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9 ' *' ■ 1 - ■ ’ : ~c jria Argus UYINAY THURSDAY \r .) "r/rri AS SECOSD-CI \*s MATTE I *. AT TFE Fc.-Torrrcr at Indian Sprint., Ga. INDI AN SPRING, G A,, MRCII a? j ?ig"l ** •ntwvmijrwmamm*. -* LOCAL MATTER WANTED A rood r *m ,t hand-for which cs&h Till tlav 1 - —■ —■ -it* WA learn Gnat omfi friend Mr. J* V. \ S'. ./V' a:’:.!;':! G.;,; ; M n. .lA rcf-k, has liot I mza w i ir health, and b uaabh to leave his rcorn. ♦ Am. 11. P'-r.en. Fdwlerville, V:ch., esv(i: I_havc not rested for months than I aid L-3t night. The '•Onlv Lur.cc Pad 5 has helped me ‘ id • •** - <***>•&***+■ V*> tit Aia/ii ) see litile Charley Douglass who bar Wen sutlerina with inilamatorv P.Leumetjsm,- is abb to he up agam. W© Ik ■ It will }>e spare-l tic- in I- lort *n* <f n long spell oi 'the painful desease mu!., rcvv Up a useful man his wor-. g. parents one n.vcring to make hi had a pleasant- call by our -bud I. \V Nolen one of ‘Butts --.T:' y.', eye vef men. and Ins estimable lady, or: Mon lay nu 1 ra ng last. W : always ei joy a c vernalion with tlrem, G oi- ho l est Pace and smiling cc tmtenance is a ’rue index \6 th.ir moLla Warts, i r.d a. my of sunshine, a 2 way • mi- ] low ntludr u. re sene Penn tor Mahon:, was asked the . ‘h. dav how he liked the senate. ,"Olisaid he, t; if to-day is a fair fiir.*n*. of fcn&torial hfe it is go th g. to be very sup id lor nun Why, for two hours a hail dozen of them kept jumping no. jabbering away •I one another, and for the life of -“xii I con’d not understand vhat hey were driving at (the question vrs on a point f ordey). One fel o -o with a bellowing sort of a voice and a head veiy flat at the back. :opt saying We same china over .and over again, repeating himsel . least fifty times. It was really ;is ■ than a gathering cf old wo vv.en at' a >church. • - attorney General andeeson has dw arded to the Governor an o ‘r inion on the validity of the delayed county officers bonds which concha lee . foilon 3 The special agreement bv which many county officials in default in the matter of filling .their bonds and ’ heir securities propose to waive all •ho objections ic the bonds filed as hot being statutory, does not, of course, injuriously “affect- the pub ♦lie interest/’ but is promotive of it nor do I perceive it can injure inas much as claims due the State are entitled to priority of payment ove •■h: 1 due individuals, whether tuca chains grow out cf common law u or statutory bonds. These conclusions conduct me to the conclusion that "he special agreement '"proposed Gould be binding. On the whole I ad vise that if these taiby officials vol uffarilv tender sueli an agreement, uul an ogreementalsn that the Leg islature may, enact laws consi dered appropriate for the summary enforcement of the the obligation f vested by the bonds filed that the bonds 1 0 aeeepma. i inclose the from of such an agreement a- is indicated. DO YOU WANT THEM. fee v oral different kinds of Sewing Machines now arriving a: Alto Vista. A full supply of ready mixed paints lor sale, at Alio Vista. One ew Double seat buggy for ,* ale at Alto Vi si a Arv Goeds, Groceries. Hardware, Tinware, Shoes, Hate, Tobacco, £egaG and SiuitV, for smc 'at Alto Vista. The Paragon patent churn for •ale at Alta Vista. 1 \ \ls CV IK", to the dollar good o ... ... ,-.,0',-. •- 4 * ~ y ->v. v. at Alto Vista. There is a very gratifying degree f interest throughout the south mmvbVc ei in connection with the coining con or. ?. x £ no—, m -vt lanta, the prime mover in wmeh i. Mr. Edward Atkinson, of tin*, citw The plans ol tor building drawn under the personal super* Vision of Mr. Atkinson have been accepted and the location decided upon. The building will represent a model cotton factory, which after e;:h Aiden will be bought by a lire Eubseriplicns ere coming read> sub nearly dd allotted i ; dvxripticn lists uu 12. mb, he .I'." _g i. weUiT spot m urn no.i-t, i:r ft.anta since he visited it in 18- \{ fu-*: the proposed sc he die 5 jis to have President Byw-, ; . o\\i . ex• on, -near ?n a.snah-oleloth? j Ml the nighi v f *1- ”xy-> j ffG *’••• wttw in which was J growing in the field tU* day W-fom • the picking, gininy, and'-wavin'r-' to : ■‘ r and >nc before n A oht‘•;f., * t ' i: - o* • various ! ;?*- ~oa - s -w-.n ' Jv :il Pc part of : ■U r ‘\Vp<Y-j ,<,rt .’u ]|,E> 0 (,) t 1 ! . . j • - Op, Hit '■* ).- .; . ■ i f i- ,i )r-,iotun*' :oi ‘i.rVi-." ec-f --i t0li ; R ]V'- G- ; cun.-::'.]* nbi b.-.' .bh-;bp. : to mrrffdi a InSndhbor iff rnoluncr -- ‘ion, } U ei w-iune iff** ■ Cj '■ :■ I■■ - j.rf'.'-'U: hr InaUifig avt ‘ tiioritio: in the Miss is*, ‘rpi valley. The ! fi'fiff* ;, re pvlV-il no. h-ui-.-h.-'-l find i tea n ’-to tne tni'-liia*'. It j - riffue Iff at , P'dlin- up the G tore the hoi! - ar.* ffj< -d imp.-wm d*o yuGity <.f the fft ’ ; the CGtO 1. ovposilloj, : -b> -aw; aot.ch' -v ~tyo ' r.jf now vo;Ui<>.,3 for the euitnre and haiid’irw ‘-'i . ‘U- gW-fh ;-j, > ];>, Goj;r-.TITUTTON. th: gpjffin monttgello & v? ALISON HA f LKOD A UAJX. A c-.-u -.a u; LrU S C msiitffr.n has this to .my. b y ff’dff 1 djat yt uioycment is on ... !• ii:d i.;c Efnirtn, Madir-on r°iroal ft n early uy . fr.d*- hi, .i licard one ,:i *‘>-y ffSiormy that trains y ! aha., ov>-i p.itt roiui v,lthin ; : " '* ; “ S'■ VI, is not : v '; •• lo f thh w üb. Wc sunk rl , fi!/■ a- it nTioii it was y . f ua;iieo, atid n <•',>• have' quite a ’’ '"‘b .* v .:y please. (hit our : i u *..on t a ivo us the Griffin ea , a SlAullxm railroad. . r ' r \- i : y're}-, i; sad and touch ‘jV" ■ 01 devoti-m has just reach ‘ n "' . -*- J I briefly ry o t p f , TANARUS" bu; Veal, of Flat c ’l,o;i!y } n >> ‘ .'i for sum- -wet.Vs saffer '** ' * ( s • ' 'l'lSUjl *-'*G V'i f ck .U.'.” Wus H‘])'. rfed to he 1 ‘ ■ • ■•}.’. da. iVS- :•. (;•}iSfl fj,n nr - .vho Vs ;a! v< ?U , p ( .). , j ’ , j-*• “■ ’-( s. As srvni as •'f' evff teotlior’s.-coiiditloo, !•• i. <;p < !’t fot hod, rod, OVf-H*’ r, !V : hi -h •T. - : p". , , v ' ; ffh *\'4 3 ‘‘‘'"-1 yd ydaffiji TANARUS, Cm 1 ‘hi, !:ve. A*it the tax on bis sW'-ne-ib 1 V‘ il! ' 1 ; '’ r • :;l •’ - ' '-h eiiti a dan- V'. a-; ladnpse u-os id so -csnlt of "i.is ex- M'suvf. For ev'”at disband ■d , db.jfi s: y Viff 1 ! a /’y-e-l OCUT.-J, ta-sal and v ’ '-pT-n i, vmtjss : nsr eon '.ff'h l;G mother th *, v.-hiie -nu < .v’g.ng to the lit do spark rf life •* ‘‘ the* t?dge o i (ks^oiution thl ' J>l • - j ~" , 1 ,l ' loot, l>ut their efforts oroved I 10 av; 'loath bad pointed his black dine*, aa. ; ■ . oid tn.s •*io' , di*r • soul | -'T'O’iy Neal vent out to its God. It c eei diujiy oin of the -addost eas-e.s I y called upon to ejiroin and i iorth thedeep’Ost sviupatlis i ayu th - y firs coe nrinity. * Youn*> | 'vas just entering tlu estate <'i j nanliood, heiiig twenty years' of age. 1 ! 1; IP 'C promise of a bright future, but j -a all ended now. •* As mndpated in n.v moi-niny notes, * lam pained ; to announce the death of ’ and • 1 ;opee Neale whicli c*ccuricdt this i a tier noon. J Ims in one day mother and • 'H dose gone ?<• enotft • w<ri*l together.*! 1 -*•- bio' ay lir-s fie- deepest, syinputhy of me good people of 1 lii - eitv. :•i ii hacox cv r.orxswxc k pail ' ROAR. • As <i C-onst ant ion reporter was ylanc - bojmt ul ,-<-?■ er at * i’H'• **ha.a hi::, yesterday Ins optics :ellupcm ‘ i? . S. is. agentM. &B. R. R. v - * •* -a- * * * f 'C'..-n you icl! no the route taken bv this survey?” “Oh, yes,” “TScil, begin v ith vour exit from Ha con . ’ ’ "tie come out of Maceon bv (he Au guy.a road bridge . then up 'Walnut creek Vi ' !; ” - ."s ; easy He ot Wuhmt creek ; 3 bhitchm o 1 till, m Jones coumy; ' e cr-u-s the creek, and thou on hi •*- t ide pu- h ■ to Finnev’s, also ■ it _ Up t a this point the iou . .an t ; curdy n -\v one, but here we ■ old survey and follow it up to Round Oak; irosn R uu ; >J:ik we v.xi reach Hillsboro, in Jasper county; a,so Winfred, also in Jasper. The next "..i :s ivey s ferry, on {lie Ocrnulget Over, . Thus ferry,'be the way. is just miles west of Indian Springs. At Ivey’s terry v o cross the river, enter Bu. . comity, then passing through Wcrtuvillo reach Vainly R*kLc Jn [j eu . •y county. N ext is Brushy Knob, Koek ’edar <' . De ixa :> couii' \. i bis brinus us to Ai!a i t *■* . * ’ ‘‘Where do.you enter Atlanta?” ‘ About two miles from the city limits ' v e strike Retrenchment creek, an* tceeyiag on the west Tide of this stream too it par.’:del nth the Georgia Between Peudldon’s guano works yid tne cemetery a j unction could be formed with tire < I cored a road. ’out 1 guvs.- this v in k-y.-1 “ A acre do y -u enter Fuhon eountv?” “At McKee’s store.” iter v u’u enter town on the (eor ;ua load? ’ ’T’aiallcl itii that road—yes; we come in kr the ol ’ tub pond .uYbSou nd i property “ iio-v is the rouw, in U; rough, I “A* —. y*'-. J There are places that w;.l require . deal oi work, bu my gMcim thing hue work • 1! be iigui. To rest can Re buff Without; workim* enou di Red u*6r>::i me water ■ trom ire V '-'-k. v:t this, road h man pi,ice- will mke no uror-- labor tlian l •hiyjgu ‘o give the ‘minimum grade.' : - ... . ’.ic -OiMtry is as favorable to the Oußuling oi . raiiro id as tould t,e.” “X.w ou bridge many g reamsl* Tiiei’e will be u bridge a* Kev ’s ter- 1 ry, another across Cotton Indian river, and yet another over Yellow river.” “What is your grade per mile?” ' m low < onsiaeie lis thirty-. .'C \ exi feet to the in Be, though .4 fifty- ] loot grade may R“ Hopted ” ‘ Have vou ipmiy deep ec s?—though I I yiy.s not. front v. hat \on U*\v ..aid ”1 ; “An oeepe-* eutlis fifty Act. I be*' hc'y :: ?m ;• mm: hundred fee: - ■ - .. v K.i n tAik- m *•-*' THov them eA. bi no laigOi.i c-ae *.• iit-ui* tne bridgei Andi mi* mix a Taif mmm loiK? ’ Til - ' ' .ffff DEC Iff ShfmvrANNJ - ■ Th j Th?;*e VGcmfi-.s ego the stocks of cotton at | our poor .d:ov, . and e. - . o ddauble yffii* j •ae.-i.y- ... compared with 1880* and thi- c j he.. ,o; . da nG. ''it* ibe ■■ - i aor* l dina 7 c}..-; . p ; < : th- ue*d.licr through* ] but the south This *luticiy*jat:y ii to js ii 3€ : i lout atj * j ;both in I.ivei-paol and add donsep antis rices remained firm until. adcr the roads became passable,;] it v* X.- dircos f’icd tb.at in a large portion oi the cotton country about one-third o die < rop had bc*??n stored on the planta tions. • The bad -weather, therefore, \va. in -.<>::• aiA-l protitaddf* to the planter pit- were enabled to c- . their cotton tc miod ; but id* J; dnie begun, when i 1 ijeeamt* evident that those whose es:i* -nut'- -of ri s e end a half millions of baba: were several hundred thousand short, hi December lust, in .spite of the bad weather that had htetcrially interfered with picking, Tun ( on*st/ti'tiox ven tured to predict that tlic present crop would reach six jnittion bales/ All that tune ihereceipK at the jnoi te were away below the figures ! for the previous year, and on that acc >unt many'cotton-bnyer •vere disposed, to •■riileisf our estimate. Fast week the. receipts at the ports were oia* hundred tin mV*, ml against fifty thousand for the same week . last year, and tiie revised hsthmne of ’tlipse who have made it then besides to watch tin. crops is that tin crop wfL roach scvei;! millions nf bdeu .Taking* everything i. : into consideration, this is certainly a reasonable estimate. It is reaeenable. also, to suppose that if the weather oi the last fail and wiut cr had been a: propitious us the weather of the prece ding fall and winter, the yield would have reached seven millions -of bales Much of the late ffop vies destroyed it the field-by the htorms, and fn som., sections considerable was lost owing t the difficulty of procuring sufficient la bo to pick, the crop. This was- pc .'t’cularlv die case in portions of northern Louis iana and lower Mississippi. These fi;Mires are interesting to the I cotton-plahters of tiie south, for if tin j present crop-■ readies 0,500,000 bales, a ]is confident!j ••'x|.<ected, there v ill l>e ; j .st]r_r.his or not- les- .than 800,000 bales | aim ttr.s Surplus—or the prospects there i-ol—and the general belief that the ac j reage de-voic- 1 ’ ■ cotton will be agaii i increased the present year—will eombiin t - .•- kee !> the nru.-e do\v t., ;> >,,iu o lie proll > iucod to a nun mm, jiric s will be reg • • cated oy 1 ! ."-.at o pr<"]->ubb ’ui'aliv' J | die surplus i(•]:•; ‘Splitiipi- tin* excess o. j -.uppiy over the demands .of con sump i don. * - y and bis should be taken into consider j ation bv the farmers who will shortb j • egin the woiA* oi )'>itcliing th-dr crops i Ah a general Fling they .are not- dispose*., j to take the‘advice of newspapers, bu !we have been careful to present duh | what appear to be the facts of the situa j tion. The price of the whole crop will j be regulated by the probable surplus, i and if there is a probability that the* nex; : crop will reach seven millions of bales: J (and, indeed it is somethine more than a probability already) prices will sui, themselves to the prospect, and they will -lot be as rummerative as planters' inav i desire. ... WE CANT TAKE ANY STOCK DOWNW ITU IT. Tile“Htll Mattone, Tilt." Wc see a great deal in our ex changes in regard to the Hill ana Mahone controversy or rather “ITil and Mahone nonsence we might say, \Yg tlii-rik it very silly and nonsenclcal for the press all ovei tiie South ' to applaud Bon Hill every time he opens his month to demean somebody, that has more brains and more common genet than himself. We don’t mean by this that lie hasn’t got brains and common sence enough, but we mean that we don’t-think he should let his self conceit so elevate him in his own estimation as to imag ine that no one has anv but him. V/c expect to see Ben Hill em bracing General Mahono and hold ing him up as one of the greatest i men of the age, if we-should be so i fortunate as to live a few years longer, and hence we can’t take any pleasure in his‘-slinging mud’ at a great and good man, and we can’t see how any confederate sol dier can feel anything hut mortifi cation when the name of Malione or Longstreet, is held up to redicule or reproach. Why it is, that our people can’t cultivate a spirit ol Toleration, which is one of the mom beautiful flowers of civiliza tion, is more than we can cornpre- Jciid. We never hear the name ol dahone, or Longstreet, called but I vhat our mind reverts loth Armyol ; Xortbeen Va,. with its sad, but ev er to be cherised memories, of field and flood, of slush and blood, its privations and starvations, its x icto ries and defeats its rise and fall, its maimed and its slain, and ev erything that those suffered who belonged to it. which inspired a feeling of brotherhood, that causes a feeling of indignation whenever one of its honored survivors is as ' sailed, especially for no other cause mar. a (tiliMence oi political opin ion. Its but natural that we would huid di-wren- views about the fi nance the sufrage.the tariff and many other tilings pe Tailing to the managomeut of this grout ixyouhlic. And we never hear the name of Ben Hill called, but what our mind reverts to the tunc when L reveled in his Luxury around ihe eon.nx- r ate Capital while Mahone anu his comrades held the lines, and suffered ihe hardships in defence of the South, and in connection w ith these thoughts w*e cal! t 6 mind the useless abuse by this self conceited egotistical Leafier of a defunct sen timent, heaped upon oi hurled at m-Goveruor Brown, who had the lore-sight to look beyettid the passion anti i -i tit si our oi the dm . and point ■ 't •he road tc ucace anu yipepe*!- ~...... ‘■'General 3?ahco* a tianoif lever! nererl! Away ne that would make km .yccuoa 3on,and shame on the ore? -Off woillb bolievc it. he out yi id south's noble defenders, lie is one ■v- YersiniaG honored sons- and he tvriW be found working for the if his country Ids home and ins people. . We ask all who doubt him. to vait and watch him and see n ao lon’t prove what we iivedict. to be rue. and if we are deceived tnen will be time enough to consign him o the tomb, with ■‘•Tildas and Ar nold." WHY THE SOUTH IS GROY ING POORER. It is of the utmost importance that wvery good citine should meet the issue of misfortune in our much loved South with a? much promptit ide and fortitude as we would he * ready and aejoice to Wellcome the ■ Jaw of a prosperous era, In this I lien let us be solid. • Is the South growing poorer ? Mr. Stephens says so and he is right too ; l believe Now why is the South grow ling poorer ? Let us get at the disease and then seek the remedy j Now there are a combination of j. anises retarding our prosperity, but ! die trouble of all is our failure r to make agriculture profitable Why i this ? Well the principle reason | is that we use commercial fertilizers. & Let us consider this assertion well [and il true Abandon their use.Sup oose I offer A. five dollars to cuT me Give cords of wood or for yen cords 1 will give - you the same Vimoimt. Now A. Not wishing to do Ii small business hires a l and for two • dollars to help him and cuts the ten ■ords and J pay him the five dollars Lor the ten cords of wood which I I void and as readily have given for the mve You readily admit that to be >aci financiering. Well the world says to file South we want your cot -7.0n —we must have it. We will lay one hundred and fifty million dollars for three nillion bates of cotton or if you ire ter to he like the woodchopper vve will pay you the same amount for four million and a half bales \\ r ell the Southern’ planter does not tike the small business so he puts tii say eight hundred thousand dol lars to buy guano to make the extra ynilfion and a half bales for which he gets nothing and which costs him jne hundred thousand dollars for .licking alone. Now I know person-] illy hundreds of planters who put : i-iX dollars worth of gurmo on land ' tliat would be high at one dollar per acre and many of them are making ;his investment on land that dosnt belong to them or that is mortgaged for supplies tc make cotton for Low- AllTooms. If this kind of futures pays then we can‘t growl ai Wall Greet bulls'and bears. Another way in which commerci al fertilizers work us serious injury is that thev are generally sold by onr country merchants and they require the farmer to pay the gua no notes first and often have to carry the farmer, s account over with them antil another season, when it is paid oy a hue dill in the sand. ■ Let us take another iLem that 1 -Claim has done much to make the South poorer. Before going farther ;iov ever let me assert that we are the easiest people on the globe imposed upon and can be talked into a iniost mything. Let us t hen take Georgia as one of the Southern State to illus trate my. point. I believe we have me hundred and thirty-eight count ies and I venture the assertion that .here are an average one liunbaed and fifty sewing machines in each •oimty in Geoagia. So at low estim ate, we have 20,700 sewing ma in (ieorgie estimated cost of $1,006, 7)60. Then take lightning rods patent churns, patent wash tubs patent medicines and mean whisky and I think we have the prime- causes. It • s true we might have our ox-yokes uiow and ax handies made North, <ti.r send our fruits and vegetables There to l.e caned for our winter use, but we might stand the latter, but the former will irnpovrish tn yet more and more. The money thus spent i- doing us a positive injury, and it all goes away from our midst and returns no more. Now. i will admit that rhave but roughly drawn the out ' impress•_ 1 uponthe public. .1 ; ux iously with for the general pros perity of our people.. ’ They -arc; {oiling and striving not to sec how rnucif money they can make, but how much cotton : an*l the more cotton they make the les- money they qer. These are our maladies; let <wr v.-Xc imii name some remedies. —t or. f ef. Mess. - Mu. A. Shelbdrtox, of Tlilledge \ille will be in cur town next week, and all that have a machine need ing repair, advance their interest to call and iC'Ctitt liL services. H.ni, wnY.i • * d:P o’, t-v: 2 * th< TUL I LCGND DLLUGE ' SPREADS BBSTRVOTIOK IN ROME. BILL AHP STANDS I'PON THE HILL TOPS ALAK OFF AND MEASURES . THE RISING I-LOOI > THAT ('LASTED THE FATAL CITY TANARUS() ITS IVATERY FJ: 1! AF Till' AFTER-PALM. I drop you a lew lines frmn am ongs the hills of Home. Hills are a good invention, especially in a freshen Rome rejoices in bev hills. Standing upon the Ararat J sur veyed the wild waste of* waters that surrounded this beautiful city and covered the low grounds and the plains, and I didn’t feel like singing an ode to tile “sweet vale of Avocn, where the placid waters meet." hut 1 did feel like ex claiming, in the language of that oilier good old hymn— “ Lo. on a narrow neck of land Twixt two unboundless seas I stand.” It was a grand sight, and beauti ful, but damage and distress fol lowed in its wake. To the thought less and the secure it was a splen did holiday ho school, no work, no trains mil, no rumbling of drays or rolling wheels no busy hum of , machinery steam whistles no sounds at i ll but the rippling mur mur of angry waters. It. seemed like thin day, for there was no trace or business, nq cotton corning to town, lio wo d-haiders, no beef hanging on the market stall. Weill, I did smell some guano, but I be lieve that perfumes tqe air as much one day as annother. It didn’t seem exactly like Sunday. cither. for there war -no himday-school, or church, or bells a- ringing, and lit tle 1 mats were hurrying to and fro in the .streets, taking people from their windows or sailing into the open sk at s where goods were being lifted higher and higher upon the counters, and tin shelves ; v, agons' and buggies moved about in the water slow! y and Cautiously carry-! ing some sick body or sown vain a- j hies from the household or the stove.! Giddy hoys mounted upon gay ♦ chargers galloped fu vioii sI y are 11 nci. ever and anon stopping on some eminence to survey tlie watery ex panse and admire the poetry of equestrian morion and the fit of beautiful legs to the saddle. Th rise was sudden and unprecedented. -Joe Norris i-s the oldest' inhabitant and is a close observer and never tells unnecessary lies and Jew -nay the like was never known since the day that old Jake Herndon tied his dug-out to a gum tree oil‘court house hill in the month of Jane 1800, when it was hot devilish hot. and she thermoneater as he called it, stood at 250 degrees in tne shade ‘far and height." Old Jake used to set all day prectiv much on a bench that was beside the door of town doggery' and we used to take strangers there to hear him tell ah'ait that freshet and his far and height thermo neater and how the Coosa river was nothing but a spring branch when he was a boy, and he would get enthusiastic mi talking about the old Injun times, and he had told Ids yarns so often he belive cm, and no gentleman over thought of disbelieving or demon’ anything to the old man's face. Joe says all that was before lie can remember, and -Too is old enough to remember a aged ways back. He was bom sometime after old N.oah’s flood and not long before Jake Herndon's, and N considered the most reliable myl aged inhabitant. Old fattier Norton is the orthodox on all modern things, and his water works are all ov ■: the town and when he says tin* U.v i- coming up higher its n coming, and when he say- its going down you can go home and go to bed, and you need n’t send out a pigeon from the win dow. All night long tie-, insinuat in * waters kept - ret pin and swelling up; excited merchants watched the i.i >od and measured its rise for every hour. About mid night it had reached the old land marks, and. seemed about to stop, but so mi after the Oo.stanan la got her back up and come, along down with a rolling tide and pitched into 11 If, BROOM HEAD <fc < 0., Snoccs.-ors i o LONGLEY A ROBINSON, Otiv , :,rbi Ware room, 2b DECATUR Strat t. ATLANTA. GEORGIA, DOORS. HAH 11. BLINDS. MOULDINGS, BRACKETS. STAIR RAILS, NEWELS, SCROLLS. BALUSTERS, BUILDERS’ HARDWARE, NAILS, MIXED PAINT, PURE WHITE LEAD, LINSEED OIL, Colors of all Kinds, Dry ami in Oil GLASS, PUTTY, GLAZIERS’ POINTS, KAL SOMTNDUE, PAPER BORDERS a: v cknrisr.bs. BUILDERS’ SUPPL V HoUSK the Tffowah most furiously and tq overburdened Coosa kickys oar of the breeching and tlic swelling flood fell back and letiotichea hi wei t he t o'wn . F eople whov 1 • rillo ba A thinking the water rvig: t pcTry get in the front yao 1, woke up h find it in their* beds. Ngnr.ie of distress were seen flying here my window Ducks uni chicken? were seen floating around in theii coops or perished apen the outhonoe roofs. The old cow lowed mourn fully in her stall. Many garden fences were gone and paling pickets 'pointed their tips just above the sheet of waters, The Howard street bridge left its maorings jn. i before the break of day. Rumor - came thick and fast’that variour persons were carried away with it and that Captain Perkins dwelling ing house, with his wife and chil dren, has washed away in the night and the most awful screams we re heard as they swept down to swift destruction. Many draadful cat - unities were reported, and the truth' could not be known, for a dark anc: dismal fog covered the earth like a funeral pall and no one could see across the river. But happily these wild rumors proved untrue. B\ and by the genial sun came out to look upon the scene and people began to gather on the hillsides and exchange news and greetings, Cat, tie and” horses were driven to safe] quarters. The hogs in Rameys stable wouldn't come out but swan round and round until they grab bed a pig, and- putting him in i\ wagon made him spueal and drove off and the whole herd followed the wagon‘to a higher and dryer land. An humble Isrealke walked the banisters.and sat upon his gate post the picture of patience on a monument, while through his open door was visible two dripping gan ders standing upon one log on th stair case. A jolly Dutchman blood on the roof of his piazza and shout ed lustily, “a potc. n pole, mire kingtnm for a poteh Young men waded knee deep in the stores to give the goods another hoist, and aide bodied darkies were hired at a dollar an hour. Roliektng hoys cruised around in bateaux and got turned over ift the frolic and one darkey tried the fun of getting, drowned without reason or excuse Convalescing mumps crept out with jaws tied up and looked glooming!y around. Ever and annon a hous* or a barn or fodder stack on a flat boat mingled with the drift- as it floated down and dispatches earn’ at intervals from above and h< low that another bridge had gone All day long women and cliildrev and bedding were removed from 1 chamber window * nnd found bos' I * " pital welcome in safer quarters. Bad floods can't keep on rising and at last the waters began slow ly to abate. Great damage has beeu done and the poor will be distress ed for a time, but by and by tin wreck v/ill disappear and new bridges will be built and commerce and trade be renewed and the , sound of busy wheels bp heard again and all nature put on hei loveliness and the exciting scenes of March 18th pass away from memory. Memphis has almost forgotten her pestilence and com pared with that this little flood h nothing. But Rome is hard to beat on a freshet, though 1 dont think her people are disposed to brag about it, and lake fronts*are at < discount while they last, Bill Arc For bargains, ip sash, doors blinds, and all kinds of builders supplies address B. H. Broomhead A Cos.; successors to Longly & Rob inson Atlanta they will, by prompt attention to business and fair deal ing merit the patronage of tin. public. See their ad in another bd umu. NEW BAR! 1 havo now opwnod ray.new bar in (hr. Mclntosh House at Indian .Springand am ready to s ;i rve the public, I will keep on hand the very best and Mnest brand-, of liquors wines and brandies the marker affords, choice cigars &c. ! v dr. McCord farniliu’ly known as ’‘Cook” McCord will preside as “mixologist” 1 will com in lie to serve the public at my ol<i stand in Jackson. t. .1. .1. EAHTON.