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A. oqlonx of eighty-four persona at St.
Pater, Minn., is composed of one woman
her children, grandchildren, and great
grandchildren, with their husbands and
wives.
Mm. AubutiM LINCOLN, Who iflnOW Stay-
ing at the home of her brother-in-law, N.
W. Edwards, at Springfield, Ill-, is in a
very delicate state of health, being confin
ed to her bed nearly all the time.
Iowa is not pleased with the boys sent
from New York by philanthropists. The
newspapers declare that “they come from
tho purlieus of the great cities, and are
impregnated with vices,” and call on the
Governor to stop such immigration, g
The oldest postmaster in tho Union is
Edward Stabler of Sandy Spring, Mont
gomery county, MiL He has held that of
fice for fifty-one years, and has been under
«i g ht«An Postmaster-Generals. Ho is 87
years old, and still lives in the house in
Which he was born.
Im the Illinois House of Representatives!
yesterday, the bill prohibiting all railroads
in that State from changing their rates of
freight without first giving CO days’ notice
of the change, by posting the change in
every station nlong the line, under heavy
penalties, was passed.
Hum cat Bismzhck, for whom the diplo
matic cloak of his father is intended, has
been induced by the remonstrances of his
family to abandon tho wife of Prince Coro-
lath Benthem, with whom he ran away.
The erring lady is in Venice, living, or
rather, it is said, dying, in a small hotel.
Ratio or Votes to Population.—Tho
papers print an officially prepared table of
votes, population and ratio, in fifty-nino
of the principal cities of the United States.
The general nverago is one vote to every
&7007 of the listed population, or say
inexactly, one vote to every 8& popu
lation.
One of tho youngest church edifices in
the United States has the oldest steeple.
It is the Episcopal church at Tacumsa,
Washington Territory. The building is of
logs and the tower is a tail fir tree which
has been cut off forty feet from the ground;
on tho top of which is a cross and bell.
The rings of the tree show it to be 300
years old.
The "star” routes are so named because
they have been designated in the recurds
Of the department by three stars, which
represented tho words "celerity, certainty
and security.” Attention has recently
been directed to the resemblance between
the combination of words and that other
groupo more widely known, “addition, divi
sion and silence.”
Hod&cua-Ahmet, who was sentenced to
imprisonment for life for having transla
ted the Bible into TurkUh, and having cir
culated it in the States of the Sultan, es
caped from prison at Ohio after the earth
quake. The prison was thrown down by
the violence of the shock, bnt Hodscha
Ahmet was not hurt. He managed to get
on board an English vessel anchored in the
harbor, and bo is nowin London.
Steep.—A cut glass goblet, part of the
British spoils at the York town surrender,
and now in the possession of the heirs of
Captain Picbet, has been offered for sale
to the Yorktown commissioners for tho
aum of $1,000. Bather high for a goblet,
but if it was $10 instead of $1,000, the
commission could not bny it, as they have
no money available for such purposes. It
is said that Cornwallis used to take bis
apple toddy ont of it
A Cm Coxthact vob Elbctmc Lights.
The Brush Electric Light Company, ac-
oording to the Sinn, has been awarded
contract to light Broadway and Fifth
avenue between Fonrteenth and Thirty-
fourth streets, Union and Madison squares
and Fourteenth and Thirty-fourth streets
between Broadway and Fifth avenne. The
oompony will begin to light these streets
and pnbiio places on June 1. They will be
paid at, the rate of $7,100 a year.
It will no doubt be news to many that
Chinese tobacco is being oonsnmed to
considerable extent both in this country
and in England. Tho supply is so large
and the leaf is so fine in color, texture and
fragranoe that merchants are exporting
westward to be mixod with Havanas. It
nssd largely in the manufacture of cigar
ettes under the name of Turkish tobacco.
In twelve months close upon 8,000,000
pounds of this ltaf were exported from
Hankow in foreign bottoms alone.
The Condition or Mbs. Garfield.—The
latest announcement made from the exe
cutive mansion Friday night, ono hour
after midnight, was to the effect that Mrs.
Garfield’s condition had not improved. It
transpires that her disease is not malarial
fever, as first thought, but typhoid fever,
there are five physicians in attendance
including Dr. Boynton, who attended tho
family at Mentor. Though there is no oc
casion tor alarm at present, it is thought
unless a ohanoe for tho better takes place
in the next two days her condition will bo
very serious.
In Florida, iu 1S70, there was one com
municant in the Episcopal Church for ev
ery 322 of population, while in 1880 there
la one onmmun leant of the church to eve
ry 172 of the population, provlDga gain of
the churclf In growth upon the increase
of the population between 1870 and 1830
Of 100 per cent., thus showing that the in
crease in numbers of ilie church has not
only kept pace with the increase of the
population, but lias doubled, and nearly
trebled, the ratio it bore to the whole pop
ulation ten years ago.
Tn* Whittakxb Coubt Mabtlal.—Says
the Charleston News and Courier: The
'Whittaker court martial in New York has
beoome a costly farce, disgusting and
nauseating. The trial really seems to be
prolonged now for tho benefit of ex-Gov-
•roor Chamberlain, tho counsel for Whitta
ker, who is paid by the government. Fob-
Ho opinion has long since tried to settle
the oase on its merits, and all the expert
witnesses and more expert management
of Mr. Chamberlain will not nnsettle the
public verdict. At the trial on Monday
OoL Morrow, the judge advocate, offered a
resolution that whereas the proceedings of
the court have been protracted to an al
most unparalleled length at great expense
to the government, the court will, with a
view of concluding the trial at as early a
day as practicable, limit the party includ
ing witnesses to two hoars in the examina
tion in chief and the cross-examination to
a similar length of time, and concluding
arguments of counsel, only one to be heard
^0B each side, to six hours each. The court
■martial took tlie mutter under serious oon-
^»ldtration and will decide her&fter. It
loeka now as if Whittaker might be on the
retired army list bofore his trial is ended,
Last Week’s Cotton Figures.
The New York Commercial and Fi
nancial Chronicle, of Saturday, gives the
following figures for the seven days end
ing Friday night, 13th Instant: Receipts
of the week ending Friday, 40,150 bales,
against 24,030 for the corresponding week
of last year—showing a gain of 24,514
bales. Total receipts of the cotton year,
up to last Friday, 5,440,033 bales, against
4,0S9,104 for the same period of the cotton
year 1879-SO—showing an incretsecf750,-
800 bales. These figures compare with
those of the Cotton Exchange telegraphed
last Friday, and printed by us last Sat
urday morning, as follows:
Receipts of tho week, 48,742 bales,
againt 24,953 last year. Total receipts to
last Friday night 5,411,411, against 4,
097,657 to same date last year—showing
an iucrease of 713,754 bales. These state
ments show a discrepancy of 43,115 bales.
The Chronicle's interior port table for
the seven days ending last Friday shows
total receipts of tho week 20,288 against
11,105 for the corresponding week of last
year. Shipments 38,921 against 21,087
the same week of last year. Stocks 175,-
310 against 170,157 at same date last
year.
Chronicle's visible supply table
showed on Friday last 2,921,712 bales of
cotton in sight, against 2,805,903 at the
same date last year, 1,8S0,044 at same
date tho year before and 2,404,775 in 1878
atsame date. These figures show that
last Friday the visible supply wa3 555,
S09 bales In excess of last year at same
date—1,035,603 bales In excess of the sup
ply in 1870 at same dato and 516,937 In
excess of the supply of 1878 at same
date.
Cotton in the Liverpool market last
Friday was quoted 0J for 'middling up
land. Last Friday year the quotation
was 011-16; in 1879 at same date it was
7J, and in 1878 it was sixpence.
The Chronicle appends the following
statement to its weekly table of receipts
from plantations:
The above statement shows—
1. That the total receipts from tho plan
tations since Sept. 1 in 1880-81 were 5,588,-
378 bales; in 1879-80 were 4,857,485 bales;
in 1878-79 were 4,409,532 bale3.
2. That although tho receipts at tho ou‘-
ports the past week were 49,150 bales, the
actual movement from plantations was
only 30,517 bales, tho balance being taken
from the stocks at the interior ports. Last
year tho receipts from the plantations for
the samo week were 14,185 bales, and for
1879 they were 7,000 bales.
Tho Chronicle's weather telegrams for
tlio week ending last Friday, from the
cotton region, show good weather and a
promising crop. In Texas there have
been general and, in some few cases, ex
cessive rains. Galveston had 1.11 of rain
during the week in two days. Indianola,
in three days, bad 0.84. Corsicana only
0.19. Dallas, in one day, 0.25. Bren-
ham, in two days, two inches. Waco,
n two days, 2.21. Crops look well in
Texas—but grass}'. Grain is better than
hoped for.
In Louisiana, at New Orleans, there
were 1.40 of nin in three days of the
week. At Shreveport there were 3.78 of
rain in three days of the week. In Mis
sissippi, two rainy days iu tho week. In
Columbus, showers on three days. Cot
ton looks well In Mississippi. In Arkan
sas, at Little Rock, there were 1.79 of
rain in the week. In Tennessee, at Nash
ville, three days of light showers, in which
only 0.50 fell.
In Alabama, at Mobile, showery two
days and 0.53 of fall. In Montgomery,
showery on two days and 0.04 of fall. In
Selma, dry all the week. Cotton in Ala
bama looks well, strong and healthy, and
a good stand. Iu Florida, at Madison,
weather warm and dry. In Georgia, at
Macon, warm and dry. At Columbus,
two days of rain, in which tbo fall
measured 1.48. In Savannah, rain only
ono day of the week and fall 0.18. In
Augusta, dry, but crop looks welL
Ellison & Co., in their statement for
May, add 1,000 bales per week to British
and 1,000 bales per week to continental
consumption to previous estimates for the
whole season. Tho average weight per
bale for British deliveries to May 1st is
453 pounds. Average continental, 435.
The British consumption for April was
207,000 bales or C9,000 bales a week.
Continental consumption 55,000 bales per
week.
Foreign Immigration Mouth
The Piedmont Air-Line, Atlantic Coast
Line and Seaboard Air-Line, under the
name of the “Associated Railways of Vir
ginia and the Carolinas” have united in
theirown interests and that of the South
ern people, in a scheme to furnish cheap
transportation and employment to foreign
emigrants willing to try their fortunes in
the South; and these roads represented by
A. Pope, Esq., as general agent, desire
to receive tho co-operation of the South
ern people. We append a copy of a circu
lar Mr. Pope sends us:
Wanted.—Homes forworthy settlers and
employment for industrious immigrants,
in Virginia, North and South Carolina and
Northeast Georgia. Tho associated rail
ways of Virginia and tho Carolinas that
form tho Piodmont Air-Line, the Atlantic
Coast Line, tho Seaboard Air-Lino, presents
through its passenger department
a perfectly organized bureau
of immigration and settlement.
The work done along the Atlanta and
Charlotte Air-Lino railway, during tho past
two years, speaks for itself, in the happy
homes, well tilled farms, and thriving peo
ple nlong that line. Under the perfected sys
tem lately deviseilSOO respectable and indus
trious German emigrants Lave been located
in tho past thirty days in North and South
Carolina. Those people pass nnder onr
control from tho ports of their arrival, and
receive onr protection in properly located
immigrant homes at convenient
points along our line, until they
bny farms or find employment.
Do yon wish to sell portions of your land,
on reasonable terms/ If so, send descrip
tive lists and Dartidars to me. Do yon wish
to employ. respectable white labor of all
kinds and give fair wages and oomfortable
accommodations? If so, communicate
promptly with me. This is no wild exper
iment, bnt a matter of plain business, in
successful operation. Inquiries on the sub
ject, from the territory reached by either of
the following-named roads, addressed to
me, will meet with prompt response and
attention. Tho Piedmont Air-Line—The
Richmond and Danville, North Carolina,
Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta, Colom
bia Greenville and connection*. The Atlan
tic coast Lino—'Thetio Richmond
and Petersburg, Wilmington and Weldon,
Wilmington, Columbia and Augusta,
Northeastern, of South Carolina, the
Cheraw and Darlington, the Cheraw
and Salisbury. The Seaboard Air-Line—
The Seaboard and Roanoke, the Raleigh
and Gaston, the Raleigh and Augusta Air
line.
A. Pops, Geu’l Pass. Agent,
Richmond, Va.
Conklin* iMlgs*.
The last information by daylight Mon
day, la that Conkllng baa thrown np hia
commission as Senator from New Vork,
and retreated in good order leaving Gar
field as master of the field. Whether
Garfield has captured hia guns and am
munition remains to be seen, bnt though
Conkllng may have lost hia artillery there
i^lll be noiae enough.
A clerical friend much esteemed In
Macon sends us report of affaire in Rich
mond.
Conklin* Conti Down.
The reporters differ in their account* of
what took place at tho last so-called Re
publican caucus last Friday, and, in truth,
their reports are a mixture of sharp sight
and sharp guessing, which Is very liable
to be wrong. The New York Sun corre
spondent states flatly that Conkllng came
down, after a sort, and announced that
Robertson’s name should be reported on
Monday to the Senate or lie would ask for
the discharge of the committee from the
consideration of the nomination, which in
either event, wonltl bring it before the
Senate. It Is declared that Conkllng has
given up all hope of defeating it, and ac
cepts a sullen acquiescence in the inevita
ble, as better than a persistent fight, which
will only annoy his friends and show bis
own weakness. But the caucus broke up
like a funeral. All conceded that it was
victory of ruin. The correspondent
closes his report with the following:
Mr. Conkling is saying bnt very little.
He impressed the Senators this afternoon
with having left unsaid very much more
than he told. Ho did intimate that ho had
no favors to ask hereafter, and nono wonld
id. One of the Senators expresses
.iling idea as follows: “This is
m 3 Bull Ruu—only his first battle
in which he is worsted, and a mere skir
mish to what will follow.”
regret to see’one of them lose a dollar I “l*«*rM»t« Fio»»d»” <
on the enterprise, and perhaps our ap- It is very painful to see that the P^ Vmnatm ttsat statu ipiMmui
prehensions are unreasonable. At any • tice of obstructing railways for the un-| fjffe a Borden, *a<l m Earl ^Rising
rate, the projectors of this scheme do not doubted purpose of inflicting general
lack the knowledge obtainable by inves
tigation and practical experience.
The CoDkllnu-UarUeld-BlKlne Quar
rel.
Office Brokerage.
The Herald correspondent is “dashing
around,” with a chip on his shoulder,
noisily defying Garfield or any of his
friends for him to deny that lie and
Conkling and Granted, as alleged, trade
offthe New York offices for the Grant-
Conkliog support and active agency iu
the election. That is to say, Garfield did
agree to swap off the New York custom
house, and all the appurtenances thereto
belonging, for the Presidency. It was
good trade, so far as Garfield was cod
corned, and does liini honor os a political
trader—but was it exactly the right thing
for a President to do ? Should ho really
have bought the Presidency or “taken it
as a loan ?” And was Garfield a villain
for offering such a trade, and Conkllng an
incorruptible patriot for making it ? And
was it worse than the nubbell letter and
the attempt to procure a dividend out of
the Brady star route frauds for the Indi
ana election ? Or was it worse than the
Credit Mobilier and paving frauds, or does
not this wonderful smell of stale fish all
round the board call on Vico President
Arthur to hurry up another banquet to
Dorsey at Delmouico’s ?
The Ball road Cummin, ion of Ueorgl*.
We print, elsewhere, an article headed
as above, and credited to the Albany
News and Advertiser. It is upon a sub
ject of immense importance, not only to
the ratlroads, but to the people of Geor
gia, and deserves careful consideration by
both. Especially do wo commend it to
tlie members of the Legislature who may
be called on, at their July session, to re
examine, and perhaps revise their former
action on this important subject. It scorns
to us tbat the powers of the commission
as they now stand, are entirely too vast
and arbitrary, and we hope they may be
so limited and guarded by future legisla
tion as to ensure entire justice both to tho
railroads aud the people. Wo do not think
any three men, no matter how honest, im
partial and able they may be, should be
trusted with such power. It seems to ns
inconsistent with the genius and spirit of
our institutions.
Other States have railway commissions,
but none with .such absolute power as
ours. Let us havo a commission, if one
be necessary, modeled after tbat of Mas
sachusetts or Alabama, with limited pow
ers and clearly defined functions; one that
will be forced to hold the scales even be
tween the people and the railroads, and
see to it that, as the rights and interests
of the one are not trampled upon by cor
porations, neither shall those of tlio other
be sacrificed or abrigded at the bidding
of demagogues aud destructlonsists who
pretend to speak for, and represent the
people and their interests.
Tbe ‘•Atlanta Extension ”
We advertise to-day for -proposals to
build eighty more miles of the so-called
Atlanta extension—bids to be opened on
the 15th day of June next. By reference
to our Georgia press column, and a state
ment copied from a correspondent of the
Constitution, it will be seen that facts
r havo been accomplished iu relation to the
Brunswick railroad and a grand railway
system, with which it is to be connected,
which were foreshadowed by the telegraph
some weeks ago. A lino of road from
Rome, Ga., through Atlanta to Macon and
to Brunswick is to be built with
great rapidity, under the supervision of
Colonel Cole, who manages a new and
powerful combination, which ought to see
tbeir account in building 180 miles
through a country already supplied with
railroads beyond its capacity to amply
employ. It may work out handsomely in
connection with their general scheme, but
whether they see it with tbeir natural
eyes, or under tbo excitement of the rail
way lever, the event will tell at last. A
railway which cannot find profitable work
to do is tbe poorest property in christen
dom. It ceases to be property and is sim
ply a burden.
This most have been the case with
most American railways for several
years from 1873. Nobody wanted rail'
ways then. Many of them were done up
in tbe bands of receivers. They paid no
dividends, they were enjoined, levied on,
sold by the sheriff for a tenth of wbat
had been spent on them, and for five
years they were a scene of flight and
avoidance.
Is any man able to assign a sober, and
adequate reason why stock that was then
worth scant forty ceDts on the dollar
should now aell eagerly for 150 to 100 ?
We fear it Is a craze, a sensation; and If
another five years’ ezperienee reverses
tbe engine as it now runs, and shows us
times m which nobody wants railway
stock, and levies, receiverships, injunc
tions and no dividends again rale the
roost, will not all admit tbat it is nothing
new? It has been before; will be
again. A railroad creates no 'property.
It is not property, whenever there is not
plenty to do to enable it to pay divi
dends.
It is these ideas that suggest wonder in
connection with "railway schemes which
embrace large distances of duplicate rail
ways, over which the natural business of
the country cannot abundantly support
even one track. They ate a puszle, and
tbe more so to see wise men take heavy
ventures In them. But we must wait and
wonder. As sure as there must, of neces
sity, be an adequate cause for every con
sequence, there must be very solid rea
sons to sustain a compensating value to
every railway route. There’s nothing of
hollow sensation in the business in the
long ran. Tbe facts must be as hard as
gold or the scheme comes to grief. We
hop* tbe new route will pay. We shall
WHAT IT INVOLVES—WHAT 18 ITS MORAL.
One great gratifying fact is deduciblo
from this so-called Republican emeute
aud it is this: That dictatoral, tyrannical
domineering and despotic temper which
for fifteen years has found sole expression
and relief upon the defenseless Southern
States, has, at last, by natural course.of
events struck inwardly—turned upon the
bowels of tbe so-called Republican party,
and given it a very severe spasm of colic.
Though Conkling strains to show that
some great public interests and questions
are involved In the quarrel, it Is transpar
ently nothing more than a fight between
partisans and partisan cliques for the pos
session and use of the public patronage
for tbeir own benefit to tho exclusion of
others. That is all it is.
Conkling claims that it is an effort by
Garfield to bulldoze New York and the
Senate. He is in a bad situation to talk
about bulldozing 1 Who was bulldozing
New York, Pennsylvania, the Republican
National Convention, tbe party and the
couutry, when Conkling and Cameron
were running their great third term ma
chine by which they proposed to gag all
opposition—to silence minorities and arm
majorities with the power of the whole?
It was a contrivance similar to that estab
lished by him in the Senate caucus a lew
weeks ago, under which one objecting
Senator tied tbe whole body. Conkling is
a natural born bulldozer, and tbe last
man in the world to complain of his own
medicine.
Again, he substantially charges Garfield
with trading in public olfices—with
breaches of faith, lying and deception,
The real truth, is Conkling made the
trade by which he thought ho and Grant
had sold the presidency to Garfield for
the control of the New York appoint
ments ; but so soon as they had made the
transfer Garfield broke his word and slip
ped out of all his engagements, which
Conkling could not do, because lie had
performed his part of the bargain. No
body is surprised tbat Coukling should be
very angry about it, but be is in no condi-
ditlon to preach about corrupt trading in
offices simply because he ha3 been swin
dled out of his part of the bargain. He
traded off the presidency to Garfield aud
look for his price a bogus promise of the
New York appointments. Conkling paid
In good bills but Garfield’s were counter
feit, which Conkling failed to detect. Nor
has Conkling or the Republican
party any right to complain of Garfield’s
dishonesty. They knew it all before, and
elected Garfield with a full understanding
that his character was irrefutably com
promised, and he could not be de
pended on.
Conkling and Platt now, with a great
show of generous magnanimity and cour
age, throw up tbeir commissions and ap
peal to the people, as represented by tbo
New York Legislature against tbe ad
ministration. It is a mere show. They
can tell now within six votes what the
Legislature will do, and know that with
in forty-eight Lours they would bo re
elected to tbeir positions with the vantage
ground of a special endorsement from the
great State of New York. It is a policy
suggested solely by selfishness. If they
really desire to quiet controversy and
sure the parly they would not bring on
a fight now, but let a sober public opin
ion decide tlio matter iu tlie ordinary
course oT party history.
Garfield is a tricky man—without moral
courage and without integrity. Blaine,
tho man who stands behind, is a bold
Alcibiadcs, but all know bow his integrity
has been compromised. But Conkling is
the worst of the three, aud neither of them
has a particle of single-minded patriotism
or concern for the public welfare.
For fifteen years or more tlio country
has been in the hands of trading politi
cians. Every department of tho govern
ment ha3 beep knee-deep In the filthy
ordure of shameless scheming to misap
propriate the public revenue and influence
to personal aud party advantage. Public
dishonesty is so general tbat oven the
claim to public virtue Jis scouted at
as necessarily hypocritical. Hence, tbo
charge that Garfield had traded oil his
official duty and responsibility fur money
made no impression on tbo people; be
cause, they said, politicians generally are
thieves, and we might as well take
known thief 03 anybody else upon the
slim chance that ho may be honest. For
a similar reason, tbe gigantic criino of
fraudulently counting in a defeated candi
date for tbe presidency made no apparent
impression on the minds of tbo people,
Tbo country must be in the bauds of
trading politicians or traitors and rebels,
aud we will trust tho traders before tho
rebels.
But it may be tbat tbe excess of public
demoralization may, iu time, work out
cure. Is it not apparent that tho haughty,
domineering spirit of the Republican par
ty bas at last culminated in an intestine
division. A man or a party who habit
ually nurses an exacting, vindictive and
domineering temper cannot depend on
confining its display to enemies and out
siders, and thus an evil house may fall
when “divided against itself.” Such is
our hope in this quarrel, and this is all
the interest we take In It. It is going to
be a 1 ong and bitter fight and no man can
forecast tbe consequences which may re
sult from It.
death and destruction, is coming into
sight again It Is inconceivable how men
can sink into such an abyss of moral de
pravity as to set a trap for the purpose of
inflicting sudden and cruel death and
mangling, (it may well be), on hundreds
of his fellow creatures, not one of whom
he may know personally, and who, of
course, have given him no offense. He is
a perfect illustration of the old English
definition of the murderer, as an enemy
of the human race and fatally bent on mis
chief. The human butcher who labors
under some real or landed wrong, and in
telligently measures the injury his stroke
will inflict, is an angel compared to him
who sows murder broadcast,- utterly care
less of whom it hits. The laws should deal
in an exemplary fashion with such fiends
Counting aud Platt.
Should it happen, through an unexpect
ed cous'.ruction of the United States stat
utes bearing on the process of filling va
cancies by legislative election, that
Conkling aud Platt cannot be re-elected
before next January, and must go back to
the Senate upon, a ticket for six mouths’
service furnished by Governor Cornell, it
will be a slim showing for glory and tri
umph, won’t it? Then if, to crown their
ill luck, tlie legislative elections next fall
should leave one of the New lork houses
with a Democratic majority, so that neither
Platt nor Conkling can be re-elected, the
exhibition will be slimmer still. Instead
of the refrain,
“See tho conquering Conkling comes 1
Sound the trumpets, beat the drams 1”
we will have to sing,
“Seo a conple all forlorn
Emerge from the small end of tlie horn 1
which would bo heart-rending aud raise a
universal gobble in the farm yard.
HOW GAUFIEl.lt OOT THE XO.ll
I.YATI OX.
RoMb
Xeto York Suit.
“I have petitioned the board of health
on two occasions to have those birds sup
pressed, but without effect,” said Mr. _ __
Henry Sprecman, a passenger agent at 18 j out of repair,' will 'pl7ase“appW re The
First street, rubbing liis bead vigorously I Eagle office for two days.
“Certainly. Tho tools was outside
you know, four sets on ’em in—what’s this
they carry tools iu?”
“A kit?”
“And that old speckled ben sot on them
four kits, aud if she didn’t batch out four
brood o’”—
Parties desiring to exchange a new
scythe for a second-hand one, somewhat
and scowling out of the window. “Now
1 have under way a prayer to be signed
by all tbe - residents of the immediate
neighborhood. If that doesn’t fetch
them I’ll join the Nihilists.”
“What’s wrong with tbe birds.”
“What's wrong? Why,tbe infernal
BSt I will keep cool and cxplaiu. I come
into ray office at au early hour in the
morning, throw open the window and get
to work. By the time I’m thoroughly
absorbed, Mrs. Brown, in No. 10, uext
door, rises, looks out upon the calm and
beautiful morn, ami immediately produces
the parrot, ami hangs him up by tny win
dow. Then I begin to havo unpleasant
forebodings and a quaking feeling about
the heart. .As a general thing a dead si
lence reigns for some time. Then a
piercing shriek cleaves the air, aud tho
caucus opens m earnest. The parrot
yells ‘Good morning!’ like a Long Island
foghorn, sings ‘I’m amaltesemaslier from
the Fourteenth ward 1’ in a blood-curdling
A Lady Lawyer's Itetart.
San Jose Mercury.
v Judge Tyler, or San Francisco, is well
known to the bar of that city as a most
formidable opponent, both foreusically
aud physically, as many a “learned coun
sel” upon the other side has found out to
his sorrow.
The Judge, who is used to dominating
his brethren of tlie bar, recently met his
match in the lady lawyer of San Francis
co, Clara S. Foltz, who clipped his wind
in a manner that well nigh suffocated
him. The story is too good to be lost.
The case of Tyler vs. The Hibernia
Savings Bank was pending before one of
tho city courts, involving the right to a
certain deposit of funds' in said bank.
Tyler was his own attorney, and Mrs.
Foltz was attorney tor the bank. It
seems that Tyler, by a little bit of sharp
practice, was trying to ring in a “cold
deck” tn the shape of a default that had
falsetto, aud tala slang like a bootblack, been mmwT
After this thing has been kept up for liaf „f {ha ™
an hour Mrs. Berresdorf of two doors be- JLJPSL ***L
Born* More “Enterprise.”
Tbe most importaut news by telegraph
Monday,, was the letter from the New
York Senators to the Governor of
tbat SUte, resigning their seats. Every
paper iu the United States taking
the Associated Press dispatches, printed
that letter yesterday morning, except one.
And, straDge to say, that one was the At
lanta Constitution, whose peculiar pride
and boast is “enterprise.” We have be
fore us the issue of tbat paper dated
Tuesday, May 10th, but the closest search
fails to find not only the letter itself, bnt
any mention of it, whatever. So much
for attempting to palm off upon tbe peo
ple of this section a falsely dated paper
which does not, and cannot print either
the latest, or aa full telegraphic news at
is dally found In tbe Telegraph and
Messenger.
We feel a languid cariosity to see how
the Redater will explain this little mat
ter to the readers of its “middle Georgia
edition.”
An Interesting Story Accounting for
tbe Tidal Wave for Garfield nt Chi
enxo Wbleb Carried Him Over the
Ear, While ItHwamned Grnnt,Btalue
aud Sherman—How Nhcrinau and
Garfield Fool Each Other, Eut Gar
field Fools Worst.
The Washington correspondent of the
Courier-Journal of Tuesday tells this re
markable story which further illustrates
the slipperiness of tho President:
Early in 18S0 an association of Penn
sylvania Republicans, mostiy belongiug to
what is known as “the Independent ele
ment,” was formed, one of the chief ob
jects of which was the securing of tho de
feat of Grant and Blaine at Chicago. Tbe
masterspirits of this association were
Wharton Barker and Wayne MacVeagh.
To effect their purpose it was thought ad
visable to be prepared with a candidate
or candidates oftlieir own, who should be
brought forward at tho proper time. It
was finally decided that either Garfield or
Edmunds should be their choice. This
fact was communicated to Garfield some
time in the spring of 1880, aud it was soon
ascertained tbat “Barkus was willin’.”
Meanwhile John Slierman got wind of
the Philadelphia movement, thought at
first he was not aware of the candidate
fixed upon by the Barker-MacVcagb*asso
ciation, and be went on to Philadelphia
some weeks before the Chicago conven
tion for the purpose of ascertaining
whether he himself could not secure the
assistance of the Independent Republican
clement. While in Philadelphia ho went
down the river with a friend in a revenue
cutter. Among those on board was Whar
ton Barker’s father. In conversation with
the latter, Sliennati’s candidacy was men
tioned, and Sherman intimated he would
be glad of the support of tho Independent
Republican association.
Mr. Barker thereupon frankly told him
tbe association had selected Garfield as
tbeir first choice. Sherman expressed
surprise at that announcement. He at
once returned to Washington^nd set his
wits to work to thwart this Garfield move
ment, aud for the purpose of beading bun
oil'he aud his friends urged Garfield to
go to Chicago at the head of the Ohio del
egation to represent Sherman’s candidacy.
Garfield at once informed his Philadel
phia friends ol Sherman’s wishes, where
upon Wharton Barker came to Washing
ton to consult aud advise Garbeld. He
finally asked Garfield whether it would’nt
be a good plan for him to accept Sher
man’s commission to Chicago, and th($re
bo in a position, in case the contingency
should arise, to effect his own nomina
tion.
Garfield’s reply was, “I will try it.” It
was a matter of common knowledge here
that Garfield didn’t finally decide to go to
Chicago until some timo after Sherman
had requested 1dm to go. It Is also capa
ble ot positive proof that just before leav
ing for Chicago, ail intimate friend, i
member of the House ol Representatives,
inquired of Garfield, “Whom are you go
ing to nominate at Chicago?” to which
Garfield replied, “Well, I' hink I have as
good a chance as any of them.”
Garfield’s remarkable speech in nomi
nating Sherman, aud which it was gener
ally conceded had much to do with secur
ing his own nomination, aud the general
facts connected with the proceedings of
tbe convention, are well known. During
tho campaign Wharton Barker had assur
ances from Garfield that it was tho inten
tion to appoint him Secretary of the
Treasury. These assurances are under
stood to havo been made both orally and
by letter.
So confident was Mr. Barker tbat lie
met tbo President-elect on tbe route to
Washington at some point in Ohio, and
rode with Lira as lar as Harrisburg.
When he reached Philadelphia, after tliut
trip, Mr. Barker was entirely satisfied ho
would be made Secretary of tbe Treasury,
aud, at the request ot the editor of a Phil
adelphia newspaper, prepared a brief
sketch ot his life, which was put in type
and ready to be used at once when the
cabinet was announced. On the night
before the cabinet nominations were sent
to tho Senate, Mr. Barker was informed
by tlie President that, a recast of tlie cabi
net was necessary, and it would involve
tho appointment of some one from the
Northwest for the position of Secretary of
the Treasury. The recast was made and
Barker was left out. Since these occur
rences, and particularly in view of tho ap
pointment of MacVeagh, his associate tn
the original Garfield movement, Mr. Bar
ker bas learned that the President had
decided upon MacVeagh’s appointment
as the Pennsylvania representative in the
cabinet soon after tbo November election.
How to H” T. Mules.—Macon, August
and other Georgia oitiee are foil of West
ern oora almost hot enough to burst into a
flame. In order to kill your mulee buy and
feed it out to them. There’s oolic in every
quart of it
Mas. Gabweld Menddio.—The Wash
ington Post of Taeaday says: The bulle
tins from tho White House yesterday con
veyed the gratifying intelligence that Mrs.
Garfield is steadily improving. It was not
considered necessary to have any other
physician to see her than Dr. Boynton, her
relative. Her fever had muoh abated, the
temperature having fallen nearly a degree
in the twenty four hours, Mrs. Garfield
sleeps well, and tho homeopathic remedies
administered are given with a view to en-
oourage this, and on awakening a gentle
tonic is prescribed. The physicians have
great hopes from the long and natural
sleeps the patient takes. A large number
of inquirers oalled at the White House
yesterday to obtain the latest information
regarding the patient’s condition. In
severalof the ohurohes prayers were of
fered “for the speedy recovery of the
President's wife.” Hereafter information
regarding Mrs. Garfield’s condition will
be given exclusively by Dr. Boynton.
The Peach Chop.—The Herald of Mon
day reports an almost total failure of the
peach orop. The Oarolinas will furnish a
few, but Delaware and Maryland are utter
ly without fruit, Pears and apples prom
ise well.
low, enters the field. Her parrot is an il
lustration of what may be done by a bird
of steady nerve and invincible determina
tion.
About a year ago that charm
ing little pet began to sing
tlie first note of the scale in D
fiat major. It sang tlie first note in its
cracked voice all day long without a mo
ment’s intermission for three mouths.
The effect was Wagnerian. Slowly it
learned the rest of tlie scale, until now it
sings the whole thing, Including tbe dom
inant seventh, without more than six mis
takes at each repetition. This must com
mand your admitaliou. It does mine.
“Well, sir, these two birds pursue their
several ways, vocally speaking, for ten
hours a day, and I have to sit here and
bear it all patiently Now, I protest; 1 re
volt. Either those birds must die, or I
must, aud I prefer tbat they should go
first.”
When tlie reporter rang the doorbell of
Mrs. Brown’s house a shrill voice rang
through the passage:
“Maggie, open the door and slug him.”
This was not reassuriug. Mrs. Brown
opened tbe door.
“I’m sure I don’t seo how any one can
complain of tbe parrot,” said she feeling
ly. “Wo don’t wish to annoy the neigh
bors, but that person next door is far be
low our contempt. I guess be would poi
son all the world if lie could, but bo can’t.
Our dear little pet is as quiet and lova-
blo She was obliged to come to a
stop hero while tlie pet screamed, “Look
a-liere, I’m no iive-cent rounderl”
“Ho bas been ofbrheariug tlie street
boys, and bas picked up some of tbeir
rough talk, but he’s a good bird all tbe
same.”
A girl opened tbo door at Mrs. Bencs-
doifs house.
■ “Oh, sir, our parrot, sir, and only sings
to itself during the livelong day, doin’ no
harm, sir,” said she.
A walk around tho corner of First street
and up Avenue A to No. 49 brings a visi
tor to the residence of Mr. Harper, who
lives in the rear. Mr. Harper has also
petitioned tho Board of Health. Perhaps
it would bo more accurate to say tbat
Mrs. Harper petitioned the board, as her
nerves arc said to suffer the most. The
cause of tho trouble is a pretty little robin
red-breast in tbe rear window of No 51,
aud is owned by Mrs. Egbert. Mr. Har
per and bis wife were out of town when
the reporter called, but another tenant
told tlie story.
“Don’t use my name,” 3ald he, “for
Egbert’s the landlord aud would fire me
out. You seo the trouble witb tbat bird
is that lie ain’t got apy discretion. When
the sun is bright aud the breezes blowing
that robin simply fuuk3 in ono corner of
Ills cage and does nothing; but when it’s
cold and unpleasant at 5 o’clock in tbe
morning he comes out strong. That little
thing can make as much noise as a' Sec
ond avenue railroad train on au up grade.
Well, Mis. Harper wants to sleep in the
morning. It’s no use. Tbat young Turk
starti out before daylight, and never stops
till every one in the neighbutliood is wide
awake. That’s the reason that Harper
prays for him to be killed.
A ISRMlSM Hail.
Brooklyn Bugle.
“How d’ye do?” ho asked, with a gnn
of famhiar recognition. “Don’t seem to
know me, do ye? 1 was in here last fall
aud givo you some anecdotes about some
snakes down in my section. Don’t you
remember?”
“Yes,” growled tho city editor.” “I re
collect you. All your suake'stories were
lies, and wo got letters from all over our
town saying so. Wbat do you want
now ?”
“You don’t tell me,” ruminated tbe
snake man, smoothing his hat softly.
“Lies, was they? Meulia the parties as
writ to yerknowd more about them snakes
than me. P’rbaps what I come to tell yer
about my speckled hen with a blue hackle
is all lies, too.”
“What bas she done?”
“She’s done niore’n the snakes, and if
the snakes war lies, that hen’s whopper,
that’s all I can say,” aud he looked deep
ly injured.
“Tell us about her, anyhow,” said the
city editor.
“Yer beam about tbe cat that hatched
chickens, 1 reckon. Well, my old speck
led hen’s been discountin’ that cat. She’s
hatched four brood of kittens, one iu
each brood.”
“Oli, go borne, and sleep it off!” recom
mended the indignant city editor.
“Fact I Four brood, and one to the
brood. I seen her geitlu’ restless aud set-
teu around ou things, and tried fer to
knock her out o’ the idee. No use. She’d
set duto a hot flat iron but what she’d set.
Fust she hatched an old uiilk pail Into tin
cups, aud then she squatted on some
dough that was sot to rise, and I’m
slugged if she didn’t hatch out a dozen
biscuit and then try to learn ’em to swim.
I seen she was gittin’ right broody, and I
says to the old woman, says I, ‘Mar,
sunipin’ must be done fer tbe speckled
Leu witb tbe blue hackle.’ Mar tumbled
to the idee, and says she, ‘Yer bel yer
life 1’ so with that we Uggcred what we’d
best do. While we was tiggerin’ she sot
on a lead o’ cold wood, and I’ll eat a
grind stun if it didn’t come out all sawed
and split. I’m tollin’ yer this so yer won’t
think the kittens was nnnat’ral. Well,
mar and me figgored and tig-
gered, and while we was
figgerin’ the speckled hen was figgerin’
too. She hopped on to a bar’lo’serap
iron, and I’m drunk if she didn’t whack
out too hundred papers o’ tacks. We
seen that sumpin’ had got fer to be done
right off, but before we hit onto the
scheme, yer can lick me if a tornado
didn’t take tho roof right otTn lay house.
Of course, yer know, we fergot the old
lien fer a few days. Dog my skin if she
didn’t set ou tlie pump handle aud hatch
it into toothpicks. Sure’s yer bora.
Somehow my reapin’ machine got under
her one night, and the next morniu’it
was railroad spikes. Yer never seen
nothin’ like it. She was bent fer to set.
I’ll tell yer. .There was three hard shell
clams out in tho yard, xnd she sot ou
them and hatched out lobsters. If she
didn’t I’m a liar.”
“No doubt of it. Bnt how about the
kittens ?”
“Well, tbe men come to put a new roof
on the house; got there Just before dinner,
and left their tools into the yard. I seen
the old ben watchin’ them tools, but I
didn't think no harm. Just before that”—
•Never mind anything else. Come
down to tbe cats.”
“Jist so. While we was at dinner I
seen her explorin’ around and I didn’t
know from what happened the day be
fore.”
“Drop that,” said the city editor, stern
ly. Give us the four brood of cats, in one
brood.”
bench wonld have sent 'tlio defendent
out of court. Mrs. Foltz showed
up the matter satisfactorily to the court
aud the default was promptly set aside,
This nettled Judge Tyler considerably
and turning to tho lady counsel ho said
sliafply, In a manner intended to be in
tensely impressive, that “counsel had bet
ter be engaged in other business,’’ tbat “a
woman’s place was at home raising her
children.”
The words were scarcely uttered before
Mrs. Foltz rose in her queenly way, and
Dashing her blue eyes straight into the
Judge’s florid lace, she quietly remarked:
“A woman had better bo engaged in al
most any business than in raising such
nen as you are, sir.”
Tho court commanded order, but in a
tone tbat seemed to appreciate the justice
of the retort, while a number ot lawyers
in court, some of whose heads Judge
Tyler has held in “chancery” ou former
occasions, came near exploding with sup
pressed laughter.
The counsel turned white with anger
and groaned in spirit, but concluded that
it was better to drop the subject then aud
there.
Philadelphia Times.
The hole where Mahone disappeared
ought to bo enlarged to let Conkling
through.
Where They Stack.
.V Y Herald
A jury in Bangor, Me., gave a verdict for
$150.02‘s'. They fought for two hour* ou
the half cent.
Edwla Booth's Appear.,,* am
the »fa*e.
II ilham Winter in Harper's for June, f
Edwin Booth's first appearance on tha
regular stage was made Sept. 10,1B49 at
the Boston Museum, iu the little part ot
Tressil, in Clibber’s version of “Richard
III.” Junis Brutus Booth, his father-
the rival of Edmund Kean, and one of
the greatest tragedians that ever lived—
was then keeping an engagement at the
museum, aud Edwin was in attendance
on him as a dresser. Tressil had been
cast to the prompter of tlie theatre, but it
chanced tbat this person wished to avoid
the duty of acting it, and
that he succeeded iu ne r _
suading Edwin t0 undertake
it. This arrangement was made with,
out the elder Booth’s knowledge,
and he only became aware of it by read
ing in tlie play-bill the announcement of
lussons first appearance, duly under-
lined. Fool, was all he said when ho
read this announcement; and this remark
was not understood to mean encourage
ment. When tbe night came, and Edwin
had dressed his father for Glostcr and
himself for Tresil, the eccentric parent—
who, beneath an outward aspect of indif
ference, loved this soil with the fondest:
affection—took a chair, lit a cigar, and
viewing tbe youth with a critical eye,
made this inquiry, “Do you know that
you are supposed to have been riding
hard and far ?”
“Yes, sir.”
“Where are your spurs?”
“I havn’t any.”
“Take mine”—bolding cut one booted
leg.
The boy took tbo spurs, and went on
for bis little scene witb King Henry IV.
When he returned his father was still sit
ting negligently in the chair, smoking tha
cigar. “Give me my spurs,” lie said,
again holding out bis leg; aud this was
all tbe comment tbat Edwin Booth’s first
professional appearance ever elicited from
the parent whom he idolized. He learned
subsequently, though, that his father had
been down at the wing aud watched this
first effort with evident interest and satis
faction, and then hastened back to his
nonchalant posa iu the dressing-room.
There never, surely, could have been a
more singular being than Junius Brutus
Booth. This little trait of character is
but ono of thousands tbat marked'him as
a unique person.
BRIEFS.
Philadelphia Times.
Gorman is gone; RiSdlebergcr is gone
and Chandler is gone. Tho season seems
to be an unhealthy one for political tramps.
Cincinnati Enquirer, Bern
The great national questions which the
Republican party brings to the front, such
as Mahone and Riddloberger and Gorham
and Robertson, not to speak of Brady &
Co., have somewhat contused tho public
mind. Wbat is tlie government for, any
how?
Philadelphia Times.
Senator Conkling seems to have become
excited yesterday because some of the Re
publican Senators bad the unparalleled au
dacity to do something without bis consent.
This country ought to be enlargod to two
or three times its present size so as to give
that man Conkling a fair chance to spread
himself.
St. Louis Globe Democrat, Conkling Organ.
The talk about Bob Lincoln for 1884, is
all nonsense, bat it lacks the elemefit of
positive idiocy which is contained in the
suggestion of Blaiue as n candidate.
N Y World.
A correspondent who asks to what politi
cal party he should be credited, or debited,
is respectfully informed that Mnhone seems
to belong to what tho French call the
“Lcft”—!eft ont in tho cold,,,
Chicago Tribune.
Mr. Watterson, tho 2 a.m. editor of tho
Louisville Ceurier-Journal, has written a
long letter to his paper defending Mr.
Whitelaw Reid, tho connubial bliss editor
of the New York Tribune, against a fero
cious assault made by Mr. Charles A. Dana,
the 2.19K editor of tlio Bun. What tho peo
ple out this way want to know is whothor
or not Whitelaw wus married in eern stock
ings, cat Pompadonr.
i hiladtlphia Press (Horrid Bad)
Like his namesake, the great original Jo
seph, his political coat now is of many col
ors, and though some of his brethren, par
ticularly the .Jell Davis sympathizers, might
like to feed him to the wild boasts, rather
than make a president or him, ho may, like
the other Joseph again, come oat a li
way ahead lieforo this thing is over,
takes a last-ditch man and an original se
cessionist to come down on his feet like a
cat whenever his balance is upset. Mr.
Brown is ono of that sort.
London Truth.
Lord Beaconsfiold has left a very small
amount of money. Hughenden was pur
chased for him by a friend, and be paid
this friend interest on tho purchase money,
so that it was only his nominally. When
Mrs. Brydges Wyllyams left him £10,000,
most of this was absorbed by the payment
of debts. He had bought aud furnished
hi* house in Curzon street with the money
paid to him for “Endymion.” Considering
tho opportunities that ho had to euritn
himself, had ho so pleased, tho comparative
poverty in which he died is os honorable to
him as it was to Pitt. .
“Well, the four workmen were at din
ner, aud the old speckled ben with a bine
hackle was nosin' around, and says I to UVIL iov , OUO r^ u.,n ^ cxxm, m
mar, ‘Mar’”— dituif need be, that even so mean a rebel
“Out with the cats, quick,” and the city as William Mahone may be vindicated by
editor took down a scythe. the ultimate truth of history.
Washington Post.
The people of tho Sonth stand in no need
of outsido interference or advice. They
are not a mission field to bo in traded upon
by emissaries of sectionalism, repudiation,
or Republicanism in any form. They are
safe as they are. Their-“solidity” is their
bulwark. They have no time to renew po
litical strifes. Their interests lie in the
farthest possible direction the other way.
The new Garlleld-Mahono movement is
like tlie serpent that entered Eden. Let
the people of the South bo wiser than their
original progenitors, and stamp out the
snake at the gate.
Washington Special to Baltimore Sun.
The last official statement of the condi
tion of tho national bonks, issued May 7th
from the office ot the comptroller of the
currency, presents ono or two features
which are just beginning to attact attention.
The total amount of United States bonds
on deposit to secure -the circulation of the
national banks is given as $354,978,000.
According to the law only SO per cent, of
the amount of these bonds is allowed to be
issued iu national bank notes. But tlie
same report states the amount of national
bank circulation outstanding as $353,294,-
351. over $33,000,000 in exoees of the 90 per
cent, allowed by law* and very near tlie to
tal amount of tbe bonds deposited. Con
gressional inquiry will be directed to this
matter at the first opportunity. Another
fact shown by tbe statement is that of the
whole vast amount of over $354,000,000 in
bonds belonging to the banks, only about
a 17,000,000 are in 3>f per oents. Evidently
te national banks are not hankering after
the 3X per cents.
Washington Post.
Many others as thoroughly identified
with secession as Mr. Davis, both in senti
ment and act, have chosen an uncondition
al surrender to the force of events, rather
than stubborn and fruitless adherence to a
cause that is hopelessly lost. There are
men of this character now in the servioe of
the Federal government. There is even a
“Confederate brigadier” in the United
States Senate, trading his vote with the
men who but yesterday would have hung
both him and Jail Davis to "a sour apple
tree.” But the president of the late South
ern Confederacy has elected to aooept the
situation in a different way. He may be
wrong, but be is not servile. He may not
be just to himself, but he is certainly mag
nanimous in laying all he ha* upon the al
tar as an expiation f or the sins of his rebel
lious countrymen. Compared witb such as
be, how small and poor in all respects of
manhood seem those who have chained
themselves to the chariot of the conqueror
to prove the abjeotness of their recanta
tion. Yet Jefferson Davis stands ready to
—We had the pleasure of a call yester
day from Mr. Isaac O. Thompson, of tho
Georgia Chalybeate Springs, the merits of
which watering piaco Mr. Thompson is in
Macon prerenting and impressing upon
<5ur citizens.
—The Harmonic Society expect next
week to give a matinee performance of the
Sorcerer.
—The Harmonic Society propose, at a
near day, to present the oratorio of “Moses
in Egypt.”
—Mr. W. M. Johnston, of New York, and
George H. Hazlehurst, Esq., of Chatta
nooga, are in the city.
—A mail ponch for Silver City, New
Mexico, passed through the Macon transfer
office yesterday morning.
—Held for postage, ono packngo for Asa
S. Bates, Columbas, Ga., and ono letter for
W. J. Heard, Warwick, Ga.
—The City of Macon reached Savannah
safely from New York Tuesday, with a big
freight and a number of passengers.
—A number of representatives of St.
Omer Commandery No. 2, of Macon, are
attending tho session of tho Grand Com
mandery in Atlanta.
—Mr. Shep Shepherd, ono of the highly
esteemed yonng gentlemen of West Point
Ga., is in Macon on his return from Savon,
nab.
—Mr. Harry S. Edwards, left last night
on a visit to Cumberland. He will be short
ly followed by a large crowd seeking health
and pleasure at this delightful seaside re
sort
—Tho silvern tongue of Hon. Thomas
Hardeman, American Commissioner, is
telling the people of Lonisvillo, Kentucky,
of tho Atlanta groat Cotton Exposition.
Who is more qualified and capable of such
a tank than this popular and eloquent
Georgia orator ?
—Rev. Samuel P. Jones arrived in tho
city last evening on his return from Co
lumbas, where he has been engaged con
ducting a highly successful series of revira
meetings. There are many in Macon who
wonld like -for his efforts to be exerted
again in onr city.
—Mr. R. F. Reynolds, tho popular ticket
agent, at the passenger depot,of the Macon
and Brunswick road, is in attcndanco on
Athens fireman’s parade. Mr. Sam Hoge,
with his nsual courtesy and ability, dis
charges tlie duties of Mr. Reynolds in tho
absencoof that gentleman.
—Tho members of the Macon Volunteers
band are earnestly requested to assemble
to-night at tho armory at 8 o’clock. This ex
cellent organization will play tills evening
at Ralston Hall, on tho oocasion of Gen
eral Lee’s lecture. Let every member of
tho band meet promptly.
—Adams’ Park was a scono of pleasure
yesterday on tho occasion of a grand pio*
nichetdthero by tho excellent people of
Twiggs county. Some forty Maconites at
tended, among them boing (whose names
we caught on tho fly) Peter Solomon, Esq.,
Mrs. L. Ripley, Miss Annie Maitland and
Miss French, of Nashville, who is a guest
of Mr. Solomon, in Vineville. The day
was most delightful in every respect.
—Hmry Grady says in a telegram from
New York that President Wadloy, of tho
Central railroad, is there and is said to ba
arranging to divide the Ocoan Steamship
Company's stock, about $4,000,090, to tha
Central stockholders. This will be GO per
cent, stock divides. A difficulty is said to ba
found in tho terms of the lease of the South
western railroad,which provides that when
ever the Central railroad dividos its stock,
the accumulation or assets to its own
stockholders, it shall divido the same to
the Southwestern stockholders in the pro
portion of 8 to 10. This makes about
twelve million dollars instead of seven
million dollars to divido tho Ocean Steam
ship stock between. If this difficulty can
be evaded, the stock dividend is said to ba
sure.
IIOXOR8 TO JtACOYITES.
The Next Sewlox ef the Qeargl* State-
Dental Society to Meet in Macon.
The Georgia State Dental Society closed
its thirteenth annual session, in Savannah,
after having a very interesting, profitable
and harmonious meeting.
After electing the following officers the
society adjourned to meet in Maocn, on the
second Tuesday in May, 1382:
President, Dr. W. M Ford, of Macon;
vice president, A. L. Smith, Valdosta; seo-
ond vice president, D. Happs, Savannah;
corresponding secretary, Dr. L. D. Carpen
ter, Atlanta; recording secretary, Dr. B. A*
Holliday, Atlanta ; treasurer, H. A. Law-
renoe, Athens.
Executive and State Examining Board-
Dr. J. H. Coyl, Thomosville; Dr. L.D. Car
penter, Atlanta ; Dr. G. W. McElhaney,
West Point; Dr. A. G. Bouton, Savannah;
Dr. 8. B. Barfield, Macon.
The society did well, and showed sound
wisdom in selecting Dr. W. M. Ford, of
Maoon, as president He is a highly pel*
iahed gentleman in every respect, and
thoroughly versed in the acienoo of hix pro
fession. The appointment of Dr. 8-
Barfield, of Maoon, as a member of the ex
ecutive and State examining board, waft
also extremely fitting. He is one of tha
meet sucoeaefol dentists of the city. Wft
are glad that the society selected Maoon »•
the place of the next meeting. Centrally
located, beautiful and hospitable, Macon ift
pre-eminently the proper city above all
others.