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THE COURANT. Publish**<l Krry Thursdar. CAETKIWTIIXE. fiROBOIA. IMB COP It A XT i pabliaked *r ery Thunday morning and I* delivered by carrier* in the city T naiM, pottage free. at $1.60 a year; *i* men the, W> eent*; three month*, 60 cent*. A DVK It T/Sf h'O MATES depend on location in th* pa/mr, and mill befurnUhed on applica tion. OORRKMPOXDEXCE containing important newct tolieitrd from all part* of th* county. A O/i MX MM all letter*, communication* and tel egram*. and mat* all draft* or check* r,livable ’ THE COUKANT, Cartertxille. da. DOCTOR AMO MRS. W. H. FELTON. MAY 14, 1885. Ocr thanks are due to C. C. Jones, jr., L. L. I)., for a copy of his very able ad dress before the Georgia Bar Association, at their annual meeting in Atlanta, on the 14th of August, 1884. Cartersvili.k had an old-fashioned game of “town ball,” on yesterday, in which no man under forty years of age was allowed to participate. If it had been a game for women over forty years of age, the attendance would have been smaller than it doubtless was. Women are seldom that old.—Albany News and Advertiser. Maxhku,, the murderer of Preller, whose body he concealed in a trunk in the city of St. Louis, has been arrested in Auckland, New Zealand. The mur dered man Preller, was a fine scholar, and a superior musician. He spent two years in Leipsic schools cultivating his musical talent, and was wealthy as to this world’s goods. Maxwell has en gaged counsel and prepared to fight for his life in the courts. Major-Genera i. Winfihi.d S. Han cock is in Atlanta selecting a site for a military post. This gallant soldier and distinguished citizen of the United States weighs 300 pounds and is more than six feet high. His hair is almost as white as snow, and his eyes are bright, clear and gay. He wore a citizen’s dress and a black felt hat. His dress is very becoming to his quiet, dignified manner. The Atlanta people will give him an in formal banquet on Tuesday evening when the citizens will be able to meet the distinguished gentlemen for whom Georgia cast an overwhelming vote in 1880. The Empress of Russia nee the Prin cess Dagmar of Denmark, is said to be devotedly attached co her sister, the Princess Alexandra of Wales. She is painfully anxious to preserve the peace between Russia and England. The Duke of Edinburgh, who married the sister of the Czar ot Russia, made her arrange ments to go to one of the neutral king doms of Europe until the war was over. According to these statements it is pre sumable that kings, queens and royal families are people with Instincts similar to those of uncrowned heads and com mon people. For the womens’ sake, let’s hpye nea<p. n |r ~ ■ n P khidsnt Cleveland is doing well. So far we cordially approve of bis administration. He may have appointed a few improper men to of fice but our surprise is that our presidents do not make more mistakes than they do in this di rection, dependent as they are almest entirely uuett the recommendation of particular friends of the applicant for information of his character. This is all the iuformatio* they generally have as to the character and quahfleattous of the ap plicant for office. He is appointiag democrats to Office, aud lie should continue to do so. The question shoukt be is the applicant honest and conij leteut, And did be support Mr. Clove land for tlmqiroetdoncy, and the next queettoa should be will be coup nue to support the domoeratio nnnnpee for tffis presidency? If unworthy men mrCapuoipted to offiee as a rule senators and coagrelsmen are to blame for it. Asa olass they are interested in procuring office only for men who will help to re-elect themselves or renomi nattf themselves (Or the positions they now hold. I/Ot President Cleveland act independently of these ielßsh sad partisan senators and congress men and he will avoid many blunders into which they will lead him. Our president is honest and able. We have confidence in him and his cahi net. ; Several citizens of the county have inquired of us recently if a member of the General Assembly is compelled to re sign his seat in that body when he ac cepts or holds another office? In an swer to these questions we give part of section 3, article 4, ' Constitution of Georgia : “No person holding a military commission or other appointment or office, having any emolument or com pensation annexed thereto, under this State or the United States or either of them except Justices of the Peace and officers of the militia, nor any defaulter for public money or for any legal taxes required of him, shall have a seat in either house; nor shall any Senator or representative after his qualification as such be elected by the General Assembly or appointed by the Governor either with or without the advice and consent of the senate to any office or appointment hav ing auy emolument annexed thereto during the time for which he shall have been elected.” SLA I EE'S, SP Y STATEJf. It i currently reported from Washington that every night by 13 o’clock Mr. James li. Blaine is apprised of what has been done during the day in every department of the government. This information is imparted to him by repubilean office-holders who are retained ih office. While professing nen-partisanism in order to retain their places these fellows are acting as spies upon au administration to which they are at heart bitterly opposed. The sooner the official axe is applied to their heads the better for the administration, which should be in the hands of its friends. These, republican spies at Wash ington frequently boast that they are “quarter ing on the euerny,” and gleefully jingle the dol lars they receive from the treasury ia payment of their salaries, declaring that they are pulling the wool over the eyes of a democratic adminis tration that was chosen in order that there might boa radical change in departments that were known to be corrupt under republican rule.— Cleveland Plain Dealer. If the foregoing represents the facts, it is a matter that cannot be remedied too soon. There are honest, good men in Federal offices who would despise such tricks, and we are loth to think any de cent man could draw a salary by the grace of President Cleveland only to | injure him and to play into the hands of an intriguer. The right policy is the safe one, and vice versa. No business roan would intrust his interests in the hands of a spy If he knew it, therefore, the first duty to himself, and all con cerned, is for Mr. Cleveland to examine Into character and credentials promptly, and to weed out traitors and ingrates as fast as possible. TIIK XPIOX MI C OF TYPHOID EX YER IX PL Y MOUTII, PEXXSYL YA XIA . There is a most fatal epidemic of fever prevailing now at Plymouth, Pa. Ply mouth is a mining and manufacturing city of ten thousand inhabitants, sit uated on the Susquehannah river, near Wilkesbarre. This latter city is one of the great coal mining points of Pennsyl vania. It has a mixed population, na tives and foreign—the foreign element as usual in such mining centers predomina ting over the native population. This city mines and ships annually millions of tons of anthracite coal. Its little neighbor, Plymouth, lias a population and surroundings very much like it in every particular, with this differ ence, the drinking water of Wilkes barre is pure and delightful, while the miners and people of Plymouth are mostly dependent upon the river for tlieir water supply. There are many poor people in both places. The tenements are crowded, the ventilation is bad, the streets and yards are often filthy, sewer gas is constantly escaping, and worse than all, in Plymouth, the drinking water is impure. We need inquire no further for the cause of this terrible epidemic of typhus or typhoid fever now decimating the population of Plymouth. Typhoid fever occasionally, in nervous temperaments, is caused by prolonged and excessive mental or bodily effort, care, exposure,, fatigue and insufficient food. But ninety times out of a hundred cases it is pro duced by purely external causes as by bad ventilation, breathing of air loaded with emanations from living beings, sewer gas, exhalations from decomposing matter and especially from contamina tion of drinking water —water which is contaminated by surface impurities. There are many households throughout the country mourning the death ot friends, which might have been saved such bereavements by timely attention to their wells, into which the drippings of many a “filthy place” have been per colating for many months, or by looking after their springs of water into which every rain pours the sediment of the surrounding surface. How much sick ness could be prevented if our yards and premises were thoroughly drained, with a hoe, and lime or some other de odorizer or disinfectant plentifully used —if we would tolerate nothing offensive to “eye and nose” within breathing dis tance. Some one has said that “cleanli- ness is next to godliness,” but it is cer tainly a much better preventive of dis ease, a much greater preservative of health and life than all the medicines of the world. The average length of human life has been considerably increased within the last five hundred years. This increased duration of life is the result of Improved modes of living, increased attention to cleanliness, better drainage, better venti lated dwellings, better clothing, better food and more physical comforts gen ially. There are no “black plagues” now~~wbtefr now visit Europe and the United States' pcmdifeaiiy _ sweeping thousands to the grave. Even cholera and yellow fever are being lo calized, science and good sense are throw ing their cordons around them and say ing to them “thus ftr and no farther.” It is only some town or city, or some farm-house, which, like Plymouth, has neglected the simple known laws of health which must suffer. In olden times, when an epidemic of this character would visit a country or city, the people would flock to the churches, get up religious processions, and put on “sackcloth and ashes,” but now, at the approach of such a pesti lence, sensible men resort to the spade, go to ditching,resort to lime barrels,clean out their wells of water, watch carefully their diet,and God blesses them tn the act* For after all science and knowledge are only the instruments witn which the loving Father protects, guides and makes happy his offspring. W. H. F. SPRTEG II OUSE-CI. EA El EG. This is about the time when the news papers begin to wail over the woes of the poor, down-trodden husband who is always set forth as corning home from his work, whether in the field* or at the desk, to find the house all in confusion, a “pieked-up dinner,” soapsuds and mopping brushes in his way, and with no place to lay his weary head for his afternoon nap. It is understood by these annual complaints that the women is a persecutor for the time being, with no method in her work and no mercy in her heart. Now it is time these fallacies should be overthrown, and “the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth,” set up in their place. Put the average man on the witness stand, let him tell of his sufferings and we are satisfied nothing more will be needed. Suppose the woman should undertake to clean it all in one day—and she is a “green goose” if she does—it is certain she has the heavy end of the pole to carry, and one day will not hurt the head of the family very seriously if he should live light at home or buy his dinner abroad. But suppose she takes a room at a time, and does her work by such installments, then the grumbler can always retire to quiet while he lingers about the house. More than that it will be well to recollect if she was the only person who inhab ited the house so much spring cleaning would not be needed. Grant it that she is a little cross and speaks sharp with this burden on her hands, it is also a fact she cannot dress up and look pretty and accomplish so much hard work as they generally undertake at this season. Proper Treatment for Coughs. That the reader may fully understand what constitutes a good Gough and Lang Syrup, we will say that tar and Wild j Cherry is the basis of the best remedies yet discovered. These ingredients with j several others equally as efficacious, en ter largely into Dr. Bosanko’s Cough and ' Lung Syrup, thus making it one of the most reliable now on the market. Price 50 cts. and SI.OO. Sold by D. W. Curry. SEX A TOR BLACKBURX'S BROTHER. A Washington special says another newly appointed officeholder has come to grief. The victim this time is a broth er of Senator Joe Blackburn. The pres ident, after consulting members of his cabinet, has revoked Blackburn's ap pointment as Internal revenue collector for Lexingtou, Ky., district, because of the following letter written by Black burn. which has just been made public: Abingdon, Va., Oct. 2, 1861. My Dear Wife. I have lelt you and our children in the land of the despot, hut God grant that 1 may soon be abie to make the Union men of Kentucky feel the edge of my knife. From this day I hold every Union traitor as my enemy aud from him I scorn to receive quarter, and to him I will never grant my soul m death, for they are cowards and villians enough. Brother Henry and I arrived here without hindrance. I have had chills all the way. but I hope to kill forty Yankees for every chill that I ever had. I learn that Hardee is still in the Arkansas lines* inactive, and if this proves true I will tender my resignation and go immediately to Kentucky. I hope that r will do my duty as a rebel and a free man. Since I know the Union men of Kentucky, I intend to begin the work of murder in earnest, and if ever I spare one of< them may hell be my portion. I want to see Union blood now deep enough for m v horse to swim in, Your husband, J AMES BLACKECRN. It is understood that all of the presi dent’s advisers approved of the revoca tion of the appointment. A distinguished confederate soldier once remarked, “It would have been a doleful day for the south if she had suc ceeded under her political leaders, for the simple reason that- nothing would have ever satisfied them in their struggle for power and control.” It does seem as if our southern politi cians are not satisfied with getting into office for themselves, but are bent on getting all their kin into fat places. If the democracy loses its supremacy in the next national election that spirit and policy will be the cause of it. With such a record as the foregoing in the files at Washington, it was preposterous to ex pect a republican senate to confirm Mr. Blackburn. If the senator had been just to his constituency he would have se lected some other man in Kentucky rather than his brother for such an office in the first place. If his brother had been perfectly acceptable to the presi dent there is a fitness in things that should have inclined Senator Blackburn to another choice, if he had iiad the slightest regard for his duty to his gen- erous constituency. Senator Vest has gone a step farther. He inveigled President Arthur into ap pointing his son to a Federal office and he now inveigles President Cleveland into a fresh appointment for the same youth, with increased pay. Talk of honor or principle in such greed! If the democracy is retired to private lifa in ’BB, it is just this that will do it. Pray what right has a senator or a congressman to pack his brothers or his sons into such Federal offices? For about eight years the democratic jour nals of the country denounced General Grant for nepotism, and here the demo crats, (and southern democrats at that) are rivalling the baldest nepotism in the land. United States senators seem ter think their first fruTydotfieir^country is to fill up all the offices about the capitol with their sons and kinsfolk, and now President Cleveland is persecuted to get the remainder of their kihtand kin into all the places in his gift. It is disgu&t ing and unsightly to say the least of it. Just as we reached this point another paragraph falls under our eye. Senator Butler has gotten his brotherinlaw into a South American mission at a good sala ry. So it goes. Good bye dear voters, after you elect these’political nalbobs! Stand aside ye common people until the royal families are served ! GEORGE B. GILES A TB. Last Sunday afternoon we heard this venerable and greatly respected citizen of our county preach a touching and scriptural sermon at Wofford's academy. He is seventy-five years old, was born in in Greenville district, S. C., in 1810. He moved to this county in 1833, and settled on the lot of land where he now lives, three miles from old Cassville. He built a little pole cabin for a dwelling about fourteen feet square, and in that cabin, with his wife and two children, he commenced his useful and industrious life in Georgia. At that time he did not have a dollar, bought his land for seven ty-five dollars, on credit. There was not a church in the county when he moved here, and be saw the first pole cabin built that proved to be the nucleus of the future Cassville. That pole cabin was the courthouse. He has been a member of the Metho dist church for sixty years, also a steward in that church for fifty years, and has been a local preacher fifteen years. His wife still lives. They raised eleven chil dren, eight of them are still living. They have forty grand-children, and fifteen great-grand-children. He has given every child a comfortable home, and has lett a farm around him of 400 acres in elegant cultivation and nicely improved, for his o|d age. He does not ! owe a dollar, and through his long life he has followed the maxim, “pay as you go.” He has given hundreds of dollars to the church and to the poor. His suc cessful life is the fruit of faithful service to God, and of honest, upright dealing with his neighbors. His faith in the Lord has been an abundant blessing to his own soul, both in temporal .and spir itual things. i Cassville, Ga., May 10th 18S5.—Edi tors Coubaxt: —As there is likely to be a vacancy in the representation of this county in our state legislature caused by the appointment ot Hon. A. W. Fite as deputy collector of Internal Revenue for this district, in behalf of tiie citizens of the Cassville district, and the aurround ing district we present ti e name of Mr. W. A. Chuun as a suitable man to fill the contemplated vacancy. He is honor able, capable and efficient in every re spect. He will look after the farming, laboring and every other interest of the county. A* the Cassville district has had no immediate representative in any office for some time we hope i£r. Chnnn’s can didacy will be favorably considered by the people of Bartow county in the elec tion when ordered. Citizens. THE SMALLEST WOMAX IX TBS WORLD . On another page you will see a notice of Lucia Zarate, the midget. She is a Mexican, and is now some five years older than when the writer saw her, and she was then the smallest human being, we thought, that ever lived to walk or stand alone. She was at that time ex hibited with another midget, who, if we mistake not, was born in a Northern S.ate. He was as much smaller than Tom Thumb as a year old child would be less than a boy of six or seven. The two midgets were a most remarkable pair. The boy, whose name we forget and who died not long afterward, was more of a human looking child than the Zarate girl, but he was also more deli cate and fragile. Lucia was at that time so small that ajinger ring would slip over her hand and up to her shoulder. She wore tiny doll shoes, and rocked herself in a little doll’s rocking chair. Her vanity and love of bright colors were her marked characteristics. One morning when the pair were performing on a platform erected in the centre of a large hall, a little girl of perhaps five years of age, was lifted up to see the midgets. She wore a bright red hood and a knitted mull’ of the same color. Lucia ran across her stage, clutched the cord by which the muff was suspended, and shrieked out for its possession. The child allowed her to take it. Quick as thought she tossed the cord over her own shoulders, ran to her little rocker, and laughed and rocked herself in the most delighted way. The boy, who was a trifle larger, was very sensible and an swered all questions with intelligent re plies. They lodged at our hotel, and the writer was curious to see them feed. A tablespoonful of food seemed to be satis fying, and a thimbleful of milk was about as much as either could manage at a draught. Their parents gave a hotel reception one evening, and among the visitors present were Judges Clifford and Davis, both weighing not far from four hundred each. Imagine if you can the tableau, with those four human beings the actors. The Zarate girl was more monkeyish in appearance than the other midget, and Darwin could have explain ed her peculiar characteristics in a very satisfying way for himself. Tom Thumb was often seen during those Washington days, and was introduced to the writer by Hon. Alex. H. Stephens. General Tom was an exquisite in dress, wore the most elegant solitaire diamonds, and evi- dently felt his importance, although his manners were not at all offensive or pert. He and his little wife generally brought their tiny carriage with them, drawn by a pair of mouse-colored ponies, which turn-out we understood to be a present from a crowned head in Europe. The ponies were not much larger than New foundland dogs. The Thumb lamiiy were always guests at the old National, had their regular table in the dining room, but it was different with the midgets. They played about the cor ridors, but both had cautious, anxious nurses constantlakab°ut them. Lucia Zarate is undodmedly the greatest cu riosity of the age of the human species, and her progress and development de serves to be thoroughly understood and studied, as her like has never been seen before—so far as recorded. EX-BA NKER FISH A GA IX. The Courant has already given its readers some particulars of the history of this famous or infamous financier who, with Ferdinand Ward, brought grief and financial disaster on Gen. Grant in his money operations a year ago. The ex-banker now lives in fine style in Ludlow street jail, without the lack of a single comfort, and Ward is equally as well taken care of, while their creditors are whistling for their lost shekels. But Mr. Fish has been lately overtaken in another affair that may trouble his con science as much as the money failure troubled his creditors. In Sandusky, 0., there lived a fine lawyer by the name of Reber, some thirty-years ago. He had a brilliant daughter, Sallie, by name, who w r as cultivated, attractive and hand some. She had all the attainments, especially in music, that wealth and positiou could give her. She married a man of good family in New York city, who became a drunken sot, Sallie had a penchant for the stage, and made a suc cess of the undertaking. Before Laing, her husband, died from alcoholism, banker Fish became enamoured with the opera singer, and when Laing deceased, Fish engaged magnificent apartments for her in a flat that Fish ovyned. About two weeks ago, Sallie Reber or Sallie Laing died, in a lonely country village, leaving a babe about ten day3 old. Pe culiar circumstances aroused suspicion, and facts have been developed that show a very dreadful state of things. After a denial and after the discovery of a false medical certificate, Fish has at last owned to a secret marriage with the dead woman, who found her last lodging place in the lonely hamlet before men tioned. “Vice has its agonies,” and to Fish, immured in jail, disgraced Jp the eyes of hjs fellow-men, overwhelmed with this last deceitful and miserable transaction, there must be agony enough for one poor human soul. Barely a year ago, he was a mighty man of wealth and power. Money poured in on him like a flood, and no mSU lives to do him honor. A New York paper teiis of bi§ splendid box at the opera last year, of his elaborate vine suppers, his aged debaucheries, and : worse than all, of his example to a young j son, who net only trod in his father’s ! vicious footsteps, but who was that j fathei’s boon companion in these mid-j night orgies. Fish “sowed the wind” and is “leaping the whirlwind.” An ; expert thief in finance, he is also a e betrayer of a confiding, weak wom*ii. Br request of Hon. Mr. Pringle, we publish the call lor the State Temperance Convention. Is cl* JCalachi is taken from the Phoenix Agricuitur;sL Mixist**: Kkily, who was first ap pointed to Italy, and then mentioned for Russia and accredited to Austrian, Hun gary, sailed for Europe on the Bth of May. He is a bitter partizan Catholic, and a speech made in Richmond some time ago induced the Italian government to ask his withdrawal from that mission. Mr. Bayard with his usual pertinacity determined to send him abroad in spite of this notoriety and now it is more than likely that Austria will reject him. From late political troubles the Jews are very distasteful to that governmeu.aad Mrs. Keily is a Jewess, although she abjur ed her faith and took the Catholic church vows after her marriage. It is hinted that the senate will take the whole sub- ject in charge next winter and Minister Keily is likely to find the foreign Jordan a very “hard road to travel.” Mr. Bay ard might have awarded some of these complications by a more judicious ap pointment incur opinion. Sheriff's Notice. Hereafter the Sheriffs adver tisements for Bartow county will appear in the Cartersville Courant. This May 11th, ’BS. W. W. Roberts, Sheriff' Bartow county. By over confidence the democrats have lQst one district in Illinois, and it i3 supposed Gen. Logan will thus get the needed vote to make him senator again. If Mr. Morrison has thrown away his chances by vain confidence, we shall not grieve over it. If Gen. Logan is elected we shall throw up our hand kerchief for his plucky wife, who is one of the best women in the United States. For tact, ability and courtesy to everybody, she is a jewel, and in our opinion, she is about as near a genuine political leader as ever wore a bonnet or a hat either, for that matter. She de serves all the good things that belong to political success, and that is saying no great deal, as the most of it is unmitigat ed weariness and vexation of spirit. Wk are in receipt of the Twelfth An nual report of the Augusta Public Schools. Mr. Lawton B. Evans, whom our older citizens will remember as the son of Gen. C. A. Evans, formerly pas tor on this circuit, is the superintendent. The report is a very flattering one to Richmond county and a credit to Mr. Evans himself. llox. S. S. Cox is to decide in a few days whether he will go to Turkey or re main as the bulwark of New York de mocracy. From the skillful way in which his campaign has been managed up to date, we think lie will be governor of New York via the foreign mission to Turkey. READY AND WAITING. Col. H. P. Farrow Says He Will Resign When Cleveland Asks it. Atlanta Constitution. Col. H. P. Farrow was in town yester day. His face wore an expression of quiet resignation, so much so that a Constitution man wondered if the Colonel was contemplating a resignation. The scribe asked: “Are you still collector of the port of Brunswick ?” “Yes; but I simply await the pleasure of the administration.” “Would you resign if so requested?” “Certainly I would. If I recollect aright, my party was defeated last No vember, and that defeat lost us the offices. Of course it will take time to make a complete change in all the offices, as the president and the heads of de partments have much to do besides in vestigating the respective claims of those composing the army of office seekers; but it is to be presumed that this will be done as speedily as possible, and when, in the course of business, the ad ministration reaches any given office and makes a selection from its own party and signifies through proper departmental channels, its readiness to make a change, the incumbent should step aside prompt ly and respectfully. Such action by the administration is no reflection, but is reasonable and right. The democracy have been out of office twenty-five years, and now that they have whipped us at the polls they are entitled to every office from the presidency down, ft will take them over one year to make all the changes, but four years hence I think, with our experience, we will be able, on taking charge again, to clean them up within one year.” “You think your party will succeed in next election ?” “Yes, I have no doubt of it. Rut let that be as it may, the democracy were successful last November, and I believe they should be appointed to all the offices as speedily as it can be done without detriment to the government. And w hen we defeat them four years hence we should remember, likewise, that it takes time to make all these changes and should proceed cautiously, as they are now doing.” “Then you are not in favor of your party attempting through its majority in the senate to keep republicans in office?” “Xo; and I would regard such an at tempt by my party as a fatal blunder. The great beauty of American institu tions is the cheerfulness and promptness with which minorities yield to majori ties, and this sentiment in support of the ‘will of the people’ i* so strong that an attempt by the repub lican party through its majority in the senate to rob the democracy of the fruits of its victory would be rebuked by the people in the next election. This is a ; democratic administration, and the re sponsibility should rest solely upon them, , and should ilie republican senate ‘side- , line’ them so as to divide the responsi- j bility with them, republicanism would suffer for it in the next campaign. My judgment is that we should give them undisputed and unobstructed possession of all the fruits *f their victory, and j then defeat them four years hence, if we can; and when we do, lot them ) ield with the same grace.” “Are your views in accord with your ■ party on this question ?” “I know not. I speak for myself alone. I hold a commission which does not expire till next March, and therefore it devolves upon me to act for myself, bnt I leave others to shape their own course. From my experience and ob servation in politics I am firmly ot the opinion that no person of one political party should seek to hold office under the opposite party, and I am further- more of the opinion that any one so in discreet as to try it will live to regret it. I think all republican incumbents should continue the faithful and efficient dis charge of their official duties until the administration is ready to relieve them and should then resign, and such will be my course.” “Has any request been made for your resignation?” asked tlie reporter. “None; but when it is made, I shall cheerfully yield.” SENATOR BROWN’S SPEECH BEFORE THE BAPTIST CONVENTION. Resolved, That in the opinion of this Convention, the act of fornication com mitted by a married person is, under the New Testament dispensation, cause, and the only cause, of absolute divorce from the bond of marriage. Resolved further, That it is the opin ion of this convention no minister of the Gospel is authorized by the New Testa ment to join patties together in the bonds of matrimony when either of the said parties has a living wife or husband from whom said party lias been divorced for any other than the cause aforesaid. At four o’clock this afternoon Senator Brown ascended the rostrum to speak on his divorce resolutions and caused a big stir by repeating in effect and almost entirely his famous Mormon speech de livered in the senate. Many objected to the consideration of his resolution on the ground that the convention was simply an organization to raise and distribute mission funds. But Senator Brown de fended his resolutions by saying that the precedent was on his side, in that pre vious conventions had passed resolutions on temperance, on periodicals, at one time a resolution sustaining the Southern Confederacy. This question, he claimed, was most important, as it affected the life and well being of the church and the purity of the family circle. He showed by relation how the law of Moses per mitted divorce, and how the law of Christ abrogated this custom and com manded monogamy. He contended that moral guilt was the same in Georgia as in Utah, when a man had two living wives, although in Georgia divorced from one for grounds other than adul tery. Even the fact that the statutes of the State permit such marriage does not make it right. The statute says you may do it, but Christ says you must not do it. He was proud of the law on this subject in South Carolina, his native State, and sorry tiiat his adopted State of Georgia did not have the same wise provision. He then read his resolutions, and a mo tion to table them was lost by a vote of 96 to 126. In a division called for the original resolutions of Senator Brown were put and adopted by the con vention by a large majority, as follows: Resolved, That in the opinion of this convention the act of fornication com mitted by a married person is, under the new Testament dispensation, cause, and the only cause, for absolute divorce from the bond of marriage. Resolved further, That in the opinion of this convention no minister of the gospel is authorized by the New Testa ment to join parties together in the bonds of matrimony where either of said parties has a living husband or living wife from whom the said party has been divorced for any other than the cause aforesaid. TUB NIGHT SESSION. At the night session Senator Brown’s sensation was renewed. Dr. Furman mdved to amend, objecting to Senator Brown’s intimation that there was any scriptural ground .of a divorce at all. He said the senator’s theology was wrong. Others objected to the status of the convention or the subject iu that it was outside of the scope of the body, and because the senator’s resolutions were adopted without discussion, except by himself. A motion to reconsider the whole matter was favored by Dr. Hatch er, of Virginia, and others, and com batted by Di. Hawthorne, Judge Vason and others, and adopted. The Brown resolutions were then laid on the table by a vote of 194 to 96.—Ex. Bartow' Comity Agricultural Club, No. 3. This club met at the residence of Dr. Beazley, May the Stti. All the members w'ere present except Secretary Culpep per. Pea culture was the topic of dis cussion before the regular order of busi ness was begun. Six members of the club agreed to plant a test acre in peas as compared with cotton as to profit. Capt. Charley T. Sheluian, Charley Patterson, Ilenry Sheffield and Dr. Thos. J. Lee were invited to seats with the club and to take part in its deliberations. Capt. Sbelman gave some valuable hints as to fruit culture, the main features of which were to prevent blight in fruit trees. S. C, McCormick read essays on “How best to manage tenant (croppers) Lpibor,” the main features of which were, it is not profitable to farmers to use tenants as croppers. “Croppers,” said he, “do not work days enough, as a general rule, to make for themselves a good living and their landlord a good profit. Mr. Mc- Cormick urged the use of more ready cash to laborers of all kinds to insure more faithful service. The club dis cussed the whole essay at length, and the conclusion reached was that the wages system is the better form of labor. Anew item of business was added to the regular order, to wit; A crop report from each member. Inspectors were ordered to make an inspection and report the same in writ ing at the next meetiog. Subject for discussion at the next meeting: “Ought the State Agricultural De partment be Encouraged or Discour aged?” 11. J. McCormick, essayist. A committe was appointed to draft a preamble and resolution setting forth the great evils arising from the lien and homestead laws of the State. These rer olutions are to be sent to the various ag ricultural organizations of the State, and the press, for aetioiT and publication, in order to secure concert of action in de vising a remedy for these evils. The wives of the members were made honorary members of the club. Mrs, Dr. Beazley gave an old-fashioned quilt ing to the lady members and a sump tuous dinner to all. Charley Patterson ■ and Dr. Lee took charge of the nursery of babies while their mothers partook of dinner. I; is needless t<s say the little innocents were well cared, for by these young gentlemen. £| Anon, CAE Ij for a STATE TEMPERANCE CONVENTION. SaxpersVill'e, Ga., April 28, 18S5. A convention of the Georgia Temper ance Association is iiereby called to meet in the city of Atlanta, at 12 o’clock in., on Wednesday, June the 10th, to continue in st days. The object oHHe convention is to ad vance the temperance and prohibition cause in Georgia. A full representation is greatly desired, and each county, therefore, will allowed four times as many delegates as it has representatives in the general assembly; and in addition to this each Woman’s Christian Temper ance" Union, and each lodge of Good Templars; and each temperance organ ization of any name or order, will be al lowed one delegate for every fifty mem bers or fractional part thereof. < Let the friends of temperance in the several counties of the State, whether organized or not, call meetings (we would suggest Oil the first Tuesday iu Mayor June) and appoint their dele gates, aud let each lodge and union ap point its delegates. An interesting pro gramme will be arranged. Distinguish ed speakers will be invited to address the convention on Wednesday and Thursday nights during its session, and if we would achieve grand results, let the friends of the eavse rally and send up full delegations, and let all assist as far as possible in overthrowing the great evil of intemperance, thereby working for the cause of humanity, for God, homo and native land. C. K. Springle, Pros. Ga. Tern. As. Executive Committee, State at Large: John D. Cunningham, Geo. W. Adams, W. J. Northern, J. D. Stewart, 1, J. 11. Estill, 2, G. P. llansell, J, W. A. Wil son, 4, H. F. Everitt, 3, J. G. Thrower, 6, A. A. Murphy, 7, L. N. Trammell, 8, R. C. Humber, 9, W. 11. Simkins, 10, Mrs. W. C. Sibii‘3 r . . W. G. WarmiY, Secretary. The following gentlemen of Atlanta have been requested to act as a commit tee to arrange all the details for the meeting of the convention : J. G. Throw er, S. M. Inman, J. D. Cunningham, J. E. Bryant, W. I). Adair, W, A. Hemp hill, W. G. Whidby. Respectfuetly and fraternally, C. It. Pringle, Pres. Ga. T. A. To the friends of temperance in Geor gia: Tty virtue of a resolution passed by the State Temperance Convention, at its July session last year, the executive com mittee was authorized to collect such sfims of money as were necessary to meet the contingent expenses of the Georgia Temperance Association. A small sum, of say two hundred dollars, is now needed to pay some expenses already in curred, and to meet the expenses of the approaching State Convention, to bo held in the city of Atlanta, June 10th. Brother James G. Thrower is author ized to receive the money, which is to be disbursed under the direction of the executive committee. Let the friends of the cause therefore sec to it that this amount is raised at once. C. R. Pringle, Pres. Ga. T. A. Farmers and Mechanics. Save money and doctor bills. 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