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THE COURANT. Dublinhoil Kvery Thursday, CART KBS V ILLS, G KOBO I V. tlt R ('orHAST •' /a*bli*htd every Thurtday warning tind i* dcUeeretl t>y carrier* in the city <>r mailed, po*ta<y free, it $1.60 a year; <> month*, HO cent*; three month*, 60cent*. A I) VBIITISIXQ HA TBS ,Upend on location in the pay or, and trill he furnished on applica tion. CORRRSPOXJ>KXCS containing important note* ralicitnl from all partH of the county. A IfDJiIC.SS ill Utter*, romm.unicdlioh and trl .7ram*, and rank' til draft* or check* payable to TIIK VOVKA NT, Carter grille. Oa. Official Organ Bartow County, MOTOR AND MRS. W H. FgLTOR. BEPI EM HER 3, 1385. mmmrmmxitm ■ ss. xz am a-rmgjagw—ii—WAgai A.iothkh young man killed himself in Atlanta oil Sunday. It is almost a dally occurrence. Mrs. Walklt, a bride of a month, is now in jail lor poisoning her husband, the late mayor of Emporia, Kansas. She hailed from Mow Orleans. Two beautiful young ladies of Jersey (dry were poisoned on Monday, by the mi.-tuko of a druggist, w ho sent them ten grains of morphine for ten grains of qui nine. The legislature is in favor of free pass es on railroads. A vote on that question was overwhelmingly defeated. Our members split, one voting for free passes and one against. That free pass vote is significant, it shadow's the vote on the railroad com mission. It signifies absolute control by railroads, in our opinion, but we hope we are mistaken. (H:k Atlanta correspondent goes into details in regard to a prominent sensa tion of that city. The Couraxt’h posi tion on such matters is too well known to bo repeated here, but as this matter has been found in all the prominent pa pers in Georgia and elsewhere, except in Atlanta, while the explanation and acquittal of the minister, whose charac ter was so seriously involved, is only found in our correspondent’s letter from Atlanta, we allow its publication, be cause the gentleman had many friends in this vicinity, to whom this explana tion will give great relief and satisfac tion. The Methodists are trying to raise twen ty live thousand dollars to build a little school house In China for Miss Laura Hay good. It would be difficult for them to get one-tenth that sum to build one in this civilized but Impoverished section. Why ure the Chinese more important than the poor about us V —lslimadite. We feel constrained to thank the Ish m,elite for this most pertinent inquiry. It is a humiliating fact that even the sacred mission cause is tangled up with many and divers (Quixotic schemes. We are hardly emerged from the strain of an im mense Anglo-Chinese University before we are plunged knee-deop into a struggle to build a high school edifice in China at the small cost of $25,000. Why not put it to $250,000, or even add one or two more o’s ? A school house in this section cost ing $25,000, for the children of poor Meth odists, would be a goodly sight to behold, and unless charity begins nearer home, and takes hold of the heathen at our very doors, it would be well to emigrate to China for increased educational facilities. HLOWIXG V V HELL GATE, X. Y. On the Ist day of October, there will be exploded under a small island, in East river, 275,000 pounds of dynamite powder, the greatest blast ever known in this country. This noted obstruction to com merce is a long, low, tlat island in the river, and it is exceedingly dangerous to navigation. This island has been tun nelled many thousand feet in various di rections. The walls of these tunnels are bored full of holes, nine feet deep. In each hole a cartridge is placed about a foot long, all in reach of the communica ting trigger which will explode all the car tridges at the same instant. The work men arc now placing these cartridges. The least carelessness, the fall of a box, or the report of a pistol, would blow every human life into eternity, yet twen ty men work at this hazardous business every day, from nine to six o’clock. When all is ready, the engineer in charge will touch a button, the dynamite will go oil’, and high up in the air will go Hell Gate. NEED FOR I.VVESTIOA TIOX. If the Atlanta Constitution gives the facts, public printer Harrison’s bureau of public printing needs a thorough investi gation. He gets all the department work of the state to do. His large establish ment holds a big contract with the author ities. He prints all they need, and he charges the state 20 per cent, over and above what it actually costs him. That may be fair ; we do not dispute it, but it is enough to make him do the work well and honestly. The Constitution says he is the head of the “Perseverance Marble Co.,’’ and is greatly interested in getting the state to adopt marble for the new cap itol instead of the limestone now employ ed, at the cost of $200,000 extra to the state. A committee was organized to ex amine the subject, and public printer Har rison employed a stenographer to take down the testimony. The stenographer was interested in getting a good deal to do, and the Marble Company was inter est.*d in getting a quantity to print for the state, as well :us to advertise their stone, it was a job that paid the stenographer well—and the others better. When the pamphlet appeared, it was full of the marble lobby documents, and the state pays twenty per cent, above the actual cost of printing, as well as pays for the circulation of the marble lobby documents. Can these things pass without comment? In 1879 the public printer was paid SSOO to print 112 pages of testimony, and vet the whole land is swarming with printing presses, that would do it at one fourth, nay, one sixth, of that sum, and be glad to do it, Call a halt, legislators, and look into the tricks and stop the leaks! Quart Fruit Jars GOe, half-gallons 75c a dozen at Curry’s. THE St A TE HOAD LEASE AX D THE R. It. COMMISSIOX. Iri an open letter to the commission, Senator Joseph E. Brown takes the po sition that the commission has no au thority over the W. & A. R. R-, because there was no commission when the road was leased. We think the senator is mistaken. The state never loses control over her own property: no matter where it is handled, or by whom. Two hundred years ago, and more, Chief Justice Hale, of England, stated a principle of law that hits never been controverted yet, and will stand to the end. He said, “Asa principle ot law, when private property is affected with a public interest, it ceases to be juris pri vati only.” This has been acquiesced in up to tlie present. Chief Justice Waite, in the case of Munri, of Illinois, 4th Otto, page 113, uses these words: “When, therefore, one devotes his property to a use in which the public has an interest, he, in elfect, grants to the public an interest in that use, and must submit to be controlled by the pub lic for the common good, to the extent of the interest he has thus created. There being two parties interested in said road, the power to determine their respective rights in case of conflict must be lodged somewhere; as law commen tators are agreed thera is no such thing a- a legal right without a remedy. Now, these points are applicable to all roads where the state has granted * char ter, and even if they should be defective in regard to all common railroads, the railroad owned by the state is most cer tainly affected by it. The writer is not a lawyer, make no preten tions to law education, but any man or woman that can go to the spring and back, is aware that loaning or leasing anything does not rob the owner of his rights; otherwise, every lease would be a sale, and every man that lent or leased property would have no redress if such lessee was not under legal obligations to the bona tide owner, during the time that property was out of the custody of the real owner. Georgia owns the state road —she has the right to say whether that road shall levy an enormous tax on the industry of this country—and every unjust discrimi nation against certain towns and cities is a wrong that she can remedy, and she ought to do it. It might he said that the state had no authority to repudiate fraudulent bonds, on the same basis of reasoning, and, to be entirely candid, she had less right to repudiate a promise to pay, than she lias to protect her citizens against unjust freight and passenger discriminations, as used against the labor of this country. It matters not that Georgia was dragged into an unfair trade by lessees who were able to control corrupt officials, and it matters still less, that these men are pow erful in political influence. The right of the question lies with the great tax-pay ing class, who bear those wrongs, and only ask the poor privilege of paying a reasonable price for freight over tlieir own road. Remember, dear reader, the lesseea of the state road made the enormous sum of sl,l.‘>().t)f>7 out of the carrying trade of this county in a single year, beginning in May, 1877, up to to May Ist, 1878. Who paid that money? Whose cot ton, corn, hay, etc., paid that profit to these public carriers, and whose money bought the goods, provisions, etc., that came back as return freight? In one single year you tilled their coffers with this ready cash, and they collected the last dollar promptly. You paid it, you and your neighbors, all over the state. In the year beginning May Ist, 1878, reaching to May Ist, 1879, it made sl,- 068,587.61, a falling off of some sixty thousand dollars, but their net income was greater, by over $20,000, than the year before. Now, how was that? In the next year reaching to May Ist, 1880, they made $1,297,048.71, and their not income was $406,794.90. Just think of it! The labor of this county paid the whole of it—first in shipping what it had to haul, and next in paying what it brought in as return freight. The profit came out of you every time. Wo think Senator Brown, has made a mistake in resisting the commission in this public way, for he is certainly not prepared to say that the people of Geor gia who own this road, who built it with hard-earned money, and who now sub mit to its very low rental, and yet allow to him and his company such enormous profits, that they have no law to regu late these prices, which they are compell ed to pay them as public carriers. This will not do, not a bit of it. Where would it stop ? The suite has the undoubt ed right to protect her citizens from un just freight rates, and to say it has not, is to limit the authority of the state, and its citizens, to a point where slavery would be synonymous, and to elevate railroads to a place that dictators dare not claim. Legislation by state or fed eral authority has the power to make such restrictions as rightfully belong to both. Governors and the president have the right and power to veto hasty and imperfect legislation, and both railroads and shippers have the right to appeal against injustice on either side. Now, take the profits of the state road in the next year in course, from May Ist, 1880, to May Ist, 1881, and we find $1,575,910.73, an increase of $278,878.02 in twelve months ! ! Freights were no lower to the people living on the line of the railroad; pas senger rates were no lower; the railroad commission had been no tighter on the railroad one year than another; but here was an increase of a quarter of a million and more, that every man in this coun try helped to swell —not that this coun try might be more prosperous; not that we might build up our cities, or schools, or churches—but simply that we should sti ff the already full pockets of the lessees of the state road. Last year, as you know, was a year of desolation, of drought, of distress to one and all of us, that made our support by fanning and hard work geueraily. Yet the state road made the enormous sum of $1,130,000.01, from May Ist. 1884, to May Ist, 1885, by freight and passenger traffic. That looks like the commission was in juring tficrn, does it not? They did not reach the enormous dividends of some years, it is true, but they got ali. the freight. In our poverty and scarcity, there was no more to come to them, yet they never lightened our burden a mite. They did not pity, nor did they abate a cent, because we were so strained —they took the last copper that they could reach. Since the commission was established the lessees of the state road have made clear profit, by their own showing, in eight years) not counting this year), since May Ist, 18* <, $1,750,445,i 5. Di vide that by 23, and you get the value of each share, in eight years, and* under the circumstances by which the lease was secured, and the exposures, showing how it was ratified, we think the cour age is sublime that would dare to do more than draw the profits and say nothing. If we are to be slaves to an oligarchy that is the growth of our own careless and wasteful generosity, let us know it, but if we have any rights, and are to be permitted their enjoyment, let us know it, also. Take Cartersville’s freights for a sample of our privileges, and we ask all fair-minded citizens if we do not need protection from some quarter ? Let charity begin at home for one time, for there seems to be no limit to outside greed. SUICIDES. In another column wiH be seen an ac count of the suicide of Miss Laura Nourse, a young lady well raised, well-connected and well cared for, so far as the necessa ries of life are concerned. She is charged with extreme wickedness by some of the newspapers, blasphemy and other direful crimes. Unless Rev. Mr. Turner, Mr. Speck, Mrs. Eddleraan and the hosts who are crowding themselves into eternity for the same reasons, are all wicked beyond recovery, it would be useless to charge this poor child thus. She put on paper what the others thought, and that is all of it. They are crazy ; the mental faculties, from too great a strain on certain subjects, are unbalanced, and like any other fine machinery that gets a screw loose, tt wears and rubs until the crash comes. If there Ls an honest hour in life, we take the hour of death to be that one, and the poor girl was suffering, she did not get relief, and in her blind despair she “cursed God and died,” in her crazy delirium. The human soul is a delicate thing, placed in a deli cate frame, and from the cradle to the grave it is subject to the wear and tear of outside sin, hypocrisy, falsehood and meanness. Many persons have kept away from the comfort of religion because they could not reconcile the precepts and the conduct of those who professed to be teach ers and guides. Their belief in God was subjected to the trial of watchiug those who, like some of old, made “gain” of their religion ; and woe to the blind guides, the hypocrits and Pharisees, by whom such offenses come ! This epidemic of suicide that now devas tates this fair land has a reason, it grows out of something, and it behooves patriots and Christians to understand the reason and the remedy. Tim IULL TO I'A C CRUIZE TENANTS. Our Atlanta correspondents in his last week’s letter conveys an impre-sion which unintentialiv misrepresents Hon. G. L. Humphries, of DeKalb county, in bis remarks and vote upon the “pauper tenant” Gill which was, fortunately for the farmers of Georgia, defeated in the House of Representatives. Mr. Humphries said that his principal objection to the pauper tenant bill was that it would create endless litigation—it would make a “mean tenant meaner.” This is true because it would give a worthless tenant the power and opportu nity to deprive the landlord not only of his rents but of the value of all supplies which may have been furnished said ten ant by said landlord, until both rents and supplies are consumed in spiteful litiga tion. There is no worthy tenant, who is oppressed by a selfish and unjust land lord, that will ever be unable to give se curity for the maintenance of a legal and righteous claim. This bill, if it had been enacted into a law would have given constant and prof itable employment to the lawyers of the country. It might have been very properly de nominated “a bill for the relief of impe cunious lawyers.” It certainly would have effectually destroyed the tenant sys tem of the State, as no farmer would have rented land to a man unless that man could have given bond and security for compliance with his contract. For this reason it was a measure which would have been ruinous to the pauper tenants of the State. The tanners of the House “sat down” upon the bill. ALABA it A CLAIMS SCANDAL. An act of Congress in 1874 created a commission to adjusticate all claims that pertained to an equitable settlement be tween all parties, by which to divide out some millions then in the treasury. Enormous salaries were given to the judge and all concerned, with an allow ance of SB,OOO per annum to the counsel. It now transpires that $35,000 per annum was paid out extra to other lawyers, among whom were Mr. Walker Blaine and a son of ex-Secretary Frelinghuysen, both getting nearly $4,000 per annum each. Really, it seems as if nepotism is to be the curse of all the officials of this country. Xot satisfied with their own huge profits, they contrive to get places for all of their sons and near kinsman, even if they go outside the law to do it, as has been done in the matter under discussion. It looks like “anchors were east to the windward” at every turn by some very enterprising politicians. Fly Fans and Traps, at V. L. Williams & Cos. Fruit Powder preserves vegetables aud fruits perfectly. Go to Curry’s drug store and secure a supply at once. THE MARIETTA. AX’D XORTIt GEORGIA RAILROAD. The Legislature is now being besieged by this railroad for more help. Since its inception there has been a steady cry for help—and help it has had in large meas ure. Oar readers are not unfamiliar with how thpy in imaged convicts granted them by the State, and how they became a party to one of the dirtiest tricks ever recorded—namely the deceit and chican ery practiced with four miserable con victs in Fulton county jail. That affair should have vacated the disgraced the men who were unfit-, lease in every* single instance, as well by lack of high sense of honor, to man age the business for the State of Georgia. But the Marietta and North Georgia railroad has had a great deal of assistance from the State. They were working con victs in 1876, and they continued to work them by the gracious pleasure of the State until two years ago. Up to that time it was agreeable to certain parties to allow them to work convicts—but their own greed overcoming that policy, they took away their convicts for them selves, and set on foot the plan to fleece the State and the tax-payers again. Such monumental clmek does beggar language to express it. The insolence of certain people is inexpressible. According to the showing of the At lanta Constitution, and it generally speaks by authority, we have a Supreme Court of a very variable and uncertain mind to express it mildly. If its inca pacity is betrayed in other matters, as it is shown in this case, by the Constitution of Monday, we are in a miserable plight in Georgia, so far as the highest judiciary is concerned. They decided one way, in one year, and revived and revised their decision the next year. Alas! Alas! There seems to be no relief for honest people. ATLANTA LETTER. Atlanta, Ga. Aug. 31, 1885. The sensation of Atlanta for the past few days is the reports that appeared in the Cincinnati papers Thursday and Fri day to the effort that the Rev. J. G. Arm strong, the minister of St. Phillips Epis copal church of Atlanta, had been found in Cincinnati drunk in houses of ill re pute. A private dispatch to this city Wednesday night informed certain per sons of the news. The information, the next morning, was given to the vestry. A committee was sent to Cincinnati and returned yesterday morning with Dr. Armstrong. It is worthy of notice that the Doctor did not preach yesterday. On Saturday five hundred copies of a Cincinnati paper containing a column and a half of the said affair, were sold here in one hour. Another installment of five hundred copies of the same pa pers will be on sale here this afternoon. The dealer assures me he has had calls enough since Saturday to have sold a thousand more copies than he had. The city has been literally seething with ex citement and curiosity over the sad af fair. It is the only topic of conversation that engrosses all. Everywhere there is an honest regret about the report. The committee of the vestry has not officially reported yet; but it is thought the Doctor will either be dismissed or allowed to re sign. No paper in Atlanta has mention ed the matter. Dr. Armstrong has a wife and a grown daughter. These ladies are universally beloved in this community, and the blow on them is terrible. The Doctor was away on a month’s leave, lie had been to Canada and was, it is thought, on his way home. Possibly, fatigued by a long ride, he took a glass of stimulant aX Cin cinnati, when the taste fired by the drink, may have led him unwillingly to take too much. Certain it is that the Doctor was out of his mind, for his character for so briety and purity are too well known for any one to even admit the possibility of hia willfully falling as the papers say he did. The rumor is on the streets to day that It is beyond doubt that he is suffering mental aberration. Thi is cer tain : that since Dr. Armstrong came to Atlanta his conduct has been ex mplary, and his ministrations been marked by aMlity and Christian zeal. Developments are being awaited with anxious curiosity by the community. The Doctor, as well as his esteemed fam ily, have the profound sympathy of the people of Atlanta. LAYING THE CORNER STONE. The laying of the corner stone of the new capitol will occur on Wednesday. Preparations are being made to celebrate the event in great style. The oration of Gen. A. R. Lawton will, it is aid, be really and truly one of the greatest public addresses. The masonic ceremo nies will be unusually imposing, the full ritual being observed. The United States soldiers encamped here will take part in the procession by special invita tion of the General Assembly. But why go on when the next Courant will have full report of the ceremony? ABOUT BUSINESS. We are doing considerable blowing about business, whilst more stores and houses are becoming vacant every day, notwithstanding the fact that September is the month when renting is the most brisk. The fact is Atlanta’s phenomenal growth and good business consequent thereon, gave a fictitious value to real estate. Rents went up to exhorbitant figures. The boom enabled tenants to pay them. Now' the boom i3 gone and tenants cannot pay the abnormal rents, and there is not a single street in Atlan ta where there are not vacant stores and dwelling?. It is hard to reduce the rents because many owners bought property at tl\ose boom prices. For instance, I know one gentleman who paid five thousand dollars for a five room cottage on a side street. The cottage rents for $25. That does not pay the owner and it is too high for the house. Consequent ly, the house is vacant now. It is not worth more $18; and at that rent the in vestment amonut3 to a positive loss to the holder. Real estate is shrinking in value and Atlanta has to face serious loss therein. The Evening Capitol views 1 this as a very serious matter, and speaks bewailingly thereof. A CITY OK CHURCHES. Atlanta is a city of churches, and I may add a community of Christians. There are as many churches in propor tion to the population here as there are in Brooklyn. All are handsome edifices. All services are well attended, and the pastors are liberally supported. In the matter of preachers, there are half dozen as eloqueut clergymen here as can be found in any other city. The Baptist and Methodist churches and congregations dominate in numbers. The religious sentiment is very strong, and in no Southern city is the Sabbath so strictly observed as it is here. Indeed, we bor der somewhat on the Puritan; but it is better that we learn that way than the other. There is very little bigotry, however, between the different denomi nations, which is a sterling evidence of the sincerity of the religion professed. CONNELL —GANTT. Mr. Connell retracted his language ahout Larry Gantt, of the Athens Ban ner-Watchman, and apologized for the same; and Mr. Gantt published it, and the fact that an arbitration committee had awarded that when Connell made his retraction in the House, Gantt should retract his comments anent Connell and his bachelor bill. This will be a good lesson to Mr. Connell in two ways—not to waste time in introducing bills for fun, and not to undertake to smoke out newspaper men unless he is thoroughly prepared for the job. Other members may get a wrinkle about fathering bills for fun. Mr. Connell has looked very depressed ever since he had to rise in his seat and eat his words. However, his remarks about Mr. Gantt were totally unjustifiable, and his humiliation is a just punishment for his baby peevish ness and unmanly remarks. NOTES. The theatre opens hero Friday night with minstrels. Three performances will be given—Friday and Saturday nights and Saturday matinee. The police court is busy to-day. The trial of W. A. Pledger for libel in his paper called the Defiance, is in progress to-day. The hotels are filling up with visitors to the corner stone laying. Bishop Becker, of Delaware, is said to be the successor to Bishop Gross as Cathr olic bishop of Savannah. LATER. Sept. 1, 1885.—The friends of Dr. Armstrong to-day utterly deny the re ports in the Cincinnati papers relative to his drinking. The committee of the ves try have accepted the Doctor’s statement, which they claim to have been verified, and which is as follows: Several years ago, when the Doctor was pastor in Richmond, application for membership of his charge by a lawyer of bad repute was refused. The man swore to be “even” with Dr. Armstrong if it should take years. When Dr. Arm strong arrived in Cincinnati a "few days before the report appeared in the Cincin nati papers, the first man who greeted him was the; aforesaid man, who had moved from Richmond to Cincinnati. Me apologized for addressing the Doctor, and said that his excuse for so doing was an object of charity. He did not know whether the Doctor was aware of it, and he therefore came to him to tell him that a niece of the Doctor’s had just arrived, and she was living a life of shame. He gave the Doctor her name, but did not know her address. The Doctor at once ordered a hack, at one o’clock in the day, and started out on his holy mission to save his fallen niece, lie drove from house to house seeking his kinswoman, and found her and brought her away. While he was engaged in this sacred duty, the Richmond scoundrel put the reporters on his track without telling them the Doctor’s missions. The sensa tional papers, of course, saw “meat” in a preacher’s visiting such houses, and im meniately proceeded to publish the great scandal. Atlanta, Ga., Sept. Ist, 1885. The House yesterday killed the bill of fered by Mr. Lewis, of Hancock, prohib iting railroads from giving, and members of the Legislature from receiving, free passes. There were 75 nays and 24 ayes. The majority said they could not be bribed by a railroad pass. That is true, and the president of the United States could not be bribed by a present from a foreign power, but the law says he shall not accept any such present; and custom, founded in a keen sense of propriety, forbids his receiving gifts from citizens. Crn. Grant shocked the sense of this country by violating this worthy and wise custom. there passes, bribes, there culd be none gi w en openly. It was not because they are briDt.: then that the bill was framed, but because the tora is not manly, and because it is perni cious per se. The law allowing mileage is a declaration on the part of the people against the free pass system. AFTER COLQUITT. For soino time there huvo boen ugly unfounded rumors about the part Senator Colquitt took in securing the right of way over four miles of the State Hoad for the Georgia Pacific. The State got a thous and dollars for the privilege. That sum, it is held, ig by no means adequate for tho use of four miles of railroad, and ru mor says more was paid by the road, but to whom there is no sufficient evidence to determine. For some time the Macon Telegraph has been hammering at the Legislature to investigate the affair. Yesterday a resolution was adopted that had been offered some time before by Mr. Bartlett, of Bibb, providing for a joint committee of seven members of the House and four from the Senate, to in vestigate the matter. It is hoped that the “nigger in the wood pile” will soon be discovered. A question involved is that the lessees of the State Road have no right to sublet without the consent of the lessor, the State. This point is recog nized as being well taken, and the inves tigation cannot but prove of great inter est and satisfaction. NOTES. As prophesied last week the compul sory pilotage bill was defeated. There are two daily sessions now, one from 9 a. in. to 1 p. m. and from 1 to 8 p. m. A resolution is pending that the Leg islature adjourn sine die September 26th. Dr. Dugger, member of the House from Fannin county, walks from his home to Atlauta, a distance of SO miles. He is over 70 years old. Dr. Felton has introduced a bill to pay Emsley Stegall compensation for a prom ised life pass over the State Road for right of way through his place. Mr. Fite says ho has introduced his last bill. Mr. Pringle, who has charge of the general local option bill, says he will call it up this week. He thinks the House will agree to the Senate amend ments, the most important of which is to allow election every two years by either whiskey or prohibition petitions. WHAT ABOUT ITT Bishop Foster, of the Methodist church North, preached a most remarkable ser mon at Martha’s Vineyard a short time ago. The occasion was the dedication of anew chapel at that place. He spoke from the text, “What shall be the char acter of the services held here for years to come?” To this he replied, In sub stance: “Not a camp-meeting revival service, at all events.” He took the broad ground that modern revivals did more harm than good. He said these camp-meeting gatherings were “noisy services ami religious crudities.” It looks like there was something akin to what is called “reform within the par ty,” according to the New York Sun, inside the M. E. Church. Now, if some outsider should say this, it would raise a fuss, and we wait to seo what will be done with the Bishop, who steps so boldly outside the precedents and au thorized policy of the Methodist church. What say our Methodist brethren down this way ? MARIETTA & NORTH GEORGIA R. R. Enthusiastic Meetings Asking the legis lature to Act in Sucha Manner as Will Insure Its Completion. Jasper, Ga., August 29th, 1885. A large and enthusiastic railroad meet ing was held at Jasper on August 29th, 1885. The Meeting was organized by electing Colonel J. J. A. Sharpe, of Cherokee county, chairman, and R. V. Kelly, of Talking Rock, secretary. The object of the meeting was explained by the chairman, in a few pointed remarks as to the importance of completing the Marietta and North Georgia railroad and the benefits that will accrue to the state by its completion. Colonel J. W. Henly then addressed the meeting, showing the advantages that we had already received from the road, and the wealth that would bo added to the state by its completion. He re viewed the struggles of the p-'ople of the couuties through which it is to pass, and the obligations which the state is under to deal fairly and equitably with the com pany has done and say they are still wil ling to carry out their part of the contract if the state will deal fairly and equitably with them. At the close of his remarks, the following preamble and resolutions were adopted: Whereas, the people of Cobb, Chero kee, Pickens, Gilmer, Fannin, Towns and Union counties have been struggling for ten years to build the Marietta and North Georgia railroad, and Whereas, the Marietta and North Geor gia railroad company, by holding out to an eastern company a former lease of the convicts of Georgia, made to said Mari etta and North Georgia railroad company, and fully recognized by the state in its legislative, judicial and executive de partments before the trade was made, as valid, said eastern company was induced to extensively invest their capital in said railroad, and did, in good faith, take charge of said railroad and the convicts under said lease, and thinking it to be valid, and did complete about forty-five miles of said road, at which time the said convicts were taken from said company and the lease under which said company had taken charge of said convicts was de clared void, and thereby the work stop ped, and Whereas, We are informed by said company that if the legislature will equit ably adjust the claims of the state and the company that they will at once pro ceed to complete said road, and Whereas, i’ne early completion of said road is of the utmost importance to the state, and especially to this section of Georgia, and therefore, be it, by the peo ple of Pickens county, in convention as sembled, Resolyed, First, That our senators and representatives be, and are hereby, re quested and urged to use all their influ ence to f iss such an act or resolution as the endf of justice and equity between this company and the state demand to secure the early completion of the said railroad, Resolved, Second, That we as citizens of Georgia, appeal to the judgment and patriotism of the general assembly of our great state to aid us in this our effort to complete our road through to Murphy, N. C., knowing that it has already brought a great deal of capital into our midst, and believing that when complet ed it will briug in a great deal more and thus develope our hidden resources and add wealth to our state, and increase our taxable property largely, and will be an act of justice to our mountain country, that has long been neglected. Resolved Third, That our representa tives and senator be furnished with a copy of these resolutions. J. J. A. Sharpe, Chairman. R. Y. Kelly, Secretary. Fruit Powder at Carry’s. CURRY’S LIVER COMPOUND, (Of Southern Roots and Herbs,) for LIVER, KIDNEY, STOMACH AND BLOOD DISEASES. In 50c Packages, 50c and SI.OO bottles Fruit Jars at panic price.s, at V. L. Williams & Cos. The suicide of Miss Laura 11. Nourse, at Louisville, Ky., has evoked much com ment. The letter she left is a remarkable one. She said she had tried to live right; had loved righteousness, and given kind ness to every one. She had been driven to despair by unkindness. 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