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W. W. CARIES, Bvslaeaa Manager.
Rochambeaa family, as well as the descen
dants of all the prominent French officers
who participated in the battle of Yorktown,
Will be well represented on the famous
Virginia battle field. Temple Farm, on
I the York Hirer, will be given to the mili
tary tor an encampment ground, the asso
ciation furnishing bedding and water to
the troops gratuitously.
Winer the Louisville and-Nashville rail
road entered Georgia for the purpose of de
veloping the transportation facilities of
the State, the Constitution favoreditspur-
pose by every means in its power, when
the Cole syndicate, backed by some of the
best and strongest men in theconntry,
LstlsrsfCaplala Kasai.
In an able and candidly written letter
to Hon. D. C. Bacon, member of the Leg
islature from Chatham county, Captain
Raoul, Vive-Fresident of the Central rail
road, uses the following strong and con
vinclng arguments in opposition to the
policy of tbe Railroad Commission:
The railroads,with an honesty of purpose
and a perseverance in their efforts which
I fear will never be known _or believed by
any save those who have toiled in the ser-
to
I available to the planters there
oompete with the local factors
warehousemen neither for the better
I handling of and realizing on the planters
crops nor for the easier terms of furnishing
supplies and advancing the means for
! making the crops.
j Some good ft is to be hopod will yet
grow out of these discussions; possibly it
may bring to publio attention the benefits
I conferred upon the State by the railroads , ■ . .... .....
in so widely distributing commercial ad- Bay—and you might have called It tbeu
TERUAPIX TALK.
Tbe Way Tnry Cooked Diamond-
Backs In Maryland Forty Years
Ago—A Visit Wbteh Will Never bo
Forgotten—Old Anns Melinda I ells
Monaethlug Worth Knowing.
From the Washington Republican.
It was in a little cove in Chesapeake
vantages among the whole people. This is
only right for the roads to do. It is but
reasonable that the State should require it
v!m, have, after long years of trial, failed | did tbe companies not do it of their own
to satisfy the public..
Now,oan it be hoped that this committee or
the General Assembly * ** M ~
trie
• ~ enters Georgia for thei purpose of adding investigation,Will be moresuoecssful. Can
If uraah and cfttfSSCUflff. to our transportation facilities and at the they be assured when satisfyingeneseotion,
djv *• | game time competing with a powerful com- I clamoring for that which is to yield them
will, but they nave done it and are still pro-
grossing in that direotion. And I think it
with less time for its I can bo asserted without danger of success-
consideration, restricted opportunities for | ful contradiction that they have made more
the borne of the terrapin—that was thirty-
four yean ago, and still people in those
days thought they were scarce. I have
beard an old inhabitant say: “He and
my boy used to go out to the salt marsh
of mornings, before the sun was well up,
FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 2,1831.
Can't the Christisucy’divorce" suit be dis
infected somehow before any more of it is
passed around •?
The Tad os Santos mines, are owned by a
New York odmpany, and yielded
$100,090 last year at an expense of $15,000.
The friends and admirers of the great
est Jew baiter in Germany, Herr Bucppel,
have nominated him for tbe Reichstag
from Berlin.
The Belleville voting district at Paris is
the nest of revolutions in France. Since
1818 every revolution first budded among
the Bellevillians.
Oveb fourteen thousand men are at work
on the Mexican Central railroad, and sev
enty-five miles of traok have been comple
ted. c. .
At Yorkville, Ill., tbe groat drought con
tinues. The pastures are literally burned
up, presenting very scant grazing for stock.
The farmers are cutting np com and feed
ing it to tbe stock. The com and potato
crops are seriously affected.
The banks of England. France, and Bel
gium havo raised their rates of discount,
and the banks of Germany and Holland
are expected to follow. Tbe American de
mand for gold is thus seen to affect a wide
area. It therefore meets with resistance
which may prove a powerful check.
A numdeb of Portuguese agricultural la
borers were brought over to Louisiana
few years ago, and they have proved so in
dustrious and steady that it is proposed to
make special efforts to secure a largo im
migration to Louisiana from Portugal
and Southern Spain and France.
Mss. A. C. Goodsll, of Salem, has for
warded to the wife of President Garfield a
set of seven beautiful pillows for the sick
bed. Thoy are of different sizes, filled
with live geese feathers, and covered with
fine white kid. Each has the initial “G.”
embroidered thereon.
The day is long since past when educa
ted pnblic sentiment at the North regards
tho ignorant voter as anything but danger
ous. Bo he blaok or white, his government
is ruin unless it is forestalled, and there
are but two ways to do this, by keeping
him under or by eliminating him by edu
cation.
The economical view of marriage is
carefully taught in tho recent removal of
some restrictions hitherto placed on French
soldiers. Sou-commissioned offioers may
now marry, after a certain length of en
gagement, provided their sweethearts have
$1,000 each, or $500 per annum of assured
inoome. This is a new application of the
degree of truth in tho ancient jest which
pronounces matrimony a matter of money.
The Grand Duke of Baden, who is about
to beoome a King, is the most liberal of all
tbe present German sovereigns. His sym
pathy with all liberal and popular move
ments, and his manly and unpretending
character, have made him a great favorite
with his republican neighbors on the
Swiss frontier. The Grand Duke is mar
ried to tho only daughter of the Emperor
William.
The American Association for the Ad
vancement of Science has elected the^fnl-
officers: T-W*—h dm.Dai
—oi Montroal; general secretary, Wil
liam Saunders, of London, Ont.; assistant
general secretary, Prof. Eastman, of Wash
ington, D. O. The members left Cincin-
bination, which has gathered nearly all the
important lines in the State in its grasp,
we are in favor of the latter.
Thus tbe Redater.
It reminds ns of wbat tbe late Jndge
Thomas W. Thomas, of Elbert county,
used to say about tbe editor of a Buchanan
organ, who was attacking tbe Judge for de
nouncing the Elans as pollcyof that admin
istration. Tbe Judge said be didn’t mind
wbat that editor said, because he was Hr.
Buchanan’s monkey, and wonld bite any
body tbe President set him on. “But,”
said be, “if he was my monkey, and I
beli him, I could make him bite Hr.
Buchanan. It is all a question of who
holds him.”
Last year, according to the Redater’e
statement set forth above, tbe Louisville
and Nashville railway did tbe bolding
and made the Redater bite all who an
tagonized its plans—one of whom, we
have beard, Colonel Cole was conspicu
ously which. Now, Cole and bis syndi
cate seem to bold the monkey, and of
course be bites all their enemies. Of
course it will do us proud to set tbe es
teemed Redater right in this matter if we
have done It inlostlce.
P. S.—We ought to have said “enter
prising” as well as “esteemed” contempo-
nuy, but as it didn’t print one line about
that terrible storm at Savannah Saturday
night and its calamitous results, we really
can’t do it this morning. Some otber
morning—perhaps.
Vo sessions Defeated.
The waysof providence are mysterious,
and often when we think a misfortune is
imminent a blessing comes unawares.
Such a turn did affairs take at Salaman
ca, New York, on last Saturday. The
notorious briber, Lo. Sessions, late of tbe
New York Assembly, bad so stocked tbe
cards and packed tbe Senatorial Conven
tion that be thought there was no mistake
as to bis nomination and subsequent
election to tbe New York State Senate.
During tbe progress of the convention
there was a weakening of bis forces, and
on the fiftieth ballot, Norman M. Allen,
ofCataraugus county, was nominated,
permitting the •‘•great briber” the privi
lege of remaining at borne. Hr. Allen is
termed a half-breed, a man of ability,
and in spite of tbe tainted atmosphere of
commercial advantages, that they are do
ing justioe to all rival communities, and if
they do not, can they refuse to consider
the claims of those rivals ? Certainly nob
This very bill before us means just this:
rapid prog-ess under the full freedom of an( j camli one, two and three dozen at
S£3,l£a w S.t ^ll&’CSS?sue “7 «■* >»ond.b«c|, Wtat 1
oped, than ever could have been aceom-1 v iL?Jrv to Baltimore or
pushed had the hand of the law been 1 Norfolk, and it I got twenty cents apiece
laid upon them at an earlier pe- for them I thought I was well paid.” It
riod of their existence, forcing con- happened once, m 1840, as long as that,
fortuity to the bpecial views and theories I that I was first mate of a sugar brig, and
Advantages to one section at the expense of | of all the would-be railway reformers of | wo were bound for Baltimore and got
another. It means a discrimination against I which these times soom so prolifio, many I becalmed for a whole day in Chesapeake
the city of Maoon so serious as to practi-1 of whom are not only without the knowl- jj ay sorae forty-six miles from Cape
cally close her out of a commercial exist-1 edge of ordinary railroad affairs, but with- J Charles We had not had a imrii Jmt»
—~ I out the needful education and experience ~ 1 ,,“1*
in commercial pursuits to enable them to (A?. Cuba, and we
It means reduction of revenues of the i u* uummercuu pump io mm mem w i. t -. -r v ..— ~ t
Southwestern railroad and eventually the I know their requirements or understand tho 1 80 quick from Havana on account
increase of the tariff charges of the Cen.
tral.
It means favoring the patrons of the
relationship between the two.
Now the State has come to be the media
tor between the railroads and the people, it j
Southwestern railroad over all others in | will possiblybodiscoveredthat many of tho
the State and plaoing the burdens thus re- I
moved from them upon the patrons of the |
Central.
■ It means that the State is. to arbitrarily
adjust commercial values upon a basis that j
will pay a premium to those persons and
communities, which for want of large con-
Bo-called conflicts between the railways
and thepeople were in reality conflicts be
of Yellow Jack, just then a-breaking out
there, that we hadn’t time to look much
as to stores. We weren’t short, bnt what
we had was poor food and no change in
it. Just whero we hove to, because there
was a strong tide running, I saw a parcel
I* ttarkto bailers
for equal rights with its rival, yet none sat
isfied short of something beyond equality.
Those complaints and demands have been
transferred from the officers of the rail-
centration of business, capita!, facilities I ways to the officers of the State.
Under increased publicity, which must
naturally follow upon official investigation,
and under the nnalyzing processes which
that by far the greatest obstacle in the way
of adjustment is that some method cannot
be found that will givo each community tho
advantage over fill other communities, and
each individual the advantage over all
too mnoh lower.
The railroads being the machinery, the
lever power, by winch tho advantages were
to be lost or gainoJ, by which relative
values were to bo maintained or destroyed,
it is easy to conceive that the managers of
for transacting business, and a business
sagacity attained only under tbe spur of
competition, are.unable to oompete with
thoso persons and communities which do
possess these important factors for success
m the country’s trade.
It means limiting tho only competition
which the fanner can avail himself of to
secure tbe best sales for the products of his
soil and the best terms for the purchase of
hisjrupplies.
N
the.
them
sons.
Why does this bill mean discrimination
against tbe city of Macon ?
Because, as the joint rates between tbe
Central and Southwestern railroads now
stand, and under the approval of the com
mission, if a planter at Fort Valley sends
his bale of cotton to a warehouseman in
Macon to be sold, before ii reachos a sea
port be is roqnired to pay twenty-five cents
more to the railroad than if the ware
houseman at Fort Valley sold it for
him and shipped it direct to tho seaport.
This twenty-five cents is conceded a fair
difference to allow to the railroad for the, . . . - ,
extra handling at Macon, andsrtisdes the I those which of necessity must bo borno
railroad company.
Under this proposed bill the difference
againt the Macon factor or warehouseman
and in-favor of the Fort Valley factor or
warehouseman will bo ninety-five cents.
More than a fair difference for the extra
handling at Macon. More than the rail
road asks for that handling; yet if sent di
rect through from Fort Valley to the 6ea it
gives the Southwestern railroad less than
the cost of carriage for its share of the
work.
Why does it mean a redaction of tho rev
enue of the Southwestern railroad ? . . _ . — —
Because the rate now determined upon Ition that they will in time do so, and till
os justand reasonable for tho Central cal- then reject ail special amendments origi-
minates at Macon in a rate of thirty-oight I Hating in the interest of this or that com-
cents from Macon to Savannah. Under I munity or section, which if begun cau but
We were not more than a short mile from
shore. Thoy were a Spanish mackerel
fishing. They told me they were fishing
for their master, who lived on a planta
tion, whose house was just on the shore.
I wanted to stretch my leg3 badly, as did
the captain, and, as there would be no
all these questions must now pass, the real c i, ance 0 f making head against the tide
merits of the contest must como to the sur- I anmfnvn
face. When they get there, it will be found -1, ™,l d . g0 ,
tiiAt bv fur ilia crraAtast nlmtArla in tha wav I and have a Cll&t and get ft sight Of
some papers. So tbe captain and mi and
one of the crew took a boat, and the dar-
Fitzhugb’s cock, Wenus, come near wunst
to blows over that pepper. Sho don’t
know nuffiu, a-cramming nutmegs, and
passley, and all sorts of garden stuff' in
her tarrapin. An up-country nigger wat
never did know nuffin more dan how to
bake Johnny cake. Now you go to put
that green pepper in in bunks, and you
sp'le terrapin ’sho, honey. Dis old wo
man ought to have just one more sup of
dat wine to set her np, for dis ere
kitchen mighty close, and now I’ll bile
dis fish, and give dis yere chicken a fry.
Go eat your dinner, young man, and you
tell Has’r dat dis yere tarrapin take every
drop of dis yero wine—you hear.” And
Melinda handed the dish of terrapin to
Alonzo, and followed it into the diniug-
room. There never was such a terrapin
stew, nor a kinder host. Fortunately there
was another bottle of port. The captain
brewed a puneb. Oh, the good old days
on that Maryland coast, when terrapin
was plenty!
THE STOitJI AT SEA.
SPECIAL REP OR TS,
Many Xeaaela Damaged and Several
Stink—Tales of Suffering
Deatb.
I By Telegraph. J
New York, AugustffO.—Tho steamship
Hudson, from New Orleans, arrlred here
to-day. She reports that she had heavy
weather off the cast coast of Florida, last
ing thirty hours. On August 2Stli, she
fell in with the ship Sandusky, from Pen
sacola to Liverpool, with lumber, dis
masted, water-logged and with stern
gone. She took off tho crew, who had
been seventy hours withont food or water,
gave them clothes and made them as com
fortable as possible. The report of Cap
tain Lowdeu, of the ship Sandusky,
says:
“We left Pensacola on August 12 for
Liverpool. On the 23th the wind in- [.generally well-to-do and prospering. In
creased to a heavy gale from the north- I deed, Chauncey Is one of our rising
east and the ship commenced leaking bad-11 owns. Tbe merchants, W. R. Bussey,
dent In from Uawkiusville. Fort Val
ley, Oordoo, F—tmon and Talbot.
ton.
Hawxinsvillx, August 20.—Col.
Kibbee left Saturday for Hilledgeville to
appraise the old capitol
Saturday evening rain and wind set in,
and continued np to noon yesterday,
when the wind subsided. Considerable
rain fell last night and it is still cloudy.
Tho wind and rain storm will very seri
ously injure the cotton crop, much of
which is open, by blowing the cotton ont
and washing it in the dirt.
Tho repairing and enlarging the Haw-
kinsville steamboat is about completed,
and the boat will soon bo ready to regu
larly ply the river.
We have enjoyed tho biggest peach crop
known in years.
Judge Pate has returned home from
Laurens county, where he has been hold
ing court.
I wrote you last Friday that Hr. J. H.
Kendrick was taken suddenly ill Thurs
day night and died before morning. The
physicians say it was a paralytic stroke.
He was buried Saturday with Masonic
honors. Ha leit his place of business
well and in fine spirits Thursday even
ing, was taken ill between S and 0 o’clock
and died about 3 a.m. Sioux.
Eastman, August 29.—Wo had heavy
wind and rain all day Sunday. Some
few trees were blown down, but no otber
damage was done.
A recent trip to Chauncey showed
marked improvements, and the citizens
ly. On the 2Uth the gale increased to a
hurricane—the leak gaining so fast that
Angus Curry, the Bushes, Burt and oth
ers, all seem to do well. We noticed
kies having pointed out to us their mas-1 both pumps could not keep the vessel I that some of them were receiving their
tor's Iimion tnn miwla f.aa I . * . *. • • . . m 1 • . • . I e 11 i o. »a «
tcr’s house, we made for tho shore. Just
bottle of Santa Cruz, which latter thing I jcncc threw tho ship on her beam
wo knowed would be as good as a letter of I ends, when the masts were cut away. At
introduction. Now, it happened that the
third day out we came across an English
ship short of provisions, and we had sent
them some beef and bread which they
railways had no easy task to guido their I had paid us for, and quite politely their
companies clear of censure botwocn these
contending communities.
In my opinion, the time must come when
these difficulties will bo better understood.
Homo principle established under which it
can be known what are evils and what are
not; what inequalities ean be remedied,and
with.
This mediation of the State must event- I
ually result in acquitting tho roads from
many of tho charges which havo in tho past ]
held against thorn as evidences ot wanton
mismanagement.
I do not think the law in its present shape ;
will do all this; it is defective in its ruling
principle as well os in many of its features.
It works with too much friction to secaro
tho highest good; and while this may not
yet be snfficiontlydemonstrated to convince
the General Assembly of tho advisability of
altering it, I am firm in tho convic-1
captain had given to our old man a couple
of bottles of port and and sherry, and one
bottle of that port I bad put in the basket.
We soon got ashore and had no difficulty
in finding the house. A line-looking old
gentleman, dressed in nankeens, met us
and received us in tho most polite way.
“Wouldn’t wo stay to dinner and make
oursoives generally at home?” he asked.
tbo same time everything was swept from
the duck, including boat houses, with all
the stores and iresh water. All the offi
cers and crew reached tho weather miz-
zeu tigging except two seamen and the
cook, who were never after seen, ami
must have been swept away when the
deck load went ovor the ship’s side. The
vessel righted after tho loss of her top
hamper, bnt was a complete waterlogged
wreck. The crew remained on the miz-
zen rieglng until daybreak, the sea con
tinually sweeping over them
and threatening to carry them
We kind of introduced ourselves as be- Q ff every moment. At daybreak-
longing to the vessel out In the hay, and 1
soon we were quite sociable. “I don’t
apologize,” says he, “for what I am going
to givo you for dinner. It will bo a
chicken or two, and there Is green corn
and tomatoes and Spanish mackerel and
terrapin.” “Terrapin!” says I; “Oh!” | to’us.'
“Maybe you ain’t fond oi it?” says he.
“Ain’t I?” says I. “Oh!” says he, “we
kind of get sick of them here. At about
this time ofyear, August,it’s terrapin all the
time. That sea-meadow there just swartn3
we were enabled to better our position
somewhat, but as tbe ship was constantly
breaking up, it was a day of terror. About
4 p. m., we saw a brig steering nearly for
us, but she passed us by without noticing
us, though her people were plainly visiblo
to us. The wind was still blowing a
heavy gale and tremendous seas were
breaking over the ship, when
at nearly dark the whole
stem frame broke and was swept
away with the after part oi the main
fall goods. Cotton was coming in and
every thing bids fair for a good business
season. In sight, and within a quarter of
a mile from Chauncey, may be seen the
extensive business place ot James Hullm,
E-q., an enterprising and public-spirited
citizen of this county. His large shingle
mill and store house, fifty feet square, is
filled with a first-class stock of dry goods.
His commodious dwelling, where he dis
penses hospitality in a generous
and chivalric manner, and his com
fortable quarters for all the em
ployes evince the rare character that
lie is. ne owns the land all about him,
and has had a flourishing school in a
building for that purpose, erected by him
self. The place is a town in itself, and is
a credit to Dodge county.
The gins aie all busy and cotton Is
coming in earlier than usual. The fruit
crop in Dodge has been a success. Every
body has had plenty of peaches and to
spare.
Our county business all goes back to
the ordiuary, under a recent act of tbe
Legislature abolishing tbe county court.
The Methodist church recently struck
by lightning is undergoing repairs.
A steam saw mill has been erected on
the laud of Judge James Bishops, on the
Ocmulgee liver, in this county, and tbe
business will bo carried on by Judge
ceuujicoui 41UB1U W oavuiuan. uwcc . O.UU.., v. »- uuu , -U UU u uuuuu uau ««*• i SP 1 ft®?;* Tl10 Hcgroes get so tired of deck, aud tbe timber commenced coming Bishop and J. H. Gnnsley, under the
this bill the rate from Fort Valley to Sa- result in inviting appeals before this and I ttie ™ that they won t touch them. Then out from between the decks. We were I name of Bishop & Grinsiey. Judge Bish-
vunnah would be thirty-nine cents, thus al- every futnro Legislature from ovory sec- again I make no excuse, gentlemen, but obliged to abandon our position aft, and op has a large body of lino timbered land,
lowing tho Southwestern railroad one cent tion of tho Suite, each hoping to secure seasons have beeen ;bad—tobacco is al-I after great risk got forward and into the I and this enterprise will, no doubt, prove -
the those special benefits whichthoy have hero- most a drug, and terrapin ain’t much | forcton, whero the night of the 2TtU was success. Cohrespoxdest.
•— 1 tofore failed to obtain from the railroads, | without wine, and my stock is used — 1 ' — - - - - 1
per one hundred pounds for carrying
cotton from Fort\ alley, twenty-nine miles,
auu w aims ui un wuiicu luuiuajiucre vi i —r- ,VT.-—» . y—.— ~w~.— . -1 -v—,— ——-—* •* U P-1 passed. The next day was fine, but with
an»«r.tr lirt m.tni.tn. .t*. to Maoon, which if applied to all the sta and later from the commission. Not only 11 don’t say but wbat with good wine on hi P avvs»as constantly delueimr the shin
Albany be maintains the outward secm-U^ tho southwestern railroad, and appeals from those seeking advantages for Urn they ire more or less palatable.” At m irelaw awLShwhich
In- nf rlrino mnS Ho i. nn nnnlnn tmil.. Ih- Ml lltnnsl Ihnt rnllnnvl nonnnt 1 I'Jir SCCtlOn. but Counter nnnonU from I .. ... I P- >> e a VCSSei WHICH
Ing of virtue and honesty. He is no novice
in the matter of legislation,
ed two terms in the-State Senate, and was
under the bill it must, that railroad cannot
He has serv- 1 carn mone r enough to pay its operating ex-
1 penaes.
Why docs It mean favoring the patrons
a memberof the Slate Constitutional Con- °f the Southwestern railroad ut the expense
of those of the Central?
vention of iSffl. We congratulate tbe
Republican party on their good fortune
and the people of New York on their de
liverance from “Lo. Sessionism.”
it* C«w>l'“EnterprUe.”
The Last Year’s JUrd’s Xest splendidly
vindicated its boasted “enterprise” In the
matter of tbe terrific storm and resulting
loss of life and property by tbe storm last
Saturday night at Savannah. While tbe
Telegiixph and Messexger had sev
eral colnmns jester-
joj uiumlng, the X. Y. B. N. t claiming
to print more and later news tlian any pa
per south of Washington, did not contain
one icord about it. Remember this fact
when you hear another yawp about “en-
nation two excursions, one to Lookont j terprise” and printing more and earlier
Mountain, tho other to the Mammoth I news than any-otberSouthcra paper. Wo
Cave. More than five hundred members judge the X. Y. 2J. W. finds it more prof
itable Attacking everybody who dares to
even look cross-eyed at tbo Cole charter,
have bsen present daring the meeting.
When- Dean Stanley was Professor of
Eoclesiastical History and Canon of Christ
church, some ono raised Uie question in
his presence whether the proper title by
which to speak of him was Dr. Stanley,
Canon Stanley, or Professor Stanley- ,Ho
seemed quito uninterested, bnt when ono
Ot two opinions had been given, ho broke
in, with that quick, cagor manner of bis,
“There is only one appellation that I care
to be known by.” “What is that P* “Al
thur Stanley.”
The superintendent of mails at Chicago
has adopted with good effect a practice
which should bocomo general throughout
the department. In all coses where com
plaint is made by regular subscribers of
delay or failure to receive newspapers, that
officer pastes upon the next paper mailed
to that address the following notice: “Com
plaint is made that newspapors.to this ad
dress do not reach destination promptly.
All employes handling this package will
please see that the same is properly ^for
warded.” In tbiswsy the evil is traced to
its source and remedied.
One of tho chiaf hindrances to telegraph
ing in Japan is the grounding of the cur
rent by spider lines. Tho trees bordering
tho highways swarm with spiders, which
spin their webs everywhere bclwocn tho
earth, wires, posts, insulators and treos.
When tbe spider webs are covered with
heavy dews thoy become good conductors
and rim the messages to the earth. - -The
only way to remove tho difficulty is by em
ploying men to swoep the wires with
brushes of bamboo; but os tho spiders are
more numerous and persistent than the
brash usors tho difficulty remains always a
serious one.
Phlesbelpiixa Herald“Tbo best and
most thoroughly certain way to nralro your
beef tender is to stand in with tbe boy who
drives tho butcher’s wagon. I discovered
this whiio living next door to a millionaire
who dealt with the meat man that supplied
mej_ The boy .driving the wagon was cor-
vbptible, like the steak; he served, and fif
teen cents or so would transfer tho tender
ness of the millionaire’s forty-cents-o-
pound porterhouse to my bundle of eight
een t round. Then I would whet my appe
tite listening to the millionaire’s hired girl
walloping the ether egt with rolling pins,
Ac., as advised by Mrs. Leslie. By chang
ing butchers as often ca the millionaire
did I secured tender beef until my lease
expired. Tvro weeks before this, however,
the millionaire died with lookjaw, iuduoed,
the doctors said, by attempts to chewtough
meat.”
The success of tho Yorktown centennial
celebration is becoming an assured fact.
Tbe Chesapeake and Ohio railway com
pany have expended their road to Newport
News and Richmond, with a branch section
running to Yorktown, The Moore House,
a historic building, in which the terms of
capitulation between the American and
British armies wore agreed upon, will bo
occupied by distinguished French visitors
during tbo celebration. The bankers of
tf.e United S ales are to be appealed to for
substantial aid. Colonel J. E. Psyton has
been in correspondence with the Marquis
de Roc! i mbeai and has received assur-
S-.c.s that tha rflucb gqverpfgeflt qnd the
than in printing the news.
I assume that the first proposition,
that of allowing a road remuu-
eratives rates, laid down at the beginning
of this argument is conceded. I assume it
not only upon the public and private utter
ances of the commissioners, bnt upon all
considerations of justice and right, which
I know would control tho General Assem
bly did they undertake to settle these flue
[uestions of detail. Assuming this much.
. answer that the patrons of tho Central
must bear the burden thus lifted from
those using tho Southwestern railroad; be
cause these properties as a whole mHi i—
allowed rate 5 * f/> -—mem and re-
—uoiHie their owners; and if an arbitrary
law restricts the earning capacity
of. the Southwestern railroad, at t
point that will not pay its operating er
ponses, then must tbe rates on the Central
be increased to compensate for the defi
ciency.
‘ Why wonld th9 law arbitrarily adjust
values so as to pay a premium to those who
have limited advantages, as against thoso
who have many ?
It mn3t bo conceded that tho large cotton
centres have large advantages over the
way stations. Under the proposed princi
ple for adjusting rates, tho Fort Valley
merchant has ninety-fire cents per bale
advantage over tbo Macon merchant; in
other words, Macon must do ninety-five
their section, but counter appeals from
those who are thrown on the defensive by
the encroachments of their rivals.
If such a policy were followed up it could
but result in n law so patched and cobbled
as to be utterly worthless if not oppressive [
| on all interests alike.
Taldotton, August 29—Hr. B. Proc-
wlucli | tor died at bis home In this county yester-
“And what’s the wino you ought to use?” | proved to bo tho steamship Hudson, from day at an advanced age. He will be
I asked.. “Well,” said he, “there’s been j New Orleans lor New York. The crew i interred
TVe Yew Haven Mystery.
While not joining in an almost univer
sal cry against the stupidity of coroners
and their juries, we nevertheless acknowl
edge our astonishment at the slow prog
ress that has been made in the case
pretty Jennie Cramer, whose body was
found In the bay some weeks . ago. But
we must allow much.from the fact that
tliese people live in tbe country of “cul-
cliaw,” and they have a-sclentlfic way of
doing things, even of killing people, as
well as obtaining evideuce against a mnr-
derer. The Hayden mystery* few yeara . ital nnd that systemltic and
ago in the same city took months, ana I cal conduct of busines?, only acquired nn*
as a corn-producing State, are not alto
gether harmonious. In no section, how
ever, is a full crop expected. The vary
ing reports appear to be due to the fact
that many sections wore less severely vis
ited by drought than others. The acreage
reported is somewhat greater than that of
last year and the deficit of the entire crop
caused by drought is on tills account dis
cents per bale better for the planter in the I counted to a considerable extent. The
sale of his prodace than Fort Valley before I yield compared with last year is in some
it is on an an even footing, in offering com-I localities placed as low as 50 percent,
petition to the planter for his products. I and the average yield per acre at 20 to 25
I nse Fort Valley to illustrate only for bushels. The crop in this State last year
convenience. Any other point wonld do | was also unprecedentedly great, and tho
THo Corn Crop.
A dispatch from Chicago, III., on August
27ih, has the following important infor
mation about tbe corn crop:
From five columns of dipatchos con
cerning tbe corn crop in Illinois, Iowa,
Indiana, Ohio, Wisconsin, Kansas, Mis
souri, Nebraska, Kentucky aud Minneso
ta, the Tunes this -—u- a me loi-
inoi-a -vouacts: Three-fifths of the crop,
as compared witli last year, appears to be
a fair estimate for Illinois. The crop ot
1SS0, however, it must be remembered,
however, was a remarkably large one.
This fact tends to bring this year’s average
crop close up to that of ordinary years of
pr ?> d J^A 0 .V nd ? malle . r 1 «««»««• J go and fetch that oilier bottle of port.' It’s
Reports from Iowa, the rival of Illinois I in tbe mate’s locker, I suppose.” But tbe
1 fl (Vtrrt.nrriilnniiwr K»otn nen I » . • ' u
m . or ® disputing about tbat question— I and officers were taken oft - after being 78
what kind of wine you ought to use—[hours on the wreck without food or
than anything else. My father, who was water. Every kindness was shown us by
great on precedents, used to differ with j Captain Freeman, his officers aud passen-
my mother on that topic. It seems pret- ] gers, the latter makiug up a purse, which
ty certain that in General Washington’s greatly gladdened the hearts of the desti-
tiine it used to be, on the Virginia side, | tute mariners.
port wine and not sherry, and my grand-1 The gale was one of the most severe, so
rn _°** ie r» who was a Carter,_ used to say J Captain Freeman reports, that he ever ex
port wine was right. If I had any port | perienced. Tho wind reached the voloci-
wine I would have Melinda—that’s my [ ty of a hurricane on the evening of the
cook—serve them for you that way.” ’ '
WITH ENOUGH LEFT TO WASH IT DOWN.
“It’s auito possible,” says I. “Jim.” says
1, calling to our man, who was lounging
around with the basket, “let’s see tbo con
tents of tbat ere,” and I lianled on a bottle
of port, for so it was labeled. That old
Marylaud planter’s eyes just gleamed.
“Ain’t it a pity,” said he, “to waste it on
terrapin?” “No,” says the captain, “for
there is plenty ot it aboard, and Jim, you
27th. As the ship was fast breaking up,
slio will soon cease to be a danger to nav-
a ors. although she,was ahandm><«i
e track or northern bound vessels.
The steamship Chalmette, from New
Orleans, arrived here to-day. She reports
that on August 28 at 8 a. m., she fell in
witli the schooner Lucie Wheatley, Capt.
Sipple, from Jacksonville for Baltimore,
in a sinking condition, and took off the
captain and crew and brought them to
this port.
at Oak Hill cemetery to-day.
Judge E. H. Worrill is quite hi.
Tbo horse wo mentioned in our last as
lost by Sheriff Foster returned to Talbot-
ton on Saturday last.
Our lawyers are getting ready for court
which convenes the second Monday in
September. About sixty cases returned.
Gobdon, August 20.—The recent wind
has stripped tho trees of much fruit. Ap
ples are being gathered up to make cider
and vinegar.
We were rained ont of preaching and
Sl OurlteaHlng V cluC n U Soliciting aid In
getting up a public library. Works ot
history aud biography or a few of the best
novels will be gladly received. With its
monthly dues the club has laid in a good
foundation of first-class books, and will
bo glad to defray the expenses on any
good works which friends may desire to
contribute to the library. Any book or
?M a £ d ,. ma , n °f It. the schooner Lucie Wheatley, says: “Lett
The report of Captain J. W. Sipple, of | periodical directed to the “Gordon Public
“Half the bottle will do,” said he, eying
it, “and there will he enough left to wash
Jacksonville August 13. At 1 p. m., was
struck by lightning, shivering the fore
down the teiTapin with.” But Jim was off mast, foretopmast °aud raizzentopmast,
at a word of tlie captain, and in about an — ~ —
hour he came hack with the other bottle.
uur captain was a moderate man, though, | but it was not safe. Fitted up a jumper
oTill nnt frienn I • ... * * . *
Library” will reach tho proper bauds aud
be duly acknowledged. Friday evening
is tbe regular time in tho week for the
meeting of the club.
and not given to liquor.
stay and set a spare jib as a mainstay
\ on wouldn t object,” said I, “to my [ sail. Wind variable on tbe 10tb aud part
going lo the kitchen a..d seeing Melinda ly calm from 17th to 19th. Winds soulh-
and learning to cook terripin in good old | west and weather hazy. On the 20th
Maryland stylo?” For just as early as | wind chauged to northeast and increasing,
that I was of an iiiQUirine mind. I RVnm sie. in Miih imouv .,.,1
was of an inquiring mind,
“Not a bit of it,” said he. “Melinda’s
From 21st to 24tb, heavy seas and blow
ing a hurricane; vessel leaking and
>g- [ as well. Americas, for instance. 70 miles | presumntlon^neriians'lia*^iustifioii nZ I ^2 e ,“ cook , for me c ™ r sl »ce I was bom, pumps constantly going. On the 20th and
of I from Macon, has now tho conceded fair ? r0[) .... m no ,’PS holr.w nr. I ? nd i n - UI ? cd ? e ’ at,d 3 ,n, Sbty proud of 27 threw over part of the deck load. Outlie
difference of twenty-five cents per bale I "° p Wll ‘ not bQ much below an average her kitchen lore, and will doubtless im- 27th at noon the vessel was full of water.
against Macon, while nnder the proposed
adjustment she would enjoy a discrimina
tion against Macon of $1.10 per bale.which
wonld drive nil the cotton through Macon
Without stopping, drive tho Macon factor
ont of competition in sonthwest Georgia
for the planters’ crops.and allow the South
western railroad only four cents per 100 for
hauling freight seventy miles. Thus all
the advantages of a large market, ample
In Missouri tlie drought was severe aud
long and the prospects In that Statu are
that the crop will be cat down from oue-
quarter to one-lialf.
The crop of Kansas appears likely to
fall considerably below tho average of
part information.” Now, while the cap-1 The masts were swept away and tho hull
tain and ho was chatting I went to tho was wholly under water, and all hands
kitchen, some short distance from the
house, where I saw a dark old colored
wero obliged to look out for themselves,
being part of the night up to our
woman, tidy enough, with a handkorchief | waists m water. On tho 28tli
on her head, busy witli a wood fire.
at 8 a. in., the steamer Chalmette, from
usual vears Iii other States the ifinnih 11 “ Au " l y ” sai ‘J *> “ l coma to take a New Orleans for New York, sighted us
was more w les severewVt 1 me master and came to oar rescue, and launched
taxed to the utmost the knowledge aud
wisdom of Yale aud Harvard .professors
to get at the truth. An exdiange says in
the present-case their investigation is an
elaborate trial of the two young , men and
ono woman who are suspected though not
absolutely charged with killing the poor
victim. At the rate they are going on we
shall not be surprised to hear .of their
bringing in a verdict of guilty and tbe
coroner pronouncing sentence of death.
White Thunder, the newly appointed
chief of the Sioux, Is attaining a national
reputation, not only as an eloquenl.phi-
lanthroplst, but as a man of affairs. He
has suggested to the Interior Department
an honest way of Mealing with tho In-
p w a full one as compared with years of the
dei tho friction of competition,must tie ab- | greatest production. The only relief for
was more or less severely felt and the | says you are the boss cook of tiffs whole
c.op doea not by any means promise to be | country.”
sorbed in tho rate to enable the country
warehouseman to hold a monopoly of the
bn«ine-s of tho plantors of his section.
It can but operate as a premium upon
bad business methods and short facilities,
forcing to be done with little capital, mea
gre appliances and less energy that which
could bo done with the increased economy
a shortage will be tho fact that the highly
profitable crop of last year encouroged tlie
farmers to put in an increased acreage. It
may not be far from the truth to say that
tho gloomy reports from some sections are
in a measure due to the hopes built upon
the unusual product of 1830. F’armers
wuum uu uuuc w.ui uiu UUffCilSCU ecouuuiy i . . . . r, . . ;— „
always effected by experience, money and 5l0 P^ d sce l ^ at remarkable yield dupli-
competition. Itma: ' l — —
ay be answered tbat tbe
warehousemen at the local stations pos
sessing these advantages in rates will be
able to control the business of his section
and give, at the same time, these advan
tages to his customers. I answer, leaving
ont of consideration the palpable injustice
to tbe city of Macon, which must be de
prived of her business; the injustice to the
Southwestern railroad, which must sacri
fice its revenue; and the injustice to those
who are to use the Central railroad, and
who must eventually be made to pay what
tho patrons of the Southwestern have been
saved; leaving these vital considerations
out, for tlie sake of simplifying the di3cus-
“Sakes, Mar’s,” said she, “iny mar’s do
me proud. But dis yere is a poor kitchen.
We ain’t got de tings. Wliar’s do wine to
make dat tarrapin stew wid, and de lem
on ? Dis yer place run down.”
“Here they be,” says I; “here is the
wine aud hero’s the lemon,” and I took
them out of the basket.
‘-Sake3! but is cat wine good ?”
“You shall taste It, Aunt Melinda, and
catcd this season, and the present certain- iudtm for vouraelf-’ and f nnnreff
lOttJBSSXVrJBftS PSiflSMi —* ou ‘
after all tlie discouragements of bad
weather the crop may not fall much be
low an average one.
dians, and Secretary Kirkwood, to Us
credit be it said, adopted tlie plan sug- | sion, which I am by no means willing to
gosted by this savage ebief. White Thun- ‘Ke^We^eho^ema^M
der said:
“What I want to ask ot you is that
when you send the agent a list of the
goods to be distributed you will also send
a copy of the list to ms. Through tbe In
terpreter I will study tbo list, and then
we shall all know whether we get all tbe
goods.”
The recalled Chinese students have
been made to believe tbat their govern
ment needs their assistance In building
now telegraph lines throughout the king
dom. They all claim to be good tele
graphers, able to read by sound, to teach
the system to others or take charge of tel
egraph offices. This would be a much
happier ending of this sadden recall than
tlia -one naturally supposed by the ont-
slde world. They have left California on
their way homeward bound.
.the town or station handling a few thou
#and bales of cottoD, can never approach
sufficiently near those of tho larger mnr-
kete in realizing prices, to be able to give
to the planter any difference that can pos
sibly exist in a rate discrimination. It
most ail bo absorbed in compensation for
Valuable Peruvian OruamcnlN.
From the Sere York Times.
Old gold and silver Peruvian ornaments,
recently sold in London, brought a mag
nificent total of $303,890. Tlie follow
ing were among the articles which sold
lor great sums: An old brilliant cluster,
$555; an antique brilliant ring, S025; long
antique pearl aud diamond ear-ring9, $],-
175; a curious antiqueeuameled gold aud
emerald cross, $900; a silver-gilt mitre
with scrolls of precious stones, $1,305; an
antique gold cross, with a large caboclion
emerald, $875; an antique chased gold
chalice, iu pieces, and paten, $890; an an
tique enameled beatt-sbapeil rcliqnary,
“Bless us! ’tis so—real stuff—jess libo
we bad forty year ago, when I war a gal;
! and Mar’s, dar is some cream—been sav
ing it. Tarrapin ste w ? We is jess going
to fetch it. Now, you set down on dat
settle and jess watch me. Most anybody
can brilu chickens, bile corn, stew tomato;
but It’s science wid tarrapin. l’so had dese
j tarrapin in now an hour, a biling hard,
and now I’se going to shuck ’em. I takes
[ deni out and cools Uoin in dis spring
their boat with two officers and four men.
At 9:30 a. m., had all of us on board tlie
steamer. Tbo schooner was then break
ing to pieces, so that the lumber was com
ing out. Was then In latitude 31.50, lon
gitude 88 45. The schooner was built in
1874 at F’rederico, Del.; was owned by
Gov. J. W. Hill & Son, of F’rederico, and
Mrs. Wheatley, of Lebaron, and was of
190 tons register.
Charleston, August 30—Telegrams
to tho JYcics and Courier from Port Royal
this morning report that seven bodies
have beeu recovered at tho Port Royal
ferry, aud that the number drowned is
uncertain, the estimates ranging from
twenty-live to forty.
Feunandina, Fla., August 30.—Mal
lory’s steamer City of Ban Antonio put in
this poit last night to clear her discharge
and bilge pumps and fasten down her af
ter boiler. Iu tlie storm of tbo 27tb inst.,
her door shutters were stovo in and the
saloon flooded. She will make tbo neces
sary repairs and proceed to Galveston at
.. „ , - - v . with diamonds and garnets, $1,550; an an-
, have lI 7“ e S° 1(1 monstranco with diamonds and
pouring «i!erl“nce and ^.piteUnd with | l OI ’ a f C3 ’ ^l 700 ’' a 1 1 ife - 8i “ silver figure of
offerirgs largo enough to insure the utmost I 2,^lj? an ’ ^ ecora ted with precious stones,
activity in competition nmoDz buyers. I an antique chased gold mon-
* 1 enriched with many stones,
_ . JUV(
and such places as are wanting iu aU these
requisites.
Such a law can but operate as a stagnation
to commercial rivalries and do mnoh to re
mand the planter back to the position he
occupied in. tbe early days of railroads,
slranco,
$10,000.
} vate ^> an< l °®i you see, comes de black I once. Capt. Barrow reports tbat tlie
“* de * ' storm was the most terrific he has ever
experienced.
A Colony All ot One Family.
Altoona Snn.
Among the emigrants passing west over
tho Pennsylvania railroad ono day last
week, was a German family, consisting of
tho grandfather, grandmother and their
nine children, six sonsnndthreo daughters,
all of whom are married, with their fami
lies, on board the same train. There wero
forty grandchildren, and eleven great
grandchildren, the entire relationship con
sisting of ninety-fivo people. Thoy will
sottlo m northern Iowa, and will form a
During an interview between a Cali
fornia reporter and tho returning Chinese
when an adjustment of rates on tho other | students, the qaestion was asked:
The daughter of Mr. Austin Corbin of
Manhattan Beacb Hotel notoriety, Is
traveling in Europe. Her father recently
sent her a portable house. The reason is
nof given for this extraordinary move,
but itjs supposed that the Jews of EuroDe
havo refused her entertainment.
The right of bicycle riders to nse side
walks is to be tested legally at Wakefield,
Massachusetts, where a stalwart pedestrian
poshed a bicycle ont of liis way, throwing
the rider on a pile of stones.
Dean Szanlex’s will,has been proved and |
the personally sworn under $450,000,
er frame) forced him to put his cotton.for bet
ter or wor: o, in tbe nearest market; back
to tho time before the progress made in
railway traus t irtation placed such facili
ties at the door of every interior railway
station in tho State, as to enable tbe planter
himself to take ont a bill of lading to almost
any cotton market in tho world; to enjoy,
in fact, the facilities tliatin the very recent
past were only within reach of tho ocean
ports.
Thepeople of the Slate are protesting
against discrimination. The law of 18?J
has for its chief object its prevention, while
the bill before the committee actually
legalizes it—forces it against a large com
munity and builds npsuch barriers around
the Commission as to rob the people and
the railways of the only valne that can pos
sibly attach to the discretionary power of
the commission, that for mitigating such
evils as arise.
I think it is needless to demonstrate the
correctness of my last assertion as to how
the competition available to the former is
limited; I think it has been made sufficiently
clear.
If Macon merchants cannot deal in the
“How do yon like Americans?”
“Oh, very much; that Is, one class of
them. You know there are two classes of four
Americans. There is the better class,
which is refined and educated. Tho oth
er class—well, the other class is just as
good as the better class if they don’t run
for office.” These fine social distinctions
between the ward politician and the
preparing the terrapin.
Then Melinda took off the black skin
end divided tho terrapin in two. Then she
separated the gall carefully and chopped
tho liver. Sho took two large table.spoons-
ful of butter and a teaspoouful of flour,
and set that on her wood fire in an earthen
crock, stirring it with a wooden spoon,
and then she called me. “Jess as soon as
figure of J de butter troth and take a mullato color
'you jess stop; udderwise, you burn him.
I don’t want none of dis yore spice in my
terrapin; it jess kill ’em. You see me
salt him ever so little. Now. I put dis
biled terrapin what is chop up fine in that
there butter, and I warm him, but don’t
bring him to tho bile. Whar’s your
cream? I tilts iuto di3 Just dis wero ycra
tumblorful ot cream and shakes him.
Now, whar’s dis yoro wino what you was
a-bragging about? There is most
quarts of terrapin hero. I
Fort Valley, August 2S One of the
most heart-rending accidents happened
here yesterday evening, about 5 o’clock,
thatbas been chronicled from our town in
many years. Little Ruby, the six-year-
old daughter of Mr. G. W. Byington, was
seen on tbe railing which surrounded the
balcony ot the second story of the hotel,
and, before any warning could bo given
her, she fell to the ground, a distance of
eighteen or twenty feet. Her head and
right shoulder received the shock. Tho
concussion of the brain produced a sever
ance of the sutures of the skull. Drs.
Ross and Matthews wero called in, and
are doing all they can for tho child. It
is feared, however, the accident will prove
fatal. The distressed parents and family
have the sympathies of our people.
The rain continues to pour down and
the wind to blow.
The farmers are now anxious abont
their small cotton crops, lest it should
prove storm cotton. c.
Americus, Ga., August SO.—The
Amerlcus Light Infantry fair has ended
after one week of contained success.
About $2,000 was the receipts of the fair.
The diamond ring contest was the most
exciting thing that occurred, which was
awarded to Miss Leila Davenport, agaiust
Miss Mattie Hawkins as the most popular
young lady. Tho contest wa3 very excit
ing; tho total vote was nearly 4,000 at
25 cants per vote. Miss Leila’s majority
was 257.
This beats anything of the kind that
over occurred in Georgia, not excepting
Atlanta or anywhere olse. Tha things
that were not rallied during tho fair will
be closed out at auction to-night.
Tho Iufautry have ordered the most
beautiful uniform that could be selected
from several Northern houses. The house
of Jacob Reid & Sou was selected. Mr.
8. C. Cooper represents them in this
city. The uniforms are expected
hero everp day. When they arrive tho
Americus Light Infantry will l>o proud to
drill against any miliary organization in
the Sate or South. Americus is proud of
five things ibat flourish within her limits,
and has good reason to be. They are:
The Americus Light Infantry, Americus
Minstrels Wide Awake, fire company, our
public schools and the public library.
The city is growing rapidly. Thera are
About $60,000 in new buildings and per
manent Improvements now going on.
Among the new merchauts are: George
S. Watts, late of Savannah, wholesale
shoemakers and butchers. I ^f 10 ® house; Bisworth & Jossey, Frank
| Jossey of your city, wholesale grocery
lie was au ignoramus About Her. ] boase; Scliumpait, Rouey x King, wkole-
Jlatckeye. salo grocery; Burkhatter & Hooks, whole-
mo ?’’ “Ye3,” she answer- | sa '° grocery; Smith’s ten cent store; Si
cd, “better than anything elso in tho world. | Hawkin’s confectionery; the Davenport
am gwino to take jess four wine-
glassful of dat ycro port wino and put hi
dis yere tumbler, and I am gwino to
break dis egg and tako do yaller of it and
beat It up wid de wine. Is you ready for | Jou, but it’s n wet moon.and'you know you
___ — your dinner? For by de timo you’ssotto | aro 80 hablo to catch cold, dear.” Tho next
American gentleman excited a burst of | do table, dis yero mess of terrapin will be I morn > n S tho disappointed maiden observ-
laughter. | ready, for de wine and do egg is de vorv I od .. to Jj er . mother: “Charley and Iliavo
• I last thing I puts In anill don’t bile ’em I P.. Ho knows a hsap about the weath .r,
Frank Hart, tho Columbus, Georgia, | but stir ’em up while de terrapin Is hot— I bat ho a porfect ignoramus about mo.”
negro walkist, who achieved sorno celebri- I dat’s cooking enough. Thar’s ono thin; " 1
tyla New York a year or two ago, has I wantin’ and dat’s greonpepnar. Alonzo;
challenged C. A. Rowell, the English pc- lu!£ add , rc i° . a lit i* e dar ^> “y° u
tetri..,for .trio! of ILoir l.i-.MiW- IMSSotSw?'
He proposes to meet Rowell onSepiember I tiico Alonzo wa3 back. Melinda cut
5, to make the terms. Frank has put np I P*®® 0 of green jiepper not larger than _
$200, the extent of Lis belief in his legs. I -?“??. on _ an . d ,5 ut i K u P *?nderfnHy fine
“Do you love mo
i,“T .
It is n beautiful night, for a moonlight | Manufacturing Company, who mauu^ct-
a ^ all°over St Southwest
marked:. “I should bo eo irnppy to take Geo ‘“ ia ’__
PATEX CVST1S.
is** hUaSKStafT 1 w « t -
them to tbe Times Tti.n u of
sssiiSa
^edeato of pateV cusns.
2> “r fife? J “ ne , 1T!3 ‘
conceive, than to ,i no ar \ eisier matter to
this Family, esr^ciaUvH* / ‘r distress of
py r«rent of^ur n!. 1 ! at £ ftha uaLa I>-
wlien I inform yoif tw Patey Custl3 »v
moved the Swna’fcJJ* ^ ^
more happy and peaceful tot0 *
often,.,,.! Fl„, “ ASS
l *° minutes without uttering a
WO t r j* * or scarce a sich—'h'a
, £ddden and unexpected blow, I 8c ^ce
need add has almost reduced my™«
wife to tho lowest ebb of misery; which^
•*?"**. the absence of her soa
fivhomlhKve.just fixed at the college in
b.w I rom whence I returred the
8th Inst) and want of the balmy cousola-
tfhion oer Relations; which leads me
more than ever to wish she could see
tnem* and that I was Master of Area*
ments powerful enough to prevail upon
Mrs. Dandndge to make this place her
entire and absolute home.—1 should
think as she lives a lonesome life (Helen
being married}—-it might suit her well, &
bo agreeable both to herself & my wife, to
mo most assuredly It wonld.
I do not propose to add more at pres
ent, the end of my writing being only to
inform you of this happy chan-e^—
Our sincere affections aro “offered to
“f 3, >"*58011,—Mrs. Dandridgc, and all
other F riends, and lam Sincerely,
Y’r Obed’t & A fleet’e H’ble Serv’t,
... .. _ G. Washington.
Addressed to, Burwell Bassett. Esq.,
Near Williamsburg, Virginia.
A LAME HORSE.
Mount Vernon, Aug. 0th, 1773.
Deab Sib: As I wrote you b7 tho last
Post, and nothing new has happened
since, this lottor only sen es to cover the
enclosed to Mrs. Bassett. The Horeo Abe?
left here Is got quite well of his lameness,
but not recovered of an exceedingly
swelled and sore back which he received
In coming up. This, and the boy telling
me yon did not work, or put him to any
particular kind of service is tho reason
why I have not sent him down before. If
he is wanted please to let me know by the
tbe Post, and I will contrive him down to
you before wo come ourseives, as it will
be in October before this can happen. I
hope that this letter will find Mrs. Bassett
in better health, & more composed under
her losses than when yon wrote last, my
best wishes attend her, Yourself and
Family, as also Mrs. Dandridgeaud other
friends, and I am
Dr Sir. Y’r Most affect’e Friend&Serv’t
G. Washington.
Addressed to Burwell Basset Esq. Near
Williamsburg, Virginia.
Tribute of Bcspect.
State Lunatic Asylott,
Near Milledgoville, Ga.,Angust 19,1881.
Tho Board of Trustees wero formally in
formed of the melancholy death of Col.
Randolph h. Mott, a member of this board
since July, 1873, he having been killed by
being run over by a railway train in Atlan
ta, Ga., while in that city discharging his
duties as a trustee of this institution, on
July 19th, just ono month since, and who,
had_ his life been spared, would havo
attained the great ago of eighty-two
years on this day, August 19,1881.
CoL Mott was born in Fauquier county,
Virginia, on August 19th. 17:)-), whero he
resided until about the year 1817, when he
removed to Georgia and settled and lived
in Augusta for some years. About 1820, he
removed to Milledgoville, remaining t 1 —
— * * ‘ ~ nnllttll
and strewed it on the hot terrapin.
“Dey don’t do that ere on the Virginia
side,” said Melinda; “but dey don’t know
AcBEDiron is by birth and nature a
ritualist. He has a superstitious regard j nothing over dar,and sho ^ pointed ”dZ
cotton crop of southwest Georgia, then her j for set days and times when certain nole3 j fiantiy with a sj>oon over her shoulder at
factors or warehousemen cannot be made ' become dne, 1 some imaginary place; “and mo and Miss
wane Tliepn-s Lifol Here’S Hope.
GlobfPenccrat,
Tho critical condition of President Gar
field may recall to many minds the fact
tnnt about ten years ago tbo Prince of
Wales had an attack of typhoid fever,which
for several days promised fatal results.
At a coti-ultatioa ot tlie most eminent phy
sicians in London his case was pronouuced
hopeless. Indeed, news of ids death was
spread throughout Euglnnd and cabled to
this country. A. one time, when he was
supposed to be dying, tho doctors thought
they noticed a slight change for tho better
and, taking advantage of it, thoy rallied
their pattent, and finally got him through
nh right. Ihe Prince was at one timo
closer to death tlian tho President has yet
. - . *—r/ w** ( been, ana he is to-dav one of the h^althiaat
“ U °* er tio I ,iazza: “ Bet raen island. While there’s lUe there's
Houge ct Xotr.
Bradford (Pa) Er t.
_ A Bradford girl at tho seashore was tho
innocent cause of a sensation. Tho fair
damsel appeared on tho piazza of a loading
| hold in a breezy mnslin dress. Her toot-
sio wootsjes were encased in low slippers.
Following an absurd fashion, sho wore
on ono leg a blaok silk stocking, and on tbo
other a fiery rod.
-A Bradford man, also at tho same re-
j sort, sat a few feet away. Looking nt tho
lady and at her pretty hose, he remarked
ilna voice and” *’ *
$5 on the re J. 1
Vvope.
most active and energetic citizens until
tho year 183C, when he removed to Colum
bus, in which city he continued to reside
until bis death.
Few more remarkable men, in many re
spect*, have lived in the State; a strong
man, both in body and mind, with only
such education as could bo obtained at the
country schools of that day; full of energy
and zeal, he entered upon life, advancing
step by step, from the smallest bnsiness in
which ho started, until, by the timo he had
reached middle lifo, lie had acquired a for
tune, and was connected with many of the
large enterprises of the State, and wherever
engaged, always commanded rcspoct from
those associated with him, in consequence
of bis fine sense, his good judgment, and
the zeal and energy with which he worked
ont his convictions.
Although not a politician in the proper
sense of tho term, he associated much with
the most promiuont mon of his day, and
represented at different times both tho
counties of Bibb and Muscogee in tbo Leg
islature of the State, was for some timo
mayor of the city of Columbus, and always
an active supporter of his party friends in
the many politioal contests, so long as he
took an aetivo part in tho general affairs of
life. At the time of his death ho was pres
ident of the Columbus Gas Company, vice-
president of the Mobile and GirarSrail-
rond, and a member of tbe board of trns-
tcos of tins institution; to which last office
he was appointed by Governor Jnmes M.
kun in July, 1873, and was continued in
til hfsdortT' 6 ™ 0 ” Smitl * and Col ‘l° it t un-
Surely if any man was ever faithful to a
bust confided to him, Col. Mott was faith
ful and true to that devolved upon him
as a trustee of this asylum. Having through
his long hfe been engaged iu many various
employments, ho brought to a discharge of
Ins dutios a ripe and most valuablo expe
rience and intelligence, which could be
found nrntad in few, if in any other one
man, in the State. His zeal, energy and
°®P 8 htut application to hia duty as trustee,
with all his strong native faculties, acute
and uninmaired by age, were almost
unbounded, as having retired from lifo, in
a great degree, ho gave a largo port of his
time to advancing tlie interests of this in
stitution, pa -— - - -
all way s, *
tendent „„„„
and suggestions in their wciiiffy labor and
responsibility of providing, caring for, and
administering to the largo number, nearly
one thousand, of helploss and diseased pa
tients, committed to their charge.
Uemlved therefore, That iu tho death of
Col. Randolph L. Mott, tho State has lost
one of her oldest, most usoful, and respect
ed citizens, and this institution a trustee
mid fnond, who for tho eight years
he was connected with it rendored most
valunblo services thorcto, and set an exam
ple of zoal and earnestness iu its interests
well worth the following of all future trus
tees.
Resolved, That this preamblo and reso
lutions bo entered upon tho minntes of
this board, and copies forwarded the fami
ly of Colonel Mott, nnd tho press for pub
lication. •
Tho board then adjourned until to-mor-
row morning;all tho members being pres
ent, including Gcorgo A. Cabani®, Esq-
appointed m tho place of Col. R. L. Mott,
deceased. L. N. Whittle,
_ —— President.
.. (state Lunatic Asylum,
Rear Milledgeviilo, August 22,1881.
A true extract from the minutes of the
ww of trustees of tho Lunatic Asylum of
the State of Georgia, os appears from the
record now on file.
Witness my official signature:
F. C. Gbieve, Sec. Ga. L. A.
Where Practice Counts.
Altoona (Pa.) Tribune.
The Philadelphia Times has been theori
zing about kissing. _ This is n department
or young American life in which practice
counts for a good deal more than theory.
Coney island Lomra.
Philadelphia Ecics.
Coney Island hotel proprietors lost $50,-
990 on a rainy Sunday. This is tho way
they figure it: Provisions bought for the
occasion, $HX); what they would have sold
for lmd tho guests arrived, SiO.irOO; loss,
$50,000.
A frisky Old War Steed.
Richmond Whig,
Mnjor Charles Ould, of Powhatan, still
has his old war steed in his stables. The
animal, though he is twenty-seven years
old and carries two bullets in his carcass,
is still sprightly and will jump a fence as
high as his back.