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hc^nme<3|-oumii ESTABLISHED IN' !©<t3. THE COURIER has a largo and steadv circu lation iu Cherokee Georgia, nxdisthc best ad vertising medium in this section. M. D Vv IN ELL, Proprietor. Wednesday Morning, Jan. 23,1878 Our Washington Jotter published to day is well worthy of perusal. It is believed that the terms of armis tice offered to Turkey by Russia aie such as Turkey cannot accept. Silver Service reform is the kind of reform the people are demanding L-t Congress put silver where it will do the most good. Tiie People are speaking out on the money question. See call for muss meeting next Tuesday, published in another column. The second trial of Bullock is drag ging its slow length along in Fulton Su perior Court. This time for swindling iu the Tennessee Car Company matter. There will be an effort made at this session of Congress to pass a law taxing incomes. This will be done for the purpose of trying to make the wealth of the country bear its share of the burden of taxation. Governor Vance has appointed lion. W. H. N. Smith, an eminent law yer of Raleigh, Chief Justice of the Su preme Court of North Carolina, to fill the vacancy occasioned by the dcatli of tiie late Judge Pearson. The Silver agitation is very depress ing to gold. It is quoted in New York at only II to 2 per cent, premium. Lei Congress make silver as good as gold and resumption is practically effected. The more “lawful” money we have the cheaper it will be. Tiie Atlanta Constitution is still wrestling with the question of an eternal hell. For a month or two nearly all the papers have occasionally taken up the subject vtry gingerly, and quickly dropped it, but the Constitution has persistently held on. New York, particularly, and the North and East, generally, are suffering from tho effects of contraction to such a degree that day after day the telegraph sends out to the world long strings of the names of merchants, bankers, and business men of all sorts who have failed. Gen. Geo. B. McClellan was inau gurated Governor of New Jersey last Tuesday. The capital cityj Treutou, was crowded with citizens of the State who had come to witness the inauguration. The oath of office was administered by Chief Justice Beaseley, and the Govern or delivered his inaugural, which wrs highly applauded. Samuel Bowles, editor of tiie Spring- field, Mass., Republican, died on the 17th. Mr. Bowles was widely known as an editor and man of more than ordina ry ability. His death is thought to have been caused by overwork in his calling. He is best known, perhaps, in a sort of a jocular way as the friend and supporter of Charles Francis Adams. OSMAN PASHA. A correspondent of the New York Tribune, writing from Constantinople, gives a rather pleasing picture of the “hero of Plevna.” He says: “Osman Pasha’s family is here, and consists of me wife and two sons. He has been married for fourteen years, and has lived at home only three months in all that time. His military service has been on the frontier of Persia and among the wild Arabs of Yemen. He has no property, and his family has al ways lived in a very pillar to post fashion, changing their house whenever the landlord raised the rent. At the beginning of the present war Mukhtar Pasha offered to lend Osman .£2,000 to buy a house, so that at least he might feel that his family were comfortable; but Osman Pasha declined to be in debt. The Sultan has sent many pres ents to O.-man’s famly lately, and since the fall of Plevna he has caused the oldest son, a boy of eight years, to be entered on the roll of one of the caval ry regiments, with the rank of sergeant, mil has directed him to report to the palace every day for duty. The for tune of that boy is made. He will be a colonel at sixtee.;.” This would seem to dispose of the statement that Osman was a practicer of polygamy. The greatest soldier of Turkey is one of the poorest and most virtuous. Tho New York Sun states that Dr. J, C. Ayer, of Lowel, the well known mil iionaire, who is now in an insane asy lum, is the owner of fourteen .-.hares in the New York Tribune Association. There are one hundred of these shares and when Mr, William Orton bought at the rate of 810,000 each, fifty-one shares which afterward he turned ovtr to Mr. Jay Gould, under whose control ihey still remain, it was not supposed that lie was paying too High a price for them, since the Trbune, with the ex tensive and valuable real estate belong ing to tiie association, was believed to be easily worth iv million of dollar! The estate of Dr. Ayer is now in the hands of a trustee, because of the lu nacy of its owner, and this trnstee was in New York last week endeavoring to dispose of his fourteen shares of Trib une stock. The largest price which any ono was willing to pay, however, was 82,500 for the whole fourteen shares, or 817S 5S per share — S9.S00 less than they brought five 3’ears ago. We said last week that we believed every honest man in the House would vote for the resolution of the Commit tee of Ways and Means to authorize a general investigation in all the Depart ments of Government. It passed by a strict party vote, yeas 111 Democrats, nays 107 Republicans. We give this a? an item of news, without note or com ment. SENATOR GORDON. We publish in another column some extracts from an article written by CM. I. W. Avery, of Atlanta, upon the war record of Senator, John B. Gordon, and which was written for and published in the Detroit Free Puss. Col. Avery, as will be seen from the character and style of this article, is a brilliant and popnlar writer, and th- subject of tho sketch is one well calcu lated to awaken enthusiasm iu the heart of any one who admires genuine courage and loves straightforward and honest conduct, CONGRESS. We publish a synopsis of the speech of Senator Voorhees, of Indiana, delivered in the Senate a few days back, upon the all-absorbing questions of silver and re sumption. Mr. Voorhees has always been known and respected as a man of correct thought, and in full sympathy with the people—and we use the word people here as signifying the great mass of the citizens of our common country. He is Known also as a man of moral courage sufficient to speak out. his honest opinions regardless of the question as to whether he is with the majority or minority. Such a man we delight to honor, and his words are always listened to with pleas ure. Also in this issue we give the vote on the passage of Senator Matthews resolu tion upon the silver question. SENATOR EDMUNDS’ SPEECH, Mr. Ed munds, the saturnine Senator so said, from Vermont, goes for paying all the bonds and interest on them in gold, nis reason for so doing, as expressed iu a speech in the Senate, is that the bond holders expect it. Poor fellows, their great expectations will vanish into thin air if they do not get their interest ingold, and Mr. Edmunds does not wish to dis appoint them Bat what about the peo ple? Have they nothing to say about it ? Have they had no expectation of paying in lawful coin? Verily’, it does seem that the strongest argument that can be brought farward in favor of the payment of the bonds in gold is too wfcaj^to require refutation. If the law says that gold alone shall be tendered in payment, why do not, some of -the friends of that idea show the law? All their pleas are ih** the bondholders expect it--“ a ine * na ' tionaV’.'- — acquires’it. The Chinese in Sacramento, Cal., tun a criminal court, as it appears, and have private executions and all that sort of thing. Lately a San Francisco Chinaman went to the police office in Sacramento and told the officers that hi3 cousin had just been tried for debt in a Chinese court aud sentenced to be hanged for it. He wanted the Ameri can law to interfere, reverse tho verdict and stop the hanging. He started with the officers toward the place cf execu tion, but on the way another Chinaman winked at him, and he refused to go ar.y further or tell them where the place was. They took the stubborn heathen to jail and locked him up. Fially he told where the body of his relative might be found. The officials went, and there it was swinging to a rafter. The San Franoisco Chinaman is still held in jail, and the Chinese are in trouble about it. The police are now after the Chinese criminal court, but can’t find out where it holds its m-’sterious sessions. The New Orleans Democrat says : “Besides his high moral qualities and his splendid record for political consis tency, Mr. Pendleton is an accomplish ed gentleman, scholar and jurist, is free from all the petty characteristics of the politician and demogogue, and will prove one of the most exemplary and useful members of the United States Senate. With His accoplished wife the daughter of the author of the ‘Star Spangled Banner,’ and a native of the District of Columbia, his accession to society of the national capital will be hailed with general gratification and rejoicing among the best, and, indeed, among all classes of the population of that city.” Much alarm has been created at Moscow by the appearance of the Si berian plague. One day a laundress at the university, who was suspected of having died from it, was subjected to a post-mortem examination, with the re sult that the suspicions of the authori ties were confirmed. Since then several other persons have succumed to the same malady, which is more disastrous than either small-pox or cholera, and the police are now taking energetic measures to prevent the disease from spreading. It is believed that the seeds of the plague were brought from Tiflis either by Turkish prisoners or Russian invalids. _ Missouri Republican: The Georgia papers mention a fact that we were not prepared to hear, viz: That farmers in Northern Georgia have began to raise cattle and ship them by rail to New Or leans, the prices affording them a fair profit. The Savannah News encourages the enterprise and says if the grain used in Georgia in rank.ng moonshine whiskey were fed to cattle, that part of the State might become an impor.ant cattle-breed ing region. Gen. John A. Dix is the latest, and iu some respects the most remarkable convert to the conservative policy. In his recent letter to the New York Times he administers a sharp rebuke to the Conklingites, aud says: “There is no surer presage of the decadence of a par ty which has been long in the ascen dency than a persistent adherence on the part of its leading men to its ac knowledged abuses.” Judge Stuart, of the Supreme Court of Kentucky, has petitioned the Legisla ture of that State to impose* dLect tax on alcoholic dtir 1 -- thinks tbata proper —" 0U 1<Ibe five cents a drink ror whisky, gin and rum, ten cents for brandy and wine,'and two cents for malt liquor. Mark Twain has an opinion in regard to the project of establishing a national university in Washington. He decided ly opposes it, and says in his paper, the Hartford Courant, that the educational frauds and dead-beats ought never to get a hearing in the Senate of the United StatesMark is not the only one who opposes the scheme. President Eliot, of Harvard, is earnestly’ against it, and on several oc casions has given good reasons why the government should not become the espe cial patron of any particular education al institution. Persident White, ot Cornell University, is one of the few prominent educators who favor the scheme. An Italian saloon keeeper in Rich mond, Vo., has been fined 820 and costs, in all amounting to $50. for fail ing to register one drink of whiskey- sold to W. M. Walker, the deligatt- from Westmoreland. Although the Legislature passed the Moffet law yet the register is a novelty to them, and when they wait to see the barkeeper ring the bell, and he does not, there is apt to b9 a row. Washington Correspondence. Washington, Jan. 19,1878. Secretary Sherman gives notice that from the 29th inst. until further notice, he will receive subscriptions for the 4 per cent. United States funded loan, in de- r.ominat ons as stated below, at par and accrued interest in coin. The bonds are redeemable in 30 years from 1, 1877, and bear interest, payable quarterly, on the 1st day of January, April, July and Oc tober, aud are exempt from taxeB or duties under United States, State,Munici pal or local laws. The subscriptions may be made for coupon bonds of 850, S100, $500 and SI,000 and for registered bonds of 850, S100, 8000, 81,000, 85,000 and 810,000. Two per cent, of the purchase money- must accompany the subscription, tht remainder to be paid at the pleasure ol the purchaser, at any time within 30 day- thereafter, with interest on the amount, at four per cent, per annum, to date oi payment, when the bonds will be trans rnitted free of charge to the sudseribers. aud a commission of one fourth of om per cent, will be allowed upon the amount of all single subscriptions reach ing 81,000 or above. Forms of application will be furnished by tho Treasurer at Washington, the As sistant Treasurer at Baltimore, Boston. Chicago, Cincinnati, New Orleans, New York, Philadelphia, St. Louis and San Francisco, and by the national banks aud bankers generally. The applica tions must specify the amount and de nominations required, and for registered bonds, the full name and postoffice ad dress of the person to whom the bonds shall be made payable. The interest on the registered bonds will be made payable to the order of the holder, mailed to hisaddress. The check will be paid on presentation, properly endorsed, at the offices of the Treasurer and Assistant Treasurer of the United States. The payments may be made ia coin to the Treasurer at Washington, or Assist ant Treasurers at the points above named. For the convenience of subscribers the Department will also receive, in lieu of coin, called bonds of the United StateB, coupons past due or maturing within 30 days, or gold certificates issued under the act ot March 3, 1863; and national bauks will he designated as depositories under the provisions of section 5,153, re vised statutes of the United States, regu lations to be hereafter prescribed. The fragmentary report on the Chinese question found in Senator Morton’s pa pers and presented in the Senate, Thurs day, as a minority report, takes strong grounds in favor of the Mongolian im migrant. It gives evidence of research into the history of the Chinese and favor ably contrasts China with medieval Eu rope. His overflow iuto California is claimed to have been decidedly beneficial to that State, and any restriction upon immigration is opposed as repugnant to the genius of our institutions. The report claims that the evidence taken by the Commission snows the Chinese as indus trious, temperate and honest, as a rule; that nearly all agricultural and railroad work, in the State would have to be sus pended without him ; that his presence has tended to elevate, rather than de grade white labor, and that the bitterest enmity against him exists among the worst elements of San Francisco’s popu lation. In this connection I may men tion that a bill to restrict Chinese immi gration, was introduced by Mr. Davis, of North Carolina, iuthe House, Thursday. About all the time Wednesday and Thursday in the Senate was consumed in eulogizing deceased Senators Bogy and Morton, and the feeling appears to be quite general outside of Congress that a portion of the time thus frittered away in formal speech-making, could have been much more profitably devoted to the many vital problems now awaiting Congressional solution, without any im pairment of the post mortem prospects of either of dead Senators.' Much time is devoted in the lower House to the in troduction of private bills and of public bills relative to the most trivial matters, by members apparently anxious to im press their constituents with their Repre sentatives devotion, or ambitions to shine in the Record as author of a bill; and the health of a majority appears unequal to the strain of a session of more than three or four hours duration. Wood’s various Committees under his investigaton resolution, are organizing for a grand hunt after derelict Republi can officials; and if found, we may rest easy as to any danger that the real mag nitude of their offenses will not be promptly and fnlly made known. A special message is soon expected, recommending that members of the Cab inet be allowed seats in the House, t» en able them to personally explain the ne- essity of p»°L appropriations as they urge their annual reports, and to give utormation upon other matters of their jurisdiction calling for legislation. The case of Thomas Jefferson as Secretary of State, is cited as furnishing a precedent for such anrinnovation; and it is claimed that members coaid.thus prepare them selves to vote on measures much more in telligently than now. Knox. THE COMMON SCHOOLS. - Annual Report of tbs School Commis sioner of Floyd County, showing tht Operations of the Ccmmon Schools for the Tear 1877. BOARD OF EDUCATION. The Board of Education of Fiord County’, Ga., is constituted as folloek: IV. L. Whitely, Chairman; W. Woods, Wm. Watters, J. R. Towers A. J.King. TRUSTEES. The following are the Trustees of tl ^ county: Floyd Springs—G W Fleetwood, T I Murphy, Elfcana Everett. Watters"—T S Barney, T N Piosoi, N B Ford. Chulio—T N Loyd, Rev. Mr. Payi£v Wilson McElroy. Barker’s—W G Foster, S B Chatnbi J B Tippin. ■ ' v Cave Spring—S C Trout, T J Davl , JnoM Canon. Cave Spring District—A H Ellis, H Dent, Alex. Harper. Livingston—C P Horton, J F Evas , A J Watters. City of Rome—T J Perry, J J Cohei, Thos. Watters. Rome District—T H Holleyman, Hamilton, C W Sproull. Flatwoods—L D McLendon, Payne, C S Harris. i\.xas Valley—G M O’Bryan, Js i Sellman, A Echols. Forrestville—C. D. Forsyth, W. i [ Broach, W J Hail. Etowah—B V Arnold J C McLain. —— DeSoto—W A Wright, R T Wilkcri L C Mitchell." Hillsboro—E R Lumpkin, II J JohM son, R R Harris. Norih Carolina—W J Comer. A McCord. C P Dean . . . Watters’ district. There were eight schools in this dil trict—seven while and one colored, wit reading 2,311; writing 1.458; English grammar 523; geography 631; arithine tic 1,421. Owing to the large increase of schools the past year the fund did not hold ont to pay quite as much on the scholar as was expected at the beginning of the year, and the Board of Education was compelled to scale the accounts of teach ers somewhat, which was done on as just and equitable a basis as possible The amount paid each teacher will be found elsewhere in this report The salary of the County School Commis sioner for the year 1877 was allowed by the Board of Education at two hundred and fifty dollars. THE SCHOOL FUND. The following amounts from the books cf the County Commissioner, show the resources of the Board of Education for running the schools the past year. Balance on band as shown by last annual report-...-—— $ 654,40 Amount of poll tax turned over for the schools of 1877 1,103,31 Amount of State appropriation for 1877 2,138,20 a total attendance of 205 pupils, an * W. P. Thomas.... Total fund for 1877 $3,895,91 AMOUNTS PAID OUT. Amounts were paid the teachers of the various districts for services the past year as follows: WATTERS DISTRICT. L P Hammond $ 8 40 B N King 31 50 Hannah A Williams 48 30 Mrs M A Candler 22 05 S H Crawford 25 93 John H White 31 50 TM Fulton 47 25 fwhsfla Carter 31 50 CHULIO DISTRICT. Sue Brandon 5 14 Mrs. E. J. Kile 14 70 P. H. Larey 48 19 J.B Dobbs 58 80 G. E. Fearing 30 24 Nannie A. Steven9 32 72 Moses Formby 14 70 .: 28 56 his dil- an average of 137. Number study! spelling 202, reading 156, writing 9 1 grammar 27, geography 39, arithsieti - 107. CHULIO DISTRICT. There were twelve schools in this triei—eight white and four colored, with a total attendance of 376 pupils, and an average of 238. Number studying spell ing 364. reading 216. writing 109, gram mar 27, geography 34, arithmetic 114."' BARKER’S DISTRICT. There were ten schools in this dis trict—eight while and two colored, with a total attendance of 325 pupils, anj} an average of 208. Number studying spelling 289, reading 186, writing 103, grammar 34, geography 40, arithmetic 109. ^ LIVINGSTON DISTRICT. There were eight schools in this dis trict—five white and three colored, witA a total attendance of 273 pupils, aud an average ot 169. Number studying spell ing 249, reading 125, writing 60, gram mar 23. geography 23, arithmetic 81. FLATWOODS DISTRICT. » There were six schools in this district —four white and two colored, with a to* - tal attendance ot 211 pupils, and an av erage of 118 Number studying spell ing 209, reading 134, writing 63, gram mar 8, geography 13. arithmetic 51. NORTH CAROLINA DISTRICT. There were eight schools in this disc, trict—six white and two colored, with* a total attendance of 249 pupils, andai averagp of 150. Number studying spell ing 285, reading 157, writing 95, gram" mar 36, geography 32. arithmetic 106. TEXA8 VALLEY DISTRICT. There were six schools in this district —five white and one colored, with a to-^ tal attendance qf 210 pupils.^ndfTtj John.Eyacjj. lOrf at-— iff- T XI tl.rr.n.n, S3 ref* average of 122. Number studying spelling 210, reading 166, writing 68. grammar 24, geography 10, arithmetic 95. ETOWAH DISTRICT. There were three schools in this dis trict—two while and one colored, with a, total attendance of 113 pupiis, and an average of 66. Numbcrstudying spell ing 98. reading 54, writing 17, grammar 7, geography 5, arithmetic 17. • FLOYD SPRINGS DISTRICT. There were seven schools in this dis trict—six white and one colored, with a total attendance of 208 pupils, and an average of 113. Number studying spelling 196, reading 159, writing 95. grammar 41, geography 29, arithmetic 87. CAVE SPRING. There were six schools in this d’strict —four white and two colored, with a to tal attendance of 250. pupils, and an average of 167. Number studying spell ing 245, reading 162, writing 153, grammar 52, geography 60, arithmetic 100. CAVE SPRING DISTRICT. There were thrge schools in this dis trict, all white, with a total attendance of 66 pupiis, and an average of 37. Number studring spelling 63, rcad.n 47, writing 33, grammar, 10, geography 2, arithmetic 22. ROME DISTRICT. There we four schools in-this district —three white aud one colored, with a total attendance of 159 pupils, and an averageof 90. Number studyingspell ing 158, reading 101, writing 42. gram mar 10, geography 22, arithmetic 39. C1TT OF ROME. There were nine schools in this dis trict—seven white and two colored, with a total attendance of 605 pupils, and an average of 428. Number study-in; S|>elling 594, reading 469, writing 432, grammar 194, geography 265, arithroe tic 411. FORRESTVILLE, HILLSBORO AND DESOTO. In Forrestville there were two schools —one white aud one colored; in DeSoto one white school, and in Hillsboro and vicinity two white ncj— two colored. - schools, making a total U^VeVen schools —four white and three colored, with a total attendance of 332 pnpils, and an average of 179. Numl er in these schools studying spelling 331, reading 179, writing 98. grammar 24, geography 57, arithmetic 82. COLLEGES AND PRIVATE SCHOOLS. In the Rome Female College and the Cherokee Baptist Female College there were 222 pupils in attendance daring the past collegiate year; in the High Schools of Borne and Cave Spring 122; and in the private elementary schools of the county 371, making a jotal of 2 colleges, 20 high schools and private ele mentary schools in operation in the county with an attendance of 715 pu pils. The private schools were for the most part in operation when the public schools were opened, and, as has been the custom heretofore, were changed into, or taught as, public schools for the time required by law—the patrons re ceiving, credit for the amount paid the teachers out of the public fund£ RECAPITULATION. There were 97 sch-tols opened in the connty the past year—72 white and 25 colored. The whole number of teachers cm ployed, not counting assistants, was 97; of which 72 were white and 25 colored. The whole number of children in the connty of school age is 5,478. Of these 3,923 are white and 1,555 colored. Ont of a scholastic population of 5,478 there were enrolled in theschoola with an average attendance pf 2,222. Total number of pnpils in the schcols of the county studying spelling 3,443, Annie Clark 33 CO Annie Thomas 48 30 ,1 laie Daniel 33 60 \V. M. Kell 31 50 barker's DISTRICT. Sam II. Kyle 28 00 N. A. Hamrick 4 20 Mrs. L. D. A. Felton 58 80 S. C. Knight 48 82 J. M. Crain 38 50 Martha J. Pullen 17 74 Mrs. Kate Barker 19 60 J. M. Lawson 30 60 Savannah R. Clark 33 00 John Wright 03 00 LIVINGSTON DISTRICT. Florence Kinard 32 72 Carrie V. Lowry 30 24 John Guffin 18 27 G. K. Green 17 32 W. S. Simmons 30 80 B. Higginbotham 58 80 Diana Fitzhew 31 50 A. J. Tabb 37 19 FLATWOODS DISTRICT. D. B. Bryan 26 88 John Graham 17 15 Mrs. A. A. Massingale 30 45 M. Carrie Howe 52 50 Mary Samuel 21 00 Ben. Duncan 33 CO NORTH CAROUNA DISTRICT. F. Margaret Espy 18 10 Lillie Bramlitt .-. 15 40 Colombia McCord 22 40 W. L. Pyle 29 40 P. D. Pollock 29 40 J. C. King 33 60 T. L. Duncan 43 75 James Peak 43 40 TEEXAS TALLY DISTRICT. B. F. Greer 32 72 Sallie B. Fonche' 20 93 .,47 25 . 31 92 . 39 90 . 35 70 J. H. Hammond Trammell Starr W. G. Garvin ETOWAH DISTRICT. John W. Gilliam 22 05 RobL Tally 32 76 H. H. Taylor 44 10 FLOYD SPRINGS DISTRICT. Adelia B. Fain 46 20 A. R. Johnson 6 30 A. R. Bates 36 75 T. Everett 29 40 E. J. Martin 13 65 W. C. Branham 18 20 George Rush 33 04 CAVE SPRING. W. C. McCall 29 40 P. J. King 16 80 Mary S. Jones —. —. 25 20 Alice P. Pullen------ 63 00 F. M. Gordon and Assistant...— 115 50 James C. Cotton .... ...... .... 39 90 CAVE SPRING DISTRICT. VV. B. Chapman 44 10 J. S. King - 4 20 J. B. Trawick 27 30 ROME DISTRICT. G. A. H. Harris — 40 60 Thomas D. Isbell .... ...... —. 46 20 Fannie Dempsey.— 18 90 Minnie L. Bell 50 75 CITY OF ROME. Mrs. Eva Murray 42 00 E. J. Magrnder 48 30 Mrs. Newman and Daughter—..... 52 50 Mrs. E. 0. Caldwell and Assistants 79 SO J. M. Proctor 48 30 R D. Mallary and Assistants 79 SO Mrs. Mary Shropshire and Daughters 119 70 T. B. Higginbotham and Assistant 98 70 Belle Spear and Assistant.... .... 9S 70 FORRESTVILLE DISTRICT. J. O’Hanlon 23 66 M. L. Higginbotham and Assistant 9S 70 DESOTO DISTRICT. Mrs. M. J. Lansdell .... 50 40 HILLSBORO AND VICINITY. Sasan P. Whitehead ..—. 47 25 Fannie L. Noble ......... .... 23 10 Laney Daniel ...... 42 00 Mary Walton .... 31 50 COUNTY COMMISSIONER. M. A. Nevin ... 250 00 Total paid out $3890 95 RECAPITULATION. Total amount remaining in my hauds for condncting the wbools ot -l 0 "7 shown else where:.: $3895 91 Paid ont as per items above 3890 95 Balance on hand. 4 96 This balance, together with the poll lax and the State’s apportionment for next year, will constitute the fond for running the public schools of 1878. am unable to say, with accuracy, what the State's apportionment nnder the new Constitution will be, bat suppose that it will not fall short of that of last year. With the best information at command I estimate the school fund for next year at between $3500 and $4000. Respectfully submitted, M. A. Nevin, Connty School Commissioner. Washington, Jan. 18.—There wil be no postponement of the marriage of the King oi Spain. The legation here will give a grand dinner in a honor of the event, at Wormley’s, on the 23d of January. The Spanish minister has informa tion that there has been no general ar mistice in Cnba, bnt that some leaders who have been captured and who have surrendered themselves may comunicate with the rebel congress, belligerent operations have been sus pended for a few days. The bridal dress of Infanta Mercedes, tbe future Queen of Spain, has a train of white velvet apingle five yards long fringed with silver pasqtrilles. The of the connty the past year, 3,582 pupHa "skirtsis of Lyons white satin, qoadrill- ed with pearls. Overall is a lace shawl, fastened with nine diamond pins with pehdeloqaes, A Camuaign Slander. When Dr. R. V. Pierce was a candi date for State Senator, bis political op ponents published a pretended analysis of his popular medicines, hoping thereby to prejudice the people against him. His election by an overwhelming major ity severely rebuked his traducers, who sought to impeach his business integrity. No notice would have been taken of these campaign lies were it not that some -ot his enemies (and every business man has his full quota of envious rivals) are re publishing these bogus analyses. Nu merous and most absurd formulas have been published, purporting to come from high authority; and it is a significant fact that no two have been at all alike—con clusively proving the dishonesty of their authors. The following is from the Bufialo Com mercial, of October 23d, 1877 : “Hardly a dozen years ago he (Dr. Pierce) came here, a young and unknown man, almost friendless, with no capital except his own manhood, which, however, included plenty of brains and pluck, in domitable perseverance, and inborn up rightness. Capital enough for any young man, in this progressive country, if only he has good health and habits as well. He had all natural advantages, and one thing more, aa excellent education. He had studied medicine and been regularly licensed to practice as a physician. But he was still a student, fond of investiga tion and experiment. He discovered, or invented, important remedial agencies or compounds. Not choosing to wait weari ly for the sick and suffering to find out (without any body to tell them) that he could do them good, he advertised ha medicines and invited the whole, profes sion, of every school,* to examine and pronounce judgment upon his formulas. He advertised liberally, profusely, but with extraordinary shrewdness, and with a method which is in itself a lesson to all who seek business by that perfectly legiti mate means. His success has been some thing marvelous—so great indeed that it must be due to intrinsic merit in the arii- ticles he sells more even than to his un paralleled skill in the use of primer’s ink. The pre'ent writer once asked a distinguished dispensing druggist to ex plain the secret of the almost universal demand for Dr. Pierce’s medicines. He said they were in fact genuine medicines, —such compounds as every good physi cian would prescribe for the diseases which they were advertised to cure. Ot course, they cost less than any druggist would charge for the same article sup plied on a physician’s prescription, aud besides there was the doctor’s fee saved. Moreover, buying the drugs in such enor mous quantities, having perfect apparatus for purifying and compounding the mix ture, he could not only get better articles in the first place, but present the medi cine in better form and cheaper than the same mixture could possibly be obtained from any other source. It may be thought that all this having reference to Dr. Pierce’s private business has no point whatever when considered in connection with the proper qualifica tions of a candidate for the Senate. Perhaps. But it is the fashion now, and will be for a fortnight more, with sundry journals, to make sneering allu sions to this very matter. After that brief period, they will be quite ready to go on doing his work as before, and as always before, to speak of him as a great public benefactor.” Woman’s Love. Young Radspinner and Lillian Den ssnbury had long been lovers. They wore engaged to be married. The day was set, and, waiting for the day to come, time moved as slowly as an ac commodation train on a Western rail road. One evening, just * week before the time fixed for the nuptials, yonng Radspinner and Lillian were out, stroll ing up and down the railroad track, enjoying the calm and peaceful sunset. Lillian wore her wine-colored silk, and her proud young lover had told her a hundred times that it made her look sweet enough to drink. A tender speech was interrupted by the appall ing screech of a steam-whistle just around tbe curve. The limited mail was coming at tbe rate ol sixty-five mile? an hour. There was not a moment to lose. Young Radspinner caught the beautiful arm of his betrothed and tried to drag her from the track. Her dress caught upon a spike and held her fast. She tried to kick it loose. She screamed and kicked but the spike would not let go. The train was hearing down upon them like a demon. They could almost feel its hot breath upon their cheeks. Young Radspinner stooped over and seized the folds of the handsome dres3 in his hands, intending to rip it from the spike, and rescue from death the one fair woman beneath the sun. She stopped him with a cry of alarm: “Don’t tear my dress 1” “You must be released from this!” he yelled; “the train is upon ns 1” “It’s my wine-colored silk; I wouldn’t have it torn for the world 1” His love for her rose above every thing else, and renewing his hold upon the garment, he exclaimed: “Dam your wine-colored silk!” “Don’t you dare to tear it 1” she cried, endeavoring to loosen his grasp. The locomotive screamed again, this time right in their ears. The brave girl pushed her lover off the track, and shouted above the rattle of the train: “Leave me, George. Leave me and save yourself. I had hoped to live for you, for I love you devotedly, and I am sure we would have been very, very- happy, but I would die a thousand deaths rather than tear my wine-col ored—” The locomotive struck her amidships, and strung her along the track fer a mile and a half. George hunted and hunted until his eyes grew weary, but he could not find enough of the wine- colored silk to make him a necktie. The State Government for the Tear 1877. The Comptroller General furnishes the Atlanta Constitution with tbe fol lowing relative to the receipts and dis bursements of the State Treasury for the year 1877: RECEIPTS. To balance in treasury Jan. 1, 1877 $564,283.33 GeneRal tax 1873 218.88 General tax 1874 926.30 General tax 1875.:—_i—. 7,411.17 General tax 1876-—Lxl— 378.106.91 Geueral tax 1877 815,273.79 Insurance tax 1875.——— 13.50 Insurance tax 1877 15,21019 Insurance fees 1877—— 1,045.00 Show tux 1877 Hire of convicts 1876 and 1877— — Rent public buildings Railroad tax 1876 Railroad tax 1879- -1- Rent W.& A. railroad 1877- 300,000.00 Macon and B. railroad 25,000.00 \V. & A. railroad claim 400.00 U. S. Gov’t. \V. & A. R- R. claim 152.278.94 Temporary loan 1877 200,000.00 Liquor tax 1877 25,632.65 Z. D. Harrison, C. S. C 3.000.75 Sewing machine companies’ tax Sleeping car coir panics’ tax Telegraph com pa lies’ tax — Express companies’tax Inspectors of fertilizers Wild land tax 74, ’75,76— Fees State House officers— Miscellaneous 11.032D7 2,687.50 5.51000 32,693.70 Total 1-82,562,630.17 DISBURSEMENTS. Bycivilestablishment 1876.8 27,354.00 Civil establishment 1877— 72,922.62 Contingent fund 1876 3,871.24 Contingent fund 1877 14,996.82 Printing fund 1876 9.460.87 Printing fund 1S77 1,424.25 Printing fund Agricultural Dept. 1S77 553.05 Commissioner Agr. 1876 8.400 00 Commissioner Agr. 1877 1,497.40 Chemical bureau 1876 330.61 Chemical bureau 1877 356.48 Salary chemist 750,00 Overpayments 76 and 77 4,312 21 Public buildings 1877 12,-504.69 institution deaf and dumb 76 and 77 15.625.00 Academy of blind 13,5u0.00 Executive clerks 1876 and 1877 6,625 00 Trustees lunatic asylum— 1,416.66 State Board Health 1876— 45452 School Commissioner 1876 and 1877 4,445.53 School fund 1876 and 1877- 177,171.01 State geologist 76 and 77— W. & A. R. R. change bills- 205 30 Landscript fund 6314.14 Legislative pay-roll 1877— 108,821 65 Books for li brary 2,240.50 Indebtedness W. & A. R. R. 260.00 Special appropriations 33,857.14 Cost of Constitutional Con vention 45,740.75 Balance in treasure Jan. 1, 1878 - 833,719.37 82,562,630.17 Combat Between South Can limans on Georgia Soil .3® Sa ^nnal Morning News of tbl 15th records a duel that had been foctl Dear Savannah on Saturday : " The principals were Mr. Walter vers Harley, the challenged oartv S nartv ° b Th FlShburne ’ ,be effiri party. The onnet pats were broth mail’d ri, f ‘ ? obert Fisbburne havi 3 mamed the sister of Mrs. Harley \? 13 a . prominent lawyer, and \f, Thevm I" C ‘ erk ,° C U,e Cou « They met according to agreement o I Saturday morning at the junction the Atlantic and Gulf and Bavann, I ,nd Charleston railroads, near whi the duel took place. Wb c I 4,076.50 o J- b ,® T e \" nn8 UBtd were Colt’s an Smith & Wesson revolvere-diemr, I ten paces. I The party had regular duelling D ; L tols, but on examination they B 9mitb It he unfit for use. A Colt’s at I Smith & Wesson were then product | by Mr Harley, and he gave his ania I ontst the choice. Mr. Fishhurne ch a I the Colt s, and the Smith & Wesso I small size, was taken by Hurley. ■ Mr. Fishhurne fired promptly at tl word, whilst Mr. Harley did not fi until after he was hit, and then fin upward in the air as he was falling. The surgeon who was present, afq examination, expressed the opini. that the wound was mortal, tbe h- having penetrated the cavity. M Harley and Mr. Fishhurne are of d same political faith, both being zeaki Democrats, bnt for a long time the had existed ill feeling between thn and it increased at the municipal e!e| lion in Waherboro od the 7th u.s and out of which grew the bitter feelii that brought forward the challenge acceptance. . It appears that it was not the intej tion of Mr. Harley to kill his autagoj ist, as is clearly proven by the follm ing note that he wrote to his wife in before the meeting took place: 683.96 275.17 424.31 680.59 5,325.55 8,000.00 40a 25 2,011.95 Elijah Hitchcock was a Connecticut constable, whose character being nnder scrutiny. Deacon Solomon Rising was inquired of about him. “Deacon Rising,” said the questioner, “do yon think Mr. Hitchcock is a dis honest man?’’ (Vetypromptly.) “Oh, no, sir; not by any means.” “Well, do yon think he is a mean man?” “Well, with regard to that,” said that Deacon, a little more deliberately, “I may say that I don’t really thick he’d a mean man; I’ve sometimes thought he was what yon might call a keerful man—a prudent man, so to speak.” “What do you mean by a prudent man?” “Well, I mean this; that one time he had an execution for $4 against tbe old widow Witter, back here, and he went ip to her house and levied it on a flock itdncks; and he chased them ducks, one at a time, round and round the house, oooty much all day, and every time he catch ed a duck he’d set right down and wring its neck, and charge mileage; and his mileage amounted to more’n the debt Nothing mean about it as I know of, bnt I always thought after that that Mr. Hitchcock was a very prudent man.” Anecdote of Gov. McCreary. Frankfort Commonwealth. Without recourse, we print the fol lowing incident connected with a re pent trip of Gov. McCreary. It appears the Governor was traveling on a rail road train, and sat down in a seat whose other half was occupied by a rough, ur.cout'n-looking stranger, who appear ed not indisposed to engage the Gov ernor, who was unknown to him, in conversation. In his efforts in that di rection, the stranger drew from his pockets a handful of gold coin, and an nouncing that “thar was no better stuff to keep a feller goin’ in this ’ere coun try,” be jingled it in a self-satisfied way. “It does have a pleasant look,” said the Governor, smiling in his usual bland manner. “Yes.she’s good—reg’lar-built shiners —and I’ve got a few more of the same sort,” said tbe stranger, as he pulled bis vest up and showed a belt around bis body that was puffed out with gold coin. “Ain’t no better to be found in all Colorady,” ejaculated tne stranger, with an innocent chuckle. The ostentatious way in which the rtranger paraded his wealth, and which had already attracted the attention of other persons on the car, suggested to Gov. McCreary the fatherly idea of ad vising the stranger of the danger he ran m thus exposing his money to public view. “My friend,” said he, “yon may be a long way from home, and not fully aware of tbe great hazard yon run iu showing your money to people. You may be robbed by some desperate vil lain who may even now be watching you.” The stranger widened his mouth in a broad grin, and reaching both hands back under his coat, he drew out and displayed to the astonished Governor a couple of navy sixes, loaded to the muzzle, remarking as he did so: “Wal, no, I guess not—not while these ’ere pups know how to bark. You just bet yer pile they won’t keep aiih when a feller calls for that iittle lot o gold. 1’inwusnora mad bufflerora Rooky grizzly when my dander is up ’ The Governor thought he was suffi cieutly advised. An Immense City. Few people have any adequate idea of the immensity of London. No such city ever existed in the world before. Fancy a city which covers seven huh- dred square miles, and numbers four million inhabitants. Fancy a city which contains more Jews than the whole ot Palestine, more Roman Catholics than Rome, more Irish than Dublin, more Scotchmen than K''inburg. A city whose port contains every day a thou sand ships and nine thousand sail ors. In which a birth occurs every five minutes, and a death every eight minutes throughout the year. In which twenty-eight milesof new streets are opened annually, and nine thousand new house? are built every twelve months. A city in which the police record contains the names and descrip tions of one hundred and twenty thou sand criminals; which has seventy- three miles of beer shops and gin pal ace:; which has thirty-eight thotuand drunkards; and which, though it num bers its churches by hundreds, would require nearly a thousand . additional places of worship if the entire popala tion was to be supplied. And when ail th-:se facts are clothed upon the imag ination, every faculty save that of memory must utterly fail, to present any truthful portrait of this amazing concentration of human life, and en ergy, ana industry, and wealth, and poverty, and tree, and crime, and pros perity, and culture. “My Darling Wife—I am about meet Fishhurne. I will not wide Claudia, for I do not intend to shoot him- W. S. H. Mr. Harley was considered at a 1, hour Saturday night to be in an i iremely critical condition, and it v thought he would die before morui Yesterday, however, there was an i provement, and he was somewhat b ter, with faint prospects of recovei In the opinion of one of the attend! physicians, the ball did not penetr: the cavity, but struck a rib and pass .around the body. The other two phi sicians who have seen him are of t opinion that the wound will pro I fatal. F The Border Row. Present—His honor tbe recorder Mi shal Dobbin, John Fiizherry, a polii man and a villainous looking Mexicl prisoner, Don Nepumerceno Cortina Hidalgo. Recorder—What has iffts poor Me can done that he should be under rest ? L Policeman—He mado a raid on Co | merce street, shooting off bis. pistol I people and whooping and hollering, a E at last he jumped on a horse that did | belong to him and galloped back aci the Ban Pedro creek. I followed 1 over and arrested him. Recorder—Are there no mitigating I cumstances ? Policeman—He brags that he has kil twenty-five Americans and is a regu I horse thief. Re .-order—Give him back his pi-1 and the horse he stole, and as soon as B is sober enough we will enter into a oi mercial treaty with him. It is my s«< duty to uphold the dignity of the ci and that's the way it is done id thisco try just now. Prisoner—Viva Mexico! Viva Di: Recorder—That’s what I say! Tne partment commander, Marshal Dnhl will suspend from duty policeman Bu I for crossing over the San Pedro on a c trail. Mayor Hayes, I mean Predd I French, shan’t involve this country ii i war with Mexico as long as I am se< I tary of war. [ Prisoner—Viva Mexico 1 “O, phsaw!” b» the reporter.—.r Antonio (Texas) Express. Incident of the Commune of Paris As several Versaillese were being away o be shot one nuan in the cro that accompanied them to see the she ing made himself conspicuous taunting and reviliug the prisoners. “There, confound you,” said om the prisoners at last, “don’t you trj get out of it by edging off into crowd aud pretending you are om them. Come back here; the gam up; let ns all die togetherand crowd was so persuaded that the C< muuard’s vehemence was only a-.-ui to cloak his escape that he was msi ed into file with the prisoners and <1 shot. “Please, sir, give me a few penni I haven’t tasted food for nigh onto t' days.” Philanthropic gentleman — “Csi stop; am late now ; have got to ms a SDeecii at tbe Society for tbe Relief the Des itute.” Great Britain has ordered 80,000 & [ India troops and 20.1 IX) regulars t in readiness for instant movement. AMERICAN II FOREIGN PATEK t SCCIFSSOKS Note pinned to a. deserted Pittsburg baby: “Treat me well, for I have no lather or mother. 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