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VOLUME XLV.l
M ILLEDGE VILLE, GEORGIA, I A R C A RT 12, 1875.
HUMBER 25.
Union & 11 c t o r b e r
18 PUBLISHED WEEKLY
IN MILLEDGEVILLE" GA.,
BY
Bougiitox, Barnes & Moore,
At $2 in Advance, or $3 at end of the year
MACON C ARDS
S. N. BOUGHTON, Editor.
THE “FEDERAL UNION” and the “SOUTH
EKN RECORDER’* were consolidated August 1st*
1872. the Union being in its Forty-Third Volume and
the Recorder in it's Fifty-Third Volume.
ADVERTISING.
Transient.—One Dollar per square of ten lines for first inser
tion, and seventy-five cents 1 or each subsequent <;outinuance.
Liberal discount on these rates will be allowed on advertise
ments running three mouths, or lunger.
Tributes ol Reaped, Resolutions by Societies, Obituaries
seeding six lines, Nominations for office and Communications
for individual benefit, charged as transient advertising.
LEGAL ADVERTISING.
Sheriffs Sales, per levy r.f t*‘ti lines, or less..
“ Mortgage fi fa tab*?, per square,
Citations tor Letters of Administration,
44 44 44 Ouurdiatiship,
Application for Dismission from Administration,.
$2 50
5 00
3 00
S 00
3 00
Guardianship 3 00
*• *• Leave to s« 11 Land,. 5 80
44 for liom‘*»i}t*ad%.
Notice to Debtors and CrtchL
Sales of Land, t<-. f p.- r Bfasn 5 00
44 perishable property, ID days, per square, 1 75
E stray Notici
, 30 days
Faseiclosure ol Mortgvc
time .
3 00
1 00
LEGAL ADVERTISEMENTS.
Sales of Land, &/*., by Administrators, Executors or
di&na, ar« required by law to be held on the first Tuesday in the
month, between the Hours of 10 in the forenoon and 3 in the af
ternoon, at the Cour. House in the county in which the property
ft situated. Notice of these Kales must be given in a public
gasette 30 days previous to the day
al property must be given in
• -ale day.
itors of an estate must be pub-
Notices for the sale of per
like maimer 10 days previous
Notice to the debtors and cr
lished 40 days.
Notice that application will be made to the Court of Ordinary
for leave Io sell Laud, A , must be published for one month.
Citations for letters of Administration, Guardianship, ire
must be publish »d SO days— for dismission from Administration
monthly three mouths—for dismission from Guardianship 40
Stales for foreclosure of Mortgage must be publisned monthly
for four mouths—for e.-tublishiiiH lost papers for the full space oi
throe months—for compelling titles from Executors or Admin
istrators, where bond has been given by the deceased, the full
• pace of three months.
Publications will always be continued ac cording to these,
the legal requirements, unless otherwise ordered.
B«ok and Job Work, of all kinds,
PROMPTLY AND NEATLY EXECUTED
AT Till * OFFICE.
BALDWIN COUNTY
GEORGIA, Baldwin County,
Court of Ordinary for said County, )
At Chambers, November (lie iJOtb, 187-I. j
To all wliom it may concern.
W HEREAS, Wnkes FlapK, Executor on the es
tale of Sandy Ogietree, late of said county de
ceased, applies to me for letters of dismission from
■aid Executorship.
These are therefore to cite and admonish all
persons concerned, to be and appear at my office on
the first Monday in March next, and show cause
why said letters should not be granted, otherwise
letters will be grant, d.
Given under my hand and official signature this
November 30th, 1871.
19 3m. DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary.
Established Over 30 Tears Jgo.
Ill & KIRTLAND,
Wholesale and Retail Dealers in
jHoofs, Shoes and MEats.
Morocco, French and American Calf
Skins, Leather Findings, &c., &c.
All orders promptly and carefully filled at
3 Cotton Avenue & 66 3rd Street,
MAOOX, GkA..
MIX & KIRTLAM).
Oct. 13, 1874.
■nMe Clifton’s Reward.
tsar’i stonv
12 3m.
Drugs, Medicines
CHEMICALS, PAINTS,
jDlLS, ^INDOW jjLASS
fPt ^updltnan 633tB®i£t£ie ai3l<9<
jy Prescriptions compounded (Secundum Artem)
at all hours.
Forty four years close attention to the Drug business
should convince anyone of my ability to give satis
faction to all who may call.
GBO. PAYNE Droggist &. Apothecary.
Opposite Palace of Justice, MACON, GA.
Oct. 1st, 1874. 11 3m
BY FRANCIS HENSHAW BADEN.
The Isaacs House
Cherry Street, - Macon, Ga.
H AVING some of the finest rooms in the city. With
meals at the tables D’Hote— $3(10 per day, or
75 cents to $1 00 for room, and meals to order. Lower
rates by the week, and every effort made to give
comfort and satisfaction to gnests.
E. IMA ACM, Proprietor.
C. J. MACLELLAN, Clerk
April21,1874 39 iy
AM) SMOKERS’ ARTICLES,
No. 72 Cherry Street,
MACON, GA.
Oct. 2, 1874. 11 3:
GEORGIA, Baldwin County.
Court of Orcinary in aud for said county, /
December Term, 1874. J
To all whom it may Concern.
W HEREAS, Maurice J. Martin, administrator up-
on the estate of Maurice Mnrtin, late of said
county, deceased, lias filed his petition a.-king for leave
to sell a certain trnet of wild land and thirty shares of
Southwestern Railroad Stock belonging to said de
ceased .
These are therefore to cite and admonish all parties
interested, whether kindred or creditors, to show
Cause on or before the first Monday in January, 1875,
why the prayer of the petitioner should not be grant
ed.
Witness my official signature this December the
7th, 1874.
80 lm. DANIEL B. SANFORD. Ordinary.
DAYIS SMITH,
DEALER IN
SADDLES! HARNESS
CARRIAGE MATERIAL,
Shoe Findings, Leather of all kinds, Children's
Carriages,
103 Cherry Si reel, ,11A CON, *i A.
Oct. 2, 1874. 11 3m
NATIONAL HOTEL.
(Nearly opposite Union Depot,)
• MACON. GA.
Board — — — 62 Per Day.
Nov. 10, 1874.
T. H. HARRIS, Manager.
21 ly.
GEORGIA, Baldwin County,
Court of Ordinary for said Countv. )
December Term, 1§74. (
To all whom it may Concern.
W HEREAS, J. S. Pearce, Administrator upon
the estate of James Gilman, docased ,has filed
his petition asking for leave t > soli a certain tract of
land i:i said county, belonging to said deceased.
These aretlierelore to cite and admonish all parties
interested, whether kindred or creditors, to show cause
on or by the first Monday in January, 1875, why the
craverofthe petitioner should not be granted.
■ Witness my efficial signature this Decembe- the
7th, 1874.
20 1m. DANIEL B. SANFORD, Ordinary-
For
T HE HOUSE AND LOT on the corner of Clark
and Green Streets—at present occupied by T. D
Wright Also, a vacant 1> t of one acre on the North
Common. Also, some other lots outside of and near
to the corporate limits of MiUedgeville. Liberal in
ducements to cash buyers.
L. CARRINGTON,
Dec. 15, 1874. 21 tf.
Baldwin Sheriff’s Sale.
W ILL be sold at the legal place tor holding public
sales, before the Masonic Hall, in the city of
MiUedgcvi le, county of Baldwin, within the legal
hours of sale, ou the lir,t Tuesday in FEBRUARY
next, the following property, to wit:
One-third interest m a certain house and lot in the
the Citv of MiUedgeville, known in the plan of said
city as'part of lot No. 1 and Square 44, it beiug the
house and lot cow occupied by Col. W. G. McAdoo,
levied on by virtue of a Ft Fa, issued from Baldwin
Superior Court in favor of Augustus W. Randolph vs.
Theodore G. Sanford.
January 5,1875.
JOHN B. WALL, Sheriff.
24-td
Administrator’s Sale.
W ILL BE SOLD, AT PUBLIC OUTCRY. ON
the first TUESDAY in February next, within
the legal hours of sale, before the Masonic Hall, in
MiUedgeville, lor the purpose of distribution, Thirty
Shares of the Capital Stock of the South-Western
Railroad Company. Also, forty acres ot land, being
lot No. 693, in origiually Cherokee, First District,
•econd sectionjsold as the property of the estate of
Maurice Martin, deceased Term-cash.
MAURICE J- MARTIN, Administrator.
January 5,1875. 24-tds
NOTICE.
rilHE COPARTNERSHIP HERETOFORE EX-
A isting between P, M. COMPTON &• SONS,
has this day been dissolved by mutual consent of the
parties Either of the old firm are authorized to set
tle the debts of the old concern.
All persons indebted to us, some of them of two
and three years standing, are most respectfully urged
to oomo forward and settle. We must have money,
and we hope all will take the hint.
I*. M. COMPTON.
C. W. COMPTON,
L H. COMPTON.
January 1, 1S75.
The undersigned will continue the same business at
his old stand, where he will be pleased to meet bis
old customers, and promises to do as well, or better by
them, than aov house in town.
P. M. COMPTON.
January 2,1875 21 2t
Administrator’s Sale.
W ILL BE SOLD, IN FRONT OF THE MA-
sonio Hall, the legal place for public sales in
Baldwin county, in the city of MiUedgeville,on the
flrstTUESDAY in February next, during the legal
honrsof sale, the following property, lo-wit:
Onehundred and twenty-seven and one half (127 1-2)
acres of land, ljingiu the 5th District, of originally
Wilkinson now Baldwiu county, adjoining lands of E
Reynolds, T. Potter, and others, and kuown as the
place whereon Mrs, Gilman now resides Sold as the
property of James Gilman, late of said county de
ceased, to satisfy an unpaid balance ou the pur>
chase of said place Terms cash.
J. S. PEARCE, Administrator.
January 4, 1875. 24-td
LANIER HOUSE.
B. DVB, Proprietor.
Mulberry Street, - Macon, Georgia,
The above named Hotel has been recently refur
uisbed and fitted up for the accommodation of tran
sient as well as permanent Boarders. Persons wil
find it to their interest to stop at this House, as its
central location makes it a very desirable place for
merchants and families coming to the city for business,
or for a sojourn of pleasure. An ELEGANT SAM
PLE ROOM has been fitted up for the special use of
commercial travelers.
The table always supplied with all the luxuries ol
the season, from first maikets, and can be surpassed
by none in the South-
Omnibus to convey passeegers to and from the
Hotel and all trains, free of charge.
B. DUB, Proprietor.
April 18. 1872. 6m
THIRD STREET
Dry Goods House,
M. BLK.A 3NT,
DEALER IN
Roots, Shoes and (Miing,
ALSO, WHOLESALE
Liquor Dealer,
Next to Saulbury, Respress & Co’s.,
Warehouse.
Dec. 15, 1874.
MACON, GA.
E. O’Connell,
Wholesale and Retail Dealer in
GROCERIES, PROVISIONS, WINES,
LIQUORS, &c.
flSTCall and get bargains.
No. 42, Mulberry Street,
MACON, GA.
Nov. 10, 1874. 16 3®.
2£. So JTOHNSffON,
Has received for Fall and Winter Trade, 1874-5,
Watches, Jewelry, Silver Ware,
FANCY GOODS, FINE CUTLERY,
Musical Instruments, Strings, Ac., Ac.
Sole Agent for the Celebrated
DIAMOND PEBBLE SPECTACLES, EYE-GLASSES, 4c.
Particular Attention given to Repairs on Fine and
Difficult Watches.
JEWELRY, Ac, REPAIRED, aud ENGRAVING.
Heavy and Medium 14, 18 and 22 Karat Plain Gold
Rings and Badges made to order and Engraved at
Short Notice.
Corner Mulberry A Second Streets,
MACON, GEORGIA.
(OPPOSITE COURT HOUSE.)
Nov, 10, 1874. 16 ly.
M. G. SGHWED & CO.,
Dealers in Fancy and
Family Groceries,
WINES, LIQUORS, CIGARS. TOBACCO. Sic.
German Groceries a Specialty.
Teas, Coffees, Sugars Spices, Canned
Goods, Ac,
64 Cherry Street, MACON, GA.
Oct. 27,1874. 14 3in.
NOTE LOST.
L ost, some time between the isth
and 25th of December, a NOTE, made payable
to W. M Leonard, or bearer, for the sum of SEVEN
TY-FIVE DOLLARS, for value received in the pur
chase of a Gin Hou.'o and rai ning gear, given by T.
N. Willis, J J. King and J B King, on the 18th of
December, 1874 and due 1st of January, 1876, with
Interest from date at the rate of It) per cent. All
persons arc notified not to trade for sai.l note, and the
makers of the same are notified to pay no one but
W. M. LEONARD.
MiUedgeville, Jan-2, 1875. 24-2t
Baldwin Sheri]} ’s Sale.
W ILL be sold at the legal place for holding Sher-
ifl's Sales, in Baldwin County, before the Ma
sonic Hall, iu MiUedgeville, on the first Tuesday in
FEBRUARY 1875, within the legal hours of sale, the
following property, to-wit:
Eight hundred acr, s of land, more or less, belonging
to the estate of Win. A. Robson, late of Baldwin
county deceased—lying on the East side of the Oconee
river, in said county, and bounded as follows, tc-wit:
On the North by Mrs. Lucinda Champion and the
old Bivins tract; East by John Amos ; South by L.
N. Callaway and E. S. Vinson and West by Mrs.
Moran ana Tbomas Morau— being the Homestead
tract on which Mrs. E. A. Robson now resides and
■eld .object to her dower interest of five hundred
•ore. in .aid tract of eight hundred acres. Levied on
tc satisfy one fi fa in favor of Sam 1 Evans, Assignee,
V. Eliza A. Robson, Adm’x of Wm, A. Robson, dec'd.,
imned from Baldwin Superior Court.
JOHN B. WALL, Sh’ff B C.
Dec. 26, 1871. 23 tds
TURNER COBB,
(COLORED.)
House Carpenter—Repairer and
Ruiler of Colton Screws, Gin
Geatinff, Mtlls, &c.,
mUjLEDGBVille, Georgia.
Heeaa be found o. t*. Sheffield Ferry road, (tbo
| «bn Bos* jhroe) about 1 13 miles from town
[OLDSMITH & NUSSBAUM,
DEALERS IN
OIjOTHING,
Boots, Hats, Notions, Furnishing Goods
in Great Variety,
MACON, GA.
Dec. 15. 1874. 21 lm.
SOUTHERN STEAM
Soap Works,
MACON, GA.
W. H. LIPFORD,
Manufacturer of
Fine Laundry Soaps, Chemical Olive
Soap, Poor Man’s Soap,
Castile Soap#
Will soon be prepared to furnish fine
TOILET SOAPS.
FACTORY,
Coraer Lsaar mad Basel Street..
Dec. 8,1874.
201m.
OLD LOUDON DOCK GIN.
Especially deigned for the nee of the Medical Pro
fetttou ana the Family, possessing those intrineie
medicinal propertieewhioh belong to an Old and Pare
Gia. Indispensable to Females Good fat Kidney.
Com plaint.. A Mioiou. tonic, Pat up ia case, con
taining one dozen bottle each, and sold by all drag
girts aad grocers, ike. A. ML Binioger fit Co., estab-
Qsfasd 1778, No. 16 Beavsr st, N. T. apK 74 ly
Mabel Clifton sat before one of the
windows of her father’s magnificent man
sion.—A servant stood in waiting. She
was making out a list of articles wanted
for the next day. Coming footsteps ar
rested her attention. She raised her eyes
from the paper and looked out. The
crimson flush deepened on her bright
young face as ‘-Oh!” in a tone of deep re
get, escaped her lips.
“John I am not just ready to finish this
list and shall not send for an hour yet. If
you have anything else to attend to go
and do it."
Mr. Clifton had been reading in a dis
tant part of the room. Hearing the door
close after John's departure, he ask
ed:
‘'You have not forgotten to send for
those wines I Spoke of my dear?”
“He has not gone yet, papa.”
“Ah, well, do not make it too late.
They will be very busy to-night,” her
father said, turning again to his paper.
“Papa!”
“Well, my dear?”
“A boon, papa. Promise to grant me,
this last day of the year, my boon.”
“What is it love?”
“Promise to grant it first”
“Not in ignorance, my child.”
“Trust me, father.”
She had an earnest eager, noble look
in her eyes that her father did trust in,
and he promised her.
Well, well; you shall have your way.”
“Father, let ns have no wine to-mor
row.”
“What! No, no; I cannot grant you
that No wines! Why, child have you
gone crazy?” For twenty-five years past
I have offered ray friends wines on New
year's day, and never have felt that I was
doing anything wrong. What has come
over you?”
“Oh, father, I have never felt just right
when offering young men wine; and just
now when I was making out the order
for John, I chanced to raise my eyes just
as Edgar Livingston was passing. I need
ed but a glance to see that he was very
much under the influence of wine.- Fa
ther, his mother is a widow; he her only
child. All her earthly hopes are in him
Will they not be wrecked, think you if
he indulges in the wine cup? To-mor
row he will make many calls. Beautiful
women will offer him wine. He will not
have the courage, possibly the'wish to
decline. To-morrow night most likely,
then, he will return home to fill his
mother’s heart with sorrow. I wish not
to contribute one drop to that bitter
cup.”
“My dear, whether we have wines or
not, with him, it will be all the same, as
you say he will make many calls.”
“Father, if you had a son, you would
feel differently. Thunk how many young
men of the brightest promise have failed,
nay, worse, won truly disgrace and early
graves from the love of wine.
“I feel as if Edgar Livingston stood on
the brink of a fearful precipice. Father,
stretch forth your strong arm and draw
him back—if only one step, and for a
moment. If wo do not save him, it will
be a comfort to think we urged him not
forward on his fatal course.”
“Mabel, you are deeply interested in
the young man. Am I to conclude—”
“Nothing more than for his own and
his mother’s sake; I would endeavor to
save him, or any other yonng man in his
danger, father. Here will be one of his
first calls. Probably I can detain him
long enough to prevent his visiting other
places where he would be exposed to
great temptations.—Ob, father, please
grant me this?”
“Really, dear, I feel disposed to do as
you wish, but so many will be very much
disappointed. Besides, I have not the
courage to make this great change, and
set five hundred tongue to work specula
ting about the cause of it. Some will
declare I'm about to fail; others that I
have grown penurious. Ah, what is it
John?”
Just then the servant entered and hand
ed him an envelope, saying:
“A telegram, sir.”
Mr. Clifford tore it quickly open, read
it, and exclaimed.
“Really this is too bad! But I must
go. John, here!” And hastily writing a
few words for a return dispatch, he hand
ed it to the servant and turning to Ma
bel said:
“My old friend Hartwell is dying and
begs that I will hasten to him. I cannot
deny him. So you will have to entertain
my friends to-morrow, and explain the
reason of my failing to see them, the first
time for so many years. And—well, dear,
you can do a \you choose about the bill
of fare. As I t\ll not be home, the folks
will not hold me responsible for what
happens in my absence.”
Oh thank you, papa, for permission
to do as I choose. I will willingly take
any unkind remarks, if any one feels like
making them. But I feel confident that
all who have sons will give me their kind
est wishes for withholding temptation
from their boys. And as to the young
men, I shall try to make myself so agree
able, and have our cook to make the
coffee so very fine, that they will go away
quite as well pleased, and with their
brains a good deal clearer, than if I had
entertained them with wine.”
An hour after, Mr. Clifton was on his
way to his dying friend.
Mabel sat down and wrote:
My Dear Flory:—Come and help me
receive our friends to-morrow. Papa has
been called away. I must have you with
me, as I am particularly anxious to have
my reception a success.
Lovingly, Mabel.
Edgar like? Flory, I can plainly see
and I think she is not wholly indifferent
toward him. Together I think we can
manage to keep him here to-morrow, and
thus save his mother a great sorrow,
most likely,” said Mabel.
Mabel Cliiton was one of the iovliest
girls in p Friends wondered that
her heart had not yielded to some one of
her many suitors They did not know
she had no heart to yield to any of those
who songht it
The first season she appeared in the se
lect circle her father’s wealth and posi
tion placed her, she met Ernest Addisen.
He was a noble looking man, talented,
with mind and heart alike filled with
good, true resolves. To Mabel he had
been very attentive, and she grew to love
him, feeling, sure the time was not far
distant when he would come to tell her
of his love. But months rolled by, and
he spoke not. Gradually his visits grew
less frequent, until they ceased. What
it was that had come between his love
and hers she could not think; bat she
felt perfectly sore he did love her, and
so, hoping that time would solve the mys
tery and bring a balm to her wounded
spirit, she watched and waited for the
coming.
New-year’s day came beautiful and
bright Mabel, and her friend Flory nev
er looked lovlier. Mabel had explained
her wishes and folly infused her own
spirit into her fair friend.
It was impossible for an indifferent per
son not to feel their powers of fraacmae
tion. To Edgar Livingston, who was
irresistible. He lingered on, notwith
standing the many efforts of a young
friend who accompanied him to draw him
away.
“Do stay and help ue, said Mabel, and
when Flory’s beautiful eyes repeated the
wish Edgar yielded.
Few, if any, went from Clifton house
dissatisfied. Everything that heart could
desire or mind suggest, in the way of de
licacies and luxuries of the season, Ma
bel offered her gnests. But as her father
had said, many tongues were busy spec
ulating about it, and in a few hours it
was widely known that Miss Clifton was
having a “temperance reception.”
Eagerly Mabel’s eyes sought the door
on every new arrival of guests. She had
hoped for the coming of one. But the
hours passed, and when it grew late in
the day the hope faded and almost died
out She had seated herself wearily in
an arm-chair, when the same greeting
that had fallen on her ears many times
that day, “Happy New.year, Miss Clif
ton,” caused the bright light to return to
her eyes, the beautiful flush to her face,
as she rose to receive Ernest Addison.
There was an expression in his fine eyes,
when he received from her the fragrant
cup of coffee, that relieved the suspense
of years. Her heart was bounding with
new hope.
Edgar Livingston had drawn Flory to
the window. They were looking out on
the passers-by. A few moments, and reel
ing along the sidewalk, shouting and
singing a drinking song, came Edgar’s
companion of the morning.
Flory turned from the sickening sight.
—Edgar followed, saying:
“But for you and Miss Clifton I might
have been of that party.”
And going up to Mabel, ho said: “Miss
Clifton, your slumbers to-night should be
very peaceful. You have not helped to
cloud either the brain or the heart of any
of your friends to-day. Accept my warm
est thanks for having saved me from feel
ing both.”
Edgar saw an expression in Ernest's
eyes that made him think it would be
quite as agreeable to all parties if he
would take Flory back to the recess of
the window, tq the piano or anywhere
else out of hearing, just then.
A few moments after, his voice was
blending with hers in a well-chosen
duet.
Then Ernest told Mabel of the love
which had been hers'since first he knew
her.
“I came one night to lay my heart be
fore you. You had many guests, and
offered them wine. You noticed not that
I placed my glass untouched on the table,
j left early. I dared not woo the heart
of one who held such a fearful temptation
before me; why you will know when I
tell you the terrible truth. My only
brother went down to a drunkard’s grave,
the woman he loved urging him on.
“For a time mother and I had won him
from his fatal passion. He was doing
well. We believed he would fulfill the
bright promise of early youth. He grew
to love a beautiful girl. She was wild
and thoughtless; and one night, at a par-
ty in her father's house, she urged him
to drink.
“One glass. Every one but you takes
wine,” she said.
“He resisted. She taunted him about
having to abstain entirely because he had
not the self control to use wine in moder
ation. He yielded, accepted the fatal
glass from her hand, and drank, first
moderately, then on and on in. the old
way, until the end came—a ruined life,
and a mother's broken heart.
Do you wonder that I fled from you ?
—Every hour since yearning to return,
yet daring not.”
To-day I heard what you were doing.—
Earnestly thanking God that light had
dawned upon you, I hastened here to lay
my heart before the only woman I ever
loved. Will you be my wife, Mabel?”
Her heart was too full of joy—she could
not tell him in words how happy she was
but her little hand lay still in his. She
raised her eyes a moment, and he saw the
love of years beaming there. He needed
no other answer.
Judging from the low tune in which the
voices in the other room had fallen, I
think some other hearts had found their
mates.—But the pair had separated, or
rather rejoined again, by the return of
Mr. Clifton, who entered! calling out.
“Mabel, my dear, to me these rooms
look rather dark. Let’s have the gas
turned on, if you please,'
“Certainly, papa.”
And when there was light enough for
Mr. Clifton to look into his daughter’s
eyes, he saw a brighter light shining
there. Another moment, when Flory
came to greet him, he said, with a sly
smile:
“Ah, I see why you young folks knew
nothing of the surrounding darkness—
guided by the light within. Well, have
you had a pleasant day?”
“A happy day, father; there are no re
grets to steal in and mar it,” Mabel
said, with a bright smile.
“I am glad of it—glad of your resolve,
Mabel. How glad you will be I know
The
Witched. jof burden with them as she is with all
Southern Magazine for Decern- j Indian tribes. She is held in high re
her has its usual attractions of stories
and poems. Among a number of ar
ticles, our eyes light on a brief story en
titled “Witched,” a tale of negro super
stition ending in the tragic death of a
bewitched negro. The story is well told
with a copious overflow of negro lingo.
We have lived at the South a lifetime
and observe a curious difference of dia
lect between real live negroes, and those
who figure in books—especially northern
books. As a class, negroes, except those
on remote and isolated plantations, speak
very much as unlettered white people.
They have acquired much correctness of
expression by domestic communion with
the white race and do not express them
selves in the broken gibberish attributed
to them by many fiction caterers. Even
the gross superstitions of plantation
days are being much modified, and are sel
dom apparent in our section. We wish
the author of “Witched” would make a
tour to the Sunny South and observe
how our real negroes talk, or if the wri
ter is a Southron, we advise her to make
an excursion beyond her own neighbor
hood to learn how negroes do really talk
elsewhere.
The other articles in this magazine are
as usual, interesting, and we do not hesi
tate to pronounce the Southern Maga
zine as the best literary journal of the
South One important advantage it has
over other publications is being the offi
cial organ of the Southern Historical
Society. Every number contains publi
cations of high value as historical records
of the Lost Cause.
Mary Faith Floyd.
i spect. Her task is confined to those of
housekeeping. The- written records
which we have mentioned show that this
isolated community has maintained its
tradition unbroken for at least three and
a half centuries. Its history, carefully
studied, may prove a clue to the problem
of the aboriginal Americans. The mound-
builders of the North and the city build
ers of the South may be represented in
the town-dwellers of New Mexico and
Arizona.
From Now Orleans.
Sheridan Takes Command of the X*|*
islatnre.
when I tell you that this morning I clos- reC ommended for promotion by the latter
ed the eyes of a father whose son was on account of gallantry in the field, ex
, President
mo of fewr tot gaeetfe toff INTO Olaok Friday i* forgatte»,almdy.
The Greek Tragedy.
The Greeks were endowed with a
far sterner fatalism than the most ultra
predestination of modem times. It may
be doubted which is the most enviable,
the optimist who sees good in every
change of fickle fate; or the predestN
narian whose creed demands that he
should bear the direst calamity with
stoical philosophy- Each form of belief
is adapted to certain idiosyneracies of
mind which human beings will probably
be found to possess in all time to come
as they have been developed in the past.
These reflections arise naturally from
the perusal of an elegant artice on “ The
Ancient Classics,” in the Eclectic of Jan
uary. To the lovers of pure and refined
literature no stories offer the magnificent
grandeur, the awful sublimity and touch*,
ing pathos so much as the two stories of
the (Edipus of Sophocles. The doctrine
of terrible, blind, unrelenting fate is por
trayed with a grand gloom that makes
the heart ache with an awful tension.
Only a master genius could produce cli«.
max after climax of misfortune with such
tremendous effectiveness. The reader
feels a horror unspeakable, and yet a fas
cination in the details of this tragedy
which bears him onward through the
catastrophe, even against his will, with
much the same force that a projectile is
driven through the air by the heaviest
piece of ordnance. And this is only one
of the many tragedies which fascinated
the enlightened Greeks in the days of
Pericles, and which have outlived all the
changes of time and the blight of cen
turies to continue in their pristine
glory.
The magnificent works of iEschylus,
Sophocles and Euripides are brought
within the enjoyment of even the un
learned in “classical education ” by the
translations of Rev. W. Lucas Collins.
A very interesting article on these trans
lations is found in the Eclectic for Jan
uary, as well as a beautiful poem in mem
ory of the late Barry Cornwall, a poet of
distinction, from the pen of Algernon
Charles Swinburne. There are also
many other articles of interest in this
magazine for the new year, and, alto-i
gether, the Eclectic is better adapted
than any other periodical to keep us
abreast of the scientific and literary
movements of the old world. It should
be an especial favorite with Georgians,
as the editorial work is done by the learn
ed C. H. Jones, of this State, a son of
Dr. Jones so well known as a resident of
MiUedgeville about five years ago.
Mary Faith Floyd.
>• H'ra'lk CmaaMnl mmd Stepped
New Orleans, January 4.—Sheridan
has assumed control of the Department
of the Gulf. In a dispatch to the Secre
tary of War, dated headquarters military
division of ^iscouri. New Orleans, Janua
ry 4th, he says: “He regrets to announce
a spirit of defiance to all lawful authority,
and an insecurity of life.”
In the House upon permanent organi
zatioD, Wiltz received 56 votes, Hahn
two, blank one—a quorum voting, Wiltz
was declared speaker.
The Radicals gradually withdrew when
the Speaker ordered the Sergeant-at-
arms to prevent departures.
A clerk was then elected and swearing
in members commenced. Several scuffles
ensued from Radicals endeavoring to leave
the hall.
A Federal officer was sent for who en
tered the hall with two staff officers and
subsequently called in fifteen armed sol
diers.
The members not declared elected,
while protesting, were led from the house.
The old clerk was placed at the desk by
two soldiers.
Wiltz and all Democrats now left the
hall and the Legislature was without
quorum.
Newly Discovered Nation.
The campaign of General Crook against
the Apaches last year opened to research
a tract of land two hundred miles square
which is rich in relics of our country’s
unknown past. It contains a chain of
ancient cities in ruins and a coterie of
ancient towns still inhabited by a
race which holds itself aloof fron Indian
and Mexican and American, prides itself
on its descent from the ancient inhabitants
of the country, and maintains a religion
and a government, both of which are pe
culiar to itself. We are indebted to Cap
tain W. C. Manning, of the regular army,
for the facts in our possession concern
ing this newly discovered race. Captain
Manning, who was with General Crook
during the whole campaign, and was
away in some drinking saloon. How my
heart ached for that dying father! And
what a balm it was to think at that time
my daughter was not holding the fatal
glass to any yonng man,” said Mr. Clif
ton, his voice trembling with emotion.
Before another^New-year s day Mabel
and Flory each presided over an estab
lishment of their own. The happy re
membrance of their receptions is never
clouded by the thought that they have
added one drop to the cup of bitterness
which so many wives, mothers and sis
ters have to drink—that cup of sorrow
which is often prepared for them by sis
ter women.
Good Babits.
Remember boys, before you are twenty
you must establish a character that will
serve you all your life. As habits grow
stronger every year, and turning into a
new path is more and more difficult, there
fore it is often harder to unlearn than to
learn; and on this account a famous play
er used to charge double price to those
pupils who had been taught before by a
poor master. Try and reform a lazy, un
thrifty, or drunken person, and in most
cases you fail; for the bad habit, whatev
er it be, has so wound itself into the life,
that it cannot be uprooted.—The best
habit is the habit of care in forming good
habits.
The New York Herald has an edito
rial intimating that the President is im
plicated in another stock jobbing opera
tion- It appears that a synopsis of his
message (purporting to have been deriv
ed from official sources) was furnished
Reuter’s Agency and appeared in the
F.ngliah and all the other foreign journals.
This advanced copy contained the most
belligerent language on the Caban ques
tion and indicated an early hostile move
ment on the part of onr Government. The
dispatch, says the Herald, “produced a
profound impression upon the minds of
Spanish people and upon the funds in
London. There was never a more shame
less stock-jobbing fabrication, and, worse
than all, it has been traced directly to the
So it seems that the lesson
plored in the intervals of fighting. He
visited the inhabited towns, talked
with their rulers, and informed himself
concerning their customs. The largest
settlement is in New Mexico, about thirty
miles south of the border hue. It is a
type of the rest. A strong wall sur
rounds it Within it are houses for
about four thousand people. The popu
lation has dwindled, however, to about
one thousand eight hundred. The place
was mentioned by a Spanish Jesuit who
published, in 1529, a description of his
wanderings in America. About 1535
another Jesuit wrote a minute account of
it. This account is true in nearly every
detail to-day. The language resembles
the Chinese. So an ardent achaeologist
who visited the city a year ago says.
Some of the minor customs correspond
to those of the Chinese. The women are
of the true Celestial type—almond eyes,
protuberant bodies, little feet, &c. They
dress their hair and themselves in Chi
nese fashion. Their religion is barbar
ously magnificent. Montezuma is tbeir
deity. His coming is looked for at sun
rise each day. Immortality is a part of
their creed. The priests have heavily
embroidered robes which have been used
for unnumbered years. Their ceremo
nies of worship are formal and pompous.
The morality of this strange people, as
far, at least, as foreigners are concerned,
is irreproachable. It is probable that
they keep a record of events by means of
tying peculiar knots in long cords. This,
if true, seems to establish some kin
ship or remote acquaintanceship be
tween them and the Aztecs. Their
government is a conservative re^
public. Power is vested in a council of
thirteen caciques. Six of them are se
lected for life. Old men are generally
chosen, in order that their terms may not
be inordinately long. Tne remaining
seven are elected from time to time. One
of them is the Executive; another is a
sort of Vice-President. There ia a war
chief, a ch ef cf police, etc. They serve
bat a few months. Suffrage is universal.
It is scarcely necessary to supplement
those facts with the statement that these
dwellers in town are quite far "advanced
in civilization On this point one fact
speaks volumes. Worn** is not» tost
New York Press npon Louisiana
New York, January 4.—Referring to
the proceedings at New Orleans yester
day, the Herald says:
“There was witnessed in the Louisiana
State House yesterday a spectacle which
is the first of its kind in this country, and
which should cause every true American
to blush, with shame and indignation.
We congratulate the citizens of Louisi
ana and people of the country' that the
extraordinary and most revolting scene
did not provoke violence and bloodshed.
Forcible resistance would have been jus
titled in this case, if it be ever justifiable
in any case, for a greater outrage on
every principle of free government was
never perpetrated.
Were it not for the fact that the people
of Louisiana have a sure resource for re
dress of their grievances in the sense of
justice of the whole country, and in pub
lic resentment which will be kindled to
the highest pitch by these atrocities and
unexampled proceedings, Louisiana might
well die in defence of her liberties.”
The Tribune says; “Nothing in the
history of even the great conspiracy, by
which border ruffians undertook to seize
the territory and State of Kansas, can
furnish any parallel to this crowning in
iquity of the Federal administration,
The citizens of Louisiana have seen
themselves cheated and defrauded, and
when the fraud came near to a failure,
they have seen the whole power of the
general government used to consummate
it and make the villainy successful. They
make no outcry, but upon the facts as
they invoke the deliberate judgment of
the American people.”
The World says: “We hope there is no
American who can read the news from
New Orleans'without a thrill of shame
and rage.
The Times expresses no opinion upon
the merits of the case.
Man Five Hundred Thousand Years
Old.
The New York Nation condenses from
an English scientific periodical some in
teresting speculations of Dr. Alfred Rus
sel Wallace, on the probable antiquity of
the human species. They may well startle,
it says, even those who have long since
come to the conclusion that six thousand
years carry us but a small way back to
the original home. In fact, in Dr. Wal
lace's reckoning, six thousand years are
but a day. He reviews the various at
tempts to determine the antiquity of hu
man remains or works of art, and finds
the bronze age in Europe to have been
pretty accurately fixed at three thousand
or four thousand years ago, the stone
age, of the Swiss lake dwellings, at five
thousand or seven thousand years “ and
an indefinite anterior period.”
The burnt brick found sixty feet deep
in the Nile alluvium, indicates an anti
quity of twenty thousand years ; another
fragment at seventy-two feet gives thirty
thousand years. A human skeleton found
at a depth. * ixteen feet below four hun
dred bmr v . rests, superimposed upon
each other, 3 been calculated by Dr.
Dowler to h ;e an antiquity ot fifty thou
sand years. But all these estimates pale
before those which Kent’s cavern at Tor
quay legitimates. Here the drip of the
stalagmite is the chief factor of our com
putations, giving us an upper floor which
divides the relics of the last two or three
thousand years from a deposit full of the
bones of extinct mammalia, indicating an
Arctic climate.
Names cut in the stalagmite more than
two hundred years ago are still legible;
in other words, where the stalagmite is
twelve feet thick and the drip still more
copious, not more than a hundredth of a
foot has been deposited in two centuries
—a rate of five feet in one hundred thou
sand years. Below this, however, we
have a thick, much older and more crys-
tiline (i. e , more slowly formed) stalag
mite, beneath which again, “in a solid
breccia, very different from the cave
earth, undoubted works of art have been
found.” Mr. Wallace assumes only one
hundred thousand years for the upper
floors and about two hundred and fifty
thousand for the lower, and adds one
hundred and fifty thousand for the im
mediate cave earth, by which he arrives
at the sum of half a million years that
have probably elapsed since human work
manships were buried in the lowest depths
of Kent’s cavern.
Proposed Indignation Mooting to
Boston.
The Boston Journal and Advertiser,
the leading Republican papers in Boston,
have come out denouncing Sheridan’s
course and his dispatches. All of the
independent and Democratic papers there,
and likewise leading Republicans in Bos
ton, are talking of getting np an indigna
tion meeting.
A young man named Penn, a citizen of
Jasper county, committed suicide on New
Year's day by shooting himself with a
pistol.
The Atlanta Herald says: Judge H.
B. Tompkins, just appointed to the Sa
vannah Jndgeship, ia six years the youn
gest Superior Court Judge that Georgia
ever had.
Mr. J. 0. Barnett, of Madison, ia
dead.
Distance ia Planting.
Editor Southern Cultivator : There
is no one thing upon which I Lave exper
imented more than distance in planting.
My experiments run through several
years in succession in Georgia. Mississip
pi and Louisiana. In Cedar Valley, Ga..
on jnst such lands as Colonel Dent, of
Floyd county, cultivates, all my experi
ments in Georgia were conducted, "and
som' * them published in the Cultivator
and some in the Rome Courier. And I
am sure from the results obtained, that
Colonel Dent is more correct than Mr.
Dickson as to the distance corn should
be planted, to insure the greatest yield
per acre.
I saw Colonel Dent’s corn crop last
summer, and I thought it would make
more per acre than any com I saw in the
valley in which he lives—his com being
rather thicker than any other I saw, and
yet looking equally as green and fresh
But I don’t believe that his system of five
by three gives enough stalks per acre on
such lands as he cultivates, if the object
in planting is the greatest yield on a
given piece of land. The best yield I
ever got was from a piece of manured
land in Cedar Valley, Georgia, which had
on it a fraction over nine thousand stalks
per acre—planted three by three—two
stalks to the hill. It was measured iu
the presence of two gentlemen of the
valley, and made over eighty seven bush
els per acre, and took the premium of
fered for the best acre of upland com, at
the Cass county (Georgia) Fair, held
near Judge Game's place in 1853 or 1854,
I believe. It was published.
No one believes that if I Lad left only
one stalk in a hill (4,840), that I would
have got over sixty bushels, and perhaps,
not more that fifty. All this is not to
establish that distance (3x3—2 stalks) is
always best, but to show what stalks will
sometimes do. All my experiments pro
ved that on lands in Cedar Valley, that
would make from one thousand to fifteen
hundred pounds cotton per acre, four
thousand eight hundred and forty stalks
per acre would generally give the great
est yield of com. But in order to give
plenty of produce, I settle down on four
and a half by three, and I planted all
com by measurement. This distance will
give about four thousand stalks per
acre.
Let all those who “halt between two
opinions” try it this year for themselves
—and not only this year but several years.
It will not cost anything to try it on a
small scale, and it will afford pleasure.
“As for me and my house,” we are satis
fied and established on the subject of
distance in com and cotton.”
I think, so far as agriculture is concern
ed, I can begin to see the dawn of better
days. The best implements, the Brinly
plows—the best fertilizers are inquired
for and the best system of cultivation dis
cussed.
Roll forward the ball, old Cultivator,
you will yet be read, at no distant day, by
tens of thousands of subscribers annually.
For the revolution produced in agricultur
al philosophy, you have your full share
of credit. May little cotton be planted,
and much made per acre—much com
planted and larger'yields produced; the
cattle on a thousand hills lie down in
green pastures ; the unconstitution defea
ted ; and the Radical party die in Novem
ber, is the humble hope of
Yours respectfully, G. D. Harmon.
Marietta, Georgia.
Some Wonderftil Plants.
The “moving-plant ” is a native of the
basin of the Ganges. Its leaves revolve
in various directions during the day and
night, except occasionally, on a very hot
day, when the plant seems to desist from
its habitual motion for temporary repose.
In the valley of the Irrawaddy grows
the Borasues flabelliformis which bears a
leaf of wonderful dimensions; it is said
to be of sufficient size to cover twelve
men standing upright.
At Timor, near the island of Java, a
plant is found, the leaf of which pos
sesses a fatal sting when penetrating the
flesh. The victim, if not fatally poison
ed, suffers protracted illness. It is well
called “Devil8 Leaf.”
“ Club-mosses ” grow in these islands
to a length of several feet, among which
the Raffleria Araoldi, a floral giant paras
site, is prominent It is peculiar for its
carrion-scented flower, of brick-red color,
which it bears, and which measures be
tween three and four feet in diameter,
weighing about fifteen pounds, and bear
ing a natural cup in the centre, which
often contains several pints of water.
In New Zealand is fonnd the Metror-
derdos Robusta, growing to a great size,
and sending shoots from its trank and
branches to the gronnd, which, in due
time, sustain the old stem when vitality
has left it. Here, also, are arborescent
ferns, attaining a height of forty feet;
and in this island vegetetion flourishes in
water too hot for animal life.
In the Auckland Islands, which lie to
the south of New Zealand, a plant grows
near the sea, which has clusters of green,
wax-like blossoms, as large as a cliild’s
head.
The Marocytes syrifera, a marine plant,
attains a length of five hundred to fif
teen hundred feet, and is the largest
vegetable production known. On the
shores of California there are fields of
this plant so dense that ships driven to
ward the land have been saved by it.
The Cotton Situation
The Commercial and Financial
Chronicle allots its share to each State
and adds np 4,300,000 bales. This al-.
lows a falling off of 100,000 bales from
onr calculation above. In two weeks
from the 18th of December to the 1st of
January we lost from the surplus about
80,000 bales, which would allow a falling
off of 20,000 bales for the balance of the
season in order to reduce the crop to the
estimate of the Chronicle, and this we
think is improbable. The present price
of middling uplands, 7 3-8 or about 3-4
below the average price of last year,
stands in proportion to a crop of 4 1 2
millions, and as it become clearly percep
tible to all interested in the article that
we shall not reach this fignre an advance
in prices will take place. A strong dis
position to hold cotton manifests itself
in this country. It is also the real ob
ject of the Granger combination to with
hold as much cotton as possible until it
is positively needed and then sell it at a
high price. This will probably lessen re
ceipts at ports for some time tojeome and
influence prices. The assertion that too
much cotton is produced, and that more
goods are manufactured than the world
needs, is frequently heard. The world
has successfully disposed of several mon
ster crops and at a considerable higher
average price than 7 3-8d., and as con
sumption steadily increases from year to
year we cannot assume as probable that
because possibly this year’s crop may ex-
oeed last year by a lew thousand bales a
shrinkage of 2 or 3 cents should be ne
cessitated.
Bemoeratie Speaker Sleeted.
Taluuussk, Fla., January 7.—T. H.
Hannah, Democrat, has been elected
Speaker. He is the first Democrat who
has held that position since 1866. He
received twenty-seven Conservative and
three T
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