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STUB PRINCE VP I'/fetCf.
Pledger saui'he went up lo the court house
"as the leader of the colored people to pre
fer natter comes apsre.’ they
c night he wlL be at thy door.
• claim thy darling from thy tide."
forth with curses fell;
x forth with Jeer and scoff 1 ,
the powers of heaven o'
f drove thw
■WneJshouid’bear my darling off.
ernsdly for the fight:
rent a disturbance, and to add one more
laurel to my crown as a conservator of the
peace and a conservative man."
The telephone wires are being erected
all over the city.
Quite a number of visitor* have already
arrived to be in attendance upon com
mencement. Roy* B.akelyj of J^lberton,
Vy gates! bolted, barred and lockod;
M »autt rtme a sable knight,
Dismounted at my doors, and knocked.
Answered not, he knocked serin;
1 kcared Urn aole, I braved nls band;
a fcnocked once more;.In valn. ln yalnj j
Be a nor. a M onco more; in vwu, m mm,
tfy barriers' crumbled 'noath bis hand.
f naked Into the breech: I stood
Dazed with tho flood of ebbing light;
~A<rtalotr over aenselen wood
A4d( scaaty glory to thy might!
Astroager champion guards these walls
A human love, a living heart:
And while each earthly bulwark falls,
lasiajs thee, awful as thou art!
r sabre shivered on his mail. J
t his feet;
lance dropped hesdles I
■ saw my darling’s cheek grow pale,
l caw hvr turn my foe to meet.
0a sawed—ray lips alone could move;
kfad words of passion forth I hurled:
"Dkv lied who said that (Jod was love,
Vhe let* a tyrant rule the world."
JTe gathered her to his embrace,
While ret 1 ravel In mr despair;
jje caisod bis visor from nls face,
I looked, and saw au angel there.
0sch osnquerlng love, such mercy ra
Gurii heavenly pity in his eyes
Js curdy love divine might wear,
—- n he a * —
When he assumed our mortal guise.
Mm bent above her dear dumb lips—
Aftue own, whom I had loved too well—
And straggling from life’s last eclipse,
They smiled In peace Ineffable.
Awestruck I watched, he ralaod his head.
And then. In tones like summer’s breath,
••As I a thing so vile," he said, m
—j, whom ye men call shuddering Death ?'
• sword and targe aside I flung,
* Without her all Is blank and black;
With her, and thee *
"Mot yet, for thee Is work to do."
The tan sank from roac to g
If la accents died away with It
And from my soul, as from tho day.
The glow and glory seemed to lilt;
And’mid my stronghold's shattered strength,
K knelt alone, yet not alone;
zn—fu** angel left me hopo at length
- v * '•'.lied to reach mine ow:
-.1 tttkt Year Round
Through tasks fulfilled
GEORGIA GLEANINGS.
mirs GATHERED UYSPECIAL
CORRESPONDENTS.
, ney. o.aaui), *"*~» w “*
the sermon before the Young
will preach the sermon befori
Men’s Prayer Meeting Society.
Abtemus
Jlnvtkliisvlllf,
July 13.—On Tuesday and yoaterday we
had considerable thunder storms. The
residence of Mr. J. J Joiner was struck,
but saved from damage by the rods. The
liawkinsville Institute bull line waa struck^
held a few days ago, they unanimously dc- heard all around after Long's speech was
dared in favor of Gal. Boyaton, which concluded.
plaoes his nomination beyond all doubt. | Monroe Female College la on a boom
_F I » «00d whipptoa b, llkrt,
his father WMtto only poniabmeot indict- by a
aoon, it ia wbitporad, to be doubled
prominent seutlewtn bore, If to,
_ «Is aasored.
At a meeting of the board of trustees of j Crop prospects were never better than at
the Sam Bailey Institute, Prof. George C.! present.
Looney was unanimously elected principal | Jonesboro,
that institution. Prof. Looney had
Yestebdat at the house of his sister
Miss Annie F.. Snow, in the northern lib
erties, Mr. William Snow died after a lin
gering illness of typhoid fever. He wse
about 39 years of aim, a painter by trade,
and a son of the late William Suow, Sr.,
who was for years a member of the firm of
Bradford A Snow, painters, of Columbus,
8avamnaii has a Naval Stores Associa
tion. The Newt hue the following as to its
organization; “A meeting of the Savan
nah Naval Stores Association was held at
their rooms yesterday afternoon. Vice
beaver hat and having the appearance of a
sport, who told him that there waa some
trouble at the stables, and that his pres
ence was required there. Now Wayne hod
and employe at the stable who was ill. and
unsuspectingly thinking that some mishap
had fallen to the man or that his illness
was serious be dressed hastily and left his
house with the intention of going to the
stable, lie reached Mr. Lohwald’s house
on York street, near Jefferson street, when
two white men came from uncer the stoop
and kaooked him down. They then robbed
doing much damage. The Odd Fellows’
building was struck, doing no injury. *
ranr.ro at rv.1 T.ntl.rm,'* *
negro at Col. Lathropa was knocked
down, and at Mr. Lovejoy's there were
Prof. Butter and family have arrived aud
taken charge of the Female College.
Mr. J. C. King, one of our most enter
prising merchants, is hard at work placing
fruit evaporator in position, which wir
more or lees injuries—nothing serious,
however.
Utfder the indefatigable energies of
Mayor Dyches. the artesian well will soon
be oommecoed. The town has never
a mayor whose aim and labors have beei
expedition in Irwin. f§
Rev. Mr. Chandler will preach hero on
the fifth Sabbath of this month, for the
me mui osudbui ui uun inuuwi, ior
benefit of the little Presbyterian dock.
From nil we can learn, 1). G. Joiner,
the merchant, hotel keeper and farmer,
in all of which he is successful, is entitled
to the plume for the best cotton and com,
especially cotton.
Ben rly, of tho Newt, who was after our
scalp a short time ago, has cooled down
and now smites serenely, for the Neict is on
a boom auvl is now about tipping the beam
of success at 1.100 bona fitle subscribers,
Oi success as i.iw vunu jium Buiracriucrw,
which he says ia pretty fair growth for a
nine months bantling.
Col. Gentry is here, tslklng. tinging and
whistling the virtues and wondrous at
tractions of the Telkobaph and M ms ch
oke, and ths people are agreeing with him
that it is the spiciest, best dsiiy in the
State. Sioux.
Lsdrsnxs.
July 14.—You put down Heard county
for Mr. Stephens. 1 he county sends Bacon
delegates, and also adopts the two-ihirds
WsjsMbSro.
Jut 12.—In assuming the duties of re
porter for your valuable paper, temporari
ly, I fear I cannot fill the place acceptably
of yowr regular correspondent, J. 8. R,
«fco is absent on a brief visit North.
Aw it is, however, I will do my best, trust-
rag to the generosity of yourselves and
cewters to overlook my shortcomings.
filar town is remarkably dull at this time,
endthere is a perfect dearth of news.
Even the excitement usually attendant on
a political e invass i« conspicuously absent
iathis campaign. Oar people quietly as-
•wedded at the appointed time, selected
their delegates, expressed themselves ou
current political topics, and then as quietly
adgoorned, each one returning to his pri
vate business and patten 1/ abiding the
lew. In this connection, I desire to re-
vcturk that though Burke is for Mr.
JMsphen*, it is not because her people think
.-ggy the lose of Major Bacon. They regard
Itiwi we a man of the most storting charac
ter, end a Democrat without reproach.
The people of Burke would be gltd to
leewr him iu any war he desires, aud at to
distant day, hope to have the privilege of
wAmviag thrir high appreciation of his
weoral and political worth. Bat, in this I n-
wieenn, they fslt that Mr. Stephens had
bairns upon them they could not disregard.
Am a portion ot the old eighth, in former
«Jsys In long represented Burke
te the national councils, and
few is known personally to all
M/t the older citizens of the oonnty, many
«*ff whom have shared hie favors. *
the prospect* for an abundant harvest
fltds fall continue good. With the excep
tion oi onoor two localities that we have
Imsrd of, the seasons ltave been all that
mould bo desired, and the husband man has
wfeaerfully and liberally responded with
wweU directed labor, leaving no ground for
mem plaint against him in osee of final dia
meter. It is really to be hoped the! hie
wtfprte may be crowned with success, for a
me earns Ion of failures for the last two or
film* yean has brought our agricultural
•friend* and every interest dependent upon
•hem to the verge of ruin. A. M. U.
UOIOUBirn, iuu •■whimu,
rule. This information comes directly
from a delegate to the writer.
If the majority rule should be adopted
by the State convention on the Kith, then
it,will in ail probability follow in the
Congressional conventions. If thus adopt
ed in tho South, why not in (be national
Democratic convention 7 Is this desira
ble ? Can we with reason adop’- the ma
jority rale at home and inettt upon a differ
ent one in the national convention ? The
adoption of the majority rule in the na
tional conventions will effectually cut eff
the South with its one hundred and thirty-
eight votoa from a practical participation
in tho seleoti m of a President. Is this
dailrab'e 7. Let the advocate! of the ma
jority rule answer. Taocr.
9th lush, at the residence of the bride. In
Talbot county, Ga., by the Rev. E.J.
Rants. Judge J. W. Brogan, of Dawson,
and Miss Nannio I.Tlgnor, of Talbot
county. . ...
Tnx amount of stealing, house-breaking
and open robbery that prevails in certain
port'ons of Georgia is frightful to contem
plate. The laws aro not severe enough
against these offenses, and, mild as it If, it
against Wiose uuuubto, miu, •»
is not administered with sufficient prompt
ness. A few hangings of rogues would
yeffse 4
Railroad Reminiscences—* Veteran
Civil Engineer.
Jndu trial South.
Our highly esteem* d friend, Co). Charles
F. M. Garnett, the veteran and distin
guished civil engineer, whose professional
life began with the introduction of rail-
roads in this country, has been spending n
few days in the city, and has favored us
with several call*. His jecoHectiona cover
a longstfttghcf tlqie, crowded with mo-
ready harvested, are bettor than they have
ever been. They are selling old oorn.
They owe leas for rations and fertilizers.
They are happy. They do want Bacon,
Griffin is undoubtedly the fruit oentre of
the entire State. Nearly every firm in the
city is engaged in shipping peaches, pears,
apples or plums to Eaateru or Northern
markets. The express office is crowded
with crates or fruit, and a delay of from
five to ten minute* is an almost daily oc
currence to the up train. Shipments for
the week aggregate 10,000 orates.
Mrs. C. A. Sindall, of your city, accom
panied by her niece, Miss Cora Laws, of
Baltimore, is spending a few days with
J.UO/ »ru IIIIJIIIJ. Alley uu waui uauuu,
but they will get the kind they want next
Wednesday. Fulton county is organizing
to cheat us of the Senator.
Prof. G. O. Looney will go to Griffin in
Almost.
Peaches and melons are abundant.
Buo Yzz.
* Palmetto.
Mrs. Nelms.
Quite a number of onrcitiztns are ab
sent from our oily at present in oe&rch of
health and pleasure at the different water
ing-places. New Holland seems to be the
favorite resort with them. J. L. M.
Rlvea.
July IS.—I see from a notice pasted to a
grocery to-day that certain members of
the Republican State committee have
called a meeting to assemble in the city of
Albany soon, for the purpose of organizing
the party throughout this (second) Con
gressional district.
Sometime since a friend of Hon. A. C.
Westbrook told me that W. had iutimktod
to him that ifhe(W.) could get the in
dorsement of the Republicans he would
mako the raee from this district as an in
dependent Democrat. He doesn’t want
them to nominate him, only (heir Indorse
ment.
By the by, the intelligent compositor re
versed my name in your yesterday’s paper,
but of course it makes no difference as I
am not at all ashamed of my true signa
ture but as the powers who control "the
clans of the valley” were gravely informed
dnriug the vindication campaign ‘ that
only three men in the Oaky Woods were
umionvme. some uto inuea »rum ucrc
Sunday night, n Mr. Julian B. Jones was
severely though not dangerously cut by a
negro. The difficulty l>egan by Jones
, oking tl.e negro, and the negro calling
Jonos a damn lie, when Jones knocked the
negro down, who rose and began on Jones
with his knife. By persons cognizant of
all the cireumsianoes.it is thought that
Jones did wrong to bother the negro at all,
as they had had a previous difficulty.
There is moro sioknem through here than
for fivo years. There is one or mere sick
at every house, and hardly enough well
onea to rare for the sick. It is mostly
hemorrhagio and bilious fevers.
A. P. H.
Lcetliurs. •
Cumberland Island.
Jm.v It—A recent brief visit to Gum-
1 Island impressed me favorably as
tetbe desirableness of this as a place of
cronst for invalids as well as pleaai
a with the Eait I’snn—e§,
nice little a steamer, called ths
IIIMS 'MHIiot, WllfU WM
„, .and makes tho trip pleasantly
Mad in good time, usually. Mr. Edgar A.
Enos and hi* excellent wife keep
thnsss and nki good ears of their
TSMaas bafhing in superb. Mr. Roes has
««ram road and horse ear to take boarders
lie the braeb, where the best of eurf-bathing
t^had. Then the fishing is just splen-
4W. The air is healthful, and ever) thing
mm tributes to maks a visit to Cumberland
Island desirable. J. W. li.
113.—On last week your eorrespon-
iiiiuuv mr
10 Bit. . .yntpai. of tb. doling
«urdM.of tnalx.t mala oolUg. in t£.
U> * i , » l L u ®n !•••• High School, pr^
Mai me, b, Profeoor E. W. BnU.r. Th.
•on®bc» of th« primor, d.-
-dnbned on Tno d.r morning, th. pro-
«mmmo lx lug u loUo*.: Ejw.nl Wynn.
—taUior,; P. Wdton Oodfmr.-Th. Ain-
a9 l, yoi" H. 0. Andrm, “Th. U.r,
*d«l hirlohn Moor, f Ulli. T. l'mick,
•-MgBrrck.r i-On.lon K. Vuon, “Ulli.
Vac'. J Ictorj Jum H. l’.uick wlho
atooMlM. Mas; A. Manly Martin,
2* **•»».,»n, PnMnt Medlcici,
Hi M’ , ’ 4Bll V^‘ C S T,r ••“«« Or.r;'
u - »b»w, “n» Bln. Hm." Albcrl
Mk. Foster, “Marmion and Doaglsse:’* Al-
trirt R. \ndr.y., • IlonkM HUI;" B. Win-
Odd rarbo-i, ••Th. Urnnkard'. Dream:"
■Brawhlwon, Jr..“lUUklara."
night 1'o.tcr'a Util waa
«dwiU> a lam and aUenUr. andimet,
w£lii? *JC—"it* 01 l,, « mtmbcr. oi tho
Iat«m«diatr Dci«riment*on lUteetd lo
MUh rapt altmtion.
Bobt.auiackborn,“8cip|o to th.Ro-
momm Army: Edward Evans, "Ths Dying
Ateteanuti" Millard Brown. "Destiny of
mm Ik-isiblk;" h< bu B. Harris. "John
*^h’> W SfErtrt CUrk, “Poland;"
aa/arhry, “fh. Pm-nth nags.;" John
->l»an, "Uoaiheir'd ilorr. Won th.
*5* Richard .V. Towns, "Parrhviu*;’’
•wford Barnett, "Ovsr the Hills from the
Stoke* Hilsmau, "Pvramus
mbU. L-imar Poullaio, "Kentucky
oppo.dea to nun, viz: a mut rsuronu nsent
named R., a clerk named E. and Dick
Hazetnore, and you know Bazemore," I
might be afraid of said leaders’ vengeanoe,
and so I will sign myself as former^.
Clay County.
Rives.
July 12. -The Olympio Base Ball Club,
of this place, desire to return their sinoere
thanks to the Athletics, of Fort Valley, and
the oommunity generally, for the very kind
nnd hospitable manner in which they were
entertained during their recent visit to that
plaoe. While acknowledging their defeat,
and yielding the palm of victory to the
Athletic*, they can but feel more than com
pensated, and earnestly bop* the time is
not far distant when they will redeem
themselves as a club, and reciprocate the
hospitalities to lavishly bestowed upon
July 16.—Sicca writing my last, the
Methodist* resumed their meeting, and
carried it on three or four days, receiving
about fourteen more members. The Pres
byterians then commenced theirs, and
have received (up to this writing thirteen
members, aggregating one hundred mem
bers received into the three churches of
our town since th* revival began; the
f rniU of which are patent to all—leaving
nearly all the whisky for straegers ami
visiting friends, who are so sirnek with
the morals of our town as to behave them-
selv<§ while here. W’e very seldom hear
any profane language. If any of your
readers want to settle in a healthy coun
try, with railroad and river facilities, good
churches, good schools and society, tid* is
the place. I will now advert to a matter
engaging public attention, and being dis
cussed by somo of the leading journala of
the htate. Shall the two-thirds rule (which
has been adhered to for nearly a half oen-
tury) be abolished 7 This is a grave ques
tion, nnd we believe that opposition to it
now is, a* it has always been lathe past,
originating from interested parties—par
ties whose interest might suffer by its ob
servance. Most we abolish it to put some
one in, or observe it, if it keeps some one
ont ?
A Mrunes ov tub Olympic.
Indian Npringe. *
July 12.—About 200 guest* are now stop
ping at this the futuie Saratoga of tho
South. A very large number is booked f Ar
the nest ten days. The Aloany Comedy
(’lull MlMMld tho Ynrr.er hall,and will
give an entertainment on the evening of
the 21th Inst.
Col. 1L J. Lamar, of this place, had
shipped over the new road to day one hun
dred bales of cotton. Our merchants ex-
peet this to be the. best cotton market on
tb* line between Macon and Atlanta.
Mr. Keller, im charge of seventy-five
hands, camped near here today, and be
gun putting in sidling* and prrparing to
build a temporary depot at onoe. J. G. D.
it was never adopted to favor an aspi
rant, bat rather to proteot the party half of them,
against such. Majorities are not always
right, ntither are minorities always wrong.
Both may be equally honest, and it was to
protect the honest judgment of minorities
that the two-thirds rule was adopted. But
for the rigid enforcement of this rule
Franklin Pierce would never have been
President of the Uoited States, nor Joseph
E. Brown Governor of Georgia. Majority
r«le to wry tiowl; allied to monarchy —
for instance, in a convention of three hun
dred and one members, say that one hun
dred and fifty vote for A and one hundred
and fifty-one for i). Now under tho above
rule 11 would be the nominee, and by what
power, or vote, would be be thrust upon
th* party? By one vote only. Is this
right 7 Under tho two-thirdJrule two hun
dred votes would not nomlMte him. but it
iMl and
Ellnvllle.
Jclt 13.—Two negroes on the plantation
of Mr. /ack Braisden, in this county, got
into a dispute about ration*, when on*
felxed a guo and shot the other. From the
•ffeet# of the wound he has slue* died.
Evil effects of a “comer’* on meat. They
would require two hunffm and one.
Another ot*j*.*tlo ths majority rale is,
that it does not always follow that a ma
jority of the voters in * convention repre
sent the wishes and choice ot a majority
of their constituent*, but may represent
the wishes of lees than a third of their
osustUucnt*. In each an event a bars ma
jority representing one-third, prevail*over
a full minority representing two-thinJs.
Is this right 7
booming.
Dnblln.
July 16,—The apple and pear tree blight
this spring and summer has been more
universal and done more damsgo to the
orchards, especially apple trees, in this and
our sister eountiee-Johnson and Mont
gomery—than ever known before. The
apple crop is very poor, oansed, probably,
by the undeveloped disease in the trees
in early spring, which kept the fruit from
hanging on and matnring; and I am folly
oonvinoed that blight and almost all other
diseases that attack fruij trees can he
avoided to a very great extent by a free
of lime.
Convention* are created by the p$op!#|
get all their authority and power from tb#
l>eople, and from the usages of antecedent
conventions; hence it follows unless other-
wise instructed by tb* people, that they
mud adhere to the orio^al rale of former
boaies of.like kind. If, in th* selection of
the present delegate*, the question had
been made and submitted to a vote of all
Democratic voters In the State, and they
The colored VLthcdlst* of this place re
ceived on yesterday, and suspended in thei
belfry of their church, a very handsome
bell, and the first sfroke of its ponderous
toogoe was to sound the deatn knell of on*
°f the church’* most prominent and worthy
members.
Watering place* and other places of at
tractions hiYwJthinuedout our town consid
erably.
Two or three small localities in this
oounty are just about ruined for the want
Dublin needs a good shoemaker.
Professor Dash still angers around pro*
miscuoot ly. ■
i l**»» BjlI.rJ, an old mu about I
uttj-a.a j««n old, cam. into town Tartar- 1
da, pr.li, tod » brniwd np. H. ha. a «-
rera nuh oa UU left hand s hi. right arm ia
'I* J*™ V«»"d.
a g uli about four inches long .plittotto
“S ro . in » r Bum.
On yesterday morning the following
9*auc ttentlcmtn of the higher depart-
mmxi deoiaitaed: Robert W. Flournoy.
■•Kart,the Mart)r;*’ W. W. CUrk."Shamw
ff/gricj;’MVi!Ham S. Shields, “Darkness ’
fnwd P- High. “Th* Charge of the
fffcewv Brigade rCba*. A. Handers, "The
Who Were the Grayf Wm. W. CUrk,
«eJed£tory. Tbe medal and prizes were
fkwr Bebverrd by lion. John G. McHenry.
*T*tB eftreo’, medal was woo by Robert W.
Flournoy. The prize in the highest de-
uaiUDOtit was awarded to Robert B. Blsek-
born, in its classical to W. W. Clark, In
fito lower to Richard A. Towns, and in the
mriman to A. Manly Martin. The prizes
Inc decUmation ware presented to W. w.
fflsurk, I amar FoolUin and Winfield Tor-
flMrt. The speeches of the young
0»UUutett wars readend In flue
stfk, and the clear intonation, correct
euronetioc, and foreibU delivery showed
Etei the aiwaker* had made diligent prepa-
euuon, and that the principal had labored
faithfully to establish a high standard of
eubc) in hi* scbxJ. We regret that Ume
<uAH ooi allow ua to give a more extended
e of the closing exereteea of thU very
—i* iujii minor nuru.
His statement U tliatMr. Usrdy Jacison
one of his tenant*, waylaid him near hi*
home on th* 14th and assaulted him with a
I did not learn theeaoMof|
LHr.Calvn McRie, of Mt. Vernon, and
Mr. Coilin Uteter, of Quitman, are in
t>wn. UcDtjs r
Boiler has prepared a number
goue tisy hve taken a high
their respective desses. The
EMBigh School sUndsteMlayl
aaj tiutitntiwa of learning
■ July tt.—The protracted service# at the
Methodist church were suspended hut
night. After four davs of earn*»t work I
|among ns, (Uv. F. U.Crump'.er, of Maeou,
u. b»n . toncJiction n;>oa Ui. dTnrXV
The reauii of hU labor here has berato
raise the standard of holiness amoog pro
feasors of religion. A woman's prayer
meeting has been organized at the parson
age, and a thoroughly working spirit per-
Viides the church. Ihe meeting has left ,
profound impression upon the outside
world. •
lb# bird hunters from Macon returned
yesterday without their game.
T:'d. Rozer, of SuLnyeiie,:
few d*)s amoog us.
Miss Jennie Bridger left for upper GeorJ
gia yesteroay, and exp^te to be goue sev-
, is spending
crsl seeks.
July 16.—'fh* political situation is rapid
ly ase imtiJg lively proportion LeziaUtive
aud municipal eradicates are being brooght
forward, and you ean alwav see littte
crowds at the eornen dteuwetag tt»c ruar-1
ite of their favoritie. Tb* old candidates
for the legislator* have all withdrawn. Th*
raee U now between Cob F. D. DUaaEl
aud Mr. W. E. H. Searcy, th* UtterMH
ning on the prohibition tiekat. Delegate*
U> the nominating eonventiou to be held 1
on August 6th, are to bo elected the coming
atmk While diseuaaing polities, 1 must
tion Um htndsonic cuoopiiment piid
July 16.—Same of Mr. 8tephon*'s warm
supporters at this place are beginning to
fear that that the Atlanta ConttUution will
swear him in as governor before the con
vention meets. I hope, however, that it
has not intended to do such a thing, ss it
would be a precedent unheard of, and
would, no doubt, have a demoralizing ten
dency. The older I get the more firmly I
believe in the workings of Providence.
Who oould have foreseenuhen Mr. Hill re-
fuaod Mr. Stephens’s challenge years ago,
that had he aoceptod it aud killed Mr. Bte-
E hons the State of Georgia would now
ave been without a man capacitated to fill
the offioe of governor, and wonld have been
reduoed to the necessity of going into
another State and drafting a man
for the purpo e? Yet suoh, it seems,
would havo been the oase. Imagine the
spectacle! Our county convention will as
semble at Faitburn on Monday, July 24th,
for the purpose of electing delegate* to tho
Congressional convention, and nomina
ting a candidate for the State Legislature.
It appears now that wo will be at a loss to
find a man to represent our oounty in the
next general assembly. J. U. Longiuo.
Esq-, of Eairburn, and L. 8. Roon, Esq., of
the same plaoe, have each been spoken of.
Either would be well qualified for the po
sition, but I fear neitner will aooept. i
understand there are a vast number of
candidates in Coweta, and Coweta has al
ways been neighborly; so I suppose if we
cannot get a candidate at home we can
barrow one.
The entire vote of the oounty polled at
the gabernatarinl convention at Fairborn
was between fifty and sixty. Some dis
trict were not represented at all. Palmet
to district was one of them. To get the
voice of a county, primary elections should
be he'.d in each militia district.
The crop prospect* are still good, and
our farmers appear cheerful.
8. P. Condon threahed this season a little
more than 16,000 bushels of wheat. He
used an Anltmnn * Taylor separator.
Can any one beat this 7
Hurrah for Bacon!
Wbst the People Think and Do.
ATLaxTa Constitution: Mr. William
Jones, a fireman on the Wostern and At
lantic railroad, accidentally swallowed a
silver half dollar a few days ago, and now
he is safiering the most excruciating pains
in consequence.
Atlanta is now in the midst of the my s-
teriee and miseries of a variety of political
excitements. The pressure could not be
borne bat for Ponce d* Loon. The wearied
and care-worn citizen wsnds his way thith
er at nightfall and bathee bis troubled,
aching brow iu the limpid wnter—then all
is serene.
Tun Constitution says, “thiro are 1,231
convict* in the chain-gang.” It doe* not
express an opinion as to how many wonld
be left in it after six months of the incum
bency of Mr. Stephens as governor. We
are of the opinion he woe id pardon at least
It Is thought that train* on the now road
will ran through from Dallas to Macon,
early next week.
Homes "hookod'to wagons" continue to
make things lively in Kimballvillo.
hijexpn—iwl aveeterenoo fort to major
ity nil., thU pt.f.mxa wonld bar. con
trolled th* coBTUlioag bat wton ow-
tw.ntieth, or «t.d oto-Hith, of tho rot.nl
of o county met to MlMtdrt.iatM.ond
n majority of .gch minority mtetina .02-
gfit. a lirefaraoeo U to tb. ml. to M
adopted, L tbi. monatroo. minority rac-
gotion Mfllci.nttOMtaiid.and abolUh a
time honored ml. and OMsa of tb# party?
■ Again: If in thaMlaotion of daUgntM
.0 choice between Btspton. and Buon
had been .nbmitud to and voted ou by the I
Democr.liovot.nof th.Mv.rrt coontie*
of thte tttate, than th. candidate nortving
a majority of th. vote. eMt would hav.
toon tto candidal.of th* oonvantioot ur if
ol e ‘f* 1 *!? 1 ®* (reprMauling
oandidate.) had tom voted for
by Damoeralio voter* throughout
tto BUI., a majority of th. delegate, would
toy. had tto right to nominate tha can
didate! hot Mlacted aa lb«y art by mam
meeting! thinly attend*], with no in.trno-
tiona from tha voters of tto antir. oonnty,
they .honld adhere to s tim.-honored rule,
tod make no “n.w departure" from put
nugea. Much will dai-nd npon tb. raTing
of tb. chair in tho approaching convent!on.
BnppoM n motion ia mad. to adopt tto
"majority rule," and the inquiry is made
as to what vote can set aside an an
tecedent and long-established ml* (two-
thirds), and the chair should hold, as I
one* hue v a chairman to rale, that it re-1
Vdwd two-thirds of the convention to I
al>ol!sh th* two-thirds rale-the remedy
for those favoring the majority mi* would
I bo to appeal from tb* decision or ruling of
the chairman, and to overrule him would
require a two-thirds majority. ThU U all
right and just, as wo think it should be;
but suppo* again that th* chair should
rale »hat a majority of the convention
could adopt rule* for the government of
the convention, and an appeal was token
from his decUion, bow oould it Lo reversed
by a two-thirds vote of that convention 7
Remember, my Democratic brethren, that
you have the right to adopt rules for the
government of your own body, but not the
right to set aside and annul ihe time-1
of lVMi Party i not coim n-
tion). Tlte dutinctiou i* that this is a role
of the party, and no rale should displace it
except as directed by the party, not coo-
THE GEORGIA PRESS,
Atlanta thieves rob dwelling houses in
broad daylight. ^
A little white girl, named FcnrlSan-
fora, wna twdiy laowruted by a dog, in At
lanta. a few day* ago. The dog waa killed.
If he had been killed tho day befoi
little girl wouldn’t have born bitten.
OosnnaaioNEB Uendemox has been re-
appointed by Governor Colquitt to the
acted the following gentlemen were ap
pointed a committee to draft rule* and by
laws for the guidauco of the organisation:
“ L. Jonos, chairman; J. W. Thomas, 8.
.. Shotter, Chas. S. Ellis and J. H. Moore.
The meeting then adjourned to meet again
at fire o’clock on Friday afternoon."
One of our weekly exchanges come* to
this week with seven ofonr editorial
r _ragrspbs pirated bodily. The editor of
the pirating sheet ia very severe, however,
in bis comment* on th* editorial manage
ment of the Teleoeaph and Mememgee.
Comment is unnecessary.
Gbbeksbobo Herald: From the pro
ceedings in the Democratic mass meeting
held here last woek, which we publish else
where, it will be seen that the delegates
from this oounty are instracted to vote
for the two-thirds rale in the gubernato
rial convention. We believe it is to the
interest of the party that this rale should
not be departed from, particularly at this
time.
Gbeensbobo Herald: The chief contest
this district tor Congressional honors
seems to be between Mr. Reese, of Bparto,
and Mr. Blac>, of Augusta, with the pros
pect at present that the former will lead
when the ballot opens in the convention.
Banner- Watchman: Th* darkies aie
very indignant against Judge Cobb for
fining illegal voters $10. Only one of the
riot cases was tried yesterday, that ot
Pledger, in which he was acquittoJ. The
McAroy care has been set down for four
o’clock next fall. We regret to learn
that Mr. John Cohen is in very delicate
health, and is threatened with paralysis.
We trust he will soon regain hie usual
health, as be is a good citizen and clever
gentleman.
Thb Hawkinsviiie Bisjxiich reports
slight advanoe in the prioe of wool.
The Pulaski cotton factory will be sold
beforo the court house door in Hawkins-
ville on the first Tuesday in August.
Keening News : A telegram reeeived in
Augusta ir.is morciag from ex-Governor
Charles J. Jenkins announces the death of
Mrs. Jenkins. Mrs. Jenkins had been
quite ill for some time, and wfis confined
to her room at her residence on the Hill.
She waa lilted Sam Ur Ud lost week and
token to the cars and carried to Deer Park,
in Maryland. Nothing tint the most extra
ordinary energy permitted her removal,
bnt her resolution was so strong that eht
apparently improved even on the long
ourney. Since that time good news of
mpro^cment has oome back to relatives
and friends, and the sudden announcement
of her death this rooming at the distant
resort, whenoe she had gone for health, is
sad shock to all.
Caatemvxllb Free Press ; The small
boys of the to sro are carrying on a lively
competition in tho peach business. The
farmers are all hard at work, only a few,
by force of necessity, attending court In
many ca»es time has not been taken for
threshing ths bountiful yield of wheat.
Senator Joseph E. Brown and Alexander
H. Stephens left Washington Tuesday
night to attend the meeting of the board
of trustees of the State University, at Ath
ens, Ga. Politics make strange bedfel
lows Indeed. As matters now stand, the
Independents have got ell they need. Hav-
ingoijoled the Constitution into the sup
port of Mr. Stephens, and tied their hands
until they oould support nobody else, we
ar* satis fled with the victory. We have
whipped the Atlanta i ing with a fair fight
Gexebil aud Mrs. Too mb] are summer
ing at Clarksvillo.
Tn9 Houston Home Journal takes ths
position thst the rotation system in the
twenty-third Senatorial district, composed
of Houston. Crawford and Taylor counties,
“was in 1974 solemnly abolished by the
Senatorial convention iu this (that) dis
trict.” This ia tho view of the matter that
is taken by the Houston Democrat*. On
the other hoed, the Democrats of Crawford
consider the rotation system still of force,
our province to take sides in the di ipnte
bat, for the sake of the party, we venture
to advise moderation on both sides, and an
amicabls.sstttement of the variance.
oflio* which he now holds. Brother Shiv
ers will not like this; but, then, he helped
re-elect Governor Colquitt and so be most
take thiugs as the Governor chooses to
dispense them.
Miss Doba Dozieh wm married to Mr.
A. G. Goddard on Wednesday night. Both
th* contracting parties are citixsn* of At
lanta.
These wm a slight smMh-upcn ths Cen
tral road, near Milieu, on Thursday night.
Thb following item m to the effects of
prohibition on citie* and towns will be of
interest to some of our readers. Tbs ex
tract is taken from the LaOrange Repor
ter: “The merchant* of Griffin desired to
know of those of LaOrange whether trade
had been injured by. the prohibition of the
liquor traffic in our aty. A gentleman who
felt interested took a paper around town
aud asked an expression from each dealer
m to ihe effect upon bis bnrinsss. Without
exception, they testified that prohibition
bad worked no barm, while many bore wit-
5° . tl f bsnriR*r*o®* Mjtaff their
trade had Increased fifty percent. When
our efficient jailer, John uiilingharo, who
is rtio a dealer in confectionaries, wm ap.
preached, he abruptly declined, to “sign
any such paper.” lie finally relented so
far as to consent to so much of It aa refer
red to his mercantile interest, but declared
that his business m ooenty jaUsr had been
nearly raintd by prohibition—thst whereas
his fees amounted formerly to hundreds of
dollars they now aggregated nest to noth-
b!& So, he could not sign it ou ths jsti
“W.”
Amerlcus.
July 16.—Watermelons are plenty in this
market just now. Ten cents will buy a
good one. Tb* peach crop m this section
was almost an entire failure, but few k hav-
ioglsppeared on our streets for sale.
Mrs. J. M. Oliver, of who** serious til-
\T?**? 00 ’ u cpuYalsecset.
Bitot*Ida Brown, daughter of E. II.
Brown, fell from a awing lest Thursday,
andwassrriously hurt, tihils her injur
ies will not prove fate!, it is feared she has
sustained some per jiantnt injury.
The Commercial Hotel is now in foil
blast, and ge ting a fall shore of tiAnsUot
and local patronage. Friend Hare knows
now to keep o hotel, and is as etevsv as
they ever make them. May his tent are
TU city council is adding to the facilities
for protecting property from fire, by hav-
lag more eisteret constructed. Oneatthe
juncture of Cotton avenue and For.jth
SrMll ia iuwi Itoina .Inj VI'
rtnata U tow toto, dw.
irtntj -
_ MrictiatS.UrtUgi.jA.
U r.o ttra. tutoflto nutxm ajaUm. t.jtu*
>u> IU Mri) U .•rtttod to tto tosttoniip ; >t t
tori u.ottoDttaccrujcf ttoi cocat.
Jclt IS.—JrtI Loci. o< Nmo., mod*
[<>UU«*1 HMdi tot, Mto^ UMto ««gro.
T»» “no two." ticket ... defected in
rur.it. coautjr. ThU .tfilrnltcral reform
will not non Irinmph, unlm. Ugtrtator.
.honld tor. th. courage to leer, tto MttU-
m«ot of th. ijDMtion to th. laod-owntra of
tto State—tto only [renooa who tor. no,
nrt righU in tto matter. Bnt modern
UgUUton are not fnmont for that sort of
«rarni«.
Tni Pika Ccnnly Xm pa,a the follow
ing tritxit. to oor friln.-cititto, Col.
lhomu Hardeman: •ThU g.llant old
QMuUnba.rrrittranl.Uer in.nra.rto
lH'iairy of frirad. concerning hi* oomrM
inth. coming ermprtgn which will to
fonnd in another colninn. Hr. UanU-
man to. many friend, in tbi. eoaalr who
wonld to prond to m. hltn filling any of
tto public offieaa. knowing to wortd di«-
charfa Ito dntlc ttora withtb. fairnua
and impartUUIjr that haa amr characterta.
edhU conn. In tto DamemaiU party.
Aa will to rara by hU UUar and aa a Dem
ocrat ha will not antagonize tho nominee
of the party, arm wton atroaglJ nrged to
pat forth hla ejaims by hU nnmcroaa
friend! in nit Mctiona of tto Stale. Ho
haa been a great benefactor to th. Htat.,
and walnut wtu yet Ur. to reap th. re
ward to m richly daMrrM at tto nanda of
QcorgUaa.
Wa are .troog adrocatM of temperann,
l ot wa tor# Mid and My it again that to
elect a candidal, loth. UgUlalar.on
this Urn. aloo. wonld, to My ti.Uaatb.
tnexpraunt. What la tto wm in making
thUen Una wton tto orate ary her it in
hi.I power to rcfoM liaraw to acll ll-inor?
-Pito Coxafy Saw,. Wa todone tto
aboraMoUmeotof Irlrad hud Thai a
Un't a oonnty in tto Bute tn which tide
wboU unMUou may not tornttUd with-
ont making it n wedge with wh>oh lo apUt
the Democratic party. It U a .oriel qoa.-
dmi, not n poltUcat one. nnd u .honkl bo
Milled by raeb wnnty for iualf.
Banaainoa /Vmocrat: “A. O. Bacon ii
too true a Democrat to to nominated gor-
to regard to LouiMana, been so us si Uadi.
pUu in iu grant boaom for Inuon and
tag. now, an t fifty appUeaaU tor ar.ry
Plaoo nnt falL’—Bojiari-.H-aicAaiaik—
>M, and tha iadloatlow U a bad rma.
Cowatry bor. wow'd to wimr, toUar and
1 >• **
lie talk—i Iidrt-nUnt
with labortowe coulantmrac
Al&AVT V/lrt mmA J.lraW.ara -
■oi
■■■Mi
tim struggling for the mousy. Tbaythsn
left and hurriedly ran through Liberty
square towards State street and us Mw-id.
Daring the struggle Wayne rusteined in
juries Tn the stomach, back and shoulder,
jurim JU UIO nWJUJHl.il. ua.nnuu ■uvuiuwi,
which necessitated the attendanofl of Dr.
Thomas.
Mb. Clahexob Clabx, a Savannah drug
clerk, wu badly burned with carbolic add
while charging a soda fountain.
8avanxah Recorder’. George Anderson,
negro, with only one eye and that always
chickens, was up before Judge Harden,
VAA ! 1IH.AUI", waa UJI lATUItl KUUKO aibiucii.
of the dty court to-dsy. He wm charged
with steeling chickens aud being fouud
guilty, wm sentenced to six months on the
chain gang. He it the same negro who was
pursued lest Monday morning by Police
men D*yor and Ltghbody to Fort Boggs
and captured with the chickens iu h‘s pos
session.
Thk Atlanta police are of the opinion
that that city “has a professional hondker-
rltitif thinf *• Thurn (i ua itlnrn on uarth
chief thief.” There is no plaoe on earth
where one oould expeot the modorn “Art
ful Dodger” to bo more at home than in
Atlanta.
Stosb-bbhaumo is not a lost art in At
lanta.
Uahby Echols, of Atlanta, had one round
with a mule, and he had to be carried
home.
Counts srxrr half-dollar and dollar
pieoee are in circulation in Atlanta.
Atlanta Constitution: “About 4 o’clock
yesterday afternoon, when the throng on
Marietta street wm its oensest, oco ol the
most disgraceful and shameful events pos
sible wm enacted before the tyre of the
public. It wm nothing more or lees than
carriage in which were seated a white
man aid & white woman, both of whom
were in a beastly state of intoxication. As
the carriage rolled slowly along the street
both man and woman advertised their
drunken condition by rolling from eide to
side and by .waving their hand through
the air. Fully half the multitude who wtt-
nesied this disgraceful and shameful scene
were ladies of refined taste. Such an affair
seldom occurs in any well rtgulrted city,
and that it did Inppeu on on* of Atlanta’s
most popular thoroughfare* without the
vent ion of the police is a decided re
flection upon this department of the city
government. The names of both man and
woman can be obtained, and the chief ot
Houston Home Journal: The crops iu
Houston have not suffered for rain a single
day this year, and th* general opinion is
that the prospect Is quite promising for a
good yield.—On ths evening of Tuesday,
Ini, lltb, UIm A. A. Holly, abort
fourteen years, died at the home of her
parents, Mr. and Mrs. Elbert Holly, near
Tharp's mill. On last Friday night,
about supper time. Mr. W. M. Gordon dis
located his right shoulder. He wm in th*
rear of his store and stepped on an empty
barrel, which tamed and threw him heavily
to the ground. He wm assisted home, and
Dr. M. W. Ha vis wm sent for, who soon
htd the shoulder in plaoe and nioely ban
daged.
Covinoton Enterprise: To nominal*
Col. Capers Dickson for the Legislature
would be a fitting oompliment for hla past
service# to the Democracy. Texas has a
Georgia population of 47,168 white, and
14,239 colored. Ot this number near 200
are from Newton eoonty. Mrs. E. L.
NickoNon, of Gwinnett oounty, raptured
au artei y while wavhing clothes the other
1 dead over th* tab.
it. uu miu u t) ui iuu uuujiuiiiiuu, no will
withdraw his name and authorize hie sup
porters to cast their votes for Mr. Ste
phens. -Coe ing ton Enterprise. Mr. Rscon
will not likely oonssnt tc cover himself in
that particular way. If he should, be will
not be able to deliver over hie delegatee in
the way indicated. Th* opposition to Mr.
Stephens is not so nn jertein and meaning
less an affair as the Enterprise seems to
think. The men who support Mr. Bacon
would vote for some other man than Mr.
Stephens tor Governor if the former were
to withdraw—of which there is not the
slighted probability. There woold be no
disgrace in defeat; there would be disgrace
in ■■I'.iniv not.
in setting out.
The Keening News says: “The people.
of Augusta are now dtinking unaltered
mod. Indeed, the water that we are forced
to drink U worse Lhtn was ever known.
Certain seasons of tb* year we may expect
a little mod, or a discoloration of tha wa
ter, from th* fact that the basins are not
large enough lo pot in sufficient water to
allow settling, but we have never known
the water to be as bad as it hM been for
the pest two weeks, at least.”
Tan Keening News eomplalnsof the __
ksional recktaa shooting of the Augusta
police when ia pursuit of firing criminals.
There is great fore* in ite observations.
Ate EM* is overran with the belles of th*
State, but itooly remains for nest Monday
evening to show who is leading the fair and
fairy host. Augusta, as osual.will ( b* fouud
Mils Iiuit. aniiHWi »■ ubiaiii.miii.ijc IUUUU
in the front.-A'c*NlN9.V«rs. If that be true
it will be simply because Macon la not at
ail represented on the grounds. It is
well-known fact that the prettiest girls L.
ths world live in Georgia, and the prettiest
girls in Georgia Uv* in Macon. Old bach
store don't know much about girl* auy-
bov. If BUI Moore will come to Macon
it to “seff
and get married, he will cease u» "see
through a glass darkly,” on tho “fair and
fairy question.”
Pr M^°P*TW AMwTof Borne, U dead. «
L«nditan«r | m,ntgn ‘ tWt*i xmm ty .nsrgie?
IiiiitrtriUtotontUra mtarplMar, h»r. tint tore wroosUa progrMa ent A
made their.appearance in Dougherty
oounty.
Mas. Fannie DamsdY, wife of Sheriff
•M.by, ot Hoard county, is dead.
Hah, of the Gainesville Eagle, continues
. j play second fiddle for the Stephens mas
querade in the ninth district.
Tee majority for fence in Hall oounty is
?74. People without pastures do no not
willingly give up those belonging to their
neighbois. This '
COramenceracnt of ihe Middle Geor
gia Military and agricultural Col.
Tam has been n tab race at Ponce de
Leon Spring, and the Atlanta man is now
prepared to go hetce. The Atlanta man
hts an idea that Ponoede Leon Spring was
the very oenter of the garden of Eden '
the dajsof Adam.
Tns Atlanta small boy continues to in
dulge in the pastime of falling off of fences
and breaking his leg.
Mil James Smith, of Sparta, has been
awarded the oontract of building a court
house at Monroe, Go. HU bid was $21,-
000.
Tns Atlanta oalaboone is being refitted,
preparatory to the assembling of the con
vention.
Mb. Sidney L. Foebee has become the
local editor of the Atlanta Keening Herald.
He is a young man of natural ability, nr d
is perfectly at heme in a newspaper office,
Success to him and hla paper.
Tiie News and Advertiser hM o predic
tion to msk*: “If the gubernatorial con
vention abolishes the two-thirds rale, ex
cept by n two-th'rds rote, and nominates
Mr. Stephens under the maj >rity rale, said
rule being adopted by a partisan vote,
thsro «U1 be a bolt, and the disruption of
the Dimocratio party of Georgia will be
complete.”
The man who wildly wanted to know
who protoiled that last brick is in Macon.
He is U now inquiring a* to the uhere-
about* of the Stephens boom. 8omebody
has been hit hard of late.—Chronicle and
Cimstitutionalist. Well, we should say to.
1 c7' Tn iPj* W . T Col. Walsh rubs his lending
shin, it is not a difficult matter to tell who
it was that got hit. We do not blame him
for being a little sauey under the circum
stances.
Mb. J. H. White, of Louisville, Ga., de
nies the charge that he ia a candidate for the
LcgUUture, with Lome asperity. He aays
the man who originated Such a report is
doubtless a bad citizen.”
Tub last Usue of the Griffin Sun con
tained a diagram purporting to represent
the proportions of a “straight flush.”
What U a “straight flnab,” anyhow?— Hen
ry County Weekly. We are not right cer
tain thst we can answer the question. Oar
opinion, however, U that Brown, Colquitt,
Gordon and the Atlanta Constitution make
'straight flush” in Georgia politics.
Milledoeyille, Ga., July 12,1882.—Iu
hall where formerly the speaker
used to struggle to control a stormy and
unruly house, the people have been assem
bling from day to day to hear the final ex
cises of the Middle Georgia Military and
Agricultural College. To-day the ball was
filled to ite utmost capacity to listen to the
literary address, delivered by Hon.
Joel A. Billups, of Macon. Mr. Billups
waa introduced by Dr. Dudley, president
the college. In his introduction, Mr.
Billups alluded lo the fact that years ago
it had been his privilege to fill a scat in the
chamber they occupied, and he. oould
never enter it without peculiar emotions.
altuded feelingly to some
who had spoken then whose
voioes would never be heard again. But
ia the infiuenee of those men dead J The
answer to that question introduced his
subject proper—“rhs Aftermath of In-
fienoe.’ Aftermath means recond crop,
literally, the growth which springs after
the harvesting of the first crop. By “Af
termath of influence” he meant to signify
the actions and results which have fol
lowed or grown out of great principles and
the Uvea of great men. As in rowing and
reaping, men always harvested more than
wm ooosamed. So in literary labor, the re
searches of men have always developed a
certain excess of knowledge. This be
come* literary capital and we find it stored
away in libraries ever ready to be checked
out. Tho book itself is the
direct result of the »*4d sown
in tho mind of its author. But how is its
aftermath to be measured? The establish
ing tho independence of the United States
grew out of the long straggle for constitu
tional liberty which had been curried on in
England. But does the harvest cease with
American freedom? The aftermath has
been the creation here of a race of
American authors, novelists, poets and
historians, American orators, painters and
scientists. Soon the flame blazed on
Chimborazo's height, and brightened the
Southern provinces ot our land, and ora
tions delivered in our Senate halls were
rehearsed in South America. Then the
•perk flashed across the Atlantio and illu
mined Spain, Italy and Poland. Thus we
see that the aftermath becomes infinitely
greater than the harvest. Then, too, there
is an attermuth of evil equally potent in
its. results. In conclusion he nrged the
scholars to realise thrlforce of what he hed
■aid, and to remember always that the
influence they exerted was unending.
Mr. Billups explained and elaborated his
leading thought, the undying character of
influonce. Every principle laid dowif w<u
illustrated and verified. •
At the coueluston of the addreva Miss
Pauline White, in behalf of the two socie
ties, prevented Dr. Mell with a gold-headed
oane. The Doctor confessed hla sur
prise and returned his thanks in a few re
marks.
The secretary of the faculty announced
that the first and second prize medals for
scholarship had been won by Miss Uattie
Wright and Charles Hertz; and that the
standing of MUses Lucy Posey, Marwood
ehlnery. last week. It was amputated by
Drs. Galaway and Bough.
From Riley, on* of a company of ne
gross working on the Eagle and Pbenlx
dam across the Chattahoochee river, boost
ed that be could take a boat and “skin
ctoecc to the dam” than any of the crowd.
He got into a boat and pushed out into the
current, lie “skinned” so close to it that
the rushing waters whirled him over the
dam, boat and all. Bat he wasn’t hurt.
He probably struck ei h!s heed on a rock.
At least, be was fouudeittingon one below
the dam, whence be wee rescued.
The “Jordan’s Joyous Julep,” advertis
ed In tb* Go)ambus papers, is eot Gunby’s.
Like ourself, Ganby indulges in nothing
of tb* julep order.
ju. couutv is going to have a prise fight
__ the fourth Saturday in July, it is to be
ho|>ed that both th* braise ra will gvt badly
Le* oounty crops are reported to be very
Enquirer Sun: A little negro boy fell
from a pile ot lumber near the wharf yre
tards/ and broke his leg. A young alli
gator was captured in the river yesterday
and his been added to the Eagle and
Phenlx menagerie. A little negro fell
into a tab of water on Front street yester
day and waa taken out in au unconscious
condition. It soon recovered. The tub
of water is thought to be seriously injured.
Judos Bsooss says business is dull in
the matrimonial ma’ket. lie sella but faw
marriage licensee during this warm
weather.—Es^uirer-Sun, Warm weather
furnishes no * scute for not marrying.
Th* Columbus boys cannot eeoape in that
way. Thiro is no basins as in the world
that is more cvoUng-mcre refreshing
than matrimony. Delays are dangerous.
Bill Moor* and the Oolumbo* boys must
do their duty in this particular'. Now *
the accented time.
The Oostanaula ice factory in Roma
blown up on Thursday morning.
Early County News: Oor readers will
find in this issue an interesting Utter from
Hon. Thos.* Hardeman. Of course, our
preferences for Congrtx>mxn from the
Buts at large would be to favor of mm
one of tbs many well qualified sod patri
otic eitizso* of this part of the Bute, but
should w* fail to get one of these, then
fairy qi
The Keening News remarks in a proper
and timely manner: “It is not good to
loke or do anything else on an etrpty
On Thursday afternoon an old negro
as gored nearly nearly to death by a cow,
ncsrlhe rolling mill*, in Atlanta.
Thieves nnd highwaymen have been
braising around in Savannah. U begin* to
look ns if tbs city by the sea will have to
move into the interior for safety, or else
import Atlanta police, to take care of her
Wiley Reddings and Claude Duvals. The
following itean from the Retonler will
indicate the elate of affairs in our seaboard
city: “Tb# robbery of Henry Wayne by n
a|gang of footpads this morning was sboet
the boldest affair of its kind yet chronicled
in the annals of crime in this city.”
“The polie# authorities will probably not
know anything about th* robber!** last
night and this morning until they see them
ia the Recorder this morning.”
Aa stub occurrences ere rare ia Georgia,
Mm give the following somewhat lengthy
eoontof tb* robbery of Henry Wayne: “A
robbery took pier* this morning between
two end three o'clock, which wa* about the
exeeuted of any we have yet heard being
iwetrated in this city. It appears that
^ortiy after two o’clock, Henry Wayne,
MT _ the worthy and reipeeted colored owner cl
tto^Wra.Btto.rattoratran^Ytok
siy hurrah for Hardeman, the inau woo
boa performed more unselfish, unrequited
service for the good of the Democratic
party than any other man in the State.
Bainveiimb Democrat: The ring poll-
Guiana of the Democratic party are after
the spoils. Hence they favor the majority
rale, which will give them posseesion with
out their baring to »b«w up. The two-
third* rule allows a convention time
think nnd investigate, which is death
the ringsters and spoliators.
The local of the Augusta Keening News
is down with n severe attack of the sum
mer poetical complaint. During one ot
his movements of delirium, he perpetrated
the following
From great Arab! I'm tklpt
He ■ a hick old bad obi it
FartwwU. (teofttn, Apts!
I nm going to Job on!* Be
i» ths size ot it. So the
S bois. a inn it me i
of timber goes on.
FROM I'uUPO.
meat such as this or any other country
never experienced in an equal number of
yean.
When Colonel G. began his professional
career (December 16, 1P29) there were
only eleven miles of railroad in tho United
States, and these not worked by steam.
There were two miles at Quincy quarry, in
Mi asachusetta, and nine mites at Manch
Chunk ooul mines, in Fen-sylvanla. The
oar* were drawn by horsey or rather,” said
the Colonel, speaking of the latter, “by
mules, which, as the cars ran back to tho
starting point by gravity, it being down
grade, were allowed to ride, a privilege
which they roon learned to appreciate bo
much that they oouldn't be made to walk.”
Col. G.'a first service as a civil engineer
waa on the Chesapeake and Ohio canal
under that distinguished engineer ihe late
Charles Ellett. There was a board of en
gineers at the head of that work, consisting
of Judge Wright, Judge Roberta and Dr.
Marttneau. About two months previous
to this time the great competitive trial of
locomotives took place on tho Liverpool
and M&nchtster road, resulting in the
premium being given to a locomotive in
vented by Stephenson. This proved to bo
the model of all future inventions in that
line, but, it need not be said, many and
great improvements were made on the
roachir e after this period.
At this time there waa an active contro
versy going on between the advocates of
the cannl and those of the railroad. Many
believed that railroads would be used
chiefly for pr Monger* and valuable
freights, white heavy freights would eeek
Very curious ideas were entertained in
those early time*—one of which was that
wind power and sails could boused iu the
propulsion of trains, and experiments to
thin end were actually mado on the Balti
more and Ohio railroad. Another waa that
any person who might choose could put
Ms “vehicle” on’tho track, nnd claim r.
right of way, it only he paid toll, for which
purpose the companies were to havo toll-
gates as on a turnpike.
About October 1st, 1830, Colonel Garnett
went as aMistant on the Petersburg rail
road nuder General Walter Gwynn as prin
cipal assistant and Moncuro Robinion as
chief engineer. At thia time Mr.* Robinson
stood at tho head of the profession in this
country. He is one of the few survivors of
Colonel Garnett's early professional con
temporaries.
There was littte known about the best
methods of locating and constructing rail-
^ 84* at this period, and engineers had to
vent as they progressed. One of the faults
‘ of that day waa the adoption of curves to
save unimportant expense of work. It is
amusing, said Colonel Garnett, to remem
ber how far that was carried.
Col. G. think* that the first locomotive
in the United States was run on tho
Charleston and Hamburg road in South
Carolina, which waa under tho superin
tendence of Horatio Allen aa chief engi-
neer. The second locomotive was ran on
tho l’ttersburg road, in this State, about
September, 1831. Some time in ltfS'J this
.HlUUlim VI UWJ IVNll OlliWWU
Hertz and Olive Uerty. entitled them to
roll of honor. The delivery
of the medal* lono*.u, *nd after benedic
tion Ihe audience dispersed.
A walk over the building with Mr. c«..
rington revealed the fact that evenrthlns
is being done to promote the comfort of
scholars and teachers. The armory has
been newly furnished with guns and rurai-
turc. The recitation rooms have been en.
larged and blackboarJ facilities increased.
The interior has been freshly pe nteJ and
whitewashod. and evarything pnsente a
neat and orderly appearanoa.
Quite a number of Maoon gentieuten are
in attendance upon the exercises. Among
them I have noticed Maj. W. U. Rose, Col.
J. A. Billups and Captains Hardeman and
Findlay. The two last name! gentlemen
will set as jedges in the military contest
this afternoon. The occasion is graced,
too, by the presence of quite a number ol
young ladies. Misses Trippe and Dunn,
of Forsyth, and Miss Fannie Hunter, of
Albany, so well known to Mseon society,
hro spending th* week here. Coaro.
Codification In New York end Ueorrln
i who
The Legislature of New York has twice
passed a bill adopting a civil code for that
State. Ex oh tim*. the measure has been
defeated by ths governor’s veto; although
in on* instance the vote only lacked one of
the number reqaired to override the ob
jection* of ths executive. The discuMion
of the measure has been very spirited. In
its lest issue, the Albany Law Journal de
scribes th* opponent* of the code as
otrberus ot the metaphysical and c
exited young law students seeking their
fortunes, lazy old lawyars who have ma«*e
theirs and pedantio doctrinaires who
wolud never make anybody's fortune*.”
Speaking of Governor Cornell’* vet >, the
editor says the Oovernor “has lost the
greatest opportunity of his administra
tion. He has delayed, but be cannot de
feat tb* establishment of a national eye-
tern of law. In this connection wtfNtil atten
tion to a communication in enotber col
umn to the Georgia code.”
Tho communication referred to, written
by Mr. W. B. Hill, of this city, is subjoined:
Editor of the Albany Uiw Journal:—l
have been following with much interest
the diecussioQ in your ootumns regarding
the proposed code. No allusion has been
mado by tbs friends of tbs measure
codification in Georgia.
From ail thejroarces of investigation at
my oommandji am warranted in saying
that this State was the first tofadopta c;de;
not tbe/eode” (of proc*do»\ but as near
as may be, a complete embodiment of the
principle# of th* law. Tbs commission
wm appointed in 1KD, and the work main
ly performed by Thomas R. R. Cobb, of
whom Georgians .devoutly believe that in
the double Ce;acity of lawyer end
publicist th* world has not
soon his saperiott All law was
hi* province; be waa learned alike to the
common and the civil taw. To an atten
tive student of his work It seems that there
waa no Gordian knot, no conflict of au
thorities that was not present in his mind
during his labors. This Is the key tn the
work; it is attempt to incorporate along
with the statute* of the State the cardinal
principle* on each topic of the law, wilb
special reference to this object—to settle
by codification questions which by
of variant decisions ebewbere were open,
and which would inevitably have i
for* Uy* courts for determination.
The beneficent effect of thia i
been tuo-fold: 1. It has formulated
great body of law In intelligible and eo
pact shape, and rendered it accessible
th. ii iiii'.i-. Th* Mila ia fmnil tn tha riXi
the people. Tb* code ie found to the ofEeee
of burin rev men and corporations, m well
a* of lawyers. It Is distributed by the
State to the magistrates of every M i
district" whose courts nr) always
The cod* belong* to the State, not to the
J. 1\, end tb* people consult it win
they wish. 2. The formulation of eo _
law, while il has unavoidably left n
ocpiomuer, rooi. djiuu muiu iu o- hum
road was in operation to Brifield, forty
miles from l’ctersbnrg. An amusing inci
dent, m now viewed, occurred while tho
road wm in operation to this point. South
Carolina had just passed the ordinance of
nullification. Calhoun had resigned tho
office ol vice-prerident and had been elect
ed to the United States Senate. One djiy tho
stage from the South wm late, and after
waiting for a long time the train left for
Petersburg. A while after it was gone tho
stage arrived and Calhoun was in it. Ho
was much disappointed nt not being able
to prooeed m his journey, wliereu;on a
man was inomted on a hone nnd started
after the train to bring it back. This ho
succeeded in doing, after a ride of ten
miles. Gen. Walter Gwynn, then a lieu
tenant in the United Slates Army, know
Calhoun end introduced him to the crowd
which had gathered there, and the great
Senator kepi tho attention of tho crowd
enchained by his conversation while wait-
iog for the retnrn of the train. “Ono
would hardly think." said the Colonel, "of
sending a man on horseback to overtake a
■rain now.”
IkmuiwO. were multiplied very slowly nt
first Even in imi. vhen Colonel G.
made his first trip to Boston, bo leoollocts
but on* short road between Petersburg
and Boston.
In 1831 Colonel G. became an assistant
«'ii tl." Ki<-!.11. It. I. l'n-fl. ru-t-l.urg and t’u
tomae railroad. In 1835 he vu chief >
gineer on the Greenville and Roanoke rail-
road. He next completed tho lUle ! gh and
Ga«ton railroad. Early in 1812 he was ap-
(•ointed chief engineer of the Htato of
Georgia, liis special duty v
struction of the Western and Atlantic rail
road between Atlanta nnd Chattanooga.
One of his duties iu this position was tho
location of ths city of Atlantn, wliere the
State road wm to meet tho lino of roads
from Ghariestbu, through Augusta, nnd
tint from Savannah through Mm on.
When be performed tide duty there
nothing but forests where Atlanta i
stands. He had the first Lnri* »*.nt an«l th*
first cabin built ns the embryo ot tno tu
tors city. He claims no credit for the lo.
tho junction of theso three lines of road.
Afar the Mention of Ihe Slain dt-put at
this spot, a Mr. Mitchell, who owned about
•JU) acres where the city
stands, of
fered it to Col. Garnett for one thousand
dol'ars. This offer was declined because
ho did not deem it proper to speculate in
land on th* road of which lie was chief
engineer. He confesses that he had no
prospective vision of the fururo greatness
of Atlanta. Otherwise he might have re
signed his office a- d mad* tho purchase.
After this he wm successively chief en-
tanoogarosd in Tennessee; the Virginia
and Tennessee road in Virginia, now a
part of tite greet Norfolk and Western
line; the Memphis aud Charleston road in
Alabama and Mississippi, and
the York river railroad in Virginia. He
then, on invitation of the emperor, went to
Brazil as chief engineer of the Dom Pedro
II. railroad. With the work on this road
his active professional life dosed.
it ia wonderful that within the life of
one man such marvelous results should
have been aehleved as Colonel O.
contributed to.
The elcTtn miles of trninway oper
ated by horse power, that tempted
him Into the profession,
110 .’,000 mites of solid, safe aud
| equipped railway over which
many muttons of people are borne every
year in ease and security, and comities*
tons of freight are carried rapidly and
cheaply wherevr ’’—* I—M |
require them.
the demands of bash
What gives a healthy appetite, au in
creased digestion, strength to the muscles,
and toil* to the nerves? Brown's Iron
Bitten.
SENATOR DHOWS
Donate* 930,000 to
Atlanta, July 15 —To-day Senator Jo
ebh L. Brown gaTe $50,000 to tho State
Univt
Joiveraity, at Athens,
which is to be used for educating poor
young men.
A World Morlled.
Many avtordshing cures of
td lieodaclie have taken pla>
community from the us* of the unfalMi
x< —
lgl a
No matter bow advanced In life,
Good teeth in either nun or w ife
Ur a maid are a rich prize ;
And those who would I
From SOZODONT wo
Should lli*y at all be
The
he* settled in
is Hot extravagant to say. one bundrei
* caeM wUeh would have gone t
Court upon pofata oar"
;s Swiss troops, a
"th* autkoritise, like Swiss troops, maybe
found fighting on both sides." Much cf
Ihe law b thus put beyond cavil: and the
this Mate a.iof>ti Q Q covered by ths cods
rcrrallmtttv will to «tott. W»ra
O. K oa Ito totod owtlon .^.ito. t—, 9f. yqw> « «o »o.tor., Hltt.ni B.
■Ncitf ia mr i.col!rtt:an o.lrtn
Ctatk nd D»id Irwin.
tl r K0 P«r ,rar au m ratal, mm!
bora, worktaf br B. O. ltMraut * Co .
»•:•;••,-I-». York, Srad f. :
*n* DM full ratt!cal»»I»
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fcettot.”
For .mrtl-pcx rad otter cjoUtfiotu
tenie. no Uutj'i Proptjjlrrtie Field.
PervxH w.lUnte oa tb. uck .bould a o it
fral,. It will prartatuull pox, teirkt
■■ '~or dtatoto
_ «>d u» want on will
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