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GEORGIA PRESS.
A corresi’ONDENT of the Middle Geor
gia Timet, published at Tliomaston, urges
the nomination of our talented citizen,
Colonel Thomas Hardeman, Jr., for
Governor. The Darien Gazette and Fort
Valley Advertiser endorse Colonel Hard
eman also as a candidate for Governor.
Pendleton, of the Valdosta Times,
has a boom on the hog question. The
hog has but little backing in the fight, and
Pendleton says he must go. It is strange
that so much trouble is taken with the
subject, if they will turn a half dozen
freedmen loose for a while, their garden
gates could stand ajar with impunity.
Wilkes and the adjoining counties are
discussing the subject of fence or no fence.
The arguments, pro and con, are vigor
ously set forth.
Teof. Land, the great Georgia chemist,
is now at home, in Jonesboro, quite im
proved by his European trip.
Tnsftome Tribune gives a lengthy ac
count of the stabbing of George Johnson,
in that city, by W. H. Hammond.
General A. R. Lawton, of Savannah,
opened his elegant house to the members
of the Young Men’s Christian Association
on last Saturday night, for a social recep
tion.
The Albany Advertiser says that a
man by the name of Wade was arrested
on last Wednesday, as the murderer of
the late J. S. Ready, of Baker county.
i The editor of the Berrien county Mews
has undertaken a big job. He is making
an effort to suppress rowdyism in the
town of Alapaha. From the two instan
ces cited in his paper ol the 17!b, there
certainly is need of reform. We hope
the good citizens wi.l unite with him in
his laudable undertaking.
AL.V.KSVjAdterliser: Mr. W. H. Part
ridge, one of the best farmers in Dougher
ty county, says that it is not the rust that
is so seriously damaging the oat crop of
this section, but that it is an insect. He
has watched his own crop very closely
during the last two or three weeks, and
says it is being sucked to death by mill
ions of very small lice or insects of some
kind. He has examined the oats of other
j danters, too, and thinks that they are in
ured in the same way.
Columbus Enquirer: A negro in Har
ris county, the past week, has performed
the double duty of horse and man. He
g ulled a plow while his little son held the
andles, another dropped the cotton seed.
A board was attached in the mar to cover
the seed. This means biz, and we will
guarantee that colored family will succeed.
Such a spirit deserves success, and will
ultimately aclicive it. While some would
sit down and starve In such an emergency,
this man does not hesitate to play “hoss”
in the absence of ability to do better.
From the Augusta Chronicle of Sun
day, we make the following extracts con
cerning the Cincinnati visitors:
Yesterday was a great day for Augusta.
Its incidents were varied and its pleasures
many, for with the departure of our Cin
cinnati guests closed a record bright in
our city’s hospitality. The party for
whose entertainment so much efTort was
made, has passed beyond our influence,
but who can tell the limit of the associa
tions formed, the value of friends made
and the importance of the occasion im
proved?' True, these particular individu
als may not be met again, but the delicate
and distinguished attention shown the
representatives of one section bv the peo
ple of another, can only strengthen the
relations of the Great West and the New
South.
Seldom have we ever entertained a finer
set of people. Gentlemanly, conservative,
businesslike and cordial, they gave us a
new idea of Western life. Observing
without being inquisitive; prompt with
out being exacting; confident without
being boastful—they enter more closely
into companionship than our Eastern
countrymen, and are whole-souled like
the South. Many a cheer went up from
Cincinnati throats, rivalling the rebel yell
in heartiness and intensity and lacking
only the inimitable “tiger’’ on the third
round to make the resemblance complete.
Washington Gazette; The negroes of
this county have never chirped on the ex
odus question now agitating some parts of
the country. They took a small amount
of stock in the exodus to Liberia about
two years ago, by sending a few persons
who never got further than the shores of
Carolina; and since then they seem to be
very well satisfied that the labor they put
on Wilkes soil pays better than bumming
around over the country.
The Sumter Republican, in speaking
of the public schools of Americus and
the report of Superintendent Neely, says:
There are six hundred and thirty ma
triculations; these have been regularly
accumulating as the enterprise has been
developing under his management. This
is a very remarkable feature for this
place. We do not, of course, know the
J irecise number of the population, but,
udging from the last census and the
probable increase, it is estimated at about
eighty-four per cent, of the entire popula
tion. The remarkable .feature is that It
excels the percentage reported in any
other city on the continent. He further
reports the average daily attendance at
five hundred and ninety-six scholars.
As a provision for these, the total ex
pense of the Board of Education, inclu
sive of furniture, amounts to $2,734.84.
Had the citizens undertaken the educa
tion of this number of pupils on the usual
plan, the item of tuition alone, without
furniture at $2, a scholar per month,
would have been $5,4GS.G8 per month;
about one-third the latter is the present
expense.
The Superintendent closes his report
with a compliment v to his teachers for
their courtesy and careful co-operation in
the enforcement of the rules of the Board
of Education.
Lumpkin Independent: A sad case of
destitution exists in our county. One day
this week a lady was in town soliciting
aid for herself and five destitute children.
Her husband, who recently died, was the
son of at one time the wealthiest man in
Stewart county. He owned probably
over a hundred slaves and thousands • of
acres of land. The lady was also well off
but now is destitute and has five helpless
children upon her hands. Charitable
persons in the county who wish to aid her
can get her address at this office.
Rome Tribune: We learn that ti*o ne
gro men, without the fear of God or man,
forcibly robbed the poor cripple who ped
dles peanuts on our streets. Why can
they not be canglit and punished in a
manner which would have done credit to
the dark ages? Such vile, infamous,
bloodthirsty, cowardly miscreants deserve
no mercy, and should receive only that
which they deserve, nell, with all its
horrors, is too good and too pure to hold
such scoundrels.
Eatonton Messenger: We learn that
the wheat crop, which seemed to be in
jured by rust a few vrseks back, is rapid
ly recovering, and is now looking green
and strong. The prospect is better for a
large yield than was first thought.
Savannah News': Sergeant Harvey,
of the police force, reports that last night
some boys near the jail sent up a large
kite, with a lantern attached to the tail.
A fair breeze carried it very high, and as
it sailed about it attracted considerable
attention, parties at a distance not know
ing what to make of the moving light
After awhile the string broke and the
kite was carried in a northwesterly direc
tion, the light falling in the neighborhood
of Barnard and Liberty streets. This
kind of amusement is attended with dan
ger, and should be stopped.
Fokt Valley Advertiser: The cases o
Green Thurmond and Joe Hall which were
transferred from Crawford to this cent ty,
were tried before Judge Simmons in Perry
last week. Green Thurmond was acquit
ted and Joe Hall was found guilty of
voluntary manslaughter—the penalty oi
yet been pronounced. It is doubtful
about a new trial being obtained, and he
will, in all probability, go up for twenty
Athens Banner: The Phi Kappa So
ciety of the University have donated $50
for the purchase of standard books for
their Library. This, together with the
annual contribution to the Library, will
put up $G5, which wilLenable them to ob
tain quite, a handsome number of the best
publications.
Columbus Enquirer: In addition to
our several great industrial interests, the
music of the flying shuttle will soon be
resounding in Temperance Hall. In
other days some of the finest voices which
ever warbled have sent their thrilling ca
dences throughout this hall while enrap
tured auditories have given vent to their
enthusiasm in vociferous applause. But
now wc are to have there another kind of
music for which Columbus is becoming so
famous far and wide—the enlivening
music of the loom as it weaves into useful
fabrics the fletcy staple M onr
own sunny land. The fablod Circe is
said to have woven in her loom of fate
chapteis of destiny In the lives of those
she beguiled, and may we not predict
tliat this new manufacturing interest will
form a new chapter in th6 history of our
city, already so famous for her pluck and
success in this important directio*.
For some time Temperance Hall has
been undergoing alterations for the recep
tion of machinery, and at last new looms
are arriving and being put in position.
These were being conveyed to the hall all
day yesterday, and soon active operations
may be looked for. This is an extension
of the operations of the Muscogee factory,
and we wish abundant success to the com
pany.
Mr. 0. R. Johnson, census supervisor
of the Fourth district, announces that he is
ready for applications for enumerators
from the following counties: Baldwin,
Bibb, Butts, Campbell, Carroll, Clayton,
Coweta, Crawford, .Douglas, Fayette,
Harris, Heard, Henry, Jasper, Jones,
Meriwether, Monroe, Newton, Pike, Put
nam, Spalding, Talbot, Troup, Twiggs,
Upson and Wilkinson.
Ladies are eligible to the position of
enumerator. All applications must be
made in the handwriting of the applicant,
and the place of birth and legal residence
also must be given. Mr. Johnson’s ad
dress is Griffin, Georgia.
Moore, of the Augusta News, is so full
of Cincinnati 'that he can’t sleep well of
nights. We don’t know whether it was
the loveliness of the ladies or Pike’s Mag
nolia that inspired his song. He reiter
ates for the fifty-eighth time.
Atlanta Post: Dr. Hart, aged sev-
ty years, who resided on Fair street, drop
ped dead Saturday evening last. Heart
disease was the cause.
Hamilton Journal: Last week the
dwelling of Mr. J. F. Jenkins narrowly
escaped burning. A spark of fire fell on
a bed in one of the rooms and was not
discovered until the bod was in flames.
A bucket of water stopped the progress of
the flames, before any serious damage was
done.
Savannah News: Yesterday after
noon a youth, about fourteen years of age,
appeared at the office of Dr. T. B. Chis
holm, in great.d is tress, and evidently bad
ly frightened." It appears he was shot
through the vest by a ball, fired by -some
boys who were practicing at a target on
the suburbs, and imagined he was. mor
tally wounded. The ball did not hit the
body, though grazing the skin. An ex
amination satisfied the youngster that he
was all right, and he left the office rejoic-
ine.
Hamilton Journal: One of our enter-
irising fanners sent to the Columbus mar
ket last Thursday, a large lot of home
made lard. It sold readily at a high price
and placed a nice sum of the cool cash in
his pocket. Such a farmer is bound to
prosper.
“Specks,” writing from Savannah to
the Angusta News, says: All tne railroad
agents are leaving, as there is little for
them to do at present—not until the
Southern travel turns northward in search
of some cool spot, where they can spend
the summer months. This travel will be
laiger than heretofore, especially from
southwest Georgia, Florida, and, in fact,
this city also.
Savannah News: The down day pas
senger train on the Central railroad ran
off the track near the 92 mile post, two
miles beyond Herndon, Saturday morning
about 11:30 o’clock. The sleeping car
was throwu from the track and badly
smashed up, and the truck of the first
class car was tom from under it. There
were but few passengers on the train,
however, and none were injured in the
least, though the sleeping car porter was
slightly hurt. The track was torn up for
about a hundred yards, the accident being
occasioned, it is supposed, by the rails
spreading. The locomotive and baggage
and second class car remained on the
track, and arrived safely on time. A large
force was sentjip at once, and the dam
age to the truck has been repairedTprob-
ably before this, no interruption to travel
resulting.
Dublin Gazette: Last Monday morn
ing John Troup, a colore.a man in the
western part of the county, had started
turkey hunting just at day-break. He
had loaded his gun and was standing in
the door, with the breech of the gun rest
ing on the door sill. It accidentally slip
ped off, and in falling the cock struck the
step, the gun was fired off, and the load
entered just below the left eye and came
out on the rear of the skull, making an
ugly wound four inches in diameter, and
death immediately ensued. A coroner’s
inquest was held with a verdict according
to the facts given above.
Christian Index: Kind Words.—
Rev. M. B. Wharton. D. D.-hasimrchased
an interest in tne book and publishing
house of J. W. Burke & Co., and become
associate editor and business director of
Kind Words. The design of this arrange
ment, and a moit worthy one, is for Dr.
Wharton to increase the circulation of this
excellent paper in connection with his la
bors for the Theological Seminary. We
trust and believe he will succeed.
It has long since been a source of paiu
to'us, that many of our largest schools, in
stead of taking this, our own paper, pub
lished by our convention home board, are
sending off for publications not in sympa
thy with us or our work.
Rev. S. Boykin is admirably snited for
his position as editor, and now, with Dr.
Wharton to assist, and push the paper,we
have high hopes of its enlaiged circula
tion. The paper is an admirable medium
far the inculcation of Baptist principles.
Albany Advertiser: We understand
the city fathers intend soon to commence
the digging of four new cisterns outside of
wbat is known as the fire limits of
the city. This is a move in the right di
rection, and something that should have
been done some time ago. As it now is,
if a house catches on lire outside of the
fire limits the property is at the mercy of
the flames, as the fire department can do
little or no good, on acconnt of there be
ing no water attainable, except they
go into the premises of some citizen, and
deprive him of his supply of water, and
damage his grounds to a certain extent in
doing so. This want of public cisterns
should be remedied" as fast as the mayor
and council can find the means to do so.
Aubusta Chronicle: There are on the
equity docket of the April term of Rich
mond Superior Court twenty-three di
vorce cases. Seven of these' were filed at
the present term
Ablington Advance: In my recent
travels I saw numbers of acres of oats
which had no appearance of nut, and I
am confident that, the universal cry of
rust is more imaginary than real. ’Tis
true, a few weeks since there was what
seemed very much like rust, but, in many
instances,the oats have ccme out, and we
now think it was only small insects and
not rust. I predict for Southwest Georgia
three-fourth of as much oats as was raised
last year.
Savannah News: Yesterday morning
a colored boy named Campbell West
more land, aged thirteen years, was drown
ed in the Ogeechee canal near Gay’s lock
It appears that he went in the water to
learn to swim, bnt getting beyond hb
depth be was unable to reach the shore
again, and drowned within sight of bis
i companions, two small boys. The body
Jones streets, where pn inquest was held
by Dr. Sheltall, the coroner, and a verdict
ol accidental drowning rendered.
Conyers Examiner: The gang of hands
laying the new steel rail on the Georgia
Railroad, have'completed theirwork with
in a mile and a half of Conyers.
The editor of the Dublin Gazette was
in Macon last week at the fireman’s parade
and has this to say about us: - .
The city of Macon is rapidly improving,
and is by far the most attractive city in
Georgia, and the place of all*others that
should be the capital of the Empire Stale
of the South. Her beauty, wit and intel
ligence is not to be surpassed by the lar
gest cities. We have many sincere friends
in Macon, and are always cordially wel
comed. “Long may she wave.”
Conyees Examiner: The side tracks
are to be made longer at this place, in or
der to give room for the many long freight
trains that pass each other here. The
work of grading has already been com
menced, and the track will soon be laid.
Hamilton Journal: Mr. A. A. Tur
ner, of this county, informs us that, on
Tuesday last a negro boy by the name of
Bill Benton, about twelve years old, liv
ing on his premises, set fire to his cotton
house, destroying between thirty and for
ty pounds of lint cotton, together with
two scythes and cradles. Fortunately the
fire was discovered before it got under
good headway, and was extinguished by
the other negroes. The negro’s father,
Rev.Torey Benton, gave Bill fifty lashes,
well laid on, which Mr. Turner thinks is
the most efficient punishment for such
boys, instead of chain gangs.
Savannah News: We leam that a
well known citizen of Savannah, who is
noted for his unostentatious charity and
many liberal deeds performed in so quiet
and modest a manner that only his most
intimate friends know thereof, has lifted
the mortgage of $8,000, which burthened
Wesley Monumental Church, and that
the church is, by this munificent Chris
tian gift, entirely free of debt. Such
deeds may not have their rewaTd in this
world, but assuredly will redound to the
honor and glory of him in the world to
co ire.
Hamilton Journal: Mr. W. N. Mat
tox gives us a very simple remedy for
whooping cough. He says his children
were coughing almost incessantly until he
gave them a tea made of the roots ot the
common chestnut. This afforded them
instant relief, and they have not been
troubled much since.
Geiffin Sun: Notwithstanding that
one of our printers is in jail, and our fore
man went to Macon with the fire engine,
and another went a fishing during the
last week, here we are again. But veri-
y the country editor hath his trials, and
the Lord briugetli him out of them all.
The Columbus newspaper men have
been desecrating the Sabbath, by exchang
ing gossip with their neighbors of Mont
gomery, Ala., by means of the telephonic
connection made recently between these
two cities. Mr. Screws, of the Montgom
ery Advertiser, can consult the Colum
bus editors about the constrnction of his
editorials, and all hands can snap their
fingers at the telegraph authorities as to
specials. The distance is one hundred
miles, and the communication Is complete.
This is the longest distance ever operated
in the South. After sundry communica
tions between the newspaper men, there
were several songs sweetly sung by Mr.
Winter’s little daughter, Maud, aged four
years; among which were “Hang up the
Baby’s Stocking,” and “Grand Father’s
Clock.”
For nearly two hours the Columbus
and Montgomery exchange subscribers,
including the press, business Houses and
private residences, enjoyed a perfect and
most satisfactory inter-communication
with each other. Every tone and articu
lation was as perfect as if the speakers
were side by side.
The sinners of Columbus, says the
Times, excuse their non-attendance at
church upon the ground that they heard
the church bells of Montgomery ringing,
but it was too far to go.
The Baldwin Blues have accepted the
challenge of the Silver Greys, the old men
of Milledgeville, to a trial of arms at tar
get shooting. The Recorder says “it shall
be our portion, our pleasure, to do justice
to both sides, neither using the pepper
castor of praise nor the cruet of criticism.”
Up to the present time, there have been
112 additions to Trinity church,Savannah,
and many have connected themselves
with other chinches, all the result of the
revival now going on in Trinity.
Rev. A- M. Wynn, of Columbus, who
seriously hurt recently by being
which is from one to twenty yean in U>e was recovered after an hour’s dragging,
nenitentiarv A motion for a new trial , and taken to the house of his parents,
Eaabosm made and the sentence has not near the corner of Prendergast and Little
fore onr fanners will he compelled to
make large crops of cotton to enable tliem
to make both ends meet. They will also
be obliged to obtain good prices for the
staple, or the number of hales will do but
little good. Corn is looking exceedingly
well Tor the time of the year. *
The Augusta News says: The
annual meeting -of the Confederate
Survivors Association will occur at 12 m.
on the 26th inst., at Hussar Hall. An ad
dress will be delivered by the President,
Colonel Chas.'C. Jones, Jr. The details
of the association for the past year will he
presented, and upon the conclusion of the
meeting, the customary toasts to the mem
ory of our Confederate dead will be drank
standing, and in silence.
This association, numbering nearly
300 members, responding to the invitation
of the Ladies’ Memorial Association of
Augusta, will participate in the ceremo
nies to be observed on Memorial Day.
The occasion will prove of special interest,
and no member of the association should
be absent.
Milledgeville Recorder: The case
against the eight young men of this coun
ty, generally known as the kn klux case
in Hancock Superior Court, was called
and disposed of last week. The defen
dants having announced ready when the
case was called, the Solicitor General sta
ted to the Court that the StaW would be
unable to make out a case, and accord
ingly took an order entering a nolle pros
equi in each of the - cases. F. G. Dubig-
non Was counsel for defendants.
Monroe Advertiser: A short ride in
the country last week, convinced us that
the oat and wheat crop will he far from a
total failure. While we cannot expect
such yield as we had last year, yet there
will very probably be a sufficiency made.
The yellow color is disappearing rapidly
from the blades. Spring oats, especially,
look’promBing, and the increased acreage
sown in this valuable forage, will very
like compensate for the short yield. •
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NO FIRE-EATERS,
thrown from a buggy, was able to preach
twice on last Sunday.
Albany Advertiser: At the primary
meeting held in Leesburg Saturday by the
colored people, to appoint delegates to the
Republican State Convention to be held
in Atlanta next Wednesday, some mem
ber proposed the name of the venerable
George Jordan, colored, the coroner of
the county, when Henry Wright, a very
shrewd darkey, rose and with vehemence
insisted that if they intended to send a
nigger, they had “better send a strong
man; a man dat can cut wood and draw
water, for,” said he, “dat’s all dey’l want
niggers dar for.” '
Milledgeville Recorder: The battle
flag of the Fourth Georgia Regiment (of
which the Baldwin Blues was a company
throughout the war), has been deposited
in the Atlanta Library, by Mr. E. G.
Douglass. It is said to be well scarred,
and has the names of the battles on it in
which the regiment participated.
Augusta Chronicle: R. C. Hobbs,
who has been confined in McDuffie county
jail, at Thomson, since December 24th
last, on the charge of shooting a negro on
that day, and whose trial, resulting in a
mistrial, took place at the last term of
McDuffie Superior Court, filed the iron
bars of his window Sunday night and
effected his escape.
The Talbotlon Standard, speaking of
the branch railroad to connect with the
Southwestern says:
We stated in our last issue that Captain
S. W. Thornton and Colonel J. T. Wil
lis had gone to Savannah. to confer wjth
the president ¥nd- directora : of the Central
railroad. They have returned and report
that their conference was satisfactory in
every particular. There is no donbt but
that the road will be completed at an
early day. To-day the road will he lo
cated and work will be commenced im
mediately. .
Macon has come bravely to our assis
tance. Thus far she'has subscribed $4,-
000. Her business men think we can
confidently rely on $10,000 or more. A
committee of the ■directors wllk go over
to-morrow to see what can be done.
Let all rally now. We. will have the
road.
Since the above was written the road
has been located and will intersect the
Southwestern road at No. 0.
Montezuma Weelcly: As Sheriff Bell
entered the jail Monday morning, the 12th
Instant, Bill Johnson, colored, who was
in jail on a charge of burglary, made a
dash for the door and passed out. Sheriff
Bell and several citizens gave chase, but
William was striking for liberty, and'
made good Ids escape. Wilson Phu], the
boy murderer, had got out of bis cell into
the hallway of the jail, but was kept from
leaving the jail by an old colored woman,
who stood guard over liimruutilthe return
of the Sherifl.
Americus Recorder: Mr. Joshua Sul
livan, of Macon, is in the dty. Josh, is
an Americus boy, but for the past eight
or ten years has been with the well known
house o f J. W. Burke A Co., of-that city.
We were glad to see him upon our streets
again.
The Athens Watchman is too bard on
Grady. It was no fault of his that the
Georgia Western was not built. He did
all he could towards it:
If that story that Grady tells about the
finding of so many nuggets of gold, and the
rich vein in Nacoocbee Valley, is true,
and we hope it is, the tortunate owners
hod better get some one else to do their
puffing, or their bonanza might suffer the
fate of the Georgia Western.
Albany Advertiser: We bad conversa
tions with a good number of farmers from
all parts of the county, on Saturday last,
and they all report crops doing well, ex
cept oats ami wheat. They do not think
that half a crop of either or these cereals
will be made. The tailure of the oat crop
will necessitate the buying of a great deal
Tslmsge In the Booth, Making si Tlior-
. «agh Investigation for Hlmself-
Conversing with High and Low,
White and Black, educated and Un
educated-Two Views from Lookout
Mountain.
Bbooklyn, April 18.—Dr. Talmage
preached a discourse this morning which
will attract universal attention. His sub
ject was, “Mistakes About the South Cor
rected.” Services opened with singing
the verses, beginning:
“My country, ’tis of thee,
Sweet land of liberty.”
Dr. Talmage took his text from Judges
1,15: “Give me a blessing; for thou hast
given me a south laud; give me also
springs of water.” The following is a
full report of the sermon.
Caleb’s diughter, just married to Gen
eral Othniel, had received of her father as
a wedding present a farm at the south,
in a warm and sunny clime. She asks
for the farther gift of some springs of
water near by, so that her farm may he
properly irrigated and refreshed by the
waters brought in tunnel or aqueduct.
“Give me a blessing, for thou hast given
me a southland; give me also springs of
To our nation God has given a South
land. It is a vast and magnificent reach
of country, but it needs to be irrigated
from the fountains of divine blessing, and
our nation ought devoutly to pray in the
words of the text: “Give me a bless ng,
for thou has given me a South land; give
me also springs of water.”
A few weeks ago, to meet engagements
in nine of the Southern cities and to catch
a glimpse of Southern springtime and see
how that region is recuperating from the
desolations of the war, I started South,
equipped with a mind full of questions
and hungry for information on all sub
jects, social, political, moral and religious.
Among other things I had a grave to
visit in Georgia, the grave of my uncle,
Rev. Dr. Samuel K. Tahnage, for twenty
years the President of Ogletlioipe Univer
sity. After walking amid the ruins of the
institution which he had founded and
from which a multitude of men went forth
to positions of influence hi all parts of the
land, but an institution slain by the war,
I went to see his last resting place. 'When
our civil strife opened his heart Ir ike end
he lay down near by the scene of his emi
nent usefulness, the monument over him
adorned with bis name'and the suggestive
passage: “How beautiful upon the moun
tains are the feet of them that bring good
tidings, that publish peace.” He was of
that band of contemporary ministers of
the South who, after eloquent words and
long service for Christ, are now resting
from their labors—Dr. James H. Thom-
well, whose life, written by Dr. Palmer,
is a holy enchantment, and Dr. Thomas
Smyth and Dr. Duncan and Dr. Pierce
and many others.
But my mission was not so much with
the dead, as with the living. I started on
the tour with no partisan predilections
and no prejudices, and resolved totell .on
my return what I saw, whether it might
be generally approved or denounced by
one or both sections. I had no political
record to guard or defend, for my chief
work in the ministry ha3 been done since
the war closed. My admiration for the
Democratic party and the Republican
party, as parties, is so small that it would
take one of McAllister’s most powerful
magnifying glasses to discover anything
of it. •
AMERICAN POLITICS ARE ROTTEN,
and that party steals the most which has
the most chance. I had all the doors of
information opened to ihe. I talked with
high and low, governors and water-carri
ers, clergymen and laymen, lawyers, doc
tors, editors and philanthropists, with the
black and the white, old residents of the
Southland newsettlers from the North,
and £ found that there have been the most
persistent and' outrageous misrepresenta
tions in regard to the South by many of
the correspondents of "secular and reli
gious jourrials and by men who, overbear
ing and dishonest in their behavior at the
South,' have had information given to
them that their company was not desira
ble. -If a man go South aud behave well
he will he treated well. There Is no more
need of rigorous governmental espionage
in Atlanta, Augusta or Macon than there
is in Boston orNew York. The present
disposition of the South has been so
wrongly set forth that I prop.se now, so
far as I am able, to correct the stereotyped
slanders concerning it.
First, it has often been represented to
us that the South was longing for the old
system of negro slavery. So far from that
being true, they are all glad to have got
rid of it. The plnntew told me that they
can culture their fields with less expense
under the new system than the old. A
gentleman who had 125 slaves before the'
war, told me that the clothing and feeding
of them, the taking care of the aged who
could not work, and the provision for
helpless colored children, was an expense
ana anxiety and exhaustion. Now the
planters have nothing to do but pay the
wages when they are due; the families
look after their own invalids and miners.
So they all say, without one exception,
that I could find. If at the ballot boxes
of the Southern States the question should
now be submitted : “Shall negro slavery
be reinstated ?’?. All the wards and all the
counties, and all the States, would give
thundering negatives. They fought to
keep it eighteen years ago, but naw there
is universal congratulation at its over
throw. *
Thank God that North and Seuth are
one on the subject, aud this effort of our
Northern politicians to keep the subject of
slavery rolling on, is as useless and inapt
as to make the.Dorr rebellion of Rhode
Island, or / Aaron Burr’s attempt at the
overthrow of the United States Govern-
meat, the test of our fall elections. The
whole subject of American slavery is
dead and damned. I inquired everywhere:
“How do the colored people work under
the new plan?” The answer was: “Well,.
very well. We have no trouble. Just af
ter the war there was the disorganization
that naturally came of a new order of
things, but now they work well. They
work far better than Northern laborers
that come here, because our colored peo
ple can better endure our hot climate, and
on a warm summer’s day, at the nooning,
they will lie down in the field to enjoy
the sun.” My. friends, all that talk about
dragging the rivers and lakes of the South
of corn, to make the growing crops, there- to haul ashore black people murdered and
flung In, though /seriously believed by
many people at the North, is a
FALSEHOOD TOO 'RIDICULOUS TO MEN
TION
in a religious assembly. The white peo
ple of the South feel their dependence on
the dark people for the cultivation of their
lauds, and the dark people feel their, de
pendence on the white people for wages.
From what I have observed hfre at the
North of the oppression of some of our fe
male clerks in dry goods stores and the
struggle of many of our young men on in
sufficient salaries, which they must take
or get nothing at all, I give as my opinion
that to-day there is more consideration
and sympathy for colored labor at the
South than there is consideration and
sympathy for employes in some of the
stores on Fulton avenue, Brooklyn, or
Broadway, New York, Washington street,
Boston, or Chestnut street, Philadelphia.
All the world over, there* are tyrannical
emnloyers, and for their maltreatment of
subordinates, white or black, they are to
be execrated; hut the place for us to be
gin reformation is at home.
Another misrepresentation in regard to
the South I care when I say . they are not
antagonistic to the settlement of North
ern men within their borders. We have
been toldthat Northerners going there are
knkluxed, crowded out of social life, un
recognized, and in every way made un
comfortable. But the universal sentiment
as I found it was, “send down your North
ern capitalists, send down your Northern
farming machines, buy plantations, open
stores, build cotton factories and rice
mills, come! come right away, come by
tens of thousands and by millions.” Of
course they have no more liking for
Northern fools or Northern braggarts than
we have. A man who goes South and
sets down his valise at the depot and
goes upon the nearest plantation to say by
word or manner to the plant
er, “I have come down here to show you
ignorant people how to farm; we whipped
you in the war, and now 'we propose to
whip you in agriculture; I am from Bos
ton, I am; tliat’s the hub; you look very
much like the man that I shot at South
Mountain; I think it must have been your
brother. I marched right through here
in the fourth regiment of volunteers. I
killed and quartered a heifer on your front
stoop.. What a poor, miserable race of
people you Southerners are. Didn’t we
give it to you? Ha, ha!” Such a man
as that, to say the least, will not makera
favorable impression upon the neighbor
hood where he comes to settle. He will
not very soon get to he deacon in church,
and if he opens a store he will not have
many customers, and if he should happen
to get a free aud rapid ride on that part of
>a fence which is most easily removed, and
should be set down without much refer
ence to the desirability of the landing-
place, you and I will not be protestants.
Any moral man who will go South and ex
ercise just ordinary common sense, will
be welcomed, made at home, and, coming
from Brooklyn,'will be treated just as
well as if he came from Mobile. I might
give many illustrations. I give one: A
member of this church moved to Charles
ton, S. C., seven or eight years ago. He
went without fortune. By his mercantile
assiduity he toiled on up. Was he well
received? Judge for yourselves, as I tell
you that when, a few days ago, his body
was taken to the Episcopal church,
of which he had become a vestryman,
for the obsequies, the members of
the hoard of trade, the orphan chil
dren of the asylum of which he was a
director, and a great throng of the best
citizens assembled, amid a wealth of flo
ral and mu ical tribute, all making an
occasion, ^described by the Charleston
Courier, as almost unparalleled at the
obsequies of any private citizen. This
side of heaven, there is no more hospitable
people than the people of the South, 'and
now I bring a message from all the States
of the South which 1 visited, inviting im
migration thither. The South is to rival
the West as an opening field for Ameri-
can enterprise. Horace Greeley’s advice
to go West is to have an addenda in “go
South.” The first avalanche of popula
tion thither will make their fortunes. It
is a national absurdity that so much of
the cotton of the South should be transpor
ted at great expense to the North to be
transformed into articles of use. The few
factories at the South are the pioneers of
the uncounted spindles which are yet to
begin the hum oi their grand march on
the banks of the Savannah, Appalachicola
and the Tombigbee. There stands
Georgia, with its 58,000 square miles, and
South Carolina, with its 34,000 square
mile, and Alabama, with its 50,722 square
miles, and North Carolina, with 50,704
square miles, and the other States, none
of them with more than ten per cent, of
their resources developed. When will
the overcrowded populations of our great
cities take the wings of the morning and
fly to regions where they shall have room
to turn round and breathe and expand and
become masters of their own corn fields or
rice swamps or cotton plantations or tim
ber forests. Land is to be had there in the
Southern States at
FROM ONE TO TWENTY DOLLARS AN
ACRE.
Only $15 to get there if you are not too
particular as to how you go. Do yon say
the climate is hot? The thermometer every
summer runs uphjgher in New York than
in North Carolina or Georgia, though the
heat is more prolonged. Afraid of the fe
ver? . The death rate of Michigan and
Georgia are equal while the death rate,
according to the last census, is less accord
ing to the number of population in Geor
gia than in Connecticut and Maine.
Whether you go West or South you will
probably have one accliraatingattack. It
is only a different style of shake. There
is no need that England or Ireland or
Scotland any longer suffer for room Or
bread. The tides of emigration now pour
ing into this country are greater than. at
any time in history—21,058 emigrants last
month arrived In New York, 5,000 emi
grants last Tuesday in and around Castle
Garden. This is only an intimation of
what is to come. Make tjvo currents.
While you put on extra trains to take
them West by the Pennsylvania, Erie and
New York Central, put on extra trains on
the Baltimore and Washington, and Chat
tanooga and Atlanta and Charleston
routes to take them South. There are
tens of thousands of fortunes waiting Jor
men who have ihe enterprise to go and
win them. The South beckons you to
come. Stop cursing the South and lying
about the South,and go and try yourselves
the cordiality of her welcome and the re
sources of her mines, her plantations and
her forests. Perhaps that is the way that
God is going to settle this sectional strife.
There will be . hundreds of thou
sands of our brightest, most intelli
gent, most moral young , men, wlio
will go South for residence, and they will
invite the daughters of the South to help
them build homes amid the magnolia and
orange groves, aud their children will be
half North and half South, half Georgia
and half Vermont, half South Carolina
aud half New York; and thereafter to di
vide the country you w.ouldbaveto divide
the children with some such sword as Sol
omon sarcastically proposed for the divi
sion of the contested diild, and the North
ern father will say to the Southern moth
er, “Come piy dear, I guess we had better
put this political feud to sleep in his cra
dle.” The statement so long rampant at
the North that the South did not want in
dustrious, useful and moral Northerners
to settle among them I brand as a politi
cal falsehood, gotten up and kept up for
political purposes.
.Again, I have to correct the impression
that the South is-bitterly against the Gor-
erment of the United States. The South
submitted to arms certain questions, and
most of them are submissive to the decis
ion. There is no fight in them. We hear
much about the ire-eaters of the South,
but if they eat fire they have a private ta
ble and private platter of coals in a pn
vate room. I sat at many tables, but I
did not see anything of that kind ol diet.
Neither could 1 see any spoon or knife or
iork that seemed to have been used in fire
eating. Why, sirs, I never saw more plac:
id people—some of them with all their
property gone aud starting life at forty or
sixty years of age with one leg or one
arm or one eye, the member missing sacri
ficed in battle1 It is simply miraculous
that those people feel so cheerful and so
amiable. It is dastardly mean to keep
representing them as acrid and waspish
and saturnine aiid malevolent. I have
traveled as much as most people in this
and other lands, and I have yet to find a
more aflable, delicately sympathetic,
whole-hearted people than the people of
the South. They are to-day loyal and
patriotic, and if a foreign foe should at
tempt to set foot on this soil for the pur
pose of intimidation and conquest, the
forces of Bragg and Geary, McClellan and
Beauregard, Lee and Grant would come
shoulder to shoulder, the blue and the
gray, and the cannons of Fort Hamilton,
Sumter and Pickens would join in
ONE CHORUS OF‘ THUNDER AND FLAME.
The fact is that this country has had a
big family fight, hut let a neighbor come
In'to interfere, and you know how that
always works. 'Husband and wife in con
test, the one with a cane and the other
with a broomstick, if "Rome impertinent
individual attempts to come between
them be gets both cane and broomstick.
I have sometimes thought that the North
and South would never understand each
other until the approach of a common en
emy compels them to make common
cause. If foreign despotisms think we
’have no cohesion,'no centripetal force as a
nation, they have only to test it. The
fact that, instead of the thirteen colonies,
we embrace everything from Atlantic to
Pacific oceans implies no weakening of
national grip. By steam and electricity
our country is within easier control than
at the foundation of the Government. It
took two weeks to get official communica
tion across the country at the start; now
it takes two minutes. San Francisco and
Galveston and Des Moines are nearer to
Washington now than Richmond was
then.' There never was a time when this
nation was so thoroughly one as to-day.
Would to God we might more thoroughly
appreciate it.
You see the whole impression of mySouth-
em journey was one of high encourage
ment. The great masses of the people are
right. If a half dozen politicians at the
North, ond a half at the South would only
die, we should have no more sectional ac
rimony. It is a case for the undertakers.
If they will bury these few demagogues
out of sight we will pay the entire expense
of catafalque and epitaph, and furnish
enough brass band to play the rogue’s
march. But time, under God, will settle
it. The generation that follows us will
not share in the antipathies and bellicose
spirit of their ancestors, and will sit in
amazement at a state of things which
made the national graveyards at Mur
freesboro, Gettysburg and Richmond an
awful possibility.
On a clear morning of week before last,
we took a carriage and wound up to the
the top of Lookout mountain. Up, up,
up! We went out on the rocks and saw
into five States of the Union—scenes so
stupendous and overwhelming that you
involuntarily take off your hat, in the
presence of the grandest prospect on the
continent. Yonder is Missionary ridge,
the beach against which the red billows
of Federal and Confederate * courage
surged and broke—40,000 on one side and
05,000 on the other. Yonder are the Blue
mountains of North and South Carolinas.
With the utmost stretch of the eye, yon
der see Kentucky and Virginia. Here at
the foot are Chattanooga and Chickamau-
ga, the pronunciation of which proper
names will thrill tlio ages with thoughts
of valor and desperation and agony. Turn
round on the tip-top rock of Lookout moun
tain and see earthworks- to the north
and south and east and west. There is
the beautiful Tennessee river curving and
coiling all through the plain in letter S
after letter S, as if that letter, written cm
all the scene might stand for shame that
brothers should go into such massacre of
each "other, while God and the nations
look on. I had stood on Mount Washing
ton and on the Sierra Nevada3 and on tLe
Alps, but I never saw so far as that morn
ing from the top of Lookout Mountain.
Why, sirs! 1 saw seventeen years into
the past and up the sides of the mountain
on which I stood rolled the smoke of
Hooker’s storming party, while the foun
dations' of eternal rock shook with the
cannonade. Yea, the four years of inter
necine strife tame back, the events with
out chronological order, and I looked in
one direction and saw the navy yard at
Norfolk on fire, and
SUMTER ON FIRE,
and Cliambersburgon fire, and Richmond
on fire, and saw Ellsworth fall, and Baker
fall, and Lyon fall, and Bishop Polk fall,
and Stonewall Jackson fall, and I saw-
hundreds of grave trenches finally cut into
two great-gashes across the land, the one
for the dead men of the North, the other
for the dead men of the South, and my
ear as well as my eye quickened standing
on Lookout Mountain. And I heard the
tramp, tramp of enlbted armies, and the
explosion of mines and powder-holts and
the crash of fortification walls and the
mortar batteries, and the “swamp angel,”
and the groan of dying hosts fallen across
the pulseless heart of other dying hostsjand
I looked still further till I saw on the banks
of the Penobscot, and Hudson, and Ohio,
and Oregon, and Roanoke, and the Ya
zoo, and the Alabama, widowhood and
orphanage and childlessness, some in ex
haustion of grief and others stark mad;
and I said “Enough of the past have I
seen from Lookout Mountain. Oh, God,
give me a glimpse of the future.” And
that morning it was revealed to me, and I
saw another prospect from Lookout Moun
tain-great populations moving South and
moving North, and 1 noticed that their
foot steps obliterated the hoof-marks of
the war charger, and I saw the angel of
the Lord of hosts stand in the na
tional cemeteries, trumpet in hand,
as much as to say, “I will wake these
soldiers from their long encamp
ment at the right time,” and 1 looked and
I saw such snowy harvests of cotton and
such golden harvests of corn covering all
the land as we have not dreamed oft and
I saw that all the earthworks were down,
and all the war barracks down, and- all
the gun carriages down, and the rivers
wound through the valleys, their letter S
seeming no more for shame, but S for sal
vation; and when I found that all our
weapons of war had been turned into ag
ricultural implements, I was alarmed and
exclaimed: “Is this safe?” Then, stand
ing on the tip-top rock of Lookout Moun
tain, I heard two voices which somehow
slipped the gate, and they sang, “Nation
shall not lift up sword against nation;
neither shall they leam war any more.”
And I recognized the two voices. They
were the voices of two Christian soldiers
who fell at Shiloh; the one a Federal, the
other a Confederate.
LOCAL NEWS.
Pencil Sketches.
THE CROAKER.
Do not start. This is not personal.
There are no such things as croakers, and
these lines are penciled only that the
light may shine through, and profile fan
ciful shadows on the mind—shadows that
would resemble croakers, if there were
any such things.
Some of these days a man will rise up
and write an essay on the Liability of
Little Minds to Run into Ruts. And that
man will become famous—that is, if he
does justice to tne “liability.” Or some
speaker, to fame and fortune unknown,
will mount the rostrum and show that
the minds of men will follow that man’s
mind which first leaps the mental enclos
ure ; follow it as sheep follow a sheep,
And the speaker, if he treats his subject
correctly, and a short-hand reporter be
present, will retire a self-made man
It is a matter of common knowledge,
that one keen wheel, leaving the highway
and cutting a new track fn the sand, even
though it goes a half mile to pass round a
pine tree, will be followed by others, un
til the track deepens into a rut and the
road is made. Let but one restless, dis
satisfied sheep jump the wall into the
strawberry patch, and jiytbe time he
catches on his feet, others will be after
him, blindly following the lead.
This seems a long ways off from the
subject, yet it is not. We hare worked
around through the woods, and—here
push this hush aside—now we are back to
the starting point; for the croakera are the
wheels that deepen the rut, and the sheep
that trample the strawberries.
In outline, the true croaker is a mirror
in that it depends entirely upon who is
around, as to the variety of shadow there
is with it. ■ Generally, it i3 the shadow of
the last man that “set up” the beer, for
little originates with the croaker; in bill
iard parlance, ideas only carom on hb
mind. If hb friend says the weather b
warm, it is wann with him; if he says
that trade b dull, it b dull with him; if
he lets fall a-remark to the effect that the
paperhas nothing in it, the croaker hums
that tune. At all times the glass will
swing and the shadow be flashed.
That b but the outline. The picture
can be made stronger, for croakers vary
in quality a3 do other things. Occasion
ally their minds are ponds, swimming
with scum, in which any frog may breed.
Whose eggs are they—that long string of
fabehoods that float in the sunlight?
Nobody knows exactly, and they cannot
even he charged to the cat. Yet. the sun
shines and the eggs hatch, and a voice on
yonder hank says, “We ought to! we
ought to!” and another further off, half
understanding, repeats, “I wonder I L
wonder!” and up the pond another takes
it up, “He caught her! he caught her!”
and a whole chorus shouts, “Dishonor!
dblionor!” until the air b pierced with
the croaks, and peace flees from the
scene. #
But as we said, this is not personal,
they are only fanciful pictures. Yet if
there were croakers, the, pictures would
resemble them.
A Terrible Treffedy In Cr* wr
A story comes to us from Crawr
county, which, if true, marks it as onf" 1
the most horrible that have ever 0 ■ 6
ted in this section of the country
have heard several partial accounts' r'
and from them all glean the follo wi ^ *
a true statement of the facts'; h 15
that on the place of Mr. John W.
near Knoxville, in Crawford county T”’
a negro named John Owens, who has ™
cently been suspected of stealing W
but against whom there is no convict^’
evidence. A party of men, among wW
was J. T. Summerlin, took out a watZ
for him, however, and went to arrest hif
having no legal officer among them
The negro’s statement b that the party
reached the house at night and demanded
that he should go with them. Ho refined
alleging that they had no right to arm’
him, and that hb wife wa3 in a delicate
condition, and he could not leave her
whereupon, an altercation took place and
weapons were drawn. The woman
frightened, sprung from the bed and rail
into the yard, in a few minutes thereafter
giving birth to a dead infant. The party
thenjeft without their prisoner. In the
morning they returned again for him.when
a fight ensued, in which Summerlin fired
twice upon Owens, after being terribly cut
by the latter. Summerlin’s was the only
pbtol in the crowd, and after disabling
him, the negro whipped off the balance of
the party with rocks.
Drs. Searcy and Chambliss were soon
in attendance on the wounded man, and
found him in a critical condition. The
knife had penetrated the left lung, missing
the carotid arteiyoniy half an inch.
Owing to the dbtance from Macon we
were unable to obtain more minute dc-
taib of this tragedy, and it b possible
have erred in some of the particulars
A Valuable Work.
Mr. C. L. Holleman, of Atlanta, b in
the city, engaged in the introduction of
Adams’ Synchronological Chart, or Illus
trated Map of Hbtoiy. We have seen a
copy of the work, and without reservation
commend it to the public. It b the most
elaborate and complete work of tho kind
we have ever seen.
The plan of the work is to picture hb-
tory; to so arrange the relative events of
the past, that men, nations and events
may be located in time, as places are lo
cated on an atlas; thus coupling events
so minutely, that iu five minutes the
leading points of any nation’s hbtory,orof
the adminbfration of any ruler may he
obtained. -Beginning at the left, a line
representing the stream of time flows
toward the right, through the entire work,
which b but a series of folded maps.
Above thb line is the sacred, and below,
general hbtory.
Perpendicular lines, the space between
which represent decades and "centuries,
intersect the stream of time, and between
the perpendicular lines cotempoianeous
events are given. Lines flowing parallel
with the time stream, represent reigns of
Kings, lives of men, exbtence of nations,
etc., the beginning, length and ending of
these lines, indicating the amount of
time consumed.
The whole work is simple, easily un
derstood and a most valuable addition to
any library. Mr. Holleman desires to
procure a good agent here; he can be
found at the corner of Fourth and Plum
streets. Thb b a good chance for a wide
awake man.
given.
Poetical License.
There b no mbery in the “Song of the
Shirt” now-a-days; they are machine
made. The song of the man in the shirt,
however, has genuine pathos about it.
News item: At the meeting of the
waters, in the vale of Avoca, recently,
Mr. Fog rose to prove that he had sev
ered lib connection with the River bank,
on account of its watered.stock. Mr. Dew-
dropped in, however, and showed that Mr.
Fog was heavily loaded with said stock,
and the erring member was expelled.
It b very natural, that such a reckless,
handsome rake as Ralph Rackstraw was,
should speak of it, as hb Don Juan cell.
The lady who went into Burke's one
day aud asked forBee-rons Breed of Abee-
dos, was m&e of a woman than scholar.
It does give a reporter the allovers to
see a sophomore girl walk into a picture
gallery, and hear her criticbe “poor Be-
a-tricky Sent-ye.” It makes him tremble
for the republic; if it takes five of our
words to hold two of the Italian, there's
something wrong with the language, and
Webster should he hauled out by
his coat collar and shingled.
The artist who asked hb host at dinner
to send him the “vanbhing point” of the
turkey, was a gentleman of quickness as
well as culture. Few men have presence
of mind equal to that. /
Our carrier says, that evening lasts un
til another day breaks.
What an easy time a reporter on the
Spitzbergen papers has. Only two is
sues to fill in 1880, and six months on
each.
Doubtless he b dead now, and it b too
late; but we would like to gamble a little
on (he proposition that the man who
wrote “Would I were with thee every
day and hour,” was mistaken. Tins is
just the bind of man that carries “thee' 1
to the theatre, and goes off on schooner
excursions between acts. “Every day
and hour,” indeed! We never heard
such a poetical license since we were
horn.
Honors
Female
Who Struck Billy Patterson?
A correspondent of the Carnesvillc
(Ga.), Register, who b writing a series of
“Hbtorical Sketches, Reminiscences and
Legends,” gives the following explanation
as to the origin of the above query:
Many persons have heard the question,
“Who struck Billy Patterson ? ” without
knowing the origi.Vof it. I propose to en
lighten them a little on the subject.
William Patterson was a very wealthy
tradesman or merchant of Baltimore, in
I'ne State of Maryland. In the early days
of Franklin county he bought up a great
many tracts of land in the county, and
spent a good portion of hb time in Frank
lin lookiug alter his interests,there. He
was said to be as strong as a bear and as
brave as lion; but like brave men he was
a. lover of peace, and indeed a good,
pious man. Nevertheless hb wrath could
be excited to a fighting pitch. On one oc
casion he attended a public gathering in
the lower part of Franklin county, at
some district court ground. During the
day the two opposing bullies and their
friends raised a row, and a general fight
was the consequence. At the beginning
of the affray, and before the fighting be
gan, Billy'Patterson ran into the crowd
to persuade them not to fight, but to make
peace and be friends. But his efforts for
peace were unavailing, and while making
them, some of the crowd in tho general
melee struck > Billy Patterson a severe
blow from behind. Billy at once be
came fighting mad, and cried out at the
top otJms woice, “Who struck Billy
Patterson?” No one could or would tell
him who was the guilty party. He then
proposed to giva any man a $100 who
would tell him “Who struck Billy Patt-r-
son?” From a $100 he rose to $1,000.
But not $1,000 would induce any man to
tell him “Who struck Billy Patterson;”
And years afterward, in hb will, he rela
ted the above facts, and bequeathed $1,-
000 to be paid by hb executors to the
man that would tell them “Who struck
Billy Patterson.” Hb will is recorded in
the Ordinary’s office at Carnesville^Frenk-
lin county, Ga.,and any one curious about
the matter can there find and verify the
preceding statements.
at tbe Wesleyan
College.
The honors and places at the Wesleyan
have been awarded as follows:
First honor, Miss Belle Lovett, of
Screven; second honor, Mbs ^Lucia
Brock, of LaFayette, Ala.
First medal, Mbs Annie N. McDonald,
of Macon, Mbs EulaFelton, of Marshall-
ville, Ga.; second medal, Mbs Emily
Humber, of Putnam county, Mbs Maggie
McEvoy, of Macon. *
JUNIOR places. _
Misses Mamie Durragb, Mary Ellen
Johnston, Annie Snider and Annie Trippe,
of Macon; Emma Davb, of Albany;
Claude Freeman, of Macon; Clara Har
ris, of Macon; Nanaline Gordon, of
Washington county; Georgia Pate, of
Hawkinsville, and Belle Peterson, of
Greensboro, Ala.
The examination of the Sophomore
class b not yet ended.
A Smart Das.
The other morning a gentleman lying
asleep upon his bed, had an attack of
nightmare; though perfectly conscious of
hb condition, he was unable to move
hamhA&oot, but made all the while that
noise in the chest and throat peculiar to
persons suffering from thb strange affec
tion. There was a large dog present in
the room, asleep on the hearth. After
this noise had continued for some time,
he arose, went to the bed, and by thrust
ing hb nose violently in the face of the
sleeper, succeeded at last in awaking him
Thb dog has been seen frequently to enter
the hog pen when the hogs were being fed,
and singling out a stranger from a drove of
sixty, drive it from the yard. Hb last ex
ploit, however, exceb all.
Hette*.
Congress Water. None genuine sold
on draught. IU superiority as a cathar
tic and alterative consbts in its entire
freedom from everything bitter, acid or
crude that produces headache, internal
soreness and tends to destroy the mucous
membrane. All mineral waters that are
dangerous irritants may be known by an
acid after-taste. apr 1 2m pd
Moderation In Drink.
A society has been formed in New York
under rules which might work well in
thb city. It b a society for the promotion
of moderation in drink, and by its laws a
man b allowed to make any pledge on
any terms he may choose. It simply
strives for moderation in, not total absti
nence from drink. A member can pledge
himself against drinking during business
hours, during the .day, or during the
night, as'it may seem beat to him. The
main effort of the society, however, b to
get meii to pledge themselves against giv
ing or accepting treats. It b said that
more drunkards are made by tho system
of “treats" than by all others. When tho
subject is closely studied, thb will be
found about true.
Laat Flag of tbe Confederacy-
At the Library.there b a flag ma •-
after the pattern adopted by the^ Corn
erate Congress, on the 22nd of February,
1865. The right hand upper corner <»
the flag is filled by a white bordered reu
cross in a red field, and bearing thirteen
white stars; thb occupies one-sixth o
flag. The last third b a blood red e
and the intermediate portion b v,Ul '_
The cross, which is of silk, "
made in England and preseiite
by Mrs. Hutton, of Savannah, to - •
Herbst. The remainder of the fls S ''
made by Mrs. William Taylor, of tun
city. It will be placed over the slant
Decoration day.
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Robbery In East Macon.
Tuesday night while Mr. and Sirs. J.
O. Davb, of East Macon, were at church,
their residence, which had been left in
charge of an old negro woman who lives
on the premises and does tho cooking,
was entered, and the sum of $290 stolen
from a bureau 'drawer. The money
wa3 iu large denominations, there be
ing one $100 bill and several $20 gold
pieces. There is no clue to the thief, but
the police yesterday arrested the negro
woman and now have her locked in the
barracks. It b said that several of the
prisoner’s relatives out near; lie Bruns
wick depot were seen with large sums of
money, in their possession, and that her
daughter had left the city, but no verifica
tion of either rumor was obtained. Po
liceman Charley Wood has the case in
charge, and will doubtless soon have the
guilty party in custody with proof to con
vict. .
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