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The repeal of the bankrupt law by
Congress is almost a certainty.
The Naw, Specie Resumption Act
and Pacific Railroad engage the at
tention of Congress at present.
Motions for the adjournment of
Congress on the 10th of June are
being offered by weary Congress
men.
Business failures have not been as
numerous since the war as at present
reported. The daily average
amounts to millions ot dollars.
South Carolina Senators and mem
bers of the House of Representatives
are advocating the establishment of a
naval station at Port Royal, South
Carolina.
The House ot Representatives of
Ohio on the 17th passed the Senate
bill authorizing the issue of two mil
lion dollars in bonds to complete the
Cincinnati Southern Railroad.
William P. Arnett, formeily a
clerk in the post office at Augusta,
who was c iu ged with embezzling
letters from the maids was tried at
Savannah last week and acquitted.
A cargo of strawberries and eng-
lish peas was shipped to New Pork
from Charleston one day last week
by Steamer City of Atlanta, valued
at forty-two thousand dollars.
AUer leading the scores of col
umns of foreign telegrams the Euro
pean situation is still a mystery to
us. We will not know whether or
not war is inevitable between Eng
land and Russia until after a dash of
arms is reported.
From a tabulated statement of the
number of Sunday Schools, teachers
and scholars represented in the In
ternational Convention published in
the Atlanta Constitution of the 18th
inst, the statistics shows 87,975
schools, 876,104 officers and teachers
and 0,763,228 scholars.
A Blund<£
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Dem .cic Organization.
That State Democratic party or- -\y e re g rel t j ie blunder made, nn-
ganizaticn should be preserved no thoughtfully, no douhU.Fy W. G
one will deny who has the good of Whidby, one of the Secretaries of the
his country at heart, unless, forsooth, j international Sunday School Conven-
he may be an office seeker who tion, in raising tho question of pro-
In consequence of a threatened
reduction of ten per cent, in the
wages of operatives in manchester
and Lancashire Mills the operatives
threaten a strike, which if carried
into effect will throw one hundred
and twenty thousand working people
out of employment, and the hum of
two hundred thousand looms and six
million spindles will cease.
desires to float to the surface on some
pretext or whim' unknown to Demo
cratic usage. Ambitious and de
signing politicians in every section of
the South are busy seeking to make
inroads u pon the plan of organization
of the Democratic party in order that
they may create ’ sympathy for them
selves, and distrust in Democratic
ranks and thereby secure their own
political preferment. No opportunity
is lost to impress upon unsuspecting
minds that fraud is practiced by and
through organization and they call
aloud for an independent movement
—something entirely outside the pale
of Democratic usage. Tho charges
alleged by these disappointed Inde
pendents will have more or less
weight with a great many people,
unless both sides of the question are
presented and many Demo
crats will, unmindful of political
danger run astray after false political
gods. Who will he to blame for the
strength gathered by this bastard
political movement? Wo answer the
Executive Committees of the differ
ent States of the South. Iu our own
State we have a Democratic Execu
tive Committee whose duty it is not
only to keep party machinery in
order but, by virtue of their office
should so shape legislation as to
secure the success of the party both as
regards local and State politics.
This being the duty of the Executive
Committee, we ask if our exec
utive officers are not and have
heretofore been somewhat relax
in their duties. Elected in
1876, they met and organized the
same year and we have heard nothing
from them from that day to this.
The rank and file of the party has
been left to fight its own battles
without the advice of an executive
head, while our enemies, taking ad
vantage of our stupidity are more
thoroughly organized than ever. bc. :
fore. We deplore this lack of activi
ty on the pait <f our chosen Execu
tive committee and trust that in con
sequence of the encouragement given
to radicalism in differeut forms by
reason of this inactivity the Chairman
of the State Democratic Executive
Committee will call the members
together, and so amend ihe Consti
tution and By-laws of t he party as to
allow every good citizen ot the State
to rally to and support the Demo
cratic platform. Our enemies are not
only thoroughly organized but are
entrenched, and have their videtts
and spies to aid in securing their
victory, and if we would combat their
influence we must at least inspect our
lines and provide for any deficienees
that may exist in our organization.
What says lion. Thos. Hardeman,
the Chairman of our Executive Com
mittee ?
priety in having a colored delegate
as one of the representatives of the
Sunday School interest from
the State of Ohio. If Rev. B. W.
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Arnett had come to Atlanta he would
have been thrice welcome in his ca
pacity -as a delegate, and-would have
had the fellowship of all Christians in
the body. It does appear indiscreet
in Brother Whidby, after so much
time for reflection and .in which to
seek advice, (his own keen sense of
Christian duty should have dictated
a different course thanJ^mt pursued)
that he should ha've persisted in car
rying out the idea suggested tb his
mind when he saw A.AI. E, after
the delegates name. Has he forgot
ten that there are many colored peo
ple in Georgia members of white
churches ? Has he forgSUen.lliat it
is only since the war Unit -separate
churches have been erected in obebe-
diencc to their own wishes for colored
wofsliip, and that prior l« the war
they were regularly admitted to
every white service which they de
sired to attend ? Surely these things
had escaped his memory. The Inter
national Sunday School Convention is
purely a religious bodj'J’and to he
strictly inter..atioiial .-liDtild bo-repre
sented by a'l lovers of and workers
iu the Sunday School ca'use. The
political dogma of social equality
should not bo allowed to rest iu the
mind of any member of Bitch fin as
semblage if lie would be useful m the
cause he represents.
The International Sunday School
Convention which assembled in At
lanta on the 17th was tiic largest
body of the kind ever assembled in
the United States—about 500 dele
gates being present, representing all
the States, and some of the territories
and British provinces. Our honored
Gov. Colquitt was unanimously
chosen President of the Convention*
There are still upward of 280,000
people on Government relief in India,
either employed on public works or
being feci in camps and hospitals, and
tho prospects of any speedy decline
of distress are getting more remote
as the season advances. Practically
the effects of famine will press on the
Government resources for at least an
other year. With regard to tho area
of existing distress in Southern India,
certain parts of the Mysore State are
undoubtedly the worst of all.
The plan for the income tax that
the Ways and Means Committee will
submit will be to assess a tax of two
per cent, on all incomes exceeding
82.000, and not exceeding 85,000,
three per cent, on all incomes that are
more than $5,000 and less than $10,-
000, and four per cent, on all in
comes exceeding that sum. The ex
emptions proposed are military and
naval pensions, and $2,000 of ordina
ry income, $2,000 for each five per
sons of every religious or social com
munity holding all their property and
the income therefrom jointly and in
common ; all -national, State and mu
nicipal taxes paid within the year;
all losses actually sustained during
the year, arising from tires, floods or
shipwrecks, or incurred in trade or
debts ascertained to be worthless (but
not estimated depreciation of value);
sums paid for iuterest and labor to
cultivate land or to conduct any other
business from which income is de
rived, rent of residence, amou 1 **
for ordinary repairs of res'* *
salaries of the Presideii
ted States, and of all
United States, and of V.
executive, judicial and le
every State of the Unit
assessment will be for tl
ing December 31, 1878. I
The Xu Klux Story.
Very important elections are to be
held this year in Georgia, and we
may expect to hear of Ku-Klu.v out
side of circus parades. Indeed the
over-zealous editor of that unfair ai d
prtjudiced sheet, the Atlanta Bepnb-
licc.ii, has ,already, fallej^qut .with
District AtWrney' Farroi^fof*issuing
*a recent circular to the United States
Commissioners in which lie sets forth
the fact that heretofore there has
been too much laxity in the matter
of issuing warrants uder what are
known as the enforcement laws—iu
the matter of quarrels between whites
and blacks. The United ‘States
Supreme Court has decided that they
are offences against the State laws
only, and matters with which the
United States laws have nothing to
do. In view of this decision, which
is a very righteous oi e, Attorney
Farrow instructs his commissioners
not to issue any warrants w ithout
first taking a written statement of all
the facts and forward that statement
to him for his consideration. This
is right; for how often, heietofore,
h&vo innocent parties been arrested
and taken from their homes on the
statement of prejudiced parties, in a
spirit of revenge, when they no
hope of making out a case against
the accused. On account of the
publication ot this circular, however,
Bryant hoists the Ku-Klux flag and
says Farrow is not in sympathy with
the Republican party. All good
citizens, white and black, will approve
Farrow’s course.
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Senator Davis, ot West Virginia,
chairman of the Committee to inves
tigate the Treasury accounts for the
past twelve years, on Wednesday,
the 10th inst., charged boldly in the
Senate that there had been defalca
tions of over $50,000,000. Dawes
undertook to defend the steal, but
could only say that Democrats did’nt
understand the Republican system of
keeping books.
In an article on the straw bat trade,
an English paper says that “art lias
gained immense value from the pres
ence of a straw l\al, adding so much
additional beauty and grace to Dolly
when painted by a Maclise,
’tineas are not considered
■■*. The almost fabu-
tbq celebrated
Vl -rived an
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Thlt.
Lodge K.
very enjoyable «. .
gates. A new Com
government of the Gr
adopted :
The next session of the Gran
Lodge will take place at Macon, on
the third Tuesday in April, 1879.
INSTALLATION OF OFFICERS.
The following officers were public
ly installed at Masonic Hall, last
evening:
G. D.—8. H. Shepard, Augusta.
G. V. D.—R. G. Powell, Barnes-
ville.
G. A. D.—D. M. King, Athens.
G. G.—R. H. Mitchell, Acworth.
G. R.—S. D. Cook, Barnesville.
G. T.—R. II. Jones, Cartersville.
G. C.—J. W. Pullen, Cave Spring.
G. Guardian—C. W, Davis,
Athens.
G. Sentinel—J. R. Brown, Toccoa.
G. Trustees—G. A. Cahaniss, For
syth ; E. F. Dawson, Waynesboro;
J. M. Brauner, Griffin.
G. Rep.—O. T. Rogers, Coving
ton.
Alternate—J. E. Blackshear, Ma
con.
F. Com.—A. W. Hull, Washington;
J. E. Blackshear, Macon; H. C.
Roney, Thomson.
.urfhlt Uuu -v
.lurch Sunday rigged out in
all the appendages of security.
P. W. Trammel and N. B. Shen-
nault, are said to be the bnisieat men
in College.
Our quondam college-mate, Philip
W. Davis, will be the orator on the
•26th.
Both candidates for the Senior
medal in the Phi-Kappa Society are
now battling with the measles. Suc
cess speedy and complete to both.
The students generally—(candi
dates excepted) are glad to see the
ice cream signs hanging out again.
The measels on the increase rapid
ly among the students. We are
pleased to see Mr. -R. T. Du Bose and
II. II. Russell have recovered.
We regret to chronicle the illness
of Mr. Dupon, our college mate, who
is suffering from an attack of rheu
matism. May he be speedily re
stored to health.
The Moffett Bell Punch.
Alluding to this contrivance, the
Augusta Chronicle and Constitution
alist remarks: We shall not be sur
prised to see the scheme put in oper
ation in most of the cities and towns
of Georgia. If adopted in Augusta
the Moffett machine would yield an
annual revenue of probably thirty or
forty thousand dollars, or enough to
pay the annual interest on onc-half of
the city’s bonded debt. The present
license tax on retail liquor dealers is,
like all license taxes, unequal and un
just, because the smallest dealer is
compelled to pay just as much tax as
the largest, and many of the liquor
-iien would’doubtless be glad to have
the punch put iu operation. The
experience of Virginia seems to show
that the Moffett law furnishes a cheap
and easy method of raising revenue
and a number of States and cities are
inclined to give it a trial. As the tax
ordinance for the current year has
already been adopted nothing can be
done in this city until after the elec
tion ot a new council. may ex
pect, however, that the matter will
receive public attention and that next
year an Attempt will be made to es
tablish the hell-pnch in the drinking
saloons of Augusta.
Senator Conklin was interviewed
the other day, and the Chronicle c£
Constitutionalist has the following
in regard to the matter :
Senator Conkling has spoken at
last, and in a way to make the dry
bones of the Administration rattle,
lie denounces .the President in un
measured terms as being a hypocrite,
sham reformer and corrupt man
generally. Lord Rose® has no doubt
that Ilaycs made a bargain with
Governor Nieholls and thinks the
facts will one day force themselves to
the surface. It is a pity the Repub
lican lights have such a poor opinion
of each other, but we-don't know
that the Democrats need put on very
deep mourning. It is not a funeral
where they have any special interest
in the corpse.
Tea is beginning to take a place
almost side by side with coffee in
Ceylon, and samples of Ceylon grown
leaf have been received and favorably
leported on in London. The -culti
vation of the plant is encouraged by
the offer of prizes at the colonial ag
ricultural exhibition, and experienced
planters have given a very favorable
opinion of the capabilities of the soil
and climate of parts of Ceylo" fi^* the
production of a high-clas?
No Opium! No
dangerous drug
Bull’s .B*
Colic
The editorial corps of the Univer
sity Notes will now have the assis
tance of a fair unknown, who lias
most graciously consented to furnish
Society dots. Of course Mr. Editor
will be compelled to call once a week
for mss. O how enviable is the thrice
happy editor.
At present there are three secret
fraternities at the University viz:
The Phi Delta Theta, Sigma Alpha
Epsilon and Kappa Alpha. The
laws passed by the trustees at their
last meeting will prove to be their
annihilation in one more year unless
they are repeated. We propose at
an early date to present some thoughts
•n secret societies.
Pursuant to notice the moot parlia
ment of the University met in the
Phi Kappa hall last Wednesday. A
large attendance was present. Mr. T.
S. Mell was unanimously chosen pres
ident, and Mr. B. II. Walton, secre
tary. A committee on credentials
was appointed consisting of Messrs.
Russell, Floyd and Mell and reported
quite a long list of names. A com
mittee was appointed to prepare a
constitution and report at the next
meeting. The i.ext meeting will be
on next Wednesday, at 10 o’cclock,
A. si. The enterprise thus far prom
ises to be a success. We hope to see
a still larger number present at the
next meeting.
The Phi-Kappa Society made a
very valuable purchase of book*-.
Among them we notice the Globe
edition of Charles Dickens’ works in
fifteen volumes, Gibbons’ decline and
fall of Roman Empire, llume’s Eng
land, Shakespeare’s works, Johnson’s
live3 of the poets, the works of
Sever, Smollett and Scott, and other
very valuable works. Many if not all
these books the Society already has,
but the latest and most improved
editions were desired. We congrat
ulate the Society on this addition to
the library. Our library is one of
which we may well feel proud cons
taming as it docs some 3 or 4 thousand
volumes of the best works in the
English tongue and many good works
of other languages translated. For
some time, however, we are sorry to
say the library has been in the utmost
disorder, but, last Saturday a com
mittee of 12 gentlemen were appoin
ted (of which our efficient librarian is
chairman) to arrange and make a
catalogue of the works. This com
mittee will coinmense its work im*
mediately and continue until their
duties are discharged. All persons
'"ebooks in their possession
‘ r to the Phi-Kappa Society,
’y requested by the com-
Return them without delay,
ll be allowed out of the
are arranged. But this
4d industrious committee
:bt, have the library in a
.c and orderly condition.
It has been a noticeable fact in all
ages of the world that beautiful wo.
men very frequently marry despar-
ately ugly men. In other words tin t
jiman, herself, the highest embody.
‘ of bea uty is rather indifferent to
>f it with the opposite sex. From
fact a philosophic bachelor or a
cynical woman-hater might draw
conclusions rather disparaging to the
fair sex. It might he argued from
this that the. sex are incapable of
perceiving and .unable to appreciate
the highest and finest manifestations
of the beautiful. * Or one fond of
holding; up to ridicule woman’s al
leged weakneta,-viz: Vanity, might
infeu that like, a gorgeous bird, she
pinks and plumes herself wholly
wrapt *in the contemplation of her
own loveliness, or with a fine eye for
contrast so chooses her partner that
her own gaudy feathers may appear
more brilliant by comparison. But
all such deductions from the fact are
the work of a shallow philosophy or
au important malice We allege that
this very Let is an evidence of wo
man’s high appreciation of beautv
and that as in other points she is
more finely organized and more
delicately sensitive than man so in
regard to beauty she lias a higher
taste and a far more exalted ideal.
This may seem paradoxical but it is
nevertheless true. This is our ex
position of it, Man is taken by what
is obvious [and outward. That which
addresses his senses and from which
he cannot hut receive an impression
attracts his attention and excites his
admiration. His taste is low, heavy,
seasons. He does not tise to the
contemplation of a higher and more
enduring though concealed beauty,
to which this lower is designed to
raise him. He bows before his Idol
of clay and sees nothing above and
beyond.
Not so with woman ; mere blood
and bone and flesh will not satisfy
her. She sees something higher,
nobler, Godlike which fills her mind
and raveshes her soul. This “some
thing ’’ it is which beautifies the clay.
This mpral, this intellectual glory
casts its radiance over hom&y fila
tures and to this her soul pays
homage.
In all the famous instances ot
history where women of great beauty
have married homely men, you will
find that they were distinguished
for something grand and noble either
intellectual or moral. To every
woman the man whom she loves is a
hero, an ideal, she loves him not for
his looks but bcause of a tar higher
beauty which she 11;inks shines forth
in him. Therefore wc maintain tha’;
we are risrlit.
A Gentile with Five Wives.
If it be necessary to the existence
of a domestic stew that a man should
hr ve more than one wife, it is only
common prudence, in view of ilie
contingencies of the law, to have a
good many. Here is a Western gen
tleman who has had five wive?,
contemporaneously, or as may be
said, without much stretch, simulta
neously. Charles II. Roemcr, doctor
of medicine, lately at least of Winona,
in 1872 espoused a lady in Wisconsin,
he then calling himself Dr. Arnold.
In 1873, while the Wisconsin mar
riage was yet valid, lie was unlawfully
joined, as Dr. Charles Ream, to a
Buffalo damsel; in 1874, the last
marriage being still in force, lie led
to the altar one of those paragons of
the sex, “ a widow, possessed of con >
siderablo property,” iu Columbus,
Ind. ; in 1875, as Dr. Roerner, lie
took to wife in St. Louis, Mo., a
beautiful maiden; and in 1877 he was
joined to Mrs. Artz, in Chicago, Ill,
with whom he subsequently lived at
Winona. Here the State’s Attorney
caught him and would have indicted
him, but when it came to arranging
the matter for tho grand jury, the
whole thing proved to be such a legal
puzzle that the attorney had to give
it up as a bad job. lie could not
prove that at the time of the Artz
marriage there was a former legal
wife still living. Some of the Mrs.
Roemers had been divorced and most
of the marriages ’ were good for
nothing. So they were obliged to
let the gentleman go scot tree. In a
short time he will probably be heard
of again with five more dubious and
distressed brides added to his list.