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TIIE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1884.
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Col. Estill’s boom for the govern- The Platform,
orship is not so tame an affair after all.> Not second to importance even to the
He has a strong following.”—Quitman i nominees will be the platform to be
Free Pren. There must lie some mis- enunciated at Chicago. The criminal
take about this. How can a man that, attempt to pass a whisky bill under the
isn’t leading be said to have a “follow-; cry of tariff reform, has greatly agitated
ing?” As we understand the matter, ] the country and has seriously distract-
Col. Estiil is opposed to himself for j ed the Democratic party. That many
Governor. 1 Democrats are mortified and alarmed,
—7 that they were deceived into this cam-
In the nature of things, the present j pajgn t which had been engineered by a
Emperor of Germany will soon be | ] ulu jf u i o{ sma u ( ao tive politicians
“gathered to his fathers.” It will be (or mon( hs before Congress met, is a
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wtl ||t
It is advisable for some parents to
begin to keep son time.
"GAin” is strong for Cleveland.
This is as fatal as Colquitt’s support of
Bayard.
Bv providing themselves with stilts,
farmers will be able to keep their heads
above the grass.
Nome enemy lias gone to the trouble
to telegraph from Washington that Col
quitt is for Bayard.
It isn’t certain that the next Presi
dent will not lie chosen by the House
of Representatives.
It will be very gratifying if Congress
should adjourn without passing some
act for robbing the treasury.
People will not wonder that Lieut.
Grecly was lost, after learning that he
parted his hair in the middle.
A small African with a large water
melon under his arm embodies a very
high degree of animal enjoyment.
When a small man digs a hole for
other people and falls into it himself
we always feel sorry for the hole.
Tiie zeal of Editor Estiil in running
away from fame ought to be a living
and unforgotten lesson to the ambitions
young men.
It comes across the water that the
inhaling of pure oxygen is a cure for
cholera. If true, the discovery is
timely and invaluable.
The New York .Sun now seems in
clined to a ticket composed ol Bayard
and Palmer, oi Illinois. In many re
spects it would be strong.
The Atlantic ocean is pretty wide,
bnt cholera is a wonderful jumper. Ko
precaution to prevent its effecting a
landing on our shores will he amiss.
The New York .Sun calls them “the
fraud-clad monitors.” The characteri
sation is vigorous, but it isn't compli
mentary to a number o( Secretaries of
the Navy.
The Fiegtn Indians are said to be
starving. If the government had per*
, mined little Phil Sheridan to kill them
out with small-pox, it would not now
be bothered about rations.
Tnx Cherokee Indians are testing
the power of the law as a protection
against intruding ranchmen. They
should follow the Massachusetts meth
od-capture the invaders and sell them
into slavery.
Senator Hill permanently retired
the Andcrsonville stock-in-trade of Re
publican orators in the House, and
now Senator Brown lias performed that
same job for the "slavery” question—
the late oratorical solace of New Eng
land Senators.
Histoby is repeating itself. "Tiie
grand old party” is in very much the
same condition of dismemberment a*
waa the Democratic party, twenty-
four years ago. The consequence will,
in all likelihood, be similar. A torn
and distracted party is not the party
of
an event of no small consequence to
Europe at large—to say nothing of Ger
many. The Crown Prince is believed
to have opinions of his own, with a
strong leaning towards the Russian
policy of territorial aggrandizement.
Those who read Senator Brown’s
speech, printed in the Sunday’s issue of
the Telegraph and Messenger, will
not be at a loss to account for Senator
Ingalls’s attack on him. That was the
only way a diversion could lie made in
favor of Hoar and Massachusetts. It
was cunningly conceived and remorse
lessly executed; but it was ndLanswer
to tiie unsparing and unauAverable
facts of the Georgia Senator’sipeech.
“Of course crab nets would not do
to catch Macon mosquitoes with, es
teemed Telegraph and Messenger.
A regular Texas lariat would hardly
hold some of your gigantic night war
blers.”—Morning Xewi. It must have
been a lamp post instead of a mosquito
that fell np ngninst our contemporary
when he was last in Macon. The bite
of the Macou lamp post is said to be
peculiarly painful tosalt-water editors.
The Chinese Governor of flfeshgar
is liending back, dragging his pig-tail
on the ground and daring any Russian
general with an army and an unpro
nounceable name to tread on it. The
man witli the name that the Lord didn’t
make is not far distant. He will step
on the pig-tail and give it an extra
twist for good measure; and then there
is going to be fun—for Russia, along
the southeastern boundary of Turk
estan.
It is certainly a most remarkable ar
gument to say that the railroads aught
not to complain of a denial of the right
of appeal to the courts from the decis
ion of the con mission because the peo
ple are equally barred from such ap
peal. What was fun to the boys was
death to the frogs. The fact that the
former ’were charmed with the situa
tion didn’t constitute an argument in
favor of resignation on the part of the
latter..
There are evidences oi the fact that
the “weather” isn’t confined to the
United States. The New York Sun, of
Friday, published a dispatch from
Erivau, Russia, concerning a hailstorm,
in which the fallowing sentence occurs:
The rivers were damned and the banks
were badly flooded.” We have had
some pretty savage hall In this section,
but nono that could even have been
suspected of engaging in the brimstone
business of “damning” tbo streams.
The threat of abolishing the Home
of Lords is again freely made by the
Liberal leaders in tho Home of Com
mons, In the event of the defeat of the
franchise hill by the former body. A
revolution of that sort is more easily pro
jected than accomplished Insoconserv
ntive a nation as Great Britain. If the
Home of Lords were abolished, the
figure-head of royalty would probably
not lie long in following it into obliv
ion.
healthy sign. That neither the whisky
bill or the horizontal bill could begin to
muster the support given them a few
weeks ago is well enough ns far as it
goes.
But in order to win, the Chicago
convention must do something more.
It must put forth a platform upon the
subject of the tariff that will pacify and
reassure the country. The Democratic
party cannot go into a campaign breath
ing the furious threats of destruction
indulged in by Mr. Watterson and
others. Its mission is to build up in
dustry ns well as to reform the abuses
of the party which has held power for
so many years.
The Republican party silenced any
division of sentiment that may exist in
its ranks, and declared unequivocally
in favor of protection for American
labor and industry. It proposes to
raise the revenue for the support of the
government by a tariff upon imports.
Anything less than this means cer
tain defeat to the Democratic party.
The country will not trust any candi
dates save upon a full and sincere enun
ciation of the principles that are to be
carried out in an administration.
Tiie latter part of the campaign for
Garfield was mainly conducted in the
manufactories and work-shops of the
North. Many Democratic laboring men
were induced to vote the Republican
ticket from an honest fear that the^
[.of
and their families would suffer
from a reduction or wages, ii a
Democratic President was elected.
General McCook, the Secretary of the
United States Senate, for years a Re
publican Congressman from New York
city, has declared that these tactics
are to’ lie repeated with renewed en
ergy. The selection of a conspicuous
iron manufacturer as chairman of the
national Republican committee only
emphasises the words of General Mc
Cook.
Hence all of the wisdom, all of the
sacrifice of the delegates at Chicago
will be required to frame a platform
upon which the nominees shall be
placed.
Tiie New York Journal of Commerce,
the ablest journal of its kind in the
country, with tendencies towards free
trade, makes a suggestion upon this
point, so wise and timely, that we take
it as a conclusion to this article. It
says:
With the tariff the altn should be toward a
reform that shall render It a revenue syitem.
pure and simple. The Incidental ptotcctlon
this would give to every deserving manufac
turing Interest Is all that ought to bo desired.
But while this should bo the ultimate atm of
the reformation, it Is not desirable, in our
Judgmeut, to make such swooping changes
would establish tt at once on the basts It ought
finally to stand. Instead, therefore, of a cry
for "Free trade" or a "TarilT for revenue only,"
we would Insist on what Is the only practl
cable chaugo likely to lie accepted by tho
countty.. This Is: TarilT reformation with a
view of perfecting It as the only source of
public revenue. Wisely modified on this
principle, uo vital Interest would auiTer and
violence would be done to the business of
the country, even for the sake of reformation,
This ought to be the ptauk in the Democratic
platform adopted at Chicago, and It would
commend Itself for Its moderation and good
sense to every intelligent voter.
A compabmox of the census tables of
lSTOwith those of 1880, in so far Eg con
cerns the negroes, shows an apparent
gain in excess of that of the whites,
comparison of the death rates of whites
and blacks, in a given number of South
ern cities, wilt convince anyone that
the real rate of increase of the negroes
is less than that of the whites. The
census of 1870 was incorrectly taken as
to the negroes. Their number waa pur
posely underestimated, in order tost
tain the Republican theory that they
Wen being massacred by thousands by
the white Democrats of the South.
Whsn Defamation Becomes Inconvenient
The tears of the New York Tribune
and its blind rage over the Republican
assaults now being made upon Mr.
Blaine are both amusing and instruc
tive. Very little sympathetic emotion
will lie aroused over the evil of which
it complains, et least south of the line,
After long years of detraction, the
Tribune has at last found out that the
“impunity with which private charac
ter is attacked in political rampaig-is
has long been a reproach to American
public life.” This is an admission
worth something, coming as li does
from the Tribune. For twenty-five years
that journal has beeu the mouth-piece
of every slanderous story that malice
desired to circulate in connection with
Southern men, whether in or out of
Iiolitici. Ex-President Davis has been
a conspicuous target for the slander
gatherers; a man; of whom it
may be aaid none other ever made
his living more consistent with his
opinions; who basing his actions upon
law so pure and strong as to defy ar
gument, led the Confederacy fof font
years in his efforts to defeat the assault
made upon it with arms; who
frankly accepted tho inevitable defeat,
and since Appomattox has home him
self as a simple gentleman retired from
public life. Upon this man unswerv
ing, unarmed, has the Tribune and its
class of publications heaped slander
and defamation, without ever realising
that the impunity with which private
character is attacked in political cam
paigns has long been a reproach to
Americans. It is only when a division
occurs amongst the public thieves over
the spoils of a political campaign, and
the Tribune feels the chances of sac-
slipping away from the “grand old
party," that the inconvenience of
personal campaign is felt. It is not
singular that personalism should be
decried by the friends of a man whose
whole political life is full of dishonesty
and corruption.
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TM« Florida Nomine*.
Much of interest and anxiety centres
aliout the setion oi Florida in the pres
ent contest. The vote Is close, and
the rapid immigration to the State,
rather increases the anxiety.
Therefore the action of her late State
convention was looked to with inter
est. A few disaffected persons of all
shades of political opinion had held
a convention and made an independ
ent nomination for Governor. Tlds
only made a doubtful situation worse.
It was considered that it the Democra
cy made a good nomination for Gov
ernor the chances of success would be
greatly strengthened.
The party seems to have done this
tiling. The Tallahassee Economitt, a
most reliable journal, has this to say
of the nominee: “Upon a survey of
the entire field we are inclined to think
that General Perry, who as proven, was
the strongest of all the gubernatorial
aspirants before the convention, as a
candidate for the office of Governor, is
the strongest, upon the whole, that
could have been nominated. It cannot
be denied that for the nomination he
had, among his owa neighbors, opposi
tion of great weight and charac
ter. Until the present week we had no
idea of how strong this was. If carried,
as threatened, not only to his nomina
tion, but to his election, it will proba
bly lose the party the important county
of Escambia in November. This loss,
should it befall, must be made up by
bis friends elsewhere.
“During the war, the time for the trial
of men, and the development of the
heroic in character, he showed himself
thoroughly brave and manly. If
elected, as we do not permit ourself to
doubt be will be, we have confidence
enough in him to believe he will not be
merely the Governor for a party bat for
the whole people of Florida, and alt its
people, the lowest os well os the high
est.
“As often said in anticipation of the
action of the nominating convention,
our opinion has been that it would lie
wise to take a man from South Florida.
But as she failed to press her claims,
then on sectional grounds, no portion
of the State could urge as much in
behalf as tiie region west of the C!
taw hatch** whi- h lias neve.- had c
Senator Brown's Speech.
We publish in another portion of our
issue of this morning tiie late speech of
Senator Brown on the Mormon ques
tion. We have not been enabled to
give it a critical review. It is not
necessary. The spech was best suited
to tiie occasion of its delivery. While
we may not agree fully in all tiie posi
tions assumed, we are glad that a
Southern Senator made it. We are
pleased that the Senator from Georgia
made it. It was time that tiie sniv
elling cant of New England was
fully and mercilessly exposed by the
comparison of the polygamy of «Utah
with the concubinage of that JeJfJpn.
So much for the speech. Its ptifiica-
tion affords us opportunity to
thing more, and we avail oursel
it. This journal is not to lie the
of constant carpings at Govern?!
or any other man. It finds ei
that unpleasant work to do, in the cases
of designing men, whose selfish ambi
tion makes them unmindful of the wel
fare of Georgia and tho best interests
of her people.
We are in nowise responsible that
Governor Brown has politically reha
bilitated himself. Tho means by which
he did this received our sternest repro
bation, and wo have fought such bad
results as have followed at least with
energy and zeal. Common justice de
mands that wo say that we find no
cause of complaint with him for grasp
ing tho opportunities placed in his
hands by other men. While the re
sults of this have, in our opinion, in
many respects been bad for Georgia,
we do not shut our eyes to the fact that
Gov. Brown has made an intelligent,
careful and true representative of the
Interests of tiie State. So long as he
continues to do this he is entitled to
onr support, and shall have it.
Furthermore, recognizing his position
on the tariff as eminenily sound and
correct, and the one best calculated to
subsorve the interests of the South and
of Georgia, we shall not hesitate to sup
port him on this issue.
We have not and do not admire the
political methods of Gov. Brown, and
have taken frequent occasion to say so.
We have regretted that his open and
direct methods in Washington have
not been duplicated in Georgia, and
that for this reason he has estranged
and driven away those who would have
upheld him in the right.
The Telegraph and Messenger is
nnder no obligations of any character
to Gov. Brown, nor does he owe it any
thing further than that, it lias treated
him always as an opponent who fights
on open ground and does not resort to
falsehood to sustain himself or to in
jure others.
A gentleman who enjoys the entire
confidence and respect of the people of
Georgia, has written to us oi Gov.
Brown: “Xa man disliked him so
much as I did when he camo to the
Senate. I hated him enough to kill
him, if I could have got my consent to
kill anybody. But since he lias been
here lie has impressed me fat more
atrongly than any man from the South
—more strongly than uny man in
either House from either section.
He is a man of great ability, not bril
liant and very ineloqnent, yet he Is an
unconquerable debater. His resolu
tion is undaunted by any difficulty, and
his industry and vigilance are tireless.
I do not regard him as an attractive
man. He may not be a generous one.
I kuow no man more opposite to my
self and yet I cannot but feel grateful
to him tor being a liold, respected, in
telligent and feared Southerner and
Georgian. I don’t train under his flag,
but I have no desire to oppose or to
thwart him. Whenever I can do
so consistently I like to oblige him and
help him.”
This is what we have to say of Gov
ernor Brown, not by way of apology or
explanation, but that the proper time
had come, in our judgment, to say it.
Wo will add that we have far more
respect for him, than for those who
fawn npon the men who placed the
political power of the State In his
hands, and who stand ready to criticise
those who have the honesty and man
liness to do him justice.
and justly enforced, Georgia would
have at all times in the vaults of her
treasury, more than enough to meet
all iter financial engagements promptly.
While it is gratifying to know that
she has citizens, willing and able to re
spond to her necessities in a sudden
monetary emergency, it is not pleasant
to admit that there was no good and
sufficient reason why this emergency
should have come at this time.
There is another consideration in
this connection. It appears that the
State was relieved of embarrassment
by her railroad corporations. They
advanced the necessary moneys from
their reserve funds, and no doubt did
this at the cost of some inconvenience
to themselves, for their dividends fall
due in July, and' they have to meet
interest in bonds about this time.
It is to be hoped that none of the
statesmen to be elected to tiie next
Legislature will take this action as
proof that they are “bloated bond
holders,” that they have accumulated
earnings wrung from tiie people, and
will feel it to be their duty to arm the
Commission with power to reduce them
to a condition where they will be pow
erless to help the State in a moment of
distress.
FROM ATLANTA. lot night were falling heavily upon it tt
! place looked gloomy snd derolate enmlk
Tho Old Mother Borrows *<30,000 to elation we were indebted to fi.
M«t tho July Int.ro.t-Troa.uror | ““5 fZXgJ&SSj tor irebrttMfii
Speer la Now York-M..- SSrtJJ oto.>• Si
ons-Cropa-Fortlllzers. w i[om to uuS? SSSfitfiASJ.^W
rsPXCIAL CORRESPONDENCE.!
Atlanta, June 30.—It seems that the
treasury of the State has been affected as
everything else by the financial stringency
but chiefly, I apprehelid, by the heavy
drafts made upor. its vault by the late la
mented Legislature, whose appropriations
were many and large. This was especial
ly apparent in arranging for the payment
whom so much was .rid when toe tertSI
crime waa committed. terrible
JUSTIFIABLE HOMICIDE.
.. inquest was held this afternoon 1,
theUling of Jack Donelly by BenCWIA?
resulting in a verdict of justifiable tt
®Me. Cbiid. it will ii remembered"
stabbed Donelly several weeks ago and dul
appeared Donelly, it was thought
but he died last week. Childs {rifi
.... r _,„. SttS ,oon *• he
of the interest on the public debt felling due Yarborough, one of the ■ Bank.
July 1st, which is in round numbers, about j bM r/ceWed bUpartra antFufLTnS? 1 "-
>250,000. It was seen some time since the I At Saturday night’s fire BroRt™,-
balances in tire treasury aud in the Stale I loss was in the neighborhood of *-> ran n
depositories were runuiug so low mat j W. Jack, whose cracker factory was'rim~i
there would not be sutheteut tunds avail#, entirely destroyed, was beartlv in.nS'
bte in advance ot the new taxes to meet about $15,000. The Insurance win”iHSr
the interest, fne tunas found to be avail- •• • •• n
able. I understand, fur the Juiy interest
was only $100,000, aud the arnouut needed
$250,000. Hi mV was tUts-iledcU ot $150,000
to be made up? The difficulty vanished
almost before it had taken shape. As
soon as tiie matter was brought to the no
tice ot certain parties within the State and
that the money waa needed, every dollar
of It wa9 promptly advanced, to be return
ed out of the incoming taxes.
Your correipondent is Indebted to un
official sources for this information, but I
think it ia substantially correct. I have no
of hi. phyetcian, Captain Tom lUcUnfon
lor *° many years the popular conducts
on the Atlanta division of tiie Central has
given up his train and accepted the position
of yard master and train dispatcher of tho
Central and West Point railroads. CaM
Keneau nowboAsu* th$* rm»ninr .i«,. P"
noon. This gives him a run of 206 mi£
every day, which the —'-> ■
can make seven
Cotton Statement#
From the Chronicle's cotton article of
June 27th we glean the following facts
relative to the movement of the crop
for the past week:
For the week ending June 27. the total re
ceipts have reached 5,612 bales, against 4,725
bales last week, 8,409 bales the previous
week aud 12,564 bales three weeks sluce;
making the total receipts sluce the 1st of Sep
tember, 1883, 4,782,681 bales, apalust 5,893,049
bales for the same period of 1882-83, showing a
decrease sluce September 1, 18.83, of 1,110,407
bales.
The receipts at all the interior towns
for the week have been 3,300 bales
since September 1, 2,842,023 bales,
These receipts are 876 bales less than
tiie same week last year, and a foiling
off for the season of 704,936 bales
Among the interior towns Macon is
credited with 1 bale for the week, and
with 59,909 bales for the season. Last
year the receipts for the week were 11
bales and for the season 57,420 hales,
These figures show a decrease for the
week, as compared with last year, of
10 bales, and an increase for the sea
son of 2,480 bales.
Taking the receipts from plantations
the net overland movement to June 1
and also the takings by Southern spin
ners to the same date, the amount of
cotton in sight becomes 5,615,132 bales,
a falling off, as compared with last
year, o! 1,268,237 bales.
The imports into continental ports
this week have been 72,000 bales. The
exports have reached a total of 17,764
bales, distributed ns follows: To Great
Britain 15,729, to France 7, and 2,02S
to the rest of the continent.
Speaking of the fluctuations for tiie
week, the Chronicle says:
There were Irregular declines ou Saturday
aud Monday. The house ot Staber A L'o., car-
rytug aeverat thousand bales for the "butt”
account, failed, causing much depression of
tone. Tuesday there was a firmer opening,
followed by a sharp decline, due mainly to the
failure of the banking house of M. Morgan'-
Sons, large dealers in exchange. On Wednes
day, some demand to cover contracts, with
partial revival of speculative confidence,
earned a reaction toward better prices, but It
wes not sustained, aud ou Thursday thcro waa
a froth decline. To-day tho market opened
weak and decline.! a to li points, ctostng, as
compared with last Friday, 26 to i) points
loner lor this crop and. 12 to 10 points lower
tor the next. Cotton on the spot Is decidedly
lower. There was a declluo lu ofttetat quota
tion! ol 1-lSc. on Saturday. Monday and
Thursday, and He. ou Tuesday. There has
been a large business tor export and a moder
ate demand for home consumption. Stocks
have undergone a rapid reduction, but the
pressure to sett has not abated. To day the
market was easy, hut without further decline
middling uplands closing at 11! ;c.
ch the genial captain
days in the week to the
ition o' •’ '
a tough ran.
c *R t b» ne *u has begun to observe with
the slight symptoms of a wink, that he has
’!JS n entered in a grand walking match ol
X0 miles a day, and makes it every day.
Thesoothlngandrestorative effects of
Aj-er a Cherry Pectoral arc realized at once
In all cases of colds, coughs, throat or
lung troubles, while its far-reaching and
powerful healing qualities are always dem-
enrirafod in the most serious pulmonary
NOTICE.
WHEREAS, application has been duly
ii made for the establishment of a road
“commencing at a point on the Forsyth
road where the line between Pio Xono
College and the property of Mrs. Day
meets said road, and running along said
line in a southerly direction, teking »(.
teen feet from the property of Mrs. Asv
and fifteen feet from the property of said
Pio Xono College, as far as this dividing
line extends, and thence through the col*
lege property thirty feet wide to the rail
road and acrous the same to meet the road
extending from the railroad ta the Colum
bus road/’
This is to notify all persons that the
above described road having been marked
out conformably to law. will befinallyee-
tablished and granted on the first Tuesday
in August next at 10 o'clock a. m„ If no
-nod cause is shown to the contrary.
By order of the County Board of Com
missioners for Bibb county.
j}3 law4w \V. G. SMITH, Clerk.
Sale of Land.
definite informstiin, but I have heard thorough eatiafactidb oTthenwhm-‘w1!
William G. Raoul and William B. John- looks like a tough ran P c ’ but “
son, representing the Central railroad,
ITiinizy, of the Georgia railroad, the Wes
tern and Atlantic railroad, General
Toombs and some others mentioned as the
guilty parties.
It is also reported, incidentally, that the
State’s fiscal agent, or depository in New
York, with whom Georgia generally car
ries a healthy balance; was approached to
supply the deficit temporarily, hut on ac
count of the tightness and scarcity of mon
ey and the recent scare, was unable or un
willing to accommodate its distinguished
customer.
While it is anything but grstlfving to
kuow that the State has allowed its’ treasu
ry balance to run below its interest obliga
tion, it is gratifying to know that the exec
utive and the treasurer took prompt and
successful measures to meet the obligation
when due, and still more gratifying that
when the need was known the money was
promptly supplied by citizens of the State.
bo the money is in hand and the $250,000
interest will be paid, as usual, upon de
mand.
Your correspondent made Inquiry at the
Treasury department this morning for cor
roboration of what has been above written,
but found that Treasurer Speer is in New
York on business ot the State, and Assistant
Treasurer Wm. Speer as dnmb and uncom
municative on the subject as an oyster.
There is little doubt, however, that the
situation is as stated. I had occasion to
write yon some weeks ego In reference to
certain matters connected with tiie State
depositories that the balance in the treasury
was small, and considered hardly sufficient
to meet current charges and the July in
terest, or would barely tide over to the new
taxes. However, the perfect ease with
which the deficit has been met and dis
posed of simply indicates that Georgia-Is
simply able to take care of her obligations,
great or small.
MELONS.
A visit this morning to the office of Mr.
J. S. Davis, who represents the South
Georgia Melon Growers’ Association, gave
me some information of interest concern
ing the condition and movement ot the
melon crop. The reports from the melon
section are anything but encouraging.
About Albany it has been raining continu
ously, and the melons are rotting in the
patches. The crop will not exceed one-
Lalf, and probably tbree-elghths will cover
it. The tame state of affairs exists on the
Savannah, Florida and Western railroad,
and reports Saturday state that no melons
were being loaded at all. Information
from Quitman, which is about the centre
of the melon belt, Indicate ebouhone-tliird
of a crop. Summing up from this point. I
leant tbit the melon crop is moving very
slowly to the markets, but with the pres-
ent excellent system, inaugurated by the
Melon Growers' Association, the returns
are satisfactory. Up to date about 700
cars have been shipped through Atlanta,
eaet and west, as against probably double
that number to the same date itat year.
To-day tblrty-alx cars passed through
Atlanta to the markets, aggregating very
near 49,000 melons.
Mr. Joseph M. Brown, general freight
agent at the Western and Atlantic, who is
actually interested in the movement ot the
melon crop, of whom I also made inquiry
this morning, estimates that the crop as
compared with the last season will cer
tainly foU off one-half.
CONDITION OP CHOPS.
Judge Henderson, Commissioner of
Agriculture, states to-day that the runs
have been general over the Slate, aud ex
cessive over Middle Georgia. Corn is lu
rlt l
GEORGIA, BIBB COUNTY:-Whereas, on
the --1 .lay of July, II**, Lula B. Bailey, of said
county aud state, did make and execute to r.
L. Militants. alio of laid comity, a certain
promissory note for the sum of sixty dollars
i-riu.-ti.nl. due on theSKhdayof Aujust there
after; aud for the better securing of said sum
of sixty dollars, did execute and deliver to the
said l. L. Williams a mortgage deed on a cer
tain tot ol land lying tn the said state and
county, described as follows: That parcel ol
land containing one acre, lietng a put of the
twenty acres of land bought by Wm. sharp ol
L. I'. Ducr, agent for Sophy Ducr, aud bound
ed on the east, uorthand west by lands of Wm.
Sharp, and on the south by lands ot Alex
Taylor: aud. whereas, aald Lula B. Bailey did
stipulate and agree In said mongage that upon
her failure to pay said not# at maturity, she
said V. L. Williams waa thereby empowered to
cuter upon and sells said lot of land, and, al
ter advertisement In the Teleobapr an»
Mcminoeb. a newspaper published la said
umv and state, once a week for four weeks,
to sell at public outmy. snd make good title
In fee Mmple, to the highest bidder therefor.
This Is to give notice that on the 5th day of
August, I'M, said lot of land and Its appurte-
unurcs will he sold at public outcry before
the court house door In aald county and State,
within the 1, rat hours ot sate, to ihe hlahew
bidder, said sale teeing mails to satisfy Mid
debt of sixty dollars, interest, attorr
and cost, uo part of which his been
V. L. W"
Macon, Ga„ July 2. WS4.
1 a w, 4w,
Ceoralria Credit.
From a perusal of tka letter of our
Atlanta correspondent In Tuesday
morning’s issue, It might he concluded
that money ia much tighter in New
York city than had been supposed, or
that Georgia’s credit was not so good
as it might lie.
Both conclusions, we take it, may
lio erroneous. Georgia's credit is
strong and unimpaired, as is shown by
the acts of her own citizens. In the
present financial crisis and just on the
ere of the semi-animal settlement of
the 1st of July, it was perhaps incon
venient for a New York bank to ad
vance any large sum of money to any
but its city customers.
However, be this as it may, there
has been some negligence oi want ol
foresight upon the part of somebody.
That this July interest would fall
due and would hare to be paid at ma
turity, should have been plain to the
committees of finance of the last Legis
lature, aud proper provision should
have been made to meet it. Georgia
is fnlly able to meet all of her obliga
tions, snd it is neither creditable or
pleasant to know, that but for her pub
lic spirited citizens, she would have
been put to a temporary financial em
barrassment.
It will not do to attempt to”lay this
to the extravagance of the Legislature
in the way of a long sees ion and ex-
tnonlinary appropriations. Our miser
able constitution has made long set
siont a rule in place oi an exception,
and its provisions are calculated to
make our home statesmen parsimo-
Blnlna'a Religion.
Some oi the Republican journals o|
posed to Blaine are worrying them
selves and their readers aliout his re
ligion. We >lo not suppose that Blaine
is troubled with any great amount of
religion, but whether he is or not, tho
subject is not a proper one for political
diocUsaiuli. He uua u right to bin faith
and practice, and men will judge him
rather by Ids daily walk than by his
professions.
Tho latest thing we have seen on this
point la from the Rev. James H. Ecob,
pastor of the Congregational Church of
Augusta, Maine. He says:
Mr. Blaiat’a father waa a Preibyterlaa and
hit mother a Catholic: that Mr. Blalae “It
not a Catholic, but a itral(hout New England
orthodoz CongregatlonaltH.” Tho reverend
gentleman further aayi that James G. Blaine
hat never bean a Catholic tlnce coming to
man's eiute,” andaddi: “If as a Utile child
he took hla mother's hand and walked with her
tocharch,why there in good Protestant day of
iudgmeot routing which wlU no doubt purify
as by fire the touch of thet mother’! baud.”
If Mr. Blaine does not take an early
opportunity to repudiate the language
and sentiment of this “bloodhound of
Zion,” which reflects upon bis dead
mother, he ought not to receive the
vote of any man with an honest sonl,
no matter whether he belong! to any
religious denomination or not. If
Blaine believes this of hi* mother, all
the political tad personal sins charged
against him by his most malignant
enemy, sink into insignificance.
Worth fell ts
express my frstl.
tude," says Mr.
Br.LRV Carter, of Nash rule, Teun n "for
tbo benefits derived from
splendid condition, clover is fine end cot-
ton -tot seriously injured by the wet
weather. The reins have been disastrous
for small grain, aud fears are entertained
that tbe wheat la utterly gone, or rer <
badly injured and the oat crop following
clues afte-. Tbe Commissioner anticipates
a wonder tully abundant crop of
id bay, which farmers over tbe btsie are
ivlsea to ease as for as posaible.
FERTILIZER*.
Tbe Depsrtment of Agriculture has just
issued circular No. 51, containing the eta-
tietics of commercial fertilizers inspected
aud admitted to sale in Georgia during the
season of 1883-84. During tbe season there
were inspected 151,849 55 tons, all of which
were admitted to srie, save twenty tons
rejected ea falling below tbe standard re-
*— Thle is
Mr- lIous ardch
at law tor taxa-
Words Fails
If.lby Carter, of Nashville
bo benefit* derived from
Ayer’s Sarsaparilla.
Having been afflicted all my life trt»n Scrof.
uU, my system seemed saturated with it. It
came oat In Blotches, Ulcers* aud Mattery
More*, ell over my body." Mr. Carter au:»j
that be vu entirely cured by tbe nee of
sUtr’s Sarsaparilla, and since dhoti-
tinning !U nee, eight months ago, be bM bed
no return of tbe scrofulous symptoms*
AU baneful Infections of tbs blood srs
promptly removed by this unequalled altera*
Hit*
PREPARED BY
Dr. J.C. Ayer&Co., Lowell, Mass.
Sold by all DruggUt*; bottles for f&
quail*
oulrcd by law. This is tbe largest
tlty inspected for eight years with tbe ex
ception of tbe eeason lsdO-81, when 1C
reached 152,404 tom.
The receipts arising out of tbe inspection
of fertilizers for tbe season, were 875,914.92.
After deducting all expenses, there was
covered Into tbe treasury of this amount
$62,133.92.
Tbit Is the largest amount ever raid into
the treasury from this source, with tbe ex
ception of the year above mentioned, 1880-1,
when tbe amount was $64,000.28.
VIEWING THE REMAINS.
Saturday evening your correspondeu
accompanied Coroner Hilburn to Bolton
leaving here at 8:10, to examine the body
of the unknown men who was killed in tbe
morning by a Western and- Atlantic
freight. Bolton Isa little station on the
Western and Atlantic aliout seven miles
out of Atlanta, and in the woods. Arriving
there we fonnd Dr. Borins, the county phy
sician, who bad preceded ns. Tbe Doctor
bad already made aprofessionri examina
tion ot tbe body andf bad it prepared for
burial. Tbe corpse was already in
the coffin, but enough could be teen of it
to show what damage a freight train can
work on tbe human anatomy. Tbe top
and back of tbe bead were comp’ '
gone, the fragments, as I learn, seal
PREMIUMS FOR CLUBS.
Wa will send the 'Weekly Tele-
oraph and Messenoek for one veer,
free, to any one who will get up a club
of five subscriber* for it at one dollar
and twenty-five cents each per year;
or to any one who will get np a club of
ten subecribers to It at one dollar each
per year. This is an easy way to se
cure without cost the best weekly pa
per published in Georgia. Give it a
trial.
It was a rare spectacle to see John
Sherman shedding cold water on a
scheme of robbery, that originated in a
Republican caocns. .Such a thing
would have iieen thought impossible, a
month ago. This year has evidently
statute books j set oat to be one of wonders.
W. H. MOOR & CO„
n_!i ■a p,.
“die mil ii rn
MEUCIIA NTS,
ATLANTA, GEORGIA
QPECIALTIES—Watermelons and South-
O era Truck. Quirk sale-. Prompt re
form. Reference: Merchant* 1 Bank.At
lanta. Stencils furnished on apphetuon.
may8-daw3m.
ceateil was about six feet tall, between
fifty-five and elxty years of age. evidently
Irish, and a tuacbanic or carpenter, as tbe
scattered remaim U a kit of tools Indica
ted. The face of the dead man was drawn
and distorted, shewing Uut tbe death wee
sudden, bnt not too swift for a terrible
agony.
At the victim was entirely unknown, tbe
railroad has assumed direction of tbe
burial exerciies and ordered tbe body
Interred in the county graveyard,
about a mile and a ball distant. At we
bad an boar and a h.-xlf to spare before tbe
train patted Bolton for Arnnta. the cor
oner proposed to tee tbe body buried at
once. Tbe coffin waa boxed and pieced on
s two-mule wagoo, upon which three or
foorof ns gathered, and the procession
moved along a fearfully rough and muddy
country rood in tbe direction of the grave.
A mile out, tbe negroes who jutd been sent
to dig tbe grave were met returning, who
gave the information that tbe grave could
not be completed till tbe next morning.
Tbe rather lonesome-looking proecs-
•ion thereupon turned tn tbe road and
made tbe way beck to Bolton. On tbe re
turn tbe Defoor piece wes pointed out to
me, where tbe old couple were so myste
riously murdered eotne yean ago. Tbe
old bouse bad been torn down, the piece
was dismantled, end. Men as the shadow*
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