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THE WEEKLY COXSTITUTIOY, SEPTEMBER 27, 1881.
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ATLANTA, GA., SEPTEMBER 27, 1881.
The womanly thoughtfulness of Victoria,
in sending a floral otlering to the rotunda
yesterday, will lie appreciated. The act hut
spoke the union of sentiment that wraj>s the
whole English-speaking world in grief.
Tnr Irish people openly declare at every free
and representative meeting that the agitution
shall go on until the landlords are alwlishcd.
This is just about the size of the Irish move
ment, and any attempt to otherwise explain
it would not lie explanatory.
The return of Mrs. Garfield to Washington
from Elberon, when she begged not to l>e
taken within sight of the white house, was in
striking contrast to the scenes of last March.
Tiic happy wife of the jieople's choice is now
a lonely widow, whose misfortune challenges
the kindest sympathies of the whole world.
The press of the country gives expression
to the sentiment of fifty millions people when
it declares that ample provision should lie
made by congress for the widow and children
of the martyred president. It is thought that
congress will vote to the family the salary of
the entire term. Anything less than that
would not l>ccome a great people.
The death of John A. Cuthbert, at Mobile,
takes away, not the oldest ex-congressman,
hut the man whose services in congress ante
dates that of all other men. He represented
Georgia in congress in 1820 and 1821. His
commission was issued on the Kith day of
December, 181 il. At that time Georgia was
represented by seven members. The veteran
lawyer’s age at the time of his death was Of.
The labor troubles at Savannah are still of
a threatening character, both sides being de
termined, and neither being disposed to accept
the terms of the other. The railroad com-
panics are endeavoring to procure laljorcrs to
fake the places vacated by the strikers, and
the latter are inclined to give the new men
altogether too warm a reception. It will be
fortunate indeed if no more blood is wasted
in this war of wages.
If President Arthur lives up to the full
meaning and spirit of his inaugural address,
having all along a healthy regard for the un
mistakable sentiment of the people, ho will
need no man to lean upon; but if his words
of yesterday arc simply a cover for deferred
intentions of a sinister nature an army of
Grants and Conklings would not save him
from public indignation. Let ns hope that
he means well while wc give hi At all the sup
port we honestly can in the meanwhile.
President Arthur, has by appointment, set
apart next Monday, the 2fith instant, as a day
of humiliation and prayer. The day is so
near at hand that every effort should be made
by our con tent jiororics to carry the proclama
tion to districts not readily accessible to rail
road or telegraph. The first official procla
mation of the new president will doubtless lie
seconded by the governors of the different
states, ami the day of burial will thus become
a day of prayer and reflection and timely in
straction.
Tiif. Georgia state fair, which will open at
Macon on the 17th of October and continue
through the 22d, will he an attractive agricul
tural and industrial show. A great number
of entries have already been made. Liberal
premiums arc offered in every department.
The programme of trotting and running races
willbe excellent, representing some of the
famous stables of the country. *AU the rail
roads offer reduced rates, and there is no
reason why there should not lie a grand jubi
lee week in the good city of Macon.
Four, vice-presidents have succeeded to the
presidential office, but never until now has
the country known such a president without
at least one fully qualified successor ready to
fill the gap if disease or violence or accident
should create a vacancy. President Arthur
lias therefore acted wisely in summoning an
extra session of the senate. An extra session
of congress is not necessary, hut the country
beyond all dispute is in favor of an extra ses
sion of the senate.' A president of the senate
cannot be chosen too soon for tranquillity’s
sake.
For tiie second time in the history of the
republic the remains of a martyred president
lie in state in the capitol. Mr. Lincoln’s life
went out with the dying roar of the artillery
of a long and bloody war, when men’s pas
sions were too excited to measure the loss of
the country. Mr. Garfield is a martyr of
more peaceful times, and his death is a sad
commentary on the craze for office that will
drive men even to assassination. But the re
spect exhibited all along the route from Elbe
ron to Washington shows that the people feel
the calamity, and it is to be hoped that the
thousands upon tnousands who will look upon
the placid features of the distinguished dead
will resolve to do something toward reform
ing the evils that have made such an occasion
possible.
When the senate meets on the 10th of next
month, it will consist of only 73 members,
37 democrats, 34 republicans, David Davis and
General Mahone. Until the two New York sen
ators-elect and General Burnside's- successor
are admitted, the democrats will have a clear
majority over all. If Judge Davis continues
to act with the democrats, the body, when all
seats are tilled, will stand 3S democrats, 3'
republicans and General Mahone. The little
Virginia marplot can make the senate a tie.
The democrats certainly will not make dia
bolic the umpire of the senate, they will not
vote to give him one bit of power more than
he now possesses. There is no reason in the
world why the senate should not proceed in
the regular and customary manner to organize
by electing a president and secretary. The
new senators can then be sworn in. As to the
committees and minor officers a reasonable
and patriotic compromise cun no doubt be
effected. If not. then the democrats should
discard sentiment and proceed to put the en
tire organization of the senate on a democratic
liasis. It is the one branch of the government
that is still democratic.
A GROUP OF SOUTHERN BOYS.
On one of the surveying jKirties of the Ma
con and Brunswick extension, there were
nine boys. Of these eight were graduates of
sonic university with diplomas in their pock
ets. They were working at alxtut one dollar
a day, and engaged in the hardest of manual
labor—cheerful, ambitious and rather proud
of tiieir bard and rough work than otherwise.
This group of boys is one of the signs of the
times. Such a tiling it would have lieen im
possible to find in the olden days. The sons
of rieh men—graduates of universities, were
then seldom found at manual labor. At last,
however, labor is made honorable in the
.*-outli, and no man stands higher here than
the man who lives by the sweat of his brow.
The genteel loafer has little place or posi
tion in the new system that is form
ing rapidly, but strong hands and
sftid browned faces entitle the owner to a
front scat and a hearing. Without any sacri
fice of culture, or any abatement of intellec
tual force, the south is rapidly learning that
no labor that is honest degrades the laborer,
and that the scholarship that induces idle
ness is a curse rather than a blessing. Gradu
ates, conic to the front! There are railroads to
be built, mines to be opened, farms to lie
regenerated, forests to lie felled, towns to be
built, and in all these things your education
will stand you in good stead. There is no
excuse for one idler in all the state of Georgia,
if lie lias the strength and will to work.
PRESIDENT GARFIELD.
Only the other day The Constitution
sought to strengthen and fortify a somewhat
harrassed hope by calling attention to the fact
that it had never prepared an obituary of
President Garfield. At that time there ap
peared to be a strong probability that the
prayers of the people would avail, and that
the stricken president would be spared to his
family and to the country.
The death of James A. Garfield is a
two-fold calamity. The country loses
the
services of a president possessing the
rarest qualifications for the performance
all the duties that lay before him. and the
south loses a friend capable of thoroughly
inpatliizingwith the difficulties of the grave
problems which are the legacies of the war.
To succeed in American polities, one must
needs be a politician, audit is not an enchant
ing business to the finer minds engaged in
and it is disgusting to all who de
pend upon their merits for success. To a
sensitive mind, the road to the presidency is
long and dirty. In pursuing it ^Ir. Garfield
had the refuge of scholarship. He was a par
tisan in politics to the extent of earnestness,
hut lie never, like some of his republican
rivals, made partisanship a policy.
In the campaign of 1880, the people ’of
the south had few glimpses of Mr. Garfield
man, but the newspapers
of both parties kept the politician perpetually
to the front. This was inevitable, but the
strong manly tone of liis inaugural address
caught the attention of the south, and our
people began to take a more than passing in
terest in the man wlio was thoughtful enough
in the hour of his triumph to turn from the
shouting thousands to kiss the trembling lips
of his gray-haired mother. Following this
came little glimpses of a home-life, almost
ideal in its harmony and perfection—so ut
terly different from the lionie-lifc of some of
our most distinguished men. Nowhere on
earth is the sentiment of home stronger and
purer than in the southland the little glimpse
of the president’s life, to which we have
alluded, were of peculiar interest to our people.
This interest culminated in the strongest sym
pathy with the president, and when tiie news
of his attempted assassination came, the grief
and sorrow of the south showed the profound
impression that had been made upon tiie
minds of the people. The manifestations of
grief were confined to no particular class, but
they were keenest where they were least ex
pected.
After all, the secret of the sympathy felt for
Mr. Garfield in the south—remote as it was
and is from all personal or party considera
tions—is the fact that he is a typical Ameri
can. He has made his own career. He con
quered poverty and all the obstacles that
poverty places in the way of the ambitious,
and fouglit his way upward to the highest
renown. The south saw in him a man of
large mind and broad sympathies—
man of genial impulses and of
a temperament that may well be called po
etic. Seeing all this, our people had hopes
that his administration would be productive
of the largest results in allaying the preju
dices of sectionalism, and we have not the
slightest doubt that these hopes would have
been realized^
Whatever policy the president may have
mapped out previous to the attempt on liis
life, we believe he would have risen from his
bed with his mind free from the slightest
trace or vestige of partisanship. He could not
have ignored the attitude of the south. His
genial and sympathetic nature would have
taken advantage of the events of the past few
months, and for the first time in twenty odd
years we should liave had a^president in full
enjoyment of the confidence and esteem of
the whole country.
Iv. This increased work is due in some man
ner to the additional subjects of legislation
required by our present constitution, and the
legislature has a good excuse for t he time they
have consumed in discussing these various
subjects. The regulation of railroads is one
of the most difficult and important of these
subjects. We had hoped when the commis
sion was created that all matters pertaining to
this subject would be referred to the board,
and that full time would be given to the com
missioners to either show the efficiency or the
inefficiency of the board. But we find
that the legislature during the present session
has had before it quite as many new meas
ures relating to railroad management as they
had before the commission was created. It
was the duty of the legislature to give to all
complaints a respectful hearing, ancltlicy have
done so. It would be unwise, we think, to un
settle tiie legislation relating to the commission,
but to refuse to hear parties wlio have com
plaints would lay them open to the charge of
dereliction of duty. There have been more
than a half dozen bills introduced an d
thoroughly discussed to enlarge the powers of
the commission, to limit the powers of the
commission, to change the orders of the com
mission and make terminal points out of
way stations, and way stations out of termi
nal points. It is useless to review all the
wo^k that lias been before the legislature, or
all their subjects. Our readers are familiar
with it. This is legislation that no otlvrr leg
islature in the history of the state has iiad to
contend with.
The vast subject of education lias been tak
ing shape, not only in acts for general public
education, but in many acts for local systems
in counties and cities, and growing out of this
subject are the many measures for the raising
of revenues in various ways for the support of
the public schools.
Before the war the constitution gave each
county a simple machinery for the nianage-
lucntof tiie business affairs in the old inferior
court-, but under the present constitution each
county is now left to determine for itself
whether its business affairs shall be attended
to by the ordinary or whether the legislature
shall be asked to create for it a board of coun
ty commissioners. This would not lead to
such' grave results if the constitution required
all 1 wards of commissioners in different coun
ties to be clothed with uniform powers and
duties. The creation of such boards would
then be a very simple matter; but no two acts
creating these boards of commissioners confer
the same jwwcrs and duties, and at every ses
sion there are innumerable bills creating or
abolishing the boards, or amending in some
way the acts creating them. What lias been
said about county commissioners can also be
said about county courts. What a vast field
of legislation is here opened will be under
stood when it is remembered that there are
one hundred and thirty-seven counties in the
state.
The temperance question has developed
into a multitude of local bills. The election
of all the judges in the state and the solicitors
general, attorney general, comptroller general
and various state officials by the legislature,
is no easy work for that body, and consumes
fully as much time as a session of the legisla
ture ten years ago. These arc but a few of
the several subjects of legislation almost un
known to ante-bellum times.
In addition to what has been said,,the fact
must not be ignored that the state-infs-largely
increased in population and in the variety
and extent of its business interests. It is a
great state—great in territory and in tiie diver
sity of its interests—great in its natural re
sources, in its revenues and in its public insti
tutions. All these important interests and
many others not enumerated are constantly
demanding legislation to which consideration
must be given. The prospect of material de-
When Cardinal Newman was a young man
at Oxford, it is said, he was asked by the directors
of the Times to join their staff at a salary of $0,000 a
vear. but declined to accept it because the directors
would not let him say what he thought.
Mr. Christian Mokrlein, the well-known
Cincinnati brewer, made last week a most hand
some donation to each of his children, amounting
to $250,000. To his son John he gives $50,000: to
George, $50,080; to Jacob, $50,000: to his single
daughter, Lizzie, $50,000; to his married daughter,
Mrs. Lena Korn, $10,000, and to her husband, Cou-
rad Bom, $10,000.
Jacob Weeks, a New York millionaire, wlio
died recently, was so good natured that everybody
called him “Uncle Jacob." On hot summer days,
he would stand ill front of his elegant residence
with a bucket of iee water, which he would furnish
to the tired-working people on their way home, ami
he always gave the numerous poor children a Fourth
of July picnic. His estate is valued at four millions.
Mrs. Booth, the widow of the great tragedi
an. lives in a cottage at Long Branch with her son,
Mr Joseph Booth. Notwithstanding her fourscore
years she is extremely bright and chatty, converses
freely on twist anil present topics, and takes especial
interest in making inquiries as to people and
things in Hartford county, Md, where she so long
resided.
W. W. Dickey, one of the wealthiest cattle
dealers of the west, met Mollie Carter in Kansas
City, lie fell suddenly in love with her, for she isa
beauty, and she said yes to his offer of marriage, for
she knew of his wealth. She broke a previous en
gagement in so doing, and when Dickey found that
out he refused to make her his wife. She smed for
$25,000 damages, and has just compromised for
$10,000.
The death, at Baltimore, of the daugliter-
in-law of Elizabatli^Patterson Bonnpiirts recalls the
romantic story of the American princess whom Na
poleon the Great would not recognize. Had he
welcomed the fair American and contracted an
alliance with the United States, how different might
have been the finale to his history, lint NnjKilcon
was always wrong about women, and never had any
luck after he divorced Mine Patterson Bonaparte
from his brother and Josephine from himself.
Apropos of the birth of a son to tbc coun
tess of Ku, imperial princess of Brazil, at l’assy, it is
noted that the two first children of the heir to the
empire of Brazil tnustjbe born in that country: but
Ibis being the third child, the law allowed the
Mincess to await her confinement in France. Pr
paul, who made two voyages to Brazil to attend
the princess on similar occasions, was in attendance
on her recent confinement. The first birth necessi
tated an operation, where it was necessary to
choose, it seemed, between losing the mother or
the child. The princess insisted that an heir should
preserved, and herself recovered as if by a mira
cle.
IN GENERAL.
Star route reductions go on at an average
of $10,000 a day.
‘Yes, sir,” said Mr. Gallagher, “itwasfunny
enough to make a donkey laugh. I laughed till I
cried.”
There are streets called Rue Lincoln and
Rue Washington in Paris. A Rue Jefferson has been
suggested.
The Virginia Chronicle says that the shrink
age in the value of Comstock shares, in the last six
years, is $201,402,(04.
The French are gaining ground rapidly in
Tunis. One raiment has buried three hundred
men.—Texas Siftings.
There are 154 Baptist churches in the In
dian nation, in a population of about 00,000. This
one church to less than 400 people.
It was believed that dueling had reached
the lieightof absurdity before JfrLugenbeel wanted
to fight old man Christianey. It seems it had not.-
Boston Post.
Five United States senators have resigned
and one lias died since the 4th of March—an unu
sual number of changes. Three or four other sena
tors are in anything but good health.
Denver is lighted by electric lights placed
on wooden towers nearly two hundred feet high.
Some of the streets are laid with pipes, through
hich steam is conducted to buildings, whoscowuer
pays for the privilege.
The duke of Argyll set a new fashion at his
lust wedding. The guests went away after the fes
tivities, and he and his wife stayed in the house,
literally to spend the honeymoon at home. There
is considerable more honey than moon in such a
sensible plan.
Daughter of a speculative builder visiting
her parents: “Oh, pupa! what charming little houses
you liave been building on the river bank! 1 have
a thousand minds to take one and settle there with
the children till winter.” Parent (embracing her
with parental emotion): “Don’t ilo it—they are
houses to sell, not to live in.”—Lc Figaro.
Sabah P., Thorp Springs: “Where should I
wear an engagement ring?” Wear it on the second
fingerof tiie left hand, if everything is open and
nbovebourd; bat if you do not want the old }>eople
to know of the engagement we would advise you to
wear it in the rignt-hand corner of an old striped
stocking at the bottom of the bureau drawer.—Texas
Siftings.
The first cotton planted in this country was
in 1621 in South Carolina. The plant was discover
ed growing wild On the island of Hispaniola; also
as far north on the banks of the Mississippi ns the
thirtieth parallel of lattitude, anil it has been proved
to be indigenous to the soil of the lower latitudes of
North America. W Kllitt iu 1790 gathered the first
successful cotton crop in South Carolina, and within
few years cotton cultivation became general iu the
extreme southern states.
Mr. Hayes made a tour of the white house the
other day. His visit was for the purpose of inspect
ing the remains of his cider-vats in the basement.
The fact that the democratic minority in the
house of representatives is a very powerful one
should not he lost sight of by the organs. There
will ho no stalwart legislation north mentioning
until the people have an opportunity to be heard,
Gititeac is said to be offended because his attend
ants fail to show- him the proper amount of respect.
Probably these attendants are hotel waiters in dis
guise.
The Rev. Dr. Thomas, who has been compelled to
give bonds as a heretic, says he has never been tq
theater in his life. Let him be consoled. He has
missed some of the worst acting ever seen on any
stage. •
For the benefit of the various Uncle Tom's Cabin
troupes now pervading the republic, we will state
that the chicken cholera is reported in various sec
tions of Georgia.
Guiteau has his way at last. He is the only livin;
person that ever elected a president single-handed
and alone—that is, if he is aliveat this writing.
If it be a fact that the fanners of Georgia are
growing poorer, how can they go on paying 50 and
75 per centum on their supplies and survive?
The autopsy of the president shows liow blind
surgery is even at its best. It also shows that the
induction balance cannot be depended upon to
locate a ball.
The south will not throw the slightest obstacle in
the way of President Arthur, but she would be glad
to have some assurance that- her peace and pros
perity are not b disturbed by a new stalwart
crusade.
Savannah has handled riots upon previous occa
sions. Her motto is neatness and dispatch.
The Washington Post complains that the drama
receives no support at the national capital. Docs the
Post intend to include the leg drama?
It is said that the government of Egypt is made up
of robbers, thieves, malcontents, incompetents and
lunatics. We judge from this that the government
of Egypt is run on a strictly republican basis.
PERSONAL.
THE GENERAL ASSEMBLY AND ITS WORK
From various parts of the state complaints
have been made about the length of the pres
ent-session of the legislature. We have copied
from our exchanges frequent comments on
the subject,mainly to give the drift of opinion
on the same. We have no special praise for
the present legislature. While they have done
nothing to deserve censure, we think they
have left undone many tilings that they ought
to have done. We alluded recentlv to the
increased work devolveil^upon the legislature,
and intended to follow it up more particular- ' ing inboth trades cxceeifingly clever.
Mr. George I. Seney has sent a silver cup
a Walton county baby named after him.
Russian papers say that Tourgenieff, the
novelist, will spend the rest of his life in writinr
stories for children.
General Grant is said to have placed large
sums of money in the hands of agents for the pur
chase of Illinois farms.
Dr. Frank Hamilton writes a small
seratehv, indistinct hand. Dr. Agnew’s writing is
eareful'and distinct, and Dr. Bliss signs his name in
a large, irregular hand.
Mr. Henry Savile, a very noted turfite
died lateiv. He was the natural son of the late
Lord Scarborough, who left him an immense fortune.
His brother Is the English minister at Brussels.
Don Carlos, the Sjianish would-be kin.
now in England, has won many friends there by his
genial manner and handsome appearance. He
takes kindly to English life and especiaUy to English
sports.
Mario, once the greatest of tenors, has
grown perfectly gray, but is still fresh and youthful
in nature. In his Italian home he occupies a great
deal of his leisure in carpentering and carving, be-
ALL AROUND US.
What the People of the State arc Dotne*
Savannah, September 19.—This morning a
number of stevedores in the employment of
H. J. Dickerson & Co., who were at work at
the wharves of the Ocean steamship company,
struck for higher wages. The men had been
employed on hoard the steamer Gat^ City,
and after quitting work they lounged around
and indulged very freely in liquor. About
half past two o'clock p. in., General
Sorrel, general agent of the Ocean steamship
company, telephoned the chief of police that
the strikers had assembled in large force on
the bridge across the Ogeccliee canal, were
creating great disturbance and preventing the
passage of vehicles. Gen. Anderson, chief of
police,at once ordered Sergeant H. H. Harvey,
one of the most efficient officers on the force,
to the scene of action, with commands to dis
perse the crowd anil clear the road. Sergeant
Harvey rode rapidly to the scene, andarriving
at the bridge spurred his horse across, calling
upon the crowd to disperse; some of the
strikers cleared away but others still held the
bridge. The sergeant wheeled his horse again
and riding upon the bridge sprang from his
horse to make an arrest. About this time a
negro woman struck the officer in the face
with a brush and simultaneously the report of a
pistol was heard, and he turned to see a negro
making off with a pistol in his hand. The
officer then made pursuit and fired several
shots, but without effect. By this time as
sistance had arrived, and as Harvey came
hack it was noticed that his garments were
tained with blood. On examination it was
found that he was shot in the hack, the hall,
it is feared, passing very near or grazing the
lung. His wound is considered by his at
tending physician, Dr. McFarland,* as very
serious, but as the ball is very small, beini_
No. 1 cartridge, it is thought there is some
hope for his recovery. Just after the shooting
a large number of workmen quit work upon
the steamer Dessong, and in a body marched
across the bridge and took position on West
Boundary street, but dispersed upon the ar
rival of reinforcement for tiie police. These
are the facts as nearly as could be ascertained
by your correspondent. At this writing, 7 p.
m., all is quiet, and no further trouble is an
ticipated.
Albany, September 20.—A ride yesterday
through a portion of the Oakey Woods section
the new Methodist church yesterday. _ Copies
of the Chronicle and Constitutionalist,
anil The Constitution, containing the
account of President Garfield's death,
and a copy of the Washington
Gazette, together witji some confederate
money, etc., were dejiusited in the stone.——
The building of a new bridge between this
and McDuffie county was let yesterday to Mr.
J. M. Woodruff' for $050. fountain camp-
meeting. twelve miles southeast of here,
comes off to-morrow. The revivalist. Rev.
Sam Jones, is expected. A large number go
down from here.
Elrerton, September 21.—Mr. T. C. White,
a well known citizen of this state, died last
week of brain fever. D. W. Lewis, who
killed Governor Harj>er, colored, some time
ago, was acquitted in the superior court bust
week. A number of attorneys from this
place are attending Hart superior court this
week. The tax collector of this county has
succeeded in giving liis bond, and entered
upon the discharge of his duties. Tiie grand
jury last week recommended a taxon dogs for
educational purposes. It is thought now
that license to retail liquor here will be
granted after tiie munieijial election which
comes off next week.
Rome, September 21.—Editors Constitution:
In late issues of your paper we find the crops
of tills county (Floyd) reported largely in ex
cess of what they really are. Tiie under
signed arc farmers and eitizens living in vari
ous portions of the county, and familiar with
the condition of the crops, and in our opinion
tiie crops of botli corn and cotton in this
county are less than half of full crops. From
the best information we can obtain, we be
lieve the same is also true of Bartow, Polk
and Chattooga counties. W. P. Whitmore.
II. W. Dean.
W. II. Jones.
Carrollton, September 22.—Mr. H. A.
Ragan, an old and respected citizen, died at
his residence in this place on last Tuesday
night, tiie 21st instant, and was buried on yes
terday at Indian Creek church. Improve
ment is still the order of tiie day in Carroll
ton. Major G. W. Austin lias added a
very handsome addition to his residence on
Dixie street. Oscar Reese lias refitted and
greatly improved his brick warehouse on Xew-
nan street, and built in rear of same a large
wagon-yard for the accommodation of liis
friends and customers. J. M. Lowe, fonmerly
of Atlanta, has also enlarged his warehouse
to double its former capacity.
Athens, September 22.—Miss Nellie Stovall
of this city, and graduate of Lucy Cobb insti
tute, wrote a touching appeal to Mr. Seney, of
New York, for aid to build a chapel to the
institute. He replied asking what would he
required? She stated 89,000. Mr. Seney with
his noble-heartedness wrote saying, if our
citizens would raise $4,000, he would give
$5,000. Miss Stovall with the Misses Ruther
ford are now canvassing our city, and no
doubt will raise the required amount. Surely
none will decline to give to so noble a cause.
It is suggested that the chapel when finished
should lie called Seney-Stovall chapel.
Captain Sam Lane has been ofl'ered a position
in one of the schools of Atlanta.
Americus, September 20.—The stores and
places of business throughout the city com
menced closing at noon to-day, and the streets
soon assumed somewhat of a Sabbath-like
stillness and appearance. Crape is seen flut
tering from the door-knobs, and the large flag
which Hoat.s above the handsome building oc
cupied by Boswortii & Jossev is drooping at
half-mast. Thus does our little city join in
the general expressions of sorrow which to-day
are seen and heard throughout the United
States, on account of the death of President
Garfield.
Athens, Seiiteinlter 20.—When the tele
gram came this morning announcing the
death of President Garfield, a~gener.il gloom
seemed to pervade our entire city. The stores
were draped in mourning; for a time all busi
ness was susi>cnded, anil for an hour the
solemn tolling of all the church bells an
nounced the sad news. From many gather
ing grbups could be heard words of* deep re-
f ret at our nation's loss, ami expressions of
inilest svmpathy for the bereaved house
hold.
Cedartown, September 20.—This morning
colored convict, employed by the Iron cotn-
patiy in their ore mines, west of this place,
made an attempt to escape by running out
from under the gun of one of the guards. The
guard twice halted him, but that proving un
availing, fired on him, two shot from his gun
taking effect, one in ttie shoulder and one in
tiie neck, producing slight wounds. It was
not until a chase of a half mile through ail
adjoining plantation that he.was recaptured.
Our community to-day learns with regret
the dcatli of President Garfield.
Marietta, September 21.—To-day a wagon
train from the Atlanta and Rome railroad
went out heavily loaded with hay, five cars
having arrived for them yesterday.' The wag
oils were all new and the teams in fine eondi
tion. Labor is very scarce, and farmers are
finding it difficult* to gather their crops.
Two substantial box cars arrived yesterday for
the Marietta and North Georgia railroad.madc
by Porter A Meakin. Atlanta.
Rome, September 21.—All the bells of the
city were tolled last night, as soon as the news
of the president’s death was received. To-day,
a large Hag on Broad street is floating at half-
mast, draj>cd in mourning. There is a uni
versal feeling of sorrow. The Episcopal
church is tastefully draped in mourning. This
morning the pastor, Rev. G. W. Wilson, held
a special service, in which feeling allusions
were made to the dead president.
Gainesville, September 23.—I learn from
reliable source that the jail at Dawsonville
Ga., was bunted last night and a negro con
fined therein burned up. It is thought the
negro himself set tiie jail on fire inside. In
my account of the Bellton fire I failed to state
that the residences of J. B. King and J. B.
Hughes were both consumed, being close to
Carter’s store.
Quitman, September 19.—At a mass
meeting of the citizens of Brooks
county held this day a committee of 7 was
appointed as a central committee with power
to appoint snb-committees in the various dis
tricts of the county to get up exhibits for the
cotton cxjiosition. I trust Brooks will, as
usual, do her full duty. A large number of
visitors from this section may lie expected.
Thomastox, September 22.—Charles N
Raines was yesterday about 1 o’clock p. m
killed by liis brother-in-law. Bud Raines, at
or near the residence of Colonel Thomas
Raines, in Crawford county. About all that
could be learned from the colored man wlio
came for the hearse and coffin was that Bud
Raines was drinking and stabbed Charley sev
eral times.
Btron. September 22.—Mr. Cicero Johnson
j died of fever, after many days illness, on the
20tli inst., at the residence of his stepfather,
Mr. James Taylor, of Crawford county; six
miles of Byron. His funeral takes place to-
of Doughtertv. taking in some of the best cot- day at Union church cemetery, in Crawford
• ' ‘ y and doubtless in Rev. W. L. Jones officiating. Mr. Johnson
ton lands in the county
southwest Georgia, satisfied the writer that I
the damage done by the drouth and the cat
erpillar to this year’s cotton crop lias not been
overstated or even fully estimated. On many
fine plantations the weed had been fully
striped of foliage anil was taking oil a second
growth of leaves, but the cotton had lieen
almost entirely gathered. In other places
the cotton hail* been gone over for the last
time by the pickers. Taking what the writer
saw as a fair average of the entire crop of
Dougherty county, the yield cannot amount
to more than one'-tliird of a crop and this was
the estimate of several intelligent planters he
conversed with.
Washington, September 22.—Colonel J. W.
Chapman, assisted by the ministers of the
different churches, laid the comer stone of
was a promising business young man of about
22 years of age.
Thomaston, September 20.—Mr. W. A. An
drews, the excellent marshal of our town, and
Miss Sallic Norris, one of the fairest flowers of
Upson county, were married this evening
the charming home of tiie bride's parents
The presents were beautiful, and an elegant
one was presented by tiie members and officers
of the town council.
Barnesville, Septenilier 21.—A wild cat
caught near here was brought into town last
Monday anil was extensively eyed *>y our
citizens. The Barnesville band has pur
chased cap lanterns and are regularly in for
serenading. Tiie president's death has
spread a gloom over our community.
down inTdixie.
The Tennessee river is onfl rise.
Sherman, Texas, has a cotton exchange.
Tin: rice'- 1 i ‘‘ ^ Loufsla-’Ja is usually good.
Buildin m a boom in I’alatka,Florida.
There are sixty-six counties irt>>v.«Uaiua.
The Virginia peanut crop is no- T
Some tine tobaccq patches near*'
Anderson, S C, will build a SltLOOo
Pensacola will h^yc.an icc fry. .
Shkvepokt, La, is enjoying an iirtfisuallyi
trade.
There is a strike among tiie painters in Charie
ton, 8 C.
Tiif. South Carolina rice crop is pretty much har
vested.
The real estate of Jackson, Miss., is valued at
$968,215.
Texas wants a reformatory institute -for youthful
culprits.
Counterfeit dollars are plentiful at Lexington,
Keutucky.
The negro pressmen at the Mobile compress arc'on
strike.
The dried fruit crop of Fast Tennessee, is simply
enormous.
The Selma cotton exchange of Brooks & Fowlkes,
has suspended. 1
Mu Huggins, of Hamilton, is the oldest man in
Texas—age lit!.
Galveston’s, Texas, artesian well lias reached a
depth of 705 feet.
An Alachua county mother gave birth to three
babies recently.
Tennessee is now the second peanut producing
state in the union.
As Oldham county, Ky, magistrate fined his son SI
for getting drunk.
The artesian well at Durham, X C, has reached a
depth of 1,500 feet.
The Selma (Alabama) Times now comes out a
seven column pai>er.
Bn.oxi, Miss, will soon have an oyster canning
factory in operation.
Tun water famine, which lasted for two months
in Richmond. Va., is over.
A Kentucky girl was killed by lightning while
dressing for her wedding.
At the Arkansas state fair there will be a military
contest for a prize of $1,500.
Dr W C Crame, of Texas, will soon publish a life
of General 8am Houston.
Mrs Julia Ann Ksiei*, of Virginia, is91 years old
and has 254 descendants.
Asheville, North Carolina, is increasing rapidly
iu business and population.
Forty cents n pound is the current rate for the
ool product in west Virginia.
Mississippi has only thirty towns and pities with a
ipulation of 1,000 or over.
The chestnut crop in the mountains of Georgia
ill be very large this season.
The State teachers’ institute of Tennessee, will be
held in Humboldt In October.
Kentucky has one mile of railroad to every twen
ty-two square miles of territory.
The colored people of Petersburg, Va., pay taxes
on $500,000 worth of property.
The farmers of Bourbon county, Ky, are import
ing seed wheat from Australia.
The Western Kentucky lunatic asylum is so lull
no more inmates can be received.
Massie Smith, of Albemarle, Virginia, sold 10,000
pounds of Concord gmj>es for $500.
The Waco, Texas, university opened with 117 stu
dents from ull jairts of the state.
VtcKSRCBG, Mississippi, received P,,062 bales of cot
ton from 8cj>teinber 1st to the 17th.
Vicksburg is the only city in Mississippi that has
population of over 10,000 inhabitants.
The university of Alabama opens to-day with bet
ter prospects than it has for a long time.
The orange trees about Tarniwi, Florida, are not
as heavily fruited as they •★ere lust year.
The South Carollnm state temperance convention
will meet in Columbia oil the 27tli Inst'.
Judge McBrayer, of Lawrenceburg, Ky, has
just sold 105,000 bushels of corn for $1.5,000.
Mas A I* Weaver, the widow of tiie late well
known P J Weaver, of Selma, Alabama, is dead.
The synod of Alabama will meet in Kutaw on
Wednesday before the third Sunday in October.
Only two mines in Alabama make a speciality of
lump coal—tiie Helcuu and Montievallo mines.
An eight-foot long rattlesnake was recently found
in the junior of a Sun Antonio brairding house.
The Alabama shite fair opens in Montgomery on
the 7th of November mid continues for two weeks.
The James river, Virginia, lias risen and all the
factories on the river front are working full time.
A Summit, Mississippi, young lady lias a piano
manufactured in 1810. It is not yet played out.
Lamar is doing better work in Mississippi this
canvass than he ever did in all his previous career. ■'
The Grand lodge of the Knights of Pythias of
Kentucky, meets In Mrysville on the 20tli and 21st.
There are 6,569 j
Richmond, Virginia
fish exposit
lie held in Pensacola, Florida, in the autumn i
1882.
James Rori.es, ol Tampa, Florida, exhibits
quince which measures 1U>$ inches iu eireumfer
dice.
The two hundredth anniversary of the settlcmen
of Norfolk, Virginia, takes place October 17th am
18th.
A colored democratic club has been organized at
Pleasant Hill, Miss., formerly a republican strong
hold.
Miss Polly Sullivan, of Harrison county, Ky, 74-
years old, wove forty yards of carpeting in twt
weeks.
Two merchants of Rlicatown, in upjicr Hast Ten
nessee, hold 10,000 pounds of dried peaches bought
this season.
One hundred and eiglity-five dollars was realized
for watermelons from an acre of ground in Gallatin
county, Ky.
Two hundred and forty-three men are engaged in
the revenue service in the fifth collector's district in
Kentucky.
A colony of 73 well-to-do Saxon immigrants have
purchased 30,000 acres of laud iu Sabine county,
Arkansas.
Manatee county, Florida, has the best crop of
potatoes, rice and sugar cane, that she lias had for
three years.
Rev. Charles Manley resigns the pastorate of
the Greenville (S. C.) church to take the president-!
of Furmau university. ^
Colonel Lamar’s speeches in Mississippi ill
the canvass have been very popular with the la
who want him rc-clectcd.
There has lieen a large increase in the number
and tonnage of vessels entering tiie port of Galves
ton, Texas, over last year.
GEORGIA. CROP NEWS.
I
There are 6,569 pupils in the public schools of
i. Whites, 3,887; colored, 2,682.
Talbot county has several cork trees.
Cobb county will make very good crops.
In Carroll county crops are above an average.
Crops in Hart county will average about half.
The pea crop of Newton county will be a goed
one.
The pea crop of Stewart county is turning out
well..
Many apple trees about Smyrna bending beneath
their loads.
Some damage done to cotton in Sumter county by
caterpillars.
Cotton caterpillars arc doing some damage in
Stewart county.
Crab grass and even rag-weed hay is being saved
about Smyrna.
Mr. Joe Tucker, of Baldwin, raises com to sell as
well as cotton.
Mp. Elbert Beasley has th finest com crop in
Emanuel county.
Good crops in Paulding, Haralson and Douglas
counties—above an average.
Mountains of north Georgia will produce a big
crop of chestnuts and apples.
The com crop of Newton county will not fall
much below nu average crop.
Not much, if any, more than half a crop of cotton
will be raised in Hancock county.
Harris county farmers will sow a larger area in
grain this season than ever before.
Me A B O’Neal, of Talbot county, has had 6,000
pounds of cotton picked this season from eight acres
of land.
There is a falling off of com and cotton in Bar
tow, Polk and Floyd counties, some 20 to 25 percent
below an average.
Many ol the farmers in southwest Georgia are
planting a great number of peach and pear trees on
old worn out lands belonging to them.
I W Coleman, who lives near Swainsboro. has
not failed to make a good fruit crop for the last fif
teen years. He cultivates his trees carefully anil
prevents peaches from rotting, prevents worms, ana
saves the fruit from dying.
Mr J T Kendrick, of McDuffie county, made this
year with six hands more than fifteen hands can
gather of jieas, corn, hay and the like. He jilanteu
for, and will gather, fifteen bales of cotton; he has
oats enough to last two years.
The first day of January G W Fowler, of Meri
wether county, will save more money than any ot
his cotton planting neighbors. He will have coni,
wheat, fodder, liny, meat and cattle to sell, niter re
taining enough for his family and plantation.