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THE GEORGIA PRESS.
Jonfsbobo had a fire on Wednesday
night from the explosion of a keg of pow
der. l)r. Melson's store was destroyed
and his stock of goods badly damaged.
Mr. Harper leaped from the top of the
lrnrning house but was not seriously
hurt.
The particulars of the Clayton county
outrage are appalling, and we trust the
guilty parties will be brought to justice
speedily.
"VtfiTH two churches, a good school,
mills, two warehouses, a good hotel, pros
perous merchants and telegraphic com
munication, Arlington folks will feel big.
The Advance reports caterpillars in
6omeofthe cotton fields of that vicinity.
Arlington is to have a railroad exten
sion! Calhoun & Beckom’s Extension
from the main line to their new ware
house.
Conykbs Weekly: The branch rail
road from Social Circle to Monroe will be
completed in about six weeks.
Pointed.—'The Weekly says: We
want it distinctly understood that we run
a newspaper to make money. If any
Democratic candidate wants an article fa
voring his candidacy he can get it, and
“ can buy as many copies of our paper af
terwards as lie likes. He can take a hun
dred copies if he pays for them, and send
them where he thinks they wil! be of in
terest to him. We do not consider it sell
ing our principles to sell our paper or do
advertising for any good Democrat. We
advocate no Radical either for love or
money.
Athens Chronicle: Consolidated re
turns give the population of Clarke county
as 11,030, so that we may stand a chance
for two representatives in the legislature
after the next apportionment.
Ciiors.—Madisonian: Cotton pros
pects throughout the county are flattering.
A larger crop will be made than has
been grown since 1876, with a few add!
tional seasons of rain.
The same paper says: Hon. J. A. Bil
lups will make a splendid elector from
this district. We hope he will be nomi
nated. Nominate him for elector and
Dr. Carlton for alternate, and the conven
tion will have acted wisely.
Thomaston Times: The Telegraph
axi> Messenger makes an elaborate ar
gument to show wby the two-thirds rule
should be abolished in making nomina
tions in the Democratic party. Mr.
Blouut's nomination by the two-thirds
rule seemed at the time doubtful, but be
could have been easily nominated by the
minority rule. Dr. Hoyle, of the Daw-
sou Journal, makes an able argument in
favor of adhering to the two-thirds rule.
The doctor is an anti-Colquitt man, and
thinks Colquitt will have a majority in
the convention. We state the above as
facts, but we haven’t said the Teleqrapii
wanted to abolish the two-thirds rule to
secure the nomination of Blount, nor that
the Journal wanted to adhere to it to de
feat Gov. Colquitt. It merely shows how
men differ.
The 'article referred to appeared after
Col. Blount was nominated.
Savannah Recorder: The steamship
Seminole, which sailed for Boston yester
day, took out thirteen passengers, 39S
bales of cotton, 251 barrels of naval
stores, 100,000 feet of lumber fifteen crates
of grapes and 1,000 watermelons.
Atlanta Globe: Politics Lave become
so common now-a-days that you can bear
bootblacks around the Kimball House
asking Republican drummers if “they
wouldn’t like to Lave a Hancock shine.”
Chatham Taxable Property.—
Savannah Weiss: The grand aggregate
value of the whole property of the city
and county is returned for 18S0 at $17,-
672.222, whilst in 1870 it was $10,842,-
310.50, showing an increase $829,005.50.
There is a decrease of 24 in the number
of polls. The returns for 1SS0 being 7,-
150, against 7,183 tor 1S79, a decrease of
24. The following will be read with in
terest: Polls (white), 3,129; polls (col
ored), 4,030. Total, 7,150. Lawyers, 44;
doctors, 28; deutists, 7.
Tiie First Shipment of Through
Cotton.—Savannah News: One hun
dred bales of cotton for New York were
received from Nashville over the Control
railroad on Thursday. This is said to be
the first shipment of through cotton ever
received in Savannah from that section.
It will go forward by steamer to-day.
The Douglassville Star says: It is tru *
that there is a negro man who lived with
Mr. Tom Selman, in Douglass county,
Who has the largest foot in the State. He
vainly endeavored to find in Atlanta a
shoe that would lit him. His last resort
was to have a pair made to order. It be
came necessary to have a last made for
the purpose, and when the shoes were fin
ished they were 15 in number, and meas
ured 17 inches in length. If any man has
a larger foot than that, he will please shuf
fle to the front.
Atlanta Glope: It is now in order for
those papers that pressed the question
upon Gov. Colquitt as to whether or not
he would abide tbe action of the conven
tion, to answer tbe same question them
selves.
Green county has a population of 18,-
1G9. Greensboro has Increased 687 in the
past decade.
Savannah complains that some of its
citizens send to other places to have cer
tain kinds of work done. The rudder of
the steamer Florida was sent to the Co
lumbus Iron Works and a new one or
dered. Macon has no complaint to make in
that line. Some of onr people, however,
persist inpatronizingNoitliem merchants
and tailors, while they might purchase
goods equally as cheap and good right
Sere.
Mr. Hinton A. Helper, city editor
of the Albany News, has bad an attack of
apoplexy, but is recovering.
Mr. Solomon Page, of Lee county, is
dead.
Augusta baa been getting her tele
phones for $36 per year. * The price hav
ing been raised to $51, many of tbe tele
phonists have signed a resolution refusing
to pay tbe advance.
In Atlanta they arrest drunken men by
tbe wagon load.
Allioatous at Work.—Albany Ad
vertiser: Our readers will remember
how Mr. H. H. Nelms, living ten miles
on the other side of the river, was troub
led by alligators eating his hogs last year,
nml also how he irstituted war on the
enemy, and succeeded in killing a num
ber.
A pond on bis place seems to be a favo
rite resort for these scaly monsters, and
they play sad havoc with his hogs every
year. When tbe water is high there is no
possible means of Mr. Nelms’ getting at
them. But about this time every year
. tbe pond gets very low, and Mr. N. never
fails to avail himself of the opportunity
to go for his troublesome, dead-beat ten
ants. When the water in the pond be-
e s to get low, tbe aligators dig out a
d of well in tbe pond, eight or ten feet
deep, and from the bottom of this well
they work back into its walls a cave,
where they can secret themselves from all
foes. •
The other day Mr. Nelms, owing to low
water, dug down Into two of tlielr caves
and found a ’gator in one and killed it.
He tracked the other from its den out of
the pond into the woods to an old day-
root, under which he found sir ’gator
snugly ensconsed. He, too, was brought
forth and made to answer for his misdo
ings. They were cut open, and in one
was found the two halves of a large hog.
Taking Him at His Word.—Colum
bus Enquirer-Sun: Never get out of tem
per with a barber. A gentleman uot long
since was sittiug in a barber’s chair trying
to read the morning newspaper while hav
ing his hair cut. Tbe barberin the mean-
thi’uj was worrying with a long story a'wut
the barber’s boy and tbe shoemaker’s
daughter at a bill, a story that was strung
out anti) forbearance ceased to be virtu
ous, when the man being dipped, looked
u|> somewhat annoyed, and exclaimed;
>'.i, cut it short !*’ which remark the bar
ber understood »s referring to tbe bead of
hair he was operating on; so he cut it
shorter and went on with his story. “Cut
it shirt,” a%ain said th i customer, and tbe
barber cut it still shelter. His story was
a long one, and tbe unfortunate customer
had occasion to ejaculate “cut it shott’ a
dozen times before he got through. The
barber did cut it short. When that man
left the chair he was as bald as a new
born babe. He wears a smoking cap in
church now.
Augusta Chronicle and Constitution
alist : Mr. Frank B. McCoy, formerly of
this city, but more recently of St. Louis,
has been appointed second lieutenant in.
the United Slates army. There were
eleven appointments out of fifteen hun
dred applicants. Mr. McCoy, it will be
recollected, was at,one time orderly ser
geant of Company B, Oglethorpe Infantry,
of Augusta, and afterwards captain of a
crack St. Loui3 company.
The interest and interest coupons upon
the State guaranteed, and first mortgage
bonds of the South Carolina railroad
company, due July 1,1880, are now being
paid at the receiver’s office, corner of
King and Ann streets, Charleston. Pay
ments began on Wednesday, and in two
days the receiver lias paid out $S,500. It
was expected that tbe bulk of the interest
would be paid yesterday, although some
of the largest bondholders have not yet
presented their claims.
A Narrow Escape.—Sumter Repub
lican: Mr. Ed Brooks and lady, accom
panied by the sister of the latter, Mrs. H.
D. Watts, and two of the small children,
were on a visit to friends in Calhoun
county, and while passing along the
country road in a carriage, the ladies got
tired and desired to walk. They arrived
at a shady place, alighted and requested
Mr. Brooks to drive on. He did so, bnt
was appalled to hear Mrs. Watts cry out:
“You’ll kill my child!” and looking
around found that a little two and a half
year old boy had, in attempting to de
scend from 'the carriage, fallen. Tbe
hind wheel of the heavy vehicle rolled
over the breast of the little fellow, but be
got up, laughingly remarking, “that it
didn’t hurt me.” It was the most miracu
lous escape, as the carriage was heavy
enough to have crushed the life out of
nim.
Gives Satisfaction.—The nomina-
tion of Hon. H. G. Turner seems to hare
disarmed all opposition, and he now re
ceives the enthusiastic, support of the en
tire district. Our good friend Perham
will see that the flame does not lack for
fuel, and even the fitful and hard-to-be-
pleased McIntosh of the Albany Adver
tiser, is forced to throw up the sponge
and “jine” the Turner procession. Good.
The Advertiser says Judge Yason, Sir. L
E. Welch and other prominent citizens
have sent letters of congratulation to
Capt. Turner, and the Democracy of
Dougherty county will do their duty when
the time comes.
The report that ex-Governor Johnson
had been prostrated with paralysis is de
nied.
On the Opposite Extreme.—The
Griffin News says:
The friends of a young merchant of
Griffin claim him to be the antipode of
Dr. Tanner. He ate a small dinner the
other day consisting of seven biscuits, half
a dezen wafles, two pones of light bread,
several pounds of meat, and the usual
variety of vegetables. If the young man
keeps this up as a regular thing our pro
vision men may expect a steady trade.
Still on the Lift.—The Chronicle
and Sentinel declares that Central rail
road stock has advanced to 92 bid and 95
asked. There is little doubt that it will
reach par under its excellent manage
ment.
A Big Sunflower.—Chronicle and
Constitutionalist: We saw yesterday a
sunflower measuring three feet eight
inches in circumference. It was raised
in this city, and is of the mammoth Rus
sian variety, specimens of which were on
exhibition at the Centennial. The
Augusta specimen is at Mr. J. H. Alexan
der’s drugstore.
The report of the board of health shows
that there were 18 deaths in Augusta for
the week ending July 31—whites 8, col
ored 10. Of these 11 were under 5 years
of age—whites 4, colored 7; three were
between 5 and 20 years—white 1, colored
2; and 4 were over 20 years of age—white
3, colored 1.
Don’t Steal Watermelons—The
Griffin Netcs is responsible for the follow
ing:
The party of young men who went on a
base ball tour to Bamesville, last week,
bad quite an interesting experience. The
crowd went down in a wagon, and on the
road kept a sharp look out for watermel
on patches to be raided on their return.
Near Milner they saw on tbe roadside a
promising patch over which, however,
stood guard an old gentleman whose gen
eral appearance reminded them of the old
party in Webster’s spelling book who had
chased a small boy up a tree.
On their return the crowd made a sor
tie on the melon patch and each one car
ried off and devoured a melon. As the
party were riding on, a small wag in the
crowd, to play a practical joke, suddenly
fell over aud began to beave in a very dis
tressed manner, saying he thought the
melons were poisoned. At this dread
gestion each melon thief began to feel
c at tbe stomach, and in a few minutes,
upon that quiet road the old man’s mel
ons were returned. After this exercise
tbe joke was disclosed much to the indig
nation of the unfortunate victims.
Monroe Advertiser: Rev. W. C.
Wilkes, of Gainesville, has been elected
by tbe board of trustees president of
Monroe Female College. To him the
college was indebted for its prosperous
career previous to the war, and if he ac
cepts, as we hope he will, it will be a
labor of love for him to again work with
all bis energy to rebuild it to its former
prosperity aud usefulness. He says For
syth has always seemed like home to him.
Our people will give him a cordial wel
come to a home Here again.
Accident in a Well.—Advertiser:
Mr. Ira Marshall, who has grown old in
the business of well digging, happened to
a serious accident last week. He was
blasting in a well at Ocmulgee Mills in
Butts county, when a charge exploded
prematurely. One eye was put out, the
other was seriously damaged, and his face
was bruised. He was not so seriously
hurt as was at first supposed, but it is bad
enough as it is.
Tiie First Bale.—Americus Record
er: The cotton men were on the qui tire
yesterday for that much talked of first
bale, but it didn’t come in. The late co
pious rains have somewhat retarded the
opening of the staple aud it will probably
be several days yet before “the first” will
arrive.
Augusta Contractors in Savan
nah—Augusta News: Messrs. Rice &
Byrnes, two of Augusta’s contractors and
builders, are now engaged inputting up a
large rice elevator in Savannah. The
elevator, we learn, will have a greater ca
pacity than the one in our city, and will
be substantially built in every particular.
From tbe character of the two gentlemen
who have the contract, we assure the Sa
vannah people that tbe work will be first
class, aud they need have no apprehensions
of every detail being perfect.
Griffin Sim: H. I. Kimball is a can
didate for mayor of Atlanta. Now, let us
see if tbe Atlanta Constitution will make
“hot” for him.
A Prolific Family'.—The Neicsssys:
Willis Brown, of Hart county, was in
Gainesville last Tbuisday and related a
very strange aud interesting story about
bis family. His grandfather bad thirteen
children (eight boys and five girls) and
every one lived and married and raised
families averaging nine children; his
father had fourteen children (nine boys
and five girls), all of whom except one
girl lived to marry and raise families
averaging thirteen children each—the one
having tbe greatest number being twenty-
one and the smallest baving five. If any
State in the Union can raise a better crop
of children, with or without fertilizers, we
would like to bear from them.
Knights Templar Trip All the
arrangements have, been made for the
Knights Templar excursion’ to Chicago.
The Savannah and Charleston command
er! es will join tbe Augusta commandery
here, and go through to Chicago in Pull
man cars, without change.
Looks Bike Repeating.—'The Henry
County Register says: Wo have, up to
date, (Wednesday noon) printed :;7-0Uu
tickets for the election next Monday.:
Tins is enough tickets to give every ?an-j
didaie a majority of several thousand,]
and we are sure every candidate in the
field will be elected, if a multiplicity of [
tickets wllleUd.
I Every man in this office
tired of printing tickets, and
j wants more of them they will have to pay
us an advance on the original price to
i get them.
The Worth County Vindicator is the
name of a paper just established at Sum
ner. D. G. McClellan is editor and pro
prietor. , _
General McRae is not going to leave
the Westem and Atlantic railroad to go to
the Carolina Central.
An eminent physician of Augusta thinks
Tanner may succeed in his experiment,
but will die soon afterward, when at
tempts are made at restoration oi the
stomach.
A Prosperous City.—Rome Tribune
Rome annually receives ninety thousand
bales of cotton, which is rapidly increas
ing and which keeps two compresses busy
and offers employment to hundreds of
people, lending to the city, during tho
business season, an air of business activity.
The merchants here are prosperous and
have cultivated good, business integrity,
for which the people are noted. Property
is rapidly increasing in value, and an
empty store or dwelling is hard to find.
The climate is mild, being peculiarly
exempt from the oppressive heat of sum
mer or the extreme cold of winter. The
thermometer rarely ever readies 90
degrees or falls below the freezing
point. During tlio middle of summer
the temperature is so delightful that a
person can sleep under covering nearly
the entire summer.
The Marietta Journal has this sen
sible editorial: “It is, in our judgement,
unwise to carry onr opposition to a candi
date before a convention is held, so far
that we cannot in decency and self-respect
support him afterwards should he be the
nominee.”—Columbus limes.
We have tried to conduct the Journal
in a decent and dignified manner, and
have not abused a single candidate for
governor. Some of our Georgia ex
changes will envy us our position when
they have to “eat a big mess of crow.”
Early County News: One of onr
observing citizens gave as his opinion the
other day, that Colquitt would be nomi
nated on the first ballot, and remarked
“Paine did it.”
Tbe same paper prints this nugget of
good sense:
Some of our exchanges are contendinj
that tbe two-thirds role is an estahlishei
rule of the Democratic party. If this be
so, h6w does it come that every conven
tion—national, state or county—has to re
establish that rale before they will dare
to act upon it? Simply because of that
stronger, common-sense rule, the majority
shall govern.
Arlington Advance: Last Friday,
while Mr. Will Pullin and wife, of Da
mascus, were in our town, making some
g urchases, some vile wretch stole his
amess, buggy cushion aud. whip. He
was forced to purchase a set of harness
before he could get home.
The following slander on the Atlanta
girls is going the rounds of the press:
The young ladies of Atlanta have a
new dodge, or rather a “limp, by which
they are sure to make the ice cream come.
■When walking out with their “fellow,” or
some other girl’s “fellow,” they are sud
denly seized with partial paralysis in the
lower limbs just before reaching an ice
cream saloon. Of course they are invited
in to rest, and while resting, succeed in
wresting a saucer of ice cream from the
jroung man, and all is well again.
The Sylvania Telephone is one year
old, aud is as sprightly as if it was just
new bom. Tbe people of Screven county
ought to sustain it liberally. It is a credit
to the county, and is doing much to bring
that community into public notice aud to
increase its material prosperity. Success
to tbe Telephone.
The last issue of tbe Quitman Free
Press is “Turner all over.” We, also,
extend our congratulations to our old
friend, Congressman Turner.
Col. A. M. Sloan, of Rome, Ga., died
at Suwanee Springs, Florida, on tbe 29th
inst.
Sam W. Small, of the Constitution,
wants to be an elector for tbe fifth con
gressional district. Sam would make a
good one.
We congratulate our old friend. Cap
tain P. H. Ward, late of the David
Clarke, on his appointment as Agent of
the Port Royal railroad, in Augusta, and
at the same time we can congratulate the
railroad in securing the seivices of so
competent an officer.
It is with regret that we announce the
death of Mrs. James M. Smith. The
following appears in the Columbus En
quirer :
Tbe wife of ex-Govemor James M.
Smith died at the White Sulphuh springs
in Hall county, on Saturday. A dispatch
states the remains will be brought to Col
umbus, but when, our reporter could not
ascertain. The deceased lady was an in
valid who had suffered much and long.
Her’s was a domestic nature, which ill,
health had fostered. She was a lady
much loved by friends. The governor
has the sympathy of maLy warm friends
and admirers in Columbus, where he
and his wife have lived for a number of
years.
CoLUMRUg Enquirer: From a gentle
man who arrived in the city yesterday we
learn of the accidental shooting of Mr.
Clarence L. Hooks, of Yillula. He was
returning home from hunting, a negro
carrying his rifle and walking in the rear.
A grape vine caught the hammer of the
gun and it was discharged, the ball enter
ing tbe small of his back. From tbe ef
fects of this wound he died yesterday
morning. He was an industrious, sober
man, and highly esteemed by all. He
leaves a wife and two children. A few
years since be clerked for Hirscli Bros.,
but at the time of his death was farming.
Savannah News: The announcement
is elsewhere mads of the consolidation of
the local agencies of the Charleston and Sa
vannah, and Savannah, Florida and Wes
tern Bailway Companies. Mr. J. C.
Bruyn will be in chaige of the freight,
and Mr. H. C. Maner of the ticket busi
ness. All freights by the former road
will be received at the Savannah, Florida,
and Western railway depot.
Dublin Gazette: Dr. Harrison gives
us the following particulars of quite a
strange pliejjomcnon at the poor house. He
was called to see an old lady ninety years
old, who has three openings m Ler skull.
The one in the center, when pressed to
gether, causes a tickling sensation on the
end of her nose; when the one on the
right is pressed together it has the same
effect on the left side of the nose, and so
with the left opening, showing that the
nerves cross. The openings are about one
half inch wide each, and three long.
She keeps her head bandaged tightly all
tbe time, aud suffers from headache very
much. She also Las a daughter with her
who is sixty years old.
Geiffin News: Col. Clifford Ander
son, of Savannah, a graduate of Virginia
Military Institute, who commanded the
recent military encampment at Rome, is
one of the most thorough gentlemen we
have met in a long while. His address, a
masterpiece, before tho convention there
assembled, is attracting considerable fa
vorable attention from all portions of tbe
State. He, coming, from an illustrious
family, loving bis native State as all her
sons should do, a true man in every res
pect, aud a model of morality, Is well fitted
to represent the volunteer organizations
of Georgia. Chatham county,; which al
ways selects her best men for the legisla
ture, would, we are sure, give’ great
pleasure to our military particularly, and
many citizens generally, should she add
Col. Anderson’s name to the representa
tion of the next general assembly.
Sylvania Telephone: Millcn is grow
ing faster than any town directly on the
line of the Central, between Savannah
and Macon. New, neat aud tasty-resi
dences have recently been built, aud two
new stores are going up. May she con
tinue to grow ana prosper.
Fmu.—Newnan Herald: On Monday
morning, between three and four o’clock,
a smalt dwelling occupied by Stephen
Fislier, colored, belonging to Captain H.
J. Sargent, in the neighborhood of the
colored Methodist church of this city,
was discovered to be on fire, which bad
made such headway as to reader it iapee- <
ssble to save tfi£ building. Everything la
tbe Louse, we understand, was save J. As
is sick and there had been no fire used by the family
if anybody I during the afternoon and night, it is be-
' lieved tho burning originated from an in
cendiary or parties in search of a colored
individual charged with the crime of mur
der, whose name we do not think it pru
dent to divulge at present.
The editor of the Savannah Recorder
Is mad and takes vengeance on the more
fortunate in the following manner:
Home looks sort of tame to you now;
but after you.have sweltered in an attic up
country or had your face skinned by the
breezes and refecting sun of the seashore,
and after you have chewed green cucum
bers in the one place and sole-leather
clams in the other, you will long for one
day at home, where you can sleep with
plenty of fresh air from the window, eat
reliable, nourishing food, sit with your
feet on the mantlepiece and be social.
Any other place is a fool at home.
At the Christening.—Augusta News:
Miss Fannie Casey, accompanied by a
brilliant retinue of ladies and gentlemen,
will leave Augusta to-night for Chester,
Pa., to perform the ceremony of christen
ing the new steamer “City of Augusta,”
recently built for the Central Railroad
line of steamers. The company will sail
direct to New York to-morrow afternoon
from Savannah, and on arriving there
will immediately repair to Chester, where
the ceremony will be performed by Miss
Casey.
The “City of Augusta” is said to bo the
finest and largest steamship on the line,
and none more competent than Miss Casey
could have been selected for the purpose.
The full list of ladies and gentlemen who
leave on this mission are, Miss Fannie
Casey, Mr. and Mrs. George A. "White
head, Mrs. John D. Butt, Miss Sophie
D’Antignac, Miss Lou Casey, Capt. F. E
Eve, and J. P. Yerdery. Esq.
Atlanta Constitution: We have re
ceived the premium list of the second an
nual fair of the Ocmulgee Farmer’s club
of Bibb county. Tho list is not only very
liberal, but is supplemented by a number
of special premiums. Among other
things, we observe that brother Burke,
thh well-known publicist, has offered a
premium for the best chicken pie. This
involves tbe services of a pie-sampler, and
makes the whole situation interesting.
Death of Db. J. T. Holmes.—Al
bany News: The many friends of this
excellent gentlemen will regret to. learn
of his death, which occurred in Macon on
Saturday last. Dr. Holmes has, for sev
eral years part, been a resident of Albany,
aud by his courtesy, gentleness and no
bility of character won the esteem and
respect of all with whom he came in con
tact. In private life, in his professional
capacity, in his church relations, he was
upright, efficient and exemplary, and his
loss will be greatly felt in the community.
Another of the “down trodden” makes
a showing through the Americus Recorder:
On yesterday Mercer Scott, colored,
was appointed administrator of the estate
of Booker Norman, deceased, the excel
lent old colored man who died some two
months ago. W. D. Haynes, S. W.
Blance and M. Callaway were appointed
commissioners. The bulk of the property
consists of the note of Ilarroli', Johnson
& Co„ for $1,100, the Bank of Americus
certificate of deposit for $675 and two
small town lots. The estate owed noth
ing. V\ hile not a large sum of money,
yet the accumulation was remarkable for
a freedman.
Railroad Meeting. — Sandersville
Mercury: The annual meeting of the
stockholders of the S. & T. Railroad Com
pany, was held on Monday, tho reports of
ti e officers were read, showing the road
to be in a splendid condition. The old
board of directors were re-elected, viz:
C. R. Pringle, J. N. Gilmore, Dr. A.
Mathis, M. Newman, R. L. Wartlien, S.
B. Jones and B. D. Evans.
Bibb Statistics
The total’ taxable property of Bibb
county-is $8,759,402.85. Of this amount
$8,352,710 was given in by the whites, and
and $255,558 by the blacks:
.$ 1,252,205
. 141,097
The ravages wrought by the phylloxera
in tbe vineyards of France have caused
attention to be lately turned to the possi
bility of introducing an improved culture
of the vine and manufacture of wine in
southern Russia. At present Russia Im
ports a very large quantity of foreige
wine, because tho wine produced in the
country aud mainly in the Crimea is so
poor in quality as to be inferior to the
cheapest of imported wines. This inferi
ority, it is asserted, is not owing to any
Inferiority in the vines themselves, but
solely to the fact that in tbe Crimea and
in the southern Caucasus they are culti
vated in an ignorant manner, and tho
principles of wiue-making are not under
stood, while, of coarse, do modern appli
ances are employed.
The army worm, says the New York
Sun, having for the most part disbanded
pr been mustered out, is now succeeded as
a popular sensation, at least at the South,
by the cotton worm, which is making
havoc in the growing crop. This unwel
come visitor is about an inch long and de
posits its eegs on the under surface of the
ieaves of the plant, which the young, on
being hatched, immediately begin to eat.
The scourge is a familiar one, and has
often been ruinous to the districts it at
tacks. Unhappily, it has made rather an
early appearance tills year, and it will
have time to do much damage before the
coming of the cold weather, which kills
the worm.
The microscope shows a variation in
the thickness of the human hair from the
l-250th to the l-600th part of an inch;
but, notwithstanding such fineness, it is a
massive cable in comparison with some
other fibres. Thus the thread of the silk
worm is many times finer, being from tbe
l-1700tU-.to tbe l-2000th of an inch. This
however, is nothing to" the slenderness of
the spider’s thread, which has been found
in some instances to be no more than
1-30,000th of -an inch in diameter. Tbe
fibres yielded by tbe vegetable kingdom
are also of astonishing minuteness. Thus
every fibre of flax is found to be composed
of a bundle of other fibrils which are
about l-2500th of an inch in diameter.
Similar fibres obtained from tbe pine
apple plant have been ascertained to be
no more than l-5000th or even 1-7000th of
an inch in diameter.
Antoine Weber’s wife went away from
his Pittsburg home, and be could not learn
where or why she had gone. The pair
bad lived liappily;and contentedy together,
and tbe husband,would not believe that
she bad willfully deserted liim. Eight
years passed-without tidings of the missing
woman. She had been crazy until re
cently, and on recovering her reason could
not clearly remember wlio she was; but
tbe sight of her husband restored her
completely.
A New York letter to the Philadelphia
Ledger says: “Not a few active Republi
cans here express themselves with some
emphasis upon tbe absence of Gen. Ar
thur on a fishing expedition at a time
when his valuable experience as a politi
cal organizer is needed to start the cam
paign. They point to the extraordinary
energy the Democrats are exhibiting, and
say if New York is to be carr ied for the
Republican ticket, it will not do to post
pone campaign work on account of tbe
weather.
Mrs. Wodehouse, the lady lor whom
the Maiqdis of Anglesey discarded Mrs.
Wetmore, is the daughter of Judge King,
of Augusta, (ia., who was at one time a
member of Congress, and who was, for
thirty years, president of the Georgia Cen
tral Railroad. Judge King is still living,
at an advanced age, in Augusta. This
spring Mrs. Wodeliouse visited her lather,
and has only recently returned to Europe,
where she has lived for several years.
In the month of June there was a to
tal of fifty-six railroad accidents in the
United States, whereby fifteen persons
were killed aud seventy-seven injured.
Seven accidents caused the death of .one
or more persons each; sixteen caused in
jury but not dealb, leaving thirty-three or
5S.9 per .cent, of tiie Dumber in which no
serious injury to persons is recorded
Aggregate value of land,
White .
Colored
Value of city property,
"White .... 3,842,172
Colored .... 86,550
Value of shares in State oma-
tional banks of Georgia . 591,580
Building and Loan Association
stock 30,592
Amount of money and solvent
debt,
White .... 082,912
Colored . . . . 2,589
Merchandise of every kind . 1,003,038
Stocks and bonds . . . 232,050
Cotton manufactories . . 77,500
Machinery in foundries . . 12,925
Value of furniture, pianos, etc.,
White .... 275,673
Colored .... 7,205
Watches, silver plate and jew
elry ... . . . 68,410
Horses, mules, hogs, cattle, etc.,
White, .... 100,591
Colored, .... 10,070
Plantation and mechanical tools,
hooks, pictures, etc.,
White, . . . * . 83,237
Colored, , . . 951
Cotton, com antj provisions held
for sale on April 1st, . . 1,200
Value of all other property not
before enumerated,
White, .... 48,025
Colored, .... G,4S0
151,104 85
Value of wild lands,
Grand aggregate, . $8,759,402 85
Increaseoverlast year, . 783,493 45
Number of lawyers in the county, . 34
“ physicians “ “ . S3
“ dentists “ “
“ polls, white and colored, 5,694
— Tjjis is an increase in value over the
statement of 1879 of $783,493.45.
Under the new constitution, the city
can by act of legislature increase its debts
for various purposes, provided it does not
exceed ten per cent, of its taxable
property. Taking our debt
$700,000 we have left us a margin, of
$135,000 should we at any time desire to
build our canal, or grant aid to foreign
capitalists undertaking it for us.
The foregoing figures show a cheering
state of affairs in the county, but espe
cially is the city to be congratulated upon
tbe progress she has made during the last
twelve months. With our debt funded,
or t in course of funding, with water
works assnred, and a large increase of
valuation in property, and consequently
an increase of tax receipts, there is no rea
son wby we should pause upon the brink
of any enterprise that is likely to benefit
tho city. We continue to prosper, let us
continue to expand. Let us not pause
until upon our canal the busy hum of ma
chinery is heard, and the city, with its in
dustrial anchor firmly hooked in the
rocks, ride secure upon the waters, come
the waves as they may.
In. the meantime we can study also
over the opera house, and a city mar
ket.
TI10 YVavo Form.
One form there Is that pervades the
world in every work of nature. It is found
everywhere, in bodies tangible, in bodies
intangible, in substance and in-sound ev
er recurring—the wave fonn. This singu
lar fact is noted by Madame DeStael, wlio
describes it as the only thing which re
mains with us unchanged from creation.
It is seen upon the ocean’s breast, line af
ter line, in the mountains, profiled against
the sky, in the grain of trees, in the earth’!
strata formation, in the flesh, (see the
hand palm), in the eye, In the clouds, in
the smallest grain of sand, in the most
delicate leaf, in the bird’s plumage, in ore,
In all the air, earth, and the water, we
find this form.
Aud more. Take the invisible. - The
very breezes rise and fall with fitful force,
The pulse marks the waves of blood that
rise and fall through all animal life. Cast
but a sound abroad, and tbe sound waves
beat upon tbe ear, beat upon the hills, and
return again and again. There is no ma
chinery that lias not its throb, marking
an unexplained pulse; even in electricity
the felt, but unseen, wave occurs; and
from music it is never absent.
Carried still farther, we behold the
waves of life, animal and vegetable, breaks
ingupon the shores of lime, generation
after generation, season after season, somo
oft recurring, others with long intervals
between; but they recur.
Whether it be the insect that, born in
the morning, perishes at nightfall; wheth
er it be in the flower that comes once a
day, or in the pjant that blooms each
hundred years. The very" days, months,
years and centuries are time waves ever
recurring.
This form is the birth mark of tho
world, transmitted through all divisions
of the universe. It is the law of develop
ment, tho law of decay. The playful
breeze wreathing into ridges tho sand
upon tbe beach, is as difficult to explain
as the tides which twice a day rise to
smooth them over.
Cistern for East Macon.
For many years past clie citizens of East
Macon have been making efforts towards
having constructed in their midst a cis
tern, as a means of protection from the
mauy fires which have occurred in that
district. Tho matter was brought before
tbe council some weeks since and referred
to the committee on fire department, who
instructed tho city’s engineer to make an
examinatlouof the locality and report ou
tbe practicability of such a ci3tem as was
asked for. The examination was -made,
and it was recommended by the engineer
that a wooden cistern be built nearly op
posite tho Flanders’ store. It will be fed
from a small spring, which rises 420 feet
away, and has an elevation of eight feet.
This cistern will cost $172.17. A brick
cistern of the same dimensions would cost
$403.00. The committee reported yester
day In favor of tho engineer’s report, and
it was adopted. The cistern will hold
23,000 gallons.
Bros. Sands.
The application for leave of absence from
No3. 5 and 3, to attend tbe • Hawkinsville
contest, was granted by the council yester
day, with the proviso that the chief of the
fire department consents. The council lim
its each company to 500 feet of hose, deem
fug it unsafe for the city to allow any
greater quantity to he carried away.
Adapting Bibb's Plan.
We learn from a passenger on the
Southwestern train yesterday that a negro
Who attempted a nameless crime upon the
person of a colored girl near Reynolds was
caught by the sherifl and turned over to a
party of his own color, who gave him two
As compared with June, 1S79, there was i iundr ed lashes with an inch-thick strap,
a decrease of eight accidents, a decrease of j “ uiunuiu.
three in number killed, and an increase of ^ an “ l “ en turned him loose,
twenty-two in that injured. 1 — • ■
, , , I —Senator Wade Hampton is angling in
-Mr. Corcoran, tbe elderly Washings’ Virginia, and is said to be tbe most skill-
ton banker, is much improved in health 1 ful and successful fisherman that has ap-
at tbj> White Sulphur Springs. ■ peared on the St. James River for years.
Important Meeting of the City Council
—Waterworks School Problems.
Yesterday the city council held its regu
lar meeting and transacted a large amount
of business that had accumulated in the
clerk’s hands. Many communications
were received, asking for reduction in tax
assessments.
The principal business before the coun
cil, however, was the waterworks and the
school questions. The following is the
proposition submitted to the city by the
Macon Gas-Light and Water Company:
To the Hon. Mayor and Council, City
of Macon—Gentlemen: As you are
probably aware, this company has decided
to build waterworks to supply the city
with an abundance of pure water. The
preliminary arrangements have been
made,-the -water privileges and necessary
land lor reservoir have been secured, and
it now becomes necessary before any
further expense is incurred, to have some
assurance from your honorable body, as to
the degree of assistance and countenance
we are to receive from the city. We do
not ask you to buy our bonds, or to sub
scribe for stock, or to take any risk in the
success of the enterprise; that we are wil
ling to do, but merely ask you to give us _
contract for supplying water to the city
for fire puiposes, to begin when the hy
drants are ready for duty, and not before.
To put the matter before you in a business
shape, wo make the following proposition,
to-wit; Wo agree to supply the city with
water, and fifty hydrants of the usual
size of fire hydrants, having one or two
openings of two and a half inches diame
ter. The water is to be used for fire pur
poses, and tho necessary demands of the
lire department in its practicings and
parades, for which the city is to pay sev
enty-five dollars per annum. The pay
ment to be made quarterly, and to
begin for each hydrant at the
beginning of the quarter next after
the same is announced ready for duty.
As the city requires more hydrants, we
will add them on the same terms, until
the number reaches seventy-five (75),
when the price will be reduced to sixty
dollars per hydrant. When the number
shall reach 100, then the price is to be re
duced to $50 per hydrant per annum, ex
cept for those supplied from tbe stand
pipe on the hill, which requires extra
pumping—this to remain at $75. The
hydrants to be located along the lines of
our mains. In addition, we propose to
furnish water to the engine houses,
city hall and police barracks, for
all ordinary purposes, and for
drinking fountain, free of chaige, the city
paying for the necessary pipes and fittings;
the contract to be in force for ten years
from date.
Again, we must urge upon your honora
ble body the importance of prompt action
by the city, lest the enterprise languish;
for we can go no farther until some under
standing is reached by the city.
Respectfully submitted,
Ar E. Boabdman,
Secretary M- G. and W. Co.
This proposition, on motion of C. Mas-
terson, was referred to a committee of five
The chair appointed on this committee
Aldermen Cannon, Masteison, Hendricks,
Kennedy and Fitzgerald, with Masterson
as chairman, with orders to report at next
meeting.
This is a large enterprise the city has
to deal with, and the council will proceed
slowly. From a convereation with
prominent member of the. council, we
learn that it is not likely that the com
pany’s proposition will be received as it
There are several points to which the
council will not agree; these are, the lo
cation of the hydrants, the prices charged
for them and the length of time the con
tract is to run. It is said that hydrants
along the mains will not afford the
city protection, since the mains are to
traverse only the principal streets, and
that $3,750.09 is too much for the privilege
of using them only in times of fire or for
engine practices; that a half dozen fires
might not occur during the year, and part
of these possibly away from the location
of a main.
The council, it*is said, do not wish to
bind the city for ten years, during which
time better plaus may be submitted.
These are points, however, that may be
harmonized. "The proposition was sub
mitted to bring the affair before council
for the very purpose of agreeing upon a
contract. The committee appointed is a
good one, and "not likely to do anything to
discourage the enterprise. It is pretty cer
tain, however, that the company will be
required to place the hydrants at such
places as the city may desire them, aud to
submit their work to a test before it is
accepted by the city.
A communication was received from
W. J. King, C. McCurdy and H. Williams,
laying before the council the condition of
the accommodations provided for the col
ored school children, and asking the pur
chase of certain property to be used as a
school house. Messrs. E. Winship, J. H,
Hertz and Prof. B. M. Zettler, superin
tendent of public schools, also appeared
before the council in behalf of the board
of education, asking an increase of school
accommodations. For the whites it is
asked that additions be made to tbe build
ings upon the Polhill lot, now used as
school houses. Two more rooms are re
quired to scat the children who have al
ready applied for admission. The com
mittee desire that the old dwelling he
torn down and new rooms erected there,
They also made an appeal in behalf of the
colored children, who lack accommoda
tions.
This question of school booses is one
that has vexed the authorities long, and
is one yet difficult of settlement. There
seems to be no fund upon which the city
can draw. Alderman Coiput’s project is
probably the best yet suggested. It is
that tbe aunuity of $1,000 received yearly
from the Augusta railroad, b'e applied for
four years to the building of a commo
dious school house for the colored chil
dren. This fund is unappropriated for
any other purpose, and might, perlisps, be
best applied in this way. The school
matter was referred to a special cornmit-
ee.
Commanded | Thomlou’s ioft eye was damped hU
Will hold a mfeeting to-night for the pur- arm disabled, and held sevS
pose of makmg final arrangements for the; Gordon’s thumb suffered
tap to Chicago. It is expected that all Last night a fore*
Neatly Effected.
A-gentleman in this city was recently
approached on the streets by a broker,
who desired to sell him $10,000 worth of
city bonds at S9J. The trade was made.
The purchaser expecting to be absent from
the city on-tlie following day, when they
were to he delivered, gave directions that
the final transactions be made with his
banker.. Later In the day he was ap
proached by another broker, offering $10,-
000 worth of city bonds at 90. This trade
was also made and disposed of in the
same manner. Returning to the city after
a few days absence, the purchaser found
out that only the bonds bought at 90 had
been delivered. It afterwards transpired
that he had negotiated for tbe same bonds
twice, and paid fifty dollars more for
them the second time. Pretty good.
Time Too Short.
Macon will not accept the terms pro
posed by the Houston county team, regard
ing the contest in the dove fields. The
time appointed was too near at hand, and
several members of the team having en
gagements, could not be at the rendez
vous. If the Houston team wishes to
shoot, it will be better to meet the Macon
men and agree upon a lime and place
that will suit all parties.
who intend going will bo on hand, as
the route will be determined on, sleeping
car accommodations secured and other
matters of interest arranged.
This will be the last meeting of St.
Omer before leaving for Chicago. The
Sir Knights and ladies will leave here on
Saturday, 14th inst., on the Atlanta train.
From Atlanta they leave the same day at
3 p. m. by special train, arriving in Chi
cago at 8 p. m. on Sunday, 15th. Upon
arriving in Chicago, they will be mot by a
detachment of the residentSirKnights and
escorted to the Moulton House, comer of
Franklin and Kenzie streets, where board
has been secured at $2 per day. Below
we give
PROGRAMME FOB MONDAY, AUGUST 10.
The receiving and escorting of visiting
commanderies as they arrive, to their sev
eral quarters. In the evening three gen
eral receptions will be held at 8 o’clock,
p. m., at the new Central Music Hall,
corner of State and Randolph streets; Mc
Cormick’s Hall, corner of North Kinzie
and Clark streets, and at FarwellHall,
on Madison street, near Clark—at each of
which guests will be cordially welcomed
by knightly speakers, and a brilliant mu
sical programme will be given.
To-morrow we will give the programme
for Tuesday, August 17th, which promises
to he the grandest display of Knights
Templar ever witnessed in modern times
in this or any other country. It is esti
mated that 25,000 Sir Knights will be in
line. The music will be famished by 130
bands, with from 25 to 100 performera to
each.
We have been shown an invitation to
the Grand Reception Musicale et Han-
sante, to be given on the night of the 17th.
It is a beautiful specimen of the
lithographic art aud unsurpassed
in design and coloring. The front
covering is ornamented with a cut repre
senting a body of mounted Templars of
the time of the crusades. The back
shows a handsome standard of the order,
with the motto. Inside are the words of
invitation, together with the names of the
committees. Accompanying this is the
ticket of admission for a gentleman and
two ladies, printed in gold letters on a
black card. Also, a programme of the
evening’s entertainment, with a list of
dances. The outer covers of this are or
namented with the coat of arms of the
commanderies stationed in Chicago. To
thi3 is attached a s:lk cord for suspending
it to a button or fan. It is in perfect
keeping with the grandeur which will
characterize the whole affair. A note at
the bottom contains the following; “It
is no easy matter to call the same figures
for forty to fifty thousand people, dancing
on one floor to the same music, hence, we
particularly request that all shall pay
strict attention to the time given by the
callers.”
considerably,
of police was kept at
the Kimball, a renewal of the fight being
apprehended.
Death of Col. John B. Cummins.
The death of this old citizen and
soldier occurred yesterday morning at his
residence in this city, after an illness of
several weeks. His health had been fail
ing for the last year, and bis death was
not unexpected. Colonel Camming was
the son of Mr. William Cumming, who
was one of the founders of Macon, and
the first marshal of the city; the same post
was held by Col. C. tor many years. In
1844 the deceased was among the first to
enlist in the Macon Guards, Colonel H.
R. Jackson’s regiment, for the Mexican
war. He served with his company in that
war one year, and was known to be as
brave a soldier as'was in the regiment.
Colonel Cumming was a strong partisan,
and identified with the old Whig party in
their many struggles in this county and
district, and when the late war broke out
was devoted to the Confederate cause.
He organized the Sparks Guards, and
was made its captain. The company
served in Virginia, Cumming having been
promoted to colonel of the regiment with
which it was connected. At the battle of
Antietam several regiments were left in
defense of a bridge over a water course,
which General Lee directed Colonel Cum
ming to hold until he was reinforced by
General Hill at 1 o’clock p.m. The enemy
came upon Cumming’s regiments with
strong force. Yet, for three hours,
Cumming held his post with ud-
daunted firmness. As he was about to be
surrounded, overpowered and destroyed,
Hill came to his relief, and singularly, as
the English historian records it, precisely
at 1 o’clock p. m. It is irom his narrative
of Lee’s battles that we obtain these facts,
and, further, that Cumming was person
ally complimented by General Lee for his
gallantry.
During the closing days oi the war,
Colonel Camming was in Macon, and
commanded a portion of the forces in de
fense ot the city against Stoneman’s raid.
He proposed to General Cobb to let him
follow Stoneman and capture Mm, but
the general needed all of his troops for
tbe defense of the city, in case of another
raid, and again it was known that a por
tion of Wheelers cavaliy from Atlanta
would ba sent in pursuit of Stone-
man.
Since the close of the war Colonel Cum
ming has been cMef of police of Macon,
and several times doorkeeper of the State
Senate.
He was known by all as a brave man,
one who had been “inured to danger and
unknown to fear.” His funeral will take
place at 4 o’clock this afternoon. His old
comrades in arms, tbe survivors of the
Mexican war, the Sparks Guards, and bis
many friends, are Invited to attend.
OOKloa and Thornton.
From passengers on the Atlanta train,
last night, we learn the particulars of a
difficulty which occurred at the Kimball
House, between Messrs. Frank Gordon
and Marcellus Thornton. The difficulty
grew out of a letter written by tho latter
to the Evening News, of Augusta, In
wMch what was claimed to be an expose
of the workings of the late Field boom in
Georgia are given. The News published
only a brief editorial hinting at the
contents of the letter, expressing at the
same time a determination to hold the
affair over until something more trans
pired to cast light upon tbe subject. Our
informant states that the letter contained
charges against General Gordon of the
most serious nature.
How tho Gordons learned of the let
ter’s contents, we do not know, but Frank
Gordon approached Thornton in the Kim
ball House, and after some words on the
subject, struck him over tbe head with a
stick. The two men then closed, Gordon
•continuing to strike, and Thornton swing
ing on to Gordon's thumb with those ter
rible partridge eaters of his, until they
were separated by General Gor* ' \nd
others.
In Bner.
—Tanner’s stomach must begin to look
like Cumberland Island.
—It is not the drowning men only who
catch at straws. We have seen men only
preparing to take “a bath” do the same
thing. %
—A Macon man has named his dog
Hayes. There is an old proverb wMch
says, give a dog a bad name and you
might as well kill him.
—A fashionable coaching club has been
organized in New York, and a president
is wanted. Col. DeLancey Kahn is in
the hands of his friends.
—If Dr. Mary "Walker lia3 refused to
answer the enumerator’s questions and
he has had to guess at it, the United States
census contains one fighting man too
many.
—Tbe petition ia behalf of the colored
school children, presented to the city
council Tuesday, was signed by Rev. W.
J. Gaines, C. McCurdy and Henry Wil
liams.
—It is a common tMng, now a days, for
a man to communicate with spirits. Few,
however, possess tho power of casting
them out, especially if they be in the
shape of good old rye.
—An exchange says that the girl of the
period now appears on the streets dressed
in a Japanese umbrella and a novel.
This is naughty. The girl of the period
should be brought to a full stop.
—Asks an enthusiastic Republican sheet,,
“Shall we—shall we cease to celebrate the
founding of this mighty republic?” Never.
That is as long us popguns are cheap, and
chinaberries continue to grow.
—It was reported on the streets yester
day that Hardeman, Lester, Bacon and
A. R. Lawton had been nominated for
governor. They each came in on the
tMrd ballot, unanimously nominated.
—Senor Gayarre, the Spanish tenor,
was a blacksmith. The Italian connts
summering it at the watering-places are
barbers. This a great and glorious
country. Fashion and art rest upon a
solid foundation.
—It’s nearly time that Mrs. Hayes be
gan to leave things as she found them at
the White House. We will wager a Ha-
vayanna cigar, however, that this proud
government loses some of its clothes pins
next moving day.
—One of our ministers classes tho tele
phone among the means of grace. When
the blue lightning plays around the ec
centric telephone, and tiie popping of caps
upon the wires is heard, tho average sinner
begins to inquire what he shall do to be
saved.
—Mr. G. B. Dettie, a former townsman
of General W. S. Hancock, received to
day, in answer to a congratulatory letter
written to the popular Domocratic presi
dential nominee, an autograph letter from
Hancock, containing a photograph of him
self. ,
—Now that Ulysses, Jr., has made his
$250,000, he ceases to fret over die old
man’s misfortune. Not that ho ever cared
much; when they got the old man down
in CMcago, and were gouging him, ’Lyss,
Jr., stood by like a dog at hbfA funeral,
neither sorry nor glad—just didn’t care.
—The county commissioners have re
cently had Mr. Thomas to paint the iron
railing around the court house, aud also
the steps leading into the post-office.
They express themselves as satisfied with
the job, and recommend Mr. Thomas’
paint to the use of the community.
—The Burlington Hawkeye is puzzled
over a point in etiquette. It wants to
know which outranks, oleomaigerine or
a billy goat. It depends entirely upon
which is the senior. If the billy is the
senior, he outranks, and vice versa. If
they are of equal age, the strongest butter
takes precedence.
—Our assertion of yesterday that the
Central Georgia Bank b presided over in
the absence of Cob J. E. Jones by Gen.
W. S. Holt was an error. We had seen
the general sitting in the president’s chair
bareheaded, and naturally presumed ho
held the reins. It was entirely a misap
prehension. J-t
Dcatb of Bias' Mattie Upford.
The city will be pained to learn of the
death of Miss Mattie Lipford, which oc
curred Tuesday near midnight in the
countiy about fifteen miles from the city.
Mbs Lipford has been for several months
in bad health, a sufferer from consump
tion. A few days since, thinking a change
of air might benefit her, she was removed
to a friend’s house nearBolingbroke, where
she died very suddenly.
Thus passes away one of the love
liest of our city’s daughters. Pos
sessed of a most amiable disposition, and
of a mind Mghly cultivated and attuned
to poesy, Miss Lipford gave promise of a
life of great usefulness. Had she lived,
her talents would have lifted her into
fame, but an all-wise Ruler ordained oth
erwise.
We extend our sympathies to the be
reaved family.
,Tlae Dove Shooting Contest
Which did not occur, has drawn forth a
letter from the Houston team, dated upon
the field, saying they had met at Yqrk ac
cording to the chtUenge of last week, aud
rather insinuating that Macon backed
down. The Macon men did not go out
for reasons gifen in these columns yester
day. Houston doubtless forgets that the
gentlemen acting for her team appointed
yesterday for the meeting, giving the Ma
con .team no time to get together, and
that too, without any agreement with
them.
Macon’s First Bale.
The two hales of cotton, mentioned
yesterday as being the first of the chop of
ISSOto arrive in the city, came from Col.
W.H. Willis, of Oglethorpe, one oi them
having been raised upon bis place, the
olfier upon the plantation of Mr. W. B.
Hill. The cotton classed middling, and
was s»W to Mr. John G. Ruan at JOJ
cents. Y
—E. S. Lapham, of Detroit, has owned
a cantry bird aud a small cur dog about
three jears. Tbe two pets have, in fact,
knowi each other intimately all their
lives^nd they have been on uncommonly
cord ill terms, .considering the radical dif-
ferSJCe in their respective natures. On
Wednesday last the bird escaped from its
cajf, and very soon after the dog disap-
pejued. When Mr. Lapham opened his
frdit door the next morning, there stood
thejdog with ^the truant canary in its
nujdh. Remarkable as it is, the bird was
aljre, and It now occupies its old quarters,
particularly “chipper,” it is true, but*
in passably good health.