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jl ii*. ** kf-kly is mailed to mrc free, at $2 ft year and SI for. Transient advertisements wil the Daily, at one dollar per square _ or loss lor the first insertion, and lift. _ CACh subsequent insertion; and for the at one dollar per square for each insertion. oral rates to contractors. Only single column advertisements wanted for the \Veekly. Rejected communications will not be re turned. ... . . Correspondence containing Important news, and discussions of Uving topics, is solicited, hut must l>e brief and be written upon but one side of tiie paper, to have attention. Remittances should be made by Express, Money Order or Registered Letter. all communications should be addressed to i. F. HAXSOX,MaBM:er, Macon, Georgia. MACON TFIKIHIAPH AND MESSEXiS SATURDAY, JUNE 3, 1882. Ms. Stephens’ greatest need at present is a chair swung on a pivot. The pnragrapher of the Constitution seems to have gotten the beer on himself. Tns Constitution is now posing in the at titude of the great, original Jeffersonian organ. Coloxel Thoentgs threatens to give us something.warm. For meroy’s sake, Col onel, don’t give us any more warm socks. Tiif. Post-Appeal is the organ of the new coalition, and like all organs it is controll ed by a crank. Tne Chronicle is sad because it says we cannot apppreciate the very beat of jokes. Now lat-our contemporary buildup a now one and lTy-.gs. ' , The Macon Teleqbaph is evidently troubled with a hot box.—Atlanta Consti tution. The Atlanta Constitution is not. -It has evidently been greased. The Evening Herald continues to make things lively for the Constitution’s esteem ed colleague. The Herald is evidently not under the control of the new coalition. TnE Virginia Democrats are thinking of making Parson Massey their candidate for Congressman at large. It is a dangerous experiment. Democrats should nominate only Democrats for office. ConrOBAn Thornton’s able striker on the Constitution paper, haviDg discovered that there is “a considerable chunk of hog in wards” in the Stephens movement, is cer tainly entitled to the bristles. j. Con. Walsh wants Mr. Stephens to be Governor Stephens, and then Senator Ste phens; bnt he doesn’t want him to be Con gressman Stephens any more. Somebody hold the eighth district and lot it smile. It took the new coalition daily, of Augus ta, a long time to discover that the Casey letter of Mr. Stephens was written under ' “a misapprehension of the state of affairs in the Eighth district.” The discovery is well timed. TnE Chronicle “would not revert to sad memories.” It will not refer to its hack filea in order to see what/was its opinion of Mr.Jjtapteens, when ne proposed to re- _aiarain Congress, as a representative from the eighth district'-. TnE Macoh TELEGitAFH Is evidently troubled with a hot-box.—Atlanta Constitution. Yes; bnt that is better than heating.np by devoted attentions to the bnng-hole of a beer keg. The esteemed colleague of the Por.t-Apjieat should try “a hot box.” It is al im provement on a cool Keg. Yju Chronicle and Coyi.sfifaionalist greets the opportunity of getting J«F- st, f- *£«0“t of Congressional pasiV re ot the Egnu. Oi.ir;er with -r atal and fMS* HSuS.^ratification. Ju it e 4 ' .g joy there *. it’ dtfasifity sen.'-' *V ani1 with his If the Dem- him, it is un called a party. The riuon as a journal does not rally Constituents upon the- proposition it ’as laid’ down, and is, by its own argu ment, not worth the paper it is printed on. We Come. The Atlanta Constitution invites ns to business. We accept the invitation, and get to work. But at the risk of exciting tlie concern of our esteemed contempora ry at what it is pleased to term our waste of space, we must be indulged in a pre liminary paragraph'or so. We have already taken occasion to set forth in full the objections which Wfhold to the candidaey of Mr. Stephens. The Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist reDro Juced them at length, and did not attempt to answer them. The Constitu tion attempted to answer them hut failed, and also failed to state our positions cor rectly and intelligently. To oblige our esteemed contemporary, we use its ex pression and return again. We propose to recapitulate the main objections again, but this must do for once and all. The daily demands upon us render it impossible lor us to do this same work every day, and still do justice to our readers. When the managing editor of the Con stitution comes home we must not be ex pected to work over next week the busi ness of this. Oar objections to the nomi nation of Mr. Stephens are that he is physically impotent. This proposition does not require discussion. That his memory is in such a condition as to ren der him mentally incompetent. We have discussed ibis proposition at length in con nection with the Speer dispatch, the Fel ton letter and the surrounding circum stances, and it cannot have failed to arrest the attention of the Constitution. His candidacy is based on a false as sumption, viz: that there are dangerous di visions in the party which he and he alone can heal. We have the assurance of the Constitution that the party was never more united and harmonious. He offers no host age for his administra- tration, not even the pledge of the two coming years, for his health is so precari ous and his age so advanced that he holds life by a frail and uncertain tenure. It will not do to go to his past record, for we are met by two open and undisguised re volts upon his part against the party. His candidacy comes in questionable shape, under circumstances unlooked for, at a time unexpected. As the discussion of this point involves the challenge of the Constitution and tho very pith and germ of its article, we quote it as follows: Let us get down to business. Colonel Lamar charges that tho Democrats who support Mr. Stephens have mado a “new coalition”—that there is juggling about tho movement, and that it will split the party if it is persisted in. Now, let him specify on these points. We ask him to say-in terms precisely what he means. Where is the juggling—who are the jugglers— what are they juggling with and what arc they juggling about? We also quote the Constitution further from its issue of May 2Gtli. It says: There Is a great conspiracy coming to head in tho Democratic ranks, and tho object of the ■conspiracy is to nominate Mr. Stephens. We do not mind saying that we are taking a hand in this conspiracy ourselves. The “coalition” which lately fretteu and vexed the soul of the Constitution is in harmony with it the nomination of Mr. Stephens. Sneer has proclair,^; that Mr. cai,iV“^«e2r' ' Let us make a resume of this matter. Governor Colquitt goes to Washington to ■hosen Mr. con f er with Mr. Stephens a3 to the gov ernorship, while the Constitution was busy getting up other candidates. No other Democratic press in the State took part in this business at the time. The “coalitionists” through their organs de clared that they were fin sympathy and correspondence with him on the same sub ject. Senator Brown, Governor Colquitt and Governor Bullock were with him just be fore the publication of the Smith letter. Speer announces him as his candidate. The “coalitionists” recommend him as theirs. The Constitution, after declaring one day that it had no candidate, rushes to the support of Mr. Stephens. The In dependents support him. The Constitu tion supports him. Judge Crawford says that 'Mr. Stephens desires to harmonize the conflict between the independents and the organized. And yet the independents proclaim th%t they will organize on Mr. Stephens, and fight the Democracy for every other office. We took occasion yesterday to mention the names of many distinguished Georgians fit to be made governor. MeD to whom the party is indebted for great and signal services, and a^y one of whom we would most cheerfully support. It is safe to say that not one of these men could go before a Democratic convention and ask its support hampered, as Mr. Stephens is, by the conditions to which we have alluded. That there would be jealousies and ambitions as between themselves it is useless to deny, but these would not be complicated by. any coali tion support and sympathy, and so the road to harmonious action would be easier and plainer.' We have had an active connection with Georgia politics since 185G, and we can say in all seriousness to the Constitution that in all of this time we have seen no candidate in a position so calculated to embarrass, distract and divide the party as Mr. Stephens at this present writing. He comes with the assertion that he is a Bourbon Democrat, and yet with a fol lowing who denounce Bourbon Democrats and have struck hands with the enemy to destroy them. Any candidate the Democracy may se lect will, have the strength of the first, and be shorn of ihe weakness of the last. We have endeavored to attend to the business to which we were invited by the Constitution. Now, we have a little hit of our own. The Constitution closes the. article to which we have been addressing ourselves with the following paragraph : Personal assaults on men who are candidates for nomination based on nothing hut private grievances injure the party, and occasion strife when there is no need for it. Taken as an axiom of moral philosophy or as a campaign motto, it -is equally en titled to our respect. But in its precise connection, with no other' meaning than these, it is out of place. The Constituiion has, in its present po sition, the active sympathy of a party which is given to “formulating” its ex pressions. In the discharge of journalis tic duties, it has become our misfortune, perhaps, to widely differ from an esteemed contemporary. Otrr 'positions have been taken openly, and have been backed by all of the resources at our command. As a member of a party we have endeavored to contribute our aid towards a wise and harmonious result.“We should be pleased to learn from the Constitution if it pro poses to make a personal application of the language of the paragraph wo have quoted. camp, to get a late independent for their leader. The blaster and bravado of the paragraph under review famishes no ar gument to sustain the Chronicle’s posi tion. It has the regulation strength of the arguments advanced by the new coali tion organs, but it is too weak to stand alone. PHMtSONAl. “hsr son Felton, CuP*'Ni Thornton et a■, ^ jokes in the fsco of an would. The Columbus Times, which, by the way is always behind the times, thinks,the work that the Teleohaph and Messengeg is now doing is “wild and scattering.” Be ing a dead paper, the Times ngturally con siders signs of life in a contemporary as evidence of fearful recklessness. It is said that General Hancock will re- ceivo the Democratic nomination for gov ernor of Pennsylvania. If he should, there will be but little dGubt of his election. Divided as the Radicals Of that State are, they could not withstand the enthusiasm that would bear Hancock np on its wing3. Thebe is something donbly remarkable in Col. P. Walsh’s admiration for Col. Marcellos E. Thornton, the leading Repub lican editor in Georgia. Pat thinks Mar cellos is very nearly “right this year.” This will be more agreeable to Marcellos than to the Democratic voters of the eighth Congressional district. It Is said the colonels of the eighth district hove drawn lots for the wardrobe of Little Aleck, and that his Congressional mantle has been drawn by Col. Walsh. That explains. e«ni J yHerald. ^j^hat explains. But it doesn’t yet liear that "the Democrats of the eighth |trictwill ratify the programme of the ^coalition conspirators. roniclc has simply stepped to tho front brass band is in play; the Telegraph tardy tones o'f the hurdy-gurdy.— onicle. jeely be blamed for it, how- ,is remembered that in tho jnton plays tho kettle drum, :1s, Howell tho bass drum nbination horn. is to think that the sup- r the Democrats in Wasb- Uesire that Mr. Stephens Pernor of Georgia, Jonght to i all opposition to him. When FTTgitTeditor gets to Washington City, Pd gets loaded down with terrapin stew, he is apt to go daft. The Georgia govern orship will not be settled, thi3 year, by the barnacles that hang around Mr. Stephens in Washington. The Macon Telegeaiti declares that not one of the papers which advocate Mr. Stephens for governor give any valid reasons for its choice. When the people want a man, the burden is on the objectors to show his unfitness.—Avgusta Chronicle. That is true. Bnt the burden at.present is on the “man” to show that the people want him. Indications are that the bnrden will be greater than he can bear., Q Sr ... , me partisan editors seem to rc- uurcl Mr. Stephens’ candidacy as a sort of polit ical ensilage.—Augusta Chronicle. It is said that “an honest contession is good for the sonl.” The Chronicle is en tiled to score one, on the above paragraph. Tho able-bodied willingness of one of the editors of the Chronicle to browse in the Congressional pasture that is opened np by Mr. Stephens’ candidacy is clearer than an open secret, all through the eighth dis trict. It. has been repealed*: charged and never den! <i, that'vxov. (Colquitt, aB a time when the Constitution was amusing the people with the suggestions of the names of Blount, Bacon, Crawford, Jackson, and even Speer, as gubernatorial candidates was visiting - Washington and holding conferences with ilr. Stephens upon the subject of the governorship. It is stated that he has been there again re cently and upon the same errand. It is a 4 well known and accepted fact that Mr. Willingham of the Cartersville Free Press is the close confidential and trusted friend of Mr. Stephens.- We quote as follows from his journal of the 1st inst.: He was under intense suffering on Sunday, the 21st ulL, when, as we understand, Senator Brown, Governor Colquitt and ex-Governor Bullock were in his room the most of the day, a time he should not have been disturbed in his physical agony. His letter of the 22d, in which there were a few words too many, was written the next day. That letter was not the outcome of Mr. Stephens* cool, and deliberate judgment, in our humble opinion. Even in his physical agony he did not forget to say that “the recommendation of my (his) name to be voted for as govornor by the people of Georgia, by the highly respectable men recent ly assembled at Atlanta, and whose good opin ions and confidence I appreciate in no small degree.” The independents had jriaced Mr. Stephens, by their indorsement, in a position where the so-called “organized**, had to nomi nate him or suffer defeat; This they knew, and the tricksters, seeing this, have adroitly set about to appropriate Mr. Stephens* promi nence as a candidate for governor to them selves. Mr. Stephens would prove nntrue to his own written declarations were he to attempt to ignore the independent element that has been the prime factor in presenting*him as a candi date for governor—in forcing the “organized** to consent to his nomination for that office on the 19th proximo. And again: Mr. Stephens is a thorough Invalid, perfectly helpless now by reason of a lame foot, has to be lifted from his bed like an infant, and these wily tricksters took advantage of his feeble con" dition to work trouble in bis feeble mind. Shame! , Colonel Thornton for months past has kept standing an announcement that Mr. Stephens would run for governor, and has repeatedly declared that he was author ized to make the announcemant. His authority has never been questioned or denied. In the Post-Appeal of ths 1st inst., he says: The time has como when we can speak out and tell all there is in it since the Bourbons lx>g;trally Considered. We can do no less than insist that each party choose its own candidate and put him upon- its own platform. A party that hasn't the nerve to demand this much and be satisfied with nothing less, is not worthy of being called a party, and the journal that hesitates to rally its constitu ents on so plain a proposition is not worth the can now force them into a compliance. The Democratic convention has either got note Mr. Stephens or suffer defe ^ t - If they now no m other man that will xesult. o <c * * Until the Democratic convention slaughters Mr. Stephens, or in his letter accepting the Democratic nomination h’e repudiates his friends by proclaiming strongly against them, the JPost-Apycal will have to per mit his name to remain nt its masthead. In the Columbus Enquirer-Sun, of the 1st inst., a journal published at the home of Judge Martin J. Crawford, an intimate friend of Mr. Stephens, we find Judge Crawford quoted as follows: He fully believes that Mr. Stephens sincerely desired to retire at the end of his present term to private life, and that his new relations to the party arc the result of a conviction on his mind that the use of his name as a candidate for governor would harmonize the conflict be tween the organized and independent Demo crats of the State, hence his consent to its use. Mr. Stephens himself, after the last meeting ot the coalitionists, wrote to Par son Felton that he had managed that meeting “admirably.” Chronicle Blaster. The^acbrrTELEGRA.pn seems to regret that this year, in Georgia, the peoDle are more “vig orous” than the rest *of the bosses.—Chronicle \znd Constitutionalist. \ The above paragraph is a sample of the absurd commentaries of tte new coalition organs on tbeposition of the,TELEGBAPH and Messenger. The people of Geor gia—the Democrats of Georgia, ought to be more vigorous than the bosses of the new coalition, and we earnestly hope that they will show themselves to be so, when the July convention meets, by defeating for the nomination the candidate of the Post-Appeal and the Chronicle. It is absurd for Thornton’s Augusta hacker to pretend that there has been any great popular demand . that Mr. Stephens shall he the next governor of Georgia. His name was suggested by the old coalition, with which he flirted until sundry officious Democrats determined to supplant the old coalition in his affections by tendering him the support of a new coalition, formed out of such elements of the old one as would stick, and snch Democrats as, through fear, favor or self- interest, could be inveigled into the move ments To say that there has been any in dication of a purpose on the part of the Democratic masses to take Mr. Stephens out of an office which he is confessedly too feeble to fill, to place him in another office for whose duties he is more unfitted than for those of the Congressional office, is to be guilty of making political history, and very absurd political history at that. The Democratic masses have not been represented by any of the intercessory squads of barnacles, bummers, dead-heats and ringsters who have, from first to last, beseiged Mr. Stephens to allow the use of his name before the Democratic convention, under 'the false plea that he alone could thus heal imaginary divis ions in the party. In what Demo cratic community fn the State have the people spoken out, to call him to the leadership of the Democratic party? Will the Chronicle avouch the Democratic ori gin of the letters and petitions which Mr* Stephens claims to have received, urging him to become a candidate for governor? It was Col. Thornton who the Chronicle claims is “nearer right this year than Edi tor Lamar,” that sent forth into the State the suggestion that letters should be writ ten and petitions should bes^ntjbN ' Stephens, to indugc- J’ : " * • >z have agreed to nominate Mr. Stephens, and we eubernatori* 1 e ironic e * that Thornton used Democratic agents to carry out his purpose? It proba bly knows that the rank and file of the Democratic party m this State does not share in its intense admiration for the wisdom of the Radical editor of the Post- Appenl. Where, then, does the Chronicle get its evidence that the chance of pur pose on the *part of Mr. Stephens was brought about by Democratic influence, or that any suggestion whatever has come from them—looking to his elevation to the leadership? If the Chronicle has any evidence looking in that direction, it would not be amiss to publish it; if it has not, then it should cease trying to create the impression that, in fighting their whole miserable, cowardly, seif-seekiug business, the Telegraph and Messen ger is trying to thwart thq will of the Democratic masses. Let the Chron icle furnish the evidence that Geor gia Democrats are iorgetful enough, fool ish enough, to go into the coalition —Mrs. James T. Field will be the guest of Mrs. Ole Bull in Sweden this summer. ~ —The late Mrs. Hoyt, of New York, a daughter of Gen. Scott, was Randolph Rogers' lodel for The Los£PleladV —Miss Nellie Horton, “ the daughter of Southern Judge,” got on a big “tear” in Chi cago the other day and was locked up. —-Mabone winces under the fire of his ola comrades in his arms. He has signed a pe tition favoring the appointment of Tebbs to an office. This may mollify Tebbs. —Fred. Archer, the celebrated English jockey, keeps his weight down to 117 pounds by breakfasting on seidlitz powders and hard crackers. He is worth nearly a half million dollars, hut only keeps it to kiok at. —The Sultan still refuses to be con vinced that his is not the loftiest throne in Europe, and his shaking hands recently with the French ambassador is regarded in Constan tinople as a most surprising piece of conde scension. —(Jen. Baum’s chances for a seat in the United States Senate, from Illinois, do not seem to be as bright as he could wish. The best informed Republicans in the State think that, owing to the multiplicity of candidates, David Davis may again slip in and carry off the honors. —Some curious individual, wondering what will become of the New York Herald when the present owner dies, suggests that it may fall to Mr. Bell, Bennett’s brother-in-law, who married his only sister. Though Mr. Bennett has been so frequently reported on the verge of marriage, he is still a bachelor. —Major-General John S. Bowen, a Confederate soldier of prominence, was buried in a grave near Raymond, Miss.,* two days be fore the surrender of .Vicksburg. By his side not long afterwards the remains of Colonel Des- mukes, of Arkansas, were interred. General Bowels friends desire to remove his remains, but tbdV do not know his grave from that of Col. Desmukes. —The proposed law to authorize di vorce is again under consideration in the French Assembly and Paris is excited. Mad ame Grevy, says Figaro, is in favor of the bill. ‘‘As far as I am concerned I have nothing to fear,” remarked the femme bourgeoise of the honest old president; “I am sure Jules loves me, and beside, he is very sensitive to cold at night.” —Returning from a visit to the Princess Louise at Kensington Palace recently, Queen Victoria drove down the middle of Rotten Row, thus exercising a prerogative belonging exclu- sively.to the sovereign, and one of which she has very rarely availed herself. From this an cient privilege of royalty came the name “Route du Roi,” whence, by corruption, “Rot ten Row.’* —New York Sun: President Arthur and Senator Conkling went out to Long Island together on a fishing excursion on Sun day last after attending church. They were politely escorted by Mr. Austin Corbin, the president of the Long Branch railroad. Three handsomer men of more varying styles of mas culine beauty can hardly be seen together in any other country than this. Hail Columbia, happy hind! —T. J. Mackey, the fraud the Repub. licans have seated in the House, was oncef*dep- uty surveyor at Nebraska City, Neb., where he stole a lot of dry goods from the store of Hall <fc Baxter, and tried to murder a clerk i or demand ing payment Subsequently, under threat of suit, he paid for the goods, and left Nebraska City, leaving many debts.| He is regarded^thero as a scoundrel ef the deepest dye. Ho went to South Carolina in I860, and, after the war, iden tified himself with the carpet-bag brigado aiid went in for stealings. JBliEVX I'1E8» He gave to her a Pcen-To peach That riped in April weather, In May they’re far from papa’s reach, In Florida together. " Bradstreet reports an ominous indus trial outlook in 25 of the cities of the United States. The State of Kansas boasts of having a million and a half acres covered with growing wheat, and a week ago the grain was lour feet high. In the last 10 years there have been 41,000 new farms opened in Arkansas, which is an average of 500 new farms in 10 years to each county. The Dunkers are In session at Brook- ville near Dayton, Ohio, 5,000 members, of the church from all parts of tho country being present. The Mormons have adopted a btate constitution by a large vote, and will soon be knocking at the doors of Congress for admission to the Union. The New Orleans I'imcs-JDernocrat pre dicts that the completio’\of the Mexican rail- gr raskc jV in fit condition for shiptj^* 1 ' , . 3 •wished to petrous at loi . - />*>1 ; From their t*ft{ae, And saluted the vapors thin and light— ‘‘Good evening and how do you dewl” The announcement is made that tbe Yellowstone division of the Northern Pacific railroad will be opened some time in June. So in a short Ume passengers can go through by No one imagined how*vast a number of deer still remained in the swamps of Louisi ana until the high water of the present season drove them from their impenetrable retreats. Thousands of them have crossed the river in the immediate vicinity of Natchez. The business of the great French patent medicine house known as “Maison Frere,” the property of M. Ch. Torchon, deceased, was late ly sold at auction for the enormous sum of .s2,- 100,000. It was bought in by the widow, her chief competitor being an English company, which stopped bidding at $1,800,000. ‘ Prof. Sheldon, a high authority, at tributes the deterioration of Cheshire cheese to the use of large.quantities of bone manure on the pastures. Unimproved land produces the best quality of cheese. Except Stilton, he rates fine Leicesler as the best English cheese, and Gruyere the best of all cheese. Beef has reached the highest point evep known in Chicago. On tho 26th inst. choice beef cattle sold at the stock yards in that city at >12.50 per cwt. on tho hoof; porter-house steaks were 30 sents a pound at the markets, sirloins 25 cents, and round steaks 16 cents. The prob abilities are that the prices will yet be higher. The farmers are sending their dairy cattle to market. When a Chinaman was buried at Eu reka, Nev., the other day, with the usual cere monies, some squaws, waiting until the even ing shades prevailed, visited the grave and rob bed it of the roast pig which had been prepared for the wayside refreshment of the deceased; but the wary Chinamen, anticipating such a raid, had seasoned the pigrwith some stomach wrenching compound and thieving squaws found their banquet followed by a great up- heavaL The last duel reported from Paris was really an affair some consequence. Presi dent Grevy’s son-in-law, Wilson, holds the place of assistant to Leon Say, -the minister of finance, and apparently conspired to force his. GENERAL PRESENTJlENTS Of the Grand Jury of Bibb Connty Su perior Conrt, Kpriusr Term, 1SS2. We, the grand jury, impaneled, chosen and sworn for the present term of the Superior Court of Bibb county, do make the following presentments: Never before (to our knowledge), in the his tory of Bibb county, has it been tho privilege of the grand jury, at the spring term, to chron icle such a plentiful harvest as is now being gathered. Consequent upon a failure to make good crops of com or cotton* many of our farmers were, but a few months since, despondent; their money exhausted, their credit Impaired, and their barns niul storehouses nearly empty. The abundant and unprecedented yield from their fields of grain has now brought a season of plenty to their homes, and their hearts I.should swell with gratitude and thanksgiving to the Great Giver of nil Good, who sent tho sunshine and tho rain in due season. They should perceive, U>o, how gVently they are favored in soil, In climate, and how much, year by year, they may increase their store by thrift and industry, when God’s blessing Is with tho sower and the seed. Wq have, too, a source of great congratula tion in the many substantial evidences of pros perity around us, in tho large nunfber of ele- gantstores. dwellings and public edifices which have been erected in the past year and are uow approaching completion. While we have been called upon to find some true bills for grave crimes, and many charges for minor offenses have been brought before us, we believe that there is a steadily growing im provement in the morals of our people, and that we can conscientiously bear witness to the more than average security to life and property which we enjoy. is customary at the spring term of tho grand jury, our several committees have iuves- ugatea the usual matters of public interest. a? . PUBLIC BUILDINGS. We find the court house in good condition and well cared for by the janitor. We recom mend that the unfinished portion of the base ment of the building be made to correspond with that portion which has been finished, and thafcmore comfortable accommodations be pro dded for managers of elections. The ventila tion of this portion of the building might, wo think, be improved, and other rooms be fitted dip for renting. « Our committee on public buildings reiterate ile condemnation which is semi-annually Assed upon the building which they denomi nate “the jail (so-called).” They report tho building as well and neatly kept, with the ex ception of one room, which is crowded, poorly ventilated and offensive. They ruggest that a store-room bo provided in the basement, and * that the keeping of rations in the hallway of the building be discontinued. PUBLIC ROADS. We find all the roads and bridges in the coun ty in satisfactory condition,' except Searcy’s bridge, which is complained ofas'mbad or der. We also have complaints of the narrow ness of the road between Nelson’s mill and Swift creek. HOSPITALS AND CHARITIES. Our committee has visited the county hos pital, which was found in excellent sanitary condition; the several wards cleanly and the patients well cared for. Their number is— white, males 8, females 14, children 2; colored, males 3, females 7. Those of the female pa tients who are able to-work at the needle occu py themselves in making clothing for the coun ty chain gang. The grounds are well kept up, and the vegetable garden is^irell ordered and is as productive as any in the county. The gen eral condition of the hospital reflects credit- upon the surgeon in charge, Dr. Wright, and tho superintendent, Mr. Harman. Th^ committee found Mr. W. G. Smith in the faithful discharge of his duties, and from his hooks they learned that at .present there are 81 white and 51 colored persons receiving charity from the county, which is in excess of the usu al number. Mr. Smith is now dispensing about 125 bushels of meal per month to the poor of the county. BOOKS AND RECORDS. ' The committee appointed to make the usual examinations and reports in this department have'performed the work as well as could bo done m the time they could give it They find the books of the several county officials neatly and apparently correctly kept. It is, however, the opinion of this committee, unanimously concurred In by this jury .that the law requiring the grand jury to make these periodical exami nations contemplates a more, rigid, searching and comprehensive investigation than it is practicfblefor a comiMttee of that body to make during the' term of their sitting, aud in tho hoars of tho day when the jury is not In session, even if each each member of the committee is familiar with the system by which the various books are kept. We therefore recommend that at the commencement of the sitting of the grand, jury for each term.they appoint one or more experts, who shall be duly sworn, and who shall make these examinations and submit a written^re- port thereof during the session, receiving reas onable per diem compensation for their ser vices. 1 i ii.cre is liny.- i„, .M:tii.*ri:v for ].;iyincr for such services, we request that steps be taken to enact such authority as soon as practicable. The sub-committee which examined the ex- cculicm docket of the clerk of Superior Court, reportsthaV this docket docs not show a cor rect Acord of fi. fas. issued from that /;ourt. When a ii. ia. is settled f aud paid off the execution docket should show that the elcrk and shcriiY receive theiri-costs, and the fi. fa., marked settled in full iprprincipal, interest qud'cost, he returned tothe-clerk to be filed as an office paper. In a Noted Men ! Dr. John F. Hancock, late President of the National Phar maceutical Association of the United States, says: “Brown's Iron Bitters has a heavy sale, is conceded to be a fine tonic; the character of the manir- facturers is a voucher for its purity and medicinal excellence.” Dr. Joseph Roberts, President Baltimore Pharmaceutical College,- says; “I Indorse it as a fipp meSicine, reliable as a strengthening tonic, free from alcoholic poisons.” Dr. J. Faris Moore, Pit. D., Professor of Pharmacy, Bald- more Pharmaceutical College, says: ° Brown's*Iron Bitters is a safe and reliable medicine, positively free from alcoholic poisons, and can be recommended as a tonic for use among those who oppose alcohol.” Dr. Edward Earickson, Secretary Baltimore College of Phar macy, says • “I indorse it as an excellent medicine, a good digestive agent, and a non-intoxicant in the fullest sense.” Dr. Richard Sapington, one of Baltimore’s oldest and most reliable physicians, says; “All who hare used it praise its standard virtues, and the well- known character ofthe house which makes It is a sufficient guarantee of its being all that is claimed, for they are men who could not be in- . duccd to offer anything else but & reliable medicine for public uac.” ported matte,, fe>s scs this is not done., and it is one cause of trouble in this dircc- jptom of granting permission, as a t-’-yo c.rartesy, for th4.plaintiff, or his at torney, v u.Tio from the ellerk’s office fi. fas. re turned" "i(li\bGna.’' wl.fch are thu: often settled ifi 'i' o r LintVvnd to bp properly Lie county cou$jfiecall attention to this matter as broilto our notice, believing that a strict eomo dance with tlie law should be re quired of all persons concerned with the en tries on these execution dockets. ; .We have looked into the fine and forfeiture account, and the solicitor has rendered a state ment showing the receipts and disbursements of this fund to the satisfaction of this jury. PUBLIC SCHOOLS. Oar county has no loftier monument to her wisdom and refinement, and no institution of which she may be more jnstly proud than her many temples of learning. Our public school system, under tho direction Of a conscientious Board of Education, ana the management of an efficient superintendent, will bear favorable comparison with that of any community of equal size in this State, and the comparison might be extended far beyond this limit. Extending and affording to rich and poor alike the enlightening and refining advantages of a liberal education, the fruits are percepti ble in the diminution of crime and in the im proved morality and intelligence of our young and rising generation; for we look more to tho mental ana moral training of our schools to prevent crime and to render it abhorrent than to the dread of punishment, which in the de lays and quibbles and loopholes of tho law is neither sure nor prompt, and crime oft goes “unwhipped of jqstioe.” Facilities for educa tion, as demonstrated by all history, cannot be too much enlarged, nor can money be appro priated and devoted to a better cause. The present condition of the public school buildings is very satisfactory, and the accom modations ample, .with the exception ofthe old buildings at the North Macon 'Grammar School, which are very dilapidated, u safe and unhealthy, and os such unfit for school pur poses. We earnestly recommend that suitable rooms may be provided in‘’their place before the reopening of the schools. The su perintendent also.in his annual report, suggests a few alterations in the rooms for colored pupils, involving a small expense, which we hope may be acted upon. We recommend the appropria tion of $20,000 asked for to defray the expenses for the coming year, and we trust that the in crease over last year’s appropriatio: . ■ ble the board to extend the duration of the school term, which, in our opinion, now al lows a vacation so long as to be detrimental to the advancement of the pupils. JUSTICES OF THE PEACE. I In examining the records of the Justices of the Peace our committee finds that some have performed the duties faithfully and correctly, while others, from Jgnorance or carelessness, have made serious errors and omissions. If no law now exist* to promptly correct such ineffi ciency, in order to exclude those whose quali fications are not commensurate with the digni ty of the position and the duties and responsi bilities ofthe office, we recommend, such legis lation as will require those elected to pass authorities A Druggist Cured. Booosboro, MA, Oct. ia, iSSo. Gentlemen: Brown's Iron. Bit ters cured me of a bad attack of Indigestion and fullness in the stom ach. Having tested it, I take pleas ure in recommending it to my cus tomers, and am glad to say it gives entire satisfaction to all.” Geo. W. Ho7fman, Druggist. Ask your Drfcggist for Brown's Iron Bitters, and take no other. One trial will convince you that it is just what you need. Catering 'glacts. Sea-Side House, Cumberland Island. rriHIS popular summer resort is now open. X Arrangements for cheap transportation can be made by applying to tho agent of E. T., V. and G. R. R., M. and B. Division, Macon. KATES OF BOARD i $2.00 per Day; $10 per week; two weeks $18; three weeks $24; four weeks $30. Edffar A. Ross, may23tf Proprietor. WARM SPRINGS, Meriwether County, Georgia. OPENING JUNE 1st under the new man agemenfc of Davis & Hervey, with first-class accommodations in every respect. It is useless to comment on location, virtue of water, heilthfulness and beauty of this well known summer resort. The proprietor are experts in their spe cial lines. Capt. Frank A. Hervey, assisted by his wife, will have the management of the hotel culinary departments; with Cfcas. L. Davis in chargs of tho office and all out side business. ei-^J For further information apply to J- DAVIS & HERVEY, may23ti!Julyl Proprietors. iiuuHtc, uuu ojijjoiwm; wuopucu mw ^^--j -cxaiuinatiou before the proper uumunuus ue- chief’s resignation. Wilson and his privatem^ftrp their commissions arc issued. E. C. Gran- ties be- secretary, Dreyfuss, published several bitter ar ticles against Say in Rochefort’s Lanterne. and Say’s private secretary, Pallain, challenged Dreyfuss. Both were badly punctured, and the quarrel still goes on, and is, of course, regarded as the affair of tho employers rather than of the two secretaries. The anti-polygamy law seems to have had no effect upon the immigration of Mormon proselytes to this country. A batch of about three hundred of these converts from Europe arrived at New York on Sunday, and others are expected to follow. Six emissaries of_theMo^ mon Church, called elders, sailed^CffmcT heip last week to- join the misg^OTffie church. The on the work of immigration, which Cb«cwiS7iCveral thousand every year, is of a Very low grade both physically and mentally. The men are weakly, dull and ignorant, and the women are anything but intelligent or comely. The last arrive Is were mostly Swedes. Under the heard of “Tho Curse of Chloral,” the Lancet observes: “A sad glimpse into the life of the late Dante Rossetti, over whose newly closed grave the lovers of two arts are mouruing, is afforded by the brief memoir of Theodore Watts. Tho curse of chloral upon any life i3 disastrous enough, but its features are brought into terrible salience when it falls upon the gifts of genius. No man ever lived who was so generous as he in sympathizing with other men’s work, save only when the cruel fumes of chloral turned him against ev erything. The dependence on its influence which chloral, habitually taken, inevitably causes: the nervous prostration which it grad ually induces; the irritability which follows chloral sleep, and follows equally the sleepless nights of abstinence: the slowly sapping or tho nervous energy—all these are only too familiar, and over and over again during tho past ten years we have pointed out their moral.’’ If Ton are Rained in health lrom any cause, especially from the use of any of the thousand nostrums that promise so largely with long fictitious, testimonials, have no fear. Resort to Hop Bitters at once, and in a short time you will have the most robust and blooming health. niss, Esq., justice of the peace, 716th district G. M , has failed to present his book for examina tion. We recommend the appointment of Charles M. Burton as Notary Public and ex- officio justice of the peace for the 564th district G. 31., to fill the vacancy caused by the resig nation of W. A. Poff. PAY OF JURORS AND BALIFFS. For this and Ihe fall term of the Bibb Supe rior Court we recommend that jurors be paid one dollar per day, and bailiffs one dollar and fifty cents per day. ROAD COMMISSIONERS. We have elected tho following road commis sioners to fill vacancies from January, 1882: tXast Macon district, C. C. Bnlkcom, two years, ClTy&istrict, Jr^.'X^^Wd^ybffW’^^LUpper W. T. Hollingsworth, four years; Vinoville, wT F. Anderson and N. M. Hodgkins, four years; Godfrey district, R. C. Wilder and Jerc Hollis, four years; Howard district, J. K. Johnson and W. H. Cason, four years: Rutland district, W. C. Hardy, four years; Warrior district, Green Davis and James Hamlin, four years, and Wm. Burgay two years, to-fill the unexpired term of Benson, resigned; Hazard district, J. F. Lums- den and J. J. Amason, four years. The session of this grand jury commenced on April 24th. Following the usual custom, and in deference to our business interests, we would have adjourned at the expiration of two weeks; but acquiescing in the suggestions of his Honor, Judge Simmons, aud of our solicitor- general, 3IrJ Hardeman, that by meeting from tme to tiaie, as business brought before the court might' require the action of a grand jury, wa would relieve the county of considerable expense, which would be incurred by calling together another panel, wo have deferred an adjournment until this day, when we find that HS ness *°r the terra is completed, irking together harmoniously and for the pul ic good, and aided by the clear and cor prehensive charge of his Honor, Judge bin nons, and by the courteous attendance of soi itor-Gencrul Hardeman, wo have not louju our duties onerous. David E. Blount, Foreman, B. 1 Willingham, «• • Carnes, WiriH. Burden, h- flPJP® Ogden, \\ al F. Adams, Win . Cox, w. I Mansfield, R- H Irown, Geoi s. Obear, R. F. Ouslcv, \\. R. Phillips, James M. Jones, John Y. Lowe, John G. Deitz, R. J. Reddy. Hardin T. Johnson, William A. Julian, Charles II. Solomon, HOTEL, Meriwether County’, Georgia; OPEN MAY IS, 1889. "DATES OF BOARD -Per day, $2; one All week, $10; two weeks, $18; I weeks, $24; four weeks, $30. The most popular resort in Georgia. Ad dress, for farther information, THOMPSON & ALLEN. may!2-d2m Proprietors. Warm Springs, Western . North Carolina, IS open for the season of 1882. Finest cli mate and scenery on the continent. Pan- zello’s Cornet Band from Philadelphia will furnish music. The hotel is complete in all its appointments. Railroad and tele- graphic communication. Apply for circu lar to HOWERTON & KLEIN, Proprietors. Juneldlm i, Va. THE best Dyspeptic Water known, will be open for the reception of guests on the First Day of June next. Recommendations first class. Pamphlets containing a description of the place, with ertificates of some of the remarkable nres effected by the use of the water fur nished on application. Post, telegraph and express offices in tho,hotel. O. A. CALHOUN, muy7d6w General manager. Collier’s McIntosh House, Indian Springs, Geoboe and Whit CouiEB, Proprietors. This celebrated summer resort of health and pleasnre is now open and prepared better than ever to meet the wants of guests. The hotel has undergone thorough renovation and offers new attractions for the comfort and entertainment of visitors. Attentive servants and the culinary depart ments are made especial features. A splendid band has been engaged to furnish music during the season. The Springs are now placed within less than two hours ride of Macon by means of the new extension of the Macon aud Brnns- oo'nvoy passengors^L-onF’lSo hotel. Information as to rales of board can be learned by addressing either ” Indian Springs, Ga., or IVHIT COLLIER, Macon, Ga. m3Itf .P Christopher C. Balk com. L >ies and sickly girls requiring a non coholic stimulant, will find Brown’s Iron itters beneficial. Hill’s Hepatic Panacea, Manufactured by W. H. BARRETT, Druggist, Augusta, Georgia. ENTIRELY from ROOTS and HERBS that have for A CENTURY been success fully used for the removal of Bile from the system, correcting tho irregularities of the Stomach, and purifying the Blood. This medicine is well known 'in many places in Georgia and South Carolina, and has been reoom mended by the most learn ed of tho medical profession for HEADACHES, SOUR STOMACH, DYS PEPSIA, TORPID LIVER, CHILLS AND FEVER, SKIN ERUPTIONS AND BAD CONDI TION OF BLOOD, where scratches and simple cuts become annoying and aggravating sores. It is pnt up in larger bottles than other one dollar preparations, and retails for 50 cents a bot tle. It will onre the worst case of Colio in Mules and Horses. ap30dAwly COLLINS MANUFACTURING CO. MANUFACTURERS OF FINE CARRIAGES, DURABLE BUGGIES, RELIABLE FARM WAGONS. Manufacturing the above goods In Macon, we aro prepared to sell LOWER t* any house in the South. We will Dirpljteate any TVo2*tliex*ai Sill, Hot even tnkthg advantage or the freight; using strictly first-class material and wark ing only Exper*^ and Skilled Mechanics, v " And using improved and approved machlj ity, we simply defy all competition both home and road. gome and see ns andwo will astonish yon. HENRY EL IfcEJSiS, GENERAL INSURANCE AGENT 'No. 84 Mulberry St., Macon, Ga. Will write all kiritt* of insurance' as low as the lowest in STRONG, RELIABLE COMPANIES. mar23tf Patent Automatic C ^team Eng. Cut-Off fine. VIM. WRIGHT, Patentee asd Builder, Newburgh, N. Y. me ueu ot iuei, me sim plest in construction ana altogether the bestcufc-off engine In the market. Compound Engines for City Water Works; also for Manufacturing . purposes, eto. (Highest duty guar anteed.) Marine and Sta tionary Engines. jjjteun Boilers and Tanks Light rM Heavy Forgings Shat:;:. . roii-v-. BDuigi ers. Mill,- Work, Irpn ani • Brass Casting, letc. z—s A large assort ment OI •J'attorns on hand. T* Refers by permission to Bibb Manufacturing Company, Macon, Ga., who 1 these engine* in use. . Ameriea Still Further Ahead. Six Card Soft Finish Spool Cotton. Awarded all the Honors at the -4LTI “THE BEST THREAD FOB, MACHINE AND HAND SETTING.’', Two Gold Medals and tlie Grand Prize. jan31d m . y Pftfisnt Ad.j nutable Traveler Cleaner For Gotten Spinning I nmorefi darfn* fee TtoFNUl - THBoblttri atihfl fa WuyfkMta to FTfrreat I 6reaklnew# *fiw»d,'"* O -s9H 4a 4mI rr Among da. advujtccM vM* it wifcca ii, It will (.try hat) serve a -miforna; Weight t» the Tivreier, Aa4 eci—1 or ttmaios tkitead wkii» being rpu*. It will idle save teas ia < ins no eceasien to risen th# Trnv^w, it Will &l»o prrv«! Km brea and increase ife* *rf yant'by nrt.tr flat. Mat ia pinking the Trn’rntn n, m ablingone band to.' a'-u-mi ra-' r e then I. uon poMibta; lb* tarbm at tSa Travelers is about JU per eejfc. when tb* Clenn.r it racD. Adiress, dso20d6in ' WELCOiSJS JEJhUIff. Man (baste, H. H. Lowell Machine Shop SjUNm-ACTTmiBS OI EVXBX DkSCBIFIIOI? 0* Ootton IMLacIai n ex*y Of most approved patterns and with aU recent improvements PAPER MACHINERY. Also, Turbine Wheels, Shaftine asd Gearing, Hydraulic Presses aud Pumps, Elevators, Etc. FLANS FOR COTTON AND PAPER MTT.T-q OHAS. L. HILDKSTH, Superintendent, - Lowell, Mass. . A. BURKE, Treasurer, ,.28 State street, Boston. deo20tilljanl,83. S. S. PARIVIELEE, (iSuwgseor to R. H;. MAY & CO.,) Dealeir In CARRIAGES, BUGGIES, WAGONS, Oliilclren’s Carriages, SADDLES, HARNESS, LEATHER ETC. I w>U “try a full stock of goods in my line. Call and see me at COLEMAN & CO S OLD STAND, comer of Second and Cherry streets, before purchasing, mr7 6m