The Macon Telegraph from Macon, Georgia • 2

Modern Education Curias C3? 3 i re BURKE OOI itfuoonnun MACON GEORGIA CI1 to 819 North Second Street Si OvcBlmr JIall and CrmM'n ftowi Britlae Files Slamtrrlx Cant Ilnakn hiw Garni Mill Sipplini Rn IbnofHtnmi af I nlnipi4i SAW A It It AXTED I attention to wpdr nova and EMERY TARIITE Own an niaavarel BIHEET As to Texas Texas with an area of more than 274-000 square miles has a great variety of soils but until recently little has been known of the country between the Brazos and Rio Grande and north of the thlrty-fizst parallel of latitude Formerly it embraced the hunting grounds of the Apaches and Comanches The wild horse the buffalo antelope bear deer and turkey feasted and fattened upon the rich grasses and were found in vast numbers W'hen the Fort Yuma stage line was started and forts were located and occupied adventurous stock-men established ranch-I 1 Then the superiority of this vast area was manifest as a grass-producing and cattle-grazing" district The grasses were vastly better and the water more abundant lasting than in most of the other parts of the State When in 1878 It became known that the Pacific Railway Company were arranging to push their road to a speedy completion enterprising grangers began their encroachments upon the stock ranches They found the land most sightly to the eye The wheat corn cotton oats rye barley millet and vegetables yielded far better crops than they had anticipated and in 1872 when drought had caused the great grain and cotton fields dT south ana central Texas to wither and dwindle away they with poor tillage raised fair crops the rain fell in season the grass grew and the country that had been deemed worthless as arable land soon became known as the best in the State This knowledge has extended the section is rapidly filling up and this crop far exceeds that of 1879 (splendid Silver-Plated Ware Fine Pocket and Table Cutlery Population of the United State The census of 1880 makes the population of the United States 50182559 This country thus ranks as the second power of Christendom in respect to citizenship proper Russia alone outnumbering us By the census of 1800 the country numbered only five million people and has therefore increased ten fold in eighty years The same rate of increase would give us in 1900 five hundred miliums of outnumbering either China or Hlndostan according to recent estimates By the year 1900 it is not improbable we shall number very nearly one hundred millions not falling more than fifteea millions short of that great figure All idea of surplus of territory may therefore be abandoned the face of such unexampled increase There is plenty of room for expansion just now but a few generations will probably see a' dense population all over our territory unless natural increase is checked by civil discord Another point suggests itself in this view of the future tlie impossibility of meeting all the political necessities of such a people from a single centre of legislation It is possible to provide an efficient representative government for such a myriad of free and intelligent people only by sustaining the principle of home rule in the various States each supplying its own local necessities harmoniously with tlie central authority Such a system is capable of indefinite expansion but the practical abrogation of State authority will soon lead to confusion aud a dead-lock Tlie suggestion of the situation and the prospects it opens is not to attack the authority of the State government but to encourage its vigorous exercise under the constitutional limitations' of the Federal power WBng Presen Vases Toilet Seta Afjtto end Moustache Caps Ten dumber Set Dinner Sets Water Set Fruit Seta sod NoYeltie of all kinds HOTS STOCK OFXAHPS AND CHgNDCIZEaS Excelsior Champion Orate and Heating Store at low ore yon To County Officers pnaiantae yon all kinds is! 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A uO' joar ordars School Books Thnlnrcsstaa thntonth told at pahhahanf otona with mat dtaaoanta tu momhaata and tianhw I napnar ordars tUIUtOU Printing mad Binding: I Printing Wshnvnfhs mm la thn toutharn tarrilorj Wn vnred to do all kinds of Printtna and lag st toort nodes Wo bovan bind tndl oMl tuutl 00 Pfnnnn AwrewMaa Pianos ana OrQanB Wo are wants for serenl of tbs Beat Maker ill sell stoop for oithor on thoiaasail-plaa ar otherwiao Old Pianoa for rant vary low Pianoa tuaoA and repaired Ln vM ardors with as NEW'ioOKS A fall lino au hand Any hook not in ttoek will bo ordered and Inrnishad in 1 faw days Cal i na mo onr aplondid hoots and onraooorewo dating eierka Burke Co gntrat SWtWntf Dr Sontlva Pilli Are a spselBe for xhoustad Vitality physical BebiUty ots Apparent by tha osesmy st Modieinoof FarU aud ky tho taodlcal ootobritlso or tho world Prepares attar tho formula of tlw relators tad Dm BtOOEDeoutabriwi oophrepba-rua or santharl'taa but ore purely a vugatabiob auBarOoatadPlUil Pabzb IU Bus da la Bambeaa hare Dean meow mending Da RiUUKD lltlOBlllfl in my praetire to hundred of Dotentafoi Hozual Dobiuty and norer heard of a single failure DR CHEVALIER Da LTY8IO lha treat Herman ehemitl aay -Da RiOORlPd allTuUUTI is erganie no a laboratory nompouad Da writes: -In debility of tha Haul organs it norer fall to euro Pnee 1 Bazas of fifty el JM bozre of 100 9 00 Sent par moil in reeled boa on reseipt ot price DAIaIr RANKIN A LAMAR Atlanta CAUTlONi A spurious article is advertised as Vi tal Reetoratire dorelS pUlt per day which pre-tenda to toe hum Paris aremado hero oadnot hum Dr Ricorn't fvrmala oetlT dsat tut thra tat I 1 GE0R6U HOQE IESURANGE COMPANY Ineorpunted -1859 LAMBERT SPEKOEB SasV RHODES BB0W3TE Prin Capital and Assets over? $500000 The Charter Hakei Stockholders Individually Liable Azenta at all prominont points throuchoat tho Moto to whom apply or to LkUBKET 8PKXC8 Sucre rry at Oolumbno Ga WAT CABNEi Agent Macon Ga fll-wiitf GRoemrsjBON works Oar Cotton Press i as good a made and our guarantee i that on It two men will pack a 500-pound bale of cotton Inside of five minutes traveling at a common walk or no sale Our CANE MILLS with our improved shell and anti-friction boxes never have their journals to cut Our KkTTLBS have extra wide rims and bottom curved so that the syrup collects and facilitate emptying and thereby prevents burning Our HAW MILLS we warrant tJ be as good as male and with it one man does all the sawing Onr will do more work to size of cylinder than any made and of which we make from 8 to lOXhorsa power Wc bulk! aad repair work of all Jtiiidi aad at reasonable rite Having recently built a new brick foundry 50x75 feat an addition to machine shop of 40x50 feet find blacksmith shop of 30x40 besides put- is no civilized nation In the 1 ting in throe new tool costing upward of JV00 we are now better pro- pared to accommodate our patrons than at air time previous I Estimate given and correspondence solicited For further particulars addres julySldsaft wedly CROCKETT SONS trvnr a TOE TELEGEAPB AMD MESEEbGXM pmSUshsd or ary morvto Iraospf Mondat) rata TUtfpS EutUfms yitf Pfrr X-tj tutma ilrtrti MwHytiwi A Voilmrt StBm hJ Ktf Grata for three mouth ad On JMter per MMAbr shorter time TEAMEtMMT ADTEETttEMENTEOns M- (nUMffriiMjbf Uijl'ri i krMHlMMit CMi hr HN TXLEOMAPH AMD MDEEEMGMM rep fiMNMmmte mi wHii (OMiyto oud kf none mow hoe AfitaM the hMn mm to mm mom 4 floorvto Atmhmmm and rH (mMm UuMiM 7( Jl di tti way to mlmott ere ry itMifnt household oud mtmm of to to Mat M(iM A aa atortftoratoa to that reap qf eeuatrp tautMunrasred ram weekly telegraph and mss- SEVGSR twice ths rise of the Dailg if yA-btoiMry Pridsp-pries OO jar aaaaia All naittooM should to Mato Ay torai Order or Bptari8l Letter aMalibttira sad MMMUtotoM for prompt aad oorroet HGtltgrapli nnii JUtsstngtr SATURDAY JANUARY 8 1881 Pbws The premium 011-pewa In Plymouth church Inst Tuesday amounted in gross to $29836 against $27-424 last year Louisville Ky is to have a $400-000 cotton factory the capital having been subscribed and the machinery ordered Louisville is fast becoming a manufacturing city and has a hopeful future The New Orleans and Pacific Railroad Company have recently purchased a site for a depot in New Orleans for $150000 and it is stated expect to spend $2000-000 in the next twelve months for depots shops tracks The assessed value or the depot silo is $30000 Mb Rkuden Spbingxb of Cincinnati indulged in Christmas gifts of unusifkl size lie gave a United States bond for a thousand dollars to each of eight charitable institutions of his city Each of the faithful servants in his household also received $1000 According to the London lin observer and reporter of events the experiment of governing Ireland from the banks ot the Thames has ended in utter social collapse Society itself he says is in ruins Is it not time then to try another plan? The result may be better it cannot well be worse Pboobess or the Obelisk The World of the 5th says the obelisk was moved yesterday to within seventy-eight feet of its final destination The shears are already rigged to take the engine down at the completion of the work Four photographic views were taken of the obelisk yesterday from as many points of view Should the storm continue to-day Lieuten-ont-Commander Gorringe says the workmen will be unable to do more than to keep the trestle clear of snow Disasters Among Theatrical TnouPES-More than two hundred troupes companies and combinations of different kinds and qualities took the road last fall from the dramatic centres In addition to the regular companies several organizations influenced by the general prosperity also took the road for short trips A' disastrous state of affairs in the profession is reported owing partly to the recent cold weather and it is said that more than one-half of the companies starting out under favorable auspices have either been disbanded or shortly will be The Advance ox Lima The correspondent of the Fanama Star and Herald under date of Lima Dec 9 writes as follows: Second Division of the Chilian army 4200 strong commanded by Col Sotomeyer lauded at I'ico on the 2d Inst The Third Corps which will Humber it is believed 8000 men is known to have been ready to embark at Arica This corps has been much strong' heued by the arrival of troops from Chill the I'ayta alone having carried 1200 from Valparaiso The departments of Tara-paca and Anca have been almost denuded of troops to strengthen the invading army The Chilians occupied Yea without resistance yet the usual scenes of outrage and violence followed The Louisville aud Nashville Railroad is now working for the business of Key West aud Havana They have chartered the Steamship Admiral preliminary to building a lino of its own and will make weekly trips front Pensacola to Key West and return They hope to form a direct communication between the merchants and the mill men of the West so that flour grain salted meats cau come straight from the and manufacturers without passing through tlw bauds of the middle-men ot New Orleans and absorbing expenses of levee dues tarpaulin hire storage commissions An They will also form a quick and comfortable connection with New York for passengers making the time from Key West about eighty hours Richmond's Great The Richmond Dispatch publishes a vast budget of statistical and other information showing that progress in manufactures trade and commerce together with facts and figures exhibiting the social condition of the people etc These statistics show an increase during the year just closed of 137 manufacturing establishments over the previous year making the whole number now In operation 702 with a capital invested of $8612000 an Increase of nearly $2000000 The operatives employed for the past year number ed seventeen thousand nearly three thou sand more than in 1879 The sales amounted to $24704892 an Increase of $1218000 All the other figures and information show an equally and satisfactory state of affairs and the Dispatch congratulates the people on their present condition and speaks hopefully of the prosperous outlook Pensions Tliero was appropriated for the payment of pensions for the current fiscal year over $50000000 of which large sum nearly $27000000 being about one-half of the amount of appropriation was on account of the arrearage act It now appears that the extraordinary sum above mentioned is not sufficient to meet the requirements for pensions for the current fiscal year and that at least $18000000 or $20000000 additional will have to be appropriated at the present session of Congress to meet the anticipated deficiency Tlie commissioner of pensions has recently sealed and allowed claims for pensions aggregating $3000-000 and checks for that amount have been mailed from tlie treasury The disbursement ot this sum will nearly exhaust the entire amount appropriated for pensions for the current fiscal year and mako necessary a deficiency appropriation in order to provide for tlie quarterly payments due in Match next The largo reduction in tlie annual expenditures secured In the interest accounts by reason of refunding tlie public debt iulo 4 per cent lxmds will be more than counterbalanced by the enormous increase occasioned by the arrearage pension set and large as this increase is on this account It has not yet reached the maximum Im Msflsa tm the tlanefi IsIIns MIscktoM Office of the Railroad Commission Atlanta Ga January 1881 Gen Alexander First Vice President Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company LouUville Ky Dear Sir Your letter first received by us and then published in tbe Atlanta Constitution ot tlie 2d Inst is intended to correct what you regard a misconception of your views contained In our second semi-annual report attributing to you' opinion that 6 per cent dividends would be a reasonable return for stockholders in railroads to receive on their The commission having 'the highest regard for your character and Intel igence would not willingly misrepresent your views nor does your letter consider them as so doing Tbe exact language of the report is as follows the argument of Gen Alexander president of the Georgia railroad before the railroad oommitte 's of the legislature and before the commission he stated that 6 per cent if reliable on the value of the Georgia railroad stock would be This language we believe to be entirely accurate conforming to the recollection of two members of the commission one commissioner not remembering the conversation in which it occurrel perhaps not present during the whole conversation Other expressions in our report may seem to he more general and not limited to the Georgia railroad If so the foundation of our inference was given in the language quoted above We regarded that road as one of the strongest iu the State and entitled to as good an interest as any other As soon as your letter of explanation was received immediate notice was given to tbe counsel representing the commission in the case then pending in the United States Court not to use your views as authority on the question and soon thereafter our letter to you was sent stating that in our next report your explanation would be given This letter did not reach you before the publication in tbe Constitution From some of tbe views so cogently presented in your published letter we are constrained to dissent especially from the last paragraph but oue by which the public is left in case of exhessive charges by railroads to the wholly inadequate protection of a return to wagons and common roads Tbe points of difference we cannot discuss in the papers but will present with more fullness in our next report our views of the principles involved in the important question are reasonable and just rates With much respect Yours very truly James Smith Campbell Wallace Barnett Railroad Commissioners A Capital Number Ihe Southern Monthly for January reflects credit upon the State and all connected with it In point of mechanical finish aud tlie value of its table of contents it has never been surpassed The Post-Appeal says of this popular agricultural magazine Mr Bryan its accomplished editor has made a good start for the new year aud the publisher Colonel Es-till is sparing no expense in making its typographical execution unsurpassed Atlanta readers will be glad to see an article on Jersey by Sidney Herbert which is illustrated by the gifted pencil of Horace Bradley with pictures of Judge Hopkins fine imported Jersey bull and the handsome thoroughbred Jersey cow The article refers mostly to Judge valuable herd of Jer-1 soys The Florence Xlghtlnirale of tlie Bare aery The following is au extract from a letter written to tlie German Reformed Messenger at Cliauibersburgh Reuosylvania: A BENEFACTRESS Just open tbe door for her and Mrs Winslow will prove the American Florence nightingale of the Nursery Of this we are so sure that we will teach our to say blessing on Mrs Wins- for helping her to survive aiid escape the griping colicking and teaching siege Mrs Soothing Syrup relieves the child from pain aud cures dysentery and diarrhoea It softens the gums reduces inflammation cures wind colic and carries the infant safely through the teething period It performs precisely what it professes to perform every part of itnothing less We have never seen Mrs Winslow know her only through the reputation of her Syrup for children If we had the power we would make her as she is a physical savior to the in- fant race Sold by all druggists 25 cents a bottle 1 can assure ypu that tn no single instance has the Teethina ever proved a failure We have tried the soothiug medicines and everything known to us and aud Teethina is preemi- nently a success aud a blessing to inotl ere aud children DeLacey Ilatchechubbe Ala After trying Soothing Remedies with- I out avail and physicians without relief I gave your Teethina and it acted like magic I occasionally give a powder to keep my child's gums softened Baldwin Columbus Ga A community of Oblate Sisters of Providence have arrived in the city from Baltimore for the purpose of establishing themselves here They are anxious to devote their lives for the welfare of the Colored people They are temporarily located at Xu 709 North Seventeenth street and are trying to raise means to get a house The Equitable Life Assurance Society make a very important announcement this New Year morning The facts that its policies are incontestable after they are three years old and are to be paid without diseouut in case of death immediately on the receipt of satisfactory pi-oofs of the claim is something that will interest all the policy-holders of th'e society and do much to the life Tribune assurance New York It ia only justice to say that Senator I Brown may mean precisely the thing be expresses He is a positive man and very courageous and stubborn one and he I should have the full beuefit of belief in his honesty Detroit Post and Tribune Rep) nave yoa caught a cold? Are you an able to raise the phlcginr Have yon an oppression on tho kings with short bresthf Do yon have a fit of coughing on lying down? A sharp prin now and the it in the region ofthe heart and ahonl-deraf A chilly sensation down tbe back! If WHjMay to dnayerouA Slight colds" II neglected ofteu result in consumption when the remedy If applied promptly would have averted all danger For twenty-five cento you can get tha remedy which the teat or twenty yean has proved to bo the reset vak able Lung Huloure ever discovered EXPECTORANT win enable yon to raise tbe phlegm canre pleasant sleep and yon will wake in the morning cough gonelnnga working freely five and Reader! nuwning congb gone lnnga workini and breathing easy It if a raven: care for croap an a ptoaaant Children love It No -Gy should he without eta In fiftc and ft bnttlre 8AMewYo It Bold to pai trail tw recommended tot the care of alt diseases of the stomach liver and bowels They purify the blood Increase the appetite cause tho body to Take on Flesh and by their Tonic Action on the Digestive Orgsnsjlcgulsr 8toole are produced Aa scire ftr Chilli and Stv- FsWlsrts larklea they urw wltbawt rival -If yon do sot foci very well" a single pfll at bedtime stimulates the ahmuft note and imparts vigor to tho Ife QriwXmy 8t New York I 1 in if is Too Muck Ckammixo and Overwork It fannnt he denied that tlie curriculums of study iu many of our seminaries and jigh schools are far too complicated and onerous for the mind of the average pu-plL The main effort seems to be to achieve the greatest possible results in tlie most limited period of time' To skim as it were the seething chaldron of the sciences into which has been cast and eodked a very oUa'podrida of ail the branches of modern and classic literature This stimulating broth la swallowed but not digested and hence 'instead of healthy progress and real nutrition to the brain and mental perceptions of the student he is surfeited and well nigh paralyzed in hit efforts td compass a thorough education This la especially true of the female colleges of the country The girls whose plastic minds develop far more rapidly than those of the sterner sex are taxed to the utmost to accomplish tasks at the tender age of 16 or 17 years which are allotted to bearded men who have passed their majority As a consequence tbey flourish abnormally like hot house plants chllnglng the admiration of delighted friends and guardians bnt too often breaking down under the physical and mental strain So in the graded high schools also where a smattering of everything is sought to be imparted almost by mechanical proses The teachers end pupils are alike mercilessly drilled by the martinets who seem only anxious to condense into the smallest compass all the great truths of every branch of science and then cram them like a bolus down the mental throats of their scholastic victims Of course many reject the dose Others are weakened and exhausted from its effects and few precious few can assimilate such concentrated mental pabulum and derive benefit from it Germain to these thoughts we extract the following from a valued exchange The world is steadily growing confirmed in the belief that thus are too many studies too many text books too much tuition and that the function of the school room in life is growing to exaggerated and injurious dimensions In the long list of studies which the teachers have at their ends logic is unfortunately not included and their syllogisms will not stand analysis They argue that because instruction is a good thing the more Instruction there is the better lor all parties and instead of looking on a school course ms merely the means to an ulterior end they treat it as if it were an end in itself They act as if the child were made for the school not the school for the child and having started in the wrong direction they push along fearlessly and energetically never dreaming that each new step only takes them still further from the real end and goal the true object aud purpose of school instruction The sin of modern school-teaching resembles the sin which Episcopalians are so fond of committing and confessing It teaches the things that it ought not to teach and it leaves untaught the things that it ought to teach and there is no education in it It overloads the memory with a mere repetition of names to which no idea is attached while it neglects that mental training discipline and development to which memory and Ihe other faculties should be subordinate Tbe child is no sooner beyond the primary classes tLan it is plunged into a limitless and hopeless morass of facts without meaning or connection All history and geography grammar rhetoric languages astronomy botanv physiology political economy and in fact all human knowledge are laid before him All learning is open to him as it was to Mr Silas Wegg and his ideas of it are about as vague and coherent Yet in the opinion of Mr Eaton our national superintendent of education there is not enough to confuse his mind in the years in which' it should be gaining its growth and strength And at tlie Iowa couvebtion he gravely recommended the study of sanitary science as a part of the educational system of the counti The results of this pedagogic muddle confront us at every step What is wanted iu this country is a convention of parents who have grown weary of the tyranny of the schoolmaster and who shall demand that the object of school boards and of bureaus of education and of pedagogic conventions shall be not to extend tbe range of studies but to abbreviate them who shall Insist that the excrescences and flourishes of modern curriculums shall be ruthlessly lopped ofli the hours of study shortened and the time devoted only to such exercises as shall strengthen and develop the faculties of the child that the motto of the teacher shall be nonmulta sed nadtum that nothing shall be taught that shall not be taught thoroughly aud that the course of instruction in our schools instead of being a clog and a delusion shall be a real education profitable alike to tbe scholar and to the community in which he lives Panic in England A London dispatch of the 4th to the Herald of Wednesday says Nothing less than a panic seems to prevail among the military authorities iu all parts of England In view of possible Fen'an attempts the war office lias sent special instructions to the commanding officers of volunteers in all towns with Irish populations for the sate custody of arms Each man is required to take chaige of his carbine Auy other guns are to be deprived of their locks Such instructions nave been sent to Dundee Sheffield Birmingham and other places A telegram from Sheffield says that seven or eight cases of rifles belougiig to volunteer corps have been removed with considerable privacy to the Town Hall in consequence of instructions from Loudon A similar movement took place during the Fenian agitation So far the scares that have taken place have proved to be hoaxes The communication received yesterday by Lieutenant Colonel Ray of the Eighth Surrey Rifles pointing to a threatened attack of Fenians on the armory turned out to be of this character The report of an alleged attempt to place a torpedo under tlie bows of the ironclad Lord Warden which created a stir this morning proves to be totally devoid of foundation The fires yesterday in Liverpool docks are charged to Fenians The Liverpool Courier states that the timber in the dock in that town and also in a private timber yaid was maliciously set on fire by means of petroleum list night but the flames were extinguished with the greatest ease in both instances At present it is darkly rumored that Sarah aged seventeen and Ann McCarthy forty-eight chaiged at the Marlborough Street police court this morning with unlawful possession of 140 maps of English counties were Fenian agents Extra precautions are to be taken to guard the Houses of Parliament from being blown up Oue writer suggests that the best precaution would be to insure the presence of Mr Parnell and the Land League members A dispatch from Birmingham to the News states that inquiries have been made at leading gnnmakers there and tbe replies received confirm the reports of tbe exportation of anus to Ireland Laige orders have been and are now being executed There has been also a brisk demand for revolvers Oue of the principal guumak-ers states that more revolvers have been sent to Irelaud from Birmingham daring tbe past two months than during the preceding two years The oltaie Belt Company Marshall Michigan will send their celebrated Electro-Voltaic Belie to the afflicted upon thirty days trial Speedy cures guaranteed They mean what they say Writs to them without delay ss' Newcombs ot Toledo Ohio I hove been greatly benefited by wearing an Excelsior Kidney Fad and would recommend all persons troubled with weak kidneys to try lt Jw WHEELS nllwl yr-r EXACOF QEOROIA Monitor and Cambridge prices fell to cell tad loo den3fri-sau-wed 1 CAPITAL? SOiMK Offl-Uh Xa 97 TMrert ntw TfeviV Kn'l'fnr Chcnlar 2To 11- Omcior TBI RMLROAD coMRicsnyv Aimiix St- itoanmbsr 1 1 lak-t Tn order to gntsiaal and equriime paereoaer rates toe railroad Georgia are divided into fhrnnrlstuT tor that parooaet aa follows FASSKNGHR CLASiA include the following Those portions of the Central railroel anl its lasted lines Between (Savannah and Macon B-lween Annuals ud ilten But wesu soon ad Atlanta B-tween soon and Euiaalu Between Fort Veliev and Columbus Between Hmithviile and Albany Three portions ot tbe Georgia Bui ween Aaenata and AUsn a Between Cemak ami Maon Bex worn Union Rant and Atheni That portion of the daeon a Brunswick Between Mstoasoa Mremwick The Western and Atlantic railroad The Atlanta and West ran rood Tha Atlanta and Charlotte sir-Line railway The Eaat Tannnmrn Virginia aad Georgia riu- raafi The Mum Rome end rnilrmi The Rruuswi-k and Albany raj road The kavannah and Charireton ra Jroad PASSENGER CLASJ lr el odes the following Thom portions of the Central railroad and its if seed Bet wren Fort Talley and PMtv Bat arson Cathbert boo FOrtOsiuo Bstwoea Gordon and Baton inu Brrwere Albany and Arlington Tho Upson Conotv railnre Tba Griffin u4 North Abbuu nil mii Botwera Barratt and Washington That lmrfiQ" of tha Macau ad Brunt wick rail-rood Bet wean Cochran and Has kineviOo Tho northeastern railroad I ha Klb-rion air-Line radios! Too Roma railroad Too Naive ta and North Georgia railroad Tho Dhorokso railroad Tho Coin moat and Howe railroad Tho ai-bsfws Great Hoatheru railroad FAMBNGBR CLASS Includes the following Tha Hartwell niuoed Tm Walton County railroad Tho LawrearenUo railroad Tho Ire villa and Wad ley railroad ThattanderaviUo and Toaiullo railroad Ou and after February 1SU tha passenger for any vita UP pounds of ktggagsoa railroads iu Cress A three (S) eeuti per ate: in haeo four (I) ante per mde: in Clare fire (l) erat per mile an! or children over Irj ami under tvairs of ago half of ths soars ruins Bet a rxil-luefi msy ebargetteea a aa a miai-nure full rara sue IS rente fr a half tat vara thx tare would be tare than those amounts the fare Joos not and In ar ths near OM ram above so oaotog ahril be tho fare Tirkre au sale al oar olflee to a city matt ha kept an sale st ba depre beset olfije of the earn railroad el the tern ipnoaa tllrnmtaere iretricfed to the above ratae to maximum rates only and hare foil liberty ia m-dore lAata ratea anaUond ovary rnerirtnr 1 paemngrr eerriee at thetr By ardor of toe Board JAMB! SMITH Che klmill Ireritary dtalS-dtaw AS7FCL32Y WM MGll-aNt gslgf: HOLIDAY GOODS Fine Ghambsv and Parlor Suits ElOCKEHSr in cane perforated seat carpet willow upholstered in terry reps and raw silk and the latest novelty Trimmed Batan Sewing Chairs and Hookers We also have folding chairs and rockers library and work tables cloth top Bible flower jardinereand work stands chairs of every description In Onr IKTOSIC DEPARTMENT bn FORTY DIFFERENT KZNDSIOF HARMONICAS Violins at $1 Aceordeons at $1 Banjos at $150 Guitars at S3501 Flute Fife Drum Horn and everything musical New Music received every week Chll and see us THOMAS WOOD I0S srBEET HrU Ire Seme Almanac Dr Ayer A Co of Lowell Mass have favored us with a complete edition of their almanacs for 1881 neatly bound in one volume Turning to its contents we find ourselves prepared to discuss the weather with our afternoon callers in Unglfah German Dutch French Spanish Norwegian Swedish Portuguese and Bohemian We have aa yet only perused the English version and to it we are pleased to give our unqualified indorsement Though Almanac has long been recognized as standard American work yet it makes its advent each year with all the vigor and freshness of a first appearance and is received with a hearty welcome by millions from the rising to the setting son We commend it to our readers as a work replete with instructive and valuable information We have been remembered by Messrs Abell A Co of the Baltimoie Sim with an advance copy of their celebrated almanac for 1881 It contains all the old features of this valuable publication and thereto have been added a great variety of new and valuable facts hearing upon matters of general public Interest 1 The plan of making the almanac a household and business reference book hss been adhered to and neither family affairs nor the needs of the counting-room have been neglected It is sent only to regular subscribers of the Sun both daily aud weekly We have also received an admirable publication from Messrs Burke A Co of this city entitled "Two States It is published for Georgia and South Carolina and contains the usual facta transmitted by the almanac-maker to posterity Florida Hon Bloxham was inaugurated Governor of Florida on the 4th instant and Hon Harris of Orange county nominated Speaker of the House The mercury in Florida during the late cold spell indicsted 17 at Fernandina 22 a Cedar Keys 23 at Enterprise 18 at Green Cove on the St and 19 at Jacksonville Ice was an inch thick at aldo At Mandarin all the oranges were frozen on the trees Thn Jacksonville Sun and Press estimates that betWeen one-third and one-half of the orange crop has been shipped and thinks that the damage to the remainder of the crop and to the trees will be less than is generally believed A Hardee of Jacksonville writes to the Sun and Press that in his opinion the sweet orange will stand zero when the sap is not rising that freezing will not injure the fruit aud that the late freeze will be benefit to the groves of south Georgia and northern Florida The Tampa Tribune learns that Governor Bloxham has purchased land and is going to have an orange grove started in the vicinity of Fort Meaue in Po4k county The Key of the Gulf says that the steamers Morgan and Admiral had a race over from Havana to Key West both of them sailing from Havana at the same hour The Morgan won the race by one hour and seven minutes Speaking of Tampa says the Tribune a gentlemanwriting to us from Connect! cut says: is the moat agreeable place for a winter sojourn that I liavo found in the South and I have extended my researches ver nearly all parts The climate is far superior not only to that of the other Gulf States but to that of eastern Florida I remember one winter when -the month of January was steadily rainy at Jacksonville while you had scarcely an unpleasant day at To Pension List To prove that republics are not ungrateful an exchange says: No nation in the world has been so liberal as the United States in dealing with its veteran soldiers Last year $50-090000 were appropriated for pensions but this vast sum proved insufficient under the liberal provisions of the law with reference to arrearages There is a deficiency unprovided for of $18000000 and it is anticipated that the yearly charge may reach $90000000 No one will dispute the propriety ot liberality In this behalf but it may be open to question whether the present generation Is not letting benevolence run away with prudence The fact that the South is called upon to bear her full share of this enormous tax without deriving a dollar of benefit from it seems rather hard but of course must be accepted as one of the consequences of defeat That cruel war was a nalamlty indeed The train that left Red Bank last Wednesday for Bay Side a distance of 87 miles arrived at Red Bank Sunday after 92 hours raughing it through a snowdrift Food and ftiel were brought to the passengers while enroute by relief engines and seven locomotives were required to push the snow-bound train through Various other roads are also still badly blocked with drifted soOw and a heavy snow storm yesterday threatened to still ftuther complicate the situation Fob twenty years Pills has pro ven the friend of the invalid and through all the changes of that period tens of thousands stick to their old friend and as many more are daily tempting their virtues They are truly the sick friend The conventional notification to casual newspaper contributors to cm one aide or the sheet is beginning to be modified by a request on the put of numerous editors who find the capacity of their waste baskets wholly inadequate to the increased demands upon them not to write upon either aide out just send along their stationery in blank Their contributions might then be found Philadelphia Times Ala for Dear Little Mention has been made in these columns of the sad and untimely end of Miss Callie Irvin at Covington a daughter of cur esteemed former citizen CoL Samuel Irvin The Immediate cause of her death was a severe burn received a few days previous The writer knew and loved in all the days of her childhood and can truly say that seldom was there to be found on earth a brighter and more cheery spirit than hers Possessed of a vivacity and keen perception of the humorous peculiarly her own her letters and conversation were always unique and brimful of wit and intelligence Indeed smiles and sunshine ever lit up her presence' and we can never cease to remember the periodical visits of this sweet maiden to our home and fireside where she was welcomed as a cherished member of the family There were salient points in her character too of an original practical turn that challenged admiration These brief words liowevar were not designed to eulogize the dear girl who has thus suddenly been translated to her heavenly home but as the simplest tribute to her memory aud for the comfort of the stricken parents Far more elaborate would be any effort that essayed to do justice to her worth and loveliness To those parents we would only add friends mourn not as those who are without hope Your daughter the light of the household lovely and pleasant as she was is infinitely more blessed and happy in the arms of her Savior than when a sojourner upon earth There is no such thing as chance and Jehovah lives and reigns He will comfort and sustain you in this trying hour Fall in Prices While we labored under the impression that the general range of prices In Macon was somewhere between fifteen and twenty-live per cent higher than six months ago we are gratified to find that a summary of a ournal of Commerce article in the Charleston News and Courier takes an entirely different view Wheat flour for instance which was quoted at $535 per barrel lu 1879 is now quoted as low as $375 a gain of $160 even at wholesale for tlie consumer aud the gain at retail is probably CO per cent inure Com shows a reduction of nearly 50 per cent having been quoted in 1870 at $102 per bushel aud now at 53 cents In both these articles there -have been some fluctuations although tlie decline in the latter has been almost steady except that in 1875 it weurnp to 90 cents Wheat flour reached its highest figure in 1872 when it was quoted at $640 and its lowest figure in 1879 when it was as low as $309 In 1889 it went up again to but it is now as before said $375 almost at the lowest notch Day is higher than on the same day in auy year since 1873 when it was quoted at $115 It is -now $110 In 1879 it was quoted at 45 cents American pig iron quoted at $30 in 1879 went up to $59 in 1873 and is now again down to $2450 Leather is 25 per cent lower than in 1870 having fallen from 30 cents to 23 cents and refined petroleum 70 per cent cheaper crude having fallen from to cents a gallon and refined from to cents Salt pork and mess beef are about 50 per cent less in pnee Liverpool salt good sack is more than 50 per cent less being 75 cents against $170 but Ashton sack is unchanged Raw Cuba sugar is about 10 per cent less the price being 7 against cents a pound and refined is about 30 per cent less being against 14 cents These prices are New York wholesale and not adapted for the meridian of Macon or the adjoining States Parliament Speech The opening of Parliament on Thursday the speech and the debate upon it transferred the Irish excitement from Dublin to London The speech is the most voluminous that has been addressed to Parliament by the Queen within our memory It conveys the idea of emergency The Herald's telegram of the 4th from London shows the existence of no little uneasiness in tlie English mind The motion of Mr Gladstone to give the Irish question precedence until disposed of and the address of the Pope to the Catholic hierarchy of Ireland which is published to-day all Indicate a crisis The Fire Record of 1880 During the past year according to the carefully prepared statistics of the New York Bulletin the total loss by fire of the United States amounted to $105000000 That reliable journal prints a list of 250 conflagrations in each of which the loss exceeded $30000 and making an aggregate ot $35000000 This shows the necessity as well as risks of the fire insurance system Oxe of the growing industries of Australia is the cooking and canning of rab bits The Colas Preserving'Company near Melbourne had on an average 7000 of these agile rodents brought in every niglit at the beginning of the past season and the supply increasing orders were given to limit the daily quantity to 2700 pair During the season which lasted lor 25 weeks (73099 rabbits were canned by this establishment alone is uglier than a crooked boot uJl Swr braighteu them with Heel Stiffeners deo31-w5t Tbebe Western Hemisphere in which the utility of Stomach Bitters ms tonic corrective mnd medicine la not known mud appreciated While it is a medicine for all seasons and all climates it Is especially suited tn tbe complaints generated by the weather being the purest and best vegetable stimulant in the world For sale by druggists and dealers 1 to whom apply for Hostetler's Almanac fin-1881 OTOXTSMf Subdue Inflammation acute and chronic Controls and Hemorrhages Venous and Mucous INVALUABLE FUR SPRATN3 BURNS 80 sLDi BRUGES SOBENE38 RHEUM tTISM BOjLS ULCERS OLD 8ORE8 TOOTHACHE HEADACHE ASTHMA SORE THROAT HOARS K- NESS NEURALGIA CATARRH sra Era Kama -Valaohls aa beneflefaL-Haywood Smith of 1 have ased it with markrd beoeflt G-Preston Brooklyn "I know of no rawody so generally Arthur (tainnma 9 of Mi hov prescribed iWi Estreat with great raeoem Poad Iitnet Is told onlym bottles with tha blown ia plaso It it oasafa to are -ther artlem with oar di-iwotiona Inert on bavins Fond's Extract Bo fare all imitations nod IPtOIibPUPAlirMttOF FX TRACT CO HI VkD WITH THB PURBdT ND MIMT DELICATE PhBUMBS TOR LADIES KOUDOIR 60c 1l am $L7S TOILET OKEAM 7 DENTIPKICR CO LIP aaLTS a a BS TOILET HOAP (S takrej so 77" OATABBH CUBE 75 PLABTEB 25 IMHALKK (clare 50o) li NASAL BYftlNG! 2 MEDICATED PaPEK 25 FEMALE bYULaGK Order amounting to worth sent ozpr free cm neripl ol money on i order Our new Pamphlet with Mitory of oar Pita aretiona seat Iras oa application to EXTRACT COts Na IA Wieth I treat New Verb by all drtirvlK mireawtawiw Brewers Lung THE ONLY RKLIABL AGINT KNOWN FOR XHB Cure of Consumption No more hemorrhgea from thetangs after using the first bottle We would recommend to all who bare diseased Lunea and Tb ort lhie aterlion medicin Ram ben of caaeamotivoi eves in tbs lost itarrt of this terrible disease where (hero wm bate small portion of tbs Inna left teatdy that tbo? arrested the disrere by oaing only two or three bottles of Brewer Dana Restorer Their phia-iri na pronounced them incurs Me and left them to pine away and diesmd death would hare boom ben the reault hut for a timoly was of thia article Wa are well aware that wwhare a good deal to contend with to lElrasadw tbtareawdyes there hare brew reman? werttileaa noatvaasa sold heretofore but we are so firmly eonvumed that wo now hare tbo long looked for Uure that ww are ready to aay to all who hare thia disraan that wa firmly and eonaesentioaab hsltov that no matter how far aona thay are if they wi'l wsa tho media no by the direetiioss tosy artlLlivw km ye are alter ward a Bring witnesses of tbs virtuosi Brwer's Lung Restore It has noeqnsl In Bronchitis Here Tkriot Horn nr net kkortneseof Breath InHu4nsaf sin Mde Hero Th-oat Catarrh sad other diseases of the throat and tunas In Ath-is it gives almost instantaneous relief leg ires tone to Mm whole system and evsry bottle will add from Ire to tan sound to any waiqh taken regularly An infant oaa taka lb without the slightest Injury and wa would urno po-wnta to give it to easao of Whooping Ooagh Bad Cota and other dimes aa where ssch a medicine i ended UnFko tbo gres-er portion of Cough Bedwinea this has not a pnrido of moretoaoor other pistol to i HUNT RAMKIX LAK'K OBes Aorembor 1: i to eito aad'odmamiah all i to how ream at thia Oaurt on wkf I Georgia crawvobd vni i aid before tho mart Doom door In Enos-n ie Crawford county Ga oa the flrt Tuesday ia Jiuury next the following property to-wit: The as it half af lot oaa hnnorea aud twouty-six (iM) tae ted la the wreath district of Craa-fato ooanty or an nail? Houston county: boarded I tho aortb by tho lands of Dyta tbo west out end south by the lauds of Saodford Paid load sold a tho property th estate af It Brawn Assess sd by vir-tu of decree made tn tbe Haperior Uoartaf Mibb county the cere ef Brown ezee-xt vs SmanSm Brawn at al Bold lor tbo purpose of carry lag out the provisions of retd de-ree Terms one -third cush one-third to three -months end one-tMid in twelra months with -ewbt per cent In teee( Puraaeeer receiving bond fur titles or c-rtittrete of purchece A ZkOwN It aerator estate Brawn end com ia equity a id sv I JUNES COUNTY SHERIFF 8ALE yyiLL he sold Morn the court hooee door ia the town of Clinton Jones eounly during tha local boors of sals on tbe first Tuesday to January nast Ire Ho 113 containing two hundred aeraa more less adiotatag tba lends of Jrrry Lowe Levi K'nrlow and others ire vied on aa tbs property ut Richard Oitoon to satis-fr a a ia- issued from tbo Haperior Court Jane county in favor of Thomas Johnson against Richard Gibeou hvvtrtf pointed oat by defendant HJ FHlLlPB Deputy Hberiff S' 1 BORGIA BIRR COUNT Under and by virtnaof anordar'rem tan Court of Ordinary of raid county wul bn said before mm court house door in tba city of Kmeou naiM Int Tuesday to January next belwMn tho 1 houreof rain thn total mg property to wit Oca house and lot the Tinenile district known in the snbdivtaMa of the lauds mown os tba Haven Causeys beuig sort of lot number tweniv-hvo fronting on Chewy sree masid Vinevilie district containing ono-quutor ofan acre more or iesa Huld as tan property of Don-tol Jftaon tato o3 arid eonnty doceared for tho purpose erf paying debts and a oivmmm NIXON AfimV ORDINARY OAn Jomt Count Georgia December Id Whereas Brawn and HJ Finney Flnncv executors of apply aetata Jamas ie tor disaaiMiua to eito and ad monish all persona een-ow eunau at thia oMee on or by the a ret Monday in April a ash if any they hvowhy ths seres shall nos bo i grentcri Witness mr hand aflrialiy ltd RJxaAND xT RO9 Ordinary NOTICE TO DEBTORS A CREDITOR Georgia bibb xsMee is hi by given to all persons having aseinai ftatosnne A onyeintlm'ti'Vumretoyijylaa mnd au pareons indebted to said creased are horeby required to 7-' of arid county ly reads Sale- VTTILL be sal haters ths tha town of Ottolou tho Slot TwofioF ta Jam Vln'r I If f' i A i I 1 i i 'i i i.