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ATLANTA WEEKLY CONSTITUTION. JANUARY 15. 1878.
I’lic Atlanta Constitution
WERKLY EDITION.
TERMS OF WEEKLY.
W gave on Friday morning* synop-
of Colonel Tift’* letter, criticism*
ereljr the tr*nsfer of wild land fi 1m
t»r r* e comptroller general. We have
*«k*»n the trouble to look into th*
mat’er, and propose to difcuns it witi
the* degree of dispassionate impartial
i’v dne the subject. In our jedgmen*
!■»•»« is an onneeessary feeling being
ex' ibifed in connection with the snb
j r\ Oor sole object is to present tb
p ue state of facts. We enter into none
of ihe suspicions and criminations that
have been so freely used, and have no
sv mpatby # witb them. We profoundly
d i-recate the use of any crimination
The matter is one of c matin dion cl
law by high and responsible official*
a bo lave every incentive in the reten
ti.m of a good pnblic opinion and then
omn character to do their dnty and
rub erve the pnblic interests.
We publish this morning a letter
fro.u Colonel Goldsmith to the comp
tr n'.er general, directed to the Macor.
T graph and Messenger, in reply t*
M srs. Tift and Hines and Butts, win
i.H ft so severely reflected upon him
which gives the law and the facts ii
explanation of his case.
We must very candidly confess tbs'
under the application of'a cool, jnu
j dgment upon the matter, that in tb»
h »\jo1 the agitation there has ftusen
veiy Isrge amount of misconatrnction
and injustice.
There has been an accumulating
wrong upon the people in the failurer-t
the state to realise taxes upon its wild
Lnds. This has increased the burdens
ol other property in furnishing reve
nun for the state government. Fo
yo'ftrs thousands of acre® of land
have paid no income to the
ft Ate. And the evil became so
I alpahle and so large that the necessity
of remedying it has been imperative.
U |tested efTorts have been made t«
enforce the collections of the long
delayed taxes, but under the plea that
the enforcement of law would work
ii uch individual injustice and loss, the
in itter lias l»een repeatedly postponed.
It was believed that further delay was
improper and a wrong to the whole
r- Ate, and the result has been that ar
h.mest conscientious effort has beer
made to execute a pressing pub ic duty
A •< far as we have been able to learn
tl ere has 1m en a careful and deliberate
attempt to rigidly track the law. W
(rankly own that we cannot tied th#
shadow «f aground for suspecting that
any public officer in the whole matter
l ah I*;en governed by any other motiv
than a sense of duty. We say this
hri adly and unqualifiedly.
If there have been mistakes, they
have been honest ones. The comptroll
* r genera) lias been governed by the
opinion of the attorney general, whose
construction of the law binds him
uii'il the courts give their decision upon
doubtful points. If the attorney gen
oral Hhould give a wrong interpretation
< { the law, parties who may suffer
easily have resource to Uie courts U
remedy their wrongs. We know that
the opinion of tiie attorney general
concurred in by eminent lawyers.
The salient |«»int of complaiut seems
to be that the comptroller general hiu
transferred the tax fi. fa/a against wild
I antis in default to parties who paid
the taxes and costs under section 891
of the code which wss enacted in 187
This section reads as follows:
JV he never any imraon other than
rson sgamst whom the same h»u>
, shall pay any execution is*
r, county or municipal taxes
it her execution issue#! witimut
gment of a court, under
the officer whose duty it is to en
*«. ftHul execution shall, upon the
quest ol the party so paying the same
transfer said execution t * said party
ami said transferee shall have the same
rights t4» enforcing aa»d execni
pi iority of payincnt as might have lieer
exercised or claimed Indore said trans
for/"
The act of 1S74 made some changes
in the law of col’ecting taxes on wild
lands, but it contained nothing in re
gard t«» transfers of wild land tax exe
We do not understand how the owners
f the wild lands will be relieved if the
tate and not the transferee tries to en*
force these executions. If, as is snggr St-
1, the transferee might pocket these
fas and withhold their enforcement*
*e do n..t see bow it would damage the
real owner, who has that much more
ne in which to rai-.e and pay the tax
It would be strange if in so large a
ranaaction as this wild land default is,
hat there should not arise a* me com-
lie*.ions growing cut of mistakes in
‘igures, and nfgiigence of parties. But
hev are all remediable under the law.
And the necessity of bringing so large
amount of property under contribu-
n to help run the state gavernment
s simply overwhelming. The law has
been several years in existence. The
sme picas for delay in its enforcement
ave been u=*d successfully for years
fhe legislatures have successively re
used to interfere with iL Under these
rircumstances it is simply a public nec
•ssity that a determined effort should
be made by the state government
enforce the law and increase the
evenue from this large source. In our
judgment the least that could be done
wss to make an honest endeavor to
exscute the law. It has to be done
sooner or later. Delays heretofore have
uot remedied any evils real or imagin
ary. Tnere is no ground for believing
bat there would be less objection or
liffii utiles the next year or each year
for a dozen years. The matter ought
to be attended to now. The extended
ind heated discussion that has attended
he subject for the last three or four
months will have the good effect to
iirect a universal and searching atten
tion to the matter, parties in interest
will be stimulated to look after their
property, and the great bulk of any
possible mischief to individuals grow.-
ingout of it will be remedied. It is
ealiy the most opportune time, in
view of the general attention called
to it, that could be chosen for the exe-
ution of the law, and a postponement
»f it now would, we think, be unwise
The discussion has had the good re
sult too of evolving the true meaning
and effect of the law. When that law
enforced as it will be,any temporary
personal troubles growing out of it will
(>e so easily and readily cured, and the
state will be so great a gainer that
what is now in some quarters con
demned will be universally approved.
celbgja smrriso stock to sew
OR LEAS8.
While we are daily receiving loads
of stock, e‘c., from Tennessee, making
our market very cheap in the provi
sion line, the producers of north Geor
gia are hunting anotner market ic the
a nth west. One would hardly think
it po sible for farmers in Union county
in thia state, to drive their stock to this
place, and ship to New Orleans by rail
and there sell at prices sufficient to pay
handsome profits; yet it is the case.
We yesterday met Mr. N. J. Gsd lie, of
the firm cf Williams, Pitner A Gaddis,
of Gaddistown, Union county, Georgia,
a promising firm who deal largely
in beef cattle, hogs, etc. Mr. Gaddis
informed us that his firm had shipped
several car loads of hogs and beef cattle
to New Orleans this winter and was
well satisfied with their sales.
If the proper attention was paid to
stock raising in north u-eorgia, there is
mreasoa why we should not supply
the demand in the cotton states. In
conversation with Mr. Gaddis, we
learned that the great drawback to sue
ceeslul stock raising in the mountains
of Georgia is the fact that too mneb
time and grain is used in distilling
liquor.
There is no doubt, if the grain and
time that is expended in making illicit
whisky in the mountains was used on
stock it would be far more profitable
and useful. We look upon the enter
prise of this firm as a hopeful s*gn for
the future. Wnen our people begin
to seek a market for their products, as
they have in this instance, it will cer
tainly result in good. New England
has become rich and popular, because
they supplied the wants of other peo
ple. What we want is to have some
thing to sell to sverybody, and bat
little to bav nnraelve*.
SOT SOLID OS SIL VSR.
It becomes our painful duty to an
nounce to the senators and representa
tives of Georgia in congress that the
south is not in favor of the passage of
the silver bill. The Savannah cotton
exchange has spoken and its tone con
veys no uncertain sound. We find the
following in the Savannah Morning
News of Friday:
A general meeting of tbe Savannah cotton ex
change was held yesterday afternoon at four
o’clock when tbe following proceedings
The
of the i
quite
i t of IN
ending section 891
uot-d
i to f
eril
It tiamderm
not exempt 4>r exc« p
editions fiotn its ojn-r
lesr recognition of tin
wild land \m\ ct
limns, ami is a ■
'act that such executions »re embraced
in tin* provisions of section MU.
The comptroller general, however,
submitted this question directly to the
Attorney general, who officially a.i
advises him that “no reason occurs why
this section should D4>t embrace tax ti
ias on w ild land, as well as other tax fi
fas.”
With this opinion to beck him, and
the submission of the matter to
I lie advisary law* officer of
the executive department shows
the comptroller’s care and cau-
ti. n, the transfer of these executiocs
wss the comptroller’s binding duty.
And he did transfer numbers ct
them. But mark it, and here
comes in most powerfully the
e.ving equities of the law.
there has prevailed and docs
prevail a gross and very wide spread
nmc« nstrnciion of the law of transfer,
no lar as the rights of the transferrecs
are concerned. These gentlemen thus
imeating evidently labored under the
idea that they bought the ownership of
the land. In reality, they bought oi ly
and no more than the right the state
had in the lands, that is in the language
of taction M*l, authorizing the trans
fees-—“the same rights as to enforcing
said execution and priority of payrmut
as might have been exercised or
claimed before said transfer.”
They could enforce the tax fi fa*^ be
fire ail other liens just as the stale
ci u’d, and they could make the owner
who redeemed his land pay twenty
per cent, per annum interest on such
tax. Under the law this twenty pet
cent, is the speculation profit.
But this transfer does not aulhoiizt
the tale of advertised lands in Urg#
bodies under transferred tl. fas., as l.at
been attempted by some. This is an un
author-red exercise ot power ai d abusi
of authority, for which the comp
Iroller is not re*i»onsib!e, and for whirl
much unmerited censure has ftxei
eaped upon him.
Nor dors the tramft r oi the fi. fa
nuke the transferee the owLer i f the
Dnd to the extent that the surplus o.
purchase money bid tor the lot at it;
sale goes to him. This surplus belong*
to the owner of the lot, against wh c?
the tax execution applies, and if n
such owner applies for the money such
eurp'us must go to the state.
N'>r does the transfer of the ax fi. fa
ho!d good against improved land tha"
has Wen given in by bona fide ow n re.
If any lands are improperly advertised
as wild lands, the tberifls are no: t*
sell them.
In everv solitary case where the exe
cation of the law works it justice oi
Jims, Uifcreia a provision for i:a remedy,
The successor of Hon. Stanley
Mathews, senator from Ohio, was nom
inated on the 10 h inst. by the Ohio
democrats, on tbe third ballot in cancan.
It required 47 votes to elect; and Hon.
George H. Pendleton received 61, Gen.
Ewing FJ, and Gen. Morgan 10. The
vote was made nnanimonB, and after
a committee had notified Pendleton of
his nomination he appeared and wa
introduced to bis friends by the chair
man :
• Gentlemen ol the canciM,” mid he, *i return
you my til acre think* f *r the compliment and
honor you h .re conferred upon me to night In
making me your choice for ihe offlcc ct aenato*;
and If that choice ■‘•i-ulfl be milk*! by the *ub-
lent a (lion of the legislature, end 1 ahi.ll
enter upon tha diacherge of my dull#*, the gre t
rruat which you have repoaed on me will he *11*
charged to tbe beat of ay ability. I ohail en-
ieavor to perform the dutirw of the pom (loo a*
twat I can. supported by the contkK ncc of tin-
nob leaf prrty th*! has thus honored n».\ »u
rnunteled and adviacd by ite U-gL-Uiu.e, and
anally, ai«it*1 by the dikiingolahed g< nti-mm
who have been engaged with mi In this contest.
1 aball hope to tie of some nerv.ee to tbe proud
•date which haa chonen me to represent her in
ihe national capital. A gal.. 1 thank yon for the
honor you have conferred upo.i me.”
General Ewing was called and re
sponded :
He congratulated ihe caucus upon Its selec
tion of a g< uilcman who had douc »igual service
Id the cause of the people-a genii mat# of m-
'elUcruai gifts and attainments which fully St
him for the high tliUou, and whose personal
•time- ions bad drawn to hia suoport boats of
ardent and derottd friends. He »aid that the
4 mc^ratic party of Ohio from 1H17 until
i>ad fought f^r the r ghts of the pi*opW eg iiat
the ucurpation aud a^gr. saUms of ihe m n
*ower, and be waaglao to tf able to s*y that
a national p*rty It is now ful y on the ante
b • r* o.ole In the laic struggle in the Imu**-
r. prm-niatives for the n peal «»f the resump'i
law, every democraln- vole Ir4>n» IV-nusylva'
l4» T« xas,and westwani to the Kia ky Mouniau
with the i X4Vptioii of ►»*, had bii Ui’ast lor the
repeal. K was a sign llnuu (act. howevt r. that
thcdemocrscy ol New York, New Jersey am
New K'lgland. »» reprex i.ted in the bnu-e, Inu
V4i?ed with gn at ura limity against their breta-
n cf the mi>Idle and the west and routh tb
tl that the silver MU and tbe repeal bill an
>w lying in tbe senate, either to pass this as
»n or to lie airar.dtd tbe e until the swellir-g
I of public opiub >n shall sae*p them through
•yond these nu-uaurv* lies the furth r gr. al
itwihm ahvther the psp r currency shall t«
l>rraiaui-nt y furnisheil out> by the government
private Corporation a: and the slid lurtber
'loti. wt.ether the pxper currency shall be
rarlly linm-d to present volume for
future, or whether the sim-nro lotus]
• hall b dote-mined by the xu-eda ol
legit mate busineea. On those M uostU»n* tin
m crallc party Is the reprewnta'tve of tb«
ople. W. can ihh corn promise with Wil
wt No mat or (or the UachimtUw.* o( *a H»
•i*n«; no ms tier for the a suimd niv.aslty of
Win* New Y rk. New J« racy aud Oonru eiu u»
(he naUon.nl democracy eau not ride the let ce
Mr. Mannaduke Hamilton c.ffered tbe follow
lug preamble sod rsaolutioos, which were sec
onded by Gen. G. L. Sorrel, and carried by a
unanim-us vote.
Whereas, a bill haa been introduced In
great, properly known aa the “silver billand
whereas, the Impression prevails that the
is unanimously in favor ol said bill; these fore
belt
Resolved. 1 That it is the opinion of this
change, to genml meeting amemb ed, that the
agricultural, commercial, manufacturing and
allother interests of this cou try will be in
fund by tha passage of said bill
Resolved, 3. That as gold is tbe basis of final)'
ctal tranaactions in nearly all of the piiuctp.il
i aflons of the world. It la for our advar tjge to
aume It aa the basis of our currency.
Resolved. S That tbe true interests of this
count'y rtqu re a return to specie payment* so
moa aa priclicable and that by speci-* payment*
re mean pitin *nta in gold, tuing silver only
n auxlllmiy and for small amjuutsas was cus
tomary before the war.
K«.e Ired 4 That these resnlntloua hepabliih
1 in the newsp pen of <hia ci'y, at d a copy
tb« m sent to each of tbe senators and repnaen-
tailvealnrcn-roafrom this state.
Wx W. Gosnox,
r n aidant havannah On ton Ex.
Fkanci* Mi'll,
Vice-Krisident Ha< annab Coilou Ex.
E F. Buraa.
Sup.-rin’cndent 8 vanuah Oittoi
It will l>* perceived that the princi
pal argntuent used agxiuBt fhe remon
etizition «f eilver in the fact that the
Savannah cotton exchange is opposed
lo it, and that the Sjtvaunah cotton ex
change is a powe fill oigioizition
Hhown by the fact that i's admii.is'i
tion demands ttie time and attention oi
a president, a vice-president and a
perintendent. The assertion of tho
change, thus officially countersigned
ought to be sufficient to sh( w 'hat the
remoneti/.«*ion will be a public calam
itv, but we daresay tbeommon mir
will not be sathfieil with the mere
supported etatement that the bu<ines8
interests of Ihe country will be ii j ired
by the pa-w.ge of the silver bill,
will the c-'Untry he satl-fietl with the
definition of “s|»ecie payments” as
given by the Savannah cotton ex
change. It will lie impossible, too, for
even thia powerful organization to co
vince any re fleeting person that gold
“the basis of financial transactions
nearly all of the principal cations
the woiId.” This is equivalent to say<
ing that credit is b-setl upon the
amount of gold a man has in his purse
or in his safe. The Savannah cotton
exchange may not be able to folhiwtbe
liue of reas4>n here suggested, but
assure the meuih« rs thereof that ckkdi
is a far more substantial basis th
gold, and that credit is not based »
gold excop* reci.tpnMtjc
—Worth haa 1,200 assistants.
—General Lmgstreet w.ll soon reply
bis critics.
—The Hindoos in India are taking to
cricket.
—Garibaldi is in excellent health and
spirit*.
In Japan a law requires fish to be
sold alive. They are peddled in tanks.
The beau’iful chocolate Danube is
crusted over with thick ice.
—Tbe New York World remarks: “In
the bright, new American Cyclopedia
there is no such word as hell.”
—The bogs exclaim, as they jostle
each other while eating, “Where there’s
swill thetea sway.”
—Lott* established the fact years ago
that if a burlesque acuesa cannot sing
she must kick.
-Judge Bradley, of Washinton,
whose first wife was mailer of General
Bherman, is about to mury Miss Mil
ler, a young and attractive lady.
— Only 35 Chinamen remain at Samp
son’s shoe factory, in North Adams,
Mass., and these sre at work by the
ae, “allee same as Mel can man/'
—The R ; rhmond. Va , mills mann
factored 302.592 barrels of flour last
year, an increase of 30 844 barrels over
1876.
—When the Cjnnt Joannes was act
ing Hamlet, in the gh..st scene, the
boys in the gallery yelled: “Go for the
spook!”
—Augustus Hemenway, of B'leton.
ass ol ’75, Harvard college, has given
the institution some money to erec*
new gymnariuou to accommodate 300
person*.
—The Bible says: “Of aH things,
wisdom is profitable to man.” That’
so. A man never calls hia wile a bald
beaded old woman but once.—Tamer’s
Falls Reporter.
When yon boy your winter snow
shovel be careful to select one that will
match tbe color of your wife’s dress, or
she may object to using it -in a legiti-
ate way.
—Augusta has nearly 30 000 inhabi
tan Lb, and is growing more rapidly than
any southern city, wi.h the single ex
ception of Atlanta.
—Miss Marie B *otb, the young ac
tress, daughter of Junius Brut us Booth,
jr., is said to inherit the classical fea
tures of the B oth family.
-There are now 851 manufacturing
establishments in Sau Francisco, whose
ibj
i (nni
power It mU'l atanl (or ihe rich in ot the pm
l» e. anil »pp al from Wail »tr*et to Ihe wo k
»hi>p» and cora-fi> 1 U. The Ohio demreraev haa
led thi fl -hi. Let it not (alter new Let it i ot
lower ii» flag an iDch. taking it* inspiration
*wm the paat glorious hi* oxv of devotion aud
fidelity to the muwa.
Mr. Kwtug then caagrminlated tbe eaucu* on
the *pirit of courtesy and f«irn«ai w fob
i-barac'er ced the atiuffilc fur the sera’oiartp,
a-il Mid that he believed no act bad been Si ne
by any of the candidate* of which he should or
otiicht to be ashamed. Thmnkin. his friend' cf
tbe caucus for the hi*h t\ mpUment shown by
he support of htm for the dir anguished pod-
don. he bid themttcod night.
General Morgan was u in.iluo d. ar.d a* d:
Ioongntu’ate you on the barmorioo* ter ml
nauon of this lonteiL Y urcboic hasullenon
ooe who u s sta’i-man and a patriot, and
worby to represent tae p»x>pe of thi* *tate in
t he htgt-.cst tribunal of the country. 1 am • u-
ualysatiafl^l, and 1 *ay it fn>m my heart In
the groat battle yet to coma it will be my pride
and my j .y to battle in the tack* with a musket
on my ahouhler and a knapaack on my back, or
the gnat mu-e Conirra'aiailng yen once m. re.
I mve way to my duurguished coup ti'or
Mk Ha vis ought by all means to
appoint Howard Carroll, the eilitor of
the New York Timer*, to bedepciy
collector of the port of New York It
ts true, Carroll deuoncces the south* rn
policy of the administration, but *fi e.
large president like Mr. Hsyts ought
Li have a cor I hern policy of c BCilia-
ion, and ihe best way to inaugurate it
is to appoint Carroll to be deputy c>*l-
ectcr of the port of New York city.
This s our last good night.
IL w is it tl at Howard Carroll, * ho
j-* so bitterly opp^sirg Mr. HayesV
soutl ern policy through the editorial
columns of the N«w York limes, is a
candidate for appoiutment to the posi
tion of deputy coiiecvr of the port of
New Y<»ik? If tl is should m«*et the
eve of R ^gers, the faithful secretary cf
Mr. Haves, we trust that he will paste
it m a con*p cuous place in the scr p-
book cf ihe a ’minVmTion.
A word with Mr. 11 yes: How. re!
Carroll, the patriotic editor of tne New
York Times would make an excellent
•iepu’y col!t<t«.>r of the port of New
York. What the cmntrv needs is c vil
service reform, and Mr. Hayes couldn’t
commerce the work by appointing h
better man than this pa’riot w ho has
-uch special politic il talen's. Will the
venerated R -gers make a u- te of this?
Mil Montgomery Blair is aged, very
aged. He forgets that tfie solid south
is «ati*fad JGlh Ihe condition of
Pokv Joi.n Sherman want to he preai
ilent? If so, he needs a>l the i
that the wreckt-is can furuhli to plac*
aim in that position. Mr. Snerman
in tbe way of geitirg the money, but
will even his broken down party nomi
nate such a drsb?
There ia :his consolation: If Mr.
Hayes made any bargains with south'
era democrats, he stuck up to ’em like
a little man. That is to say, be bounced
Chamberlain, Stearns, Pat kard and the
federal troops. The solid sonth could
demand no more
The New York buu remarks, with
much vigor and originality, that “hon
esty is the beet policy.” This is pro
bably trne, bat, unfortunately for tbe
country, Bill Cbund'er and bis copart
uers in crime refused to plav “policy. 1
They say Whitc'aw Reid, of the New
York Tribune, is about to 1 ecome
college professor. This is probably
owing to the f*c: that Ed Ferkins,
the New York Sun, haa made him
object of abuse.
Bill Chandler aptly remarks that
the presidency was ** wrested” from
the democracy. “Wrested” is good.
“Wrested” is suggestive. After this
confession. Bill ought to prepare to de
lead him.-^elf.
The only souud argument that has
thus far bieen advance*! against the
remouelizxti m of silver, is the stale
ment that B. n Butler is in favor of
There is something wro*»e somewhere.
If the radical party realjy wants
investigate itself, the solid souih has
s >rt of object on. I' is a pretty sight
indeed to see a parcel oi thieves th
challenging *be pnbiv rnt- nipt.
Ark the leaders ot tue solid sou'
goii g to allow such a scurvy villain
B.ii Cnandler to swindle us ont «-f
regularly couuted-ia reuublican pres
dent ?
Josiah T. Walls, colored, who was
formerly in cox grtss from Florida,
later a member of the state set
has been adjudged a lunatic.
are still
The able New York
flirting with silver. They have
guments against remoneiixxtion, but
they have been “seen” on the subj
Col £u Perkins, • t the New
Sun, wants to brirg the entire repnb
can party to the gallows. This is ba-
—very bad. Io fact it is not generem
LEY OSD TEE BILLS.
Bey-jrd the fail 1 *
1 brifht-y ti
— the land o( t*i- - _
Tbe land which X so soon shall know.
Above the firarmarce cf t me,
And dlacorl ot iu anary words
t hear tho everiasring ccime.
Tbe xnuvic of or jarring chorda.
O acre of morning, c
And je wao Mug iL come away!
O aose of light and dawn of bliaa.
Sound orer earth and flu these akiea!
Nor ever. ever, iv r cea-e
Thy aoui-enttaocing melodies!
Frala*? forcreaU'-n’a tvc^-nd birth,
* ' ’"Tg!
— U. Sonar.
And glory to creation'* King!
JS QBSERAL.
the tread-mill, hand aud foot, hard
work, on what seems an intermina
ble book,” and that he cannot think of
lecturing, Lnd the Hartford Cou rant de
nies that he is to have any part in the
management of that paper.
Mr. Fernando Wood has transfer
red a large amount of real estate on
Seventy-firs', Seventy-second, Seventy-
third, Seventy-fourth and Eighty-first
streets, and on and near the Boulevard,
New York, to J. L. R Wood, f jr the
nominal consideration ol $1.
—King Alfonso’s cousin, Mme.|Marie
Louise Bertrand-De ise, daughter of
Count Ignatius Gurowaki and the Bis
ter of Don Francis d Assisi, died very
suddenly a fortnight ago. She was a
woman of remarkable beauty and of
great talent and a generous heart as
ell, and so was one of the favorites
[ Madrid society, from the royal fam
ily down to the poorest people, whose
constant benefactor she was.
Statistics of the new Maine senate
show that it contains 30 members, of
whom 27 are republicans and 3 demo
crat; there is also one vacancy. The
oldest member is Hon. Nathan Tot-
man, of Somerset, who is 69, and tbe
vourgest is Hon. John F. Ferguson, of
York, who is 30. The members are all
natives of the state with the excep
tion of three; two were born out of the
state, and one out of the country. Four
are graduates of colleges, 15 received
an academical education, and the re
mainder had only the advantages af
forded by the district or common and
high schools.
—Senator Patterson, on being asked
he intended to resign, replied: “1
hall not resign under any considera
tion. If 1 am to be sick I should be a
fool to resign, because I can He here
and draw my $13 & day. No, sir, I au
thorize you »o bav that I will not re
sign, and those fellows down there will
not rob me yet of my seat.” The New
York Tribune editorially says that if
he is really shamming it is to be hoped
he will keep at it, adding that the
country won't grudge the $13 if he’ll
stay in bed.
ggregate products amount, to $62,
338 000. They employ over 26,000 per
sons,
—The people of Ca if rata are to vote
at their nex’ general elect on upon the
question of c-mtinuing or prohibiting
Chinese immigration.
There were 5 steamers, 29 ships
and 101 other vessels built in Maine
last vear, the aggregate tonnage being
76.308 tons. This is an increase over
1875 and 1876.
—The farmers of Santa Aud, Los
Angelos county, California, are build
ing a canal fifteen miles long by ten
feet wide at a cost of $50,000, by which
15 000 acres ot land will be irrigated.
—W. ndell Piiiilips, who has been
traveling through the w.-st on a lecture
tour, sa>s he fou d nineteen men out
of every t*en ! y iu favor of remonetiz
mg silver.
—A Warsaw writer for tbe Pall Mall
Gaz-rtte says that in P land it is almos
impossible to get men or women to tell
'he truth concerning their opinions,
because they are afraid of !he Russians.
—A reduction ct wages on the Jersey
Central railroad is announced until
better times. It is thought the em
uloyes will be wise enough to avoid
another fruitless strike.
The hard time* h* ve told severely
upon immigration F>r the year the
arrivals in New York were in round
bers 61 000, as against 260.000
1873
— The Gloucester fishermen report
fewer disasters this seas >n than for
many years preyi >in Saven vessels
were los: stud tiiir.y seven lives sacri
(iced.
- The to'al exports from California
Australia i ir ihe fi*Ht t**n months
1877 smouuted to $707,000, against
$313 000 for the same period of thepre
vions vear. and the total to New Z>al
and $131,000, against $108 000.
— Chicago spent $6 343,800 for new
buildings an I improvem.*u:s in the first
eleven months ot last year. The stores
and bouses built would form an unbro
ken line, without stree's, of about 6}
miles.
—Tlie estimVed ro*t • f the buildings
eeretl in New Yo r k ! a*.t vear was
$17,574,539, again*: $19,533 718 tbe pre-
rious year, though there was an in
rea.-e* in the number of structures
erected.
—Iu the Uuite 1 Slates over 2 500,000
of the irolnstrious p. or have deposited
$1377 000 000 in wing* banks Oi
his vast smn, over $:I00 000 is invested
iu Unite*! States b .nils, besides what
is invented iu state and city bonds.
—The Milwaukee (Wis.) SontineL
presenting itscust- rnary annual review
of the commerce of that city, says that
the movement ol breadstuffs exhibits a
gratdying increase as compared with
1876, while tbe q-iality eft tbe new
wheat crop has never been excelled.
—The Mobile (Ala.) R-gister appeal)
for retrenchment in city expenditures
It sliowB that for tho five years ending
with 1858 the c *st ol governing the
city was $549,828 26 while for the five
vears ending with 1876 the cost wae
$1 321,540
—Appropoeof the Lin!-Hicks mar
riage in New York—tne groom at 83
vesra of age —the Lancaster In’elligen
car tells of a basbun I who at ninety
iour enjoyed ti e bieesicgs of a young
*nd risn g family, undie uibed by hie
eldest son, a youth of seventy
mere, who dwelt hard by.
—A Boston broker baa been induced
to rent, for $150 per year, an office
Doane street, tbat city, wnich three
vears ago rented for $1 200, but the
landlord repaints it, puts in a stove and
gas fix'ures, aud pays lia f tbe expense
of moving.
—The pope cannot bear a fire in his
rooms, and to keep bis hands warm bss
invented a palletia, a hollow little ball
of silver somewhat larger .ban an egg,
which is filled wi h hot water, and
which from time to rime he rolls be
tween his chilled palms.
—The board of managers of the Rot
E. Lee monument association have
sued an address arkiog the people
the sonth to make a special effort
the 19 h of J inuarv, the anniversary
Gen. Lev’s death, to raise funds for the
erection of the memorial.
—W ty should Une'e S itnaal's troops
be mustard on t) e Rio Grande on ac-
mnnt cf a little difficulty abo t salt
PuiladUpUia Bulletin. Why, to pepper
the enemy—if they should catchup
with him. - N >rris:own H ?rald.
— G un: D.i**ri haa wri en to a bank
er of Austin, Texas, that he proposes
divert the UalUn immigration nc
g ing to Sjctu America to Texas, and
that a line of steamships wi ' be estab
lished between Genoa and Galveston,
brirg ng D\rer immigrants aud return
with cotton.
—Eiwm de Bari, Ihe well-known
German traveler who had explored
many vears the central reg^ns of Sa
hara*, has died cf fatigue, worn out ’
his voyfg'S
—A Dubnque, La, woman, driven
erwzy by the well c realated story that
ehe was not wedded to the man with
whom she lived, haa developed »he pe
cuharitv of tryirg to hang her marriage
certificate on the street corner lamp*.
—The late Jomee L'ck, cf California,
collected during his lifetime the mate
rial for building two large aud elegant
private conservatories modelled after
the se iu tne K*?w garden*, L ndon. A
party of liberal gen lemen have just
I t-urchased the pr.>periv, ai d presented
it to the city of Son Francisco, to he
placed in one cf the parks.
public .in tighia^ —Alark Twain sets that be is “rind
«*The democrats, except a few like \
Sponger and Blackburn, are looking j
on with some amusement. They are |
not averse to an investigation, they ■
are ns more scared than the president,
but, as has been stated before in these
dispatches, they are resolved tbat if an
inquiry is begun it shall be thorough ;
that it shall begin with Florida and
Louisiana and end with the last days
of General Grant’s administration, and
that it shall not leave nnrevealed any
secret of the great struggle. The?e
democrats understand very well that
such an inquiry would inconvenience
most the very people who are now
talking of an investigation and who
seem to imrgine they can develop just
little as would suit their particular
purposes and stop short whenever it
suits them.—Nordhoff, in New York
Herald.
—Mr. Chandler declares that the
presidencp"was “wrested” from the
demorrats. “Above all,” says Mr.
Chandler, in his declaration as to what
Mr. Hayes should have done, “he
should have avoided any yielding or
concession to the democratic party,
from which the presidency has been s j
suddenly, unexpectedly, exasperatingly
wrested.”* Now, if Messrs. Chandler
and Boynton, republicans who ought
to know, are correct in their notions
tftiat the presidency was “wrested”
from the democracy by Mr. Hayes and
the other conspirators, then, in turn, it
will become the imperative duty of a
court of impeachment to wrest the
S residency from Mi .Hayes.—New Yoik
un, solid ind.
—The sharp line seems drawing in
regard to the moot important matta-re
we have to deal with, between the
northeastern and the northwestern
poitions of the union. If this line is
finally drawn the south will hold the
balance of power. She can give the
victoiquo either side, or can compel a
! roper compromise of their differencea
n determining the action which she
will take, it is reasonable to expect
that tbe sonth will seriously comuder
wbat^ber own interests demand. Iu
regard to money questions, for exam-
AGBICULTUBAL.
A round ibr Farm Htaoe— rood and
Km -NwMt l*otui»e»-Oats—Wine
Slnltlu*
POLITICAL COMMENT.
—The growing cause ia the cause of
reform. The day ol its triumph is as
sured, and it will triumph through tbat
party which most faithfully, most con
stantly, and most courageously, in pow
er and out of power, stanJs up to the
work.—Boston Herald, ind.
—Cincinnati Commercial: If Wil
liam E Chandler has a hat full of
proofs about anything he has been
writing abunt, he should produce them
right away. He ought to corroborate
something he has been saying.
—New York World : We should not
be surprised if the report tbat Z*cb
Chandler intends applying to the
Michigan legislature for an act to
c ange his uame were true. He does
not approve of “approvers,” and thinks
them rather lower tftian excisemen in
the scale of being.
— Tbe president is said to be anxious
to have a silver bill passed that he can
sign. The only silver bill fit to sign is
one making silver dollars unlimited le
gal-tender and providing free coinage.
—Cincinnati Commercial, ind.
—Evarls proposes that Arthur and
Cornell in the New Yorkcnstora house,
shall resign, and thuB harmonize tne
republican party. And has the repub
lican party come to this?—Cincinnati
Enquirer, dem.
-The establishment of the Nicholls
and Hampton government constitutes
the sole eucce6t* of the Hayes adminis
tration. It has revealed no other merit,
and lias no other strength whatever.—
New Orleans Times, ina.
—Mr. Everts’ cards might read: “At
torney aid counselor at law, secretary
of state, etc. Abstracts examined ana
taxes paid. Refer by permission to R
B. Hayes and tbe receiver of tbe Erie
railroad.”—Cfiici-go Times, ind.
—The passage oft the silver bill in its
pret-ent shape would be a great mistake,
but it would be a greater mistake to
puppoee tbat this country would be
rained by it; if legislation could
the country, it would have been gone
long ago.—Bu Louis G.obe-Democrat,
rep.
We have no doubt, judging from
the lights Indore us, that nine-tenths of
the republicans of the northwest sre in
favor of making some kind of a silver
dollar an unlimited legal-tender. We
believe, when the question ia presented
and understood, that nine~tentbs of
the republicans will say that tbe silver
dollar wniefti is made a legal-tender
should not contain less than 420 grains
9 lOriis silver.—Iadianapolis Journal,
rep.
—What congress should first do ie to
repeal th^ resumption act of 1875, and
then pass, in some liberal shape, a bill
making silver a legal-tender, with a
coin cither of the old weight and value,
or a dollar containir g 100 c\ nts in value
compared «irh gold at the present pre
mium, and enact a law that silver, gold
and legal tenders shall be received in
payment ol duties.—Philadelphia In
quirer, rep.
—The proposal to read the presi
dent out of the republican party for
making an effort to carry out the prin
ciples of the platfo m upon which be
was elected is the conspicuous example
of monumental “cheek” iu recent poli
tics.- Cleveland Herald, rep.
—In ail our acquaintance we harilly
know a republican that heartily in
dorses the policies of the administra
tion. Republican sentiment s'ands by
ihe old party leaders, and thev will
continue to stand there, no matter what
may become of the administration.—
8L Joseph (Mo.) Herald, rep.
—Philadelphia Times: It’s useless to
waste wore!a aud apace pro-baling
against the re enactment of the income
tax. It is just about as likely to be
done as Washington is to go down in
an earthquake. But patent statesmen
must have their talk and organs must
have their scold.
—The Pittsburg Poet bitterly cen
sure s Governor Hartranft for the tone
of bis message on tbe Juiy riots, and
• eaares that he has not a word to say
* f the noble and determined action of
the citizens of Pittsburg in stamping
out the riots, when his government,
civil and military, was apparently as
defunct as the confederacy.
—Mr Bl.iine is not the only man
whom Mr Hayes invited to Ohio, in the
popular slang, to “swing the bloody
shirt”—in fact, he was in the habit o!
using that slang to express his radical
indication there. There must have
been more than an ordinary cause for
so rat ical a change as he has experi
enced. What was it? Boston Travel
ler, rep.
—This is what the Irdianapolis Sen
tinel thinks of Hayes: It is enough for
the democratic party to watch him,
stand guard over him, keep him from
pursuing a policy of devilishness, and
compel him to hesitate when be inti
mates any wrong act. To endorse him
is contamination. He is in an office by
fraud. He is a pirate in tbe quarter
deck of the thip of s ate.
—“The opposition” is, not the dem
ocrats, but the republicans It is absnrd
to pretend to Mr. Hayes that the repub
licans in c-ingress are “his own party.”
They are bis opponents, and the sooner
he begins to regard them as opponets
the better it will be for him. It is ask
ing enrirely too much that he should
treat them as friends when thev are
treating him as an enemy.—St. Louis
Republican, dem.
—Bill Chandler has printed in pam
phlet form 40,000 c:p:es of his celebra
ted “Kick ” He should have entitled
the production “The Crime of the Age.
or, The Confessions of a Journeyman
Statesman.” Instead of the motto with
which he ha3 decorated it, “Can T rings
Bo,” ifrc., the following should have
been substituted : “When Thieves Fail
Out/’ &z. Bill should come and consult
with us when he next has a literary pb
on hand.—Washington Po6t, dem *
—Senator Lamar states that he is net
preparing a great speech on the finances,
nor on any other question. He says he
wishes all*the misrepresentations*that
he snflers from could be correc ed as
easily *s the statement that he is pre
paring a great speech. We might add,
cn our own responsibility, that Mr.
Lamar will not attempt to make *ny
speech requiring long sustained effort
this winter. The physical posers of
this remarkable man are net equal to
the task of deploying his menial re
sources. His friends hoje that abete-
nation from the labors and excitements
ot debate for a time may serve to bring
the one batk to par with the other. For
the present, Mr. Lunar will abstain
from oratorical effort in order that be
mav be on hand to vote at all times.
He says votes are more important than
speeches to the cause of democracy in
the senate.—^Vashixigton^Ptjfet, dem,
hat she would have done had
sue unfortunately succeeded in her
aspirations for a complete political in
dependence alike of the north and of
the west—New York World, dem.
Genera) H. V. Buyn on has pub
lished in the Cincinnati Gazette a sen
sible letter on the question of a “bar
gain” between the president and the
southern democrats. In brief his ar
gument is that the southern democrats
went to Washington last winter more
interested in securing local self-govern
ment In their own states than in secur
ing the inauguration of Tilden. They
were diagu-sted with the way that Til
den was forced upon them at St. Louis,
and still more disgusted by his letter
on the payment of southern claims.
They saw that the forcible inauguration
of Tilden meant revolution, and they
had already had their fill of than They
saw that if Mr. Hayes kept the prom
ises of his letter of acceptance in his
treatment of the south he could do
more for them than Tilden could.
Under these circumstances they were
easily influenced by tbe republican as
surances that Mr. Hayes would keep
his pledges, and would restore a con
stitutional government to tbe south.
There were no promises to individuals,
and nothing that approached the char
acter of a bargain. It was the announce
ment of a policy on the one side, and
its acceptance, as the best aitamab e
good f ir the south, on the other. —N. Y.
tribune, rep
—While it hardly seems possib’e
that such projects can be entertained
by men in sound mind, it is in reality
but the logical conclusion of tbe denun
ciations of Chandler, Blain and Butler.
Why this harping on corrupt bargains
and lost states, if it is not the serious
intention of the reactionary bcurbons
to threaten Mr. Hayes’s title and frigh
ten him with a national lawsuit, which
would be next in disaster to a civil
war? Why these frantic appeals to
the people to rally to the support of
Grantism, carpet buggery, and the
civil-service machine in politics, if
public sentiment of this character is
not to be utilized as tbe basis for more
effective warfare on the president?—
Springfield Republican, lnd. lep.
—We do not think anybody should
be disquieted by tbe rumors of an in
tention to set on foot an investigation
to test the title of Mr. Hayes. It is a
thing wbieh no man cf clear political
sagacity will undertake, or countenance
or have any complicity with. Nothing
could be mmre wild and chimerical
than such a project. Mr. Hayes being
in office, there is no way to depose him
except by conviction on an impeach
ment, which would requre a two-
thirds vote of the senate The talk
about an appeal to the courts is rub
bish. We know the composition ol the
supreme court, which is the ultima's
tribunal, and it is morallv certain that
the supreme court will not reverse the
decision of the electoral commission.
The principle of that decision was that
congress has no constitutional authori
ty tog) behind the electoral colleges
A Wor I by 0*1 liner.
Who at the s-'uth, to be so honored
as the farmers ? He braves the rigor
of the winter, and endures the hrai of
summer, aud patiently supports all the
vicissi’rif'es *f weather. His occupa
tion is *rondnove not only to the pros
perity, bj- a so to t .e existence of
socie'y.
fct:e. of Grorfla.
Tne absolute riches ol Georgia con
sist fn tiie sbnnda ce ff ‘hose produc
tions of nature, that minister directly
to the support, the convenirnev, and
iruo eiijjymeut of mankind. Nature
h's b'stowed these gifts with a liberal
hand, aud it only remains for tho farm
ers to reap them.
turne to Uf4>ncin
We do not ask for au increase o!
pona’afion in our cities, towns and
villages, but sober, industrious, ener
getic farmers are wanted all through
Georgia. Firmer « f the north or west,
will you c »me ? Tnere are thousands
of acres *»f good, fertile land in Georgia
which lies uncultivated, and they are
of as little uee as the gold in the un-
worked mines of Lumpkin county.
Nature has been peculiarly kind to
Georgia in giving prolific powers to
her soil, and if tne lands were petted
and courted, as they should be, they
I'etillug Bo* see
There is a middle ground in feeding
horses as well as in everything else.
Too low feed is objectionable, »s well
as too high feed for a horse. Hay is a
good tood for horses, but thev will not
thrive on hay alone. It will he found
that thev need grain, and once in a
while a feed ol roots is beneficial, so
too a bran maeh. Such things assist
in keeping the bowels of tbe horse
open.
Milk Cows.
How little pains do farmers take to
keep up the cows they depend upon
for rnilx and butter. Iu cold weather
it requires a good amount amount of
food to keep up the necessary animal
heat of a cow. Yet a little armful of
shucks or a small quantity of hay _
fed to a cow with the belief tftiat she
will keep fat and yield a good quantity
of milk. If you wish them to do well and
remunerate you, give them good hay,
plenty of water, and daily some prov
ender.
Answers to Inquiries.
An esteemed correep .indent, “Cobb,
asks an expression of opinion relative
to sweet potatoes; also in regard to
spring oats. We would be gratified to
hear from some of our readers on these
subjects.
Francisco measures 16J by IS inches
and weighs two and one-half pounds.
-The culture of coffee in Cali'ornia
becoming profitable. The plant
grows as vigiroualv as in the coffee
countries of South America, and yield-
a bean of aromatic flavor. Central and
southern California are ihe regions pe
culiarly favorable.
—At the national poultry exhibition,
now going on in Cnicag), there are over
800 specimens of fowls.
—The patrons of husbandry in Vir
ginia have 700 granges, embracing a
membership of 30,000.
Rnral llreil.lM.
—It would add much to the success
a farmer did he know the principles
vegetation, the chemical qualities of
soils and the nature and uses of differ
ent manures.
—Every farmer should have a fruit
rebard, vegetable garden and a few
flowers, a great deal of the subsistence
the family would be furnished by
these things; they have a tendency,
t4>o, to draw the family closer together
and aid in refining its members.
—The farmer should bring all his
skill and industry into his work, then
his farming operations are safe and
sure.
A large numt>er of instances are
reported of great immunity from pear
blight in trees growirg in grass.
Farm Stole*
Green food is exceedingly benefi
cial to bees. Tbe head of a cabbage
is.excellent food for them, perhaps as
good as any winter food. Hash up
onions once a week, and mix with
soft feed.
—Do not dry off cows too early.
They should be milked to witliiu five
or six weeks of calving, at least. Feed
well, and have them in order.
If you wish a few grapes for fami
ly supply, for a succession in ripen
ing, we advise Hartford Prolific, Dela
ware, Creveling, Concord, Diana, Ca
tawba. A larger list would embrace
Adirondack, Iona, Rebecca, Maxataw-
ney, Israelis and Agiwam.
—If a farmer has a well defined va
riety of seed, particularly of grain,
which succeeds and does well upon his
land, it is a g>od plan for him to make
no change, but continue to plant tbat
seed, and by higher culture, improve
that seed and not permit it to degener
ate by inefficient culture.
and inquire into the validity of their
their election. It this is sound law, no
court can reverse what was done last
February.—New York Herald, dem.
—Besides, as) the case stands, the
honor and integrity of the republican
party are to be put on trial, rather than
the president. He did not pass judg
ment upon the returns. He did not
count himself in. He did not declare
himself elected. Tbe republican paity
was practically a unit in support of the
claim to the presidency urged in his
behalf. It insisted that he had been
rightfully elected, and long bef4>re the
final decision was reached, it approved
all the methods whicli the electoral
commission accepted as conclusive.
The party cannot rid itself ol responsi
bility or make Mr. Hayes a scap a goat
for its own doings. The responsibility
extends further. The result was ren
dered possible bjr the co operation • f
the moderate portion of tftie democracy.
To any tiargain the/ must have ft>eeu
pnv/. Without their help its consum
mation would have been impossible
The talked of indictment, therefore,
must l>e against the republican party,
and not the president, and it must also
embrace the beet members of the dem
ocratic party in b>th branches o
congress. Who shall prefer such
an indictment? Not Mr. William
E Chandler, surely Not any
individual republican who may hap
pen to l>e at variance with the pre
sident. The few adherents of Mr. Til
den who have suggested proceeding*
to teat the validity of Mr Hayes’ title
have ft>een snubbed and silenced by
the common sense and respectability
of the part to which the great ^efeited
belongs. ^ How is it with the repubii-
can*? Were the party out of doors die
satisfied with the actioo of that party in
congresr? We look in vain for aught
that indicates discontent. Many of the
state conventions have emphatically
indorse;! Mr. Hayes’title; not one has
cast a doubt .upon iL Even the con
ventions which condemned the south
era policy, or evaded it, had not a syl
lable to say derogatory to the right of
tftie president to the position he occu
pies. We shall be slow to loelieve tbat
any known republican, whether sena
tor or lobbyist, ventures to impute
fraud to his party in congress or to im
pute after-participation in fraud to the
party throughout the country. Who
has a right to air his personal grievan
ces at the party’s expense, or to stig-
matizi as fraudulent a proceeding and
its result for which the party iB res
ponsible?—New York Herald, rep.
Tbe Farm I ol UnodilI i.
The parent of insomnia or wakefui-
n a* 1* in nine .c*«ea ont cf ten * dyepeptie
tomacn. Good chge-tion gives aaand sleep, ia-
dlg*ition in:erfere» with it Thi '■'ra^n ard
• tomaelx a. msarqize. One of tbe primluect
• ymptoma of a weak state of h» fca-tr!c rrgara
F a di*Mirb*n'-e of :h» ifeit nerve enrfrpo^ the
b nic. Inv^araU the e'oxach, asd y ,u re*;ere
equilibrium to the gie.t c^n.rc. A m reli*b e
medicine fir tb purpose Hostetter’s Stomach
Bitter*, whici ie far preferable to mineral e.-la-
tires and po»*rM narcotic* wh- h. thoegn th -y
may for a time exert a ropo-ifia It fiance upon
upon thn brain, eo>a ceoae to ext, and inrar.abiy
injure ths tone of the »tov*ch The Bitt ie. cn
the contrary, restore activity to tbe oper*tioa» of
tbat all iirpe-t&nt organ, anJ their teneSciezt
luduencei* nfle.*: in sound eleep and otra:q I
■At* o' the r*Tcui system. A whr 1 scone
iapeu* is likewise g-Tea to thi act on of the
I rn and bo«*ls by ita are.
21 Janl'„ d3; toes thur aat 4wtanl5
Uaaged by Lyncher*.
New Oelkaxs, Jan. 12.—Tuesday
night a negro named Rice was taken
cut of jui in St. Fran cis vil Ie, Weet
Feliciana, ard harged by a party of
white men. Ii c* was charged with the
killing of 1 in W*--1, the demrcratic
candidate for sheriff, afewdavs before
the election in November, 1876. He
fled to Point Coupee, but recently gave
himself up and yaa lodged in jtil at St,
Francis viiie.
Sweet I'oialo'N.
Such 4)uestiou8 a< the following are
frequently propounded, even by those
who have grown potatoes for many
years: What is the l>e8t fertilizer f >i
sweet ootatoes ? How should it be ap
plied?
We would suggest that you press this
question upon the attention oi farmers,
aud urge at least tea in each county
plant for 500 bushels per acre.
Cckb.
Nptlng Oat*.
You will serve your rural constitu
ents by giving your views on the fol
lowing points:
IsL Can the culture of spring oats
lie made profi able in middle and up
per Georgia?
2nd If so, when should seed
sown ?
3al. The bes f manner of putting in
will the yield and quaiit v be inc
by breaking the soil well, with
horse turn plow, then sow the seed v
plow in with one horse shove), and
brush or ftmrrow the laud ? Or,
rough land, pi *w in aud harrow
brush the land ?
4th. W hat variety would you com
mend most highly ?
Would like the opinion of quite
number of practical farmers of Georgia
on thia subject. It is an important
one. Uouu.
Januaiy 8, 1878.
Take n Fuprr.
Farmer, do you take a paper? From
The CoNsnruiiox you can learn the
events of tiie day, and gather much
practical and useful ii formatfon. We
give you the current news, observations
on farming, household hints, and much
other enteriaiuing and instructive malt
ter. We advise you to take The Con
stitution and witb your family si
down and hold converse with it every
week.
Wln’erlnic House Plant*.
Geraniums, fuschsias, lantauua and
various other plants keep v* ry well ‘
pits iu this loctlity, if secu e from frost
and not too wet. Smoke or gns is inj
ous to some plants. Lime water, salt
or hot water, will expel worms. The
better p*an is to shake all the old dirt
off. wash the roots clean, and replant
iu fresh soil.
Family Hint*.
ToCuREG)RNs.-'Bithethe corn with
strong borax water, then eh ive it close
ly, but be careful not to make it bleed.
Paste over the corn a white felt corn
plaster and wear it constantly until the
corn has disappeared. Every night and
morning wet the small cavity over the
corn (and in the piaster) with a little
borax water, or if preferable the pulp
of a lemon.
To Soften Water —Hard waters are
rendered very soft and pure, rivaling
distilled water, by merely boiiirg
two ounce phial say in a kettleful
water. The carbonate of lime and any
impurities will be found adhering tc
the vial. The water lioila very much
quicker at the same time.
Cake tv Cutlery.—Knives, after
using, should be wiped with soft pa
per, removing the gveas-e, Ac., tlien
placed in a deep cau or vessel, seeping
the handles above water, lukewarm,
until washed cleaned, then thoroughly
dry.—Semi Tropical.
To Harden Tallow. - Us* one jiouud
of alum to five pounds of tallow. Dis
solve the alum in hot water, add the
tallow, stir t» gether until melted and
heat the mix ure nearly to boiling fur
an hour; coo» and remove the caxe ol
udlow.
Georgia Farm Items
—Griffia News: Farmeis say they
are going to plant m re corn an I lees
cotton next year than they have been
in the habit of planting.
—A farmer not only earichee himself,
but aids to increase the real wealth
his state.
—Hartwell Sun : W. H Satterfield
killed last week two h ;gi raised on his
loL They were eighteen months old.
aud the two weighed 696 pouuls, net.
They were raised with very litt
Every family who try can raise two
three fine hogs on the slops that
usually thrown away.
—McDuffie Journal: The wages be
ing paid for servants this year are less
than at any time since the war. Good
farm hands get from $50 to $75. Women
and boys from $30 to $50.
—Dalton Citizen : Tftie wheat in this
and adjoining counties is very prom
ising-acreage sown unusually large,
— Dalton Citizen: The people
Walker county are actively engaged
making preparations for harder times
than they are now experiencing. F.
era are making use of every av liable
means to economize, and curtail tx
penses to make their farms self-sus
taining, and thus avert tbe indebted
ness, disorder and confusion which ii
rife in some portions of this etate. They
seemingly t-ke warning from the
ranged and depressed condition of
finances among those who, since the
war, have patronized the smoke houses
and granaries of the north west.
Toe lands of Georgia should be con
sidered her great stap.e, and ti.e culture
of ‘hem should oe our principal manu
facture.
General Kara! Item*.
ROCNDAEovi is GEORGIA. j —Mobile Register: In Charleston
I the other day a man was arrested for
-Unc’e Jim Anderson, of the C.v 1 “4l!o»i3g h<e chimney to catch fire,”
I and tho mayor fined mm for the act.
ington.tar, is in town. j mft y co » generally known that
—The Perry Journal says that Tiik j t } u . re j s aa ordinance in this city
Constitution is “a model newspaper, | wh ; ch makes it a misdemeanor to al
and employs the best talent in ihe low a chimney to re main in a foul or
state.” unclean condition.
-The GWordeville Democrat h«w , -Jud*inKjL*®
, , .. , the past three or four months the >101-
somethirg naughty to sav about Mil- (al reg ic ter will realize in Richmond not
tedgevill. more than fiit>“five or sixty thousand
— E *en Summerville is tr.-ub’ed with dollars per annum. Specific license*.
Feeding Ntorh.
The Jersey, Guernsey and Alderney
cows are valued as milkers and in the
rhannel islands, their native home
oarsnips are tbe chief article of food,
in France this root is substituted for
oats as feed for horses. Cooked pars
nips are largely used for feeding pigs.
To Make Cow* Give Bilk.
man of exp rience in the milk and
butter butdoess, says, if you desire to
get a large yield cf rich milk, give your
cow every day water slightly warmed
and slightly salted, in which brao has
been stirred at the rate of one quart to
every two gallons of water. You will
find, if you have not tried this daily
practice, that your cow will give twen
ty five per crmL more milk immediately
under the effects of it, and she will ft>e-
cotue so attached to the diet as to re
fuse to drink clear water u* 1 ss very
thirsty ; but this mess she w.ll drink
almost any lime and ask f *r more.
The amount of this drink re essary ii
an ordinary water paidul at a time
morning, noon and night.
Arouud lb* Farm Hou««.
Why not make cheerful and attract
ive your home with flowers? As i
matter of couse it is not best to have
costly flowers, or such as will give much
trouble or require great care. Get you
some petunias. They begin to bloom
when small and continue to bloom a
long time. Their shades of red and
purple are attractive. Then have
phlox. They, too, bloom early and last
a long time. The red, white, purple,
blue, scarlet, pink and striped oi these
flowers make a yard look gay. Then
nave scarlet Chines** pinks. They are
constant bloomere, a 'd are red, scarlet,
aud spotted with b'own and while
Tlien you can have pansies, verbenas,
balsams, morning glories, etc. Such
flowers as these are of but little ex
pense, require but a small amount
lookiug after, and would add very
much to the attractions of the c .untry
home.
Will it Fa> T
We were surprised to hear a farmer
ask the other day, if it would pay
give extra attention to his stock,
look carefully after feeding horses,
mules, sheep, hogs, to provide shelter,
etc. Now we knt.w that farmer has
an extra heavy overcoaL We sew him
buy a warm fur rap. He has hisglov
aud thick ft>oots; his table is supplied
daily with pretty much all the necessa
ries, and frequently with the luxuries
of life. Then too he has a warm com
fort tble house. Now if there things
add to his comfort, health, and perhaps
life, will it not pay him to look alter
the well-being of the stock dependent
on him?
As ot tftiiB farmer, so of all. It will
pay to have snug waim barns, and
sheds, for your stock, and to have their
comfort, health, and well-being looked
after.
Food ami Rent
There are many farms in Gsorgia
tbat like some of the stock on many of
them, need food and rest. In fact,the re
are thousands of acres of land which in
tftieir present condition will ti&rdly
sprout peas. A rotation of crops, or
keep the land up with fertilizers,
what is needed.
Bnneaj for Bog Cholera.
A practical farmer in the northwest
gives the following receipt, which he
finds highly successful after a four
year’s trial:
Take 1 pound ep«om or glauber sal 1
1 pound sulphur, & pound saltpetre,
pound black antimony.
Aim to give a tatlespoonful twice
day in Bwiil. If tftie hog is so far gone
that it will not eat, I put a small rope
on its upper j iw, t’e it up to a post and
dissolve two spoonfuls and drencJh iL
I w ol Eomrm.
From tftie thin condition of some
the animals seen through the country,
we pre same that ft>ones are sometimes
to lie found on the farm. Gather them
•ip. firmer, get you a strong, tight box
or barrel, in the bottom of the box or
barrel place a cjvering of about four-
inches of un.eached ashes. Upon this
place a layer of bones, packing closily,
and cover with unleached ashes so at
to hide the hones completely, when
another layer of hones can be placed,
and thus alternate ashes and bon-is
until vour box or barrel is full.
Place tfie barrel or ftwx away after
pouring two or tnree pailstul of water
into iL Occasionally moisten the con
tents. If you will attend to it now.
during the early spring the bones will
be found dissolved. Empty it out, aud
if you wish to raise fine onions, mix it
with hen manure. F -r other vegeta
bles, mix with stable manure or rotted
grasses a ad weeds.
OverlfHl 110-. N.
Are Georgia hog3 ever sick from the
above caute? You can tell. Then the
symptoms are: The hog refuses to eat
corn, his eyes run, hia ears discharge
s'ightiv a kind of water, breathing bail,
staggers,and carries the head turned
on** side.
Overfeeding produces a disease some
thing of the above character. Occasion
ally it is the result of sameness of food.
It vour hog is sick, and you have cause
to believe it is from overfeeding,charge
the dieL Give boiled m lk and wheat
bran, cooked roots, or some easily di
gestible f rod. Give him arnica tincture,
ten drops, alternate by beyonia tinc
ture, five drops every hour in a little
boiled sweet milk.
Wash far Tree*.
Soft soap is an txcelknt wash for
fruit trees, and does not injure them.
Linseed oil has frequently proven in
jurious while again it haa proven bene-
thisves. Txiay attack property I;
with stones.
In the Savannah Wtekly News of
.nuary 27, ihe publication of a prize
milled “ Henry Sinclair; or, the
Doctor’s R venge,” will be begun.
Matt O’Brien is compelled to hire a
newsboy to aid him in carrying arouud
his eighteen pound amethyst seal ring
Au infant was burned to death
near Rutledge the other day.
—An educated liog bit its trainer
Augusta recently, and the
young man is lying dai g;rously il
Bill Moore, of the Evening News, is oi
the opinion that there is a great lack
of educated hogs in this country.
—A Griffin mule has a thirst for
shade trees. This is a worthier appe
tite than that which suggests tho kill
ing of a negro between meals.
—Little Jim Sanders, of El barton,
fuses to allow any one to count tbe
stripes on his clotLes. He thinks it
would give him bad luck.
Mrs. Drew, an. operative in the
Etgle and Phoenix factory, of Colum
bus, attempted to commit suicide the
other day. Matrimonial remorse wa*
at the bottom of it. Mrs. Drew is only
sixteen years of age.
—E-iijuy had aaow the other day.
—Hon. Ben O. Yancey, of Athens
will not t>e a candidate for congress.
Hamilton has had a robbery, the
first of the season.
- Laurens has had a case of poison*
ing.
—A blind barber in Laurens county,
committed suicide with a shot gun.
—Summerville Gazette : The follow
is a composition written bv a youth ol
onr village, and which describes tftie
accident in a very accurate manner:
I Whs Going to the spring yes morning
as I was coming Back I was Going up
the plank and I slipt down with my
Bucket and spilt all of my water, and
hurt my kuee exceedingly bad above
the ankle you Bet.”
•Thomaston Herald: We learn that
Mr. Columbus Crawford’s residence
and all within was consume l by tire,
night this week. Also mat Mr. .1.
W. Pilkington, happened to the same
mistortuue on Monday night last. It
is in each c>8efcupposed to be the work
of an incendiary. These gentlemen
are high-toned, harel working men, and
certainly deserve tbe consideration of
those who are now in easy circumstan
ces. We tender them our heartfelt
sympathy in this hour of tteir misfor
tune.
Perry Home Journal: It serins that
an effort will lie made to eecure iegisia
lion that will turn the old eapitol build
mg at Milledgeville into a military
school nominally attached to the state
university. If the country were in a
prosperous condition, ami this a mili
tary age, that wou'd be quite proper.
But the demand is now for sometftiing
more substantial. The spirit of Mares
is now decidedly weak in Georgia, aud
uosaueman could contend for a mo
ment that a military school could ftialf
way sustain itself. Milledgeville being
situated so near the centre of the state,
wouid have been the ftrest location for
the state college cf agriculture and the
mechanic arte. This worthy institution
bas not flourished at Athens, partly
because it was overshadowed by tftie
university and its classic (?) prejudices,
but put it to itself with a proper fac
ulty and encouragement, aud it wou.d
meet the end of its organization,
prove an honor to Georgia, ana
be of immense benefi* to agriculture,
tbe chief source of our wealth. If this
plan were adopted we doubt not the
agricultural college would soon become,
as it sliould be, the most important part
of the university, and tbe huge number
of pupils it would draw to taiiiedgcvill'
would be en important acquis'non to
the town. Ah the military school, tiie
idea is totally untenable. The martial
spirit of our people has been so fully
gratified that not until the next gener
ation can ti e discordant sound of the
drum or the petty grandeur of shoulder
straps make them it el “that swelling ol
the heart they ne’er shall Kel again.”
We may hear something at an early
date from the leading agriculturist's ol
the state upon thiequestiou. iVe merely
suggest the idea.
etc., muv it crease lire amount $20 000
la , $80,000 at the utmost. This is
a li.ile moreth-tn double what the old
produced; by no means what was
expected of the new law.
—Si earn era and rafts r.ow* pass
through Reuben’s cut, on the OcmuL
gee, ftiitherto the most difficult part of
ihe navigation between Darien and
Uawkineville. ’ihe opening of this cut
has recently been effected by the Uni
ted Su.tes government, and adds mucfti
to the prosperity of middle and s-rath-
west Georgia, which is thus brought
near lo market by cheap communica
tion.
—lldeigh News: In 1070, Gover or
Vance tells us, in his sketches of North
Caroliua, that “one great English
steamer of the preseut d*y cou d with
case have transported every inhabitant
(white) of tiiis c »lony, with all their
go «ds, itc'uding cattle.” This was
seventeen years *fer the settlement
begau. In 1800 the population had
re chi d 478 104; 1810 i‘ wss 555,500; in
1820 638,829; in 183 73 ,987; in 1840,
753 419; iu lb50 869 039; in 1860.992,-
622, and ia 1870, it aggregated 1.071,-
361.
—New Orleans Democrat on “Jack-
son dav”: Trie invading army, whiih
had advanced into the very heart of the
republic, had burned tbe capital, dcses
crated the national monuaieuls, chased
the timon.ua president into s mo re
mote hiding place and scattered like
sheep before wolves the vast horde «>f
his militiamen, quadrupling in number
the invaders, were here met on tLe fi Id
by the youth and men of Louhiuea,
Mississippi, Tennessee and Kentucky,
aud driven luck with sliaiue ar.d
slaughter to their ships. Iu less than
two mouths from their appearance < ff
our shores an army compo-e I of the
veterans wlio had conquered the great
N-tpoleon and his renouned cohorts, an
army of twelve thousand of the picked
veteran*- of the great IVninsular war,
who had won the brightest of all laurels
by the British army, an army con
ducted thither by the gieatest squadron
ever sent forth by that greai naval
power—a squadron s.ranger than, and
composed of the very ships of, tiie fleet
which hail annihilati’d the Frencfti navy
al Trafalgar.
ficial.
Baker’s Cod Liver Oil, Lime, and
Wild < uc;.Kr I* admitt d by pbjr*icl*n* to be
l-t pre*.* t’.eju o' the kind in the market palat
able and efficado b J*o. C Paub A Co,
Philadelphia, so.d by draggiatz.
occii ..d 4 tax be jinlS
*11*0 tbolm.
Alexandria, Jan. 12.—The cholera
— A Bartlett pear raised near S*n ftias appeared at Jeddah and Mecca*
Ron’s IS IUXIE.
—Ned Buntlire, the novelist,
spending the winter at Warrcnton,
Va.
—There is a general sm'Wi spending
among the merchants of Eufaula, Ala
bama.
-—The new soup house in R chmond
sel!s from fifteen to twenty gallons pt
<l8y.
- Land eight miles from Huntsville,
A’a., was sold Monday at $4 70 p
acre.
—Bill BasnigH*, of Dare county, N
C , killed twenty two bears in twenty
four shots.
—Ia Hale county A’a , licenses t-
marry were issued last year to 44
white and 202 colored couples.
—There was good skating at Chat
lotte, N. C., Tuesday.
—There was not a single arrest in
Nashville Wednesday.
—The Dispatch claims that Cha ta
noega has nearly 13,000 inhabitants.
—Judge Guild will soon publisli
book of reminiscences of the bar of
Tennessee.
—The Hon. Richard M. Peareou k
chief justice cf North Carolina, died at
Winston, Saturday, from a paraiyttc
stroke.
—At a union meeting of the colored
Baptist Sunday-scjools of Peternburg,
Va , teache s and pupils alt renewed
their pledge to kke no intoxicating
drink for a year.
—A Virginia girl whose affianced failed
to appear on tftie wedding day, acted a
bridee-maid to another couple the
same evening.
— On account of a woman ftiaving to
takeaeeat too suddenly for comb rt,
the police have been ordered to stop
t>oys from coasting in Nashville.
—Dallas (Texaa) Herald: Tha heavy
frost that lias fallen for tftie past two
weeks has greatly bene filled tu* wheat
crop. The farmers state that the ctop
is looking unusually Gue.
—No wonder tbe Sioux are not want
ed in the Indian territorv. The Star-
Vindicator (Choctaw Union) says
Bioux woman are remarkable only for
their ugliness. It is said there is not
good-looking face among them.
—A day or two ago a Fre nchman who
h d started to attend a party near
Athens, Ala, was fouud dead near tftiat
place on the following day, having fro
zen to death.
— Twelve trampn, ordered by the
mayor to leave Mobile, piled out of a
freight car at Montgomery two days af
terwards, and the police succeeded in
gobbling six of them.
— Nashville American: Most all the
gamblers are submitting their cases in
tixe criminal court an«l paying $5 fines
and costs. A saloon keeper was fin*d
$5 for permitting persons to play ctrds
in his house for the drinks.
—The Columbus Times reports sev
eral failures in Eufaula, Ala, on
Tftiursday last, the aggregate amount
involved beine about five hundred
thousand dollars, the largest being
dry gods honee. which w**nt under
for one hundred and ten thousand tlol
lara.
—There are 157 menffiera in the Mil
istippi legislature. In the senate a
two republicans, ^ne colored Iu tl
house are one white republican, tv
independent colored republicans, tw
fusion colored republicans and tftire
colored democrats. A colored demo
crat was elected doorkeeper of the
house.
— On the IkmIv of Ihe man killed at
Opelika, Friday, were found three let
ters, one to tftie sheriff of Lee county
one ftiis confession, and a third to L
fiuiily. He says ft.e killed himbdf be
cause of remorse of conscience, that he
killed no one, but had fteen a burg ar
for eleven years, and his n«pe was
Foster,
Tb* («i>lupf «r t'BUfrwood.
Cincinnati Enquirer.
Vancbbuug, Ky , January lO.-Lewis
county generally, and Vanceburg par
ticularly, is in a furo* of excitement
over an event which occurred two miles
above Concord, this county. Tuesday
night about half post nine o’clock,
which was no leas au event than the
dangerous and probably fatal wounding
and capture of the noted and daring
Iveutuckv desperado, Jesse Underwood,
bv Sheriff Warden by a po*t»e of men
from this place, and the killing of ono
of tftie posse, a young man named It ig-
gies. Tftie circumstances iu briet are
about as follows:
It was ascertained by some means
that Unilerwocd was in this vicinity,
and yea'eruay afternoon the sheriff
summoned a posse of men and started
for Roll Evans’, five miles ah »ve here.
The i»opse had scarcely left town when
Uuderwood, two other wen and two
women drove into town in a wagon.
Underwood got out of the wagon with
a revolver in each bund, and waiked to
the house of an acquaintance. Here
he got wind of the sheriffs movements,
and at once started out of town, head
ing down the river, remarking before
he left tbat he would never b^ taken
alive, or at least, he would furnisfti ma
terial for a funeral before he was cap
ture*’. is soon as it became known
that Uuderwood bad been in town a
courier was dispatched to notify the
sheriff, but he did not leach town until
after dark.
The posse, however immediately
t*r ed i:i purser, and overtook the
Underwood party, composed of Jet^
Underwood and wife, her sister, a man
named Vest, and another by the name
of McClure. Ah soon as Ihe Uuiler-
wood partv was overtak* n the sheriff
informed Uuderwood wlio he was, and
winded him t> surrender, where-
npon Underwood drew a revolver with
ach hand, aim-d the one in his left
hand at Wareltr ami the pistol snap
ped, ar.d with hie right lire l t‘*e that
shot of the battle,which killed H iggles,
though Higgles, btf»re he leli, di*-
rged both bairtls of his shot-
cun, heavily charg'd with
buckshot, the contents cf one barrel
entering tftie s’de and mortally wound
ing MtCInre. At. smut this time a
pistoLball entered Underwix ifs left
wris , ami his pistol dropped from liia
hand, and two bin k-hut from Warder’s
gun etruck him on the 1» ft side, ai d
he turned am! run, end route bncknftif i
from his other barrel .n ered Und..»
wood’s shoi Id- r. The posse pursued
Undeiwood, but, owing to tftie dark
ness, he fucceed»d in making ftiis es
cape, and made ftiis way to a farm iieuse
a mile and a ha f distant, t*-Id what ftn-d
occurred and gave li m-elf up. B: the
tune the sheriff and those wiih him
had removed the mortally wounded
McCiure to the house of Inquire Bar
ker, aud tftie body of y oung Haggles to
a school house near by, arrested and
handcuffed Vest ami dispa’ched a mes
senger to Concjtd for a physician, they
received inf or mi* turn from the parries
at wlio-e house Uuderwood had taken
refuge of hia wftiereab u^a They pro
ceeded there at once and took etiarge of
ftiim. l>r. Grimes arrived noon after
ward, examined the wounds, and pro
nounced them daugerous but not nec
essarily fatal.
YoUi.g Haggles was a general favor
ite in the community, and was tftie only
support of a widowed motuer.
BARV MOtNH.
When the telegmpli announced tftie
discovery by I’rof. Hall tftiat cur neigh
boring planet had two satehtes, and the
dispatch was read next morning at ten
thousand American breakf ist tables,
what think you was the etf- ct upon tftie
hearers? 8orae colloquy imilar to the
following was sure to occur. “Mars has
two moons, hey? Pass me the milk,
Kitty. Strange, isn’t it. tuat astrono
mers never saw them b*J ire. Another
chop, please. I wonder what they’ll
discover next? Tlieae corn cakes are
excel ent. What’s tiie news from Eu
rope?” We liave become so accus
tomed to startling discoveries and an
nouncements, that we take them as a
matter of course. Even truth must
appear in ff xmiug colors to make her
self seen. Tbe virtues of Dr. Pierce’s
Golden Medical D,ec ,verv and Pleasant
Purgative Pellets have l>ien tested in
ten thousand houseftiolds, wftiose in-
mites will tell yon that they consider
the discovery and introduction of these
remedies of far greater importance to
tlia world than tiie moons of Mars.
Shipman, III , June 13, 1876.
Dr. R. V Pierce, Buffalo, N Y :
Dear Sir—Last fall our daughter —
pged 18—wph fast sinking wiih con
sumption. D flerent physicians had
pronounced her case incurable. I ob
tained one half d« z- n bottles of your
Golden Medic-1 Dit^ every. .She com
menced improving at onc<* and is now
as hardv as a pine knot.
Yours reHpP t: ’htil'\
Rev ISAAC X. AUGUSTINE.
jan!2 d&wlt
The Mnln* DlM*f*r*
Boston, Jan. 12.—Further reports
from Maine detail disasters to shipping
and damage to property fr* m the gale
last. nigUL At Camden trees, fences
and barns were blown down and many
houses unroofed, tiie damage in tbe
village exceeding $16,000. At East port
f-rty chimneys were blown down.
Several emtil fi hirg vessels went to
pieces. The schooner N.ghMrirale is
a-Imre in Bre ad cove and ful! ct water.
A* O d Town th** steeple "vas blown
f-oai the B p* « chu-ch Two«choor.-
era put into .S ai harbor ana went
ashore on Nor i/h itdatd. Several
schooners are repor ed ; shore at Ten
ant’s harbor.
—Many la-tie liave n*a r :e beautiful
holiday pre***nts from ti e pdierrs *f
fancy work in “Andrews* B.ztr.” I*,
is in this way tftiat it ft;as acquired tftie
reputation it beare. It supplies fully a
long i’eit want. Published by W. If,
nd re w s. Oi nciuuatb