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Wednesday Morning,—March 28,1877
Postmaster General Key will retire
from the Cabinet within ninety days,
and will be succeeded by his assistant,
Mr. Tyner. At least so the Washing
ton correspondent of the Chicago Times
“regrets to learn.”
Look Out for the Whistle When
the Train Blows.—George Francis
Train favors Jefferson Davis for Presi
dent in 1SS1. That is the fastest train
ever known, and runs entirely ahead
of schedule time.
What is life? In reply to this question
we see that Dr. 0. Phelps Brown says in
his Complete Herbalist that many scien
tific men have contended that it is electric
ity, and arguments and experiment have
been abduced to show that such is the fact.
For instance, a scientific body of France
pulverized stone, and by the use of elec
tricity produced from the atoms living in
sects. ■=■
The following lines, which we clip
from an exchange, explain the motive
of Hayes’ faltering action in reference
to Chamberlain and Packard—they are
all ‘ hitched to a common tether”:
Says Rutherford to Chamberlain,
1 The pot begins to bubble,
Aad if you’ll just step down and out,
’Twill save me lots of trouble.”
Says Chamberlain to Rutherford,
“Since to a common tether
We’re hitched, if either goes, I think
We’d better go together.”
For a splendid specimen of the nut
shell argument, we commend the fol
lowing from the World to the prayerful
attention of brother Hayes. As Hayes
is a military man may be he can get at
the kernel of it. Thus sayeth the World
with more than ordinary worldly wis
dom :
Mr. Stanley Mathews and the other
Gratzes of Mr. Hayes are urging Pack
ard and Chamberlain to step down and
out and be provided for. This should
not be, cannot be with justice. Either
these carpet-baggers were or not elected.
If they were elected they should be
sustained. If they are not elected they
should be punished for practicing
against the life of the State and usurp
ing government. If Packard was
elected Mr. Hayes has no business to
bribe him to forsake his lawful trust,
with a custom house or a foreign mis
sion. If he was not elected Mr. Hayes
has no business to fee him from the
scoffers of the nation for attempting to
revolutionize a part of the nation.
DON PIATT ON SIMON AS AN AUTHOR.
We recently gave room in this column
for Don Piatt to lead Jim Blaine out
on Btage, and show him off to an inter
ested audience. We now giye him an
opportunity to exhibit another speci
men from his museum of living curios-
ties. He is moved to make the follow
ing observations on “Old Simon” con
sidered in the light of a retired states
man, who has become a member of the
literary guild:
The old adage that few die none re
sign has received a refutation from an
unexpected quarter. Simon Cameron
has resigned.
It is given out that Simon is fatigued ;
that the cares of office have become
burdensome to him, and that he prefers
to pass his few remaining years in
peace. It has even been suggested that
the old man intends to write his me
moirs ; but this suggestion was prob
ably invented by somefellow who is not
aware of the defects in Simon’s early
education. God forbid that that Si
mon should write any memoirs ; for, if
he should write fiction enough to make
his memory respectable, the example
would be'pernicious, and if he should
write the truth about himself, another
would be added to the long catalogue
of books that must be carefully kept
away from the perusal of the young
feeble minded, like the Adventures of
Captain Kidd or the Exploits of Rich
ard Turpin. If Simon should write a
truthful memoirs, bad small boys
would keep copies of it hid in haymows
to read furtively when the old folks
were away from home, and the next
generation would be full of Sunday
school confessions of culprits about to
be hanged, averring that the reading of
that book was the first step in the path
way that led to the gallows. And if
the book did not lead its readers to
crime against the statutes, its style
would certainly beget a disrespect for
syntax which of itself would be most
pernicious.
hundred and twenty persons composed
an unusually respectable and wealthy
emigrant train en route to California.
Lee was acting under orders from Brig
ham Yeung.
Personal Jottings*
Jug Handle Joe Bradley is his la
test “entitlement.”
Postmaster General Key has 13 cliil-
dren, one for each original State.
Fellows who have been to Washington
after postofiicessay it’s all agame of Kev-
no.—■Nashville American.
Sam Siickney probably the oldest cir
cus rider in the United States died in Cin
cinnati last week aged seventy.
Gen. Toombs stated in Atlanta the
other day that he owned seven barrels of
type, the" remains of the private fortunes
of twenty Atlanta editors.
The young king of Spain is about to
marry again, after having once tried the
thing. lie doesn’t seem to have a great
deal of judgment or force of character.
A reward is offered in New York for
the recovery of a lost man named Hare.
If the detectives are sharp, they’ll keep
an eye on every bit of boarding-house
butter in the city.
Richard King, of Texas, the largest
cattle owner in the world—worth from
three to six millions—began life as cook
on a steamboat, which calling he followed
for several years.
Just because Mrs. Mary Walker hap
pens to prefer breeches to pull-backs, she
appears to be continually the subject of
breaches of the peace, by Federal officials
in Washington.—Nashville American.
Has anybody said of the appointment
of Schurz to a Cabinet position that it
raised the choler of the politicians, or that
it was a cuff on the ear to them or that it
compleated the Cabinet curiosity or that
thereby hangs a tale.—St. Louis Republi
can.
From some unknown cause, a Michi
gan man's hair, whiskers and eye-lashes
have all fallen out, and his children
have become bald. His superstitious
wife, supposing these remarkable losses
to be a visitation of diyine wrath, has
gone mad.
An Abingdon telegram to the Rich
mond Dispatch says that General Peter
C. Johnson, an elder brother of General
Joseph E. Johnson, died there at the resi
dence of Senator Johnston, his nephew,
at 9 A. M. on the 19th. He was born in
Prince Edward county in 1793, served as
an officer of volunteers in the war ot
1812, and was a member of the Conven
tion in 18G1.
General News Items.
Political Notes.
Fred Douglas says he owns property
in Washington to tie amount of $25,000
and therefore has some interest in the
welfare of the district.
Admiral Thompson promises so to
manage that we shall hear more of the
Secretary of the Navy and less of the
knavery of the Secretary.
Nashville American: “Mr. Key
Postmaster General, so far from being
an old Whig, was an old Democrat of
the strictest school, and one of the ear
liest and heartiest supporters of the
war policy.”
Gov. Hampton had a very correct
idea of how sauce for the goose is sauce
for the gander when in referenc to the
new election he said that if Mr. Hayes
would consent to make a new race for
the presidency, he would be quite will
ing to make a new canvass for the of
fice of governer.
It is said that Fred Douglas will “in
sist upon all his rights” as Marshal of
the District of Columbia—which is just
what he ought to do. If two negroes
were good enough to help Hayes into
the Presidency, via the Louisiana Re
turning Board, one negro is surely good
enough to act as master of ceremonies
at the White House.—St. Louis Repub
lican.
John Lee was executed last Friday
in Utah. He was shot, the balls from
five guns penetrating his body in or
near the heart. His crime was com
mitted twenty years ago, in 1857. In
that year he commanded the Mormon
troops in the famous Mountain Mead
ow Massacre, when one hundred men,
women and children were shot down
like dogs, after having surrendered to
Lee upon his promise to protect them
should they surrender. These one
The “ Weekly Grasshopper Times" is
the name of a new paper at San An
tonio, Texas.
Sir John Lubbock, the naturalist,
says there is slavery among ants. There
is more amoung uncles.
Josh Billings says;—“The mewl is a
larger bird than the guse or turkey.
It has two legs to walk with, and two
more to kick with, and wears its wings
on the side of its hed.
Off the coast of Virginia, about five
miles from the mainland, is an island
upon which roam numbers of ponies
as wild as the mustang. How they
came there is not known.
A Lawyer and a minister, both im
pecunious, boarded with a cert;.in
widow lady at the South End. Neith
er could pay his board bill. The law
yer married the lone womaD, and the
minister performed the ceremony, thus
squaring accounts.—BosUmH-rraid.
The number of laborers unemployed
and seeking work in New York city is
said to be 55,000. The figures are sad
ly significant. It would not probably
be|saying too much to affirm that they
represent at least 200,000 persons in ac
tual want, or nearly so, of the necessa
ries of life.
Some of the English papers are urg
ing that the income of the Prince of
Wales should be increased by an addi
tion of £30,000, or S150,000, a year.
His debts amount to 850,000, and it is
thought that it will be more profitable
to the nation to pay them than to have
him go into comparative retirement for
the purpose of doing so.
There are now published about fifty
journals in Japan. They were all com
menced about four or five years ago.
Of the twenty journals published at
Sokio, the most important are the Nic-
hiuichi Shimbun, the Hocbi Shimbun,
the Akebono Shimbun, and the Nisshin
nisshin chi Shimbun, which issue re
spectively 9,500,3,000, 3,500, and 4,300
copies a day. The subscription varies
lrom 86 to 88 a year.
Washington Correspondence.
( losing Scene iu the Uiug liovi rnmeiit—
The Good Fruits of Shepherdism—The
Two Bosses compmed—Washington .lion-
: men: on a F ro Basis- l,onis:a»a and
South Carolina Adairs.
Georgiace-
Jerry Cowles, a former well-known
citizen of Macon, died in New York on
the 21st inst.
Farrow says the maximum salary of
the United States District Attorney is
allowed 86,000. When his fees are
over that he must work for nothing
Columbus has what we should call a
regular Eden of a barber-shop. In it
is the conspicuous notice, “No talking
with a customer unless he begins the
conversation.”
Atlanta is to have a mounted captain
of police at 81,500 a year; 4 unmounted
captains at S750 each; two station
house keepers at S2.25 a day, and 26
policemen at $2 a day.
A private letter from Augusta to the
editor of the Union and Recorder says
that the general sentiment of Augusti-
ans is in favor of a return of the capi
tal to Milledgeville.
The Fort Valley Mirror has the fol
lowing: “The other day a Macon
drummer stepped into the store of
Gray Brothers, and before introducing
himself, he asked: “Well, how’s
trade ?” “ Charley! Charley!”. said
Monroe to Charley, who was sitting at
the back end of the store eating pea
nuts, “how much molasses have we
sold this week ?” “Six quarts!” drawl
ed Charlie. “And how much did we
sell last week ?” “Five and a half!”
“An increase of a pint—trade is pick
ing right up; in fact, she’s moving
lively on brick row,” said Monroe, as
he turned and smiled blandly at the
man of samples.
Charles O’Conor’s Wooing.
Charles O’Conor’s peculiar wooing is
thus told by a Washington correspon
dent. The young and beautiful widow
of Commodore McCracken, of our navy
returned from abroad, and, finding her
financial affairs in a complicated state
went to Mr. O’Conor to get his legal
advice. Mr. O’Conor discovered that
the Commodore had died insolvent,
and the beautiful widow was left to the
cold mercies of a selfish world without
a penny to call her own. This he was
obliged to break to her, whereupon she
held up her hands in piteous dismay,
crying: “Oh, Mr. O’Conor, what shall
I do ? I who have lived in luxury all
my life!” “Madam,” said the great
lawyer, “the best abvice I can give you
is io marry me.” They were married.
Washington, D. C., March 21,1877
The sale at auction of the magnifi
cent Club House on New York avenue
is about the closing act of the drama
of the Ring Government which fas
tened itself upon our city and “stuck
closer than a brother” for four years,
at such a frightful cost to all tax-pay
ers and to the utter ruin of many
small property holders.
It is also one of the last steps taken
in the progressive decline of that once
powerful combination which shot up
like a rocket and came down like a
stick. Some of its most prominent
members a few years made such an
ostentatious and vulgar display of their
suddenly acquired wealth by exagger
ated measurements of miserably exe
cuted contracts, by their alleged dis
honest manipulations of the funds of
the Freedman’s Bank, and by other
means equally as disreputable, have en
tirely dropped out of sight leaving
nothing but the memory of theirmush-
roon grandeur for two or three fash
ionable seasons when they elbowed
the leaders completely off the stage.
But time has brought its compensa
tions to.those so uncerimoneously treat
ed ; and they can now return in kind
the humiliating slights put upon them
a few years ago. But we should not
be unjust. Mr. Shepherd, and from
his arbitrary methods and his reckless
expenditure of many is deserveing of
much credit for the splended improve
ments that have been left as a heritage
of this brief reign. No American city
has probably a more perfect system of
sewerage which with other improve
ments, has made Washington one of
the most healthy cities in the world.
The grading of the streets was another
of the gigantic accomplishments of
his administration; and other than the
streets laid with wood, the pavements
put down are iu a good state of repair.
Almost every street was lined with
choice shade trees to the extent of maDy
thousands, which, when growD, will leave
our city without a rival in that respect.
While Tweed and his satellites inciensed
the bonded and floating debt of New
York City nearly 8100,000,000 and have
little to show for it in the way of perma
nent improvements, many millions were
wasted or stolen here it is believed, but
we have all I have enumerated and much
in addition, to soften our resentments;
and while Boss Tweed was the most con
summate thief in the crowd, “Boss”
Shepherd retained the confidence of his
fellow-townsmeD, and they have mani
fested their good will in a generous way
since, when but for their forbearance he
must inevitably have gone under.
The board of army engineers desig
nated to test the foundations of the Wash
ington monument, has reported them am
ply sufficient for the superstructure as
originally contemplated. The shaft was
carried up 174 feet prior to the war and
remains in that ci.ndi:ioa to day. There
are now available the 8200,000 voted Con
gress, less the amount spent in the testing
experiment and its early completion is
confidently anticipated, although private
subscriptions to a considerable amount or
another appropriation will probably be
necessary to finish it It will make a
truly magnificent landmark when car
ried up 500 feet.
Louisiana and South Carolina ahairs
seem to absorb most of the attention of
the administration and the politicians at
present; and the complications they
present can but be very embarrassing to
the President and others anxious for a pa
cific solution of the bitter disputes, some
of them dating l ack to the close of the
Knox.
Execution of Lee.
The Mountain >!eadow Masserre Avenged—
Particulars of the Shooting—Lee Accuses
Brigham Young end the Prophei Gives
Him the Lie.
On the 23d inst. Lee was executed
upon the scene of massacre of the emi
grant train by a band of Mormons, of
which he was leader, at Mountain
Meadow Utah, in 1857:
After the order of the Court was read
to him and the company present by
Marshal Nelson, Lee made a speech of
about five hundred words, bitterly de
nouncing Brigham Young, and calling
himself a scapegoat for the sins of
others. He hoped God would be mer
ciful. He denied that he was guilty
of bloodshed to the last, and maintain
ed that his mission to the Meadow was
one of mercy. After the speech, Par
son Stokes, Methodist, made a prayer,
commending the scul of the condemn
ed man to God. Immediately after
this a handkerchief was placed over
Lee’s eyes. He raise! his hands and
placed them on top of his bead, sitting
firm. Marshal Nelson giving the word
“Fire 1” five guns fired, the balls pen
etrating the body In the region of the
heart. Lee fell square back on his
coffin—dead.
I^ee’s last words to Marshal Nelson
were; “Aim at my heart.”
Brimham Young makes publication
denying the truth of the confession
made by Lee, the Mountain Meadow
murderer. Lee throws the entire guilt
on the Mormon Church. Young says
any statement implicating him is utter
ly false. He says: “My course of life
is too well known by thousands of hon
orable men for them to believe for one
moment such an accusation.”
ing Mr. Tom Murphy, of New Yqrk, to
invest it in real estate in that cit^ and
Long Branch, he would nev»r»l£ve
known poverty. It may not be true
that he is poor, but such are the-Sories
afloat.— Washington Letter.
Not Ineligible.
A party writing to the New York Jour
nal of Commerce puts this question to that
journal:
If a United States Consul residing in
a foreign country has a child born
abroad, both parents being Ameri
cans, is that child a citizen of the United
States and eligible for the position ofSPres-
ident ? Yours respectfully,
A.R. ~
Reply.—The child of a citizen of the
United States who is residing as Consul
in a foreign country, born to him -while
the family is thus abroad, is a citizen by
virtue of his birthplace, but is not eligi
ble to the Presidency.
The Journal is mistaken in our
opinion. When the parents are- for
eign, then under the Constitution the
child is ineligible. But as citizens of the
United States, and holding office under
the government, the child is an American
citizen in every sense of the word, both in
the spirit and letter of the Constitution.
The birth was but an incident, casualty
or a happening.—Savannak News.
A Lunatic Sues Grant.
Suit was entered last week in the
Circuit Court of the District of Colum
bia, by Thomas Biggins, against ex-
President Grant for false imprison
ment, and $100,000 damages churned.
The plaintiff charges that the defendant,
on the 23d of March, 1875, in the city
of Washington, with force and arms,
assaulted, seized and laid hold of him,
and, with great force and violence,
pulled and dragged about the said
plaintiff, and also forced and compelled
him to go from and out of his (the
plaintiff’s) store on F street to police
headquarters, where he was imprisoned,
without reasonable and probable cause
whatever, for the space of twenty-four
hours, etc., etc. The records of the
detective office show that Thomas Big
gins was arrested on the charge of
threats at 5 o’clock, p. m., March 21,
1874, by the Metropolitan Police detec
tive, and was sent to the insane asylum,
his unsoundness of mind having been
certified to by Dra. Johnson, Elliott and
G. L. Magruder.' It is stated that threats
were made against General Grant,
whom he, Biggins, met as he was leav
ing the White House grounds for a
walk, and that Biggins, raising a stick,
said : “If I catch you at my bedside
again I’ll knock your head off.”
General Grant replied: “Well, when
you do, knock it ofl.”
Biggins, it will be remembered, was
before the committee on the adminis
tration of the affairs of the asylum as
a witness, a year ago, when he testified
about the spirit of General Grant being
at his bedside, etc.
Taking the Oa’h—An Episode.
Baltimore Sun’s Washington Special.]
When the oath was administered to
the new Cabinet this morning at the
White House they all stood up in line,
Evarts, McCrary, Devens, Key and
Shurz, Chief Justice Carter, of the
District Supreme Court, administered
the oath, the iron-clad so-called. He
read it until he came to the words, “you
do solemnly swear that you have neyer
voluntarily borne arms against the
United State,” when Mr. Kc-y interrupt
ed, exclaimed, „Huld on, Judge, I can’t
swear to that.” There was quite a
laugh, and Judge, Carter remarked in
Eta quaint —“That oattr -was goon
enough for us", sir, until you came in,”
when Mr. Key retired and the remain
der of the oath was read and assented
to by the other four. Afterwards it
was found that there was not a
copy of the modified oath in
the White House, and
had to be sent for to the State Depart
ment before it could be administer,d to
Mr. Key.
Encouragement for the Feeble.
Grant a Poor Man-
Grant is said to be a noor man. In
spite of all that the nation and friends
have done for him his wealth has
been swallowed up in unprofitable
speculations. It is said that for two
years the President has anticipated
his salary, every week, and drawn
from the Treasury the amount due
him. Mrs. Grant, in speaking of sor
row in leaving the White House, said
that she had had more money while
there than she ever saw before, and
that she had enjoyed a rest from all
the worries and cares of housekeeping,
and felt a dread of again taking up the
burden. General Grant does not seem
to have any bnsiness capacity, or he
would be rich with all the money he
has received for sixteen yearn. If he
Debility, whether it inherent, or
caused by overtaxed strength, or pro
tracted illness, has a most depressing
influence upon the rniud, breeding an
abject melancholy nearly akin to de
spair, and et forcing the abandonment of
cherished projects at,a high hopes.
Happily, the enfeebled system, eren
in extreme cases, is susceptible of in-
vigoration. It is proved by incontro
vertible evidence that Hostetter’s Stom
ach Bitters is an unfailing strergthener
of the weak, and that in addition to
virilizing the physical organization, it
establishes regularity among those or
gans upon whose efficient discharge of
the duties imposed on them by nature,
contintued vigor and health depend.
Thousands of instances might be cited
to show the regenerating influence of
The King and the Farmer.
he
“I
King Frederick, of Prussia, when
wsa out riding one day, saw an old far
mer, who was ploughing a field and
singing cheerfully over his work.
“You must be well off, old man
cried the King. “Does this acre belong
to you on which you'60 industriously
labor ?”
“No, sir,” replied the old man, who
of coarse had no idea that he was speak
ing to tne King; “I am not so rich
that. I plow for wages.”
“How much do you earn a day ?”
asked the Kiug. j
“Eight groschen,” returned the old
man. That would be about twelve
cents of our money.
“That is very little,’’ said the King,
“Can you get along with it?”
“Get along 1 yes, indeed, I have some
thing left.”
“How do you manage?”
“Well” said the fanner, smiling,
will tell you. Two,groschen are for
myself and my wife; with two I pay
my old debts, two I lend and two
give way for the Lord’s sake.”
“This is a mistery whieh I cannot
solve,” said the King.
“Then I must solve it for you,” re
plied the farmer.
“I have two old parents at home,
who kept me and cared for me when 1
was young and weak, and needed care.
Now that they are old and weak, I am
glad to keep and care for them. This
is my debt, and it costa me two groschen
a day to pay it Two more I spend on
my children’s schooling. If they are
living when their mother and I are
old, they will keep us and pay back
what I lend. Then with my last two
grochen I support my two sick sisters,
who cannot work for themselves. Ol
course I am not compelled to give
them the money, but I do it for the
Lord’s sake.”
“Well done, old man,” cried the
King as he finished. “Now, I am
going to give you something to guesa
Haye you ever seen me before?*’
“No,” said the farmer.
“ In less than five minutes you shall
see me fifty times, and carry in youi
pocket fifty of my likenesses.,’
“This is indeed a riddle which
cannot guess,” said the fanner.
“Tneu I will solve it for you,” re
turned the King; and with that he put
his hand into his pocket, and palling
out fifty gold pieces, placed them
the hands of the farmer.
“The. coin is genuine ” said the King
“for it also comes from our Lord God,
and I am his paymaster. I bid you
good-bye.”
And he rode off, leaving the good old
man overwhelmed with supprise and
delight.
Tupper on the South and the
President
While Martin Farquhar Tupper the
distinguished English poet, was in
Baliimore the other day he was inter
viewed by a reporter. Fr m that in
terview we make the extract below,
The reporter asked in what respect the
South especially seemed to him dif
ferent to vhut he had been accustomed
to regard it prior to his recent visit
there:
Mr. Tupper: “Well, in many ways
—the alleged cruelty to her slaves, or
servants as they called them, as an ex
ample. What I saw and heard upon
the spot caused me to reflect how much
traduced the Southern people have
been. Instead of the cruellies and
estrangements reported I found there
was the utmost kindness between the
two races, and this hour many of the
faithful black people are staying by
their poor ruined masters, ana serving
them absolutely for nothing. I for
merly believed with the majority
people in England that the scenes de
picted in Uncle Tom’s Cabin’ were the
rule—I find they were the exception,
I also, by the by, made the acquaint
ance of Messrs. Tilden and Hayes dur
ing my brief sojourn in America.”
Reporter: “Did you have any pref
erence foreithei in the Presidential con
test?”
Mr. Tupper: “Well, as regards their
parties of course I had not. I know
t iere are good men in the ranks of
both, but individually Mr. Hayes was
my favorite.”
Reporter: “Why ?”
Mr. Tupper: “Well. I consider
him the more genial gentleman of the
two, and besides, he recognized in me
a book friend of his. He kne v and
appreciated my works, and, of course,
ve proved congenial spirits on many
subjects. Mr. Tilden did not impress
«io so favorably.
Infomation for Postoffice Feek-
era.
Prepare a carefully worded petition
setting forth your qualifications and
procure as many signatures as you can.
this health-giving agent in cases of de- (They should be written by different
bility, liver disease, dyspepsia, nervous persons and with differing shades of
ailments, constipation, intermittent ink. Where a cross mark is_necessary
fever, urinary and uterine troubles,
gout and rheumatism, and other mala
dies.
A question Worth Fifty Thous
and Dollars.
A New York letter, apropos of the
Vanderbilt will case, says : “The sud
den breakdown of the contestants was
so unexpected that even some of thi
lawyers were taken by surprise.^ Tl*
apperance of William E. Evarts in to
case was almost as great a surpprise a
the backdown of the contestants. Mi
Evarts came from Washington onlr
the day before, ‘to settle up his private
affairs,’ we are told,“ prior to assuming
the duties of that State department,
When he enterred the court room jui
before the case was called, every bod
looked at him in astonishment. H
only nart in the proceedings was
suggest a single question tohisassociat
Henry L. Clinton, during the examii
ation of a witness to the execution
the will. His fee, it is said, will
$50,000. All the lawyers are to be paM,
of couse, and I judge it will take
snug little furtune to dispose of the)
the witnesses might be a Justice of
Peace and a Notary Pnblic. When
the papers are all complete enclose
them in a nice gold-colored envelope,
addressed in plain hand to Hon. D M,
Key. Postmaster General, Washington
D. C. Then wait patiently eight days
and you will receive the following re
ply in lithograph—many thousand
copies of which are now going through
the mails:
Postoffice Deparment, Washing
ton.— Sir: Your letter of the has
been received and placed upon the files
of the department for consideration
under the rules of civil service, when
vacancies occur. At present none exist.
D. M. Key.
Postmaster General.
Curious Advertising.
Philadelphia Times ]
We are a little doubtful about mi
ing the requirements of the folio;
advertisment clipped from the ”
but we give it a chance :
WANTED—A married
rag carpet weaver may probable
of something to his advantage by
dressing F. 35, Ledger office. ™
state qualifications,
What particular pattern of rag
pet is described as Christian; whi
it is a carpet made of Christian':
or whether it is the rags that are
ried, or the carpet, or the Chrigtiai or
what merits a married Christian sg
carpet has over carpets that are £ gle
and pagan, we do not know; but i my
reader of the Times can* weave s h a
carpet, we shall be glad to know hat
he has heard something to his a an-
tage. We only ask in return th he
Simon’s Sacrifice.
I would not lire *lw*y,
1 wish not to- *Uy,
Whore a pitiless widow
Frowns dark o’er my way
She giro* mo no reit;
She allows me no oheer;
So I’ll gather np my dnda, Don,
And get out of here.
Bat let it be said,
As I raniia from view,
That I Rare up my seat, Dob,
To giro it to you.
Why Advertise ?
People sometimes ask why does Dr.
R. V. Pierce, of Buffalo, N. Y., epepd
so much money in advertising his fam
ily medicines, which arc so well known
and surpass all other remedies in pop
ularity and sale. It is well known that
A. T. Stewart considered it good policy,
and undoubtedly it paid him to spend
many hundred thousand dollars in ad
vertising bis goods, yet nobody ques
tioned the excellence pf hjs merchan
dise. The grand secret of success lus
in offering only goods which possess
merit to sustain themselves, and then
through liberal and persistent adyer-
rising, making the people thoroughly
acquainted with their good cjualitie?.
Men do not succeed in amassing great
fortunes, establishing thriving and per*
manent bnsiness, and founding sub
stantial institutions like Dr. Pierce’s
had confined Ids capital to the purchase will let ns know the qualificatioi for .Grand Invalids Hotel at Buffalo, which
of government bonds, instead of allow-1 such a remarkable industry.
costs over two hundred thousand dol
lar^ nnless their business be legitimate,
their goods meritorious, and their ser
vices which they render the people
genuine and valuable. Dr. Pierce does
not attempt to humbug you by telling
you that his Golden Medical Discovery
will cure all diseases. He says, “If
your lungs are half wasted by con
sumption, my Discovery will not cure
you, yet as a remedy for severe coughs,
and all curable bronchial, throat, and
lung affections, I believe it to be un
surpassed as a remedy.” The people
have confidence in his medicines be
cause he does not over recommend
them, and when tried they give satis
faction. His Medical Adviser, a book
of over nine hundred pages, illustrated
by two hundred and eighty-two engra
vings and bound in cloth and gilt, is
offered to the people at so moderate a
price ($1.50, post-paid), that it is no
wonder that almost one hundred thou
3and have already been sold. His
memorandum books are on every drug
gist’s counter for free distribution.
Mr. Secretary Thompson has never
served two years before the mast, but
ifcis affirmed that his nautical acquire
ments are more varied than were those
of President Taylor’s Secretary of the
Navy. When the official first boarded
a man-of-war at the Gosport Navy-yard
he paused before the hatchway, gave a
startled glance downward and ex
claimed, “Great Cserar’s Ghost! if the
thing isn’t hollow 1
New Advertisements.
i- Libel for Divorce.
Mary J. Golden cs. Nathan L. Golden—
Libel for Divorce in Paulding Superior Court.
February Term, 1877.
I T APPEARING TO THE COURT BY THE
return of the Sheriff that the defendant dete
not reside in this county, and it further
appearing that he does not leside
In this Bute, It is on motion of counsel ordered
that laid defendant appear and answer at the
next term of this Court, else that the case be
considered in default and the plaintiff be allowed
to proceed. And it is further ordered that this
rale be published in some public gazette in this
State once a mouth for four months.
J. W. UNDERWOOD, J. S. C R, C.
I certify the above is a true extract f rcrn rr >1
utea of Court, February Term. 1877.
J. S. GREENE, C. S. C.
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Letters of Dismission.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
•T7HEREA8. R. D. HARVEY, Administrator
VV of Wm. H. Youel, represents to the Court
in his petition, duly filed and entered on record,
»bat he has fnlly administered Wta. H. Youel’i
estate, this is, therefore, to cite all persons con
cerned, kindred and creditors, to show cause, if
any they can, why said administrator should not
be discharged from his adm nistration and re
ceive letters of dismission on the first Monday
m July, 1877. MaTch 22, 1877.
H. J. JOHNSON, Ordinary.
R. D. HARVEY. D. B. HAMILTON
HARVEY & HAMILTON,
Attorneys at Law,
ROME, GA.
Office First floor, Broid Street,oppcsito Nortcn’i
store.
marl Owfim
Moke Steam Elies
Prepared to Moxmt!en Any Ordinary
Farm Wagon.
4-Horse Power Engine, complete,
8 Horse " “ "
8 Horse u “ “
- $.150 00
- 475 00
. 650 00
fiend for illustrated circular.
SCHOFlELEn'S IRON WORKS,
Macon, Ga.
fel,tw-w4m
Commissioner’s Sale of Ridge
Valley Iron Property.
GEORGIA, Floyd County.
UBSUANT TO A DECREE OF FLOYD
or Court, in Chancery, will be w
First Tuesday in April, 1S77,
hefor® ihe Court House door of said ccun-
ty, ia the city of Rome,
and singular the property of said Ridge Valley
Irrn Company, real, personal and mixed. The
terms of the sale shall be cash, subject, however,
to thi6 qualification: that for so much of the
corpus ot the property as is covered and em
braced in the mortgage’given to seenre the $20,-
000 of first mortgage bonds issued by the Com
pany, tbe said bonds may be received as cash,
provided the pu»cbaser shall offer und bid for the
mortgage property the full amount of said bonds
and interest accrued, and 10 percent, additional
—said 10 per cent to be paid ia cash; provided.
also, that the first mortgage bonds aforesaid shall
not be r ceived to the exclusion of aoy claim
which is by law entitled to an equal or superior
lien upon the “ mortgage property,” but tbe pur
chaser offering said bond* shall be bald and
bound to perform the judgment and decree o<
the Court touching said claims.
If the sale aforesaid shall be made for cash
then tbe price of said mortgaged property ie
limited to the minimum sum of $20,000.
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 Cherokee but now Floyd and
Bartow counties, known as lots numbers 5S 60
21, 20. 22, 50, 63, 84, aud the east half of 57, all
the 23rd district and 3rd «>ction, also num
bers 81, 29,30 and 1, in the 16th district and 3rd
section, and number 16, in tbe 15tb district ana
3rd section, containing in all 2,: 60 acres of land,
more or less, and also all tbe bouses, furnaces,
engines, machiue-y and fixtures located upon or
attached to said lands.
Also, will be sold, at the aaroo time and place,
f"f cash, whatever right or interest the said
Ridge Valloy Iron Company may have to certain
lands covenanted to be sold to said Company by
C. W. Hush, as set up 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 tbe west half of lot
number 57, in the 23rd district aad 3rd Bcction
which lies south of tbe Kingston road, and con
taining 20 57-100 acres. Also the privilege of
timber on lot S9, in the 16th district and 3rd sec
tion. Also lot number 62, in the 16th district
and 3rd section.
Terms for all the above and foiegoing, except
the mortgaged property, will bo cash.
r t. Hargrove,
feb27,td Sales Commissioner.
GRAND ATTRACTION!
We a-e now recsiving and opening, at No. 19, Shorter Block, one of tie
Largest and Pect Assorted Stocks of Dry Goods Ever Brought to
this Market,
To which worespactfu'iy invite the attvutn.n of our fri* nds and customers, ard the public ten
orally. O u r S;o*k he* been selected with cre&t c*t~, and is suited 8
to the aaLts of rh« people of loth ci’j and com-try.
To the Lidits we offer to a handsome sb^c\ of lashonable and styliMi Dress and White Goods,
make a speciality of Ladies’ Fine Custom-Made Shoes, of whieh our stock Is complete.
We have, a'so, a fine stock of
Hats, Caps and Sents’ Furnishing Goods, etc-, etc
SATISFACTION
CUARANTEED.
KNOX & PARKS.
mh24 tw-wly
CU^TOM-MAI) 15 SHOES!
ADLER & CLEMENT,
Manulactures of
Ladies’, Misses’ and Children’s Fine Shoe’.
The following is the report of the Juigct t> tie “Centennial Com tiisuou”:
AWARDING DIPLOMA AND MEDAL
For SUPERIOR WORKMANSHIP in the FITTING and FINISB.,
For the PROPER PROPORTION of the Shoes-
For the GOOD QUALITY of the Material.
Just Received and Constantly Kept on Hand
the Above-Named Superior Slioes.
R. S- NORTON & SON.
SPECIAL NOTICE!
THE WHITE SEWING MACHINE!
Parties thinking of Buying a Sewing Machine
will find it to their interest to see and try
the new Machine I have for sale, be
fore purchasing. It is
BOUND TO SUPERCEDE ALL OTHERS! £
^3?“No matter what agents of oth*r machines may have to say. - ©!?;.
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It will prove itself. And it comes from FIFTEEN TO TWENTY DOLLARS LESS IN PBIC2
and • for svpcrior, in every respect.
E. C. HOUGH,
Merchant Tailor,
09 Broad Street, Home, Ga.
1877 bPSING STOCK! 1877
W. T. MCWILLIAMS & Co.!
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PEICES GUARANTEED ASTEW AS ANY MARKET ^
In the United States!
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w. t. McWilliams & co.
1877
OLD RELIABLE
1877,
SOLUBLE PACIFIC GUANO
COMPOUND ACID PHOSPHATE!
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COPARTNERSHIP.
FORD & DWINELL,
] Jeal Estate Agents.
HAVE FORMED A
th* firm aime and
for th© purpose of
buying and selling real estate, or renting prop
erty on commission. Orders to bny or sell wild
lends or improved property in upper Georgia
I. D. FORD,
M. DWINELL.
Ga., Mav 20. 1875. — tw-wti
To Sell or Lease.
WOULD LIKE TO EITHER SELL UY
Residence or Lease it tor several years to a
good family whs would take care of the prep
erty. It is outside of the corporate limits of
Boms and free from eity tax, yet so situated as
to be convenient for business, churches and
schools. The house is commodious, with nine
yooms, besides out-buildings, having a good well
aad two splendid cisterns. The premises em
brace nine acres, and have yielded this year bay
enough to winter ten or twelvs head of horses
and cattle, besides the graxing grounds, orchard
and garden. All in good order.
Ia my absence, apply to Forsyth A Reese.
This October 3,1878.
oct5,tf R. D. HARVEY.
HOME-MADE SHOES!
W , ire no. making good wHoIo-s lock ahoea in
ouratora, which w« will toll at aama price*
i Northern made ahoea are told ia other places.
These fhoaa art all mad. of good, well-tanned
leather, and pegged by hand, and are real good
ahoea.
Va alao keep np our atook of Eaatern-made
noTj.wfim
M. F. GOVAN dt CO.,
11 Broad St, Boma,Qa.
FOR COMPOSTING.
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Guano sold in this market. EuTO
They contain as large a per cent, of Ammonia, Soluble Phos wos 1
phoric Acid and Potash as any Guano now to C(
before the Public. woul(
They have boon tested in the soil of this section lor the' last eight years, and Ga
ing o
I again present to the Planting Community the above
HIGH GRADE FERTILIZERS,
For the season cf 1ST 7 , assuring the pnblic that they are fully np to the standard of tbe very
NOT FOUND WANTING!
nnpa
As an evidence of their popularity, It is only necesfary to say that the production and sale ot » j
Pacific Guano Company i
at on
More Than Any Other Company In the World! ry’ 8
J settle
STOCK ALL FRESH AND GENUINE, AND FULL WEIGHTS
*8“ Prices Lower Than Anything in
s©- the Market of the Same Grade!
For Analysis and tern-s, apply to
A. J. LITTLE, Agent,
At Horn & McGhees, Rome, <3a
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Towers Plows!
& S. BONES & CO. are the Offlf
Parties Selling, or Authorized to
Sell, Plows Under My Patent,
in the City of Rome.
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