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Georgia Affair*.
According to the Grifiin Xocs, it is ru
mored that the Radicals In the Fifth district
have a secret candidate whom they propose
to bring into service just before the fifth of
November, and elect him if they can.
The Atlanta Phonography a liat money
paper, regrets that white cravats have
been called in, for it says “ it only
ook ten cents to make one look like a
banker.” That may be so, but that ten cents
and white cravat would no more make one
a real banker than calling a piece of irre
deemable paper a dollar would make it a
real dollar.
A perceptible white frost was reported at
various places along the Augusta canal
Monday morning.
The Conyers Examiner reports that on
Wednesday of last week a man by the name
of Hines met with a severe accident at that
place. He was attempting to jump on the
up night freight train as it was in motion,
when his»foot slipped and he fell under the
wheels, which passed over his right arm and
leg, mashing them fearfully, and rendering
the amputation of both limbs necessary. He
says he is a native of Louisiana. At the
time of the accident he had in his posses
sion a discharge from the United States
Cavalry, in which he had served for eight
years, but was discharged from service on
the frontier of Texas, where the Indians
massacred his wife and family. He escaped
to Louisiana, and made his home in that
State a portion of last year. He was on his
way to Atlanta, where he hoped to obtain
work. At last accounts he was doing as
well as could he expected.
The Forest New* is certainly entitled to a
premium for candor, if nothing else. In its
last issue it says : “ Davis Winbum and Ed
die Bush, two young typos, set this issue of
our paper up, from garret to cellar, and
made up the forms by themselves. We stole
most of the articles to go in it.”
Gainesville has received four hundred and
ninety-eight bales of cotton in excess of
what it received at the same date last year.
The body of Mr. J. P. Randall, of Union
Point, was found lying near Brinkley, North
Carolina, on the 7th inst. It seems that ou
the 20th of September he left his home for
Wilmington, North Carolina, in company
with a man named George Littleton, who
had been in the employ of his father, Dr. A.
H. Randall. Nothing was heard of young
Randall from the 30th ult. until his body
was found as stated. Circumstances point
to Littleton as the murderer, and he has
been arrested.
Mr. J. C. C. Black has been appointed
Marshal of the Day on the occasion of un
veiling the Confederate monumAit in Au
gusta on the 31st inst., vice Gov. Colquitt,
resigned.
Bananas grow, flourish and ripen in Au
gusta.
Gainesville Eagle: “We are informed
that Mr. S wofford, of Dawson count}*,
was killed a few days ago, under about the
following circumstances: Mr. Swoffordaud
his son had been engaged in chopping down
r tree, and in some way the tree caught him
in falling, and crushed and mangled his
body so severely that he Hied in a few hours.”
Conyers Examiner: “The two negroes
convicted last week of assault, in the rape
cases, before Rockdale Superior Court, were
sentenced to twelve mouths each in a regu
lar chain gang, with instruction that no per
son should be allowed to pay them out.
Judge Hall gave them thj full limit of the
law, and was determined that their punish
ment should not be in the least mitigated
by turning them loose again under the man
agement of some lenient master. The
hiring out of convicts, in many instances,
defeats the ends of justice, while criminals
go unpunished, and serves as a premium ou
the perpetration of crime. In our opinion
the law on this subject needs rectifying.”
Washington Gazelle: “On September 25th,
John Bradford (colored) wanted his father’s
mules and wagon to go to a funeral, but the
old man refused to let him have them, where
upon the son became obstreperous, aud was
threatened with the lash. He then decided
to have a funeral at heme, procured a shot
gun and emptied the contents into his sire.
The shot did not prove fatal. The boy is
still at large.”
Hinesville Gazette: “On last Saturday night
a dispute arose between two negroes, Sam
Gaulden and Simon Osgood, living near No.
3, Atlantic and Gulf Railroad, in which the
former was beaten to death. The difficulty
grew out of a small debt which Gaulden
owed Osgood, and which had been placed
in the hands of an officer for collection. It
seems as if Gaulden had made a small pay
ment to Osgood for which no credit was
f iven ou thenote, and when it was presented
y the officer Gaulden refused to take up
the note, alleging that he had already paid
a part of the money. Gaulden then went
over to Osgood’s house, and an altercation
followed, in which he was attacked by Os
good, his four sons and one daughter, with
the above mentioned result. Five of the
party have been arrested and lodged in jail
in this place. One of the boys, who ran
off immediately, has not yet been captured.”
Elberton Gazette: “The people in the
neighborhood of Farm Hill have beeu great
ly exercised for the past two or three weeks
concerning a wild animal that has been
prowling about there, making night hideous
with its howls, killing cattle and sheep, and
preventing people from traveling at uight
through fear for their lives. From the de
scriptions given of the beast by the few that
have seen it, we judge it to be a jaguar, but
how such an animal could get here—where
it came from—excites the wonder of all. It
has been shot at once, but the creature bris
tled up and walked off without betraying
a sign of fear.”
The people of Atlanta want some changes
in their charter. They are stated as follows
by the Constitution:
“1. An attempt will be made to still fur
ther reduce the annual sinking fund from
one-fourth of the real estate tax to one-
eighth. This will reduce the amount an
nually appropriated from about $50,000 to
$*25,000. Of course this amount would be
gradually increased as the value of real
estate appreciated; aud it might go up in
the next four or five years to $30,000 or
$40,000.
“There are others, however, who will ad
vocate making this annual contribution to
the sinking fund a fixed amount. Some fa
vor making it $25,000, while others claim
that $10,000 is enough.
“2. An attempt will be made to fund the
floating debt. This debt was about $500,000
when the charter was made. It is now
about $387,000. The average rate of inte
rest is, say 8 per cent.—much of it being
carried at 7 per cent. It is proposed to
fund this in twenty year bonds, we presume
7 per cent. m
“3. An attempt will be made to modify
the existing tax on business that is paid by
the largest wholesale dry goods houses.
The men that sell $5,000 worth per annum
pay $25 business tax, and the man that sells
$1,000,000 pays just $25 business tax. It Is
proposed to equalize this tax, and make the
heavier business pay its proportion of the
burden.
“The plan is to allow the Council to grade
the tax on every business that is based on a
stock worth over $5,000, or that surpasses
$10,000 in volume per annum, the highest
tax being put at $200 per annum. It is said
by those who have figured the matter up
that a legitimate schedule of business tax
arranged ou this basis would give the city
nearly $20,000 per annum increased in
come.”
Augusta Chronicle and Constitutionalist:
^Last Friday a petition from the citizens of
Warrenton,’ asking that the Macon train,
•which meets the up-day passenger train on
the Georgia Railroad* at Camak, be per
mitted to run back to Warrenton with the
mail and passengers for that place imme
diately, instead of waiting six hours for the
J. II. ESTILL, PROPRIETOR.
down train, was handed to Gen. E. P. Alex
ander. President of the Georgia Railroad.
Gen. Alexander at once acceded to the re
quest and said he would issue the necessary
order on Monday. Hereafter, therefore, no
delay will occur at Camak. The accommo
dation train which now runs between Au
gusta and Harlem will, in a few days, run
between Augusta and Warrenton. Air
brakes will be attached to the locomotive in
order that the train can be stopped snort
and thus enabled to make a quick trip.”
Florida Affairs.
The Cedar Key Journal mentions the fact
that a duel, the result of a quarrel between
two young men living near that place, has
been the theme of conversation for some
weeks past. A day was set for the meeting,
and the contestants repaired thither with
their seconds, but the vigilant Sheriff
spoiled the fun and prevented the shedding
of blood.
Mr. H. W. Johnston retires from the
editorial management of the SaDford State
Journal, and the proprietor of that paper,
Mr. R. II. Mclivaine, will succeed him tem
porarily.
A party of tramps lately threatened an
inroad into Pensacola, but the Volunteer
Guards of that city turned out and promptly
checked the threatened invasion. The ad
vance guard of the enemy were captured
and turned back, and the main body then
abandoned the design of capturing the city.
General Joseph Finegan is running for
State Senator In Orange county.
The Sanford Journal says that Mexican
quarters pass in that town for twenty cents.
Mexican dollars for ninety. Trade dollars
don't pass at all—because there are noue
there.
Goodman, the bad man of Pensacola, who,
as we mentioned last week, attempted to
murder Miss Susie Bauer, and then tried to
kill himself, is convalescing aud quite com
fortable in his quarters in the Escambia
county jail. His would-be victim is also
progressing favorably.
The Greenbackers in Gainesville have
been trying to organize, but so far without
success.
South Florida Journal: “Last Tuesday
Cyrus Moore, colored, while out iu the
woods near Enterprise, in compauy with a
colored man by the name of Hooker, got
into an altercation on somfe point with
Hooker, which finally ended in Hooker
shooting Moore, the shot taking effect in the
right lung. Moore is iu a very critical con
dition, and probably will not recover.
Hooker has been captured and is now lodged
iu toe Enterprise jail.”
The Quincy Herald mentions the following
dastardly outrage: “On Sunday afternoon a
lad about fifteen years old was walking
with some companions in the vicinity of the
fair grounds. A group of negro boys sit
ting in the pathway were requested to get out
of the way. All did so with the exception of
one large boy, who refused to move, saying
be would not get out of the way of any
buckra white boy, at the same time putting
himself in position to be pushed aside by the
nearest of the white lads. The black fellow-
picked up a piece of a broken rail and hurl
ed it with all his might, striking the lad on
the nose and cutting a deep gash, after doing
which he ran away as fast as his heels could
take him. The young man w-as carried
home and his wounds dressed by Doctors
Sanford and Wilson. He will probably wear
a scar for same months.”
“On last Saturday, near Lake Ware,”
says the Ocala Banner, “a son of Mr. Charles
II. Benson, a boy of about fifteen years, was
killed by the accidental discharge of a gun,
as follows: An elder brother of deceased
was driving a horse attached to a cart, iu
the body of which was a double-barrel shot
gun, and the boy was swinging on behind,
as the reader has no doubt often seen
frolicsome boys do. The jostling of the
cart caused the gun to fire, aud its entire
load was lodged in the boy’s breast, killing
him instantly. Before the driver could stop
the horse the other barrel of the gun dis
charged, but without further damage.”
Says the Orange County Reporter: “Our
usually quiet village had a little ripple of
excitement Wednesday evening. The only
prisoner in the jail, a negro named Jake
Gory, awaiting trial for house breaking, es
caped from the jail and started off in a run.
Marshal Buck Bass and others immediately
started iu pursuit. The man ran about half
a mile towards the setting sun, and Severn
shots were tired ; several times he dropped,
as though killed, or at least badlv hurt, but
he was finally captured, unhurt, and on be
ing returned to his old quarters was placed
iu irons.”
The Florida Xew Yorker having published
a statement from a correspondent that a
man with a few* hundred dollars could go to
that section of the State, and by taking up
a homestead be independently* rich iu five
years, the Palatka Herald takes issue with it
aud says: “This exaggerated and unreason
able statement may lead some poor man
with small capital to come down here with
the expectation of making an independent
fortune iu five years. It is to be hoped,
however, that no sane man will put any con
fidence in such reports. A man with eco
nomical and industrious habits can home
stead a piece of kind and in live yaers raise
enough to eat. and at the same time bring
on a grove that will, in seven or eight years,
turn him out a profit of a thousand or twelve
hundred a year. But it will take him or auy
other man a quarter of a century to make a
fortune. To do even this would*require am
ple means, a good head and thrifty business
habits.”
The Pensacola Advance is very compli
mentary to the N ews. It says : “This paper
has justly and fairly earned the reputation
of being one of the few* great newspapers
in the South. It fills the full measure of its
calling as a dispenser of the world’s news—
is ably conducted in all its departments,
and is a paper to be proud of."
THE CAMPAIGN IN FLORIDA.
Large and EntliusiaMlic Democratic
Jfleetlug iu Lake City — Effective
Speeclie* from Llent. Got. Hull,
Senator Jonex and Hon. S. L. Nib*
lack.
Lake City, Fla., October 14, 1878.—
Editor Homing Xaos: According to previous
notice, there was a grand Democratic gath
ering here to-day. At any early hour the
court room was crowded with people from
all sections of the county*; in fact,^he room
was not large e .ough to contain the multi
tude.
Hon. C. IV. Jones, the present United
States Senator from the First district,
Lieutenant Governor Noble A. Hull, the
Democratic candidate for Congress from
the Second district, and lion. Silas I,.
Niblack, formerly a member of Congress
from this district^ and at present the Demo
cratic candidate for the Slate Senate from
Columbia county, addressed the people.
Senator Jones is * deservedly* a popular man,
aud his efforts in behalf of the principles
of Democracy, and his record in Congress,
take him to the hearts of this people. Be
fore and after the speech there was a con
tinual rush to shake his hand.
In a clear and forcible manner he ex
plained aud commented on the financial
legislation of Congress from 1S69 to 187S,
and pointed out the measures advocated by
the Democratic party in favor of the people.
When he referred to the Presidential muddle
of 1S76, and condemned the fraud by which
Mr. Hayes obtained his seat, the applause
showed that his sentiments were endorsed
to the fullest by his hearers.
Lieutenant Governor Hulbfollowed in an
old fashioned talk. He was at home among
his old friends and acquaintances, having
formerly resided ift this county. He alluded
to the official conduct of Mr. Bisbee, his
present opponent, showing that the spirit
in which he enforced the Ku-Klux act
agair.st the ^people of this district, while
District Attorney, should convince them
that he had no sympathy or confidence in
them: while his votes on the financial
questions at the last session of Congress
would very well represent a district iu
Maine, from which State Mr. B. hails, but
did not represent the interests of the people
of Florida. He promised to work for the
interest of the State with whose people he
is identified by every tie, and whose wants
he knows.
Judge Niblack was called out at the
conclusion of Mr. Hull’s speech, and
talked to the people principally of
their duty in the approaching elec
tion. A great part of his remarks were
upon the matter of the campaign funds
furnished from the National Treasury to
carry Congressional and Presidential elec
tions in the interest of the Republican par
ty. (It is rumored that Mr. Bisbee has
$30,000 with which to carry this district).
It was a glorious day for the people. The
Lake City Cornet Band discoursed fine
music, w hich added greatly to the spirit of
the occasion.
The candidates for the State Legislature
contemplate opening the campaign this
week. At present there is no opposition
ticket,and the colored people appear willing
and anxious to listen and learn. R. L. G.
BY TELEGRAPH.
NOO.N TELEGRAMS.
CROP REPORTS FOR OCTOBER.
Over Five Million Bales of Cotton
Predieted.
TURKEY THREATENS ARMED OPPOSI
TION TO THE AUSTRIAN ADVANCE.
A WYOMING STAGE ROBBER
ARRESTED.
Financial Matter* in London.
CROI* REPORTS FOR OCTOBER.
Washington, October 15.—The October
returns to the Department of Agriculture
indicate an average condition of the cotton
crop of 90 per cent., the same as in Sep
tember. In North Carolina the average is
84 per cent., a decline of 2; in South Caro
lina 84, an increase of 4; iu Georgia 85, an
increase of 4; in Florida 84, a decrease of 7;
in Alabama 91, a decline of 1; in Missis
sippi 86, a decline of 3; in Louisiana 83,
unchanged; in Texas 103, an increase of 2;
in Arkansas 90, a decline of 8; in Tennessee
102, an increase of 11.
Compared with October, 1877, the grow
ing crop shows an improvement of 11 per
cent. The October condition fully equals
that of the splendid crop of 1870 aud excels
any intervening year. Insect injuries are
uuimportant. The eastern section of the
cotton belt was visited by storms moving
through narrow zones and doing much lo
cal damage. In the Mississippi valley, the
yellow* fever and quarantine regulations
have restricted the marketing of the crop.
Texas reports a very fine crop, 6ome
counties reporting the prospective averages
as high as a bale per acre. Arkansas has
fallen off through drought in some quarters
and excessive rains in others With the in
creased acreage planted the crop now
promises an out-turn of upwards of live
million bales, of which Texas will pioduce
nearly one million.
MONEY MATTERS.
London, October 15.—The Time* 1 financial
article says: “Owing to the course pursued
by most of the bauks in partially refusing
the accommodation usually afforded to
borrowers, the Bank of England is
obliged to meet the demand concen
trated upon it by raising the nominal
rate of discount to six pence. The
charge for advances has also been raised to
6eveu pence. Rates of discount were
somewhat irregular after the bank rate was
raised, but for three months back paper
fully six per cent, was obtained in most
quarters.”
One hundred thousand pounds in eagles
from Paris were brought here yesterday for
New York.
ARREST OF A STAGE ROBBER.
Council Bluffs, October 15.—Doag
Goodale, of Atlantic, Iowa, returned home
from the Black Hills yesterday and was im
mediately arrested by a detective who was
waiting, on a charge of participating in the
stage robbery at Hot Creek, Wyoming Ter
ritory, a few days ago. A bar of gold worth
nearly five thousand dollars was found in
his possession. The officers are confident
of their ability to establish his guilt. The
accused was brought to Council Bluffs last
night and lodged in jail to await trial.
TURKEY THREATENS ARMED OPPOSITION TO
AUSTRIA.
London, October 15.—A Vienna dispatch
to the Manchester Guardian says: “Simul
taneously with the presentation of his cre
dentials, the Ottoman Ambassador to Vienna
was ordered to declare to Andrassy that the
Porte would be compelled to oppose by
arms the advance of Austrian troops upon
Novi Bazar.”
RENOUNCED THEIR PROJECTED VISIT.
London, October 15.—It is announced in
official form that Sir Michael Hicks Beach,
Colonial Secretary, and Mr. William Henry
Smith, First Lord of the Admiralty, have
renounced their projected visit of inspection
to Cyprus aud Malta, owing to the unsettled
state of affairs in the East.
GERMAN BROKERS FAILED.
New* York, October 15.—The announce
ment was made to the Stock Exchange to
day that Hoar & Co., German brokers, at
35 Wall street, have failed. The firm was
long of gold, but short of stocks.
THEATRE MANAGER DEAD.
South Manchester,Conn., October 15.—
Arthur Cheney, manager of the Globe Thea
tre of Boston, died this morning.
EVENING TELEGRAMS.
A PANIC IN THE IRON TRADE OF
GLASHOW.
Failures for Hie Third (Quarter of 1878
GEXERAL COXJtITIOXS OF TRADE.
THE UNITED STATES SUPREME
COURT.
TIIE VANDERBILT WILL CONTEST
CougrcNKlonal Nomination*.
WASHINGTON WEATHER PROPHET.
Office of the Chief vgnal observer,
Washington, D. C., October 15.—Indica
tions for Wednesday:
In the South Atlantic and Gulf States,
falling barometer, south winds, warmer,
cloudy weather, followed in the southwest
by rising barometer and colder north winds,
will prevail.
In the Upper Mississippi and Lower Mis
souri valleys, northeast to southeast winds
and falling* barometer, followed in the west
ern portions by rising barometer and colder
northwest winds.
In the Middle Atlantic States, southeast
to southwest winds, wanner, cloudy weather
and possibly occasional rain and falling ba
rometer.
In Tennessee and the Ohio valley, fall
ing barometer, warmer southerly winds,
partly cloudy weather and occasional rains.
FAILURES FOR THE THIRD QUARTER—CONDI
TIONS OF TRADE IMPROVING.
New York, October 15.—The number of
failures for the third quarter of 1878 were
2,853 as compared with 1,816 in the same
quarter of last year. The liabilities for the
last quarter are $66,000,000 as compared
with $4*2,000,000 in the same period of 1877.
The trade of the country is believed to
have survived what threatened to be a seri
ous shock to confidence and credit, growing
out of the circumstances of the repeal of
the bankrupt law, and, excepting the un
fortunate epidemic in the South, the general
conditions of trade are more healthy than
at any time since 1873.
CONGRESSIONAL NOMINATIONS.
New Haven, Conn., October 15.—The
Second district Republicans nominated Ben
jamin Douglass for Cougress.
Bhocktown, Mass., October 15.—The Re
publicans of the Second district renominated
13. W. Harris for Congress.
Providence, October 15.—The Democrats
of the Eastern Congressional district nomi
nated Edward W. Brunsou for Congress.
The Democrats of the Second district nomi
nated J. B. Barnarby.
Middletown, N. Y., October 15.—The
Republicans of the Fourteenth district nomi
nated John W. Ferdon.
united states supreme court.
Washington, October 15.—The ejectment
suit in the Jumel will case, involving an
immense amount of property in New York,
will be taken up in the Supreme Court to
morrow.
The case of Reynolds vs. the United
States, a U tab polygamy case, is reassigned
for the 14th of November.
Samuel P. Blanc, of New Orleans, and
Robt. T. Craighill, of Lynchburg, were ad
mitted to the bar to-day.
POST OFFICE ROBBERS—YELLOW FEVER CON
TRIBUTION.
New York, October 15.—The Post Office
Department is making vigorous efforts to
bring the various bands of mail robbers in
Texas and the Western Territories to jus
tice. and there is prospect of success.
The Secretary of State has received from
the Consul of the United States at Lyons,
France, $1,200, subscribed in that city for
the relief of the yellow fever sufferers.
VANDERBILT'S SPIRITUALISM.
New York, October 15.—Iu the Vander
bilt wiH case to-day Mrs. Mary E. Bennett
testified to getting Commodore Vanderbilt
at a seance, where he communicated with
his deceased wife and Jim Fisk, both in the
spirit land.
PANIC IN THE IRON TRADE.
Glasgow, October 15.—There is a panic
in the iron trade here in consequence of a
reported heavy failure and rumors of other
suspensions. Prices of pig iron were at one
time ten pence per ton lower on the day.
POLAND WITHDRAWS FROM THE SENATORIAL
CONTEST.
Montpelier, October 15.—Luke P. Po
land has withdrawn from the United States
Senatorial contest, leaving the field for
Morrill,
SAVANNAH, WEDNESDAY, OCTOBER 16, 1878.
MORRILL RE-ELECTED SENATOR.
Montpelier, Vt., October 15.—Justin S.
Morrill was re-elected United States Senator
this afternoon.
SPICE MERCHANTS FAILED.
London, October 15.—Westwick & Co.,
spice merchants, have failed; liabilities
£70,000.
The Greenback Movement Analyzed.
New York (rravhic.
Several of the Republican papers are
talking very wildly and loosely—yes,
and foolishly—about “The Greenback
Craze.” They attempt to show that the
Democrats who say anything in favor of
greenbacks, as well as the Greenbackers
proper, are all either dishonest knaves
or fools crazed with impracticable
schemes. Now, let us look at this mat
ter carefully, and see what the Green
back movement really amounts to. It
has no point whatever in the States of
California, Nevada, Oregon, Colorado
or Texas, nor in any of our mineral
liearing territories. The people of those
districts do not use greenbacks or paper
money of any kind, save to a very limit
ed extent, and they can he depended
upon to vote against the Greenback par
ty' movement in any shape. But
there are Greenbackers and Green-
backers. A noisy minority of doc
trinaires, numerically’ insignificant, real
ly believe in fiat money—in issuing
irredeemable paper to circulate as money
—having an intrinsic value imparted to
it by the government stamp, but without
being convertible in any way* or at an.
time into the precious metals. We do
not believe that to-day upon a poll of the
nation there would be found one fiat
money man in each one hundred of the
population. There is another class who
do not believe in fiat money, but who
would be willing to see it used by the
General Government, the States, munici
palities and private individuals, in the
hope that thereby they might either get
rid of their just debts or to have them
so scaled that the burden of them would
be light. These people make up a larger
class than the genuine fiat money* men.
No doubt many’ of the ex-rebels in the
South would 1*0 glad to get rid of their
share of the burdens of the deb
contracted to force them back into
i he Union in this way*. And, too,
there are those who believe that a little
more inflation would be good for general
business. They only remember that when
paper money was first issued, in the early
days of the war, debtors were relieved,
and times were made lively. This cla'-s
of people embraces a large number in the
North and South, belonging hitherto to
both the Republican and Democratic par
ties. ' But Senator Thurman, aud those
who agree with him, and who comprise
to-day the ruling power in the Democratic
party, demand only* that greenbacks shall
be substituted for the notes of the na
tional hanks, and insist that they shall
alway's be convertible into gold and sil
ver. Their argument is that currency
ought to be issued only by the nation,
and should not be made a source of pro
fit to bankers.
This latter is, in fact, the Greenback
proposition to day before the country.
It is the only* phase of the Greenback
question which is likely to affect the poli
tics of the country for the next two
years; and it is grossly unfair for the
Republican press to class with the fiat
money men, iutlationistsand repudiation-
ists, Senator Thurman and those Repub
licans and Democrats who are with him
in the opinion that it is better the gov
ernment should issue all the paper cur
rency of the land than that the govern
ment and the banks should both issue it.
We do not believe that the next House of
Representatives will contain thirty men
in favor of fiat money. We doubt
whether inflation proper would receive
the support of more than one-third of
the House; but a proposition to substi
tute greenbacks for the issues of the
national banks would be likely to receive
a large majority in both House and Sen
ate.
The Republican press discredits the
intelligence ol its readers in failing to
make the discrimination we have pointed
out in the so-called Greenback movement.
The fact is, the national bank system was
framed for a specific purpose and was
part of the war measures of the govern
ment. The time has come when it
should be put upon a peace basis and
adjusted to meet the present wants of
the nation. We believe that the final
result of this discussion will be the
establishment of a great national fiscal
agency, which will do for us what our
national bank did after the revolution
and the war of 1812, and like the institu
tions which have been found so useful
in England, France, Germany and all
civilized nations. We shall never get
out of our financial troubles until we
have a great regulator like this. When
we have it. it w’ill hasten the day when
New York will be the money centre of
the world. Tuesday’s elections seem to
show *hat “ fiat ” money will soon cease
to be an issue. The greenback question
will be fought out on the line proposed
by Senator Thurman, and the national
banks might as well understand that in
new adjustment they will have to abate
their present demand “ to be let alone ”
very considerably.
The excavations of Dr. Schliemann on
the little island of Jthaca, supposed to
have been the ancient kingdom of Ulys
ses, have resulted in discoveries as inter
esting in their way as those at Troy and
Myceme. The remains of six or seven
buildings, thought to constitute the cas
tle of Ulysses, have been discovered on
Mount .Etos. The grotto identified as
the one mentioned in the Odyssey* as tiie
place where Ulysses, assisted by Minerva,
hid his treasure, was found to be treas
urers ou excavation, but, outside of
this disappointing divergence, it cor
responded with Homer’s description.
The Santa Cruz Insurrection.—
Dispatches received yesterday from the
Island of Santa Cruz say that over one
hundred estates, between Frederickstct
Constitution Hill, have beeu laid waste,
and that Frederickstct is in ashes. As
far as known only one white person,
Major Gillett, has’been killed. He was
Chief of Police More than 300 negroes
were killed on the estate Anais. There
are only fifty soldiers on the island, and
the population is 3,000 white and 22 000
negroes. The troubles grew out of a
new labor act requiring the negroes to
support themselves.—X. T. Sun.
The Russian papers have lately con
tained reports about a band of robbers
which has appeared in the district of
Paulovsk, in Southern Russia, and has
spread terror through all the neighbor
ing region. It is reported to be over 200
strong. The Captain is said to be a
peasant woman of singular beauty’, who
was previously.connected with a gang of
forgers of rouble notes. The Russiaii
Government is so desirous of procuring
the arrest of this female chief that it has
set a price of $11,250 upon her head.
Dr. O’Donnell loaded a wagon with
Chinese lepers, in San Francisco, and
exhibited them in the streets as proof of
his previous assertions that the leprosy
was common in that city, lie was ar
rested, but a Justice discharged him.
He declared that he could fill the court
room with lepers in two hours.
Leprosy has appeared at Parcent do
Pedregucr and several other towns in the
province of Alicante, in Spain. Several
cases have proved fatal. The authorities
intend establishing a special hospital for
the reception of those persons attacked
by the scourge.
Outrage by Revenue Officials.—
Two of a United States revenue raiding
party in Tennessee, a few nights ago
called a colored man out of his house,
ami then went in and outraged his wife.
They have been arrested and bailed in
one thousand dollars for trial.
An English comic paper represents the
Prince of Wales reading Le Figaro and
puffing a cigar as he exclaims, “Charity
begins at home! Send a hundred guineas
to the Marbeuf chapel at Paris, and fifty
to the Princess Alice relief fund.”
LETTER FROM OUR TRAVELING
CORRESPONDENT.
Macon—Bibh County vs. Dr. Jane*—
Politic* — Educational Matters —
Public Schools—Colleges—Fair Pre
parations—Masonic Grand Lodge—
Semi-Centennial of Methodism-
Public Library—Personal.
Macon, October 12.—Editor Homing Neics:
Macon, like every other business centre, has
bad her share of prosperity this fall. The
increase of cotton receipts has put new life
into every other branch of trade. Greater
activity pervades every circle than has been
known for years past, and there has been a
promptness in meeting business obligations
which is truly refreshing in these degenerate
times.
Quite a number of new buildings have
been erected during the summer and nearly
every one occupied. Business for several
years has been tending towards the passen
ger depot, but for some unknown cause it
has taken a back track, and Mulberry street,
which has been almost forsaken for some
years, is now becoming one. of the most
popu.ar business streets in the city.
A number of dwellings—some of them
elegant—have also been built this season.
And not least* of the improvements, the
Brown House, which was d stroyed by tire
last spring, has come up out of the ashes
“a thing of beauty” and a joy
to the ' traveling public. It has
all the modern improvements and
is first class in all of its appointments. It is
not yet quite computed, but is open for the
reception of travelers, and all the rooms will
be ready by the opening of the State Fair,
which is held here on the 28th inst. Col.
Brown is jubilant at his success in getting it
completed so soon, and assures his old
friends that none shall be turned away.
Many complaints coine up from tiie citi
zens of Bibb county against Dr. Janes’ rep
resentation of them in his “Manual of Geor
gia.” JThe Daily Telegraph criticised him
sharply some tiu e ago, and this publication
has awakened inquiry, and, after investiga
tion, many are confident that great injus
tice has been done to this noble old county,
arising either from ignorance of the facts in
the case or from defective information, cer
tainly not from want of candor, as some
charge him.
Political waters are much troubled in this
section, the strife being confined wholly to
the local politicians. The bill-boards are
filled with the announcements of rival can
didates. A man’s arm really feels tired when
he goes home at night, the result of so much
baud shaking. Tnere are so many willing
to neglect and sacrifice their own business
just to attend to the business of the public.
Municipal matters arc waxing warm, and
the ides of December will find them at fever
heat. The war has opened in the newspa
pers, aud the dictionaries are diligently
searched for adjectives and other qualifying
words used in descriptive writings. It is all
Democratic, and resolves itself into a fight
between the ins and the outs.
Iu educational circles all is activity. The
Public Schools, under the Superintendency
of Prof. Zettler,opened with full houses. I
am uuder obligation to the Superintendent
for a copy of his able aud excellent report
of the transactions of last year. I only
wonder that he has accomplished so much
with such meagre means at his command.
Iu fact for several years the Superintendent
has had his hands tied in this regard, and
has not been able to give a proper demon
stration of the utility and excellence of the
system of public schools. He has not had
the means to work the system up to what its
friends claim for it. No wonder that many
of tiie people doubt still its utility. Such
a system half worked is detrimental
instead of beneficial to the public good.
Without the ability of paying a living salary,
teachers of the better class cannot be se
cured, while the very idea of a free school
with many people, thoughtless, it is true, is
a barrier to sending their children to a pay
school. Again, many remembering that
they are taxed to keep up these public
scli^ois, they do not feel able to send their
children to a private school—if would be
double taxing them. Thus the higher
grades of private schools are driven out of
the community for want of support. There
is a controversy going on in one of the city
papers now about this question, and the ap
propriation of money. I was told, how
true I do not know, that there was not
more than four or five of the members of
the present School Board who send their
children to the public school, nominally
saying, at least, that they have no faith in
them.
The Alexander Free School, under control
of Professor Bates and Miss Flora Smith, is
filled to overflowing, and many applicants
turned away.
Pio Xono* College opened encouragingly,
and everything is moving off under the new
arrangement admirably A prosperous year
awaits them. So also the Mount De Sales
Academy, under the auspices of the Catho
lic Church.
Mercer University opens with a larger
number of new students than ever. Presi
dent Battle and his efficient corps of teach
ers are all in place, and looking forward to
one of the most successful years in the his
tory of this grand old institution. A meet
ing of the Board of Trustees was appointed
for this week, but there was a failure for
want of a quorum.
Jhe Wesleyan Female College, under the
Presidency of Rev. W. C. Bass, D. D., is
moving along gloriously. It opened with
about one hundred and "fifty young ladies
in September, and more have been added.
The new professor, Dr. Harrison, is winning
his way into the hearts of both faculty ana
pupils by his excellent bearing and manner
of imparting instruction. He is a success.
The venerable Dr. A. A. Lipscomb, of Van
derbilt University, is here at present, giving
a series of lectures on Beilcs Lettres before
the post graduates, a new department intro
duced this year in this institution. He
lias been eminently successful in forming a
class, and everybody is charmed with liis
lectures. They could not be otherwise, for
he is one of the most accomplished scholars
and entertaining speakers iu the South.
There is a great deal of fair talk among
the people here, and every effort is being
made to make the approaching fair one of
the best ever held iu the State. The mag
nificent city park is being put in splendid
condition, and all things will be in readi
ness by the 28th inst.
There will be all manner of entertain
ments during the fair to keep the large
crowd of visitors busy and to catch the
stray penny.
The Grand I*odge of Freemasons meet
here on the 29th inst., and will swell the
crowd in attendance upon the fair greatly.
Rev. F. AL Kennedy, D. D., editor of the
Southern Christian Advocate, publi.-hed now
in Charleston, S. C., and who was stricken
with paralysis a few months ago, has re
turned to this city. He has been greatly
improved by bis sojourn in the mountains
of Virginia.
Rev. A. A. Lipscomb, D. D., LL.D., is
preparing, and will favor the citizens of
Macon with a series of Shakespearian lectures
during next month. He is a polished speaker,
with fiue poetic genius, and will make every
thing which he touches sparkle with genuine
eloquence and wit.
The members of Mulberry street Metho
dist Church are preparing for a grand semi
centennial anniversary of the introduction
of Methodism in the city of Macon. It
will come off in November next. All the
ex-pastors living will be invited.
The Public Library has grown to be one of
the most attractive institutions in the city,
among all classes of citizens. It is kept in
elegant order by our friend Charlie Herbst.
Jack Plane.
Remarkable Adventure in tiie
Breslau Wilderness.—Levi Cipperly,
a wood cutter, living in the wilderness
near Breslau, Long Island, quitted his
house on Saturday afternoon. His
family, supposing he had gone to Baby
lon to work, were not alarmed at his
absence. On Tuesday morning Cipper-
ly’s son, a lad of ten years, m passing
through a seldom visited part of the
wilderness, heard groans. On investi
gation the boy found his father held fast
to the ground by a tree, which had fallen
across his legs. Cipperly had chopped
the tree down, and had been crushed be
neath it. After an hour’s hard w*ork the
boy released his father. Cipperly was
unable to walk, and the boy was obliged
to go for assistance to carry him home.
No bones were broken, and, although
badly bruised and half famished for want
of food, Cipperly is recovering. The
place where he met with the accident is
three-quarters of a mile from any house,
and, although he hallooed for help until
he was hoarse, no one heard his cries
until his son found him.—Xew York Sun,
With.
A Justice of the Peace at. Vincennes,
Ind., was recently waited upon by a ru
ral couple who declined to give their
names, but insisted upon taking oaths
that that which they were about to tell
each other was the truth, the whole
truth, and nothing but the truth. They
then whispered the matter to each other
paid the fees and lef t,looking very happy,
LETTER FROM ALBANY.
The Weather-*The Fair —“Tete”
Smith and Independent!*!!!—Italics
—An Escape - An Editor Huns —
Butterflie* Going Ea*t—The Tem
perance Movement—Savannah Bi
valve*—Minor Matters.
Albany, Ga., October 13.—Editor Hom
ing Xetcs: To-day the old man who regulates
the weather at Washington is performing
his duty in a manner acceptable to everybody
—blue sky above us. sunshine of just the
right temperature around us, and sprightly
zephyrs singing nameless melodies among
the autumn leaves.
THE FAIR.
The fair is the all-absorbing topic here.
Everybody takes an interest in it, and are
enthusiastic upon the subject. It is a good
institution, stimulating, as it does, emula
tion among farmers, merchants, stock
dealers, etc., etc., thereby bringing
into prominence and into practical
use the best methods of attaining suc
cess in the different branches of industry.
At the present time of writing everything
indicates that we will have a tremendous
crowd next week. More than twenty racers
are already upon the grounds, and a num
ber are expected to arrive to-day. There
will be races every day, both on land and
water, and these two features alone will
insure heavy receipts at the gate. The dis
play of agricultural products, machinery,
merchandise, etc., will be large and attrac
tive, and the many other features of the
fair, which I have not time to enumerate,
will make the occasion both interesting and
instructive to all who attend. The officers
of the association deserve high credit for
the very efficient manner in which they
have discharged, so far, their onerous
duties.
COL. C. H. C. WILLINGHAM,
one of Felton’s henchmen, has endeavored
very persistently to make it appear that our
“ Tete ” favored the re-election to Congress
of that noted disorganizer of the Demo
cratic party in the Seventh. No one who
has the honor of Capt. Smith’s acquaintance
will believe for a moment that he would
lend his countenance to anything calculated
to disrupt the party he has struggled so
manfully to bring into power; but fearing
that those who do not kuow him personally
might be deceived by the statement of the
Free Press, he has published a card flatly
denying the charge. I would be as much
surprised to bear of the devil having taken
to the use of holy water as I would to hear
of Tete Smith indorsing independentism.
No, no ; Tete Smith believes that the power
to redeem this country from the misrule
under which it has for so many years been
sinking, lies in the Democratic party, and in
its ranks, with the determination and en
thusiasm which are born of a good cause,
be will be found battling bravely until that
redemption is au assured fact.
the use of italics.
So much has this “poor” type been used
aud abused, that I feel constrained to say a
word in its behalf—in behalf of its having a
“rest.” In ninety-nine words out of the
hundred where it is used it could be left out
without injury to the force of the language.
If the point of a joke is so obscure that it
is necessary to use italics to bring it into
view, the waste-basket has been cheated
if it appears in print. Putting the names of
newspapers in italics is another abuse of this
unoffending type, as it consumes time mov
ing to another “case” to obtain it. and really
disfigures the appearance of the paper. Ro
man type, clearly printed and properly used,
will express the writer’s ideas as eloquently
and as graphically as italics, and >ave the
appearance of the paper besides.
A TIMELY RUN.
An adjuster of movable alphabets in one
of our offices, one day last week, saw a
bailiff approaching, and to avoid the un
pleasantness of “hanging”—on the jury—
raised a window and skipped out on adjoin
ing roof, where he “roosted” until the
bailiff, with disappointment nestliug on bis
brow, departed. The unpleasantness of
“hauging” on the jury might be removed
If the eountv would prepare better accom
modations for its citizens while in that
“fix.” Three good meals a day, plenty of
easy chairs, lounges, cigars, champagne,
wine, waluuts, etc., during the day, and nice
feather beds at night, with polite servauts
in attendance, might reconcile them to
“hanging” occasionally.
SAD EVENT—AN EDITOR HUNG.
Editors have to serve on the jury here the
same as “common” people. Last week the
“heavy” editor of the Xews, who is also a
member of the Dramatic Troupe, was called
upon to serve his county in this capacity.
The jury “huug” on the first case, and spent
the night iu the jury room, and also the next
day. The h. e. spent the weary hours of
the night mentally rehearsing his “piece”
and anathemizing the “mule-headed” mi
nority. His mind is in proper condition
now to look favorably upon the fire com
pany as a . esirable organization to be en
rolled iu.
A MIGRATION OF BUTTERFLIES.
Last week I 6aw one of the largest migra
tions Of butterflies I ever witnessed. The
swarm was probably fifty yards wide, and
were moving in au easterly direction. I
watched them passing for more than ten
minutes, and duriug that time did not see
one vary from the course. They were of
the yellow-winged species, and would meas
ure about an inch and a quarter from tip to
tip of wings. From the tenacity with which
they held to their course, it is evident they
had important business east.
MR. s. 8. SWEET,
your energetic representative, arrived here
yesterday, looking the embodiment of vig
orous health. 1 have not had an opportu
nity of “speaking” him as yet, but. hope to
do so during next week. I am well aware
that he is an efficient newspaper agent; and
any hotel might be proud to lie able topoiut
to him as an indicator of the effects of its
table. He was formerly connected with the
press of this city as part proprietor of the
Albany Xtirs, is extensively acquainted here
and popular with all.
FRANCIS MURPHY’S ADHERENTS.
That the Murphy movement did much
good in our community is undeniable; but
1 am serry to say that the enthusiasm which
greeted its inauguration is fast cooling down.
Meetings are poorly attended, ami occasion
ally I hear of a “brother” reclining by the
wayside, a victim of the “ardent.”’ It is to
be hoped that such will re-sign the pledge,
and hold out more resolutely against the
vile demon, whisky, in the future. *
SAVANNAH OYSTERS.
Our dealers speak highly of the superi
ority of Savannah oysters over those obtained
from other places, and from my owu experi
ence in this line am satisfied that they are
correct. No better oysters grow than those
that are shipped from Savannali here, and
they are fit food for the gods after being
manipulated by our skilled restaurateurs.
A COMPLIMENT TO THE NEWS.
Iii conversation with one of our citizens
the other day, I remarked that I did not see
the Savannah News among his papers.
“Some one has borrowed it,” he replied.
“I am a subscriber, and consider it the best
daily in the State.”
MINOR NOTES.
Candy “bilins” are now agitating country
*lM0ea. —
Is a well red nose an indication of culti
vated taste ?
Wheu a policeman has his coat tom off,
mightn’t he be said to be a peeled peeler?
“Why turn away when I draw near?”
Bad breath.
Nearly a car load of “sporting” men ar
rived on the Southwestern train this even
ing. They have come for “fair” play.
The Barnes House is elegantly fitted up
for the reception of guests during next week.
“That particular pattern of goods is just
out,” said the merchant to a customer, “but
I am looking for a iot every minute,” and
then sent a clerk through the back yard, to
the next store, en the sly, and borrowed a
remnant!
It is said that tbe pen is mightier than the
sword. Hog pen, perhaps.
There was a slight frost here this morn
ing, or words to that effect.
Albany has a good crop of marriageable
young men on hand.
Less extravagance displayed by Albany
ladies in dress than in any city in Georgia.
Close the outer'door. H. W. J.
Most persons would agree that the rose
has enough in its perfume and beauty to
sustain its pretensions to lie queen of
flowers; but it seems that the rose can be
made exquisite also to a third sense.
Not long ago, a confection of rose petals
was served to Emperor William. It was
the gift of an English lad}’, and came
from Alexandria, where the rose thus
prepared is considered a strengthening as
well as delicate dish; but Egyptian
cooks are said to be the only ones who
understand the art of preparing it, and
the right species of rose for this purpose
grows only in that region. A Smyrna
house, however, exports a jelly of roses.
Perhaps research might find a way of
converting other flowers besides Eastern
roses into delicate food. In that case
cookery and floriculture would strike up
a closer alliance than it now seems possi
ble for them to have.
ESTABLISHED 1850.
Wonders of the Electric Light.
Baltimore Sun.
The electric light which has been in
use at the Maryland Institute since the
beginning of the fair, and by means of
which the building has been nightly il
luminated, is one of the most interesting
features of the exhibition. The lamp
which has been placed nightly during the
week on the tower of the Institute, has
served also to bring out the full strength
of the light when thrown upon the City
Hall and various distant buildings on
Baltimore street. Even when the moon
has been shining its radiance has been
completely eclipsed by the luminous light
which flashed from the tower, aud the
City Hall especially has looked like a
stereoscoped picture. There are six
“electro-magneto ” machines in the hall,
which generate the electricity. To the
unscientific eye the process by which the
light is obtained seems mysterious. The
looker-on sees nothing but a bar of
hard iron, around which coils of cop
per wire are wound. Placed parallel
with these are a set of spindles of
soft iron, around which there are coils of
wire. These spindles revolve on an axis,
but do not come in contact with the per
manent magnet. Iu their revolutions
the copper wire offers a certain amount
of what is technically termed residuum
resistance, and thus, although why it is
hard to determine, generates or induces
electricity. The process may be illus
trated by placing a steel pen on a sheet
of paper and placing a magnet under it.
The revolution of the armatures on the
face of the magnets of the generating
machinery produces electricity, which is
thus conveyed by means of copper wire
to the carbon candles. The electrical
current which is sent out is in reality not
a continuous one, but so near to it that
the image of each recurring flash is re
tained on the retina of the eye until
the next one appears. A portable
Page engine, which supplies the
power, is of forty-horse power,
and the machine makes eight hundred
revolutions per minute. From six ma
chines an illuminating power equal to
twelve thousand candles can lie obtained.
With this light objects at the distance of
three or four miles, such as men or ani
mals, can be clearly seen at night through
Cimmerian darkness. At two miles dis
tance any one possessed of good eyesight
could easily read the Sun or tell the time
from the face of a watch in the rays of
this light. The machine differs from others
which are in use in that instead of there
being a circuit from each machine there
is only one for all, two wires only being
run to all of the lamps. There are many
practical purposes to which the light
can be turned to account, such as the
lighting of factories, warehouses and
large buildings already furnished with
steam power. Nor is there any
doubt but that some inventive genius
like Edison will so perfect it that it will
supersede the lighting of streets by gas.
At present the discovery may be said to
be in the same condition as coal gas was
in England when first used as an illumi
nator, and when so many difficulties
were met with iu controlling its force.
Even those who have studied the work
ings of the present machine are at a loss
to understand the principle which ope
rates so successfully, and simply know
that the power is transformed into light.
The gramme machine is now in use at
Cherbourg lighthouse, and the results
have been very satisfactory. In 1808
the Lighthouse Board of the United
States had under consideration the feasi
bility of using the electric light in
American lighthouses. But there were
several obstacles in the way, such
as the labor of transporting fuel,
the increased cost of machinery,
and the difficulty of finding electricians
to act as lighthouse keepers, and the pro
ject was abandoned. The advance, how
ever, which has been made in electrical
discoveries since that time has been so
rapid that it is safe to presume all these
questions will before many years receive
a practical solution. The machines in
use in the institute are from the factory
of Messrs. Wallace A Sons, Anconia,
Connecticut, and the representative of
the firm in charge of them states that the
tests made here have been very gratify
ing. The light which flames nightly
from the tower of tbe Institute, although
intensely luminous, has a softness which
all< »ws of its being steadily watched, and
it is interesting to note the prismatic rays
which shoot out from it like long spears,
and seem to melt away against the back
ground of the sky and to taper down
wards until they mingle with the crowd
on the busy streets and vanish in the
darkness.
Threatened Business Crisis in Great
Britain.
There seems to be ground to fear lest
the failure of the City of Glasgow Bank,
like that of Jay Cooke in this country in
1873, is the precursor of a serious busi
ness crisis in Great Britain. That coun
try, as is well known, has been eating
her capital ever since 1875. The failure
of the City of Glasgow Bank seems to
have been mainly caused by its efforts to
sustain some houses very largely em
barked in enterprises in India, and it is
well known that the India trade, one • so
profitable and so safe, has been in a pre
carious state ever since its conditions
were changed by the completion of the
Suez canal. That new route was opened
to commerce in 1869. It shortened the
voyage to India, threw numbers of
Indiamen out of duty, entirely
changed the course and conditions
of exchange—already much disturbed
by the development of cotton cul
ture in India during our civil war
and its subsequent collapse—and pretty
much broke up all tbe traditional ways
of doing business with the Fast Indies.
Many of the old India houses made a
gallant struggle, but one by one they
seem to have succumbed, their capital
and savings being gradually engulphed
in unproductive business, and the firms
upheld by the City of Glasgow Bank
were probably houses which have striven
in vain, and at heavy loss, to accommo
date themselves to the new order of
things. Besides this drv rot in the In
dian trade the banks anJ capitalists have
had to sustain the large manufacturing
establishments in a close and disas
trous competition with their rivals in the
United States, France, Belgium and Ger
many. In this competition the manufac
turers of cotton, linen, jute, iron, steel,
hardware and cutlery cannot fail to have
suffered severely. How much let two
instances suffice to show: Before 1873
we imported from Great Britain $16,-
000,000 in raHroad iron per annum. In
1877 we imported less than $1,000 worth.
In 1872 we imported foreign made car
pets (chiefly British) to The value of
$6,000,000; in 1877 the trade had ceased.
It is probable that these things have be
gun to tell severely on Great Britain’s
reserved capital, and have compelled a
contraction in the line of credits which
may very easily be followed by the col
lapse of many other rotten establish
ments, if not by a general commercial
panic. The London Times counsels
coolness and presence of mind so ener
gelically that it manifestly is dreading
some sort of a crisis.
To an experienced London railroad
porter a richly dressed lady, with ac
companying babies and bundles, is as
interesting an object as a yard of fat
poultry to a hungry fox. Two lately
made for a traveler of this description,
and loaded her with attentions. But the
train was on the eve of starting, and, to
their ineffable disgust, no suitable recog
nition was m^de. Suddenly the lady’s
head emerged, the porters rushed for
ward, and, as the train slowly rolled
from the station, each itching palm re
ceived—a tract; which, it may be feared,
they were not, at least just at that mo
ment, in quite the right frame of mind
to profit by.
Adulterated Honey.—At the Bee-
keeper’s Convention, in session in New
York last week, when the adulteration
of honey was under discussion it was as
serted that the bees were fed with grape
sugar or glucose, and that much of the
honey offered in market is adulterated.
The Legislature of New York istDbe
asked to enact a law making the adultera
tion of honey a punishable offense.
THE STATE ELECTIONS.
When They are to be Held Officer*
lo be Elected, etc.
On November 5 twenty-nine States
will hold their elections. Alabama will
elect eight Congressmen. All of the
present members are Democrats. Ar
kansas will elect four Congressmen. All
of the present members are Democrats.
Connecticut will elect State officers,
one-half of the Senate and all of the
House, which will elect a United States
Senator. She also elects four Congress
men. The present delegation stands
three Democrats and one Republican.
Delaware will elect a Governor. Legisla
ture, and one Congressman. The present
Representative is a Democrat. Florida
will elect a majority of the Senate and
all of the House, (which will elect a
United States Senator.) and two Con
pressmen. The present members are a
Democrat and a Republican. Georgia
will elect nine Congressmen. All of the
present members are Democrats. Illi
nois will elect part of the State officers,
half of the Senate aud all of
the House (which will elect
a United States Senator) and nine
teen Congressmen. The present dele
gation stands thirteen Republicans to six
Democrats. Kansas will elect State offi
cers, Legislature to choose a United
States Senator, and three Congressmen.
All the present members are Repubii
cans. Kentucky will elect ten Congress
men. All the present members are
Democrats. Louisiana will elect part of
the State officers, one-half of the Senate,
a full House to elect United States Sena
tor, six Congressmen, and one to fill va
cancy. The present delegation stands
four Democrats to two Republicans.
Maryland will elect six Congressmen.
All the present members are Democrats.
Massachusetts will elect State officers,
Legislature and eleven Congressmen.
Ten of the present members were elected
as Republicans. Michigan will elect
State officers. Legislature and nine Con
gressmen. Eight of the present members
are Republicans, one Democ.at. Minne
sota will elect minor State offi
cers, Legislature and three Congress
men. All the present members are
Republicans. Mississippi will elect
a Secretary of State to fill Heaney
and six Congressmen. All the present
members are Democrats. Missouri will
elect minor State officers, Supreme Judge,
a Legislature which will choose a United
States Senator, and thirteen Congress
men. The present delegation stands nine
Democrats to four Republicans. Ne
braska will elect State officers, Legisla
ture and one Congressman; present mem
ber a Democrat. Also a Representative
to fill vacancy in present Congress. Ne
vada will elect State officers, a Legisla
ture which will choose United States
Senator, and one Congressman. Present
member a Republican. New Hampshire
will elect a Governor, Railroad Commis
sioners, Legislature and three Congress
men. The Legislature will choose a
Senator. New Jersey w*ill elect eight
Senators, a full House, and seven Con
gressmen. The present delegation stands
live Democrats to three Republicans.
New York will elect two Judges, a full
House, a Legislature which will choose a
Senator, and thirty-three Congressmen,
and one to fill a vacancy. The present
delegation stands fifteen Democrats to
eighteen Republicans. North Carolina
will elect eight Congressmen. The pres
ent delegation stands seven Democrats
to one Republican. Pennsylvania will
elect State officers, part of the Senate
and a full House, (which will elect a
United States Senator,) and twenty-seven
Congressmen. The present delegation
stands fifteen Republicans to twelve
Democrats. Rhode Island will elect two
Congressmen. The present members are
Republicans. South Carolina will elect
State officers, a Legislature which will
choose a Senator, and live Congressmen.
The present delegation stands three Re
publicans to two Democrats. Tennessee
will elect a Governor, Legislature, and
ten Congressmen. The present delega
tion stands eight Democrats to two lie-
publicans. Texas will elect State offi
cers, half the Senate, a full House, and
six Congressmen. All the present mem
bers are Democrats. Virginia will elect
nine Congressmen. Eight of the pres
ent members are Democrats. Wisconsin
will elect a Legislature (which will choose
a Senator) and eight Congressmen. Five
of the present members are Republicans
and three Democrats.
EDISON ECLIPSED.
A HooMier Invent* an Instrument
for TransuifttiiiK Sound—It* Mode
of Operation.
An invention that far outstrips Edi
son’s telephone in transmitting sound,
says a Cincinnati correspondent, and in
simplicity and cheapness of construction,
has been invented by an Indiana young
man, Mr. Israel D. Jewett, assisted by
his father, Mr. II. D. Jewett. The place
where this invention, which has l>ecn
named the agophone, came to light i< a
little village of one hundred inhabitants,
St. Omer, which lies about two miles
from the railroad town of St Paul, on the
Indianapolis, Cincinnati and Louisville
Railroad, about thirty-seven miles from
Indianapolis. Father and son are pro
prietors of a drug store, printing office,
musical instrument store, post office
and general repairing shop, all in the
same building. The instrument they
have invented is now in opera
tion between their general utility
shop and their residence, a quarter of
a mile away. The difference between
this instrument and Edison’s tele
phone is that it does not have to be held
to the mouth and shouted into by the
speaker, while the listener must hold his
ear to the tube to hear faint sounds. In
the agophone the speaker stands ten feet
away from the instrument, and his voice
is heard distinctly at the other end of the
line at an equal or greater distance from
the instrument. The invention was in
spected by a reporter on Saturday, who
found a group of wondering neighbors
iraihered lo hear and see the great in
vention. A conversation was in progress
between tbe elder Jewett, in the store,
and his wife at their residence. Mr.
Jewett was leaning on the coun
ter, three or four feet away from
the little box, which was the instrument.
He spoke in a natural, easy tone, not es
pecially directing his voice to the instru
ment. Tbe answers came back with such
distinctness that they were understood
equally as well in the further corner of
the store as at the mouth of the instru
ment. Mrs. Jewett was asked to sing,
amrthe words “Over There" came wit a
all the sweetness ‘hat would have been
heard if the singer had been in an ad
joining room. Mr. Jewett went home,
and at the request of his son took a seat
eight feet from the instrument and play
ed the “Arkansas Traveler” on his vio
lin. Every note was heard distinctly,
not only in the store, but on the street
and in the rear yard, which is separated
by another room from the store. The
closing of a door, sweeping the floor,
footsteps and conversation between Mrs.
Jewett and others in her room, all were
heard in the drug store. The
ticking of a watch placed in
the instrument was heard at the
other end of the line. The inventor is
reticent about the principles of his in
strument. It has no battery and no
magnet, unless there is a magnet most
artfully concealed. All that can be seen
of the agophone is a little box, open in
front, with black walnut sides, the back
of thin iron plate. About an inch in
front of the iron plate is a thin pine
board forming a partition across tne
box. It has an opening about an inch in
diameter, from which a small funnel of
thin copper plate runs back through the
iron end of the box, and closing on a
small brass wire. The brass wire ex
tends out about two yards and connects
with copper wire, which forms the con
necting medium. The instrument at the
other end of the line is the same. Mr.
Jewett does not offer an explanation of
his principle, except to say that the cop
per funnel is a vibrator.
Highly important correspondence.
The following letters explain them
selves:
Atlanta Constitution.
New York. October 8, 1878.
Bon. J.' W. Benfne Treasurer of the
State of Georgia, Atlanta:
Df vr'Sir—1 have beard it stated by
citizens of vour State that Georgia was
able to liquidate her entire State debt by
selling what property she owned. If
such be the fact, or anything Dear an ap
proximate to such a statement it is justly
due to the credit of the State to have
such fact officially announced—so that
the State and the bondholders may equal -
iv share iu the !*nefit arising from such
publicitv. It i- mvopm.onlhatifsuch
a sound"condition of your State was gen
erally known in this market yourbonds
would appreciate materially: Georpi
sixes would sell much higher, and what
is called the new seven per cent, bond
having a collateral security by a first
morttSge on a first rate railroad, owned
en.iidy by the State of tJeorgta, »ould
trust"}-™’ mav k panion°me if my views
should be ill-found, etc. ^”1^-
1**4 Eat) Broadway.
TItF.ASI.-KEK REXFROES REPEV.
Statf. of Georgia, t
Treasury Defaktmest, -
Ati xstv, Ga.. October 11,1878. )
BrAB Burtaak, So. 194 E. Broad-
waa, Xew York: .
AIv dear Sir—1 have just received
your letter of the 8th inst.. in which you
wish to know if statements that have
been made to von by citizens of (rforgia
are true; that Georgia owns property
enough to liquidate her debt, and if this
is true it should he generally made known,
and would have the effect to increase the
value of our Georgia bonds.
I am pleased to get your letter and
hasten to reply, and I think you will
agree with me that the facts of Georgia s
financial condition arc such as to legiti*
mately warrant purchasers of securities
to pay the highest price for her bonds.
The debt of the State is $10,444,500,
and the taxable property $23->,659,530.
The State owns two railroads that are
very valuable (tesides other property),
viz The We-tern and Atlantic Railroad,
worth $8,000,000: the Macon and Bruns
wick Railroad, worth $2,000,000. Tbe
first, the Western and Atlantic Railroad,
is leased to a compauy that pays the
State an annual rental of $b0d,000. It is
the main trunk line connecting Georgia
with the West, aud one of the main short
lines to the North. There is no more
valuable railroad property in tbe South.
The 31 aeon and Brunswick Railroad is
steadily increasing in value. The State
has been offered a million of dollars for
it, but it is worth two million. But let
us suppose that I have over valued these
two valuable railroads. Estimate the
Western and Atlantic Railroad at six
million, and the Macon and Brunswick
Railroad at one million, and the aggre
gate is seven million, leaving but a little
over three millions not covered bv assets.
Under the new constitution the State
is forever barred from making any new
debts, while she is annually paving off
the existing indebtedness. The income
of the State not only pays the expenses
of the State Government and the interest
on the public debt, but liquidates from
two to three hundred thousand dollars of
the principal yearly. As au evidence of
the improving financial condition of the
State, I may mention that fer a number
of years it has been necessary during the
summer months, before the taxes begin
to come in, and when a heavy instalment
of interest ou the public debt becomes
due, to make a temporary loan to bridge
the deficiencr. This temporary loan has
been steadily decreased, until this year
none at all had to be made, thus saving
interest to the State.
To recapitulate: With a debt of $10,-
444,500. being only one twenty-third of
the taxable property of $235,659,530,
with assets sufficient, if sold, to pay off
the debt; with a constitutional prohi
bition against the further increase of the
debt; with an income that pays expenses
and diminishes the debt yearly, it will be
seen that no better and stronger securi
ties invite the investment of the world,
than the stdid bonds of Georgia.
Very respectfully,
J. W. Rexfboe, Treasurer.
THE END OF A DESPERADO.
Execution of “Kill" Longlej, the
Murderer ol" Tfiirty-twro Persons.
A special to the Galveston, Tex., Xew*
from Giddings says that Wm. P. Long-
ley, generally known as Bill Longley,
was executea there on Friday in pres
ence of a vast crowd, for the murder of
Wilson Anderson in March, 1875. Long-
ley made a speech from the gallows ask
ing for forgiveness of those whom he
had injured, and warning his hearers to
forego revenge, as it was that passion
which brought him to the scaftoicL
Langley claimed to have perpetrated
thirty-two murders during his career. He
was twenty-seven years old, tall and
graceful, with a dark moustache and
goatee, a nose slightly Roman, white,
even teeth, and a mild hazel eye. Just
after the close of the war he and a com
panion started out to disarm some freed -
men, one of whom showed fight. Long-
ley killed him in the most brutal man
ner. With two boon companions he
dashed into Lexington one night shortly
after and opened a fusilade upon some
rollicking negroes, killing two and
wounding a third. Tbe shooting of an-
t>er oi me oixm
was attemptiug to arrest him. About t
time the desperado concluded it prudt
to pass over into Arkansas. Here he 1
in with a horse thief by the name of T<
Johnson. At night their cabin was s
rounded by a vigilance committee, a
!>oth were taken out, strung up and si
at. Johnson was killed, but the re
around Longley’s neck hitched uuder
car without slipping, aird a money b
about his body turned aside the bull
After the departure cf the vigilantes,
thirteen-year old boy cut down Longl<
and his friends .unfortunately succeee
in nureing him back to life. He sc
after joined a gang and helped to ha
ilie man who tied the knot around
neck. He claims to have killed :
others of the same party. Longley v
generally associated with a con gen
spirit, and the killing of negroes
them was looked upon as a mere pastir
John Wilson, fully as heartless and bio-
thirsty as Longley, finally separated fr
l*im and went into Eastern Texas, wh
he was shot dead while attempting to
rest a man named Merriman. Wbile goi
through the Indian Nation Longley k
ed a cattle drover named Rector and t
Osage Indians. Then be w ent to F
Leavenworth, where be became invoh
tl-1-i U soldier and shot him de;
Wmle fleeing from arrest he was capt
ed at St. Joseph, Mo., and taken back
Leavenworth, but succeeded bv brib
in escaping in Jess than a month. Lo
ley then secured a situation as a gove
ment teamster. He quarreled with
Quartermaster over the division of so
money out of which they had cheated
government, and the Quartermaster v
killed. As usual, Longley fled and tc
to tne mountains, hut was pursued, tal
and brought back. A court martial
suited in his being sentenced to thi
years imprisonment in Fort Madison 3
but before he was sent there he esca’p
went among the l tab Indians andi
suacled parties of them to attack sett]
and soldiers wherever the chance offer
. Longley returned to his old be
in Jexas, where his parents stiil h
l -nil* Way there from thc plains
killed a young man in one of the w
era towns of Kansas. After a t
weeks’ stay the young desperado drif
fp^ 0m!mch ^ 0 ' 1,,,y ’ "iterelte sh<
negro, a member of tbe State poi
In Let county Jived ( a i t b Lon-lev
uncle of our hero, whose ton had b
murdered by a man named Anders
Longley found the latter ploughing i
field and shot him dear! with a S
ed with twenty-four buekahoiF
^^ d . lhat he was hired b - v his ui
!uw riCtra:e tbis n ’ urder - Among
X eeL weri; ,Le murders c
.liaie . An s? !lns county, tour
f‘“ s - 4 desperado iu Waldo count-
farmer named Thomas in McCle
county and the Rev. Mr. Lav of L>
county The latter was .Iain he^Ut,
opposed the marriage of Loo-ley »r
He was final)}’ci;,;,;
victed° r ‘a* “ urdtr uf Anderson, ,
after a tedious delay, dur
^tehthe highest court of the S
h^ed P °" *“* crime > 31081 righteoi