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Affairs iii Heorffia.
1 that a young man named
.[ the late Judge Cowart, of
.oithor of the recent letter in
Herald abusive of Governor
, nave the bost reasons for be-
the ivtter in question was not
ung Mr. Cowart. Indeed, we
iii that it was not written in
if it was, that its date has
, i with. Moreover, we do not
he writer of the letter is a
. our belief in respect to this
vidence to be found in the
of the Augusta Constitution•
declines to become a candi-
; gubernatorial honors.
• 'institution publishes some
to show that we printed some
.1 - v Brown in regard to the
True, quite true. But a
lr files will show that the ar-
l as advertisements—indeed,
• paraded in tho Constitution
! i the words of Colonel John
Robinson’s immense aggre-
ans, “Bring in another Hoss!”
House lias been levied on as
Hi lianuibal. His friends,
tho bogus bonds, ought to
to his relief.
is! tho Augusta people are
arrangements to carry a
ru and Western excursion-
'urnishes “evidence” against
much earnestness that wo
would ruiile his true inward-
. an old citizen of the State
f memoranda and <locu-
. ; to the plans of, and bearing
1 when, Joey is said to have
<-ut loose from the Coufed-
i» a little government of his
i\e not made any attempt to
tged citizen, out we suspect
i>>und with very little extra
\Y• say extra digging, for the
. lion. Ben. Hill, in his con-
1 li Mr. Stephens, came within
thiug the owner of the memo-
aments referred to
muty had produced well formed
ns early as the 1st inst.
mouths past, the authorities of
p have been compelled, in a
i li quate manner, to take care
tunate white lady, owing to the
the Lunatic Asylum is already
!. If the lion. Potty had whet
ting tongue upon the subject
; that institution instead of en-
• disestablish bureaux that his
t licet will not allow him to appre-
riutp.- he would not have achieved
•nviable a notoriety.
•fain• - A. Gray, of Valdosta, died
\ : rook while taking a walk,
bumpkin boy broke his leg re-
n<l» avoring to leap a gully,
shy A Farrell, wholesale and
era, are the superintendents of
>ta Canal, and Col. Maxwell is the
of Directors.
, • of the holders of the bogus
r secret agents fo destroy the
Governor Smith is having an
h earned of by these worthies.
Gwinnett county man bites off
s huger mortification sets in
re arm has to be amputated.
1 negro baby was found in the
I'iii n im connty recently. Putnam
ills l i ming to the front.
iimbus Enquirer says that
the cotton week ending Friday
Western Railroad of Alabama
to (’olambua en route for Savannah
v York 771 bales of cotton—721
ilc, 0 from Montgomery, 45 from
ti "in Opelika, West Point and
"ns, 0 from Vicksburg, 0 from
• " from N. and S. Railroad,
tin - 'Ugh movement by this route
iiber 1st is 30,058 bales—5,089
■ 121 from Montgomery, 11,142
.250 Irom West Point, Opelika,
n Vicksburg, 95 from New Or-
N rtk and South Railroad. The
rn nt last season was 33,364. Dur-
time the Mobile and Girard Rail-
i ht up 7,224 through, against
-villf Eagle says; The attack on
1. in the New York Herald, of
, is only the fulfillment of
■) laid scheme to try and 'drive
th "Ut of office to make place
G.s long been “hungering and
the position. But the plan
■ i sc* scurrilous flings will only
pie and cause them to think,
investigates the matter for
find that the charges are not
' ire made by designing indi-
■ sh purposes. A few more
as the one contained in the
tho effect to make Smith
! thout opposition.
- - ioan: “George Davidson
man of good standing and
was engaged to Miss Annio
I’lful daughter of General
i igton, Ga. They had asked
•••■;d, but their parents had
and of the youthfulness
trading parties. They were
, but wait they could not and
•ung Blakely announced his
- tending the Cumberland
Lebanon, and did go there
■ -r for the course. Having
betrothed that he would
■gt her, aud had arranged
i accompany him to Nash-
the marriage ceremony
1 - mod, liis friend left here last
arriving at Washington,
morning. He informed
- ie of his arrival, aud she
‘ when the clock struck one
• would light a match and let
f which he was to take
1 as directed and secured the
' ist before train time next
departed, ostensibly on a visit
! .but instead took the train
rriving here Wednesday, and
’lie Commercial Hotel. The
down from Lebanon and
’bey were yesterday united
> Rev. Mr. Chestnut, at the
b:. James Bowling. Imme-
tl| e ceremony, they sent dis-
1 ■ ouncmg their marriage.”
" 1 'jk: It is a well known fact
> of the State of Georgia—
■' the taxes and bear the bur-
• rnment—were stroBgly in
J* H. E STILL, PROPRIETOR.
SAVANNAH, TUESDAY, MARCH 7, 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
der to give expression to their views, when
they ask legislation for their benefit? But the
representatives have had their wav, and in
humble judgment, have acted on this o.uos-
tion contrary to the wishes of three-fourths
of the taxpayers of Georgia. Have the
people no remedy ? They certainly have,
ihis tall a general election is to be held in
Georgia, and the people should demand
a pledge irom every candidate for whom
they vote for either branch of the General
Assembly, that he is in favor of a con
vention, and that hs will vote for it when
the question is brought before the Legisla
ture. Then let public meetings be held in
each county, expressing the will of the peo
ple on this subject. This is the only wav to
successfully thwart the object of the small
mmonty ot interested anti-convention meD,
who have so far prevented the people from
coming together and changing a Constitu
tion put upon them by fraud and intimida
tion.
dnational convention to re-
• '“ ganic law. They have even
L y their representatives in the
li privilege of exercising at
their right to vote on the
o; j why ? Because those who
' "mention from mercenary mo-
oi ' 10 tlie contrary. All sorts
v, . s wer <J resorted to, and no
“ -niturned that would operate
1 “11 of the people, it was
> the opponents of the conven-
G • '; 1 P e °ple had never expressed a
W !; , , ‘ ’ \ at only two or three counties
t u ,| L L'l'lic meetings asking for one,
«urijr )t ’ ilf gned that the reasonable pre ■
Haiit'l !? a f t ^ t th ®y were against it.
petition ti^ to tllat people must
W>Ucmfca« re P reB entatives by holding
stings ui over the country, in or-
Soulii Carolina Affairs.
The Columbia Register says Elliott’s favor
ite gesture when speaking very forcibly re
minds one of a man who has stuck his hand
into a kettle of boiling water and is trying
to shake the pain out of it.
The public schools of LexiDgton county
have been closed.
A grist mill near Pickens Court House
ground, during last year, four thousand
bushels of corn.
Captain Alley, the Marshal of Spartan
burg. has arrested three colored women
from Fairfield who robbed the house of Mrs.
Brewton, in Spartanburg, three months ago.
The stolen articles were recovered.
Donnaldsville is making a war on whisky
dealers.
The Rev. Charles Emanuel Ball, who has
been circulating iu the neighborhood of
Towerville, in Oconee county, recently, turns
out to be an impostor.
A kitchen on tho premises of Mr. Thomas
P. Slider, in Newberry, was burned last
Saturday evening^ about half past seven
o’clock. His house and Mr. Poole’s stable
caught, but by unremitting work on the
part of the peoplo generally, and of the
Hbok aud Ladder Truck Company, they
were saved from burning or any serious
injury.
Some colored thieves stole a wagon load
of fodder on Wednesday night from Capt.
Hester, in Abbeville, but were captured.
The Marshal of Wallialla has calaboosud
several disorderly persons recently.
John Dickson, colored, who assaulted Mr.
Sullivan, the| Marshal or Walhalla, with in
tent to kill, was tried in the Court of Gen
eral Sessions on Tuesday, found guilty, and
sentenced to the penitentiary for two years .
Chicken stealing is increasing abou$ Duo
West.
Samuel Jones, the most respected colored
man in Abbeville county, died on Monday,
28th ult., of paralysis. H’.- avoided politics,
and always behaved himself well.
Mr. G. W. Terry has left Walhalla to go
into business in the city of New York.
Hodges is indulging in the amusement of
pitching horse shoes. “ Its not the money
we make but the fun we have,” must be the
motto in that section.
Little hope is entertained of the recovery
of Sheriff Geiger, of Lexington couuty.
Daniel Robinson, colored, was recently
married to Martha Ann Hughes, white, by
Rev. T. L. Young, colored, at his residence
near Due West.
The effects of the Aiken Club were sold at
auction on tho 23d ultimo. Mr. Henry Wea
sels was the purchaser.
Iu Union, on Wednesday morning last.
Lawrens Garlington Young, son of Col. J.
L. Young, was kicked in the mouth by a
mule, by which all his front teeth were
knocked out, the back ones broken off and
the front of his jaw-bone dreadfully shat
tered. He presents a shocking appearance
aud suffers excruciating pain.
The whole tax of Edgefield county is
$68,800, while Abbeville pays $123,500. An
derson pays $77,954.
Captain H. H. Geiger, Sheriff of Lexing
ton county, died iu Columbia on Wednes
day, where he had gone to receive medical
treatment.
The Laurensvillo Herald has received au
addition to its editorial force in the person
of Colonel John VV. Ferguson.
John J. Dorgan has withdrawn from tlie
editorial management ot the True Southron
of Sumpter. Dorr & Osteen will continue
the publication of the paper.
William P. Nobie, one of the mosi highly
respected citizens of Abbeville, a nephew
of Governor Noble, and a graudsou of Gen.
Tickens of tho Revolution, died last week in
the seventieth year of his age. Mr. Nicho
las Miller, of the samo county, died last
week, aged twenty-three.
The Couuty Treasurer of Lexington
county collected last Monday $1,500.
An immigration meeting was held in
Spartanburg on Monday, at which a com
mittee of six were appointed as a local
board to aid the cause of immigration.
Addresses were made by’ Col. Farrow, Col.
Evans and Capt. Farley.
Melton R. Garrett was convicted of big
amy in Oconee county, and sentenced to one
year in the penitentiary.
“Crooked” Vengeance.
[Knoxville Press and Herald. March 1.]
On Monday morning Mr. Levi George,
a farmer residing in the northern part of
this county, came to the city for the pur
pose of negotiating a loan at the East
Tennessee National Bank. The bank,
however, was closed, as it was after hours,
and he failed to get the accommodation
he sought. He started home iu the even
ing, passing the toll gate on the Tazewell
road about sundown. At that time noth
ing seemed to be wrong with him. No
one'has seen or heard of him since. His
horse was found at the foot of Black Oak
Itidge, with bridle, saddle and saddle
pockets undisturbed. What, in the
meantime, has become of Mr. George is
a profound mystery. Ho was not drink
ing, or at least not drunk, as he was not
in the habit of getting drunk. He is
spoken of by those who know him as a
sober man, quiet and peaceable, and his
strange aud sudden disappearance cannot
be accounted for.
It is thought by some of his friends
that he may have been foully dealt with
by some one having an enmity against
him, while it may be that some party or
parties, knowing of his business in the
city, waylaid and murdered him for the
purpose of robbery.
Mr. Johnson, who lives near the ridge,
states that shortly after dark lie heard
three distinct pistol shots, and it may be
tliat it was at this time Mr. George was
murdered and his body hidden away in
some cave or other secret place. The
diligent investigation now being made
will, we hope, dispel the atmosphere of
mystery which hangs around the cir
cumstance.
[Knoxville Chronicle, March l.J
It is reported that Mr. George had
some strong enemies on account of
having been a witness against a number
of illicit distillers, and taking all these
circumstances in connection with the
pistol firing it looks very much like a
foul crime had been committed.
M TUftiPII
—TO-
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
BELKNAP IS DURESS.
Tlie Secretary of War Guarded by
Policemen.
MARSH IN MONTREAL.
TURKEY AND HER INSURGENT
PROVINCES.
TURKEY’S TROUBLES.
Ragusa, March G.—The insurgent leaders
who took refuge iu Cettuje refuse to accept
the reforms, though threatened with the
withdrawal of relief and strict surveillance.
The Austrian authorities consider the paci
fication of the Turkish provinces hopeless.
The maltreatment of Royalists by Mus-
selmen is increasing, and the position is
becoming dangerous.
Vienna, March 6.—It is stated that Lju-
bobratich has organized a baud of insur
gents iu Dalmatia, crossed the river 11a-
renta and entered Herzegovina. On
Saturday he intended to attack Mostar.
After promulgating the reforms of the
former in North Bosnia tho Tuiks rose iu
some villages, killed some of the Christians,
aud drove the rest away. A sanguinary con
flict is leported between the Communists
and the military iu Servia.
ANOTHER CABINET CRISIS.
Paris, March 6.—The increasing demands
ol Cassimer Periere regarding the compo
sition of the Ministry, have caused a rup
ture between Periere aud MacMahou. It is
now said M. Ricard will take tho Ministry
ot the luterior. This solution will admit of
a Cabinet before the opening of the Cham
bers of formation.
BELKNAI* ARRESTED.
Washington, March 6.—Belknap was ar
rested last night on a warrant sworn out by
Judgy Wells. He was detained in his house
with poliee inside and out all night.
COFFEE.
Bio Janerio, March 4.—Coffee is quiet
with a downward tendency.
MARSH.
New York, March 6.—Marsh is at the
Saint Lawrence Hotel, Montreal.
A LEAP YEAR STORY.
A Rrnicli of Promise Holt that Nlav be
Instituted in Nevada.
[From the Austin (Nevada) Reveille.]
There is a young gentleman in this
town who is looked upon as a sort of
woman -hnter, aud who, it was believed
until recently, would not marry the hand
somest and best woman on earth if every
hair in her head was a Koh-i-noor dia
mond. On account of leap year some
young ladies concluded to put up a job on
this young man and arranged it for one
of their number to propose marriage to
him, while the others watched the fun
through holes bored in a partition.
The gentleman was invited to call at
the house of the young lady who was to
do the proposing, aud on the designated
evening he was there, seated in the par
lor, while the accessories to the plot were
stationed at their eye-holes. After some
desultory conversation about the weather
and tho club party the young lady sud
denly dropped on her knees before the
gentleman and iu endearing terms de
clared her passion:
“Darling,” she said, “I long have loved
thee, but the cruel conventionalities of
societj’ have forced, me to conceal my
passions. Leap year, which gives to
oppressed woman one blessed privilege,
is now’ here, and I take advantage of it
to tell thee I adore thee. Look not thus
coldly ou me, dearesf; spurn me not from
your presence. See me on my bended
knees imploring that you will not say me
nay. Grant me but one kiss from those
ruby lips: fold me to thine arms and say
that thou wilt be mine; mine, only mine,
forever and for aye.”
Contrary to expectation, the gentleman
displayed not the least astonishment dur
ing the foregoing recital, and when it was
concluded lie went over to the stove,
and, folding his hands under his coat
tails, thus replied:
“I’m told your dad owns a hundred
shares of North Carson, and that you’ve
got two brindl* bull dogs in your own
right and without incumbrance; likewise
I am informed that you are a good hand
making slapjacks and biscuit; that you
don’t chaw gum, which, by the way, is
powerful expensive these hard times. In
view of these facts I consent, and leave
it to you to name the day.”
Horrified, the lady tried to explain that
it was all a joke, but the gentleman would
not accept any such explanation, and
threatens a breach of promise suit unless
she fulfils her promise, in which event he
will summon the peepers as witnesses.
Tipkin’s Good Disguise.—Though but
six days intervene between now and
Mardi Gras, some of the people are
already becoming very impatient for the
carnival day to arrive. This impatience
seems general, though among those who
expect to participate it is greater than
elsewhere. Yesterday Thomas Tipkins
became so impatient about how he would
celebrate the carnival that he resolved to
put ou the disguise he expects to wear
then. Having procured the outfit. Tip-
kins donned the same and appeared at
the rear of his residence. He knocked,
aud his wife answered. .
“Kid&er understands as how you wishes
a cook, mum,” said he. n
“We wish no cook: go away, re
sponded the wife.
“You needn’t be so sassy: pears to me
you’re drefful stuck up, ’sidering Use as
good as you,” remarked the disguised
“As good as me !” shrieked the wife,
seizing a bucket of cold water, and throw
ing it full upon the Mardi Gras man;
“as good as me, take that, and as she
spoke she threw the-water and then beat
him about the head with the bucket. The
disguised husband cried out his identity,
but the irate woman did not mm to com
prehend until after poor Tipkins had
been put in a tolerably fair way to be sick
until after Mardi Graf.- LoumilU
(jowri/cr-Joumal.
THE PARALLEL CASE.
Whose Case Was It, Compared With
Which tlie Case of Ilelknnp Was
‘•White rn tlie Driven Snow.”
In the debate in the House ou Thurs
day, Mr. Clymer, of Pennsylvania, intro
ducing the resolutions for impeaching
Secretary Belknap, spoke of them as con
stituting “a record of official corruption
aud crimes such as there is no parallel
for in our own history or that of any
other country.”
Responding to him, Lyman K. Bass, of
New York, a Republican member of the
Investigating Committee, “questioned
the statement of the chairman, Mr. Cly
mer, as to the case having no parallel,
and said that he would not have to leave
his own borders in order to find not only
a parallel for it, but that he could find
cases com/Hired with which this case was as
white as the driven snow."
This was a remarkable charge to come
from a Republican member of the House,
and has excited a good deal of specula -
tion about its personal application. Bass
clearly refers to a member of the Cabinet
from Pennsylvania. A friend sends us a
copy of Lamon’s Life of Lincoln, and re
fers* us to the narrative of facts connected
with the appointment of Hon. Simon
Cameron as Secretary of War in 1861,
and his subsequent summary ejection
from that office. After fhe appointment
had been forced on Lincoln, the author
represents him as saying, “all that I am
in the world—the Presidency and all else
I owe to that opinion of me which the
people express when they call me 'honest
old At>e !’ Now what will they think of
their honest Abe when he appoints Simon
Cameron to be his familiar adviser.”
Cameron’s ejection from the Cabinet
was as abrupt and unceremonious as pos
sible. It was effected by the following
note:
Hon. Simon Cameron, Secretary of War:
Dear Sir—I have this day nominated
Hon. Edwin M. Stanton to be Secretary
of War and you to be Minister Plenipo
tentiary to Russia.
Very truly, A. Lincoln.
The receipt of this missive was the
first hint Cameron received of his dis
missal, and he wept like a child with
rage and mortification. Alex. McClure,
as quoted by the author, says: “Iu many
subsequent conversations with Mr. Lin
coln, he did not attempt to conceal the
great misfortune of Cameron’s appoint
ment and the painful necessity of his re
moval.' What was that “painful neces
sity,” and how has it been so loDg con
cealed ?”—Macon Telegraph.
Whipper has resigned his seat as a
member of the South Carolina Legisla
ture in order to be able to take his seat
on the bench. The chances are that
Whipper will fall between two stools.
All of the Eastern papers which are
outside of the whisky ring are referring
very favorably to Colonel Broad head's
speec^on Babcock, but it everlastingly
disgusted Grant.
LETTER
FROM FORI
BROOKS.
FRANK
The Clinialp, Proiluri** and Attractions of
I.aFnyette County.
Fort Frank Brooks, Fla.,*
March 1st, 1876. )
Editor Morning Hews:
Presuming that a few dots from the
“Land of Flowers” will be acceptable
with you aud of interest to your readers,
I venture to write you this.
From the press we learn that a con
stant tide of immigration is flowing out
from Georgia, the Carolinas and other
of the old Southern States. These people
are generally of that intelligent, honest
aud industrious class of Southerners with
whom we old settlers of Florida are glad
to meet, and I can assure all such that
our good people will greet their coming
with a hearty welcome; therefore, I desire
to briefly set forth in the columns of
your excellent journal a few important
facts concerning the
CLIMATE AND PRODUCTIONS OF FLORIDA.
A glance at the map will show that this
portion fLaFayette county), though
bordering ou the Gulf aud enjoy
ing all its advantages, is not so
far south as to render the heat oppressive,
and yet our winters are very mild. Dur
ing the one just passed we have had but
two frosts such as could be termed “kill
ing,” while our summers are milder than
at many points hundreds of miles farther
north. We enjoy a continual, gentle and
cooling breeze from the sea even in mid
summer. Thus it may be truthfully
observed that we have none of those ex
treme temperatures so unpleasant and
productive of disease.
Of fruits, the luscious orange, the
peach, the bananna, the lemon, the fig
and a profusion of grapes grow iu great
quantities, without care or attention,
which, if nursed and cared for by the
skillful hand of culture, might be made
to yield cqii!^ to any place on earth.
Melons and any vegetables of that class
grqw to enormous size, and almost with
out cultivation ; while sweet potatoes
yield from 300 to 500 bushels per acre.
Sugar cane grows equal to the Indies and
will produce an average of from 8 to 12
barrels of sugar and from 120 to 150 gal
lons of finest syrup per acre,
while corn, oats and rye are success
fully cultivated. We raise the sea island
or long staple cotton, or the variety raised
in Georgia, the latter about one bale per
acre. In fact we can produce nearly all
the fruits and cereals of Georgia or Ten
nessee, together with many other luxuries
almost unknown to portions of those
States.
The immense forests present the finest
of cedar, cypress, hickory, pine and ash
on the continent, also a species of timber
known here as the “cabbage palmetto,”
so called from the fact that the tree
grows to the heighth of from twenty to
fifty feet, varying m diameter from six
inches to two feet, and very much re
sembling in appearance a cabbage stalk,
on the top of which rests a huge bunch
not unlike a cabbage head, which is fre
quently prepared in a similar way to that
excellent vegetable and placed upon our
tables as a desirable dish of “greens,”
while the tree is shipped and finds ready
sale for the purpose of building wharves,
as it never decays in water.
I should not omit to mention that no
better field for raising bees and producing
honey is presented iu America. Here
many of our flowers are perennial, while
during spring and summer the eye is
feasted upou the richest profusion of
every variety of rich tropical flowers.
Not only the bays letting in from the
Gulf, but all the streams, large and small,
have a wealth of the finest fish ever found
in any waters—the trout, catfish, and
every species of the finny tribe are here
—with an abundance of oysters, so that
at all seasons they are easily procured.
The vast forests present a variety of
game, such as deer, turkey, squirrel,
bear, etc., and thousands of acres of
finely timbered and arable lands are open
for settlement at government prices.
Altogether no portion of the United
States opens a finer field to those in search
of homes, health or pleasure. The lands
are fertile—stock, such as cattle, hogs,
sheep and horses may be reared without
cost, and hundreds are sent to market
yearly in fine condition off of ihe wild
grass.
We have numerous mineral springs
whose waters are known, from actual
trial, to be equal, if not superior, to those
of the famous Saratoga of New York, or
the Hot Springs of Arkansas. No coun
try is better adapted to the requirements
of the invalid than Florida.
But if pleasure alone is sought, here
may be found the most beautiful springs
and streams, bays and inlets, forests and
glades, where game, fish and fowls are in
almost fabulous abundance awaiting the
sportsman with gun or rod.
Briefly, Florida is—as every intelligent
traveler admits—“the easiest country to
make a living in on earth.” J. B. C.
LETTER FROM MADISON COUNTY
A Drace of ItliHceffeimtionistt Banished.
No. 5 J., P. and M. Railroad, )
Madison Co., Fla., March 3, 1876.)
Editor Morning Hews :
About six years ago there came to this
county from Griffin, Georgia, a family
of Crawfords, who settled near this sta
tion, and for a long time were looked
upon as one of the best families of the
neighborhood—lived iu good style, rode
to see their neighbors in a fine carriage
and kept up every appearance of respect
ability. But for the past year or two
the w’orld has gone hard with them, and
the two sons and brothers, who might
have saved instead of dishonoring the
fauiih’, unable to stand the pressure of
the times, fell from the high state in
which they were created, and brought
6hame and dishonor upon their aged
parents and two young sisters, as is here
related.
At the last term of court a true bill was
found against John Crawford, the elder
of tie brothers, aged about twenty-eight
years, for living in criminal intimacy
with a colored woman who lived near
by, whereupon he fled across the line
into Georgia, but coining back about
Christmas was arrested, got bail, employ
ed a prominent young lawyer of Madison
to defend him, and the same day was
married to his former companion in
crime, a wench as black as Erebus.
Robert Crawford, about twenty-five years
of age, following his brother’s example,
a short time after married a negro girl
rivaling his brother’s wife in blackness.
Both women are of that sleek black skin,
thick lips and flat nose so peculiar to the
full-blooded African. But a cloud comes
over the dreams of these gallant lovers;
the good people of this place and vicinity
justly feeling the enormity of this out
rage on public decency, on last Saturday
night proceeded in ‘a body of about
twenty-five men to the house of the
parents of these nice young men, and
there finding Bob Crawford commenced
administering a severe flogging, but the
cries of his parents and sisters prevailing
they sqoq desisted, and went to the plan
tation where the elder brother, the valiant
John, was found sleeping, locked in the
loving arms of his dusky bride.
He was hauled from under the
cover, despite the pleadings of his wife,
and flogged as only true Floridians know
how to punish one who dares the perpe
tration of such an outrage upon society.
The bride’s brother ( John’s brother-in-
law) attempting to interfere, was tapped
over the head and asked to keep cool.
The young men were ordered to leave the
county in ten days time, and I learn to
day that, they are gone, it is supposed,
back to their native State. In justice let
it be said that the colored people of No.
5 were greatly displeased at these mar
riages and never countenanced the par
ticipants. Lookout.
A Cap for All.
Considerations of policy not unfre-
quently suggest a course <$ action which
conflicts with recognized principles. The
greatest immediate good seldom proves
the greatest ultimate good. The induig-
enct^of au impulse partaking apparently
of the purest of sentiment is apt to lead
not only to error, but to the irreparable
injury of others and the violation of the
second grand division of the decalogue.
The smile, which like sunshine, dries the
single tear upon our cheek, opens unex
pectedly sometimes fountains of tears in
the eyes of others. Human nature rebels
at the suggestion, “no man liveth to him
self,” and yet there is^ an unceasing
struggle between “himseK” and the ac
quired social outside of_ human sympathy
and unselfish generosity.
To the unthinking mind, the rose col
ored soul raveling in rainbow beatitudes,
the act of our much revered relative, Un
cle Toby, in graciously turning aside the
damask curtains, raising £he sash and
gently opening the blinds, knd giving to
the “overgrown” fly its freedom,
accompanied with his ever to be
remembered words “Go! I'll not
hurt a hair of thy head ; go, poor devil,
get thee gone; why should I hurt thee ?
This world is surely wide enough to hold
both you and me”—a touching picture of
vibrator}’ pity is presented. It appeals
to all that is gentle iu human nature.
The light falls from it in beamy fingers
upon the chords of the heart,like a zephjr
sighing to the eveniugover the strings of
an JEolian harp. To Uncle Toby it was
no doubt a triumph; his nature,
balmily gentle, found comfort in
expressible in that little act of
impulsive mercy. His feelings were pro
digally lighted, as by Mrs.Wadman—both
ends iu the course of consumption.
But who could foretell the consequences
of that single act ? The complacent smile
which illumined his benignant face as he
turned from the window to resume his
seat in the old arm-chair at tlie table may,
for all we know, have been but the red
sky at morn foreboding storm at noon.
Of how many myriad miseries may not
that fly have been the fruitful source!
Its offspring, with the well-preserved
tradition of Uncle Toby’s genial kindness,
no doubt remained in and about his
pleasant domicil for years, bestowing
pedal titivations upon infantile faces and.
time-shorn heads with endearing impar
tiality.
And who knows, but thence emigra
ting with some of Uncle Toby’s descend
ants, added to the countless hordes of
millions which inspect our dinners and
fresco our windows, mirrors and walls !
Nay, more; might not that fly, thus im
pulsively, sympathetically aud mercifully
freed, have been the heraldric ancestor of
that impious fly which tempted the irate
parson in a moment of professional ab -
negation to say blasphemously, “d—n
that fly!”
MORAL DEDUCTIONS.
First. Policy turned loofee in ’65 a black
fly upon this continent. Uncle Toby
smiled benificently, and lugubrious senti
mentality flooded the nation with tears of
joy; we now find the whole body politic,
including many of the judicial limbs, fly
blown aud rotten.
Second. Suppose “ the heavens do
fall” !!
Third. Justice has found a master !!!
Fourth. Don’t convict one unless all
are convicted ; or in words to same ef
fect. “let no guilty man X w ken you have
found him) escape.”
Shandy.
Sudden Death m the Pnlpit.
The particulars of the sudden death of
Rev. E. C. Longley, in the pulpit of his
church iu Greenpoint, L. I., lastj Suuday
week, are of a thrilling character.
Mr. Longley entered his pulpit in
his usual health, and after the
service of prayer and song took
his text from Isaiah : “Behold, I have
given him for a witness to the people,”
and the discourse thaj. followed was de
livered with moro than his usual earnest
ness. Warming in his preaching, lie
advanced to the front of the platform,
and raising his right baud solemnly, ho
exclaimed: “You can have salvation
where you sit. Salvation—.” At this
point a ghastly pallor spread over his face,
and before any one could comprehend
that there was anything tho matter, ho
staggered wildly backward two or three
paces and stumbled on his seat.
He had hardly touched it be
fore he rolled heavily to the floor
in an unconscious condition. Several
gentlemen had by this time sprung to his
assistance. A cushion was placed under
his head and his limbs straightened out,
a messenger having in the meantime been
dispatched for a doctor. On reaching
the floor Mr. Longley was observed to
gasp once or twice, as though struggling
for air, and then cease. The most in
tense excitement followed. Men. women
and children crowded around the altar ;
the word was quickly passed without that
the clergyman was dead. Mr. Longley
was a native of Maine, and was what is
known as a local deacon. It is a singular
fact that his brother, the Rev. Peter
Longley, two years ago, met his death un
der almost precisely similarcircumstances,
having had barely time to leave the church
in which he had officiated before be
dropped dead. On receiving news of his
brother’s death, the surviving preacher
asserted that it would be his turn next
year—a prophecy that was strangely
enough fulfilled.
Important Discoveries in Kentucky.
—Recently there has been discovered in
Kentucky a vast deposit of marl, Cover
ing, it is stated, an area of some 1,000
square miles. The marl is found most
extensively in the tobacco growing coun
tries, and on this account is of vast im
portance to the tobacco interest. The
State Geologist says it is perhaps “the
most important discovery ever made by a
geological survey.” This mail bed is de
scribed as being of a thickness varying
from twelve to thirty feet, very rich in
potash, soda and phosphorus, so exposed
and easily dug that at several points it can
be loaded hi to wagons or cars at about 25
cents per ton, accessible by open digging
over an area of about three thousand
square miles, and by deeper mining sure
to be used in time over twelve thousand
miles. This is a discovery of very great
importance to the tobacco regions of that
State, as the marl will furnish the very
elements withdrawn from the soil by
those crops which carry away so much of
its fertility. Thousands of acres which
have been so exhausted that they will no
longer make tobacco at all, or even re
spectable crops of anything else, can, the
State Geologist says, by proper use of
this fertilizer, be restored to their pris
tine productiveness.
Intoxication in the United States.—
Dr. McKinley, of Chicago, has issued a
pamphlet giving some interesting statis
tics in reference to intoxication in the
United States. The author claims to have
used extraordinary exertions to obtain
accuracy, having visited nearly all the
States in the Union, 26 penitentiaries,
300 jails, 40 almshouses and hospitals,
the haunta of the vicious and the palaces
of the refined to obtain faata. Out of
every 300 men we are told that 122 never
drink ardent spirits at all, and of 7o0
women 600 never taste alcoholics of any
kind. Of the 178 men who drink 78 do
to intoxication. Of these 78 we are
told that 3 are confirmed inebriates, 25
are periodical drinkers, 50 are ephemeral
drinkers. In other words, 1 out of every
4 men in the country drinks to intoxi
cation. The statistics for the whole
population of the country show that out
of .5,000,000 there are 50,000 habitual
drunkards: in a nation of 40,000,000 there
are 400,000 habitual drunkards. Dr. Mc
Kinley states that a very large propor
tion of the excessive drinkers are men of
culture and refinement—actors, lawyers,
physicians, legislators and mjpiisters of
the gospel. Out of 11 Congressmen 1 is
a perpetual drinker, 1 an occasional
drinker, 5 drink periodmally and 4 only
are sober at all times.
Abraham Lincoln's Death.
[From Walt Whitman's Forthcoming Book.]
There is a scene iu tho play (“Our
American Cousin”) representing a modern
parlor, in which two unprecedented Eng
lish ladies are informed by the unprece
dented and impossible Yankee that he is
not a man of fortune, and, therefore, un
desirable for marriage catching purposes;
after which, the comments being fin
ished, the dramatic trio make exit, leav
ing the stage clear for a moment. There
was a pause, a hush as it were. At this
period came the murder of Abraham
Lincoln. Great as that was, with all its
manifold train circling round it, and
stretching into the future for many a ceD-
tury, in the politics, history, art, etc., of
the New World, in point of facr the main
thing, the actual murder, transpired with
the quiet and simplicity of any com
monest occurrence—the bursting of a bud
or pod in the growth of vegetation, for
instance.
Through the general hum following the
stage pause, with the change of posi
tions, etc., came the muffled sound of a
pistol shot, which notone hundredth part
of the audience heard at the time—and
yet a moment’s bush—somehow, surely a
vague, startled thrill—and then, through
the ornamented, draperied, starred and
striped space-way of the President’s box.
a sudden figure, a man raises himself
with hands and feet, stands a moment on
the railing, leaps below to the stage (a
distance of perhaps fourteen or fifteen
feet), falls out of position, catching his
boot-heel in the copious drapery fthe
American flag), falls on one knee,
quickly recovers himself, rises*as if
nothing had happened (he really
sprained his ankle, but unfelt
then)—and so the figure Booth the
murderer, dressed in plain black broad
cloth, bareheaded, with a full head of
glossy, raven hair, and his eyes, like
some mad auimll's. flashing with light
and resolution, yet with a certain strange
calmness, holds aloft in one hand
large knife—walks along not much back
from the footlights—turns fully toward
the audience, his face of statuesque
beauty, lit by those basilisk eyes, flash
ing with desperation, perhaps insanity—
launches out in a firm and steady voice
the words, Sic semper tyrannis!—and
then walks with neither slow nor very
rapid pace diagonally across to the back
of the stage, and disappears. (Had not
all this terrible scene—making the mimic
on< s preposterous—had it not all been
rehearsed, in blank, by Booth, before
hand !)
A moment's Irtish, incredulous—a
scream—the cry of murder—Mrs. Lincoln
leaning out of the box, with ashy cheeks
and lips, with involuntary cry, pointing
to the retreating figure: “He has killed
the President.” And still a moment’s
strange, incredulous suspense—and then
the deluge—then that mixture of horror,
noises, uncertainty—(the sound, some
where back, of a horse’s hoofs clattering
with speed)—the people burst through
chairs and railings, and break them
up—that noise adds to the queer
ness of the scene—there is inextricable
confusion and terror—women faint—
quite feeble persons fall, and are tram
pled on—many cries of agony are heard
—the broad stage suddenly fills to suffo
cation with a dense and motley crowd,
like some horrible carnival—the audience
rush generally upon it—at least the strong
men do—the actors and actresses are still
there in their play costumes aud painted
faces, with mortal fright showing through
the rouge, some trembling—some in tears
- the screams and calls, confused talk
redoubled, trebled—two or three manage
to pass up water from the stage to the
President’s box—others try to clamber
up—etc., etc., etc.
In the midst of this the soldiers of the
President's guard, with others suddenly
drawn to the scene, burst in—some two
hundred altogether—they storm the house
through all the tiers, especially the upper
ones, inflamed with fury, literally charg
ing the audience with fixed bayonets,
muskets and pistols, shouting: “Clear
out! clear out! you!” Such the
wild scene, or a suggestion of it rather,
inside the play-house that night.
Relics of tlie Old Elm.
[From the Cincinnati Enquirer.]
Yesterday a travel-stained tramp, with
a business look in his bloodshot eyes, pre
sented himself at the bar of a Second
street saloon, and, addressing the pro
prietor, said:
“Cocktail, seignior.”
The beverage was pepared, and fra*-
grant with nutmeg, placed before the cus
tomer. He quaffed it off, smacked his
lips, and, shoving the glass toward the
barkeeper, remarked :
“Fine—excellent; best since I left Bos
ton, Gimme ’notber.”
Another was mixed, drank, and praised
at some length.
“Yes,” said the bar man, as he rinsed
the glass beneath the counter, “we try to
sell a respectable cocktail in Aurora;
and what makes it pleasant,” he con
tinued, noticing that the customer was
making no movement toward his pocket-
book—“what makes it pleasant is that we
charge only fifteen cents for such as you
have sampled.”
“Only fifteen cents—thirty cents for
the two,” exclaimed the tramp, as he
backed up to the stove and moved the
tail of his Ulster to one side, “why, that’s
a paltry sum to what I calculated to pay
you.”
“Only thirty cents, please,” said the
barkeeper, as be waited at the till.
“Too little, too little,” persisted the
tramp. “When a man sells me goods of
a superior quality, even so shall he be re
warded. Now I’ve just arrived from Bos
ton—historic Boston, I call it.”
“Oh, yes,” said the barkeeper, nodding
toward the tramp and then toward the
till. “Boston is a nice town, but she can’t
compete with Aurora—can’t sell cocktails
for fifteen cents.”
.“Right, Seignior, but don’t interrupt
me. I’m just from Boston—six days
out—and probably bring you the first
reliable intelligence of the fall of our
famous Elm Tree, which bowed before
the storm king on the 15th inst. I was
there; saw the prostrate monarch; wept
like a child at its mother’s grave, and
came away.”
“Thirty cents for the drinks,” observed
the barkeeper.
“This tree,” continued the tramp, with
a touch of reverence in his tone, “saw
the rise and progress of our republic ; it
was aged—might say bald-headed—when
the nation was born ; when the Mayflow
er landed with our forefathers her bow
line was made fast to its trunk; beneath
its spreading branches General Washing
ton delivered his farewell address to the
army: many a time and oft has Aaron
Burr sat in its grateful shade and made
love to Joan of Arc. These things gave
it renown. Why, my dear sir, had it
been the identical tree from which Eve
piurked the forbidden fruit ”
“There, there,” put in the barkeeper ;
“gimme a quarter and call it square.”
“Not at all, Seignior, you shall be paid
—more than paid ; I like your goods ; I
like your appearance : and when I take a
fancy to a man he always finds a friend in
me. I have that about me which is of
more value than rubies or fine gold. As
a citizen of Boston, and to show my ap
preciation of your cocktails, allow me to
place in your possession a priceless relic
—a piece of oui historic tree. Thanks
by mail. J. Snodgrass, 700 Dey street,
Boston. Adieu.”
Then laying on the counter an apple
tree twig the size of a lead pencil, he was
off like one who had been sent for. The
barkeeper made a dash to intercept his
flight to the street, but the effort was a
lamentable failure.
The Fate of Four Kansas Squatters.
Rooks county, in Northwestern Kansas,
was a quiet corner of the world. They
had not much civilization there, but were
unanimously honest. Rooks county lived
in peace and quietness until four men
from Southwestern Kansas moved into it,
pre-empted a quarter section and built
them a rude cabin. Their names were
Cox, Hutchinson, and E. D. and Jack
Connaughty—the two latter brothers.
These men were strangers in RooVs coun
ty, but were quite well known and not
greatly admired in the Southwest. In
fact, they-had been driven out of their
old home and were obliged to seek refuge
where civilization was not so|hot. Soon
after the settlement of this male quartette
iu Rooks county there began to be music in
the air. They were supposed to be a ring,
and the whole region round about their
cabin soon rang with complaints of horse
stealing and robbery, and all manner of
unlawful doings, such as the honest peo
ple of the county had never dreamed of
hearing. Suspicion very naturally fell
upon the four new comers. All the rest
of the county had a genealogy and a clean
record. Twenty citizens quietlyjorganized
themselves into a committee to watch
the movements of the four. They toiled
not, neither did they spin, nor plow, nor
reap, and yet they lived very comfortably
on their quarter section. Finally, there
were signs of the four squatters going to
market. Two of them started with
a wagon load of goods and some
stock to Nebraska. They were fol
lowed stealthily by a squad of
the committee. The market men closea
out their goods and stock and returned.
The sub-committee came back to Stock-
ton and reported. Then, the very next
night, the committee of twenty went out
to the squatters’ cabin with axes and
saws, and hammers and nails, aud ropes,
but no law books. They found the
squatters squatting by their cabin fire,
and invited them to come out under the
stars. The twenty organized a little mid
night court and tried those men, and
convicted, and sentenced, and hanged
them one by one in front of
their cabin door, and all before the
fire on their hearth had smouldered. The
evidence was chiefly circumstantial, and
the prevailing circumstance was that
Rooks county had always been honest
before they moved in. Nobody had seen
them steal, but they acted, and looked,
and lived like thieves, aud that was enough
to satisfy the civilization of Rooks coun
ty. The proceedings of the court were
irregular, perhaps, but the judgment can
never be reversed. Southwestern Kansas
rejoices that ’tis done, and Northwestern
Kansas is not sorry that it did it. Rooks
county thus shook off civilization and re
lapsed into its chronic honesty, aud pri
meval innocence. There is a vacant
quarter section and a cabin ready built
for anybody who is not afraid of ghosts.
—St. Louis Republican.
Should the Cabinet Resign
It is a question whether the whole
Cabinet should not resign. The admin
istration is rotten, and millions of people
who did not believe so yesterday are con
vinced of it to-day. The confession of
the guilty Secretary of War is a revela
tion. He could not have been guilty of
the crimes he has confessed and remained
undiscovered in a Cabinet that wa.s pure.
It is a day of judgment. The political
heavens are rolled together like a scroll
and are consumed with fire ; vainly the
wicked call on the mountains to over
whelm them and hide them from the
wrath to come.
The terrible force of Secretary
Belknap’s confession, the horrible mean
ing that is embodied in his guilt, is un
broken by the fact that there are pure
men in the President’s Cabinet. He was
their associate, and they were jointly
with him the President’s advisers. There
is not entirely a divided responsibility in
the Cabinet. Mr. Fish and Mr. Bristow
and Mr. Jewell are not merely officers
charged with the conduct of affairs of
State, of the Treasury and the Post Office.
The Cabinet is in its highest capacity a
unit. Every member of it has the honor of
the government iu his keeping, and that
honor cannot be lost by one without
more or less responsibility attaching to
the others. Were these men blind that
they could not see, till a Democratic Con
gress compelled them, that the head of
the War Department was selling the soul
of the government? They were blind—
for we do not believe them corrupt—but
their blindness has given the nation eter
nal shame. Because of the indifference
of the President and the Cabinet to the
scandals which long ago darkened the
War Department the country is now
humiliated in dust and ashes.
The pure men of a corrupt administra
tion are like living men chained to
a corpse. We presume that the first
thought of Mr. Fish, when he knew of
this fearful fall of his colleague, was
whether he could in self-respect remain a
member of a disgraced Cabinet. This is
not the first disgrace, but the culmina
tion of a long series of infamies that are
part of the history of the administration.
The corruptions of the government are so
numerous and notorious that it is a ques
tion whether the self-respect of an hon
est and honorable man will permit him
to be connected with it. We are more
sorry to write this oT the Government of
the United States than any American cit
izen can be to read it; but we write sim
ply what is the truth.
It is a question, we say, whether the
whole Cabinet should not resign, and,
happily, we are not called upon to answer
it. Mr. I ish and Mr. Bristow must judge
for themselves. But one duty they have
to perform is plain. If they remain in
this rotten, disgraced administration,
they must demand of the President the
authority to reform it. That is the only
condition upon which self-respect and a
Cabinet office can now be reconciled. H
the President refuses to concede this
right the sooner all honest men leave him
the better it will be for themselves and
for the country.—N. Y. Herald.
Who Got the Money ?—The evidence
in the crooked whisky trials in St. Louis,
Chicago and elsewhere shows that thou
sands and tens of thousands of dollars
wer* assessed upon and collected of dis
tillers in defraudment of the revenue, by
government officials, to be sent to the
•folks in Washington.’’ Who were the
“folks in Washington” to whom this
money was sent ? Who in Washington
received it? Somebody got it. Was it
a ring of government officials there ?—or
a ring of Congressmen ?—or the Repub
lican National Committee ? Whoever did
get it was a participant in the fraud, and
should be criminally punished. The
people want to know who the parties
were. Will the brown-stone houses on
the fashionable avenues in Washington,
or the men of wealth w’ho a little while
ago were in comparative poverty, explain
the facts ? Will the enormous sums dis
tributed by the Republican National
Committee to carry the elections in the
States in favor of the party of “great
moral ideas,” throw any light upon the
subject? The people are demanding in
thunder tones an answer to these ques
tions. They demand to know “who re
ceived the stolen money ?” The Repub
lican press throughout the country is
called upon, and expected, to respond to
this inquiry. One thing, however, is
already certain, that the entire sum set
apart for Washington went into the hands
of Republicans. Into whose hands did it
go, and for what purpose ? For pc litical
corruption, or private aggrandizement?
—Main Standard.
Hot? Diamonds are Smuggled.
A New’ York correspondent says the
low the price of diamonds now-a days
does not stop the illicit importation of
them. The methods by which diamonds
are smuggled are very ingenious, and the
system has been so well arranged that
our officials have been compelled to em
ploy spies in foreign ports, who telegraph
the departure of suspected persons. As
soon as the latter arrive they are taken to
the Searchers’ Bureau in the Custom
House, where, if necessary, they are
stripped to the skin. The clothing is
also searched, even to the seam, and
sometimes the heels of the boots
are removed to see if they be not
hollow. Even the hair is combed,
and a wig, if one be worn,
thoroughly examined. In one instance,
a passenger by one of the Canard steam
ers had *1,000 worth of precious stones
concealed in the lining of his boots, which
were discovered and confiscated. This
man was a dealer in these articles, and
was determined to continue the traffic.
In a short time he went again to London,
and soon returned. On this occasion he
was closely searched, but nothing was
found. As soon as he was released he
went back to the steamer aud carried
off a large quantity of diamonds he
had secreted in his state-room.
Some time ago the authorities received
notice of the departure of a notorious
Miamond smuggler from Europe, bound
for New York. On his arrival he was
taken to the searcher's bureau and
thoroughly examined. In his pocket-
book was au invoice of eighteen precious
stones, and his clothes were examined,
each garment by itself. The officers were
gratified to discover the precise number
mentioned in the invoice, and allowed the
man to depart. When he went home he
removed a plaster from his back, in the
ridges of which he had concealed the
true diamonds, those discovered being
merely imitation and placed there in or
der to deceive.
A Discouraging Prospect for the
Merchant Class.—Iu 1875, after the
general depression in trade through the
United States, and the failures reported
during the previous year, merchanto in
this city thought that they had passed
the crisis, and might justly be pardoned
for investing the future with a couteur de
rose. The spring trade, it was felt, must
be a vigorous and remunerative one, and
last February people were determined to
be cheery. Manufacturers, jobbers and
traders entered upon the spring campaign
energetically. Unfortunately few hopes
were even half realized, and the year 1875
has seen a greater number of failures in
the different States than its predecessor.
While this is true, it is thought by men
prominent in commercial circles that the
sum involved in these financial disasters
is not any greater than that involved in
the disasters of 1874. The continu
ed misfortunes related related from
time to time have cast a gloom over
syring trade prospects now. It cannot
be denied that a great many men in New
York are sorely exercised over the bleak
outlook for them, asd fear, lest an ex
pression of opinion would only invite
trouble, deters them from speaking plainly
on the subject. None of them can say
that there is a ghost of a reason for the
anticipation of a business revival. Some
there are of sanguine temperament who
breathe hopes of a change for the better
after the 1st of March; but when asked
whereon their hopes are founded, they
are tongue-tied and leave the old, un
favorable impression.—H. Y. Herald.
Times might be harder, were it not for
the ingenious counterfeiter who seeks
every opportunity to mitigate, so far as
ho can, the process of contraction that
wo are stiH undergbing. The Treasury
Department credits this chevalier d'in-
dustrie with full twenty per cent, of tho
outstanding fractional currency, or over
eleven million dollars. He is most suc
cessful here, because the shinplasters go
rapidly from hand to hand, with little or
no scrutiny. Even when suspected,
dimes and quarters pass unchallenged
into the church box or the bar till. The
counterfeit is sometimes preferred to the
genuine, as when the chronic beggar
darkens the door; one takes a Christian
satisfaction in palming off the one fraud
on the other. But the counterfeiter also
manages to work in not less than ten
million dollars of spuriou* bills, and we
are thus indebted to him for a total of
twenty-one millions of dollars in the way
of expansive relief. And it is a per
manent institution, as he replaces his
worn-out currency with the punctuality
of the Treasury Department itself, and
is, in fact, daily extending his operations.
—Nash ville A merica n.
Miscellaneous.
81-
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TRUi
E & CO., Angusta,
An Englishman predicted twenty years
ago that if gutta percha be used for sub
marine telegraphic purposes, an animal
with a special appetite for that substance
would be found or created. The Popular
Science Monthly now says that the antici
pated destroyer has appeared, and that he
is about a quarter of an inch in length.
The frequent interruptions of cable com
munications are ascribed by the writer to
the propensity of this diminutive creature
to take his meals out of gatta percha.
Vouching for Pinch’s Parentage.—
Senator Alcorn in his speech to-day on
the Pinchback case did not establish the
legality of the Legislature which elected
the claimant or the Governor, who signed
his credentials, but he has succeeded in
clearing up another doubtful point, to-
wit: Pmchback’s pedigree. Senator Al
corn said he knew Pinch’s putative father
well, and that he was one of his (Alcorn’s)
friends. He then vouched for Pinch-
back’s putative father as a Southern gen
tleman. This pleasing topic occupied a
considerable portion of Alcorn’s speech,
and was listened to with immense inter
est, particularly by the occupants of the
ladka’ gallery.
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Postponed City llarshal’sbaie.
CITY MARSELAL’8 OFFICE,!
ssebhbssss
gta, the toliowing property, ns-wit ^
Improvements on Lot No 6 Cathonn
levied on as the property of the —isi-*0?
Augustus Bonaud. 181 °*
, No 15 improvement* Elliott
levied on as the property ot Gupi* Bonrrni l
Improvements on Lot NoTu L 0 yd ward <
OU as the property of John G.BuUer ’ ‘ ***
Lots Nos 23 and 84 and improvements
“ **» “ "
Improvements on western X of Lot No u.
ton ward; levied on as the property cf T l* EmiBK
twL f ° Improvements Decker uud,
M C FetTili mg; CVled UU as tbL ‘ TOerty ot *5
. No “ d improvements Cnryytown wtnk
levied on as the property of John U Ferril., ei*L
». L °^ N :'V and improvements, Percival ward,
liuck - typing: levied on as the proiwrty a um
estate of John C KerrilL *
Lot No 52 and improvements Brown w»rtc
levied on as the properly of Wm O Godfrey
Improvements on Lots Nos 4o and 41 Walton
ward; levied on as the property ol J F <4o,ven
improvements on Lots Nos 31, 32 aim ’sA
D/. n ward 5 levied on as the property of Mrs
.M K Gncraid.
Lot No 23 ami improvements, Gilmervillet
levied on as the property of the estate ol A Har
mon.
JUrteni one-half of Lot No 4 Cntbbert 'viru.
nlth section; levied on as the property of K F
H at mnn.
Improvements on Lot No 5 Forsyth warm
levied on as the property ot William Ilone.
Lot No 51 Garden Lot east; levied on as the
property of James A LaRoche.
Improvements on Lot No 6 Pulaski ward, lev
ied on as the property of Mrs G J LaRoche and
children.
Lot No 17 and improvements, Gilmerville; lev
ied on as the property of F S Lathrop.
Western one-halt of Lot No 31 anditnpicv*-
meats, Greene ward; levied on as the ;iroi>ertv
of Michael Lavin.
Improvements on the western one-third ot Lot
NO 3 Wesley ward; levied on us the property of
A K Mallette.
Eastern one-hall of Lot No 3 and improve
ments, Screven ward; levied on as Ihe property
ot Eli Mallette. ^ 7
Improvements on the eastern one-third of Lot
No 3 W esley ward; levied ou the properly ot
Mrs E M Mallette. F ^ 3
Western one-half of Lot No 3 and improve
ments, S reven ward; levied on as the property
o! Mrs Catherine Mallette.
Improvements on the middle one-third of Let
No 3 W esley ward; levied on as the properly cf
Miss Eoline Mallette.
improvements on the ca.-tem one-half of Lot
No 25 Calhouu ward: levied on as the property
of C C Millar.
Improvements on Lot No 68 Brown ward; levied
on as ihe property of Ramon Moiina, trustee.
Northern one-third of Lot No 5 and impiovf^
ments Decker ward, Heathcote tything; levied on
as the property of the estate of G I’ Moriri.
G»t No 10 and improvements, Franklin ward:
levied on as the property ot M T quinaii.
Ix>t No 75 White want, levied un as the j rop-
erty of Mrs Winefred quinan.
Lot No 37 and improvements, Middle Ogle
thorpe ward; levied on as the property ot ,I.mu«s
B Read and it J Nunn.
Lot No 40 and improvenfents, Middle Ogle-
thorpe ward; levied ou as the proiartv ol Mil
James II Read. 3
Improvements on the eastern one-half oi Lot
No 41 Jackson ward; levied on as the proi»erty
of Mrs L G Richards.
Improvements on Lot No 24 Walton ward;
levied ou as the property of Miss Kate Hubert*.
Lot No 3 and improvements Jones ward; levied
on as the property of Dwight L Robert.-, tru-lec.
Lots Nos 2 aud 3, Garden Lot west, front ioL
ta:.yard tract; levied on aa the projicrty ot Jamoo
U Roberta.
Improvements on Lot No 16 Troup watd; :• vie*
on as the property of the estate of Mrs M i
Roberta and children.
Improvement on Lot No 7 Walton ward: levtot
on as the prot»erty ol the estate oi Mrs M J
Roberta and children.
Improvements on Lot No 2, wharf lot, trus
tee’s garden; levied ou aa the property ol daiuen
Ryan.
Lot No 9 and improvements, Bartow ward; lev
ied on as the property of M T Ryan.
Improvements and machinery ou Lot No 15
Garden l<*t east; levied on as the properly ot
Sullivan Jb Hull.
Lot No Maud improvements, Cntbbert ward,
seventh section; levied on as the proj>erty oi Juo
A Sullivan, trustee.
Lot No 7 aud lmprov*. ments. Cuthbert "'ari.
seventh section; levied on as the property c l W
D Sullivan.
Improvements on Lot No 40 Lloyd ward; levied
on as the property of W B Sturtevant, tnihtee.
Improvements on Lota Nos 6, 7 and S Elbert
ward; levied on a* Ihe property of the estate of
Mrs Margaret Telfair.
Lot No 20, Gallie ward, and improv.-menta;
levied on as the property of Henry G W ard,
trustee.
Improvements on Lot No 44 Stephens ward;
levied on as the property of Mrs A F Wayne.
Purchasers paying for titles and stamps.
GEORGE W. STILES,
mh4-lm City Marshal.
City Marshal’s Sale.
OFFICE CITY MARSHAL, »
Savannah, March 3, 1876.1
t [NI)EK RESOLUTION of the City Council of
) Savanuah, and by virtue of city tax execu
tions in ray hands, I have levied on aud will sell,
under direction of a special committee of Coun
cil, on the FIRST TUESDAY IN APRIL. 1?7A
between the legal hours ol sale, before the Court
House door in the city of Savannah, county of
Chatham, and State of Georgia, the following
property, to wit:
Improvements on Lot No. 23 Cnnrytowa ward;
levied ou as the property of J. V. Connerat.
Lot No. s ami improvements, South Oglethorpe
ward; levied on as the property of Mrs. Mary M.
Marshall.
Improvements ou Lot No. 4s, Jacksot: wain;
levied ou as the property of the Savannah Poor
House and Ho u pital.
Lot No. iu and improvements, Reynolds ward,
third tything; lev.ed on as the property ol Jamea
J. Waring.
Purchasers paying for titles and stamps.
GEORGE W. STILES,
mh4-lin City Marshal
(toparturrsbip notices.
NOTICE.
T 'HE firm of LAWTON, HART & CO. is this
day dissolved by the withdrawal of Major
WM. J. LAWTON. The business will be con
tinued by GEO. WALTER and B. A. HART,
under the firm name of WALTER St HART, who
will settle the affairs of the late firm. Kitker
member of the late firm will sign in liquidation.
WM. J. LAWTON.
B. A. HART.
geo. Walter.
I N withdrawing from business I recommend to
my friends and the public generally Messra.
WALTER & HART as being worthy ot the ir pa
tronage aud confidence. WM. J. LAWTON.
Savannah, Ga., March 1,1876. marl-lot
DISSOLUTION NOTICE.
npHK copartnership heretofore existing in the
I name of FALLIGANT A BOTTS is tblfl
day dissolved by mutual consent.
C. G. FALLIGANT.
HENRY t. P.OTTS.
Savannah, February 29,1S76. iuarl-et
NOTICE.
rpHE underaigued will continue the Real Estate
I. and insurance business at the old
lu4 Bay street.
C. G. FALLIGANT.
Savannah, March 1,1S76. marl-6t
NOTICE.
T
HE firm of FALLIGANT A BOTTS having
m. been i issolved, I will continue the General
Insurance and Real Estate Business ou my own
“3SS Ul,i “ * B “ y *S&Y T. BOTTS.
^durational.
Ten years ago Messrs. Geo. P. Rowell & Co.
established their advertising agency in New York
City. Five years ago they absorbed the business
conducted by Mr. John Hooper, who was the
first to go into this kind of enterprise. Now
they have the satisfaction of controlling the most
extensive aud complete advertising connection
which has ever been secured,and one which wonld
be hardly possible in any other country bnt this.
They have succeeded in working down a complex
business into so thoroughly a systematic method
that no change in the newspaper system of
America can escape notice, while the widest in
formation upon all topics interesting to adver
tisers is placed readily at the disposal of the pub-
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MILITARY iu its discipline and drill, ana
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noted for its good schools, its refine* 1 society,
and a most salubrious climate-.
The current session opened ou the l*th ol reo-
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For circulars, address .
R. U. GRAVES, Principal,
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NOTICE.
I N the District Court of the United States for the
Southern District of Georgia, S.S.—At Augus
ta, this the 25th dav of February, A. D.
1*»76.—The undersigned hereby gives notice of
his appointment as assignee of John VV. Young
blood, of Augusta, in the county of Richmond,
State of Georgia, within said District, who has
been adjudged a Bankrnpt upon his own petition,
by the District Coart of said District.
JAMES E. WASHINGTON,
feb29-Tn3t Assignee.
S TATE OF GEORGIA, Chatham County.—
All persons indebted to the estate of Simon
Mirault, Sr., late of Chatham county, deceased,
are hereby notified to make immediate payment
to me; and those having claim? against said
estate will present the same duly authenticated
within the time prescribed by la\v #
FRANCIS A. MIRAULT,
feb!5-Tu,6t Administrator.
c. v.
XT IS CONCEDED by Hirfcian.
J. competent to judge that the best AERATED
BEVERAGES to be had are from the manufac-
toiy of
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Nos. no and 11-’ Brougkfc>» Streetj
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I WILL sell for ten days my entire WINTER
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