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Wednesday Homing,—March. 7,1877
Joe Blackburn calls the majority of
the Electoral Commission “blistered pu
trefied miscreants'” Thank you, Joe.
c. Walling was quite axiomatic when
day before yesterday, he remarked in
Congresf: “ When fraud is law, filibus
tering is patriotism!”
One of the planks in Gov. Hayes
political platform is ,: a bird in the
hand is worth two in bush.” He will
not resign the Governorship at once.
Nichols and Ogic, two candidates for
the mayoralty of Galveston, threw
“heads or tails” for which should with
draw from the race. Nichols won.
When Hayes arrived in Washing'on
the sky was overcast and the sun. had
retired behind a cloud. Verily Old
Sol is a good Democrat and a sun of
very correct feelings.
Through the black cloud that over
cast the national sky, one star of con
solation shines: as Fred Grant exits,
Webb Hayes, another son of his father,
steps upon the Washington stage.
Republics are fond of claiming re
lationship with their great men: Wash
ington was the “father of his country”
; —Hayes seems to be bis country’s
“poor relation,’’ and is disposed to
spunge.
John Hancock, of Texas, seems to
know all about traitors. Has John been
in training?—Atlanta Constitution.
Perhaps John may have successfully
followed the old Grecian’s advice, “Know
thyself.”
Give a portion to seven and also to
eight, for thou knowest not what evil
shall he upon the earth.—[Eccles., xi.,
2.] Amended by the latest commenta
tors so as to give the whole to eight.—
Boston rosl.
Eight can Kuthek ’Ford to give the
whole to themselves.
The Gwinnett Herald says that Rev.
David E. Butler has announced himself
as an independent candidate for Congress
in the Ninth—Ben Hill’s—district.
But, says the Atlanta Constitution, as we
have seen nothing of this announcement,
and as the friends of Mr. Butler submit
ted his name to the Gainesville Conven
tion, we are lead to infer that there is some
mistake about this matter.
The Courier-Journal’s Washington
correspondent with one “swipe” of his
pencil thu- describes “Hayes’ Southern
->olicy:
I think it is some nebulous idea of
liberality to the South, floating in his
brain, the practical outcome of which
is to be office for such Southerners as
may be willing to go over to the Radi
cals.
A MINORITY USURPAIION.
Majority Taking a Back Seat.
The New York World gives an accu
rately compiled statement of the vote for
Presidential Electors, which is very mel
ancholy reading just now. The Demo
cratic majority on the popular vote was
264,829. It is entirely unnecessary for
us to state the majority in the Electoral
College. The entire vote for Mr. Tilden
was 4,305,635; for Mr. Hayes, 4,040,807.
The Electoral vote stood : Tilden 184,
Hayes 165. Of the twenty contested
votes Mr. Tilden had rightly and justly
in every respect thirteen, with South
Carolina doubtful. A party may over
ride the people’s will once, but they will
not do it again. The Republjtftm party
threw away its entire future to win one
more term.
It is suggested that for the sake of
consistency Hayes should enter the
White House by the back door,
would be more consistent with what
right were he to bath out of the’|Whide
House by the rear door.
i One reason given by foreigners why
the English language is the most difficult
in the world, i3 the fact that the Bame
word has altogether a different meaning
in different parts of a sentence. • For in
stance in speaking of Hayes, the phrase
“President elect” can’t possibly mean
“elect President.”
President Hayes certainly has.a great
opportunity.—Springfield Republican.
Yes such a great opportunity as
thief has of returning stolen goods.
Let him give the Presidency up to its
rightful owner, or score one more under
the head of “lost opportunities.”
! Those whom the gods wish to destroy
they first make mad. From the Bigns
the gods surely have destructive inten
tions toward this republic, for they
have made Hayes President, and now
they have appointed to be paymaster
with the rank of major one who is
ycleped—Sniffin!
Were we to personify Grant’s admin
istration, we should represent it with
dummy wearing a good hat, a good
pair of boots, and clothed in rags.
“Let us have peace,” he remarked as he
went in. Now as he goes out he makes
a similar observation. The rest of his
administration is .
The popular mind is peculiarly
prone to give great men pet names that
go with them, into hitory:
Washington was called “Farther of
his country,” Andren Jackson, “Old
Hickory”; Henry Clay, “Mill boy of
the Slashes”; Napoleon, “Little Corpo
ral,” and Hayes—“His Fraudulency
A controversy is threatened as to
whether Joe Bradly understands the
nature of an oath. An Illinois Justice
of the Peace once asked a witness
question of this sort, and the candid
Hoosier answered that he didn’t un
derstand the nature of an oath until
the defendant called him “a damned
rascal,” and after that he thought he
knew what it meant.
I.ATEST INTERESTING NEWS.
Synopis of Telegrams.
Eugine Hale, of Maine,’has declined
a Cabinet appointment.
Senator Alcorn is strongly urged to
succeed Candler in the Interior De
partment.
Sherman’s friends say he has accept
ed the Secretaryship of the Treasury.
Two Southern men will be put in
the Cabinet. Quid-nuncs say .Tos. E.
Brown will be one, and Jos. E. John
son the other—the latter Secretary of
War.
At a meeting of Southern Whigs and
Unionists, in Washington, Sol. Pool, of
North Carolina, was recommended to a
Cabinet posish.
The Ohio member of the Cabinet
will be John Sherman. Congressman
Platt of New York, is being pressed for
the post-office folio, but Fvarts as Sec
retary of State being frem the same
State, may prevent his appointment.
Senator Sargent will probably represent
the Pacific slope.
How others see us, is shown by an
article in the London Times, of the 3d
inst., which praises the Democratic
leaders for their moderation. It does
n’t think Hayes election can excite gen
uine enthusiasm, except in those who
regard politics as a gambling trickery
game, Though Hayes may have the
best intentions, he hasn’t ths moral
weight to ballast a Republican admin
istration, or to carry out the pledges in
his letter to the Cincinnati Conven
tion.
A ROME DARKEY FOR HAVES’ SEC
RETARY OF REASURY.
We are going to practice the golden rule
by returning good to Mr. Hayes for his and
his party’s evil. We are going to relieve
him of no little trouble by selecting for
him a Secretary of Treasury. We’vo al
ready got the man for the posish. True,
he is a darkey, but then this will give
Hayes a rare opportunity to heroically
practice before the world what he has so
enthusiastically preached from the official
pulpit: the darkies’ capacity for voting
nd holding office. This dusky-hued Sec
retary of Treasury that is to be signs
“ His Mark” to the name of Charley Fain
when some one writes it to a contract for
him. He possesses that kind of monetary
shrewdness and financial gifts which
should strongly commend him to the
Radical party for Treasury Secretary.
Yesterday he went to several gentlemen
in Rome, told them that he had a wagon
load of wood in DeSoto,that the wagon was
in a Bhop for repairs that it cost fifty oents
to get it out, that if they would let him
have that amount he would go straight
and haul the wood to them. They were
caught in the net and the financier.has
not been seen since. Doubtless he re
tired to soms secluded spot to indulge in
a quiet chuckle in his sleeve. Say, isn’t
he eminently qualified for Secretary of
Treasury under the Hayes regime ?
NEW COAT OF ARMS FOR THE NEW
ADMINISTRATION.
Take down your book on heraldry
and study up on the following new coat
of arms that promises to soon be quite
popular at Washington:
Crest, Eliza Pinkston rampant;
field carmine, bloody shirt, with initials
O. P. M. Three hundred thousand pop
ular majority couchant; Joe Bradley in
relief insistent; J. Madison Wells in
foreshortened perspective, regardant.
Shield, a Returning Board. Motto,
“Come into the White House, Fraud?”
General News Items-
Packard’s dynasty is doomed—doom
ed to die nasty.—Courier-Journal.
The people of Jacksonville, Florida,
are feasting on green peas already.
All over the West the grasshoppers
are hatching out in countless myriads,
Virginia has a law subjecting a per
son to arrest and fine for profane swear
ing.
A cable talegram from Italy announ
ces the death of Joel T. Hart, the great
American sculptor.
Sandy Valley (Ky.,) Guard says 39,-
SOD dozen eggs were shipped from that
point in less than a month. Over 400,
000 eggs laid by Big Sandy liens in
few days.
Juge Force, of Cincinnati, is to act
as one of Hayes’ private secretaries.
The appointment is not surprising.
To fraud the Republicans always add
force.— Courier-Journal.
Vicksburg Herald: It is calculated
to make a fellow feel rather cheap to
ask for a nickle cigar and have a hun-
gry-looking country darkey step up
and ask for “two for a quarter.” But,
then, impecuniosity must get over such
a “cheap” fellng.
Galveston (Texas) News ; On Sun
day the sheriff, one of his deputies,
two aldermen and a candidate fer May
or were seen to enter the bar-room
the corner of Post-office and Twentieth
streets, where all hands took a drink
within the hours prohibited by law.
Richmond Whig: Population of city
estimated by shool census, 72.500—
white, 41,400; colored, 34,100. Rate of
mortality of whole population 22,95 per
1,000 per annum; rate of mortality of
white population was 20,09 per 1,000
per annum; rate of mortality of colored
population was 26,57 per 1,000 per an
num.
The London correspondent of the Chi
cago Journal says: “ Yeu will probably
be as much surprised as I was to learn
that Bank of England notes, good as they
are all over the world, are not a legal
tender either in Scotland or Ireland. In
Ireland they are not allowed to circulate
at all. The moment they reach the Irish
banks they are cut in two, and returned
weekly to the Bank of England, to be ex
changed either for gold or Iiish notes. On
the other hand, an Irish or a Scotch bank
note is as rare a sight in England as a
Chinese Embassador. During my eight
een years of English life, I have never
once seen aScotcn note, and only once an
Irish one.”
The Joint Convention.
■
Declaration of the Result oftbe Count.
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Washington, March 2.—At four o’
clock this momingthehall was prepar
ed for the final reception of the Senate.
As soon as that body entered at 4-30
A. M., and all the members were seated
the action of the respective houses on
the Wisconsin question was read.
The ten votes of Wisconsin were an
nounced for Hayes and Wheeler.
The presiding officer said—This con
cludes the count of the thirty-eignt
States of the Union. The tellers will
now ascertain and deliver the result of
the yotes to the presiding officer.
Senator Allison (Rep., Iowa), one
of the tellers, delivered the statement
The Presiding officer expressed the
hope that on ttie ~ announcement that
nothing would mar the dignity of pro
ceedings so reputable to the American
people and so worthy of the respect of
the world. He then said:
“The whole number of electors ap
pointed to vote for President and vice
President of the United States Was 369,
of which a majority is 185. The State
of the vote for President, a9 delivered
by the tellers, and as determined un
der the act of Congress of January 29,
1877, on this subject, is— - 1K ' ,:
“For Rutherford B. Hayes, 185 votes.
“For Samuel J. Tilden, 184 yotes.
“The Btate of the vote for vice Presi
dent of the United States, as delivered
by the tellers and as determined un
der the act of Congress, approved Jan
uary 29 1S77, on this subject, is :
“For William A. Wheeler, 185 votes.
“For Thomas A. Hendricks,
votes. .
‘‘Wherefore, I announce that Ruther
ford B. Hayes, of the State of Ohio,
having received a majority of the
whole number of the electoral votes,
duly elected President of the United
States for four years commencing on
the 4th day of March, 1877.
“That William A. Wheeler, of the state
of New York having received a majority
of the whole cumber of: the electoral^
votes, is duly elected vice President
the United States for fonr years com
mencing on the 4th day o March 1S77.
“The announcement, together with
a list of the votes, will be entered on
the journals of both houses.
“The count of the electoral votes be
ing completed and the result detrtniu
ed, the joint meeting of the two houses
is dissolved. The Senate will now re
tire to its chamber.”
The Senate then retired.
Marriage in High Life.
London, March 2.—The honorable
Mrs. Norton, the poetess and novelist,
was married yesterday to Sir William
Stirling Maxwell, Bart., member of Par
liament for Perthshire. The ceremony
was performed at the bride’s residence.
The bride’s age is 70 years, and she
confined to her chair with chronic rheu
matism. Sir William Maxwell is
years of age.
59
News of the "Week.
A fire injured the approaches to the
°reat St. Louis bridge to the amount
850,000.
No Italian newspaper has a circu!
tion exceeding 20,000.
Patti the sweet singer has eloped
with Nicoline the tenor, and the Mar
quis de Caux, her husband, asks a di
vorce.
The Queen of England abandons her
proposed visit to Germany.
The Russians are placing torpedoes
along the Black Sea coast.
The Speaker of the House has had
to admonish the members to do their
smoking in the cloak rooms.
Hog cholera is very destructive in
parts of Kentucky.
The Prohibitionists of Ohio hare
nominated a full State ticket.
The Austro-Hungarian difficulties on
the bank question haye been settled.
The negotiations between Servia and
urkey are progressing with every pros
pect of a peaceful result.
Miss Nelson, the actress, has been di
vorced from her husband, Philip Lee.
The Cincinnati Commercial says
Hayes is worth a quarter of a million
Cortina, Mexican bandit-general, has
been arrested and will probably be
court-martialed and shot.
The rate of taxation for city pur
poses in New York will this year be
$2,65 per $1,000.
Stokeley’s election to the mayoralty
of Philadelphia will be contested for
frauds.
Diaz is declared elected president of-
Mexico.
Political Notes*
Tilden says “I won it;” Hayes says
“I 8 it.”
Morton said in the Commission that
if there had been a fair election, Geor
gia would have gone for Hayes. We
thought Georgia did “go for” Hayes.
It snatched him bald-headed.—Consti
tutionalist.
The House of Representatives was in
one continuous session from the first of
February until 4 o’clock on the morn
ing of the 2nd inst. after the announce
ment had been made that Hayes had
been elected President.
The Republican party has dug its
;rave and drunk poison. It will be
surfed like a suicide, with a stake
through the heart, at the next Presiden
tial election.—Boston Pilot.
It is a pity that party etiquette re
quires Morton to praise the dead
Speaker Michael C. Kerr, whom he
hated, and who hated him as the
Psalmist hated the enemies of God
World.
The five hundred dollars dress which
Mrs. Hayes expects to wear on the 5th
of March is cheap in comparison with
her husband’s inauguration suit of
broadcloth. It cost several million dol
larsanda good’many consciences to
prepare that garment—A’. Y. Sun.
By a vote of eight to seven J. Mad
ison Wells is a peer and Eliza Pinkiton
is a peeress.
How Waddell Kept His Word.
Anderson M. Waddell, who was re
cently acquited at Ashland of the mur
der of Al. Kirtland, has deposited in
one of the banks of this city $5,000 for
the purpose of buying real estate for
the benefit of the widow and her chil
dren. Gen. Maney, attorney for Wad
dle, will make the investment, and Mrs.
Kirtland has been appointed guardian
of the children. The rents are to be
devoted to the maintenance of the wid*
ow and her children, but at her death
the property is to be equally \ divided
between the children. The gift is in
pursuance of a declaration made by
Waddle, that Kirtiand’s widow should
not suffer want.-r-Nashrilk American.
Washington Correspondence.
Washington, D.C., March l,i877.
A majority of the appropriation bills
are before conference committees, and un
less their members are sufficiently self-
denying to forego the temptation thus
offered to make windy, buncomb speeches,
to be published in the papers of their re
spective districts as “ the greatest speech
of the session; by the statesman and patriot
representing our district in Congress,’
thej will inevitably fail, and render an
extra session a necessity. Mr. Holman’s
vigilance in watching for and stamping
with the seal of his condemnation all
wasteful'appropriations contemplated in
bills which come before his committee—
that of- appropriations — is proverbial,
and he is honored accordingly; but there
is. danger that, while he has his lynx-like
orbs turned towards the spigot, and de
votes his whole attention to stopping the
leakage therefrom, so much time will
hove been consumed upon these compar
ative trifles that the heavy cost of an extra
session may run through the open bong.
Even now, with a mutually accommodat
ing disposition on the part of the House
and Senate members cf the various con
ference committees, it would be impossible
to push to completion the various bills
still before Congress. The postoffice, the
legislative, executive and judicial, the
naval and the deficiency bills, all em
barrassed and weighed down by amend
ments, are subjects of conference. The
sundry civil bill is still before the House,
and the army bill has only just been re
ported to it.
It is thought probable that the Senate
may reach the important bill recently in
troduced by Senator Sherman as a prac
tical step towards resumption, and which
was referred to in detail in a former let
ter ; but there is no expectation that it
will become a law at this session. Much
miscellaneous business has been disposed
of within the pastfew days, showing what
can be done when onr legislators address
themselves earnestly to their duties, and
leave alone the making of speeches, which
no one, outside a very restricted circle,
cares to read.
Many admonitions from our great com
mercial and monetary centres, warning
filibusters to cease their factions opposi
tion to a speedy completion of the count
under the Arbitration Commission, have
been received within the past seventy-two
hours, and they have not been without
their good effect. All day Monday, up
to 3 o’clock, itappeared that that element
in the House bad gained control, and
would fritter away the week, leaving the
count unfinished. But later in the day
they suffered a crushing defeat, which so
distracted their councils that they have
not yet entirely recovered, and it is gen
erally conceded that the end will have
been reached by Friday night. It is in
strnetive to observe that a very large
number of these obstructionists are from
Republican districts in the North and
West, who were swept into the House on
the “ tidal wave” that deluged the country
in 1874, surprising no one more than
themselves, but in which, as indicated by
the elections last fall, Republicans have
re-asserted their supremacy by electing
their candidates, thus leaving tbeBft* Jen-
tlemen high and dry on a lee shore, and
entirely without hope of political prefer
ment save through a Democratic admin
istration, and which they have all along
believed would assume control next Mon
day. Under such circumstances, it is ab
surd to expect them to congratulate their
political opponents on their victory or to
volunteer their services in installing them
in fat places, which many, even now, sin
cerely believe they have been euchred out
of by questionable processes. They will
have a large measure of sympathy, but
will not be encouraged to trifle with the
great interests, which remain almost par
alyzed, awaiting a settlement of this hotly
contested question of the Presidential
succession.
The faces of hotel proprietors begin to
take on the habitual smile of the profes-
sionjunder the cheering arrival of many
strangers, and the consequent occupancy
of rooms long vacated.
Lovers of the opera are enjoying a de
lightful treat duriDg the brief engagement
of the Kellogg English Opera Company.
Miss Kellogg gives one matinee and three
evening entertainments at the National
Theatre, which was crowded to its utmost
capacity on Monday and yesterday even
ings. Aside frem the crowds that attended
during Boucicault’s engagement, nothing
like it has been seen for many months.
Preparations for the inauguration on
Monday are being actively pushed, but
there appears to be a general feeling ol
apathy relative to the customary ball, or
perhaps I should say a positive disinclina
tion to it, and, if we have one at all, it
will be only an immature one, as contrast
ed with those of the past.
Beautiful weather has been spoken for
and promised, so far as “ probabilities” or
the ground-hog can influence it.
Knox.
A short inaugural address and no
empty promises, if you please, Mr.
Hayes.—New Orleans Picayune.
President Grant had to contend with
the south only. Mr. Hayes will find
an open enemy in every honest man
throughout the land.—Charlott Obser
ver.
It will be interesting to know if there
is a single Southern man of any prom
inence and character who would con
taminate himself by a bargain and sale
such as has been offered by the friends*
of Hayes.—New York Sun.
The American people are too jtrac-
tical, too sagacious as to what is for
the public good, to withhold from the
in coming President the acknowledge
ment of thegood he may do, or propose
do, for them.—Richmond Dispatch.
We appeal to the Southern people
“beware of the Greeks bearing presents, 1
for they threaten the destruction of our
liberties, and of all honest government
“republican in form,” as the Constitu
tion has it, on this continent.—Lynch-
burh Virginiau.
We hold it to be clearly Mr. Tilden’s
duty to himself, his party and to his
country te have issued from the Su
preme Court a writ quo warranto direct
ed to R. B. Hayes, that his right to
the office of President may be tested
by that tribunal.—Richmond Whig.
If no new law sbonld be passed,
is easy to foresee that the existing com
plications with respect to Florida,
Louisiana and South Carolina are sure
to come'about again, with the proba
bility of their duplication in each of
half a dozen other States.—Philadel
phia ledger.
We envy not the man who finds
in his heart to rejoice in the triumph
of perjury, in thelrinmph of frand and
in triumph of forgery that will be cele
brated in the inauguration of Hayes.
Ten thousand times dearer to us is our
defeat than would be his victory.—Ral
eigh Observer.
Let us spurn their offers as we would
the work ot Cain ; shun their embra
ces as we woulda pestilence. The con
siderations they hold out to us are the
thirty pieces of silver that tempted Ju
das—a bribe for the betrayal of the
persecuted unto worse persecution.—
Richmond Enquirer.
Hayes told the people of Springfield.
Ohio, last night that “in a week this
business will be over,” and that he hop
ed the country would “acquiesce quiet
ly” in the most stupendous crime re
corded in moden history. The thieves
candidate is rather too sanguine,
a week he will be in the White House
but the “business” will be just begun.—
Chicago Tines
The Democratic party, especially the
Southern wing of it, which is yet un
tainted by the corruption that infects
the atmosphere of the National Capi
tal, is peculiarly one of reform. As an
opposition, thej- can extort reforms,
which they might in all probability, be
unable to carry out in power, and, dur
ing the next four years, establish an
indisputable claim to the confidence
and giatitude of the whole country.—
Vicksburg Herald.
We think Hayes hound as the very
first step in his administration to settle
the condition of South Carolina a Lou
isiana ; and, fortunately, the way
clear for him there. He has only to
get the undertaking from Governor
Hampton and Nichols that they are
able to maintain peace in their States
and to do equal justice to all i( he
withdraws the troops. It needs no pos
itive t.ct of his to return those States to
peace, order and prosperity.—New
Y'ork Herald.
Black Hills Stories.
Virginia City, Nev., Enterprise.]
A partj’ of minere in the Black Hills
recently compared eyes and ears over
camp-fire. One said: “When I was
coming to the Hills I looked for Indians
until I could see a mosquito a mile
away.” Another said bis eyes were
weak, hut he could hear knats jump
ing around on the rocks four miles off.
The next man had listened for Iqdians
until he heard the mountain sheep
light on their horns in the Big Horn
mountains three hundred miles away
The fourth, with his head on his pillow,
had strained his ear until he heard the
Chinese nailing up tea-boxes. The
fifth, in crossing the Rocky Mountains,
had found a petrified forest—big trees
turned into solid stone. As he loitered
on the edge, a deer started across the
valley and was transformed in a mo
ment into solid stone. A bird flew
past him, and perching upon a branch
began to sing. Suddenly the bird was
changed to stone. The song she was
singing was also petrified, hanging
down from the beak of the bird—a
cold, cold stone.
Georgiacs*
Dr. C. F. Colzey, of Columbus, is
dangerously ill.
Wm. Lawson, of Waynesboro, killed
four large turkeys at one shot the other
day.
Pulaski county has a negro who is a
monomaniac on the subject of pocket
knives. He has bought thirty-two
within the last year.
The legislature having failed to pass
dog law, citizens in soms parts of the
State have “a law unto themselves.”
It is composed largely of strychnine.
Augusta Constiiutionalist: Augusta
has received up to this date, since Sep
tember 1,1876—176,989 bales of cotton.
20,823 more bales than were received
the same time last year.
Georgia ante beUum mail contractors
will get about $80,000 out of the appro
priation of $275,000 which Messrs.
' llount, of Georgia, and Atkins, of Ten
nessee, succeeded in getting through
the House.
Cirtereville Express: Misses A. D 5
and M. O. Marschalk, with the dedition
of noble daughters, have relieveatheir
infirm father of the labor and vexations
" publishing the Acworth Advocate by
assuming charge of it themselyes.
We gladly welcome the young ladies to
the tripod, where they will certainly
meet thb,kindliest consideration of the
press of the whole State. “Luck and
big success” to you, ladies.
Justice Davis is very indignant
when he hears “Brother” Bradley de
nounced. He saj’s that Bradley is as
nprigbt and honorable a man as lives.
When questioned about the decisions
of the Commission he has nothing to
say. He is silent as to the right
wrong of those corrupt decisions. His
silence on that point leads the Demo
crats to believe they would have been
little better off had he been on the
Commission. As he is thought to
have voted for Hayes this is very like
ly*
Mr. Davis was a Republican. If he
has become a Democrat no one knows
when, or how, or has ever heard of it
He wanted to be President, and has
evinced a desire to seek it by almost any
recognized channel. The Democratic
conduit has generally been most avail
able. He has never, however, pro
nounced himself a Democrat, or given
any indication of a change of heart.
He is reticent because his statesman
ship is to be reticent, -nd He low.
Breathing Hiasma Without In
jury.
There is no exaggeration in the state
ment that thousands of persons resid
ing from one year’s end to another in
fever and ague regions on this Conti
nent and elsewhere, breathe air more
or less impregnated with miasma, with
out incurring the disease, Bimply and
only because they are in the habit of
using Hostetter’s Stomach Bittera as a
preventive. It has frequently hap
pened, and the fact has been amply at
tested by the parties themslves, that
persons surrounded on all sides by
neighbors suffering the tortures of this
shivering and burning plague, have en
joyed absolute immunity from it,
thank to the protection afforded by the
Bitters. Nor is that standard anti-febrile
cordial less efficacious in remedying
than in preventing chills and fever, bil
ious remittents, and disorders of a kin
dred type- Taken between the parox-
E it speedily mitigates their vio-
and eventually prevents their re
currence. These facts, convincingly
established by evidence, appeal with
peculiar foitee to travelers and sojourn
ers in malarious districts.
For the Selma Argus ]
For several years I have carefully con
ducted experiments in order to deter
mine which were the best varieties of
Indian corn for farm purposes in the
south.
I find that to carefully select our seed
corn is a matter of much more impor
tance than many farmers seem to im
agine, making, as I believe, a difference
of from twenty-five to fifty per cent in
the yield. In order to determine
which are the best varieties, we must,
by lexpriment,- find: out which, from
one grain, will produce the largest num
ber of grains of greatest weight. -
" All tWpHmifive varietifB of Indiatf-p®*
com have eight rows of grains on a
small cob of unifornd size. The number
of rows can he increased by cultivation
up to twentv-six or more. The size
and Shape of the grains can be improv
ed also to a certain extent As we in
crease the number of rows thelength of
the ear diminishes, the cob is increased
in size, the grain is less firm and dis
posed to rot—evident sigD9 df degener
acy. • >
In selecting seed corn of any variety*
I would take ears of from twelve to six
teen rows of deep, firm oily looking
grains, and of good length. I would
shell off defective grains from both
ends. Good seed corn should weigh
sixty pounds to the bushel. The Virgi
nia White is the purest and prettiest
variety of Indian com I have seen. It
has a deep-red cob, and large, white,
well-formed grams,—is a pure, unmixed
variety—beautiful—hut is deficient in
oil and a littlo wanting in weight. I
prefer an improved gourd-seed variety
which has nearly all the distinguishing
features of the Virginia White, and con
tains more oil and h n s more weight.
The red cob cprtainly distinguishes
the best varieties of Indian com. ' Each
ear should contain from eight hundaed
to one thousand grains.
John H. Parrish.
Plows
-I/.77. JIMUJOV
J.
& S. BONES & CO. are the ONI]
Parties Selling, or Authorized to
Sell, Plows Under My Patent,
' in the City of Rome.
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NV* M* TOWERS
Millions of money is now locked up
in the New York safes awaiting inves-
ments, and the impression is gaining
that in a few weeks it will begin to ra
diate from the great commercial center,
throughout all parts of the country,
creating more activity in business than
has been known for three or four
years.
The New York Snn calls them “the
eight peijurers.”
The publication of the Washington
Union will probably be suspended.
Floyd Sheriff’s Sales.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
W ILL HE SOLD BEFORE THE COCKT
House door, in the city ol Rome, in «eiid
county, betwoen the legal hourcof sale, on the
First Tuesday in April, 1877,
the following property to-wit:
One hou«e and lot, part of land lot No. 316 io
the 23rd district and 3rd section of said county,
110 feet front, running back 155 feet, as the
property ol defendant. Baid lot in in Hick’s
Survey on the Cooley lane, and fu.ly described
in a deed from James E. i.ioyd to Anna Wil
liams. Levied up*»n to satisfy a jus ico court
fi fa from the 919th distric* G M J 11 Lumpkin
▼a James E Lloyd Lcv:ed upon and returned to
mebjS&mael Johnson, Ltf.
Also, one house and lot in the town of South-
Rome, number not known being the p’ace where
the defendant now resides Levied on as the
property of defendant, to satisfy a Bnperior Court
fi fa, J L Pyle and W C Price, executors of T C
Price, deceased, vs Rufus Barker.
Also, lots of land numbers 6S. 69. 70. 93. 91 and
the north hall of number 92, in the 24th district
and 3rd section of said county Levied or as the
proj-erty of John H Lovejuy, anti Lund subject
the trial ol a claim ca*e iu Fioyd Superior
i?oort at the January term. 1877, against lbt>
claimant, M S Phillips, in tha ca*o or Wm Solo
mon va John H Lov. joy and M S Phillips.cUim-
ant. i#vy-made-bv J H Lumsk'n, sheriff, on
the 22nd of July, 1371. And also found subject
in the cares of P L Mynott, A B Culborn.n a^d
•Smith J: Dranbain vs W R Phil jpe and M
PHlIips, claimant in said e- urt. wbL-h e-id Iof
three fi fas named Fi fas wore levied by
4th of August. 1S76, on said property, a concert
judgment having been taken in all of the above
1877.
OLD Rlii l iT A ~RT»Tfl
1877
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANI
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE
FOR COMPOSTING.
I again present te the Planting Community the above '
HIGH GRADS FERTILIZERS
For the season of 1877, assuring the publie that they are fully np to the standard of the very >
Guano sold in this market.
They contain as large a per cent, of Ammonia, Soluble Pht
phoric Acid and Potash as any Guano now
before the Public.
They have been tested in the soil of this section for the last eight years,and
NOT FOUND WANTING I
Al an evidence of their popularity, it is only neco3$ary to say that the production and sale ol •
Pacific Guano Company is
More Than Any Other Company In the World!
STOCK ALL FBESH AND GENUINE, AND PULL WEIGH!
iser Prices Lower Than Anything in
#©* the Market of the Same Grade!
For Analysis and t?nns, apply to
A.. J. LITTLE, Agent,
At Horn & McGhees, Borne, Ga*
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cases. The sums t» be raised being $£0o for Smith
k Branham less $16 paid them sine-* judgment
$125 to A B Culberson and $1UU to P L Mynott.
besides interest at 12 per cent, per annum and
cost of said suit, the total principal being $109,
besides interest and cost.
Also, one town lot, number 26 of tho Hick’s
survey as made upon part of lot number 316,
the 23rd district and 3rd section cf said county
containing 1J acres, with tb« improvement
thereon, as the property ot defendant. L*vm
on to satisfy h mortgage fi fa* from the Super!'
Courts PSmith, Son A Bro. vs James E Lloyd.
Also, lot of land known na the Merritt plrte
situated two miles from the city of Rome, <
'alhc-un road, in said county, as tho jro; erty of
defendant. Levied on to satisfy a Superior Couri
fi fa James H Cooper, u:e Jones k Go* cr vj Mrs,
Mary T Reed.
DISSOLUTION.
T he copartnership heretofore
existing under the firm name of HarpoJd A
Hillyer was disso.ved on the first day of March
by mutual consent. Dr. E. Hillyer wi'hdrawing
from the firm. Either paity is authorized fn r
ceint for any indebtedness tn the firm
fi. HvLPOLO,
E. BILLYLR.
In retiring r rom the firm of Harp* Id A H»ily.
take pleasure in recommendi^c Mr. H IlarpoSd
ho will go on in ibe dry gr ods business to all
a.y friends as a fuat-clas* business man. polite,
gentlemanly and courteous to his cuttomeis.ard
I will be thankful to all who have patrot izpd the
firm to continue to do business with Mr H^-poU
EBEN HILLYER.
Having purchased the entire inter*st cf D
Hillyer, I take pleasure in aunt unking to my
friends that I will be receiving new goods week
ly throughout the season. And, with my lr.r* t
experience and facilities (or buying goods cheap.
together with a light expense account, I can
promise you goods at bottom prices.
Thankful for the liberal patronage hereto!
received, I t mt by fidelity to m«rit a continu
ance of the same. H. HARPOLD.
mafitwlm
Commissioner’s Sale of Bidge
Valley Iron Property.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
' yiRSUANT TO A DECREE OF VLOl
Superior Court, in CbADcery. will be sold
the highest and best bidder, on* the
First Tuesday in Ai-ril, 1877,
before the Court House door of said ccun-
in tho city .of Rome, all
and singular the property of said Ridge Valley
Iren Company, real, personal and mixed. Th
terms of the sale shall be cash, sulject, however,
this qualification : that for so much of the
corpus of tho property as is covered and em
braced in the mortgage *gi v * n to seen re the $20,-
000 of first mortgage bonda issued by the Com
pany, the said bonds may be received as cash,
provided the purchaser shall offer and bid for the
mortgage property tho full amount of said bonds
and interest accrued, and 10 percent, additional
—said 10 per cent to be paid in cash; provided,
also, that the first mortgage bonds aforesaid shall
not be r caved to tho exclusion of any claim
which is bv law entitled to an equal or superior
lion upon the •* mortgage property,” but the pur
chaser offering said bondi shall be held and
bound to perform the judgment and decree ot
the Court touching said claims.
If the sale aforesaid shall bo made for ca*h,
then the price of said mortgaged property i*
limited to the minimum sum of $20,or*o.
The property covered by said first mortgage
will be sold together without division, and is as
follows: All those tracts or parcels of land situ
ate in originally Cherokeo but low Floyd and
Bartow counties, known as lots numbers 5S 60.
20, 22, 59, 63, 64, aud the cast half of 57, all
the 23rd district and 3rd e>ction» also num
bers 61, 29, 30 and 1, in the 16tb district and 3rd
section, and number 16, in the 15th district and
3rd section, containing in all 2, * 60 acres of land,
more or less, and also all tho heuseo. furnaces,
engines, machinery and fixtures located upon or
attached to said lands.
Also, will be sold, at the same time and pla^e,
f"r cash, whatever right or interest the said
Ridge Valley Iron Company may hnvo to certain
lands covenanted to be sold to said Company by
C. W. Rush, as set np in his Bill now pending in
Floyd Superior Court against said Company, to
which Bill and covenant reference is herein had.
Also, will be sold, at the same time and place,
for cash, all that part of the west half of lot
number 57. in the 23rd district aid 3rd section,
whieh lies south of the Kingston road, and con
taining 20 57-10Q gesvt. Also the privilege of
timber OB lot S9, in the 16th district and 3rd sea-
tion, Also lot number 02, in tho 16th district
and 3fd section.
Terms fer all the above and foregoing, except
the mortgaged property, will be cash
B. T. HARGROVE,
feb27,ti . • Sales Commissioner.
BALE’S GUANO!
Quality Improved Twenty Per Cent
Price Per Ton, ----
(Cotton Option at Fifteen Cents.)
£61
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For Composting-.
THE ATLANTIC ACID PHOSPHATE
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AT CHARLESTON PRICES^
pai
FREIGHT ADDED. col
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LASD PLASTER, SALT AND LIME ,
Mr
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Cheap for Cash.
JAS. A. BALE,
Borne, Ga.
BERRYS & CO.,
pen
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and
AGEXTS FOR 1UE SALE OF TEE FOLLOWING POPULAR FERTILIZERS:
GRANGE MIXTURE,
LIEBIG FORMULA,
SUPER PHOSPHATE,
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can
mai
on 1
mill
hi3
qui1
PATAPSC O.jjj
For Black Rust, we think we can safely :e:omxead as a preventative
GRANGE MIXTURE.
the,
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We
bere
Roll the seed before planting with it, and then put in from one to two hundred pounds per the
being careful not to put It too deep, so that the latter al roots can reach the fertiliser. qjjj.
fcl2,wlni BERRYS & CO*
A. FREE LUTSTCH! J?,
regis
Und
J DESIRE TO INFORM the citixecs ot R mo ih&t^l fa&Td established a
wes
hanc
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Tha
FIRST-CLASS LAGER BEER HAW*
I will fnraish it at Wholesale and Retail at the Terj lowest figures. I hawo in connections^
With
Eager Beer Hall a first class
BOTTLING ESTABLISHMENT.
Wish
they
Re
fhc
ank can furnish Ale, Porter, Lager Beer, and a pu*e article of Ohia Champagne
articles will be found constantly cn hand; will sell them at wholesale and retail. e %i\ sell»' Nori
»our orders. I will delirertoanj home m the city one dozen pint bottles st*1.25-
Cider at wholesale, per gallon, 35 cents, Crallj
Circt
Call at 97 Broad Street, Borne, Ga. . otnr .
CHR. FROMM,ProP rI great
Millinery and Dress IMakiog- jUuj ,
Proprietor, who io fully posted to *?-MsarM* 4 ® r “* G0<111 * • IS
a full stock of latest st-’*..[of (Mill's er 7 tiB0Bt
M ISS ISBELL, daughter of the
to this department, and keeps
Ladies are espectiully.invited to call at 97 Broad Street.
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