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The Bulloch O cl 2 Banner. YOU. IX. Town Directory. fjor, juncilmen: J. B. Lee. J. W. Wilson, S. P. Oil P- E. Turner, W. M. Harris, J. A. nen. ihal, J. Z. Kendrick. County Directory. linary—C. 8. Martin. Irk—Harrison [iriff—W. Olliff. lasurer—Josinh H. Waters, Zetterower. fceiver—W. B. Aikins. Hector—J. toner—T. C. DeLoach. A. Waters, rveyor—H. J. Proctor. Justice Courts. ■ th Dist. (Sink Hole)—S.H. Rushing, Hirdays. ■, R. R. McCorkle, N.P. Court first Hth Dist, (Club House)—Court second Hlth Hirdays. Dist. (Lockhart)—R. F. Stringer, WJ-, H. M. Lanier, N.P. Court first Dist. (Briar Patch)—U. M. Davis, Court, Friday before fourth Satur¬ 48th Dist. (Hagins)—J. R. Williams, W. M. McLean, N.P. Courtsecond 1209th Dist. (Statesboro)—J. W. Roun¬ tree, J.P., J. B. Lee, N.P. Court, sec ond Mondays. 1320th Dist. (Laston)-—A. C. Clifton, day J.P., E. W. Cowart, N.P. Court, Fri¬ before the first Saturday. 1340th Dist. (Bay)—J. W. Donaldson, J. P-, Samuel Ilarville, N. P. Court, third Saturdays. Alllance Directory. Bulloch Couuty Alliance meets every third Thursday. STATESBORO. Statesboro Alliance meets at States¬ boro every third Saturday at 2 p.m. Qeo. F. Emmett, President, J. M. Hughes, Secretary. NEW CASTLE. New Castle Alliance meets Saturday before third Sunday, G. T. Brewton, R. R. McCorkle, Sec. nellwood. . Nellwood Alliance meets first Saturday m. T. F. Brannen, Pres.,Dan’I. Buie, Ecno. Echo Alliance meets at Smith’s Chap second Saturday, 10 a. m. R. F. Pres., F. M. Daugherty, Sec. HABVILLE. Ilarville Alliance meets first Saturday, ■Bl|Sjg> Lane. Pres., Isaac Dutch, Ac. EFFINGHAM CO UN' Co. Alii jSec’ty.; k>@i6 ie 1 ocimAtrPPraT ply and October, aY^io EBENEZER. stiue, Ebenczer Sec’y.; Sub-Alliance, Saturday L. F.\ before Groven- 2nd meets Sunday in each month at 2 p. m. SHILOH. Saturday Shiloh, E. II. Arnsdorff, Sec’y.; meets before 4th Sunday in each month, at 8 p. m. MARLOW. Saturday Marlow, T. E. Nease, Sec’y.; meets 2d in each month at 2 p. m. MONTLETH. Montleth, W. A. Nease, Sec’y.; meets 1st Saturday in each month at 2 p. m. TUSCULUM. Tusculum, meets Saturday before 2nd Sunday in each month at 10 a. m. GAFFNEY. Gaffney, W. C. Rahn, Sec’y.; meets Saturday before 1st Suuday in each month at 3 p. m. SISTERS. FERRY. Sisters Ferry, S. T. Metzger, See’y.; meets Saturday before 3rd Sunday in each month at 2.30 p. m. GUYTON. Guyton, meets Saturday before 2nd Sunday at 9 a. m. SUMMERTOWN. E. S. Green, Secretary. Third Saturday in each month. SMITH. Friday before the fourth Sunday in each month. J. K. Lewis, Sec’y EBENEZER. Saturday before the third Sunday in each month. Jno. N. Thompson, Sec’y. PINE GROVE. Siturday before third Sunday iu each month, 10 o’clock, .am. J. H. Scott, Bec’y. MALVERN. Foufth Saturday in each month, 2 o’clock, p. ns. T. L. Waley, Sec’y. KEYS. Friday before second Sunday in each month, Sec’y. 2 o’clock, p. m. A. G. Braswell, REI) OAK. Saturday before T. the second Sunday in each month. J. Smith, Secy. SUMMIT. Saturday before second Sunday in each month, 10 o’clock, a. m. J. T. Coleman, Sec’y. MODOC. Saturday before first Sunday in each month, 2 o’clock, p. m. J. W. Ball, SacIv. Eureka Alliance No. 755, meets the th ; rd Saturday in each month. Bulloch county. C. R. Davis, Lovic P. Boykin. Pres. Sec’ty. Directory for Statesboro Circuit. STATE8BORO. Preaching, 2nd and 4th Sabbaths at 11 a. in., and 7:15 p. m. Sabbath School, every Sabbath at 3 p. Weekly in. meeting, Wednesday at prayer 7:15 p. m. Communion, 2nd Sabbath in Feb ■ i April, June, Aug , Oct.. Nov. HARMONY. Preaching, 1st Sabbath nud Saturday beforo in each month nt 11 n. in. Sunday School, every Sabbath at 3 p. m. Communion, 1st Sabbath iu Feb., May, Aug., Nov. NEW HOPE. Preaching, 3d Sabbath and before in each month at tin. in. Sunday School, every Sibbath at 8 p. m. Communion, lid Sabbath, Fell,, May, Aug., Nov. XUglits So ATI , Special x*a-Xulieges To None. Moonrise. I sea a stretch of shining sky Like some fair ocean sunset-lit; Peaceful and wide its spaces lie. And purple shores encompass it. A little slender silver boat Upon its bosom is afloat. This craft, unstayed by winds or tides, Slips out across the twilight bar; Through rosy ripples soft she glides, Led by a single pilot star; With shadowy sails and fairy crew, She drifts along the summer blue. She’s filled from stem to stern with flowers, And Love, and Hope, and Happiness. Will aught of what she brings be ours? Ah, me! if we could only guess 1 She rides elusive and remote, This little slender silver boat. —[The Spectator. II The Girl I Left Behind Me.” One rainy day in the late winter of 1882 I found myself bag and baggage on the railway platform at Grand Junction, Colorado. Asti,., train les¬ sened in the distance I took a survey of my surroundings, Not a tree, not a spear of grass- mud which looked as if it might ingulf one to bo some timo dug upas an unknown fossil— not a sidewalk visible—except now and then tho uneveu remains of a brick pavement fast resolving itself into its original clay. I had been traveling through the West, and now on my way here I had stopped to see one who was my oldest and dearest friend, the wife of the superintendent of a mine on the head¬ waters of the White river. She had triod to prepare mo for the discom¬ forts of the journey after I should leave the railroad, but I found no words could describe it as vividly as I afterwards felt it, and I heartily wished myself safo in the luxury of a Pullman and speeding eastward. How over I pulled myself together and went to the agent lo ask when the stago would leave for Meeker, and found I could not go till morning; so giving a small boy a quarter to wa^ffij| carryvlf... . > I gingerly picked my to brick along tbe ctuir to the tow n ‘ pleasant and the air bracing as we dragged laboriously out north through the almost bottomless clay road. There were no other passengers, but two men and myself, so I turned my attention lo the scenery. The two men had eyed me curiously at first and then began talking of mines and the various arts and tricks of the unscrupulous to outwit llie guiilible tenderfoot. But gradually they over¬ came their apparent diffidence in ad¬ dressing a woman and began after true Amcricau stylo to want to know all about my antecedents, and above all my reason for taking such an un¬ usual journey. When I told them I expected to visit Mrs. Ronfrow at the Tin Cup Mine one whistled expres¬ sively and said: “You be likely to stay all winter.” “Why?” I asked. “Because, if signs go for anything there is going to be an everlasting snowfall before long.” All the discomfort of my journey was forgotleu iu (lie overflowing en¬ thusiasm of my welcome. Over aud over again did “My Margaret,” as I had called her in oldtime school days, rush in from hor little log kitchen to ask me if there was anything she could do to ease my aching- bones. As I looked around the little rooms, un plastered save with grout dug from neighboring hills, I began to appre¬ ciate the decorative possibilities of dotted Swiss and red ribbons, but then Margaret could find beauty to utilize on the bleakest of desert isles. From my seat by the same window I could Bee the log mine buildings on the opposite slope of the gulch and the day shift coming out like bees from a hivo and scattering to tho various shanties dotted along the side of the stream. As I looked Margaret came and looked over my shoulder and ex¬ claimed: “Therc’s John,” and then, “Why, what can be Iho matter,” for just behind him on an improvised stretcher of pine boughs four men were carrying another, so stiff and Btlll it did not seem as if he could bo living. Margarot said: “Help me got a bed ready,” and by tho time tho men reached tho doorway with their bur¬ den a bed was stripped to mattress and sheets, and they had laid him upon it, whilo John said, briefly; “An accident to Iho machinery, lie is not dend, but I don’t know bow badly hurt.” . Wo soon found ono arm and ouo teg broken, but no ovidonco of other injury. Mr. Ronfrow, wlih tho hr ftistimco of two of tlm men, who through many year# of Wosiern life had learned u rough sort of aurgnry, set iliu limb*, while the women wullod STATESBORO, GA., THURSDAY, MARCH 30. 1893. tho result in suspense. Through the long night we watched bosido the poor fellow for some signs of con sciousuess, and towards morning were rewarded by seeing him open his eye and recognize Mr. Ren frow. During tho weeks of nursing which followed we women had not much timo to think of weather, hut niy friend at Meeker had been a true prophet, and the feathery flakes began to fall during the first night oftor my arrival and kept it up steadily for a week, and trail and canyon and side slope were covered with a white pall. We were as securely shut up from the outside world as if we had been walled around with adamant. While one’s sympathies cannot fly round the world with the click of tho electric needle, one naturally seeks for sub¬ jects of interest in the humdrum life around, and so I began to study our charge as I sat bosido him day after day. Not that ho soemed a difficult subject or wrapped in any mystery, but as he lay there swathed in band ages he seemed to be intently thinking. One day he abruptly asked how long since ho had been hurt. I told him three weeks. lie turned his head away with a deep sigh and said no more for a few minutes. Then he asked: “ ’Bout how far is it to Cairo, III?” I said I didn’t know exactly, thought nearly a thousand miles. “Wish I was there,” he jerked out, with an effort. I began to suspect that “The girl I left behind me,” was troubling him and he wanted to talk about it and did not know how to begin. So I rather banteringly said: “Tell me about her.” He looked at me with a look of comical dismay, and said “Why, how did yon know?” and then said: “1 might as well tell some one, though there ain’t much to tell. I used to live down in Cairo and was a roust¬ about on a Mississippi steamer. There was another fellow always worlj^d on the same gang witli me aud we^.’ere than molasses in winter. He as vain as a peacock and thought he was someVne wiien ne "giiroi. Sunday togs, and lie was a party sizable sort of a feller. Well, there was a girl who lived down the river a few miles, whose dad run a truck farm and sent garden sasstoSt. Louis, you know. Hank Simpson and me both met her at a dance one night. I got introduced first and danced twice witb her before Simpson did, and then she danced sevoral times with him, and when I come up ouce to ask her she said she couldn’t, as sho was going to dance with Mr. Simpson. That made me hot and I went and told Hank iie was not doing the fair thing, not allowing her to dance with any one but him. lie laughed and said she didn’t seem to think of any hardship. Well, we both got mad, and 1 told Him I would dance with her anyway, and I went back and said Hank couldn’t keep his engagement. Well, she danced with me, but Hauk and me were enemies and he did me every bad turn he could. Well, I used to go down the river every Sunday to old man Lee’s place, and sometimes found Hank Simpson there, and he went down sometimes in the week. I couldn’t tell which of us Elsie liked the best or whether she was fooling both of us. She was pretty enough for better than us.” Here a tender note crept into his voice. “I had to go down on the boat to Vicksburg, which would lake about two weeks, as we would have to wait for a cargo. It was a regular purga¬ tory to me all the time I was gone, for I was afraid Hank would get the best of me, and I made up my mind to have it out when I got back. Tho next Sunday I went down. I had bought a ring in Vicksburg, with two clasped hands holding a littlo garnet, to give her, and thought maybe that would help me out. I fouud her in a little arbor in the corner of the gar¬ den. She seemed glad to see me, but she acted the same to Hank, so 1 couldn’t tell anything from that. Sho asked me about the trip, and wanted to know if I had lost ray heart to any pretty girl in Vicksburg. 1 thought it was now or never, so I said: “How could I when I left it at home?” “Who took caro of it while you wore gone?” she asked. “ d’d like to think you did,’ I said. ‘1 wish, Etsio, you could make me a littlo better than Hank Simpson. You know how much I euro for you.’ “Sho looked down nml dug her shoe into the dirt and said: ‘How should I? You novor told mo.’ “ ‘Well I loll you now, and I can’t bear to think of llank coining hero to moo you when I want you to marry mo.' ‘‘Elsie looked at me and then eaed: ‘Why, Bob, I didu’t know that you meant anything.’ “Well, Miss Majors, sho didn’t make much fuss when I put my arm around her and kissed her. I felt as if I was in heaven and even felt sorry for llank Simpson. I wanted to do something great that would make mo worthy to have Elsie for a wife. After she had given me her promise I didn’t care for Hank Sunpsou and wasn’t a bit jealous of mm. She told me that she had begun to care for me at tho dance but had been afraid to cross Hank, as he had such a temper. “Maybe you want to know why I am away out here. Well, Elsie and me agreed that it was no use trying to make any money to buy a home working for day’s wages on the river. I heard that good men in the mines in tho mountains got big wages, aud so I thought I would try. I went to see Elsie tho night before I came away, aud sho cried and hung to me till I almost lost my courage to go, but I did. I have been here a year a year now and saved a good deal. 1 have written to Elsie every time any one went out to Meeker,aud had letters pretty often. We were to liavo been married at Easter, and now it is only a month away, and here I am laid up and snowed in, tool What will Elsie think when she don’t hear from me?” The poor feliow turned his head away with tears in his eyes. By way of consolation, I said: “You may be able to send a letter soon.*’ “No,” he said, “there’s ten feet of snow in White Canyon.” He seemed in the depths of misery and I left him. Two weeks slipped away, and the weather was steadily cold, with occa¬ sional light falls of snow, and as Bob Traversly looked out of his little win¬ at tho rounded outlines of the I could se.e that his heart was away with the girl ho loved, per¬ thinki ng that his rival was taking * las silence to catch a on the the 1 KM | The ., - i and on thrower slopes of the mouu tain. Every now and then on some distant peak we could see a slide come down, leaving a black trail behind, A couple of days before Easter two of the men had announced their in tendon of trying to get to Meeker, Mr. Ronfrow warned them to be care ful, and above all things not to get caught in a slide. In the afternoon I was sitting reading to Bob, who was lying witli his faco to the wall and apparently not paying.much attention. Suddenly he turned over. “Have I been asleep?” ho asked. “No, why?” I asked. “I’ve been dreaming awake then. I thought I heard Elsie’s voice.” Then sitting straight up in bed without any regard for broken tegs, ho ejaculated with the greatest aston¬ ishment and joy: “Elsie!” 1 turned to the door, and there wag the living embodiment of the pretty girl whose picture Bob kept uuder his pillow. But only an instant she stood there, and then had both arms around Bob crying and laughing by turns. It seems she had arrived at Meeker a week before, but could get no one to venture with her through the snow to the Tin Cup Mine until the fortu¬ nate arrival of the two miners. The only tiling that prevented a wedding on Easter was that there was no min¬ ister nearer than Grand Junction.— [Omaha Bee. Arithmetical Progression. The old bewhiskered story with which we are familiar has arisen, this time in new form. Tho yarn comes from Buffalo, N. Y. A man con¬ tracted to furnish twenty bales of rags for one cent for tho first bale, two for the second and four for third, etc. Tho contract was made iu writing, but after going home and. figuring out what it would cost the buyer con¬ cluded ho didn’t have such a snap as he imagined when the bargain was made, so he repudiated it. The court sustained him and refused to grant a judgment. The original of this tale is that a fattier once agreed to lay tip a com¬ petence for his son by depositing one cent and doubling it every day for sixty days, llo hadn’t the funds to carry it out, for tho sum total (don’t imag¬ ine that I have figured it out; it was one who iiad moro time) would amount to $4,856 607,522,034,234.88, — [Salt Lake Tribune. She Couldn’t Do. Miss Poartv-Dld you ever look at yourself in tho glass whoa you wero angry? Rival Hello—No, I’m never angry when 1 l“ok iu tho gins*.—[Now York Woe' HEWS NOTES. Hems of Interest Gathered at Random from All Over the State. There has been an increase of $1,209, 000 in the taxable property of Macon du¬ ring the last year. * * * * Commodore William Hone, one of Sa¬ vannah’s best known ci'izens, and to whom is ascribed the invention of the Chatham’s famous artillery punch, died a: his residence in that city last Wednes¬ day from Bright’s disease. Mr. Sam C. Hodge, superintendent of the Georgia Southern and Florida rail¬ road, has tendered his resignation to General Manager Jeff Lane, to take effect immediately. The office of superintend¬ ent of the Georgia Southern will be abol¬ ished. The commit’ee, W. G. Raoul, T. B. Gresham, Frank H. Miller, have made their report to tne Southwestern stock¬ holders advising them to accept stock in the new organization rather than oper¬ ate the Southwestern road, as one or the other must be done. At on election held a few days ago at Newnan on the question of issuing $50, 000 for waterworks purposes, 288 votes were cast for bonds aud 19 against. The total registered vote was 348. The elec¬ tion excited a good deal of interest and there is much rejoicing over the result. * Judge Speer granted a temporary in¬ junction against the mayor and council of Macon at the instance of W. L. Hen¬ ry and the Georgia Packing Company, butchers. The council imposes certain market regulations which conflicts with the interests of the above named parties. * * * terlee Major visited A. J. West and Lieutenant Sat Camp Northen a few days ago for the purpose of having some changes made aud the buildings of the camp remodeled. They have done much on the grounds to improve the place, both in appearance and for the comfort of the soldiers. ¥ ¥ .* Therehosbeen already delivered at Powder Springs to farmers COO tons of fertilizers, and in all probability the amount will run up to 800 tons. The amount in former years has been about 500 tons. One reason of this is that all ■j^mtton M'f seed ‘■" has been been made, sold and and farm- not m both ontirm Another furnaco vri!. r -V erected in Rome in the will be similar to the one"erected by the Rome Iron Company. Mr. L. S. Colyer, who has managed the furnace so succes fully, hss made to the Rome bondhold¬ ers another a proposition for the and building of sixty-ton furnace, the suc¬ cess of the first has been such that the bondholders are giving the matter seri¬ ous consideration. Upon the completion of certain deals that are now on foot in Cherokee county for some of her finest mineral properties, there is coming one of the biggest and best booms that north Georgia has ever known. The county has some of the richest ami most varied mineral deposits in Georgia. The facts have been made known to some leading capitalistic enter¬ prises aud they are now concluding ne¬ gotiations that mean millions of money and within many splendid short time. industrial plants a very Work will be begun at once on the erection of repair shops at Atlanta for the Southern Iron Car Company. A tem¬ porary structure will be put up now aud will be followed by a permanent build¬ ings. They will be large aud will em¬ ploy 300 men. The company will send 100 cars to the shops for repai-s as soon as they can undertake the work. This company has thousands of cars and has long wanted to repair see a large car established. manufac¬ turing and plant Getting tired of waiting for such an es¬ tablishment, the company determined to build a plant large enough to repair its own cars. Later the plant may be turn¬ ed into manufacturing shops. Carrol county leads the state in many things, and one of these is in the number cf postoffices. According postoffices to the late post guides there thirty-six in Car roll county—three more than any other county in the state has. Corroll also,ac¬ cording to the census of 1890, has nearly double the number of farms of any other county in Georgia. The county has a white population of twenty thousand, and there arc more land holders among the above number of white peoplo than any other two counties in tho state. In the number of postoffices and pos‘ roads, the number of farms, pretty girls, the number of schools and school children, Carroll couuty leads Georgia. * * * Georils at the Capital. The Georgia congressmen are being flooded with applications for office, and there is not one of them who is not in daily receipt of a volume of mail from his district from aspirants for office. The congressmen arc doing the best thty can. aud are working like beavers for their constituents, but they are, of course, helpless iu providing as many of their constituents with office as they would like until Georgia’s apportion¬ ment of federal patronage is ad justed to a fair basis. The matter of justice rests entirely witli tho departmental heads, and It is, consequently, solely a mat¬ ter for cabinet consideration. Tho thousands of offlcoa in the different departments presided over by the members of the cabinet are theoreti¬ cally distributed among the states ac¬ Georgia cording to population, hud but practically having been lias no showing crowded whatever, ahn> »t entirely out bv the republican mliniuistntions. Thu question of adjustment of tho basis of “’presentation ingtoti, is now a big one In Wash iiml every Georgia congressman, so far heard from, is heartily with the Atlanta Constitution in its effort to se cure (.ilihmin. just recognition for Georgia. ” They J fe; rust. 1 this Because wav about |, they . it f«r , know _ , two it is reasons: a mat ter of justice for the state, and, Second, Because they waDt to provide for as many of their constituents as is pos sible. Attacking Wild Land Sale*. Another successful attack upon the wild land sales made under a tax fi. fa. srmtn, ern^rv? has Comptroller been made and General the question Gold growing out of it seems to be no small matter. This time the case is from the j P mt.u ? nf Dooly n „.,____ county, ._ „« and the issue in the case was whether or not the lands had been advertised the full time riquired by law. This is a new point of attack on the sales of Georgia’s wild decided i..d.. i,i.. against P «^.hw,h.;iw the sale, will enter i» into much litigation that will in all probabil ity come from the southern part of the «r the future. “V*** The case so recently lh ™ decided w as argued under Judge Fish by Colonel J. for H. the Hall plaintiff, and Colonel J. W. 'Havgood u„r../ who was Mr. Hugh A. McLean. ft,. The defendants ... Messrs, , were Bedgood and Royal. The case seems to have been one of unusual interest and lasted several days at the last term of the coutUo, Do„l, county. JuS e , Fl.h cnargea tne jury that if it appeared that the comptroller of that day and time, meaning Comptroller General Gold dispute «,“*• for four weeks or twenty-eight ,1 “ and iu days iu the newspaper required by law, the sale made bv the sheriff was void The evidence (rora’the the jury had on this a’i.u- point whs obtained files_of the ta Constitution of 1875, it seems, and from this it was found that the advertise¬ ment had not run the sufficient length of time. The tax fi. fa.was issued in March, 1877. The case was decided in favor of the plaintiff. This meat s that, if there was no error in the decision of the court, much of the wild land that went this same way, will very snon change hands in that section of the state. The case in question will be brought before the su preme court of the state and there will be a continuation of the fight. If the evi dence is as clear as it would seem from the judgment of the court below, then there is going to be a great sensation ex pioded about the land the people of cen tral and southern Georgia live on at present, The Agreement Signed. Last Wednesday morning President J. O. Waddell, cf the Georgia Agricultural Society, and Mayor S. B. Price, of the city of Macon,signed the modified agree¬ ment or contract between the city and the socie ty in reference to the rotation of following is between the mayorSf* n j*y a council city under of the Macon laws a of corpuratifPf naid stl ,e duly and vieorgia Society* . th State Agricultural s of 8 corporation duly incorporated under the law said state: Witnesseth, that, whtr.Wr'ai the regular meeting of said mayor and council, held on the 7:h day of March 1893, the following resolu¬ tion, amending the contract made and and entered Into on the 4tli day of April, 1887, by be¬ tween the said mayor aud council, of tho city of Macon, and tbe Georgia State Agricu tnral Society was passed: State Agricultural Ufhereas the Georgia So¬ ciety, through its president and committee have expressed toallow a desire the to modify the hold contract their with the city society to annual fair in other cities by the system of ro tatiou, Whereas. and, the and of It is purpose wish the city of Macon to aid the society iu its object; now, therefore. Resolved, Tliat the present contract between the city and the society be so amended as to permit the society to hold their fairs in cries other than Macon; that is to say, the society shall bind themselves to hold their fairs in Ma¬ con each alternate year, beginning wi'h 1893, and that the v-ocioty shall also bind themselves not to hoi t their fairs in any city that will not agr.eto not hold a fair of any kind in the year in which the state fair is being held in Macon. Further, that the fair of 1893 may be held iu any city selected by the society, but the fair of 1894 shall he hcld'in Macon, and in each alter¬ nate year thereafter until the contract with the city terminates. resolution In pursuance with the aforesaid and in testimony whereof, the mayor of the city of Macon and the president of said society hereby agree to tho terms expresaed and therein, affixed their official signatures the day year first above mentioned. The ngreemeut was duly signed up and attested. President Waddell is very en¬ thusiastic about the future of the society and the state fails. He says that the al¬ ternating or rotating plan will arouse a spirit of rivalry among the cities to get the fa’r and see which can have tbe finest exhibition. President Waddell further says that he has received numerous let¬ ters from the executive committee and members of the society praising Macon’s magnanimous and liberal action iu con¬ senting to the modified contract. The Geological Racket. The state geological board, at its meet¬ ing in Atlanta a few days ago, with heads one sweeping stroke struck off the of all three of the state geologists. They were not only asked to resign, but were liteYally turued out of their offices and the keys are in the pocket of tbe secre¬ tary of the board. This department of stme, important ss it is, has been prac¬ tically abolished fur some time, and out or this act the most notable sensation that has taken place at tho state capitol for many n long day evolves. Dr. J. W. Spencer, the chief geologist says in effect that he’ll not resign the office which ho has filled so well. Professor E. T. What¬ ley, the well-known assistant board. geologist, sent in his resignation to the It was a brief note and simply says he resigns, nothing more. Profes¬ sor Anderson, the other assistant geolo¬ gist, says that he doesn’t think that he de¬ serves with such treatment, but iu compliance board, the instructions of the he handed in his resignation with the one protest. The coup i^e ctat was brought about by the introduction nud adoption of a resolution dispensing with the ser¬ vices of the above named gentlemen. When the resolution lmd been read aud agreed to be by the members of the board. The secretary wus instructed to write the following letter nml send a copy of it to each of the geologists, which lie did: Atlanta, Oa.. March 22. Dear Hir: 'ant iuatnu'ioil by ltn< slate geologies! board, through Governor Northen ns chairman, to ad¬ vise you of iho notion of the bu.ird ui its meet¬ ing Mil* morning. On motion It waa decided by tho board Unit, members owing In i ho waul of geological harmo¬ ny among the of 111 • stato NO. 42. survey—the chief and the two assistant Reolo K' ats —which want of harmony has rendered in¬ ' work of surveying the state en trusted to them, the r .agnations of the mem hers of the survey should be asked for at once, lam instructed further to ask that the chief geologist and < aeh of the assistant geologists han d *? ** ieir resignations at a meeting of the geological , board to be had at 3 o'clock this af ternoon, March 22d. I have the honor to be, sir, yours most resptctfully, Stanhope Sams. When this notification was handed Dr. Spencer he made the following reply: Mu. Stanhope Sams, Secretary State Goo. logical Board—Dear Sir: Your esteemed favor 0 f ttiia date, notifying me that owing to tho want of harmony among the members of the slate geological survey—the chief and the two assistant geologiats-which want of harmony has rendered inefficient the work of surveying the state entrusted to them, tho resignations of the members of the survey should be asked for at once.” E -cause of the want of harmony, mentioned by ; ou - a ? d tb ? “>®Kqueut inefficiency of a Ksr»ssi,‘sa and -ustaining untrained and incompetent logical geo assistants, and of neither of which I 7“ responaib e for-the incompetent work LSI “j resignation in which I gave my reasons for wishing to withdraw from the survey, whi cU ""as rendered relatively- inefficient by L b -?, B° ! c ? ndoptcd K tbe bo ? rd X that resignation which I put into , tho h&ndi of the governor December 22, 1992, to be used by him if in his judgment the inter < st of the survey made it desiraMe, and I now decli ne to send 'in my resignation in compliance gf tiSTlSSKf beard BTfWS recognize resignation, the right of the to demand my though I am aware that tl>o governor, the appointing power has the right ZS^SSSSSS&ZSSS’S work has been result of the policy so, except as in a the pursued by by the hoard hampering survey app anting assistants known to it to bfc nDf ' t:ed - 1 den T i tbat 1 a P incompetent ad Tl£?£S - ’SgfflS, JaPS , 1 “ prnrate, I also deny, Your obedient servant, J. W. Spencer. How the matter will end remains to be seen. Ancient Lake Village. An interesting discov e made at GBHHHMH the remaiusM From ing from sixtylMHj^H on^^^^^H rounding s< across which 4 se ct ‘ on strctiT^^^^^^B of ticed . oak well known j Scotland, anc charcoal and The total tl three feet kG lup^imposgj were detect/ jpfene Br»n*e tyjjlg obigl ting* with we fy^fi JBip a wheatjM booH of mats, wnB have been lie _ Globe-Dt^ period.—[St.^ouis section One of at the the World’s exhibits Fair ia the will railro^j be a series of pictures illustrating the history of the railroad from the time when it was two miles of wooden rails, over which a mule pulled a clap-boarded wagon twice a day. to these times of thousand mile runs aad record breaking. -The Balti¬ more and Ohio Railroad is having these pictures painted by Mr. Paul Moran of this city, who will make a large number of them in black and white. trxd s BLANK NOTES, RECEIPTS, DEEDS, MORTGAGES, JUSTICE COURT PROCESSES, BILL HEADS, LETTER HEADS, ENVELOPES, CARDS, And ail Kinds ol Joli Work Done. 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