Georgia Historic Newspapers

    DAILY ENQUIRER-SUN: COLUMBUS, GEORGIA, TUESDAY MORNING. FEBRUARY 6. 1877.
Pailg fgttqnivjcr.
LARGEST CITY CIRCULATION!
AND BIO RE THAN
TWICE THE LARGEST
AGGREGATE CIRCULATION!
Thk oorreot pronunciation of the piano
manufacturer, Knabo, ia ken-ah by.
In view of Littlefield'a teatixnonj, Gov.
Kellogg ia repoftod to have exclaimed :
“Thia ia h—11, ain't it ?”
Terr are 4!#,8l«; member* of the Bsp-
tint Church in Ohio, of whom 877 are
Weleh, and 8,351 negroes.
▲mono the extra polioe at the eapitol
are two Senator's sons, one ex-Governor,
two Colonels, and one Major.
It ia reported in London that a daugh
ter of Hip Van Winkle Jefferson ia about
to marry Parjeon. the novelist.
It coat Great Britain $1,600,000 to pro- , away.
— I They have kept the members of the
! Returning Board of Louisiana apart for
several days, with a House deputy aer*
geant-at-arms within hearing distance.
The two whites are together, and so are
the negroes. Wells yesterday told bia
story before (be Ilor.ee Committee. At
this writing we have not eaeu the report,
bat it will doubtless have arrived before
tho paper goes to press, and appear in our
telegraphic columna. From the intima
tions received, it is a tissue of blended
fact and falsehood, ingeniously blended,
and the latter predominating.
Pickett's and Maddox's statements are
confirmed by Messrs. Hewitt and Morris
sey who are ready to testify that the latter
camo to ttiom as the accredited agent of
Wells and the interviews with them 1
substantially as stated. Judge Alexan
der Walker was negotiated with at the
New Orleans ond of the line, and ia
pared to tell what Maddox told him. He had
good reason to believe Maddox was act
ing in good faith as the financial agent of
the Returning Board. Then there are
thoae loiters. They cannot bo explained
claim Viotoria Empress of India. Wells
would have Counted her in for half the
money.
Mias Sabs Jkwkti, the brilliant yonng
actress of New York, who has relatives in
Columbus, has just recovered from a seri
ous illness-
The negroes of tho Board, Kenner
and Caasanavo, do not appear to bAve
heard of the speculative mania of Wells
and Anderson until a few days ago,
though they havo long suspected theij*
white associates sold them out and pock
eted the money.
Jr dob Fir.ut, on the Electoral Commie- | ^HV IHEf Dip^OT <UUF.IT TO
sion, ia a brother of Congressman David
Dudley Field and Cyrns Field, of cabie-
telegraphy fame.
It ia said Juatico Miller wrote a letter
last December to a relative, Judge Bal
linger, in Galveston, that Tilden was cer
tainly elected. It ia also denied.
One of Wade Hampton's gold pens is
need by a KanaaH postmaster when bo re
ceipts for his salary^- It was confiscated
during Hherman s Sun thorn tour.
On May l.'ltb Popo Pius IX will bo 85
years old, and on June J6lh will Lave
been Pope thirty-one years—longer than
any oooupaut of the chair of Ht. Petar.
On Tuesday, tho Senate of the New
York Legislature, by a party vote, adopt
ed resolutions declaring that Hayes and
Wheeler have been legally eleoted, aud
■honld be inaugurated.
Courier-Journal: Verson Brown low
says that the “nearest he over was to hell
was when he was in Washington.” The
queatiou ia now, parson, did you feel at
home while you were there ?
James Lewis, the colored man who has
ALABAMA
A dnpatcb to a prominent Northern pa
per shows the true inwardness of the
Senate Republicans, and explains why
(bey did not fulfill their threat of object
ing to tho electoral voto of Alabama. Af
ter consultation they deoided to make no
| objection to the vote of an uncontented
I State, for it would bo equivalent to an ad
mission that Congress has a right to go
back of tho returns anil soo whether a fair
election has been held. In order not to
set a procodont, which might be used to
the groat disadvantage of the Republican
party in the case of Florida and Louisi
ana, the leaders judged it prudout to make
no objections to any Htato where thore
are not two sets of returns, unless the
Commission decidos the electoral vote of
Florida shall be counted for Tildon. If
this be done they will object to Mississip
pi, but this wdl avail them naught, for
the concurrence of both houses is required
to throw out the votes of a Htato where
there is no contest.
THE QI’F.NTION AT INSl’E.
The two grand parties are now before
tho Eleotoral Commission,and their views
are as wido asunder as the polls. The
been .looted to tho H.o.te for tho ohort | » r K llm6nt fc ““ l,c «" n - “, Dl1 w “ boiieTO . lho
term by the Packard Louisiana LogisJa
ture, formerly held the office of Adminis
trator of Improvements at New Orleans.
Tnafive Huprome Court Judges who ait in
the Commission, decided they are not re
qnired to wear the imposing silk robes in
which they are attired when on the bench,
and attend in ordinary citizens' dross.
Dots Kbsionation Kkmiun ?—The United
Htatee Supreme Court has deoided that an
officer who has reeigned his position does
not oease to be au officer until not only
his resignation has been accepted, bnt his
successor has been appointed and quali
fied.
Col. Plumb, tho nowly-cleoted Senator
from lianaas, is a printer by trade, and
formerly published the Emporia Aetca.
He oame to Kansas from Zanesville, Ohio,
in 1857, when nineteen years of age. He
ia now President of a national bank at
Eoaporia, and ia reputed to be worth
$200,006, whioh be has made by specula
lion and the practioe of law.
Tua nigger Judge of Probate of Edge-
field has prevented the settlement of legal
cases for a long time by sayiug the papers
and moneys were in his safe and (he key
loet. After enduring thia a long time,the
bar of Edgefield went iuto his office, aud,
with the aid of a blacksmith, broke the j until long.after.
lock and fonnd nothing in the safe. The
black thief had stolen it all.
Democrats have the advantage viewed in
every light. Thoir lawyers contend the
Commission lifts the right and it is its
duty to go behind the returns and ascer
tain from tho evidence who was legally
elected and if the Governor's certificate
is not a finality. Admitting
this and the ooutost ia settlod at ouco, and
Tilden must be declarnd elected. The
Republicans sre fighting thia with nil
thoir might. If the Commiasion should
decide that it has no authority to reoeive
evidence against tho validity of the Gov
ernor’s certificate Tilden must also win,
for Oregon Hetties that. The certificate
of the Governor of that Htate must equal
ly be held ah valid. This question will
probably bo sottleil to day.
INEUUIBLEI.
Tho Republicans claim to have discov
ered one ineligible elector whose place
was not legally filled. Tho Demoorata
claim there ure several Republicans in
that condition—among the noted ones are
the Vermont and Oregon post musters, tho
non-resident of Michigan,and Humphreys
in Florida. Humphreys was a Confederate
Major and commanded tho ordinance de
partment in Columbus during tho late
war. He sayH ho resigned, but the resig
nation was not accepted until after the
election, and his successor not appointed
Noarot.K has become the second cotton
port of the oountry, outranking Savan
nah, and being eclipsed only by New Or
leans. A few years ago Norfolk was not
put in the cotton statements. Ten years \
ego she exported direetto Europe only 733 1
bales; last year ahe exported in that way
over 100,000 bales. The cotton-port fig
urea of the various cities aie stated as
follows: New Orleans 1, Norfolk 2, Gal- '
veaton 8, Charleston 4, Savannah 5.
Philadkjj'UIA Time* 30th: Alexander '
Stephens sat up in his bed this afternoou !
with the bright clear eyes of a convales
cent, and listened while hia clerk read a
column and a half obituary of himself in ,
a Baltimore paper. “Well,” said the old
man, as be rubbed hia emaciated chin
with h ( a bony hand, and his eyes twinkled
merrily as he spoke, “they've written
worse than that about tne when I was
living. ”
Tub Inklioiulks.—The Senate Com
mittee has made a report on tho al-
lleged ineligible Democratic electors.
They mako one so who, in the dim long
ago, took an oath to support the United
States, afterwards setved in the Confede-
The Republicans are endeavoring t<
bluff the Democrats with regard to Miss
issippi, but it is no go. That wont scare
worth a cent. They claim the new regis
(ration law is unconstitutional, the pres
ent Governor a usurper, and his certifi-
cates to the electors nail end raid. Theft
too “damthinovitch,"to use a classic Kas
sian term of the Grand Juke Alexis, when
the Norfolk girl fell fainting in his arms
and he handed her over to her mama. The
men who are proposing such measures
should read the remarks of th<
colored members on the ad
journment of the Democratic Legisla
tare. They were highly eulogietic of the
Democratic members aud measures,show
ing how they had legislated for the good
of both races far more acceptably than
the Republicans ever had, and compli
menting the Htate upon its order and ex
cellent condition. The Honthern Demo
crats bulldoze tbe colored people by giv
ing them good laws, onoouraging virtue
and punishing crime. The negroes own
most property in the Democratic Htates.
In Georgia they return five million debars
of taxable real estate. They o
little in the carpet- bag ruled Htate of
Houth Carolina.
Fpbkch of Hon. B. U. Hill.—The At
lanta Constitution of Hunday published
the speech delivered in Atlanta by Hone-
tor elect B. II. Hill, soma three weeks
ago, and whioh we dipped from the Tel
egram and published three days after the
address was spoken. We are rather in
clined to think there are some expres
sions in that speech whioh Mr. Hill now
wishes unsaid. Hince its delivery he has
made friends with Wash McLean, whom
he skinned so terribly. Probably there
other passages whioh Mr. Hill might
desire suppressed now that ho has won
the great prize for which he struggled so
hard aud spoke so eloquently. Wo still
have copies of the speech at this office.
The demand was not such as was expect*
ed.
1'inchback, in a letter to friend a in In-
diaunpolis in explanation of his rocent ac
tion, says: “Knowing that the proseut
pretended Packard government is a mon
strous iniquity, and its success would en
tail still further debauchery and demorali
zation upon the race, I resolved to de
stroy it if possible. I have not abandoned
tbe National Republican party, but if to
denounce the thieves m Louisiana, who
are fast deet'oyiDg the manhood and in
tegrity of my people, renders me ineligi
ble to membership in it, I shall have to
seek shelter elsowbere and oontinne my
struggle for justice and equality for the
race.”
A Washington dispatch says tho Dem
ocrats are much better pleased to have
Morton on the commission than Conkling.
Morton has not protondod to practice law
for many years, and his attempts at tho
display of legal knowledge have a long
time Been the subject of much amuse
ment among all his associates. It is well
said that among the judicial minds which
ho will now meet in the eleotoral tribuual
he will be no more than a cipher, for his
nledge hammer dogmatism cannot pass
current there aa it does in tho politioal
areas.
A cobbbspondent write* : During tho
last 153 years the cold had not boon so
sovero in Ht. Petersburg os it was during
the last days of December. On tho 30th
the thermometer fell to 32 degrees ( Reau
mur) below zero, and several cabmen
were found frozen to doathon their seats,
while cats, pigeons, and even sparrows
were found dead iu the streets, and ut
night large fires were kept burning in tho
publio squares for the benefit of tho police.
In the town of Vologda, in the intorior,tho
thermometer sank as low as i t degrees
below aero.
Tua Norfolk (Va.) iMiuhnark tells this
one : On the uight of the first uppearance
of Miss Neilaon the Grand Duko Alexis
engaged a negro hackman to take himself
and suite to the wharf. On reaching the
street at the conclusion of tbe entertain
ment, he was approached by the darkey,
who said; “Is you de Juke?” On being
answered in the affirmative, the sablo
jehu remarked, “Well, ear, do carriago is
waitin’.” The grand duko was struck with
the simplicity of American manner*.
Sla
diminishii g every year i
) araiy, ami was pardoned by President Brazil. By the law of 1871, all the ohil
Johusou before Congress passed the
amendment reserving tho pardoning
power to Cougress. The committee say
on thia account Frost of Missouri was in
eligible, and the attempt to fill the vacau-
oy caused by his abseueo from the meet
ing of the college was illegal aud void un
der the laws of that State.' They find
that Williamson of New Jersey was dis
qualified from sctiug as a member of the
Electoral College, bnt that the vacancy
oauaed by his non-aUeudauce was legally
filled by his associates. Holliday of Vir
ginia was likewise found to have been
disqualified, but the vacancy in his case
was legally tilled.
m • m Col 1'icKBTT.—In hia evidence, he re-
not lho Ant tin,. WjUi h.« l,, *' d *“» ooninotioo - 111 * «» d«li„ry of
the Htate archievee of the Southern Con
fedoracy to the Government, for which
be got as a fee some $35,000* and gave
his personal history, saying that be had
been a United Htatea Consul for twelve
or fourteen yeara,aud a Minister Plenipo
tentiary of tbe Confederate Government
near the Government of Mexico; that he
had struck a blow for the independence of
Cuba twenty-six or twenty-seven years
Txisbk
been convicted of perjury and forgery.
In 1874 he swore to tbe requisite amount
of intimidation in ins pariah to have it
thrown out by the Returning Board.
When the Hoar committee were investi
gating the Louisiana election, tbe certifi
cate of Wells son was produced as super
visor of the election, testifying to the
fairness of the election. Wells waa ex-
l ° ‘, dm “ A*' h * .go, «d th.t h. h.hi « .ppoiDlmont
w« .U. c t from the puuh. «.d kn.w ; •» ......
nothing of tbe mattere alleged in bia affi
davit.
Tb* speech of Senator Conkling on the
Electoral Arbitration bill is published in
full in the Cougreetiorud lleconl for Tues
day last. It does not oonUin the passage
attributed to Mr. Conkling in tbe Associa
ted Press report. That report made him
aay “be believed the Republican nominee
bad been chosen the Chief Magistrate of
this oountry.' No such language is found
ia thia authentic report of hia speech.
What he really said waa this “Mr. Presi
dent, it ia because 1 mean, at every stage
which the law and the feels shall justify,
under Walker in Nicaragua; a Brigadie
General's commission under Kossuth to
organize an American legion; a Major
General s commission under Hants Anna,
but bad not gone beyond New Orleans;
that ha had been a Colonel in the Confed
erate service, chief of staff to General
Breckeuridge m one campaign, and vol
unteer aid m another. In conclusion, he
submitted several telegrams, letters, Ac.,
in relation to the matter between him and
Maddox, and which will be found in Mad
dox's testimony.
Htbono Lanocaoe.— Chas. O’Conor, in
hie speech yesterday before the Electoral
to maintain that the Republican nominee Commiasion, said ; “No honest man, ca-
haa been chosen Chief Magistrate, that I \ pable of blushing, can look another
would have hia titla ao clear that it can
never be ahallenged.
face and aaaert the Hayee electors in Flori
da wara elected.'' 'line, every word of i
dren of negroos a»*e born free. In the
provinoe of Han Paulo, the number of
hIhvcs iu three years declined from 147,-
7i<> to less than 133,000. In 111 of the
151 pa'ishaa of the Province, 18,176 chil
dren of slaves,happier than their parents,
were bc: n free beings. In the Pro
vince of Pernambuco, the number of
slavee bos beeu reduced from 106,201 to
100,000, and 12,312 were born into free
dom. The same ratio of decrease is vis
ible in other Provinces throughout the
Empire.
These melancholy lines appear in tbe
Pittsburg Cotnmerci.il.
After tb» through,
Wait ins th« Lottery Day;
Hather •• oope<l out, the Blue —
Top of the heap, the Gray.
A YOUMO man, looking somewhat like a
Southerner and somewhat like au Oneida
Indian, waa discovered among a crowd of
snow abovelera at tbe Central Railway
Stattou, iu Syracuse, New York, last week.
While waiting for the pittauce due him, it
was observed that he seemed desirous of
being by himself, wholly avoiding bis late
comrades. Thia poorly-oiad but proud
ahoveler was Bushuell Forrest, second son
of the noted Confederate General, > it.
Forrest, of Fort Pillow memory. So the
Tridune says.
Nashmluc American: Tbe report
started in New York that one Bushnell
Forrest, an alleged son of Gen. N. B. For
rest, waa shoveling snow in New York is
without a shadow of foundation. Gen.
Forrest has Lut one child, Captain Ww.
Forrest, a man of family, and one of the
moat highly esteemed citizens of Metu
phis, aa inodeet in peace as be was gallant
in war.
Tbe appended private telegram was re
ceived in New Orleans, says the Picayune,
by a leading Democratic official; *
Washington, February 2.—You can
pot the Packard government down as
dead and Tildan our next Preaident.
Kellogg stated to me to-night that if be
waa in Packard's place be would not at
tempt to act M Uevernor.
ȣURU!A IKW1.
—For Langley Factory stock 100 is bid,
and 110 asked.
—Augusta wants $50,000 with which to
establish a bagging factory.
—In 1876 the police iu Atlanta made
3,703 arrests, and $13,328.25 were ool
1 acted.
—Tbe railroad pool is endeavoring to
bulldoze the Air Line Company into
terms.
—A curiosity in the canine line in Sa
vannah is a young purp with the faoe and
hide of a coon.
—The Hon. C. 8. Du Bose, Senator from
the Nineteenth District, is at home i
riousty sick with an attack of pleurisy.
—Mr. Nathaniel Patton, an old and
well known citizen of liicbrond county,
died lost Thursday, in the aixty-fifth
year of his age.
—The railroad pool continues another
year, and Gov. Brown has been re-elected
President. The «ext meeting will be held
on tbe first of March.
—A United Htates revenue spy has been
arrested for gin house burning, burglary
and similar offenses iu Butts county. He
claimed zeal for the gouernment.
—Friday afternoon, in Hibley A Wheel
ers' warehouse in Augusta, Dan Turner
pistoled and killod John W. H. Walker,
both negroes. Turner fled and escaped.
—On Wednesday of last week, in
Franklin county. Mr. James Gunnels ac
cidentally shot, it is feared fatally, his
uncle, Joseph Tolbert, while turkey hunt
ing.
—On Haturday evening before last a
man was killed near Dubois station, No.
14, in Dodge county. As related, the cir
cumstances attending the killing justify
the sot.
—From announcement in the Atlsnta
papers, we notice that round trip tiukets
to New Orleans Mardi Gras, from Atlan
ta, nro only $16, via the celebrated Atlan
ta and New Orleans Short Line.
—On Hnudav before last, little “Mack,”
son of Mr. J. N. Wall, of Chatham coun
ty, was seriously and alarmingly wounded
by a knife thrown at him in play by bis
brother Willie, about thirteen years of
age.
—Governor Brown addressed the Fi
nance Committee in favor of State aid to
Lho amount of $5,000 per mile to the Ma
rietta, Canton and Eli jay Railroad. It is
thought the Houso committee will report
iu favor of the bHl.
—Gwinnett has some highway robbers,
who met Mr. Ira Childers, who had beeu
living on Mr. Craig's farm in that county,
knocked him down, and forcibly took
from him his pocko-book containing about
seventy- five dollars.
—The estimated net loss to the city of
Savannah and the State of Georgia, by
the yellow fever of last Hummer and Fall,
ia Riven by Dr. Ely MoClellan, an expe
rienced surgoon of the United States
army, at $5,609,807.
—Major J. M. Means was fired at on
the stroet of West Point, by Mr. J. M.
Ward, on Tuesday morning last. There
had boon a ^previous difficulty. Mr.
Ward, happily, missed his aim. Major
Means, wo loam, was unarmed.
— Mr. T. J. Wood, of Twiggs oonnty,
accidentally shot himself at Mr. Boynton’s
store, in Jefforsonville, on Monday uight
of last week, and is seriously and danger
ously wounded. The pistol was in his
pantaloons pocket, Whiskoy.
—It ia very authoritatively reported
that Gen. Joseph E. Johnston and Major
L. .Mims, managers of the Southern De
partment of the Home Insurance Compa
ny of Now York, will move their head
quarters from Savannah to Atlanta early
this spring.
—Four or five cars of the Southwestern
Railroad freight train boand for Eufsula
sixty miles south of Oglethorpe, were un-
traoked and thrown over an embankment.
A span or two of tressel work over Camp
oreek was toau oat. Cars loaded with
guano. No one seriously injured.
—Jas. F. Grant, Superintendent of
Macon and Brunswick Railroad, informes
the morchauts of Hawkinsvillo that next
fall whon tho river is too low for boats to
reach them, that tho rates from Hawkins-*
ville to Savannah will be not less than
four dollars per bale, while the rates from
Cochran will be about $1.75.
—In Bibb Superior Court Mr. Craig
has been awarded $3,000 damages against
the Southwestern Railroad Company. He
claimed $10,000. Craig was a fireman on
n freight train wliiob, at Howard's station,
in November, 1873, ran into some cars on
the tmek, during a dark and stormy night.
Mr. Craig, apprehending a collision,
jumped off, and had his oollar bone
broken.
—A young man styling himself Jas. W.
Stanley, M. D., was arrested at Ooohran
Saturday before last npon a warrant
charging him with forging a note for five
hundred dollars upon W. T. MoVay, who,
it will be remembered, waa killed at
Cochran on the 20th day of December
last. The Doctor broke jail and has dis
appeared.
—Tom Perkins, of Cuthbert, furnishes
the following iufalliblo remedy for grabs
iu horses. He has tried it on cows, and
it has always proved successful: “One
cup* till of soft soap, one oupfull of tilde
salt, ouo pint of soot, exolved in a pint of
water. In two hours after give one pint
of milk ami one pint of symp exolved to
gether, and de hoes am ready fur work.”
—Hon. Henry Ilillyer has offered an
important resolution in the House in
which he recites that the present United
S’ate.s bun amp! law has failed to meet tbe
just demands of the eommeroial interest*
of ihe country, and aaka that our Senators
and Representatives in Congress be re
quested to who their iuflueuce to secure its
repeal. This resolution is calculated to
accomplish great good, and is highly
commended. The Judioiary Committee
will no doubt report it back with their
full endorsement.
—Tho Savannah Aetna: A few days
since, whilst some chddreu were playing
in the old cemetery, on South Broad
street, one of them, in knocking around
the grouud with his stick, suddenly cangh t
sight of a bright, shiny object. On ap
proaching to pick it up he saw it was a
handsome gold ring. He carried it home
to his moth r, who, on inquiring where
he found it, learned that it waa near the
sp it where the remains of her anceAtora
had reposed, and that the oldest surviving
member of the family waa Colonel E C
Anderson, to whom the ring waa accord
ingly sent. On the inside of the ring, in
legible English text, waa the inscription,
“II. NY. to E. C., 1769 "—one hundred and
eight years ago—Henry Wayne to Eliza
beth Clifford : the ring being none other
than tho wedding ring of the grandmoth
er of Colonel Anderson. The remains
were removed from the old cemetery some
time ago, and the ring was brought to the
surface at the disinterment uoperceived.
It ia singular that the ring should have
been found by one of the children of the
descendants of tbe family.
ALABAMA NEWS.
—Miss Waller is the telegraph operator
at Thowasville on the M. A G. K. R.
—Jas. M. Richards, Esq., of La Fay
ette, has moved to Wealherford, Texas.
—A man named Pruett, charged with
stealing a horse, has been lodged in Tus-
kegee jail.
—Mr. Samuel McKnfght, of Henry
county, had seven sous old enough to vote
last election.
—Rev. J. Strattou Paullin has been
called to tbe pastoral care of the Baptist
church at Clayton.
—The Walden House, at Decatur,
sold last week for $1,800. It cost $12,-
000. A great sacrifice.
—The wheat crop in Chambers has not
been injared, and the prospects are flat
tering for a heavy yield.
—Two hundred and fourteen marriage
licenses were issued in Bnllook oonnty
last year. 46 for whites and 168 for colored
persons.
' —The Alabama Legislature has mate
rially increased the yearly appropriation
for the public schools, as compared with
last year.
—The people of Lowndes are happy
over a gold mine recently discovered by a
Mr. Goldsmith, while digging a well in
that county.
—The total amo' . of State and county
taxes levied in Bullock . onnty for 1876, was
$49,000. Over $3 >•> of the amount
lias been collected.
—Several parties in the northern por
tion of the State have been arrested by U.
S.^detectives and carried to Ilnntaville on
the obargo of illicit distilling.
—Six tramps were arrested ia Green
ville, last week, and sentencad to one
hundred days hard lab'ir on the streets.
They managed one night to prize open a
window of the guard honse and escape.
—The Hon. Taul Bradford opposed the
lectoral bill. In a speech in the House
of Representatives, he contended that it
was a violation of the Constitution ; that
Congress bad no right to delegate inch a
power.
John G. Holley, of Lawrence-
ville, Henry county, on last Saturday
morning, about an hour before day went
front his dwelling to his store, a distance
of about one hundrAd yards, and was
found after day near tho store dead.
—Five white men—Olin Bracher and
tines Wells, charged with murder; Au
gusta Matthews, sentenced to penitentia
ry for rape, and J. W. Solomon and Mat
thew Dixon, charged with selling mort
gaged property, the latter sentenced to
ponitontiary—have escaped from jail at
Greenville.
—It seems that the legal quarrel over
the Alabama A Chattanooga railroad is to
be interminable. The United States
Court makes order after order, only to
change aud extend them. The last one is
extending until tho 16th instant the time
which to pay the $80,000 cash required
of the purchasers at tho last sale. J. E.
Stanton made the plea for delay.
The House, on Friday, concurred in
the adverse report of the Committee on
Commerce to the Senate bill, that
local freights on railroads shall
not bo rnoro than twenty per cent,
on through rates. Tho reporter of tho
Advertiser made the error. The decision
much pleasure to railroad men. The
amendments to the exemption bill were
also inoorreotiy reported as having been
idopted.
Ex - Posthaste it General Jewell, who
made his fortune in the leather trade, dis*
oovered, while he was Minister to Russia,
the manner by which tbe peculiar scent is
imparted to Russia leather, the process
not being regarded as a seoret of the trade
in that country. It is done by the nse of
biroh bark tar in dressing the akina instead
of tallow or other greoae. Mr. Jewell sent
ten barrels of it to various leading leather
manufacturers in this country, with in
structions. Tho result is that “Russia
leather” goods are now mado in America,
and doubtless will soon be sold at nearly
50 per centiHu below old prices, and may,
perhaps, go oat of fashion.
The former residence of Edwin For
rest, near Philadelphia, now a home for
indigent actors, is a strange place. The
house is a-palace in its gorgeousness ; the
farniture is beautiful and expensive ; the
library, tbe piotures, and the statnary are
snob as are seldom seen in private oollec
tiona. All this is enjoyed by two old and
infirm actors aud a superintendent, for
the benefits of tbe establishment have not
been availed of by any except the two
mentioned. Celia Logan, who recently
visited it, says that their chief trouble is
to kill time. Forrest's will orders the
erection of a miniature theatre, in whioh
tbe inmates of the home may entertain
luemselves and others. The endowment
ia sufficient to maintain a large number
of persons, and it ia supposed that in
time the institution will beoome filled.
Consumptives Take Notice I
Every moment of delay raakee your cure
more hopeless, and much depends on thejudt-
ciouf choice of a remedy. The amount of tes
timony In lavor ot Dr. Schenck’s Pulmonic
Syrup, as a cure for Consumption, far excoeds
all that can he brought to support the preten
sions of any other medicine. See Dr. Schenck’s
Almanac, containing the certificates of many
perrons of the highest respectability, who nave
been restored to health, after being pro
nounced Incurable by physicians of acknowl
edged ability. Schenck’s Pulmonic Syrup alone
has cured many, as these evidences will show;
but the cure is often promoted by the employ
ment of two other remedies which Dr. Scbenck
provides for the purpose. These additional
remedies are Schenok’s Sea Weed Tonic and
Mandrake Pills. IJy the timely use or these
medicines, according to directions,Dr. Sohenok
certifi-s that most aoy case of Consumption
may be cured.
Dr. Schenck is professionally at hIs priool-
pal office, Corner Sixth and Arch Sts., Phllal
delpl.la, every Monday, where all letters for
advice must be addressed.
febl eodlrn
DIVIDEND NOTICE.
February 6, 1677.
The Directors of the MUSCOGEE
MANUFACTURING COMPANY
have this day declared a Dividend of FOUR
PE It (JEST, upon the capital stock, payable
ad after the 1st of April. The Transfer
Books will be closed March 15th.
W. A. SWIFT,
feb6-tf Secretary.
Young America Fire Company No. 5,
glue Room THIf> (Tues-
EVENING. at 7U<
ck, for Regular Monthly
&
Meeting.
Members of Columbus Fire Comp'y
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(Tuesday) EVENING at VA
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Sonci for a Circular.
W F. TICNER. Dentist.
Ovjcr Ms son’s Drco Stork,
Randolph Street, Columbus, Ga.
JSHIL.
Whut Lending Near York NerchButs
Have to hay ou (ho Subject.
Kkw York, Jan 31.—Inquiry was mado
yesterday among uotne of me leading dry
goodH uud ootuuiiHaion Louses of the city,
in order to obtain the views of represent
ative luorohantH uh to the probable effect
of the Fresidt ntial compromise not upon
busineHu. II. B. Ciutliu said that while
he he did not expect an immediate groat
revival of trado, bo believed the passage
of the act would have a good effect upon
the business of the oountry. E. 8. Jaff-
ray said this measuro had removed all ap
prehensions of domeatio violence. The
uncertainty arising from the Presidential
complication had seriously injured trade
in November, December and January,
but as trado iu those mouths would have
beeu small anyway, the total damage had
uot really boon great. Now trade would
take ns natural oourse, and a fair spring
business would probably begin immedi
ately. The y uorai revival
of trade would necessarily bo
gradual, uud genuine prosperity oould be
restored only by perseverance, industry
and economy. Mr. Bartow, of Whitte-
more. Peet, Post A Co., said that he be
lieved the effect of the compromise upon
business would be wonderfully good.
The influence of the Presidential trouble
upon trade has been very disastroua, be
cause no one knew what might happeu
between the beginning and end of the
transaction. Mr. Denny, of Denny, Por
ter A Co., said that he thought the defi
nite settlement of the Presidential ques
tion in favor of either candidate would in
fluence business favorably. He believed
that the effect of the compromise act
would be (xcellent, and it seemed to him
that this ifleet was already apparent. A
member of the firm of Lewis Brothers A
Co. said the compromise aot would im
prove business if it bi ought about a settle-
meat of the national dispute. Mr. Harri-
man, of liuriiuian, Low & Co., said that
trade in his line had lately improved, but
that this was partly due to natural causes.
Just us business was beginning to
revive in November, it was killed by the
uncertain result of the election. In De*>
comber all apprehension of bloodshed
died away, ami trade was stimulated by
the advanced price of cotton in oonnee
with the short supply of eotton goods.
Then there w as a natural revival of busi
ness, dae to tbe fact that trade had been
dull lest season in conseqnenoe of its be
ing an election year, and also from the
circumsteuce that the centennial exhibi
tion tended to throw the trade of 1876
east. All these things had combined to
make basims.-, better thia month, and the
appointmeut of a conference committee
by Congress had aided their efforts. Mr.
llarrimau believed that the passage of the
compromise act would have a farther ben-
‘ ficial influence, and that thia waa the
Tu« Miuiuippt Y»isUtara hu .d- ! among merchant;lin genml. A
...... . . | member of the house of Wended, Hutch-
journal. It. clcing honr, were marked ; A Oo ^ ,„ id- M , they ’ hid ool
by the colored Republicans on the floor of C4red l0 8ign any paper lQ regari j t0 thig
the tyo Houses rising and pronouncing measure, bat that they believed an amic-
seutiments of the moat commendable 1 able settlement of th6 Presidential qaes-
character in taror ol the eoonnmioal and I i' on ’ u th « b “‘ lhin K fot *><■»««• «nd
T S Tuggle vs Bald Mary i
fl fa In w
LewlB—property nolntedVut In laid fi fa,
... .. time and piaoe, the fol-
Alao,
lowing property, to wit: ‘all that
tract or parcel of land lying and being In the
city of Columbus, Muscogee county, '
tho plan ol said ettv as lot number
drod and ninety-two (ktfZ), containing quarter
of an acre, more or !«•*, with improvement!!
thereon, sold as tbe property ol Sallle Ann
B&ttlei, to satisfy a mortgage fi fa In my hands
In favor of James A Bradford, administrator-
property pointed out In said fi fa.
JOBURRUS.
febe oawHw Sheriff.
Muscogee Sheriff Sale
W ILL BE SOLD,
TUESDAY IN
In lront of Abbott A Newsom's Store, Broad
s reet, city of Uolumbus, Muscogee county,
wlthlu tho logal hours of sale, by Awec a
Yougc, auctioneers, the following property.
City lot, In the city of Columbus, Muscogee
county, with improvements thereon, known In
the plan ol said city as a part ot lot number
407, rold as the property of Mrs E A Kennedy*
deceased, to satisfy a lax it la In my ban is for
State and county taxes for the year 1870.
Amount of tax |17 fli>.
Also, city lots, In the city of Columbus, Mus
cogee county, with Improvements thereon,
known in tho plan of said city as pans of lots
347, 34*, 34'J and 360, sold as the property of Jno
D Carter, to sat lily‘a tax fi fa in my hands for
Mta-e and county taxss lor the year 187(1.
Amount of tax |4V|
Also, city lot, In the city of Colnmbus, Mus
cogee county, with Improvements thereon,
known In plan ot said city as part of lot num
ber . r >0V, sold as the property of Pinckney Haile-
o satisfy a
1/
In my hands for State
for the year 1870. Amount of
and county
tux M 1
Also, city lot, In the city of Columbus, Mus
cogee county, with Improvements thereon,
known In plan ol said city as part of lot num
ber 4hV, sold as the property of M J Walker, to
aatbly a tax fi la In my hands lor State and
county taxes for the year 1878. Amount oi
tax $16 60.
Also, part of city lot,In the city of Columbus,
Muscogee county, known In plan or said city
as part of lot number 6W, sold as the property
of Ells* Anderson, to satisfy a tax fi fa in my
hands ’or State and county taxes for the year
1876. Levy made and returned by lawful con-
table. Amount of tax 14.
■Also, all that tract or parcel of land lying
and being In Northern Liberties, Muscogee
county, State oiGeorgsa,containing one fourth
acre, more or less, with Improvements thereon,
bounded north by the lands of I Willett,south
iuow. deceased, east by lands
vest by oontlnuanco of Jack-
the property of A A Paoetty.
iu pmiiiy a tax u fain my hands tor State and
county taxes tor the year 1878. Amount of tax
*« 80.
Also, all that tract or parcel of land lying
being In Muscogee county, State or Georgia,
consisting of 30 acres, more or less, with im
provements thereon, bounded on the north by
the lands of J C Cook, east by the Hamilton
road, south by the land* Charles Philips, west
by lands of Seaborn Jones, deceased,
the property of W H Hughes, Trustee, to aat-
if John I David
iou street, sold
mo proper*/ ui rr a nugnes, iruiteo. to sa
lsfy a fl la lu my hands ler State and coun
tax for the year 187d. Amount of tax *31 42,
Also, all that tract or parcel of land lying
—*- of Gso
i Muscogee county, State
lands of Pe-rv Spe
d county taxes for the year 1876.
t tax, -20.
- o-half undivided Inter*
In the city of Columbus, Mu*
State
Amount or tax, lT‘20
Also, oiio-hali undivided Interest In city lot
-•*- -* *--- “ unty,
just government of the Demoorata. These
colored Representatives represented that
*■ for the country.
The Colonnade
Hotel, Philadelphia,
the Democrats have made a remarkable , Pa., endorsed by eminent and diatin-
improvement in tbe government of the gaished visitors as a model establishment,
State and iu affairs, giving a fair speech ! will be an exception hereafter to the gen-
to colored men rarely, if ever, accorded oral complaint of high prioee.
by the Republicans when in power. * feb2 lw
leghorn, administrator^ to sat&ty^aV fa
’ u -~‘|BaAr inty Uses for the
m i
lm my hands lor State and . I
ye»r 1876. Amount of tax, $137 4o.
Also, at the same time and plaee, the fol
lowing property, to-wlt ; Allthat tract or par
cel of land lying and being in Muscogee coun
ty, State of Georgia, known and distinguished
as lot No 46, in the dlstr.ctof Musoogeecounty,
containing two hundred and two and one-hair
l A) acres more or less; also 10 acres more
or less, north of said lot In the southwest cor
ner ol tho lot, now owned by Mrs Ector, and
lying on the east side of the Hamilton road,
from Columbus t> Hamilton, and adjoining tbe
above tils'* rl bed land; also, 6 aores and S3U
poles lying on the west of said lot.No 45. in said
< ounty, on the Hamilton road, and being In the
northeast corner of lot owned by J K Redd.
Sold as the property of C Ogletree, to satisfy a
fl fa in my hands In favor of Joseph Kyle.
Property pointed out by plaintiffs attorney
GILBERT & THORNTON,
150 Broad Street,
D. M. Ferry & Co.’s
Celebrated Garden Seeds,
Warranted to be Fresh and
Genuine.
THEY AHE THE
Best and Most Generally Used
OF ANY IN THE MARKET.
JOlO lBI
Dividend Notice-
T HE Directors of the Eagle A Phenlx Man
ufacturing Company have this day declared
the following Semi-Annual Dividends, paya
ble to .Shareholders, or their authorised repre-
eentatlves. whose names shall appatr as such
on the books of the Company at the datee the
dividends are made payable :
Dividend of $4 per share, payable on and af
ter May 1, 1877.
Novemb
The Treat for Books
days prior to these
j&14 eodlm
FOR RENT.
iHE Very Desirable Resl- .
_ dence occupied by Mrs. L.
Halman, and situated on up-
Troup street; containing,
rooms.
Apply at the office of
t'll be closed ten (10)
Ive dates.
- ....DAN,
Treasurer.
novOd eodtf
ELIAS HAIMAN.
trator ol Mrs. E. A. Kennedy, deceased, repre
sents to the Coart In Ids petition, duly filed
' -* — reoord, that he ha# fully ad-
and entered o
ministered said estate.
ThlslMheretorejo cite all persons concerned,
Indied and credl'ors, to show cause (If any
icycanjwhv said Administrator should not
s discharged from his administration and re-
‘ “ *” i the first Monday
February Uh, 1877—oawlUw
Administrator's Sale.
t’hereas Henry P. Moffett makes appll-
■ for Letters or Administration de bomt
ft teitamanto ennexo ot Mrs. Anna Davie,
inly deceased.
These are. therelor.-, to cite and admonish
al an- singular, the kindred and creditors of
sal 1 de- aeed to show canse (If any they have),
wli iln i he rime prescribed by law, why said
letters s* ouhl not be granted to said applicant.
F. M. BROOKS. Ordinary
February f, ITT. Pebt law4w
( 1 EORGIA — MUSOOGEE COUNTY.—
I Joseph E Blount makes application for
Humsttead Exemption of Personalty, and I will
pass npon ths same at my office on Monday,
February 2*1, 1877, at 10 o’clock a. *.
F M BROOKS, Ordinary.
February Zd, 1877—ft*
>v Corner, In tbe city ol Columbus, Ga., on
ths FIRST TUESDAY IN FEBRUARY
NEXT, within the legal hours ol sale, all the
remaining Personal Property of the estate of
the late John A. McNeill, consisting of a lot
of Shoes, Hats, Syrup, Soap, Candles, Cut
lery, Crockery and Gla*s ware, three pair
Counter Scales, one pair Platform Scales, two
Berks, one Show Case, one Wardrobe, Bed
stead, and one pair Trucks, measures, he.
Also, seventy-five shares ot the Capital St*ek
of the Georgia Home Insurance Company.
Terms of sale cash.
At the hub time and place, I will rent the
Store House lately occupied by the said J. A.
ja23 tu,*K,wfcfeb«]
APMINISTRATOR’-S SALE
New«om, Broad rtrect, Colnmbus Ga., within
the legal hours of sale, TWO CHESTS OF
CARPENTER’S TOOLS, belonging to the
estate of John Underwood, deceased.
K H ENGLAND,
Temporary Administrator.
February 1 it, 1877 feM-td
New Garden Seeds.
Landreth s Garden Seeds
JN Bulk or Papers, at Philadelphia Prices.