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Albany in hapi y over her artesian wo'l.
Tim total east was Ji:1,000, bat half of
Ois sum was expended in machinery with
■iach Urn second will be bored. The work
aw begun in December, and the first well
wow bored U> a depth of 4*5 feet when it
had to be abandoned because of a broken
dad. A aimilar accident spoiled the eec-
«4w«!l at a depth of $15 feet. The third
— nended, and is now pouring forth from
(6to 30 gallons of water per minute. At
legation* per minote the city will get from
Mo angle well :«,0CJ per day. The water
Masters a tesnperatnre of T.% at the well
rad to vary pure. The well is G.V) feet
VcatT Vallxt Mirror : On Monday
night last, during a heavy thunder storm,
skit* Mr. Stephen Barber and fam iy were
srifmg in tbs family room before $ve flie-
gffeee, a bolt of ligLtoia -, wl ic i is suppcs-
Wls luM come down the chimney, killed
BUe Newton, Mr. Barber's eldest son, and
wooded Mia. Barber and her little babe.
UUle Newton was a bright little boy about
am an years of ege, end was the pride and
£>y of his doting patents, and tha shock of
ts sad aod snduea death has been very
■ad to them. Mr. Barber reside* in
flsewford roontr, about five mUee from
tews and tha many friand of tha family
XaulynmpBfMmi with tham in their af-
Tna B rune wick Adcertiser remarks -
The budding of pecans to young hickory
tress is an experiment being tried at Bred-
pica by Mr. Willie Taylor. The buds
have taken splendidly and wa don’t see
why they won’t do. nicely, both being of
the same general specie. In this eonnec-
Uon we ight state that Mr. Taylor has
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iMpasnui Herald 2 life W. G. Btl-
M* Bring at Feaeock’s croea roads, aoma
Sw miles south of Tennilto, informs ns
mgCM Moling, a colored man about 21
mam off age, was killed hi hie cabin on
trophe. No trace of the building can be
recognised, and as yet no search has bean
made for its oocnpanta. Hast asms
the reside noe and barn of Minarod Bowers,
which was completely crushed to pieces
and carried into tha adjoining lot off D. W.
Virgin. Minarod and wife were found
still in their bed, and almost on top of the
snow end debris, both daaii Two German
relatives of Mr. and Mi«. Bowers had ar
rived tha evening previous from tha Bast,
and were sleeping u the bouse that night.
One of them escaped unhurt, and the other,
who dug his way out from beneath tha
trunk of a tree, had a broken ahonidar and
some other injuries. _
The residences of D. W. Virgin, W. D.
Gray and H. Boerlin were on the next
street below that of Bower*. BonrUn’a
house was completely demolished.
The oocnpanta ware Mr. and MoLBoarfin,
their two children, andMr. Chtaholm
and wife. All ware burtod in thereto* tori
Mr. Boerlin, and Mr. and Mrs. Chisholm
made the r escape unhurt. After oqnsid-
crable search, Mrs. Boerlin was found
some distance from the original loaaMty of
the bed, nearly snffooatod, and eBU hold
ing tha dead body of tha little girL Polina,
inner arms. The boy wae found to still
another part of the wreak, alive and un
hurt.
The slide cams down tha gorge hnmadl
staiy south of fense ^um, usd anaaf
sad. In these wretched little lmn i and
those horrible hags wa sea the children of
Inst and debris of the seraglio. Tear by
jeer the negro villages of Soondan are
ransacked for g'.rie of voluptuous beauty
—who arc stolen or bought for a few
beads or a bottle of ram -for the Museull-
msu market where, unmoved by pay, swot
longing, lazy Moor. Over exceptional
be mty, cf.dis, pashas, ministore ana mer
chants wage a flares money strife before it
is determined in whoso embrace it shall be
used up.
Thousands of both mala and female
children, irom eight to ton yean of age,
are annually imported iato tha Moocfth
markets. On the way many of them die
of a broken heart. They am fattened-
prior to sale, end are treated to mosto (o
rare home sickness, it ft said, and to die
the look of ooqtcntmsui for the Moor
loves only |hs flash. When worn with care
or sorrow, or old ago—which Conors at
thirty—she ie worthless.
M ybe that ghastly wretch, with tooth
less skull, now more like a fiend's than a
Atthft tfanajt
(&em:gfa Jxnmuil « lf(****«ig*c<.
sweet wife.
milmi up and the world goes down,
troatolne follow* the rain;
MStidkjr'i sneer, and yesterday's frown,
■ Baser come over again,
Sweet wife—
.never come over again.
though man be cold,
hallow the day,
was weary and old,
i claim* the prettiest red-headed
MU to fl* Bute.
%nmin ha* probably abandoned her
raw prat-office project.
gsisKDi yonng ladies are engaged in
iMrihmn artificial flowers of feathers.
fhea lightning has just killed a mala
mwC ieita. One by one the old Viking*
mm passing away,
mecua thieve* infeet Colombo*.
Vas tyctone did great damage in Terrell
Many people were dangjronsly
land several killed.
‘Am freedmen of Augusta ere getting
■n jag books in order to receive another
foom the late lamented Freed-
■n’t tank.
Cam mteemed Albany correspondent is
rakssesd that J. Pluvius had nothing to
gi —II the late tornado. It was invented
rad mTried out by J. Boreas.
Nkniisna i Weekly : We want Hon. A.
(i ghirm. of Bibb, for governor. He is
, active, full of spirit, and baa all tha
am which Georgia much needs.
IkKmtniA Weekly: A Dooly friend
fimto m that on a reoent visit to Macon he
hfom cut the gas at bis hotel and eama
vmsy aa-r winding up bis mortal rail.
A twtam Lothario, prowling about
asmrag the household gods of nnother man
amaaguta, received a 1 sad of elugs that
waZ jccapacitate him tor future business.
Cm Sunday morning last Mr. J. A. Pow-
«fl if Americas, v.u thrown from his bug-
K -y a muaway mule, and severely burn
■vss. Heu Dunbar and Martin Prioe auf-
ftiisi from a similar mishap, on the same
kkrr
tt Tnoxrsoa, of Newnan, eloped last
morning with a town strumpet,
cat his eighteen year old wife and sev-
wt dip old baby to the town. Before
j g he sold the only bedstead in the
c.vui tried to steal his wife’s trunk.
i ** low ought to be ornamented with a
I ef tor and feathers and turned loose
i March v inda to play with.
SetuaiviLij Newt: In Lea oonnty
toasag tits scholastic year 1881, there were
(si*i nre asbeels taught, eleven for white
■line and tweuty-fonr for colored. Pc-
pd eia attendance, two hundred and twen-
Bsa* white, and nine hundred and twen-
% »-~n icolored. Who say* that the South
m act try .ng to eduoate the poor negro.
Voutta Journal : The Georgia Pa-
■f.t -alroi»d men are having high times
wit some of the peopl > along their line of
rsaxt -*IU for felling asaplingorafenoe;
EDO* tor injuring a ‘patch of titers,’ at
Uriah there is said tv have been at least
am* s whel ; $ 1U) for injuring a wheat
Stol by one wallowing of a mn.e ; and for
■mscy; a sapling in a yard and nsing 153
foad *t lumber, $15/0.
~w» Talhottoi. Register has the follow'ng:
tht .-*> is a crowbar under the court
Vaat. dropped there by Col. J. C. MaunJ
ago when the building was being
Mr-ivd The contractor mads him pay
for * Unole John says that on last
(Rsdcesdsy when the court house got on
flkat bs thought there was a chance to re-
wain tif long lost crow bar. Bat he was
anted.
‘cmt-Appeul: A stranger step]>ed up to a
i-. ,i of countrymen at the car-shed this
me—vag and re<iuested change for half a
•statu. *Pne of the countrymen had two
Apzortvrs, but one of them had a hole in it,
vti it> was debating aside a* to whether
ftp *h<m!ii give it to the stranger. “Why,
af io-v»e, said his friend: "give it to
fotr; he don't know the difference; h/s a
rifc -to man.’’
Att'tms Banner: The rumor that the
wwi.any wh ! ch late’y purchased Barnett’s
stow have failed to comply with their
uni: .ct end tliat the trade is likely to col
's;** i* erroneous. Owing to some liitch
to to* title the matter is temporarily de-
hn*). although the greater part of a mil-
lira and a half dollars to bnild a factory
le«R lots been subscribed. We get this
.'hn live very best authority.
tama Re/tuldican: We saw ni>on our
A»t> a few days a o an industry of no
:iut importance—an ox cart filled with
tme. thousand and three hundred cat fish
kt Hint river. Tlieee fish netted the
efehtr about $21.00. and be bad no teooble
tmoaaling them. Now, this fisherman stat-
m* tout be realized about £00.00 a year
it* the sale of fish, going to show what
jlx he done by an attention to what is
-mi fed little thing*.
ibiUBnur Din patch: The steamer
•flw! ttsher, on her last down *ard trip,
toe-pod her chain about twenty miles
ri»n Darien and was that comi«Ued to
raesc-r until assistance con’d be obtained
:»i.r Stvannnh. At last accounts sh^ was
Sw-sgtoeed to that city. As this chain has
hut", ths cause of many detentions to the
tosecetr, the owners have abandoned Ihe
mn and are preparing to pat on two
*al engine',which will avert this trouble
lAa. Goa Jam, of Houston county, tells
<M a wonderful deer chase that took place
beginning in Laurens county. Two
.fezaoas dogs belonging to a man named
Aariy Hamilton jumped a deer on Blnewa-
trir svsek, ran him across the < Icmulgee be-
kmr Hawkinsvill*, and westward. (in the
krird or fourth day the dogs crossed the
bfcbama river below Selma, in pursuit
»t ttwi deer, which was shot an 1 killed by
Barlow, who knew Hampton's dogs,
emi retnrnod them to him in the falL Mr.
At *- will please take the brad of the class.
KtDuffie Journal: On W. W. Hook’s
sk«f dino, about six miles from Americas,
*• Wednesday, a negro child nine years
was burned to death. She wa* playing
•*"’ ■ the fire, when her dress happened to
close and canght, enveloping her
Vna head to foot in flames. Ranning to
n Led near by, she threw herself npon it,
aa i when found she wa* dead. Another
jriaie child wa* playing in Ihe room at the
ttaa.*, and when parties went into the room
(he tittle one was found carrying water
aa i pitting out the fire in the bed that
h*vl caught by the girl’s drees coming in
scitact with it.
JjjTA-NNAji firm: Yesterday afternoon
-ran-ct 2 o clock some workmen on the
**f“MaryJ., lying at tha Eastern
i Mill wharf, had a very narrow escape
««nooe and jiossibly fatal injury,
were engaged in discharging from the
»h«H«y boiler, and had hoisted it
al feet from the deck when the par-
i broke and it fell with a U-rribl, thud,
si of the men were barely missed in
** desaent. and (tad it been any higher
Ike purchase broke, some of them
■raid undoubtedly have been caught un
der tt and crushed.
her artesian well.
complained of hie foet and legs •
ware much swollen afterwards. The abaft
innV-* to coma down the chimney, split
incite facing an the aide of the fireplace,
and cracking the sill within eighteen inches
of one of the men. A dog lying nrar the
chimney, under the boras, was found dead
mn Tneeaay morning.
The fintt crop about August* la safe.
Hbnbt Geadt is knocking about Augus
ta.
Columbus reporta a foiling off in guano
Thxxb’s a freshet in the Altamaha
river.
The Athens dogs era busy killing spring
water
well
C53 feet
On Monday
storm,
fam iy were
fiie-
Atbbbs is eoqnetttng with a waterworks
proposition.
The population of Savannah is rapidly
increasing.
Post Royal has had a brash from the
Georgia cyclone.
Tbs Coiambus Timas man has baen feed,
lag on beaver steaks.
Judoi Gibson, of Augusta, ft wrestling
with tha spring tie.
Ml J. C. Bason, of Harris oonnty, has
had bis smoke house raided.
The editor of the Louisville Farmer de-
ligfateth Umaelf with garden ease.
It is a poor town that eann# afford
cotton sera mill, or is it a riehvke ?
Thoxasyilli is taking stops w build a
chapel for the South Georgia college.
Webstxb county jail haa bean burned. A
colored inmate had his wool singed.
Tin Kastman Timet warmly advooates
Col. L. M. Isa mar for tha State Senate.
H. M. Bxxtkll, of Atlanta, is shipping
tair cases to the Wesleypn Female Col
lege.
The Savannah grand jury has returned
three true bills for burglary and two for
murder.
Ma. Obablib Danihl, of Ooonca, smokes
an Indian pipe that bolds a quarter pound
of tobacco.
Cumd’s captures in Georgia this week
have been few in nnouer. Cupid distrusts
the spring weather.
“The ghostly occopant of a hollow tree 1
in Gilmer oonnty tarns out to be the
ghostly figment of a deceased brain.
Kate Sotdebn, tha happiest little woman
in Georgia, left Atlanta on Wednesday for
the home of her nncle in Murray oonnty.
When a McDuffie couple separate, the
esteemed local edit >r of Hie Journal re
marks that “they have concluded to split
blanket*.”
North Georgia Citix si .* The mountains
around Dalton were on fire last week, and
the fire-soene at night was one of wierd
beauty.
Cctbbbbt Enterprise : There are 40,-
CC > more Baptists in this country than
there were a year ago, the total number
being 2,TX,(fn.
Lochs anb haa pnt in an appearance at
Atlanta. The Judge retnms to Atlanta with
the proud record of a man who ha* out-
gatlied Gath.
An Atlanta man is going to see his Mur
ray county sweetheart on a bicycle; that is,
he is going on a bicycle to see his Murray
county sweetheart.
Now that it has a supply of fine water,
Albany, already one of the most beautiful,
will take it* place amongst the most desir
able cities of Georgia.
Mb. Cickbo Ho -bi, the Stewart oounly
man who accidentally shot and killed his
nephew, has been having convulsions ever
since the sad tragedy occurred.
Home-Journal: Messrs. Will Wagnon
and Jesse Barker caught two hundred
pounds of fine cat-fish in three nights last
wees. Set-books did the business.
Thb Eureka is a newspaper published in
Macon, the first number of which lies be
fore us. It is published by Rev. J. R. Grant,
colored, and is a very creditable effort.
A band of Romany* is encamped near
Sandersville, and Editor Park confesses a
want of sympathy for the race, born of an
unprofitable horse trade in the “auld lang
syne."
O^Columbu* contemporary sp**ks of
Count Johannes B. Gormans, as the agri
cultural prince of < albot. The Count sets
a fair ex >mp)e to the rising generation liy
wearing one pair of pants forty years.
A both la witness of the famous charge
by the Light Brigade has tamed ap. His
name is John Winter of Wintarsville. The
army of George Washington coach driver*
are a little late in coming forward this
spring.
Col. Coo fix, of the Enlerjtrise, resent*
the imputation when an exchange siielle
Cuthbert with a li'tle “c.” If our mem
ory can be trusted. Cutbb.it ought to be
spelt entirely with capital*. It ie a capital
place.
Poua Griffin men met at a "lemonade 1
bar. Their combined ages amounted to
two hundred and seventy -one years, making
the areasge sixty-eight. There is nothing
so remarkable in the ege. The wonder lies
in the fact that they met at a “lemonade”
bar.
TnoMAHViLi.it Times: A gentleman who
has observed the weather closely, remarked
to ns on Sunday last that sinoe November
21,1881, up to that date, there bad not been
a single day when the sun did not shine in
Thomasville for at least a portion of the
day. Rather a remarkable showing for
the winter.
Eastman Times: Hon. A. O. Bacon, of
Bibb, would fill the position of Congress
man from the State at large with as much
grace and ability as any man in Geor
gia, and if the commonwealth ia to be en
titled to each an official in tue balls of tha
nation’s council, we know of no one wh- in
we would be more delighted to see thus
honored than this distinguished Georgian.
* Homs Journal: On last Friday after
noon,Mr. C. L. Campbell and Mr. Ruan,of
Macon, were shooting snipes on the plan
tation of Mr. J. W. Woolfolk, Jr., about
six miles east of Perry on Big Indian
creek Satnrd -.y 70 souie* were exhibited
in Perry, the result of the evening’s sport.
Messrs. Campbell and Ruan are crack
shots beyond a doubt.
Janjter News: We present to-day the
prospect os of the old reliable Tilkubaph
abd Mzssdaxx. Formerly it needed no
introduction to the people of Jas|*r—it
wa* their favorite for years, and under its
present management it is better than erer
before, and is attracting more favorable
notice than any tther paper in the State.
It has taken and deserve* a new lease of
life. If you wish a daily or weakly yon
can get the Tllx jxapu twelve hours ear
lier toon any other paper can reach here.
Bacaawiox Adcertiser: V. IL Mitchell
cleared the bark American Eagle, on the
28th nlh, for Aspinwall, with 219,0 JD feet of
lumber, valued at $VM.
An old gentleman at Ty Ty, Georgia,
whipped hi* daughter for smiling on a dis
sipated lover, and then tried to commit
suicide with laudanum. An heroic stom
ach pump saved him.
bA VANN AH News: Seven new locomotives
have arrived for the Savannah, Florida and
Western railway during the last week, the
last coming in yesterday. They have five
feet drivers and sixteen-inch cylinders,
and are from the Rodger* Locomotive
Works.
Athens Watchman: We are pleased to
know that Mr. W. A. LeSeor, a former
Athens boy, and brother of Mr. Haynes
Le&Air, of Athens, baa been elected State
P inter for the State of Louisiana. He is
proprietor of one of the leading dailies of
that State.
Thb Brunswick Adcertiser says thrt
a gentleman of this city recently re-
ceivcd a letter from a friend, a physician
of Cobb county, which states that an in
fant recently born there had a fall-grown
tooth on its lower jaw in front. Being
loose, it was easily extracted.
Acousta News: Doe* Albaay know that
tier* is four hundred feet of eating in an
abandoned artesian well on Commerce
street? The well was started in 18f9 and
was abandoned because water could not
be found. What an easy matter it would
b® to ream out the old oonoern. uo down
two or three hundred feet and strike water.
Savannah News: Yesterday afternoon a
colored individual answering to the de
scription of an escaped convict from the
b ? th « Po
lice and lodged in the berraoks. Informal
tion of tha arrest haa bean sent to thale*
aero, and particulars in mgr-d to the ap-
1 rebended negro may be learned to-day.
Awmmia Chroniels and Constitutional
ist: lh a steamer Alio* Clark, on bar uo-
which knocked a bole in bar. She filled
rapidly and sank to the bottom of the river,
where she now liee.
Sumter Republican: At the time of the
reoent tornado Mr. J. G. Batts and wife,
who reside near Smithville, occupied a
bed in on* oorner of tb* bad room. The
greater portion of tha hone* was Mown
down, and in falling a plate fall between
Mr. Bate and his wife in an upright
position, and held up some of the fi
timbers sufficiently so as to prevent the
two from being crashed, and allowing
them enough room to crawl out from un
der th* debris. Tha bed was carried to
the floor, but the upright end position of
the plate made room enough fir an exit.
Upon Mr. Allen’s plantation eleven ne
groes were in a hone* aad the entire bind
ing was blown away from them, axe—“—
the floor, upon which all were found
ingand unhurt. Both of
truly providential in their nature.
Annas Banner; Mr. John A. Reagan,
of New York, arrived ia our city yesterday,
bringing quite a collection of cariosities
frwn Florida, where he has been spending
th^rinte . Among them ie a live alligator
six feet long, a large assortment of rate
•halls, half tha jaw bona of a whale and
many other prod net* of this tropical coun
try. We had the pleasure last evening of
iispectinghia collection, which are really
a curiosity. Ha will leave on the North
eastern train this evening, aad has con
sented to place bis museum on free exhi
bition to our citizens until noon- in the
parlors at the Commercial hotel. Mr. Kee
gan is an edoeated, intelligent gentleman,
and speaks in high terms of the Southern
people, and thinks ha will make Georgia
hie future bom*. W* welcome such citi
zens to our midst, and hope bfe will see fit
to cast his lot in Athens.
Savannah News: Borne eight days since a
white man nam*2 West, a wrecker, aad two
eolored men were employed to go on board
the berk Cosmo*, which lias near Tybee, to
wreck her. After th* men bad gotten on
board the bark their boat swamped, and
they had no means of reselling the
shore, and were compelled to re
main on board, subsisting on crack
ers and water, the only food the-
oould find on the vessel. Some paitiei
have seen the men on the bark, and no~
t’oed them walking backward and for
ward on the deck, and thought their ac
tions singular, not knowing that they were
vii .uslly prisoners. Yesterday the white
man succeeded in reaching Tybee island
on a raft that he made out of some lumber,
but the two colored men are stilt on board
the bark, not having oourage enough to
risk their live* on the raft.
Athens Banner : In or about the year
1814, Governor Wilson Lumpkin’s father
was clerk of the court at Lexington, Ogle
thorpe county, Georgia. By a misunder-
at inding with Governor Clarge, a regular
fls-icuff battle took place between these
two gentlemen and each came out of the
fight with their faces much bruised and
bunged. Mr. Lumpkin went directly to
bis home and after showing his wounds ♦ •
Mrs. Lumpkin, gave her all the particular!
of the quarrel. Mrs. Lumpkin adjudged
Governor Clarke in the wrong end voked
and declared she would never have any
thing to do with Clarke, hia family or par
ty: Mr. Lumpkin soon made friend* with
Governor Clarke and continued his rela
tionship with the Clarke party, as also did
a B^rt of his sons. Colonel Wilson Lump
kin being one of this number, while tbs
mother influenced the remaining eons to
opitoee Clarke and his party,anuthey con
tinued leading Whigs in Georgia.
Atlanta Constitution: Yesterday the
Georgia Railroad and Bonking Company,
represented by Messrs. James B. Com
niing* and A. K. Lawton, filed a bill of in
junction in the Hope .or Coart of Falton
county, restraining the rai'road comm's-
■ion from enforcing circular No. 20 and
circular No. 21, so far aa relates to the
Georgia railroad and it* branches. The
bill goes on to recite the provisions of the
char.er of the road, which it is claimed
was granted certain privileges and the
right to charga certain rates of freight
wnich are in conflict with the rate* fixed
by the commission. The bi'l farther re
cites that while the company has
quiesced heretofore in the redactions
* i by the commission, it <’ : d
under protest and cot be
cause it believed that the rates were just
and reasonable. This bill prays that the
act of October 14th, 1879, be declared null
and void, and that the commission be per
petually enj lined from prescribing rates
of pa aenger fare and freight on the Oeoi -
git road, or in any manner enforcing the
provisions of the act of Goto ter 14th, 1879,
and especially of circulars Nos. 21 and 21.
The bill also prayi that the attorney-gen
eral be restrained from instituting any
suit of any sort against the petitioners for
the purpose of enforcing the pros Isions of
the act referred to. A temporary icjnno-
tion lias been granted and tbe case will be
beard in Macon on the 10th before Judge
1 homes G Ltwson, Judge Hillyer being
disqualified. Tbe case promises to be be
interesting one.
Mara* Talk-Bibb Crawly Kales.
1 he farmers of Bibb county have suffer-
ed heavily of late from storms and gluts of
rain, which washed up the sprouting . ira,
destroyed an immense amount of timber
and fencing, and in some instances played
hsvoe with dwellings and plantation im
provements. But they are in no «:se dis
heartened. The oat crop will prove their
*'ri*ht bower” the present year. Never in
the history of the country haa there been
such an area of the best land sown down
in this valuable cereal. Traveling in any
direction, the eie is ravished with broad
landscapes clad in living green, and the
prospect for a good yield seems exception
ally fine. One planter has reduced his
cotton crop the present year from 157
acres to 50, and supplied tb* hiatus with
oats. Generally speaking, too, there will
bs less cotton planted than in 1881.
The fall oats are beginning to head out,
and thus far are freo from every symptom
of disease.
It requires season of calamity and dis
aster to elicit the true character of a com
munity, and this was strikingly manifest
ed aftyr the desolating cyclone whieh
proved so destructive to many. The
neighbors would turn out in person, bring
ing their farm hands with them, to repair
the f -.rms and dear away the debris of the
fallen habitations and buildings of the suf
ferers. Even the invalid James T. Nisbet
and his little son were to be seen the morn
ing after the disaster assisting in this work
on the farm of a neighbor. Acts like these
go far to refute the stereotyped oharge of
man’s ntter selfishness.
Storms similar to the above, which dar
ing the past week have desolated so many
farms in Georgia, furnish another poten
tial argument in favor of tbe abolition of
fences. For days after the tempest had
passed by, thousands of acres of grain
were left at the mercy of predatory hogs
and cattle. W hat time is there now to re-
encloee those exposed field* without great
detriment to the farmers’ prospects for tbe
whole year?
MEMOBIAL DAT.
Our people respond bear ily to the action
of tha Ladies' Memorial Association in
appointing Rev. Mr. Winchester to deliver
the osnal eulogy of the gallant Confederate
dead upon the annual recurrence of the
deooratiou of their graves on the 20th
instant It is bnt meet and proper that
the clergy should bear their share
in those solemn commemorations. Noth
ing could have been more soared than the
cause to maintain which, he mtombs of
precious lives were sacrificed and tbe land
deluged tn fraternal blood. It is well,
then, that from the occupants of tbe pulpit
itself the deeds of tbe fallen brave should
be kept fresh in the recollection of loyal
Southrons and transmitted to their chil
dren invested with the sacred indorsement
of God's chosen servants. The reverend
orator is a polished and graoefnl speaker,
and will do full jnstioe to the oooasion.
All honor also to that venerable patriot
and “Mother .n brail” Mrs. Isaac Win-
ship for her noble and persistent efforts to
keep the turf green upon the bosoms of
our heroic martyrs, and their grave* intact
from vandal inrusion. May she long con
tinue to enjoy a green old age. H. H. J.
Sever Besyslr,
Macon, Ga., May 1881. Dear Sir; For
several ye sra 1 have been terribly afflicted
with an ulcerated tor* le*. For months
at n time have been to my bed
Having tried several doctors and use-1 every
remedy I could hear of, I had despaired of
ever being cured. After aboflt seven weeks
use of hanodiue, I find myself almost
cored. I have thrown aside cratches and
•tick and feel like a new man. I cheerfully
reoommend it to all similarly *Blte**J
Respectfully, y. Durooo.
Lamar Rankin A Lamar, wholes*
gects. _
A niraai Fiesa
Bainbridge.
Tha travel on tb* river baa grown to very
large proportions. Hardly a boat reaches
here that aver berth ft not oocUpied.
The farmers are putting in, or have pat
in, more corn than ever before, have re
duced their cotton acreage ana fertilized
moro heavily.
On* of Hon. J. O. FaraeU’s daughters,
about eleven year’s old, waa berned to
dtaih last week at her home, eight mile*
west of Bainbridge. Her clothing caught
while she was sitting before th* fire-
place.
To-morrow will decid* who will be the
future tax ooUectirof Decatur oountr. Tha
office was vacated by the absconding of
Jam's Harrell, aa account of which was
published by th* Telbobaph and Mnssen-
obb. There are only twelve candidates in
the field—one is a negro. It is amusing ti
see how the candidates have worked and
are working, and how cool aad indifferent
the people generally are. I question if
there will be fiftcra hundred votes polled
ont of a possible three thousand. On*
thing unusaal about this election is that,
barring the negro, there is not on* of ths
candidates who would not make a good of
ficer. Bcauo.
PaATTSBOao, Ga., March 28.—There is a
great deal of interest felt in the Tbl*obap*
through this seotion of the oountry; under
it-new management, being of the best
and newsiest papers in the State; though
not exaggerating at all, it is thought so
through tnis community.
Farmers are poah’ng there work rights
head. They, most of them, are through
planting ran, but being a litt’e behind In
the preparation of it* in land; therefore,
it will be rather lets before plan Ling.
Wheat and oats are looking fine—more
it than for many years. If no disaster,
there will be a greater yield than for many
year* past.
Prattsburg is somewhat on a boom in
tbe way of baildiog. Messrs. J. Frank
Mathews A Co. are erecting a handsome
new building in the way of a at >re-hou..o.
When complet d they expect to lay in,
from what I lea-a, a stock of goods wouh
about $‘.3,C V). That is rather getting up
for this pLaoe.
There wr a quarterly meeting held at
the Metho^’H choroh Satarday and Sun
day. The Rev. J. W. Hinton preached (.
one of the largest congress .ions on Sunday
that haa ever assembled In the church ?n
this place, or at least since I have known
it, there being a good representation from
Talbottoi ana several other places that I
can’t name right here.
One or two of the young men of th s
place have been “dalking politicks,” bat I
won’t expose them in toe columns of the
Tzlnobafh -that is, if this get' in punt.
A Barkers r.-ltlctara of Iragtellcw
New l'ork Tribune special.
It is related of Mr. Longfellow that wh> i
hie poem of “The Village Blacksmith ’
was going through the pre*s, ha read the
first two stanzas to a hair-drosser in Cam
bridge. The barber erit'eised the first line
of the ae. and etanri, “ His hair is c.
rnd black and long,” by sayirg tlat crisp
black hair is neverlong. Mr. Longfellow
we* stuck with the merit of this criticism,
■nd instruct d his publisher to substi-n*
the word “etronr” for “long” in that line.
The next day, however, he reconsidered
the matter, end sent his publisher tb* fol
lowing note, now in possess! m of a r. -1-
dent of Washington:
Camdbidoe, Oct. 1, 1816.—Dear Sir:
a rote yon yesterday to hav* tha word
“long” changed *i “strong" in “The Vil
lage Blacksmith.” Tee word “stroi g” oo-
c.’rs in tbe pre iding line, and the repeti
tion would by unpleasant. It had, there
fore, better stind as it is, not «L ths tending
the hair-dresser’s criticism, which, a, r
all, is only technical, for hair can bi
both crisp and long. Have you received
any moro numbers of “The Mabinogien.’’
% collection of Welsh stories ? I have only
five. Will you please furnish the remain
der, if you have them, and, if not, import
them for me ?
I am glad to find that the “Poets of Eu
rope” has been so well received. Do you
mean to take out a copyright in England ?
If not, I shall, as it is best u> keep the .on-
trol of the book. Yours very truly,
Hex nr W. Loan YELLOW.
Th* first two stanras of the piem are as
follows:
Utifler a spreading chestnut tree
The village smithy stands:
The smith, a mighty man U he.
With large and sinewy hands;
And the museles of his brawny arms
Are strong us iron bunds.
His hair is crisp and black and long,
HU face Is llxe the tun;
His brow Is wet with honest sweat,
He earns whate’er he can.
And looks tlie whole world in the face,
For he owes not any man.
President Arthur's Twin*.
Washington Post.
Al*ck Powell, tbe co’ored private lackey
of the President, has suddenly blossomed
out into an unpleasant prominence. Al
eck, or “Fresh,” as the doorkeepers at the
Executive Mansion benignsntly term him,
lea high spirited “calTod person,”very
light, slightly fat. a little handsome and
not far remove! from forty. So far as
known “Fresh’s” valuable time is equally
divided between four important duties :
brushing the President's clothes, blacking
bis boots, sweeping the cobwebs from the
lata Mrs. Hayes’picture and polishing up
th* “2CJ” medals prior to their
di'tribntion among the faithfaL Be-
sides this, Aleck looks after the various
departments and sees that the wheels of
government move along smoothly. Aleck
Is a grass widower. That is, h* first for
sook bis wife —afterward paid her alimony
for n While and then sued for a divorce.
This latter blessing he has not yet sew red.
Thursday afternoon she went to the White
House to see her husband. She waa ad
mitted, and with great difficulty secured,
permission to go up in tbe elevator to the
reran i story landing, where stood Aleck,
grand and haughty awaiting I er. Instead
of weeping npon the bosom of hia choice,
after the prodigal fashion, Aleck roundly
abased bis wife and told bar never to sea
him again. The poor woman went away
and went th* next afternoon again, this
tims to see Private Secretary Phillips, be
fore whom she hoped to lay bar troubles.
Mr. Phillip* had gone, however, and she
had turned, with a lady friend, to go out
of th* yard again, whan Aleck, who a erne
to have converted himself into a peripatet
ic arsenal, rushed out of the door
of the Executive Mansion, •
Ic a mad break for bar. Mrs.
Powell, nothing daunted by her spouses’
loud threats ana warlike attitude, did not
flinch. Fortunately the officer on guard
at the building, who waa near by, grabbed
Aleck and tried to pash him aside, hot to
be deterred, however, Is broke from the
officer’s grasp and made anotherbreak for
his wife, patting his hand in hia hip pocket
and making a motion as if to whip oat a
pistol, at the same time spitting violently
In her fao*. Again, however, tbs officer
seised him and harried him back into th*
mansion. Mrs. Powell, thoroughly fright
ened, passed rat of the yard aad hurried
to tbe boos* of tha friand with whom she
was stopping and retold tha story. She
s ates positively that aha saw a pistol in
Aleck’s pocket, aad firmly believes ha
would have killed bar had he not been
•topped.
St. James Osteite, Febmarg A
to see Colonel Henslowe, the commanding
offieer, aa he had bean punished tor noth
ing. The aabadar said: ’To-morrow
morning will do, in tha orderly room.’ The
sepoy said nothing more, went to his hut,
took his rifle and pouch and, it is surmised,
said something of his intentions to hia
wife, for she ran rat after him. He turn
ed and shot her and her child. He then
went to tbe centre main street and at ran
dom fired down it, shattering tbe arm of a
sepoy. The arm had to be amputated
above ths elbow. Colonel Henslowe who
lived about 903 yards from the
Native Infantry lines, heard tha firing,
wrat rat, aaw tha state of matters, walked
from the back Of tbe bouse to tbe guard at
th* quartans aster's store, took a rifle and
eaiMdge tram era ef the eepc^e and
triad to stalk tha man who was firing at
every one ha aaw. Whan Cob Hecs-
lows got within 160 yards of tha man ha
•tapp'd rat of cover of the hat hswas
behind and raised h*s rifle to shoot
th* sepoy. The man, however, waa too
quick for him; be took a snapshot at Colo
nel Henslowe and dropped him wiih a bul
let in hia hip. Colonel Hanalovre lingered
for about twelve hours. Tha woman died
at 6 in the evening. Tha child and tb*
maimed aepoy live and ate likely to recov
er. Aa Colonel Henslowe dropped he fired
and his shot entered the sepoy’s chest, kill
ing him Instantly.”
OVM SCHOOLS.
srmcxAL caB>i«ro»i wcm.
Waxxentob, Ga., March 8L—Mr. Wash*
ington Cody, who lives abont tear miles
from this place, died at hia hum* on Mat
night of typhoid fever, at tha age of thirty-
five ■ He was an honorable, mgh-m’nded
Jm*U Waive ItT-Tfee
trastr MWe at tbe question
It is a fact that our public school system
ia a anociem, and one of the cherishei in-
etitetieos of our county. It is a fact that
oar peopl* would go deep down into their
pockets rather than sea our public schools
go down, or beeime impaired in any man
ner. W* believe it to be a fact, also, that
further taxation would be submitted to for
the purpose of enlarging the area of th*
usefulness of these schools, and-piicing
them npon a firmer and more substantial
“Good gracious,” says Mr. Smith, who is
■ending two ohildrea, and is wonderfully
pleased, “what in the name o’ sense is the
matter now? Ain’t tbe sohools a movin’,
and th* children power,ally pleased?
Why, Mr. Brown’s got ’em from twelve
iuehes to six foot high. Nothin’ rattin’
the matter with tbe schools, I hope ’ We
are glad Indeed to know that Mr. Smith
and tbe rest are well pleased. It is a great
oomfort to a teacher to know tliat his pat
ron- endorse his work and the board are
Tilling sti’l t. employ him : but that solid
c imfort whish every faithfnl, aooeptable
workman driirss, that tangible comfort
which keeps a little meal in the barrel, and
f irovides the baby a frock semt-oecaaional-
y ; that hard pan comfort which enables
a man to meet bis grocer with a smile, and
th* dry goods man with a hearty shake,
that c lmfort—what of its hialiry ?
Five years ago tt.y-eix ware employed in
th* publioaohools of Bibb oooi'.y, twenty-
five thousand dollars having been appro
priated for their support. This year sixty-
seven are employed and the appropriation
is twenty-four thousand do'lare. What
bad to be done? Salaries reduced and
school tnrma shortened. Here we have an
anomaly in buriness. In thi faetory, in
the foundry, in the machine shops, in every
department of business workmen are paid
according to their effloienoy; larger expe
rienoe and increased skill demanding and
receiving an increase of wages and a mire
hon rable • position. In 1874, the write:
received sixty dollars per month as
assistant, and ton months work;
in the seme school now. aa principal, he
reoeivee forty-five and eight months’ work.
Tbe principal of the same school then waa
paid on* hundred dollars per month; he
now gets fifty. No business man will say
that such a course, if unavoidable, ia in
aooordanoe with business principle*. On
this principle, if no remedy be dD ivered,
the length of terms will continue to grow
lose, and salaries correspondingly rednoed.
Right here we are met by the verv trne
statement that the board have don* tbe
very best they coaid under the ciroum-
Btnnoes; that there is annually a greater
deminu for funds, new schools being
opened and more teachers emplojed. We
wish it to be understood that we come not
as grumbler'.
We are min dial of the fact that the be ard
have had an onerous duty to meet th*
pressing demand and keep our schools
going; that they have labored without any
substantial remuneration and have been as
liberal as the funds would allow. Usually
an expansion of business demands and in
crease of capital, bnt tbe business of our
sohools takes the other coarse, and the
great wonder is that so muoh haa been ac-
oompluned with so l'ttle money. What
has been t ie resalt of th : s policy? A con
tinual shitting and ch'uging of teachers,
and the unavoidable necessity of filling the
schools with untrained and inexperienoed
men. We would not utter one word in
disparagement of th* young men engaged
in the achoo's. They are worthy and com
petent, and need only school-room experi
ence to make them all that Mr. Zettler
would hav* them be. Why not? Because
almost any other profession offers greater
inducements.
The peg-leg oobbler makes more money
with one t nth the brain work. The tr’rd
rate barber makes more money and can
read the papers and pick the banjo half
his time. The teachers in oar schools
have throat before their eyes every day,
men inferior to them in mental endorse
ments and business acumen who are mak
ing five dollars to their one and building
homer for their families. “O! if *you don’t
like the water don’t corns to tbe well.”
“Yon should'nt work for the money alone,”
says some one, “yon should be stimulated
to work for the love of it.” That’* very
nioe. bat there is not enough solidity about
it. No man ever worked an engine mere
ly beoanse he loved it. The burly, soot-
begrimed blacksmith may love to wield
his heavy hammer, but he loves still more
the half dozen little dirty 'acad dependents
at home.
Our estimable superintendent recognizee
the business principle, “good workmen,
good wages,” and has incited his corps of
teachers to renewed exertions by promises
to reward efficient teachers with better pay.
Some of ns have been with him from tbe
inoipiency of the system, and these promi
ses remain unfulfilled.
We attach no blame to him. He thought
he bad the lands in sight, but like the
Frenchman’s flea, when he put h<s finger
on him he was nit there. He is now strain
ing every nerve to make our schools second
ti none tn tbe Union. To do it he must
hav* good teachers ; tbe -e be hat are good
enough if, he can hold them’;" these
I lechers like other men, working tor a
living, must be paid; he is ap
pealing to our legislators, State and na
tional; he stand* in the van of any move
ment tending towardt the advancement of
the public scniols or an increased appro
priation. Let ns hope that he may receive
that sympathy, oo-op*raiion and rapport
whieh the dignity and th* importance of
the subject demand. He would attract 11
onr schools in th* country, as in the city,
foremost e locational talent of the land.
He would tare our oonnty dotted with
model school houses, presided over by
model teachers. He would have them
furnished with model furniture and every
adornment and applianoe necessary to
make th* schools the pride of the people.
In behalf of the oonnty teaohers we com-
8 end hit work and hit words, spokou or
written, to tbe thoughtful, earnest consid
eration of all interested in the continued
snooess of our public sohools.
CouNTitr Pan.
Th* peopl* of this s ration are ia very
good eonditiow financially. The crops for
the past four years hav* been fine, tbe
farmers hat* paid ap their indebtenest,
and the business man era prosperous. This
place will tell about one thousand tons of
guano this season, whieh is about tbe
amount usually sold here. The planters
are preparing to plant a large crap of rat-
ton, in tb* expectation that th* price at
cotton next fall will be near what it ia no v.
In a conversation to-day with Hon. W.
H. Pitcher, who is ooe of the moot promi
nent men m the county, and probably the
beat informed on* in it as to th* state of
its public opinion, be expressed tb* be
lief that Hon. O. A. Baoon would be tha
choice of a large majority of tha people of
ths county and section for governor. He
thinks Bacon can make tha most success
ful fight of any man in the Btate against
the ooaliUon; and thtt ha would, on.ao-
oount of his Ugh character aLd ability,
make a governor who would reflect credit
upon himself rnd the State.
People here are beginning to discuss the
various candidates for Congress from
this district pretty freely, sinoe the an
nouncement was mode that Hon. A. H.
Stephans waa going to retire from publio
life^and the campaign promises to be a
lively one. I am informed that this oonn-
ty will almost unanimously support Jedge
Pottle for the position. H. C. H.
Spabta, Ga., March 31.—Mrs. A. A. Un
derwood, who lives about four miles from
this plaoe, to critically ill and to not ax-
to lire.
Mr. and Mrs. R. M. Thomas gave Col.
Louis H. Thomas, of Athens, and bride,
nee Miller, who had lust arrived from Sa
vannah, the former r<*idenoe of the bride,
an eleg mt reception night before last
A ledger which was used hare in 1820 was
shnrn here to-day. One of the young
men of the plaoe sa>* it is the only ledger
in town which has not got his name on it.
Mr. James Smith to building a court
house here which will cost $26,CJ0. Ha
expects to oomplete it in time for tha Oc
tober term of the court to be held in it. It
will be one of tha handsomest oourt-houses
in the State—two stories high, and will be
a credit to tha city and county. It will
have two fire-proof rooms for keeping tbe
rerards of the county in it. Tbe county
treasurer has half enough money on hand
now to pay for the building, and tbe re
mainder will be derived fiom the taxes
this year without making ths rate burden
some.
I am informed by the knowing ones that
Hancock will send an enthusiastic delega
tion to the Congressional convention in
favor of the nomination of Hon. Seaborn
Beeee for Congressman from this district.
H. C. H.
Haweixsvcllb, March SO.—The reoent
cyclone did considerable damage in Dooly.
Wiloox and Dodge. Its track is marked
by a broad avenue through the pine fores tt.
At Gum creek, in Dooly county, the places
of the Messrs. Hamilton, Coney, Lewis
and otuers suffered in the destruction of
fences, house*, timber, etc. It paseed on
through Wiloox, a little north of Abbeville,
utterly demolishing the premises of Dr.
V. H. Walker. We have beard of no loss
of life in three counties, though several
ate reported as bruised and considerably
hurt. In Dodge, opposite Abbeville, the
destrectiin and lose to reported to be se
vere. • _
The session of Wiloox Superior Coart
was very short—only one dty’s work after
organizing.
In Pulaski, Wiloox and Dooly the oat-
look for a good fruit crop to promising.
In these counties farmers are well up in
preparations for this year’s crops. We
have never seen no much oats planted, and
they pro doing finely, although some farm
ers made a mistake in planting feed in
stead of seed oato. In Dooly the farmers
are generally in fair ooniition, having
made ootn enough to do them, in Aviloox
the drouth last year cut crops short, and
very many are now out of oorn.
Prof. Carr and wife are now in Hawkins-
viile, and will lecture to-night and to-tpor-
row night for the benefit of th* Library
Association. k
Our town is still improving. Mr. J. J.
Joiner to haring a handsome residence
erected. Dr. John Fate is improving and
adorning his promisee. Tbe new engine
house and counoil chamber to nearing com
p’.etion, and to a very handsome struct
uro. The James House has been remod
eled and improvments added, and it now
presents a handsome appearanee and to
very conveniently arranged. Its proprietor,
J. C. James, leaves nothing undone to
make b : n guentr feel at home.
Pulaski Fire Company No. I to getting
ready for tbe contest on the 21st day of
April at this place. The course over whieh
the runs are to be made ia being levelled
aad hardened. The visiting companies
will have to be up and doing it they expect
to bear away th* honors of the day.
Tte TzLEOBxrH and MESflaaoES ooatin
ues to grow in favor and popularity. Col.
Lamar is universally conceded to be tha
most spicy writer of tbe Georgia press:
He to a deep thinker, is bold and outspo
ken, and to doing good, aa well as elevating
journalism.
Sioux.
Taldottun. March 81.—Last night, foar
negroes under sentences for term of fifteen
ana twenty years respectively, tried to
make their eseape from our jail. They
succeeded ia breaking the inner iron door.
Their attempt waa not discovered till the
jailer carried them breakfast this morn
ing.
Ambbious, March 31.—A collection .of
nearly $T0J wat taken up in this city yes
terday for the cyclone sufferers of Sumter
county. We understand that the county
commissioners have also donated $101 of
the oonnty funds. The storm did consid
erable damage to a number of oitizeos
alonr the sou'hcm border of the oonnty.
Contributions are ample to relieve actual
suffering*
Farming operations are farther advanced
than we have ever known in this seotion
and season. Wa hear to-day of persons in
the oonnty who are chopping ration. In
fifteen days mneh of the or.t crop will be
“ripe unto the harvest.” W.
New Fork Graphic.
“It's mine, I tell yon; it was given me by
a lady, and I will have it.” “Get away
from here, you little sawed-off, or II;
smother yon with this hat.” “You gim me
dat ring”—and here little Cbemah, the
Chinese dwarf in Barnum’s circus, began
to kick the ankle* of the giant so vigor
ously that Bros tad howled with pain, and,
stooping, caught hold of the dwrrf, lifted
him op, and was in the aot of dropping
him to the floor—a d stanoe of eight feet—
when be was prevented by aims of the at
taches of tbe circus.
So soon, however, as the dwarf found
himself on his feet again, he renewed the
attack and mad* a rash at liras tad and be
gan biting and kicking him. The giant
submitted to this fierce attack quietly for
a moment, when, becoming exasperated,
he again oanght the dwarf and, picking
him up, actually flung him on top of ths
canvas roof of the giraffe house—a distance
of twenty feet. little Ohemah was taken
down lain* and limp and replaced upon
hie stand, muttering: “I’ll kill dat hia
rooster aoma day yet, you see if I don’t.”
They have now been separated, and quiet
now reigns in Madison Sonar* Garden,
broken only by the howl* of th* animals.
Wonanw Isrlist-TMtale at Worn
(■Twain.
A most impressive journey to that to tbe
palace of the Bey, the Bardo. Pasting
through the Marine Gate, we enter the
quarters of th* town which Ue between ihe
ancient wall and tha outward ramparts, w*
glide past a confused multitude of huts,
and hoosse, and shop* (whieh are a joke)
fil ed with charming rubbish kept by wax-
work figures, rows of sable women rilling
against white-w»shed walls with pilto of
bread, yoaths with savage faces, bent old
men leaning on their stem, mangy children
with scald-heads—shirted, hooded, naked,
with features black and yellow, in all de
finable shades, in costume for the most
part white, squatted in circles, asleep ii cor
ners, motionless as tb* rubbish heaps which
form the background, without a smile,
without one m<-\emu (if muse'*,oppress-
Editors Telegraph mad Mettnptr .—In
my former oowimentoatioa I eadeswx
to explain the exaeadingiy virulent quali
ties of eewar gas audits subtle and stealthy,
th.ugh certain inroads npon tb* homes
oi atom, swan whan inhaled in n greatly
dihil#a^Miditkme Mj Apology foe ofivring
another eommouijetton npon tide subject
is ito great importance, ae sewer gas im
perils tha lives of so man* in n certain
portion of our city. I therefore propose to
introduce aoma testamentary avidrara in
confirmation of th* aatontifio principles
enunciated in my former artiste.
Prof. 0 A. Lindstef, of tha madias!
pertinent of Tala Collage, hue roomily
written. He says; “By the eommingilag
in the aewer of such imn>anae quant ties in
ever changing proportions ana kinds, and
in all stages of putrefaetton, tbe sewer n
be considered, in the language of
ehemiot, as a vast tost tuba of prodlgkxw
proportions, stretching its stupendous
length beneath tha surfam of highways
and ramifying it* branches in all our
BIND won
Illustrated Catalogue
And Priam of
DtlDNDS, WATCHES ud JEWELRY
-ro
il. P. 8TEVEN8 & CO.,
Jggngtahfill 9L Attest*, 6ft.
The activities of th* liqaid filth poured
Into it are not merely those fit motion pees
ing down a declivity, but they are activities
of a widely different nature. Silently, per
sistently, yet energetically and inevitably,
tbe laws or chemical action are set in opera
tion, and among the products of th#
changes nsuLting from toe contact with
each other of tnoh -various matters are
the formation of noxious vapors, recog
nize! under the general term of sewer gsa.
Now, as sewer ge* to lighter than oommou
air, it flows upward as naturally aa water
flows downward. * * • Doe* aot
consistency demand that tha authorities
which have provided sewers to protect the
people’s health should also provide that
sewer* shall not b* a causa of danger to the
people’s health? It to a reproaoh to the
intelligence of the civilisation amidst
which wc live, that some guard against tha
peril does not stand prominently on tha
pages of onr sanitary tows.”
Dr. J. P.‘ Brown writes: “No on* mourn
ed more deeply and non* deserved neater
sympathy than Mr. and Mrs. Edward Wato-
sart, who lived at No. 103 Olybourn avenue,
Chicago. They had five ma healthy and
promising children a' any in tb* city. In
two weeks four were taken from them aad
the on* left was barely rescued from death.
The ease was the mors pitiable in that th*
deaths seamed to have been entirely un
necessary. The four died of dipththaria
or diphtheritic eronp. as the attending
physician called it, and the cans* for it waa
as evident as that flower* are eat down by
frost in the chill nights of sutnmn. Se
gas was the cans* of their death.
Health Commissioner DeWolf said: “It
will be a bleasad thing for Chicago and
other cities, when every man and every
woman asks, first of all things, about the
drainage of the house into whieh be or the
to to move, and ther. will not go into the
building until it to certain that sew** gas
will be shot out Peopl* by the soon* have
oome to me to ask, with considerable snap
isty, if there ranld be so much danger IP
tending defective boose-drainage as report
ed. I have used but the one answei only:
‘The reports you hav* read contain not
only facts, bnt not even half the troth has
been told. It to a snbject over which
you may be alarmed with reason. There
are many sources of deadly suffering
bat none so terrible and relentless as sew
er gas. It is a poison as rare aa you are
living, and uo atom gets into your system
that dose not weaken it and hasten the day
of disruption in your mental and physical
structure. For the five months ending
February 28th, there have died 1,038 per
sons from the so-called zymotic disease*,
which, in popolar language, would be un-
uuderstood by tbe expression, diseases in
duced by poisons taken into or acting
npon the organisms in various ways.”
Prof. Walter 5. Haiuet relates his obser
vations at follows: During a recent spring
a family on the west aide, consisting of
five members, were afflicted by sewer-gas,
which filled their whole house. The oldest
of the children waa a yonng man eighteen
years old. The other two were young
girls. The three were brought to their
beds. Two physicians spent nearly two
months over them, absolutely ignorant of
the oanse of their prostration. The two
girls became deaf, dumb and blind. One
side of the bodies was qaralyzed, and the
unfortunate victims were barely kept alive.
Betides being without sight and hearing,
their sensibilities were so hardened they
did not seem to care to live. A
third physician was snmmooed^nd he said
that sewer g s woe responsible for the
whole trouble. An examination of the
house pipe showed tjiat it was broken a
half dozen places and that gas was escap
ing.”
I might go on and accumulate evidence
similar to the foregoing sufficient to fills
volume, but enough has been written to
arouse those in authority to a sense of
(heir responsibility to so many of our citi
zens who are now suffering from the effects
of that virulent poison, which
hav* been ~o graphically portrayed by
others in similar circumstances. Th*
writer has a feeling recollection of tLe suf-
fototive, nauseating and disgusting odor
by which he wat aroused from a deep
sleep, when, two years ago, he occupied a
room in proximity to that abominable
sluice in the rear of tbe Stubblefield House.
His blood poisoned by tbe debris of organ-
io substances emanating from that filthy
streamlet; enervated for the time in mind
and body, be was compelled to flee ti the
mountains with railroad speed to escape
from a protracted if not a fatal attack of
typhoid or typ ho-malarial fever. It to
said that Macon to on a “big boom” so far
as relates to her commercial pros
perity. We have the evideno*
of prosperity in palatial residences, mam
moth business houses and enlarged com
mercial relations. Can we not superadd to
these those hygienic condition* that will
secure to the suffering, health, without
whioh all material prosperity to insignifi
cant and valueless, a moikery and a sham?
We would urge the extension of the sewer
in qnestion as soon as possible before the
oommeucement of hot weather. Bacteral
germs in offensive looalites are absorbed
with wattr into the soil sometimes to the
depth of several feet, and when the soil to
turned op aad exposed to a high tempera
ture, under the inflnenoe of
moisture they hatch out and
become much more virulent, and are more
destructive to health than when buried un
derneath the surface. The wotk, there
fore, should be commenced immediately
and pursued with all poeeibi* celerity.
official signature, this
j. a. McManus,
Ordinary.
UBORGIA, CRAWFORD COUNTY.—J. W. Jack
administrator of estate of W. K. Thoauwson,
deceased, ol said county, haa applied for letters
of dlsmtadoo from said trust. b therefor*
to cite all pemoni concerned to show cause tr
any they hare, by the first Monday in May,
18X2, why said application should not be grub
ed and letters dumtoelng granted to mid appli
cant
Witness my hand officially, February 1st,
febStd VIRGIL 8. HOLTON. Ordinary.
GEORGIA, JONES COUNTY.—V
R. V. Hardeman applies to ma for <
stow from admiototratioc. with will an
nexed, of aetata William Wheatley, dse’d :
These are to cite aad admonish all rar-
sons concerned to show cau:e at this aoee
on or by the first Monday ia May next, if
any they have, why the same shall not ha
granted. Witness my hand officially Jan
uary 17,1882. B/T. —”
jaaUwtd
. BOSS, Ordinary.
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY.-
W. J. Drat, administrator off Cynthia Hoy,
represents to tha court in hia petition, dau
filed and entered on record, that he hat
folly administered Cynthia Hoy’s estate:
This to, therefore, to rite all persona oca
earned, heirs and ereditoca, to show aansa
if any they can, why said administrate
should not be discharged from his adminto
trstion and reoaiy* letter* off dismission
tha first Monday in April 7,1882.
Givsn trader my hand and official signa
ture this Mnnary, 188ft
lawgm* J. A. McMANUS, Ordinary.
/TEOKQIA, CRAWFORD OOCNTY.-C. R.
IT Hatcher, administrator on the estate of H.
tt. Collier, deceased, of said county, ha* ap
plied (or letter* of dumbaton from mid trust.
This ia to rite all persona concerned toahow
cause, If an they, have within the time pre
scribed by law why arid application should
not be granted a* prayed for. Witness my-
hand officially, March #, 1SKL
VIRGIL 8. BOLTON
marl2td Ordinary.
Llpnitftd Copartnership.
S OTICE b hereby given That the undersigned
on the 15th day of January. 1*2, entered
o a limited, copartnership, under the laws at
Georgia, to be conducted under the following
provisions, to*wit:
1st The name of the firm under which such
copartnership b to be conducted thall be W.
A. Doody, which alone b to be used in its deal
ings.
2d. The nature of the bast ness b to be that of
retail dealers in dry goods, notion*, bootuhoea,
hats and such like articles, the same to be car
ried on in tbe city of Macon, Georgia. Capital
stork ot said firm will be (Oh,am.
3d. W. A. Doody b to be the general partner
and J. Dannenbierg a special partner, and J.
Dannenbeig as such special partner has actual
ly and In good faith paid in and contributed to
the common stock of tuch firm (12.500, which Is
to be the extent and limit of hb liability. Th*
partnership b to expire on th* 16th day of Jan
uary, 1885, unless sooner dlmolred by mutual
consent la the manner prescribed by tow.
W. A. DOODY,
J. DANNKKBKRG.
Mason, Ga., Feb. (ft 1382. 2*Uaw*w
A TOWN OVERWHELMED.
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stroyed.
Virginia Citg Ohronieta.