880.
AT PEACE AGAIN.
The angry billows have ceased to roar
and swell in the House, and all is peace
once more. For three days times were
certainly lively in that body—much more
so than they have .been any time this
session. There was'any amount of hot
temper, bad blood and angry words, hut
no actual hostilities. Sometimes it seem
ed as if there must be a shindy, hut that
diversion seems to have gone hopelessly
out of fashion. In the good old days such
language as Townsliend, of Illinois, used
to Garfield would certainly have resulted
either in pistols or a square knock down
and drag out. Now it means notlxingand
results in nothing, and is forgot
ten by next day. The “barbarism
of slavery” was an awful thing, of
course, hut somehow when it bore
sway here there was much more decency
of debate and decora of language in
both Houses. Men didn’t call each other
wilful liars' and the like without other
result than to provoke a laugh or a sneer
on the other side. Towshend rubbed this
insult into Garfield’s callous hide twice
during the tilt between them with no oth
er result tbau to draw from the latter
something about the former’s indecent ex
posure of his mind and person, which was
warmly applauded by his side. Town-
sheud is a light weight and ought to have
his salary docked for raising such a rum
pus and wasting so much time over a bit
of sharp practice that he must have
known would- be exposed and checked,
but for all that he showed himself at least
a manlier man than Garfield.
Tho row, however, has had its uses. It
has demonstrated that free trade has no
show in this Democratic House with its
Democratic Speaker and that when the
issue comes of a release from the chains of
the robber tariff, put on the country by
the Radical party or their countenance,
there is no difference between Pennsylva
nia and some other Democrats and Radi
cals. Even in Georgia they found an ally.
Felton either voted with them or
dodged every time. I understand he
puts it on the ground of iron in his “Dees-
trict.” Pray how many of his constitu
ents are helped by this, as compared with
those who are daily robbed by the iniqui
tous exactions oi the tariff robbers? This
ought to beat him, if nothing else. There
will be no tarifl legislation this Congress.
This is not a pleasant fact to think over,
from a Democratic standpoint; it is a fact
nevertheless.
A LULL
in the scandal market is reported,
much to the disgust of the large
cla s here who don’t enjoy their morning
hitters and breakfast uuiess spiced with a
liberal dash of something naughty. Mrs.
Christiancy has put a stopper on her un-
commanly glib tongue, and Jessie Ray
mond and her “Tommy” have hied them
southward to Atlanta. It is norated
that she has gone after “more proof,” but
in my judgment we have heard the last of
her here. Mr. Hill’s persistent determin
ation not to be blackmailed has, I think,
speaking after the manner of the un
godly, “cooked her goose,” effectually.
Everybody is now waiting for the next
What it will be nobody can
sensation. What ii
come'™ everybody says it is bound to
rives from^ulnd 11 unfold?Tis’buget or other hostile manifestations from the
Meanwhile ms *m.,.....—^ —._ 9..
and a pretty big one it was, too, counted
by newspaper columns, is capturing a
modest living by painting flowers on
fr.us and such like, and helping her as
tute mamma keep house. There was a
report, one day last week, that she
had committed suicide, aud the reporters
were flying around for a while in a mosj
frantic manner, but it was soon found to
he a canard of the baldest breed. Mrs. C.
isn’t that sort of a female, if I am any
judge. She is going to live just as long
as she can, and marry again if she gets out
of her present scrape, but I rather think
she will know a little more next time how
much lucre there is and exactly how it
is fixed.
CALLING NAMES,
There was quite a scene in the House
Wednesday night, the parties thereto be
ing “Joe” Blackburn and Coffroth, of
Pennsylvania, a pig headed protectionist
Democrat. Blackburn was switching his
tongue pretty freely on the subject of
Speaker Randall’s manifold faults, and
especially his leanings to the tariff crowd
when Coffroth put in a word for the Speak
er. Then Blackburn put in several more
words—he can get in a dozen to Coffroth’s
one,any time aud not half try—and finally
Coffroth said something about Blackburn’s
having been a traitor,which Randall never
was,he said. Then Blackburn called Cot
froth a liar and earnestly invited a ruction
which Coffroth didn’t seem to have much
stomach for, and then “friends interfered,”
you know, and there was no light. Things
have come to a pretty pass, it seems, to
me, when Northern Democrats pick up
out of the filth #f the gutter the worn out
epithets of tho Radicals and hurl them at
their party associates from a section with
out whose votes they would still be in a
hopeless minority in Congress. If Mr.
Coffroth’s. constituents can do. no better
for themselves in the matter of a Repre
sentative, they ought to import somebody
who lias more sense and decency than
Coffroth.. '
THE PROSPECT
of an early adjournment is not regarded
as exceptionally favorable. I hear that
some people still agree with the Speaker
that some day in May will see the ham
mer fall, but they arc few. The old
hands who have watched these matters
for many years name June 15th as the
earliest, and the last of that month as
most probably the date of winding up.
If the Senate is in a talkative mood this
session—and it generally is—the probabil
ities are strong for late in June. The last
Presidential election year the session last-
ea until August loth, and even that date
found the House up to its eyes in the
work of uncovering Radical rascality.
That teas a year to be sure, but a3 the
Grant gang are not in now’ there is not so
much of this sort of thing to be done.
A. W. R.
Georgia Teachers’ Association.
The fourteenth .annual session of this
Association will begin at Macon on May
4th. It object is to promote the cause of
education, by bringing the teachers of the
State into closer social and professional re
lations; by increasing their ability to do
their work well by comparison of meth
ods, to so mould public opinion that our
people will realize that the first requisite
for material advancement is advancement
in knowledge. It is under the control of
no faction or clique and warped in its ac
tion by no prejudices: It is an Associa
tion of-teachers of all classes; No live,
progressive teacher -can afford to he ab
sent from one of it meetings. Every edu
cator and friend of education is urged to
be present.
Any information desired and copies of
the programme inay be obtained from
Captain Robert E. Park, or Prof. B. M.
Zettler of Macon, or the undersigned, at
Rome, Ga. S. C. Caldwell,,
Sec’y Georgia TeaclAirs’ Association.
.. , . Conklingi-5; Democrats, Seymour 150,
draw, aud on this account the Advertiser s ixrfK.T.1™, -ji p.svanl Tilden 9
dispatch is received by them with deris- ; Waldo Hutch,ns 06, Bajard 23, J.ldenW,
ion. t Hendricks or anybody 6.
Guilty.—Anybody recommending a
soothing remedy for children containing
opium in any form is guilty of doing
harm. Dr. Bull’s Baby Syrup is war-
i-anted not to contain opiates and should
i therefore be widely recommended.
The Texas Republicans.—The so-
called instruction resolution of the Texas
Republican State Convention is as follows:
“While we recognize that General Grant
is the choice of the Republicans of T sxas,
it is considered inexpedient to instruct the
delegates to Chicago, ftirther than to cast
the vote as a unit for President.”
Population of St. Louis.—Gould’s
Directory for the present year, issued
Saturday evening, contains 120,474 names,
an increase of 7,120 over last year, and an
increase of 42.923 since the Federal cen
sus of 1870. By the usual ratio, this gives
the city a population of over 540,000.
—M. de Lesseps and party arrived in
Chicago Friday evening, and will proceed t
to Boston this morning, via Niagara Falls.
At a banquet given by the Chicago Civil
Engineers’ Club M. de Lesseps declined
to discuss the Monroe doctrine, saying that
his commission was purely commercial,and
that on this continent he was merely a
canal builder. He expects to sail for Eu
rope April 1.
Over a Million.—At noon Wednes
day the aggregate of the contributions
sent from America ‘ to the relief of the
suffering poor of the famine districts of
Ireland was $1,002,600. This is larger than
the reported aggregate of both the Dublin
funds, that of the Duchess oi Marlborough
and the Mansion House .combined. The
New York Herald fund had reached the
magnificent sum of $313,689. Of the to
tal sent from this side of the Atlantic,
$450,000 is credited to the Catholic
churches.
Among the. Rapid Advances.—The
Sun says the rapid advance in firearms and
munitions of war is attracting attention
n and out of the market. Lead has gone
up irom2$ to 5| cents per pound, copper
from 16 to 28 cents, gunpowder from 10 to
20 per cent., and fixed cartridges from 10
to 20 per cent. The advance in firearms
is chiefly due to the strong market for iron
and steel. It cannot he ascertained that
there are any orders from foreign' govern
ments except a few unimported ones for
gunpowder on Chillian’and Peruvian ac
count. , ’
—Chinese in numerous small parties
continue to arrive in New York from the
Pacific coast. Those who arrived la3t
week are represented to bo greatly de
lighted with the city, where their treat
ment is so different from - what they have
been. accustomed to in San Francisco., „.
They are specially delighted with the
privaleges they are permitted to enjoy in
common with other people, such as riding
in tho street cars, the use of the ferry
boats, &c. They are also pleased that
they can walk the streets without being
compelled to dodge a shower of missiles
Iwulliimt.
telegram of the 27th says the letter which
was addressed to the Hon. William S.
Grpesbeck, of this city, signed by Jonah
R. Taylor and purporting to he sent by
direction of a conference of Democrats in
New York reached Mr. Groesbeck this
morning. The letter asks if he would ac
cept the nomination for President and al
so his views as to thc best man to nomi
nate. Mr. Groesbeck regrets the publica
tion of the letter and declines to give any
information touching his answer which
will probably be written in a few days.
—The United States ship Constellation
left the navy yard Friday morning with
supplies for the Irish poor. A3 the Con-
stellation.passed along side the Colorado
a shout went up from the.latter. Commo
dore Cotter cried, “Now give Erin a real
Irish cheer,” and the response was prompt,
tho hand playing “St. Patrick’s Day.” The
tug Mitchell, bearing gentlemen who col
lected some of the provisions, steamed
cown the river in company. The band
continued to play “Garry Owen,” “Boy of
Kilkenny” and other Irish airs until the
relief ship had headed dawn the river.
Western Storm of Saturday.—A
tremendous wind storm set in after mid
night'Friday night in St. Louis" continued
with varied severity. At eight o’clock
Saturday morning the wind attained a ve
locity of sixty miles an hour, and at dif
ferent times during the day blew with
great force. Very little damage was done
however. The center of the low barome
ter was between Keokuk and Davenport,
Iowa, and the center of the high barome
ter near Kansas City. All telegraph lines
west of this city are prostrated, and no
advices have been received of-the effects
of the storm.
A Runaway Wife From Georgia.—
The Cincinnati Gazette, 27th, says Mrs.
Harriet Hall, a runaway wife front Atlan
ta, Ga., was found with two of her chil
dren, whom she had carried away with
her, at Harrison, day before - yesterday,
by ex-Lieutenant Hamel, of the Tenth
District Station. Her husband liad traced,
her all the way to Cincinnati, and se
curing the officer’s aid, his recreant better
half was discovered. She had walked all
the way to Harrison, while in her pock
et she carried over $200. The man and
wife had a meeting yesterday, and it is
possible that a reconciliation may ensue.
Blaine and Grant—A War in the
Republican Party.—A special to the
Courier-Joumal says the feeling "between
the third-termers and Blaine men in po
litical circles here is daily growing more
bitter. The former are beginning to in
dulge largely in/comment onBlaine’s con
nection with the Mulligan letters, railroad
iomls, Jay Gould and jobs in general.
The Blaine men are retaliating with copi
ous references to the numerous scandals
of Grant’s administration. They are also
full of sneers at Grant’s electioneering
scheme in the South. It is evident the
Blainiteg are getting nervous over the suc
cess of Grant’s visit in Texas, and the cap
ture of the Texas delegation to Chicago,
and his prospect of a similar result in Ar
kansas aud other Southern States. This
feature of the situation is causing much
comment in political circles.
We are glad to hear it. Our druggis t
informs us"that Dr. Bull’s Cough Syrup
sells bettor than any other medicine, aud
always ghes satisfaction. It’s very cheep,
oo, costing only 25 cents a bottle.