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T ITT7I FAYETTEVILLE GA LBGrtggg WEEKLY (CONSTITUTION. VOirjMK XIV. TUESDAY MOBNESra, AUGUST 15, 1882. PRICE 5 CENTS COL. WM; M. WADLEY. HOW THE news of his death WAS RECEIVED. When His Bamaln* Will Iwk AtlantaKjaaze Cun- n:B|taUB Pax* * Tribat. to the Worth of the Slid Railroad Xto*-Tha Ooorc'th Ball, road Laaaa and Other Matlar*. The news ot tire sudden death <sf Colonel 'William M. NVadfrey, which, ooctftttd at Sar atoga Thursday, was read in tfc* city yester day with tuingied consternaUo*, sorrow and regret. While*Colonel Wadlty’s herl'h was not as wood as could liavc <been desired, his death was by wo means excelled, nor was bis Cowiftion sort: os to causehis friends uneasi Bw. The *Iispatch wnfcti announced his decrh wosmt-ccived by Thtc Constitutumi at a !»”*• liotfr wild as no Other telegram was tent Ropurtieti.n the city, tiie news of Ooiorrel Wnrtlej'r death did nd!&ain circulatroa tmtil •the.pupw.- was printed. Even the relatives of <Cblon$! Wudley wflx not apprized -of Iris •death,that when the paper went outit ■ntrrief. with ittbct&st account of tbc start ling *nfcws. Afwr the announcement w«s 'rehd There was mer'n specnlation as to what wfltf.d follow lit* sudden taking -off -of the It (great head of tfed Central system -of Toads. 1 •wr". generally W.icved that Coleoel Wudley "dsjtli would c#;se a flutter in Central rail- rroud stock, bwsi ,uite a number«f ,proi*inenl rmilroud ini H-iaid that them wits no cause •for a decliwr. An attempt to get "a eontroMh.g interest (might run • the stock uri’jr a doubt as to the next mati- ■ agement onO .ts probable policy (might cause 'It to go dokn. During yesterday the stock •dropped (i»: or six points, And Major Cum-! 'niiiigs thinks that it will go'ton to fifteen j points lower. He attributes tlictfall to Colo-, ntd WadlF 's death. State Treasurer Speer, soys that 'he sees no reason why the stock! should ge'down. < COLONEL WAIII.EY'S'PWBRAI.. A very general desire t« know 'When Colo nel Wateiey would be buried was shown. -A dispatch was received in thccity -stating that Mr. Wadley’s remains left'ftrru toga on a tw.in that rer.ches New York »taip. 'in., and they would leave New York lastmightby the:Peid- mont Air-Line, and if *no 'connection 'Was missed would reach Brolingbroke 'Sunday, latter the following was received hero: Savannah, August 11. M2.~D. W. Appier, At- • hints. The remains of Ur. Wadley will arrive In Allan's by Piedmont AirJdite Sunday n"1-jfC p in, • fr<en thence to Bollngliroir.. Whcu tbc*4*neral will take place I can’t say ;■«. Wtiuu Koarcs, <4oatte>ri Superii.tendent. • Tt will be seen by G»c«above telegram that 1 the remains will readl- -Atlanta tcmiorrow. • During yesterday theeuginea, coachestfreight • depot and union passenger de|>ot were draped aas a murk of respect for'the dead'railroad • president. Mr. Appier's office was draped ’■with excellent taste. (Itis-probable' that the »-crowd at tiie d> pot aewnorrow to "meet the r remains will be overwhelmingly large. COLONEL WADtU.T^S CilAUACTKIL Judge John I>. Cunningham, an intimate • friend of Colonel Wadley, said to a Cokstitc- •> 'TIon reporter yesterday: ' “Colonel Wadley wt-s a broad-brain*], big- r-souled nmu. He w-w ■ man of great, ideas. It <s impossible that snob a matt could be an . illiterate one. He was»born for a great man, ■ and ho lived the life«rf..».great man—a man ■ of unswerving 'ntesrin-, and I believe-as hon est a man as Cod ever made.’ 'It was one ot the desires of my KfeUhut Colonel "Wadley I lie made secretary «fttu:e inttrior. lie would have cleaned out Liu: liungers on in Ti-at de- ; iiartmcnt in sliort order. He was strictly honest himself, and t Indian agenfe: and : swindlers would ikk'. have been tolerated . by him. His inU5gr|ty . was such that he would never use the-rdvantages of lira jiosi- tion to speculate am-Uentral railroad s'ock. He, of course, knew when the stock/would c rise or fall. lie hud it itin his power ta make a a princely fortune ijy.lln- use of info auation ..which lie became possessed ® r by (.reason of iris official position. l.Biit i Jic was above such an act, .. and would not speculate .am the stock wl.-en lie 1 know that lie would .lmve reaped a gulden .harvest. So that hie Jang and active life and . his eminence as a railroad man were uot ac- . companied by the fortune that usually at tends such mlvantiaiHiOT were in the piisses- sion of Colonel Wudley. His life wa; cer tainly a grand example of what brains and enyrgv and hard. Hint like honesty c*i ac complish. He hat- <1 'hypo racy and treach ery, jni.i his contempt .for anything false were among his leiulirg characteristics, equaled only by his Jove of truth, ife.-le tested speculativeschemas nnd watered sleeks and refusing to specalift-C'.himself upon ithe Central stock, he would ..never liesitab ,.tp warn a man who was sfevulaling upon Aba strengtli of what he «iif-posed Mr. Wadley was about to do if Ulmt supposition was wr*>ng. 1 don’t believe tie. man was cajole of telJL-g a lie or deceiving any body. . His word was J.bis bond aiid • lie wbuid have died by what he said. .1 have lnul amuli business witil: W.'jdley for a long series of years and I knAsrihatn well, too wall to ask a fa-.-or of him withiLbe expectation of , getting it «t the expense*a~Jus roiui—even if, , 1 bad tell if.dined to do u ihipg of that sort.I While he was true to eveg*v«;ord that be ut-l ■ tered be demanded every &igb; that belonged i to iris road. . I could pay UiiunEo higher eulo- ,sy than to s» v that he Ii.vetli.snd died ani ..Iionest man.,“’lit-Central nrikoi-l lias suffered: j#n irreparable loss, and ihorc >i« no man who* ..can till his pl*:V as lie tilled lit. His son-in- . Jaw, Mr. Kaotri. is a man afvir Jfr. Wadley’s .qwn manner life. He .understands the ,.jilans that Mr. i'.’adley had iiujnf cd out, ami ltjcjprobable tkf.t the mantle will fall on him ip-.d'vhat. he wiU.be called ujvjcn to rake up the s wqrkwhere Mr. ATadlcy has laidii: down.” COLOSHU. VADLKY’S FOfc-'.C.'C. For a man of m much ability arid pronri- ,jience/-?o otu-1 U» .dley was cjua- arauvely ,poor. ,IIis entire iy-tune will hardV:' amount ito mpre than a hu sired thousand 'dollars or <a little, nore that that sum. Iff do a year -or so ago .be was uuwa poorer than >bo was at itbetime.vf his death. If he had ^peculated ■in Centra* railroad clock he could, with the fuiformatiw- that lius position gave bin; easily Lave made a million or so and &UU have uvaintainod. an untorq.shed repatatcuu for honesty, yiben severe years ago tlie/itock of ilfe road i.-ent down to 35 he wat.weil a •Ace of the cayse and Smew full well that a rise was cerr.in and sure. He kept *bis liatukoff the steck, howevor, and by keeotng his (iit rounsel^rept it also out of the bauds of speculators. AVbcn the 6!me for the rise came heaaw thcxtock go baoi to its old fig ures, and those wvo had held on again re ceived dividends. £n the early part of Colo nel Wadley’a career fie went to sew Orleans and became connect*.! with the Xew Orleans, Jackson and Oreat Nurltiern railroyd, but lu resigned his position Jicrc. He found that the road was in the hands of spscuiators who endeavored to make him their kM>l. He came back 'to Georgia, but Wihsequently formed a company to build a railroad in Louisiana, and at the commencement of the war they .had a very nice rueiri of if. When the war'broke out lie tendered his services to tiie confederate gov ernment aq • was assigned to the position of chief superintendent of transportation with the title of coloqel. At the close of the war be struggled back to Louisiana and found that his company's railroad had been abso lutely stolen ‘ was terminated abont a year ago by the old company being paid for its property. Colonel Wciiley' received about $85,000. COLONEL WAULET'S SUCCE-SOE. Of course there are many rumors as to vha Colonel Wadley’s successor will be, but. noth ing is known definitely _ abont th<j -feaVter. There have been some differences between Mr. Wadley and members ol the board about the management of the. road for about twelve mouths, and since Vn(s_ death of Mr. Moses Taylor, who was a strong friend of Mr. Wadley, it 1>as been thought that Mr. Wadley would resign,' and that General E, P. Alexander would be elected as bis successor. At that time Gener al Alexander was vice president of the Louis ville and Nashville. He has since resigned that office and Is not *t present engaged in any railroad business. Mr. W. G. Raoul,son- in-law of Mr. Wadley, is vice-president of the Central and the general manager. It was nn deTstood when Gee rumor was circulated that Mr. Wadley would resign the presidency of the Central and General Alexander be appointed, that Mr. Raoul would retain Iris piece as the general mana ger of the road. If General Alexander is ap pointed it C-j altogether probable that Mr. Kaoul will continue as lie is. Nothing is known of what will be done by the manage ment of the Central railroad abont filling this vacancy. It will be a very difficult mat ter for the Central to find a successor for Mr. Wadley. While he had his faults iti railroad management, he has cer tainly made a grand success of the Central and its connections, and many tiiiioowheii it was thought that his manage- meiM'wus not good it always resulted for the benefit of the stockholder* of the road. Gen eral Alexander is a capable man, fully com petent to •ischurge the duties of the office aral there is no doubt that lie would be as good a selection as could be nude for the va cant place on the road. THE GEORGIA RAILROAD LEASE. The death of Colonel Wadley brings tip tiie question of the Georgia railroad lease. The road was leased to Colonel Wadley, and his interest in the lease was subsequently trans ferred to the Central and the Louisville and Nushville. Colonel Wadley and the Georgia railroad filed a bill of injunction asking that the railroad -commission of Georgia be restrained for regulating their freight and passenger tariffs. The case was argued before Judge Simmons, who refused the injunction on the ground 'that Wadley having sold out had no interest at-stake. The case goes to the supreme court. 'It is held by some that the lease -is -void because the Georgia road cannot be leased to a road where competition would be'lessened. It is an interesting case, which has -been written up fully heretofore. It is,proper to refer to it though in order to state that the death of Colonel Wadley in no wity effects the case, and that the question will -eotne tip and be decided by the supreme court the same as if Colonel Wadley had lived. GR YflDFATHER'S DAYS. The little urchin of the third generation. H.w TRry Climber Around tb« Grandparent*! Knee, and Hare Tbtnaa Their Own Way-Tne Mother and Her ChUd-BiU Arp’* Beat Touch ot XLumen Nature, Etc, BITTEN BY A. RATTLESNAKE. Jcnup Knjnylns 8■etc <IMlraad Kun Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Jbrcp, Augusts?.—Mr.-'S.'E..Gennett’s little sou, Hopps, aged about :12 . years, was bitten on the leg by a rattlesnakes feet and S inches long, about 0 o’clock .yesterday evening and died at 0 o’clock tliie -morning. The little boy was in a cornfield about - a half a mile from town wheu bitten and-was brought ini mediately to Dr. F. Ji. McRae’s office, but all the means employed could uot counteract the influence of Lite poison. . Jos' now vague .’tuii’Oe-j of gigantic rail road enterprises Are in the air and some of our sanguine ciUzens.put.Jesup one ahead of Atlanta as a rac-kvad centre in the near fu ture. However,-a few<Hio»«'li» will bring forth facts. Until Chon we will say 110 more on the subject. KEROSS3CE AE.A.*lfiEdC!NDLER, Special Uortespondeiice «»f the Constitution. Canton. Aatg-unt JO.—Che wife of Abe Wyatt, Jr., who -resides-anar Ophir, in this county, a tewolcys since-(undertook to start a fire in the stove'bj-,ponruig-kerosene in, and the tiumes ignited and caught her clothing on fire, ami site -was frightened and fatally burned, and -at&his-writing, l.liave no doubt but that she i*-dead. *We deeply sympathize with the husband and friend and warn all others to kindle fires -with -anything rather than kerosene <jr-«'her.gastrinfluids. On Sunday iaet Mr. ,N. .1“.. McClure and daughters were going,to-cliuceli and the horse working in the baggy in .which the daughters were riding became frightened ami ran, throwing the two young-ladies out and con siderably bruising them. iTiiemule Mr. Me- Cluie wuf riding ideogot frightened and fell upon him. No serious hurts were sustained by either. Our delegates to. the congressional convention, J. R. Mc&insey, W. H. Ferker- son and Ben S. Periy, have returned, and are enthusiastic over the .unanimous.nomination of Judson C. Cletuoats. THE SOUTH GE&LR£tlA.T<£A&HERS. Special Correspondence of Ihe Constitution. Akkricus, August Iti.—IT he tiwuth Georgia teachers’ institute, in .this .city, has about -sixty teachers in attendance. 'The teachers .are very'enthusias'ti<t v mtd -interest in the in- -Etitute increases d*yly. A reception was' ,tendered them at the Ferry house, a few ,U,;ghts since. The institute ’herejs in,charge ,*>f Professor Neely, of Aiu&ricus, Professor* iBsker and Cannon, of Savannah,.and.Proies- ,sor B. T. Hunter, of Albany. .Colonel Jack Brown has gsme-to.Eastman, nmihas been appointed to-defe-nd-the rioters .over, there. .We are looking for a heavy trade this fall. Tbc .merchants are getting additional force ito.hejp manage the expected trade. . A COOL ESCAPE. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. (Gn,THU Train. Air-Line Railroad, August JS.—This morning while the Northeastern train from Tallulah falls was waiting at Ka- bua Conjunction for the north bound pas- scugerbii the Air-Line railroad, a man who is AV.uimcring it near tiie station started down tbeASB&.antUMul to cross a long trestle a shunt distance .from the junction. When half way (User the.Air-Line train ho .-e is. sight. With nonderfgUv cool nerves and courage the tuaB quietly laid his satchel on u beam under the trestle.end .hen squeezed himself through -the ties .rrid hung down until the train passed over him. He was unhurt trod got up-a&t’ walked, aff with his valise. ZO£ .UPSOA* PRIMARIES. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Thou aktok, August It.—Yesterday the dem ocrats of Upsax nominated the H-n. Benja min G. McK-easev to trpresent Tier in the legislature, and Captain' Thomas J. Neal, of Harris,' for the aenate from this district . Early yesterday die differet-t candidates could i be seen marshalling their (jrces to the polls, ; ind to-day, wnen all the reyarns had got in, tt was much to the wish of th*ir many friends ia this county that the vote* were found to be in favor of Uncle “Doc” MefcTenney (as he is more familiarly known) for rt^-reseutative. and iraptain Neal for the senate. ^Everything passed off quietly. Taking the Whole Family. From the Dublin Post. Mr. Eugene Watts, who, with his vrf£e and two childiat), lived with bis mother d3W/i on the Emanuel line, died on last Monday. His mother diel op Tuesday, one child os Wednesday, and the attending physician thought the other child and its mother past all hopes of recovery. They were a!i »ick A suit was instituted, which • with typhoid fever. Written for The Constitution. When a man begins to get along in years he gradually changes from being a king in his family to a patriarch. He is more tender and kind to his offspring, and instead of rul ing them, the first thing he knows they are ruling him. My youngest children and my grandchildren just run over me now, and it takes more tljgn half my time to keep up with ’em, and find out where they are and what they are doing. It rains most every day, and the weeds and grass are always wet, and the branches are muddy, and there are six little chaps around here perusin’ the premises, and Mrs. Arp just knows they are bound to get sick or snake bit, for it’s tramp, tramp, tramp from inorniDg till night, and her anxiety reminds me of a hen that we set oil some duck eggs, for when the brood was batched they made for tbc branch, and the lieu like to have took a fit and llew from one side to the other, and made an everlasting fuss trying to tell ’em they would get drowned, but they sailed around arul around and was as happy as happy could be. These litUe. chaps riue the horses and colts over the nxeadow and pasture, and uiake the sheep jump the big brauen, and they go in a washing two or tiiree times a day, and they climb the grape arbor and the apple trees and stuff llieir craws full of fruit and trash, aud they can tell wbetbera watermelon is ripe or green, for tuey plug it to see, and every one of ’em has got a sling shot and my pigeons are always on the wing, aud the other day I found one of the finest young pullets laying dead with u bole in her side, and all the satisfaction I can get is I diden’t mean to do it, or I won’t do it any more, or I diden’t do it at all. J esso.. It’s most astonishing how the little rascals can shoot with their slings, and now i don’t believe it was a miracle at all that made David plump old Goitah in the forehead, for these boys can plump a jaybird now at 40 yards, aud we have hud to take all their weapons away to protect the birds and poultry. Sometimes I get mad and rip up ana around like X was go ing to do something desperate, but Mrs. Arp comes a-slipping along and begins to tell how they uideut mean -any harm, and they j are just like oil other boys aud wants to know it I dident do them sort of thing* when 1 was a boy. Well, that’s a fact—I.Uid—aud I.got a lickin’ for it, too You see, I was one of tne oldest boys, and they always catch it, but the youngest one never gets a lickin’, tor by the time fie comes along the old man has mellow ed down and wants a pet. The older children have married aud gone and the old folks .feel sorter like they have been ihrowd off for somebody no kin to ’em, and so they twine around those that are left all the closer, but by-aud-by they grow up, too, aud leave them, and it’s pitiful to see the good old couple be reft of tueir children aud living alone in theirglory. Thou is the time tuat grand children find a -welcome in the old family homestead, fur, as Solomon suith, the glp y of an- old mail is his children’s chiloun There is the time that he little «:*■ -y- t; -1 second and third generation love to es- escape from their well ruled home, and for awhile -find refuge- and free dom and frolic -at grandpa’s. A child without-a.-grandpa and u grandma can never haye its snare of -happiness. -I’m sorry for ’em. Blessings on the .good old people, the venerable grand parents of the land, the peo ple with good old honest wuys and simple habits and-limited desires, who indulge in no folly, who hanker-after i.o big thing, but live along serene and covet -nothing but the hap piness«f >their-children and their children’s children. 1 said to a good old mother not lung ago:'“Well, I hear that Anna is to be married.” “Yes, sir,” ..said she, smiling sor rowfully., “J -dori’t-know .what 1 will do. The last daughter I’*-e got is going to leave me. I’ve nursed her and petted her all her life, and 1 kinder fhouglitsliewas mine and would always he .mine, but she’s run off after a fel ler she':; no Jdn to in -the world, aud who never did-do a thing -for -her but give her a ring and a-book or two .and a little French candy now and then, and it does look so strange and .unreasonable. Xcouldent under stand it at all if—if J hadent dune the same thing myself a long time ago,” and she kept knitting away with a smile and a tear upon her motherly face. But I’m not going to slander, these little chaps that keep us-so busy locking qfter them, for there is no meanness in their mischief, and if they take liberties it is because we let ’em. Mrs. Arp says they are jest too sweet to live, and is always narrating some of their smart sayings. Well, they ace mighty smart, for they know exactly how to get every thing and do everything they want, for ithey know bow to manage her^and they know that she non ages me, dnd that settles it. A man' is-the head of a house abotlt some things, and alpsut souie bther things he is only next.to head, if fie ain’t foot. A man can punish his chil dren, but it’s always advisable to make an explanation in due time and let bis wife know what he did it for, because, you see they are her children shore enough, aud she knows it and feels it. The pain and trouble, the nur sing and night watching have all been hers. The washing and dressing, and mending, aud patching—tieing up fingers and toes, and sympathizing with ’em in all their great big little troubles all falls to her while the father is tending to his farm, or his store, or his office, or his friends, or may be his billiard table. When a woman says “this is my child,” it carries more weight and more meaning than when a man saps it, and I’ve not got niueh respect fora law that will give a man the preference of ownership just because ho is a man. I re member when I was a boy a sad, pretty woman taught school in our town, and she had a sweet little girl about eight years old, and one day a man came there for the child and brought a lawyer with him, and the mother was almost distracted, and alt of us boys—big and little—got rocks and sticks and thrash poles and hid the little girl up in the cupalo, and when the sheriff came we at- taeked him like killing snakes or fighting yaller jackets, and we run him off, and when ne come back with more help we run ’em all off, aud the -uan never got his child, and I can say now that the soldiers who whipped the yankees at Bull Run were not half so proud of their victory as we were, though I found out afterwards that the sheriff was willing to be whipped, for he was on the side of the mother and didn’t want to find the child no how. But the world is getting kinder than it used to he—kinder to women and to the poor and the .dependent, and kinder to brutes. Away up is New England they used to drown women for being witches, but they don’t now. YTell. they do bewitch a man power fully socustimes, that’s a fact, but it any drowning it done he drowns himself because he can’t get the woman he wants and live under her witching all the time. But a man is still the head of the house and always will be I reckon for it’s according to Seri'pture. He has got a natural right to run the machine and keep up tbe supplies, and if he always bits money when the guod wife wants it and her take it as a favor to him. then he is a suc- ess as a husband and peace reigns supreme. Jesso. When there is money in the till a man can sit in his piazza with his feet on the banisters and smoke the pipe of peace. A woman lores money for its uses. She never hoards it or hides it away like a man—and when I used to be a merchant I thought there was no goodlier combination _ in all nature than a new stock of dry goodkand a pretty woman in the store with a well filled pars m her pocket. Jesso. Bill Arp. HILL'S FIRST SPEECH. A REMINISCENCE OF THIRTY-FIVE YEARS AGO. The Box Orator In Troup Coantx—HU Advocacy ot the Cauie of Temperance—Old Citiaens on Mr. Hill’s Career—A Visit to Hia Old Home— How the Mansion Appears. THE EIGHTEENTH GEORGIA. . Acworth, August 10.—A reunion of the -urvivors of the 18th Georgia regiment was Held here in Good Templar’s hall to-day, at which abont one hundred were present, as follows: Field and staff. Colonel (General) W. T. Wofford, Surgeon E. J. Roach, Captain and A. C. S., J. R. Wikle, Captain (Colonel) Joseph Armstrong, Captain (Major) I. A. hiewart Company A. Cobb county.—Captain J. B. O’Neill, Captain I. L. Lcrnon, Lieutenants J. .Jackson, M. M. Phillips. N. Avery and L. II. Tanner. Privates I. C. Fitzgerald, N. C. l’riest, A. G. Dempsey, J. M. Abner, G. W. Peacock, R. S. Thompson, B. F. Thompson, J. M. Tanner, George House, D. B. Whitfield, J. W. Smith, Janies McLain. W. H. Jackson, Geo* A. Smith, A N. Boring, W. A. Steele, 1 R. Whitfield. H. W. Gregg, I. N. Babb, F. ‘ . Boring, J. P. Durham, F. M. Summers. ’ .enry House, Jno. W. Garrison, John Brown, J 5nn M. McLane, T. J. llnrdage, J. Q. Tanner, U. L. Graves, W. F. Brown, Thos. J. Pyron, C. C. Phillips. E. C. Stancell. Chas. W. P'vron, H. M. Scott. A. Nichols, T. J. Helton, G. S. Hull, Geo. S. Owens, J. S Goodwin. Company B. Newton county—Captain J. \. Btevart, Lieutenant T. D. Guinn, F. S. "readwell. Privates J. B. Smith, W. B. “eagin. H L. White, W. F. Hardin, R. A. ■ uinn, W. W. Swann, H. L. Dempsey, J. W. \lman, W. B. Smith, G. W. Parker, J Valker Almatid. * Company E, Gordon county—Color Ser- ■ cant F. A. Weems. Company F, Cass county—Fountain Wlrit- ker, William Kay, F. M. Durham, George Kay. • Company G, Cass county—Captain George \V. Maddox; Private Albert Smith. Company H, Cass county—W. W. Cotton, IJ. Corbin, A. L. Barron, Jason Walters. Company I, Dooly county—Captain Joseph . rmstrong. » Company K, Cass county—G. A. Dempsey, J. T. Headden, E. D. Shaw, Richard Lead- l-etter, D. II. Underwood. Tbe regiment was formed and marched to ihe stand led by the Marietta Silver Cornet- ; and, where prayer was offered by Rev. A. •i:. Demsey. Lieutenant M. M. Phillips then introduced the several speakers in the following order, who delivered speeches ap propriate to the occasion: Welcome address by Mr. R. M. Mitchell, of Acworth, Dr. E. G. Roach, Colonel Arm strong, Major J. A. Stewart and General W. T, Wofford. The band contributed appropri- u e music between the addresses. The stand w.ts beautifully decorated with evergreens r.?id flowers, and in the center back ground v.-.is a tall white frame, on which was lettered tbc names Barbamsvilleor Elllmnis Landing, Seven Pines, Seven Days Around Richmond, Gaines’s Mill, Cedar Run, Second Manassas, Sharps burg, Fredericks jurg, Chancellorsville, Gettysburg, Ashby’s Gap, Chickamanga, Car mel Station, Knoxville, Fort Steadman, Wil derness, Horse Shoe, Second Cold Harbor, . Martinsburg. Strausburg, Fisher’s Hill, Cul ••-JiTper. Petersburg, Siege and Silver‘Creek, * battle-fields in which this regiment was ac tively engaged. A light shower, and the dinner hour having arrived, Lieutenant M. M. Phillips announced that, there was enough to feed the entire crowd, variously estimated at from three to four thousand, and it was soon found tiie crowd was inadequate to the overwhelming supply of everything good to eat. After din ner the crowd began to stroll back towards the village proper, and at 3 o’clock the mem bers of the 18th Georgia were called to order, and on motion Major J. A. Stewart, of Co. B was elected chairman, and H. M. Scott, Co. A, secretary. On motion General W. T. Wofford, Dr. E. J. Roach. Captains George W. Maddox, J. L. Lemon; Lieutenants T D Gwinn, F. M. Dur ham; Sergeants John Hayden. A. L. Barron and F. A. Weems, were appointed a commit tec to prepare for perfecting the organization, They retired and soon reported the following which wasunanimously adopted: Thatouror- gauization be called “The Survivors Associa tion of the 18th Georgia regiment;” that Cap tain J. L. Lemon, Co. A, be selected as presi dent, and Lieutenant L. H. Tanner, Co. A, secretary for the next year; that Colonel Joseph Armstrong, Captains S. D. Irvin and George W. Maddox, Lieutenants T D Gwinn and Bell, of company C, Sergeants A. L. Barron, Joseph Headden and F. A. Weems, be elected corresponding secretaries of the asso ciation; that the president and secretary be empowered to appoint the day for the next reunion, giving sixty days notion of the time, and that Atlanta be selected as the next place of meet ing. That Dr. E. J. Roach and Captain George W. Maddox be a committee to have this* day’s proceedings properly published. That the thanks of tbe association be tendered Company A and the citizens of Acworth and vicinity for the very hospitable manner in which we have this day been entertained, and especially the ladiesjfor handsome bouquets an i decoration of the stand. On motion of Colonel Joseph Armstrong, the following committee was appointed to get up any data pertaining to our regiment: Captain J. R. Wikle, chairman, Assistant Surgeon J. B. Brown, Lieutenant M*. M. Phil lips and T. D. Guinn, Captain J. B. Sillman, D. H. Ramsaouer, William Kay, Albert Santli, W. W. Cotton, J. I. Lassiter'and John Andersou. Our regiment being composed of companies from Cobb, Newton, Jackson, Dougherty, Gordon, Dooly and Cass counties, it is respectfully requested that pa pers published in these counties publish these proceedings; also that the Hawk- rosville Dispatch, Montezuma Weekly, Athens Chronicle, and Catoosa Journal be also requested to do so. One thing very re markable for such an occasion was there was no drunkenness or even the smell of liquor or profanity heard -durjng the day, which speaks well for Acworth and vicinity. On motioned adjourned sine die. • J. A. Stewart, Chairman. H. M. Scott’ Secretary. A MODEL FARMER. Special Correspondence of The Constitution. Lovelace, Troop Co., Ga., Aug. 12tli.— Yes, this is historic ground upon which these people have assembled,” said an old and prominent citizen of this county to me to-day at the annual celebration of Pleasant Grove Sunday School. “I was present at this same place about thirty five years ago, and heard Ben Hill deliver his first public address after leaving college. A singing school was being taught at this place at the time, and he came up here from Long Cane with a party of young ladies, and though he was called upon unexpectedly to himself, he delivered the fi nest address I ever listened to.” Ypu knew Mr. Hill then in early life. Tell me something of his young days.” BEN HILL’S BOYHOOD. Yes, I have known Mr. Hill ever since he first came to this county, a little boy; lie lived at that time at Long Cane, where lie at tended his first school; afterwards he attended school over in Heard county, and from there he went to tiie university in Athens. But there are men here to-day that can give you the history of his young days better than I can; come let me introduce you to Judge Bigham, of LaGrange, and Mr. John Traylor and Dr. Pitman. They all knew him well at that time, and can give you all the information you want.” I then had a pleasant conver sation with each of these gentlemen, and from them learned the following facts in regard to the great statesman who now lies at the point of death, aud for whom not only the people of Troup county, his old home, but a whole nation mourns. Judge Bigham sai'd: “Yes, I have known Ben Hill a long time, and have heard him deliver the finest speeches of his life. He came to this county trom Jasper, I think, and after graduating at Athens where he had taken the first honor, be read law and was admitted to the bar in Meriwether county, and after wards located in LaGrange. Aud I want to say now, that the finest orations ever delivered in Georgia by any one, was about that time delivered by Mr. Hill upon a temperance cause which was known as “sons of temper ance.” These lectures by Mr. Hill had a won derful influence which has been felt in this country every since, and which will be felt for time to come. These speeches stamped him at once the coming statesman which he has since proven himself to be. “Yes,” said Dr. Pitman, “I have one or two of these temperan;e speeches printed in pamphlet form, and I keep them as mementoes of tbe C ast-, something with which I could not e induced to part. I shall give them to my children for their couuselor and guide in future life.” Mr. John Traylor also spoke feelingly of his early acquaintance with Mr. Hill, of Mr. Hiil’s first speech on this ground, and as he spoke of the great statesman, then and now, his voice trembled. These gentlemen with whom I talked are all old and prominent citizens of this county and were jar. Hill’s boyhood friends. These same kind expres sions I have heard on every hand since I have been in this county, now some two weeks, in regard to Senator Hill. JIB. HILL’S OLD HOME. I asked a citizen of LaGrange to show me Mr Hill’s old home, which he kindly did, and I walked down the broad street until I came to the magnificent mansion which was once the home of this distinguished man. The rock fence that surrounds the old resi dence is going to decay, and in places has fallen down; the grounds look desolate, and the large oaks that stand thick in the grove have a look of sadness as though weeping for him who will n ver again behold them. There never was a man more universally be loved than is Mr. Hill by the people of this county, who know him best, and it is always in a voice of sadness that his name is men tioned. If the prayers of his people were answered, Senator Hill would soon be restored to health. BUTTER AND PEACHES. Who Brine* Raoon and Corn Into hi* Home Mar kef Special correspondence of The Constitution. Dawson, August 9.—Hon. Lawson Fulton, mayor of Galveston, Texas, is here on a visit to his brother. Captain J. A. Fulton. Judge T. M. Jones has sold bU mercantile interest to Dr. YV. C. Paschal. 0. B. Stevens, of our town, is having a cot ton warehouse built at Ward’s station, a pro gressive village ten miles west of here on the So ith western railroad. Mr. Steve Senn, an enterprising young farmer of onr county, brought to town to-day a lot of home-raised bacon and corn. He sold the same to one of our merchants, re ceiving 10 cents a pound for his bacon and $1.25 a bushel for his corn. Mr. Senn also has oats, wheat, potatoes and syrup for sale, all his own production. Tbe well in tbe court house square here was thought to be an oil well, as tbe water tasted recently very much like kerosene. This is _ u now explained by finding one of the street dofffl't wait for her to ask lor it but makes i lamps in the bottom of the well. Borne Remarkable Example* of Georgia Farm Indus try Noted. From the Monroe Advertiser. Every pound of really good butter that is raised in this county can be sold for twenty- five cents. Here is a chance that ought to supply the wives and daughters of our people with spending money. Poor butter won’t bung any such price. From the Athens Banner. Some of the butterflies in this section have to market value of $10. From the. MilledgevUle Recorder. Mr. Emmet McCornb called, our attention on Wednesday to a muskmelon raised by his brother Hunter. It- measured 27 inches in circumference and weighed2 5 pounds. It is is the largest melon of its kind we ever saw, and certainly lakes the cake. From the Wdghtsville Recorder. Captain J. H. Hicks presented us the other day with the most prolific peach limb we have seen this season. It was nothing more than a small sprig cut from the tree, and con tained eighteen fine peaches, fifteen of which covered a space of ten inches. From the Covington Star. The hay crop in this section is the finest we have made in years. Our people should not suffer a blade of it to be lost. It can be easily pulled or cut, as the rains have made the stalks tender and brittle. If properly cured and saved it will be worth many thousands of dollars to our people. It would l>e an ab solute shame to see a bale of western hay brought into this section next year. Colonel L. F. Livingston thinks he has an acre of cotton with 4,500 pounds of seed cotton al ready made. That is equal to three 500 pound bales and is unusually fine. From the Walton Vidette. We know a farmer who, front only eight common scrub cows, maxes and clears $40 a month. He does it without any expense, either in feed or costly machinery, and with out any loss of time from his crops. He lives several miles from a railroad, and only goes there once a week to ship his butter. Dairy ing will pay well in this county, and we do not see why some one doesn’t go into it. A Walton lady has in the last three yeare made $800 worth of cotton on rented land. This year she^has 22 acres in cotton, which promises to make 10 or 12 bales. She does the work with the house servant and iter hus band’s buggy horse, and her husband is at no expense whatever. Such a wife is well worth having. THE growing CORN. were. We have not been informed this year of the result of his farming. Will the captain be so kind as to give us the result? When such results can be attained what better proof could be asked for, as a corn-producing coun try? And why should this country ever have to buy corn from the west even for the non* producing class, we mean mill and turpentine men, who are much the greatest con sumers? The answer is simple enough: We have too few farmers. If tillers of the soil could, by a liberal policy of the large land owners, be induced to come here, a very large amount of money could be kept in cir culation at home, which would in time en rich the whole country. It is the fault of the large land owners, we mean the mil and turpentine men, mainly, that the coun try is kept down. They should, as soon as they strip the forest of its timber, dispose of the lands to settlers at a nominal price— or a better plan would be to give, as an in ducement to settlers, for a few years, alter nate parcels, of say fifty or ofie hundred acres, to each head of a family of actual set tlers. This course would create in a very short while a demand for the lands held by them at a very much higher figure than they would be willing to take for the whole, at present Besides they would be building up the country. We hold, that no man or set of men have or should have the moral right to retard the progress of the country. Results of the Tax Digest. From the Waynesboro Herald. The tax digests shows thirty-nine names in Burke that pay taxes on oyer $10,000 worth of property each. Major Wilkins leads with $102,902 worth of propi rty, and Mr. S. A. Gray comes next with $54,647. There are fourteen lawyers, thirty-one doctors, and one dentist. There are 1,036 white polls, and 2,515 negro polls. The total amount of prop erty returned for the county aggregates $2,- 712',903. There has been a falling in personal property since last year. From the Montezuma Weekly. Mr. Z. T. Penny, tax receiver, furnishes us with the following synopsis of the taxable property of Dooly county for 188:’: Improved lands 305 259 acres, valued at $81,605; wild lands 173,163 acres, valued at $16,703; stock of all kinds $276,225. The total value of the taxable property of the county amounts to $1,506,706, probably the largest since ante bellum days. Increase over last year, 1881, $90,167. Polls, white, 1,088, colored 760; five lawyers, thirteen doctors, one dentist. Fight With Two Deer. From the Dublin, Ga. Gazette. . One day last week a party of gentlemen were out deer-hunting, when quite a remarka ble scuffle occurred between Mr. W. B. F. Daniel, two deer and a dag. The dog it ap pears caught a fawn, and Billy Daniel ran to secure the fawn for a pet and get it from the dog. Just about the time he had fairly got ten hold of the fawn, the mother deer, a fine, sleak doe, came upon the ground and joined in the fight to rescue her young Mr. Daniel screamed at old Roper to catch the mammy, and at the same time caught hold of the old lady, preferring larger game. Well, Mr. Darnel's face has not entirely quit shaking yet. He saw stars and smelt brimstone. At last the mother deer jerked loose and left the field just a little conqueror. This is the truth and no paint about it. Bereft of Reason^ From tiie >foijtezq^ ltt Weekly. Mrs. Ti-Uiuck, of our county, has been ad-' judged a lunatic, and is now awaiting an order' to be sent to the insane asylum at Milledgc- ville. Mr. G. W. Lane, of Henderson, Houston county, lias recently become dangerous:y in/ sane. After being found guilty by a jury of his countrymen he was placed in the jail at Perry until accommodations could be given him in the insane asylum. On Thursday last John Hughes, of Dooly county, was tried and convicted of insanity. On Saturday Messrs. Jake Heard and Free man Mason passed through here with him on their way to MilledgevUle. He was admitted into tiie asylum. Mr. Hughes has had a long spell of sickness, and has formed an opinion that lie would be better dead than alive, and it is almost impossible to keep him from end ing his own existence. In Remembrance of War Days. From the Sandersville Mercury. Mr. G. W. Bateman gave a splendid dinner to some of the surviving members of his old company, of Houston county, a few days ago, at the Sandersvilse hotel. Ever since tiie war it has been the custom of the members of the company every year to have a reunion at some point, and'have a big dinner. Each member of the company takes it in rotation and furnishes the dinner; there are now about twenty-five of the mem bers of the company living. Nine Ear* Grown from One Grain—The Need of Farmers. From the Waycross, Ga., Reporter. The Rev. W. H. Thomas, of this town, brought to onr office a few days since three well developed stalks of com grown from one grain, which contains nine full grown ears. This is a new variety of Indian corn that was introduced into this country by Captain Ken- non, of Hoboken, who made an 'average of over one hundred bushels per acre on several acres last year, as unfavorable as the seasons Mr. Hood's War Horse. From the Cartersville, Ga. Free Pres*. "Barney,” tiie old veteran war horse of our friend, Mr. VV. H. Hood, died last Friday. “Barney” was captured on the Stoneman raid on the 30th of July, 1861, just eighteen years and five days before he died, the whole of which time lie has been in Mr. Hood’s posses sion. It is supposed that he was about five years' old when captured,, making him twen ty-three years old. Mr. Hood feels keenly the loss of bis .Old-friend, which feeling was attested by- the decent burial which lid gave him. -, Barbarism in Oconee. From the Athens, Ga., Banner. Yesterday an old negro man named Mose Huff, who resides in Oconee county, brought a fine cow to the city to sell to the butchers, that had two or three of her teats cut off close to her bag. He says that a day or two ago, parties living in his neighborhood, offered him fifty dollars for the cow, but the offer vras declined, and that a night or two after the offer was made, the fiendish act was committed. Since tiie deed was perpetrated, the cow has given birth to a calf, and her condition was such that lie was forced to sac rifice her. The Babies in McDonald. • From the Thomasville Enterprise But before taking our leave of the clever people of McDonald we can’t refrain from no ticing the little folks—the babies, we mean— which are as numerous, healthy and pretty as any section of any county can boast of. With sturdy, industrious fathers and healthy,noble- hearted mothers, this little generation cannot fail, in the near future, to make their impress upon society, and to people this or some other portion of our country with a popula tion unsurpassed for true worth. An Aged Convert; From the America*, ua.. Republican. We learn that the baptizing on last Sunday, of the old lady, Mrs. Butler, of Marion coun ty, aged one hundred and twelve years, of whom we spoke in a late issue of this paper, an immense crowd witnessed the ceremonies. The aged communicant was carried to the water and baptized in a chair. Mrs. Butler was at one time in her life a Presbyterian, then a Methodist, then a Missionary Baptist, and now a Primitive Baptist. Hancock’s Explanation. From the Americas Republican. Some boys whose ages vary from twelve to fourteen were passing Oak Grove cemetery in this city a few nights ago, and as one of them said: “We were badly scared, for the grave yard was full of lights, jumping about in the air like so many fire bugs.’’ It is proposed to send these boys to the public schools on their opening next fall to learn that oftentimes a gas exhales from the bodies of the dead, pro ducing these lights indistinct print