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010 SERIES-VOL. ICII
NEW SERIESHfOt. IX
Cftronide anft &fntmri.
WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 28, 1877.
Indiana has lost more than $320,000,000
by shrinkage in values.
The Worcester Tress saya The silver
bill is Bill Sharon, of Nevada.
The World, has found anew beatitude:
“Blessed are the poor, for their wills shall
not be contested."
Horse fleeh is not high in New York.
Joe Jepvebson’s crack team was bought
at auction for $375.
Jeff. Davis has written his autograph
800 times. The rest have been penned by
his colored servant.
The Jewish Timet wants to know whether
Jewesses will be excluded from the Stbw
akt woman’* hotel.
The latest way of expressing it is: “A
feast of reason and oysters, and a flow of
soul and champagne."
Rumor hath it that Beecher, Tii.toh
and Elizabeth are about to proclaim
“grace, mercy and peace."
The eldest greenback is under a glass
vase in Nashville, Tenneaee. It is No. 1,
letter A, dated March 10, 1883.
Chicago i> in arrears for taxes about $2,-
000,000, and the Timet urges tax payers not
to part with a cent of the money.
A New Yore boy who identified his
father at the morgue met the old gentleman,
a few hours afterward, on the street.
The oleomargarine people are said to be
laying in a large amount of hair, so as to
pass their stuff off as the real article.
Completed rktubns of the New Jersey
election place McClellan's plurality at
12,034 and his majority over all at 6,172.
A French interviewer calls Grant
“General Steel.“ Well the steal was
pretty general under Obant that’s a fact.
The Republican Senators want Mr.
Davis to remain “a monument of treason."
They are willing to remain monuments of
stupidity.
The Baroness Burdett-Coutts is pre
siding overexperimentsin theartof slaugh
tering cattle instantaneously by the use of
dynamite.
Friends of the Texas- Pacific Railway
bill do not like the rumor that lIEWTrr, of
New York, is to be Chairman of the House
Committee.
Or the thirty-three House Democrat* who
oppose the Resumption Repeal Bill, twenty
one are from New York, New Jersey and
New England.
Some say that Mr. Coolbauoh’b suicide
was caused by “domestic infelicity.” llis
bank, though a Chicago one, was unus
ually prosperous.
The New York Commercial Advertiser :
Longfellow’s last poem is called “Kera
uios"—emphasis on the “ram," you know,
not on the “os.”
The Nashville American insists that the
Turks have contributed absolutely nothing
to human knowledge. Perhaps, with them,
ignorance was bliss.
--
W E regret to learn that Rev. Dr. Albert
Taylor Bledsoe, editor of the Southern
Review, lias licen stricken with paralysis at
Alexandria, Va.
Bayard, Coke, Maxky, Lamar and
Randolph were the only Democratic Sena
tors who vated to increase the nrmy. The
Republicans were solid.
_
Washington doctors, who have hail
much experience with Congressmen, think
the Pope, if he lives past January, will
survive teu years longer.
Nevada has anew law authorizing the
public whipping of wife beaters. A whip
ping post has been ceremoniously placed in
front of the Court House in Austin.
Mrs. Mart B. G. Tanner, wlio claimed
to be a direct descendant of King Henry
VIII., died at Picrrepont, N. Y., afew days
ago, at the age of 101 years and LI mouths.
Col. Tom Boott says all things in Con
gress are uncertain. He likewise observes
that railroad men “know jnothing of poli
tics." The latter observation is supposed to
tie sarcastic.
John McCullough, the great tragedian,
was born in Londonderry in 1837, and is
just forty years old. He came to America
when a mere lad, and was apprenticed to a
eliair maker.
N ast’s cartoon in the last Harper•’t Weekly
represents the Republican party as an ele
phant hanging on to life by it* trunk. It
has been wittily suggested that the carpet
bag was a better “holt."
Pongo, the gorilla, a celebrity of Berlin
strange to say, died just after he had been
visited by Darwin. It is not often that the
temporary absence of a near relation causes
such a fatal accident.
Neal Dew has te chew the hard fact
that more opium is used in Maine than in
any other State in the Union. And the
Maine law is about as effective to prevent
ru£U drinking as a coal-sieve for the
pose* i>f an umbrella.
Mrs. Frances Alexander, the young
and pretty wife of a Michigan farmer,
eloped with a circus per former named
Dale. After traveling some distance with
him, she was overcome with remorse and
committed suicide by taking poison.
The Lancet has beard it remarked by a
very eminent advocate that when he has
been engaged in any great case the smell of
the crowded Court, recking with humanity,
was to him as the smell ef battle to a war
horse, and afforded thatstimulus which was
necessary to let loose the bonds of his elo
quence.
The Vicksburg Herald thinks the elec
tion iu Mississippi was such a oue-sided af
fair llxM if was not worth crowing over. It
yr >l Our country exchanges all come te
us exnbelHashed with the traditional rooster
crowing over the State elections. We don’t
see anything to crow over. It’s no trouble
to beat Radicals in this Slate, even if they
are called independents.”
Thb proposed absorption of Belgium by
'Geimanv will cause a greater flutter in
France and England tlum the Russu-Turk
ish war. Belgium is the gateway between
France aud Germany. England has guar
anteed the independence of Belgium, and
would not like to see that country under
Germanic influence.
Mb. Sims, of Mississippi, has some rea
son to complain against fate. He was nom
inated by the Democcxacy for Lieutenant-
Governor ef tlxe State, and elected by
about a hundred thousand majority. But,
at the same election, an amendment to the
Constitution, abolishing the office of Lieu
tenant-Governor, was ratified by the peo
ple. So that Mr. Sins finds himself with a
hundred thousand majority ou hi* hands
Mvhich does him no good.
Tub New York Tribune certifies that two
of the mildest-mannered and softeet-voioed
wm is New York are John Kelly and
John Mobbiket. Mr. Kelly seldom
speaks load eaaugh to be heard across the
room, and his tooes, if not precisely “vocal
velvet,” are peculiarly soft and mellow for
a man. Mr. Mobbiszeys voice hat been
almost lost for yean, and it is an effort for
him to speak at all, and as for mildness of
manners, neither of these terrible characters
would barm a dog, and either wonld go a
(block out of tbs way to avoid a crowd.
WK*T POINT.
During the last five years West Point
has had 522 cadets. Of these only 11
were the sons of rich men ; 465 were in
moderate circumstances; 36 very much
reduoed in worldly gear, and 10 indi
gent, The sons of farmers numbered
9®; merchants, 54; army officers, 38; me
chanics, 44; physicians, 40; civil offi
cers, 16; editors, 5; bankers and bro
kers, 11; clerks, 13; manufacturers, 12;
Congressmen, 2; and politician, 1, The
sons of stablemen, nurserymen, tan
ners, speculators sad undertakers num
bered 2 each, as did laborers, judges,
inventors, real estate agents and artists.
It is charged that West Point is an
aristocracy. The young men sent there
may become what is called “aristo
cratic;” bat the facts and figures above
grouped from the records of the past
five years show that they were not so
to any appreciable extent when they
left their parents’ roofs.
the southern negro as he is.
We have read with considerable oare,
and no little interest, a pamphlet pre
pared and published by Oao. R. Stet
son, Bsq., of Boston, entitled “The
Southern Negro as He Is.*’ Mr. 8„ if
we mistake not, was nntil recently, if he
is not now, a Republican in politios;
but evidently, he is not of that contract
ed class, the epitome ofjwhose political
oreed is hatred of the South and her
people. Nor yet does he belong to that
other class of extremists, whose preju
dices influence their judgments to such
an extent as to preclude the possibility
of their seeing things in the light of
reason and truth. One needs bnt to
read the introductory pages of this little
work, to disoover that the writer is an
earnest, conscientious seeker after facts;
and that whatever may have been his
previous convictions as a philanthropist
by nature, and, perhaps, by ednoation,
a more intimate acquaintance with the
negro race, has materially ohanged his
opinions of that class of our population
in many important particulars.
As “distance lends enchantment te
the view.’Vfco, per contra, close contaot
often dissipates many of the illusions
and muoh of the romance that surrounds
an object when viewed from afar. It is
not sarprising, then, that honest men
who have no other knowledge of the ne
gro and of his relations to the white
race in the South than is to be obtained
from exaggerated works of fiction, suoh
as Uncle Tom's Cabin and bitter partis
an jonrnals, whose only mission is to
mispresent, should be deceived in re
gard to the real merits of onr great so
cial problem.
Mr. Bthtson came among ns preju
diced to some extent, doubtless, against
the Southern people, and with many
erroneous impressions as to the charac
ter, habits and capacities of the negro.
He brought with him, however, a heart
which, while full of sympathy for the
oolored man in his lowly estate (as what
humane heart is not ?), is yet ready to
recognize the difficulties that perplex
the Southern white man in determining
and regulating his status in the new or
der of things so suddenly confronting
him. He is not content with a mere
superficial view of the question of whioh
he treats. He has gone below the sur
face, and from the facts thus elicited he
make his deductions.
The plan whioh he pursues in his in
vestigations is the propounding of a
scries of questions under the three
heads, “The Negro Morally,” “The Ne
gro Socially” and “The Negro Political
ly.” These questions were snbmittcd,
as Mr. Stetson informs ns, to “several
prominent gontlemen of abundant ex
perience and culture,” who “kindly an
swered” them. Upon these answers
Mr. Stetson makes his own brief com.
meats, and quotes from various authori
ties in corroboration of the views ex
pressed.
That portion of Mr. Stetson’s in
qniries and conclusions whioh relate to
the moral and political possibilities and
capacities of the negro race is of the
greatest national importance. As re
gards the former, he is evidently not
very favorably impressed, either with
his present attainments or the assurance
he gives of fntnre advancement. Asa
faotor in our body politio he seems to
think him anything but a desirable ao
quaintanoe ; expresses the opinion that
he is totally unfitted, in his present
state of ignoranoe, for a proper dis
charge of the responsible duties of citi
zenship, but hopes that experience and
education may increase his capabilities
in these respects.
He notes the vast difference to be ob
served in the mental calibre and intelli
gence of the mulatto or bright copper
colored negro, to be found about our
larger cities, and the pure African seen
upon the plantation; and inferentially
warns against any theory as to the ca
pacities of the raoe, based upon the
former alone.
We regret that we cannot undertake,
with our limited space to review Mr.
Stetson’s pamphlet more in detail.
True it contains bnt little that is new to
the people of this section; yet it is in
teresting to know what fair-minded
Northern gentlemen who oome among ns
nd see for themselves think of a sub
ject of so much importance to the coun
try at large, and especially to our own
section. At the North (where, we take
it, it is chiefly intended to circulate), it
is calculated to aid greatly in awakening
the publio mind to a true appreciation
and solution of the raoe problem in the
South.
INTERESTING REMINISCENCES OF LEE.
In 1868, Senator Cabbbon, of Penn
sylvania, made the charge that Robert
E. Lee had applied to President Lin
coln for the oommand of the Federal
army destined to invade the Southern
States, and that, being refused, from
pique and resentment, he transferred his
talents to the Southern cause. Hon.
A. B. Maorudek, in the Philadelphia
Times, writes that on the instant Mr.
Reverdy Johnson, of Maryland, him
self a Union man, denounced the state
ment as untrue, saying that although
he had not the authority of the accused
to deny it, General Lbe’s lofty charac
ter and unstained honor alone sufficed
to repel the charge. This furnished the
oocasion for General Lee to give,
through Mr. Johnson, not alone the con
olusive proof of the incorrectness of the
charge bat the clear evidence that he
had himself declined, from a stern
sense of dnty and honor, the very pref
erment whioh he was falsely accused of
coveting. The letter refereed to is as
follows :
Lexington, Va., February 25, 1868.
Hon. Heverdy Johnson, United States Senate.
Washington :
Mr Dead Sir—My attention has been called
to the official report of the debate in the Sen
ate ot the United Statee of the 19th instant,
in which j go did me the kiattoaes to denbt the
oorreotnees of the statement made by tbs Hon.
Sotos CaxxboN in regard to myself: I desire
that you may feel oertain of my conduct on
the occasion referred to, *o far as my individ
ual statement can make you so.
I never Intimated to any one that I desired
the oommand of the United States Army, nor
did I aver have a conversation with hut one'
gentleman (Mr. Francis Preston Bum) on
the subject, which was at hia invitation and,
as 1 understand, at the mstanoe of President
Lincoln. After listening to hia remarks, I
declined the offer he made me to take com
mand of the army that waa to be brought into
the field, stating as aaadfcUy end courteously
a* I could that though opposed to secession
and deprecating war, I could take no part in
an invasion of the Southern States.
I went directly from the interview with Mr.
Blahs to the office of General Scott, and told
him of the proposition that had been made to
ms and my decision. Upon reflection, after
returning to my home, I concluded that I
ought no longer to retain the commission I
held in the United States Army, and on the
seoond morning thereafter I forwarded my
resignation to General Soon.
At the time I hoped that peace would have
been preserved, that some way would have
been found to save the country from the ca
lamities of war, and I then had no other inten
tion than to pass the remainder of my life as a
private citizen. Two days afterward, upon
the invitation of the Governor of Virginia, I
repaired to Richmond, found the convention
then in session had passed the ordinance with
drawing the State from the Union, and accept
ed the commission of commander of its foroes
which was tendered me.
These are the simple facts of the case, and
they show that Mr. Caxrbon has been misin
formed.
Tour obedient servant, B. E. Lee.
It will be seen from this missive that
General Lee had the choice of subduing
his native seotion or being trne to it.
In choosing the latter alternative he en
tered upon the ragged path of dnty;
and though he failed to accomplish the
impossible task of winning the indepen
dence of the South by foroe of arms, and
though the oruelties inflicted upon his fel
low-conntrymen after the war broke hia
noble heart, he has won a fame that will
shine in the heavens of genuine glory
when the ignes-fatui of the day shall
have sank into marsly obscuration. In
proof that this is the verdict of memo
rable men the world over, we find in the
Charleston Newt and Courier the fol
lowing beautifnl lines of poetry whioh
the Earl of Derby wrote on the fly-leaf
of a copy of his translation of the Iliad,
presented by him to the Confederate
hero:
The grave old Bard, who never dies,
Keoeive him in our native tongue;
I send thee, but with weeping eyes,
Tho story that he sung.
Thy Troy has fallen—thy dear land
Is marred beneath the spoiler’s heel;
I cannot trost my trembling hand
Te write the grief I feel.
Ob, home of tears! But lot her hear
This blazon to the end of time;
No nation rose so white and fair,
None fell so pure 6f crime.
The widow’s moan, the orphan's wail,
Are round thee ; bnt in truth be strong;
Eternal right, though all things fail,
Can never be made wrong.
An Angel’s heart, and Angel's mouth,
(Not Homer's') oould alone for me
Hymn forth the great Confederate South,
Virginia first—then Lbb.
TUB FA 1,1. OF HARM.
Tho capture of the strongly fortified
oity of Kars by the Russians is a feat of
arms to be proud of. It was accom
plished by downright bravery and
against enormous odds. This viotory
renders, we should judge, the position
of Mukhtar Pasha untenable, and will
presently be followed by the fall of Er
zeroum. With Kars and Erzeroum held
in the firm grasp of Russia, Armenia be
comes a thoroughly conquered province,
and the cause of the Sultan grows very
gloomy, if it does not beoome utterly
hopeless, in Asia Minor.
The final triumph of the Grand Duke
Michael over the Ottoman foroes in the
East must prodigiously encourage the
Russian armies in Bulgaria, and, unless
some unlooked for catastrophe should
supervene, the forces of the Turk north
of the Balkans will be jeopardized qnite
as seriously as are their Asian contin
gents. We may look for very important
news at any time and probably a sud
den termination of the war by a general
collapse of tho Mohammoden powers of
resistance.
But, in any event, the Turks have
fought well and will die hard. They
have performed wonders and preserved
their military honor. They have proved
themselves anything but effete, aud de
fended their territory with a vigor su
perior to that of the French or Austrian
peoples when similarly assailed. Not
only have the followers of the Prophet
been arrayed against the whole mighty
armaments and resources of the Czar,
but they have had to combat Roumani
ans and Montenegrins, while watehing
anxiously Servians, Greeks, Herzegovi
nians and Bulgarians. To have made
so stout and formidable a defense
against such tremendous disadvantages
and such overwhelming opposition is,
we take it, glorious and memorable.
The Oresoent may go down in blood and
darkness before the eagle of the North;
but the superior credit for valor will be
with the vanquished and not the victor.
CHICKRNB COMING HOME TO KOOHT
It is quite a study to observe the Re
publicans as they contemplate the ne
gro as he was and as he is in the South
ern States. Mr. H. Y. Redfield, wri
ting to the Cincinnati Commercial, elim
inates all nonsense from the subject and
talks plainly to the brethren, thus:
Ben Wade and Conklins and that class of
persons fear an avalanche of Southern claims
and demands for subsidies, and lament the
weight of the South in national affairs ; bnt
what sense is there for blaming Hate* or the
Haves policy for this ? Has he added a single
vote to the Southern column in the electoral
college, in Congress or the Benate ? Who di
vided Virginia and thus added two Senators to
the solid Sonth ? Who enfranchised the negro
when he is not able to stand alone, and thus
added some forty Congressmen and eleetoral
votes for the Southern quota, with no corres
ponding return? Was it Haves and the
“Hayes policy?” The very chaps who are
alarmed at the size and power of the solid
South are the very ones who donated them
two Senators aud about forty Congressmen.
This kind of language grates upon
the Radical ear harshly. But it is true
and harts all the more because of its
veracity. Long ago, Sonthern editors,
protesting against negro suffrage, warn
ed the inventors that they wonld
rue the day it came into their heads to
deolare it “by appropriate legislation,”
and that it would prove a boomerang of
gigantic proportions. The XVth Amend
ment was forced npon a reluctant peo
ple to maintain Radical supremacy, and
it has at last proved the death-blow of
Radical authority in the whole South,
and in many localities at the North.
The Sonthern negroes perceive that it is
to their interest either not to vote
at all or to vote with the
Democratic party. Mr. Hates is
not to blame for this. It was inevitable.
It was written. Old ex-Governor Wel
ler, long ago, said the South would
one day be called upon to protect the
negro in his right of suffrage against
the foiled and discomfited Republicans
of the East and West. We already be
hold evidences of the truth of this state
ment, and the colored people are be
ginning to be of the same opinion.
A MISREPRESENTATION.
A Washington special to the Savannah
Newt, under the date of Monday, says
that Senator Edmunds, Chairman of the
Senate Judiciary Committee, to whioh
the nomination of Col. Fitzsihons as
United States Marshal for Georgia has
been refereed, is much annoyed at the
President having repeated to Col. Frrz
-BJHoxa that portion of the Senator’s
conversation which oocnrred daring the
visit of the Republican caucus commit
tee to the White Bouse, relating to
nomination of Col. Fitssimons and ap
pointment of Democrats. He says;—
“001. Fitzsimons called npon Senator
AUGUSTA, GA., WEDNESDAY MORNING, NOVEMBER 28, 1877.
Edmunds after his visit to the President,
and stated that he wonld be willing to
subscribe to a declaration that he heart
ily endorsed all the constitutional
amendments and considered them right,
and would enforoe them if he was con
firmed. The next day he called npon
Edmvxds again, with a declaration
whioh failed to suit the ideas of the
Senator, as it simply stated be wonld
execute the provisions of the Con
stitution to the be6t of his ability.”
We feel confident the correspondent
of the News has misrepresented the
statement made by Colonel Fitzsimons
to Senator Edmunds, if any statement
was made. We do not believe that
Colonel FroKWONB said he heartily en
dorsed the Fourteenth and Fifteenth
Amendments to the Constitution and
considered them right. That he prom
ised to enforce them if oonflrmed we do
not donbt. As an offioer of the Govern
ment he would be bound to execute the
laws whioh he found npon the statute
book; as a gentleman he would obey the
oath of office to which he had subscrib
ed. But farther than this we are very
confident he did not and wonld not go.
The same dispatch doses as follows:
“Unless a sufficient number of Repub
licans co-operate with the Democrats,
the nomination of Fitzsimons, if report
ed at all, will be rejected.” As it is a
notorious fact that the Republicans
have a majority of the Senate it is not
much of a discovery that a nomination
cannot be confirmed without the aid of
Republican Senators. We have reason
for believing that a sufficient number of
Republicans will vote for Colonel Fitz
simons to secure his confirmation.
JEFFERSON COWNTY.
It is to be regretted that the Jeffer
son County Convention should have
taken suoh action as was taken last
Monday. It is to be regretted that the
Convention shonld have been influenced
by Col. Cain and Gen. Carswell to re
ject the invitation extended to the De
mocracy of Jefferson by the Democracy
of Glascock and by the Democracy of
Richmond. It is to be regretted that
Jefferson oounty is plaoed in the attitude
of deserting Democratic custom and of
favoring the disorganization and dis
bandment of the Democratic party. We
do not believe that the action of the
majority of this Convention reflects the
views of a majority of the people of the
county, and we believe this fact will be
made manifest on the day of election.
The baseless oharges of “oliques” and
“rings” have deprived Jefferson of rep
resentation in a Senatorial Convention,
where Jefferson and Glascock would
have had an equal number of votes with
Richmond, and have taken from them
the right to a voice in the selection of
a candidate. But the misohief has been
done. Messrs. Cain and Carswell car
ried the day, and it is now too late to
remedy the misohief wrought by the
Convention. The Senatorial Convention
will be held in Gibson, and Riohmond
and Glaecock will have to make the
nomination. That the delegates ohosen
will discharge this duty fearlessly and
well we have not the slightest doubt.
We believe, too,that the true Democrats
Jefferson county will rally to the sup
port of the nominee and show that they
do not approve what has been done in
their name.
HOIST BY THEIR OWN PETARD.
We are glad to know that 001. Rioh
abd Lathers, a Democratic candidate
for Senator, in New York, has, after a
prolonged contest, been declared enti
tled to the election certificate.
The laws regulating eleotion returns
in New York were made by Republicans
and by striot construction of those laws
Col. Lathers has won his case. It is
trne that the Democratic candidate owes
his victory to the State Board of Can
vassers deoiding that they “could not
go behind the county board’s re
turn but it is equally apparent that
the Republicans are only treated
to a dose of their own physio,
and many are the wry faces they are
making over it. Indeed, the “stalwart”
presses threaten all manner of revenge,
and the Troy Timet warns 001. Lathees
that the General Assembly, which has a
Republican majority of four, will eject
him. But the World puts in a caveat,
which is as salty as one of Judge Black’s
epigrams. It says : “Mr. Robertson
should be the last man to complain of
this action or to dispute the result. He
was one of the visitors to Florida last
year, and then held that neither the
oounty nor State Canvassers could go
behind the returns of the eleotion
officers or overrate their aotion. A rale
that Mr. Robbbtson was so anxious to
enforce in reference to the Presidential
vote ought to be a good enough rule for
Mr. Robbbtson himself when he wants
to be a State Senator. The defeat of
Mr. Robbbtson is a severe blow to him
and his Republican friends; but they
ought to submit to the law made by
themselves instead of conspiring to
evade it.”
This is “sauoe for the goose, sauce for
the gander,” with a vengeanoe. We trust
that Col. Lathbbs will have no difficul
ty in the matter. He is a very remark
able man and will honor the seat he has
gained.
IMPORTANT DBCISION.
Railroad* Not Liable for Stock Killed or In
jured Whoa There le No Carelessness or
Neglect On the Part of the Employee.
Yesterday Judge Wm. Gibson, of the
Superior Court, rendered a decision in
the case of Uriah Bartley vs, the Geor
gia Railroad and Banking Company,
snit for damages, a cow belonging to
the plaintiff having been killed by one
of the trains of the defendants on the
22d of April last. The facts showed
that the train was coming down a steep
grade at the time, and that the engineer
sounded the nsnal alarm with the
whistle of the looomotive. The valne of
the cow killed was stated to be seventy
five dollars. Thad. Oakman, E> q., rep
resented the plaintiff, and Leonard
Phinizy, Esq., the defendants. The de
cision of Judge Gibson is as follows:
“The statutes of this State giving dam
ages for stock injured or killed, against
railroad companies, is npon the idea of
negligence or want of care on the part
of the employes of the roads. When
it is oonoeded that there was no neglect
en the part of the employes, and every
diligence nsed to prevent the damage or
injury, I cannot conceive hew it can be
possible for courts of justice to give
damages for injuries to stock on their
roads. The running of trains in Geor
gia is not only a legitimate business,
bnt is authorized by special statute, and
it does seem that when the statute givee
the presumption in favor of persons in
jured or damaged, that the damage was
the result of carelessness or neglect, that
the ends of justice are fully met. To
hold that when every precaution was
need, and dne and proper diligence ex
ercised, that a railroad ever shonld be
liable for damages, is inconsistent with
the right to run their trains on their own
roads. In the case submitted 1 decide
that the defendants are not liable to
pay damages.” Wm. Gibson,
Judge Superior Court.
November 19, 1877.
We understand that the plaintiff will
carry the case to the Supreme Court.
SETTLED BY FIRE.
Two DioasTeelas Sectarian Parent* Have
Their Dead GUIS Cremates.
New York., November 20.—Julius
Keroher, a Lutheran, and his wife, a
Jewess, unable to agree to the burial of
their dead child in either a Christian or
Herbrew cemetery, agreed to oremate it,
which was done at the ohemiea] works,
of which the father is proprietor.
THE GEORGIA CAMPAIGN.
What’s the matter with Clarke oounty ?
When the rolling tide of votes comes
in I
Mayor Huff proposes Id ventilate the
Georgia Marshalship.
Ex-Gov. Johnson and ex-Senator Nor
wood are Milledgeville men.
The Gainsville Southron hoists Mr.
Jno. J. Cheatham for the Senate.
Hon. W. R. Smith has been renomi
nated by the Democrats of Walton.
Judge John Collier, of Fulton, de
clines to be a candidate for the House.
Hon. John J. Kimsey, legislative can
didate in White county, is a Gordon
man.
Messrs. W. H. Harrison and W. N.
Fitzgerald are the Stewart oounty nomi
nees.
Thomas oounty in primary nomina
tions places Wm. M. Hammond and Dr.
W, H. Wilmot as candidates from that
county.
Judge J. D. Hauooek, of Taliaferro,
is the nominee for the Senate in that
district.
Hon. M. A. Candler seems to have
whipped aronnd on the Resumption Re
peal bill.
Captain Buell W. Anderson has been
nominated by the Democrats of Pnlaski
for the Legislature.
There is in Griffin a town ring of in
dependents trying to work wonderful
and direful schemes.
The friends of the Bmi. D. B. Hamil
ton, of Rome* are going to vote for him
for Senator, from the 42d.
Solicitor Preston has been tendered
and accepted the Senatorial nomination
in the 19th District, Jasper, Putnam and
Morgan.
Messrs. Baoon, Nisbet and Harris
were the nominees at the primary eleo
tion held in Macon to represent Bibb
oounty in the next Legislature.
The Atlanta Independent says: “Clark,
of the Atlanta district, will have to go
next. Too muoh black mailing, too
mnoh farming out of sub-appointments.”
The Old Capital says: “When the
capital campaign is over, let’s embroid
er something for Christmas and look
around and find out where the turkeys
roost. ”
Brooks oounty goes for Milledgeville
with a vim. Her late grand jury unani
mously recommended the capital to
be oarried baok to the “halls of our
fathers.”
The oolored people of Mclntosh coun
ty have nominated Amos Rogers, color
ed, for Representative. They have also
decided to vote for Alex. Bailey for the
State Senate.
The Bryant meeting in Macon was
rare and racy, and wound up by all
present signifying, by holding up their
right hands, that they were in favor of
Milledgeville and the new Constitution.
So says the Weekly,
A Washington correspondent of the ;
Columbus Times says: “Mr. Hilliard
and Col. Fitzsimons will probably be
confirmed, whioh will prove that the
President is stronger than the. Senate
dictatorial faction.”
Messrs. Mynatt, Hillyer, Small, Fry,
Cooper and others are candidates in
Fulton. The proximity of two of these
names is not intended as a reflection,
and should in no way prejudice the
eleotion. Mynatt is not spelled “gnatt”
either. They are all able men.
An exchange says: “Some of our old
oitizens who were members of the Leg
islature in the old Milledgeville days,
when that body consisted of over three
hundred members, say that there was
plenty of room in the old Capitol.”
What means this, from the Gainesville
Eagle ? Bro. Styles is becoming quite
mysterious of late: “If we have at
Athens an accession to the editorial fra
ternity, in the person of an independent
aspirant for Congressional honors and
Trustee of the University, the country
ought to know it. The recent drift of
the Watchman makes the inquiry perti
tinent. ”
JEFFERSON COUNTY.
Meeting of the County Democratic Conven
tion-Nomination of Candidates for the
Legislature—No Delegates to the Senato
rial Convention*
Louisville, Ga., Nov. 19, 1877.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
After the adjournment of Court at 12
o’clock, m., to-day, the County Conven
tion of the Democratic party assembled
in the Court room, in pursuance to the
call of the Executive Committee of this
county, to nominate candidates for the
Lower Honse of the General Assembly,
and to take such other action as the
Convention might see proper.
On motion of Gen. R. W. Carswell,
Dr. H. L. Battle was made Chairman of
the Convention, and Mr. J. F. Toole
was requested to act as Secretary.
The Hon. M. A. Evans moved the
adoption of the majority rule. Dr. L.
D. Matthews offered as a substitute that
the two-thirds rale be adopted to govern
the action of the Convention. After ar
gument, the original motion prevailed.
Upon the call of the roll of Districts
it was found that the Eighty-first Dis
trict had no delegates in the Conven
tion. The Chairman then requested the
Seoretary to read the following commu
nication (a most legitimate offspring of
the Independent movement), which, he
stated, had been handed to him by the
Chairman of the Exeontive Committee:
“Jefferson County, Ga., (
Nov. 17, 1877—81st Dist., G. M. \
“To the Executive Commitee, Louis
ville, Ga.: We, the voters in the above
stated District, do hereby protest
against any nominations for candidates
for either Representatives or Senator in
the bounds of our oounty or Senatorial
District at the approaching election.
Onr sentiments are to leave the field
open. ”
The Secretary also read a letter from
the Hon. J. T. Shewmake, Chairman of
the delegates from Riohmond connty to
the Senatorial Convention, to the Chair
man of the Executive Committee of this
oonnty. No action was taken npon this
letter.
Hon. M. A. Evans moved to take up
the Senatorial question for considera
tion next.
Hon. J. G. Cain and General Carswell
opposed this motion. They argned that
it was a matter of minor importance to
that of nominating candidates to the
House of Representatives, and thought
it should be postponed.
Mr. Evans and Dr. Matthews favored
the motion. Their distriots sent them
with instrnctions to favor any aotion
which would tend to make Jefferson
oonnty send delegates to the Gibson
Convention. They considered nothing
of more importance than the organiza
tion Xf the party. The Convention
rejected the motion and proceeded to
nominate candidates for the Legislature.
The first ballot resulted in the selection
of Captain J. H. Polhill, of Louisville,
and the second in the selection of Judge
A. E. Tarver, of Bartow. Messrs. J.
C. Hudson, G. H. Harrell and M. A.
Evans were appointed by the Chair to
inform the gentlemen of their nomina
tion and solieit their acceptance.
Hon. J. G. Cain offered the following
resolution:
Eesohued, That the delegates from
each district report to the Secretary, to
be incorporated as a part of the proceed
ings of this Convention, the name of
one from eaoh district who shall com
pose the Connty Executive Committee
until the next assembly of the County
Convention.
The resolntion was carried and the
following names reported : B. W. Cars
well, A. W. Aldred, J. G. Jordan, W.
R. Harvey, W. P. Johnson, J. F. Toole,
Edward Hunter and J. H. Cain.
The following resolntion was offered
by Hon. M. A. Evans:
Whbbbas, Charges have been made
that the Convention which is to meet in
Gibson has been packed and manipulat
ed in the interest of oertain parties, and
that Jefferson oonnty has been treated
unfairly and unjustly by Richmond;
Therefore, Resolved, That the Chair
man of this Convention appoint four men
to represent the Democracy of Jefferson
oounty in the Gibson Convention, with
the instructions that if said Convention
is packed, or corrupt, or that Jefferson
has been treated unfairly or unjustly in
the composition of that Convention, then
to denonnoe the unfairness and corrup
tion in the name of the Democracy of
Jefferson oonnty; and, on the other hand
if it is discovered that every thing has
been done fairly and justly, then to en
dorse and abide the aotion of said Con
vention.
Gen. Carswell and 001. Cain spoke at
length and with great warmth in opposi
tion to the above resolntion, and what
they termed the action of “rings” and
“packed conventions.” and the domi
neering coarse of Richmond oonnty.
Mr. Evans supported bis resolution
with a very forcible speech npon the im
portance of Democratic organization.
Mj. G. F. Hudson offered the follow
ing as s substitute to the resolntion in
troduced by Mr. Evans:
Whbbbas, A resolution passed by the
Executive Committee of Richmond
I county, some time in April last, an
nounced, substantially, that there was
no District or Senatorial organization
in this Distriot; and,
Whereas, It is necessary for the
future good of this District that it
should be organized; therefore, be it
Fesolved, That we invite the attention
of our County Executive Committee to
this matter and recommend that they
confer with the Executive Committees
of the other counties, with a view to se
curing organization in the fnture.
When put to a vote, the substitute
was adopted.
The Convention then adjourned.
Spectator.
P. S.—Any gentleman who desires to
take lessons in “packing” and “mani
pulating” Conventions would do well to
visit this rural village. S.
THK SOUTH AND THE SENATE.
[ Washington Sunday Herald. 1
That the Senate will be Democratic
on the 4th of Maroh, 1873, is settled
almost beyond the reach of accident.
The few remaining carpet-bag Senators
will be succeeded by Democratic Sena
tors of approved ability and character,
who will adequately represent in the
Senate the wants, interests, and sympa
thies of their people. The present
Representatives of the South in the Sen
ate, so far as the Democratic Senators
are concerned, with few exceptions, can
hardly be improved upon.
Particularly noticeable for publio in
fluence are the Southern Senators who
belong to the class against whom it was
the fashion of the Republican organs a
few months ago to invoke suspicion and
distrust at the North—the soldier ele
ment of the South. The “Confederate
brigadiers,” with a dignity and com
posure that won them infinite credit and
confidence with the whole country, met
the taunts of their non-combatant ac
cusers with the sufficient answer of a
faithful performance of duty and the
display of a broad patriotism that guar
ded the interests of all classes and sec
tions.
Of the ex-Confederate soldiers in the
Senate nearly all are filling terms ex
tending beyond the 4th of March, 1879.
Senator Ransom, of North Carolina, af
ter a service of five years, was re-elected
by acclamation, to the gratification of
the Democracy of the whole country.
Senators Morgan, of Alabama; Coke, of
Texas, and Lamar, of Mississippi, are
also filling terms beginning with the
4th of Maroh of the present year. Sen
ator Withers, of Virginia, and Cook
erill, of Missouri, have four years of
service befere them. All of these Sena
tors were Confederate soldiers of dis
tinction.
Senator Gordon, of Georgia, whose
fame as a soldier has been so remark
ably supplemented by a distinguished
eivio career in the Senate, will complete
his first term with the expiration of the
term of the Forty-fifth Congress. The
tone of the Georgia press leaves us little
roem to doubt his re-eleotion under cir
cumstances of a character flattering to
the Senator himself, and significant of
the enlightened appreciation by his
constituents of his valuable services to
themselves and to the Democracy of the
nation. Gordon came to the Senate
heralded simply as one of the knight
liest of the leaders of Lee’s army—
that “array of tattered uniforms and
bright muskets which, invincible in life,
surrendered only with its annihilation,”
to use the characterization of a Northern
historian. Four years of service in
Congress gives him a national distinc
tion as a statesman, and offers to Geor
gia the opportunity to exhibit her
warm attestation of the value of ser
vices inspired by moderation and mag
nanimity and wisdom in the highest
sense. For it is in the moderation of
his course here, a moderation which has
never smaoked of acquiescence in wrong
to his section (for none have been more
valiant in asserting the sentiments of
his people), that General Gordon has
been of essential value to the Demo
cratic party. When he entered the
Senate, four years ago, the task of a
Southern Senator was filled with obsta
cles that the moderate course of Gor
don and others has visibly removed.
He helped, by the eloquent plea of his
wise and temperate aotion, to blaze the
way for the way for the untrammelled
utterance in Congress by the South of
views and aspirations which now offend
no one save partisans who will see no
good in the people of that section or
their representatives.
A leading Republican organ pro
nounces Senator Gordon “the ablest
man in Congress from the South,” and,
quoting from a speech of the Senator,
in whioh strong national views are ex
pressed, pretends to doubt the sincerity
of the Senator. We shall not quarrel
with this Republican conception of Gen.
Gordon’s ability, for the Republican
party assuredly has nothing to thank
Gordon for in the way of mistakes hurt
ing the Democracy and helping their
opponents, but we with confidence point
to his whole Senatorial career as giving
ample proof of broad national and pa
triotic views ably and eloquently ex
pressed. The Democracy of the coun
try endorses Gordon, and hopes to se
oure its title to public confidence by con
tinuing just such men in high place. The
Confederate soldier, like his late antagon
ist—his present comrade—the Union sol
dier, usually proves himself a useful
man in Congress. He does not, like the
old politician of his section, get his in
spiration in the extinct thought of twen
ty years ago; he is of the present, and
sees before his people a great future of
material progress and political influence
to be achieved by devotion and energy.
Gordon exemplifies the best traits of
the old South in union with the growing
energy of the new South. He is a care ■
ful student, and it is often said of him
by habitues of the capital that he is
the “busiest man in Congress.” He is
right upon the leading questions which
will engage public attention, now that the
era of sectional agitation and sentimental
politics is gone forever. He is in sympathy
with the great laboring and producing
interests of the country in their fight
for existence against the despotism of
the monopolists of the money power.
In short, he is a leading exponent of the
growing aspiration of the American
people, North and South, for release
from the thraldom of evils and preju
dices and sorrows that have followed the
civil war—a release that shall open to
them achievements in new fields of en
deavor beyond the reach of the baleful
and blighting touch of sectional hate,
grasping monopoly, and official dishon
esty and extravagance.
The Democracy of the country will
respond with enthusiasm to the promise
which Georgia gives to return to the
Senate her able, eloquent and devoted
soldier-statesman.
THE TURF.
A Challenge From Pierre T.orrlllaril to lUo
Pick of the West, Tenbroeck Included.
New Yobs, November 15.— The Turf,
Held and Farm , in to-morrow’s issue,
says editorially: Statements having been
made to the effect that Mr. Pierre Lor
rillard had offered to match Parole
against Tenbroeck for 820,000 a side, to
run at Lousiville next Spring, at any
distance from one to four miles, we ad
dressed him a note, requesting him to
state if such a statement had any foun
dation in fact. His reply was as fol
lows :
Jersey City, November 18.
Editors of the Turf, Field and Farm :
I have not challenged Tenbroeck, but
I am willing to run Parole against him
for 825,000 a side, 810,000 forfeit, two
miles and a half, Western weights and
dry track, the race to be run at Saratoga,
and I will allow Tenbroeck 85,000 for
expenses if it comes off. I will also run
from my Rancocus stable a two year old
at three-quarters of a mile; a three year
old at one mile and three-quarters; a
four year old at two miles ana a quarter;
a five year old at three miles, against
Western horses of the same age,
excepting that I will run my five
year old against a five year old or oyer.
The four races to be run at Jerome
Park or Saratoga for 82,500 a side, each
race SI,OOO forfeit, to be named at the
post, the four races to be accepted or
none. This offer means that Jam will
ing to run my stable against the pick of
the entire West. Very respectfully,
P. Lorbillard.
THE BO UNDINCI BRINE,
A •rain Steamer Plant* Her Cargo <t|a
Cnrclte Vaato."
Montreal, November 21.—The steam
ship Strath tag, hence on the 12th for
Aberdeen, laden with grain, has been
lost and the captain, his wife and twen
ty-five men saved. Loss, vessel and
cargo valued at $210,600.
An “anti-treating” association has
been formed at Fremont. It is in the
interest of “economy snd reform,:"
THE (SOUTH VERSUS NEW ENGLAND.
The Saperior Advantages Enjoyed by the
Sooth In the Ylanufactnre of Cotton.
Editors Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
In your paper of the 18th instant I
have carefully read the communication
headed “Sonthern Mannfacturers,”and
inviting a reply to the article, as taken
from the Manchester Mirror. The
opinions expressed are evidently written
for a purpose, and do not give the South
a fair showing as to the manufacture of
fabrics, and were it not that I have been
in mills both North and Sonth since the
war and had considerable experience
North and South with help and the peo
ple at large, I would not attempt a re
ply. The tenor of tho argument might
have a tendency to discourage the
Southern people from developing this
important branoh of industry at home,
and at the same time discourage capi
talists from other sections of the coun
try from investing in the South
for the manufacture of ootton or
woolen goods, and thereby confine the
business to certain sections of the coun
try. lam aware that there has been a
steady increase in the number of spin
dles run in the New England States
since the war; more so directly after the
war than at the present time. I know
something of the oapacity of the mills
in Manchester, as I was in the servioe of
the Manchester corporation about two
years sinoe the war and had charge of a
portion of the works and therefore oan
give quite a correct statement in regard
to the help, as to capacity and adapta
bility, both North and South. While I
was in the Manohester mills I had, on
the average, about 150 operatives to
work for me; a majority of them were
good, competent hands, while somi
were nothing more than medium; at the
present time a good many French are
brought from Canada and employed in
mills at the North.
Some of them seem to adapt them
selves to the business at onoe, and some
never make first class help. Formerly
the help in most of the mills in New
England was obtained in those States,
but of late they havs had to draw from
other sources to keep up the supply. Iu
the Amoskeag yard there were six mills
when I was there, and in the Manches
ter six,besides the Print Works, although
the Amoskeag mills had a muoh greater
capacity than the Manchester. I have
no personal acquaintance with Mr.
Straw, the agent of the mills of the
Amoskeag Company, but know him by
reputation to be a man of great ability
in the management of the large corpora
tion whioh he represents. While he
may be second to none, there
may be others of equal oapaoity,
and I oannot agree with him, if
the views expressed are his. He
says it is not true, a3 stated by Mr.
Cheney, that the ootton mills in Georgia
are all paying. |ln fact, he says none are
paying except a few that supply the
local markets. This is not trne of the
Augusta Factory here in this city, for if
I have been rightly informed, and I
have it from good authority, their goods
are now sold ahead of the looms as far
as February, and that these sales are
mostly for expert. I am a New Eng
lander myself, but I like to see justice
done,let it come where it will. I think the
South has shown commendable energy
in mannfacturing in many localities, and
no man has any moral right to throw
anything in their way as a discourage
ment, and only those will do it who are
afraid of a drawing off from their own
personal interest. The gentleman does
not attempt to say that all of the mills in
New England are paying, for he well
knows they are not. I admit some are
paying well, while there are many others
that wonld do about as well to stop as to
run.
I ask the gentleman if all the mills in
Manchester have been paying since the
war ? He may have forgotten that the
Manohester corporation, the mills of
whioh built near bis own, became great
ly embarrassed afew years ago, so muoh
so that the entire property, estimated to
be worth four million dollars, was sold
at auction and brought the modest little
sum of one million dollars. That ought
to make money now. What dividend
would the Amoskeag pay itself if all its
revenues aside from the manufacture of
textile goods was stopped ? He says
there are 100,000 spindles in the Man
chester mills, I will venture saying
there are not 100,000 cotton spindles
there to-day. The Atlantic mills in Law
rence were another example of the
healthy condition of a few corporations
North. That, like the Manchester, had
to be financially doctored before it oould
be declared in a convalescent state.
Still another case, the Salisbury
Woolen mills in Massachusetts, and also
the Hamden mills at Holyoke.
There is an old adage, and it would
apply well there at home, and that is,
“People that live in glass houses should
never throw stones.”
It would not be a hard matter to rent
or buy a mill of from 3,000 to 10,000
spindles even in the State of Massachu
setts. He cites the Atlanta mill as an
illustration, when it was only last
Winter, while J was living in Boston,
that a gentlenaan went tq Iforth Adams,
in the western part of the State, to see
anew mill that had been bnilt there,
the originators of the enterprise being
unable to carry it through. A part of the
machinery had been built and shipped
to the mill, and had not even been set
up, aud, from reoent information, this
mill never has started to run. About a
year ago I waa at Turner’s Falls, Mass.,
and I saw a mill there that bad been
built abqut three years, I think. It
was intended for five • hundred looms.
The walla were up and roof on, bnt no
sash in the windows. The reason given
for suspension was it wonld not pay to
complete it.
A few years ago a mill was commenc
ed at Indian Orchard, Mass. The com
pany failed before it was half completed
and another company took it, completed
it and run it a while and failed. It was
afterwards reorganized and is now in
operation. Of course I do not wish to
convey the idea that all enterprises there
are subject to the same trials before be
coming a sucoess. I only cite them to
show that such things as failures are not
confined altogether to the South. A
few weeks ago I received a letter from a
prominent manufacturer in Maine, say
ing that there was very little money
made in manufacturing there at that
time, and also said that he had been
told that there could he more money
made manufacturing South than North,
and asked me if in my opinion it was so.
He also asked if I would advise any one
to invest in the manufacture of cotton
goods Sonth. I replied to him that I
could do so with full confidence that it
would be a success, and that I knew of
no better place than here in Angasta,
and explained to him as well as I
was able the inducements that were
offered to those inclined to invest.
I explained to him my reasons
for saying that I considered the
States of' Tennessee, Georgia and
South Carolina and the northern por
tions of Mississippi and Alabama well
adapted to carding and spinning cot
ton. It seems to be an intermediate sec
tion between extremes of heat and cold;
not only that, but there are many other
advantages, I can not spp that there
has bean any failure in Augusta, as the
gentleman claims. If so, why is It that
the people, considering other means, are
so anxious to continue to huild more
mills here ? There has been no failure
here and is not likely to be. The peo
ple here have energy as well as those of
the North, and are beginning to make it
felt in manufacturing.
In regard to the compensation be
tween mill and farm work, I will say I
think any careful and practical observ
er will see the balance is in favor of the
factory operatives. I was in one of the
large mills in Lewiston, Maine, two
years, and there, as well as in Manches
ter, I will say with a certainty that
nine-tenths of those that left did so
with the intention of going to other
mills. It may be that the Amoskoag is
an exception, but I doubt it.
He says the character of the Southern
people unfits them f° r the services that
a faotory requires. That has not been
my experience with them, for I have
found, where it was necessary to learn
new bands no more trouble to make
competent hands, of them than at the
North.‘jßesides,il know that there erejas
many in proportion to the number em
ployed that work full ten or eleven
hours for a day's work as there are in
New England, and there are many mors
that would 4o it if there was a chance
for them to do so.
Take the mills iu this section for an
example. The Oraniteville and Langley
in Sonth Carolina and the mills here in
Augusta, and I will venture to say no
steadier set of help works in any of the
New England mills. In faot, there is
not as mnoh changing of hands as there
is in many of the New England mills.
He says none bnt the negroee work a
full day of ten or eleven hours for a
day’s worjc, and saying it he makes a
great mistake.
82 A YEAR—POSTAGE PAID
But, to go still further iu the question
of labor South, no one can have a cor
rect view of it by a flying visit South.
It is only by oareful and thorough
investigation that the writer of the
article could form apy correct idea
of who does the labor, and I think if he
would take the time and trouble of in
forming himself he would come to a dif
ferent conclusion on some points. The
South will yet show to the world that
they can manufacture cotton r,t a profit
as well as raise it. The gentleman goes
on to state it has taken a hundred years
to raise up a people and establish mills
to enable them to compete with foreign
inanafaotnreß in our markets. It is not
at all likely that the South is going to
wait a century, with such an experience
before them, before they will compete in
the same way. A parson might almost
imagine they had a great many oenten
narians as operatives at the North from
the way the article reads. I think the
hundred years experience there ought
to be worth something to the people
here.
The article admits there is water
power and raw material, but goes on to
say the South lacks the soil and the
climate. I will say right here, with
some considerable experience North,
that there is no better climate under the
sun for working ootton into goods than
here in this section, and particularly in
this oity.
There is no laok of men and women to
carry on the business of ootton manufac
turing. Many have to be taught tho
business, but I would ask if there are
not a great many new hands taught in
the New England mills every year.
I do not think the South envies the
North in any of her past prosperity in
mannfacturing. They are doing the
same as onr Northern manufacturers
have done, and I may say with as good
a chance for snooess. There is muoh
mote that might be said upon the sub
ject, but I have already exoeeded what I
intended to say, and will leave it for
someone else more competent than my
self* J. F. B.
STILL THEY COME.
Another Cotton Factory—Formal Organiza
tion of the CuDimln* Mauutacturlo* Com
pany-Three Hundred and Fifty Thousaud
Dollars of Stock Subncrlbed For.;
Pursuant to call a meeting of the sub
scribers to the stock of the Gumming
Manufacturing Company was held yes
terday afternoon, at 4 o’clook, at the
office of the Augusta Factory. Among
those present were Messrs. Ghas. Estes,
J. J. Cohen, Geo. T. Jackson, Wm. E.
Jackson, Jno. M. Clark, W. O. Sibley,
Francis Gogin, J. O. Mathewsou, T. G.
Barrett, Jos. B. Gumming and Josiah
Sibley.
On motion of Mr. Chas. Estes, Mr.
Wm. E. Jaokson was called to the
Oh air.
On motion, Mr. Ghas. Estes was re
quested to act as Seoretary.
Mr. Estes said it was well known that
some time ago a company was or
ganized known as the Gumming
Manufacturing Company. Some sub
scriptions were obtained then, but as it
was important that an organization
should be effected now, iu order to noti
fy the Comptroller-General and secure
the exemption allowed by the law be
fore the adoption of the new Constitu
tion, the whole amount, viz: $350,000,
had now been subscribed. He road the
list of subscribers and the charter of the
•ompany.
On motion of Mr. W. G. Sibley, the
charter was unanimously adopted.
A set of by-laws was read bv Mr. Es
tes and adopted.
Mr. Thomas G. Barrett nominated
Mr. Ghas. Estes for President and Treas
urer of the company.
Mr, Mathewßon nominated Messrs.
Thomas G. Barrett, Francis Gogin. Jno.
M. Olark and W. C. Sibley for Direc
tors.
These gentlemen were unanimously
eleoted, receiving a stock vote of 2,582.
On motion, the meeting adjourned.
The capital stock of the new company
is $350,000, which may be increased to
$1,000,000 by a majority vote of the
stockholders. The oompany will nego
tiate to-day with the oity authorities for
the purokase of the Powder Mills tract
of land, and will commence work on tho
factory within a month.
SHOT IN THE SANCTUARY.
A Philadelphia Mail Shoots Hla Wife In a
Methodist Church While the Services Are
In Progress—The Cause of the Act I/u-
Ituown.
Philadelphia, November 18. —At
noon to-day, shortly before the conclu
sion of the services at St. Luke’s Meth
odist Episcopal Ghapel, Lombard street,
the congregation waa terribly startled
by the report of a pistol and the sudden
falling to tho floor of a woman who had
been seated in one of the pews. It was
ascertained that the shot was fired by a
man named Alexander Sayres, residing
at 614 South Fifteenth street, and that
his victim was hie wife, from whom he
has been separated for the last two
years. He had entered the church
daring the services, and, seating him
self in the pew immediately behind his
wife, shot her in the back, inflioting a
probably mortal wound. Mrs. Sayres
was removed to the Pennsylvania Hos
pital, where she lies in a very critical
condition. It is said that Mr. Sayres
had never msde any threats against his
wife, and hie act to-day is unexplained.
A RAILWAY KING BANKRUPT .
Conrad Poppeulinnsen’H Great Fortune Swal
lowed Up In Lon* Island Railways—From
Princedom to Poverty.
Brooklyn, November 17.—A petition
was filed in the United States District
Court in this city to-day by the counsel
for Conrad Poppenhaqsen, the Long
Island railroad king, to have him ad
judicated a bankrupt. The amount of
his ascertained liabilities is $3,521,856,
and the amount of the assets is $7,308,
388, This inoludes $900,000 in notes of
the Flushing, North Shore and Central
Railroad Companies. What these will
realize is uncertain, There are twenty
four creditors, most of them ijoemed by
stocks and bonds on ’head railroads or
other securities. Poppenhausen had
put over five million dollars in solid
cash in these roads in extending and im
proving them* He paid all the obliga
tions possible, hut was compelled to
stop because the Long Island Railroad
failed to pay their notes for their float
ing debt, which he had endorsed. Ilis
troubles arose from the shrinkage of
values, the general business depression
here and in Germany carrying off near
ly ten millions bonded apd floating debt
of these railroads, aud the falling off in
receipts sinoa he pnrohased the road. In
two years Poppenhausen h* lost his
large fortune. He ig now sick in Ger
many. A meeting of creditors is to be
held on the 30th inst.
.— mm*.
A LEAP FOR LIFE.
A New Ifaven Shoe Manufactory C'onniiiued
by Fire—Mix Hundred Thounnnd Uffilnm
Wurth of Property nj. a Day.
New Haven, Conn. , November 19.
One of the largest fires ever known in
this oity out shortly after five
o’oloek to-day iu the works of the L.
Chandee k Cos., rubber oompany, manu
facture of rubber boots and shoes. The
fire caught in the Arctic shoe depart
ment and spread with utmost rapidity,
and in two hours the buildings which
occupied the whole square was entirely
destroyed. There were nearly six hun
dred hands most of whom
were women, tsqt 'fortunately a large
part of them were not at work to-day,
their branch of the work being behind,
which possibly prevented a serious loss
of life. A number of the workmen who
were behesamed in, by the flames made
their escape by leaping from the third
story windows. One man had a leg
broken, and others were more or less
seriously injured. The factory had been
running both night and day; there was
only a small amount of manufactured
stock on hand, but a large quantity of
rubber and cloth, and other material.
The firemen were wholly unable to save
any of the property so fierce and unman
ageable was the fire. The loss, at a low
estimate, is $600,000, and some estimates
place it at $750,000, The company were
insured for abont $400,000, of which
SIOO,OOO were plaoed by M. P. Robbins,
of New Pork oity.
The palmetto has been considered one
of the most worth!ms trees of Florida.
A gentleman from Volusia now comes
forward with a display of brashes, mat
tings and ropes, made from tile inner
bark, and oontemplatea the building of
a manufactory at Volusia. The wild
orange, also has always been regarded
as a worthless fruit, and millions have
rotted every year. An enterprising
Yankee has engaged in manufacturing
from them eesenoea, syrups and marma
lades. He haa met with considerable
aneeeea.
THEJTATE.
THE PEOPLE AND THE PAPERS.
Gainesville is telephoning.
Americus tallies 11,446 bales,
Warrenton has anew druggist.
Blind Tom is in North Georgia.
Hartwell wishes her census taken.
Gwinnett indulges in horse racing.
Cotton pickers are iu great demand.
Mr. Isaac Moon, of Athens, is dead.
Hocial clubs are numerous in Maoon.
Mr. B. R. Lamar, of Macon, is very
ill.
Strawberries are still eaten in Elber
ton.
Parlor skates are p pular iu Waynes
boro.
Elberton thinks of organizing a select
school for girls.
Dr. R. E. J. Thompson, of Jefferson
county, is dead.
Columbus has • purchased over SI,OOO
worth of new hose.
The matrimonial horizon in Maoon is
roseately illumined.
Love making on postal cards is not
binding iu this State. •
The Gainesville Library Association
has been fully organized.
Mrs. Sarah Finch, of Columbus, will
be sent to the Lunatic Asylum.
An unknown white man was killed and
robbed near Kingston reoently.
Mr. Ezekiel Hayes, of Norwoood, lost
his honse Saturday night by fire.
“Esther, the beantiful queen,” will
be cantata’d at Oxford on the 28th.
Savannah river is said to swarm with
wild geese and duoks up about Elbert.
Rev. Van. D. Gary, an old citizen of
Hart oonnty, died suddenly last week.
Someone attempted to fire Mr. W. EL
Tate’s corn crib in Elbert the other day.
Geneva and Talbotton think of con
necting by meaus of a horse oar com
pany.
Kelly, the famous Georgia horse thief,
is amusing himself at the Dade coal
mines.
Gibbs Gardner, Esq., has located iu
Sparta for the practice of law. Suooesa
to him.
Mr. J. M. Walden,for thirty-five years
road master of the Central Railroad, has
resigned.
Newton Faotory possesses thirteen
beautiful girls. Many a man wishes ha
were N. F.
A negro working at the Barton furnace
was killed the other day by sleeping too
near a gas flue.
Dr. Little, State Geologist, after fin
ishing Greene county will next take in
Clarke and Ooonee. "
“Broom sedge bitters,” made by
hiding a flask of corn in a sedge field,
are popular in Hart.
Mr. Hardy Hartley, aged about 82
years, died near Tennille on Saturday
last, of typhoid fever.
Three buttoned buckwheat cakes and
eighteen carrot soup are fashionable
dishes at these present.
Kerosene oil is so expensive in Gaines
ville that they have to stick to the old
remedy for snake bites.
“See that my mint’s kept green” ia
becoming popular among those who
have an eye to Spring drinks.
Grady’s “Patchwork Palace” in At
lanta is said to have been the finest lec
ture ever delivered in that city.
The South Georgia Conference meets
in Talbotton on the 12th of December..
Bishop George F. Piereo presides.
M. T. Gallagher, late route agent ou
the Atlantio and Gulf Railroad, was
tried and convicted for robbing the
mail.
Three ox carts full of men, women
and ohildren, passed through Gaines
ville last Friday on their way to the
West.
A hop was recently given at the Rix
House, Cartersville, to some young
ladies from Rome, Kingston anil Au
gusta.
Hon. W. A. Huff, upon his return to
Maoon from Washington was serenaded
with a band of music and a piece of ar
tillery.
The Elberton Oanette thinks that so
long as the farmers pay entire attentiou
to cotton, the chestnut crop will con
tinue to be a failure.
The children of Sparta Male and Fe
male High School are making prepara
tions for their examination and exhibi
tion soon to come off.
Miss Hammill, of Butts county, an
orphan girl, committed suicide Wodnes
day by taking strychnine. No cause
whatever was assigned.
When frost-bitten potatoes and col
icky beets aro faded and gone, the con
valescent editor will discuss the capital!
question far more intelligibly.
A negro man in Spalding county as
saulted Mr. Jno. Milam with an iron
bar, breaking the gentleman’s right arm
in two places and his left in one.
The Warenton Clipper says: “Miss
Sallie Woliborn, daughter of our es
teemed fellow-townsmau, Judge M. H.
Wellborn, left for Augusta Tuesday to
spend a few weeks with friends in that
city.”
The Presbyterian Synod was opened
Friday in Columbus, by Rev. J. W.
Montgomery, Moderator. The Synod
comprises six Presbyteries in which aro
172 churches, 108 ministers and about
9,500 members.
A colored man, applied to a Warren
county farmer to borrow some morey
and to take five hundred lashes if Hwas
not returned. At the appointed time,
the sum was not repaid, but tho debt
was cancelled in the manner prescribed.
An Atlanta cotton press exploded Fri
day.
Milledgeville has anew billiard sa
loon.
Mrs. Ohwa H. Dasher, of Dariou, is
dead,
Macon has thus far received 28,258
bales.
W. H. Branch, Esq., is Mayor of
Greenesboro.
A prize lottery have been opened in
Milledgeville.
Union Point wishes to revive her
dramatic club.
The ccttou faotory in East Macon runs
day and night.
The Orawfordvillo steam grain mill ia
running again.
Mr. James Hill fend family have left
Baldwin county for Texas.
The Old Capital, of Milledgeville, is
said to be highly flourishing.
The new Methodist Church at I’aruett„
will be completed in a few days.
Eatonton has handled 4,200 bales of
cotton this year against 600 last.
Mr. T. J. Atkinson, of Greene county,
killed four wild turkeys in one morning,
A little son of Mr. H. R. Clark, of
Troup oonnty, was fatally scalded re
cently.
The sorghum glacier rolls grandly
along. Let ’er—but we’ve heard that
before.
Last week near Albany, Mr. Rush
Moure shot to death a distiller named.
Ricthlor.
Joseph Boyd and his wife, living near
Hoganimlle, Georgia, are a pair of cen
tury plants.
Mr. Edmund Galucke, of Taliaferro
county, has invented an improvement in
gin gearing.
Judge Bartlett has appointed J. A.
Griffin, Esq., Commercial Notary for
Greone county.
Mr. W. A. Crossley, of Greene coun
ty, had his left hand seriously laoerated
by a gin last week.
The Italian string band has left Ma
con for Jacksonville. They probably
go down to fiddle out the fever.
A Meriwether comity cabin was
torched the other night, and two little
pickaninnies were burned to death.
The now buildings at the Lnnatio
Asylum in Milledgevilla are fast being
completed, ltecruits are rapidly coming
in.
Mclntosh county is out of debt and
has money in her treasury. The city of
Darien has been out of debt for some
time,
The Atlanta Council Street Committee
are not thorough in their affairs; that is,
they do not manage their thoroughfare*#
satisfactorily.
Mr. Thurston Blount, of West Point,
will gather a good chufa crop, which
plant is said to be especially adapted to
fattening hogs.
Kinchen Foster’s gin honse, in.Chat
tooga county, with a small amount of
cotton and a large amount of tan bark,
was burned last week.
Rev. J. H. Lowery, formerly of Jeffer
son county, died the other day in Louis
ville, Kentucky, where he had charge of
a Presbyterian Church.
Mr. Jno. Maher died suddenly near
Bharon, Taliaferro oonnty, last week. Mr.
Maher was a native of Tipperary county
Ireland, and was 66 years old.
The school exhibition of Prof. Rey
nolds and pupils of Union Point was
very entertaining. The.address was de
livered by Hamilton McWhorter, Esq.
The Crawfordville Democrat says:
“The lateness of the season last Spring
is telling seriously upon the cotton crop
now, as mnoh of the fruit now on the stalks
will not open, or if it does open will be
of so inferior a qnality as to be almost
worthless.”