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A (Fairs in Georma.
- renty-seven penitentiary convicts are
I ■' ' I for the Central Railroad in
J
asou county is disposed to put on
a colored person one hundred
I - V e years of age. Ten years ago he
I 1, but he has regained his eye-
l" ...i-jJ now he can thread a needle
' bauds tied behind him, and split
Ij-jj in tbiee languages.
rants kerosene street lamps.
j lU ear Phrank Leverett, the member
| from Patuarn, will have to be phlebotom-
j He says it is easy enough for a
I ,o quit chewing tobacco when he
, ets iu the Legislature and takes to
goobers.
Wilkinson county lias a vague remem-
brsnee of a historic hound which sur-
,j s is weeks without food.
have received the first number of
the Eockmart Ntue, published by Mr. A.
p Starnes. The News, we believe, is a
ccessiT to the Reporter.
The Waynesboro Expositor alludes to
thi lloasiNi. News in the following fa-
ut eloquent terms: “We do notbe-
is saying too much to say that the
Hobsem Xews is the best paper in Geor
gia. It is useless to say that it is the pa-
br the artisan, for the farmer, the
-r. etc. for it is specially adapted to
rybody—and it is, therefore, really the
people's paper. Always full of news
making it truly a Mousing News), and
being reliable iu every particular, it is an
indispensible’ in the counting-room and
II the fireside. Long may it wave and
E .till prosper.”
The Invinton Southerner says that Mr.
C.C. Smith, of Wilkinson county, has
become the champion symp producer.
at his cane in 1878 and covered up
tie stubble, and last spring ho uncovered
them anti raised from the suckers a fine
cane crop. So strongly impregnated was
'the juice of this cane with saccharine
matter, that he informs ns sixty gallons
of it yielded seventeen and a half gallons
of splendid syrup. The yield is general
ly one gallon of syrup to eight of juice.
Mr. Smith thinks by continuing this cul-
tiuting process, he will finally succeed
in producing cane which will turn out-
even better than this; in fact so rich that
it will almost be syrup without undergo
ing the evaporating or boiling process.
Col Jones, of the Macon Telegraph.
Lams from a legal friend, that in 1872
an adventurer in Southwest Georgia,
with?:in:a) less than nothing, had the
address to purchase from one of the
wisest aud most successful merchants in
Georgia two plantations on time, for the
sum of '.;o,000. The only tangible
collateral security given was a life policy
for 810,000. About a year since the
purchaser was killed in a brawl, and of
course proved to be utterly insolvent,
ins planting experience having added
thousands to his liabilities. The mer
chant, however, collected the life policy,
and gets his property back again, but in
a dilapidated and half ruined condition,
and a law suit on his hands in the bar
gain.
The Hon. Potiphar Peagreen, the
talented member from Tugaloo, is eare-
f illy preserving his pea-nut shells, in or
der that his constituents may have a tan-
gh evidence of the extraordinary zeal
and statesmanship which he has displayed
in their interest.
We are convinced that Col. Henri
Gra li. 0 f the Atlanta Herald, ought to go
to lirooklyn. He has caught the flavor of
Plymouth literature, and beat the Tiltoni-
aa gushers at their own game, as witness
tins remarkable specimen of style : “The
Whole Atlanta party, and all the friends
thereof, have become bewitched by a
precious maiden that we rode on the
train with to-day. She is a rare and
r »hant aristocrat; white, serene and
sunning as a star; full-bodied and volup-
! is: i yes of deepest blue, and a wealth
t: golden hair, caught from her sloping
iders in great tawny masses. She is
fair as newly fallen snow, and the
whit eness is nowhere broken, save
j 2 ^ tr celestial palms where the prisoned
kindles into a rose color, or in her
( ' rU *g lips, where impatience whips it
fito a passion.
„ of the Macon Telegraph,
, tu is startling announcement: We
i»eeu under the impression that the
i ts of “Hugging Mollies” going about
Slreet *s. seeking whom they may rob,
J v ■' ne gro romances; but it seems that
, r ‘ i' some truth iu the reports. One
• r numerous and efficient police was
sinj ; 1 a l ,Ar ty them Sunday night,
it was only b\’ a vigorous use
his clnk ♦a.;*. -
“T it was only
hi? club that he prevented them
going through him. He actu
als
. "ore his club out over their heads,
J:■‘ lu, ' a they got away from him.
o'Y,., ea( kd himself manfully, os a good
- r would have done under such cir-
cnuistanet-s, but they outnumbered him
t , lC 0u °. These peculiar robbers go
lu a gang, anil one of them is
• ‘-v dressed as a female. When they
i. ’ 1 a Person who they think likely to
‘ an y money they throw' him down
j 8° through him iu the most approved
•duon. They are believed to be negroes,
af . VVfcre w ho assaulted the officer as
“ Y'. stated. Thev mosth* frequent the
0u tsk:rts of the city*.
: ty Press: Most of our citi-
arrar, w’ho died
— fifteen years ago.
^ l '.*} or S has to do with him. It is
a rumor, aud as such we give it.
tion with it we have heard men-
i* “of two or three prominent men,
j ( ” 4 ’-(min from mentioning any names,
di*n 4S ° ns easi b' seen. When Mr. Farrar
u \ i lef ! an only daughter, aud to her
ker children he bequeathed all of his
chilif^'' ^he has since died and her
now 4 inherit his formerly large
qjk. They, sometime since, ac-
- enta hy or otherwise discovered
-“-j ^natty rre*x M
T rt 'member Peter Fa
“ • •'some twelve or lift
^ a t the time of Mr. Farrar’s death
ton°u^ et * one i^ ousan( i bales of cot-
t j ' v mch was. in the hands of other par-
g. ’ Wu0 were entrusted with its sale.
deaf? 00 * 11 88 ^ wafi ^ nown ^ afc was
bfp lhe Pities shipped the cotton to
tlit auua ^ jt and made no return of
rnoaey, no one, it being supposed,
Wlu g anything of the cotton except
J. H. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 18, 1875.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
themselves, as Mr. Farrar himself was i
dead. Mr. 1 arrar’s heirs at law, as we |
before mentioned, discovering this fact. |
set to work to make what discoveries the3’ 1
could, and have so far succeeded as that
they have found out when it was sold, to
whom sold and how much it was sold for.
Florida Affairs.
John Morrissey is in Jacksonville.
Ocala has organized a reading club.
The citizens of Suwannee county are
examining into their financial affairs.
Mr. J. A. Carter, of New York, is giving
readings in Jacksonville.
Jarrett, of theatrical notoriety, is loaf
ing around in Florida.
A Nassau county man killed a year old
pig the other day that weighed net .‘1.78
pounds.
More than twenty-five millions of ci
gars were manufactured in Florida last
year.
They use tar to trap people in Jackson
ville. The Union says that while a col
ored man, M. W. Carroll, was quietly
proceeding home last Thursday night, he
was attacked by three men at the upper
end of Bay street, and robbed of a small
amount of money, after being rendered
helpless by having a tarred cloth thrown
over his head. His assailants, who are
stated to have been white, made their
escape.
GEORGIA.
Her ItcHourres—Her Present—Her Future
Editor Morning News:
In this day of emigration and immigra
tion, it is well to be posted as to what in
ducements our grand old State holds out
to her sons'to remain upon her soil, and
what advantage it holds out to immi
grants seeking new homes. We say it
without fear of contradiction, and with
honest State pride, that there is no State
in the Union superior to Georgia in all
the resources that go to make up an in
viting and great State. Let us look at
the real undisputed facts.
SOIL, CLIMATE, PRODUCTIONS.
We have every kind of soil that can,
and does produce, anything desired. In
Cherokee, Georgia, a beautiful rolling
country with rich valleys that produces
corn and wheat, rye and barley equal to
any in the other States; all kind of
grasses for raising stock : fine fruit, such
as apples, pears, cherries, peaches and
grapes; also a fine staple of cotton, with
one of the most delightful and bracing
atmospheres. Delightful in summer and
just about cold enough in winter. In
Middle Georgia, corn, cotton and fruit
grows to perfection, with as fine soil as
can be desired. It is a pleasant medium
as to climate between Cherokee and
Southern Georgia, free like Cherokee or
Upper Georgia, from malarial diseases.
In Southern Georgia, embracing all that
section touching the Atlantic, bordering
on Florida, and known as the “wire
grass ” section, we have a soil and cli
mate somewhat different from the other
two sections. We get into the cotton
section, but, however, not superior to
Middle Georgia in staple, though more
can be made to the hand, as the soil is
lighter, more sandy and more easily cul
tivated. Cron grows well, sugar cane is
cultivated with success; rice is confined
mostly to the seacoast counties and is
made profitable. The climate is always
mild; and such fruits as peaches, figs,
grapes, pomegranates and apricots can
be raised to perfection; and, as to sweet
potatoes, no section can beat it. Irish
potatoes will grow anywhere in the State
and do well. So far, then, as to raising
anything to eat, no State can surpass us.
Southern Georgia should and ought to be
the great sheep section, as the range is
so inviting; also cattle can be raised with
more ease than in the other sections.
It is merely a question of taste with
one as to the climate he likes best. For
consumption we would recommend the
Southern portion, and especially the pine
regions. As to diseasea, no State can
show a better health record, take it all
in all.
FORESTS—TREES.
As to our forests, we have almost all
kinds of woods—no less than fifty differ
ent kinds of oaks, a half dozen kinds of
hickory; then comes the ash, chestnut,
beach, sycamore, dogwood, cottonwood,
elm, live oak, poplar, magnolia, bay,
maple, persimmon and many other kinds
too numerous to mention. As to pine,
we have the finest in the world, and
Georgia pine has a world-wide reputa
tion.
MINERALS, METALS.
Georgia is also rich in minerals, and
Cherokee, Ga., holds that vast wealth in
her lap alone. We have, as a few to
mention, gold, iron, copper, limestone,
slate, marble, coal, elastic sand stone,
amethystine quartz, asbestos, soap-stone,
plumbago, lead, manganese, titanium,
shale, graphite, tripoli, fluorspar, calca
reous spar, sulphate of barytes, chalcedory.
burr millstone, and granite, by the solid
mountain, and we have by no means ex
hausted the list. The resources of our
State are not half known, and their de
velopment hardly begun.
MINERAL SPRINGS
are scattered in every section, but princi
pally in Middle and Northern Georgia.
Different kinds of sulphur, iron and salts
constitute their peculiar characteristics,
and health seekers invariably find relief
from their use. The Catoosa Springs has
the reputation of having about half a
dozen different kinds of water within an
enclosure of about an acre of ground.
WATER POWER—FACTORIES.
As to our water power for manufactur
ing purposes, with fine natural falls, no
State in the Union can begin to rival us.
Middle and Northern Georgia could bo
made a paradise for manufacturers, with
such natural advantages that success
could but attend the effort. All that is
needed is simply experienci in sueh bus-
iness.
In my next article, Mr. Editor, I shall
endeavor to give your readers an idea of
the vastness of our domain, and what we
will be in time with an enlightened pol
icy and wise and conservative laws, that
will look to the inviting in of labor and
capital and not to its restriction, oppres
sion or embarrassment. R. M. O.
Another Walworth tragedy was com
mitted in New York a few days since, the
only difference being that no one had
died yet, though the victim may not re
cover. It seems that Miss Annie Church
ill, daughter of Mr. Aaron Churchill, had
been receiving the attentions of a young
man to whom Mr. Churchill objected.
This person made a call upon the daugh
ter on Tuesday night, and after his depar
ture, Mr. Churchill came into the parlor
and severely scolded his daughter for
permitting the visit. Mrs. Churchill,
alarmed by the anger of her husband, in
terposedin behalf of her daughter, where
upon Mr. Churchill’s rage was directed
towards the mother, and he threatened
t-o throw her out of ihe window. Walter
Churchill, the son. about sixteen years of
a<re, was in an adjoining room, and hear
ing the altercation, seized a pistol and
ran into the parlor, With hardly a word
he raised the pistol aud fired, the ball
striking his father over the left eye, and.
it was supposed, penetrat-d the left tem-
porftl bone. Mr. Churchill at once fell
to the floor, and Walter, horror-stricken
at what he had done, knelt by his side
with his mother and sister, and attempted
to staunch the flow of blood. A physi-
cian was called, who, upon examining the
wound, reported that the ball had not
entered the brain, and that the patient
might recover. The boy is at present in
the Tombs awaiting the result of his fa
ther’s injuries.
A cheese weighing fourteen tons will
be one of the contribution from Ohio to
the Philadelphia Centennial.
TIIE 3IOKMNO NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
MUNICIPAL ELECTIONS IN PENN
SYLVANIA.
THE OAR LI ST WAR TO BE
CARRIED ON.
JOHN* MITCHELL’S CHANCES IN
PARLIAMENT.
The Prince Imperials School Cer
tificate.
MUNICIPAL. ELECTION.
Philadelphia,February 17.—The election
yester.lav for Councils resulted in the choice
of 22 Republicans aud 7 Democrats to the
Select, and 55 Republicans and 15 Democrats
to the Common Council. In the Third ward
James L. Marshall, Democrat, was elected
by twelve pluralty over Harry Hunter to fill
a vacancy in the'State Legislature, caused
by the death of Wm. H. Fagau.
Williamsport, Pa., February 17.—A
Democratic Mayor was elected. The others
are Republicans.
Harrisburg, February 17.—The Republi
cans elect the Controller by one hundred
ana twenty-live majority.
Syracuse, February 17.—A Republican
Mayor is elected.
Scranton, Pa., February 17.—The Demo
crats elected the Mayor.
Philadelphia, February 17.—In one di
vision of the Fifth Ward’ the ballot-boxes
were destroyed.
Reading, Pa., February 17.—Evans. Re
publican, is re-elected Mayor.
JOHN MITCHELL.
London, February 17.—Disraeli will in
troduce a resolution dec’aring John Mitchell
ineligible.
It is reported that John Mitchell has re
fused to take the oath of allegiance. It is
also said the home rule members will refuse
to support Mitchell, his policy differing
from theirs. A meeting iu Tipperary de
clared that in case Mitchell is rejected he
would be returned agaiu and again.
congressional notes.
Washington, February 17.—Iu the Senate,
various petitions were presented from citi
zens of Pennsylvania for aid to the North
ern Pacitic and Texas Pacific Railroads. Re
ferred to the Committee on Railroads.
The House is in Committee of the Whole,
on the tariff bill.
the carlists.
Paris, February 17.—It is reported that
the father of Don Carlos, Dou Alfonso, and
others have raised a large sum in London
to carry on the war against Alfonso.
cutting under.
Baltimore, February 17.—The Baltimore
aud Ohio Railroad has reduced the passen
ger rate from thirty to forty per cent to
an J from all competing points.
THE PATRIOTS.
Havana, February 17.—It is reported that
tli Insurgents have abandoned the juris
diction of Cienfuegos.
THE ICE-BOUND FLEET.
Puoyinctowx, February 17.—There is no
sulL-ring for food on the ice-bound fleet.
The shore is easily reached on the ice.
LULU.
London, February 17.—The Prince Im
perial at Woolwich was seventy in his class
aud first iu iencing and riding.
DESTRUCTIVE FIRE.
Kingston, February 17.—Five hundred
houses are burned in Port-au-Prince.
yalmaslda.
Santander, February 17.—Yalmaseda has
departed lor Cuba.
The Lying Gasconade Merrill.
The character of the Captain W. S.
Merrill, of whom we have heard a great
deal—the said Captain being in the United
States army—is well illustrated by the
following, which we take from the Iron-
ton (Ohio) Register:
“Capt. Merrill said ho thought that when
the war closed the rebels meant peace. He
was now convinced that the government
made a mistake in not hanging a few hun
dred thonsand of them. We have been so
lenient with them that they are now trying
to run things their own way. He said this
was an indignation meeting, and he was
indignant, but he was indignaut because
Sheridan didn’t shoot down a few thousand
of those rebels and White Leaguers. This
was the only thing that would secure peace
to the country. Finally, he said this meet-
in • was only intended for political effect,
and he didn’t take any stock in it. He was
roundlv applauded at several points of his
speech.”
This man Merrill, who thinks now that
the government ought to have had two or
three hundred thousand executions, was
not heard of during the war. He sat back
and took a seat in the rear. When the
danger was ended, he came prominently
to the front. Then he talked about blood,
aud about its wholesale shedding m the
cause of thieves in Louisiana. He has
been pronounced a liar by Colonel Mor
row, United States Commander in Louisi
ana: by the Congressional Committee who
visited that State, a majority of whom are
Republicans; by the reverend clergy, and
Northern residents. When, therefore,
this Captain Merrill desires to hang two
or three hundred thousand, that is, half
of the voters of Ohio at a contested elec
tion, he simply advertises his ferocity
and want of sense. He simply evinces
by his own testimony one of two things,
viz: that we have in him either a fool or
a malignant scoundrel in Louisiana.
Another Tnrn of the Screw.
[From the St. Louis Republican.]
According to our Washington special
of yesterday, the Republican members of
Congress in caucus assembled have pre
pared a scheme having for its object the
perpetuation of the power of the Repub
lican party at any sacrifice of honesty and
justice. The main features of this
scheme are these : The re-enactment of
the Ku-Klux act of 1871, substituting the
words “White League” for Ku-Klux.
The restoration of the right of suspend
ing the writ of habeas corpus, and the
estaolishment of a complicated system
of election machinery designed to place
the majority completely in the hands of
the minority. This machinery provides
for the appointment of supervisors by
United States marshals: obliges these
supervisors to be present when the ballot-
boxes are open, and make their own
count, which shall be certified to by a
personage called “the Chief Supervisor
of Elections.” In addition to these feat
ures the caucus bill declares that the re
constructed States shall be restricted and
confined in all elections, constitutional
changes and amendments, to the funda
mental conditions and terms of iheir
readmission to the Union.
The end and aim of this proposed legi:
lation admit of no disguise and need no
explanation. It is a bold and insolent
attempt to so bind and gag the people of
the Southern States that they must either
support the Republican ticket or throw
away their votes. The revival of the Ku-
Klux act for the benefit of the White
League means nothing more or less than
the persecution and intimidation of the
Conservative element throughout the
South. It establishes an inquisition from
which there is no appeal, except to a
drum-head court-martial, organized to
* convict and to punish the innocent as
well as the guilty. The United States
Marshals being Republicans, and depend
ent upon the supremacy of that party for
their bread and butter, will, of course,
appoint supervisors of the same political
stripe: and these supervisors, having also
bread and butter to look after, will count
out as many Conservatives as may be
necessary to secure Republican ascend
ancy in their particular locality. More
over, the States readmitted to the Federal
family are to be forever debarred from
making any changes in their constitutions
or laws which might enable them to es
cape from the yoke now imposed. They
are to be tied hand aud foot to the Re
publican car, and dragged whichever way
that car may choose to roll.
It is occasionally remarked, in aud out
of print, that “ whom the gods have de
cided to demolish, they first make eligi
ble candidates for the lunatic asylum.”
The latest desperate resolve of the domi
nant party, as exemplified in the caucus
bill, gives additional emphasis to the
somewhat threadbare proverb we have
quoted. Do the leaders of this party
imagine that the American people will
patiently submit to be cheated out of
their rights in such a manner as is here
proposed ? Do they think they can swing
the next Presidential election their own
way by inaugurating a crusade against
the White League, and throwing a cor-
don of government supervisors and de
tectives around the ballot-box ? Do they
really believe these Southern States can
be sold in perpetuit3’ to negroes, carpet
baggers and their Northern allies ? We
can assure these caucusing gentlemen
that they aie reckoning without their
host. The time was when such games as
this could win, but that time has de
parted to return no more. Tlie people
are determined to have a fair and square
election two years heDce, in spite of any
leagues, black or white; in spite of
United States Marshals, United States
! Supervisors and United States troops.
Any attempt to defeat a legitimate ex-
i pression of popular opinion at the polls
will bring down upon the heads of its au-
thors a quantity and quality of punish
i ment fully equal to the provocation. The
| roads are rough—better drive slow.
BRASSERVS SON CLAUDIUS.
The Fun he JImrie for a Neighbor'* Boy.
They have had a great storm up North
—a winter storm—snow, ice and sleet
combining, as we judge, to make a per
fect exhibition of all their unpleasant
possibilities at once. In consequence,
the papers are full of dark allusions,
which no one can understand unless he
has felt the shocking consequences of
-uddenly losing the grip of his (or her)
boot heels on a slippery pavement. Here
are a few samples from the St. Louis
Globe:
The sea of ice was put on the boards
last night. A great many people found
back seats.
Several ministers themselves received
stern rebukes yesterday.
Yesterday was Ash Wednesday—on the
sidewalks.
Take my arm!
Go back and wipe your shoes.
Her skirts were white,
Her face was red.
“Oh, help me up,*’
Was what she 6aid.
There are two gentlemen in New York,
brothers, well known as men-about-town.
We will call them Bill and Jim. Bill
stutters a little. Said Jim one day : “Bill,
I want you to go with me and see a Scotch
terrier. He is the greatest ratter,In this
city. We must have that dog.” “I’ll
go,” said Bill They went. The terrier
was brought out and a rat was loosened
with him. To fulfill the character as
cribed to him the terrier should have dis
patched a certain number of rats within
me minute. But a single rat seemed to
b*. fully a match for him. Indeed, the
longer they fought the more it looked as
if the rat would prove the better of the
two. Ths dog shook and the rat bit;
out the rat seemed to bite the hardest.
Finally Bill broke out: “ J-J-J-J-Jim,”
said he, “ b-b-b-b-buy the rat.”
“Pray, madam, what do you charge for
recovering an umbrella ?” said Michael
O’Flaherty, from Tipperary, the other
day, walking into an umbrella shop.
“Let me see it,” was the reply. “Ah,
faith, and that’s just what I want to do;
for I’ve lost one, and I see you offer to
recover them at a very small charge, so
I was just thinking I would get you to
recover mine.”
A Lunatic in a Pulpit.
A correspondent of the London Daily
' Netc* writes to that journal January 20th:
j On Sunday morning the service at the
; Irvingate Cathedral, at Albury, near
‘ Guildford—a building which was erected
- at a cost of £60,000 by the late Mr. Henry
Drummond—was interrupted in a some-
I what alarming manner. The service had
proceeded to the reading of the prayers,
; v. iien Captain Symes, a member of the
i congregation, was observed to leave his
| seat. He at once ascended the stairs aud
j entered the pulpit. Closing the door, he
i stretched forth his hands and addressed
• the congregation. He said he was com-
• missioned by God to deliver a message,
' which would not be heard with favor.
At this juncture several of the church of-
: ficials rushed tip the pulpit stairs, and
begged the gallant captain to desist. The
i request was met by the captain drawing
j a sword from a sheath, which was con
cealed under his coat, and, waving it
above his head, he said that, if any
person interfered with him in the
delivery of his message he would
run him through to the heart.
A precipitate retreat was made by
the officials, and in the meantime Capt.
S\'mes proceeded to address the congre
gation, warning them that it was his duty
to tell them that perdition was their fate
if they continued in their faith. Mr.
Armstrong, a barrister at law, and an in
timate friend of Capt. Symes, left his
seat, and, running up the pulpit stairs,
begged him t-o come down. The captain
raised his sword, and, striking Mr. Arm
strong across the hand, nearly cut off one
of his fingers. The alarm caused by this
extraordinary conduct was very great.
The ladies of the congregation screamed,
and many of them fainted. The male
portion of the congregation left their
seats, and, assembling in knots in the
aisles of the church, called to Captain
Symes to come down. One gentleman,
undeterred by the injury inflicted on Mr.
Armstrong, ascended the pulpit stairs to
expostulate with the Captain. The only
reply he received was the presentation
at his head of a loaded revolver. Hear
ing the “click” of the weapou, he slid
down the stairs on his back and hid be
hind the staircase. During this scene the
Duke and Duchess of Northumberland,
who are regular attendants of the church,
left their seats. The Duchess fainted, and
was carried from the church by her at
tendants. Capt. Symes had now full pos
session of the pulpit, and, striking the
sword on the Bible, he proceeded in a
loud tone to deliver what he termed his
message, amidst the screaming of fe
males and vociferous calls to “come
down” of the males. The officials of the
church had by this time armed them
selves with long poles, and with these
they went into the pulpit, and after a
tremendous scuffle succeeded in knocking
the sword and revolver out of the hands
of the Captain. They then laid hold of
him and dragged him down the pulpit
stairs. As the Captain violently resisted
a rope was procured and with it he was
bound hand and foot and tied to one of
the pillars of the building. He was sub
sequently given in charge to the police,
and on the following day was brought
before a magistrate. On the certificate
of two surgeons he was removed to a
lunatic asylum.
The intrusion of revenue officers into
bank drawers in search of unstamped
decks has been sometimes resisted by
the bank officials, and the consequence is
that the Cashier of the Monongahela Na
tional Bank of Brownsville and the Cash
ier of the bank at Freeport, Pa., have
been proceeded against, the one crimi
nally and the other in a civil suit.
It has been suggested that the young
Emperor of China, lately deceased, was
put out of the way by a harem intrigue.
Later news from Ciiina may serve to
strengthen that opinion. It seems that
there is now great uncertainty as to the
imperial succession. The wife of the
late Emperor had not committed suicide,
as was reported; on the contrary, she is
expected to present the Empire with an
heir to the throne. Meantime, the “son
of prince Chun,” whoever he may be, is
the baby ruler of the Middle Kingdom.
Should the posthumous infant of the late
Emperor be a boy, he will be the natural
heir of his father’s throne, the son of
Chun being a sort of elected interpola
tion. The law of Chinese imperial suc
cession is a mystery to the outer world ;
but it is evident that these complications
must very much disturb the tranquility .
of the interior junta which lias so long |
governed China.
[From the Detroit Free Press.]
Mr. Bra»er, who lives on Ninth ave-
j Due, has a son about twelve years old
| named Claudius; and the other evening
this boy received permission to allow a
neighbor’s boy to stay all night with him.
The old people sleep down stairs in the
sitting room, and the boys were put into
a room directly above. When they went
up to bed Claudius had the clothes line
under his coat, and the neighbor's boy
had a mask in his pocket. They didn’t
kneel down and say their prayers like
good boys and then jump into bed and
tell bear stories, but as soon as the door
was locked the Brasser boy remarked:
“You’ll see more fun around here to
night than would lie on a ten-acre lot!”
From a closet they brought out a cast
off suit of Braseat’s clothes, stuffed them
with whatever cjine handy, tied the mask
and an old stra\f hat on for a head, and
while one boy was carefully raising the
wiudow the other was tying the clothes
line around the “man.” The image was
lowered oown in front of the sitting-
room window, lifted up and down once
or twice, and old Brasser was heard to
leap out of bed with a great jar. He was
just beginning to doze when he heard
sounds under his wiudow, and his wife
suggested that it was a cow in the yard.
He got up, pulled the curtain away, and
as he beheld a man standing there he
shouted out:
“Great bottles ! but it’s a robber!” and
he jumped into bed.
“Theodorius Brasser, are you a fool?”
screamed the wife as he monopolized all
the bed clothes to cover up his head.
“Be quiet, you old jade, you,” he whis
pered, “perhaps he’ll go away.”
“Don’t j-ou call me a jade,” she replied,
reaching over and trying to find his hair.
“Git up aud git the gun and blow his
head off.”
“Oh, you do it.”
“Git up, you old coward.” she snapped,
“I ll never live with you another day if
you don’t do it.”
Brasser turned up the lamp, sat up in
bed, and cried out:
“Is that you, boys?”
“Marcy on me, git up,” yelled the wife
as the straw man was knocking against
the window.
“ I'll blow his head off, as clean as
milk! ” said Brasser, in a ioud voice, as
he got up. He struck the stove three or
four times, upset a chair, and reached
behind the foot of the bed and drew out
an old army musket.
“ Now then, for blood,” he continued,
as he advanced to the window and lifted
the curtain.
The man was there, face close to the
glass, and he had such a malignant ex
pression of countenance that Brasser
jumped back with a cry of alarm.
“Kill him! shoot him down, you old
noodle-bead! ” screamed the wife.
“ I will, by thunder! I will! ” replied
Brasser, and he blazed away, and tore
out nearly all the lower sash.
The boys up stairs uttered a yell and a
groan, and Brasser jumped for the win
dow to see if the man was down. He
wasn’t. He stood right there, and he
made a leap at Brasser.
“He’s coming in!—perlice!—boys!—
ho!—perlice!” roared the old man.
The tattered curtain permitted Mrs.
Brasser to catch sight of a man jumping
up and down, and she yelled—
“Theodorius, I’m going to faint.!”
“Faint and be darned! Boys!—per
lice!” he replied, wolloping the sheet-
iron stove with a poker.
“Don’t you dare talk that way to me!”
shrieked the old woman, recovering from
her desire to faint.
“Po-leece! Po-leece!” now came from
the boys up-stairs, and while one con
tinued to shout the other drew the man
up, tore him limb from limb and secreted
the pieces.
Several neighbors were aroused, an
officer came up from the station, and
a search of the premises was made. Not
so much as a track in the snow was found,
and the officer put on an injured look
and said to Mr. Brasser:
“A guilty conscience needs no ac
cuser.”
“That’s so!” chorused the indignant
neighbors as they departed.
As Mr. Brasser hung a quilt before the
shattered window he remarked to his
wife:
“Now see what an old cundurango you
made of yourself!”
“Don’t fling an}’ insults at me. or I’ll
choke the attenuated life out of you!”
she replied.
And the boys kicked around on the
bed, chucked each other in the ribs, and
cried:
“I’d rather be a boy than be Presi
dent !”
IietributioB at Last.
[Waterboro (N. Y.) Correspondence of the New
York Herald.]
J. N. Masten, of this place, has re
ceived a letter from a relative in San
Francisco, Cal., formerly a resident of
Ulster county, this State, giving the par
ticulars of the killing of a desperado in
that State, known as the “Wild Man of
Colusa,” who proves to be Jeremiah
Smith, the perpetrator of what is known
as the “waysidemurder,’’near Homowac,
Ulster county, in the fall of 1868. Smith
murdered his wife and child in the road
near his residence, by pounding them to
death with a stone. He then fled, and a
lnrgo reward was offered for his capture.
At least twelve men answering his de
scription were arrested in different parts
of the country, but none of them proved
to be he. He was traced by detectives as
far as Utah, and there all trace of him
was lost.
About three or four years ago there ap
peared in the sage brush in Cola county,
California, a strange human being. He
was dressed in the skins of animals and
was always armed. His hair and beard
were of extraordinary length. He haunted
small settlements, and when there were
no men around, made raids on the houses,
securing whatever plunder was to be had.
He came to be the terror of the county,
and narrowly escaped with his life several
times when surprised by men, who were
hunting him. A few weeks since he made
one of his visits to a house where the in
mates refused to comply with his de
mands, and the door was barred against
him. He emptied the contents of three
revolvers in the house, seriously wound
ing a woman, and then retreated to the
s^amp. The next day a party went
out to capture him and succeeded in
doing so. He was lodged in the county
jaiL
The particulars of this affair were seen
by Mr. Masten in a copy of the San Fran
cisco Chronicle. The description of the
wild man answered that of Smith so
no lrly. including a finger missing from
one of his hands, that he wrote to his
relative, enclosing a photograph of the
murderer. When the letter was received
in San Francisco the party to whom it
was addressed proceeded to Cola county,
and found that the wild man had escaped
from jail. He showed the letter and
photograph to several men, who declared
at once that there was a great resemblance
be i, ween the picture and the wild man. A
search was at once instituted for the
escaped prisoner. Several men, among
th m Mr. Masten’s relative, followed him
for days through the thickets, and finally
came up with him. He at once showed
fight, and commenced firing at the party.
The lire was returned and the man fell.
Mr. Townsend, the former Ulster county
man, went up to him and recognized
hi a, and was recognized in return. Smith
died in a few hours. He had eluded
ju-.tice for nearly seven years.
A Little Story from Berlin.
The Berlin correspondent of the Cin
cinnati Gazette tells a nice littie story
about a pretty little villa in the suburbs
of that city. The villa was unoccupied
until recently, when it was mysteriously
announced that it had been rented to a
wealthy Russian family. A retinue of
servants were soon busy making the
necessary preparations, and one wagon
after another came loaded with elegant
furniture, covered with blue and rose-
colored satin damasks. Soon afterward a
magnificent carriage rolled up to the
gateway, and out of it stepped a beau
tiful young woman, with a pretty
child. She was dressed in an ele
gant costume of the latest mode.
Her hat, turned up at the side, and edged
with gray ostrich feathers, while a long
plume drooped gracefully from the crown,
set off her handsome face to the best ad
vantage. She gathered up her velvet
mantle and walked proudly inio the
house. Curiosity was excited to the
highest pitch among the neighbors \to
learn who the pretty stranger was with
all her magnificent trappings. A rumor
soon got abroad that she was the ban
ished wife of a certain member of the
royal family, but nothing occurred to
confirm the report until a tall, handsome
man walked quietly up from the depot.
The butler and footman were wait
ing at the door. At the sound of
the opening gate the pretty woman flew
down the stairway and was clasped in the
arms of her husband, the Grand Duke
Alexis, of Russia. He remained with her
three days, and on Sunday evening she
took him in the cab to the depot, and the
next Tuesday morning the papers an
nounced that on Sunday, at half-past
twelve p. m., the Grand Duke Alexis ar
rived in Berlin from Paris, and took
lodgings with the Russian Ambrssador.
The knowing ones smiled over the petty
deception, but said nothing, out of re
gard for the devoted wife, who dares not
to be the acknowledged wife of a possible
claimant of the Russian throne.
^ertiliifrs.
IMPORTANT
-TO—
GRANGERS.
GEORGIA STATE GRANGE
Republicanism Repudiating Itself.
There was a significant vote in the
Senate on Thursday, illustrating the
cheap estimate in which that Republican
body holds the suffrage which it has con
ferred on the blacks. The Senate had
under consideration the bill for a new
government for the District of Columbia.
The bill places the entire government iu
the hands of five commissioners to be
appointed by the President. Senator
Morton, who is “not willing to give up
popular government,” proposed an
amendment for the election of these com
missioners by the people of the District;
this was lost by a tie vote—28 for aud 28
against it—ten Republicans voting against
it.
There is but one explanation of this
vote: Negro suffrage has made free local
government in the District impossible; it
has placed the government so completely
in the hands of several persons, and
made it so expensive that the white tax
payers have cried out to have the right of
local government taken away from them
—and the Senate grants their prayer.
The Senate consents to disfranchise the
whites as a means of disfranchising the
blacks.
And yet this same Senate refuses to the
tax-payers of the South the relief which
it grants to the tax-payers of the District.
The barbarism into which Republican
self-government in South Carolina, Louisi
ana and Mississippi has fallen is some
thing far less endurable than the condi
tion into which the same agency had
brought the District of Columbia: it is so
oppressive and odious that the whites of
Louisiana have asked Congress to take
away from them the right of government
and place the State under military rule.
But Congress insists on keeping them
under the regime which it admits to be
intolerable elsewhere; at the very moment
when it refuses to allow negro suffrage in
the District, it allows the army to be
used to fortify it in Louisiana.—St. Louis
Republican.
The Mormon delegate Cannon says, “if
polygamy were permitted in Brooklyn,
society would be less deceptive.” Soci
ety here is not deceptive. It is like so
ciety everywhere else, largely composed
of persons whose practice is analagous to
the habit of the ostrich when it seeks
safety by hiding its head in the sand.—
lirooklyn Argus.
A$sipcc$ Sale.
Special Notice:
TJNITED States District Court, Southern Dis-
trict of New York.—Iu Bankruptcy.
In the matter of SETII HOWARD HOWES,
STEPHEN HYATT and LEANDEK W. TOWNS
END, Bankrupts.
The undersigned. Assignee of the estate of the
above named bankrupts, hereby gives notice pur
suant to the order of the above-named Court,
that he will sell at public auction,
By WALTER H. TAYLOR, Auctioneer,
At the store of AARON CLAFLlN & CO.,
No. 116 Church street, iu the city of
New York, commencing on
TUESDAY, THE 523d FEBRUARY, 1S75,
At 10 o'clock a. m.,
And continuing from day to day, the large and
valuable stock of
Boots and Shoes,
(cunristing of about 2^750 cases, and adapted to
the Southern and Western trade,) of the said
Bankrupts, Howes, Hyatt &, Co.
Dated New York, February 2d, 1S75.
feb!5-6t AARON CLAFLlN, Assignee.
2iubUration$.
Let us be just, though the heavens
fail. The government has begun to econ
omize. A mail agent named Radford,
who was killed on the 2.7th of November,
while in discharge of his duties, on the
Baltimore & Ohio Road, had that morn
ing been paid his month’s wages in full
The amount thus overdrawn was five
dey’s pay, which has been duly extorted
from the widow. Contrast with this the
back-pay and forward-pa; of Congress
men. —Nashville Union.
Read This Twice.
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Choice Miscellaneous Reading Matter every
weik, together with articles from the pens of
such well known writers as NASBY, OLIVER
OPTIC, SYlVANUS COBB, Jr., MISS AL-
COTT, WILL CARLTON, J. T. TROWBRIDGE,
MARK TWAIN, Ac.
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on receipt of only $1 50, postage paid.
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lished and reliable weekly >aper, published every
Saturday, and is very popular throughout the
N. E. and Middle States. Address,
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EB9BBB8B
Srrad.
liread Delivery!
T HE undersigned respectfully informs his
friends and customers that he will com
mence the
Delivery of Bread trom Wagous
ON THE 22d INSTANT.
(>rders left at his Stall in the Market, or at the
Bakery, comer of Charlton and Jefferson streets,
or though the Post Office, will have attention.
febl5-fw P. GIEBELHOUSE
iiats and (taps, &c.
NOW READY r !
TIIE SPRING STYLE OF
SILK HATS.
Also, a fine line of
Soft and Stiff Hats
JUST RECEIVED, A FULL LINE OF
Gents’ Furnishing Goods
BROWN, THE HATTER,
feb6-tf 137 Congress street.
FERTILIZER!
GEORGIA STATE GRANGE
Dissolved Bones!
GEORGIA STATE GRANGE
Acid Phosphate!
-AND-
ALL CHEMICALS
-USED IN—
Agriculture
For Sale Cash at Prices as per
Contract Entered into Be
tween State Grange and
Manufacturers’ Com
bination.
For particulars, addrt ss
w. >1. MOSES,
General Purchasing Agent, or
CHAS. C. HARDWICK,
Local Agent. No. 83 Bay street.
NOTICE.
Parties desiring to make time arrangements
can do so through the undersigned at a reason
able advance—ON SATISFACTORY PAPER.
CHAS. C. HARDWICK,
feb9-dlm&w4 Commission Merchant.
•Susuratuf.
THE
ROYAL
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF
Liverpool & London
CAPITAL AND ASSETS,
$15,000,000 Gold.
Losses adjasted and paid here without refer
ee to Home Office.
JXO. H. MCLAREN, Manager.
AGENTS.
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potteries:.
LOOK! LOOK!
81,200,000 IN PRIZES!
Tut* Grandest Single Number Scheme on
Record, will be drawn in public in
St. Louis on March 31, 1875.
Capital Prize, §100,000!
Missouri State Lotteries!
Legalized by State Authority,
MURRAY, MILLER A CO., Managers,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
1 Prize of $100,000
1 Prize of 50,000
1 Prize of 22,500
1 Prize of 20,000
5 Prizes of 10,000
10 Prizes of 5,000
20 Prizes ot 2,500
100 l*rizes of 1,000
Aud 11,451 other Prizes of from $1,500 to $50.
Amounting in the Aggregate to $1,200,000
Whole Tickets, $20; Halves, $10; Quarters, $5.
Prize payable in full and no postponement of
drawings take place.
Address, for Tickets and circulars,
MURRAY, MILLER k CO., Manager*!,
ST. LOUIS, MO.
P. O. Box 2446. jan.VTu.Th.SaAwly
3ffledirinal.
VIRGINIA ”
BUFFALO SPRINGS.
A MONG the most remarkable cures upon
record, whether by medicineor mineral wa
ter. are some made by these waters in diseases of
the KIDNEYS and BLADDER, in DYSPEPSIA,
in DISEASES PECULIAR to WOMEN, more es-
I>ecially in Leucorrhea. They have accomplished
ti:. moot gratifying results in GOUT and RHEU
MATISM where dependent upon uric acid in the
blood. In CHRONIC GONORRHEA, SECOND
ARY SYPHILIS, Gleet, and ALL KINDRED
diseases, they are regarded by all medical men
conversant with their effects as decidedly supe
rior to any remedy in the range of medicine or
among theminera 1 waters of the country.
They are put up for sale in cases containing
oue dozen Half Gallon Bottles, delivsred at the
Scottsburg Depot of the Richmond and Atlanta
Air-Line Railroad at $6 per case. Address,
THOMAS F. GOODE, Proprietor,
Buffalo Lithia Springs,
dec21-M«fcTh4m Mecklenburg County, Va.
plants and plotters.
ROSES!
3,000 ROSES now ready
for sale.
BOQUETS and
FLOWERS.
Designs for Weddings
and Funerals.
J. H. PARSONS A CO.,
State St., rear of Lutheran Church; also, Pavilion
Gardens, No. 54 Bull Street. feb3-tf
Jiardurart, &r.
F. W. CORNWELL,
DEALER IN
HARDWARES, CUTLERY,
Agricultural Implements, Mechanical Toois, Axee,
Hoes, Nails, Traces, etc. Also, CUCUM
BER WOOD PUMPS, the beet and
No. 102 Bn
*1
MPS, the beet and
Pump in use.
tea Street, Savannah, Ga.
&r.
Hay and Bricks.
2QQ BALES PRIME EASTERN HAY.
30,000 EASTERN HARD BRICK, suitable for
Paving.
Landing from schooner M. Kinney, from Wis-
caseett, Maine, and for sale by
decl9-tf WILDER A CO.
WHY?
W HY IS IT that Printing can be done to the
utmost satisfaction of the customer at the
MORNING NEWS JOB OFFICE? Because the
office is complete in the way of material—six power
preeaea, types in quantity and every needed variety,
keeping at all timea an extensive stock of papers,
having a well-equipped Blndetr, employing good
workmen—thua having aixanaTnjpn facflhlea
we are enabled to turn ot SUPERIOR WORK,
and to do ao IN THS SB0RXH8T TTO poasibU.
Ilrg ®oodi
Gray, O’Brien&Co.
No. 147 Broughton Street.
> CASES 1(M WHITE SHEETING, at 35c. per
d yard.
10 cases WHITE SHIRTINGS, favorite
brands, at 10 and 12%c. per yard.
10 bales HEAVY BROWN SHIRTINGS, at P-
ana 10c. per yard.
25 pieces WINTER DRESS GOODS, at 12tfc
formerly sold at 25c.
25 pieces JAPANESE POPLINS, at 20c.
25Q dozen EXTRA HEAVY WHITE COTTON
HOSE, at |1 to aud $3 per dozen.
200 dozen MEN’S HOSE, from $2 50 to $5
per dozen.
SO dozeu LADIES* FLEECE LINED BER
LIN GLOVES, aUgjc. per pair.
. ayttc.
) mRn
Elegant BEADED lJELlS aud POCKETS.
50 pieces SASH RIBBONS, from 50c. to $1
per yard.
150 pieces No. 12 COLORED and BLACK
GROS GRAIN RIBBONS, at 25c. per yard.
400 dozen Machine Hemmed LINEN HAND
KERCHIEFS, at $1 25 per dozen.
25 dozen Ladies’ COLORED NECK SCARFS
at 25c. each.
10,000 yards fine HAMBURG EDGINGS and
FNSERTINGS, at very low prices.
LINEN TABLE DAMASKS, NAPKINS and
DOYLIES.
300 dozen LINEN TOWELS, from $1 25 to $3
per dozen.
150 dozen CORSETS, from 50c. to $3 50 each.
White, Colored and Spangled TARLATANS.
20 dozen LADIES’ TWO BUTTON KID
GLOVES, at $1 per pair.
Rich BLACK DRESS SILKS, from $1 50 to $3
per yard.
Full fine of LADIES’ UNDERGARMENTS.
HONEYCOMB and TOILET QUILTS.
SHAWLS, SACQUES, BLANKETS and other
WINTER GOODS, at a great redaction.
GRAY, O BRIEN & CO.
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hotels aud ^tstaurants.
BRESNAN’S
156, 158, 160 & 1612
BRYAN STREET,
SAVANNAH, GA.
T HE Proprietor, having completed the neces
sary additions aud improvements, can now
Ctier to hiB guesta all the comforts to be obtained
at other Hotels at lees than
HALF THE EXPENSE!
A RESTAURANT
ON TIIE
OTB0PEAN PLAN
Has been added, where guests can
AT ALL HOURS
Order whatever can be obtained in the market.
ROOMS, WITH BOARD,
$2 00 PER DAY.
Determined to be
Outdone by None,
All I ask is a TRIAL, confident that complete
satisfaction will be given.
JOHN BRESNAN,
PROPRIETOR.
feb!3-tf
fainting.
PAINTING!
CHRIS. MURPHY.
CHAS. CLARK.
Murphy & Clark,
98 Bryan street, between Drayton and
Abercom Streets,
SAVANNAH, GA.
HOUSE, SHIP, STEAMBOAT, SIGN AND
Ornam’tal Painters,
GILDING,
GRAINING,
MARBLING,
GL AZ ING
AND
Paper Hanging.
We are prepared to offer estimates fer every de
scription of Painting in any part of Georg-*,
South Carolina and Florida, and guarantee satis
faction In the execution of o*r work.
We keep always in store a select stock of the
following articles:
PURE ENGLISH B. B. LEAD.
A^ITANTIC and ali other brands of LEAD8.
OILS. VARNISHES, PUTTY, BRUSHES.
Furniture, Demar and other VARNISHES pot
op in quart, pint and half pint bottles, ready for
use.
GROUND and ENAMELED GLASS.
STAINED and PLAIN of vanous colors.
Double and single thick French, English and
American GLASS.
GOLD LEAF, BRONZE, Glaziers’ DIAMONDS.
Machinery OILS, and Axle GREASE.
A select stock of GOLD and PLAIN PAPER
HANGINGS.
Persons desiring work and material in our line
would do well to give us a call before gobig else
where.
PLAIN AND ORNAMENTAL
SIGN WORK
Executed with neatness and dispatch.
PATENT STEP LADDERS.
As the season has set in when house cleaning is
the order of the dav, it can’t be done without a
STEP LADDER!
The place to get them Light and Durable is at the
Paint and Oil Store of
MURPHY & CLARK.
PRICE $2 50 TO $6, ALL SIZES.
Stained to imitate Black Walnut and Lettered
with the purchaser's name, if desired. oct22-tf
Valentines.
VALENTINES !
-AT-
Estill’s News Depot.
A Large and Varied Stock of
VALENTINES
Is now open at the above place, comprising
SENTIMENTAL,
FANCY AND COMIC
VALENTINES.
—ALSO—
VALENTINE CARDS.
PERFUMED SACHETS, &c.
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