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About Schley County news. (Ellaville, Ga.) 1889-1939 | View Entire Issue (July 19, 1900)
DR.TALMAGE'S sermon Th* Eminent Divine’* Sunday Disoours*. „ Subject: ., . „ c , _ „ _ „ .__. »• an Active I rinclple Wlilcb Work* Constantly For the Welfare of Body and Mind and Soul—For Sinners. [Copyright iwnj .1 Washington, D. C.—Dr. Talmage is now trawling in Norway, where he has been deeply interested in the natural phe nomena and the quaint social life of that wonderful land. In this sermon he ar gues, contrary to the opinion of many, that religion is an active principle which works constantly for the welfare Luke of body xiv, and mind and soul. His text is * oj «c«n Bible* „^a *> The is a dictionary of the finqpt !HS5Slii JSd Knri Ari plucks'to no stie illustrations The lilies that lie His discourse are dewv fresh; stuffed the ravens in His discourses are not specimens of birds, but warm with life from wing tip to wing tip; the fish He points to are not dull about the gills, a* though long can tured. but a-squinn in the wet net just brought bp which on the is the beach of Tiberias. of In of mv His text, picks peroration one sermons. He up a crystal and holds it before His congregation as an illus tration of divine grace in the hoart when He savs what wo all know by experiment, "Salt is good.” ' 1 A.ii b , * T 1 , ca r rv , j le c , avmurs . , 1 ' ’ ‘ - idea ■ , m this , text and m the first place say that cn-ace is like salt m its beauty. In i Gall** there are mines of salt with ex cavations and underground passage reach ing, 1 am told, 280 miles. Far underground there are chapels and halls of reception the columns the altars and the pulpits of saU. W hen the king and the princes come to visit these mines, the whole place is illuminated and the glory of crystal walls and crystal ceilings and crystal floors and crystal columns, under the words glare of the torches and the lamps, needs of ervs tel to describe it. Rut vou need not go so far m that to find the beauty of salt. You live in a land which produces millions of bushels of it in a rear, and vou can take the morning rail train and in' a few hours get to the salt mines mid salt springs, and vou have this artiefc morning, noon and night on your table. Salt has all the beauty of the snowflake and water foam, with durability added. It is beautiful to the naked eye,' but under the glass you see the stars, and the diamonds, and the white tr«; branches, and the splinters, and the bridges There is of fire architectural ns the sun skill glints in on# them, of more these crystals of salt than human inge bra nuity has St. ever Peter's. demonstrated in an Alham or It wduld take all time, with an infringe ment upon eternity, for an angel of God to tell one-half the glories in a salt crvstal. So with the grace of God: it is perfectly beautiful. I have seen it smooth out wrin kies of care from the brow; I have seen it make a ji aged mdn feel almost young again: I have seen it lift the stooping shoulders and put sparkle into the dull eve. Solomon discovered its therapeutic quali ties when he said. “It is marrow to the bones.” It helps to digest the food and to mirify tbp blood and to calm the pulses and quiet the spleen, and instead of Tvn dall’s prayer test of twenty rears ago, put ting a man in a philosophical hosnitel to be experimented upon bv praver. it keeps him so well that he does not need to be praved for as an invalid. I am sneaking now of a healthy ion that religion-not of that morbid gravl relig sits for three hours “Meditations on a stone Among reading the Tombs”—a Hervey’s liest in had religion that pros pers a state of the liver! I sneak of the religion that Christ preached, I suppose, when that religion-has con quered the world, that disease will be ban ished. and that a man 100 years of age will come in from business and say, ‘1 am tired;. I think it must physical be time for me to go. and without one pang heaven will have him. ^ tjl- the takef chief that beauty;.of -H.ch grace was hard is in and the cold aad repulsive , mxi makes it all over S J ,£ p0n *? n V n l r I vh b avid calls the beauty m holiness. 1 r » if It. extirpates everything that is hateful and nclean. If jealousa and pride and lust and worldliness lurk about, they are chained and have a very small sweep. Jesus throws upon the soul the fragrance of a summer garden as He tomM in mv ing, I am the Rose of . haron. ami He submerges it w, h the glory of a "wing n.ormng, as He s<,ys. I am t le hg it. Oh. how muen that grace did for he three Johns! lt took John Bufivan. the foul mouthed, and ma<le him John Tun van the «mmortal dreamer; it took John Ne^on-the inkdel sailor, and in the midst mother of the hurncane s God, Jteve_mercy j^de him upon cry out me! Mv It took John btufcierfeM from a hfe of sin edge !u d fJl tools hC led w him a into ,S h Vr thei ‘ nn puipit £*K that r v°f burns still with the light of that Christian eloquence which charmed thousands to the Jesus whom all He the once earth despised. for anything Ah. you may eearen over of so 00(1 beautiful S°w- or 1 h beautifying Ugh he d as the grace sages of Wjehcrka r l° and ^ amid ?f p the *r nG under- 5 a8 ‘ ground K.rfgdoms anything ot salt m Halistadt and show tiful me this so transeendently God fashioned beau- and as grace of hung in eternal crystals. Again, grace is like salt in the fact that it . necessity of life. Man and beast 18 a perish without salt. vV hat are those paths across the western prairifti \\ hy, they were made there by deer and buffalo going to and coining away from the salt “licks. Chemists and physicians all the world oyer tell us that salt is a necessity of life. And so with the grace of God; you must hnvedt or die. 1 know a great many speak of it as a mere adornment, a sort of strap adorning brought a soldier, or a light, froth rn g desser. m after the greatest part oi the ^anquet ot life is over, or a medicine to be taken after powders and work, mustard but plasters ordinarily have a mere failed superfluity, to do their a ririg ot bells around a horses neck while ^ e dratis the load and in nowise helping urn to draw it. . o far from that I declare the grace oi God to be the first and the It is foou we must take or Olmh; "t J n L\l r j! tbau n JWT t whicn wo famine. freeze to It the is w, nnl'. ; nl ^ e *, enor 116 P 5 nk< nnd thf ’ khorpvird ' it an { S ^i 6 ' adde Tl Hch r and C the ^ n boat only laddpr ’ nn wt IK ' " . e can ‘• blI1 . > h up into the lii/lif It io Van Lr . ve r,ecets .s it y / or the soul You L- casd y Y bat *, bc St effect would if P Tu° n fefuse<1 t0 into the hodv / hc ener ^' efi would sfowfevers fa l eh?. 6 "u* 1 ] \ i] \ e air thT'haLrt would tbe > fhpfer b brai n : he he trnn*e w , tter > and the , life would . gone. Salt, c„u a necessity for the life of the body; the grace ot God, a necessity for the life of the soul! Again, I remark that grace is like salt in abundance. God has strewn salt in vast profusion all over the continents. Russia seems built on u salt-cellar, 'i here is one region in that country that England turns out ‘JO,000 tons of salt in a year. inexhaustible and Russia Bnd Italy have Norway and Sweden, resources white in ^ b j B reHpec t. with salt beneath, wBb snow above, white Austria, yielding 900,000 tons annually. Balt, Nearly all the nations rich in ib-roek spring salt, sea salt. Christ, the Creator of the orld, ,, vhen , He uttered our text, knew it vould become more and more significant a.- the shafts and were the sunk, pumps tin <llho were workedjmd springs wei^kored, the eryt ^ abundant. ls "’ ere f It w for all V^L^rfl’nii lands, ifor all ages for all conditions It «em, to undergii* everything -pardon for the worst sin, com brighte * t there would be enough for all-for those f^thest gone in sin, for the murderer landing on the drop of the f gallows. Europe It and is “. ocea " of ™ era ?’ “» > An f’ Africa, . North and South America, and * n lt f to-day * he j* they lands would °L^ have e sea room went enough dow ? to wash and come up clean, ^ no man think that his -case is too tough , a one tor be liod deep to and act upon, t let hough >'°,V r 8,n may raging, me built ? 0X1 earthly i °^* 8 grace but i8 suspended a bridge and not on piers, spanning the awful chasm of your guilt, one en( l resting upon the rock of eternal promises and the other on the foundations Q f heaven. Demetrius wore a robe so in cnwted with jewels that no one after him ever dared to wenr it . But our King, Jesus, takes off the robe of His righteousness, | i^, a ^ b]ood dved and beav n impe;ir 7 and reaches it out to tbe worst wr t oh ia aI1 the earth and savs; « Pllt that on! Wear it now! Wear it f ore ver!” Again, the grace of God is like salt in * be wav we ahnost' come at it T he salt on the wbich incsu8te • tbe always Mountains impure-that and Rooky J 0 °YJ .. 1 ^ . I ? encan . pampas and m India . - ’ T bat tha T uner f do *’ n throimh Xhe sbafts aad trough the dark labyrinths , and , a,on « b v gajlenea oi rock, and with - their under a ? d J P' ck ' axes ' dnd way the very foundations of the earth to where the bes tbat T/' k ‘ > U P r* nat ‘? n 8 w / al tb - Toget to the u best * saline springs £ the . earth huge machinery goes down, d th until depth from below under depth, the depth roofs below of *P - very supplies the mountains the saline water J e aqueduct. and 1 his exposed water is brought the to the * urface is m tanks to sun for evaporation or it is put in boilers mi § bt i ly haated and the water evaporates, f nd th ^/ a,t gathers at the bottom of the tank. The work is completed, and the for- 1 J Jl e 1S made - ba . Hav that e , you work n0 £ been on? enough I , reading trouble to of ye , go was Aristotle, u ho said there was a field of » ow ers in Sicily so track sweet that once a houtol, coming on the of game, came * hat lield and lost "'** bewilderedi track. Oh. by fhat the P^numes and so , the fur souls might become like a field which tbe H 0 ™ hath bussed and exhale so much * h « sweetness of Christian charactet that the hounds of temptation, coming on ? ur . tra< ^ith *’ disappointment, !o f« *t and go howling , B ut 1 ,**"**!? again that the grace of „ God , .» . s hke tbe ^lt in its preseiwative ^ uabty Y ou kno w that salt absorbs the n^°i*ture of r articles , of food and1 mfusea th f m W,t K, bn ne. which preserves them for ? wbd £- SaIt , s tb ® ^ at ant.putre {acU,r of tbe wood ^ or,d , have 1 - Experimenters, tried and in P^rving and sugar If” evervt,lin£! e but M on ? a f tbe world ancf ands Ch ,? - st , 9 w f rd9 , wlU ll be suggestive, men will admit that <u> a great preservative salt is [ good. the would 15,lt or the **** God earth . bave b stale long before tb ’£ khat ^°£ e grace a is the carcass only preservative ,awa and constitutions and literatures, Ja8t f 9 8000 “ a Rovernmen this M,t ' oi d, .. ''! ne ^ race >t putrefiesV_ penshesi hilo "° P ‘rel.g'ita” |nis renl|vant ^Tframing iks. The <g J of our schools and our stitu tions of science to-dav is not and tWBWeyden jars and philosophical galvanic batter Jes spectroscopes and ap paratu5 , bu mensj®fc»cnce t more of that grace that will teach our that the God of tbe J^^^Pthat { th Bib , e Ho en*Uep w Jll.e in all their mag nific lining telescope they have not se *he .^Ptheir star of Jesus,- and that in experiments with light and beat tbe y ^th have not seen the light and felt tbe warl of the Sun of Righteousness! S We want more of the M , t of G od’s grace K jn our homeg; in nur „ choo]e in 0Ur col . And ipge*, that j n our PO cial life, ’ in H our Christianity, wbicb bas it wi bve; ’t that which bns it not wi]1 die . l p roc l airn b e tenden of everything ^ijgion earthly to putrefaction and death / the of Christ the only preservative. Mr those subject is one of great congratulation to who have within their souls this , antise ptic. This salt will preserve them of through l \ the temptations and sor rows lfe n d through “ the ages of eter nity bave . j do not mean t say t that vou will a pmootb time beca w vou are a ChristiarwOn the contrary, if vou do ^ your wbo l € ()ufy i %nll promi8e you a ugb time . Y ou march through an enemy’s countn% and they will try to double up botb flanks supplies. and to cut you off from your source of The war you wage'will not be with toy arrows, but sword plunged to the hilt, and spurring on your steed over heaps of the slain. But I think that God omnipotent will see vou through. I know He will. But wire do I talk like an atheist when I ought to say I know He will ? “Kept by the power of God through faith unto complete salvation.” died lien Governor I lost Geary, good of Pennsylvania, friend. lie years ago mightily a with impressed Tn me the horrors of war. the eight hours that we rode to gether in the cars he recited passed to me the scenes through which he had in the civil war. He said that there came one battle upon which everything seemed to pivot. Telegrams ' Washington from said that - the life of the nation depended on that struggle. IT# said tome: “I went into that battle, sir, with mv son. His mother nnd 1 thought everything of him. You know how a father will feel toward his good.^j son wlumji WellJ^he tmming up manly and brave and c®Gtere^ffi(Pit battle opened and con was awful. Horses and riders benT and twisted and piled up to getber. It was awful, sir. We quit firing and took to the point of the bayonet, Well, sir, I didn’t feel like myself that day. k bnd P ra y e< I to God for strength for that particular that battle, had and I went into it Te feel ing I giants.’jHL in mujdit arm strength of ten «vnlh the Gov ernor brought his arm the back of the seat it fairlv batG^^Tdesperate, tremble, “Well.” he said, “the but after awhile we gained a little, and we marclicd on a little, i turned round to the troops and shouted, ‘Come on, boys!' and I stepped across a dead soldier, and lo, it was my son! I saw at the first glance he was dead, and yet I did not dare to stop a minute, for the crisis had come in the bat tle, so I just got down on my knees, and I threw my arms around him. and I gave him one good kiss and said, ‘Good-by, dear,’ and sprang up and the shouted. ‘Come on, hot's!' ” So it is in Christian con flict. It is a fierce fight. Heaven is wait ing for the bulletins to announce the tre mendous issue. Hail of shot, gash of sa bre, fall of battleax, groaning on every side. We cannot stop for loss or bereavement or brace anything and loving else. With one ardent em kiss we utter our fare wells and then cry: “Come on, .boys!” There are other heights to be captured, there are other foes to be conquered, there are other crowns to lie won.” Yet as one of the Lord’s surgeons I must bind up two or three wounds. Just lift them now, whatever they be. I have ksaJold pleft'hna th^rc j^nothing like salt, take to stop thin tu£ Christ’s Cl a woiitiu, and and so i it salt of gospel put little at ot\ first. the lacerated soul. It smarts a but see, the bleeding stops, and lo the flesh comes again ns the flesh of a little child! “Salt is good.” “Comfort one another with these words.” Great Britain imported 16,000.000 great hundreds (1,920,000,000) of eggs last year. ONLY TO GAIN TIME. London OUIcIaIh Kipres* Such Opinion Regarding Chinese Edict. A London special says: The charac ter of Thursday’s China news only tends to confirm the pessimism in London concerning the fate of the international colony at Pekin. Ob servers see in the edict from Pekin and other information emanating from Che Foo only attempts to gain time and desperate anxiety on the part of some one to make au apology for the outrages committed at the capital. The latest news from Tien Tsin con siderably intensifies the general alarm. L’he lack of oohesion among the allies aud the consequent failure to make headway render the situation there critical. ROBERTS REPORTS A DEFEAT. Hoerg Drive Briton* From a Strong Po sition Near Pretoria. Lord Roberts reports to the London war office under date of Pretoria, July I2fch, as follows; “The enemy having failed in their attack upon our right rear, as men tioned in my telegram of July 9th, made a determined attack upon our right flank yesterday and I regret to say succeeded in capturing Nitral’s nek, which was garrisoned by a squad ron of the Scots Greys, with two guns of a battery of the Royal artillery and five companies of the Lincolnshire regiment,” EMPRESS DOWAGER SORRY. Slte Isoues Edict Deploring; Murder of the German Minister In Pekin. A New York Herald dispatch from Shanghai says: An edict of the empress dowager promulgated on June 30, has just been published in Shanghai. Her majesty expresses sorrow for the death of Von Ketteler, the German minister, who, she says, went to the Tsung Li Yamen on the day of liis death against her wishes. Miles Confers With Wn. A Washington dispatch says: Lieu tenant General Miles was an early caller at the Chinese legation Saturday aud had a long conference with Minis ter Wu, presumably concerning tbe military situation in China. Free Delivery Service. The postoffice department has order ed the establishment of rural free de livery service at Smitkfield, N. C., beginning July 23d. ATLANTA MARKETS. CORBECTED WEEKLY.—29 Groceries. ltoastedcoffee, Arbuckle 413.95. Lion 112.95 —all legs 50c per 100 lt> cases. Green coffee, choice ll^c, fair 9c; prime 9@9J^c. 8u irar, standard granulated. New York 6)^. New Orleans granulated 6)^c. I Syrup, New Orleans open kettle 25 fa) 40c. Mixed, choice, 20 <® 18c; Salt, dairy sacks *b30@$ 1.40;tlo bbls.bulk $2.25:100 3s *2.85; ice cream •'j'1.25; common 05(5;70c. Cheese,full cream 12-5 12)$; skims, Matches, 65s 4£<5>55c: 200s 41.50@1.7o : 300s 42.75. Soda, boxes 6c. Crackers, soda 5c: cream 6c, gingersnaps Candy, common stick 7c: fancy 12(®14;. Oysters, F. W. L. W. *1.25. Flour, Grain and Meal. Flour, all wheat first patent. *5.35: seoonff patent, *4.50, straight, *4.25; extra fancy *4.15; fancy, *4 00; extra f amily, *3.50. Corn, white, 65c; mixed, 64>. Oats, white 40c; mixed 37c; Texas rustproof 40c. Rye Georgia *1.00. Hay, No. 1 timothy, large bales, *1.00: No. 1, small bales, 95c; No. 2, 90e. Meal, plain, bran, cnuill packs *1.00. Shorts *1.10. Stockmeai, 95c per 100 pounds. Cotton seed meal *1.10 per 100 pounds. Grits *3.25 per bbl; *1.50 per bag. Country l'roduce. Egg!-fair demand, 8@8)£e. Butter, dull, poultry, Fancy Jersey, in demand: 15(®18.-; choieel0®12!^. hens Live fries 15i®18c, 24<a26c; large -ale. Ducks, spring broilers 10.® 123^, good 20® 22c. puddle, 15 f <–' 17c, Pek ing Irish potatoes, 65® 75c • er bushel: New crop sweet potatoes *2.00 ® 2.50 per bushel Honey, tstramed ^®7: 60®70c in per comb bushed, 6!*<®7)^c: *2.00 Onions, bbl.Cab- new Florida stock, per 1 Dried 'iige. fruit, green, 14(S %c pound. rigs 6®7c apples 5®6c: peaches 6®7c. 14® 15. ; prunes 5®7, peeled peaches 1’rovlsions. Clear side ribs, boxed 7%c; half ribs _ 7%c: rib bellies 8@8j.£; ice-cured bel lies 8%e. Sugar-cured hams 11>£@1S S ^; Lard best quality 8%c: second quality 7)$'®8>^c.’ Cotton. Market closed steady; middling 9j^c. GEORGIA NEWS ITEMS Brief Summary of Interesting Happenings Culled at Random. Prize* to Wheat Grower*. Spalding county has again proven its right to the first place as a wheat growing county in Georgia. At the wheat growers’ convention at Maoon, a few days ago, W. J. Bridges, of that county, carried off the first prize of $60 in gold for the best four acres of wheat, offered by the Macon Tele graph. He made 65 bushels aud four and half pounds per acre on these four acres, and his specimens were aw«j ahead of anything at tUq con vention. The following prizes were awarded for best wheat fields in Georgia: First, W. J. Bridges, Spalding county, best four acres, average 65 bushel to acre. Second best, W. D. Walker, Spalding, 59$ bushels to acre. Third, T. H. Cox, Washington county, 28 bushels, fourth, W. F. White, Jones county, 24 bushels. Best one acre, Bibb county, J. S. McGehee, 39$ bushels. Consolation, Bibb county, J. B. Wiilis, 26.6 bush els. Fifth, best four acres, state, Z. T. Miller, Wilkinson oouuty, 19$ bushels. J. T. Parker,Talbot county, best sbeaf of wheat. Riley Brothers, Carsonville, second best sheaf, silver medal. Best loaf of bread from this year's crop, Miss Allie Thompson, Houston county. Second best loaf of bread, this year’s crop, Miss Ella W. Dana, Macon. Third best bread, Miss Clyde Bridges, Vaughn, Ga. Best exhibit grain, John T. Moor®, Bibb. Anticipated Strike of Workmen. In anticipation of a strike of the carpenters every planing mill and con tractor in Columbus knocked off in definitely at the blowing of the whis tles at 6 o’clock last Saturday after noon. The employees, numbering some 400 men, were paid off and were notified that the planing mills would not operate and the contractors would not undertake to do any more business until certain existing differences be tween them and the carpenters’ union were fully and satisfactorily adjusted. Planing mill men said that the strike had been ordered and that they knew it was coming, and that they decided to quit themselves, instead of being forced to quit, or at least be badly crippled. Life Lo*t In Mill Fir®. Some time after midnight last Fri day night Caldwell Bros.’ wheat and corn mil], situated about two miles north of Stone Mountain,was destroy ed by fire. Young Henry Seay, a cousin of tbe Caldwell brothers, was burned to death. It seems the miller was running his mill in the night and young Seay was with him. Becoming sleepy he laid down, it is supposed, amoug some sacks of grain and went to sleep. When the miller closed his mill down not seeing young Seay he supposed he had gone home. Iu an hour or two the miller was awakened by the cries of fire, and when he got to the mill the roof was falling in. Young Seay was the son of Rev. Henry Seay, a Baptist minister, and about sixteen « rs old. The loss to tbe Messrs. Ofl ^s. was quite heavy. Beside^ e and maeliin* ry quite a quau 7 of grain was d®- 6troyed. Hucklen Anxious to Setlte. John B. Bucklen, the defaulting treasurer of the Concord lodge of Odd Fellows, at Savannah, is endeavoring so settle up his indebtedness to the organization. An agreement has been reached by which he is to repay a cer tain lump sum, endeavoring to pay the rest iu installments. He is now engaged in the effort to accumulate the lump sum, and it is said the prae pects are quite hopeful. Georgia Editors Invade Canada. According to a dispatch from Niagara Falls, N. Y., the Georgia editors in vaded Canada on a trolly car and were received with open arms by the sou venir venders. The warmth of their welcome was really touching to the extent of several dollars per editor, Some of the unwary fell into the hands of the hackman. They escaped with their lives and railroad passes. Muddle Over Taxes. In view of the failure of the Plant system after legal notice to increase its property returns for taxation due the state,Comptroller General William A. Wright has issued a peremptory order demanding of the company payment of taxes on $750,000 not in cluded in the Plant systern’e return. The differeuee between what the railroad believes it owes the state and what the comptroller general believes amounts to a great deal more than is usual in such cases and the inevitable result must be arbitration. The returns made on the main line of the Plant system have been accept ed as correct, but Comptroller General Wright has refused to agree to the assessment of the property of the Sa vannah, Florida and Western; also the returns of the Jacksonville branch, the Charleston branch aud the Bruns wick branch, aggregating all told a track of nearly 500 miles in length. The Savannah, Florida and Western, or the main line, returned its right of way at $2,275,773. The state fixes its value at $2,658,250. The Brunswick branch returned at $1,096,333 and the state has raised this to $1,346,816. Th ■ Jacksonville branch made its leturn at $295,542, and the state put this up to $878,900. The Charleston branch was returned at $79,100, and this is in creased to $113,000. The difference between the road’s own estimate and that made by the state involves such a large amount that it goes without saying the Plant system will resort to arbitration rather than, '’ome to the comptroller general’s figure#. C»t>tnln Brown Bled From Injuries. Captain George S. Brown, of At' lanta, died at the Grady Hospital in that city as a result of his fall from a train while on the way with his com pany to the Cumberland Island mili tary encampment. Captain Brown was in the officers’ Pullman and attempted to cross the platform into the next car forward when a sudden lurch of the train threw him off the platform. In falling he struck Sentry McLeod, who stood at the door of the -ar. Both men fell headlong from the train and were picked up unconscious when the train was backed up to the point where the accident occurred. Sentry McLeod was not seriously injured. He continued with the regi ment to Cumberland, aud recovered from tbe shock. Captain Brown was carried to a farmhouse by the railroad, where Major E. C. Davis, the regi mental surgeon, attended. His injuries until he was removed to Grady Hos pital in Atlanta. Captain Brown’s in juries were considered serious from the first. Savannah Depot Assured. The Savannah Union Station Com pany is to be the name of the new company that is to build and control Savannah’s new depot. It is to be a railway company with a charter issued by the secretary of state, in accord ance with the terms of au act regnlat ing such charters, and it is to have a capital stock of $300,000. Notice of the intention of the incorporators to apply for a charter is being published. The advertisement is a result of the attorneys of the four roads inter ested having had a conference a few days ago. A., V. and W. Will Be Extended. One of the leading officials of the Atlantic, Valdosta and Western rail road was in Valdosta a day or two ago and stated definitely that their road would be built on to Albany. This will give a direct route from Albany to Jacksonville, via Valdosta. The road has bought a fourth interest in the terminal station at Jacksonville. This is almost conclusive evidence that the road will be extended at once Reunion Is Postponed. The survivors of the old Thirty eighth Georgia regiment have decided to postpoue their annual reunion, which was to be held at Sandy Spring, in Oak Grove disirict, on July 18, un til Wednesday, August 20. All meni bers and friends of the regiment are requested to take notice to attend on August 29. A Fine K<-presentH‘Ion. Georgia will have able representa tion at the Liberty Congress of the Anti-Imperialistic League which con venes at Indianapolis, Iud,, August loth. At the request of the officers of the league, G#£ernor Candler nam ed forty-two Georg ians to attend the liberty congres! as delegates from this state, and while all who have been appointed will not be able to leave at that time it is expected that Georgia will bave fully as large representation as she bad at" Kansas City. Selling Historic Cannon Rail*. The government has sold 500 or 600 tons of old cannon balls that have lain for nearly a century in Fort Ogle thorpe, some three miles down the Savannah river. The old iron was by,tiie Isaac Joseph Iron Corn of Cincinnati. Several old can were sold also to Miller Bros., of It is understood that it is the purpose of the war department to turn the fort into a storehouse for ordnance stores. GOOD SHOTS ARE WANTED. Commanding General Wheeler lasues Orders to Ills Subordinates. In a general order issued from the headquarters of the department of the lakes, Brigadier General Wheeler says: “In view of the fact that two battal ions of the Second and Fifth infantry regiments are to be sent from the United States for active field service as soon as practicable, the command ing officers at posts of this department, where parts of these organizations are stationed, will use every effort to see that all enlisted men are given thor ough instruction in pointing aud aim ing drills, management of their rifles and target practice,”
