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TIIE WEEKLY TELEGRAPH AND MESSENGER, FRIDAY, JULY 4, 1884. THE TELEGRAPH & MESSENGER. Daily and Weakly. The Telegraph and Messenger la pub lished every day except Monday, and weekly ©very Friday. The Daily la delivered by carrlera In the city or mailed pottage free to tubtcrlbcra at *1 per month, $2 50 for three months, $5 for six mouths or (10 a year. The Weekly It mailed to aubtcrlbera. pos tage tree, at 41 50 a year. 75c. for six moutbs. To clubs of five $1.25 a year, and to clubs of ten $1 per year, and an extra copy to getter up ct club of fl\c or ten. Transient aavertlsements will be taken for hoDaily at»l per square of ten lines or lets for the first insertion, and fifty cents for each subsequent Insertion; and for the Weekly at fl per square for each Insertion. Liberal rates to contractors. Ejected communications will not be re ined. '’orra.spondence containing Important r n* discussions of living topics, is solicited, -•it must be brief and written npqu but- side of the paper to have attention. Bemittances should be made by Exp! Money Order or Registered better. Agents wanted in every community in the 6tate, to whom liberal commissions will be paid. Postmasters are especially requested to write for terms. AU communications should be addressed to 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 PREMIUMS TO ACENTS. . We will give a premium of twenty- tee dollars to the local agent who sends lrthe largest number of new subscrib ers to the Weekly Teleobapii and Messenger up to July 1st; a premium of ten dollars to the one who sends next to the largest list, and a premium of five dollars to the one who sends in the third list in size up to that time. CLUB BATES. Agents may receive subscriptions at the following rates: 5 copies at $1.25 each year. 10 '• 1.00 “ •' “ Karnes can be sent in as secured. Additions may be made to clubs at any time. Thene premiums will be given only lor new subscribers—not for those whose names are now on our books. Agents should go to work at once. , The Weekly Telegraph and Mes senger will contain able discussions of the issues which will come up in the State and national elections this year, and a summary of the important news of the world. It will contain nothing ansuitable for ladies and children to read. Every one who is not (nmilliat with it should give it a trial this year, 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. TO SUBSCRIBERS. We will credit any subscriber to the Weekly TELEosara and Messengek with one year’s subscription who will send us a club of five subscribers at $1.25 each, or ten at $1 each. Tide is an easy way to pay your next year’s subscription. Give it a trial. tf Give your boy Smith's Worm Oil. 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. 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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* K THBORLTTltJI IRON, roNic ItKATwlt* TIIE VIGOR of YOUTH. ve.tlo n ..^RO ft , LADIESSHS^i Jad io^DR. BABTUTI IRON to the popuU of the orlrl «to The I >r. Harlwr L _ U»U.' Mo., tor osr -DUAE BOOH. amamiiwHfrt i—** 1 - k Holme*’ Sure Cure Mouth W»> AND DENTIFRICE. 7r,