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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION
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TUESDAY MOKNINF., MAY 8, 1883.
PRICE 5 CENT8
DURING THE WEEK.
WHAT THE PEOPLE OF THE CITY
AND COUNTRY ARE DOING.
Ancttmt Cyolons In Louf*Un*—The Striking Work-
m»n-l Murderer ZXaagfd—The Atlanta and
Tiiaih co»tomhou»««-QoT»n5or Bory-
to&’a Marriage—Fire* and Death*.
Tuudur, May 1.
TJ»e testimonial being railed lor Mr. Parnel
reached the amouut of £6,000. A second cyclone
▼lalted Linden, La., and vicinity sweeplof every
thing In its track. Ycllowr fever in Vera Craz. A
gaa explosion at tb6 Keystone colliery, Pa., killed
three miners. Mooiy and Sankey, the revivalists,
left London for New York. The prince aud prin
cess of Wales will open the international fishery ex
pedition on the 12th lust. Three negroes were killed
in an accident on the Texaa Pacific railroad. The
Malagasy envoys asked the protection of Germany
against French aggression in Madagascar. The
heavy frost aud ice in northern Virginia injured
the fruit. Governor Boynton was married to Miss
8asie Harris, of Walton county. A complimentary
banquet waagiven in London to Pr. Norvin Greeu,
presidentof the Western Uuion telegraph company.
lit THE CITY.
Strawberries thirty cents a quart. Tho Youtg
Men’s Chriatiuu association will erect a handsome
building. The Atlanta Jail Is full of prisoners. A
restaurant clerk killed thirty-two rata with a parlor
riffle. A small storo at .115 West Mitchell street was
destroyed by fire. Several Atlanta people went to
Cincinnati to attend tho dramatic festival. Tho
Central Presbyterian congregation is rapidly secur
ing the amount required to build their uew church.
WeSaeadar, Slay 9.
A fire in Waxahatchee, Texas, destroyed five
buildings and the grain elevator. The prospects for
a good wheat crop in California are splendid. Four
men were seriously wounded lu a shooting scrape
in McKinney, Ky. Rioting was recommenced
• Port Said. Tho 120th call for matured government
bonds amounted to $11,500,000. A strike of carpen
ters and masons for highe: wages was begun in Ber
lin. The importation of American pork in to Greece
was forbidden by tho government of that country.
All the cigar factories of Richmond, Va., closed,
owing to the workmen demanding an increase
wages. J.P. Lathrop, who stole $12,000 from the
Central railroad of New Jersey, was sent to the peu
ltenliary for four years. Fitzharris, the cab driver
charged with complicity in the Phtcnix park mur
ders, was acquitted. A document urging a speedy
rising against tho oppression of Russia was circuit!
ted in Hnlgari u The Southern Baptist convention
which will be held in Waco, Texas, will he tho
largest religious assembly ever held in tho south,
over 2,700 have applied for accommodations up
date.
INT1IKCI1Y.
The building and couteuts at 236 Marietta street,
occupied by Jobu D. Stok.s and Green Si Holland
was burned; loss$25,000. Hotels full and railroad
travel good. John King, a carpenter, fell from
building, breaking his left leg. Tho tax collector,
tax receiver and commissioners of roads and rev0‘
nue have their offle.-s in the now courthouse.
Thursduy, May 8.
Tho tenth annual session of the State Sunday-
. school conventlou met in the St. John’s M. E.
church, Augusta, Ga. A thief entered the offleo of
the Providence, B. 1., gas company and stole $1,
000. Patrick DeLaney aud Thomas Caffrey,accused
of murdering Lord Frederick Cavendish and Mr.
Burke in Piucnix park, Dublin,pleaded guilty anxl
were sentenced to be hanged ou Juno 2d. The coal
«, yJiiwulJBtltwm.ii.ia.rS** <1»> ttnaubaHw^api
. plasterers of-St. Louis struck for an Increase of
wage*. Several highway robberies and murders
havo been committed in navsna during the past
few days. W. a. Searlght, mayor of Vincinucs,
Ind., committed suicide. Henry Goidery, of Ope
lousas, La., was waylaid and killed by unknown
parties. The Georgia teachers convention met in
Athens.
IN THE CITY.
President Arthur named a uew steel cruiser "At
lanta.” The prospects of a sowing machine factory
being built here are good. The police came out in
theirnew uniforms. Mr. J. M. Bradley, a farmer
living near Atlanta, shipped a large quantity of
aweot potatoes to New York.
Fridays May -1.
A gas explosion at tho Refuge oil mills, near
Vicksburg, Miss., resulted in the death of one per
son and the injuring of several others. The St. Al
bans, Vt., iron and steel mills made an assignment,
Sixty-five of the Creek Indians wero arrested and
token to Fort Gibson. General Crook crossed into
Mexico In pursuit of tlie Apache lndl&us. Dickey
Bros., tho largest ship builders on the Pacific coast,
failed in San Francisco. Tho grand jury of Har-
rodsburg, Ky., returned a true bill against Phil
Thompson, the slayer of Davis. The trial of twen
ty-six socialists was begun in Lemberg, Austria,
The Masonic hall in Queen street, Loudon, was de
stroyed by fire.
IK THE CI1Y. .
M. Franklin, a wholesale notion merchant,failed,
About seventy-five vacant suburban loti were sold
at auction. Rabbits invade gardens lu the very
heart cf the city. Several dry goods merchants
have ordered second spring stock*.
Bitiriiyi May 6.
The basinets failures for the past week number
152. Thecucampmeutof the Louisiana National
Guards will commeuce at New Orleans May 15th.
A fight took place between a posse of Texas farm
ers and three horse thieves in tho lower part of the
Indian Territory, in which one of the thieves was
killed. A fire at Union City, Ind.,destroyed nearly
the whole western part of the town, and another
fire atTnllahoma, Tenn., burned thirty houses.
Ex Treasurer Polk, of Tennessee, was committed to
Jail in default of the increased bail. Yellow fever
broke out in Lima and Callao. A gas explosion oc
curred In the Dorran shift of the Lehigh valley,
Pa., coal company, killing two men. D. F. Walker
was hanged at Trenton,Ga.,for the murder of Sam
uels. Hordberger on Sand mountain, November 6,
1882. Lawrence Hanlan, charged with attempting
to murder Juror Dennis Field in Dublin was found
guilty and sentenced to penal servitude for life.
Two newstapei offices and two business houses
were burned in Darlington, Wis. It was rumored
in Washington city that Pleasants would be ousted
from the Savannah customhouse and Jesse Wim
berly put iu his place, and that Pledger would be
bounced from the Atlanta customhouse aud 9. W.
Postell would succeed him.
IN THE CITY.
Dr. Caines reports the general health ol the con
victs as good. Peaches are promised before the first
of June. At one tailrood depot forty-seven carloads
of tobacco have arrived since May 1st. The revival
at Trinity charch Is In its seventh week.
Bsidsy, May 0.
The spruce trees of Maine arc dying at a fearful
rate. A heavy snow storm prevailed in Montana.
Judge Billings, of the United States court at New
Orleans, rendered a final decision in the case of
Myra Clark Gaines against the city of New Orleans
givlogjadgment sgsfnst the defendant for one
million dollars. A light shock of earthquake oc
curred** Helena, Montana. Seven deaths from
yellow fever in Havana. A fire at Rondout, N. Y.,
destroyed five dwellings and burned two children
to death. Tabreese, Persia,was visited by an earth
quake which destroyed a great many nouset and
killed a large number of persons. Six hundred
laborers on the Manila, Minn, railroad struck for
an increase of wages. It was rumored in London
that Bradlangh would resign.
IH THE CITY.
Suburban strawberries are ripening fait Arrange-
made. Hundreds of visitors from the neighboring
towns come to Atlanta to purchase goods. The
big excursion for the northwest is getting in good
shape. A new company was formed for the erec
tion of another cotton factory. 4 J. Flelscbel was
sppoluted permanent receiver for Max Franklin.
Mr, William Hightower found four dresses covered
with marks of blood in tho woods about three
miles from the city.
NEWSPAPER MILLIONAIRES.
JEaatcrn and Wenlcrn Journalist* Who Unto Passed
the Million Milestone.
From tho Philadelphia Press.
I am thinking now of a few newspaper men who
are millionaires. Tho most of them aro owners of
newspapers, not sure enough editors or reporters;
although they may have been, once upon a time. I
wasgoingtosay that I can count them upon the
fingers of one hand—I mean those whom I happen to
know, but at thi»«rtoment I recall Ceorgo W. Childs,
William M. Slrmcrly, A. S. Abell, K. B. Hiu-kell, R.
M. Pulsifer, Georgo Jones, Joseph Medill, Wilbur F
Storey, Charles A. Dana, Jamcj Gordon Bennett,
and before long, if not already, I might add of
Whitelaw Reid and Horace White, who have already
pasted the half million milestone, Jay Gould does
not properly appear on the list; for newspa
poring, If I may use the ugliest of new
words, is not his busiucss. Ills ownership of the
World Js a mere incident of the busy and multiform
life of a tpoowUvtor. ’in tho same way Boss Shep
herd was and ' w-route|Bmdy is in the newspaper
business, and hundreds of other capitalists own
more or less shares In newspaper enterprises. Tho
men whom 1 have grouped, on the other bond,
either made their millions in tho business of pub
lishing newspapers, or now make that their chief
concern. Bennett tops the list in poiut of wealth
and after him I should put Chiles. Storey, Abell,
Jones, Dana, Pulsifer, Haskell and 81ngcrly, in tho
order named. Tho pcculiartlea cf several of
theso gentlemen are well known to the public
through the stories that creep into the newspapers.
The eccentricities and extravagant recreations ot
Bennett, the charities of Childs, the hobbles of Da
na, the meanness of Storey, aro common themes.
Less is known about Haskell and Pulsifer, of the
Boston Herald, Abell of tho Baltimore Sun and
Slngorlyof the Philadelphia Record. Abell is en
joying age In luxurious coze and open-handed
but unobtrusive liberality. A man of
modest merit and quiet taste*, ho avoids notoriety
os though it were the plague. For years ho has
spent bis summers at Cape May, and many Phila
delphians have there sought and enjoyed his ac
quaiutance, and learned to time tho beginning and
the end of tho season by his coming and
GEORGIA’S TEACHERS.
SENSATION OF THE LATE
ATHENS CONVENTION-
A Proposal to Zadarsn a-.Normal Bthoul ByetcmFo
Qeorsia Calls Oat n BtroDg Bpacoh From MsJor
BUton—Oommlaatonsr Orr Xadorasd By a
Unanimous Vote-Beta* Incident*.
tho Sunday Preas that |( is scarcely worth whilo to
say anything about him. hut other than Philadel
phians will be luteresteu to learn that next lo his
newspaper, if. indeed, that is entitled to the first
-lace in bh Aitoctlon ,hii weakness is livo stock—
E l — — —
orscs, cattle, »heep—and incidentally fancy farm-
‘ og. There is nothing about a horse that he do**n r
know, and yet, like Robot Bonner, of the New
York Ledger, whom I find 1 have omitted from my
catalogue of newspaper millionaires, he never bcis
or. a race. For yean ho has never missed attend
auce upon the sessions of the National Trottinr
association, and at this writing he is on one o.
his annual pilgrimages to the home of the Ihor
oughbreds In Keutneky. ills stables con
tain none but good horaes, end his pretty place in
fine Jersey cattle and the best _
ail, Singerly is exceedingly domestic In his tastes,
and hls friends are tied lo him not only by the tm-
dltoual hooks of steel, but by the tighter bands of
unwearied and subitantial kindness. By the way,
debplte all that may be said of the luxurious ap
pointments of other metums in this day of news-
decorated and furnished with a lavish!
non that throws all others into the shade, and hls
people are housed In a way that reflects credltaiike I
of the little gold mine, the Boston Herald. Thoy,
with Andrews, the third partner, take $1,000 apiece
lout of the profits of their businevs and divide tho
surplus of the profit at the end of the year. With
this nice little Income added to the
dividends on their joint investments in
real estate, copper and silver mines, railroads and
what-not. they manage to move through life very
smoothly at an age when most men are still tug-
jey liavo their hospitable country scats
their pictures, their clubs and their travels 11a*,
kell is tho great traveler of the concern. I’ulalfe-
‘nlua him occaaioually, but generally with thr
teen eye to business which has done moro than
and i
light ol the old tread-mill. A few yean ago Has
kell took his whole fumily. the family parson and
hls wife, and a few other friends to Europe. They
vpenta year there, and ho footed all the bill*.
While lu Berllu he bad the portraits of sll hls chil
dren painted by Han* Makart. Ho also bought
many pictures, and $80,000 worth of them now
adorn his house at Newton. This house, by the
way,with that of Pulsifer, was built by E. D. Win-
slow, the Bouton forger, over whose extradition
there was such a tow,and In whoso apprehension in
Lcndun, tho Herald, through the instrumentality
of W.dt. Batch, mime one of iu greatest newst
per beats. Just now. Haskell is about atari!
for a grand tour of the west In a palace car, mu-
, and Santa Ke railroad. While
the editor in-chief is on such jaunts, the Herald Is
in charge of the whe el-horse of the concern John 11.
Holme*, than whom there was no better equipped
i ourualUi in this country.
Among the millionaire owners of weekly Jour
nals. not properly to be called newspaper!, be-
splcuous are Robert Bonner, of the New York
Ledger; FrancisS. 8mltb, surviving owner of the
Athens, May 5.—Athens is the pret
tiest town in Georgia, and it was in
all * its spring beauty when it
greeted the Georgia Teachers* association.
How the white colonnades, half hidden in
the masses of green foliage, carried one hack
to the ante-bellum days, when the up coun
try plauters used to make such a display of
fine carriages and horses, and pretty ^laughters
at commencement!
Athens is much changed, but the Georgia
teachers did not find that it had lost its ok!
character for hospitality. This has been per
haps the pleasantest meeting that the associa
tion has ever had, and the success is more
due to Miss Rutherford, principal of the
Lucy Cobb school, than to any ’other single,
person. The meetings of the body took place
in the beautiful Seney-titovall chapel. This
house seats a thousand persons. In general
plan, the audience room is very like a pretty
opera house. The adornments are simple and
elegant, and the ventilation and lighting—
verv important matters—unusually good.
Mr. Zettler, school superintendent of
Macon, was the president, and he had the
good sense not to prepare a crowded pro
gramme of essays and papers. I think the
essays and readers have been teporled in The
Constitution, so i will only notice matters of
special importance.
Tho chief interest‘was caused by the
normal school discussion on the second
day. This was introduced by an able
paper written by Professor W. B. Bound, of
in favor of the normal school proposed, and
Pr. On- replied to the strictures of Major Sla
ton. . Pr. Orr read from his own report to
show that no special favor was shown to ne
gro schools. The figures werp, as he said,
compiled with great care aud sworn to by
court v.v officers. 'I did not pot the exact fig*
made nearly four white schools
Covington, advocating a Georgia normal
school. Professor Bonnol gave some account of
the History of normal schools and the need
for them. At tho close of his paper Mr.
Bonn cl introduced the following resolutions:
1. Resolved, That the Georgia Teachers' asscelA-
tiau, recognizing the nceeiwhy of a state noimar
school iu Georgia, aud believing that the time for
the establishment of such an Institution haa fully
come, heartily approves the bill now pending IkV
fore tho Georgia legislature, aud recommends it*
-peedy pustiue.
2. ltcsohvd, That a committee, to consist cl,
three members of this body,including the president
as chairman ol the committee, be appointed diirtnp.
this present senlon to coufer with Dr. U. J. Orr,-.
the state scaool commissioner, and profier such as*,
alliance in procuring the passage ol the bill to
ent and practicable: and that the committee bo In
structed to report at the next Annual meeting.
8. Resolved, That the same committee be re
quested to co operate with Ur. Orr, the state school
, j u hJ§ eirurts and pUng ^ MCUrQ ^
having died
” “ *“hlnd him), and Elrerson,
J, who publi-hea Haturday Night
Golden Days and the Illustrated World
Mr. Riverton from the very smallest beginnings,
has built up a splendid property, the removal of
which to New York la just now threatened by rea
son of complainta of some tender-eared folks who
‘t sleep on account of the rattle of hit presses.
dragging out a miserable existence am
•- -* **-- — -Mint —
ow it baa a
qulred all theiugenuity of the two printer* who
started it to keep It alive at all. Now it baa a
i.noOaml cUUrhiug. Golden Days
launched with a magnificence unknown to the
babyhood of ita elder airier. Mr. Klverson printed
a pillion copies to begin with—an edition so
large that our bl^ post-office, with all ita resour-
handle it. and
with a fat bank account. Klverson keep* on piling
up money. Lately he has spent hls summer* in
Paris and other European capitals with his family,
are! Hweet & Smith pay John E. Barrett, the bril
liant Irbbman who edits the 8cranton Kepbblican.
from 1500 to $1,000 each for good aerial stories, and
spent $6,000 in advertising ono of them. Again, I
Peck, who receives from Bonner a salary of $10,
ana he is expected to write not more thaa two
stories a year.|
Itauich Time, on a Itsttroad Strike.
8t. Paul, Minn., May 5.— Six hundred laborers
on the Manito railroad, between Minneapolis and
Lake Minnetonka, asked for an advance of wages
from $1.50 to $1.75 per day. The leaders in the
afikir yesterday morning threw down their tools,
and declare! that no one should work until an ad
vance was made. They then started down the
track, stopping men at work. All the cars were
off the track and further threats were made.
YclLir Fever la Cafea.
Havana, May 5.—0evea deaths from yellow fever
menu for drying fruit by palest processes are being occurred during the week.
Heavy Fa! area.
Boston, Maas., May 5 —Dispatches state that the
large distillery house of George aud Thomas Far
thing, at Buffalo, N. Y., Is embarrassed, II. T. Gil-
lett ± Sons, dealers in liquors, the same city, and
Sherman, Howe dt Co., grain and flour dealc
New York, are involved. The latter firm say i
aud Sherman Bro«. A Co are only temporarily
item in
bammed. They have sold grain to Farthings, imd
Farthings' paper ha *
amount, bnt they
commissioner, ^
more liberal appropriation for the sustcuancoaiid
extension of tho common schools in the state.
After the reading of the resolutions Mr.
Moses, of Coweta, rose and addressed the as
sociation. lie said the subject was for the
first time brought to his notice, and he desir
ed to hear it discussed, but for tho present he
was opposed to a normal school as a blunta-
blo use of money, so long as tho public schools
ore kept up for only threo months. Like
some other opponents of normal schools, he
seemed to fancy that he could oppose them
by eulogies on the university of Georgia*
whose graduates were, lie said, capable of ilo
in" ;.a go*! touching, tu> (loggia requires.
rtie boys of tho university, who are
accomplished clnqucur* whenever applause
is needed, applauded heartily every mention
of the university. Bui from the professor of
the university 1 learn that they do not regard
a normal school as in any sense a competitor
of that institution, nor ao they wish to see
tho project fail. They would, us is natural,
like to see it established in Athens.
Dr. Orr himself next took tho floor. He
madcu most admirable statement, cogent,
lucid, not long but interesting; and it held
the close attention of tho large audience to
the very end. Dr. Orr declared Ids entire
loyalty to the university, in whose halls ho
had received a very important part of his own
education. He saiu that |he grad
uates of tho colleges did not, would
not, and could not be expected to teach tho
elementary public schools which wero to
raise the children of the masses. Ho showed
that besides this, they were too few. He had
caused a census to be taken with as great ac
curacy as he could secure, of all the college
and high school students in Georgia. They
were, in round guumbers, nearly - 10,-
000 students. The whole school population
was, in round numbers. 500,000; tho whites
about 201,000. The college and high school
students were less thon 2 per cent of the
whole school population, and less
than 4 per cent ol tho
white school population. From this
percent all professional men must come.
For the children of the masses Dr. Orr
made a most powerful and earnest appeal.
It was far the most effective sneccii tho
writer has ever heard Dr. Orr make. The
heart of the honest old commissioner was
thoroughly stirred up for the children of
poverty and ignorance.
„„ majoe a la ton creates a sensation.
When Dr. Orr sat down, Mojor Blaton,
superintendent of schools in Atlanta, arose.
Major Slaton has not been a member of
the state association, and has only attended
it hitherto when it chanced to meet in
Atlan’a. He joined it on Monday
The association listened to him with great
attention and interest, and paid him the un-
ures, but they
to ono negro school.
l)r. Orr replied that if tho position were un
satisfactory to country teachers, there was
only one thing to do, and that was to move
forward and make it satisfactory by more
money for public schools. which
wouM relieve the country teachers.- He
said ho constitution of Georgia, constructed
by lbs class of democrats that some people
called bourbons, made public schools impera
tive. There was no possible way of getting
rid oi'tbo educational plunk in the constitu
tion. The proposal to do so, as he said (vory
truly i would simply unite in opposition to it
all the black and half the white voters. There
was, is he clearly showed, but one way of get
ting c;Ut of a position w hich was unsatisfacto
ry to the country privato teachers, and that
was to move ahead and try to get money
enough for six months schools. Dr. Orr said
tho bulls of hls-figures was sworn statements
oi hie county officers, and he insisted that,
nearly 10.000 was nearly -I per cent, of
201,000. Dr. Orr was humorous
overMajor8Iatnn’svi8it to the convention,and
made -cvery body laugh by an anecdote about
an Irishman who was just "sloshing around."
At the close, Major West, proftssorof math
ematics in Richmond academy, Augusta,
bore testimony to the importance of a normal
school- and sustained Dr. Orr.
Mr Moecs made a few final remarks ngainst
the i Ormal school, but advocating an in
crease! public school fund. Then the vote
was taken, and the convention, voting sep
arately on the three resolutions, by a rising
vote, ladies and all, unanimously sustained
Dr. Orr, except that on the normal school
resolution, Mr. Moses voted nay.
In publishing this discussion the writer
would say that there is no doubt that the
preseut state of tiie school question bears
hardly on tho country school teachers. The
position wc nre in cannot ho occupied per
manently without serious injury to the cause
of education in Georgia. Some people think,
I do believe, that the school commissioner
onglit/~o take his oath and then refuse to
[foster the public schools as it requires—am
very sY'ro if they want a man to swear one
Way and act another, they will have to select
unotheV»man for school wmmissioner than
Gustavtia J. Orr. But tho honest people of
NEWS OF GEORGIA.
WHAT THE PEOPLE ARE SAYING
AND DOING.
All tSaLesdloc Crimes. Casualties, sad Other Brents
—now the Crops 1'hroQRhout tbaSute Bmna
Talk About Bohtia* and Business
Matters of Geaetal liter eat. Ntc.
Cutiibert, May 2.—Wednesday morning
about 0 o’clock, Mr. Charles Ford, of Ran
dolph county, committed suicide by shooting
himself through the temple with a pistol. Mr.
Ford was an industrious, frugal farmer, about
sixty-five years of age. He was a man of
steady habits, who commanded tho respect
and esteem of all who knew him.
Conyers, May 5.—A. N. Neal, charged
with rope, who has been confined in jail
since February last, escaped last night by pro
curing a key and unlocking the door ot the
tall itMlUll Utin.lO MWf.linll M„{nil l.tn
jaij. W’lifJl Hberlfl .Mitchell carried his
breakfast to the jail this morning tie found
the door open and the prisoner cone. The
sheriff oiler, n reword of |25 for hls capture.
church. Henry Ecknian,-who was drowned
yesterday, will bo'ouried this afternoon.
Caliiodk, may 5.—Editor Constitution:
Below, I give you tho weight of a litter o£
Berkshire pigs, twomonthsof age to-day. The
largest ono went to 44 lbs., and the ten
weighed 374 lbs. The sow and pigs have eaten
since March 4th, not quite 10 bushels of meal
and corn, with the slope saved in my kitchen,
and the buttermilk from about four average
cows. I expect to mako them average 300
ins., gross weight at 10 months of age. Expe
rience has proven to me that the cheapest and
best I Kirk is raised by keeping of a few good
hogs, feeding liberally from the day of birth
Until killing time, and thereby avoid all dan
ger from disease, and other losses. Mr. King,
of Floyd, is certainly right in his plan, and if
our fanners would sow rye, barley, cioverand
other green food clops for tlicir aowf and pin,
.u — * ft.
The Presbyterian Sunday school picnicked to
Stone Moutain yesterduy, aud W
.Gsorgi t do not want it. !■ tho end they
ild*o use up and stop dnublo dealing.
would
If there were an attempt to go backward
And repeal the educational clause of the stato
.e.bnstf utlon, not only would they causo the
lnboiii g white and black class lo combine
ngainst it, they would cause political affilia
tions vhicii would not end there, mid which
Cfenrgli would rue for n long time to come.
Tile orcscnt position is not tenable mid the
only v.sy out of it is forward! Tho public
sebook. must have moro money or education
in Ocoqjlu Will go backward.
Tin: i-Ai'Cns heal.
On 1 uday three papers were read; the first
usual courtesy of postponing the hour of ad-
* sr to beat him out before he
journraentin order
Jeft for Augusta. Major Slaton fa an easy,
fluent talker, and he proceeded to make a
warm attack on the plans of Dr. Orr. He
made the charge that the negroes bad received
a disproportionate amount of tho public
school funds. He said the negro was not the
equal of himself—that God bod not made
him so. He charged that throughout the
state the public schools weic ruining the
country school teachers; that the state school
commissioner “had his hand at the throat"
of the teachers of private country schools in
Georgia. He said that Dr. Orr did not know
the real sentiment* of the country people of
Georgia, tbrt he merely went round talking
to grand juries, and they did not reflect the
opinions of the people, who were opposed to
public school* because the negroes were get
ting the benefit of the fund to the exclusion
of the whites.
He added be was not opposed to negro in'
struction, and he testifiedT that the negroes
could receive the higher education and bene
fit by ft. He said that he bad seen the
blackest, most kinkey headed negroes stand
examinations in algebra, geometry,
Latin and Greek, . which showed
that they profited in' a very high
degree by the instruction given at the univer
sity of Atlanta. Major Slaton attacked Dr.
Orr, also, in regard to the percentage of col
lege and high school students, but 1 did not
nndersland his reasoning. He is too good a
mathematician to mean that 10.000 ia8 per
eemof 201,000, and was probably misunder
stood by us. Major Alston also praised the
university highly, as it it were somehow an
tagonistic to the normal school. He was
warmly applauded by the students and other*.
Borne profes-ors ot the university were pres
ent. They disclaim any rivalry with the
normal school. The discussion was renewed
later in the afternoon, but Major Blaton nsd
left Athena.
an view* cvaxiHomr sejectxd.
Mr. Samuel Darnell, of Washington, spoke
ossor H. C. Wlilto, of the university
■i (la. It was one of the very best pa-
■Jr read in the Georgia Teachers' asso-
cintiom It was both who and charming. On
the great question of scientific educstlon Pro
fessor .White’s view* are specially entitled to
consideration, both from his fitness to speak,
and because ho takes no extreme ground,
ilispujicr is peculiarly appropriate to the
tiinrs.y.nd ought to ho read by alt tho educa
ted ft • * in Geotgia.
if aeft .thorford on Wednesday night gavo
m . w.*yr.tsuo41JIU UII cuinauut tii|,iii(,n>u
tho association a beautiful cntcrtulmnont.
There were recitations and music
the lovely little chape], and
then all adjourned to tho institute where
conversation and supper completed the even
ing. The association thanked Miss lluther-
ford and her sisters by name, for their uo
ceasing kindness. Miss Rutherford's connec
tions with the university and the public
school, were such that it was in her power to
bring tho association Into pleasant and friend
ly relations with the professors of the uni
versity. It wus a graceful and beautiful act
which will, we hope, edict lasting good in
Georgia. The university and tho schools are
really tho commissioned and non-cotn-
niissloucd officers of tho satno army,
I must not omit to tell of -the entertain
ment Professor Cburboiiiiier gavo the tench cm-
They wero invited by Dr.Moll to visit tho libra
ry and scientific department of the university,
Three of Professor Cbarbonnici’s boys, by his
electricity,
directions, gave us a lecture on
with, experiments performed by themselves,
The young gentlemen were Messrs. H.Phinxy,
pf Augusta. Harry Wilcox, of Athens, and
Benjamin Conyers, of Cortersville. The lec
tures were well delivered, and the experi
ments entirely successful. The work was
wholly that of the young gentlemen, Proles-
“ ' nier having only given very gen-
aor t'barbonnier ,
end advice. After all that was said of tho
university men as teachers, these showed no
mean preparation for tho very best
work. Tho association made a new
path by electing as president for the ensuing
year u gentleman who is not a teacher, Mr.
Samuel Barnett.
But Mr. Barnett taught school in early life
for some years; has nil his life been noted for
seal and interest in education; would, on one
or two occasions, have been mado chancellor
of the university but for hi* health, which
caused him lo decline; and finally has shown
an interestln the Georgia Teachers' ursocia
tion felt by no person not engaged in actual
teaching. Probably the thing now most
needed by the cause of education in Georgia
is the interest of men and women ef liberal
education, not teachers.
And os 1 am talking of Mr. Barnett, it
probably is in place to tell the readers
of Tux CoasTiTUTtoa shat he says of the
poem, “A Remonstrance," published In the
April Century Magaiino end written by
Georgia’s dead son and poet, Bidney Lanier.
Mr. Barnett thinks it (icrhsps the greatest
American poem. He says be read it to Gen
oral Toombs, who then turned end read it to
him, declaring it to be Hbakespearean. In
the May Century there is in essay on the
“Moral Bails of Art," by Sidney Lanier, and
of it I heard almost equally high praise.
On Thursday evening the members of the
association bad tho pleasure of hearing a
charming lecture frotp the venerable Dr.
Lipscomb, who gave them some admirable
advice. I should have mentioned before that
Professor Ifenry Mitchell, of the Marietta
street school, Atlanta, read an essay on
“School Government," which excited the en
comiums of the best judges, and evokedsome
a good proof of the merit of a paper read
fore the association.
Aa laSlaa riebt.
Ktw Oul.lt si, May 5.—The Times-Democrat Her-
moeilto, Mexico special lays an engsgement took
piece yesterday one hundred and sixty-three miles
southeast of here between the Apaches sad the
federal troops, retelling In the defeat ol the fndlaot
who nutsbied a lots ol Ji SUit-d tad many woiimd.
ad. The troops lost three killed sad Are woundW.
A Slrtmr Oairtt.
h'sw OaUAHS, May A—The I'icayune'i Monroe
special says Robert Butler, colored, 37 years old, was
hanged at Columbia parish yesterday for the mur
der of George Harris fa July, 1*74. The gallowe
were erected ia from of the courthouse.
byeaMJU DeieeifcS.
Saw Yota, May S— At a tneeUnirof the execu
tive committee of the Irbh lend league last night
the action of the Philadelphia contention wts In
dorsed. The rue of dynamite wu denounced;
. .. iV. L. I’cek’
school goes to-day.
Bkkxca City, May 5.—Fire broke out
last night ot 12 o’clock in the Ramsey build
ing. this building nnd store houses occupied
by T. a. & K. W. Mcthvln, O, F. Bacon aud B.
F. Bloan, with tho nojtolllce were burned.
Bacon saved ail ids goods, Methvlns saved
ukout one-fourth of their goods, B. F. 8laan
lost tlie greatest part of lus stock. Drs. Mc-
Klroy dr Brown lost nearly all their'drugs.
Most of the men Buffering loss are Insured
tho mutual, amounts unknown. Tlie safe
post office, which is said to have contained
considerable amount of money Is altogether
lost, tho door having como oil. Frank Bloan’i
safo containing about $600, is considered se
cure.
' Vaibosta, May 5.—A ripe melon, weighing
twenty pounds and the first ever seen hero so
early, was presented to U. W. Grady, of The
Constitution,lhis evening on his return from
the Htaplcr estate in Flor'da, where lie has
been fishing on Lako Alcyone nnd studying
the Guinea cow in its original homo. Tlie
first ripe melon of lost year was pulled on
Mny 20, and sent to Tux Constitution. Mr.
Grady und hls party were carried on the fish-
ing trips by Messrs. Pendleton, Stapler, Jelks,
Mallcttonud Ashley. Tho catch was fine,
ovor three hundred brenm and trout having
hren taken in one afternoon. We learn tlie
first melon of tlie season goes forward by ex
prdss to Atlanta to-nlgbt.
Jaki-eh, May 2.—Janies H. Roper, living two
miles southwest of Jasper, had his mill, with
its contents, including n wool-carder, con
sumed by fire yesterday evening. IDs lees Is
ubont one thousand dollars; no Insurance.
Tlie miller was a chair-maker, and had a lire
in tlie stove seasoning some chair timber, und
closed the mill for the purpose of working in
ills truck patch, and the tiro got under sucii
headway before it was discovered tiiat noth-
ing con d bo removed from tlie burning build
ing. Tho loss falls heavy on Mr. Roper, who
is it poor man-with a largo family of small
children.
Chattanooga, Mny 3.—Tho hanging of D.
F. Walker at Trenton to-morrow is tho all-
absorbing topic on tho s'reets to-dny, and
there will be a large attendance from this
nil to ~
i the Democrat'from Tren-
city.
ton to-nlgl _ _
have professed religion, forgives everyone,
and hopes to meet all his ftionds in Heaven.
ThomAsvtf.LK, Mny 3,—Mrs. Smith, wifa of
Rev. Milton C. Smith, died last night. Hlic
hns been n great sufiercr for somo months
with throat trouble. Young Carrol, a student
at South Georgia college, nnd son of-Jushuu
Carrol, of tills county, is seriously ill with in
flammation of the bowels. Romo other esses
of same kind in the city. Yesterday we had
much rain, nnd the evening was quite cool.
A dark cloud now fills tlie minds of many
with cyclonic apprehensions.
Blakely, May 2.—Mr, John A. Timmons,
a^hlgbl^ respected and_ vciy vnluablo cltlien
xth district of this county, died on
yesterday and will bo buried to-day with Mn
sonic honors.
Columrcs, May3.—The two negro boys,
Jeir Wisdom and Frank Clemons, wlio com
mitted burglaries In Alabams, and were ar
rested in tins city Wednesday, had a liesrin;
beforo an Alabama justice In Brownville am
were committed to Jail to-day.
LaGranue, Muy 3.—Whether liquor should
be sold by tiie gallon in LaUrango was the
Issue tried In yesterday’s election. Tho re
sult was a triumph for the prohibition party,
their candidate for mayor, Mr. Harwell, re
ceiving 109 votes against 118 for Mr. Bull, tho
leader of the opposition. Tlie candidates for
members of the council ran about with their
respective tickets.
Threo years ago the city, by popular elec
tion adopted iiruiiibition of the sale ot liquor
in quantities less than one gallon. Its sale
in quantities greater than a gallon has since
been a matter of contest. Last fall tlie coun-
nil placed the gallon license it so high a fig-
- ' prohibition. A
uro as to amount to virtual ,
respectable minority contended that whisky
was being sold in the drug stores for other
than medical use, nnd that such being the
case It was only lair that others should enjoy
like privileges, particularly as the
drugghts paid no city license.
A strong majority yesterday de
clared that whisky should not he sold
witli their unction; and if it Is true that it is
being improperly sold in the drug stores, the
remedy Ilea not in the abrogation, but in n
stricter enforcement of the Taw.
Haktwell, May 3.-Jack Jones, colored,
was committed to Jail yesterday under a
charge of burglary. Jack, by some unknown
means, got ia possession of a key that unlock
ed the lock ou Mr. A. J. McMullan’s crib
door without telling McMullan that lie need
ed a little corn. His visits became so Ire
quent, slid hl» turns AoJicavy, that he failed
the last night to carry all of his load homo,
scattering Tt along the road, hence Ilia iden
tity.
Rome, May 4.—Judge Branham overruled
the motion for o new trial in the cose of
Enoch Freeman, the negro convicted of mur
der a few days ago and sentenced to be hung.
The case will lie carried to tlie supreme court.
Columbus, May 4.—Mr. Willis Massey, while
loading a pistol to-day, accidentally discharg
ed it, inflicting a painful and dangerous
wound in the loft band.
Macon, May 4.—Henry Eckman, white,
well known in this city, was accidentally
drowned to-day, while fishing in the Ocmul-
;ee river near the park. Standing in a boat
le suddenly fell out into the water. Tho
body never rose and haa not yet keen recov
ered. The news was received of the drown
ing at 3 o'clock p. m. It is thought be bad
vertigo. He hadf two trot lines in the river.
The clothing of Eckman possibly became en
tangled iu the books and the line, preventing
the body from rising.
Victobv, May 1.—Tlie storm of April
22d did considerable damage to farming
lands in this section. The top of the coil
it gone* from much of the land, and many
farmers say that much of the fertilizers they
had put in is washed to the ditches. Vic
tory mill* having safely survived the rava-
gea of high water is now crowded with
grinding from a large surrounding section.
Macon, Msy S.—To-day, as Mrs J. J, Clay
and Mias Collier wero turning Payne’s corner
while driving ft^huggy.^lt upturned, falling
on Mrs. Clay. Mias Collier was unhurt. Mrs.
Clay was bruised, but not seriously injured
Mrs. Thomas J. Andermn died suddenly
last night. Her burial will take place Sun
day morning trom the First Street Methodist
they would find remuneration tor their work.
In 18ifl, X killed one pig, nine months and
four clays of age, weight 311 lbs gross, at a cost
of less than 3 cts per lb, net weight. Mr.
Robert White, of Jackson county, Ga, killed
one the same winter, aged nine months, ex
actly, ami I think it weighed nearly 350 lbs
nett. Mr. David Dickson, of Hancock coun
ty, Go., killed ono some 25 or 30 years since,
11 months of age which went to 503 lbs. Such
experiments prove tho folly of onr sending lo
tlie west for bacon, and our farmers would
find inure profit in having few slock and bet
ter ones, which would result if we can ever
get tlie people to fence up their stock, and
lcava the crops outside.
I will give you the cost of isising my j>igs.
and weights of them when they are
this winter, os all they eat is charged against
them. Yours with respect.
Wm. W. Bonnes.
Cartebsville, May 6.—We have n Carters.
ville, a cow who lost her calf some months
sinco and It seems Hint she does not like the
idea of being childless, consequently she has,
unfortunately for her owner, taken under her
wing ot adoption, an animal in the ahapo of a
goat, aged Q years, raised np motherless and
from appearances, it seems that tho cow ia in
full sympathy with Hie poor little motherless
goat, and permits it to follow her around and
purtake of tbo lacteal fluid fresh from tbs
tents. She caresses It by licking it with her
tongue witli as much care and tenderness as
ft it were her own, and one of tho inostpromi-
nont features about tbo goatls, Hint if any ona
try to separate it from Tts adopted mother it
will bleat as if it wero crying after its mother.
SOME OLD PAPERS.
AtmtlHSMIi ifOaa Ilns-lre4 Yhh Afs-ClstAc*
•ttiHS WctriaE.
From the Pike Couuljr, Ga., Nows.
A few days ago whilo at tho residence of a
friend in this comity the subject of American
independence had been an to a badly discuss
ed alter wbicli our host said that ho had sev
eral tnemeutoca of the struggle with tho moth
er country which had descended to him from
Ills ancestors. Among tlie packago wa noticed
some newspaper advertisements which hear
the date of January 17,1771. Tho printing ot
these advertisements nro very clear, tho paper
remarkable well preserved and to us were they
interesting in showing the diflercnco of that
time nnd this. Ono of tho "ads" reals thus:
CuKLES,Ucndrico county, January 17,1771
Run away from my plantation, in tlie upper
end of Cumburlaudcounty, on Friday tho 4th
instant, tho following slaves: Jack Sunday,
35 yean old, jet black, near S feet high, very
sonslbio, nnd stutters a good deal, especially
when in liquor, which he is very fond of. is
sprightly and knows littlo else hut thatof tak
ing care of horses, having been, till lately,
accustomed to that kind of business only,
mill ns lie wa* my vnli-t for many years, maiiu
himself well acquainted with tho country,
i’etcr who is rather yellow, and was my
right linnd mnn in tho house for ten ^cum
last, is about 5 feet 19 inches high, has scar
n forehead, os well as each side Mi* nose, oc
casioned by a kick lie received from n burse
when young, port of the fore finger of hfs right
hand cut ofr, is about 30 year of age, and not
quite tbo understanding or spirit of tbo form
er, but much neater in His drest. They both
had on, when' they wcilt aw
, , tawuy, clothes of the
best kind that were given to negroes that
work in tho ground, and perhaps may have
somo of their old liveries, which was green
cloth and fustian faced witli green snalloon. I
expect they uro gono towards Carolina, liuv-
ing :itt< in)iii -I mu i- lii-l-.rc to make tin ir es
cape tliut wily, X will givo three pounds for
each, if taken in this colony,nndliveifinany
other, and delivered to Ricnard Randolph.
Among tlie samopopers we Had somo musio
scales of tiia difliircut flats andshsrps, written
in an excellent linnd. Tho old papers were
preserved by William Colwell,(modern Cald
well) tho grandfather of Itobori B. Caldwell,
who lives now near Liberty hill, 1’iko county,
Georgia. Tho papers have been well cared
for, and are now neat and clean, yet so old
that the ink iu Rhus eaten oat the paper in
many places and left onlyliolesshowing what'
once bad been. Tho printed paper as well as
tbo manuscript bavo been pasted ou cloth
made of flax raised, hackled, spun and woven
by the family of said Caldwell who u—such
cloth (or tlielr own clothing somewhere be
tween 112 and 120 years ago. Tho molbor of
said K. It. Caldwell can givemucbinteresting
information concerning theso papers and cus
toms, of our ancestry in their efforts at indus
try und economy in establishing tlie princi-
ilcs upon which our nation's Tlbertiea were
armed. She Is now about 85 years of age, and
remembers much from tradition. Tuo said
It. 11. C. now lias a Bible of his grandfather's,
which, from the numerous book marks pre
served inside give the appearance of having
been more thoroughly read than many family
Bibles are nowadays.
NOTSO CRAZY AFTER ALL.
W««tcni Mm’i CtBBHHlotllaa (• G*rcr*«r Hoj»•
From the Ilawjrinivlile, (la.. DU patch.
The acting governor of Georgia has receiv
ed from an alleged crazy man in tho west a
communication declaring that Georgia is in
u fearful condition financially and morally,
and that it boa been brought about liy bad
whisky and bad fertilisers. Tlie papers say
that tho communication was turned overt*
Judge Henderson, the commissioner of ag
riculture, who replied to it in strong Ian-
gunge. We are sorry for this. It shows an
effort and an intention on the part of bur
state government to repress the truth.
Mean whisky and poor fertilizers have con
tributed vastly to retard the state in lu moral
growth and prosperity. The author of tlie
communication may really be “a crank," as
is alleged, but it is an old atying that “fools
and children tell the truth.’’ We believe the
fellow should be invited to visit Georgia and
address tho legislature at ita July session on
the subjects of usury and tbe dog law.
We want somebody to explain for the lien-
efitof the legislature why a merchant has a
right to sell a former a cask of a thousaud
pounds of bacon for one hundred and titty
dollars, payable the 15th of October, and take
a mortgage witli li-i!j. -:- :t ! waiver upon the
man’s (arm, while another farmer can buy
tlie same cask of bacon for one hundred and
ten dollars iu cosh. Fay-day comes within
six months from tiie day of tlie sale of
tho bacon, and yet the credit purchaser ia
compelled to pay forty dollars foi
of ono hundred mid ten dollars torsi:
Yet a banker or private capitalis
without violating the law, loan r
more than eight percent interest.
The legislator lias never fairly o
the question of usury, or he would entertain
different view of the matter.
As tlie law now stands, it is hard to borrow
money, but the farmer can get all the guano X
and goods lie wants on time oy paving an ia- ’
terest of forty to sixty per cent ' •V’-V 5
the
c months.
. cannot,
loney for
idert-sl