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• # 5k® t THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION i FAYETTEVILLE GA = .(? 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