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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, NOVEMBER 8,1881.
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ATLANTA, GA., NOVEMBER 8,1881.
Nor.THEltS relic hunters are gradually carrying
tiff Stonewall Jackson's house. And. indeed,
friends, he is a good roan to remember.
Ir a procession of cranks should be organized,
with Guiteau at the head, the roost famous republi
cans in the country would fall naturally into line.
Titr. confederate bond factories of the north have
taken measures to resume operations, qnd it is
thought that in twelve months the demand can be
supplied. _
Louise Pox mow is making money in Australia
I,y bad acting. It is a comfort to know that Brick,
her ex-husband, is mukin^inoncy, not by bad edit
ing, but by mining.
When Mr. David A. Wells acknowledges that he
should bn unable to pass the examination papers
nt Yale, he means that he is neither a pedestrian
nor a professional oarsman.
Wanted in Georgia???A candidate for governor
who will shoulder the bogus bonds. Comfortable
salary guaranteed. For particulars, apply to Colonel
Blank, Blanks nta.
Week t.Y or sc mi-weekly excursions, at reasonable
rates, over the Georgia railroads will be a good thing
for Georgia. The exposition is much more ira-
isirb>nt to the people of this state than any political
issue ean be.
ful processes which they employ in the pit -
duction of their lieautiful fabrics. Let them
also see the richness of Georgia in natural fa
cilities and ratv material for their dextrous
manipulation. Thus will the exposition be
turned to the best account. Thus may the
gathering of manufacturers and men of en
terprise at the capital of Georgia be made of
the most benefit naturally to the visitors and
the visited. We trust that invitations for
isits of inspection and interchange of civili
ties will come from all sections of the state,
and will be accepted by the ???solid??? and en
terprising men who have been or may be
drawn to Georgia by the cotton exposition.
PERSONAL.
Caktf.rrvhle has become famous at the north by
means of a circus row. It is curious, but the
slightest manifestation of a tendency to suppress
circuses sends u patriotic thrill from one end of the
country to the other.
Some of onr more esteemed northern exchanges
take readily to the plan recently introduced by The
Constitution of alluding to the late unpleasantness
as the whatyoumnyeallum. Thisis a good conserv
ative word. It should be embalmed.
Athens is somewhat excited over the prospect of
having Pledger as postmaster. Emory Speer is op
posed to his appointment, and now we shall have
war between the independent ami the chairman of
the republican state executive committee.
The correspondents of some of our southwes'
Georgia exchanges nre endeavoring to prove that
the farmers of that section ore growing poorer every
day. If this be true, it would seem to show that
there is less In the man than there is in the land,
The Hon. Sitting Bull announces that he was
???created for a purpose.??? It appears that in chasing
O. O. Howard about over the plains, Colonel Bull
captured some of his Sunday-school ninunition.
People will licgin to suspect after awhile that How
ard 1ms not lived in vain.
The statement is made that ???Dean Stanley left' a
piece of plate to his old friend. Bishop Colenso, of
Natal.??? The average cook is more generous than
this. She will retire any day and leave you not only
a piece of plate, but several hundred pieces of cups
and saucers, as well as the fragment of a stove-lid.
This is a way they have,
Mb. Edward Atkinson was loudly cheered yes
terday by a southern audience, when he said that
his second son, who is now at Harvard, was a prac
tical blacksmith and carpenter. Let us see now
???whether any of the southerners who cheered him
will have the nerve and moral courage to do, in
the education of their sons, what he has done with
his. We hope that their cheers meant more than
mere empty impulses.
A great mistake is made by the high tariff mo
nopolists in supposing that the increase of tnanu-
lacturing in the south increases tire number of ultra
protectionists in this section. For instance, if onr
cotton manufacturers are allowed to import im
proved machinery duty free they do not ask to be
protected by a tax on cotton goods. They can com
pete. not only with the English manufacturer on
his own ground, but with the New England manu
facturer on his; and they can undersell both and
atill make a protit of fifteen per cent. All of which
is respectfully submitted for the information of Mr.
Voorhees nnd other so-called statesmen who are
engaged in an attempt to mislead the people.
THE WHOLE STATE INTERESTED
We arc glad to see that the authorities of
some other cities of Georgia, acting in accor
dance with a suggestion made by The Con
stitution a week or two ago, are inviting the
cotton manufacturers and others, brought to
the state by our exposition, to visit their lo
calities and see the advantages which they
respectively offer for development and enter
prise. This is sensible and right. It is much
better than carping at Atlanta and trying to
disparage the great exhibition which has
been gathered here. We trust, too, that our
exhibitors and visitors will accept these invi
tations. We assure them that they will find
all over Georgia most inviting fields in which
to ???plant??? their capital and energy
Our rivers and creeks abound
with water power running wild
and unappropriated, which, if prop
erly utilized, would drive any desired amount
of machinery. Nearly all the ???stock??? for
manufacturing uses is to he found in the
state and easily accessible. Of cotton we
have even too great an abundance, and its
culture now extends all overtlie state. Wool
growing has already attained considerable
proportions, especially in southern Georgia
and in some localities in the northern coun
ties of the state, and is fast increasing, as its
profit and the adaptability of our pasturage
and climate is becoming 1 letter understood
The upper eoutics of the state abound in iron
Ore of every quality, besides lime and other
minerals that can be profitably worked. We
have some coal, and the rieh coal beds of
Alabama and Tennessee are near at hand and
transportation cheap. Those of Alabama ar
unsurpassed in this or perhaps any other
Country, either in extent or quality. Fine
marble is obtained in several counties, and in
woods Georgia is unexcelled; her extensiv
pine forests for building purposes invite^ the
woodman's axe, and her fine grained
woods for furniture and orna
mental work would supply any
demand. To those who prefer to dig money
directly from the ground, without dependence
on ???seed time and harvest??? or manufacturing
skill, our gold fields present alluring opportu
nities. With all these rich - resources, only
partially developed and In very small part ap
propriated, Georgia is as good a field as the
country presents for the prospector and capi
talist. It should all be seen by the men of en
terprise and means who have come here to
couuibute to or visit the International cotton
exposition. Wc have seen with admiration
Louise Pomeeoy has made over $40,000 out
of her Australian engagement.
Sitting Bull is leading a quiet life with
his folks at Randall, Dakota.
Mr. E. B. Haskell, of the Boston Herald,
who is now in the city, owns large landed interests
In south Georgia. /
Salvini made his farewell tour in this coun
try last season. Sir. Chizzola says the great tragedi
an will make another next season.
The daughters of Governor Foster, of Ohio,
will visit the family of Justice Woods, of the su
preme court, during the coming season.
The latest advices from the beautiful Mrs.
Langtry???s beautiful baby are that it resembles its
mother much more than it docs Mr. Langtry.
Hon. Milton Barnes, ex-secretary of the
state of Ohio, whose term of office but recently ex
pired, is in the city as a visitor to the great expo
sition.
A little bird whispers that General E. O.
Babcock will be made commissioner of public
lands and buildings in the not distant sweet bye
and bye.
Governor Colquitt is. improving, and will
lie at his post again in a day or two. It is likely
the rate question will be settled without his having
to visit New York.
Bismarck is quoted as saying one day con
cerning General lgnatieff: ???The report goes that
he told the tru .h once in his life, but 1 have never
heard him do so.???
Governor McEnery, of Louisiana, decides
not to call an extra session of the legislature. The
new lieutenant-governor, William A. Bobertson, is
a native of Connecticut, but served in the confeder
ate army.
Lovely Mrs. Langtry, who has been blessed
with a baby, is sojourning in her native islet. She
is sharing the habitation of a daughter of Lord
Kanelnugn, of volunteer and the lute lamented
Madame Rachael renown.
There was another marriage by telegraph
in Ohio on Sunday, the parties being Joseph Camp
bell, agent of the Lake Erie road at Raivsou, and
Miss Louisa Kelsey, of Celiua. Two ministers were
employed, one at each place.
Two young southerners, pupils at the Hol
lins Institute, Virginia, Miss Merlins, of Alabama,
and Miss Wilson, of Sonth Carolina, have won the
honorable mention of the English Shakspoarc so
ciety by their examination papers in ???Hamlet.???
Mademoiselle Grevy???s troussea was so sim
ple one would think Uovas intended for a Quaker
ess. Strange to say, this young Frenchwoman cares
nothing for laces and puffings, and enjoys nothing
irore than following her father, gun in hand, on his
shooting excursions.
Mr. Jones, the present steward of the old
Astor house, New York, is the only man now con
nected with the hotel who served there under the
late Colonel Coleman, and, so far as he knows, is
the only one living who served with him, excepting
his partner, Charles A. Stetson, who is now in
Swampscott, Mass.
Until she was fourteen years old, Victoria
did mot know she was heir to the throne. But on
seeing a genealogical table one day she discovered
the fact, and said to hergovemess: ???There is much
splendor, but much responsibility.??? Then with
tears she exclaimed: ???Baroness, I will be good.???
She was more sober and more dignified ever after.
Mrs. Garfield came in with her daughter
Mollie, a maiden of 1-1, her father???s self in feature
and in form. A noble girl! Beside this heiress of
her father???s grand proportions, Mrs. Garfield looks
smaller than her daughter: yet she cannot be called
a little woman. Sweet-voiced, lady-like; her ap
parel again most fitting, most simple, most becom
ing.???London Whitehall Review.
The report that Mme. Adelina Patti has
arranged to give, in addition to her concert, on her
approaching visit to this country, eight operatic
representations is incorrect. Mme. Fatti will give
concerts only. The concerts of the famous singer
will, however, resemble so many dramatic soirees,
since, as wc are informed, she will sing the princi
pal pieces of her opratic repertory.
The kind of a man Blaine is may be seen in
a siugh incident. With all his might he fought
Plsisted, of Maine, a year ngo, and had the mortifi
cation of seeing him win. It was a bitter defeat of
Blaine, and hurt him for the rest of the campaign.
The other day he found that Governor Plaisted und
his newly-wedded wife nnd his military staff were
looking in vain for provision to get to Yorktown in
comfort, whereupon Blaine made the whole party
his guests.
IN GENERAL.
Four thousand women keep whisky shops
in New York,
ami wonder the intricate machinery and skill-1 isso, 10,678,516.
California has shown her proverbial gen
erosity in her contributions to the Garfield monu
mentfund. UponOctobcr20thecollectionsamount-
ed to 810,479.75.
The real and personal property in the
United States average twelve hundred' dollars to
every man, woman and child. We feel richer since
making this calculation.
The czar has ordered that seventeen of the
imperial palaces and castles, including those of
Livadia, in the Crimea, and the Belvedere, near
Warsaw, shall be converted into educational insti
tutions for the benefit of the poor.
Seven hundred millions of dollars were is
sued in confederate bonds, and the New Orleans
Democrat says they are worth nearly as much now as
they were toward the end of the confederacy.
- Vexnob predicts a mild winter, and if he???s
any sort of a man he???ll go round without au over
coat and complain of the thaw, even if the ther
mometer goes 40 degrees below. Let' him have the
courage oi his opinions.???Boston Post.
New York city manufactures to the extent
of $435,000,000 against Philadelphia???s $22,000,000,
and yet New York isn???t howling for tariff bounties
to keep up her business. But Philadelphia goes
around with the beggar s hat for collection, still.
-President Arthur is credited with saying
to Governor Foster recently that if there were any
factious in the party he hoped all sides would confer
with him: that so far as he was concerned he had
no enemies to punish, and did not intend to he
used to punish the enemies of other persons.
The number of sheep in England has fal
Ion off from 30,313,941 in 1874 to 24,582,154 in 1881, a
loss of 20 per cent. As the population has increased
iu the meantime, the outside demand for mutton
is greatly increased, and the large and growing
shipments from American ports shows what coun
try furnishes a good share of it.
Spain is looking after her lost glories as the
great armed power of Europe, and is collecting
money for the purchase of Gibraltar. In the event
England will not sell she will spend the monev in
fortifying the strait between Spam and Africa. 'The
effete monarchy may get a tight on her hands which
will interest her more than bull-baiting.
She sported a wart on the end of her nose
she had false teeth and a glass eye, her hair was red
her face freckled, and she was pigeon-toed and-wore
a No. 8 gaiter. In spite of all this he resigned the
love of a beautiful maiden to marry her. And was
he happy? He was. Why: Easy enough. He had
been a newspaperman for fifteen years, and the girl
was rich.
Puking the past month there liavo been
nearly 2,000 barrels of New England rum shipped
from Boston to Goree, an Africnn port. Under
the old Massachusetts laws the people of that state
were prohibited from drinking beer. A new one
to prevent them from sending snakes to Africa
might not be a bad idea.
A remarkable stampede is in.progress to
ward Beni river in Bolivia, unexplored until last
winter, when Dr. E. R. Heath ascended it, and dis
covered vast forests of chincona and caoutchouc.
Fully 10,000 men have since gone there, and the ex
port of rubber alone has risen from 15.000 pounds to
75.000. with promises of 6,000.000 next year. Dr.
Heath is sanguine of finding rich deposits of pre
cious metals and medicinal plants along the Madre
deDios.
The first cotton mill in the United States
was started at Bernlv, Mass., in 17S8: the first one
inRhode Island at Providence, in 1791: the first one
in Maine at Brunswick, in 1809. The first cotton mill
in New Hampshire was in New Sprincb. in 1*04.
The late Hon. Samuel Batcheldcr, of Cambridge,
Mass , formerly for many years agent of the New
York manufacturing company, ai Saco, Maine,
and subsequently treasurer of that and the Everett
Mills at Lawrence. Mass., was concerned in build
ing the second on the same stream in ISOS, and of
this enterprise, it Is said, the proprietors of the first
mill were nighly indignant about the building of
the second, apprehending that the business would
be overdone. Each of these mills had about five
hundred spindles. In 1807 the whole number of
spindles in the United States was 4,000: in I860 there
were 5,000.000: in 1870 there were 9,539,361, and in
EXPOSITION EXCERPTS.
An Excnraton.
Mr. Kimball has received from the secretary of
the Baltimore exchange a letter stating that an im
mense excursion from Maryland will leave Balti
more on the 19th and be here on the 21st and 22d.
Governor Hamilton and Mayor Latrobe, of Balti
more, and a number of mayors from other cities
will come with the party, and it is believed that at
least one thousand persons will come on that excur
sion. The 22d has been named Maryland day. The
Maryland exhibitors have organized for the pur
pose of meeting the governor and other distin
guished citizens and are looking forward to the day
as a grand occasion.
A Distinguished Pnrtj.
Information received at the ofllce of thf director
general indicates clearly that the visit of General
Sherman, Hon. Samuel J. Tilden and General Han
cock this mouth will be a rare day. Other distin
guished gentlemen will be here early in December:
Visitors are steadily on the increase, yesterday hav
ing the largest crowd since governors??? day.
Drnmmcra* Day.
At a meeting of the executive committee last
night a unanimous invitation was extended to Mr.
H. \V. Grady to address the commercial drummers
on drummers??? day, which is now about ten days or
two weeks off The suggestion of a drummers??? day
has been the cause of the receipt by Mr. Kimball
of a large number of letters.and postal matter from
drummers stating their gratification at the sugg<?? ;
tion and saying that there would be an immense
gathering.
Senator Wade Hampton.
HIS ARRIVAL ON A VISIT TO THE COTTON EXPOSITION.
Last evening Hon. Wade Hampton, the distin
guished United States senator from South Caroling,
arrived In the city and registered at the Kimball
house. He is looking remarkably well. His pur
pose is to give the cotton exposition a thorough
review during his stay in the eity. He will be
warmly welcomed by his admirers in the city from
all parts of the union.
Exposition Notes.
???McBride & Co., have a remarkably fine exhibit
at the exposition. The goods on exhibition are
from the handsome stock they carry, and this is a
sufficient guarantee that they are doing credit to
themselves and honor to the exposition.
An Interesting Experiment.
We are pleased to announce a most interesting
experiment that will take place on next Monday.
Mr. Edward Atkinson and the delegates from the
New England manufacturers??? association will go
out to the exposition grounds in a body. They will
enter a cotton field belonging to the exposition and
pick with their own hands enough cotton to make
suit of clothes. This cotton will be
taken trom the bags worn by these wealthy pickers
by the Willimantie linen company, and at once put
into theirmachinery and by night a suit of clothes
finished from this cotton will be presented to Mr.
Edward Atkinson as a souvenir of the great exposi
tion that he was the first man to suggest. It will be
aninterestingsightto see these wealthy men who
have spent their lives in the manufacture of cotton
try their hands at the other end. They enter into
the project with great zest, and are anxious to see
what they can do.
A Novel Affair
NEW ENGLANDERS PICKING THE FLEECY STAPLE.
At 5 o???clock Monday rooming Mr. Edward Atkin
son and other New England manufacturers will go
into the cotton patch on the exposition grounds
and pick cotton from which a suit of clothes will be
made by the Willimantie company. The suit will
be made in the same style as that manufactured on
governor???s day, and the process will be watched
with great interest by every body.
The Senators.
Among the distinguished "persons present yester
day were Senators Hampton, Morgan, Slater and
Brown. They went the rounds of all the buildings
under the guidance of Senator Brown. They were
evidently interested. The senators arc of opinion
that great practical good will result from the expo
sition, not only to Atlanta but the entire. south*
Senators Hampton and Slater have returned home,
and Senator Morgan will leave Atlanta to-day or
to-morrow for Rome, where he goes to visit some
relatives. Several other senators are expected.
Exposition Notes.
???Probably the biggest day of the
week will be Saturday. On that
day, which has been christened by
the director general as Rome day, there Will be
another large excursion along the Western and At
lantic railroad, beginning at Rome. It is estimated
that the largest crowd ever yet admitted to the ex
position will pass through the gates that day. This
day has also been set apart for the schools and
school children, and if accompanied by their parents
or teachers, will be admitted between the hours of
9 and 11 a. m. for twenty-five cents.
???Thursday, November the 24th, is educational
day and all the colleges, schools and all institutions
of learning, whether mechanical or otherwise, will
be admitted nt twenty-five cents. On that day ad
dresses will be made in the Judges hall by students
who may hereafter be selected. A complete pro
gramme. prepared with great care for this occasion
will be published as soon as arranged.
The commercial tourists are takinga lively inter.
cst In their day, the date of which has not yet been
arranged.
???The big annex to the great big building is com
plete and is full ofvery ornate exhibits.
???Mr. Capers Dickson, of Oxford, has some beau
tiful cotton stalks in the Georgia exhibit.
???Tlie Eagle and Phenix mills, of Columbus, have
left their superb display in the charge of Mr. Fraak
Woodruff, Mr. Halstead having returned to Colum
bus.
???The three great engines which turn the long
lines of shafting are very much admired.
???Dr. Loring has pleased the people strikingly.
His visit to the south will do good.
???Ten thousand people will be here on Rome day,
so they say.
???The colored people are liegining to patronize
the exposition.
???Plenty of free music and good things to eat.
???Cent a mile on nearly all the roads. /
???Every day brings a larger and larger number of
people out.
???The Pennsylvania exhibitors will meet at
Judges hall at 9 o???clock to-morrow.
???Colonel George J. Carr and wife, who have spent
the past few days at the exposition, returned to {heir
home at Lynn, Moss., yesterday.
???The Novelty saw mill, exhibited by the E. M.
Birdsa.1 company, of Auburn, N. Y\, attracts much
attention.
???The display of buggies, wagons and carriages is
especially fine.
???A funny incident occurred at the exposition on
yesterday. In a party of four United States senators
???Hampton, Morgan, Brown and Slater???a banter
was made about the most skillful use of the old-
fashioned spinning wheel, and a trial resulted.
Senator Brown leading off. His success was tri
umphant. and the other; senators retired from the
contest.
???The wire fence making machine of the Wash-
hum & Moen company, Worcester, Mass., has had
about it ever since it was put in position a con
stant crowd. Everybody wants to see it and every
body docs sec it. Since it has been in position it
has been running steadily and has manufactured
several miles of barbed wire, which is kept for ex
hibition.
???Colonel C. P. Atmore, general passenger agent
of the Louisville and Nashville railroad, telegraphs
Mr. B. W. Wrenn that he will run an excursion to
the exposition at one cent per mile from all of the
points on the lines controlled by that company,
which includes the Louisville, Evansville and SL
Louis, the Memphis, Montgomery, Mobile and New
Orleans. The exposition feels thankful to the Lou
isville and Nashville.
???When does the first excursion come from Colonel
Cole???s lines?
???Diamond day on Monday at Jaccard???s, art halL
New arrival of solitaires and lace pins.
AFFAIRS IN GEORGIA,
AS REPORTED BY THE CONSTITU
TION???S CORRESPONDENTS.
An Eagle Tries to Carry Off a Child in Monroe County
But ia Frustrated and Captured???Baroesvillc???s
Improvements???Death of an Old Citizen of
Americas???A Jail Escape at Conyers.
By Mail and Wire to The Constitution.
Forsyth, November 5.???Little Katie,infan-
daughter of J. J. and M. L. Hussey, whose
life has hung upon a thread for some weeks
past, breathed her last on yesterday afternoon.
???On last Thursday Mr. John Abernathy
who resides about six miles from this place,
started out squirrel limuting with his little
???four-year-old boy. The little fellow was
ahead of him about fifty feet, when Mr. A.
heard a rambling noise over his head and
looking up he saw a large bird swooping
down upon his child. ???Raising his gun he
tired, breaking the bird???s wing. On coming
up to it he found it to be a genuine bald
eagle. Endeavoring to capture it, his
majesty showed fight, fixing liis
talons in Mr. A???s. arm, and with his beak
inflicted several wounds in his hand, forcing
him to cry for help. Some of his neighbors
came to his assistance, and released him bv
cutting the eagle???s throat. On being brought to
town it caused quite a crowd to assemble.
His honor, Mayor Allen, liaS purchased it for
the city council, and turned it over to a tax
idermist, who will prepare it in the highest
style of the art, and in the future the royal
bird will grace the council chamber. Its
weight is_17 pounds and measures 7 feet and
4 inches from the tip of one wing to the other
???Last evening a mass meeting of
our citizens was held to' devise ways
and means for the completion of the
Monroe female college. It is thought that
$4,000 will complete it; $500 was raised and
with tile $8,000 subscribed leaves a balance of
$500, which it is thought will be raised to day.
Work will be commenced at once and it is
hoped that the exercises of that noble, time-
honored institute will be resumed at the
spring term, 1SS2.
Hartwell, October 31.???Our whole com
munity is in deep mourning, by the sudden
death on yesterday evening at 6 o???clock of
Rev. B. C. Thornton, more familiarly known
by everybody in this country as ???Uncle Cal
loway??? Thornton. He was one of the purest
of men, and his life of unostentatious piety
was admired and made him beloved by all
who knew him. He had been sick but a "very
short while, and had been suffering a few days
with neuralgia. On Saturday evening lie wciit
to Ur. Matthews, who extracted a tooth and
gave him some medicine, consisting of mor
phine and quinine. He went home and his
wife gave him the medicine, and, very soon
afterwards he fell into profound sleep, the
first rest he had had for several days. Noth
ing was thought of it until yesterday morn
ing, when the family became uneasy about
his not waking, and sent for the doctor.
Everything was tried to rouse him, but with
out success, as . he never awoke, but quietly
passed away to his heavenly home with the
setting of the sun on yesterday evening. The
opinion of the doctors, we learn, is that, his
death was caused by apoplexy. He will
be buried here this evening at four o???clock.
He was widely known all over Georgia,
haying traveled a good deal with liistwo little
children, Mack anil Jessie, known as ???the lit
tle singers.??? He himself was a great singer,
and a favoritcjhymn of his, ???Have You Heard
the Good News???? will be remembered by all
who ever heard him sing it.
ALBAXY.Novembcr 1.???The long delayed and
anxiously awaited rain commenced to fall in
earnest about 2 p. m. last Sunday and con
tinued with occasional intermissions, to an
learly hour Monday morning. It was a splen
did season and breaks up the longest and
severest drouth this locality has passed
through within memory. All the cisterns
about town that had been dry for weeks have
now received a sufficiency of water, anil many
families are relieved from a great incoveni-
ence, as well as an untim ilv item of expense
in hauling water from a distance. A dis
patch received from Bainbrige yesterday
stated that Judge Fleming was too seriously
ill to hold the adjourned term of our superior
court, which was to have commenced yester
day. The court stands adjourned over till to
day, hut it is hardly probable that a judge
will be in attendance, which will adjourn
it to the next spring term in April.
This will likely be the case with Worth and
Baker counties, likewise, unless some other
other judge can spare the time to hold them
for Judge Fleming. The weather since the
rain is superb. No frost as yet, but tending
that way fast. A good frost would be almost
as welcome as the rain, as a good deal of sick
ness is still reported from the country around.
Mrs. Sophia Mann and Mrs. * Cordelia
F. Bagley, of Hawkinsville, have been on a
visit, for sotjie days past, to friends and rela
tives in Albany, of whom they have a legion
of both here.
Milledgeville, November 5.???Yesterday
was the first frost of the season. It was not
severe enough to do any damage, except in
very low, dump localities. Cotton crop
nearly all gathered and most of it marketed.
There is much money in circulation, aiM the
average freedman is happy. Never a day
passes that there is not one or more loa s of
corn, in the ear, on the streets for sale and
tons of crab and swamp grass hay are
being sold. Seed oats are in gooil de
mand. Every farmer is sowing largely of this
important article. One farmer, who has hut
thirty acres of land, on which he has made
this year four-fifths of a bale of cotton to the
acre, has sown the whole of it in oats, put
ting as manure seventy-five bushels of cotton
seed to the acre. A telephone connecting
the city with the lunatic asylum has just been
completed. Our market is now bountiful
ly supplied with very fine beef, fattened on
the pea fields. Mrs.Dr.Hartwell,of Albany,
is visiting her brother of this city.
Rome, October 30.???The telephone exchange
and the street railway are Rome???s latest pro
jects. The Cherokee artillery wiil give a
grand ball at their attractive armory on No-,
vemberlOth. Tlie leading cotton'men of
the city will visit tlie exposition on the 12th
of next month.??????The people of Rome will
vote on the qtiestion of public schools on the
first Tuesday in December, the day of the mu
nicipal election. It is impossible as yet tc
predict the result, but it is to be hoped that
our people will range themselves on the side
of progress, education and liberality. The
friends of public schools are quite sanguine.
The recent ordinance of the city council.
taxing college property in Rome, is unfavor
ably commented on in'some quarters. It is
believed by many that tlie effect of the ordi
nance will be to injnre the cause of education
in Rome. Others contend that the ordinance
is sound and salutary. Mr. Joseph H. Sar
gent has purchased the Rome hotel, and it
will hereafter be known as the ???Sargent
house.??? The new proprietor is one of tlie
best caterers in the city. All the Romans
who have thus far attended the exposition
report it a grand success.
West Point, November 1.???The negro who
had his head crushed as Forenaugh???s circus
train passed tinder the car shea at tills place
about a week ago, died to-day. Mr. W. E.
Jones, of this city, intends making Atlanta
his future home. He has rented his hand
some residence at this place tp the Rev. Mr.
Rlioby, of Cusseta, Ala., who has just been
called to the pastorate of the Baptist church
of this place. The Constitution, always
alive to the interests of its subscribers, has by
a special arrangement been enabled to place
The Constitution on the breakfast table of its
West Point subscribers the same day of its is
sue. This is a great convenience, and West
Point shows her appreciation of it by arousing
subscription list. The vote for ???fence??? or
???no fence??? at this place yesterday gave ???no
fence??? 55 majority. Mr. W. L. Willing
ham, of LaGrangc, has been on a visit to
friends here this week.
Dawson, October 2!>.???The Catholic priest 1
Rev. Father Pendergast, has bought Mr. Pat
rick Ward???s residence and lot in the southern
portion of our town. I learn that a Catholic
church will be erected at an early day on a
suitable and eligible site on the lot. Colo
nel P. J. Howard has recently purchased a de
sirable home in our eity, and will reside here
next year with his family. Our people all
most heartily indorse The Constitution???s ef
forts to induce the railroad officials to give bet
ter rates over their lines to visitors jto the cot
ton exposition. If the rates remain as they
now are, I am sure that a dozen people from
this county will not attend, but with rates re
duced to a'ccnt per mile each way, there is no
doubt but that several hundred would visit
the exposition and he benefited thereby.
Heavy rains here to-day. ???
Dahlonega, October 2S.???The land suit
known as the Smith heirs vs. McMillan <fc
Snow, was terminated this court, after a tliree
days??? trial, the jury rendering a verdict in
favor of the defendants. This case involved
tlie title of a five thousand dollar farni, near
Leathers???s ford, in this county, which Dr. Ben
Smith left to his children, but which farm J.
A. Wimpy sold, and most of the heirs did
not receive any of tlie benefits of said sale,
and never will, I suppose.-???Professor E. H.
Beck has tendered his resignation as teacher
in the North Georgia Agricultural college. Bad
health and business claims, wc learn, led him
to take tliis step. James Rice is now on
trial for killing a prisoner whilst under liis
charge. This occurred during the war, in
1804.
Marietta, October 31.???Some excitement
exists in our city on account of the arrest of
a negro, Sam Edwards, last Saturday by Cap
tain W. P. Stephens, of the exposition police.
Upon his person were found several valuable
articles, amongst which was a handsome gold
watch, the property of Colonel P. W. Alex
ander, stolen mini his home some months
since. The prisoner lias confessed his
crime, and ims implicated all of his accom
plices, who, he states, arc tlye gang who have
committed so many burglaries lately. Ar
ticles from half a dozen houses have been re
covered, showing the extent of their opera
tions. Mr. John C. Shugart, one of our
oldest citizens, died yesterday; also Miss Nina
Mallins, last night, of typhoid fever.
The farmers report/that tlie entire crop will
be gathered by Novejnber 15th.
Amkkicus, November 4.???On Wednesday, at
one o???clock, p. in., Mr. James W. Furlow, one
of the oldest and most highly esteemed citi
zens of Americus, died. He was .sixty-nine
years old, and had resided in this city for
thirty years, during which time he sustained
the character of an upright, useful and influ
ential citizen. He was one of the directors of
the hank of Americus, and, for sercral years,
was one of the hoard of county commissioners.
A negro man, named Ed Partridge, whip
ped his stepdaughter, a child six or seven
years old, to death,-in Sclilev county, last
week. The coroner???s jury found a verdict in
accordance with the facts.
Barnesvili.k, November 5.???Mr. C. C.
Holmes, administrator of tlie estate of Mrs. H.
A. Barnes, divided lier landsiti the incorpora
tion into one and two acre lots, run several
new streets through the property and sold
a great many of the lots last Tuesday. They
will be lmilt up, no doubt, and thus Barnes-
villecontinucs tospread her wings. Mrs. A.
J. Yates died at her residence iti Upson coun
ty, last Sunday, ana her son???s wife died short
ly after, thus father and son were widowed in
one day.
Red Clay, October 31.???On yesterday Mr.
York, who lives near Red Clay,shot and killed
his son Thomas. It seems that bad feeling
has been existing between them for some lit
tle time. Thomas lived on the farm of his
lather as a tenant, and they cropped together.
He lived in a different house with his wife
and child. Yesterday morning Thomas and
his wife were in the cow pen, where he was
shot by liis father with an army musket, in
the presence of liis own and Thomas???s wife,
Eight buckshot took effect just below the
heart. He lived but a few moments. Mr.
York fled, and as yet has not been captured,
though being pursued.
Athens, October 29.???On Thursday last the
passenger train on tlie Northeastern railroad
ran oft' tlie track at Harmony Grove; some
thing wrong about the switch; no one hurt;
tlie engine badly broken. Two brilliant
weddings will take place here next Wednes
day. Miss Ethel Hamilton and Mr. Devan,
anil Miss Sue Thomas and Mr. A. R. Jones, of
Atlanta. Friends are sending in many hand
some bridal presents. The negro cut by
Mr. McDonald, who was reported to he dead,
is still living and is now thought out of dan
ger.
Elbertox, October 29.???Considerable ex
citement was created here yesterday by a
traction engine traversing the different streets
of the town. A little child of Mr. N. B.
Casby???s died yesterday. Corn is selling at
about 80 cents a bushel at public sale in this
comity. -Landlords arc beginning to inforce
their liens for rent and supplies by legal pro
cess,. A number of our citizens have re
turned from Atlanta and give a glowing ac
count of the exposition. Reduced railroad
rates would induce nearly all our farmers to
attend tlie exposition.
Eufaula, November 3.???Hon. A. L. Brooks,
of Macon county, this state, one of the rising
ntcn of this section, is in the city. He con
templates a removal to Elba, Coffee county,
to practice law???a fine field. He will com
mence the publication next week of the Elba
News, a new candidate for public favor and
advertisements. An infant child of Rev.
Mr. Wamboldt???s died in Jacksonville, Fla.,
on the 1st inst. He left for that place yester
day. The Baptists here didn???t get Dr.
Goodwin; he goes to Danville, Va.; nor did
the Catholics, Father Ryan; they have Father
Fullerton, and the former, nobody yet. They
have a mind for Dr. Mitchell, of Griffin, ora
Mr. Cliumbless, of Kansas City, Mo.
Albany November 3.???The steamboat New
ton, having been lately overhauled and re
fitted with a new engine and machinery, is
now making occasional trips between Albany
and Newton, carrying freight and passengers.
The Hon. Phil Cook. M. C , from the third
district, is in the city. It is surmised lie came
down to satisfy himself about the time the
circus would arrive. His many friends here
were glad to see him looking in such elegant
trim for the approaching session. We learn
that $13 per $1,000, was offered a party here
yesterday for confederate bonds.
Cedartown, November 4.???On yesterday
afternoon Dr. Charles H Harris was thrown
from his buggy, near the court square, from
which he received painful but not serious in
jury. Two small children were in the buggy
at the time and were also thrown
to the ground but escaped hurt.
The shoulder strap by which one of the
convict guards carried his gun broke this
morning while tlie men were being put upon
the cars to go to the woods and his gun fell,
and in the fall tlie same was discharged,
slightly wounding three of the convicts in
their feet and legs.
Baikbbxdge, October 31.???The Gunby Jor
dan, running between Columbus and Apa
lachicola, ran upon a rock at 1 o???clock to-aay
about two miles below Bainbridge and sunk.
No lives were lost. Two very heavy engines
formed a part of her cargo, and both toppled
into the river as the boat sank. A large
quantity of salt went to the bottom. Smne
two hundred head of sheep and cotton were
ahoaod but saved. The loss to the company
will 'be heavy. A gentleman from Apa
lachicola, Fla., reports 36 deaths in that place
during the last 20 days, from malarial fever.'
Patients, in some instances, die in a few
hours.
Washington, October 2.???Mr. B. D. But
ler???s gin house was burned night
before last, together with ten hales of
cotton. Mr: Butler estimates liis loss
at twelve hundred dollars. A few nights
previous an attempt was made to hum lii s
gin house, and since that time Mr. Butler lias
been setting up at night watching the gin
house, and on tlie night it was burned he had
just retired, when he discovered tlie house on
fire. He was insured for about $1,000. The
wife of Major James Willis, a highly respect
ed citizen of this county, died day before
yesterday.
Dalton, October 31.???A horrible difficulty
occurred near this place yesterday morning.
A Mr. Callaway York shot and killed his son.
It is said that the difficulty was about some
rent coni. York was arrested and lodged in
jail to-day. The new compress attracts a
good deaf of attention. Mr. and Mrs. H. C.
Babcock, have returned from Nelson, New
York, to spend the winter here. Misses
Frank Wyley, of Jacksonville, Alabama, and
Minnie Rogers, of Millen, Georgia, are the
guests of the Misses Trammell. Hon, J. C.
Clements, congressman from this district, is
at the National.
CdfcYERs, November 4.???A negro man put
in jail some time ago for stealing 40 cents,
made a leap for freedom yesterday morning
when Sheriff Mitchell went to give him his
breakfast, and made a success of it. Up to
this'time he has not been recaptured. Did
not learn his name. Ice and a big frost
here this morning and overcoats and log tires
in demand.
Jessup, November, 1.???At o???clock a. m.
our town was alarmed by the cry of ???fire!
fire!??? and we soon discovered the Hames issu
ing from the roof of Mr. W. T. Wilkins???s cot
tage residence. Owing to tlie early hour at
which the fire was discovered, it 1iad made
considerable progress before the nssembleu
crowd could do anything. They succeeded,
however, iu saving nearly or quite all the
furniture, the sash and doors from the lower
rooms and the kitchen.
Spartanburg, S. 0., October 31.???Professor
David Duncan died at 11 turn, to-day, aged 90.
Twenty-seven years ago Professor Duncan was
called from Randolph and Macon college, to
fill a chair in Wofford. During a life full of
honors and usefulness, he commanded and re
tained the respect, esteem and love of all.
DEATH OF JUDGE FLEMING.
Hod. L P. I). Warren Appointed to Fill the Vacancy.
Hon. \V. O. Fleming, judge of the Albany circuit
died at his residence iu Bainbridge, Friday evening
lost. He has been sick since October with some
affection of the lungs which resulted In typhoid
pneumonia.
Tne death of Judge Fleming left a vacancy
in that office which Governor Col
quitt filled yesterday by the appoint
ment of Hon. L. P. D. Warren, of Albany, Georgia.
As the governor left Atlanta yesterday for New York,
and there was immediate necessity for a judge to
continue the fall courts, he made the appointment
without delay. Judge Warren was recommended
by telegraph by the bar of Albany and by leading
lawyers all over the circuit. He is an accomplished
jurist, nnd will fill the bench with grace and ability.
It was an interesting coincidence that Judge Wil
liam B. Fleming and Judge William O. Fleming,
father and son, should both have been occupying
our supreme court bench at the same time, ??? the
father in the Eastern nnd the sou in the Albany cir
cuit. It has been a sad coincidence that both at the
same time should cense their judicial .labors,
the father resigning his position on
account of old age, and tlie son removed
by death in the very vigor of his manhood. Judge
Wm. B. Fleming retired the first of November and
on the 3d, two days later, his son. Judge William
O. Fleming, died. The loss to Georgia will be great
from this coincident deprivation of official service.
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