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Browne A Ishmail, Mt. Olivet, Ky.] Phj sioiftn, Surgeon, OlmtetrlcUn and Uynosoologist, Lassville, Georgia. V. B.—Special attention given Sjirgery in al its bracnes. oct *****~ t ’ SIIELBY ATTAWAY, a 'V o u N" b: y -at-la w, \ \ r ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS ec tl wßh'CoL M. R. SUnsell, Bank Block. OKOB6B S. JOHNSON, AT r r OItNIG Y - AT-LA "W , CARTKRSVILLE, GA. OFFICE, West Side, Public Square. Will practice in all the Courts. K. W. MURPHKY, iTTORNEY-AT - law, CARTERS VILLE, GA. il FICE (up-stairs) in the briek building, cor ner of Main & Erwin streets. julyla. j.M.NKKI.. j. J. CONNER. W. J. NEKL. KEEL, CONNER & NEEL, AT ORNEYS-AT-LAW CARTERSVILLE, GA. \\ r ILL PRACTICE IN ALL THE COURTS \Y of this state. Litigated cases made a penalty. Prompt attention given to all business entrusted to us. oihcc in northeast corner of courthouse, fcbfl M. L. JOHNSON. A T TOUNEY- A T - L -A. W CARTKRSVILLE, GEORGIA, office in the brick, house next to Roberts’ very stables. Hours from B>i a. in. to 4>£ p. m. UfcjTAll business poonipUly attended to. tipr29 . T. W.MILNKK. J - UABHISjJR. MILNER & HARRIS, A AO KNEYS-AT-LAW . CARTERS VILLE, GA. Office on West Main Street. l ul ylB JOHN H. WIKLK. 1)0 OI.ASS WIKLK. YVIKLK & WIKLK, A. T T OBNE Y &-A. T-L -A. W , CARTKRSVILLE, GA. Office in court house. Douglas Wikle will give special attention to collections. ItibU JNO. 11. F. LUMPKIN, _A. T TORNEY-A T - L.-A. W , ROME, GA. I COLLECTIONS A SPECIALTY. OFFICE vy in rear of Printup, Bros. & Co.’s Bank. ALBERT S. JOHNSON, AT T O 11 2STK Y-AT-LA W, CAItTERSVILLE, GA. OFFICE : WEST SIDE PUBLIC SQUARE. Will practice in all the Courts. Business TKAYELEHS’ GUIDE. GADSDEN AND RED LINE STEAM ERS— U. S. MAIL. STEAMER SIDNEY P. SMITH, (Ben. 11. Elliott, Master; F. G. Smith, Clerk.) Leove Rome every Tuesday and Friday. . .8 a m Arrive Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday, .fa a m Leave Gadsden Wednesday and Saturday. .8 a m Arrive at Rome Thursday and Sunday 7 p m Will go through to Greensport, Ala., every Friday night. Returning, leave Greensport ev ery Saturday morning. STEAMER GADSDEN. F. M. Coulter, Master F. A. Mills, Clerk. Leave Rome Mondays and Thursdays 11 a m Arrive Gadsden Tuesdays and Fridays ... 2am Leave Gadsden Tuesdays uml Fridays.... 9 a in Arrive at Wednesdays and Saturdays .7 p m Office No. 27 Broad street, up-atairaover the ('ottoil Exchange. Telephonic connection. J. M. ELLIOTT, Jr., Gen. Man’gr., Gadsden, Ala. W. T. SMITH, Geu’l Agent, Rome, Ga. CHEROKEE RAILROAD. On awl after Monday, March 19, 1889, the trains on tins Road will run daily as follows (Sunday excepted): PASSENGER TRAIN.-MOUNING. L.'.ave Cartersville 9:45 am Arrive at Stilesboro 10:17 a m Arrive a* Taylorsville 10:83 a m Arrive at ltock mart 11:10 am Arrrive at Oedartown 12:05 a m RETURNING. LeaveCcdartown ......... 2:05 pm Arrive at Roekinart 2:58 pm Arrive at Taylorsville ...... 3:38 pro Arrive at Stilesboro 8:51 pm Arrive at Curtersville 4:25 pin PASSENGER TRAIN.—EVENING. Leave Gartersville 4:30 pm Arrive at Stilesboro 6:04 pm Arrive at Taylorsville 5:22 pm Arrive at ltocknsart 6:00 p m Arrive at Cedartown 7:00 p m RETURNING. Leave Cedartown . . . ... . . . 6:00 am Arrive at Rockmart 6:53 am Arrive at Taylorsville 7:3 a m Arrive at Stilesboro 7:46 am Arrive at Cartersville 8:20 am ROME RAILROAD. Thp following is the present passenger sched ule: , NO. 1. Leave Rome 6:10 am Arrive at Kingston 8:55 a m NO. 2. Leave Kingston 9:20 a in Arrive at Rome 10:25 a m NO. 3. Leave Rome 4:15 pm Arrive at Kingston 5:30 pm no. 4. Leave Kingston p m Arrive at Rome 6:50 pm NO. 5. Leave Rome 5 : 92 aui Arrive at Kingston 9:00 am NO. 6. Leave Kingston 9:20 am Arrive at Rome 10:10 am Nos. 1,2, 3 and 4 will run daily except Sun days. Nos. 5 and 6 will run Sundays only. No. 1 will not stop at the junction. Makes close connection at Kingston for Atlanta and Chattanooga. No. 2 makes connection at Rome with E. T.. Ta. & Ga. R. R.. for noiuts south. EBEN HILLYER, President. J. A. Smith, G. P. Agent. WESTERN AND ATLANTIC R. R. The following is the present passenger sched ule : NIGHT PASSENGER—UP. Leave Atlanta 2:40 p m Leave Cartersville 4:30 pm Leave Kingston 4:55 pm Leave Dalton 6:34 pm Arri ve at Chattauooga 8:00 p m NIGHT PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 2:55 pm Leave Dalton . 4:32 pm Leave Kingston 6:03 pm Leave Cartersville 6:32 pm Arrive at Atlanta 8:40 pm DAY PASSENGER—UP. ..eave Atlanta 7:00 a m Leave Cartersville 8:55 am Leave Kingston 9:2lam Leave Dalton 10:55 am Arrive at Chattanooga 12:30 a m DAY PASSENGER—DOWN. Leave Chattanooga 8:00 am heave Dalton 9:46 am Leave Kingston 11:15 a m Leave Cartersville 11:42 a m Arrive at Atlanta 1:40 p m ROME EXPRESS Leave Atlanta 4:30 pm Arrive at Cartersville 6:3lpm Arrive at Kingston . 7:00 p m Leave Kingston 8:06 a m Arrive at Cartersville 8:32 a in Arrive at. Atlanta . . ... 10:37 am Don’t Forget Tha' you can le suited in a clock at J. T. Owens. VOLUME V. SHILOH’S CATARRH REMEDY—a positive cure for Catarrh, Diphtheria and Canker Mouth. Ask Carry for it. nov23-6m Pric’sßaking Powder aud flavoring extracts can be had of Cel Word. Die most prominent physicians in the city smoke, and recommend TansilPs Punch se. ci gar. Cel Word sells them. Curry has a splendid lot of strictly pure teas which he is selling cheap. Wat sworth Martinez A Longman’s paints are guaranteed strictly' pure and of greater covering capacity than any other and Curry is selliug quantities of it. Alabastine at Word’s drug -tore. SHILOH’S CURE WILL • immediately relieve Croup, Whooping cough and Bronchitis. Sold by Curry. Good mixed paints at Word's drug store. Lamps cheap and nice at Words drug store. S. S. S., the great blood medicine at Word drug store. One by one the roses fall, but “Tansill's Punch” cigar outlives them all, Cel Word’s drug store. Purify your blood by using ‘ el Word’s Sarsa parilla. Smoke “Tansill’s Punch,” America’s finest sc. cigar. Cel Word sells them. The old reliable genuine Brown Windsor soap so diservidly popular with the ladles. For sale by D. W. Curry. * Flower pots from 5 cents up, at Curry’s. Hagan's magnolia halm for the complexion, at D. W. Curry’s. Curry has just received a large lot of Luud borg’a Triple extracts. Attention Ladies. Tetlows Swan’s down white and flesh colored at Currry’s. Tetlow’s gossamer white aud flesh colored at Curry’s. Cigarettes 10 for scts. 20 for 10 cts. at Curry’s Seltzer Water on draught at Curry’s. Call and try it. Sleeplessness is almost always occasioned by some derangement of the Btomache and can be cured by taking Curry’s Liver Compound which aids digestion, quiets the nearvs and thereby gives refreshing sleep. Fine cut tobacco at Curry’s. Allane, Woodward & Co.’s Extra select pow ders guaranteed strictly pure for sale by Curry. Toilet soap in endless variety at D. W. Cur ry’s. Lemon Elixir cures headache, indigestion, diziness, etc., for sale by David W. Curry. Price, 50eents per bottle. Curry will sell you an insect gun charged with Persian Insect powders, that will drive off all sorts of insects from your flowers, vegetable and melon vines, for 20 cents. Fruit jars enough for everybody and cheap enough for anybody at Curry’s. Why “pot” your beautiful plants in a rickety old unsightly box or keg when yon can buy elegant Paulding county Majolica flowerpots, at Curry’s a3 cheap as dirt. David W. Curry, Dear Sir: The Persian In sect powder procured of you has effectually rid my vegetables and melon vines of insects with out the least injury to the plants. Respectfully, etc., June 9th 18S3. Jxo. P. Stegall. Curry has in stock a large quantity of all sorts of lubricating oils that he is selling very cheap. A lady who has visited most of the cities north and south says tiiat Curry’s soda water surpas ses any she ever drank. Pure Lard oil the very best tiling for machin ery for sale by 1). W. Curry. PILES. Piles are frequently preceded by a sense of weight in the back, loins and lower part of the abdomen, causing the patient to suppose he has some affection of the kidneys or neighboring or gans. At times symptoms of indigestion are present, as flatulency,uneasiness of the stomach, etc. A moisture, like perspiration, producing a very disagreeable itching, particularly at night after getting warm in bed, is a very common at tendant. Blind, Bleeding and Itching Piles yield at once to the application of Dr. Bosan ko’s Pile Remedy, which acts directly upon the parts aflected, absorbing the tumors, allaying the intense itching, aud effecting a permanent cure, where all other remedies have failed. Do not delay until the drain on the system produces permanent disability, but try it and be cured, rice 50 cenis. Sold by D. W. Curry. janlß-l “IIACKMETACK,” a lasting and fragrant perfume. Price 25 and 50 cents. Sold by Curry. Another lot Wizard Oil, the great “Cure All,” fust rccoived at Cnrry’s drug store. Do smoke “Tansill’s Punch” 5 cent cigar. Cel Word’s. FREE OF COST. Byicalliug at D. W. Curry’s drug store, you can get a sample bottle of Dr. Bosanko’s Cough and Lung Syrup free of cost, which will relieve the most obstinate Cough or Cold, and show you what the regular 50 cent size will do. When troubled with Asthma, Brochitis, Dry, Hacking Cough, Pains in the Chest, and all diseases of the Throat and try a sample bottle of this medicine. jan!B-ly Madame Loraine’s sure death to bed bugs. For sale by D. W. Curry. If you would rise early take Curry’s Liver Compound. . W j Cel Word respectfully calls attention to his country friends that he can supply them with a cool glass of soda water when in Cartersville. Many imitate, none equal, “Tansill’s Punch” scent cigar. Cel Word sells them. 2,3, and 5 gallon tilting oil cans at Words drug store. ARE YOU MADE miserable by indigestion, constipation, dizziness, loss of appetite, yellow skin? Shiloh’s Vitalizer is a positive cure. For sale by Cmry. Warner’s Safe Diabetes Cure, Warner’# Kid ney and Liver Cure, Warner’s Nervine, War ner’s Tonic, and Warner’s Pills, are kept con stantly in stock and sold wholesale and retail at Curry’s drug: srorc. FOR DYSPEPSIA and Liver Complaint, you have a printed guarantee on every bottle of Shi loh’s Vitalizer. It never fails to cure. You can get it at Curry’s. Diamond Dyes, only 10 cents per package, a t Word’s drug store. Ice cold soda water aud ginger ale, drawn from one of Tufts' Arctic Apparatus, can be had at Cel Word’s drug store. Cel Word’s Horse and Cattle Powders give perfect satisfaction. Try them. Hot weather is coming, aud Cel Word lias put in operation one of Tuft’s elegant soda water ap paratus to dispense the cooling beverage. Old smokers prefer “TansilPa Punch” 5 cent cigar to most of the 10 centers. Cel V/ord is the agent. Pure white lead and linseed oil. Pure mixed paints in any quantity at Cel Word’s drug store. THE FREE PRESS. GONE TO REST. Death of Hon. Charles J. Jenkins at Ills Home in Summerville. Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist, 15th inst.l Last night, at ten minutes past ten o’clock, Hon. Charles J. Jenkins, after a lingering, almost painless illness, depart ed this life at his residence in Summer ville near this city. For several weeks he had been waiting between life and death, his ailment being entirely nervous prostration, and for some time his death had been looked for as an almost hourly possibility. Ilis last hours were calm, peaceful, uneventful. Surrounded by every comfort in his old age, he was at tended In bis last illness by those of his family whom Providence had spared to illumine with affection his closing hours —and, apparently, without a groan or a strangle, passed “from the repose of sleep to the repose of death.” Last summer Governor Jenkins sustained the misfor tune of losing Iris wife, and since that time the venerable old Georgian had re tired more than ever to privacy, wt ieh his increasing physical infirmities aided him in maintaining, and he had seemed of late to live entirely with the memory of iris beloved dead, if, indeed, his life was even animated with memories of its historic past. The members of his imme diate family had passed from him and were at rest. His neices, to whom he was devotedly attached, had married and gone out into their own households, and he seemed to court rather than to lesist that dissolution which should sunder all earthly association. At his beautiful home among the soft shades his life went out last evening with the quiet tremor of the winds, with the gentle play of the lightning in the sky. An aged man has fallen—a sufferer released from all phys ical affliction; but upor. his people and his country the man has left an impress deeper than the wide racks in the rocks— brighter than the electrical upon the midnight cloud. Charles J. Jenkins was born in the county of Beaufort, S. C., on January C, 1805. His father moved to Jefferson county, Ga., in 1816, and Charles, the son, was educated partly at the Georgia University and partly at Union College, Schenectady, N T . Y., where he graduated in 1824; afterward studied law and open ed an office in the city of Augusta, Ga. In 1830 he was elected to the legislature; in 1831 was elected attorney-general of the state, which position he resigned be fore the expiration of his term of office, and was again returned to the legislature in 1836, which position he continuously held from 1836 to 1850, ranking amongst the ablest and most eloquent of the house during all that period, end being speaker thereof whenever his party was in the majority. In politics he was reared in the Jeffersonian States Rights school, but supported Harrison for president in 1840, and Clay in 1844. lie was a mem ber of the Union convention of the state in ISSO, and, as chairman of tiie commit tee on resolutions, was the author of the the celebrated Georgia platform adopted by that body. In 1.860 he was appointed one of the judges of the supreme court of the state to fill the vacancy occasioned by the resignation of Hon. Linton Stephens. This position he held until the close of the war. He was a member of the con stitutional convention of the state called under the proclamation of President Johnson in 1865, in which body he acted a prominent part, and in the same year was elected governor of the state without opposition under the new constitution so formed. This position he held until he was superseded by General Thomas H. Roger, of the United States army, who was appointed provisional governor in IS6B under the reconstruction acts of Congress. He also had been one of the most active and influential members of the board of trustees of the state univer sity since 1839. THE GREAT SEAL OF STATE. The crowning honor in the life of this great Georgian was the presentation to him by the legislature in behalf of the people of the state, w ith the fao simile o? the great seal of the state perpetuated by him and preserved during the military usurpation and republican despotism in Georgia. The following is the olHcial act of the legislature: lienoleed, That h s excellency, the governor, be authorized and instructed to have prepared aud iu the name of tne people of Georgia to present to Hon. Charles J. Jenkins a seal to be the fac simile of the one preserved and restored by him, except that in addition to the other devices it shall have this inscription: “Presented*oCharles J. Jenkins by the State of Georgia;” and this le ge ?d: “in arduis fldelis.” When General Meade removed him from his position and detailed an officer of his staff to act as governor because Mr. Jenkins refused to surrender the key of the treasury to a convention irregularly call ed and unlawfully assembled, there was no reason to believe that Georgia would ever again be a free and independent state. Unawed, however, by the gloomy prospect before him, undaunted by the threats of power, unintimidated by the bayonet force which held the state in thrall, Governor Jenkins refused to sur render the sacred charge entrusted to his keeping. He refused to give up the pub lic Funds, or to disclose their whereabouts, but applied them to the liquidation of the just debts of the state. He refused to al low the archives of the state to pass into hands not authorized to receive them, or to leave THE GREAT SEAL OF THE STATE to attest the acts of robbers and usurpers, , but keep them until the voice of the peo | pie was again heard, when they were de | livered to the rightful successor —the true j governor of Georgia. Said a noted chron icler of the day: “He kept the treasury from speculation; preserved the great seal from desecration—and this at the risk of suffering personal indignity, or CARTERSVILLE, GEORGIA, THURSDAY MORNING. JUNE 28. 1883. arbitrary arrest, or Imprisonment which might have terminated in death. But af ter years of waiting, time brought vindi cation and compensation. The loug night passed away and the morning dawned, bringing hope and consolation to many a weary watcher for its coming. The heavy hand of oppression was lifted front the state, her shackles were broken and cast from her limbs, aud Georgia was again free. When this great work was accomplished, the first man in the affec tion of the people was the governor who had performed his duty so fearlessly, so nobly, so well. In drduis rtdelis. And among the first acts of the first legal leg islature which had assembled in six years was a recognition of the fidelity, the in trepidity, the heroism of Charles J. Jen kins. Well do we remember the day on which these resolutions—so brief, and yet so comprehensive and solicitous— passed the house of represenatives. Well do we remember the effect upon the house when the speaker, lion. Joseph B. Gum ming, descended from his chair and read the resolutions which he had framed— the unanimity with which they were passed—even the Republican members allowing their admiration of the man to obliterate party lines and sink party bit terness —and the thunders of applause which sh&ok the capitol upon the an nouncement of the vote. The medal which Major Cumming presented to Gov ernor Jenkins, in the name of the state of Georgians the fruit of those lesolu tions, and when he received it, the latter might well say that his ‘cup was full to overflowing.’ IHS LAST PUBLIC SERVICES. The last appearance of Hon. Charles J. Jenkins in public life was in 1877, when he was chosen president of the state con stitutional convention. No man could more appropriately occupy the presiding officer’s chair over a body of men called to revise the organic law of his state now fully redeemed from misrule and corrup tion, and no man could nave discharged the onerous duties of that position with more dignity, breadth and power. His grasp of parliamentary method, his con ception of the duties and limits of the convention, and Iris open advocacy of general principles of organic law are lu minous points in the history of that mem orable body. Three times did Governor Jenkins descend from the chair to dis cuss public questions. Once against the proposed ordinance to place the election of judges with the people; onoe against the ordinance of General foombs, form ulated upon the theory of state regulation of railroads, and again, favoring the pay ment by the state of the Herring bonds which lie had considered binding upon the people and the treasury. His last ap pearance in public life is thus pictured in the closing hours of the constitutional convention, just after Governor Jenkins’ farewell address. AN AFFECTING SCENE. “The scene now was most affecting. Generals Warner and Toombs were visi bly moved, and not a dry eye was in the hall. For several seconds no sound could be detected, everything seemed to be cov ered and overcome by the wave ot deep emotion, which welled up on all sides, and which did not subside until long af the speaker’s voice bad ceased. Mr. Reese’s motion now, at twenty-one min utes past 11 a. in., to adjourn sine die, was renewed and carried. Governor Jenkins, after making his bow, retained his posi tion in the aisle, where hundreds of dele gates and visitors lingered around to press the noble Roman’s trembling hand. It was a grand, consummating hour—if such ’twould prove to be—to a life well spent indeed.” gov. jenkin’s order of ability. Governor Jenkins was a close and con sistent reasoner; a solid, convincing speaker, who carried with his argument so much earnestness, and at times illu mined his efforts with so much fire that he was almost resistless before a delibera tive assembly. Governor Jenkins was distinctly a Georgian. He never held of fice outside the state, and seemed to have no ambition beyond serving the common wealth. So dear had he become to the people of Georgia, who had learned to trust his gigantic honesty and unswerv ing patriotism, and to admire his splen did abilities, in which shone no trace of the demagogue or double-dealer, that he was universally spoken of in this state as “the noblest Roman of them all.” RELATIONS IN AUGUSTA. Governor Jenkins was at one time— just after the war—President of the Planters Loan and Savings Bank. He was a large stockholder in the Augusta factory, of which institution lie was for a short time president. lie was a trustee of the Augusta Orphan Asylum, and was at the time of his death a vestryman in St. Paul’s Episcopal Church of this city. Governor Jenlyns was a gentleman of the old school; a Jeffersonian democrat; an uncompromising lover of libert}’, and in intellect and heart was a pure patri cian—while his whole life stamps him in eft'aeeably as one of Nature’s noblemen. Governor Jenkins’ immediate family consists of three neices—Mrs. J. Gardner Montgomery, and Mrs. Walter M. Jack son, of Augusta, and Mrs. William W. Thomas, of Athens. McCormick Harvesting machines, the best in America. Mowers also at Norris & Jones For nearly twenty years there has scarcely been a crime committed in Cen terville district, but the past few weeks have broken this excellent record. Four negroes are now in jail for crimes com mitted in that district, one for murder i and three for assault with intent to mur der. THE TRUTH ABOUT PALESTINE. The Country Safe, Fertile, and Relative ly Very Prosperous—Jewish Farmers. From the New York Sum] Haifa, May 16. —Considering the number of tourists, both American at\d English, Mho annually visit the Holy Land, I have been much struck with the erroneous impression which still contin ues to prevail in regard to its availability as a field of colinizatiou, and as an open ing for foreign enterprise and capital. For some time past a discussion has been taking place in the Jewish papers on both sides of the Atlantic, in which the merits of Palestine from this point of view have been canvassed, and I can on lj’ account for the extraordinary inaccu racies which have characterized the ar guments of the disputants by the suppo sition that they have derived their infor mation from sources which, owing to the changes which have taken place in the country during the last few years, may now be considered obsolete. A remark able illustration of this has just come to my notice In the account which Dr. Thompson gives of the Plain of Esdrae lon in his well known work, “The Land and the Book,” which tally deserves the high reputation It enjoys, and which when it was published, twenty-three years ago, presented a most faithful pic ture of the Holy Land and its inhabi tants. That anybody who now took this work as an authority upon the actual condition of many parts of the country would be most wofully misled, may best be judged of from a short extract of what he says of the Plain of Esdraelon, on the borders of which I have been living for the last six months, and comparing it with tiie results of my own observation. “The Bedouins resort here,” he re marks, “with their lloeks and camels, and the whole of Esdraelon will be shortly abandoned to them. Their sys tem of desolation is worked "out in this fashion: they pitch their tents in the vicinity of a village and in such numbers as to bid defiance to the inhabitants. Of course, their camels and flocks roam over the unfenced plain, and devour a large part of the grain, while growing; and when it is ripe, they either steal 't or compel the farmers to present them with a heavy percentage as the price of their protection. From the village itself chickens, eggs, sheep, cows, and even horses disappear and can never he re covered. Many of the inhabitants soon move off to escape from their annoyanc es, and the villages being thereby weak ened, the A mbs provoke a quarrel, some one is wounded or killed, and the place is sacked or burned. The end aimed at is now reached, and the laud belongs henceforth to the lawless Ishmaelite. In ten years there will not be an inhabited village in Esdraelon unless this wretched work is checked, and even now it. is un safe to traverse this noble plain in any direction, and everybody goes armed and prepared to repel force by force. But a small portion of the plain is under culti vation. The lower end is not more than six miles wide, and most of it is too wet and flat for cultivation, but the Arabs delight in it, particularly in winter, and it is even now dotted over with their tabernacles. Overgrown with thistles and long grass it is the favorite haunt of the gazelle,” and so forth. Your readers will be surprised to learn in the face of this description, that almost every acre of the plain ot Esdrae lon is at this moment in the highest state of cultivation; that it is perleetly safe to ride across it unarmed in any direction, as I can testify; that so far from plun dering and despoiling villages, the few Bedouins, whose “black tabernacles” are now comfined to the southern- mar gin of the plain, have, in their turn, be come the plunderer and despoiler, for they are all reduced to the position of be ing subjeet to inexorable landlords who charge them exorbitantly for the land which they occupy, and tor which they pay inJiard cash, under penalty of in stant ejection ,which is ruthlessly en forced, so that the inhabitants of the vil lages, with which the plain is now dot ted, live in perfect security, though more than twenty years have elapsed since it was predicted that “in ten years more there would not be an inhabited village in Esdrealou.” It looks to-day like a huge green lake of waving wheat, with its village-crowned mounds rising from it like islands; and it presents one of the most striking pictures of lux uriant fertility which it is possible to conceive. When, therefore, I read the other day, as an argument why colonies should not be established in this part of a description of the dangers which would attend any such experiment, I was amazed at the temerity of the assertion, until i recognized some of the phrases above quoted, which must be my excuse for making the extract. But as so much attention is just now devoted to the con sideration of the agricultural capabilities ©f Palestine, I think it only right that the delusions which evidently continue to exist on the subject should be dissi pated with as little delay as possible. The fact is that nearly the whole plain of Esdrealon is divided between two great proprietors, the Sultan himself, who has recently acquired a great part of the eastern portion of it, and the Sur socks, the richest bankers in Syria, who are resident in Beyront, and who own nearly all the villages extending from the foot of the Nazereth hills to the sea. Some idea of the amount of the grain which is annually grown on their por tion of the plain of Esdrealon alone may be gathered from the fact that Mr. Sur sock himself told me a few weeks ago that the cost of transporting his last year’s crop to Haifa and Acre amounted to $50,000. This was said as illustrating i the necessity of a rail way across the plain, with a view of cheapening the cost to transport, as, owing to the Sultan having property here, it had become de sirable iu his Majesty's interest. A“con cession has recently been granted to these Beyrout capitalists for the purpose of constructing a line which shall con nect the bay of Acre and the two ports upon it with the great grain-growing province to the east of the Jordan called the flauran, from which region thous ands of camels loaded with cereals come annually to Acre and Haifa. As I write the engineers are starting to commence the surveys of tills liae, which will run right through to the centre of the Plain of Esdraelon, and open up a great extent of new country lying in the hills behind it, which will now find an easier access to the sea, while the whole of Galilee will benefit from so import- means of coin mu meat ion. Indeed, it is a remarkable fact that while every proviuce in Turkey has been steadily retrograding during the last few years, Palestine alone has been rapidly develop ing in agricultural and material prosperi ty. In Haifa, and its neighborhood,land has risen threefold in value during the last five years, while the export aud im port trade has increased with a remark able rapidity, and the population has doubled within ten years. Indeed, the population of the whole of Palestine shows an increase during that period, more particularly owing lo immigration within the last year or two. The conse quence is that although, so far as security for life and property is concerned, there is still much to be desired, great progress has been made, and with a more energet ic government the country might be rendered as safe as any in the world. As it is, the Arabs are for the most part pushed east of the Jordan, and it is now becoming more and more rare for an Arab encampment to be seen in the neighborhood of the more settled and prosperous part of the country. There are, ot course, villages where the inhab itants have a bad repudation, and, as a rule in the establishment of new colonies, proximity to these should be avoided; but, fertile lands, near peaceable villages, removed from all risk of Arab incursion, and which can be purchased at a low price, abound; and I know of no more profitable investment of money, whether by Jew or Gentile, than is furnished by a judiciously selected tract of this des cription. In proof of which may be cit ed the extraordinary wealth which has been accumulated by the Surseeks alone, who now own thousands of acres of the finest land in Palestine, and who pur chase numerous new villages every year. At the same time it must be admitted that, practically, the purchase of land in this country is attended with many diffi - culties. It is either held by villages in a communal manner or in very small patch es, many of which have several own ern. In the first case the whole village, jvith its lands, must be purchased, an operation involving many official formal ities, or the co-proprietors of the small patches have to agree upon the amount of the purchase money, and then to show a clear title and the payment-of all arrears of taxes. Asa rule the purchase of any consirable extent of laud involves nego tiations extending o\er several months, and strangers unused to the ways of the country and the-methods by which offici al routine may he expedited and obstacles removed are apt to meet w ith many dis appointments. On the other hand, ow ing to official corruption, immense tracts of land fit for cultivation, but which are unoccupied owing to the sparseness of the population generally, may, through favoritism and backsheesh, be obtained at an almost nominal price. The same erroneous impression pre vails in regard to the barrenness of the country, as in regard to its insecurity. Few travellers see more than the beaten routes, where the hills happen to be un usually stony and barren ; but the extent of the population which once inhabited the country, furnishes the best evidence j ©f what it is capable of surporting, and its capacities in this respect have been j most forcibly dwelt-upon by the officers engaged in the survey of the country for the Palestine exploration fund, who have enjoyed unequalled opportunities of judg ing upon the question. The fact that the resident Jewish agricultural popula tion of Galilee alone amounts to over a thousand souls, is probably one which will astonish Western Jews more than any one else; but I have verified it by actually visiting myself the localities in which they are engaged in their farming operations, and am not giving the num bers without having arrived at it upon sure data. There are three prejudices which have operated againskthe colonization of Pales tine by Jews and which are all absolute ly unsound, and these are, first, that the Jew cannot become an agriculturist; secondly, that the country is barren, and thirdly that it is unsafe. The real ob stacle in the way to Paslestine coliniza tion does not lie in any of these direc tions, but in the fact the government is most determinedly opposed to It. Olives are successfully cultivated on Simon’s Island, and oil made from hem has been pronounced by competent judges not interior to the best production of France or Spain. The experiment in olive trees has been successfully made, :iad trees have yielded regular crops sincfe 1835. The oil crops from these islands ire annually sold at from $6 to $8 per gallon. A twelve-year old girl in Forsyth coun ty makes up sll the clothing for herself and four older brothers, besides attending to her domestic duties. NUMBER 19. RATES OF ADVERTISING. Advertisements will be inserted at the rales of One Dollar per inch for the first insertion, and Fifty Cents for each additional insertion. CONTRACT RATES. Space. 1 no, 3 mos. | 6 mos. 1 yen-. One incln t* •'*o $5 00 $7 50 $lO 00 Two inches, 375 750 10 00 15 on Three inches, 500 10 00 12 50 SO 00 Four inches, fi 00 12 50 15 00 25 00 Fourth column 750 15 00 20 00 30 00 Half column, UOO 20 00 40 00 60 ®0 One column, 15 00 30 00 MX>_oo GEORGIA NEWS. Perambulating Pioiniscuoualy Among Pungent Paragraphers. A man threatens to sue the city of Athens for $5,000 damages because the police tore his coat while making an ar rest. Joseph Mi Williams, of Putnam coun ty, makes about 100 pounds of butter per week. This he ships and gets for it thir ty-five cents per pound. In a difficulty in the upper part of Thomas county Sunday night, Curtis Newsome shot a negro .named Frank Woodal, killing him almost instantly. In a fight over a woman William Wil son, an Atlanta colored man, was stabbed through the lung by another colored man named Frost. Death is expected. Thomas Gibbs, a notorious counter feiter, who has Hooded North Georgia and Alabama with spurious coin, has been captured and lodged in jail in At lanta. The bulls, Asliantee and Gold Coast, that brought respectively $5,600 and $2,200 at auction in May, were half brothers to Rexie, owned by Mr. Hunt, of Eaton ton. Social Circle is to have a cotton seed oil mill. J. O. Shepherd and J. W. Hin ton are the proprietors. The brick ware house near the depot will be used for the mill. A plaintift named Gray is suing, m Macon, for the discharge of his guardian, George S. Obear. Gray is thirty-five years old. Obear charges that the plain tift' has been an idiot since childhood. The estate is valued at $60,000. Thomasville has already subscribed $20,000 towards the erection of the new hotel. Eleven thousand dollars more will give the tow n a half ownership in the structure. The balance of the money is to come from the north. The Central and East Tennessee, Vir ginia and Georgia Railroads will carry the surviving members of the First Regi ment Georgia Volunteers over their lines to attend the reunion on the 4th day of July, at Gainesville, for one fare the round trip. - Colonel C. M. Dickerson, of Jleniy county, wTiile beaver hunting recentty, tired at a black object which he saw mov ing through the eanebrake a few r yards ahead. A yell of pain brought the hunter to the side of an aged colored woman, who received the charge of shot in her cheek. The injury, while serious, is not danger ous. A Ilavvkinsville tiog was bitten by a rattlesnake week before last. A quantity of whisky was poured down his throat after he was taken home, lie swelled up to twice his natural size, and it was thought he was bound to die, but the next morning he appealed promptly at breakfast as spry as ever and ready to go hunting. The whisky saved him. Floyd Foster, a negro about 17 years of age, accidentally killed himself in Crawford lasj Saturday. He was sitting on a fence loading a gun, when in some way it was accidentally discharged. The load entered just below the eye, ranging upward, tearing his brain with it. He fell forward, and betore his father, who was distant only a few paces, could reach him, he w*as dead. The Albany barrel factory appears to hang fire. Its originators went so far as to purchase three acres of ground on North street, on which to erect buildings and machinery, aud also about 750 acres bf timbered land, near Walker’s station, in the oaky woods. It is said, however, that Macon contends for the enterprise, and as most of the capital was looked for from that quarter, nothing can done un til on understanding is arrived at with the Macon investors. There is a lady now living in Athens who distinctly remembers the time when the British vessels sailed up the Penob scot river, although she was a child at the time. Her family were driven from home by the artillery, and the greatest excitement prevailed. So fearful were the owners of farm houses that they would be discovered and their property burned that even the roosters were coop ed up and sent off lest their crowing would attract the attention of the enemy. The Lumpkin Independent says: An other one of the Roanoke survivors turns up in Florence in the person of an old ne gro man named Dick Lee, formerly own el by Felix Gibson. Dick says that he was the original courier that brought the news of the fight from Roanoke to Lump kin, making the trip in one hour and a half. He says that upon his arrival his story was not believed, and that he was put in jail for bringing a false report, nor was he released until the arrival of Mr. Turner, who confirmed the news. Dick is now about eighty years of age. The Americas Recorder says: One of. the first remarks we made upon seeing the yellow pine timber of Georgia was that it was the finest for finishing we had ever seen, and that it would, as soon as its qualities were known, command a handsome price from the manufacturers of the north. Our prediction is being verified, for within the past few months large orders have been received from Ohio and Indiana, taxing the big mills to their utmost to fill them, and in many cases they are unable to - supply the de mand. The opening of the new market must bring an increased value to our lumber, and will in a short time appre ciate greatly the value of timber lands. Georgia has a mine of wealth in its yel low pines, and it will not be long tefoie a large amount of money will be flowing in from the north in exchange for them. But it would be better if this lumber was manufactured into useful and ornamental articles at home, and then all the profit would be kept here. If you want a first class lot of brick, enquire of Harris Best. 1 * tf.