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nq ESTABLISHED IN 1S43. THE COURIER has a Inrgc and steady circu lation in Cherokee Georgia, and Is the best ad vertising medium in this section. Mr D W iiV KLL, Proprietor. Wednesday Morning, —Jan. 9,1878 They say that Grant has gone to Mount Vesuvius because he is fond of the crater. Tiie 8th of January, 1815, sixty-three years ago, Gen. Jackson put cotton bales to a good use at New Orleans. We are glad to welcome the Atlanta Daily Tribune to bur list of exchanges It is published by the Tribune Pub lishing Company, with Chas. H. Will iams, manager, and is filled with inter esting news. We wish it success. Mr. Hayes is a regular deceiver. He does right occasionally, which is a sore disappointment to tho Radicals who put him in office contrary to the voice of the people, and does a little better than honest men expected he would, “Each New Englander looking into the face of another New Englander sees the reflection of the noblest speci men of humanity,” said Mr. Evarts, in his New England dmnetipeech. “Yes,” says the Courier-Journal, “there is Ben Butler looking into the face of George Boutwell, for instance, and Billy Charidi ler looking into the face of Daniel Chamberlain,for instance.” Anterior .to 1858 the production of gold in the United States footed up, in round numbers, 8530,000,000, of which period, the greatest' production for one year was 865,000,000, in 1S53. BVom 185S to 1875 the aggregate production, in round numbers, was 8807,700,0Q0 of gold (with 8260,450,000 in silver) mak ing the aggregate of- coin yielded’ by the country, to include 1875, $1,332,- 000,000, and of silver 8261,450,000. O; this silver the Comstock lode has fur nished 8199,824,304. Recorder Hackett, of New York, on Friday sentenced George Robinson for stealing law books, or attempting to steal them, from Ex-Governor Tilde::. He is reported as usingthe following language: “George Robinson, yon have pleaded guilty to grand larcey. You were caught in the act of stealing law books from the office of Samuel J. Tilden. Now, it was despicably mean for yon to steal from the gentleman from whom the Presidency of the United States had re cently beej stolen... I sentence you to two years and six months in State prison.” had had the honesty to confess that be is a great rascal, and the grace, to show signs of contrition, Judge Brady could hot even then have failed to award the proper penalty in so flagrant a case. But to attempt to browbeat a Judge into mitigating his sentence . was equally brazen and idiotic. When this felon had concluded his impudiift/speech Judge Brady pre- faced his sentence with some very plain and wholesome remjl^s. If the paan had po38QBed~^rf5r'*4ftnUaiit:'of a-con science he would have wilted under Jiidge Brady’s characterization" 1 of lus infamy. The Judge told him that he had invited this severity of comment by his harangue, the points of which the Judge took up and demolished. • To Lambert’s tirade against the press Judge Brady replied that the press of the city had simply done its duty in holding op this swindler as a warning. Said the Judge: ‘‘You have also denounced and stigmatized the press. The press was justly interested in your convic tion.' The very instant you were con victed the whole community had a right to know that you received the penalty of your crime, and the press, as embodying the collective voice'of the country, waB quite justified in com menting with great severity -upon the evidence on which you have been proven guilty, and I do not mean to express any other than decided appro bation of the views the press has taken $uj:liis subject.” condition of the streets m that city. 'tote,of Bamesville, open- Some of the calculations of profit to come from the Eastern war have sad! miscarried. Tiie suspension of the Jew ell Brothers, proprietors of the Brooklyn City Mills, the largest flouring establish ment in the country, was owing mainly to that cause. On the breaking out ot the war thc7 hruupit Ijraln uorjr linuVlIy i expec'ing an increased demand from abroad arid au advance in prices. -In stead of that tlieie was a falling off in prices of twenty to thirty cents’a bushel in wheat. These losses incurred, in connection with others have forced the concern into suspension. New York uiapatch to the Baltimore Sun: “It is quite patent now that the temper of the cotton trade is again bull ish. They snap their fingers, at the big receipts last week—232,000 bales, with a promise of 220,000 this week— and take their stand on the statistical position of the staple. The receipts are now heard of because of the general settling up with the hands for the year, and cotton is hurried forward accord ingly. January, however, it is pre dicted, will witness a marked decrease and an excited market. Some of our bankers are investing In cotton, and have been from 11.50 downwards.” RtSCAUTy BREWING. We all found out early in 1877 that S was more than 7, and another iUus- tration of the same principle in mathe matics was given us when Patterson was awarded a seat in Congress as a Senator from South Carolina. Now, Patterson is sick, and has been for a long time, and perhaps tho twangs of conscience have caused him to speak of resigning the office he knows he ought not to hold, before he is taken hence, in order to do something toward re storing what he has wrongfully taken The Senate is so nearly even on a polit ical division that the Radicals at Wash ington are trying to hatch up an excuse for keeping out a Democrat, who would succeed Patterson, if he should resign. With the vote of Mr. Wheeler, acting as Vice-President, the credentials of Patterson’s successor could be referred to a committee, and that committee could pigeon-hole the matter as long as it might be nece-sary to subserve the purposes of Mr. Conkling and other haters of tho South, trutli and justice. FOST-MOHTEH. One bleak winter night a poor ‘exile from Erin sat, shivering and blue, over the smouldering embers of a dying fire. He had about given 'up-all : hope of success in life, and,in the’fullness of his heart, poured out his sorrows to an equally unfortunate friend', who sat By his side.. ‘’Teddy;’’ said he,' “I am not long for this world, indade I would not be surprised to wake up in .the morn-, ing and find'myself dead.” We were not so well prepared as was the Hiber nian to wake up yesterday morning :.nd find ourself dead. But such is the fact, and the Tribune did it, and did it with a few bricks thrown in the inter est of Mr. Hill. ..Ail 'hat we can say now wiil not alter our condition, but a decent regard for our memory compels us to pen these few lines, just to eay that.when we wrote what we did about Mr. Hill’s views on the silver , and re sumption question, we had not read the editorial in the Atlanta Constitu tion which the Tribune charges us witlj; rehashing. The article was written as we read the “proof 1 of'tho Interview with Mr. Hill, and the remarks were suggested by what we thought its apparent thinness. We were also fully advised as to the option of the Government to call in and pay off five-twenty bonds at any. time after five j’ears from their issuance, and of the same option after ten years in re gard to the ten-forties. But at the rate they are being called in it would take about two thousand .years to get them all in, and we did not feel like we had time to wait so long to see the end of this paying of interest in gold. It is well known that bonds at a low rate of interest hive been put on the market'and kept th'erff foV "some’ time, but nobody wants them. About all that is done is just about enough to make a living for some people, or some syndicate, that gets a commission for selling them. The present bonded d“bt of the United States is near two thou sand millions of dollars, and at the rate of progress made in the last few years, the conversion of the present bonds into bonds paying a lower rate of inter est might be accomplished, a3 before said, in about two thounsar.d years. In his interview Mr. Hill says: “If we continue the bonds at the present high rate, wo continue the chances of these hond-holders getting all the benefits of a premium on gold thirty or forty years hence, which is certainly madness. In our remarks upon that subject, last Tuesday morning, we said: “The idea that a bond due thirty to forty years hence, bearing six per cent, would he exchanged for one bearing only four per cent, seems to us absurd. There is no business sense in such a transaction. This might occur if the bond had reached maturity? but Mr. Hill takes mm GEORGIA GLIMPSES. Spalding county is out of debt ' The Atlant#^a| 1 ' of the Gordon ed, it is reported, with 200 pupils. The Odd Fellows of Marietta bad a plasant re-unnion and supper on the 27th ult. The Post-office receipts at Savannah for 1877 were $47,271.60, the' expensts, 827J>2£29.^^^ ^ jaressed bacon. The.EIherton .Gazette rejoices over the fact .that the railroad tp^apfSbct that town salt and 100 lbs. land plaster, and such manure as he gets about, the bam-yard and wood-pile and brush settlings. He burn3 his own lime, and gets land plaster from Saltville, Va. He saves his cotton eeed for wheat and com land He does not make cotton to sell at 9 cents when it coats him 13 cents to pro- duce it, as the Bureau at Atlanta shown; when corn costs 81 per bushel and pressed bacon 15 to 18 cents per .poppL By ihp way, the Legislature ought to ffeIonize Ahe party who STRICT JUSTICE. Dr. Lambert, President of the Popu lar Life Insurance Company, was re cently convicted of perjury in swearing to false returns of the company, and sentenced to five years in the peniten tiary. The New York Herald deals with him with gloves off, Eaying: The notorious Dr. Lambert, convicted of perjury- last week, when called up for sentence managed to create a scene which is quite unusual on such occa sions. We doubt if there ever existed a man who was quite his equal in im pudence. He always had the com bined impudence of a charlatan and a tremendous bore, but he yesterday added to this the triple brass of a case- hardened criminal. He stood up and made a jaunty speech of two hours at Judge Brady, in which he tried to pro cures- m>ld sentence by the hopeful method of brazenly denying his guilt and abusing the jury, thp .Witnesses, the Judge himself, and especially the press gity ffhich J|ad commented on forty years to run.” And for a special purpose and reason we referred to Mr. Hill’s idea of bonds at the present high rate of interest, payable thirty or forty years hence, which purpose and rea son, we think, are more apparent to even a casual observer by bringing the two extracts so nearly together. Another question used to puzzle us, and that is, if bonds bearing five and six per cent, in gold can be converted into the same kind of hoods bearing four per cent, in gold, why cannot five and six per cent, bonds, payable in silver and gold, be converted into four per cent, bonds payable in silver and gold 1 We always had a suspicion that the only’ question with the bond-hold er was how long would the United States continue to pay five and six per cent, interest in gold, and that his pur pose and aim were to deceive the peo ple by having tho Treasurer sell a mill ion or so of four per cent, bonds, in or der to keep the people quiet, and make them think “conversion” was going on. But always thought that was thin. The suddenness of our taking off yes terday was no more a surprise to us than the source whence it came. We had thought that the Tribune was con ducted and ruled in the same gentle spirit that made “Uncle Toby” immor tal, and that it would humanely raise the window to liberate the meanest creature. But we are gone, and kissing our band to those we leave behind, like Chops, the dwarf, we will “go three times round the carawan, and retire behind the curtain.” with the Air-Line is nearly completed. Augusta wants a goverment building erected for the use of the national busi ness departments.. Hen. A. H. Stephens has been applied to... Five of. the merchants of Montezuma, says tno Weekly, have been forced by cir cumstances and the Sheriff to close door* during the past month. RSI »lil The Earner’s Club of Morgan Coun ty,^ prosperous organization, is said to baVe a library of one hundred volumes and six monthly magazines. The Marietta Journal says some par ties were vexed because .George Frown was not hung’last Friday. His case is taken to the Supreme Court . The County'Coinmissroneis of Tike._ have given au order on the Treasurer for 8180 to Mr. IV, P, Bussey, who finally secured the murderer of Mft Ballard ot that county B ! f«WMrwtk« ag6. Mining operations in North Georgia have been somewhat interfered with by recent rains, bnt aside from this, remarks the Gainesville' Southron, there hefter was so much activity in, the. upper Georgia mines as to-day, nor with moro uniform success.' .'t-.i n •» ;.-.it J jiugusta News: A few.daysagoa mad dog. was discovered bating and creating havoc among some - cattle and hogs in Beech .Island, about - a mile from Capt. Paul HammondVriisideDee The dog ran at a little boy and bit him, fearfully, lacerating his neck and arms.’ A negro man passing near in a wagon, seeing this, boldly leaped down aud fearlessly seizing the dog by the neck cut his throat and put an end to hie mad career. The boy who was bitten has felt none of the effects of the bite as yet. and no symptoms of hydropho bia have appeared, but it is feared that the disease will come upon him. The colored man who rescued him and killed the dog deserves the highest praise for his noble and perilous deed Letter from Bartow County.- Taylorsville, Dec. 29,1877. To the Editor of The Courier: I have been here about twenty days, and wish to give you an account of this village and Rockmart and their sur roundings. This place is situated on the Cartersville and Cherokee railroad, jles fiom the former place, pieasantnuie~ town, with good’blue limestone water, and a population about like Kingston, Ga., and situated about one mile from the celebrated Euharlee creek, so famous for good lapdj gnd slightly famous for a few chills occasionally. - 'This is healthy place, and the water is good for constitutions requiring an antacid to promote digestion. The citizens are thrifty, energetic and hospitable, and number several very excellent business men. The town is noted for its lum ber and timber business, shipping im mense quantities of planed timber, rough lumber, shingles, laths, and even an auundance of the finest torch pine im aginable. Oh, what a luxury to live in a toich-pine region, compared to the bleak, rocky, pineless country in which I did live lately. Quantities of lumber and bridge timber are shipped from this place to Memphis, Nashville and to the lumber yards of Atlanta. The pice is of the long-leaf variety, and is as sound, straight, clear of knots as any you can find in lower Georgia. There are some four or five circular saw mills in this vicinity, and all do a fine and prosperous business, affording good employment for many persons, and also for many teams. Lime is made here in gteat abund- us an example bonds with thirty to ance - Several farmers bum their own lime, and mix it liberally with fertil izers. Senator McDonald, in a speech at Indianapolis last week, predicted the passage of the silver bill,-if necessary, over the veto of the President and the repeal of the resumption act, with mod ifications. Churches are plenty in the neighbor hood, and are mostly Baptist and Meth odist. I saw one Hard Shell church while en route to Rockmart lately. I attended the Baptist, church lately at Salem and heard Parson Owens preach a decidedly interesting sermon of a length not very popular, as he occupied two hours on a day not very balmy. This town gives evidence of intelli gence, as they have an excellent acad emy, large enough to accommodate 60 pupils, which shows clearly and emphat ically that the schoolmaster is abroad. I understand that they have a school here to teach double-entry book-keep ing, and that it is patronized by the citizens. The morals of the town are very good, and the order kept is like the day3 of Sam Stewart at Rome. At night the town is as still as a planta tion. If a man makes a noise here he is dealt with instanter, and before he knows it he is boused for the night. The artisans of the town seem gener ally busy, and there is room for mo r e good mechanics to keep the work going. The lands around are generally level and productive, especially the lands on the Euharlee. The cultivator plow would run finely here, as there are very rock. Mr. Israel Davis, an old gentle^ man of 70, (I would not say so if he was a widower) has some splendid land on Hill’s creek, about one and one-half miles from' this place. He has grown rich by farming, and told me that he.commenced life with nothing be yond his physical endowments. He does not use the imported guanos that contain. more s°nd and ashes than phosphoric acid, but U3es a compound of his own, and made as follows: To 6 bushels of slacked lime he puts 100 lbs. 555w^Veiyf proof that she has got; the famouB and celebrated “Bill clohd^d throughout the day. The air was ciisp but not cold, and everybody th?t could be tempted out by favorable er was early abroad. The crowd White House rivalled those of mes in size and variety of make- he decorations for the observance : silver weddiug of the evening had been left fn situ, and the profusion of flowers everywhere lie about the rooms imparted a of.tropical mildness. The regula- irogramme was observed throngh- the admission of callers. Mem- of foreign legations, Judges of the tame Court, representatives of the ibered among her citizens.,, army and navy, officers of the District lie mineral resources of this countyT&irta, Court of Claims, survivors of are.fine, Abounding in all the valuable war of 1812, Senators and Repre- and most nsefuL There have been sev eral kaolin and mica specimens shown me, beside the paint stone * formatic of which I have. seen. gMd apecimenfcf t ot the red and white varieties. Not some Northern confpany would, these specimens and^have 500 of each in Ne w York id a short 1 This railroad has passed it hands of Messrs. Crew & Co. itatives, the Oldest Inhabitants' As- ion, and the “sovereigns” by thon- 1 were there and were admitted in order of the precedence to which ial ettiquette has assigned them, foreign diplomats were in “fnll art dress” with swords dangliDg at heels and covered with the dec- ions won in the military, naval or vil service by intrigue and finesse, or York. I hope the narrow gauge'.Jca 01 won at tat accorded through n ' a. III vJ _ L _1 IIL- 'J -J il Aiimnnam Tho eVintir nf rri 11 anrl hrOQQ Rockmart wili he abolished, and the: no more unloading.care-Kt:this I have no doubt the iron CedartoWn Will takestock.if , and ■ extend the ' road .«•- tq'-Getfai^ which, no doubts will be a tarn ee long, as it is in. close proximity t»a LVorirism. The show of gilt and braes other tinsel trappinge by the heroes our own army and navy was quite inffident for all the requirements rf taste and modesty. The manner d dress of the dignified legislator, in the black broadcloth deemed good cotton.'reigibn. The furnaces thee - ! essential to establish his character as a (isn’t afford tb-hanl, by wagon, irono>X&ntleman, were in sharp contrast with Rockmart much' longer. I suppose*™ old Maryland or Virginia ^grienl- Genf McRea. of the State Road, is ap-Wiet who humidly got inside his pointed superintendent of this road. Tome-spun and home-made “best suit ’ I I cannot close without referring to W 86611 service on man Y BimUar the bind hospitality which greeted mef°P a8i ° D8 in P 38 * y ( ? r3 ’ and l “* by one.of the oldest and beet citizens of ^ wash his face or hands or black his Van Wert, who formerly lived at Rome ooots, came to town early, joined the Dr'S B -Pearce^ •; a .: t wrong at the White House, marched • !•! * :?:v - Bartow County. l^p ^ his turn to shake hands with j? . -> : — , 9m' ^ ■ ' Mrs. Hayes and then to mix in the Wa shineton Correspondence, i in the “East Room ” -«fTfaere was also the snob and young Washington, Dec. 31,1877. A nameless outrage was recently ] ■ swell “got up regardlec*,” etc., his lpty head already fuddled by his petrated in the northeast section of thislearly potations, which finally floored city. The victim] a girl a v out sixteen.,him at a later hour in the day. The years of age, was waylaid soon aftei typical tramp was also present, filthy dark, dragged into an alley, aud lt-fl and ragged, bnt happy withal in con- nearly dead from the brutal treatment templating the “creature comforts” that to which she was subjected, and from awaited his presence, at the residences fright. The better class of resident! of those keeping “open house,” and were much ' excited, and lynch la- was openly advocated. A negro sui pected of the crime was arrested an>i tried, but the evidence was not suffi cient to secure conviction. The im pression was made that bad it been much more conclusive the colored jury : men would - have resisted a verdict guilty. This appears founded on generally prevalent feeling that the matter of color would have unconscious: ly influenced them, even were they conscientiously striving to render verdict in accordance with the law evidence. The acquittal of the accuse 1 exasperated many, and this feeling distrust .seems to have extended to the whole colored population. Last iwuiun li&l rage, bnt more brutal and revolt was committed in the same neighbor hood. The girl was knocked down and ■beaten till unconscious, and she was found in that condition half sunk in SIC the‘“mud-bed' where ehe bKH-MM feented, whose highest ambition .is' to gentlemen, right here and now.” hnebJ dragged by her miscreant captor. Tie barking of a dog first attracted the at tention of some one happening by, who immediately summoned police aid. The girl is very seriously, though prob ably not critically injured. This new provocation aroused the vicinity, and had the offending beast been caught he would have been summarily punished at the nearest lamp-post or tree, the two men arrested the first was lib erated when the victim declared him innocent of the assault; she was not satisfied as to the identity of the other, and it was only this doubt she express ed that saved him. He now awaits her recovery, in a station-house; and should she then decide himguily, only the most ample police protection will insure him against bodily harm, large meeting of the residents of that section was held Saturday, at which many speeches were made, opeDly or tacitly encouraging this lynch law spir- The colored residents are to be notified by 500 conspicuously posted notifications that they must disprove the suspicions now harbored against them by zealously co-operating in the efforts to capture and punish the brute, or they will be accounted in sympathy with him and treated accordingly. Vol unteer patrolmen were designated for duty in addition to the insufficient po lice force allowed that part of the city; contributions were solicited and made to carry out the various suggestions dopted by the meeting; and Congress is to be memorialized to change the penalty for this crime from imprison ment to hanging. The fact is these are only incidents of the general spirit of reckless criminality laigely dominating the national capital. Hundreds of re spectable people declined leaving tbeir homes Christmas day—were virtually prisoners in their own homes—because of the control exercised that day by the ruffian element Drunkenness is ram pant, and on the increase. Gamblers are warned of every raid meditated against their establish meets in some mysterious manner; and, altogether, morals were rarely at a lower ebb. Knox. Washington, Jan. 2,1878. The contrast between Jan. 1, 1877, and Jan. 1, 1878, meteorologically speaking, was very marked, and the evident partiality in our behalf yester day was thoroughly appreciated by the thousands crowding our streets from daylight till the day ceased at midnight The first day of the year just consigned to the grave of dead years, was ushered in by a driving, blinding snow storm, rare far this latitude. The gale howled all day, and before its close twelve good inches of solid snow lay on the streets and house-tops. New Year’s calls were made under the most un pleasant circumstances. Yesterday morning broke fair and gentle; and the genial fac6 of the sun remained tin- >. upon this day of days, could not tall choose their guests. Rspresenta- of the gentler sex were numerous, and clearly established tbeir ability to take care of themselves in a crowd, The wives of all the Secretaries having such desirable encumbrances, were “at home” to all comers; and those defi cient in that respect were able to rely on daughters to do the honors, or upon lady friends who were temporarily and to the extent necessary, improvised as ves for the occasion. O’.her promi nent citizens and sojourners here also aononoced through the papers that they would be happy to see their friends; and still others, not prominent, .bnt wishing to be thought so, made eir means for getting througn the winter, to enable them to staff a pro miscuous company, which went from its eating and drinking to ridicule and deride the efforts of these shabbily be classed with the upper crust, and who made starving and pinching im perative for an indefinite time by their silly expenditures for yesterday’s enter tainment; and the bitter reflection that no one was deceived by their preten sions, spread-eagle display, will ever and anon be thru3t home by envious neighbors, who will be only too happy to repeat the verdict rendered by the beneficiaries of this kind of hospitality. This very prevalent disposition among a portion of Washingtonians to shine in borrowed plumage and appear what they are not, asserts itself under such cercumstances as would lead those less aspiring to shrink from all display and to court seclusion rather than publicity. Even in the matter of funerals the same spirit is shown. The means of eking out a miserable sustenance for a family deprived by death of its sup porter are recklessly squandered on an unscrupulous undertaker who cunning ly appeals to their all-pervading weak ness to stimulate more liberal orders in the premises, particularly as to the number of carriages to be provided for a special class of dead beats who always attend every funeral to secure a free ride; and everything else connected with the dismal business that is likely to be noted by the public is provided on a scale of magnificence that could only be justified by the possession of ample wealth. Perhaps “Society,” rather than the individual, is to blame for this; for its demands are potential even down to the tomb’s entrance; and if the bereaved ones haven’t one cent left from the inroads made in tbeir lit tle savings by long illness, there must be a certain amount of “style” observed in this closing act of life’s drama, or they lose caste among their set, and are assigned thereafter to a lower position. Knox. Han’ Moons. When the telegraph discovery by Prof Hall boriog planet bad two dispatch was read thfe ten thousand Airferican b: bles, what think yon was the e: on the hearers T Some colloquy similar to the following wss sore to occur: Mars has two moons, hey? Pass me the milk, Kitty. Strange, isn’t it, that astronomers never saw them before? Another chop, please. I wonder what they’ll discovernext?«These com cakes are excelled! what's 1 the latest from become so accus- tomed to startling nouncements that , wo -take: them^aft matter of -course. .Even truth .nu»t. appear in flaming colors to make her self seen. The virtues Of Dr. Pierce’s G-ilden Medical Discovery and Pleasant Pargative Pellets have btan tested in ten thousand households, whose i/Or mates will tell you that they consider the discovely and introduction of these remedies of far greater importance to the world than the moons of Mate: Shipman, III., June 13,1876. Dr. R. V. Pierce, Buffalo, N. Y.: Dear Sib—Last lall onr daughter— aged 18—was fast sinking, with con sumption. Different physicians had pronounced her case incurable. I ob tained one-half dozen botttes 'of your Gulden Medical Discovely. ! She com menced improving at once, and.is now as hardy as a pipe knot capital takce holdoL the dejfilqppo.ent. ’which promisee to bein the near future. ; jwn-iioi qwb Snojfe ,. !0 7TSVS vhc. 'Nashy at'NafehwiiJ VWWf M6V j5 sttf<!Ji‘’ffire 1 ’ o’clboiE.- 1 * 1 !! H .<f ■mien-.'-: 7d > 'Memphis Jan .3j-rAoaow-utenn sei in atjpepn.tp-iJ^y^t JUeajphis^^nd j$U. °°^i®R(KX a J*d?l?-^ T A fi&vf&di- Rtorm prevailed alt "day avLKtle Rock There is now five incbeaofsnpm-OB-the ' Yours, respectfully,,, Rev. Isaac N. Anoim'iNX.' Failures in' Chicago: w The yearly review of the.banking and business interests of Chicago show that the city has certainly' maintained her rank among the cities of the country in commercial importance. In banking failures and suspensions have been unus- usually numerous during the year among local banks. Chicago has been compelled to pass through almost a sec ond panic, equal to, and in many respects entailing severer losses than that of Sep tember, 1873. The Chicago institutions that have closed their doors during the year were among the largest of the cily. The deposits of the banks of this class aggregated at the time of suspension over 85,000,000, one-half or two-thirds of which will be a complete loss to the de positors. The year’s failures have left three institutions still standing, with a smaller patronage than they enjoyed at the close of 1876. The deposits of the National Banks which failed were. 81,-. 571,000. In addition to the foregoing, three or four private bankers have closed their doors during the year, hut their business connections were quite limited. The money market during the year has fallen somewhat under au average figure: After he bad talked half an hour, one of the listeners who had kept track of the number killed exhibited the figures. "I find,” he exclaimed, “that you have killed fifteen hundred savages in three months ” , . . . , . “Is that all?” exclaimed the un abashed Black-Hiller. “Why, I be lieve yon have left out a week’s work there somewhere.” “If you had such good luck killing Indians, why didn’t you stay there?” demanded another. “Well, the truth is, gentlemen, I was afraid of ruining my left eye. I squint' ed along my gun-barrel so much that my face was being drawn out of shape,- and the sight was so far gone that T had to be led about by a dog.” auu jruu -ktoot—Ilians while in that condition ?” *‘I did, though I always felt a little mean about it I couldn’t see to shoot, and so I ran ’em down and kicked ’em to death. It wasn’t manly in me, and Iwant to ask the forgiveness of-iyou, ' Tto-ra waa-.aiongapeU.gf ^appalling si It-nee, and then some one said that Epb Francis had bought a new ' coon dog.—Bismarck (Col.) Tribune. An English merchant prince lately en gaged a risiug young painter for the pur pose of conveying his own portrait to pos terity. The terms were arranged. “How long do you think it will takeF* said the model. “Perhaps fifteen days,” was the reply. Sittiogs began, and the artist entered so heartily into bis work that in eleven days the portrait was done. “ Why, asked Croesus, when the fact was announced to him, “do you intend suppressing four day’s work “It does not matter at all; the portrait is finished,” answered the painter. “Well, sir, this is not business; we said a hundred guineas, and fifteen days work. I am quite ready to stand the price but you ought not to spend an hour less upon the work than was agreed upon.” There was no use in arguing with such a man. Thepainter took his brush again, aud spent four sittings more in lengthen ing, little, by little, in the portrait, the ears of his patron. Oil Btgions. t of the Titusville n traveling for six regions of Kentucky writes that they are of •ater eXtcnt than the Pennsyl- - regions! About a year ago there was a rush, of speculators in tha’ direction, and nowran area.extending over one hundred miles in length mad seventy'ittilts-W “width, ■has'.beid/l&isefl preparatory to drilling by some of Pennsylvania’s largest and moet prom- KsOTJrJjmfcs;. for practical engineers, machinists, 111111 BB11UB1J, BW1BI, lUJ., . .*Sx.' Petersburg, Jan. 1 4.'—A!' private dispatch announces that 40.000 Turks' have retired into Ruumania. The re main! g Ottoomn forcee, ^otfmhering 70,QUO, .men, Tftorth.. iWM?* have been distributed Mtion^Jjje foroey. of Anandrake. " Osman'Pasha will be cmitayed to the town of RisSar, ■ hundred miles south of MhecoWi wberer. bn cWiUi pass bis.caiAivif*. < _a-«T - Jsi-.i notiupuabi iw “Crazy Horse, an exchange' says, “was the possresdrof thirty fotlr scalps; not counting his Own; and- the- Indians considered bitn'qnite fetich wan.” And the cream of the thing is,,U»jsf Jhlnpted scalp:.holder yvttSi .the architect .of.Ate own fortune. Every' lock of hair he possessed was of his diirt ‘folribjj:"’ ffill .. 7 /ll7/ ■rHeniy Hickey; the Boston boy who killed his., playfellpw, .had read the cheap romances of border life until ‘he v jJjDj: 'IT. become ambitious to “do some bloody deed-hfiilself. He'toM a esunpaaid/i that he intended to-kill-somebody, and live in a cave m an outlaw. trM&Mf 1 ®''WadMiy who was com-'eUed to use oonsiderabl violence to restrain her., :Afterward she had him .arrested on fe charge ot assault, v o Two tramps stopped at’tbe houser ! of a Iona widow, and one went in to beg. Very soon be came, ont .with, a black eye. “Well, did you get anything. Jack ?” asked the other. “Yes,”growled the poor snfferer, “I 'g6t the widow’s might” Bogf.rt. Jan. 4—The Turks still oc cupy the line of Kpra, Lqp» river, and •«“«*• carefully guard its bridges on'the roads to Shumla. ’ . , ’ Heavy 1 ice continues running in the Danube. Let us pray God that He would root out of our hearts everything of onr own planting, and set ont there, with His own hands, the tree of life bearing all manner of fruits.—Fenelon. Experience proves that an uninter rupted and extraordinary flow of pros- u perity is more fatal to generosity or in- | *^tere#in otnerelbananvthing else tnat can befall man here below. ; ->j The little village of Antwerp, • N-.-Y contains sixty-two widows. No be 1 agent'or sew tug machine man, they s ever goes into the place'without coming o’ The Wilmingtou: (Ji, ,C ). Star says Archibald Gordon, of Gaiuesville. iu. that stale, is'the father of twenty-seven” sons, by one wife. Some British shipping in the Savan nah harbor was decorated with coder, and green branches Christmas, in honor of the day. AMERICAN & FOREIGN PATEKlS. For* 18T7, ! More effective > u i n,,.,, ’ rudilv adepted to the —nwtnrat, ■vplete , ■/ o, her WE “ "gFccrmng our PORTABLE m T; BKR * Mu; ?3 WAN- -d! '^.WTIfltySBSADDv EE ON SEWiNG MAt fi] 9 Br..»dway,a. w Y«k., . hicagoM- Scwq r)e .7' josiibaN fiicVAe. m-iT; taase IS Stop. *IZ”..utU»: J.I 1 1A BB4TOY?wL < h^f,!'|g'Hy a - ) WORK FOR m target P*p*r in .hr-mo.- Fr*e. feit-'etai.e Sir a < »rdM 40 rente poet.pua L:ov*bT > •-„i-wo. N Y., * Oft | ' F(or-Fauiphte>«Mddre8s'DiC'SANrr)cr,> 5200 ^ a ” oir ‘ ^ Me '•peae or PLneurj I e.louerj ge-e.esSfee g inirrd;. Catalogue- of Aireo oMyoda 1878. - w Atlanta Constito . 1( .F0a U8'/M IT7ILL MAINTAIN THE ESfCTA! VV hes already yron'as THE LEADING ^OUTHEESPlI The partienlpr fretnree. yhidi hiTtrJ popularity that mij ght'&lmnti IttWlj will not only bo continu-d batiwfej 000*8 w&de op will give tddimndi and brilliancy to iu columns, 'la THE EDITORIAL DEPARHI All th« tot»if« of the lima wdljMihii nillj and tfioroojtblj he 'diiciuied, t the extent ot redidttncM. The poIina!'J will b* .happily, relieved bj lightuitf e*R&va upon social hid li erArj iheia.nl piquant paragraphical, comments ojcid THE LATEST NEWi The enterprise of The Cos stitch-ji:f| ing and placing before its leaden f and freefceat intelMg nce* from slip w *rld, which baa been {request^ ii late on special occasions, wbea ing public interest were rTanspirisg.n has been made the subject ot tup comment by both press and people, ij no abatement. The natural adva*' location of Th* Cohbtitition at tJ commercial and news renter of tl with the special facilities that a of energy, experience and umple: all be utilised ior the benefit i f it*« dispatches are superior t- the newspaper south oi JJash»il!e, fuller and fresher. Iu this respect faf TtJTiox baa “ NO RIVAL IS GEORGIA | IrwiilT>b the aim of the edim« it has been in;tbo-paM, to nuke > every respect a r«fl-xot GeiTgw'ai’t 'lAbrgr&'s greatness, and a U Uiel, f unswerv ng champion ot f - . No effort*of ex; evtc w 11 - ’Merchant, 3355ju4 RArtifiMm/tt* 15 u e jaolly weJ« om«* in the c ontnf n**i thU- Hnmid9* ‘O d qnamt . pmJimopny tbr.»u|^, iu p * Uncle‘h* mW* w 11 persWryllj » bio idantatiou » na» Tfce I'tpP* cieioas. rua t r* p^rt^ii.in^ x», bn.Mn*ssof ih-8 a<e!-and tiie prtceoi Legisla ure. will all flail I lew aap** lies: record in the columni « f la*Co THE WEEKLY ■ ONSTITCI will be in every respect i:i i I TO i procure! IN ADVANCE. No charge uuleee the patent is granted. No-fees for making preliminary ex animations. No additional fees-ior obtaining and conducting a rehearing . Bj a recent de cision of tbe Commissioner ALL rejected appli cations may be revived. 8peciqlattention giv, to Interference Cast's before the Parent Office u Extensions before Congress Infringement in different 6t&tei«, and all litigation appertain ing to Inventions or Patents Send stamp to Cilmore A Co. tor pamphlet ot mxty pager. LAND OASES, LAND WARRANTS ’■ AND SCRIP: A gentleman visited an unhappy man in jail awaiting his trial. “Sir,” said the prisoner, teats running down his cheeks, “I had a good horns educa tion; it was my street education that rained me. I used to slip out of the house and go off with the boys in the street. In the street I learned to lounge: in the street I learnod to swear; in the street I learned to gamble; in the street I learned to pilfer. Oh sir, it is in the street the devil lurks to work ruin of the young.” Storm on the New England Coast. BOSTON, January 3.—The snow storm last night was quite severe on the coast, the wind blowing hard from the North, wnich rendered navigation to inward mariners extremely hazardous. A dis patch from Orleans, Cape Cod, states that two vessels went ashore at Nanzefdnring tbe storm. One is supposed to be a British brig, and the other a schooner. Tbe crewB of both vessels are supposed to be lost. The brig has gone to pieces. A dispatch from Nanzet reports a large schooner at anchor close in shore. Name not ascertained. 1 onddn, Jan. 5.—The Advertiser hears, on reliable authority, that official information has been received in St. Petersburg that the Chinese have mas sacred 15,000 men, women and children at the Kashgarian town of Manas, com mitting tbe mosttghtful atrocities. The Tennessee Historical association has on its shelves a policy on the steamer Andrew Jackson, issued by. tiie Louis iana insurance-JWnpany, and dated May 2,1825. “Your’s is a very perilous life,” re marked a lady passenger to tiie con ductor, “doesn’t it require a great deal of courage on your part ?” “Oh, yes, ma’am.” replied the con ductor, as he gently but firmly charged her ten cents extra for neglecting to get a ticket; “yes, ma’am, none but the brave deserve the fare.” And as he passed on she blushed, and wondered if he meant that piece of impudence for a compliment. Inquiiy into the wicked ways of Philadelphia’s mock auction men re vealed that they hired two or three women to attend tbe sales, carefully inspect articles that were to be sold, start the bidding at the article’s cost price, and run it up among themselves until an outsider put in a bid.,. It was then promptly knocked down—to the outsider. The bank of Bartlett A Smith, in Columbus, Ohio, went to pieces last spring, and tbe cause was a mystery'. Now one member of tbe firm snes the proprietors of fonr gambling establish ments to recover about 8100,000. He says that the teller, the cashier, and his partner gambled away the bank’s money. The Selma (Ala.) Southern Argus re ports a demoralized condition of affaire in Franklin county and savB the people there will not testify against one another in conitk.' 'f' Before the Deluge—When were there Contested Land Custw oroset'-ute'* be for** ibe U. 8. General -Land Office and Departmentjof the Interior. Private Load Claims. MINING andPRE EMPTION Claims, and HOMEST&aD Cases attended to. Land Scrip in 40. 80 and IflO acre pieces for eele. Thi a Scrip Is &asi?naMi>, and can bo located to tbe astoe oi tho porobase-r upon any Government land subject to private entry, at $1.25 per acre. Is is of equal'vame with Bounty Land Warrants. 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It wU- ft? fmtjr* oi in f er»sr tna r ii'* 0 BUf.g'8t—a careiuily edired reMna-'; newff Irom a 1 parte of thr * 6 , porti^al. literarj, ec eniific. S'" comn ere al moment »*id& completest (.mbDUimetit. • TERMS OF :SUfSC8inl®| Tho term* Of b bucriptiV-n Daily Cotatnuuou one )C*z. mo'n hs. $5 i»b. V'fklt • on«tRatios’ oat jw mon'b», $1 00 Al«*ay-« puyaVle in adrerra At* Adi TflH GUNSTH d~» 25,t 2w E D FROST. FROST &. PA.NO BANKERS No.„77_Broi*d 'PRANSaC'T AGENESaT, I N t-.,-S. .-iv.DC- on i-x-1 O" 11 *" 1 ’ fi advance o- - paj* r. receive dep« sirs, make col. - ttece *:bio pvit.u and P r ” fe ' u Lav and sell foreign and ^ and allow interts' on certifies*'* . ^ per ajre**mcni. Bonds- sioj^** » jwarraurs bought aJ'i sold ca flU ' Nc-f York CurrM^”^.. THE NATIONAL FARE jac j,tw2m-a t w a. t. nAboaova. ?• c* hakdt. “HARGROVE, HARDY & 'B AISTKE (J. S. 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