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DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING, AUGUST 29, 1876.
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LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION!
AND MURE THAN
TWICE THE LARGEST
AOMEQJITC CIRCULATION I
DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
t'OH PREdOENT:
SAMUEL J. TILDEN,
OF NEW YORK.
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THOMAS A. HENDRICKS,
OF INDIANA.
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STATE DEMOCRATIC TICKET.
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ALFRED H. COLQUITT.
The deaths of Mrs. H. C. Everett, lira.
Elisabeth Stephens, and Mra. M. E. Gran,
of Jackson county, Florida, are reported.
Thus are fonr Presidential candidate*
in the field—Tilden, Democrat; Hayes,
Republican ; Cooper, Gsaenbaaker, end
Hmith, Teetotaler.
Bishop Coxi's daughter, who was mar
ried last week in Buffalo, received as a
wedding present from her husband
01,000,000 in bonds.
John Txi.ee, Jr., aon of ex-Praaident
Tyler, deceased, has become a minister in
the Methodist Episoopal Ghutoh, Sooth.
The looal paper says be preached an elo
quent sermon nt Weaiey Grove camp
meeting, in Maryland, on Monday Inst.
Be abed. —Sam Bard says that the scare
of the Uayaa men is a certain evidence of
their ooiuing defeat. When poblio speak-
era are sent into Vermont, Maine and
Massachusetts to prevent their voting for
Tilden, we may look on and langh.
Up to Saturday last the Federal Treas
ury had diabnrsad $0,230,000 silver in ei-
obange for fraotional ourrenoy, and $5,-
250,000 for legal tender notes reoeived.
This indoates a late new iasue of about
fifteen millions of dollars in silver coin;
and where is it ?
A wondehpul French megioan baa jest
arrived in New York. Among hi* oard
tricks is that of holding a pack of earda
aud making them gradually lessen in size
as ho shuffles them, until they are reduced
to a little bail of paper, which finally
vanishes entirely.
Disbaeu once oalled the great Irish
agitator a “bloody traitor," to wfaioh Mr.
O'Connell made tho memorable retort,
“For anght I know tho present Disraeli is
the true heir- at-law of the impenitent
thief who died on the cross. ” This led to
a challenge, wbioh was not aoeepted.
Oswald Ottendobpeb, says the Brook
lyn Eagle, said to an Eagle reporter yes
terday that the Tilden papers are, in point
of infiuenoe and oiroulation, as nine to
one compared with those that snpport
Hayes, while, by actual connt, the Tilden
papers outnumber the Hayes organs by
four to one.
Gov. Sam. Baud, of Mobil*, Ala., ad
dressed a large assemblage in Augusta,
Me., Tuesday evening with great elo
quence and power in support of Tilden,
reform, peuoe, and good will between all
seoliona of the oountry. Hia speech was
received with euthUBiastio oheers of ap
proval.
While General Hall was speaking for
Hayes in Maine, a few dayB ago, a man in
the orowd asked him a question, whereup
on the gallant general immediately de
nounced the interrogator as “a orawltng
syoophant, a sneaking rebel coward, and
a scum of God’s earth." This is the style
wbioh Mr. Wheeler’s model oommnnitiee
seem to regard as the highly argumenta
tive.
Toe Ohleago Tribune has out down the
amount saved by Demooratio retrench
ment to $11,000,000. No dearer evidence
of the hatred of eoomomy entertained by
the Uepublicans is necessary than the
frantio efforts of the party organs to prove
that the Democrats saved nothing by oat-
ting down the appropriations. They fairly
writhe over those healthy figures, $29,-
944,263.
Ool. Inoebsoll, who nominated Bleine
at (Jiudnnati, has gone to stump Maine.
He ia one of the moat brilliant of Radical
orators, and the ebleet infidel in the Uni
ted States. He entirely diabelievee in
the exiatenoe of God, and showed the
courage of his opinions by officiating re
cently at the funeral of hi* father-in-law,
at which bo would permit no religioua
ceremony.
Fonr yonng ladiee from the East recent
ly oainped out in Booth Carolina for a
couple of weeks. They started from
Santa Barbary in a large camp wagon
drawn by males and driven by a gray,
haired teamster. They carried a tent,
blankets and pillows, provisions, fishing
tackels, gnns and ammunition, and a bot
tle of whiskey. They had a splendid
time, Bhooting quails, gathering fiowera
and talking poetry. With the exception
of the gray-haired teamster, no man darad
to show his ngly face in camp.
Thb Court Circular recites the career
of a modern Dngald Dalgetty aa follows:
“Col. Mabyer, of Edinburgh, formerly a
cadet in the East India cavalry servio*
during the Sei>oy rebellion, afterwards
oomaunder of the eeouts of Btonewell
Jackaoa'e oorps in Virginia, sad then Co
lonel and inspector in the Egyptian aer
vice, and Colonel of cavalry in General
FaiffheiM's army during th* Franco
German war, has reoeived a communion
aa Colonel in the Servian cavalry to or
and eoinuiand an independent cav
rigade."
JONATHAN NO BIBO SB.
The Bepnblioan candidate for Governor
is a native of Maine, received a common
aehool ednoation, and served an appren
ticeship as millright and meobinest. He
vent to Cuba to pat up mills and
maobinary. Afterward* ha lived two
years in Philadelphia. He omne South
and engaged in teaching school in North
Carolina in 1833. He removed to Georgia
and taught in Angnata. He removed to
Atlanta io 1844 and embarked ia trade.
He was elected Mayor of that oity in 1831.
Before taking his seat he was requested
to resign, bat refused. He served only
ona term, having been defeated. He re
mained in Atlanta the first two years of
tba war and then deserted to the Federals.
He came back with Sherman’s army and
united with the other oarpet-barggers. He
ia an extreme Radios!, an old man, and
is said to be riob. The Hade have nomi
nated him for Governor, and Gan. Col
quitt, the Demooratio nominee, will beat
him at leaat 76,000 votes.
MOUTHBBM BA1LBOADM.
The New York Journal of Commerce
says:
“The Honthern railroad companies now
propose to try an experiment whiob has,
fortonstely, always failed when made at
tba North. The managers of the princi
pal Southern lines have met at Saratoga
and taken steps toward forming a combi
nation of the pattern with wbioh we are
so familiar in this part of the oountry.
It has been notioed that whan railroad
man oonsolt with a view to harmony
among themselves they leave the pnblio
good quite ont of mind. The Saratoga
oonferenoe was no exception to the rnle.
The object of tho organization is to screw
higher rates ont of the Southern through
travel and trafflo, and by some equitable
partition of business and profits to make
all the companies willing to abide by the
agreement. Theoommittee who have the
scheme in hand suggest a division of ter
ritory between oompeting lines, and if
that ia not practioahle, then a division of
the business at competing points. Could
this be carried ont, the companies would
have th* publio at their meroy. At this
meeting, as at every one of the kind ever
held, thero was no attempt at the reform
of abuses of which the people are the vio-
tims. Nothing was said about the evil of
discriminations in freights, of which so
many serious complaints have been made,
and wbioh promises yet to provoke the
interference of Congress if the oompa-
niee themselves do not break it up. A
spirit of reform worthy the name would
abolish this injnstioe. Had the Southern
managers declared for the abandonment
of the praotioe, we should have belioved
that they were not wholly Belfish in the
{ mrpoaes of their organization. By neg-
eoting to remedy this grievanoe, they
only add to that fast-growing pnblio opin
ion wbioh demands tho interposing hand
of the States or the General Government
against the grasping policy of railroad
monopolies."
We are glad to boo that this reliable old
journal has thought proper thus, to leo-
tore onr Southern Railroad managers for
attempting lobind eaob other into pledgee
of extortion and oppreaaion of their pat
ron*. So short-sighted has been the poli
cy of our rail road magnates that they
have not only rained the oountry tributary
to them, but have in nearly every oase
nearly bankrupted themselves. Espooial
ly is this the case with onr Georgia roads.
Their polioy appears to be so selfish that
it not only kills the objeot aimed at hot
like tho boomerang rotnrns to anuihilato
tbemselvos. The people are powerless to
help themselves aud are loth to legislate
them into good behavior. The feeling of
opposition to the great monopoly oppres'
sera is growing stronger end stronger eaoh
year. In some of the Western Stutos the
Legislatures have already taken tho mat
ter in hand, and Congress no doubt will
be foroed to interfere in the matter. How
long will it be before Goorgia takes aotion?
So great already is the prejadioo and ill-
feeling against idilruuds, that it requires
an immense amonut of lobbying and no
little money to get onr Legislature to paas
any bill innoring to the good of any rail
road. The managers claim that this pre-
jndioe or we might a»y, antagonism has
no canse for exiatenoe except the usual
prejudiee tba masses have against corpo
rations.
The people say otherwise, and we oan-
not see why the people are not as worthy
of oredenoa as are corporation officials.
The facts are, the people build the rail
roads trusting to reoeive, not only a div
idend on their investments, bat benefits
from the line; instead of which there are
no dividends declared. The stook is
depreciated nntil it is valueless, and the
road ia joggled into the hands of a favor
ed few who reap the benefits in salaries
and in nepotism. We have not got far to
go from onr own oity’ in faot, not even
out of it, to see two or three notable cases
of this kind. When people have lost all
their investments in these roads, is it any
aurprise that they should demand to be
dealt with fairly and equitably ? Is it any
anrpriBe that they should objeot to paying
100 peroent. more freight I ban is required
of a neighboring oity only 100 miles far
ther off ’/ la it any surprise that they
should complain that the roads they built,
and whioh have bean manipulated out of
their control, should facilitate a neigh-
boring oity in depriving its merchants and
manufacturers of a trade that they have
spent so muoh money in building np 7
We think railroad managers bad batter
heed th* olond which, though but a spook
just now, may contain a whirlwind for
their destruction.
INCREASE OF PETTY CRIME,
THE CAUSE IS SIMPLY A FAILURE TO PROSE
CUTE THRRRlltoiu.
Nina-tenth* of 'th* patty crimes com
mitted by Negroes go unpunished. So
much is this the ana that negroes set as
though it is no offense against law or moral*
to cany on their patty stealings, as detec
tion seldom results in punishment. Be
fore “freedom,” when a negro committed
a theft it was rare for him to escape de
tection. This was caused, no donbt, by
the thorough system among the negroes
themselves, and the difficulty of the thief
in getting rid of the artioles stolen. When
a negro rbs detected the punishment,
though light, was always sore, therefore
daring slavery they were generally trust
worthy.
“Freedom” has, however, wrought a
wonderful change. It is becomieg a dif-
flenlt matter to saenre an honest servant
among the negroos; nor will it do to al
low them to oome into onr yards or bonae
unless they are continuously watched.
There is no safe place for a chicken. They
may roost upon the highest trees or be
aoenred by doable looks in a coop, yet
some colored thief will possess them.
There is nothing sacred to them, any
thing of great or little value sutlers
equally. They will steal what they need
or what they have no use for. They will
pilfer for themselves and steal to give
away or destroy. Why is this ? Is it be
cause the negro is not of sufficient intelli
gence to know what is right or wrong ?
Certainly not. It is no doubt due to their
immunity from punishment, oansed by
onr people refusing or deolining to use
the law. This petty thieving has gone on
until it has kooome a harden to the whites
and if they do not cases their foolish pol
ioy of releasing a thief by bis giving np
the stolen property, it will lead to worse
results. Idle negroes make thieves,
thieves make burglars and often murder*
s.
What is to be done? We suggest to
deal with the negro the same as white
men are dealt with when deteoted in
similar oriuies. Punish them as the law
djreets. Let our people prosecute every
thief white or black, and soon tho idle
negroes that swarm onr cities and towns
will go to work and earn a living. If
they are oertain of pnnishment, they will
not take the risk. As it now exists, nine-
tenlhs escape by disgorging their plunder
and getting a dismissal from servioe, be
re-employed in 30 days on promise of re
form.
That all oolored persons are thieves wo
do not admit. There are many honest
negroes, bat they are greatly in the mi.
nority. These honest ones suffer also
from the thieves. It is alike impossible
for them to raise a hog, or a chicken, or
even a little patch of vegetables.
It is some trouble to prosecute a crimi
nal. It is neaessary to attend the courts
as witnesses, but do not our people owe
it to themselves and to sooiety to make an
effort to stop this great and growing evil?
Wo think so, and we farther think no
man has a right to tarn loose a oriminal to
depredate upon his neighbor. If our cit
izens will not do their duty, and contin
ue to condone these offenses against law
and society, we suggest n “society for
the prevention of stealing,” which will
force prosecutions. We think a goodly
sum could be raised in Oolrmbn* to pro.
mote suoh an objeot.
Acooudino to the Chicago papers the
authorities of that badly governed oity
have determined to make a strong fight
for ehesp gas, where they have also toler
ably eheap coal. They have concluded to
pay no more than $1 60 per thousand
feet. Unless the companies comply with
this reduotion by the 1st of September
the existing contracts are to be abrogated,
and the Mayor and Comptroller are di
reeled then to advertise for bids to light
the oity with whal* oil, petroleum, orany
other illuminating agonoy. In this con
nection it is worthy to note that the re
turns of the various gas companies in New
York to the board of assessors show that
the value of their personal property for
this year ie estimated at $1,079,730 against
.2,439,014 last year. The New York
'1 ribune says this diminution is due prin
cipally to the substitution of kerosene oi
for gsa, whioh has boon largely made in
stores and private residences during the
past year.
Mb. Jenninos, late editor of the New
York Times, says the Troy Preee, paints
true piotnre of tho condition
the South, aud gives figures
and the data to show that since the war
the Republican party has trodden on the
people there with more than an iron heel.
He Beys that “Boss Tweed, of New York,
wea a model of integrity aa oouipared with
the men who have governed these States
When we remember that Mr. Jennings
was one of the ohief agents in exposing
and breaking up the Tweed ring, and was
perfectly familiar with th* inside working
of that oorrupt machine, we must take the
above announcement aa a frightful ar
raignment of the Republican policy of
government. It is stronger language
than aver oeme from the Democratic side,
end ie therefore ail the more significant.
The latest receipt (or true eloquence
was given by a minister et the Martha
V inyard Baptist eamp-mseting reoently.
Hare it ia: “Got yonrself chuck full of
tba subjeot, knock out the bong and let
nature ceper.”
A Specimen Radical Speech.—Wheel
er's speech at St. Albans might as well
have keen delivered by Morton. It indi
cates the etyle in whiah the Republicans
propose to oondnet the oampaign. Wheel
er has been regarded as somewhat of a
liberal politician, considering his previous
views oh Southern affairs, and a harangue
of a better order was expeoted. He reit
erates the falsehoods about Hamburg,
which have been proved to be suoh, os
glibly as Logan or Blaine. He asserts the
company was one of the organized militia
when the authorities swoar it was not.
The entire polioy of the Republicans is
to stir np the bitterest of animosities and
hate.
Oupueus C. Kebb's alimentaphobia
(may it never overteke ltiohard Grant
Whitejia exeiting muoh wonder. Says
tho New York Express: “It is just five
weeks to-day sinoe he has esten anything,
and his oondition hts exeited the curiosi
ty of his medicsl attendant and friends.
Daring the five weeks whioh terminates to
day, he baa taken cook day perhaps a
spoonful of green peas, or a table-spoon
ful of milk pnnob, or a mouthful of ice
cream, or a oup of ooffee, but no two
things on the same day. He has performed
bis literary labor* almost all the time
sinoe this strange r^wgnanoe to food has
visited him.”
The commissioners in oharge of the
Freedman's Savings Bank make slow
progress in Bottling np th* acoouuts. At
this rate of progress in accumulating
lands it wiU be fonr years hence before
another dividend of 20 per cent, can be
paid. The commissioners have but
$120,000 on hand, while $000,000 is re
qnired to pay a 20 per eent. dividend,
Th* oolotMl pmpto of Hi* 8o*th realize
now who swindled them, and whenever
an effort has been made to acquaint the
negroes of all th* facts, the expression
has bean that no Southern tuau would
aver have been guilty of such meanness.
MRWROIA hntl
—Bibb oonnty haa declared for Ool.
Blonnt for Congress.
—Mr. W. B. Pexley, of Marshalville,
Houston oonnty, la dead.
—Mr. M. J. Hatcher, of Houston oonn
ty, caoght a red fox last week.
—Glynn oonnty haa sent nninstraoted
delegates to tho Congressional Conven
tion.
—The 34th Senatorial District Conven
tion baa nominated Coi. G. W. Bryan, of
Henry oonnty, as State Senator.
—Hon. E. A. James, of Chattanooga,
take* Governor Harris’ place aa a candi
date for oleoter lot the State at large on
the Demooratio ticket.
—A deaf and damb man has arrived in
Atlanta who olaims that a workman, Wal
ton, in the rolling mills, killed his brother
in California 21 years ago,
—A notorious negro barslar was mor
tally wonnded after having Droksn into
Col. B. A. Robinson's store s Blakely last
Friday night. He has sinoe died.
—Mr. Geo. B. Plant, in Hooston oonn
ty, drained lps mill pond lest week when
some 1,000 pound* of fish, inoinding
some twenty-pound trout, wen secured.
—We lawn that Father da (forty, Vie*
Chanoeilor of the Diooeae of Savannah,
ia seriously ill at the hospital of th* Sis
ters of St. Josephs, to which h* was re
moved.
—The next session of the Western Bap
tist Association will be held at Whites-
ville, Harris county,ten miles below West
Point, on Baturday before the third Son-
day in September.
—The oolored Baptist Association has
withdrawn feilowehip from two Baptist
ministers in East Mason end ask the oivil
authorities to interpose to pnvent farther
disturbances of the puniio pesos.
—Mr. McGue, an employee of the
Singer Sewing Machine Company at At
lanta, in a fit of despair, attempted to end
his life by taking a dose of morphine.
He had been drank and was threatened
with disuharge.
—In April, 1826, ootton was 30 cents
per ponnd in Angnata. A rapid advanee
in foreign markets erased a very exoited
speculative feeling. In Liverpool, in
Maroh of that year, it waa 13jd. to lGd.
Sea Island was 20d. to 2s. 7d.
—It cost a Henry eounty negro only
ten dollars to attack a school bonse, pre
sided over by a Mrs. Branner, and threat
en to beat the scholars and break np the
institution. And yet complaint is made
that negroes in Georgia have no rights.
—A meeting at Hebron, West Pike, re
sulted in ten additions by baptism. At
Rekobotb there were some fifteen addi
tions; at Pleasant Hill, near Barnesville,
seven; at Rooky ereek, in Monroe, four;
and at Shiloh, Monroe, at last aooonnts,
there were ten additions; at Bnlab, South
west Pike, twenty-seven.
—Atlanta, by primary eleotion, has
nominated J. H. James, Major Hillyer
and Mr. Fry as Representatives in the
Legislature; Perkiuson, Sheriff; Collins,
Clerk; Pittman, Ordinary; Payne, Treas
urer; Hoyla, Tax Colieotor; Botnar, Tax
Ueeeivor, Waiver, Surveyor; Kilo, Coro
ner. Total vote 3,680. James reoeived
2,688.
—Augusta Chronicle: The form of
compromise bond of the oity of Rome
has been agreed upon by the oommittee
of Augusta bondholders, and the Finanoe
Committee of Rome. The bonds are in
oonrae of preparation rad it ia expeoted
will be ready for exchange by the first of
October. We learn of the aooeptanoe by
onr oitizens of about $160,000.
—The leg of a negro, from the knee
down, was found Friday in the Coosa riv
er, near Rome. The flesh was nearly all
gone from the leg. There was a good
boot and sock on it and when the boot
was taken off the foot was found to be
porfeot. The leg is supposed to belong
to s negro who was sent to the Ooatanan-
la river last December to water a horse,
and the horse was found on the opposite
side of the river but the negro wsa never
heard of.
—Augusta Chronicle: Mrs. Uebeooa
Oamfield, whose mortal remains were laid
in their last eearthly resting-plaoeon Satur
day last, was the oldeBt native of Angnata,
having been born the 9th of November,
1780. She was a sister of the late Judge
Longstreet, an aunt of Gen. Longstreet,
whom few, if any, now living remember
—a men of remarkable mechanical talent,
who ran a miniature steamboat of hiB
own construotion up and down the Savan
nah river, opposite our city, ten years be
fore Fulton's invention was heard of.
—There was a building in Amerions
used for 18 years as a plaee of worship for
the negro Methodists. It belonged to the
whites. After the war a negto, N. B.
Sterrett, became pastor. The whites
deeded it to the colored ohorob Sonth.
The very night of the day it waa done the
house was burned. Sterrett and two other
negroes were arrested on the charge of
having burned it. He said he wonld if it
was ever deeded away from his orowd.
He gave bond for trial. He has written
to the oolored religions paper in Phila
delphia that his ohnroh 'Waa burned by the
whites and he narrowly escaped Ko-KInx.
Four deacons ofjhis church deny bis state
ments in every particular.
—Henry Grady thns writes to the An
gnsta Constitutionalist: For Comptroll
er there are only two entries so far, Mr,
Peterson Thweatt and Col. Goldsmith, iu-
oumbent, will beat that raoe; indeed it
wonld be hard to find a man who could
beat Mr. Goldsmith, who is an admirable
officer and deserves a re-eleotion. For
Secretary of State, Col. Barnett, ineum
bent, Col. W. T. Newman, and Col. W,
H. Weems, are the candidates thns far.
This raoe will be qnite hotly contested.
For Treasurer wo hear of no entries save
Mr. Itenfroe, inoumbent, and Col. W. B
Lowe, though it ia said there will be oth
ers. The composition of the Board of
Agriculture, Geology and Health will
probably remain nnehanged, thongh it »
rumored that Prof. Pendleton, of Ath.
en«, will be offered for Dr. Janes' seat.
—Special to Constitution: King'
Ferry, on the Coosa river, Friday, waa the
scene of a oold and unprovoked murder.
A white man by the name of Gua John
son was in the oity yesterday, and left for
home on horseback. Upon arriving at
Kiug's Ferry, on the Coosa river, be oalled
on Fred MoCarver, the ferryman, to bring
the boat over, whioh he did. When Mo
Carver was about half way across, John
son said, “Harry np." MoCarver replied,
‘I am hurrying." This did not suit John
son, who took deliberate aim with i
double -barrel sbot-gnn and shot the negro
dead in the flat. At th* time of the firing,
a daughter of Hon. O. P. Morton was
riding by on a high-spirited horse, which
f ot frightened at the gon, throwing Miss
iorton and injuring her seriously, if not
fatally. MoCarver is not the first man
that Johnson killed. Th* deed waa done
as the rest of his deeds—wholly without
provocation and premeditated. He
was at one time placed in the lnnatio asy
lum. He is still at large.
—The Savannah News of yesterday con
tains the following particulars of the
losses by fire in that oity night before
last: The destruetion by this conflagra
tion, undoubtedly the most serious and
disastrous that has taken plaoa in many
years, comprise* Kelley's range, consist
ing of four splendid buildings six stories
high, rad three bnildinge of Btoddard'
upper range, five stories in height Kel
leys rang* was built in 1870 at a oaai of
$100,000, and as we have stated, were
considered fire proof, and in oonaeqnenoe
the insurance upon them was light. Tho
loss on theso building! is estimated at
$100,000, on Btoddard * upper rang* $60,.
000. The occupants of the various offi
ces in these blooks saved moat of their
moveable property, the severest sufferers
probably being Messrs. A. Minnis A Son,
who bad stored in th* lower part of their
building large qnratitiw of baoon and im
ported wince* ween whioh the** waa only
insurance for $6,000 in ewe of the com
panies repress* ted by Kawrs. T. H. Har
den A Co. The ooonpanta of Kelly’s range
were Messrs. Gonrdin, Yang A Frost,
ootton commission merchants ; Mess rs.
L. J. Gnilmartin A Co., commission and
cotton factors; Messrs. R. Habersham’s
Bon A Co., rice factors; Messrs. Williams
A Crane, exporters (both of whom are
now in New York); Messrs. B. G. Lay A
Cu... agents of guano company; Masers.
Carl Epping A Co., timber merohrate, and
the watchman, who oeonpied th* top stoty
of the building. In Stoddard’s range
were Messrs. Muir A Dnokwortb, oot
ton faotors; Messrs. Alfred Do
bell A Co., lumber merebanta;
Mr. Charles W. Ladd, rice faotor; Mr.
W. D. Wappies, rioe faotor; Ernest Bey
er A Co., ootton buyers; Mr. Adam Mof
fat, insurance agency; Messrs. Peaoook A
Hunt, rosin and turpentine; Mr. Henry
BANKINC AND INSURANCE.
INTEGRITY WILL WIN!
The Most Popular and Successful
FIRE INSURANCE COMPANY
IN THE UNITED 8TATE8 18 THE
BottB, insurance agenoy; Messrs. N.
Hardee's Bon A Co., ootton faotors and
commission merchants; Manus. Seigfried
A Co., cotton bnyers; Messrs. Wilder A
Co., steamship agents; Major T. D. Ber-
tody, ootton buyer; Mr. D. B. Hall, oot
ton and commission merchant; Messrs.
Joseph A. Roberts A Co., shipping mer
chants; Towboat Company; Agenoy of the
Pstapsco Guano Company; Messrs. Knoop,
Hanemann A Co., ootton exporters; Mr. J.
Itancr,, manager Dutch Consulate;
Messrs. D. C. Baoon A Go., timber
and lumbor dealers; Messrs. Brig
ham A Olmstead, insurance
agenoy; Messrs. B. H. Footman
Co., insursnoe (gents; Messrs. Cope
Ripley, commission merchants. The
lower stores were otoupied by Messrs.
Marmadnke Hamilton A Co., Messrs.
Minis A Bon, as a wareroom, and by a
ootton pickery. The ooonpanta of the
last four buildings (east) in Stoddard’s
range, suffered no loss beyond mutilation
and damage to their property in removal,
and'the buildings were not materially in
jured. It was impossible to get at any
correct aeooont of the insurance owing to
the confusion and excitement prevailing.
Major James Stewart haa $10,000 insur
ance on Stoddard's range in the compa
nies represented by him, Messrs. T. H.
Handen A Co., $5,000 on Messrs. Minis
Son’s stook, and on Kelly’s range there
$<>0,000 insurance, mainly in Northern
companies, bat whether represented here
or not we conid not learn.
ALABAMA NEW*.
-Ex-Congressman F. G. Bromberg of
Mobile states he standB squarely on the
Demooratio platform
Mr. John H. Garner, one of Mobiie’e
oldest and most esteemed oitizens, died
suddenly at hia home in that oity.
—Eufaula News: Postmaster Clarke
has not roiguei, as rejo ted. Deputy
Postmaster J. S. Ball is our informant.
Mr. Clarke contemplates resigning short
ly, and this he told the Times reporter.
Wo have heard it stated that Mr. Clarke’s
proposed resignation is caused by his
laving been assessed $300 for oampaign
purposes.
—The Union Springs Herald is inform
ed that two white men (strangers, and
claiming to have come from Atlanta) have
been circulating among the negroes of
Indian Creek Beat dnring the past week,
sleeping in their hunse and eating at their
tables. It is thought by the oitizens that
they are on some political errand, as on
Monday last they were in conference with
some of the leading negroes. The ne
groes refuse to tell what they were doing,
only saying that they were *3>n business."
One of these meu is tall, the other of low
stature; both are of light oomplexion.
—In the 5th District oonvention at
Dadeville Antanga was allowed 8 votes.
Bibb 11, Chambers 22, Chilton 9, Clay
12, Coosa 13, Elmore l(i, Maoon 12 rad
Tallapoosa 30. Nominations were next
in order, an Hon. J. J. Robinson, of
Chambers, put in nomination Dr. A. F.
Griggs, of Chambers. Dr. Leonard, of
Coosa, nominated Hon. R. F. Ligon, of
Maoon. Mr. Mac. A. Smith, of Antanga,
nominated Msj. Bolling Hall, of Elmore.
Mr. Edwards, of Coosa, nominated Ool.
W. D. Bulger, of Tallapoosa. The bal
loting then proceeded to the thirteenth
ballot, when Maj. Hall's name was with
drawn, and Mr. Mao. A. Smith placed in
nomination on the nineteenth ballot. On
the twenty-first ballot Dr. Griggs and
Col. Bnlger were withdrawn. Hon. E.
H. Moren was then nominated, bat he
deolined to allow his name to be need
and Mr. Ligon was deolared nominated
OP HA.IV FRANCISCO.
ITS LOSSES PAID IN PULL!
CHICAGO, $629,364.92.
BOSTON. $158,000.
VIRGINIA CITY. $126,402.45.
Prompt Settlements, Sterling Indemnity, Business Integrity
Polioles written, losses fairly adjusted and promptly set
tied by
G. GUNBY JORDAN, Agent,
«-’rc COTjUMBU*. C4A.
CAPITAL,
Fire Reserve and Surplus Fund,
The New York Race.—The nomination
of ex-Gov. E. D, Morgan, for Governor
by the Republicans of New York, is
crushing defeat of Senator Cockling by
ex-Senator Fenton and Thnrlow Weed.
Coukling-desired the nomination of Corn
ell, and George Curtis a sentimental poli
tician did bis best for Everts.
Statistic t of trade in atoeks ahow that
ootton manufaetnrer’a stocks, which never
sold below par before,now sell at $957.50.
Every thousand dollars of manufacturing
stook maintains a laborer, wbereaa the
railroads only employ one laborer to $15
000 of stock. The fall in New England
manufacturing stocks shows how terrible
is the state of industry in this conntry,
The Merrimack stook which has fallen to
$927.50, sold in 1874 for $(>,920 and in
1875 for $1,503.
PROF. G£0 W. CAHSE
TIONS IN VOCAL AND 11(J
STUMENTAL MVSIU at his
resilience Torus reasonable, _ _
and especially favorable to all taking for th«
scholastic year. au‘.0-lw
■in mil
INSURANCE COMPANY
OF LONDON AND EDINBURGH.
ESTABLISHED 1801).
SIO,OOO,000.00
5,038,441.06
Amount at Cold Valuation liable for
losses by Fire, ...
815,032,441.56
84,301.968.80
81,409,307.06
81,719.008.40
Net Fire Premiums received in 1870,
Receipts of United States Branch,
Assets held by United States Branch,
Losses Paid by United States Branch
since establishment^ _- - 88,188,783.00
The Company transacts only a Fire Business in the United States.
Columbus Aa;ency, Ca., Established 1807.
Policies issued and losses paid by
D. F. WILLCOX,
apd-oodtf * jAteG-ZDXW.
AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY.
leLDMUUSCOnONGiM
FRANKLIN H. LUMMUS,
MANUFACTURER.
Wm. Beach & Co., Agents,
COLUMBUS, QA.
BEST OF REFERENCES GIVEN.
A LSO, Rubber Belting—all sizes-and Material for Repairing Gins; Rock Haven Cement,
and a general lino of Hardware and Iron. WM. BEACH fc CO.
mhlg.’Te-ly—auglwam -—
FOR SALE AND RENT.
STORES FOR RENT.
F. M. ADAMS,
At Holstoad & Co’s.
FOR RENT.
HOUSE on Jackson street
occupied by Mr*. N. S. Bird
song. Tho I10U80 has elghti
rooms and all neoessury out-l
buildings. Would l>e well suited for a beard.
Ing house or for two small families. An oarly
applicant can secure a bargain.
Apply to E. H. BIRDSONG,
aul9-tt Ur on the premlsos.
AUCTION SALES.
FURNITURE
AT AUCTION.
W ILL BE SOLD AT AUCTION, Oot.
Iht. without reserve, three (3) flne
sets of rVKNITliKK.
O. S. HARRISON,
au27~tf Auctioneer.
FOR RENT.
C1LE
Heat
LEEPING ROOMS In the
Georgia Homo Building.
id water furnished.
Also, an office on second floorj
between the offices of Mnjoi
li. J. Moses and Dr. Pool,
aul3-tf
CHAS. COLEMAN.
FOR RENT.
S TORE ROOMS in the
“Muscogeo Home.” Also,
the up-statrs containing six*
teen rooms and a kitchen, with,
numerous closets, anil otherl
conveniences sultaable lor a
HOUSE OR HOTEL. Will be rented on very
moderate terms to a good tenant. Possession
can be given immediately.
CHAS. COLEMAN,
ang&tf 116 Broad Street.
EMORY COLLEGE.
THE FALL TERM OF THIS LONG.
ESTABLISHED INSTITUTION
0PENS WEDNESDAY, Sep
tember 6th, with a FULL FAC-«
ULTY and a THOROUGH CUR
RICULUM.
TUITION—Fall Term. $26; Spring Term,
JOft. Board, in good families, from $16 to $20
per month.
For further Information, address the Presi
dent, ATTIOUS O. HAYGOOD,
aul8-dlm Oxford, Ga.
STORE TO RENT.
- P*<
by Mr. .1. H. lirtvmhall-
No. 1 stand.
Poesosslon given October 1st next.
Apply at oftioo of
GEORGIA HOME INS. CO.
jy30-tf.
FOR RENT.
2
im
story brick build-
TAX NOTICE.
LAST CALL.
EXECUTIONS HAVE BEEN ISSUED
eli ami will bo put in the Marshal's hands
SATURDAY, tne 2d September, for levy and
sale the first Tuesday in October.
Come forward and settle, and save expense
and thistroublo.
J.N. BARNETT,
au29-5t Treasurer.
UN IV ERSITY WviRQlNlA
L AW DEPARTMENT.—J. B. Minor,
LL.D., Prof. Com. and Slat. Law; S. O.
Southall, LL.D., Prof. Equity and Law-Mer-
chant. International Law,eto. Session begins
Oot. 1, 1876, and continues nine months. In
struction by text-books and lectures combined.
Illustratod by Moot-Court exercises For cata
logue, apply (P. O. Unlvers ty of Virginia) to
WM. WERTENBAfCER,
au2J-lm Secretary of Faoulty.
CARRIAGES,
WAGONS,
Agricultural Iiupleascnts, Ac.,
Made and repaired at the lowest CASH
prices, on Wynn’s Hill, near the city, by
augS-eodAwly - W. M. AMOS.
*on l >er dayltThome. Sample's
TO 10 4>ZU worth $1 (fee. STINSON
li CO, Portland, Me. oskll-wljr
A Bro as a Dry Goo
Also, elegant offices and
sleoplng rooms on the seoond 1
und third floors of the three story brick
lng on tho corner of Broad and Randolph
stroets. All newly plastered and painted.
Possession given let of October next. Apply
to LOUIS F. GARRARD,
jy29-tf
COAL! COAL!!
E. WILLIAMS, AGENT, IS NOW
RECEIVING HIS STOCK OF
C O A Xj
And gives notice to his frlonds and patrons
that he is now ready to take orders for CAR
LOADS and SMALLER LOTS for Summer
and Fall delivory.
ANTHRACITE and other COALS always
on hand at close figuros.
D. E. WILLIAMS,
je!8-3m Agent.
COOK & O’BRIEN,
Batchers and Cattle Dealers.
Dealers. Cattle bought and sold, and meats
In any quantity desired delivered. Our stalls—
Nos. 10 and 17 at the Market House—will al
ways be supplied with the choicest Beef, Mut-
Ac., to be found in tbe oountry.
ton, Pork,
deel-tf
COOK Sc O’BRIEI.
FOR SALE.
A FINE MAltllLU-BEl) BII.LIAKU
f'AHI.K. Will be bom at a uorilic*.
Enquire »t THIS UKKIOE.
.tjan27-U)
EDUCATIONAL.
4
TREASURY DEPARTMENT,
Office of the Comptroller of tho Currency,
WASHINGTON, July 15th, 1870.
WHEREAS, by satisfactory evi
dence presented to the undersigned,
It has been made to appear that
‘THE NATIONAL BANK OF COLUMBUS.”
in the county of Muscogee and State of Geor
gia, has complied-with all the provisions of the
Revised Statutes of the United States required
to be eomplled with before an association shall
be authorised to commence the hnslnees ef
Banking.
Now, theroforo, I, John J. Knox, Comptrol
ler of the Currency, do hereby certify that
“THE NATIONAL BANK OF COLUM
BUS,” in the county of Musoogee and State ot
Georgia, is authorised to commenee tbe busi
ness of Banking as provided in seotlon fifty-one
hundred und slxty-nlue of the Revised Statutes
of the United Statea.
In testimony whereof, witness my hand and
seal or offloe this 16th day July, 1876.
(Signsd) JOHN JAY KNOX,
Comptroller or the Ourrinoy.
jy2l-dfcw2m
SPECIAL NOTICE
TO
MERCHANTS A PLANTERS.
On and after July 24th, Freight
Rate* by Central Lin* of Boat* will b*
Fifty Cent* per Dry Barrel. Other
Freight in proportion.
SAM’L J. WHITESIDES,
Agent Central Una of Boat*.
OATS!
1,000 Bushels of Rust-Proof Oats,
WABRAMTBD AND YOB BALE BV
BLANUHABD, WILLIAMS k OO,
awM-tr Alabama Warehou,#.
AVaVfW .11.1 M.rphl". bet.lt .hMlM.tr ""J*
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