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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION, TUESDAY, JUNE 20. 1382.
»PLin THP QTATT7 I and elqquence. Allwere greatly pleased who j reasonable figures. The country Around, with an executive who is a: fearless, Christian he lias struck a bonanza. From such
llllxUWUJ^WU l 1 XI £j OlAiL I heard him and agree that Proles or Jones worth and Irwin counties in particular, have gentleman. » I ble music, shades of Beethoven! prot
SPECIALLY REPORTED FOR TH1
CONSTITUTION.
T.trbnra luti-latrM in D*c»tur-E*z» mi Tin
ber—From Dalton to Gxlnrivlll*—Perry Politic.
—Jmiup Jotting.—A Child Drowned—
Wool. Onto »nd Cotton—Other New..
could not have selected a minister who had
a better conception of what a commencement
sermon should be. The primary department
entertained this morning a large crowd with
recitations and reading in a highly creditable
manner. Miss Luda Jones, of Griffin, Miss
| Corrie Moses, of Turin, and numerous'other
fair visitors, are here in attendance upon com-
| mencen.ent exercises.
PERSY POLITICS.
8PRIKOTOWS Valley, Gordon County, June I Special Correspondence sf The Constitution
10.—More beautiful landscapes than the hills , Pebky ; June 10.—Executive committee met
• „ “ * " here to-day and fixed the hrst Tuesday in
ana valleys of.Goraon cannot be found m tbe I j u jy f or delegates to meet at court house to
Cherokee wilds, and.as, descending the moun- elect demotes to the convention in Atlanta
tain's side, one catches a glimpse of Austin I on the 19th of July. All difficulties were
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
female seminary far down in the valley below,
the loveliness of the panorama suggested that I
“beautiful" as well as “healthful and. se
cluded" were its descriptive adjectives, io-
harmoniously adjusted and everything mov
ing on for a dealocjatic victory in the fall.
EG HE rZESONALS.
Special Correspondence.of The Constitution.
Rome, June 12.—Rev. R. B. Headden, of
Cartersville, preached the commencement
cated in Springtown valley, ™»ed£ontiSSSSKFUStaTBtafr
account. of the number of its crystal spnng3, I r i an - church, yesterday morning. A number
in tbe heart of the mountains, far away from of strangers are in tbe city attending the
town or city, with all the advantages of urban I commencement exercises. Judge "Under-
institutions, few of their drawbacks and a wood returned yesterday from Washington,
higher standard of education, here it Is pro-1 He is in fine health and spirits. Mr. Frank
posed to raise the culture of southern woman-I Wood, formerly of Atlanta, is now editing
hood to the highest development of the graces the local department of the Courier, and is
and accomplishments befitting thesex. Equal making it very attractive. Mr. John Towers,'-
to that of southern male colleges in i:s curncu- foimerly local editor of the Courier, is now
luih, and what is more unusual with a facility devoting his time to the real estate business,
whose work has rigidly sustained its catalogued I His many friends wish'him abundant suc-
standard, it is no surprise that in the second cess.
year of its infancy, with a representation al- some potatoes. i,
ready from five states, such a school is rapidly special Correspondence of The Constitution,
extending its reputation as aprominentsouth- Erastcs June 8.—Colonel Henry Strick-
ern institution. Its founder, Colonel James.) land, of Duluth, was down last week spend-
8. Austin, widely known through the south ; ng a few pleasant days at the old homestead
as an educator, came from Kentucky to Geor- among relatives arid old friends. He inform-
gia in '80 to carry ont alongcherished object, e d m e he bought & red cedar churn fifty odd
the establishment of a “home school in the I years ago when-he first went to housekeeDing
country for- girls" _ with these distinctive I from an old man 1 whom he supposed then to
features; a reformation of the farcical laxity I he seventy years old. The man front whom
which characterizes the standard of female ed- he bought the churn said he received it from
ucation in the south; a recognition of the ad- his grandfather. The colonel thinks the
vantages of seclusion in the training of the fc- c hum is at least 150 Years old. Mr. Loyd
male mind; health and physical develop- Smith, near Planter’s, found a tarrapin in his
saent combined with practical instruction field some time since with a toe, or rather, a
in domestic accomplishments;' How tail nnil on the end of his tail. Owing to the
thoroughly these principles have been fol- coldness of the spring our crop of snakes is
lowed was emphatically indicated by the re' unusually short for the Reason and which will
cent commencement exercises of June 1st to I account for the scarcity of big snake stories
8th, inclusive. Passing over the tubal routine this season. While the hands on the public
of sucli occasions we present the resultant road were cutting A ditch last fail near Mr.
obtained from the above stated-factors. The Bennett Browri’s potato patch thev struck/
annual examinations witnessed by the board something in the road and thinking’it an hid
of visitors and patrons of the school era- hickory stump or root, set fire to it to burn it'
bracing every class, department and grade 1 out. On passing by the hickory stump; as
gave strongest evidence of the quality of the they supposed, on their return home front
work done both,.by faculty and .students. I their day’s work some of tbe boys said they
Primary, intermediate and advanced classes smelled , something like roasted or burned
evinced superior training, but the remarkable, I potatoes, and on examining the supposed
perhaps phenomenal work was the papers of stump found it to be one of BennCtVs big
the mgrnduates in geology, higher mathemat- 'tatcra growing across the public road; The
ics and metaphysics. In their report the I boys not having the ingredients or time, like
board of visitors paid the senior class the ais* Uncle Matt, of Jackson county, to make a
tinguisbed compliment of- "having ex-1 pudding, took theirs baked and roasted while
•died in these sciences the work done by the working the road. Mr. Brown fattened his
average junior and senior classes in porkers on the remainder,
male colleges. From the lecture-rooms to jessvp jottings
the kitchen ihc transition was as interesting
ns novel. Bending over the crackling stove! 8 *jE^J^lO ^ ^ A S °^iIrn«d
their face flushed to a “celestial red,” amidst Doctor Twffi„,V,ui
the rattle of utensils and' the odor of savory S
generally kept the market here full, both for I a child drowned. .
home consumption and shipment. But the I Special Correspondence of The Constitution,
supply this season is exceptionally short, and Canton. June 12.—The sad intelligence
we have noticed that the same complaint is I reached town last Saturday evening that a
made in other sections. Housewives about little eight year old girl of Jane Coker’s, a
town say the eggs wont hatch out as formerly, widow woman, who lives about three miles
and the country people complain of cholera sonth of this place, had in some way let her
and other diseases among thejr fowls. Fancy clothing catch on fire, and before they could
prices, for this tsme of year, have ruled the be gotten off had frightfully burned her. Her
market for some time past, and it is evident motlfcr nor any other grown person was near
he supply is running low. Meanwhile when the house at the time, and but for some one
his comes to be, as it doubtless will, a dis-1 passing by and smelling clothing burning,
inct Industry down here, it will be found the child might not have saved its life'at all.
ha no section is better adopted to it.''On At last occounts she was still alive. Saturday
very farmyard plenty are ordinarily raised,or truly was a day of terrible accidentsfor Can-
ather raise themselves, with the. least care ton and vicinity. The remains of Tommie
nd attention in the world. During a recent Newman, who was drowned in the Etowah
trip to Mitchell County it was noted that the I river Saturday morning, was yesterday inter-
poorest families, negroes as well as whites, al-1 red in the town cemetery. His classmates in
ways had the largest supplv.and theirswere the the every day and Sunday-school bore his re-
only places where any Could be had for love or mains to the graveyard and performed the
money. Some of our farmers, who have been I sad duty of covering him with mother earth
used to'seeing tbeirgood wives carry home ( A beautiful touching discourse was delivered
more clear pin money from • a cart load of by Rev. Bond, which stirred the hearts of
eggs and chickens, butter, etc:, than they every one and caused tears to freely flew,
have brought off from a six mule team load
of heavily mortgaged cotton, over which they I ■ * the murderous fhot-oun.
had toiled and worried the wljole' year, have Special Correspondence of The Constitution,
been set to thinking over the-matter, and im- Hawkinsville, June 10.—Au altercation
proved breeds of fowls and modes of raising occurred this morning between Jack Frazer
.hem, have become topics of family discus-1 and Sepp Burklialter, two colored men, on
sl0 ?- , ... . the plantation of J. R. Coley, four milesabove
A correspondent of the hews and Adverti- town. Sepp brought his murderous shot-gun
ser from Baker states that but worms and lice I to bear upon Jack, who beat a hasty retreat,
are beginning to do some damage to the cot-1 but not in time to escape a load of bird-shot
orr plant. Also that the oat crop has been | which, at a distance of twenty yards, was
• . ... * •, , . , I tsAiwv mm w vuv prCSCllt* aa nviuuu o iun vv
raised tuepnee of dram shop licenses from curred this morning between Queen Anderson
$27 to $1,000, with the full approval of all the and Nettie Shaver, two dusky damsels, on the
citizens of the county. Official notice is also plantation of John L. Anderson, in which
given that the democracy or Baker will meet Queen emptied four chambers of a revolver at
in convention at Newton on the first Tuesday | Xettic without effect.
strusc field of metaphysics, or thundered on part^f InuHna coi&eil
ivory tuecompositionsofRossini as the brown |
light biscuits, ensp wafers and delicious waffles
en to rostrum we followed on; the porticoes
; I edtome^iheotherday thath'e'hadtheb^crop
w o * ie ever ^ a<3 in his life . and lie has raised some
served with Grecian ideality ns the stage, the I pretty good crops. The only trouble in this
; n n, 1 in 1 r,^ l ,r£ fa T r n ^ S, t ,° section is that the area planted is toosmull-
P 1?’ to ° roucb turpentine and timber and not
beneath a large blue canvass, under the shade en0U gh of “hog and hominy.” Hon. John C.
of the trees, or grouped along the adjacent I Nicholls, of Fierce* county, is mentioned
piazzas, tlie audience were seated, and ns the I i-KS j—-----
opening anthem swelled from the tuneful
choir,
seemed
„ „ „ .. .... ,, connection with the office of congressman at
S | W i?iwt ta - n J {Ul I large, and while his frietids here expected to
***• hushed air, .the_picture I rcturn hi m from the First district, yet if
i i la ,' e r ™ c * 1C1 ^ t * 1 ?. Ultima Thule of brought into the state con test/you may count
speak in full
last attested excellence in toto. Tiie follow-
ing is a synopsis of the programme:
Sunday, June 4tli, commencement sermon
SLEECHES AT CARROLLTON.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Carrollton, June 12.—Hon. Henry Per-
by Rev. j! B. Robbins, of Cave Springs; Tues- ® on f>. fording to previous announcement,
•day evening; anniversary Calliopenn society; lost Saturday, Urn ,10th instant, spoke in
•address by James A. Gray, of Atlanta; Wed- **>.« court house at tbis place, upon Uie sub-
nesday, s6iree musicale with a brilliant pro- ft ct of organizing the democracy-advocating
gramme, one striking feature being the exe- f primary elections as being the
cution in perfect time and stirring spirit, of ■ mode of .carrying oat sam party organi-
several in-hand pieces, which were received nation, and cultivating peace and harmony in
With great applause Thursday. June 17th, democratic ranks. He made quite an
commencement day; Addresses were delivered !,b ? and plausible araument in favor of the
by Rev! G. A. Nunnally, of Rome, and Rev. Bfi5»l£ > u, 1 l! aT0CBt ®S; Mr - ^.rsons will de-
T>Arncll- Chattanooim. Tenn. Medals were I lrver . the literary address at the
Darnell, CliaUanooga, Tenn. Medals were I uver . lIle ‘uerary auuress ai ine commence-
awarded to Miss Jennie Clark, of Esom Hill, I meat exercises of tl.e Carroll Masonic inst:-
Ga., and Miss Hattie Austin, of Austin semi
nary, for scholarship; to Misses: Annie L.
Howard and Hattie Hoke, both of Atlanta,
for music, and to Miss Bettie Kennedy, of
famden, Ala., for art. The following is a list
af tlie ’.Tiiduatcs with their essays: Saluta-
tute on Tuesday, the 20th instant. The school
is in a flourishing condition, and the exercises
will be highly entertaining to those fond of
literary exhibitions. On Sunday, the 18th
instant, Dr. F. H. M. Henderson will deliver
the commencement sermon in the Baptist
.. - . | church at this place; and W. C. Adamson
to E?hS-s from Mistlaml,” Mte Brttie C. Kenl awards the P rizes at the closc of the achooL
icdy, Alabama; “Queen Fashion,” Miss Fan-1 sympathy for the senator.
lie C. Hoke, Georgia; “Ideal Woman,” Miss I Special Correspondence ot The Constitution.
Diva Toliver, Alabama; Valedictory, Miss j University Or Georgia. Athens, June TO.
Ada J. Plummer, Kentucky.
fairbi rn facts.
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
Faikbukn, June 11.—Politics in this
¥ lace is a tiling of the past. Hon. Henry
’ersons sp -ke at tlie court house Friday last,
but there was pot enough interest ip his mis-
—Editors Constitution: Tlie following reso
lutions were adopted after the receipt of your
paper of the 8th instant, and will explain
themselves:
Resolved 1. We, the students of the University of
Georgia, now assembled, being informed of the re
turn of Senator Benjamin 11. Hill to Atlanta, do
extend to him a hearty welcome baez to his native
Sion to draw tlie merchants away from thoir | state, with the assurance that the heart of each of
stores «m a dull day. The people seem to be us sends to the Great Mercy Scat an earnest prayer
,, ,i,„ inevitable so i\r as the cuber- for his restoration to vigorous health.
resign; <1 to the tncMtabie—so lar astneguoe^ Resolved 2. That a copy of these resolutions be
natoruil race is concerned—tne> are satis nea J jonvarded to Senator Hiil, and also one to The
that we will take “Little Alex, for better [ Atlanta Const.tution, whose beautiful editorial
or worse. Jt is well that one lias ;been se- of this date (8th) we fully indorse.
. lected who will have a grand walk over with- UcQI1 ' WAsmitG-roN,
. out disturbing the quipt of the country, for 1 ; a W Van Hoose,'
. farmers are,too.intent on. tickling thesoiland ]• A H Frazer,
reaping bountiful harvest to he drawn off by j h H Phinizy,
anoiliif- hot contest which profits theiq ] Committee,
nothieg. Wehavo one, of the best little I newnas s commencement
towns iu Georgia. It never gets on a. boom; ].Special Correspondence of TheiConstitution. •
, . ^yjthin ]‘ ;Newnan,, June 11.—On, yesterday Rev. M,
but maintains a steady improvement. .,.....,..,,^0 —■
■Uto lart ycar.tl'jere lias been some -beautiful j C. N: McKay, of'Griffin, preached the com-
resuk-iK -a e'rccUd, which would be no dis- ] mencement sermon in Arcade hall at college,
credit to any street in Atlanta. Mr. W. A. I His sermon was replete with learning, wisdom
MeCurry hasousl closed a contract for the 1 from dalton to gainesville-
crcction of a- two-story brick store house, to J special Correspondence of The Constitution,
be built this spmmcr. The stock law « in I Dalton. June 10.—Dalton is considerably
force in this county,' which is a great benefit j agitated about, tlie new railroad from here to
to all classes..- It went into effect January L, I Gainesville, Ga. A meeting is called to-day
and there has been but one case of‘taking up I a t the court-house. A large num-
stock” which amounted to anything. The j ijgj of those interested ' are ex
people are well pleased with it, even those pected to attend and take steps to
who opposed it. at the election. It is reported I have the road to intersect at this point. • Mur-
here upon good authority that a poor Iialiaii. I ra y county, the adjoining connty which the
peddling his wares in Douglasville, was set I w ill pa^s through, is considerably excited
upon by some of the county officials and tlie 1 0 j, the matter. It is rumored that land along
authorities of the town and beaten almost to j j; ne being bought up with a view of
death. The “Gabbett,” more familiarly I g t >eculation. Knowing ones say that the road
known as the “goober,” train, is a ,great con- 1 a certainty. It is greatly needed and will
vcntc-nce to the people along tins line, and 1 develop some of the ricn resources of north
they are loud in their praise of the progressive I Georgia when it is completed. May the loco-
superintendent, Mr. Gabbett. motive whistle soon be sonnded along the
■married in decatcr. 1 ravines and bluffs of old blue Cohuttah
Special Correspondence of The Constitution. mountain. Aside from railroad excitement.
Decatur, Jane 12,-Gus Killian, Charlie | ‘'ase.baU parlance is all the rags. The erty is
.. rtkn.Uo W’lnitSnivltnm trifK tlm'P
. T , . , ....... . ., , —...v Queen was promptly
5 Jr?’ *° * *2 delegates to fbe state and I arrested, and, after a hearing, was bonded
district conventions. Politics bid fair-to be over to answer the charge ofshootingatan-
lively down here tins summer. A good pros- other
pect invariably brings on eitlier a political or
- religious revival, frequently both' together. I < AWtHX/SENA'OR's death.
One hundred thousand young shad; were Special Correspondence of The Constitution,
deposited in Flint river here. at. the foot of I Eastman, June 12.—Hon. J. J. Hamilton,
Broad street, yesterday, by H. E. Quitiii, of I who represented this senatorial district in the
the United States fish commission. It was I legislature of 1378 and 1879, died of paralysis
not stated who did the counting, but ave pre- I ^ Di® residence, Saturday evening. Air.
sutue the number is a fine approximation. Hamilton was a man of incorruptible integ-
' r ■' : 0 1 rity. He was ^throughout a long and hum-
wool, oats andcotton. ,i. -j •' I ble life faithful to every trust reposed in him.
Special Correspondence oi The Constitution. 1 ' I whether of a private or public-nature. He
Albany,-June-10.—Several Colquitt'people enjoyed the confidence and esteem of his
were, in town yesterday, bringing with them fellow-citizens in an unwonted degree. His
their season’s wool blip, being fifteen balc3 of death is universally regretted, and not only
packed : wool averaging above GOO pound's to I his weeping wife and children mourn him,
the bale, besides a large lot loose and unbaled, but mourning shrouds our town and coinniu-
The price they got was 27]4 cents per pound. I nity. Of him it may be -well said,-“here lies
One of them, J. B. Norman, tlicTate represeu- 1 an honest man,” who never deserted a friend
tative from that county, told yotir correspond-1 or betrayed a principle,
ent that the above represented only a fraction „„„ n
of the clip ready for market in his settlement, | . ,'-ested. ^
most of his neighbors being too busy at lioine I •‘’pccial Cor espondence of Tlie Constitution. .
with their crops to spare -the time to bring Albany, June 11.—Four candidates are un
their wool to market. He said that the crops derstood to be in the field for the judgeship
in Colquitt were the most promising this year of this circuit, to be balloted for by the next
he had ever seen, and that they had, and general assembly. These are B. B. Bowyce,
were still'having when he left, an* abundant “f Bainbridge; I. A. Busli, of Camilla; A. L.
fall of rain. The oat crop, bethought, would Hawes, of Newton, and W. P. Jones, of Al-
average a larger yield by 150 to 200 per cent bany. There may be others yet unannounced,
than it ever'had before. The corn was I Judge Vason, it is thought, would not decline
about made, aitd the smaller crops, cane, peas, Die position, but will hardly consent to sc rant-
potatoes, etc.; were all coing remarkably | Me tor it. Very few of the leading lawyers
well. The cotton was being troubled in many of the circuit would probably decline the
places with cutworms and lice, and was ‘be- honor if proffered, unsought, as law business
sides the most backward- crpp of any. The in southwest Georgia is not one of the indus-
turpentine men in his beat, were not alto- tries that are just now enjoying a boom.
f ether as hopeful as they tvere sometime I Meanwhile many friends of the present in-
ack, the price of rosin having fallen from I cumbent, Judge L. P. D. Warren, would be
$5.50 to $3.50 per barrel, and that some of glad to see him enter the lists in an active
them complained of doing a losing business, I effort to he his own successor. His health,
particularly where the rosin bad to be hauled I which was feeble and precarious in the spring,
a considerable distance. Many of tlie turpen- I lias been almost fully restored. His late un
tine distillers, however, are in* the same qpn-1 timely attack, coming just on tlie eve of the
dition the cotton planter has befn* in I spring sittings of his courts, has allowed him
since the war. Commencing with I'no opportunity as yet, of displaying and exer-
little or no capital, they , li’ve rising the legal and judicial ability which
been compelled to rely on advances from every one concedes to him. In any effort he
their factors and consignees in Savannah, I might be inclined to make in that direction,
which; as a matter of course, implies heavy be would have the best wishes of a large cir-
mortgaees and usurious rates of interest. A I de of personal friends and supporters,
serious decline in prices involves embarrass- [ George Crane, the negro _ who whipped
inent and in some cases ruin. Land grubbing I his ten year old child to death
appears to be going on as actively as ever. I ip east Dopglierty about a month
The same lots have been given in for tax by ago and who vanished just after
several claimants in hundreds of-instances, I was arrested yesterday on Mr. Cosby’s
under the act of September 28, 1881. The place, by a party of three young men of
cattle belonging to the stock raisers, he Doughertv and lodged in jail here. It is said
stated, were in better.condition thanTor years I that another one of his children was beaten to
p.»st, the range having been exceptionally j death by liim.about a year ago.
ijood all during the winter and spring. The 1 politics in eatontox.
tend between the stock raisers and the tur- I special Correspondence of The Constitution,
lentine men about land, was still Eatontox, June 12.—The democratic party
;ept up with unabated vigor, the of Putnam will meet en masse on the 27th-
tbances being about even. The latter I instant. Thd probability is that Putnam's
ire generally willing to pay more for the land j delegation to the state convention will be Hn-
they buy than the other, and are in general | instructed. Neither Mr. Stephens or Colonel
aot very particular about the title they are I Bacon are enthusiastically supported here,
getting. Plenty of litigation in prospect, I though as far as I can leant Mr. Stephens is
stc. The country is not settling up very rap- I the more popular of the two. So far, the
idly away from the railroad but is being I matter has been but little discussed, and the
prospected daily. Timber rapidly fdisappear- majority of our people seem wholly indiffer-
ing, and turpentine stills extending gradually I ent about it. Local politics, however, are
into the interior. For the rest, the country I lively. If we were entitled to fifty, instead
around might fairly be considered on an in- of only two, members front this county, we
cipient boom. The superior court of Colquitt I might be able to accommodate the aspirants,
county convenes on the first Wednesday It is rumored that Colonel S. A. Reid will
after the fourth Monday in March and soon become connected with the Chronicle.
September at Moultrie, the county site, 40 Frank LeverettsaysColonelReid has prepared
miles from Albany, 28 from Tliomasville, for this by shaving off his auburn beard and
and 2G front Ty-Ty, on the Brunswick I studying the code duello, and that he will
and Albany railroad, the nearest accessible I soon advertise for fights. One remarkable
points. From 1 the Albany and Vienna mail' I feature about tbe aforementioned candidates
carrier, last evening, we learn of abundant is tlie fact that they have just discovered what
rains all along his route through the western clever men their neighbors are.
portion of Worth and lower Dooly, and the I
crops more than promising. Vienna is fast . ear sto. e mol.-tai. .
recovering from her late fire. A big ball there I Special Correspondence of The Constitution,
last Wednesday night. The Alban v amateurs I Stone Mountain, June 10.—The farmers
and their friends have returned, highly de- in this community are as busy as -bees -harv-
liglited with their reception by the Americus 1 esting their wheat. We will lay the song
people. R. M. Johnson, the young man who j book on the desk and stop singing the song
shot John Cooper last week, Avas before Judge I “Waiting for tbe Harvest” on the time of
Warren yesterday tora preliminary trial on reaping awhile./ The whistle of the threshers
two warrants, one ctorginir him with murder, I is heard in.,the; land. . .
thfe other with assault with intent to kill. William Simpkins has begun to. grind new
The state’s attorney not being ready, he was I wheat.' It seems that lie makes a better turn
bound over for another week in two bonds, out of fiout than anybody else, and makes as
one of $2,000 and one of $1,000. Dr. J. P. l goodand.es nice com meal. Crops are fine.
Siephrhs, of Macon, will deliver a free lecture I Corn js. frotn^ finger high to shoulder^ high
iff thCPresbyterian church hereon to-morrow and cotton w from . two. leaves to fiftee i
irisUF nn ihp “RihlpAsan tnipltpj-Miql Rtnrlw ” I leaves 'High 1 , in these parts. We have a flour
ishing Sunday-echool at Stone Mountain M.
execra-
protect me!
THOHAS COUNTY’S BOOM.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Thomasville, June' S.—Tlie “boom” in
Thomasville and Thomas county is unprece
dented. Real estate is in demand at good
prices. Tlie oat crop is-as good as any since
the war. Tlie com crop the best we hav
seen in the country. Oats sell at fifty cents
per one hundred pounds which will thresh
two bushels. The LeConte pear crop is good.
Mr. Sandford has a tree that has thirty bushels
on it at least, probably more. Thomas is solid
for Air. Stephens. Air. Arthur Pattan, one of
the best young lawyers in south Georgia, will
be likely to represent Thomas in the next
souse. The names, of John G. Parker, Hon.
Isaac Alderman, J.' A. Bullock, and others,
ire mentioned as probable candidates. The
riends of Hon. H. M. Sapp would be glad to
lave him returned, could he be induced to
nake the race. The interests of the county
ire safe in the hands.ol any of the gentlemen
mentioned. Mr. H. H. Sandford has returned
from the oil legions of Pennsylvania,. where
he bought.themachinery, andhiredan expert
to bore the artesian well. It will be six
inches in diameter. The work will be com
menced in about two weeks.
A-PAtirER Farm.
Special Correspondence of The Coustitution.
Decatur, June 14.—J. B. Steward, ordina
ry; W. P. Bond, M. A. Candler, R. J. Shipley,
J. M. Sheppard, T. J. Flake and Dr. A. F.
Pharr were appointed by the grand jury at
the last term superior court to purchase a pau
per farm for this county. They held their
first meeting to-day. Ail were present except
Dr. Pharr and Mr. Flake. Tlie committee
derided to buy a farm containing about two
hundred acres ot laud, and appointed M. A.
Candler, R. J. Shipley and Dr. A. F. Pharr a
committee to examine different farms in tlie
county, and get the lowest prices on each,
and report to the committee ‘at their next
meeting on the first Tuesday in July.
Two negro boys, about ten and twelve years
of age, Sou’s of Frank Jackson, were before
Justice J. A. Mason to-day, charged with
slealing a ham of meat from the house of
Colonel R. M. Brown. The evidence was not
sufficient to convict them and they were dis
charged.
ABOUT BROOKS’STATION.
Special Correspondence oi The Constitution.
Brooks Station, J uue 13.—We have five or
six very flourishing business houses from
which a great many goods are sold; have ex
tensive territory. Ail we lack is one or two
cotton buyers to make ibis as good a point for
trade as any iu the state. Tue surrounding
country is healthy and very productive. Have
three churches and not one liquor shop iu
Fayette county. Some improvements being
made by Dr. Duuuar Bishop, Prichard and
others in their homes. The schools will open
shortly here and vicinity. Moore, Carmichael
& Co., and Leonard Bowers are doing an exten
sive lumber business. Harvesting is over and
threshing going on, showing an abundant
yield ol small grain, whicli gladdens the
nearis of our farmers. Trees breaking down
with luxuriant fruit; farming prospect gen
erally fiait-riug. We had a most excellent
sermon on Sunday by Rev. Mr. Henderson,
from near Jonesboro, who has charge of tlie
Protestant ehuron here; two Sab bum-schools
in a flourishing condition.
HOW UEMPiijLI. BEAT THEM,
from an Occasional Correspondence.
Embry, J uue 12.—Corn and wheat crops are
jood in this locality. Cotton is very sorry,
there is not more than half a stand on the
najority of our lands. Politics is quiet here.
L'here are no legislative aspirants yet. There
A'os au amusing circumstance here the other
day. A lady lias some forty geese. Among
hoot there is a sturdy gander Winch is bad at
tight. The ouyo call lnm Hemphill. 1 have
three colls auu toy neighbors have three, and
my little hoy says they’ formed a coalition
party. Tuey eaiue up to the lot and the gan
der went tor them and ran the-u clear away’
and some of them haven't been heard of
since. The boys say Hempbill has busied the
coalition party". 1 appreciate tue party being
busied, but 1 don’t like the.hold Hemphill
taken. He must of had hold of the tail.
DAMAGED MELONS.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Quitman, June 12.—Tne continued rains
have greutly damaged the melon crop. Un
Saturday we had tue hardest ram that has
fallen iu mouths. In some ot the patches
large melons are washed off from tile vines.
AU blooms aud sffiall melons have been des
troyed. The crop has been reduced (id per
cent. Captain John T. McCall, an able
member ol the Quitman bar, witli his lady,
has returned from a trip north. He visited
New YorK as one of tne nve corresuondents
from Georgia to me borne mission convention.
Tlie base bail fever has reached us. Tue
Quitman nine nave challenged and will play
tue MauisoUs (Florida) at an early day. 1‘ne
rains have put. a quietus oil polities.
A GRINDSTONE CROP.
Special Correspoudcuce of The Coustitution.
Dahlo.neua, Juue Id.—In two miles of here
a large quarry of stone has been discovered,
whien is said to be ol a superior quality for
grindstones and polishing ali euged tools.
This valuable deposit can oe utilized when
the railroad gets here. William May, sixty-
five years olu, died to-night. He had recently
moved, here from Gilmer county. During
the past week there has been several light
frosts, but little injury, however, was done 10
tfie growing crops. It is now quite warm.
Wheat is now ripening and is very fine, as
well as the oat crop.
TUE LR.VMATI.-T ARP.
Special Correspondence of T lie Coustitution.
Rome, Juue 14.—The corner stone of the
Rome cotton factory was laid this morning.
Bill Arp (Major Charles Smith) has drama
tized “Tom Sawyer,” Mark Twain's well
known work, anu Professor : Bothwell Gra
ham’s pupils, assisted by some talented young
ladies, will present it at .Uie Nevin opera
house next Tuesday evening.
E. church. .
TALIAFERRO COUXTY.
Tlie corn crop is looking fine, especially in
east Taliaferro. The prospects are as flatter
ing for this crop as they were for the other
grain. We should feel encouraged. Craw-
Rankin, Charlie Winningham, with three
other young men and six lovely young ladies,
all from your city, arrived in our town yes
terday evening * about 5 o’clock in neatly
equipped buggies, and stopped in front of the
residence of J. R. Russell, clerk superior
court, on Sycamore street. In a few minutes
the buggies were all empty and the young
gentlemen and ladies all in Mr. Russell's
house. The news soon spread over town that
one of the couples were going to marry.
Several young men called 1 in to see the cere
mony performed, which was done in fine
style by Judge James A. Mason. The
judge was a little excited, and “the bojs"
lav. after asking tlie groom the customary
question, “be asked the lady if she would take
the gentleman to .be her lawful y wedded
wife. Tlie happy couple was Mr. Gus Kil
lian. lately of Stone Mountain, but now of
your rity. and Miss Nannie L. Maxwell, for
merly ot Rome, now of Atlanta. The-license
jarfully worked up on that Tine. A match
lowers,” of this city, will be hotly contested.
1 great deal of excitement over the game.
2oth clubs seem confident of victory. If the
"Sunflowers” do get wilted it will be their
first defeat. The game will be witnessed by a
large number of our best citizens. A splen
did game is expected. Peaches raised in this
neighborhood are coming in daily. The lus
cious fruit is very fine. There will be a
large yield of them in this section
EGGS AND TIMBER.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Albany, June 9.—The only drawback to
this year of- unexampled plenty, both in
sight and in prospect in southwestern Georgia,
thus far. is tne great falling off and almost
total failure of the chicken and egg ‘-supply.
night, on the.“Bib!eas an Intellectual Study.”
The Mitchell democracy will hold tlieif con- j
veil (ion bn the first Tuesday in July. - : <
TIIETOWN OF WAYCikSS.
Special Correspondence oi The Constitution.
AVaycross, in Ware county, is a place now
of some importance, where tiib lipe of the
Brunswick and Albany railroa^. crosses the
Savannah, Florida and Western-railway, 110 | f or ^ v j]l e has long been without *a telegraph
miles from Albany, 50 from Brunswick aud 0 fjj ce _ it has been a source of great in-
75 miles from Jacksonville, by the lately com- j couv -enience to our merchants; as the nearest
pleted branch line of the ^Savannah, Florida I telegraph station is Barnett, six miles below,
and Western road. New buildings going up movement is on foo t, so I underetand, by
•daily, with an^ increasing: demand fordnore which t i lis nee d of ours will be suppiied It
bouse room and more mechanics and skilled ; s a matter that admits of no delay. At one
labor. All the embryo elements of a city ot I t ; me our town was somewhat worked u
good dimensions were there. A great arnoune I over t j )e sma ii-pox scare in your rity, but *
of F.orida and south Georgia freight, in thg I call sta t e that this alarm has died completely
way of fruits and vegetables, was pass in e_ I QUt _ /p| ie people, hearing the exaggerated
through daily. p he country, around, wbilf I rfcpor t s were led to believe, that tlie people in
not overly fertile, .was being developed by | Atlanta were dying out right and left. At
the trains the sole conversations between
anxious citizens and indifferent passengers
was: “How is the small-pox?” They ran the
tverege of cases up to as high as seventy per
lay. Now one never hears the word except,
terhaps, from some stray person from an ex-
reiue part of tne county to whom the first
jews has just come. Their fears are soon al-
ayed, and everybody seems perfectly content
to let thesmall-pox rip on. ltdidone thing—
this small-pox scare did—and that was to
make people cautious. I think that every
man, woman and child in Crawfordville has
been successfully vaccinated. ' Now that the
summer season is full upon us, the arrival of
the sun-bumed sou of fairjitaly, with his
music machine aiid.red-tape monkey, rffay be
looked for. As I write, the dulcet strains of
the melodious organ is wafted to me through
new settled constantly arriving. The health drains The ioh?
of the country around is remarkably good | nnT ; mls citizens an
and the water excellent.
MONROE MATTERS.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Monroe. June IO.--A case of well-defined
ame of base ball this evening between the confluent small-pox was developed about six
Oscar Wildes,” of Cleveland, and “Sun
Albany has always been a good market for,
these indispensable products, which are n
tras ‘bought ia this county last week by a become luxuries, and hardly to b« had
miles north of here yesterday. The Athens
district conference has been in session here
since Thursday morning, Rev. George W.
Yarbrough presiding. The attendance of
ministers and lav delegates pretty good. The
most of the time has been taken up in dis
cussing the spiritual condition of the church
within tlie district,! and reports on Sunday-
schools and mission work. The venerable
Dr. Means, of Oxford, lectured yesterday on
the Sunday-school interests of the district.
Governor Colquitt lectured to-day to a large . . „ . -
audience on the subject of home and foreign the open window, and I can seethe crowd of
missions. At rimes he alluded very touch- I dirty urchins as they watch—with eager, hun-
in nlv to to the fact that this was the spot gry eyes—the antics of tue gaily-decked first
upon which he spent his early child- I edition of man. and-give boyish applause to
hood, and his character , and habits were the terrifia feats accomplished- The man
here formed by the prayers of a converted | will shortly band around a greasy, battered
father. The governor is a Christian gentle- ' sombrero, and say, “Ife, zentleniansj plaze
to set a number of evaporators to work which
would, beyond a doubt, insure a handsome
profit above all expenses. Shipments by ex
cess have arrived‘in better order than those
>y freight, but the express charges are what
ilay havoc witli the profits. Fruit that will
jring fancy prices do very well to go by ex
press, but when tlie markets are glutted and
trices nominal, there isn’t any money In it.
Air. C. will start two refrigerator cars from
the Hill” to morrow or next day for New
York. These care will each have an attend
ant and will doubtless put tbe peaches
through in fine condition. Of this arrival
and sale I will have more to say hereafter.
Mr. Cunningham is not stingy at all with his
peaches. Fersons riding out to tlie orchard
to see the sights are always invited to help
themselves and then carry about a bushel
home. One day last week* tlie number of
hands readied as high as 450; nice little
crowd to tackle a pay roll Saturday evening.
About 200 hands have since been discharged,
as facilities for shipment were not equal to
the quantity of fruit this enormous number
could put in shipshape. Captain M. F.
Tutwiler, civil engineer with Ins little “Tom-
myhawk” and others leave to-day to complete
preliminary survey of Griffin and Locust
Grove railroad.
EMORY SPEER.
Ill* Action In the Inlnnctton Again*! the Athene
Banner.
The following head-lines and article are
from the Athens Banner-Watchman of June
13:
lor, iUUicx. xuc eOiwiivt *-> « 1 . V — 1 . , . ' ,
now man of broad and liberal views, and aU Geor- 1 help a poor widow and emht cffil-l-d-d-r-en. so ago, and if retu
d at giana should be proud that they are blessed I don’t think, from the looks of tbe crowd, proportion lower,
BUSY FARMERS.
Special Correspondence of The Constitution.
Greensboro, J une ift-—Our farmers are all
busy saving-their grain. There is a splendid
crop of both wheat and oats raised iu the
co.tjuty this year, and our people will be in
dependent hereafter, I think, ot western grain
afiji, corn crijis.- Rev-. Wm. H; LuPrade and
family, pi Augusta, spent a few days in our
town last .week, the guests of Doctor H. H,
King.
CHARGED WITH INCEST.
Special Correspondence of Tlie Constitution.
Cedabtown, June 12.—James K. Baldwin, a
resident of Fish district, in this county, was
on last Saturday brought to tills place under
arrest, by virtue of a warrant charging him
with tlie crime of cohabiting with his twelve-
years old daughter. He waived an examina
tion, but failing to give bond was placed in
jail, where he is now held lor trial.
DOYAL'S LEASE OF LIFE
Special Dispatch to The Constitution.
Griffin, June 14.—Alfred Doyal will not
swing on the 2'Jth instant. While the motion
for a new trial was overruled by Judge Stew
art to-day, Alfred has a new lease on life un
til sometime after October next, as the case
will now go to the supreme court. ■
fruit in grifflm.
Special Correspondence ot The Constitution.
Griffin, June 12.—Cunningham’s “great
united monster” orchard is fairly
ablaze with fruit Peaches to the
right of you, peaches tp the left of you,
peaches any and everywhere, but onward
march the brave 300 picking, packing,palling.
peaches (perhaps).' Just such.another sight
was never before seen in this or any other
country. Tbink of it; GO,000 bearing peach
trees alone, to say nothing of Che thousands of
other kinds of fruit trees. It is actually a
treat to see this mammoth enterprise.
I don’t tbink Mr. C. will be able to -market
bis fruit as fast as it ripens. In fact 1 know
he wont, for hundreds of bushels of delicious
g eaclies have been cast off iu -different heaps
y the packers as too ripe for Shipment. The
'demand for g'reen fruit north, east and west
is steady, but at lower prices: titan a week or
* — J returns continues in tlie -same
it would be more profitable
He Trembles at His Record! Congressmen Speer
Enjoins the Banner-Watchmau from Publishing
His Political Correspondence, Well Knoiviug
that the Letters He Has Written to Leading Repub
licans Would Insure His Defeat if Published, and
Drive Every White Democrat in the Ninth District
from His Ranks A Correspondence That Mr.
Speer Dare Not Face, and to Suppress it He At
tempts to Strangle the Freedom of the Public
Press, and Gag Our Columns Against Exposing a
Secret Correspondence With Radical and Negro
Politicians. Damning Documents that Mr. Speer’s
Constituency Have a Right to Demand, as 1 hey
~ y Open to Their Gaze Mr. Speer’s Political Rec-
. .1. flv This Knjolnder Congressman Speer Ac
knowledges that He Fears to Let These Documents
be Mule Public. He Quails Before His Own Rec
ord, and Besecohes the Law to interpose its Hand
and Protect Him from the Fearful Effects of His
Otvn Words.
Tlie following bill was served upon tlie Ban
ner-Watchman yesterday by which it will be
scon that our comgrcssntan unjoins this office
against publishing certain damning letters
that he has written to President Arthur,
Madison Davis, and other leading white and
colored republicans, and which Mr. Speer
dare not face; so lie resorts to tlie law to keep
from the eyes of his wiiite constituency letters
that lie knows will result in his defeat. There
is not a single private letter among those
brought by Mr. Cnrisiy from Washington, but
they are all in relation to Mr. Speer’s official
course, and proves to tlie public how lie stood
on many questions in which they are vitally
interested. Of course we are now enjoined
by law from exposing their contents, but our
people can form some estimate of what they
are from the just fear of Mr. Speer in having
them published. We shall contest the bill
taken out by Mr. Speer, aud yet hope to give
tlie independent white voters of the ninth
district a dose that will tear the veil from
their eyes and show tlie true mission an
work of Mr. Emory Speer. The bill serve
upon us reads:
“Georgia, Clarke County.—To Yancey, Cranford
& Gantt—G 11 Yancey, H L Cranford, T L Gatittand
H P Christy: Y’ou, and each of you, your agents,
confederates, allies and conspirators: Whereas,
Emory Speer has preferred his bill of complaint
against you, returnable to tbe November term, 1882,
of the superior court of said coun tv, showing that
H P Christy is fraudulently in the possession of the
private correspondence, letters, etc., of the said
complainant, and that said H P Chrirty is also ia
the possession oi the public aud coutideutiid cor
respondence, book.ete.,of thecomplainaut, or copies
thereof, aud that said H P Christy is fraudulently
confederating and conspiring witli said Yaticey,
Cranford St Gantt to injure the said complainant by
publishing aud printing said inivate, public and
confidential correspondence, books, etc., of said
complainant
And the said Emory Speer having by his said bill
prayed the issuing oi the stale’s writ of injunction
to be forthwith issued to stay said publication or
printing of said book and correspondence, or the
delivery or exhibiting the same by tlie snid II P
Christy; and the said Emory Speer ltaviug verified
the facts and statements of said billon oath, and
tlie said bill having been rend aud sanctioned by
the judge of said court:
Therefore you, the said G II Ynnoey, II L Cran
ford aud T L Gantt, and said H P Christy, and all
and every person before mentioned, are hereby
commanded and strictly enjoined, and that you,
and every one of you do, from henceforth, alto
gether absolutely desist from Drlming, publishing,
exhibiting or delivering said books and correspond
ence as above mentioned until said superior court
shall make further order to tbe coutrary.
To the Sheriff of the County of Clarke: Y’ou are
hereby communded to give notice hereof to all the
icrsons before mentioned by leaving a copy of the
oregoing writ with the persons above mentioned,
requiring each oi them under a penalty tif five hun
dred dollars, to desist from said printing, publish
ing, exhibiting or delivering said- books anil corres
pondence as aforesaid—to observe and abide by the
conditions and requirements of the foregoing order.
Fail not, etc., and make return of this writ to the
superior to be held iu and for said county on 2d
Monday in November next. Witness, tlie Hon.
Alex S. Er.wln, judge of said court, this 12th day of
June, 1882. John 1. Huggins,
Clerk Superior Court, Clarke County, go.
The Veritable Georgia Mule.
From the Americus, Ga., Republican.
A negro ploughing a mule on tlie place of
Mr. Ed Littleton, near this city, met witli an
accident of a funny nature. The course of
the ploughing passed near an old well almost
entirely covered over witli bushes. In passing
tiiis well tlie mule backed, the harness failing
off at tlie same time, and into the well went
the mule backward to the depth of 20 feet.
Then came the tug of war, how to get the
mule out, but a rope attached to tlie fore legs
of the animal did tlie work, and another mule
was saved for future cussedness. Moral—
Don’t trust the Georgia mule.
A Man Dog.
From the Dublin Ga., Post.
One day last week a mad dog met Mr. Stark
Swinson in tlie road’ near Blackshear’s ferry
and fiercely attacked him. He had no weap
on of' defense, hut had the presence of mind
to hand the enraged beast his hat which the
dog took and ran on. A short distance off lie
dropped the hat but kept moving. He chased
two darkies in the same vicinity and fright
ened them out of a couple of year’s growth.
He was followed by two young men witli
guns, but finally took to the sw’amp and so
escaped. It is hoped lie will be killed before
he bites anyone.
A Denial.
Douglasv.’lle, Ga.. June 13, 1832.—Editors
Constitution: f noticed in your daily of the
11th instant, that my name was associated
with what was termed “An outrage at Doug-
lasvijle.” If there was an outrage I know
notiiing of it, and I simply say that the
charge against me is false, and tlie man who
circulated the report is an unmitigated liar.
John V. Edge,
Ordinary Douglas County.
GEORGIA WATERMELON.
From the Elberton New South!
Oh! dem watermelons. We notice the vines now
beating well; just let ’em roll.
From the Berrien News.
.We are waiting to see who will be the firat to pre
sent the News with a melon—a good ripe one. *
From the Berrien News.
The firat watermelons of the season were brought
Week - The >' sold for from 15 to 20
From the West Point Enterprise.
The -Irst watermelon of the season made its ap-
pear&nce in our city on Wednesday, having been
brought down from Atlanta. 6
From the Jackson News. • ■
°f a dot we will give a waterme!
on stopr us to.d by one of the reliable commercial
tourists: It appears that the party planted some
a Tery , rich o£ ground, bu^he
‘hat the vines
grew so fa-t they wore the little melons oat drag
ging them around. ^
From the Wiregrass Watchman.
WC were presented on Saturday last to a fine
treat iu the shape of a watermelon, grown in our
vL b ,L L ' ? colored. Alffiomffi'possesring
man T of our citizens. Grant
fir!; cuergy, placed on record the
nrfct melon of the season, be havioir eaten one
% rde !5 ° n the 25,111 °f Ma >"- He also, sa^s
ih?^?h 8 of h -\rT^ m J? tt0I > pom from his garden on
ss;affiS c ^dcoi°oX uceo ‘ hia fefiow *
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