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©l.O MAYIIKIH,
M l>W at * chtirch moor*,
rA U.l<£h a rail;
A t !at a* a porpolae, ■
A * rough aa a gale; .
A* brave w, lion,
A* xjirv i ai:
A* bright ax”
At weak aa a rat. *
A# proud a* a peacock,
Aa Nf M a fox ;
| Ar mo- .rf It March bate,
Am*: Urns; an au ox§
Am fair aif a HJy,
As empty a- air
T A* rich.** a Cm su,
M ere** u a t>ear.
As pare a> 1,
Af* smart as a feteeMraf’,
A* ugly at Pin ;
AS 4m M Ik OOOMUU If
Aattkitcftlbthci'l!
Ah flit fei a i,iTicakt*
s* ,r **•* u i *•, -
Aa red aa a beer .
As round as an apple.
As b ark as your hat ;
As brown as n iHsrry,
As blir cl as a bat;
As mean as a mI*ET
As fu J as a tick ;
A plump a* a part ridge,
At rharp ttlck.
A* < can Map* m.y .
f. ■ <lar): at a pall ;
At hard up a rail 1 t one,
A“ r 4. ,
At !'• • *
A O;. a I.- I ;
At fc i ry-* a herrti;/,
A ileep aa a well.
at a feather,
Ap flfiti at a rock .
A* Mtf a a poker,
Aa calm aa a c)o< k ;
L A* green na a goalii g,
I Ah hr.tk ifl a txre;
S Anil now li t ino r * -V
tajHt TQ
nk
Hi <y 1
■
HKk
’i here ain’t a- kno -. a to-day
] ii"Tcr war a luiPiff*‘j! y Wa yi
Itifiiiii. 1
I'm dreadful afraid tmy'll htWffiip me!
*lTiftrf:’*anottier thin** that'M ie-t*ky hard—
_ i < m*t <> int a ii*-L yard
To ay ‘ How b>- you ? or borry a pin,
Hut wbfii the imper M huv it
♦We’re ph.aHcd to mty the Vv idder Greene
► Took dinner a To xy with Mm. Keene.’
Or, *Our worthy friend Mr-. Greeue’n gone
Down txflinr kh .m -•ad to mc<; he** on.
Great Jerusalem ! can't i etir
Without a-rttialn* some fellur’s fur? *
Thereaju’t no privacy, mo to fifty,
No r llmu it thin tva. a Judgment Day.
And aw lor m- tin’ -I want tty swear
Kvery time 1 nut ray head in there ;
Why, even ‘Old Hundred* ’s spiled, and done
hiko everything else under the sun ;
It u*ed to ho Hoiomu an 1 alow,
♦l’rftl&e to the Lord from men below/
Now JtifObf like u gallopin’ steer,
High diddle, diddle! there and here.
No reaped to the loctd above
' fin more nof he was hand and clove
With all the - rottirs lie over made,
A-l all the jlus that ever was played.
J’i leliln, tno— Init here I'm dumb—
Hut I 101 l vun wb i, I I-, 111.-- 11 uuo
If good old 1 'arson Nuthui Stroup
Otu o’ In* Brave would come along,
An' give us ft Min in' tasto o’ lire—
a!FWfi| * if ,and just -i my desire.
Tl,r‘M ■ s world or other - niplete,
k Whi^JJßfe 1 rll liindng over my lie nl;
B ll I "I-, .
H kfSteil Old o' dee 111, | sell!,Ill
y i ieiins a miirderln’ round—
folks hatter be under the ground.
Hi. fare-yo-woll I this ulrtlily scene
No more'll lio pestered by VVidder Qreenc."
• —Baltimore Hun.
Pllf'fl 1,0 VK.
\\ H i.n first wo love, you Ittiosv, wo seldom wed—
• •
i Tli, 1 fiiin \v % iioii d)i oat o: hope wu-*- dead;
L Au-l then women e mnot Clio ire our lot.
Wtneli must bo borne which It Is hard to bear,
given away wliieli it were sweet to keep,
help us allw ho it- ed, Indeed, Uis en, ;
yet I know the Hhe.iluiMl loves 11m she p.
boy bof'iiis to babbl" now
nv his earliest infant prayer;
1 is father s eatft r ey- s, I know,
5 they saj.ioo, ms motl.ei sunny
hen lie .. p. ,u - . :i, v I-.: ,
£* 1 I Pan fcel his lit hi biv:it i- -nne and
Hk el one lle-iven le lp ,p. I pit, me—
l<i, l(,\ed me, -e v,-. -: I
■ ■ fig! I
ns de out duty, and not shrink.
■ Aiidlihl, heaven hiuuiu> lor the ra^.
■ : blame us women not if nolle appear
■ Too cold, at times, and some too pay and lif-lit ,
■Obio tfrlata fc-imw deep; some woes are hard to
■ liellr,
r Who | now* the past? and who tan judge us
> rlt-it? fMa
fch ! wore wo judged by what we might have
{ be,-n,
I And not by what we art —too apt to fall!
■My little Child he sleeps uud smiles between
P These thoughts undine. In heaven we Hhull
' know all. i i tec.
—> iga ii
A HIM*
4 lotted a lady's poekcllmWc;
while March to/ forth* name
1 came across an “item bill,”
, Below 1 (five the same :
Saturday, May 19, tt?7T.
[tillin'!, with lac.* au-l ai* ua, i- * • <’,*, ml
jtsarl-coloiv.l ilk, lt:i;i-- ml uitn blu,’, UO
lair ot low s'h'H's lur v ,u*m wnffher, lb no
huMiailo with handle bamboo, 600
bu3h and ncinu ffas i Huston chips, 125
liiall hunch of lloivcr;* street, 60
le with straw e l red tips, 1 00
ftir of gloves, awful polite, • 106
m Total, $314 40
• *
Biuw 1 ask, with the ladies as judges,
I If this lit* the bill for on. day,
■ow can a man vith tfvu tlioiisaml a year
■ Marry and live happy, I pray ?
m- will .< i ■■ In* dr. :idlL a ‘
■Amt ob! what a I
■far.A,ha.- Ids own will;
Bto la wisest who never tt.uh mam /
■ ' M. M.
lu! crent ire sat next me at
Hst recital of Chop ns music, given
t ßlftiue Essipoff. During tlm ; .it hoi in
from tho Sonntii, Opus
üßßOeativu was fixed, ns if the mu
|HI entranced her ven soul, ilor
Vlisleacd with nuotiou, aud her
Bfaoe was expressive of admiration
BKCitemenf. When the pianist had
Ped, the gentleman who was with
“ sweet little creature turn, and to her
said; “How beautiful.’” To which
Replied: “Yes, indeed; doesn’t it fit
Ixquisitely iu the bac', M How much
lon suppose it oost .‘ yard?” —Music
Ifc lieriew.
Bj-Wmblican correspondent telegraph
|fe& te hington that no military com
.Nib lie sent t*t F. irqv ..liservo
BK?' upon tlie •'puriiiPJl of the
BHr benued
under-
r\ ' i anv
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V.t was ut that
■BppsiOfied but ' ■•*'hs Wt iuail
fbath, “when tbo \v c v, •"* W ,k
Lu:ean the Deik of t
|Jy. woen tire Welk tf fc" l
the Dale ot
of Batte** oo—i _ u '.' .. u ''- .* the
the passage T ’ v ; ' l *-:u:n ’
Bully mangled that he d;q n t ” ’ - >
Bould pay to repair it, .#
Bventhly and lastly," and went /
This from the land of moral ideas and
advanced civilization.; At New Haven.
Conn., Mrs. Ellen Warner, wife of a re
spectable mechanic, was enticed into a
'low saloon and made partially intoxicated,
when she was taken into a rear yard aud
outraged by eight men, who
nun* aud choked her shamefully during
.her struggles. Her condition is critical.
Four of the party have been .arrested.
r j *~— —--- is to bere
ft ducif th > year ~hy v OVX)o, making a
reduction of $100,000,000 within two
■s. • ars. It is claimed that the valuation
fot fal parpo, es of taxation of real ©state
p sbouurtk what it will bring at a forced
-sale, aud that years past the land
„ "j- BosUm has v*een much above this.
Bcicxde or aPa vsicxas. —ln New York,
on Thursday eveuing, Dr. Claude Gra
ham Stanley, a yqpug gentleman of good
professional practice and ample means,
MfcAifcJed suicide in his studio for some
JPw>u Cxiuis not transpired, but which
H b e° fami]^
'>S Uiing bydr^i^tL mS PUrpoS *
THK FJ' LO *N M FA M.
Kaisinu Turkeys. — I There i- no fowl
more profitable to raise than turkey
the bronze variety being the largest anl
most profitable. They require a free
ranee over the fields, and large flock
often ohtaia all the food they need in
foraging on grasshopper* and grain field*,
after harvest. Farmers who have no
near neighbors might make considerable
money on them, a* they always com
mand a fair price in November and De
cember. If one had the conveniences
for keel ting enough stock to produce
500 turkeys annually lie could easily
dear SOOO on them, and |>os-ibly more.
A large yard, with a fence 12 feet high,
would be required to enclose them at
night, with ;>oles to rest upon, some low
ami sotoe high to give them a chance to
reach the highest easily. No protection
is needed in the coldest weather, as we
often see them choosing the ridge of a
barn to resist on in the winter, in prefer
ence to roosting under a shed. Around
this yard might be placed empty barrels
on their sides for them to lay hi. first,
throwing in a few inches of dry earth,
over which places some fine oat straw,
with a narrow board in front to keep it
in it- place. A cheap shed on the north
-idc would Is- a good thing for them to
run under in Mtvere storms. Then a.-
many eitops would be required as you
have breeding turkeys, which should be
placed outside of this yard as they hatch :
ami ns far apart as you have space for
them, 50 to 10" feet if possible. These
coops should lie well made, as they will
la-i for many years. Let them lx- of a
triangular shape, and water proof on
thn e sides, the front being slatted up.
Make them large, because a turkey with
a large brood must have ample space.
When the coops are to l>e set. it would
he a go si to place a few inches deep
i I'Mirt^^o^lattheimuinilii^H^oo^y
’ ' 5 < * • you n
- . - .. next morning till the
• i-i iiKs ; and if stormy keep
thorn in ah Perhaps it would be
better to hub:,i the most of the broods
link lii, ll| mi® Iff! 111 I! 1
each. As turkey raising Ls now confined
to raising from 10 to 50 upon farms, my
remarks, as applying to 500 or more,
are not based upon actual experience
in raising that number, but rather on
what, in my opinion would he required
to make the business a success ; and 1
think the subject one that farmers
should consider, in order to make all the
money that they can in such a branch of
business. — Farmers' Friend
Fattening Animals. —Avery com
mon error among fanners, which needs
correction, is the opinion that animals
may be fattened in a few weeks, and fitted
for market by heavy feeding, or, as it
is termed, by pushing. Many farmers
do not think of beginning to fatten their
hogs or cattle for early winter market
until autumn has actually commenced.
Their food is then changed, and they are
dosed with large quantities of grain or
meal. This sudden change often do
ranges the system, and it is frequently
some time before they recover from it.
From observation and inquiry, we find
that the most successful managers adopt
a very different course. They feed mod
erately, with great regularity, and for a
long period. The most successful pork
raiser that we have met with commences
the fattening of swine for the winter
market early in the preceding spring.
In fact, lie keeps his young swine in a
growing condition all through the win
ter. lie begins moderately and in
creases the amount gradually, never
placing before the animal more than it
will freely cat. With this treatment and
strict attention to the cleanliness of the
animals, his <ping pigs, at ten months,
usually eygecd three hundred and fifty
i... tui>./an 1 have sometimes gone as
unit'll as/fiur hundred and fifty pounds,
Bil l pi/fis Altered over, reach a weight
Hu pounds,-- The.
'corn, which is ground and scalded before
feeding, nets him, on au average, one
dollar per bushel, when the market
price of pork is five cents per pound.—
Christian Inion.
Grange Enterprise.—We can get
a pretty good idea of the immense ex
tent and benefit of the Order of Patrons
of H usbandry in our country, when we
state that it lias twenty State purchas
ing agencies, three of which do an an
nual business of $200,000. During the
past year it has had in active operation
five banking associations, one of which
(at San Francisco) has a capital of $5,-
000,000, of which $500,000 was paid in,
five steam boats or packet lines ; thirty
manufacturing associations, whose capi
tal ranges from $200,000 to $500,000;
fifty associations for shipping goods and
shipping purposes ; thirty-two grain ele
vators ; sixteen grist mills, one of which
produces one hundred barrels of flour
per day; twenty-two warehouses tor
storing goods; three tanneries aud six
sniit heries, These are distinctly Grange
enterprise, started with capital contribu
ted by members of the order, managed
by them aud producing for their bene
fits. In addition there has been estab
lished one hundred and sixty Grange
stores to furnish members with supplies
at wholesale prices, plus freight aud
hauling—the customers who are stock
holders dividing the profits The or
der has dedicated one hundred and forty
four halls, built or bought to serve as
meeting places, oue of which cost
SIOO,OOO.
Oatmeal Diet.—A Philadelphia ex
perimenter has been emulating the ex
ample of Dio Lewis in respect to eco
nomical living and a vegetable Idiot, and
communicates to the public the result of
his effort to feed a family of three on a
dollar a week. He tried com meal and
found it insipid. Buckwheat soon fol
lowed, and potatoes also failed to sus
tain bodily strength. The oatmeal was
tried, anu, at the expiration of two
weeks, says the experimenter. ; M found
myself four and a quarter pounds heav
ier. My wife had gained thre^ounds,
day- 1 ' was^^^^^^oPfess
seven cents per day for each person.
We arc now pursuing the same course,
with an occasional mixed meal."
Apple Dumpling—Baked. One
pint of flour, one tablespoonful lard and
one heaping teaspoonful yeast powders.
Sift the flour and yeast powders to
gether aud mix the lard with it thor
oughly. Wet with water to about the
consistency of biscuit dough and roll
i thin, cut in six or seven pieces, roll each
i pyvjco as thin as possible, put on each
pte\v of dough about half a large apple
peaUq ;UU { sliced ; gather and piuch the
dough M , c losely around the apple and
I '' ut in ah ;x ki n g pan with the smooth
| Ml '■ up. These dumplings are very
Ntvu* , hot with sugar and butter
scas °ued with a little nutmeg.
| not JmSS'.T hundred years ago
illiumnatin- A^'i 1 Uur a cu '- ne toot of
I iron stoves no burned. No
be added, noS* 1 1 uatc j ies - . Ir
and little steam ■ tls : telegraphs,
Look out
luti.uts even tli, <e im-.w Eighty revo
t nothing ofkbt Uave P™-
i* estate and capital, aud g th° Uou ' llis
1 thousands of minor mentions e a nT f
I mg. however, to save uv ,! tend
I work, or otherwise a >01 ' :
luxuri. Id X*,K3f and
alone, the improvement ~f
lias been wonderful, a ,,.i u . l P] ea ?°nts
farmer of to-day can pla\
and belt his brother of one fenfe
years ago. -
PrsLEV.—Every Southern farmer
knows pusley, but many of them. pe r .
Imps. do not know that it is an excellent
article of food for hogs. It grows\fjat
on the ground, stands drouth better
4ip**t aiipost any other plant, aud is lim
■ by the ca- N
Orchard Grass. —If we were asked
which of all the grasses is Isv-t for South
ern -mall farmers, w ith the lights before
u wc should answer orchard grass.
Why? We have no personal experi
ence with it. but numerous thrifty, in
telligent fanners are almost daily writing
about its excellences, and their testimony
must be as good a* ours could be. They
tell us that it is perennial —that is, per
manent. growing all the time, winter and
summer. Few grasses will do that.
Think of the advantages of a perennial
P -nre for jour cattle. They tell us
that it will grow in.the shade, and hence
it -name. Orchards are shaded places in
summer, and a grass was wanted to
grow in that shaded situation. A grass
that will grow well#!) the shade must be
a thrifty plant, and they tell us that it
will grow in any kind or soil that is not
wet. This Ls a great advantage. Very
few gras.-e,- or other plants wilT do that.
They tell us that it stands drouth better
?! m any other grass or clover—will (tear
heavier stocking when harvested for hay,
and comes out very early. It also has
v.-ry heavy, fibrous roots, which are said
t< improve rather than impoverish the
soil. Now add to these good qualities
that it is a nutricioue grass of which all
stock are very fond, and you have the
n asons in full why we would recommend
every farmer to make a beginning of
o chard grass. Try it.
English and French machinery is said
to be seeking free transportation to the
S iuth, for the purpose of erecting cotton
n ills all over this sunny land. We have
heard this a long time —don’t think
much of it. Our own people have the
means if they would only use them.
Georgia, alone, could invest $2,000,(XX)
that way, but she does not believe it. A
very few years ago Georgia desired to
b irrow $1,200,000. She was timid about
a king for it, because Henry Clews said
ummuliJ mi.-li Wall street unless
t i
Clews and his rin-r as they scorn every
swindler. They defied him and issued
the bonds. What was the result ? \Yall
st reet was the first in the market. Geor-
Kians could hardly yet a chance to buy,
li j •
lost; Kinds now se tor a iiremium.
Let Georgia look to lier own manufac
turing interests. It we get them from
England it will be when England gets in
to war and her operatives emigrate.
I fiat is the waj T England got all her fine
fabric manufactories. Philip, of Spain,
drove them out of the Netherlands
during the reign of Elizabeth.
The Clement Attachment.—lf the
claims of this attachment are what they
are represented, and we have no reason
to doubt it, a great revolution is at hand
for t lie cotton planter. The cost of’ one
attachment, with royalty and machinery,
is about $4,000, requiring eight opera
tives, mostly boys and girls. The at
tachment gins and manufactures the
cotton into yarn, averaging about one
pound per minute of seed cotton. In
thus changing his seed cotton into j T arn
the farmer must save very largely in
freight, in drayage, in weighing, haul
ing, sampling, wasting, commissions,
compressing, trying, bagging and steal
age. Three attachments, costing about
$'.1,000 with machinery, would constitute
a considerable manufacturing establish
ment for a neighborhood, and give pleas
ant remunerative employment for the
women, cirls and boys of the commu
nity. \\ here are our enterprising farm
ers? These attachments are running
successfully in Mississippi, and not one
ip Georgia that we have heard of.
Walnut Trees. — Walnut trees some
times attain prodigious size and great
age. An Italian architect mentions
haying seen at St. Nicholas, in Lorraine,
a single plank of the wood of the walnut,
twenty-five feet wide, upon which the
I'huperor Frederick 111. had given a
sumptuous banquet. In the Baidar
Valley, near Balaklava, in the Crimea,
si and,.' a walnut tree at least one t.hou
sanij It yxQb aurmally fron
eighty iflWMid to one hundred thou
sand nuts, and belongs to five Tartar
families, who share its produce equally.
—American Architect.
Our Southern planters should remem
ber that the famine is increasing in Ger
many, and it may also be said of liussia
and Turkey, for countries at war are
drifting in the direction of famine and
pestilence. The small rise in the prices
of food will become a ground swell in
about twelve months from this, if the
war continues, and nobody doubts that it
will continue for a long time. Plant,
i herefore, as long as you can, and plant
everything that will do for food. Let
the sweet potato crop be the largest ever
beard of. They will do for bread, where
corn is scarce,
Insect Abomination.—A writer iu
the Southern Plantation finds the leaves
of the common black walnut effectual in
driving off all kinds of insects. We
have always heard that fleas would not
remain near them, but the writer allud
ed to found that they would not only
keep the flies away from his horse in
summer, but destroy the mites about bis
hens’ nests, and rout all other insect
plagues. Such valuable properties ought
to secure it a place in every yard.
Sulphur for Scarlet Fever. —Dr.
Pigeon announces in the London Lan
cet his successful treatment of scarlet
fever with sulphur. He thoroughly an
nointed hit patients twice a day with
sulphur ointment, giving five or ten
grains in a little jam three times a day,
and burning a little sulphur twice a day
qy coals in the room of the patient. lie
found imuThiate improvement under
this treatment, ana (Tdlfi the worst cases
in eight days.
Killed at Supper.
Galveston, May 2G. —Dr. J. W. Brown,
a physician and highly esteemed citizen
of Columbus,Texas, son of Aris Brown, of
Davidson couuty, Tennessee, and a
graduate of Nashville Medical College,
was shot and killed at Houston last night
by a desperate character named Fayette
Grissom. Dr. Brown was visiting the
State fair, and while at supper at his
hoy-a Gnssom sat down at the same table
andord reu-his supper serve!! in a "hurry.
The water replied that he was waiting on
Dr. Brown, but would get his supper
in a minute. Grissom replied: “1 am
a gentleman, and if any man says I am
not. I'll make him feel this.” Brown
answered: “No one says you are not
a gentleman.” Grissom repeated
his former words, wnen Brown said,
“Ou, hush.” Grissom sprang up, draw
ing his revolver. Dr. Brown started up,
too, raising both hands. Grissom fired
at him, missing, fired the second time,
shooting Brown through the heart. Gris
som then walked out to the hotel office,
bought a cigar and smoking, kept the
crowd away with his piste' until an offi
cer came, to whom he surrendered. He
is now in jail, bail being denied. There
are movements on foot to hang him to
night by a mob. Brown was a citizen of
Columbus, Texas, and his murder has
greatly incensed every one. A crowd of
his ftiends having arrived in the city to
night, it is believed they will attempt to
hang Grissom. Grissom is a stranger
here. He claims that Brown was draw
ing a Derringer on him when fie shot
him, but Brown had no weapon on his
body. This is the substance of the facts
before the Coroner.
Afraid of the Legislatcre. —Several
of the New York city papers have made
the veto of Governor Bobinson, of that
State, of the appropriation for the ex
travagant new capitol an occasion for ad
vocating the transfer of the State govern
ment from Albany to New Vork. Where
upon the New York Herald exclaims:
“Merciful heaven, deliver us! This suf
fering city is bad enough without anew
accession to its dangerous olasses. ” The
Herald things that the effect of the pro
posed removal would be merely to bring
the Legislature under the immediate con
trol of Tammany Hall and the Custo*
ouse, which are alreadv the chief agents
of corruption.
In the Kingdom of Prussia,
births, there w -A
AX UNANSWERABLE ARGUMENT,
('•I. Hfrk'i* Great Speech at
La*t Wednesday, May 23d.
[Report- and by W. E. H, Searcy, fnr the Griffin
News J
Fellow Citizens: I am before you by
invitation of the friendn of retrenchment
and reform, to discuss the questions
which now engage the public mind. The
people of Georgia demand an opporiu
nity to better tneir condition by bringing
the State government back within the
limits of the strictest economy. Misrule,
extravagance and a reckless disregard of
the rights of the people characterize much
of the history of our State government
since the year 1868. The people time
and agaiu have demanded relief of
the Legislature, but it has been retused
as often as it has been asked. The
Legislature has at last, in recognition
of the true principle that tbe people in
convention assembled must bring to our
State the reforms demanded, passed
an act calling a Constitutioual Couvehtiou
if the people so determine. It is a recog
nition that all power in our government
emanates from the peopie, and that in
making or changing the organic law-, the
people in convention, and not the Legis
lature, 6houid be invested with the exer
cise of this great power. This is the
highest prerogative of a free people, and
one which no power, State or Federal,can
abridge or usurp. It is sovereignty it
self; for sovereignty in its last and best
analysis is the will of the people.
I know it is eiaiined that this right be
longs to the Legislature: having been so
vested by the constitution, and that re
lief can come through the Legislature as
well as by a convention. That we can
accomplish all by way of amendments
made by the Legislature, that can be ac
comp ished by a convention. This is
possible. But did the framers of the
constitution ever contemplate that the
Legi.- tare \vi ild vi-r exercise it to ty,
extex.: if the changes now domainJß
and the m
can hecure to llie fcstate tile prosperity o"f
former twines.
It is tlie liistory of tliia and all free
governments, that when taxation goes
beyond the resources of the people, there
iiiiililfliiistiipii
that can stifle the voice of the people or
defeat' their appeal ?
In what do our complaints consist, and
from where is our relief to come ? Look
at our resources before the war and now.
Get up your old tax receipts and see
your State and county before the war,
and what you paid last year. Prior to
the war the taxable property in Georgia
was valued at $700,000,000; since the
war, by the loss of our slaves and the
devastation cf the armies, our taxable
property has been reduced to $240,000,-
000. Aud yet you are pay ingfour fold more
taxes to-day than in 185 C. I know it is
insisted that the slave property swept
away by the war is removed from taxa
tion, and this of consequence increases
the taxes upon property remai dug. But
the increase is not in proportion to the
loss. The increase in taxation is four
fold, while the decrease in property is
less than three fold, taking it at its ante
war valuation. But our resources have
diminished since the war in the deprecia
tion of our property. The depreciation
continues, and who knows where it will
stop. But while values continue to
decline, taxation is not diminished,
because expenses are not reduced. Why,
iu 1808 our lands were worth one hun
dred por cent, more than they are to-day;
cotton was worth more than double what
it is now, and every thing is reduced ex
cept taxation. Fellow-citizens, is it any
wouder that the people demand relief ?
Is it surprising that they refuse to wait
longer upon the Legislature? They
have waited eight years, and they will
wait no longer, iieform they must have
and v. ill have.
Wo have seen what our resources are ;
now let us see what our disbursements
are. The total disbursements by the State
for all purposes, from 1850 to 1860, aver
aged about $700,000 a year. In 187 G the
total disbursements were more than
$2,000,000. From 1873 to 1877 the aver
age disbursements for each year exceeded
$1,800,00(1 JSpby this increase ? Why ‘.s
it the get the more we spend?
Now our resources to pay by taxation do
not exceed $875,000. Our public debt is
over $11,000,000 ; putting the interest at
$770,000, our taxes pay tho interest on
our public debt, with only an excess over
of about SIOO,OOO to go to pay current
expenses. (The speaker was asked by
one of the audience if the eleven
million dollars included the repu
diated bonds.) I answer no. They
would swell our debt to more than
$18,000,000. The eleven millions is the
amount of public debt that the good
faith aud honor of our State is pledged
to pay. Now the difference between our
resources and disbursements will doubt
less surprise many of you. You ask how
do we run the government, when within
about SIOO,OOO of the entire taxes col
lected goes to the interest on our public
debt. Then where does the money come
from to keep us afloat. An act of the
Legislature of 1877 is the reply. This
provides for the issue of new bonds to
pay those maturing, and the borrowing of
money upon the faith of the credit of
our State, to protect our credit aud meet
our current expenses.
With a debt of more than eleven mil
lions augmented by the waste of
hundreds of thousands more annually
above our resources, what can the future
be but bankruptcy and ruiu. Now it is
true that our disbursements include the
payment not only of the interest on our
public debt, but bonds as they fall due.
But the debt is not reduced materially,
we issue new bonds to pay off old ones.
How did we become burdened with this
debt ? How is it that we came out of the
war owing three millions only, and when
the Democrats succeeded to power after
Bullock’s flight, they found a debt
upon the State of over $18,000,000.
Our debt in duly, 1808, was
$5,827,000. Bulioek and bis clan
from that date to January, 1871, run
up the figures to over eighteen millions.
How did they do it? The answer is—the
"institution of 1868 did not protect the
Treasury ci t ! J? st *te. These “devel
opers” who build railroads as well 22 . nia ke
constitutions, put the State in for mil
lions by way or aid to >ailroads. In Gov.
Colquitt’s message on the act to aid the
Cherokee Railroad, he states that we now
owe m bonds over five millions in aid to
tho e insolvent corporations, railroads
that are insolvent and pay no dividends.
Aud there is no relief. The debt is on us
and we have to meet the interest annu
ally. Fortunately for u l , these plunder
ers, so'eager to rob Us, were too reckless
in the manner in which it was done, and
we are relieved of the debt in excess of
the $5,000,000 because fraudulent aud
without consideration.
Now I have alluded to this state of af
fairs to show you some of our burdens,
and from whence they come. State aid is
not prohibited in the constitution of
1808. Not do I believe it was prohibited
in the constitution of ISS. But be that
as it may, while we cannot help the past,
we can be protected as to the future.
We cannot trust the Legislature. They
violated the will of the people upon this
subject in giving aid to the Canton and
Cherokee Railroad. They will continue
to do it. There is to-day no barrier be
tween the people and the exercise by the
Legislature of this dangerous power.
The people in convention alone can and
will protect us. If for nothing else, the
people owe it to themselves and their
children to have a convention, and place
an absolute prohibition in the constitu
tion and stop this dram upon the people.
Who can foresee tho debt that may be
pile -I upon the people by future Legisla
tures if they continue free to do as they
please? Stop the drain with counties and
towns, “lock the door of our treasury,
and give the key to the people.”
But “State aid' r is not all of our
troubles. The extravagance of our State
government. We need reform, especially
in our legislative department. From 1868
to 1870 Legislatures cost the people an
average for e*.ch year of 6324,000. The
legislature of 1576 cost $lll,OOO, of
which 626,000 paid to the clerical
expenses. The Legislatures from 1358
to 1877 cost the State on an average of
over SIBO,OOO a year. Now, at this rate,
can we ever reduce our public debt ? The
rule is. with an individual when embar
rassed, cut down expenses and liVe on less,
and pay jail over expenses upon debts. This
the role with governments.
depart -
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fife
dred members—r -luce the per diem to
four dollars a daj —change to biennial
sessions. The ex; tenses for clerical ser
vices can be reduced to $4,000. Then
estimate tbe mileage at $5,000. You will
see that wc- can have a forty day session
at the expense of only $25,000. If this
is practicable, and I do not see
why it is not, we can save to
the impoverished tax payers of Georgia
in ten years over one million five
hundred thousand dollars, and in my
judgment have wiser and better laws. I
say wiser and bi tter laws, because we
would get better men. \Vh..l we lose in
numbers we would make up iu intelli
gence and true worth. Then agaiu, the
propo-ed change would secure u:e only
proper basis of representation. As it
now stands, there is no equality of repre
sentation. The basis ot representation
should be population, and not territory.
I do not see why the rights of the citizen
are not as well secured by making popu
lation instead of counties the bEisis.
There can be no equality and impartial
justice until the present system is
changed. Let the change take effect
after the expiration of th.*- present Legis
lature.
Then again, fellow citizens, local legis
lation should be tekeu from the Lsgidag
tnre anu vested in the county authority®
i'.ie I.
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it, but the wBUPPBfc
made. But I do not know
tl.at wo should blame the Legislature in
this matter. Follow-citizens, a change so
vital aad organic should be made by the
people in convention and not by the
Legislature. The Legislature doubtless
took this view of it, and remanded the
ptaiMcwrt, Du! iipa Bit
store of economy a convention is pre
f; rred To make llie change by Legisla
t res . will cost, according to what the
Lagif l-.tures of 1870-77 cost, $222, 000,
taking two successive Legislatures to pass
the b.ii. The cost of the convention of
ISCS was $45,000, but taking $50,000,
tlie extreme to which the opponents of a
convention go in stating the amount of
cst of fi con vent.oil of 1877, and we
h ive {5172,000 saved the people in
fi vor of a convention.
i3ui this is not al . We save in the two
y- ars the reduction of the Legislature,
r< duction of txpenses, and the change to
bienuAl sessions $1!)7,000. If we can
effect he changes we cam hold a conven
tion every j ear for five years, and ;-ave
money to tfie people. Now I have given
y iu the two great objects in a financial
point of view that demand a convention.
S ate rdd prohibition and reduction of the
Legislature. These two justify a con
vention. But let this work of re
form be extended to the executive and
judicial departments; reduce salaries
whore practicable; sweep away all
needless offices, and save the people's
money wherever it can be done without
detriment to the public interests. But,
fellow citizens, there has been much op
position to a convention because it is
st id wo ihtend to abolish the homestead.
Down in my district they say I am op
posed to a homestead. I have denied it
there, and I will deny it here. lam in
f: vor of a homestead. But I want one
that iu not a sham. The present
li >.vestead is a sham. You have virtu
aly no homestead at all. By decisions
of the courts it is a limited estate—
a use that may terminate at any time.
The wife dies, the children become of
age, and you, no linger head of a family,
are turned out, without shelter, at the
very time of life you are least able to
labor aud provide for yourseif. Then
a ;aiE, you can’t, supplement a home.stead.
That is, you can’t add .o it. If you take
the exemption in supplies to the extent
of amount allowed, and when consumed,
you can’t take it even if your v. ife
aid children are starving. Now if tfie
convention interferes in any way with
the home-stead it. will be to perfect it,
not to abolish or in any way abridge the
right. If anything is done it will be by
way of amendment, and not by repeal.
Fallow citizens, I favor a homestead that
is ample, a protection at all times for the
debtor's family that is permanent so long
a: i any member of the family needs its
b mefita. Save the he'piess from the
poor house; save them from crime by
making this great riyht a citadel of pro
teetion for all time against the profligacy
a id misfortunes of the father and hus
b md. While it should be ample, it
should be reasonable aud permanent. It
should not in amount go to the extent of
so contracting the basis of credit, to
making the man insolvent against his
will aud without his fault. Giedit cau be
maintained and the helpless protected;
credit is gold, especially to the poor man.
Is it not strange that we are charged with
being in favor if abolishing the home
stead, when to do this will defeat the
constitution when made? Ido not know
that it will be changed at all. Certain it
is that I shall favor no change that does
not improve and perfect it. What I can
not improve I shall not disturb. For,
fellow citizens, next to the removal of the
c pital, it is the least of all questions in
the controversy. We are not going
to allow the homestead question to
defeat the great reforms the people
demand. We want cheap govern
ment and low taxes. We* will not
strangle ’ constitution by making an
amendment to the homestead law that
the people will vote down. We say give
us reform, lessen our taxes, by giving us
h jnest and economical government.
Keep your homestead just as it is, if you
prefer it. Our work will be submitted
bad; to yoq for ratification. We would
dishonor ourseives and betray the gieat
trusts reposed, if we refused to let you
p iss upon our work. The act provides
fur this submission to the people. Fel
low citizens, if we disappoint you, no
hmu 1- done; vote down what we do. If
we are faithful and give you a better
constitution than the War Department
gave you in 18Gb, sanction it, and
Georgia will prosper as she did in former
times.
The Louisville Courier-Journal con
tains this truly di. graceful allusion to an
eminent American diplomatist: “Marquis
of Hidaddy tc American Minister Pierre
pont—‘Haw, nujr'dear fellah, I see you
mean to be one of u ; : to drop, in fact,
the vulgarity of tnut biawsted country of
yours.’ Pierrepont—‘Yath, I cswn’t
make mythelf think, do you know, that
I’m from there at all. Have you egth
amine 1 my new ewetht, Marquith ?’ ”
The Cincinnati Enquirer is in doubt as
to which is the right way to spell Sook
fccom Kale, Souh-goum-Kale, Sukhoum-
Kd.e, Sukum-Kaleh, Lookgoom K„.eh,
Sov.gkum Kte, Suglun-Kaleh, Sutam-
Kalach, Takum-Kaleh. Sughum Kaleh,
Lukun-Kleh, Tugkum-Kale. This is the
true name, so far as ascertained from the
books of ready reference and the news
papers. and the roll is not half called
through.
“ .
Stewart's great hotel for working wo
men in Kaw York is approaching com
pletion, and is intended to accommodate
about seventeen hundred persons. The
Lctel wiii be eonduc ed on the European
plan, and will be in charge of a matron.
The price to he charged will vary accord
ing to the location of rooms, but it is the
intention to briog them within the reach
cf the poorest woman who shows herself
industrious and worthy of assistance.
The ItrssiAJf Press. — Tbe New York
World notes the fact that the liussian
paper—which reflect public opinion or
prejudice, aud at the same time dare not
say anything not permitted by the gov
ernment—oppose foreign loans, and are
fall of enthusiasm for the war and of
hatred to England.
Judge Davis, of New York, has made a
decision that a corporation is cot liable
on forged bond3 where the corporation
has done nothing to induce the purchase
by the innocent party. This is a deci
sion which will impress oh business men
the necessity for greater care in their
transactions. .
Governor Wade Hampton, it is
ed, is about to marry Mrs.
beautiful widow of the late Go|HH|
■iirkens. L
GEORGIA.
The annual celebration of the Phi Delta
and Ciceronian Societies of Mercer, was
held on Friday evening at Macon, to the
manifest delight of the literati of the ancient
city.
It may be well thus early to state for the
beuefi' of the Press Association that the
Eagle says Gsinesvil!- is the healthiest town
in the State, and yet there are three drug
stores within the corporate limits.
Incendiaries in Madison county are set*
ting tire to the fences of farmers.
flie Griffin ,Ye>rs says :
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res. t e:ab o fan
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long time, and tJfl
bv a c- bI •'
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payer, ren
ders it. more attractive, and makes it the
best weekly published in the South.”
Willi s county is iu first rate financial con
dition as w ill be seen by the following report
from the C 'uuty Treasurer : lteceipts, 57,-
866 74; expenditures, 53,515 31 ; balance ou
band May 9th, $4,361 43.
The Georgia Teachers’ Association will
ItlillMlJlllilfg,
Anew post office has been established at
Lamar’s mill in Upson county, and W. G.
Holloman has been appointed postmaster.
It is ou the route from Kuoxville via
Hickory Grove to Howard on the Columbus
road.
Thß promising expectation is that the
largest wheat crop raised in Georgia since
the war will be raised this year.
Welch, the murderer of Merritt, who wa
lodged in Irwin county jail, succeeded .last,
week iu making his escape and has not been
discovered. There seems to be an insecurity
in tile county jails of the State which needs
the attention of the courts and grand juries.
Fatty Harris, well known iu Savannah,
has started a now paper in Atlanta called
the Atlanta Independent. The journal pro
poses to sustain Mr. Hayes’ Southern party.
This, together with the fact that Marshal
Smyth will bo retained, looks like an at
tempt to build up a Southern policy in
Georgia, which at the recent election went
Democratic by over eighty thousand ma
jority.
The dwelling house of Rufus Hickey, iu
Ridge Valley, Floyd county, with its" con
tents, was burned Tuesday night. But lit
tle was saved from the flames.
Bibb county nominated delegates to the
Constitutional Convention by primary elec
tion on Saturday, and the following gentle
men were chosen : W. H. Ross, W. A. Lof
ton and T. J. Simmons.
A negro named Henry Jenkins committed
suicide on last Tuesday morning in his shop
at Louisville, Jefferson county. His throat
was cut and various other wounds inflicted
upon his breast. It is a singular case, ow
ing to the fact that self-destruction by the
negro is exceptional. The Hews and Far
mer, making mention of the occurrence,
says : “On Tuesday morning last about 11:30
o’clock the citizens of ibis place were startled
by the report that Henry Jenkins, colored,
was lying dead in his shop with his threat
cut. Mr. Colweli had gone there to get a
boot that Henry had mended for him, and
finding the door closed, he pushed it and
went iu, where he found him dead, with his
face downward, and reported the same to
the Coroner.”
The Greensboro Herald, looking at the
supply question in a direct point of view,
: “We are glad to barn that the farm
ers of Greene are making heavy prepara
tions to supply Europe with corn nex* win
ter.” "
Additional returns show rHe following.,
nominations for the Crma l l l ntitw-iCnmi,..
tioh : In the Dis
trict, Messrs. !!. F- Tharp, J. M. Davis and
Jobu Troutman, of Houston; W. S. Wallace,
of Taylor; M. D. Stroud and B. W. Sanford,
of Crawford. la Whitfield county, Messrs.
L. N. Trammell and W. K. Moore, and in
Murray county, Mr. 8. M. Carter.
“J. L. D.,” in the Columbus Times, says :
“xV convention of delegates from Harris,
Upson and Talbot couatios met hero to-day
and put in nomination to represent the
Twenty-fifth Senatorial district Messrs. W.
I. Hudson and J. M. Mobley, of Harris;
J. T. Willis and W. R. Gorman, of Tal
bot. Mr. Hudson, supposed to be an anti
conventionist, when called upon gave maDy
reasons for a change of the constitution,
and announced himself for a convention if
good men are selected. All the other nomi
nees favor the call and are representative
and popular men.”
Tunis Campbell has turned out of the
penitentiary into a Washington politician.
A Georgia exchange says: “Old Tunis
Campbell has turned up in Washington,
where, ou Tuesday, he let loose the vials of
his wrath against the people of Georgia to
Mr. Hayes, who was very ’sympathetic.’”
The district composed of Sumter, Dooly,
Macon and Upson counties has selected the
following delegation to the Constitutional
Convention: Sumter county, T. M. Fur
low, G. F. Cooper and Joseph B. Scott;
Dooly county, O. P. Swearengen; Macon
county, A. H. Greer and J. G. Eliingion;
Upson county, Dr. Flewelleu and Rev. John
Diekey.
Five prisoners escaped from the jail of
Thomas county on Friday morning. They
threw a bucket of slops in the face ot the
Sheriff and rushed past him out of the door.
He fired at one with his pistol, but they all
got off, and none had been captured up to
Friday last.
The Carnesviile Register has this item:
“A woman living iu the western portion of
this county last Monday attempted to com
mit suicide by drowning herself, but was
unsuccessful. The facts in this case are un
known, but it is supposed the attempt
was the result of insanity, caused
by protracted sickness. She was dis
covered by a Mr. Carson, and rescued
from an awful death. Had he been fiv c
minutes later, no doubt she would have
been drowned.”
Larkin Turner, who lives Dear Oak Hill,
Meriwether county, is one hundred and
seven years old. hale and hearty.
A car load of thoroughbred short horn
cattle, Southdown sheep and Berkshire pigs
landed in Marshaliville, Macon county, last
Friday, and were quickly disposed of "to the
farmers of the vicinity.
On last Monday night, says the Perry
Home Journal, the residence of Major 41.
Findley, of Weiiboru’s Mill, was consumed
by fire. Everything in it was consumed ex
cept one or two mattress s an! two or three
chairs. His friends are kiudiy helping him.
The fire is supposed to have been the work
of an incendiary. His loss is complete, as
there was no insurance.
Colonel A. D. Hammond will deliver the
annual commencement oration at Emory
College, Ox:ord, this year. As an orator he
has few superiors, and Oxford will he well
entertained.
Mr. 3R W. Sticsor,, of Crawford oonnty,
makes one hundred and fifty pounds of but
ter per week.
The Oglethorpe Echo says there is not a
still iu operation within the limits of that
county, and peace, good order and quiet
prevails.
The Cuthbert Appeal states that the whea
crop in that section is the best realized in
twenty years—more has beeu planted and
the yield greater. The harvest will soon be
here, when our agricultural friends will
grow fat on home made luxuries.
The residence of 3lr. J. K. P. Gholston,
near Paoli, Madison county, was destroyed
by fire last week.
A student of the University at Athens,
Mr. A. B. Pope, of Washington, Wilkes
county, while under the influence of liquor,
shot a’ policeman named Moon, who was at'
tempting his arrest on Saturday afternoon.
The Athens Georgian says: “The whole
affair was the unfortunate sequel to an un
wise system of popular election: for medals
existing in the college and which elections
were held on last Saturday.”
The following are the nominees for the
Constitutional Convention from the Eighth
Senatorial District; Charles J. Jenkins,
Robert H. May, Geo. B. Sibley, Adam John
ston, Jas. G. Cain, D. G. Phillips, W. G.
Brandy. The last named gentleman was
confirmed as nominee from Glascock county
at a meeting held on the 25th.
The Right Reverend Bishop Gross arrived
in Augusta last Monday evening. He will
preach at St. Patrick’s Church at the high
mass on Thursday, Feast of Corpus Christi,
at lsalf-past ten o’clock, and administer the
sacrament of confirmation, ami preach on
the evening of the same day i-w half-past
seven o’clock. The children o St. Patrick’s
parish will receive their first c unmonion at
the half-past six o’clock mass Thursday
Mgog. /
is making war ami
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The license f-*r retailib
in Cuthbert is one
standing winch f^|fl
Wilkinson
panthers vyi
nifty.
badly
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it is simply outrageous.”
house ou the place of 11. O.
(pphey. ou Little river, iu Wilkes county,
occupied by Mr. J. V. Garrett and wire, was
destroyed by tire on last Sunday night, the
iu mates barely escaping witb tbeir lives. A
brother-in-law of Mr. Garrett was sleeping
soundly whiietho bed-clothes wore inflames,
and lie narrowly escaped irom a horrible
death.
The North Georgia Citizen has this, apro
pos of the convention: “The best and wisest
men in the Slate are being nominated for
111# MM ttwillii Hu 1# u l!
should be, and gives unmistakable evidence,
should a convention be called, that a code
of laws, such as will be a eredit and honor
to a great State like Georgia, will he pre
sented to the people for their ratification.
Since we see the character of tho men that
will compose the aforesaid convention, wo
are more than ever iu favor of one being
held, and we earnestly hope that there will
not be a man in all this section that will
vote in opposition thereto.”
The grain crop of Putnam countv is rep
resented by the Eatonton Messenger as fol
lows : “The wheat crops are looking well.
Spring oats, without a rain soon, will be an
utter failure. Fall oats are doing as well as
could be expected, but on account of the
cold winter a very poor stand is everywhere
the cry.”
The Rome Iribune has th a to say of tho
Floyd county jail: “It is a disgrace to the
city, the county, and the State, a reproach
to common decency and to common sense.
It is a miserable tumble-down structure,
poorly constructed at first and rendered by
time unfit for the pounding of sheep and
hogs, much less the prison house of desper
ate men.”
The Oglethorpe Echo says of the cotton
crop: “This crop was never more unpromis
ing than now. But few farmers have any
thing like a stand, and we have hoard of
some wise men who are plowing up the
accursed stuff and planting corn iu its stead.
Others are replanting with the hoe.”
The Marietta Journal states that “the
copper mine two or three miles from that
town, on preacher Allen’s farm, is being
worked daily, with what success we do not
know. Captain Coolley and Mr. Rogers, two
experienced miners, arrived last week and
have it in charge. Col. Tyson, a Baltimore
millionaire, furnishes tho capital to develop
the mine, lie will visit this place in a few
days.”
The North i Georgia Citizen reflates this
snake-killing adventure : “We learn that a
monster rattlesnake was killed on Lookout
Mountain, Dade county, one day last week.
Its length was nine feet, size "twenty-one
inches, and it had thirty-six rattles. The
slayers of this huge reptile were Mossrs. W.
S. Nelson, R. H. Weaver and W. C. Mc-
Cauley. He made a desperate resistance
before ho was dispatched.”
Cartersville Express: “An accident oc
curred on the Western and Atlantic Railroad
on last Sunday afternooD, which came near
terminating in the ioss of a human iite.
From all the facts we can gather it seems
that two young men, railroad hands for this
section, and living at Acworth, had been
spending the day iu Cartersville. They
were returning home, and when within two
miles of the foimer place, one of them,
John W. Martin, being in advance, sat down
on the track to wait for his friend. Having
been up the night before, and being much
fatigued, ho fell asleep while in this posi
tion. The engineer ou the ud passenger
train saw him thus, but not in time to stop
tho engine, the cow-catcher knocking him
off and breaking two ribs. He was brought
to this city by the same train and is now”at
the Bartow House. Although he was then
thought to be in a dying condition, it is
now believed he will recover.”
In Hall county wheat is as good as the
land can possibly make it, and the yield
promises to be larger than for years past.
The apple crop will be Bhort, but the peach
trees are bent down with a superabundance
of fruit. The blackberry crop is very
heavy
At the competitive examination held at
Gainesville, Mr. F. G. HodgsoD, of Athens,
was selected as entitled to the West Point
cadetship from that district. There were
three other competitors.
The grasshoppers are destroying corn
and cotton in the western portion of New
ton county.
The Crawford Democrat says : “An ex
change reports that a lady ‘was drowned in
a previous edition of that paper.’ There
must have been a great deal of ’due' on the
sheet.” Maybe the paper was wetted down
rather more than was required.
There were 503 entries at the Thomasville
fair of the 24h, and of this large number
not really an ordinary specimen of any kind
appeared.
The Southerner and Appeal learns that
Mr. Green Arnold, an old and respectable
citizen of Twiggs, was accidentally kilted on
the 14th inst., by having administered to
him by mistake a large dose of morphine.
He was sick, and his sister gave him the
morphine for quinine.
Madison county has nominated Mr. Wm.
Scott for the Constitutional Convention. A
good selection this, and we understand the
county will give a handsome majority for
the convention.
A correspondent writes us that John
Bailey, a highly respected young man of
Floyd Springs, Floyd Cuunty, eompiiUed
suivide on the 26th inst. by hanging him
self. No cause has been assigned for the
unexpected deed. The act was consummated
in a stable near his residence. He left a
very affectionate note to his wife pinned
upon the lapel of his coat, the contents of
which have not been made public. The de
ceased was universally esteemed and had
the unbounded confidence of a wide circle
of acquaintances.
Bishop Kockwi+h * ill tießver
lecture in Dalton at an early
of tlie Good Templars of that oity. **
Macon oonnty is in a very desirable
financial condition. There is a balance on
hand, to the credit of the county, of three
thousand nine hundred and sixty-five dol
lars aud thirty-four cents, and no indebted
ness against the county, except a small
amount due on jury scrip thot has not been
presented for payment, and the expenses of
the present term of the court.
Hon. B. H. Hill is expected to be in La-
Grange next week, to attend court, and the
citizens will ask him to make a speech on
the convention question on Tuesday. He
has not been approached on the subject,
but it is hardly probable that he will refuse
such a request from his friends in his old
home.
There is a lady living in Emanuel county
who has a silk dress of her own make
throughout. She raised the silk, dyed it,
wove it, and made the dress.
The Mobile and Girard Railroad has been
mortgaged for one million dollars, and
Messrs. H. H. Epping, President of the
Chattahoochee National Bank, Columbus,
and J. E. Jones, President of the Georgia
Central Bank, Macon, appointed trustees.
The Macon Cadets have decided to attend
the fair to be held in Brunswick or. the IIUJm
14th and loth days<’ ; #une, end wljile
to eoi id ;• ■ oe
sented uy uie ladled to the u*-s drilled c
pany.
Daiton is to have a so o fact >ty very soon,
a gentleman from Illinois havirg taken hold
of the establishment of this industry
the Enterprise thinks will probably pay a
handsome dividend'
Mrs. A. A. Murphey, conse *. of the editor
of the Central Georgia V/ee.J.g, at Barnes
viile, has become associate editor of that
paper.
James Lawshe, of Atlanta, was arrested
in that city on Wednesday Ly United States
detectives on a charge of counterfeiting
silver coin. /
Capt. H. M. Drane i.< being strongly
urged for the position of Superintendent of
the Macon and Brun®vDk Railroad by the
people along the bad o the road. There
are fifteen applications for the position.
The election takes place fo-dav, June Ist.
s-, A negro woman named Ann Allen drop
ped dead near Crawford on Tuesday. The
Qf her death was unknown.
A |
grown
The Doctor hastW
several years, is
snppllos, and consequently independent.”
This irom the Gainesville Soiitht-oti : “It
is reported that snuo enterprising Yankee
has proposed to tho city of Atlanta to filter
the water used by the citizens at tho small
cost of ten cents a gallon, and with the eedi
meat, which he proposes to use as a substi
llll'lllillfillllllifllllllll
lie will contract to paint every fence and
out-houso in the city at a very low cost to
the citizens. So wo see there is nothing
very bad without a little good in it.”
Tbe Columbus Times gives the following
sequel to the Chambliss murder, which we
published iu this column a tew days ago.
The capture of the three negroes speedily
followed the ruurder : “Mauy of tho enrag
ed crowd, especially the negroes, wore for
burning them—but a vole was taken, and
tbe majority decided to hang them. A gal
lows was erected by placing a piece of tim
ber horizontally on tour forked sticks, two
at each end (what is known in tbe country
as a hog gallows), iu front of the house; and
as the suu was sinking behind the western
hills they were swung up—one at a time.
Stephen Abram was first suspended, but the
rope broke, letting him fall heavily upon his
face. He got up, remarking, ’Dog-gone
such a rope! git some’m stronger.’
A trace chain was soon procured, and
he was again raised, this time hang
ing till dead. With the rope around his
neck, he still repeated his story. Jerry
Snead was next, hung and then William
Booth, both ot whom denied to the last any
knowledge of tha doed. As they were pro
nounced dial, the bodies were taken down
and thrown over the fence into a field,where
they lay until Saturday night, when some
negroes were prevailed on to bury thorn.
They were all p'rtcod iu one grave, near the
Lumpkin road. The murderers were all
full-blooded negroes from twenty to twenty
five years of age, without families. Wm.
Booth was in the employ of Mr. Chambliss
an 1 the others worked iu the neighborhood.
The remains of Mrs. Chambliss were fol
lowed to Shiloh Church Cemetery Saturday
evening, by an iiumonae concourse of poo
plt, where they were interred.”
Tho Toccoa Herald says: “Among tho
Franklin county farmers wo note John A.
Ivlooro as a model one, after whose plans
many would do well to follow. Mr. Moore
lias on his plantation somo fifty acres iu
cultivation, and only about four acres of
the amount in cotton. The result is Mr.
Moore has plenty of corn, fat hogs, line
cows, milk and butter iu the greatest abund
ance, is out of debt, and no doubt for years
to come will boa steady gainer in the goods
of this world as well as have a constant en
joyment of its greatest and most real luxu
ries.”
The Columbus Timer H aya : “ Tuesday
morning about ten a fire broke tfut
in one of the little tenement houses owned
by Mr. R. A. Forsyth, near the negro chnroh
in Girard. It, was occupied by Charles
Thornton, a colored blacksmith, and his
family. Both he and his wife were absent,
and as the fire commenced inside the house
it was not discovered until it had made
considerable headway. Tho house was con
sumed, and a child of Thornton, about three
years of age, was burnt to death.”
The grand jury of Muscogeo county have
found forty-four true bills since the'ir ses
sion. The majority of these bills are against
parties for playing at the little game of
faro.
Tfia election of officers of the Atlanta bat
talion takes place to-day. Capt. Henderson,
of the Cadets, and Lieut. Scrutclfin, of the
Blues. Lieut. Barrett, of the Governor’s
Guards, has no opposition for Adjutant.
Tho Warm Springs of Meriwether county
is one of the most popular resorts in the
country. The scenery is beautiful and the
climate delightful. Every desire in the way
of water can be gratified.
Colonel Alfred Shorter has made a do
nation of twenty thousand dollars to the
Baptist Female College in Rome, and about
fifteen thousand dollars of this will be put
into an elegant college building this season.
Mr. Thomas Henry, of Conyers, proposes
to-day to descend tbe steep side of Stone
Mountain and explore the cave situated
about half way down tbp precipice. He will
be attached to a ropo two thousand one
hundred toet in length.
In Randolph county the wheat crop is
ready for the sickle, and from all reports the
fields will turn out well.
The Superior Court of Glynn county met
ou Tuesday, His Honor Judge Tompkins
presiding.
Mr. Thomas Black, son of Judge Lawson
Black, of Atlanta, who, it will bo reciem
bored, iu a personal rencounter shot and
dangerously wounded William Pottis, was
tried in the Fulton Superior Court for as
sault with intent to kill on Tuesday and
acquitted.
A sufferer from the depredations of flower
thi- ves in Atlanta complains that the
splendid geraniums, fuchias, heliotropes,
etc., which adorn the front yards of the
dwellings, are being stolen and bold at from
ten to twenty-five cents, and the vigilant
police make no arrests.
Griffin is talking about compromising the
city debt. The News says : "Several credi
tors of the city were here yesterday for tho
purpose of holding a consultation with the
committee appointed by the Council to see
what could be done towards that end.”
Tbe Quitman jail for tho first time in a
got and while is deserted. Its ceils are empty,
and not a solitary inmate is coufiued there
in. The Reporter says: “This is a good
sign i.f the general peaco and quiet that
prevails lb onghout Brooks county, and we
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John L. Conjß'J
■ cu' Siate
John E.
a circular to* -.heH
opposing the caiiiV
in which he use®
chairman of your 9
for whom few of tJ
nents have any ■
abandoned the *orß
State.” 1
The Odd Fellow!
prosperous conditio]
the receipts from pij
buttons have been {
penned §2,950. In
charitable relief, the
Lodge $346 03,
showed that the
V Hlu>t iu thu hack, tho ball
that “haw hreast b;.n. It is intimated
tLi.it t>iia\\ was the loader of a gaug of ties
peradooa.and that tho evidence which Will
be introduced upon tlm n slaud will ho
ot rather a startling character.
In Carroll county tho farmers have been
plowing up their cotto,, I( ,id planting the
Min (MUM MOlllit (i[ |||j ppiiiiiil
ml ill;' fl! Jo Act o( llie lac
price of the staple.
Tho Executive Committee or the Grangeix
gave notice to the brorhrcu that there whl
he a convention of tho Grangers hold in
lumbns on the fifteenth day of Juno instant'.
Tho objoct oi the meeting is “important
business.”
Governor Colquitt lias pardoned a- etinn
wluto girl named “Sal.io," aged fifteen
years, who was convicted in the City. Court
oi Atlanta for vagrancy ami re-ntended to
labor on the public works for twelve UKinihtf.
tho Constitution published a touching t'cuil-'
leton, which had ti e effect of arousing the
sympathies of the kind-hearted, who joined
in a petition tor her pardon. Shelias served
out seven months of her term, and is said to
bo very beautiful, site will bo taken care ot'
by tho ladies of the Bouovolent Home.
Dr. J. M. Johnson, oi Wayne county, was
suddenly stricken with paralysis last Tues
day morning, while walking’ through ttio
iium oi lins brother, Dr. L. 1). Johnson.
At accounts lio was slowlj improving.
A difficulty occurred in Johnson county,
near Snell s mills, between Thos. and
William Johnson, in which tbe former struck
the latter with a pole, breaking bin arm and
fracturing his skull. Johnson was com
paratively an old man, aged sixty-seven
[years. Loguo was a young man, twenty-five
years of ago.
11. B. Bullock, tho golden calf which the
Badicals tall down and worship, is expected
in Atlanta next week. His visit is oppor
tune, as it is understood that Bullock is
not only opposed to the constitutional
amendment rocontly ratified, but opposed
to the calling of a Constitutional Conven
tion, for in this cyclone which will sweep
away tlic last remnant of usurping carpet
bag and bayonet rule, he, with all tho
rest of the Radical crew m Georgia, will
perish together.
Mr. Wm. V. P. Hodgson, an old citizon of
Athens, died at- his residence in that city on
tho 30tli ult. Hmce 1811 ho hau been-a resi
dent of the place, and was regarded aa one'
of God s noblest works—an honest man.
A correspondent writes to tho Early
County Feus that, the acreage of wheat has
increased ton-fold in Calhoun countv, and it
is looking finely, thereby exploding "the idea
that wheat cannot ha grown in .Southwest
Georgia.
HomW. G. McA-100, of Milledgevillo, will
addrtus the AlumupAssociition at the oom
meuoement of the East rennesseo Univer
sity, at Knoxville, on the 10th inst.
Kx-Governor J. E. Brown, who it will bo
remembered went to Hot Springs some
weeks ago for tlie benefit of his health, wo
are pleased to learn is imoroviug riuiie
rapidly. 1
Each Lewis, an aged citizen of Crawford
county, attempted suicide tho other day. JIo
did not succeed, because there was a phwbi
oian in the immediate vicinity. /
Mr. Ambrose Round, of Jlftpoo, met l.is
death the other day by a stroke on the head
with a piece of scantling. Whether it was
murder, justifiable homicide, or accident, is
not stated by tbe Hawkmsville Gazette, from
whom we derive the item.
A Houstou county man has sold a Hawfc
insville firm two hundred and fifty bushels
of whippoorwill peas raised by himself. If
the Houston county farmer can spare tho
pi as it is certainly a great agricultural feat
and indicates progress in the right Jino of
reform.
The present debt of l'ulaski county 9
twelve hundred dollars. At the beginning
of the year 187 C it was near six thousam f
dollars, but by wise economy and strict
financial effort it has boon reduced to *i*e
above figures. .
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Tho organization of a Ft
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’ IM! 21st Ui;. Thu
in ndin.i I 1 .:., wi.icii cm
the past. H
Iho wlii-at crop. Loth in I.' >
ln-tki counties, is said to !,.■. . ..t. H
J’liote is .i contest over Mr ■ . >n
81'CTjII in Dado county, r- i.
:||J . the present Sir r.lf. . . M
continuing :n ~Uv ■ üßfAi -
clocMon by tho-n vob . I‘. -. . t llfl
one polling place on on ;al
.St, of which V"M
roc- tv. and li• teen f
date two. Hene-- it i-
Governor to bo mi -iitiHß
Dade.
The Waynesboro Expositor has this raH
road item . “James Brinson, Esq., iither of®
Jeff. Brinson, who lost his leg .olio time
ago, frojn injuries by the Ceuli t 1 Railroad
cars, entered suit at the present term
of theg Superior Court for twenty ihousand
doilartiamages against the company.”
A storm, accompanied i.y heavy
wii:daßcd over the southeast section of
county,doing corinidt rah o darna- @
to m growing crops, outhouses, fencing.
etcßNevertheiesH, tho Citizen says- “The
ram favorable reports reach u from tho
wt hetds in this end of the K;.te. Tho
c®, it, i- thought, wii; b heave r and tho
JGi/CGi* Ihjjj ;
ip' "
WSoum of a negro