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1P|£ (SfcJWfjgm lPel*gpc$glF srnfc 3fs*j£mtl ^ Ifts^imgiJE- 4Mtgn§? nub altsstngtt FRIDAY, JULY-10,1880. ' i • "i —It is stated that Colonel Tliomas R. Scott is an ardent supporter of General Ilancock. "—The sponge fisheries along the Florida coast are growing into considerable pro portions. A large fleet of vessels is al ready engaged in the business. —Dr. Cairns, now considered the head of Scotch Frcsbyterianism, and principal of the Theological Seminary in Edin burgh, is in Boston. He is a tall and slender man of nearly threescore years. —The Chattanooga Times states that a gentleman passed through there a few days ago with two hundred mocking birds, which he caught in this State. He was carrying them to Buffalo, New York, for speculation. A* Eve to the Future.—“This may be fun to him,” said one of General nan- cock’s staff at the army and navy club, the other night, about his chieFs nomina tion, “but it isn’t to me. If he should be elected President I would have to go back to my regiment on the frontier, and I haven’t seen a man of it in thirteen years.” Kearney Mobbed.—In San Francisco on the 41 h, a stormy meeting was held at the Sand Lots, the Greenback and Demo cratic wings of the Workingmen’s party assembling in close proximity. A cross- lire of cheers and groans prevailed during the meeeting and at the close the Demo cratic faction made a rush for Kearney amid cries of “Haug him.” Kearney was rescued by the police, hustled into a hack and driven off. —A distinguished writer gives the fol lowing as the prime cause of the present stringent times: “These are hard times. I'll tell you why: The nation is spending more for intoxicating drinks than all the bread it eats, all the clothes it wears, all the books it reads, or all the churches it has ever built. If every one of the ac cursed drinking saloons were shut up and every bottle smashed forever," we should have good and happy times in thirty days.” Drouth in New Yoke.—The Tribune says that the visitor to the Central Park may see nowadays a sight usually reset ved for November. Along the shaded paths workmen are everywhere raking up the fallen leaves with which the ground is covered, as in autumn. These, and the withered look of many of the treetops, hear pitiful testimony to the severity of the drouth and of our late raging dog-star. -Ex-Governor Hubbard, of Connecti cut, in responding to an invitation to ad dress a Hancock and English ratification meeting at New Haven, writes: “Our ticket is the wisest and the best. It rep resents uo soreheads, no sections, no fac tions, no fractions. It is not at discord with itself; the head is not boiled crow for the tail nor the tail boiled crow for the head, and no machine politics in e.'tlier end.” Vermont's Population Decreas ing.—The Woodstock (Vermont) Stan- <lard publishes the returns from 11 towns, im iuding Woodstock, in Windsor county, one of the richest counties in the State of Vermont, showing a present population of 12.117, or 12 percent, less than in 1S70. This late of decrease will probably not hold throughout flic State, but it is very -->•<OiLif ^Vermont is able to secure I -TV""*'’ lore than twoCongrcao Tt I official influence as member of Congress How it Came to Pass. A friend asks how it happened that a man with so fishy a record as General Garfield’s should have been nominated at Chicago? The answer is plain. It was not done upon examination, deliberation or choice, as a measure of party policy. It was an expedient caught up at a moment, to save Blaine and Sherman the mortifi cation of a personal and political defeat from the hands of Conkling and the stal warts, which would have sent them to Coventry. Conkling & Co. had planned to stick by Grant indefinitely, until the divided opponents of a third term should be wearied out with the indeterminate strife, and, in breaking ranks, should leave them the moderate reinforcement needed to constitute a majority of the whole. At the last moment telegrams flashed from Chicago to Washington pointing out the peril. Blaine and Sherman, un friendly as they were, interchanged ideas and endorsed the proposition to go for Garfield as the best that could bo done under the circumstances, and Garfield was nominated as the result of the sudden combination. It was not the choice of the convention, but the suggestion of the personal exi gencies of Blaine and Sherman and their following. The triumph of Grant and the third term would have effectually shelved the anti-stalwarts—“it may be for years or it may be forever.” A party is in a bad case when its cliques and factions become so inveterate as to dictate its gen eral policy by their necessities, and this was and is the case with the so-called Re publican brotherhood, which is a League of Hates. In such a case the party be comes practically non compos, because, if reason and judgement are left, they are unavailable. Perhaps one of the best things connected with Hancock’s nomina tion is that it was the defeat and confusion of all Democratic cliques. Now, at the time Garfield was suddenly pounced upon as a compromise candidate between the Blaine and Sherman factions, time had dimmed the smut upon Garfield growing out of the paving contracts and the Credit Mobilier. It was.eight or nine years old, and meanwhile he had been able to hold his place in the House, and was, in fact, the acknowledged leader of the party in that body. Moreover, when be had gotten over his irreconcilable mood toward the vanquished rebels, he had assumed a more conciliatory tone than many of his Western competitors, and in his speeches laid claim to a high standard of public morals. Some considered him a rather modified Pecksniff, and accused him of hypocrisy; but the bulk seemed willing to take his good nature for amendment, and to believe that he would trade in office no more, or swear to things which were not so, but quite the' contrary. Moreover, it will be remembered that at that time there was not a handful of prominent Republican members who were not more or less similarly compromised. It was the fashion to sell out, aud the opportunities for trade were great. Thus it happened that these objections, when remembered, were viewed lightly, nad they nominated Blaine still graver ones would have to be met, and Sher man’s record, could it be got at, we fancy would have been worse. A man don’t often grow to be a millionaire on a salary of five or six thousand a year. It is only when the whole business of selling out his appointment. —In view of the “readjustment” diffi culties in Virginia, the Richmond Com monwealth, of July 3rd, says: “The feel ing of thankfulness throughout the coun try at the result of the Cincinnati con vention should not be marred by any ap prehension as to this State. It would be simply horrible if we alone, of all the States in the South, should throw our State in favor of Garfield by dividing the white vote between two electoral tickets for Hancock.” Grasshoppers in the West.—It is reported from Reno, Nejvada, that the farmers in that section are thoroughly alarmed at the ravages made by the grass hoppers. Already they have done' con siderable damage to the growing grain, and the warm weather is hatching them in myriads. In Sierra Valley the pros pect is very gloomy. The north end lias already been stripped of every green thing, but at the south end the plague has just begun to develop and the ranchers hope that the grain will be ready to cut before the iusccts are old enough to do much harm. ••Scooped.”—Prince Demidoff, the owner of the famous palace and art mu seum of San Donato, near Florence, the accounts of the sales of which recently fiiled the newspapers, has found out a use for his money. The proceeds of the sales were nearly $2,000,000. A man with so much cash on hand ought not to play baccarat, especially at a yatch clup, but l’rince Demidoff thought differently, and Count Schouvaloff and Messra. Bentera and lloblinski, who helped him to make up his party, agreed with him entirely. The result was that Prince Demidoff lost $1,000,000 in a single night. —A Galveston gentlemanjiad occasion to go into a dentist’s shop to have a tooth pulled. In order to nerve himself up to the ordeal the sufferer had taken several strong drinks of whisky. The dentist, who had never seen the sufferer before,ex amined the tooth and then retired for a few moments into the back room. When the dentist reappeared he had two revol vers and a bowie knife strapped on his person. After placing a large shot-gun in a convenient comer the dentist approached the sufferer with the forceps. “What in the name of heaven does all this mean?” gasped the man in the chair. “When a man’s breath smells of emotional insanity, like yours, I am not going to exasperate him unprepared. You may be Jim Cur rie himself, for all I know.” As the den tist was afterward seen alive on the streets the inference is that Currie is not in Gal veston. —Th# census enumerators of Louis ville, Kentucky, found centarians in every block. One registered the name of a lady wlio reached her 115th birthday last mouth. She walks about the house with case, is unusually affable, bas never been sick in her life, and can thread a needle as quick as a young girl. She resides with her great-grandniece, wlio is her only living relative. James Stone is 103 yean old, and says be bas been married eleven times. A colored woman named Rosette Washington bad reached tbo 11 <th year of a checkered existence. She * as very certain of her age, because she remembered very distinctly doing up the Sunday-go-to-meeting clothes for her old Virginia mastor’s family to wear to ''^ 1 ' n8t0ns inau S uration - She remem- cred all about tbo Revolutionary war. ntm (Mmwi of tbfrsxouMi committee on appropriations Is raked up and freshly ex posed to the light of a purer atmosphere, that people begin to see that it is a very serious business—that a betrayal of pub lic tmst is a heavy objection against in creasing the magnitude of the trust. Mr. Garfield might not sell out any more, but that he should have sold out at all shows a constitutional laxity which is not at all favorable to his election as President. . Gettysburg. The Courier-Journal says the proposi tion of General Alplieus Baker for the re union of the soldiers who fought in the Union and Confederate armies at Gettys burg, the scene of General Hancock’s most brilliant military achievement, is one which we believe will be thoroughly acceptable to those who wore the blue and to those who wore the gray. That was the decisive battle of the war. It was the field where the grandest deeds ot valor were performed by the sildiers of both armies. Here Hancock met the tremendous charge of Longstreot’s whole command. Here be fell wounded at the moment of a victory which sealed the fate of the South ern Confederacy. To this memorable place it is proposed to go to ratify the nomination of Hancock and English; the soldiers who fought on either side min gling in fraternal reunion, testifying their recognition-of a restored Union and their deep appreciation of the patriotism and statesmanship of the great soldier who knew when the war was ended, and, as far as Ins influence readied, re-established the supremacy of the civil power in the South. Such a reunion as that proposed at Gettysburg will be a formal notice to the promoters of sectional bitterness to go and hide themselves and keep forever out of sight. It will voice distinctly the sin cerity of the South in her dioice of a presidential candidate. It will demon strate that no memories of bloody battle fields, whereon they stood antagonists, have alienated the soldiers of the oppos ing armies. TnE Census of Atlanta.—From a perfectly reliable source we learn that the summing up of the enumerators will give a population veiging on 38,000 with in tlie dty limits proper of Atlanta, our State capital. In 1870 tlie census showed 21,789 in habitants. It will be seen, therefore, that the increase during the last decade is equal to about seventy-jive per cent. Thus far five cities in the Union only have ex hibited a more rapid growth, and several of these are Western towns, which, like Denver, under the stimulus of mining op erations, and the gold and silver fever have advanced with abnormal rapidity. Of one thing there seems to be no doubt: the work of taking the census in Atlanta and elsewhere lias been most effi ciently performed. Especially is this true of Dr. H. P. Gatcliell who fills the posi tion to which the notorious T. J. Sim mons aspired. The appointment of Dr. Gatcbell, we are assured, has given uni versal satisfaction. Albeit a moderate Republican, be is a gentleman of fine so cial standing, clear judgment, extensive information and a successful practitioner of medicine. ■ His appointments were non partisan and based solely upon tlie quali fications of the applicants. We trust at the end of another decade our sister city will still be able to keep up the same flattering ratio of increase In the number of her inhabitants. Sparks from an unoiled reaping ma chine set fire to a great field of wheat in Illinois, aud all the grain mem desfroved “ A Canvass of the South.” The New York Times and the Chicago Tribune advocate a thorough canvass of the South by tbo best Republican orators, ! at large mass meetings, but gently in timate a suspicion that there will be some personal peril connected with the enter prise. The whole Southern press and all the public men of the Southern States will unite in the assurance that whatever they can do in any part of the Union with im punity they can do here. All their orators will be entirely welcome and safe; and if they will come early in the campaign they can carry back to the North such esam-f pies and tales of “intimidation” as the) may be able to collect in their rambles, and add to them all those “startling” accom paniments that a fertile fancy may sug gest. It is a good idea for the Garfield campaign, and should be carried out soon. The Boston Herald suggests, in con nection with the Northern States, that the plan will be to waste few words on cer tain States. All the efforts will be con centrated upon tire doubtful. Among these the Republican national committee class Maine, Connecticut, New York, New Jersey, Indiana and the States of the Pacific slope. There the great financial and moral strength of the party will be concentrated, as they think, with terrible effect. Incongruous. The public are daily looking for Gen. Garfield’s letter of acceptance, which be bas bad a month to study and sleep over, and as he is “an accomplished scholar,” will no doubt he a charming production. All his late out-givings by speech lead us to expect a honeyed production, which will abound in all the phrases needful to constitute a pretty attitude towards this unfortunate section of the country. Even Grant complimented the South, and what will Garfield do, who leads the so-called conciliators over the prostrate stalwarts? The misfortune, however, is, that though Grant may talk finely and Garfield still finer, yet, as to their newspaper or gans, “fine words butter no parsnips.” There is not one of them in the whole country, that can write the shortest party paragraph and omit a thrust or blow at this unlucky South. To sting aud to irri tate is all that they care to do, and appa rently, all that they have the ability as well as the will to do. If anyone doubts, let him try to find a so-called Republican paper manifesting any other attitude or disposition. It seems to be the fatal misfortune of that party that ita life is nourished alone by discord and prejudice, and death must follow the restoration of harmony and good feeling. Garfield may write prettily, but every one of his organs Hoods the country with a diurnal tide of sectional gall. Every paragraph is a fly blister on Southern sensibilities, and they will have no political success which is not a war victory. This makes it practically cer tain that tlie restoration of a cordial sym pathy between all parts of the country cannot be effected while such influences are dominant m the government. Will Vote for Hancock and English. Senator Wade Hampton expresses his coniident belief that very many of the col ored people of the South will join their white friends and help to elect the nomi nees of the Cincinnati convention. Speak ing of South Carolina, he said, “in my last race before the people I received about 45,000 colored votes that had been previ ously cast witH the Republicans, and I be lieve that since they have seen the more prosperous condition of the State since the change of leadership, they will not only continue to vote with us, but more will join them. South Carolina is cer tainly a strong Democratic State any way, now, and I don’t really believe that the Republicans will put up any State ticket at the next election.” This will be the case to a very great ex tent in Georgia also. Our colored friends are disappointed at the repudiation of Grant, the man they universally regarded as their savior, and have no special par tiality for Garfield, or as some style him, “Garfish.” Moreover, the more intelli gent negroes are beginning to compre hend that what is good for the white peo ple is equally beneficial to them. In other words, that the same laws extend to all in the country, and therefore they may safely follow the lead of their white neighbors and employers. The reign of the capet-bagger is over, Solid Talk on the “Solid South.” Ei& Statistics and Fiah. Culture. Crop Hews. There is a force and truth in the sub- j Among the most interesting, from a ma- Valdosta Times: A large crop of corn joined editorial by tbo Chicago Telegraph, terial point of view, of the statistics of the is already made in Lowndes. Recent which will commend it to sensible men ne ' v census report, says the Sun, will he [ rains ended the good work. No Green „ , | those of the extent and variety of our Line cars loaded with corn will run into everywhere: I «wi. ,i „_i. »_ J T _ I. . ... » j i fresh and sait water fisheries. In this A “solid South” is only obnoxious to branch of inquiry General F. A. Walker, cr»F nf mon trim fnrtu’pnfv vnoiNt 1 inVP * i. that set of men who for twenty years have assiduously labored to consummate in their political interest a “solid North.” Their base attempt bas grown so manifest, from year to year, that now a popular sentiment throughout the Union ratifies and applauds a “solid South.” To be less than solid against the “bloody shirt” policy would be" to have the wounds aud sores of the late war reopened and repro duced through all time to come. It is credible to the temper of the South ern people that they are at least disposed to let bv-gonesbo by-gones, even if they must bury the Republican party in order consummate the work of union and fra ternity. At every stage of national pro gress the protestations of Southern loyalty have been met with frigid indifference, and treated by the Radical party with un disguised suspicion. Had the wishes of the' South been alone considered, a civil ian and not a wan ior would have been nominated at Cincinnati; but the Democ racy of the North, anxious to silence all cavil respecting *.he disloyal designs and intents of the South, proceeded in their own behalf to put tlio patriotism of that portion of the Union to the highest test by the nomination of Gen. Hancock. Do Republican papers question the unani mous response of the South—that it will be solid for the Union soldier? Nay. It is not the “solid South” but the “divided North” that now disturbs their rest. They would gladly content themselves with a “solid South” forever if they could but secure at all time a “solid North.” They would be the last to ob literate the dividing line between the two sections of this great natron. The repub lic, long distracted and disrupted under Radical rule, now looks hopefully to the Democracy of the nation for a “divided North.” The South would be untrue to the union of the States, to her own pros perity and -instinctive patriotism to be other than solid against the Republican party, that has for tlie last fifteen years despoiled and plundered her. To make a “solid South” and “solid North” im possible, vote down that party which has continued in power so long by keeping up the dividing line. A Compliment to Georgia. The Chattanooga Times founds a forci ble appeal to the people of Tennessee to resume payments aud levy a proper rate of taxation for that purpose upon the ex ample of Georgia. Says that paper: Let us have something definite in our State policy in reiercnce to the State debt. As we have often before pointed out, our difficulty with Tennesse as a destination for emigrants having money or brains enough to make money, is tlie total un certainty as to what our future taxa tion is to be. No stronger illustration of the disadvantages of our state of suspense is needed than to point to tlie State of Georgia. That State is receiving ten em igrants from the North and from abroad to our one. Money flows to Georgia in a steady stream for investment in manufacturing, commerce and' mining. And yet,' for years Georgia bas levied a tax for State purposes of 80 cents on the hundred dol lars valnation, while Tennessee has levied but ten cents. The soil of Georgia will not compare with that of Tennessee in productiveness. Her railway system is inferior to ours. Her waterways are of comparatively small value. And yet Georgia is growing in wealth and popula tion faster than Tennessee. One or two facts will account for almost if not all the difference in Georgia’s favor. Georgia pays her honest debts; she has a fixed and settled code of taxation, which does not vary perceptibly from year to year. A capitalist who becomes a citizen of Georgia, knows beforehand that he can never be made to blush for tlie folly and dishonesty of his political leaders. He learns before making the State his resi dence, that her financial record is good; that her credit at home and abroad stands high; that her bonds sell at as high pre miums as do those of the general govern ment. The intelligent "immigrant to Georgia informs himself in ad vance as to the prevailing rate of taxation. He therefore feels, first, that he becomes one of an honest and proud people, and that he is not liable to pay exorbitant taxes through the machinations of dishonest politicians. We personally know of one colony which these reasons decided in favor of Georgia, though every thing else was, to the founders of the com munity, more satisfactory in Tennessee- That party took a large amount of money into our neighboring State; they are draw ing in more money every year and attract ing additional popoulation. We should deplore a policy of repudia tion as a calamity to tlie State, and as af fixing a stigma on lier name. But repu diation, as a fixed, determinate policy, would be botli more honorable to our people and better for tlieir material wel fare than the present fast-and-loose policy saddled upon us by cowardly time-servers and cheap rogues. Cotton Factory Profits in the South. Everybody knows that tacture of cotton in the South, where cotton grows, and where it can be handled with far less ex- pause than in the remote North, might be and the negroes are beginning to see made extremely profitable. It will prob- “ ably be made so eventually, tnougli up to through their own spectacles. TnE Republican Executive Com mittee.—The Baltimore Sun. reports the late meeting of the committee as discord ant and ill tempered. The stalwart mem bers were in a sore beaded and splenetic condition. Tbo majority wanted to make W. E. Chandler chairman, but were told that the New York Republicans would not trust their money in his hands. Conk- ling was in a sarcastic condition, and will calm his ruffled temper by a European trip. The Western stalwarts were ap peased by the creation of a sub-committee on an independent footing, to be managed by John Logan. The chief merit of the organization made actually lay in its Jewelled head, but it was conceded that here utility had been sacrified to orna ment; for Jewell is not a very laborious man, as one who tries to elect Garfield should be. A Unanimous Convention.—The Gainesville Eagle says', As a matter of news we may state that Mr. Speer has is sued his call, held his convention and had himsvlf nominated as a candidate for Congress. As far as we can learn there wa3 but one delegate besides himself pres ent. This was one Pledger, of Athens, who is of the colored persuasion. The convention was quite harmonious aud the nomination was made by acclamation. This will not seem strange, however, when it is known that the convention was held ia Washington city where stalwarts most do congregate. Mr. Speer is a roost promising young statesman, and it is a pity that he is not willing to confide his political fortunes to the keeping of the party with which he claims connection. How sad to owe one s preferment to enemies alone, who take you only as the “least of two evils. The New York city assessments of real and personal valuations exceed those of 1879 by the sum ot $49,090,592, and amount to $1,143,705,727-a large sum, but only a little more than one-half the national debt. But if the assessments were at the same rate, the profits of the year’s trade were certainly vory respecta ble. A SALLOW complexionls indicative of the present the mass of Southerners have neglected this important branch of indus try. There are now 189 cotton mills in that section, with 078,223 spindles—about 7 per cent, of all the spindles in the repub lic. The mills are generally small, only a few, at Augusta and Columbus, Ga., having more than 15,000 spindles each. The machinery is said to be so inferior in tlie main as to be hardly worth transporta tion. Much of it is second-hand, having been discarded by Northern establish ments. The mostsuccessful mills there would not, in consequence of their manifest dis advantages, have made anything had they been situated in this section. One mill in Georgia declared in ten years—four of them war years—$1,250,000 dividends. This proves the great benefit in position of mills, which ran not only buy tbo raw material cheaper, and spare freight, but they can hire labor at lower rates. They save the buyer’s commission, delivery from warehouse and cartage, sampling, class ing, pressing, shipping, discount on bills, loss of weight in sampling for mixed pack ages, fire insurance before shipping, ma rine risks, and freight and cartage to inte rior towns, which amounts in all to some $7 a bale. The Northern mill3 also lose from receiving cotton poorly ginned, containing a good deal of leaf and sand, which is computed at six per cent, of the entire cotton crop. The difference between the cost of a bale sent to Fall River, Mass., and a bale sent to Columbus, Ga., is 88.0S, the form er costing $51.71 and the latter $43.05. Many of tlie Georgia mills have made profits of 10,12 and even 15 per cent, un der all their disadvantages, tlie profit coming almost wholly from coarse goods, which experts think to he their best em ployment. It is dliubtful whether they will be able, at least for many years, to compete with tlie North in fine cloth, and if they should be able it would bo less remunerative to them than coarse clo-.li and yarn. The entire spirit and tenden cy of the South is opposed to the better and finer kinds of facture, and it seems next to impossible to have it otherwise.—Acte York Times. Hall County Delegates to the State Convention.—On lhuredaythe Democrats of this county selected dele- cates to represent them in the guberna torial convention. The meeting was large and orderly. M. Graham, Claude Estes, Henry Perry and F. J. Davies were The delegates go umnstructed r the able superintendent of tlie census, lias the valuable assistance of Prof. Spencer Baird, the United States fish commission er, who ha3 undertaken to write for the census report a history of the past and present condition of our deep-sea and in land fisheries, and the results of the labors of the United Statcs'fish commission up to the close of the year. It has been already stated that the researches of the United States fish com missioner have resulted'in adding fifteen new varieties offish to the list of one hun dred and seventeen food fishes previously known and in use in the United States. Besides this, the commission has imported and hatched the eggs of the California sal mon and placed the young fry in our East ern and Southern waters, and has also im ported and domesticated the German carp. In all these doings the Maryland fish com mission has participated, and while the oyster beds of the Chesapeake bay were being surveyed and mapped out by the commander of a United States vessel, Dr. Brooks, of the biological department of John Hopkins University, was making researches into the propagation of the oyster, which resulted in a discovery that will tend to keep up our oyster supply by artificial methods as simple as those now used in the propagation of the shad and the salmon. Of great importance, also, is the discov ery made by Mr. Earll, of the United States fish commission, in charge of the Atlaulic fisheries. His discovery relates to the Spanish mackerel. This fine food fish is only found in Southern waters and in certain places. “It has never been propagated,” says the Washington Post, “because no one knew when oi where it spawned. Mr. Earll, after careful watch ing, found that the lower part of Chesa peake hay, known as Mob Jack bay, was the place, and June the time. Next June the Fish Hawk will be taken to the spot and, with her improved apparatus, take up a quantity of the eggs, which will be hatched on board, and subsequently dis tributed in favorable localities. If the young fish survive, tlie well-known prin ciple that they will, at any risk or laboi, return to spawn to the spot where they first saw light, is depended on to insure their residence iu their new habitats.” Prof. Baird now contemplates the organi zation of a permanent bureau for the col lection of statistical information in con nection with the fish com nission, which will afford much valuable information to statesmen and political economists. Cuthbert Letter. Cuthbert, Ga., July 6, 1880. Editors Telegraph and Messenger The corner stone to the wine repository of the Georgia Wine Company was in formally laid to-day. A few citizens par ticipated in the exercises by invitation. Col. Herbert Fielder reviewed tlie his tory of the grape culture of this county, and the organization of the company, in a very happy effort. This was followed by an appropriate speech from Col. J. D. Flewellyu in his usual eloquent style. The following articles were then depos ited and sealed in the granite walls: By M. C. ParKerson—By-laws and con stitution of Cuthbert Chapter R. A. M. No. 31; by-laws and c institution of Wash ington Lodge F. A. M. No. 19; by-laws and constitution of Ladies and Knights Of Honor No. 244; by-laws and constitution oi'KnightsofHonorNo. 113, Macon Tel egraph and Messenger, issue of July 4, 1SS0. By C. N. Simpson—Atlanta Constitu tion, cigar and fifteen cents, the cigar to be smoked when tlie stone is removed by the person who discovers it, and if he feels a little dry he will have the money to purchase some spiritual consolation, if the market does not fluctuate unfavorably. By J. C. Martin, president—One bottle of wine. By George McDonald, secretary—Syn opsis of the conception and organization of the wine company. Bv J. A. Hay, superintendent—One bottle of wine. By Capt. W. F. Kiddoo—Photograph of Judge W. D. Kiddoo, founder of the company. Several coins were also de posited. These things having been safely laid away, the wine company “set up” the grape juice, and many toasts Here drunk for their future success, which is sure. Through this (company a new era has opined up ana tlie Empire State is des tined to be the" France and Italy of America. The State at large will eventu ally feel its importance as classed among other enterprises, which will stimulate other sections to take steps in the same line of march. It will increase our reve nues and grapes will always find ready sale at a good market value. A large area is now under cultivation in this county, and young vineyards are springing up in every direction, which is indicative that it is a pi ofitable business. Randolph has set the ball in motion on a sound footing, and if people will persist in imbibing stimula ting drinks, let them consume those of home manufacture, which are mild and harmless. Plant your vineyards, build wine fac tories, and drive the fiery serpent from the market. Then, in the distant future, the Southern States will recognize no country as their superior in the manufac ture of that beverage, and other nations will have to draw on us for tlieir sup plies. C. A Bequest to Explain. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: In your issue of Wednesday last you state that Col. Joseph W. Preston, of Jasper county, has consented (?) to become a candidate for Congress from tlie sixth dis trict before the Democratic convention, which meets on the 22d of this month. Now, Col. Preston doubtless is “a good lawyer and clever gentleman” as you state, but I think it due the good people of the sixth district, whom he aspires to represent in the Congress of the United States, that he should explain to them his vote in the Renfroe impeachment during the last session of the legislature. Before the house of representatives J; W. Renfroe admitted lie was guilty and offered to resign and disgorge the money he had illegally appropriated. Mr. Pres ton, during the trial of the case in the Senate, voted “not guilty,” although in his speech before the Senate he admitted that Renfroe had committed the act charged against him and that the consti tution of the State prohibited the acts so charged, and yet he, as a Senator, by his vote declared that Renfroe had not vio lated any law. The constitution and laws of the State prohibit certain acts. Renfroe attempted, and was proved to have committed, those acts. Colonel Preston acknowledged this in his speech; but he voted not guilty, be cause he says Renfroe did not “intend” to violate the law. When Colonel Preston was solicitor general of his circuit, and before a jury produced evidence which showed that a prisoner had committed certain acts which were positively prohib ited by the laws of the State, did he think it made any difference whether the pris oner “intended” to violate the law or not? Will Colonel Preston please explain his vote In tlio the Renfroe impeachment trial to the . j .. Democrats of the Sixth District? —The arrangements for a fast mail from New York to New Orleans and the Southern seaboard and Gulf cities will not be completed until some time in October. Unlike the North, where negotiations for athonsand or fifteen hundred miles of route may be made with a single indi vidual, many interests must be consulted in the South. When tlie arrangement is completed, trains leaving New York at 4:35 a. m. will reach Washington not later than 11 a. m. Mails will reach Jackson ville in less than thirty-six hours from New York, and one day will be saved on tlie turn-out at the Valdosta depot next year. Cottou has yet another month or more before its fate is decided. At pres- sent the outlook is good. Peace, happi ness and plenty in sight. A correspondent of the Thomasvillo Post says: The crops are being rapidly laid by, and are looking fine. The corn will no doubt turn out ana “hand over” a heavier yield than was anticipated, Cotton is well up to the mark in blooms and squares. Cbufas, pinders, field peas and sugar cane are especially fine. Why do not some of our farmers try the Afri can cane ? It comes off at the time when money is scarce and would • help them greatly iu getting through with their crops. The Washington Gazette says: A worm that eats out or rather cuts corn tops just before tasseling lin3 ruined many acres of tlie cereal, j. M. Gilbert and Aleck Wolfe are among the unfortunate oues. Mr. John C. Burdett has the finest up land com and sugar cane in these parts. There will probably be enough peaches around to make a full grown pie. The fruit crops in the 174th and 179th districts are unexceptionably good. In this it is a fa'lure. AmericusRecorder: Mr.J.A.Walker, of Schley, brought to our office Friday two stalks of com surpassing anything in its line weliaveyet seen. They held seven and nine well developed ears. It is one of the early varieties which Mr. Walker obtained from the department of agricul ture. Conyers Weekly: A member of one of our agricultural clubs decided to take the premiums on oats, and particularly pre pared an acre of his best land, manuring heavily with cotton seed and 200 pounds of guano. Tlie oats were of the black species and took rust, and the other day when they were threshed he gathered 1$ bushels. Soch is fate. Albany Advertiser: The caterpillars have began their work of destruction at Dr. T. J. I. Pattillo’s plantation, about twenty, miles south of the city. It will not be very long before they will be num erous throughout the country, and will, in all probability, damage the cotton crop very much, unless the dry weather holds on a while longer, and so hardens the plant that they will be unable to eat it. A great many farmers were in the city Friday, and all are anxious for rain. The winds and hot sun that we have been having lately have dried off the little rain that has fallen, and the com is burning up. The rust in the cotton has shown itself to a vsry considerable extent; other wise the crop is doing very well. Quitman Free Press: The largest rice “patch” in the county, fifteen acres, belongs to Dr. Battle. Those who have seen it think he will average not less than thirty bushels to the acre. ~ ■ ■ « -0+0-* -■ ■ FAEM AND HOUSEHOLD. A correspondent of the Country Gen tleman, who made the experiment, says when unground shelled corn is fed to cat tle, twenty percent., orone-fiftli, is voided without digestion. If whole corn is mixed With cut hay, it is better masticated, and only tea per cent, passes undigested. Coarsely ground com loses ten per cent, by indigestion, while there is scarcely a trace found where com is ground to fine meal. Broom corn, as many of our readers may know, was introduced to this country by Dr. Franklin. He saw a seed on a broom, planted it, and the seeds from this single plant were the beginning of broom corn as an American agricultural product. The credit for the broom-making indus try is due to the Shakers, who, raising the plants in their gardens, manufactured the brooms and sold them for 60 cents, or more, apiece. Immediately after the war, so great was the profit from its cultiva tion, that it was soon overdone, and the many who had rushed iuto the business were soon discouraged and abandoned it. Now it is cultivated in all parts of the country. The stalks grow very tali; the seeds, if left to mature and ground with com or oats, are deemed excellent for fat tening cattle. But as the straw is brighter and more desirable if cut while the seeds are in milk or dough state, the seeds are not gathered. These should be planted on good soil, in drills three feet apart, tlie seeds one f-iot in the drill. Ducklings are great eaters, and will eat almost anything in the shape of food. Feed cooked food with plenty of green food, until they are old enough to give free range. Almost any kind of food that you would give chicks and young turkeys is good for ducklings. A horse’s hoof is of the same nature as horn. If you desire to know the ef fects of applying a hot shoe to a horse’s hoof, place your comb on a hot stove for a minute or two, then let it cool, and see how easily it will break. A hot shoe makes the hoof brittle instead of tough. The ox-eye daisy has become a great pest in some sections of the country. Those wlio are troubled with this weed should bear in mind that it is propagated by seed, and not by root, aud that to rid themselves of it, they have only to mow before the seed is ripe. It may take two or even three seasons to rid a field of this innocent-looking flower. Chickens in Gardens.—By chickens we do not mean fowls generally, but the newly-hatched broods, which will flourish famously if allowed the range of your flower and vegetable .beds. Shut the mother liens in roomy coops near the gar- deh walks; see that they are shaded by trees or shrubs, both as protection from the noonday heat, and the possible inva sion of hawks, who are fearless if the ground is entirely exposed to view, but who are shy of the swaying limbs and fluttering leaves of trees. The chickens, eagerly searching for worms and insects, are within the mother’s call, and can easily hide, at a warning note, among the leaves and grass. The exercise, the fresh air, and the sturdy in dependence gained at an early age in this ii way, are as healthful and growth-pro*, inoting as is the natural insect food which they gather for themselves; aI^^ 1 '‘tbii , added to the rations furnishedqfby'thd' owner of the flock, they wiljLjMtaBisli you by their rapid and healtlifill development. The first six weeks of a chicken’s life will settle the question of early or late matu rity more effectually than any after care and pampering can possibly do. Give the young ones a good start and half the battle oflife is already won.—American Poultry Yard. understood lhaf three will sup- nort Colquitt, with one not, committed. tbe pre3 0 n t schedule time to New Orleans. S&MttSKS this count™— —The alarming peculiarity of certain counterfeit bills on the Exchange Nation- —The census returns of New Orleans, worms. A few doses of Slirincr’s Indian “atatai population of Vermifuge will destroy them, and giv a against 197)911 1# 1870. bright aud healthy complexion. 1 counterfeit bills — - al Bank of Baltimore is that they differ from the genuine article chiefly by rea son of artistic superiority. They are be lieved to bail from the far West; The Germantown Telegraph gives the following sensible hints on the sharpen ing of tools: “Too often these things arc not thought of until the articles are wanted, when much valuable time is lost in put ting in order wbac might as well have been done during the dull winter days. It has been computed tbat the same man can do as much in two days with a sharp scythe as iu three days with one compara tively dull, and the same expenditure in force. And it is just tho same in regard to all other tools or implements, whether operated by hand, steam or horse power. The engineer continually oils the machinery, and a good saw or file is oil to hand implements. We know one who has a great deal of hand hoeing to do by hired labor, and lie be lieves that the continued use of the file on the lioes makes a difference of nearly onc- lialf in the labor. His calculation is that every ten-cqnt file he.buys. saves him $10 in his laborers’ bills. Now is the time to look ailerthc spades, scythes, lioes, chisels', saws, etc. A good grindstone and a set of : files are among tlie best of farm in vestments, especially at this season. Tho best of all forehaniledncss is that which prepares in advance a full set of good aiid well-repaired tools to work with. A Never-failing Remedy to Keep Vershn out of Poultry Houses.— Scatter sassafras bark freely around the chicken nest, and have sassafras poles for roosts. It will effectually destroy all ver min. Hay From Field Peas, Crowsfoot and Crab Grass.—Editor Southern Farmer's Monthly: I saw in your March number an article by S. A. C., and thought I would write and fill out at least two of the blanks he left in his list of forage-plants, by adding crowsfoot and crab grass, two of our native grasses, and, by the way, two of the Iiest forage plants known, but, like many otlicrgrasses, must be managad properly. I have cut eight thousand pounds per acre at one cutting, of as good hay as I wish, of crab grass But I was so busy last montb I did not write; and in the April number of your jourual, I saw the inquiries of W- O. H., who claimed to be a young farmer, and wished to know more of the field pea, and you, it seems could not well answer him, and a3 I have experience in raising hay from them, I have thought it proper to give your readers the benefit of my expe rience. After cutting oats, I broadcast some thirty loads of barnyard or stable manure per acre on the stubble land; turn it under; then sow two bushels of peas (on the plowed land); then use a har row previously made out of a stick of timber twelve inches square and six feet long, by inserting a pole square through the center (crosswise); hitch a yoke of steers to the end of the pole and drag it sidewise over the land, which puts the peas in and levels the land for tlie mow ing machine. Then I wait on the peas until they commence to run and bloom, and bavo an occasional small pea, but not until they tangle together so much as not to be separated by the machine. Then I mow and let remain on the ground all day, and cock up in small heaps. I use a horse rake of my own construction to put it into winrows, and then a fork for cock ing up. After that, let remain a day or two and scatter out; let dry aud haul iuto tlie house. Do not put away while stems are much green. If cut early, the leaves do not fall off, and the stems will all be eaten, being soft; and if cut four or five inches high, will immediately sprout out and make more aftermath than you can turn under with a plow. I never have cut a second time, but let my stock graze it so that I can turn under with an Excelsior plow, and in the fall I turn uuder and sow in oats just as I did the peas. By this means I have brought my lauds up to producing fifty bushels of oats per acre, and I get three tons of hay per acre annually. L. C. Mattox, M. D. Homerville, Ga., April 17,1880. Ten Miles of Green Turtles. Captain J. B. Rodgers, owner of the schooner James Andrews, that left Luf kin’s slip on the 20th instant for Calca sieu, encountered a squall off Sabine on the 21st, in which the vessel lost her jib aud broke tlie center board. The squall seemed to extend in a circle of about five miles and was very severe. Vessels a few miles away were entirely out of reach of the wind that was pitching the James An drews about. For one-half hour the ves sel was in considerable danger, but good seamanship and cool judgment carried her through safely, and with only the damage mentioned. On the Tuesday following, when be tween Sabine and Calcasieu, the vessel again encountered bad weather. The sea became very lumpy, and a blow was eminent, when the schooner suadenly entered a field of green turtles, some of them being as largo as an ordinary-sized round table. Strange to say, they were all on their backs. The schooner was ly ing on aud off, and from observation it wase stimated that the water covered by these turtles formed an area of eight miles in width and ten miles iu length. They were of all sizes, and not one being seen m a natural position. During the passage among the turtles, Spanish mack erel were leaping high in the air in every direction, as if determined to escape from the sea, giving evidence that either the water underneath was in a dreadful com motion or sea monsters had come down on them from some strange sea. Capt. Rodgers is anxious to have nauti cal men explain these odd phenomena of the turtles on their backs, and tbe ex citement among the mackerel. During his nautical career he never saw anything similar to it, nor did he ever before lay eyes on as many turtles and Spanish mackerel. The storm that appeared im minent did not come, and fair weather and a good sea presented themselves after the vessel passed through the field of tur tles.—Galreston Hews. Col. Hardeman and Radicalism. Editors Telegraph and Messenger: During the dark days of reconstruction, when public men were timid and too pol itic to express their views upon public is sues and the policy best to. be pursued; when aspirants who expected political preferment were afraid to let their posi tions be known, what true statesman and devoted, patriotic son of Georgia almost alone stumped the State, devoting his time and talents to the Democratic party, and to tlie best interests of his native State in aiding by bis almost magical elo quence to defeat the radical hosts that were in power, feeding upon the life blood of his State and oppressing her citizens. Honest Tom Hardeman! Who was it nelcctected his business and sacri ficed bis interests to go where the ma jorities were the greatest and the minor ities the most discouraged, and the Radi cals the best organized, to aid by his work and talents to relieve his State and county from such gross misrepresentation? nonest Tom Hardeman! Who was it that heedqd almost every invitation from all portions of the State to come and help them, and at his own expense did-all he could? Honest Tom Hardeman! Wlio made more speeches, donated more of his time and talents to the best interests of the Democratic party than all the aspir ants and public men in the State, in those dark days, combined? Honest Tom Hardeman! Will southwest Georgia so soon forget him? Will Houston, Macon and Taylor soon forget his great work for them? Will Perry and Fort Val ley, Reynolds and Butler, Monte zuma and Marsballville, forget his valued services, his active work, his neg lect of self-interest, his strong appeals, his stirring eloquence and his logical advice to .the colored voters, and the effect it had? Have they, or will they, over forget what majorities thgy had to contend with, and how they weroremjesqjited. ip the State’s councils? “will“they OTer forget that were almost 'dryLughakrtiiLiffariiTelief and aid, who it Tjhjnsf .QpTTir turned a. deaf car to their jwpe,. but always, answered their ciy for help? It was honest Tom Hardeman! Will those- generous, high-toned, patriotic people fail to remember him when he asks to be complimented with their vote, knowing that he is the peer of every as pirant Iu every particular, and their su perior in intellect? I trust not. Macon County. • Monroe, Ga., March 23,1SS0. S. S. S.—We have, for a year, been pre scribing Swift’s S. Specific for the diseases for which it is recommended, and are frank to say that the results have been most satisfactory, not having been' disap pointed in a single instance. We think, for all tlie diseases for which it is recom mended,' it stands without a peer, and that, sooner or later, the medical profes sion will be forced to recognize it a sine qua non. ' N. L. Galloway, Md. july4-2w. I. T. Robinson, Md. j ■■ ■ A Good Hotel to Stop at. notel accommodations for travelers are of the greatest importance to persons who have to move about the country on busi ness or pleasure. Just where to go is what every man wants to know when he leaves heme. The Grand Union Hotel, opposite the Grand Central depot, New York city, is a very popular resort, be cause the attendance there is prompt and satisfactory, the charges are reasonable and the menage complete. Persons arriv ing a or leaving New York city by the Grand Central depot will find the Grand Union Hotel very convenient.—N. Y. Telegram. juneS-Sm. Wllbor’s lomiionnd ol Fare Cod Liver Oil and lime The advantage ot tills compound over the plajn oil is, that the-nauseating taste of tho oil is entirely removed, and the whole rendered entirely palatable. Tbe offensive taste of the oil has long acted as an objection to its use; but in this form the trouble is entirely obviated. A host of certificates might be given here to testi fy to the excellence aud success of “Trt7- bor’s Cod-Liver Oil and Lbnebut the fact that is prescribed by the medical fao- ulty is sufficient. For sale by A. B. Wil- ; bor, chemist, Boston, and by all drug gists. 1 A DABING MEXICAN. With Nothing bat a Batcher-Knife He Kills a Big Puna. William H. Edwards, of Tempe, called on us Monday, and from him we learn of a piece of reckless daring, performed a few days previous, which, for downright fool- i ’l ishness, puts to flight any of the daring performances of the heroes of dime nov els. It appears that a Mexican, accom panied by his dog, was on his way to Tempe to do some trading, when the dog treed a large California lion. The man was unarmed, save with a large butcher- knife; but nothing daunted, and knowing where he cqulil sell the skin for a dollar, he whipped out his knife and started up the tree after the specimen of the king of beasts. Slipping up within reach ing distance, ho coolly plunged the knife into the animal just behind the shoulder, which so startled him that he leaped to the ground aud was in stantly bounced by the dog, when the man hastened from the tree, sprang upon the. beast and planted a home thrust through his heart without further damage to himself than having his hat tom in pieces. Tbe lion measured about eight feet from the tip of his nose to the tip of hi3 tall, and had he got one good blow at tbe man he would have mashed him into a jelly. Mr. Edwards informed us that this same Mexican killed one of these beasts about three months ago that meas- over nine feet from tip to tip, using no other weapon than a small pistol and knife, and that he came near losing bis life in that encouuter. Mr. Edwards pays him $1 each for the bides, and is tanning them for boot leather.—Phnccix (A. T.) Expositor. At Their Wits’ End. General Hancock Disloyal. The Radicals,unable even to invent any slander which could tarnish the unsullied escutcheon cf Gen. Hancock’s life-long record, have at length started the prepos terous story that he showed his disloyalty to the Union by announcing,soon after the high commission had made known its de cision that if Congress declared that Mr. Tilden had been duly elected Presi dent of the United States and he took tho oath of office at Washington or elsewhere, he would, after the expiration of General Grant’s term of office, which would be at midnight on the third day of March, deem it his duty to obey any orders received from the new executive. This is indeed “straining at a gnat and swallowing a camel.” To us the real disloyalty was exhibited by the Radicals and their chief, who, long before the issue had been decided- by the “commission,” had made every arrangement to mass a large military Ibrce at the capital to resist the inauguration of the rightfully elected chief magistrate of. the country. But the Baltimore Suit thus summarily disposes of this canard: A story, attributed to Mr. Hiram At kins, a delegate to the Cincinnati conven tion from Vermont, and editor of the Montpelier Argus and Patriot, has been going the rounds of the newspapers for a day or two past, impugning the loyalty of General Hancock. Mr. Atkins is made to shy that “soon after the electoral commis sion had promulgated its decision” Gener al Hancock wrote to General Sheridan— other accounts say General Sherman— stating “that he believed that Governor Tilden had been elected President of tho United States, and, being so elected, he had a right to take the oath of office elsewhere than at Washington, wherever he might be; that General Grant’s term of office expired at midnight on the 3d of March, and if, after that hour, he received any orders from Mr. Tilden as President of the United States, he should obey them.” Mr. Atkins, being called upon to “stand up” and explain, does so in the following statement to the Boston Globe: “It will be remembered, says Mr. At kins, that during the controversy it was claimed by tbe Republicans that Senator Ferrv, of Michigan, the acting Vice Presi dent, had a right to connt the votes inde pendent of the direction of the Senate and House; that they should be mere specta tors of the count. On the other hand, the Democrats claimed that Congress alone had the right of counting the votes, and the Vice President could only open the envelopes. .It was also claimed by Repub licans tbat General Grant’s term of office dia not expire until a new President should be inaugurated. While these ques tions were pending, and prior to (not after) the establishment of the electoral commis sion, General Hancock informed General Sherman (not Sheridan) that it was duo to him [Sherman] to bo apprised of what his [General Hancock’s] position was in the matter. He, therefore, would say that he considered that Mr. Tilden had been elected President of the United States, find Gen. Grant’s term of office expired at midnight on the 3d of March; that, regardless of anything Mr. Ferry might do, if Congress declared that Mr. Tilden was elected President, he (Gen. Hancock) believed he had a right to take the oath'of office wherever he might be; and that if Mr. Tilden did take the oath of office, and he should receive any or ders from Mr. Tilden, as President of the United States, after midnight on the 3d of March, he should obey them. That is the story. During the processes of tele graphic transmission and composition, the name of Sherman was changed to Sheri dan, and by some means or other I was made to say that the letter was written after the 'decision instead of before the establishment of the electoral commission. General Hancock, like Mr. Tilden and all patriotic Ameri cans, acquiesced in the decision of that tribunal, unconstitutional as it undoubt edly was. As to the source whence I ob tained the story,, it is such that no one can help giving it credence* I first heard it at a dinner which I gave at my house in Montpelier last April to Gen.’William F. Smith (old Baldy) and several other gen tlemen, and Gen. Smith afterward re peated it at Waterbury publicly in the iresence of over sixty of the prominent . Democrats of the State.” And in this way one by. one the charges fabricated against Gen. Hancock fall to the ground. Hon.D.N. Speer.—Under a call of the Democratic executive committee, the citizens of Troup county assembled in mass meeting at LaGrange, Ga., on the first Tuesday in July, when Hon. F. M. Longley offered the following: “The citizens of Troup county, in mass meeting assembled, uuder call of the Democratic executive committee, hereby present to the Democratic convention of Georgia, Hon. D. N. Speer, of the county of Troup, as a candidate for State treas urer. Maj. Speer was bom in this county and his life has been spent among us. His character is without spot blemish; his superior* judgment, his integrity, his financial ability, his energy and business qualifications, aro ' all of the very highest order; ami we, his fellow citizens, who have known him from, childhood, do thus publicly commend him to the people of Georgia as a gentleman peculiarly fitted for the office. “Should Major Speer be nominated and elected he will have no trouble in making a bond of undoubted solvency. He is pledged to the doctrine that the public purse should b3 used for public purposes only.’ ” The above was enthusiastically carried by a rising vote.—Exchange. -A backman at Niagara bargained to carry two men to the falls and back to the depot in time for a certain train for one dollar. He so timed tho job as to return just three minutes before the train started, and then charged them $8, taking it out of a bill which was handed him. He sup posed they would submit to the swindle rather than be dolayed. But they, being lawyers, coolly took rooms at a hotel, prosecuted him vigorously for a week, and made him pay $100 in the end. —Dr. Farrar, of Brooklyn, says that not less than half a ton of pure gold, worth half a million dollars, is annually packed into people’s teeth in the United States, and at this rate all the gold in cir culation will be buried in tbe earth iu. 800 years, '