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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 A "I 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. augl5-3®