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UNION &RECORDER. Millkdgkvillk, Maruh 8, 1887 Over tliree thousand persons were killed by the recent earthquakes in Italy an cl France. Sam Jones says he can prophesy in March ot the lazy farmer’s success : “The crass will fret the crop, the buzzards get the mule, and the devil pet him. ill Rev. Henry Ward Beecher had an attack of apoplexy in Mew York city on Saturday lost, aud our latest news by telegraph represents him to be sinking, with no hopes of recovery. Mrs. Jane Washington Thornton Beck, the wife of Senator Beck of Kentucky, and the nearest living rel ative of “the fatlier^of his country”, died at her residence in Washington City on Sunday last. Gen. W. H. F, Lee, son of Gen. R. E. Lee, and member-elect of the next congress from Virginia, is six feet four in his stocking feet, and weighs 250 pounds. He comes from a line of na tures' 'kings and will doubtless make his mark asa national legislator. General Stonewall Jackson was once asked by u friend to give him a good motto or rule of life. His reply was “1 have found a rule laid down by the Wise man, a safe one to be guided by: ‘In all thy ways aoknowl edge Him and He shall direct thy path.’’ . We by inadvertauce have omitted heretofore to notice the appearance of “The Middle Georgia Progress,” a new weekly paper, printed at 8an- dersville. We offer our sincere con gratulations to the editors and propri etors for the very attractive and sub stantial paper they have issued to the extent of three members, all of which go to show the justice of our encomiums above. Gen. J. J. Finley, of Ocala, Florida, has been appointed by Governor Per ry United States Senator, to succeed Hon. Charles W. Jones, whose term expires March 4tli. Gen. Finley is a lawyer by profession, served with dis tinction in the Confederate army, lias been a member of the Supreme Court of Florida, and was three times u candidate for Congress, being elect ed once and defeated twice by Bisbee, Republican. The West Vo., Legislature has been engaged for several weeks in balloting day by day for a member of the U. S! Senate, from that State, and finally adjourned without accomplishing their purpose. The Governor there upon appointed a citizen to fill that office. A friend calls our attention to the fact that under similar circum stances, in 1878, the U. S. Senate re fused to permit ail appointee of the Governor of New Hampshire to take his Seat in the Senate, thus making a precedent which will probably be successfully urged against the person appointed to represent West Virginia. Our own able Senator, Ben Hill, made a strong speech against seating the New Hampshire appointee in 1878. Since the above was written, we have the news that the Governor of West Virginia will re-convene the Legislature to act upon various sub jects. Senator Keiiua, who had just arrived from Washington, stated that there isno.doubt that the Legislature will have to elect a senator at its special session, although Governor Wilson thinks otherwise. FIRE! W. A J. CAKAKKU'H HAHN m.'RXKl>.—• WAS IT JNCKJfDIARY? Last Friduy night, about 11 o’clock, the alarm of lire was sounded. The flames leaping sky ward in the south ern part of the city illuminated the whole town, aud our citizens hurried to the scene. It was soon ascertained to be the barn of Messrs. W. & J. Car- uker. located on 8. Wayne street, near Fishing creek bridge. Those who first reached the rapidly burning barn opened the doors and turned out the stock—three mules and two horses. The barn contained a cotton gin, three wagons, three carts, 2 pairs of buggy harness, plows uml plow gear ing, 170 bushels of corn, large lot of hav and other forage, 7.7 or 100 bush els of peas, lot of cottonseed, feed cut ter. one bale of cotton, &c., all of which was destroyed except the bale of cotton, which was saved in a dam aged condition, and a part of the corn, which was left burning after the building was destroyed. When the remoteness of the lire, and the scarci ty of water is considered, the Fire Company did good service. There was a small insurance of $250 on the building. Mr. Will Caraker estiinutes their loss ut $1000. WAS IT INCENDIARY? Mr, Will Caraker superintended the feeding of tlie stock, and says no lights were used, lie also visited the lot later in the night before retiring, and saw no lire. lie is unable to ac count for it, and thinks it must have been set on fire. ♦ « LIST OFADVliKTISEI) LKTTK1W Remaining in the Post-Office at Mil. ledgcville. Baldwin county, G«., Mar. 5, 1887. If not called for within 30 days they will be sent to the Dead Letter Office. Aeolk, Ike King, Emily Bonner, Veatoris Monfort, Gertrude Beckard, Mrs. C. Merriel. Jennie B. Mitchell, Jeff Baker, G. W. Paine, Miss Lenie Breadlove, Mary Smith, Katie (Jarrell, Mattie 8inith, W. T. Devaul. Rachel Spier, Seaborn Dixon, Fannie 8. Suggs, T. J. Glover,*Fannie Vernon, < diaries D. Hines, Harriet Elvira, Mrs. Have-, Alexander Webster, Hattie Jones, William Office Hours.—General delivery window will be open from 0 A. M., un til 5 P. m. Money Order window will be open from 0 A. M. to 4 p. M, J. G. Fowler, P. M The National Soloni. The Mexican Pension bill was pass ed in tlie House, March 1st. It ap propriated $2,300,000 for the remain der of the fiscal year and $4,000,000 for the next fiscal year. The bill was agreed to, restricting to American citizens the ownership of roul estate in tlie territories. Tho conference re port of the River and Harbor bill was agreed to. So was tho confer ence report on the Indian appropria tion bill. The Legislative appropria tion bill was passed. All the pension bills on the calendar were passed. Conferences were asked on several important bills, but though passed in great haste, nearly all the important bills will be passed. The slow move ments aud procrastinations will be re membered in the future, and doubt less uvoided. As a general rule there were reductions in expenditures in most of the appropriations. Those who have reports need not care for specific statements of the renductlons. The changes in amounts were not very large. All these matters are of much moment and both Houses ought to learn a useful lesson from the pro ceedings of this Congress. It is evi dent that much time was frittered away that ought to have been devot ed to imperative duties. The very large suuib appropriated to the Navy and War departments and the coast defences, may not be expended in full unless demanded by the situation of affairs. The fishery matter can be and ought to be settled by prudent negotiation. The question of retaliation in tlie fishery question occupied a great deal of the time of the House on the 2nd: the conference report was agreed to. It leaves the action to be taken in the hands of the President. Confidence is placed in the firmness and wisdom of the President. We presume he will endeavor to settle the matter by negotiation. The House receded from its amendment to the Senate bill. Mr. Blount of Georgia, presented the conference report on the Post Office Appropriation bill, annquncing the inability of the conferees to agree on the bill. He moved that the House insist on its disagreement and esk for a further conference. Agreed to— 188 to 107. Mr. Crisp submitted the conference report on the joint resolution (now become a bill) for the investigation of the accounts of the Pacific rail roads. and it was agreed to. Some changes were made in the Agricultural appropriation hill, and it was passed. Conferees were appointed on the Naval appropriation bill. Also, in the Senate, some changes were made. We have heretofore reported the amounts voted for the Army and Navy. This was ull done as if the country was on a war footing. What ever materials may be used in the structure of vessels, upon motion of Mr. Plumb, are to be furnished and manufactured, as far as practicable in tlie united States. Tho vote wus yeas 42, nays i). The Agricultural bill was agreed to, and also flu* Pa cific Railway Inquiry bill, which now goes to (lie President. The bill to erect a National Memo rial bridge over tlie Potomac, from Washington to Arlington, was pass ed. tlie appropriation for it being $500,000. 3rd.— 1 The Senate bill repealing the tenure of Office Act wits passed in the House, yeas 172, nays, 07. Tho Urgent Deficiency bill was passed under a suspension of the rules. The motion to suspend the rules and pass the bill to grant n pen sion to Mrs. Jno. A. Logan of $2,000 per annum, was lost, yeas 145, nays 113, not the necessary two-thirds in the affirmative. If Mrs. Logan had been in destitute, or even very mod erate circumstances, the result, doubt less, would have been different. But since the death of General Logan a subscription of nearly $100,000 has been made up for her, whioli, with the property left by the General, places her in prosperous circumstan ces. Various private bills were pass ed while waiting for the results of the Conference Committees on various appropriation bills. A few moments before 11 o'clock the Senate closed the legislative day of Wednesday, by adjournment, anil opened the last legislative day of the Forty-Ninth Congress, when a pray er was offered by the Chaplain. The Senate at 11:30 proceeded to the con sideration ot the Legislative, Execu tive and Judicial Appropriation bills. The Pacific Rail ltoiul Inquiry bill having passed both Houses, was sent to tlie President. The Sundry Civil bill was taken up and passed. Before the vote Senator Hoar in a speech of considerable length, in violation of propriety and decency, made an attack upon Mr. Carlisle, the Speaker of the House, charging him with refusing to recog nize three members of the House be cause he was opposed to the objects they had in view, and thus violated the rights of those gentlemen to be heard and among other matters, sought a late hour to control appro priations to suit him and a few of his friends. Mr. Saulsburv interposed aud raised the point that it was not in order for a member of the Semite to arraign the House, or any member thereof, in a political speacli in tli* Senate. Senator Beck said it was not fair-“nor manly”-interjected Senator Harris—to attack Mr. Carlisle behind his back, when no man dares to at tack him before his face. He denied that Mr. Carlisle had violated any rule of the House, or courtesy, or honor, and said that no man will dare to tell him that he lias.” Mr. Black burn said that Senutor Hoar's charge Was not true and that liis conduct was in utter disregard of decency. There is no necessity for an elabo rate defence here. 1 simply rose to express the hope tliut the day had come when the State which furnish ed to the Senate Chamber of tlie country such men as Daniel Webster and Rufus Choate, would at last find an opportunity to honor itself, and to do an essential service to tlie Amer ican people by sending here u son, who will be at least, the peer of the I present Speaker of the House of Rep- i resentatives in all that goes to con stitute fair dealings, high character | and able patriotism. After this the conference report was agreed to without, division. | The bill appropriating $0,000,000, 1 for tim pensioners of tlie Mexican war, was passed. At 10:30 tlie Senate proceeded to tlie consideration of tlie Regular Deficiency bill. CLOSING OK CONGRESS. We need not attempt to sift the wheat from the chaff in tlie closing scenes consisting of all night sessions of both Houses. While some inpor- tant bills failed to lie passed, as also hundred of others not assential to car ry on the operations of the govern ment those most essential, by conces sions of one House or the other, were passed in time and sent to the Presi dent, The most important bills were passed, such as^were essential to the public good. THE NEWDOCTORS Tamed oat by the Southern Medical College. Atlanta Constitution 4th. The eighth annual commencement of the Southern Medical college of this city oceured last night in DeGive's opera house, in the presence of a large concourse of the friends of the institution. The exercises lasted un till a very late hour, but they were so interesting that the crowd did not get tired or manifest any impatience or restiveness. While the ushers were providing seats for the visitors, Wurm’s orchestra played some spright ly selections from the Mikado. The membersof the graduating class occupied seats on the stage. They were ranged in rows in a semi-circle. In addition to the graduates, the fol lowing persons were seated upon the platform: Professor Orr, Dr. Lowe, Dr. Harris, Captain Keely, Captain Burke, the Rev. H. H. Parks, Dr. Peck, Dr. Mar tin, Colonel J. S. Prather, Dr. Roy, Colonel Nesbit, Mr. R. A. Hemphill, Dr. Bizzell, the Rev. Dr. Barnett, Dr. Nicolson, Dr, Powell, the Rev. Dr. (Juigg, Dr. A. S. Bridwell, Dr. Gas ton, M. C. Kiser, Judge S. B. Hoyt, and several others. A brief and appropriate prayer was made by the Rev. Dr. Barnett. The next item on the programme was the dean’s report. Dr. Nicolson there upon read the subjoined paper: To the President and Board of Trus tees:—At the conclusion of the session of 1880 7, I have to report a continua tion of the remarkable progress that lias characterized this institution since its foundation eight years ago. In creased facilities for instruction in ull the departments of medicine and sur gery added during the year, especial ly the large increase of hospital facili ties, now place us upon a plane equal to almost any institution in this coun try. The thoroughness of instruction at which we so earnestly aim, lias been appreciated by the profession of this and surrounding states, and we shall strive to advance always in this direction. The senior class for the session of 1880 7 numbered forty stu dents, of which we present this even ing thirty as having passed a satisfac tory examination and recommend that they receive the degree of doctor of medicine. We desire to present the following names: W. H. Avcock, Georgia; H. C. Bates, Georgia; N. 11. Boland, Geor gia; A. O. Brooks, Georgia; 0. M. Curtis,"Georgia; B. W. File, Georgia: J. A. Ison, Alabama; J. C. Kerr, Ten nessee; T. D. McDaniel, Georgia; J. E. Miller, N. C.; H. A. Mobley, Georgia; C. T. Quinn, Georgia; D. D. Reid, Georgia; W. R. Rice, Georgia; I). M. Wheelis, Alabama; James Bailey, Texas.; B. W. Bizzell, Alabama; A. S. Bridwell, Georgia; M. M. Crowder, Georgia; J. A. Dobbins, S. G\; W. L. Green, Georgia; G. W. (Julian, Geor gia; M. H. Lee. Tennessee; W. A. Means, Georgia; J. R. Mitchell, Geor gia; A. J. Morris, Alabama; J. R. Reeve, Texas; J. T. Renouff, Conn.; T. B. Robertson, Ala.; C. M. Wyatt, S. C. Respectfully submited. WM. Perrin Nicolson, Dean. As the name of each one of thegrad- uates was called he came forward and received from Dr. Nicolson his di ploma. After all had received tlieir diplomas, the president of the college, Dr. Powell, conferred upon them tlie degree of M. D. This made them full fledged doctors. Then Dr. Powell rsad an addres to the graduates. He stood in rear of a lecturn, which was placed in the front part of tlie platform. His ad dress wus exceedingly happy. It con tained many wise maxims and much wholesome udvice. The doctor read it admirably, and every person in the house could hear all he said. At the close of his remarks he was loudly ap plauded, and the members of the facul ty heartily congratulated him upon liis successful effort. After the orchestra had played a few short pieces, Dr. Nicolson intro duced tlie Rev. Dr. Quigg, who de livered a magnificent addi^ss. He took as his theme "The obligations which rest upon the medical practition er.” He held the closest attention of his audience for nearly an hour. liis oration wus brilliant and eloquent and replete with common sense. There was more music, aud then the valedictory address was delivered by l>r. A. S. Bridwell, one of the brightest young men that was ever graduated from the college. His ad dress was in every sense an admirable one. Then Captain Burke, in a most felicitous manner, delivered to each of tlie following young gentleman a prize: First honor, B. W. Bizzell; second honor, tied, II. A. Mobley, J. T. Re nouff; iviser medal, best thesis, B. W. Bizzell; individual prizes, obstetrics, H. (J. Bates; surgery, A O. Brooks; anatomy, C. N. Wyatt; eye and ear disease. C. T. Quinn; materia medica, J. A. Ison; practice of medicine, C. M. Curtis; physiology, \V. H. Aycock; chemistry, S. R. Mitchell. Tlie exercises were concluded and the audience dispersed, delighied with the evening's entertainment. Death of Dr. J. G Westmoreland. Atlanta, March 3.—Dr. John G. j Westmoreland died in this city ut •( | o'clock this morning of inflammation j of tlie lungs. lie was born in 1815 in tlie^ conn- I ty of Jasper, was raised in Fayette I county, and was graduated in 1841 at I the Aiigusta Medical College. Here- moved to Atlanta in 1852 and in 1855 its established the Atlanta Medi cal Oollpgo, of which for many years he was the accomplished Dean. He was a fine practitioner, a man of strong character,wide learning, trim heart and iron courage, and withal most public spirited aud benevolent. 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