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The Public Schools of Atlanta.
Editor Sunny Sovth:
Coining from a twenty-three y r ears’ residence at
Chicago, I have taken up a permanent home m
your enterprising city, worthily called, “The Chi
cago of the South.” As my business would require
me to travel over the whole South, I was at liberty
to select from all its cities the place of residence for
mv family. In the final choice of Atlanta, two con
siderations prevailed,—its healthfulness and its
public schools.
While the epidemic was prevailing last summer,
I scanned the telegrams every day to see how At
lanta was faring. All that I got from this city was
an occasional report of contributions for the suffer
ers and of the heroic volunteering of your physi
cians to go to the help of Chattanooga and othei
places. So I wondered whether you were not
smothering your distress. But upon writing to my
friend, the Hon. E. L. Jones, I found that your city
was enjoying the same immunity which it had had
when the same plae e came up from the Ocean and
from the Gulf And later, the ex Mayor, in his re
tiring address, said that not a single case of the ter
rible malady nad ever originated here. Before his
departure from Atlanta, Dr. Leftwich informed
me that in his church of four hundred members, he
had not been havingmore than twofuneralsa year,
and that at one time he went eighteen months with
out the death of a child in his parish.
I made particular inquiry as to the educational
facilities of the city, and was glad to learn from
President E. A. Ware that you had an excellent
system of Public schools. I find it even so. The
school buildings are in themselves an ornament to
the city and in what they represent, they are a
credit. The quality of the schools, with their ac
complished superintendent and their approved sys
tem of giading, is truly praiseworthy. These
schools are a great attraction to families that are
looking for a change of home. With such, other
things being equal, good school accomodations
would gain the decision as to the place.
Not only the people at the North, who are seeking
a home in the Sunny South, but those in the coun
try round about who have gotten to a well-to do
condition, and are inquiring for a place where they
can have more of the amenities of society for their
families, will be drawn toward a city that presents
a high class of school advantages. If Atlanta
would sustain its superior attractiveness in this re
spect, she must preserve the eminent quality of her
schools. If she puts them down to a mediocre stan
dard, then thej’ will be only on a par with those of
the common range and so will have their special
influence. On this account—not to speak of the
higher motives—it is to be hoped that the sugges
tion of “shortening the annual term, or giving up
the high school, or dispensing with the office of Su
perintendent, may not become a necessity, nor any
other modification that shall cripple the present ef
fectiveness of the schools. To recede now would
bring damage to the fair fame of the city. It is
fitting that the Capital should hold up a high stan
dard to the whole State. The admirable series of
articles in your columns from “Citizen,” of Savan
nah, upon the rationale of Public schools, and that
other series of papers from Supt. Orr in the Consti
tution upon the same beneficent scheme, present a
gratifying indication as to the commitment of the
entire Common-wealth to the system of Public
schools. Surely they are the great democratic, phi
lanthropic, patriotic up-lifter of the people. Tneir
blessings are for the mass of the inhabitants. They
furnish the poor man’s college. They are for the
protection of the rich man’s property. They are
the guardian of the ballot-box, the Palladium of
our civil institution.
A word as to the proposed law for appropria
ting the avails of the sale of Public lands to the
cause of education in the several states, upon the
proportion of illiteracy. No more just or rational
measure for the Public welfare has been proposed
in a long time than this that was suggested by the
convention of State School Superintendents. Tbe
North will assuredly approve it asQ boon to the
whole country. The funds would come mainly out
of the Western lands; and it would be only a piece
of poetic reciprocity that the West should share
with the South in such a distribution. The Royal
Char ers of Virginia, Massachusetts and Conneticut
assigned them each a territory thus described: “In
length by all the breadth thereof throughout the
main land from Sea to Sea,” that is, a belt across
the continent, from Ocean to Ocean. After the
Revolution the States ceded their western lands to
the general government. The Ordinance of 1877,
which organized them into the North-West Territo
ry carried a proviso that every sixteenth section of
every township in all that region which now swarms
wit h empire states, should be given to the Public
schools. That sixteenth sectiou fell in wbat is now
the very heart of t'-eci>v of Chicago. At an early
dav all of this- except tw - or three blocks, was sold
off for t irty tnoutauu uoilars. If it had been kept
till now’ it would be worth as many millions. The
township of Cicero on the west of that city bad its
school section fall close to the great principality,
and has now from it. in hand and in prospect, a
fund of two or three hu: dred thousand dollars.—
The West, which has received so grand an inheri-
tenee from those mother states, may w’ell now
share with all tbe members of the national family
in the distribution of the proceeds of the sale of all
Public Lands within her domains.
Jos. E. Rot.
Michael, an eight-year-old son of Michael Lally, of
Reed street, near Wilmington, Del., was struck "acci
dentally on the nose by a base ball yesterday morning,
and blgd to death.
Alfred Montpelier died at the boarding house of Mrs.
Cassandra Met'lees, at Front and Shipley streets, Wil
mington, on Thursday. He was the son of the cashier
of the Granger's Bank of California at San Francisco. A
few years ago he was driven from his home by bis father,
because of reckless deeds. He sold recipes for a living.
On his sick bed a week or so since. City Treasurer Vin
cent wrote to Cashier Montpelier that the son was dying.
There then came from San Francisco tender letters from
Nellie and Louisa, sisters, and from the father. But thev
wrote that the mother had died during A1 red’s absence.
Soon after this fact became known to the young man he
died, utterly broken.
Terrible Death of a Cleveland Boy.
•
Cleveland, April 11.—A terrible accident occurred at
a rolling mill here yesterday. William Raleigh, a water
boy, was standing in front of one of t' e r ills through
which a bar of red-hot iron was being un. When the
iron is at the right temperature the bar is very pliable,
but by becoming chilled it takes all sorts of fantastic
forms, and flies and twistsabout in every direction. The
bar wrapped itself about the boy and encircled him in its
folds, literally burning his body in twain. It was several
minutes before he could be extricated. Meanwhile, the
iron was searing his flesh, causing the most horrible cries
of agony from the helpless sufferer. In a few moments
after he had been released he died in terrible agony. His
clothing was completely torn and burned from his body.
The Emigration Craze Strikes Virginia. | "hen -we purchase a cigar, imbibe a lager, or take
5 0 I a plate of soup. He loves the same novel we haye
just bo ght (leaves uncut), and so, oft, our cher-
The emigration fever has reached the colored peo- . ished book travels, land-sponges stop at our board-
pie in Virginia. In the counties bordering on the
Rappahannock and James rivers the excitement is
great. Those of the negroes who are able to pay
their fare West are preparing to leave, and those
not so fortunate as to have the ready cash on hand
are husbanding their funds in order that they may
ing-house, come familiarly into our sleeping room,
slap us familiarly on the back, stand before our
gl iss and brush their hair to the tune of the “Sweet
liy and By,” carry off, if carelessly lying around,
any stray cigars, sometimes borrow a shirt, often a
collar (chance if you ever see either again), use our
Death in Thirty Minuted.
“On Friday of week before last, Chick Coppage, a
young son of John Coppage, while plowing in a field
hear Pinson Mississippi turned up what he supposed to
be angelica root. He ate a quantity of it, and in a few
minutes he felt sick. But the first spasm passing ofl', he
started on with his work. In a few moments he grew
sick again, and walked to the fence, intending to climb
on it and rest. He had hardly seated himself on the
fence ere he fell off in a spasm and died in a few mo
ments. The unhappy youth had eaten hemlock, a dead
ly poison, famous in history for its quick fatality, and
classic as having been used by Socrates, the philosopher,
as the swiftest, surest and most painless of means for
journeying through the dark and dread valley that lies
between human life and immortal beatitude. Young
Coppage hardly lived thirty minutes after chewing the
fatal roots, and died with little pain. He was an indus
trious and premising boy, the idol of the happy home.”
Horrible Story of the Grave.
Some employes of the Pittsburg, Titusville
and Bt ffalo R iii'oad related a strange and hor
rible story yesterday. It seeme a man died
Itst week at Triumph, a small place not far
from Tidioute. Tne body was kept three days
and at the expiration of that time buried. Then
some curiouB person remembered Ibat a sister
of the dece; sed had lain in a death-like trance
for several days. It was suggested that per
haps the man had been prematurely buried.
This suspicion took eo strong a hold npon the
people that it was resolved to txhume the body,
and the c< ffin was disinterred Saturday last,
after having laid three da} s in the grave. The
lid was wrenched eff, when a horrible sight
gretted the eyes oft he resurrectionists. Evi
dently the supposed corpse bad revived, and
the wrenched man had fought desperately for
his li r e. Imprints of his finger nails were visi
ble on the lining of the c< ffin, which in some
plact s was torn into shreds. The c< ffin itself
was strained and wrenched apart at the joinings
in the death agonies of tbe miserable man who
whs bm ui alive. He bad tnrned completely
over, ana was found lyirg upon his breast, his
distorted countenance indicating the frightful
sufferings he had undergone.
Owen Meredith’s Latest.
Lord Beaconefield's poetic Viceroy ef India,
with the violet eyes and the blue silk panta
loon:, has been making himself dangeror,sly-
ridiculous of late. It appears that a young
eqw strienne in a circus has been winning mneb
applause in India, and a paper in Calcutta says
that on a recent occasion she was “presented
‘on behalf ol Lord Lytlou and a few admirers’
with a gieat gold medal struck expressly for the
occasion, and bearing the following inscription:
‘Presented to Miss Victoria Cooke, Empress ol
tbe Arens, by his Excellency, Lord Lytton, G.
M. S. I.. Viceroy if India, and friends. Ca'-
cutta February 7, 1879.”’ Not to mention the
faet that affairs in Afghanistan are somewhat
s< rious just now, it naturally strikes English
men as in rather doubtful taste for the repre
sentative of Victoria Empress of India, to be
bestowing the imperial title in this way upoD
another Viotoria at the capital city of Hindostan.
From recent statistics it appears that there aee no
fewer than 1,190 daily, week y, and monthly jour
nals publii hed in the French capital. Of these, 71
are devoted to religion, 104 to jurisprudence and
administration, 153 to commerce and finance, 23 to
geography and history, 130 to recreation, 31 to in
struction, 90 to literature and philology, 18 to fine
arts, 4tophotag aphy’, 8 to architecture, 15 tomu.-ic,
17 to the stage, 7o to fashions, 134 to industry, 80
to medicine, 48 to science, 29 to the army and navy,
38 to ag i ulture, and 23 to spot t. The number of
dailv pj p rs published in Paris is 49, and political
renews, 17.
Fire in a School Building with Over Two
Thousand Children.
In New York last week a fire broke out in a Grammar
School where there were two thousand, five hundred
- children within the walls of the lurge five-storied building.
There would have been an awful calamity, and hundreds
burned and crushed bad it not been for the cool self-pos
session of tile teachers, especially McGuire who discov
ered the fire while instructing one of the infant classes,
and quietly rose and informed the principal, Miss Clcs-
kev, who calmly directed the different teachers of the
infant classes to lead out the little hoys without any con
fusion. The alarm was then quickly hut quietly com
municated to the other floors, and the children, kept in
check by the utmost exertions, were led down the eight
stairways over the cracking flames and the smoke that
poured from the ground floor, into the streets, where the
wildest excitement prevailed—a vast crowd collecting,
engines rushing up, and frantic parents running here
and there. No lives were lost, hut it was a long time be
fore order was restored.
A Princes at a Music Hall.
The talk of Vienna is the innovation introduced by the
P.inei ss M» ttemich at one of he musie-lialls of the city,
known as the Gasthaus, where slie had been lately in the
habit of repairing with a select party of friends and
drinking champagne to the tune of popular songs. It
was widely known that the Princess is a connoisseur, as
she has, iii years gone by, enjoyed the lessons and famil-
liarity of Mile. Theresa, and it was freely hinted that
nobody could sing as slie did “Rien n’est saere pour un
sapeur.” Still in public hardly expected ever to he made
a judge of the accomplishment. The good folks that
smoke their pipes over their lager-beer at the Gasthaus
were not a little surprised therefore when they saw the
Princess ascend the stage and after hiding the tune to the
orchestra, attack with eonsumate marstria her favorite
song. It need hardly be said that her success was tre
mendous. The audience would fain have carried her in
triumph. The only long faces were those of the proprie
tor of the hall, who had not been able to advertise the
event in advance, and, it may he—hut this is merely a
supposition—the face of Prince Mettemich when he
heard of the whole business. The best thing the Prin
cess could do would he to exert her talents again for the
benefit of her submerged Hungarian country-people ut
Szegedin.
A Kearney Meeting in ’Frisco.
A meeting of the Kearney gang of California exceed
Congress, the theatre during Count Johannes perform
ances, or Bret Hart’s debating club. The energy dis
played by members of his meetings is something positively
immense. At the last week’s assembly of the “Eleventh
Ward Club” the following is a pretty general description
of the dialogue-likc condition of things, Kearney Chair
man.
Mr. Mehnffery. I desire to ask by what authority
(“Order! order!”) thut blatherskite (“Hooray”) pre
sumes—
Mr. Skoggs. That flannel-mouth miek is evidently
drunk again, and—(terrific cries of “Put him out.” “Go
on !” “Cheese it Sanitary!”)
Mr. Burgess. If that low-lifed son of a female dog who
bust spoke will just give me—(“Order! police.”)
Mr. Bigley. If the chair will all< w me, I
Chairman. Curse me if I’ll allow anybody nothing; I
insist—(“Hooray for Dinnis!” “Give Dinny Kearney a
chance!” “Liar! liar.”)
Mr. Mehaffery. If that pusillanimous hyene (The
back benches now begin to sing "Whoa Emma.” “Give
George Butler the chair.”)
Mr. Malone. If the gentleman from Minna street don’t
take his hand oft’ of me shoulder begod I’ll—(Cries of
“Go it!”)—smash in his snout.
Chairman. This meeting, gentlemen, is adjour——
The Gang. “You’re a liar, it isn't! Fling him out the
window! Hooray! Pulldown your vest!” and the gas
is turned out, the chairs circulate in the atmosphere, and
Dinney Kearney’s gang disbands through the windows.
The Chinese must go, they’re too demoralizing.
The Opium Habit.
The Terrible Experience of a Victim—Stealing to
Obtain the Drug.
“Opium ! opium ! for Heaven’s sake give me opium !”
cried a poor fellow in one of the wards of St. Vincent's
hospital last night. The doctors and the Sisters of Mercy
who surrounded him, kindly but firmly refused to give
him what he wanted. They substituted a mild narcotic,
which mitigated, but did not stop the man’s craving.
The man who was begging so piteously for the drug, was
Thomas Francis, once a well known base ball player,
and formerly pitcher for the old Atlantic club. He had
been sent to the hospital from the Ninth Precinct police
station, to which last he had come as a prisoner, having
been caught by Mr. Henry Van Buskirk of No. ”1 Eighth
avenue stealing some crockery from the kitchen.
In the station house. Francis said that he had stolen
the crockery, intending to sell it to get money to buy
opium. He was put into a cell, hut he had hot been
there long before he began to rave like a maniac. The
Police Surgeon was eal’ed, and he found the prisoner
trembling like an aspen leaf and suffering from extreme
nervousness. The man was so seriously ill that it was
resolved to send him to the hospital. It required the
united efforts of two strong men to hold him in the am
bulance on the way, however, and in his paroxysms he
bit the hand of one of the surgeons. He struggled when
being carried up the steps at the porch, and fought when
taken into the ward.
In one of his mote rat.’onal moments he gave the doc
tors a brief account of his experience as an opium-eater.
He said that while playing a match game of base-ball
several years ago he was hit in the side with a ball,
which came living through the air at a terrible speed.
Two of his ribs were broken and he was injured inter
nally. The physicians who attended him gave him small
doses of opium to allay the pain and secure him sleep at
night. .The result was that Francis acquired a taste for
the drug. It was not long before he required an ounce
fluid extract of opium daily. The habit grew upon him
rapidly, and at la-t the large quantity of five
ounces was required each day—from one-luilf to one
ounce being enough to kill an ordinary man. He made
desperate efforts to escape from the habit, but in vain.
Francis is a member of a respectable family in Brooklyn.
His opium habit incapacitated him for business, and his
friends refused to give him money to purchase the drug.
In his desperation he resorted to theft. Although he is
only twenty-six years of age, the effects of the opium
make him look like a man of fifty. Deep lines are in his
face, his cheeks are sunken, and his eyes have a peculiar
glassy appearance. Ten years ago he wits one of the
most popular professional ball-players in the country.
At one time he was paid a salary of $2,500 per annum
and a share of the gate-n oaey f. r his services as pitcher.
He distinguished himself in matches which the Atlantic
Club played with the Haymakers, the Red Stockings, and
other noted organizations.
Violent Storm. - A s«vere tom ado passed
over Brown’s Summit, N. 0., between Dan
ville, Va., and Charlotte, last week. Several
houses wire blown down and their contends
scattered broadcast. Oue boy was killed, and
many p rsons seriously irjured by falling
timber. Trees and fences were blown down
and great damage done.
1 ecure enough to carry them away at an early day. blacking and brushes. O, my’ pen wearies at a re-
Every measure is being resorted to by the farmers ' cital of their varied manifestations of friendship (!)
to detain the negroes, but thus far their efforts have
been of no avail, as the negroes say their minds are
made up to go and nothing but death can stop
them. In the adjoining counties of Fauquier, Cul
pepper and Fairfax there is also some commotion
among the negroes, but not to the extent it exists
in the other counties above named.
A Cat Worsted by Rats.
The Knox & Lincoln Railroad shops at Bath, N.
Y., have a feline which has been an uttache ol the
establishment for nearly six year. During the
time many bloody battles have been fought be
tween her and the rodents, victory perching on her
banners in almost every instance. But the most
brilliant and successful 1 fe, be it of cat, dog, or
man, generally meets with more or less draw backs;
and the case of the cat has proved no exception to
tbe rule. Monday afternoon a large w harf rat
came creeping into the engine-room, doubtless
in quest of something to eat, w hen the cat spied
him, and “went for him.” After a somewhat pro
tracted and sanguinary’ conflict Tabby succeeded
in gaining the mastery’, but before she could profit
by the victory two additional rodents appeared
upon the scene, fiercely attacked her, and with the
help of the liberated rat dragged her into a large
hole behind the furnace chimney. At this juncture
the engineer happened along, and went to the res
cue of the cat. He squeezed himself behind the
chimney sufficiently to reach the contestants, and
the rais* stampeded, but not until they had nearly-
killed poor Tabby’.
Desperate Battle*,With an African .Slave
King.
London, April 4. — A letter dated Dimidrrs,
January 1st, to Gordon Pasha, Governor-Gener
al ot Southern Egypt, frem one of his (fficers
who was sent to break up the slave depots in the
neighborhood of Bahrelgi zal in the Piovirce of
Kerdafan, reports an engagement w ith Suleiman,
one of the chief slave trades and owner of
twenty-five depots, in which it is stated that
the wemen alone waiting importation in o
Egypt lumber 10,000. The Egyptian forces
numbered 3,000 and were intrenched, a part of
them being aixueo with Remington rifles. Od
the morning of the 28th ot December, Snleiman
with 11 000 mm attacked the intrepchment.
After nrmerons assaults, in which the Arabs
under the personal lead of Snleiman fought
with desperate courage, the attack was complete
ly defeated and the assailants fled in disorder,
leavirg 1,087 dead on the field. The Egyptians
lost 20 men.
Mrs. Grant’s Liberal Use of Her Tongue.
London, April 8.—It iB reported from Agra,
on good authority, that after a se mi-public din
ner, Mrs. Grant, the ex-Presidcnt’B wife, spoke
as follows to a number of people sitting at the
head of the table : ‘The General is traveling
abroad so as to be ont of the way in a natural
manner. He is going to run for President again
at the next ebetit n. If we were at heme there
are Bny amount of boring questions on which
he wonld tither be forced to ccmmit himself or
look awkwardly. By traveling areund he keeps
himself nice and free and he will go back to the
White House quite untrsnineled by any
pledges.’
I must not, however, forget to remark the special
favor manifested of reading our morning papers in
advance, and a general recital of the uew-s at tbe
breakfast-tal ile.
THE CHURCH.
Doings and sayings in the Re
ligious World.
GOING TO PICNICS.
BY VIRGINIA ROSALIE.
Fate of Two Wife Murderers.
Harhisburgh Pa., April.—The board efjar-
dens has rteem mended the commutation of tbe
death penalty t* imprisonment lor life in the
case of Alexander Sayre, of Philadelphia, con
victed of wife murder. The board refused the
application ol Hezekiab Sheafer, the Franklin | ypj r wife invites them to dine with you.
When the picnic season comes, everybody is
excited; some, while prej ating to go, and oth
ers, for fear they won’t get to go. You tell your
wife that yon don’t think you will go this sum
mer, for it costs so much to get up a nice bas
ket, and it is a great deal of trouble to go and
carry five or six children. But when the Secret
Society gives their picnic, yonr wife tellB yon
that you must go and carry the ‘dear children.’
for they are so anxious to go. You are, at last,
persuaded to bny tickets for yourself and fami
ly, and your wife spen ds nearly a whole day to
get up a nice dinner. Every body 13 going, and
at home you hear them talk of nothing but the
pionic for two or ihree days beforehand.
For a wonder, the aay of the picnic dawns
pleasantly; you were wishing it wonld rain, but
it didn’t; if you bad been anticipating much
pleasure this day, it would have rained in spite
of everything.
You are roused out of bed two or three hours
soontr than usual, and have to help dress some
of the children, and theu have to breakfast on
cold meat and bread left over from the night be
fore. When you are ready to start, your si-ter-
in-law comes in. and you have to invite her to
go along too. She remarks that she may not
have another chance like this so she will take it
and go. (This venerable lady has not bad the
Mrs. prefix' d to 1 er name, and is compelled to
depend npon a brother-in-iaw instead of a hus
band).
When you reach the depot, you fiDd the train
about to start, aud a large crowd trying to find
seats. With great difficu'ty you finds>ats for
yonr family, but you, yourself, have to stand up.
When you reach the picnic grounds, there is the
general rush, and after getting out and counting
yonr flock, you find that little Tom is missing.
Of course, it is all you can do to keep your wife
from going into hysterics. You tell her not to
be untrsy, for, in the excitement he Las gone
with somebody else, thinking he was following
her; but she tells you to hush, that she knows
he has been stolen like poor, little Charley Ross.
You then stroll around the picnic grounds in
search of seme place to rest, and to put the
heavy basket you have been carrying. You espy,
under a large tree, a spot that is not occupied,
and you ‘make for it.’ Yon just get settled when
one of the children sees a swing, and cries to
take a ride in it. You ask your wife and sister
if they will be kind enough to stay there and
mind the basket while you go and swing the
children, but they reply that they did not come
to mind baske’B, they wanttowalk around; no
you have to leave your basket in a little hut
with an old negro woman who has charge of sev
eral others. When you get to the swing yon
will have to wait at least half an hour before you
can swing your children, for others have been
there before you, and 'first oome, first served.’
However, your turn cemes at last, and then
when you are so unfortunate as to send the
swing too high, little Maty Ann will come tum-
bl ng out, and 1 er mother, thinking tde child is
killed, will rush at you, as she does at home
Bometimts, aud make you wish yon could sink
In the ground. To the delight of all the little
children who are waiting, you take your ‘crew,
and gel away from that place and those people.
The cLildnn then begin to ory for something to
eat, and, as you start lor your si ady spot, and
yourbisket, vou meet some ef your friends, and
To
County wi!e murderer, aDd he will accordir gly your dismay, yon find your old restirg place oc-
be hsDgcd on the 17tb ir st. I ct , pied> but, of c
Fighting the Indians with a Revolver.
Deadwood, April 9.- A psity of seven In-
diats recently altscki d Serge ant Kennedy, late
Big’ al ol server at Dead wood, aLd a privi te j without your dinners, for the dog has devoured
nu«v>nri a! t V. « Ur/iAr./-. v>nl*«r » * 1 - A I _1_1. n U a 1 ■»
course there are many others,
which will answer very well. You then go for
I your basket, but find ihe old woman gone, and
1 —horrors of horrors—a dog in the basket. You
rush at him, but he is too quick for y< u, and iu
your hi ste turn over some ot the other baskets.
It is evident now that you all will have to go
named Bader, ol the Be cord Cavalry. The two 1 everything b tsorne j icklts.crcckt rs.tnul bread,
men were eating ini ch at M zpi h, abcut forty - | aD( j you tbmk it is best to hunt up lost Tommy
five miles from Fort Ktrgb, iLeir destination,
when fired upon, Bader was instantly killed
and Kennedy badly wounded. The latter
craw led into the brush at d kept the Indians at
bay with a s'x-shcoter until assistance arrived.
Bader wt s scalped. Kennedy will probably re
cover.
The Murderer of McIntyre.
Atlanta, April.—Ayres Jones, the mountain
eer iccustd of ihe murder ol Lieut. McIntyre at
tbe bead ol his troops it Guugin, will be taken
from jail tomorrow for bis preliminary examina-
j and go heme. With mi ch difficulty, you apol
ogize to your company, and your wife and your
self go in search of your lost son. You wander
around a little, when, suddenly, yonr wife sur
prises you by rushing forward aud catching a
strange little boy in her arms, crying: ‘Tommy,
my son, I am so glad I have found you.’ She
dots not discover hea mistake until she has
nearly smothered the child, and his parents
stand looking on as if they thought she had
gene mad. Hire yen owe another apology—
why does everything go wrong witi'gyou to-day?
- and while you are preparing yourself lor it,
there is a cry that a child has fallen into a pond
tion. McIntyre’s murder created a great stnsc- 1 near by. Yi u forget what you are doing, and
tion in Georgia, and ihe authorities have been J rush like everybody else to the spot where a
working it up since its cicurrmre. Jones is a large crowd has congregated. They ffish’the
desperate man, who defied tbe 1 fficers and elu
ded arrest for a long time.
Brutal Murder of a Gambler.
Greenville, Miss., April,— Yesterday morn
ing, Matt Christmore, a well-kDown sportiDg
character, was found murdered in his bed, his
head crushed by an iron bolt, his throat cut and
his body ripped open tbe entire length. Sus
picion points to an associate, who is now in
jail.
The English and American Baptists report a to
tal ot 34,006 membei s in Asia.
Over 200 conversions are reported in the Metho
dist Protest ant Churches of Baltimore.
During the month of Febrnary there were repor
ted in the Mi hod st papers of this ■ oantry nearly
20,000 convei sums.
The College of Bishops of the M. E. Church, South,
will hold their Annual Meeting in Nashville.
Over $100,000 worth of bonds issued for the relief
of the Souther'll Methodist Book Concern have been
subscribed for.
The more we expect from creatures, the more we
shall be disappointed; but the more we expect from
God, the more we shall enjoy’.
It is said that a descendant of the Reformer Mar
tin Luther is at. present studying theology at the
University of Strasburg.
It is said that men stand in Wesleyan pulpits of
the Pacific islands to preach theunsearchaole riches
of the Gospel, who, in a hundred Cannibal feasts,
have known the taste of human flesh.
Christianity gives real happiness. It touches ev
ery faculty, and extends to every scene and rela
tion of life. It is not in one thing merely, but in
everything, covering the whole being with a mantle
of right.
If character topples over and lies shattered, it is
because it is made up of falsehood all the way, and
because it is built 011 a foundation of lies; it has no
real, enduring strength in itself, aud it is based upon
no stea f st, enduring principle.
God loves to give and loves to have his people
give. He does not like to have them covetous; he
does not like to have them hoard; so when we learn
to give aud love to give, we become like him.
He who climbs above the cares of the world and
turns his face to God, has found the sunny side of
lite. The world’s side of the hill is chill and freez
ing to the spiritual mind, but the Lord’s presence
gives a warmth of joy which turns winter into sum
mer.
A Bible class is held in Rome on Monday even
ings, consisting of from fifty to seventy readers of
the Word of God, and the meeting is kept up the
year round.
We need not ask, “Will the true, pure, loving,
holy man be saved;” for he is saved; he has heaven;
it is in him now. He has part of his inheritance
now, and he is soon to possess the whole.
The turning point in every man’s religious expe
rience is, not when he says: “I believe,” but when
he says: “I will.” A man is not a Christian in pro
portion to the amount of truth be puts into his
creed, but in proportion to the amount of truth he
puts m:o his life.
How easily one forgets God when the occupations
of daily life press themselves upon the attention!—
Yet the believer must consider that forgetfulness of
God is spiritual disobedience, and must be guarded
against with zealous watchfulness.
There is in Chicago a Sunday-school for Chinese
which meets every Sunday afternoon. Of the hun
dred or more Chinamen in that city twenty’-six at
tend the school regularly, and there is a teacher for
every scholar. The converts are said to be gener
ous contributors for 1 eligious and charitable purpo
ses.
Dying is often called “paying the debt of nature.”
John Foster denies the fitness of the phrase, and in
sists that dying “is like bringing a note to a bank
to obtain solid gold in exchange for it.” The aching
burdensome, decaying body is laid down, and in
exchange the Christian receives “liberty, victory,
knowledge, rapture!” Oh, what a glorious ex
change!
There is a bible in England bound in solid gold.
Its pages are the finest parchment, its margins are
illuminated with rare and curious workmanship. It
is a costly relic, the property’ of the British Sover
eign, kept under lock and key, and guarded with
untiring care. Yet after all, it is only a dead thing,
penned by’ the hand of some old monk, painted by
finger of some cloistered nun. There it lies en
tombed in its grave of glass; in itself it has no life,
neither can ii give life to others. It is not for a mo
ment to be compared with the humblest Christian,
who lives or lodges in some lowly cottage, and who
is not a dead hut a living Bible. Pearls of the East,
diamonds of the sea are on that Bible; what are
these to the meek and quiet spirit! What is that
dead parchment to a deathless soul and a heart in
stinct with life?
TRUTH 19 MIGHTY!
Professor Martinss. tbs great Spanish
Bssc And Waard, will for 30 Cant a,
r ags. haigfct. oolor #f atm And
Prof. MARTINEZ.
1879.
1879.
MEMORIAL DAY!
(.’run(I Civic and Military Display.
In honor of the occasion at
ATLANTA,
In connection with the Local Military Organizations,
it is fully understood that several of the
little one oct, aDd a gen tinman near by asks if
the boy belongs to anyone in the crowd. A
feeliDg of apprehens on comes over you, for
you think perhaps he may belong to yon. The
feeling is not false, for, upon looking closer
you find it is little Sammy. Your wife faints
as you rush fir«ard to claim your youDg hepe-
ul. He is not hurt—only frightened, end has
had a gi od duckiDg ; perhaps it was b tier for
his face and hanc’s. Well, you don't know what
to do. Catch you going to another picnic!
Some ladies of yrur acquaintance are kit d
enough o bring your wife to—the muddy
water from the pond that they throw in her face
is enough to bring anybody or anything to.
While you ate waiting for your wife, good for- > an(1 deluding ihe .4th.
tune favors you, and you see lost Torn stand ng
near by with your friend, Mr. Smith. After
get' ng Tom, and thanking Mr, Smith for ta
king care of him, you fiDd the other children
and your sister-in-law and late the cars bound
for home. Wbat pleasure is there to get home?
You are all as hungry as wolvi s, and there is
nothing in the horse to eat—had to go and put
everything in that plagued o!d basket for the
dogs to eat. Everything's doi e now and can’t
be helped, but you take u solemn oath t ever o
go again while the children are small, aud you
tell your wife, Eliza, if she values her beauty
never say “pionic” to you again.
Crack Military Commands of Richmond,
In conjunction with the
RICHMOND HUSSARS OF AUGUSTA !
Will form the Body Guard and Escort ol’ that true
and tried Soldier,
GEN. F1TZHUGH LEE,
Who has kindly consented to deliver the
MEJIOKIAIi ORATION.
The Human Sponge.
I Both in the deep-sea soundings and on the high
drylands sponges flourish, yet how varied their
uses, characters and qual.ties ! The sea-sponge, for
instance, boih absorbs and gives out what it has
taken up, while the land species absorbs all it has
taken up am’ gives out nothing. The only giving
out is on the part of the spongee, when his pocket
and patience are exhausted. Again, the sea-sponge
absorbs only flui s, chiefly water, while the land
kind possesses an unlimited capacity to hold whisky’,
lager beer, cigars, money, books, dinners, horses—
in fact, its maw is an unbounded cavern, capable of
bolding and eager to gather in all things, Further,
it should be observed, as sustaining the truism,
that “ihe things the most difficult to secure are the
most valuable.” that w hile it is necessary to dive
deep to secure the sea-sponge, the land-sponge re
verses the picture and is ready to dive deep into
vou whenever opportunity presents. Again, the
sea-sponge cools the brow and removes the perspi
ration most agreeably from our bodies, while the
ot her sort of sponge oft causes our blood almost to
boil and our wrath to rise mountains high. The
very presence of a sea sponge is suggestive of cool
ing processes; that of the land sponge of blood and
vengeam e. One of the important uses of the sea-
sponge is to form beds and pillows on which our
limbs may sweetly’ recline; but one of the curses of
the land-sponge is, that it causes us to lie upon bet's
of thorns and pass scores of sleepless nights. And
then, too, alas! for the sorrows that ever beset us,
the sea-sponge is transient, but the land species is
immortal. The former soon becomes worn, torn,
and disintegrated, and we are required to purchase j
a new one, but the land-sponge is unaffected by tl e 1
length of years, and requires no renewal (save per-j Hawthorne’s daughtei. Rose, has begun a story
haps of his note) while we live. He is by our t da called “Miss Dtlettant,” in the Boston Courier.
Memorial Day in Atlanta.
Memorial Day which comes on the 26th. of
April, will be observed in Atlanta with unusual
c remony. Gen. Fitzhngh Lee, the son of the
great commander and the President of Washing
ton and Lee University will deliver the memo
rial address. The Riohmond Huzz*rs of Au
gusta and several commands ot Richmond to
gether with the fine military companies of this
oitv will form bis esooit A great concourse of
people are expected to be in attendance aDd sev
eral of the railroads have reduced the price of
tickets to one fare for the round trip.
The Georgia Railroad
Has made ample provision for the accommodation ol all
who may disire to attend.
ROUND TRIP TICKETS will he sold frn-n all Ticket
Stations at ONE FARE! Tickets good for5 days from
K. R. DORSEY,
199-lt Ceneral Passenger Agent,
Sunday School Books $3.60 per Doz.
(Single copy post paid 35 cents).
The Good Life, We'come Tidings. Heavenly Carols*
Heavenward, G. spel Hymns, 1, 2, 3, Gospel Songs,
Brightest & Best Pure Gold, Pun Diamonds,
Tl e Gem, The Amarlnth, Every Sabbath,
Fresh Laurels, or any of the Singing Books used for Choir
or Sunday School. Write for everything want' d from a
firet-cla«s Music Emporium. Prompt Attention. Low
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Nos. 8 & 10 Marietta St., Atlanta, Ga.
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Guitars.- Lose wood. Patent Head, Richly In'aid *20
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Guitars.—“The Martin,” “Bruno” and “Foote,”
special prices—careful releciions made.
Twelve cents, (lour ’ c. postage stamps), will secure,
postpaid, one of onr three- ength Italian Violin Treble or
Guitar E Mringe as sample. Vio-in Strings 40 to 70c. per
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