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WEDNESDAY, - OCTOBER 17,1877.
AUTUMN.
By the laggard eon I greet,
By the criepen leaves so fleet.
Hither, thither 'neath my feet,
Whirling, whirling.
By the pirpling of yon hill.
By the swelling of the rill,
Gliding on to village mill.
Purling: purling,
By the jay's metallic note.
By the spider-webs that float
From the treo-topa to the moat,
Shining, shining.
By the dim, mysterious hize,
By the forest all ablaze,
Crimson leaves with golden raya
Entwining.
By the soughing of the air,
Note of joy or moan of care.
Fairy laugh or spirit prayer
Interweaving—
All are now the waning power
Of the sunny-snmmer hour
Over tree and shrub and flower
Perceiving.
Nature, prodigal of treasure.
O’er the vantage ground of pleasure,
l’ours hor harvest wiihout measure,
In golden light.
The fulfilment, O how grand'
But. as falls into the band
Luscious fruit with Autumn brand,
Burning, bright.
Memories of the days gone by
Will awake a bitter sigh.
And we turn a tearful eye
At that call.
In onr heart's sad retrogression
Bursts open us the confession :
Pursuit is sweeter than po-session
After ail.
—Charles B. Maclay -Inter-Ocean.
TO TWO IN HEAVEN.
“MADOe” n VIC'KSBUBO HERALD.
Hay, have yon met, 0, true, true friends of
mine
Beyond this strife ?
Beyond this circle of a Hummer shine,
This lower life ?
Have yon clasped hands upon that otner shorn
Where no one paits ?
Hay, have you met again to part no more,
My bravo, true hearts ?
Oh! You two loved me with a love so pure,
Ho true, so fond,
It must have lived through death—it must
endure
Through the Beyond.
Although so low beneath your holy skies
I.yeth its root,
I foel its branches bear for angel eyes
Eternal frnit.
My heart has wandered from the Hummer light
Of Hope’s fair lands ;
A gay girl’s Hunset and a woman's Night
Are clasping hands,
And in this bitter twilight of the soul
I stand alone,
Listening to memory's surges as they roll,
And break and moan.
I am so tired, true and tender friends,
Ho wearied ont!
I fli.d Life’s gladdest hope too often ends
In pain and doubt.
The bu-ry fingers of tbe deepening Dark
The sunset sbronds,
And if a star arise, the trembling spark
Shines out of clouds.
1), loyal frionds, whom I no more may meet,
Mv vanished years
Atoll on my heart, like wild seaH sadly sweet,
A ud break in tears!
You two. who stand from touch of time or
blight
Forever free.
Oh ! come across the bridge of death to-night
And comfort me!
IN THE MORNING.
BY LILIAS WHITISO.
ii w 'th the dawn those angel faces smile, >
That I ha ve loved long since and lost awhile.’
In the qniet hush of morning,
Whon the sunlight glories fall,
Gleaming with their sunny radiance
All along mj' chamber wall ;
When the day With duties laden
Comes to meet in.'* all untried,
Come those angel for Li’s around me
Who from earth have inrued aside.
In the silonce and the darkness
I can see their faces fair.
And the robes of sunny whiteness,
And the gleams of shining hair;
I can hear thorn whisper softly
As they bend my pillow o’er,
1 can catch the distant music,
Floating from the uusoon shore.
One who, in hor life's fair morning,
From earth's cold and clouded gray
Turned to meet the golden dawning
In the land of perfect day—
Who, with pile hands folded lowly,
BWopetli wlioro the lilies blew.
From the roalms so pure and holy
Comes to meet mo liore below.
Tell us not our loved and lost ones
Who have found the fairer shore
Can forget ns sadly toiling,
And return to us no more.
For the spirit world around us
Lietli olosor than we droam!
Aim] gives purer thoughts, and nobler,
Daily felt, tho'still unseen.
In the hours of grief and sadness
Whou dark shadows seem to fall
Blank and hard aoross our pathway
Like some grim and stony wall,
Unseen hands will geutly load us.
Unheard voicos come to eheer,
Loving eyes bend softly on us
Aud we know oar lost are near.
When fa ns tho radiant dawning
Of tho morn eternal breaks,
Whon for us tho solemn shadows,
Flee away and life awakes.
To that realm where all that's noble
In our natures shall expand,
Guide us ever. O ye loved oues !
Upward to the unseen land.
e
AUTUMN.
An unseen pencil paints the lissom leaf;
The blades of grass grow pale and droop and
die;
While ears of gold from their protecting sheaf
Lean out to hear the north wind whistle by.
The Spring-tide music of the tuneful throng
In other climes now wakes the hazy sun;
While loitering crows drop down their mocking
song
From naked troe-top and from clouds of dun.
In laughing orchards blushing boughs bend
low.
And bid to feasting ou their splendid freight;
And hill-tops, waiting for their crown of snow,
Look frowning dewu on vales all desolate.
On wings of flame which spring from hearts
ablaze.
Caro takes his flight when fades the short
lived day;
And sweet Contentment, with her simple ways,
Turns chill November into smiling May.
INFORMATION WANTED.
In the dim ages long since gone,
Professor Huxley says,
The owl was then a reptile born
And crawled o'er stony ways. .
But when he shed his shining scales
And donned his feathery suit,;
To soar aloft 'mid favoriug gales,
Changing liis hiss to koot—
Professor Hnxley does not say.
Nor show the "missing link.”
Alas for science in our day.
When wise men only blink !
—Boston Advertiser.
The CuviAi'k’i I.tiniest.
I .Vivo York Commercial Adrerfiser.l
Oh Kara mo back to Old Bnlgary,
To Old Bulgary's shore,
1 feel quite strange, m this Balkan range,
And 1 want to go home, what's more.
Ou the Danube's strand I'd like to stand,
I'm sick aud tired of the war;
Then Kara me back to Old Bulgary,
To Old Bulgaiy's shore.
I .ever ot Alrxundi-r 11. Slfphrns.
[A T . Y. Herald.]
For hours the resilience of Mr. A. J.
Johnson, No. 9 East Sixty-fourth street,
was thronged yesterday l>y the friends
and admirers of the old Georgia states- j
man, Alexander H. Stephens. Although ,
emaciated to a painful degree by the |
malady which has afflicted him for
years/the strength of a bright intellect
and the triumph of a great will have for
the time being overmastered disease, and
the speech of Mr. Stephens is as clear
and strong as that of a man in full
health. His reception room overlooked
a garden frouting Sixty-fifth street, and
the warm sunlight flooded the apart- j
ment, adding to the warmth and luxury
of the surroundings. At the time of;
the reporter's visit President Barnard,
of Columbia College; General John
Cochrane, Colonel Johnson, Colonel Jno.
A. Stephens, Mr. Dawson and several
other gentlemen were paying their re
spects to the distinguished visitor. Mr.
Stephens was seated in a large, softly
cushioned camp chair, and discoursed
freely to his visitors in his peculiarly
eloquent manner about the South, the
wants of the people, his hopes for the
future and other matters. Some of his
political remarks are as fresh as the dew
on the grass, aud have not before been
presented in print. For instance, he
said: “Everything before President
Hayes' announced southern policy seem*
ed dark and chilly. It appeared to me
we were further and further away from
reconciliation snd peace, and drifting
again into the shadows. The North, or
rather the Northern politicians, either
did not want to or did not seem to wish
to believe that all the old issues of the
war were dead. But with the advent of
President Hayes all things were changed.
For the first time I felt the thaw, and
the chill was out of the air. I believe
now that the danger is all over, and that
the consummation of the peace and
good will which the South has so ar
dently desired is out of the hands of the
politicians.” Mr. Stephens said if any
body would look at the new Constitution
of Georgia he could be convinced of the
real state of feeling there, and he
thought that was reflected throughout
the South.
lit
Savannah is all agog over a goober
raising process.
THE CAMPAIUN.
Hen. tirans K. Mblrt tor the I.miniature.
Editors Chronicle and. Confititutionalist:
As tbe time for bolding an election for
members of the General Assembly is
rapidly approaching it is time thst the
names of suitable moo for the position
shoo Id be suggested. In this connec
tion permit me to present Hon. George
R. Sibley for nomination as one of the
two members from tbe city, Mr. Sib .
ley’s recent services to tbe people of
Angnsta and to tbe concty of Richmond
are so fresh in the minds of car citizens
that no extended notice of his qualifies
tions for the office is necessary. He
comes of an old and most respected
family; he has held a seat in the City
Council for many years, and is now
Chairman of its most important commit
tee; as, first, member and then Chairman
of the Board of Education he has given
efficient and unwavering support to the
cause of education; as a delegate to tbe
Constitutional Convention he assisted in
framing the organic law upon which wc
will vote in December and an examiria
tion of the proceedings of that body
will show the wisdom of his votes upon
all the important questions considered.
His financial ability will make him a
most valuable member of the General
Ass. mbly, while bis talents, his clear
hea 1, sound judgment and kind heart
will mike him a worthy representative
of the county. His selection would give
entire satisfaction to the people of the
city and of the country. It would re
flect credit upon the county to nominate
him by a unanimous vote. Publius.
J. M. St-OKO, Em|.. for tbe Legislature.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Permit me to suggest as a suitable
candidate for the next Legislature, from
tbe eonnt.v of Richmond, the name of
Josiah M. He ago. Mr. Seago does not
seek the office, neither would he enter
into any contest to obtain the nomina
tion, but I hope will allow his name to
be used by bis friends. He is an edu
cated and practical planter, a man of
sound judgment upon all matters, ard a
gentleman of unimpeachable integrity,
and will do honor to the constituency
that will elect him. Country.
The Lfnislatßre.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Cordially endorsing every word used
by one of your correspondents in
suggesting the name of Mr. H. G.
Wright in connection with legislative
honors, I beg to present the name of a
gent.eman worthy to bo his colleague—
namely, that of Hon. George R, Sibley.
Mr. Sibley is clear headed and not with
out experience in deliberative bodies, A
gentleman of enlarged and libera! views
on all questions of State policy, he is
known and honored for his sterling in
tegrity and great moral worth. He and
Mr. Wright walk abreust with the age.
Richmond county would find in both
these gentlemen watchful, genuinely
progressive representatives.
Young Man.
The Stale Scnntoraliip.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
As one of the people who feel an in
terest in the welfare of tho State, and in
the furtherance of the best interest of
this District, it afforded me peculiar
gratification when apprised of the proba
ble caudidacy of our fellow-townsman,
the Hon. H. Clay Foster, for election to
the high and responsible office cf State
Senator. I am satisfied when I affirm
that in the approaching canvass he will
be sustained aud supported by the solid
business, thinking meu of this District,
I only reflect a sentiment fn this Com
munity which is gathering strength and
credenoe as the contest deepens. In the
expression of this opinion I am actuated
by no partisan spirit, nor by the un
worthy desire to engender strife by
urging invidious comparisons. I regard
nothing more vicious or reprehensible
than the practice too frequently resorted
to by politicians of creating, in the heat
of a political oanvass, private and per
sonal antagonisms. In our system, how
ever, of representative government, it is
tbe high duty and privilege of the citi
zen to exercise untrammelled the free
dom of the ballot; and the well beißg Of
the Commonwealth depends upon the
judicious selection of publio meu who
commend themselves to society by their
experience and ability as well as their i
adaptability to the wants of tho people.
Tho political pyigenoies, growing oat
of the adoption U c new organic law,
impose npon the next Ge*epr;jl Assembly
duties, difficulties and labors whieh de
maud the employment of the best talent
which the State affords. A large portion
of the new Constitution is powerless for
good to our people, unless its great ma
chinery is put in motion by appropriate
legislation. It bears the same relation
to the body politic that tho skeleton
bears to the human body, and the
muscle, sinews aud blood of legislation
must bo added to give it life, symetry
and vigor.
Important, delicate and responsible
trnste devolve upou tha ppyt Legisla
ture, and the representatives of peo
ple should be selected with an eye aiugle
to their fitness for the great work which
lies before them. Without, therefore,
undertaking to discuss or criticise the
abilities or the qualifications of other
gentlemen, I believe the election of Mr.
Foster will best satisfy the public de
mand aud best subaerve the publio in
terests. For solidity o i reasoning, force
of sagacity, readiness iu debate, to say
nothing of parliamentary experience and
skill, no man in Richmond county is his
superior. As an incisivo and forcible
speaker, be is already widely known, and
he possesses the qnality of “packing
thought closely,’’pombmed with the pow
er so rare, and yet so essential in
a public debater, of thinking fin his
feet. Some meu, and men too
who have acquired reputation as think
era and orators, plow, harrow and sow
in the field of letters, but they never
reap; they possess all the signs of intel
leetnal agriculture except a harvest.
W’hile the candidate of oap choice has a
copious vocabulary (yet fit this
sterile exuberance) he is a practical
thinker, and never cultivates the foil
age to the prejudice of the fruit; above
all, like "a sentinel upon tha watch
tower,” he guards aud studies the inter
est of his constituents and is never lost
while discharging public duty in the
contemplation of himself. There is an
other class of people, Messrs. Editors,
(and bv far the larger aUss), to whom
Olay Foster’s candidacy is
gratifying; I allude to the poor and tbe
laboring class. He has ever been watch -
full of their interest, and a narrow ob
server of their wants; professionally, he
has always serve# (thejn. end when un
able to conduct the expense which too
often unhappily exclude t4i poor from
the benefit of counsel, ho has represent
ed them freely “without money #nd
without price.” After all, the prim# ob
ject of government is to alleviate sufler
ing, and to do the greatest good to the
greatest number; the alllueut and the
prosperous can take uato of themselves,
but organized society, by wholesome
law, must take care of tho Laboring
classes; it is among them that wa And
real hnrnan nature; there the great popu
lar heart throbs and distributes the
blood of wealth among States and com
munities.
Some writer has graphically said "that
wealth in its last analysis is bat the <
sweat of the poor.” This is true, and it
might be justly added, their blood the
price of liberty. “Even the spark of
freedom,” says Gibbon, the great histo
rian, was produced by the collision of
adverse servitude. This, the great body
of the people, has always enlisted Mr.
Foster’s sympathy and received his
especial care as a legislator. Build up
the laboring classes, harmouke the con
flict between capital and labor ; this is
the great duty pi government. This
duty Clay Foster appreciates and fully
understands ; he has laid therefore the
foundation of liia strength by going
dowu into those parts of bam nature
which lie low, but which, like the ever
lasting hills, are not likely to change.
Because he has dug deep he is now
enabled to pile high ; the fabric he has
reared will stand with imtaovable
strength, and wheu the ides of Deoem
ber come I predict for him a triumph
ant endorsement by §
The Labokino People.
I„ D. Daval, Esq., laclhe Irf*t*laiar.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
Your Sunday’s issue contained letters
commendatory of Messrs H. Gregg
Wright and George R. Sibley as fit re
presentatives of the people of Richmond
county for legislative honors. Those
communications meet with universal ap
probation from the citixena at large, and
the pnblie will with pleasure endorse
such men ss her trusted servants. Mr.
Wright as editor of the Chboniclk and
Constitutionalist has evinced abilities
that rank him amongst the ablest political
writers of the oountry, while the con
tinued, brilliant support and defense
which he has always exerted in behalf of
the Democratic cause entitles him to the
everlasting gratitude of the party. As
a dear headed, forcible, ready thinker
and writer, Gregg Wright has but few
superiors.
Mr. George R. Sibley as a representa
tive of the commercial interest of the
city is a man whose high-toned integrity,
polished manners and cultivated mind
has alwavs been acknowledged, is one
whom the people will be pleased to place
as a colleague of Mr. Wright’s on their
legislative ticket. Thus we have the
commercial interest and the press ao ably
represented, we therefore suggest as an
appropriate companion piece to so ac
ceptable a ticket the name of Louis
Duval as a fit representative of the di
versified interests of the country and
the law. Asa practical farmer, a native
to the manor born, he has won the re
spect, admiration and friendship of his
neighbors, while aa a lawyer he baa at
tained that portion which has caused
him to be admired for his talents and
honored for his integrity. An honest,
able lawyer, he is a man who will leave
the impress of his legal talent on the
law* of the State, and will reflect honor
and credit on bis constituents at home.
In the adaptation of the laws of the land
to our new Constitution, the farmers and
country people can rest assured that
Louis Duval’s full knowledge of their
wants will cause their every interest to be
protected and their every right secured.
So with every interest of the county
represented by such men as Wright,
Sibley and Duval, the people would
soon "have the proud satisfaction of see
ing their county assign to the position
of honor and fame which she occupied
in those days when Crawford, Miller,
Camming and Jenkins appeared as
Richmond’s delegation to the Btate’s
council. Kenelm.
THE SENATORIAL CANVASS.
The Cause of Public Education.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
The suggestion of Major Cumming’s
name for the Senate from this District
seems to meet with very general approv
al. Tbe suggestion afforded me especi
al pleasure as a friend to the great cause
of public education. In the recent ad
dress of Major Cumming before the
Teachers’ Convention of Georgia, at
Toceoa City, he established for himself
the highest claims upon the esteem, re
gard aDd support of all who are desirous
of promotiug the great educational in
terests of onr State. While that
address can be commended by
all instructors to the young as
a model of English composition, yet
ventnre to assert that never before
in Georgia was this great cause more
ably and eloquently advocated by any
of her distinguished sons. I cannot re-,
train from asking tbe publication of tbe
following complimentry notice of this
speech from the correspondent of the
Macon Telegraph and Messenger, pre
ceded by some comments from the Mil
ledgeviile Union and Recorder. No one
can read these criticisms without in
dulging in a feeling of pride that he is a
fellow-citizen of Joseph B. Cumming.
“We read the address which was pub
lished in the Chronicle and Constitu
uionalibt with no ordinary pleasure.
Major Cumming handled the subject in
anew and masterly manner, exhibiting
a thorough acquaintance with every step
which the State of Georgia has taken in
this most important matter, from the
earliest period of its history to the pres
ent time. It exhibited a laborious re
search, accompanied with interesting
comments, iooluding a plan of public
instruction full of practical wisdom and
utility. We substitute for some com
ments which we desired to make upon
this admirable production the following
remarks which we copy from the Maoon
Telegraph and Messenger
j Correspondence of the Macon Telegraph and
Messenger. 1
“You will indulge me, I know, while
on this subject, iu a few words concern
ing the admirable address of Hon.
Joseph B. Cumming, of Augusta, de
livered Thursday. Mr. Cumming, as
most of yonr readers are aware, is a gen
tleman of fine scholarship and liberal
eultnre. In manners, he is the genuine
Southern gentleman—refined, dignified
and modest. As I listened to his chaste
and eloquent words, coming forth like
tbe clear water from a bubbling spring,
pnrte and free, and followed him through
his well rounded periods, whose force
was made yet more forcible by a modesty
and regard for tbe feelings of others
who might differ from him that was
refreshing as they are fare, I felt that
the speaker was himself a splendid illljs
(ration of the Grecian and Roman ora
tors aud statesmen with whom he con
trasted the average stump speaker and
politician of our day. Mr. Cnnwnog
has evidently given much thought to this
matter of the establishment of an effi
cient public school system for our State,
and his opinions are entitled to the
serious consideration of her patriotic
citizens and statesmen.”
The address should be read by all who
want to understand the defects of our old
oducational system in Georgia, our pres
ept wants, and the necessary remedies
which ww legislation should adopt.
While all that” Map Camming suggests
cannot probably be adopted at Qtice, yet
no one knows better than he how such a
system Bhould be modified unflej our
Constitution so as to meet, as far as
possible, al{ the requirements of our
educational Hemnfifi*. all the
friends of education see tq it tfiat jp the
next Legislature of Georgia we shall
have the Senate a man who, in this
“admirable stress” before the Teach
ers’ Contention, dtiopiaysuch ‘bor
ough acquaintance with lps pf&t ?-
jeot, and such noble and exalted senti
ments in behalf of the youth pf Georgia.
We shall then have a Senator capable,
not only of appreciating the educational
wan* B of Georgia, but wise enough to
! devise, and able enough to place in
practical qpp'atiou, a system to supply
those wants er 8 611^18 '
educational welfare.
A Fbienp to Public Education.
OUR CHARLESTON LETTER, .
I’robnblc Fate ol Radical County Olßcials
The Municipal Cnmpnien Opened—Unity
Required for Victory—Stag Race Continued
—District Attorney L. C. Norlbrop—A Fam
ily ftqtptMpd.
[CorrespontienceCtirmiicOi undCfijistitiilionalist.]
Charleston, October s. —The grei
political reformation which commenced
with the nomination of the State Demo
cratic ticket is now to be continued in
the fuyer country. The little differences
betweea‘Ba44s?lisra and Democracy are
not altogether settled yiff, nor will they
be until the last of the' usurper ire
ousted. The election which denied the
Radical Charleston delegation seats in
the Legislature and on whioh the Hon.
M. P. O’Connor bases his protest is the
satjfe that gives to the present Sheriff,
Clerk fit Court, Coroner and others,their
positions. I capno); ascertain definitely
wh#t action will be taken ip the matter,
but certainly, as affaire stand, the pres
ent Radical officials of tbe county baye
no legal claim to their position*. As to
the election itself, take the solid white
or Democratic vote away and the rest
would remain a mockery and a farce did
it ppt have a tragical end. At the coun
typreinflts not only did they keep the
Democratic votero atyay and permit wo
men and half grown boys t° y°te fty®
Radical ticket, but in some places the
boxes were stuffed until want of room
pt evented the entrance of ballots. The
Radicals well understand and always
fotlcv
“JifO good jqW rule, the simple plan,
Tbat they snoiili who have the power,
Ami they Bhould keep ifce Pftu-”
The matter should certainly bo taken
into consideration in order that we may
get rid of the superfluous vermin as soon
as possible.
The Municipal Cnmpninn.
the drenching rain
and boisterous weaihp? on last_ Wednes
day evening a large number vf pekoes
assembled at the various ward meetings,
pp>suant to the call of the Chairman of
the jCoßoty Executive Committee. The
motto at every Btepting yas “No Radi
cals need apply” and theft* i$ .every rea
son why tbi* should be carried Gift to
the letter. These irrepressible vampires !
have no way to live except by politics
and tbev will turn anything to get posi
tion. The Democrats are determined to
wipe out every thing in the shape of
Radicalism which now exists in Charles
ton. The city, like the State, Has suffer
ed much from the profligacy of i’s rulers
and uotbipg short of an entire Demo
cratic admiuistraiioe can be considered a
reform.
The general tone of the meetings was
tp this effect, and the spirit manifested
is imitative of success. The main
thing neoAyd, however, is that every
Democrat will gi.*o bjg full support to
the nominees of the Lonvwiiiiou. If the
Democrats work together it is probable
that ijie Radicals will not attempt to put
a ticket in the field, but the first sign of
discord will bring tb® old enemy to the
front The Democrats wannot afford to
quarrel among themselves now; they
hare everything to gain or everything to I
lose. No compromise with any wing of
the Radical party, however favorable
auch compromise may appear, .can be
•ousidared as aught else than a crushing
blow to the patriotic movement now on
foot. “United w Stand, divided we
fall,” should be inscribed jjpon every
Democratic banner; and the service of
every teas and honest citizen is required
to form a solid phalanx which alone can
prove itself inyinpibie tp attacks of
the enemy.
Auatker Stag Hum.
“Over the mountain the wild stag browses the
mountain herbage alone,
At morn he browse*, at noon he sickens. at eve
he maketh moan."
A large concourse of persons were
again at tin> rape course yesterday after
noon, for the purpose pf witnessing the
second stag chase of the wesson. Owing
to the first unsuccessful attempt, very
little enthusiasm was manifested By the
spectator* who, taking the ooeasion into
consideration, displayed a degree of an
gelio meekness daring the entire per
formance, which lasted about tea min
utes. About half-past four o’clock a
short-homed stag was driven from its
eage into the middle of the course, and
a little later the hounds were unlashed.
Daring the greater portion of the nhase
the stag and hounds remained hid amid
the tall weeds, but finally the stag
jumped the fence leading to the track,
and for a short space the animal, fol
lowed olosely by a single hound, could
be seen. He was soon overtaken and
caught by the dog, which was quickly
whipped off, and thus eedeth the second
lesson.
Jade* Nnrthrop.
Judge L. C. Northop, the newly ap
pointed United States District Attorney,
is now in the city. He has been ad
mitted to practice in the United States
Court, and was presented with his com
mission. It is not too muoh to say of
Judge Northop that he has the esteem
and confidence of all who are acquainted
with Jiim. As it has been said that a man
may be in the world aDd not of the world,
so may be summed up Judge North
rop’s career with the Republican party
of this State. Although still a young
man, he possesses a versatile ability.
Under bis editorial management the
Union-Herald, a Republican paper pub
lished in Columbia, saw its palmiest
days. So as a public speaker he dis
plays the eloquence aud flow of language
whioh characterizes the orator, and his
qualifications for the bench have found
expression among those who have had
every means of judging. District-Attor
ney Northrop’s debut in Charleston
meets with a gracious welcome.
Cane of Poisoning.
Miss Graham, daughter of the late
Judge Graham, and a servant girl of her
family, died from the effects of poison,
in this city, yesterday, while the rest of
the family are lying dangerously ill. It
seems that a lunch sent to the family
while traveling on the train contained
salt which got mixed with arsenic. This
is the rumor, but scarcely probable. The
matter is now undergoing investigation,
and as the truth cau be ascer
tained I will write the details. Miss
Graham was about eighteen years of
age, highly accomplished and generally
beloved. Virginius.
ONE DOLLAR AT INTEREST.
Wliat a Highly Factor it is Compounded a
Six Per Cent.
[New York Mercantile eJournat.\
However historians may differ on
other points, all concur in crediting
Ferdinand and Isabella with the charac
ter of intelligent aud efficient sovereigns.
When under their auspices Columbus
discovered America in 1492, economists
would have deemed it wise if they had
set apart one of the many gold mines
which then came into their possession,
to be worked forever in the interest of
the crown, its products to be applied as
a sinking fund towards the reduction or
the liquidation of the national debt, un
til such debt should be paid.
For convenience of illustration, we
will imagine that such an edict was
passed, and as an administrative meas
ure, one hundred men were detailed to
work the mine, with the provision that
all vacancies occurring by death or
otherwise should be immediately filled.
On arrival at the mines the colonists
found (if they did not know it before)
that gold would neither shelter, feed nor
clothe them, tnd they wisely detailed
one-half the number to supply tbe per
sonal needs of the colony, while the
other half worked at miuit’g. A few
years experience showed that the aver
age product was an ounce of gold every
ten days for each miner, which on a val
uation of 820 was $2 per day. As that
sum was in equity and by agreement
divisable with the non-mining party, it
resulted that the earnings all around
were 81 per day, which allowing 300
working days to'the year, would be 8300
per annun for each, while the products
of the mine steadily piled up in tbe
Government Repositories.
But while the colonists were quietly
and efficiently fulfilling their mission a
little bill of a dollar was presented at
Madrid, and as there was no “moneys
nqt otherwise appropriated’’ at the com
mand of tfie Treasury the officials gave
bond for the sarpp, bearing interest at
Q per cent, per annum, payable when
the gold above specified should
be disposed of, The Government
finally fixed upon the year 1879 as a
good time to sell, rightly conjecturing
that by the demonetization of silver aud
the prospective enormous requirements
of the United States for gold to effect
their exchanges, the demand would be
unprecedented aud the price high. By
calculation they found that the fifty
miners had each day delivered 8100
worth of metal which, estimating 300
working days to each year, would be
830,000 per annum, resulting for the 387
years in the magnificent accumulation
of #ti,6;o ,000. “But yourExeellency for
getp,” said' Don Benseroso to tbe Treas
urer General, “that there is a lien on
the fund of sl, the interest being added
at the end of each year at 6 per cent.”
The pjagnifipos laughed heartily at the
suggestion, and jokingly asked the
Grand Scribe to inform them (that is,
if the paltry sum were not too insig
nificant to figure ou) what that little
matter would amount to. But they were
mucß sjirprisfiß aqR annoyed when that
functionary, after careful calculation,
report 4 that the claim of this bond
holder on tbe Government would in
1879 amount to the incomprehensible
sum of 86,240,000,000 (six thousand two
hundred and forty millions of dollars.)
The Council at first accused the sedate
functionary of joking, but his solemn
an# jespmJtpbl? visage precluded that
theory. I'heij'a ppspieiop of insanity
took possession of the dffieial mind, but
cyphering ppnfjrjped the statement,'
“Garramba 1” growled (he president,
“that 81 has earned 147.468 times more
than those fifty workingmen—or rather
those hundred workingmen, for it has
taken one outside man all the time to
support *he one > n tlie “ip 6 - U r ' in
other words, it woulc! r^R""' 0 13,746,-
(*QO at $1 per day each, from the date oi
the bond, to pay principal and accrued
interest, at 6 per cent., oil 81. for BaV
years.”
The old philologists teach that usury
means “something that bites.” It is a
constructor that crushes and then swal
lows.
BARBU'S K 01.14
How a Sewing Machine I.unatie Squanders
an Easy Eorlune.
fflw York Sun ]
Mr. Emerson Baker, of Boston, made
a fortune with the Grover & Baker
sewing machines, and is now living at
Wellesley, Mass., teu milt* from Pos
ton, spending his money after hie own
peculiar fashion. He has an estate en
closed, 820 acres. A scenic artist has
decorated the outside and inside of his
immense stable with huge and extraor
dinary pictures. He has a tall tower,
whose successive floors constitute a sort
of eoajbjned museum, zoological cabi
net, and KlndergfciiePj .containing a
queerly-jumbled collection of chromos,
curiosities, surgical instruments, doll
babies, mediaeval armor and stuffed
ducks. Scattered all through his
grounds are grotesque edifices all
gaudily painted. He has there
some pf the pavillions from the
Centennial grounds, fje has a •cha
pel. The interion is decorated xyith
mottoes of an instructive charaeter.
The presiding deity is a big bronze
Buddha, cross legged aud ugly. At one
corner of the edifice is a half-buried
piece of ordnance w th a tin sign bear
er- one of Mr. Baker’s most novel and
striking puns, “One of the canons of the
church?” And he is much given to
puns. There is the Union Monument,
not yet completed, designed to cymbol
ize reconciliation. The roof will bristle
with I*OQQ bayonets, used by Federals
and Confederates, and over the bayonets
will be perched 9 Bpnffed white dove,
holding an oliye branch, pie delights
in pigs, and has any number of them
living in luxury. When they die they
are buried with pomp and ceremony.
The chief piggery is a palatial sff dr. It
was dedicated two years ago, in the
presence of three thousand guests, at an
expense of many thousand dollars. Its
exterior walls are covered with large
oil Daintings, illustrating various phases
of porcine Ufa* 10® interior is fitted
up elaborately, the pens being of polish
ed hard wooids |andsomely carved, and
cared for by numerous attendants. Here
and there on the grounds may be seen the
m&sa oleums of departed hogs of extra
ordinary si*e or merit, the stuffed skins
erected on costly pedestals, and thus
forming their own monuments. Mr.
Baker has excavated an artificial lake,
and placed upon it a queer steamboat,
which travels with equal facility upon
water and land. Se has tunneled the
ledges for fully a quarter of a mile,
forming a subterranean labyrinth that
ends in bear pit. The entrance tothe
grotto is a firestone arch that 4£ce
formed the postal of a presbytenan
church partially destroyed in the second
great Boston fire of 1873. The sacred
stones are guarded by two wooden fig?
ures, formerly in the employ of some
tobacconist. Wandering along the shores
of the lake, the visitor encounters stuff
ed mules set up among the shrubbery ;
a monument tffirty f&t tigk “ ade en
tirely of e&pty champagne Bottles, and
itself constituting a gigantic bottle;
grotesque wooden effigies of men and
animals; stuffed alligators, as if crawl
ing up from the water ; a cottage shin
gled with old spades andshovels; a ceme
tery, containing all that was mortal of de
ceased pets, bears, swans, monkeys, dogs,
duckß, iawM, CBts, cows, canary birds
and pigs each having been accorded
funeral honors. Here *nd there tin
signs are suspended on trees or tacked
against lodges for no other apjwirant
purpose than to eopyey some of the
choicest puna of the eceeiftnc proprie
tor. There are log houses built of a
thousand worn-out railroad sleepers,
piles of worn out locomotive smoke
stacks; a monument of defaced stone
columns from the Boston post office, in-
jnred in the fire; a boat-house, pictori
ally adorned outside; doll’s play houses,
crockery monstrosities, rusty cannon,
wooden snakes in tbe grass, and thoas
ands of other objects appropriate to
museums or junk shops, but not usually
found 8S features of landscape garden
ing. Whenever Mr. Baker comes across
anything extravagant, odd or nonde
script, from a three-legged bear to a
queer-shaped clam shelf, he forthwith
purchases it, and adds it to the bizarre
attraction of Ridge Hill Farm. If yon
grasp a brass knob you are pretty sure
to receive an electric shock. If
you attempt to whistle through a
speaking tube, iu order to gain admis
sion to this building or that, as di
rected by a printed notice, you are rea
sonably certain of blowing yourself
white with flour. If you step on an ap
parently solid floor, it is very likely to
tilt and let you dowu, with the uncom
fortable feeling of tumbling from some
where into nowhere. If you are tired
aud seat yourself upon one of the garden
stools, the chances are that it will sink
with your weight, leaving yon on the
grass, while a painted wooden devil
springs up out of the ground directly in
front of you, and grins at your discom
fiture.
Every day, except Sunday, his
grounds are thronged with carious visit
ors. Each visitor is obliged to register
his name and pay a small fee for attend
ance. He is warned to keep away from
the dwelling house of the proprietor and
from the graperies and hot-houses, but
is at liberty to enjoy all other parts of
the establishment. Strangers were for
merly admitted to the hot-houses, but
there were thieves among them who
stole fruit, aud Mr. Baker caused to be
printed and prominently displayed the
following characteristic notice:
“ Seven of those who, by special per
mission, were allowed to pass through
the grapery on August 25, were reported
as having stolen Hamburg grapes. The
lady in black, about fifty years of age,
who divided her spoils just outside, did
not give her son a very moral maternal
lesson. Those who used the Norino
Tower as a spittoon on August 29
must remember that those who expecto
rate in private houses cannot expeet-to
rate as gentlemen.”
He has gathered together Senators
and Governors, Congressmen and col
lege presidents, to join him in raising a
monument to the memory of a hog. He
has entertained two or three hundred
ministers of the Gospel, and set them
all acting like so many harlequins.—
When the Charleston and Savannah
military companies came North to
attend the Bunker Hill centennial,
Mr. Baker captured them, carried
them off to his place at Wellesley,
and fastened them for a fortnight in
the interests of reconciliation. He
has organized tremendous pillow fights
among his guests. He has collected half
of the prominent men in Massachusetts
to celebrate the birthday of a heifer calf
or to attend the funeral of a black bear.
On these festal occasions his wretched
dependents are forced to rig themselves
up fantastically, and perform all sorts of
grotesque mummery. His caverns and
grottoes are inhabited by retainers
dressed as demons, serving claret punch.
The bears are petticoated and the mon
key painted blue. Probably no other
man ever dreamed of making a cow yield
milk punch. Mr. Baker accomplished
the miracle by attaching to the cow’s
udder a fifth teat, made of rubber. A
small tube, painted to correspond with
the color of the beast, ran down her
hind leg and thence across the floor and
into another room, where the beverage
was pumped in as fast as needed. Hun
dreds of visitors draDk the milk punch,
and wondered at the marvel.
THE FEVER AT FERNANDINA.
Causes That Have I.eil to It—A Light Mors
t alii J—Eleven Hundred Cases to Date,
[Atlanta Constitution.\
Yesterday morning Col. J. N. Whit
ner, brother of Col. J. C. Whitner, of
our city, arrived here from Florida. He
left Fernandina some days ago, but was
in that fated city during the fury of the
scourge. A reporter of the Constitution
called upon him at tbe Markham House,
and had a conversation with him con
cerning the state of affairs in Fernandi
na. The city has a population of between
1,600 and 2,000 persons, probably the
larger portion being colored persons.
Many of the latter earn their livlihood
by the industries of the place and by
labor upon the wharves in stevedore
gangs, loading and unloading vessels,
of which a large number are engaged in
foreign trade to and from that port.
JReretoj'ore R’ernaußina fieep a re
markably healthy pity, apd @ipcp its
foundation has never been visited by a
yellow fever spoqrge. The causes for
this fatal epidemic may be properly
traced to the uncleanly condition of the
southwestern portion of the city. Where
tho disease first appeared the neighbor
hoods were in so filthy a condition as to
sustain a very putrid atmospere, most
inyiting (p (fip disease. 'fihjs potfßition
was due to tne fact that the present mu
nicipal authorities, when they assumed
the care of the city, found its treasury
impoverished, and debt accumulated to
a heavy amount, and in their desire to
economize in city expenditures the drain
age of the city and sanitary regulations
generally were neglected. The usual
result of such foolish, if not criminal,
negligence jn tfie naqjp of eeopomy, fol
lowed, and the city’s quarters' beoamo
the harbors of this maligDtjnt plague.
Eleven hundred cases have been under
treatment since the disease made its
appearance, whioh number is fully two
thirds of the population subject to its
attacks. A number of citizens left the
city upon the intimation aud assurance
that, (Le sickness was yellow fever, but
many who would have escaped were de
layer py u controversy fietwefß t.hp two
leading ptiysioiiink otter the true charac
ter of the disease. One of them con
tended that it was yellow fever, while
the other stoutly denied it, and it was
not until Dr. McFarland, the eminent
physician from Savannah, exhumed the
body of a deceased person and made an
autopsy, by of which it was fully
established as a ease ol yellow fever,
that the true condition of affairs was re
alized. The disease made rapid pro
gress, but was singularly mild in effects
though protracted in its operations np
on the systems of those attacked. Out
of the 1,100 cases only about 50 deaths
have been repotted, which is a fatality
of less than five per Per?*, of the puffiber
seized with the sickness. This is a very
small mortality, and shows that the
plague has been general, but not so
virulent as was at first supposed. Nearly
all the white people in the city subject
to attack have already been prostrated,
and the material upon which the disease
can feed in that direction is nearly ex
hausted
The ravages ol the plagqe are now
rapidly taking in the colored people,
who of late years seem to have lost their
immunity from this scourge. Among
them it finds victims ill prepared to
fight the dread monster, and as a conse
quence there is reason to fear a greater
mortality among them. Trade is sus
pended anR f * lO negroes are poor, and in
many eases paupers, to tbe extent that
even the barest necessities of life they
have not. When the scourge first ap
peared, Col. Whitcer says the authori
ties aud people were pretty well pre
pared to combat it, but now there is
immediate need for pecuniary assist
ance and supplies, principally to relieve,
in the name of pure humanity, the large
number of destitute and suffering col
ored people. There is a charge made by
some, though Col. Whitner thinks it an
uncharitable one, that an officer, since
deceased we believe, distributed sup
plies to colored people not entitled to
them anil not resident in the oity, for
political purposes. It is very certain
that any relief to be sent to Fernandina
is needed right now, and it is hoped that
our people will not hesitate to give a
little from their purses to relieve the
suffering and keep starvation from the
doors of those to whom disease has
brought not alone its own horrors. We
are sure the cry for help will not go un
heeded ber9.
YELLOW FEVER.
Tlie Fernandina Sick Improving—Deetltate
Condition of the People.
Jacksonville, October 10.—The sit
uation at Fernandina as far as the sick
are concerned, is encouraging. No dan
gerous cases are now in hand and no
qew cases reported to-day. Two deaths
have occurred there since the last re
port—one a colored woman and ene, Dr.
Wellford, a volunteer physician. Pro
visions are still badly needed there, as
there is no business going on and ra
tions have to be issued to an immense
number, whose means of guppoyt are cut
off by the suspension of mflls and other
industries.
Singular Presentment.
[florae Courier.]
Col. Eli Shorter, the father of the late
associate editor of the Courier, informed
Messrs. Howell and Dwinell, who accom
panied his son’s remains to Montgomery,
Ala., that on the night of the death of
his son here in Rome, his wife awoke
him, asking the time of night, saying:
“Willie is dead; I feel that Willie is
dead.” He looked and found it 1:15 by
his time. Onr young friend died at 1:10
by the time here. Mrs. Shorter knew
of her son’s illness, bnt nevertheless, it
is very strange that the impression
should have been vivid enough just at
the moment of his departure to causa
her to arouse her husband in order to
get the time of night.
A Griffin man offered to supply a Ma
-0 in hotel with a car load of possums.
THE SNOWY snitl'BS.
Reports of Our Cottou Crop—The Plant In
Georgia, Florida, North Carolina and Ylr
fftnla— Damnglnc FlTects of September’s
Storms—The New Growth, the Worm and
the Kust.
Galveston, October 9, —The Cotton
Exchange crop report is as follows :
The character of the weather since Sep
tember Ist has been favorable in 54
counties and nnfavorable ia 7. The ef
fect of the weather has been good in 54
oonnties, bad in 7. There has be?n no
additional damage to the crop by worms
since the last report. Picking is pro
gressing rapidly. Half a crop has al
ready been picked. The yield, compar
ed with last year, points to a decrease of
at least 25 per cent.
Georgia.
Savansah, October 9.—The following
is the crop report for September : In
Georgia ninety-three replies from fifty
three counties report that in the early
part of the month the weather was dry
and warm, the balance rainy, with a
heavy wind storm for three days (the
18h, 19th and 20th nit.) in the South
western portion of the State. The wet
season caused, in so'-e sections, anew
giowth, but it is too late for auy benefit
to be derived therefrom. Little or no
damage from worms is reported, but
rain and wind injured the quality, and
portions of the cotton open in the fields
have beefl beaten out and destroyed.
The principal complaint seems to be
from rust. This is very general over
the State. Picking progressed rapidly
up to the middle of the month, but
since than but little progress has been
made. All the replies indicate that we
must expect a less yield than last year.
In some sections the plant is in no
condition to make any more, while
in others it is growing well and making
every day. On such crops so much de
pends upon the immediate season that
is ahead of us and the time that a kill
ing frost first appears, that no correct,
or even an approximate, per centage of
decrease as compared with last year can
be given in this report.
Florida.
Twenty-five replies from thirteen
counties. The first part of the month
was dry and favorable, the past fifteen
days incessant rains prevailed, accom
panied by high winds, preventing the
gathering of the crop. Much has beeu
beaten out and destroyed, and the qual
ity of that open and remaining in
the fields much injured. The rainy
season has had the effect of caus
ing the plant to take a second
growth and throw off fruit, to
bring forward the worm and to in
crease the nest. A month ago there was
a fine prospect in this State, and a much
larger yield than last yesr was looked
for. The damage now from worms, rust
and storms is estimated at 15 to 20 per
cent. Farmers had to make good pro
gress in picking up to the date at which
the worms commenced. During the wet
weather the work suspended and much
of the cotton open in the fields during
this bad spell has been lost. It is diffi
cult at this time to estimate either the
yield or how the yield of this crop will
compare with the last. The seasons, up
to the middle of September, were more
favorable than the last, and with a
larger acreage, there was a prospect of
gathering a larger crop than the last. It
is fair to estimate that, with good
weather the balance of the season, the
yield of this State will not fall below
that of last year.
Virginia and North Carolina.
Nobfolk, October 9.—The Cotton Ex
change report of the condition of the
cotton orop is based on thirty replies
from eighteen counties in North Caro
lina and Virginia. All the replies re
port the weather during September very
rainy and stormy, to the injury of the
plant. Considerable damage is reported
owing to the recent storms ; some from
rust and rot, but very little injury, if
any, from worms. The progress of pick
ing has been much retarded, being from
ten to twelve days behind last year,
owing to recent bad weather. The yield
this year will be, on an average, about
175 to 200 pounds of lint cotton to the
acre. As compared with last year, the
yield is considered by a few to be about
the same or perhaps a little better, while
the majority of replies report a decrease
in yield from 25 to 40 per cent.
Mississippi.
Seventy-seven reports from thirty-one
counties, dated from September 27th to
October 4th, say that too much rain in
generally reported in the early part of
September. Pqrjhg the part of
the thp Whether has been dry and
more favorable to plants. Considerable
damage is reported in a large portion of
the State from worms, rust and storms,
whilst in a few sections no damage has
been done. Picking is progressing
slowly, and the yield in comparison with
last year will fall short about ten per
cent.
4rfeanp|iN,
Received fill answers from 2ff counties,
with an average date of September 30th.
Except in a few sections, where there
were heavy rains in the early portion of
the month, the weather during Septem
ber is reported favorable, and in conse
quence of effect, good to the plant.
There are rnaiy complaints of rust,
shedding and worms, but the damage
from these causes c|qps Bqt appear to
pjgbt pey cent, * Picking is pro
gressing rapidly, and the yield compares
favorably with last year.
IjOuUlanu.
New Obleans, October 9. —The Cot
ton Exchange reports the following :
From 32 parishes have received 62 re
plies, with an average date of Septem
ber 30th. They report the weather dar
ing the past month as universally Unfa
vorable from fop fclflob eausing the
plant tb shed its bolls. Damage is
reported from storms, rust and rot, and,
in some parishes from worms. The
estimated injury is about 31 per cent.
Picking is progressing finely, and the
yield, as compared with last year, is
reported to be at least 25 per gei^.
Mouth Carolina,
Charleston, October 9. - The Septem
ber report of the Charleston Exchange
is based upon eighty-three replies from
thirty counties. The weather is report
ed most of the month as being wet and
stormy. The effect upon the plant was
to retard the maturing of the top crop
whprp if but tepn destroyed bV pre
vious drouth. There has been little or
no damage by worms in upland cotton,
but rust, rot and storms have injured
the crop very seriously, both in
quantity and quality, beating out cotton
that was open, and damaging the staple.
Picking is reported as making a good
progress by thirty, who report that from
a quarter to half of the crop is gathered,
and fery backward by fifty.one, wet
weather interfering. The estimates of
yield vary from 1(X) to 250 pounds lint
per acre, the average being 156 pounds.
Nine report the yield as more than last
year, and seventy-four less from five to
fifty per cent., the average of the State
being thirteen per cent, below last year.
■FIIE COTTON CHOP.
Tennewuee anil North Alabama— Mare En
couraiclnff Reports from These suites,
Nashville, October 10.—Of thirty re
plies from the middle of Tennessee to
Nashville Department Cotton Exchange,
twenty-six report very favorable effect
of weather npon the cotton and bolls
opening finely. Only five report dam
age by worms and three by rust. Eigh
teen report picking slowly and eleven
progressing finely; twenty-tyirep report
from si* to seven hundred pounds per
acre of seed cotton and thirteen from
four to six hundred. Nineteen report
better yield than last year, seveu a third
more and four a double yield of last
year. Of twenty-two replies from
, North Alabama,
Seventeen report unfavorable effect of
too much rain retarding opening of bells
and five report favorable, 10 report no
damage and 12 serious damage by rust.
Nineteen report picking slowly m con
sequence of a backward season, 16 re
port from three to five hundred pounds
seed cotton per acre, and six from five to
six hundred pounds. Nine report yield
not so good as last year. Seven about
the same and sir'from 15 to 25 per cent,
more than last year.
Mobile, October 10.—The following
is the Mobile Cotton Exohange report
for September:
Alabama.
From 41 counties, 94 letters have been
received. The weather foy September is
reported as haying been favorable during
the first half oi the month, bat wet and
stormy during the last* half, causing
shedding, rotting of bolls, damage to
quality and stimulating a second growth.
The damage from these causes is vari
ously estimated; in 20 counties no per
centage is given, in 21 the loss is about
16 per cent. Picking has progressed
slowly on aooonnt of inclement weather;
some counties, however, report fair pro
gress. The yield per acre will average
about 350 pounds of seed cotton. The
yield, compared with last year, is esti
mated, in 28 upland counties, at 15 per
cent, less, and in 13 prairies or cotton
land counties at 5 per cent. more.
Jlluisaippi.
From 18 counties 49 letters has been
received. The weather during Septem
ber has been the same as ip Alabama
and has produced the same effects. The
damage being about 16 per oent. on the
average. Pinking has progressed very
slowly on account of wet, stormy
weather. The yield, per aore, is esti
mated at 400 pounds seed cotton. In 16
counties the average yield, as compared
with last year, is estimated at 17 per
cent. less. In one (Ttawamba) at 15 per
cent, more, and in one (Tishomingo) at
the same.
Tennessee.
Memphis, October 10.— The crop re
port for September of the Memphis
Cotton Exchange was made from 47 re
ports from West Tennessee, 51 from
North Missifsippi and 54 from Arkansas
north of the Arkrnsas river, of the aver
age date of Ootober let. The majority
report is unfavorable weather, owing to
rains keeping the crop growing and
retarding maturity. The average dam
age by worms, rust and rot is 6
per cent. average of the general
pick-ing on September 23d. The
possible damage damage by frost is
estimated at eight per cent, greater
than last year. The reports generally
indicate but little or no top crop, wet
weather causing it to shed. There is
much complaiut of excessive grass and
weeds in crops seriously interfering with
picking and promising much trashy cot
ton, after a killing frost. The crop is
generally later than usual in maturing,
the labor morale is good. The corn
orop is not as good as last year. The
condition of the hay crop is good, the
prospective increase on acreage of
wheat, rye and grasses is twelve and
one-third per cent.
S. R. Baldwin writes : “After trying
Soothing Remedies without avail and
physicians without relief, I gave Teethi
na (Teething Powders), and it acted like
magic. I occasionally give a powder to
keep my child’s gums softened.”
VEGETINE
Purifies tbe Blood, Renovates and
Invigorates the Whole System.
ITS MEDICINAL PROPERTIES ARE
Alterative, Tooic, Solvent aM Dinretic.
Vegetine is made exclusively from the
juices of carefully selected barks, roots and
herbs, and so strongly concentrated, that it
will effectually eradicate from the system
every taint of Scrofula, Scrofulous Hu
mor, Tumors, Cancer, Cancerous Hu
mor, Erysipelas, Salt Rheum, Syphi
litic Diseases, Canker, Faintness at
the Stomach, and all diseases that arise
from impure blood. Sclntlca, Inflamma
tory and Chronic Rheumatism, lien
raltfia, (lout and Spinal Complaints,
can only be effectually cured through the
blood.
For Ulcers and Eruptive Diseases < f
the Skin, Pustules, Pimples, Blotches,
Boils, '( etter, Scald-head and Ring
worm, Vegetine has never failed to effect a
permanent cure.
For Pains In llie Back, Kiduey Com
plaints, Dropsy, Female Weakness,
Leucorrlicea, arising from internal ulcera
tion. and uterine diseases and General De
bility, Vegetine acts directly upon the
causes of these complaints. It invigorates
and strengthens the whole system, acts upon
the socrotive organs, allays inti mmation,
cures nic: ration and regulates the bowels.
For Catarrh, Dyspepsia, Habitual
Costiveuess, Palpitation of the Heart,
Headache, Piles, Nervonsue s snd
General Prostration of the Nervous
System, no medicine has ■ iven snch perfoct
satisfaction as the Vegetine. It purifies the
blood,cleanses all of the organs,and po.-sesses
a controlling power over the nervous system.
The remarkable cures c-ffocted by Vegetine
have induced many physicians and apotheca
ries whom we know to prescribe and uso it in
their own families.
In fact. Vi getine is the best remedy yet
discovered for ihe above diseases, and is the
only reliable BLOOD PURIFIER yet plac
ed before the public.
Frepared by
H. R- STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS.
WHAT IS VEGETINE?
It iH a compound extracted from barks, roots
and herbs. It is Nature’s Remedy. It is per
fectly harmless from any bat effect upon tbe
S'stem. It is nourishing and slruigtbening.
It acts upon tbe bloot. It quints the nervous
Bystem. It gives you good, Bweet sleep at
night. It ie a great panacea for our aged
fathers and mothers, for it gives them
strength, quiets their nerves and gives them
Nature’s sweet sleep, as lias been proved by
many an aged person. It is tbe great Blood
Purifi x. It is a soothing remedy for our child
ren. It has relieved and cured thousands. It
is very pleasant to take; every child likes it.
It relieves and cures all diseases originating
from impure blood. Try the Vegetine. Give
it a fair trial for your complaints; then you
will say to your friend, neighbor and acquain
tance : “Try it; it has cured me.”
Vegetine for the complaints for which it is
recommended, is having a larger sale through
out the United States tc an any other one med
icine. Why? Vegetine will cure these
Complaints.
CANNOT BE EXCELLED
CHAtq,ESTpwN, AJai „ , March 10, 1869.
Mb. R- K. Stevens ;
Dput Sib—-This is to certify that I have used
your “Blood Preparation” iu my family for
sevoral years, and think that, for Scrofula or
Cankerous Humors, or Rheumatic Affections,
it cannot be excelled; and, as a blocd purifier
and Spring medicine, it is the best thing I
have ever used; and I have used almost every
thing. I can cheerfully recommend it to any
one in need of such a medicine.
Yours respectfully, ])JKB. A. A- BINSMORE,
10 Russell street.
GIVES HEALTH, STRENGTH AND
APPETITE.
My daughter has received groat benefit from
the use of the Vegetine. Her declining health
was a source of great anxiety to all of her
friends. A few bottles of the Vegetine re
stored her health, strength and appetite,
N. H. TILDEK
Insurance and Real Estate Agent,
No. 10 Siiiyr* Building, Boston, Mass.
Prepared by
H. It. STEVENS, BOSTON, MASS.
Vfg* tioe Is Sold by all Druggists.
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A SPLENDID (iPPORTFNITY
TO WIN a Fortune. Eleventh Grand Draw-?
ing, 1877. At New Orleans, Tuesday,
6th. | Louisiana State Lottery Company.
This Institution was regularly |u;ioi.vJ>6rated by the
Legislature of the
table! *u luus, with a Capital of $1,000,000,
to vv'lMCh it has since added a reserved fund of
$3>0,0 Q. I|h grand Single Number l>rawiuM
will tuk > place monthly. It never scales or post-
Look at the following schemes:
I CAPITAL PRIZE, #30,000.
100,000 Tickets at Two Dollars each,
Half Tickets sl.
1 CAPITAL *30,00#
1 do, do. - 10,000
4 qo. do 5,* 00
‘4 PRISES OF $2,500 5,000
5 do. 1,000 5,000
20 do. 500 10,00
lO; do. 100 10,000
200 do. 50 10,000
50) do. 20 10,(00
I,ooo' do. 10 10,000
APPROXIMATION PRIZES.
9 Approximation Prizes of S3OO 2,V00
9 do. dq. 1,800
9 <lq T du, 10 9.0
1,87* Priaoa, amounting to $110,400
Write lor circular- or send orders to
M. A. DAUPHIN,
P. O. Box 692, New Orleans, La.
Extraordinary Seini-Annual Drawing, Tues
day, December I lib, 1877.
Ticket ■, $lO. Shares in proportion.
Capital Prize, SIOO,IOO. 2d Capital Prize, $5^,000.
$522,500 distributed in prizes of different dYnomi
nat oils. Drawings superintended tiy Generals G.
T. Beauregard, ol LouisiVua, and General Jubil A.
of Commissio; ©rs f..r the State and
peopfle. For informa'ion. apply to them or M. A.
DAXH HIN, P. O. Box 69’, New Orleans, La.
oc3—weea&wlm
TtffANHOOD
IS RESTORED.
IH 83 Victims of YfjUtLf-.ii lumuidenee, who
Imm premature decay, tost manhood, and ali
Ml V brought on hy excesses. Any
druggist has the Ingredients. Address
DAVIDSON A CO., 86 Nassau St., N. Y.
Unites' Bulletin!
PRICES THIS WEEK!
J g POUNDS GOOD STAItCH for *1 ;
16 pounds Good Soda Crackers for $1;
pounds Prime Leaf Lard for ft ;
10 pounds Brazil Nuts for $1;
Q pounds Pecan Nuts for tl;
g pounds French Candy, mixed, for $1;
pounds Good Qreen or Black Tea forsl;
g pounds Good Bio Coffee fer $1;
8 pounds Crushed or Granulated Sugar
for $1;
j pounds Good Brown Sugar for #1 ;
q pounds Gilt Edge Butter for $1 j
. 9 Good Qt gars for #l.
40
R. N. HOTCHKISS,
cct7-tf 290 and 143 Broad street.
A PHYSIOLOGICAL
View of Marriage I
Chi id* to Wadfook and
I",'#▼ Wa W N wconfitteutiml Treatise cm tho
■ ldutiea of marriage and tha
HHBBRBHPPMBPBffpPcauc-> that unfit for it; the ae-
D'creta of Reproduction and
Diseases of Wc men.
jf J J \t| ijt'itt reading. 260 pages, pries
A Sf?rL Self
Abuse, Excesses, or Secret Diseases, wtfh the brt
means of cure, 224 large pages, price 60 eta.
A CL INTO AD LECTURE on the tbova diseases and
those of the Throat and Lungs, Catarrh,Rupture, the
Opium Hablt.ic., price JO CO.
Either boor sent postpaid on receipt of price , or all three*
containing SX) pages, beautifti’.'y illustrated, tor 76 cts.
AddressD&BUTTS, No. 12 K. 6th bu St. Louie, Me
Hatary. Salesmen wanted to sell on*
wHi T§ ffl || bT| h'-a y.K Goods to dealers. No peddling.
B ■ ■HI Kxpenaespsil- PermaDent employ
mTH B Was Rill im-nU aillress S. A. GRANT A CO,
W|F 810 V W i, 4,64 8 Home Si, CaiclxuiaU, O.
gt\ APeARs year. Agents wanted everywhere. Bos*
1 J r% 1111 iness strictly legitimate.Particulare free
faAddress J.Wobth a Cos., St Lonla, Mo.
A AOOLD PLATED WATCHES. Che&pWft.
ML Cin the kmown world. Sample. Watch Ere* la
JAgen*. Addrm, A.{fcqgnw fo.. Chicago
HRa. Bryant 1 # *Wew Improved** Reese’s
tfSnfcWi. Patent Adjustable Stencil Letters are
% taking the place of all others. They can
funned into Solid Plates or used as
Letters. REDUCED IN Pkich.
[Track Mark.) Everybody will buy them. Can be seat
Hv mail. Inks ana Brushes aaa everything in Stencil stock.
Sole manufacturer cf the wonderful ** BLONDIN GYRO
SCOPE.” and 50 other Agents’ fast selling articles. •’ Fortune
Chart," etc. Gyroscopes mailed for 25 cts. Samole Chart. 25 cts.
Send postal card for lull particulars. N. B.—l have arrange
ments made and can furnish promptly any article wanted by
agents or consumers, of American or Foreign make.
O. G. BRYANT, Solo Mfir. soa WashmgWn-st, Chicago
oct4-wly
IN ew Advertise mn t
FALL AND WINTER GOODS
AT
The Fredericksburg Store
Bleached ;t ml Brown Cottons, 4 1-2, 5, 6,7, 8, 9 and 10c.
Calicoes at 4, 5 and 6 l-4c.
Percales, lard Wide, 61-4, 8 and 10c.
Dre s Goods, 6 14,8, 10 and 12 l-2c.
Bhck Alpacas, 15. 20. and 25c.
BUck Cashmeres, 35, 40, 45, 50 and 00c.
Black Silk, 05, 75, 85 and sl.
Large Shawls, 50. 75 and sl.
Cloth Cloaks. $2 50, $3, $4 25.
Gents’ Undervest, 25c.
10 1-4 Bed Blankets, $2, $2 50 and $3.
The above are the prices of some of our Cheap Goods, and to which wo are daily adding
hundreds of other art idea at such low prioes as was never heard of before, and in addition we
tre receiving one of the Choicest Stocks of First Class Goods ever seen in the market. Snch as
Fine Dress Goods, Fine Cloaks, Fine Silks, Handsome Embroideries, Trimmings, Fringes,
Handkerchiefs, Collars and Caffs, Neck Ties, Hoiserv, Gloves, Gents' Fnrmshing Goods,Towel
ings, Table Damask, Domestics, Blankets, Flannels, Ac , Ac.
Our Buyer is now iu New York,and is watching every turn of the market,and every steame r
and railroad train comes loaded with the Goods for the Old and Reliable Fredericksburg Store,
comer by the Planters’ Hotel. Every day you will find something new, and we invite all to give
our stock an inspection.
V. Richards & Bro.
P. S.—We send Samples to our friends at a distance, and pay expressage as heretofore.
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HEADQUARTERS
Fur First ClassjM FasMnal Dry Cools
In opening the Fall Season, we take pleasure in placing before our
friends and the public generally ti e most complete stock of Dry Goods
ever displayed in the Southern States, consisting in part of a v
Magnifi cent line of Black Silks.
All the new shades in Colored Silks—various grades.
The most decided novelties in Colored Dress Goods.
Black Goods of every description.
Hosiery, Notions, Corsets, Ties, Gloves, Linens,
Damasks, Cassimeres, Flannels, &c.
Oar Cloaks—to arrive-will be equal to any ever exhibited in
New York, London or 5 aris.
To summarize: He offer a stock of Fall Dry Goods which, in
every department for variety, elegance and cheapness, stands un
rivalled.
JAMES A. GRAY & CO.
MILLER & 'BUSSEY,
Wholesale and Retail Grocers,
No. 283 Broad Street, Horner Campbell (store formerly occupied by M.
O’Dowd), offer to dealers and the public at unusually low prices for the
CASH:
40,000 Pounds C. R. D.S. Sides. 50 Barrels Sugar Syrups.
20 , ( ) O O Pounds 0. R. bides. 300 Rolls Bagging.
10,000 Poundd D. 8. Shoulders. 500 Buudles Ties.
-j YA / A Boxes Tobacco ali q/ \ /"v
-L v-/ V/ grades. Ov ) U Barrels Flour—all grades.
Hi I „ ... „ Q/A / A Packages Mackerel, in half
'’ - ' Bags Rio Coffee. Ov 7 / barrels and kits,
t~7 JY Barrels refined Sugar— f— /"A
*ll grades. r) \ ) Barrels Liquors—all kinds.
Barrels Reboiled Molas-
with Caudles, Soaps, Teas, &c. &c.
All Goods and Weights guaranteed.
MILLER & BUSSEY.
of-9 t,f
NEW PROCESS FLOUR.
CRESCENT MILLS,
*
J. F. & L. J. MILLER, Proprietors.
OUR FANCY FAMILY FLOUR MADE BY NEW PROCESS HAS NO
EQUAL. mh4—d&wlv
“HOLD THE FORT.”
The Fall and Winter Campaign
HAS COMMENCED AT THE
Augusta Dry Goods Store.
L. RICHARDS,
THE CAPTAIN of FIRST CLASS DRY GOODS, has returned from the Northern markets
with REINFORCEMENTS of the largest and finest stock of FIRST CLASS DRY GOODS
he has ever had the pleasure of commanding.
Dress Parade and Inspection Daily, Sundays exoepted.
A cordial invitation is extended to all. Every Department is now complete and well
FORTIFIED with the most CHOICE GOODS of the season at the LOWEST PRICES.
DRESS GOODS—A beautiful line unsurpassed, newest shades and designs, from 10 cents
to the flnoBt; Colored Cashmeres, new shades, from 25c. and upwards, Black Cashmeres, the
best make, from 500. to $1 50: Black Alpacas, the finest lußtre and best blacks, from 25c. and
upwards; Black and Colored Silks, all prices. An immense stock of Kentucky Jeans, from 10c.
and upwards; Cassimeres. Tweeds, Waterproofs, Flannels, Linseys, all prices.
Ladies, Gents and Children’s Undervests and Drawers. A beautiful line Ladies’ new style
Cloaks, all prioes. Blankets, both white and colored, a large assortment, cheaper than ever
known. Bed Spreads, Quilts and Comforts, at prioes unprecedented. A great variety of No
tions, Fancy Goods, Ladies’ Neok Ties, Collars and Cuffs, Ribbons, Silk and Linen Handker
chiefs, Corsets, Gloves and Hosiery, all at bottom prices. Kid Gloves at 50, 75, 11. $1 50 to 12
a pair. A beautiful assortment of Calicoes at 4,5, oto Bc. Bleached Shirtings and Sheetings
at the lowest prices. Domestic Goods at factory prices by the piece. Goods of every descrip
tion usually kept iu a First Class Dry Goods House, suited to the wants of the people, both id
price and quality.
AT WHOLESALE AND RETAlL.—Merchants will find it to their interest to examine this
stock before purchasing. Orders filled with ere and promptness.
Samples sent on application. I wi.l pay Express charges on all orders for goods at retail
amounting to TEN DOLLARS and over, the money accompanying the order, or goods sent O. O.
D. Try me. Respectfully submitted,
L. RICHARDS,
sep3()-tf 209 BROAD STREET. APGUBTA, GA., NEARLY OPPOSITE CENTRAL HOTEL
MYEES & MAECUS,
286 and 288 BROID STREET, AUGUST!, ttl.,
—WHOLESALE DEALERS IN—
Dry Goods, Notions, Shoes,
Hats, Trunks, Etc.
PRICES AS LOW AS IN NEW YORK OR PHILADELPHIA.
A Large and Varied Stock on Hand.
Bep3o-nwp<fewiy
Sensational Advertising Played Ont!
Hnmbugging the public way succeed, but only for a short tine.
('KRISTOPHER GRAY & €O., the oldest Dry Goods House in the
State, have wade it a rule to advertise only Goods in Store, and to adver
tise any Goods remaikable for ‘their cheapness or superior quality.
Christopher Gray, who has been in the market haying to great advai
tange since the Southern Bayers returned hone, has sent ns—
A Case Hamburg Embroideries, cheaper than any yet.
Black Silks are down 40 per cent.
The Best and Cheapest fassimeres in the State.
A much better Corset for $1 than than the Bon-Too.
Yon will find there the Best Three-Buttoned Kid Glove In the United
States for the price—7sc.
Look at onr Double-Breasted Undershirt for sl.
CHRISTOPHER GRAY & CO.
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Real Estate Agency.
—O
Special attention paid to the sale or purchase oi Town and
Country Property* Money borrowed and loans made on Real
Estate. Special attention paid to the management and renting
of property. The undersigned haring been requested by many
of their patrons to resume the Real Estate business, will, from
this date, devote the energies o! the concern to all business en
trusted to them, and charges will be moderate.
JOHN J. COHEN & SONS.
Onr Bond, Stock Brokerage and Life and Fire Insurance will
be carried on as usual.
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