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Qifcjacgisi tmfct 3mitral $c 3^«sanms»c*
jft.vwf.vc no a its.
When the country roads ne8<l mending.
Bi n t“e fnr.ucre, all attending
With lhi r picks and shovels, scrapers,
te -as and hoes,
Pass alcng the trnvolod highway!
In ttisir vicinage, and by-way!,
■ . othing down obstructions
as he goes.
(some hi! up with loads of gravel
Ho'*. J.-op worn by steady travel,
Otbe ' *v 1 down the hills with plow and
si'sde:
And >e: others mend the bridges
t V t .» s-treoms; and rooky ridges—
Delve -way until good thoroughfare is
mad*.
And thus oooh one serves his neighbor.
So c in we, who toil and labor
On life's highway, ease some hearts of
heavy load,
5- - • • And by little nets of kindness—
y (With, nt-haps, a little blindness
Pfh' -'’ x\- their fsalts) can mat* forftap*
smoother road.
V,. oar. Ml life’s sloughs of sorrow,
the sunshine of “to-morrow"
II we t< eok the hopeful word to stricken
L.art;-
Oxc. can level hills of trouble,
w .- ri ije brawling streams that bubble
I- wr.y, if wo but strive to do our
tv e cm )lt keep men from slipping
ij.. .hi way, perchance from tripping
O'er,oi- o obatoclo unseen by careless eye;
V; o cau clothe life’s path in Scanty,
Li ut ■ rtl! but do our duty,
An . : arid red reap greater profit, by.pud
V o ran all do something better
For oar fellows, if the letter
And the spirit of the Word be carried out;
Tti it \Tr do unto each other
A w .1 raid ouch human brother
Should but do to ns along life's toilsome
i rote.
VHimcoimiA press.
Tus Savannah Recorder, of Sunday,
L.is tie following:
F;.tc.Hi»EULY Proceedings at the
t ISTLAL ifAIBOAD WHARVES. —
Lai evon-mg at about 7:40
o'd'.t’ a telephone announce was
r ;-..ed nt the police bar-
i • t’T.t the new laborers were in dan-
f ■_ i tint police assistance was render-
e.l •■j.ary. Accordingly Gen. Ander-
*r»n 'tbritched fifteen police nren to the
vha . r, and shortly afterwards vlsi’ed
■naliy. Jlc found on exatn-
. -J.u I come persons bad fired shots
e; d 1 crlod brickbats into the shanty oc-
cup t- bj the new laborers, but fortu-
OStsly Without Inflictii ,' any damage. A
<2::bg*. t search was made in the surround-
1: iborhood, but no traces of the
i :Vr : .cc’dbe found. A detachment of I
Nothing but a negro, covered with flour
from head to foot, and looking more like
a ghost in the darkness of the car than a
live being. Ho yelled out for water and
food, and said that he was trying to steal
a ride to Savannah, as he had no money
to pay his way. Qe entered the car on
Tuesday morning and bad not had
monthful to eat or drink from that time.
Ax Alligator Hurt.—The Valdosta
Times says some parties went alligator
hunting in a nearly dried up lake near
Statenville, last week, and killed between
forty-five and fifty, some of them measur
ing ten feet in length. The next day an
other attack was made and twenty-flvo
killed. ■
Bill Arp discourses of numerous mat
ters in his last letter to the Atlanta Con-
solution, and, among others, of the death
of Garfield, and of-Arthur’s accession to
power :
A nation in tears is a very grand and
affecting tableau if there is something
grand and affecting to cry about, but there
is no sense in overdoing the thing. I
don’t know what Ur. Garfield baa done as
a statesman, a soldier, or a patriot, more
than ten thousand other men. I don’t
know what notable thing would justify us
in saying as David did of Joab, a great
man has fallen this day in Israel. Not
many months ago I knew he was de
nounced as a bad man and dangerous to
the welfare of the country. I didn't oe
lieve It then, and I can't see the propriety
of denouncing a man as a devil while he
lives and adoring him as a saint when he
is dead. 1 wish our people would quit
the like of that. It destroys confidence
and keeps tip political strife and bitter
ness. 1 don’t know much about Ur,
Arthur, and I don't care if I don’t, Tin
not afraid ot him. If he can do me any
harm, 1 cau't see it. If he is going to
cut up and abuse us down South, we can
abuse him just as had. He can’t run over
Congress much nor defy the will of the
nation which will is now for peace and
harmony and co-operation. I believe
Mr. Gai field was a better man and
greater man. but the death ol one m-n,
however great, can’t stop the wheels of
government from rolling on, norbriDg
shock to its accustoinod motion. A gov
ernment that stood the test of four years of
war, and the assassination of Ur. Lincoln
(peace to his memory), and the election
trauds of Ur. Hayes can stand anything,
and it doesn’t matter at all whether Ur.
Arthur was horn in the United States or
Canada or the Fejec islands, it’s all the
the same. The constitution is a sort ot
India robber thing anyhow, and can ac
commodate itself to circumstances sorter
like our own iu Georgia that has tolerated
two sessions iu a year, and I reckon we’ll
have a third to redistnet the State. Let’s
wait and see what Ur. Arthur does before
re kept nt the wbai res all night,
precaution taken to prevent the
• *3rr:r:s of trouble. Requisitions were
nt: team hardware store for an ex-
•a supply ot ammuniti n and firearms to
j.■■*; 2:*iy contingency that might arise to-
Several special policemen were
. ..j. i night and went on duty.
M u, m-ji-e will be sworn into-day. Anti-
c)rx some trouble of this kind and
d-.-.-r: to be prepared for u crisis If
• \> i.’l ccrnei. Col. Wadley determined
. \z: ?. spec'si private police force of
. ) " members, who will be uni-
l... armed and equipped by him and
1 subject tc the chief cl police, They
v i i.ai.iy oo ready for duty to-morrow.
i ■ .i i. :..g .a blocked up at the Centra!
rv - wharves, and a scene of inde-
•: coni usio.-i is now presented there.
'. . . laborers are doing all they can, but
f wt-rtof skilled labor is plainly mau-
i ’ • " They are being broken in very
I. . :iy in a short time may possibly
> j'{ . w.Dgs all right. The recalcitrant
e. :!still refuse to go to work, and
oppose others from doing the
same, tut uo not, however, resort to vlo-
1 uc. They are holding out In the cx-
r .c j that Col. Wadley may give them
.:.. rod increase of wages, but judging
f. -v.u pa: v. o know of that gentleman, it
it i. -.u-ost a forlorn hope. We hope,
tj„ cv.;, there may he some amicable
l ■' or compromise lu the matter.
t'Hl Constitution says a young sales-
me. ter Atlanta wholasalc bouse, and
tb. uuugbt.-r of a prominent physician of
tint city, duped to Douglassville last
Wednesday night, where they were mar
ried.
V. and .lie following In the same
r-Sto-.:
/. Richmond correspondent has given
an it.-m Ir. one of his letters which the
Gee. cs papers are freely copying, and are
ailri. b for lurtlier information concerning
th: .-'.cresting snbject it touches. Here
is U-e Uu-taiising item: “I met an Eng-
lisl.Ltan here who claims toknowUrs.
L*n ;:ry, the ‘Jersey Lily,’ said to be the
beaut; of the world. He says that she is
re:: cps ova of the loveliest of her sex,but
a young lady teacher in the Atlanta
l .'•• rehocls, the daughter of a Baptist
pratehnr, of Washington, Ga., but resid
ing herself with an uncle at Decatur, far
surpasses her In form and feature. Her
i -vofi'er.: physique and queenly grace,
L.. .*a ;t, makes her one of nature’s nobil
ity. a.d not the creature of circumstances
end ert. He saw her while visiting the
public icbco»a,but forgot her name. Who
is she ? We are dying up here to know."
We .earn that the lady thus alluded to is
the daughter oi a well known Baptist
minister, who was for a long time presi
dent oi a Middle Georgia college, and she
i* ot.-. of the most highly esteemed teach
er.* it. the public schools of Atlanta.
Born houses of the Legislature adopt
ed. ou Saturday, the report of the joint
committee ordering the investigation of
’ : ,'AO A the State road.
vY hat Atlanta journalist was it that
ticrlgiged his house, last week, for
£-,&oOr The Post-Appeal is authority
fo. the statement.
X-a Savannah Xexes says the negro
who shot. : ergeaut Harvej', of the police,
lost week, lias been arrested and is now in
i -p ’. arracks.
We loam from the Augusta News that
a.-, incendiary fire destroyed the residence
of Mr. James Fleming, near Summerville*
li-.i’ Set irday night
In ■>. News also remarks, that “It may
be necessary for Governor Colquitt to
..j,air. take Larry Gantt, of the Oglethorpe
Echo, up on the mountain and show him
ari-ui.d- The political horoscope of the
£e!io, this week, indicates a smiting of
knees in the neighborhood of the Echo
uSee. Lorry was a Colquitt man last
year.’’
The Oil embus Times learns that a dif-
be ity between Mr. Thomas McClung, of
Uoci . county, and a negro named Dan,
r .. red a day or two ago, resulting in
Cions’* being knocked down With v
reel:, stamped upon, and one of his ribs
brukiu. While he was down McClung’s
dogs attacked and bit him very severely.
The negru was not arrested.
From the Americus Republican:
A Tuurv’s Frayer.—We recently
oveueard an old darky praying over a
bagoi oern lie had just stolen in this
wise: “Oh, Lordy, God, I’se jes’ been an’
sluie a bushel of corn from dat mean
man, John Williams’ patch; damn him,
au 1 1 oc'a your pardon. He’s got a plen
ty, au : so has I, but he wouldn't pay me
for tuy w rk, so gcod Lord overlook dis
. -u gress aud keep dem from find-
inj . out, for 1 v ants to steal some more,
in:- .. hen 1 goes to steal help me to get
it i.,t . liice likr you did dem children
v ; i-. , ui wfiou you stole dem from do
. f Kgyptium, and I’ll be mighty
d. ’ :!, oh Lordy, God, if dey fina
. 1 «m:.' dis cv iii kelp me to prove
CounaHy, dat black rascal, sole
. tor Chr-i’a sake, Amen.”
ai:,.j» i v a Negro.—Oa Friday last
Mr.Mii: ' iunlo,lc:d a car load ot
on. .liad boon bhipped from Cinciu-
• u'i. ci.: as the ear door was pushed
i j. V, ho was frightened nv a white object : event, and
mi.is “Ueio 1 am.' ’ The Captain, which ww
Uken by surprise, sumped quickly back, portion of the settlement put on
SimL?^wiVhatihodeScearo you:’" bib and tucksr, while the male portion
wc pitch in him. If he Is a good hearted
man he is a coward, and won’t dare to de
fy us; so let him rip along. As Cobe says
we will all know by watting.
He also tells us what Uncle Jeff, an ex<
ceedingiy level headed old party, thinks
about Calvin Lewis quitting his “crap”
and goiug to preaching, as follows:
Calvin Lewis has quit his crop and taken
to the pulpit—says he heard de Lord call
him while he was in de field, and Uncle
Jeff, says he: “Calvin, dat Is a lie—if you
hear anybody call you it was de devil,
and you is sendiu round de bat for him
every night, and dess niggers round here
is quit workin, and some of em is gwine
to school dat ort to be in de coltou patch;
and de next thing a school nigger do is to
qnit de country and go to town, and de
next thing is to steal something and get in
do chain-gang, and go to work in de coal
mines, whar Governor Brown wants em.
’Dats what’s de matter. Dese white
folks knows eszackly whar an cdicatcd
nigger is gwine to land. I never knowd
one to come to any good yit. You exu’t
make sheep meat out of coon, or chicken
out of crow, I don’t care what you feed
’em on.” Uncle Jeff says these young
niggers will have to belong to somebody
yet, or quit the country.
Savaxxaii received 4,401 bales of cot
ton on Saturday, and sold exactly the
same number.
Six steamships loaded with cotton have
sailed from Savannah for Liverpool since
September 1st.
From the Americus Recorder:
Tendered His Resignation.—^We
regret to learn that Rev. George T. Chan
dler, pastor of the Presbyterian church,
has tendered his resignation of his charge
here.
“Give it Some op That ’ab.”—A
little episode transpired on the uortb
bound tiain of the Southwestern road, a
few days since, which goes to show that
the sterner sex are oftentimes the best
judges of the wants ol infants, and when
it esmes to the pinch, “know a thing or
two” in this line. Opposite a browned
and lusty granger, sat a pale and care
worn woman, with a fretful and crying
baby. The tired mother, seemingly,’had
exhausted every effort to quiet the little
one, but to no purpose; still it kicked and
yelled, disturbing the whole car of fellow
passengers. At length the granger, no
loncer able to bear it, arose with a look
of disgust ou his face, and pointing to the
via laclce, exclaimed: “Madam, give it
some ot that ’ar.” ‘‘That ’ar” was ad
ministered, and in due time
“The fair head faintly nodded,
And the child was fast asleep.”
Mb. M. L. Everett has an acre of land
Inside the corporate limits of Lumpkin on
which he Las made oOO bushels of pota
toes every year for four years past, besides
from twenty to thirty bushels of oats.
A convict near Cedartown attempted
to escape last week, but was stopped by a
ball la his neck.
From the Cedartown AdverlUer:
After the Mormons.—One night
abcut two weeks since, out at Brook’s
mill, in the northeast edge of this county,
a party of Mormon elders attempted to
hold services at the house of a convert,
aud Just as all were ready to begin a gen
eral uproar was beard without wbicb
plainly told that parties bad come to put
a stop to the proceedings. A number of
shots were fired, but nobody hart. The
ciders were preparing to get away in haste
when they were met by one of the in
vaders, who plainly informed them that
the good citizens of the neighborhood had
made up their minds that no more Mor
mon meetings would be pexmittted iu that
locality. The elders fled, and will doubt
less steer clear of that quarter for the
present, at least. It is said they had suc
ceeded in making quite a number of con
verts among the lower classes in the neigh
borhood.
Cutting Scrape.—On Friday even
ing last a few miles cast of this place a
Mr. Pittman cut seriously Mr. B. B. Car-
t- r. From wliat we can gather regarding
the affair it seems Mr. Pittman was a black
smith working in the shop with Mr. Car
ter, and the children of the two having
had a quarrel, Mr. Pittman reported the
same to Mr. Carter, and asked him to
chastise his sou, as he believed him to be
In the wrong aud that he ought to be cor
rected. Mr. Carter said he would attend
to the matter, but did not drop his work
at once. Pittmau seeing him hesitate,
suddenly rushed upon him and before he
bad time to attempt a defense cut him
severely in three places about the body.
Pittman fled at once to Alabama and has
not been beard from. Carter has had
good medical attention and at last ac
counts was getting along finely.
Corn Is selling for $1.15, cash, per
bushel In Screven county.
Tiib Atlanta Constitution failed to get
in yesterday.
The Atlanta Post-Appeal tells the fol
lowing :
In the neighborhood of Ormond's paper
mill, about six miles from Atlanta, on the
I’ue of the Atlanta and Brunswick exten
sion, preparations have for some time
been going on toward the nuptial cere
monies which would unite a beile of tbe
settlement to a beau from Conyers.
There was wild excitement, of course,
as the time approached for the fateful
event, and when at length it did arrive,
as last Wcdnnsday, the female
its best
oiled its hair, slanted its hat on tbe side
of its head and spit through its teeth with
rural pomp and tbe superbest of provin
cial eclat, as it were. Wednesday night
tbe supper was placed, the wedding guests
assembled, tbe minister was on hand, the
settlement fiddle vibrated nervously In
tbe grasp of the virtuoso “of them parts/'
and nothing was wanting to make the oc
casion a gorgeous success except the was-
to-be-briuegroom, who tarried long in the
night without ever explaining his tarry.
And then, becoming disgusted at the de
lay, the expectant bride, to show that
there was nothiug mean about her, offered
to take anybody who would fix his name
to the license and subscribe to the cere
mony. To llie shame of the gallantry of
the settlement, no one answered.
The Savannah News says the indica
tions are that the strike in that city is
about ended.
Mb. Marshall Andrews, of Craw
fordville, is emphatically a progressive
man. He first resigned editorial control
of the Democrat; then joined the church:
was then elected superintendent of a Sun
day-school; and fianlly married one of the
loveliest young ladies of the village.
There is nothing left for him but transla
tion.
The Savannah Recorder says all tho
Central railway strikers have accepted the
inevitable and wisely concluded to go U>
work again. They will wait Mr. Wadley’s
action on the petitions which it is under
stood will be presented to him. The
same paper says that Joseph Whitman,
while coming to Savannab on Monday,
was knocked down by two tramps and
robbed of $375 and a watch and chain.
- We find the following in the Atlanta
Constitution: The Constitution man
was unable to find General Gordon yes-
terday but had the following conversation
with one of his friends, who, while dis
claiming authority to speak for the Gen
eral is very apt to understand his inten
tion. This friend said: “The idea of
General Gordon making the race is absurd
To begin with, ho voluntarily resigned an
office a year ago that was higher in hon
or than tho governorship, and one to
which governors aspire. This office paid
him more than twice as much as tbe gov
ernors salary and gave him an undis
turbed tenure for five years, while the
-overnorsliip would only insure two.
it would be very foolish, therefore,
to imagine that he would resign such an
office to enter a fight for the governorship.
“You may say further,” our informant
went on, “that General Gordon was
never so enamored with any business as
that in which he is now c-ngagcd. He
felt that far the next twenty years politi
cians would have real work to do in the
South, and the men who would be the
most successful, the most active and effi
cient would be those engaged iu political
and material enterprises. In resigning,
ho determined to devote himself to the
development of the South and of Georgia,
and so declared at the time of his resig
nation. The wonderful success that he
has achieved has but whetted his eager
ness for the new business in which he is
engaged. In less than a year he has de
veloped an immense mining property, as
sured the building of the most important
road projected for. the South for the past
ten years and made himself a fortune.
He is happv, independentandenthusiastic
in the quiet of h:s home and the busy
work of bis office, aud has projects right
ahead of him even larger than those
that have engaged his atten
tion for the past year. When these
projects are unfolded and developed
the people will understand, that he could
not afford and would not think of wasting
any more ot bis life on politics. “Ot
course,” said the gentleman, “it must he
a satisiaciiou to him to know the kindly
expressions with which the suggestion of
bis candidacy has been received, hat you
are very safe in saying that he won’t
make the race. I should authorize you to
say on my authority that he would not
make the race under any circumstances,
it I did not think it barely possible that
he might be forced into it by tbe attacks
of certain men who make the mistake^f
thinking that they can keep him out of
tbe field by bullying him.” Tbe above
conversation is without authority from
Gen. Gordon, but it expresses the views
held by his most intimate friends, and we
feel justified in giving it a place in this
column with this explanation.
We learn from the same paper that Dr.
A. T. Spalding Las resigned the pastorate
of the Second Baptist church of Atlanta,
to accept a call from Galveston.
President Boynton, of the Senate,
was presented with a gold-headed caueby
his brother Senators after the adjourn
ment of the Legislature on Tuesday.
Mb. Merritt Head, of Gwinnett
county, attempted to kill himself last
Saturday, and may yet succeed, as his
wound is a very severe one. He shot
himself in the roof of the mouth.
The Milledgeville Union says George
Wimbush, a negro of that place, was shot
and severely wounded by some unknown
person last Tuesday night, as he was go
ing home.
The Monroe Advertiser savs the stock
law Is now In force In that connty, and
bareafter every person owning horses,
cattle, hogs, sheep, etc., in Monroe county
must keep them on bis, or her, own land,
or else pay tbe damages which these ani
mals commit. Some people think the
law will increase tbe value of land in that
county fully 25 per sent.
The Griffin Sun says: ‘-Last Monday
night, near Engle’s corner, two gentlemen,
driving in opposite directions, collided,
aud the shaft of one of the buggies entered
tLe breast of one of tlie bones, causing
death to the animal in a very few minutes.
Mr. Harden, of Monroe county, was the
loser of the hotse, but tho man who ran
into him did not remain to give bis
name.”
No Savannah News yesterday. Whether
it failed to arrive, or was captured by some
loafer whose room is greatly preferred to
his company, is something we shonld very
much like to know.
A tsdr’s Pet Pishes.
Marlboro (Mast) Unto* Journal.
There lives in Sandwich, Mass., on the
borders of one of the most charming lakes
in America, Mrs. F. H. Burgess. It has
been her eastern once or twice a day for
quito a period to feed the fish of this lake,
and a few days ago we chanced to be favor
ed with an invitation to witness this novel
feait. She first splashes the witer with her
hand, when in a moment there may be
seen approaching from every direction
hundreds of large shiners, then eels varying
in size from one to about three feet in
length, may be seen cautiously approach
ing. Next tnrtlcs appear on the surfaoe,
ten, twenty and thirty feet away, their
necks stretched apparently to see whether
it U friend or foe who ii disturbing the
water*. In less than three minutes these
various species had collected directly be
fore her, and as she commenced
to feed, the water was fairly alive with
them. They take bread directly horn her
hands, and turtles would allow her to take
them entirely out of the water, and while
she held them in one hand they would eat
with tho greatest voracity from the other.
But the eels amused us most. There was
one she called Kuinn, measuring about
three feet in length, that repeatedly came
to the surface, and would glide back and
forth through her baud*, aud several times
she lifted him partially out of tbe water,
but he was careful to keep his head under.
He seemed to feel' that she would take no
undue liberties with him so long as his
head was in its natural element, bnt the
moment to saw daylight he would dart
back as only an eel conld. Another small
one, about a foot in length, seemed to be
particularly fond of her caresses and could
>e bandied about as she pleased, it being
understood that he was to remain under
water, though.
A Good Socatoatlon.
Philadelphia Timet
The authorities of the Districf of Colum
bia should see that a strong guard is plaoed
around Corkhili’s mouth.
Speaker ■aeon’s Farewell to tbe
Before ailJoumlng tbe House Tuesday
afternoon, Speaker Bacon said good-bye
to that body in the following eloquent
and appropriate words:
Gentlemen or the House or Rep
resentatives:—Our official duties have
ended and our record is made up. Our
labors have been exceedingly arduous
and wearying. No House of Representa
tives within my experience has had so
great au amount of work imposed upon
ft. Besides the numerous elections, to
properly deal with which would require
the time of an ordinary session, the
amount ot legislative matter acted upon
has been immense. Over twelve bund red
bills have been considered in this House.
The large majority of these have not
originated with us, but with the people at
home. They have considered these meas
ures important to their interests, and in
the exercise of their guaranteed constitu
tional right to appeal to the government
they have asked us to enact them as laws:;
and we, as the law-making power, would
have been false to our duty and recreant
to our trust if.we bad refused to examine
into their requests and to supply their
proper needs. This has been a hard work
ing,industrious Legislature. Dating all the
summer heat, In the midst of great
personal discomfort, and to many at
much sacrifice, the mouthers in these
halls, aud in their committee rooms, have
labored unceasingly nizbt and day with
this mountain ot legislation; and if my
judgment is of any value, I wish to say
here that no body of men of equal size
and restricted to the same methods of
procedure could have properly disposed of
the work in less time. No idling has
been here; little or no unnecessary ills
cussion has been here; but there has been
a great deal of hard, steady woik. In the
difficulty of reconciling opinions some im
port ant measures have failed, and some
measures supported by decided majorities
have been lost because of the new consti
tutional provision which requires eighty-
eight affirmative votes in this House aud
twenty-three affirmative votes lathe Sen
ate for tbe passage of a bill. But In spite
of all failures, that which has Dcen ac
complished will contribute much to the
progress and .development of tho State.
To me personally this is the close of a
long legislative service. I cannot with
indifference sever an official relation
which lias existed for so long a time that
it has become, as it were, a part of my
every-day life. Forme there cluster in
this hall the associations of twelve ses
sions. Since they began what a change
has been wrought in the condition of tbe
State. Then all was doubt, d'strust and
uncertainty; but step by step at each
succeeding session these measures were
adopted which have brought order, confi
dence and a superb public credit. 2 know
it is a common thing to depreciate tho of
fice and tbe work of a State legislator;
but it is a depreciation which flows from a
mistaken {and ‘ inconsiderate judgment,
for ho deals with measures which mostly
concern the dearest interest of the person
and property of the citizen. Apd m this
—which is probably the last word I shell
ever utter as a member of the General
Assembly of this State—I desire to say
that while I claim no peculiar credit to
myeolf in the accomplishment of thisgreat
work, I shall ever cherish and prize the
recollection that it was my fortune to as
sist those who lifted the State from the
depths of her adversity and trial to her
present proud position of prosperity and
prominence among her sister Stales.
And during these past few days, when
the realization has been pressed home
upen me that myservices here were draw
ing to s fiual close, my memory has been
busy in recalling the many scenes through
which I here have passed, and tho many
hundreds of those with whom I have come
in and gone out in the dischaige ot public
duty. Most of them have returned to the
honored stations of private life, some have
been transferred ’ to more prominent, if
not more useful, positions in public life,
while others of them have crossed the
waters of the dark river.
Bat, gentlemen, I trespass upon the
time of this final hour. With It will prac-
tically cease our connection as feilow-
legislators. The calls of our business In
terests, and the yearnings for tbe home
greetings that await us, hasten U3 to be
gone: but, believe me, that amidst tl i
business and pleasures of home there will
come the quiet flours in which our
thoughts will recur to these scenes, and
memory will again people this hall with
the forms of those with whom we have
here been so actively associated. Then
will we know what we now so imper-
fectlyrealize—the strength and tenderness
of the attachments which have here been
formed. The noise of the contention will
then have been hashed; and the divisions
and rivalries will have ceased; and iu the
heart and memory will survive the friend
ships which have here had birth and de
velopment.
Gentlemen, I hesitate to pronounce the
final word, fur that word will finally sever
the official relation that binds me to you.
Your confidence, your support and yoor
forbearance have made this relation a
very pleasant one to me. During ai! the
years there will remain the recollection
of your unvarying kindness, and while the
official tie must be severed, I trust that
there may never be broken the golden
linns of friendship which bind us together.
Gentlemen, I thank you most sincerely
for your generous confidence and for your
uunumbered acts of official and personal
favor and kindness, and wishing to each
of you all happiness and prosperity I bid
you farewell. I now declare the House
adjourned without a day. .
AM AMGOSV Of PEJItM.
Tbs EIsssmI AUdram—i at UsM Baa-
laaai Tkonana HuSnui. P. G. 1..
•ad sir Kalsht T. G M«U, si Ska
Haaarial SarvlaM af SS OmarCam
amaadcry Ho S of Knl|hl Templars,
st Maaaslt Hall, Macao. Gs, Sap-
tasker M, 1881, Is Tribal to tc Treat
daat OsrflcM
In presenting the resolutions of sorrow,
sympathy and rasped over the death of
Sir Knight Garfield, and abhorrence of the
deed which deprived him of life, Bight
Eminent Thomas Hardeman, P. G. 0.
said:
Eminent Sib Eexobts and Fusana: The
dosed duo re, the bosineee hash,the funereal
bell, the solemn stillness, the overshadow
ing gloom, bespeak something unusual in
crowded streets, in business marts and pri
vate circle*. Whet means this bush, this
solemn silence, this sad pageantry? -Amer
ica is in tears, and her children mourn
from the pine forests of New England to
California’s , golden sands. From the
northern lakes to tbe eonthern gulfs is
heard the sound of apeople’s lamentations
—the mournful cadence of a nation’s grief.
It is not that a great man has fallen, for os
great as he whose death we commemorate
has been consigned to the tomb without
this pageantry of feeling, this demonstra
tion of love. But, that a nation’s hi ad—
the rnler of a people—stricken down in the
zenith of manhood and in the fullness of
honors, has passed away, that strikes the
chords of the national heart, whose every
string vibrates under tbe grand sy mphony , f
a nation’s threnody. “Death in the White
rBOJt OUR CORBESPOXDKXTS.
Cianlord Hupei lor Court—Memorial
Exercises at Albany—Death at Gor
don.
Byron, September 2S.—Having re
turned from Knoxville, where Judge Sim
mons organized the court on Monday last,
and gave to the grand jury his usual but
legal and sufficient charge—which every
good citizen approves of—wo will give
you the notes from that place.
Monday morning the grand jury went
to work and but a few minutes afterwards
Mr. Raines, who had been acquitted of
the late homicide committed upon his
brother-in-law by the court of inquiry,
was arrested and brought to Knoxville,
whose case was presented
to said jury, bnt finding the
State had no evidence to convict they re
turned no bill. So the young man wen
home rejoicing, knowing that ho was oat
of a trial for his life, but doubly grieved
at the thought of being forced to take the
life of bis fellow-mau and brother-in-law.
The case was one entirely o' sell-defense.
Cases of some importance are expected
to be up, as some of the distinguished
memben of the bar were present. Judge
Lyon, Whittle, Hall & Son, of the Macon
bar; Davis, of Houston, Cox, of La-
Grange, and others of tho local bar.
The distress of the country seems
to he nearer at hand than when 1 wrote
before, as the cotton and corn crops for
counties around are developing into mere
nothingness in eonsequcnco of the intense
dry weather daring the past summer.
Cotton fields that look green and flour
ishing when examined arc found to have
scarcely anything od them in the way of
fruit. Heaven know* only wliat will be
tbe condition of the fanner next year.
Gordon, Ga., September 27.—Mrs.
Jane Solomon, widow of Mr. David Solo
mon, and one of the oldest citizens
of this place, died last night at 11:20.
She has been suffering for years with a
cancer, and it has at last terminated her
life. “Grandma” Solomon—as we aM
called her—was a woman of nolle Christ
ian character, and tho announcement c~
her death will bring soirow to thi many
who have been blessed by her hospitality.
She was ready and waiting the Master’s
call. Her remains will be buried from
the Methcdist church at 4 o’clsck this
af re moon, liev. O’. W. Smith, 1). D,, of
ficiating.
Meaattflera.
Ladies, you cannot make fair skin, rosy
cheeks and sparkling eyes with ail tbe
cosmetics of France, or boautifiers of the
world, while in poor health, amt nothing
will give yon such good health, strength,
buoyant spirits and oeauty as Hop Bitten.
A trial Is certain proof.—Telegraph.
House.” How appealing tbe thought, how
suggestive the warning, how impressive
the lesson it inspires and inculcates 1 It
silences invective, it stills passion, it buries
animosities, it hushes strife, for around the
grave of a nation’s ruler the genius of
American institutions solemnizes tho scene
by her presence, and commands “peaoe, be
still 1” to the angry elements of discord and
tbe stormy waters of sectional animosities.
She speaks to-day and throws a veil over
tlie bloody past as hope whispors in imr
ear that in our l’r&ridunt’H grave will be
buried forever the bitter dissensions which
ha redivided his people, for as God loveth
whom he chosteneth, who can deny that in
thi* great blow npon the nation may be
seen the aim of his Providence, in healing
her bloody wonuds and restoring tbe onion
of her divided people. What American to
day, as his heart is touched with the sense
of flis country's grief and tho conscious
ness of a nation’s low, cimnot say,
with Frince Edward, when contem
plating the long war of the Roses,
and the cheering prospects of tboir speedy
cessation, “free from the pa-sionato ani
mosities of either faction—Yorkist and
Lancastrian—whether victor' from the
field of Tannton or St. Albans, are but
t’uglUhmen to me, to whom I can accord
justice to all who serve, pardon to all who
oppose.” Standing to-night iu tins solemn
presence,sharing that common grief which
fills the heart of tho whole American peo
ple, I can say it matters not whether I
have been the follower of an Edward or a
Henry, would to God this solemn dispensa-
'on of Providence would efface from the nn-
t'on’s heart tho deep memories of blood,
the sad deeds of sectional feud and civil
war. Aye, sir, metbiuks a common lose,
a common grief, a common misfortune
will inure to the general welfare and peace
of the country, aud from tlie grave of him
over wliioh American civilization weeps to
day will bo heard a voice, ‘'l’erishnll mem
ories of the past that can make n wall be
tween th9 souls of my people.” What
American is not a mourner to-day at the
grave of his President? Sad and impres
sive death, it is surrounded with n
peculiar grandeur and a public signifi
cance, yet it jars not the machinery of
our government, nor stops one moment its
harmonious revolution. Is there death in
tiie White House ? There is Ufa in the na»
lion. His tho_constitutional head passed
away ? Tbe spirit of that constitution still
Uves. and will lire as long as our civUiza-
tion blesses us, with a full appreciation of
the benefits of governments and the bless
ings of liberty. Thrice before, tho foot of
the grim monster h&3 trod tho “President’s
floor.” Hnrrison died, and a “shower of
holy tears” foil upon the good man's grave
—but the gloom of tho cloud darkened not
permanently the horizon of his country’s
prosperity. Taylor passed away, and dark
shadows swept over the nation. Yet these
shadows passed away, and the sunlight
Hashed forth again in tbe fullness of me
ridian splendor. Lincoln was assassina
ted, and “the imlse of the nation stood stiff
in collapso.” Yet its great heart ceasod not
its beats or its functions. Garfield falls by
tho hand of the assassin, and whirs to-day
anthem and eulogy and public demonstra
tion bespeak a nation’s grief, yet mingling
with the gloom, in beamiful contrast, is tlie
sunlight of a country's hope for a peaceful
and brighter future.
Spirit of our country—God be praised—
there is within you eridenoes of a glorious
immortality. And though gloom beclouds
you now, there is consolation iu tbe thought
that the “funeral tapers” wbicli mollow it
will prove to be heaven’s fixed lamps, to
n* ; de our people to the end of the jealous
ies that estrange and the dissensions that
distract them. I am cheered with this
hope to-night, and my bosom swells with
emotions of gladness as I contemplate, in
this solemn honr, tho fraternal meeting
again of unr whole peopio in the common
temple of our common country. Aye, sirs
—to-day, while the funeral bell was tolling,
while the minute guns were booming,
while tho national drums were beating tho
tattoo of a ruler’s days, thoso people have
been Assembling; from grief-stricken
Maine to sympathizing Mississippi; from
New York, thu nation’s great heart, to dis
tant Minnesota; from bleeding Ohio to
mourning Georgia; from East, from West,
from North, from South, they assembled
around tho emblemed altars of their coun
try—npon which barnod tbe in-
ccnso of holy sufferings, and
over which novered, with ex
tended wings, the white dove of peace, from
whose beak there ilew a scroll upon which
was written in heaven’s inspired characters,
“Whom God has again joined together let
no man put asunder.” But, Sir Knights
and fellow-citizens, if a national lesson lias
been drawn from tbe death of the Presi
dent, t lie' e is a private one for each and all
of us in onr characters as Knights and citi
zens. Springing from tlie humblest walks
of life, by his manly exertions, step by step
ho ascended tho laddor until he reached tue
pinnacle npon which Fame had erected her
proud temple. He lived to labor, and by
his labor ho arose to distinction aud power.
He was not ashamed to earn his bread by
tho “sweat of his brow,” and it was in this
early training by that noble mother, whom
ho did not forget amid tho pomp and eclat
of ua inauguration ceremouy, the seed of hi*
oharacter was sown, which in maturer years
ripened into a manhood worthy of tho civil
ization of his age. Evidences of this mnn-
ho d were seen not oui; in places ot power,
bnt in thu chamber ot disease and death,
Upon Ids brow were traced the lines of
thought and grand design. He was a man
of impressive mien, aud though he bad
braved the vicissitudes of fortune, there
was ia his nature evidences of a nobility of
character and mojesty of purpose worthy
of the ago ho adorned. But if, in the
vigor of manhood, he was active, spirited
and enterprising, seeking the rewards of
honest toil and tho fruits of a noble ambi
tion, Lis saint-tike patience and fortitude,
manifested throughout Ms long and pain
ful illness, the touching grace and piety
which adorned his life and crowned his last
moments, commend thomselvcs to every
man of noble impulses and to every ad
mirer of all that is pare in morals and
beautiful iu religion. While he nursed the
ambition that coveted worldly honors and
distinction, he ignored not that one which
beautifies the life and Christianizes the
heart. In this, Sir Knights, he has exempli
fied tha teachings of the ordir, mid set us
a commendable oxamplu. Let u* profit by
the lessons of tha liuur, and while wo joiu
in sorrow with those who consign to tho
tomb our deceased companion, let us
not forget her who, true to her
mission and hor womanhood, watched—
constantly watched—by the bedside of her
companion as his lump of life bj degrees
wavered, dimmed, lowered and slowly died
away. Did he exemplify true manhood?
Her watching, her prayers, her teart, her
fidelity only typified the character of every
true wife and woman in our land. With
her let us place iu the silver urn—as in
days of Eastern giory—"i nrest wines, cost
ly odors, and the vial foil of tears,” and
while so doing commend to the Divine
Keeper Lite soul of our deceased companion
and tlie widow we havo sworn to defend
and the orphan we hr.ve pledged our faith
to protect. In view, sirs, oi the tmrrouud-
ings of the hour, o&u with a full apprecia
tion of our duty to the dead and onr obli
gations to tbe tiring, I offer tho following
resolutions.
fallen in graceful expression from the lips
of our distinguished friend and brother.
Indeed, do we not all realize, have we not
all realized for many weary days of watch
ing just passed, how imi>otent in language
in the vary pro ence of the nation’s silent
holocaust. Have we not off felt that this
mournful pageantrv of armed battalions,
this oeaseless, muffled rolling of the drums,
this solemn pealing of oannon, these sable
vestments that have well-nigh draped the
very heavens in blaok, and the tolling of
funereal bells that have startled ns at mid
night hour, are all, but the sorrowing oym-
bole, the outward tinsel of a mighty inward
sadness ? Have we not felt that the great
breast-throbs of America, yea, of all Chris
tendom, that come welting np, rolling and
rushing on with resistless energy, like an
ever-expanding ooean tide, most needs be
come voiceless and inaudible iu very excess
of grief T ....
The dynasties of the old world, the kings
and autocrats of earth, have before now, In
their obsequies, had their simulacra of
grief: but, to-oay, they stand mute, ap
palled witnesses of a national bereavement
so universal, so all-reach ng, so unfatbom-
ably profound.
James A. Garfield, on American oitizen,
a Knight Templar, President of the United
States by the suffrage of a free people, lies
dead at the hand of an assassin. To-day
has been tenderly laid away in tho cere
ments of the grave all that was mortal of
him. He needed no royal sepulture.
And now is it'given to ns to read the los -
son of this fearful tragedy ? Had this man
beoomo an apostate ? Had he violated the
oath of his kingly. office, registered before
God and man, to protect and defend the
constitution? Had he become an usurper
of powers and prerogatives not warranted
in tho organic act of government? Had
he plundered the commonwealth ? Had be
incited the people to deeds of violence and
revolution '! Had he been guilty of higii
crimes and misdemeanors ? The grand
inquest ot the nation, the people, the
highest of all earthly jadicatories have,
with unauimons acclaim, pronounced their
solemn judgment, “Welt done, good and
faithful servant.” What prouder tribunal,
and what more glorious justification ? No—
“ Ho hath born his faculties so meek, hath
been
So clear in his great offloe, that his virtues
Will plead like angels, trumpet tongued
against
The deep damnation of his taking off;
And pity, tike a naked, now-born babe,
Striding the blast, or heaven’s cherubim
hors’d
Upon the sightless couriers of the air,
Shall blow the horrid deed in evory eye,
That tears shall drown the wind.”
It is not given to ns to read aright the
afflicting dispensations of God’s prori-
denoes; nor would we with relentless hands
lift aside (lie veil toiuv..de the sacred pen
etralia of that home now enshrouded iu
deepest sorrow. -We are content with the
assurance that “He hath ordered all things
well.”
There is in it this comforting consola
tion. Above that newly-made grave, em
bowered in the sylvan shades of that homo
he loved so well, sits enthroned
the white-winged messenger, Peace,
and to-day Americans may come together
therein a band-clasp of friendly sympa
thy; rich and poor, hi ;h and low. men of
every race and shade of political opinion
orownin^- his bier with immortelles of
loving regret and affectionate remem
brance.
It is well, perhaps, that he has been called
to his rest in the flush tide of his undimmed
powers, in the early, ye; fall fruition of his
latest, grandest victory; and that tho last
earthly sounds that fell upon his dying
couch were the heartfelt supplications ol
his people lifted np in prayer to Almighty
God that Ho would raise him up again,
that he might live as a ruler over the land
ho love.1 so well. It ha* been beautifully
said that when the great Reaper comes and
takes away the good and pure, “That for
every fragile form from which lie sets tho
mnting spirit free, a thousand virtues rise,
n shapes of mercy, love and trntli, to walk
the earth and bless tt. ,;
I second tho resolutions.
[Tlie resolutions were published in yes
terday’s Txleuiuph and MessxNuaB,—Ed.J
SIB KNIGHT HOLT’S ADDBB3S.
In seconding the resolutions, Sir Knight
T. G. Holt said:
Eminent Commandpu, Sib Knights, La
dies and Or -Tr.iy.EN : In rising to second
the resolutions that have just been pre
sented, I knew full well that no formulas
of speech, no garniture of rhetoric can add
aught to the eloquent utterances that have
£ueland in Mourning.
Ktto York Herati
The great meeting in Exeter Hall, Lon
don, reports of which will be found in our
special cable dispatches, although called
tor the pnrposo of expressing the sorrow
of American travelers sud residents abroad
at the Piesideui’s death, was as cosmopol
itan in its nature as the character of the
world’s greatest metropolis. Representa
tives from all quarters of tho globe were
there assembled to attest by their pres
ence their griet at tlie loss of tbe chief
magistrate of the United States aud their
sympathy with Mrs. Garfield and with the
American nation. Especially noticeable
was the large number of Euglisb gentle
men and ladies who formed a considera
ble portion of the vast audience. But the
number of English mourners was uot lim
ited to the gathering in the hall. It ex
tended throughout the length andj breadth
of Great Britain. If auytbing were
needed to manifest the ties that
bind together the two greatest
English speaking nations ot the earth this
universal sorrow that prevails in England
over America's great loss would proclaim
to all peoples the community of kindred,
of feeling and of purposes that exist hr •
tween the two countries. The President
of the United States dies, and his death is
the occasion of signs of grief such as were
never before witnessed in Great Britain
at the death of any foreign ruler and have
scarcely been exceeded at the loss of her
own sovereigns. Such a demonstration
is Inspired by a sentiment which rises su
perior to all differences In form of govern
ment or iu external policy and forever
obliterates the remembrance of former
conflict. As Minister Lowell happily re
marked at the Exeter Hall meeting, the
American who chances to be at present in
England ieels that he is in a strange, but
not a foreign laud.
From Germany.
Iu a private letter to one of the editors
of this paper, Rev. M. B. Wharton, now
United States consul at Sonneberg, Ger
many, writes:
SoNNKBEEn, August 25.—Mg Dear
Friend: The appointment is all and more
than 1 expected. By direction of the
State department, tlie office is in Sonne-
berg, perhaps the greatest manufacturing
place in Europe of its size, while my resi
dence is located in Coburg, one of the
finest cities in Europe, and unquestionably
the most beautiful place 1 ever saw.
ikmneberg and Coburg are connected by
train three limes a day, with villages and
residences all along the way, which make
the two places like onecjty. Sonncberg
Las tine hotels and some line dwellings,
and innumerable fine factory buildings.
There are fifty factories ot dolls alone,
and many china and glass .factories, as
fine as those of Dresden. Iu aud around
Sonneberg there are from two to three
hundred factories ’fast ship over a million
dollars’ worth of goods to the United
States annually, while from my whole
district there are shipped over two
millions. My district is one of the
largest and most respectable in tlie
German Empire, embracing no less iban
nine duchies, or small German States.
Coburg, one oi the dncal residences, with
its castles, palaces, churches, theatre,
“hofgarten.” .fine colleges, magnificent
villas and incomparable drives, Is like a
bright dream for beauty. I am sunyund-
ed by all the insignia of royalty. The
American consul here takes rank with
the highest officers of the government,
and is greatly honored and respected in a
place where everything goes by “posi
tion.” The scenery hereabouts is grand
beyond description. I have seen nothing
that can compare with it in the Blue
Ridge or Alleghanies.
Ibad a splendid trip out aud fine pas
sage across (he Atlantic, and a delightful
stay of 8 week In London, a day at Co
logne, Mayencc, Frankfort, etc., each,
and a day on the beautiful “blue Rhine.”
Heard Spurgeon twice iu London, and
got acquainted with him, went to Wes
ley’s chapel, and stood over his grave.
Also visited the graves of Watson, Row
land Hill, etc. Europe Is all and more
than it has been reported.
■oat
Cau’t Tua Give Va Their Si
Aujutia Chronicle.
In our own Htnto, it is known that able
and ambition* men are awaiting tbe result
of the experiment in Virginia with far more
concern than is usual.> driven to .tie politi
cal aff irs of other commonwealths, per
haps with plans arranged towage a similar
warfare here. Assured ut the active sup
port of the federal administration, they
might be induced to attempt to thrust upon
Georgia the same struggle tb&t ia now pro
gressing in Virginia. The impoitauce.
then, of defeating on this initial field the
opponents of public honesty nuJ the allies
of tho worst elements of tho fiadieal party,
cannot be easily overestimated. It shonld
be apparent to the obtuse.
TbejCudjaf a Cbaqa«ra4 mad Boaube
Ut*.
From the If etc York World
An exciting and romantic life came to
close at Damascus on tbe 12th of August,
when tbe wife of the Sheikh Medj-Joel, a
local celebrity known to all travellers,
passed away at tbe ripe age of seventy*
five. This Damascene lady once wore an
English coronet, and came of tbe famous
English race of Sir Kenelm Digby, a scion
of which not long ago married the daugh
ter of Mr. Uroesbeclc, of Cincinnati. She
was tbe only daughter of Admiral SirHenry
Digby, and was two years older than her
brother, the present Lord Digby. When
a girl of seventeen she married
second wile'the second Lord Kllenborougb
afterwards known in English politics at
“the wild elephant,” who was made Earl
of Eilenborough on bis return from the
Governorship-General of India in 1848,
Tbe marriage was an unhappy one from
the first. One child was bom to tbe ill-
matched pair—t sou—who died when but
two years old, in 1830. In that same
year London society was electrified by the
elopement of Lady Elletiborongh with
Prince Felix Schwarzenberg, then a band-
some and dashing young Austrian diplo
mat, who twenty years afterward proved
himself to be both a soldier and a states
man, and rescued the House of Hapsburg
from tbe revolutionary abyss of 1848,
Lord Ellenborongh obtained a divorce
from his wife by special act of Parlia
ment, allowing her a large Income. She
continued to live abroad, and a few years
after her elopement with l'riuce Schwarz-
enberg, she married iu Bavaria tlie Baron
Von Venningen. Him, too, she desert
and then led a strange life of it “between
the Alps and the Mediterranean.” ‘How
many times she was married in Europe
is not well ascertained, but about tlie
year 1850 she went to tbe East. There
she travelled from Palmyra to Damascus
under the escort of the Sheikh Medj-joei,
who for many years has monopolized tbe
best travellers between those famous
spots, and startled him on their arrival at
Damascus with the information that
she intended to marry Lira. The
Sheikh took to flight and made for
tbe desert, but the determined lady fol
lowed him, overtook him and married him
duly according to Bedouin rites, there be
ing no witnesses of tbe ceremony except
his Arab companions. She purchased in
his name a splendid house aud garden in
Damascus, where she has ever since re
sided during part of the year, spendir;
several months annually In tlie desert in
her husband’s tent. Stormy at her earlier
life had been, her latter days were calm
and contented. Her last and most extra
ordinary marriage proved a happy one.
In Damascus shs became tbe idol of
tbe poorer Mahometan residents
who found in her tbe kind
est of friends and counsellors; and amid
them she has died at F tt, respected and
beloved, finding a much happier ending
of her romance than her predecessor in
Oriental experiences, Lady Hester Stan
nope. Lady Eilenborough—or “Lady
Digby,” as she called herself after her di
vorce—never became a Mahometan, On
the contrary she was a regular attendant
of late years at the English services of
the Damascus Mission for the conversion
of the Jews. Mr. \V. C. Prime, of this
city, gives au excellent account of her
Eastern home in liri “Tent life iu the
Holy Land.”
I. Wbicb Ha Fbascwn, phs
cry Clark of m Pm,
O f’ nM, AH eU ' reryClerk0f a P^°fficois not
learn to be patient, meek and h^ffie “£
must submit to being ,Y~~~ H °
vSkSESSS** obe ^
hold. Without it he wonld 8 Slr0n «* 8t
a fifty cents
may gnaw at hia vital; sttet&Zv
heart, and pain torture him 0 ^^ ap
but the placid calmness of
must remain undisturbed tr» wires
walking encyclopedia, 8
ary,city directory,railroad Buide.u^ui
h « f ? tn 4 1 « calculator and ^ w
clock all combined. He most know thr
distune* between Macon and Pattioonia
and all intermediate points, anf^be
i? form . at,on without warn-
injf. Ho most know how Iona it HkM a
^J t8rt f ~m Macon at C o’clock r ,
v& h i d / eat *i eb °> » a China. He mart
from here to Atlanta, and
whether the mail pots on Sunday or not.
He must know whether a lottor was re-
oeired during the past ten years for John
Smith, and how it was postmarked. He
everybody in town, out of town,
and all the di am mere. Ho must remem-
‘ferevery facehe ever saw during his nat-
^rol life, and above all he must never
make a single mistake. Tbe delivery clerk
must feel lonesome end disapiiointed if he
is not cussed out nineteen times a day, in
sulted every half hour, and growled at all
day. He must look for letters he can
swear he hasn’t got nor never had. He
m tut anlwer forty questions in one breath
and never get mad.
Heaven pity the delivery clerk. Virtue
has its reward, and the Ohrietian is sure of
Paradise, but the delivery clerk goes
tramping on to his doom with no glory to
speak of. His is the boss hard lot. Forty-
nine times a day he is called upon to look
for letters for people who never got a
letter in all their lives, nor never will, and
if he says with a smile “nothing to-day,”
he is rewarded b7 a frown sour enough to
spoil butter. He reads his newspaper by
sections. During the occasional rests he
hungers for mental pabaiam, but his eye
no sooner skims over the head tine of an
article than some tiiliputian scrap of hu
manity wants a nickel's worth of stamps.
And when he finally edg a l-mself down
into the interesting part where tbe maiden
is about to swing herself over the precipice
rather than become thu bride of the lover
Deport of tbe Nolut Committee on ri
nance Adopted in Senate ■
House.
The jolut standing committee on finance
have examined the accounts and vouchers
of tho Comptroller-General and Treasurer,
r i required by section 188 of the code,
and respectfully submit that the books of
these officers have been neatly aud cor
rectly kept, aud their annual reports are
sustained by the condition of the offices.
The report of tho Treasurer showed
balance in the treasury, October 1,1SS0, of
S0S8.S05.47, which amo'int is shown on the
books, aud on tho 10th day of Not ein'ver,
’■nnO, J- W. lienfroe, :l e former Treasu
rer, turned c\ur to D. X. S;>eer, the pres
ent Treasurer, the sum of $005,574.97,
which amount wo found onthe books, aud
' e same agrees with tbe books of the
comptioller-general of Fiat date. The
bocks of the treasurer showed a balance
on September 5,1881—the day your com
mittee began its investigation—of $782,-
884.84, which ’ amount your committee
fum.d in the hands of the treasurer and
the .State depositories, an itemized ac
count of which is hereunto appended.
in the opinion of your committee the
treasurer deserves the gratitude • of the
peopio of Georgia for his conduct in the
matter of the State’s funds in the Clti-
r.ens’ Bank, as well also as for his effi
ciency* and the good management of his
office.
He found in this bank, when he entered
the office, $332,432.85—more than half of
I he whole amount of the State’s funds at
that time. He at once began drawing
from tLis bank to meet all the demands of
the Slate, so that at the time of its suspen
sion there was on deposit in said bank only
$103,218.48, thus, as we think, saving to
the State a large sum ol money. We call
especial attention to the books of tbe
comptroller general’s office. Said books
are comprehensively, neatly and beauti
fully kept; the system is so thorough that
the condition of any account in the office
can be ascertained at a moment’s notice.
Respectfully submitted.
Dupont Guerry,
W. H. Mattox,
J. F. Brown,
From Senate Committee.
A. W. Hill,
S. D. Fuller,
B. J. Davis,
S. R. Christie,
D. C. Bacon,
From House Committee.
ROGJSRS‘£,AJSAR.
Georgia and Alabama United hy tbe
Silken Tie of Love and Marriage.
The parlors of the Lanier House were
graced lost evening, by the prescnco of &
bridal couple who bad, but a few hears
previous, taken the holy vows that united
them os man and wife in wedlock bonds.
Yesterday afternoon, at 3:33 o’clock, Mr.
F: Rogers, of Macon, was married to
Miss Alioe Lamnr, of Mobile, Alabama, at
the residence of R. N. Lamar, Esq., Mid
way, Georgia, near Milledgeville. The
Cev. D. McQueen performed the ceremony
in a moat beautiful manner.
Mr. Frank Rogers is the youngest mem
ber of the well-known grocery establish
ment of Geo. T. Rogers’ Sons, of this ci’j.
He is & young gentleman of elegant busi
ness qualities and popular manners. Mr.
Rogers is one of the leading factors of Ma
con society, and scores of friends con
gratulate him on the most anspioious event
of his life.
Miss Lamar is a young lady of many
lovely traits of character, which have ever
made her a favorite with eiery one who
has the pleasure of hor acquaintance.
Garcefnl in person and of most attractive
face and winning manner, she is a bride
altogether fair to look apon. Miss Lamar
visited Macon a short while since, and here
formed a number of warm friendships.
Quite a gathering ol friends assembled
at the Linier House last night whore tho
bridal pair have elegant apartments, aud
expressed to the groom and bride many
sincere wished for a long union of happi
ness and love.
TOM AHTEH’S TALK
wild and frenzied, some ragamuffin raises
his head above the window and says,
“Mister, is ther* anything here for Mi»t
Nancy ?” Mentally the deliver}- clerk
wishes Misa Nancy head foremost inter
ment, but, like Macbeth, be must smile
whiie he murder*. A delivery clerk
without a chronic smile is like a
kite without a tail, a knife without
a fork, a dog without a bark. Men may
come up and swear they know their letters
axe there and intimate that thu delive*y
clerk didn’t half look, but tho clerk must
run np hia smile at half mast all the same.
The true delivery cloak must hr.ve no re
ligion. He must handle the Methodist
literature with the same tenderness as tbe
Baptist, and his str : le must beanabrightly
on the Catholic. He mustn’t have auy
politics—the Bourbon Democrats must
meet with tho same smiling reception 03
the atalwartist of stalwart Republicans, and
the Indepr ident is equally as welcome.
He must know no social distinction, and
the colored cook in her fragrance of old
grea*e as well as the elegant lady in her
Bounces of rilk most be trcutoJ alike. He
must have nopre.*erehces;mustagree with
everybody in ever} hing and bottle np his
conscience. He must cut loose from ever}'
virtue, discard the world a:;J must live iu
a sort of moral isolation—a kind of
human light house, far away from
shoro and disconnected from the world,
yet guiding thousands by its light. Bnt
who will not say that the delivery clerk
dees not deserve at le r -t a kindly thought?
As he stands day by day bunding over his
little counter letters from home, letters
from sweethearts, letters that prick memo
ry aud bring to mind homes miles and
miles away, letters whose tidings bring
tears of joy or grief, letters that come from
far across the soa, sorely he deserves a
passing thought. His life, rough as it is,
should be brightened by at least one gleam
of sunshine. Tost Aims.
A Defalcation of 81,500
And another colored secret society is in
tronble. Its president, who is also secre
tary, is short in his accounts §J,T'). The
organization is composed of women, num
bering over five hundred, but, as is the
usual custom, a man was the presiding offi
cer, and into his keeping the funds of the
society were intrnsted. That all was
not right was sospicioned seme time
ago, bnt nothiug of a definite nature could
be learned at first, but finally it was found
that tho society had been victimized to tho
amount of $1,.V ).
An effort was made to havo the affair set
tled in peace and qniet, and this end was
thought to have been accomplished, though
the defaulting president was not forced to
disgorge any of tho money or be presented
for hisshoit outings. Bat during the past
few days the matter has been revived, and
talk of legal steps being taken is very loud
and pronounced.
Tbe alleged victimized society is one of
thb most popular of a!i tha negro societies
in Macon, but its history is bnt like that of
others of similar organization. Tho presi
dent waits until there is considerable mrn-
in the treasury, and then bis picnic be
gins. One society in no manner seems
to profit by the bitter experience of an
other.
A Had Death.
Mention was made in yesterday’s Telb-
OBAPn of the death of Mr. Willie B. Mor
gan, of Sandersville, whose remains were
brought to Macon for burial. The deceas
ed was a member of the Washington County
Rifles, and an escort of that company ac
companied tho dead to this city. The
mother and sister of Mr. Morgan also
came np from Sandersville with tho body
of their departed son and brother.
The fanerol was held from the passenger
depot yesterday morning at eleven o’clock.
As a military courtesy, a detachment of
the Macon Volunteers, eighteen strong,
under command of Captain Comes, and
the drum corps of tho company, escorted
the funeral cortege to the grave ia Rose
Hill cemetery where the burial occurred
under Episcopal coremonks.
The deceased formerly lived in Macon,
and was under engagement to W. A. Juhan
Co., to rotnm here the first of September
and enter their employment, bnt he was
token sick, finally grew worse and died.
He was a yonng man eighteen years of age,
full of life and promise, when the dark
messenger came and summoned away his
life. He leaves two brothers, one living in
Savannah and tbe other near Sandersville.
ClwUcssod U Fight • DaeL
Yesterday rumors were afloat throughout
the city that a certain well known gentle
man occupying a public poaition, bad been
challenged to fight a duel. Investigation
revealed tho following circumstances: A
umber of youths ranging in years from
seventeen to twenty-one were assembled in
one of tho rooms under the gentleman’s
charge, and were creating considerable dis
turbance, singing hymns and holding a sort
of prayer meeting. The aforesaid gentle- j remain, but everything will be righted in a
man promptly ejected the youths, and in few daya.
return for this one of the eldest ot the Post matter Brown seems determined to
young men challenged tbe ejecting officer ; give Mason a ffrst-class post-office, and
to fight a duel which was vary properly de- J afford every convenience and show every
c lined. J accommodation possible.
Poat-Odtee Alterations
For two or three days past workmen bare
been busy making alterations in tha
internal arrangements of the post-office.
These changes are being made in accord
ance with Postmaster Brown’s ideas, who
desires to give the public every conve
nience and accommodation.
The partition containing the boxes h&3
been moved forward four feet, and two
auctions of boxes on the left removed to
make room for tho money order and regis
try departments. The office of the P 0 * 1 '
master will be situated to tha left as you
enter tbe front door, and will connect with
the money order office. The general de
livery will remain where it is for the pres
ent, and a door will be cut at tbe window
formerly used for the use of the carriers on
Sundays. AU the mailing, etamping and
distributing will be done in the room now
used as the money order offio*.
At present the offloe is considerably torn
up, but this has not delayed the mails in
the least. Soma trifling annoyance has
been caused by the changes of boxes from
the discarded sections to those which will