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VOL. 3-NO 39.] Thb Rochester Sunday Morning Tribune has entered upon its tenth volume. Lbboy Jombs, of the Nashville American, is of the opinion that it is a big )ob to flip up an editor. Malignant scarlet fever, which spreads and kills every time, is just as bad as yellow fever. Will our dear city fathers give us a clean town. Unlbm more hotels are built, and the citizens of Atlanta open their doors to visitors attending the cotton exposition, the great crowd cannot be accommodated. That road which Col. Cole pro pose* to build from Macon to At lanta will worry the venerable Mr. Wadley, but it will likewise be a benefit to Atlanta and the state. Let it come. « _ ( ’, - - It to said, oa good authority, that Cyrus W. Field owns a twenty thousand dollar interest in the At lanta Constitution. Will H. White wash Grady and General Jack Gor don rise and explain! No sane'fnan believes that Gen eral Jack Gordon, will Ml Id the Georgia Western. Surveying isn’t bedding, and M»jor Green nays, with a significant smile, that he has no idea when the rails will be laid. Bon Coombs says that Atlanta to the best point in the United States for the establishment of a new daily independent newspaper, which can tell the truth and cannot be bought. Right, Robert, with <35,000 in the bank to sustain the enterprise, Nashvilai had, a conflagration Wednesdays, destroying property to the amount of 1500,000. The and material of the American office were damaged, but did not interfere with the issue of the pa per. _ Wbbn Col. Cole builds bis road from Atlanta to Rome, our people can laugh to scorn the Louisville and Nashville, Jackey Gordon, the belated Georgia Western, and snap their fingers at “Coal Creek” John ny Ki mball, with his nine dollars a ton. Jt takes King Cole to give Atlanta cwkp coal. < Tux latest railroad talk to to the effect that Col. Cole has formed st syndicate which will oontjol the Macon and Brunswick and the E. T. Va. and Ga. railroads. They propose building a road from At lanta to Rome, and strike the ex tension of the first named line here. This to good news for Brunswick if it is true. ■ i A negro lives on the plantation of Mr. G. M. Ray, near Fayette ville, N. C., who has remained with his old master since the war. He has never asked for money, has never missed a day's work, has never left home, has never associat ed with his own race, and has never been known 'to do a dishonest or wrong act. Two Chattanooga policemen ar rested a man for drunkenness, and when be attempted to run away, fired it ‘bin* with effect. The officers were surprised by the intimation, conveyed by a coroner’s jury’s charge of murder in the first degree, that they bad no right to kill an escaping prisoner. Wi learn from a perfectly re liable source that His Excellency, Gov. A. H. Colquitt, is suffering from a malignant attack of the itch, which he contracted in a convict . camp. He is vindicating himself with warm water baths, one every two hours, and fiersisiently refuses to see friends, and has cancelled all his Sunday-school engagements. Oh account of our trip to Nash ville, we failed to say anything in our last in reference to the press convention at Rome. It affords us pleasure to say that the good peo ple of the Hill City did all in their power to enable the members of the press to have a good time, and they succeeded admirably. To Col. Ca pers, Mr. Estes, of the Rome hotel, Col. Dwinell, of the Courier, Frank Cohen and others, including the la dies, we extend our thanks for the kiadaoas shewn ns. —_ —___— , —■—■ — —■ —— THE UEOKOIA WESTERN. We have never believed that Gen eral Jack Gordon would build the Georgia Western. that is in us, we have the liLor to pour forth in the following r&sons. The Louisville and Nashville road owns tbe Georgia Western. The Louis ville and Nashville road also owns about tbree-fourtbs of the shares in the State road. To build the Geor gia Western would be in a great measure to establish a competing line with the State road. This would Injure the Louisville and Nashville people, and they would be fools to fitohion a dagger to in sert in their own bosoms. This is reason number one, and it is a num ber one reason. We proceed to worry with reason number two. Gennral Jack B. Gor don, who l«at season resigned bis seat to the United States sen ate to'stump the state for bis suffer ing friend Mr. Colquitt, for a four teen thousand dollar salary to be paiebto’ the Louiaville and Nash villa road ,*to still tbe alleged re pre tentative of that curious corpora tipn. He, it is wildly stated, has purchased tbe Georgia Western from the Louisville and Nashville for the purpose of building it. Now, this is a lie of commanding propor lions, for the Louisville and Nash vllle would never sell the Georgia Western to any man whom they thought would build it. The truth is that they have engager! tbe ser vices of General Jack Gordon not to build tbe Georgia Western, and he is being ably assisted by tbe At- and H. White wash’ Grady in carrying on the work. The Phonoorayh, true to the independent, truth telling policy upon which it has ever been con ducted, takes pleasure in exposing tbe wretched trick, and showing up the miserable tricksters. Follow us, dear reader, and be convinced. A bill chartering tbe Atlanta and Al abama r6ad was chartered at the last session of tbe legislature. This bill gave the Atlanta and Alabama tbe right to pass through the iden tical counties to be traversed by tbe Georgia Western. It was not long before the Atlanta and Alaba ma railroad company was formed and certain gentleman appointed to solicit subscriptions. gentle men began in Atlanta and were quite successful. The Atlanta and Alabama became the universal top ic, while the Georgia Western dropped out of the popular mind. What did tbe people of Atlanta care for it when ttry were going to have the Atlanta and Alabama, which would do just as well, if not better! Well, Messrs Murphy and English went on to New York with high hopes and a most brilliant prtfepect of raising the balance of the money to build the road. Up to this time the Louisville and Nash ville had paid little attention to tbe Atlanta and Alabama enterprise,but when Messrs. English and .Murphy went to New York as the accredited solicitors of the road, the Louisville and Nashville people turned pale and began to think that the Atlanta and Alabama people were really in earnest. Now from what premies it will be readily inferred that tbe building of the Atlanta and Alaba ma would hurt tbe Louisville and Nashville Just as much as the build ing of tbe Georgia Western. So Uie Louiaville and Nashville bit upon a scheme to silence English and Murphy and lock the wheels of the Atlanta and Alabama- , They bethought themselves of wash Grady. They put his oily tongue to wagging and his creative pencil to scratching. Grady talked English and Murphy into the b< lief that General Gordon would begin work at once on tbe Georgia West ern. Grady sent sensational dis patches to the Constitution saying that Gordon had bought tbe Geor gia Western and would build it im mediately. Messrs. Murphy and English were persuaded and re turned home. Column after column appeared in the Constitution about General Jack B. Gordon, the new railroad king, who was under con tract to build fifty miles of tbe Georgia Western six months from date (three have already passed), and after many grand flourishes of the pen, what do we see! We sim ply see a surveying party pretend ing to survey tbe road which has been surveyed before, and we are told that Major Green, tbe engineer, who was hurled into our midst in a blaze of colored sky-rocket as it ! were, that be is resurveying the t road because »art of the bed has been washed away by tbe villainous : rains. Let us pump the last drop 1 of mild Mt of this treacherous co- coanut in order tuat the people may 1 grasp at a single glance tbe whole deception. Tbe Louisville and Nashville own tbe Georgia Western ' and don’t want it built. Fearing ' that the Atlante and Alabama will 1 be built in its stead, they use their man General Jack Gordon, who is 1 making a big pretense of building the Georgia Western to stave off 1 tbe Atlanta and Alabama. Buch is the base deception which is now be i*g practised upon the people of I i Atlanta to prevent them from build- - ing the Atlanta and Alabama road, i It is if blow at our prosperity. We hawk at and spit upon a scheme so worthy of s lying corporation and its paid tricksters. We pledict that the Louisville and Nashville will continue to pre tend* to build the Georgia Western as long as the slightest fear exalts"that tbe Allan 1 ta and Alabama road will be built. When that fear shall fade away, tbe surveying party will vanish into > thin air, and the people of Atlanta will have 11. Whitewash Grady and General Jackey Gordon to thank that they are no nearer the coal fields of Alabama than they were before Murphy and English lent too willing ears to tbe blandishments of earth’s greatest liar, and Georgia’s once proud and popular son, now fallen from bis high estate to the tiearts of her people. Thb of two comets within a fortnight may give some uneasiness to those who anticipate extraordinary terrestrial and celes tial phenomena during the present year. But as these visile. ■ are far. outside the range of our planetary system, and are only visible through telescopes of great power, it will be safe to assume that they will not have any perceptible effect upon our planet. There is plenty of space for those eccentric bodies to move in, but were they to ap proach tbe earth they are alto gether too thin to create any dis turbance. Dr. McAnally, of the St. Louis Christian Advocate, is arraying himself against the “Jump, Jim Crow” style of Sunday-school music, and demands tbe intr .duc tion of select church hymns “to tbe exclusion of the jejune, wishy washy and sometimes senseless po etry—if poetry it may be called— and the sloppy music that excites nothing of a devotional spirit, and trains the children altogether out -of harmony with the music of tbe church.” Thb rads have been having a high old time in Washington. Tbe resignation of Conkling and Platt so completely befuddled them that they don't know whether they are standing on their beads or heels. Thb musk per fumed Lord Roscoe, will go before the New York legis lature for re-election and endorse ' ment of his course in tbe Robert son Merrett contest. President Garfield is having a good deal of trouble with bis own household. I ... .. ..... Conklino’s attitude toward Pres -1 ident Garfield reminds the Wash f ington Post of a saying by Daniel O’Connell, that he once beard a ' London fish woman cursing an eel because it wouldn't lie still while ! she skinned it. I f Thb Press association of Tennes -1 see meets at Chattanooga on the ‘ 15lh of June. Sam Small, by spe ' c'.al request, will address tbe body* 5 Dr. U T. Bllllman, Columbia, B.C. says: “1 have used • with groat benefit the Redford Aluin and Iron Springs Water and Massas a tonic and alterative, and consider It 1 an Invaluable remedy for strengthen t Ing and Improving a reduced system.” r Ask your druggist about It. ■ Evansville Wally CMrter.) , e A comforting conclusion Is that , which leads us always to choose the best. Mr. Andrew Ulmer, Blufton. , lud.. says: I have thoroughly tested f St. Jacobs OH. and find for rheumat ism and neuralgia It has noequal. - • The foregolngare from the Albany . Sunday Press, and will hit a good many people In thia locality right e where they live. ATLANTA, GEORGIA, SL.JUY MORNING, MAY 22, 1881. AMONG, THE PAPfiBS. f ‘ ... Filch and Palltica.’ 4 M. Y. WorM.j ' New Yorkers do not gYndge and never did grudge spending monefy lib erally for necessary work well donj*. Hut cleanliness would come SIOO,WO cheaper a year than filth if “poMfieJ" were out of the way, and if the streejf cleaning department were orgAnizSl and managed for the purpose of defin ing the streets and not of providing places for henchmen and Increasing the power of bosses. What are tU* people of New York going to do about It! Do thev prefer “bosses” and the machine to clean streets and the puke lie health, or do they not! Prohibition in the Hsnth. New York Times.J The sentiment in favor of prohibit ing the sale of intoxicating liqdors appear* to lie devefiflping with comjlfi erable vigor in some of the southern states. It is organizing itself? in true American fashion, into a political party, and proposing to exercise its Influence upon elections as the only waygK* reaching legislation. This kind of a movement is new to the sou th Jbu t. k is indicative of a healthy tendency. Pewehps tn Georgia. WsronMS lte.Mg£r.) 9 Peaches! Why, they are a sig A worth seeing in South Georgia. N< J er before within the memory of ths oldest Inhabitants Were there so many on the trees, or so healthy looking/ At least two-thirds of them should be beaten oil' to save the trees and secure good fruit. The While Colored Wife. New York S«a.j Prof. J. W. Price, of the Allan* University, is a full-blooded negro. He lately returned-from a visit to Virginia with a handsome young white wife. After a few days the bride left him and took refuge with a She said that she had no recollection of marrying Price, or of coming with him to Atlanta; that she was Isabeik Hill, the possessor of |75,000; that nw cegeuation was utteiy repugnant* her, and she could only have taken* black husband while temporarily insane. Price maintains that she ’is an octoroon, but says that he has *o desire to hold her to the marriage against her will, arid now has no doubt of her oecasioualgpsaiiity. MODERN COL HTNHIP. o ■ -■* ■ JS Haw Tbe Practical Blends With the Romantic. Brooklyn Eagle.J “And you re illy love me dearly!" be asked, as be colled his arm around her wasp-like ■ system. “And you’ll always love me »o!” “Always, Frederick; ever so.” “And you pledge me to sew but-” “Sir!” “You pledge me to so beautify my life that it will always be as hap py as now!” “With my last breath, Frederick.” “And darling, you will mend my soc ” “Your what, sir!” “You will mend my social ways and draw me upward and onward to a bet'er existence!” “It will be tbe pride of my love so to do, Frederick! I will saerifice all for your complete happiness.” “I know that, sweetness. But suppose some accident should hap pen to-to say the trou - !” ) “You forget yourself, air. T» tbe what!’’ “To the trousseau; would it defer the hour which makes you mine!” “Never, Frederick. lam yours, mind and heart, and naught can sep arate us.” “But what I want to say is, that ■hould my pant - !” “Begone, sir. What do you mean!” “Hear me, my life. I say, if my panting bosom should grow cold in death, would your love still warm it!” “As tbe sun melts the iceberg, Frederick, so would tbe rays of my affection thrill your heart again.” “And you will care for me ever, my soul, and I for you, for though I may never have a shir—” “Enough! leave me forever. ” “But listen. Through I mav never have a shirking disposition, I shall sometimes, perhaps, in tbe struggle of life, forget tbe plain duty—” “And I’ll remind you of it, Fred erick, in tender action*, and make tbe duties of existence so pleasant in performance that to avoid them will be pain.” And so on. That’s modern court ship. Lota of abstract swash, but a manifest disinclination to contem plate such conveniences as buttons, •ocks, trousers and sbirta. An ex-member ot th- 'eglxlatiire, of Schley county, made a trip to this city recently In company with his *<>n-in law, and camped three or four miles from town. In the night he was awakened by feeling something up his back. A wakening his son, and reach ing his hands slowly around he gath ered the Intruder, and told him to catch it by the head and kill It by dashing It against a tree. He asked, “Have you got It!" “Yes,” was the reply. “Has It gotclaws!” "I don’t know, It has got a tall.” “Well, get hold of its leg, and dash Its brains out against that pine before it can bite,” was the reply. “Now, quick; lam going to turn loose.” lie did turn loose, and the son dashed it hard enough, and killed a poor little pig I that had been allured to the bed by the warmth of the gentleman's body.— Americus Republican. ALL SORTS. Colored Spanish lace is now made into hats. Young ladies in London now all catry canes. , The frills on summer silk dresses are cut in points. Mrs. Mackay’s p?t name in Paris I, Arizona Mine. A braided coll of three strands is the newest bangle. Triangular sticks are the’newest things for sunshades. The shirring fever has attacked par asols and night-gowns. Caudle screens in Japanese crape are mounted In celluloid frames. Socond wives usually have to hear descriptions of the fineeookery of first wives. “I’ll have no more of‘your lip!” is what the discarded lover remnrke Ito his angry sweetheart. The dumb waiter is a success, and now the world patiently waits for the invention of a dumb barber. About tbe only person that we ever heard of that wasn’t spoiled by being lionized was a Jew named Daniel. The Olivette hat turns up all round except just over the right shoulder. I where U be«t» doWn very sharply. Ttee little capes of colored satin, edged with lace and called Mignon, are both pretty,and have a pretty name. Mother Hubard gowns for littls girls are economical, for no sash is worn with them and they are easily made. J.;, An eastern man is lecturing qn “What I Know Atwut Hell.” He ex hibits four marriage certificates among hts credentials.—Kit Adams. “What Is love!” asked an exchange. Love, my friend, Is thinking that you and the girl can be an eternal picnic to each other, “Oh, Lord,” prayed a Methodist minister, “kwp me humble and poor.” “Oh, Lord, if Thou wilt keep him humble,” said the deacon, who next prayed, we will keep him prior.” “Ob, give me anything made of henna,’’exclaimed a Boston man, taken ■pick in the West, when asked what he yrould have to Wat. They obeyed his request. They gave him castor oil. A guest at a fashionable hotel took bls seat at the dinne* table, but no ‘one appearing to wait on him, h» re marked, “Have you any waiters in this hotel?” ”Yes,” res|>onded a wag on the opposite side of the table, “the are the waiters.” Scene in a college lecture room. The professor about to lecture on th* rhi noceros, says: “I must beg you to give me your undivided attention. It is absolutely Impossible that you can form a true idea of this hideous animal unless you keep your eyes fixed on me." • , Caw Burglary. We notice that the anti-cow-ordi nance councilmen, In the absence of Messrs. Bvrkele and Boyd, the other night, decided that the cow ordinance shall not go into effect until the first of November. Their action virtually kills the ordinance. We make no charge against Berkele and Boyd, but .It is whispered on the streets that they were designedly absent. If they can not boldly vote their convictions and are cowards in the face of what they deem public opinion, they should re sign and let men be elected in their place who, at all times, will openly stand up to the right. lt«e< uus, then, that of At oniawill contrive to be cow l»en thf*»Miinmer, throiigri.which the cows of Tom, Dick and Harry will be permitted to roam at will. But our citizens, who have expended large sums of money In fitting up their yards and flower gardens, are not left en tirely without remedy when these four-footed nuisances enter their prem ise* and proceed to ruin their proper ty. We chink in such cases they have a clear right to shoot down the trouble some animals. The law gives a man the right to shoot down a burglar while stealing hidfroperty, but a cow which breaks ot>3ff a gate and in a single night and despoils a flower garden, the improvements of which may have cost hundreds ot dollars snd years of careful labcr, and there is no redress. Let our citizens adopt the shot-gun policy this summer, and our word for it, tlie owner* of those nomadic and immoral beasts will And away to keep them frnm the whistling bullet and the dismantles! rosebush. If council men, untrue to the trust reposed in them by citizens, refuse to aid them to protect their property, let them take the matter Into their own hands. Kimball ISauae Cancers. It takes more brain to successfully conduct a big hotel than to manage a red-beaded inother-ln-law. Mr. Sco ville Is scarcely past thirty and yet be runs the Kimball with an ease and In telligence that is truly astonishing. 11. a man, too, of charming inanner. treating his guests and, indeed, all with whom he comes in contact, with a cordial courtesy which is as winning as it Is sincere. One of the finest fea tures In their establishment, of many flue features, is the weekly concerts, which add tenfold to the attractive ness and jxipularlty of this great hotel. Th* concert given on Friday night was largely attended and highly en joyc.l. The following prograinine, rendered by the Poet band, the accom plished Wiegand, conductor, s|*eaks lor itself: rROORAMMK. 1. Overture. Jolly|Kobbers, Suppe. 2. Selections. Somnamhula, Bel lini. 3. Walt*. Wine, Women and Song, Strauss, 4. Grand Medley. Fascination, Wiegand. 5. Potpourri. 500,000 Teufel, Mlchneli*. 0. Galop. On the Wings of Love, Budke. 7. Selection. Huguenots Audran- - - —— Mitflfercrs from Dyspepsia, Indiges tion. etc., have Only to use Ball’s Di gestive Sait at table instead of ordina ry salf, to be freed from all such ten dencies, and to enjoy their food. 25 cent* will get It. See advertisement. SOME FOOLISH THITOS. Movingoften. . Talking slang. Praising yourself. Working too hard. Wearing tight shoes. Borrowing newspapers. Getting mad at nothing. Storming at the weather. Writing poetry for a living. Making love to the wrong giri. Rousing the wrath of an editor. Rending flash literature or nothing. Living in style beyond your income. Sleeping away the early morning hours. Hunting for white-handed employ ment. Counting your money before it’* earned. Finding fault eternally with the children. Having the nightmare after late suppers. Trying to do business without ad vertising. Sitting up till midnight to finish the last novel. Marrying a man for Ills splendid moustache. Thinking it doesn't pay to econo-, mize in trifles. Leaving oft' heavy flannels too early in the , Playing the gallant to every woman but your wife. Supposing that every smart child is a born genius. Expecting everybody to call your baby a beauty. Expecting to have money without working for it. Wasting your smiles on every man but your husband, * Getting married in live hasteand re penting at dead leisure. * Loaning an umbrella without bid dihg it an eternal adieu. Trying to open a front door at 2 a. m. with a key of your safe. Moping through life when it is just as easy to dance’through it. Exposing’your ignorance by pre tending to know everything. Judging a man by the cut. of his coat, or a woman by tbe shade of her com plexion. Spending so much money on compa ny that you have none left to lay out on yourself. Envying other people their wealth when you might be hoahling a pile up for yourself. Failing in love will; a wvinan's Jiair dr teeth before you And out bow milch she paid for them. Joining so many lodges and socie ties that you have no time to become acquainted with your family. Telling your wife your mother could beat her on biscuits and so putting enmity between them forever. Turning up your nose at ordlnarv ways of earning an honest I i veil boot!, and waiting for som* genteel job to turn up. Jumping at the conclusion that be cause you come of respectable stock, you won’t die in the poor-house, if you fail to provide more comfortable quarters elsewhere. ELEGANT AND EXTEMMITE. Two of lhe .Vloal f'omplcle Cloth- In* Ealabls hnirnts In the South under One Hnnngement. It is safe to say that no tailoring es tablishment in the south can boast of such a large and extensive stock as the Emporium of Fashion located at No. 8 Whitehall street, of which Jer ry Lynch, the popular tailor, is the proprietor. Mr. Lynch’s reputation as a good tailor Is known all over the south, anil orders come to him dally from all sec tions. A visit to his extensive estab lishment cannot but convince anyone that his stock is now the most exten sive and with-! the handsomest ever seen in Atlanta. A short time since he established a branch house at Rome, at the earnest solicitation of ‘his friends' and patrons In that sec tion which' emporium is managed by Joint Lynch, a chip of the old block In every particular, tieiug not only a fine tailor, but a most courte ous and affable gentleman. The Rome house, like the Atlanta Emporium, is supplied with an exten sive selection of .Spring and Summer Goods, all of them Imported. No state In the south can boast of two bet ter tailoring establishments than tbe ones managed by Jerry Lynch and hl* ever courteuus and obliging son War ren Jourdan, perhaps the most com petent and popular salesman in hl* line of business to be found in the loutli, can be seen at No. 8 Whitehall street, where he, with the other em ployes of Mr. Lynch, are always ready to see their friendsand patron*. Yesterday Mr. Lynch close I a trade for an Immense line of French, Scotch and English Good* for his fall and winter trade, which shipment will be. made direct to Atlanta, and will prub4 ably be the first shipment received at this port of entry. —** Hurglar*. There seems to lie an epldem Ic among tbe burglar* of this city. Their ope rations are not entirely under the cover of darkness, but the deft fingers are plying their vocation in broad day light. The dally papers contain ac counts every daj' of depredations upon our citizens, and the mania seems to. be on the Increase. Ono day last week the house of Dr. Wellborn, on Walton street, was robbed, tbe robber taking away several articles of Jewelry and money tielonging to some boarders. Thursday night or early Friday morn ing some one effected an entrance to the office of the Ice wqjks and succeed ed in getting off with fifty dollar*. A suspicious white man has been arrest ed, and we hope the police force will keep a watchful vigilance on all suspicious characters loitering about the city. Our citizen* cannot be too careful abont their premise*, and should not leave their frout door* open while out taking tea. By form ing Utemselve* into an “Open Eye” club, It might save trouble and ex pens*. Georgia News. The Rev. John P. Duncan is dead. h«d a small Are last Tues- Tass, of Bartow county, Mis? Maggie Black, of Walton coun ty, is dead. Dr. George R. Brown, of Murray county, is dead. The uteasels arc raging in and around Dawson. Tbe Madisonian uses good paper, ; and is a good paper. The new boat built at Albany has been named “Newton.” “Fence” or “no fence” is agaitating ’ the people of Campbell county. , Mr*. J. G. Colbert, at The Roek, Upson county, died last Monday. Madison wants a lire company. She already has a lire water*a»inpany. The merchants of Columbus have decided to close doors at six o’clock. Charles 8. Dußote, a prominent young lawyer of Warrenton, I* dead. The timber Darien 5 is lively, and many arc In port. Dr. -R. O. Engram has taken edito rial charge of the Montezuma Weekly. Marietta has tested her steam fire engine, and it gives entire satisfaction. Mrs. Loomis, wife of the editor of , the Summerville Gazette, died on the 18th Inst. A negro convict fifed of consump tion at the camp, near Cedartown, a few day* ago. Dick Grubb says the people in his county (Mclntosh) feed their horse* and cows on piue trees. The editor of the Pike Comity Nows has been cured ot rheumatism by the use of St. Jacob’s oil. We will not sec much in the state papers for the next two weeks stive the hospitality of the Kimball, Rome and Nashville. The fire fiend is raging. Almost tbe entire business portion CT Suwanee, ■ Gwiunett county, was destroyed by flre Thursday night. That young medical student at But ler forgot to send the gopher to the press convention* He whs afraid the boys would go-for him. I While the editor of the Darien Ga , zcttc was absent last week,, the editor protein, pledge*! the support or the paper to tlie cause of temperance. « Talbotton had disastrous fire Thursday. Thirteen stores and olil ees were burned.* Amount of loss was about $5,000, The Georgia society closed its thirteenth annual session, in Savannah, after having a very Inter esting, profitable and harmonious meeting. The Dawson Journal can well be termed an extemporaneous paper this week. The printers are all sick with the measels, and the editor “set up” bis local without taking time to previ ously write them. Last Sunday, while Mr. Hartwell was bathing, ties- the Rockdale paper mills, about two miles Iron. Conyers, hl* son, a boy of twelve, was drowned, and a younger son, saved with great difficulty from tilt same fate. The Hartwell Sun says: “Some far mers tight green grass all summer to make cott< u enough to buy dry grass in the spring. They don’t do as Boyle Brown’s daddy did. He sowed oats for forty years and al was got his seed back and made the straw clear.” “Just think of it,” say* the Berrien County New*. “We first buy western mult*, and then buy western corn to feed them on. And the worst of it Is, we buy both on time at ruinous rates of interest.” Ye*, and when the un sound wesu rn corn kills the western mules, which were bought on time, where does the profit come it? The Albany News and Advertiser say*: “No rain yet! It Is now four or five weeks since enough rain has fallen In this vicinity to wet the ground. The gardens are as dry as ash-beds, and the vegetables are, in many in stances, parched to a crisp. A few more days without rain will finish up the little wilted vegetables that now remain, and all the labor that has been spent on the gardens this spring will have been in vain. “There seems to lie a kind of silent satisfaction In some quarters that the Atlanta Daily Phonixihaph had to suspend. We much regret ft, tor it was much needed, it grappled with and ex|>oiied every thing that smacked of fraud. We hope some day to see It resuscitated and grow to be a power in the state.” We thank brother En grain, of the Montazum* Weekly, for ,tiie above complimentary notice, and c yip re him that all the principles $KMch were prominent In the daily YWI not be missing In the Bcnday Phonookapii. We learn Mrs. Mary E; Camp, of Covington, is now engaged In prepar ing a new story for tlie press which , will be given td the pub.lc at an earlv day. The scenes are laid In North Georgia, during the war, and will em brace many thrilling Incidents In the line of .Sherman’s march from the mountains to the seaboard. Mr*. Camp I* a graphic and entertaining , writer, and we have no hesitancy In saying her new story will lie replete with tlirllll ng and startling scenes snd Incidents, fully Illustrating the char acter of that eventful period.—Cov ington Star. Snake stories are out of date. The Marietta Journal says: “M. Cary Spinks, of Dallas, Ga. after worrying a good deal over his much prised house eat eating great chunks of his bacon and otherwwe foraging on his provis ions. ba* at last found out tlie true thief. An opossum had taken up her abode In a sednded place in his smoke house and during her spring residence i had added eleven little opossums. Cary didn’t kill his cat, but he slayed old Mrs. Opossum and her eleven lit tle offspring without a moment's waru lag. [PRICE 5 CENTS RAILROAD RACKET VAKIOIIH ITEMS OF INTEREST. Brunswick will yet be made a great port by the railroads. The probability la that the Georgia Western will never be built. The road from Gainesville to Dah lonega will soon be finished. The talk m two new railroads tor Atlanta is raising the value of real . estate. The Western and Atlantic road gave its employes and their friends a pic nic at Vining’s Station yesterday. ' The Macon and Brunswick exten sion begins to look like business. » All we desire to say Is, “Let the exten sion proceed.” “Little Mary, an engine on the M. and N. Ga. railroad has been thor oughly overhauled and is nowon the track doing service. Ma). Houston, the former ticket agent of the Air-Line road has been appointed assistant ticket agent of the Richtuondand Danville lines. We heard upon good anthtrlty that workpn the narrow guage will laiglp , soon, and ft is quite probable the road will be extended so LaGrange before next year. Cole'A gt>nd system of railways will probably connect with Now Orleans via , r 4 erid lan. The distance from the latter point to New Orleans is a hun dred and fifty-six If Col. Cole builds a Ujetween Macon and Atlanta aniTone between Atlanta and Rome the people will be In a large measure independent of the Central and the proposed Georgia Western. a > . v The Western and Atlantic railroad are disposing of their old engines and replacing them with new and larger ones. The “Hercules” and “Altoona" were sold to the Macon and Brunswick road last week. * Ode’s projected road from Atlanta to Rome will give the Cimdnnati Southern a through line to Atlanta independent of the State road. A good scheme, which the Wnnlsville anti Nashville will notlikA. Mr. Dave Elliott, a conductor on the State road happened to a nearly fatal accident Friday. His train was running between Marietta and Smyr na, when a piece of lumber fell from a car and striking the ground was hurled through the cab-door, knock ing the stove over, and striking Mr. Elliott, pinning him In one corner and inflicting some serious Injuries. The Sparta Ishmaellte says: There seems to have been a regular Hood tide in the prosperity of our Georgia railroads ever since the railroad com mission was established. • To say the least of it, the opponents of the com mission And this to baa, .very trouble some coincidence. 1¥ and oppres sive laws are not apt! B g9 provocative of such co-lncldence« It yas the president of the Rome railrmid, who, when Jim Fisk was manager of the Erie railroad, called upon him for the courtesy of a pass over the Erie. “Where is the Rome railroad?” asked Fisk, while reading the card handed him. “it runs from Rome to Kingston, in Aeorgia—lß miles,” answered the caller. Flak, for a moment, seemed to be discussing some vexed question. “What is disturbing you, Mr. Fisk?” asked the Rome man. “I was debating,” answered Fisk, “whether It would tie cheaper to give you a pass over the Erie or write you a check for your little road.”—Athena Banner. The Knights Templar. The grand eommandery of Georgia closet) its session Thursday with a su perb banquet, given to the visiting cornmanderles, at the Kimball by Cosur tie Lion commaiidery, of this city. The dining hall was most tastily decorated, ami the table, extending the full length of the room, was cov ered with a rich variety of subst'antials and delicacies. The number of gentlemen paesant was one hundred and fifty, no ladles gracing the occasion. P. G. C, Luckie, toastmaster, an nounced the regular toasts of the even ing: 1. “Tlie Grand Encampment K. T., L'. 8.” Responded to by Sir W. La- Rue Thomas. 3. “The Grand Comuiandery K. T. of Georgia.” Responded to by Sir W. H. Rockwell, grand commander elect. 3. “The Grand Lodge A. F. and A. M., of Georgia." Responded to by David E. Butler, grand master of Georgia. •1. “The State of Georgia.” This was to have been responded to by Gov. Col quitt. but he being sink, Col. Mam W. Small responded in a particularly hap py vein. ft. “The Grand Chapter of Georgia.” This was to have been responded to by Sir Luther J. Glenn, but ne lieing ab sent, Sir David Willis, D. D., re sponded. ft. “The City of Atlanta.’* -ponded to by Mayor English, K. 'lTH|||| 7. “The Ladies." Responded to IMM Sir A. I*. Adams. SH The speeches were fidleltons, the pleasant entertainment brought to a happy close, at one o’clock, by the Atlanta Quartette elnb in line selections. Tke LanSon Carpel Beaava* ting Campany. No. &3 Marietta street, Atlanta, Ga.. under Opera Rouse. Carpets cleaned lor live cents per yard; most beauti fully. All kinds of IWnltuae repair ing and upholstering. Chairs chned. CuRWw A Co. I | aprUM-lm rn>.’ d