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Desciicliacio.—This charming little story which
has been interrupted by several unfortunate circum
stances will be resumed in ouk next issue, and kept
up to its close. The writer, Mri Jo. Bean, of Augus
ta, Ga., found himself overwha'-jned with important
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to devote to it, and in the meanwhile a portion of
his Mss. which was already in hand became mislaid
and thus the interruption is accounted for; but it is
not likely that anything will occur again to prevent
its continuation. Many inquiries have been made
coneenfing it, which show that it has made a fine
impression, and we take great pleasure in noting the
great popularity of whatever comes from his pen.
He is a young writer of brilliant promise and is
contributing some fine articles not only to the Sunny
South, but to several Northern papers. He is also
a fine business man and is making an enviable repu
tation as a financier and capitalist.
Of his genius as a writer the distinguished Paul
H. Haynesays:
“Mr. Bean has decided talent as an essay writer,
his style being clear, practical and to the point, his
information always admirably digested, and his
views possessing remarkable moderation, fairness
and judgement.
An affluent fancy, a bold, decisive, manly style,
and a certain power of picturesque grouping and
word portrayal, besides an ear of uncommon qual
ity in versification, point toward the fact that lie is
fitted by nature for an admirable writer.”
Let I!» Walk.—Now that the walking craze has
subsided and we cannot be accused of bidding for
backers in anticipation of entering the ring of
women walkists, we may venture to say a few words
in praise of pedestrianism—the old, old fashion of
walking. Older than any other fashion even that of
eating or of sleeping, which Sancho Panza thought
somebody ought to be blessed for inventing. It is
reasonable to supposejthat. our worthy progenitor
tried his limbs the first thing after he was created;
unless indeed we believe with Prof. Huxley that the
genesis of our being, instead of a man in the image
of his maker, was a lump of protoplastic .jelly, in
which case our first fashion was a decidedly quakey
and quivery oue.
But we prefer to stand by the old fogy theory
and contemplate the man and woman of Moses and
and Milton.
'•Perfect creatures, nobly planned.”
AYalking “full-fronted to the orient day.” Y'es
walking, for there was no other species of locomo
tion known in those days of nature and strength
—the strengtli that comes from innocence. Those
other modes of getting about came in with sin and
civilization and weakness. And because they were
not yet in vogue to spoil the best exercise in the
world, 5nd the spirit of artificiality had not yet sug
gested the warping torture of tight boots and
clothes to impede circulation and the tree play of
limbs—because there were none of these we say,
Milton is able to paint our fair first mother with
“grace in all her steps; iu every gesture dignity
and love.” This can be said of very few of Eve's
daughter’s. It is rarely we see trie free, elastic grace
of step in either man or woman, so constantly is
the generous purpose of Nature thwarted by the
ignorance of parents, or the recklessly unhygeneic
demand of Fashion, which pronounces much walk
ing vulgar, coops the growing young pedal extreni-
ety into closely-fitting, higli-heeled shoes and de
mands for adults a “neat foot and trim .shape.”
This sounds innocent enough but it means a cramp
ing harness of tight leather and whalebone, that is
often theinsiduous source of physical defects, pro
ducing and entailing, as an inlieriiance upon off
spring. the deformities of misshapen feet, bunions,
bow-legs, and week knees and spines.
The old Greek and Roman poets are full of praises
of the speed and strength ana the stately walk of their
heroes, and Sir Walter tells us of the mighty stride
of liis Highland lads and the free step of his maid
ens, but Hecter and Achilles wore only the open
flexible sandal, and Roderic Dhu and his gallant
men bound the dun deer’s hide on their feet and let
their knees go bare. Ellen Douglas never wore
anything like the modern narrow-toed, high-but
toned abomination with the heel In the middle, else
it could never have been sung of her that
“A foot more light, a step more true,
Ne’er from the heather dashed the dew;
Eveu the slight harebell raised its head
Elastic from her airy tread.”
And all these classic people walked much and
gloried in their capacity lor getting over ground
with no thanks to any other strength than that of
their own well developed limbs and grand muscles.
There is still something of this pedestrian pride iu
Europe; iu Germany for instance, where the Uni
versity students and their professors often shoulder
their knapsacks and tramp across the country thro’
a whole vacation, getting all the good out of the
lovely scenery and the study of plants, herbs, rocks,
people and animals along the way. In England,
thanks to a sensible queen, walking is still highly
fashionable, and royal and noble lords and ladies
in thick, easy fitting shoes, measure miles upon
miles of shady road through t he pleasant Jcouutrw
about Balmoral. To this habit, no doubt, the
>wjd fine
try
“Ills Sisters, hl9 Consins. an<l his"—pants
—A gentleman of Allentown, Pa., purchased apair
of trousers, which had proved to be too long for him.
He asked his fair helpmate, in a perhaps too mat
ter-of-course tone for an early period of wedlock, to
reduce the garment to more suitable proportions
for him by cutting an inch from the bottom of ei
ther leg. To bring him to a proper sense of her dig
nity, the lady said, with a flirt of her head, that she
was notatailoress. Along, low whistle was bis
lordship’s first characteristicaly man-like commenta
ry; and then, with the curt remark, *-I can tasethem
back, I suppose, to the people who made them.”—
He stalked magnificently from the room. Of course
the wife had intended to perform the office asked of
her; only wanted to be a little coaxed; and now,
with commendable speed, exercised her scissors as
required upon the redundant trousers, and then
hurried off to find His Majesty. All would have
been well if it had ended there. It chanced, how.
ever, that the mother, two sisters’and a favorite fe
male cousin of the husband were in the room
adjoining that in which the brief matrimonial
colloquy took place, and overheard every word,
thereof. By simultaneous impulse they all looked
at each other with a meaning beyond words, ‘Well!
would have been the term coming nearest an ade
quate expression of their common sentiment re
garding the wife of their son, brother and cousin.—
Not a word, however, did they exchange on the
subject, but one after another of the four kind souls
stole from the room as for some commonplace pur
pose, and then darting into the adjacent room with
ready scissors, hurriedly cut an inch from either leg
of the celebrated trousers. If his wife would not do
It lor him, she (his mother, or his sister or his cou
sin) would! Meantime, my lady had found her hus
band, and found him, too, in such a mood of in
jured high-mindedness, that she concluded to allow
him to ascertain the fact of her sartorial concession
for himself. Thus it happened, that on the follow
ing morning the yet greatly dignified domestic au
tocrat loftily conveyed the garment ofdispute back
to the tailor, without further examination, and
sharply bade him to make the specefied
cuttings. Disdaining to look again at the trousers
when the mild little artist of needle and shears ven
tured a timid suggestion that they looked “mighty
short already,” he grimly reiterated: “Take an inch
from each leg, I tell you, ’ and turned upon his heel
iu protracted dudgeon. When those bifurcated in
teguments came home again, and were once more
tried on, they were—not too long. In fact, as the
local Chronicle newspaper picturesquely and deli
cately remark*, “they had been altered to the fash
ion of a year ago, when knee breeches were in
vogue.” The gentleman now realizes that there is
a feeling ingrained in kindred as to one’s marital
partner, which, if given an inch, is pretty sure to
take an ell- And so say his aisters, and his cousins
-and his pants, ;
young r-’rtps of royalty owe their f
jaxery oF lfis companions, And the
BuC~ py'Wii- j-sYutitry
where the scum of snobbery seems to have risen
most thickly, walking has grown “ungenteel,” and
the shabbiest turn-out, or a seat in a street-car be
hind a couple of broken-winded mules is preferable
to wholesome exercise upon ‘‘mother's colts.”—
Business men and ladies bent on shopping expedi
tions wfll take the street car to go “down town,”
even when the morning is fresh, the air sweet, and
full of ozone, the side walk newly sprinkled and the
walking delicious, to say nothing of its advantage
to health, in promoting digestion, sending the blood
and the electric life-current freely through the
system, and fitting the worker to bear the confine
ment at desk and counter.
We do not underrate the pleasure of riding. It is
an agreeable luxury to go bowling over a smooth
road behind a spirited trotter or a well-matched
pair, there is a vivid delight in the horseback gal
lop, the street-car is an indispensable convenience,
and even the bycicle may have its charms, but let
us not forget to cultivate the healthy audwhole
some old fashion of walking, or to leave our feet
and limbs a little bit free to enjoy the keen delight
of personal locomotion, which no one who wears
tight boots or glides with fashionable languor, can
ever hope to know, *
Dr. Ticknor.—Among the truest of the South’s
children of song is—or, rather was—the'late Fran,
cis O. Ticknor, of “Torch Hill,” Georgia. H“has the
fire and flowing melody of Father Ryan, with a
more subtle imagination. His verse delights the
ear like the fall of a mountain brook, or makes the
blood tingle like sound of a battle trump. A few o 1
his poems, sufficient to make a good sized volume^
are now iu the hands of Lippincott for early publi-s
cation.
AVe can’t lay our liarids on what we consider hi
best pieces, but the specimens! below fairly indi
cate the range of his genius. This dirge, for in
stance, ought, alone, to make his name immortal:
“There's dust on the doorway, there Is mould on
the wall,
There’s a chill at the hearthstone, a hush through
the hall,
And the stately old mansion stands darkened and
cold
To the leal, loving hearts that it sheltered of old.
“No light at the lattice, no smile at the door.
No cheer at its table no dance on its floor,
But ‘glory departed’ and silence alone!
‘Dust unto dust!’ upou pillar and stone!
“No anthem of praises, no hymn rising clear,
No song at the bridal, no wail at the bier,
All the chords of its symphonies shattered and riv
en,
Its altars in ashes, its incense in Heaven!
i
“Yet softly the sunshine still rests on the grass,
And lightly and swiftly the cloud shadows pass;
And still the broad meadow exults in its sheen;
With its foam crest of snow and its billows of
green.
“And the verdure shall creep to tlie mouldering
walls.
And the sunlight shall sleep in the desolate halls.
And the foot of the pilgrim shall find at the last
Some fragrax^jjf home at the shrine of the Past.”
This entitled “Pear a Dox,” show his Muse with a
broad grin on her face:
“The first persimmons were falling soft
And of other fruit there was none,
For the reddening haws were not yet ripe,
And the muscadines were done.
“When a traveler came to our country home,
Right thirstily hejeame.
And tasted, the first time iu his life,
A Duchess d'Angouleme!
“Aud I saw the white foam melt on his lips,
And I heard him with tears exclaim,
‘God bless the Duchess, whoever she was.
With SGcYritn extensive name. ’
‘‘And he went his way with a testament,
Whereon lie may safely swear,
That of all good things, no single good thing
Is half so good as a pear (pair).”
—Baltimorean.
“Greatest of all is Love."—Near the conclu
sion of his noble speech at the semi-centennial
Sunday School Convention in Brooklyn, N. A'.,
Governor Colquitt said:
“It does seem to me that if we succeed in untying
the plan upon which our Sunday-schools through
out the Union shall be conducted, it must induce
closer and more fraternal relations between the
churches. Here at last is the essence aud quintes
sence of the whole matter. No peace on earth, no
joy in heaven without love. Blessed, thrice blessed
is the man wiio quenches one heart-burning, and
a thousand times blessed is he who causes one emo
tion of good will to spring up between
those y’A ^iew not the feeling before. Does it
.»»md ^ 'to hope that a few more years of
WO’ ;%rj^535Fdt?.ndny — i *1, B
songs, the cipldren of these States, from Alai ire to
California from St. Paul to Key AVest, will begin to
find out that a bond of brotherhood, born of the spir
it of our Saviour, is holding us together firmer than
bands of steel could do it.” *
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planation in first column of this page.
“Only a Country Drudge."—This is what a
young girl calls herself in a letter to us—a letter,
sweet and sensible enough but for its spint of dis
content with her surroundings and dislike of the
monotonous drudgery of housework, For her ben
efit, we extract what sympathetic and thoughtful
Miss Coleman says to the girls who are “country
drudges:”
“Girls in the country are apt to consider their lot
especially hard, but it is mostly because they think
there are so much better chances elsewhere. If they
complain of drudgery there, it is usually worse in
the city—a drudgery that does not permit its vic
tims even to read the papers or to write about it.
The complaints which we see in the “home depart
ments” even of the city papers are written iu the
country always without au exception. It is hardly
worth the while to change location to escape
drudgery. Let the change corneas the result of a
definite call for your work. Make your mark so
broad where you are that others may see it aud
want your services. Doing well the duty that lies
nearest you will put you on a higher plane, whence
you can see what next is to be done. Reflect care
fully as well as prayfully on your relations to those
around you. If it has not already been remembered
for you, remember for yourself; that your time is
your own after you are of age, though nothing is
higher or more ennobling than to giyc|your services
to your parents, if they need them, whether they
appreciate them or not.
Never be idle or do useless work, because you
cannot get the kind or the amount of remuneration
you wish or think you deserve. If it falls to your
lot to do a great deal of such uuiutellectual work as
you call drudgery, while you should be careful not
to let it ruin your health, do not be impatient with
it. Indeed, its effect upon your health will depend
largely upon the spirit with which you take it.—
Very often it is an excellent discipline. There is
mucli of it to be done in the world; almost every
employment has more or less of it; take it, make
the best of it, and be thankful if it does not fully
engross your attention. There are very many kinds
of work which leave the thoughts comparatively
free, and it, while employed about them, you learn
to control your thoughts and discipline them, you
may gain not only much mental discipline, but
actual information.” *
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A Bird's Eye View of a Georgia City.—Clean
quiet, elegant, these are adjectives every one read
ily accords to Macon; and there are tokens of enter
prise and improvement as well. One confronts you
as soon as you leave the depot m the stately pres
ence of the new “Brown Hotel,” built over the
ruins of the one destroyed by fire. The new hotel,
commodious and elegant, is quite as popular as its
predecessor. Capt. Brown, the veteran proprietor,
has retired at present from its management to en
joy a season of rest at his pleasant country home,
but Hie lessee, Mr. George Brown, bis nephew, will
not let the business languish in his capable and en
ergetic young hands. Handsome, courteous, and
thoughtful, he has all the elements of personal pop
ularity, and the hotel under his supervision is sure
to sustain its long established reputation.
In its public library, Macon shows another evi
dence of being alive. The library is much enlarged
both as to hooks and space since we saw it last, and
there is a cosy ladies’ parlor attached. Of course it
is tastefully arranged, for Mr. Herbst is still the
librarian. A certain individuality in all the minor
accessories, tells of “Charley.” For instance the
hooks and the flowers have the bright, cleanly look
that betrays loving care and—then—there is that
wreath of laurels and immortelles about the por
trait of Jeff Davis which crowns the group of Con
federate heroes and presides over the library.
The park is another instance of public spirit and
fine taste. There is not a more beautiful drive in
in Georgia, aud what a spot for a stroll! The no
ble trees, the broad sweep of smooth green turf, the
kaleidoscopic patches of color where the grass
breaks into flowers—the glimpses of the river
caught through the trees, the shady retreats and
summer houses and the pretty and imposing Fair
buildings all make up a delightful ensemble.
But the cemetery is even more lovely. Nothing
more beautiful than the Rose Hill Cemetery can he
imagined. With all its elegant monuments and its
rare planted flowers and shrubbery, nature has done
more tor it than art, and the luxuriance of the wild
growth of vines and trees, the ground broken into
green dells aud hillocks, and natural terraces, and
above all the windings of the majestic river through
hanks carpeted with wild ivy and fringed with
trees, unite to make the cemetery such a place as
Keats had in mind when he wrote; “it is enough to
make one in love with death to think one would be
buried iu so sweet a spot. ”
A most interesting place to visit is the Blind Asy
lum, a large brick building set in the midst of pleas
ant grounds, and containing nearly a hundred pu
pils under the management of Prof. Williams, who
has filled this post for many years and is so greatly
beloved by his pupils and assistant teachers that he
seems, when surrounded by all these loving young
faces,like a patriarch in the midst of his family. The
facility with which the children play upon different
instruments, sing, knit, and read with their fingers
upon raised-letter books, is truly wonderful. It
was Saturday when we called and the boys were
out in the grounds at play or at work in their gar
dens, hut a number of them came in at a call from
their teacher, and with the girls’ assistance, gave us
some delightful music upon the violin, flute and pi
ano, with songs, solo and chorus, in which their ae
comnlished teacher, a sweet-faced blind girl, form
erly a pupil in the school, accompanied them on the
piano.
A brief call at AV'esleyan Female College, apleas-
•* inte*"' : «w with its President, Prof. Smith, and
a glimpse at the boquet-groups or origin; races, glanc
ing here and there among the flowers and shrubbery
of the grounds, assured us that this time-honored
institution, so long the pride of the State, is pros
perous and well-sustained.
Mercer University is also flourishing. It is a no
ble building, crowning a sloping eminence and with
grounds that can be made exceedingly ornamental
and imposing. It is to improve these that the can
tata of Belshazzar has lately been successfully per
formed in the City. The musical talent of Macon
Congressman Hull Acquitted.
The jurv in the election case of the United Statesvs
N. A. Hull, at Jacksonville, Florida,came in, on May -\
with a verdict of "not guilty.”
Arguments closed in the railroad cases. The papers
are all in. and Judge Bradley thought he would he able
to render his opinion in the morning: if not, he vvouia
then state when it would be ready.
TIic Bloody Chasm Ticket.
[Cincinnati Enquirer.]
“If we mav he allowed to suggest a ticket for 1 SSO—n
regular out and out bloody chasm, die-in-the-last-ditch
ticket—it shall lie Daiztll and Reman the latter being
he of the Okolona Southern States. Let the champion
asses of the century be yoked together that they may
lirav in unison, and tints challenge the admiration of a
lost and ruined world. It would he a ticket of blood
and hair.”
The Colorful Man in Liberia.
Lvphus Killix. a colored man, who owned property in
Jefferson conntv, Fla., and was a leading, prosperous
man two years ago, was taken with an absorbing desire
to go to Liberia. Accordingly lie was a passenger on the
bark Azor. He now writes to the Montieello Constitu
tion from Liberia to the effect “that Africa won t do:
that his familv are in great distress, and that he wants
to get back, and will pledge his labor tor years to any
planter in Jefferson who will advance the money for his
passage.”
Tlic Cholera and the Chicago River.
[Chicago News.]
“The rapid spread of the cholera in India and the hor
rible oondition of the Chicago river are two subjects
that it would be wise to consider together. 'I he river,
especially in the North branch, is not water, but a ropy
stuff, resembling thick bean porridge. AA’here the track
of the Milwaukee division crosses the stream the surface
of the water is covered with a Mark scum and there is a
fermenting process going oil that causes the mass to
boil There are fatal diseases being generated in this
decomposing string of water. Something should, some
thing must,;be done, to remedy the evil.”
Troops at the Polls.
[Opinion of Senator David Davis.]
Senator David Davis, former law partner and long an
intimate friend of Abraham Lincoln, and tor fifteen
years a Republican judge of the supreme court of the
United States, puts the issue between the Republican
and Democratic parties thus pithily in a recent letter:
“One of the grievances of which our forefathers com
plained was that the king had quartered troops on them
and sought bv military power to coerce them into sub
mission. It is' little less than a public scandal, after a
century of national existence, that any party could ven
ture to ask the people’s approval of a species of tyranny
that is forbidden in England and wherever else the
liamentary principle is respected.”
The Workingmen'* Party in California.
On May 24th, the Workingmen of San Francisco had a
grand torchlight demonstration in honor of theadoption
of the new constitution. The contest in the coming
campaign seems now fairlymade up, so far as is possible,
until after the several conventions meet. The working
men’s convention will assemble June 3d. and great pre
cautions have been taken to insure the nomination of a
ticket free from complications with other parties. It is
expected that an effort will lie made by the new-consti-
tion party to rapture the convention, but the present
outlook is not favorable to the success of their project.
In this city the ward clubs have pronounced in the
strongest manner against affiliation with the new party,
which they vigorously condemn as a movement on the
part of scheming politicians to rob the workingmen of
the fruits of their victory. In the interior some of the
workingmen clubs have pronounced in favor of the new
party, and have called a convention for the twenty-third
of June.
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No Fine Art-Atmosphere in America. —
Clara Louise Kellogg, the American singer, is cen
sured as affected and unpatriotic because of her
recent declaration that there was little true sympa- | is unusually fine and well cultivated, 'and Belshaz-
thy with art iu America, and that she had rather [ zar was rendered for three nights to the supreme
sing in Europe for nothing than sing in America for ' gratification of large audiences. The costumes
a moderate salary. She denies making the latter brought by the director of the cantata from the
remark. What she did say was this, and there is in North were splendid and appropriate. One malic-
it a good deal ol truth, which'any conscientious •
worker in any line of art, whether literary, picto- 8 fTu thatahttle P addlD S of
rial or d ramatical cannot fail to appreciate: I the tlght fle f 1Dgs would have proved the looks
“I can imagine myseif singing merely for pleas-j cel tain of Cyrus grand army. “The lung pow-
ure abroad, however, whereas I cannot conceive of | el ' was fine,” she said; “but the leg-power—!” and
doing such a thing here, simply because the art I there was an expressive shrug. We retorted some-
atmosphere is lacking. In Europe there is a very
appreciable difference, as every one knows. Here
it is, as a rule, sensation that the publie desires, and
money making that is the aim of the artiste. But
imagine how a singer feels when her best efforts are
slighted, and her indifferent ones applauded. Then
in European playhouses it is such a pleasure to
hear au occasional “brava!’ Still, I do not mean to
under estimate the good will of American audiences
toward me personally.”j *
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Where the Fashions Come From.—A writer
in a New York paper thus discourses upon La
Mode :
What is fashion, after all ? I will tell you. We
get our fashions mainly from Paris. They are orig
inated by actresses, and the class known as the
demi-monde. These people are always trying to
attract attention by marvels in dress, and they are
always inventing something new. Mile. De Loosely
appears on the boulevard in the early Spring, with
a hat that has the appearance of a tin pail with a
towel tied around it. Everybody knows that Mile,
is a leader of the demi-monde, and soon the milli
ners’ shops are decked with feathery-looking tin
pails and towels. The fashion travels quickly to
New York, is quickly frittered through the ordina
ry channels, until soon the Spring style of hat, in
every part of the United States, is the tin pail and
towel.
A strange thing is Fashion, we follow it as faith
fully and as blindly as il we were mesmerized by it.
And yet it is simply the turning over and over of
the styles of dress that have prevailed—well, not
quite so far back as the time of Adam aud Eve, but
pretty near it.
And yet I love it. Say what you piease about
Fashion, but a person fashionably dressed always
looks better and appears to better advantage in ev-
every way than one who is out of the fashion. And
as the most of us can stand a little improvement on
our natural appearance I think we ought to make
the most of what fashion can do for us—in a moder
ate and reasonable way, I mean.
Fred. Douglas on the Exodus.—Marshall
Frederick Douglass in a lecture at Staunton, Va.,
advised his colored hearers not to trust altogether
to prayer, but to go to work honestly, systematical
ly and conscientiously. He himself, he said had
prayed for three long years that freedom might be
to him, but it never came till the prayers got down
into his legs and carried him away. He did not ap
prove the exodus, ami said: “Stay where you are,
and so conduct yourselves that men will be bound
thing about glass houses, and insinuated that Atlan
ta should not throw stones, as her finest male sin
ger had limbs so disproportioned to his lungs that
when he was King Ahaseurus in the cantata of
Esther, a lady beside us put the conundrum, “Why
is Ahaseurus reflectingl” and when it was given
up, whispered behind her fan, “Because he
thinking (thin king.)”
Macon’s neat and newsy daily—The Telegraph
and Messenger is very popular. Mr. Jones, the ed
itor, comments sensibly on all the live topics of the
day and indulges occasionally in spicy and pointed
paragraphs, while he is sufficiently conservative
and is always gentlemanly’.
Another live man in Macon seems to be Mr. Bun-
Brown, the proprietor of the very handsomely ar
ranged chief bookstore of the City. He has all the
newest books and freshest periodicals upon his
shelves and takes pleasure in showing them to vis
itors. Nor is this his only business; he keeps sev
eral other irons hot—for instance, a livery stable
supplied with excellent horses and luxurious car
riages. He is also a passenger agent for the Ken-
nesaw route.
Hospitable preparations are now being extensive
ly made for the reception of the great State Sunday
School Convention to assemble here on the 30 and
31st. There are two hundred and fifty delegates,
comprising some of the most notable men of the
State.
“Do you think Gov. Colquitt will come and speak
for us at the Convention !” was the question put to
us more than once. The good Governor was then
in Brooklyn, attending the grand Semi-Centennial
Sunday School Assembly there, and doing much
good by his earnest and eloquent exposition of the
duty of forgiveness, sympathy and brotherhood.
Truly Georgia seems elected for the healing of the
ulcerated political body for if Hill applies the scal
pel, Colquitt pours the oil of peace and brotherly
kindness. *
Politics out West.
[Baltimore Gazette.]
The campaign opens well in the west. Mr. AYatterson,
of the Louisville Courier-Journal, having branded Mr.
Hendricks as a conspirator and fool and turned him
loose, has drawn upon himself a column of chaste Eng
lish in Mr. Hendrick’s home organ, the Indianapolis
Sentinel. AA'e clip a small slice of the Sentinel's article
as a specimen:
“Watterson is the recognized donkey of western jour
nalism—the laughing stock in national polities. bun
ion on the big toe of the democratic party, a stye in its
eye. a pimple on its nose, a cancer in its stomach, a blue-
tailed fly in its councils, a bumble-bee in its campaigns
and a jack-o’-lantern on its highway of success. Henri
in the democratic party is what trichina is in a hog’s
ham—unhealthy. In the political atmosphere, he com
pares favorably with a put!'of malaria from a morass.
He is always gettiue up a muss.”
\Ye may remark that this extract is taken from near
the head of the article. It grows in beauty as it pro
ceeds.
The South's Hopeful Future.
[Boston Herald.]
mottoroGriwt interost taXew England, and vital
importance to the south, is the rapid increase of cotton
mills in the States south of the Potomac. North Caroli
na has fifty mills, and in all there are reported one hun
dred ami eighty-three erected since the war in the cot
ton-growing States. This is the only opportunity of the
south. Let principles of economy' be observed in State
and municipial government: let capitalists lie assured
that they will not be burdened bv enormous taxes- let
law and order prevail as in New England, and there is
no reason why the region where cotton grows at the
factory door, where rivers turn the mill-wheels, and the
adjacent fields furnish the operatives'with the staff of
life, cannot compete successfully with the territory east
of the Hudson, which brings its cotton a thousand’miles
for manufacture, buys its fuel five hundred miles a wav
and transports the food of its laborers half way across
the continent. The outlook in the southern States is
hopeful, and they must have a great future before
them.”
paper next week. See ex
planation in first column of this page.
Bob Ingersoll’* Philosophy.—Col. Ingersoll,
the accomplished lecturer, who boasts that he can
clear five hundred dollars any pleasant evening by
denouncing the Christian religion, is going to New
Y'ork city to aid in raising funds to help the colored
people of the South to the happy land of Kansas.—
Col. Ingersoll claims to be a resident oi the city of
to respect you—work with the head and hands— ! Washington.' In his adopted city there are to-dav
Hpplf tn ficnni rn L-nnur 1 pHirn oa nroll as nrnnorf v and 1 non .1 _ . . . _ *
seek to acquire knowledge as well as property and ) 40,000 negroes, the majority of them indigent semi
in time you may have the honor of going to Con- . Q _ . ’ „ “ , , j geni, seml '
gress, for if the negro ean stand congress, Congress j alsea8e d and more or less a charge upon the corn-
ought to be able to bear the negro.” ~ | munity.
Two Noted Murder cases Decided.
Two well known murder cases—one of a wife the
other of a husband—have been decided last week’ bv a
verdict of murder in the tirst degree. Edward Ron-
hard t, the fiendish hereof the ‘Silver Luke Tragedy ’ who
killed his wife Annie, put her bodv in a barrel! wheeled
it into the woods near Silver Lake, R. I and went to
New York and married another woman, has received
sentence of death. The other noted criminal ease is
that 01 Mrs. Jennie Smith and Covert Bennett accused
of stabbing and braining Mrs. Smith's husband a po
liceman of Jersey City, while his wife (as she claimed)
lav beside him in bed, insensible from chloroform ad
ministered by the assaulting party. The nrosei-ntimi
held that she and Bennett had done the deed in order
that there might be no bar to their marriage- Bennett
who had at one lime boarded with the Smiths was a
good-looking, pleasant-spoken young fellow who had
more than once taken Airs. Smith’s part when she was
abused by her coarse and overbearing husband Ren-
nett brought pretty clear evidence of an alibi, but not
withstanding this, and the merely circumstantial evi
dence against the woman, the charge of the iurv was
dead against them, and the verdict was brought in 'mur
der m the hrst degree, to the utter astonishment of the
crowded court house. L
The Mississippi Levee Bill.
[N. O. Times.]
Mr. Gibson is making a very earnest and nersist >nt
fight in Congress on behalf of his levee bill. For this'he
deserves the commendation of the whole Mississippi
A alley, and 111 lus struggle lie is entitled to the sum,o?t
of every member who wishes to do justice to the vast
section m question. Bills providing directly f or 1., ,
teetion of the alluAial lands have time an'Vt m, aJ .re
been brought forward only to be beam oS
voted against them 111 the interests of Eastern rim-* ,
another, composed of honest men. voted against them
because doubtful of the national character of the S
ure and fearful lest a job might be concealed beneatt?Its
innocent and attractive surface. The bill which Air
Gibson is championing contains norie of the objections
which the latter class have discovered in its pred^ls
ors « amply provides for an inquiry, bv imparted
and disinterestedpersons, into the very feature? of the
case which have heretofore provoked doubt ,.„,i ■
tion. In other words it orde^a su^-ofVhe^ivKr
the purpose of determining and recommending to Con
gress some practicable plan for the improvement of the
navigation and protection of the lands of Liti ,
A Forged Speech.
[New York Evening Express.]
AVe do not know who committed the forgery but it is
very evident who believes it. In the *- U 11 ls
ben 1860, Alexander H. Stephens addSd the woffil- *
of Georgia in the most masterly speech of hi. itE. ’JY 1
a supreme appeal for the union^He po nted out th^
inexpediency, the rashness, the dim-m , f »“, ■
He declared that his first alliance wSftlne tnT^ 10 -' 1 '
and while imploring the pe^le not to m«L 0IK f la i
leap, he also declared that tor weal or c bis .to r ' 1 '
was with his native State. A forced renort nf estln . y
was published in the northSK th L lt specch
made to say that he denied the te-htof fJP h - eUs
nouneed it as treason, and was n<d°even . S' 1 ’
man. As soon as his attention was called to ft M? sue*
ffiens branded this reported speech as bte *
“riteD-, ami in fifty different forms from that f ffi?v to
this he has never failed, when occlusion remiiV.vV , a} . to
nounce it as a compaign lie. The true enrrruf n’u. t ? de ~
g-SSpySS <(
pretends to believe in the fo~erv Tto- 1 J JellCVOS , or
descended into gross personalitifs md^lST'lte
minded men to «gree with ’him " V- l 10 * f 111 ^ ,!Ur ‘
virtue which the assailant of Air Stento-ni Si h ?,IC> ,S IIOt “
feet. th t l co “«eous, with no little ef-