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Affairs in Georgia.
The Eleven Able say that the reason the
,rerage Atlanta man keeps his finger-nails
in mourning
is hecanso he works so hard.
w c wore of the opinion that it was the result
of scratching himself.
To the Macon Telegraph: Michael Hen-
n-.y, in regard to whose fate yon made in
quiry recently, was murdered at Millette
Statiou, on the Port Royal Road, about a
vesr ago. His plaoe of business was at Little
• Hell Landing on the Savannah river. Any
other necessary information can be ob
tained by addressing Mr. P. H. O’Brien, of
the firm of Gray & O’Brien, of this city.
The Atlanta man who wrote and published
, statement to the effect th it he would sign
jnvthiug to help build up that city, has ap
peared in the papers again. He says that
no fair-minded man in the State, except the
editors of the Mousing News and the edit
or; ,:f the Milledgeville Recorder, want the
capital moved from Atlanta. Read the pa
pers, citizen—read the papers.
. ffe can point to one agent of the bogus
bonds in Atlanta, Eleven Able. Can yon
point to one in Savannah ? If yon will care
ful!)’ go over Hi Kimball’s letter to Bob
Alston, which forms a part of the testimony
in the state Road lease investigation, you
will doubtless be convinced. Now go ahead,
Eleven Abie, and let’s swap information.
\Y. A. Shorter, of Atlanta, is prominently
mentioned as a candidate for the next
Legislature. He is said to be a brilliant
young man.
Tbo Eatonton Messenger says creosote is
a rat antidote.
Does Col. Gregg Wright, of the Augusta
Chronicle, know that he is making persoual
enemies all over the State, and more especi
ally in Atlanta, when he endorses a quota
tion to the effect that all posts are liars ?
What is the country coming to, anyhow 1
General Toombs is in Atlanta,
bullock, writing to the New York Herald,
compares his flight to that of ex-G-overnor
Jenkins and Treasurer Jones, who left the
State carrying with them the funds in the
Treasury and the seal of Georgia. The ef
frontery of this comparison will be appre
ciated when it is remembered that Governor
Jenkins and Treasurer Jones were neither
/hgitives from justice nor from Georgians.
They placed the funds and the seal of the
Stato out of reach of a contemptible military
satrap in order to prevent them from falling
into the hands of the very knave who now
has the barefaced impudence to compare his
rotten administration with that of Charles
J. Jenkins.
The Eleven Able state that Bullock’s
bondsmen are “outsiders”—that is to say,
not citizens of Atlanta.
Mrs. Ross, of Dalton, shot a burglar the
other night. He was traced several miles
by blood on the ground.
Rev. Dr. Harrison, of Atlanta, is seriously
ilk
The Darien Gazelle says : “For fear that
some one has already misunderstood us we
will state that the Hon. Thomas M. Nor.
wood will be his own successor. We have
not found a man, yet, who is opposed to his
re-election. All those whom we have oon
versed with favor him.”
Somebody in Griffin, with a humorous
turn, is sending out postal cards to persons
in tkc country telling them that by calhng
at certain places they will learn something
important. A Pike county man was in Grif
fin the other day on his way to fill an en
gagement at tho Executive office in Atlanta.
In Atlanta the other day a building oppo
site that occupied by the Eleven Able Edi
tors of the Atlanta Constitution caved in.
We knew something would shortly happen
in that neighborhood.
Tho oat crop in the section around Thom-
asville is said by the Enterprise to be the
best ever made there.
Two joints of a cow’s neok are on exhibi
tion in Columbns. They were exhumed in
a marl bed, where thoy had slept ever since
the disastrous freshet in Muscogee some
years since.
The Buena Vista Argus also organizes a
wratuid admiration society, as witness :
“The Valdosta Times refers to the Savan
nah Mousing News as the Morning Glory.
That expresses our sentiments exactly.
It is the glory of morning papers, and no
mistake.” However, we admired tho Argus
before it talked that way, as our files will
show.
The Air-Line Road having arranged a
schedule from New Orleans to New York in
sixty hour;, Wreun, of the Kennesaw Route,
has anauged a schedule from New Orleans
>oPhiladelphia in fifty-one hours.
The Collier House at Indian Spring is
open for the season. Board has been re
cced and a string orchestra is employed to
aid to the pleasures of the guests. The
**1618 of the spring are pronounced the
most efficacious in the country, and Col-
fier’s bill of fare is the longest and the best.
S. B. Hardwick, of Washington
C( maty, is dead.
in criticising “Julius Cmsar” as per
formed by the Atlanta amateurs,Grady’s Sun-
;‘y Telegram felicitously remarks: “Their
j cst actor of tho evening, according to our
idea, was the kettle-drum. Thia modest- in-
•'tmment was charged with the duty of con
ducting three whole battles by itself, anil
nobly did ft fin the bill. We learn that this
drum is quite young. If it fills in its man-
•‘Ooit the promise of its youth, it will be a
>tar °f the first magnitude.”
A negro hoy employed as & uurse recently
a* and horribly abused a little girl six
-'tats old, a daughter of Mr. Griffin, living
■mar Macou. The young villain is in jail,
the Atlanta Constitution says that Albert
r tnn will only make arrangements for
. ’’ w ho are certainly going to the St.
. Convention. He wants the names
Omediatciy for this purpose. The special
r °ngh train leaves on the 23d inst. at 4:10
j W ' Clir8 for the South Carolina, Florida,
l^nnessee and portions of tho North Coro-
(r ‘ au( d Alabama delegations will be in the
d 11 is will aftord a fine opportunity
■dci j 0n . 8u * ta *' on before reaching St. Louis,
t, U . in T° ur applications for tickets and
‘ Aping car berths at once,
fri,. , ^ olll!:i hus Times says the many warm
muel 3 V 10 ^ on ’ Stephens will be
te . Kratifiod at hearing that since the
ht° h* ar an< l warm weather setting in
health 8 ' JC ° n * a3t coming up to what his
Decfmk a3 , before his very serious attack in
bet®*, ' 1 1,B *’ ' vliic b kept him in bed for
■ en four audit ve monthB _ ilia follow
ing “ “ C , Xtract from » letter dated the 2d
friend who ™ n ,! t6a by Mr ’ Ste ‘ >hena t0 a
*8° : “ I , ma( * e a V18 ^ to him a few weeks
^Qee vn aVe * m P rove d a great deai
to sit \° U - Were ^ ere * 1 am now abl °
part of n ln my roller chair the greater
0h ro!1 ta hall- and
‘able J 1 now 6° to the diW
t,re ‘tfa8t I ;r- “ nd 8Upper ’ and
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J. H. ESTILL. PROPRIETOR. SAVANNAH. THURSDAY, JUNE 8. 1876.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
much yet; it fatigues me too much, especi
ally writing.” Mr. Stephens’s handwriting
seems almost as steady and strong as usual.
We earnestly hope that he will not only be
restored to his usual health, but that he
will be able to go to Washington. at the
commencement of the session of Congress
in December next, that the Democracy and
country generally may then have the ben
efit of his wise counsels and eminent ser
vices.
Macon Telegraph: Mr. Josiah Ford ex-
nibited at this office yesterday a large
r ^ ama wheat, grown ou the farm
*• Thompson, in the Warrior dis
trict, Bibb county, which takes the palm
over every sample we have seen the present
season. It is about six feet in height, with
remarkably long heads and plump kernels,
was sown the first week in December, and
will yield forty bushels per acre. The
valley of the Mohawk river can hardly beai
that.
The same paper says : We have received
from Mr. B. M. Rogers, of the firm of Geo.
T. Rogers’s Sons, a mammoth beet weighing
within a traction cf nine pounds, and grown
by Mr. Joe Jelks, of Pulaski county. We
are assured that this is but a fair sample of
a whole aero of the same vegetable, and the
specimen before us can be multiplied in
definitely. In view of this astounding fact,
Mr. T. II. begs that we may not call ia ques
tion any longer that huge cucumber and
gourd vine story of the genial Woods, who
really believes that Pulaski can beat creatiou
in the vegetable line. After the ocular
demonstration afforded by this pumpkin
looking beet, we think so too, and won’t
charge our contemporary any more with
pulling a “long bow.”
Tbomaaville Enterprise: Notwithstanding
the oat crop has been cut considerably short
by the drought, and tho supply of corn in
the country is unusually small, tho price of
oats has ruled lower this season than during
any previous year since the war. Bitty
cents per hundred, in the sheaf, is tfie maxi
mum price, while thirty cents per bushel is
the ruling figure for cleaned oats. This,
upon first thought, seems discour&gieg to
the producer, and is calculated to engender
a feeling of dread for the financial future of
the agricultural community. This view,
however, is an erroneous one. But for
the fact that tho great stringency
in monetary affairs partly produces
this stato of aftairs, the low price of oats
would be a most encouraging sign. No peo
ple can remain distressingly poor for any
considerable time when the prices of home
made provisions rule unitormly low. Should
the supply of corn and bacon the coming
season prove, as has the oat crop, equal to
the demand, the country would, for a time
at least, bo on a sure foundation. Let no
farmer, then, be discouraged or deterred in
the future from growing home supplies.
Whenever we reach the point at which pro
visions are abundant and cheap, and not till
then, will the country regain its prestige
and peace and plenty abound.
Sandersville Messenger : The joyful in
telligence pours in upon ns from ail the sur
rounding counties, that they will be here on
the 26th, 27th and 28th of October next,
with tail delegations to help us develop, in
friendly competition, the vast and hidden
resources of this section of our grand old
State 1 All the Fair Association has to do
to insure the greatest success, is to liber
ally advertise the enterprise. Let the peo
ple at home and in the surrounding coun
ties know what a good time is in
store for them, and never in tho
history of Sandersville or Washington
county, will they have seen such a turn
out of the people. Hardly any of us are
able to attend the Radical show at Philadel
phia, aud we will all be rife to have a good
time at home next fall. Clubs from adjoin
ing counties will come in their private con
veyances, bring their own provisions, and
thereby be able to reduce the expenses of
the trip to a mere trifle. We never, in the
history of our Fair Association, saw such
interest manifested by our own people hero
in Washington. They hold out the hand of
fraternal welcome to our friends from
abroad, and promise to aid in every way to
make the Fair next fall the grandest event
that ever was seen in Middle Georgia.
South Carolina Affairs.
Court for Union county will commence on
the third Monday cf this month.
Hot weather, dull times and a scarcity
of money are the rules in Camden these
days.
A well-known colored man named William
Fox died suddenly in Charleston a few days
ago from over-eating.
The total number of deaths in Columbia
for the week ending Saturday, June 3, was
four—three of whom were white and one
colored. 9
Frank Campbell, a colored man, while
pulling a boat in a cut on James Island, fell
overboard and was drowned Tuesday night.
•Mr. William Taylor, of Mullins, Marion
county, has invented and patented a ma
chine to lift railroad engines on the track
when off.
Mrs. Piehuff, an estimable old lady, near
one hundred years of age, died last Satur
day, in the neighborhood of Boiling
Springs Baptist Church, Spartanburg
county.
The Spartanburg and Union Railroad will
soon be known as tho Spartanburg and Co-
umbla Railroad. It is to be ruu from a
point near Alston to Columbia.
Colonel D. O. Hawthorn, of Due West,
had the misfortune to loso two mules lately.
He attributes their loss to the fact of his
having fed them on barley with smut in it.
Great dissatisfaction is said to prevail in
Marion over the removal of S. J. Bethea,
Esq., Ur. Dozier, and other Trial Justices,
and the appointment of other persons said
to be unfit for the places.
Anderson is excited over the exorbitant
freight charges of the Greenville and Co
lumbia Railroad. The merchants of the
place have concluded to organize a line of
wagons to some point on the Air Line Rail
road.
The Columbia correspondent of the
Charleston News and Courier asserts that
there are between eight hundred and one
thousaud ex-convicts of the State peniten
tiary now living in Columbia aud immediate
vicioity.
The Governor has pardoned Roderick
Poston, Henry Poston aud Joshua Collins,
who were fined fifty dollars for selling
liquor without license in Williamsburg
county. Judge Shaw and Solicitor Atkinson
endorsed the petition.
L. Cass Carpenter gives notice that by or
der of tho President of tho United States,
on the 1st inst., he assumes charge of the
Consolidated Revenue District of this State,
which includes all the counties except Barn
well, Beaufort, Charleston, Colleton aud
Orangeburg.
In the Cross Key neighborhood the rust
ia seriously injuring the wheat. Reports
from other sections of the county say the
wheat is still fine, the rust being confined to
the blade. Some farmers will commence
cutting wheat next week. Many commenced
cutting oats this week.
Larkin Holloway, one of the negroes who
was shot last week for the murder of old
Mr. aud Mrs. Harmon, was one of the
jurors drawn to serve at the November term
of the United States Circuit Court to be
convened at Columbia next November. It
is now pretty certaiu that he will not serve.
Holland Glover, one of tho convicts who
escaped from the jail at Orangeburg on
Tuesday night last, returned the next day
and delivered himself to the Sheriff. He
thought it safer for him. Two others of
the gang took a different view of the
chances. They stole a couple of horses
and struck out for the West.
A public mass meeting of the citizens of
Pickens was called for Saturday, 3d inst., to
take into consideration the propriety or im
propriety of resisting by iogal meaus the
payment of tho railroad tax. Executions
have been issued in one case, and the prop
erty of a few of the citizens have been sold
under them.
Seven of the gang of robbers confined in
Oraneeburg jail made their escape on Toes-
day night last. The jailor, it is said, is a
candidate for the Legislature, and as the
bars were cut from the outside it is thought
ho had something to do with it. These pris
oners were sentenced at the last term of the
court for Orangeburg county to be sent to
the penitentiary, but owing to the deplete,i
condition of their finances, they could not
he sent, as is the case here.
On last Wednesday evening a citizen of
T aureus county, Mr. Traynham Brownlee,
wa“?ohnd defd in the" public highway
about two miles from Laurensville P laoe ’ “°
the Union and Spartanburg road. The
deceased had been to Laurensville on busi
ness but complained a good deal of feeling
sick.’ He started homo some time in the
afternoon and was soon after fiund dead by
nagsing citizen. Coroner Robertson held
Lnque S st over the body, the verdict of the
being that the ^ deceased, cameto hie
BY THM
—TO—
THE MORNING NEWS.
Noon Telegrams.
TURKEY AND THE NORTHERN
POWERS.
THE SITUATION IN THE EAST.
Uneasiness Over the Attitude of Russia.
Escape of Fenian Prisoners from Western
Australia.
THE EASTERN MEDDLE.
Vienna, June 7.—In consequence of the
remonstrance of the powers, all danger of a
breach of peace by Servia is removed for
the presem.
Paris, June 7.—The Saltan’s proposition
for a six week’s armistice is subject to
movements necessary to maintain a concen
tration of troops and the revictualling of
Nicsie.
London, June 7.—A Vienna dispatch to
the Times says the united efforts of the
powers might still succeed in making Sorvia
respect an armistice if one was concluded
with the insurgents.
Prince GortschakofFs recent telegram cau
tioning Prince Milan, of Servia, seems to be
without effect.
A Berlin dispatch to the Times says the
Islok, the organ of the Servian Cabinet, de
clares that war is unavoidable now that
Turkey has triumphed and the programme
of the northern powers been rejected.
The Official Russian Incalide Bays the
insurgents are not likely to accept an
armistice.
Special dispatches from Berlin to the
Standard and the Telegraph say considerable
uneasiness has been created there by the
sudden return of Prince Bismarck from
Lanrenberg for protracted conferences with
the Emperor. The uneasiness is increased
by the announcement that the Emperor’s de
parture forEms is postponed. The Standard’s
special says rumor connects these resuits
with certain exaggerated claims made on
Germany for support by Russia in her East
ern policy, which Priuce Bismarck, it is re
ported, is not inclined to sanction. The
Post prints extracts from tho Cologne Ga
zelle aud Berlin Tribune deprecating too
close au adherence to the views of Russia.
Ragusa, June 7.—Intelligence received
here from Sclavonic sources states that
Priuce Karageorgevic’s iegion defeated the
Turks in the vicinity of Garkooko, in Bos
nia, on the 3d of June, killing one hun
dred aud sixty men. On the following day
twenty-: three thousand Turks capitulated.
Many insurgents have petitioned Austria
to graut them an asylum, alleging that if
they are refused they are in danger of star
vation.
Paris, June 7.—The Estefette reports the
Russian army marching to the frontier.
When it arrives at Pruth Servia will com
mence hostilities.
RESCUING FENIANS.
San Francisco, June 7.—The steamer
Colema, from Australia, reports that an
American whaler rescued a gang of Fenians
from Western Australia. The Colonial
steamer Gingette has been armed and or
dered in pursuit.
New York, June 7.—Intelligence reached
here yesterday of the escape of the Fenian
prisoners confined in Western Australia. It
Beems the plan for their escape was organ
ized here, where the necessary money whs
raised and the agent sent out to'lnanage the
affair. The escape is stated to have been
effected in au American ship. There were
only seven men in actual confinement, but
there were nine others liviug in Western
Australia on tickets-of-leave. Whether these
escaped or uot is unknown.
CAPITAL NEWS AND NOTES.
Washington, June 7.—In the Senate, the
resolution of Sherman proposing a common
unit of money and accounts between the
United States and Great Britain, was dis
cussed during the morning hour.
Members of the sub-Judiciary Committee
and Messrs. Blaine and Knott are making
explanations in the committee room.
They have no bearing on the questions at
issue.
The House is discussing the hill restoring
Southern public laud to market.
FOREIGN PERSONALS.
Paris, June 7.—The health of M. Castmer
Perier is improving.
The state of Geo. S. Sand's health is pre
carious.
London, June 7.—The King of Greece,
who was sick at Copenhagen with a severe
attack of gastric fever, has recovered.
Queen Dowager Josephine, of Sweden, is
dead. •
Lard Northbrook, late Governor General
of India, has been created an Earl.
FATAL SHOOTING AFFRAY.
Cincinnati, June 7.—Capt. James Taylor
attempted to run off his boat, the Kate
Dickson, which had been seized. The
United States Marshal pursuing in a tug,
overhauled the Dickson at Ripley, and, en
deavoring to board her, was instantly killed
by Taylor. One of Marshal Harrington’s
men then shot Taylor dead.
BURNED.
Elizabeth, N. J., June 7.—This morning
the coat and wood yard of A. R. Reeve and
the dyeing establishment of Martin A Co.
were burned. The total loss is forty thou
sand dollars.
RESIGNED.
Berlin, June 7.—Prince Hasson, son of
the Khedive of Egypt, has resigned his
commission in the Prussian army and gone
to Egypt, where he will be Minister of War.
the triton.
New York, June 7.—The Triton has won
the regatta of tho Atlantic Yacht Club.
GROSVENOR AND BAKER. -
Rangoon, June 7.—Grosvenor and Baker
will start lor Simla immediately.
FAILED.
Chicago, June 7.—C. Clark & Co., Conti
nental Bolt Works, have failed.
A Young Lady Badly Scared.—The
Fayetteville, N. C., Gazette says: Last
Saturday night Miss Alice McDuffie, a
daughter of Dr. \V. C. McDuffie, awoke
suddenly to find a negro man in her
room, crouching near the bed, with his
eyes intently fixed upoD her, as if trying
to ascertain whether or not she • was
asleep. She was so dreadfully unnerved
that for some time she could make no
sound, but at last she screamed, when
the wretch’ leaped through the window
and escaped. Owing to the shock the
young lady has been in a critical condi
tion of nervous excitement ever since.
Suicide from Dread of a Whipping.
A boy named Fairchild drowned himself
near Mazeppa, Minn., through fear of a
whipping from his father for a misde
meanor at school. When his father was
notified that his body had been found he
went to the spot, gazed at the body,
seemed greatly agitated, and went away.
Neither he nor any of the family went
near afterward, and the body was buried
by the neighbors. The next day he car
ried a grist of grain to the mill, came
back by the burying ground just as the
body was being interred, stopped and
looked a moment and drove borne.
An Assassin’s Work.—News has been
received that Senator Twitched, who was
shot some time since at Coushatta, Lou
isiana. by a disguised assassin, and whose
left arm was amputated at the time, was
compelled to have his right arm cut off
also. Senator Twitchell received two
bullets in his left arm, one in his right,
one in his hip, and one in the back of his
neck at the time, bat is represented as
cheerful and likely to recover.
An important discovery has been made
by a London physician, who was baffled
by the sickness of a gentleman and his
wife. They complained of nausea and
vomiting, for which no ordinary causes
could account. At last the despairing
doctor examined the highly glazed, deli
cate green calico lining of the bed cur
tains, and found it to contain a large
quantity of arseDic. It appears that this
poisonous calico is sold in large quanti
ties.
gTT.i.v.n Himself on His Wife’s
Grave.—John G. Bhone, a respected
citizen of Wilkesbarre, Pa., shot himself
in the head Friday morning, in Hollen-
baok Cemetery, on the grave of his wife,
who died about a year and a half ago.
Passionate love prompted the act. Deep
melancholy seized him after her death,
and the use of chloral heightened the
malady.
Eveiling Telegrams.
BLAISE AND PKOCTOB KNOTT.
ALL ABOUT JOE CALDWELL'S
TELEGRAM.
Notes and
Sews From
Capital.
the Federal
SUMMARY OF CONGRESSIONAL
PROCEEDINGS.
CONGRESSIONAL.
Washington, Jane 7.—In the House, a
bill to repeal the section which confines* the
disposal of public lands in those States to
the provisions of the homestead laws, was
discussed. It provides that the repeal of
the said section shall not impair the right
of any homestead settler, and that said
lands shall be offered at public sale as soou
as practicable. Passed—106 to 97.
The bill providing a penalty for mailing
obscene books aud prohibiting lottery circu
lars passing through the mails, passed.
The bill for the ‘.istribution of the Geneva
award occupied the day aud will be discuss
ed to-night.
In the Senate, the merchants of Charles
ton and Nashville petition for a repeal of
the bankrupt act.
The District Committee reported ad
versely on the bill to incorporato tno
National Surgical Iustitute.
Gordon presented the petition of the
planters and others of Savannah, Ga.,
against the passage of the bill to carry the
Hawaiian treaty into effect.
Morey’s resolution to inquire into tho
issue of bonds predicated ou conditional
grauts of lauds to railroads in the Indian
Territory was referred to the Committee on
Railroads.
Siierman’s concurrent resolution propos
ing a common unit of money for the United
aStates aud Great Britain passed.
The executive, legislative and judicial
appropriation bill passed, aud goes to the
House for concurrence. The vote stood
thirty-three to seven—Messrs. Barnum,
Cockrell, Eaton, McOreery, Maxey, Steven
son and Whyte voting in the negative.
The fortifications appropriation bill passed
without amendment, and goes to the Presi
dent. It appropriates $315,000. The esti
mates were three and one quarter millions.
Nominations : Win. Wirt Sykes, Consul to
Cardiff'.
The Judiciary Committee commenced the
examination oi T. A. Greene. Mr. Blaine de
sired that J. B. Stewart be summoned.
Greene commenced the history of the man
ner in which J. 13. Stewart distributed over
a quarter of a million of dollars worth of
bonds, but was interrupted by tho personal
explanations.
CAPITAL NOTES.
Washington, June 7.— Nominations:
Wiutlirop W. Keichum, District Judge for
Western Pennsylvania; W. O. Hutchinson,
Postmaster at Jackso villo, Ala., and John
Tyler, Jr., Postmaster at Jacksonville, Fla.
The Library Committee authorized Sena
tor Howe and Congressman Clvmer to in
quire as to the genuineness aud, if to the
interest of the government, purchase from
James Chestnut, of Camden, S. O., au origi
nal palming of Washington by Gilbert
Stuart.
In the sub-Judiciary Committee, ex-Sena-
tor Rice testified that some shares in the
Little Rock Road were assigned to him, he
did not know by whom, that he might be
come a director. He had nb knowledge of
any transactions in reierenco to the Pacific
Railroad receiving subsidies from the gov
ernor, nt. Nathaniel S. Howe, Land Com
missioner of the Little Rock Road, knew
nothing of bonds that went to the
Union Pacific Railroad. Quite a number of
statements were made which verified the
statements and representations in the
House. The history of the Caldwell tele
gram seems to be that ^lr. Knott found it
at his house. It was headed “London.”
When Mr. Knott came to the capital he
showed it to Judge Tynu aud Mr. Mc
Mahon and others. Before aud after the
receipt of the dispatch, Kuott and
Hun ton had made ineffectual efforts
to obtain Caldwell’s address. Jt*^e
Linde advised Knott that the dispatch had
a suspicious look, and was not evidence. It
was Knott’s intention to submit it to the
Judiciary Committee to dispose of it as they
pleased, but exciting events had prevented.
There were many fierce looks exchanged
between Knott and Biaiue, and nothing but
Hunton’s cool manner of enforcing the rules
aud decorum of tho committee room pre-
veuted au exchange of fiercer words and
probably blows. Mr. Tar box will make a
personal explanation to-morrow.
the eastern revolt.
Belgrade, June 7.—Two batteries of ar
tillery and a detachment of infantry have
left for the frontier. General Tcharnajeff
aud staff have left for the Bosniau frontier.
Berlin, June 7.—The Frovinzial Corres-
pondeza, a semi-official journal, to-day, in
reviewing the recent events at Constanti
nople, says: “The governments which, in
pursuance of the Berlin conferences, had
agieed to address suggestions to the Porte;
have been led by tho accession of the new
Sovereign to jiostpono them, but the ob
jects of the powers remain the same,
and under tie n**w aspect of affairs a
further understanding will be had, as
to their attachment. The agreement be
tween the powers which formed the basis of
the former decisions aud the present situa
tion in Europe generally justify us in our
unwavering belief that their common ends
will be attained with preservation of the
peace of Europe.” Alluding to tho post
ponement of Emperor William’s visit to
Ems, the same paper says: “The Czar will
defer his departure about a week, but it is
certain the mouarchs will be at Ems to
gether several days next week.”
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief Signal Officer»
Washington, D. C., June 7.—Probabilities:
In the South Atlantic States, increasing
easterly winds, warmer and partly cloudy
weather, with possibly occasional local
storms, and stationary barometer, will pre
vail.
In the Gulf States and Ohio valley,
warmer southeast and southeily winds, in
creasing cloudiness, falling barometer and
local rains, followed in the interior by
cooler north winds.
In the Middle Atlantic States, warmer
south winds, increasing cloudiness aud
stationary barometer.
THE MOULTRIE CENTENNIAL.
Charleston, Juno 7.—The Southern com
mands of the Centennial Legion to-day
unanimously confirmed their compliment to
the State of Virginia by electing Gen. Harry
Heath as field officer in place of Gen. Fitz-
hngh Lee, who was compelled by engage
ments to decline.
SENTENCED.
St. Louis, June 7.—Alfred Be vis, B. Fra
ser, G. Beuaberg and John S. Bernecker, il
licit distillers, were sentenced to pay one
thousand dollars fine and one day’s impiis-
onment.
incendiarism.
Rondaut, N. Y., Juno 7.—The striking
Blue Stone quarrvmon have burned the
bridge on the Ulster and Delaware Road,
near here.
DIVIDEND.
New* York, Juno 7.—The Western Union
Telegraph Company has declared one and
one-half per cent, dividend, pavable July
15th.
A DEMOCRATIC VICTORY.
Portland, O., June 7.—Oregon has un
doubtedly gone Democratic. The Demo
crats claim twelve majority on joint ballot.
A new United States Senator is involved.
THE NEVADA KU-KLUX.
Carson, Nevada, June 7.—The anti-Coolie
men continue demonstrating, and demand
the discharge of the Chinese. * *e has
been no violence yet.
SUICIDE.
Cincinnati, June 7.—Goo. R. Ferry, who
was to have been married last night, shot
himself through the heart. There was no
apparent motive.
contradicted.
Honor to Whom Honor Is line,
Lite Oak, Fla., June 3d, 1876.
Editor Morning Mews :
The Republican party of Florida is
claimed—by those who engineer it—to be
the party of progress. These men say
this organization should not be laid aside
for any other: that under its manage
ment the public credit was never before
so good as at present; that the system of
public schooD was never so perfect as it
is just now; that the public lands are be
ing rapidly disposed of to bona fide set
tlers, and the State is being filled with
unheard of rapidity by a class of thrifty,
energetic and useful settlers from other
States, and that the government is being
managed by this party with honesty and
true Christian-like fidelity to the public.
Now let us see if these things are, any of
them, true.
As to the public credit, let us see that
first, and upon the very threshold of the
investigation, I ask everybody the ques
tion—why should Florida require a credit
of any kind ? Since the year 1868 and
up to the present time, more money has
been collected out of the people of Flor
ida than ever before since the organization
of a State government within its geo
graphical limits. Upon investigation it
will be found that, notwithstanding the
impoverished condition of the people at
the close of the war, which
had entirely exhausted their worldly
means—almost all their property of
every kind had been sacrificed—a Slate
government was organized, requiring
double the amount of money to pay its
expenses that was required to pay the ex
penses of the old one. It did not require
more than one-half the amount to defray
the expenses of the old government
that was demanded for the new one,
organized by the Republican party in
1868; look at the figures aud see if it is
not true. This money was demanded of
the tax payers of the State and collected
too, and who were the tax payers? It
will not certainly be claimed by any ra
tional man or woman that the Republican
party paid the taxes, for this party was,
and is now, largely composed of a non
tax paying class. Nineteen-twentieths of
the party that organized this expensive
luxury for the people of Florida did not
pay more than a third of the taxes. Yet,
because, forsooib, au unheard of amount
of money has been forced cut of the
property holders of the State, by a mi
nority of whites aided by a majority of
colored people, who pay but a nominal
tax, a sort of claim jure dicino is set up
by them to the entire management
aud control of the public interests
partly because the State’s credit is
good. It looks to me as being true, un
der the circumstances, that those who
have made the State’s credit what it is,
are denied, not only the honor for having
accomplished it, but they are ruthlessly
set aside and denied and refused a voice
iu the management and disposal of the
money they pay into the pockets of those
who pay nothing aud do nothing but col
lect the money and spend it; that is the
way the thing looks to me. I cannot but
regard the claim to further trust by this
parly on this point as fraudulent. Frauds
are often perpetuated upon individuals,
and it may so end that this great fraud
may be perpetuated upon tho people
of Florida.
Now, let us look into the question of
public schools, and see how that looks.
The tendency of vagabondism is towards
the villages, towns and cities all
over God’s earth, and the same
rule applies to Florida. Where
do we have the best schools ?
Well, in the villages, towns and cities.
Whose children leap the greatest benefit
from a system which has its best schools
among vagabonds, vagrants, vandals,
idlers and loafers ? Do not the children
of these get the greatest benefit of such
a system ? Well, who pays the school
tax ? Do vagabonds, vagrants, vandals,
idlers and loafers pay the school tax?
We have twenty-eight schools in Suwan
nee county, or thirty, as thecase may be,
and we pay over twenty-seven hundred
dollars as a county tax, besides the one
mill State tax, to keep them going. We
have five of these schools in Live Oak—
oue-sixth of Ihe aggregate number. jDues
Live Oax pay one-sixth of the tax, and if
it does is this one-sixth paid by the
people whose children are taught iu these
schools? Examine this subject carefully
all over Florida, and you will find
it to be just like the other ques
tions of credit—State credit. Those who
have made the State credit what it is gat
no honcr or profit for it, and those who
pay the school tax pay it to teach other
people’s children. I am not opposed to
public schools or compulsory education.
I believe that a parent who does not give
a child such an education as is within his
or her reach ought to be publicly whipped
annually, but I want to see some equity,
some fairness in the system—let those
who pay the taxes have the benefit—the
use—of their money. Don’t take money
from those who have it and give to those
who have none; this makes the rich
poor and does not make the poor rich ; it
is agrarianism—a result of the war—and
should be aBandoned. The system of
public instruction in Florida is a disgrace
to civilization and that is the honor of it
which inures to the party of progress in
Florida. Y’ou rs,
Fioubes.
A F1F1H WARD BOY MURDER.
One Yoons Life Suddenly Taken ami An
other Clouded by a Terrible Crime.
Andrew Moore, a newsboy, 13 years
old, returned to his home at Iff) Vandam
street, early yesterday afternoon, his
teacher having granted him a half holi
day for excellence in scholarship and de
portment. He ate his dinner and, patting
a fish line into his pocket, started down
street, saying that he was going to buy
his afternoon newspapers. He-sauntered
down Hudson street to Laight street, and
went up to the counter of Frank Dillon's
little street oyster stand and asked for au
oyster. It was given to him, and then he
guessed that he would take a clam, as he
was goiDg a fishing and wanted it for
bait. He took the clam and, pulling out
a long sailor jackknife, began to pry open
the shell.
Just then three boys—Frederick Law
ler, fourteen years of age, Gilmartin and
Hagen—began to annoy Moore, laugbiug
and making grimaces at nim. The latter
replied to them angrily, and drove them
away. They ran round the comer, and
still further incensed him by taunts and
jokes. At length Lawler approached
Moore and struck him over the head twice
with a piece of roof felting.
As the last blow fell Moore turned and
drove his knife into Lawler’s breast. The
latter staggered off, and Moore followed
up his attack by driving the blade with a
quick blow still deeper into the boy’s body.
Then he pulled out the knife, wiped it,
closed it, and put it into his pocket, and
; walking up to the oyster stand received
the change for a twenty-five cent piece
that he had given to the oyster man.
ment between the Khedive aud the Otto
man Empire is officially coutradicted.
DBOPPED DEAJ).
New Yobk, June 7.—Dr. J. C. Stone, a
physician, dropped dead in Broadway to-day
of heart disease, aged 65.
FROST.
Milford, Jnne 7.—There was a heavy
frost here l ist night.
The prevalence of lynching in Texas is
astonishing. The Galveston Mews gives
the particulars of seventeen instances
occurring within two months. Most of
the victims were horse stealers and stage
robbers. The San ADtonio Herald says
that in no other way, in the absence of
enforced laws, could the lives and prop
erty of respectable citizens be protected.
A Boy Esoapes from Gipseys.—James
Molone, a boy about twelve years old,
belonging to Owensville, Gibson county,
Ind., escaped from Gipseys at Lafayette
the other day. They had abdneted him
and compelled him to steal for them.
They left town before they could be ar
rested.
Lawler fell on his hands and knees, and
with the blood flowing ont of his wound
he crept, gasping and writhing, round
the comer, and died in less than two
minutes on the sidewalk.
As a multitude gathered, Moore started ,
to run, but he was stopped by a soldier
of the Hudson street recruiting barracks, j
He was delivered to Patrolman Boyle, of |
the Leonard street police, who took him
to the police station. Lawler's brother,
who is older, keeps a newspaper stand
across the street from Dillon's oyster
stand, and when he saw that his brother
had been killed, he ran excitedly into the
crowd and seized the soldier, whom he
supposed to be the murderer.
Roth boys have borne a good reputa
tion. Lawler helped his brother, and, it
is said, was on his way to the stand when
he was killed. The body of Lawler was
borne to the home of his mother, at 34
Laight street, last evening. Less than a
year ago an elder son was run over in
sight ol his home by a dummy of the
Hudson River Railroad.—N. Y. Sun.
FIRE AT SEA.
A Panic on nn Ocean Sicnmer.
Jane Grey Swisshelm, in a letter from
London to the Chicago Tribune, gives
the following particulars of a fire at sea
to which she was a witness:
“We took passage ou the Egypt, which
left New York April 1. Captain Grogan
impressed me as peculiarly fitted for his
place, and the ship as a marvel of
strength, and of that beauty expressed in
perfect utility. They inspired me with
confidence, and I passed two days of sea
sickness in the comfortable assurance
that we were quite safe and making a
splendid run, under a favorable wind and
plenty of steam.
“On Monday night we all retired early,
and after half an hour of hard work one
of our party had managed to change her
clothes and get into her berth, while I
sat facing the saloon and bolding on,
trying to get my shoes off. It was half
past nine, and every one had left the
saloon except a girl and two young men,
who sat talking near the hall door lead
ing to our room, when we were electrified
by the cry, ‘ Fire ! fire I the ship is on
fire!’ More human agony never was
compressed intc as many words, aud
simultaneously with the cry there flashed
down the saloon a wild, lurid light. We
could see it an instant through the lattice
work, and it was gone. The thought
came, ‘Something may be done to extin
guish the tire, and a quart of water now
may be worth a hogshead ten fninutes
hence.’ So I took up aiy water can and
started, and on reaching the saloon saw
that the flames were bursting out of the
bath room through the partition, circling
around one-half the ceiling of the saloon,
and bending to the floor, against the
shaft of the rudder, which divides it at
the stern.
“Four men—passengers—were fight
ing the fire with carpets; but the parti
tions are double, made of slats like a
Veneiian blind, only that every slat is an
inch thick and stands vertically. All was
saturated and thickly coated with paint.
These slats, and the lattice-work over the
steam pipe, around which the fire burned
fiercely, supplied so many air passages
that smothering the flame seemed hope
less. I poured my can of water behind
this pipe, thinking it would reach the
main body of the fire through the opening
by which it had burst up, aud was en
couraged to hope cn seeing that it
extinguished the fire as far as it
went; but the floor of the vestibule
leading into that bath-room was a
sheet of flame, and behind the closed
door it roared and crackled. One of
the men bade me stand back lest my
clothes should catch. I did, as soon as I
had emptied my can; then went to get
more water and send messengers to
the Captain. No one made an outcry, or
spoke a loud word, but oh ! did not these
four men work, as men only work for life,
and without any confusion ? Most of the
women brought water from the state
rooms and passed it to the men, who hur
ried up to help. The salooD began to fill
with dense, black smoke.
“The fire was extinguished after a
twenty minutes’ struggle, and we learned
that an oil can full of benzine had slop
ped over from the rolling of the ship; that
a steward had smelt it, gone in to see
about it, and struck a match'to find him
self enveloped in flame; then ran, noise
lessly, down the saloon, with his clothing
all ablaze, making the flash of lurid light
which so alarmed me.
“For the effort it cost me to walk
slowly down the saloon and say to the
women in the doorways: ‘It is nothing
but a can of benzine.’’ I have paid by
weeks of prostration. One young lady,
from whose physical condition I would
have expected a final stoppage of the
motion of the heart under such a trial,
was the first to reach the saloon, where
she sat down quietly to await the issue.
A frantic inotner rushed up, threw her
infant into her arms, exclaiming: ‘Save
my baby!’ and rushed off; and, fs she
sat and held it, ano:h r rushed to her
side, exclaiming: ‘Who will help me
with my children!’ Still another
rushed past, with clasped hands, dishev
elled hair, face purple from checked cir
culation, and her eyes wild with horror;
but the girl whose heart has been threat
ening for years to stop beating on the
slightest strain, sat and held the baby,
thinking: ‘Well, this is our last hour,
but I am not going to suffer needless tor
tures.’ Another invalid young lady got all
the water she could out of her state room,
handed it to the men in the saloon, had
one step on her bare foot so that thc-
bones.seemed crushed, sat down without
a word, and wondered if her friends at
home would ever know what became of
her.
“ No other vessel on the ocean will be
less likely to burn, for they all carry ben
zine to keep the paints bright. A ship
that did not would fail to get passenger.;
aud the men on the Egypt have a pretty
good idea now about the nature of the
article, while it is doubtful if one in ten
on other ships know that benzine is even
better for starting fires than for cleaning
and drying paints. The British nation
anchored one hundred and twenty boys
out on the Thames in an old ship, the
Goliath, to be trained in seamanship,
and gave them a can of benzine to keep
things bright. They managed to start a
successful fire with it, and twenty of the
boys were burned, with the ship, about
two months ago; but the Admiralty have
the proud satisfaction of knowing that
‘the boys behaved splendidly.’ An officer,
whose business it was to aid iu investi
gating the occurrence, told me so himself,
aud no doubt the ship’s paint was as clean
and bright as benzine could make it.”
The Leutrai Pacific Railroad Ring.
A petition, emanating from stock
holders in the Central Pacific Railroad,
has been addressed to CongTess, in which
the managers of that line are accused of
the most shameful swindling. The chief
points of the petition are as follows:
•‘The Central Pacific Road received from
the United States and the States of Cali
fornia and Nevada, and various counties
and cities in 'California, no less than
$125 ,000,000 in gifts and subsidies; and
mortgage bonds to the amount of $27,-
000,000 have also been issued. Y’et the
petitioners claim—and ask Congress to
appoint a commission to see if they
are not right—that the whole road could
be built, as well as it was built, for
$35,000,000. They enumerate defects
which characterize the road-bed, the
bridge work and the stations, showing, if
co:rect!y stated, the willful neglect of
the builders. They then explain the dis
position of the vast sum alleged to have
been received from the government, etc.,
over and above the actual cost of the
line. The four managers, who have had
absolute control of the road since it was
chartered, organized two rings, composed
of themselves or their confidential clerks
or employees, to which they let out con
tracts for building and equipping the
road at fancy prices, the profits of which
were divided among the managers. One
of these concerns was known as the Con
tract and Finance Company.”
This looks like a repetition of the Credit
Mobilier ring of the Union Pacific. The
managers are also accused of having built
or bought, out of the subsidies thus re
ceived, and from the earnings of the Cen
tral Pacific, certain branch roads and
steamboat lines, most of which they hava
consolidated with the Central Pacific,
raising the authorized capital stock to
$100,000,000, of whioh they have issued
to themselves about $54,000,000, to which
amount the petitioners aver they have
no lawful right whatever. It is also
charged that the managers are construc
ting the Southern Pacific Railroad out
of the resources and earnings of the
Central Pacific, and claim to own it
themselves, as well as the depot grounds,
town site3 and sources of water supply
along the line. If these charges are true,
or even approach the truth, it becomes
the duty of Congress to make an inves
tigation, especially in view of the fact
that the Central Pacifio, like the Union
Pacific, is applying for legislation to re
lieve itself from obligations which are
believed to be fairly binding upon that
company and the General Government.—
Baltimore Gazette.
The Hawaiian Job.
[From the American Grocer.]
Six months ago we described, and
pronounced our opinion upon, the job
known as the Hawaiian reciprocity
treaty. We stated that this treaty was
devised for the purpose of enriching a
few capitalists who owned plantations in
the Sandwich Islands, by creating a sugar
monopoly in their favor, and that in its
construction the good of the country at
large was the remotest consideration
occupying the minds of its advocates.
We never pronounce so decided an
opinion, especially where that opinion
reflects unfavorably upon individuals,
unless we have the fullest grounds far
so doing, but, on the other hand, where
we see wrong done or threatened we
neither hesitate to point it out nor wait
for the countenance and support of
others before venturing to do so. Our
single note of warning lias been taken
up at different times as different per
sons have shared in our convic
tion, until the voices now raised
against the passage of the Hawaiian
treaty bill have become a choru-,
and the views we expressed six mouths
ago are endorsed by the undisguised sus
picion of the country at large. We
would not be so unjust as to accept un
questioned the rumors that are afloat re
specting the $300,000 said to have been
paid to secure the passage of the Ha
waiian treaty; those rumors hava been
contradicted before the Ways and Means
Committee at Washington, but we do ac
cept the fact implied by them, and which
is in no way altered whether they be true
or false; viz., that the Hawaiiau treaty is
eminently one of those jobs in the sue
cess of which individuals are likely to
have a pecuniary iuterest, otherwise such
stories could not have originated or been
circulated. Without commenting further
on the atmosphere of discreditable facts
with which this bill is at the moment sur
rounded, we would ask whether legis
lation which aims a blow at our
native producing interests without
promising anything but the most
flimsy pretence of a corresponding advan
tage shall be tolerated by the country,
especially when it is surrounded by so
many suspicious circumstances as this
bill. The present is certainly not a time
for imposing greater disadvantages on
any class of our citizens than they are
now suffering under. We would call at
tention to the rice interest in the South,
which, besides the other interests we
have before mentioned, is seriously im
perilled by the treaty in question. The
threatened competition of the Sandwich
Islands with the sugar and rice regions of
the Southern States is not a matter that
wo can afford to treat with indifference ;
the Hawaiian rice crop, according to the
tables of export furnished by the Bureau
of Statistics, exhibits a remarkable
growth, which promises to show a fu
ture increase even in greater proportions.
The following table shows the export
of rice from the Hawaiian Islands for u
number of years:
Rice.
Paddy.
Total.
1865
154.257
263,705
417,902
1866
.... 438,367
438,367
1867
. 44L750
572,099
1,013^49
1868
4‘.450
862,954
903,404
1869
48,830
1,586,9.'>9
1,635,789
1S7J
152,068
535,453
687,52
1871
417,011
817,452
l,v.- 4.463
1S72
.. .. 455,121
894,382
1,349,503
1S73
. ... 944,438
507,94^
1,449.381
1S74
1.1S7.9S6
439,158
1,627,143
1875
1,573,739
556,495
2,130,234
The exports of sugar show a still more
marked and rapid development,risingfrom
554,805 pounds in 1865 to 25,080,182
pounds in 1875.
To us the proposal to take off the duty
following this marvelous development of
production looks more than suspicious.
Why the duty should be taken off iu the
case of the Sandwich Islands iu particu
lar we do not know. Will it benefit tin-
country, or the few capitalists who own
the plantations? And if it is a device on
all manner of pretences, naval and inili
!ary, to enrich a handful of speculators,
regardless of the legitimate interests of
the country, then the promoters ciu:l
have, counterpoised the‘r lack of con
science by an excess of audacity quite
jihenominal even in these days. We uott
that delegations from Louisiana, South
Carolina aud Georgia are in Washington
with a view to opposing the passsage c;
the bill. We believe that the amount of
public attention which the whole matter
is receiving is something more than its
promoters hove bargained for, and some
thing which will be fatal to the succesi
of their scheme for defending (?) the
country and filling their pockets at tii-
same time.
A Question of Gold or Silver.
From the St. Louis Republican.]
Prior to I860 the larger portion of our
national debt consisted of bonds payabh
in greenbacks. But the’ first notable sc
of tbo Grant administration was the ap
proval of a law passed by the Republican
Congress, changing these bonds from
currency into coin, whereby the debt was
virtually increased about $400,000,000
more than au honest construction of the
contract required it to be. The act cf
I860, which did this, was called an act to
strengthen the public credit; it was an
unpardonable and indefensible wrong ou
the people, for it involved a gratuitous
gift to the national creditors of four
hundred million dollars which they
were not entitled to and the peo
ple did not owe. But even this does not
satisfy them. Having secured the poin:
that the debt shall not be paid in green
backs, they now claim that it must not be
paid in silver. By the terms of the al
tered contract they are payable in “coin,”
a term which clearly means gold and sil
ver; but several oauses, among them ti c
discovery of enormous masses of silvei
in Nevada and California, and the de
monetization of silver in Germany, have,
within the last six years, largely aug
mented the silver product of the world
and cheapened its value. Silver is to-day
quoted at par with greenbacks, that is,
about 13 per cent, below the value of
gold. It would make no difference, there
fore, whether the bonds were redeemed,
now, in greenbacks or in silver coin, sites
either is as good as the other and no bet
ter. If the government should set
about buying and coining silver in
large quantities to pay its bonds, silver
would be Btill further cheapened and
would probably go down to frO cents in
greenbacks. But we are told that the
government has no right to do this; that
tho national creditors never expected to
be paid in so cheap a money as silver has
become; and that to force them to take
heaps of silver, whioh would have to be
moved by wagons, and which oould not
be disposed of in large lots exoept at a
discount, would be an act of bad faith cn
the part of the government. Besides, it
is added, silver dollars are no longer coins
of the United States, having been practi
cally abolished by an obscure act passed
in 1873; and hence the bonds must be
paid, not in “gold and silver,” bat in gold
alone.
It is a quesliou of some importance ;
for there are $985,000,000 6 per cent,
bonds outstanding, which the govern
ment has the option of paying at its
pleasure. The difference between pay
ing these bonds in gold and paying them
in silver is 13 per cent, on the amount—
$128,000,000. If Congress should repeal
the act of 1873, and thus revive the coin
age of silver dollars, there would be no
impediment in the way of paying this
large proportion of the national debt m
oheap silver, or, what is equivalent,
forcing the holders of them to com
pound their claims on a silver basis.
There is no rule of honesty and no
consideration of public credit that for
bids this. A debtor is not bound to do
more than the contract exacts; if he com
plies with that, he doa3 his whole duty.
The contract in this case calls for “coin,”
which means gold and silver, leaving the
debtor the option of paying in whichever
is the cheaper meted. It is true silver
has become a cheapened metal. Its usual
value of 15 to 1, as compared with gold,
has been lowered to 17.60 to 1; that is,
instead of being one-fifteenth the value
of gold, it is only abont one-eighteenth.
Bat this is not the fault of the debtor;
it is the result of causes that the debtor
had nothing whatever to do with. The
demonetization of silver in Germany has
caused the o inand for' it in that country
to oease, at ’ the discovery of die vas^
bonanzas in the Rocky Mountains abont
the same time has very largely augmented
the supply. Silver is regarded as a
nuisance in California, in Canada, in
England and Germany, and it is be
coming a drug elsewhere. All thia
is admitted ; but it does net alter
the fact that onr national ' debt
is fairly payable in this cheapened metal,
and that under the contract the debtor
government may claim this advantage.
It ia easy enough to imagine that the facts
might have been the other way, vast de
posits of gold might have been discover
ed that would have cheapened gold in
stead of silver. Would the bondholder,
in that case, have had the option of re
jecting gold and demanding silver? Does
the right remain with him of demanding
payment in that one of the two metals
which is most valuable? This is not the
law of contracts. The option, if there
be one, resides in the debtor, aDd it is he
who may fairly claim the choice which
the contract allows.
Railroads.
Atlantic and Gull K. K.
tiOBBAL STJFIRINTKNIMS.N T 8 OTFTO*, k
Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, >
Savannahs April n, 1ST6.I
O N AND AFTER SUNDAY, APRIL »d,
Passenger Trains on this Road will run as
follows:
NIGHT KXPRJttc.
Leave Savannah daily at 3:40 P.M,
Arrive at Jeenp “ 6:59 P. 21.
Arrive at Bainoridge •* 7.45 A. M,
Arrive at Albany 11 10:00 A.M.
Arrive at Live Oak “ 3:10 A.M.
Arrive at Jacksonville “ 9 53 A. M.
Arrive at Tallahassee “ 8:35 A.M.
Leave Tallahassee “ 3:90 P.M.
Leave Jacksonville M 9 03P. p.
Leave Live Oak •* 9: 6 P. M.
Leave AJhany “ 3 31 P. k.
Leave Bainbridse “ 4:30 p. M.
Leave Jet*up “ 5.35 A. M.
Arrive at Savannah *• S 45 A.M.
Pullman Sleeping Cara run throagh to Jackson
ville.
No change of cars between Savannah and Jack
sonville or Albany.
Passengers for Brunswick tAke this train, (Sun
days excepted) arriving at Brunswick at 9 40 p m ;
leave Brunswick at 3:6c a. s : arrive at Savannah
at 8:45 a. m.
Fasr-engere from Macon by Macon and Bruns
wick 9:15 a. m. train t at Josnp with
this train for Florida (Sundays excepted).
Passengers from Florida by tins train connnct
at Jesup with train arriving in Macon at 2 55 r. *.
Connect at Albany daily with Passenger trains
both ways on Southwestern Railroad to and from
Bnfaula, Montgomery, 2*ew Orleans, etc.
Close connection at Jacksonville with St. John’s
river steamers.
Trains on B. and A. R. R. leave junction, gotn?
west, Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 11:14
A. M.
For Brunswick Tuesday, Thursday and 8atn*-
day at 4:26 p. m.
ACCOMMODATION TRAINS—EASTERN
DIVISION.
Leave Savannah, Sundays excepted.at. 7:25 A. M.
Airive at McIntosh “ “10:15 A.M.
Arrive at Jesup “ “ 12:36 P.M.
Arrive at Blackshear “ “ 3:45 P. M.
Arrive at DuPont “ “ 7:20 P.M.
Leave DuPont “ “ 5:20 A.M.
Leave Blackshear “ “ 9 2A.M.
Leave Jesup “ “12:35 P.M.
Leave McIntosh “ “ 2:65 P. M
Arrive at Savannah “ “ 5:35 P. M.
WESTERN DIVISION.
Leave Dupont (Sundays excepted), at 5:30 A. V.
Arrive at Valdosta “ “ 7:25 A.M.
Arrive at Quitman " “ 9:15 A. k .
Arrive at Thomasville “ 41 11:10 A. k .
Leave ThomasvUle ** “ 1:15 P. M
Leave Quitman “ " “ 3 10P.M.
Leave Valdosta “ 4 35 P. If.
Arrive at Dupont 14 •* 6:30 P.M.
ALBANY DIVISION.
Leave Albany Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, at 7:00 A. M.
Leave Camilla Tuesday, Thursday and
Saturday, tt 9:35 A. M.
Arrive at Thomasville, Tuesday, Thurs
day and Satu'day, at 12:10 P. M.
Leave Thomasvil.e, Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday, at 2:30 P. M.
Arrive at Camilla, Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday, a* 5:’6 P. M.
Ariiteat Albany, Tuesday, Thursday
and Saturday, at 7:40 P. BI.
Jno. Evans, Gen’l Ticket Ag’t.
H. S. HAINES,
je5-tf General SuoerintendenL
Savannah and €harlesion it.K.
OnticnSavannam* Charleston K. K. Co.,1
Savannah. Ga., April 28, 1S76. f
O N AND AFTER MONDAY, MAY 1st
inst., the Passenger Trains on thia Ron t
wi>! rnr» fouowp, FROM ATLANTIC AND
GULF RAILROAD PASSENGER DEPOT:
DAY TRAINS DAILY.
Leave Savannah at 9:0.) A. M.
Leave Charleston at s:30 A. M..
Leave Augusta at 8 30 A. M,
Leave Port Royal at 10:25 A. M.
Arrive at Savannah at 3:30 P. M.
Arrive at Charleston at 4:20 P. M,
Arrive at Augusta at 5:00 P. M,
Arrive at Port Royal at .. 2:20 P.
Connection made at Charleston with the North
eastern and South Carolina Railroads; at Augusta
with the Charlotte, Columbia and Augusta,
and Georgia Railroads.
Ticket's tor 6ale at R. R. Bren’s and L. J. Ga
zan’s Special fttRi t Agencies, No. 31 Bull street
and Pulaski House, also at Depot Tirhet Office.
C. C. OLNBk, Rec. C. 8. GADSDEN,
apr29-tf Engineer and Superintendent.
Central Railroad.
OFFICE GENERAL SUPERINTENDENT,)
Savannah, April 16, 1876. /
O N and after SUNDAY, April 16th, Passenger
Trains will depart from and arrive at Sa
vannah twice daily:
Depart 8:15 a. m. I Arrive 6:25 r. m.
Depart 7:30 p. m. | Arrive 7:15 a. m.
For Augusta, Macon, Columbus and Atlanta,
making close through connections to all points
North and West.
Travelers can obtain through tickets, time
tables and all desired intormatioo, by calling at
the Company’s Ticket Office, H. L. SCHREINER,
Special Agent, Monument square, corner Con
gress street. WM. ROGERS,
feh16(ap20)-I2ra General Superintendent.
^fgal ilotirrs.
Petition to Amend the Charter of Christ
Church, Mavanuali.
G 1EORGIA, CnATEAX County'.—To the Fa
ff perior Court ot said county: The itetition
of “TH a. CHURCH WARDENS AnD VES
TRYMEN OF THE EPISCOPAL CHURCH IN
SAVANNAH. CALLED CHRIST CHURCH,” a
corporation created by an act of the Legislature of
this State, passed December 23d, 1789. and John
William-on and William Hunter, Church War-
d-ns, and William Nevle Habersham, James II.
Johnston, John Screven, Robert H. Footman,
VVm. Graysbn Mann, Brodie S. Lerndcnand Wil
iara 9. Basinger, vestrymen, the present corpo
rators in said corporation, r« spectfuliy prays that
the said charter m .y be amended so as to author-
iz • the said corporation to receive and take any
ar.d all money and property of every kind, real and
personal, which may be given or granted to the
said corporation by deed or will, or in any other
manner whatever, whether such deed or will bear
date before or after any order granting the prayer
of this petition, for any religious, charitable or
beneficent purpose w liatsoever, an 1 to hold, con
trol, use and apply the s>:me to and for snch pur-
i ose, according to the intention of the giver,
grantor or testator, with power to do a 1 things
necessary or convenient lo asfert or protect the
rights of the said corporation in and to any and
all such money or property, and the possession,
use and control of the same as fully in all re
spects as if originally incorporated for that pur
pose. W. S. BASINGER,
* W. GRAYSON MANN,
Attorneys for Petitioners.
A true copy of the original filed this thirty-first
day of May, 1876, in the Clerk’s office of the Su
perior Conn of Chatham connty. •
[L. s] JAMES K. P. CARR,
jel-Th,4t Deputy Clerk 8. C. C. C.
AOTIC’i;.
G < EORGIA, Chatham County.—All creditors
J” of George Cal ley, late of said State and
county, deceaseJ, are hereby notified to present
their demands to me, properly attested, within
the time prescribed bylaw; ai.d those indebted
to said estate will make payment to me.
JOS. A. CRONK,
my23-6w Administrator estate Geo. Callej.
0us, &c.
McKENAA & HANLEY,
Paint :uul Oil Store.
AND DEALERS IN "
ATLANTIC WHITE LEAD,
AND PAINTERS’ SUPPLIES.
FRENCH and AMERICAN
WINDOW AND PICTURE GLASS.
130 ST. JULIAN ST.,
Facing Pulaski House (Johnson Square.)
HOUSE, SIGN and DECORATIVE PAINTERS
Hllill-tim
Paints & Oils
House, Sign and Decorative
PAINTING.
W HOLESALE and r.tail dealer in Paint*,
Oils, Varnishes, Brushes, and a lull line of
Artists’ Materia s. Also,
Window Glass,
Window Sbadfi,
AND
Paper Hangings.
All goods delivered in any part of the city, and
sold ten per cent, less than any other hoase in
Savannah. JOHN G. BUTLER,
mh7-6m 22 Drayton st.. near Broughton.
|or .fair.
BRICK^ BRICK.
DAA AAA HARD BURNT BRISKS for
Ol/UnVl'U sale at our yard on Springfield
Plantation, opposite the Arkwright Cotton Fac
tory, consisting of PRESSED BRlCK, for fronts
of buildings aud paving; also, GRAY, HARD
and SOFT BROWN BRICK, for buildiDgB,
which we will aell at the lowest market price.
Apply at the yard, or to
xny24-6m F. GRIMBALL A CO.
POK SALE,
White Pine and Black Walnut
OOUNT*R TOPS CONSTANTLY ON HAIU .
C. S. GAY,
MtUl