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2 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 * INDISTINCT PRINT