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THE WEEKLY CONSTITUTION", ATLANTA, GA., TUESDAY AUGUST 10 18£6
“THE MIDNIGHT REVEL.”
TALM AGE'S SERMON PREACHED AT
MONONA, WISCONSIN.
Sntf rpretiog the Hand-Writing on the Wall Should
Be Honestly Done-The Close of the Banquet
in Contrast with the Betlnnlnf-The
Grim Intruder on the Yeast, Etc.
Hokona, Wis, August 8.—[Speclil.]—A
great outdoor meeting wu held here today,
Thousands attended it from the city of Uadi
BOH, which Is only a few miles distant. The
Eev. T. DeWitt Talmage, D. D., leetnred here
yestetday, and today he preached to uncounted
multitudes. Tho subject of the sermon wa,
“The Midnight Bevel.” and the text was
Daniel v., 30: “In that night was Belshazzar
thehingofthe Chaldeans slain." Dr. Tat*
rntge said:
Feasting has been known in all ages. It was
one of the most exciting times in Engllh his
tory when Queen Elizabeth visited Lori I.ei.
center at Kenilworth castle. Tho moment
of her arrival was considered so
important that all the clocks of
the cattle were stopped, so that tho hands
might point to that one moment as being the
most significant of all. She was greeted to the
gate with floating Islands, and torches, and the
thunder of cannon and fireworks that set the
night ablaze, and a great burst of mnsic that
lifted the whole scene into perfect enchant-
ment. Then the was introduced In a dining
hall, tho luxuries of which astonished the
world; four hundred servants waited upon the
guests; the entertainment cost $5,000 each day.
Lord Leicester made that great supper in Ken<
ilwosth castle.
Cardinel Wolsey entertained tho French
ambassadors at Hampton court The best
cooks in all the land prapared for the banquet;
purveyors went ont and traveled all the king'
dom over to find spoils for the table. The
time came. The guests were kept during the
day hunting in the king’s park, so that their
appetites might be keen; and then in the
evening, to the sound of the trumpeters, ghey
were introduced into a hall hung with silk
and cloth of gold, and there were
tablet aglitter with impe:
laden with the rarest of meats,
and a-blush with the costliest wines; and
when the second course of the feast came it
was found that the articles of food had been
fashioned into the shape of men, birds and
beasts, and groups, dancing, and jousting par
ties riding against each other with lances.
Lords and princes and ambassadors out of cups
filled to the brim drank the health first of the
king of England, and next to tho king of
France. Cardinal Wolsey prepared that great
supper lu Hampton court. .
But my text takes os toe more exciting
banquet. Might was about to come down
upon Babylon. The shadows of her two hun
dred and fifty towers began to lengthen. The
Euphrates rolled on, touched by the fiery
splendors of the setting sun; and gates of
brut, burnished and glittering, opened and
ahnt like doors of flamo. The hanging gar
dens of Babylon, wet with heavy dew, began
to pour from starlit flowers
and dripping leaf, a fragrance for
many miles aronnd. The streets and squares
were lighted for dance and frolic and prom
enade. The theaters and galleries of art In
vited the wealth and pomp and grandeur of
tho-city to rare entertainments. Scenes of
riot and wassail were mingled in every street;
and godless mirth and outrageous excess and
epltzdld wickedness came to the king’s pal
ace to do their mightiest deeds of darkness.
A royal feast tonight at the king’s palate!
that rear and neigh In the grasp of the char
ioteers; while a thousand lords dismount, and
women dressed iq all tho splendor of Syrian
emerald, and the color blending of agate, and
tbecbasteneaa of coral, and tho sombre glory
ofTyrian purple, and princely embroideries
brought from afsr by camels across tho
desert and by ships of Tarshish; across the sea.
Open wide the gates and let guests come in!
Toe chamberlains and cup bearers are all
ready. Hark to the rattle of the silks and to
tho carolofths music! Seethoblszo of the
jewels! Lilt the banners! Fill the cups! Clap
the cymbals! Blow the trumpets! list the
night go by with tong and dance and ovation;
and let that Babylonish tongue be palsied that
will not say: “O, King Belshazzar, live for
ever;”
Ah, my friends! it was not any common
banquet to which these great people came.
All parts of the earth bad tent their richest
visndt td that table. Brackett and tchandel-
lera flashed their light upon tankards of bur
nished gold. Fruits, ripe and luscious, in
barkrta of silver entwined with leaves, pluck-
ed from royal conservatories. Vases inlaid
with emerald and ridged with exqulslto tra
ceries, filled with nuts that wero threshed from
fore-ts of distant lands. Wins brought from
the roye) vats foaming in the decanters and
bubbling in the chalice*. Tufts of catata and
frankincense wafting their aweetneas from
wall aud table. Gorgeous bauuera unfolding
in the breeze that came through the opened
Triidow; bewitched with the perfumo of
hargio'g gardens. Fountains rising up from
inclfrurcs of Ivory in jets of crystal, to fall
In clattering rain of diamonds and
pearls. Staines of mighty men
looking down from nichee in
the wall npon crowns and shields brought
from subdued empires. Idols of wonderful
work standing on pedestals of precious stones.
Embroideries. stooping about the windows
and wrapping pillars of cedar, and drifting on
floor inlaid with ivory ana agate. Music,
mingling the thrum of carps, and the cluh
of cymbals, and the blast of trumpets in one
wave of transport that want rippling along
the'woll and breathing among the garlands,
and pouring down the corridors, and thrilling
the souls or ten thousand banqueters. The
Signal it given, and the lords ana ladles, the
mighty men and women of the land, come
around the table. Pour ont the wine! Let foam
lifted chalices, as again and again and agal
they are emptied. Away with care ftomthe
palace! Tear royal dignity to tatters! Pour
out more wine! Give ns more light, wilder
music, sweeter perfbme! Lord shouts to lord,
captain ogles to captain. Goblets dash, decan
ters rattle. There come in the obecene song
asi the drunken hiccough, and the slavering
Up and the gnflkw of idiotic laughter burst
ing Irom the llpe of princes, flushed, reeling,
bloodshot, while mingling with it all I hear:
“Huzza, huzza for great Belshazzar!"
What Is that on the plastering of the trail?
Is It a spirit? Ia it aph .ntom? Is it God? The
music stops. The goblets fall from tho nerve-
leisgraip. There is a thrill. There is a start.
Tbtte IS a thousand voiced shriek of horror.
Let Daniel be brought in to read that writing.
He pomes in. Be reads it: “Weighed in the
balances, and art found wanting. ’ Meanwhile
the Assyrians who for two years had been lay
ing s siege to that city, took advantage of that
carousal and came in. I hear the feet of
the conquerors on the palace ataln. Massa
cre rushes in with a thousand gleaming
knives. Death bura:s upon the scene: and I
ahnt the door of that hanqnetinK ball, tor I do
not slant to look. There la nothing there but
tore fanners, and broken wreaths, and tha
slcsh of npaet tankards, and the blood of mur
dered women, and the kicked and tumbled
carrais ofa dead king. For “in that night waa
Belli../.’ir slain."
I. 1 learn from thia that when God writes
anything on the wall a man had batter read
it at It is. Danel did not misinterpret or mod
ify the handwriting on tha trail. It ia all
foollihnsu to aspect a minister of tho gospel
to preach always thiogt that tho ptopla like
or the : topic cbooao. What shall I preach to
yon today ? Shall I tell yon of tho dignity of
human nature? Shall (tell you of the won-
dsn that our race hat accomplished? "Oh,'
no." you say, “toll mo tha msisage that come
from God." I trill. If there ia any hand
writing on the trail It Is thla Mason: “Bepant,
accept of Christ and b* saved." I might talk
of a great many othor things, bat that it tho
mesuge, and so I declare it. Jeani nerer flit
tered .those to whom ho protchel.
Ho said to those who did
wrong and who wore offensive in hU
oineiii- rani tne apostle preached before a
man who waa not ready to hear him preach.
What suhiect did ho take? Did ho say: “O,
you are a good man, a very fine man, a very
noble man.” No; ho preached of righteous
ness, to a man who was nnrightsona; of ton-
peranee, to a man who seas tho victim of b id
appetite#; of the judgment to come, to a m in
who waa nnfit for it. So we must always do-
cltre tha message that happens to como to ui
Daniel mutt retd it ss it is. A minists-
preachcd before James I. of England, who wa
James VI. of Scotland. What subject did h<
take? The king sraa noted all orer the world
for being nntettled and wavering in bit ideas.
Whit did the minister preieh about t ■ this
man who seas James I. of England, aud Janes
VI. of Scotland? He took for hit text Jamoi
1. A: “He that wavereth ia like a wave of the
tea driven with the srind and toased.” Hugh
Latimer offended the king by a sermon hi
preached, and the king said: “Hugh Litlmcr,
come and apologize.” “I will,” sa'd Hugh L»t-
imer. So the day was appoln'de, and the
king'e chapel was full of lores and dukes, and
tie mighty men and women of the coun
try, for Hugh Latimer was to apolo
gize. He began hM sermon by sty-
ing: “Hugh Latimer, bethink thee! Thou
an in the presence of thine earthly king who
can destroy thy body! But bethink thoe,
Hush Latimer, that thou art In the presence
of the king of heaven and earth, who can de
stroy both body and seal In hell fire. 0,
king, cursed he thy crimes!"
11. Another lesson that conies to us: Thera
it a great difference between the opening of
the banquet of sin and its close. Young man,
if yen bad looked in upon the banqnet in the
first few hours yon [would have irished you
had been invited there and could sit at the
feast. “O, the grandeur of Belshazzar’s feast,”
you would hare tald; but you
look In at the close of tho binquot and your
blood curdles with horror. The King of Ter
rors has there a ghastlier banquet; human
blood Is the wine and dying groans are the
music. Sin has made itself a king in the
earth. It hat crowned IMelf. It has spread
a banquet. It invites all the world to come to
it. It has hnng in tls banqueting hall the spoils
of all kingdoms and tho banner* of ill nations.
It has gathered from all mule. It has strewn
fromita wealth the tablei and floors and
arches. And yet how often la that banquet
broken up and how horrible it in
endl Ever and anon there M a band
writing on the wall. A king falls.
A great culprit M arretted. The knees of
wickedness knock together. God’s judgment,
like an armed host, breaks In upon the ban
quet, and that night Ia BelshazzarAhe king of
tho Chaldeans, slain.
Hero ia a young man who says: “ I cannot
mo why they make such a fats about the in
toxicating cup. Why.it is exhilarating I It
mskes me feel well. I can talk better, think
better, feel better. I cannot see why people
have inch a prejudice against it." A
few years past on, and he wakes
up and finds himself lu tho
clutches of an evil habit which he
trice to break but cannot; and ho cries ont: “O
Lord God, help mo 1” It seems as though God
would not hear hit prayer, and in an agony of
body and sonl he cries ont: 'Ttbitcth like a
serpent and it stingeth like an adder.” How
bright it waa at the start I how black it waa at
the last!
Here M a man who begins to read French
novels. "They are to charming,” he says; “I
will go ont and tee for myself whether til
these things are so,” He opens the gate of a
sinful Ills. He goes in. A sinful sprite meets
him with her wand. She waves her wand and
it Mali enchantment. Why, it seems aa if tho
angeM of God had poured out phials of per-
fUme in tho atmosphere. At ho walks
on he finds tho hilM becoming more radiant
with foliage, and tho ravines more resonant
with tho falling water. O, what a charming
landscape he sees! Bat that sinful sprits
with her wand maeta him again; bnt now she
reverses the wand and all the enchantment M
gone.. The cup U full of poison. Tho frail
turns to ashes. All the leaves of the bower
are forked tongues of hissing serpents. Tho
flowing fountains fall back in a dead pool,
atenchftil with corruption. The luring songs
become curses and screams of demoniac
laughter. Lost spirits gather about him and
feel for hfa heart, and
beckon him on with: "Hall,
brothet! Hall, blasted spirit, hail!" He tries
to get out He come* to the front door where
he entered and tries to puih it hack, but the
doer turns against, him; and in the Jaroi that
shutting doer he hears theae words: “ThU
night ia Belshazzar,the king of the Chaldeans,
slain.” Bln may open bright as the morning;
it closes dark aa tha night.
III. I learn farther from this subject that
death sometimes breaks in upon a banquet.
Why did he not go down to the prisons in Ba
bylon? There were people thore that would
like to have died. Isuppose there were men
and women in torture in that city who would
have welcomed death. Bnt ho comes to
> palace, and just at the time when tha
rth is dashing to tho tip-top pitch Death
hreska in at the banquet We have oitsnaeon
the same thing illustrated. Hera M a young
man just come from college. Haisklnd. He
is loving. He is enthusiastic. He is eloquent.
~ one spring he may bound to heights toward
Ich many men have boon struggling for
years. A profisaien opens before him. Hois
established In the law. His friends cheer him.
Eminent men encourage him. After awhile
you may see him standing in the American
senate, or moving a popular assem
blage by hia eloquence aa trees are moved
In a whirlwind. Borne nlsht he re
tires early, A fever It on him. Delirium Uko
a reckless charioteer selies the reins of hU in
tellect. Father and mother stand by and see
the tides of life going ont to the great ocean.
The banquet is ooming to an end. Thollghts
of thought and mirth and eloquence are being
extinguished. Tho garlando are snatched
fiom tho brow. The virion U gone,
at tbs banquet.
Wo taw tho tame thing on a larger seals
illustrated at the last war In thM
country. Our whole nation had
been sitting aa a national banquet-
north, south, east and west. What grain waa
there bnt we grew it in our hills? What
invention waa then bnt our rivers must torn
the now wheel and rattle the rirange shut
tle? What warm fan bnt oar traders most
bring them from tho Arctic? What fish bnt
our nets mutt sweep them for the markets?
What music but it mutt slug in oar hall*?
What elcqnenca but it roust speak in our
senate? Ho! to tha national banqnst re ach
ing from mountain to mountain and from
sea to sea 1 To prepare that banquet tha
theepfoida and the aviaries of the country
sent their best treasures. Tho
orchards piled up on tho table
their sweetest frails. The presses
jurat out srith now wines. To sit at that
table came tho yeomanry of Now Hampshire,
and the lumbermen of Mains, and tha tanned
Carolinian from the rice swamp*, and tho har
vesters of Wisconsin, and the western immi
grant from tho pines of Oregon, and we were
all brothers—brothers at a banquet Suddenly
the feast ended. What meant those mounds
thrown up at Chicksbominy, Shiloh, Atlanta,
Gettysburg, Sooth Mountain? What meant
these golden grain fields tamed into a pas
turing ground for cavalry borsea? W hat
meant the cornfields gullied with the wheels
of tbe heavy supply train ? Why those rivers
of tears, those lakes of blood? God was angry.
Justice mutt corns. A handwriting on the
wall! Tha nation has boon weighed and
foondwanting. Darkness! Darkness! Wo#
to tha north! Woo to the south! Wo* to
tho out! Woe to the west! Death at tha
banquet!
IV. I have also to learn from the subject
that the destruction of tho vlcioue end of
God will be very sadden,
had dashed to the highest
point when that Assyrian array broke through,
it was us expected. Boddanly, almost always,
comes the doom of those who despise God and
defy the laws ef men. How was it at tha
deluge? Do yon suppose it cams through a
long northeast storm, so that people for days
oefore wercjurt It was coming? No; I tup-
pcs* tha morning was bright; that cal ante
brooded on the waters; that beauty sit en
throned on tho hilb; when auddonly tno
heavens burst, and the mountains sank like
anchors into tho sea, that duhed clear over
the Andeo and tho Himalaya!.
Tho Bed tea area divided. The
tried to cress It. There could be no
Egyptians? O, it
was such a beautiful walking-place! a pave
ment of tinged thelM and pearls, and onelther
tide two great walla of water, solid. Thore
can he no danger. Forward, great host of the
Egyptians! Clap the cymbals and blow the
tinnipots of victory! After them! Wo will
catch them yet and they shall be destroyed.
Bnt the walls of solidiflod inter begin to
tremble. They reek. They foil. Tho rash-
!?* waUrs! The shriek of drowning men!
The swimming of the war-horses In vain for
tho ahore! The strewing iof tho great host on
tho bottom ol tho sea, or pitched by
the angry wave on the beach—a battered,
bxi’scd and loathaomo wraoki Suddenly de
struction came. One half hour before they
could not have believed it. Destroyed ana
without remedy.
I am just setting forth a foot which yon
have noticed as well I. Ananias comes to tho
apostle; the spootlo says: “Did yon sell tha
land for so much?” He says, “Yes.” It was
alio. Deadl Aa quick aa that! Sapphire, hU
wife, cornea In. “Did yon aellthe land for so
mnch?” “Yet.” It was a lie, and quick aa that
she was dead! God’s judgments are npon
those who despise and defy Him. They come
suddenly.
Tbedcstroylngangel went through Egypt.
Do you suppose that any of tha people
knew that bo waa coming? Did they hoar the
flap ef hia great wing? No! No! Suddenly, un
expectedly he came.
Shilled sportamen do not Ilka to ihoot a
bird standing on a sprig nser by. If they are
skilled they pride themselves on taklnglt on
ihe wirg, and they wait till it starts. Death
Is an old sportsman and ho loves to tako man
l ying under the very inn. Ho loves to take
tntm on tho wing.
Are there any here who are unprepared for
the a ernal world? Are there any hero who
have been living without God and without
hop#? Let me say to you that yon had better
aa opt of the Lord Jeans Christ, lest suddenly
your lut chance bo gone. The lungs will
a sse to breathe, tho heart will atop. The
t’me will come when you ahall go no
more to tbe office or to
tbo store, or to tho shop.
Nothing will bo loft bnt death, and judgement,
and eternity. Oh, flee to God this hoar! If
thero be one in this presence who has wan
dered for awsy from Christ though ho may
not have heard the call of the gospel for many
a year, I invite him now to coma and ba
saved. Flee from thy sin! Flee to the
stronghold of the gospel!
Today I invite yon to a grander banqnet
than any I have mentioned. My Lord, tho
King, is the banqueter. Angels are the cup-
bearers. All the redeemed are the guests]
The hslM of eternal love frescoed with
1 gkt end paved with joy. and onr-
tained with unfading beauty, arc the banquet-
jng place. Theharmonlee or eternity are tha
music. The chalices of heaven an tha plate;
and I am one of the servants coming oat with
both bsndt filled with invitations, scattering
thrm everywhere, and of that, for yourselves,
you might break the seal of the Invitation and
read the words written in red Ink of blood by
the tremulous hand of a dying Christ: “Come
now, for all things are ready."
Auer thM day has rolled by and the
night hu come may yon have rosy slcop
guarded by Him who never slumbers!
May you awake in tho morning
rirong and well. But, oh I art thou a desplser
of God ? Ia tho coming night tho last night
on earth? Shouldeat thon be awakened in
the night by something, thon knoweat not
what, and there bo shadows floating In the
room, and a handwriting on the wall, and yon
fool that your last hour M como, and there bo
a fainting at the heart and a tremor in the
limb, ana a catching of tho breath, then thy
doom would be but an echo of tho words of
my text: “In that night waa Belshazzar, the
king of the Chaldeans, slain I ”
The Czar and tha Ilrldgokoepofa Wire.
The Czar rod# np to the bridge at midnight.
Alone In tb* starlight and cold,
He sang a short song without echoes
As ht kimed hi# large cross or r*d gold.
He saw a young maiden there standing
Alone, her two feet in the snow.
With half tha salute of a Ctcstr,
And hall the sataam of a slave,
He took off his cap to this maiden, .
And glancing with eyes that wore brave.
“Well,” the Csor sold, 'Twill give you
This cross of rod gold for a touch
From those Upsofrourt tbit are singing:
One touch, oeme here, that's not much!"
The maiden went on with her singing,
Bet the looked at the Czar with two eyes
As lam and as solt as tha reindeer’s—
As timid, as wide and ss wise.
Well,” the Crar said,
Or third, that you o
Come here to my saddle, .uuu uuiuu vue,
And tako from my hand this round ring.’
The maiden now coated from her singing.
"Yes, you ere our Csar, that M true, lira,
And I tm the brldsekecper's wire.
O, tether, ride test to your palace,
And, riding, nniheaUi your sharp knife!
"Should you fled the oil lamp burning dimly,
And tbe brldgckeeper kissing your wife!
Well, sire, take time to onnsldcr—
Then what would you do with your knife?”
The Czar rede over tho bridge past midnight,
Aa fleet os tbe dove on toe mug—
But, at the root or the brldgeksener’s wife there.
He left both hit cross ana his ring.
—Count Chapolsky.
Medical Testimony.
100 Weat 40th 8tbeet,
New YonK, Jane 0, 1883.
Having in tho coarse of my practice exton-
lively nsed Allcock's Porous Plasters in the
various diseases and conditions of tho lungs
a--d pleura, and always with success I recom
mend their use in that most aggravating
disease, Sommsr Catarrh, or Hay Favor; strips
of Flitter applied ovsr tha throat and cheat
will afford great relief from tha choking tick
ling in the throat, wheeling, shortness of
breath, and pains in tha cheat.
B. McCobmick, M. D.
“Girons, O, sirs us a man wboringsat his
work,” says Carlyle. Oh, yss; give him to us; de
liver him lntoour hands. He occupies tha ntxt
offlcc, and we can’t fat at him.—Boston Pool.
< union Thirtieth Georgia Baglment.
> committee appointed lut year have agreed
ild the annual re-onlon of the Thirtieth Geor
gia regiment at I’once da Ltoo springs, Atlanta,
Ga., on Friday, September a, ism. All surviving
members of tho regiment are earnestly requested
to attend. Efforts will lie made to obtain low rates
camion. nez, un
Tbe following papers are requested to copy this
uOtlce: Macon, Grinin, Hntta county, Campbell,
Clayton, Henry, Douglas *nd Carroll county pa-
pen. J. H. Bi'tz, Chairman.
August 5,1886. d*wr
They were furnished by Chambers A: r
Un. Cbas. Smith, of Jimes, Ohio, writes I
have used every remedy for Sick Headache I
could bear of for the past fifteen years, but
ratter’s Little Liver Pills did me mote good
tbsn all the rest.
Of all our infirmities, rsnlty is Ihedeareit to us;
a man will its rye his other vices to keep that
alive.
FITS: All Fit*stopped free by Dr. Kllno’a
Great Narva restorer. No Fits after first day’s
use. Marraloos cares, Treatise and $3 trial
battle free to Fit eases. Send to Dr Kilns.
HI Arab 8t_ Philadelphia. Pa.
A fashion writer says all Ihe fashions are for slen-
er women. They are certainly not designed for
slender purses.
Chew “Mead Harris Tahoeew.”
TBE FARMERS' CONGRESS.
The Crest Meeting to Ue Retd In Minneap
olis.
The sixth annual session of tho formers’
congress will be hold at Minneapolis, Minn.,
teglnnlng on tho 23th Inst
The formers’ congress is composed of dole-
gates from each state and territory, one from
each congressional district and two at large
from each state, conforming In number to the
different delegations from each state in con
gress, and also a representative from cash
agricultural college. Mr. Clayton, tho secre
tary, has received the announcement of tho
appointment of delegate! by the governor! of
Colorado, Florida, Dakota, Geoigta, Illinois,
Indians, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Missouri,
Tho object of the congress Is to discuss nut
ters to bo brought to tho attention of oongress
for the benefit of the agricultural and animal
interests of tho country, such as the oleomar
garine business, making tha commissioner of
agriculture a cabinet officer, establishing ex
perimental stations, extending the signal Mr-
vice throughont the different atatea, stamping
ont pleuro-pnenmonla, and kindred subjeota.
The Interstate commerce bill and the labor
and land questions are also probable subjects
of discussion. Tho congress is supposed to
represent the concentrated wisdom or the ag
ricultural community, and its voice ia heard
respectfully by congressmen. It appoints del
egates to the national congress to lobby
for its mestutes on the floor of both
benses. From the sppointmente which have
been made. It is ovidont that the coming con
gress will be one ef considerable Intellectual
and political weight, including such men as
cx-Goveraor C. C. Carpenter, of Iowa, B. F.
Clayton, and A. V. Stout, the chairmen of the
committees on agriculture ef both houses of
the Iowaleglsliture; ex-Goveraor Hamilton, of
Maryland; Ed Campbell, United States mar
shal of the aonthern district of Iowa, ex-Gov-
ernor Cnmback, of Indiana; General 8. B.
Buckner, of Kontncy: General Hooker,
of Mississippi, who will deliver the an
nual oration, and Hon. Bufos Frtuoc,
of Maine. All roads give excursion rates to
delegates, and the Hlnneeota roads will un
doubtedly extend the apodal state fair rates to
include thla mooting. Tho Manitoba, North-
era Pacific and Duluth roads have invited tho
members of the oongress to examine the agri
cultural advantages of tbe northwest traversed
by thoae roads. The hotels in both cities will
be more than usually liberal in their rate* to
member* of the congrats; and all these in
ducements, together with the state folr on tho
following weok, It ia believed, will attract a
fall attendance of delegates.
The delegates appointed by Governor He-
Daniel are: First dlstrist—A. E.Msynolo,
Savannah; C. H. WIlcoX, Savannah; N. It.
Onslsy, Outlay. Second district—John W.
Triplette, Thomaarllie; A. T. McIntyre,
Thomssvilte. Third district—George W. Jor
dan, Hawkinavillo; John A. Cobb, Amorlcus.
Fourth district—E. H. Butt, Buena Vista;
James 0. Cook, Colombus; H. H. Cary, La-
Grange; W. 8. DcWolf, Columbus, Fifth
dlstrirt — J. 8. Lawton, Atlanta;
B. J. Bedding. Atlanta. Sixth district—
Thomas F. Newell, Mllledgevllle; M. J.
Hatcher, Macon: Samnel A. Cook, Hllledgo-
villo. Seventh district—T. J. Lyon, Carters-
viile; J. O. Waddell, Cedartown. Eighth dla-
trict-E. Y. Hill, Washington; W. J. Northern,
Sparta; J. H. Wright. Lexington. Ninth dis
trict—Tyler M. 1’ooples, Lawrcncoville; Paul
Bleckley, Clarksville; W. W.Price, Flat Shoals.
Tenth district—F. Edge Eve, Eubanks; A. H.
Bhodes, Hopbrbih; W.P. Crawford, Belle-Air.
Samnel Mays, Belle-Air. Stato at
laric—L. M. Felton, MarshaUvUlo; O
T. Boxen, Covington; J.T. Henderson, vlee
E resident, Atlanta; L. F. Livingston, Coving
m.
Tho delegates that have signified their In
tention to attend tha congress are: A.T. Me-
Tntyro.Thcmasvlllo; John A. Cobb, Americas
bus; J.
Atlanta;
Waddell, Cedartown; W. J. Nortern. Sparta;
Edge Eve, Eubanks; W. P. Crawford, Belle-
Air; O, T. Bogers, Covington; J. T. Henderson,
Atlanta; L. F. Livingston, Covington.
From Atlanta the flu* for tho round trip la
forty-two dollars. Tickets will be good until
tbe tint of October.
THE AVGUST CROP REPORT.
Commissioner J. T. Henderson issued the
crop report for August yesterday. Tho ex
tracts which follow will show tho condition
of the growing crops, and their prospects:
OOTTOK,
Thfi condition of the cotton crop of tho state,
the comparison being mtoanrl*
five jean, la. in north Georgia, 74; middle Gcov-'
gla 78: southwest Georgia. 79: east Georgia, 71;
ton: heart Georgia, 70, and tho average for tho
whole atet*. 75. . .. , , „ ,
in notth Georgia there Is mtrkcd improvement
In the crop sine* the Drat of July, while In tho
southern lection or the elate It Alia considerably
beiow the prospective conditional that date. In
middle Georgia there is hut little change—tbe
average for line section foiling one point In Uw
lut month
t or a comparison of the prcient condition of the
Clop ss competed with that ol July let, see re-
ceiiTtutetlon In table No. 1.
In southern Georgia tbe wet weather In the
early part of July wu followed by a two weeks'
drouth thtldld material injury, Hinoe tbe re.
ports of correspondents, on which the estimates
ere hesed, were forwarded to this office, tbe rales
he vo been general throughout Ihe elate, and a de
cided Improvement may bo expected during the
uustbes been noticed In meny localities, but
no serious damage from this rauro hu been re
ported. Tbe occurrence of the cotton carte roll-
far Is mentioned In three countlea of ninth weat
Georgia. Theywcre first ohaerred about July 10th,
In the conntlei ot Dougherty and Q it man, and
July 14th. In Clay.
Corn.—The condition of tho crop compared to
that of an average crop re ar, Is. In north Georgia,
7H, In middle Georgia, trf; In eonlhwoat Georgia. 01;
In cut Georgia, Klfm toutheut Georgia, ta, ana In
the wool* elate. . . ..
The reports show a) slight Improvement lathe
condition of the crop In north and middle Gear-
gte^end a considerable depreciation In all other
The crop on uplands It vory generally good,but
perfectly drained lands. That of the river and
creek bottoms hu been materially tujmed, and la
some localities entirely lost from repeated over
flows. To the partial Allure on such lands, which
are almost entirely devoted to this crop, Is doe
tbe low per cent in the reports of this date.
Rice—The crop compared to on avenge Is, In
tho steto, 93; la middle Georgia, 89; In nnthweat
Georgia, 98: In cut .Georgia. 94. and In aoutheut
Georgia, where the lowland crop Is principally
^Sugar cine—Tho condition ot tbe crop in the
lowa: Middle Georgia ss, southwest Georgia 93,
cast Georgia 91. and aoutheut Georgia 87.
Street Potatoes—This crop, compared to on
tvertge, Is In north Georgia 91, middle Georgia 91,
tire yield, com-
Georgia 7s, and In southeast Georgia *t. The av
erage for the state, leaving ont the estimate for
north Georgia, where comparatively fog are
grown for market, Is 79.
Tobacco—The condition, compared to an aver
age. It In north Georgia 94, In Middle Georgia 91,ln
•outhwest Georgia too, in east Georgia 88, and tbo
average for the state, 98.
THE FIRST BALK.
Savannah Claims the Bonor for a Thomas
County Man.
Savannah, Ga., August 7.—[Special.]—'The
first bale of Georgia cotton was received here
today, and exhibited at the cotton exchange,
where itwae classed by the proper committee.
The cotton wu chipped by Measrs. Williams
& Mitchell, Thomuville, Ga., to MMire. M, Y.
and D. J. MacIntyre, city, and was sold at
auction to E. A. Cutts, agent for Wintcrbottom,
Blchardron & Co., at ten cento per pound,
classing lew middling. The first bale lut
yrarwurecelvedonthethirdof August, bnt
npon being sampled it wu rejected by the
rotten exchange. On the sixth of August,
three days later, the flnt Georgia bale wu re
ceived by Meure. Baldwin & Co., shipped by
S. B. Weston, of Albany, and wu grown on
the plantation of Primna W. Jones, la Baker
oonnty.
LE CONTE PEAB CULTURE.
Thoiiasvillb, Ua., August 2.—[8pecUI.]—
Your correspondent visited tho magnificent
pear orchard of Mr. Lesndor Varnadoe, just
three miles from Thomuville. White thero
he learned from the proprietor and owner of
this valaaM* property many facts which,
while astonishing to m all, aro none tireless
tiue. Yon have been told that tho LoConto
pear industry of this county is s vory a big
thing. Iicrojaro tho foots to prove It:
Hr. Varnadoe came to Tnomuvlllo about
peer trees of tho LoConto variety, so called
after the distinguished family of that name
who introduced it in this stato. Mr.
Varnadoe’! fortnno had boon wrecked
by tho war, and starting here srith very limi
ted means and huvy responsibilities, (from
the pear business alone, skillfully managed,
has accumulated a snug little fortune. Cer
tain it is that he is tho owner of a homo sup
plied srith every comfort, and surrounded by
one of tbe largest and most valuable pear
grove* in tho south. To give on idea of tha
wonderfol productiveness of tho LoConto near
and its market value, Mr. Vernadoo stated to
your correspondent that from the three staall
tiecs set out in his yard fifteen [yean ago ha
had made over $40,000. Of course this sum
wu not msde from tho fruit gathered off. of
three trees, but It does mean that In fifteen
years, with throe parent trees to start with,
the grand sum of $40,000 hu Men
made. Tbe Dedonto is not only a
vigorous grower, but highly pro.
ducllve. A yield ot twenty-five bushels fa
often gotten from a six yearold tree, The
[ears are readily marketed In the north and
cut at $2 60 to six dollars a crate or half
bust el. At $3 a crate a tree six yean old yield
ing twenty-five beshefa Is worth $1S0 a yedr.
Three figures are large but not fabnlena.
The income lut year from Mr. Varnadoe’*
orchard wu $7,000.
Thru plain Acts demonstrate not only the
rapid growth and great praduettveneu of the
pear, bnt that It tbrlvu unusually well m
Thomas county, and that she may aptly ba
railed the home of tho LoConto pur.
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