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Bishop Pierce is sufficiently im
proved in health to preach again.
At last accounts Thomasville bad
reached 800 feet with her artesian
weH. At that depth rock was plenti
ful and water scarce.
Our neighboring city Albany is
about to realize her hopes, and will
soon speak through the telephone.—
The work has been began.
The Liberal Party in Georgia is
“mighty small potatoes,” or Thorn
ton is a very poor leader, one or the
other. Which * is it J—Hawleinsville
Newt. ■ t
The Grand Lodge of Odd Fellows
met in Griffin on the 9th and 10th
inst, and was honored by the pres
ence of the Grand Sire of the world,
L. J. Glenn, Esq., who, by the way, is
a Georgian.
A new industry has sprung np in
Thomas county, that of drying sncb
LeConte pears as are unfit for
shipment on account of size. The
frnit when dried is worth 40o per
pound in New York.
By a new invention, telegraphy has
been rendered more efficient than ov
er before. Four messages, two each
way, can now be sent between New
York and Savannah at the same in
stant. This ia a grand step forward,
Another oonnty has come to the
front with a record reversing the new
order of things—Lowndes. She can't
find anybody willing to go to the
Legislature—not only for this time,
bntfor some time past Can this be
the beginning of a new epoch, like
the honest days of old when office
sought the man and not the opposite?
An exchange says : -“The negro
politicians are making great boasts of
bow they outwitted Kano wand Long'
street; but thfty are crowing before
they are ont of the woods. These
able politicians, it is said, have
enough blank credentials and proxies
' to eqnip another convention for busi
ness. The colored brother should be-
The following is the dimensions of
a ship recently launohed in Great
Britan, and said to be the largest ever
built in that realm : Lengttf 285 feet,
breath 42 feet, and depth 25 feet 2
inches. She will be rigged as a four-
masted sailing ship, and the gross
registered tonnage is 2,400 tons, the
dead weight capacity of the vessel be
ing about 3,400. tons.
General Gartrell claims to be an in'
dependent, bnt it is a little cutyons
that the indopondents refuse to in
dorse him. He can get the indorse
ment of ’RepuMioans, liberals and
greenbackers, but the independents
seem determined to stand npon their
dignity.—Constitution.
Felton and Speer both indorse Ste
phens, claiming thsit he is just the
same kind of independent Democrat
that they are.
Athens Go., seems to hold a pecu
liar people—similar somewhat to the
people of Gbarlton county. Hear
what a correspondent says :
“The smaller offices in our county
seem to go a begging. For the Leg
islature I hear of only one candidate,
and for mayor none. I presume
there will be found a few patriots la
ter who do not despise “the old flag
and an appropriation."
interest
river
banks are
human skele-
rock on
built a fire—long ago.
opposite shore of the stream
from where the explorers were they
heard fearful noises and saw through
the darkness by the aid of their
torches wbat appeared to be a snake
of enormous proportions. Fearing
personal injury the party beat a hasty
retreat
Telegraph and Messenger: “We
have it from an unofficial source that
the shops of the East Tennessee, Vir
ginia and Georgia railroad will be lo
cated in Macon. We are not in a
position to state it authoritatively,
but we have reason to believe that the
officials'have decided to place them
here. This will be hailed with pleas
ure by our citizens who have never
lost an oi
to give the road
every aid in their power. The moyor
and council have long since tendered
the use of all the grounds necesssary
for the shops.
Takec%re you don’t get tripped on
that yet—Atlanta is bidding and that
means something. Have you forgot
ten the state capital contest ?
It is time for us to Jay‘aside our in
dividual preferences for Governor.—
The fight should have been made be
fore and in the nominating conven
tion. There is no good Bense in fight
ing the nominee of the party, unless
the wish be to effectually disrupt the
party. We regret to see that some
of the journals of the State are still
treasuring the hope that another coh-
vention will be called. Such a move
would be a death blow to the Democ
racy of the whole State. It was jnst
such a step that gave the Seventh Con
gressional District to the indepen
dents in 1875. Let ns profit bv their
experience, and, if we can do the
Demooratio cause no positive good,
let us be careful that we doit no
harm. We assuredly can do the
oause no good by fighting its leader.
Speaking of the Georga Bailroad
extention through Athens, a corres
pondent of the Telegraph and Mes
senger thus writes .-
“The Georgia railroad extension
progresses slowly. When completed
it will be the most costly mile or rail
road ever bailt in Georgia. The en
tire blasting- is only a few hundred
yards from the basiness center of the
city. Dynamite is used almost ex
clusively. Twice a day, from thirty
to fifty charges are exploded, sending
a shower of stonfeB all over the lower
part of the city. It is marvellous
that there has been no one killed,
think if an outrage that the oity coun
cil, whose, duty is to protest onr lives
ST. MARYS.
Editor.
as weH U ourjproperty, should allow
it to go on. There is not the slighest
danger from a reasonable charge of
powder or dyndmite, but from those
explosions stones are thrown three
blocks away. It is not nnoommon to
hear of one falling tbrongh the top of
a house. One shot through the gas
house the other day and the city was
in darkness {pr a week from it”
New Yobk, Aug. 17.—The agent of
various steamship lines, coastwise as
well as trans-Atlantic, have been in
formed by Collector Robertson that
they must pay the head tax- of 50 cts.
on every alien cabin passenger land
ed, as well os emigrants. The agents
of one of the Havana lines have paid
this tax, bnt under protest. The oth
er Unas paid without protest It is
oelieved that the trans-Atlantic com
panics wfil pay the tax on cabin pas
sengers willingly, and take no steps
to oontest the law’s constitutiona^ty.
•Savannah has bad a daylight fire
works exhibition in her park by Prof
Crowell. The exhibition was free, be
ing intended as an advertisement of
the company represented by Mr.
Crowell A small mortar was used
’to project the missiles, which explod
ed in the air and set at liberty thou
sands of little paper images, that
floated through the air and were
gathered by the children as they
to the ground.
A new cave has been discovered re
cently in Sawanee county, Fla., that is
Thomasville Enterprise: Gen. Gar-
treU is the nominee of himself, the
reoommendee of the Syndicate wing
of the Republican pasty, of the
Pledger wing of the Republican par
ty, of the great Marcellas E. Thorn
ton’s Lebersl convention, and lastly
of the Independent-Greenbaok La
bor-Reform Party. We fear the
General carries too much weight
No roan could stand up under the
weight of so many recommendations,
much less make a race against a light
weight on wheels.
An exchange says: “A singular
* ’ " . for t '
feature in the race for the Legislature
is that none of the old members -are
seeking a re-election. In fact all
have declined to enter the race.
There is but very little glory. To see
your name with “honorable” before it
honorable
is but a poor compensation for the
sacrifice of private interests.”
bt., Aug. 21,1882.
apdAppeal: fij
Were you ever greeted (when you |
had gotten up about two hours earlier
than usual to take the cars or boat)
with that most delectable of all an
nouncements, left I It was our good
fortune to meet with snob a salutation
on last Thursday 4n0rnin&. " We set
our alarm at 5 a. m., and at the signal
we got up, dressed, and with grip-
saohel in hand started for the boat,
but beforh we had gone half way,
we were informed that the boat had
gone. The feeling produced by this
news was a kind of indescribable all-
overishness. If you have ever had
any experience of this kind you can
better imagine how we felt than we
can tell you. Being deprived of the
pleasure of going on the boBom of the
briny deep, we determined rough at
a venture, to make the trip by rail,
accordingly we left Brunswick on the
B. & A. train at 9 a. m., for Way-
cross, from thenoe we went to Calla
han, and thenoe to Fernandina, which
place we reached about 9 p. m.
’Tie said, “Fortune favors the
brave.” It held good in this instance,
for when we left home we had not the
remotest idea when our destination
would be reached, but we went only
a few hours behind the boat We ar
rived at this pleasant little town on
Friday. St Mary’s is not as small -a
place as we imagined, it is true it
covers very little territory but it is
compact, the streets are well shaded,
and all of them, are supplied with
pumps, which supply an abundance
of good water. The people were ex
ceedingly kind and hospitable, and if
what I have seen of them is a true
index they are a moral church going
people.
We will leave here on the Martha
at 12 m., to connect with the Bridge-
ton at Fernandina, which is advertised
to leave that place at 7 p. m., al
though we will get there six hours
before leaving time, we expect to get
on board as soon as we get there and
there remain until she pulls np at
the wharf in Brunswiok. Experience
has taught us that there are more
things uncertain that the verdict of
a jury and election returns. The ar
rival and departure of steamboats
stands far above everything else in
the scales of uncertainties.
Occasional.
THE^YELiIjOW FEVER.
August
..to,
of the
.TheSar-
le Hospital
geon of the marine hospital at i _
Christi, Texas: “As soon as yellow fe
ver was declared to exist in Matamo-
ras* and Brownswille, this city so- __ _ _ „ -----
forced a' strict quarantine against wl out The procession of men and
ii • m M u mnmnn awn mnmniv mi a ..
vicinity, and also re-
and all places on the
ie of the Texas and Mexican rail
way, running Corpus Christi and La
redo, to quarantine immediately. The
quarantine, as now established, outs
off communication between Browns
ville and the rat of the State by land.
The hospital at Arkansas Pass was
TAIaMAGB ON EXTRAVAGANCE.
Talmage recently preach-
ivagance ancient nnd
ow we give two extracts
from the sermon:
Our text takes ub 2,600 years back
and sets us down in an ancient citv
It is a bright day and the ladies are
burned a few days ago, and there is
or there for the sick, nor a
A Texas Shower.
The Republican't Dallas special says
that passengers by the Texas and Pa
cific railroad report that one of the
heaviest rains ever known, continuing
three days and nights without inter
mission, stopped falling in western
Texas last night. In some places the
plain, where tradition says it never
rains, has the appearance of a sea,
and the rainfall is estimated at six
feet. Four miles of track west of Ab-
aline was washed away, and trains
oannot cross. Transfers have to bo
made. In one spot 400 yards of the
track and embankment are washed
away, and will have to be rebuilt.
Great drifts of dead prairie dogs lie
piled in the rubbish; thousands of
them have been ‘drowned, and thou
sands more can be seen struggling in
the water. On these plains the wa
ters from suoh a flood now southward
and the only channels to carty them
away are the Brazos and the Colora
do, the Oonobo and the Pecos rivers
and their small tributaries. Conse
quently it will be several days before
the land becomes dry again.
The great washout referred to was
the work of a waterspout between
Abaline and Sweetwater. Something
similar is said to have occurred near
Van Horn, nearly 600 miles west of
Dallas, and another spout is reported
to have struck and %enooSIy damaged
the Southern Pacific track in south
eastern Arizona. It will take several
days to repair the Texas Pacific track.
It is feared that great loss of life and
stock has occurred in the remote and
sparsely settled country to the north
and northwest of the Texas Pacific.
Parties in to-day from* the flooded
district along the line of the road say
its situation is simply indescribable.
Hundreds of laborers have been put
to work repairing the track and ore
working night and day.
no shelter
proper boat for service. A steam tug
is necessary for the health offices
there. We need tents, provisions and
medicines at bur local stations, where
many refugees from Brownsville are
now now under guard, without shel
ter. We had offioial notice yesterday
from Brownsville of large numbers of
refugees coming this way, and of
more from Tampico having landed at
Bagdad, Mexico, who will follow.—
The danger to Texas is by land, there
being no communication by water
now with Brownsville. We need a
hospital here to accommodate siok
seamen.
An answer was sent to-day by the
Surgeon-General as follows: “As soon
as possible a close cordon will sur
round Brownsvillve to prevent infeot-
ed persons and baggage from leaving
the city. There will be no necessity
for anything but inspection stations
at Corpus Christi. The stations ean
be managed by ordinary guards. You
will be informed when Brownsville is
invested. Hospital tents will be sent”
Washinonon, August 22.—Surgeon-
General Hamilton received a telegram
from Acting Collector Goodrich, at
Brownsville, Texas, this afternoon,
stating that there were fifty-four new
cases and four deaths from yellow fe
ver since the last report
Brownsville, Aug. 22.—There were
fifty-four new cases of yellow fever to
day and four deaths—all of the latter
Mexicans! The troops in Fort Brown
are in excellent health. There were
nine deaths at Matamoras to-day.—
There are but few new cases, and
these are confined to the suburbs.—
Thw weather is very fair.
Montgomery, August 21.—The of-
women are moving up and down the
gay streets. It is the height of the
fashionable season. The sensible peo.
pie move with so muoh that they ] 0
not attract our attention-. But here
come the haughty daughters 0 |
Jerusalem. They lean forward tbev
lean very muoh forward, so far fir-
ward as to be unnatural—teetering
wobbing, wringing, flirting, or, as
my text describes it, they “walk with
stretohed-forth necks, walking and
mincing as they go.” They have i
r nt hours before the mirror ere
rting from home, and have in most
astounding .style arranged their bon
nets and weir veils ahd their entire
apparel, and now go through the
streets taking more of the pavement
than they are entitled to, sweeping
along with skirts that the text des
cribed as “found tires, like the moon.”
See, that is a princess 1 Look, that
is a Damascus swordmakerl Look,
that is a Syrian merchant 1 The
jinging of the china and the flashing
jf the headbands, and the exhibitions
of universal swagger attraot the at
tention of the prophet Isaiah, and he
brings his camera to bear upon the
scene and takes a picluro for all the
ages. Bat where is that scene?
Vanished. Where are those ga;
streets ? Vermin-covered population
pass through them. Where are
the hands and the necks and the
foreheads and the feet that sported
all that magnificence ? Ashes!
Ashes 1
The wide-spread extravagance also
accounts for much of the pauperism
in the country. Who are the individ
uals and the families thrown on yonr
charity? Who has Binned against
them so that they suffer ? It is oftec
the case that their parents and grand
parents had all luxuries, lived every'
thing up, more than lived everything
op, and then died, leaving their fami
lies in. want The grandparents of
st
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these beggars sapped on Burgnndy
woodcocl
and
In Spain an old custom among the
rural people is never to eat frnit out
of doors without planting seed. The
roads are lined with trees, whose fruit
is free to all. An old proverd says:
“Tile mon hen n/\t li’nn/1 in nntn wllO
‘The man has not lived in vain
plants a good tree in the right place.”
fioial vote of the State for Superin
tendent of Education was this da;r
opened according to law and oonntc* I
by those charged with thatduty. The
vote for that officer is about the same
as that for Governor and other State
officers. The returns for the latter
being direoted to the Speaker of the
House of Representatives, they will
not be opened until the Legislature
meets in November. H. C. Arm
strong, the Demooratio candidate for
Superintendent of Ednotion, received
104,170 votes, and J. G. Wood (Re-
pablican-Greenbacker opposition) re
ceived 47,133, Ihe Democratic majori
ty being 47,037. The entire vote cast
was nearly one-third less than the fall
vote. The Senate will stand thirty-
one Democrats and ^jvo opposition,
the House seventy-nine Democrats
and twenty-one opposition. The lat
ter consists of eight Republicans, four
Greenbackers and nine Independent
Democrats.
New York, August 17.—At the sea
sion of the Mississippi river commis
sion in this city, to-day, one of the
subjects under consideration was the
allotment of the appropriation for
the improvement of that water way
below Cairo. This appropriation
amounts to $4,125,000. They decided
to distribute it as follows: Continu
ation of the work at Plumb Point,
above Memphis, $800,000; continua
tion of the work at Lake Providenee,
above Vioksburg, $700,000; begin
ning work at New Madrid, $800,000;
beginning work in the vicinity' of
Memphis and continuation of work
already began in Memphis harbor,
$300,000; for various harbor work in
addition to balances now available,
$123,000; repairs of levees by the
dosing of existing gaps, $1,800,000;
unallotted for contingencies, $100,000.
It is said that when two little
Cbinesestudents at New Haven and
Hartford returned to their own coun
try, where kissing is unknown, they
did not know bow to greet their
mothers. The yellow youngsters had
learned-to kiss in Gonneticut, utid
desired, but dared not, kiss their
mammas and female relations. Who
learned them to kiss, the Gonneticot
girls? If so, it is no ose talking
about taste. A white woman who
can kiss a Chinaman is past blushes.
The students ore coming back again,
and perhaps will take a few more les
sons from females who like off color
lips. Depravity of taste can go but
little further, unless it descends into
Congo and Dahomey.—News and Ad.
iooek. There are*a great
many families who have every luxniy
in life, yet expend every dollar that
comes in, and perhapB a few dollars
more, not even taking theoommon
Christian prudence of having tbeir
lives insured. While they live all is
well, but when they die tneir children
are pitohed into the street. I tell yon
a man has no right.to die under snch
circumstances. It is grand larceny,
even his death. If a man has been
industrious, and eoonomieal, and has
not a farthing to leave his children
as he goes away from them, be has a
right to put them in the hands-of the
Father of the’Fatherless, and know
they will be oared for, but if you, with
every comfort in life; are lavish and
improvident, and then depart this life
leaving your children to be burled in-'
to pauperism, you deserve to have
your bones sold to the medical muse
um for anatomical specimens, the pro
ceeds to furnish your ohildren bread,
I know the subject outs dose. Some
of you are making a great dash in
life, and after a while will die, leav
ing your families beggars, and yon
will expect us ministers of the goSpel
to come and stand by the coffin and
lie about your excellence. Bnt we
will not bo it If you send for me, I
will tell you what my text willjbe:—
“He that provideth not for his own,
and especially those of his own house
hold, is worse than an infidel 1”
1
Scientific Bostonians are very muoh
exercised over a blue lobster, of the
lapis-lazuli or ultramarine tint, which
a Hull fisherman brought info M*; or
Green’s offioe the other day. ‘ All
sorts of theories are advanced to ac
count for a the peculiar color of the
crustacean, the most plausible one be
ing that the advent this season of a
thriving yaoht club in Hull bay, with
may have
ities oj the
specimen as to induce it to tarn its
coat for fashion’s sake.—New Haven
PaUadiem. ■ ■ n
Mayor’s Office,
Leesburg, Va., April 19,1879.
Messrs. Hutchinson A Bro.: It af
fords me pleasure to. testify to the
great virtues of yonr “Neuralgine” f° r
Ihe care of neuralgia and sick head
ache. It is the best remedy for these
most distressing complains I have ev
er used. It should be in every family
in the country. Yours truly;
Geo. R. Head,
Mayor of Leesburg, Va
HUTCHINSON & BRO., Proprie
tors, Atlanta, Go.
Sold by all druggists.
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